454–9

Conversation No. 454-9

Date: February 20, 1971
Time: 10:58 am - 2:42 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Italian delegation
-Camp David

Peter M. Flanigan entered at 10:59 am

Possible appointment in State Department
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-Flanigan
-William P. Rogers
-Purpose
-Pros and cons
-International economic issues
-President’s decision
-White House role
-Peter G. Peterson
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Issues
-Nathanial Samuels
-Rogers’ strategy
-John N. Irwin, II
-U. Alexis Johnson
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert C. Hoover, Jr., John Foster Dulles, and Elliot L. Richardson
-Irwin
-Flanigan’s capabilities
-State Department bureaucracy
-Compared with other departments
-Department of Commerce
-James T. Lynn
-Maurice H. Stans
-Flanigan’s role
-Government reorganization
-President’s policy
-Ash Council report
-Mary Gardiner Jones
-Business community
-Flanigan’s future prospects
-Fred J. Russell
-Position
-Department of the Interior
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Alaska pipeline
-Canada pipeline
-Robert B. Anderson

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:59 am

Unknown item
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:10 am

Value of pipeline to Alaska
-Importance
-Environmentalists
-Morton
-William S. (“Bill”) White’s article Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-Canadian pipeline

Presidential appointments
-Flanigan
-Kissinger
-State Department’s role in economic policy
-Peterson
-Ambassador to New Zealand
-Russell
-Kenneth Franzheim, II
-William B. Macomber, Jr.
-Russell
-Ability
-Franzheim
-Campaign contribution
-Service
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-John M. Shaheen
-Possible appointment to US Advisory Commission on Information
-Shakespeare
-Clark MacGregor’s efforts
-Leslie C. Arends
-Flanigan
-Possible nomination
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20 Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)

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-MacGregor
-Congress


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-William J. Casey
-Chief Executive Officers
-Bert S. Cross
-Robert C. Tyson
-World Radio Conference
-Details
-Qualifications for position
-Joe McConnell [?]
-Earl H. Blaik
-Rose Mary Woods’ list
-White House
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
-J. Willard (“Bill”) Marriott, Jr.
-Tyson
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-Thornton
-Blaik
-Frederic V. Malek
-State Department appointment
-Flanigan
-Roy L. Ash
-Peterson
-Cabinet level Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-John B. Connally
-Need for potential presidential candidates and salesmen
-John A. Volpe and George W. Romney
-Connally
-Stans
-Connally

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:59 am and
11:10 am]

[Conversation No. 454-9A]

Call to Tyson

[End of telephone conversation]

Presidential appointments
-Offer of position to Tyson
-Tyson’s qualities
-Work experience
-Roger M. Blough

Flanigan’s conversation with former chairman of General Motors

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:10 am

Repair of fountain pen

Butterfield left at 11:11 am

Product safety legislation
-Need
-Administration’s position
-Administrative control
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-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Stans’ view
-Department of Commerce
-Office of Management and Budget’s [OMB] view
-Flanigan’s view
-President’s position
-HEW
-Richardson Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-Punitive actions

Arthur F. Burns
-Previous meeting with the President
-Differences with the Administration
-Economic forecast
-Potential press stories
-Washington Star
[The President talked with Tyson between 11:29 am and 11:30 am]

[Conversation No. 454-9B]

Offer of appointment to World Radio Conference
-Flanigan
-Tyson’s role
-Importance

The President’s Vietnam policy

[End of telephone conversation]

Personnel
-The President’s previous call to Tyson
-Blaik
-Flanigan’s call to Tyson
-Cross
-Flanigan’s role
-Thornton
-Ash
-Role in administration
-Flanigan’s role in administration
-State Department staffing
-Flanigan
-Philip H. Trezise
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-Samuels
-Thornton
-Economic affairs
-Johnson
-Irwin
-Rogers
-Flanigan’s call
-President’s decision Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-Peterson

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:30 am and
11:36 am]

[Conversation No. 454-9C]

Call to Rogers

[End of telephone conversation]

Burns
-Connally
-Meeting with the President
-Statements on economy
-President’s orders
-Potential problems
-Confidence
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Stans

[The President talked with Rogers between 11:36 am and 11:44 am]

[Conversation No. 454-9D]

Appointment to State Department
-Flanigan
-Role in White House
-Businessmen
-Thornton
-Qualifications

Butterfield entered at 11:40 am
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-Ash
-Compared to Robert S. McNamara
-Upgrading of position by Congress
-Samuels


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Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)

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PERSONNEL


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-Thornton
-The President’s dinner for Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop
-Forthcoming conversation between Flanigan and Rogers
-Irwin

J. B. and Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally

[End of telephone conversation]

J. B. Connally
-Tee time
-Rogers, Melvin R. Laird, and Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Ash Council meeting
-I. Connally

Butterfield left at 11:45 am
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Personnel
-State Department appointment
-Flanigan’s call to Rogers
-Thornton
-Upgrading of position by Congress
-Thornton
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Casey Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-Senate hearings
-William Proxmire
-Mitchell
-Cross
-Qualifications
-Hamer H. Budge
-Compensation
-James W. Hargrove
-Qualifications
-Cross
-Qualifications
-Charles Marren
-Mitchell’s view
-John H. Alexander
-Previous experience
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Miles W. Kirkpatrick
-Political sense
-Qualifications
-Compared to SEC
-Marren
-Casey
-Marren
-Mitchell’s view
-George McKenna
-Qualifications
-Present and possible term and salary
-Present judicial appointment
-American ability to raise capital
-Casey
-John W. Dean, III
-Mitchell
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Stans
-Department of Commerce
-Subordinate who disagreed with administration
-Ehrlichman
-Speech
-Trade with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
-President’s position
-Negotiations Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)

Flanigan’s forthcoming conversations
-Stans
-Support for Administration
-Burns
-Previous statement on economy
-Administration policy
-Economic confidence
-President’s view

Personnel
-Support for Administration’s policies
-Russell
-Department of Commerce personnel
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-[Leon Greenberg]
-President’s view

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:00 pm

-Thornton
-President’s view
-Change of position
-Samuels

Flanigan left at 12:02 pm

-Morton
-Thornton
-Volpe
-Possible post

The President left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm
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Position in State Department
-Flanigan
-Samuels
-Qualifications

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:02 pm

-Flanigan Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-President’s position
-Irwin
-Rogers
-Irwin
-Johnson
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Previous work with Kissinger

Personnel
-Robert F. Ellsworth
-Plans to resign
-Successor
-US Ambassador to Italy
-Henry Salvatori
-Volpe

The President’s meeting with Emilio Colombo
-Aldo Moro
-Italian domestic politics
-Graham A. Martin
-The President’s handling of foreign visitors
-Conversation topics
-Discussions
-Policy issues
-Chile
-Moro
-Presidency of Italy
-Upcoming elections

The President’s schedule
-Foreign Ministers
-Portugal, Spain, and Greece
-Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan
-Latin America, Asia, Africa
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 23 Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)

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-United States/Japanese relations

Vietnam
-Military situation
-Laos operation

The President’s meeting with Colombo
-Italian political situation
-President’s comments


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ITALY


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Ehrlichman’s schedule

[Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 12:02 pm and 12:15 pm]

[Conversation No. 434-9E]
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The President’s request for meeting

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman’s schedule

The President’s schedule Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)

Haldeman left at 12:15 pm

Nixon’s influence on foreign Heads of State
-Media coverage
-Kissinger’s role
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-John McCarty
-Difficulties of meetings
-Compared to other Presidents
-Absence of Secretary of State

Vietnam
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] story
-Negative reporting
-Kissinger’s conversation with Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Tendencies of soldiers
-Military operations
-Developments
-John A. Scali’s story
-Successes
-North Vietnamese attack
-Casualties
-B-52's
-B-26's
-President’s order
-CBS story
-Public information from Saigon
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Public relations efforts
-Media coverage
-United States’ Information Agency [USIA]
-Defense Information Office [DIO]
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-W[illiam] Averell Harriman’s statements
-President’s opinion
-Military operations
-Prospects
-President’s view of war
-Military operations
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Results Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)

[Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon talked with the President between 12:22 pm and 12:23 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9F]

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[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Battlefield situation
-Possible future developments
-Report of Japanese correspondent
-Problems in North Vietnam
-Food shortages
-Morale
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PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)


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-President’s news summary
-President’s position
-Public relations efforts
-Rogers
-The President’s news conference
-Media coverage
-Max Frankel
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Frankel’s story
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Foreign policy issues

National Security Council [NSC] staff
-President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Liberals/intellectuals
-Haig
-Morton H. Halperin
-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake
-Halperin
-John W. Gardner
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 24 Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)

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Media coverage
-The Alsops and Richard L. Wilson
-Mary McGrory
-Vietnam
-Alsop
-Rowland Evans
-Frankel
-Administration efforts
-Administration retaliation after 1972
-J. W. Alsop
-Stories
-John F. Kennedy

The President’s intellectual opponents
-Vietnam War
-Draft peace treaty
-Laos
-Timetable
-US/Soviet relations

Kissinger’s schedule

Ehrlichman entered at 12:32 pm

Peterson
-Role on White House staff
-Inner group
-Ehrlichman, Kissinger, Shultz, Haldeman, and Flanigan
-Paul W. McCracken and Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Connally
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-Mitchell
-State Department
-Samuels
-Areas of responsibility
-Quotas
-Middle East oil
-Rolls Royce
-Balance of payments Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-David M. Kennedy
-Shultz
-Kissinger as political analyst

Stans
-Statement on Soviet trade
-Administration policy
-Soviet interests/United States’ attitudes
-Shultz and Peterson
-President’s view
-Trade issues
-Negotiations
-Role in government
-Need to support Administration position

Kissinger left at 12:39 pm


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Democrats’ policy committee meeting
-Regionalism
-Revenue sharing
-Administration’s response
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-Press
-Differences between Democratic proposal and revenue sharing

Haldeman
-Meeting

Weather
Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
Television coverage of the President, 2/19
-President’s meeting
-Young Republicans
-President’s Council on Physical Fitness
-President’s comments

Haldeman entered at 12:43 pm

-George Black, Jr.
-Forthcoming trip to Africa
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Vietnam
-CBS
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars speech
-Robert Pierpoint and “Today” Show
-David

Burns
-Previous meeting with the President
-Statements on economic forecast
-Confidence
-McCracken
-Stans
-Money supply
-Effect on Administration
-Ehrlichman’s view
-News coverage
-Quadriad meeting, 2/19
-Shultz
-Position in administration
-Policy differences
-Wage and Price Board
-Shultz
-Connally
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-Role in economic policy
-Peterson
-Role
-Public relations
-Hobart Rowen
-Edward Dale
-Previous meeting with President and Fortune editors
-Meeting with Ehrlichman and Shultz Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-Role
-Consultation with Kissinger
-International economic matters
-Flanigan
-Political sense
-White House dissatisfaction
-President’s view
-Forthcoming call to Burns
-Effect of statement
-Press reports
-Forthcoming call to Burns
-President’s view
-Meetings with President
-Quadriad
-Social events

Morton
-Alaska pipeline
-Statement to the press
-Status
-Flanigan’s view
-Canada
-Statement to the press
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Forthcoming call to Morton
-Ehrlichman and Robert J. Hitt
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Walter J. Hickel
-Hickel’s comments
-Alaska pipeline
-President’s position
-Morton’s comments
-Environmentalists
-Florida canal [?]
-Role
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-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with William D. Ruckelshaus
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Possible appointment
-Laird
-Conversation with Morton
-Meeting between the President and Morton
-Agenda
-Schedule Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-Florida

Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Los Angeles Times
-Impeachment of President
-News summary
-Recall petition
-Ehrlichman
-Redistricting
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Charles S. Gubser
-Demand for resignation
-Public relations efforts
-Call for the President’s impeachment
-Vietnam policy


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The Vice President
-Haldeman’s conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Employment
-Office of Inter-Governmental Relations
-Nils A. Boe and Wendell E. Hulcher
-Refusal to speak to Young Republicans meeting
-Workload
-Revenue sharing
-Domestic policy

Boe
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Roy Carroll [?]
-Judgeship
-Mitchell

Personnel
-Court of Military Appeals
-Appointment of Black
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Edward W. Brooke
-Discussions
-Ehrlichman’s call to Whitney M. Young, Jr.
-President’s policies
-Blacks
-Admiral
-Secretary in President’s office
-Qualifications
-Terry L. Decker
-Previous work
-Age
-Woods
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Shelley A. Scarney
-Forthcoming marriage to Patrick J. Buchanan
-Role on White House staff
-Importance
-Federal regulations

Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
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Personnel
-Blacks
-Admiral
-Court of Military Appeals
-Brooke’s appreciation
-Federal court judgeship vacancy
-Clarence C. Ferguson, Jr.
-Young
-Mitchell’s view
-Brooke
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming call to Young
-President’s view
-The Vice President
-Boe
-Staff
-Colson assignment
-Role
-Herbert G. Klein
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with Klein
-Office responsibilities
-Colson
-Assignment
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-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Robert C. Odle, Jr.
-Young Republicans meeting
-Staff responsibilities
-Public relations
-Revenue sharing

Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
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[The President talked with Stephen B. Bull at an unknown time between 12:43 pm and 1:19 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9G]

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting

[End of telephone conversation]

The Vice President
-Staff
-Personnel changes
-Public statements
-Public relations

[The President talked with Mrs. Nixon between 1:19 pm and 1:20 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9H]
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[End of telephone conversation]

The Vice President
-Staff
-Role
-Possible presidency
-Staff
-Problems
-Secret Service

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:20 pm and
1:21 pm]

Call to Woods

[End of telephone conversation]

The Vice President
-Haldeman

[The President talked with Woods between 1:21 pm and 1:22 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9I]

Trip to Camp David
-Schedule
-Call to Mrs. Nixon

[End of telephone conversation]
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The Vice President
-Staff
-Forthcoming meeting between Haldeman and Vice President

Revenue sharing
-Connally
-Comments in Quadriad meeting
-Role in selling the President’s program Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-Role of Congress
-Administration position
-Public relations
-Administration efforts
-Public relations plan
-Shultz, Connally, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, MacGregor
-MacGregor

Shultz
-Colson
-Speech to American Enterprise Institute [AEI]
-President’s role
-Policies
-Efforts
-Ehrlichman’s speech
-Public relations
-Speeches
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-T. W. Wilson Center speech
-Buchanan
-Style

Demolition of Navy Building
-Speech given by Ehrlichman
-The President’s opposition to bureaucracy
-Content
-Effect on public relations
-President’s image
-J. F. Kennedy’s image
-Connally

Revenue sharing
-Connally’s view
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-President’s efforts
-Identification with the President
-Forthcoming meeting with Connally
-Media efforts
-Governors
-White House staff
-Congress
-Citizens’ organizations Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Advocacy groups

Labor
-Opposition to the President
-Alfred W. Friendly’s column
-British labor
-Compared to the United States
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Administration’s position
-Colson
-Relations with labor leaders
-Administration opposition to leadership
-Possible Presidential statement
-Roosevelt
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Support for country
-Differences between leaders and members
-Service organizations
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-American Legion


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White House staff
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Reorganization
-Need for better public relations
-Klein
-Colson
Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)

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-The Vice President

Ehrlichman’s schedule

Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm

Ehrlichman
-Arrangement of responsibilities
-Delegation
-Kissinger
-President
The President’s arrangement of responsibilities
-Connally
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-McCloskey
-Haldeman
-Edward L. Morgan
-Ehrlichman
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Public relations
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III statement
-Buchanan

Mrs. Nixon
-Press
-Questions
-President’s responses Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-Role of politicians’ wives
-Compared to men
-Negative press
-Effect on President and Mrs. Nixon

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:22 pm and
1:48 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9J]

Request that Colson join him

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:22 pm

The President’s schedule
-David Shriver
-R. Sargent Shriver
-John C. Whitaker

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm

The President’s willingness to meet with staff and congressmen
-Possible press story
-Haldeman

Whitaker, Elizabeth Bradley Whitaker, two of their sons, and D. Shriver entered at 1:48 pm; the
White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions

Presentations of gifts by the President
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The Whitakers and D. Shriver left at 1:50 pm

Media coverage
-President’s role
-Klein
-Colson
-DeVan L. Shumway
-Additional staff Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-Efforts
-Example to Cabinet
-Secretaries
-Dealing with subordinates in other offices
-Purpose
-Woods’ role

Colson entered at 1:50 pm

The Vice President
-Staff
-Buchanan
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Safire
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Harlow

State Department translator
-The President’s meeting with Colombo
-Possible position

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 1:57 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9K]

Haig

[The President talked with Haig at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 1:57 pm]

State Department translator

Schedule
-David

[End of telephone conversation]
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Blair House
-Use
-Entertainers
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Herbert J. (“Jackie”) Gleason
-L. Nicholas Ruwe
Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)

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Campaign practices
-Murray M. Chotiner
-Columnist
-Chapman’s friend
-Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Campaign intelligence
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy and Muskie


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Butterfield entered at 1:57 pm

Call from the Vice President

Butterfield left at 1:58 pm

Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
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The President’s schedule
-State of the World speech
-Colson
-Press conference
-Television
-Ziegler’s recommendation
-Statement to press
-Timing of release
-Kissinger
-Colson’s recommendation
-Publicity options
-Safire
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming discussion with Kissinger and Safire
-Radio
-Timing
-President’s position

Butterfield entered at 2:40 pm

Connally
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
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-Value-added Tax [VAT]
-Instructions
-Press conference
-VAT

Schedule
-Press conference
-Format Conv. No. 454-9 (cont.)
-Radio
-Timing
-Possible Presidential statement
-Safire
-Timing
-Television
-Options
-Foreign policy
-President’s position
-Frequency
-Domestic policy
-Foreign policy
-Haldeman’s position
-Timing
-Forthcoming meeting with governors
-Press coverage
-Foreign policy
-Safire

Haldeman, Butterfield, and Colson left at 2:42 pm