Conversation No. 508-1

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a letter to an unknown person

President=s press conference
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-John A. Scali
-President=s previous experiences with the press

Conversation No. 508-2

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a letter to an unknown shortstop

Ronald L. Ziegler

Unknown shortstop=s batting problems
-President=s political career

Conversation No. 508-20

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man

President=s schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:20 am

Conversation No. 508-3

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to John D. Ehrlichman

Ehrlichman
-Schedule
-Preparation of analysis of Black Caucus= legislative agenda
-Cost
-Timing

Conversation No. 508-4

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.

Drug abuse studies
-Heroin addicts who started on marijuana
-Federal agencies as sources of information
-Dr. Bertram S. Brown, director, National Institute of Mental Health

Conversation No. 508-5

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to John D. Ehrlichman

Drug abuse studies
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Secretary of Health from Arizona
-Physicians
-Over-prescription of drugs
-Study
-Instructions for Krogh
-HEW

Conversation No. 508-6

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to John D. Ehrlichman and Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.

Drug use
-Recommendations for increasing criminal penalties
-Pushers who are addicts

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-Courts possible reaction
-Use of death penalty
-Applicability of federal statutes

Conversation No. 508-7

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to John D. Ehrlichman

Urban unemployment
-Pierre Rinfret=s predictions
-Possible political problems
-Ehrlichman=s forthcoming meeting with George P. Shultz
-Ehrlichman=s recommendations

Conversation No. 508-8

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Memorial to Confederate dead in the US Civil War
-Memorial to General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant at West Point
-Implications for the South

Conversation No. 508-9

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a note to Melvin R. Laird

Attachment to formal letter
-Commendation for unknown person

The President dictated a letter to Laird

US military
-Ceremonial duties
-President=s view

[This conversation continues as Conversation No. 508-11]

Conversation No. 508-10

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Request for recording tapes

President=s schedule
-Alexander P. Butterfield

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:20 am

Conversation No. 508-11

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a letter to Melvin R. Laird
[This is a continuation of Conversation No. 508-9]

US military
-Ceremonial duties
-President=s view
-Military District of Washington
-President=s visits to foreign nations

Conversation No. 508-12

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  9:20 am - 9:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Rose Mary Woods

President=s dictation equipment
-Malfunction
-Peter G. Peterson
-Malfunction
-Manolo Sanchez

Woods left at an unknown time before 9:40 am

The President=s schedule
-80th Congressional Club reception June 3
-Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Albert
-Meeting with Anastasio Somoza Debayle
-Tone
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes
-Maurice H. Stans
-Meeting protocol
-Mrs. Somoza
-Marion A. Smoak
-William R. Codus
-80th Congressional Club reception June 3
-Physical arrangements
-Number of attendees
-Gifts for attendees
-Ash trays, cocktail glasses, cuff links

The President=s dictation equipment
-Woods

Forthcoming Congressional Club reception
-Gifts

The President=s schedule
-Congressional briefing, June 8, 1971
-International economic policy
-Peterson
-Timing
-Location
-Somoza
-Kissinger
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Butterfield left at 9:40 am

Conversation No. 508-13

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  9:45 am - 12:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Explorer Scouts

Anastasio Somoza Debayle=s visit
-Department of State
-Briefing book
-Maurice H. Stans, Henry A. Kissinger
-Arrangements

State Department=s bureaucracy

Medal of Freedom

United States civil service
-Sick leave, annual leave
-Haldeman and the President=s experiences

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Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 9:45 am

The President=s dictation
-Peter G. Peterson
-Malfunctioning equipment

Woods left at an unknown time before 10:13 am

White House correspondence unit
-Noble Melencamp
-Dianne Humes, Raymond K. Price, Jr.

President=s schedule
-Robert H. Finch
-Trip

White House correspondence
-Price
-Melencamp
-William J. Hopkins role
-Commitment of resources and volume of correspondence

Kissinger entered at 10:13 am

Vietnam War
-Military operations
-Snoul
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] withdrawal
-North Vietnamese attack
-Casualties
-Press

-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Melvin R. Laird
-Associated Press reporter
-John A. Scali
-White House response

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[Duration:  21s  ]

PAKISTAN

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US-North Vietnamese negotiations
-Kissinger=s cable to Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Timing
-Status
-South Vietnamese elections

Kissinger=s foreign trips
-Visit with British
-Korea

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[Duration:  2m 3s  ]

PAKISTAN

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US ambassadors
-Support for the President
-John S. Farland
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Berlin deadlock
-Bunker
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Farland

Vietnam
-Press coverage of President
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Zbigniew Brzezinski=s suggestion
-Timing of negotiation
-Democratic National Convention
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-North Vietnam bombing halt
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Democrats

President=s foreign policy
-Successful Vietnam War negotiations
-Summit meetings
-South Vietnam
-End to American involvement
-Effect
-State Department Activities
-Press

-Academia
-Council on Foreign Relations
-John J. McCloy
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-US relations with the People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-US-North Vietnamese negotiations
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.=s opinion

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[Duration:  58s  ]

PRC

INDIA-PAKISTAN

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-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Bombing

Vietnam
-Morale in North Vietnam
-Supplies
-Lam Son operation
-Medical Problems
-World War I
-US relations with USSR and PRC
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Commentary on President=s press conference
-Public opinion
-Hanoi propaganda efforts
-President
-Johnson

-Peace Initiatives
-President=s peace initiative
-Quaker background
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-President=s World War II duty
-President=s family=s reaction

President=s foreign policy
-Saturday Review of Literature
-Editorial praising President=s foreign policy
-Norman Cousins
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement
-Public opinion
-US relations with USSR, PRC
-Necessity of foreign policy successes
-Trip to PRC
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Us-USSR relations
-SALT
-President=s possible trip to PRC
-Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Kissinger=s health and age

The President left at an unknown time after 10:13 am

US foreign policy
-President=s role
-SALT

US relations with PRC

Kissinger left at 10:32 am

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:32 am

Kissinger=s foreign trips

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:32 am

Briefing book
-Oval Office

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:55 am

President=s schedule
-Possible PRC trip

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:32 am

Briefing book
-The Residence
-Manolo Sanchez

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:55 am

President=s previous press conference
-President=s schedule
-Commentator=s conclusions
-South Vietnam=s forthcoming election
-General Nguyen Van Thieu

President=s schedule
-Dinner for Somoza
-Willy Brandt=s forthcoming US visit

President=s previous press conference
-Buchanan
-Herbert G. Klein, Ronald L. Ziegler, Scali, and Buchanan
-Handling of press
-New York Times, Washington Post
-May Day demonstrators
-Basic foreign policy issues
-Drugs
-Demonstrations
-SALT
-PRC
-Middle East
-International Labor Organization [ILO]
-Kissinger
-President=s conversations with George Meany
-William P. Rogers
-Novak=s comment
-Politics
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy

-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-May Day demonstrators
-John D. Ehrlichman=s view
-Walter E. Washington
-Ehrlichman=s reaction
-Scali

May Day demonstrations
-Press
-Illegal arrest issue
-Processing of people arrested
-President=s previous press conference
-George P. Shultz=s opinion

President=s public image

President=s previous press conference
-Types of questions
-Ziegler
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Questions on domestic affairs
-Busing
-Housing
-Race relations
-Buchanan=s preparation
-Foreign policy versus domestic policy
-William H. Carruthers
-Mark I. Goode
-Rostrum
-Presidential Seal
-Camera angles

Possible telephone poll
-Timing
-Questions
-China
-Approval
-Vice President approval
-Trial heats
-Press conference
-SALT
-May Day demonstrations
-President=s support of police

-Wording
-Legalization of marijuana

President=s previous press conference
-Domestic issues
-Revenue sharing
-Government reorganization
-Welfare reform
-Drugs
-May Day demonstrators
-Reporter=s questions
-White House response
-Buchanan
-Letter writing
-Jerald F. (AJerry@) terHorst

President=s forthcoming press conference
-Domestic issues
-Trip to Arkansas
-Timing
-Announcement
-Physical arrangements
-Press coverage
-Ziegler
-Story on housing
-Views of Shultz and John N. Mitchell

Press coverage of administration
-SALT
-President=s foreign policy
-PRC
-Kissinger
-May Day demonstrators

Vietnam
-Vietnam veterans= organizations
-Unknown man
-John F. Kerry
-Comments on Vietnam war crimes

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 10:32 am

Haig=s schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:55 am

Vietnam
-Vietnam veterans
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Unknown man=s comments

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 10:32 am

Haig=s schedule
-Son

Kissinger=s schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:55 am

Vietnam
-Unknown man=s comments
-Comments regarding May Day demonstrations
-Charles W. Colson=s role
-Television network coverage
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Herbert R. (AChief@) Rainwater=s request for television time
-Unnamed veteran=s forthcoming actions
-Kerry
-Melville Stephens

Kissinger entered at 10:55 am

General John W. Donaldson
-Allegation of Vietnam war crimes
-Laird
-Stanley R. Resor
-Timing and location of actions
-General William C. Westmoreland
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Time magazine story
-Possible squelching of criminal charges
-Department of the Army

-Westmoreland
-Resor
-Role of Secretary of Defense

President=s previous press conference
-May Day demonstrators
-Ehrlichman
-President=s conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Law and order
-National economy
-Law and order
-Possible speech by President
-William L. Safire

Colgate University
-Visit by Rogers
-College football
-Andy Kirk
-Game against Duke University
-Walt Slade
-University president
-Actions of valedictorian
-Kissinger=s actions at Johns Hopkins University
-Rogers= reaction
-Rogers= comments regarding commencement
-West Point

West Point
-Commencement exercises
-Television coverage

Rogers
-Comments regarding young people

US relations with PRC
-President=s previous press conference
-United Nations [UN]
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Possible announcement
-Rogers= role
-Forthcoming meeting with General Nguyen Van Thieu

President=s previous press conference
-Impression on American people
-Questions on foreign policy
-President=s Vietnam policies

President=s Vietnam policies
-Kraft=s comments
-President=s forthcoming news conference
-Planted questions on Vietnam

President=s previous press conference
-Question on morality of Vietnam bombing
-President=s background
-Garnett D. (AJack@) Horner
-Horner=s question
-Repatriation of POWs
-Korean War
-Vietnam War
-Question of morality of bombing
-President=s visits to Germany
-Essen, Berlin, and Dresden
-Morality of war
-Adolf Hitler=s goals
-US bombing Vietnam
-Vietnamese Communists
-Treatment of Catholics after 1954
-Bishop of Da Nang
-Howard K. Smith

US war efforts
-Strategic concepts
US bombing of North Vietnam
-US relations with USSR and PRC
-Future strategy
-Possible reaction by American people

Morality of war
-US Civil War
-General William T. Sherman
-March to the sea
-Abraham Lincoln
-Cost of disunion
-US bombing targets

-Laos
-North Vietnamese
-Atrocities in 1954
-Communist atrocities in South Vietnam
-Japanese killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-Harry S Truman
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Possible 1945 invasion of Japan
-American casualties
-Hitler
-North Vietnamese
-May Day demonstrators
-Previous press conference
-President=s response

Vietnam
-Military action in Laos and Cambodia
-Kissinger=s conversation with Scali
-Television networks= reporting
-Casualty figures

President=s accomplishments
-Firings
-Permissiveness
-Welfare Aloafers@
-Foreign policy
-Bombing of Vietnam
-SALT
-Vietnam negotiations
-President=s record
Mood of nation
-Liberals

President=s domestic program
-Ehrlichman
-President=s philosophy
-Environment
-Food stamps
-Consumerism
-Revenue sharing
-John V. Lindsay
-Cuts in property taxes

Liberals
-Views regarding President
-Desire for power
-Ehrlichman

Poll
-National issues
-Haldeman=s conversation with Thomas W. Benham
-Environment
-Concerns
-Air and water
-Consumerism
-Effect of news media
-Welfare
-Distribution
-Domestic Council
-Environment
-Haldeman=s possible consultation with Ehrlichman
-President=s role

Ziegler entered at 11:24 am

PRC
-Study on UN membership
-Completion date
-Timing of decision
-Announcement

May Day arrests
-Ziegler=s possible response
-Release of individuals

President=s previous press conference
-Ziegler, Scali, Klein
-Washington press corps
-Questions
-Foreign policy
-International monetary policy
-Revenue sharing
-Manpower
-Public service jobs

May Day demonstrators
-Ziegler=s possible comments
-Previous press conference
-President=s answer
-Legality of arrests
-Ziegler=s possible comments
-Release of demonstrators
-Views of White House press corps
-President=s view
-Kennedy
-President=s approval of police actions
-Orderly government
-Constitutionality
-Liberals
-Press response
-Ziegler=s possible comments
-Public support for President

President=s previous press conference
-President=s foreign policy
-SALT
-PRC
-Telephone polls on Vietnam

Ziegler=s possible comments
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-Negotiations
-NATO
-USSR
-Warsaw Pact countries
-Timing
-Rogers
-US relations with PRC
-Timing and form
-President=s travel plans
-Midway Island
-Possible meeting
-Vietnam
-Southeast Asia

May Day demonstrators
-Media=s views
-Actions

-President=s views
-Unknown man=s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Civil Rights marches
-Selma, Alabama

Washington press corps
-Smith
-Son=s experience in Vietnam
-Members of Congress
-William B. Saxbe
-Son=s experience in Vietnam
-Sons= lack of experience in Vietnam
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Military service
-Fears
-President=s previous press conference
-Wire Service reporters
-J. William Theis
-Jack Dwyer [?]
-[First name unknown] Gannett
-Draftees to Vietnam
-Behavior at Kissinger=s press briefing
-Sarah McClendon
-Marianne H. Means
-Ford Rowan
-WTOP
-Question on Vietnam
-terHorst
-Theis
-Peter Lisagor
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Philosophy
-Dan Rather
-Motivation
-POW families
-Johnson=s bombing
-President=s responses
-Morality of war
-North Vietnamese
-World War II

Bombing of Germany in World War II
-Morality of war

-President=s Quaker background
-US Soldiers
-Actions
-Compared to American Indian Wars
-Morality
-Hitler

Morality of war
-Bombing of Vietnam
-Aftermath of North Vietnamese Takeover
-Reports of Communist Atrocities
-Deportation of Czechs
-World War II
-Rowan=s possible opinion
-Fascism versus Communism

President=s previous press conference
-May Day demonstrators
-Domestic questions
-Aluminum
-Steel
-ILO
-Ziegler=s previous briefing
-Reporter=s question
-President=s response
-Meany
-Arrangements

Ziegler left at 11:48 am

Possible summit meeting with USSR
-MBFR
-Announcements
-Rogers, Laird
-SALT

Hedley W. Donovan=s call to Kissinger, June 1
-Possible briefing by Kissinger
-Time=s advertisers
-James R. Shepley
-Possible briefing by Kissinger
-Peter M. Flanigan=s possible actions
-Shultz=s experience

-Purpose
-Possible briefing by Kissinger
-Michael Coles
-Cousins
-Purpose

Kissinger=s possible meeting with New York Times editorial board
-Time magazine
-John W. Gardner
-Kissinger=s schedule
-Somoza dinner

Ziegler entered at 11:52 am

Ziegler=s forthcoming press briefing
-President=s press conferences
-Politics
-Candidate=s press conferences
-Politics

Ziegler left at 11:55 am

President=s schedule
-Somoza dinner
-Haig
-Stans

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[Duration:  14s  ]

FOREIGN RELATIONS

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-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes
-Salvador Allende Gossens

Kissinger left at 11:56 am

Haldeman=s conversation with Benham
-Polling information
-Vietnam War and American people
-President=s standing as military strategist
-Goals of administration
-Domestic Council
-Vietnam War
-Haldeman=s forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
-President=s personal characteristics
-Theme of administration
-Law and order
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Vietnam War
-National economy
-Possible impact of foreign policy achievements
-Kissinger
-SALT
-PRC
-President=s previous press conference

Haldeman left at 12:04 pm

Conversation No. 508-14

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:04 pm and 12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Certificate
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Mrs. Nixon entered at 12:07 pm

-Medal of Freedom presentation
-William J. Hopkins

-Family
-Sequence of events
-Citation
-Commander Craig S. Campbell

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:08 pm

Oval Office
-Furnishings

Bull, Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins, Gail Hopkins, and Mr. and Mrs. John N. Castell entered at 12:08 pm

Introductions

W. J. Hopkins= home town in Kansas
-President=s home town
-High school

Bull, G. Hopkins, and Mr. and Mrs. Castell left at 12:10 pm

Hopkins= role with administration

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:10 pm

Arrangements for ceremony

[An unknown man introduced the participants]

[Applause]

The President, Mrs. Nixon, and Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins left at 12:12 pm

Conversation No. 508-15

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:19 pm and 12:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Robert H. Finch
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:24 pm

Conversation No. 508-16

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:19 pm and 12:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Robert H. Finch=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:24 pm

Conversation No. 508-17

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  12:24 pm - 12:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Robert H. Finch

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:26 pm

Conversation No. 508-18

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  12:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Robert H. Finch
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Bull left at 12:26 pm

Conversation No. 508-19

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  12:26 pm - 2:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s schedule
-Robert H. Finch
-William J. Hopkins
-Medal of Freedom presentation

Finch entered at 12:27 pm

-Hopkins

Finch=s memo
-Finch=s forthcoming meetings
-Tom Reed [sp?]
-Harley [sp?] [Surname unknown]
-[Forename unknown] Monaghan [sp?]
-John N. Mitchell
-Leonard K. Firestone

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President=s schedule
-President=s letter to John Cardinal McIntyre

California poll results
-Vietnam War
-US economy
-Forthcoming administration grants
-Department of Transportation [DOT]

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-President=s program for California
-President=s conversation with George P. Shultz
-Agricultural extension program
-Meeting between Charles W. Colson and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Congressmen

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[Duration:  25m 9s  ]

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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 12:27 pm

President=s press conferences
-Press=s reaction
-Political questions
-Equal time
-President=s use
-Opposition=s response
-George S. McGovern
-Ziegler=s response
-Foreign, domestic policy issues
-Public perception
-President=s June 1 press conference
-Television coverage

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 1:10 pm

National issues
-Possible administration actions
-Vietnam
-Economy
-Drugs
-Law and order
-Ronald W. Reagan

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  16s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14

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[Duration:  4m 47s  ]

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President=s schedule
-Meeting with Explorer Scouts
-White House tour

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Colson=s activities
-Meeting with veterans group
-John F. Kerry
-Television networks
-Equal time

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Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Possible appointment to Supreme Court
-Possible Attorney General
-Role in Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-John D. Ehrlichman
-[Forename unknown] Gifford

Peter M. Flanigan
-Possible role with administration
-Budget director
-Cabinet officers
Weinberger
-Possible Supreme Court appointment
-Issues

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  20s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15

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President=s Tulsa, Oklahoma trip
-President=s schedule
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s schedule
-Page Belcher
-Congressmen
-White House staff
-Arrangements

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  30s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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Charles C. Edwards
-Performance
-Staffing
-Issues
President=s drug program
-Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
-Polls
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Drugs in Vietnam
-Defense Department

-Finch=s appearance on Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] AMorning News@
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Ehrlichman
-Veterans= hospitals
-Joint Chiefs of Staff
-Criminal penalties for dealers
-Ehrlichman, Krogh
-Congress
-Dr. Bertram S. Brown of National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]
-President=s forthcoming speech to American Medical Association [AMA]
-Prescriptions
-Abuse
-Drugs and military men
-President=s and Haldeman=s observations
-Prescription abuse

President=s schedule
-Samuel L. Devine
-Clark MacGregor

President=s accomplishments
-World events
-Vietnam War
-Republicans= response
-Congressional votes
-MacGregor
-Foreign policy
-Cabinet officers= activities
-John B. Connally
-Polls
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-ADignity@

California politics
-Party affiliation
-National economy

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Vietnam War
-Peace initiative
-North Vietnam bombing
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Extent
-Popular Support
-APueblo@ incident

US foreign relations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Middle East
-Henry A. Kissinger=s prediction
-Suez Canal
-William P. Rogers

President=s domestic program
-Ehrlichman
-Careers for women
-Health care
-Unemployment of liberal arts graduates
-Revolutionary societies
-Higher education
-Number of students
-Subjects studied
-Federal funding
-Shultz, Weinberger, Ehrlichman
-National Science Foundation
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Cutting funds
-Shultz=s view

-University of Chicago
-University of California
-Nuclear energy
-Southern California
-Stanford University
-National Science Foundation
-Budget
-President=s conversation with Dr. Lee A. DuBridge
-Subsidization of teachers= salaries
-Teaching versus applied science
-Proposed shift in funds
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Educational lobby
-Bernie Schaefer [sp?]
-Report on applied technology
-Robert S. McNamara
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Subsidies of Boeing
-Position of the United States
-Possible condominium with Japan
-Concorde
-Great Britain and France
-TU-144
-USSR
-President=s conversation with Rogers
-Soviet plane
-Boeing
-McDonnell-Douglas
-Value
-Length of flights
-Commercial advantage
-Freight
-American airline industry
-Possible subsidies by military
-SST
-Magruder
-Boeing
-Seattle unemployment
-Compared to Southern California
-Movie industry
-Flanigan=s efforts on tax reform
-Television networks
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]

-Employment

California
-Possible actions
-Weinberger
-Meeting with Finch
-Government programs
-Planning and impact
-Agricultural extension
-Irrigation districts
-HEW
-Johnson=s efforts on behalf of Texas
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy=s campaign theme in 1962
-George Lodge
-Government programs
-Press coverage
-Model Cities program
-John V. Tunney
-Alan Cranston
-Republican congressmen

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Finch left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 1:57 pm

Papers to sign

Butterfield left at 1:59 pm

President=s schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Meetings

-Explorer Scouts
-Shultz=s request
-Veterans Administration [VA] medical budget
-Charles M. Teague
-Olin E. (ATiger@) Teague
-Arlen Specter
-Press conference
-Types of questions
-Previous press conference in California
-Ziegler
-Publicity value

President=s previous press conference
-Political questions
-Press= objections to Ziegler
-Press= motives

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Peter G. Peterson
-Memorandum to the President
-Possible conversation with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Charles L. Shultze and John W. Gardner
-Partisanship
-Bipartisanship
-Shultze
-Shultz=s efforts
-Gardner
-Possible role with administration

Brookings Institution

Bipartisanship in government
-Support from Democrats

Anastasio Somoza Debayle dinner
-Kissinger
-Entertainment
-Army Chorus
-President=s schedule
			-Mrs. Nixon
-Joint Chiefs of Staff
-Forthcoming breakfast meeting

Haldeman left at 2:25 pm