Conversation No. 537-2

Date: July 2, 1971
Time: 2:50 pm - 4:02 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

     White House social events
          -Luncheon for Consuelo Velasco Alvarado
          -Dinners for state guests

     The President’s schedule
          -William H. Carruthers

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm

     Meeting Carruthers and Mark I. Goode

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm

     Schedule

Carruthers and Goode entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm

     National Archives speech, July 3, 1971
          -Arrangements
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                -Seating, podium, camera set-up
          -Timing
                -The President’s arrival
                -Audience
                -Holding room
          -Makeup
          -Speaker Carl B. Albert, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
          -Camera set-up
                -Off-camera announcers
          -Introduction of the President
          -Army Chorus
          -The President’s closing remarks
          -Army Chorus rendition of the National Anthem
                -The President’s location during anthem
                -Use of anthem
          -Timing cues for the President
          -Length of remarks by others
          -Applause
                -Size of audience
          -Camera angles
          -Need for holding room
          -The President’s method of presentation
                -Use of text
          -Closing remarks
                -Playing of national anthem
          -Timing

Carruthers and Goode left at 3:06 pm

     National Archives speech
          -Arrangements

     Certification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment
           -Procedures
                 -Administrator of General Services
           -”Young Americans in Concert” group
                 -Honor America Day
                 -Audience for ceremony
                 -Witnesses to ceremony
                       -Male, female
                       -Race
           -Timing of ceremony
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     -Effect
           -Support for the eighteen-year-old vote
     -California
     -Concert group tour of Europe
     -The President’s schedule
           -California
           -Ohio
           -Oklahoma                                                Conv. No. 537-2 (cont.)
     -Location, timing
           -The President’s departure for Camp David

National Archives speech
     -Elements
           -Patriotism
                 -Public reaction to negativism
           -Use of John Brown anecdote
     -Raymond K. Price, Jr., John K. Andrews, Jr.
           -Thomas Jefferson theme in William L. Safire’s draft
                 -George Washington, John Adams
                 -Appeal to Democrats
                       -John F. Kennedy
                 -Jefferson
     -[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, [John] Calvin Coolidge
     -Deaths of Jefferson and Adams
     -Youth of Revolutionary War figures
           -Comparison to Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander III [the Great]
     -Timing
     -Compared to the Cambodia speech
     -Length and pace
     -Theme
     -Use of television
     -Joint appearance by leaders of executive, judicial, legislative branches
           -Pentagon Papers case
           -Burger
           -Albert
                 -Contrast to John W. McCormack, Samuel Rayburn
                 -Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott, John Sherman Cooper

Effectiveness of speakers
     -William P. Rogers
     -Melvin R. Laird, Elliot L. Richardson
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     -George W. Romney
     -John A. Volpe

Ambassadorial appointments
    -Robert H. Finch
    -Donald H. Rumsfeld
         -Japan
         -Business interests                             Conv. No. 537-2 (cont.)
               -Peter M. Flanigan
    -Henry Cabot Lodge
         -Argentina
         -Finland
               -Henry A. Kissinger
         -Financial status
         -Assignment

National Archives event
     -Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule

Latin America
      -Mrs. Velasco’s visit
      -Economic conditions
           -United States
                -Family assistance program

Unnamed child

Unemployment statistics
    -Washington Star

News events
    -Economy
    -Kissinger
         -Concerns
    -1969 October anti-Vietnam War demonstrations
         -Letter to Georgetown student
         -General Lewis B. Hershey
         -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
         -Le Duc Tho, Xuan Thuy
         -Hershey
               -Flanigan
               -The draft
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                            -Popularity
                      -As symbol of the draft
          -Forthcoming statement
                -Kissinger
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:37 pm

     News coverage
         -Unemployment                                           Conv. No. 537-2 (cont.)
              -James D. Hodgson
              -Statistical aberration
              -Decrease
         -Vietnam casualties
              -Monthly figures
                    -Charles W. Colson
              -Reporting
              -John A. Scali, Colson
         -Pentagon Papers case
              -Rogers’ comments
              -Laird
                    -Research and Development [RAND] Corporation
              -Declassification of documents

     Pentagon Papers
          -Public reaction
          -Brookings Institute
               -Acceptance of classified documents
                     -RAND Corporation
          -Reaction to case
               -Tom C. Huston
          -Daniel Ellsberg
               -Status of case
                     -J. Edgar Hoover
                           -Conspiracy investigation
          -Richardson
               -John D. Ehrlichman
               -Action on Defense Department employee [Surname unknown Cooke]
                     -Polygraph examinations
                           -Ehrlichman
               -Laurence E. (“Larry”) Lynn, Jr.
          -Richard V. (“Dick”) Allen
               -Comments about Lynn
          -Laird
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             -Comments
       -Declassification investigation
             -Laird
       -Congressional investigation
             -Frank Stanton
       -Television program about the “Selling of the Pentagon”
       -Congress, television
             -Confidential sources                                  Conv. No. 537-2 (cont.)
       -Colson
       -Potter Stewart
             -Question to Washington Post reporter about publishing information
             -Delay or prevention of prisoner of war [POW] release in Vietnam
                   -First Amendment rights
                         -Alexander M. Bickel
       -Limitation of White House access by Washington Post, New York Times
             -National security stories
             -Background briefings
             -Off-the-record, political stories

Kissinger’s trip
     -Press
           -Ziegler
     -General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
           -Discussion of Pentagon Papers case with ambassadors
                 -Ellsworth F. Bunker
                 -Kenneth B. Keating
                 -Leonard Unger
     -Press interest
           -Paris
           -Albert
           -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
     -Rogers, Laird

Asia
       -Agnew, Kissinger, Laird
       -Focus
            -Vietnam
            -Israel
                  -Richard M. Helms
       -Lyndon B. Johnson comparison

Unemployment statistics
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          -Decrease
               -Handling of news story
                    -Statistical aberrations
                    -Hodgson
                          -Comparison to George P. Shultz
                    -John B. Connally

The President, Haldeman, and Ziegler left at 4:02 pm           Conv. No. 537-2 (cont.)