Conversation No. 528‑16/529‑1

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:23 am and 11:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed]

General conversation

Best wishes for the season

Mackey, et al. left at 11:35 am.

Conversation No. 529‑2

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:35 am and 11:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
-Upcoming meeting with delegation form the Police Athletic League [PAL] of Philadelphia
-Format of presentation

Bull left at 11:36 am.

Conversation No. 529‑3

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  11:36 am ‑ 11:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with a delegation from Police Athletic League of Philadelphia: Students:  Robert Anastasia, Alison Franks, Vincent W. Furlong, Jean Marie Gola, Steven Head, Wendy Johnson, Carol Klieman, Alfred Levy, Daniel F. Madonna, Jr., Frank Whitley, Robert Young.  Adults:  Paul Klieman, Harry G. Fox, Sgt. Vincent E. Furlong, Si Shaltz, Thomas Thomson, Philip Bruno.  Members of White House staff:  Geoffrey C.  Shepard and Stephen B. Bull.

Greetings

Introductions

Work of Police Athletic League [PAL]
‑Quality

Photographs
‑Posing

PAL program
‑Benefits
‑Importance
‑Singing groups
-Compared to recent performance of Polish Youth choir
‑Baseball
‑Babe Ruth
‑Cancer
‑Pitching record
‑Hitting record

Presentation of gifts
-Cuff links
-Bracelets

President=s schedule
-Arrival of helicopter

Tour of White House for PAL

President's schedule
‑Trip to Indiana and Chicago, Illinois

Petition presented to President
‑Number of signatures

Anastasia, et al. left at 11:45 am.

Conversation No. 529‑4

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  11:46 am ‑ 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Alexander P. Butterfield.

Schedule

Mansfield amendment
‑House of Representatives vote

Personnel
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr. [?]

Presidential statements
-Wording

[Unintelligible]

-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Effect of Mansfield Amendment on negotiations
-Public relations
-Wording

The President=s schedule

Ziegler=s statement

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 11:46 am.

The President, et al. left at 11:58 am.

Conversation No. 529-26

Date:  June 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:58 am and 12:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

Unknown people left at an unknown time before 12:03 pm.

Conversation No. 529‑5

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:44 pm and 7:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Unknown man's schedule
‑Return of call

Conversation No. 529‑6

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:44 pm and 7:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to John D. Ehrlichman.

Camp David discussions
‑Conference on aging
‑Budgeting
‑Cruipshank[?]
‑Alternatives
‑Examination of all domestic programs and budget proposals

[This memorandum continued as Conversation No. 529‑7]

Conversation No. 529‑25

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  7:52 pm - 7:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Delivery of papers

Butterfield left at 7:53 pm.

Conversation No. 529‑7

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:53 pm and 8:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to John D. Ehrlichman.

[This is a continuation of Conversation No. 529‑6]

Camp David discussions
‑Areas of political gain
‑Expenditures
-Effectiveness
‑Environmental health
‑Pressure
‑Budget
‑Considerations
‑Defense spending
‑Economy
‑Defense spending 
-Effect on employment
‑Short term spending
‑Effect in 1972
‑1973 budget
‑Cuts
‑Effect on planning
‑Domestic Council role
‑President's role
‑San Clemente

Conversation No. 529‑8

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:53 pm and 8:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

Meeting with local broadcasters
-President=s proposals
‑George Putnam
‑Irv Kupcinet
‑Attendance
‑Purpose

-Meeting of radio talk show hosts
‑Criteria
-Influence of media figures
‑Use of photographs

Camp David presentation
‑Preparations for San Clemente meeting
‑John D. Ehrlichman and Haldeman meeting
‑Richard A. Moore
‑William L. Safire
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Points to emphasize
‑Public relations
‑President=s image
‑Focus on issues
‑Haldeman meeting with the President

Conversation No. 529‑9

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  8:02 pm - 8:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Call from William F. (ABilly@) Graham
‑Butterfield's taking the call
‑Call back
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Return of call
-Butterfield=s conversation with Graham
‑Graham's schedule
‑San Francisco trip
‑Operator
‑Kissinger's items

Lights

Butterfield left at 8:05 pm.

Conversation No. 529‑10

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  8:06 pm - 8:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Winton M. (ARed@) Blount dinner
‑Attendance
‑Attendance of deputies
‑Elmer T. (ATed@) Klassen
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Willie J. Usery, Jr.
‑Role in Postal strike

Cabinet meeting
‑Agenda
-John D. Ehrlichman
‑Length
‑George P. Shultz
‑Agenda
‑Ehrlichman
‑Document security discussion
‑Length

Butterfield left at 8:11 pm.

Conversation No. 529‑11

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:11 pm and 8:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to George P. Shultz.

Arthur F. Burns letter
‑Milton Friedman reaction

Inflation
‑Administration response
‑Expected results
‑Jawboning
‑Wage and price freeze

Conversation No. 529‑12

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:11 pm and 8:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 5‑162]

Conversation No. 529‑13

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:11 pm and 8:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger between 8:13 pm and 8:14 pm.

[See Conversation No. 5‑163]

Conversation No. 529‑14

Date:  June 27, 1971
Time:  8:18 pm ‑ 9:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger=s trip to Paris

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 8:18 pm.

Item for President

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:14 pm.

Vietnam peace negotiations
‑Kissinger=s trip to Paris
‑Le Duc Tho
‑Xuan Thuy demeanor
‑Set up of negotiating area
‑Discussion of US proposals
‑Le Duc Tho speech
‑Consequences of failure
‑North Vietnamese questions
‑Kissinger=s response
‑North Vietnamese counter proposals
‑Precedent
‑Significance
‑Details
‑US withdrawal
‑Time frame
‑Prisoners of war [POW] release
‑Time frame
‑Political settlement
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Nguyen Cao Ky
‑Political settlement
‑US response
‑Letter from President
‑Details
‑Laos and Cambodia Geneva Agreements of 1954 and 1962
‑Disposition
‑Indochinese future
‑Signing of agreement
‑International guarantees and supervision of ceasefire
‑Significance of counter proposals
‑Possible overthrow of Thieu, Ky and [Duong Van Minh ?]

‑Next meeting
‑US changes in proposals
‑Focus on South Vietnamese government
‑Kissinger=s questions on North Vietnam counter proposal
‑Possible Thieu, Ky and Minh overthrow
‑South Vietnam acceptance of North Vietnam terms
‑Assurances
‑Coalition government
‑International supervision
‑Thieu and Ky status
‑Next meeting
‑Danger of leaks
-Consequences
‑North Vietnam counter proposal
-POWs
‑US leaks
‑Benefits
‑Kissinger and David K.E. Bruce conversation
‑Chance for progress on China
-Briefing of Bruce by Vernon A. Walters
‑Timing
‑Prior breakthrough
‑Significance of proposal
‑Future negotiations
‑Next meting
‑Secrecy
‑Timing
‑Bruce
-William P. Rogers
‑Bruce and Rogers role
‑Further information
‑Kissinger=s conversation with Bruce

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:18 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:14 pm.

People=s Republic of China [PRC] negotiations
‑Significance
‑Kissinger=s conversation with Bruce

‑Revelation of PRC contacts
‑Secrecy
‑Rogers
‑Discussion of PRC contacts with others
‑Bruce

Soviet Union summit
-Possibilities

Vietnam negotiations
‑History of Soviet involvement
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Le Duc Tho's role
‑Earlier proposals
‑Japanese parallel
‑Significance of Laos
‑Reports
‑I Corp Area
‑Past involvement
‑Possible impact
‑PRC
‑Thieu
‑House and Senate
‑Mansfield resolution
‑Pentagon Papers
‑Totality of story
‑North Vietnam intentions
‑US options
‑Kissinger's trip to San Clemente
‑Thieu's response
‑US options
‑East German report
‑Cambodia
‑PRC
‑North Vietnam activities
‑PRC announcement
‑Timing
‑Alexander M. Haig Jr.
‑Related to Soviet Summit announcement
‑US support for Thieu
‑Ky
‑Critique of President's policy

-Lyndon B. Johnson=s reaction

Pentagon Papers
‑British Press Regarding Pentagon Papers
‑Roy H. Thompson lunch
‑John Freeman

British government
‑Edward R.G. Heath
‑Regards to the President
‑Demeanor in adversity
-Reaction to Pentagon Papers
-Effect on domestic politics
‑Official secrets act
‑Need for secrecy in diplomacy

Pentagon Papers
‑Supreme Court action by President
‑Effects
‑Democratic Party
‑Effects
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Humphrey and Johnson relationship
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Eventual result
‑Johnson
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Kissinger's comments to British press
‑President's reaction
-Integrity of government
-Justice
-Freeman=s comments
-President=s morality
-President=s religious background
-[Unintelligible name]

Vietnam Peace Negotiations
‑Thieu=s fate
‑Impact of US Congressional action
‑Survival potential
‑Pentagon role

‑Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
‑Bombing
‑Bruce
‑Political implications
‑Nature of agreement
‑Ceasefire
-POWs
‑Compromise of US and North Vietnam proposals
‑Withdrawal offer
‑Date
-POWs
‑Thieu and Ky
‑Thieu election strategy
‑Relationship to US presence
‑US role
‑Cambodia
‑Laos
‑Bombing of harbors
‑Size of US Army in Asia
-Compared to PRC Army
‑Future US role
‑US position
‑Need for withdrawal
‑Role of bombing
‑Role of bombing
-Effect of Senate actions
-Mansfield Amendment
‑Kissinger=s talk to Hugh Scott
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑John C. Stennis
‑US meetings with PRC and Soviet Union
‑Kissinger=s conversation with Chou En‑lai
-PRC influence
‑Further Kissinger and President Contacts
‑Help for Kissinger
‑Haig
‑Security leaks
‑Winston Lord
‑Impact of announcement of PRC trip

PRC
‑Announcement of President's trip

‑Timing
‑Impact
‑Effect on Paris talks
‑Contact with Soviet Union
‑Bruce's mission
‑Kissinger trip to San Clemente
‑Informing William P. Rogers
‑Other travels
‑Camouflage for PRC trip
‑Prevention of leaks
‑Dobrynin's contacts with Kissinger and Rogers
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Mutual and Balances Force Reduction [MBFR]
‑Bruce
‑Rogers and Congressional committees
‑Dean Rusk

Foreign Policy initiatives
‑Announcements
‑President's visit to PRC
‑Bruce's mission
‑Soviet move
‑Presidential visit to the Soviet Union
‑Timing
‑[Richard A. Moore ?]

Vietnam negotiations
‑Support for Thieu
‑Effect of other as President
‑Humphrey
‑Muskie
‑Edward Kennedy
‑Need to prevent Communist takeover
‑Risk of settlement
‑Communist takeover
‑Timing
‑Effect on US policy
-POWs
-Congressional pressure
‑Length
‑Effect of PRC announcement
‑North Vietnamese flexibility

‑Soviet Pressure
‑Berlin talks
‑D. Kenneth Rush
‑Dobrynin
‑SALT
‑North Vietnamese flexibility

PRC initiative
‑PRC cooperation
‑Possible price
‑Taiwan
-US support
‑Announcement
‑Timing
‑Coverage
‑Impact of PRC and US talks
‑Substance
‑Nature of US and PRC relations
-Taiwan
‑Japanese and US long term relationship
-Expansion
-Reasons
-PRC expansion
-Reasons
‑PRC image in other Asian nations
‑Thailand
‑Burma
‑Indonesia
‑Philippines
‑US and PRC detente 
-Impact on Asia
-Balance of power
‑Soviet desire for summit
‑Timing of summits
‑Soviet Union compared with PRC
‑Bruce
‑Rogers
‑Middle East negotiations
-Kissinger=s view
-Conduct of negotiations
‑Bruce
‑Bruce's ability

‑Rejection of publicity
‑Use of Two-man team
‑Soviet Union
‑PRC

General foreign policy performance
‑Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
‑President's role in history
-Kissinger=s view
‑Letter to Kissinger from Harvard "dove"

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:18 pm.

President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:14 pm.

The President and Kissinger left at 9:14 pm.

Conversation No. 529‑15

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:12 am and 9:21 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:21 am.

Conversation No. 529‑16

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  9:21 am ‑ 10:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:22 am.

Briefing
‑Camp David meeting
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Expected Supreme Court decision
‑Dynamics of decision
‑Decisions versus opinions
‑Timing of major decisions

Ziegler left at 9:24 am.

Pentagon Papers
‑Congressional investigation
‑Carl B. Albert
‑Impact on Vietnam negotiations
‑President=s conversation with David K.E. Bruce
‑Prospects
‑Recall of Bruce
‑Prospects for House passage of Mansfield Amendment
‑Lucien N. Nedzi‑Charles W. Whalen, Jr. amendment
‑Whalen
‑Alternative resolution
‑Tactics
‑John W. Byrnes
‑Authority of resolution
‑Impact
‑House prospects
‑Timing of introduction
‑Conference tactics
‑Senate filibuster on draft bill

‑Impact
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Fixed date fund cutoff in both houses
‑Henry A. Kissinger information
‑Fixed date fund cutoff
‑Impact on negotiations
‑Statement by President
‑George P. Shultz
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Upcoming decision
‑Albert
‑F. Edward Hebert

President's schedule
-New Hampshire and Maine
‑Visit by President
‑Timing
‑Ship conversion
-ACTION Project
‑Portsmouth Navy Yard
‑Haldeman forthcoming conversation with William P. Rogers
‑Camp David trip

Pentagon Papers
‑Question and answer session
‑Ehrlichman
‑Timing
‑Value
‑Hostility of audience
‑Haldeman and Richard A. Moore preparations
‑George H. Mahon mailing
‑Attendance
‑Calls to Congressmen
‑Norris Cotton
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑Hugh Scott
‑Longevity of Congressmen
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
‑Duane J. Matthies [?]
‑MacGregor's expertise
‑Responsibility

‑Preparation for Richard H. Ichord
‑Bryce N. Harlow
‑Whalen
‑Congressional tactics
‑Calls to Congressmen
‑Albert
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Other Congressmen

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:24 am.

Request for Kissinger

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:39 am.

President's schedule
‑Albert's health
‑Effect on meeting with President
-Congressional AHalf -hour@, July 2
‑T. Warren Parker
‑Receiving line
‑MacGregor
‑Politically important people

Kissinger entered at 9:39 am.

Casualties
-Number
‑Trends
‑Play by media
‑National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Washington Post/New York Times
‑Pentagon Papers
‑Offensive in Vietnam

President's talk with Albert
‑Effect of Congressional action
‑Negotiations with the Soviet Union
‑People=s Republic of China [PRC] negotiations
‑Vietnam
‑Bruce

‑Recall
‑MacGregor's report
‑Filibuster in Senate
‑Benefit to administration
‑PRC and Soviet Union trip announcements
‑Albert 
-Stand on Congressional action
‑Weekend schedule
‑Health

Congressional action on Vietnam
‑Cutoff of funds
‑MacGregor's report
‑Accuracy
‑Effect on US strategy
‑Kissinger=s conversation with Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Perception of President's action
‑Strategy
-Timing
‑PRC visit announcement
‑End of combat announcement
‑Soviet Union visit announcement
‑MacGregor's report
‑Accuracy
‑Albert
‑Administration opponents
‑Albert
‑Contact with John C. Watts
‑Congress
‑Effect of other accomplishments
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑PRC initiative
‑Ping‑pong diplomacy
‑Vietnam
‑Robert J. Dole
‑Two schools of thought
‑President's success
‑Dole
Vietnam
‑Vietnam strategy
‑"Lifeboat" concept
‑Need for strong front

‑Vietnam agreement
‑Terms
‑Ceasefire
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑President's comments to Albert
‑President's comments to Mansfield
‑Support for President
‑Compared to support for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967
‑Vietnam agreement
‑Nine points
‑Supervision
‑Changes
‑Ceasefire
‑Use as bargaining chip
‑Support for Thieu, Nguyen Cao Ky, and Duong Van Minh
‑Support by South Vietnamese
‑Timing
‑Effect on US strategy
-SALT
‑President's appearance on television
‑Timing
‑Effect on Audiences
‑News summaries
‑Length
‑Compared to foreign service reporting
‑Good ambassadorial reports
‑William C. Bullitt
‑Joseph C. Grew

Pentagon Papers
‑Media coverage
‑Richard (ADick@) Wilson
‑Peter Arnett of Associate Press
‑Arnett=s view of administration
‑Rationale for Arnett story
‑Defense of Daniel Ellsberg
‑Ellsberg criminal prosecution
‑Counterattack after PRC announcement
‑Administration response
‑Albert breakfast
‑President=s contact with Mansfield
‑Bruce

‑Albert
‑Bruce's efforts in PRC
‑Chou En‑lai

Foreign Policy
‑Triumphs
‑SALT
‑PRC
‑Bruce's efforts in PRC
‑Soviet summit
‑Effect on Bruce's efforts in PRC
‑PRC strategy
-Timing
‑Reaction of free Chinese to President's announcement
‑Soviet summit
‑Double play
‑Bruce
‑President's visit
-Compared with Bruce's visit
‑Prospects

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‑Obsession with Vietnam
‑Effect of other events
‑Congressional action
‑Effect of PRC announcement
‑Cut‑off of funds

‑Effective date
‑Watershed of US policy
-End of World War II
‑Civil War
‑PRC announcement
‑Length
‑Content
‑"Peace" focus
‑Pacific region
‑World
‑PRC trip
‑Attendance
‑Rogers
‑Democrats
‑Mansfield
‑Scott
‑Necessity of first visit by President
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Handling by PRC
‑Mansfield's letter to Norodom Sihanonk
‑Invitation by Chou to Mansfield
‑United Nations [UN] debate
‑Rogers
-Timing
‑PRC
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Taiwan
-Reaction

Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:02 am.

Schedule
‑Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy [CCEP]
-Days engagements

Bull left at 10:03 am.

Foreign policy
‑PRC trip
‑Attendance
‑Richard A. Moore [?]
‑Other Democrats

‑Press conferences

The President, Haldeman and Kissinger left at 10:04 am.

Conversation No. 529‑17

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:04 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

Ronald L. Ziegler met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's location

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:04 am.

Schedule
-Briefing
-Defense budget

The President, Butterfield and Ziegler left at 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 529‑18

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:05 am and 10:21 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met at an unknown time after 10:05 am.

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Unknown people left at an unknown time before 10:21 am.

Conversation No. 529‑19

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  10:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at 10:22 am.

Conversation No. 529‑20

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  10:23 am ‑ 10:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy [CCEP] meeting
‑President's comments
‑John B. Connally
‑Repetition at June 29 Cabinet meeting
‑Foreign policy points
‑Domestic policy points

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:24 am.

‑Toughness
‑Need for discipline in foreign policy
‑Credit for policy success
‑Arthur F. Burns= letter
‑Connally
‑Connally meeting with Burns
‑Burns= criticism
‑Scope
‑Audience
‑Effect on morale
‑Permissiveness
‑Lack of discussion

Criticism of President
‑Kissinger=s lunch with Edward R.G. Heath, Sir Alexander Douglas‑Home, and William Whitelaw
‑Public criticism of President
‑British tradition
‑Effect on negotiations

Congressional attendance on People=s Republic of China [PRC] trip
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑President's visit
‑Mansfield
‑Hugh Scott
‑Protocol problems
‑Press conferences

PRC visit announcement
‑Consulation with Congressional leaders
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] consultation
‑Benefits from consultation
‑Location of announcement

‑Consultation with staff
‑Staff work with Congress
‑Television timing
‑Time differences
‑Television build‑up

Pentagon Papers
‑Supreme Court decision
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑Daniel Ellsberg surrender and admission
‑Legal problems
‑Injunction criteria
‑Damage
‑Ellsberg perjury
‑Supreme Court Justices
‑John M. Harlan
‑Potter Stewart
‑Law clerks
‑Social activity
‑Charles W. Colson's memorandum
‑Ellsberg prosecution
‑Problems
‑Need to keep issue alive
‑Senate hearings
‑Democratic fears
‑Administration exploitation
‑Revelation of material by Republicans
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Banner headline
-Korean War and World War II document release

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Domestic policy
‑Burns
‑Background
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower era
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller support
‑European trip
‑Federal Reserve appointment
‑Age
‑Debt to President
‑Respect among economists
‑Foreign travels
‑Israel
‑Korea
‑Japan
‑Future plans
‑President's Domestic Policy Council comments
‑Morality of administration
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Plugging of leaks

Foreign Policy
‑Attacks on President's critics
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Attack on President
‑Timing
‑US openings to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑President's comments to Mansfield
‑Carl B. Albert
‑July 15th annoncement
‑Prospect for PRC visit
-Position of Taiwan
‑Robert Bruce Atwood
‑William P. Rogers
‑Revelation of Kissinger=s efforts
‑Timing
‑President's knowledge
‑Story presented
‑Retrieval of message
‑Knowledge of destination
‑Final Ok for trip
‑President's involvement

‑Kissinger's report
‑Camouflage for trip
‑Rogers
‑Yahya Khan's role
‑Publicity benefits
‑Charges of deception
‑Leaks
‑David K.E. Bruce
‑Rogers= negotiating ability
‑Congressional questions
‑Rogers
‑Bruce
‑Bruce's view of PRC initiative
‑Bruce's attendance on PRC trip
‑Attendance on PRC trip
‑President
‑Rogers
‑Kissinger
‑Bruce
‑Bruce's view on Vietnam negotiations
‑Need for toughness
‑Bruce
-Future negotiations

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:24 am.

Meeting with Vernon E. Jordan

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:51 am.

Foreign policy
‑Bruce's view of Vietnam negotiator
‑New initiatives
‑Congressional view of Vietnam negotiations
‑Charles H. Percy
‑Support for President
‑Repetition of President's CCEP remarks
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Haldeman=s repetition to staff
‑Focus on Pentagon Papers
‑Staff attendance
‑Haldeman

Vietnam Peace Negotiations
‑July 15th announcement
‑Le Duc Tho=s probable response
‑Negotiations
‑Le Duc Tho social contact
‑Le Duc Tho visits to Peking
‑Vernon A. Walters
‑Comment to Kissinger
‑Precedent
‑Le Duc Tho visit to Peking
‑Peking support for North Vietnam
‑Vietnam negotiations
‑South Vietnamese election
‑Incentive to settle
‑Impact of November 1 settlement
‑MacGregor
‑Work with Senate
‑Mansfield

Kissinger and Haldeman left at 10:51 am.

Conversation No. 529‑21

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  10:54 am - 11:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Robert J. Brown, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, and Leonard Garment; Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

General conversation

Jordan=s position
-Activity

National Urban League

-Upcoming convention
-Attendance
-Personnel
‑Harold R. Sims

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:54 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:38 am.

Jordan's background
-Marvin W. Russell
-President and Jordan=s 1956 DePauw University meeting
‑Eugene S. Pullian
‑Russell J. Humbolt [?]
‑Work
‑Family
‑Work
‑Early experience
-DePauw University
‑Experiences
‑Responsibilities
‑Benefits
‑Humbolt [?]
-Pullian
-Resignation from DePauw University Board of Trustees

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:54 am.

Presentation to President
-Photograph
-1956 President and Jordan meeting [?]
-Description

National Urban League
-Jordan=s leadership
-Timing
-Whitney M. Young, Jr.
-Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Mystique

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:35 am.

-Youth
-Death
-Jordan=s leadership
‑Youth
‑Benefits
‑Youth
‑Courage
‑Relationship with administration
‑Shultz and H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Young
‑Administration commitment
‑Calls to Ehrlichman and Shultz
‑Cooperation
‑Contact with President
‑Disagreements
‑Jordan's address to unknown college
‑Money available
‑Money cuts for schools
-Programs
-Funds for the Urban League
‑Department of Labor
-Other agencies
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Office of Economic Policy
-Department of Defense [DOD]
‑Office of Management and Budget [OMB] coordination
‑Sims
‑Credit to administration
‑Movement from House of Representatives and Senate
‑President's experience
‑Jordan's residence
‑Funds for Urban League
‑Source
‑Drug program
‑Effect of drug problem
‑Veterans
‑Youth
‑Racial distinction
‑Education money
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe

‑Education programs of Urban League
‑Atlanta
‑Need for drug program
‑Scope of problem
‑Public relations
‑Achievements of Urban League
‑Need to provide service
‑Jaffe
‑Urban League role in drug programs
‑Public relations
-Urban League mission
-President=s suggestions
‑Black Caucus
‑Charles B. Rangel
‑Domestic problems
-Supply
‑Turkey
‑France
‑Vietnam
‑Drug programs
‑Appeal to various groups
‑Rangel
-President=s suggestions
‑Need to broaden scope
‑Donald McI. Kendall
‑Competition for money
‑Urban coalitions
‑Obscure sources
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
‑Unknown Atlanta girl
‑School paper
‑Drug knowledge
‑Background
‑Drug programs
‑Teacher training
‑Need for current knowledge
‑John Mackey visit
‑Responsibility of athletes in education
‑Carl M. Yastrzemski
-Jordan=s press conference
‑Revenue sharing discussion

‑Clarence Coleman
‑Edwin L. Harper
‑Information session
‑Welfare reform
‑Administration efforts
‑Drawbacks
‑Change in approach
‑Urban League position
‑Elliot L. Richardson 
-Expertise
‑Urban League approach
‑Goals
‑Effect on worker
‑Manpower and revenue sharing
‑Training benefits
‑Link to welfare
‑Administration's overall approach to welfare and revenue sharing
‑Objectives
‑Rise of self‑respect
‑Incentives
‑Sensitivity to citizens
‑Urban League
‑President=s visit to New York offices
‑Emphasis on dignity and self‑respect
‑Benefits to all races
‑Chicanos
‑Whites
‑Blacks
‑Focus on social problems
‑Task force approval
‑West Virginia
‑Mississippi
‑Alabama
‑Illinois
‑Aid to poor
‑Message from Washington
‑George Bartlett
‑Welfare and revenue sharing
‑Senate action
‑Senate sentiment
‑Opposition to social programs
‑Need for support in Senate

‑Alternative Senate plans
‑New York problems
‑Inadequacy of present system
‑Administration efforts
‑Drug, welfare and revenue sharing programs
‑Richardson
‑James D. Hodgson
‑Arthur A. Fletcher
-Philadelphia program
‑Need for specifics
-Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Urban League opportunities
‑New leadership
‑Jordan
-Opportunity
‑Need for initiatives
‑Theodore (ATeddy@) Roosevelt
‑Jordan
‑Responsibilities to constituents
‑Extremes of behavior
‑Administration efforts
-Welfare
-Urban problem
-Desegregation
‑Basis for relations with Urban League
‑Cooperation on drug and revenue sharing

Shultz and Garment left at 11:35 am.

Autograph

Gift presentation
‑Jordan
‑Martha's Vineyard
‑Golf balls
-Kendall
-Paperweight
-Pens
-Jordan=s daughter
‑Jordan's secretary
‑Jordan's wife

Football
‑Jordan's career
‑Size of players
‑Mackey
‑Melody[?]
‑Southern California star
-Kansas City Chiefs

Jordan and Brown left at 11:38 am.

Language of press statement

Ehrlichman left at 11:38 am.

Conversation No. 529‑24

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:38 am and 11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  1s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:46 am.

Conversation No. 529‑22

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:38 am and 11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 5‑164]

Conversation No. 529‑23

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  11:39 pm ‑ 1:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

New York Times story of Ambassadorial transfers
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Terance F. Smith
-Peoples Republic of China [PRC]
‑Reference to Kissinger's trip
‑Photograph
‑Story
‑Chou En‑lai
‑William P. Rogers
‑Kissinger
‑Haldeman meeting with Kissinger
‑Further stories
‑Rogers= Role
‑Rogers= information
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr. role
‑National Security Council [NSC] staff leaks
‑Race to visit PRC
‑George S. McGovern's Ottawa trip
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy contact with Chou En‑lai
‑White House denial of Kissinger trip
‑Possibility of Rogers= leak

‑Chinese leak
‑Arthur W. Galston
‑Meeting with Chou En‑lai
‑John Foster Dulles demeanor
‑1954 Geneva conference
‑McGovern political prospects
‑Nixon stand on Communism
‑Nixon PRC visit
‑Galston
‑PRC leaks
‑Rogers= knowledge of PRC trip
‑PRC leaks
‑Kissinger
‑Accuracy of Ambassadorial transfers
‑David K.E. Bruce
‑State Department release of information
‑Propriety

[The President talked with Congressman Donald G. Brotzman between 11:46 am and 11:47 am]

[Conversation No. 529‑23A]

[See Conversation No. 5‑165]

[End of Telephone Conversation]

Times story on Ambassadors
‑Reference to Kissinger's Peking trip
‑Relation to other stories
‑Rogers leaks
‑Details of story

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 11:47 am and 11:50 am]

[Conversation No. 529‑23B]

Request for meeting 

[End of telephone conversation]

Times story on Ambassadors
‑Reference to Kissinger's Peking trip

‑State Department transfers
‑Philip C. Habib
‑William J. Porter
‑Korea
‑Marshall Green
‑Armin H. Meyer
‑Japan
‑William H. Sullivan
‑Leonard Unger
‑Thailand
‑Charles Whitehouse
‑Sullivan
‑Accuracy
‑Change in Assignments

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:47 am and 11:51 am]

[Conversation No. 529‑23C]

[See Conversation No. 5‑166]

[End of telephone conversation]

Times story on Ambassadors
‑Reference to Kissinger's Peking trip
‑Leaks
‑State Department transfers
‑John S.D. Eisenhower
‑Walworth Barbour
‑Tel Aviv

[The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan between 11:50 Am and 11:51 am]

[Conversation No. 529‑23D]

[See Conversation No. 5‑167]

[End of telephone conversation]

Times Story on Ambassadors
‑Reference to Ambassadorial appointments

‑Haldeman=s call to Rogers
‑Revocation of decision on assignments
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Habib
‑Korea
‑Porter
‑Southeast Asia
‑Green
‑Japan
‑Sullivan
‑Thailand
‑Unger
‑Sullivan
-Whitehouse

Kissinger entered at 11:51 am.

‑Accuracy
‑Reference to Kissinger trip to Peking
‑Rogers
‑Rogers= information
‑Leaks
‑Kissinger staff
‑Clues from story
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Galston
‑Press conference information
-President=s possible visit
‑Smith=s calls to Kissinger's staff
‑Kissinger staff instructions 
-Times phone calls

[The President talked with the White House Operator at an unknown time between 11:51 am and 12:20 pm]

[Conversation No. 529‑23E]

[See Conversation No. 5‑168]

[End of telephone conversation]

Times story on Ambassadors

‑Reference to Kissinger trip to Peking
‑Rogers
‑Richard F. Pederson
‑Haldeman contact with Rogers
‑Packaging of story
‑Benefit to Rogers

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[National Security]
[Duration:  3s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12

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‑Kissinger standing with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Precedent of Chinese leak
‑Chinese leak
‑Chinese interests
‑Recent Chinese note
‑Kissinger trip to Rawalpindi

[The President talked with Congressman Jack H. McDonald at an unknown time between 11:50 am and 12:20 pm]

[Conversation No. 529‑23F]

[See Conversation No. 5‑169]

Times story on Ambassadors
‑Reference to Kissinger's Peking trip
‑Rogers
‑State Department leak
‑Galston interview

‑Chou En‑lai
‑Rationale from PRC point
‑PRC
‑Meeting in Norway
‑Ambassadorial leaks
‑Revocation of appointments
‑Announcement of appointments
‑Effect on Kissinger
‑Eisenhower appointment
‑Kissinger=s meeting with Dobrynin
‑Kissinger reference to Times story
‑President's press statement of PRC visit
‑Kissinger's announcement of Saigon trip
‑Speculation
‑PRC announcement
‑Haldeman=s contact with Rogers
‑PRC request for envoy
‑Warsaw meeting
‑Coverage by article
‑Rogers= knowledge of Kissinger's trip
‑Rogers
‑Packaging of story
‑State Department leak
‑Announcement of Kissinger's trip
‑Press speculation
‑Impact of story
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's comment
‑Haldeman=s contact with Rogers
‑Focus on Ambassadorial appointments leak
‑Focus on Rogers leak
‑Withdrawal of appointments
‑Effect on PRC announcement
‑PRC announcement
‑Kissinger contact with PRC
-Ziegler
‑Effect on US and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
‑Dobrynin positioning
‑Consideration of US and USSR summit
‑Reference to Ambassadorial appointments
‑Accuracy
‑Rationale

‑Haldeman=s contact with Rogers
‑Focus on appointment leaks
‑Revocation of appointments
‑Habib
‑Debt of administration
‑Sullivan
‑Porter
‑Asian post
‑Green
‑Announcement timing
‑August 1 date
‑July 15 announcement
‑Need for discipline
‑Johnson precedent
‑Revocation of appointments
‑Effect on USSR summit
‑Rogers= role
‑Source of information
‑Haig
‑Chinese 
‑USSR
‑Rogers= knowledge of PRC initiative
‑White House contact
‑Discrepancy in Kissinger schedule

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[National Security]
[Duration:  32s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15

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‑Testing of diplomatic waters

‑Rogers
‑PRC revelation
‑Ambassadorial appointments
‑Discipline of State Department
‑Revocation of Ambassadorial appointments
‑Sullivan utility
‑Paris
‑Speculation regarding PRC
‑Complaint regarding Ambassador schedule
‑Smith
‑Source of PRC speculation
‑Text of story
‑Rebuttal of PRC story
‑Rogers= role
‑Rationale for leak
‑Clues to Kissinger's intentions
‑Timing of PRC trip
‑Haig's role
‑Haldeman and Rogers contact
‑Reason for Kissinger's India and Pakistan trip
‑Rogers= role
‑Clues to Kissinger's mission
‑Letter pick up
‑Haig role
‑Kissinger role
‑Appropriateness
‑Rationale

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[National Security]
[Duration:  42s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16

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‑Separation of stories
‑Ambassador's article
‑Yitzhak Rabin article
‑PRC article
‑"Washington Notes" compared with Newsweek "Periscope"
‑Ellsworth F. Bunker and Bruce article
-Haig
‑Effect on US and USSR relations
‑Kissinger contact with Anatoliy Dobrynin
‑Summit delays
‑Us options
‑Leaks
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
[National Security]
[Duration:  35s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17

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‑Kissinger=s Asia trip
‑Publication of arrival times
‑Official greetings
‑Nixon trips as former Vice President
‑Agenda questions
‑Visits to Prime Minister and Cabinet
‑Saigon visit
-Public Information Officer [PIO]
‑Bruce
-Bunker
‑Press contacts
‑[Forename unknown] Thurman
‑Robert Elliott

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18
[Privacy]
[Duration:  5s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18

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‑Saigon press corps
‑Evasion of questions
‑Photographs of Kissinger and Nguyen Van Thieu meeting

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20
[National Security]
[Duration:  28s  ]

INDIA AND PAKISTAN

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20

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-Informing Rogers
‑Departure
‑Dobrynin
‑Contact with President

Kissinger left at 12:20 pm.

‑Rogers
‑Results
‑Kissinger

‑Rogers= demeanor
‑Play to John D. Ehrlichman
‑Pentagon Papers
‑Haldeman call to Rogers
‑Kissinger visit
‑Pederson
‑Details of call
‑Conference with an unknown person
‑Pederson
‑Haldeman's instructions to Rogers
‑Rogers= call to Haldeman
‑Conference with an unknown person
‑Pederson
‑U. Alexis Johnson
‑Haig's suggestion
‑Source
‑Haldeman call to Rogers
‑Result
‑Ambassadorial appointments
‑Announcement
-Kissinger=s concern
‑Rogers
‑President's tactics
‑Delay
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Rogers= reaction
‑Senate action
‑Ziegler comment
‑State Department concern
‑U. Alexis Johnson call
‑Green
‑Japan appointment
‑Alternative
‑Japan
‑Prospects
‑Businessman
‑Haig
‑Kissinger's demeanor
‑Source of story
‑State Department
‑Pederson
‑Ziegler

‑Knowledge of PRC deal
‑Comments
‑Interpretation
‑President's comments
‑Visit to PRC
‑Wording
‑Kissinger
‑Source
‑State Department
‑Rogers
‑Knowledge of PRC deal
‑Results
‑Rogers= position
‑Need for knowledge

Cabinet meeting, June 29
‑President's comments
‑Agenda
‑Economic situation
‑Foreign policy
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Rogers
‑Memos concerning policy
‑Publication
‑Pentagon Papers
‑John B. Connally
‑Precedent
‑Attendance
‑Haig
‑Ehrlichman
‑Peterson
‑President's comments
‑Need for discipline
‑Haldeman
‑Staff discipline
‑Foreign policy
‑Domestic policy

Times story on Ambassadors
‑Rogers
‑Leaks of information
‑State Department

‑Pederson
‑Impact on Terance Smith
‑Rogers= interest

Cabinet meeting, June 29
‑Precedent of economic group meeting
‑Haldeman possible conversation with Connally
‑Effect of remarks on economic groups
‑Effect of State Department and Defense Department presence
‑Economic decisions

Rogers= travels
‑California
‑Maine

Times story on Ambassadors
‑State Department
‑Rogers
‑Rationale
‑Pederson
‑Kissinger's PRC efforts
‑Use of knowledge
‑PRC view of emissaries
‑Rogers
‑Kissinger
‑Timing
‑1972
‑1971
‑Timing
‑Speculation of visit by President
‑Election
‑Speculation
‑Impact
‑Knowledge of facts
‑Contact with US
‑Announcement of PRC trip
‑Announcement of USSR summit
‑Kissinger efforts
‑Impact on role with USSR
‑Kissinger stature
‑Dobrynin
‑Administration's options

‑Connally
‑Haldeman and Connally

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:20 pm.

Request for Rose Mary Woods

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.

The President left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:20 pm and 1:40 pm]

[Conversation No. 529‑23G]

[See Conversation No. 5‑170; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Woods entered at 12:43 pm.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  27s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Haldeman talked with John B. Connally at an unknown time before 12:52 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Speech writing
‑Spacing of text
‑Binding of speeches

‑Safety factor
‑West Point example
‑Precedent
‑Usual impression
‑Past success

Schedule
‑Marine trip
‑Kansas City trip for Kissinger[?]
‑Relation to Florida trip

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 44s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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John D. Ehrlichman entered at 12:52 pm.

Political discussion
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Lyndon B. Johnson

Drugs
-Turkey
‑Opium deal
‑Release
‑Timing
‑Scope
-Mitchell and Connally debate
‑Customs Agents
‑Egil G (ABud@) Krogh role
‑President's decision
‑Timing
‑Connally request

‑Mitchell
‑Rationale
‑Contact with Connally
‑Outcome of Krogh mission
‑Ehrlichman
‑Krogh mission
‑Departure
‑Friction between agencies

Crime
‑Mitchell announcement
‑Crime statistics
‑Washington, DC figures
‑Timing
‑Federal Bureau Investigation [FBI] graduation
-Pentagon Papers
‑Court decision
‑Term extension

Cabinet meeting
‑President's comments
‑Effect on State Department and Department of Defense [DOD]
-Results

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  25s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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Conference on Aging
‑Arthur S. Fleming role
‑Administration strategy
‑George Wiley

Turkey
‑Opium agreement
‑Public relations
‑Statement by President
‑Praising Turkish Prime Minister
‑Charles B. Rangel
‑Daniel P. (APat@)Moynihan
‑Scope of agreement

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  11m 27s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9

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Woods left at 1:11 pm.

Cabinet meeting
‑President's comments
‑Connally
‑Need for control of leaks
‑Rogers
‑Leak problems
‑White House leak problems
‑Robert H. Finch
‑Lower staff levels
‑Newspaper story
‑Handling of Pentagon Papers
‑Kissinger
‑Disagreement with policy
‑Public criticism
‑Staff meeting
‑Haldeman comments
‑Public statements
‑Use of judgement

Haldeman=s conversation with Connally
‑Leadership
‑President's efforts
‑Orientation to domestic questions
‑Projection next year
‑Connally memoranda
‑International trade
‑Restriction on imports
‑George P. Shultz
-Economy
‑Unemployment
‑Fiscal responsibility
‑Inflation
‑Labor vote
‑Foreign trade protection of jobs
‑Solution of problems
‑Concern of President
‑Steel problems
‑Peterson
‑Type of President
‑Public vs. private
‑President's attributes
‑Statement of President's views
‑DOD reorganization
‑Fiscal responsibility
‑Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] dispersal
‑Defense spending
‑Belief in free enterprise
‑Contribution to reelection
-Public mood
-OEO
-Model cities
‑End of Great Society programs
‑Relation to Barry M. Goldwater
‑Role of President's aides
‑Business perception
-Inflation
‑Meetings with smaller groups
‑Appeal to nation
-Ability of speechwriters
‑Strength of Cabinet officers
‑August trip

‑Africa and Europe trip compared with US trip
‑President's analysis of US mood
‑Use of statistics
‑Personal contact
‑Indianapolis trip
‑Maine trip
‑Less focus on organization
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:11 am.

[Item for Haldeman]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.

Agnew
‑As an issue

The President left at an unknown time after 1:11 pm.

[Fifty second pause]

The President entered at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.

‑Problems
‑Posture
‑Attitude
‑Capabilities
‑Office of Intergovernmental Relations
‑Use of Vice President

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  5m 27s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10

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‑Leadership
‑Mistakes
‑Press handling
‑Need for firmness
‑Foreign policy
‑Domestic policy
‑President's interest
‑Radio speech
‑Connally view
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. view
‑Previous administration's programs
‑Medicare
‑Head Start
‑Upward Bound
‑Nixon administration's programs
‑ACTION
‑Ehrlichman
‑Attributes
‑President's memo to Haldeman
‑Goals
‑Leadership
‑Issues
‑Talks usefulness
‑Use of statistics

August trip
‑Timing
‑Congressional recess
‑Public relations
‑Press

Connally comments
‑Ehrlichman
‑Shultz
‑Finch
‑Press handling
‑Purpose

Schedule
‑NSC meeting on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
‑Laird

‑Kissinger
‑Time change
‑FBI graduation
‑Free time
‑President=s meeting with Kissinger

Kissinger's Trip to Asia
‑Positions assumed
‑Results

Times story on Ambassadors
‑Rogers
-State Department
‑Lower level leak
-Possible goal
‑Reduce Kissinger's effectiveness with Dobrynin

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Privacy]
[Duration:  15s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11

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The President and Haldeman left at 1:40 pm.