Conversation No. 524‑1

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  7:55 am - 8:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s schedule
‑Rochester trip
‑Florida trip
‑George P. Shultz
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Meeting with unknown Prime Minister

Pentagon Papers
‑Administration response
‑Ehrlichman
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
‑William P. Rogers= statement
‑Involvement of Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy administrations
‑Ziegler
‑Declassification of Korean War and World War II documents
-Department of Defense
-Department of State
‑Role of classification
‑Relations with governments, sources, advisers
‑Administration involvement
‑Coverage by House speakers
‑Emphasis
‑Nixon administration non-involvement
‑Involvement of four Democratic Presidents
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt
‑Harry S. Truman
‑Johnson
‑Kennedy
‑Appearance of administration cover-up

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 7:55 am.

Bipartisan House of Representatives and Senate meeting with President
‑John C. Stennis, Vance Hartke and two unidentified Congressman

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:06 am.

Pentagon Papers
‑Hubert H. Humphrey position
‑Effect on President's election prospects
‑Press
‑Coverup
‑Impact on country
‑Effect on New York Times
‑Administration involvement
-Involvement of the Presidency
‑Other involvement
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller statement
‑Effect
‑Ehrlichman
‑John N. Mitchell
-Action regarding grand jury
‑Delays
‑Need for bold action
‑Alger Hiss case
‑Need to fight Times
‑Issues involved
-Security
-Other thoughts

Schedule
‑Rose Mary Woods

The President and Haldeman left at 8:06 am.

Conversation No. 524‑2

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:06 am and 9:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield and Manolo Sanchez met.

President's schedule
-Morning meetings

Butterfield and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:48 am.

Conversation No. 524-29

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:06 am and 9:48 am
Location:  Oval Office 

Manolo Sanchez, Alexander P. Butterfield, and unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

Sanchez, Butterfield, and the unknown people left at an unknown time before 9:48 am.

Conversation No. 524‑3

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:06 am and 9:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with an unknown woman.

President's location

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 9:48 am.

Conversation No. 524‑4

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:48 am and 9:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President=s schedule
-Drug message

[Signing documents]

Butterfield left at 9:51 am.

Conversation No. 524‑5

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:51 am and 9:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

Request for Dwight L. Chapin
-Location

The unknown woman left at 9:51 am.

Conversation No. 524‑6

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  9:52 am - 9:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Dwight L. Chapin.

President's schedule
‑Stephen B. Bull's role
‑Lucy A. Winchester
-Henry A. Kissinger
‑Barber
‑Other meetings
‑Gift selection for Winchester
‑Wedding of Edward R.F. and Tricia Nixon Cox
‑Polls
‑Gallup poll
‑Timing
‑Related to President's Oklahoma trip
‑Administration's phone polls
‑Other polls
‑July poll
‑Release of results

Chapin left at 9:55 am.

Conversation No. 524‑7

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:55 am and 9:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  2s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:58 am.

Conversation No. 524‑8

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  9:58 am - 10:34 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting
‑Tactics
‑Attendance
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield

Schedule
‑Upcoming press conference
‑Cabinet meeting

Pentagon Papers
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Coordination of administration response
‑Need to consolidate legal actions
‑John A. Scali
‑Richard A. Moore
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Lack of master strategy
‑Ehrlichman, Henry A. Kissinger and Haldeman meeting
‑Consolidation of efforts
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
-Administration response
‑William P. Rogers statement
‑Herbert G. Klein activity
‑Implications of security breaches
‑Assault on government
‑McGovern-Hatfield Amendment
‑Administration response
‑Maxwell Taylor appearance on news program
‑Marvin L. Kalb question
‑Distortion problem
‑Release of classified material on Korea and World War II
‑Research for President
‑Kissinger's role
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt involvement
‑Harry S. Truman involvement

‑John F. Kennedy involvement
‑Lyndon B. Johnson involvement
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower involvement
‑Canadian reaction
‑Need to focus
‑New York Times focus
‑Censorship
‑Need to end war
‑Administration focus
‑Violation of security
‑Involvement of previous Democratic administrations
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's role
‑Robert J. Dole
‑Integrity of Presidency
‑Effect on conduct of foreign relations
‑Buchanan's line
‑Content
-Attack on Times
‑Use at press conference
‑Urgency

Speech writing
-Talking points
‑Noel C. Koch and Raymond K. Price, Jr. attributes
‑John K. Andrews, Jr. attributes
‑Buchanan
‑Terry McGinnity
‑Need for concise statements
‑President's upcoming drug message
‑Content
‑New drug program
-Scope
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
‑Effect of drugs
‑Spending
‑Administration goals
-Effect
‑Buchanan=s efforts
‑Drug message
‑"Total war" line
‑Drawbacks
‑Effect on populace
‑Use of terms

-@Offensive@
‑Johnson precedent
‑"War"
‑"War on poverty"
‑"Public Enemy #1"
‑Previous use
‑"Offensive"
‑"War"
‑Popular perception of the term

President's schedule
‑Cutback on meetings
‑Donald McI. Kendall
‑Christian de Guigne III
‑Drug offensive
‑President's role

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 9:58 am.

Request for Lucy A. Winchester

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:34 am.

Presidential statements
‑Kissinger's role
‑Ehrlichman's role
‑Price's prose
‑Buchanan's prose
‑Preparation of Presidential statements
‑President's drug statement
‑Content
‑Treatment of addicts
-Coordination of international action
‑Wedding statement
‑Political statements
‑Need for focus
‑Foreign policy focus
-Johnson

Polls
‑Results of recent Gallup poll
‑Revenue sharing
‑Government reorganization

‑New poll
-Issues
‑Possible questions
‑Phrasing
‑Methodology
‑Review of administration=s efforts
‑President's speeches
‑Polling effect
‑Ehrlichman
‑Creating issues
‑Louis Harris= role
‑Possible questions
‑"Race" compared with "integration" questions
-Integration
-Desegregation
-Housing

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:58 am.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Winchester
‑Gift

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:34 am.

Pentagon Papers
‑Administration response
-Ehrlichman
‑Role of the law
‑John N. Mitchell
-Disloyalty of Times

Haldeman left at 10:34 am.

Conversation No. 524‑9

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:39 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Manolo Sanchez.

President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:39 am.

Gifts
‑Availability
‑Cost

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:39 am.

Conversation No. 524‑11

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  10:39 am - 10:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Lucy A. Winchester and Stephen B. Bull.

Greetings

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:47 am.

Recovery from the wedding

Gifts for staff
-Florists
‑Photographs
-Gardeners
‑Waiters
‑Decorator
‑Orchestra
‑Choice

‑Cuff links
-Cost
‑Tie bar
-Cost
‑Compact
‑Expense
‑Army Band
‑Front page of paper as gift
‑Marine Corps Band
‑Priscilla Kidder
‑Women in press office
-Usher=s office
‑Gardeners
‑Tie bar
‑Gift to Winchester
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
‑Upcoming functions
-Stag dinner, June 22
-@Gideon=s Army@ [?]
-Chowder and Marching Club dinner, June 28
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount dinner, June 29
‑Choice
‑Compacts
‑Silver compacts
‑Winchester's role
‑Rex W. Scouten
‑Problems
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's personnel
‑Carpenters
‑Gardeners
-Florists
‑Caterers
-Carpenters
-Decorators
‑Carpet people

Winchester's history on staff
‑Miami role
-Arrival at the White House
‑Presidential staff's role
‑Charles S. Rhyne

Winchester left at 10:47 am.

Conversation No. 524‑12

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:47 am and 10:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Request for Ronald L. Ziegler

[End of conversation]

Conversation No. 524‑13

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  10:58 am - 11:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Upcoming announcement of drug policy
‑Format
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
‑Egil G. (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Wording
‑"Public Enemy #1" line
‑"Total war" line
‑Lyndon B. Johnson=s use
‑Relation to drugs
‑Terminology
‑Drawbacks
‑Johnson and Vietnam
‑President's statement in bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting
‑Content
‑Jaffe
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Marijuana use
‑"No nonsense" approach
‑Jaffe

‑Wording
‑"New offensive"
‑"Public Enemy #1"

The President and Ziegler left at 11:00 am.

Conversation No. 524‑14

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:06 am and 11:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

President's schedule

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:15 am.

Conversation No. 524‑15

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  11:15 am - 12:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler.

Drug statement
‑Length
‑Mark I. Goode
‑Delivery
‑Scope of administration action
‑John A. Scali
‑Film production using President's statement
‑Distribution

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  20s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
‑Egil G. (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
‑Jaffe
‑Support of President
‑Description of Jaffe
‑Foreign policy
‑Possible statements
‑Quality
‑Scope of problems
‑Focus on rehabilitation
-Imprisonment
‑Federal efforts
-Coordination
‑Funding
‑Use of government resources
‑The drug "battle"
-Need for victory

Presidential statements
‑Need for catch phrase
-Usage in previous bi-partisan Congressional leadership meeting

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:33 am.

-Need for coordination
‑Richard A. Moore
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Strong points
‑William L. Safire
‑President's role
‑Press conference preparation

‑Value
‑President=s speechwriters
‑Focus on President's strong points
‑Creativity

President's schedule
‑Donald McI. Kendall, Christian de Guigne III, and John L. McClellan visits
‑Length
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Congressional relations
‑de Guigne
‑Use of personal touch
‑McClellan visit
‑Wendell Wyatt visit
‑Purpose
‑Regional highway office
‑Election implications
-Federal projects
-Implications
‑Washington
‑Oregon
‑Michigan
‑Minnesota
‑Massachusetts
‑Pennsylvania
‑New York
‑Ohio
‑Wyatt visit
‑Coverage in Oregon

Presidential statements
‑Staff effort
‑Compromise
‑Staff work combined with President's work
‑Upcoming Chicago speech to the American Association of Retired Persons [AARP]
‑Preparation
‑Noel C. Koch
‑Health statement
‑Price
‑Koch
‑John K. Andrews

‑Lee W. Huebner
‑Content
‑National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]

Wedding comments
‑Dr. W. Kenneth Riland's comments
‑Effect of wedding on President's popularity
‑Men compared with women
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
‑Impact of certain events
‑Tricia Nixon Cox
‑Julie Nixon Eisenhower
‑Comments of viewers
‑National Broadcasting Company [NBC] rerun of wedding
‑Use of additional material
‑Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins photographs
‑Coverage of nontelevised events
-US Navy film footage
‑NBC coverage of dance
‑President's role
‑Childhood pictures
‑Tricia Nixon Cox

Presidential statements
‑Best use of President's time
‑Drug policy message
‑Quality
‑President's role

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am.

‑Meeting with Donald McI. Kendall
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:33 am.

‑Statements by Cabinet members
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑John A. Volpe
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Quality of information

Haldeman left and Kissinger and Kendall entered at 11:33 am.

Greetings

Wedding
‑Warmth of family
-Public perception

New drug policy
-Announcement

Henry Hubbard call to Kissinger
‑New York Times story (Pentagon Papers)

Pentagon Papers
‑Stewart J.O. Alsop
‑Ziegler's role in response
‑Declassification of World War II and Korean War documents
‑Speed of official declassification

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  30s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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International affairs
-Egypt
‑Anwar El Sadat
-Greece
-Turkey
-Iran
-Lebanon
-Greece
‑Kendall Interest
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

‑Greek government
‑US influence
‑Political orientation
‑Management ability
‑Benefits to Greek people
-Brazil
‑Potential
-Greece
‑Coming prosperity
‑Problems with elections
‑Comparison with Argentina
‑Economic reversals
‑US policy
-Iran
‑Kendall experience
-Gross National Product
‑Shah's effort
‑Stability
‑Pakistan
‑Afghanistan
‑US support for Shah

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration:  12s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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‑Arab concerns
-Renunciation of claim to Bahrain
‑Islands guarding entrance to Persian Gulf
‑Shah's concern
‑Yemen

-Communist rise
‑Shah=s reforms
-Results
-Rising material desires
-Increased number of students
-Creation of industrial establishment
‑Need to distribute wealth
‑Comparison to Chile
‑Organization of businessmen
‑Kendall efforts
‑Need for expertise
‑Employee housing
‑Problems
‑President's actions
-Kendall=s view
‑Attendance at 2500 year anniversary
‑Douglas Macarthur II
‑Alternative to attendance
‑Lyndon B. Johnson attendance
‑Iranian view of Johnson
‑Shah
‑Cattle ranching background
‑Spiro T. Agnew attendance at anniversary
‑Possibility of President's attendance at anniversary
‑Coincident diplomatic efforts
‑Benefits
‑Benefits of Johnson attendance
‑Soviet Union's response
‑Agnew attendance
‑Soviet response
‑Nikita S. Khrushchev attendance
‑Use of Johnson

Pentagon Papers
‑Effect on Nixon administration
‑Effect on John F. Kennedy and Johnson
‑Walt W. Rostow

Macarthur
‑Future
‑Stature
‑Other uses
‑Japan

Lebanon
‑Economy
‑Kendall meeting with President of Lebanon
‑Lebanese President
‑Reference to President
‑Views regarding US
‑Last visit by President
‑Misunderstanding

Middle East
‑Problems with US positions
‑Support for Israel
‑Money from Jewish-Americans
‑Suggestion to Arabs
‑Egypt
‑Sadat
‑Use of Gamal Abdel Nasser image
‑Quality of government
‑Foreign policy
‑Mohammed Hassanein Heikal
‑Message passage
‑Kendall discussion with Heikal
‑Length
‑Heikal
‑Handling
‑William P. Rogers= visit
‑Position on Nixon doctrine
‑Vietnam

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration:  41s  ]

ASIA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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‑Egyptian progress
‑Reflection on political system
‑Ideological bent
‑Arab and Israeli problem

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:33 am.

Item for President

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:03 pm.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration:  3m 26s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Kissinger=s schedule
-Documents

Kissinger left at 11:53 am.

Middle East
‑Heikal
‑Invitation to US by Kendall
‑Meeting with President
‑Soviets
‑Implications
-Arab view of Soviets
‑Treatment of Egyptians by Soviets
-Egyptian tourism

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:53 am.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:03 pm

Japan
‑Meeting by Kendall with Japanese
‑[Ryutaro Nemoto ?]
‑Kendall Meeting with Peter G. Peterson
‑Handling of Japanese by Peterson
‑Threats compared with "muscle"
‑Need for preparation
‑Future implications
‑Japanese expansion
‑Recent purchases
‑Shipping
‑Prices
‑Link to steel sales
‑Peterson knowledge
‑Previous Japanese deals

Algeria
‑Expropriation
-Rejection of loans

Trade policy
‑1950's precedent
‑Marshall Plan
‑Goals
-Support of foreign policy
‑Reference to Peterson
-Rhetoric
‑Department of State 

Anastasio Somozo
‑Charles A. Meyer lecture
‑Democratic government

President's tests for foreign nations

People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Trip by President
‑Possibilities
‑Impact
‑Accomplishments of President's administration
‑Vietnam
‑Detente with Soviet Union
-Arms control
‑PRC opening
‑Taiwan
‑Necessity of dealing with PRC

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

TAIWAN, REPUBLIC OF CHINA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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‑PRC resources

Kendall=s schedule

Gift presentation

Thanks

Peterson
-Trade policy
-Foreign policy

Kendall left at 12:03 pm.

Conversation No. 524‑16

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:03 pm and 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑Christian de Guigne III

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm.

Conversation No. 524‑17

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  12:06 pm - 12:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield, Christian de Guigne III, and Christian de Guigne IV; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of meeting.

Greetings

President's trip to New York

Photographs

Politics
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower campaigns
‑Aldo Ray ?
‑[First name unknown] Dolan [?]
‑Bohemian Grove
‑Return trip
‑Security problems

Presentation of gifts
‑Cuff links
-Compact

Presidents schedule
-Previous meeting with Donald McI. Kendall
-Possible trip to San Francisco, California

Professional sports
-Baseball
‑San Francisco Giants
-Performance
-Football
-San Francisco 49'ers
-Baseball
‑Oakland Athletics
‑Vida Blue
‑Performance
‑Mike Epstein
‑Performance

Appreciation

Butterfield, et al. left at 12:11 pm.

Conversation No. 524‑18

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑John L. McClellan

Bull left at 12:12 pm

Conversation No. 524‑19

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  12:12 pm - 12:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John L. McClellan, Clark MacGregor and Stephen B. Bull; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Presentation of gifts to President (Bowie knife)
‑Origin
‑Engraving
‑Use

Presentation of gifts to McClellan

Pentagon Papers
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Robert S. McNamara
-Declassification
‑Use of stolen material
‑Censorship
‑Necessity
‑Impact on country

McClellan and MacGregor left at 12:17 pm.

Conversation No. 524‑20

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  12:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑Wendell Wyatt

Bull left at 12:18 pm.

Conversation No. 524‑21

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  12:18 pm - 12:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Wendell Wyatt, Clark MacGregor and Stephen B. Bull; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Housing in Oregon
‑Prices

Employment
‑Oregon
-Status
‑Washington
‑California
‑Seattle
-Problems
‑Recovery
-Shipping
-Foreign affairs opening of relations with People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑US and Japan Parliamentary conference
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld and Wyatt Organization
‑Funding
‑Ford Foundation
‑Effect on attendance
‑Opening of US-PRC relations
-Japanese concerns
‑US commitment to Taiwan
‑Necessity of opening PRC
‑Validity of international agreements
‑Arms control

Wyatt's role in Congress

Presentation of gifts

Wyatt and MacGregor left at 12:22 pm.

Conversation No. 524‑22

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  12:22 pm - 12:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑George P. Shultz meeting with President
‑Executive Office Building [EOB]

Shultz entered at 12:22 pm.

Bull left at 12:22 pm.

Public Service Employment Bill
‑Status
‑House of Representatives and Senate action
‑Senate bill compared with House bill
‑Manpower reform and revenue sharing
‑Administration's position
‑House effort
‑Veto possibility
‑Timing
‑Public Works Bill
‑Compromise possibilities
‑Committee and subcommittee cooperation
‑Flexibility of spending
‑Compromise movement
‑Flexibility of spending
‑Ties to distribution formula
‑Extent
‑Effect on unemployment
‑Visibility
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑President's veto position
‑Focus on employment
‑Commitment from chairman
-Shift of power to states and cities
‑Focus of program
‑Preparation for negotiations
‑Reconsideration of veto

‑Power of potential veto
‑Effect on committee chairmen
‑Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman contact
‑Public service component of HR‑1
‑Potential maneuvers and public perception

Camp David budget meetings
‑Schedule
‑Agenda
‑Objectives
‑Preparation
‑American Medical Association [AMA] statement in Atlantic City
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Ehrlichman conversation

[The President spoke with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:22 pm and 12:46 pm]

[Conversation No. 524‑22A]

Ignore previously placed call

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:22 pm.

Request for Ronald L. Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm.

Quadriad meeting
‑President, Shultz, John B. Connally meeting
‑Timing
‑Need for controlled attendance
‑Shultz call to Haldeman

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:22 pm.

Ziegler's location

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm.

Economy
‑Reports to President
-Housing starts
-Personal income
-Options
‑Second quarter Gross National Product [GNP] figures
‑Revisions
‑Income outpacing output
‑Balance
‑Transfer payments
-Social Security payments
‑First quarter imbalance
‑Second quarter imbalance
‑Social Security payment
‑Consumer spending
‑Business
-Caution
‑Inventory building
-Capital investment
‑Effect
-Steel
-Forthcoming proposal for President
-Forthcoming Camp David meeting
-Wage/cost outlook
‑Forecast
-GNP figures
‑Release
‑Timing
‑Basis of figures
‑Expectations versus reality
‑Potential upset
-Impact on construction and contracts
‑Inflation
‑Special effect
‑Timing of economic recovery
‑Businesses
‑General outlook
‑Wage and price concern
-Inflation
‑Inflation
‑Size of inventories
-Possible consequences
-Edward L. Morgan and Shultz trip

‑Scope
‑Five Southern states
‑Objective
‑Discussion with state advisory committees
‑Impact of economic program on states
-Administration policy
‑Instilling confidence
‑Feasibility
‑Change of national psychology
‑Subjective sampling
‑Results
‑Reaction of public to new GNP numbers
‑Connally
‑Economic figures
‑Revisions
‑Seasonal adjustments
-Reasons
-President and Shultz meeting
‑Timing

The President and Shultz left at 12:46 pm.

Conversation No. 524-30

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:46 pm and 2:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

President=s location

The unknown people met at an unknown time before 2:41 pm.

Conversation No. 524‑23

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:46 pm and 2:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President spoke with the White House operator.

Call to Charles W. Colson

[End of conversation]

[Note: There is no Conversation No. 524‑24 or Conversation No. 524‑25; the next conversation is 524‑26]

Conversation No. 524‑26

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  2:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑Ronald L. Ziegler meeting with President
‑Ziegler's schedule

Bull left at 2:41 pm.

Conversation No. 524‑27

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  2:42 pm - 3:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler.

Pentagon Papers
‑Charles W. Colson
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Efforts
‑Administration counter
‑Focus on other administrations
‑Television reports
‑Lyndon B. Johnson press conference
‑Demeanor
‑Bryce N. Harlow effort
‑Press coverage
‑Tricia Nixon Cox
‑Johnson book
‑Colson's "lines"
‑@Publication of stolen goods@
‑@Aid and comfort to enemy@
‑Justification for publication
-Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Use of Johnson
‑Use of William P. Rogers
‑Interference with judicial process
‑Rogers statement
‑Buchanan
‑Link with statement by President
‑Interference with judicial process
‑Other statements
‑Ehrlichman statement
‑Problems
‑Use
‑President
‑Rogers
‑"Breaking the law"
‑"Aid and comfort"
‑Ehrlichman
‑Need for "bite"
‑Buchanan

Colson entered at 2:46 pm.

‑Publication of classified material
‑Use of stolen goods
‑Buchanan wording of statement
‑Publication

‑Use as editorial
-Mailing
‑Statement in Senate
‑Congressional statements
‑Arthur O. Sulzberger
‑Declassification of World War II and Korean War information
‑Contact with New York Times reporters
‑Penalty
‑Recognition at press conference
‑Scope of attack on Times
‑Legal situation
‑Ehrlichman
-Grand jury
‑Restraining order
‑Status
‑Options
‑Judge's background
‑Administration=s possible action
‑Effect on Times
‑Daniel Ellsberg case
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] action
-Arrest
‑Questioning
‑Background
‑[Elizabeth] Bentley investigations
‑Problems
‑Nathan Silvermaster
‑John Abt
‑Victor Perlo
‑[Forename unknown] Goldberg
‑Whittaker Chambers
‑Alger Hiss
‑Hiss background
‑Morton H. Halperin background
‑Leslie H. Gelb background
‑Security efforts
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Rogers
‑White House
‑Henry A. Kissinger's role
‑Recent Times publication
‑National Security Council [NSC] paper
‑Algeria paper

‑Vietnam paper
‑Source
‑Haldeman and Kissinger=s Florida discussion

Drug statement
‑Media play
‑"Public enemy" lead
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe's role
‑Question and answer ability
‑Leadership comment
‑Background information
‑President's expectation
‑Focus of drug efforts
‑Allen J. Ellender point
‑Ehrlichman
‑Consolidation of drug programs
‑Personnel
‑George P. Shultz
‑Arnold R. Weber
‑Report to President
‑Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] role
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
‑Reduction of inefficient personnel
‑Haldeman and Shultz contact
‑Use of "coordination" term
‑State of drug fighting programs
‑Personnel changes
‑White House control

Pentagon Papers
‑Potential Barry M. Goldwater role
‑Rationale
‑Justification of criticism of Johnson
‑Effect of story on President
‑Color of statement
‑"Aid and comfort to the enemy@
-@Stolen goods@
-Comments on Johnson

Haldeman, Ziegler, and Colson left at 3:04 pm.

Clark MacGregor and Barry M. Goldwater entered at 3:04 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of meeting.

Greetings

Congressional action
‑Secretary of Defense housing report
‑Cloture movement
-John C. Stennis
‑Goldwater history
‑William Proxmire's role
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-President=s view
‑Enemies of U.S.
‑Efforts

SST and the aircraft industry
‑Congressional action
‑Paris air show
‑Alternatives
‑US-German cooperation
‑Willy Brandt
‑Potential Northrup deal

[The president talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time after 3:04 pm]

[Conversation No. 524‑27a]

Brandt purchase of Northrup fighter
‑Money involved
‑Impact on California
‑SST possibilities
‑D. Kenneth Rush

[End of telephone conversation]

Aircraft development
‑German and French cooperation
‑Airbus role

SST
‑US and German cooperation
‑SST cancellation
‑US and German cooperation
‑Quality of US plane
‑French air show

‑US position
‑Goldwater recollections
‑Contacts with US businessmen
‑William M. Allen statement on Boeing
‑Allen reception of Collier award
‑Contact with Ed Ewell

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:33 pm.

SST
‑Boeing Vice President's statement
‑Resources necessary to reopen assembly line
‑General Electric decision
‑Action on engine
‑Payment
‑Goldwater visit to "Concorde" factory
‑Willard F. Rockwell Jr. efforts
‑Engine procurement
‑Garret Corporation (?)
‑French technology
‑US technological position
‑Goldwater questions to Soviet engineer
‑[Unintelligible name] report
‑Proxmire
-US technological position
‑Life magazine story
‑Media statement by President
‑Perception of common man
‑Benefits of depression
-Goldwater=s experiences

William A. Anders
‑Future
‑Problems with bureaucrats
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Personnel moves
‑Frederic V. Malek's role
‑National Aeronautic and Space Administration [NASA] position
‑Paper on aircraft industry

‑Comment to Goldwater
‑MacGregor's role
‑Domestic Council

SST
‑President's effort
‑Goldwater's effort
‑Stennis= effort
‑Money fights
‑Armed Forces subcommittee
‑Soviet SST
-Photographs
-Compared to French aircraft
‑European view of US action
‑Goldwater=s recollections

Congress
‑Popular reaction
‑Recess
‑Draft resolution
‑Status
‑Prospects of action

Election
‑President's prospects
‑Vietnam situation
‑Prospects for negotiations
‑Status as an issue
‑New York Times articles

Pentagon Papers
-Effect on administration
‑Effect on Republican party
‑College audiences' interest in Vietnam

Economy
‑Stock market performance
‑Construction situation
‑California
‑Tax break
‑Employment
‑General economic improvement
-Inventories

-Construction
-Wages
-Unemployment
‑Employment
‑Age factors
‑California problems
‑Relationship to air industry
‑Pacific Northwest
‑Wichita, Kansas

Goldwater's efforts
-SST
-Defense

International affairs
‑Soviet Union and US Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] agreement
‑Need for offensive agreement
‑Scope
‑Berlin Agreement
‑Bargaining
‑People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑Sino-Soviet relations
‑Taiwan, Republic of China friendship with US
‑US strategy
‑PRC
‑US national interest
‑Future relations with Soviet Union and PRC
-Grain sales
-American bottoms
-Benefits for the American farmer
-Soviet Union and PRC
‑Perception of President's stance on Communism
-PRC
‑Trade
-Exchange with PRC
‑Ping Pong
‑World War III potential matchups
‑Goldwater=s view
-Revival of US-Chinese friendship
‑Japanese revival
-President=s view
-Economy
-Military

-Economic potential
-Size
-Arable land
‑German situation
‑Mark problems
‑Socialism
‑Willy Brandt

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.

Schedule
‑National Security Council [NSC] meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:33 pm.

Defense
‑Message from Goldwater to NSC
‑NSC efforts
‑Goldwater's role
‑Vietnam
‑Negotiation prospects
‑Need for secrecy
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Survival of Vietnam
-Role of war in 1972 election
‑Democrat action
‑Rationale
‑Letter from Dean Rusk to Goldwater
‑War powers of President
‑Dean G. Acheson
‑Lyndon B. Johnson Library opening
‑Alteration
‑Constitutionality
‑Richard (ADick@) Wilson column
‑Media coverage

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.

President's schedule

Goldwater, MacGregor, and Bull left at 3:33 pm.

Conversation No. 524‑28

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:33 pm and 3:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Manolo Sanchez.

Refreshments

Manolo Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm.

Richard (ADick@) Wilson
‑Contact with Kissinger

The President and Kissinger left at 3:37 pm.

Conversation No. 524‑10

Date:  June 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:37 pm and 5:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield met.

[Unintelligible]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.