Date: June 14, 1973
Time: 12:18 – 1:35 pm
Location: Oval Office
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.
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[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-106]
[End telephone conversation]
The President met with Anne L. Armstrong at 12:18 pm.
Bryce N. Harlow
President’s address to nation addressing price control measures, June 13, 1973
-Reaction
-Public relations
-Economics
-Beginning and end of speech
-Gasoline and food prices
-Optimism
President’s Orlando speech [remarks at Florida Technological University, June 8, 1973]
White House staff
-Armstrong’s role
-Haig’s role
-Melvin R. Laird’s role
-Politics
-Laird
-Harlow
-Staff
-Haig
-Harlow
-Laird
-Harlow
-Politics
-George H. W. Bush
-Laird’s role
-Congressional relations
-Bush
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-Bush
-Harlow
-John B. Connally
-Connally’s role
-Advisor
-Economic, energy, Cabinet meetins
-Relationship with President
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Connally
-Response of Republicans
-Change to Republican Party
-Lack of invitations
-Public relations
-“Sales” ability
-Economic program
-Response of Republicans
-John G. Tower, Texas, Spiro T. Agnew, Laird, Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Strength, Vigor
-Armstrong’s forthcoming conversation with Harlow and Bush
-Possible activities with Republicans
-Invitations
-John C. McDonald
-Iowa state Republican chairman
-Dinners
-New York
-Chicago
-Cleveland
-Cincinnati
-Columbus
-Los Angeles
-San Francisco
-Iowa
-Power centers
-Miami
-Atlanta
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-Charlotte
-Nashville
-Alabama
-Fundraisers
-Presidential ambitions
-Shooting [in 1963]
-Lifestyle
-Compared to Rockefeller, Laird, Charles H. Percy, Agnew, William E.
Brock, III
-Watergate
-Accomplishments in administration
1976 election
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Lifestyle
-[Chappaquiddick]
-[Mary Jo Kopechne]
-Character
-Laird
-Connally
-Public relations
Connally
-“Mystic of leadership”
-Economic program
-President compared to George P. Shultz
-Invitations
-Views of Kennedys
-Role with Administration
-Relationship with President
-Compared to Harlow, Laird
-Age differences
-Invitations
-Bush’s possible actions
-Editors
-Possible activities
-Power groups
-North, West
-South
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-Atlanta
-Nashville
-Louisville
-Florida
-Arkansas
-Compared to Agnew
-South
-Armstrong’s view
-Lack of power base
-Image
-Law firm
-Travel
-Gasoline deal
-Possible attack by opponents
-Compared to Agnew
-Investigations in Maryland
-President’s recent conversation with Agnew
-President’s experience
-Law firm
-Foreign travel
-Wealth
-Farms, cattle
-Friends
-Lifestyle
-Palm Springs
-Jamaica
-Real estate
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Blacks
-Governing ability
-Jamaica
-Real estate
-Future
-Miscegenation
-[Liberia]
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-William R. Tolbert, Jr.
-English speaking ability
-Compared to population
-Poverty
-Ivory Coast
-Africa
-Lack of freedom
-Education
-Philosophy
-Lawyers, doctors
-Effect
-Bombs
Appointments
-Armstrong’s role
-Mexicans
-Jews
-Mexicans
-Italians
-East Europeans
Cabinet
-Snobbishness
-Excellence
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Harvard University Law School
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Conversation with President
-University of Iowa
-Ohio State University
Bicentennial Commission
-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson’s possible role
-Haig
-Leadership
-J. Willard (“Bill”) Marriott, Jr.
-Male
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Possible value for President
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-Delay
-List
-Number, age
-University presidents
-Frederic V. Malek
-Armstrong’s conversation with Roman Hruska, June 13, 1973
-Kendall
-Ideas
-Financial situation
-PepsiCo
-Retirement
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Board, advisory, committee
-Frank Borman
-Eastern Airlines
-Loyalty
-Financial situation
-Part-time status
-List
-Armstrong’s role
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Jerry H. Jones
-Roy L. Ash
-Otto Eckstein
-Haig
Anecdote
-Las Vegas
-Comedian
-Man with dead spouses
White House staff
-Armstrong’s role
-Cost of Living Council [COLC], Domestic Council
-Letter for President
National economy
-Public relations
-President’s plan
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-Price controls
-Duration
-Possible wage controls
-Inflation
-Raw agricultural products
-Views of Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Wheat, corn
-Consumers
-Price volatility
-Weather
-Shortages
-Rental prices
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:18 pm.
Harlow
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:47 pm.
White House staff
-Armstrong’s role
-Armstrong’s schedule
-Albert H. Quie [?]
-Poverty programs
-Cabinet meetings
-Speeches
Watergate
-White House response
-Maurice H. Stans
-President’s accomplishments
-Vietnam, Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Popular opinion
-Armstrong’s conversation with Robert J. Dole
White House staff
-Armstrong’s role
-Television [TV]
-Speeches
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-Armstrong’s physical appearance, voice
Harlow and Haig entered at 12:47 pm.
Armstrong and Harlow
-Texas and Oklahoma
-Armstrong’s schedule
Armstrong left at 12:48 pm.
White House staff
-Harlow’s role
-Laird
-Armstrong
-Politics
-William E. Timmons
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:49 pm.
Arrangements for photograph session
-Standing, sitting, walking
President’s schedule
-Diplomatic credentials presentation
-Nepal, Yemen, Malawi, Oman, Khmer Republic, Jordan
-Length
White House staff
-Armstrong’s role
-President’s conversation with Armstrong
-Bush
-Harlow and Armstrong’s work
-Connally
-Possible activities with Republicans
-Jealousy
-Iowa
-Chicago
-New York
-Philadelphia
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-Atlanta
Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 12:49 pm.
Connally
-Bush
-Republican’s view
[Photograph session]
Ziegler and the press left at 12:53 pm.
Bush
-Republican National Chairman
-Schedule
-Harlow’s role
-Armstrong [?]
-Agnew [?]
White House staff
-Haig, Harlow, Laird
-Kissinger
-Irrelevance of some comments
-Social events
-Armstrong
-Size of meetings
-Kissinger
-[President’s address to nation addressing price control measures]
-Leonard Garment, Ash, Shultz
-Expert status
-Politics
-Flanigan
-Flexibility
-Laird
-Possible leaks
-Defense Department
-Harlow’s role
-Portfolio
-Agnew
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-Republican Party
-Congressional relations
-Timmons
-Farm bill
-Possible veto
-Tax bill
-Timmons
-Conversation with President
-Cabinet meeting
-Timmons
-Laird
-Laird
-Press conference, June 6, 1973
-Harlow’s conversation with Laird
-Scranton
-Possible role with administration
-Recent conversation with Harlow
-Telephone calls
-Congressional relations
-Lack of option
-Recent conversation with President
-Environmentalists
-Conversation with President
-Nuclear power
-Grants [?]
-Role
-Politics
-Mary Lowe Chamberlin Scranton
-Conversations with William Scranton
-[Barbara (Masters) Laird]
-Melvin Laird
-Conversation with Harlow
-Timing
-Presidential request
-Harlow’s experience
-Conversation with President
-Mary Scranton
-Compared to George W. Romney
-God
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-Energy policy
-Political orientation
-Children’s influence
-Toughness
-Compared to Charles H. Percy
-Trust
-Administrative problem
-Watergate
-Energy
Kissinger
-Briefings of Congress
-Timmons’s conversation with Haig
-Standing ovation
-House of Representatives
-Vietnam negotiations
-Communique
-President’s message to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Tone
President’s address to nation addressing price control measures, June 13, 1973
-Harlow’s viewing
-Public relations
-President’s conversation with Haig
-Telephone calls
-Rose Mary Woods
-Price freeze
-Beginning and end of speech
-Economy
-Draft, Vietnam
President’s accomplishments
-Stopping riots
-Pentagon
-Department of Health Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Robert H. Finch
President’s address to nation addressing price control measures, June 13, 1973
-Tone
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-Delivery
-Difference from previous speeches
-Preparation
-Raymond K. Price, Jr., President
-Response
-Samuel L. Devine and conservative
-Harlow’s view
Congressional relations
-Conservatives
-Mood
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Actions
-Allegations
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Stans
-Audience
-Compared to Hiss Case
Press relations
-Hiss testimony
-Confrontation [with Whittaker Chambers]
-Hiss case
-Effect on President
-Harvard University
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, United Nations [UN], New Deal, Communism
-Jerry Voorhis
-Relations with Voorhis
-Helen Gahagan Douglas
-Voorhis
-Relations with Harlow
-Harlow’s work on floor of House of Representatives
-Relations with left
-Hiss
-Hiss
-Douglas
-Vote margin
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-Carl Vinson’s conversation with Harlow
-Armed Services Committee bill
-Mental stability
-St. Louis
-Speaking style
-President’s 1950 campaign
-Voting record
-Vito Marcantonio
Marcantonio
-Political orientation
-Relations with President
-Clare E. Hoffman
-Michigan
-John E. Rankin
Rankin
-Speechmaking ability
-Sister
-Recent conversation with President
-Mississippi
-Admiration for President
Harlow
-Starting date
-July 2, 1973
-Congress’s schedule
-Recess
-Laird
-Families
President’s address to nation addressing price control measures
-Possible attacks on Congress
-Cabinet speeches
-Price and budget increases, exports and meat and egg prices
-Alaska pipeline
-1974 election
-Compared to Harry S. Truman and Republican Congress
-Robert A. Taft, Sr. – Fred A. Hartley Act, George C. Marshall
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Plan, Greek-Turkish loan, Point IV
1948 election
-Truman
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Campaign
-Farm vote
-Hiss case
-John Foster Dulles and Allen W. Dulles
-Truman’s “red herring” comment
-Herbert Brownell, J. Russel Sprague, [Edwin Jaeckle]
-Compared to 1972 campaign
-Use of surrogates
-George S. McGovern
Watergate
-Effects on 1972 election
-Bugging Democrat National Headquarters [DNC]
-President’s response
-McGovern
-Causes
Harlow
-Contacts with President
-Laird
President’s schedule
-Sequoia
-Dinner
-San Clemente
-White House
-Avoid misstatements [Watergate]
-Wives
-Key Biscayne
-Unknown committee members
Harlow
-Role on White House staff
-Delivery of bad news
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-Role on Dwight D. Eisenhower’s staff
-Conversations concerning Truman visit to White House
-Sherman Adams
-Jerry Persons
-Tom Stephens
-James C. Hagerty
-Ann Whitman
-Eisenhower
-Reaction
-Doubt of Truman’s acceptance of
invitation
-Unknown Truman staff member
-Washington, DC
-Telegram
-Mamie G. D. Eisenhower, Bess
(Wallace) Truman
-Second Unknown Soldier
dedication
-Invitations to Harry Truman
-Truman’s statement
-European trip
President’s schedule
-Percy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-McGovern
-1973 Inauguration
-Humphrey, McCarthy
-Chou En-Lai, Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Compared to McGovern
-Compared to each other
-Intellectualism, earthiness
Brezhnev
-Compared to Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Crudeness, toughness, impulsiveness, niceness, earthiness
Chou
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President’s schedule
-Diplomatic credential ceremony
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:32 pm.
Chou
-Meeting with Gerald R. Ford
-Ford’s subsequent conversation with Harlow
-John W. McCormack
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-World War II
-[Carl B. Albert]
Harlow left at 1:32 pm.
President’s schedule
-Shultz
-Diplomatic credentials ceremony
-Agnew [?]
Haig left at 1:35 pm.