Conversation No. 531‑1

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 4:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman met with unknown people.

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Haldeman and the unknown people left.

Conversation No. 531‑2

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  4:32 pm - 4:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henrik S. Houthakker and Paul W. McCracken; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Houthakker's departure

Arrangements for photograph

Houthakker's service

Presentation of gifts by President

Deans of Law School and Medical School at Harvard University

Houthakker and McCracken left and Stephen B. Bull entered at 4:35 pm.

Jane Dart
‑Justin W. Dart

Bull left at 4:35 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑3

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  4:35 pm ‑ 4:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Jane Dart and John D. Ehrlichman; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Dart's activities
-Robert H. Finch

Arrangements for photograph

Dart's plans for future
-Travel

Presentation of gifts by President

Justin W. Dart
‑Health
‑Activities
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower[?]

Dart and Ehrlichman left at 4:39 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑4

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  4:39 pm ‑ 4:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Barbara G. Kilberg and John D. Ehrlichman; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Kilberg
‑Name
‑Experience with White House
‑Plans for future

Abe Fortas
‑Wife

Hugo L. Black

Presentation of gifts by President

Kilberg and Ehrlichman left at 4:41 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑5

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  4:41 pm ‑ 4:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Jerome M. Rosow, James D. Hodgson, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz and Stephen B. Bull; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Rosow
‑Future plans

Arrangements for photograph

Rosow
‑Accomplishments

Presentation of gifts by President

New York City
‑Commuting

Russell Train
-Environment
-Employment

Rosow, et al., left at 4:44 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑6

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  4:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑C. Fred Bergsten
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at 4:44 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑7

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  4:44 pm ‑ 4:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, C. Fred Bergsten, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Bergsten's plans
‑Brookings Institute
‑Book
‑Peter G. Peterson
-Arthur F. Burns

Bergsten's family

Presentation of gifts by President

Bergsten's accomplishments
‑Henry A. Kissinger, Haig

Bergsten, et al., left at 4:47 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑8

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  4:47 pm ‑ 4:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with T. Warren Parker and Charles W. Colson; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Parker's service
‑Colson

Arrangements for photograph

Parker
‑Plans
‑Marine Corps
-University of Maryland

Presentation of gift by President

Marines
‑President's World War II experience

Vietnam

Parker and Colson left at 4:49 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑9

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  4:49 pm ‑ 4:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William E. Casselman II and William E. Timmons; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Casselman's plans
‑General Services Administration [GSA]

Arrangements for photograph

GSA
‑Robert L. Kunzig

Presentation of gifts by President
‑Casselman's wife

Casselman's background
-Timmons
‑John W. Dean, III

President's meeting with Carl B. Albert, June 28
‑Vietnam vote
‑Gerald R. Ford
-Albert's health

Conference Committee meeting
‑F. Edward Hébert
‑Leslie C. Arends
‑John C. Stennis
‑Margaret Chase Smith
‑Possible outcome
-Administration tactics

Casselman and Timmons left at 4:52 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑10

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  4:52 pm ‑ 4:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William E. Kriegsman, Stephen B. Bull, John C. Whitaker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Arrangements for photograph

President's autograph
‑Pen

Kriegsman's calls to Bryce N. Harlow

Kriegsman, et al., left at 4:54 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑11

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  4:54 pm ‑ 4:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield, Stephen B. Bull, and Ronald A. Harley; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Harley's experience

Arrangements for photograph

Harley's experience

Presentation of gifts by President

President's schedule

Bull, et al., left at 4:56 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑12

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:56 pm and 5:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Terry McGinnity
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:07 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑13

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:56 pm and 5:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Classified material
‑Access
-The President=s instructions
‑Brookings Institute
‑Research and Development Corporation [RAND]
‑Study
‑Reduction of number of cleared personnel
‑Reduction in creation
‑Access
‑Brookings
‑Council of Foreign Relations
‑RAND Corporation
‑Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
‑Reductions
‑President=s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
‑Unknown person from California
‑State Department and Defense Department clearances

[End of conversation]

Conversation No. 531‑14

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:56 pm and 5:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
‑Terry McGinnity
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:07 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑15

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:56 pm and 5:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Barber
-Upcoming meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:07 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑16

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  5:07 pm ‑ 5:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally and Arthur F. Burns.

Greetings

Refreshments

National economy
‑Burns= letter to President
‑Wage and price controls
-Taxes
‑Inflation
‑Fiscal stimulation
-Tax issue
‑Government spending
-Taxes
‑Acceleration of personal exemption
‑Corporate tax
‑Depreciation allowance
‑Hearings
‑Connally's conversation with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.

-Possible lawsuit
‑Common Cause
‑Ralph Nader
‑Effect on tax receipts
‑Creation of jobs
‑Investment tax credit
-Burns= view
‑Personal income tax
‑Prospects for tax legislation
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Conversation with Burns
‑Revenue‑sharing
‑Political ambitions
‑Health
‑1971, 1972
‑President's comments to Cabinet
-Cabinet Committee on economic policy
‑Connally as spokesman
-Quadriad
‑Need for single administration spokesman
‑Burns
‑Burns= relationship with President
‑William McChesney Martin's relationships with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and John F. Kennedy
‑Connally as administration spokesman
‑James G. Hodgson
‑George W. Romney
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Impact of Burns= statements
‑Responsibility
-President
‑Advisors
‑Joseph W. Martin, Jr.'s comments
‑President's work habits
‑President's policy
‑Jawboning
‑Forthcoming meeting with steel industry representatives
-Possible settlements
-Connally
-President=s meeting with the Productivity Council
‑Federal budget
‑Accelerated public works
‑Forthcoming veto

‑Teenage unemployment
‑Forthcoming veto
-Reasons
‑Inflation
-Pending legislation
-Blue-collar workers
‑Federal salaries
‑Post Office
‑Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
‑Forthcoming veto
-Wage and price control
‑Comparison with construction workers
‑Wage and price board, freeze
‑Firmness
‑Jawboning
‑Import restrictions
‑Quota legislation from Congress
‑Balance of trade
‑Discipline within administration
‑President's schedule
‑Fiscal year 1973 budget
-Camp David meeting
-Difficulties
‑Discipline in public comments
‑Burns
-Monetary policy
-Wage and price controls
-Taxes
-Budget
-New economic policy
-Need for unity in position
-Connally
-Articulation of policy
‑New York Times article
‑Burns= Pepperdine College address
-Impact
‑Burns= conversation with President
-Economic policy
‑Dissemination of Burns= views
-Public statements
‑Burns= Pepperdine College speech
‑Burns= forthcoming Congressional testimony
‑Wage and price controls

‑Burns
‑Integrity
‑Role
‑Views on incomes policy
‑Wage and price controls
‑John J. Sparkman's possible hearing
‑William Proxmire
‑Burns= forthcoming testimony
‑President's support
‑Expression of views
-Burns= testimony
-Possible statement
‑Incomes policy
‑David M. Kennedy's comments
‑Burns= effectiveness
‑Impact of events
-Wage and price controls
‑President's responsibility
-Burns= policy
-Effect on President's policy
‑Burns= comments
‑Possible public perception
‑Connally as administration spokesman
‑Martin's comments on federal budgets
‑Burns= comments on incomes policy
‑Forthcoming testimony
-Incomes policy
‑Wage and price controls
‑Pepperdine College speech
‑Public confusion
‑President's policy
‑Effect
‑Burns= meeting with President
‑Thomas E. Dewey's funeral
‑Burns= forthcoming public statements
-Unity
‑Burns= letter to the President
‑Investment tax credit
‑Analysis of changes in economy
‑Inflation
-President=s perception
-Connally
‑Burns= public comments

‑Changes from previous positions
‑Munich
‑President's policy
‑Antagonism of financial press
‑Burns= letter
‑Federal employees' wages
‑Burns= public comments
‑Monetary policy
‑Connally's testimony
‑Range of subjects
‑Possible Congressional testimony
‑Connally's forthcoming statement
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Economic policy
‑Burns= forthcoming testimony
-Incomes policy
‑President's policy
-Wage and price controls
-National Commission on Productivity
-Welfare
‑Jawboning
‑Lockheed
‑Labor settlements
‑Steel

President's schedule
‑Barber

National economy
‑Burns= letter
‑Burns= relationship with Connally
‑Burns= views

Connally and Burns left at 5:58 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑17

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  5:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

[Unintelligible]

Stephen B. Bull entered at 5:58 pm.

President's schedule
‑Barber

Sanchez and Bull left at 5:58 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑18

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  5:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑6]

Conversation No. 531‑19

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  5:59 pm ‑ 6:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's previous conversation with Arthur F. Burns and John B. Connally

[The President talked with George P. Shultz between 5:59 pm and 6:01 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑19A]

[See Conversation No. 6‑7]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's previous conversation with Burns and Connally

Administration=s policy
-Consistency
-Implication

Terry McGinnity
‑President's schedule
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.'s view
‑Work
-Quality

President's speech writers
‑William L. Safire's work
‑Work
‑Price, Lee W. Huebner, Noel C. Koch

McGinnity
‑Patrick J. Buchanan's and Charles W. Colson's views
-Article
‑Possible assignment

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‑Conversation with Haldeman
‑Additional work

Connally's role with Administration
‑Haldeman's possible conversations
‑Price
‑Colson
‑Buchanan
‑Richard A. Moore

President's speechwriters
‑Drug policy speech
‑Presidential speech style
‑Safire
‑Simplicity

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‑Call to Haldeman

Henry A. Kissinger
‑Views concerning Soviets
‑Call from W. Averell Harriman
‑Le Duc Tho
‑Concerns
H. ‑William Sullivan
‑Conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

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-Negotiations

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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‑Speculation
-Haig
‑Ecuador

Vietnam
‑Vote in Congress
‑Carl B. Albert
‑Lucien N. Nedzi‑Charles W. Whalen, Jr. Amendment
‑Pentagon Papers
‑Clark MacGregor

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Alexander P. Butterfield
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount

President and Haldeman left at 6:15 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑20

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:45 pm and 6:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑8]

Conversation No. 531‑21

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  6:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Arrival of unknown person

Bull left at 6:46 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑22

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  6:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
‑Chowder and Marching Society
‑Gerald R. Ford

Butterfield left at 6:47 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑23

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  6:47 pm - 6:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

[See Conversation No. 6‑9]

Conversation No. 531‑24

Date:  June 28, 1971
Time:  6:50 pm ‑ 7:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 6:50 pm.

Items for the President
-Signature

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 7:05 pm.

Pentagon Papers
-Daniel Ellsberg
‑Pending judicial action
‑Prior restraint
‑Theft of documents
-Intent

‑Government proof
‑Handling by government
‑Public reaction
‑President's barber
‑Poll
‑Colson's carpenter
-Prosecution
‑Effect on Democrats
‑Congressional hearings
‑Pending judicial action
‑Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy
‑Possible additional leaks
‑Cambodia, Laos
-Casualties
‑Reaction
‑Harry F. Byrd, Jr.'s conversation with Colson
‑Prosecution
‑Prosecution
‑Possible effect
‑Ellsberg
‑President's phrase "stolen documents"
‑Repetition
‑Press reaction
‑Prosecution
‑Martyrdom
‑Credibility of administration
‑Ellsberg's motives and associates

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:50 pm.

Sanchez's schedule

President's schedule

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:05 pm.

Pentagon Papers
‑Prosecution
‑John N. Mitchell's views
‑Leonard Garment
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.'s, Richard A. Moore's views

‑Credibility of administration
‑Effect on Democrats
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
-Justification
‑Liberal media
‑Phil Potter of the Baltimore Sun
‑Effect on career
‑Effect on Edmund S. Muskie
‑Administration=s efforts
‑1968 election
‑Muskie's defense of Johnson=s war policy
-H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Popular reaction
-Administration polls
‑Gallup and Harris polls
‑Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]

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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 7:05 pm.

Presidential statement and event

Butterfield left at 7:08 pm.

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Pentagon Papers
-Impact on John F. Kennedy image
‑Robert S. McNamara
-Public opinion

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 7:08 pm and 7:12 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑24A]

[See Conversation No. 6‑10]

[End of telephone conversation]

Pentagon Papers
‑Effect on public opinion
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Duration 

[The President talked with Rex W. Scouten between 7:12 pm and 7:13 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑24B]

[See Conversation No. 6‑11]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
‑Chowder and Marching Society dinner

Pentagon Papers
‑Impact on administration
‑Impact on Democrats

Polls
‑National economy
-Public perception
‑President's standing
‑Vietnam
‑Pentagon Papers
‑Economic changes
-Effect

National economy
‑Unemployment
‑President's comments to Cabinet, June 28th
-Administration statements

Polls
-Public perception
‑Effect of media
‑National economy
‑Five-year performance
‑Trend
-War issue

1972 election
‑John P. Roche's column
‑President's prospects
‑1956 election
-Economy
-War
-Advantages
-@Aura@ of the Presidency

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National economy
‑Harris poll
‑National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] Television News reports
‑Public confidence
-President=s previous meeting with the Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy
‑Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] leaks
‑Colson's comments to Paul W. McCracken
‑Dan Rather's statements
‑John B. Connally as spokesman
‑Arthur F. Burns

Vietnam
‑Duration as issue

Pentagon Papers
-Ellsberg
‑Jury selection
‑Judicial process
‑Alger Hiss case
‑Duration
‑Ellsberg's possible testimony
‑Reaction
‑Byrd
‑Miami Herald
‑Detroit News
‑Copley chain

Forthcoming issues poll
‑Louis P. Harris

Harris
‑Views on 1972 election

Polls
‑Trial heats
‑Contrast with election process

The President and Colson left at 7:25 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑25/530‑15

Date:  June 29, 1971
Time:  12:46 pm ‑ 1:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman; this recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress.

Leaks
‑Interdepartmental rivalry
‑John N. Mitchell

John B. Connally
-National Commission on Productivity
‑Activities

Leaks
‑Effect on public confidence in administration
‑President's comments to Cabinet
‑Peter G. Peterson's reaction
‑Haldeman's forthcoming briefing to White House staff
‑Mitchell
‑Peterson
-Search for Ambassador to Japan
-Unknown man

The President and Haldeman left at 1:11 pm.

Conversation No. 531-32

Date:  June 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 4:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Bull and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:18 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑26

Date:  June 29, 1971
Time:  4:18 pm - 4:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-William P. Rogers [?]
‑George H.W. Bush
‑John D. Ehrlichman
-Unintelligible name

Butterfield left at 4:21 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑27

Date:  June 29, 1971
Time:  4:21 pm ‑ 4:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's schedule
‑Kissinger's appointment for Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] graduation
‑National Security Council [NSC]
‑Agenda

Kissinger's schedule
‑Dobrynin
‑Agenda
-Soviet summit

President's schedule
‑Possible visit to Soviet Union
‑Charles L. Bartlett
‑Pentagon Papers
‑Kissinger
‑Dobrynin
‑Kissinger
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger's schedule
‑Backgrounders for press
‑Trip

President's schedule
‑Possible visit to Soviet Union
‑Dobrynin
‑Haig
-Ramifications of summit announcement
‑Possible visit to People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑Effect of announcement
‑David K.E. Bruce
‑Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Kissinger's forthcoming visit to Pakistan
-Logistics
‑Possible visit to Soviet Union
‑Timing
‑Bruce's possible assignment to PRC
-Goal

Vietnam
‑July 15 announcement
-Effect on North Vietnamese

Kissinger's schedule
‑President
‑Dobrynin
‑Bruce, D. Kenneth Rush

Kissinger left at 4:31 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑28

Date:  June 29, 1971
Time:  4:32 pm ‑ 5:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld

Presidential statements
‑Use of teleprompter
‑Delivery style
‑Richard A. Moore's views
‑Delivery style

Honor America Day program
‑Producer
‑J. Willard Marriott
‑Television network time
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑William F. (ABilly@) Graham
‑Frank Borman
‑Kate Smith
‑Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope
‑Jack Benny
‑Interviews

Presidential statements
‑Use of teleprompter
‑Quality of writing
‑Use of teleprompter

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.

Presidential statements
‑President's forthcoming speech at the National Archives, July 3
-Staff work on speech
-William L. Safire
-William H. Carruthers
-President=s possible delivery
-Closing
‑Speechwriting
‑Use of President=s rhetoric
‑Writers
‑John K. Andrews, Jr.
‑Use of teleprompter

President's schedule
‑National Commission on Productivity
‑Rumsfeld
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Mr. and Mrs. Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
‑Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
‑Political dinner
‑National Park Dinner in Yosemite
-Thelma C. (APat@) Ryan
-Rex W. Scouten
-Arrangements
-Haldeman=s view
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] graduation
-Remarks
‑Drug announcement
‑Presidential appointees
‑National Park Dinner
-Date
‑Purpose
‑Poll results
‑Size
‑Advantages
-Groups in attendance
‑Arthur Godfrey

‑Advantages
‑Subsequent visit to park
‑Jackson Hole, Yosemite
‑Scheduling announcement
‑Midwest media briefing
‑John D. Ehrlichman's views on format
‑Pentagon Papers statement
-Revenue sharing
‑Timing
‑Ehrlichman's views
‑Timing of court decision on Pentagon Papers
‑Preparation of President's statement
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Ehrlichman
-Staff work
‑Delivery of President's statement
‑Press conference
‑Timing
‑National Association of Counties
‑Peoples Coalition meeting in Milwaukee
‑Billy Graham
‑New Hampshire, Maine
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Visits to 50 states
‑Planning, spontaneity
‑Blount dinner
-FBI graduation ceremony
-Preparation of remarks
‑Nobusuke Kishi
‑Walter P. McConaughy
‑Kishi

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Ehrlichman
‑Pentagon Papers
-Views on prosecution
‑Judgement
‑Views concerning declassification program
-Wording of statement

Declassification
‑National Security Council [NSC] committee recommendations

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:32 pm and 5:03 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28A]

[See Conversation 6‑24]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman's schedule
‑Rose Mary Woods[?]

[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:32 pm and 5:03 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28B]

[See conversation 6‑25]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑John B. Connally's role in government
‑Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-Birthday celebration
-Eisenhower scholarship fund
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Unintelligible name
-President=s attendance

[The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. between 5:03 pm and 5:06 pm; Haldeman can be heard in the background]

[Conversation No. 531‑28C]

[See Conversation No. 6-26]

[End of telephone conversation]

Security classification
‑Numbers of people with clearances
‑Board of Regents of University of California
‑Possible change in system
‑Kissinger

Leaks
‑President's comments to Cabinet
‑Haldeman's role
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sherman Adams

Peter G. Peterson
‑Position of aide
‑Martin C. (AMarty@) Anderson
‑Haldeman's conversation with Ehrlichman

Anderson
‑Possible role with Administration
‑Edwin L. Harper
‑Ehrlichman's needs

President's schedule
-Camp David
‑July 4
‑Washington, DC celebration
-Possible trip to Florida
-Midwest trip
‑Camp David
‑Camp Hoover
‑Accommodations
‑Robert H. Finch
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑John C. Whitaker

US and People=s Republic of China [PRC] relations
‑Handling
‑Kissinger
‑President's possible visit
‑Announcement
‑David K.E. Bruce

New York Times story
‑Kissinger's reaction
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Possible source

Leaks
‑Administration reaction
-Ambassador to Japan
‑Ehrlichman's meeting with John A. Volpe and James M. Beggs
‑President's comments to Cabinet
‑National Journal article
‑National security
-Foreign economic policy

President's schedule
‑George P. Shultz, James D. Hodgson
‑Ehrlichman
‑Alexander P. Butterfield

Leaks
‑Haldeman's forthcoming meeting with the White House staff
‑Connally

President's schedule
‑National Security Council [NSC] meeting
‑Shultz

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.

President's schedule
‑Shultz

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.

Vietnam

Soybeans

Security classification
‑Possible changes
-Haldeman=s role
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower's changes
‑New classification
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Lyndon K (AMort@) Allin's memos

Shultz

National economy
‑Louis F. Harris poll
‑Mansfield amendment
‑Gallup poll
‑Shultz's view of public confidence

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm

Shultz's schedule
‑Hodgson

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.

President's forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Hodgson
‑Counsel for National Labor Relations Board [NLRB]
‑Ehrlichman

[Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:32 pm and 5:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28D]

President's forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Hodgson
‑Counsel for NLRB
‑Ehrlichman

Unknown news story

[End of telephone conversation]

Pentagon Papers
‑[Forename unknown] Plassky's [sp?] story

Counsel for NLRB
‑Richard T. Burress
‑International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America [TEAMSTERS]
‑Prospects for confirmation
‑Peter G. Nash
‑Prospects for confirmation
‑Jack F. Kemp
‑Burress
‑Ehrlichman's conversation with John J. Rhodes
‑Hodgson's conversations with Burress supporters
‑Nash
‑President's conversation
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Clark MacGregor

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:06 pm and 5:35 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28E]

[See Conversation No. 6‑27]

[End of telephone conversation]

Frederic V. Malek

[Haldeman talked with MacGregor at an unknown time between 5:06 pm and 5:35 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28F]

[See Conversation No. 6‑28]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:06 pm and 5:35 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28G]

[See Conversation No. 6‑29]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman's conversation with MacGregor
‑Nash
‑Conference on Mansfield amendment

[Haldeman talked with Malek at an unknown time between 5:05 pm and 5:35 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28H]

[See Conversation No. 6‑30]

[End of telephone conversation]

Nash
‑Support on Capitol Hill
‑Burress
-Industry and business support
-Stans
‑Labor support

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:06 pm and 5:35 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28I]

[See Conversation No. 6‑31]

[End of telephone conversation]

Malek
‑Declassification project
‑Tom C. Huston

[The President talked with MacGregor between 5:35 pm and 5:39 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28J]

[See Conversation No. 6‑32]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:35 pm.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:39 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Memorandum to Lawrence M. (ALarry@) Higby
‑President's previous conversation with MacGregor

[Haldeman talked with Higby at an unknown time between 5:39 pm and 5:44 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28K]

MacGregor's memo to Higby

[End of telephone conversation]

The President left at an unknown time after 5:39 pm.

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:39 pm.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:44 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time before 5:44 pm.

Memorandum

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:39 pm and 5:44 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28L]

[See Conversation No. 6‑33]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with Mary Swann between 5:44 pm and 5:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28M]

[See Conversation No. 6‑34]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's conversation with Swann
‑Effect
‑Cabinet officers' possible conduct
‑Volpe
‑George W. Romney
‑William P. Rogers
‑John N. Mitchell

[The President talked with the White House operator at 5:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑28N]

[See Conversation No. 6‑35]

[End of telephone conversation]

Use of secretaries
‑Rose Mary Woods
‑Maggie [Surname unknown]
‑Prestige

[The President talked with Mitchell between 5:46 pm and 5:50 pm; the President talked to Haldeman in the background]

[Conversation No. 531‑28O]

[See Conversation No. 6‑36]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at 5:50 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑29

Date:  June 29, 1971
Time:  5:50 pm ‑ 6:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with James D. Hodgson and George P. Shultz

President's previous meetings with National Commission on Productivity [Productivity Commission]
‑Effect
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Environmental considerations

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.

Environmental regulations
‑President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
‑Cost of pending projects
-Hodgson=s actions
‑Stans= group

President's previous meeting with Productivity Commission
-Future
-Decline of military activity
-Economic dominance
‑Purpose
‑US position in world
‑Environmental concerns
-Nuclear power
‑I. W. Abel's comments on consumption
-Economic expansion

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

 Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.

President's schedule
‑Management group meeting, July 6
-Attendants
-Chief Executive officers
-Bargaining officials
-Structure

Economy
‑US Steel Corporation
-Settlements
-Results

President's schedule
-Management group, July 6
-Chief Executive Officers
-Bargaining officials
-Number of attendants
-Steel companies
-Labor organizations
-President=s goals
-Announcements
‑President's previous comments
‑Research
‑Applied
‑Basic

Presidential anointments
-J. Curtis Counts
‑Job offer
‑Salary
‑Conversation with Hodgson
‑Forthcoming conversation with Hodgson
-Expression of President=s support
-National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] counsel
‑Peter G. Nash
‑Conversations with Charles W. Colson, Ehrlichman, Frederic V. Malek, Congress
-Hodgson=s Congressional contacts
‑Nash
‑Background
‑Support
‑Richard T. Burress
‑Background
‑Relationship with Hodgson
‑Opposition
‑Nash
‑Support from business
‑Hodgson's conversation with Gerald R. Ford
‑Burress
‑Ford's possible meeting with Nash

-Malek=s investigation
-Ford
‑Burress
‑Views of Arthur F. Burns and Bryce N. Harlow
‑Nash
‑Ford's support
‑Hodgson's conversations
‑Peter H. Dominick
‑Paul J. Fannin
‑Jacob K. Javits
-Burress
‑Possible role with administration
‑Malek

Congressional Conference Committee
-F. Edward Hébert
‑Actions
‑Senate version of military pay

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Leonard Woodcock
‑Position on SST
‑Relationship with Walter F. Mondale and Vance Hartke
-International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America [UAW]
‑Hubert H. Humphrey's vote
‑George Meany

Environment
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Meany's response
‑John B. Connally
-Stans
‑Administration's position
‑Cost‑benefit ratio and analysis
-Land reclamation
‑Popular opinion
-Leadership position

Economy
-Competition
‑Changes in totalitarian societies
‑Changes in democratic societies
-Privatization of public services
‑Trash collection as example
‑Samuel W. Yorty's electoral victory
‑New York City
-Savings
-Productivity Commission
‑Harllee Branch, Jr.
‑Schedule

Research and development
‑Shultz's possible meeting with Peter G. Peterson
‑Ehrlichman
‑National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Funding
‑Tax program
‑Value added tax
-SST
‑Saline water
‑Nuclear power
‑Productivity Commission's efforts
‑NASA and defense budget cuts
-Priorities
-President=s conversations with Peterson, Ehrlichman
-Woodcock
‑Environment
‑Automobile emissions
‑River clean-up
-Connally=s view
-Sewage, irrigation run-off
‑Nuclear power, saline water
‑Foci for US efforts
-Peterson=s comments
‑Japanese efforts
‑Tax program
-Private research
‑Germans, Japanese, Soviets, Chinese
‑Government subsides
‑Government subsidies
‑Lockheed

‑President's statement
‑Boeing
‑General Dynamics
‑Balance of payments
‑Computers
-Space industry
-Military
-Census
‑Government subsidies
‑Government efforts
-Private enterprise
‑Telecommunications
‑Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]
‑NASA
‑James E. Webb
‑Contractors
‑Nuclear power plants
‑Atomic Energy Commission [AEC] activities
-Privatization
‑Argonne Lab
‑Brookhaven Lab
‑Symbolism
‑Social spending, deficits
-Response to critics
‑Creation of wealth

Productivity Commission
‑Meany, Woodcock, Abel, Joseph B. Beirne
‑James M. Roche
‑Branch
‑Edward W. Carter
‑Research and development
-Necessity
-Support

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President's schedule

Rose Mary Woods= schedule

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Research and development
‑Possible September 1971 conference
‑Productivity Commission
‑Papers for discussion
-Statement

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:50 pm.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.

Research and development
‑Possible September 1971 conference
‑Walter B. Wriston
‑Meany
‑Howard W. Johnson 
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
‑President

Labor support for administration
‑Extent
‑Issues 
-Muskie
-President

National economy
‑Connally
‑Retail sales
‑Unemployment
‑Programs for hiring blacks
‑Effectiveness
‑Timing
‑Youths
‑Students

Shultz and Hodgson left at 6:29 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑30

Date:  June 29, 1971
Time:  6:29 pm ‑ 6:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

F. Edward Hébert
‑Call to President

Butterfield left at 6:30 pm.

Conversation No. 531‑31

Date:  June 29, 1971
Time:  6:30 pm ‑ 7:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Congressional Conference Committee
‑President's forthcoming call to F. Edward Hébert
‑Leslie C. Arends

Possible filibuster
‑People=s Republic of China [PRC] announcement

Hébert

[Hébert talked with the President between 6:30 pm and 6:36 pm]

[Conversation No. 531‑31A]

[See Conversation No. 6‑37]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hébert
‑Previous conversation with President
‑Pending legislation
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Arends
‑Possible action in Conference Committee

Pending resolution on Vietnam ceasefire
‑Provisions
-Deadline
-Ceasefire
-Return of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Draft
‑Legislative strategy
‑Negotiations with North Vietnam
‑Provisions
‑US support for Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky
‑Legislative strategy
‑Draft extension
‑Possible filibuster
‑Michael Gravel
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Draft extension
-Prospects
‑Effect on friends in Congress
‑Liberals
-Kissinger=s views
‑Rules of Congress
-Conference votes
‑Hébert's views
‑Kissinger's conversation with MacGregor
‑Legislative strategy
‑Effect on Vietnam negotiations
-Thieu
‑Draft extension
‑July 15
‑Effect on Vietnam negotiations
‑Draft extension
‑Arends
‑Rules of Congress
‑Provisions

President's schedule
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] academy graduation

Pending resolution on Vietnam ceasefire
‑Kissinger
‑Hébert
‑Provisions
‑Arends= compromise
‑Effect on Vietnam negotiations
‑POWs
‑President's 7‑Point Plan
‑Effect on "Hawks" in Congress
‑Hébert's support
‑Legislative strategy
‑Provisions

Haig left at 6:54 pm.

President's schedule
‑Kissinger

Kissinger's schedule
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

US and Soviet Union relations
‑Negotiating strategy
‑Possible Summit meeting
‑President's possible visit to PRC
‑Soviets' possible reaction
‑Dobrynin's schedule
‑Politburo
-Possible Summit
‑Soviets
‑Andrei A. Gromyko's conversation with President

Kissinger=s forthcoming visit to PRC
-Logistics

Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Prospects
‑W. Averrell Harriman
‑Status
‑Prospects

US and PRC relations
‑Possible effects

The President and Kissinger left at 7:00 pm.