530–3

Conversation No. 530-3

Date: June 29, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:32 am and 10:07 am
Location: Oval Office

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

President's previous meeting with Cabinet
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Administration's relations with press

[The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan between 8:42 am and 8:44 am]
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[Conversation No. 530-3A]

[See Conversation No. 6-13]

[One item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]

Assistance for Administration defenders
-Jack F. Kemp

Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Walter Sullivan
-John M. O'Neill
-Buchanan
-Charles W. Colson
-Kemp and McCloskey appearance on \"David Frost Show\"
-Laos, Vietnam

[The President talked with the White House operator at 8:45 am]

[Conversation No. 530-3B]

[See Conversation No. 6-14]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with Buchanan between 8:46 am and 8:47 am]

[Conversation No. 530-3C]

[See Conversation No. 6-15]

[End of telephone conversation]

Assistance for administration defenders
-Colson
-Sullivan
-McCloskey
-Kemp
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Kenneth B. Keating
-Conversation between Haldeman and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Conversation with President, June 28th

Kissinger
-Backgrounders with press
-Statements to President and Haldeman
-Backgrounders Conv. No. 530-3 (cont.)
-President’s instruction

Haldeman's schedule
-White House staff meeting
-Contacts with press
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Leaks

President's previous Cabinet meeting
-Contacts with press
-Interdepartmental rivalries
-Foreign Service
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Possible effect

Kissinger
-Backgrounders
-Haig
-Order from the President

Pentagon Papers
-Daniel Ellsberg case
-President's conversation with Charles Colson
-Richard A. Moore's opinion
-Alger Hiss case
-Theft
-Prospects for conviction
-Martyrdom
-Moore's opinion
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Ambassadorial appointments
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Peter M. Flanigan
-Marshall Green
-Japan
-Kissinger, Haig

State Department
-Southeast Asia Bureau Conv. No. 530-3 (cont.)

Ambassadorial appointments
-William Porter
-Green
-Thailand

President's previous meeting with Cabinet
-Contacts with press
-Disloyalty
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

White House social affairs
-Forthcoming lunch for Juan Velasco
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Rose Mary Woods
-Dinners
-Anastasio D. Somoza
-Willy Brandt
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Velasco lunch
-Chowder and Marching Society
-Velasco lunch
-Gideon's Army
-Guest lists
-Woods, Butterfield
-Finance dinners
-Flanigan, Maurice H. Stans
-Butterfield and Woods
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Butterfield and Woods
-Guest lists
-Politics
-Bipartisanship
-Clark MacGregor
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-Kissinger
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Wife
-Rank of attendees
-Staff
Conv. No. 530-3 (cont.)
Pentagon Papers
-Ellsberg
-Need to prosecute
-Moore’s view
-Timing of trial
-Martyrdom
-Theft and espionage
-Public statements
-Need to prosecute
-Colson
-Popular opinion
-Background
-View of Vietnam War
-President’s view

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 8:47 am and
9:03 am]

[Conversation No. 530-3D]

[See Conversation No. 6-16]

[End of telephone conversation]

Legislation

Vote in House of Representatives

MacGregor

Bryce N. Harlow

William E. Timmons
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Harlow

[The President talked with Congressman Alvin E. O'Konski between 9:03 am and 9:06 am]

[Conversation No. 530-3E]

[See Conversation No. 6-17]
Conv. No. 530-3 (cont.)
An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 9:03 am.

The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 9:06 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

O'Konski
-Motion concerning Vietnam
-Nixon Doctrine
-Previous conversation with President
-Motion provisions

[The President talked with the White House operator at 9:07 am]

[Conversation No. 530-3F]

[See Conversation No. 6-18]

[End of telephone conversation]

White House personnel
-Discipline

[The President talked with Rose Mary Woods between 9:08 am and 9:09 am]

[Conversation No. 530-3G]

[See Conversation No. 6-19]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Church services
-Democrats
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-Charles H. Percy
-Politics

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:09 am.

John B. Connally's location

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:12 am. Conv. No. 530-3 (cont.)

President's schedule
-Haldeman's efforts

Connally and Ziegler entered at 9:12 am.

Connally's statement

National Economy
-Economic advisors
-Previous Quadriad meeting
-Possible statement to press
-Ziegler's backgrounders
-Herbert G. Klein
-Content of statement
-Duty of the Secretary of the Treasury
-Sources of advice
-George P. Shultz
-Cabinet officers
-Connally’s view
-Release of statement
-Timing
-Clarity
-Cabinet Committee on economic policy
-Secretary of the Treasury as presiding officer in absence of
President
-Duties of the Vice President
-Duties of Secretary of Treasury
-Meeting at Camp David
-Connally's forthcoming statement
-Monetary and fiscal stimuli
-Retail sales
-Home sales
-Unemployment
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-Vietnam veterans
-Defense jobs
-Wage and Price Review Board
-Wage and price controls
-Taxes
-Government spending
-President's veto message
-Government spending Conv. No. 530-3 (cont.)
-Inflation
-Wage and Price Review Board
-Wage and price controls
-President's activities
-Labor and management relations
-Government salaries
-President's economic policy
-Effectiveness
-Impact on inflation
-Unemployment
-Growth of Gross National Product [GNP]
-Housing
-Industrial production
-Personal income
-Retail sales
-Unemployment
-Rate of employment
-Four percent level
-Korean War, Vietnam War
-Married men
-Previous recessions
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John F. Kennedy
-Interest rates
-Plant and equipment
-Inventories
-Retail sales
-Personal income
-Public confidence in President's policy
-Manifestations
-Ziegler's forthcoming statement
-Connally
-Role with administration
-Arthur F. Burns
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-Speech at Pepperdine University
-Statement concerning investment tax credits
-Concern about credibility
-Interest rates
-Actions on money supply
-Responsibility
-Ziegler's forthcoming statement
-Relations with administration Conv. No. 530-3 (cont.)
-Conversation with Connally
-Divided loyalty
-Ethnic background
-Relations with administration
-Connally's forthcoming statement
-Taxes
-Wage and Price Review Board
-Wage and price controls
-Government spending
-Wages and prices
-Construction industry
-President's exercise of authority
-Establishment of Wage and Price Board
-Past failures
-Future of economy
-Stock market
-Increase
-Public service jobs

Connally and Ziegler left at 9:41 am.

Connally
-Abilities

National economy
-Status
-Retail sales
-Foreign policy announcements
-Kissinger
-People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union

White House personnel
-Focus
-White House staff, Cabinet
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-Raymond K. Price, Jr., Moore
-Buchanan
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Compared with President


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Conv. No. 530-3 (cont.)
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-Ehrlichman
-Environment
-Automobile safety
-Consumerism
-Blacks
-Death of girl in Mississippi
-Deaths of two policemen in New York City
-Pressure from press

President's previous meeting with Cabinet
-George W. Romney
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Finch, Rumsfeld

Public relations
-Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-Claude O. Robinson
-Value
-Issue of morality
-President's conversation with Mrs. Glenn R. Davis
-Davis’ children
-President's children
-Children of celebrities
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-Communist and atheist values of education
-White House staff
-Price
-Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Moore
-John A. Scali
-Colson Conv. No. 530-3 (cont.)
-Finch
-Rumsfeld
-Staff suggestions, intuition
-Elmer H. Bobst's statement
-Background of candidates

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:41 am.

Shultz
-Meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:57 am.

Personnel management
-Cabinet
-Perquisites
-Image of President
-Camp David
-Rumsfeld's theory
-White House staff

Administration contacts with press
Haldeman efforts
-Communication with White House staff
-President's image
-Price's preparation of radio talks
-Haldeman's schedule

The President left at an unknown time after 9:41 am.

The President entered at an unknown time before 9:57 am.

Shultz entered at 9:57 am.
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National Commission on Productivity
-President's schedule
-Length
-Members
-Leonard Woodcock
-George Meany
-I[lworth] W. Abel
-Machinist representative Conv. No. 530-3 (cont.)
-Business representatives
-President's possible comments
-Importance of Commission’s efforts
-Meeting agenda
-Possible conference in autumn
-President's possible comments
-Previous meetings
-Peter G. Peterson's previous presentation
-President's possible comments
-President's schedule
-Commission’s meeting schedule

Education appropriation
-Conference committee result
-Excess over budget
-Impact aid
-Public housing
-Frank T. Bow
-Possible veto
-Prospects

The President, et al. left at 10:07 am.