Conversation No. 542‑1

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  9:35 am ‑ 10:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

National Review hoax on Vietnam War secret papers
‑Press reaction
‑Walter Cronkite
‑William F. Buckley, Jr.
‑Press acceptance of validity of documents
‑The Department of Justice response
‑Magazine issue
‑Press acceptance of validity
‑The Washington Post

Lockheed loan
‑William Proxmire
‑Press coverage of issue
‑Congressional action
-Campaign reform

Congress
‑Henry A. Kissinger's briefing
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Attendance at Samuel L. Devine's group of Congressmen
‑Nature of meeting
‑The President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
‑Philip M. Crane
‑Security
‑Taiwan [The Republic of China/(ROC)]
‑House of Representatives
‑Conservatives
-Attendees
‑Public nature of reaction
‑July 21, 1971 event
‑Congressmen
-Kissinger
‑Charles W. Colson

US foreign policy
‑The PRC initiative
‑Forthcoming US‑PRC summit
-Handling
‑Amount of public comment
‑Trip to Tokyo, Japan
‑Robert Taft, Jr.
-Kissinger
‑The PRC
‑Trips by Democratic Senators
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑George S. McGovern
‑Combined trip
‑Briefings
‑Japan trip
‑PRC trip

Issues
‑Pentagon Papers
-Democrats
‑The Vietnam war
‑Peace issue
‑The PRC initiative
‑Pentagon Papers
‑Focus of issue
‑The President's conversation with Kissinger
‑Vietnam war issue
‑Rhetoric of Democratic war, Republican peace
‑Offensive against the Democrats
‑Focus on the Pentagon Papers

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:35 am.

The President's schedule

Kissinger=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:01 am.

The Pentagon Papers case
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Response
‑The Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

‑The Department of Defense [DOD]
-Daniel Ellsberg
‑Response of Democrats
-Dean Rusk
‑Lawrence F. O'Brien
‑Administration=s focus
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Edmund S. Muskie

Appeal to youth
‑Coordination of effort
‑Melville Stephens
‑Jeff Donfeld
‑Kenneth S. Rietz
-Colson
‑Robert H. Finch
‑Efforts

Finch
‑Possible job
‑California
‑Ambassadorship
-Mexico
-1972 campaign

Issues
‑Vietnam war and the Pentagon Papers
‑Impact on 1972
‑The Democrats
-Compared to 1970
-Crime and peace
‑Contrast with the environment as an effective issue
‑Administration's attitude
‑The PRC initiative
‑Public relations
‑Presidential leadership
‑Connection to other issues, future action
‑Poll results
-PRC initiative effect
‑The President as world statesman
‑The position of the US
‑Foreign press
‑Reports on public opinion throughout the world

‑Survey effort
‑Expenditure of funds
‑Leonard [Surname unknown]
‑William L. Safire
‑Presidential leadership
‑Courage, boldness, strength
‑Fluctuation of perceptions on Vietnam war leadership
‑November 3, 1969
‑Cambodia, Laos
‑Domestic issues
‑Welfare reform
-Lack of support
‑Revenue sharing
‑Narrow appeal of issue
‑Mayors, governors
-Public understanding
‑Senior citizens
‑Welfare reform
‑John D. Ehrlichman
-Strategy
‑Ronald W. Reagan
‑Busing issue
‑Attempt to use issue to the Administration's advantage
-Supreme Court
‑Public opinion among Blacks, Whites
‑Legislative action
-Proposed executive order
‑Constitutional action
-Strategy
‑Bryce N. Harlow
‑Emphasis on consistency of opposition to busing
‑Effects in the South, the North

Haldeman left at 10:01 am.

Conversation No. 542‑2

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  10:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Schedule(?)
‑Robert H. Finch(?)

Sanchez left at 10:01 am.

Conversation No. 542‑3

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  10:01 am ‑ 10:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert H. Finch.

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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Trip to Africa
‑Comment about Blacks
‑Context of remarks
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Contacts with press
‑Plans for the future

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People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Ronald W. Reagan=s support
‑John G. Schmitz
-John Birch Society
‑Henry Salvatori=s conversation with Finch
‑George A. Murphy
‑Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC]
-Senate testimony
-John G. Tower
-Salvatori
‑Holmes P. Tuttle, Justin W. Dart
‑Asa V. Call
‑Health
‑Rose Mary Woods
‑Appeal to youth
-Staff meeting
‑Finch's conversation with Daniel P. Moynihan
‑College students
‑Support for the President
‑Congress
‑The general public's support for the President
‑The President's attendance at baseball game, July 20, 1971

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Foreign policy accomplishments
‑PRC initiative
‑US‑PRC summit
‑Possible US‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit
‑Efforts to end the Vietnam war

The economy
‑Unemployment
‑California, Michigan
‑Retail sales
-Edward W. Carter=s comments
-Savings

Issues
-PRC initiative
-Charles W. Colson
‑The Vietnam war and Pentagon Papers case
‑Effect of issue on the Democrats
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie
‑John F. Kennedy
-Dean G. Acheson
‑Importance of encouraging disunity
‑Shift of focus from the economy
‑Unemployment
-Compared to 1970
‑Decrease
-Michigan survey
‑Pentagon Papers
‑Foreign policy issues
‑Source of strength for the President
‑PRC, Vietnam

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Finch
‑Motion picture industry
‑Britain
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Duties in job
‑Ambassadorial rank, Cabinet rank
‑Taft Schreiber
‑Enhancement of image
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
‑Donald Rumsfeld
‑George A. Lincoln's job as Director
‑Responsibilities
‑Emergencies
‑Stockpiling
‑Rumsfeld
‑Counsellor to the President job
‑Perceptions of stature
‑Comparison to image of the Vice President
‑Image

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-OEP
‑Finch
‑Value as base of operation
‑Comparison to Republican National Committee [RNC]
‑Partisan organization

Rumsfeld
‑Possible plans
-Illinois option
‑Visibility compared to Finch
‑Speeches

Finch=s responsibilities
‑Relief efforts for Peru, Pakistan
‑Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for the Spanish‑speaking
‑Bicentennial Commission duties
‑David J. Mahoney
-Possible Ambassadorship to Mexico
‑Carol C. Finch
‑Duration

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Rumsfeld
‑Possible North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] assignment
-Robert  F. Ellsworth
‑Ambassadorial post
-Belgium
-Japan

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Finch
‑Discussion of job options with Carol Finch
‑Ambassadorship ro Mexico
‑Cabinet
‑OEP directorship
‑Salary
-Compared to Cabinet rank

‑National Security Council [NSC]
‑Anachronistic nature of job
‑NSC
‑Abolition
‑Staff

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Job assignments
‑Rumsfeld
-OEP
‑NATO post
‑Abilities
-Language
‑Knowledge
-Travel as a Congressman
‑Spokesperson
‑Finch
‑Carol Finch
‑OEP
‑Ambassadorship to Mexico

Finch left at 10:51 am.

Conversation No. 542‑4

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  10:51 am ‑ 11:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Paul W. McCracken.

Foreign policy
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Recent US initiative
-William P. Rogers
‑Henry A. Kissinger, the President
‑Efforts
‑Confidential nature of effort
‑Secret channels
‑Other foreign governments
‑US‑PRC relations and US‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
‑Surprise element in breakthrough
‑Absence of contact during past twenty years
-Great Britain, France
‑Kissinger's conversation with Chou En‑lai
-Kissinger=s conversations with the USSR
‑PRC initiative
‑Youth reaction
‑Generation differences
‑Future outlook
-Press coverage
‑TV commentator
‑Staff meeting
‑Discussion of breakthrough
‑The PRC
‑Impact
‑Position in the world
‑Other Communist countries
-North Vietnam
‑USSR
‑Reasons for action

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:51 am.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:36 am.

The economy
‑John B. Connally (?)
‑Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑Role
‑McCracken's possible departure
‑Timing
‑Changes in policy
‑July statistics
‑Trends
‑Possible action
‑John Kenneth Galbraith's comments 
-Wage and price controls
‑Timing
‑Projections for balance of 1971
‑CEA
‑McCracken's role
‑Unemployment
‑Defense Department manpower and defense industry
‑Rate
‑Inflation
-McCracken=s forthcoming resignation
‑Rate of expansion
‑Projection on increase
‑Timing
‑Possible action
-Tax initiative
‑Wage and price controls
-Labor issues
-Steel strike settlement
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-Postal strike
-McCracken, Herbert Stein, Ezra Solomon
‑Psychological perceptions of economic situation
‑Compared to reality of situation
-George Meany
-Connally, Arthur F. Burns
‑McCracken's view of administration=s approach
‑Recommended approach
‑Tax action
‑International trade
-Effect of forthcoming PRC trip

‑Need to improve US competitiveness
‑Exchange rate of the US dollar
‑Effectiveness of action
‑Price of gold
‑Fixed price
‑Treasury Department
‑Connally
‑Paul A. Volcker
‑Possible weakening of the dollar
‑Comments at international economic conferences
-Timing
‑Possible conversation between McCracken and Connally
‑Volcker
-The Department of the Treasury
-Reluctance to change
-Staff=s backgrounds
‑Burns
‑Gold prices
‑Exchange rates
‑Ten percent change
-Balance of payments
‑Elimination of trade barriers
‑Technical aspects of dealing with the price of gold
‑Impact of action
‑Confidence in the dollar in financial markets
‑Domestic impact
‑Possible inflationary effect
‑Labor unions
‑Quotas
‑Connally's view
‑Yankee trader
‑Action on taxes
‑Value added tax [VAT]
‑Burden of the middle income worker
‑Tax structure
‑VAT
‑International context
‑National sales tax advantage over national income tax
‑Michigan example

McCracken
‑Effect of resignation
‑Timing
‑School semester at university
‑Teaching job
‑Proposed economic action

The economy
‑Unemployment
‑Effect of defense industries
‑Vietnam troop withdrawals
‑Southern California, Seattle
‑Defense and aerospace jobs
-Michigan
‑Other issues
‑PRC initiative
‑Vietnam
‑International economic action
‑Weakening of the dollar
‑Financial crisis
‑International trade
‑International political position
-McCracken=s pending resignation
‑Current situation
‑Retail sales, inventories
‑Gains in July statistics
‑Frequency of McCracken's meetings with the President
‑Stein, Solomon
‑Connally, George P. Shultz

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:51 am and 11:32 am]

[Conversation No. 542‑4A]

[See Conversation No. 6‑182]

[End of telephone conversation]

McCracken
‑Role

The PRC initiative
‑Effect of action

[The President talked with Connally between 11:32 am and 11:35 am]

[Conversation No. 542‑4B]

[See Conversation No. 6‑183]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally
‑Forthcoming telephone call to McCracken

Solomon's schedule

Forthcoming 1972 election (?)
‑Foreign policy
‑Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam war

Donald H. Rumsfeld entered and the President left at 11:36 am.

McCracken=s staff

McCracken left at 11:36 am.

Conversation No. 542‑5

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  11:36 am ‑ 12:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Foreign relations
‑The US initiative regarding the People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Joyce P. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:36 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:28 pm.

‑The President's conversation with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Haldeman's daughter
‑Henry A. Kissinger
-Compared to Glasboro Summit
‑Appeal to youth
-Forward‑looking action
‑Glasboro Summit
‑Kissinger
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
-Polls
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
‑Visits to the PRC by Democratic senators
-Haldeman=s concerns
-PRC=s response
‑US public attitude
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy, Edmund S. Muskie, George S. McGovern
-Chou En-lai
‑Appeal to youth
‑Vietnam war settlement
‑Generation of peace
‑The PRC=s future
-Youth=s understanding of PRC initiative
‑US‑PRC relations
‑The President's Cabinet meeting 
-Caution about speculation
‑Rumsfeld
‑National Press Club
‑The President, William P. Rogers, Kissinger
‑Effects of speculation
‑Japan, India, Indonesia
‑Vietnam War
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Europeans
‑Past leaders relations with the PRC
‑Charles A.J.M de Gaulle, Winston S. Churchill, [James] Harold Wilson, Konrad Adenauer
‑Length of Kissinger‑Chou En‑lai meetings
‑The President's July 6, 1971 Kansas City speech

‑Rumsfeld=s= use at National Conference of Lieutenant Governors
‑Audience reaction
‑The administration's accomplishments
‑Uplifting effect of international breakthrough
‑National defense issue
‑National priorities
‑Effect on Democrats
‑The peace issue

Democrats
‑October 7, 1970 Vietnam speech by the President
‑Effect on peace issue
‑Democratic focus on the economy
‑The Pentagon Papers case
‑The Vietnam war
-Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Muskie 1968 speech
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Ngo Dinh Diem
‑Focus of issues
‑Settlement of war in near future
‑Democrat=s responsibility for war
‑World War I, World War II
‑Korea, Vietnam
‑Republican peace settlements
‑Domestic issues
‑The Nixon Doctrine
‑Contrast with domestic philosophy
‑Democratic mentality
‑Humphrey
‑Outlook
‑Muskie
‑Kennedy
‑Ethics
‑Women
‑Need for propriety in public life
‑Senators, Congressmen
‑Foreign trips
‑Drunkenness
‑Public demeanor

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Socializing with his staff and Secret Service agents
‑Secret Service
‑Agnew's agents
‑Actions
‑Compared to the President's actions
‑Secret Service, staff
‑Rose Mary Woods
‑Consideration compared to fraternization
-Alcohol
‑The press
‑Relations
‑Midnight press interview
‑Reasons
-PRC
‑Comment about Blacks
‑Need to keep distance from press
‑Tendency to let down guard
‑Comment about African leaders
‑Sese Seko Mobutu
‑Effect on voters
-Blacks
-Whites
-The President=s opinion of African leaders

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‑Athletes
‑Olympic competition
-Alcohol

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Rumsfeld
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] ambassador
‑Possible post
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]

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‑NATO post
-Robert F. Ellsworth
‑Ambassadorship
‑Compared to other ambassadorial post
-Federal Republic of Germany [FRG]
-Berlin
-USSR
-Japan
‑Range of responsibilities
-Probable Senate confirmation
‑Rumsfeld's background
‑Impact on Rumsfeld's position in Illinois
‑Great Britain, France, FRG

-Italy
‑Qualities required for Ambassador
-USSR
-Japan
-Cabinet and other government jobs
‑Other Cabinet members
‑Intention to remain in posts
‑George W. Romney
‑John A. Volpe
‑OEP

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‑Travels throughout country
‑Speeches
‑Property Review Board work
‑Drug prevention
-Egil G. (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
‑Contact with John N. Mitchell
‑Responsibilities
‑New post
‑Need for visibly substantive job
‑Foreign policy
-OEP
‑NATO
-Kissinger
‑Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-US‑USSR detente
-Arms control
‑Compared to Ellsworth's tenure
‑Conference on European Security and Cooperation [CESC]
‑Possible absence during forthcoming 1972 presidential campaign

‑Latin American
-Lopez [Surname unknown] comments
-Possible role
-Rumsfeld=s conversation with Kissinger
-Possible position
‑Roving ambassador position
‑Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe

The State Department
‑Under Secretary of State
‑John N. Irwin, II
‑Rogers
-Possible position for Rumsfeld
‑Special Trade Representative post
‑Irwin's possible acceptance
-Rogers

US foreign policy
‑The PRC initiative
‑The President's role, Kissinger's role
‑Rogers
‑The State Department
‑Irwin
‑International economic affairs responsibility
‑Upgrading
‑Importance

Rumsfeld
‑Job possibilities
-NATO
‑Under Secretary job
‑Roving ambassador job
-Kissinger
-Latin America

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:36 am.

An unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:28.

‑Absence during 1972 election
‑NATO job
‑Tenure
‑State Department

-Kissinger
‑Children
‑Ages
‑Move abroad
‑State Department
‑Buildup of economic post
‑John B. Connally's actions as Secretary of the Treasury
-Rogers
‑Focus on economic issues
‑Rumsfeld's background
‑Ambassadors, diplomats
‑Outlook
‑Loyalty
‑The State Department, the President
-Irwin
‑Frank C. Carlucci
‑State Department
-George P. Shultz

The State Department
‑Need for changes in organization, administration
‑Haldeman, Peter M. Flanigan

Rumsfeld
-NATO post
‑Ellsworth's assignment
‑Perceptions
‑Significance, needs
-The State Department
‑The President's forthcoming meeting with Rogers

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‑Rogers= outlook
-Flanigan
-Elliot L. Richardson

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Departmental staffs

The Pentagon Papers
‑Demonstration of danger of leaks and breaks in security

The PRC initiative
‑Pentagon Papers security context

Rumsfeld
‑Possible position with the State Department

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:36 am.

Diplomatic credentials ceremony
‑Person responsible for coordination
‑Length, format

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:28 pm.

Schedule
‑Iowa event
‑Ron James (?)
‑Background
‑Centreville, Iowa
‑Dam dedication ceremony

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President=s schedule

Rumsfeld
‑Future plans
‑Rogers
‑Possible job
‑Kissinger's reaction

Rumsfeld left at 12:28 pm.

Conversation No. 542‑6

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:28 pm and 12:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Mini‑receiving line set‑up

Future Farmers of America
‑White House tour
‑Bryce N. Harlow
‑Meeting with the President

-H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Paul Findley
‑Cabinet Room

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:31 pm.

Conversation No. 542‑7

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  12:31 pm ‑ 12:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stanley H. Bear, Mrs. Stanley H. Bear, Susan Bear, Vicki Bear, Nancy Bear, David Bear and James D. Hughes.

Introductions
‑Mrs. Bear
‑Home state
‑Children
‑Ages

Arrangements for photograph

Presidential gifts

Bear
‑Work for the President

Special White House tour

Bear et al. left at 12:35 pm.

Conversation No. 542‑8

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  12:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑Robert J. Jamison's forthcoming meeting with the President

Bull left at 12:36 pm.

Conversation No. 542‑9

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  12:36 pm ‑ 12:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert J. Jamison, Mrs. Robert J. Jamison and Rose Mary Woods.

Introductions

Jamison
‑Length of service in Secret Service
‑Latin American trip
‑Future plans
‑Florida

Presidential gifts

Support for the President
‑Appreciation

Jamison et al. left at 12:40 pm.

Conversation No. 542‑10

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  12:41 pm ‑ 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Dianne C. Tankoos and Rose Mary Woods.

Tankoos
‑Job
‑State Department
-Age

Paris trip

Presidential gift

Tankoos= work
‑Appreciation

Tankoos and Woods left at 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 542‑11

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 12:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Future Farmers of America group
-Bryce N. Harlow
‑Rose Garden
‑Weather
‑Forthcoming meeting with the President
‑Location
-Cabinet Room
‑Press coverage
‑Organization executives

George T. Bell
‑Hospital

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

Conversation No. 542‑12

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  12:49 pm - 12:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
‑Diplomatic Credentials Ceremony
‑Sierra Leone
‑Future Farmers of America
‑Bryce N. Harlow
-Press

Stewart J.O. Alsop
‑Health
‑Absence from Henry A. Kissinger's July 19, 1971 briefing

William P. Rogers
‑Meeting with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Request for Presidential phone call

Kissinger
‑Request for meeting on the People=s Republic of China [PRC] representation issue
‑The President, Rogers
‑Scheduling
‑Time of meeting
‑Diplomatic credentials ceremony
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Meeting with Melvin R. Laird

Poll results
‑Presidential approval
‑Effect of events

‑PRC United Nations membership
‑Result
‑PRC initiative
‑Public awareness
‑Approval
‑State of the Union
‑Effect on poll
‑Comparison of effect of events on poll results
‑Forthcoming presidential trip to the PRC
‑Approval, disapproval
‑PRC initiative effect on world peace
‑The President's world leadership quality
‑Rating of leaders as negotiators

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:49 pm.

Future Farmers of America group
‑Members
-Paul Findley
‑Set-up of meeting with the President

The President's afternoon schedule
‑Executive Office Building

The President, Haldeman and Bull left at 12:57 pm.

Conversation No.542‑13

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 12:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man (Secret Service) entered.

[Applause from Cabinet Room]

The President's location
‑Cabinet Room

This recording was cut off at an unknown time after 12:57 pm.