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Conversation No. 558-3

Date: August 9, 1971
Time: 3:38 pm - 4:29 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Schedule
-Lowell Thomas
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Woods left and John N. Mitchell entered at 3:40 pm.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 3:40 pm.


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Leaks
-Henry A. Kissinger’s memorandum for the President
-Chou En-lai
-[Paul Scott’s] possession
-Distribution
-Peter G. Peterson
-William P. Rogers
-Mitchell
-John B. Connally
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Scott’s article
-Gold window proposal
-Connally’s comments
-Contingency plan
-Treasury Department policy
-Connally
-Kissinger's memorandum
-Distribution
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Subject
Talks with Chou En-lai
-Scott
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-Versions
-Sanitization
-Publication
-Distribution
-Rogers
-Agnew
-Connally
-Mitchell
-Kissinger
-Conversation with the President
-Security
-Gold window proposal
-Document
-Connally’s conversation with Haldeman
-Scott’s article
-Treasury Department paper
-Peterson
-Connally
-Peterson
-Scott
-Peterson
-Background
-Chicago

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:40 pm and 3:53
pm.

[Conversation No. 558-3A]

Request for a return call from an unknown person

[End of telephone conversation]

Peterson
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Leaks
-Scott’s column
-Kissinger’s memorandum
-Chou En-lai
-Distribution
-Investigation
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Investigation
-Scott
-Impact
-Connally
-Accuracy
-Treasury Department study

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 3:40 pm.

President's schedule
-Kissinger

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:53 pm.

Leaks
-Scott’s column
-President’s forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Preparations
-Ottawa, Canada
-Huang Hua
-Investigation
-Connally
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-Treasury Department
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Paul W. McCracken
-Schedule
-George P. Shultz

Kissinger entered at 3:53 pm.

-Scott’s column
-Chou En-lai memorandum
-Gold window proposal
-Scott’s column
-Kissinger memorandum
-Peterson
-Agnew
-Rogers
-McCracken
-Possible sources
-Kissinger's reaction to column
-Veracity
-Quotes
-Peterson
-McCracken
-Shultz
-Kissinger's meeting with Shultz
-Information in memorandum
-Gold window proposal
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Connally
-Peterson
-Treasury Department
-Peterson
-Possible effect of leak
-Run on gold
-Connally’s discussion with the President
-Shultz, Connally, and the President
-Peterson and McCracken
-Kissinger’s staff
-State Department
-Warsaw talks
-US fleet
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-Kissinger’s conversation with Chou En-lai
-PRC
-United Nations [UN] Security Council
-US fleet
-Congressional approval
-Chou’s comments
-Possible sources
-Treasury Department, CEA, Peterson’s office, Shultz
-Cultural revolution
-Chou En-lai’s alleged comments
-Gold window action
-Shultz
-Scott
-Syndication
-Kissinger’s schedule

Kissinger left at 4:01 pm.

-Connally
-Haldeman and Mitchell

Kent State investigation
-News stories
-Grand jury investigation
-Announcement
-Timing
-School
-Congress
-Possible economic news
-President’s possible press conference
-Congress
-Public clamor
-Congress, citizens groups, William W. Scranton Commission
-President's possible press conference
-Possible questions
-President’s possible responses
-President’s dissociation from issue
-Possible press coverage
-Release for newspapers
-President’s possible press conference
-Possible questions
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-Possible answer
-Justice Department
-Release for newspapers
-Press conference

Emergency Employment Fund
-Directive
-Use of discretionary grant
-California
-Aerospace industry
-Illinois
-Washington, DC
-Aerospace industry
-New Jersey
-Connecticut
-John [Surname unknown]


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[George L.] Murphy
-Finances
-Taiwan
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Textiles
-Political issue
-Mitchell’s memorandum
-State Department
-Asia
-Japan
-PRC trip
-David M. Kennedy
-PRC
-South Korea
-Taiwan
-Hong Kong
-State Department
-Peterson
-Japan
-NSC clause
-Trade bill
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-Timing
-Findings
-Memorandum

Proposed economic action
-Import tax
-US as economic power

President's schedule
-Edward J. Gurney
-Photograph
-Congressional half-hour
-Gurney’s relationship with White House
-Florida newspapers
-Government projects
-Ohio, California
-[1970 Republican Senatorial primary]
-G. Harrold Carswell
-William C. Cramer
-Miami News
-Bill signing

Labor
-Teamsters Union
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Transportation Deregulation Act
-Fitzsimmons’s schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Mitchell
-Hoffa
-Pardon issue
-Possible parole
-Parole board
-Political aspect
-Fitzsimmons
-Parole board
-Composition
-Possible action
-Mitchell’s possible conversation with Fitzsimmons
-Timing
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-Parole board
-Public view
-Political clout
-Hoffa
-Barry M. Goldwater
-William Loeb
-PRC trip
-Pardon issue
-Political aspect
-Fitzsimmons
-View of parole
-Instructions to Mitchell
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

President's schedule
-American Legion
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Connally
-Rogers
-President’s future plans
-VFW
-Cartha D. (\"Deke\") DeLoach
-[Forename unknown] Johnson
-President’s future plans
-1972 election
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Connally
-Rogers
-Background
-President’s future plans
-1972 election
-National defense issue
-Kendall
-VFW
-Charles W. Colson
-Veterans groups
-Significance
-VFW
-Vice President
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[George C. Wallace]
-Presidential candidacy
-Possible administration action
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Shirley Chisholm

Mitchell and Haldeman left at 4:29 pm.