532-12

Conversation No. 532-12

Date: June 30, 1971
Time: 11:00 pm - 12:08 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Alexander P. Butterfield.

Soviet Cosmonauts death
-Draft statement
-President's dictation to Henry A. Kissinger
-President’s earlier meeting with Kissinger

President’s schedule
-Upcoming meeting with steel industry representatives

Message to Kissinger
-Modification
-Dispatch of message
-Timing

Butterfield left at 11:02 am.

Steel meeting
-Attendance
-James D. Hodgson, John B. Connally
-Quota report
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-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] delivery of industry report

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 11:02 am.

Request for Ronald L. Ziegler

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.
Conv. No. 532-26 (cont.)
Steel meeting
-Attendance
-Effect on meeting
-Reports
-Length
-Tone
-George P. Shultz
-President's talking points

Statement by President
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Timing
-President's schedule
-Kissinger
-Work on statement
-Timing
-Farewell statement
-Price
-Kissinger
-Length
-Impact on effect

Schedule
-Eleuterio Mendoza farewell
-President's request

Statement by President
-Preference with regard to format
-Speech
-Preparation
-William L. Safire
-Recording
-Effort by President
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Schedule
-Nobusuke Kishi visit
-Postponement

Ziegler entered at 11:14 am.

Briefing Conv. No. 532-12 (cont.)
-Law enforcement issues
-Poppy agreement with Turkey
-Terminology
-Era of “permissiveness”
-Support for law enforcement officials
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Crime statistics
-Success against narcotics
-Previous administrations
-End of “permissiveness”

Presidential statements
-Format
-Efficacy
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] graduation
-Arkansas remarks
-Turkish announcement
-William P. Rogers
-Coverage by media
-Correspondence to text
-Television
-Use of text
-FBI graduation speech
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Service statement
-Patrick J. Buchanan

Presidential speeches
-Speech writers' skills
-Price
-Noel C. Koch
-Andrews
-Lee W. Huebner
-Buchanan
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-Focus on one writer

Associated Press [AP] bulletin
-Drug programs
-Administration public relations attempts
-President
-John N. Mitchell
-Rejection of permissiveness Conv. No. 532-12 (cont.)
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Court decisions

Ziegler left at 11:15 am.

President's statement
-Connally
-Speech writers
-Language
-Price
-Koch
-Effectiveness
-Public perception
-Appeal to common man
-\"Permissiveness\" language
-Hoover
-Controversy

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am.

-Dynamics of writing
-Need for belief in idea
-Terry McGinnity

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:27 am.

-Use of \"Compassion” line
-Effect
-Focus on responsibility for social problems
-Buchanan
-View of speechwriters
-Impact
-Reaction of columnists
-Focus of administration program
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-“Permissiveness” line
-Daniel Ellsberg case
-Demonstrators
-President’s view
-Constitutional rights
-Tone
-Connally thesis
-Firmness of position Conv. No. 532-12 (cont.)
-Consistency
-Permissiveness focus
-Charles W. Colson
-Dissemination to columnists
-Offensive on drugs
-Administration backing of Hoover
-Benefits to those hurt in law enforcement
-Congressional remarks
-Cabinet officer statements
-Herbert G. Klein
-Drug and crime offensive
-Media coverage
-Tactics
-Robert J. Dole statement
-Congressman, Cabinet officers statements
-Demonstrators
-Drugs
-Support for law enforcement
-Attitudes of President and Attorney General

President's public opinion rating
-Economics
-Job rating
-Appointment of judges
-Permissiveness factor
-Focus in public statements
-Dissemination of talking points
-Impact on public relations
-Social programs
-Scope
-Criticism

President’s schedule
-National Education Association [NEA] meeting with President
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-Private meeting of President and head of the NEA
-Schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Meeting with new NEA President
-Elliot L. Richardson

Haldeman left and Paul W. McCracken entered at 11:27 am.
Conv. No. 532-12 (cont.)
Greetings

Attendance at White House functions
-David Packard
-John N. Irwin, II
-Rationale for invitations
-Quality of administration personnel
-Role of Undersecretary
-McCracken and Mrs. Rosalie Silberman contact
-President and Laurence H. Silberman contact
-Visits to White House
-Undersecretary's staff

McCracken future
-Resignation
-Rationale
-Future plans
-Administration experience

Economy
-McCracken
-Resignation
-Timing
-Effect on economic program
-Timing
-McCracken, Herbert Stein
-Future of economy
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Inflation
-Meeting with representatives of the steel industry
-Unemployment
-Arthur F. Burns
-New economic policy
-Jawboning
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-Steel
-Textiles
-Constructions
-Wage and price controls
-Businessman's view
-Unions’ position
-Burns
-Confidence of people Conv. No. 532-12 (cont.)
-Unions’ position
-I[lworth] W. Abel
-Level of purchasing power
-Retail sales
-Expectations

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:27 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:15 am.

Economy
-Gordon M. Metcalf of Sears and Roebuck Company
-Sales
-Edward W. Carter
-Consumer actions
-Factors
-Factors in economy
-Housing
-Automobile strike of previous year
-Movement on economy
-Timing
-Downward trends
-Impact on election
-McCracken's analysis of economy
-Camp David meeting
-Taxes
-President's analysis of economy
-Tax credits
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Congressional support
-Environmental issues
-George P. Shultz
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-Maurice H. Stans
-Ehrlichman
-Railroads
-Connally efforts
-Use of Presidential order
-Congressional support
-Burns
-New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago Conv. No. 532-12 (cont.)
-Wall Street
-Trends
-Unemployment
-Legislation
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] coverage
-Price levels
-McCracken’s view
-Burns
-Inflation
-Prospects
-Base
-Price levels
-Collective bargaining period
-Pace of economy
-Profits
-Labor costs
-Price levels
-Burns
-Pierre Rinfret
-Burns
-View of tax credit
-Personal income
-Fight against inflation
-Foreign and domestic policy
-Need for consistency
-Cost of Burns’ policy
-Wage and Price Board
-Wage and price freeze
-Wage and price controls
-Effect
-Bureaucratic problems
-Office of Price Administration [OPA]
-President’s views
-Socialism
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-National Commission on Productivity
-US predicament
-Expectations
-Unemployment
-Korean War, Vietnam War precedent
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
-1941 statistics
-World War II effect Conv. No. 532-12 (cont.)
-Walter E. Heller
-Johnson
-Vietnam War effect
-Dole
-Government role
-Nuclear power
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Abel and George Meany views
-Purchasing power
-Research and development

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:27 am.

President's schedule
-American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association [AHEPA]

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.

-AHEPA dinner
-Thomas A. Pappas

Economy
-Research and development efforts
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Office of Science and Technology [OST]
-Ehrlichman
-CEA role
-Spending
-Productivity
-Balance of payments
-Unemployment
-Effect on US spirit

McCracken situation
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-Resignation
-Psychological impact
-Announcement timing
-Interpretation
-McCracken's school schedule
-Timing
-Political implications
-Stein Conv. No. 532-12 (cont.)
-Need to demonstrate confidence
-McCracken's schedule
-California trip
-President's schedule
-Camp David meeting
-McCracken's schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Shultz

Foreign policy
-Upcoming news
-Psychological impact
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Vietnam
-Effect on economy

Ezra Solomon
-Arrival in Washington
-Swearing-in
-Schedule

Economy
-Effect on President
-Stein
-Mildred Stein
-Stein, McCracken, Burns
-Qualities
-Stability
-Psychology
-Louis P. Harris
-View of business community
-Seasonal fluctuations
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-Automobile sales
-Peter G. Peterson
-Use of quotas
-Textiles
-Automobiles
-Japan
-Political impact
-Monetary problems Conv. No. 532-12 (cont.)
-Exchange rate
-Yen
-Dollar exchange rate
-Gold issue
-Burns’ view
-Floating rates
-Balance of payments deficits

McCracken situation
-Options

McCracken left at 12:08 pm.