Conversation No. 576-1

Date:  September 18, 1971
Time:  9:57 am - 9:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President spoke with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to John N. Mitchell

Items for the President's signature

Butterfield left at 9:59 am.

Conversation No. 576-2

Date:  September 18, 1971
Time:  9:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-71]

Conversation No. 576-3

Date:  September 18, 1971
Time:  9:59 am - 10:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 9-72; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

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Conversation No. 576-4

Date:  September 18, 1971
Time:  10:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-73]

Conversation No. 576-5

Date:  September 18, 1971
Time:  10:05 am - 10:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. Haldeman.

Clifford M. Hardin
	-Cost of living [COLC] meeting
		-Conversation with Haldeman

-Reaction to Walter J. Hickel's book
-Possible book by Hardin
-Support for the President
-Cabinet compared to private role
-Financial assistance in publication
-Patrick J. Buchanan's writing assistance

The White House operator talked with the President at 10:01 am.

[Conversation No. 576-5A]

[See Conversation No. 9-74]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hardin
-Book compared with article option
-Hickel

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:01 am and 10:05 am.

[Conversation No. 576-5B]

[See Conversation No. 9-75]

[End of telephone conversation]

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 10:01 am and 10:05 am.

Book
-Options
-Hickel

Hardin
-Departure from post of Secretary of Agriculture

The President's public appearances
	-Article about security arrangements in Cleveland
		-News summary
	-Secret Service
	-Air Force base
	-Security precautions
	-Reporter's facts
	-Crowd control
	-Local stories
	-New Republic story
	-The President's public appearances
	-The President and the press
	-Letter to the editor
-Letter to the editor
-Cleveland newspaper
-Comparison to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Source of response
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Member of Congress
-Presidential security in crowds
-Control
-Assassinations
-[John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy]
				-New Republic article
	-Demonstration
-Disruptions
-Airport
-Attraction of crowds to the President
-Reaction of opponents
-Republican investigation of air base incident
-Responsibility
-White House advance men, airport security personnel

The White House operator talked with the President at 10:05 am.

[Conversation No. 576-5C]

[See Conversation No. 9-76]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's press conference
-Edmund S. Muskie's Vice Presidency statement
-Joseph McCaffrey
-Cue allegation
-Questions
-Wire services
-Column
-Muskie
-Follow-up statement on Vice Presidential candidate
-Reactions to Muskie
-Press support for Edward M. Kennedy, George S. McGovern
-Appeal
-The South
-Possible Edward Kennedy-Wilbur D. Mills candidacy

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 10:39 am.

[Conversation No. 576-5D]

[See Conversation No. 9-77]

[End of telephone conversation]

1972 Presidential race
	-Speculation
		-Muskie

Pentagon Papers
-Effects of exposure
	-Democrats
-Response
	-Charles W. Colson
-Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger's concerns

	Presidential election
		-Muskie’s Vice President statement
			-Edward W. Brooke
				-Social implications

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Fundraising and campaign practices
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-As money raiser
	-Distribution of funds
	-George C. Wallace
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Effects of third party candidates
-Congressional races
-Norris Poulson
-Number of opponents
-McCarthy
-Black candidates
		-Results and effects

The press
-Peter A. Lisagor
	-Editorial
		-Congress
		-Editorials
-Chicago Sun-Times, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer
-Liberals
-Lisagor
-Article on Oval Office press conference
	-News summary

Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Daniel Shorr
-Mary McGrory
-J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-FBI investigation of Shorr
	-Investigation at Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
	-Shorr's colleagues
	-Buchanan's view
	-Apparent hiring of Shorr
-FBI

	Supreme Court appointment
		-John N. Mitchell
			-Call to Haldeman
-John M. Harlan
-William French Smith as choice
-Law firm
-Senior partner role
-Comparison to Harlan
-Board of Regents role
-Ronald W. Reagan
-California
-Jean Webb Smith
-George Vaughn
-Activism in civic affairs
-Official position with Junior League
-Support for the President
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Busing
-Mitchell

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am.

President’s schedule
-Mitchell

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

Supreme Court appointments
-Views of potential nominees on issues
-Busing
-Forced integration of housing
-Mitchell
-Richard H. Poff
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Confirmation
		-Replacement of Hugo L. Black
			-Southerner
-1972 election
-Four judges named by the President
-Potter Stewart
-Harlan
-William O. Douglas
-Thurgood Marshall
-Black

The President's schedule
-Ehrlichman's location
-Ehrlichman and Weinberger
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] extension
	-Herbert Stein, and Maurice H. Stans
		-Bills on small business
-Ehrlichman, Weinberger, George P. Shultz
-Personnel cuts

Supreme Court appointment
-Frederic V. Malek
-Recommendation on Southern lawyer
-Conservative, busing view
-Issues
-Housing
-Busing
-North

	Unknown issue
		-Press coverage
			-Strike
			-Press conference

The President and Haldeman left at 10:40 am.

Conversation No. 576-6

Date:  September 18, 1971
Time:  10:40 am - 2:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with John N. Mitchell and Henry A. Kissinger.

Oval Office
-Set-up
-Button
-Kissinger's previous encounter with Secret Service agents

The Middle East
-Jerusalem Resolution
-Status
	-Arabs
		-Text

Mitchell’s health

The President entered at 10:40 am.

Foreign policy
-The Middle East
-Suez Canal
-Shooting incidents
-Israelis
-Egypt
-Airplanes shot down earlier in week
-Israeli territory
-Sinai Peninsula
-Surface to air missile [SAM] sites
-US reaction
-Options
	-Possible appeal by the President for restraint
		-Cease-fire
	-Negotiations

	-Appeal for restraint
		-Conditions
			-Phantoms
			-Israeli withdrawal
-William P. Rogers
-Israeli and Egyptian action
	-Yitzhak Rabin
		-Call to Kissinger
-The Soviet Union
		-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Palestinian raids
-Lebanese border
-Fedayeen
	-Jordan

US-Soviet relations
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Dobrynin
-Offensive weapons
-Gerard C. Smith
-Defensive weapons
-Melvin R. Laird
-US delegation
-State Department view
-May 20th [proposal?]
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM] levels
-Previous week's meeting
-The President's letter to Smith
-Smith's handling of negotiations
			-Soviet proposals
-Berlin agreement
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger's friend in the Pentagon
-Memorandum
-[Forename unknown] Kramer
-View on Berlin
-Agreement with US
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Laws
-SALT
-Delegation
-Smith
-Congress
-ABM
			-Dobrynin
-Helsinki meetings

	Middle east
-Rogers's plans
	-New York-United Nations [UN] meeting
		-Mahmoud Riad
		-Andrei A. Gromyko
		-US-Soviet summit
			-US policy with Israelis
			-Soviet policy with Egypt

	The President's press conference
	-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Ambassador
-Chou En-lai's view

Middle East policy
	-Rogers
		-Israelis

The President talked with Congressman Roger H. Zion between 10:51 am and 10:54 am.

[Conversation No. 576-6A]

[See Conversation No. 9-80; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

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[End of telephone conversation]

Middle East
-UN meetings
-Rogers's plans
-George H.W. Bush
-Role
-Mitchell
-Possible call from Mitchell
-Israelis
-Support and opposition
-Moshe Dayan
-Max M. Fisher
	-Phantoms
		-Delivery
-Rogers's negotiations
-Suez Canal issue
-Delivering arms
-Israelis
-Golda Meir's letter to the President
		-Israel
			-Possible deal
				-Senate
					-Egypt
			-Forthcoming conversation with Yitzhak Rabin
				-Kissinger and Mitchell
					-Politics
			-Soviet Union
			-Egypt
			-Balance of power
			-Negotiations
				-Planes
			-Rogers
				-State Department
-Delivery of military equipment
-Dayan
	-Fisher
-Timing
-Rabin
-Laird, William J. Baroody, Jr.
-US relations with the Soviet Union, PRC
-Vietnam
-Mitchell
	-Middle East issues
		-Rogers
	-Kissinger's involvement
-Middle East relations
-US-Israel
-Soviet Union, Egypt
-Soviet Union
-Equipment aid to Egypt
-Israel
-French role
	-Airplanes
	-Mirage fighter parts
-Kissinger's memorandum
	-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Bush
	-Rogers

Kissinger left at 11:01 am.

Supreme Court
-Decision on nominee to fill vacancy
-John D. Ehrlichman's views
-Richard H. Poff
	-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Hugo L. Blacks replacement
-Southern background
-Conservative
-Busing view
-Forced housing integration
-Pentagon Papers
-Harry Blackmun-type judge
-Poff
-Age
-Mitchell's possible conversation with [Lawrence E.?]Walsh
-ABA
-Supreme Court appointment
-Judiciary Committee service as equivalent to service as lawyer
-Constitutional questions

“Laugh-In”
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell's appearance
-Paul W. Keyes's call to the President

The President talked with Charles E. Wiggins between 11:05 am and 11:07 am.

[Conversation No. 576-6B]

[Conversation No. 9-81]

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court
-Appointment
-Mitchell's forthcoming meeting with Walsh
-Black announcement
-Practice of law by nominee
-Poff
-Leadership meetings
-Age
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Confirmation situation
-Southern Manifesto
-Warren E. Burger
-John M. Harlan
	-Letters from the President
		-[Black]
-Illness
	-John Foster Dulles
-Tenure
-Liberal
-Busing
-Effects in the South
				-Forced housing integration
				-The President’s campaign commitments
-Woman as a Justice
-New York
-Representation in Supreme Court
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Thurgood Marshall
-California
-Lawyer
-William French Smith
-Ronald W. Reagan
-California Board of Regents
-Approval by the ABA
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Work with Justice Department on behalf of Reagan
			-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Perceived ethnicity of appointee
	-Ehrlichman's view
-Perceptions
-Religious background
-Importance of stand on busing and integration
-Mitchell’ conversation with potential nominee
-Weinberger
	-Mitchell’s view
-Felix Frankfurter
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Weinberger's work as Chairman
	-Expansion of agency activities
-Miles W. Kirkpatrick
-Reorganization of FTC
	-Age
	-Religious background
		-Significance
-Burger's views
-Herschel H. Friday
-Little Rock, Arkansas
-Age
-Mitchell's acquaintance
-Law firm
-Pat Mehaffy
-Blackmun
-Teacher
-College
-Arkansas School Board
	-Supreme Court arguments
-ABA
-Burger
-Harlan seat
-Poff
-Friday
-Paul H. Roney
-Florida
-Dave Dyer
-Burger's views on age of justices
-William O. Douglas
-Marshall
-Harlan
-Black
	-Edward W. Brooke
		-As Attorney General of Massachusetts
		-Intelligence

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-Military Court of Appeals
-Unnamed black judge
-6th Circuit Court of Appeals
	-Michigan
-Party affiliation
-Strict constructionist
-Bill Pullman [?] from Philadelphia
-William H. Brown, III
	-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] head
				-Brooke
				-Support for Mitchell
				-Law practice
				-Congress
					-Bill
-Marshall
-Edmund S. Muskie

Muskie
-Statement on Black as Vice President
-Statement by Muskie's aide
-George W. Romney
-Comment at Governors Conference
	-Attica prison incident
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller
		-Action
	-Staff
	-Action
		-Irony
	-Timing

Supreme Court appointment
-Brown
-Option
-Friday
-Arkansas
	-Wilbur D. Mills
-House Of Representatives and Senate
-Poff
-Walsh
-Judiciary Committees
-[Frederic M. Brandes?]
-Liberal Democrat
-Role of ABA in confirmation
	-Walsh
-Judiciary Committees
	-1970 election
		-Robert McClory
		-Thomas F. Railsback
		-Emanuel Celler
		-Unknown man from Denver
	-Charles Thone
-Roman L. Hruska
-Abe Fortas
-Blackmun
-Need for speedy action
-Walsh
-Prayer service
-Alexander M. Bickel
-View of Constitutional construction
-18-year old vote
-Busing
-Work with Leonard Garment
-Criminal law
-Scholar
-Age
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Philosophy
-Age
-Bickel
	-Age
	-Garment
-Harry D. Goldman
-Mitchell's conversation with Garment
-Rockefeller
-Committee to investigate Attica
	-Fourth Circuit Court
-Bickel
-Busing
-Criminal law
-Economy
-Frankfurter
-Busing
-Forced integration
-Criminal law
-Friday
-Politics of the appointment
	-Bickel
	-New England
-South
-Conservative
-Minnesota
-New York
-Conservatives
-Reagan
-Rockefeller
-William French Smith
	-California
	-Conservative
-William French Smith
	-Philosophy
-Jean Webb Smith
-First husband [George Vaughan]
-Outlook
	-Reagan
-Haldeman
	-University of California Board of Regents

J. Edgar Hoover
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-The President's forthcoming talk with Hoover
-Hoover's tenure as FBI director
-1972 election
-Age
-Current status of FBI
-William C. Sullivan
-Health
		-Possible honorary position
-Possible appointment as presidential advisor
-Coordination of intelligence activities
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Narcotics and crime
	-FBI
-Travel
-Law enforcement agencies
-Special consultant to the President
-Domestic law enforcement
-Office in FBI
-George Champion
-Attorney General
-Department of the Treasury
-Successor
-L. Patrick Gray
-Ehrlichman
-Compared to Hoover
-Possible appointment as assistant
	-Timing
-Cartha D. (“Deke”) DeLoach
-Political skills
-Lyndon B. Johnson's bugging of airplanes
-Arrangements for meeting with the President
	-Possible speculation
-Map Room
-Kissinger, Dobrynin meetings
-Press speculation
-Breakfast meeting
-Mitchell's birthday
-Martha Mitchell
-Sequoia
	-Memos
-Schedule

The President talked with an unknown person [Haldeman] at an unknown time between 11:01 am and 11:59 am.

[Conversation No. 576-6C]

The President's schedule
	-Breakfast meetings
	-Carl B. Albert
	-Hoover

[End of telephone conversation]

Hoover
-Presence  as campaign issue
	-Popularity
-Forthcoming study of the FBI
-Princeton University Group
-Burke Marshall
-John Doar
-Justice Department
-Sullivan
-DeLoach's views
-Hoover's actions
-Sid W. Richardson
-Money
-Oil ventures
		-The President' wealth
			-Johnson's property

The President's wealth
-The President's property
-San Clemente
-Nixon Library location
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Unknown horse rancher
-Robert A. Abplanalp, Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

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Johnson Presidential Library
	-Dedication
-Comparison with the Taj Mahal

The Pentagon Papers
	-Johnson
-Democrats
-Defense of Johnson
-Walt W. Rostow
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

Middle East
	-Israel
	-Kissinger's Role
	-Rogers
	-Fisher
	-Dayan
-Withdrawal
-Suez Canal Settlement
-Donald Bergus
-US policy
	-Egypt

Cabinet
-Clifford M. Hardin’s resignation
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:01 am.

The President's schedule
	-Weinberger

Request for Ronald L. Ziegler to join meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.

Secretary of Agriculture post
-Louie B. Nunn
	-Demeanor
-Border states, South, Ohio, Illinois
-Bryce N. Harlow's view
	-Haldeman
-Background
-John B. Connally

Ziegler entered at 11:59 am.

Supreme Court nomination
-Attorney General's meeting with the President
-Speculation on Supreme Court nomination
-Poff
	-ABA
-Names under consideration
	-Number
-Strict constructionists
-Southerners
	-Harlan
-Poff
-Timing of announcement
-ABA
-Lyle Dennison
	-Story
-Poff
	-ABA
-Timing
-The President's schedule
		-Detroit trip
-Harlan
	-Health
		[Burger]

An unknown person entered at an unknown after 11:59 am.

	The President’s schedule
		-Trip to Camp David

The unknown person left at an unknown before 12:07 pm.

-Camp David
-Attorney General

Ziegler left at 12:07 pm.

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	Ambassadorship
-Reagan
	-Walter H. Annenberg

Pentagon Papers
-Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson
-Forthcoming meeting with the President

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:07 pm.

The President's schedule
-Ehrlichman, Colson

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:11 pm.

Ambassadorships
-Ronald and Nancy Reagan
-Annenberg's views
-Reagan's views
-Ambassadorship
-Resignation
-Campaign work
-Reagan as Ambassador
-Issues in the Common Market
		-Contributors
			-Amount

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Haldeman and Colson entered at 12:11 pm.

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The President left and Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 12:13 pm.

Supreme Court
-Colson
-Black's resignation
-Carswell

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:14 pm.

Supreme Court appointment
-Governor of Virginia [Linwood Holton]'s call to Haldeman
	-Joel T. Broyhill, William L. Scott
	-Harry F. Byrd, Jr., William B. Spong, Jr.
	-Hruska
-Walsh
-Possible meeting with the President
-Holton's activities
-Circuit Court
-Comparison with Supreme Court
-District Court
-Reagan
-Burger
-Bickel
-Garment
-Age
-Intellectuals
-Busing
-Housing
-Criminal law
-Writings
-William H. Rehnquist
-Academic community
-Pentagon Papers case
	-First Amendment
	-Black
	-New York Times
-Marshall
-Liberals
-Future generations
		-Reagan
-William French Smith
-Jean Webb Smith
-Corporation lawyer
-Political association with Reagan
-Conservatism
-Harlan's seat
-Corporation lawyer background for appointee
			-Academic background
-Smith
-Board of Regents
-Age
-Brown
-EEOC
-President’s view
-Support for administration
	-Congress
-Marshall
-Brooke
-Senate
-Brown
-Jackie Robinson-Brooklyn Dodgers analogy
-“Ethnic seats”
-Blacks
-Jews
-Democrats
-[Forename unknown] O'Reilly [?]
	-Support
-Brown
-Marshall's seat
-Poff
-ABA standards
-Practicing law
-Black
-Potter Stewart
-John W. Bricker of Ohio
-The President's experiences
		-Supreme Court
-Legal scholars
-Frankfurter
	-Harvard University

Pentagon Papers
-Impact
-Democrats
-The President's previous conversation with Colson
-William S. White, Louis P. Harris
-Strategy
-Johnson
-Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-War issue
-Democrats' record
-Focus
-Congress
-Ehrlichman's views
-Effects on administration control
-Control
-Court effects
-Election
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Leslie Gelb
-Administration view
-Leaks to press
-Impasse
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] inquiry
-Interests
-Democrats
-Administration
-Kissinger
-Involvement of students and associates in issue
-Elliot L. Richardson's involvement
-Effect of Congressional hearing
-Congressional investigation
-Testimony
-Richardson
-Kissinger
-Involvement
-Contents
-Democrats
-Focus
-Possible Senate and House investigation
-Origins of the Vietnam War
-Revelations of the Pentagon Papers
-Diem coup
-Bombing decisions during Vietnam war
-Gulf of Tonkin
-Kissinger and Richardson
-W. Averell Harriman
-McGeorge Bundy
-Kissinger's views
-Timing of investigations, revelations
-Vietnam elections
-Democrats' focus
-Responsibilities of Democrat administration
-Diem coup
-Congressional committee's budget
-J. William Fulbright's actions
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Executive Committee
-Public hearings
	-Michael J. Mansfield
-Politics of the Pentagon Papers
-Effect on Muskie's advisors
-Democrat foreign policy establishment
-Delivery of documents to Congress
-Columnists
-Ellsberg's views
-Coverup
-Public scrutiny
-Newspapermen
-First Amendment rights
-Content of the Pentagon Papers
-Diem
-Controversy
-Duong (“Big Minh”) Van Minh
-John Paul Vann
-Harriman
-Henry Cabot Lodge

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-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. (?)
-Vietnam election
-Leaks
-Effects of revelation of the Pentagon Papers
-October 3
-Congressional hearings
-Fulbright's action
-Study
-Executive session of Foreign Relations Committee
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Policy decisions
-Republicans
-Joint hearings
-Armed Services Committee
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Democrats' views
-John G. Tower
-Armed Services
-Suppression
-Coup
-Cables and documents
-Ehrlichman and Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Boston Globe
-Times
-Neil Sheehan
-Ellsberg source  
-Lucien Conein
-Articles
-Lodge
-Harriman
-Leaks of documents

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-Effects of information

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-Effects of information
-Berrigan brothers' case
	-Mitchell’s experience
	-John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia
	-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
	-Cornell University

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-Conein, theories
-Republicans
-Effects on Democrats
-Other investigations
	-Bay of Pigs
-Cuban Missile Crisis
-Exposure of documents
	-White House efforts
-Physical quantity
-1960 missile gap issue
-Vietnam War
-Origins
-Kissinger
-Democratic involvement
-Mansfield's use of phrase "Nixon's war"
-Responsibilities
-Krogh, David R. Young, Jr.
-Diem
	-Previous administrations
-Exposure of Vietnam, dirty tricks
-Kissinger's conversations with Ehrlichman
-Vietnamese election
-Referendum
-Trip to San Clemente
-NSC meeting
-Democrat administration
-Vietnam War
-Richard A. Falk and Bundy issue
-Presidency of Foreign Relations Council

Tennis
-St. Louis

Pentagon Papers
-Exposure of facts
-Requirements
-Young
-NSC staff
-Diem and Democrats
	-Involvement
		-CIA
-Implications for Democrats
-Harriman
-Bundy
-Rostow
-Harriman
	-Muskie
-Connections with candidates
-John Kennedy administration
	-Edward M. Kennedy candidacy
		-Portrayal
-Edward Kennedy and Muskie
	-Poll

	Muskie
-Black as Vice President
	-Principle of equal opportunity

	Pentagon Papers
		-Interview
			-Conein
			-Edward Landsdale
		-Diem and Democrats
-Harriman
	-Muskie
-Kennedy
-Kissinger
-View of liberal press on Diem
-Peter A. Lisagor's question at press conference
-Diem's death
-US involvement in the war
	-Laotian agreement
		-Harriman's involvement
		-Ho Chi Minh Trail
	-Diem's death
		-Johnson's view
			-Liberal press
				-Kennedy's role
-Kissinger's view
-Election
		-Democratic involvement
			-Congress
-TV exposure

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 29
[Privacy]
[Duration:  3s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 29

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-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Gen. Paul Harkins's view
-Resignation
-Life in Texas
-Congress
	-Leaks
-Newsweek
-Diem
-Senate
-Documents in Senate
-Use
-Liberal press views
-Senator’s statement
-Conein
-Administration policy
-Possible statement
-Goldwater
-William E. Brock, III
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Conein
-Richard M. Helms
-CIA
-Diem story
-Handling
-Entire file
-CIA
-President’s order
-Reasons
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-CIA
-Bay of Pigs
-Access
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Hierarchy
-Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-Walters
-Kissinger
-Diem and Bay of Pigs information
-President’s wishes
-Helms and Cushman
-Resignations
-Information for the President
-Reasons
-Cuban missile crisis
-Bay of Pigs involvement
-Eisenhower
-Kennedy
-Military
-CIA
-The President
-Story deadline
-President’s order
					-Urgency
-Bombing halt study
	-White House use
-Johnson administration
-Last month
-Joseph Califano
-Trip to the Department of Defense [DOD]
-Materials in files
-Austin, Texas
-Haig
	-Gelb, Morton Halperin and Paul Warnke
		-Paul H. Nitze
		-National Archives and Records Service
			-Contract
-Robert Kunzig
-J. Fred Buzhardt
					-Pictures of documents
						-DOD
				-Edgar Allan Poe
				-Tom C. Huston’s investigation
		-DOD
-Kissinger's views
-Huston’s views
-Richard V. Allen's views
-Goldwater
-Role in history

Foreign policy events
-Review for facts
-Bombing halt
-Bay of Pigs
-Diem
-Nixon’s orders
-Haig
-White House use
	Summary
-Bay of Pigs
-Instructions for Helms
-CIA
-Public release
-Diem coup
	-Information
	-Press

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 27
[National Security]
[Duration:  3s  ]

	VIETNAM

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 27

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-Defense and State Departments
-Leaks to press
-Kissinger
	-Handling
-Kissinger
-The President's right to know
-Staff
-Allen
-Huston
-Krogh
-Huston
-Allen
-Job with Peter G. Peterson
-Krogh
-G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt
-Allen
-Possible motives
-State Department
-Parody of Patrick B. Oliphant's cartoon
-Japanese
-Rogers
-Timing of efforts to obtain facts
-Jackson
-Image on Vietnam issue
-Liberal associates

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  2m 43s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16

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The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Minority business
	-Budget
		-Maurice H. Stans
	-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

Mitchell left at 1:22 pm.

OEO legislation
-Possible veto
-Legislation
-Albert H. Quie's views

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:22 pm.

	President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm.

	OEO legislation
		-Senate bill

The President left at an unknown time after 1:22 pm.

OEO legislation
-The President's views
-Veto

The President returned at an unknown time before 2:05 pm.

Supreme Court appointment
-Bickel
-18-year old vote issue
-Liberals
-Bickel
-Stance
-Future Marshall vacancy
-Brown
-Impact of appointments
	-Congress
-Brown's philosophy

OEO legislation
-Great Society
	-Signal
		-Busing
-Veto
	-Possible consequence
-Effect of action on conservatives
-Supreme Court
-Poff
	-Southern manifesto
-Veto
-Alternative
-The President's possible actions
	-State of the Union address
		-Attack on the Great Society
-Lack of success in programs

Hispanics
-Leadership of OEO
-Philip V. Sanchez
-Appointment of Romana Acosta Banuelos
-The President's meeting September 17, 1971 with Puerto Rican bowling champion, Aida L. Gonzalez
-Case of rum

Bowling
-The President's meeting with champion bowlers
-News coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Strike in White House bowling alley
-Bowlers
	-Professionals
		-Strikes
	-“Middle America”
-White House bowling alley
-Use
-Harry S. Truman
-Security officers, photographers
-White House staff
	-Tennis court
-Perceptions

Pentagon Papers
	White House stance
	-Politics
	-OEO
	-Coordination with Colson's staff
-Mansfield's views
-Johnson's views
-Democratic Party
	-Clark M. Clifford
-Administration policy
-Kissinger's position

Use of Federal agencies
	-1972 campaign
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Abplanalp, Hobart D. Lewis
-Rebozo
		-John Wayne
		-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
			-John B. Connally's reaction
-Bureaucracy
-Mitchell's department [Department of Justice]
-1960 Presidential campaign

The federal bureaucracy
	-Leaks
	-Amount in previous six months
	-National security
		-CIA
	-Tad Szulc
	-Cabinet officers' actions vis-a-vis bureaucracy
		-Rogers
		-Mitchell
	-Rogers's statement
	-Contacts with the press
	-State Department
	-Ehrlichman's investigation
	-William Beecher
	-Szulc
	-Effect on State Department security office
	-Lie detector tests
	-The President's possible statement
	-New York Times
		-PRC
-Administration's stance towards
-Ziegler's expression of the President's views on the Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Effects on HEW
-Cabinet
-Connally
-Treasury Department
	-Paul A. Volcker
-Charls E. Walker
-Cabinet secretaries' staffs
-Department of Justice
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Mitchell
-Treasury
-Walker's relations with the White House
-Connally
-Connally

Cabinet
	-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Melvin R. Laird
-Profile
	-News coverage
-Muskie's statement
-Response by Cabinet
-Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Television exposure
-Connally
-M&M characterization of George Meany, Muskie
-Rogers and Laird
-Rogers
-Speech to American Legion
-Sites for speaking engagements
-Middle East
-John A. Scali
-Laird
-Statements about Congress
-Mitchell
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Attack on Democrat partisanship
-Praise from Governors Conference
-Speech contents
-Unity
-Forthcoming speech
-Buchanan
-Rhetoric, tone
-Michigan poll
-Support for the President
-Youth
-Contrast with Agnew's statistics
-Opposition
-Alabama poll
-Strategy for Agnew
-Youth support
-Possible college campus tour
-Speeches
-Themes
-David Frost show appearance
-Campus appearances
	-Colloquies
-Radio
-Newscast
-Paul Harvey
-Herbert G. Klein
-Image following Governors Conference
-Recent trip
-Focus during 1972 primary campaign
-Agnew's forthcoming trips to Iran, Greece, Turkey
-Speeches

Supreme Court appointment
-Agnew
-Projected confirmation hearing
-Agnew's background as lawyer
-James O. Eastland
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr., Walter F. Mondale, Edward Kennedy
-Nominations of Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., G. Harrold Carswell
	-Political aspect
-Stance with the press
-Comparison with the President
	-Lisagor

The President's handling of the press
	-Alger Hiss case
-1954 and post-1954 periods
-Dump Nixon movement
	-Vice Presidency

Economy
	-Meeting
-Statistics
	-Growth
-Security First National Bank
	-California
		-Housing starts
-Automobile sales
	-Impact
-Business community
	-Phase II
-Recovery
	-George P. Shultz
		-Second quarter 1971 growth
-Tax field
-Budget
-Arthur F. Burns
-Housing
-Media coverage
	-Shultz
	-Interest rates
	-Romney
		-Number of starts
-California
-Demographics
-Washington, DC
-Elimination of housing units
-Replacements
-New York City
-Decline in numbers
-Phase II
-Public support
-Inflation
-Trend of unemployment statistics
	-Adjustments
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-John F. Kennedy's administration
	-Moynihan’s position

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:22 pm

	President’ schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm.

	Economy
		-BLS
			-Current handling of statistics compared to Kennedy administration
			-Reagan’s view of statistics
-Unnamed man
-Quote in Washington Post about economy
	-Eastern Establishment
-Type of governor for Michigan
-Romney, William G. Milliken
-United Auto Workers [UAW]
-Employment cutbacks
		-Phase II, III
-July 1971
-Possible aberration
		-Employment
	-Ehrlichman's conversation with Governor Daniel J. Evans
	-Boeing
	-Hiring
	-Washington
	-Aerospace industry
		-Supersonic transport [SST]
-William M. Magruder
			-Japan
				-Possible joint effort

The President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Colson left at 2:05 pm.

Conversation No. 576-7

Date:  September 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:05 pm and 2:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with unknown people [Charles W. Colson and John D. Ehrlichman?].

	Schedule

Work

This recording was cut off at an unknown time before 2:07 pm.

Conversation No. 576-8

Date:  September 20, 1971
Time:  9:52 am - 11:27 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Schedule

Vice Presidency
	-Spiro T. Agnew
	-Handling
	-Staff
					-John D. Ehrlichman
		-John B. Connally
		-John N. Mitchell
	-Bryce N. Harlow

News stories
-Attica prison riots

-Connally's negotiations in Europe
	-Trade balance
	-Look magazine
	-Cover and excerpt
		-Allan S. Drury's book [Courage and Hesitation]
-The President's news conference
-Magazine coverage
-US News and World Report

Bowling photograph

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:52 am.

Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.

News stories
-Bowling photograph
-Effect of the President's bowling alley visit with champions
-Phase II and economic focus
-Press conference report

Flies in Oval Office

The President's schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with White House Fellows
	-Fellows
		-Identity

Connally
-The President’s recent conversation
-Press

Connally entered at 10:03 am.

Oval Office
-Flies
-Open door

Haldeman left at 10:04 am.

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:03 am

Flyswatter

Sanchez left an unknown time before 11:27 am.

Oval Office
-Flies
-Enclosed spaces
-Airplanes, offices, bedrooms

Phase II
	-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Projected October announcement
-Handling
-Possible press conference by the President
-Possible press conference by Connally
		-Timing
-Announcement
-US-Soviet Union summit
-Comparison with US-People's Republic of China [PRC] summit
-Announcement
-Timing
-Deadline of weekly news magazines
-Wage and -Price Board
-Industries
-Guidelines
-Coordination with Herbert Stein, Paul W. McCracken, George P. Shultz
-Follow-up
-The President's trip to Alaska
-Time of return
		-Announcement
			-Deadline

International economy
-Connally's trip abroad
-The President's appearance before the Detroit Economic Club
	-Forthcoming paper
-US stance vis-a-vis rest of the world
	-Trade
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Surcharge
-Import surcharge
-Import restrictions by other nations
-Import restrictions by other nations
-Removal of capital controls
-Currency exchange
-France, Belgium
-Marketplace
-Dollar
-Japanese yen
-German mark
-British pound
-Controls
-European views
-Viewpoints of the US
-US response
-Financial leaders
-David Rockefeller
	-IMF meeting
	-Soviet Union, PRC
	-Monetary policy
	-European allies trade
	-Fidel Castro
		-Soviet Union, Eastern European countries
		-Romania, Czechoslovakia
		-Amount
			-Compared to US
-Structure of IMF
	-Possible strategy
	-Exchange rates
		-Price of gold
	-Import surcharges
		-Duration
	-Sharing of defense burden
	-Linkage
	-Two tier controls
	-Belgium, France
	-US past action
	-US rehabilitation of countries
	-Political and economic standpoints
				-Structure of IMF
	-Effects on US
-The President's attendance
	-Number of nations and representatives attending
	-Reception
	-The President's view
			-Schedule
-Importance of the President's appearance
	-Finance ministers
	-Central bankers
	-Meeting
	-Those attending
	-White House reception
	-Arthur F. Burns
		-Central bankers
	-Connally, Idanell (“Nellie”) Connally, Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
	-The President's role
	-The President's schedule
	-Possibilities
	-The President's speech
	-Reception schedule
		-Haldeman
	-Paul A. Volcker, Peter G. Peterson, Shultz
		-Trade
-Domestic and international issues
-Surcharges
-Canada, Mexico
-Quotas
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Japan
-Germans
-Japan
	-Possible quotas
	-Automobiles
	-Textiles
	-Electronics
		-Mexico, Canada
-Press initiative
-European views
-US solutions to problems
-Handling of import surcharge
-Negotiation on gold price
-IMF view
-Connally's statement
-Political considerations
-Reasons for imposition of surcharge
-US balance of payments
-1964 imposition of surcharge by Great Britain
-Import and export taxes
-Gold
						-The President's august 15 speech announcing wage and price action
-Congress
-Solution of issue
-Speeches
-International economic stability and world trade
	-US action
	-Protectionism
	-Resources expended
		-Economic
		-Military
	-Negotiations
	-Burns
		-Views
		-US interests
		-Karl Klasen, Oliver B. Wormser
	-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD]
		-Balancing of payments problem
			-Figure
		-Burns
-Rockefeller
-Possible meeting with the President
-The President's Detroit economic club appearance
-Current situation
-Brazil
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Belgium
-Holland
-Switzerland
-Troika meeting
	-Federal Reserve Board [FRB], Treasury Department
	-Schedule
		-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
		-Conversation with Connally
-State Department
-Nathaniel Samuels
		-Reception for IMF
			-President’s remarks
			-Size
				-White House
			-Finance Minister, bank governors
				-Handling
				-Speech
-Connally's role
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Detroit

The President's schedule
-IMF meeting
-Phase II action
-Decisionmaking
-October 1

Robert S. McNamara
-Term as World Bank President
-Barry M. Goldwater’s views
-The President’s view
-Handling
	-Connally's possible action
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Political opposition
	-Pentagon Papers
	-Kissinger
	-Quid pro quo
		-Pakistan

Armand Hammer
-Support for the President
-Offer of financial contribution
-Hammer's father
-Hammer's actions in the Soviet Union
-Wheat shipment into the Soviet Union
-Money for medical school
-Pharmaceutical business
-Wheat shipments
				-Hospitals
					-Soviet trade
						-Vladimir I. Lenin
		-1923-1925
-Investments
-Education
-Pencil manufacturing
	-Germans
-Anastas Mikoyan, Lenin, Nikita S. Khrushchev
			-Art collection
		-Los Angeles Music Center
		-Hammer Galleries

	The President’s schedule
		-IMF reception
			-Planning
				-Haldeman
				-Treasury Department
					-John R. Petty

Connally talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:03 am and 10:50 am.

[Conversation No. 576-8A]

[See Conversation No. 9-88]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally's appearance

Haldeman entered at 10:50 am.

	The Administration’s economic program
		-Critics

President’s schedule
	-October 1971
		-Florida
-IMF program
-The President's speech
-Reception

Connally talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:50 am and 11:23 am.

[Conversation No. 576-8B]

[See Conversation No. 9-89]

[End of telephone conversation]

Schedule

Connally talked with Petty at an unknown time between 10:03 am and 11:23 am.

[Conversation No. 576-8C]

[See Conversation No. 9-90]

[End of telephone conversation]

IMF reception
-Location
-Smithsonian Institution

The White House operator talked with Connally at an unknown time between 10:50 am and 11:23 am.

[Conversation No. 576-8D]

[See Conversation No. 9-91]

[End of telephone conversation]

Schedule
-IMF reception
-The President's speech
-Guests list
-Itinerary

The President's schedule
-Petty
-IMF reception
-Burns
	-NSC meeting
-Quadriad meeting
-Reception
-The President's possible speech
-Quadriad
-Burns
-Shultz
-Peter M. Flanigan
-The President's briefing of the press during trip to the West
-Connally's schedule
	-Appointments
	-Japanese
	-Anthony Barber
-Shultz

Connally's schedule
-Senate Finance Committee
-Russell B. Long's views
-Burns's role
-J. William Fulbright's committee
-Views of Congressmen and Senators
-Jacob K. Javits
-Armand Hammer
-Offer of financial contribution
	-Haldeman
	-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Possible motivation
-State dinner
-Job for Sam Yorty
-Overseas problems

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:50 am.

The President's schedule
-Romana Acosta Banuelos
-Entrance
-Press

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:08 am.

Economy
-Public opinion
	-Foreign aid reduction
	-Surcharge

Haldeman left and Romana Acosta Banuelos and Stephen B. Bull entered at 11:08 am.

Introductions
-Connally

Romana's Mexican Food Products, Inc.
-California
-Mrs. Banuelos's roles
-Chairman of bank board
-Pan American Bank National Bank of East Los Angeles

Press picture

Banuelos
-Offices
-Treasury Department building

Mary T. Brooks
-Director of the Mint
-California
-Marriage to C. Wayland Brooks
-Death of C. Brooks
-Involvement in Republican politics

Banuelos's background

Press
-Photographs
	-Arrangements

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:15 am.

Banuelos's family
-Daughter
-Move to Washington
-Sons

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 11:08 am.

Photograph
-Arrangements

	Dollar bill
		-Banuelos’s signature
			-Secret Service

Members of the press entered at 11:15 am.

[Photographs]
	-[General conversation]

Members of the press left and Alexander Banuelos entered at 11:18 am.

Pen
-Community State Bank of Texas

Banuelos's daughter

[Photographs]

Banuelos's children
-Presidential gifts

Banuelos
-As Treasurer-designate of the US
-Reasons for selection
-Qualifications
-Background
-Hispanic ethnicity
-California
-The President's experiences in Whittier, Yorba Linda
-Philip V. Sanchez
	-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

Connally, the Banuelos, Bull, et al. left at 11:23 am.

	Supreme Court appointment
		-Women's National Caucus 
-Use of phrase best man
-Ziegler's talk with the Attorney General in response
-Choices
-Women as candidates
-Previous statement about appointment  of only people sitting on the bench
	-Carroll Kilpatrick's report
	-Criteria
		-Legal philosophy
			-Strict constructionism
		-Qualifications
	-Felix Frankfurter
		-Professional background
	-John M. Harlan
		-Background as lawyer
	-Outstanding lawyers from the Bar
-Candidates
	-Number
-Possible questions for Ziegler about Harlan
-Resignation

Other news
	-Banuelos

Vietnam
-Demonstrations
-Period after November 15
-The President's action

Ziegler left at 11:27 am.

Conversation No. 576-9

Date:  September 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:27 am and 11:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

White House Fellows
-The President's meeting in the White House
	-Photographs
	-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Location
-The President's speech
-Pictures
-Format
-Gifts

Bull left at 11:32 am.

Conversation No. 576-10

Date:  September 20, 1971
Time:  11:32 am - 11:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry G. Cisneros, Peter W. Cook, Robert A. Dey, W. Antoinette Ford, Stephen J. Gage, Franklin R. Gannon, John S. Grinalds, Glen R. Kendall, John M. Maurice, Terence D. McCann, Robert C. McFarlane, Michael S. Noling, Deanell Reece, Martin E. Seneca, Jr., Richard E. Stephenson, Brandon W. Sweizer, Arthur E. Dewey, Frederick Rentschler, Frederick V. Malek, Stephen B. Bull, and Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins.

Arthur E. Dewey
-Director, Commission on White House Fellows
-Service in Vietnam

Introductions
	-Robert A. Dey
		-William D. Ruckelhaus
			-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Peter W. Cook
-Department of Defense assignment
-Terrence D. McCann
-Henry G. Cisneros
	-National League of Cities
-W. Antoinette Ford
-John S. Grinalds
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Deanell Reece
	-[Law school]
	-Secretary of Labor
-Stephen J. Gage
-University of Texas
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-University of Texas football game, September 18, 1971
-Offensive line
-Martin E. Seneca, Jr.
-George W. Romney
	-Robert C. McFarlane

	-John Maurice
	-Michael Noling
-Brandon Sweizer
	-Glen Kendall
		-Secretary of the Interior
	-Richard Stephenson
		-Transportation program
			-John B. Connally

Photographs

White House Fellows program
-Assignments
-Cabinet officers
-Contributions of Fellows
-Type of work
-Anonymity
-The President's experience as Congressman, Senator, Vice President

Executive Departments
-Value of work
-Future public service

Supreme Court appointment
-The President's previous meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Announcement of candidacy search for Hugo L. Black’s seat
	-Women's reaction to use of term best man
	-Term Congresswomen compared to Congressmen

Washington, DC
-City, work

	Salaries

Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks with the President's seal
-Costs
-Presidential paperweight

	White House church service

Dewey, et al. left at 11:47 am.

Conversation No. 576-11

Date:  September 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:47 am and 12:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Schedule
-Arthur F. Burns

Supreme Court appointment
-John M. Harlan
-Chief Justice's [Warren E. Burger] conversation with John M. Mitchell
-Announcement of Harlan vacancy
	-Timing

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Burns
-Troika meeting
-John B. Connally
-International Monetary Fund [IMF] reception
	-Connally
	-Sheraton Park Hotel
	-Comparison to the President's stays at the Waldorf Hotel
		-United Nations [UN]
	-Finance ministers
	-Leisurely tone
-Forthcoming Florida visit
-Economic meeting
-Forthcoming Soviet Union announcement

-Florida
-Disney World visit
-Camp David
-Meeting with Connally and George P. Shultz
-Lillian Marie Disney
-Disney World
-Hall of Presidents

Announcement of Harlan resignation

The President's schedule
-Burns meeting

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:47 am and 12:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 576-11A]

[See Conversation 9-92]

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court
-Appointment of two Justices at once
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Abe Fortas
			-W. Homer Thornberry
			-Harlan
-Spiro T. Agnew
	-Connally

The President talked with Mitchell between 11:59 am and 12:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 576-11B]

[See Conversation No. 9-93]

[End of telephone conversation]

Press briefing announcement
-Chief Justice
-Appointment of four members
-Thurgood Marshall
	-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
	-Press view
		-Hospital

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 12:00 pm.

Washington Senators baseball team
-Move from Washington DC
-The President as baseball fan
-Robert Short's statement
-Call from Morrie Siegal
-Role of Baltimore Orioles
-Short
-Stadium site
-Departure
-Perception of danger around ballpark
-Football day games, baseball day games
-Attendees

	The President’s schedule
		-Connally
			-Unknown person
				-Possible removal

Ziegler and Haldeman left at 12:01 pm.

Conversation No. 576-12

Date:  September 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:01 pm and 12:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
Schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with Miss America winners
	-Laurie Lee Schaefer, Phyllis A. George
		-Gifts
			-Bow pins
			-Compact
		-Photographs

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:10 pm.

Conversation No. 576-13

Date:  September 20, 1971
Time:  12:10 pm - 12:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Phyllis A. George, Mrs. George, Laurie Lee Schaefer, Eleanor Schaefer, Dorothy Chevager, Stephen B. Bull, and Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins.

	Laurie Lee Schaefer

Phyllis A. George

Mrs. George

Eleanor Schaefer

	Miss America pageant
		-View of Julie Eisenhower and Tricia Cox
-Miss America 1971, 1972
-Handling of interviews
-Comments
-Future of Miss George
-Acting profession
-Television

-Women
	-President’s conversation with Virginia Sherwood
-Decisionmaking

	Movies
	-The President's conversation with Ginger Rogers
-Reflection of producers' view’s of marketplace
-X-rated movies
-Tone
-John Wayne
-Patrick Wayne

Ronald L. Ziegler, and members of the press entered at an unknown time after 12:10 pm.

[Photographs]

College football
-Woody Hayes

	Ohio University

[Photographs]

Football
	-University of Texas
-Cotton Bowl game, 1971
-Nebraska
-Notre Dame

Baseball
-American League
-Robert Short
-Move of Washington Senators team to Dallas, Texas
-Walter Johnson
-Washington as sports town
-Support for Redskins football team
-Baltimore Orioles schedule
-Washington baseball team
-Prospects
-Harmon Killebrew
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Reaction
			-Ted Williams

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 12:24 pm.

Presidential gifts
-Seal
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Compacts
-Golf balls

	Bowling

Congressman Samuel L. Devine from Ohio
-As football referee in college games

George, Schaefer, et al. left at 12:24 pm.

Conversation No. 576-14

Date:  September 20, 1971
Time:  12:24 pm - 12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Jaycees
	-Ronald G.S. Au

Bull left at 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 576-15/577-1

Date:  September 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:25 pm and 12:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald G. S. Au, Andre LeTendre, and George T. Bell; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Ronald Au
-President of the US Jaycees

Andre LeTendre

	[Photographs]

Au's trip

Arthur F. Burns
-Delay in meeting

This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:44 pm.

[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded while the tape was being changed]