Date: July 31, 1972

Time: 4:10 pm – 5:38 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles Colson at 4:10 pm.

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H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 4:15 pm.

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The President’s schedule

-The President’s press conference, July 27, 1972

-The President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler and Haldeman

-John B. Connally

-Location

-Madison Hotel

-Meeting with the President

H.R. Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:15 pm and

4:22 pm. The President and Colson can be heard in the background.

[Conversation No. 757-5A]

Connally

-Location

-Dinner

The President’s recent press conference [?]

-Timing

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The President’s schedule

-Connally

The President left at an unknown time after 4:15 pm.

Connally

-Sensitivity

Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, George P. Shultz, and Herbert Stein entered at 4:22 pm.

New Economic Policy

-Pierre Rinfret

Budget

-Clark MacGregor

-Rinfret

-Leonard Garment

-John A. Volpe

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 4:23 pm.

Unknown man

Budget

-Highway funds

-Job creation

“Wreckonomics”

Shultz’s telephone call to an unknown person

The President entered at an unknown time after 4:23 pm.

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Seating arrangements for photograph session

The President’s schedule

-Allen J. Ellender’s funeral

-Russell B. Long

-Conversation with the President

-Transportation

-Transportation

-Governor of Louisiana [Edwin W. Edwards]

-Connally

National economy

-Possible federal spending ceiling

-Politics

-Previous meeting with the President

-Democratic National Convention

-Consumer Price Index [CPI]

-Unemployment

-Tax package

-Food prices

-Unemployment

-[Hurricane Agnes] flooding

-Effect on food prices and unemployment

-Prospects

-Growth of Gross National Product [GNP]

-Revisions of figures

-July [?] 15, 1972

-CPI

-Unemployment

-Meat prices

-Decline

-Wholesale

-Retail

-1972 election

-Democrats’ attacks

-economy

1972 campaign

-Economy

-Democrats’ attacks

-Federal budget

-Deficit

-Paul A. Samuelson

-Walter W. Heller

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-Inflation

-Taxes

-Deficit

-Heller-Samuelson testimony

-John Kenneth Galbraith

-Public sector spending

-compared to private sector spending

-Issues

-The President’s performance

-Polls

-Inflation, taxes, unemployment

-Crime

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm.

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National economy

-Inflation

-Food prices

-Meat

-CPI

-Unemployment

-Lay-off rate

-Decline

-Public opinion

-Lag in public perceptions

-Albert E. Sindlinger’s poll

-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr’s article in New York Times Magazine, July 30, 1972

-Economic stimulation

-Inflation, unemployment

-Possible date of writing

-McGovern

-Inflation, unemployment

-CPI compared to voter perceptions

-Food prices

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-Louis P. Harris poll

-Commerce Department

-Sindlinger poll

-Medical care

-Effect on the President’s popularity

-“War on Cancer” program

-Nursing homes initiative

-[McGovern]

John F. Kennedy

-Possible administration actions

-Public relations efforts

-1972 election

-Food prices

-Administration’s actions

-Removal of meat import quotas

-Wholesale prices

-Futures prices

-Farmers reaction

-Telegrams

-Inflation

-Federal spending

-Wages and prices

-Economic expansion

-Unemployment

-Heller-Samuelson line

-Spending ceiling

-McGovern’s platform

-Consumer education

-Farm prices

-Parity

-Perceptions

-Harris poll

-Consumer blame

-Farmers

-Compared to processors

-Administration’s possible actions

-Freeze on food prices

-Timing

-1972 election

-Republican National Convention

-Harris’ view

-Public relations efforts

-August 15, 1971 program

-Impact

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-Tax relief

-Administration concern

-Wilbur H. Mills, McGovern plans

-Voters’ views

-Administration’s possible actions

-Support for change

-McGovern’s views

-George C. Wallace’s views

-Democratic primaries

-Responsibility

-Concern

-Ceiling on federal spending

-Administration’s position

-The President’s meeting with Senators and Congressmen, July 31, 1972

-As public issue

-Polls

-Balancing the budget

-Taxes

-Possible legislation

-Taxes

-Possible veto

-Possible Congressional action

-Prices

-McGovern and supporters’ possible opposition

-Effect

-Taxes

-Congress

-Spending

-Overriding vetoes

-Defense cuts

-Taxes

-Taxes

-Current state

-Administration’s possible actions

-Food prices

-1972 election

-Avoidance of controls

-Quotas

-Taxes

-Public relations efforts

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Economy

-Public relations efforts

-Administration’s possible actions

-Inflation

-Economic growth

-Unemployment

-Robert P. Griffin’s comment about automobile industry

-Employment

-Relation to sales

-Overtime

-Productivity

-Public relations efforts

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-Controls and tax reform

-Hobart Rowen

-Criticism

-Selective freeze

-Food prices

-Meat

-Voters’ perceptions

-Cost of living

-Compared to wages

-Food prices

-Unemployment

-Harris poll

-Food prices

-Blame

-Middlemen, processors

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-Consumers

-Grocery stores

-Farmers

-Edward R.G. Heath’s election

-Support of housewives

-Food prices

-Heath’s subsequent performance

-Food prices

-Food prices

-Administration’s opposition

-Tariffs

-Discussion at San Clemente

-Problems

-Meat cutter’s union

-Prospects

-September, October 1972

-Agriculture Department

-Controls

-Beef and other raw agricultural products

-Political consequences

-San Clemente

-Cattlemen, supermarkets, meat packers

-Retail level

-Ninety day wage and price freeze

-Timing

-Labor Day

-Effect

-Delay

-Processors

-The President’s August 15, 1971 statement

-Profit margins

-As component of CPI

-Separation

-Agriculture Department

-Possible announcement

-Instruction to Bureau of Labor Statistics

-Food price index

-Public perceptions

-Taxes

-Status

-Taxes, inflation

-Public relations

-Ehrlichman’s speeches

-Taxes, buying power, food prices

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-Status quo

-Administration’s possible action

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-Administration’s accomplishments

-Salability

-Buying power

-Social Security tax

-Portion of taxes

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-Administration program

-Wage and price controls

-Decontrol

-Haranguing bankers

-Exemptions

-Low income

-Small firms

-Tax reform

-Republican platform

-Property tax relief

-McGovern

-Mills

-Value-added tax [VAT]

-Range

-Simplified income tax forms

-The President’s policies

-Effectiveness

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-Inflation

-Unemployment

-Samuelson’s and Heller’s view

-Press coverage

-Food prices

Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]

-Administrative structure

-Staff burden

-Role

-Marina Von N. Whitman

-Public speaking

-Treasury, Commerce Department, Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

-Size of staff

-Public relations

-Speaking engagements

-Television

-Questions and answers [Q&A]

-Wall Street Journal

-Ladies’ Home Journal, Time

-Women in economy

-Youth

-Timing

-Ezra Solomon

-Rowen

-John F. Osborne

-Television

-U.S. News and World Report, Barron’s, Wall Street

Journal, Business Week

-Today Show, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] Evening News

-Schedule planning

-Invitations

-Colson

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:23 pm.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm.

-CEA

-Performance

-Schedule

-Statements

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-Republicans’ speeches

-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Taxes

-The President’s position

-Compared to opponents

General conversation

-Republican platform

-Connally

Colson, Haldeman, Weinberger, Shultz, Stein, and Ehrlichman left at 5:38 pm.