286–6

Conversation No. 286-6

Date: October 7, 1971
Time: 5:36 pm - 6:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.


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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:36 pm.

Donald H. Rumsfeld’s new position
-The President's schedule
-Possible announcement
-Arnold R. Weber
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-Director of operations
-Cost of Living Council

Charles W. Colson entered at 5:37 pm.

Rumsfeld
-William L. Safire
-Drafting of statement
-Director
-Cost of Living Council

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:49 pm.

-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Rumsfeld

Administration procedures
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Cabinet secretaries
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Connally
-Cabinet

Consultations

Consumer Federation meeting
-Virginia H. Knauer

Speech revision
-Windfall profits
-Price Commission
-Prices
-Safire
-Industrial prices
-Wholesale prices

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 5:36 pm and 5:49
pm.
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Request for a call to William L. Safire
[Conversation No. 286-6A]

[See Conversation No. 11-2]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Industrial prices
-Decline

The President talked with William L. Safire between 5:49 pm and 5:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 286-6B]

[See Conversation No. 11-3]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Inflation

Colson's schedule


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Polls
-Policy issues
-Busing
-Coverage of actions
-Cambodia
-Laos
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-Economic issue

Press coverage
-Vietnam War
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Kissinger

Public Support

Economic policy
-Businessmen
-Stock market

Taiwan

Safire
-Speech draft

Economic statistics
-Unemployment
-Decreases
-Effect

The President's schedule
-Network news
-Haldeman's assignment
-West coast evening news

Haldeman and Colson left at 6:10 pm.
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