Conversation No. 528‑1

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:04 am and 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Pentagon Papers
‑Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Efforts to aid the President
‑Congressional activity
‑Republican activities
‑House Republican action
‑Henry A. Kissinger's need for documents
‑Release of documents
‑Involvement of administration
‑Cambodia
‑Laos
‑Tactical use
‑Subpoena power
‑Problems
‑Congressional hearings
‑Scope
‑Potential problems
‑Potential advantages
‑Robert S. McNamara
‑Questioning by George S. McGovern supporters
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy's role
‑John F. Kennedy involvement
‑Ngo Dinh Diem
‑Commitment of troops in 1961
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Qualities
‑Ziegler 
-Herbert G. Klein

Schedule
‑Indianapolis
-Possible visit to farm
‑Timing
‑Television coverage

‑Chicago
-Speech to American Association of Retire Persons [AARP]
‑Return to Washington, D.C.
-Camp David
‑George P. Shultz's request for meeting
‑Attendance
‑John N. Mitchell
‑John B. Connally
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Advantages and disadvantages
‑Connally's schedule
‑Martha (Beall) Mitchell
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Ehrlichman=s suggestion
‑Haldeman's schedule

Pentagon Papers
‑Impact on country
-Cliff Miller
‑Poll results
‑Regional impact
‑Impact by educational background
‑Age group division
‑Awareness of news
‑Age differences
‑Revelations of Vietnam involvement
‑Media handling
‑Media attacks on Lyndon B. Johnson
-Media relations with the President
‑President's declassification order
‑Lawsuit against Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
‑30 year secrecy ceiling
‑Kissinger
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑1972 Democratic victory
‑Results
‑Bay of Pigs
‑Dominican Republic
‑Selectivity
‑News coverage
‑Mansfield's Amendment
‑Kissinger's activities
‑North Vietnamese negotiating strategy

‑People=s Republic of China [PRC] pressure
‑US domestic pressure
‑Relations with Soviet Union
‑US domestic politics 
-Impact on foreign relations

Public relations
‑Reaction to wedding of Tricia Nixon and Edward R.F. Cox

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:05 am.

Ehrlichman=s location

Butterfield left at 11:06 am.

Public relations
‑Reaction to wedding of Tricia Nixon and Edward R.F. Cox
‑Memorability
‑Compared to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy White House tour
‑Letters
‑Sentimental buildups
‑Fighting instincts
-President
-Johnson
‑Media coverage
‑Spiro T. Agnew
‑Ziegler

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:06 am.

Request for Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:39 am.

Public relations
‑Media coverage of Senate vote
-Ziegler=s view
‑Rationale
‑Media coverage

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‑President's drug message
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑President and children
‑Administration tactics
‑Formation of "line"
‑President's involvement

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:05 am.

[Delivery of casualty figures]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:39 am.

Vietnam casualties
‑Trends
‑Kissinger
‑Cambodian action
‑Indication of success
‑Agnew's comments

Schedule
‑Press briefing during Midwest trip
‑Cincinnati
‑Problems
‑Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky
‑St. Louis, Kansas City, and Milwaukee
‑Wisconsin trip
‑Necessity
‑Benefits
‑Kansas City
‑Compared with St. Louis

‑Facilities
‑Hotels
‑Compared with Rochester
‑Need to visit Missouri
-Milwaukee, Wisconsin
‑Montana

Colson entered at 11:39 am.

Pentagon Papers
‑Effect on John F. Kennedy administration
‑Effect on Ted Kennedy
‑Effect on Democrats
‑Boston reaction
‑Boston Globe article
-Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
- J. Kennedy
-Henry Cabot Lodge
‑Kennedy and "covert war"
‑Chicago Daily News
‑Chicago Sun Times story
‑Colson's effort
‑Attack on Johnson
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
‑Rationale
‑Election posture
‑Franklin C. (ALyn@) Nofziger
‑Attack on John Kennedy
‑McNamara
‑Clark M. Clifford
‑McGeorge Bundy
‑Johnson's choice of advisers
‑Focus on need for secrecy
‑Mention of specific papers
-New York Times, Washington Post
‑Focus on classification
‑Focus on Chicago peace group
‑Distribution of classified stolen documents
‑Defiance of court order
‑Relation to May Day demonstrations

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‑Administration response
‑Benefits of low profile reaction
‑John A. Scali
‑Polls
‑Results
‑Approval of President
‑Gallup poll compared with administration poll
‑Focus on moral issue of publishing stolen documents
‑Focus on classified documents
‑Miller
‑Lack of awareness
‑Regional breakdown
‑Public perception
‑Publication of papers
‑Administration=s court action
‑Rationale
‑Age of classified material
‑Declassification procedures
-World War II
-Pear Harbor
‑Korean War period
‑Cuban missile crisis
‑Turkish bases
‑Bay of Pigs invasion
‑Scope
‑Colson and Ehrlichman conversation
‑Effect on country
‑Selectivity
‑[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
‑President's prosecution of Times
‑Legal necessities

‑Focus on previous administrations
‑Effect on Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Effect on Edmund G. Muskie
‑Effect on Ted Kennedy
‑Effect on Jackson
-Muskie=s comments
‑Link between Ted and John Kennedy
‑Humphrey handling of attack on Johnson administration
-Compared to Chappaquiddick
‑Victor Lasky's article
‑Patrick J. Buchanan's article
‑President's conduct of the War
‑Mailing to House and Senate
‑Mailing to dinner guests
‑President's involvement
‑Buchanan
‑Scali
‑William P. Rogers story to Haldeman
‑Rationale for low profile
‑Alger Hiss case
‑Mood in country
‑Avoidance of escalation
‑Attack on newspapers
‑Timing
‑Administration response
‑Democratic infighting
‑Lawrence F. O'Brien's role
‑Gale W. McGee and J. William Fulbright
‑McGovern's situation
‑Attack on main actors
‑James P. Roche=s defense of Johnson
‑William S. White's reaction
‑Stewart J.O. Alsop's article
‑Impact on country

Mansfield Amendment
‑Effect on US foreign policy
‑Impact on negotiations
‑Vietnam
‑Prisoners of War [POW]
‑Ceasefire
‑Administration fortitude
‑F. Edward Hebert

‑Rationale
‑Clark MacGregor
‑President's foreign policy efforts
‑Vietnam
‑Drop in casualties
‑Laos
‑Cambodia
‑Public perception

Public relations
‑Support for the President
-Compared to Johnson
‑President's standing in polls
‑Trends
‑Johnson
‑Reaction to President in person
‑Effect of wedding
‑Barbara Walters= comments
‑Comparison with coronation
‑Tricia Nixon Cox pictures
‑Audience ratings
‑Network draws
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
‑War in Vietnam
-Impact
‑Economy
‑President's contact with retailers
‑Harry B. Cunningham, Chairman, S.S. Kresge Co.
‑Gordon M. Metcalf, Chairman, Sears Roebuck and Co.
‑Edward W. Carter
‑Inflation
‑Unemployment
‑Teamsters Union
‑President=s call to Frank S. Fitzsimmons
‑George T. Bell
‑Voting power
‑George Meany's tactics
‑Political power
‑Prior support for President
‑Helen Gahagan Douglas
‑Political courtship
‑President's contact with Fitzsimmons

‑Upcoming report
‑Fitzsimmons=s demeanor
‑American Medical Association [AMA] 
-Support for President
‑Drug request
‑Political power

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‑Politics compared with profession
‑Socialized medicine

Mansfield Amendment
‑Attack on supporters
‑Republicans
-Charles H. Percy
‑Past record
‑Marlow W. Cook
‑Ted F. Stevens
‑Effect on negotiations
‑Ziegler's comment
‑Conversation with Mansfield
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Views of Republicans
‑President's strength
‑Polls
‑Upcoming "breaks" for administration

Economy
‑Positive talk on economy
-Public perception
‑Arthur F. Burns

‑Construction industry statistics
‑Industrial production
-Retail sales
‑Burns
‑McCracken
‑Connally
‑Shultz
‑Present condition
-Compared to Great Depression
‑Pressure of money supply
‑Level of  employment
‑Vietnam veterans
‑Effect on figures
‑Airframe workers
-Areas affected
-Southern California
-Pacific northwest
-Wichita, Kansas
‑Future growth areas
-Seattle, Washington
‑Southern California
‑Florida
‑Rationale
‑Retirement
‑Arizona and Nevada
‑Skill level
‑Southern California
‑Crowding
‑Compared to New York
-President=s recollections
‑Nassau
‑Westchester
‑New Jersey suburbs
‑Empty land
‑Types
‑Population
‑Confidence in economy
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Related to world affairs

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Domestic affairs
‑Charles B. Kuralt
‑Nicholas P. Thimmesch column
‑Popular opinion
‑Melville Stephens
‑Perception of the people
‑Atlantic City trip
‑Problems in US
‑Media contributions
‑State of the Nation
-Vietnam
-Urban unrest
‑Police support
‑Black policeman
‑President=s supporters
‑President's schedule
‑Play to particular groups
‑Focus on supporters
‑Youth

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Mansfield Amendment
‑Rationale for votes
‑Effect on negotiations

Pentagon Papers
‑Furor
‑Focus on John Kennedy and Johnson period
‑Focus on theft of papers
‑Rationale
‑Publication
‑Daniel Ellsberg
‑Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
‑Poll findings
‑Method of removal of papers
‑Involvement of peace group
-Infiltration
‑Richard H. Ichord
‑Congressional action
‑House Committee on Un-American activities
‑John L. McClellan
‑Phillip M. Crane
‑Jack F. Kemp
‑Treason charge

Colson left at 12:41 pm.

Citizens Committee
‑Use of money for supporting revenue sharing
‑Request of citizens committee for money
-Connection to campaign

Schedule
‑Postal celebration ceremony
‑Schools of thought
‑Winton M. (ARed@) Blount dinner
‑Robert H. Finch
‑Focus on administration accomplishments
‑Ray Grace
‑Focus on a few issues

‑Drugs
‑Ehrlichman
‑Postal celebration
‑Blount plans

Ambassadorships
‑Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo
‑Ambassador to Brussels
‑Former Ambassador to Ireland [Winston] Guest
‑Raymond R. Guest
‑Campaign contributions
‑John Eisenhower
‑Wife
‑Herbert W. Kalmbach
‑Political office
‑Related to campaign contributions
-Amount
‑Fred J. Russell
‑Length of Ambassadorships
‑Charles H. Bluhdorn contribution
-Sugar quotas

Haldeman left at 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 528‑2

Date:  June 23, 1971
Time:  12:47 pm ‑ 12:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[Signatures]

Winton M. (ARed@) Blount dinner
-Entertainment
‑Mrs. Mary K. Blount
‑Piano player and comedian
‑Background
‑Other possibilities

-@Family type@ entertainment
‑Presentation of Cabinet Room chair
-Timing
-Cabinet meeting

The President and Butterfield left at 12:52 pm.

Conversation No. 528-18

Date:  Unknown between June 23 and June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:52 pm, June 23 and 9:04 am, June 24
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person [Secret Service agent?] talked with an unknown person.

President=s location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

[End of telephone conversation]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:52 pm, June 23.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:04 am, June 24.

Conversation No. 528‑3

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:04 am and 9:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:10 am.

Conversation No. 528‑4

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  9:10 am ‑ 10:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s upcoming Midwest trip
-Hannah Milhous Nixon plaque dedication
-Attendees
-Clarence E. Miller
-Jennings County, Indiana Congressman
-Political party
-Miller
-Ohio
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Agricultural character of Jennings County
-Motorcade to Indiananalopis
‑Distance
-Length of time
‑Stops
‑Richard J. Daley

‑Location of airport
‑Hardin
‑Presidential statement
‑Allocation of time

President=s schedule
-Upcoming meeting
-Location
-Oval Office
-Rose Garden
‑Standing and seating arrangements

Presidential statement
-Length

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President=s Midwest trip
-Staff
-Presidential statement
-Drug abuse
-Property tax
-Staff
‑Rose Mary Woods
‑Health
‑Marjorie P. Acker

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:10 am.

-Changes

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:38 am.

Pentagon Papers
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] coverage of Daniel Ellsberg comment
‑Charles W. Colson counterattack
‑Administration response
‑Need for simplicity
‑Focus on Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy administrations
‑Sanctity of national security documents
‑Declassification process
‑Terry McGuinnity visit
‑Status
-Contact with Colson
‑Colson contact with Yale graduate
-McGuinnity
-Haldeman=s efforts
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's briefing
-Focus on previous administrations
‑Sensitivity of papers
‑Declassification procedure
‑Administration response
‑Ellsberg
‑Court action
‑Christian Science Monitor article
‑Paul C. Warnke's comments
‑Henry A. Kissinger

President's schedule
‑Unveiling of portraits of President=s Zachary Taylor and James Buchanan
‑George H. Mahon
‑Clark MacGregor

Pentagon Papers
‑John B. Connally's suggestion
‑Visit to Johnson
‑Bryce N. Harlow
‑Kissinger's visit
‑Schedule
‑John D. Ehrlichman's visit
‑Ehrlichman's visit to Johnson
‑Agenda
‑Kennedy's role in Vietnam
‑Connally's recollection
‑Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
-Kennedy

‑Foundation
‑Revelation of information
‑Extent of coverage
‑Newspapers
‑Television
‑Impact on Nixon administration
‑Harris poll
‑Colson
‑Shift
‑Public perception
‑Complexity of information
‑Ziegler
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑Melvin R. Laird and William P. Rogers statement

Kissinger's trip
‑Haldeman's call to Rogers

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:38 am.

Pentagon Papers
‑Administration response
‑Rogers and Laird involvement
‑Need to reiterate points
‑Ellsberg
‑Previous administration
‑Figures

‑Involvement of Nixon administration
‑Origination of classification
‑President's legal responsibilities
‑Congress
‑Rule of law
‑Declassification procedure
‑Ziegler's previous statements
‑Preoccupation of Washington Post and New York Times reporters
‑Klein=s statement on CBS News
‑Ellsberg's statements
‑Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. demeanor
‑Missed questions
‑William S. Paley
-Colson
‑Classification of papers
‑Legal responsibility of administration
‑Responsibility of editors
‑Compromise of classified information
‑Effects
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Ziegler
‑Haldeman
‑World War I illustration
‑French and German battle
‑Effect
‑Infiltration information
‑Ease of compromise
‑Ehrlichman
‑Need for examples
‑Unknown Admiral's statement
‑"Cops and robbers" boys
‑Effect on Kennedy administration
‑Stuart Laurie article
‑David Craslow article
‑Transcript of phone call
‑Diem
‑Henry Cabot Lodge
‑Effect on Kennedy
-Effect on Lodge
‑Removal of Lodge
‑History of the period
‑Fair treatment of issue
‑Past Times stances

‑Support for Kennedy
‑Laos
‑James B. (AScotty@) Reston
‑Harrison E. Salisbury
‑Neil Sheehan

Pentagon Papers
‑World War II documents
‑Tom C. Huston's role
‑Expansion of team study documents
‑Pearl Harbor material
‑Effect on Democratic Party
‑Need for leadership
‑Colson
‑Joe Torrey [sp?]
‑Qualifications
‑Need for subject knowledge
‑Ellsberg
‑Richard V. Allen
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Huston's role
‑Allen's role
‑Cuban missile crisis information
‑Bay of Pigs information
‑Longevity
‑Bombing halt information
‑Huston
‑Effect on Johnson
‑Effect on Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Effect on Edmund S. Muskie
‑Johnson
‑Effect on Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Public opinion
‑Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
‑J. William Fulbright

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‑Attack on the Kennedy name
‑Effect on Ted Kennedy
‑Examples
‑Ziegler
‑Ehrlichman
‑Klein
‑Richard A. Moore
‑Ziegler's attacks
‑Arthur O. Sulzberger
‑Off the record comments
‑Effect
‑John Carroll of the Baltimore Sun
‑White House press corps
‑View of Ellsberg
‑Los Angeles grand jury action
‑Actions of previous administrations
-Classification
‑Administration=s legal responsibilities
‑Accuracy of papers
‑Classification of papers
‑Johnson and Kennedy administrations
‑President=s speech on Alger Hiss case
‑Pumpkin Papers
‑Potential damage
‑Protection of security
‑Examples
‑Klein
‑Colson
‑Need for strong Senate action

[The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 9:10 am and 10:01 am]

[Conversation No. 528‑4A]

[See Conversation No. 5‑154]

Edward K. ("Duke") Ellington

[The President talked with Ellington between 10:01 am and 10:02 am]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ellington's health

Pentagon Papers
‑Perception of average person
‑Involvement of Nixon administration
‑Kennedy and Johnson involvement
‑Legal developments
‑Perception of the public
‑Sympathy for government
‑President's speech on Hiss case
‑Effect of compromised information
‑Need for Senate help
‑Robert J. Dole
‑Colson
‑John G. Tower
‑President's handling of Hiss papers
‑Fear of governmental coverup
‑Ellsberg
‑Declassification procedure
‑Overclassification
‑Effect of publication
‑Previous day's publicity
‑Post, Times
‑Freeze
‑Robert B. Semple, Jr.
‑Freeze on backgrounders for the Times
‑Semple
‑Other Post reporters

Ziegler left at 10:09 am.

-Administration response
-Allen
-Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-President=s wishes

[Unintelligible]

White House administration
‑Meeting with economic people
‑President's preparation
‑Location
‑Economic policy meeting
‑Preparation
‑Connally meeting with Arthur F. Burns
‑Burns
‑George P. Shultz
‑Prior assignments
‑Church service attendance
‑Alexander P. Butterfield
‑Burns's wife
‑Upcoming conversation with Connally
‑Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑Control
‑Administration handling of people
-Connally=s view
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
‑Need for specifics
‑Leaks
‑Ehrlichman
‑Congressional role
‑MacGregor
‑Congressional role
‑Need for accountability
‑Post story
‑Need to control leaks

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 10:09 am.

Woods' health

Presidential trip
‑Trip to Indiana
-President=s experiences
‑Acker

Woods left at an unknown time before 10:45 am.

White House administration
‑Leaks
‑Need for tighter accountability
‑"Hill" compared with White House leaks
‑Economic problems
‑Public review of recommendations
‑Burns

Presidential statements
‑Honor America Day
‑Speech by President
‑Teleprompter
‑Effectiveness
‑Rehearsal

Haldeman left at 10:45 am.

Conversation No. 528‑5

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  10:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 5‑155]

Conversation No. 528‑6

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  10:42 am - 10:44 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Wilbur D. Mills.

[See Conversation No. 5‑156]

Conversation No. 528‑7

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  10:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at 10:45 am.

Conversation No. 528‑8

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  10:45 am - 10:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John W. Byrnes.

[See Conversation No. 5‑157]

Conversation No. 528‑9

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  10:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 5‑158; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 528‑10

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:58 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑Peter M. Flanigan request
‑Need for work on recorded statement

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:01 am.

Conversation No. 528‑11

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:58 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:01 am.

Conversation No. 528‑12

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:58 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:01 am.

Conversation No. 528‑13

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:58 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Schedule

The President and Ehrlichman left at 11:01 am.

Conversation No. 528‑17

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:01 am and 11:17 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:17 am.

Conversation No. 528-19

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:01 am and 11:17 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

Unknown group
-Location
-Rose Garden

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:17 am.

Conversation No. 528‑14

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  11:17 am ‑ 11:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ambassador Anthony D. Marshall and W. Marshall Wright.

Greetings

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MADAGASCAR

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Madagascar
‑US interests
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] station
‑Oil
‑Economics
-Interest in good relations
‑Mission exchange

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MADAGASCAR

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-US diplomatic mission
-Goals

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-Goals

Marshall's future
‑Europe
‑Australia
‑Africa

Marshall and Peter M. Flanigan contacts
‑William P. Rogers

Vacancies

Gift presentation

Marshall and Wright left at 11:22 am.

Conversation No. 528‑15

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  11:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule

Bull left at 11:23 am.

Conversation No. 528‑16/529‑1

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  11:23 am - 11:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John Mackey, Mrs. John Mackey, Ed Garvey, Bill Curry, Nick Buoniconti, and Henry C. Cashen II.

Greetings

Introductions
‑Rochester trip

Football
‑Seasons results
‑Personnel
‑Offensive and defensive lineman
‑Recognition
‑Value
‑Defensive backs
‑Recognition

Presentation of gifts
‑Cuff link
‑Golf ball

Sports
-Unknown man
‑President's Chicago remarks
‑Football 
-Spectator sport
‑Role models
‑Problems of youth
‑Competitive spirit
‑Benefits
‑Vietnam
‑President as spectator
‑Miami
‑Seating possibilities
‑Baltimore Colts

Unknown football player
-Vacation home in Key Biscayne

The recording was cut off at an unknown time before 11:35 am.

An unknown portion of this conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed.