Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) · 2018-08-01 · NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) 1 Conversation No. 275-1 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06)

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Conversation No. 275-1 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 12:00 pm and 12:16 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Brig. Gen. James D. ("Don") Hughes [?]

Conversation No. 275-2 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 12:16 pm - 12:17 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Brig. Gen. James D. ("Don") Hughes.

Camp David -Housekeeping situation

-Carpet removal -Porch

Conversation No. 275-3 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 12:20 pm - 12:26 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

EOB #275

275-1 (9/7/1971)-P, WHO 275-2 (9/7/1971)-P, JDDH 275-3 (9/7/1971)-P, TCRN 275-4 (9/7/1971)-P, WHO 275-5 (9/7/1971)-P, RKP 275-6 (9/7/1971)-P, HAK 275-7 (9/7/1971)-P, MS 275-8 (9/7/1971)-P, HAK 275-9 (9/7/1971)-P, RKP, JDE 275-10 (9/7/1971)-P, MS 275-11 (9/7/1971)-P, MS 275-12 (9/7/1971)-P, MS 275-13 (9/7/1971)-P, MS 275-14 (9/7/1971)-P, HRH 275-15 (9/7/1971)-P, HRH, MS, Unk 275-16 (9/7/1971)-P, HRH 275-17 (9/7/1971)-P, HRH 275-18 (9/7/1971)-P, WHO 275-19 (9/7/1971)-P, WHO 275-20 (9/7/1971)-P, RDA 275-21 (9/7/1971)-P, WHO 275-22 (9/7/1971)-P, TCRN 275-23 (9/7/1971)-P, HRH 275-24 (9/7/1971)-P, WHO 275-25 (9/7/1971)-P, Unk 275-26 (9/7/1971)-P, CWC 275-27 (9/7/1971)-P, WHO 275-28 (9/7/1971)-P, WHO, TCRN 275-29 (9/7/1971)-P, WHO 275-30 (9/7/1971)-P, WHO 275-31 (9/7/1971)-P, JBC 275-32 (9/7/1971)-P, HAK 275-33 (9/7/1971)-P, TNC



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Conv. No. 275-3 (cont.)

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Conversation No. 275-4 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 12:26 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 275-5 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 12:26 pm - 12:27 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Meeting with the President -Executive Office Building [EOB] office



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Conversation No. 275-6 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 12:27 pm and 12:30 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule -Kissinger's questions

Meeting with the President

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 275-7 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 12:27 pm and 12:30 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Pens

The President's schedule -Time

-Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Henry A. Kissinger

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:30 pm.



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Conversation No. 275-8 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 12:30 pm - 12:55 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Soviet Union -Announcement of summit meeting

-Timing -October 12, 1971

-Soviets -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Call to Kissinger -Time span between calls

-State Department -Michael J. Mansfield

-Communique -Agreement

-Place of meeting -Moscow

-Visit -Progress in relations

-Andrei A. Gromyko -Press conference -Summit -Berlin agreement -People's Republic of China [PRC]

-Announcement -Announcement of communique

-Timing -US -Soviet Union

-Questions -Press

-Kissinger's staff



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-Preparation of questions and answers -Compared with PRC announcement -The President's actions

-Other news

Kissinger's schedule -PRC -Kissinger's postponement

-Attendance at Japanese dinner -Japan

-William P. Rogers, U. Alexis Johnson -Takeo Fukuda

-Proposed meeting with the President -Kissinger’s attendance

-Relations with the President

Forthcoming United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China -George H.W. Bush

-Security Council -Expulsion

-US actions at the UN -Albanian resolution -PRC admission -Retention of Taiwan

-Guatemala -Costa Rica -Great Britain

-Position -Background

-Bush -Voting analysis

-�Important questions� -Issue of Security Council seat

-Taiwan -Expulsion

The President's opponents

[Unintelligible]

Howard Stein



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-Dinner -Eugene J. McCarthy

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South Vietnam Presidential elections -Nguyen Van Thieu

-Referendum effect of unopposed election -Ellsworth F. Bunker

-Administration's opponents -American public

-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr. -[Forename unknown] Simon

-Dinner -John B. Connally

-Strategy -Timing

-Berlin

US foreign relations -PRC -Dobrynin

-US-PRC relationships -Southeast Asia

-US-Soviet relations -Meeting

-Possible summit -PRC

-Possible actions -Vietnam peace settlement



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Vietnam

-Peace negotiations -Prisoner of war [POWs] -Forthcoming elections in South Vietnam -Thieu -Effect on negotiations -Compromise -Temporary government

-Duration -Thieu

-Press handling of issue -Editorial

-Warning against involvement in South Vietnamese elections -North Vietnamese

-Compared with South Vietnamese military forces -Casualties -North Vietnam

-Floods -Effect

-Supplies -Infiltration

Soviet Union

-Signing of Accidental War, Hotline Agreements -Date -Ceremony -Gromyko

-Signing -Public [press?] opinion

-US position -Democrats

-W[illiam] Averell Harriman

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's conversation with the President -Willy Brandt letter

Kissinger's schedule

-Lunch -Connally

-Soviet Union developments



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-Rogers -Kissinger's conversation with Rogers

Rogers

-Information about negotiations -Summit Meeting -Dobrynin

-Relations with Kissinger Kissinger left at 12:55 pm.

Conversation No. 275-9 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 12:56 pm - 2:10 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Draft of economic speech to Congress, September 9, 1971 -The President's perusal

-John B. Connally -Cost of living

-Comments and criticism -Revision -Line

-Multiple use -Tax proposal

-Tax cut -Revisions

-Job development credit -Justification

-Deletion of sentences -10% cut

-Point previously made by Connally, Paul W. McCracken -Controversial nature of program

-Working force -Points of speech



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-Business -Incentives, competition

-Workers -Wage earners -Productivity

-Making America competitive -World market

-The President's August 15, 1971 address -Reiteration of arguments

-New jobs -Number

-Emphasis -Use of figures

-Problems -Need

-Proposals -Creation of 500,000 new jobs -Estimates -Congressional cooperation

-Wording -90-day freeze

-Five billion dollar spending cut -Creation of jobs -Tax reductions

-Figures -Separation of Congressional and Presidential action

-Explanation of actions -Sequence of actions ordered in August 15, 1971 speech -Freeze on wages and prices -International front

-Revenue sharing and welfare reform -Status

-Reduction in government cost -Reason

-Cooperation from Congress -Restraint in budget expenditure -Tax cuts -Spending outs

-Restraint of inflation -Rise in cost of government -Tax cuts



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-Postponement of effective dates of revenue sharing and welfare reform -Spending cuts

-Reduction of government personnel -10% on foreign economic aid

-Revenue sharing -Welfare reform -Tax reform

-Proposed action -Priorities

-August 15, 1971 speech -Congress

-Enactment of tax proposals -Structure of speech

-Postponement -Budget

-Restraint -Postponement

-Adjust budget -Prosperity without inflation -Second draft -Progress in international relations -Generation of peace -Poker analogy

-Image -Perceptions

-Harry S. Truman -The President's background

-International context -Latin America -Japan

-Forthcoming Japanese visit to Washington -Economic competition

-National greatness -Poker game analogy -Use of theme

-Use of images -Public memory -Public sacrifice, challenges -Focus of speech -"Blood, sweat, and tears"

-Relation of phrase to the President's speech



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-Reality of situation -Structure of speech -Focus

-Wage and price freeze -Spirit of American people

-Cooperation -Cost of living

-Challenges -Economic controls, free enterprise system -Input from Peter G. Peterson, John D. Ehrlichman -Creation of 100 million new jobs -Wage and price stabilization in post-freeze period

-Control -Governmental role -Business -Labor

-1980 -New jobs -Price’s conversation with unknown man -Application of technology to solve problems

-Research and development as percentage of Gross National Product [GNP] -Compared with other countries

-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] -Nuclear breeder reactors -Industry -Focus, planning -Free enterprise system -Japan

-Planning of research and development -US position in the world -Successful US lunar landings -Application to economic problems

-Congress -Cooperation

-Wage and price controls -Program implementation

-American work ethic -Perceptions of the good life

-Wage earners, welfare recipients -State of the economy



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-Challenges -US position

-Healthy economy, government -Congress

-Postponement in reform implementation -The US and the world

-Tariffs and quotas -Image of wall

-Competition -Reaction to challenges

-American past history -Discovery of New World -Space exploration

-Image of wall -The US as a great power

-Ehrlichman, George Shultz The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 12:56 pm and 2:10 pm. [Conversation No. 275-9A]

The President's speech on economic stabilization -Meeting with Price -Projections and goals

-100 million jobs -Reform proposals

-Tax cuts -Research and development

-American accomplishment -Apollo program

-Ehrlichman's possible meeting with Price -NASA

-Forthcoming State of the Union address -Tax reform

-Shultz -[Connally’s] recommendations -August 15, 1971 speech

-Time factor -Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Price

-Connally -Scheduling



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[End of telephone conversation]

Draft of economic speech -Congress

-Tax bill -Competition

-Inflation -Effects

-Virus metaphor -Differentiation between ideas and programs

-Tax reform -Creation of jobs -Use of technology to meet challenges

-NASA -Wage and price stabilization

-Way-station analogy -Tax reform -US competitive position in the world -Astronauts as symbol of accomplishment

-Draft revisions -Forthcoming meeting with the President in the evening

Price left at 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 275-10 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:10 pm and 3:55 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable]



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[Duration: 1m 2s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.


The President's schedule -Forthcoming meeting with unknown secretary



The President's schedule -Meeting with unknown secretary




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Instructions on copies of speech draft Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 275-14 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:10 pm and 3:55 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Draft of speech

Meeting with the President at the Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 275-15 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 3:55 pm - 4:55 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Stock market



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-Status at close of trading -17 million shares

-Dow Jones average -Friday's rise in market

-Anticipation of presidential announcement -Labor Day's speech

George P. Shultz

-Views -Profits

Public

-Labor Day weekend -Television programs -Advertisement

-Effect

Press -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-Pictures of trip -Robert Dole

-Letter -Publicity

-Time magazine article -Evaluation of the President's actions

-White House staff -Frank Leonard -New ideas

-New prosperity -Generation of peace

-Media -Congressmen -Approval for Presidential actions

-The President's trips -24 cities -15 states -National trust

-Summer of 1971 -Writing -Parochial schools -Senior citizens



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-Parks -International drug traffic -War on crime -Bureaucracy -Workfare

-Human dignity -Peacetime prosperity

-Environment -26th Amendment

-Signing -Dynamic balance between farms and cities -Equal rights laws -Alliance of generations -Veterans -Redemption of national spirit

-Effect on public -Speakers -Copies of Time article

-Distribution -Clark MacGregor

-Congress -Source -Dole

-Cabinet members -Administration spokesmen

-Pictures of the President -Quotes

-Washington Post -New York Times -Time magazine

-Wilbur D. Mills -Michael J. Mansfield

-July -Economy

-August -Quote

-Author -Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger

-American people -Spending

-Pictures



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-Quality -First Monday distribution

The President's schedule

-Mrs. Nixon -Far West trip

-John N. Mitchell's advice -Flight time -San Francisco -Oregon -Early arrival

-Morning -San Francisco

-Night arrival -Problems

-Organization -San Jose -Logistics

-Briefing -Public expectations -Schedule

-Monday -Japanese visit

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

The President's calendar -Location


The President's schedule -Far West trip

-Site of media briefing -Montana

-Weather -Delaware

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

Draft of economic speech



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-Numbering The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.

Speech writing -The President's meeting with Raymond K. Price, Jr. -The President's role -Haldeman's copy

-Fifth draft -Delivery of drafts

-First draft -Compared with other drafts

-Quality -Congressional leaders meeting

-Price -William L. Safire

Economic briefing

-Women in government -Cabinet wives

-John B. Connally -Anecdote -Paul W. McCracken

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule

High school event

-List of possibilities

Book -Price -Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos?-Bookstores -Photostatic copy

Policy

Jonathan C. Rose

-California memorandum follow-up -100,000 jobs

-Caspar W. (Cap”) Weinberger



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Julie Eisenhower

-Letters

Peter Drucker

Thomas R. Shepard, Jr. -Speeches

-Claremont College -Speechwriter

Issues

-Drugs and crime

President’s schedule -Visit by astronauts to Camp David

-Date of visit -Florida -Dinner for astronauts

-Dates -Florida -California

-Working weekend -Astronauts' schedule -The President's trip to Camp David

-Date

Forthcoming Head of State Visits -Indira Gandhi

-Possible visit to Camp David -Josip Broz Tito -Henry A. Kissinger -Nature of visits

-State dinner

The President's schedule -Florida -Camp David -Airport

-Time of arrival -The President's schedule



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-California -Possible changes in trip's schedule

-Detroit -California

-Dinner -New York -Chicago -West Coast

-Time difference -Length -Telecast

-Live broadcast -Time difference

-New York people -Receptions -Telecast

-Dinner organizers -Reasons -Simultaneous telecast

-Chicago -Los Angeles

-Chicago -New York

-Dinner -The President's speech

-Timing -New York -Chicago

Ford Foundation

-Connection with Brookings Institute -Problems -William D. Ruckelshaus

-Two unknown men -Barry M. Goldwater

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Vice President's proposed speech

-Establishment

Young Americans for Freedom [YAF] -William F. Buckley, Jr.



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-Ronald W. Reagan -Telephone

-Publicity -Agnew -Letter

[Peter G. Peterson]

-Economic presentation -College circuit

President’s schedule

-Opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -Media -The President's action concerning the Presidential box -Kennedy family

-Attendance at opening concert -Symphony orchestra -Good public relations -Leonard Bernstein’s �Mass�

-Review -Criticism

-Effect on the President's actions -Attendance

-Haldeman -White House staff -Cabinet

-Preview performance -General public -Congressional preview

-Opening performance -Previous night's performance

-Audience's reaction -Bernstein's reaction

-Joan [Mrs. Edward M.] Kennedy's action -Review

-Criticism -Architecture -Cost -Delays in construction

-Kennedy family



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-Government contribution -Private subscription

-Bernstein’s �Mass� -The President’s attendance -Reaction -Official opening

-Review -Symphony

-Opera House -Alberto Ginastera

-Ballet -Bernstein's �Mass�

-The President's attendance -Type -Completion

-Prelude -Endings

-Kennedy family -Parts

-Ballet company -Boys' choir -Two choruses -Chorale -Symphony orchestra

-Percussion section -Latin -Hebrew -Forms of music

-Classical -Liturgical -Rock -Pop -Country

-First of its kind in Washington, DC -Cultural importance -Comparison with University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] Music Center

-Public reaction -Architecture

-Edward Durrell Stone -Airline terminal

-Magazine article



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-Lyndon B. Johnson Library comparison -Evaluation of Kennedy Center, Johnson Library

-Monuments -History -Architecture

-Bernstein’s �Mass� -The President’s attendance

-Dedication of John F. Kennedy's bust -The President’s attendance

-John Kennedy -Arts

-The President's support for the Kennedy Center -Public opinion on the President

-Comparison with opinion of Kennedy -Mass

-Bernstein -Kennedy family

-Jacqueline Onassis -Media

-Newsweek -The President's action

-Jacqueline Onassis -Attendance

-Difficulties -Kissinger

-Views -Gregory Peck

-Kennedy Center -Roger L. Stevens’ invitation

-Reception -Kennedy people -The President's attendance

-The President's reception -Intermission

-Financial aspects -Stevens

-Sell-out performances -Number required

-Opera -Ballet

-Big names



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-Private subscription -Comparison with other performing centers

-UCLA [?] -Financial situation

-Tickets -Price

Haldeman left at 4:55 pm.


The President's forthcoming trip -Montana

-Saturday -Seattle

-Airport reception -Alaska

-The President's schedule -Montana -Anchorage -Options




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President’s schedule -Possible Delaware trip

-John W. Rollins -Possible reception

-Timing -Guests

-Dinner chairmen -[Republican National Committee [RNC]] State finance

people -Dinner

The President's forthcoming call to Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes

Conversation No. 275-18 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 5:09 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-32]

Conversation No. 275-19 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:09 pm and 5:11 pm Location: Executive Office Building The White House operator talked with the President. [See Conversation No. 8-33]



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Conversation No. 275-20 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 5:11 pm - 5:12 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Col. Ralph D. Albertazzie. [See Conversation No. 8-34]

Conversation No. 275-21 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 5:12 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-35]

Conversation No. 275-22 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 5:13 pm - 5:20 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”)Nixon. [See Conversation No. 8-36; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]



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Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon -Schedule

-Seattle and Montana -Seattle

-Length of stay -Sunday -Saturday

-Return flight -Dinner for Mamie G.D. Eisenhower

-Radio and television -Arrival time

-Unknown person's forthcoming conversation with Mrs. Nixon -Constance (“Connie”) Stuart -Dinner for Mamie Eisenhower -Reception

-Time -Schedule

-Media briefing

The President's schedule

Mrs. Nixon -American Women in Radio and Television dinner for Mamie Eisenhower -Arrival time



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Conversation No. 275-24 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown time between 5:20 pm and 5:32 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-37]

Conversation No. 275-25 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:20 pm and 5:32 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 275-26 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 5:32 pm - 5:43 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Charles W. Colson [See Conversation No. 8-38; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]



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Conversation No. 275-27 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:49 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to an unknown person

Conversation No. 275-28 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:50 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-39; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation] The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 5:49 pm and 5:50 pm.

Conversation No. 275-29 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:50 pm and 5:56 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-40]

Conversation No. 275-30



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Date: September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:50 pm and 5:56 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-41]

Conversation No. 275-31 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 5:56 pm - 6:00 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with John B. Connally. [See Conversation No. 8-42

Conversation No. 275-32 Date September 7, 1971 Time: Unknown between 6:00 pm and 6:04 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's previous conversation with John B. Connally -Connally's conversation with Kissinger

-Connally's views -Meeting

-The President's speech

International monetary policy -Peter G. Peterson's staff



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-Aspects involved -Economics -Political strategy

-Kissinger's talk with Connally -The President's call to Willy Brandt and Georges J.R. Pompidou

-Connally's views -Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 275-33 Date: September 7, 1971 Time: 6:04 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Tricia Nixon Cox. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 4s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** The President and Tricia Cox left at 6:04 pm.

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