Conversation No. 534‑1

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 am and 8:41 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

The President entered at 8:41 am

Unknown item

Sanchez and the unknown man left at 8:41 am

Conversation No. 534-14

Date: July 1, 1971
Time:  Between 8:41 am and 8:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Schedule

Butterfield left at 8:45 am.

Conversation No. 534‑2

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  8:45 am - 9:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

The Pentagon Papers case
‑Haldeman's conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
‑The Eastern Aestablishment@
‑The President's experiences with the Alger Hiss case
‑Contrast between Hiss' and Whitaker Chambers' background
‑Richardson conversation about Charles M. Cooke, Jr. (?)
-Melvin R. Laird
‑Ellsworth F. Bunker cables shown to Daniel Ellsberg
‑Jimmy Doyle of the Washington Star
‑William P. Rogers
‑Investigation of cable leak
‑Cooke's admission of showing cable to Ellsberg
‑Ellsberg's departure from the Rand Corporation
‑Cooke
‑Access to cable from unnamed woman in the State Department
‑Richardson's June 30, 1971 conversation with Cooke
‑Perception of Cooke's role
‑Cooke's position with the federal government
-Henry A. Kissinger
‑Frank [Surname unintelligible]
‑Conversation overheard at Los Angeles Rams football game in October 1970
‑Plans to leak documents via unnamed persons from Kissinger's staff at the White House

News story about the Turkish opium ban

The President's appearance at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's [FBI] academy
‑Defense of J. Edgar Hoover

Howard K. Smith
‑Commentary on "The Establishment"
‑New York Times
‑The President as anti‑establishment figure

Pentagon Papers case
‑Action against anti‑administration conspiracy
-John D. Ehrlichman
‑Charles W. Colson
‑The President's schedule
‑Leaking of stories about opponents
‑The New York Times
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Feasibility and timing of statement by the President

-President=s view
-Suppression
-Possible action
‑Ehrlichman's recommendation
‑Ellsberg's legal status
‑Ehrlichman=s forthcoming conversation with Colson
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman=s views
-Haldeman=s forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman, Colson, Richard A. Moore, John A. Scali, Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger
‑Declassification of government documents
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Laird
-John N. Mitchell
‑Laird
‑FBI
-Handling of case by someone for the White House
‑Tom C. Huston
‑Richard V. Allen
-Henry E. Peterson
‑Comparison to the President's involvement in the Hiss case
-Leaks
‑Hoover
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
‑Orchestration of effort to leak information
-Purposes
‑Declassification
-Political benefits
‑Vietnam
‑Distraction from current issues
‑Focus on previous administrations
‑Type of person needed to handle the case
‑John C. Whitaker
‑Qualities required
‑Huston
-Presidential involvement
‑Cooke
‑Tran Ngoc Chau
‑Future White House contact
‑Freeze against the Washington Post and the New York Times

‑Continuation
‑Backgrounders, off‑the‑record, personal
-George P. Shultz
‑Access restriction to on‑the‑record appearances in presence of other reporters
‑Leonard Garment, William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Unemployment statistics
‑The President's conversation with Colson
‑Adjustments
‑Shultz
‑Seasonal adjustments
‑June statistics
‑Colson
‑The President's instructions on handling story
‑ABC news
‑Scali

Opium agreement with Turkey, June 30, 1971

The FBI
‑The President's appearance at academy
‑Hoover
‑Repression issue
‑Mitchell's attitude
‑Passing nature of issue

The Supreme Court
‑Justices
‑Need to change
‑Hugo L. Black, Thurgood Marshall, William J. Brennan, Byron R. White

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:45 am

The President's schedule
‑Request
‑Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:18 am

[The President talked with an unknown person (Kissinger?) at an unknown time between 8:45 am and 9:18 am]

[Conversation No. 534‑2A]

Schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
‑Meeting request by Ehrlichman

Bicentennial speech
‑John K. Andrews, Jr.
‑Use of the President's previous statement
-Speech language
‑Number of television networks scheduled to broadcast speech

Kissinger entered at 9:18 am.

The Vietnam war
‑Vietnamese
‑Negotiations
-Press report
‑May 31, 1971 proposal

The Pentagon Papers case
‑California
‑Incident at October 1970 Los Angeles Rams game
‑Member of Business Executives for Peace
‑Plans by unknown member of Kissinger's staff
‑Alleged plan to quit staff and leak information about the war

Haldeman left at 9:18 am

‑Release of classified information
-NSC control
-Contingency plans
‑Laos‑Cambodia contingency plans
‑Haiphong Harbor
‑Cooke
-Richardson
‑Comparison to the Hiss case
‑Relations with Ellsberg
‑Rand Corporation
‑Case of Chau in South Vietnam
‑Secret cables
‑Nguyen Van Thieu

‑Publication of cables by Doyle
-Washington Star
‑Rogers
‑Concern
‑Investigation of Rand Corporation
-Ellsberg
‑Richardson's defense of Cooke
‑Security‑clearances
‑Need‑to‑know rule
‑Kissinger's staff
‑[First name not known] Davis
‑May 14, 1969 incident

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:45 am

Accidental summons
‑Haldeman

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:23 am

The Pentagon Papers case
‑Davis
‑Alleged leak of embargoed speech to journalist
‑Ellsberg

Haldeman entered at 9:23 am

The Pentagon Papers case
‑Ellsberg
‑Distinction between holding security clearance and need‑to‑know principle
‑Chau case
‑Cooke, Ellsberg, Bunker
‑Handling of classified information
‑Richardson
‑Need for individual to be assigned to work with the President on the case
-Ehrlichman
‑Ehrlichman, John W. Dean, III
-Comparison to Hiss case
‑Ethics and lawyers
‑The Manson case
-Mitchell
‑New York Times
-White House publications efforts

‑Brookings Institute safe
-Break-in
-Blame
‑Cooke
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Bunker
-Chau case
-Cables from Bunker
-The President=s message to Ambassador Bunker
-Washington Star story

Brookings Institution
-Break-in

Vietnam war
-Negotiations
-Public reaction
-Press
-Conditions
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Ceasefire
-Possible public statement
-Bunker=s knowledge of negotiations
-David K.E. Bruce
-Timing
-Kissinger=s schedule
-Proposal
-POWs
-POW wives
-Report from Bruce
-Possible public release of proposal
-Release of POWs
-Ceasefire
-Conditions

The Pentagon papers case
‑Leaks
‑National Security Council [NSC] staff
‑Investigation
‑Haig
‑Wiretapping
‑Issue of trust in the White House
‑Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Leaks
‑NSC staff
‑Liberals
-Theft of classified documents
‑Mitchell
-Reaction
‑Repression
‑The Hiss case comparison
‑Tom Clark
‑Justice Department
-Nixon=s efforts
‑Use of leaks to get Hiss
‑Newspaper stories contrasted with legal action in court
-Grand jury
‑[Forename unknown] Murphy
-Hoover
‑Ellsberg case
‑Declassification
-Ehrlichman
-Opposition to Laird plan
-President=s role
-White House efforts
-Cuban missile crisis
-Conspiracy
-Leaking of information
‑Cooke
‑Role
‑Rand Corporation
-Ellsberg

‑Chau case
‑Bunker
‑Cables
-Cooke
-Ellsberg
-Leak
-Leak by White House
-Conspiracy
-Other administration=s involvement
-Cooke
-Richardson=s handling of case
-Status 
-Leaks to press about involvement

The President talked to Haldeman at unknown time between 9:28 am and 9:52 am.

Cooke
-Removal
-Richardson
-Leaks to the press
-Colson

[End of telephone conversation]

Haig entered at 9:39 am.

‑NSC staff
‑Allegations about two unknown staff members
‑Leaking of documents against the Vietnam War
‑Security of materials
‑Kissinger and the NSC staff
‑Executive Office Building [EOB]
‑Intellectuals
-Eastern schools
-University of California, Berkeley

Vietnam War
‑Negotiations
‑Ziegler
‑POWs
‑Haig's conversation with William C. Sullivan
‑North Vietnamese conditions
‑Thieu's Regime
‑Handling
-Sullivan
-Ziegler
Haig left at 9:45 am.

Foreign relations
‑Briefing book
‑Public information
‑Changes in section about negotiations
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑The President's conversations with Nicolae Ceausescu and Andrei Gromyko
‑Tone and style

‑Stance
‑Philosophical angle
‑Chou En‑lai's statements
‑Analysis
-Kissinger=s future conversation with Chou En-lai
‑The President's perceptions of the world
‑The President's conversations with communist leaders
‑Unnamed Greek revolutionary
‑1947 Meeting
‑Nikita Khrushchev
‑Anastas Mikoyan
‑Frol Koslov
‑Fidel Castro
‑Nature of conversations
‑Opening Statement
‑Flexibility
‑Thought processes of foreign communists compared to current US revolutionaries

Telephone Call from William P. Rogers to Kissinger

Kissinger left at 9:52 am

Conversation No. 534‑3

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  9:54 am ‑ 10:26 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Vietnam negotiations
‑Coordination with Paris
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:57 am.

William P. Rogers
‑Telephone Call to Kissinger

‑Forthcoming Testimony
-William C. Sullivan
‑Pentagon Papers
‑Vietnam negotiations

Vietnam negotiations
‑Current North Vietnamese proposals
‑Sullivan
‑Nguyen Van Thieu's government
‑US stance
‑Public statement

Haig left at 9:57 am.

Foreign relations
‑Forthcoming summit
‑The United States [US] and the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Communications
-US delegation
‑The President, Rogers, Kissinger
‑State Department
‑Marshall Green
‑Japan
‑Green, Peter G. Peterson
‑Ambassadorial appointments
‑William J. Porter
‑Paris Peace Talks
‑PRC trip
‑Size of the President's entourage
‑Size of press contingent
‑Three networks, two wire services
‑Pool reporter
‑The New York Times, the Washington Post
‑Press facilities
‑Action by the PRC
‑The press
-Size
‑The New York Times, the Washington Post
‑Limitations on White House press contact
-H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Background briefings
‑Size of delegation
‑Handling by the President and the Chinese

‑Itinerary
‑Peking, Shanghai
‑Nature of visit
‑Briefing book
‑Work by National Security Council [NSC] Staff
‑Tone
‑The President's foreign policy record
‑Vietnam war action by the US
‑Status of attempts at settlement
‑Cambodia, Laos
‑US‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Detente
-Geographical interests
‑Possible agreements with the PRC
-Nuclear weapons

Haig entered at 10:08 am.

‑Communique
‑Taiwan
-Tone
-Spiro T. Agnew, Melvin R. Laird
-United Nations
‑Vietnam war
-Length
‑Japan
-Tone 
-Military threat
‑The Soviet Union
-Military threat
‑Handling of information
‑The Soviet Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
‑USSR, Japan, Vietnam
‑Negotiations prior to China summit
‑Prisoners of War [Pows]
‑Grain deal
‑Vietnam war settlement
‑Possible agreements with the PRC
‑Arms control
-Hotline, accidental war
-Nuclear weapons

‑Political visitors to the PRC prior to the President's trip
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
‑The USSR
‑Timing of summit
‑Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy Dobrynin
‑Timing of summit in comparison to the PRC summit

-Leonid I. Brezhnev
‑SALT
-Middle East
-Caribbean
‑Berlin agreement
‑Taiwan
‑Laird, Agnew
‑Nixon doctrine's aims
‑Policy during the Harry S. Truman administration
‑Owen Lattimore
‑London, Paris, Warsaw
‑Canada
‑Pierre Trudeau
-Taiwan
-Vietnam
‑Korea

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PRC TRIP

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-George H.W. Bush
‑July 15, 1971 announcement
‑Paris stop on Kissinger's itinerary

‑Le Duc Tho
‑Handling of proposals

Schedules of the President and Kissinger

Kissinger and Haig left at 10:26 am

Conversation No. 534‑4

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:26 am and 10:27 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Charles W. Colson's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:27 am

Conversation No. 534‑5

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  10:27 am - 11:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (>Bob@) Haldeman.

The President's schedule
‑ACTION event
‑Issues
‑Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Ongoing meeting

Charles W. Colson entered at 10:28 am

‑Ehrlichman's meeting

The President's schedule
‑The President's Kansas City appearance July 6, 1971
‑Nature of statement
-Pentagon Papers case
‑Recommendations
‑John A. Scali, Richard A. Moore, Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Effect of locale
‑Prime time television coverage
‑Daniel Ellsberg
-Forum, timing
-Ehrlichman
‑Draft of statement about the Pentagon Papers
‑Issue of repression of the press
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Patrick J. Buchanan

The Pentagon Papers case
‑Coordination of investigation
‑Officer in charge [OIC] of handling case
-Haldeman=s conversation with Ehrlichman
‑Congress
‑John J. Sparkman
‑James D. McKevitt
‑John H. Rousselot
‑White House staff
‑Need for full-time handling
-Tom C. Huston
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
‑Moore, Ehrlichman
‑Legal handling
-Mitchell
-Ellsberg
-Leaks to press
-Court case
-Colson
-Facts
‑The Hiss case
‑Six Crises
-Nixon=s role
‑Harry S. Truman
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

-J. Edgar Hoover
-Comparison
-Press
-Colson
-White House staff oversight
‑Brookings Institute break‑in
-Melvin R. Laird
‑Investigation of past administrations
-Cuban Missile Crisis
-Bay of Pigs
-World War II
-Korean War
-Embarrassing documents
-Rousselot
‑Need full‑time assistance
-Initiative
-Ehrlichman
-Other duties
-Colson
-Congressional support
-Rousselot
‑McKevitt
-Philip M. Crane
-John M. Ashbrook
-Robert J. Dole
-William E. Brock, III
-Press coverage
-Colson=s views
-John F. Kennedy
-Death of Ngo Dinh Diem
-Kennedy
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Need for coordinator
-Haldeman, Colson, Ehrlichman
-Richard V. Allen
-Huston
-Knowledge
-Problems with Department of Defense
-Work with Allen
-White House Support
-Huston and Allen
‑Need for coordinator
‑Haldeman, Colson, Ehrlichman

‑Richard V. Allen
‑Need for trustworthy individual
‑Tom C. Huston
‑Possibility of Huston and Allen working together
‑The President's Kansas City speech
-Haldeman
-Press
‑Public perceptions of issue
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑William S. White
‑Possible statement after Supreme Court decision
‑Dean Rusk's television appearance
‑Maxwell Taylor's television appearance
‑William B. Macomber, Jr's television appearance
-William P. Rogers
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Martin S. Hayden
‑Classification
‑Telephone call to Macomber
-Flag incident
‑Call to Rogers
‑Forthcoming testimony
‑Rusk, Taylor
-Rogers
‑Legal obligations of the government
‑Court case
‑Supreme Court decision
‑Court clerks
‑Chief Justice Warren E. Burger's decision
‑Newspaper obligations
‑Irreparable damage to the nation
‑Press attitude
‑Damaging effect of stories contrasted with First Amendment rights
‑Delay in Prisoners of War [POWs] return as price of publication
‑Hayden's comments
‑Quote about Stewart J. Alsop from past editorial in New York Times
‑Max Frankel's response
‑Possible meeting with Ehrlichman
‑The President's schedule
‑Haldeman, Colson, Ehrlichman

[Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 10:28 am and 10:58 am]

[Conversation No. 534‑5A]

Meeting in the President's office

[End of telephone conversation]

The Vietnam War
‑Television debate between John O'Neill and John F. Kerry on the "Dick Cavett Show"
‑Jack F. Kemp
‑Buchanan
‑Kemp
‑Vietnam, fact finding trip
‑[Forename unknown] Kramer [NSC], William H. Sullivan [State Department], [Unintelligible name]
‑White House speeches
‑Focus of material provided
-Buchanan
‑Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
‑Response by Kemp

Ehrlichman entered at 10:58 am

‑James L.Buckley's New York effort with Vietnam veterans
-Cambodia, Vietnam
‑Kemp's possible trip to Vietnam
‑Charles B. Rangel
‑Balance
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe's trip to Vietnam
‑Drug use among US soldiers in Vietnam
-Kemp, Rangel
‑Pentagon Papers
‑Declassification response
‑Laird
-Mitchell
‑Supreme Court decision
‑Repression argument
‑Damaging effect of publication
‑First Amendment rights
‑Effect of publication
-Placing lives of US soldiers in jeopardy
‑Response to arguments
‑Letter to the editor

‑Richardson
‑Charles M. Cooke, Jr. (?)
‑Retention in job
‑Cables leaked to press via Ellsberg
‑Ellsworth F. Bunker's cables
‑Tran Ngoc Chau Case
‑Ellsberg's security clearances
‑Rand Corporation
‑Revocation of clearances
-Brookings Institution
-Documents
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Rand Corporation
-Ehrlichman
-Presidents orders
‑Declassification of documents
‑Laird
-Supreme Court
‑The New York Times
-Laird
‑Coordination with Congress

Manolo Sanchez (?) entered at an unknown time after 10:58 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez (?) left an an unknown time before 11:22 am.

‑Declassification
‑Documents published
‑Withholding of classified information by newspapers
‑John W. Dean, III's report
‑Mitchell
‑Declassification
‑January 15 National Security Study Memorandum [NSSM], Declassification group
‑Korea, World War II, Cuban crisis
-Haig
‑Kennedy Presidential Library
‑Hyde Park (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
‑Possible meeting with the President
‑The President's schedule

‑Timing of meeting
-Publicity
‑Six Crises
‑Chapter on the Hiss case
‑The President's speech in Congress
‑Harry S. Truman
‑Tom Clark
‑Alexander Campbell
‑J. Edgar Hoover
‑Leak of story by Justice Department
‑Bert Andrews
‑Whitaker Chambers's revelation of the Pumpkin Papers
‑Cooke
-Richardson=s view
‑Background
‑Views on the Vietnam War, ceasefire, and the Chau case
‑Ellsberg's status on "need to know"
‑Classified cables
‑Rand Corporation
‑Publication of cable information in the Washington Star
-Possible future response
‑Declassification review group
-NSSM
‑Staff director job
-Administration=s response
‑Hoover, Laird
‑Cooke
‑Leak of story
-Richardson
-Kissinger
‑Laird
‑Instructions
‑Draft statement
‑Buchanan's work on draft
‑Timing
‑Perceptions of issue
-Role of Department of Justice
-Moore, Kissinger
‑Television show
‑Macomber and Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson's appearances
‑Max Frankel, Benjamin C. Bradlee
‑Timing of possible statement by the President
‑Buchanan video

-Presidential statement
-Content
‑Lyndon K. ("Mort") Allin, Buchanan
‑Work
‑Rogers
‑Forthcoming testimony
-View
‑Issue of press repression
‑Conduct of the war
‑Dean Rusk, Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Need for Congressional statements
‑Dole, Gordon L. Allott, Paul J. Fannin
‑Statements

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:22 am

Anatoliy Dobrynin
‑Death of Soviet cosmonauts
‑The President=s message
‑Telephone call
‑The President's schedule

Vietnam War
‑Rogers' statement
‑Negotiations
‑Nguyen Van Thieu's government
‑Tone of comments
‑Congress
‑South Vietnamese government

Kissinger left at 11:24 am

Pentagon Papers case
‑Coordination of effort
‑Recommendations on presidential statement
‑Buchanan, Rogers, Mitchell, Laird, Moore, Scali
‑Timing, forum
‑The President's Kansas City appearance
-The President=s San Clemente appearance
-Press conference

Ehrlichman's schedule
‑Senators

‑California Rural Legal Assistance [CRLA]
‑Ronald W. Reagan
‑Frank C. Carlucci

Pentagon Papers Case
‑Declassification job
-Carlucci
‑Compare to Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Meeting to be scheduled with Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Colson, Buchanan, and Moore
‑Rogers's view
‑Buchanan's participation
‑Memorandum
‑Administration=s position
-Buchanan
‑Perceptions in the press of no White House comment
‑Rogers' role
‑Former Attorney General
-Buchanan
‑Macomber
‑Written version of television comments
‑Scali's role
‑Administration position
‑Wording of possible speech by the President
‑Effect
‑Alternatives
‑Perception of covering leak
‑Revelation of Kennedy‑Diem information
-Vietnam war
-Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Rusk, Taylor
‑Rogers as spokesperson
‑Charles Mc.C Mathias, Jr.
‑National Security Council [NSC] documents
-Laird

Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 11:49 am

‑Buchanan
‑Views on momentum and speaking out
‑Perception of Democrats in government
‑McGeorge Bundy
-Howard K. Smith
‑Representatives of the Aestablishment@

‑Hiss case analogy
‑The Aestablishment@
‑The President's role
‑Joseph McCarthy
-Administration=s position
‑Need to uphold the law
‑Ziegler
‑Rogers
‑Dean Rusk
‑Forthcoming appearance
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-President=s view
‑Sincerity, decency
-[Name unintelligible]
‑Possession of documents
‑Hubert H. Humphrey's statement
‑Support of release
‑Johnson administration's credibility
‑Memorandums
‑Comparison to Arthur F. Burns
-White
‑Era of permissiveness
-Possible speech by Buchanan
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Unemployment statistics
‑Scali
‑Adjustments
‑Left‑wing columnists
‑Wall Street
‑Stock market trends
‑John B. Connally

Pentagon Papers
‑Need for White House coordinator
‑Ehrlichman
-Importance
-Colson
‑Huston
‑The Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] investigation
‑Defense intelligence
‑Laird

‑Huston
-Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA]
-Colson
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Strategy
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
‑Outside candidate
‑Friend of James L. Buckley
-CIA
‑Authorship of books
‑Conspiracy orientation
‑Huston
‑Reaction to orders not supported by him
‑Allen
‑Vernon A. Walters
‑Attitude
‑Mitchell's attitude
‑The President's expertise
‑Hunt
‑Declassification effort
‑Separation from conspiracy investigation
-Rousselot

An unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 11:24 am.

President=s schedule

The unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 11:49 am.

Eighteen year‑old vote
‑Vietnam

Haldeman and Colson left at 11:49 am

Conversation No. 534‑6

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  11:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield [Stephen B. Bull?].

The President's schedule

The President and Butterfield [Bull?] left at 11:49 am

Conversation No. 534‑7

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 12:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

[Stephen B. Bull] met with Joseph H. Blatchford, Thomas R. Donnelly, Jr., Charles H. Percy, Chet Holifield, Frank J. Horton, Clark MacGregor, and Arnold R. Weber; the  White  House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning  of the meeting.]

The President=s location and schedule

[General conversation/unintelligible]

The President entered at an unknown time after 11:50 am.
Bull [?] left at 11:51 am.

[Camera noise]

ACTION
‑Program and voluntary work
‑ACTION card #1 presentation
‑Future plans, Congressional action

1946 reminiscence

June 30, 1971 meeting
‑Nick Carr's father's World War II experience
‑Medal of Honor

ACTION and volunteer work
‑Congressional support
‑Legislation

Presentation of gifts by the President

Anti‑drug abuse action
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe

White House Conference on Aging

University Program

Blatchford et al. left at 12:06 pm

Conversation No. 534‑8

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:06 pm and 12:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man [Alexander P. Butterfield?].

The President's schedule
‑Sammy Davis, Jr.
‑Membership commission on the National Advisory Board of Office of Economic Opportunity
‑Arrangements for meeting

[Butterfield] left at an unknown time before 12:09 pm

Conversation No. 534‑9

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:06 pm and 12:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Sammy Davis, Jr.
‑Photograph of meeting by Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
‑James D. Hodgson‑Elliot L. Richardson meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:09 pm

Conversation No. 534‑10

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown time between 12:06 pm and 12:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Welfare regulation waivers
‑Forthcoming meeting with James D. Hodgson and Elliot L. Richardson
‑Purpose of meeting
‑Federal regulations
‑Ehrlichman's presence at meeting
‑Strict regulation

Conversation No. 534‑11

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  12:09 pm ‑ 1:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Sammy Davis, Jr., Robert J. Brown, Henry C. Cashen, and Jeffrey Donfeld; the White House photographer, members of the press and other unknown people were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Arrangements for photograph

Anecdote

Presentation of gifts by the President
‑Gifts for men, women
‑Golf balls
-Dean Martin
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Golf

National Advisory Board of the Office of Economic Opportunity
‑Commissioning ceremony
‑Certificate

Photograph

Anecdote

Refreshment

Davis
‑Purpose of meeting
‑Celebrity status
‑Credibility
‑Leonard Garment
‑Drug abuse issue

Drug abuse and youth
‑Effectiveness of a celebrity as spokesman
‑Comparison to ministers, teachers, judges
‑Celebrities as spokespersons
‑Athletes

‑Carl M. Yastrzemski
‑Bart Starr
‑John Mackey
‑Effectiveness of arguments against drugs
‑Morality
-Health of body and mind
‑Performers
‑John Barrymore

Youth
‑Need for inspiration and leadership
-Self-help
‑Opportunity

Charles B. Rangel
‑The President's June 30, 1971 telephone call
‑U.S.‑Turkish opium agreement
‑Rangel's recommendation
‑Black Caucus
‑Grandfather=s possible reaction
 ‑The President's grandfather

Opportunity in the United States
‑Leadership in the U.S.
‑Middle and upper classes
‑Sources of strength in the U.S.
‑Strength through adversity
‑Leo Tolstoy
‑War and Peace, Anna Karenina
‑Philosophy
‑Destructive and creative instincts with each individual
‑Sublimation of destructive instincts
‑Use of creative instincts
‑Youth
‑Use of energy
‑Need to sublimate negative instincts
‑Davis' discussions with youth

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The President's schedule
‑James D. Hodgson, Elliot L. Richardson

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Youth
‑Davis' conversations
‑Use of energy
‑Idealism

Education
‑Black colleges
‑Financial support
‑The federal government
-Richardson

Entertainment field
‑Davis
‑Bob Hope
‑The President's acquaintances

Richardson, Hodgson, George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman entered at 12:29 pm

Introductions

Education
‑Black colleges
‑United Negro College Fund
-Funding performance

Willie Mays

Davis left at 12:31 pm

Davis
‑1954 meeting

Ribbon Cutting

Davis
‑Membership in the "rat pack"
‑Copacabana
‑Performance with father and uncle

National Urban League
‑Nixon as Vice President
‑Picture with waiter
-DePaul University

Davis
‑Background
‑Effectiveness of anti‑drug message
‑"David Frost Show"
‑Mai Britt

Welfare
‑Federal assistance funds
‑Follow‑up to San Clemente meeting with Governor Ronald W. Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑California
‑Welfare laws
‑Social Security Act
‑Waiver requests
‑Medicaid
‑Payments for prescription drugs
‑Work relief
‑Able‑bodied welfare recipients
‑Work incentives
‑Welfare reform bill
‑H.R. 1 [Welfare Reform Bill]
‑Implications of possible action
‑Effect of refusal to work by welfare recipients
‑Alternative proposals
‑Russell B. Long
‑Wage system
‑Equal pay for equal work
‑Long's proposal
‑Private sector
‑Work relief
-California
‑Equal pay for equal work
‑Impact of concept
‑Conditions
‑Public opinion
-Reagan's reaction
‑Sources of support
‑Conservative, liberal reaction

-Long
‑Reagan's preferences
‑Industry and labor reaction
‑Conservative reaction
‑Waivers
‑General Accounting Office [GAO]
‑California waiver requests
‑George Meany
‑Political perceptions
‑Reagan's position in California
-Referendum
-California budget
‑Revenue sharing
‑Possible referendum
‑Effect of H.R.1 enactment
‑Social Security Act
‑Section 1115 authority for waivers
-Medicaid payments for drugs
‑New York
‑Rockefeller's proposed point system
‑Job system
‑GAO
‑California
‑Work relief
‑Experimental programs
-Reagan
‑Frank C. Carlucci
‑Payment restrictions
‑Family income levels
‑Retention of money
‑Encouragement of working
‑Funding
‑Public service
‑Appropriations
‑Provision of jobs
‑Purpose
‑Unemployment, welfare rolls
-Veteran=s preference
‑New York
‑Experimental areas
‑Expenditures
‑California
‑Work relief

‑Massachusetts
-Unemployment rate
‑California
‑Coordination of effort
‑Amount of funding
‑Federal matching of funds to state expenditure
‑Reagan
‑Possible meeting to brief governor
-Richardson
‑Ehrlichman
‑The President's trip to San Clemente
-Discussion with Edwin Meese, III
‑State Supreme Court
‑Effect on compliance problems
‑Correlation of cost‑of‑living increases to benefit increases
‑Enjoinder against enactment of provision

Richardson

President=s schedule
-Steel strike

Ehrlichman and Richardson left at 1:12 pm.

Unemployment rate
‑Pattern
‑Milton Friedman's theory
‑Arthur F. Burns' memorandum
‑Beginning of recovery period
‑Gross National Product [GNP]
‑Leading indicators
‑Drop
‑Prediction of timing
‑Nationwide trends
‑Total rate versus insured rate
‑Breakdown
‑Youth
‑Married men
‑Decrease in teenage rates
‑Seasonal adjustments
‑Factors
‑Number of men called into military service
‑Rate of decrease

‑Effect of Defense Department cutbacks
‑Seasonality
‑Private sector expansion
-Statistics
‑Youth entry into market
‑Burns

Labor issues in the steel industry
‑Talking paper
‑Forthcoming meeting
‑Focus of White House effort
‑Industry, labor
-Activist role
-Avoid strike
‑Steel industry=s hard‑line stance
-National interest argument
‑Collective bargaining
‑Unions
‑I[lorwith] W. Abel
‑Economic impact
‑Recovery
‑Non‑inflationary settlement
‑Pension issue
‑Impact of meetings, negotiations
‑Recognition of problems
-Import controls
‑Long‑term and short‑term effects
‑Format of possible meeting
‑The President's role
‑Schedule
-Shultz=s conversation with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Paul W. McCracken, Herbert Stein
‑Nathaniel Samuels
‑J. Curtis Counts, Willie J. Usery
‑Compartmented format
‑The President's role
‑Emphasis on the national interest
‑Importance of settlement
‑Effect of lengthy strike
-James M. Roche
‑Constructive  approach
‑Contrasted with John F. Kennedy
-Steel crisis of 1961

‑Shultz's recent meeting with Jack Greenberg
‑Education meeting
‑Approach
‑Style of leadership
‑Preparation of briefing paper by Shultz

Shultz and Hodgson left at 1:38 pm

Conversation No. 534‑12

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:38 pm and 2:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield at an unknown time after 1:38 pm

The President's schedule
‑Camp David meeting
‑John K. Andrews, Jr. speech draft for July 3, 1971

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 1:38 pm; Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm

Declassification project in response to Pentagon Papers case
‑Haldeman's conversation with Richard V. Allen
-Recommendations

July 3, 1971 speech draft
‑Sentiments
‑Andrews
‑Draft compared to William L. Safire's effort
‑1969 Bicentennial Commission remarks

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:38 pm

Request for copy of 1969 remarks

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm

Pentagon Papers case
‑Declassification project head
‑Allen's recommendations
‑United States Information Agency [USIA] deputy general counsel
-Background
‑Charles W. Colson's recommendation
‑E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
‑Allen's lack of knowledge
‑Knowledge within intelligence community
‑Possibility of assignment of head of project to work under Colson
‑Tom C. Huston
‑Approach to work
‑Scope of project
‑Need for commander
-Allen
-Colson
‑Hunt
‑Outside consultancy
-USIA employee
‑Conspiracy orientation in outlook
-Dual nature of project
‑Resistance by Departments of State and Defense to declassification effort
-Joint Chiefs of Staff opposition
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
‑World War II, Korea, Cuban missile crisis documents
‑Alternatives
‑Steering committee
-Allen=s suggestions
‑Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
‑John N. Mitchell
‑John G. Tower
-Other roles
‑Frank H. Ichord's possible role
‑Congressional Committee hearings on conspiracy
-Hiss case
‑Conspiracy investigation
‑Mitchell's views
‑Effectiveness as Attorney General
-Richard G. Kleindienst
‑Declassification
‑Tonkin Gulf, Dominican crisis, Cuban missile crisis, Berlin crisis of 1961, Bay of Pigs, U‑2 shootdown, Berlin crisis of 1958, Lebanon, Korea, Berlin blockade, Berlin wall

‑Focus on incidents
-Results and benefits
‑Public announcement
‑Ehrlichman
-Hunt

Unemployment
‑George P. Shultz's analysis of drop
‑James D. Hodgson
‑Effect of technical factors
‑Public perceptions of economic conditions
‑Attempts to keep below six per cent
‑Statistics
‑Arthur F. Burns' memorandum
‑Recommendation of new economic policy
‑Burns

Pentagon Papers case
‑Leaks
‑Efforts to combat links
‑Allen's perceptions
‑Fred J. Russell
‑Congress
‑John E. Hunt
‑Background
-Samuel L. Devine
‑Russell
‑Controllability
‑Further consideration of Hunt
-Colson
-Haldeman=s meeting
-Possible Presidential statement
-John D. Ehrlichman=s conversation with William P. Rogers
‑Patrick Buchanan's recommendations
‑Call to John B. Connally

The President's schedule
‑Departure for Executive Office Building office
‑Drop‑by in Roosevelt Room
‑Property Review Board meeting
‑F. Edward Hebert, Leslie C.  Arends, Kenneth J. Gray, Samuel S. Stratton

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:38 pm

Gift presentation items for Congressmen, wives

Arrangements

The President and Haldeman left at 2:05 pm

Conversation No. 534‑13

Date:  July 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:05 pm and 2:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people entered at an unknown time after 2:05 pm

Schedule

Oval Office
‑The President
‑Old Executive Office Building Office

Meeting
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:05 pm.

The President's location

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:11 pm.

The President's schedule

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