Conversation No. 536-1

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:20 am and 7:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

Schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 7:58 am

Conversation No. 536-2

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  7:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 6-114]

Conversation No. 536-3

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  7:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 6-115]

Conversation No. 536-4

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  8:00 am - 9:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson

Schedule
-Meeting with James D. Hodgson and George P. Shultz

Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-Geoffrey H. Moore
-Offer of resignation
-Approval of Labor Department release of report on unemployment statistics
-White House request for transfer of AGoldstein@ [Leon Greenberg]
-Release of report
-New York Times
-Handling by Labor Department
-Moore
-Understanding of political implications
-Hodgson, Shultz
-Moore
-Arthur F. Burns
-Action on AGoldstein@
-Timing of action
-Question of Moore=s tenure
-Firing versus resignation
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz, Hodgson
-Need for reorganization of BLS
-Replacement for Moore
-Deputy
-AGoldstein@ as Associate Commissioner for Statistics
-Shultz=s reaction
-Moore

Schedule
-Request for Shultz and Hodgson to join meeting

Colson left at an unknown time after 8:00 am

[Pause]

Colson, Shultz, and Hodgson entered at 8:10 am

BLS
-Recent release of unemployment statistics
-Statistical aberrations
-Political ramifications
-Herbert Stein
-Deliberate nature of action
-Bureaucrats
-Reflection on Hodgson
-Moore
-AGoldstein@
-Attitude during the President=s administration and during Dwight D. Eisenhower=s administration
-Scholarly background
-Comparison to Daniel Ellsberg
-Effect of forced resignation
-Statistical aberration
-May and June 1971 figures
-News reports
-Reporters= attitude toward administration
-Moore, AGoldstein@
-Preparation of report
-Effect of incident on Hodgson, Peter M. Flanigan
-Reorganization
-Transfer of AGoldstein@
-Ronald L. Ziegler=s report on Hodgson=s briefing
-Bureaucrats
-Moore
-Burns
-Unemployment statistics
-Use
-Comparison to poll figures
-Seasonal adjustments
-January to June comparison
-Effect of recent release on news reports
-Emphasis on joblessness
-John W. Chancellor
-Ziegler
-AGoldstein@
-Position
-Appointment
-Transfer

-Reorganization
-Possible merger of statistical agencies
-Congress
-William Proxmire
-Plan
-AGoldstein@
-Polygraph
-Responsibility for statement
-Associated Press [AP], United Press International [UPI]
-Effect of news story
-Politicization of labor statistics
-Handling of statistics
-Census Bureau=s role
-BLS=s role
-Payroll records
-Household survey
-AGoldstein@
-Congress
-Proxmire=s attitude
-Press
-Replacement of Moore
-Moore=s responsibility
-AGoldstein@ public appearances
-Unemployment
-Belief in decrease
-Effect of stories
-Moore
-Search for replacement
-New job
-Political effect of release
-Comparison to news stories on Vietnam War casualty figures
-Reorganization
-Frederic V. Malek
-Removal of AGoldstein@
-Replacement as statistician
-Wilson Allen Wallis
-Effect of politicization of statistics
-Replacement for Moore
-Domination by bureaucracy
-Contrast to Wallis
-Cabinet committee on economics
-Wallis compared to Burns
-Timing of action on reorganization

-Proximity to 1972 election
-Labor Day 1971
-Reorganization
-Possible merger of statistical agencies
-Departmental responsibilities
-Forthcoming call from Hodgson to John B. Connally
-Explanation of incident
-Administration=s chief economic spokesman
-Unemployment
-Analysis of trends
-Effect on retail sales
-Regional figures
-California
-Pacific Northwest
-Montana
-The South, Texas
-Minnesota, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts
-Michigan
-Aerospace industry
-Efforts to cool off the economy
-Durable goods
-Automobile industry
-James M. Roche
-1970 impact
-Lingering effect of problem
-California
-Aerospace industry
-Three to five year impact
-Effect of economic upturn
-Impact of government action
-Forthcoming retail sales figures
-Laurence E. (ALarry@) Lynn, Jr.
-Credibility of statistics
-Compared to George H. Gallup, Louis Harris polls
-AGoldstein@
-Proxmire

Possible meeting with Colson on the Pentagon Papers

Shultz, Hodgson, and Colson left at 8:50 am

Conversation No. 536-5

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:50 am and 8:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 6-116]

Conversation No. 536-6

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:50 am and 8:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 6-117]

Conversation No. 536-7

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  8:58 am - 9:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President

The President talked with the nurse in charge of the Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital

[See Conversation No. 6-118]

Conversation No. 536-8

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  9:04 am - 9:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

Rose Mary Woods talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 6-119]

Conversation No. 536-9

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  9:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

Change of name

Placement of telephone call

Conversation No. 536-10

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:05 pm and 9:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson

Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-The President=s earlier meeting with George P. Shultz and James D. Hodgson
-Colson
-Conversation with Shultz, Hodgson
-BLS release
-Staff members conversations with BLS staff
-News report

-Time magazine
-Response to press queries
-AGoldstein@ [Leon Greenberg]
-Citation as spokesman
-Geoffrey H. Moore, Shultz
-Jews
-[Forenames unknown] Gordowsky [?], Levine
-Moore
-Shultz, Hodgson
-Julius Shiskin
-President=s opinion regarding Jews
-Henry A. Kissinger

[The President talked with John A. (AJack@) Mulcahy between 9:06 am and 9:08 am]

[Conversation No. 536-10A]

[See Conversation No. 6-121]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with an unknown person [Rose Mary Woods?] at an unknown time between 9:08 am and 9:55 am]

[Conversation No. 536-10B]

Mulcahy
-July 3, 1971 wedding
-The President=s telephone call
-Gift

[End of telephone conversation]

[Pause]

BLS
-Handling of personnel changes
-Shultz, Hodgson
-Comparison to John B. Connally
-AGoldstein@
-Comparison to Maurice H. Stans

-Department of Commerce
-Handling of statistics compared to BLS
-Harold C. Passer

News coverage
-Unemployment statistics
-New York Times
-Colson=s forthcoming call to Julian Goodman of National Broadcasting Company [NBC] and William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Reporting of unemployment story
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman=s view
-Headline orientation of the general public
-Colson=s July 2, 1971 conversation with wife and son
-Drop in rates
-Reporting by John W. Chancellor
-John A. Scali
-Vietnam casualty figures
-Laos
-Comparison to July, 1970
-Forthcoming July 15, 1971 Department of Defense release of June figures
-Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers case
-Potter Stewart=s concern
-Hypothetical effect of classified information leak on negotiations to end the war
-Prisoner of war [POW] release
-Reaction of New York Times reporter [Forename unknown] Bickel

Pentagon Papers case
-Appearance by Dean Rusk
-Vietnam War actions during Lyndon B. Johnson=s administration
-Bickel
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Possible Presidential statement
-Application of espionage laws
-Revelation of activities during John F. Kennedy=s and Johnson=s administrations
-New York Times revelation of substance of secret documents
-Vietnam War negotiations
-The President=s obligation to POWs and their families
-Use of secret negotiations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], People=s Republic of China [PRC], Middle East

-Journalistic desire for news scoops
-Obligation to prisoners of war
-Comparison to Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Duties as chief of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force [SHAEF]
-US journalists
-Bickel
-New York Times
-Government action
-Possible Presidential statement
-Ellsberg=s actions
-Impact
-The President=s obligation to uphold the law
-Supreme Court decision
-Journalistic goals
-Impact on lives of US servicemen in Vietnam
-Comparison with journalistic standards during World War II
-Rights compared to morality
-The President=s role in the case
-Method of presenting statement
-Arrangements for letter from the editor of a small town newspaper
-Martin S. Hayden
-Newspaper compared to press conference
-Timing
-Bickel
-Article
-Stewart
-Presidential statement
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Bickel=s statement
-Democrat=s reaction
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson=s statement
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie=s statements

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BLS
-AGoldstein@, Moore
-Personnel changes
-Release on unemployment figures
-Time magazine
-Journalistic contact with BLS
-AGoldstein@
-Approval of release
-Hodgson
-Shultz=s conversation with Hodgson

[Pause]

Frank C. Carlucci
-Handling of the Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-California

Law enforcement
-Crime
-US News and World Report
-Forthcoming article
-AEra of permissiveness@
-Letter from the President to law enforcement officials
-White House meeting with police chiefs
-Reaction to letter
-Patrick V. Murphy

Colson=s forthcoming meeting with Buchanan

BLS
-Hodgson
-Bureaucracy

Colson left at 9:55 am

Conversation No. 536-11

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:55 am and 9:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

Schedule
-Charles W. Colson

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:56 am

Conversation No. 536-12

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  9:56 am - 9:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President

The President talked with Susan Mara between 9:56 am and 9:57 am

[See Conversation No. 6-122]

Conversation No. 536-13

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  10:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Schedule
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at 10:01 am

Conversation No. 536-14

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  10:01 am - 10:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

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MIDDLE EAST

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Foreign policy
-Summit meetings
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Timing in 1972
-Bi-partisanship
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson=s administration
-Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Vietnam negotiations in Paris
-News stories
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, Carl B. Albert
-Clark M. Clifford
-US relations with the PRC

[The President talked with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?] at an unknown time between 10:01 am and 10:15 am]

[Conversation No. 536-14A]

Request for John K. Andrews, Jr.

[End of telephone conversation]

Foreign relations
-US-PRC
-Kissinger
-US-USSR
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger
-Haig=s view
-Summit results
-PRC and USSR trips compared
-Areas of interest at Soviet summit
-Berlin, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Middle East
-History of US-Chinese relations
-Vietnam

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PRC

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-Ideological differences
-Liberals
-US Defense Department
-Robert S. McNamara=s appointees
-Comparison to Arthur W. Radford=s tenure
-J. William Fulbright
-Loyalty of appointees

An unknown person [Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 10:01 am

The President=s schedule

The unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 10:15 am

US foreign relations
-Reaction of liberals
-Division
-Walt W. Rostow
-Telephone calls to Haig
-Clifford
-William P. Rogers
-Knowledge of Developments
-PRC
-Kissinger=s activities
-Paris Peace Talks
-Mansfield Amendment

-Haig=s conversation with Rogers
-Possible meeting between the President, Haig, and Rogers
-The President=s schedule

Andrews entered at 10:20 am

Greetings

Haig left at 10:20 am

The President=s forthcoming speech at the National Archives, July 3, 1971
-Deletions, revision
-Use of God=s name

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-Deletions, revisions
-Word length
-Comparison of writing and speaking style
-Deletions, revisions
-Use of painting
-Rose Mary Woods
-Andrews
-Work on Ronald L. Ziegler=s staff during first year
-Speech revision
-Time

Andrews left at 10:40 am

Conversation No. 536-15

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  10:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Request for meeting

Conversation No. 536-16

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:41 am and 11:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Weather

Speechwriters
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr., [Forename unknown] Cooke
-Youth
-Sense of humor
-Admiration for the President
-Perception of people
-The President=s handling of receiving line
-Comparison to Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President=s meeting with Young Men=s Christian Association [YMCA] members
-July 3, 1971 speech draft compared to Safire=s draft
-Background
-St. Louis
-Christian Scientist
-Principia College
-AAdventure Unlimited@
-John K. (ACap@) Andrews
-Haldeman=s children
-John D. Ehrlichman

-Previous role on Ziegler=s staff
-Ehrlichman
-Catholic priest speechwriter
-[Reverend John J. McLaughlin?]
-[Douglas L.?] Hallett
-Analysis of Pentagon Papers case
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Charles W. Colson

Photograph
-Removal of sculpture
-Abney [Surname unknown], Leonard Garment
-AFourth of July@ present

[Pause]

Government personnel
-The President=s meeting with Colson
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-AGoldstein@ [Leon Greenberg]
-Call from Frederic V. Malek
-Jews
-Jews within the federal bureaucracy
-Supervision
-Loyalty issue
-Henry A. Kissinger, Garment, Safire
-Morton H. Halperin
-Kissinger=s non-Jewish staff
-White House secretaries, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-William A. K. (ATony@) Lake
-David R. Young, Jr.
-Work with the National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Kissinger
-Lawrence S. Eagleburger

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-Kissinger=s treatment of staff

Helicopter

The President left and Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:41 am

Weather

The President entered and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:53 pm

July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Amount of time allotted for the President
-Carl B. Albert, Warren E. Burger
-Tempo of reading speeches in presentation
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Emphasis
-Comparison to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Transcripts of speeches
-New York Times
-Repetition of lines in Presidential speeches
-Price, Safire
-Compared to past Presidential speeches
-Hallett=s view
-Public reaction

Federal personnel
-Jews in government jobs
-Executive pay level
-President=s reservations
-Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz

-Government reorganization plan
-John B. Connally
-Pay raises
-Shultz
-White House staff salaries
-Treasury Department
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Creation of new position
-Shultz
-Arthur F. Burns
-White House staff
-John C. Whitaker
-Work
-Loyalty
-Ehrlichman
-The new National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Domestic Council
-Peace Corps, Volunteers in Service to America [VISTA], Upward Bound, HeadStart, ACTION
-The President=s programs
-Spending of money by Republicans
-Need to promote domestic programs

Trade
-Peter G. Peterson
-Way of publicly handling issue
-Connally
-AGoldstein@
-Trustworthy

An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at 11:25 am

Request to adjust clock
-Correct time

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 11:26 am

Pentagon Papers case
-Colson
-Possible Presidential statement
-First Amendment constitutional rights
-Journalistic action which may endanger lives of US prisoners of war [POWs] in South Vietnam

-Risk of American lives
-The President=s responsibility
-Journalistic standards
-Setting
-Colson=s recommendation
-Press conference
-The President=s Kansas City speech
-The President=s schedule
-Television coverage
-Feasibility of statement by the President
-Press coverage
-Dean Rusk
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] broadcast
-Supreme Court decision
-James B. (AScotty@) Reston, Phil Geylen
-Reaction to court ruling
-Rusk
-Johnson and John F. Kennedy administrations= focus
-Public opinion survey
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Reaction of Buchanan=s staff
-Appearance
-Public opinion
-Frequency of polls
-Effect on White House staff
-Question on Ellsberg
-Buchanan
-Man associated with Murray M. Chotiner [Seymour Freidin?]
-Reactions by Democratic presidential contenders
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Harold E. Hughes
-Muskie
-J. William Fulbright
-George S. McGovern
-Kennedy-Johnson administration responsibility
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-Republicans
-Possible Machiavellian actions
-Kennedy=s actions in Vietnam
-Limitation of Johnson=s actions
-Humphrey, Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Clark M. Clifford

-Republicans
-Analogy to post-World War II leak
-James W. Byrnes= reaction
-Ernest Bevan
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-France
-Timing of poll

Public opinion polls
-Timing problem over July 4th holiday weekend

Pentagon Papers case
-Possible statement by the President
-Effectiveness
-Prosecution of Ellsberg
-Public opinion
-Effect of television
-Connally
-Texas and the Southwest
-Lack of personal effect of issue
-Reaction to Vietnam War
-Buchanan
-Widespread public desire for withdrawal from war
-Weekend polling
-Kansas City statement by the President
-Press briefings
-Compared to Rochester statement
-Johnson
-Lack of response to issue
-Rusk
-Effect of issue on sales of Johnson=s book
-President=s opinion of Johnson
-Possible statement on the New York Times

[Pause]

The President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Reading copy for the President
-Pages
-Ziegler

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:53 am

Conversation No. 536-17

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 10:41 am until 11:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Weather
-Day off for staff

Schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler

[Pause]

The President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Physical arrangements
-Podium
-Playing of the national anthem
-President=s actions
-Position of Warren E. Burger and Carl B. Albert

Death of Soviet cosmonauts
-Release of statement

Speech arrangements at the National Archives
-Playing of the national anthem
-President=s actions

The President=s schedule
-Letter
-Rose Mary Woods, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haldeman left at 11:53 am

Conversation No. 536-18

Date:  July 3, 1971
Time:  11:54 am - 1:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with General Alexander Haig, Jr.

Henry A. Kissinger=s schedule
-Saigon

Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:55 am

-Refusal to talk to the press
-Comparison to Melvin R. Laird=s statement at airport
-Policy on talking to the press

[Pause]

Death of Soviet cosmonauts
-President=s handwritten note
-Instructions for Woods
-Widows of cosmonauts
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Instructions for Haig
-Possible Russian translation
-Delivery by diplomatic pouch
-Public release

Haig left at 12:03 pm

The President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Draft of remarks
-Style
-Carl B. Albert, Warren E. Burger

Jeane L. Dixon
-Letter concerning unknown person
-Investigation
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Form letter to returning veterans of military service
-Unemployment

-Distribution
-Washington Post, New York Times

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:54 am

The President=s schedule
-John K. Andrews, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:10 pm

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Andrews entered at 12:10 pm

The President=s National Archives speech
-Draft
-Attendance
-Andrews= wife

Letter to the widows of the Soviet cosmonauts
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-Work on draft
-Handling and delivery of letter
-Dobrynin
-Haig
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower=s call to the President from Athens, Greece
-President=s telephone call to Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Podgorny=s reaction

Woods left at 12:13 pm

The President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Length
-Editing
-Beginning section

[The President talked with an unknown person [Haldeman?] at an unknown time between 12:13 pm and 12:51 pm]

[Conversation No. 536-18A]

The President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Length

[End of telephone conversation]

The President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Length
-The President=s reading speed in presentation
-Revision
-Phrasing
-Length

[Haldeman talked with the President between 12:22 pm and 12:23 pm]

[Conversation No. 536-18B]

[See Conversation No. 6-123]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Revisions
-Type
-Marjorie P. Acker

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 12:23 pm

-Length
-Ending of broadcast
-Choral rendering of AGod Bless America@

The President rehearsed portions of the July 3, 1971 speech

[A transcript of the final version of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 793-798]

The President=s July 3, 1971 speech
-Shift from past to future events
-Cynthia Frink=s speech
-John Brown anecdote
-Speed of presentation
-Foreign policy portion
-Mention of problem of poverty
-Phrasing
-Spirit of America
-ASpirit of >76"
-Renaming of Air Force One presidential airplane
-Bicentennial commission
-Length
-Revisions
-Reading copy
-Closing cue
-Brown anecdote
-William H. Carruthers

Andrews left at 12:51 am

The President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Schedule

Andrews
-Work
-Speechwriters

-William L. Safire
-Draft
-Thomas Jefferson, John Adams
-Date of death
-Comparison to Brown anecdote and Miss Frink=s quote

The President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Reprint of speech
-Bicentennial Commission
-Setting and style of speech
-Television coverage

Executive department
-State Department
-Speechwriters
-Franklin R. Gannon
-United States Information Agency [USIA]
-Article on the meaning of the national anthem
-Reader=s Digest

The President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Possible publication
-Tie-in to Honor America Day

Young Americans group
-Ronald H. Walker
-Event at Carnegie Hall
-Possible visit to Washington
-Size of group
-The White House
-Constitution Hall
-East Room in the White House

The President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Television
-Drafts
-Speechwriters
-Andrews
-Matching of the President=s style
-Price
-Message
-Federal Register
-Charles W. Colson

-Ideology
-Release of text prior to presentation

President=s schedule

The President and Haldeman left at 1:12 pm