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486–2
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Gerald R. Ford
- John W. Byrnes
- Elliot L. Richardson
- Clark MacGregor
- Kenneth R. Cole
- John R. Price
- Ronald L. Ziegler
- Fred Maroon
- Stan Wayman
April 22, 1971
Conversation No. 486-2
Date: April 22, 1971
Time: 10:41 am - 12:01 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Gerald R. Ford, John W. Byrnes, Elliot L. Richardson, Clark MacGregor,
Kenneth R. Cole, and John R. Price, Jr.
Greetings
[General conversation]
-MacGregor
-Green Bay Packers
-Phil Bengsten
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:41 am
The President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-Location
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:26 am
The President's remarks at Republican Governors' Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia,
April 19, 1971
-Welfare
Welfare bill
-Proposed National health Insurance Standards Act
-Difficulties
-Congress
-Committee action
-Calendar
-Liberals and conservatives
-Support
-Senate
-Anticipated votes
-Prospects
-President's conversation with Richardson
-Administration's dilemma
-Unemployment
-Ronald W. Reagan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Work requirements
-Reagan
-MacGregor's conversation with Wilbur D. Mills
-President’s Wiliamsburg speech
-Impact on H.R. 1 vote
-Prospective vote
-Timing
-Rules Committee
-Hearings
-Calendar
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:41 am
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:26 am
Senate Finance Committee
-Forthcoming hearings, April 26, 1971
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Russell B. Long
-Unknown person
-Kennedy hearings
-Peter H. Dominick and Kennedy
-Health crisis
-Health legislation hearings
-Timing
-Long
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Kennedy hearings
-Pending legislation
-Family health insurance
-Initiation
-House
Revenue sharing
-Mills
-Timing
-Criticism of administration policies
-John V. Lindsay and Reagan
-Health insurance bill
-Economic aspect
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Political aspect
-Burden on employers
-Contribution by employees
-Effect on large employers
-Economic effect on marginal workers and employers
-Responsibility on employers
-Minimum wage
-Unemployment compensation Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Social Security
-Economic and political problem
-Effect on small businesses
-Marginal employers
-Byrnes's conversation with Richardson
-Employer responsibility
-Treatment of middle tier
-Marginal workers
-Government-payed medical assistance
-Medicaid
-”Medicall indigent”
-Employers of marginal workers
-Marginal workers
-Costs
-Numbers
-Social Security
-Small business
-Wages
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] study
-Earnings
-Welfare
-Social Security
-Earnings
-Minimum wage
-Effect on job opportunities
-Employer's responsibility
-Political aspects
-Effect on small employer
-Minimum wage
-Exempt workers
-Numbers
-Mills' views
-Two-dollar minimum wage proposal
-Retail services establishment
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Exemption
-Farm labor
-President's program
-Coverage
-Possible committee action
-Minimum wage
-Exemptions
-Retail establishments Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Administrative, professional employees
-Teachers
-Salesmen
-Employees of retail services establishments
-Administration's program
-Mills' views
-Exemptions
-Small businesses
-Criticism of program
-Three tiers
-Federal Government responsibilities
-Medicare, medicaid
-Employers
-Employees
-Smaller employers
-Tiers
-Government
-Employers
-Employees
-Employers
-Deductions of costs
-Taxes
The President's meeting with motion picture producers, April 5, 1971
-Taft Schreiber
-Tax depreciation
-Other participants
-Views
Health insurance bill
-Marginal employers
-Income
-Tax deductions
-Contributions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Medical care, insurance
-Costs
-Cost
-Projections
-Government employees plans
-Projections
-Insurance companies
-Small business Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Thomas S. Kleppe
-Maurice H. Stans
-Cutbacks
-Employers of domestic workers
-Health insurance
-Twenty-hour work week
-Women
-Children
-Welfare
-Coverage
-Part-time employees
-Economic and political aspects
-Mills
-Burden by the President
-Agricultural workers
-Middle America
-Support for Republicans
-Grocery store
-Dress shop
-Drug store
-Motel
-Cleaning ladies
-Minimum wage
-Free enterprise
-Third tier
-Federal government participation
-Contribution of employer and employees
-Ratio
-California plans
-Burden on employer, employee, government
-Economic impact
-Changes in minimum wage
-Arthur F. Burns’ study
-Reduction of job opportunities
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Effect on small employer
-Administration's welfare program
-Low-skilled jobs
-Burden on employers
-Responsibilities of government
-Medicare, welfare program
-Older people
-Medicaid Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Low-income groups
-Burden on employers
-Committee's possible action
-Burden on employers
-Minimum wage
-Social Security
-Unemployment compensation
-Approach to bill
-Problem
-Possible solutions
-Alternatives
-Cost
-Eligibility for subsidies
-Small employers
-Gross income
-Number of employees
-Coverage
-Subsidies
-Subsidies
-Problems
-Administration's position
-Commerce Department
-Small Business Administration [SBA]
-Small business representatives
-Administration's program
-Pressures to liberalize
-Family health insurance
-Childless couples
-Single adults
-Expand
-Benefits package
-Dental care for children
-Long-term savings
-Dental care
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Costs
-Supply problem
-Medicare and Medicaid
-Shortage of doctors
-Health care facilities
-President's proposals
-Dental care
-Private practices Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Dentists
-Work
-Cleaning of teeth
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-Money
-Doctors
-Pressures on administration
-Cost of medical insurance
-Kennedy proposal
-Administration's program
-HEW
-Political aspect
-Congress
-Burden on small business
-Political issue
-Possible administration strategy
-Family health insurance plan
-Welfare, unemployment
-Issues
-Coverage, benefits
-Administration's perspective
-Small business
-Costs
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Concessions
-Effective date
-Benefits, costs ratio
-Conversations with representatives
-Subsidy approach
-Richardson's conversations
-Main Street America Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Political impact
-Tax
-Lobbyists
-Execution of plan
-Cost
-Bill
-Introduction
-Part-time employees
-Motels
-Competing claims
-Administration concerns
-Senate hearings
-Political impact
-Business associations
-National Federation of Independent Business [NFIB]
-National Business league
-National Small Business Association
-Association of Small Business Investment Companies
-Subsidy device
-Cost considerations
-President's possible position
-Small businessmen
-Possible administration amendment
-Subsidy
-Administrative complexity
-Cost
-Subsidy
-Possible administration bill
-Effect on Main Street
-Amendment
-Credit
-Byrnes
-Introduction
-Mills
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Mills
-Possible administration amendment
-Connally
-Kleppe
-Stans
-Price
-MacGregor
-Bill Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Introduction
-Byrnes
-Possible administration bill
-Republican committee meeting [Committee on Ways and Means]
-Richardson
-John G. Veneman
-President's program
-General fund
-Social security
-Byrnes
-Healthcare package
-Minimum wage, unemployment compensation, social security
-Burden on employers
-Byrnes
-Political, economic aspects
-Byrnes
-Republican committee members
-Byrnes' conversations with MacGregor and Richardson
-Possible administration program
-Insurance burden
-Main Street
-Wall Street, Park Avenue
The President's schedule
-Connally
Health insurance bill
-Ways and Means Committee
-Complexion
-Republican members
-Brynes
-Democrats
-Chairman [Mills]
-Vote
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Prospects
-Mills
-Support for small business
-Background
-Bill
-Version
-Alternatives
-Problems Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Possible action
-President's possible position
-Alternatives
-Richardson's conversations with small businessmen
-President's possible position
-Legislation
-Possible administration bill
-Administration's position
-Senate
-Bennett
-Ford's and Brynes's possible initiatives
-Possible House, Senate actions
-Conference
-Possible Republican bill
-Provisions
-Exemptions for small business
-Political aspect
Connally entered at 11:26 am
Greetings
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Republican Congressional leaders
Health insurance bill
-Administration bill in Senate
-Bennett's role
-Administration bill in House
-Brynes's and Ford's view
-Special treatment for small business
-Exemptions
-Minimum wage
-Unemployment insurance
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Possible administration alternative
-Brynes's position
-Main Street businesses
-Hiring of unemployables
-Burden
-Way and Means Committee
-Possible action
-Mills Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Father
-Independent grocer
-President's father
-Effect on small businessmen
-Number effected
-Political problem
-Difficulties for administration
-Cost
-Possible government program
-Other proposals
-Cost
-Coverage
-Contact lenses
-Dental care
-Children
-Older people
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-Consensus
-Brynes' view
-Ford's view
-Possible administration bill in the House
-Exemptions for small businesses
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Alternative proposals
-Cost
-Possible House action
-Brynes' view
-Administration's bill
-Mills
-Effects on small businessmen
-Political problem for administration Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Effects on small businessmen
-Richardson's view
-Brynes's view
-Administration's position
-Administration bill
-Timing
-Connally’s view
-Costs of health bills
-Exemptions for small businessmen
-Cost
-Political impact
-Administration's constituency
-President's position
-Health crisis
-National health insurance
-Medical care
-Administration's bill
-Benefits
-Private insurance companies
-Problem
-Supply
-Kennedy approach
-Free medicine
-Dental care
-Plastic surgery
-Plastic surgery
-Appeal to women
-Cost
-Subsidy for employers
-Payments for insurance premiums
-Richardson's conversations
-Chambers of Commerce
-National Association of Manufacturers [NAM]
-Small business groups
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Business views regarding taxes
-Subsidies
-Burden on small businessmen
-Possible employer/employee participation
-Cost of insurance policies
-Effect on small businesses
-General Motors [GM]
-Possible administration amendment Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Brynes's role regarding small businessmen
-Possible administration amendment
-Timing
-Brynes's initiative in House
-Senate bill
-Administration Congressional strategy
-Hearings
-Ways and Means Committee
-Differences in Committee
-Problem for administration
-Administration bill
-Ford’s possible role
-Effects on small businessmen
-Richardson
School integration in North and South
-Administration's position
Health insurance bill
-Differences in House bills
-Brynes, Ford
-Political problem
-Connally's view
-Cost
-Administration's possible program
-House bill
-Accommodation of competing claims
-Resolution
-Bennett's bill
-President's meeting with Richardson, Brynes, Ford
-President's position regarding House bill
-Hearings
-Ways and Means Committee
-Bennett's possible reaction
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Alternate House bill
-President's options
-Kennedy
-Political impact
-Coverage
-Burden on employers
-Exemption of coverage
-Coverage Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Financing
-Possible administration position
-Connally
-Consultative process
-Richardson's possible alternative proposals
-Bennett
-Variant
-Possible Republican bill in House
-Timing
-Alternative language
-Brynes
-Alternatives
-Timing
-Richardson
-Byrnes
-Richardson's and Byrnes's possible activities
-Mechanics
-Connally's cost analysis
-Additional costs
-Medicaid costs
-Burden on small employers
-Significance
-Marginal employer
-Work for welfare recipients
-Creation of job opportunities
-HEW
-Richardson
-Possible alternate cost proposal
-Prospects
Welfare
-Brynes' conversation with Mills
-President's remarks at Williamsburg Republican Governors'
Conference
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Presentation of gifts
-Paper weights
-Golf balls
School integration in North and South
-Richardson's role
-Case-by-case basis Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Speech, April 21, 1971
-Reception
-Content
[General conversation]
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:50 am and Ford, Byrnes, Richardson, MacGregor, Cole, and
Price left at 11:51 am
The President's schedule
Fred Maroon and Stan Wayman entered at 11:52 am
-Upcoming photo session
-President and Connally
-Location
-Rose Garden
Ziegler, Maroon and Wayman left at an unknown time before 12:01 pm
President's meeting with Texas A&M Singing Cadets, April 18, 1971
-Number
-Joe Frazier
-Family
-Carl W. Haley
-Duke University
-Singing
-Appearance
-Vietnam veterans
-Support for the President
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower II's remarks
-Size of Texas A&M
-Compared to Harvard Univerity, Yale University, Princeton University
-Texas A&M
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-World War II officers
-West Point
-President
-James Earl Rudder
-Rudder
-World War II service
-Anzio
-General Omar N. Bradley Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Songs
-\"Battle Hymn of the Republic\"
-\"How Great Thou Art\"
-Idanell (“Nellie”) Connally
-Possible reaction
-Appearance on \"Mike Douglas Show\"
Ziegler, Maroon and Wayman entered at an unknown time after 11:52 am
The President's schedule
-Photos
-Location
-Connally
-Press
Photo session
-Connally's possible meeting with Wayman
[General conversation]
Unknown [McCall’s?] story
-Timing of release
-Connally’s forthcoming meeting with Hedley W. Donovan
-Story
-Photos
-Timing
The President's schedule
-Photos
-Rose Garden
The President's meeting with Texas A&M Singing Cadets
The President's schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Photos
-Timing
The President, Connally, Ziegler, Maroon, and Wayman left at 12:01 pm
Conversation No.(cont.)
Conv. No. 486-2 486-3
Date: April 22, 1971
Time: 12:01 pm - 1:43 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John B. Connally, Jr.
[This recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress]
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Economy
-Mortgage rates
-Decrease
-Stock market
-Rise
-Robert J. Dole’s speech in New York City, April 21, 1971
-Public confidence
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Retail sales
-Automobile sales
-Housing starts
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Rise
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Tape Subject Log
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-Quarter
-Cooling
-Administration policy
-President's conversation with Arthur F. Burns
-Tax reduction
-Administration policy
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Views Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Expertise
-First National City Bank, New York
-Model
-Level
-Unemployment rate
-Inflation
-Welfare
-President's remarks at Republican Governors' Conference, Williamsburg, April
19, 1971
-Work requirements
-Unemployment rate
-Problem
-Teenage
-Quarter
-Adult categories
-Administration policy
-Shultz
-Confidence
-Growth
-Administration policy
-Staying the course
-Wilbur D. Mills' conversation with Charles E. Walker
-Investment tax credits
-Timing
-Burns
-Visit to Europe
-Tax credits
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Possible meeting
-Shultz and Paul W. McCracken
-Schedule
-Central bankers
-Burns' forthcoming report to the President
-Views
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Confidence factor
-National psychology
-Mood
-Vietnam
-End of war
Lockheed and Rolls Royce case
-Burns Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Negotiations
-Agreement
-Bank loans
-Amount
-Airlines
-President's possible decision
-Negotiations
-Timing
-Meetings
-Progress
-Relations
-Understanding
-Agreement
-Difficulties
-Rolls Royce's position refinancing
-Assurances regarding Lockheed
-Banks
-Airlines’ position
-Terms
-British
-Cost of engines
-Position
-Money
-Airlines' view regarding Rolls Royce
-Survival
-Great Britain
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Financing
-Method
-Engine
-Meetings of April 20, 1971
-Eastern Airlines
-Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr.
-Floyd D. Hall
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-Turner [Forename unknown]
-Hoss [sp?] [Forename unknown]
-Delta Airlines
-Charles H. Dolson
-Frank F. Davis
-William L. Hoffman
-Length
-Agreement Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Banks
-Loans
-Collateral
-Possible legislation
-Lockheed
-Settlement
-US government
-Cheyenne helicopter
-Defense Department
-Ship contract
-Lawyers
-Receivership
-Airlines
-Banks
-President's position regarding Congress
-Defense Department
-Lockheed
-Financing
-President's possible decision
-Effect on economy
-Contracts
-Timing
-Deadline
-Administration's possible position
-Conditions
-Charles P. Hess
-Congressional support
-Hall
-Media
-Congress
-Commitment
-President's possible position
-Conditions
-Congressional guarantees
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-Bank loans
-Negotiations
-Lockheed, British government, Rolls-Royce
-Lockheed and airlines
-President's schedule
-Congressional committee
-Treasury Department
-Clark MacGregor Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Banking and Currency Committee
-Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
-Banking and Currency Committee
-Relations with Connally's staff
-Wright Patman
-Senate
-William Proxmire
-Alan Cranston
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-John V. Tunney
-James S. McDonnell
-McDonnell's activities
-McDonnell-Douglas Company
-Lockheed's possible bankruptcy
-Effect on McDonnell-Douglas
-McDonnell-Douglas
-Economic interests
-David Packard’s position
-L-1011 Employees
Suppliers
-Lockheed's possible bankruptcy
-Symbolism
-Connally, Walker, and James E. Smith's conversations with Congressmen
-President's possible position
-Reaction
-Connally's conversation with Carl B. Albert, April 21, 1971
-Albert’s position
-President's schedule
-Meeting
-Lockheed
-Financial situation
-SST
-Lockheed
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-Tradition
-Air Force One
-President’s flights in 1950's
-Military supplies
-Receivership
-Cost
-President's position
-Effect of possible bankruptcy on economy Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
H. Ross Perot
-Loan
Lockheed
-Meeting
-President's schedule
-California
-Forthcoming trip on April 30, 1971
-Meeting
Connally's breakfast meeting with Republican Congressmen
-Ways and Means Committee
-Banking and Currency Committee
The President's breakfast meeting with Melvin R. Laird
Connally's forthcoming meeting with Gerald R. Ford
Senate
-Leadership
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
House
-Leadership
-Democrats
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Albert
-John W. McCormack
-Mills
-George H. Mahon
-Prospects
-Albert
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-Activities
-Health
-Responsibilities
-Speaker
-Performance
-Republicans
-Ford
-John W. Byrnes Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Frank T. Bow
-Committee members
-Discipline
-Compare with Black caucus
-Democrats
-Disarray
-Leadership
Senate
-Robert A. Taft, Sr.
-Republicans
House
-Republicans
-Ford
-Discipline
-Democrats
-Caucus, April 21, 1971
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-Quorum
-Liberals
-Vietnam
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-Albert
-Mills
-Republicans
-Ford
-Connally's meeting
-Ways and Means Committee members
Congress Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Public reaction
-Performance
-Democrats
-Senate
-John L. McClellan
-John C. Stennis
-Richard B. Russell
-David H. Gambrell
-Spessard L. Holland
-Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.
-Democrats
-James O. Eastland
-Robert C. Byrd
-Republicans
-Roman L. Hruska
-Carl T. Curtis
-Unknown person
-James Abourezk [?]
-House
-Republicans
-Ford
-Committee members
-Brynes
-Bow
-Leslie C. Arends
-Mahon
-Democrats
-Mahon
-Qualifications
-Speaker of the House
-Chairman
-Appropriations Committee
State Department
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-Connally's relations
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Turkey
-Government
-Importance
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Connally's previous conversation with John N. (“Jack”) Irwin, II
-Treasury Department
-Opium
-US position
-Possible ban on cultivation
-Timing
-Negotiations
-President's instructions to Ambassador William J. Handley
-Domestic problem for US
-US position
-US aid
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Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Connally's letter to Rogers
-Opium
-Value
-Growth
-Negotiations
-Opium
-Elimination
-Growth
-US position
US-French Relations
Japan
-State Department
-Textiles
-Dumping
-Burlington Mills
-Trade Agreement
-Imports
-State Department
-Reaction
-David M. Kennedy
-Trip
-Eugene T. Rossides call to Anthony J. Jurich
-Administration’s position
-Kennedy
-Manila
-US position
-Sanctions
-State Department
-Negotiations
-Kennedy
-Sanctions
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-Kennedy
-Negotiations
-Treasury Department
-Sanctions
-Dumping
-State Department
-Connally's message to Kennedy
-Armin H. Meyer Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Negotiations
-Meyer
-President's Position
-Connally's Activities
Possible cabinet appointments
-Opportunity
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John N. Mitchell
-Role
-Cabinet
-President's previous conversation with Haldeman
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Mitchell
-Location
-State, Defense
-Changes
-Timing
Haldeman entered at 12:30 pm
-State and Defense Departments
-Attorney General
-Timing
-Mitchell
-Successor
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Kleindienst
-Qualifications
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-Role
-George W. Romney
-Tenure
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
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-Blacks
-John A. Volpe
-Salesmanship
-Issues
-Emotion
-Jack J. Valenti
-Meeting with the President, April 23, 1971
Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
The President's schedule
-Meetings with Cabinet officials
-Connally
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Mitchell
-Laird
-Rogers
-Reaction
-Morton
-Romney
-Volpe
Possible Cabinet Appointments
-Richardson
-Romney
-Richardson
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
[Transciprt #1: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]
[End of transcript]
-Qualifications
-Salesmanship
-Management skills
-HEW
-Programs
-Welfare, education, health
-Departmentt of Commerce
-Maurice H. Stans
-Need for salesmanship
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Stans
-Robert H. Finch
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable] Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
[Duration: 24s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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Possible Cabinet appointments
-Commerce
-Salesmanship
-Statistics
-Salesmanship on economy
-Shultz
-McCracken
-Candidates
-Commerce Department
-Need for pro-business attitude
-Salesmanship
-”Buoyancy”
-Ability to attack
-Businessman
-Peter G. Peterson
-Qualifications
-Appearance
-Salesmanship
-Army Secretary
-Belton Kleberg (“B.K.”) Johnson
-Robert J. Kleberg, Jr.
-Qualifications
-Wife
-Age
-Candidates
-Stanley R. Resor
45
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Departure
-Timing
-Laird
-Johnson
-Service record
-Previous conversation with Connally
-Loyalty
-My Lai cases Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Courage
-Cornell University and Stanford University
-Frank Zogg [sp?]
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Walter Annenberg
-Texas families
-Intermarriages
-Vanderbilts and Whitneys
Possible Cabinet appointments
-Johnson
-Businessman
-Peterson
-Agriculture Secretary
-Farmers
-Ezra Taft Benson
-Orville L. Freeman
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Qualities
-Wife
-Salesmanship
-Job offer
-Purdue University
-Alumnus
-Presidency
-Possible acceptance
-Loyalty to the President
-Signal
Military manpower bill
-Senate Armed Services Committee
-Vote
-Draft extension
-President's position
46
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Possible Cabinet appointments
-Agriculture Secretary
-Hardin
-Academic credentials
-Requirements
-Candidates
-Fighter for administration Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Midwest, plains states
-Background
-Farmer
-Wealth
-Success
-Opportunity
-Colorado
-Groups
-John A. Love
-Background
-American National Cattlemen's Association
-Past presidents
-Montfort [Forname unknown]
-[Unintelligible name]
-Nelson [Forename unknown]
-Colorado, Wyoming
-Midwest
-Mountain states
-Colorado and Wyoming
-George A. Smathers
-Ed Carver [?]
-Tobacco
-Border States
-Kentucky
-Tennessee
-Missouri
-Breeding associations
-Farm bureaus
-Granges
-Cattlemen
-Support for administration
-William D. Farr
Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
47
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Connally
-Mitchell
-George A. Lincoln
-Salesmanship
-Removal
-Disasters
-Public relations Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Texas drought
-California earthquake
-Public relations
-Job requirements
-NSC
-Statutory member
-Candidates
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Berlin negotiations
-Qualifications
-Background
-Union-Carbide
-Gen. Leonard F. Chapman
-Possible earlier appointment
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Age
-Marine Corps commandent
-Speeches for administration
-Politics
-Appearance
-Speech
-Salesmanship
-Public relations
-Importance
-Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.
-Appearance
-Qualifications
-Ambassador to Portugal
-Rush
-Chapman
-Anderson
-Administration spokesman
-Previous relationship with Connally
-Secretary of Navy
48
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Arleigh Burke
-Articulation
-Hardliner
-NSC
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Daughter
-David M. Abshire
-State Department Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Agriculture Department
-Commerce Department
-Labor Department
-James D. Hodgson
-Spokesman
-HUD and HEW Departments
-Attorney General
-Transportation Department
-Volpe
-Romney
-Volpe
-Ambassador to Italy
-Performance
The President's schedule
-Social engagements
-Connally and Idanell (“Nellie”) Connally
-Religious services at White House
-Texas A & M University choir
-Benefits
-Sermon
Camp David
-Cabinet use
-Connally
-Golf
-Volpe
Sequoia
-Remodeling
-Availability
-Dinner
-Small groups
-Trips
49
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Cabinet use
-Connally
Connally left at 1:08 pm
Possible Cabinet appointments
-Discussion
-Value Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Peterson
-Present assignment
-Staffer
-Corporate presidents
-Likely performance
-Staffer
-Possible appointment as Commerce Secretary
-Salesman
-Economy
-International affairs
-Present assignment
-Connally's view
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:08 pm
The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm
Possible appointments
-OEP
-Candidates
-Anderson
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Qualifications
-Administration spokesman
-Hardliner
-National defense
-Rogers and Laird
-Daughter
-Abshire
-Rush
-Peterson
50
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Anderson
-Agriculture Secretary
-Hardin
-Haldeman and Rogers
-John C. Whitaker
-President's possible action
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Rogers
-Reassignment Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-1972 campaign
-Tenure
People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Haldeman's previous conversation with Rogers
-Kissinger
-Rogers's forthcoming press conference
-President's statement
-State Department role
-Rogers
-Press release
-President's press release
-NSC
-Under secretary’s committee
-State Department
-NSC
-Press story
-Rogers's call to Haldeman
-Kissinger
-NSC
-President's statement
-Phrasing
-Rogers’ call to Haldeman
-Foreign Service
-Support of the President
-Charles W. Yost
-State Department
-Support of the President
-Rogers’ role
-NSC
-Under secretary’s committee
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-Press
51
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Rogers's forthcoming press conference
-Kissinger
-NSC role
-NSC
-Under secretary's committee
-Haldeman's previous conversation with Rogers
-Under secretary’s committee Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-State Department
-Foreign Service
[Transcript #2: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]
[End of transcript]
PRC initiative
-Rogers
-President's Statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger’s role
The President's schedule
-Lockheed meeting
-Timing
-California
-Announcement
-News value
-Connally
-Meeting
-Burns and Connally
-Timing
-Rogers
-Meeting, April 22, 1971
-Trip
-Press conference, April 23, 1971
-Trip
-Duration
PRC initiative
-Public statement
52
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Kissinger
-State
-NSC
-President's Role
-Rogers
Henry Cebot Lodge Commission
-Lodge Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Possible meeting with the President
-Report
-United Nations [UN] representation
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Press
-Congress
-Yost
-Composition
-Report
-Meeting with the President
PRC initiative
-Kissinger
-President's Statement
-NSC
-Under secretary's Committee
-State Department
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Press Release
The President's schedule
-Arthur S. Flemming
-Conference on aging
-California
-Radio
-Farm speech
-Farm speech
-Salute to Agriculture
-Timing
Lockheed
53
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Decision
The President's schedule
-California
-PRC
-\"Experts\"
PRC initiative Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-President's position
-John A. Scali
-US relations
-Publicity
-\"China scholars\"
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 28s ]
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Possible appointments
-Volpe
-Connally's view
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Italy
-Ambassador
-Italy
-Volpe
-Rogers
-[Unintelligible Name]
-Possible Italian-American appointees
-Unknown doctor
-Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman
-Lincoln
-Qualifications
54
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Mitchell's view
-Transportation Department
-Salesmanship
-Airlines
-Volpe
-Ambassador to Italy
-Graham A. Martin
-Italian representation Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Importance
-Transportation
-Peterson
-Salesman
-Qualifications
-Salesman
-Reassignment
[Transcript #3: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]
[End of transcript]
Lyndon B. Johnson
-Legacy
-Vietnam
-Backlog
-Democratic party
-Personality
-Television sets
-Oval Office
-Ticker tape machines
-Briefings
-Press
-Appearance
-Press Secretary
-Briefings
-Recordings
-Use of time
PRC initiative
-Press Release
55
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Staff
-Scali
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-NSC
The President and Haldeman left at 1:43 pm
Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
Date: April 22, 1971
Time: 10:41 am - 12:01 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Gerald R. Ford, John W. Byrnes, Elliot L. Richardson, Clark MacGregor,
Kenneth R. Cole, and John R. Price, Jr.
Greetings
[General conversation]
-MacGregor
-Green Bay Packers
-Phil Bengsten
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:41 am
The President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-Location
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:26 am
The President's remarks at Republican Governors' Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia,
April 19, 1971
-Welfare
Welfare bill
-Proposed National health Insurance Standards Act
-Difficulties
-Congress
-Committee action
-Calendar
-Liberals and conservatives
-Support
-Senate
-Anticipated votes
-Prospects
-President's conversation with Richardson
-Administration's dilemma
-Unemployment
-Ronald W. Reagan
17
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Work requirements
-Reagan
-MacGregor's conversation with Wilbur D. Mills
-President’s Wiliamsburg speech
-Impact on H.R. 1 vote
-Prospective vote
-Timing
-Rules Committee
-Hearings
-Calendar
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:41 am
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:26 am
Senate Finance Committee
-Forthcoming hearings, April 26, 1971
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Russell B. Long
-Unknown person
-Kennedy hearings
-Peter H. Dominick and Kennedy
-Health crisis
-Health legislation hearings
-Timing
-Long
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Kennedy hearings
-Pending legislation
-Family health insurance
-Initiation
-House
Revenue sharing
-Mills
-Timing
-Criticism of administration policies
-John V. Lindsay and Reagan
-Health insurance bill
-Economic aspect
18
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Political aspect
-Burden on employers
-Contribution by employees
-Effect on large employers
-Economic effect on marginal workers and employers
-Responsibility on employers
-Minimum wage
-Unemployment compensation Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Social Security
-Economic and political problem
-Effect on small businesses
-Marginal employers
-Byrnes's conversation with Richardson
-Employer responsibility
-Treatment of middle tier
-Marginal workers
-Government-payed medical assistance
-Medicaid
-”Medicall indigent”
-Employers of marginal workers
-Marginal workers
-Costs
-Numbers
-Social Security
-Small business
-Wages
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] study
-Earnings
-Welfare
-Social Security
-Earnings
-Minimum wage
-Effect on job opportunities
-Employer's responsibility
-Political aspects
-Effect on small employer
-Minimum wage
-Exempt workers
-Numbers
-Mills' views
-Two-dollar minimum wage proposal
-Retail services establishment
19
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Exemption
-Farm labor
-President's program
-Coverage
-Possible committee action
-Minimum wage
-Exemptions
-Retail establishments Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Administrative, professional employees
-Teachers
-Salesmen
-Employees of retail services establishments
-Administration's program
-Mills' views
-Exemptions
-Small businesses
-Criticism of program
-Three tiers
-Federal Government responsibilities
-Medicare, medicaid
-Employers
-Employees
-Smaller employers
-Tiers
-Government
-Employers
-Employees
-Employers
-Deductions of costs
-Taxes
The President's meeting with motion picture producers, April 5, 1971
-Taft Schreiber
-Tax depreciation
-Other participants
-Views
Health insurance bill
-Marginal employers
-Income
-Tax deductions
-Contributions
20
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Medical care, insurance
-Costs
-Cost
-Projections
-Government employees plans
-Projections
-Insurance companies
-Small business Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Thomas S. Kleppe
-Maurice H. Stans
-Cutbacks
-Employers of domestic workers
-Health insurance
-Twenty-hour work week
-Women
-Children
-Welfare
-Coverage
-Part-time employees
-Economic and political aspects
-Mills
-Burden by the President
-Agricultural workers
-Middle America
-Support for Republicans
-Grocery store
-Dress shop
-Drug store
-Motel
-Cleaning ladies
-Minimum wage
-Free enterprise
-Third tier
-Federal government participation
-Contribution of employer and employees
-Ratio
-California plans
-Burden on employer, employee, government
-Economic impact
-Changes in minimum wage
-Arthur F. Burns’ study
-Reduction of job opportunities
21
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Effect on small employer
-Administration's welfare program
-Low-skilled jobs
-Burden on employers
-Responsibilities of government
-Medicare, welfare program
-Older people
-Medicaid Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Low-income groups
-Burden on employers
-Committee's possible action
-Burden on employers
-Minimum wage
-Social Security
-Unemployment compensation
-Approach to bill
-Problem
-Possible solutions
-Alternatives
-Cost
-Eligibility for subsidies
-Small employers
-Gross income
-Number of employees
-Coverage
-Subsidies
-Subsidies
-Problems
-Administration's position
-Commerce Department
-Small Business Administration [SBA]
-Small business representatives
-Administration's program
-Pressures to liberalize
-Family health insurance
-Childless couples
-Single adults
-Expand
-Benefits package
-Dental care for children
-Long-term savings
-Dental care
22
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Costs
-Supply problem
-Medicare and Medicaid
-Shortage of doctors
-Health care facilities
-President's proposals
-Dental care
-Private practices Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Dentists
-Work
-Cleaning of teeth
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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 26s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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-Money
-Doctors
-Pressures on administration
-Cost of medical insurance
-Kennedy proposal
-Administration's program
-HEW
-Political aspect
-Congress
-Burden on small business
-Political issue
-Possible administration strategy
-Family health insurance plan
-Welfare, unemployment
-Issues
-Coverage, benefits
-Administration's perspective
-Small business
-Costs
23
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Concessions
-Effective date
-Benefits, costs ratio
-Conversations with representatives
-Subsidy approach
-Richardson's conversations
-Main Street America Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Political impact
-Tax
-Lobbyists
-Execution of plan
-Cost
-Bill
-Introduction
-Part-time employees
-Motels
-Competing claims
-Administration concerns
-Senate hearings
-Political impact
-Business associations
-National Federation of Independent Business [NFIB]
-National Business league
-National Small Business Association
-Association of Small Business Investment Companies
-Subsidy device
-Cost considerations
-President's possible position
-Small businessmen
-Possible administration amendment
-Subsidy
-Administrative complexity
-Cost
-Subsidy
-Possible administration bill
-Effect on Main Street
-Amendment
-Credit
-Byrnes
-Introduction
-Mills
24
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Mills
-Possible administration amendment
-Connally
-Kleppe
-Stans
-Price
-MacGregor
-Bill Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Introduction
-Byrnes
-Possible administration bill
-Republican committee meeting [Committee on Ways and Means]
-Richardson
-John G. Veneman
-President's program
-General fund
-Social security
-Byrnes
-Healthcare package
-Minimum wage, unemployment compensation, social security
-Burden on employers
-Byrnes
-Political, economic aspects
-Byrnes
-Republican committee members
-Byrnes' conversations with MacGregor and Richardson
-Possible administration program
-Insurance burden
-Main Street
-Wall Street, Park Avenue
The President's schedule
-Connally
Health insurance bill
-Ways and Means Committee
-Complexion
-Republican members
-Brynes
-Democrats
-Chairman [Mills]
-Vote
25
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Prospects
-Mills
-Support for small business
-Background
-Bill
-Version
-Alternatives
-Problems Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Possible action
-President's possible position
-Alternatives
-Richardson's conversations with small businessmen
-President's possible position
-Legislation
-Possible administration bill
-Administration's position
-Senate
-Bennett
-Ford's and Brynes's possible initiatives
-Possible House, Senate actions
-Conference
-Possible Republican bill
-Provisions
-Exemptions for small business
-Political aspect
Connally entered at 11:26 am
Greetings
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Republican Congressional leaders
Health insurance bill
-Administration bill in Senate
-Bennett's role
-Administration bill in House
-Brynes's and Ford's view
-Special treatment for small business
-Exemptions
-Minimum wage
-Unemployment insurance
26
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Possible administration alternative
-Brynes's position
-Main Street businesses
-Hiring of unemployables
-Burden
-Way and Means Committee
-Possible action
-Mills Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Father
-Independent grocer
-President's father
-Effect on small businessmen
-Number effected
-Political problem
-Difficulties for administration
-Cost
-Possible government program
-Other proposals
-Cost
-Coverage
-Contact lenses
-Dental care
-Children
-Older people
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[Duration: 9s ]
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-Consensus
-Brynes' view
-Ford's view
-Possible administration bill in the House
-Exemptions for small businesses
27
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Alternative proposals
-Cost
-Possible House action
-Brynes' view
-Administration's bill
-Mills
-Effects on small businessmen
-Political problem for administration Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Effects on small businessmen
-Richardson's view
-Brynes's view
-Administration's position
-Administration bill
-Timing
-Connally’s view
-Costs of health bills
-Exemptions for small businessmen
-Cost
-Political impact
-Administration's constituency
-President's position
-Health crisis
-National health insurance
-Medical care
-Administration's bill
-Benefits
-Private insurance companies
-Problem
-Supply
-Kennedy approach
-Free medicine
-Dental care
-Plastic surgery
-Plastic surgery
-Appeal to women
-Cost
-Subsidy for employers
-Payments for insurance premiums
-Richardson's conversations
-Chambers of Commerce
-National Association of Manufacturers [NAM]
-Small business groups
28
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Business views regarding taxes
-Subsidies
-Burden on small businessmen
-Possible employer/employee participation
-Cost of insurance policies
-Effect on small businesses
-General Motors [GM]
-Possible administration amendment Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Brynes's role regarding small businessmen
-Possible administration amendment
-Timing
-Brynes's initiative in House
-Senate bill
-Administration Congressional strategy
-Hearings
-Ways and Means Committee
-Differences in Committee
-Problem for administration
-Administration bill
-Ford’s possible role
-Effects on small businessmen
-Richardson
School integration in North and South
-Administration's position
Health insurance bill
-Differences in House bills
-Brynes, Ford
-Political problem
-Connally's view
-Cost
-Administration's possible program
-House bill
-Accommodation of competing claims
-Resolution
-Bennett's bill
-President's meeting with Richardson, Brynes, Ford
-President's position regarding House bill
-Hearings
-Ways and Means Committee
-Bennett's possible reaction
29
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Alternate House bill
-President's options
-Kennedy
-Political impact
-Coverage
-Burden on employers
-Exemption of coverage
-Coverage Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Financing
-Possible administration position
-Connally
-Consultative process
-Richardson's possible alternative proposals
-Bennett
-Variant
-Possible Republican bill in House
-Timing
-Alternative language
-Brynes
-Alternatives
-Timing
-Richardson
-Byrnes
-Richardson's and Byrnes's possible activities
-Mechanics
-Connally's cost analysis
-Additional costs
-Medicaid costs
-Burden on small employers
-Significance
-Marginal employer
-Work for welfare recipients
-Creation of job opportunities
-HEW
-Richardson
-Possible alternate cost proposal
-Prospects
Welfare
-Brynes' conversation with Mills
-President's remarks at Williamsburg Republican Governors'
Conference
30
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Presentation of gifts
-Paper weights
-Golf balls
School integration in North and South
-Richardson's role
-Case-by-case basis Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Speech, April 21, 1971
-Reception
-Content
[General conversation]
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:50 am and Ford, Byrnes, Richardson, MacGregor, Cole, and
Price left at 11:51 am
The President's schedule
Fred Maroon and Stan Wayman entered at 11:52 am
-Upcoming photo session
-President and Connally
-Location
-Rose Garden
Ziegler, Maroon and Wayman left at an unknown time before 12:01 pm
President's meeting with Texas A&M Singing Cadets, April 18, 1971
-Number
-Joe Frazier
-Family
-Carl W. Haley
-Duke University
-Singing
-Appearance
-Vietnam veterans
-Support for the President
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower II's remarks
-Size of Texas A&M
-Compared to Harvard Univerity, Yale University, Princeton University
-Texas A&M
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-World War II officers
-West Point
-President
-James Earl Rudder
-Rudder
-World War II service
-Anzio
-General Omar N. Bradley Conv. No. 486-2 (cont.)
-Songs
-\"Battle Hymn of the Republic\"
-\"How Great Thou Art\"
-Idanell (“Nellie”) Connally
-Possible reaction
-Appearance on \"Mike Douglas Show\"
Ziegler, Maroon and Wayman entered at an unknown time after 11:52 am
The President's schedule
-Photos
-Location
-Connally
-Press
Photo session
-Connally's possible meeting with Wayman
[General conversation]
Unknown [McCall’s?] story
-Timing of release
-Connally’s forthcoming meeting with Hedley W. Donovan
-Story
-Photos
-Timing
The President's schedule
-Photos
-Rose Garden
The President's meeting with Texas A&M Singing Cadets
The President's schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Photos
-Timing
The President, Connally, Ziegler, Maroon, and Wayman left at 12:01 pm
Conversation No.(cont.)
Conv. No. 486-2 486-3
Date: April 22, 1971
Time: 12:01 pm - 1:43 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John B. Connally, Jr.
[This recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress]
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Economy
-Mortgage rates
-Decrease
-Stock market
-Rise
-Robert J. Dole’s speech in New York City, April 21, 1971
-Public confidence
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Retail sales
-Automobile sales
-Housing starts
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Rise
33
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Quarter
-Cooling
-Administration policy
-President's conversation with Arthur F. Burns
-Tax reduction
-Administration policy
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Views Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Expertise
-First National City Bank, New York
-Model
-Level
-Unemployment rate
-Inflation
-Welfare
-President's remarks at Republican Governors' Conference, Williamsburg, April
19, 1971
-Work requirements
-Unemployment rate
-Problem
-Teenage
-Quarter
-Adult categories
-Administration policy
-Shultz
-Confidence
-Growth
-Administration policy
-Staying the course
-Wilbur D. Mills' conversation with Charles E. Walker
-Investment tax credits
-Timing
-Burns
-Visit to Europe
-Tax credits
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Possible meeting
-Shultz and Paul W. McCracken
-Schedule
-Central bankers
-Burns' forthcoming report to the President
-Views
34
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Confidence factor
-National psychology
-Mood
-Vietnam
-End of war
Lockheed and Rolls Royce case
-Burns Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Negotiations
-Agreement
-Bank loans
-Amount
-Airlines
-President's possible decision
-Negotiations
-Timing
-Meetings
-Progress
-Relations
-Understanding
-Agreement
-Difficulties
-Rolls Royce's position refinancing
-Assurances regarding Lockheed
-Banks
-Airlines’ position
-Terms
-British
-Cost of engines
-Position
-Money
-Airlines' view regarding Rolls Royce
-Survival
-Great Britain
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Financing
-Method
-Engine
-Meetings of April 20, 1971
-Eastern Airlines
-Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr.
-Floyd D. Hall
35
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Turner [Forename unknown]
-Hoss [sp?] [Forename unknown]
-Delta Airlines
-Charles H. Dolson
-Frank F. Davis
-William L. Hoffman
-Length
-Agreement Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Banks
-Loans
-Collateral
-Possible legislation
-Lockheed
-Settlement
-US government
-Cheyenne helicopter
-Defense Department
-Ship contract
-Lawyers
-Receivership
-Airlines
-Banks
-President's position regarding Congress
-Defense Department
-Lockheed
-Financing
-President's possible decision
-Effect on economy
-Contracts
-Timing
-Deadline
-Administration's possible position
-Conditions
-Charles P. Hess
-Congressional support
-Hall
-Media
-Congress
-Commitment
-President's possible position
-Conditions
-Congressional guarantees
36
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Bank loans
-Negotiations
-Lockheed, British government, Rolls-Royce
-Lockheed and airlines
-President's schedule
-Congressional committee
-Treasury Department
-Clark MacGregor Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Banking and Currency Committee
-Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
-Banking and Currency Committee
-Relations with Connally's staff
-Wright Patman
-Senate
-William Proxmire
-Alan Cranston
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-John V. Tunney
-James S. McDonnell
-McDonnell's activities
-McDonnell-Douglas Company
-Lockheed's possible bankruptcy
-Effect on McDonnell-Douglas
-McDonnell-Douglas
-Economic interests
-David Packard’s position
-L-1011 Employees
Suppliers
-Lockheed's possible bankruptcy
-Symbolism
-Connally, Walker, and James E. Smith's conversations with Congressmen
-President's possible position
-Reaction
-Connally's conversation with Carl B. Albert, April 21, 1971
-Albert’s position
-President's schedule
-Meeting
-Lockheed
-Financial situation
-SST
-Lockheed
37
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Tradition
-Air Force One
-President’s flights in 1950's
-Military supplies
-Receivership
-Cost
-President's position
-Effect of possible bankruptcy on economy Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
H. Ross Perot
-Loan
Lockheed
-Meeting
-President's schedule
-California
-Forthcoming trip on April 30, 1971
-Meeting
Connally's breakfast meeting with Republican Congressmen
-Ways and Means Committee
-Banking and Currency Committee
The President's breakfast meeting with Melvin R. Laird
Connally's forthcoming meeting with Gerald R. Ford
Senate
-Leadership
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
House
-Leadership
-Democrats
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Albert
-John W. McCormack
-Mills
-George H. Mahon
-Prospects
-Albert
38
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Activities
-Health
-Responsibilities
-Speaker
-Performance
-Republicans
-Ford
-John W. Byrnes Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Frank T. Bow
-Committee members
-Discipline
-Compare with Black caucus
-Democrats
-Disarray
-Leadership
Senate
-Robert A. Taft, Sr.
-Republicans
House
-Republicans
-Ford
-Discipline
-Democrats
-Caucus, April 21, 1971
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[Duration: 7s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
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-Quorum
-Liberals
-Vietnam
39
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Albert
-Mills
-Republicans
-Ford
-Connally's meeting
-Ways and Means Committee members
Congress Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Public reaction
-Performance
-Democrats
-Senate
-John L. McClellan
-John C. Stennis
-Richard B. Russell
-David H. Gambrell
-Spessard L. Holland
-Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.
-Democrats
-James O. Eastland
-Robert C. Byrd
-Republicans
-Roman L. Hruska
-Carl T. Curtis
-Unknown person
-James Abourezk [?]
-House
-Republicans
-Ford
-Committee members
-Brynes
-Bow
-Leslie C. Arends
-Mahon
-Democrats
-Mahon
-Qualifications
-Speaker of the House
-Chairman
-Appropriations Committee
State Department
40
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Connally's relations
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[National Security]
[Duration: 2m 15s ] Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
PERU
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Turkey
-Government
-Importance
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Connally's previous conversation with John N. (“Jack”) Irwin, II
-Treasury Department
-Opium
-US position
-Possible ban on cultivation
-Timing
-Negotiations
-President's instructions to Ambassador William J. Handley
-Domestic problem for US
-US position
-US aid
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[National Security]
41
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
[Duration: 3s ]
TURKEY
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
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Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Connally's letter to Rogers
-Opium
-Value
-Growth
-Negotiations
-Opium
-Elimination
-Growth
-US position
US-French Relations
Japan
-State Department
-Textiles
-Dumping
-Burlington Mills
-Trade Agreement
-Imports
-State Department
-Reaction
-David M. Kennedy
-Trip
-Eugene T. Rossides call to Anthony J. Jurich
-Administration’s position
-Kennedy
-Manila
-US position
-Sanctions
-State Department
-Negotiations
-Kennedy
-Sanctions
42
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Kennedy
-Negotiations
-Treasury Department
-Sanctions
-Dumping
-State Department
-Connally's message to Kennedy
-Armin H. Meyer Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Negotiations
-Meyer
-President's Position
-Connally's Activities
Possible cabinet appointments
-Opportunity
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John N. Mitchell
-Role
-Cabinet
-President's previous conversation with Haldeman
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Mitchell
-Location
-State, Defense
-Changes
-Timing
Haldeman entered at 12:30 pm
-State and Defense Departments
-Attorney General
-Timing
-Mitchell
-Successor
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Kleindienst
-Qualifications
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-Role
-George W. Romney
-Tenure
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
43
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Blacks
-John A. Volpe
-Salesmanship
-Issues
-Emotion
-Jack J. Valenti
-Meeting with the President, April 23, 1971
Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
The President's schedule
-Meetings with Cabinet officials
-Connally
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Mitchell
-Laird
-Rogers
-Reaction
-Morton
-Romney
-Volpe
Possible Cabinet Appointments
-Richardson
-Romney
-Richardson
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
[Transciprt #1: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]
[End of transcript]
-Qualifications
-Salesmanship
-Management skills
-HEW
-Programs
-Welfare, education, health
-Departmentt of Commerce
-Maurice H. Stans
-Need for salesmanship
44
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Stans
-Robert H. Finch
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[Personal Returnable] Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
[Duration: 24s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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Possible Cabinet appointments
-Commerce
-Salesmanship
-Statistics
-Salesmanship on economy
-Shultz
-McCracken
-Candidates
-Commerce Department
-Need for pro-business attitude
-Salesmanship
-”Buoyancy”
-Ability to attack
-Businessman
-Peter G. Peterson
-Qualifications
-Appearance
-Salesmanship
-Army Secretary
-Belton Kleberg (“B.K.”) Johnson
-Robert J. Kleberg, Jr.
-Qualifications
-Wife
-Age
-Candidates
-Stanley R. Resor
45
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Departure
-Timing
-Laird
-Johnson
-Service record
-Previous conversation with Connally
-Loyalty
-My Lai cases Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Courage
-Cornell University and Stanford University
-Frank Zogg [sp?]
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Walter Annenberg
-Texas families
-Intermarriages
-Vanderbilts and Whitneys
Possible Cabinet appointments
-Johnson
-Businessman
-Peterson
-Agriculture Secretary
-Farmers
-Ezra Taft Benson
-Orville L. Freeman
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Qualities
-Wife
-Salesmanship
-Job offer
-Purdue University
-Alumnus
-Presidency
-Possible acceptance
-Loyalty to the President
-Signal
Military manpower bill
-Senate Armed Services Committee
-Vote
-Draft extension
-President's position
46
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Possible Cabinet appointments
-Agriculture Secretary
-Hardin
-Academic credentials
-Requirements
-Candidates
-Fighter for administration Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Midwest, plains states
-Background
-Farmer
-Wealth
-Success
-Opportunity
-Colorado
-Groups
-John A. Love
-Background
-American National Cattlemen's Association
-Past presidents
-Montfort [Forname unknown]
-[Unintelligible name]
-Nelson [Forename unknown]
-Colorado, Wyoming
-Midwest
-Mountain states
-Colorado and Wyoming
-George A. Smathers
-Ed Carver [?]
-Tobacco
-Border States
-Kentucky
-Tennessee
-Missouri
-Breeding associations
-Farm bureaus
-Granges
-Cattlemen
-Support for administration
-William D. Farr
Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
47
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Connally
-Mitchell
-George A. Lincoln
-Salesmanship
-Removal
-Disasters
-Public relations Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Texas drought
-California earthquake
-Public relations
-Job requirements
-NSC
-Statutory member
-Candidates
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Berlin negotiations
-Qualifications
-Background
-Union-Carbide
-Gen. Leonard F. Chapman
-Possible earlier appointment
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Age
-Marine Corps commandent
-Speeches for administration
-Politics
-Appearance
-Speech
-Salesmanship
-Public relations
-Importance
-Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.
-Appearance
-Qualifications
-Ambassador to Portugal
-Rush
-Chapman
-Anderson
-Administration spokesman
-Previous relationship with Connally
-Secretary of Navy
48
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Arleigh Burke
-Articulation
-Hardliner
-NSC
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Daughter
-David M. Abshire
-State Department Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Agriculture Department
-Commerce Department
-Labor Department
-James D. Hodgson
-Spokesman
-HUD and HEW Departments
-Attorney General
-Transportation Department
-Volpe
-Romney
-Volpe
-Ambassador to Italy
-Performance
The President's schedule
-Social engagements
-Connally and Idanell (“Nellie”) Connally
-Religious services at White House
-Texas A & M University choir
-Benefits
-Sermon
Camp David
-Cabinet use
-Connally
-Golf
-Volpe
Sequoia
-Remodeling
-Availability
-Dinner
-Small groups
-Trips
49
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Cabinet use
-Connally
Connally left at 1:08 pm
Possible Cabinet appointments
-Discussion
-Value Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Peterson
-Present assignment
-Staffer
-Corporate presidents
-Likely performance
-Staffer
-Possible appointment as Commerce Secretary
-Salesman
-Economy
-International affairs
-Present assignment
-Connally's view
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:08 pm
The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm
Possible appointments
-OEP
-Candidates
-Anderson
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Qualifications
-Administration spokesman
-Hardliner
-National defense
-Rogers and Laird
-Daughter
-Abshire
-Rush
-Peterson
50
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Anderson
-Agriculture Secretary
-Hardin
-Haldeman and Rogers
-John C. Whitaker
-President's possible action
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Rogers
-Reassignment Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-1972 campaign
-Tenure
People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Haldeman's previous conversation with Rogers
-Kissinger
-Rogers's forthcoming press conference
-President's statement
-State Department role
-Rogers
-Press release
-President's press release
-NSC
-Under secretary’s committee
-State Department
-NSC
-Press story
-Rogers's call to Haldeman
-Kissinger
-NSC
-President's statement
-Phrasing
-Rogers’ call to Haldeman
-Foreign Service
-Support of the President
-Charles W. Yost
-State Department
-Support of the President
-Rogers’ role
-NSC
-Under secretary’s committee
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-Press
51
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Rogers's forthcoming press conference
-Kissinger
-NSC role
-NSC
-Under secretary's committee
-Haldeman's previous conversation with Rogers
-Under secretary’s committee Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-State Department
-Foreign Service
[Transcript #2: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]
[End of transcript]
PRC initiative
-Rogers
-President's Statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger’s role
The President's schedule
-Lockheed meeting
-Timing
-California
-Announcement
-News value
-Connally
-Meeting
-Burns and Connally
-Timing
-Rogers
-Meeting, April 22, 1971
-Trip
-Press conference, April 23, 1971
-Trip
-Duration
PRC initiative
-Public statement
52
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Kissinger
-State
-NSC
-President's Role
-Rogers
Henry Cebot Lodge Commission
-Lodge Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Possible meeting with the President
-Report
-United Nations [UN] representation
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Press
-Congress
-Yost
-Composition
-Report
-Meeting with the President
PRC initiative
-Kissinger
-President's Statement
-NSC
-Under secretary's Committee
-State Department
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Press Release
The President's schedule
-Arthur S. Flemming
-Conference on aging
-California
-Radio
-Farm speech
-Farm speech
-Salute to Agriculture
-Timing
Lockheed
53
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Decision
The President's schedule
-California
-PRC
-\"Experts\"
PRC initiative Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-President's position
-John A. Scali
-US relations
-Publicity
-\"China scholars\"
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Possible appointments
-Volpe
-Connally's view
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Italy
-Ambassador
-Italy
-Volpe
-Rogers
-[Unintelligible Name]
-Possible Italian-American appointees
-Unknown doctor
-Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman
-Lincoln
-Qualifications
54
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Mitchell's view
-Transportation Department
-Salesmanship
-Airlines
-Volpe
-Ambassador to Italy
-Graham A. Martin
-Italian representation Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)
-Importance
-Transportation
-Peterson
-Salesman
-Qualifications
-Salesman
-Reassignment
[Transcript #3: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]
[End of transcript]
Lyndon B. Johnson
-Legacy
-Vietnam
-Backlog
-Democratic party
-Personality
-Television sets
-Oval Office
-Ticker tape machines
-Briefings
-Press
-Appearance
-Press Secretary
-Briefings
-Recordings
-Use of time
PRC initiative
-Press Release
55
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Staff
-Scali
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-NSC
The President and Haldeman left at 1:43 pm
Conv. No. 486-3 (cont.)