518–6

Conversation No. 518-6

Date: June 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:19 am and 11:50 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President’s schedule
-Signing of documents

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 11:19 am


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Drugs Conv. No. 518-5 (cont.)
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] special
-Method
-Content
-Possibilities
-Concern with drugs
-Opportunities for administration
-Breadth of response
-Leonard Garment, Raymond K. Price, Jr., William L. Safire
-Experimentation with drugs
-Prominence
-Ivy League schools

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-Use of drugs as an issue
-Perception of people
-Opposition of administration to Mafia
-Dilletantes
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Ambassadors meeting
-Offense to some countries

Rogers
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-Concern with State affairs
-Relation with State Department employees
-John D. Ehrlichman


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-U. Alexis Johnson’s view of State Department employees

Haldeman’s conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Middle East
-Jewish community
-Mitchell-Henry A. Kissinger contacts
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Jewish community
-Strategy with President
-Approval of President
-Vietnam
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Support for liberals
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Common Cause
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Support for President’s Vietnam policy
-Kissinger’s meetings with Yitzhak Rabin
-Frequency
-Benefits of meeting
-Strategy
-Mitchell
-Rogers
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Conv. No. 518-6 (cont.)

FOREIGN POLICY


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-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Donald Bergus
-Egyptian proposal
-Mitchell-Rogers contact
-Kissinger’s role
-Contact with Rabin


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ISRAEL


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-President’s role
-White House policy formation
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-Rogers’ role
-Meeting between Mitchell and the President
-Content
-Kissinger’s role in Middle East
-Rumors of State Department involvement in People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-PRC contact initiation
-Agency input
-Department of Commerce Conv. No. 518-6 (cont.)
-Department of Defense


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-Mitchell’s information
-Accuracy
-Mitchell’s meeting with President
-Haldeman’s role with Rogers
-Mitchell’s New York contacts
-Kissinger’s meetings with Rabin


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FOREIGN POLICY


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-Polls
-Jewish support for President
-Robert H. Finch
-Stewart J. O. Alsop Conv. No. 518-6 (cont.)
-Press
-Mitchell
-Rogers


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Mitchell
-Kissinger-Rabin meeting
-Content

Kissinger
-Views
-Haig
-Predictions
-Signal on campaign contribution
-Use by administration
-Intent
-Garment role

Rogers
-Previous Sequoia meeting
-Rogers’ objectivity
-Position on Clark M. Clifford proposal
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-Position on Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Position on Vietnam
-Position on Cambodia
-Position on Laos

Laos
-Casualty rate
-John A. Scali Conv. No. 518-6 (cont.)
-Charles W. Colson
-Cambodia
-Stock market
-Laos

Rogers
-Maurice H. Stans
-Commerce Department personnel
-State Department personnel
-Ehrlichman
-Johnson
-Thailand
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] problems
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Soviet Union
-Dobrynin
-Rogers and Kissinger participation
-Soviet summit
-PRC contact


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FOREIGN POLICY


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Rogers
-PRC
-Trade
-Kissinger
-Travel Conv. No. 518-6 (cont.)
-Midway Island
-Intellect
-Department of State


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President’s relationship with Jews
-Israeli relations

Haldeman left at 11:45 am