Conversation No. 528-1

Date: June 23, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:04 am and 12:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

     Pentagon Papers
          -Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
          -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
               -Efforts to aid the President
          -Congressional activity
          -Republican activities
               -House Republican action
          -Henry A. Kissinger's need for documents
          -Release of documents
               -Involvement of administration
                     -Cambodia
                     -Laos
               -Tactical use
               -Subpoena power
                     -Problems
          -Congressional hearings
               -Scope
               -Potential problems
               -Potential advantages
                     -Robert S. McNamara
                           -Questioning by George S. McGovern supporters
                     -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy's role
                     -John F. Kennedy involvement
                           -Ngo Dinh Diem
                           -Commitment of troops in 1961
               -Ronald L. Ziegler
                     -Qualities
                     -Ziegler
                     -Herbert G. Klein

     Schedule
          -Indianapolis
                -Possible visit to farm
                -Timing
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                -Television coverage
     -Chicago
          -Speech to American Association of Retire Persons [AARP]
     -Return to Washington, D.C.
     -Camp David
          -George P. Shultz's request for meeting
                -Attendance
                      -John N. Mitchell
                      -John B. Connally
                      -John D. Ehrlichman
                      -Advantages and disadvantages
                      -Connally's schedule
                      -Martha (Beall) Mitchell
                      -Paul W. McCracken
                -Ehrlichman’s suggestion
                      -Haldeman's schedule

Pentagon Papers
     -Impact on country
     -Cliff Miller
           -Poll results
                 -Regional impact
                 -Impact by educational background
                 -Age group division
           -Awareness of news
                 -Age differences
           -Revelations of Vietnam involvement
                 -Media handling
                 -Media attacks on Lyndon B. Johnson
                 -Media relations with the President
           -President's declassification order
                 -Lawsuit against Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
                 -30 year secrecy ceiling
                 -Kissinger
                 -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                 -1972 Democratic victory
                       -Results
                             -Bay of Pigs
                             -Dominican Republic
                 -Selectivity
           -News coverage
                 -Mansfield's Amendment
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                 -Kissinger's activities
                      -North Vietnamese negotiating strategy
                            -People’s Republic of China [PRC] pressure
                            -US domestic pressure
                      -Relations with Soviet Union
                      -US domestic politics
                            -Impact on foreign relations
                                                                         Conv. No. 528-1 (cont.)
     Public relations
          -Reaction to wedding of Tricia Nixon and Edward R.F. Cox

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:05 am.

     Ehrlichman’s location

Butterfield left at 11:06 am.

     Public relations
          -Reaction to wedding of Tricia Nixon and Edward R.F. Cox
                 -Memorability
                       -Compared to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy White House tour
                 -Letters
                 -Sentimental buildups
                       -Fighting instincts
                            -President
                            -Johnson
                       -Media coverage
                            -Spiro T. Agnew
                            -Ziegler

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:06 am.

     Request for Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:39 am.

     Public relations
          -Media coverage of Senate vote
                 -Ziegler’s view
                 -Rationale
          -Media coverage
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               -President's drug message
                     -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
               -President and children
           -Administration tactics
               -Formation of "line"
               -President's involvement

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:05 am.

[Delivery of casualty figures]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:39 am.

     Vietnam casualties
          -Trends
               -Kissinger
               -Cambodian action
               -Indication of success
                     -Agnew's comments

     Schedule
          -Press briefing during Midwest trip
               -Cincinnati
                      -Problems
                      -Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky
                      -St. Louis, Kansas City, and Milwaukee
               -Wisconsin trip
                      -Necessity
                      -Benefits
               -Kansas City
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                     -Compared with St. Louis
                     -Facilities
                           -Hotels
                           -Compared with Rochester
          -Need to visit Missouri
          -Milwaukee, Wisconsin
          -Montana
                                                                     Conv. No. 528-1 (cont.)
Colson entered at 11:39 am.

     Pentagon Papers
          -Effect on John F. Kennedy administration
               -Effect on Ted Kennedy
               -Effect on Democrats
               -Boston reaction
                      -Boston Globe article
                            -Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
                                  - J. Kennedy
                                  -Henry Cabot Lodge
               -Kennedy and "covert war"
          -Chicago Daily News
          -Chicago Sun Times story
          -Colson's effort
               -Attack on Johnson
               -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
                      -Rationale
                            -Election posture
                            -Franklin C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
               -Attack on John Kennedy
                      -McNamara
                      -Clark M. Clifford
                      -McGeorge Bundy
                      -Johnson's choice of advisers
               -Focus on need for secrecy
                      -Mention of specific papers
                            -New York Times, Washington Post
                      -Focus on classification
               -Focus on Chicago peace group
                      -Distribution of classified stolen documents
                      -Defiance of court order
                      -Relation to May Day demonstrations
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         -Administration response
               -Benefits of low profile reaction
                     -John A. Scali
         -Polls
               -Results
                     -Approval of President
                     -Gallup poll compared with administration poll
                     -Focus on moral issue of publishing stolen documents
                     -Focus on classified documents
                           -Miller
                     -Lack of awareness
                           -Regional breakdown
                     -Public perception
                     -Publication of papers
                     -Administration’s court action
                     -Rationale
                           -Age of classified material
         -Declassification procedures
               -World War II
                     -Pear Harbor
               -Korean War period
               -Cuban missile crisis
                     -Turkish bases
               -Bay of Pigs invasion
               -Scope
               -Colson and Ehrlichman conversation
                     -Effect on country
               -Selectivity
               -[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
         -President's prosecution of Times
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           -Legal necessities
     -Focus on previous administrations
           -Effect on Hubert H. Humphrey
           -Effect on Edmund G. Muskie
           -Effect on Ted Kennedy
           -Effect on Jackson
           -Muskie’s comments
           -Link between Ted and John Kennedy                   Conv. No. 528-1 (cont.)
           -Humphrey handling of attack on Johnson administration
                 -Compared to Chappaquiddick
           -Victor Lasky's article
           -Patrick J. Buchanan's article
                 -President's conduct of the War
                 -Mailing to House and Senate
                 -Mailing to dinner guests
     -President's involvement
           -Buchanan
           -Scali
           -William P. Rogers story to Haldeman
           -Rationale for low profile
                 -Alger Hiss case
           -Mood in country
           -Avoidance of escalation
           -Attack on newspapers
                 -Timing
     -Administration response
     -Democratic infighting
           -Lawrence F. O'Brien's role
           -Gale W. McGee and J. William Fulbright
           -McGovern's situation
                 -Attack on main actors
           -James P. Roche’s defense of Johnson
           -William S. White's reaction
           -Stewart J.O. Alsop's article
     -Impact on country

Mansfield Amendment
    -Effect on US foreign policy
          -Impact on negotiations
               -Vietnam
                     -Prisoners of War [POW]
                     -Ceasefire
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                -Administration fortitude
                -F. Edward Hebert
                -Rationale
                -Clark MacGregor
          -President's foreign policy efforts
                -Vietnam
                      -Drop in casualties
                            -Laos                                Conv. No. 528-1 (cont.)
                            -Cambodia
          -Public perception

Public relations
     -Support for the President
            -Compared to Johnson
     -President's standing in polls
            -Trends
            -Johnson
            -Reaction to President in person
                  -Effect of wedding
                        -Barbara Walters’ comments
                              -Comparison with coronation
                        -Tricia Nixon Cox pictures
                        -Audience ratings
                              -Network draws
                                    -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
                                    -National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
                  -War in Vietnam
                        -Impact
     -Economy
            -President's contact with retailers
                  -Harry B. Cunningham, Chairman, S.S. Kresge Co.
                  -Gordon M. Metcalf, Chairman, Sears Roebuck and Co.
                  -Edward W. Carter
            -Inflation
            -Unemployment
     -Teamsters Union
            -President’s call to Frank S. Fitzsimmons
            -George T. Bell
            -Voting power
            -George Meany's tactics
            -Political power
            -Prior support for President
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                   -Helen Gahagan Douglas
             -Political courtship
             -President's contact with Fitzsimmons
             -Upcoming report
             -Fitzsimmons’s demeanor
         -American Medical Association [AMA]
             -Support for President
                   -Drug request                             Conv. No. 528-1 (cont.)
                   -Political power


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                   -Politics compared with profession
                   -Socialized medicine

    Mansfield Amendment
        -Attack on supporters
              -Republicans
                    -Charles H. Percy
                    -Past record
                    -Marlow W. Cook
                    -Ted F. Stevens
        -Effect on negotiations
              -Ziegler's comment
              -Conversation with Mansfield
              -Nguyen Van Thieu
        -Views of Republicans
              -President's strength
                    -Polls
                    -Upcoming "breaks" for administration
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Economy
    -Positive talk on economy
          -Public perception
          -Arthur F. Burns
          -Construction industry statistics
          -Industrial production
          -Retail sales
          -Burns                                          Conv. No. 528-1 (cont.)
          -McCracken
          -Connally
          -Shultz
          -Present condition
                -Compared to Great Depression
          -Pressure of money supply
          -Level of employment
          -Vietnam veterans
                -Effect on figures
          -Airframe workers
                -Areas affected
                      -Southern California
                      -Pacific northwest
                      -Wichita, Kansas
    -Future growth areas
          -Seattle, Washington
          -Southern California
          -Florida
          -Rationale
                -Retirement
          -Arizona and Nevada
                -Skill level
          -Southern California
                -Crowding
                -Compared to New York
                      -President’s recollections
                      -Nassau
                      -Westchester
                      -New Jersey suburbs
                -Empty land
                      -Types
                -Population
    -Confidence in economy
    -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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             -Related to world affairs


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    Domestic affairs
        -Charles B. Kuralt
              -Nicholas P. Thimmesch column
              -Popular opinion
        -Melville Stephens
        -Perception of the people
              -Atlantic City trip
              -Problems in US
                     -Media contributions
              -State of the Nation
                     -Vietnam
                     -Urban unrest
                     -Police support
                           -Black policeman
              -President’s supporters
        -President's schedule
              -Play to particular groups
                     -Focus on supporters
                           -Youth


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     Mansfield Amendment
         -Rationale for votes
               -Effect on negotiations                          Conv. No. 528-1 (cont.)

     Pentagon Papers
          -Furor
          -Focus on John Kennedy and Johnson period
          -Focus on theft of papers
               -Rationale
               -Publication
               -Daniel Ellsberg
                      -Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
                      -Poll findings
                      -Method of removal of papers
          -Involvement of peace group
               -Infiltration
               -Richard H. Ichord
          -Congressional action
               -House Committee on Un-American activities
               -John L. McClellan
               -Phillip M. Crane
               -Jack F. Kemp
                      -Treason charge

Colson left at 12:41 pm.

     Citizens Committee
           -Use of money for supporting revenue sharing
                -Request of citizens committee for money
                -Connection to campaign

     Schedule
          -Postal celebration ceremony
               -Schools of thought
               -Winton M. (“Red”) Blount dinner
               -Robert H. Finch
               -Focus on administration accomplishments
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                -Ray Grace
           -Focus on a few issues
                -Drugs
                -Ehrlichman
           -Postal celebration
                -Blount plans

     Ambassadorships                                              Conv. No. 528-1 (cont.)
         -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
               -Ambassador to Brussels
               -Former Ambassador to Ireland [Winston] Guest
                     -Raymond R. Guest
                           -Campaign contributions
                                -John Eisenhower
                                -Wife
                                -Herbert W. Kalmbach
         -Political office
               -Related to campaign contributions
                     -Amount
                     -Fred J. Russell
                     -Length of Ambassadorships
                     -Charles H. Bluhdorn contribution
                           -Sugar quotas

Haldeman left at 12:45 pm.