Conversation No. 513-1

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  12:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

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President=s schedule
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

Support for servicemen
-President=s previous press conference with police chiefs
-Press reaction

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H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm

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Woods left at 1:10 pm

Cable from Nationalist Chinese
-Henry A. Kissinger, David M. Kennedy, Peter G. Peterson
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Senkaku Islands
-Okinawa reversion
-Proposed meeting between the President, Kissinger, and Peterson
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Timing

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 1:11 pm

President=s meeting with Governor Linwood Holton
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Press announcement
-Federal judgeship
-John N. Mitchell
-Form of invitation
-Lieutenant Colonel Ralph D. Albertazzi

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Housing
-George W. Romney statement
-Gratitude to President
-Housing issues
-Interest rates

Ziegler left at 1:12 pm

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Robert H. Finch=s view
-Meeting with Milton Friedman
-George P. Shultz
-Photo session
-Friedman
-Paul W. McCracken
-Hendrik S. Houthakker
-Herbert Stein
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman

Kissinger=s question regarding William P. Rogers
-Cable from Burgas [?]
-Content
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Kissinger=s concern
-Military courier trip to Rogers
-Rogers/Sadat negotiations
-Kissinger=s role in Middle East

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-Cables

William Loeb visit to White House
-Circumstances of visit
-New Hampshire concerns
-Social function versus private visit
-James R. (AJimmy@) Hoffa

Cartoon collection
-Presentation
-Criteria
-Objective
-Content
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr./G. Harrold Carswell nominations

Public television show
-Jessamyn West
-Viewing by President=s cabinet
-Effect

Corporation for Public Broadcasting
-Funding
-Control of funding board
-Desire for permanent government funding
-Pending legislation
-President=s view
-Frank T. Bow
-White House role

Woods entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm

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Woods left at an unknown time before 1:41 pm

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Textile quotas
-Peterson=s view
-Chiang Kai-shek

-Kissinger=s view
-Kennedy=s view

Preparation for press conference
-Marijuana
-Demonstrations
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Terminology
-Questions

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White House
-News coverage
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Funding for arts
-Upcoming wedding
-Lockout of Judith Martin
-Washington Post
-Carroll Kilpatrick
-Attire of White House press
-Ziegler

Public relation
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins story
-Reporters

President=s foreign policy
-Middle East
-Kissinger=s role
-State Department=s role
-Ecuador

-Africa
-India-Pakistan

Handling of Cabinet officers
-John B. Connally=s role in international monetary negotiations
-Peterson role
-McCracken memo
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Maurice H. Stans
-James D. Hodgson
-Structure of negotiations
-Use of other advisors
-Arthur F. Burns
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Domestic Council
-Decisions on lower levels
-Domestic advisors

Cyclamate indemnification
-Shultz, Mitchell
-Support for friends
-Stans
-President=s role in decisions

The President and Haldeman left at 1:41 pm

Conversation No. 513-8

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:41 pm and 3:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service?] met

President=s location

The unknown people [Secret Service?] left at an unknown time before 3:20 pm

Conversation No. 513-2

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  3:20 pm - 3:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Tour for visitors

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 3:20 pm

-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Woods left at an unknown time before 3:23 pm

-Unknown man

Butterfield and Bull left at 3:23 pm

Conversation No. 513-3

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  3:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 4-63]

Conversation No. 513-4

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  3:23 pm - 4:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods

President=s schedule
-Dinner
-Robert H. and Carol (Crothers) Finch
-Woods
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Location
-Menu

Woods left and Peter G. Peterson and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:26 pm

Peterson memo
-Taiwan
-David M. Kennedy=s view
-Kissinger=s view

Okinawa reversion

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FOREIGN RELATIONS

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-Senkaku Islands
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Sovereignty question
-Formal Okinawa reversion timing
-Japanese drawbacks
-William P. Rogers and [Forename unknown] Oichi
-Effect on Taiwan relations
-Textile negotiations
-Taiwan requests
-Defense aid
-Melvin R. Laird trip
-United States= goals
-Effect on People=s Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Effect on Japanese relations
-Textile people concern
-Roger Milliken=s view
-Wilbur D. Mills= view
-Criticism of Administration
-Island issue
-Taiwan
-Military aid
-Textile negotiations
-Military program
-Perception by other parties
-Congressional reaction
-Announcement

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COMMUNICATIONS

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-Impact of textile question
-Specific proposals
-Announcement
-Use of Laird trip
-Military equipment trade
-Offensive, defensive question
-Congress
-Milliken
-Postponement of action
-Reaction of Japanese
-Automobile question
-Okinawa
-Okinawa versus trade
-Automobile question
-US action
-Senkaku Island question
-Germination
-Charles [?] visit to President
-History of islands
-Post-World War II era
-Japanese concern
-History of Chinese involvement
-Timing of raising issue
-Perception by Japanese
-Perception in United States
-Automobiles
-Textile question
-Future action
-Nationalist Chinese desires
-Laird
-Military representative trip to Taiwan
-Timing
-Textiles

Kissinger=s schedule
-Upcoming meeting with Cambodian

Kissinger left at 3:48 pm

Textile issue
-Timing
-Negotiations
-Congress

-Status
-Industry role
-Milliken
-Hong Kong
-[South] Korea
-Quotas
-Quota bill
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Mills= thinking
-Textile industry=s view
-Agricultural quotas
-Prospects for passage
-Labor view
-Support
-Opposition
-Industry
-Farmers
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-International
-Growing sentiment
-Effect on consumer
-Effect on Europe
-Peterson=s study
-Agriculture
-European reaction

Peterson=s bipartisan Congressional briefing, June 8
-Purpose
-Long-range concerns
-Administration strategy
-Congressional support
-Points
-President=s role in trade
-John B. Connally role
-Energy program
-Benefits
-Employment
-Exports
-Environment
-Water control
-Research and Development
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] role
-NASA budget

-Cutbacks
-Results

Goals versus action
-Previous dinner meeting
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Long range planning

Planning proposals
-Shultz, Ehrlichman
-Roy L. Ash
-Ben W. Heineman [?]
-Domestic Council
-Committee formats

Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Meeting
-Dr. Edwin H. Land=s argument
-Intelligence
-Detente
-Future relations with Soviet Union and PRC
-European role
-Arms control
-Verification
-Land=s viewpoint
-Kelly Johnson

Technological innovations
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-US technology role
-History of technology
-Peterson, Ehrlichman, Shultz directives
-Content
-Attitude toward science
-Industry view
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Conservatism
-Colgate-Palmolive
-Need for technological innovation
-Government encouragement
-David
-National Science Foundation [NSF]
-Land=s view

-Presidential support
-William P. Lear
-John C. Whitaker
-Department of Transportation [DOT]
-National Science Board
-David
-Peterson/Land meeting
-Need
-Peterson, Land meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Quantity versus quality on technology
-History of scientific contact with government
-Land
-U-2 development
-K. Johnson
-Edward M. Purcell
-Need for first rate minds
-Lyndon B. Johnson Administration
-Problem of war
-Scientists
-President=s opening of the world
-PRC
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Use of technology for peaceful purposes
-Scientists
-David
-Lear
-Land
-Bureaucratic impediments
-Soviet Union
-Peterson/Ehrlichman/Shultz/David effort
-Use of money in US
-Educational programs
-Energy program
-Popular fears of nuclear reactors
-Political problems of nuclear power
-Coal, oil, natural gas concern
-Breeder reactor
-Fusion work
-Glenn T. Seaborg effort
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-AAtoms for peace@
-Land=s success

-Reasons
-Eastman Kodak
-Medicine
-Intelligence
-Problems
-AGreatness@ as technological innovation
-Land=s idea
-Ehrlichman
-Lack of great minds in Washington
-Discovery of Anew worlds@
-AGreat minds@ and innovation
-K. Johnson
-Background
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Mutual understanding
-Post-Vietnam world
-Need for US ascendance
-PRC strength
-Agriculture
-Nobel Prize winner [Name unknown]
-Use of available resources
-Agricultural field
-Cooperative Extension Service
-Land grant colleges
-Sources of Invention
-Content
-Chester F. Carlson efforts
-Xerox
-Land=s efforts
-Peterson, Ehrlichman, Shultz roles

Bipartisan Congressional briefing
-Location
-Blair House

Peterson left at 4:10 pm

Conversation No. 513-5

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  4:41 pm - 4:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Bipartisan Congressional briefing
-Location
-Blair House problems
-Alternative to Blair House
-Reception
-Rex W. Scouten 
-President=s view
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Refreshments
-Manolo Sanchez

Willy Brandt dinner
-Arthur F. Burns invitation

Conversation No. 513-6

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  5:04 pm - 5:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull

Photo session
-Timing
-Location
-Library

Butterfield and Bull left at 5:07 pm

Conversation No. 513-7

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  5:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s meeting with Peter G. Peterson
-Effort by John D. Ehrlichman, Peterson, and George P. Shultz
-Benefits
-Dr. Edwin H. Land
-Problems with Abright@ people
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan

Polls
-Approval
-Results
-George H. Gallup
-Timing of release
-Comparison
-Gallup versus administration
-Administration poll
-Vietnam
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Past performances
-Press conference
-Awareness
-Past statistics
-Demonstrations
-Legalizing marijuana
-Approval versus disapproval
-People=s Republic of China [PRC] United Nations [UN] admission
-Louis Harris/Gallup results
-Administration results
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Awareness
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Past statistics
-Substance of SALT
-Progress of SALT
-President=s US/Soviet Union initiative for disarmament
-Approval of initiative

-Need for US strength
-Attitude to military
-Comparison with 1969
-Unemployment versus inflation
-President=s view
-Estimation of people=s perception
-SALT
-Kissinger
-Charles W. Colson
-Timing of announcements

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[The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 5:07 pm and 5:21 pm]

[Conversation No. 513-7A]

[See Conversation No. 4-64]

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Polls
-Phone versus standard polls
-Noteworthy results
-Marijuana
-Demonstrations

[The President talked with Rose Mary Woods between 5:21 pm and 5:22 pm]

[Conversation No. 513-7B]

[See Conversation No. 4-65]

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Polls
-Future efforts

The President and Haldeman left at 5:22 pm

Conversation No. 513-9

Date:  June 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:22 pm and 10:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person [Secret Service] talked with an unknown person

[Unintelligible]

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 10:13 pm