Conversation No. 537-1

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:48 pm and 2:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and an unknown person

The President=s schedule

Sanchez and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm

Conversation No. 537-2

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  2:50 pm - 4:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

White House social events
-Luncheon for Consuelo Velasco Alvarado
-Dinners for state guests

The President=s schedule
-William H. Carruthers

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm

Meeting Carruthers and Mark I. Goode

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm

Schedule

Carruthers and Goode entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm

National Archives speech, July 3, 1971
-Arrangements
-Seating, podium, camera set-up

-Timing
-The President=s arrival
-Audience
-Holding room
-Makeup
-Speaker Carl B. Albert, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
-Camera set-up
-Off-camera announcers
-Introduction of the President
-Army Chorus
-The President=s closing remarks
-Army Chorus rendition of the National Anthem
-The President=s location during anthem
-Use of anthem
-Timing cues for the President
-Length of remarks by others
-Applause
-Size of audience
-Camera angles
-Need for holding room
-The President=s method of presentation
-Use of text
-Closing remarks
-Playing of national anthem
-Timing

Carruthers and Goode left at 3:06 pm

National Archives speech
-Arrangements

Certification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment
-Procedures
-Administrator of General Services
-AYoung Americans in Concert@ group
-Honor America Day
-Audience for ceremony
-Witnesses to ceremony
-Male, female
-Race
-Timing of ceremony
-Effect
-Support for the eighteen-year-old vote

-California
-Concert group tour of Europe
-The President=s schedule
-California
-Ohio
-Oklahoma
-Location, timing
-The President=s departure for Camp David

National Archives speech
-Elements
-Patriotism
-Public reaction to negativism
-Use of John Brown anecdote
-Raymond K. Price, Jr., John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Thomas Jefferson theme in William L. Safire=s draft
-George Washington, John Adams
-Appeal to Democrats
-John F. Kennedy
-Jefferson
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, [John] Calvin Coolidge
-Deaths of Jefferson and Adams
-Youth of Revolutionary War figures
-Comparison to Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander III [the Great]
-Timing
-Compared to the Cambodia speech
-Length and pace
-Theme
-Use of television
-Joint appearance by leaders of executive, judicial, legislative branches
-Pentagon Papers case
-Burger
-Albert
-Contrast to John W. McCormack, Samuel Rayburn
-Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott, John Sherman Cooper

Effectiveness of speakers
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird, Elliot L. Richardson
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe

Ambassadorial appointments
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Japan
-Business interests
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Argentina
-Finland
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Financial status
-Assignment

National Archives event
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s schedule

Latin America
-Mrs. Velasco=s visit
-Economic conditions
-United States
-Family assistance program

Unnamed child

Unemployment statistics
-Washington Star

News events
-Economy
-Kissinger
-Concerns
-1969 October anti-Vietnam War demonstrations
-Letter to Georgetown student
-General Lewis B. Hershey
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Le Duc Tho, Xuan Thuy
-Hershey
-Flanigan
-The draft
-Popularity
-As symbol of the draft
-Forthcoming statement
-Kissinger

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:37 pm

News coverage
-Unemployment
-James D. Hodgson
-Statistical aberration
-Decrease
-Vietnam casualties
-Monthly figures
-Charles W. Colson
-Reporting
-John A. Scali, Colson
-Pentagon Papers case
-Rogers= comments
-Laird
-Research and Development [RAND] Corporation
-Declassification of documents

Pentagon Papers
-Public reaction
-Brookings Institute
-Acceptance of classified documents
-RAND Corporation
-Reaction to case
-Tom C. Huston
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Status of case
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Conspiracy investigation
-Richardson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Action on Defense Department employee [Surname unknown Cooke]
-Polygraph examinations
-Ehrlichman
-Laurence E. (ALarry@) Lynn, Jr.
-Richard V. (ADick@) Allen
-Comments about Lynn
-Laird
-Comments
-Declassification investigation
-Laird
-Congressional investigation
-Frank Stanton

-Television program about the ASelling of the Pentagon@
-Congress, television
-Confidential sources
-Colson
-Potter Stewart
-Question to Washington Post reporter about publishing information
-Delay or prevention of prisoner of war [POW] release in Vietnam
-First Amendment rights
-Alexander M. Bickel
-Limitation of White House access by Washington Post, New York Times
-National security stories
-Background briefings
-Off-the-record, political stories

Kissinger=s trip
-Press
-Ziegler
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Discussion of Pentagon Papers case with ambassadors
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Leonard Unger
-Press interest
-Paris
-Albert
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Rogers, Laird

Asia
-Agnew, Kissinger, Laird
-Focus
-Vietnam
-Israel
-Richard M. Helms
-Lyndon B. Johnson comparison

Unemployment statistics
-Decrease
-Handling of news story
-Statistical aberrations

-Hodgson
-Comparison to George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally

The President, Haldeman, and Ziegler left at 4:02 pm

Conversation No. 537-3

Date:  July 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:02 pm and 4:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men entered

[Unintelligible]

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 4:08 pm

Conversation No. 537-4

Date:  July 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:03 pm and 6:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Certification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment
-Ceremony
-AYoung Americans in Concert@
-The press
-Photo and film shots
-Race
-Young Americans group
-Reaction to the White House and to the presidency
-The President=s arrival from Camp David by helicopter
-Photographs
-Refreshments

-Accommodations
-Washington Hotel
-Reaction of young people to staying in hotels
-Group=s forthcoming trip to Europe
-Concert
-Possible public performance in Washington, DC after trip
-Constitution Hall
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opening
-Inaugural concert
-Young people
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Significance of ceremony
-Compared to formal signing ceremonies
-Public service jobs bill
-Ceremonial events
-Compared to Eagle Scouts
-William H. Carruthers
-Effectiveness
-Unnamed person=s reaction
-Robert L. Kunzig
-Procedures for the Twenty-sixth Amendment
-Kunzig
-John J. Gilligan
-Ohio ratification
-Delivery of certification document to the General Services Administration [GSA]
-Pick-up by unnamed GSA clerk
-Credit, press coverage
-Ceremony
-Press coverage
-Television networks
-Witnesses
-Race
-The President=s meeting with Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Black constituents
-Youth group
-Signing ceremony pens
-Parker brand

[The President talked to the White House operator at 4:28 pm]

[Conversation No. 537-4A]

[See Conversation No. 6-139]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Pause]

Young people
-Visibility
-Media coverage
-President=s Commission on Campus Unrest
-Establishment in June 1970
-Dr. G. Alexander Heard
-Changes since 1970
-1970 statement about crisis in the university system
-Commencement addresses
-Anti-Vietnam War protests
-Decline
-Attention paid by students, press

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:29 pm

Certification ceremony for the Twenty-sixth Amendment
-Press coverage
-Robert Pierpoint
-Mexican girl
-Reaction
-Spirit of event
-Eighteen-year-olds
-Attitude towards presidency
-The President=s remarks
-Distribution of signing ceremony pens
-J. Bruce Whelihan
-East Room setting
-Press room
-The President=s birthday call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower in Athens, Greece

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-AYoung Americans in Concert@
-Black youth
-Singing
-Comparison to Mormon Tabernacle Choir
-National Archives event, July 3, 1971
-Army Chorus
-Youths
-Television networks
-Coverage of event
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Attitude towards children
-Jewish families
-Bar Mitzvahs

Jews
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Henry A. Kissinger, Leonard Garment
-Reaction to case
-Compared to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg espionage case
-Morton H. Halperin
-Alger Hiss

Blacks
-Espionage
-Activism compared to Communism
-Angela Y. Davis

Jews
-Espionage

National Broadcasting Company [NBC] special on the Pentagon Papers
-Max Frankel and news panel
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Questioning
-Frankel=s performance
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Ken Crawford [?]
-Kilpatrick

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-Kilpatrick

Values
-The President=s remarks at certification ceremony
-Strength, wealth
-Idealism
-Practical application
-Youths
-Haynes B. Johnson
-Washington Post article
-Basic needs
-Discretionary needs
-Higher, spiritual needs
-Path for the future

Pentagon Papers case
-The President=s July 6, 1971 Kansas City appearance
-Possible statement
-William P. Rogers= role
-Polls
-Public opinion

-Ellsberg=s revelation of the documents
-Public exposure to issue
-Supreme Court decision

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:28 pm

President=s schedule
-The barber
-Forthcoming trip

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:15 pm

Pentagon Papers case
-Melvin R. Laird

Vietnam War
-Opponents of the President=s policies
-The war as issue during 1972 campaign
-Gerald R. Ford=s reaction
-Democratic candidates
-Effectiveness as issue
-Scripps Howard News Service
-The President and Republicans
-Opponents
-Kansas City appearance by the President
-Press conference
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Lives compared to First Amendment rights
-Charles W. Colson
-Congress
-Press attitude
-Martin S. Hayden=s editorial
-Television appearance
-Presentation of issue
-The President=s efforts to end the war
-Necessity of secrecy
-Cambodia, Laos
-Decrease in US casualty figures
-Forthcoming Kansas City appearance
-Hayden=s attendance
-Allusion to channels of foreign policy
-The People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Europe, Middle East
-Number of the President=s meetings with heads of state
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Confidential nature
-Josip Broz Tito
-Record
-State Department
-Head of state dinners
-France, Germany, England
-Italy
-Romania
-Thailand, Belgium
-The Pope
-Confidentiality of meetings
-Warren E. Burger=s recounting of anecdote about Benjamin Franklin
-Sealing of the minutes of the Constitutional Convention for forty years
-John Adams, Thomas Jefferson

Pentagon Papers case
-New York Times
-Editorial
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Frankel=s veracity
-Neil Sheehan=s involvement
-Kilpatrick=s questions
-Sheehan=s involvement
-Leak of information
-John N. Mitchell
-Colson
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Request for private report
-Laird
-Public opinion
-Delays
-Limitation of access by the New York Times, Washington Post
-Rich Smith [?]
-Access preference to the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times
-Don Ervin, Aldo B. (AElbow@) Beckman
-Beckman=s father-in-law
-Release of information
-World War II

-Chicago Tribune
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Kennedy=s administration
-Los Angeles Times
-Laos
-1962 accords
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Timing
-The President=s conversation with Haig
-Security clearances
-Limitations on non-governmental contractor personnel clearances
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] briefings for President in 1961-68 period out of office
-Denial by Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-McGeorge Bundy, Research and Development [RAND] Corporation
-Haldeman=s need for clearance while handling Fairchild account for the J. Walter Thompson Agency
-Limitation of outsider clearances in the future
-Benefits
-Need for confidentiality
-Effect on Rogers

Schedule
-Reverend John J. McLaughlin

The President=s July 6, 1971 Kansas City speech
-Topics to be covered
-Comparison to Rochester, New York and Birmingham, Alabama remarks
-Foreign policy
-Confidentiality of meetings with foreign leaders
-Helsinki
-Allusion to ongoing negotiations
-SALT
-Television coverage
-Filming of Kansas City appearance
-Camera set-up, lighting
-Timing in relation to availability of film to networks
-Topics
-Foreign policy emphasis
-Kissinger

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 6:15 pm

-News summary
-Television commentary on the President=s July 3, 1971 National Archives speech
-Dan Rather
-NBC
-Kaplow
-Bicentennial
-Bicentennial Commission
-Need to strengthen membership
-Staff
-Distribution of film of event

Speeches
-The President compared to Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Public perceptions
-Frequency of radio talks

The President=s television appearances
-Certification ceremony=s effectiveness
-Other events
-Decision to forgo July 1 press conference
-Pentagon Papers as focus
-Louis Harris poll, George H. Gallup poll
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger
-Domestic policy issues
-John B. Connally

Connally
-Possible effectiveness as Secretary of State
-Haldeman=s conversation with Connally
-Connally=s morale

Economic policy
-Hobart Rowen and other columnists
-Commentary about possible changes
-Arthur F. Burns
-Connally
-Albert E. Sindlinger=s comments about effect on the stock market

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An unknown person [Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 4:28 pm

President=s schedule

The unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 6:15 pm

Items requested by the President

Pentagon Papers
-Statements feasibility

Presidential approval poll
-Effect of Pentagon Papers case and recent events
-Gallup poll
-Chapin
-White House poll
-Gallup poll
-Harris poll
-Colson
-Press conference
-Patrick J. Buchanan=s analysis
-Impact of Pentagon Papers case

Vietnam veterans= demonstration
-John F. Kerry

The President and Haldeman left at an unknown time before 6:15 pm

Conversation No. 537-5

Date:  July 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:15 pm and 6:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men entered

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Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 6:27 pm