500–22

Conversation No. 500-22

Date: May 18, 1972
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[Discontinuities appear in the original recording]

Drugs
-Statements by Dr. Bertram S. Brown of National Institute of Mental Health
-President's previous statement at California press conference
-Distribution
-Officials' views

Presidential appointments
-Peter G. Peterson
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-Age
-Health
-Age
-[Name unintelligible]
-Age

Drugs
-Marijuana
-Effects
-Compared with alcohol
-Types
-Effect on nations
-Alcohol
-Japan, Great Britain, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], People's
Republic of China [PRC], Malaysia
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[Unintelligible]

-Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter [?]
-Anti-narcotics campaign [?]

A special item

Business magazine editors meeting Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.)
-Original list of attendants
-Time, Newsweek, Fortune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Barron's,
Forbes
-[Name unintelligible], C. L. Sulzberger
-Time, Newsweek, and New York Times business sections

President's schedule
-Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch
-A call

Mansfield Amendment
-Senate
-Possible vote

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Boeing contracts
-Administration's efforts, Boeing's efforts
-Republican senators
-Southern Democrats
-House of Representatives
-Leadership
-Senate
-Leadership
-Everett M. Dirksen
-Hugh Scott

President's schedule
-Quadriad meeting, May 21, 1971
-John B. Connally

Anna C. Chennault
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 21s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.)

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-Current position
-US Chamber of Commerce
-Trip to Far East and Southeast Asia
-Previous conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Possible letters from President
-Park Chung Hee
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Prime Minister and Air Marshall of Thailand
-Letter to Haldeman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible letters from President
-Letters to Ambassadors
-Vietnam
-Mitchell’s view
-Forthcoming election in South Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
-Trip
-Possible letters
-President
-Ambassadors
-Kissinger
-US ambassador
-Taiwan, Korea
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm.

President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Chennault
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Racial problems
-Ehrlichman's assessment
-Possible action
-Demonstrators
-Mayors, police chiefs
-Ehrlichman
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA] Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.)
-Ehrlichman
-Blacks, Chicanos
-Police

Clark MacGregor
-Location
-Possible meeting with President and Kissinger

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Bull?] at an unknown time between 2:30 pm and
3:04 pm]

[Conversation No. 500-22A]

President's schedule
-Kissinger and MacGregor

[End of telephone conversation]


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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[Duration: 40s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm.

MacGregor's location
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Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable] Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.)
[Duration: 1m 56s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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John A. Volpe
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
-Relations with President
-Dinner at Clifford M. Hardin's residence
-Telephone conversation with Ehrlichman
-Meetings with President
-Transportation issues
-National Railroad Passenger Corporation [AMTRAK or RAILPAX]
-SST
-Volpe's
-William M. Magruder
-Volpe compared with Connally

Rumsfeld
-Possible position with Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Possible OEP position
-Cabinet meetings
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Mission
-Forthcoming meeting with President and Finch

Hardin[?]

Haldeman left at 3:04 pm.
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