Conversation No. 509-1

Date:  June 1, 1971
Time:  12:07 pm - 12:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mary Kay Leavitt, Harley O. Staggers, and John E. Nidecker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions

Arrangements for photograph

Leavitt=s background
-School
-Father

Presentation of gifts by President

President=s college experiences

Leavitt, et al. left at 12:09 pm

Conversation No. 509-2

Date:  June 1, 1971
Time:  12:10 pm - 12:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Signing letters
-Time involved
-Rose Mary Woods

Letters

Head of state and personal correspondence
-Autographing photographs

President=s schedule
-Forthcoming press conference

Haldeman=s afternoon meeting with Thomas W. Benham

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Upcoming 1972 election
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-John N. Mitchell
-Monetary contribution

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Press conferences
-President preparation
-Issues

President=s schedule
-July 6th meeting with General Nguyen Van Thieu at Midway Island
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Speech at the National Archives on July 4th
-Television broadcast
-Speaker of the House Carl B. Albert
-Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
-President=s possible comments
-Bicentennial
-Significance
-Program
-Purpose
-Setting
-President=s possible comments
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-California
-Camp David
-Press conference
-Florida
-Budget preparation
-California
-Republican National Committee meeting in Washington
-July 15th press conference
-Budget preparation

Domestic program
-John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Domestic Council
-State of the Union addresses
-President=s trip to Chicago
-Environment
-Environment
-Ehrlichman
-John C. Whitaker=s study
-Air and water pollution
-William O. Douglas
-Public opinion
-Parks
-Polls

Democrats and Vietnam
-Republicans= response
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM] treaty
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Unknown political columnist
-Kissinger=s response
-Sloan Wilson=s column

Economy
-Revenue sharing
-Property tax reduction
-Relief to local governments
-Inflation
-Wholesale prices
-Unemployment
-John B. Connally=s views
-New York Daily News article
-Summer youth jobs
-Ehrlichman
-John V. Lindsay

White House staff
-Study
-Ehrlichman, Kissinger
-Size of staff
-Paperwork
-Efficiency
-Work on youth
-Robert H. Finch
-Charles W. Colson

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-Richard Richards
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Patrick J. Buchanan

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Vietnam War
-Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-William A. Gill, Jr.
-Statement regarding meeting with President
-Appearance on American Broadcasting Company [ABC] with Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.

Dick Cavett television program
-McCloskey
-Jack F. Kemp
-Role
-Robert J. Dole

Vietnam War
-Riegle
-Gill=s interview
-Ziegler

Kemp
-Role

Equal television time for President=s Vietnam policies
-Colson=s role
-Cavett, Johnny Carson

-Common Cause
-Views
-ATell It to Hanoi@ response
-Use of election laws
-WTOP radio

Unfair media coverage of President=s policies
-Bryce N. Harlow
-News summary
-AMeet the Press@
-AFace the Nation@
-ABC

The President and Haldeman left 12:50 pm

Conversation No. 509-3

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  9:49 am - 9:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:49 am

-Location of J. Edgar Hoover
-10:00 pm meeting with John N. Mitchell and Hoover

Bull and Butterfield left at 9:54 am

Conversation No. 509-4

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:54 am and 9:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s schedule
-Military command
-Corrine Griffith
-Poznan Boys Choir of Poland and All-Philadelphia Boys Choir
-Roger E. Johnson
-David Packard

Economic indicators
-Wholesale price index
-Unemployment

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:54 am

-J. Edgar Hoover, John N. Mitchell

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:59 am

Rogers C. B. Morton=s forthcoming press conference
-National energy policy

President=s forthcoming press conference
-Questions
-Economy
-Congressional bill
-Unemployment figures
-News leads
-Revenue sharing
-Haldeman=s forthcoming conversation with John D. Ehrlichman

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:59 am

Conversation No. 509-5

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  9:59 am - 10:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with J. Edgar Hoover and John N. Mitchell

Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
-Location

Crime
-Compensation to families of crime victims
-Legislative proposal
-Forthcoming meeting with police chiefs
-President=s comments
-Hoover=s possible comments
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Agenda for forthcoming meeting
-Monetary compensation for crime victim families
-Krogh=s report on administration legislation
-Clarence M. Kelley
-Michael N. Canlis

Krogh and John D. Ehrlichman entered at 10:02 am

-Law enforcement legislation
-Response by attendees

The President, et al. left at 10:04 am

Conversation No. 509-21

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:04 am and 11:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with unknown people

Meeting
-Cabinet Room

Bull and the unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:47 am

Conversation No. 509-6

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  11:47 am - 12:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s previous meeting with police officials
-Response
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Los Angeles Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess

President=s previous press conference
-President=s treatment of May Day demonstrators
-American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]
-President=s position
-Opinion polls
-Ziegler
-Political questions
-Ziegler
-President=s opponents= views
-Carroll Kilpatrick=s column
-Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert Hoopes [?] of the New York Times
-Political questions
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Democratic National Committee [DNC]

President=s schedule
-Robert J. Dole

President=s forthcoming press conference
-Positive stories
-Patrick J. Buchanan

-President=s reaction
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.

News story
-General John W. Donaldson
-General William C. Westmoreland

Unemployment figures
-George P. Shultz

Press
-May Day demonstrators
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Robert H. Finch
-Godfrey Sperling, Jr. interview
-John N. Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Finch
-May Day demonstrators
-Views of John B. Connally and Ehrlichman

President=s press conferences
-Ziegler
-John A. Scali, Richard A. Moore
-Goals
-Development of pattern
-Location and time

President=s previous meeting with police officials
-Law and order question
-Support for the President
-Democrats
-American flag pins
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield

Drugs
-Foreign aid
-Unnamed congressman
-Opposition to aid to drug-producing countries

-Marijuana
-Administration opposition to legalization
-James C. Hagerty [?]
-Support for the President

Reaction to President=s previous press conference
-Administration=s foreign policy
-May Day demonstrators

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:47 am

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Corrine Griffith
-Mitchell
-Location

Presidential gifts

Roger E. Johnson

Bull and Haldeman left at 12:08 pm

Conversation No. 509-7

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  12:09 pm - 12:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Corinne Griffith and Roger E. Johnson; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions

Arrangements for Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins= photographs

J. Edgar Hoover

President=s attendance at Washington Redskins games

Griffith=s home
-Los Angeles

Mayor of Los Angeles Norris Poulson and Mrs. Poulson

Mayor of Beverly Hills [(Forename unknown) Bates?] and wife

Virginia Knight, wife of Goodwin Knight

Regards to Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Presentation of gifts by President
-Compact

Vietnam

Griffith and Johnson left at 12:13 pm

Conversation No. 509-8

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  12:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Upcoming meeting with boys= choirs
-Polish choir
-Robert P. Griffin, Lucien N. Nedzi
-Polish-Americans

Pronunciation of APoznan@

Bull left at 12:13 pm

Conversation No. 509-9

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  12:40 pm - 1:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Gifts for sitting and former members of Congress
-Compacts for wives
-Costs
-Cufflinks
-Stephen B. Bull

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:40 pm

-Number of compacts

Bull left at unknown time before 1:26 pm

Presidential gifts
-Ashtrays

Legislation
-Government reorganization
-Vote
-Peace Corps

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:40 pm

Presidential gifts
-Compacts
-Paperweights
-Cost

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:26 pm

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Kenneth B. Keating
-Henry A. Kissinger=s recommendation
-Meeting with Robert J. Dole

-Meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Swaran Singh
-Kissinger=s recommendation
-Indira Gandhi
-William P. Rogers

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Keating

May Day demonstrations
-Ronald L. Ziegler=s briefing
-Appearance of police chiefs

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:40 pm

Ziegler=s schedule
-Briefing

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:26 pm

Press briefing
-Police officials
-Charles W. Colson

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:40 pm

Ziegler=s location
-Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:26 pm

Press briefing
-Colson
-May Day demonstrations
-Press reaction

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Keating
-Meeting with Indian Foreign Minister
-Kissinger
-White House reception for Advertising Council
-June 7 meeting with homebuilders
-Support for President=s policies
-John B. Connally
-Rescheduling of Rochester trip
-Tricia Nixon=s wedding
-Meeting with Senegalese official
-Rochester trip
-University=s schedule
-Mayors= meeting
-Maine trip
-[Forename unknown] Dreyfus [?]
-Views of John A. Scali, John N. Mitchell
-New Hampshire
-Itinerary
-Medical group in Atlantic City, New Jersey
-Press conference
-[Forename unknown] Hufty dinner

-New Hampshire
-Mitchell
-President=s previous campaigns
-Maine

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-Atlantic City
-Rochester, New York
-Maine
-Hufty dinner
-Possible Chicago trip
-American Association of Retired Persons [AARP]
-Milk producers
-AARP
-Thursday night press conference
-California trip
-Florida
-Kissinger
-Midway Island
-Florida trip
-Press
-AARP
-California
-Midway Island
-California
-Press conference
-Congress
-Republican National Committee [RNC] meeting

Automobile testing
-Automobile Testing Center, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
-Ohio

Foreign Technology Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
-Possible move to Florida
-Number of personnel affected
-Reasons for move
-Location
-Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
-Support of Edward J. Gurney
-Opposition of William B. Saxbe
-Considerations
-Budget
-Politics
-Clark MacGregor

May Day demonstrations
-Department of Justice
-Position on posting bond for demonstrators
-Mitchell
-Constitutional arguments
-Compensation for damages
-Supplemental appropriations bill
-Amount

President=s schedule
-Meetings with John B. Connally and George P. Shultz
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Colson
-Efforts to insure Aequal time@
-Morning meeting with Mitchell and Connally
-White House briefing for chief state school officers
-Federal education programs
-Revenue sharing
-Post Office
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-Retirement from the Cabinet
-Launching the Postal Service
-Ceremonies

-Reorganization
-Effects
-Cabinet dinner
-Location
-Attendees
-Secretaries
-Under secretaries
-Agency heads
-Possible Wisconsin trip
-National Association of Counties
-Knights of Columbus dinner in New York City
-Number of attendees
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] function in August
-Rose Garden concerts for undiscovered artists
-Leonard Garment and Lucy A. Winchester
-Outdoor events
-Temperature
-Bull
-Jewish groups
-Council of Foreign Relations dinner in New York City
-Kissinger=s views
-David Rockefeller
-Conservatives= views
-Herbert C. Hoover
-John Foster Dulles
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-General Douglas MacArthur
-Kissinger

Ziegler entered at 1:26 pm

Ziegler=s previous press briefing

Announcement of Rochester visit

Ziegler=s previous press briefing
-Federal-sponsored life insurance for law enforcement officers
-Amount
-Government insurance for servicemen killed in Vietnam
-Amount
-New York City police commissioner Patrick V. Murphy
-Comments about President=s meeting with police officials

-White House meeting with police chiefs
-William E. Kirwan
-Mitchell, J. Edgar Hoover
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Peter J. Pitchess= comments
-Newsmen=s questions to Ziegler
-William A. Gill, Jr.
-Newsmen
-Attitude
-Forrest Boyd
-Jerald F. (AJerry@) terHorst
-Comments by police chiefs
-Police officials= comments to Ziegler
-Political questions
-Newsmen=s questions to Ziegler
-Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Ziegler=s comments to newsmen
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr., Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy

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-Unknown reporter=s question
-Los Angeles police commissioner Edward M. Davis
-Response
-Treatment of press
-Press conferences
-Questions
-Dan Rather=s comments contrasted with Roger H. Mudd=s comments

CBS news
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Rather

President=s press conferences
-Follow-up questions
-Newsmen=s concerns
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-May Day demonstrators

Vote on Los Angeles police pension funds
-Police chief Davis
-Vote distribution by ethnicity
-Jewish community

President=s press conferences
-Follow-up questions
-Value to President
-Mood of press
-Issues
-Public sector jobs
-Revenue sharing

Press releases
-Energy message
-Edward L. Morgan
-Housing message
-Timing

Press
-Attitude
-Previous administrations

Drugs
-Problem in military
-Ziegler=s comments
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Colson
-Unknown veteran=s comments regarding heroin and marijuana
-Extent of problem
-Popular perceptions

-President=s program
-Upcoming announcement

Radio speeches

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:26 pm

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:57 pm

Radio speeches
-Schedule
-Location

Press
-Attitudes at press conferences
-Johnson
-Reaction to President

Unemployment statistics
-Compared to earlier statistics

Vietnam
-Casualties
-Causes
-Press reports

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 1:57 pm

Conversation No. 509-10

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:57 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man

Instructions

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:47 pm

Conversation No. 509-11

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:57 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger=s schedule

Conversation No. 509-12

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:57 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:47 pm

Conversation No. 509-13

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:57 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 4-19]

Conversation No. 509-14

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  2:47 pm - 3:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Weather

[The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower between 2:47 pm and 2:49 pm]

[Conversation 509-14A]

[See Conversation No. 4-20]

[End of telephone conversation]

Military action in Cambodia
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Bombing
-Press reaction

President=s foreign policy
-Press reaction
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr. and article

Vietnam
-Press coverage
-General John W. Donaldson=s story
-President=s conversation with Melvin R. Laird
-General William C. Westmoreland

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-Donaldson=s forthcoming trial

Foreign relations
-Vietnam peace negotiations
-Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters
-Date of meeting
-North Vietnamese response
-North Vietnamese relations with People=s Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Kissinger=s opinion
-North Vietnamese posture
-Timing
-South Vietnamese politics
-US-USSR relations
-Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Timing
-Announcement
-President=s forthcoming visit to the PRC
-Kissinger=s conversation with Oberdorfer
-Timing
-US-PRC relations

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Support for the President
-President=s prior breakfast meeting on the drug problem
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer=s comments to Kissinger
-Drug problem in military
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-My Lai
-West Point speech
-President=s conversation with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

May Day demonstrations
-Public=s view
-Press, television reaction
-President=s support for the police

Vietnam War
-Helicopter losses
-Casualties
-Timing of settlement
-President=s forthcoming visit to PRC
-Korean War
-USSR
-Haig=s views
-Laos
-South Vietnamese military activity

-Casualties inflicted
-Death of General Do Cao Tri
-Pentagon treatment of Cambodian story
-New York Times article on Cambodia story

Kissinger left at 3:06 pm

Conversation No. 509-15

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  3:06 pm - 3:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 4-21]

Conversation No. 509-16

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:07 pm and 3:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

80th Congressional Club reception, June 3
-Club members

Conversation No. 509-17

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:07 pm and 3:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman

Rose Mary Woods= schedule

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 3:17 pm

Conversation No. 509-18

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  3:17 pm - 3:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods

Woods= conversation with Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Cigars
-John W. McCormack
-President of Nicaragua
-Wording of notes
-Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons

President=s previous meeting with police officials
-Support for President
-May Day demonstrators

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Blair House Fine Arts Committee
-Patricia R. Mosbacher=s letter
-Blair House reception hall
-Lafayette Square
-Mrs. Nixon
-Blair House refurbishing
-Walter Beinecke=s contribution
-Nantucket Historical Trust

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Demonstrators
-Appearance
-Actions

[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-US Embassy in Athens
-Military status
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower=s conversation with Woods

Cigar

Woods left at 3:27 pm

Conversation No. 509-19

Date:  June 3, 1971
Time:  3:27 pm - 4:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Cigars
-[Forename unknown] Yates
-Karl E. Mundt
-Cuba
-Philippines
-Holland
-Indonesia
-Cuba

Press
-President=s schedule
-Treatment of Ronald L. Ziegler
-Handling by Ziegler

President=s schedule
-Time, Life
-Diplomatic reception June 4
-Tricia Nixon, Edward R. F. Cox, Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Nixon family photograph
-Reception line
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-President=s role
-Presentation of gift

Polish children=s choir from Poznan
-Exchange visitors
-Possible memento gifts from the President
-Tie clips
-Children

-Gift
-Types
-Tie clips
-Haldeman, George P. Shultz, Frank Cormier
-Pens
-Costs
-Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Press

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Robert J. Dole and John N. Mitchell entered at 3:36 pm

[General conversation]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:36 pm

Presidential gifts
-Cost
-Gifts pens to Polish and Philadelphia youngsters

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:46 pm

Washington press corps
-Ziegler=s conversation with the President
-Police officials
-Peter J. Pitchess= comment to William A. Gill, Jr.

Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy=s comments regarding May Day demonstrators
-American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]

Gun control legislation
-Mitchell=s testimony
-1968 Act
-ASaturday night specials@
-Gun lobby

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Vietnam
-Dole=s presentation
-Margaret Chase Smith=s comments
-Dole=s daughter=s memories
-Edmund S. Muskie and Hubert H. Humphrey=s votes for Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
-Length
-President=s role
-Perception of youth
-Prisoner of War [POW] wives
-Conversation with Dole
-Political leanings
-Meeting with Mitchell
-Prisoner exchange
-Handling
-International Red Cross
-Refusal of North Vietnamese to be repatriated
-Comparison to Korean War repatriation
-Negotiations
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce

-Lyndon B. Johnson=s bombing halt
-Setting date for US withdrawal
-Relation to POW issue
-Residual force
-POW wives= concern
-Return of prisoners
-POW wives= attendance at Dole=s functions
-Residual force
-Prisoner exchange
-timing
-POW wives= concerns
-Protest activities
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes= activities
-Negotiations
-President=s policy

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Narcotics
-Previous administration=s efforts
-President=s efforts
-Previous administrations
-Bureau of Narcotics
-Mitchell=s view
-Bureau of Dangerous Drugs
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Public view

Economy
-Inflation
-Release of statistics

-Retail sales
-Trend
-Employment
-Unemployed Vietnam veterans
-Unemployed Boeing workers in Seattle
-Unemployment in California
-Geographical location
-Aerospace industry
-Unemployment in Wichita, Kansas
-Aircraft manufacturing industry
-Democrats= record

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Legislation
-Cyclamate bill in Congress
-Importance for California
-Effect on can manufactures
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Administration support
-HEW

Government reorganization
-Manpower employment act
-Appalachia
-Public service jobs
-Melvin R. Laird
-Number
-Accelerated public works bill
-Possible veto
-Effect on economy

-Unemployment
-Inflation
-Gerald R. Ford=s actions
-Veto
-Political considerations

Issues
-Vietnam War
-POWs
-Forthcoming developments in foreign relation
-Effect in 1972
-Unemployment problem
-President=s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Democratic allegations
-Effect of pending legislation
-Public service jobs
-Discretionary use of funds
-Level of

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-Consumer Price Index [CPI] increase
-Farm prices
-Grain sales to People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Canada
-Australia
-Provision for shipping in American ships
-Farm bills
-Vietnam War issue and Nixon administration
-Concerns of President=s supporters
-Vietnam casualty figures

-Trends
-Unemployment in US
-Political repercussion

Legislation
-Health bill
-Kennedy=s proposed bill
-Possible congressional action
-President=s possible veto
-Elliot L. Richardson=s efforts
-Mitchell=s meeting with head of American Medical Association [AMA]
-Kennedy=s bill
-Dentists= concerns
-Kennedy=s bill
-Cost
-Black Caucus
-Administration=s response to requests
-Cost of proposals
-Cost of Kennedy=s health care proposals

Vietnam war
-Dole=s proposed trip to South Vietnam
-J. William Fulbright
-South Vietnamese operations in Cambodia
-Casualty figures
-Cambodia, Laos
-POW wives
-Handling by administration
-Peace negotiations
-POWs
-Bruce
-POW wives
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.=s efforts
-Unknown woman with Mexican surname
-Kathy Cloughman [sp?]
-Hughes= efforts
-Peace negotiations
-POWs
-Repatriation
-Korean POW release

-North Vietnamese POW release
-South Vietnam
-International Red Cross
-International laws

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Foreign policy speech
-McCloskey
-Liberal Republicans in New York
-Relations with press
-Donald W. Riegle, Jr.=s statement
-Plan to end US involvement in Vietnam
-Response

Vietnam War
-Consequences of US failure
-Ralph de Toledano
-Column
-Democrats= actions regarding Vietnam War
-Muskie
-Herbert R. (AChief@) Rainwater=s testimony
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]

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Personnel
-Removal of official
-Walter J. Hickel
-Kenneth C. Snider
-Thomas S. Kleppe
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Alaska

Clean elections bill
-Provisions
-Limitation on spending
-Limitation on contributions
-Effect on incumbents
-Level
-Unions

Schedule
-President=s meeting with senior citizens groups
-American Association of Retired Persons [AARP]

AMA convention

Milk producers convention
-Support for President

Young people=s support for administration
-Vietnam War

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Vietnam
-Negotiations
-As issue

Mitchell and Dole left at 4:46 pm

Address

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Haldeman left at 4:49 pm