Date: June 14, 1971
Time: Unknown between 7:15 pm and 7:19 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
[See Conversation No. 258-9]
Call to Attorney General John Mitchell
Conversation
Conv. No. 5-69
No.
(cont.)
5-70
Date: June 14, 1971
Time: 7:19 pm - 7:22 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with John N. Mitchell.
[See Conversation No. 258-10]
New York Times publication of Pentagon Papers
-Possible legal action against the Times
-Precedents
-Notice by government
-Melvin R. Laird's opinion
Henry A. Kissinger joined the conversation at an unknown time after 7:19 pm.
-Laird's Congressional testimony, June 14
-Lyndon B. Johnson's opinion
-Walt W. Rostow's conversation with Kissinger
-Investigation
-Vote on McGovern-Hatfield amendment on Vietnam war
-Prime suspect Daniel Ellsberg
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