Conversation No. 5‑1

Date:  June 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 2:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[Conversation No. 516-9A]

Call to Hubert H. Humphrey

Conversation No. 5‑2

Date:  June 10, 1971
Time:  2:53 pm - 2:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Hubert H. Humphrey.

[See Conversation No. 516‑9B]

Humphrey's speech defending President

Vietnam
‑Bipartisanship
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Strategy for ending Vietnam war
‑Negotiations
‑Politics of Vietnam war

Polls and Humphrey's political plans

Conversation No. 5‑3

Date:  June 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:57 pm and 4:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 516‑10A]

Call to Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin

Conversation No. 5‑4

Date:  June 10, 1971
Time:  4:17 pm - 4:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Clifford M. Hardin.

[See Conversation No. 516‑10B]

Administration's agricultural policies with respect to grain
‑Loading of grain to communist countries and attitudes of longshoremen
‑Henry A. Kissinger's suggestions
‑Shipments to People's Republic of China [PRC], Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Vladivostok port in the USSR

Parasitic insects to combat insect pests
‑President's conversation with Norman E. Borlaug
‑Insects that could be bred to kill an opium crop
‑Unknown man's letter to President
‑Screw worm fly
‑Insect or virus that could be bred to kill an opium crop

Conversation No. 5‑5

Date:  June 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:22 pm and 6:02 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 516‑12A]

Call to Peter M. Flanigan

Conversation No. 5‑6

Date:  June 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:22 pm and 6:02 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with Peter M. Flanigan.

[See Conversation No. 516‑12B]

Dinner on the Sequoia
‑John B. Connally
‑William P. Rogers
‑John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 5‑7

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:08 pm and 4:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 517‑25A]

Call to Secretary Elliot L. Richardson

Conversation No. 5‑8

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  4:09 pm - 4:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked Elliot L. Richardson.

[See Conversation No. 517‑25B]

New York Times article on Richardson
‑John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 5‑9

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:59 pm and 5:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 5‑10

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  5:16 pm - 5:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

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John D. Ehrlichman

Schedule

Conversation No. 5‑11

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 5‑12

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  5:46 pm - 5:54 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Schedule

US foreign relations
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

The press

[Pause]

‑Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
‑President's schedule
‑William S. Paley
‑Frank Stanton
‑Arthur O. Sulzberger
‑Treatment of the President compared to Lyndon B. Johnson

Democrats in Congress
‑Johnson
‑George S. McGovern‑Mark O. Hatfield resolution
‑President
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield

President's schedule
-Cronkite

Clark M. Clifford's call to William H. Sullivan

Edward M. Kennedy

Hubert H. Humphrey

Wheat shipments to USSR
‑George Meany
‑Jay Lovestone

Conversation No. 5‑13

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  5:54 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 5‑14

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  5:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Rose Mary Woods= location

Call to Stephen B. Bull

Conversation No. 5‑15

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  5:56 pm - 5:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

Attendance at wedding reception
‑Presidential gifts
‑Value
‑Baron Guido Zerilli‑Marimo
-Money clip
‑Colonel Vernon C. Coffey, Jr.
‑Time of President's departure

Conversation No. 5‑16

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:58 pm and 11:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 5‑17

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  11:24 pm - 11:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

White House operator

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Conversation No. 5‑18

Date:  Unknown between June 11 and June 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:27 pm, June 11 and 10:16 am, June 12, 1971
Location:  White House Telephone

An unknown woman talked with the White House operator.

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Conversation No. 5‑19

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:16 am and 11:17 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 518‑4]

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 5‑20

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  11:17 am - 11:19 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 518‑5]

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Conversation No. 5‑21

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  12:12 pm - 12:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox; this recording begins while the conversation is in progress.

[See Conversation No. 518‑8A]

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Conversation No. 5‑22

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:14 pm and 2:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 256‑28]

Call to Edward L. Ryerson

Conversation No. 5‑23

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  2:07 pm - 2:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Edward L. Ryerson.

[See Conversation No. 256‑29]

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Conversation No. 5‑24

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:09 pm and 2:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 5‑25

Date:  Unknown between June 12 and June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:21 pm, June 12 and 8:35 am, June 13, 1971
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with an unknown man [Edward C. Nixon] [?].

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Conversation No. 5‑26

Date:  Unknown between June 12 and June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:21 pm, June 12 and 8:35 am, June 13, 1971
Location:  White House Telephone

An unknown man [Edward C. Nixon?] talked with the White House operator.

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Conversation No. 5‑27

Date:  Unknown between June 12 and June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:21 pm, June 12 and 8:35 am, June 13, 1971
Location:  White House Telephone

An unknown man talked with Edward C. Nixon.

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Conversation No. 5‑28

Date:  Unknown between June 12 and June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 pm, June 12 and 8:35 am, June 13, 1971
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods
-Location

Conversation No. 5‑29

Date:  Unknown between June 12 and June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 pm, June 12 and 8:35 am, June 13, 1971
Location:  White House Telephone

President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

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THE PRESIDENT CONFERRED WITH AN UNKNOWN PERSON AT AN UNKNOWN TIME.

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-Tricia Nixon Cox=s wedding
‑White House staff
‑Rex Scouten
-Military aides
-White House
-Decoration

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Conversation No. 5‑30

Date:  Unknown between June 12 and June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 pm, June 12 and 8:35 am, June 13, 1971
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the White House operator.

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Conversation No. 5‑31

Date:  Unknown between June 12 and June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 pm, June 12 and 8:35 am, June 13, 1971
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Assistance

Conversation No. 5‑32

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  8:35 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

Ronald L. Ziegler's call to the President

The President talked with Ziegler between 8:35 am and 8:36 am.

Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-United Press International [UPI] and Associated Press [AP] news stories for Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]‑TV news special
‑Frank Reynolds and Virginia Sherwood

Conversation No. 5‑33

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 am and 9:56 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with Ann Davis.

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Conversation No. 5‑34

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 am and 9:56 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the White House operator.

Call to Usher's office

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with Mr. [Forename unknown] Harris [?].

Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] coverage of Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
‑Signal Corps

Conversation No. 5‑35

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 am and 9:56 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Mr. [Forename unknown] Harris [?] talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

Arrangements for viewing of coverage of Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
‑Signal Corps
‑Schedule

Conversation No. 5‑36

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 am and 9:56 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 5‑37

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  9:56 am - 10:03 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] coverage
-Television coverage
‑Lyndon K. (AMort@) Allin's comments about Dan Rather and CBS
‑National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
‑Frank Reynolds and Virginia Sherwood on American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Wire services
-Washington Post article
‑President's conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
‑Judith Martin
-Washington Star's article
-New York Times article
-Washington Post 
-Article
‑Tricia Nixon Cox's demeanor
‑White House functions
‑Martin
‑Carroll Kilpatrick
-Article
-President=s opinion
‑Social events
‑Constance M. Stuart
‑Washington Star
‑New York Daily News
‑Wire service
‑Helen A. Thomas
-Martin

Conversation No. 5‑38

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  10:04 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 5‑39

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  10:05 am - 10:10 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
‑Television coverage
‑American Broadcasting Company [ABC], National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
‑Washington Post coverage
‑President's conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Post's access to White House Telephone news events
‑Television coverage
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

TV coverage of White House Telephone social events

Conversation No. 5‑40

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 am and 10:19 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 5‑41

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  10:19 am - 10:32 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

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Conversation No. 5‑42

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:53 am and 11:06 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to speak with Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 5‑43

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  11:06 am - 11:07 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 256‑31A]

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Conversation No. 5‑44

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:07 am and 11:51 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods for Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo

Conversation No. 5‑45

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:07 am and 11:51 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 256‑31B]

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THE PRESIDENT TALKED WITH WOODS

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Conversation No. 5‑46

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:07 am and 11:53 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 256‑31C]

Asked to speak with Carol (Crothers) Finch

Conversation No. 5‑47

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  11:51 am - 11:53 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Carol (Crothers) Finch.

[See Conversation No. 256‑31D]

White House operator

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Conversation No. 5‑48

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:53 am and 12:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to  Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 5‑49

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  12:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 256‑31E]

Henry A. Kissinger's location

Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s location

Conversation No. 5‑50

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm and 12:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 256‑31F]

Vietnam War
‑Weekly casualty figures
-Pentagon Papers
‑New York Times expose
‑Leak
‑Robert S. McNamara, Clark M. Clifford
‑Administration response
‑Possible time of theft
‑Hatfield‑Mansfield Amendment
‑Reflection on John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Effect

[The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:42 pm]

Conversation No. 5‑51

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm and 12:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 256‑31G]

Call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 5‑52

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  12:42 pm - 12:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower; Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 256‑31H]

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Conversation No. 5‑53

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:43 pm and 12:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 5‑54

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  12:53 pm - 12:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 256‑33]

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Conversation No. 5‑55

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:53 pm and 1:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 5‑56

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:53 pm and 1:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 256‑35]

White House operator

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Conversation No. 5‑57

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:56 pm and 1:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 5‑58

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  1:28 pm - 1:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 256‑37]

White House operator

Greetings

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Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
‑Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon
-White House staff
‑TV coverage

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Vietnam weekly casualties
‑Number
-Missing in action [MIA]
‑No ground combat involving US troops for twenty-four hours
‑Killed in action [KIA]
‑President's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-MIAs

Pentagon Papers leak in New York Times
‑President's conversation with Haig
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Henry Cabot Lodge

‑McGovern‑Hatfield Amendment
-Vietnamese
‑Robert S. McNamara
‑Clark M. Clifford
‑Leak from Pentagon
‑William C. Sullivan
‑Forthcoming meeting with Clifford
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑David K.E. Bruce
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Clifford
‑Rogers= possible response
‑Johnson's opinion
‑Laird's possible response
‑Ziegler's response
‑Press coverage
‑[Forename unknown] White
‑Chalmers Roberts

Conversation No. 5‑59

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  3:09 pm - 3:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 256-39]

Kissinger's itinerary
‑Return to Washington

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Vietnam casualty figures
‑President's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Compilation
-Missing in action [MIA]

Le Duc Tho
‑Travel plans
‑North Vietnamese‑People's Republic of China [PRC] relations

Pentagon Papers‑New York Times news leak
‑Haig's reaction
‑Effect
‑Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Robert S. McNamara
‑North Vietnam
‑"Nixon's war"
‑Administration response
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Leaker of Pentagon Papers

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‑Mitchell and possible criminal action
‑Possible Congressional action
‑Timing
‑Clark M. Clifford
‑Johnson's possible response
‑Effect
‑Public opinion
‑North Vietnam

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New York Times‑Pentagon Papers issue
‑Administration's response
‑Freeman Gosden
‑Reaction
‑John Foster Dulles
‑Administration response

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-New York Times
‑Clifford
‑Actions
‑Joseph McCarthy
‑Treason
‑Security of White House files
‑The President's conversation with Haig
‑William P. Rogers, Melvin R. Laird
-Laos, Cambodia

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Conversation No. 5‑60

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 12:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Asked for Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 5‑61

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  12:16 pm - 12:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Greetings

Woods= schedule

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President=s schedule
‑Meeting with Quadriad
‑Rose Mary Woods= forthcoming call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon
‑Supper with John B. Connally and others
‑Willy Brandt dinner, June 15

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Conversation No. 5‑62

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:16 pm and 2:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑4]

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 5‑63

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  2:41 pm - 2:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 258‑5]

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President=s schedule
-Sequoia
‑Melvin R. Laird and Congressmen

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Conversation No. 5‑64

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 4:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 5‑65

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  4:33 pm - 4:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

President's schedule
‑Railroad‑Union meeting

Flowers for funeral of Lt. Governor J. Sargent Reynolds
‑Linwood Holton

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President's schedule
‑Meeting with [David] Kenneth Rush

Conversation No. 5‑66

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:34 pm and 6:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 519‑16]

Call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 5‑67

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  6:46 pm - 6:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 519‑17A]

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Quadriad
-John B. Connally

Economy
‑Expansion
‑Inflation
‑Arthur F. Burns= figures
‑Budget and monetary policy
‑Wage and labor cost figures
‑US businessmen's lack of confidence in US
‑Burns= opinion
‑Previous meeting of Business Council
‑Impact of increase in output per manhour on labor costs
‑National City Bank report in H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman's office
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Economic condition of Armor division of Greyhound Corporation
‑Shultz's conversation with unknown man
‑Plant‑equipment expenditures in American business
‑Inventory expansion
‑Sales
‑Retail sales (May 1971 figures)
‑McCracken's memo to President
‑Revising of figures
‑Sears, Montgomery Ward, J.C. Penney's
‑Unemployment and expansion of U.S. economy

‑Decline of actual unemployment
‑Seasonal factors in unemployment
‑Armed forces discharges and employment of veterans
‑Wage and price control system
‑Costs
‑Novelty

Conversation No. 5‑68

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:13 pm - 7:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 258‑7]

New York Times and Pentagon Papers
‑Possible legal action by administration
‑John N. Mitchell's calls to Ehrlichman
‑Notice to New York Times
‑Effect on Congressional action
‑Possible prosecution of source for classified documents
‑Possible legal action by government against New York Times
‑Notice to Times
‑Congressional reaction

Conversation No. 5‑69

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:15 pm and 7:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑9]

Call to Attorney General John Mitchell

Conversation No. 5‑70

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:19 pm - 7:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 258‑10]

New York Times publication of Pentagon Papers
‑Possible legal action against the Times
‑Precedents
‑Notice by government
‑Melvin R. Laird's opinion

Henry A. Kissinger joined the conversation at an unknown time after 7:19 pm.

‑Laird's Congressional testimony, June 14
‑Lyndon B. Johnson's opinion
‑Walt W. Rostow's conversation with Kissinger
‑Investigation
‑Vote on McGovern‑Hatfield amendment on Vietnam war
‑Prime suspect Daniel Ellsberg

Conversation No. 5‑71

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:22 pm and 7:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 5‑72

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:37 pm - 7:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 258‑12]

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Conversation No. 5‑73

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:41 pm and 7:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑13]

Call to Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo

Conversation No. 5‑74

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:41 pm and 7:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑14]

Call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 5‑75

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:48 pm - 7:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 258‑15]

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Conversation No. 5‑76

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:52 pm - 7:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo.

[See Conversation No. 258‑16]

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Conversation No. 5‑77

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑17]

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 5‑78

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:56 pm - 7:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

[See Conversation No. 258‑18]

Campaign to get National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] to rerun coverage of Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
‑Charles W. Colson, Jeb S. Magruder
‑Donald McI. Kendall
‑George P. Shultz
‑Mrs. George Meany
‑The Kennedy family
‑Public reaction

Conversation No. 5‑79

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:03 pm and 6:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 261‑2]

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 5‑80

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:03 pm and 6:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 261‑3]

Call to Congressman Gerald R. Ford

Conversation No. 5‑81

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  6:21 pm - 6:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 261‑4]

White House operator

New York Times and Pentagon Papers
‑Support for administration
‑Veterans
‑George Meany
‑Congress
‑Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, papers
‑Integrity of government
‑William P. Rogers= press conference, June 15
‑Contingency planning
‑Chicago Tribune
‑New York Daily News
‑Hearst newspapers
-Television networks
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.'s views
‑Actions
‑Treason

‑Violation of security
‑Public's right to know versus national security
‑Freedom of the press
‑Alger Hiss
‑Congressional opposition

Conversation No. 5‑82

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  6:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 261‑5]

Gerald R. Ford's location

Call to Leslie C. Arends

Conversation No. 5‑83

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  6:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 261‑6]

Leslie C. Arends= location

Conversation No. 5‑84

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:29 pm and 6:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 5‑85

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  6:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 261‑7]

John D. Ehrlichman's location

Call to John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 5‑86

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  6:35 pm - 6:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 261‑8]

Pentagon Papers
‑Administration's response
‑William P. Rogers

‑Meeting among Richard F. Pederson and officials of Departments of Justice and Defense
‑General statement on Pentagon Papers by Rogers
‑Review by White House
‑Anticipated reaction by press
‑New York Times, Washington Post
‑Murray I. Gurfein
‑Thomas E. Dewey

Conversation No. 5‑87

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:38 pm and 6:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 261‑9]

Call to Secretary William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 5‑88

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:38 pm and 6:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Alexander P. Butterfield

Conversation No. 5‑89

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  6:44 pm - 6:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 261‑10]

President's schedule

Pentagon Papers
‑Rogers= press release
‑Foreign governments' concern about integrity of their communications
‑Declassification of Pearl Harbor documents
‑Administration's response

President's schedule
‑Forthcoming meeting with Willy Brandt and Rogers
‑Vietnam

Pentagon Papers
‑Rogers= previous public statement
‑John F. Kennedy‑Lyndon B. Johnson papers
‑Robert S. McNamara
‑Clark M. Clifford
‑George Hurst's conversation with Robert H. Finch
‑Judge Murray I. Gurfein and temporary injunction
‑Thomas E. Dewey

Conversation No. 5‑90

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  6:48 pm - 6:49 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 261‑11]

President's schedule
‑Forthcoming call from Butterfield to John Sherman Cooper
‑Kenneth Keating

Conversation No. 5‑91

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:02 am and 5:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 522‑2A]

Call to Egon Bahr
‑Chancellor Willy Brandt

Conversation No. 5‑92

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:02 am and 5:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with Egon Bahr.

[Conversation partly in German]

[See Conversation No. 522‑2B]

Willy Brandt's toast at White House function, June 15
‑Kissinger's conversation with President
‑Brandt's domestic situation
‑Vietnam remarks

‑Brandt's forthcoming statements to Senate Foreign Relations Committee and press
‑President's reaction
‑Preparation
‑Intent
‑Brandt's possible statements regarding US-West German cooperation

Kissinger's schedule
‑Meeting with [David] Kenneth Rush, Bahr

Conversation No. 5‑93

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:02 am and 5:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 523‑5A]

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 5‑94

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  5:10 pm - 5:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 523‑5B]

Copy of book Witness
‑Alger Hiss hearings

Conversation No. 5‑95

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  7:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Lucy A. Winchester

Conversation No. 5‑96

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  7:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 5‑97

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  7:48 pm - 7:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Pentagon Papers
‑Press coverage
‑Arthur O. Sulzberger
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] and Maxwell D. Taylor
‑Sulzberger
‑Statement
‑Public reaction
‑Press coverage
‑Taylor

‑Howard K. Smith's statement
‑New York Times
‑Administration's response
‑Court testimony
‑Ziegler's conversation with Robert T. Mardian
‑William B. Macomber, Jr.'s forthcoming testimony
‑McGovern‑Hatfield amendment
‑CBS television
‑Robert J. Dole
‑Precedents in handling release of materials
‑Korean War material release
‑Declassification of World War II State Department documents
‑Chicago Sun‑Times
‑Movement of Japanese fleet in World War II
‑Indictment
‑McGovern‑Hatfield amendment

Conversation No. 5‑98

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  7:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon's location

Call to Lucy A. Winchester

Conversation No. 5‑99

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  7:57 pm - 7:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon.

President's call to Lucy A. Winchester

Conversation No. 5‑100

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  7:58 pm - 8:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑25]

Call to John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 5‑101

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  8:22 pm - 8:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

[See Conversation No. 258‑26]

New York Times publication of Pentagon Papers
-Memo regarding grand jury indictment 
‑Ehrlichman 's possible call to John N. Mitchell

‑Legal ramifications
‑Robert T. Mardian
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation of source of Pentagon Papers leak

Conversation No. 5‑102

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:25 pm and 8:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 5‑103

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  8:31 pm - 8:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 258‑28]

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Conversation No. 5‑104

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 pm and 8:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑29]

Call to Lucy A. Winchester

Conversation No. 5‑105

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  8:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 258‑30]

Call to Lucy A. Winchester

Conversation No. 5‑106

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 5‑107

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:13 pm and 1:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 261‑12A]

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Conversation No. 5‑108

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 2:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 261‑13]

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 5‑109

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  2:22 pm - 2:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 261‑14]

Lucien N. Nedzi‑Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
‑Forthcoming vote in House of Representatives

Senate vote, June 17th
‑New York Times story regarding Pentagon Papers
‑Herman E. Talmadge's reaction

Pentagon Papers
‑Press reaction to Times= release
‑President's conversation with John L. McClellan, June 17th
‑Administration's response
-John D. Ehrlichman
‑John F. Kennedy‑Lyndon B. Johnson Pentagon Papers
‑Colson's meeting with Ehrlichman, June 17th
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
‑Clark M. Clifford
‑George Meany's opinion
‑Jay Lovestone
‑Administration's response
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑New York Times discredited for printing Pentagon Papers
‑Disloyalty in government
‑Effect of disclosure
‑New York Times as enemy of administration
‑Administration's response
‑President's forthcoming visit to Rochester
‑Pending court proceedings
-Henry A. Kissinger
‑Ronald W. Reagan's comment regarding New York Times
‑Fidel Castro
‑Editorial reaction across the country
‑Violation of laws

John M. O'Neill
‑Support for the President
‑Appearance with AFace the Nation@ David Frost

Pentagon Papers
‑Impact of story on nation
‑Johnson, Kennedy, Robert S. McNamara
‑Responsibility for US involvement in Vietnam

Conversation No. 5‑110

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  2:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 5‑111

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  5:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the White House operator; the President can be heard in the background.

Call to Charles W. Colson

Haldeman

Conversation No. 5‑112

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:46 pm and 6:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 5‑113

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  6:38 pm - 6:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 261‑16A]

President's schedule
‑Denial of access to unnamed group [newsmen ?] during foreign travel by the President

Pentagon Papers
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Contacts with Bryce N. Harlow
‑Mike Manatos (?)
‑Tom Johnson
‑Johnson's need to defend himself
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Walt W. Rostow's efforts
‑Call from Harlow and Manatos
‑Johnson's need to defend himself
‑President defense of Johnson
‑Harlow's forthcoming call to Johnson
‑Clark M. Clifford
‑Robert S. McNamara
‑McGeorge Bundy
‑Humphrey

‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Dean Rusk
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Comments regarding release by New York Times
‑Administration's response
‑Death of Ngo Dinh Diem
‑Washington Post's possible publication
‑Teamsters' proposal to stop delivering New York Times
‑Possible effect
‑Johnson's necessity to defend himself
‑John B. Connally's comments, June 17th
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's statements
‑Colson's conversation with Harlow
‑President's possible courses of action
‑Harlow's forthcoming call

Conversation No. 5‑114

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:45 pm and 6:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 5‑115

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  6:55 pm - 6:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 261‑18]

Pentagon Papers
‑Ultimatum to Lyndon B. Johnson
‑President's possible defense of Johnson in Rochester, June 18th
‑Johnson's defense of himself
‑Bryce N. Harlow

Conversation No. 5‑116

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:56 pm and 7:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 5‑117

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  7:39 pm - 7:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Pentagon Papers
‑Kissinger's possible call to Walt W. Rostow
‑Need for Lyndon B. Johnson to defend himself
‑President's forthcoming press conference in Rochester
‑Kissinger's call to William J. Jordan and Tom Johnson
‑Need for Johnson to defend himself
‑Defense of Johnson by the President
‑Presidency
‑Administration's response
‑Theft of documents
-Bryce N. Harlow=s report
‑Need for Johnson to defend himself
‑Effect on press

‑Guilt
‑Administration's response
‑Legality versus morality
‑Kissinger's conversation with Jerrold L. Schecter
‑Response of newsmen
‑Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rostow

Conversation No. 5‑118

Date:  June 18, 1971
Time:  8:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Gerald R. Ford

Conversation No. 5‑119

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:00 pm and 8:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Charles W. Colson's call to the President
‑Bryce N. Harlow

President's call to Gerald R. Ford

Conversation No. 5‑120

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  8:10 pm - 8:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Lyndon B. Johnson's location
‑Bryce N. Harlow

Henry A. Kissinger's attempt to call Walt W. Rostow

Conversation No. 5‑121

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  8:21 pm - 8:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gerald R. Ford.

Nixon administration's recent legislative victories
‑Possible effect on North Vietnamese
‑President's possible call to F. Edward Hebert
‑President's bipartisan meeting, June 17, 1971, on drugs and drug traffic
‑Vietnam

H.R.1

New York Times and Pentagon Papers
‑Effect
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Administration's response

Conversation No. 5‑122

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  8:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to F. Edward Hébert

Conversation No. 5‑123

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  8:25 pm - 8:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with F. Edward Hébert.

Administration's legislative victory June 17, 1971
‑Antiballistic missiles [ABM]
‑B‑1 bomber

New York Times and Pentagon Papers
‑Release of classified information
‑Effect on presidency
‑Administration's response
‑President's conversation with John N. Mitchell
‑Daniel Ellsberg

Conversation No. 5‑124

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  8:46 pm - 8:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

Pentagon Papers
‑Kissinger's conversation with Walt W. Rostow
‑Lyndon B. Johnson's possible statement
‑William J. Jordan
‑Kissinger's conversations with Bryce N. Harlow and Charles W. Colson
‑Possible Johnson public statement
‑Effect
‑White House Telephone staff discussion June 18, 1971

Conversation No. 5‑125

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:48 pm and 9:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 5‑126

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  9:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Ronald L. Ziegler's location

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 5‑127

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  9:29 pm - 9:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

Pentagon Papers
‑Night's news
‑President's call to Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Administration's response
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Lyndon B. Johnson's public statement
‑President's conversations with Henry A. Kissinger and Charles W. Colson
‑Administration's response
‑President's forthcoming public statement
‑Form of delivery
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare
‑New York Times
‑Egil ("Bud") Krogh, Jr., and the President's June 17, 1971 statement on drug abuse control
‑Length and content

President's schedule

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President's possible statement on Pentagon Papers

Conversation No. 5‑128

Date:  June 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:48 pm and 10:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the White House operator; the President can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 527‑12A]

Call to Clark MacGregor

Ehrlichman talked with MacGregor

Leslie C. Arends

President's schedule
‑Tendering documents
‑Meeting with Gerald R. Ford
‑Breakfast meeting with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Hugh Scott, Carl B. Albert, Ford, [Thomas] Hale Boggs

Conversation No. 5‑129

Date:  June 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:48 pm and 10:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 5‑130

Date:  June 22, 1971
Time:  10:24 pm - 10:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Story on Vietnam
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Walter Cronkite

H.R.1 statement
‑Vote in House of Representatives

President's conversation with William B. Murphy, June 22, 1971

Patrick J. Buchanan's conversation with Ziegler
‑Atlantic City story

Pentagon Papers
‑Court action
‑National security

British story
‑News coverage
‑Robert J. McCloskey
-Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 5-171

Date:  June 22, 1971
Time:  10:30 pm - 10:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 5‑131

Date:  June 22, 1971
Time:  10:31 pm - 10:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger=s schedule
-Preparation for forthcoming trip

Vietnam War
-President's possible conciliation 
-Michael J. ("Mike") Mansfield
-Pentagon Papers
-Clark M. Clifford
-McGovern‑Hatfield Amendment
-Opponents of President's foreign policy
-Pentagon Papers
-Administrations response
-Effect on negotiations
-Spiro T. Agnew's possible speech
-Kissinger's possible conversation with Patrick J. Buchanan
-Agnew's speech to Young Republicans
-Opponent's of President's Vietnam policy
-Pentagon Papers
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Boston Globe
‑Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.'s statement on the death of Ngo Dinh Diem
‑Henry Cabot Lodge
-Kissinger=s response
‑People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative

Conversation No. 5‑132

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 pm and 9:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 527‑15]

Call to Michael J. ("Mike") Mansfield's secretary

Conversation No. 5‑133

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  9:22 am - 9:25 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Mary Jane Delbalzo.

[See Conversation No. 527‑16B]

President's schedule
‑President's previous conversation with Michael J. ("Mike") Mansfield
‑Trip to Montana
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman's role
‑President's schedule
‑Trip to other western states

Conversation No. 5‑134

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:31 am and 11:03 am
Location:  White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with Carl B. Albert; the President can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 527-16E]

President's previous meeting with Michael J. ("Mike") Mansfield
‑"Report on Vietnam"
‑"Study of Tonkin Gulf Incident"
‑Delivery of documents to Congress
‑Declassification
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Clark MacGregor's call to Albert
‑Mansfield's forthcoming call to Albert
‑Distribution
‑Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
‑Storage

Conversation No. 5‑135

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:31 am and 11:03 am
Location:  White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the White House operator; the President can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 527‑16D]

Call to Clark MacGregor

Ehrlichman talked with an unknown woman at an unknown time after 9:31 am.

MacGregor's location

Ehrlichman talked with MacGregor at an unknown time after 9:31 am.

Delivery of documents to Congress
‑Logistics
‑Ehrlichman's conversation with Carl Albert
‑Conversation between Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and MacGregor
‑President's meeting with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Walter L. Mote conversation with MacGregor
‑Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Gerald R. Ford

‑Mansfield's forthcoming meeting
‑Necessity of contacting Agnew
‑Transmission of documents directly to leadership of Congress
‑Transmission of documents to Mansfield and joint leadership of Congress
‑Call to Agnew

Conversation No. 5‑136

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  11:03 am - 11:04 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon talked with the President; John D. Ehrlichman can be heard in the background.

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Conversation No. 5‑137

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:04 am and 2:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑36]

Asked to speak with F. Edward Hébert

Conversation No. 5‑138

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:04 am and 2:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with President.

[See Conversation No. 258‑37]

F. Edward Hébert's location

Calls to Congressmen
‑Pierre S. DuPont
‑Charles S. Gubser
‑Garry E. Brown

Conversation No. 5‑139

Date:  June 23,1971
Time:  2:39 pm - 2:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with F. Edward Hébert.

[See Conversation No. 258‑38]

Hébert's statement on House‑Senate conference
‑David K.E. Bruce

Melvin R. Laird

Forthcoming House‑Senate conference
‑President's conversation with Ronald Ziegler
‑Leslie C. Arends
‑Alvin E. O'Konski
‑Hébert
‑O. Clark Fisher
-Charles Melvin Price
‑Senators
‑Vietnam negotiations

Pentagon Papers
‑Laird
‑Administration's response

The President conferred with Laird.

‑Possible leak of U.S. papers
‑Possible Congressional action
‑Carl B. Albert
‑Gerald R. Ford

[End of conferral]

Conversation No. 5‑140

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  2:45 pm - 2:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Pierre S. DuPont.

[See Conversation No. 258‑40]

DuPont's favorable speech on behalf of resolution
‑Vietnam hearings

Conversation No. 5‑141

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  2:46 pm - 2:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles S. Gubser.

[See Conversation No. 258‑41]

Gubser's effectiveness on caucus resolution
‑President's conversation with Gerald R. Ford

Gubser's fellow California Congressman [Paul J. McCloskey, Jr.]
‑Gubser's forthcoming speech
‑DeVan L. Shumway
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑Bombing of Laos
‑Actions
‑Copy of speech to President
‑William C. Sullivan
‑Donald W. Riegle, Jr.

Conversation No. 5‑142

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  2:51 pm - 2:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Garry E. Brown.

[See Conversation No. 258‑42A]

Brown's talk before Congress on Lucien N. Nedzi‑Charles W. Whalen, Jr. issue

Vietnam

Conversation No. 5‑143

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:52 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑43]

Call to John C. Stennis

Conversation No. 5‑144

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 258-44]

John C. Stennis= location

Call to Stennis= secretary

Conversation No. 5‑145

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:16 pm - 3:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John C. Stennis.

[See Conversation No. 258‑45]

Stennis= legislative efforts on half of administration efforts in Vietnam
‑Vote 6/22

Pentagon Papers
‑President's conversation with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Stennis= possible role in Select Committee
‑Richard Russell (?)
‑J. William Fulbright

Conversation No. 5‑146

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the  White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑46]

Call to Edward K. (ADuke@) Ellington

Conversation No. 5‑147

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑47]

Call to Undersecretary J. Phillip Campbell

Conversation No. 5‑148

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 258‑48]

J. Phillip Campbell's location

Call to Michael McGreevey

Conversation No. 5‑149

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 258‑49]

Call to William Rinaldi

Edward K. (ADuke@) Ellington's location

Conversation No. 5‑150

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:41 pm - 3:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 258‑51]

Call to Michael McGreevey

The President talked with J. Phillip Campbell.

Campbell's schedule

Campbell's defense of D.C. Police Chief Jerry V. Wilson at Southern Agriculture Secretaries meeting
‑President's and John N. Mitchell's defense of Wilson

Doyle Connors= comments regarding President
‑John C. Whitaker

Conversation No. 5‑151

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:43 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 5‑152

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:48 pm - 3:49 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 258‑53]

Pentagon Papers
‑Defense Department statement
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Release of documents

‑President's recent decision at Key Biscayne
‑Release of documents

National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] TV show on American Medical Association=s [AMA] attitude toward health reform
‑Unknown man's comments at dinner, June 22

Conversation No. 5‑153

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  4:06 pm - 4:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William Rinaldi.

[See Conversation No. 258‑27A]

Rinaldi's letter concerning work with underprivileged children

History
‑President's educational background
‑Importance

Conversation No. 5‑154

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 am and 10:01 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman; the White House operator conferred with another operator in the background.

[See Conversation No. 528‑4A]

Call to Edward K. (ADuke@) Ellington
‑President

The President talked with Ellington between 10:01 am and 10:02 am.

Ellington's forthcoming trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Youth Symphony
‑Leonard Garment
‑Schedule

Ellington's forthcoming trip to USSR

President's anniversary

Conversation No. 5‑155

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  10:33 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 528‑5]

Calls to Wilbur D. Mills, John W. Byrnes and Kenneth R. Cole Jr.

Conversation No. 5‑156

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  10:42 am - 10:44 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Wilbur D. Mills.

[See Conversation No. 528‑6]

Mills= work on H.R.1
‑Vote counts
‑Gerald R. Ford

President's possible help with H.R.1 in Senate
‑Russell B. Long
‑Wallace F. Bennett

Senate legislative strategy for H.R.1
‑Timing of hearings
‑Long's statements
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, Carl B. Albert
-Welfare
‑Guaranteed annual wage
‑Work requirements

Governor Ronald W. Reagan's views on welfare
‑Mills= possible speech to California legislature on welfare

Office of President
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson's and Mills= ability on foreign policy

Pentagon Papers
‑Lyndon B. Johnson and disloyalty of former subordinates
‑Daniel Ellsberg
‑Robert S. McNamara
‑Joseph McCarthy
‑Johnson‑John F. Kennedy involvement
‑Need to protect security of secret government documents
‑President's conversation with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Security classification
‑Alger Hiss case
‑Turning over of documents to Mansfield and Albert
‑F. Edward Hébert
‑Mills= forthcoming trip to New Haven, Connecticut
‑Congressman Robert N. Giaimo
‑Anticipated press conference
‑Administration's response
‑Rule of law

H.R.1

Revenue sharing
‑President's conversation with George P. Shultz
‑Mills= proposal
‑President's forthcoming conversation with Richard J. Daley
‑President's conversation with Shultz and John B. Connally, June 23
‑John W. Byrnes

President's schedule
‑Indiana, Illinois
‑Recent trips to Oklahoma, Atlantic City

Patriotism in America

President's possible role in legislation
‑H.R.1
‑Shultz, Connally
‑Revenue sharing

Conversation No. 5‑157

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  10:45 am - 10:47 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John W. Byrnes.

[See Conversation No. 528‑8]

President's schedule
‑Byrnes

Byrnes= and Wilbur D. Mills= legislative support

H.R.1
‑Guaranteed annual income
‑President's previous conversation with Mills
‑Provisions
‑Russell B. Long

Conversation No. 5‑158

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  10:58 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 528‑9]

Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.=s location

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President=s schedule
-Upcoming filming of President=s Honor America Day speech

Message for Cole

Conversation No. 5‑159

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:09 pm and 7:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 5‑160

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  7:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s location

Conversation No. 5‑161

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:11 pm and 7:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 5‑162

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:44 pm and 8:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 529‑12]

Call to William F. (ABilly@) Graham

Conversation No. 5‑163

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:44 pm and 8:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Henry A. Kissinger

Call to William F. (ABilly@) Graham

Kissinger talked with the President between 8:13 and 8:14 pm.

Kissinger's schedule
‑President

Conversation No. 5‑164

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:21 am and 11:46 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 529‑22]

Asked for Donald G. Brotzman

Conversation No. 5‑165

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  11:46 am - 11:47 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Donald G. Brotzman.

[See Conversation No. 529‑23A]

Brotzman's birthday
‑President's conversation with Clark MacGregor

Brotzman's golf game
‑Greenbriar golf course
‑Louise Brotzman
‑Sam Snead

Revenue sharing program bill
‑John B. Connally

Conversation No. 5‑166

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:47 am and 11:50 am
Location:  White House Telephone

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 529‑23C]

Call to Peter M. Flanigan

Conversation No. 5‑167

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  11:50 am - 11:51 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan; H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 529‑23D]

John S.D. Eisenhower
‑Successor
‑Retirement
‑New York Times article
‑Haldeman
‑Timing of announcement

Diplomatic assignments
‑Role of State Department and William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 5‑168

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:51 am and 11:55 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 529‑23E]

Call to Jack H. McDonald of Michigan

Conversation No. 5‑169

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  11:55 am - 11:56 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked Jack H. McDonald.

[See Conversation No. 529-23F]

Greetings

McDonald's birthday

Donald G. Brotzman's birthday

Conversation No. 5‑170

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:51 am and 1:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 529‑23G]

Call to John B. Connally

Connally's situation

Note to Connally

Haldeman conferred with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time after 11:51 am.

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Haldeman talked with Connally at an unknown time after 11:51 am.

President's conduct at meeting June 28
‑Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
‑Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
‑Melvin R. Laird, William P. Rogers