523–6

Conversation No. 523-6
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Date: June 16, 1971
Time: 5:16 pm - 6:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Drug policy
-TV message Conv. No. 523-5 (cont.)
-Timing
-Radio message
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Content
-Focus on President's action
-Need for drug message
-Format
-Ziegler's role

Pentagon Papers
-Patrick J. Buchanan

[The President talked to an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:16 pm and 5:23 pm]

[Conversation No. 523-6A]

-Request for Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

Pentagon Papers
-New York Times
-Buchanan statement
-Domestic Council
-Presidential statement
-Henry A. Kissinger's role
-Kissinger's schedule
-Conversation with Egon Bahr

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:16 pm and 5:23 pm]

[Conversation No. 523-6B]

Status of Kissinger and John D. Ehrlichman statement
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[End of telephone conversation]

Charles Bluhdorn
-Meeting with President
-Ehrlichman
-Need for meeting
-Bluhdorn objective Conv. No. 523-6 (cont.)
-Dominican Republic sugar quota
-Campaign contributions
-President's role
-Basis
Anti-war votes in Congress
-George S. McGovern-Mark O. Hatfield Amendment
-Terms
-McGovern and Hatfield strategy
-Results
-Vote
-Preliminary

Ziegler entered at 5:23 pm.

-Final vote from William E. Timmons
-Vote breakdown

Pentagon Papers
-Statement
-Possibilities
-Necessity
-Relation to McGovern-Hatfield Amendment
-Press release
-Content
-Wind down of war
-Alexander P. Butterfield

Drug speech
-Expectations
-Format
-Content
-Timing

Kissinger entered at 5:24 pm.
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Outcome of McGovern-Hatfield Amendment

Pentagon Papers
-Necessity of statement
-Press reaction
-Henry Brandon call to Kissinger
-Press reaction to handling of classified data Conv. No. 523-6 (cont.)
-Stewart J.O. Alsop story in Newsweek
-Cuban missile crisis
-Use of Cabinet Room quote
-New York Times reaction
-President's use of quote
-Timing
-Effectiveness
-Alsop’s reaction
-Buchanan statement
-John F. Kennedy material publication
-Administration leak
-Alexander M. Haig Jr.
-Rowland Evans column
-Brandon
-Alsop
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston responsibility

Kissinger meeting with Bahr
-Willy Brandt Remarks
-Perception
-Vietnam
-Pakistan
-Comparison to Mexican President's remarks
-Background

Kissinger left at 5:30 pm.

Pentagon Papers
-Statement by President
-Ziegler’s view

Drug statement
-Television appearance
-Background
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-Domestic Council
-Supporters for statement
-Content of statement
-Timing

Larry Higby entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

Schedule Conv. No. 523-6 (cont.)

Higby left at an unknown time before 5:46 pm.

Drug Statement
-Television appearance
-Radio message
-Location of delivery
-Energy message
-Content
-Personal statement
-Format
-Length
-Content
-President's role
-Appointment
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Office increase
-Spending
-Enforcement
-Rehabilitation
-Buchanan effort
-Content

Pentagon Papers
-Statement by President
-Assessment of evening news
-Roger E. Johnson
-Charles W. Colson's office
-William P. Rogers’ statement
-Robert C. Mardian
-Rogers
-Ehrlichman and Attorney General preparation
-Statement by President
-Content
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-President's statement
-Format
-Timing
-Benefits of delay
-Congress
-Effectiveness of attack
-Lyndon B. Johnson's supporters
-Kissinger's role Conv. No. 523-6 (cont.)
-Call from Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
-Clark M. Clifford statement
-William H. Sullivan
-Mood of public
-Mishandling of classified data
-Publication of verbatim text
-June 16 story in New York Times
-El Paso gas
-Algeria problem
-Peter G. Peterson order from President
-African desk at Department of State
-The French
-Publication of verbatim text
-Story of breaking Japanese code
-Chicago Sun Times publication
-Precedent
-Robert T. Mardian
-Pearl Harbor precedent
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Jewish reporters
-Feeling for Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Times
-Necessity for action
-Mardian

Ziegler left at 5:46 pm.

Terry McGinnity
-Forthcoming visit to Washington

Pentagon Papers
-Administration action

West Point news story
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-Move of former office to Sweden
-Background

President’s meeting with John M. O'Neill and Melville Stephens
-Age of participants
-O'Neill background
-Naval Academy
-Colson role Conv. No. 523-6 (cont.)
-Qualifications

Agricultural problems
-Drought
-Programs

Domestic Council
-Drugs
Pentagon Papers
-Ehrlichman efforts
-Need for coordination
-Staff competence
-Institutional framework
-Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz focus
-Issue importance
-Florida barge canal
-Ehrlichman's role

President's schedule
-Shultz
-Congressional leaders meeting, June 17
-Timing
-Bipartisan nature
-Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie

Domestic issues
-Environment
-Health
-Poll results
-Health as an issue
-Other issues
-Vietnam
-Economics
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-Drug addiction
-Race relations
-Crime and lawlessness
-International problems
-Youth protest and unrest
-Poverty and welfare
-Methodology
-Other issues Conv. No. 523-6 (cont.)
-Pollution and ecology
-Religion and moral delay
-Education

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 5:46 pm.


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Rose Mary Woods left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm.

Drug statement
-Length
-Content
-Suggestions
-Necessity of statement
-Content
-Penalties to drug producers
-Death penalty
-Suspension of aid to producing countries
-Emphasis on enforcement
-Need for emphasis on treatment and rehabilitation
-Jaffe’s role
-Recent statements
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-Ties to future statements
-American Medical Association [AMA] speech
-AMA speech
-Preparation
-President's schedule
-Length
-Noel C. Koch material
-Education emphasis Conv. No. 523-6 (cont.)
-Challenge to AMA
-Blue ribbon panel
-Contact with Jaffe

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:46 pm.

Item for President

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm.

AMA speech
-Health comments versus drug comments
-Other comments by President
-Jaycees
-Youth communication and education
-Role of doctors
-Education

President's schedule
-Visit to small farm town
-Junior Historical Society (?)

The President and Haldeman left at 6:05 pm.