Conversation No. 510‑1

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  2:25 pm ‑ 3:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Greeting

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:15 pm

Conversation No. 510‑2

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  3:15 pm ‑ 3:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull (?) at 3:15 pm

President's schedule

Bull (?) left at 3:16 pm

Conversation No. 510‑3

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  3:16 pm - 4:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Drug abuse
‑President's forthcoming meeting
-Joint Chiefs of Staff
-Department of Defense [DOD] officials

‑John N. Mitchell
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Possible State Department meeting
‑John N. Irwin, II
‑Possible use of tape by Ehrlichman
‑Robert S. Ingersoll's report
‑Public relations
‑Possible meeting on foreign policy aspects
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Appearance on "Issues and Answers"
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld, Robert H. Finch
‑Ash Council
‑Public education
‑Announcement of legislation
‑Government reorganization
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
‑Conversation with Ehrlichman
‑Work in drug treatment
‑Conversation with Ehrlichman
‑Possible announcement of appointment
‑Possible visit by President
‑Richard B. Ogilvie
‑Possible legislation
-Equipment
‑Money
‑Retention of addicted soldiers in military
‑Treatment
‑Urinalysis
‑Director of administration's program

Peter G. Peterson
‑Forthcoming conversation with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
‑Charles Shultze
‑John W. Gardner

Shultze
‑Brookings Institute
‑Possible role with administration

Meeting at 5 pm
‑Joseph Irwin Miller
‑Kissinger, Shultz, Ehrlichman

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-Peterson
‑Purpose
‑Gardner
‑Shultze
‑Kermit Gordon

Appointments
‑Hollis M. Dole
‑[Forename unknown] Allen

Drugs
‑President's memo to Ehrlichman
‑Death penalty
‑Lindbergh law
‑Mandatory prison sentences
‑Role of doctors in addiction
-President=s upcoming speech to the American Medical Association [AMA]
-Jaffe
‑Pharmaceutical companies' actions
‑Provisions of new law
‑Role of doctors in addiction
‑Medics in Vietnam
‑Jaffe's views
-Addiction
‑Motivation
‑Drinking

‑Art Linkletter's views
‑Legalization of marijuana
‑Jaffe's views
‑Effect on society
‑Study of heroin addicts
‑Previous use of marijuana
‑Cigarettes and cancer
‑Marijuana
‑President's conversation with Julie Eisenhower, June 1
-Jaffe=s view
‑Reliability of statistics
‑Epidemic cycles
‑Boy Scouts' education program
‑Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.'s role
‑Statistics

Black Caucus' budget requests
‑Cost
‑President's possible response
‑President's statements during meeting
‑Effect on federal budget
-Tax increases

Drug abuse
‑Polls
-Haldeman

Law and Order issue
‑Mitchell's role
‑J. Edgar Hoover
‑Popular fears

Boeing Corporation
‑Department of Transportation [DOT] contract to Vertol Corporation
-Urban mass rapid transit
-President=s views

Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑William M. Magruder's efforts
‑Possible US-Japan partnership
‑Ehrlichman=s conversation with Peterson and Magruder

‑Magruder's Visit to Paris Air Show
‑Flight in Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]=s SST
‑Mitsubishi

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‑U.S.‑JAPAN RELATIONS

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-Peterson
-Magruder
-Briefing
-Japanese trade situation

Law and Order
‑Ehrlichman's conversation with Robert R. Douglas
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑$100,000,000
‑Law Enforcement Assistant Act [LEAA]
‑Need for narcotics court in New York City
‑LEAA

Unemployment figures

National Science Foundation
‑Government funds for college professors
-Applied sciences
‑Cambodia
‑Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.

Unemployment
‑Need for movement
‑National public service bill
‑President's possible action
‑Effect
‑Administration's actions
-Special revenue sharing
‑Provisions
‑Shultz's views
‑Political considerations
‑Shultz
‑John B. Connally
‑Role with administration
‑Performance in office
‑Speech

Revenue sharing
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑David S. Broder's article
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Hearings
‑Views
‑Walter W. Heller, Joseph A. [?] Pechman
‑Political value
‑Mills
-Rockefeller
‑Polls

Polls
‑Foreign policy
-USSR, Peoples Republic of China [PRC]
‑@Need for an enemy@
-Connally

President's press conference June 1
‑Police handling of May Day demonstrators
‑President's demeanor
-Response

Administration=s positions
‑Response to opponents
‑Harry S. Truman

-Integrity of the Presidency
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Leonard Garment
‑Muskie
‑President's press conference June 1
-President=s views
‑Politics versus principle
‑President's image
‑William L. Safire's views
‑White House correspondents' dinner

Black Panthers
‑Ehrlichman's dispute with Mayor of Seattle
‑Ehrlichman's mail

Need to establish positions
‑Connally's views
‑Spiro T. Agnew's attacks on press

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:15 pm

Administration appointments
‑Conservatives
‑General Counsel of National Labor Relations Board [NLRB]
‑Richard T. Burres
‑Conversation with Ehrlichman June 2
‑Possible offense to labor
‑James D. Hodgson's views
‑President's relations with George Meany
‑Burres
‑Relations with Hodgson and Shultz
‑Service with Arthur F. Burns
-Farm labor problems
‑Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Charles W. Colson
‑Burres

Personnel
-Martin C. Anderson
‑Forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
‑Possible role with administration

‑Shultz
-Views
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
‑Possible political plans
‑Replacement
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Edwin L. Harper
‑Flanigan
‑Harper
-Anderson
-Possible tole with administration

Unemployment
-Public service jobs bill
‑Pierre Rinfret's prediction
-Level
‑Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] approach
-Urban problems
President's press conference
-Response to drug problem
‑Public reaction
‑Dan Rather

Administration personnel
‑Connally
‑Kissinger
‑Cabinet
‑Richardson
‑William P. Rogers
‑Conversation with President of Colgate University

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‑George W. Romney
‑John A. Volpe
‑Romney
‑Volpe

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:15 pm

Administration personnel
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Hodgson
‑Clifford M. Hardin
‑Presidency
‑Richardson
‑Connally
‑Richardson
‑[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson

Erhlichman left at 4:15 pm

Conversation No. 510‑4

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  4:16 pm - 4:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, William Stephany, Wade Laughter, Bruce Michel, Robert Bordes,Jr., Robert Jasper, Gary Cross, Wadell Keeling, and Robert Carter; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of this meeting

General conversation

Agenda

White House tours

Explorers' meeting

Boy Scout Jamboree
‑Irvine Ranch, California
‑Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
‑Ceremony

Ages of Explorers

Presentation of gifts by President
-Photographs
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
-Cufflinks

Female Explorers

Explorers
‑Relation to Boy Scout Organization

Rochester, New York

Arrangements for outdoor activity
‑Commander Craig Campbell

President et al. left at 4:20 pm

Conversation No. 510‑5

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  4:38 pm - 5:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally and Alexander P. Butterfield at 4:38 pm

Connally's schedule
‑John W. Byrnes

Explorers

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:42 pm

Boy Scouts
‑Connally's experience
‑President's experience

Connally's previous Congressional testimony
‑John D. Ehrlichman's opinion
‑Revenue sharing
‑Members
‑James C. Corman
‑Sam M. Gibbons
‑John C. Watts
‑Joe D. Waggonner
‑James A. Burke
-United States Postal Service [USPS]

Revenue sharing
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Gerald R. Ford

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:38 pm

Refreshments

Heroin

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:42 pm

-Seizures

Eugene T. Rossides
‑Role with Treasury Department
-Assistant Secretary for Enforcement, Tariff and Trade Affairs, and Operations

[The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:38 pm and 5:42 pm]

[Conversation No. 510-5A]

Forthcoming drug abuse meeting
‑Attendees
‑Connally
‑Rossides
‑Number
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Service Secretaries
-Joints Chiefs of Staff
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Connally's schedule

Drugs
‑Administration's forthcoming actions
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Interdepartmental cooperation
-Department of State
-Department of Defense
-Department of the Treasury
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Employees
-Abuse in Vietnam
‑Turkey
‑Connally's forthcoming conversation with John N. Irwin, II
‑William P. Rogers
‑Possible economic arrangement with United States

[The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:38 pm and 5:32 pm]

[Conversation No. 510‑5B]

‑Forthcoming meeting
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Possible US economic arrangement
‑State Department
‑Problems
‑Possible meetings

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Cost
‑Seizures of heroin by US agents
‑Locations
‑Possible jail sentences for pushers
‑Recent seizures of heroin
-Producers
‑Effect
‑Investigation
‑Awards for Customs agents

International economy
‑Effect on US economy
-President=s forthcoming press conference
‑Formation and development of EEC
-Kissinger
‑Future prospects
‑Britain, Japan, Australia
‑EEC

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JAPAN

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‑Canada
‑Mexico, South America
‑Differences with United States

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MONETARY POLICY

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-Japanese exports
‑Effect of allowing currencies to float
‑Businessmen
‑Time before Bretton Woods agreement
‑Need to improve US trading position
‑Willy Brandt's forthcoming visit to United States
‑West German contribution to defense

‑Maintenance of US worldwide military commitments
‑Effect of US tourism
‑Charitable contributions by Americans
‑US investments abroad
‑Balance of payments deficits
‑Canada, Japan, EEC
-Agricultural commodities
‑Jobs
‑World bank loan to Bolivia
‑Connally's conversation with Robert Wyrostek [?]
‑Expropriation of US property
‑Pipeline to Argentina
‑Peter G. Peterson, Rogers
‑Kissinger
‑Connally's forthcoming lunch with Robert S. Mcnamara June 3
‑Expropriation of property
‑Chile
‑Salvador Allende
-Economic policy

National economy
‑Connally's conversation with Arthur F. Burns
‑Status of dollar
‑Status of economy
‑Inflation
‑Productivity
‑Congress's possible actions
‑Public service jobs bill
‑Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Connally
‑Administration's bill
‑Possible effects on unemployment
‑Unemployment
‑Political considerations
‑Public service jobs bill
‑Inflation
‑Wholesale price index
‑Food
‑Unemployment, inflation
‑Burns' views
‑Inflation
‑Possible wage‑price freeze

International situation
-Vietnam
-Peace negotiations
-US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Anti-Ballistic Missiles Treaty [ABM]
-Effect on Berlin negotiations
-US-People=s Republic of China [PRC] relations

National issues
‑Possible issue in 1972 election
‑Long‑range concerns
‑1968 campaign
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Administration's possible actions
‑Democrats' possible nominee
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Jackson
‑Foreign policy
‑National economy
‑Permissiveness
‑Administration's possible actions
‑George P. Shultz
‑Ehrlichman
‑Importance of President's re‑election
‑Connally's instructions to staff
Treasury Department
‑Government reorganization
‑Charles E. Walker
-Shultz

National economy
‑Possible Wage‑Price Board
‑Effect
‑Timing
‑Inflation
-Wage and Price freeze
‑Unemployment
‑US industry and business

‑Interest rates
‑Connally's speech to bankers in Europe
‑David Rockefeller's reaction
‑Interest rates
‑Burns' reaction
‑Interest rates
‑Wage and price freeze
-Burns
‑Timing and implementation
‑Public service jobs bill
‑Welfare recipients
-Connally=s upcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
‑Value‑added tax
‑Property tax relief
‑Revenue sharing
‑Need for reduction
‑Political effect
‑Federal income tax credits
‑Popular reaction toward taxation
‑Action on President's domestic policy initiatives
‑Predictions of economists
‑Need for movement
‑Pierre Rinfret's position
‑Indicators
‑California
‑Size and importance
‑Savings
‑Inventories
‑Stock market
-Issues
‑Foreign affairs
-Kissinger, Rogers
‑Japan, Chile
‑Administration=s possible actions

May Day Demonstrations
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's briefings
‑Questions at President's previous press conference

President's demeanor in press conferences
‑Possible response to May Day questions
‑Public's reaction

Cabinet
‑Connally's reputation
‑Mitchell
‑Rogers
‑Laird
‑George W. Romney
‑John A. Volpe
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Clifford M. Hardin
‑Walter J. Hickel

President's demeanor during crises
‑May Day demonstrations
‑Cambodia
‑Attacks on enemies

Connally's schedule

Connally left at 5:42 pm

Conversation No. 510‑6

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  5:42 pm - 5:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:54 pm

Conversation No. 510‑7

Date:  June 2, 1971
Time:  5:54 pm - 6:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
‑State dinner for Anastasio Somoza Debayle
‑Foreign Minister Lorenzo Guerrero
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Salvadora D. Somoza
‑Mr. and Mrs. Sevilla‑Sacasa
‑Arrangements
‑Meeting with Somoza
‑State Dinner for Somoza
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑State Department
-Speech
‑Attendees at State Dinners
‑Maurice H. Stans

President's previous conversation with John B. Connally

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:54 pm

President's schedule
‑Barber
‑Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:25 pm

President's schedule
-Previous meeting with Explorer Scouts
‑Applause

Cermonial events
-Chiefs of State
-Objectives
‑Astronauts
‑Photographs

Press conferences
‑President's demeanor
‑May Day Demonstrators
‑John F. Kennedy's demeanor

President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
‑George P. Shultz

Seizure of heroin by customs agents
‑President's conversation with Connally
‑Certificate
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
‑Previous government policy
‑J. Edgar Hoover's policy
‑Fiorello H. La Guardia

President's previous press conference
‑President's demeanor
‑Views of Ehrlichman and Connally
‑May Day demonstrators
‑Arrangements

President's demeanor in public
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.'s views
‑Connally's conduct in Michigan
‑Spiro T. Agnew's demeanor
-Somoza dinner
‑Questions of June 1 on May Day Demonstrators

President=s schedule
-Briefing
-Unemployment figures

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President's press conference, June 1
-Effectiveness
‑May Day demonstrators
-Demeanor

President's demeanor in public
‑1970 campaign TV show
‑Dan Rather [?]
‑Bill [Surname unknown]
‑Press conferences
‑Relations with press
-Ehrlichman=s views
‑Popular opinion

Polls
‑Demonstrators
‑Drugs
‑Legalization of marijuana
‑Demonstrators

‑Demographic analysis
‑Foreign policy
‑Tricia Nixon's wedding
‑Use
‑Cost versus TV time
‑Issues
‑People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑Hoover
‑Agnew
‑Marijuana
‑Support for President by age group

President=s scheudle
‑Dinner for Somoza

White House press corps
‑Ronald L. Ziegler

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:54 pm

Presidential gifts
‑Gold and diamonds

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:25 pm

President's schedule
‑Forthcoming meeting on drug abuse
‑Ehrlichman's role
‑Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
‑President's role

The President and Haldeman left at 6:25 pm