Conversation No. 535‑1

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  9:00 am ‑ 9:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
‑Source of schedule recommendation
‑Volunteer organization's official
-Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.
‑Congressmen, Senators

Butterfield left at 9:04 am

Conversation No. 535‑2

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  9:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Instructions

The unknown person left at 9:04 am

Conversation No. 535‑3

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  9:04 am ‑ 9:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's telephone line

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Conversation No. 535‑4

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  9:15 am ‑ 10:39 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Pentagon Papers case
‑William P. Rogers' appearance characterized
‑Foreign government reaction to case
‑Effect on foreign relations
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] documents
‑Effects of possible leaks
-Henry A. Kissinger

North Vietnamese peace offering
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, Carl B. Albert
‑Media coverage
‑Congressional resolutions
‑National Liberation Front [NLF]
‑Congressional resolutions
‑Cooper‑Church amendment
‑Congressional fund cut‑off
‑US troops
‑John Sherman Cooper

The President's forthcoming speech at the National Archives
‑The President's appearance July 3, 1971 with Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
‑Opening of the Bicentennial Era
-Ronald L. Ziegler
‑News lead
‑Audience
‑Media coverage
‑Bicentennial Commission

Pentagon Papers
‑Patrick J. Buchanan's recommendations
‑Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy
‑Johnson Democrats
‑Support for the President on foreign policy
‑Relation to the President
‑Issuance of statements
‑Ziegler, the President

The President's schedule
‑Charles W. Colson

Campaign funds
‑Haldeman's meeting with John N. Mitchell
‑Control of funds
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Monitoring during forthcoming campaign
‑Polls
‑Amount
‑Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Herbert W. Kalmbach
‑Leonard Firestone
‑Polls

‑Role of Domestic Council
-Different types
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Payments
‑Funds for revenue sharing group
‑Milk Fund
‑1970 spending on film (?)
‑Leonard Garment
‑Private funds
-Kalmbach=s role
‑Uses from the past
-Amount
‑Congressional campaigns
-President=s orders

Colson entered at 9:28 am

Unemployment statistics
‑Release
‑James D. Hodgson's forthcoming briefing
‑Congress
‑Joint Economic Committee
‑Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott, Charles H. Percy
‑Release of statements
‑Roger E. Johnson and staff
‑Responsibilities
‑Monthly decrease
‑John A. Scali's network contacts
‑News story
‑Significance

Peter M. Flanigan entered at 10:02 am

Unemployment statistics
‑Statistical aberration
‑Rate
-Herbert Stein
‑Composition of the unemployed
‑Number of young people
‑Paul W. McCracken, Arthur F. Burns
-Predictions on future unemployment trends
‑Forecasters

‑Need to prove accuracy of projections
‑Psychological boost from decrease in unemployment

Pentagon Papers case
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Outside assistance in gathering information
‑The President's July 1, 1971 conversation with J. Edgar Hoover
‑Impression of reluctance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] to pursue the case
-Possible call by Haldeman
‑Investigation of conspiracy
‑Need for conversation with Melvin R. Laird
‑Haldeman
‑Ehrlichman
‑Legal side of case
‑Coordination of anti‑conspiracy effort
‑New York Times
-Ehrlichman
‑Polygraph tests
-President=s orders
‑Mitchell's knowledge
‑Persons needed for coordinator's role in the White House
-Colson
‑Tom C. Huston
-Need to begin the investigation
‑Mitchell
-Need for prosecution
-Ziegler
‑New York Times
‑Publication of documents
‑Impact on settlement of Vietnam war and return of the prisoners of war [POWs]
‑Draft Presidential statement from Buchanan
-Administrations position
-Mansfield, Albert
‑Focus of press coverage
‑Perception of newspaper publication of the documents
‑Timing of action by the President

Newark, New Jersey
‑Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson
‑Appointment of seventeen-year old student to school board

Pentagon Papers case
-Ellsberg
-Mitchell
‑Newspaper publication of documents
‑Perception of Kennedy's reluctance to enter Vietnam war
‑Johnson
‑The President's citation of Kennedy and Johnson's role
‑News coverage limitation
‑The Kennedys
‑New York Times Review of Books
‑Forthcoming biographies
‑Rose F. Kennedy
‑Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
‑M. V. Thayer
‑Ethel S. Kennedy
‑Comparison with Mrs. Nixon
‑White House reaction
‑Low level of response
‑July 6, 1971 use of television in Kansas City
‑John A. Scali
‑Recommendations
-Timing

Forthcoming news stories
‑Unemployment figures
‑Effect of July 4 weekend on news impact
‑Steel industry story
-Presidential leadership

The economy
‑Effect of unemployment figures
‑Burns
‑Impact of unemployment figures
‑Harris polls
-President=s popularity
‑Productivity Commission
‑Edward Carter
‑Reaction to the President's appearance at meeting
-John B. Connally
‑Recommendations on taxes, control, and spending
‑Retail sales figures
‑Sears, Roebuck and Company

‑California
‑Forecast
‑Foreign imports
-Connally
‑George P. Shultz, Peter G. Peterson
-Japan
‑Business and unions
-Farmers
‑Farm prices
-Consumer prices

Pentagon Papers
‑Need for conspiracy investigation
‑July 1, 1971 declassification meeting
‑Limited news release
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Rand Corporation
‑Brookings Institution
‑Cut‑off in access to classified information
-Break-in
-Removal of documents
‑Laird
‑Rand Corporation
‑Changes in handling classified information
-Declassification
‑Washington Post article
‑Vietnam war
‑William F. Buckley, Jr.
‑Impact of issue
‑Protection of classified documents as opposed to repression of the press
-Conspiracy investigation
-Colson, Ehrlichman, and Haldeman
‑Laird, Hoover
-Mitchell
‑Need for action
‑Neil Sheehan of the New York Times
‑Prosecutions in case
-Ellsberg
‑[Forename unknown] Cooke
-Elliot L. Richardson
‑Ellsberg's statement on involvement
‑Motivation

‑Comparison to Alger Hiss

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-Hiss
-Ellsberg
‑The Eastern liberal Establishment
‑Howard K. Smith
‑Vietnam issue
‑Jack Smith
‑James B. ("Scotty") Reston
-Scali
-Rogers= statement

Public Broadcasting Corporation
‑Anti‑trust action
-Peter M. Flanigan

Pentagon Papers
-Conspiracy investigation
‑Unnamed man from the United States Information Agency [USIA]
-Richard V. Allen
-Huston
-Mitchell

Television broadcasting
‑Anti‑trust action
-Mitchell
‑Film and television production
‑Control of product
‑Broadcasting networks

‑Increase in production of programs, movies
‑Precedential effect
‑Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
‑Prime time access case
‑Independent networks
‑Gulf Oil request for Nixon‑Cox wedding rebroadcast
‑Julian Goodman
‑Previous request on speech
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
‑Control and influence
-Mitchell
-Cable Access Television [CATV]
‑Corporation for Public Broadcasting [CPB]
‑Board membership
‑John D. (AJack@) Wrather, Jr.
-Committee on standards
‑President of the Board
‑Democratic party affiliation
‑Funding cutbacks
-National Education Television
‑CPB
‑Ford Foundation
‑Board members
‑Public Broadcasting Service [PBS]
‑Elizabeth Drew's program
‑Sesame Street
‑Jerry Slater
‑Previous position at CBS with Frank Stanton
‑Proposed evening news show
‑Yearly costs
‑Public broadcasting
‑Leverage over commercial networks
‑Cuts
‑NET and PBS
ASesame Street@
-Changes in management
‑Cutbacks in funding
‑Government controlled networks
‑French, Canadian, British, Italian
‑PBS
‑Drew program
‑Viewership

-NBS=s AToday@ show
‑Frank Pace, Jr., Wrather
‑William Moore (?)
‑Funding cutbacks
‑Possibility of passage of legislation by Congress

Ambassadorial appointments

Public Broadcasting Corporation
‑Funding cutbacks
‑Shultz

Ambassadorial appointments
‑Japan
‑[Armin H. Meyer]
-Background required for post
‑John B. Connally
‑Request for recommendations

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‑Need for business to fill post
‑Okinawa
‑Bert S. Cross
‑Frederic V. Malek's list of candidates
-Flanigan=s list of candidates
‑[Forename unknown] (ABud@) Humphrey, George T. Humphrey
-Cross
-Bart (ATex@) [Surname unknown]
‑Connally
‑William J. Porter

‑Transfer of Posting
-Korea, Paris
‑Marshall Green

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‑Japan
‑Requirements
‑Recommendations
‑Kissinger
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Ambassadorial posts
-Tokyo, Japan
-Germany
‑Soviet Union [USSR]
‑Britain, France, Italy
‑Germany
‑Japan
‑(David) Kenneth Rush
‑Green
-State Department
-Qualifications
‑John D. Lodge
‑Kissinger=s concerns
-Argentina
‑Finland
-Financial situation

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-Austria
-John F. Humes
-Contributions
-Finland
‑Val Peterson
‑Belgium
-Raymond Guest
-Contributions
-Ireland
-Don Strait
-Wife
-Contribution amount requested
-Australia
-John Sherman Cooper
-Flanigan=s conversation with Mitchell
-Louie B. Nunn
-Primary election

-Lodge
-Argentina
-J. William Middendorf, II
-Return from assignment in the Netherlands
-John J. (AJack@) Caulfield
-[Forename and surname unknown]
-Ceylon
-Netherlands
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-State Department
-Anthony D. Marshall
-Ceylon

State Department
-Rogers
-Position for Flanigan
-Economics specialist
-Second undersecretary position
-White House insider
-1972 Campaign
-Request for Flanigan to converse with Peterson and Connally
-Subsequent meeting with the President and Haldeman
-Connally=s view
-Peterson=s view
-Haldeman=s view
-Flanigan=s view
-Rogers= reluctance
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Role

Ambassadorial appointments
-George Champion
-Hobart D. (AHobe@) Lewis

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-Donald Mc I. Kendall
-Japan
-Champion
-Cross
-[Forename unknown] Tyson
-John Bechtel
-Bechtel Corporation
-Type of ambassador required

-Free trade versus protectionist
-Peterson=s recommendations
-Connally=s recommendations

State Department
-Undersecretary position for Flanigan
-Connally, Peterson, Haldeman, the President
-Rogers
-Policy
-White House

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-John N. Irwin, II
‑Effect of Pentagon Papers case
‑Rogers
‑Staff structure
‑Economic specialist
‑Provision of a balance to Peterson

Haldeman and Flanigan left at 10:39 am

Conversation No. 535‑5

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  10:41 am ‑ 11:26 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson and Peter J. Brennan.

[The White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting]

Introductions

Vietnam war
‑Support for the President's policies by the Ahardhats@
‑Photograph taken in the Roosevelt Room
‑Pentagon Papers case
‑Publication of documents by the New York Times
‑Congress
‑Political effect
‑Lyndon B. Johnson's administration
‑The New York Times
‑@Hardhat@ reaction
-John N. Mitchell
‑Washington Post article
‑Effect of publication of Daniel Ellsberg's documents
‑Delay in return of US prisoners of war [POWs]
-Delay in settlement of the War

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:41 am

Refreshment

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:26 am

Pentagon Papers case
‑Public reaction

Public perceptions of issues
‑Blacks
‑News reports
‑Arthur A. Fletcher
‑[Forename unknown] Silverberg in the New York Attorney General's office
‑Handling of union issues
‑Newspaper reporting of issues
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-New York Daily News

Employment
-Minorities
-George Meany
‑New York plan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑John V. Lindsay
‑Comparison of Chicago and New York
‑Richard J. Daley's attitude
‑Police

New York City
‑Tourists compared to inhabitants
‑Prostitution
‑Madison Avenue, Park Avenue
‑Permissiveness
‑Crime control
-Lindsay
‑Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy
-J. Edgar Hoover
‑Jobs plan
‑Reasons for delays in implementation
-Rockefeller
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Henry C. Cashen, II
‑Board of Education decision
‑Minorities
‑Dispute about job
-Newspaper average
‑Jobs plan
‑Fletcher's actions
-Ehrlichman
-Robert J. Dole
‑Effect on building trades unions

Unions
‑Meany
‑Support for the President on foreign policy
-Stephen D. Bechtel=s attitude
‑Record of the President's administration
‑Fletcher
‑Statement
‑Compared to Martin Luther King, Jr.

‑Ambitions
-Comment about parade
‑Building trades union members
‑Attitude towards the President and his policies
-Infiltration of communists
‑Painters union
‑Teamsters
‑Attached by the ANew Left@
‑Frank S. Fitzsimmons
‑Hate mail
‑Origins in James R. Hoffa prosecutions
-Size
-Fitzsimmons compared with Hoffa
‑Patriotism
‑Joe Teretola
‑Teamsters leader in New York City
‑Building trades
‑Longshoremen
‑Newspapers
‑Lawsuits
‑Minorities
‑Fletcher
‑Statement
‑Reaction to administration's efforts
‑Attacks on those who support the President on foreign policy
-New York jobs plan
‑Political affiliation
‑1968 Presidential election
‑The President, Hubert H. Humphrey
‑The President's 1950 campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas
‑Teamsters
‑Ray [Surname unintelligible]
‑Foreign policy
‑Importance of bipartisan support for the President's policies
‑Union members
‑Support for the President 
-Compared to business, educational, press
‑Priority of the country's interests
‑Award of Medal of Merit to Brennan
‑Audience
‑Reaction to military ceremony
‑Patriotism

‑Forthcoming National Archives ceremony opening the Bicentennial Era, July 3, 1971
‑Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chief Justice, the President
‑1970 election
‑Wearing of the flag pin during election period
‑Continued daily wearing of flag pin
‑White House staff
‑Union members
‑Response to queries

Building trades
‑Brennan's forthcoming meeting
‑Agenda
‑Wage stabilization and economic policies
‑Union members
‑Support for the President's foreign policy
‑Reaction to criticism for support

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Pentagon Papers case
‑Vietnam war
‑Responsibilities of Johnson, John F. Kennedy
-Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie
‑Muskie's 1968 speech
‑Johnson's record
‑Humphrey's 1968 switch on war
‑The President's treatment of Johnson in comparison with Democratic candidates
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson

An unknown person [Stephen B. Bull ?]entered at an unknown time after 10:41 am.

President=s schedule

The unknown person left at at unknown time before 11:26 am.

Building trades
‑Rockefeller's actions in New York
‑Legislation
‑Emergency Public Employment Bill
‑Release of construction funds
‑Environmentalists
‑Delay of construction projects due to alleged environmental danger
-Cashen
‑Meany
-Muskie
-Con Edison
-Lindsay
-Supersonic transport [SST]
‑California nuclear power plant
‑Housing
‑Minorities

Presidential gifts

Communication and public relations
‑The President's previous meeting with Pennsylvania labor leaders Fred Gualtieri and Frank DeLuca

Colson and Brennan left at 11:26 pm

Conversation No. 535‑6

Date:  July 2,1971
Time:  11:27 am ‑ 11:29 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins.

Arrangements for forthcoming meetings

Marjorie P. Acker, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Peterson, Jr., Debra Peterson, Eric Peterson and Jeffrey Peterson entered at 11:27 am

Introductions

Arrangements for photograph

Presidential gifts
‑Presidential seal
‑Cufflinks
-Apollo viewer

Apollo space flights

Acker et al. left at 11:29 am

Conversation No. 535‑7

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  11:29 am ‑ 11:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert G. Houdek, Mrs. Robert G. Houdek, Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Ronald L. Ziegler and Oliver F. Atkins.

Robert G. Houdek
‑Work on the National Security Council [NSC] staff
‑Princeton University
‑Forthcoming studies
‑Undergraduate studies in Wisconsin

Arrangements for photograph
‑Ziegler

Presidential gifts
‑Compact
‑Presidential seal

Houdek et al. left at 11:32 am

Conversation No. 535‑8

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  11:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

The President's photo meetings with staff members
‑Arrangements

The unknown woman left at 11:32 am

Conversation No. 535‑9

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  11:32 am ‑ 11:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Lane Dwinell, Mrs. Elizabeth (Cushman) Dwinell, and Alexander P. Butterfield.  Oliver F. Atkins was present during part of the meeting

Lane Dwinell
‑The President's appreciation for work

Schedule
‑Mrs. Nixon's luncheon for Mrs. Juan Velasco
‑Invitation for the Dwinells

Photograph

Dwinell's work
‑Dwinell's future plans

Presidential gifts

Lunch for Mrs. Velasco

‑US‑Peruvian relations

Mr. and Mrs. Dwinell left at 11:36 am

Conversation No. 535‑10

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  11:36 am ‑ 11:39 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man (Alexander P. Butterfield?).

Item for the President to sign

Master Chief Eleuterio Mendoza, Mrs. Eleuterio Mendoza, Michael Mendoza, Elizabeth Mendoza, and Brig. Gen. James D. Hughes entered at 11:36 am.
[The White House photographer was present for part of the meeting.]

Arrangements for photograph
‑Number of copies

Mendoza's service in the White House

Presidential gifts

Michael and Elizabeth Mendoza
‑Ages

Mendoza et al. left at 11:39 am.

Conversation No. 535‑11

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  11:39 am ‑ 11:41 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert J. Newbrand, Mrs. Robert Newbrand, Janice Newbrand, Patricia Newbrand, Michael Newbrand and Alexander P. Butterfield.
[The White House photographer was present for part of the meeting]

Robert J. Newbrand
‑Move to Florida

Arrangements for photograph

Presidential gifts

Appreciation for Newbrand's work

Newbrand et al. left at 11:41 am

Conversation No. 535‑12

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:41 am and 11:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Congressional Half Hour
‑Presidential gifts

Bull left at 11:43 am

Conversation No. 535‑13

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  11:43 am ‑ 11:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Congressman Wilmer D. Mizell, Eddie Bane, Al Bannister, Larry Calufetti, Benny Castillo, John Caneira, Bob Ellenberger, (Mrs. Bob) Nell Ellenberger, Ron Fraser, Doug Gerlach, Marty Harrington, Pete Helt, Tony Hewitt, Cliff Holland, Fred Lynn, Bill McClain, Roger McGill, Fred Mims, Paul Patterson, Jeff Port, Ken Reed, Jay Smith, Jack Smitheran, Tim Steele, Jerry Tabb, Jackson Todd, Al Torregano, Bobby Winkles, (Mrs. Bobby) Elinor Winkles.

Baseball team

Introductions

July 1, 1971 defeat of the New York Yankees

Pan American games
‑Pre‑Olympic games in Colombia
‑Coach Bobby Winkles' record
‑Colombia
‑Plans for baseball clinics for Colombian youth
-Department of State
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks
-Golf balls
-Spiro T. Agnew

Mizell et al. left at 11:52 am

Conversation No. 535‑14

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  11:54 am ‑ 11:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Congressman Roman C. Pucinski, Orlando Rivera, and Father Arthur Fagan.

Rivera
‑Inscription

‑School
-Fagan

Presidential gift
‑Apollo viewer
‑Cufflinks

Rivera and Fagan left at an unknown time before 11:57 am

Budget
‑Integration, busing
‑Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
‑Edward L. Morgan
-John D. Ehrlichman

Pucinski left at 11:57 am

Conversation No. 535‑15

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  11:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Congressman William J. Keating

Bull left at 11:57 am

Conversation No. 535‑16

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  11:59 am ‑ 12:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Congressman William J. Keating, Herbert W. Wengler, Richard A. Fossier 
Medallion
‑President Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Method of manufacture
-John D. Ehrlichman
‑Forthcoming conversation with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Possible future manufacture

Administration=s accomplishments
-Vietnam war
-Unemployment rate

Presidential gifts

Baseball

Keating et al. left at 12:02 pm

Conversation No. 535‑17

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  12:02 pm ‑ 12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Congressman Chalmers P. Wylie.

Poll on the President's foreign policy
‑Wylie's conversation with [Name unintelligible]
‑Vietnam war
‑Wylie
‑1952 meeting with the President

Social and domestic issues
‑Welfare
‑The President's conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
‑Self‑help
‑Revenue sharing
‑The economy

‑Ohio
-Underemployment
‑Steel industry
‑Youngstown
‑Recent statistics indicating decrease in unemployment
‑Public works
‑Inflation

The President=s future visit to Ohio

Vietnam
‑Troop withdrawals
‑Policies

The economy
‑Spending
‑Need for control
‑The President's recent veto of public works bill
‑Emergency employment bill
‑Contrast with public works bill
‑Effect on inflation

Presidential gifts

Government spending

Wylie left at 12:12 pm

Conversation No. 535‑18

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  12:12 pm ‑ 12:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Forthcoming meeting with presidential appointees
‑Frederic V. Malek

‑Arrangements for photograph

Bull left at 12:13 pm

Conversation No. 535‑19

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  12:13 pm ‑ 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Thomas E. Carroll, Hadlai A. Hull, William T. Pecora, Nathaniel P. Reed, Pinkney Walker, Frank G. Zarb, Frederic V. Malek, and Daniel T. Kinsley.
[The White House photographer was present for part of the meeting]

Introductions
‑Pecora
‑Zarb
‑Carroll
-Hull
‑Walker
‑Reed

Federal government
‑Jobs
‑Challenges, pressures in Washington

Presidential gifts

Best wishes

Carroll et al. left at 12:16 pm

Conversation No. 535‑20

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  12:16 pm

Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Presidential seal
‑Construction
‑Plaque
‑Presentations in commemoration of presidential visits
‑Hotel suites, meeting rooms

Bull left at 12:16 pm

Conversation No. 535‑21

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  12:16 pm - 12:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Schedule
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Taping of interview
-Harry S. Dent

Butterfield left at 12:19 pm

Conversation No. 535-22
Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:20 pm and 12:25pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President=s schedule

-National Archives, July 3, 1971

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 535‑23

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule for morning on July 2, 1971
‑Meeting with recent presidential appointees
‑Chief Eleuterio Mendoza
‑Departing member of the National Security Council [NSC] staff
‑Congressmen
‑Problem of deciding on appointments
‑Deserving requestors denied an appointment
‑Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Nolan
-Contribution
‑Optimum time of day for brief appointments
‑Flowers for Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Future visit to the White House

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Wolf Trap concert, July 1, 1971
‑Van Cliburn's performance
‑Size of audience
‑Weather
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Buffet dinner
-Layout of stage

Schedule
‑Problem with setting up appointments
‑Mr. and Mrs. Nolan
‑Marjorie P. Acker's relatives
‑Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Peterson

Arrangements for photograph
‑Photograph of Abraham Lincoln
‑New photograph

H.R.(ABob@) Haldeman entered at 12:35 pm

Photographs
‑Status of new photograph
‑Alexander P. Butterfield
‑Photograph for autographs
‑Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm

Photograph

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:48 pm

Photographs
‑Atkins
-News photographer
‑Photographs of Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
‑Comparison of candid and portrait photography
‑Haldeman portrait

‑Unnamed photographer
‑Atkins
‑Nixon‑Cox wedding photographs

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‑Mrs. Herbert W. Kalmbach
‑Choreographic effect of wedding ceremony
‑David Marx's letter and call
‑Marx's relation to Mrs. Daniel Ellsberg

Surveillance
-NSC
‑William A.K. (ATony@) Lake
-Documents
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Morton Halperin
‑Secret documents
‑Henry A. Kissinger
-Lake

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm.

Photograph

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:48 pm

‑Kissinger's reaction

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Privacy]
[Duration:  17s  ]

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‑Larry Lynn, Halperin, Ellsberg
‑Adolf Hitler, Judas Iscariot
‑Intelligence, morality

Photographs
‑Handling of requests
‑Bryce N. Harlow request
‑San Clemente
‑Handling of requests
‑Woods' duties
‑Alleviation of the President's workload
‑The President's visit to Sam W. Rayburn's office as Congressman in the 1940's
‑Secretary's handling of autographed photo request
‑Contrast with Nixon's handling of mail during Congressional tenure
‑Staff
‑Bill [Unintelligible surname]
‑Don [Unintelligible surname]
‑Charles Jones
‑Les Hoffman
‑William Blanford (?), Don Garth
‑Handling of autograph requests
‑Personal signature by the President

Woods left at 12:48 pm

The President's schedule
-Woods
‑Contributor from the Phillippines
‑Handling of future appointments
‑Recent presidential appointees

‑The President's morning meeting with Frederic V. Malek's group
‑Length of time for meetings
‑Procedure
‑Effectiveness
‑Donald McI. Kendall
‑Significance of photographs
‑Display in the offices of appointees
‑Executive branch offices
‑Embassies

Foreign relations
‑State Department
‑William P. Rogers= possible conversation with the President during 	forthcoming lunch
‑Kissinger's departure on trip
‑Mideast
‑Joseph J. Sisco's possible mission
‑General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s views

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration:  37s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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-NSC
‑The President's possible meeting with Rogers
‑Sisco, Kissinger
‑Handling by Haig
‑The President's forthcoming trip to San Clemente

The economy
-William J. Keating=s comments
‑New unemployment statistics
-Vietnam war

Vietnam war settlement
‑Paris peace talks
‑Proposals
‑Kissinger
‑Rogers' knowledge of secret negotiations
‑Developments in US relations with the People=s Republic of China [PRC]

The economy
‑Unemployment figures
‑Effect as news story
‑Handling
‑Congress
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, Carl B. Albert

Foreign policy negotiations
‑News reports about secret negotiations
‑Reaction of Kissinger's staff
‑Channels of communication
‑Opponents
‑Kissinger=s attitude
‑Ellsberg, Lake, Halperin

Bicentennial era July 3, 1971 speech by the President
‑Draft
‑John Brown anecdote
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr's editorial work
‑Kissinger's reaction
‑William L. Safire, Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Use of previously used phrases
-John K. Andrew=s, Jr.
‑Speech presentation in the National Archives
‑John Brown anecdote
‑The President's previous Jaycees speech
‑Graduation speech by high school student

‑Eighteen‑year vote tie‑in
‑New Hampshire background
-John Brown anecdote

Haldeman left at 1:06 pm

Conversation No. 535‑24

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  1:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with Alexander P. Butterfield (?).

Forthcoming luncheon for Mrs. Juan Velasco
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Schedule arrangements
‑The President's knowledge

The President entered at 1:06 pm

Schedule arrangements
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Weather

The President, Bull and Butterfield left at 1:06 pm

Conversation No. 535‑25

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  1:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Secret Service agents entered.

[Unintelligible]

Recording ends while the conversation in progress.