Conversation No. 501‑1

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  8:52 am - 8:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 3‑63]

Conversation No. 501‑2

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:52 am and 8:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:53 am.

Conversation No. 501‑3

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  8:55 am ‑ 9:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
‑Kissinger=s previous meeting with Gerard C. Smith
‑Draft statement
‑March proposal
‑Instructions for Smith
‑Schedule
-Smith=s questions
‑Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]
‑Kissinger's backgrounder
‑William P. Rogers
‑Drafted statement for President
-Kissinger=s contributions
‑President's schedule
‑Meeting with American Red Cross
‑Statement for President
-Wording

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:55 am.

Rogers

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:05 am.

SALT negotiations
‑Announcement
‑President's statement
-Future of negotiations
‑Kissinger's backgrounder
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑President's statement
-President=s position in negotiations
-Kissinger=s draft statement
‑Schedule
-Leaks
‑Congressional support

‑Columnists
‑Richard (ADick@) Wilson, William F. Buckley, and William S. White
‑Kissinger's schedule, President's schedule
‑Charles W. Colson

Kissinger left at 9:05 am.

Conversation No. 501‑4

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  9:05 am ‑ 10:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers.

Weather

President's trip on the Sequoia, May 18, 1971

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am.

An item to be copied

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

President's trip on the Sequoia, May 18, 1971

Middle East
‑A Newsweek article
‑An unidentified Columbia University professor
‑President's meeting with Landrum Bolling
‑Quakers
‑US policy
‑Negotiations
‑Anwar el-Sadat
‑Rogers= view
-Orientation to the West
‑Military situation
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Meeting with Rogers

-Joseph P. Sisco
‑State Department
-Importance of peace agreement
‑USSR military assistance
-Costs
-Suez Canal
-Effect of Suez Canal agreement
-US support of Israel
-Effect of USSR presence
‑Sisco
‑USSR withdrawal
‑Possible agreement
‑Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud [Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia]
‑Visit to US

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am.

Bolling's letter
‑Copy
‑Israel

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

Middle East
‑An article in Newsweek
‑Author
‑Sadat
‑President's May 18, 1971 meeting with Congressional leaders
‑U. Alexis Johnson
‑Editor of Al‑ahram, Mohammed Heikal
‑Relationship with Sadat
‑Rogers= tour

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am.

Copied items

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

Middle East
‑Sadat
‑Meeting with Rogers
‑Heikal
‑Relationship with Sadat
‑Wife
‑Sadat
‑Meeting with Rogers
-Settlements
‑Suez Canal
-Economic assistance
‑US policy
‑Egypt, Arab Countries, Jews
‑Potential for breakthrough
‑Compared with Vietnam
‑European response
‑Rogers= trip
‑France
‑Robert Schumann
‑Sadat
‑Meeting with Rogers

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-ISRAEL

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‑Israel
‑Rogers= trip
‑Reception

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ISRAEL

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‑Economy
‑Immigration
‑US aid
‑A Newsweek article
‑1972 election
‑American Jews
‑Support for President's policies
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑President's policies

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ISRAEL

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‑US policy
‑Public opinion
-USSR
‑Rogers= mail
‑Quakers
‑Work with Jews in peace causes
‑Rogers= trip
‑Gulf of Aqaba
‑Sharm El‑sheik
‑Miami Beach
‑Agriculture
‑US policy

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MIDDLE EAST

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-Golda Meir
‑Meeting with Rogers
‑Cabinet
‑Sadat
‑Sisco meeting
‑Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi's schedule
‑Fawzi
‑Faisal's visit

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:05 am and 9:45 am]

[Conversation No. 501‑4a]

Return call from H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman[?]

[End of telephone conversation]

Middle East
‑Faisal's visit
‑State Dinner
‑US relations with Egypt
‑Rogers= meeting with Sadat
‑Sudan, Algeria, Syria
‑Sudanese
-Egyptians

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑President's statement in San Clemente
‑A Message to Vienna
‑US position
‑Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
-Offensive weapons
‑Response to US proposal
‑Timing
-Substance
‑Leonid I. Brezhnev
‑Agreement

[Haldeman talked with the President between 9:45 am and 9:46 am]

[Conversation No. 501‑4B]

[See Conversation No. 3‑64]

[End of telephone conversation]

SALT
‑Agreement
‑Public statement, letter
-Wording
‑ABM
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Provisions
‑ABM
‑Public statement, letter
-Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]

‑President's schedule
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Instructions
‑Provisions
‑Congress
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, Edmund S. Muskie
‑Possible Leaks
‑[Lyndon B.] [?] Johnson
‑ABM
‑Prospects
‑ABM
‑Charles H. Percy
‑Provisions
‑Interpretations
-Differences
‑Schedule
‑Meeting with Congressional leaders
‑Televised announcement
‑Timing
-Smith
‑Brezhnev
‑Pierre E. Trudeau's visit to USSR
‑ABM
‑J. William Fulbright
‑Future
‑Announcement
‑Middle East negotiations
‑USSR
‑Cabinet and National Security Council
‑Timing

Sadat

Israel

Rogers left at 10:14 am.

Conversation No. 501‑5

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:14 am and 10:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Request for an item

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:22 am.

Conversation No. 501‑6

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:14 am and 10:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:22 am.

Conversation No. 501‑7

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  10:22 am ‑ 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

[Unintelligible]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:22 am.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.

[Unintelligible]

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Vienna

Kissinger entered at 10:24 am.

‑Kissinger=s meeting with Gerard C. Smith
-Smith=s response
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
‑President's meeting with William P. Rogers
-Smith=s response
‑Rogers= response
-President=s view
‑Smith's schedule
‑Briefings and backgrounders
‑Photo session with President and delegation
‑Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
‑Announcement
‑Cabinet
‑Possible leaks
‑Kissinger's briefing for John B. Connally, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, and Elliot L. Richardson
‑Congressional leaders
‑Cabinet
‑Coverage of meeting

‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Congressional leaders
‑Cabinet
‑USSR
‑Coverage of meeting
‑Timing
‑Cabinet
‑Congressional leaders
‑Location
‑Cabinet
‑Length of meeting
‑Congressional leaders
‑Kissinger's backgrounders for media
‑J. William Fulbright
‑Length
‑Smith
‑Democrats
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑President's note
‑John A. Scali
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Critics
-Supporters
‑Richard Wilson, William F. Buckley, William S. White
‑Stewart J.O. and Joseph W. Alsop

Foreign policy
‑Rogers= trip to Middle East
‑Coverage
‑Haldeman's call to Rogers in London
‑Berlin
‑People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
‑Vietnam
‑Middle East
‑Rogers= trip
‑Israel
‑Suez Canal
‑State Department
‑Golda Meir
‑Rogers
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑Rogers

‑SALT
‑Kissinger's briefing
‑President's role
‑Smith's role
‑Kissinger's role
‑State Department role
‑U. Alexis Johnson
-Attendance at SALT announcement, May 20
‑Smith
‑Possible meeting with Rogers
‑State Department
-Rogers
‑Agreement
‑Smith
‑Vladimir S. Semenov
‑President's meeting with Rogers
‑USSR reaction
-Brezhnev
-PRC initiative
‑Rogers
-Knowledge
-State Department 
-ACDA
‑Smith
‑Meeting with Rogers
‑Rogers
‑Kissinger
‑Haldeman's call
‑Meeting with President
‑Dobrynin
‑A phone call from Haldeman
‑Forthcoming meeting
‑Dobrynin
‑Rogers
‑Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
‑Response
‑Kissinger's role
-Dobrynin
‑Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
‑Middle East
‑Rogers= trip
‑Reports
-Kissinger=s view

‑Joseph J. Sisco
‑Egypt
‑Reports
‑Kissinger's reports
‑Rogers= work
‑Laos, Cambodia
‑SALT
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑State and Defense Departments
‑Recent developments
‑Rogers= trip
-Results
‑USSR
‑Announcement
‑Rogers
-Efforts
‑Vietnam
‑SALT
‑Laird
‑Meetings with President and Kissinger
‑Smith and delegation
‑Meetings with Kissinger
‑Reception

Kissinger left at 10:53 am.

‑Congressional leaders
‑Rogers
‑Kissinger's and President's roles
‑Rogers
‑Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
‑Reports to President
‑Middle East
‑Kissinger
‑Middle East
‑Meeting with President
‑Possible Summit
‑SALT
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑Kissinger's role
‑May 18, 1971 Sequoia Cruise
-Conversations with Haldeman
‑Rogers= role

‑President's press conference
-Rogers= trip and television appearances
‑Kissinger's role
-Backgrounder
‑SALT
‑Kissinger's backgrounders
‑Defense and State Departments
-White House
‑USSR
‑Rogers
‑Role in SALT
‑Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
‑Agreement
‑President's role
-Message from San Clemente
‑Rogers= meeting with Haldeman
‑Middle East
‑Suez
‑Rogers= and Kissinger's roles
‑USSR
-Method of negotiation
‑John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Rogers
‑Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman

[Unintelligible]

The President and Haldeman left at 11:04 am.

Conversation No. 501‑8

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:04 am and 11:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

President=s schedule

The President and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:07 am.

Conversation No. 501-31

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:56 am and 12:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

President=s schedule
-An unknown item

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑9

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  12:00 pm ‑ 12:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[Unintelligible]

President's schedule
‑Meetings with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] delegation

Butterfield left at 12:02 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑10

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:02 pm and 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Rose Mary Woods= schedule [?]

[End of conversation]

Conversation No. 501‑11

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:02 pm and 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

A request

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 12:07 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑12

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  12:07 pm ‑ 12:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Greetings

Weather

White House entertainment and social affairs
-Entertainers at White House dinners
‑Stephen B. Bull
-Unknown entertainer
‑Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope
‑Richard (ARed@) Skeleton
‑Pearl M. Bailey
‑John Wayne
‑Unknown entertainer
-Support for the President
-Visits to the White House

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Julie Nixon Eisenhower
‑Trip to Greece, Corfu, Majorca
‑Accommodations

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An unknown man
‑Health
‑A letter from President

Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon
‑Cabinet wives' luncheon

Woods
‑An honorary degree from Pfeiffer College
‑A luncheon
‑Woods= speech
‑Commencement speaker
‑A rabbi from Springfield, Massachusetts
‑Speech
‑Work as Indiana prison chaplain
‑Letter from Raymond K.  Price, Jr.
‑Milton and Emily Rose
‑Woods= speech
-Service with the President
‑Woods= television speech
‑Woods= television interview
‑Terence Cardinal Cooke
‑Demonstrators
‑Washington, DC demonstrators
‑President's position
‑Interviewer's response
‑Charlotte, North Carolina
‑President's previous trip to Pfeiffer College in 1965
‑Milton Rose
-President=s previous visit to [Forename unknown] Babcock=s home
‑A trustee's recollection
‑Woods= Charlotte, North Carolina television interview
‑Distribution
‑Trip
‑Commencement events
‑Weather
‑Comments to Woods regarding support for President

Joe [Surname unknown]
‑Speech at policeman's event in Winston‑Salem, North Carolina
‑Support for President

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William P. Rogers

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:24 pm.

Woods
‑Honorary degree form Pfeiffer College

J. William Fulbright
‑Visit to Soviet Embassy

Woods left at 12:24 pm.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Agreement
‑Language of text
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Changes
-Process of amendment

[H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the President between 12:24 pm and 12:25 pm]

[Conversation No. 501‑12A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑65]

[End of telephone conversation]

SALT talks
‑US relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Dobrynin
‑Wheat and grain

‑A British computer
‑U. Alexis Johnson
‑Meeting with Dobrynin
‑Soviet Jews
‑Timing
‑Kissinger=s schedule

Melvin R. Laird
‑Memo on Vietnamese defense mechanization
-Special Research Group [SRG]
‑Possible effect
-Possible leak
‑Meeting with Kissinger

Kissinger left at 12:28 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑13

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:28 pm and 12:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:30 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑14

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  12:30 pm ‑ 1:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑William P. Rogers
‑Meeting with Haldeman
‑Role in negotiations
-Notification
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Meeting with President
‑Rogers= statement in London
‑Role in negotiations
-Reaction
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Henry A. Kissinger and President
-Assurances
‑Timing of talks
‑Rogers= trip
‑President's message from San Clemente
‑Rogers= knowledge
‑Call to Haldeman
‑Role
‑Kissinger
‑News magazines and background columns
-Effect
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
‑Response
‑Kissinger
‑Forthcoming briefings
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Rogers
‑Agreement
-President=s knowledge
‑Rogers= knowledge
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Meetings with Kissinger and Rogers
‑Background
‑Rogers= call to Haldeman
‑Rogers= testimony on Capitol Hill
‑Kissinger's and President's roles

Middle East
‑Rogers= reports to the White House
-Rogers= view
‑Kissinger
‑President

SALT agreement
‑Background
‑Haldeman's meeting with Rogers
‑President's goals
-Success
‑Rogers= role
‑Haldeman's knowledge
‑Kissinger's meetings with Dobrynin
-Rogers= questions
‑Possible forthcoming meeting of President with Kissinger
‑Rogers= role

Foreign policy
‑Paris peace negotiations
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Kissinger
‑Rogers= future and role
‑Middle East negotiations
‑Rogers
-Prospects for success
‑Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Jews
‑Rogers= role
‑PRC
‑Kissinger, Rogers
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
‑SALT
‑Rogers= role
‑Rogers' meeting with Haldeman
-President

[The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time after 12:30 pm]

[Conversation No. 501-14a]

Request to come to the meeting

[End of conversation]

Foreign policy
-SALT agreement
-Notification of Rogers

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.

Foreign policy
‑Rogers= role
‑Relations with President, Kissinger
‑State Department

Kissinger entered at 12:43 pm.

‑SALT
‑Rogers
-Notification of agreement
-State Department bureaucracy
‑Smith
‑Meeting with President
‑Meeting with Kissinger
‑Meeting with Rogers
‑Rogers= role
‑Rogers
‑SALT
‑Administration position

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.

‑Kissinger's backgrounders
‑Smith, Rogers
‑Rogers= NATO meeting

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:03 pm.

‑Rogers
-Promises to be informed
‑Position
‑Reception in Middle East
‑Position
-Smith
‑Laird
-Backgrounder strategy
‑SALT

‑President's initiative
‑Rogers= role
‑Meetings with President
‑Smith
‑President's actions
‑San Clemente
‑Smith
‑Meeting with Kissinger, May 19, 1971
‑Relations with Rogers
‑Roles of Laird, Rogers, and Smith
-Knowledge of agreement
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑John A. Scali
‑Rogers= meeting with Haldeman
‑President's role
‑Rogers= role
-Smith=s role
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
‑President's role
‑Rogers= call to Haldeman
-Need for unified statement
‑Administration=s position
‑State Department
‑President's role
-Presidential initiative
‑USSR
‑History
‑Rogers
‑Compared with John F. Kennedy's initiatives on nuclear test ban
‑Dean Rusk
‑George Ball
‑[Name Unintelligible]
‑Public statements
‑Rogers= role
‑Kissinger
‑Haig

Congressional votes
‑Gaylord Nelson Amendment
‑Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
‑Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
‑Nelson Amendment
‑Significance
‑Clark MacGregor

SALT Agreement
‑Rogers= role
‑Meetings with President
‑Smith
‑Antiballistic Missiles [ABM]
‑President's role
-Private communication
‑Kissinger's knowledge
‑Chronology
‑Rogers= trip
‑Dobrynin
-Soviet intentions
‑President's report to Rogers
‑Calls to Rogers
-Timing
‑President's role
‑Rogers= role
‑Language of announcement
‑Rogers= view
-Smith
‑USSR
-Dobrynin
-[Unintelligible name]
‑Meaning
‑Rogers= response

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:58 pm.

‑Rogers
‑Testimony in Congress
‑J. William Fulbright

Butterfield left at 1:00 pm.

‑Call to President
‑Haldeman's forthcoming call
‑President's return call
‑Address to the annual convention of the American National Red Cross
‑Haldeman's forthcoming call
‑President's location
‑Laird
‑Rogers= role
‑Public statements
‑White House
‑Fulbright
‑State Department
‑Fulbright and Senate Foreign Relations Committee
‑President's press conference
‑Haldeman's and President's forthcoming calls to Rogers
‑President's schedule
‑Meeting with Laird and Kissinger
‑Call to Rogers

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 1:03 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑15

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:03 pm and 1:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:14 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑16

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:03 pm and 2:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑William P. Rogers= role
‑Haldeman's call
‑President's previous meetings with Rogers
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Antiballistic missile [ABM]
‑President's role
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Rogers= trip to Europe
‑Public statements
‑President, Henry A. Kissinger
-Presidential initiative

Kissinger entered at 1:14 pm.

‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Kissinger's forthcoming meeting
‑President's meeting with Rogers

‑Smith, ABM
‑President's role
‑Rogers= role
‑Smith
‑U. Alexis Johnson
‑Forthcoming call
‑Rogers= role
‑Laird
‑Kissinger's forthcoming meeting
‑Laird's memorandum on Vietnamese modernization

Kissinger left at 1:18 pm.

‑Rogers= role
‑President's role
‑President's press conference
-Statement of position

Rogers
‑Call to President
‑Purpose
‑Gaylord Nelson and Michael J. Mansfield Amendments
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:14 pm and 1:18 pm]

[Conversation No. 501‑16A]

[Conversation No. 3‑66]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rogers
‑Call to President
‑Role in SALT negotiations

Laird's meeting with Kissinger

[The President talked with Rogers between 1:18 pm and 1:29 pm]

[Conversation No. 501‑16B]

[See Conversation No. 3‑67]

[End of telephone conversation]

Presidency

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 1:29 pm.

Ziegler's daily press briefing
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Boeing Corporation
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑Contract

SALT agreement
‑White House handling
‑Schedule of events
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Congressional leaders meeting
‑Possible leaks
‑Cabinet
‑Announcements of meeting and agenda
‑Congressional leaders meeting
‑Time
‑Possible leaks
‑Ziegler's conversation with Kissinger and John A. Scali
‑J. William Fulbright
‑President's statement
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] sensitivity
‑Time
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Time
‑Congressional leaders meeting
‑Ziegler's announcement
‑Possible leaks
‑Television crew arrivals
‑Congressional leaders meeting
‑Possible press calls to Ziegler
‑Subject
‑Mansfield and Nelson amendments

Foreign policy
‑Mansfield
‑Position on Nelson Amendment
‑Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
‑Time of vote
‑SALT agreement
‑Congressional leaders meeting
‑Rogers
‑Possible press calls to Ziegler
‑Timing of calls
‑Congressional vote
‑President's May 18, 1971 meeting with Congressional leaders
‑Peter H. Dominick
‑Mansfield and Mathias amendments
‑SALT agreement
‑Purpose
‑SALT agreement
‑Mansfield Amendment
‑Congress
‑USSR
‑Schedule of events
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Time
‑Calls to Cabinet
‑Ziegler's announcement of May 20, 1971 schedule
‑Television camera arrival
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Time
‑Alexander P. Butterfield
‑President's announcement
‑Forthcoming press conference
‑Language to be used
‑Significance
‑Duration
‑Significance
‑USSR
-US position
-Importance of delivery
‑President's demeanor
‑Text
-Public perceptions
-SALT
-ABM

‑Chalmers Roberts
‑Public opinion
‑Peace
‑Students at George Washington University
‑Content
‑Significance
-Public opinion
‑Dan Rather and commentators
-Progress on nuclear arms
‑President=s earlier speech to the American Red Cross
-Press reaction
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑USSR

Ziegler left at 1:50 pm.

‑SALT
‑President's announcements
‑Rogers= role
‑President's role
‑Haldeman's talks with Rogers
‑Public statements
‑Rogers= role
‑Haldeman's talk with Rogers
‑President's previous meetings with Rogers
‑Smith
‑Rogers= call to President
‑Agnew's possible trip to Korea
‑Rogers and Kissinger
‑US-USSR Summit
‑Middle East
‑Rogers= tenure
‑Vietnam
‑PRC
‑Kissinger
‑Rogers
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
‑Possible Summit
‑PRC
‑Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
‑State Department
‑SALT
‑USSR

‑Dobrynin
‑Paris peace talks
‑North Vietnam
‑Kissinger
‑Rogers
‑Possible meeting with President
‑Paris peace talks
‑Kissinger
‑Rogers
‑Xuan Thuy
‑Kissinger
‑Lyndon B. Johnson, Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑Xuan Thuy
‑Kissinger
‑Ho Chi Minh
‑Mansfield
‑Meeting with President
‑Yayha Khan
‑Kissinger
‑USSR
‑SALT agreement
‑Kissinger's statements
‑Rogers
‑USSR
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑PRC
‑Rogers
‑Europe
‑Kissinger
‑PRC
‑Yahya Khan
‑PRC
‑President's possible talk with Rogers
‑Yahya Khan
‑Joseph S. Farland

Kissinger entered at 2:02 pm.

‑SALT
‑Kissinger's meeting with Laird
‑Weapons programs of US and USSR
‑Rogers= role
‑Rogers= and Laird's response

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 2:05 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑17

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:05 pm and 2:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Melvin R. Laird

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑18

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  2:10 pm ‑ 2:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Melvin R. Laird and Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

Laird's health

Laird's schedule
‑Defense planning committee
‑Meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Nuclear Planning Group
‑Brussels
‑Germany
‑Meeting with European cabinet ministers
‑Relationship
‑France
‑Harmon[?] [Surname unintelligible], Helmut Schmidt
‑Agenda
‑Violence
‑US policy
‑Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
‑NATO Council meeting

MBFR
‑Defense Department study
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
‑Alexsei N. Kosygin
‑US and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] policy on forces
‑European Security Conference
-Importance of agreement
-Format
-Timing
‑US policy
‑Laird=s and William P. Rogers= statements
‑Europeans' position
‑SALT agreement impact
‑USSR
‑Andrei A. Gromyko
-Kosygin

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

CANADA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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‑Strategy
‑Meetings
‑Europeans
‑US and USSR
‑Warsaw pact
‑US allies
‑Laird's and Rogers= statements
‑Defense Department study
‑Laird's meetings with defense ministers in Lisbon
‑Kissinger's forthcoming talk with Rogers
‑Laird's and Rogers= schedules
‑Lisbon
‑Meeting of Laird and Rogers
‑Defense Department study
-Nature of negotiations
‑NATO and Warsaw pact
‑USSR

Defense Department staff
‑Deputy Secretary of Defense
‑David Packard
‑Work
‑Reuben F. Mettler of TRW. Inc.
‑Financial regulations
‑Packard's Hewlett‑Packard holdings
‑Mettler
‑Possible tenure
‑Blind trusts

‑Secretary of the Treasury
‑Mettler
‑Work at TRW
‑Possible stock sale
‑Packard
‑Schedule
‑Possible notification of SALT agreement

SALT agreement
‑Possible effects
‑Charles H. Percy, Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, W. Stuart Symington
‑Antiballistic missile [ABM] and offensive weapons
‑US and USSR negotiating position
‑May 20, 1971 meeting with Congressional leaders
‑USSR
‑Laird's position vis‑a‑vis Congress
‑ABM
‑US and USSR negotiating position
‑Congress
‑James B. Pearson

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 2:10 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 2:44 pm.

Salt agreement
‑Meetings with Congressional leaders
‑May 18, 1971
‑Soviets negotiating practices
‑Meetings with Congressional leaders
‑May 18, 1971
‑Notification of agreement
‑Laird
‑USSR
‑Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union [TASS]
‑Announcement
‑Public opinion
‑Administration handling of MBFR and Vietnamization
‑Columnists
‑Congress
‑J. William Fulbright

‑"Fence Riders"
‑Mansfield
‑Administration efforts
‑Announcements
‑Effect
‑Senate reports
‑Gerard C. Smith and SALT delegation in Vienna
‑Performance
‑Soviets= negotiation practices
‑US position
‑ABM and offensive limitation
‑USSR
‑Laird's previous statements
‑Reiteration
‑Effect on "Doves"and "Fence Riders" in Congress

Defense issues
‑Wright‑Patterson Air Force Base [AFB]
‑Robert A. Taft, Jr., William B. Saxbe
‑Votes on draft extension, ABM
‑Interview with Cleveland Plain Dealer after meeting with President
‑Laird's strategy
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Role
‑President's meeting with Taft and Saxbe
‑Portsmouth, New Hampshire Navy Yard
‑Margaret Chase Smith
‑Thomas J. McIntyre
‑Vote on ABM
‑Smith
‑MacGregor's and Kissinger's role
‑Wright‑Patterson AFB
‑President's meeting with Saxbe
‑Possible Florida relocation
‑Patrick AFB
‑Edward J. Gurney
‑Laird's role with Congress
‑President's role
‑Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
‑Army reorganization

Defense Department staff
‑Deputy Secretary of Defense
‑Corporate executives
‑Requirements
‑Mettler
‑Bert S. Cross at 3M Corporation
‑Requirements
‑John H. Chafee
‑Future plans
‑Secretary of the Navy
‑John W. Warner
‑Experience in negotiating
‑Brazil
‑Secretary of the Army
‑Requirements
‑Stanley R. Resor
‑Army=s present status
‑Thaddeus R. Beal
‑Background
‑Robert F. Froehlke
‑Present position
‑Laird's possible forthcoming meeting with Peter M. Flanigan
‑Bob Wolf
‑Ambassadorships
‑Secretary of Army
‑Replacement for Resor
‑Announcement
‑Timing
‑John S. Foster, Jr.
‑Army=s current status
‑Draft
‑Saxbe's statement
‑Prospects
‑Saxbe's position
‑Wright‑Patterson AFB
‑Son's Vietnam service
‑Replacement for Resor
‑Listing of possible replacement
‑Flanigan
‑President's schedule
‑Lyndon B. Johnson Library dedication
‑Announcement
‑Retirement date

‑Froehlke
‑Possible confirmation
‑Relations with Laird
‑Background
‑Century Insurance Company
‑Work
-Public testimony
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Deputy Secretary of Defense
‑Robert Clinton Moot
‑National Security Council [NSC] undersecretaries group
‑Packard
‑Charles D. (ATex@) Barton
‑Financial regulations
‑Financial regulations
‑Compared with State and Treasury Departments

Vietnam
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Laird's conversation with Kissinger
‑North Vietnam
‑Needs
-Continued military assistance
-Modernization
‑POWs
‑Importance
‑POW wives
‑A poll
‑Kissinger's meeting
‑Marianne Nelson
‑Mrs. [Forename unknown] Dahlberg [?]
‑US forces (Volunteer Army)
‑James L. Buckley=s amendment
‑Kissinger, President
‑Gen. William C. Westmoreland
‑Volunteers, draft
‑William F. Buckley's column
‑President, Kissinger
‑Buckley Amendment and other amendments in Senate
‑Laird=s analysis
‑Cambodia
‑Current situation
‑Needs

-Personnel
‑Current level of assistance
‑Current military assistance program
‑Needs
-Personnel
‑Marshall Green and Emory C. Swank
‑Possible meeting of President and Rogers
-Green
‑Needs
-Funds
-Personnel
‑A forthcoming report from Laird
‑Meeting of President, Laird, and Rogers
‑Green

Defense Department staff
‑Packard
‑Possible ambassador to Japan
-Family
‑Relations with Laird and President
‑Work
‑Effect
‑Kissinger's experience
‑Possible ambassador to NATO
‑Robert F. Ellsworth
‑Job
‑Family
‑Possible future Cabinet job
‑Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Department of Transportation
‑Health
‑Work
‑Background
‑Stanford University Board of Trustees
‑Intellectuals, "Georgetown crowd", Business Council
‑Secretary of the Army
‑Laird's forthcoming meeting with Flanigan
‑Announcement of Resor's departure
‑President's possible meeting with Flanigan
‑Froehlke[?]
‑Requirements
‑Deputy Secretary of Defense
‑Mettler

‑Previous work
‑Roy L. Ash

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Smith and SALT delegation

Kissinger left at 2:55 pm.

Defense Department staff
‑Deputy Secretary of Defense
‑Packard
‑Planned departure date
‑Secretary of the Army

Laird's health

Laird left at 2:56 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑19

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  3:09 pm ‑ 3:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talk [SALT] agreement
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Texts in Russian and English
‑Announcement
‑Delegation's knowledge
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Meeting with delegation
‑President's meeting
‑Congressional leaders
‑Smith's report

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

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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President's schedule
‑Meeting with SALT delegation
‑Cabinet Room
‑Possible trip to Midway
‑William P. Rogers
‑Possible leak
‑Rogers
‑Ellsworth F. Bunker [?]

Smith, Gen. Royal B. Allison, Paul J. Nitze, Harold Brown, Llewellyn E. (ATommy@) Thompson, Jr., and Philip J. Farley entered at 3:12 pm.

Greetings and introductions

President's previous meeting with Melvin R. Laird

Congress
‑Upcoming vote
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment

SALT
‑Smith's schedule
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] agreement
-Time-frame
‑Effects
-Build-ups
-Forward Base System [FBS]
‑Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicle's [MIRV]
‑USSR
-View on MIRV

-Defense systems
‑Laird
‑USSR
‑Verification
‑USSR arms
‑USSR goals
-Technology
‑President's press conference
-Strategy
‑Desire for ABM agreement
‑Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles [ICBM] program
‑Party Congress
‑Troop levels in Germany and Czechoslovakia
-State Department report
-Possibility of unilateral withdrawal
‑Conventional forces in Europe
‑European Security Conference
‑Warsaw Pact
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Dobrynin
-Possible reductions
-Political effect
-US
-USSR
‑Great Britain

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 25s  ]

DEFENSE

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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SALT
-Progress of talks
-Compared with Vietnam Peace talks
-David K.E. Bruce
‑USSR
‑Goals
‑Position
‑US policy
‑USSR
‑Government bureaucracy
-Effect on decision-making
-Lack of public scrutiny
‑Army
-Foreign Office

Foreign policy
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]

[Unintelligible]

USSR and PRC relations
‑US position
-Neutrality

USSR
-Suggested overture by US
-Ongoing negotiations
-Computers [?]
-Trucks
-Credit certification
-Kissinger=s efforts
-Aviation
‑Possible purchase
‑Kissinger=s call to Dobrynin
‑South America
‑Possible purchase
‑Dobrynin
‑Alaskan Airlines
‑American airplanes
‑Inspections

‑Department of Commerce action
‑Certification
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑White House

SST
‑Tokyo
‑Europe
‑SST
‑South America
‑Effect
‑Moscow to New York
‑Kissinger
‑Aviation Russian planes
‑President's 1967 flight
‑747's
‑President's 1967 flight
‑Russian plane
‑Stewardesses

President's schedule
‑May 21, 1971 meeting with delegation
‑Laird

Weather
‑Golf
‑Burning Tree Country Club
‑Water shortage
‑Secretary of Agriculture [Clifford M. Hardin]
‑Florida

President's schedule
‑May 21, 1971 meeting

Kissinger, et al., left at 3:45 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑20

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Time
‑Congressional vote

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:50 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑21

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:50 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑22

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:50 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑23

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld

Charles McC. Mathias Amendment

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:45 pm.

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Finch and Rumsfeld
-Time

Butterfield and Bull left at 3:50 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑24

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  3:50 pm ‑ 4:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Meeting with Kissinger
‑Response
‑President's meeting with SALT delegation
‑President's role, delegation's role
‑Announcement
‑Length
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Length
‑Wording

‑Length
‑U. Alexis Johnson
‑Meeting with Kissinger
‑Announcement
‑Wording
‑Significance

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:53 pm.

President=s schedule

Butterfield left and Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:54 pm.

Charles H. Percy Amendment
‑Prospects

SALT negotiations
‑Announcement
‑Wording
-Breaking deadlock
-Effect on other negotiations
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Presentation
-Television delivery
‑Location

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 3:54 pm.

‑Rose Garden, Press Room

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 4:07 pm.

‑Wording
‑Length
‑Dobrynin
-President=s formulation

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 4:07 pm.

‑Meeting of SALT delegation and National Security Council [NSC]
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Significance

‑Cancellation
‑Call to Smith
‑Smith's response to the announcement
‑Meeting with SALT delegation
‑Smith
‑Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's response
‑Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] agreement
‑Smith's response to the announcement
‑Announcement
‑President's meeting with SALT delegation

Henry L. Bellmon, John G. Tower, Clifford M. Hardin, John C. Whitaker, Clark MacGregor, and Peter M. Flanigan entered at 4:07 pm; the press was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

President's schedule
‑Haldeman
‑Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud=s [Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia] visit
‑Dinner
‑Meeting with President in 1967
‑Rogers

Kissinger left at 4:07 pm.

Charles McC. Mathias Amendment vote
‑Time

Photo arrangements

An unknown man

Drought relief
‑Amount
‑Losses
‑Timing
‑[Unintelligible] [Camera noise]
‑Florida
‑President's information about weather
‑[Unintelligible] [Camera noise]
‑John B. Connally
‑Letter to Hardin
‑Delay

‑Palm Springs
‑Effects
‑Foreclosures
‑Texas
‑Amount of assistance
‑Texas and Oklahoma
‑Fiscal year 1972
‑Southwest, Texas, Oklahoma

Agriculture
‑Operating and ownership loans for cattle
‑Ceiling
1960 level
‑Bureaucrats
‑Orville L. Freeman
-Needs of farmers
‑Borrowing problems
‑John Ehrlichman, Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
‑Future loans
‑Farmers Home Administration
‑Importance of agriculture
‑Loan problems
‑Farmers Home Administration
‑James V. Smith
‑Flanigan's role
‑Connally's conversation with President

Economy
‑Interest rates
‑Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
‑US dollar, Deutsche mark
‑Federal Reserve
‑Short‑term and long‑term rates
‑Changes
-Connally=s conversation with Burns
‑Short‑term rates
‑Importance
-Compared to budget
‑Movement
‑Milton Friedman's article "The Mark Crisis"
‑Willy Brandt
‑German economy

‑Home building
‑Mortgage rates
‑Preston Martin
‑Meeting with Flanigan, May 19, 1971
‑Mortgage rates
‑Savings and loans
-Incoming funds level
‑Housing starts
‑Max M. Fisher
‑George W. Romney
‑Importance of interest rates
-Building levels
-Farming
‑Possibility of over‑building
‑Interest rates
‑Martin
‑Meeting with Flanigan, May 19, 1971
-Predictions of housing starts levels
‑Federal Reserve

Drought relief
‑President's previous speech
-Timing
‑Amount
‑Southwest, Minnesota
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Minnesota, Texas
‑Humphrey

Congressional votes
‑Mathias Amendment

Bellmon, Tower, Hardin, Whitaker, and Flanigan left at 4:26 pm.

‑Results of recent votes
‑Mathias Amendment
‑Abraham A. Ribicoff, Birch E. Bayh
‑Kenneth E. BeLieu, William E. Timmons
‑Senators supporting Administration

‑John Sherman Cooper
‑Mathias and Michael J. Mansfield Amendments
‑Possible future developments
-[Forename unknown] Johnson
-Efforts

MacGregor left at 4:28 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑25

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:28 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with unknown person

Conversation No. 501‑26

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:28 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Items for President's signature

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:28 pm.

President's schedule
‑5:00 meeting
‑Ronald L. Ziegler, John A. Scali, Henry A. Kissinger, H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman meeting
‑Robert H. Finch

Butterfield and Bull left at an unknown time before 4:38 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑27

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:28 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:38 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑28

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:28 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
‑Vote
‑Forthcoming Kissinger call to John Sherman Cooper

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 4:38 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑29

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  4:38 pm ‑ 6:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
‑Vote
‑John G. Tower
‑Democrats' strategy
-Possible support administration
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
‑$50 million
‑Potomac River announcement

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:38 pm.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Kissinger's phone call regarding Mathias Amendment

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm.

‑Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch

William P. Rogers and Kissinger
‑Nature of relationship
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
‑USSR
‑John A. Scali and Ziegler
‑Haldeman's conversation with Rogers, May 19

Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 4:38 pm.

SALT agreement announcement

Mathias Amendment
‑Vote
‑Kissinger's attempted call to John Sherman Cooper

SALT agreement
‑Announcement
‑Wording
-Kissinger=s recommendation

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:38 pm

Call from Cooper

Bull and Kissinger left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm.

SALT agreement
‑Meeting with Legislative leaders
‑Meeting with the Cabinet

Ziegler and Scali entered at 4:44 pm.

‑Kissinger's briefings for media
‑Number attending
‑Washington Star
‑Attendees
‑Wire services, television
-Limits
‑Television coverage
-Delivery of announcement
‑Kissinger's briefing for media
-Delivery
‑Selection of attendees
‑Content
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Development of agreement
‑President's role

Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 4:44 pm.

Kissinger's call to Cooper
‑Cooper's May 19, 1971 votes
‑Mathias Amendment vote

SALT
‑Kissinger's briefing
-Points
‑Meeting with Congressional leaders

‑Announcement
‑Wording
‑Kissinger's briefing
-Nature of breakthrough
-Previous stalemate
‑Announcement
‑Release to press
‑President's presentation
‑Kissinger's briefing
-Stalemate
‑USSR
-Defensive weapons
‑US position
-Comprehensive agreement
‑President's previous press conferences
‑President's role, USSR role
‑Offensive and defensive weapons
‑Negotiations
‑Procedural questions
-SALT delegation
-Possible questions
-Timetable for agreement
-President=s foreign policy report
-President=s previous press conferences
‑Development of agreement
‑Kissinger=s previous briefings
‑Scali
‑Possible questions
‑Congressional Leaders
‑President=s role
‑Aleksei N. Kosygin role
‑Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
‑Kissinger's briefings
-Linkage to MBFR
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Role in negotiations
‑Forthcoming NATO meeting
-Rogers
‑Development of agreement
-Study of the issue

‑National Security Council [NSC]
‑President's role
-USSR reaction
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑USSR role

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  55s  ]

PEOPLE=S REPUBLIC OF CHINA [PRC]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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‑PRC
‑President's speech to American Red Cross, May 19, 1971
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑White House activity
‑Senate votes
‑Mathias Amendment
‑NATO, troop reductions
‑Vietnam
‑Cooper
‑Development of agreement
‑President's role
‑Dobrynin
‑Leader's meeting
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑Hubert H. Humphrey's speech, President's role
‑Senate
‑Mansfield Amendment
‑J. William Fulbright
‑President's role
‑Development of agreement
‑Gerard C. Smith

-Safeguard
‑Vladimir S. Semenov
‑Schedule
‑Smith's role
‑Attendees
‑Chalmers Roberts
‑Conservative columnists
‑James J. Kilpatrick
‑William F. Buckley
‑Richard (ADick@) Wilson
‑William S. White
‑Kilpatrick, Buckley, Wilson
‑Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's and Smith's response
‑Future
‑Development of agreement
‑Rogers
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑NSC
‑Rogers
‑Bureaucracy
-Knowledge
‑Possible responses
‑Rogers
‑Smith
‑Kissinger's briefing

Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld entered at 5:13 pm.

Kissinger's schedule
‑Kissinger's previous trip to Palm Springs

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  1m 46s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17

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Haldeman, Kissinger, Scali, and Ziegler left at 5:16 pm.

Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
‑Report
-President=s approval
‑Josip Broz Tito
‑An unknown group
‑Possible exchange program
‑Tito's future visit
‑Possible appearance by unknown group
‑Carol (Crothers) Finch and Joyce (Pierson) Rumsfeld
‑Talks with embassy wives
‑Ambassador's wife
‑State Department
-Rigidity of tradition
‑Talks with embassy staff
‑Interest in US
‑Domestic programs
‑Welfare
‑Information from news magazines
‑Response to President

Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Travel
‑Foreign policy
‑Europe

Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
‑Response to US
‑US economic policy
-Variety of perspectives articulated
‑John B. Connally, George P. Shultz

US economic policy
-Variety of perspectives articulated
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Treasury Department
‑Paul W. McCracken and Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑Shultz
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑US inflation
‑Effect abroad

World economy
‑Milton Friedman's article "The Mark Crisis"
‑Willy Brandt
-Economic policies
-Impact

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration:  56s  ]

EUROPE

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
-Spain
-Future
‑Yugoslavia
‑Tito
-Unifying effect
‑History
‑Balkans, USSR
‑Croats, Serbs
‑Rumania
‑Economy
‑Compared to Yugoslavia
‑Compared to West and East Berlin
‑People
‑President's previous trip
‑Computer development needs
‑Mrs. Finch's and Mrs. Rumsfeld's response
‑Paris, Rome, Vienna, London
‑Meeting with Pope Paul Vi

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19
[National Security]
[Duration:  18s  ]

VATICAN

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19

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‑Mrs. Finch and Mrs. Rumsfeld
-Black dress
‑Gifts
‑Photograph
‑Vietnam
-Gregorio Lopez Bravo de Castro
‑US troop levels
‑South Vietnam
‑Needs
‑PRC initiative
‑Middle East

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[National Security]
[Duration:  36s  ]

EUROPE

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15

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‑East
-West trade
‑John P. Humes
-Congressional views
‑Vietnam's effects
‑Laws

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[National Security]
[Duration:  52s  ]

EUROPE

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
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‑D. Kenneth Rush
‑Berlin negotiations
-Efforts
‑Professional history
-Previous law experience
-Union carbide
‑Walter H. Annenberg's residence
‑Juan Cortez[?], bullfighter
‑Photograph with Nixon tieclasp
‑Robert F. Kennedy
‑Popularity
-Attendance by Finch and Rumsfeld at bullfight
-Gift to the President
‑PRC and USSR
-Communications by Finch and Rumsfeld
‑President's reading
‑Kissinger

Drugs
‑Military
‑Possible congressional investigation
‑Draft extension, Volunteer Army
‑Usage
‑Statement regarding importance
‑Solutions
-Discipline
‑Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster

[Unintelligible]

Finch's and Rumsfeld=s= trip
‑United Nations [UN] Amendment on drugs
‑President's position
-Importance of US foreign policy

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[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 3s  ]

VATICAN

MOROCCO

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‑Spain
‑Luis Carrero‑Blanco
‑Future
-President=s view
‑U.S. ambassadors
‑Rush
‑William Leonart
‑Robert C. Hill

‑Future
‑New Hampshire politics
‑A letter

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‑Leonard C. Meeker
‑Humes
‑Graham A. Martin
-Impression
‑Dinner with Finch and Rumsfeld
‑Meeting with staff
‑Report to Rogers
‑Kissinger
‑Idar Rimestad
‑Possible future congressional candidacy
‑Wayne N. Aspinall
‑Finances
‑John D.J. Moore in Ireland
‑Ann H(emmingway) Watson (Mrs. Arthur Watson)
‑Children
‑Meeting with President
‑Ambassador's residence
‑Need
‑Lunch, food
‑Chef
‑Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle's funeral
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Stuart W. Rockwell
‑Stay in England
‑Annenberg
‑Britannia

‑Meeting with staff
‑US embassies
‑Annenberg
‑Staff
-Annenberg=s views
‑Staff in Paris
‑Two unnamed Princeton classmates of Rumsfeld's
‑Arthur Watson's work
‑R. Sargeant Shriver's work
‑Holmes[?], Steigman[?], and Culley[?] [Forenames unknown]
‑Holmes= father, Julius C. Holmes
‑Service under Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Policy statements
‑Holmes= work
‑Career Foreign Service officers
‑State Department knowledge of politics
‑Edward M. Korry
‑Compared with Finch
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Political knowledge
‑Al [Surname unintelligible]
‑Congressional race

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‑Staff in London
‑A Conservative Democrat [name unintelligible]
‑[Name unintelligible]
‑British Parliament
‑Ireland
‑Parliament
‑Population

-History
‑Potato Famine
‑Future trips
‑Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America
‑Use in speeches
‑A letter
‑Hill
‑Francisco Franco to Johnson
‑Views on Vietnam War

[Unintelligible]

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Campaign practices
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Hill's information from Maine attorney general, James S. Erwin

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Politics
‑Incumbency
‑William Howard Taft
‑[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
‑Herbert C. Hoover
‑Johnson
‑Vietnam War, economy
‑Possible 1968 race
‑Johnson
‑Compared to Humphrey
‑Critics
‑Travel
-Reaction
‑Television coverage
‑Compared with coverage of the President
‑President's schedule
-May 21, 1971 dedication of the Johnson Library

Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
‑Forthcoming press conference
‑Kissinger
‑Backgrounders
‑Meetings with Rogers

Middle East
‑Rogers= work in Middle East
-Emphasis in Finch and Rumsfeld=s upcoming press conference
‑Comment in May 20, 1971 Cabinet meeting
‑State Department meeting
‑Anwar el-Sadat
‑Unknown staffer=s view
‑Rogers= statements in previous Cabinet meeting

US foreign policy
-Finch and Rumsfeld=s upcoming statements
‑Vietnam
‑USSR
‑PRC
‑Europe
‑President's travels, Johnson's travels
‑Norse Capitals
‑NATO
-Cooperation

‑Western Europe
‑World wars
‑Deaths
‑Peace
‑Bipartisan nature of establishment
‑Future

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EUROPE

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Drugs
-Problem in military
‑Finch's and Rumsfeld's efforts
‑President's meeting with Arthur G. (AArt@) Linkletter
‑Linkletter's speeches at schools
‑Possible tour of military bases in Europe
‑Linkletter's daughter
‑Compared with alcohol
‑Causes
-Diversion for military troops
-Need for community among troops
-Volunteer Army

A memo from Rumsfeld regarding Special Trade Representative
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Future meeting with President

Finch and Rumsfeld left at 6:10 pm.

Conversation No. 501‑30

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  6:10 pm ‑ 6:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Robert H. Finch's and Donald H. Rumsfeld's report

Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
‑Debate

Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
‑Debate
‑White House strategy
‑Debate, vote
‑Mansfield
‑Conversation with William P. Rogers
‑Rogers= call to Dwight L. Chapin

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:10 pm and 6:11 pm]

[Conversation No. 501‑30A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑68]

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Vote
‑Mathias Amendment

[The President talked with Rogers between 6:11 pm and 6:15 pm]

[Conversation No. 501‑30B]

[See Conversation No. 3‑69]

[End of telephone conversation]

The recording was cut off at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress.