Conversation No. 589-1

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:20 pm and 4:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, John N. Mitchell, and John D. Ehrlichman.
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The President's schedule

Congressman F. Edward Hebert
-House Armed Services Committee

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:37 pm.

-Southern oratory
-Hebert

Supreme Court appointments
	-J. Edgar Hoover
-Herschel H. Friday
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Religion
-Husband's ethnic background
-John A. Volpe
-Iowa
-Volpe
-Judicial experience
-Law school
-Record
-Reversals by the Supreme Court
-Criminal cases
-Conservative stance
-Busing
-Mithcell’s assessment
-The President’s view
-California Supreme Court

-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Friday

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The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Bull

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Supreme Court appointments
-Friday
-Law firm
-Arkansas
-Clerk to Judge John E. Miller
-University of Arkansas
-American Bar Association [ABA] House of Delegates
-Board of Governors
-Conservative background
	-Mitchell’s assessment
	-Compared with Warren E. Burger
-Clients
-School boards
	-Possible problem
-Thurgood Marshall
-John L. McClellan
-Democrat
-Law practice
	-Pat Mahaffey
-Klu Klux Klan
-Wife
-William H. Rehnquist
-Clients
-Missouri Pacific Railroad
-John M. Harlan
-Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Knowledge of business
-Harlan
-Age
-Clement F. Haynsworth
-Background check on credentials
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Lillie
	-Investigation
	-Husband
-Julius Caesar
-Friday
	-Confirmation hearings
		-Haynsworth hearings
		-Possible question
		-William O. Douglas
-Conservatives
	-The President’s view
-Jew
-Edward H. Levi

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:20 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:37 pm.

	Supreme Court appointment
-Lillie
-Sylvia Bacon
-Friday
-Charles Clark
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Robert C. Byrd
-Submission to ABA
	-Background
	-US attorney in Baltimore
-Daniel B. Brewster
-[Forename unknown] Long
-Brewster, Cyrus T. Anderson, Spiegel, Inc.
	-Democrats
	-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Edmund S. Muskie
-Lawrence E. Walsh
-Lillie, Friday
-Bar
-William French Smith
-Byrd
	-Press reports
-Friday
-Reaction of Senators
-Gordon L. Allott
-Republicans
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Robert P. Griffin
-Friday
-[Forename unknown] Rockefeller

The President et al. left at 4:37 pm.

Conversation No. 589-2

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  5:28 pm - 5:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Supreme Court appointments
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Husband
-Herschel H. Friday
	-Warren E. Burger
-University of Minnesota
-John N. Mitchell
-Arkansas
-Harry A. Blackmun

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:28 pm.

The President's schedule
-Unknown person
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.

Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] documents
-Richard M. Helms
-State Department
	-Missing files
-Kennedy family
-Kennedy Library
-Cambridge, Massachusetts
-Helms
-Declassification
	-Immunity question
	-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Life magazine
-Ngo Dinh Diem assassination
-Vietnam
-W. Averell Harriman
-Mcgeorge Bundy
-Roger Hilsman
-Dean Rusk
-State Department
-Strategy
-Helms
-Missing CIA documents

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Refreshments

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Budget
-Kissinger
-Schedule
-Meeting of President with George P. Shultz, Kissinger, Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-The President's schedule
-Kissinger
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Negotiations
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Tax plan
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Kissinger's schedule
-Domestic questions

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Refreshments

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Phase II Wage and Price controls
-Press conference

The President's schedule
-Supreme Court appointments
-Mitchell
-Public relations
-South
-West

Supreme Court appointments
-Woman
-Necessity
	-The President’s view
-Mitchell's view
-Ability
-Negroes
-Ehrlichman's experiences

Phase II Wage and Price controls
-Charls E. Walker
-Maurice H. Stans
-Shultz
-Labor
-Labor walkout

Kissinger entered at 5:40 pm.

-The President's comments

Ehrlichman left at 5:41 pm

The President's schedule

US-USSR agreement
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
		-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President's attitude
-Kissinger's position
-Soviets
-French
-Germans
-French
-Kissinger
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Arthur K. Watson
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Willy Brandt
-Press conference
-PRC
-Dobrynin
-Reactions
-Alsop
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Kissinger
-Vietnam negotiations
-Washington Star
-Jerrold L. Schecter
-Time magazine
-W. Averell Harriman
-George H. Mahon
-F. Edward Hebert
-Attitude toward the President
-The President's commentary to Conressmen
-Soviets
-PRC trip
-Press conference
-Individual sent to Vietnam for Nguyen Van Thieu's inauguration
-Laird
-State Deprtment
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Mitchell
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Laird
-Relationship with Thieu
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Connally
-Laird's views
-Richardson

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and 5:53 pm.

[Conversation No. 589-2A]

[See Conversation No. 11-65]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule

Rogers

Kissinger talked with Richardson at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and 5:53 pm.

[Conversation No. 589-2B]

[See Conversation No. 11-66]

[End of telephone conversation]

Thieu's inauguration
-Richardson's response
-Implications of Richardson's going

The President's schedule

The President and Kissinger left at 5:53 pm.

Conversation No. 589-3

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:53 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

The President’s schedule
	-Location

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:53 pm.

The President’s schedule
	-Location

Sanchez, et al. left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.