Conversation No. 739-1

Date:  June 21, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:05 and 9:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-95]

Conversation No. 739-2

Date:  June 21, 1972
Time:  9:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-96]

Conversation No. 739-3

Date:  June 21, 1972
Time:  9:23 - 9:25 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Louie Welch.

[See Conversation No. 25-97; one item has been withdrawn]

Conversation No. 739-4

Date:  June 21, 1972
Time:  9:30 - 10:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. Haldeman.

The President's schedule
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz
-Schedule

Economic indicators
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Food prices
-Price Commission meeting
				-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Debt ceiling bill
-Frank F. Church
-Social Security
-Russell B. Long
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Timing of vote in Senate
-William P. Rogers, Clark MacGregor
-Robert W. Packwood, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-Timing of vote

	Watergate break-in
-Staff meeting
-Haldeman's conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Role in Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-Mitchell's knowledge
-Charles W. Colson
-White House consultant
-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
-Colson's involvement
-Other involvement
-Need for strategy
-Ehrlichman
-Civil suit
-Depositions
-Liddy
-Summary judgement
-White House involvement
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Colson
-Bay of Pigs
-Colson's projects
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Dita D. Beard
-Disappearance
-White House strategy
-Ehrlichman
-Admission of guilt
-Implications by press
-Dan Rather
-Republicans
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-White House staff reaction
-Colson's conversation with the President
-Jack N. Anderson's commentary
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
-Republican convention arrangements
-Miami, Florida
-Cubans
-Hunt
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Hiring 
-Hunt
-Cubans
-Plans to bug McGovern headquarters
-Doral Hotel
-Republican National Committee
-Colson
-Washington Post story
-Hunt, Colson
-Five burglars
-Lawyer
-Liddy
-Colson
-Defense by administration
-Activities
-As an issue
-Nationally
-Washington
-Liddy
-White House strategy
-Tom C. Huston
-Nathan Hale
-Admission of guilt
-White House reaction
-Burglary 
-Sentencing
-Mitchell
-Involvement
-Ehrlichman
-Liddy
-Hunt
-Disappearance
-Cubans
-FBI
-Names in notebooks
-Policemen and FBI agents
-Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
-Lawsuit
-Edward Bennett Williams
-Depositions
-Ehrlichman
-Gray
-Colson
-Hunt
-Depositions
-Liddy
-Mitchell
-Democrats' reaction
-Ehrlichman's strategy for White House

The President's schedule
-Press meeting
-McGovern
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Watergate break-in
-Economic Quadriad meeting
-Shultz
-Nelson A. Rockefeller, James L. Buckley, Jacob K. Javits, John A. Volpe
		-Rapid Transit grant to New York City
-Mitchell

Watergate
-Colson
-Democrats
-Operations against the President
-Reaction
-Colson, Hunt

The President's schedule
-Press meeting
	-The President’s view
-Primary results
-McGovern
-Bella S. Abzug
-Emanuel Celler
-Allard K. Lowenstein
-Reasons for defeat in primary
-Republicans
-John J. Rhodes
	-Press
-Charles W. Colson
-Abzug
	-Impeachment efforts

Common Cause
-Suit
			-Impeachment efforts
			-Campaign efforts
Colson

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.

	Request to meet with Colson

The unknown person left at a unknown time before 10:12 am.

The President's schedule
-Economic meeting
-Quadriad
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
	-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Rumsfeld
			-National economy
		-Herbert Stein
		-Unemployment
		-Food prices
		-Employment
			-Haldeman’s view

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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:12 am.

Charles Colson entered at 10:13 am.

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Butterfield left at unknown time after 10:13 am.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:13 and 10:22 am.

[Conversation No. 739-4A]

[See Conversation No. 25-98]

[End of telephone conversation]

John J. Rooney

	Rockefeller

Lowenstein

	Watergate break-in
-Washington Post story
-Anderson's commentary
-Rebozo
-Libel
-Jim Shertz (sp?)
-White House strategy
-Democrats
-Hunt
-Civil suit
-Mitchell
-Lawyer for burglars
-Mitchell
-Williams
-Ehrlichman
-Liddy
-Shertz (sp?)
-Hunt's activities
-Media coverage
-Washington Post
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]

The President talked with the White House operator at 10:22 am.

[Conversation No. 739-4B]

[See Conversation No. 25-99]

[End of telephone conversation]

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	Watergate break-in
-White House involvement
-Ziegler
-Credibility
-Ehrlichman
-Vietnam
-Civil rights
-As an issue
-National reaction
-ITT
-Repression, bugging
-Espionage
-Industrial, international, political
-White House involvement

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	Watergate break-in
-White House strategy
-Haldeman
-Liddy
-ITT
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Colson's involvement
-As an issue
-Grand Jury
-Hunt
-Democrats 
-Convention
-The President's role
-Robert J. Dole
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Colson
-Television coverage
-Civil suit
-Hunt
-Career
-Role
-Conversation with Colson
-Bay of Pigs
-Novels

Colson left at an unknown time after 10:22 am.

The President's schedule
-Quadriad
	-Schultz
	-Burns
-Reports on trips
	-Burns
-Connally
-Flanigan
-Burns
-Cabinet meetings

Haldeman left at 10:38 am.

Conversation No. 739-5

Date:  June 21, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:38 and 10:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Stephen B. Bull

The President's schedule

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

Conversation No. 739-6

Date:  June 21, 1972
Time:  10:40 am - 12:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz, Arthur F. Burns, Caspar W. Weinberger, and Herbert Stein.

[Members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting]

Greetings

Arrangement for photograph

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s office

Haig
-Instructions from the President
-John B. Connally's conversations
-Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici 

National economy

Edward R. G. Heath
	-House of Commons
		-Currency problems
			-Burns’s view
	-Anthony P. L. Barber

The President talked with John J. Rooney between 10:44 and 10:45 am.

[Conversation No. 739-6A]

[See Conversation No. 25-100; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Heath

US economy
	-Status
-George Meany's visit
	-Previous visit to Great Britain
		-Heath
-National economy
-Economic indicators
	-Stein’s report
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Rate of expansion
-Effect on unemployment in 1972
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Food
-Used cars
-Beef prices
-Cattle prices
-Labor
-Unemployment
-Administration policy
	-Effect
-The President's experience in 1960
-Food prices
-Leasing bill
-Construction of government buildings
	-Private companies
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Wall Street Journal article
-Military
-Vietnam
	-Troop withdrawal
-Procurement
-Retirements
-Lay-off rate
-Teenagers, part-time workers
-Manpower funding through September 1972
-Employment without inflation or war
-Real spendable weekly earnings
-Rate of increase per year
-1960-1970
-Current
-Effects of the President's economic policy
-Hourly rate increases
-The President's economic policy
-Restraint on prices
-Weinberger’s speeches
	-Structure of unemployment
	-Income levels
		-Effect
	-Business leaders
		-Peter M. Flanigan
-Effect of George S. McGovern's program
	-Business leaders
	-Taxes
-Inflation
	-Increasing price of wheat
-Wage guidelines
	-Effect on profits
	-Burns’s view 
-Consumer prices
-Profit margins
-Effect on economic recovery
	-Burns’s view
		-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.
-Freeze on meat prices
	-Timing
-Hog market's cycle
	-Burns’s view
-Import quotas
	-Shultz’s view
	-State Department
-Wholesale prices in US
-Weinberger’s view
			-Quotas 
				-Textiles and oil
					-Iraq and Alaska
					-State Department
			-Price freezes
-Statistics
-Chain stores
	-Connally
-Winn-Dixie grocery store
-Food distribution
	-McGovern’s plan
		-Anti-trust action
-Instructions for Burns
-John N. Mitchell
-Charles W. Colson
-Quotas
-Meat prices
	-Possible administration action
-Retail chain stores
-Military stockpile
-Rises
	-Stein’s view
		-CPI
-Marina von N. Whitman
	-Briefing
-Chain store margins
-Instructions for Burns
-Mitchell
-Memorandum for the President
	-Price freeze
-Profit margins
	-Shultz’s view
		-Business leaders’ possible reaction
			-Price freeze
	-The President’s view
-Environment
		-Legislative action
-Higher education bill
-Clean Water bill
-Child care bill
-Rural affairs bill
		-Administration actions
-Meany
-Colson
	-Louis P. Harris
		-Foreign policy
		-Domestic policy
-Connally
	-Business
-Environment
	-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Tax reform
-Anti-trust efforts
-Quotas
	-Meatpackers
-Cattle growers
	-McGovern’s policies
-Effects of price freeze on economic growth
	-Political contributions
-Administration's actions in fighting Congressional
 legislation
-Removal of controls
	-Staff views
-The President's schedule
-H.R. Haldeman
-California
-Time and location of next Quadriad meeting
	-Camp David
		-Laurel Cabin
-Colson, John D. Ehrlichman

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The President's schedule
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Photograph opportunity
-John A. Volpe

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 10:45 am.

-Rockefeller’s arrival

The unknown women left at 11:56 am.

Stein and Weinberger left at 11:56 am.

Burns's schedule
-Meetings during forthcoming foreign trip
	-Finance ministers
	-Central bankers
-Haig
-Medici, Juan Velasco Alvarado, Venezuela
-Background notes from Connally's trip
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Instructions from the President
	-Velasco
-Public aid
-Medici
-The President's conversation with Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Private capital
	-Example of Chile
-Requirements
-Competition from other areas of the world
	-Southeast Asia
		-Indonesia
-Latin America
	-The President’s view
-Need for stability
	-Economic policy
-Brazil
	-Medici
	-Government
-Argentina
-Peru
-Venezuela
-Marcos Perez-Jimenez
-Iraq
-Need for stability
-Chile
-State Department
-Protectionism in US
-Congress
-The President
-Trade preferences
-Connally's trip
-Latin Americans
	-The President’s view 
-Argentina
-Juan Domingo Peron
-Pre-World War II economic strength
	-Italy
	-Czechoslovakia
	-Peron
-Economic strength
-Racial mix
-Allejandro A. Lanusse
-Vernon A. Walters
	-Meeting with Burns
-Experience
	-Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration
		-Translation

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	BRAZIL

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			-Medici
			-The President’s view
-Argentina
-Meat exports
-Capabilities
	-Meat quotas
		-Burns’s discussions with Argentinians
		-Compared to Uruguay
		-Kissinger
	-Administration policy

Jewish people
-Support for Republicans
	-Burns’s view
		-McGovern
			-Israel
		-Israel
			-Administration policy
				-The President’s actions
				-Burns’s statements
-Jewish emigration from Soviet Union
	-Importance to Jews
-William P. Rogers
-The President's discussions with Leonid I. Brezhnev
	-Burns’s statements
-McGovern's defense program
-Effect on Israel
-Effect on foreign policy
-John Foster Dulles
-Eisenhower
	-Korea
-Balance of military power
	-Importance of arms negotiations
-Compared with the President’s policy
-Effect on Israel
-Yithak Rabin
-US liberals
-Support for Republicans
-Spiro T. Agnew
		-The President’s policy
-Israel
-Phantom fighter jets
-Soviet Union intervention
	-Surface-to-air missile [SAM] sites
		-United Arab Republic [UAR]
-Importance of US President
-Nixon compared with McGovern
	-Brezhnev
			-The President’s view
				-Israel
					-Soviet Union
				-Comparison to mining of Haiphong harbor
				-Burns’s statements
					-Israel
					-Soviet Union
						-Vietnam
			-Catholic issue
-John F. Kennedy

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:26 and 12:28 pm.

[Conversation No. 739-6B]

[See Conversation No. 25-101]

[End of telephone conversation]

US foreign policy
-Effect of world situation
	-Great Britain
	-France
-Winston S. Churchill
-US role in World

The President talked with Walters between 12:28 and 12:29 pm.

[Conversation No. 739-6C]

[See Conversation No. 25-102]

[End of telephone conversation]

Walters
		-Linguistic ability
			-Translation in Eisenhower Administration

President's schedule

Burns and Shultz left at 12:30 pm.

Conversation No. 739-7

Date:  June 21, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 and 12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-103]

[End of telephone conversation]

Zosimo T. Monzon entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.

Tobacco
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Additional purchases

Monzon left before 12:33 pm.

Conversation No. 739-8

Date:  June 21, 1972
Time:  12:33-12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 25-104; one item has been withdrawn]

Conversation No. 739-9

Date:  June 21, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 and 12:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Nelson A. Rockefeller

The President talked with the White House operator.

[Conversation No. 739-9A]
	
	Cancellation of telephone call

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:38 pm.

Conversation No. 739-10

Date:  June 21, 1972
Time:  12:38-1:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Nelson A. Rockefeller, John A. Volpe, Jacob K. Javits, James L. Buckley, John D. Ehrlichman, William L. Gifford, William A. Ronan, and Alexander P. Butterfield.

[Members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of this meeting]

Greetings

Mass transit grant in New York

Bond issue

Mass transit grant
-Purchase of new subway cars
-New York City transit
	-Compared to Moscow transit system
-Need for leadership
	-John V. Lindsay
	-Ronan
	-Business community

The President's previous conversation with Arthur F. Burns
-Burns's trip
	-Importance of leadership
-Relation of political stability to capital investment
-Cuba
-Fidel Castro
-Chile
-Stability
	-Effect on investment
-Brazil
	-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-The President’s previous conversation with Luis Echeverria Alvarez

Grumman aircraft
-F-14 fighter plane
-Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
-Contract re-negotiation
-Space shuttle
-Number of jobs in New York and California
-McDonnell-Douglas
-F-14 contract re-negotiation
	-Zumwalt
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-James C. Fletcher
-Financial condition
-Lockheed
-Space shuttle
	-Funding
-Ghettos
-Employment
-Cooperation with Soviet Union
-The President’s view
	-F-14 production
	-McDonnell-Douglas
	-Procurement
		-F-14s
-Israel
	-Possible purchase

The President's previous conversation with Burns
-Israel
-Acquisition of arms
-Soviet intervention
-Role of US President
	-US policy
		-Defense policy
		-Military forces
-Jordan crisis
	-US actions
			-US policy
				-Summit conferences
					-Reasoning
					-Chou En-Lai
					-Leonid I. Brezhnev
					-Will of the US
						-US interests
							-Burundi
							-Middle East
							-Europe							
							-Japan

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	Defense budget
		-Congress
			-People's Republic of China [PRC] and the Soviet Union
		-Importance of strength
			-Volpe’s trip to Soviet Union
			-Catholic church

	Rockefeller’s role in New York City
		-Lindsay [?]

Rockefeller, Javits, Buckley, Gifford, and Ronan left at 1:08 pm.

John A. Volpe, Jr. entered at 1:08 pm.

Greetings

Presentation of gifts by the President

Rockefeller

Volpe and Volpe, Jr. left at 1:10 pm.

Ehrlichman's conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-Welfare reform
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
		-House Resolution [HR] 1
		-Higher Education bill

The President left at an unknown time after 1:10 pm.

Ehrlichman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:10 and 1:22 pm.

[Conversation No. 739-10A]

Ehrlichman's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time before 1:22pm.

Ehrlichman's conversation with Richardson
-Higher education bill
	-Possible veto
		-Busing
		-Stephen J. Roth decision

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 1:22pm.

	Refreshments
		-Ehrlichman’s schedule

	Ehrlichman’s conversation with Richardson
		-Higher education bill
-Possible veto
-Irving Kristol's book
-Warren E. Burger
			-Education
				-The President
-George S. McGovern
-The President's conversation with Caspar W. Weinberger
-Other veto possibilities
-Higher education
	-Richardson
	-As an industry

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Busing
	-Robert P. Griffin
-Richard G. Valeriani

Richardson
-Welfare reform

Ehrlichman left at 1:22 pm.

Conversation No. 739-11

Date:  June 21, 1972
Time:  1:24 - 3:11
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. Haldeman.

The President's earlier meeting with Nelson A. Rockefeller, James L. Buckley and John A. Volpe
-Jacob K. Javits

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Watergate
-Jack N. Anderson's commentary
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
-White House reply

The President's schedule
	-California
		-Rebozo
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
		-Chicago event
-Rebozo and Robert H. Abplanalp
	-Accommodations

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The President's schedule
-Camp David
	-Timing
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Economic meeting
-Documentary film on the President
	-The President's daily schedule
	-Footage
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
	-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Footage
-Time allotment
-Photographer from Ladies Home Journal
-The President’s view
	-1968 campaign experience
-Quadriad meeting

Parochial school aid
-John D. Ehrlichman

White House staff
-Writers
-Aram Bakshian
-Background
	-Haldeman’s view
-William E. Brock, III
-Experience in Washington, DC
-Robert J. Dole
-Writing experience
-Rodney C. Campbell
-Hugh Morrow
-Rockefeller
-Kissinger
-Background
	-Experience
-Compared to Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Winston Lord and Kissinger
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Ronald L. Ziegler

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Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
	-Staff
		-Political philosophy
-William D. Ruckelshaus

Richard Wilson
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Book on the President's meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Materials needed
	-National Security Council [NSC]
-Cooperation by the President
-Timing of book
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view

The President's relations with the press
-Interviews
-Wire services
-US News and World Report
-Readers Digest
-Theodore H. White
-Methods
-The Making of a President 1960
	-Effects of book on 1972 election
				-Image of John F. Kennedy
			-The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	
	Watergate break-in
-John N. Mitchell
-Charles W. Colson
-Role
-George S. McGovern

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-Maurice H. Stans
-Contributors
-McGovern's expenses in primaries
-Watergate
-Administration's public response
-Ehrlichman and International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Mitchell
-Clark MacGregor
-Colson

Ziegler

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:24 and 2:11pm.

[Conversation No. 739-11A]

	Forthcoming meeting with Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

The President left and re-entered at an unknown time between 1:24 and 2:11pm.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:24 and 2:11 pm.

[Conversation No. 739-11B]

[See Conversation No. 25-105]

[End of telephone conversation]

Weather in Washington

The President talked with Colson between 2:11 and 2:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 739-11C]

[See Conversation No. 25-106; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:15 pm.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 2:15 pm.

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The President's forthcoming press conference
-Topics 
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam
	-Troop withdrawal
		-Timing
-Domestic issues
	-Vietnam
	-Kissinger
	-Future press conferences
		-Foreign policy
	-Legislation
-Vietnam
	-Melvin R. Laird
-Press focus

Public relations
	-The President’s prime time television appearances
		-Vietnam
		-Busing speech
		-The President’s trip to the PRC
		-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
		-State of the Union
-American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Coverage of trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Network time allotment
		-Prayer breakfast
		-Arrival of Luis Echeverria Alvarez
		-Swearing-in ceremonies
		-Question and answer sessions
			-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John B. Connally's Texas ranch
-Role of press
-Representation of American people
	-Ziegler’s view
		-Press conferences
			-The President’s view
			-Dan Rather interview
			-State of Union
			-Presidential trips
				-PRC and Soviet Union
-Television coverage of the President's trips
-Comparison
-Lyndon B. Johnson trips
-Kennedy trips
-Effect of television
		-Future press conference
	-The President's response to questions
		-Vietnam
-Political issues
	-Effect of television
	-The President’s view
	-Possible responses
-McGovern
	-Welfare reform
-The President's programs
-The President's press conference compared to Johnson’s and Kennedy's
		-Press conference
			-Length
-Watergate break-in
-Press coverage
	-Possible comments
-Pulitzer Prize
	-New York Times
		-Pentagon Papers comparison
-Network coverage
	-The President's forthcoming press conference
		-The President’s comments
			-Ziegler’s view
				-Mitchell
				-Investigation

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Revenue sharing bill
-House vote
-Senate

Rockefeller
-Statement on meeting with the President

Press
-Connally
-Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Connally
-Questions
-The President’s treatment of press
-Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Feelings toward the President
-Questioning in briefings and press conferences
-Coverage of the President's trips
-Reporting 
-Advocacy
	-The President’s view
-Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]
-Chou En-Lai
-Feelings toward the President
-Six Crises
-The President's reaction
	-Laos
	-Cambodia
	-Demonstrations
-News summaries
		-Kennedy
-Eisenhower, Johnson, the President
-Concerns about press reporting
		-Reporting
			-Effect on Administration policy
			-The President’s view
-Biases
-The President’s view
-Policies
-Johnson
-Relations with press
-Respect for the President
-Attitude toward McGovern
-Sander Vanocur
-Predilections of press
-Paul L. Martin
		-Compared to Kennedy
	-Jim Doyle (Washington Star)
	-Marty Knowland (Boston Globe)
	-Raymond W. Apple (New York Times)
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr., Robert B. Semple, Jr., [First name unknown] Fulsom
-Wire services
-Forrest Boyd
-Peter Lisagor, Hugh S. Sidey, George Sherman
-Ziegler’s view
-Television coverage
	-Martin Z. Agronsky show
-Sidey 
	-Ziegler’s view
-Agnew, Reagan
-Relations with the President

The President, Haldeman, and Ziegler left at 3:11 pm.