503–1

Conversation No. 503-1

Date: May 21, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:13 am and 9:25 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman; the recording begins while the conversation is
in progress.

President's schedule
-Unknown group
-Agenda
-President's dinner plans

Events
-Press
-Cameras
-Presence at recent event
-School event
-Photo opportunities
-Press
-School event
-White House photographer
-Mary Brooks [?]
-Tulane alumni dinner, May 20, 1971
-Press coverage
-Melvin R. Laird
-Attendees
-F. Edward Hébert
-Graduate of Tulane University
-President’s statement
-Press coverage
-Army Band
-”Hail to the Chief”
-Comments from a member of the audience

Press
-Handling
-White House press pool
-Bob Belini [sp?]
-Stories
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Hébert and [Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Louisiana

Southern California
-[Forename unknown] Greenway [?]

Louisiana
-Unknown person Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
-Football

Unknown person

News summary
-Unknown person
-Follow-up

Unknown office
-Staff
-Girls

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 8:13 am.


International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium [INTELSAT]
-President's meeting with INTELSAT conference May 21, 1971
-Time
-Location
-Length of meeting
-Signing ceremony
-U. Alexis Johnson
-William P. Rogers
-Timing
-Press
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Camera coverage
-Length and timing of President's appearance
-Signing ceremony
-Possible Presidential remarks
-Length of INTELSAT conference
-International communications
-Reason for making remarks
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SALT agreement
Tulane alumni dinner
-Howard K. Smith
-President's visit to the dinner
-Dinner honoring
-Hébert
-Boggs
-Allen J. Ellender Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
-Time of President's visit
-Surprise visit

INTELSAT Conference meeting, May 21, 1971
-Johnson
-Time of President's visit to INTELSAT Conference

President's schedule, May 21, 1971
-Meeting with SALT delegation
-Meeting with the National Medal of Science winners
-Awarding medals
-Photo opportunity
-Academia
-INTELSAT Conference meeting
-State Department
-Meeting with the National Medal of Science winners
-Reception
-INTELSAT
-Johnson

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 8:43 am.

Tulane alumni Dinner, May 20, 1971
-Press coverage
-Louisiana
-President's remarks
-Band
-\"Hail to the Chief\"

Executive staff
-Election
-Assistant Secretaries
-Frederic V. Malek
-John B. Connally
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-John A. Volpe, George W. Romney
-Assistant Secretaries
-Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Their executive staffs
-Old Executive Office Building [EOB]


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Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)

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Discrimination
-Busing in Texas
-Unknown person in Texas
-Court order
-Justice Department
-John N. Mitchell
-Schools
-Percentage of blacks
-Jury
-Pasadena, California
-Quotas
-Busing
-Civil Rights Commission
-Rev. Theodore S. Hesburgh
-John D. Ehrlichman
-White House strategy
-Court order

White House staff
-Meetings
-George P. Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
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-Kissinger
-Staff meetings in the morning
-Events in Congress
-News stories
-Executive Departments


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Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)

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Unknown man and the press

Cabinet and staff
-Romney
-James D. Hodgson
-Leadership qualities
-Shultz
-Treasury
-Shultz compared to David M. Kennedy
-Shultz
-Peter N. Flanigan
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Peter G. Peterson
-Arthur F. Burns
-Domestic Council members
-Connally
-Economic policy
-Leadership
-Football analogy
-Paul W. McCracken
-Burns

The President talked with an unknown person [Kissinger?] at an unknown time after 8:13 am.
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Schedule
[End of telephone conversation]

Letter President is writing
-Kissinger

Department of Defense Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
-Job for David Packard
-Laird
-Divestment of stock
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Army


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Kissinger entered at 8:43 am.

INTELSAT Conference
-Kissinger's meeting with Johnson

David K.E. Bruce
-Cable to Kissinger
-Resignation
-Health
-Loyalty to President
-Health
-Return to US
-Unknown group or country
-May, June deadlines
-Strategy for dealing with the resignation
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-Meeting with Kissinger next week and the President

SALT
-Kissinger's press briefing
-News Summary
-Coverage
-President’s role
-Washington Post's headlines Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
-New York Times
-Television
-Marvin L. Kalb's comments
-Gerard C. Smith
-Vladimir S. Semenov
-Kissinger's opening statement to the press
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Smith
-Party
-Press’ political bias
-John Kennedy
-Washington Post
-Television coverage
-President's announcement
-Press columnists
-Smith
-Leaks to the press
-Bureaucracy
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-State Department
-White House bargaining position
-New York Times editorial on May 21, 1971
-Congressional reaction
-President's initiative
-John A. Scali
-President's initiative
-Congress
-Kissinger's briefing
-Television
-Congressional reaction
-Edward W. Brooke
-Charles H. Percy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-March 25
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-Charles W. Colson
-State Department
-ACDA
-Press coverage
-Timing
-Press coverage
-New York Times and Washington Post stories
-President's initiative Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
-Unknown reporter
-Humphrey, J. William Fulbright
-Congressional resolutions
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Press coverage
-Television networks
-“The Today Show”
-Washington Post reaction
-John Kennedy
-President's initiative
-David Kraslow
-Conversation with Kissinger on May 20, 1971
-Sunday Los Angeles Times
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-John W. Chancellor
-Presentation of Science Awards on May 21, 1971
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Kissinger's briefing
-Invitation to James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Unknown person
-[Forename unknown] Steward [?]
-Newsweek
-Time
-Edward Steele
-President's initiative
-Press backgrounders
-Smith
-Kissinger
-President's briefing of Congressional leaders May 20, 1971 on SALT agreement
-Rogers, Laird, Smith
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Possible Kissinger statement to press
-Strategy
-Communist nations
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-Arms control
-President's initiative
-Kissinger's briefing
-Sidey
-Compared to PRC
-US government agencies
-President's initiative
-John F. Osbourne and Sidey Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)
-Role of Kissinger
-\"Hot Line\" telephone
-Negotiations
-Kissinger
-Newspapers
-Sidey
-Osbourne
-Kissinger's briefing
-Smith

White House press briefings
-State Department [?]
-Help in White House briefings
-Laos
-Smith
-Antiballistic missile [ABM]

Schedule

Kissinger left at 9:05 am.

Cabinet and staff
-Rogers
-Laird
-Connally
-Colson
-Connally
-Rogers
-Laird
-Romney
-Volpe
-Maurice H. Stans
-Hodgson
-Elliot L. Richardson
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-President's letter to the Soviets
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Senate
-Leaks

Unknown person
-Washington Post
-Support for the President Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)

Reactions to SALT agreement
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Muskie
-Humphrey
-Fulbright
-Television
-Kissinger
-Daniel Patrick Moynihan
-Scali
-Conservatives
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Media coverage of the White House
-Press reaction to SALT
-Osborne
-Richardson
-Television
-Washington Post
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Chalmers Roberts
-Washington Post
-Media coverage of the demonstrators
-Middle East
-Rogers
-Coverage of President

Congress
-Robert J. Dole

Cabinet officers and staff
-Connally
-Mitchell
-Richardson
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-Volpe
-National Transportation Week
-Connally
-Rogers
-George H.W. Bush
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Charles G. (\"Bebe\") Rebozo
Conv. No. 503-1 (cont.)

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Haldeman left at 9:25 am.