Date: March 6, 1973

Time: Unknown between 4:20 pm and 4:46 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

William P. Rogers

-Briefing [?]

Robert B. Pamplin entered at 4:22 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning

of the meeting.

President’s schedule

-William H. Carruthers [?]

Bull left at 4:22 pm.

President’s meeting with mayors

Georgia-Pacific Co.

-Owen [surname unintelligible]

Pamplin’s praise for President

-Problems

Congress

-Budget and spending issues

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:22 pm.

Refreshment

-Pepsi-Cola

-Donald McI. Kendall [?]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:46 pm.

Federal Trade Commission [FTC] decision against Georgia-Pacific Co.

-During President’s administration

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-Miles W. Kirkpatrick

-Successor to Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger as chairman

-Crusaders

-Problems of enforcement

-Georgia-Pacific Co. plants in South

-Plywood manufacture

-Price of timber

-Housing boom

-Increases

-Charges against Georgia-Pacific Co.

-Small firms

-Reasons

-Housing boom

-Timber rights in South

-Solution to problem

-Spin-off company

-Louisiana Pacific

-Problems with expansion

-Plywood production

-Increased prices

-Small producers

-Conflict with Georgia-Pacific Co.

-Monopoly claim

-Oil analogy

-Supplies

-Solution

-FTC cooperativeness

-Alan Waller [?]

Big business

-Work with courts

-Work with independent administrative agencies

-Civil Aeronautics board [CAB], Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC],

FCC

Administration’s appointments

-John B. Connally

-Radicals

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-Commissions

-Roles

-Judge compared with advocate role

-Compared with a court of law

-Interpretation of existing law

-Supreme Court: Warren E. Burger, Harry A. Blackmun, William H. Rehnquist,

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

-Possible replacement for William O. Douglas

-Importance of appointments

-Tenure in office

-Federal Power Commission

-Delays

-Natural gas

-Price

-Production

-Energy crisis

-Difficulty filling appointments

-Salary

-Political aspects of appointment

-Qualifications [?]

-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]

-Director

-Bureaucracy

-Leftists

-Lawyers, accountants

-New Deal

-Attacks on big business

-Administration policies

-Fairness toward business interests

US wood exports to Japan

-West Coast

-As customers

-Integration with Japan’s sawmills

-Lumber

-Imports of timbers

-Housing boom

-Home builder complaints in US

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-Japan’s pricing practices

-Lumber compared with logs

-Impact on US jobs

-Impact on housing industry

-Supplies

-Canada

-Wood pulp, chips, logs

-Other exporters

-Need to maintain trade

-Restrictions

-Public compared to private

-Weyhauser Co.

-Impact on foreign exchange

-Chips

-Lumber mill by-product

-Excess

-Creation of pulp

-Japanese as customers

Pamplin’s visit to Japan

-Japan’s trade plans

-Joint ventures in US

US-Japan relations

-Importance

Pennsylvania Railroad

-Labor problems

-Need for correction

-Danger of spreading

-Effects on industry

-Competition

-Customers

-Japan [?]

-Efficiency

-Steel strike

-1959 settlement

-Roger Blough, Conrad Cooper, Arthur Goldberg

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-Work rules issue

-Union intransigence

Unions

-Wage increases

-Food price increases

-Membership pressure

-Rate of inflation

-Real wages

-Production

Inflation

-Compared with other countries

-Japan

-West Germany

-Great Britain

-Italy

-France

-Japan

-Wage increases

-Decline of real wages

Prisoners of war [POWs]

-Effect of return on the American people

Farmers

-Subsidies

-Competition with People’s Republic of China [PRC], Unions of Soviet

Socialist Republics [USSR]

-Prices

-Increased production

-Decline of dependence on government, self-respect

-Programs

-Cuts

-Congress

President’s business philosophy

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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-Labor leaders

-Support for business

-George Meany, Frank E. Fitzsimmons

Pamplin left at 4:46 pm.