531–28

Conversation No. 531-28

Date: June 29, 1971
Time: 4:32 pm - 5:50 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Presidential statements
-Use of teleprompter
-Delivery style
-Richard A. Moore's views
-Delivery style

Honor America Day program
-Producer
-J. Willard Marriott
-Television network time
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Frank Borman
-Kate Smith
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Jack Benny
-Interviews

Presidential statements
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-Use of teleprompter
-Quality of writing
-Use of teleprompter
An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.
Conv. No. 531-27 (cont.)

Presidential statements
-President's forthcoming speech at the National Archives, July 3
-Staff work on speech
-William L. Safire
-William H. Carruthers
-President’s possible delivery
-Closing
-Speechwriting
-Use of President’s rhetoric
-Writers
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Use of teleprompter

President's schedule
-National Commission on Productivity
-Rumsfeld
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Mr. and Mrs. Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Political dinner
-National Park Dinner in Yosemite
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Ryan
-Rex W. Scouten
-Arrangements
-Haldeman’s view
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] graduation
-Remarks
-Drug announcement
-Presidential appointees
-National Park Dinner
-Date
-Purpose
-Poll results
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-Size
-Advantages
-Groups in attendance
-Arthur Godfrey
-Advantages
-Subsequent visit to park
-Jackson Hole, Yosemite
-Scheduling announcement Conv. No. 531-28 (cont.)
-Midwest media briefing
-John D. Ehrlichman's views on format
-Pentagon Papers statement
-Revenue sharing
-Timing
-Ehrlichman's views
-Timing of court decision on Pentagon Papers
-Preparation of President's statement
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Ehrlichman
-Staff work
-Delivery of President's statement
-Press conference
-Timing
-National Association of Counties
-Peoples Coalition meeting in Milwaukee
-Billy Graham
-New Hampshire, Maine
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Visits to 50 states
-Planning, spontaneity
-Blount dinner
-FBI graduation ceremony
-Preparation of remarks
-Nobusuke Kishi
-Walter P. McConaughy
-Kishi

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Ehrlichman
-Pentagon Papers
-Views on prosecution
-Judgement
-Views concerning declassification program
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-Wording of statement

Declassification
-National Security Council [NSC] committee recommendations

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:32 pm and
5:03 pm]
Conv. No. 531-28 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 531-28A]

[See Conversation 6-24]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods[?]

[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:32 pm and
5:03 pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28B]

[See conversation 6-25]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Paul W. McCracken
-John B. Connally's role in government
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-Birthday celebration
-Eisenhower scholarship fund
-Mrs. Nixon
-Unintelligible name
-President’s attendance

[The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. between 5:03 pm and 5:06 pm; Haldeman can
be heard in the background]

[Conversation No. 531-28C]

[See Conversation No. 6-26]
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[End of telephone conversation]

Security classification
-Numbers of people with clearances
-Board of Regents of University of California
-Possible change in system
-Kissinger Conv. No. 531-28 (cont.)

Leaks
-President's comments to Cabinet
-Haldeman's role
-Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sherman Adams

Peter G. Peterson
-Position of aide
-Martin C. (“Marty”) Anderson
-Haldeman's conversation with Ehrlichman

Anderson
-Possible role with Administration
-Edwin L. Harper
-Ehrlichman's needs

President's schedule
-Camp David
-July 4
-Washington, DC celebration
-Possible trip to Florida
-Midwest trip
-Camp David
-Camp Hoover
-Accommodations
-Robert H. Finch
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John C. Whitaker

US and People’s Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Handling
-Kissinger
-President's possible visit
-Announcement
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-David K.E. Bruce

New York Times story
-Kissinger's reaction
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Possible source

Leaks Conv. No. 531-28 (cont.)
-Administration reaction
-Ambassador to Japan
-Ehrlichman's meeting with John A. Volpe and James M. Beggs
-President's comments to Cabinet
-National Journal article
-National security
-Foreign economic policy

President's schedule
-George P. Shultz, James D. Hodgson
-Ehrlichman
-Alexander P. Butterfield

Leaks
-Haldeman's forthcoming meeting with the White House staff
-Connally

President's schedule
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Shultz

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.

President's schedule
-Shultz

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.

Vietnam

Soybeans
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Security classification
-Possible changes
-Haldeman’s role
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's changes
-New classification
-Maurice H. Stans
-Lyndon K (“Mort”) Allin's memos
Conv. No. 531-28 (cont.)
Shultz

National economy
-Louis F. Harris poll
-Mansfield amendment
-Gallup poll
-Shultz's view of public confidence

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm

Shultz's schedule
-Hodgson

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.

President's forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Hodgson
-Counsel for National Labor Relations Board [NLRB]
-Ehrlichman

[Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:32 pm and 5:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28D]

President's forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Hodgson
-Counsel for NLRB
-Ehrlichman

Unknown news story

[End of telephone conversation]

Pentagon Papers
-[Forename unknown] Plassky's [sp?] story
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Counsel for NLRB
-Richard T. Burress
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and
Helpers of America [TEAMSTERS]
-Prospects for confirmation
-Peter G. Nash
-Prospects for confirmation
-Jack F. Kemp Conv. No. 531-28 (cont.)
-Burress
-Ehrlichman's conversation with John J. Rhodes
-Hodgson's conversations with Burress supporters
-Nash
-President's conversation
-Charles W. Colson
-Clark MacGregor

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:06 pm and 5:35
pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28E]

[See Conversation No. 6-27]

[End of telephone conversation]

Frederic V. Malek

[Haldeman talked with MacGregor at an unknown time between 5:06 pm and 5:35 pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28F]

[See Conversation No. 6-28]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:06 pm and 5:35
pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28G]

[See Conversation No. 6-29]
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[End of telephone conversation]
Haldeman's conversation with MacGregor
-Nash
-Conference on Mansfield amendment

[Haldeman talked with Malek at an unknown time between 5:05 pm and 5:35 pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28H] Conv. No. 531-28 (cont.)

[See Conversation No. 6-30]

[End of telephone conversation]

Nash
-Support on Capitol Hill
-Burress
-Industry and business support
-Stans
-Labor support

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:06 pm and
5:35 pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28I]

[See Conversation No. 6-31]

[End of telephone conversation]

Malek
-Declassification project
-Tom C. Huston

[The President talked with MacGregor between 5:35 pm and 5:39 pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28J]

[See Conversation No. 6-32]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:35 pm.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:39 pm.
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[End of telephone conversation]
Memorandum to Lawrence M. (“Larry”) Higby
-President's previous conversation with MacGregor

[Haldeman talked with Higby at an unknown time between 5:39 pm and 5:44 pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28K] Conv. No. 531-28 (cont.)

MacGregor's memo to Higby

[End of telephone conversation]

The President left at an unknown time after 5:39 pm.

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:39 pm.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:44 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time before 5:44 pm.

Memorandum

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:39 pm and
5:44 pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28L]

[See Conversation No. 6-33]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with Mary Swann between 5:44 pm and 5:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28M]

[See Conversation No. 6-34]

[End of telephone conversation]
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President's conversation with Swann
-Effect
-Cabinet officers' possible conduct
-Volpe
-George W. Romney
-William P. Rogers
-John N. Mitchell
Conv. No. 531-28 (cont.)
[The President talked with the White House operator at 5:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 531-28N]

[See Conversation No. 6-35]

[End of telephone conversation]

Use of secretaries
-Rose Mary Woods
-Maggie [Surname unknown]
-Prestige

[The President talked with Mitchell between 5:46 pm and 5:50 pm; the President talked to
Haldeman in the background]

[Conversation No. 531-28O]

[See Conversation No. 6-36]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at 5:50 pm.