Conversation No. 526‑1

Date:  June 18, 1971
Time:  8:40 am - 8:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Item from Henry A. Kissinger

Butterfield left at 8:42 am.

Conversation No. 526‑2

Date:  June 18, 1971
Time:  8:45 am - 9:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Pentagon Papers
-Upcoming statement by President
‑Content of written message
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Public relations
‑Support for war
‑Content of message to National Security Council [NSC]
‑Content of message to be submitted by staff
‑Preparation
‑Effect of consensus
‑Need for chief writer
‑Buchanan
‑Role for press conferences
‑Media memorandum
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Content
‑Need for confidentiality in negotiations
‑Declassification

Awarding of honorary degrees
‑President Leopold Sedar Senghor of Senegal
‑Reflection on "Today's" schools
‑Harvard University
‑University of California at Los Angeles  [UCLA]
‑Accomplishments of Sedar Senghor
‑Haldeman=s experience on Board of Regents of UCLA
‑Role of recipients
‑Value of honorary degrees
‑Senghor accomplishments
‑Compared to some US mayors
‑Size of Senegal
‑Heads of Black African states
-Haldeman=s view
‑Attractiveness as honorary degree candidates
‑Honorary degrees

Pentagon Papers
-Statement by President
‑Efficacy
‑Nixon administration role in Vietnam
-Ehrlichman
‑Bombing halt
‑Request for Henry A. Kissinger and Haldeman meeting
‑Consequences
-Administration strategy
‑Two issues
‑Relationship of content to administration=s policy
‑Seriousness of security breach
‑Need for clear focus of administration strategy
‑William E. Timmons
‑Support for administration
‑Among publishers
‑James S. Copley
‑Carl T. Curtis opposition
‑Rationale
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor
‑Promotion
‑Gale W. McGee
‑Congressional strategy
-Timmons
‑Relationship to Alger Hiss case

‑Potential headlines
‑President's support during Hiss case
‑Issues
‑Attack on New York Times
‑Kissinger statement
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Use of Kissinger on Rochester trip
‑Hypothetical attack on liberals
‑Joseph McCarthy
‑Statement by President
‑Content
‑Impact
‑Constraints due to court case
‑Use of national television
‑Nature of audience
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑Position of press
‑Freedom of press
‑Klein and Ehrlichman role
‑Impact of statement concluding a briefing
‑Domestic emphasis
-Domestic policy
‑Comparison with Birmingham remarks
‑Use of national audience
‑Personal letter to editors and television producers
‑World War II classified documents
‑Korean classified documents
‑Washington Post story
-Dwight D. Eisenhower [?]
‑Source
‑Implication
‑Post use of Pentagon Papers
‑Administration reaction to use of documents
‑Klein=s outlook
‑Use of Kissinger
‑Effect on Senators or Congressmen
‑Air Force One
‑Possible comments
‑Timing of fight with Times
‑Effect of court decisions
‑Charles W. Colson
-Use in Congress
‑McGee

‑Image of White House action
‑Political impact of Times story
‑Involvement of Democratic Presidents
‑John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt
‑Harry S. Truman
‑Confidential advice
‑Effect on current negotiations
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Middle East
‑Berlin negotiations
‑Weighing of good story against US interests
‑Rationale for statement
‑Report of President's statement
‑Robert J. Dole statement
‑Content
‑Political nature of the battle
‑Dole statement
‑Content
‑Partisan play by Democrats
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Humphrey statement
‑Johnson
‑Dole statement
‑Effect on Johnson
‑Opposition to Vietnam War
-Robert H. Finch
-Return from Chicago
-Views
‑Freedom of the press
‑President=s relationship with the Times
‑Future relationship
‑George P. Shultz
‑Times reaction
‑Peter Lisagor reaction
‑Restriction of Times
‑Coverage
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Herald Tribune subscription
‑Subtlety of attack
‑Comparison with Spiro T. Agnew attacks
‑Timing of Presidential statement

‑Relation to judicial process
‑Daniel Ellsberg story
‑Current play
‑Ellsberg disappearance
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] visit
‑Leak of Kissinger recollections
‑Ellsberg actions in Vietnam
‑Kissinger and Ellsberg visits
‑Santa Monica Outlook story
‑Source
‑Kissinger=s view
‑Leslie H. Gelb
‑Ellsberg
‑Kissinger backgrounder on Air Force One
‑Ehrlichman outline for statement
‑Haldeman and Ehrlichman meeting
‑Timing of statements by President
‑Relation to court case
‑Dole statement
‑Response to order from President
‑Partisan political impression
‑Press reaction to administration response
‑Press reaction to lack of response
‑Ehrlichman
‑Kissinger backgrounder
‑Possible comments
‑Timing
‑Florida trip
‑Air Force One to Rochester

Drug policy
-Drug policy statement
‑Media play
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
‑Organization
‑Personnel moves
‑Shultz report
-Allen J. Ellender
‑Hospital staffing
‑Early Jaffe moves
‑Hospital closing
‑Effect
‑Shultz's report

Vietnam
‑Coverage of casualties
‑Walter Cronkite statement
‑Other reporters' statements
‑Coverage of anti‑war amendments in Congress
‑Wording of reports

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:28 am.

Schedule
-Letters
‑Memorandums

Butterfield left at 9:31 am.

‑Arrival of President Senghor of Senegal

Pentagon Papers
‑Kissinger backgrounder
‑Benefits of statement

President Senghor

Pentagon Papers
‑Kissinger backgrounder
‑Ehrlichman
‑Notification of press

President's schedule

Pentagon Papers
‑Effect on administration
‑Reaction by administration
‑Administration response
‑Dwight L. Chapin
‑Humphrey
‑Dole attack
‑Kissinger's role

Haldeman left at 9:38 am.

Conversation No. 526‑3

Date:  June 18, 1971
Time:  9:40 am - 10:34 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Leopold Sedar Senghor, Jose De Seabra and W. Marshall Wright and Stephen B. Bull; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
‑Last meeting at Charles De Gaulle's funeral

Senghor's trip around US
‑Previous trips
-1967
‑Visit with John F. Kennedy

Senghor=s background

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:40 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:08 am.

Senegal
‑Cultural and political independence
‑Economic role
‑Georges Pompidou [?]
‑Senghor's background
‑Sorbonne
‑Professorship
‑French Culture
-Complement to Senegal
‑Senegalese cultural roots
‑Cultivation
‑Senghor's early efforts regarding independence
‑De Gaulle's review of Constitution
‑Role of delegation from Senegal
‑Confederation with France
‑Pompidou's role
‑Reviewing commission conclusions

‑Effect on Senegal independence
‑Senegalese educational reforms
‑Use of French system
‑Stress on mathematics and technological subjects
-Increase in number of Senegalese professors
‑Stress on languages
‑Native Tongues
‑French
‑English
‑Nature of civilization
‑Monopoly of input
‑Benefits of international unity
‑United Kingdom role in European community
‑Admission of African states to European community
‑US-Senegal relations
‑Relations with "Euro-American" Nations
‑Ties to the Americas
-Ties to Asia
‑Afro-Asian group (Group of 77)
‑Inclusion of Latin America
‑Senghor family background
‑Portuguese roots
‑Political effect in Senegal
‑Cultural balance
-Senegalese
‑Brazilian=s
‑Influence of US the World community
‑Senghor travels in US
‑Black and White universities
‑Spirit of vitality
‑Responsibilities of US
-Cultural diversity
‑Black students in US
‑Return to Africa
‑Benefits of US
‑Participation of Blacks
‑Contact with students
‑Need for stressing culture

[Unintelligible]

‑Political situation in Africa
‑Dancers

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[National Security]
[Duration:  18s  ]

AFRICAN AFFAIRS

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‑Communism
‑Soviet Union influence
-Student left
-Communist influences
-Maoists
-Paris
-Influence from the United States
‑Senghor visit to Soviet Union

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[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 58s  ]

AFRICAN AFFAIRS

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Foreign affairs
‑New US initiative with People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑Communists

-Desire for expansion
‑Need to develop Modus Vivendi
‑Need to bring PRC into community of nations
‑US and Soviet Union nuclear arms control

[Unintelligible]

‑PRC initiative
-Communist revolutions
-Removal of isolation
‑Latin America
-Africa
‑Naivete of some leaders
‑End of imperialism
‑Need for close trading ties
‑Investment
‑Conglomerate capital
‑Development view of African leaders
‑Best chance of African development
‑East compared with West
‑African resources
‑Black Americans
‑Effect on Africa
‑Advancements in the US
-Desegregation
-Job opportunities
-Housing
-Welfare
‑US respect for African choices
-President=s support of Senghor=s efforts

Appreciation of Cooperation

Farewell

The President, Senghor, et al. left at 10:34 am.

Conversation No. 526‑4

Date:  Unknown between June 18 and June 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:34 am, June 18 and 1:48 pm, June 22, 1971
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

Schedule (?)

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm, June 22, 1971.