531–29

Conversation No. 531-29

Date: June 29, 1971
Time: 5:50 pm - 6:29 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with James D. Hodgson and George P. Shultz
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President's previous meetings with National Commission on Productivity [Productivity
Commission]
-Effect
-Maurice H. Stans
-Environmental considerations

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm. Conv. No. 531-28 (cont.)

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.

Environmental regulations
-President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Cost of pending projects
-Hodgson’s actions
-Stans’ group

President's previous meeting with Productivity Commission
-Future
-Decline of military activity
-Economic dominance
-Purpose
-US position in world
-Environmental concerns
-Nuclear power
-I. W. Abel's comments on consumption
-Economic expansion

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.

President's schedule
-Management group meeting, July 6
-Attendants
-Chief Executive officers
-Bargaining officials
-Structure
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Economy
-US Steel Corporation
-Settlements
-Results

President's schedule
-Management group, July 6
-Chief Executive Officers Conv. No. 531-29 (cont.)
-Bargaining officials
-Number of attendants
-Steel companies
-Labor organizations
-President’s goals
-Announcements
-President's previous comments
-Research
-Applied
-Basic

Presidential anointments
-J. Curtis Counts
-Job offer
-Salary
-Conversation with Hodgson
-Forthcoming conversation with Hodgson
-Expression of President’s support
-National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] counsel
-Peter G. Nash
-Conversations with Charles W. Colson, Ehrlichman, Frederic V. Malek,
Congress
-Hodgson’s Congressional contacts
-Nash
-Background
-Support
-Richard T. Burress
-Background
-Relationship with Hodgson
-Opposition
-Nash
-Support from business
-Hodgson's conversation with Gerald R. Ford
-Burress
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-Ford's possible meeting with Nash
-Malek’s investigation
-Ford
-Burress
-Views of Arthur F. Burns and Bryce N. Harlow
-Nash
-Ford's support
-Hodgson's conversations Conv. No. 531-29 (cont.)
-Peter H. Dominick
-Paul J. Fannin
-Jacob K. Javits
-Burress
-Possible role with administration
-Malek

Congressional Conference Committee
-F. Edward Hébert
-Actions
-Senate version of military pay

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Leonard Woodcock
-Position on SST
-Relationship with Walter F. Mondale and Vance Hartke
-International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural
Implement Workers of America [UAW]
-Hubert H. Humphrey's vote
-George Meany

Environment
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Meany's response
-John B. Connally
-Stans
-Administration's position
-Cost-benefit ratio and analysis
-Land reclamation
-Popular opinion
-Leadership position
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Economy
-Competition
-Changes in totalitarian societies
-Changes in democratic societies
-Privatization of public services
-Trash collection as example
-Samuel W. Yorty's electoral victory
-New York City Conv. No. 531-29 (cont.)
-Savings
-Productivity Commission
-Harllee Branch, Jr.
-Schedule

Research and development
-Shultz's possible meeting with Peter G. Peterson
-Ehrlichman
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Funding
-Tax program
-Value added tax
-SST
-Saline water
-Nuclear power
-Productivity Commission's efforts
-NASA and defense budget cuts
-Priorities
-President’s conversations with Peterson, Ehrlichman
-Woodcock
-Environment
-Automobile emissions
-River clean-up
-Connally’s view
-Sewage, irrigation run-off
-Nuclear power, saline water
-Foci for US efforts
-Peterson’s comments
-Japanese efforts
-Tax program
-Private research
-Germans, Japanese, Soviets, Chinese
-Government subsides
-Government subsidies
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-Lockheed
-President's statement
-Boeing
-General Dynamics
-Balance of payments
-Computers
-Space industry
-Military Conv. No. 531-29 (cont.)
-Census
-Government subsidies
-Government efforts
-Private enterprise
-Telecommunications
-Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]
-NASA
-James E. Webb
-Contractors
-Nuclear power plants
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC] activities
-Privatization
-Argonne Lab
-Brookhaven Lab
-Symbolism
-Social spending, deficits
-Response to critics
-Creation of wealth

Productivity Commission
-Meany, Woodcock, Abel, Joseph B. Beirne
-James M. Roche
-Branch
-Edward W. Carter
-Research and development
-Necessity
-Support

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 5:50 pm.

President's schedule

Rose Mary Woods’ schedule
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The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.

Research and development
-Possible September 1971 conference
-Productivity Commission
-Papers for discussion
-Statement
Conv. No. 531-29 (cont.)
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:50 pm.

President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.

Research and development
-Possible September 1971 conference
-Walter B. Wriston
-Meany
-Howard W. Johnson
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-President

Labor support for administration
-Extent
-Issues
-Muskie
-President

National economy
-Connally
-Retail sales
-Unemployment
-Programs for hiring blacks
-Effectiveness
-Timing
-Youths
-Students

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