302–18

Conversation No. 302-18

Date: October 29, 1971
Time: 3:20 pm - 5:16 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President's previous telephone call to Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Robert H. Finch's forthcoming trip to Latin America
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Robert L. Kunzig
-Role in administration
-Possible judgeship
-The President’s view
-The President's schedule
-Role in administration

Judicial appointments
-Confirmation possibilities
-Kunzig
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Possible appointment

Louis P. Harris poll
-Charles W. Colson's conversation with the President
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Press coverage


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Eugene C. Patterson
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
-Activities
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
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Washington Post
-Staff changes
-Paul R. Ignatius
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Edward M. Kennedy

Patterson
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman

The President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Effect on colleges

Harris poll
-Muskie
-Youth
-Statement on black Vice President
-Effect

Patterson

Washington Post
-Staff changes
-Bradlee
-Patterson

Kunzig

Welfare Reform [HR 1]


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Welfare Reform [HR 1]
-Russell B. Long's activities
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Abraham A. Ribicoff's group
-Program
-Elliot L. Richardson's reaction
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Richardson
-The President's possible veto

Government reorganization
-Department of Community Development
-Prospects
-George W. Romney, John A. Volpe, James D. Hodgson
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.'s memorandum
-The President's schedule
-Romney, Volpe, Hodgson, Krogh, Ehrlichman
-Possible activities of Colson and Clark MacGregor

Hardin
-Possible successor
-Clayton K. Yeutter
-Reactions of Clarence D. Palmby and J. Phil Campbell
-Mandate
-Palmby
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-Requirements
-Donald E. Johnson

Personnel
-William H. Rehnquist
-Future Supreme Court appointments
-Woman
-William French Smith
-William O. Douglas
-Rehnquist
-Confirmation activities
-Leonard Garment's conversation with Ehrlichman
-Views
-Lewis F. Powell
-Confirmation activities
-Birch Bayh
-Story, October 29, 1971 regarding finances

Lawyers' compensation
-Richmond
-New York
-Seattle

Personnel
-Future Supreme Court appointments
-Douglas, Thurgood Marshall
-Young man in Philadelphia
-Black woman in Chicago
-Warren E. Burger's possible reaction
-Rehnquist
-Current federal judges
-David R. Young, John W. Dean III

Research and development
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Desalinization
-Technology
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-Cost
-William E. Kriegsman, Office of Science and Technology
-Unknown man's activities

Patrick J. Buchanan
-Memorandum
-Conversation with John P. Sears
-Views on Value added tax [VAT]
-Proposal regarding property tax and education
-Aid to parochial schools

Aid to parochial schools

VAT
-Buchanan's view
-Real estate tax
-Education

Presidency
-Popular expectations
-Blacks, environment, education
-The President's handling
-The President's handling
-The President's opponents' views

VAT
-Buchanan's view
-Federal budget
-Education
-Caspar W. Weinberger, George P. Shultz
-Possible cuts
-Conversations with Ehrlichman and Edwin L. Harper
-Balance
-Richard A. Moore's analysis
-Value to Catholics
-Knights of Columbus
-Peter J. Brennan
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-Polls
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-The President's schedule
-John Cardinal McIntyre

Research and development
-Cost
-Magruder
-Dr. Edward E. David
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-Use of funds

Urban development
-Ehrlichman's previous meeting with the President and John R. Price
-Financing
-Congressional prospects
-John F. Kennedy's accomplishments
-Lyndon B. Johnson's accomplishments
-The President's accomplishments

The President's administration
-Compared to previous administrations
-Accomplishments
-Environment
-Revenue sharing
-Government reorganization
-Health coverage
-1972 election

VAT
-Buchanan
-Analysis of VAT
-Charles W. Colson's views
-Political benefit
-John B. Connally's views
-John N. Mitchell's views

Federal budget
-Political concerns
-Shultz's budget review
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Administration
-Magruder's views

Cabinet
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Volpe
-Schedule
-Italy
-Airplane
-Transportation Department
-Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts

Unknown committee

Supreme Court appointments
-Confirmation hearings
-Rehnquist
-Powell
-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI] investigation

J. Edgar Hoover
-Term in office

United Nations [UN] vote on PRC
-Hugh Scott
-Israel
-South Africa

Health of Stewart J.O. And Joseph W. Alsop

Stewart Alsop
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-VAT
-Connally
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak's story
-Spiro T. Agnew's statement to Samuel L. Devine's group

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:20 pm and
4:10 pm.
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[Conversation No. 302-18A]

[See Conversation No. 13-37]

Request for a call to George P. Shultz

[End of telephone conversation]

Agnew
-Statement to Devine's group
-1972 ticket
-Alsop's view

The President talked with George P. Shultz between 4:10 pm and 4:11 pm.

[Conversation No. 302-18B]

[See Conversation No. 13-38]

[End of telephone conversation]

Agnew
-Alsop's view

Stewart Alsop
-Views regarding Connally

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:11 pm.

Dog

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:17 pm.

Stewart Alsop
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Lyndon B. Johnson's relationship with John F. Kennedy and Robert F.
Kennedy
-Joseph Alsop

Rogers
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-The President's conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Forthcoming visit to PRC
-Kissinger's views
-Kissinger's views

Johnson's relationship with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy

Stewart Alsop
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Johnson's relationship with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy
-Views regarding John Kennedy

Robert Kennedy

Edward Kennedy
-Africa

George P. Shultz entered at 4:15 pm.

Request for Manolo Sanchez

Ehrlichman left at 4:17 pm.

Rockefeller
-Forthcoming telephone call from Shultz
-Finch's forthcoming trip to Latin America
-Import surcharge
-Conversation with the President
-Canadian negotiations

Import surcharge
-Japanese negotiations
-Timing of Finch's forthcoming trip

Finch's forthcoming trip to Latin America
-Postponement
-Rockefeller's previous trips
-Timing
-Rogers
-Shultz's possible conversation with Mitchell
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-Import surcharge
-Itinerary
-Luis Echeverria
-Connally

Arthur F. Burns

International economy
-France
-Burns's view

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:17 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.
Shultz's schedule
-Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger
-Europe
-Burns
-Georges J.R. Pompidou

Common Market
-Great Britain

Quadriad meeting
-Shultz's forthcoming memorandum for the President
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Paul W. McCracken
-Connally
-Burns

Policy development
-Germany
-Canada
-Latin America

Latin America
-Finch's forthcoming trip
-The President's conversation with Rockefeller
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-Import surcharge
-Canadian negotiations

Burns
-Conversation with Shultz
-Meeting with the President, October 29, 1971
-Statistics
-Conversation with the President, October 29, 1971
-Federal Reserve
-Conversation with Shultz
-Milton Friedman's views of policies
-Role in administration
-Money supply
-Interest rates
-Schedule
-Quadriad

International economy
-Peterson's role in administration
-The President's schedule
-Shultz, proposed meeting with Peterson and Connally
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-Connally
-Paul A. Volcker
-Peterson, Connally, Shultz
-Connally's views
-Japan
-Undeveloped nations
-Europe
-Canada
-Europe
-Germany
-France
-Kissinger
-Willy F. Brandt
-Pompidou
-Kissinger

Burns
-Role in administration
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-Money supply
-Interest rates
-Views on national economy

Federal Reserve
-Interest rates
-Appointments
-Unknown man
-Burns's views
-Connally's views
-Earl Cox [?]
-Position with World Bank

Herbert Stein
-University of Virginia
-Possible role in administration

Federal Reserve
-Appointments
-Burns's views
-Stein
-Law firms' management
-Hospitals' management
-Stein
-Burns
-Money supply

Memorandum from the President
-Shultz's preparation

Peterson
-Treasury Department

Budget review
-Weinberger
-Defense Department
-California
-Timing
-General revenue sharing

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:11 pm and
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4:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 302-18C]

[See Conversation No. 13-39]

Request for a call to John C. Whitaker

[End of telephone conversation]

George Meany

The President talked with John C. Whitaker between 4:55 pm and 4:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 302-18D]

[See Conversation No. 13-40]

[End of telephone conversation]

Soviet grain deal
-Shultz's meeting with Colson and Whitaker
-Longshoremen's action
-New Orleans
-Injunction

Meany
-Goals
-Pay Board action on wage contracts

Pay Board
-Possible action on wage contracts
-Arnold R. Weber
-Meany's views
-Effect of freeze
-British experience
-Meany's views
-Friedman's article in New York Times, October 29, 1971
-Meany's views
-Shultz's forthcoming conversation with Weber
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Price Commission and Pay Board
-Operation
-Importance
-Productivity
-Collective bargaining

National economy
-Profits
-Burns's view
-Industrial plant
-Build up during 1960's
-Age
-Inventories
-Consumer spending
-Polls
-The President's forthcoming memorandum

The President's schedule
-Shultz, Josip Broz Tito

Tito

The President and Shultz left at 5:16 pm.