Conversation No. 496‑1

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:00 am and 12:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons met.

[UNINTELLIGIBLE]

The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm

Conversation No. 496‑2

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:00 am and 12:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons met.

[UNINTELLIGIBLE]

The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm

Conversation No. 496‑3

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:00 am and 12:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons met.

[UNINTELLIGIBLE]

The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm

Conversation No. 496‑4

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:00 am and 12:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person

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[Non‑historical]
[Duration:  3m 1s  ]

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The unknown man [Secret Service agent] left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm.

Conversation No. 496‑5

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  12:46 pm ‑ 12:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman

[Unintelligible]

Schedule
‑President's breakfast meeting, May 10, 1971
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑A position
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Agriculture

‑Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑Ford
‑Position

Ehrlichman left at 12:48 pm

Conversation No. 496‑6

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:48 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Time

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:57 pm

Conversation No. 496‑7

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:48 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen Bull

Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:57 pm

Conversation No. 496‑8

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:48 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

A delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:57 pm

Conversation No. 496‑9

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  12:57 pm ‑ 1:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Institute of world politics, Moscow
‑Kissinger's meeting with Director

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] position
-Proposal
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

A message

Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑Dobrynin
‑Hanoi
‑Le Duan
‑USSR, People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Xuan Thuy

SALT
‑Dobrynin
‑US instructions

Vietnam
‑President's meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Timing

SALT
‑USSR
-Politburo

Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑Congress
‑Howard K. Smith
‑Possible proposal by President to Congress
‑Dobrynin
‑US position
‑Draft
‑Meeting with Thieu

SALT
‑USSR

Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑President's meeting with Thieu
‑Congress
‑Cooper‑Church Amendment, McGovern-Hatfield amendment
‑Effect
‑Negotiations
‑David K. E. Bruce
‑Possible deadline
‑President's meeting with Thieu
-Deadline
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Congress
‑Briefings
‑Kissinger
‑Haig
‑Agriculture representatives, May 7, 1971
‑Kissinger

‑Meeting with Ronald W. Reagan, May 8, 1971
‑President's April 7, 1971 Speech
‑President's April 7, 1971 Speech
‑President's policies
‑Public opinion

SALT
‑USSR
‑@Doves and Hawks@
‑USSR
‑Berlin
‑D[avid] Kenneth Rush, Kissinger, William P. Rogers, USSR ambassador
-US position
-Instructions to Rush
‑PRC
‑Possible speech by President
‑Proposal
-@National command@
‑Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑USSR
‑Schedule
‑@Doves@
‑USSR position
‑Dobrynin
‑Berlin
‑Possible public opinion
‑Sino‑Soviet relations
‑Rogers= Statement
‑Possible effect
‑Kissinger's conversation with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑President's statement
‑Dobrynin

Vietnam
‑US role
‑Thieu
‑Le Duan
‑Moscow
‑President's meeting with Thieu
‑Midway
‑Date
‑PRC

‑US role
-Vietnamization
‑Troop withdrawals
‑Casualties
-Numbers for week
‑Senate
‑Frank F. Church's statements
‑Administration
‑SALT, Summit
‑Negotiations
‑US offer
‑Dates
‑Thieu
‑POWs
-North Vietnamese position
‑Bombing
‑Negotiations
‑Timing
‑Xuan Thuy, Kissinger
‑US offer
‑North Vietnamese Response

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

‑Demonstrations
‑Press coverage

USSR

PRC initiative
-Kissinger forthcoming trip

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[National Security]
[Duration:  22s  ]

PAKISTAN

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-Meeting arrangements

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[National Security]
[Duration:  14s  ]

PAKISTAN

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‑USSR
‑Pakistan
‑US ambassador Joseph S. Farland
‑Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
-Idea of ASpecial Emissary@
‑USSR
‑Possible trip

‑Arrangements
-@Special Emissary@
‑Bruce
‑Robert D. Murphy

Vietnam
‑Demonstrations
‑President's policy
‑President's critics

USSR, PRC
‑Meeting
‑Arrangements

SALT

Kissinger left at 1:30 pm

Conversation No. 496‑10

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

President=s schedule
-Delivery of item to the President

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:35 pm

Conversation No. 496‑11

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  2:35 pm ‑ 2:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods

President's schedule
‑Previous trip to Gateway National Park

[Forename unknown] Griffin

‑Capitol Hill work
‑Health
‑A previous visit to Oval Office
‑Frank M. Blair
‑Future visit to Oval Office

Candy
‑Gifts
‑A letter
‑Delivery

Glen Campbell

Gifts
‑White House press event entertainers
‑Arte Johnson, Jane Taylor, Nashville Brass
‑A trip by President
‑Gift case

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 32s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Possible business award
-Number
‑Business community
-Possible categories
-Hiring Vietnam veterans
‑Ecology

‑Hiring the handicapped
‑Peter M. Flanigan, John C. Whitaker
‑Business community

Correspondence

Oval Office renovation
‑Redesign
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s view
‑Windows, curtains

Correspondence
‑Former members of Congress organization
‑A pin
‑Cost

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  38s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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[Pause]

‑An item for the President's attention
‑Harold Lee
‑Disposition of research on Nixon
‑Nixon Library

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  11s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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President's schedule
‑Items to sign
‑Books
‑An event in the residence
‑Rex W. Scouten
‑A dinner
‑Family compared with public areas

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  51s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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Oval Office renovation
‑Objective
‑Windows, view
‑Lyndon B. Johnson's office

Nixon White House interior
-Compared with Johnson White House
-West wing lobby
-Staff offices
-Residence

Patrick J. Buchanan and Shelley A. Scarney wedding
‑Nixon family appearance
‑Buchanan family

Woods left at 2:39 pm

Conversation No. 496‑12

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  2:40 pm ‑ 3:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  48s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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[Transcript #1:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

President's schedule
‑Plans for radio speeches
‑President's review
‑Possible forthcoming press conference
‑Patrick J. Buchanan's schedule
‑Possible radio speech

‑Senior Citizens Week
‑A Florida event
‑Possible radio speech
‑Demonstrations

Cancer program
‑Congress
‑Announcement
‑Responsibility
‑National Institutes of Health [NIH], President
‑Announcement
‑President
‑Elliot L. Richardson

Agency briefings
‑President's role
‑Role of Richardson and others
‑President's role
‑Press

Henry A. Kissinger's briefing
‑Press

Press briefings
‑John A. Scali, Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Length

Demonstrations
‑William L. Safire

[Transcript #2:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

President's conversation with Kissinger

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-President=s trip
-Plans
‑Kissinger

-Soviet interests
‑William P. Rogers
‑A Reply

Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑Le Duan
‑Moscow
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Kissinger
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Prospects

Berlin negotiations

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Initiative
‑Kissinger

Vietnam
‑US combat role
‑Negotiations
-Nguyen van Thieu
‑Kissinger
-Timing
-US position
‑Le Duan

PRC initiative

Rogers

President's schedule
‑Republican congressmen
‑Meeting with Rogers
‑Press photo coverage
‑Republican congressmen
‑Possible breakfast
‑William M. Colmer's luncheon, May 11, 1971
‑Leslie C. Arends
‑Gerald R. Ford

‑Number
‑Timing of President's meeting
‑Colmer luncheon
‑Carl B. Albert
‑Possible breakfast
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Rogers= trip report
‑Maurice H. Stans's trip report
‑Rogers' trip report
‑An East Room event
‑Meetings with Congressmen
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑John A. Volpe
‑Cabinet meeting
-Staff meetings
‑An event
‑Scali, Safire
‑Possible speech by President[?]
‑Theme
‑Lyndon B. Johnson Library dedication
‑William F. (ABilly@) Graham
‑Florida or Washington departure
‑Graham's schedule
‑North Carolina
‑Possible flight plans

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm

President=s schedule
‑President's signature
-Photographs
‑Rose Mary Woods
‑Secretaries
‑Woods

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm

President's schedule
-Johnson Library dedication
‑Graham's schedule
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑President's departure from Florida

‑Presidential plane
‑Graham's[?] schedule
‑Florida
‑Florida

George P. Shultz's schedule
‑May 10, 1971 staff dinner
‑Return from a trip
‑Lunch with Fortune magazine staff

President=s schedule
-Upcoming meeting with Ehrlichman

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 12s  ]

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Public opinion
‑President's policies
‑California
‑Kissinger's report
‑Washington
‑Compared with Johnson's "Great Society"
‑Johnson Library opening publicity
‑"Great Society"
‑Revenue sharing, welfare reform, government reorganization, environmental reform
‑"New American Revolution"
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr., Safire
‑Public relations
‑Accomplishments
‑Population issue, Urban Affairs Council, food programs
‑A slogan
‑Law and order theme

‑Washington, D.C. demonstrations
‑Ziegler
‑Wilson
‑Effectiveness
‑Ziegler
‑Wilson's statement

Haldeman left at 3:08 pm

Conversation No. 496‑13

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  3:08 pm ‑ 4:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman, Kathleen O'Melia, Ann Broomell, and Tara O'Donahue;  the White House photographer was present.

Introductions

Future plans

Photo arrangements

Weather

Telephone

President's memos

An unknown girl's trip to Europe

Gifts
‑Books
‑President's signature

O'Melia, Broomell, and O'Donahue, and the White House photographer  left at an unknown time before 3:10 pm

President's schedule
‑[Unintelligible]

Congress
‑Clark MacGregor
‑John W. Byrnes
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

George P. Shultz entered at 3:10 pm

President's schedule
‑Gateway East
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller

Congress
‑Byrnes
‑Wilbur D. Mills

President's schedule
‑Railroad presidents' meeting
‑Timing
‑Deregulation proposals
‑Notification of [name unintelligible]

Revenue sharing
‑Possible actions by Mills
‑Agnew's trip to Tennessee
‑Nashville Banner
‑Editorial position
‑Mills' speech
‑Forthcoming report by a Tennessee legislator
‑Associated Press story
‑Congressional vote
‑Possible actions
‑Agnew

Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑MacGregor
‑Warren G. Magnuson and Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
‑Roles

MacGregor

Washington, D.C. demonstrations
‑News magazines
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:10 pm

President's schedule
‑MacGregor

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:15 pm

Washington, D.C. demonstrations
‑News magazines
‑President's standing abroad
‑Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld's report
‑Ride with Shultz from Andrews Air Force Base [AFB]

MacGregor entered at 3:15 pm

Revenue sharing
‑Mills' speech
‑President's February 4, 1971 report to Congress
‑MacGregor's meeting with Byrnes
‑Committee jurisdictions
‑Byrnes' previous meeting with Shultz
‑Byrnes' position
‑Public announcement
‑Mills
‑Public statement
‑Need
-Tax effort [?]
‑Dollar formula
-Criteria

Environment [?]
‑Conservation Federation
‑MacGregor=s meeting with an unknown man

SST
‑Kenneth E. BeLieu and MacGregor
‑Meeting with Magnuson and staff
‑Jackson
‑Calls

‑Jack Horner[?]
‑Magnuson's position
‑White House position
‑Jackson's position
‑Magnuson and staff
‑House, Senate action
‑Effect
‑House and Senate conference committee
‑House vote
‑Vote changes
‑James A. Burke of Massachusetts
‑Richards H. Poff
‑Health
‑[Name unintelligible]
‑Call from Shultz
‑Message from President
‑Lockheed
‑George Meany
‑White House effort

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Mills, May 11, 1971
‑William M. Colmer
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Senators
‑Possible postponement of a meeting
‑Meeting with Mills
‑Time
‑SST vote
‑Breakfast meeting, May 10, 1971
‑Attendants
‑John B. Connally
- Ford, Byrnes
‑Carl Albert

Connally
‑Schedule, May 24 and May 25, 1971
‑Possible appearance before committee on revenue sharing
‑Considerations
‑Mills
‑Schedule
‑European meeting
‑May 25, 1971

Revenue sharing
‑Mills
‑Future meeting with Shultz
‑Position
‑Agnew
‑Shultz's meeting
‑Ford
‑Mills' possible action
‑White House response
‑Richard B. Ogilvie and Rockefeller
‑General revenue sharing
‑Welfare
‑Mills
‑Edwin L. Harper, Jim Cannon
‑Purpose
‑Benefits for states and cities
‑Mills
‑Shultz's meeting
‑Time
‑A 4:00 meeting with [name(s) unintelligible]
‑Agnew meeting
‑Rockefeller,  Ogilvie
‑Agnew
‑Ehrlichman and Harper
‑Rockefeller
‑Mills
‑Purpose
‑Federalization of welfare

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm

President's schedule
‑Meeting with William P. Rogers
‑Press and photo coverage

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:28 pm

Revenue sharing
‑Mills' May 10, 1971 speech
‑Wire service reports
‑Phrasing
‑Mills
‑Shultz's forthcoming meeting

‑Time
‑Hearings on H. R. 1
‑Breakfast
‑Byrnes
‑Shultz's meeting
‑A statement

Ziegler entered at 3:28 pm

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Rogers
‑Press and photo coverage

Revenue sharing
‑Agnew
‑Meeting with Ehrlichman and Shultz

Ehrlichman, Shultz, and MacGregor left at 3:30 pm

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Rogers
‑Press and photo coverage
‑Wire services
‑Future meetings

Rogers entered at 3:00 pm

Rogers' reports

Rogers' appearance

Photo arrangements

Ziegler left at 3:30 pm

Middle East
‑Joseph J. Sisco
‑Egypt

Ziegler and photographers entered at an unknown time after 3:30 pm

[Camera noise]

An unknown man

Ziegler and photographers left at an unknown time before 3:38 pm.

Rogers' Trip
‑Itinerary and schedule
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Berlin
‑Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO] meeting in London
‑Thailand, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Pakistan, US
‑Purpose

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[Duration:  15s  ]

SEATO

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‑Thailand
‑President's policies in Vietnam
‑Thanom Kittikachorn[?]
‑Reports from Thailand
‑A PCC [?] Meeting
‑Rogers' position
‑International court of justice at the Hague
‑Rogers= discussion with Thanom

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration:  32s  ]

THAILAND

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‑SEATO meeting
‑Dinner with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle
‑Princess Anne, Prince Phillip
‑Dinner at Hampton Court
‑Sir Alec Douglas‑Home
‑Edward R.G. Heath

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration:  5s  ]

UNITED KINGDOM

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Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch's Trip to Europe
‑Report on support for President
‑George P. Shultz

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:38 pm

Cabinet meeting, May 11, 1971
‑Possible report by Rogers
‑Report on desalinization
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
‑Length
‑President's attendance
‑Report by Rogers
‑President's attendance
‑Meeting on SST
‑Report on desalinization

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:41 pm.

Butterfield left at 3:42 pm.

Rogers' trip
‑British television appearance
‑British Broadcasting Company [BBC]
‑Walter H. Annenberg's letter
‑News accounts
‑Annenberg's call to President in Palm Springs
‑SEATO meeting
‑Queen Elizabeth's dinner
‑Rogers' position
‑Central Treaty Organization [CENTO] meeting
‑Turkey and Iran
‑US position
‑Turkey, Iran, United Kingdom, Pakistan, and US
‑Pakistan and India
‑Home
‑Support for President's policies on communism
-Turkey
‑New Turkish Government

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  8s  ]

TURKEY

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‑New Turkish leader, Nihat Erim
‑Actions, Reforms
‑Drug exports from Turkey
‑US policy
‑Work with US ambassador
‑Statements to press
‑US policy
-Rogers= view
-Congressional support
-Support for US
‑Saudi Arabia

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[National Security]
[Duration:  5m 2s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

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‑Jordan
‑King Hussein ibn Talal
‑Fedayeen
‑Reception for Rogers
‑Palestinians
‑Hussein
‑Dinner, drive
‑Crown
‑Tour with Rogers, Prince and Sisco
‑Jordan River Valley
-Dead Sea
‑Tour with Hussein
‑Christ's Baptismal Site
‑A Canal
‑Water irrigation

Cabinet meeting, May 11, 1971
‑Desalinization
‑David
‑President's cancer program
‑Breeder reactor
‑David [?]
‑Cost

Middle East
‑Water
‑Compared with the Imperial Valley of California
‑Jordan
‑King Hussein
‑Position on peace negotiations
‑Trip with Rogers to Golan Heights
‑Jordan River Valley
‑Battles
-1970 War
‑1946 War
‑Israeli Tanks
‑Refugee Camps

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 20s  ]

JORDAN, LEBANON

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-Lebanon
‑Rogers= departure from Beirut
‑Press coverage
‑Tour with Lebanese President

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 20s  ]

LEBANON

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-Lebanon
‑Equipment
‑Rogers' drive in Beirut
‑Public opinion
‑Egypt
‑Aswan Dam
‑Security

‑Beirut
‑Public opinion
‑Rogers' actions
‑Arabs, Israelis
‑Mrs. Gamal Abdel Nasser
‑Secretary and Adele Rogers' visit
‑Press coverage
‑Abdul Mohammad Hijazi [?]
‑El Aram
‑Foreign Minister's wife (Mrs. Mahmoud Riad)
‑Alexandria
‑Effect of Rogers' visit
‑Anwar El Sadat
‑Jihan Sadat
‑Conversation with Rogers
‑USSR, US
-Relations with the West
-Pro-Arab stance
‑Peace with Israel
-Aharon Yariv [?]
-United Nations
-US
-Improving relations with US
-Suez
-Settlement
-Sudan
-Possible improvement
-Libya
-Mammar Qaddaffi=s view
-Egyptian military
‑Suez Canal
‑Israel
‑Egyptian troop positions
‑Observer force
‑USSR presence
-Costs
‑Diplomatic relations with the US
‑Sadat
-Commitment to peace
-Military position

Ziegler entered at 4:15 pm.

‑Ziegler's briefing on Rogers= trip and report to President
-Language
-Points

Ziegler left at 4:17 pm.

‑Egypt
‑Sadat
‑Position
‑Israel
-Withdrawal from the Suez Canal
‑Compared with Nasser
‑Settlement on the Suez
-Reconciliation with Israel
‑Relations with US
‑Peace initiatives
‑US, Israel
‑Possible settlement
‑Sisco
‑Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad
‑Suez Canal
-Press reports
‑US role
‑Residence
‑Nasser
‑Rogers' request of Foreign Ministers to See Mrs. Nasser
‑Position
‑Israel
‑Rogers' meetings with Cabinet and Knesset
-Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense
‑Government position
‑US position

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[National Security]
[Duration:  12s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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‑US position, President's position
‑Other nations
‑US position
‑Attendees
‑Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Yatzhak Rabin
-Abba Eban
‑Dayan and Moshe Baram[?]
‑David Ben‑Gurion
‑Meeting with Rogers
‑US position
‑Press coverage
‑US, French, Scandinavian, and Canadian Newspapers 
-London Times
‑Mrs. Meir
‑Dayan
‑Mrs. Meir
‑Meeting with Rogers
-Past speeches
‑UN, Sadat
‑Dayan
‑Call to Sisco

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:17 pm.

President's meeting with M. M. Ahmed and Agha Hilaly of Pakistan

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:53 pm.

Middle East
‑Rogers= trip to Gulf of Aqaba
‑General [Name Unintelligible]
‑Dayan and Sisco meeting
‑Sadat
‑Holy places
‑Rogers= second meeting with Israeli cabinet
‑Mrs. Meir
‑Egyptians, Sadat
-Ceasefire
-Timing
‑Suez
‑Possible UN agreement
‑Dayan and Baram [?]
‑Knesset and Mrs. Meir
‑Knesset meeting
‑Speeches
‑Mrs. Meir
‑Military assistance
-F-4 Phantoms
‑World opinion
-Speech by Pope Paul VI
‑Robert Schumann meeting
‑Photo coverage

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 52s  ]

JERUSALEM

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Middle East
‑Egypt

‑Population growth since 1967
‑Possible settlement
‑Sharm‑el‑sheik
‑UN force
-Neutral nation participation
‑Sadat=s view
‑Arab/Egyptian presence
‑Israeli role
‑Sharm‑el‑sheik
‑Military installations
‑Mrs. Meir

Vietnam
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Rogers= statement
‑Response
‑Further action
‑Geneva convention
-President=s proposal
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑South Vietnam

Middle East
-Timetable for settlement
‑Federation of Egypt, Libya, Syria
‑Sadat

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[National Security]
[Duration:  12s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11

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Winston S. Churchill
‑President's 1958 meeting
‑Ghana and Guinea federation

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[National Security]
[Duration:  11s  ]

UNITED KINGDOM

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Middle East
‑Possible settlement
‑Israel
‑Rogers' reception in Tel Aviv
‑People
-Success
‑Arabs

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MIDDLE EAST

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‑Possible UN settlement
‑Timing
‑Yariv[?]
‑Jerusalem
‑Pope Paul
‑Refugees
‑Pope
‑Yariv[?]
‑Jordan
‑Secretary and Mrs. Rogers' trip
‑Current situation
‑UN
‑George H.W. Bush
‑Tokyo, Ethiopia
‑George W. Ball
‑Work
‑Rogers' trip

ASalute to Agriculture@ exhibit on South Lawn
‑Cow and pig

President's schedule

An unknown person's work

Rogers and Kissinger left at 4:53 pm

Conversation No. 496‑14

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  4:54 pm ‑ 5:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with M.M. Ahmed, Agha Hilaly, and Harold H. (AHal@) Saunders

Seating arrangements

Pakistan
-East Pakistan
-Civil disturbances

-US sympathy
-US position
-Situation
-Solution
-Talk of partition
-UN General Assembly
-Economic policy
-Awami league
-Leadership
-Pakistani reaction
-Constitutional justification
-Awami league
-Resolution
-Request for US support

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 4:54 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.

Pakistan
‑East Pakistan
-Population
‑Food program
‑US role
‑Army
‑International organizations
‑UN

-East Pakistan=s economy
-Food assistance
-Effect of conflict on delivery

Ahmed's schedule in US
‑[Name(s) Unintelligible]
-Secretary of Agriculture [Clifford M. Hardin]
‑William P. Rogers
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Press
‑Agencies

Pakistan
‑Press coverage
‑Relations with US
‑President, Rogers
‑Civil disturbances
‑US position
‑Congress, Senate
-Economic assistance
‑Agency for International Development [Aid]
‑World Bank
‑A consortium
‑Economic development
‑Germany, Italy, Japan, Great Britain, US
-World Bank
-Timing
‑Possible future
‑Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
‑[Unintelligible]
‑Constitution
‑Elections
‑Economy
‑Indira Ghandi [?]
‑Influences in West Bengal
‑Problems
‑New leaders in East Pakistan
‑Bhutto
‑East Pakistan, West Pakistan
-Proportional representation in new parliament
‑Bhutto
‑President's interest
‑Finances
‑World Bank
‑Europeans
‑Germany and Great Britain
‑Sir Alec Douglas‑Home
‑AID
‑Monetary problems worldwide
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin[?]
‑Douglas‑Home
-Edward R.G. Heath
‑US
-Position of leadership
‑Rogers[?]

‑Central Treaty Organization [CENTO] meeting
‑A discussion with [Name Unintelligible]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:54 pm.

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.

Pakistan
-World Bank
-Policy
-US support
‑New leader

Ahmed, et al., left at 5:25 pm

Conversation No. 496‑15

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  5:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑John D. Ehrlichman
-Delivery of a report

Bull left at 5:25 pm

Conversation No. 496‑16

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 5:25 pm until 6:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

William P. Rogers
		‑President's previous meeting
‑Relations with Henry A. Kissinger
‑President's meetings
‑Rogers' meetings
‑Rogers' report on trip
‑Kissinger's presence

Middle East
‑Kissinger=s view

Vietnam
‑Nguyen Van Thieu

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 5:28 pm

Revenue sharing
‑Ehrlichman's conversation with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Wilbur D. Mills
‑1972 election
‑President=s view
‑White House strategy regarding revenue sharing
‑Warren E. Hearnes
‑George P. Shultz
-Upcoming conversation with Mills
‑Hearnes
‑Ehrlichman's conversation with Agnew
‑Gerald R. Ford

Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Upcoming vote
‑William M. Allen
‑Boeing Corporation
‑Contract costs
‑Current financial situation
‑Cost
‑Ford
‑Talk with Ehrlichman
‑Allen
‑Business Council meeting
‑Call from Warren G. (AMaggie@) Magnuson
‑Conversation with Ehrlichman
‑Bob Murphy of Boeing's Washington, D.C. office

‑William M. Magruder
‑Boeing
‑Contracts
‑Purpose
‑Jobs
‑Japan
‑North American Rockwell Corporation in Southern California
‑Boeing
‑Lockheed Corporation
‑Boeing
‑General Dynamics Corporation

Economy
‑Seattle
-Recovery
‑Boeing
‑Employment level
‑Groceries, rent, real estate
-Labor force
‑Future
‑Southern California
‑Compared with Seattle
‑Seattle
‑Community efforts
‑Area
‑Compared with California
‑New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana
‑Houston, Texas
‑Climate
‑Seattle and Southern California
‑Government subsidies to attract new industries
‑Monday night staff meetings
‑Ehrlichman, Shultz, Kissinger, and Haldeman
‑Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
‑Location

Middle East
‑Kissinger and Rogers
‑May 10, 1971 meeting
‑Israel
‑US policy
‑Suez
‑Rogers

‑Israel
‑Kissinger
‑Editorial writers and columnists
‑Israel, Vietnam
‑Joseph W. Alsop
‑Joseph C. Kraft
‑Vietnam
‑Jews
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑US policy
‑Israel
‑Arabs
‑Great Britain
‑France
‑Italy
‑Visits to Israel
‑Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑John B. Connally
‑Israel
‑Rogers
-May 10, 1971 meeting with the President
‑Kissinger
‑Israeli requests for assistance
‑Suez

Kissinger
‑Israel
‑Vietnam
‑USSR/US relations
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]

Rogers
‑Role
‑State Department

Kissinger

Rogers
‑Reception in Middle East
‑Statements on London
‑PRC/USSR relations
‑Report to President, Haldeman
‑Compared with Connally

Middle East
‑Kissinger
‑Jacob K. Javits
‑Golda Meir
‑Jewish attitude toward Israel
‑Admiral Lewis L. Strauss
‑Arthur Goldberg
‑Appointment to United Nations [UN] by Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Compared with Irish attitude toward Northern Ireland
‑Meetings

SST
‑Boeing
‑Magruder
‑Allen

Ehrlichman's schedule

Ehrlichman left at 5:45 pm

President's schedule
-Rogers
‑Future meetings with President
‑Kissinger's presence
‑National Security Council meetings
‑May 10, 1971 meeting with President
‑Kissinger's presence
‑President's schedule
‑Stephen B. Bull
‑Previous meeting with John N. Mitchell
‑Staff presence
‑George W. Romney, John A. Volpe, and Maurice H. Stans meetings
‑Ehrlichman, John C. Whitaker
‑Mitchell
‑Connally
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Rogers
‑Kissinger's presence
‑Connally
‑Mitchell

Middle East
‑May 10, 1971 staff meeting

‑Kissinger, Rogers
‑Israel
‑Kissinger
‑President's policy
-Military aid
‑Political considerations
-Support for Israel
‑Taft Schreiber, Theodore E. Cummings, Bernard (ABunny@) Lasker, Max M. Fisher
‑Writers
‑Edmund S. Muskie supporters
‑Support for Israel
‑Public Opinion

Staff schedules
‑Kissinger's trip
‑Florida trip
‑Frequency and length of vacations
‑White House staff
‑Florida
‑High‑level staff
‑President
‑Camp David
‑Work
‑Florida
‑Work
‑Kissinger, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman
‑Frequency
‑Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
‑Kissinger=s schedule
‑Office and social schedules
‑Vacations
‑Length
-Timing
‑Haldeman's
‑Length
‑Florida, the Bahamas
‑Home
‑Camp David
‑Ehrlichman
‑Time with families
‑Kissinger

‑Camp David use
‑President
‑Ehrlichman
‑Facilities
‑President
‑Cabinet
‑Staff

Press
‑Rogers
‑Press and photo coverage of President's meeting
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Wire services, press pool
‑Cabinet and other groups
‑Press and photo coverage
‑President's relationship
‑Press conferences
‑Social events
‑President's trips
‑Coverage
‑Florida trip
‑President's relations
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑Gridiron Dinner
‑President's role
‑White House Correspondents Association Dinner
‑Program
‑President's role
‑Photos with entertainers
‑Handshaking
‑American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers [ASCAP]
‑Past and future dinners
‑Gridiron Dinner, White House Correspondents dinner
‑Haldeman's attendance
‑Speeches
‑Haldeman's role
‑Compared with businessmen's dinner
‑Possible meetings with candidates of press organizations
‑President's relations
‑Ziegler
‑Press conferences
‑Ziegler and Klein
‑Press events

‑Roles
‑Compared with Kissinger and ambassadors
‑Zielger's work
‑"Credibility gap"
‑Johnson's press statements
‑Budget
‑White House Correspondents Association dinner
‑President's relations
‑Possible column
‑Charles W. Colson
‑An event
‑Press dinners
‑President's attendance at Gridiron, White House Correspondents, and White House photographers dinners
‑Photos of President
‑Awards
‑A television segment

Vietnam
‑Public opinion on Washington, D.C. demonstrations
‑May 10, 1971 staff meeting
‑Figures
‑Kissinger
‑Public opinion
‑Compared with World War II
‑Tanks in Africa
-Storming of beachheads
-Marines capturing Pacific Islands
‑Fighting force
‑Military
‑Social class
-@Gulf complex@
‑Current situation
‑President=s May 10, 1971 meeting with Kissinger
‑USSR, PRC
-Peace settlement

Monday night staff meetings
‑Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Shultz
‑Peter G. Peterson

President's schedule
-Weather

-Trip to Camp David
‑Golf game with Rogers
‑Timing

Gallup
‑Laos operation
‑Timing

Rose Mary Woods entered at 6:09 pm

President's schedule
‑Golf game with Rogers
‑Call
‑Time
‑Dr. W. Kenneth Riland

[The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 6:09 pm and 6:11 pm]

[Conversation No. 496‑16A]

SST
‑Boeing
‑Ford, George Meany

[End of telephone conversation]

Correspondence[?]

A new item

Call to Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Ms. Woods left at 6:11 pm

Rogers

Cabinet
‑Rogers
-Possible conversation with Haldeman

PRC initiative
‑Kissinger
‑Pakistan
‑Kissinger

Vietnam
‑Negotiations with North Vietnamese

USSR
-Answer on summit

PRC

Rogers
‑Statements in London

USSR
-Evaluation of US political scene

PRC initiative
-USSR knowledge

[The President talked with Woods between 6:14 and 6:15 pm]

[Conversation No. 496‑16B]

[See Conversation No. 2‑137]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler[?]

Haldeman left at 6:15 pm

Conversation No. 496‑19

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  6:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President's schedule

The President and Sanchez left at 6:15 pm.

Conversation No. 496‑17

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:15 pm and 7:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Secret Service  agents met.

President=s location

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[Duration:  4s  ]

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President=s location

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 7:47 pm

Conversation No. 496‑18

Date:  May 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:47 pm and 8:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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[Duration:  23s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The President and Mrs. Eisenhower left at 8:04 pm