Conversation No. 733-1

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown before 8:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

Manolo Sanchez met with an unknown man.

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Sanchez and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:31 am.

Conversation No. 733-2

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  9:00-10:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Cabinet meeting
-Timing
-Subjects for discussion
-The President’s previous visit to the Soviet Union
-William P. Rogers

-Peter M. Flanigan
-Domestic issues
		-Flanigan
			-Trade
		-John D. Ehrlichman

Telephone calls
-Compared with letters
	-Birthday greetings
	-The President’s instructions

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:05 am Butterfield left at an unknown time after 9:05 am.

Letters and telephone calls to Congressmen
-Foreign Affairs Committee
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Telephone calls
	-John L. McClellan
-Time element
-Clement P. Zablocki

Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
-Compared to House
-Vote on floor on Vietnam
	-Clark MacGregor
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
	-Vietnam troop withdrawal
		-Chances of defeat
		-Amendments
		-John J. Sparkman’s role

Revenue sharing
-Chances of success in Congress
-Nelson A. Rockefeller on Capitol Hill
-George P. Shultz

Welfare bill
-Ehrlichman
-Welfare program
-The President’s view
-Draft
-MacGregor
-Social Security
-Passage in Congress

Revenue sharing
-Votes in Congress
	-Wilbur D. Mills
-Support in Administration
	-Robert H. Finch

Budget problems
-The President's vetoes

Kissinger
-Rogers
	-Forthcoming meeting with the President

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Rogers and Kissinger
-Time

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

Rogers' trip itinerary
-Australia, New Zealand, and the US [UNZUS]
-Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO]
-John B. Connally

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HALDEMAN TALKED WITH AN UNKNOWN PERSON AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BETWEEN 9:05 AND 10:04 AM

[CONVERSATION NO. 733-2A]

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White House staff salaries
-Younger staffers
-Older staff members
-The President’s view
-John C. Whitaker
-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Future
-William L. Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Buchanan
-Senior level
-Youth salaries

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William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Explo '72 rally
	-The President’s position

Presidential scholars
-Elliot L. Richardson
	-The President’s participation
-Selection criteria
-Caspar W. Weinberger
	-Michigan interns
		-Support for George S. McGovern
-Government interns
-Abolition of program
	-The President’s view
-Interns in Republican campaign organization
	-White House
		-Intership programs
	-Presidential interns
	-Spiro T. Agnew
	-Tricia Nixon Cox
	-Political leanings
	-Haldeman's conversation with Richardson
	-Selection process
		-Advisory committees
	-President’s Science Advisory Committee [PSAC]
	-The President's selections
		-Interns
	-Political opposition to the President

Kissinger's appearance for Congressional briefing
-Location
-Weather
-Arrival of Luis Echeverria Alvarez
		-Logistics

Head of State visit of Echeverria
-Political benefits
	-Spanish-Americans
	-Visits to Los Angeles, Texas, and Chicago

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The President's position
-Trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
-The President's domestic opponents
	-Effect of accomplishments
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Republicans

Revenue sharing
-Shultz
-Lobbying
-Advantages to the President
-Welfare program

Presidential scholars
-Tour of White House
-Potential opposition to the President
	-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
		-Richardson

The President's schedule
-Florida
-Weather
-Echeverria

Report on the President's trip to the Soviet Union
-Butterfield
	-Cabinet meeting
		-Flanigan
		-Peter G. Peterson’s trip to the Soviet Union
			-Revenue sharing
			-Rogers
				-Aleksei N. Kosygin
		-The President’s view
		-Earl L. Butz

Cabinet meeting
-The President’s view
-Timing
-Agnew
-Subjects
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Butz
-Connally

Transportation exhibit at Dulles Airport
-John A. Volpe
-Problems
	-Traffic jams
	-Blue Angels
	-Fatalities

Cabinet meeting
-Subjects
-Ehrlichman
-Availability

The President’s schedule
-Richardson
	-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Cabinet meeting
-Echeverria
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Scheduling
-Press conference
-Scheduling
-Incumbent Republican Senators and Congressmen
-Scheduling
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-John M. Ashbrook

McCloskey
-Statements on prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Democratic response

Ashbrook

Tricia Nixon Cox
-"Merv Griffin Show"
-Rerun of wedding
-Audience
-Possible hostility

Protocol office
-William R. Codus
-Transfer to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's staff
-Informing Mrs. Nixon

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger and Rogers

The President, Bull, and Haldeman left at 10:04 am.

Conversation No. 733-3

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  10:04-11:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

William P. Rogers met with Henry A. Kissinger.

	Refreshments

Vietnam
	-Kissinger’s meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
-Meeting between the President and Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Hanoi
	-Nikolai V. Podgorny’s forthcoming visit
-US response to Soviet Union proposals

An unknown man entered and left at an unknown time.

Kissinger's plans
-Possible meetings with the Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Consultations
-Reaction to Podgorny trip to Hanoi
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to PRC
	-Podgorny’s trip

John B. Connally
	-Possible trip

Vietnam
-Bombing
-PRC reaction
-Press reactions
-Military

Kissinger’s meeting with Eisaku Sato
-Briefing for Rogers
-Takeo Fukuda
-Press conference

International Labor Organization [ILO]
-Kissinger’s memorandum
-Rogers’s memorandum
-Charles Colson
-George Meany

Rogers’s forthcoming trip
	-Austalia, New Zealand and the US [ANZUS]

Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing for Congressmen
-Gerard C. Smith
-Presence
-Forthcoming testimony

The President entered at 10:12 am.

Rogers
-Health
	-Lee Trevino

Rogers forthcoming trip to Asia
-Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO] meeting
-The President's earlier trip to Poland
-Yugoslavia
-SEATO
-Canberra
-Timing
-Congress
-Democratic National Convention
-Possible itinerary
-Indonesia
-Indochina
	-Cambodia
	-Laos
-Persian Gulf
-Bahrain
	-Iran
	-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
	-Spiro T. Agnew
	-Kuwait
-Romania And Yugoslavia
	-Request for Rogers
-Hungary
-Czechoslovakia
-Cyprus
-Ceylon
-Relations with India
-Visit by US officials
-The President's 1953 trip to Colombia
	-Compared to Switzerland
-Greece
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Turkey
-Political considerations
-SEATO
-Sir Alexander F. Douglas-Home
-ANZUS
-Indonesia	
	-Japanese
		-Sato
		-Takeo Fukuda

	Rogers forthcoming trip
	-Ceylon
	-US relations
		-Robert Strausz-Hupe
	-Afghanistan
	-Visit by Rogers
	-John B. Connally
		-Pakistan
		-Bangladesh
	-Shah
	-Persian Gulf
	-Romania and Yugoslavia
	-Soviet Union reactions
	-Visit by Rogers
	-Josip Broz Tito
	-Moscow
	-Gromyko
	-Paris
	-Yugoslavia
	-US relations
	-Romania
	-The President’s view
	-Nicolae Ceausescu
	-Tito
	-Age
	-Tito’s previous meeting with Brezhnev
	-Romania
	-Visit by Rogers
	-Greece
	-The President’s view
	-Agnew
	-NATO reactions to visit
	-Scandinavians
	-Importance to US
	-Political considerations
	-Romania
	-Domestic reactions by Romanian-Americans
		-Political considerations
			-Chicago
					-Pittsburgh
	-Spain
	-Portugal
		-Morocco
			-Political considerations
		-Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia
	-Domestic reactions
		-Rogers’s view
	-Korea
	-Talks with North Korea
	-Credit to the President
	-Taiwan
	-Possible problem
	-Amount of time
	-John S. D. Eisenhower
	-Singapore, Malaysia
	Middle East
	-Oil supplies
	-Bahrain
	-Kuwait
	-Connally, Agnew
	-Iran
	-Bahrain
	-Saudi Arabia
	-Port facilities
	-British reaction
	-Douglas-Home
	-Shah's reaction
-Itinerary
-Length
-Report to the President

The President's schedule
	-San Clemente
	-Congressional recess

Rogers speech at Commonwealth Club
-Press coverage
-Television

Possible speaking engagements for Rogers
	-Ethnic groups
-Reactions to Rogers's trip
-Chicago Execuritves Club
-Arrangements
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
		-Foreign relations councils
	-Rogers visit
	-Los Angeles
	-Town Hall
	-Advantages
		-Labor organizations
	-Colson
	-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
	-Building trades
	-Import for foreign policy
-American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
	-Rogers's appearance
-Ethnic groups
-Catholic groups

Personnel
-Ambassadorships
	-Blacks
-John E. Reinhardt
		-Nigeria
	-W. Beverly Carter, Jr.
		-Tanzania
	-Terrance A. Todman
	-Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr.
	-Liberia
	-Jerome H. Holland
	-Quality of appointments
	-Photograph sessions
		-Ceylon
		-Ambassadorship
		-Racial factors
		-Tamils
		-Black Ambassadors
	-Pakistan
	-Robert G. Neumann
	-Background
	-Afghanistan
	-Haldeman
	-University of Califorinia at Los Angeles [UCLA]
	-James R. Schlesinger
	-Rogers view
	-Background
	-Support for the President
		-1960
			-UCLA
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
	-Martin J. Hillenbrand
	-Ambassadorship to Poland
	-Possible representative to NATO
		David M. Kennedy
	-Qualifications
			-Advantages of appointment as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
				-European Security Conference
			-The President’s view
	-Hillenbrand
		-Ambassador to West Germany
	-Background
		-George C. McGee
	-Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy
	-The President's meeting with Hillenbrand

Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Forthcoming testimony to Congress
-Reservations
	-Potential problems
		-Re-negotiations
-Timing
	-Defense expenditures
-J. William Fulbright
-Melvin R. Laird
-Opposition
	-Defense budget
		-Trident submarines
		-Washington, DC anti-ballistic missile [ABM] site
-Administration position
	-B-1 bomber
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Talk with Kissinger
-George S. McGovern
	-Jackson’s view
	-Statement on Vietnam War
		-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Kissinger’s view
-John C. Stennis
	-Previous meeting with the President
		-Vietnam
-John L. McClellan

The President talked with the White House operator at 10:45 am.

[Conversation No. 733-3A]

[See Conversation No. 25-63]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's call to McClellan

	SALT
	-Jackson’s view
-Support for defense budget
-Clark MacGregor
-Michael J. Mansfield, J. William Fulbright
-Support for the President
	-Defense appropriations

	-Testimony before Congress
-Laird
-Negotiations with the Soviets
-The President's conversation with Stennis
		-Next round of SALT negotiations
		-Passage of SALT I
-Jackson
	-US military strength
		-The President’s view
	-Congressional limitations on defense budget
	-Weaponry
		-Philip A. Hart [?]
	-ABM
	-Future of US strength
		-Weapons systems
			-Undersea long-range missiles [ULMS]
			-B-I bomber
	-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
	-Laird
	-ABM
		-Malmstrom site
		-Gen. Royal B. Allison
		-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
		-Paul H. Nitze

The President talked with McClellan between 10:51 and 10:53 am.

[Conversation No. 733-3B]

[See Conversation No. 25-64]

Rogers talked with McClellan.

[See Conversation No. 25-64]

[End of telephone conversation]

	SALT
	-The President's talk with Republican leaders
	-Need for SALT
		-The President’s view
	-Laird's statement
		-Soviet Union
			-Missile defense system
			-Protection
			-PRC
		-Advantages
			-Technology development	
				-Defense costs
	-Defense budget
		-Opponents
	-Laird's testimony

Forthcoming negotiations with Soviet Union
-Resignation of Smith
-Replacement
-Qualities

Rogers's trip
-White House announcement
	-Itinerary
	-Meeting with the President

Rogers's testimony
-Smith
-Format
-Questions
-Laird and Moorer
-Smith’s role

Colson
-Signals to Rogers on television appearances
-Haldeman
-Role of Cabinet heads
-Richard G. Kleindienst

"Meet the Press"
-Rogers's appearance

The President's press conference
-Scheduling
	-Timing
	-Colson and John A. Scali
	-The President’s view
		-Foreign policy achievements
-Domestic issues
-Timing
-Relation to the President's trip to Soviet Union
-Content

The President's previous meeting with Brezhnev
-Vietnam
-Podgorny's trip to Hanoi
-Itinerary
-Proposals to Hanoi
-Secrecy of trip
-US hopes for trip

John D. Lavelle
-Actions
-Removal by Laird
-Testimony before Congress
-Effect
-Actions
	-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams. Jr.

Television appearances by Rogers
-Haldeman
-SALT
-Rogers's trip

"Issues and Answers"
-Compared with a press conference
-Quality of show
-Importance of show
-Press conference
-Colson

John N. Mitchell

Press conference
-Publicity

Rogers and Kissinger left at 11:07 am.

Conversation No. 733-4

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:07 and 11:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Discussion of case of John D. Lavelle

Conversation No. 733-5

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:07 and 11:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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

Conversation No. 733-6

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  11:15-11:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger 's previous talk with Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Dinner
-Remarks
-Humor
-Charles H. Percy

Clark MacGregor
-Mathias
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Kissinger's remarks
-Vietnam
-Response by audience
-The President's foreign policy

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Nikolai V. Podgorny’s trip to Hanoi
-India
	-Press reports
	-Calcutta
	-Aircraft
	-Soviet aviation
-Kissinger's call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

The President’s previous meeting with William P. Rogers
-Reasons for trip abroad
	-The President’s view
-Press conference
-Charles W. Colson
-"Issues and Answers"
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
	-“Issues and Answers”
	-Congressional testimony

Rogers's forthcoming trip
-Romania
	-Possible Soviet Union response
		-The President’s view
			-Leonid I. Brezhnev
		-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Dobrynin
			-Rogers trip
			-Greece
			-Brezhnev
			-The President
-Ceylon
-Behrain
-Iran
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-Oil
-John B. Connally
-Value of trip
-Greece
-Vietnam

Possible press conference by Rogers
-Colson

Rogers's itinerary
-Romania
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Convention
-Value of trip
-Travel around country
	-Commonwealth Club

Kissinger
-Public appearances
	-Forums
	-Television appearances
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Elite groups
		-Benefits

John D. Lavelle’s removal
-Melvin R. Laird
-Circumstances
-Air strikes
-Laird’s role
	-Kissinger’s view

Laird's performance
-Compared to Rogers's
	-Kissinger’s view
-Budget requests
-Kissinger, George P. Shultz
-Supplemental requests
-Military expenditures for Vietnam

Lavelle
-The President’s view
-Compared to Daniel Ellsberg case
-Military responses

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Air strikes
-Kissinger’s instructions
-US relationship with Soviet Union

Lavelle
-Administration action
-Replacement
	-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Timing of removal
-Laird
-Informing the President
	-Kissinger’s knowledge
-Public relations aspects
-Rogers
-Administration response
-Press response
	-Number of unauthorized air raids
-Public response

People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement
	-Press coverage
		-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

The President talked with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?] at an unknown time between 11:15 and 11:55 am.

[Conversation No. 733-6A]

	Ronald L. Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

PRC announcement
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Podgorny trip
-Publicity

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am.

Ziegler’s location
-Press briefing

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:55 am.

Lavelle
-Administration action
-Laird

Moorer
-Air strikes
	-Kissinger’s instructions
-Laird
-Opposition to the President
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Soviet Union
	-Podgorny’s trip
		-The President’s conversation with Brezhnev

Rogers
-Purpose of Podgorny trip

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Warren E. Burger
	-Letter

John C. Stennis

Laird
-Negotiations with Soviet Union
-Rogers
-Mining of North Vietnam harbors
-Cambodia, Laos
-Lavelle
-Political ambitions
	-Kissinger’s view

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Lavelle
-Haig
	-News summary

Kissinger's trip
-Schedule
-Departure
-Dinner for Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Schedule
-Echeverria
	-Kissinger

PRC
-Military information

SALT ratification
-Approval
	-Timing
		-Republican convention
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson's response
-The President’s concern
-Soviet Union responses
-Jackson's concerns
	-Defense appropriations
-Opposition
-George S. McGovern
-Jackson
-Opposition
-B-1 bomber
	-Undersea long-range missiles [ULMS]
-McGovern
-Kissinger’s possible responses
	-Defense appropriation
-Appropriations
	-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs]
-Relations with Soviet Union
-John J. McCloy
-Support to SALT and military program
-Wall Street Journal
-Talk with Kissinger
-Keisling (sp?) [New York editor]

Kissinger left at 11:55 am.

Conversation No. 733-7

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Luis Echeverria Alvarez's visit
-Head of State dinner
	-Astronauts
		-Gift
	-Entertainment
		-Pete Fountain

Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:58 am.

-Presidential gift
	-Timing
	-Astronauts

	-Timing
		-Entertainment
-Entertainment
	-Fountain

	The President’s schedule
		-Astronauts
		-Echeverria
		-Astronauts

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

	Head of State dinner for Echeverria
-The President's presence
-Charles W. Colson
-Astronauts' entrance
	-Logistics
-Guests
	-Family
	-White House staff
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Herbert G. Klein
	-Robert H. Finch
-Guest lists
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Maurice H. Stans
-Colson
-Harry S. Dent
-Harry S. Flemming
-Ann C. Whitman
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Mexican-Americans
-Future state dinners
	-The President’s view

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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:10 pm.

Press conference
-Nikolai V. Podgorny’s trip to Hanoi
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Moscow summit
-Agreement by both sides
-Importance
-Details of trip
-William P. Rogers
	-Trip to Asia
		-Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO]
		-Future announcement
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Tretaty [SALT]

Ziegler left at 12:12 pm.

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White House functions
-Dinners
-The President's view
-Fundraisers
	-Stans
-Political dinners
	-The President’s view
	-George S. McGovern supporters
	-The President's attitude
	-Woods’s view
	-Problems
		-Preparation
			-Speech
			-Television
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
		-Guest lists

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The President and Woods left at 12:26 pm.

Conversation No. 733-8

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  12:30-1:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

John D. Ehrlichman
-Controversy
-Television interview remarks in Los Angeles
	-Presidential press conferences

		-Ehrlichman’s response
	-Quality of reporters' questions
-The President's dealings with the press
-Format

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Press briefing
-Discussion with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Henry A. Kissinger's forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

Forthcoming Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] briefing
	-The President’s remarks
		-Television
			-Ziegler’s view
-Kissinger’s briefing
-The President’s remarks
	-Television
		-The President’s view
	-Length
	-Benefit
	-Television
-Photograph opportunity

Ehrlichman
-Domestic policy

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Press briefing
-Ziegler
-The President's schedule
-Press conference
	-Domestic policy
	-Timing
-Kissinger’s trip to Peking
-Subjects for possible press conference
-Domestic issues
-Foreign issues
-Vietnam

Haldeman left at 1:02 pm.

Conversation No. 733-9

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:53 and 2:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
	-Warren E. Burger

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 733-10

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  2:54-3:59 pm

Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Warren E. Burger.

Greetings

Work of Supreme Court
-John N. Mitchell
-Case load
-Work of Chief Justice
-Court executives
-Chief Justice
	-Legislation
		-Personnel
		-Reorganization of circuit courts

Burger's children
-Employment
-Item for the President’s signature

Earl Warren
-Age
-Travel

Item for the President’s signature
	-Wade Burger

Photograph
-J. Lee Rankin
-Fred Vinson
-Rankin
-Herbert Brownell

Vinson
-Capabilities
-Conversation with Burger
-Mitchell
-Age

Supreme Court Justices
	-Age
	-Harry A. Blackmun
		-Health
	-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
	-Health
	-Performance

Wade Burger
-Photographs
	-The President’s signature
	-Burger’s appointment announcement
	-Elvera Burger
		-The President’s signature

Weather

Burger's exercise
-Walking
-Golf
-Tennis
-Swimming
	-Gym at Supreme Court 
		-Swimming

Congress
-Strom Thurmond
	-Exercise
-Allen J. Ellender
-Health
	-Exercise
	-Appearance
	-John L. McClellan
	-Judiciary committee
	-James O. Eastland
	-Work with Burger
-Burger
	-Judiciary committee
		-McClellan, Eastland, and Roman L. Hruska
-Eastland
	-The President’s view

Burger's possible trip to Japan
-Invitation
-Value
-Japanese
	-The President’s view
-Timing
-Burger's schedule
American Bar Association [ABA] convention
-Warren
-Leon Jaworski
-Robert Meserve
-Burger's activities
-Powell

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Refreshments

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Supreme Court Justices
	-William H. Rehnquist
		-Forthcoming speech to state Chief Justices
			-Burger
	-Powell
		-Schedule
	-Public appearance
		-Rehnquist
		-Blackmun
		-Hugo L. Black
		-John M. Harlan
		-William O. Douglas
		-William J. Brennan, Jr.
			-Wife
		-Thurgood Marshall
		-Powell
		-Potter Stewart
			-Byron R. (“Whizzer”) White

Supreme Court
-Importance
	-The President’s view
-Changes
-Appointments

Book by Irving Kristol
-On Democracy in America
-Domestic issues

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Kristol book

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Kristol
-Disenchantment with liberalism
-Domestic issues
-Chapter on censorship
-Burger

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	Kristol’s book

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Kristol’s book
	-Burger
		-Clerks
	-The President’s view

Reading by Burger
-Philadelphia Constitutional Convention
	-Use in opinion
	-Dictated section

Dictation system
-Purpose
-Typing

Secretaries at Supreme Court
-Sherman Adams
	-Mary Byrnes
	-Joseph H. Ball

The President's reading
-Winston S. Churchill
-Quality of writing
-Dictation
-Details
-Diary

Memoranda
-Record of conversations
-Leonid I. Brezhnev, Chou En-Lai
	-Henry A. Kissinger’s role
-Vignettes
-Interest
	-The President’s view

Burger's nomination as Chief Justice
-Recollections
-Mitchell
-Brownell
-Tax returns
-Burger's income
-Conversation with Mitchell
	-Acceptance
	-Brownell
-Eastland
-Meeting with Mitchell
-Public announcement
-Burger’s recollections
-Family response
-Elvera Burger
-Wade Burger
-Meeting with the President
-Record of meeting
	-Announcement

Appointment of Burger
-Experience
-Warren
-Experience
-Black
	-The President’s recollections
-Abe Fortas
-The President’s view
-Burger’s views
-Black
-First Amendment
-Privacy
-Support for Burger
-Testimonial dinner
	-Press reports

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Testimonial dinner for Black
-Black’s comments
	-Endorsement for Burger

Future Supreme Court appointments
-Vacancies
	-The President’s concern
	-Qualifications
		-Burger
-Names for vacancies
-Rehnquist
-The President’s view
	-Role
-Mitchell
-G. Harrold Carswell
-The President’s view
-Clement F. Haynesworth

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The President's acknowledgement

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Future Supreme Court appointments
	-The President’s policy
		-Black appointment
		-Jewish appointment
		-Caspar W. Weinburger
		-White House staff
		-Arthur F. Burns
			-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
		-Kissinger
		-Herbert Stein
		-Edward Levy
		-Background
			-University of Chicago 
-William H. Brown III
	-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC]
-The President’s view
-Possible meeting with Burger
-Duke Power Supreme Court decision
	-EEOC case
-Brown
-William French Smith
	-University of California Board of Regents
		-Mitchell’s previous conversation with Burger
		-The President’s view
			-Smith’s background
			-Age

Administration appointments
-The President’s view
-Ivy League
-Middle America
-Geographic areas

Douglas
-Possible retirement
-Age
-Western background
-Regional identification
-Education

Attacks on Supreme Court
-Liberal press
-National Observer
-Wall Street Journal
-[Forename unknown] Perry
-Woman reporter’s column
	-Douglas
	-Burger
-Liberal press
	-Criminal law
		-Burger’s view
		-The President’s view

Kristol

Decisions of Supreme Court
-Trends
-Right of counsel
-Press accounts
-ABA recommendations
-Douglas
	-Dissent
	-Rehnquist and Powell
-Burger
-Capital punishment case
	-Forthcoming ruling
	-The President’s view

Liberal press
-Reaction by Powell
-Rehnquist and Blackmun
-The President's relation with justices

New Supreme Court justices
-Effects of Washington social climate
	-The President’s advice
		-Rehnquist
		-Burger, Blackmun
	-The President’s view
		-Congress
	-John Sherman Cooper
	-Effect
		-Vote on Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Burger
-Powell
-Rehnquist
-Blackmun
-Stewart
-White
	-Burger’s view
-Possible successor to Burger
	-White
		-Burger’s view
	-Blackmun
	-Powell
	-Rehnquist
	-White
		-Burger’s view
		-Background
		-Support for Burger

White House dinner for Supreme Court Justices
-Timing
-Guest list
-Confidence of citizenry in judiciary
-The President’s view
-John B. Connally's opinion
-Warren court

Issues before Supreme Court
	-Busing
		-Cases
		-The President’s view
-Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case
-Press depiction
	-Burger’s view
-Busing limits
-Restraining order
	-Burger
-Effect
-Detroit judge [Stephen Roth]
-Robert P. Griffin
-Gerald R. Ford

Judges
-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Political appointments

	Supreme Court decision on private clubs
-American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]
	-Rights to privacy
	-Jewish clubs
	-Restrictions
	-The President’s view
-Opposition on club restrictions
-Breakdown of restrictions
-Fitz Weiner (sp?)
	-Legal arguments
-Private clubs
	-Blacks
		-The President’s view
	-Burger’s view
	-Restrictions
-Professional organizations
	-Jewish and Catholic support
-Moose Lodge

	No-fault insurance
-The President’s policy
-Opposition
-Cost of litigation
-Christian Science Monitor
-Costs of inquiry
-Litigation
-Workman's compensation

Lord Chief Justice of England
-Burger's house guest
-Possible visit to White House
-Trip to San Francisco
-Powell
-Qualities, philosophy
-New York Times
-Opposition to philosophy

New York Times and Washington Post, Time, Newsweek
-Opposition to the President and Burger
	-The President’s view

The Right Honorable Lord John Passmore Widgery
-Background
	-World War II
	-Appointment
-Friendship with Burger
-Burger's lecture trip to England
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Visit to the White House
-Arrangements
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Kissinger

The President's opening to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Impact
	-Burger’s view
-Importance
-Soviet Union

World future
-Burger’s predictions
-Merger of Catholic and non-Catholic worlds
-Convergence of Communist and non-communist worlds
-The President's efforts

Nation's mood
-1972 election
-Thomas E. Dewey
-George S. McGovern
-Strengths
-Weaknesses
-Hubert H. Humphrey

Burger left at 3:59 pm.

Conversation No. 733-11

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:59 and 4:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Weather

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The President’s schedule
	-Clark MacGregor

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Conversation No. 733-12/734-1

Date:  June 14, 1972
Time:  4:02-6:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Clark MacGregor.

	Forthcoming Congressional briefing on the Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Attendees
-Format
-The President's opening statement
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Questions
-MacGregor
-Moderator
	-Foreign Relations Committee
	-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] Treaty
	-Questions
	-J. William Fulbright
	-Questioning by Committee
	-Format
	-Moderator role
		-Identifying speakers
	-Fulbright
	-George D. Aiken
	-House Foreign Affairs Committee
		-William S. Maillard
	-John C. Stennis
	-Chairmen and ranking members
	-Fulbright
	-Thomas C. Korologos, MacGregor
	-Kissinger

Fulbright
-Support for SALT
-John L. McClellan
-Primary in Arkansas
	-David Pryor
		-McClellan

	-The President's call to McClellan
		-William P. Rogers

Congressional briefing on SALT
-Kissinger
	-Statement
-Starting time
	-The President’s meeting with Luis Echeverria Alverez
		-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Length
-Breaks
-Importance
-Kissinger’s role
-Melvin R. Laird, Rogers
-Kissinger
-Knowledge of issues
-Transcript
	-Effect on forthcoming Congressional testimony
-The President's opening statement
-Substance of the President's remarks
-Kissinger’s role
-Congressional reactions to Kissinger
-Department of  State
-Department of Defense
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-Gerard C. Smith
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Richard M. Helms
-Importance of National Security Council [NSC]
-White House control
-Smith
	-Rogers
	-Interest
	-Kissinger

	Testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee
		-Fulbright
		-Rogers and Smith
		-Laird
			-Schedule
			-Karl Marcy
		-Laird
		-Stennis

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:02 and 4:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 733-12A]

	Forthcoming meeting with the President

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger
-Japan
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Kissinger entered at 4:13 pm.

Laird's testimony before Stennis's committee
-Fulbright’s committee
	-Marcy
	-Rogers's testimony
	-Timing

Kissinger's Congressional briefing
-Laird's and Rogers's testimony
-Advantages
-Coordination
-Problems
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Fulbright

Senate schedule
-Robert P. Griffin
-Treaty approval

Testimony before Congress
-Laird and Rogers
-MacGregor
-Work with Congress
-Laird
-Role
-Soviet Union
-Position

Kissinger's forthcoming trip
-Schedule
-Effect on SALT
-Acapulco
-Echeverria
	-Meeting with the President
-MacGregor
-The President’s recollections

Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Predecessor
	-Jamaica
		-Possible visit by the President
	-Beauty

Testimony before Congress
-Laird and Rogers

Forthcoming congressional briefing on SALT
-Format
	-MacGregor
	-Congressional questions
		-Order of questions
-The President’s opening remarks
	-Kissinger’s role
-Substance
-Kissinger's role in negotiations
-Length
-Recess
	-Arrival ceremony for Echeverria
	-Timing
	-Fulbright
	-Aiken
-Kissinger's remarks
	-Length
	-Time for questions

Kissinger left at 4:23 pm.

		-Length
		-Importance
		-Questions
			-Congress

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Forthcoming Congressional briefing on SALT
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Chairs

Haldeman entered at 4:25 pm.

-The President’s view
-Stephen B. Bull
-Selection
-Location
-State Dining Room compared with the East Room
	-Head of State dinner
	-The President’s view
-Staff
-Rex W. Scouten

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Legislation
-John H. Dent
-Support for the President on black lung bill
	-Pennsylvania
	-Kentucky
	-Ohio
	-New Jersey

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Amnesty
-Administration policy
-George S. McGovern
-The President’s statements
-Canada
-Service

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Amnesty
-The President's position
-Widows
-Veterans
-Alternative service
-Motives of draft resisters
-Number of resisters

[Conversation No. 733-12/734-1 continues on Tape Subject Log 734]