488–16

Conversation No. 488-16
Conv. No. 488-15 (cont.)
Date: April 27, 1971
Time: 11:43 am - 12:16 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Winton M. (“Red”) Blount and George P. Shultz.

Greetings

Economy
-Interest rates
-Arthur F. Burns
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Problems

Blount's tenure
-Postmaster General

Shultz's meeting with James D. Corbett, April 26, 1971
-New York
-University Club

Postal Service
-Wage negotiations
-Labor
-Contract negotiations
-Costs

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:43 am.

President's schedule
-Meeting with ambassadors of Kuwait and Guinea

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.
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Postal Service Labor negotiations
-Management's position
-Postal supervisors
-Previous contract
-Outlook
-Wage increases
-Costs
-Effect on government
-Productivity improvements
-Grievance procedures
-Discipline
-Management rights
-Technology improvements
-Wage increases
-Impact on Government employees
-Management's position
-Shultz
-Budget
-Possible rate increase
-Wage increases
-Amount
-Cost
-Legislation
-Comparability of pay
-Government and private sector
-President's options
-Congress
-Pay bills
-Union activities
-Procedures
-Wage increases
-Pressures
-Effect on other government workers
-Wage increases
-Productivity
-Negotiations
-Timing
-Fact-finding procedures
-Arbitration
-Importance
-Decisions
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-Postal Service's position
-President’s view
-Blount’s role
-Balance
-Management's position
-Compatibility of pay
-Productivity Commission
-Bargaining Conv. No. 488-16 (cont.)
-Shultz’s view
-Procedures
-Psychology
-Union's position
-Arbitration
-Postal regions
-Local post offices
-Political influence
-Reorganization of regions
-Blount’s view
-Congress
-Management's stance
-Reductions-in-force
-President’s view
-Closing of bases
-Russell B. Long
-Funds

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:43 am.

Refreshment

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

Postal Service
-Reorganization
-Blount
-Postal regions
-Administration's position
-Organization
-Top officials
-Recruitment of talent
-Businessmen
-Gen. Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.
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-Qualifications
-Joint Chiefs of staff
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Age
-Military
-President’s view
-Gen. Lucius D. Clay, Jr.
-Chapman Conv. No. 488-16 (cont.)
-Ambassadors
-Philippines
-Raymond A. Spruance
-Background
-Douglas MacArthur
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Retirement
-Salary
-Retire Chief Executive officers
-Bucky Newsom [sp?]
-Bert S. Cross
-Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company
-Age
-Robert C. Tyson
-Previous assignment for the President
-US steel corporation
-Qualifications
-Military
-Air Force
-Navy
-Bernard Schreiver
-Texas
-President’s view
-Missiles

Businesses
-Hirings
-Veterans
-James F. Oates
-Blacks

Postal Service
-Recruitment
-Newsom [sp?]
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-Possible meeting with the President
-Blount
-Tenure
-Newsom [sp?]
-Boys clubs
-Cleveland

Blount's conversation with George C. Wallace Conv. No. 488-16 (cont.)
-Moorer
-Qualifications


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President's schedule
-Possible visit to Alabama
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Scheduling
-Meeting with ambassadors of Kuwait and Guinea


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FOREIGN RELATIONS


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-Previous Cabinet Meeting
-United Nations [UN]
-Other cities
-New York Conv. No. 488-16 (cont.)
-George H.W. Bush
-Press coverage
-Guinea
-Building

Blount's performance

The President, Blount, and Shultz left at 12:16 pm.