Conversation No. 512-1

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:02 am and 9:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person talked with the President

Schedule

Conversation No. 512-2

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  9:05 am - 9:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman=s schedule

Butterfield left at 9:08 am

Conversation No. 512-3

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 9:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:42 am

Conversation No. 512-33

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 9:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

Delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:42 am

Conversation No. 512-34

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 9:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

President=s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:42 am

Conversation No. 512-4

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  9:42 am - 10:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger=s previous meeting with Melvin R. Laird, June 4
-Willy Brandt=s forthcoming visit
-Defense forces
-Helmut H. W. Schmidt

Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-State Department
-Possible effect on North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-John Foster Dulles= strategy
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Prospects

William P. Rogers= forthcoming statement
-State Department

President=s schedule
-Kenneth B. Keating

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Message to People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming visit by Kissinger
-Number of assistants

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese Infiltration
-Kissinger=s conversation with Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, June 3
-Bombing
-Lam Son 719
-Effect
-Negotiations
-Cambodia
-Vietnamese military activity
-Snoul, Cambodia

-General Nguyen Van Thieu=s conversation with Ellsworth F. Bunker
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Death of General Do Cao Tri

SALT
-Press coverage

Kissinger=s meeting with East Asia scholars
-John K. Fairbanks
-Edwin O. Reischauer
-[Frank] Tillman Durdin
-Attitude toward administration

Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.=s article in Washington Post, June 4
-President=s 1972 candidacy

Kissinger=s meeting with East Asia scholars
-Richard Duckman=s [sp?] comment
-Stan Hoden [sp?]
-Comments regarding ping pong team=s visit to PRC

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:42 am

-Durdin

President=s schedule
-Energy message
-Economy story
-Briefing
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Glenn T. Seaborg
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-President=s possible statement
-Clean energy
-Environment
-Diplomatic reception for Tricia Nixon and Edward R. F. Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:22 am

Trade with PRC
-Peter G. Peterson=s possible assignment
-Earthmoving and railroad equipment
-Soviet level of export controls
-Grain
-Importance to farmers
-Statutory requirement for American bottoms
-George Meany
-Longshoremen
-Department of Labor
-Charles W. Colson=s possible role
-George P. Shultz, James D. Hodgson, Peterson
-Possible meeting with Kissinger
-General versus individual licenses
-Shipments to PRC, Soviet Union
-US Merchant Marine
-Licenses
-Possible exemption for grain
-Political implications
-Kissinger=s possible conversation with Peterson
-Meany
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Statutory requirement for American bottoms
-Political implications
-Farmers
-Unions supporting President=s foreign policy
-Timing
-Farmers
-Kissinger=s possible call to Gerald R. Ford
-Colson=s relationship with Jay Lovestone
-Kissinger=s possible call to Lovestone
-Possibility
-Possible effect

Kissinger=s schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Sequoia
-Chief of Naval Operations
-Shultz, Peterson, Colson
-Lovestone
-Ford

-Farmers
-Lovestone
-Unions

Vietnam
-Public relations
-Rogers, Laird
-President=s conversation with Robert J. Dole, June 3
-Political issue
-Timing
-Use of draftees
-Laird
-Thieu
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Wives= possible actions
-Congressmen
-Public relations
-Negotiations
-Media interest
-Samuel A. Donaldson
-POW wives
-Snuol
-Backgrounders
-Kissinger=s conversation with Joseph C. Kraft, June 3
-Press=s attitude toward President
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Lag in popular perception
-President=s July 6 meeting with Thieu
-Public relations
-Laird
-Negotiations with North Vietnam, PRC, Soviet Union

US-Soviet relations
-Cuba
-SALT
-Berlin
-Poland

Vietnam
-POW wives
-Haig=s role
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes= role
-North Vietnamese POWs

-John N. Mitchell, Dole
-International Red Cross
-North Korean POWs
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce

Kissinger left at 10:22 am

Conversation No. 512-5

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  10:27 am - 11:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

US-People=s Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Possible grain deal
-Farmers= lobby
-Peter G. Peterson
-Labor unions
-Statutory requirement for American bottoms
-Politics
-Peterson=s recommendation

President=s previous meeting with Frank E. Fitzsimmons

President=s schedule
-Chowder and Marching Society
-80th Congress group
-Donald L. Jackson
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Jackson
-Departure from government
-Kendall
-Jacob K. Javits
-Henry A. Kissinger=s possible call

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President=s schedule
-Chowder and Marching Society
-Traditions
-Glenn R. Davis
-Arrangements
-Clark MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Date
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] Adrop by@, June 7
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Possible conversation with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Class graduation, June 30
-Alternate arrangements
-White House tour
-Previous meeting with police officials
-Patrick V. Murphy
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Murphy
-John N. Mitchell=s comments
-Media coverage
-Murphy
-Comments regarding May Day arrests
-Invitation to White House
-Energy message
-President=s possible role
-Housing message
-Breeder reactor
-Environment
-Radio talk
-Radio addresses
-Richard A. Moore

-Veterans
-Substance
-Chairman, Import-Export Bank
-Appointment

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 10:48 am

-Energy message
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., Steve Morton, Glenn T. Seaborg
-PRC announcement
-Energy message
-Unemployment figures
-Possible role for President
-Nuclear power
-Breeder reactor
-Possible role for President
-Timing

Ziegler left at 10:52 am

Visitors to White House
-Reaction
-President=s political supporters
-Wives
-Congressmen
-White House staff and families
-Reaction of visitors
-Police officials
-President=s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-PFIAB
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-Effect on visitors
-Reception, June 3
-Ashtrays
-Carl B. Albert
-William M. Colmer
-J. William Fulbright
-Polish and Philadelphia choirs
-Media reaction
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Explorer scouts
-ASquares@ versus AHippies@
-Future Farmers of America [FFA]

Press conferences
-President=s statement on civil rights
-Value of controversy
-John B. Connally=s theory
-Questions and answers format
-Meeting with editors
-Herbert G. Klein
-Lyndon K. (AMort@) Allin
-Press coverage
-Press conferences
-President=s performance
-John C. (AJohnny@) Unitas
-Joseph P. Di Maggio
-Vietnam

Vietnam
-Popular concerns
-Role of television
-Effects on people
-Casualties
-Compared to drug deaths in New York City, automobile deaths

President=s schedule
-Radio talks
-Theme
-Moore
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Previous meeting with police officials
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Commendations for law enforcement officials
-Roles of Haldeman, Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
-Criteria

Possible White House commendations for student leadership
-Unknown woman
-Moore

Commendations for police

Ziegler entered at 11:07 am

-Possible effect in Kansas City, Chicago, Los Angeles

The President, et al. left at 11:10 am

Conversation No. 512-6

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  11:12 am - 11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Schedule

Butterfield left at 11:13 am

Conversation No. 512-7

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 4-25]

Conversation No. 512-8

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  11:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 4-26]

Conversation No. 512-9

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  11:17 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman

Ehrlichman=s schedule

Conversation No. 512-10

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  11:17 am - 11:18 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

President=s energy message
-Press coverage
-Ziegler=s forthcoming briefings
-Chet Holifield
-John O. Pastore
-Craig Hosmer

Ziegler left at 11:18 am

Conversation No. 512-11

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  11:18 am - 11:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Craig Hosmer

[See Conversation No. 4-27]

Conversation No. 512-12

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  11:20 am - 12:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman

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President=s energy message
-Chet Holifield
-Effect
-President=s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-President=s conversation with Craig Hosmer

Atomic energy
-Scientists= fears
-Opposition
-Future importance
-Cost of imported oil
-Peter G. Peterson=s projections
-Export value

Desalinization of water
-Political appeal
-California, Florida, Phoenix
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]

Domestic issues poll
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]

-Crime
-Environment
-Leading questions
-Regional breakdowns
-Revenue sharing

Revenue sharing
-Wilbur D. Mills
-John B. Connally
-Carl B. Albert
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Russell B. Long=s comments to Ehrlichman, June 3
-Mills

President=s previous press conference
-Long=s comments regarding May Day demonstrators

President=s previous meeting with police officials
-Rocky Pomerance
-Officials
-Press accounts

May Day demonstrators
-Popular reactions

Domestic issues poll
-Violence

Drug abuse
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Possible role with administration
-Morals
-Biblical
-Jaffe
-Turkey, France, Laos
-President=s schedule
-Jaffe
-State Department
-Previous meeting with military
-State Department
-John N. Irwin, II
-David Packard
-Melvin R. Laird

-Elliot L. Richardson
-John N. Mitchell
-Connally
-Eugene T. Rossides
-Role
-Mitchell
-Possible meeting with Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
-Ehrlichman=s forthcoming meeting with Connally
-David M. Kennedy
-Rossides
-Use of Internal Revenue Service [IRS], US Customs Service
-Doctors
-Upcoming meeting of the American Medical Association [AMA]
-Pharmaceutical manufacturers
-Richardson
-Drug factory near Jersey City
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Shipments to Mexico
-Administration efforts
-Connally
-Mitchell
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Attitude
-Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs [BNDD]

Polls
-Busing
-Edward L. Morgan=s efforts
-Breakdown by region, race
-Analysis
-Mitchell
-George W. Romney
-Richard C. Van Dusen
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Morgan
-Statement
-Release date
-Tricia Nixon=s wedding

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:20 am

President=s signature

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:42 am

Poll
-Release date

Peterson
-President=s memo
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
-Charles L. Shultze
-John W. Gardner
-Peterson=s previous meeting with Ehrlichman, Gardner
-Gardner
-Dr. Edwin H. Land
-[Forename unknown] Dreyfus
-Patrick E. Haggerty
-Japan
-National planning
-Possible use in US
-Bernard Shreiver [sp?]
-Research and development
-President=s memo
-Applied versus theoretical research
-Haggerty=s views
-Definition of agencies= missions
-Department of Transportation [DOT]
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Federal Aviation Administration [FAA]
-Foreign tourism
-Accomplishment of agencies= missions
-Robert S. McNamara=s views
-Research and Development [RAND] Corporation
-Universities
-Forthcoming Domestic Council meeting
-President=s schedule
-Cabinet members= attendance

Public service jobs
-Pending legislation
-Congressional Republicans= stand

[The President talked with John O. Pastore between 11:42 am and 11:43 am]

[Conversation No. 512-12A]

[See Conversation No. 4-28]

[End of telephone conversation]

Public service jobs
-President=s possible veto
-Mitchell
-Status of national economy
-Administration=s alternative
-Revenue sharing versus categorical programs

Camp Pendleton
-Lease of beach
-F. Edward Hébert
-Clark MacGregor=s memo
-President=s schedule

Economic advisors
-Paul W. McCracken
-Herbert Stein
-Report of June 4

National economy
-Optimism
-Monetary crisis
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with Paul Davies, George P. Shultz
-Deferral of capital expenditures
-International monetary situation
-Crime
-Unemployment
-Shultz=s location
-Unemployment
-Stein=s views
-Reaction
-Possible administration action
-Summer youth employment
-Urban unrest
-James D. Hodgson=s role
-Legislative action
-Veto of public service jobs legislation
-Development of 20,000,000 jobs

-Exports
-New technology
-Possible press response
-Retail sales
-Consumer credit
-Increase in confidence
-Surveys
-Public confidence in future
-Deutschmark crisis
-Fears regarding dollar
-Poll results
-Breakdown by age
-War
-Pollution
-Crime
-Social issues
-Race
-Public confidence
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.=s actions
-President=s credibility
-Extrinsic circumstances
-Public service jobs
-Hodgson
-Timing
-Unemployment
-Stein=s views
-Cycles
-Inflation
-Recession
-Public confidence
-Administration=s credibility
-Predictions
-Stock market
-Possible Wage-Price Board
-Arthur F. Burns= views
-Businessmen=s views
-Forthcoming housing statement
-School statement
-Mitchell
-Timing of release

Ehrlichman left at 12:02 pm

Conversation No. 512-13

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  12:09 pm - 12:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Herbert G. Klein, Stephen B. Bull, Henry Kearns, and Rosemary Mazon; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Arrangements for photo

Kearns= career

Presentation of gifts by President

Pending legislation

Bar in Tokyo

Klein, et al. left at 12:13 pm

Conversation No. 512-14

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  12:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Attorney General John N. Mitchell=s location
-Arlen Specter
-Forthcoming meeting

Bull left at 12:14 pm

Conversation No. 512-15

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  12:15 pm - 12:22 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Economic policy group
-John B. Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter G. Peterson
-George P. Shultz
-Peter M. Flanigan

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:15 pm

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:22 pm

Economic policy group
-Jobs bill
-Maurice H. Stans
-James D. Hodgson
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Stans
-Connally
-Flanigan
-Ehrlichman
-Poll results
-Need for public confidence
-President=s schedule
-Flanigan
-Paul W. McCracken
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Troika
-Quadriad
-Arthur F. Burns

Haldeman left at 12:22 pm

Conversation No. 512-16

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  12:22 pm - 1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Arlen Specter and John N. Mitchell; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Photograph

Law enforcement
-Specter=s success in Philadelphia
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA]
-Drug abuse
-Federal government=s role
-Application of programs
-LEAA versus Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]
-Research versus application
-Youth gangs
-Specter=s efforts
-Age of members
-Revocation of probation
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Use of conspiracy theory
-Police Athletic League
-Bicentennial celebration
-Specter=s possible conversation with George W. Romney
-Public housing
-Views of ghetto residents
-Revitalization of Philadelphia
-Tourism in Philadelphia
-Washington, DC
-Williamsburg, Virginia
-Romney

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Revenue sharing
-James H. J. Tate=s role
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Possible political value
-LEAA
-Education
-Explanation to public
-Property taxes
-Education
-Democratic Congressman from Philadelphia

Drug abuse
-Violent crime
-Rehabilitation
-Forthcoming federal program
-Jurisdictional problems
-Departmental functions
-Funding
-International law enforcement cooperation
-John E. (AJack@) Ingersoll
-Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs [BNDD]
-Cooperation with foreign governments
-Heroin seizure in Spain, June 4
-Seizure of cocaine in Mexico
-Mexican Attorney General=s actions
-Administration=s attitude
-Addicts versus pushers
-Need for education
-Bowie K. Kuhn=s efforts
-Robert R. M. Carpenter=s call to Specter
-Larry Bowa

-Denny Doyle
-Roger Brown
-Role of athletes
-Carl M. Yastrzemski
-Football game in Phoenix
-Jack Stewart [sp?]
-Administration=s program
-Head
-Specter=s efforts regarding addicts
-Methadone
-Criminal penalties
-Cooperation by addicts in treatment programs
-Courts= cooperation

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President=s public demeanor
-Hugh Scott

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Specter=s forthcoming public statement
-Drug abuse
-Specter=s work with youth
-Politics
-Bicentennial

Drug abuse
-Pre-indictment probation for addicts
-Purpose
-Effect
-Legalization of marijuana
-Penalties
-Pre-indictment probation for addicts
-Legalization of marijuana
-Possible effect
-Pre-indictment probation for addicts
-Effect
-Possible special court in New York
-John D. Ehrlichman and Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
-LEAA
-Backlog
-Pre-indictment probation for addicts
-Procedures
-Court backlog
-Opinions written by judges
-Warren E. Burger

Court backlog
-Plea bargaining
-President=s previous meeting with police officials
-Specter=s policy
-New York
-District of Columbia
-Judges
-Juvenile cases
-Specter=s policy
-Need for more judges

Mitchell=s schedule
-District Attorneys

Court backlog
-Specter=s policy
-Reaction by police

Burger
-Schedule
-District Attorneys
-Efforts on court organization
-Williamsburg meeting
-Recent decision on habeas corpus
-Earl Warren
-State courts versus Federal courts

Specter

Patrick V. Murphy
-Schedule
-Attacks on Jerry V. Wilson

Presentation of gifts by President
-Specter=s son Shanin Specter

Youth
-Effect of Vietnam

Mitchell and Specter left at 1:15 pm

Conversation No. 512-17

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:18 pm

Conversation No. 512-18

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  1:18 pm - 1:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Arlen Specter
-Views
-Pre-indictment probation for drug offenders
-John N. Mitchell=s reaction
-Legalization of marijuana
-Unknown man=s views
-Possible role in Administration=s anti-drug efforts
-Possible appointment to Supreme Court
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger

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Strength of character

President=s economic program
-Economic group
-John B. Connally, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
-Timing of meeting
-Unemployment

Pending legislation
-McGovern-Hatfield resolution

Specter
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Henry A. Kissinger

Polls
-Domestic Council
-Crime
-National economy
-[Charles D.?] Bennett
-Haldeman=s conversation with Leonard Garment
-Payment
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-George H. Gallup
-Use by news media
-Louis Harris
-Harris versus Gallup

National economy
-Status
-Effect on college students
-Haldeman=s experiences as recruiter
-President=s experiences visiting law schools, 1961-1968

Vietnam

President=s People=s Republic of China [PRC] policy
-Visit to PRC
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Effect on public
-Compared with visit to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Safety
-District of Columbia
-Mexico
-Latin America
-Soviet Union
-Moscow
-Leningrad

President=s possible trip to the Soviet Union
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Yalta conference
-Moscow

President=s possible visit to PRC
-Kissinger=s reaction
-President=s role in policy formation
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Kissinger
-Versus William P. Rogers
-Schedule
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

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PRC NEGOTIATIONS

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-Timing
-Kissinger

Vietnam
-Possible administration action
-McGovern-Hatfield resolution
-Businessmen=s group
-John W. Gardner
-[Forename unknown] Willens [sp?]

The President and Haldeman left at 1:42 pm

Conversation No. 512-19

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:42 pm and 3:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service?] met

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people [Secret Service?] left at an unknown time before 3:10 pm

Conversation No. 512-20

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Unknown man
-Forthcoming call from President
-Letter to President

Conversation No. 512-21

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Judge Homer Ferguson
-President=s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Nelson A. Rockefeller

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm

Conversation No. 512-22

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

President=s schedule
-Nelson A. Rockefeller

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm

Conversation No. 512-23

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 4-33]

Conversation No. 512-24

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  3:11 pm - 3:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler

[See Conversation No. 4-34]

Conversation No. 512-25

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  3:14 pm - 3:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Henry A. Kissinger, and Dwight L. Chapin

President=s forthcoming meeting with Rockefeller

Bull, Kissinger, and Chapin left at 3:15 pm

Drug abuse
-Federal aid to New York
-Robert R. Douglas
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. [?]
-Federal program
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe

John V. Lindsay
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-John N. Mitchell
-Seabury Commission
-Problems of New York City
-Corruption
-Inefficiency
-Hoover-type commission

Aid to New York
-Summer youth program

President=s forthcoming trip to Rochester
-Announcement
-Purpose
-Paul Miller [of Associated Press ?]
-Timing
-Maine

New York fiscal problems
-Compared to New York City
-Taxes
-Revenue sharing

Property tax reform
-Wilbur D. Mills= views
-Substitution of revenue
-Revenue sharing

State income tax levels
-Effect on New York business
-Uniform state tax structure

National economic changes

President=s foreign policy
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Vietnam
-People=s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union

White House photographs
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Revenue sharing
-Mills= committee
-Russell B. Long
-Prospects
-Mills
-Democrats co-sponsoring bill
-Governors= activities
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Warren E. Hearnes

President=s dinner for Anastasio Somoza Debayle
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes
-Hearnes
-Chancellor of University of Pittsburgh Wesley Posvar
-Marilyn Miller
-Class of 1946 West Point

Somoza
-Rockefeller=s schedule

-Father
-Dinner by President

President=s schedule
-President Emilio Garrastazu Médici of Brazil
-Rockefeller
-Dictators
-Soviet Union
-Romania

Chamber of Commerce
-Unknown man=s talk

Ziegler and members of the press entered at 3:29 pm

[Camera noise]

Revenue sharing

The press left at 3:31 pm

-Hugh Carey=s efforts
-Popular opinion

President=s schedule
-Rochester

Revenue sharing
-Senate hearings
-Mills

The President, Rockefeller, and Ziegler left at 3:35 pm

Conversation No. 512-26

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:44 pm and 4:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Willy Brandt dinner
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Charles W. Colson
-William E. Timmons
-Clark MacGregor
-George Meany
-Number of Attendees
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Physical Arrangements
-Diplomats
-Working dinner
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Brandt dinner
-Number of attendees

Butterfield left at 4:47 pm

Conversation No. 512-27

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  4:47 pm - 5:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Dr. Edwin H. Land

Dr. James R. Schlesinger

President=s foreign policy
-Presentation to President=s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]

United States= relations with Soviet Union
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Meeting with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., June 4
-Visa request by White House Fellow
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Conversation with President

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew entered at 4:51 pm

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INTELLIGENCE

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Kissinger left at 4:52 pm

President=s previous meeting with PFIAB

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 4:52 pm

Agnew=s schedule
-Korea
-Kissinger
-Taiwan
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-US relations
-Taiwan
-PRC
-US relations
-Trade
-Grain
-Strategic Materials
-Travel
-Democrats
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Japan
-Thailand
-Taiwan
-Agnew=s forthcoming meeting with Kissinger, June 4

-United Nations
-Kissinger
-President=s schedule
-Tulsa
-Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia
-Australia
-Size of delegation
-Hugh Scott, Gale W. McGee
-Europe
-Judy and Kim Agnew
-Spain, Portugal
-Iran
-Israel
-Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Egypt
-William P. Rogers= schedule
-Greece
-Maurice H. Stans
-Romania
-Yugoslavia
-Bulgaria
-Greek-American community
-Greece
-Spain, Portugal
-Morocco
-Saudi Arabia
-Israel
-United Arab Republic [UAR]
-Jordan
-Saudi Arabia
-Prince Faisal ibn-Saud

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ISRAEL

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-Greece
-Kissinger
-President
-South Carolina legislature
-Revenue sharing
-Greece
-Kissinger
-Possible effect

New York Times article
-PRC
-Stans= visit to Greece

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:52 pm and 5:12 pm]

[Conversation No. 512-29A]

Agnew=s schedule
-Foreign trip
-Kissinger
-President
-Greece
-New York Times
-Foreign trip
-Morocco
-Saudi Arabia
-UAR
-Saudi Arabia
-Prince Faisal=s conversation with President

[End of telephone conversation]

-Saudi Arabia
-Iran
-Relations with the US

State gift from Saudi Arabia

Unknown man with blue eyes

US foreign policy

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MIDDLE EAST

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-Jewish vote
-Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker
-Taft Schreiber

President=s schedule
-Agnew, Kissinger
-Arthur J. Sohmer

Agnew left at 5:12 pm

Agnew
-Activities
-Schedule
-PRC
-Stans, David M. Kennedy

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 5:12 pm and 5:14 pm]

[Conversation No. 512-29B]

Kissinger=s schedule
-Agnew, President

[End of telephone conversation]

Agnew
-Possible visit to Greece
-Political effect

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:12 pm and 5:14 pm]

[Conversation No. 512-27C]

[See Conversation No. 4-35]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger entered at 5:15 pm

Agnew
-Previous meeting with President
-Greece
-K. Agnew
-Iran
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Chiang Kai-shek

[The President talked with Ferguson between 5:14 pm and 5:17 pm]

[Conversation No. 512-27D]

[See Conversation No. 4-36]

Agnew
-Schedule

[The above portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 512-27D]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ferguson
-John N. Mitchell
-Judge [Forename unknown] Cobbs

Agnew
-Foreign trip
-Greece, Taiwan, PRC
-Conversation with President regarding PRC
-United Nations [UN]
-Greece
-Possible statement regarding Greece
-Timing
-Greece
-Korea
-South Vietnam
-Thailand
-India, Pakistan
-Malaysia
-Singapore
-Indonesia
-South Vietnam
-President=s forthcoming meeting General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Iran
-Saudi Arabia
-Morocco
-Portugal
-Spain
-Kissinger=s schedule
-Thailand
-Countries
-Kissinger
-Asia, Europe, Africa
-Greece
-Possible reaction of President=s opponents
-Africa
-Press corps

President=s foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-PRC
-Vietnam negotiations
-Scheduling
-Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters
-North Vietnamese contacts with PRC
-Mao Tse-tung=s possible reception of President
-Implications

-Motives
-PRC communique
-President=s previous meeting with PFIAB
-Dr. Franklin D. Murphy
-PRC, Soviet Union

Intellectuals
-Effect of education

President=s personal qualities of leadership
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.=s opinion

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Agnew

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-Foreign trip
-PRC

US-PRC relations
-President=s possible trip
-Genghis Khan
-President=s possible trip to Soviet Union
-President=s possible trip
-Timing
-President=s possible trip to Soviet Union
-Announcement of SALT
-Agnew
-Schedule
-President=s 1959 visit to Soviet Union

Unknown member of Congress
-Lecture to Council on Foreign Relations
-Vietnam
-Motive
-Murder of Ngo Dinh Diem
-Lectures
-Distribution

President=s foreign policy
-PRC, Soviet Union
-Vietnam War
-General Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
-Mao
-Successes

Reconnaissance camera
-Dr. Land
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger

Domestic intelligence
-Huston Plan
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Successor
-Richard M. Helms
-Walters

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INTELLIGENCE

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State Department
-Robert D. Murphy=s views
-President=s letter to Eisaku Sato
-Textiles
-U. Alexis Johnson=s reaction
-Kennedy=s views
-Removal of ambassadors
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Activities
-Gerard C. Smith
-Keating
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Paul H. Nitze
-Possible role with administration
-J. William Fulbright=s views
-Possible ambassadorship
-Economic intelligence
-Results
-Kissinger=s visit to Europe
-Donald H. Rumsfeld, Robert H. Finch
-Walter H. Annenberg

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PAKISTAN

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Kissinger left at 5:47 pm

Agnew
-Performance in office

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-Attacks by liberals, press
-Attitude
-Popular opinion

President=s schedule
-Water project
-Upcoming trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma

Chief Justice

Presidential airplane
-Name
-Designation

President=s schedule
-Demonstrators
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] graduation
-Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.=s conversation with Hoover
-Tulsa
-Haldeman=s schedule
-Son=s graduation
-Background material

Haldeman left at 5:59 pm

Conversation No. 512-28

Date:  June 4, 1971
Time:  5:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

The President and Sanchez left at 5:59 pm

Conversation No. 512-29

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  11:50 am - 12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization [AFL-CIO]
-Unknown man=s opinion
-Committee on Political Education [COPE]
-Martin C. (AMarty@) Anderson
-Possible efforts
-Clark MacGregor
-Efforts for Richard T. Burress
-Burress
-Appointment
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Compulsory membership
-Anderson=s role

President=s schedule
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe

George P. Shultz entered at 11:56 am

Shultz=s schedule

Jaffe
-Announcement

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:56 am

President=s schedule
-Unknown girl

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm

Jaffe
-President=s conversation with Ogilvie
-Announcement of position
-Wording
-President=s schedule
-Attacks by liberal columnists

Drug abuse
-President=s program
-Time magazine
-Nature and extent

-Ehrlichman=s forthcoming meeting with Elliot L. Richardson, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Richardson
-Jaffe

Federal appointments
-University of Chicago
-Other universities
-University of California
-Ohio State University
-Jaffe
-Relationship to Arthur B. Laffer

Drug abuse
-President=s program
-Efforts by Ehrlichman
-Retention in military
-Vietnam
-Jaffe=s views
-Length
-Public relations efforts
-Opponents= views

Housing integration statement
-Timing
-Wedding news

Shultz=s schedule
-Strategic Air Command
-FA-5 problem
-Base in Omaha
-Daughter=s graduation
-Treatment of Shultz

President=s energy message
-Reaction in Denver

Legislation
-Government reorganization
-Shultz=s testimony before Chet Holifield=s Committee on Reorganization, June 7
-Holifield=s views
-Senate
-John B. Connally=s forthcoming testimony

-Revenue sharing
-Wilbur D. Mills= statements
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Conversation with Shultz
-Statement regarding Mills
-Conversation with Larry Woodruff
-Poll results
-Federal versus state power
-South
-Cutback of services
-Public relations
-Politics
-Public awareness
-Poll results
-Federal versus state power
-Breakdowns by region
-Domestic Council meeting, June 8

Poll
-Issues
-Education
-Confidentiality

Domestic Council meeting, June 8
-Purpose
-Timing
-Attendees

Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-Forthcoming party
-Attendees
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger

Domestic council meeting, June 8
-Attendees
-Agenda
-Length
-President=s previous meeting with Homebuilders= Association
-Connally=s instructions to staff
-Unconventional ideas

President=s previous meeting with Homebuilders
-Labor-management legislation

-Congress
-Maurice H. Stans
-Need for crisis
-Compared with postal reform
-Need for frankness

National economy
-Herbert Stein
-Laffer
-Paul W. McCracken
-Arthur F. Burns
-Stein=s actions in staff meeting
-Possible change in policy
-Connally=s views
-Wage and price controls
-Connally
-Possible effect
-Burns= views
-Steel
-Federal Reserve Board member=s views
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Wholesale prices
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-Federal deficit
-Domestic monetary situation
-Burns
-William McChesney Martin
-Milton Friedman
-Views
-Expansion
-Inflation
-Federal Reserve
-International monetary situation
-Poll
-Consumer confidence
-University of Michigan
-Dyer survey [?]
-International monetary situation
-Consumer confidence
-Burns= view
-Spending patterns
-Sears, Roebuck & Co., Montgomery Ward, J. C. Penney

-Automobiles
-Television news reports
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Paul A. Volcker=s statement regarding stock market
-Stephen B. Bull
-Stein
-Experience in 1970
-Durable goods
-Housing
-Poll
-Phraseology
-Consumer confidence
-Employment
-Wages
-Prices/inflation
-President=s schedule
-Friedman

Ehrlichman=s forthcoming meeting with HEW officials

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 12:34 pm

Conversation No. 512-30

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-William D. Brewer
-Photo

Bull left at 12:34 pm

Conversation No. 512-31

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:35 pm and 12:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William D. Brewer, W. Marshall Wright, and Stephen B. Bull; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Brewer
-Foreign service experience

President John Adams

Arrangements for photo

Mauritius
-Climate
-Economy
-Tourism

Brewer=s background
-Connecticut
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Foreign service

President=s background
-School
-Travel

Presentation of gifts by President
-Prime Minister of Mauritius

Presentation of gifts

President=s annual report on the world
-Prime Minister=s comments
-Length

Brewer=s background
-Williams College
-Milton C. Rose

Brewer, et al. left at 12:41 pm

Conversation No. 512-32

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  12:41 pm - 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Peter G. Peterson group
-Number
-Location

Rose Mary Woods entered at 12:43 pm

-Tricia Nixon=s wedding
-Blair House
-Tayloe House
-American Committee on Italian Migration
-President=s comments to Dwight L. Chapin
-John A. Volpe
-Rose Garden
-White House tour
-Time
-Volpe=s actions on previous occasion

Butterfield left at 12:48 pm

Tayloe House
-Furnishings

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-Operation and maintenance
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Arrangements for party
-Caterer
-Chief [Forename unknown] Delacruz

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Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 1:10 pm