Date: August 7, 1972

Time: Between 3:51 pm – 4:12 pm

Location: Oval Office

Peter M. Flanigan met with Stephen B. Bull.

Presentation of Presidential gifts

-Louisiana

-Watch

The President entered and Bull left at 3:51 pm.

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Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]

-The President’s possible meeting with Henry A. Kissinger,

George P. Shultz, Flanigan, Herbert Stein, Peter G.

Peterson

-Possible subjects of meeting

-Peterson’s report

-Trade

-Leonid I. Brezhnev

-William D. Eberle’s previous meeting with Kakuei Tanaka

-European Economic Community [EEC]

-Relations with US on economic matters

-Sweden

-Austria

-Switzerland

-Possible confrontation between the US and the EEC

-The President’s view

-US-EEC relations

-US-Soviet Union trade

-State Department

-US-Japan trade

-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Tanaka

-US-EEC relations

-Peterson

-Eberle

-Flanigan, Kissinger

-Peterson

-US-Soviet Union trade

-US-Japan trade

-Hawaii

-State Department

-Leaks

-US-EEC relations

-EEC policies

-Effect on Atlantic System

-Reaction by Congress

-Administration policy

-Confidential basis of work

-European press

-John B. Connally

-US-Japan trade

-Possible trade agreements

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-Tanaka

-Kissinger’s staff

-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Tanaka

-Eberle

-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Tanaka

-Anticipation of trade agreements

-Avoidance of letdown

-Monetary policy

-Shultz

-Policy group

-Forthcoming meeting of International Monetary Fund [IMF]

-Timing

-Finance ministers

-Positive nature of recent US positions

-Possible statements by the President

-The President’s involvement in policy making

-Flanigan’s forthcoming meeting with Shultz

-US policies

-Effect on 1972 election

-Possible US leadership position

-George S. McGovern

-Knowledge of international monetary matters

Corporation for Public Broadcasting [CPB]

-Appropriations bill

-The President’s veto

-Casper W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

-John O. Pastore

-Changes in structure

-Thomas B. Curtis

-Chairman

-Henry Loomis

-President

-Nominating board

-Policy board

-Public affairs

-Martin Z. Agronsky show

-Ford Foundation funding

-Distribution

-Educational and cultural material

1972 election

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-The President’s advisors

-Flanigan, Kissinger, and Stein

-Nonpolitical roles

-Kissinger

-Dinners

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Role in domestic policy

-Role in campaign

-Foreign policy advisors

-Melvin R. Laird

-William P. Rogers

-Flanigan’s lack of involvement in political meetings

-Stein

-Charles W. Colson

-Meet the Press

-Avoidance of partisan appearances

-McGovern speeches

-Kissinger

-White House staff briefings

-Clark MacGregor

-Robert R. Brown

-Speeches by Flanigan

-Jobs

-Adherence to issues

-Flanigan

-Private contacts

-Fund raising role

-Restraint

-Stein

-Kissinger

-Kissinger

-Previous speech at University Club

-New York

-Previous policy barring Jews from admission

-Possible briefings by Flanigan

-Donald McI. Kendall’s group [Business and Industry for the Re-

election of the President]

-Rogers

-Kissinger

-Stein

-Ehrlichman

-Avoidance of fundraisers

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-Press briefings

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Kissinger

Robert O. Blake

-Connection to Whittier, California

-R. Sargent Shriver

-Deputy Chief of Mission [DCM]

-Ambassador to [Mali]

-W[illiam] Averell Harriman

-Adlai E. Stevenson, II

-United Nations [UN]

-Party allegiance

-Family

-[Marjorie (Edwards) Blake]

-Frank O. Blake

-Herman L. Perry [?]

-Shriver

-Statements while Ambassador to France

-Arthur K. Watson

-The President’s view

Shriver

-Rogers

-Offer to Shriver of position as Ambassador to the UN

-Flanigan’s possible meeting with Rogers

-Filing of speeches by ambassadors

-State Department

-Individual embassies

-Possible statements on Vietnam

-Rogers

-The President’s view

-Robert J. Dole’s statement

-Flannigan’s possible meeting with Rogers

Flanigan left at 4:12 pm