283–18

Conversation No. 283-18

Date: October 6, 1971
Time: 9:30 am - 10:10 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?].

Item for Peter M. Flanigan

Names

The unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.

News story
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-State Department action
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-Two-China policy
-William P. Rogers
-The President's PRC trip
-Henry A. Kissinger's preparation

The President's schedule
-North Carolina trip
-David N. Henderson
-Invitation


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Lloyd N. Cutler
-Common Cause
-Invitation to the White House
-Flanigan
-John N. Mitchell
-American Airlines
-Action
-Flanigan

The President's schedule
-Robert J. Dole
-Carl T. Curtis
-Jack R. Miller
-Corn prices
-Paul W. McCracken
-Robert P. Griffin
-Michigan politics
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
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-Busing in Tennessee

Campaign contributions
-Harry S. Dent
-Funding of local and regional campaigns
-Slush fund
-Past use
-Baker
-Mitchell

Campaigns
-The President's role, stance
-Baker
-Griffin
-Michigan politics
-Mitchell
-Dole
-Michigan
-Busing
-Constitutional amendment
-Griffin
-Stephen J. Roth
-Racial problems

Campaign issues
-Busing
-Issue
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Constitutional amendment
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman


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Photograph opportunities
-Southern Democrats
-Henderson
-Texas
-O[vie] Clark Fisher
-Incumbents
-Dent

The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Whittier, California
-Scheduling
-Unio of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] trip announcement
-Unknown man in Chicago
-Reception
-Illinois state dinner
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Aldo B. (“Elbow”) Beckman
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
-Ziegler’s press conference
-West Virginia
-Martinsburg
-John F. Osborne
-Kalispell, Montana
-The President's comment about trailer parks in Kalispell
-Camping
-Environmentalists
-Mansfield

Foreign policy
-Kissinger and Rogers
-Relationship

Economy
-Presentation
-John B. Connally
-McCracken, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, Arnold R. Weber
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Scheduling of speeches
-7:30 pm start time
-The President's return from the PRC, Soviet Union
-Prime time speech

The President's foreign policy initiatives
-The PRC
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Charles W. Colson
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Comments on PRC initiative
-Robert H. Finch
-The President's qualifications for summit
-Play in news media
-Victor Lasky
-John A. Scali
-Goldwater

Public relations
-Best sellers
-Promotion of pro-Nixon and conservative books
-Edith Efron
-Allen S. Drury
-Jeffrey Hart
-Hobart D. Lewis
-Possible campaign book
-Theme

Dole
-PRC trip
-Primary elections

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming PRC trip
-Bogota, Colombia
-Israel
-Trip to Latin America
-Persons traveling with the President
-Logistics Problems
-Soviet trip
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-George W. Romney
-Michigan
-Peter G. Peterson
-PRC trip
-Summit

Unknown person
-Writing

Haldeman left at 10:10 am.