Conversation No. 514-1

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:53 am and 8:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with unknown people

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at unknown time before 8:03 am

Conversation No. 514-2

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:53 am and 8:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

President=s schedule

Conversation No. 514-3

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  7:53 am - 7:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Request for John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at 7:55 am

Conversation No. 514-4

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  7:55 am - 8:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman

Housing statement
-Length
-Morality statement
-Titles
-Substance
-Precision of terms
-Liberal line
-Voters in referendum
-Length
-Effect
-Further work
-Details

National Railroad Passenger Corporation/American Track [AMTRAK]
-Criticism
-John A. Volpe
-Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
-Unknown person from Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration

Ehrlichman left at 7: 59 am

[Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President between 7:59 am and 8:02 am]

[Conversation No. 514-4A]

[See Conversation No. 4-66]

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 514-20

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  8:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule

The President and Bull left the room at 8:03 am

Conversation No. 514-21

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:03 am and 9:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 9:40 am

Conversation No. 514-5

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:40 am and 9:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

Request for John D. Ehrlichman, Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger, and John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 514-6

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:40 am and 9:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with White House operator

[See Conversation No. 4-67]

Conversation No. 514-7

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  9:43 am - 10:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Dwight L. Chapin

[Conversation No. 514-7A]

[See Conversation No. 4-68]

[End of telephone conversation]

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 9:43 am

Cabinet meeting
-John N. Irwin, II, Melvin R. Laird, William P. Rogers attendance
-Domestic Council
-Attorney General=s schedule

[The President talked with the White House operator at 9:45 am]

[Conversation No. 514-7B]

[See Conversation No. 4-69]

[End of telephone conversation]

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 9:45 am

Rochester, New York briefing
-Schedule
-Paul Miller role

Use of President=s time
-State Department briefings
-Use of working lunch
-Willy Brandt dinner

[The President talked with Curtis W. Tarr between 9:45 am and 9:47 am]

[Conversation No. 514-7C]

[See Conversation No. 4-70]

[End of telephone conversation]

Tarr incident
-Reaction

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:47 am

Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:50 am

Rochester briefing
-Reception attendance
-Use of briefings

Cabinet meeting

Public issues
-Penetration of conscience
-John A. Volpe role
-Haldeman memo
-President=s attributes
-Strength
-World leadership
-Strength
-Public perception
-John B. Connally
Weinberger entered at 9:50 am

-Budget approval
-Political use of budget
-Elliot L. Richardson
-School subsidies
-Areas to help
-Domestic Council
-Maurice H. Stans= view
-Automobile safety points
-Volpe
-Making of jobs
-Environmentalists
-Nuclear plants
-Forums to open plants
-Legal problems
-Stans= view
-Consumer versus environment
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Consumer affairs
-Unknown woman
-Jobs
-George W. Romney plan
-Necessity of creating jobs
-Housing role
-Creation of jobs
-Subsidies
-Problems of Romney plan
-Pressure on money market
-Effect on interest rates
-Construction projects
-Immediate need
-Announcements of construction projects
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] concern for construction
-Congressional versus Executive spending
-John Conyers, Jr. role
-Revenue sharing
-Tax reform bill
-Connally role
-Property tax
-Richardson=s view
-Drawbacks
-Taxes
-Property tax
-Problems

-Drawbacks to common man
-Political use
-George P. Shultz
-Revenue sharing
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Revenue sharing
-Drawbacks
-Analysis by outside people
-Issue polls
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Gallup poll
-Quality
-Administration polls
-Nature of questions
-Charles W. Colson
-Harris poll
-Analysis
-Poll content
-John F. Kennedy
-Jobs
-Connally=s role
-Shultz
-Necessity of creating
-San Diego effort
-Administration bill for jobs
-Necessity of creating jobs
-Cost in other programs
-Black Caucus
-Robert J. Brown role
-Reality of situation
-Cabinet role
-Cost of some proposals
-Tax increases
-Administration focus
-Federal job creation
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Construction on federal land
-Congressional reaction
-Opportunity costs
-Priorities
-Model Cities
-Education
-Tax cuts

-Public works program
-Funding
-Job creation
-Use of existing projects
-Cuts in other programs
-Reaction
-Immediate result programs
-George Meany view
-Need for a fight
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Connally
-Effect
-Tax cuts
-Revenue sharing
-Nature of local and federal taxes
-Washington view
-Wilbur D. Mills
-City spending
-Buchanan
-Use of Rochester affair
-Police forces
-New York
-John V. Lindsay
-Accuracy of facts
-Stans
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Romney
-Necessity
-Donald B. Rice
-Staff
-Volpe operation
-Staff
-Pilot project
-Morton view
-Connally view
-Potomac River
-Job creation
-Cost
-Tax increase
-Popular perception
-Tax shift
-Tax increase
-Conservatives= ideological split

-Weinberger=s view
-Alternatives
-Tax credits
-State taxes
-Governors Conference
-Aid to cities
-John W. Byrnes= view
-Carl B. Stokes= view
-Legislatures= view
-Property taxes
-Cuts
-Classifying tax payers
-National Railroad Passenger Corporation/American Track [AMTRAK] meeting
-Board of directors
-Attendance
-Volpe
-Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
-President=s schedule
-Volpe instruction
-Home Builders meeting
-Content
-Other meetings
-Need for meetings
-Stans
-Benefits
-President=s business contacts
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Local business
-Business Council
-Wage and price rhetoric
-[John D.?] Harper

Bull entered at unknown time after 9:43 am

President=s schedule

Bull left before 10:31 am

AMTRAK meeting
-Volpe
-Attendance

Air West crash
-Cause
-Friedenberg [?]

The President, Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Weinberger left at 10:31 am

Conversation No. 514-8

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  11:06 am - 12:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

American Committee on Italian Migration
-Photographs

Peter G. Peterson Congressional briefing
-Allen amendment
-Voting
-Reception
-Queen Elizabeth II=s garden party
-Alternatives
-Adjournment
-Conflict with garden party

Lyndon B. Johnson=s visit to Washington, DC
-Johnson=s schedule
-Jake Nichols
-Breakfast invitation
-Madison Hotel
-Presidential suite
-Past Nixon/Johnson visits
-Johnson letter to Nixon
-Nixon library

Press conference

Polls
-Approval/disapproval question

-Format
-Meaning of question

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:06 am

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:17 am

-Need for question
-Demonstrations
-Marijuana question
-Use in upcoming poll

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-John A. Scali
-Henry A. Kissinger

Haldeman left and Bull, George P. Shultz, Milton Friedman, and Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins entered at 11:17 am

Japanese talks

Bull and Atkins left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm

Friedman=s thoughts on economy

Manolo Sanchez entered at unknown time after 11:17 am

Refreshments

Sanchez left at unknown time before 12:00 pm

United States economy
-Attitudes
-Wage controls
-Policy versus lack of policy

Sanchez entered at unknown time after 11:17 am

Sanchez left at unknown time before 12:00 pm

-Friedman letter
-Appropriate economic measures
-Political judgement
-Future of dollar
-Hubert H. Humphrey intentions
-Edmund S. Muskie intentions
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy intentions
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson intentions
-Economic changes
-Inflation in the future
-Unemployment in the future
-Overall outlook
-Reasons
-Economic cycles
-Arthur F. Burns= view
-Repetition of mistakes
-Interest rate rises
-Short range versus long range
-Overall view of economy
-AFilter down@ of money
-History of last recession
-General Motors [GM] recovery
-Consumer status
-Polls
-Questions
-Records
-Recession end
-GM strike
-Interest rates
-Controlling factors
-Construction
-Government borrowing
-Demand
-Behavior
-Focus of economic plans
-Effect time of economic changes
-Cost of living
-Price rises
-Political damage
-Unemployment
-Political implications
-Public reaction
-Democratic economists

-Political judgements
-President=s creation of recession
-Democratic view
-Job creation
-Wage and Price Board
-Burns
-Interest rates
-Economic analysis
-Humphrey
-Segment analysis
-Overall analysis
-Performance
-Overall analysis
-Application to US economy
-Housing loan control
-Interest rates
-Money manipulation
-Short and long run effect
-History of 1967 and 1968
-Legislative efforts
-Administration policy
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Confidence in economy
-Wage/price board
-Federal Reserve Board
-International economics
-Monetary crisis
-Effect on US money
-Exchange rates
-Housing
-Housing boom
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Labor
-James D. Hodgson 
-Burns
-Problems
-European economy
-Wall Street tycoons
-Reaction to suggestions
-International monetary crisis
-Federal Reserve Board stability
-Policy
-Money policy

-Past Federal Reserve Board policy
-Future policy
-Alfred Hayes
-Attitude
-Inflation fear
-New York dollar market
-Banking capital
-Capital control
-European money market
-Business concern
-Balance of payments
-Policy changes
-Unemployment reduced
-Tax reduction
-Effect on government spending
-Deficit size
-Credit
-Retail sales statistics
-Sears and Roebuck
-Accuracy
-Wage/price problem
-Unions
-Negotiation of wages
-Inflation
-Steel contract
-GM contract

President=s appreciation
-Presentation of gifts

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:17 am

-Photograph

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm

-Friedman=s persuasive powers
-Burns= position

Shultz and Friedman left at 12:00 pm

Conversation No. 514-9

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  12:00 pm - 12:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-John A. Volpe visit
-Peter W. Rodino, Jr. visit

Volpe entered at 12:01 pm

President=s schedule

Introduction (applause)

The President, Bull, and Volpe left 12:01 pm

Conversation No. 514-10

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John A. Volpe

Volpe=s schedule

Volpe left at 12:12 pm

Conversation No. 514-11

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  12:15 pm - 12:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mr. and Mrs. John W. Driggs, Andrew Driggs, Douglas Driggs, Thomas Driggs, and Jon M. Huntsman

Introductions
-Driggs family history
-Photographs
-Weather
-Photographs
-Arrangement
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins

President=s appreciation of Driggs= effort
-Presentation of centennial coin to President
-Size of Phoenix
-Presentation of gifts

Tour of White House

J. W. Driggs, et al. left at 12:18 pm

Conversation No. 514-12

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm and 12:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule

Bull left at unknown time before 12:21 pm

Conversation No. 514-13

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  12:21 pm - 1:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods and H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

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Woods left at 1:10 pm

Focus on issues
-John B. Connally/John A. Volpe view
-President=s role
-Drugs and crime
-Connally role
-Economy
-Cabinet contributions
-Timing
-Balanced budget
-Possible poll
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Great Society programs
-Funding
-1973 Budget
-Defense cut
-Poll results
-United States versus Soviet Union
-Use as an issue
-Patrick J. Buchanan=s view
-Fears of pro-Nixon supporters

-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] fears
-Henry A. Kissinger=s role
-Contact with supporters
-Contact with John W. Gardner, Council of Foreign Relations [CFR], Brookings Institution
-Needs for political help
-Buchanan=s view
-Defense spending
-Full employment budget
-Chances
-Support
-Drawbacks
-Domestic program
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] programs
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Poll results
-Education
-Housing
-Tax desires

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 1:15 pm

Previous call from Tricia Nixon
-Photo session
-President=s schedule
-Timing
-Location
-Life view

Time magazine article
-Atkins= photo
-Story
-Quality
-Contrast with Life story of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Photos of Kennedys
-Eunice (Kennedy) Shriver
-Pat Lawford
-Outfit
-Quality of photos
-Photos of T. Nixon

Kennedy mystique

Newsweek story
-Quality

Life AAfter-wedding@ story

Revenue sharing
-Ziegler=s comment in briefing
-Revenue sharing versus property tax increase
-Congressional criticism
-Wilbur D. Mills= view

Laos story
-Effect in briefing
-Reason
-Age of story
-Ziegler=s comment

Wedding coverage
-Television coverage
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]/Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] coverage
-Later specials
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-ASpecials@
-Patterns of coverage
-Reception line
-Ralph Nader coverage
-Magazine coverage
-CBS special
-Impact
-T. Nixon wedding compared to Lynda B. (Johnson) Robb wedding

Ziegler left at 1:26 pm

SALT efforts
-Kissinger role
-John A. Scali role

Casualty rate
-Melvin R. Laird
-Size
-Scali role

Jacob D. Beam
-Meeting with President
-Discussion of US-Soviet relations

John Sherman Cooper
-Meeting with President
-Report on trip

Other reports
-Volpe
-Donald McI. Kendall
-President=s schedule

Jacob K. Javits= visit
-Kissinger=s role

Maurice H. Stans= visit

President=s schedule
-Sisowath Sirik Matak
-General Lon Nol
-Visit
-Benefits

Volpe
-Problems with report visits in general

Public relations
-Issues
-Domestic policy
-Foreign policy
-War criticism
-Middle East ratings
-SALT ratings
-China rating
-Scali role
-Public perception
-Factors in public perception

-Law and order
-Fighting inflation and unemployment
-Revenue sharing
-Ehrlichman=s view
-Analysis of polls
-Buchanan
-[Forename unknown] Rocher [?]
-Martin C. (AMarty@) Anderson
-Dr. Edward Teller
-Leadership
-@Fighting@ benefits
-Congress
-Labor unions
-Foreign interests
-Demonstrators
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger=s and Scali=s views
-Sucess
-Getting credit
-SALT benefits
-Effects on intellectuals
-Bryce N. Harlow

The President and Haldeman left at 1:38 pm

Conversation No. 514-22

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:38 pm and 2:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service?] met

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people [Secret Service?] left at an unknown time before 2:57 pm

Conversation No. 514-14

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  2:57 pm - 3:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods

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Stephen B. Bull entered at unknown time after 2:57 pm

Bull left at unknown time before 2:59 pm

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Woods left at 3:03 pm

Conversation No. 514-15

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  3:03 pm - 4:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Julian Goodman, Walter D. Scott, David Adams, Thomas E. Ervin, Reuven Frank, Donald Durgin, Herbert G. Klein, Charles W. Colson, and Ronald L. Ziegler

Introductions

Contemporary stories
-Travel
-Getting to airports
-Bridges

Cable television
-Effect on television=s future
-Governmental involvement
-Confusion with regulations
-Problems
-Coexistence with regular television
-Set up
-Foundation of cable television
-Control
-Creation of shows
-Showing
-Local versus national
-Copyright problems
-Technical breakthroughs
-Advance in photography
-Dr. Edwin H. Land=s conversation with the President

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INTELLIGENCE

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-Reconnaissance
-Soviet Union, People=s Republic of China
-Arms control
-Verification
-Importance
-Suez Canal
-Soviet missiles

Administration=s policies
-Business orientation
-Anti-trust legislation
-Regulations
-Censorship
-Attitudes
-Government intervention
-Regulation of television industry
-Concerns
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC] [?]
-Attitude toward Abig boys@
-Quality of television
-Self-regulation
-Political problems
-Standard Oil suit
-Equal time
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC] rule
-Equal time
-Quality of programming
-Confusion created
-General attitude
-Movie industry
-Television advertising
-Appeal
-Government inquiry
-Possibility of stricter rules
-Standards
-Effect on industry
-Children=s programs
-Efforts at improvement
-Dean Burch
-Climate in government
-Distaste for networks= Abigness@
-Philosophical difference of government and industry
-Burch
-Robert Wells
-Effect of rules on programming
-Specials
-Time element
-Equal time restrictions
-Lack of flexibility
-Lack of emphasis on broad audience
-Product sales

-Congressional view
-Frank E. Moss bill
-Content
-FCC general regulations
-Reversals
-Misleading advertising penalties
-Effect on television

Minority/special interest pressure
-Common Cause
-John W. Gardner
-Criteria for equal time
-Equal time philosophy of networks
-Black Caucus
-Republican Group
-Democratic National Committee [DNC]
-FCC decision on additional time
-Upcoming election spots and implications
-Howard K. Smith
-Barbara Walters
-Cigarette commercial precedent
-Ecology group pressure
-Legal standing
-Presidential use of air time
-Network handling of President=s time requests
-Campaign problems
-Third party candidates
-George C. Wallace
-Television time
-Regulatory problems
-Equal time
-Environmental concerns
-Public interest
-Defense
-College attitude
-Use of television
-Changing nature of US public

Repression
-Rights of press
-Coverage of Congressional hearings
-President=s efforts
-Criticism of President

-Desire of networks
-Judgement
-Television criticism
-News programs
-Dependence of public
-Network goals
-Special interests
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]/Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] comments

Cooperation between National Broadcasting Company [NBC] and administration
-Scheduling problems
-Time preferences
-Campaign problems
-Equal time
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey use during campaign
-Financial situation of networks
-Obligations to schedule
-AApollo@ splashdown
-Televising of President=s trips
-Confidentiality
-Helsinki
-Moscow
-Soviet cooperation
-Rome
-Planning of trips
-Upcoming schedule
-Confidentiality of trip announcement
-Golf
-Bias of reporters
-William E. Brock, III
-James Hanson [?]
-Network view
-Danger of bias
-Network criticism of President
-William S. Paley
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-Journalism as a skilled profession
-Need for criticism
-President=s debt to television

Wedding
-Weather
-Television coverage
-Timing

Presentation of gifts
-Cuff links
-Golf memento
-Donald McI. Kendall [?]
-Gift for wives
-John B. Connally
-Tricia Nixon
-Paperweight
-Milton Friedman
-President=s schedule
-Previous lunch date with Lou Nichols

Goodman, et al. left at 4:34 pm

Conversation No. 514-16

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  4:34 pm - 4:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull

Request for Charles W. Colson

Bull left at unknown time before 4:35 pm

Conversation No. 514-17

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  4:34 pm - 4:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Charles W. Colson met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at unknown time before 4:35 pm

Conversation No. 514-18

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  4:35 pm - 5:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson

Television media
-Meeting with National Broadcasting Company [NBC] executives
-Bias of reports
-Confirmation of biases
-William S. (ABill@) White
-John A. Scali
-President=s manner
-Impression conveyed
-Julian Goodman reaction
-Walter D. Scott
-Economic discussion
-Criticism of reporters
-Bias
-President=s demeanor
-John Loeb
-Criticism of network reporters
-Presentation of facts
-Psychology of meeting

-Goodman/Colson meeting
-Network executives= reaction
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Criticism of press
-Loss of credibility
-Robert J. Dole attacks on press
-President=s fielding of questions
-White
-President=s image
-President=s demeanor
-Handling of Atotalitarians@
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Use of voice level
-Use of honesty
-Repetition of conversation
-Effect on Goodman
-NBC bias
-War reporting
-Compared to Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Economic report
-Comparison with CBS
-Equal time advertising
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC] [?] investigation

An unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 4:35 pm

President=s schedule

The unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 5:12 pm

-Public Broadcasting Service [PBS]
-Budget problems
-Personnel problems
-Public relations
-Budget cuts
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Reaction of networks
-Martin Z. Agronsky criticism

Bull entered at unknown time after 4:35 pm

President=s schedule
-Briefing delay
-Photography session
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Timing

Bull left at unknown time before 5:12 pm

Meeting with NBC executives
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]/FTC [?] investigation
-Contact with Goodman
-FCC/FTC [?] contact with White House
-Conservationists
-Orbach [?]
-Creation as an issue
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
-Philosophy
-Colson critique of meeting
-Scali handling of media
-Scali and Ziegler

AFace The Nation@
-Haldeman
-Soldier guests
-Tony MacDonald
-Questions from panel
-George Herman apology
-Bruce Morton
-Responses
-Support for President
-Success of Vietnamization
-War crimes
-Appearances
-ADick Cavett Show@
-AToday Show@

Networks
-Equal time for Democrats
-Use of air time to make partisan points
-Strategy
-Response to partisan questions
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr., George S. McGovern, Mark O. Hatfield
-CBS view versus NBC view

-Newspaper responses versus broadcast responses
-Bias
-Play of economy
-Play of casualty numbers
-Scali role
-Comparison of figures

Hatfield/McGovern Act
-Status in Congress
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Haldeman

The President left at unknown time before 5:00 pm

Haldeman entered at 5:00 pm

Network meeting
-President=s performance
-Content

The President entered at unknown time after 5:00 pm

-Herbert G. Klein and Ziegler
-President=s reaction
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Biased discussion
-Goodman=s reaction
-President=s image
-Use of television
-Haldeman discussion with Time
-Ziegler
-1956 and 1968 campaigns
-Liberals versus President
-Use of weapons against networks
-Reaction by executives
-Reaction by executives
-Klein
-Reuven Frank
-Executive ability to curb bias
-Goodman view of President=s success
-New York executives
-Haldeman Time interview
-Number of public relations men in White House

-William L. Safire
-Responsibilities
-Richard A. Moore
-Background
-Colson
-Background
-Advertising versus public relations
-Background of White House men
-Haldeman=s hiring role
-J. Walter Thompson, Co.
-Success of Nixon Administration
-Reason for misperception
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Klein
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Background
-Present responsibilities
-Need for public relations men
-President=s press conference performance
-Reaction of executives
-Content of discussion
-Bias
-Training of reporters
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Civil rights stance
-Other stances
-Handling of executives
-Agnew
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Ceausescu
-Gromyko
-Colson
-Goodman reaction

President=s New York trip
-Attendance
-Ziegler=s role
-Klein=s role

The President, Colson, and Haldeman left at 5:12 pm

Conversation No. 514-23

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:12 pm and 5:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service?] met

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people [Secret Service?] left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm

Conversation No. 514-19

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  5:22 pm - 5:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Meeting with National Broadcasting Company [NBC] executives
-Charles W. Colson reaction

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at unknown time after 5:22 pm

Refreshments

The unknown person [Sanchez?] left before 5:31 pm

Meeting with NBC executives
-Rebuttal to press abuse
-Need for honesty
-Press honesty
-Herbert G. Klein, John A. Scali, Ronald L. Ziegler
-Criticism of President
-Press view
-President=s effectiveness as an adversary
-Handling of executives
-Reaction of executives
-Other attacks on press

-Spiro T. Agnew
-Robert J. Dole
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Apologies

Press coverage
-Curtis W. Tarr story
-Economic stories
-Figures
-Haldeman
-Conversation with newspaper employee
-Background of economy story
-Presentation
-Hobart Rowen versus author
-Washington Star economic coverage
-NBC economic coverage
-NBC war coverage
-President=s demeanor
-Bias discussion
-Other approaches
-Drawbacks
-Contact with other media people
-Election coverage
-1966 campaign
-President=s desires
-Equal time
-Criteria for equal time
-Timing of press conferences
-Network view
-President=s view
-Administration needs

Stephen B. Bull entered at unknown time after 5:22 pm

President=s schedule
-Peter G. Peterson briefing
-Attendance
-Members of Congress

The President, Haldeman, and Bull left at 5:31 pm

Conversation No. 514-24

Date:  June 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:31 pm and 8:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 8:10 pm