Conversation No. 505‑1

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 10:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Charles W. Colson
‑Assignment
-Unknown activity of May 25, 1971
-Letters

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

Conversation No. 505‑2

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 10:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum.

President dictates memorandum
-William P. Rogers
‑Middle East
‑Israel
‑Jewish community in US
‑Jewish lobby
‑US aid

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[Duration:  12s  ]

ISRAEL

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-Jewish lobby
-Financial contributions to Congressmen and Senators
-Media
-US security interest
‑US policy post‑1956

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[Duration:  2m 20s  ]

ISRAEL

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‑Persecution of Jews during World War II
‑Condition of Arab refugees
‑President's African trip, 1957
-Israel
-Egypt
-Morocco

-Tunisia
‑Reaction by US Jewish community to report

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[National Security]
[Duration:  14s  ]

ISRAEL

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‑Political decisions
-Peace prospects

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[National Security]
[Duration:  9m 4s  ]

ISRAEL

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‑Negotiations
-President=s possible role

Conversation No. 505‑3

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 10:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Unknown person's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.

Conversation No. 505‑4

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  10:03 am ‑ 11:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Police
‑Funeral
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
‑Richard A. Moore
-Memorandum to William P. Rogers
‑Telephone call to widow of policeman
‑Moore
-President=s view
‑Richard S. Schweiker
-Bill
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Vietnam
‑Demonstration
-Constituency
‑Moore
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Riots
-Police Benevolent Association [PBA]
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Moore

‑Black Panthers
‑Bobby G. Seale
‑Jury
‑Chicago
‑Unknown woman

Marijuana
‑Statement
-Domestic Council
-News summary
‑Jews
‑Psychiatrists
-Moore
-Legalization
-Congress

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:08 am.

President=s schedule
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible meeting
-Date
-Frederick L. Hovde
-California
-Budget Sessions
‑North Vietnam
-Forthcoming appointments
‑Paris
-Meeting with Thieu
‑People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
‑Date of Meeting
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Aleksei N. Kosygin=s letter
‑Walt W. Rostow
‑Lyndon B. Johnson Appreciation
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Proposed Trips
‑Korea
-PRC
‑Greece

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[Duration:  20s  ]

GREECE

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-Korea
‑Thailand
‑Japan
‑Kissinger's trips
-Korea
‑PRC
‑Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
‑Kissinger=s forthcoming trip
-Deception

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[Duration:  11s  ]

PAKISTAN

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‑Pope Paul VI
‑Rogers
‑John A. Volpe
‑Italy
‑Spain
‑Portugal
‑Congo
‑Kenya
-Cabinet officers= trips
‑Trip report
‑Robert H. Finch
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Maurice H. Stans
-Reports
-[Forename unknown] Gleason
‑Vice President's proposed trips
‑Greece
-Indonesia
‑Australia
‑New Zealand
‑Thailand
‑Iran
-Cabinet officers
‑Air Force One
-Rogers

William F. (ABilly@) Graham
‑Unknown religious persecution case
‑Riga, Latvia
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Meeting with the President
‑Anti‑Semitism
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Poland
‑James O. Eastland
‑Negroes
‑Poles
-Anti-Semitism
‑Rogers
‑Agnew=s possible trip to Israel

Graham

Vice Presidential trips
‑Africa
‑Congo
‑Europe
‑Austria
‑Hungary
‑Scandinavia
‑Denmark
‑Sweden
‑Austria
‑Germany
‑Berlin

Dobrynin
‑Summit

Planned press conference
‑Timing
-Audience
‑Moore
-Timing

Schedule
‑Forthcoming remarks at US Military Academy at West Point
-Moore

Press conference
-Timing
-Publicity

Killing of policemen in New York and Washington, D.C.
‑Support of police
-Staff
‑Negroes
‑Policeman [Waverly Jones]
‑Funeral, May 25, 1971
‑Seale
‑Mood of country
-John A. Scali
‑Moore
‑Mitchell
‑Civil rights
‑Plot

Max M. Fisher and Rabbi [Forename unknown] Schecter
‑Request to see President
‑Plight of USSR Jewry
-Telegram
-Nature of issue
‑State Department
-President=s comments on January 11, 1971
-Political issue
-Patrick J. Buchanan

Kissinger=s forthcoming talk at Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
‑Foreign policy
‑Vietnam
‑President=s comments at briefing for Southern Regional Media, May 25, 1971
‑USSR
‑PRC

Schedule
‑Press conference
‑Timing
‑Vietnam
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Trip
-Announcement

Letter to President from Indira Gandhi
‑India
‑Military action
‑Pakistan
‑Yahya Khan
‑Indians
‑Ambassador
‑Yahya Khan
-Refugees
-East Pakistan

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[National Security
[Duration:  39s  ]

INDIA

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Book on foreign policy
‑Henry Brandon
‑SALT

Press view of President
‑Domestic policy
‑Foreign policy
‑Vietnam
‑Polls
-Public opinion
-Thieu
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Trust
-Laos
‑Cambodia
-Explanation
‑Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
‑Casualties
‑PRC
‑USSR
‑Middle East
-Cuba

‑Domestic situation
‑Economy

Vietnam
‑President's meeting with Senators
‑Howard H. Baker, Jr.
‑Abrams
‑Possibility of peace
‑Ceasefire
‑Announcement
‑South Vietnamese
‑Election
‑Public disbelief
‑Gallup poll
‑Press
-Establishment
‑Congressional action
‑News summary
‑Vote on draft
‑Gaylord Nelson amendment
‑John V. Tunney
‑Tunney amendment
‑Edward M. Kennedy
‑Polls
-Results
‑Effect of Laos
-Press
-Problems
-Public understanding
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-News blackout
-Abrams
-Cambodia
‑Nature of war
‑Italians
-US Civil War
-Responsibility
‑Laird
‑Robert F. Froehlke

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[Duration:  9s  ]

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‑Abrams
‑Gen. William C. Westmoreland [?]
‑Laird
‑Public views
‑SALT
‑PRC
‑Patriotism
‑Newspaper columns
‑Television
‑Press
‑[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
‑John W. Chancellor
‑Effect of pictures
‑Vietnam war
‑Casualties
‑Laos
‑Casualties
-Tchepone
‑Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑Green Bay Packers
‑Comparison
‑President=s comments at briefing for Southern Regional Media, May 25, 1971
‑Uncertainties
‑Vietnam
‑USSR
‑PRC
‑Middle East
‑Berlin
‑Cuba
‑Vietnam

‑Possible peace settlement
‑Thieu
-Forthcoming election
‑Saigon

Race relations
‑Blacks
‑Vernon C. Coffey

House of Representatives
-Camp Pendleton
-Lease
‑Committee
-Review

California political situation
‑F. Edward Hébert

Summit with USSR

PRC
‑United Nations [UN]
‑Rogers
‑President's meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
‑UN decision
‑Two China policy
-Perceived cynicism
‑Detente
‑Taiwan
‑Right‑wingers
‑Kissinger's meeting with Rogers, May 25, 1971
‑President's forthcoming meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-President=s forthcoming meeting with Councils of the Arts
‑Laird
-National Security Council [NSC]
‑Poll
‑UN
‑Consultations
‑Britain
‑Proposed meeting
-Harold Lee
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Meeting

‑Rogers
‑President's forthcoming call
-Golf
‑PRC
‑Press conference
‑Timing
‑Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]

Vietnam
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Trip to Paris
‑Timing
‑Unknown Man
‑French
‑Rogers= concern
‑North Vietnamese
-Jean Sainteny
‑Kissinger's trip to England
‑Cover for trips
‑Rogers
-Sainteny
‑Ho Chi Minh
‑Haldeman=s view
‑Rogers
‑SALT
‑Kissinger

The President left at an unknown time after 10:03 am.

‑PRC trip
‑Rogers
-Private trip
-Publicity
-Rogers
-Lack of knowledge
-Suspicion
‑London
-Sainteny
‑Cover
‑Rogers= forthcoming trip to Paris
‑Sainteny
-Elliot L. Richardson
‑SALT

The President returned at an unknown time before 11:07 am.

‑Middle East
‑Rogers
‑Cover for forthcoming trip
-Informing Rogers
‑Rogers= forthcoming trip
‑Possible story
‑Gen. James D. ("Don") Hughes
‑Military plane
-Friends
‑England
‑Paris
‑Sainteny

Council of the Arts
‑Nancy Hanks

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:08 am and 11:07 am]

[Conversation No. 505‑4A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑126]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
‑PRC

President's schedule
‑Golf

[The President talked with Rogers between 11:07 am and 11:11 am]

[Conversation No. 505‑4B]

[See Conversation No. 3‑127; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

SALT
-Announcement of agreement, May 20, 1971

Foreign policy
‑Rogers
-Public understanding
-Intellectual elite
‑USSR
-PRC
‑Peace

Vietnam
‑Casualties
-Figures

President's visit to Birmingham, Alabama
-Bands
-Number
-Reserve Officer Training Corps [ROTC]
‑Schools bands
‑Certificate of appreciation
-Advance men

Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:13 am.

Kissinger left at 11:14 am.

Xerox copy
‑Typing

Jewish vote
‑Kissinger=s view

Typewriter
-International Business Machines [IBM]
-Size
-Type

Jews in USSR
-Possible meeting with the President
‑Fisher
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Rabbi Schecter
‑Fisher

Woods left at 11:23 am.

[No conversation]

President's schedule
‑Mitchell's meeting with Richardson
‑Mayflower Hotel
‑Drug abuse
‑Foundation
‑Jack E. (AJack@) Ingersoll
‑President's appearance
‑Publicity
‑Drugs
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Publicity
‑Maine
‑Jack J. Dreyfuss, Jr.
‑Hughes
‑Security check
‑President's possible visit
‑Weather
-Mitchell=s and Richardson=s meeting
-Mayflower Hotel
-News summary
‑Leonard Garment
‑Briefing
-Hanks

President's schedule
‑Forthcoming address to Council of the Arts
‑Mayflower Hotel
-News summary
-Garment
-Hanks
-Political issue
‑Coverage

‑Arts
‑Public television
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Frank Pace
‑Robert [unintelligible surname]

President=s trip
-News summary
‑Birmingham, Alabama
‑Coverage
‑George C. Wallace
‑Other trips
‑Midwest
‑Small towns
‑Mobile
‑Chicago and suburbs
‑Southern Regional media meeting
‑Midwest and South
‑Herbert G. Klein
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]

President's schedule
‑Harry S. Dent
‑Meeting with Haldeman

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:23 am.

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:35 am.

‑Advance men
‑Authority
‑Haldeman
‑Approved list
-Jim Martin
‑Dent
‑Additions
-Dent
‑Cancellations
-State chairman
‑Dent
-State chairman

President's trip
‑Staff response
‑William E. Timmons
‑Coverage
‑Alabama
‑Coverage
‑Crowds
‑News summary
‑Coverage
‑Frank Cormier
‑Demonstrators
‑Dan Rather
‑Coverage
‑Signs
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Strategy

The President and Haldeman left at 11:35 am.

Conversation No. 505‑5

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  12:13 pm ‑ 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Luncheon
-Working lunch for Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud [Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia], May 27, 1971
‑Number of guests
‑Program
‑Seating in the State Dining Room
‑Number
‑John B. Connally
‑Spiro T. Agnew
‑Number
-Announcement
-Blue Room
‑Refreshments

‑Entertainment
-State Dining Room
‑Press
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
‑President's toast
‑Response by King Faisal
‑Interpreter
-Interpreter
‑Refreshments
‑Food
-Refreshments
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Number
-Working lunch

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[National Security]
[Duration:  6s  ]

SAUDI ARABIA

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-Conservatives
‑MacGregor
‑Oil people
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑Receiving line
‑Alternative
‑Duration

Butterfield left at 12:20 pm.

Conversation No. 505‑6

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:20 pm and 12:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

[Unintelligible]

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  44s  ]

SAUDI ARABIA

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Briefings for President
-John R. Price, Jr.
-Council of the Arts
‑Birmingham
-Southern Regional Media
‑Mobile
‑Materials
-Value
-Price
-Need for editor
-Background
‑White House staff
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Domestic Council
-Research staff
‑Information
-Staff size

-Paperwork
‑Need for editor, manager
‑Political information
‑Mayors
-High school bands
-Time and space limits
‑Points to cover
-Need to condense
‑Ehrlichman
‑Revenue sharing
‑President's time
‑Trip to Alabama
‑Advance work
‑Quality
‑Governors
‑Bands
‑Dwight L. Chapin
‑Motorcade stops
‑Birmingham
‑Crowd size
‑Advisor in car
‑Birmingham
‑Length
‑Police
‑Crowds
‑Photograph
‑Crowds
-Location
-Mexico
‑Police
‑Barricades

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:28 pm.

Press conference
‑Announcement
‑Time
‑Day

Albert Watson
‑Edward M. Kennedy
‑Possible appointment to Court of Military Appeals
‑Confirmation

‑Blacks
‑Armed services
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.
‑Richard B. Russell's assistant
‑Court
‑John Russell
‑James F. Byrnes
‑Black
‑Appointment
‑Watson
‑Handling of announcement
-Instructions for Ziegler=s forthcoming press conference
-Lack of decision
‑Possible Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC] appointment
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑Watson
‑ICC
‑Donald L. Jackson

Ziegler left at 12:31 pm.

ICC
-Roman L. Hruska
-Harry S. Dent

Trips
‑Motorcade stops
‑President's location
-Car
‑Crowd
‑Photographs
‑Position of crowds

Press conference
‑Podium
‑Use
‑Signing ceremonies
-Citation
‑State arrivals

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:31 pm.

David K.E. Bruce
-Arrival

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

‑Appearance
‑Press conference
‑Microphone
-Notes
-Posture
-Hands
-Camera
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]

Trips
‑Motorcade
‑Advance man
‑Crowds
‑President's location
-Car
‑Directions on hand shaking
-Microphones
‑Appearance
-Dignity
‑Airport crowds
‑Car
‑Use
‑President's stops
‑Reasons
‑Birmingham

Program attendees
‑Bertram S. Brown
‑Marijuana
-Question of legalization
-President=s participation

Portraits of the President
-Charlie Daniels= brother
‑Request
-Reply
‑Time
‑Vice Presidential busts

‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Johnson Library
‑The President
-Possible remaking
‑Agnew
‑The President
‑Time done
‑Sculpting from photograph
‑Agnew
‑Requests
‑President's time
‑Look photography
‑Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
‑Camera angles
‑News photos
‑Face
-Atkins

Television appearances
‑[Dwight] David, II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
‑Constance M. Stuart
‑President's decision
‑Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon
‑White House assistant
‑Photos
‑Unknown photo 
-Girl
‑Ziegler
-Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo
‑Coverage
‑Photograph

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

Conversation No. 505‑7

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  12:43 pm ‑ 1:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with David K.E. Bruce and Henry A. Kissinger; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Bruce's schedule

Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud luncheon, May 27, 1971
‑Time
‑Bruce's attendance
‑Number in attendance

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[Duration:  14s  ]

SAUDI ARABIA

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[Camera noise]

‑Menu

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration:  10s  ]

SAUDI ARABIA

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Meeting between Bruce and Kissinger
‑Lunch

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Progress
-Delay
-Appearance
‑President's meetings
‑Bruce's resignation
‑Postponement

Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.

‑Kissinger conference with Bruce

Vietnam negotiations
-Possible progress
‑Timing
-Bruce=s resignation
‑Bruce's appointment
‑Negotiation process
-Accomplishment
-Stalemate

[Unintelligible]

Bruce's resignation
‑Possible departure from Paris
-Unknown person
‑Jean Monnet
-Bruce=s health
‑Age
‑Residence
‑Vacation
‑Bruce's health
‑British
‑Timing
‑Spain
‑Mediterranean
‑Bruce's health

Vietnam negotiations
‑Future
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-North Vietnamese
-Possible progress
-Timing
‑Bruce's resignation
-Timing
-Paris talks
-US negotiations
-Rank
‑Bruce's future
‑POWs
-Families
‑Future forum
‑Bruce's possible appointment
-Consultant to the President
-Bruce=s experience
-State Department
-Bruce=s view of status
‑Goals
-Terminal date
‑Settlement
-Ceasefire
‑Troop withdrawal
‑Ceasefire

‑US troops
‑North Vietnamese
‑Bruce's schedule
-W. Averell Harriman
-State Department
-Llewellyn E. (ATommy@) Thompson, Jr.
‑Resignation
‑Date
‑Kissinger

People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Kissinger=s forthcoming discussion with Bruce
-President=s conversation with Kissinger
-US table tennis team
-Visit to PRC
-Trade and travel
‑Presidential candidate
‑Cabinet
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Edward M. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kissinger=s Harvard University colleague
-PRC
‑President=s plans
-Bruce=s position
‑PRC
-Compared with USSR
‑President's talk with Kissinger
‑Candidates for possible trip to PRC
‑Bruce
‑South Vietnamese
-End of war
-Timing
‑US-PRC relationship
-Bruce=s view

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[Duration:  3s  ]

JAPAN

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‑Jean Sainteny
-PRC
-Negotiating posture

[Unintelligible]

-Bruce
‑Japanese
-Compared with Chines
‑Chinese
-Japanese
-PRC
‑Attitudes toward others
-World
-USSR
-Japanese
-USSR
-Indians
‑Bruce
‑Lunch
‑PRC
‑Bruce's health

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Bruce and Kissinger left at 1:17 pm.

Conversation No. 505‑8

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  1:25 pm ‑ 1:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President=s schedule

Telephone call

President's schedule
‑Executive Office Building [EOB]
‑Edward J. Kiernan call

Butterfield left at 1:26 pm.

Conversation No. 505‑9

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:26 pm and 1:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 3‑128]

Conversation No. 505‑10

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:22 pm until 1:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Letter
-Proofreading
-William P. Rogers
-Delivery
‑Maggie Russell

President=s schedule
-Possible visits

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

SAUDI ARABIA

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‑Claude Pepper
‑Archbishop
‑Harry S. Dent
‑Rebozo

Hobart D. (AHobe@) Lewis
‑Letter to Woods
‑Book on Thomas Jefferson
‑Proposed book
‑President's views on Jefferson, [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt
-Knopf
-Timing
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Woods= talk with Price

Letter

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] delegation

Book presentations
‑John B. Connally
-Frame
‑Costs
‑Speaker of the House
‑Connally

Presidential libraries
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dedication speech
-Date
-Press
-Cost
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Johnson
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Harry S. Truman
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt
‑Use of money
-Analogy to lighting White House
-Size
‑President's papers

-Commitment
‑Left‑wing scholars
‑Vice presidential papers
‑Edward L. Morgan
‑Gift of papers
‑Taxes
‑Vice presidential papers

Police funeral
‑Effect
-Stock market
‑New York City
‑John V. Lindsay
‑Police brutality

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[Duration:  3m 50s  ]

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[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 1:26 pm and 1:37 pm]

[Conversation No. 505‑10A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑129]

[End of telephone conversation]

Woods left at 1:37 pm.

Conversation No. 505‑11

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:37 pm and 1:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:41 pm.

Conversation No. 505‑12

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:37 pm and 1:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

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[Duration:  4s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:41 pm.

Conversation No. 505‑13

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  1:41 pm ‑ 2:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Killing of policeman in New York
‑President=s view
‑White House staff inaction
-Contacting widows
‑Washington, DC police shooting
‑Race
‑White House response
‑Colson's response
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] involvement
‑Public action
‑Justice Department
‑Colson's response
-Funeral
‑President's call to Edward J. Kiernan
‑Leak to New York Daily News
-Exploitation of issue
‑Justice Department
‑Richard S. Schweiker
‑Richard A. Moore
‑Justice Department
‑Possible conspiracy
‑Justice Department
‑Call to John W. Dean, III
‑Legal basis
-Revolutionary conspiracy
-Smith Act
‑Need for action
‑J. Edgar Hoover
-Public opinion

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[Duration:  37s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Killing of policeman in New York
‑Need for legislation
‑Justice Department
-Bureaucracy
-Dean
‑Smith Act
‑FBI involvement
‑Richard G. Kleindienst
‑Justice Department
-Constitutional rights
‑President's announcement
‑Bombing, 1970
‑Nixon bill on shooting policemen
‑Blacks
‑Black Panthers
-Black policeman
-Support for President
-Social issue
-Race and crime
‑Concern over incidents in community
-Interviews in Harlem
-Possible visit to President
‑Schweiker's bill
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press conference
‑Publicity from phone calls and letters
‑National fund for children
‑Scholarships
‑Moore
‑President=s position

‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Position
‑Washington, D.C. police
‑James J. Kilpatrick, Jr. column
‑Mailing
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Demonstrators
‑(Madame) Nguyen Thi Binh
‑Hanoi

Congress
‑Amendments
‑Draft
‑Edward W. Brooke
-Robert P. Griffin
‑Howard H. Baker, Jr.
‑Peace issue
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑J. William Fulbright quote
‑William S. White
‑Support
‑Democratic presidential candidates
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑George S. McGovern
‑Muskie
‑Antiballistic Missiles [ABM]
‑Fulbright
‑White
‑Quote
‑ABM
‑Vote
-Draft
-Possible political impact
‑Doves
‑President's statement on SALT, May 20, 1971
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Colson's talk
-White
‑Joseph C. Kraft
‑Colson's note to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Article on ABM
‑Democrats
-Unknown person=s column

‑Washington Post
-Democrats
-ABM vote
-Disarmament
-Arms control
‑Colson's meeting with Brooke
‑Possible foreign policy speech by Brooke
‑Brook=s position on ABM
-National Security Council [NSC]
‑Vote
-Timing
-House
‑Senate
-SALT negotiations
-Public attention

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[Duration:  9m 26s  ]

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Colson left at 2:02 pm.

Conversation No. 505‑14

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  5:17 pm ‑ 5:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Harold Lee.

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Meeting with the Attorney General
‑Length
‑John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.

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[Duration:  24s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Kissinger
‑Joint meeting

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.

Vietnam
‑End of war
-US withdrawal
‑South Vietnamese
‑Writers
‑Robert Downey[?]
‑Press
-North Vietnamese military activity

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Mutual mistrust
‑President's Experience
‑Detente
‑Arms control announcement, May 20, 1971
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

Kissinger entered at 5:22 pm.

Introductions

Vietnam

Joseph W. Alsop
‑Kissinger's forthcoming meeting
‑Unknown woman

US-USSR relations
‑Alsop=s view
‑Mutual mistrust
-SALT
-Alsop

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:22 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:57 pm.

-Kissinger=s analysis
‑Initial response to the President
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]

-Political rivalry
‑Ideological leadership of Communist Party
-Federal Republic of Germany [FRG]
‑Middle East
-USSR missile build up
‑Jordan
‑Syria
‑Cuban Base
‑Ideology
‑PRC
‑FRG
‑Domestic situation
-Berlin
‑Middle East
‑Risk of war
‑FRG
‑Eastern Europe
-Poland
-Improvement
‑President's message
-January 8, 1971
‑Detente
-Possible effect on western unity
‑US-PRC relations
‑Lee
‑US policy
‑Ping Pong team
‑Travel and trade
‑Taiwan
‑British
‑United Nations [UN]
‑Mao Tse Tung
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Cambodia
‑PRC
‑Laos
‑Alsop
‑PRC and USSR
-Conciliation

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration:  8m 49s  ]

CHINA

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Overseas Chinese
‑Southeast Asia
‑Singapore
-Lee Kuan Yew

US foreign policy
-PRC and USSR
-American people
-Idealism
-Korea
‑Pragmatic
‑Idealists
-Press
‑USSR
-Unilateral disarmament
‑Reaction to pragmatism
-Fear of war
-Reaction to signs of progress
-@Millennium@
-USSR and PRC
‑World Situation
‑PRC
‑USSR
‑Pragmatic leaders
‑US policy

‑Pragmatism
-Interest
‑USSR and PRC
‑Evenhandedness

Japan
‑Future in world situation
‑Achievements

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

CHINA, JAPAN

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Korea
‑Kissinger trip
‑Agnew

Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo

Presentation of gifts by the President
‑Lee's children
‑Cuff links
‑Tie clasps
-Paper weight

[General conversation]

-Golf
-Chinese food
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Tricia Nixon and Edward R.F. Cox
-Wedding date

Lee and Kissinger left at 5:57 pm.

Conversation No. 505‑15

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:47 am and 9:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum.

Dictation
-H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Haldeman [?] entered at an unknown time before 9:08 am.

Conversation No. 505‑16

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:47 am and 9:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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[Duration:  12s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:08 am.

Conversation No. 505‑17

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  9:08 am - 9:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 3‑166; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 505‑18

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:12 am and 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

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[Duration:  2m 16s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:12 am and 9:16 am]

[Conversation No. 505‑18A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑167]

[End of telephone conversation]

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[Duration:  2m 19s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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The White House operator talked with the President at 9:16 am.

[Conversation No. 505‑18B]

[See Conversation No. 3‑168]

[End of telephone conversation]

Wiretapping and surveillance
‑Use
‑Edward M. Kennedy
‑Compared with hiring researchers
-Edmund S. Muskie
‑Kennedy
‑Coverage
‑Chapman=s friend

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:16 am.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:34 am.

Wiretapping and surveillance
‑1962 experience
‑F. Donald Nixon
‑President's house
‑Charles W. Colson
‑John J. ("Jack") Caulfield
‑Kennedy
‑Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Purpose
-Scandal
‑Clark R. Mollenhoff

Press conference
‑Timing
-June 1, 1971
‑President's schedule

President's schedule
‑Memorial Day
‑Camp David
‑Tomb of unknown soldier

Gallup Poll
‑David R. Derge
‑Unknown question
-Partisan line

Public relations
-Goals
-Slogans
‑Richard A. Moore
‑William L. Safire
‑Cliff Miller
‑Relations with Moore and John A. Scali
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Colson
‑Democrats
‑New Deal
‑Fair Deal
‑Great Society
‑New Frontier
‑Republicans
-Open Door
‑Generation of Peace, Revolution
‑Importance 
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Political

Leon Panetta
-Book
-Robert Finch
-Difficulties
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]

Richard V. (ADick@) Allen

Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Forthcoming talk with Haldeman
‑Conservative
‑Jeffry Bull
‑Talk with Kevin P. Phillips

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration:  2m  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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[The President talked with J. Edgar Hoover between 9:34 am and 9:43 am]

[Conversation No. 505‑18C]

[See Conversation No. 3‑169]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hoover
‑Understanding of publicity

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 9:43 am.

Announcement of forthcoming press conference
‑Timing
‑June 1, 1971
‑Ziegler's talk with William H. Carruthers and Mark I. Goode
-Time of day
‑Audience
‑Ratings
‑Network suggestion

[The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman between 9:45 am and 9:49 am]

[Conversation No. 505‑18D]

[See Conversation No. 3‑170]

[End of telephone conversation]

Drugs
-Administration awareness of problem
‑Veterans
‑Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Report
‑Hippies
‑Travel

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 9:49 am.

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

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Press conference

Drugs
‑Veterans
‑Program
‑Youth
‑Location
‑Veterans
-Upper middle class
‑William B. Saxbe
‑Congressmen
-Upper middle class

Vietnam
‑Harvard professors
‑Children
‑Percentage serving and killed
‑Saxbe
-Congressmen
‑Wounded in Vietnam

‑[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
‑Navy
‑Military service
‑Yale University commencement speaker
-1970 comments
‑William F. Buckley's research
-Number killed

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Kissinger's talk with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Cable
-Vladimir F. Semenov
-[Forename unknown] Gardiner [sp?]
-Change in USSR statement
‑Dobrynin
-Talk with the President
-Gardiner
-Unhappiness of USSR delegation
-USSR establishment
‑Leonid I. Brezhnev
‑Kissinger's call to Dobrynin
‑Dobrynin's call to Kissinger
‑Instructions
‑Smith
-Statement

Vietnam
‑Xuan Thuy
‑Proposal
‑Ceasefire deadline

Kissinger=s schedule

President's schedule
‑Luis A. Ferre
-William D. Mills [?]
‑President's forthcoming meeting
-Presentation
‑Pictures

William P. Rogers
‑President's conversation of May 28, 1971
‑Leak
‑Anwar el-Sadat
‑Leak
‑Marshall Green
‑Rogers

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[Duration:  5s  ]

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‑Green
‑Leak
‑Reason
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]

PRC
‑Polls
-Forthcoming poll
‑Louis P. Harris poll
‑Wording
‑Admission into United Nations [UN]
-Dual representation
-PRC and Taiwan, Republic of China
-Population
‑Charles W. Colson and Harris
-Flyer
‑Relations with PRC
‑Questions

[The President spoke with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:49 am and 10:06 am.]

[Conversation No. 505-18E]

-Harris poll
-Delivery to the President

[End of telephone conversation]

-Negotiations
-Timing

Vietnam
‑Xuan Thuy
‑US position

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:49 am.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

‑Negotiations
-US position
‑Timing
‑US position
-Political settlement
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Meeting with the President
-Timing
‑North Vietnamese response
-Timing
‑Possible South Vietnamese position
-Tone
-Norodom Sihanouk
-David K.E. Bruce
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
‑Cambodia
‑Settlement

PRC
-Harris poll
-Size
‑Question on admission of PRC to United Nations
‑Difference between 1968 and 1971 polls
-Timing of 1971 poll
‑Diplomatic recognition

‑Ambassador
‑Two China policy
‑1968 compared with 1971 polls
‑Harris poll compared with White House polls
‑Wording of questions
‑Geographic breakdown
-Midwest
-South
‑Age groups
‑Voters
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑The President
‑George C. Wallace
‑White House poll
‑PRC
-Initiative
‑Communists
‑Table tennis team
‑Visit
‑US recognition
-Importance of communication
‑Publication
‑State Department
‑Timing
‑Release
‑UN vote
-Two China policy
-US position
-Public opinion

Haldeman left at 10:06 am.

Mills entered at 10:07 am.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  4m 45s  ]

MEMBERS OF THE PRESS ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 10:07 AM

MEMBERS OF THE PRESS LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 10:20 AM

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Mills left at 10:20 am.

Polls on PRC
‑International interests
‑Domestic interests
‑Effect on domestic situation
-Harry S. Dent
‑Gallup
‑Results
‑PRC compared with Vietnam
‑Effect on US policy

Foreign trips
-Two China policy
‑Delay
-USSR response to summit proposal
-Timing
‑Release of poll
-Timing
‑US policy
-Delay
‑Rogers
-Consultation with allies
-Domestic considerations
‑Peking trip
‑Timing of announcement

‑Summit with USSR
‑Dobrynin
‑Peking trip
‑Announcement
‑Timing
‑1972 Elections
‑Democratic Convention
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑1968 bombing pause
‑Completion of foreign policy initiatives
-Date
‑USSR Summit
‑PRC Summit
‑Timing
‑1972 Election
‑Democrats
‑Harvard Professor
‑PRC
‑Trips to Peking
-Opposition leaders
‑USSR Summit
‑Announcement
‑Dobrynin
-Deadline
-Time restrictions
-China card

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 10:20 am

‑PRC
-Timing of reply
‑Peking trip
-Trip by the President
‑Trip by Kissinger
‑President's trip to Peking
‑Timing
‑Kissinger's secret trip
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Schedule
-Arrangements
-Jean Sainteny
‑Bruce
‑Kissinger's talk

‑Support of the President
‑Dean G. Acheson
‑Attendance on trip
‑Negotiations
-Unknown person
‑Possible call
-State Department
‑Rogers
‑Negotiations
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Foreign Service
‑Walter P. McConaughy
‑Taiwan
‑[David] Kenneth Rush
‑Berlin

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[National Security]
[Duration:  35s  ]

GERMANY

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President=s leadership
‑Foreign policy
‑Clark MacGregor
-Comments at staff meeting
‑PRC and USSR
-Senate and foreign policy
‑J. William Fulbright
-State Department
-Totalitarianism
-Rogers
-John Foster Dulles

-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Rogers
-North Vietnam, PRC, USSR
-PRC
-Foreign minister
-Chou En-lai
-Yeh Chien-ying
-Rogers
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Press
-Manner
-Brezhnev
-Politburo
-MacGregor
‑Votes
‑William B. Saxbe
‑John Sherman Cooper
‑Kissinger's attendance at dinner at Marquis Childs= home
‑Kennedy Center
‑Statement on Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., amendment
-Apology
‑Childs
‑Article
‑Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty [SALT]
-Public
‑MacGregor
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield

Henry A. Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
‑Semenov
‑Hotline Agreement
‑SALT

Public opinion on foreign initiatives
‑President's conversation on Air Force One
‑Lyndon B. Johnson Library
‑Presidential initiatives
‑Senate
-Mutuality

Kissinger=s relationship with Dobrynin
‑Kennedy Center
‑Dobrynin
‑Llewellyn E. ("Tommy") Thompson, Jr.
-Summit

Rogers
‑Compared with Elliot L. Richardson
‑State Department

Announcement on PRC policy
‑Rogers
-Domestic considerations
‑USSR
‑Initiative
‑Summit
‑Forthcoming press conference, June 1, 1971
‑Response to possible questions
-Consultations with allies
‑President's credibility
‑Press
‑Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Budget
‑Public opinion
-Polls
‑Press
‑Kissinger's dinner parties
‑John W. Chancellor
-Laotion operation

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  39s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11

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Foreign policy
‑R. Sargent Shriver comment

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[Privacy]
[Duration:  3s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16

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‑Democratic administrations
‑PRC
‑Test Ban Treaty
‑USSR
‑US interest
‑Edward Teller
-President=s support
-USSR interest
‑Disarmament
‑Cuban missile crisis
‑Berlin Wall
‑Laos
‑Death of Ngo Dinh Diem
‑Nixon administration
‑Vietnam War
‑USSR
‑PRC
‑Humphrey
‑Moratorium on Antiballistic Missile's [ABMs]
-Multiple Independently‑Targetable Reentry Vehicle's [MIRVs]
‑Administration policy
-Press play
-Political issue
-Administration

Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle
‑President's telephone calls, May 27, 1971
‑O=Boyle
-James Cardinal McIntyre
‑Support for the President
‑Vietnam War
‑Washington Post
‑Church
‑George Meany

Vietnam
‑Meany
‑President's policy
‑Senators
‑Demonstrators
‑Press
-Frank F. Mankiewicz

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  44s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13

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Vietnam negotiations
‑Memorandum by John A. Scali
‑Kissinger
‑Peace
‑Combat role and peace offer
-Timing
‑Thieu
‑North Vietnamese answer
‑Midway meeting with Thieu
‑Press
‑Announcement
-Troop withdrawals

-Thieu
‑Rogers
‑Laird
‑Thieu
‑Combat role of Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Timing
‑Press
‑Military withdrawals
-Timing
‑Thieu
‑US combat role
‑North Vietnamese
‑Peace offer
-Meetings
-Possible delay
-Possible consequences
‑Thieu meeting
‑Timing

Vietnam
‑Press
‑American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
‑Casualties
‑Colson
‑Compared with earlier figures
‑Drug problem
-Casualty figures

Press treatment of administration
‑Report on consumer price index [CPI]
‑Price rise
‑Importance of administration achievements
‑Publicity

Berlin
-Publicity
‑A leak
‑Summit with USSR
-Timing
‑Egon Bahr
-Invitation to January 1971 moon launch
-Kissinger
-Rush

-SALT
‑Crisis
-US credit
‑World peace
‑Middle East
‑Vietnam
‑Risk
-PRC and USSR
‑Middle East
-Berlin
‑USSR
‑Berlin
‑Egypt
-US negotiations with USSR
‑USSR concessions
‑Document
‑Wording
-Access
-German Democratic Republic [GDR]
‑Harry S. Truman
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt
‑Kissinger's call to Dobrynin
‑Meeting with Rogers
‑Gromyko
‑Summit

The President's draft
‑Forthcoming remarks at US Military Academy at West Point, New York, May 29, 1971
‑John K. Andrews, Jr.
‑Outline

Arts Council
‑President's remarks
-Press coverage
‑President's memorandum
‑Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon
‑Press coverage
‑Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
‑Claudia A. (ALady Bird@) Johnson
‑Reception
‑Press quote of Mrs. Nixon

President's speech at West Point
‑Kissinger's review

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 10:25 am.

Mrs. Nixon
‑Press coverage

Kissinger's acquaintances

President's forthcoming trip to West Point
-Ceremonies
‑Parade field
‑Mrs. Nixon
-Sabre presentation
‑President's remarks
‑President's review

Ziegler entered at 10:25 am.

ABC "Issues and Answers"
‑Scali
‑Panel
‑Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
‑Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
‑Riegle
‑Previous discussion with the President
‑Denial of allegation
‑McCloskey
‑William F. Buckley, Jr. interview
‑ABC
-Ziegler
‑Riegle
‑1968 campaign
-Michigan

Ziegler left at 10:35 am.

West Point visit
‑President's review
-Departure by helicopter
‑Mess hall
‑Greeting

‑President's remarks
-Amnesty order
‑Press coverage
‑Timing
‑Parade
‑Crowd
‑Motorcade
‑Chapel visit
‑Trophy point
‑Superintendent's house
‑Possible reception
‑Compared with Newport
‑Crowd
‑Chapel

Birmingham visit
‑Foreign trips
-Advance work
‑Crowd location
‑Automobile
-Leaving

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:35 am.

Meeting with Ferre
‑Length
‑Photograph
‑Puerto Rico

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:04 am.

Presidential visits
‑Ronald H. Walker
‑Work
‑Alabama
‑Coverage
‑Crowd

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:04 am.

Conversation No. 505‑19

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  11:04 am ‑ 11:17 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Governor Luis A. Ferre, Mrs. Rosario Benigno Trigo, and John C. Whitaker.

Greetings

Conditions in Puerto Rico
-Press
-Polls

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[Duration:  38s  ]

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Puerto Rico
‑Cooperation from administration
‑Ferre=s plans
‑Institute of Social Technology
‑Latin Americans
‑North Americans
‑US relations
‑Prejudice
‑Radiologists [?]
‑Governors Conference
‑Timing
-Invitations
‑Eduardo Frei Montalva
-Galo Plaza, Alberto Lleras Camargo
‑Mexico

‑Antonio Carillo Flores
-Venezuela
-Rafael Caldera
-Brazil
-Unknown leader	
‑Politics
‑South America
‑@North-South Center@
-Miguel Alemán
-Mexico
-Joaquin Balaguer
‑South America
‑Terrorism
‑Universities
‑Church
‑Priests
‑Military
‑Peaceful change
‑Latin Americans
‑Democratic society
-Middle class
‑Puerto Ricans
-Discrimination
-Taxes
‑US citizens
‑Education
‑Industry
‑Latin America
‑Cuba
‑New York Times
‑Ferre Contacts
‑Florida
‑Cubans in Puerto Rico
‑Number
‑Florida
‑Cubans
‑Negroes
‑Compared with Cubans
‑Cubans
‑Ownership
‑University
‑Demonstrations
‑Venezuela

‑Mrs. Trigo's studies
‑Size
‑Compared with US
-Balaguer
‑Relations with Latin America
-Dominican Republic
‑Santo Domingo
‑Haiti
‑Cuba
-Haiti
‑Population
‑Governors' Conference
‑Haiti
-Compared with Santo Domingo [Dominican Republic]
-Geographical proximity
-Social makeup
‑Government
‑Santo Domingo

[Unintelligible]

-Cuba
‑United Nations [UN]
‑Puerto Rico
‑Ferre's statement
‑Fidel Castro's possible visit to Puerto Rico
‑Possible Cuba visit by Ferre
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Puerto Rico
‑Compared to Hawaii
‑North-South Center
‑East-West Center
‑Japanese
‑Chinese
‑Indonesians
‑Puerto Rican culture
‑Latin America
‑Common language and culture
‑Brazil
‑Manolo Sanchez
‑John C. Whitaker
‑Briefing of President

‑Future contacts with Ferre
‑Ferre
‑Press briefing
‑President's position
-Understanding
-Peaceful revolution
-Commonwealth status
‑Congress

Ferre
‑Children

President=s possible visit to Puerto Rico
-Nelson Rockefeller estate
‑Golf
-Governor=s residence

Presentation of gifts by the President
‑Children of Mrs. Trigo
‑Tie clasps
‑Cuff links
‑Golf balls
‑Paperweight
‑Children
‑Secretary

Photograph
‑Car

Tricia Nixon's forthcoming wedding

The President, Ferre, et. al, left at 11:17 am.

Conversation No. 505‑20

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  11:19 am ‑ 11:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen Hess, Dr. Edward Zigler, and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.; the conversation is in progress when the recording begins; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Photo session
‑Arrangements

White House Conference on Children
-Report

Photograph
-Distribution
-Copies

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 11:32 am.

Presentation to the President
‑Portrait of President by high school student
‑Thank you note

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration:  5s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Presidential library
-President=s signature

Children=s conference
-Read
-Anecdotes
-Arthur G. (AArt@) Linkletter
-Children's letters to the President
‑Dr. Zigler
‑White House Conference
‑National Child Advocacy Center
-Office of Child Development
‑Function

White House correspondence on children
‑Establishment of Children's Concern Center

Linkletter
‑Book
‑Letters from kids

Report
-Answering childrens' concerns

Responsiveness of government
‑Source of ideas for government
-States
-Government
-Size

President's experience in House of Representatives
‑Letters
‑Visits
‑Value

Importance of public opinion mail
‑Ideas
‑Compared with government papers
‑White House staff opinion
-Process

The President's appointments
‑Value

Cancer program proposal
‑Funds
-Use

Children's concerns
‑Amount of attention
‑Rhetoric
‑Television
‑The President's remarks on first five years of life
-Response
-Unknown person
‑Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
‑Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon
-Follow-up
‑The right to read
‑Publicity
‑Educational funds
-National Science Foundation [NSF]

Follow‑up
‑Moynihan
‑Hess
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Hess

Presentation of gifts by the President
‑Golf balls
‑Paperweight
‑Cuff‑links
‑Wives
‑Secretaries

Children's concerns
‑Compared with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Middle East, Vietnam
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑William P. Rogers
‑White House policy

Hess, et. al., left at 11:32 am.

Conversation No. 505‑21

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  11:43 am ‑ unknown before 12:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Torben Ronne and Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

Ronne=s tenure in office [?]

Ronne's appreciation
‑Departing comments

The recording ended at an unknown time before 12:08 pm.