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Conversation No. 482-4

Date: April 16, 1971
Time: Unknown after 12:09 pm - 12:38 pm
Location: Oval Office

Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker, Albert H. Gordon, Donald T. Regan, Peter M. Flanigan, and John
B. Connally met.

Presentation to the President
-Steven Delaney
-Gift to President
-Bull
-Shopping
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Gift to President
-Bull

[Break in tape recording]

The President entered at 12:23 pm.

Presentation to President
-President's economic accomplishments
-Bull
-Press
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An unknown man entered at 12:25 pm.
Press

The unknown man left at 12:25 pm.

Positions for press photo

Members of the press entered at 12:25 pm.

[Camera noise]

Presentation to President
-Economy
-Stock market
-Bull
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Economy
-Wall Street
-Confidence
-Prospects
-Stock market
-Rise
-Institutional buying
-Individuals

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 12:38 pm.

-Confidence in President's policies
-Numbers
-President's policies
-Inflation
-Stock market
-Institutional buying
-Individuals
-Blue chips
-Bonds
-Insurance companies
-Individuals
-Numbers
-Projections
-Confidence
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-Growth rate
-Economists
-Politics
-Otto Eckstein

Presentation of gifts by President
-Bull
-Eisenhower Conv. No. 482-4 (cont.)
-Gettysburg Farm
-Presidential paper weights
-Blue chips

Stock market
-Performance
-Fall
-Decline in earnings
-Brokerage firms
-Difficulties
-President's conversation with unknown broker
-Improvement
-Long-range projections

Economy
-March economic indicators
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Growth
-Automobiles
-Home building
-Retail sales
-March figures
-Household furnishings
-Automobiles
-General Motors [GM]
-Consumers
-Confidence
-Stock market
-Shares
-Growth
-Institutions/individuals
-President's foreign policy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Ping-pong team
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Foreign relations
-Middle East
-PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Stock market
-President's forthcoming meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors
[ASNE], April 16, 1971 Conv. No. 482-4 (cont.)
-State Department
-PRC
-Communism
-President's initiatives
-Pace
-USSR
-US/USSR relations
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-PRC
-Detente
-US/PRC relations
-US policy
-Need for confidentiality
-USSR
-USSR
-Possible interpretations of US/PRC relations
-PRC
-US missionaries
-Relations with US

Merrill Lynch's public sale of stock
-Timing

Unknown man's daughter
-Connally

Stock market

Connally
-Anecdote
-Bull

Wall Street
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Lasker, Gordon, Regan, Flanigan, and Connally left at 12:38 pm