530–12

Conversation No. 530-12

Date: June 29, 1971
Time: 12:11 pm - 12:42 pm Conv. No. 530-11 (cont.)
Location: Oval Office

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Peter G. Peterson met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-Unknown man
-Mrs. Frank Mason
-Stephen B. Bull
-Visit of mother to White House

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:11 pm.

-Timing

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:20 pm.

Peterson's aide
-Richard V. Allen
-Declassification project
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Martin C. (“Marty”) Anderson
-Conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-The Federal Bulldozer
-Arthur F. Burns
-Possible relationship with Peterson
-Background with administration
-President's schedule
-Possible meeting with Anderson
-Allen
-Peterson's possible conversation with Burns


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Conv. No. 530-12 (cont.)


-Views with family assistance plan
-Experience
-Allen
-Work with another project
-Anderson


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Allen
-Possible role with administration
-James R. Schlesinger
-Requirements for job

Peterson's aide
-Anderson
-Relations with Henry A. Kissinger
-Allen
-Relations with Kissinger
-Anderson
-Knowledge and ability
-Peterson's role
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-William P. Rogers
-John B. Connally
-Allen
-Compared with Anderson
-Area of focus
-Anderson
-Talks with Ehrlichman
-Experience of people leaving government and Washington
Conv. No. 530-12 (cont.)
-Thomas Wolfe

Haldeman left at 12:24 pm.

Rogers
-Conversation with Peterson
-Need for individual in high State Department position
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Role with State Department
-Compared with President

Peterson
-Role with administration
-Cabinet
-President's conversation with Haldeman
-White House staff compared with Cabinet
-Unlikely areas
-Agriculture
-Justice
-Development of Peterson's staff
-Access to President
-International economy
-Political issue
-Connally contrasted with George P. Shultz
-Relations with Connally
-Political issues
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-International economy
-Expropriation

Connally
-View of President's image
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Contrasted with President
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-View of President's image

Foreign policy
-President contrasted with Connally
-Rogers
-President's comments to National Commission on Productivity
-Challenges and opportunities of world trade
-Long-term nature of planning Conv. No. 530-12 (cont.)

National economy
-Prospects
-Economists
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Stock market
-Employment
-Inflation
-Confidence in the economy
-President's conversations
-Gordon M. Metcalf
-Edward W. Carter
-Retail sales
-Retail sales
-Low inventories
-Connally
-Wage and prices
-Wage and Price Board
-Steel industry
-Businessmen's view of unions
-Burns’ view on freeze
-Possible effect of freeze on economy
-New plant and equipment
-Foreign competition
-Investment credit
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Failure to introduce bill
-Connally's administrative action
-Depreciation
-Technology
-Space program
-Money spent on research and development

Peterson's possible role with administration
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Peterson left at 12:42 pm.