Conversation No. 733-2

Date: June 14, 1972
Time: 9:00-10:04 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

     Cabinet meeting
          -Timing
          -Subjects for discussion
               -The President’s previous visit to the Soviet Union
                     -William P. Rogers
                     -Peter M. Flanigan
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                -Domestic issues
                          -Flanigan
                                -Trade
                          -John D. Ehrlichman

     Telephone calls
          -Compared with letters
               -Birthday greetings
               -The President’s instructions

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:05 am Butterfield left at an unknown time after 9:05 am.

     Letters and telephone calls to Congressmen
          -Foreign Affairs Committee
                -Henry A. Kissinger
                -Democrats
                -Republicans
          -Telephone calls
                -John L. McClellan
          -Time element
          -Clement P. Zablocki

     Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
          -Compared to House
          -Vote on floor on Vietnam
               -Clark MacGregor
          -Michael J. Mansfield amendment
               -Vietnam troop withdrawal
                     -Chances of defeat
                     -Amendments
                     -John J. Sparkman’s role

     Revenue sharing
         -Chances of success in Congress
         -Nelson A. Rockefeller on Capitol Hill
         -George P. Shultz

     Welfare bill
          -Ehrlichman
                -Welfare program
                     -The President’s view
                     -Draft
          -MacGregor
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          -Social Security
          -Passage in Congress

     Revenue sharing
         -Votes in Congress
               -Wilbur D. Mills
         -Support in Administration
               -Robert H. Finch

     Budget problems
         -The President's vetoes

     Kissinger
          -Rogers
               -Forthcoming meeting with the President

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am.

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Rogers and Kissinger
               -Time

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

     Rogers' trip itinerary
         -Australia, New Zealand, and the US [UNZUS]
         -Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO]
         -John B. Connally
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HALDEMAN TALKED WITH AN UNKNOWN PERSON AT AN UNKNOWN TIME
BETWEEN 9:05 AND 10:04 AM

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    White House staff salaries
         -Younger staffers
         -Older staff members
         -The President’s view
         -John C. Whitaker
         -Patrick J. Buchanan
               -Future
         -William L. Safire
         -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
         -Buchanan
         -Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
         -Buchanan
         -Senior level
         -Youth salaries
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    William F. (“Billy”) Graham
         -Explo '72 rally
               -The President’s position

    Presidential scholars
         -Elliot L. Richardson
               -The President’s participation
         -Selection criteria
         -Caspar W. Weinberger
               -Michigan interns
                     -Support for George S. McGovern
         -Government interns
               -Abolition of program
                     -The President’s view
               -Interns in Republican campaign organization
                     -White House
         -Intership programs
               -Presidential interns
                     -Spiro T. Agnew
                           -Tricia Nixon Cox
                     -Political leanings
                     -Haldeman's conversation with Richardson
                           -Selection process
         -Advisory committees
               -President’s Science Advisory Committee [PSAC]
               -The President's selections
         -Interns
               -Political opposition to the President
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    Kissinger's appearance for Congressional briefing
         -Location
         -Weather
               -Arrival of Luis Echeverria Alvarez
         -Logistics

    Head of State visit of Echeverria
        -Political benefits
              -Spanish-Americans
              -Visits to Los Angeles, Texas, and Chicago


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    The President's position
         -Trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
               -The President's domestic opponents
                     -Effect of accomplishments
         -Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
               -Republicans

    Revenue sharing
        -Shultz
              -Lobbying
        -Advantages to the President
              -Welfare program

    Presidential scholars
         -Tour of White House
         -Potential opposition to the President
               -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
                     -Richardson
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The President's schedule
     -Florida
           -Weather
     -Echeverria

Report on the President's trip to the Soviet Union
    -Butterfield
           -Cabinet meeting
                -Flanigan
                -Peter G. Peterson’s trip to the Soviet Union
                      -Revenue sharing
                      -Rogers
                             -Aleksei N. Kosygin
                      -The President’s view
                      -Earl L. Butz

Cabinet meeting
     -The President’s view
     -Timing
     -Agnew
     -Subjects
     -John D. Ehrlichman
          -Butz
          -Connally

Transportation exhibit at Dulles Airport
     -John A. Volpe
     -Problems
           -Traffic jams
           -Blue Angels
                -Fatalities

Cabinet meeting
     -Subjects
     -Ehrlichman
           -Availability

The President’s schedule
     -Richardson
          -House Resolution [HR] 1
     -Cabinet meeting
     -Echeverria
     -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
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          -Scheduling
          -Press conference
                -Scheduling
          -Incumbent Republican Senators and Congressmen
                -Scheduling
                -Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
                -John M. Ashbrook

     McCloskey
         -Statements on prisoners of war [POWs]
               -Democratic response

     Ashbrook

     Tricia Nixon Cox
           -"Merv Griffin Show"
                -Rerun of wedding
                -Audience
                     -Possible hostility

     Protocol office
          -William R. Codus
          -Transfer to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's staff
          -Informing Mrs. Nixon

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am.

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Kissinger and Rogers

The President, Bull, and Haldeman left at 10:04 am.