512–29

Conversation No. 512-29
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Date: June 7, 1971
Time: 11:50 am - 12:34 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]
Con. No. 512-27 (cont.)
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization [AFL-CIO]
-Unknown man’s opinion
-Committee on Political Education [COPE]
-Martin C. (“Marty”) Anderson
-Possible efforts
-Clark MacGregor
-Efforts for Richard T. Burress
-Burress
-Appointment
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Compulsory membership
-Anderson’s role

President’s schedule
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe

George P. Shultz entered at 11:56 am

Shultz’s schedule

Jaffe
-Announcement

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:56 am

President’s schedule
-Unknown girl

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm

Jaffe
-President’s conversation with Ogilvie
-Announcement of position
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-Wording
-President’s schedule
-Attacks by liberal columnists

Drug abuse
-President’s program
-Time magazine
-Nature and extent Conv. No. 512-29 (cont.)
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Elliot L. Richardson, Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Richardson
-Jaffe

Federal appointments
-University of Chicago
-Other universities
-University of California
-Ohio State University
-Jaffe
-Relationship to Arthur B. Laffer

Drug abuse
-President’s program
-Efforts by Ehrlichman
-Retention in military
-Vietnam
-Jaffe’s views
-Length
-Public relations efforts
-Opponents’ views

Housing integration statement
-Timing
-Wedding news

Shultz’s schedule
-Strategic Air Command
-FA-5 problem
-Base in Omaha
-Daughter’s graduation
-Treatment of Shultz
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President’s energy message
-Reaction in Denver

Legislation
-Government reorganization
-Shultz’s testimony before Chet Holifield’s Committee on Reorganization, June 7
-Holifield’s views
-Senate Conv. No. 512-29 (cont.)
-John B. Connally’s forthcoming testimony
-Revenue sharing
-Wilbur D. Mills’ statements
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Conversation with Shultz
-Statement regarding Mills
-Conversation with Larry Woodruff
-Poll results
-Federal versus state power
-South
-Cutback of services
-Public relations
-Politics
-Public awareness
-Poll results
-Federal versus state power
-Breakdowns by region
-Domestic Council meeting, June 8

Poll
-Issues
-Education
-Confidentiality

Domestic Council meeting, June 8
-Purpose
-Timing
-Attendees

Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Forthcoming party
-Attendees
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
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Domestic council meeting, June 8
-Attendees
-Agenda
-Length
-President’s previous meeting with Homebuilders’ Association
-Connally’s instructions to staff
-Unconventional ideas
Conv. No. 512-29 (cont.)
President’s previous meeting with Homebuilders
-Labor-management legislation
-Congress
-Maurice H. Stans
-Need for crisis
-Compared with postal reform
-Need for frankness

National economy
-Herbert Stein
-Laffer
-Paul W. McCracken
-Arthur F. Burns
-Stein’s actions in staff meeting
-Possible change in policy
-Connally’s views
-Wage and price controls
-Connally
-Possible effect
-Burns’ views
-Steel
-Federal Reserve Board member’s views
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Wholesale prices
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-Federal deficit
-Domestic monetary situation
-Burns
-William McChesney Martin
-Milton Friedman
-Views
-Expansion
-Inflation
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-Federal Reserve
-International monetary situation
-Poll
-Consumer confidence
-University of Michigan
-Dyer survey [?]
-International monetary situation
-Consumer confidence Conv. No. 512-29 (cont.)
-Burns’ view
-Spending patterns
-Sears, Roebuck & Co., Montgomery Ward, J. C. Penney
-Automobiles
-Television news reports
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Paul A. Volcker’s statement regarding stock market
-Stephen B. Bull
-Stein
-Experience in 1970
-Durable goods
-Housing
-Poll
-Phraseology
-Consumer confidence
-Employment
-Wages
-Prices/inflation
-President’s schedule
-Friedman

Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with HEW officials

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 12:34 pm