Conversation No. 503-1

Date: May 21, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:13 am and 9:25 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman; the recording begins while the conversation is
in progress.

     President's schedule
          -Unknown group
                 -Agenda
                 -President's dinner plans

     Events
          -Press
               -Cameras
                     -Presence at recent event
          -School event
          -Photo opportunities
               -Press
               -School event
               -White House photographer
               -Mary Brooks [?]
          -Tulane alumni dinner, May 20, 1971
               -Press coverage
               -Melvin R. Laird
               -Attendees
                     -F. Edward Hébert
                     -Graduate of Tulane University
               -President’s statement
               -Press coverage
               -Army Band
                     -”Hail to the Chief”
                     -Comments from a member of the audience

     Press
             -Handling
                 -White House press pool
                       -Bob Belini [sp?]
                            -Stories
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     Hébert and [Thomas] Hale Boggs
         -Louisiana

     Southern California
          -[Forename unknown] Greenway [?]

     Louisiana
          -Unknown person                                          Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
               -Football

     Unknown person

     News summary
         -Unknown person
             -Follow-up

     Unknown office
         -Staff
               -Girls

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 8:13 am.


     International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium [INTELSAT]
           -President's meeting with INTELSAT conference May 21, 1971
                 -Time
                 -Location
                 -Length of meeting
                 -Signing ceremony
                 -U. Alexis Johnson
                 -William P. Rogers
                 -Timing
                 -Press
                       -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                       -Camera coverage
                 -Length and timing of President's appearance
                 -Signing ceremony
                 -Possible Presidential remarks
                       -Length of INTELSAT conference
                             -International communications
                             -Reason for making remarks
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     SALT agreement
     Tulane alumni dinner
          -Howard K. Smith
          -President's visit to the dinner
          -Dinner honoring
                -Hébert
                -Boggs
                -Allen J. Ellender                              Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
          -Time of President's visit
          -Surprise visit

     INTELSAT Conference meeting, May 21, 1971
         -Johnson
         -Time of President's visit to INTELSAT Conference

     President's schedule, May 21, 1971
          -Meeting with SALT delegation
          -Meeting with the National Medal of Science winners
                 -Awarding medals
                       -Photo opportunity
                       -Academia
          -INTELSAT Conference meeting
                 -State Department
          -Meeting with the National Medal of Science winners
                 -Reception
          -INTELSAT
                 -Johnson

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 8:43 am.

     Tulane alumni Dinner, May 20, 1971
          -Press coverage
               -Louisiana
               -President's remarks
               -Band
                     -"Hail to the Chief"

     Executive staff
          -Election
          -Assistant Secretaries
          -Frederic V. Malek
          -John B. Connally
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         -John A. Volpe, George W. Romney
              -Assistant Secretaries
         -Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower
              -Their executive staffs
         -Old Executive Office Building [EOB]


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                                                           Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)

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    Discrimination
         -Busing in Texas
         -Unknown person in Texas
         -Court order
         -Justice Department
               -John N. Mitchell
         -Schools
               -Percentage of blacks
         -Jury
         -Pasadena, California
         -Quotas
         -Busing
         -Civil Rights Commission
               -Rev. Theodore S. Hesburgh
               -John D. Ehrlichman
               -White House strategy
         -Court order

    White House staff
         -Meetings
             -George P. Shultz
             -Ehrlichman
             -Haldeman
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                -Kissinger
                -Staff meetings in the morning
                      -Events in Congress
                      -News stories
                      -Executive Departments


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                                                           Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)

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     Unknown man and the press

     Cabinet and staff
          -Romney
          -James D. Hodgson
          -Leadership qualities
          -Shultz
                -Treasury
                      -Shultz compared to David M. Kennedy
          -Shultz
          -Peter N. Flanigan
          -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
          -Peter G. Peterson
          -Arthur F. Burns
          -Domestic Council members
          -Connally
          -Economic policy
                -Leadership
                -Football analogy
                -Paul W. McCracken
                -Burns

The President talked with an unknown person [Kissinger?] at an unknown time after 8:13 am.
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     Schedule
[End of telephone conversation]

     Letter President is writing
           -Kissinger

     Department of Defense                                      Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
         -Job for David Packard
               -Laird
               -Divestment of stock
               -Donald H. Rumsfeld
         -Army


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Kissinger entered at 8:43 am.

     INTELSAT Conference
         -Kissinger's meeting with Johnson

     David K.E. Bruce
          -Cable to Kissinger
          -Resignation
                -Health
          -Loyalty to President
          -Health
          -Return to US
          -Unknown group or country
          -May, June deadlines
          -Strategy for dealing with the resignation
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     -Meeting with Kissinger next week and the President

SALT
    -Kissinger's press briefing
          -News Summary
    -Coverage
    -President’s role
          -Washington Post's headlines                      Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
          -New York Times
          -Television
    -Marvin L. Kalb's comments
          -Gerard C. Smith
    -Vladimir S. Semenov
          -Kissinger's opening statement to the press
                -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
          -Smith
                -Party
    -Press’ political bias
          -John Kennedy
          -Washington Post
    -Television coverage
          -President's announcement
    -Press columnists
          -Smith
    -Leaks to the press
          -Bureaucracy
                -Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
                -State Department
          -White House bargaining position
    -New York Times editorial on May 21, 1971
    -Congressional reaction
          -President's initiative
    -John A. Scali
    -President's initiative
          -Congress
          -Kissinger's briefing
          -Television
          -Congressional reaction
                -Edward W. Brooke
                -Charles H. Percy
                -Hubert H. Humphrey
                       -March 25
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                  -Charles W. Colson
-State Department
-ACDA
-Press coverage
-Timing
-Press coverage
-New York Times and Washington Post stories
      -President's initiative                                Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
      -Unknown reporter
-Humphrey, J. William Fulbright
      -Congressional resolutions
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Press coverage
      -Television networks
      -“The Today Show”
-Washington Post reaction
      -John Kennedy
      -President's initiative
-David Kraslow
      -Conversation with Kissinger on May 20, 1971
      -Sunday Los Angeles Times
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
      -John W. Chancellor
-Presentation of Science Awards on May 21, 1971
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Kissinger's briefing
      -Invitation to James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
      -Unknown person
      -[Forename unknown] Steward [?]
      -Newsweek
      -Time
      -Edward Steele
      -President's initiative
-Press backgrounders
      -Smith
      -Kissinger
-President's briefing of Congressional leaders May 20, 1971 on SALT agreement
      -Rogers, Laird, Smith
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Possible Kissinger statement to press
      -Strategy
            -Communist nations
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                      -Arms control
                      -President's initiative
           -Kissinger's briefing
                -Sidey
                -Compared to PRC
                      -US government agencies
                      -President's initiative
                -John F. Osbourne and Sidey                       Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
                -Role of Kissinger
                -"Hot Line" telephone
                -Negotiations
                -Kissinger
                      -Newspapers
                             -Sidey
                             -Osbourne
           -Kissinger's briefing
                -Smith

     White House press briefings
          -State Department [?]
                -Help in White House briefings
                     -Laos
                     -Smith
                     -Antiballistic missile [ABM]

     Schedule

Kissinger left at 9:05 am.

     Cabinet and staff
          -Rogers
          -Laird
          -Connally
          -Colson
          -Connally
          -Rogers
          -Laird
          -Romney
          -Volpe
          -Maurice H. Stans
          -Hodgson
          -Elliot L. Richardson
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     -President's letter to the Soviets
     -Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
     -Senate
     -Leaks

Unknown person
    -Washington Post
    -Support for the President                             Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)

Reactions to SALT agreement
     -Michael J. Mansfield
     -Muskie
     -Humphrey
     -Fulbright
           -Television
     -Kissinger
     -Daniel Patrick Moynihan
     -Scali
           -Conservatives
                -Ronald L. Ziegler

Media coverage of the White House
    -Press reaction to SALT
          -Osborne
          -Richardson
          -Television
          -Washington Post
          -Joseph C. Kraft
          -Chalmers Roberts
               -Washington Post
    -Media coverage of the demonstrators
    -Middle East
          -Rogers
          -Coverage of President

Congress
    -Robert J. Dole

Cabinet officers and staff
     -Connally
     -Mitchell
     -Richardson
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          -Volpe
                -National Transportation Week
          -Connally
          -Rogers
          -George H.W. Bush
          -William F. (“Billy”) Graham
          -Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
                                                                 Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)

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Haldeman left at 9:25 am.