Conversation No. 504‑1

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:25 am and 9:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President=s schedule
-Meeting with unknown person

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:33 am.

Conversation No. 504‑2

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  9:33 am ‑ 10:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-State Department
‑William P. Rogers

[No conversation]

[Unintelligible]

Heads of State visits
-Blair House
‑Visitors

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  18s  ]

SAUDI ARABIA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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‑Senegal
-Unknown person
-Accommodations
-President's trips
‑Bangkok, Thailand
‑Accommodations
-Blair House
‑Haldeman's memo to Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Senegal
-Forthcoming visit by Leopold Sedar Senghor, June 18, 1971

President's future meeting
‑J. Edgar Hoover
‑Newspapers
‑Television
‑President's attitude
‑Vietnam War
-Polls
‑Age
-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 9:33 am.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  3m 15s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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‑John D. Ehrlichman

Press
-Unknown woman
‑Wire service people
‑George W. Cornell, Frank Cormier, Helen A. Thomas, Bill Tice [?]
‑Writing
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.'s writing
‑Writings about President's southern trip
‑Dan Rather
‑President's southern trip
-Crowds
-Numbers
-Signs
-Commentary

President's southern trip
‑George C. Wallace
-Party
-Unknown persons
‑Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
‑North
‑Press conference
-Double standard
-South
‑Blacks
-Kennedy family
‑[Dwight] David, II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Press coverage
-Television
‑Texas

-Democrats
‑Unknown persons
‑Wallace

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  29s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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Woods left at 9:38 am.

Head of State visits
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑William P. Rogers
‑Foreign visitors
-Senghor
‑President's press conference
‑Date
‑Africans

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3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

HEAD OF STATE VISITS

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-Accommodations
-Blair House
-Duration of stay

Hoover
‑Press

Staff
-Responses to press
-Richard A. Moore
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-John A. Scali

Haldeman's possible daily meetings
‑Scali
‑Klein
‑Moore
‑Charles W. Colson

Responses to press stories
-Hoover
-California earthquake
-Press play for President
-Arts and theater coverage
-Funeral for policeman [Waverly M. Jones]
-Murder of Black girl
-Calls to Haldeman
-Police
-Murders in California
-Murder of a Black girl
-President=s response
-Letter
-Account
-Racial tension

Police
-Colson
-Ziegler
-Letter

Woods entered at 9:45 am.

Invitation to unknown person
-Kissinger

Woods left at 9:46 am.

President's schedule
‑Working lunches and dinners
-Willy Brandt
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Brandt
-Size
-Criticism

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 15s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Congress
‑Harold E. Hughes amendment vote on May 26, 1971

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  25s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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President=s schedule
-Governor Luis Ferre
‑Duration of stay in Washington
‑Meeting with the President, May 28, 1971
-Symbolism
-Egil G. (ABud@) Krogh and Ehrlichman
‑President's forthcoming meeting
-President's forthcoming meeting with Rogers

Certificates of appreciation
-High schools
-Cub Scouts
-Reserve Office Training Corps [ROTC]
-High schools
-Presidential visits
‑Birmingham, Alabama
‑Los Angeles
‑San Clemente

News of the day
‑Hoover
‑Television
‑Murders of police
-Funerals
-Ethnic and racial aspect
-President=s response
-Announcement of forthcoming police meeting, June 3, 1971
‑Drug problem
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Robert H. Finch
‑Hard line
-Psychiatrists
-Drug dealers
-Marijuana
‑Cures
-Methadone
‑President's role
-Moral leadership
‑Children
‑National speech to be made by President
‑Radio speech
‑Schools

‑Educational television
‑Speech with charts
-Speeches on foreign and domestic policy
-Alabama youth
‑College lecture
-Colloquial style

Kissinger entered at 9:57 am.

Rogers meeting
‑Before lunch

President=s schedule
-Rogers meeting
-King Faisal meeting

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Latest developments
‑Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, May 27, 1971
‑Unknown person in Vienna

Stephen Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:57 am.

Thelma C.(APat@) Nixon's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:01 am.

SALT
‑Vladimir S. Semenov

US relations with Soviet Union
‑Leonid I. Brezhnev Doctrine
‑Prague
‑United Arab Republic [UAR]
‑Character of relations
-Soviets
‑Russians
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑Summit
-Semenov

-News summary
‑Negotiations
-Timing
-Possible date

Kissinger left at 10:01 am.

Conversation No. 504‑3

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  10:01 am ‑ 10:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon met with Alexander P.  Butterfield.

Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oval Office furnishings
‑Objet d'art
-Library
‑Gifts

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:01 am.

Placement of gift from Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud Faisal [King of Saudi Arabia]

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:01 am.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  16s  ]

SAUDI ARABIA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The President, Butterfield, Mrs. Nixon, and the unknown man left at 10:03 am.

Conversation No. 504-21

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:03 am and 10:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with an unknown woman and Secret Service agents.

Oval Office furnishings
-Lucy Ferguson
-Call for unknown object
-Arrival of  unknown object
-Display of unknown object

Preparations for President=s return to Oval Office

Butterfield, et al. left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.

Conversation No. 504‑4

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  10:36 am ‑ 11:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud, Isa Sabbaugh and Camile Nowfels; the conversation is in progress when the recording begins.

US relations with Saudi Arabia
‑President's last meeting with King Faisal
‑Waldorf Astoria Hotel
‑1965 or 1966
‑Previous talks
‑William P. Rogers
-Report to President about talk with King Faisal

Ronald L. Ziegler and members of the press entered at 10:41 am.

Sabbaugh

Photograph session

Ziegler and the press left at an unknown time before 11:24 am.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  54m 30s  ]

SAUDI ARABIA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Departing comments
-Gift

The President, et al., left at 11:50 am.

Conversation No. 504-22

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 11:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with an unknown person (Saudi Arabian official?) at an unknown time after 11:50 am.

President=s schedule
-President=s location

[Unintelligible]

Unknown request

Kimberly [Surname unknown] enters at an unknown time before 11:52 am.

Butterfield, et al. left at an unknown time before 11:52 am.

Conversation No. 504‑5

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:52 am and 11:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

[Gift from Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud]
-Sword

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  9s  ]

SAUDI ARABIA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:54 am.

Conversation No. 504‑6

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:52 am and 12:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Open Door Hour

Admiral R. C. ("Hugh") Robinson and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 11:54 am.

President's appreciation of Robinson
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Robinson=s previous service with the President

Presentation of gifts
-Golf balls

Robinson and Haig left and Jack T. ("Tom") Cole and Frederic V. Malek entered at 11:56 am.

President's appreciation of Cole's work

Presentation of gifts
-Cuff links

Cole left and Robert Martin and Frank P. Rocco entered at 11:58 am.

Photo session

President's appreciation of Martin's and Rocco's work

Marijuana
-President=s view on legalization

Presentation of gifts
-Cuff links
-Golf balls

Martin, Rocco and Malek left and Bull conferred with the President at 11:59 am.

Photographs of President and Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Mr. and Mrs. Carson M. Howell and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:59 am.

Carson Howell's career in government
‑Duration
‑Mrs. Howell
‑Indiana

Photograph with the President

Presidential ashtray

Appreciation of the Howells

President's appreciation of Carson Howell

Mr. and Mrs. Howell left and Butterfield conferred with the President at 12:02 pm.

Press photograph of Catherine May Bedell

Bedell, Malek and Peter G. Peterson entered at 12:02 pm.

Preparations for photo session

Bedell's nomination [Chairperson -designate of US Tariff Commission]
‑Announcement by President
-Timing
‑Senate

Photo session

[General conversation]

State Department

Bedell's forthcoming responsibilities
‑Peterson

Presentation of gifts for Bedell and her husband
-Paper weight

Bedell
‑Peterson's relations with Bedell
‑Briefings
-Staff
‑Bedell's access to the President
‑Peterson
‑Kissinger
‑Foreign policy
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Domestic policy
‑Bedell's appreciation of President

Open Door session
-Evaluation

Bedell, et al., left at 12:05 pm.

Conversation No. 504‑7

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:05 pm and 12:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

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

Conversation No. 504‑8

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  12:10 pm ‑ 1:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud=s visit

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

SAUDI ARABIA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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‑Possible impact of recent meeting on US Jews

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Political returnable]
[Duration:  1m  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

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Visits by Heads of State
‑Blair House use
‑Haldeman call Wiliam P. Rogers
‑Anastasio Somoza Debayle
-Expense
‑Food
‑Refreshments
-Military responsibilities
‑Gen. James S. (ADon@) Hughes
‑Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
‑Hughes
‑Military District of Washington unit
‑State visits
‑President's appreciation
‑Possible letter to Moorer
-Appreciation
‑Washington, DC
‑Public impression
‑Crowd size
‑King Faisal [?]
‑Somoza's visit
-Value of meetings
‑Political impact
-Time required
‑Blair House
-Africans
‑Instructions to Haldeman
-President=s note to Hughes

Presidential press conference
‑Scheduling
‑Congress
‑Bureaucracy

Peter G. Peterson
‑Economic presentation to bipartisan leadership
‑President's attendance
‑Reception
‑Schedule
-Date
‑Location of presentation
‑Number of attendees
‑Attendees

President's schedule
‑Rose Mary Woods

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  3s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12

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‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, Carl B. Albert
‑Vietnam
‑Robert S. Elegant
‑Los Angeles Times
-President=s possible meeting
-Elegant=s location
-Chalmers Roberts
-Wiliam S. White
‑Charles E. Wilson
‑Meeting with President
‑Unions
‑Anti‑trust laws

‑Meeting with Peter M. Flanigan
‑President to meet with Spiro T. Agnew
‑Trip to Korea
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Dr. [Edward] Zigler to meet with President
‑Final report of White House Conference on Children
‑Businessmen's dinner
‑Maurice H. Stans dinner
‑W. Clement Stone dinner
‑National Association of Businessmen [NAB]
‑Business council
‑Peterson
-Briefing
‑Dinner
-Timing
‑Clark MacGregor's recommendation
‑President to meet with Republican regulars
‑House conservatives
-Samuel L. Devine
‑Daniel H. Kuykendall
‑Birchers
‑House loyalists
-Kuykendall task force
‑Devine
‑Bill Archer
‑Page Belcher
‑William G. Bray
‑J. Herbert Burke
‑John N. (AHappy) Camp
‑Don H. Clausen and Delwin Clawson
‑George Collins
‑Philip M. Crane
‑Edward J. Derwinski
-John H. Duncan
‑MacGregor
‑Senate candidates
‑Meeting with President
‑William B. Saxbe
-Kuykendall
‑Invitation from Melvin R. Laird
‑Somoza dinner
‑Camp David

‑Farewell call of Danish Ambassador
-Meeting with unknown woman
-Unknown man

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  50s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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‑National merit scholars
‑Agnew
‑President's previous meeting, 1970
‑High school students
‑18 year old vote
‑Location of Agnew=s forthcoming meeting
-Blair House

Mitchell

Youth vote
‑Identification with youth
‑Old folks
‑National merit scholars

President's schedule
‑President's possible appearance
-New Hampshire General Court
‑Robert C. Hill
-Peterson
‑President's possible visit to New Hampshire
‑Maine

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[National Security]
[Duration:  14s  ]

PROTECTION OF THE PRESIDENT

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9

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‑President's visit to Maine
‑President's visit to New Hampshire
‑Legislature
‑Cancer research center
‑Federal grant
‑Dartmouth University
‑Commencement
‑Summer session
‑Medical school
‑Manchester
‑Primary
‑Memos to Haldeman
‑Jeffrey Bell
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Kevin P. Phillips
‑Primary
‑Primary states
‑Oregon
‑Wisconsin
‑Nebraska
‑New Hampshire
‑President=s possible visit
-Dreyfuss Island
-Reception
‑Hill
‑Summer resorts
‑Maine
‑Dreyfuss Island

‑Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania museum opening
‑Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon
‑Wyeth family
‑Pennsylvania
‑American Medical Association [AMA]
‑40,000 doctors in Atlantic City
‑Cancer
‑Political impact
‑Edward L. Morgan
‑Health speech
‑June 21-22, 1971
‑California
‑California
‑Mitchell

Kissinger entered at 12:40 pm.

Vietnam
‑Nguyen Van Thieu

President's schedule
‑California
-Thieu
‑Meetings
‑Goals meeting
‑Thieu
‑Fourth of July weekend
‑Honor America
‑Champaign, Illinois
‑University
-Possible festivities
‑Inspirational speech
‑California
-Midway
-Congress
‑AMA
‑California
-AMA
-Possible reception

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

US  relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑President's meeting with William P. Rogers
‑Balance of force reductions
‑Chinese representation
‑Balance of force reductions
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
‑Forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting
‑Rogers
‑Europeans
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Discussion with USSR
‑September
‑Kissinger Meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Letter
‑Rogers
‑Cut in forces
‑Laird

Two Chinas issue
‑US strategy
-People=s Republic of China [PRC] and Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC]
‑Chinese nationalists
‑Taiwan
‑United Nations [UN] Security Council Seat
-Robert D. Murphy
‑UN Security Council Seat
‑British
‑Rogers
-Forthcoming consultations
‑Status of decision making
-Consensus
‑Chinese
‑Rogers
‑Politics
‑Eastern newspapers

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[National Security]
[Duration:  37s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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-Unknown person=s views
‑US peace posture
‑Senate
-Kissinger=s view
-Existing policy
‑United Nations [UN]
‑Rogers
‑PRC
‑Taiwan
-Possible consequences of US policy shift
‑Joseph W. Alsop
‑Asia
‑Africa
‑Middle East

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[National Security]
[Duration:  22s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10

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‑Peking
-President=s possible visit
‑Rogers
-Non-committal position
‑UN Security Council Seat
-Credentials issue
-US veto
‑Majority
‑Issues

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[National Security]
[Duration:  6s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11

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-Representation
‑PRC, Taiwan
‑Security Council
‑George H.W. Bush
‑State Department

Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
‑Timing
‑NSC meeting
‑Laird
‑Rogers
‑Andrew J. Goodpaster

Two Chinas issue
-Consultation with allies
-British

‑Australians
‑USSR
‑Kissinger's memo to the President
‑Dobrynin's comments to Kissinger
‑Consequences for USSR
-PRC in UN
‑USSR
‑Chinese revolution
‑Harold Lee
‑Mao Tse Tung
‑Ho Chi Minh
‑Josef V. Stalin
‑PRC compared to USSR
‑Communist Country
‑Communist Party
-Army
‑Taiwan
‑Changing US policy

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[National Security]
[Duration:  9s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13

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‑Possible PRC reaction
‑Seat in Security Council
‑US present policy
‑Taiwan
‑Peking

Stephen B. Bull enters at an unknown time after 12:40 pm.

President's schedule
‑King Faisal

Agnew
-Rogers

President=s schedule
-King Faisal

Kissinger and Bull left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 1:00 pm.

Kissinger

The President and Butterfield left at 1:00 pm.

Conversation No. 504‑9

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  2:32 pm ‑ 2:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
‑Meeting
‑William P. Rogers
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Letter

Butterfield left at 2:35 pm.

Conversation No. 504‑10

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  2:39 pm ‑ 2:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  31s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Rose Mary Woods left at 2:42 pm.

Conversation No. 504‑11

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  2:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman; Alexander P. Butterfield can be heard in the background.

Wiliam P. Rogers

President's schedule
‑C and M [Congressional mixer?]
‑Meets on Wednesday
‑President's attendance
‑Congressional event
‑President's schedule for next Wednesday
‑Congressional event

‑Briefing
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Anastasio Somoza Debayle visit
-President=s forthcoming trip to California

Conversation No. 504‑12

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  2:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Meeting with William P. Rogers

Butterfield left at 2:42 pm.

Conversation No. 504‑13

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  2:42 pm ‑ 4:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Unknown person's letter to Time magazine
‑Tone
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Democrat
‑NATO
‑Letter

William P. Rogers entered at an unknown time after 2:42 pm.

Lunch
‑Food
‑Refreshments

People's Republic of China [PRC]

Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Forthcoming NATO meeting
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers attendance
‑European Security Council
‑Negotiations
‑Reductions
‑Strategy
‑Germans
-European Security conference
-Berlin issue
‑Willy Brandt's comments on May 26, 1971
‑Andrew J. Goodpaster
-Defense Department
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Negotiations
‑Laird
‑Limited, mutual reduction
‑Tanks
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Amendment
‑Mutual balance
-Final agreement
-Prospects
‑Type of reduction agreement
‑10% Reduction
‑Troops
‑Effect on the US
‑Manpower
‑Tanks
‑Symbolism
‑Congressional support for administration position
‑Europeans
‑German Desires
‑US strategy
-Pace
‑Limited initial goals
‑Final balanced force division
‑Complexity
‑Europeans

‑10% Reduction
-Progress of negotiations
-Prospects
‑Role of the US
-Timing
‑Force reductions
‑10%
‑USSR
‑Estimation of their response to force reductions
-Studies
‑NATO Council
‑Kissinger=s conversation with unknown person
‑NATO Council
‑NATO Allies
‑Consultation

Albanian resolution
-US position
-Possible failure
‑United Nations [UN] vote
-Important question
‑Admission of PRC
‑Expulsion of Taiwan
‑Prospect of passing
‑PRC admitted, Taiwan expelled
‑UN Security Council
‑Possible advantages of supporting

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  30s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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‑Possible political consequences for President
-Young people
‑Dual representation

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration:  13s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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‑US allies
‑Taiwan
‑Possible UN resolution
‑PRC
-Admission by majority vote
‑Taiwan
‑Expulsion by two-thirds vote
-Prospects for success
‑Seat in the Security Council
‑PRC
-UN General Assembly
‑Taiwan and PRC in the UN
‑Issue of Security Council Seat
‑US veto
‑Credentials issue
‑PRC
-Taiwan seat
‑US discussion with her allies
-Speech
-Prospects
‑UN

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration:  1m  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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‑Future course of US policy
‑PRC
‑Seat in the UN
‑SALT
‑USSR
‑Effect on USSR in the UN

[Unintelligible]

‑PRC initiative
‑Ping pong diplomacy
‑Possible reaction of US public
‑PRC seated in the UN
‑Peace in Middle East
‑US relations with USSR
-Berlin
‑Mutual balance of forces
‑Vietnam
-Possible public reaction
‑Middle East
‑China
-USSR
‑Two Chinas in the UN
‑Foreign policy leadership
-Liberals
‑PRC
‑Seat in the UN
-Expulsion of Taiwan

-China lobby
‑Chiang Kai‑shek
-Lack of principle
-Intellectuals
-1972 election
-Democrats
‑Taiwan
‑PRC
‑Two Chinas
‑Dual UN representation

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[National Security]
[Duration:  46s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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‑1970 UN resolution on PRC
-Supporting votes
-Abstentions
‑PRC
-Inclusion in UN 
-Dual representation
‑Seat in the Security Council
‑UN vote

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 42s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

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‑US relations with Taiwan

Rogers= forthcoming trip
‑Duration
‑Instructions for Rogers
-US examination of position

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[National Security]
[Duration:  7s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9

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‑Need for time

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[National Security]
[Duration:  25s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10

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‑Change in US policy on PRC
‑Hardliners in Congress and in the press
-China lobby
-Exploration of allied views
-Options
-Press conference

Two Chinas issue
‑US policy
-Temporary delay
‑Chiang Kai‑shek
‑President's decision
-News story
‑US private discussions on PRC
-Speech
‑British
‑French
-American Bar Association [ABA] [?]
‑Role for Rogers
-Possible speech

[Unintelligible]

‑Great Britain
‑Chiang Kai‑shek
‑US approach to other nations
‑Possible approaches to be used
-Possible phrasing of proposal

‑How diplomats will respond
-Delay
-Possible consequences
‑Chiang Kai‑shek
‑Delay
‑Role for Rogers
‑Announcement
‑Rogers= view

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[National Security]
[Duration:  18s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11

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-Principle
-PRC

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[National Security]
[Duration:  25s  ]

CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12

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‑ABA [?]
-Timing
‑Jacob K. Javits= and George S. McGovern's resolution
‑Forthcoming hearings
-NATO meeting
‑Laird
‑USSR
‑Australia
-Summary of Rogers= instructions
-Timing
‑Possibility of President making a speech
‑Senate
-ABA
‑Television

Europe
-Franklin D. [?] Roosevelt
-US domestic support
‑Reduction of forces
‑Need for unity
‑UN
‑NATO

[Unintelligible]

Dr. David K.E. Bruce's replacement
‑Henry Cabot Lodge
-Leonard Unger
‑Walter P. McConaughy
‑Foreign Service officers
‑Public officials
‑Vietnam negotiations
‑Prisoners of war [POWs]
-[Names unintelligible] 
-[Forename unknown] Colmer [?]
-Unger
‑Knowledge of Vietnam
‑Bruce's view of his job
‑Colmer [?]
‑Laird
‑Charles Nelson [?]

UN appointment
‑George H.W. Bush
-Unknown candidate
‑Rogers= choice

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration:  33s  ]

MEXICO

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‑Manlio Brosio
-Medal of Freedom
‑Austrians
‑Kurt Waldheim
‑Austria
‑Ceylon
‑Africa
-South Africa
-John A. Volpe
‑USSR
‑U Thant

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[National Security]
[Duration:  31s  ]

MEXICO

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13

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Rogers= upcoming trip
‑Drugs
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]

Rogers left at 4:09 pm.

PRC
‑Rogers= views
‑Delay
‑Tactics
-Delay

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:09 pm.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and Egil G. (ABud@) Krogh, Jr. in 10 minutes

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:26 pm.

PRC
‑State Department
‑Strategy
-Lack of position
-Press conference
‑Rogers
‑Marshall Green's advice
‑Two Chinas
‑Principle
‑Selfishness

-Kissinger=s view
-Delay
-Two China position
‑Kissinger's visit to PRC
-Universality
‑Possible votes in UN
‑PRC accepted by majority
‑Taiwan expelled by 2/3 vote
-Domestic concerns	
-Polls
‑Possible announcements
-President
‑Tactics
‑Credit

Europe
‑MBFR
‑Reductions
‑US position

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  11s  ]

ITALY

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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‑Russians
‑NATO

Leadership
‑John Foster Dulles style of diplomacy
‑Jeremiah
‑Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
‑Seventeen Nation Disarmament Conference

‑Nixon
‑Intellectual Opinion
‑Douglas [?] Dillon's comments to Kissinger
-President=s Vietnam policy
‑Kissinger's views
‑Soft-line
‑Intellectuals
‑Position on Nixon in 1972
‑Influence
‑Senators

MBFR
‑Vienna
‑Strategy
‑Reduction of forces

-Summit
‑European alliance
‑Rogers
‑Advisors
‑Tactics
‑Competence

PRC
‑Rogers trip
-Duration
‑Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
-Message
-Date of delivery to PRC
-Laird
‑Pakistani Ambassador
‑Kissinger's wire to Karachi
-Laird
‑US Ambassador
‑Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
‑Code
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Moorer
‑Messages
-Speed
‑Yahya in Lahore
‑Message to PRC
‑Date of reply

‑Chances of a reply
‑Presidential visit
‑Possible visit of a public emissary
‑PRC
‑Revolutionaries
‑Mao Tse Tung
‑Great March
‑Visit by the President

Russians
‑Leonid I. Brezhnev
‑Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin on May 27, 1971
‑Trade deal
‑$500 Million
‑Possible Summit meeting
‑Russian strategy
‑President's eagerness
‑Berlin
‑Trade
‑Summit
‑US desire for a Summit
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Vladimir S. Semenov
-Announcement
‑Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
‑Antiballistic Missiles [ABM]
‑President's foreign policy style
‑Possible talking points
‑Summit
-Date
‑Trade
‑Berlin
‑Russians need for a Summit
‑Kissinger's letters to Russians
‑Possible response of Llewellyn E. (ATommy@) Thompson, Jr.
‑Berlin
‑Kissinger's cable to [David] Kenneth Rush
-Delay
‑US strategy
-Pace of events
‑Summit

PRC
-Kissinger=s planned trip

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 5s  ]

TAIWAN

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Mansfield Amendment
-Meeting in Cabinet Room, May 13, 1971
‑John J. McCloy's comments
‑Time magazine
‑Dean G. Acheson
‑Time magazine
‑Cyrus R. Vance

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:09 pm.

President's schedule
‑John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:26 pm.

US politics
-Vance
‑Democrats
‑Vance
‑Secretary of State
-Edmund S. Muskie
‑Democrats
-May 13 meeting
‑Hugh Scott

‑Meeting of the Arts Council
‑Support for the President
‑May 13 meeting
‑Gratitude to Kissinger
‑Statements attributed to Acheson and McCloy
‑Gen. Lauris Norstad
‑Vance
‑Clark M. Clifford
‑Norstad
‑Tour of duty with NATO

Kissinger left at 4:26 pm.

Conversation No. 504‑14

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:26 pm and 4:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler, Egil G. (ABud@) Krogh, Jr., and John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:28 pm.

Conversation No. 504‑15

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  4:28 pm ‑ 6:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Ronald L. Ziegler, Egil G. (ABud@) Krogh, Jr., and John D. Ehrlichman met.

Gift from Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud
-Sword

Greetings

[General Conversation]

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Procedures
‑President's directive
‑Detective work
-Local resources
-Executive order directive
-Division of authority
‑Black girl killed in Mississippi
‑Federal crime
-Civil rights
-Unknown person
‑Step‑grandmother
‑Mother
‑Stepmother
‑Mother's father
‑Harrison Williams= bill
‑Ziegler=s possible statement
‑Administration's stance
-Roles of police agencies
-Directive
-Possible call to Director
‑FBI
‑Political statement

The President entered at an unknown time after 4:28 pm.

‑Summary
‑FBI
‑Killings of firemen and policemen
‑President's directive of November, 1970
‑Investigations

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Investigatory Information]
[Duration:  1m 24s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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‑97.4% of crimes solved within thirty days
‑President's FBI directive of November 1, 1970
‑Possible announcement by Ziegler

Ziegler left at 4:35 pm.

Narcotics Special Action Office
‑Memo outlining steps
‑Trying to gain an initiative
‑Congress
‑Vietnam
‑Robert H. Finch
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Establishment
‑Starting June 1, 1971
‑Directive to Melvin R. Laird
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Rehabilitation
‑Prevention
‑Education
‑Research
‑Rehabilitation
‑Washington, DC
‑Clinics of the Narcotics Treatment Administration
‑Methadone maintenance
-Psychotherapy
-Counseling
‑Control
‑Parole
‑Programs
‑Budget

‑Evaluation
‑Congress
‑Legislation
‑Appropriation
‑Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
‑Veterans Administration [VA]
‑Department of Defense [DOD]
‑Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
‑Implementation
‑Legislative package to Congress
-Timing
‑Richardson
‑New structure in HEW
-Special assistant
‑OEO
‑VA prevention programs
‑DOD prevention programs
‑Attorney General
‑Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Bill
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Law enforcement
‑Jerry V. Wilson
‑Treatment for heroin addicts
-Crime rate
‑Methadone maintenance and street crime
‑Treatment programs
‑Reduction of crime

US servicemen and narcotics
‑Returning servicemen from Vietnam
‑Heroin
‑Cost
-Vietnam and US compared
‑Stealing
-Legislative efforts
-Military
-Identify, hold, and treat heroin addicts
-Release into civilian life
-Averting crime
‑Methadone
-Example cited
‑Addicted Vietnam servicemen

‑Number
‑Krogh's visit to Vietnam
‑George P. Shultz=s and Ehrlichman=s visit to Vietnam
‑John E. (AJack@) Ingersoll
-Vietnam
‑President Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Ellsworth F. Bunker
‑Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
‑Heroin smuggling into Vietnam
‑Smuggling entry points
-Laos, Thailand, Cambodia
‑Bunker
‑Thieu
‑Cable from Bunker to the White House

Ziegler entered at 4:43 pm.

Ziegler=s forthcoming press conference
‑Possible announcements
‑Drug problem
‑Krogh
‑Announcement by the President
-Domestic Council
‑Richard G. Kleindienst
‑Letter
‑Law enforcement

Ziegler left at 4:44 pm.

International drug interdiction
‑Bunker
-Vietnam
‑Anti‑smuggling
‑Col. [Forename unknown] Hofson [?]
‑Rank
‑Laird
‑Drug programs in DOD
‑Laird's role in drug programs
-Forthcoming meeting with President
-Laird and Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-David Packard
-Timing
-Ingersoll

-Report on trip
-Ingersoll=s possible appointment
‑State Department
‑Ingersoll's role
-Prevention in Turkey and France
‑Attorney General
-Consolidating program
‑Ingersoll and Attorney General
‑International narcotics bills
-Multilateral
-US assistance
-US policy
-Opposition
-Economic and military aid
-Treaties
-United Nations [UN], North America Treaty Organization [NATO]
-State Department
-Turkey and France
‑Possible public statement by the President
-Possible forums
-Vietnam
‑Middle East
‑Far East
‑International nature of the drug problem
‑Finch and Rumsfeld
-Armed forces
‑Legislative package
-Supplemental appropriation
-$110 million
-HEW
‑$50 Million to Ingersoll

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  18s  ]

THAILAND

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‑National Institutes of Mental Health [NIMH]
‑Methadone program
‑NIMH
‑Methadone
-Community mental health centers
‑Chicago
‑Washington, DC
‑Narcotics Treatment Administration
‑Psychiatrists
-Money
‑NIMH funding
‑Financing for programs treating servicemen
‑Special Action Office
‑Secretary of Defense
‑Prevent discharge of addicts
‑Heroin problem

Drugs as a social issue
‑Vietnam war protesters
‑Drugs
‑Nationwide problem
‑Finch-Rumsfeld report
-Civilians
-President as eyewitness
‑Rome

‑Paris
‑Nepal
‑Afghanistan
‑Commune
‑India

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security/Privacy]
[Duration:  27s  ]

INDIA

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‑Vietnam
‑Europe
‑Jobs
‑DOD
‑Abrams= statement
-Correlation of combat role and drug use
‑Boredom
‑Frustration

Vietnam
‑Availability of drugs
-Heroin
-Cost
‑Thieu's reaction
-Administration=s complexity
‑Police force
‑Government
‑Prime Minister's family
‑National Security Council [NSC]
‑Tran Kim Quang
‑NSC

‑State Department meeting
‑Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan's comments
‑Drug source
‑State Department official's comments

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18
[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 25s  ]

SOUTHEAST ASIA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18

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‑Heroin
‑History of problem
-April 1970
‑Marijuana
‑Amphetamines
‑Barbiturates
‑Marijuana
‑Seriousness of heroin problem
-Administration efforts
-Krogh visit
-US armed forces
-Proportion
-Possible statement by President
-Press conference
‑Possibility of a Presidential press conference on the issue of the drug problem in Vietnam

Legislative package
-John A. Scali
-Timing
‑Staff efforts

Bertram S. Brown [NIMH Director]
-Richardson
‑Employment at NIMH
‑Possible firing
‑Conduct
‑Views on marijuana
‑Federal funding of psychiatric training
‑Brown's reaction
‑Comments at a Congressional hearing
‑Richardson's reaction
‑Frederic V. Malek
‑Richardson's assessment of the political ramifications
-Possible Brown firing
‑Brown's marijuana quote
‑Washington Post
‑Possession of marijuana
‑Brown
‑Job in Massachusetts
‑Richardson
‑Deputy NIMH
‑Brown's administrative abilities
‑Unknown book on HEW

Richardson and Malek entered at 5:06 pm.

‑Hugh Scott
‑Edward W. Brooke
‑White House
‑Finch
‑Brown
-Newspaper quotation
‑As administrator
‑Statements on marijuana

Drug problem with veterans
‑President's forthcoming breakfast
‑Joint Chiefs of Staff
‑Service secretaries
‑Laird
‑David Packard

Brown
‑Mental health
‑Cooperation from Brown
-Richardson
-NIMH
‑Brown's career
‑Department of Mental Health
‑Post‑graduate work at Harvard University medical school
‑John A. Volpe
‑Department of Mental Health
-Massachusetts
‑Volpe
‑Promotion to NIMH

NIMH
-Size
‑St. Elizabeth's Hospital
‑Washington, D.C.
‑Fire hazards
‑Budget
‑Size
‑Administrative history
‑National Institutes of Health [NIH]
‑Reorganization
‑Health Services and Mental Health Administration [HSMHA]
‑Indian, public health, and hospital services
‑Vernon E. Wilson
‑University of Missouri
‑Malek
‑HSMHA
-NIMH
‑Roger O. Egeberg
‑Wilson
‑Merlin K. Duval
‑Egeberg
-Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon
-Title
‑Possible meeting with the President

Brown
‑Testimony before Congress
‑Ehrlichman's call to Richardson
-President=s concerns

-Press conference, May 1, 1971
-Commission on marijuana and drug abuse
‑Brown's congressional testimony
‑Marijuana
-Legalization
-Penalties for use
‑Possible firing
‑Age
‑White House work
‑His testimony on marijuana
‑President's stand on marijuana
-Consistency of statements
-Philosophy
‑Psychiatry
‑Stan Yolles
‑Firing
‑Brown
‑Previous work with Richardson
-Massachusetts
‑Legislation on community health services
-Local initiatives
‑Richardson=s forthcoming discussion with Brown
‑Talking points
-Uncompromising line
‑Veterans
-Narcotics Special Action Office
-Following administration policy
-Richardson=s responsibility

Drug Addiction
‑Heroin abuse
‑Armed Forces
-Numbers
‑Crime
‑Brown's views on heroin
‑Methadone
‑Brown
‑Richardson's meeting with Brown regarding drugs on May 26, 1971
‑Krogh
‑Narcotics Special Action Office
‑Jerome H. Jaffe
‑Psychiatrist
‑Illinois

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19
[Privacy]
[Duration:  15s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19

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‑Other candidates
‑Psychiatrists
‑Community based mental health facilities
‑Group therapy
‑Alcoholism
‑Psychiatrist
‑Clergy
‑Group therapy
-Yale University secret societies
‑Richardson
-Brown
-Possible meeting with the President
-Jaffe
‑Previous experience
‑Age
‑World War I
‑World War II
‑Effect on US foreign policy
‑South Vietnamese smuggling drugs
‑Public reaction
‑Press stories
‑Subcommittee in the House
-Robert H. Steele
-Trip
‑Report
‑Vietnamese officials and heroin smuggling
‑Thieu
-South Vietnam government
‑Bunker and Abrams meeting with Thieu
‑Steele

-Bunker
‑Abrams
‑Thieu
‑Reporters in Vietnam
‑Possible White House reaction to press stories
-Low profile
-Steele
‑Thieu
‑Bunker's proposal to Thieu last week

Health program
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-White paper
‑HEW mailing
-Congress, newspapers, radio, television
‑Richardson
-William F. Buckley, Jr.'s  program "Firing Line", May 26, 1971
‑Buckley
‑Program=s theme
‑Kennedy's health proposal

Murder of black girl in Birmingham [?]
‑Response of Southern editors

H.R. 1
‑Status 
‑Hearings in House Rules Committee
‑Wilbur D. Mills
-Timing
-Revenue sharing
‑Senate
‑Richardson's lobbying efforts
‑Carl T. Curtis
‑Ronald W. Reagan
‑Position
‑Edwin Meese, III
‑Frank C. Carlucci
‑California Rural Legal Assistance [CRLA]
‑Meese
‑Administration strategy
‑Edwin Reinecke
‑President's assistance
-Reagan

‑Effects of H.R. 1
‑Administration strategy
‑Planning a trip for Richardson
‑Commonwealth Club in San Francisco
‑Television appearance in Los Angeles

Richardson and Malek left at 5:48 pm.

President's schedule
‑Policemen
‑Hoover
‑Dwight L. Chapin
‑Wednesday breakfast
-JCS
‑Leaders meetings
‑Anastasio Somoza Debayle

Krogh left at 5:49 pm.

Gift
-Sword
-Saudis

Richardson
-Brown
‑Finch

Leon Panetta's book
‑Finch
‑Ehrlichman
‑Civil rights
‑Resignation
-President=s statement on school desegregation, March 24, 1970
‑Ehrlichman's staff

Secretary Richardson
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑William P. Rogers
-Possible appointment
-State Department

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 5:49 pm.

Rose Mary Woods
‑Location

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 5:51 pm.

Haldeman entered at 5:51 pm.

President's schedule
‑Domestic Council
‑JCS
-Breakfast
‑Boy Scouts
‑Somoza

Drugs
‑Armed Services addiction problem
‑President=s forthcoming meeting
‑Laird
‑Kissinger
‑Ingersoll
‑Laird
‑Packard
‑John N. Mitchell
-Krogh

Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
‑Cop‑killers
‑Jail
‑Cops

Hoover
‑Criticism

Black Panthers
‑Guilt

Kissinger entered at 5:56 pm.

Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Internal policies
‑State Department

‑Treatment of Jews in the USSR
‑Statement regarding the USSR
-White House
‑Kissinger's religion
‑Treatment of Blacks in the US
‑Max M. Fisher

Drugs in Vietnam
‑Forthcoming meeting, June 3, 1971
‑Arthur T. Downey
‑$120 million program
‑100,000 Vietnam veteran addicts
-Krogh
‑Heroin
‑Congress
‑Drug trafficking
‑Thieu
‑Forthcoming meeting of President, JCS, Service Secretaries, Laird and Packard
-Army
-Volunteers
‑Cost of heroin in Vietnam compared to cost in US
‑Crime
‑Ehrlichman
‑Kissinger
‑Jaffe
-White House Special Action Group
‑HEW
‑Defense Department
‑State Department
‑Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld report
‑Drugs in Armed Forces in Europe
‑Civilian drug use
‑Hippies
-Foreign policy considerations
‑Foreign service
-Turkey
‑Importance as an issue
‑U. Alexis Johnson
-Rogers
‑John N. Irwin, II
‑Attitude in the State Department
‑Status quo
‑Johnson's attendance at upcoming meeting

‑Ehrlichman
-Drug trafficking
‑State Department's efforts
-Turkey	
-Thailand
‑Bunker
‑Americans in Europe
‑Finch and Rumsfeld report
‑Separate meeting
-Forthcoming meeting
-JCS
‑Armed Service Secretaries
‑Stanley R. Resor
-Robert F. Froehlke
‑Resor's statement
‑Laird
‑Froehlke
‑Press
‑John H. Chafee
‑Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
‑Armed Services Secretaries
‑Veterans Administration
-Donald E. Johnson
‑Leaks
‑Classified information
‑New York Times
‑Intelligence
‑Jack N. Anderson's column
‑Sources
‑Richard M. Helms
‑Defense Department
‑Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-Helms
‑Leaks
‑Missiles

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  23s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20

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‑Richardson
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Foreign Affairs
‑Rogers
‑Spiro T. Agnew's talk with Haldeman on May 26, 1971
‑Article in Washington Star
‑Agnew's meeting with South African ministers
‑Rogers= canceled meeting with South African minister
‑Trade discussions
‑African bureau
‑David P. Newsome
‑White House Policy on Blacks
‑Agnew
‑South African Minister of Information
‑Rogers= call to Agnew

Panetta
‑Book
-Firing
‑HEW
‑Brooke
‑Scott
‑Finch and Ehrlichman
‑Firing

Charles W. Yost
‑New summaries
‑Firing
‑State Department
-Activities

‑Dean G. Acheson
-Disloyalty

Leaks
-Missile silos
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-US defense build-up
-USSR

Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
‑Memo by Roger Barth
‑IRS audit of Republicans in South Carolina
‑Don Bacon[?], Deputy Director in IRS
‑Audit of President's income taxes in 1961
‑Culpability

Wire taps
‑Robert C. Mardian
‑J. Edgar Hoover
‑Central File records
-Mardian=s efforts
‑Robert F. Kennedy
‑National security
‑Political enemies
‑Hoover
‑Use of outsiders
‑Kissinger's phones

IRS
‑John B. Connally
-Tax audit
-Johnnie M. Walters
‑Barth

‑Rose Mary Woods
‑Tax lawyer

Leaks
‑Defense Department and ACDA

Vietnam
‑Kissinger's relations with Laird
‑Laird's meeting with President
‑Helicopters in Vietnam
‑Connally
‑Importance of helicopters in Vietnam
‑Laird's goal in Vietnam
‑Bombing in North Laos
‑Laird order
‑Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
‑Daily reports
‑Haig
‑ACDA
-Leaks
‑Defense and ACDA
‑Philip J. Farley
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Intelligence
-Possible consequences of leaks
‑Staff meeting of May 27, 1971
-John Finney
-Intelligence
-Mining

Leaks
‑National security tap on John Finney
-Hoover
‑Subpoena
‑Surveillance
‑Helms
‑Breaking the law
‑Photographs
‑Surveillance operations
‑Government
‑Private person
‑New York Times
‑Finney
‑Identity of leakers
-Finney=s sources
‑National security
‑Photographic equipment
‑Congress
‑Secret government clearances

‑Oath of secrecy
‑Identity of leakers
-White House
‑State Department
-ACDA
‑Smith
-ACDA
-Farley
‑Defense Department
-Laird=s office
-Moorer
-Robert E. Pursley
‑Need for administration action
‑1972 election
‑State Department
‑Loyalty
-Defense Department
-Loyalty
-Military
-Robert S. McNamara
‑ACDA
‑Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

Appointments
-CIA
‑Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Military
‑Cushman
‑Possible position
-Commandant of the Marine Corps
‑Finch
-Possible rank
-Marine Corps
-Maj. Gen James D. (ADon@) Hughes
-JCS
‑CIA
‑JCS
‑Moorer
‑Andrew J. Goodpaster
‑Reappointment
‑Cushman
‑Commandant

-Goodpaster
-CIA
-Walters

Domestic wiretapping
-Walters
‑Cushman
‑National security
‑Walters
‑Conspiracy
‑Cushman

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[National Security]
[Duration:  13s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16

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Walters
-Support for Nixon

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 22
[National Security]
[Duration:  14s  ]

INTELLIGENCE

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 22

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[First name unknown] Drummond
‑Kissinger's staff
‑Possible appointments
-Promotions
-Navy Chief of Operations

Haig
‑Possible appointment
‑Army Chief of Staff

Army
‑Gen. William C. Westmoreland
‑JCS
‑Four year terms
‑Laird
‑Abrams
‑Laos operation
‑Bangkok
-Health
‑Laos
‑Ability as an army officer
‑Bangkok
‑Kissinger's cables to Abrams
‑Abrams= replies

Vietnam
‑World War II
‑Garrison H. Davidson
‑Richard G. Stilwell
‑President's friendship with Stilwell
‑Davidson
‑Gen. Charles H. Bonesteel, III

The President, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Kissinger left at 6:38 pm.

Conversation No. 504‑16

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:27 pm and 9:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  13s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:00 pm.

Conversation No. 504‑17

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:27 pm and 9:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  14s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:00 pm.

Conversation No. 504‑18

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:27 pm and 9:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a letter to John J. McCloy.

Thanks for McCloy's letter of May 21, 1971

Conversation No. 504‑19

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:27 pm and 9:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a letter to Thomas W. Fletcher.

Fletcher
-Deputy Mayor, Washington, DC
-San Jose
-John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 504‑20

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:27 pm and 9:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to James Cardinal McIntyre in Los Angeles