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Conversation No. 761-2

Date: August 4, 1972
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Time: 8:56 am - 10:22 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule
-The President’s previous telephone call to Kissinger
-Kissinger’s previous briefing

News summaries
-Editorial cartoons
-George S. McGovern
-Thomas W. Braden
-The Administration’s treatment of staff members
-Thomas F. Eagleton

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 8:56 am.

Haldeman’s schedule
-Forthcoming staff briefing
-Clark MacGregor

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with youth
-MacGregor
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Forthcoming meeting with youth and women leaders
-Frederic V. Malek
-Youth meeting


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Charles W. Colson entered at 9:00 am.
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The President's schedule
-Forthcoming telephone call from John D. Ehrlichman

Ehrlichman talked with the President between 9:04 am and 9:05 am.

[Conversation No. 761-2A]

[See Conversation No. 29-11]

[End of telephone conversation]

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Reservations
-J. William Fulbright, Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's call to Kissinger
-Jackson
-Possible amendment
-Hugh Scott
-Fulbright
-Dobrynin's views
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Clause with potential to negate treaty
-Soviet Union reaction
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Jackson
-Jacob K. Javits
-Fulbright
-Possible meeting with the President
-Deletion of clause
-Fulbright
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-Kissinger's possible conversation with Soviets
-The Administration’s Congressional liaison staff
-Possible co-sponsors of treaty
-Jackson
-James L. Buckley
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Possible impact on US-Soviet Union relations
-Proposed Jackson amendment
-Scott
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Jackson
-Gerard C. Smith

Kissinger left at 9:07 am.


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Zosimo T. Monzon entered at an unknown time after 9:07 am.

Request for book

Monzon left at an unknown time before 10:22 am.


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Economy
-Food prices
-Hides bill
-Ehrlichman
-Peter G. Peterson
-Possible ban on export
-Effect on shoe prices
-Consumer awareness
-Cattlemen
-Possible freeze on price of hides
-Earl L. Butz
-Herbert Stein
-George P. Shultz
-Price freeze
-View of politicians
-Previously successful tactic
-Compared to the President’s trips to the Soviet Union and the
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Shultz
-Tariff removal
-Farmers
-Effect of farm prices on public perception
-Trend of farm prices
-Department of Agriculture
-Stein
-Meat prices
-Price freeze
-Consumer interest in food prices
-Possible speech by the President

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The President's acknowledgement of receipt of book

Monzon left at an unknown time before 10:22 am.

Economy
-Food prices
-Example of Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
-Comparison with prices under Democrats


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Economy
-Economic indicators
-Industrial commodities
-Stein
-Reports
-Paul W. McCracken
-Stock market
-McGovern
-Possible reaction to the President’s reelection
-Second quarter profits
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Vietnam
-McGovern
-Press
-Associated Press [AP]
-Sindlinger’s forthcoming report
-Investors' intentions
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-McGovern
-Small investors
-Effect on trading volume


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Arthur H. Bremer
-Attempt to assassinate the President in Canada, April 1972
-Possible political impact
-Bremer’s return from Ottawa
-Reaction of Patricia Colson
-PRC table tennis exhibition, April 18, 1972
-Rose Garden
-White House event compared to public appearance
-Possible punishment
-The President’s view
-Example of Robert F. Kennedy's assassin [Sirhan Sirhan]
-Death sentence
-Supreme Court decision [Furman v. Georgia]
-Imprisonment
-California
-Massachusetts
-Life imprisonment
-Kidnapping
-Hijacking


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Colson left at 10:22 am.