Conversation No. 540‑1

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:35 am and 7:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger.

The Vietnam War
-Kissinger
‑Present status of negotiations
-John C. Stennis
‑Statement of position on type of settlement
‑Cease fire
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Self determination
‑Congress
‑F. Edward Herbert
‑Michael (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Stennis

Rogers and Kissinger left at an unknown time before 7:53 am.

Conversation No. 540‑2

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:35 am and 7:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men (Secret Service agents) entered..

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[Duration:  26s  ]

EMERGENCY PLANS

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This recording was cut off at an unknown time before 7:53 am.

Conversation No. 540‑3

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:35 am and 7:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Schedule
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 540‑4

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  7:53 am - 8:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

US-People=s Republic of China [PRC] relations
‑Forthcoming briefing of Congressional leaders on US relations with PRC
‑Attendees
-William P. Rogers
‑Tone
-Kissinger
‑Calligraphy, notes
‑Need to maintain secrecy during negotiations
‑Pentagon Papers citation
‑Attendees
‑John G. Tower, Peter H. Dominick
‑Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with conservatives
‑Possible answer to questions about Taiwan [Republic of China]
‑Kissinger=s July 19, 1971 meeting with columnist
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Richard Wilson	
-Edward W. Carter

News headlines
-Peking, China
-PRC support of North Vietnam
-US
-Taiwan

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TAIWAN

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‑July 19, 1971 meeting with Congressional leaders
‑Newspaper and media coverage
‑James B. ("Scotty") Reston
‑Trip to the PRC
‑Hospitalization
‑Forthcoming meetings with conservatives
‑Kissinger's July 19, 1971 meeting with columnists
‑Kevin P. Phillips
‑Topics
‑Secrecy and confidentiality
‑Kissinger's forthcoming meetings with conservatives
‑Schedule
‑The President's schedule
‑Discussion of John B. Connally's situation
‑Senior Review Group
‑Unknown staff member

Vietnam negotiations
‑Kissinger's forthcoming trip to Paris
‑Kissinger's forthcoming September 1971 trip to the PRC

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 7:53 am.

William P. Rogers

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:05 am.

Vietnam negotiations
‑Possibility of settlement
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
‑Kissinger's possible itinerary
‑Presidential election campaign in South Vietnam
‑Possible US tactics
‑Ellsworth F. Bunker, Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Effect on Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Type of agreement
-Revealing secret talks
‑Thieu

The Soviet Union [USSR]
‑Possibility of summit meeting
-Effect of PRC initiative
‑Kissinger's Conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Announcement
-PRC trip
-Timing

Kissinger and the President left at 8:05 am.

Conversation No. 540‑5

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:05 am and 10:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men (Secret Service agents) entered.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men (Secret Service agents) left.

Conversation No. 540-13

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:05 am and 10:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man talked with an unknown man.

[Conversation No. 540-13A]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 540-14

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:05 am and 10:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men (Secret Service agents) entered.

[Unintelligible]

An unknown man spoke with an unknown man at an unknown time between 8:05 am and 10:23 am.

[Conversation No. 540-14A]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:05 am and 10:23 am.

[Conversation No. 540-14B]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

The recording was cut off at an unknown time before 10:23 am.

Conversation No. 540‑6

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:29 am and 11:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Forthcoming meeting with Robert J. Dole
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:24 am; Bull left at an unknown time before 10:28 am.

Schedule
-James O. Eastland
‑Henry A. Kissinger briefing
-Request for photograph
‑Time

Butterfield left at 10:28 am.

Conversation No. 540‑7

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  10:29 am ‑ 11:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

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ROBERT J. DOLE AND WILLIAM E. TIMMONS ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 10:29 AM.

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Effect of current events
‑US‑People's Republic of China [PRC] opening
‑Press speculation

The economy
‑Congressmen and senators
-Campaign issue
‑Possible economic briefing
‑John B. Connally, George P. Shultz
-Maurice H. Stans
‑Senate campaign committee
‑Peter H. Dominick
‑Shultz
‑Possible briefing
‑Size of group
‑Senators
-Members of the House
-Timing

Foreign relations
‑Milwaukee meeting of officials
‑US‑PRC opening
‑Emphasis on the positive
‑The President's leadership
‑Alfred M.  Landon
-Kansas City meeting
‑Vietnam War
-PRC
‑Possible settlement
‑Taiwan [Republic of China] issue
-Dole=s possible comments
‑Dole=s possible trip to Taiwan
‑Dole's position as Republican National Committee [RNC] chairman
‑Coordination with Henry A. Kissinger
‑Vietnam and the peace issue
-Republican Party
-Democratic Party

Issues
‑The Pentagon Papers
-Dole=s comments
‑The Democrats
‑Need to emphasize issue
-Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
‑The economy
‑Present rate of employment
-Geographical areas
‑Congress
‑Public works legislation
‑Appalachia
‑John Sherman Cooper
‑Work on compromise
‑Creation of jobs
‑Revenue sharing
-Property taxes
-President=s previous comments
-Kansas City
-Chicago
‑Public perceptions
‑Mayors, governors
‑Taxpayers

Foreign relations
‑The PRC initiative
‑The Vietnam war
‑Democratic comments
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Statement about the President
‑Poll of public opinion
‑Muskie
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Republicans
‑Attitudes
‑Charles H. Percy, Jacob K. Javits
-Shultz
‑Mark O. Hatfield
‑Proposal
-PRC initiative
‑Taiwan issue
‑Dominick, [Name unintelligible]
‑Republican emphasis on the peace issue
‑The Vietnam War
‑Democrat=s responsibility

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Blacks
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew=s comments
‑African heritage
‑Comparison between Blacks in Africa and in the US
‑Context of US white society
‑Role in administration
-Arthur Fletcher

Women
‑Jobs in the administration
-Bella S. Abzug

Blacks
‑Congress

Minorities
-Mexican-Americans
‑Possible appointee to the Treasurer's post
‑Connally's recommendation
‑Preferred qualities

Youth
‑John D. Ehrlichman

Foreign relations
‑The Mansfield Amendment
-Draft
-Volunteer Army

An unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 10:29 am.

Schedule
-Size of group

The unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 11:07 am.

PRC initiative
‑Possible effect on Vietnam War
‑Settlement
‑Editorial by William F. Knowland
-Herbert G. Klein
‑Concept of "Peace with honor"
‑[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
‑William P. Rogers
‑Editorial by James Sullivan
-Eugene C. Pulliam
‑David Lawrence
-Felix McKnight (?)
‑Appeal to youth on foreign policy accomplishments

‑Connally
‑US relations with the Soviet Union [USSR]
‑Arms limitation
‑Effectiveness of appeal of foreign policy issues

President=s Kansas City speech

The economy
‑Unemployment
‑Michigan
‑Southern California
-South Carolina

Gifts

Haldeman et al. left at 11:07 am.

Conversation No. 540‑8

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:07 am and 11:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑George P. Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:09 am.

Conversation No. 540‑9

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:09 am and 1:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?].

George P. Shultz
‑Forthcoming meeting

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 11:09 am; the unknown person [Bull?] left before 1:21 pm.

The President's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Henry A. Kissinger
‑Trip advance preparations
‑Ehrlichman

School desegregation
‑Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
‑Edward L. Morgan's handling of issue
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Shultz
‑Committees
‑HEW
‑Staff
-President=s position
-Leaks
‑Texas
‑Lawsuits
‑Funding
-Morgan
‑Strategy for delay
-Richardson
‑Edith Green
‑Timing
‑Congressional adjournment
‑Forthcoming economic action
‑Shultz, Leonard Garment

Family assistance
‑Senate Finance Committee
‑John C. Williams role

The Pentagon Papers

Family assistance and welfare reform
‑The President's conversation with John B. Connally
‑Effectiveness of issue in political terms
-Polls
‑The working poor

‑Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan's theories 
-Support for the President
-Voting record
‑Effectiveness of efforts in helping the poor
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with Richardson

Stephen B. Bull (?) entered at an unknown time after 11:09 am.

Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:21 pm

Welfare
‑Psychology
-The President=s view
‑Effect on recipients of being on welfare
‑Acceptance of charity
‑Growth of welfare psychology
-Effect on president=s policies
‑The President's family

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‑Attitude toward welfare
‑Present system
-Need for change
‑Impossibility of total abolition of welfare
-Propose reforms
‑Efforts to put more people on the payroll
‑Premiums on working and penalties on welfare
‑Study of implementation effort
-James H. Cavanaugh

-HEW
-Richardson
‑Possible effect of passage of present legislation
‑Possibility of Congressional action
‑Russell B. Long, Abraham A. Ribicoff
‑Cavanaugh study
-Richardson
‑Ronald W. Reagan's position on welfare reform
‑Recent meeting with Richardson
‑Requested meeting with the President
-August 1971

The Department of Justice
‑Number of staff members with Ivy League background
‑The President's comment to Robert C. Mardian
‑Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, Penn
‑Statistics
-Appointees

The Pentagon Papers
‑Richard H. Ichord
‑Disinclination to pursue matter in his House Internal Security Committee
‑Possible forthcoming bid for gubernatorial job
‑Need to appeal to liberal voters
‑F. Edward Herbert, Leslie C. Arends
‑Interest in investigation
‑Selection of junior member of Congress to handle case
‑Chance for a special Congressional counsel to make a name for himself
‑White House staff efforts
‑Egil G. (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
‑Charles M. Cooke, Jr.'s meetings with Daniel Ellsberg

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:09 am.

Unknown Senator
‑Possible meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:46 am.

The Pentagon Papers case
‑Cooke‑Ellsberg contacts
‑Planned polygraph test
‑Richard G. Kleindienst
‑Preparations
-Kleindienst
-Richardson
-Questions
-Rogers
‑National Security Council [NSC] documents in possession of Sen. Charles Mc. Mathias
‑Request for return
‑Rogers
‑Ehrlichman
‑Kleindienst to request return

F. Donald Nixon
‑F. Donald Nixon, Jr.
‑Conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
‑European trip

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[Duration:  15s  ]

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‑Robert Vesco, Bernard Cornfeld
-Investigation
‑Edward C. Nixon's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman about presidential library
‑F. Donald Nixon
‑Business dealings with Gilbert R. J. Straub, Vesco

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  45s  ]

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  8s  ]

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Consumer sentiment
‑Edwin L. Harper's memorandum
-Shultz

Republican leaders meeting, July 20, 1971
‑Congressmen's reaction to People=s Republic of China [PRC] briefing
-Lack of reaction
‑Kissinger's discussion of developments
‑Norris Cotton's reaction
‑Contrast to Democratic President and leaders scenario
‑Dangers of speculation
‑Vietnam War
-Settlement
‑Lack of reaction by leaders
-Presidential leadership
‑Robert J. Dole
‑Peter H. Dominick
‑Robert P. Griffin

‑John B. Anderson
‑President=s role
-Richard H. Poff
-Ehrlichman, Shultz

The Bohemian Grove
‑Invitation for Ehrlichman to speak
-PRC talking points
-Kissinger

The PRC initiative
‑Public reaction
‑Contrast to Congressional leaders meeting

Congressional liaison
‑Clark MacGregor
-Congressional support for the President
-Democrats
-Margaret Chase Smith
‑Poff

Shultz entered at 11:46 am.

July 20, 1971 Congressional leaders meeting
‑Lack of reaction by leaders to the President's PRC initiative
-Kissinger
-Cotton
‑Complaints about the economy
‑Anderson

Economic briefing by Shultz
‑Nineteen Republicans up for Congressional re‑election
-Dole
-Dominick
‑The Vietnam war
‑Impact of war on economy
‑Peace issue
‑Current economic conditions
‑Congressmen
‑Briefings by Shultz, John B. Connally
-Peace issue
-Griffin

‑Knowledge of economic matters
‑Circulation of columns
‑Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott

The economy
‑Public perceptions
-Polls
‑Consumer sentiment
-Influences
‑Action taken on the economy
‑Eliot Janeway
‑Predictions
‑Predictions for autumn 1971
‑Comparison with the Kennedy administration
-Griffin
-Reporting and forecasting
‑Republicans
-Racists
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Assignment
‑Retailers
‑Retail sales situation
-Anderson
‑Inventories
‑Steel
‑Foreign imports

Public service jobs
‑Funding situation
‑Appropriation
‑Bill signing
‑Time needed for passage
‑Post‑Labor Day prediction
‑Reasons for delay
-MacGregor
‑Distribution of funds
-San Clemente meeting
‑Shultz
‑Appointment of disbursement agent
-States, locales
‑California
‑Report by [unintelligible name] [Foy?]
‑Reagan's perceptions

Perception of administration
-Economy
-PRC initiative

Tax reform
-Connally
‑Wilbur D. Mills bill
‑Proposals
‑Value added tax
‑Mills
-Tactics
-Revenue sharing
‑Tax credit, tax relief
‑Proposals for tax relief
‑Lack of comment from Connally
‑Effects of tax relief and revenue sharing on the taxpayer
-Mills

Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Connally=s conversation with the President
‑Arthur F. Burns
-Burns
-Request for a meeting with the President
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Quadriad
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz
-Economic prediction
-Inflation, recovery
-Statistics released
-Burns
-Connally
-Milton Friedman
-Future meetings
-Money supply
‑Possible vacancy
‑Possible intent of Burns's meeting
‑Candidate for appointment
‑Connally's search
-Populist

President of the Steelworkers Union I[lworth] W. Abel
-Telephone
‑Forthcoming letter to the President
‑Support for possible steel merger
‑Reasons for delay
‑Investigation
‑Anti‑trust laws
-Richard W. McLaren
-Administration=s position
‑Abel's views

American Telephone and Telegraph [AT&T]
-H. I. Romnes
‑Telephone call to the President
‑Labor settlement
‑Possible call from the President
‑Stance on regional wage differentials

Postal settlement
‑Willie J. Usery,  Jr.
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
‑Efforts

Wage settlements
‑1972 projections
‑Shultz's forthcoming briefing
-Railroads

Steel industry
‑Possibility of strike
-The President=s view
-James D. Hodgson
-Businesses view

Longshoremen
‑West Coast strike

Productivity Commission
‑Forthcoming conference in September
‑George Meany
-Possible forthcoming telephone call from Shultz
‑Stance
‑Tactics towards labor

‑Meany
‑Partisan action
‑Coordination with Carl B. Albert
‑Democratic attacks
‑Effect of the President's PRC announcement

Timing of the PRC announcement
‑Focus of news media
‑Same day announcement of presidential candidacy by Senator Fred Harris

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Forthcoming meeting
‑The President, Ehrlichman, Shultz, Connally, Charles W. Colson
‑Productivity Commission
‑Meany's recent actions
‑Possible reaction
‑Polls
‑Public opinion of labor unions
‑Labor support for the President
‑Teamsters, construction trades, New York groups
-Meany
-Schedule
-Usery
-Colson
‑Connally
‑Preparation for meeting
‑Hodgson, Maurice H. Stans
-Political considerations
-J. Curtis Counts

Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
‑Personnel
‑Arnold R. Weber
‑Return to University of Chicago
‑Replacement
‑Frank C. Carlucci
‑Ehrlichman, Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
‑Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
‑Abolition
-Downgrading agency
‑Carlucci's replacement as OEO head
‑[John O.?] Wilson
-Wesley Hjornevik
-Carlucci
-Announcement
‑California Rural Legal Assistance [CRLA] settlement
‑Alan Cranston

Economic statistics
‑Major statistical agencies
‑Agriculture, Labor, Commerce
‑Consolidation
‑Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-Goldstein [Leon Greenberg (sic)]
-Hodgson
‑Julius Shiskin
‑Margaret Martin

Executive pay schedule
-Memorandum to the President from Shultz
‑OMB Deputy director job
-Ash Council recommendations
‑Pay scale
-Weinberger
‑Public perception salary increases
‑Contrast to industry wages
-Level IV, Level II
‑Burns, Weinberger
‑Problem of attracting potential job applicants
‑William M. Magruder of the Department of Transportation
‑Conflict with fight against inflation
-Congressional review
‑Carlucci

‑Level II job
‑Quadrennial executive pay review
‑New commission
‑Timing
‑Ash Council
‑Burns= conversation with Weinberger

Department of the Treasury
‑Connally's authority
‑Raise in under secretary level
‑The Bureau of Customs
‑Increase in number of slots
‑Krogh
‑Recommendation on request
‑Connally, John N. Mitchell
‑Connally's inquiries
‑Impetus from Eugene T. Rossides

Office of Science and Technology [OST]
‑Deputy for Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
‑Level IV job
‑Role of office
‑Research and development field
‑Peter G. Peterson, Productivity Commission
‑Research and development efforts
‑Increase in slots
‑Possible restructuring effort

National Urban League
‑Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
‑Shultz's appearance
-Whitney M. Young, Jr.
‑Possible speech on civil rights topic
-Spiro T. Agnew
‑The President's comments to Robert J. Brown
‑African heritage issue
-Agnew=s remarks
-African leaders
-Sese Seko Mobutu
-Slavery, cannibalism

Blacks
‑Roy Wilkins' comments
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
‑The President's incumbency
‑Agnew's remarks
‑Reaction
-Black caucus
-The press
‑Appeal to voters

Africa
‑Mobutu, Jomo Kenyatta
‑African Countries
‑Nature of governments
‑William V.S. Tubman, Kenyatta, Mobutu
‑Compared to Latin America
‑Mobutu
‑Reception of Visitors
‑Agnew

Agnew
‑Press relations
‑Effect of relaxation
‑Recollection of "fat Jap" comment

National Urban League
‑Administration relationship
‑Young
-President=s eulogy
-[Unintelligible name]
‑Letter after meeting

Revenue sharing
‑Proposals
‑Mills' efforts
-John W. Byrnes
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller's plan
-Mills
‑General revenue sharing, special revenue sharing

National Urban League
-Shultz=s forthcoming address
‑Agnew=s comments about blacks
‑The President's eulogy of Young
‑National Urban League leadership
‑Letter from the President
-Raymond K. Price, Jr., Leonard Garment

Agnew
‑Efforts to restrain Agnew's comments
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Meeting with Mobutu
‑The PRC Initiative
‑Cable
‑Kissinger
‑Release
‑As representative of the President
‑Solidarity with the President's views by the Vice President and Cabinet
‑Walter J. Hickel
‑Nixon as Vice President
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑1956 Suez crisis
‑1956 Hungarian revolution
‑1959 economic action
-Burns, John N. Mitchell, the President
-Robert O. Anderson
-[Unintelligible name]
-Stans
‑Credibility
‑Need for restraint
‑Bryce N. Harlow's experiences during Agnew's trip to Korea
‑Staff
‑The President=s view
‑Agnew's relations with his staff and Secret Service
‑Comparison with the President

Staff relations
‑The President
‑The Vice President
-Dignity of office

Connally
‑Willingness to speak out
‑Mills
‑July 15, 1971 press conference
‑Misleading press report of statement on unemployment
‑Mills

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Paul W. McCracken
‑Requested meeting with the President
‑Plans to return to teaching
‑Timing
‑Current state of the economy and possible future action

The economy
‑Actions of congressmen, senators
-Connally=s theory
‑Burns
‑Influence
‑Forthcoming briefings of Administration=s position
‑Shultz, Connally
-William E. Timmons
-Timing
-Fact sheet
-Senators
-Joint presentation
-Location
‑Kissinger's meetings with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Campaign spending reform
‑Status of legislation

Scheduling
‑Connally meeting
‑Response to Meany

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 1:21 pm.

Conversation No. 540‑10

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 1:21 pm and 1:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
‑Group of African athletes
‑Tour of the White House
-Henry C. Cashen, II, Charles W. Colson, H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
‑Chairman of fundraising effort
‑Athletes

Butterfield left at 1:25 pm.

Conversation No. 540‑11

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  1:26 pm ‑ 1:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Domestic issues

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-George P. Shultz=s meeting with the National Urban League
‑Relaxed attitude towards the press, staff and the Secret Service

‑Comparison with the President
‑The President's treatment of secretaries and low‑level staff
‑Agnew's consciousness of rank
‑Recent trip
‑Reaction of the press

The President and Haldeman left at 1:29 pm.

Conversation No. 540‑12

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:29 pm and 1:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men (Secret Service) entered.

[General conversation]

The President
-Schedule
-Location

[Pause]

[Unintelligible]

This recording was cut off at an unknown time before 1:31 pm.