511–1

Conversation No. 511-1

Date: June 7, 1971
Time: 9:43 am - 11:05 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Casualty figures

Berlin
-Negotiations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-[David] Kenneth Rush's efforts
-Soviet position

Chile

Vietnam
-Military situation in the Me Kong Delta
-Kissinger's conversation with General Robert E. Cushman Jr.
-Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
-Veracity
-Corps Commanders
-Nguyen Van Thieu's Conversation with Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Possible South Vietnamese troop movements
-Mekong Delta
-I Corps
-III Corps
-Replacement for General Do Cao Tri
-Administration actions
-McGovern-Hatfield amendment
-Kissinger's conversation with Clark MacGregor
-Mansfield amendment
-Cook-Stevens amendment
-MacGregor's views
-Kissinger's possible call to Edward W. Brooke
-MacGregor's views
-Effect of Laos operation

Press conferences
-President's reaction to political questions
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-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Mark O. Hatfield
-George S. McGovern
-Kissinger’s views

President's foreign policy
-Vietnam
-President's opponents
-Motives
-Troop withdrawals
-Public opinion
-Berlin
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's comments on negotiations
-Effect on US-Soviet summit
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Effect on Polls
-Possible Soviet Summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Vietnam
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr's and Kissinger's possible comments
-Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [FIAB]
-Dr. Edward Teller's possible appointment
-President's former law partner
-Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Gordon Gray
-Teller
-Kissinger's possible call to Patrick J. Buchanan

Liberals

Vietnam
-U.S. policy
-Possible effect on negotiations
-USSR
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Press
-Queries
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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-President
-Political questions
-Equal time provisions
-SALT
-Newsmen
-President's press conferences
-Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Conv. No. 511-1 (cont.)

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-Alger Hiss
-Senator Joseph McCarthy
-Senator Barry M. Goldwater
-President's abilities
-President's 1960 debates with Kennedy
-Newsmen's views of educated people
-James L. Buckley
-William F. Buckley
-Kissinger
-Dean Rusk

Vietnam
-Kissinger's conversation with Cyrus R. Vance
-President's comments in England, 1965
-Support
-Harold Wilson
-John Foster Dulles
-Vance
-Activities
-McGeorge Bundy
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Press
-John F. Kerry
-McCloskey
-Comments
-Bombing in Laos
-Refugee figures

Reorganization Conv. No. 511-1 (cont.)
-Possible changes at State Department
-John B. Connally
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rush
-Requirements
-Defense Department
-Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

President's schedule
-Moorer
-Forthcoming meeting

William P. Rogers
-Statements
-Connally's reaction
-Peter G. Peterson
-International trade
-Mutual Balance Force Reduction [MBFR]

Possible US-Soviet summit
-MBFR
-Dobrynin
-Preparation
-Kissinger's meeting with the PRC
-Timing of announcement
-Possible US-PRC summit
-Prospects
-Middle East
-Berlin
-Rush

FIAB
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-Teller appointment

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 10:00 am

-Effect on conservatives
-Buchanan
-Buckley
-USIA
Conv. No. 511-1 (cont.)
Kissinger left at 10:15 am

-Teller
-Dr. Edwin Land
-Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr.
-Rockefeller

The President left and re-entered the room at an unknown time between 10:15 am and 10:22 am.

[The White House operator talked with the President at 10:22 am]

[Conversation No. 511-1A]

[See Conversation No. 4-49]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-American Committee on Italian Immigration
-Congressional leaders
-John D. Ehrlichman's views
-President's meeting with Republican Congressmen
-Strategy and tactics
-Ambassador William D. Brewer
-Mauritius
-Population

Senate secret session, June 7
-Laos
-[William] Stuart Symington
-Illegal administration activities
-Kennedy-W[illiam] Averell Harriman policy
-Policy of Kennedy, Johnson
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[Kissinger talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:22 am and 10:24 am]

[Conversation No. 511-1B]

Laos
-Timing of U.S. involvement
-Kennedy-Harriman policy
Conv. No. 511-1 (cont.)
[End of telephone conversation]

[The President spoke with Frank E. Fitzsimmons between 10:24 am and 10:29 am]

[Conversation No. 511-C]

[See Conversation No. 4-50]

[End of telephone conversation]

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:29 am

Linwood Holton
-Call from Ronald L. Ziegler
-President's schedule
-Home builders association

[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:29 am and
10:33 am]

[Conversation 511-1D]

[See Conversation No. 4-51]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Holton
-Ehrlichman
-Home Builders Association
-Ehrlichman

Butterfield left at 10:33 am
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-Hoax calls


Laos
-Kennedy-Harriman Policy
-Richard B[?] Russell
-Symington
Conv. No. 511-1 (cont.)
Telephone calls
-Purpose
-James F.A. Cardinal McIntyre
-Patrick Cardinal O’Boyle
-Political calls
-Jack R. Miller
-John O. Pastore
-Craig Hosmer

White House social events
-Willy Brandt dinner
-Haig, Kissinger
-Attendees
-Arrangements
-Working dinner
-W. Clement Stone
-President's conversation with Richard B. Ogilvie
-Jerome H. Jaffe


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-Press coverage
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Conv. No. 511-1 (cont.)
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Press conference, June 17
-Buchanan
-Briefing book

[The President talked with Adele (Langston) Rogers between 10:40 am and 10:42 am]

[Conversation No. 511-1E]

[See Conversation No. 4-52]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rogers


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President’s schedule
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-Chicago
-American Association of Retired Persons [AARP]

-Accommodations
-Blackstone Hotel
-Palmer House
-Hilton
-Dinner for Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Arrangements Conv. No. 511-1 (cont.)
-Attendees
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Rogers
-Nellie (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally


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-Number
-Entertainment
-Hufty dinner
-Possible press conference
-Television

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:42 am.

Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:50 am.

-Maine
-Facilities
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Gov. Linwood Holton and Ehrlichman entered, and H.R. Haldeman left at 10:50 am; the White
House photographer was present at beginning of the meeting

Seating arrangements
-Photograph

Holton's schedule
-National Association of Homebuilders
Conv. No. 511-1 (cont.)

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The south
-Virginia
-Handling problems
-New Yorkers who comment on schools

School integration
-Benefits
-Changes since President took office
-Obedience to law versus prejudice
-Holton's children
-Long term effects
-White Southerners' pride

Bomb threat at Virginia Governor's mansion
-Holton's conversation with policeman
-Holton's conversation with Whittier Holton
-Mrs. Holton

Holton's schedule
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The President et al. left at 11:05 am