476–8

Conversation No. 476-8

Date: April 9, 1971
Time: 10:03 am - 10:27 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz

Economy
-Paul W. McCracken
-Possible resignation
-John D. Ehrlichman
-McCracken

[The President talked with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. between 10:03 am and 10:27 am]

[Conversation No. 476-8A]

[See Conversation No. 1-55]

[End of telephone conversation]

Economy
-Need for confidence in plan
-Strategy
-McCracken
-Policy
-Need for consistency
-Construction trades
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Cambodia
-Press story in New York Times
-Terence F. Smith
-Forrest Boyd
-Political situation
-Economy
-Leaks
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-Fred Ladd
-Instructions to Henry A. Kissinger

Economy
-McCracken
-Shultz’s role
-News stories
-Optimism
-Indicators
-Sales
-Weather
-Sears sales
-Automobile sales
-General Motors [GM]
-American Motors Corporation [AMC]
-Business community
-Inventories
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Money supply
-McCracken
-Possible resignation
-University of Michigan
-Economic reports
-Preparation
-Shultz’s previous conversations with McCracken
-President’s forthcoming conversation with McCracken
-Profits statements
-Long-term goals

Haig entered at 10:05 am

Defense
-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM] agreement
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-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
-Ehrlichman
-ABM agreement
-Timing
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] missiles
-Freeze on deployment
-”Doves”
-President’s initiatives Conv. No. 476-8 (cont.)
-William P. Rogers and Kissinger
-ABM sites
-Washington and Moscow
-Freeze on Soviet offensive missiles
-ABM funds
-Possible US-USSR agreement
-”Doves”
-Possible ABM freeze
-USSR strength
-Polaris
-US strategy
-ABM agreement tied to missile freeze
-Impact
-Budget
-Military opinions

Haig left at 10:08 am

-Public statement
-Need for confidentiality
-Leaks
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-Congress
-Prospects for agreement with USSR
-Shultz’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Domestic initiative
-Impact
-Budget
-Congress
-Possible funds
-Department of Defense
-Budget
-Hardware
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-Bases
-Force structure
-Manpower and bases
-Prospects for agreement with Soviets
-Cambodia


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Conv. No. 476-8 (cont.)

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 31s ]


MIDDLE EAST


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-Cambodia and Laos
-President’s strategy
-Perception of turn “right”
-USSR options
-Risks
-Possible agreement with US
-Leadership

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-South Vietnamese elections
-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Resources
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-Prospects
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-USSR
-US policy
-North Vietnamese
-Risks
-US election
-”Doves”
-US policy
Conv. No. 476-8 (cont.)
ABM agreement with USSR
-Prospects

McCracken

Shultz left at 10:27 am