585–7

Conversation No. 585-7

Date: October 5, 1971
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Time: 3:59 pm - 4:02 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[Conversation No. 585-7A]

[See Conversation No. 10-42]

Charles W. Colson entered at 3:59 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation with Joseph L. Vicites and Cooper T. Holt
-Political importance
-George Meany
-Vicites
- Floyd [?] Henderson

Vietnam
-Media
-South Vietnam election

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Trip
-Louis P. Harris

Vicites
-Support for the President
-George S. McGovern, Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy
-Possible statement
-Prisoners of War [POWs]

Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Herbert R. (“Chief”) Rainwater
-Responsibilities
-Raymond A. Gallagher

Barry M. Goldwater
-Press
-Support for the President
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Colson's schedule
-Phase II effort
-George P. Shultz

The President's speech October 7, 1971
-Boards
-Price increases
-Windfall profits
-World competitive situation
-Administration position
-John B. Connally

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:59 pm.

Schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

-Connally

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 3:59 pm and
4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 585-7B]

Request for meeting

[End of telephone conversation]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 4:00 pm.

Maurice H. Stans

Proposed Connally press conference, October 8, 1971
-Herbert Stein, Paul W. McCracken

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:12 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 20s ]


PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA [PRC]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Robert C. Byrd amendment
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Hugh Scott
-Actions
-William P. Rogers

PRC
-Bush
-American policies
-UN
-Announcement in PRC


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 13s ]


PRC


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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-Chinese women
-Japanese

Announcement of Kissinger's PRC trip
-South Vietnamese elections
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-North Vietnam actions
-Cambodian border
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Bush

PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting with he President
-W. Averill Harriman
-Muskie
-Harriman
-Soviets
-Hanoi
-Peking press
-Nickoloi V. Podgorny’s visit

Vietnam
-POW wives
-President’s peace efforts
-Possible airstrikes
-Goldwater
-Peking, Moscow
-Commentary in press
-News magazines
-Today Show
-Marvin Kalb

Kissinger left at 4:23 pm.

Economy
-Connally
-Press conference

Rogers
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Connally
-Schedule

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 4:02 pm and 4:26
pm.

[Conversation No. 585-7C]

[See Conversation No. 10-43]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with John B. Connally between 4:26 pm and 4:30 pm.

[Conversation No. 585-7D]

[See Conversation No. 10-44]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Evening news

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Tun Abdul Razak

Haldeman, et al. left at 4:33 pm