Conversation No. 502‑1

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:21 am and 8:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to Dean G. Acheson.

Memo to Acheson
‑President's administration
‑World War II
‑[Unintelligible]
‑"Present at the Creation"
‑National appreciation

Conversation No. 502‑2

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:05 am and 8:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons met

[Unintelligible]

The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 8:14 am.

Conversation No. 502‑3

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  8:16 am - 8:19 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with George W. Ball.

[See Conversation No. 3‑78]

Conversation No. 502‑4

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:19 am and 8:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez [?].

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Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 8:32 am.

Conversation No. 502‑5

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  8:32 am ‑ unknown before 8:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
‑Cabinet meeting, May 20, 1971
‑Size
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Table
-Seating

[Unintelligible]

[First name unknown] Brown's attendance

[Unintelligible]

President's letter to Dean G. Acheson

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 8:38 am.

Conversation No. 502‑6

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  8:38 am ‑ 9:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

President=s telephone call to George W. Ball
-Kissinger=s call to Ball

President's letter to Dean G. Acheson
‑Substance of letter

Kissinger's call to Ball and John J. McCloy
‑Drafting of letters
‑Lauris Norstad

Administration's position a week ago

President's telephone call to Ball
‑Ball's views
‑Kissinger
‑Senate
‑White House relations with State Department
‑State Department

State Department
-Clark MacGregor

‑William P. Rogers
‑John N. Irwin, II
‑U. Alexis Johnson
‑Relations with White House
‑Kissinger's relationship with State Department officials
‑MacGregor
‑Kissinger=s meeting with State Department officials
‑State Department
-Position on negotiations

Congressional affairs
‑Kissinger's conversations with Charles McC. Mathias
‑Mathias= views on his amendment
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Jacob K. Javits
‑Co‑sponsors
‑Kissinger's view of Mathias amendment
‑Humphrey's vote
‑Edmund S. Muskie's vote
‑Final votes
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy's vote
‑President's successes
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
‑Backing of "establishment"
‑Ball
‑Cyrus R. Vance
‑Acheson
‑McCloy
‑McGeorge Bundy
‑Rogers' strategy for dealing with Congress
‑Implications for the White House
‑MacGregor
‑Rogers
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield

President's upcoming meetings
‑President's remarks
‑Kissinger's instructions on secrecy
‑Cabinet
‑Leaks

SALT agreement announcement, May 20, 1971
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Meeting of legislative leaders
‑President's announcement remarks
‑Soviet position on offensive and defensive weapons
‑US position on offensive and defensive weapons
‑Soviets public position and statements
‑President's SALT initiative
‑Involvement of Moscow and Washington
‑Television
‑Playback in Moscow
-Language
‑Agreement, understanding
‑Grammar
‑Negotiations
‑Treaty
‑US and Soviet Union relations
‑Future
-Goals
-Prospects for other negotiations
‑Next round of negotiations
‑Rewording of remarks
‑Future US and Soviet Union relations
‑Notification of  Kissinger's staff
‑Staff reaction
‑Reaction of White House staff
‑Price
‑William L. Safire
‑Reaction of Kissinger's staff to SALT announcement agreement

Congressional affairs
‑President's call to Senator John C. Stennis
‑Stennis
‑Leadership
‑Kissinger's conversation with Javits
‑Stennis= position on Mathias amendment
‑Kissinger's call to Stennis
‑Stennis= views

SALT agreement announcement, May 20, 1971
‑President's announcement remarks
‑Exact wording

-Level of negotiations
-Extent of efforts
-Expression of commitment
Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Reaction of Kissinger=s staff

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:38 am.

Cabinet meeting
-President=s invitation to Rose Mary Woods

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:02 am.

An unknown woman [Marjorie P. Acker?] entered at an unknown time after 8:38 am.

Woods
‑Location

The unknown woman [Acker?] left at an unknown time before 9:02 am.

Melvin R. Laird

Elliot L. Richardson

The President and Kissinger left at 9:02 am.

Conversation No. 502‑7

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  9:49 am ‑ 10:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers; the conversation was in progress when the recording began.

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Rogers left and Henry A. Kissinger and Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:54 am.

President's schedule

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement announcement
‑President's statement at 12:00 noon
‑Foreign policy
‑Possibility of leaks

Ziegler left at 9:55 am.

‑Rogers
‑President's meeting with Congressional leaders
‑Treaties
‑Unknown person's position

‑Soviet position on offensive weapons
-Public statements
‑Kissinger's advice
‑Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
‑President's talking points with Congressional leaders
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Soviet Party Congress
‑Kissinger's advice
‑US strategy in dealing with Soviets
‑Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]
‑Effect on negotiations
-Future possibilities
-Gerard C. Smith
‑US August 4 proposal
‑President's talking points with Congressional leaders
‑MIRV
‑Treaties
‑Negotiations
‑George P. Shultz's meeting with Kissinger
‑Shultz's views on the President and SALT negotiations
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑President's talking points with Congressional leaders
‑Objectives
‑Negotiations
‑Effect on Europeans
‑Rogers
‑Smith

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:55 am.

‑Rose Mary Woods= location
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Woods

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.

Kissinger left at 10:03 am.

Conversation No. 502‑8

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:03 am and 10:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Rose Mary Woods and Marjorie P. Acker

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:09 am.

Conversation No. 502‑9

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  10:09 am ‑ 10:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement announcement
‑President's talking points with Congressional leaders
‑Defensive weapons
‑Role for Kissinger
‑Credit for the agreement
‑Kissinger
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑President's initiative

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:09 am.

President's meeting with Congressional leaders
‑Carl B. Albert, [Thomas] Hale Boggs, Thomas P. (ATip@) O=Neill, Jr.
‑Gerald R. Ford and Leslie C. Arends
‑W. Averell Harriman
‑President's instructions

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:12 am.

‑J. William Fulbright
‑Views on Kissinger's relations with Congress
‑Congressional vote, May 19, 1971

SALT agreement announcement
‑Smith
‑Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]

President's talking points with Congressional leaders
‑Effective presentation
‑Text of President's statement on May 20, 1971

Kissinger left at 10:12 am.

Conversation No. 502‑10

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:10 am and 11:18 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Typewriter

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:18 am.

Conversation No. 502‑11

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  11:18 am ‑ 11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement Congressional briefing

J. William Fulbright
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Allen J. Ellender
-F. Edward Hébert
-Staff reaction
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Effect
-Cabinet meeting
‑Reaction
‑Undersecretaries
‑White House staff
‑William L. Safire
‑John B. Connally's reaction
‑Treaty
‑Mansfield reaction
‑Yesterday's Congressional vote
‑William P. Rogers

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
‑Kissinger
‑Soviet public opinion
‑US public opinion
‑Soviet and American agreement
‑President's efforts

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:26 am.

Evening cocktails with President and Mrs. Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon, May 20, 1971
‑Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA] staff
‑Rogers
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑National Security Council [NSC] members
‑Kissinger
‑Connally
‑Richard S. Schweiker
‑Other guests
‑Tricia Nixon
‑Julie Eisenhower
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑SALT delegation
-Possible location
‑Truman Balcony

‑Yellow Room
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Connally
‑Laird
‑NSC members
‑Richard M. Helms
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Refreshments
‑White House kitchen
‑Estimates of number of guests
‑Balcony
‑White House public rooms

Butterfield left at 11:31 am.

Press reaction to SALT agreement
‑Questions
‑Headlines
‑Kissinger
‑John A. Scali
-Kissinger's relations with press
‑Style of press conferences
‑Gallup poll ratings
‑Ronald W. Reagan
‑Spiro T. Agnew
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑Reagan and Agnew

President's schedule
‑Lyndon B. Johnson Library dedication, May 22,  1971
-Departure time
-Length of flight
-Upcoming visit of  Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud, King of Saudi Arabia
-Possible dinner
-Kennedy dinner
-Attendees
-Possible daytime event
-Arrival of Faisal and delegation

-Morning meetings
-Review of troops
-Credentials
‑Press conference on May 28th
‑Options

Kissinger entered at 11:34 am.

Congress and SALT agreement
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Performance at Congressional leader's meeting
‑Smith's and Kissinger's views on Congressional consultations regarding SALT
‑Smith's schedule
‑Meeting with Congressional leaders
‑Unknown person
‑President's meeting with Congressional leaders
‑Kissinger's attendance
-Allen J. Ellender
‑J. William Fulbright
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑John G. Tower
‑Antiballistic Missile [ABM] efforts
‑Kissinger's press briefing, May 20, 1971
‑Victor Riesel [?]
‑United Press International [UP]
‑Television people
‑Unknown person
‑Press

SALT agreement announcement, May 20, 1971
‑Text of President's statement
‑Kissinger's views

Kissinger left at 11:38 am.

‑Pointers for President's delivery
‑Haldeman's views
‑Press
‑John D. Ehrlichman's views
‑Importance of announcement
‑Live television

Butterfield entered at 11:40 am.

SALT announcement, May 20, 1971
‑President's statement for press
‑Change of wording
‑Rose Mary Woods
‑Butterfield's views

Secretaries

White House internal operations
-President's shower
‑Hot water supply
‑Repairs
-Rex W. Scouten
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Hot water supply
‑White House plumbing
‑Water

Butterfield left and Stephen B. Bull entered at 11:43 am.

SALT agreement announcement, May 20, 1971
-Location
-Press room
-Equipment
-Lights
-Podium

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:47 am.

[The President talked with Gerald R. Ford between 11:50 am and 11:53 am]

[See Conversation No. 3‑80]

[Conversation No. 502‑11A]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:51 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

SALT agreement announcement [?]
‑Press
‑Ronald L. Ziegler

Woods left at 11:54 am.

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:54 am.

President's meeting with Mark I. Goode

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:57 am.

Goode entered at 11:57 am.

SALT agreement announcement, May 20, 1971
-Ziegler
‑White House Communications
‑Announcement
‑Cameras
‑Unknown person
‑Time till President goes before cameras

Goode left and Kissinger entered at 11:58 am.

Kissinger's briefing of press, May 20, 1971
‑Peter Lisagor
‑[Forename unknown] Sheldon
‑Frank Cormier
‑Soviet position
‑Text of President statement announcing SALT agreement
‑Change of wording

The President, Haldeman, and Kissinger left at 11:59 am.

Conversation No. 502‑12

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  12:05 pm ‑ 12:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's announcement of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement				‑Haldeman=s assessments
‑Foreign policy statement
‑Effect on viewers
‑Press
‑Dan Rather
‑Herbert E. Kaplow
‑John W. Chancellor
‑Rather's comments
‑Surprise
‑Moscow
‑Time in Washington, D.C. and in Moscow
‑Drama
‑Evening news
‑Length of President's statement
‑SALT talks
‑Limitation of nuclear arms
‑Text of President's announcement, May 20, 1971
‑Introduction

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:10 pm.

‑Ziegler's views
‑Compared to Kissinger's earlier press briefing
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
‑Rather's comments
-President
‑Aleksei N. Kosygin
‑Leonid I. Brezhnev
‑Camera coverage
‑Wire service coverage
‑Kissinger's response

Kissinger entered at 12:27 pm.

‑New Republic
‑U. Alexis Johnson [?]
‑Marianne Means [?]
‑Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
‑Text of President's announcement, May 20, 1971

‑Change of wording
‑Soviet response
‑Kissinger's earlier press briefing, May 20, 1971
‑Chancellor's response
‑Rather
‑Marvin L. Kalb [?]
‑Preliminaries to President's announcement
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Paris
‑Domestic policy
‑Soviets
-President=s relations with the press
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Charles W. Colson
‑President's instructions
‑Senate
‑Soviets
‑Strategy for pursuing negotiations with Soviets
‑Offensive
‑Defensive

President's briefing of Congressional leaders, May 20, 1971
‑Senators
‑J. William Fulbright
‑Mansfield
‑Allen J. Ellender
‑Fulbright
‑Smoking habits
‑Reading
‑Newspaper
‑Carl B. Albert's absence
‑Meeting with Capitol Architect
‑Informing the press
‑Spiro T. Agnew
‑Press
‑Veracity

SALT announcement
‑Kissinger's calls on May 20, 1971
‑George Meany
‑Response
‑Lyndon B. Johnson

‑Response
‑Howard Stein
‑Jack J. Dreyfuss, Jr. (?)
‑John J. McCloy
‑Response
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller's views
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑SALT
‑Kissinger's earlier press briefing on SALT, May 20, 1971
‑Press
‑Compared to Kissinger's Vietnam press briefings
‑ABM
‑Offensive weapons
‑Cameras
‑Press
‑Chinese
‑Message
‑Pakistani Ambassador
-Joseph S. Farland

[Unintelligible]

‑Navy
‑Farland
‑Agha Muhommad Yahya Kahn
‑Official communication
‑John A. Scali
‑Reaction to announcement
‑Soviet reaction

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:27 pm.

Request for Scali

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:31 pm.

SALT announcement
‑National Security Council [NSC] members

‑Gerard C. Smith
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA] staff
‑Photograph session in Oval Office
‑William P. Rogers
‑Melvin R. Laird

President's briefing of Congressional leaders on SALT, May 20, 1971
‑Smith's performance
‑Smith
‑Negotiating efforts with the Soviets
‑George H. Mahon, F. Edward Hébert and Robert F. Byrd's comments
‑Republicans
‑Fulbright

Scali entered at 12:31 pm.

Scali's briefing on SALT, May 20, 1971
‑Smith
‑Howard K. Smith
‑Smith
‑Johnson
‑SALT
‑US and Soviet Union positions
‑Negotiating strategy

SALT announcement
‑Press
‑Rather
‑United Press International [UPI]'s and Associated Press [AP]'s lead stories on President's SALT announcement, May 20, 1971
-Timing
-Coverage

President's previous Congressional briefing
‑Ellender, Hébert, Byrd, Mahon, John C. Stennis
‑Congressional response
‑ABM

Kissinger left at 12:36 pm.

[The President talked with Tricia Nixon between 12:36 pm and 12:39 pm]

[Scali and Haldeman can be heard in the background]

[See Conversation No. 3‑83]

[Conversation No. 502‑12A]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's SALT agreement announcement
‑Chancellor
‑Tricia Nixon's views on length of President's comments
‑Drama
‑Scali
‑Chancellor
‑Meeting with Kissinger

Scali's press briefing, May 20, 1971
‑Kissinger's press briefing, May 20, 1971
‑Senate
‑Negotiations with Soviets
‑Press
‑Post World War II world
‑Importance of SALT
‑Historical perspective

Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 12:39 pm.

‑US relations with Soviet Union and PRC
‑Since World War II
‑Means

Kissinger, Ziegler, and Scali left at 12:43 pm.

Soviets

President=s critics

PRC

Vietnam

Rose Mary Woods entered at 12:45 pm.

Letter to Acheson

President's SALT agreement announcement
‑Length
‑Drama
‑Television
‑Drama
‑Length

Acheson letter

The President, Haldeman, and Woods left at 12:48 pm.

Conversation No. 502‑13

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:42 pm and 1:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 3‑84]

Conversation No. 502‑14

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  1:45 pm ‑ 2:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

John A. Scali's [?] briefings
‑Forthcoming meeting with [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
‑Howard K. Smith
‑John W. Chancellor
‑Major briefing at 12:45, May 20, 1971

‑Open attendance
‑Meeting at 2 o'clock, May 20, 1971
‑Sevareid
‑Smith
‑Chancellor
‑Marvin L. Kalb
‑Richard G. Valeriani
‑William A. Gill, Jr.
‑Meeting at 4 o'clock, May 20,1971
‑Max Frankel
‑Chalmers Roberts
‑Associated Press [AP] and United Press International [UPI] diplomatic press
‑William S. White
‑Roscoe Drummond
‑Ziegler's views
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Scali
‑Henry A. Kissinger's comments
‑Impact on press
‑Press

[The President talked with Justin W. Dart at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 1:48 pm]

[See Conversation No. 3‑85]

[Conversation No. 502‑14A]

[End of telephone conversation]

Meeting with Kissinger

Ziegler left and H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Scali entered at 1:48 pm.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement announcement, May 20, 1971
‑Press response
‑J. Henry Smith
‑Television instant analysis
‑Daniel Seymour's reaction
‑Seymour's meeting with President several years ago
‑Staff
‑Television viewers response
‑Time of announcement in Washington, D.C. and Moscow

Personnel Management
-Scali [?]
-George A. Lincoln [?]
‑National Security Council [NSC]
‑Responsibility

Kissinger entered at 1:52 pm.

SALT agreement
‑Soviet translation, US translation
‑Kissinger's phone call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Treaty
‑Agreement
‑Dobrynin's press release
‑Text President read

President schedule
-Future conversation with Scali

Scali left at an unknown time before 1:55 pm.

SALT agreement
‑Two o'clock briefing, May 20, 1971
‑US and Soviet text
‑Kissinger's call to Dobrynin
‑AP report from Moscow
‑Two stage procedure
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] agreement
‑Letter
‑Television
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield's statement
‑Soviet domestic radio
‑One and two stage procedures

Ziegler entered at 1:55 pm.

‑Photographs
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
-Release to the public

Ziegler left at 1:57 pm.

‑Dobrynin press release, May 20, 1971
‑US text of SALT agreement
‑Kissinger's views of Soviets
‑SALT
‑Cambodia
‑Vietnam
‑President's views
-State Department
‑Upcoming Berlin meeting
‑D[avid] Kenneth Rush
‑US and Soviet desires
‑Unknown person's (Dobrynin?) views
‑Kissinger=s talk with Ronald W. Reagan
‑Unknown person (Dobrynin?)
‑Mansfield's statement
‑Treaty
‑Administration's position
‑Kissinger's calls to Dobrynin on May 19, 1971
‑President's television announcement
‑Press interpretation
‑AP in Moscow
‑Aleksei N. Kosygin's letter on SALT agreement
‑Press inquiries on the SALT agreement
-Kissinger=s response
‑President's initiative on SALT
‑Kissinger's role in SALT agreement
‑Smith's role in SALT agreement
‑Vienna
‑Smith's views
‑Kissinger's views
‑Design of negotiations
‑Credit for the SALT agreement
‑Smith
‑Vienna
‑Paul W. McCracken

Scali=s [?] schedule
‑Television

Kissinger left at 2:05 pm.

Conversation No. 502‑15

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:05 pm and 2:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑3 o'clock meeting
‑George P. Shultz
‑John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:08 pm.

Conversation No. 502‑16

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:05 pm and 2:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 3‑86]

Conversation No. 502‑17

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  2:08 pm - 2:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑French embassy

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:09 pm.

[The President talked with Leslie C. Arends between 2:08 pm and 2:09 pm]

[See Conversation No. 3‑87]

[Conversation No. 502‑17A]

Conversation No. 502‑18

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:09 pm and 2:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

President=s schedule
-Charles W. Colson

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 2:16 pm.

Conversation No. 502‑19

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:09 pm and 2:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to William P. Rogers.

Memorandum
‑Rough draft
‑Secret
‑Middle East

Charles W. Colson entered at 2:16 pm.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement announcement
-Implications
‑Administration's position
‑President's political position
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Soviets
-@Doves@
‑Political opportunities
‑Hubert H. Humphrey's comments on February 1, 1971
‑Antiballistic missile [ABM], Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles  [MIRV]
‑SALT negotiations
‑Edmund S. Muskie's comments on SALT
‑Humphrey
‑Democratic candidates position on SALT and ABM
‑Political implications
‑Humphrey
‑Senators
‑Supporters
-Critics
‑President's credibility
‑John A. Scali, press
‑John W. Chancellor's commentary, May 20, 1971
‑President's political position
‑Muskie
‑Humphrey
‑SALT negotiations
‑Critics and commentators
‑Public opinion
‑Mystique
‑Length of announcement
‑President's stature
‑Arms
‑PRC
‑Public image of the President
‑Peace
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Humphrey's comments
-@Doves@
-J. William Fulbright

Public affairs
‑President's cabinet meeting on May 20, 1971
‑Casualties in South Vietnam
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 freedom speech
‑War production
‑State of the country
‑Political impact

SALT agreement announcement
‑Moscow
‑Text of the SALT agreement
‑Treaty
‑ABM
‑Mood of the country
‑Muskie's statement
‑Humphrey
‑Muskie
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑ABM
‑Offensive weapons
‑Colson's call to Thomas J. McIntyre
‑Vote on ABM

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‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑John Sherman Cooper
‑George D. Aiken

ABM
‑Opponents
‑Political future
‑Barry M. Goldwater's support
-Call from Clark MacGregor
-Colson=s earlier call to Jay Lovestone

Colson left at 2:46 pm.

Conversation No. 502‑20

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  2:47 pm ‑ 3:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
‑President's SALT agreement
‑Soviets
‑Negotiations
-Strength
‑President's SALT agreement television announcement
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Dan Rather's comments
‑Defensive
‑Offensive
‑Negotiations
‑Marvin L. Kalb's comments
‑Edmund S. Muskie's question
‑President's performance

US economy
‑Collective bargaining
‑1973
‑1972
‑Longshoremen
‑General Electric [GE] Westinghouse
‑Peter G. Peterson's meeting with economic leaders

‑Herbert G. Klein
‑John B. Connally
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Policy coordination
‑Connally
‑Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑Domestic Council
‑Meeting of Connally, Paul W. McCracken, Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan, Shultz
-Schedule
‑Stans
‑James D. Hodgson
‑Labor Department statistics
‑Prices
‑Employment level
‑Commerce Department statistics
‑Stans
‑Hodgson
‑Stans
‑Flanigan
‑Stans
‑McCracken
‑Connally's relationship with Arthur F. Burns
‑Meeting of Quadriad, May 21, 1971
‑McCracken
‑Herbert Stein
‑Monetary policy and interest rates
‑Burns= statement in Congressional testimony, May 19, 1971
-Interest rates and international monetary system
‑US dollar
‑Money speculation
‑Germans
‑German Mark
‑International monetary conference
‑Ambassador from the Hague
‑Shultz=s view
‑German Mark
‑Lunch at French Embassy
‑Valery Giscard D'Estaing
‑Shultz, Connally, Burns, Flanigan
‑Food
‑Giscard D=Estaing's view on the German Mark
‑Burns= view on the German Mark

‑German's Views on the German Mark
‑Parity
‑Capital Flows
‑Giscard D=Estaing's views
‑Giscard D=Estaing's views
‑Fiscal restraint
‑Economic stimulation
‑Fiscal policy
‑Burns= views
‑Implementation
‑Congressional spending
‑Politics
‑Republicans
‑1972
‑Veto
‑Estimate of Fiscal 1971 deficit
‑$21 billion
‑Government expenditure
‑Full employment revenue bill
‑Treasury measurements of income
‑Estimate of Fiscal 1972 deficit
‑$18 billion
‑Full employment revenue
‑Fiscal policy stimulative power
‑Expansionary status of US economy
‑State of the economy
‑Expansionary
‑Inflation
‑President's position
‑Antiballistic Missile [ABM] negotiations
‑SALT talks
‑Government budget
‑Burns
‑Social Security tax
‑Consumer Price Index [CPI] figure
‑Forthcoming announcement
‑Food prices
‑Percentage of CPI
‑Burns
‑Monetary policy and interest rates
‑Government budget
‑Shultz

‑International monetary developments
‑Connally
‑Bankers meeting in Munich, Germany
‑US economic policy
-Shultz=s view
‑Domestic priority
‑Proposed Committee of Economic Policy
‑Stans
‑President's meetings with Hodgson and Stans
‑George W. Romney
‑John A. Volpe
‑Ehrlichman's meetings with Stans
‑Stans
-Role in economic matters
‑Meetings of the Quadriad
‑Burns= views on membership in the Quadriad
‑Peterson
‑Connally, McCracken, Flanigan, Shultz
‑Burns
‑Balance of payments statistics
‑Stans= meeting with President
‑Russell B. Long's views on computation of Balance of Payments [BOP] statistics
‑Shultz's new system for computing BOP
‑Short and long‑term movements
‑Stans
‑Long
‑Shultz's testimony on May 21, 1971 before International Committee
‑Stans= letter to Shultz
‑Leaks
‑Stans= meeting with President
‑President's approval
‑Long's reaction
‑President's meeting with Stans
‑President's instructions
‑Shultz's new system
‑Imports
‑Exports
‑Government subsidies
‑International trade
‑Government subsidies
‑Previous meeting with President

‑Shultz's views on subsidies
‑Market
‑Henry Kearns
‑Budget
‑La Pantha [sp?]
‑Rolls Royce
‑Lockheed
‑Boeing

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Status

John W. Bynes
-Social Security

Nathaniel A. Owings
‑National Mall
‑Owing's presentation for President in 90 days

Manpower special revenue sharing
‑Trip to Birmingham, Alabama
‑Southern Congressmen
‑Byrnes [?]
‑Romney
‑Urban special revenue sharing
‑Hodgson
‑Manpower special revenue sharing
‑Stein
‑CEA
‑Hendrik S. Houthakker
‑Europe
‑White House strategy
‑President's meeting with press
‑Birmingham

Ronald W. Reagan
‑Edwin Meese III's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
‑Reagan's position
-White House's Legal Service's Bill and HR 1
‑Edwin Reinecke

HR 1

Vacancies in the Federal judiciary
‑Former law partner of the President, named [Forename unknown] Liddig (?)
‑Unknown law firm
‑Rating by American Bar Association [ABA]
‑Stanley N. Barnes
‑Rating by ABA
‑Liddig (?)
‑Political allegiances
‑Earl [Surname unknown]

Court of Military Appeals
‑Albert W. Watson
‑Two vacancies
‑Blacks
‑Robert E. Quinn
‑William H. Darden
‑Frederick V. Malek
‑Blacks
‑Edward F. Brooke
‑Future appointments

Executive Departments
‑Retirement of assistant secretaries and undersecretaries
‑Political impact
‑Recruiting replacements
‑Political impact
‑Upcoming election
‑Richard C. Van Dusen, Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
‑SST
‑William M. Magruder
‑Job offer with aerospace industry
‑Salary

Congressional relations
-Parks
‑House Armed Services Committee
‑F. Edward Hébert
‑Camp Pendelton, California
‑Legislation
‑Marine Corps
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Arnold R. Weber's meeting with Hébert

‑Laird in Louisiana
‑Hébert's reaction
‑California
‑H R 1
‑Byrnes
‑Republicans
‑Social Security
‑Aged
‑Meeting with Laird
‑Byrnes
‑General revenue sharing
‑Byrnes
‑Laird
‑Chairman
‑Cities, states
‑Speech on May 20, 1971 in North Carolina legislature
‑Shultz's views
‑Legislative leaders
‑California democrat
‑Romney
‑State Department
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Suggested meeting between Ehrlichman and Laird
‑Byrnes
‑Cabinet meeting on May 20, 1971
‑Mills
‑Social Security
‑Byrnes [?]
‑Apologies
‑Republicans
‑Aged
‑Unknown person
‑Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

Revenues
‑Treasury Department estimates
‑Full employment revenues
‑Gross National Product [GNP]
‑Expenditures for 1971
‑Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
‑1971 deficit
‑Fiscal 1973

‑Full employment revenues
‑Fiscal 1973 budget
‑Tax system
‑Tas raises
‑Property tax
‑Burden
‑Raises
‑Secretary (Connally?)
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Political impact of changing tax system
‑Need for Presidential decision
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑President's schedule
‑Child care
‑Unknown person's bill
‑Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
‑Revenue Sharing financing
‑Kevin P. Phillips' backing of unknown person's bill
‑OMB
‑Phillips' wife
‑Job with the Committee

Black Caucus

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:47 pm.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:43 pm.

Employment

Education

Housing

Black Caucus
‑President's record

Civil Rights Commission
‑Theodore S. Hesburgh

‑June 14th, 1971 hearing on housing
‑Subpoenas of assistant secretaries
‑Samuel C. Jackson
‑Samuel J. Simmons
‑Statement prepared for the President

Haldeman entered at 3:15 pm.

Dr. Bertram S. Brown
‑Firing
‑Reconsideration
-Elliot L. Richardson
‑Brown
‑Richardson=s view
‑Richardson=s appointment request
‑John W. Dean, III
‑Egil G. (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
‑Malek
‑Position on narcotics
‑Dean
‑Krogh
‑Weber
‑Richardson
‑Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
‑Brown
‑Drug traffic
‑Marijuana
‑President's meeting with Arthur G. (AArt@) Linkletter on May 18, 1971

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 3:43 pm.

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 3:44 pm]

[See Conversation No. 3‑89]

[Conversation No. 502‑20A]

[End of telephone conversation]

Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

‑Knowledge
‑Knowledge of National Security Council [NSC]
‑President=s plan
-George A. Lincoln

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:43 pm.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Kissinger
‑President's appointment at 4 o'clock

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:46 pm.

[The President talked with Mrs. Lee, Weber's secretary, at an unknown time between 3:43pm and 3:46 pm]

[See Conversation No. 3‑90]

[Conversation No. 502‑20B]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally
‑Treasury

Kissinger entered at 3:46 pm.

SALT agreement
-Soviet clarification statement
‑Soviet Embassy's press secretary
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Distribution

‑Kissinger's briefings
‑John W. Chancellor

President's schedule
‑Haldeman=s call to Connally
‑Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with Connally

Haldeman left at 3:48 pm.

SALT agreement announcement
‑Headlines
‑Chancellor, [Arnold] Eric Sevareid, [Forename unknown] Morgan (?), Marvin L. Kalb
‑Understanding of SALT agreement
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Dan Rather and Kalb
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Kissinger=s phone calls
‑McGeorge Bundy
‑President's thoughts on Kissinger
‑Bundy
‑Reaction to announcement
-Offer of assistance
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Haldeman entered at 3:49 pm.

President's schedule
‑Haldeman=s conversation with Connally
-Connally=s reaction

SALT agreement announcement
‑Bundy's offer of help
‑Senate Foreign Relations Committee
‑J. William Fulbright
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield 
-Harold E. Hughes
-George D. Aiken
‑Democrats
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Mindset
‑President
‑Mindset
‑Colson's report on a Humphrey speech on Antiballistic Missiles [ABM], Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle [MIRV] and arms talks

‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Someone Kissinger sent to see Muskie
‑Dean G. Acheson
‑Kissinger's call

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:49 am 3:53 pm]

[See Conversation No. 3-91]

[Conversation No. 502-20C]

[End of telephone conversation]

SALT agreement announcement
‑[Forename unknown] Kleiman of New York Times
‑Kissinger's call
‑Kleiman's comments

[The President talked with the White House operator at 3:53 pm]

[See Conversation No. 3-92]

[Conversation No. 502-20E]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 3:53 pm.

Copy of President=s memo to Acheson, May 20, 1971

Woods left at 3:54 pm.

‑Dobrynin's call to Kissinger
‑Soviet press release
-Offer to call Senators

Statement President made to the Rules Committee
‑Albert J. Beveridge
‑[First name unknown] Marshall
‑[First name unknown] Bowers [?]
‑Text of statement

‑Partisanship
‑1898
‑Patriotism

SALT agreement
‑William P. Rogers
‑Laird
‑Military
‑Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rogers
‑Rogers= meeting with President
‑Photographs
‑U. Alexis Johnson's comments

Shultz

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:54 pm and 3:56 pm]

[See Conversation No. 3-93]

[Conversation No. 502-20F]

[End of telephone conversation]

Laird

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Privacy]
[Duration:  14s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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[The President talked with Shultz between 3:56 pm and 3:57 pm]

[See Conversation No. 3‑94]

[Conversation No. 502‑20D]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President, Haldeman, and Kissinger left at 3:58 pm.

Conversation No. 502-21

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:58 pm and 9:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person talked with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:43 pm.