658–7

Conversation No. 658-7

Date: January 27, 1972
Time: 11:13 am - 11:24 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Maurice H. Stans.

Stans’s resignation
-Announcement
-The President’s gratitude
-Announcement
-Stans’s forthcoming role
-Secrecy
-The President’s gratitude
-Stans’s past support
-1960 election
-1962 election
-1968 election


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Business
-Support for the Administration

Economy
-As issue
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-Democrats
-Retail sales
-Arthur F. Burns
-General thrust
-Economic indicators
-Retail sales
-Stans’s reports
-Stock market
-Rise in economy
-Unemployment

Stans’s future attendance at meetings
-Legislative leaders
-Robert J. Dole
-Cabinet
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Notification of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Attendees at White House functions
-Dinners
-Rose Mary Woods notification
-Haldeman
-Stans’s talk with Woods

Business problems
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC] decision
-Breakup of breakfast cereal companies
-FTC administrator [Miles W. Kirkpatrick]
-The President’s support for business
-Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. Kennedy
-Perception of business community
-Stans
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Control of commissioners
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Kirkpatrick
-Virginia H. Knauer

Stans’s notes to the President
-Telephone call to be made
-Former head of 3M, Camden Knight
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-View of wage and price controls
-Political pressure from right wing
-Foster [?] McGraw [sp ?]
-Birthday greetings

Mike McGill
-Books
-Possible position with administration
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Qualifications
-Stans’s possible talk with Flanigan
-Possible ambassadorship

Forthcoming announcement
-Duration
-Speaking rules
-Stans, Peterson, Flanigan
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]

Peter G. Peterson, Flanigan, and the photographer entered at 11:20 am.

Forthcoming announcement

Arrangement for photograph session

[Photograph session]
-[General conversation]
-Germany

Announcement of appointments
-Protocol
-Flanigan’s forthcoming position
-The President’s remarks
-Stans’s remarks
-Peterson’s remarks
-Duration
-Content

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:23 am.

Camera
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-Position

The President, et al. left at 11:24 am.