Conversation No. 267-022
Date: July 30, 1971
Time: 4:46 pm - 5:43 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[Conversation No. 267-22A]
Polls
-President’s conversation with Louis Harris
-Domestic Council
-Effect of foreign policy on domestic issues
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-Focus of questions
-Environmental and consumer issues
-Water pollution
-Jobs compared with environment
H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 4:50 pm.
-The President's possible meeting with Harris
-Questions
-Understanding of political ramifications
The economy
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-Dan Rather's comment
-News summary
-George P. Shultz
-Comparison of statistics with 1970 unemployment projection
Congress
-Action on Lockheed bailout
[The President conferred with Haldeman]
Lockheed
-John Volpe
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
[End of conferral]
Daniel P. Moynihan
John V. Lindsay
-New York City
-42nd Street
-Prostitution
[End of telephone conversation]
Telephone call recommendation
-Bart Starr
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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:50 pm and
5:01 pm]
[Conversation No. 267-22B]
Call to Starr
[End of telephone conversation]
Thomas R. Shepard
-Possible meeting with the President
-Possible White House position
-Writing style of speech
-Comparison with White House speechwriters
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Abilities as speechwriter
-Management of speechwriting staff
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Focus in domestic issues
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 5:00 pm.
Shepard
-Speech
-Assistance to the President
-In publishing or in the White House
-Look magazine
The President read aloud excerpts from "The Ding-A-Ling Era" by Shepard.
[See White House Subject Files: Executive SP6 7/1/71 - 8/31/71, "The Ding-A-Ling Era",
Thomas R. Shepard]
Shepard speech
-Water pollution
-Lake Erie
-Environmentalists
-Dichlorokiphenyl trichloroethane [DDT]
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-Effectiveness
-Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring
-Ceylon
-Reduction of malaria cases
-Increases in malaria cases after imposition of DDT ban
-Penguins, pelicans
[The President talked with Bart Starr between 5:09 pm and 5:11 pm]
[Conversation No. 267-22C]
Football
-Starr’s health
-The President's imminent departure for Canton, Ohio
-Football Hall of Fame inductions
-Starr's health
-Therapy for injury
-Return to playing football
[End of telephone conversation]
Shepard speech
-Population explosion
-Moynihan
-Activists
-Kingman Brewster's comment about fair trials for Black revolutionaries
Foreign relations
-Pakistan
-Phone call to Kissinger
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Proposed trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-State Department and the Agency for International Development [AID]
-John N. Irwin II telephone call to Haldeman
-Briefing
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[Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number
LPRN-T-MDR-2012-004 & LPRN-T-MDR-2014-004. Segment declassified on 06/23/2016.
Archivist: MAS]
[National Security]
[267-022-w002]
[Duration: 40s]
Foreign relations
-Pakistan
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Two new staff members
-Provision of visas
-Get to People’s Republic of China [PRC] through Pakistan
-Similarity to trip of Henry A. Kissinger
-Henry A. Kissinger’s opinion of Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy trip
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Foreign relations
-Pakistan
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Kennedy
-Charles A.J.M. Degaulle's funeral
-Pakistan
-Kenneth Keating
-Briefing
-The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Ambassadors from foreign countries
Domestic Council staff
-Stance on domestic issues
-Environmental consumer issues
-Photo opportunity with Russell Train
Haldeman left at 5:20 pm.
The President's schedule
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-Cancellation of Bohemian Grove visit
-Press insistence on coverage
-Other visitors
-Secretary of State, dignitaries
US foreign relations
-The US and the PRC
-Developments
-Message
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[National Security]
[267-022-w003]
[Duration: 3m 10s]
US foreign relations
-The US and the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Message
-To be sent to Chinese by Henry A. Kissinger August 2
-Contents of message
-Europe
-Five power conference
-Sent from Paris through diplomatic channels
-Taiwan
-Politics
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-The Vietnam War
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] behavior
-Henry A. Kissinger’s opinion
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US foreign relations
-The Vietnam War
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-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Forthcoming South Vietnamese election
-Statement of principles
-Negotiations
-PRC
-Developments in relations with the US
-Public reaction
-Vietnam
-Timing of announcements
-Public reaction
-Liberals
-Reaction to foreign policy compared to domestic issues
-Trips
-Kennedy, Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Kissinger
-The President
-Timing
-The press
-Kennedy
-The President
-Vietnam
-Timing
-Kennedy
-Left-wing Democrats
-Chou En-lai
-State Department
-The press
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[National Security]
[267-022-w004]
[Duration: 2m 18s]
Foreign relations
-Trips
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-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Pakistan and India
-President’s opinion
-Pakistan and People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-August 1971
-Setup for Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy’s trip
-Presidential campaign
-Possibility of sending message
-Henry A. Kissinger’s contacts
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Foreign relations
-Trips
-Kennedy's possible PRC trip
-The press
-Effect
-Mao Tse-tung
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[National Security]
[267-022-w005]
[Duration: 2m 13s]
Foreign relations
-Trips
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy’s possible trip
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Potential benefit
-Henry A. Kissinger’s opinion
-The President’s assessment
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Foreign relations
-Trips
-Other visitors
-Treatment by the PRC
-Canada
-Kennedy
Kissinger left at 5:43 pm.
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