Conversation No. 260‑1

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:05 pm and 9:47 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:47 pm.

Conversation No. 260‑2

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:05 pm and 9:47 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Request for item

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:47 pm.

Conversation No. 260‑3

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:02 pm and 4:08 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:08 pm.

Conversation No. 260‑4

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:02 pm and 4:08 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑90]

Conversation No. 260‑5

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  4:08 pm ‑ 4:12 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 6‑91; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 260‑6

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:12 pm and 4:14 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Schedule
‑National Archives event
‑Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon, Tricia and Edward R.F. Cox

Conversation No. 260‑7

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:12 pm and 4:14 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑92]

Conversation No. 260‑8

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  4:14 pm ‑ 4:22 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 6‑93; one item has been withdrawn]

Conversation No. 260‑9

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  4:23 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑94]

Conversation No. 260‑10

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  4:23 pm ‑ 4:25 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 6‑95]

Conversation No. 260‑11

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:25 pm and 4:27 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑96]

Conversation No. 260‑12

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  4:27 pm ‑ 4:29 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 6‑97]

Conversation No. 260‑13

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:29 pm and 5:24 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President dictated a speech.

[A transcript of the final presentation of this July 3, 1971 speech ARemarks of the President, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, and Speaker of the House Carl Albert at a Ceremony opening the American Revolution Bicentennial Era@ appears in Public Papers of the President 1971, pp. 793‑798.]

Conversation No. 260‑14

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:29 pm and 5:24 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑98]

Conversation No. 260‑15

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  5:24 pm ‑ 5:25 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 6‑99]

Conversation No. 260‑16

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  5:25 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Dictabelt for Rose Mary Woods

Sanchez left at 5:25 pm.

Conversation No. 260‑17

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  5:25 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑100]

Conversation No. 260‑18

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  5:26 pm ‑ 5:33 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with John K. Andrews, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 6‑101]

Conversation No. 260‑19

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:33 pm and 4:39 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

Speech draft
‑The President's forthcoming meeting with Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 260‑20

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:33 pm and 5:39 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑102]

Conversation No. 260‑21

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  5:39 pm ‑ 6:29 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

[Conversation No. 260‑21A]

[See Conversation No. 6‑103; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 5:40 pm.

Pentagon Papers case
-Security
‑Department of Defense
-Rand Corporation
‑Brookings Institute
‑Security clearances
‑Rescission
‑Declassification

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 5:43 pm.

‑July 2, 1971 article by the Wall Street Journal
‑Court decision
-Washington Post and the New York Times
‑The First Amendment
‑Criminal liability

-Justice Byron R. White
‑Justice Hugo L. Black
-Opinion
‑First Amendment
‑US prisoners of war [POWs]
‑Daniel L. Schorr report
‑Washington Post
‑Transcript
‑Potter Stewart
‑[Unintelligible name]
‑Request of documents
-Implications of documents= release
‑Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] agents
‑Possible action
‑Declassification and document protection
-Ehrlichman=s role
‑Conspiracy investigation
‑Daniel Ellsberg's press conference

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and 5:49 pm]

[Conversation No. 260‑21B]

[See Conversation No. 6‑104]

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Investigation by the House of Representatives
‑Congressman Richard S. Ichord
‑Possible political plans
‑Witnesses
‑Morton H. Halperin, Leslie H. Gelb
‑Clark M. Clifford
‑Background preparation
‑Hiss investigation
‑Executive branch investigation
‑J. Edgar Hoover
‑Call from Melvin R. Laird

The White House operator talked with the President at 5:49 pm.

[Conversation No. 260‑21C]

[See Conversation No. 6‑105]

[End of telephone conversation]

‑House investigation
‑Call to Congressman Gerald R. Ford
‑Possibility of Ichord investigation
‑Senate investigation
‑Senator John L. McClellan
‑Possible objection by John N. Mitchell

White House staff assignments
‑Lawyers
‑Edward L. Morgan
‑Types of cases handled
‑Assignment

Funding and appropriations
‑Congress
‑Leonard Garment, Elliot L. Richardson
‑Congressman Roman C. Pucinski
‑Support for the President's programs
‑$l.5 billion funding
‑Busing
‑Education of inner city children
-Ehrlichman=s upcoming lunch with Pucinski
‑George P. Shultz, Garment
‑Use of funds
‑Busing
‑Teacher salaries, school buildings

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Department of Labor
‑Philadelphia jobs plan
‑Hardhats
‑Peter J. Brennan's 1970 meeting
‑Arthur A. Fletcher's comments
‑Union members
‑Blacks, whites
‑New York membership in construction trades

Fletcher
‑Domestic Council
‑Assignment to special project on economic discrimination
‑James D. Hodgson

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Fletcher
‑Assignments for the Administration
‑Appearances before Black groups
‑Speech topics
‑Building trades
‑Minority business goals
‑Welfare reform
‑Revenue sharing
‑School integration
‑Number of speaking engagements
‑Hodgson, Brennan

Pentagon Papers
‑Participants
‑Vietnam negotiations
‑Conduct of the war

‑Protection of lives
-Conspiracy investigation
‑Proper handling
‑Possible White House operation contrasted with outside operation
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Other operations
‑Colson‑Ehrlichman cooperation
‑Congress
‑The press
‑Programming of columnists
‑[Unintelligible name]
‑Denver congressman
‑Congress
‑The Hiss case
‑Ichord
‑Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Ford
‑Laird
‑Warren E. Hearnes
‑Unnamed Admiral, unnamed General
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
‑Military investigative unit
‑Staffing
-Ehrlichman
‑Morgan
‑John F. Evans, Jr.
‑Former Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] employee described by Colson [E. Howard Hunt, Jr.?]
‑Richard V. Allen
‑Possible role
‑Colson

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‑First Amendment protection
‑Call to Ehrlichman from Allen
‑Recommendation
‑Television
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe

[The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 5:49 pm and 6:10 pm]

[Conversation No. 260‑21D]

Speech draft
‑John K. Andrews, Jr.
‑Copy distribution
‑Time

[End of telephone conversation]

Pentagon Papers
-Conspiracy investigation
‑Unknown man
‑John G. Tower, Strom Thurmond
-Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Morgan
‑Congressman
‑Need for committee backing
‑Ichord

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:49 pm and 6:10 pm]

[Conversation No. 260‑21E]

[See Conversation No. 6‑106]

[End of telephone conversation]

Unemployment figures
‑Statistical aberration, Bureau of Labor Statistics

The President talked with William E. Timmons between 6:10 pm and 6:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 260‑21F]

[See Conversation No. 6‑107]

[End of telephone conversation]

Pentagon Papers
-Conspiracy investigation
‑House Internal Security Committee
‑Members
-John Birch Society
‑John N. Ashbrook, Fletcher S. Thompson, John G. Schmitz, Roger Zion
‑White House action
‑Committee counsel Donald G. Sanders
-Timmons
‑Special Counsel
‑Chance for statements about national security by Internal Security committee members
‑Investigation into duplication of the Pentagon Papers
‑Call from Defense Department staff member to Ehrlichman
‑Approach by Congressional committee
‑Coordination
‑Colson
‑FBI
‑Mitchell
‑Morgan
‑Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
-Declassification of documents
‑William H. Rehnquist
-Allen
‑Need for understanding of subjects
‑Cuban Missile Crisis
‑The Bay of Pigs invasion
‑Lebanon crisis
‑The U‑2 incident
‑Bi‑partisan aspect of topics
‑Mechanics of declassification

The President's and First Family's schedule
‑Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox
‑The President's July 3, 1971 speech at the National Archives
‑John Brown anecdote
‑William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr. drafts
‑Pace of reading speech

Cyclamates
‑Indemnification issue
‑Mitchell's recommendation
‑Administration position against pesticides indemnifications
‑Non‑precedential nature of decision

Construction project
‑Nathaniel A. Owings
-Department of Interior
‑Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's proposed contract

Rose Mary Woods entered at 6:20 pm.

The President's July 3, 1971 speech draft
-Length
‑Inclusion of anecdote at end of speech

Woods left at 6:24 pm.

The President's July 3, 1971 speech
-Andrews= draft
-Wording
-Anecdote
‑Pace of reading speech
‑Chief Justice Warren E. Burger's speech on the Bill of Rights
‑Length
‑Speaker of the House
‑Speech on the Constitution

Conspiracy investigation

Ehrlichman and Haldeman left at 6:29 pm.

Conversation No. 620‑22

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:29 pm and 6:31 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call request

Conversation No. 620‑23

Date:  July 2, l971
Time:  6:31 pm ‑ 6:32 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

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Conversation No. 260‑24

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:32 pm and 6:36 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑108]

Conversation No. 260‑25

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  6:35 pm ‑ 6:47 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Rose Mary Woods.

[Unintelligible]

The President talked with John K. Andrews, Jr. between 6:36 pm and 6:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 260‑25A]

[See Conversation No. 6‑109]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

Butterfield and Woods left at 6:47 pm.

Conversation No. 260‑26

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:50 pm and 9:20 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person (Rose Mary Woods?).

Schedule
‑Unknown person's, the President's

Conversation No. 260‑27

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:50 pm and 9:20 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man [John K. Andrews, Jr.?].

The President's forthcoming speech at the National Archives
-Lengths
‑Drafts
‑Wording

This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 9:20 pm.

Conversation No. 260‑28

Date:  July 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:26 pm and 8:38 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Conversation No. 260‑29

Date:  July 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:26 pm and 8:38 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑148]

Conversation No. 260‑30

Date:  July 5, 1971
Time:  8:38 pm ‑ 8:41 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Congresswoman Florence P. Dwyer.

[See Conversation No. 6‑149]

Conversation No. 260‑31

Date:  July 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:41 pm and 8:45 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑150]

Conversation No. 260‑32

Date:  July 5, 1971
Time:  8:45 pm ‑ 8:48 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Congressman James Harvey.

[See Conversation No. 6‑151]

Conversation No. 260‑33

Date:  July 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:48 pm and 9:08 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑152]

Conversation No. 260‑34

Date:  July 5, 1971
Time:  9:08 pm ‑ 9:13 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 6‑153]