Conversation No. 518-6

Date: June 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:19 am and 11:50 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

     President’s schedule
          -Signing of documents

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 11:19 am


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Butterfield left at unknown time before 11:30 am


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     Drugs                                                          Conv. No. 518-5 (cont.)
          -American Broadcasting Company [ABC] special
              -Method
              -Content
              -Possibilities
              -Concern with drugs
                    -Opportunities for administration
                    -Breadth of response
                    -Leonard Garment, Raymond K. Price, Jr., William L. Safire
                    -Experimentation with drugs
                          -Prominence
                               -Ivy League schools

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                     -Use of drugs as an issue
                           -Perception of people
                                -Opposition of administration to Mafia
                                      -Dilletantes
                                      -State Department
                     -William P. Rogers
                     -Ambassadors meeting
                           -Offense to some countries

     Rogers
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         -Concern with State affairs
         -Relation with State Department employees
              -John D. Ehrlichman


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              -U. Alexis Johnson’s view of State Department employees

    Haldeman’s conversation with John N. Mitchell
         -Middle East
              -Jewish community
              -Mitchell-Henry A. Kissinger contacts
                    -General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
              -Jewish community
                    -Strategy with President
                    -Approval of President
                          -Vietnam
                          -Joseph W. Alsop
                    -Support for liberals
                          -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
                          -Edmund S. Muskie
                          -Hubert H. Humphrey
                          -Common Cause
                          -Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
                    -Support for President’s Vietnam policy
         -Kissinger’s meetings with Yitzhak Rabin
              -Frequency
                    -Benefits of meeting
                    -Strategy
              -Mitchell
              -Rogers
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                                                             Conv. No. 518-6 (cont.)

    FOREIGN POLICY


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              -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                    -Donald Bergus
                    -Egyptian proposal
         -Mitchell-Rogers contact
              -Kissinger’s role
                    -Contact with Rabin


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    ISRAEL


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              -President’s role
              -White House policy formation
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                   -Rogers’ role
         -Meeting between Mitchell and the President
             -Content
                   -Kissinger’s role in Middle East
         -Rumors of State Department involvement in People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
             -PRC contact initiation
                   -Agency input
                         -Department of Commerce                   Conv. No. 518-6 (cont.)
                         -Department of Defense


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         -Mitchell’s information
              -Accuracy
         -Mitchell’s meeting with President
              -Haldeman’s role with Rogers
                    -Mitchell’s New York contacts
                    -Kissinger’s meetings with Rabin


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    FOREIGN POLICY


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         -Polls
               -Jewish support for President
               -Robert H. Finch
               -Stewart J. O. Alsop                           Conv. No. 518-6 (cont.)
               -Press
         -Mitchell
               -Rogers


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    Mitchell
         -Kissinger-Rabin meeting
              -Content

    Kissinger
         -Views
         -Haig
         -Predictions
         -Signal on campaign contribution
              -Use by administration
              -Intent
         -Garment role

    Rogers
        -Previous Sequoia meeting
        -Rogers’ objectivity
        -Position on Clark M. Clifford proposal
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           -Position on Prisoners of War [POWs]
           -Position on Vietnam
           -Position on Cambodia
           -Position on Laos

    Laos
           -Casualty rate
           -John A. Scali                                      Conv. No. 518-6 (cont.)
           -Charles W. Colson
           -Cambodia
           -Stock market
           -Laos

    Rogers
        -Maurice H. Stans
              -Commerce Department personnel
        -State Department personnel
        -Ehrlichman
              -Johnson
                   -Thailand
        -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] problems
        -PRC
        -Vietnam
        -Soviet Union
              -Dobrynin
              -Rogers and Kissinger participation
              -Soviet summit
        -PRC contact


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    FOREIGN POLICY


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     Rogers
         -PRC
                -Trade
          -Kissinger
                -Travel                                          Conv. No. 518-6 (cont.)
          -Midway Island
          -Intellect
          -Department of State


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     President’s relationship with Jews
          -Israeli relations

Haldeman left at 11:45 am