Conversation No. 561-1

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:53 am and 9:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:08 am.

Conversation No. 561-2

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  9:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 7-86]

Conversation No. 561-3

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 9:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Kissinger's schedule

Conversation No. 561-4

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  9:10 am - 11:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Instruction to Haldeman
-Telephone call
-Mother [Mrs. W. F. Graham]
-Age
-Invitations
-White House church service
-Mrs. Graham
-Number

Speechwriting
Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Writer

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The environment
-Maurice H. Stans's memorandum
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Business community

-John C. Whitaker
-Domestic Council
-Flanigan
-Quality

Sisowath Sirik Matak's family
-Gifts from President
-Cufflinks
-Compacts

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Schedule
-Reception
-Mrs. Matak

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:15 am.

Berlin
-Allies' meeting with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Four Powers
-Possible agreement
-USSR concessions
-France
-Text

President's schedule
-White House church service
-Dr. Nelson Bell, Mrs. W. F. Graham, Graham's father-in-law staff
-Timing

White House facilities
-Health unit
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s comments
-William Scherle
-Helen Thomas story
-Scherle
-President’s use
-Press coverage
-Bowling alley
-Swimming pool
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Scherle
-Ziegler’s tour
-Press
-Size
-Scherle
-White House response to news stories
-Cost
-Federal deficit
-Thomas story
-Cost figures
-Ziegler's comments
-President's use
-News stories
-Removal of swimming pool, sauna
-Possible White House response
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Thomas story
-President's use
-Ziegler
-Congressional facilities
-President’s use
-Massuer
-Public relations
-Changes when President took office
-Masseurs

Camp David facilities
-Proposed changes
-Congressional committee staff
-Tour
-Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
-Reaction
-Swimming pool
-Renovation

White House facilities
-Health unit
-Installation
-Timing
-Thomas story
-Public reaction
-Wire story
-Whirlpool
-Accuracy
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.’s, story
-Harry S. Truman
-Bowling Alley
-Scherle
-Members of Scherle's staff
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-News stories
-White House response
-Scherle
-Victor Lasky
-Samuel Rayburn building facilities
-Clark MacGregor's possible action
-Tour for Congressman
-Scherle

President's previous trip to New Hampshire
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] story
-Politics
-Trips by John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Primary states
-White House response
-Primary states
-President's schedule
-Wisconsin
-Florida
-California
-Ohio
-Pennsylvania
-Roger H. Mudd
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Mudd
-White House response
-Primary states
-Trips
-Financing
-Thomas J. McIntyre
-Maine
-White House response
-McIntyre
-Lawrence O'Brien, Jr.
-Activities
-Inspection tour
-Nursing home
-Ziegler

White House facilities
-Health unit
-President's use
-Message
-News story
-Public reaction
-Ziegler

Peter H. Dominick
-Appearance on "Today" show
-News summary
-Henry ("Scoop") Jackson
-Treatment by White House
-MacGregor
-President's schedule
-Senate visits
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-John G. Tower
-President's foreign policy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Claiborne Pell

US-PRC relations
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston’s interview with Chou En-lai
-President
-Courage
-Vietnam
-Kissinger
-United Nations [UN]
-Kissinger's schedule
-New York Times
-Interview with Chou En-lai
-Taiwan
-Possible PRC reaction

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PRC

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-New York Times access to White House staff
-Edward L. Dale, Jr.
-Religious editor
-Interview with Chou En-lai
-Possible public response
-Press coverage
-Possible administration response
-Letter to New York Times
-William P. Rogers
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Rogers
-David Rockefeller
-Floyd [Surname unknown]
-Possible administration response
-Letter
-Buchanan
-President
-Vietnam
-New York Times
-Possible effect in PRC
-Chou En-lai’s opposition
-UN
-Possible administration response
-President's forthcoming trip
-New York Times
-Letter
-Member of Congress
-Rogers
-Kissinger's conversations
-Australian ambassador
-Charles E. (“Chip”) Bohlen
-USSR
-Press coverage
-Readership
-Possible administration response
-New York Times
-Ziegler, Herbert G. Klein, John A. Scali
-Pentagon Papers
-Washington Post
-Dale
-Access to White House staff
-Social events
-New York Times editorial
-Buchanan
-Motive
-PRC trip
-PRC trip
-George Meany
-Comments
-Speechwriter
-Compared to Administration’s
-Shepard
-Reston interview
-Impact on PRC
-President’s opposition
-Dominick's statements
-Carl T. Curtis
-President's forthcoming trip
-Chou En-lai's interview with Reston
-Diplomatic relations

US-USSR relations
-Kissinger's conversation with Haldeman
-President's possible summit
-Secrecy
-John D. Ehrlichman, Peter G. Peterson, Scali, Ziegler, John N. Mitchell, John B. Connally, Spiro T. Agnew
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Timing
-Timing
-1972 campaign
-California primary
-President’s forthcoming trip to PRC

President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Timing
-1972 campaign
-Primaries
-New Hampshire, Florida, Wisconsin
-Democrats
-Jackson
-Convention

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:15 am and 10:50 am.

President’s schedule
-Florida, California, Wisconsin

[Conversation No. 561-4A]

US-PRC relations
-Reston interview with Chou En-lai
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Kissinger's schedule
-New York Times
-Interview with Chou En-lai
-Possible White House response
-Letter
-Richard A. Moore
-C. Douglas Dillon
-Robert D. Murphy
-Robert S. McNamara
-Murphy
-John J. McCloy
-Rockefeller
-Senate

President's schedule
-Forthcoming Trips to PRC and USSR
-Timing of announcements
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Peking
-Duration
-Scheduling
-Translation problems
-Kissinger's conversation with Chou En-lai
-Berlin
-Timing
-Announcement
-Emperor of Japan
-Japan

India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's conversation with Harvard Professor, August 11, 1971
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Self-determination
-East Pakistan
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Tibet
-Relief aid
-Rogers’ offer
-UN
-U Thant
-PRC
-Volunteer organization
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with PRC ambassador
-Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie

President's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to PRC
-Timing
-Stopovers
-Wake Island
-San Clemente
-Guam
-Wake Island
-Manila
-Anchorage
-Hong Kong
-Taiwan
-Okinawa
-San Clemente
-Forthcoming trip to USSR
-Timing
-1972 campaign
-Primaries
-New Hampshire, Florida
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with PRC official
-Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
-New Hampshire
-Ziegler’s possible press briefing
-News coverage
-News Stories
-Little Jim
-Reston
-Television
-Analogy to moonshot
-Forthcoming trip to USSR
-Timing
-Press coverage
-Television
-PRC trip
-Stopover
-Ireland
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Britain
-Shannon
-Mulcahy’s home
-Preparation for summit
-Possible meeting with allies
-Timing
-Announcement
-1972 campaign
-Politics
-Tour
-Israel, Africa, Ireland
-Possible meeting with allies
-Location
-Camp David
-Possible press conference
-International monetary situation
-Timing 
-Announcements
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-USSR
-Kissinger's conversation with Chou En-lai
-Trip to PRC
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with PRC ambassador in Paris
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Dobrynin
-Press
-Bernard Gwertzman's Story
-Associated Press [AP]
-New York Times
-USSR note to President
-Announcement of President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Note
-John Foster Dulles
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.
-State Department
-Timing of announcement
-Vietnam

Vietnam
-Negotiations

President's schedule
-Kissinger’s PRC trip
-Timing of announcement
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito visit
-Advance Party
-Secret Service
-Ehrlichman
-Timing of announcement
-Berlin
-Vietnam
-Josip Broz Tito's forthcoming visit to US
-Trip to USSR
-Announcement
-State visit
-Camp David
-Dinner at Yugoslav Embassy
-Travel
-South Korea
-USSR
-French
-Camp David
-Emilio Garrastazu Médici
-Indira Gandhi
-Yakubu Gowon
-Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
-Forthcoming meeting
-Talking points
-India-Pakistan relations
-Possible war
-US involvement
-Cambodia and Laos

News stories concerning PRC
-New York Times
-Gwertzman

President’s schedule
-Forthcoming trip to USSR
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Dobrynin

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USSR

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-Announcement
-Confidentiality
-President’s schedule
-Dobrynin
-Contact with State Department
-Rogers
-Credit
-President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Rogers
-Reports
-Richard V. (“Dick”) Allen

Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-PRC
-UN representation
-Vietnam

Foreign policy
-Vision
-PRC compared to USSR
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-British statesmen
-Winston Churchill
-Connally’s view

PRC
-State Department
-Rogers
-UN representation
-Impact on Taiwan
-Conversation with Scali
-Ping-pong diplomacy
-Role
-Messages
-Warsaw talks
-President’s instructions to Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-PRC ambassador to Warsaw
-Chou En-lai’s comment to Kissinger

State Department
-Role in policy formulation
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Cambodia and Laos
-Jordan
-Possible press stories
-Liberals
-PRC
President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Kissinger's possible backgrounder
-President’s backgrounder
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Possible backgrounder
-Announcement
-President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Possible impact
-Compared to PRC trip

President's foreign policy
-Critics
-Accuracy
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-SALT
-PRC trip
-USSR
-Jordan
-1972 campaign
-Vietnam
-Views of Leonid I. Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung

The President left at an unknown time before 10:50 pm.

Vietnam
-USSR
-Election
-Congress' schedule

Kissinger’s schedule
-PRC
-Press

Kissinger left and the President entered at 10:50 am.

US foreign policy
-President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-Compared to PRC trip
-Kissinger's advice
-State Department
-Rogers
-Strategic thinking
-PRC
-USSR
-Rogers's conversation with Haldeman
-SALT
-Invitation to Brezhnev
-President's possible visit to European Economic Community [EEC]
-Public opinion
-Europe, Latin America, Africa
-Israel
-India-Pakistan
-Biafra
-Compared to Pakistan
-Strategic thinking
-Rogers
-State Department
-Kissinger and the President
-NSC meetings
-State Department
-PRC
-USSR
-Great Britain
-Rogers

President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Secrecy
-Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Winston Lord
-Dobrynin meeting
-Kissinger's reaction
-Helicopter
-Mt. Vernon
-Boat
-Importance

Ziegler entered at 10:58 am.

Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-Ziegler's conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Forthcoming announcement
-Press conference
-Ziegler’s possible comments
-John V. Lindsay
-Ziegler's forthcoming call to Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Vietnam
-George C. Wallace
-Statement on August 11, 1971 concerning busing
-President’s cabinet
-Busing
-President’s position
-Supreme Court's ruling
-Dual school system
-Compulsion
-Congress
-Use of federal funds
-President's orders
-Elliot L. Richardson, Mitchell
-Violation
-Consequences
-George Meany
-President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-President's forthcoming visit to PRC
-Reston's interview with Chou En-Lai
-Chou En-lai's conversation with Kissinger
-President's objective
-White House facilities
-Usage
-Public perception

Press
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Access to White House staff
-Edward Dale
-Possible calls
-handling
-[Pentagon Papers]
-Klein
-Scali

Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-President's schedule
-1972 campaign
-President’s recent trip
-Mudd report
-McIntyre
-[Forename unknown] Gergis [sp?]

The President talked with Harmon Killebrew between 11:10 am and 11:15 am.

[Conversation No. 561-4B]

[See Conversation No. 7-87]

-Schedule
-Minnesota Twins
-Washington [Senators] fans
-Comments by Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Bob Allison
-Activities
-Commentary
-Senators

Killebrew
-Recreation
-Gift from President
-Golf ball

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler left at 11:16 am.

Gift for Killebrew

Killebrew’s home run
-White House notification

President's schedule
-Bowlers
-Auto racers

President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Kissinger's reaction
-Buchanan
-PRC
-Foreign policy
-Importance

National economy
-Popular opinion
-President's forthcoming conversation with George P. Shultz

Polls
-Louis Harris
-Possible questions
-Budget allocations
-Defense
-USSR
-Compared to housing, education, environment
-Taxes
-Domestic Council
-Edwin L. Harper
-Popular view concerning federal spending
-Federal spending
-Taxes
-Prices
-Programs

National economy
-Unemployment
-Date of release of government statistics

Speechwriting
-Shepard
-Writer

President's forthcoming speeches
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Knights of Columbus
-President’s meeting with Shultz
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Price
-Radio talks

President's schedule
-Ehrlichman

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Religion in US
-Graham’s recent visit
-Implications
-President's conversation with Graham, August 10, 1971
-Shepard’s comment
-Public mail

President's speechwriters
-Price's view
-Shepard
-Leader class

Graham
-Audience

Leader class
-Education
-Impact on religious views
-Views concerning emotion
-Pragmatism
-Cowardice
-Mulcahy
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Peter G. Peterson
-Meetings
-Ministers
-College presidents
-Kent State University
-Softness
-Environment
-Consumers
-Blacks
-Flanigan
-Ehrlichman
-Business
-Consumers
-Environment
-Environment
-Environment
-Whitaker
-Russell E. Train
-Stans

George H.W. Bush
-Performance
-Possible actions
-Public speaking
-President as world leader
-Bohemian Grove

Graham
-View
-Connally
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

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National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Impact
-Connally's role
-Wage price freeze
-Taxes
-Foreign monetary policy
-President's possible role
-Connally’s possible speech
-Timing
-Prime time compared to new time
-Hobart Rowen's article, August 11, 1971
-Devaluation
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Dollar’s possible behavior
-Effect on domestic economy
-Devaluation
-International monetary situation
-Connally
-Psychological effect
-Henry S. Reuss committee report
-Shultz's conversation with his son
-Popular opinion
-Rowen's article
-Canada, West Germany
-Action
-President's forthcoming program
-Connally
-Politics

President's schedule
-Ehrlichman

Haldeman left at 11:40 am.

Conversation No. 561-13

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:40 am and 11:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 561-5

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:40 am and 11:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:53 am.

Conversation No. 561-6

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:40 am and 11:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Briefcase

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:53 am.

Conversation No. 561-7

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:40 am and 11:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Location of forthcoming meeting
-Oval Office compared to Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Bills signing
-Number

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:40 am.

Instruction
-Delay on action

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:53 am.

President's schedule

-Wolf Trap
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Ehrlichman
-Bill signing

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:53 am.

Conversation No. 561-8

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  11:53 am - 12:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Kent State University
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, jr.
-Meeting with Ehrlichman, August 11, 1971
-Possible calls to William Saxbe and Robert Taft, Jr.
-John N. Mitchell
-Clark MacGregor

Declassification order
-Possible story
-World War II
-Korea
-Lebanon
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Cuba
-John F. Kennedy
-Group recommendation
-Exemptions
-Intelligence sources
-On-going negotiations
-Foreign relations
-Ehrlichman's possible backgrounder
-Press

-New classification system
-Off-the-record sessions
-Classified material
-Action of certain newspapers
-Classification authority
-Limitation
-Classified material
-Distribution
-Public's right to know
-National security
-On-going negotiations
-President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-[New York Times] story
-Administration’s reaction
-Leaks
-Reaction of foreign government
-Leaks
-Pentagon Papers
-State Department story
-Unknown ambassador
-Henry A. Kissinger
-PRC concern
-Administration's prosecution of New York Times
-On-going negotiations
-Other governments' concerns
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-PRC
-Chou En-lai's interview with James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Chou En-lai's conversations with Kissinger
-Effect on US foreign policy negotiations
-President's conversations with foreign leaders
-Josef Broz Tito
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Secrecy
-Agreements compared to negotiations
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Col. Edward M. House's comments
-Attorney-client privilege
-Labor negotiations
-Steel and rail strikes
-[New York Times case]
-President’s action
-Purpose
-President’s negotiating position
-Pentagon Papers
-Historical information
-Limitation on classification authority
-Copying of classified documents
-Xerox machine
-Presidential initiatives
-Need to know
-Backgrounding with classified documents
-Leak
-Effect on Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-New York Times
-Effect on negotiations
-Investigation
-Reporters’ efforts
-Polygraph
-William Beecher's call to unknown man
-President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Administration’s openness
-National security information
-Protection
-Press
-Pages declassified
-Handling of President's papers
-Kissinger
-Distribution
-Need to know
-Debriefing
-Copying
-Xeroxing
-Pentagon Papers

Leak
-Unknown State Department official's conversation with Beecher
-Possible administration reaction
-Suspension
-Transfer
-Aid to Liberia
-Ehrlichman's possible conversation with William P. Rogers
-SALT
-Polygraph examination
-Beecher’s story
-Declassification
-Cuba

Busing
-Edward L. Morgan's schedule
-Mayor of Dallas, Texas
-Mitchell
-Corpus Christi
-Austin, Texas
-Ronald L. Ziegler's press briefing
-Federal law
-Compliance
-South Carolina
-Reaction to Elliot L. Richardson's letter to Carl B. Albert
-Requirement
-Citizens' Committee response
-George P. Shultz

Ziegler entered at 12:18 pm.

-Ziegler's previous press briefing
-President's position
-Consequences of failure to support
-Federal bureaucracy
-Local plans
-Dual school system
-Morgan's schedule
-Ziegler's previous press briefing
-President's directive
-President's meeting with Mitchell and Richardson
-Richardson's letter to Albert
-Possible inquiries
-Content
-Ziegler's previous press briefing
-President's position
-Racial balance
-Dual school system
-Desegregation
-Moral aspect
-George C. Wallace's statement
-Ziegler's previous press briefing
-John V. Lindsay
-George Meany
-Jim Naughton
-Republican Party
-Range of philosophies
-John B. Connally

Lindsay
-Ziegler's conversation with Mitchell
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Location
-Venezuela
-Ranch

Ziegler left at 12:23 pm.

Pentagon Papers case
-Krogh
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Strange bias
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Locksmiths
-Grand jury
-Grand Jury
-Timing
-Ellsberg arraignment
-Federal investigators
-Defense Department
-FBI
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Press
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Mitchell, August 6, 1971
-Report by Krogh's man

Hoover
-Tenure in office
-Mitchell's views
-Possible conversation with President
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Possible successor
-L. Patrick Gray
-Relationships
-[First name unknown] Brennan, William C. Sullivan
-Possible successor
-Gray
-Conversation with President after 1968 election
-1972 campaign
-Ellsberg investigation
-The President’s forthcoming conversation with Mitchell

Public service jobs
-President's instructions concerning discretionary money
-Illinois
-New Jersey
-California
-Formula

Martin C. (“Marty”) Anderson
-Possible role with administration
-Haldeman's conversation with President
-Special consultant
-Domestic Council
-Size of staff
-Budget
-Congressional relations
-Point of view

Administration's positions
-Revenue-sharing
-Welfare reform
-House Resolution [H R] 1
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-President's schedule

Unknown man's letter to President
-Availability of jobs in San Diego
-Ehrlichman's response
-Publicity
-Effect

Hand guns
-"Saturday night specials"
-President's conversation with head of National Rifle Association [NRA]
-Possible legislation
-Krogh

Pentagon Papers

Kent State University
-Support of unknown senators

Pentagon Papers
-Possible administration action
-Press coverage
-Timing
-Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Kissinger

President's schedule
-Possible press conference
-International monetary situation

National security
-Intelligence

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INTELLIGENCE

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-Rogers
-News leak
-Possible National Security Council [NSC] procedures
-Congress
-Laird
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Beecher's Story
-Jackson
-Jackson
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Laird
-SALT
-State and Defense Departments
-Possible NSC procedures
-Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Kissinger
-National Security Study Memorandum [NSSM]
-William H. Rehnquist's committee
-Classification guidelines
-President's procedures
-Need to know
-Debriefing
-Copying

Property Review Board
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Arnold R. Weber
-Possible successor
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-President's possible veto
-President’s view
-Administration's policy
-Legislation
-Albert H. Quie
-Views
-Samuel L. Devine
-Mexican-American deputy director

Ehrlichman's visit to Denver, August 10, 1971
-Schedule

Rogers C. B. Morton
-Meeting with John A. Love
-Colorado
-Department of Interior
-Location

Department of Agriculture
-Location
-Kansas, Nebraska
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Congress
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Possible new secretary

Interior Department
-Morton
-Walter J. Hickel
-Activities
-Television appearance

President's forthcoming meeting with Shultz

Administration's programs
-OEO
-Revenue-sharing
-Welfare reform
-Pollution
-Consumers
-Education
-President's schedule
-National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Cost
-Political aspect
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform

Welfare reform
-Question and answer session
-Ehrlichman’s response
-Possible Congressional action
-Compromise
-House bill
-Experimentation

National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Federal pay raise
-Shultz
-Federal employee concerns
-Possible wage and price freeze
-Possible speech

Ehrlichman’s forthcoming press briefing

Pentagon Papers
-Press coverage
-Ellsberg
-Ellsberg's schedule
-National Students Conference
-Location
-Denver
-Attendees
-George S. McGovern
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Earth Day

Ehrlichman left at 12:51 pm.

Conversation No. 561-9

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:51 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President's schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Speechwriting

Conversation No. 561-10

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:51 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Request for a meeting with Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 561-11

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  12:57 pm - 12:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President.

President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [ EOB]

Conversation No. 561-12

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  12:59 pm - 1:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Busing
-President's policy
-Ziegler’s recent press conference
-United Press International [UPI] story
-President’s directive
-Desegregation
-Dual school system
-Federal compliance

Declassification order
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Historical information
-World War II
-Korean War
-Cuba
-Lebanon

-Classification authority
-Limitation
-Public right to know
-Protection of classified information
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
-Timing

Ziegler left and Charles W. Colson entered at 1:01 pm.

National security
-President's previous conversation with Ehrlichman
-New York Times article
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Negotiations

Pentagon Papers
-Democrats' reaction
-Possible Congressional hearings
-Democrats
-Republicans
-October 3, 1971 election in Vietnam
-Administration's position
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Timing
-Michael J. Mansfield, J. William Fulbright
-Possible administration action
-Columnists
-Richard L. Wilson
-Hawks
-David Lawrence, Joseph W. Alsop, William S. White
-Democrats
-Unknown man
-Alger Hiss case
-Activities
-Vietnamese elections
-Democrats
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh's efforts
-Possible Congressional hearings
-W. Averell Harriman
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Overthrow of Diem
-F. Edward Hébert's position
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Unknown man's investigation
-Liberals
-In-fighting
-New Yorker magazine
-John F. Kennedy's intellectuals
-McGeorge Bundy
-Comparison to fight between Communists and Socialists
-Public reaction
-Forthcoming election
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-1968 campaign

Congress
-Recess

Colson's activities
-Cabinet
-Lull

Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Speech
-August 10, 1971
-Liberal Democrats
-Effect on working people
-Reaction
-Location
-New York City
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization [AFL-CIO]
-Reaction
-Impact on the Administration
-Raymond R. Corbett
-Administration’s view
-Speech
-Liberal Democrats
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Intellectuals
-New left
-Views
-Working people
-Timing

National economy
-Fact sheet
-Public opinion
-Analogy
-Laos
-Casualties
-Timing
-Economic indicators
-Retail sales
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Figures
-July 1971
-George P. Shultz
-Automobiles
-June compared to July
-Public malaise
-Media
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Transience
-President's foreign policy activism
-Businessmen's views
-Profits and sales
-Statistics
-Unemployment
-Polls
-Commerce Department's forthcoming survey
-Maurice H. Stans
-Businessmen
-International monetary situation
-August
-International monetary situation
-Vacations
-Television ratings
-President's forthcoming program
-Timing
-Stock market
-Cabinet's possible efforts
-Colson’s conversation with John B. Connally
-Stans
-James D. Hodgson
-Labor contracts
-Coal miners
-Longshoremen
-Hodgson
-Unemployment
-Ehrlichman
-Summer 1971
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] report
-Unknown person
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Breadwinners
-Louis Harris polls
-Accuracy
-Public psychology
-Timing
-Congress
-Procedures

Polls
-Harris, George H. Gallup
-President's public reception
-Ohio, Iowa, Alabama, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Maine

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George Meany
-Treatment by administration
-Ziegler's press briefing
-Personal greeting
-Public events
-Jackson
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Unknown person’s call to Colson
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Jackson

Manolo Sanchez and Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:01 pm.

Briefcase

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:30 pm.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Haldeman
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Bull left at 1:30 pm.

Haldeman and Rose Mary Woods entered at 1:30 pm.

Book by [Dorothy Sayre]
-Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
-Religious
-Print date
-Bookbinder
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Harcourt Brace	
-Norman Vincent Peale
-Letter

President's previous visit to Indiana
-Possible loss of notes
-Secret Service
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-American Legion newspaper story
-Diary
-Schedule cards
-Location
-Hannah Milhous Nixon’s home
-Article
-John F. Kennedy
-PRC
-Unknown man

Woods left at 1:36 pm.

Briefcase
-Notes

Jackson speech

Meany
-PRC policy

Harris poll

President's public reception around nation
-New Hampshire and Maine

President’s schedule
-Peterson
-President's conversation with Bull
-International monetary situation

National economy
-Textiles
-Peterson
-President's memo
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-President's schedule
-Possible meeting with Peterson
-Peterson’s possible conversation with Flanigan
-Possible import quota
-Industry
-Quota bill
-Flanigan
-Memorandum
-Possible conversation with Peterson
-President's schedule
-Peterson
-Shultz

Mrs. Matak
-Forthcoming tea with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, August 11, 1971
-Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks
-Compacts

	National economy
-Unemployment figures

Ehrlichman

The President, Colson and Haldeman left at 1:43 pm.

Conversation No. 561-14

Date:  Unknown between August 11, 1971 and August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:43 pm, August 11 and 8:43 am, August 12, 1971
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 561-14A]

President’s location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

[End of telephone conversation]

An agent met with an unknown man [Secret Service agent].

President’s location
-EOB

An agent talked with an unknown person.

A. J. [Surname unknown]