Conversation No. 521‑1

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with an unknown person.

President=s schedule

Bull and the unknown person left before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 521‑3

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:15 pm and 2:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

Request for Charles W. Colson

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 2:19 pm.

Conversation No. 521‑4

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  2:19 pm - 2:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Greetings

President's letter to networks
‑Wedding coverage
‑Copy to Colson

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 2:19 pm.

President's desk
‑Damage
‑Causes

Possible wedding rerun
‑Colson talk with National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] executive
‑Gulf Oil Corporation
‑Interest
‑NBC
‑Summer reruns
‑Follow-up

President's schedule
‑Colson=s request
‑Set up of meeting with John M. O=Neill
‑Anti‑war demonstration
‑Action of O=Neill
‑Reaction
‑"Dick Cavett Show"
‑John F. Kerry, O'Neill
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]

Pentagon Papers
‑Administration response
‑National security
‑Damage done
‑Emphasis on "family quarrel" aspects
‑Nixon administration involvement
‑Principle of disclosure
‑Escalation of attack
‑Benefits
‑Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
‑President's role in Vietnam
‑Lyndon B. Johnson attack
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Attack on Johnson
‑Disclosure of information
‑Security of information passed to State Department and Department of Defense [DOD]
‑Handling of security material
‑New York Times

‑Freedom of press issue
‑Calls for congressional investigation
‑Benefits
‑Suspects
‑Leslie H. Gelb
‑Walter [?] Gellhorn
‑Morton Halperin
‑Use of oath
‑Newsweek editor=s conversation with John A. Scali
‑Knowledge of source and method of leak
‑Use in next week's magazine

Mailing operation
-Colson supervision
-Haldeman

Attack on Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Hugh Scott
‑Response to Kennedy's attack on President
‑President's use of religion
‑Reason for Kennedy's attack
‑Presidential credibility
‑Separation from other candidates
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld role
‑Kennedy speech
‑Jaycees convention in Oregon
‑Mailing of Kennedy statement and Hubert H. Humphrey answer
‑Robert J. Dole role
‑Effect
-Editorials
‑Jaycees convention
‑Rumsfeld attack
‑Familiarity with Vietnam war issue
‑Protest of Kennedy statement
‑Benefits
‑Kennedy statement
‑Editorials

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  6m 47s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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President's desk
‑Damage

Haldeman and Colson left at 2:38 pm.

Conversation No. 521‑5

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  2:39 pm - 2:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin and Henry A. Kissinger.

Presentation of note
‑Soviet Union proposal for Five Powers Nuclear meeting
‑Soviet Union-US relations
‑Relation to Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
‑Scope of meeting
‑Preparations required
‑Ambassadorial level
‑Soviet Union and US leadership role
‑Technological supremacy
‑Consideration of proposal
‑Most successful methods of progress
-Kissinger and Dobrynin
‑Use of channels
‑Confidentiality
‑Dobrynin position

‑Substance compared with cosmetics of Five Powers Meeting
-The President=s position
‑Kissinger and Dobrynin discussions
‑Overall US-Soviet Union relations
‑Disarmament compared with arms limitation
‑Forthcoming Kissinger and Dobrynin discussions
-Level of discussions
‑Continuation of other discussions
‑Topics
‑Berlin
‑SALT
-The President=s view
‑Formal reply by the US
‑Soviet Union rhetoric
‑Soviet Union-US relations
‑Potential
‑Benefits to the world
‑Berlin and SALT progress
Perception of other nations
-Mutual and Balances Force Reduction [MBFR]
‑Other areas of discussion
‑Middle East
‑Europe
-MBFR
‑President's meeting with Willy Brandt
‑Middle East
‑Sensitivity of other powers
‑Fear of Soviet Union-US condominium
‑US compared with Soviet Union interests
‑Control of constituencies
‑Discussion desirability
‑Gains for Soviet Union and US

The President, Dobrynin, and Henry A. Kissinger left at 2:58 pm.

Conversation No. 521‑6

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:58 pm and 3:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

Unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:19 pm.

Conversation No. 521‑7

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  3:19 pm - 3:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President=s previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet Union proposed
-The President=s response
‑Linkage implication
‑Proposed conference
‑US, Soviet Union and Peoples Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Channel for negotiations
‑Soviet Union intentions
-The President=s assessment
‑Summit possibilities
‑Soviet domestic situation

Kissinger's schedule
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] meeting

William P. Rogers
-Presentation of note

Foreign policy
‑President's diplomatic efficacy
-Communists
‑Significance of rhetoric
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Milton S. Eisenhower [?]
-Discussions with Nikita S. Khrushchev
‑John Foster Dulles

‑Dobrynin
‑Dulles
‑Soviet Union-US relations
‑Announcement of PRC trip
‑Effect

President=s schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Arthur K. Watson

White House administration
‑President's press and staff problems
‑Kissinger=s previous meeting with John B. Connally
‑Connally=s access to information
-Foreign policy
‑Leaks
-Connally=s view
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Rogers
‑Kissinger statements
-Press coverage
-Connally=s view
-Poor treatment of President
-Examples
-Pentagon Papers

Connally
‑Role
-The Vice Presidency
‑Spiro T. Agnew

Pentagon Papers
-Effect on Vietnam War effort
-Medal of Honor winners
-Veterans
-The President=s view
-New York Times
‑Responsible parties
‑Punishment
‑Connally
‑Attack on Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Competency in government
‑Perception of public
‑John N. Mitchell action

‑New York Times
‑Access to White House personnel
‑Kissinger cancellation of editorial
‑Knowledge of implications
‑Use of leaked material
‑President's Vietnam War contingency plans
‑Kissinger=s memo's to the President
‑McGeorge Bundy
-Johnson
‑Circulation
-Kissinger
-Bundy
‑Past leaks compared to current ones
‑Kissinger=s view
‑Department of Defense [DOD] role
‑Department of State role

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:19 pm.

President=s schedule
‑Meeting with Watson and Col. Richard T. Kennedy

Kissinger=s schedule

Kissinger and Bull left at 3:31 pm.

Conversation No. 521‑8

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  3:32 pm - 3:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Arthur K. Watson and Col. Richard T. Kennedy.

Greetings

Drug action
‑Frank J. Shakespeare role
‑Frank Stanton

Watson=s schedule
‑Return to France

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  8s  ]

FRANCE

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Telegram from Watson
-Leak
-Distribution

Pentagon Papers
-New York Times
-The President=s view
-Effect of leaks
-Administration=s response

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration:  3m 9s  ]

ALGERIA

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‑Expropriation
‑Compensation
‑Instructions to African and Latin American desks
-US policy
‑US reaction to expropriation
-Henry A. Kissinger

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 57s  ]

ALGERIA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Other activities
‑The Ambassador's new residence
‑William A.M. Burden role
‑Nancy Watson
‑Funds
‑Wine cellar
‑President's appreciation

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration:  17s  ]

FRANCE

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Burden
-Greetings from the President

Presentation of gifts

President's foreign policy
‑Vietnam
-Watson=s previous trip
-Watson=s assessment
-Watson=s support for the President
‑Walter H. Annenberg views
‑Other ambassadors' views

Watson and Kennedy left at 3:44 pm.

Conversation No. 521‑9

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell and John D. Ehrlichman.

Greetings

Appropriations
‑John J. Rooney

Pentagon Papers
-New York Times story			
‑Necessity of action
-The President=s view
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
‑Conflict expectations
‑Attack on Presidency
‑Lyndon B. Johnson and Nixon
‑Leaks
‑Department of Defense [DOD]
‑Department of State
‑Morality involved
‑New York Times actions
-The President=s view
-Legality
‑Comfort to enemy
‑Punishment of Daniel Ellsberg
‑Use of Judicial or Congressional oath
‑Department of Justice action 
-McGovern-Hatfield decision
‑Convening of grand jury
‑Action against Times
‑Times action
‑Disclosure of sources
‑Contempt of court action
‑Focus of articles
‑Johnson administration
‑"Family quarrel"
-Ronald L. Zeigler
-Vietnam
-Bombing
-Department of Defense plans

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  14s  ]

DEFENSE

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‑Bombing of North Vietnam
‑Use of plans in decision making
-Johnson administration
-Role of staff
‑Liberals
‑Higher morality
‑Rule of law
‑Attacks on Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
‑Leonard Garment
‑Pragmatism
‑How decision for action was made
-Ehrlichman=s role
‑Mitchell role
‑Possible question=s for Ziegler
-The President
‑Reaction
-Access of Times to White House staff
‑Ziegler
‑Jack N. Anderson column leaks
‑Adm. Noel Gayler=s discussion with Mitchell
-National Security Agency [NSA]
‑Leaks to Anderson
‑Cooperation with Justice Department
‑Need for information
-Federal Bureau Investigation [FBI]
‑Clearance with Secretary of Defense
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Circumstances

‑DOD
‑Control of copies
‑Robert S. McNamara
‑Clark M. Clifford
‑Rand Corporation
‑Ellsberg
‑Brookings Institution
‑Leslie H. Gelb
‑Neil Sheehan
‑Political views
‑Contact with President
‑Kissinger contact with Times
‑Credibility of Times
‑Poll
‑Use of First Amendment to cover security breaches
‑Potter Stewart=s opinion
‑Mary [Surname unknown] case
‑Precedents

Cyclamates and drug cases
‑Legal status
‑Other related legal problems
-Legislation
‑Government role
‑Error on neglect
‑Swordfish claim
‑Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] list
‑Ehrlichman action on related cases
‑Cranberry case
‑Testing under court of claims procedure
‑Use of norms
‑Government action
‑Approval of cyclamate use
‑Effect
‑Stoppage of cyclamate use
-HEW
‑Amount of cyclamate ingested by mice
‑Origination of cyclamate complaint
‑Manufacturer role
‑Results
‑Effect of cyclamate complaint
‑California constituency
‑Congressional action

‑Gerald R. Ford calls to Mitchell
‑Language of bill
‑Court of claims procedure
‑Swordfish contamination
‑Government role
‑Department of Commerce 
‑Department of Treasury 
‑Compensation
‑Help for constituents
‑Prospects of legislation
‑Administration reaction
‑Letter to Judiciary committee
‑Vic Landing (?) role
‑Clark MacGregor role

Cranberry problem
‑Department of Agriculture
‑Federal money
‑Cranberry constituency
‑Department of Agriculture
‑Appearance in court of claims
‑Pursuant to current legislation

Pentagon Papers
-New York Times
‑Seriousness
‑Use of public statement
‑Secretary of Defense role
‑Classification problems
‑J. Fred Buzhardt role
‑Laird statement

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:45 pm.

Request to see Ronald Ziegler

Pentagon Papers
‑Effect on US policy

Bull left at unknown time before 4:09 pm.

‑Classification problems
‑Public statement
‑Laird and Mitchell contact

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:09 pm.

‑Court decision
‑Use of temporary injunction 
-Cease and desist order
‑Supreme Court judges
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy activities
‑Administration use of leaks
‑Upcoming book [The Vantage Point]
‑Authorship by Johnson
‑Kissinger=s role
‑Revisions
‑Content
‑Coverage of other administrations
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Statement regarding impact of story
-Ehrlichman=s view
-Laird=s role
-Rationale
‑Public perception
‑Federal District Court role
‑Buzhardt affidavit
‑Content
‑Damage to US policies
‑Impact of publication of classified material on troops
‑Impact on publication
‑William P. Rogers statement
‑Handling of material
‑Ziegler=s brief
‑Rogers statement
‑Concern of foreign governments

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration:  58s  ]

FRANCE

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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‑Public perception
‑Suppression of material
‑Press role
‑Press corps
‑President's handling of Alger Hiss case
‑Total disclosure
‑Perception of press corps
‑History of Vietnam involvement
‑Morning briefing
‑Effect of court order on press
‑Access of Times to White House staff
-The President=s instructions
‑Excuses
‑Scope of order
‑George P. Shultz
‑Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑Access to press pools
‑Addition of defendants
‑James B. (AScotty@) Reston
‑Thomas G. Wicker
‑Ziegler's briefing
‑Use of term "harassment"
‑George S. McGovern
‑Impact of non‑action
‑Benjamin C. Bradlee role
‑Dan Rather
‑McGovern-Hatfield amendment
‑Prospects

‑Statement of impact
‑Authorship
‑DOD
‑John A. Scali
‑Richard A. Moore
‑Content
‑Publication of classified material
‑Authorship
‑Buzhardt
‑President's contribution
‑Hiss case precedent
‑Aid to enemy
‑Intent
‑Credibility of DOD authorship
‑Department of Justice authorship
‑Impact on criminal case
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑White House involvement
‑Rogers possible statement
‑Benefits
‑Emphasis on foreign reaction
-Robert J. McCloskey
‑Scali
‑Public relations aspects of problem
‑Possible remarks by President in Rochester, New York
‑Naming of papers
‑Possibilities
‑Johnson
-John F. Kennedy
‑McNamara
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy role
-John F. Kennedy=s Vietnam policy
‑Ngo Dinm Diem revelations
‑Henry Cabot Lodge role
‑Transmission of story on wire
‑Timing
‑Timing of criminal action
‑Post‑McGovern-Hatfield
-Kissinger
‑Arrest of Ellsberg
‑Responsibility for leak
‑Ellsberg
‑Halperin

‑Gelb
‑Statement of impact
‑Rogers role
‑Benefits
‑Background
-Associated Press [AP]
-Department of Justice
‑President's schedule
‑Kenneth B. Keating meeting
‑Call to Rogers
‑Fighting press
‑Perception of administration secrecy

Mitchell et. al. left at 4:30 pm.

Conversation No. 521‑10

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:30 pm and 4:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Kenneth B. Keating meeting
‑Henry A. Kissinger meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:30 pm.

Pentagon Papers
-New York Times

The President and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

Conversation No. 521‑11

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:30 pm and 4:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

President's location

Unknown people left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

Conversation No. 521‑12

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  4:40 pm - 5:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:45 pm.

H.R. (ABob=) Haldeman entered at 4:45 pm.

President's schedule
‑Willy Brandt
‑Shortage of time
‑Charles H. Percy
‑John B. Connally
‑Meeting between Connally and Brandt

Brandt dinner
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑John A. Scali
-William J. Baroody
‑George Meany statement
‑Jay Lovestone

‑Eastman Kodak
‑Robert S. Oelman, National Cash Register official 
‑John M. Huntsman's friend
‑Dudley Swim
-Friendship with Huntsman
-Demeanor
-View of Ronald W. Reagan
‑Calls to Huntsman

Butterfield left at 4:47 pm.

Scheduling
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Charles Bluhdorn
‑Message to President from President of Dominican Republic
‑Content
‑Sugar quotas
‑President's role in meeting
-[Unintelligible name]
‑Effect of meeting with President
‑Kissinger
‑Time compared with money
‑Contact with John D. Ehrlichman

Pentagon Papers
‑Handling
‑John N. Mitchell
-Department of Defense [DOD]
‑President's meeting with Mitchell, Ehrlichman, and Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Necessity of leadership
‑John A. Scali role
‑Collection of ideas
‑Attorney General's role
‑Barry M. Goldwater role
‑Vice President=s role
‑Impact
‑Statement by President
‑Drawbacks
-Possible statements by Senators
‑Naming of papers
‑John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson papers 
-Compared with Robert S. McNamara papers
‑Administrations basic position

‑Protection of national security
‑Effect of publication on national security
‑William P. Rogers
‑Concern of foreign governments
‑Need for coordination of administration efforts
‑William L. Safire
‑Raymond K.  Price, Jr.
‑Public relations nature of problem
‑Involvement by staff
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Scali
‑Richard A. Moore
‑Safire
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Political involvement
‑Public relations
‑"Family quarrel" nature of problem
‑Protection of US security
‑Impact of administrations action against New York Times
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
‑Access of Times to press pools
‑Ziegler=s role
‑Access of Times to airplane pools
‑Question and answers session by President
‑Haldeman=s previous conversation with Kissinger
‑Impact on Justice Department action
‑Mitchell
‑Formulation of reason for avoiding comment
‑Intent of briefing
‑Domestic policy
‑Drugs
-Revenue sharing
-Reorganization
-Criminal proceedings
‑Effect of publication on President
‑Perception of people
‑Rogers' statement
‑President's role in period covered by papers
‑Ziegler
‑Colson
‑Emphasis on originating administrations
‑Kennedy-Johnson papers

‑Administration use of secrecy
‑Ehrlichman
‑Polls
‑Need for statement by President

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 53s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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Administration policies
‑Economic problems
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Inflation
‑Scope
‑Connally and George P. Shultz
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Consistency
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑War issue
-Negotiations

Pentagon Papers
‑Impact of Times stories
‑Kennedy-Johnson papers
‑Nature of original studies
‑Extent of reading by public
‑Perception by public
‑Security breech
‑Consequences
‑Press interests compared to public interest
‑Need for Congressional speeches
‑Reasons for publication
‑Safire
‑Ultimate effect of publication

‑Area effect
-Pearl Harbor
‑Adm. Ellis M. Zacharias indictment of Franklin D. Roosevelt
-US News and World Report
‑Long term effect
‑Possibility of successful legal action
‑Administration role
‑Development of new policy
‑Administration responsibilities

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Ambassador Kenneth B. Keating
‑Keating's competence
‑Age factor
‑Future plans
‑Age
‑Ellsworth F. Bunker
‑David K.E. Bruce
‑Other meetings
‑Level of visitors
‑Martin Joseph Hillenbrand
‑[David] Kenneth Rush

Benefits of adversary relations
‑New York Times story

Pentagon Papers story
‑Johnson role in fight
‑Enlistment of other spokesman
‑Dean G. Acheson
‑Dean Rusk
‑McNamara
‑Kissinger role
‑Mobilization of "establishment" spokesmen
-Rogers press conference
‑Leaks
‑Drawbacks
‑Effect on foreign policy

President's schedule
‑Press conference
‑Rochester, New York
‑News-making potential

‑Upcoming speech
-American Medical Association [AMA] meeting
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Press conference
‑Letters regarding conference
‑Timing of conference
‑Rationale
‑Timing
‑Price

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:47 pm.

Schedule
‑Kissinger and Keating

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:13 pm.

President's schedule
‑Press conference
‑Timing
‑Audience reception
‑Exposure
‑Johnson
‑Rose Mary Woods
‑Audience reception
‑Trade‑offs
‑Content effect
‑National Security Council [NSC] meeting
‑Kissinger request
‑Changing in time
‑Question and answer

Haldeman left at 5:13 pm.

Conversation No. 521‑13

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  5:13 pm - 6:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Kenneth Keating and Henry A. Kissinger; White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  23s  ]

INDIA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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India-US relations
‑Background of situation
‑Meeting with Foreign Minister

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:13 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:41 pm.

Indian and US relations
-Status
‑Indira Gandhi election
‑Size of victory
‑Effect on opposition
‑Effect on relations

-Stability
‑Union Carbide and Remington Rand licence approval
‑Rationale
‑Employment
‑Export
‑Keating=s call on Minister of Industrial Development
‑M.H. Chaudhury

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[National Security]
[Duration:  4s  ]

INDIA

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-Keating=s view
‑Views of new Minister
‑Indian resources
‑Public and private sectors
‑Foreign investment
‑Keating contact with Mrs. Gandhi
‑Cordiality
‑Rationale
‑Mahalia Jackson concert
‑Keating cables to Department of State
‑Keating assessment of situation
‑Timing of Cables
‑East Pakistan
‑Keating assessment
‑Indian and Pakistan stability
‑Aid

-Keating=s recommendation
‑Staff contribution
‑President's meeting with Foreign Minister
‑Possible topics

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[National Security]
[Duration:  52s  ]

INDIA-PAKISTAN

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‑Aid
-Keating=s conversations
‑Etxent
-Amount
‑Increases
‑C‑130 aircraft
‑Refugee problem
‑Need to shift them back to Pakistan
‑Effect on India
‑Number
‑Calcutta's Plight
‑Continued flight into India
-Pakistan
-Hindus
‑Impact on population
‑Genocide
‑Extent
‑Outlawing of Awami League
-East Pakistan
‑Political settlement in East Pakistan
‑Effect of Refugees
-Hindus and Muslims

‑Goals
‑Peace
‑Reversal of Refugee Flow

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[National Security]
[Duration:  26s  ]

PAKISTAN

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‑International Monetary Fund [IMF] action
‑Peter Cardell (?) role
‑Paris meeting
‑Possibility of political settlement
‑Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
‑Keating=s view
-Yahya=s role
-[Unintelligible] role
‑Awami League role
‑Keating and Joseph S. Farland (?)
‑Changes in Pakistan
‑President's relationship with Yahya
-Timing
-Topics
‑Use of aid to help resolve crisis
‑Use of aid
-Rationale
‑John B. Connally
-Amounts
‑Pakistan reaction

Invitation of Keating to Willy Brandt dinner
‑Keating schedule
‑John Sherman Cooper party
‑Timing

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:30 pm.

‑Place for Keating at dinner
-Timing

Butterfield left at 5:31 pm.

‑Attire
‑Attendance
‑Government officials
‑Brandt
‑Businessmen
‑Eastman Kodak president
‑Bill Long [?]
‑Louis Kenneth Eilers
‑Thomas Gates Jr.
‑Dow Chemical Chairman [Carl A. Gerstacker]
-Companies
‑Monumental Properties  [Joseph Meyerhoff]
‑National Cash Register [Robert S. Oelman]
‑National Airlines chairman [Dudley Swim]
‑Dell E. Webb
‑Kodak
‑Eilers
‑Hierarchy
Indian-US relations
‑The President=s scheduled meeting with Swaran Singh [Indian Foreign Minister]
‑Kissinger
‑Indian population problems
‑Role of democracy
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-The President=s policies
-Indian criticism of US
‑US policy
‑Role of stability
-Kashmir
‑Collapse of Pakistan
‑US strategy

-Support for India
‑Yahya Khan
‑Congress
‑Popularity of foreign aid
‑Feeling for India and Pakistan War
‑Involvement in Biafra [Nigerian Civil War]
‑US strategy
‑Rationale
-Forthcoming meeting with Indian foreign minister
-US policy
-Refugees
‑Method of accomplishment
‑Avoidance of internal involvement
‑Avoidance of armed conflict
‑Pressure on Indira Gandhi
-Indian Congress
‑Refugee problem
-Danger
‑The President=s forthcoming meeting with India foreign minister
‑Refugee Problem

Presidential gifts

Political situation
‑Media attacks on President
-New York Times
-Washington Post
‑Public opinion
-War deaths in Asia
-War deaths in Europe
‑Role of press
‑Effect of escalation on President's reelection
-Quest for more foreign aid
‑Yahya=s role

Keating left at 5:41 pm.

India-US relations
‑Kissinger=s schedule
‑[David] Kenneth Rush
‑Aid to India and Pakistan
-Farland
‑Situation in Dacca [East Pakistan]

‑Counsel General's Rebellion
‑Kissinger=s talk with Indian ambassador
‑Lakshmi Kant Jha
‑Contact of President and Ghandi through Indian ambassador
-US aid
‑Keating
‑Need for time for US to act
‑President's meeting with foreign minister
‑Contact with Keating
‑US position
‑Sympathy
‑Delivery of aid	
-Pakistan
‑Keating contact with State Department

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 6s  ]

PAKISTAN

FRANCE

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Pentagon Papers
‑John N. Mitchell action
-Suite of New York Times
‑Public right to know
-Possible Congressional action
‑New York Times responsibilities
‑William P. Rogers point in briefing
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Concern of foreign nations
‑Need to fight, New York Times
‑Naming of Pentagon Papers

‑Robert S. McNamara and Clark M. Clifford
‑John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson papers
‑McNamara
‑McNamara reaction to leaks
‑Need to react
‑Effect of McNamara role as World Bank President
‑Dean G. Acheson comment
‑Confusion of issue
‑Public's right to know
‑President's role in fight
‑Possible Rogers statement
‑Effect on communications with foreign governments
-Effect on President=s relationship with State and Department of Defense [DOD]
‑Legal status of publication
‑Temporary restraining order
‑Effect
‑New York Times reputation
‑Public right to know
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt
‑Pearl Harbor information
‑Declassification
‑Procedures to declassify
‑Permission required
‑McGeorge Bundy
‑Johnson
‑Effect of selective declassification
‑Contingency planning
‑Kissinger=s circulation of memoranda
‑Leak possibilities
‑President's role in controlling classified material
‑Opening up of official papers
-Possible Presidential library
‑President's Vice President papers
‑Press
‑Lord Kennan (?) party
‑Guest list
‑Press personalities
‑Violation of security
‑British compared with US press
‑New York Times view of publication
‑Focus of New York Times attack
‑New York Times view of publication
-Presidential responsibility

-Johnson
‑Moral compared with immoral war
‑Public right to know
‑Retaliation by President on New York Times
‑Access to White House functions
‑Swedish Prime Minister=s comment
‑Olaf Palme
-Kissinger=s conversation with Rogers
‑US-Vietnam strategy
‑Rogers
‑Recall of ambassador

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration:  22s  ]

SWEDEN

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‑Conspiracy theory
‑Leaking of papers
‑Leslie H. Gelb role
‑Rand Corporation role
‑Neil Sheehan
‑Coincidence of events
‑Clark M. Clifford statements
‑New York Times story
‑Veterans

Vietnam War
‑Congressional resolutions
‑Marlow W. Cook and Ted Stevens
‑Clark McGregor

‑Provisions
-Release of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US withdrawal
Kissinger=s assessment

State dinner
‑President's meeting with Brandt
‑Kissinger attendance
‑Rational
‑Contact with Brandt
‑Contact with Egon Bahr
‑Meeting for the Record
‑Rush, Egon Bahr, Kissinger meeting
‑Thursday breakfast

International relations
‑US-PRC contacts
‑US-Soviet Union contacts
‑Effect of New York Times story
‑Image of President's domestic strength
‑Cambodia
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
‑North Vietnam relations
-Possible summit with Soviet Union
‑Effect of US-Soviet Union and US-PRC contacts
‑President's meeting with Congressmen and Senators
‑President's initiatives
‑Berlin agreement
‑Benefits
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks  [SALT]
‑US-PRC contacts
‑Effect on Soviet Union 
‑Rationale for Meeting with Antoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Rogers role
‑SALT

New York Times story
‑Effect on intellectual establishment
‑Cooks-Stevens legislation
‑Calls to President
‑Joseph McCarthy analogy

Scheduling
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Kissinger=s schedule
‑President's schedule
‑Tempo of events
-The President schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Florida
-Kissinger

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[National Security]
[Duration:  56s  ]

PRC

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Message to Rush
‑Personnel

The President and Henry A. Kissinger left at 6:03 pm.

Conversation No. 521-14

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:03 pm and 10:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people talked.

[Unintelligible]

[End of conversation]

Conversation No. 521-15

Date: June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:03 pm and 10:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 10:06 pm.

Conversation No. 521-16

Date:  June 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:03 pm and 10:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 10:06 pm.