Conversation No. 517-1

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  9:37 am - 9:39 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met

Open door to office

The unknown people left at unknown time before 9:39 am

Conversation No. 517-2

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:37 am and 9:39 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at unknown time before 9:39 am

Conversation No. 517-3

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:37 am and 9:39 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger meeting

Bull left at unknown time before 9:39 am

Conversation No. 517-4

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  9:37 am - 10:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left and H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 9:39 am

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:40 am

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Kissinger meeting with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Molly Furness [possibly Betty Furness?]
-Clark M. Clifford

Lawrence F. O= Brien, Jr. statement in Christian Science Monitor
-Godfrey Sperling, Jr. breakfast
-President=s handling of Vietnam
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy attack on President
-Content of Kennedy statement

Vietnam
-Content of Kennedy attack on President
-Robert J. Dole rebuttal
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. and Arthur O. Sulzberger
-Administration attack on Clifford
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Johnson=s reaction
-Burning Tree Country Club
-Effect of Clifford attack on President
-President=s contact with Hanoi
-Clifford attack on President
 -Support of newsmen
-Kissinger=s trip to New York
-Time commitment
-Contact with Sulzberger
-Talks with [Forename unknown] Franco, Henry Hubbard, Dan Rather
-Rather comment
-Negotiations
-Press
-Negotiations
-Hanoi
-Clifford
-Xuan Thuy
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Problems of coverage
-Clifford
-French newsmen
-Working dinner on the Sequoia, June 10

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-William P. Rogers
-John B. Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Drug policy
-Recall of five ambassadors
-Meeting
-Rogers
-Vietnam prisoners of war [POWs]
-Press conference
-POWs for withdrawal
-Effect of press coverage
-POW problem
-In relation to casualties
-Eventual freeing
-H. Ross Perot
-Connally=s reaction
-Plan to visit POWs
-Reduction of emphasis
-Melvin R. Laird=s role
-Reduction in POW emphasis
-POWs as an issue
-Treatment
-Drug problem
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Shift in opinion of media and Congress
-George S. McGovern-Mark O. Hatfield debate
-Bipartisan House of Representatives resolution
-Timing
-Effect
-Administration prospects
-Jacob K. Javits dinner

-George P. Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Earl L. Butz [?]
-Professor [Forename unknown] Erickson
-Administration invitees
-Frank F. Church conversation with Kissinger
-McGovern-Hatfield prospects
-Need for cooperation between Senate and President
-Senate Resolution
-Content
-Previous dinner party
-Church remark
-Critics of Administration
-Real fears
-People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] initiative
-Prospects of war=s end
-Clark MacGregor
-Houston Congressmen
-Bipartisan criticism
-Republican role
-Republican self-image
-MacGregor
-Congressional contacts
-Proffering of compromise resolutions
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield role
-Congressional actions
-Confidence of critics
-Impression of President
-Administration=s response
-Mansfield

Stephen B. Bull entered at unknown time after 9:42 am

President=s schedule

Bull left at unknown time before 10:33 am

Vietnam
-Polls
-Effect of criticism
-Nature of criticism
-Benefit of initiatives

-PRC
-USSR
-Strategy of North Vietnamese
-Illusion of progress
-Public reaction
-June 26
-Kissinger memo to President
-Xuan Thuy interview
-Separation of military and political issues
-Implications
-Casualties
-Related to earlier numbers
-John A. Scali role
-Press relations
-Cambodia
-Laos

PRC
-Trade efforts
-State Department involvement
-Rogers
-Winthrop G. Brown
-Press release
-State contribution
-Commerce Department
-Shipping requirements
-Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger
-Labor contacts
-Jay Lovestone
-Labor complaints
-George Meany
-American bottoms
-Assurances to Kissinger
-Harry Bridges
-Thomas W. (ATeddy@) Gleason
-Packaging
-Union contacts
-Shultz role
-Willie J. Usery, Jr.
-Gleason
-Grain
-Press play

-Credit to President
-PR role
-Rogers= role
-Brown=s role
-Ziegler briefing
-Quality
-Scali public relations session
-Scali qualities
-PRC trade
-Marshall Green
-Early criticism
-Press release
-Wording
-Secretary of State
-Secretary of Commerce
-Details of trade initiation
-President=s role
-John N. Irwin, II
-State Department
-Spy from White House

International economics
-Connally
-Chile problems
-Expropriation of US Industry
-Guyana
-Chile
-Jamaica
-Long-term effect
-Rogers
-Primacy of US law
-Expropriation
-Effect on US business
-US competitive position
-Peterson=s report
-Industry by industry
-Robert B. Anderson statement in 1959 comparison
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Comparison with Great Britain
-Economic decline
-US technology
-Rogers= discussion with Willy Brandt
-Cooperation on Supersonic Transport [SST]

-German-American cooperation
-Status of US SST
-Advantages of SST over Concorde and Soviet SST
-Money and technology
-Flanigan
-Japanese
-Germans
-Cost to US
-Loss of technological leadership
-Benefit to US
-Tie to Germany
-Possible reaction by the British and French
-German-Soviet relations
-Connally
-Criticism
-European economic union
-Economic versus Defense integration
-Benefits
-Guyana
-US position
-Security for loans
-Kissinger=s call to Connally
-Chile
-Boeing 707 deal
-Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank role
-Henry Kearns
-Chile=s reaction
-Banking conditions preventing expropriation
-Chile
-Connally
-Need for action
-Public perception
-State Department
-Pakistan
-Brazil
-Kissinger
-Assassination of Right Wing Christian Democrat
-Blame of Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Martial law
-Attack on US

-Military Support
-Levels
-Comparison to Brazil
-Kissinger=s call to Connally

State Department personnel
-Flanigan appointment
-Nathanial Samuels
-Tie to Peterson
-Benefits
-White House contacts
-Irwin

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-Direction of Flanigan effort
-Benefits
-Feedback on State Department personnel
-Flanigan White House role

International economics
-Loans
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Pakistan
-Recipients of loans
-World Bank criteria for loans
-Connally
-Robert S. McNamara and Schweitzer
-Ideological views
-Effect on policy
-McNamara meeting with Kissinger

-Pakistan Aid
-Kissinger=s talk with Connally
-IMF
-Ideological considerations
-Foreign governments= domestic policies
-US reaction
-Double standard
-Czechoslovakia
-PRC
-Chile
-Military aid
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Movement to one-party state
-Ex-Im Bank meeting
-General feeling
-Press control
-Treatment of military
-Police control
-Arguments for US pressure
-Further aid
-Connally
-Maurice H. Stans
-Interest

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[Duration:  1m 3s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Brazil
-Support for US
-Territorial water limits
-Military nature of government
-William M. Rountree role

-International coffee agreement
-Message to ambassador
-Congressional action
-Reasons
-Forthcoming visit to US
-Message to ambassador
-Latin America section of State Department
-Ideological leanings
-Charles A. Meyer=s role
-Contact with Anastasio Somoza Debayle
-Liberalization of government
-Contact with Allende

Kissinger call to Connally

Meeting with Brazilian ambassador to US

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[Duration:  40s  ]

FOREIGN RELATIONS

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-Fishing problems
-Congressional problems with coffee agreement

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[Duration:  26s  ]

FOREIGN RELATIONS

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Kissinger and Haldeman left 10:36 am

Conversation No. 517-5

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  10:37 am - 11:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Elliot L. Richardson, Roger O. Egeberg, and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Weather
-Wedding plans

The White House photographer left at unknown time before 11:08 am

Appreciation of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] work
-Congressional salesmanship
-Egeberg=s role
-Necessity of putting message across
-Egeberg=s efforts for HEW
-Feeling for President

An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 10:37 am

President=s schedule

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 11:08 am

Doctors of HEW
-Quality of HEW program

Use of money
-Translation into useable service
-Supply/demand considerations

Health Maintenance Organization [HMO] programs
-Kaiser Permanente
-Participation
-Misinterpretation
-American Medical Association [AMA]
-Administration public relations
-Opportunity for membership
-Future prospects

Drug program
-Alcohol programs
-Use of alcohol versus drugs
-Medicinal use of drugs

Welfare reform

Revenue sharing
-Education
-Cancer research

Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

Mental health
-Size of field of mental health
-Welfare reform versus health care
-Investment breakdown
-Thrust of programs
-Effectiveness of program
-Translation into large scale program from experience
-Constituency strength in mental health

-President of National Association of Mental Health [NAMH]
-Meeting with President
-Problems with medicine
-Psychosomatic illness
-Old school versus new school
-Will to Live
-Author
-Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker
-Rose Mary Woods
-Analysis of personal cases
-Drug problem
-Personality deficit
-Beneficial use of drugs
-Problems with different drugs
-Doctors= role
-Phenobarbital
-Mexican contacts
-Phenobarbital versus heroin
-Combinations of drugs
-Administration contact with doctors
-AMA contacts
-Attack on drug problems
-Educational campaign
-Treatments
-Forthcoming HEW meeting with AMA
-President=s role
-Support for doctors
-Arthur G. (AArt@) Linkletter
-Daughter
-Carl M. Yastrzemski
-Boston Red Sox
-Educators= role
-Effect of doctors on youthful drug users
-Lack of political identification
-Benefit of education
-AMA involvement
-Lecture participation
-Doctors= lectures
-Benefit
-Medical group versus business
-Poll on business
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Public opinion

-Doctors
-Public opinion
-President=s schedule
-Upcoming meeting with AMA

Gift presentation
-Cuff links
-Golf balls
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Drug problem
-Doctors= lectures
-Content

Richardson, et al. left and Bull entered at 11:06 am

President=s schedule
-John Sherman Cooper

Bull left at unknown time before 11:08 am

Conversation No. 517-6

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  11:08 am - 11:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman?]

Meeting with John B. Connally
-Timing
-Content

John Sherman Cooper, Clark MacGregor, and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:08 am

-Length
-Input from Connally

[End of telephone conversation]

Greetings

Cooper=s health

Paintings of White House

Cooper=s credibility
-Help to administration
-William B. Saxbe

Foreign policy negotiations
-Information of Senate
-J. William Fulbright
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-People=s Republic of China [PRC] contacts
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] contacts
-General direction of US policy
-President=s role
-Control of Aright@
-USSR and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Quality of agreement
-Leonid I. Brezhnev

Manolo Sanchez entered at unknown time after 11:08 am

Refreshments

Sanchez left at unknown time before 11:56 am

Foreign policy negotiations
-Prospects for Soviet summit
-SALT
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-William P. Rogers
-European view

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:08 am

-European security conference
-Administration efforts
-Efforts in addition to Vietnam
-Needs from Congress
-Understanding of process

-Effect of leaks
-Secrecy
-Soviet reaction
-Kissinger=s conversations with Soviets
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Congressional input
-SALT
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Timing

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:56 pm

-Effect of comments on talks
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy=s remark
-President=s efforts in Vietnam
-Progress on Abig@ issues
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Congressional perception
-Effect of Congressional comments
-Fulbright
-Vietnam
-Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
-Desire for information
-USSR
-PRC
-Goals
-Strength
-Europe
-Contribution to general good
-Reaction against military
-Effect of progress
-MBFR
-Balance of payments
-Goals
-Forthcoming Willy Brandt visit
-Dinner
-German leadership
-Relation to Wernher M. M. von Braun
-School ties
-Mandeza [?]

-Balance of payments
-Vietnam
-Prospects for ending war
-Dynamics of negotiations
-Troop withdrawal
-Prospects of breakthrough
-Administration goals
-Topics of negotiation
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Protection of US troops
-South Vietnam survival
-Breadth of negotiations
-Clark M. Clifford statements
-Effect of Congressional actions
-US goals in negotiations
-Congressional feeling
-Need for one voice
-Effect of Congressional actions
-George S. McGovern
-John W. Gardner and Mark O. Hatfield
-Immorality of War
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Goal of negotiations
-End of American deaths
-Senate actions
-Hatfield=s view
-Hatfield legislation prospects
-Committee activity
-Regional settlement prospects
-Cambodia
-North Vietnam
-Laos
-Administration=s proposal
-Neutralization of Southeast Asia
-Objections to McGovern-Hatfield
-Provisions
-History of proposals offered by US
-Public knowledge
-Effect of McGovern-Hatfield legislation
-Weakness
-House sentiment
-Basis

-Lucien N. Nedzi-Charles W. Whalen, Jr. amendment
-President=s October 7 statement
-Compromise offers
-Congressional support
-Gerald R. Ford
-Leslie C. Arends
-Carl B. Albert
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Jacob K. Javits
-President=s October 7 statement
-Recirculation
-John A. Scali
-Appointment versus actual movement of US
-Vietnam
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Difficulty of negotiations
-President=s needs from Congress
-Clifford
-Difficulty of Apublic@ negotiations
-Relation to PRC and Soviet Union
-North Vietnamese
-Fear of quid pro quo
-Congressional issues
-Balance of payments
-Cooper=s trip to Vienna
-Gerard C. Smith
-Paul H. Nitze
-Brady [?]
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Clifford
-Cyrus R. Vance
-Tolerance

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GERMANY

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-President=s needs
-Consultation with Congress
-Indochina
-India
-Indira Gandhi and Swaran Singh=s conversation with Cooper
-Indian election
-US involvement
-Singh=s belief
-Cooper=s response
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Opposition party
-Rogers
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-American business
-US involvement
-Kissinger=s schedule
-Upcoming lunch with Indian ambassador
-Mansfield contact

Cooper, et al. left at 11:56 am

Conversation No. 517-7

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:56 am and 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Rehearsal of wedding
-Briefing of Ronald L. Ziegler, William H. Carruthers, and Mark I. Goode
-Television coverage
-Timing

Bull left at unknown time before 11:58 am

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

-Forthcoming meeting

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:58 am

Conversation No. 517-8

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  11:58 am - 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Samuel L. Devine and William E. Timmons

Greetings

Support for President
-Devine role
-Press coverage

International negotiations
-Arms control with Soviets
-Public perception
-US and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] interests

-Give and take
-Anti-Ballistic Missile [ABM]
-Soviet interests
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Eastern Europe
-Berlin
-Economics
-Arms control
-Congressional support
-US negotiating position
-PRC
-Objectives
-Soviet and Chinese competition
-Leadership role
-Basis of US movement
-Taiwan concerns
-Interplay of objectives
-Soviet interest in Europe
-Southeast Asia
-Chinese and Soviet aid to North Vietnam
-Effect on negotiations to end war
-Vietnam
-Prospects of success in talks
-Evolution
-Cambodia and Laos action
-Effect on North Vietnamese
-Breadth of discussions
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-President=s previous meeting with John Sherman Cooper
-Responsibility of Congress in talks
-Democratic fears
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy statement
-Relation of casualties to Laos operation
-Clark M. Clifford
-End of war
-Credit
-Cambodia resolutions
-Cooper-Church amendment
-Message to Supporters of President
-President=s view of PRC, Soviet Union, and US interests
-Devine=s constituency

-PRC Grain Deal
-Gerald R. Ford
-American unions
-Behind-the-scenes negotiations
-Democratic Fears
-Comparison of President with other administrations
-Future of the world
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Domestic affairs
-Congressional-Executive relations
-Public works bill
-Veto prospects
-Devine/Ford
-Input
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Prospects
-Family assistance
-Carl T. Curtis bill
-Republican response
-Relation to welfare reform
-Content
-Revenue sharing
-Guaranteed annual income
-Workmen=s incentives
-Effect on Black vote
-Phil Burke [?]
-Senate prospects
-Timmons and John D. Ehrlichman meeting
-Purpose
-Ehrlichman=s role
-Relation to HR 1
-Effect on Wilbur D. Mills= prestige
-Fairness
-Ways and Means Committee
-Tie to Social Security
-Black Caucus
-Previous meeting with President
-Content
-Demands
-Cost
-Concern for the rest of the country

-Cost of demands
-Potential tax increase
-Devine trip to Korea
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Devine trip to Israel
-Devine committee assignment
-Jewish vote
-Support for Devine
-Financial aid
-Black Caucus
-Meeting with the President
-Black vote
-Support for President
-John N. Mitchell
-Future meetings
-Upcoming international events

Devine and Timmons left at 12:20 pm

Conversation No. 517-9

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:20 pm and 12:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Schedule
-Meeting with Baron Guido Zerilli-Marimo
-Gift

Bull left at unknown time before 12:23 pm

Conversation No. 517-10

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  12:23 pm - 12:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Baron Guido Zerilli-Marimo, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins

Greetings
-Photographs

Diplomatic posts
-Rome
-Benefits

Atkins left and Manolo Sanchez entered at unknown time after 12:23 pm

Refreshments

Sanchez left at unknown time before 12:39 pm

Zerilli-Marimo=s analysis of issues
-Italy
-US diplomatic mission
-Economic cooperation
-US ambassador Graham A. Martin
-Qualities
-Requirements for ambassador
-Energy
-Ability
-Martin
-James C. Dunn
-1948 election
 	-Prospects for prosperity
-Martin
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-East Asia
-Japan
-Italian economy

-Communism in Italy
-Popular support for Communist party
-Reasons
-Tuscany
-Behavior
-Importance to the free world
-President=s view
-Impact on Latin America
-President=s view
-European union

Presentation of gifts

Appreciation of friendship

Zerilli-Marimo and Butterfield left at 12:39 pm

Conversation No. 517-11

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  12:39 pm - 12:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Robert C. Hill meeting
-Barber shop appointment

Bull left at unknown time before 12:40 pm

Conversation No. 517-12

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  12:40 pm - 12:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert C. Hill and Harry S. Dent; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Baron Guido Zerilli-Marimo

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 12:59 pm

-[Forename or surname unknown] Headly [sp?]
-Meeting between Hill and Zerilli-Marimo
-Graham A. Martin
-Italians

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Spain
-General Francisco Franco=s health
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer=s visit
-Parkinson=s disease
-Digestive trouble
-Successor to Hill
-Transition
-Qualifications
-Effect of left-wing successor
-Need for strong staff

-Hill=s forthcoming conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger=s role
-Staffing requirements
-Need for strong staff
-Successor to Hill
-Prospects
-Political leanings
-New York Times
-Moorer visit to Spain
-Soviet strategy
-Leftist effort in Spain
-Franco

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[Duration:  13s  ]

SPAIN

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-Key to Spanish future
-Prime Minister position
-Vice Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco
-View of US
-Gregorio Lopez Bravo de Castro
-Blanco qualifications
-Political relationship with Franco
-Hill dinner party

Appreciation for Hill effort
-Quality of effort
-Continued support

Hill, et al. left at 12:59 pm

Conversation No. 517-13

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 1:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Barber appointment
-Ronald L. Ziegler briefing

Bull left at unknown time before 1:02 pm

Conversation No. 517-14

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 1:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

President=s schedule
-Robert C. Hill

Conversation No. 517-15

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 1:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Samuel L.  Devine
-William E. Timmons

-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Barber appointment

The President and Butterfield left at 1:02 pm

Conversation No. 517-16

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 pm and 1:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 517-17

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:36 pm and 1:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule

Bull left at unknown time before 1:43 pm

Conversation No. 517-18

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:36 pm and 1:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Schedule
-Upcoming meetings
-Peter G. Peterson
-Attendance
-John B. Connally
-Agenda
-Trade topics
-Attendance
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Connally

Conversation No. 517-19

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  1:43 pm - 2:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William H. Carruthers, Mark I. Goode, and Ronald L. Ziegler

Wedding plans
-Television coverage
-Extent
-Post-wedding plans
-Red Room
-Photos
-Television coverage of photographic session
-Audio set up
-Receiving line
-Television coverage
-Dance
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Rehearsal
-Dance
-Sequence and tunes
-Tricia Nixon and Edward R. F. Cox
-President=s cut in
-Tune change
-Howard E., Jr. and Anne C. B. (Finch) Cox role
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon role
-First dance television coverage

-E. R. F. Cox=s role
-Coverage ending
-T. Nixon=s exit
-Cake cutting
-Media coverage
-Bouquet throwing
-Exit
-Receiving line
-Timing
-Location
-Serving of drinks
-Entrance of guests
-Cabinet members
-North Portico
-Television coverage
-Audio coverage
-Weather
-Chance of rain
-Inclement weather plans
-President=s escort of T. Nixon
-Pace
-Train attendance
-Winchester=s role
-T. Nixon=s role
-Extent of dancing
-Priscilla Kidder
-Schedule
-Television coverage
-Extent
-Ceremony coverage

Goode and Carruthers left at 1:53 pm

Press conference
-John D. Ehrlichman and Leonard Garment
-Connally role
-George W. Romney and John N. Mitchell
-Upcoming conference
-ABlackjack@ question
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Housing integration
-Administration commitment
-Public perception

-ABlackjack@ question
-Attorney General statement
-Questions of reporters
-School questions

Wedding
-Constance M. (Cornell) (AConnie@) Stuart
-Kandy S. Stroud (Women=s Wear Daily)
-Presence in White House press pool
-Television presence on Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Ziegler=s idea
-Placement in a pool
-CBS coverage
-Dan Rather and Marya McLaughlin anchor
-Other positions
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Barbara Walters and Edwin P. Newman anchor
-Other positions
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] coverage
-Studio highlights
-CBS special
-Timing
-ABC special
-Timing
-NBC coverage
-Timing
-Extent of coverage
-West Coast coverage
-ABC
-Special broadcasting
-NBC
-CBS
-Audience interest
-Total coverage
-Dominance
-News shows
-Type of coverage
-Audience size and interest
-CBS special
-White House weddings

Ziegler left at 2:02 pm

Conversation No. 517-20

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  2:05 pm - 2:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and John B. Connally

Greetings

Schedules

Seating

International economics
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Chile
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Effect on other contacts
-Popular perception
-Effect of US rejection of help

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 27s  ]

INDIA-PAKISTAN

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-John Sherman Cooper previous meeting with President
-Indira Gandhi
-Swaran Singh
-Elections
-Gandhi

-Assassination of Secretary of Interior in Chile
-Edmundo Perez
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

India-Pakistan
-Connally and  William P. Rogers= views
-IMF role
-International Bank for Development and Reconstruction [IBRD/World Bank] role
-Judgement of morality
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-Robert S. McNamara
-Link to loans
-Criteria for loans
-Colombia
-International lending agencies= role
-Chilean situation
-Bolivia
-Peter G. Peterson
-Connally=s role
-Chile
-Connally
-Action by President
-Chilean desire for normal relations

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration:  5s  ]

FOREIGN RELATIONS

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-Allende
-Loan amounts

-Security for loans
-US accused of assassination of Perez
-Allende
-Boeing 707 deal
-Credit restrictions
-Use of trade restrictions
-Benefits
-Credit continuance
-Allende
-US political motivations
-Loans
-Issues
-Copper
-Speech
-Rhetoric
-Expropriation of US assets
-Effect
-Request for guarantees
-Connally=s role
-Economic and political consultations
-Peterson Committee
-Kissinger and [Forename unknown] Hill

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 32s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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-Bolivia
-Bilateral aid
-Inter-American Development Bank loan
-World Bank loan

-Use of loan
-Expropriation of oil well
-Gulf benefits
-Argentina
-Expropriation of other assets
-Background
-Losses to US
-Guyana
-Expropriation of aluminum companies
-Jamaica
-Guyana, Suriname
-Potential
-US investment
-Bolivia
-Inter-American Development Bank
-US voting posture
-Credit
-Use of sanctions
-Latin America
-State Department position
-Daniel Holland [?]
-Christian Democrat
-Compared to Communists
-Charles A. Meyer
-Anastasio Somoza Debayle
-Brazil
-Forthcoming visit of Brazilian President

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration:  7s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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-Fishing controversy with US
-State Department=s stance on fishing rights controversy
-Need for strong US-Brazil ties
-Need for stable government
-Loans to Latin American countries
-Juan Velasco
-Chile
-Cuba
-Expropriations
-Expropriations
-US policy
-Retaliation for expropriations
-Withholding of loans
-World Bank role
-Disparity in policies
-Effects
-Peterson
-Naivete of some US officials

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration:  51s  ]

CHILE

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-Chile
-Soviet influence
-Comparison to Cuba
-Cuba
-Fidel Castro
-US policy
-Normalization of relations
-Revolutionary views

-State Department thinking
-Implementation of strategy
-State Department role
-McNamara
-Schweitzer
-Other contacts

President=s schedule
-Wedding rehearsal

Kissinger and Connally left at 2:38 pm

Conversation No. 517-21

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:38 pm and 2:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Request for Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at unknown time before 2:40 pm

Conversation No. 517-22

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  2:40 pm - 2:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  41s  ]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:57 pm

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:41 pm

[Pause]

President=s schedule
-William P. Rogers
-John A. Scali role

US foreign policy
-John B. Connally involvement in administration
-Kissinger meetings
-Connally qualities
-Future plans
-Kissinger meetings
-Content
-People=s Republic of China [PRC] trip

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration:  14s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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-Status of US in the world
-US world position
-Baron Guido Zerilli-Marimo
-James C. Dunn
-US embassy
-Competence
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Graham A. Martin
-Contacts with Italian government
-Henry J. Tasca
-Robert C. Hill
-Need for vigor
-Martin
-State Department relations
-Qualities
-Need for vigor in representing US
-Frederic V. Malek
-Donald H. Rumsfeld role
-Office of Economic Policy [OEP]
-Benefits
-State Department job
-John N. Irwin, II
-State Department
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Benefits
-Value to President
-Business community contacts
-Loyalty to President

-Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr. role
-Rogers= call to Haldeman
-Concern over expropriation
-European Community
-State Department attitudes
-Expropriation
-Erosion of US position
-John Foster Dulles
-Soviet Union
-Italian ambassador
-Spain
-Hill staff
-Aide to John H. (AJock@) Whitney
-Whitney aide
-Requirements

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  11s  ]

SPAIN

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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-Press conference
-Lifting of trade restrictions
-US-PRC staffing
-Comparison with Soviet Union
-Use in House elections
-Upcoming announcement
-Scali
-Vietnam
-John Sherman Cooper visit with Kissinger
-Vietnam Negotiations
-Italy

-Martin
-Removal
-Zerilli-Marimo
-Types of people
-Anglo/Saxons
-Russians
-AOrientals@
-Italians
-Qualities
-Soviet Union
-Party speech
-Aleksei N. Kosygin content
-Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Praise for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Place in hierarchy
-Kremlin politics
-Podgorny
-Kosygin
-Age
-Health
-Age of leaders
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Toughness of Soviet politics
-Josef V. Stalin
-Connally role in policy formulation
-Kissinger relation with Connally
-Relation to John N. Mitchell
-Haldeman, Kissinger, and John D. Ehrlichman decision on Flanigan=s role

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 2:57 pm

Conversation No. 517-23

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  2:58 pm - 3:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met Rose Mary Woods

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  4m 35s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The President and Woods left at 3:04 pm

Conversation No. 517-24

Date:  June 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:04 pm and 3:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service?] met

Rose Mary Woods location

The unknown people [Secret Srvice?] left before 3:11 pm

Conversation No. 517-25

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

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman

Meeting with Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Carl T. Curtis substitute legislation

Reaction to Wilbur D. Mills, Edmund S. Muskie revenue sharing ideas
-John B. Connally
-Democratic Caucus ideas
-John W. Byrnes= idea
-Results
-Administration strategy
-Connally
-Contact with Mills
-George P. Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Leak of information
-Mills= reaction
-Connally letter to Mills
-Content
-Drawbacks
-Benefits
-Contact with mayors
-Effect of bill
-Edwin L. Harper analysis
-Effect on small communities
-Mills= role

House Resolution [HR] 1
-Samuel L. Devine view
-Support
-Negroes
-Left wing
-Conservative Republican
-Mills= enemies
-Shultz
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Welfare
-Effect of family assistance
-President=s constituency
-Cost factor
-Efficacy
-Work requirement
-HR 1 without family assistance
-Family assistance
-Efficacy
-Administration
-Difficulties
-Effect of removal from HR 1

-Aid to Families with Dependent Children [AFDC]
-[Gary?] Cook
-Clark MacGregor
-Work requirement
-Political effects
-Ronald W. Reagan welfare reform
-Killing by California committee
-Use as an issue
-Democratic proposal
-Political effect
-Use of issues
-Family assistance versus welfare reform
-Short term effect of family assistance
-Work requirements
-Liberal strategy
-Devine
-Timing of bill=s progress
-Use of welfare as an issue
-President=s effort to achieve reform
-Chance to administer
-Liberal outlook
-AFDC
-History of reform
-Great Society
-Ehrlichman=s view
-Family assistance
-Model cities
-Congressional support
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Devine
-John B. Anderson position effect on election
-Forthcoming election
-Other reforms
-Highway Trust Fund
-Model cities
-Urban renewal
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Highway Trust Fund
-Opposition
-Governors
-Priority
-Use of money
-Environment

-Revenue sharing
-Gas tax money
-Access by federal government
-Great Society programs
-Support
-Effect
-Highway fund
-Support
-Concrete manufacturers
-Petroleum people
-Bus companies
-Truckers
-Model cities
-Support
-Blacks
-Cuts
-Rearrangement of funds
-Effect
-Background
-Present status of program
-Housing
-Henry Hubbard role
-Washington Post article
-Alden W. Clausen authorship
-Use of referendum
-Referendum
-Family assistance
-President=s role
-Signal of support
-Devine role
-Cost of program
-Political strategy
-Position if bill fails
-California precedent
-Nelson A. Rockefeller role
-John V. Lindsay, Rockefeller feelings
-Reagan role
-Lindsay problems
-Upcoming labor problems
-Public service employees
-Other contracts
-Rockefeller ambition
-Strategy

-Spending
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peter M. Flanigan and Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger role
-Social Security spending
-Business spending
-Effects
-Support by business
-Popular support
-Need for business support
-Strategy
-Narcotics
-Ehrlichman=s attack on William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Message to ambassadors
-Aid tied to narcotics attack
-Impact on foreign relations
-French
-Turks

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  3s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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-Thailand
-Laos
-Mexico
-Turkey
-US Congressional action
-Ehrlichman talk with Kissinger

Cabinet
-Connally will
-Stans
-John A. Volpe
-Richardson
-Control of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-New York Times article
-[Forename unknown] Herberts [?]
-Rogers
-View on narcotics
-Expropriation policy of US
-Effect
-Condemnation versus expropriation principles
-Connally=s role
-Peter G. Peterson=s importance
-Robert Anderson
-Rogers= demeanor
-Outlook on problems
-Rogers= qualities
-Attack on Stans
-Bolivia

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Privacy]
[Duration:  15s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

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-Undersecretary James T. Lynn
-Qualities
-Peterson
-Qualities
-Charles H. Percy

Personnel
-Flanigan State Department assignment

-Benefits
-Drawbacks
-Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr. role
-Shultz request for Krogh on Arnold R. Weber departure
-Flanigan role
-Business support
-Peterson role
-Use of Flanigan staff
-Dual role
-Flanigan role
-Qualities
-State Department
-Rogers= performance
-Stans
-Peterson
-State Department slot

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Privacy]
[Duration:  1m 39s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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-Dean Rusk
-Dwight D. Eisenhower=s comments
-History=s treatment of Rogers
-Kissinger=s role
-Source of US foreign policy

Housing fight
-Washington Post reporter
-Source of policy
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Foreign policy
-Middle East accomplishments
-Truce
-Rogers= role

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration:  50s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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-Soviet presence in Middle East
-US policy and Arab interests

Wedding rehearsal
-Practice of processional music
-Marine Corps musicians
-Appearance at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opening

Public parks accomplishments
-Mall construction
-Further efforts
-Upcoming ideas
-Nathaniel A. Owings
-Movement
-National Capital Planning Commission role
-Owings= role
-Garment=s role
-Useful designs
-Recreation of earlier Washington
-Owings= role
-Plans
-Garment

-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Timing of submission of drawings
-Interior Department role

Barbara (Greene) (ABobbie@) Kilberg
-Ripon Society association
-Visit with President
-Quality of work
-Indian work
-Qualities

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 50s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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Robert H. Finch

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  33s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Foreign policy problems
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Finch

-Discipline
-Desire to make news
-Herbert G. Klein question and answer performance
-Johns Hopkins University
-Klein speech performance
-Qualities
-Ronald L. Ziegler performance
-Press

Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon entered at 4:08 pm

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 58s  ]

Ehrlichman left at 4:09 pm

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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[The President talked with the White House operator at unknown time between 4:08 pm and 4:09 pm]

[Conversation No. 517-25A]

[See Conversation No. 5-7]

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at unknown time after 4:09 pm

President=s schedule

[The President talked with Richardson between 4:09 pm and 4:11 pm]

[Conversation No. 517-25B]

[See Conversation No. 5-8]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President, Mrs. Nixon, and Bull left at 4:11 pm