Conversation No. 520-10

Date: June 15, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:54 pm and 2:15 pm
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Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

     President’s schedule
          -Signatures

Butterfield left at 12:58 pm                                        Conv. No. 520-8 (cont.)

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:59 pm

     Press briefing
           -Willy Brandt meeting
           -Necessity
           -Drawbacks

     Resignation of overseas post by Robert C. Hill
          -Return of Hill
          -Arrival of Cornelius V. (“Sonny”) Whitney
          -Hill official notification


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     Rochester trip
         -Question and Answer session
         -Briefing book
         -Patrick J. Buchanan proposal
         -Question and Answer
                -Questioners
                     -Content of questions
                -Buchanan proposal
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           -White House reporters
     -Briefing book preparation
           -Substitute
     -Question and Answer
           -Benefits
           -Television coverage

Donald L. Jackson                                               Conv. No. 520-10 (cont.)
    -Request for meeting
          -Request for assignment
                -Deputy US representative to Organization of American States [OAS]
                -William P. Rogers
                -Necessity of post
                -Jackson plans in lieu of assignment
                      -Resignation from the Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC]
                      -Abolition of post
                      -Past dealings with Jackson

Vietnam withdrawal
     -Television coverage
           -Press Information Office [PIO] at Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
                 [MACV]
     -Stories on meeting GIs

Pentagon Papers
     -New York Times
     -Barry M. Goldwater role
     -Lyndon B. Johnson role
          -Goldwater comments
     -Goldwater role in Vietnam strategy
     -Emphasis on breach of security
     -Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger role
          -Use of Senators
     -Contention by George S. McGovern and Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
          -Current Vietnam strategy
          -Johnson, Walt W. Rostow
          -Administration response
                -Use of other Senators
          -”Family quarrel”
          -President’s policy
          -Release of classified data
     -Suspects
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           -Leslie H. Gelb
           -Morton H. Halperin
           -Daniel Ellsberg
     -Herbert G. Klein
           -Results
     -White House staff discipline
     -Rogers’ cooperation
     -William L. Safire                                   Conv. No. 520-10 (cont.)
           -Invitation to New York Times correspondent
     -Rebuff of New York Times correspondents
           -Press pools
                 -Ronald L. Ziegler role
           -Airplane pools
           -Stu Lourie expulsion
                 -Article
                       -Effect
           -Background material
           -New York Times, Washington Post rebuff

President’s schedule
     -Rochester trip
     -Buchanan’s preparation of remarks
     -Material derived from President’s appearance

Public relations value of wedding
     -Haldeman judgement
     -Real estate meeting
            -Interest in wedding
     -Network coverage
            -Reruns
     -Tricia Nixon Cox’s honeymoon plans
            -Speculation
                  -Robert H. Abplanalp’s island
                  -Rationale
     -Effect
     -Johnson weddings

Pentagon Papers
     -McCloskey
          -Attack on government
                -Johnson
                -John F. Kennedy
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                -Attack on President

     Paris air show coverage
           -Robert H. Finch’s visit
           -Supersonic Transport [SST]-Lockheed information

     President’s schedule
          -White House Photographers’ anniversary                Conv. No. 520-10 (cont.)
                -Presentation to President
          -Brandt
                -Previous meeting with the President
                      -SST
          -Nicaragua
          -Midway Island
                -Press coverage
                -Benefits of announcements from Washington
                      -General Nguyen Van Thieu
                -Public announcement
                      -Ellsworth F. Bunker
                      -General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
                      -Melvin R. Laird

     Negotiations
         -Morning editorials
                -President’s activity
                -Henry A. Kissinger
                      -Contact with Le Duc Tho
         -People’s Republic of China [PRC] precedent

Haldeman left at 2:15 pm