Conversation No. 523‑1

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:15 pm and 2:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:58 pm.

Conversation No. 523‑2

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  2:58 pm - 3:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins tribute
‑Attendance

Ziegler left and Rose Mary Woods entered at 2:59 pm.

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:59 pm.

Schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger

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Kissinger entered at 3:02 pm.

Bull and Woods left at 3:03 pm.

Pentagon Papers
-Kissinger call from Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
‑Califano's support for President over Pentagon Papers
‑Concern over precedent
‑Focus on real issue
‑Support for Lyndon B. Johnson's policies

‑John K. Kennedy's policy on Vietnam
‑Commitment of troops
-Number of troops
‑Use in Rochester speech

Upcoming meeting with Indian Foreign Minister (Swaran Singh)
‑Sympathy
‑Firmness
‑Report to Indira Gandhi

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INDIA AND PAKISTAN

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‑Refugee support for India
-The President=s comments
‑Joseph J. Sisco knowledge
‑Source of recommendation
-Amount of funds
‑Source of money
‑Pakistan
‑Indonesia
‑Turkey
‑Repayments
‑Credit for aid

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INDIA AND PAKISTAN

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‑Kenneth B. Keating efforts
‑Media attention

Pandering to left wing press
‑Willy Brandt toast
‑Vietnam reference
‑Reference by "other German" to US Vietnam policy
‑Brandt
‑Comparison with other German leaders

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:03 pm.

Schedule
‑Length of upcoming meeting
‑Other appointments

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INDIA/PAKISTAN

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Bull left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm.

Swaran Singh, Lakshmi Kant Jha, Kenneth B. Keating, and Joseph J. Sisco entered at 3:08 pm the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Quality of Singh's trip

Greeting from Mrs. Gandhi

Gandhi's recent political victory
‑Stability of government
‑Effects of election on government
‑Keating reports
‑Opportunities
‑Economic programs

US-India relations
‑Current situation in India
‑Refugee problems

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:08 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:41 pm.

US-India relations
‑Economic needs of India
‑Refugee problems
‑Socio-economic tension
-Refugees
-Indian concerns
-Problems
-Possible political settlement
-Negotiations
‑Indian objectives in subcontinent
‑Mrs. Gandhi
‑Bangladesh (East Pakistan)
‑Chances of Independence
-Historical background
-Resolution of conflict
‑India's interests
‑Position of neutrality
‑Indian Ambassador to US
‑Skill
‑Effect on US
‑Role of Keating
‑Contact with President
-Keating=s concern
‑President's awareness of problem
‑Poverty
‑Instability
‑India's concerns
‑Population problems

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INDIA AND PAKISTAN

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-US course of action
‑Financial assistance for India
‑US problems
‑Legal problems
‑Other needs
‑US commitment
‑Supplemental money
‑Long range money
-Return of refugees
‑Seriousness of problem
‑Keating role
‑Indian Ambassador's role
‑Need for effective US action
‑US involvement in "internal" problems
‑Methods of diplomacy
‑Reduction of rhetoric
‑Financial assistance
‑Practical US action
-Appreciation of US support
‑Immediacy of problem
‑International responsibilities
‑Use of financial assistance
‑Effect of "buying" a solution
‑Return to "old" problem

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:08 pm.

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:41 pm.

US-India relations
‑Bangladesh
-Refugees

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
-INDIA-PAKISTAN

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US-India relations
-President=s previous visits to Delhi
‑Problem solving in India
‑Drought possibility
‑Keating reportage
‑Past droughts
‑Secretary of Agriculture Comments
‑Effect of rain

Political Stability

Singh, et al. left at 3:41 pm.

Conversation No. 523‑3

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:41 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Return of Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:43 pm.

Conversation No. 523‑4

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:41 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:43 pm.

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:43 pm.

President's previous of meeting with Indian Foreign Minister

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INDIA

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‑Financial assistance
‑Embassy recommendations
‑Timing
‑French and German aid
‑Willy Brandt comments
‑Soviet Union contribution
‑Criteria for aid
‑Money compared with statements

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INDIA

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‑Left wing conspiracy
‑Greece
‑Pakistan
‑Scope
‑Russia and Czechoslovakia
‑Effect

Nixon image among international leaders

Willy Brandt
‑Concern with India-Pakistan problem
‑Brandt remarks on US role
-Hypothetical statements by the President
‑Mexico
‑Nicaragua
‑Poland
‑Czechoslovakia
-Inappropriateness
‑Kissinger=s meeting with Egon Bahr
‑Registration of complaints
‑Bahr reaction
‑Contact with opposition political figures
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Left wingers
‑Socialists
-D. Kenneth Rush

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:43 pm.

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Charles Bluhdorn

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:51 pm.

Brandt
-Rush=s view
‑Role in social Democratic Party
‑Christian Democratic Party status
‑Berlin agreement
‑Effect on Brandt political prospects
‑Nature of agreement
‑US interests

Financial arrangement to help India
‑Question put by President to Indian Foreign Minister
‑Aid from Germany and France
‑Joseph J. Sisco comment
‑Worldwide perception of US

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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German politics
‑1969 Election
-Free Democrats

Diplomatic meetings
‑Kenneth B. Keating
Joseph J. Sisco

Charles Bluhdorn, John D. Ehrlichman, Peter G. Peterson and Bull entered and Kissinger left at 3:51 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Bull left at an unknown time after 3:51 pm.

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Peterson and Bluhdorn introduction

Joaquin Balaguer letter
-Receipt by Bluhdorn
‑Translation
‑Request for delivery to President

Dominican Republic
‑Gulf and western interest
‑Sugar company acquisition
‑Dominican Republic turmoil in early period
‑Cuba involvement
‑Fidel Castro
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
-Losses
‑Changes in Dominican operations
‑Progress
‑Bluhdorn meeting with Balaguer
‑Defense of free enterprise system
‑Balaguer
‑Castro
‑John Yanyelli [?] visit to Dominican Republic

‑Transformation of Dominican Republic
‑Cigar Output
‑Compared to Cuba
‑Soviet Union
-Gulf and Western involvements
‑Cigar manufacturing
‑Automotive parts plant
‑General Motors [GM] role
‑Ford role
‑Henry Ford II
‑Hotel construction
‑Railroads
‑Airport
‑Automotive line
‑James M. Roche
‑Ford
‑Yanyelli [?]
‑Balaguer support for US and Nixon
‑Comparison with support of Castro for Leonid I. Brezhnev

Latin America
‑Chile
‑Peru
‑Bolivia
-Gulf and Western concerns
‑Sugar situation
-Expropriation
‑Expropriation act
‑Compensation
‑US competition with Germany and Japan
‑Japanese government and industry cooperation
‑Richard W. McLaren
‑Dominican Republic
‑Effect of drop in US competitiveness
‑Dominican Republic situation
‑Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Julius L. Katz
‑Comments to House of Representatives
‑Retaliation against expropriation 
‑Neville Chamberlain
‑Katz
‑Need for respect for US abroad
‑Destruction of Monroe Doctrine
‑Soviet Union

‑Subversive elements
‑Reason for Balaguer letter
‑Sugar quotas
‑Latin America countries
‑African quotas
‑Possible effect
‑Pride in America
‑Bluhdorn Harvard speech
‑Pete Williams
‑Logic of retaliation
‑US achievement in Caribbean
‑Fidel Castro
‑Bluhdorn travels in Ukraine
‑Bluhdorn talk with Soviet Union Generals
‑Johnson
‑Aleksei N. Kosygin comments
‑Czechoslovakia
‑Poverty in Ukraine
‑Motion picture production
‑Sergei Bondarchuk, Director of Film
‑Background
‑Situation in Ukraine
‑Achievements in Dominican Republic

Expropriations
‑Expropriation Bill in House of Representatives
‑Punishment of friends
‑Peru expropriation actions
‑Need for US competitiveness
-Opening of Japanese markets
-Business perspective
‑Balaguer
‑Effect of bill on other countries
‑Nature of House's action
‑Katz
‑Response to State Department pressure
-President=s recommendations
-Foreign lobbyists actions

Sugar
‑Reduction of sugar quotas
‑Sugar cuts on other countries
‑Effect on domestic manufacturers

‑Questionable increases
-Administration view

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:51 pm.

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:28 pm.

Sugar
-Reduction of quotas
-Mexico
-Brazil
-President=s view
-Support for the Dominican Republic
-State Department=s view
-Position towards other countries
-Peru
-Bolivia
-Chile
-Mexico
-Brazil
-African countries
-Sugar lobby
-Effect
-Brazil and the Dominican Republic
-State Department position
-The President=s view
-Treatment of expropriating countries
-Peru
-Bolivia
-Chile
-African countries= role
-Sugar production
-Problems
-European concern
-David D. Newsom

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AFRICA

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‑Expropriation and relationship to Export‑Import Bank loans
‑Senate and House efforts
‑Executive leverage
-Effect of lobbyists
‑"Handling" of State Department
‑Appreciation of President's help
‑State Department compared with Congress
‑Expropriation problems
‑John B. Connally
-Peterson and Connally efforts
‑Other countries and expropriation
‑Compensation problem
‑Effect on investment
‑Connally
‑Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries [OPEC] and US liability
‑Message from President to Dominican Republic President Balaguer
‑US position
‑Congressional activities

Peterson left at 4:28 pm.

Presentation of gifts
‑Cuff links
‑Gifts for wife
‑Wedding of Edward R.F. Cox and Tricia Nixon Cox

Bluhdorn and John D. Ehrlichman left at 4:29 pm.

Conversation No. 523‑8

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  4:29 pm - 4:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President=s schedule

The President and Alexander P. Butterfield left before 4:30 pm.

Item for President

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 4:30 pm.

Conversation No. 523‑5

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield, John M. O'Neill, Melville Stephens and Charles W. Colson met.

The President entered at an unknown time after 4:30 pm.

Introductions
‑Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
‑John F. Kerry

Attendance at meeting
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Stephen B. Bull and Butterfield left at 4:31 pm.

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:31 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

Vietnam
‑Polls on peace terms
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Characteristics of Americans
‑Nature of war in Vietnam
‑Media created attitudes
‑Condition of soldiers
‑Morality of government
‑Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy
‑Fashionable attitudes
‑Result of war's end
‑Reasons for criticism
‑Result of support for administration
‑US record in Vietnam
‑Presentation of Medals of Honor
‑Background
‑Treatment on talk shows
‑Dick Cavett
‑Scope of service
‑Kerry
‑Military
‑O'Neill=s educational background
‑US Naval Academy, Annapolis
‑Time frame
-Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace
-Membership
‑Reasons for criticism
‑"War crimes" talk
‑Possibility of negotiated settlement
‑Prospects
‑Reasons
‑Congressional role
‑Effect on talk prospects
‑Anti‑war votes
‑David K.E. Bruce
‑Confidence of American people
‑O=Neill=s appraisal of President's standing
‑O'Neill's family
‑Background
‑Role of the President
‑Constraints
‑Critics of President
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy

‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑George S. McGovern
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Constraints
‑Nixon=s criticism of earlier policy
‑Use of air power
‑Overall implication of Vietnam
‑Effect on superpower relations
-US and Europe
‑US and Soviet Union
‑US and Peoples Republic of China [PRC]
‑US prestige
‑O'Neill schedule
‑Speech to anti‑war rally
‑Kerry
‑Effect
‑Passage of resolution
‑Margin
‑Public mood
‑Need for truth
‑Washington news
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
‑Lack of consistency
-Need for balance
‑Reception for O'Neill speech
‑Mayors of major cities
‑Results of ending war
‑Increase in funds for cities
‑Geopolitics
‑Kerry
‑Facing of problem
‑Regarding problem solving
‑Geopolitical problems
‑Problems of cities
‑Looking inward
‑Effect
‑Spokesmen for America
-President=s appreciation for O=Neill=s efforts
‑Media
‑Eastern establishment
‑Yale
‑Kingman Brewster, Jr.
‑Kissinger analysis of political climate

‑Neville Chamberlain and Munich Agreement
‑Public perception of Chamberlain
‑Reflection in polls
-Change
‑Replacement by Winston S. Churchill
‑Presidential leadership
‑Necessity
‑Polls
‑Cambodia
‑Comparison with Laos
‑Rationale
‑Press reaction
‑Military results
‑Casualty comparisons
‑Rationale
‑Presence in Cambodia
-O=Neill=s experiences
‑Impressions at the time
‑Military rationale
‑Effect on North Vietnamese
‑Scope of operations
‑Bombing
‑Background
‑Effect
‑Attacks on Haiphong
‑Attacks on dikes
‑Effect
‑POW's
‑O'Neil recollections
‑Object of attack
‑Enemy jungle "Pentagon"
‑Objective
‑Use of "Pentagon" term in briefing
‑Supply caches
‑Casualty reduction
‑Laos operation
‑Results of US actions
‑Deterrence of North Vietnamese offensive

Kissinger entered at 4:58 pm.

Introductions

Vietnam
-O=Neill=s efforts
-Appearance on the ADick Cavett Show@
-Psychological analysis
-Kerry
-Audience response
-Editing from tape
-O=Neill=s comments
-O=Neill=s demeanor
‑Survival of America
-Kissinger=s view
‑Need for truth
‑National reaction
‑O'Neill
‑Travels around US
‑Popular opinion
‑Exit from Vietnam
‑Demonstrators
‑Kerry
‑US history
‑Last election
‑Vietnamization
-Vietnam veterans
‑Class reactions

Pentagon Papers
-New York Times
‑Perception of average man
‑Necessity of confidentiality
‑Effect on foreign affairs
‑Necessity of prosecution
‑Impact on government

President's appreciation of O'Neill=s efforts
‑Morality of critics
‑[Unintelligible names]
‑New York City
‑Future
‑Attitude

President's handling of press conferences
‑Use of laughter

Presentation of gifts
‑Cuff links
‑Tie bar
‑Golf ball

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 5:10 pm]

[Conversation No. 523‑5A]

[See Conversation No. 5‑93]

Expressions of appreciation

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 4:30 pm.

Request for copy of Whitaker Chambers's book Witness

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

Call from Egon Bahr to Kissinger
‑Nature of relations

[Rose Mary Woods talked with the President at 5:10 pm]

[Conversation No. 523‑5B]

[See Conversation No. 5‑94]

Alger Hiss case
-Chambers's testimony
‑Hiss/Chambers friendship
‑Effect on "duty"
‑Hiss communist affiliation
‑Application to O'Neill efforts
‑North Vietnamese
‑Domestic critics
‑Support for war
‑Need for maximum effort
-@Play to win@ attitude
‑Pandering to the crowd
‑Eastern establishment
‑Media

‑Media composition
‑Education
‑Morality

O'Neill, Stephen, and Colson left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

West German and US relations
‑German comments to press
-Willy Brandt
‑US role in German defense
‑Berlin
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield Amendment
‑Muskie
‑Humphrey
‑Margin of Kurt Kiesinger loss in German election

O'Neill meeting
‑John F. Kerry
‑O'Neill age
‑O'Neill qualifications

Mood of nation
‑End of war
‑Strength of US

Kissinger left at 5:15 pm.

Conversation No. 523‑6

Date:  June 16, 1971
Time:  5:16 pm - 6:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Drug policy
‑TV message
‑Timing
‑Radio message
‑Ronald L. Ziegler

‑Content
‑Focus on President's action
‑Need for drug message
‑Format
‑Ziegler's role

Pentagon Papers
-Patrick J. Buchanan

[The President talked to an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:16 pm and 5:23 pm]

[Conversation No. 523‑6A]

‑Request for Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

Pentagon Papers
-New York Times
‑Buchanan statement
-Domestic Council
‑Presidential statement
‑Henry A. Kissinger's role
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Conversation with Egon Bahr

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:16 pm and 5:23 pm]

[Conversation No. 523‑6B]

Status of Kissinger and John D. Ehrlichman statement

[End of telephone conversation]

Charles Bluhdorn
-Meeting with President
‑Ehrlichman
‑Need for meeting
‑Bluhdorn objective
‑Dominican Republic sugar quota
‑Campaign contributions
‑President's role
‑Basis

Anti‑war votes in Congress
‑George S. McGovern-Mark O. Hatfield Amendment
‑Terms
‑McGovern and Hatfield strategy
‑Results
-Vote
‑Preliminary

Ziegler entered at 5:23 pm.

‑Final vote from William E. Timmons
‑Vote breakdown

Pentagon Papers
-Statement
‑Possibilities
‑Necessity
‑Relation to McGovern-Hatfield Amendment
‑Press release
‑Content
‑Wind down of war
‑Alexander P. Butterfield

Drug speech
‑Expectations
‑Format
‑Content
‑Timing

Kissinger entered at 5:24 pm.

Outcome of McGovern-Hatfield Amendment

Pentagon Papers
‑Necessity of statement
‑Press reaction
‑Henry Brandon call to Kissinger
‑Press reaction to handling of classified data
‑Stewart J.O. Alsop story in Newsweek
-Cuban missile crisis
‑Use of Cabinet Room quote
‑New York Times reaction
‑President's use of quote

‑Timing
‑Effectiveness
‑Alsop=s reaction
‑Buchanan statement
‑John F. Kennedy material publication
‑Administration leak
‑Alexander M. Haig Jr.
‑Rowland Evans column
‑Brandon
‑Alsop
‑James B. (AScotty@) Reston responsibility

Kissinger meeting with Bahr
‑Willy Brandt Remarks
‑Perception
‑Vietnam
‑Pakistan
‑Comparison to Mexican President's remarks
‑Background

Kissinger left at 5:30 pm.

Pentagon Papers
‑Statement by President
-Ziegler=s view

Drug statement
‑Television appearance
‑Background
-Domestic Council
‑Supporters for statement
‑Content of statement
‑Timing

Larry Higby entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

Schedule

Higby left at an unknown time before 5:46 pm.

Drug Statement
‑Television appearance
‑Radio message

‑Location of delivery
‑Energy message
‑Content
‑Personal statement
‑Format
‑Length
‑Content
‑President's role
‑Appointment
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
‑Office increase
‑Spending
‑Enforcement
‑Rehabilitation
‑Buchanan effort
‑Content

Pentagon Papers
‑Statement by President
‑Assessment of evening news
‑Roger E. Johnson
‑Charles W. Colson's office
‑William P. Rogers= statement
‑Robert C. Mardian
-Rogers
‑Ehrlichman and Attorney General preparation
‑Statement by President
‑Content
‑President's statement
‑Format
‑Timing
‑Benefits of delay
‑Congress
‑Effectiveness of attack
‑Lyndon B. Johnson's supporters
‑Kissinger's role
‑Call from Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
‑Clark M. Clifford statement
‑William H. Sullivan
‑Mood of public
‑Mishandling of classified data
‑Publication of verbatim text
‑June 16 story in New York Times

-El Paso gas
‑Algeria problem
‑Peter G. Peterson order from President
-African desk at Department of State
‑The French
‑Publication of verbatim text
‑Story of breaking Japanese code
‑Chicago Sun Times publication
‑Precedent
‑Robert T. Mardian
‑Pearl Harbor precedent
‑Department of Defense [DOD]
‑Jewish reporters
‑Feeling for Franklin D. Roosevelt
‑Times
‑Necessity for action
‑Mardian

Ziegler left at 5:46 pm.

Terry McGinnity
-Forthcoming visit to Washington

Pentagon Papers
-Administration action

West Point news story
-Move of former office to Sweden
‑Background

President=s meeting with John M. O'Neill and Melville Stephens
‑Age of participants
‑O'Neill background
‑Naval Academy
‑Colson role
‑Qualifications

Agricultural problems
‑Drought
‑Programs

Domestic Council
‑Drugs

Pentagon Papers
‑Ehrlichman efforts
‑Need for coordination
‑Staff competence
-Institutional framework
‑Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz focus
‑Issue importance
‑Florida barge canal
‑Ehrlichman's role

President's schedule
‑Shultz
‑Congressional leaders meeting, June 17
‑Timing
‑Bipartisan nature
-Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie

Domestic issues
-Environment
-Health
-Poll results
-Health as an issue
-Other issues
-Vietnam
-Economics
-Drug addiction
-Race relations
-Crime and lawlessness
-International problems
-Youth protest and unrest
-Poverty and welfare
-Methodology
-Other issues
-Pollution and ecology
-Religion and moral delay
-Education

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 5:46 pm.

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Rose Mary Woods left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm.

Drug statement
‑Length
‑Content
‑Suggestions
‑Necessity of statement
‑Content
‑Penalties to drug producers
‑Death penalty
-Suspension of aid to producing countries
‑Emphasis on enforcement
‑Need for emphasis on treatment and rehabilitation
‑Jaffe=s role
‑Recent statements
‑Ties to future statements
‑American Medical Association [AMA] speech
‑AMA speech
‑Preparation
‑President's schedule
‑Length
‑Noel C. Koch material
‑Education emphasis
‑Challenge to AMA
‑Blue ribbon panel
‑Contact with Jaffe

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:46 pm.

Item for President

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm.

AMA speech
‑Health comments versus drug comments
‑Other comments by President
-Jaycees
‑Youth communication and education
‑Role of doctors
-Education

President's schedule
‑Visit to small farm town
‑Junior Historical Society (?)

The President and Haldeman left at 6:05 pm.

Conversation No. 523‑7

Date:  Unknown between June 16 and June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:05 pm, June 16 and 7:55 am, June 17, 1971
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met at an unknown time after 6:05 pm.

[Unintelligible]

Unknown people left at an unknown time before 7:55 am on June 17, 1971.