Conversation No. 518-1

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  10:20 am - 10:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods

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[Duration:  2m 44s  ]

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Woods left at 10:23 am

Conversation No. 518-2

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  10:23 am - 10:25 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule

Butterfield left at 10:23 am

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 10:24 am

President=s schedule

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[Duration:  15s  ]

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Ziegler left at 10:25 am

Conversation No. 518-3

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  10:32 am - 11:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Le Duc Tho travels
-Peking
-Moscow
-East German Party Congress
-Peking and Moscow visit

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[National Security]
[Duration:  9s  ]

FOREIGN RELATIONS

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-Reason for travel
-Agenda
-Tho responsibilities
-Decisionmaking power
-Reason for travel
-Previous travels
-Norodom Sihanouk
-Negotiating skill

Vietnam
-Lyndon B. Johnson=s effort to end war
-Handicaps
-Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-President=s effort to end war
-Handicaps
-Clark M. Clifford effort
-Significance of Tho movement
-Negotiating style of North Vietnamese
-Third party involvement
-US position
-Rebuttal of North Vietnamese changes
-Clifford role
-Hanoi
-Press
-Kissinger=s meeting with Henry Hubbard and Jerrold L. Schecter, June 11
-History of negotiations
-US desire to negotiate
-Washington Post article
-Content
-Clifford error
-Administration error
-North Vietnamese answer to May 31 proposal
-Xuan Thuy
-Opportunity for negotiations
-Significance of Tho travels
-Initiation of negotiations
-Problems
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Kissinger travel

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[National Security]
[Duration:  19s  ]

LOGISTICS

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-Return to Paris
-Bruce role
-President=s role
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Letter
-Melvin R. Laird
-President=s role
-Breaking of deadlock
-Benefits
-Timing of agreement
-Effect of South Vietnam elections
-Reports of Lieutenant General Duong Van (ABig Minh@) Minh-Nguyen Cao Ky deal
-Effect on Thieu
-Ky Role
-Minh role
-US action
-Cambodian problem
-Military operations
-General Do Cao Tri death
-Lam Son
-Problems
-US gains
-North Vietnam strategy
-Thieu strategy
-Casualties
-US dead and Missing in Action [MIA]
-Period of statistics

-Prospects
-News coverage
-Protestors
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-West Pointer in Sweden

Middle East
-Volatility
-Department of State
-US military aid to Israel
-Reaction of Jewish community
-Objectives
-Strategy
-Suez Canal

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[National Security]
[Duration:  13s  ]

ISRAEL

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-State Department interference
-Contact with Egyptians
-Donald Bergus role
-Effect
-Need for quiet
-Soviet involvement
-Need for objectives
-Prospects
-Effect of other initiatives

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Summit negotiations
-Possible courses of action
-State Department role
-William P. Rogers= role

People=s Republic of China [PRC]

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[National Security]
[Duration:  13s  ]

FOREIGN POLICY

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-Soviet summit
-Announcement of PRC summit
-Chou En-Lai role

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[National Security]
[Duration:  29s  ]

FOREIGN POLICY

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-Bruce mission announcement
-Effect of Soviet summit on PRC announcement
-Bruce role

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[National Security]
[Duration:  12s  ]

FOREIGN POLICY

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-En-lai role
-Dealing with Soviets
-Benefits of low-key approach
-Bruce role
-Soviet awareness
-Magnitude of Sino-American contacts
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin comment
-Sino-Soviet contacts
-En-lai
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Nicolae Ceausescu role
-Message from Kissinger
-PRC support for Romania, Yugoslavia
-Soviet strategy
-Pre-election harassment of US
-US reaction on Aarms@ policy
-Soviet fear of Sino-American cooperation
-USSR
-Middle East
-Necessity for quiet
-Leonid I. Brezhnev-President contact
-Possible results
-Kosygin speech

-Nikolai V. Podgorny speech
-Brezhnev speech
-Content of speeches
-Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]
-Kosygin political position
-Podgorny
-Brezhnev

Vietnam
-Clifford and John W. Gardner
-Kissinger contact with press
-US withdrawal efforts
-President=s contact with John Sherman Cooper
-Withdrawal efforts
-North Vietnamese strategy
-Lack of attendance at Paris meeting
-Reason
-Thuy conference with Tho
-Cambodia problem
-Laird role
-Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [MACV] role
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.=s role
-Effort of Abrams
-Thuy
-Possibility of agreement
-Prospects
-Clifford
-Effect on President=s critics
-Past mistakes
-Treatment of President=s critics
-Comparison of past Situations
-Effect on President=s Critics
-PRC
-SALT
-Press
-Media
-President=s meeting with National Broadcasting Company [NBC] executives
-Charles W. Colson
-Bias reporting
-Administration reaction
-Press concern with national good
-Press concern with President=s achievements
-President=s achievements

-Frank F. Church
-Letter from McGeorge Bundy to Kissinger
-President=s achievements
-Frederic V. Malek
-Strategy for ANew Establishment@
-W. Averell Harriman testimony before House of Representatives
-President=s policy
-Berlin negotiations
-Amunition for critics
-Middle East
-Goal of critics
-Effect of PRC policy
-President=s achievement compared with John F. Kennedy=s achievement
-Play in media
-Weather

The President and Kissinger left at 11:11 am

Conversation No. 518-4

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:16 am and 11:17 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with White House operator

[See Conversation No. 5-19]

Conversation No. 518-5

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  11:17 am - 11:19 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods

[See Conversation No. 5-20]

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  57s  ]

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Conversation No. 518-6

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:19 am and 11:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Signing of documents

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 11:19 am

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  3m 30s  ]

Butterfield left at unknown time before 11:30 am

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Drugs
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] special
-Method
-Content
-Possibilities
-Concern with drugs
-Opportunities for administration
-Breadth of response
-Leonard Garment, Raymond K. Price, Jr., William L. Safire
-Experimentation with drugs
-Prominence
-Ivy League schools

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[Duration:  12s  ]

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-Use of drugs as an issue
-Perception of people
-Opposition of administration to Mafia
-Dilletantes
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Ambassadors meeting
-Offense to some countries

Rogers
-Concern with State affairs
-Relation with State Department employees
-John D. Ehrlichman

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  6s  ]

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-U. Alexis Johnson=s view of State Department employees

Haldeman=s conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Middle East
-Jewish community
-Mitchell-Henry A. Kissinger contacts
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Jewish community
-Strategy with President
-Approval of President
-Vietnam
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Support for liberals
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Common Cause
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-Support for President=s Vietnam policy
-Kissinger=s meetings with Yitzhak Rabin
-Frequency
-Benefits of meeting
-Strategy
-Mitchell
-Rogers

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[National Security]
[Duration:  9s  ]

FOREIGN POLICY

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-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Donald Bergus
-Egyptian proposal
-Mitchell-Rogers contact
-Kissinger=s role
-Contact with Rabin

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[National Security]
[Duration:  21s  ]

ISRAEL

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-President=s role
-White House policy formation
-Rogers= role
-Meeting between Mitchell and the President
-Content

-Kissinger=s role in Middle East
-Rumors of State Department involvement in People=s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-PRC contact initiation
-Agency input
-Department of Commerce
-Department of Defense

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  1m 38s  ]

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-Mitchell=s information
-Accuracy
-Mitchell=s meeting with President
-Haldeman=s role with Rogers
-Mitchell=s New York contacts
-Kissinger=s meetings with Rabin

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[National Security]
[Duration:  30s  ]

FOREIGN POLICY

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-Polls
-Jewish support for President
-Robert H. Finch
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Press
-Mitchell
-Rogers

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 41s  ]

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Mitchell
-Kissinger-Rabin meeting
-Content

Kissinger
-Views
-Haig
-Predictions
-Signal on campaign contribution
-Use by administration
-Intent
-Garment role

Rogers
-Previous Sequoia meeting
-Rogers= objectivity
-Position on Clark M. Clifford proposal
-Position on Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Position on Vietnam
-Position on Cambodia
-Position on Laos

Laos
-Casualty rate
-John A. Scali
-Charles W. Colson
-Cambodia
-Stock market
-Laos

Rogers
-Maurice H. Stans
-Commerce Department personnel
-State Department personnel
-Ehrlichman
-Johnson
-Thailand
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] problems
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Soviet Union
-Dobrynin
-Rogers and Kissinger participation
-Soviet summit
-PRC contact

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[National Security]
[Duration:  7s  ]

FOREIGN POLICY

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Rogers
-PRC
-Trade

-Kissinger
-Travel
-Midway Island
-Intellect
-Department of State

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  1m 35s  ]

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President=s relationship with Jews
-Israeli relations

Haldeman left at 11:45 am

Conversation No. 518-7

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

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[Duration:  2m 35s  ]

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Haldeman left at unknown time before 12:12 pm

Conversation No. 518-8

Date:  June 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Call to Rex W. Scouten

[The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox between 12:12 pm and 12:14 pm]

[Conversation No. 518-8A]

[See Conversation No. 5-21]

[End of telephone conversation]

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration:  9m 58s  ]

Scouten entered at an unknown time after 12:14 pm

Scouten left at an unknown time before 1:41 pm

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Hiring of long-haired individuals
-Use by administration
-Quakers
-Draft dodgers
-J. Edgar Hoover
-ALong-hairs for Nixon@
-Meaning of long hair

William P. Rogers
-Personal friction as hindrance to foreign policy

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  27s  ]

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 15s  ]

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President=s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Council on Foreign Relations speech
-Kissinger notification
-Kissinger attitude
-Benefits
-Educators= speech
-Attendance
-Meeting with National Education Association=s [NEA] Helen Bain
-Benefits
-Background
-Originator of meeting
-NEA group meeting
-Content
-Revenue sharing
-Education
-Leonard Garment
-John D. Ehrlichman/Edward L. Morgan
-Follow-up on Terry McGinnity article
-Call to paper
-Mailing of article copy
-John A. (AJack@) Mulcahy role
-Reprint mailing
-Hobart D. (AHobe@) Lewis role
-Robert H. Abplanalp role
-Benefits
-Circulation list
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes role

Wedding
-Planning

-William H. Carruthers
-Television coverage

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Jayne B. Spain
-Civil Service Commission [CSC] appointment
-Additional meeting
-Swearing-in ceremony
-Benefits
-Women voters

Wedding
-Impact on women voters
-Appeal of weddings
-AFather Knows Best@ television wedding
-Emotional interest of women
-Television coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] one-hour special
-Upcoming CBS special
-Total revenue
-Total costs
-Sponsors
-Gulf Oil
-Xerox
-Lyndon B. Johnson standing after wedding
-Polls

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[Duration:  6m 39s  ]

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-Death of Fred Steinmark [University of Texas football player]
-Representatives of President
-Jay G. Wilkinson

-Service
-Wilkinson
-Football coach Darrell K. Royal
-Wilkinson note to President
-Call to Richard A. Moore
-Letter to Steinmark family
-Reaction of Steinmarks to President=s concern
-Public relations benefits
-Dwight L. Chapin role

Personnel
-New writer
-Status of old writer
-William J. Hopkins
-New job
-Roland L. Elliott
-Awards
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Original interview
-Strong points
-Appeal to Middle America
-Expansion of speechwriting office
-McGinnity job offer
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Price role
-Placement
-Charles W. Colson=s staff
-Use
-Colson
-Lyndon K. (AMort@) Allin comment
-ADick Cavett Show@
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Background
-John M. O=Neill
-Left wing

Criticism of President
-NBC role
-Administration counterattack
-Henry A. Kissinger contact with Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Cronkite
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew=s attack on press
-President=s opposition

-Efficacy
-Colson
-Awareness of criticism
-Fairness
-Reaction
-Colson role
-Economic pressure
-Mistakes in handling of press
-White House correspondents
-Herbert G. Klein
-John A. Scali role
-Drawbacks of contacts with President
-Treatment of press
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Acceptance of questions
-Contact with newspeople
-Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
-Barbara Walters
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Cox

Wedding
-ACelebrity@
-Harvard people
-Public reaction to disruption
-President=s trip to Watergate

Administration personnel
-Peter G. Peterson role
-Contact with Western and Midwestern supporters
-Abplanalp
-Rich contacts
-Frederic V. Malek
-Interest in money

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[Duration:  7m 57s  ]

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State Department
-Means of advancing

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  10s  ]

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Administration personnel management
-President=s view
-Delivery of bad news
-Treatment of Anaysayers@
-Need for good news

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  57s  ]

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Press reporting
-President=s use
-Pandering

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[Duration:  3m 42s  ]

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Arts
-Opening performance at Wolf Trap Farm Park
-Mrs. Nixon=s attendance
-President=s attendance
-Garment
-Recommendation
-Cultural commitments
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Interest groups
-Jewish group events
-Black group events
-Black Caucus
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield

-Charles C. Diggs, Jr.
-Financial impact of proposal

Polls
-Administration standing on help to Blacks
-Appeal to Blacks and Whites
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Jewish vote
-Jewish vote
-Location
-Concerns
-Middle East
-Support for President
-Liberal inclinations
-Sample in polls
-Significance
-Shifts in poll
-Effect of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Effect of Soviet and People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiatives
-Cotton issue
-Standing on crime and law and order
-Pollution
-Drug problem
-Support for police

Public relations
-Awareness of President=s position
-Department of Justice
-Moore
-Washington press
-Goal for President
-McGinnity
-Price
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Theoretical performance in two-man race
-Dwight D. Eisenhower versus Adlai E. Stevenson, II
-Johnson versus Goldwater
-Percentage
-Effect
-Methods

Unidentified social function

Camp David construction
-Start order
-Timing

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[Duration:  1m 5s  ]

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-Role of committee
-Effect on next administration
-Persuasion of committee
-Helicopter trip to Camp David
-Benefit of construction to President
-Benefit to next administration
-Need
-Timing

Removal of buildings from Mall
-Memorial
-Use in speeches
-Ehrlichman
-Significance

Assault on problems by administration
-Cancer
-Drugs

Drug meeting
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan invitation
-President=s role

Agnew=s trip
-Kissinger=s role
-Rogers question

-Kissinger=s agenda
-General Nguyen Van Thieu meeting
-Vietnam talks

Rogers
-Haldeman=s role
-Kissinger=s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-SALT
-Contribution to conversation with John B. Connally
-Reaction by others

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Privacy]
[Duration:  29s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  3m 43s  ]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:14 pm

Sanchez left at unknown time before 1:41 pm

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:14 pm

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:41 pm

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The President and Haldeman left at 1:41 pm

Conversation No. 518-9

Date:  June 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:01 am and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  4m 2s  ]

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	Wedding
-Press coverage
-Television
-Mrs. Atkins= view

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:01 am

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  29s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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The President, Atkins, and Sanchez left at unknown time before 11:59 pm