Conversation No. 258-1

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  1:44 pm - 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

[Unintelligible]

Butterfield left at 1:45 pm

Conversation No. 258-2

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:41 pm

Conversation No. 258-3

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:41 pm

Conversation No. 258-4

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-62]

Conversation No. 258-5

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  2:41 pm - 2:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Rose Mary Woods talked with President

[See Conversation No. 5-63]

Conversation No. 258-6

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 2:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[The President talked with Haig at an unknown time between 2:45 pm and 2:58 pm]

William P. Rogers
-Reaction to Soviet Union

Vietnam
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Drugs
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Thieu
-Need for discussions
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew role
-Ellsworth F. Bunker role
-Message to Kissinger
-Visit to Vietnam
-Outcome
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers role

Conversation No. 258-7

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:13 pm - 7:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 5-68]

Conversation No. 258-8

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:15 pm and 7:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger=s schedule
-Kissinger=s discussion with [David] Kenneth Rush
-Meeting with John B. Connally

Vietnam negotiations
-The President=s conversation with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger=s conversation with Haig
-Ellsworth F. Bunker=s role in negotiations
-William P. Rogers
-Vietnamese domestic politics
-Bunker=s role

Pentagon Papers issue
-Role of administration personnel
-John N. Mitchell role
-New York Times story
-Action against the New York Times

Request for Kissinger=s presence

President=s forthcoming call to Mitchell

Conversation No. 258-9

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:15 pm and 7:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-69]

Conversation No. 258-10

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:19 pm and 7:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John N. Mitchell

[Conversation No. 258-10A]

[See Conversation No. 5-70]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 7:19 pm and talked with Mitchell

[End of telephone conversation]

Mitchell

Pentagon Papers
-Prosecution of the New York Times
-Criticism of President=s action
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Effect on negotiations
-Meeting of the President and Congressional leaders
-Attitudes
-Gerald R. Ford
-Leslie C. Arends
-Incentive to Hanoi
-Upcoming projects

-North Vietnamese incentives
-South Vietnamese elections

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PEOPLE=S REPUBLIC OF CHINA [PRC]

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US-Soviet relations
-William P. Rogers
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Soviet rhetoric
-Party elections
-Substance
-Theory versus practice
-Aleksei N. Kosygin line
-Nikolai V. Podgorny and Leonid I. Brezhnev line

Vietnam negotiations
-Meeting between the President, Kissinger, and Ellsworth F. Bunker

Kissinger=s Asia trip
-Previous meeting with Lakshmi Kant Jha
-Kissinger=s comments
-Press coverage
-Effect
-Rogers= role
-Delhi, India
-Pakistan

-Other stops
-Saigon
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Bangkok
-Cambodia
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Democratic response
-Relation to Soviet relations
-Role of PRC Aissue@
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Role of ASoviet@ issue compared with Vietnam
-Clearance of communique versions
-President=s schedule
-Kissinger=s schedule
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Chinese
-Price for normalization of relations
-Bureaucratic problems
-Communication with Thieu
-State Department compared with the White House
-India-Pakistan; Laos, Cambodia

Meeting between the President, Bunker, and Kissinger

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 7:37 pm

Conversation No. 258-12

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:37 pm - 7:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 5-72]

Conversation No. 258-13

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:41 pm and 7:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-73]

Conversation No. 258-14

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:41 pm and 7:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-74]

Conversation No. 258-15

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:48 pm - 7:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox

[See Conversation No. 5-75]

Conversation No. 258-16

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:52 pm - 7:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 5-76]

Conversation No. 258-17

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-77]

Conversation No. 258-18

Date:  June 14, 1971
Time:  7:56 pm - 7:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 5-78]

Conversation No. 258-19

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 pm and 8:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:22 pm

Conversation No. 258-20

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 pm and 8:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:22 pm

Conversation No. 258-21

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 pm and 8:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:22 pm

Conversation No. 258-22

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 pm and 8:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated letters

Letter to Leonard H. Goldenson, President of American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Appreciation for wedding coverage
-Charles W. Colson
-White House staff

Letter to William S. Paley, chairman of Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Appreciation for wedding coverage
-Colson
-New York Times

Conversation No. 258-23

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 pm and 8:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule
-Rose Mary Woods
-Joseph Taylor

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:22 pm

Conversation No. 258-24

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 pm and 8:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:22 pm

Conversation No. 258-25

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 pm and 8:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-100]

Conversation No. 258-26

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  8:22 pm - 8:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman

[See Conversation No. 5-101]

Conversation No. 258-28

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  8:31 pm - 8:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods

[See Conversation No. 5-103]

Conversation No. 258-29

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 pm and 8:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-104]

Conversation No. 258-30

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  8:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 5-105]

Conversation No. 258-31

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:55 pm and 9:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown person talked with the President

Request for meeting with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman [?]

Conversation No. 258-32

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  9:29 pm - 9:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Content of evening news
-Ronald L. Ziegler

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Charles W. Colson

President=s forthcoming statement
-Presentation
-Drug announcement
-Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.=s views
-Content

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President=s previous meeting with an unknown person

President=s forthcoming statement
-Presentation

Conversation No. 258-33

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:35 pm and 9:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown before 9:39 pm

Conversation No. 258-34

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:35 pm and 9:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

ASenior Citizens@ message
-Length
-Previous White House meeting
-Property tax
-Revenue sharing
-Relation to drugs

Conversation No. 258-35

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:35 pm and 9:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

ASenior Citizens@ message
-Changes in speech draft
-Property tax
-Length

Conversation No. 258-36

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:54 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-137]

Conversation No. 258-37

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:54 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 5-138]

Conversation No. 258-38

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  2:39 pm - 2:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with F. Edward Hébert

[See Conversation No. 5-139]

Conversation No. 258-39

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  2:45 pm - 2:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.=s request

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:45 pm and 2:46 pm]

[Conversation No. 258-39A]

Haig=s location

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:45 pm and 2:46 pm]

[Conversation No. 258-39B]

Haig=s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Butterfield left at 2:46 pm

Conversation No. 258-40

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  2:45 pm - 2:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Pierre S. DuPont

[See Conversation No. 5-140]

Conversation No. 258-41

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  2:46 pm - 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles S. Gubser

[See Conversation No. 5-141]

Conversation No. 258-42

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  2:48 pm - 3:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig=s schedule

[The President talked with Garry E. Brown between 2:51 pm and 2:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 258-42A]

[See Conversation No. 5-142]

[End of telephone conversation]

Middle East
-Cable to Cairo
-Department of State
-Dr. Mahmoun Fawzi
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Expectations
-Effect on diplomatic process
-US course of action
-National Security Council [NSC] role
-Need for time
-Interim solutions
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Pentagon Papers
-Effect on critics
-Lyndon B. Johnson

Vietnam
-Laos
-Role of casualties
-Effect of action in Laos

-Haig call to Kissinger
-Break off of negotiations
-Handling of press

Haig left at 3:04 pm

Conversation No. 258-43

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-143]

Conversation No. 258-44

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 5-144]

Conversation No. 258-45

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:16 pm - 3:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John C. Stennis

[See Conversation No. 5-145]

Conversation No. 258-46

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-146]

Conversation No. 258-47

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:19 pm and 3:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-147]

Conversation No. 258-48

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-148]

Conversation No. 258-49

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-149]

Conversation No. 258-50

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:36 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter

Changes in previously dictated letter to R. Anthony Eden [Earl of Avon]

Conversation No. 258-51

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:43 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with J. Philip Campbell 

[See Conversation No. 5-150]

Conversation No. 258-52

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:43 pm 3:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman?]

President=s schedule

Conversation No. 258-53

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  3:48 pm - 3:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler

[See Conversation No. 5-152]

Conversation No. 258-11

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:49 pm and 4:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Schedule
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm

Conversation No. 258-27

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  4:00 pm - 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman, Bryce N. Harlow, and Harry S. Dent

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[The President talked with William Rinaldi between 4:06 pm and 4:08 pm]

[Conversation No. 258-27A]

[See Conversation No. 5-153]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rinaldi
-Health

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Pentagon Papers
-Unknown man
-Peace groups
-Lyndon B. Johnson

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Polls
-Problems in the South
-Quote from Tennessee
-Popularity of busing
-Edward L. Morgan=s effort on busing
-Busing
-Breakdown
-Black attitudes
-Effect of President=s policies
-Exodus from cities
-Columbia, South Carolina
-Move to suburbs
-Possible effect on Washington, DC
-Racial problems
-Busing
-Technical problems
-Response of people
-Birmingham [Alabama]
-Atlantic City [New Jersey]
-Rochester [New York]
-Patriotism

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Pentagon Papers
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Conduct compared to Chappaquiddick
-Robert S. McNamara
-McGeorge Bundy
-Joint Chiefs of Staff
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Humphrey

Use of issues
-Peace
-US honor
-Bombing pause
-1968
-Vietnam situation
-Conservative issues
-People=s Republic of China [PRC] policy
-Department of State
-Great Britain
-Rhodesia
-Sanctions
-Strategy
-Attack on Democrats
-Conversation with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Xuan Thuy
-Clark M. Clifford statements
-Vietnam peace terms

Pentagon Papers
-Democratic infighting
-Past Democratic actions

-John F. Kennedy
-Dean Rusk
-McNamara

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Patriotism
-Democrats
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Washington Post
-Press coverage

World situation
-Danger
-Soviet Union
-PRC

Use of patriotism as an issue
-Response of people
-Rioters
-Youth
-AHardhats@

Use of television
-Speech by the President
-Strategy
-Public reaction

President=s meeting with National Association of Broadcasters
-Procedures
-Attendance
-Presentation

-Press conference
-Gifts
-For wives

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 5:01 pm]

[Conversation No. 258-27B]

Gifts

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s schedule

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Vietnam War
-President=s critics
-Past mistakes
-Republicans
-Charles R. Percy

Pentagon Papers
-Security systems
-Editorial board of New York Times
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Newspapers
-Popularity

			-Thievery
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew=s upcoming speech
-Mansfield letters
-Release to media

Recording ends while the conversation is in progress, at an unknown time before 5:01 pm

The President, et al. left at 5:01 pm