536–10

Conversation No. 536-10

Date: July 3, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:05 pm and 9:55 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson

Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-The President’s earlier meeting with George P. Shultz and James D. Hodgson
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-Colson
-Conversation with Shultz, Hodgson
-BLS release
-Staff members conversations with BLS staff
-News report
-Time magazine
-Response to press queries
-”Goldstein” [Leon Greenberg]
-Citation as spokesman
-Geoffrey H. Moore, Shultz
-Jews
-[Forenames unknown] Gordowsky [?], Levine
-Moore
-Shultz, Hodgson
-Julius Shiskin
-President’s opinion regarding Jews
-Henry A. Kissinger

[The President talked with John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy between 9:06 am and 9:08 am]

[Conversation No. 536-10A]

[See Conversation No. 6-121]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with an unknown person [Rose Mary Woods?] at an unknown time
between 9:08 am and 9:55 am]

[Conversation No. 536-10B]

Mulcahy
-July 3, 1971 wedding
-The President’s telephone call
-Gift

[End of telephone conversation]

[Pause]

BLS
-Handling of personnel changes
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-Shultz, Hodgson
-Comparison to John B. Connally
-”Goldstein”
-Comparison to Maurice H. Stans
-Department of Commerce
-Handling of statistics compared to BLS
-Harold C. Passer
Conv. No. 536-10 (cont.)
News coverage
-Unemployment statistics
-New York Times
-Colson’s forthcoming call to Julian Goodman of National Broadcasting
Company [NBC] and William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System
[CBS]
-Reporting of unemployment story
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s view
-Headline orientation of the general public
-Colson’s July 2, 1971 conversation with wife and son
-Drop in rates
-Reporting by John W. Chancellor
-John A. Scali
-Vietnam casualty figures
-Laos
-Comparison to July, 1970
-Forthcoming July 15, 1971 Department of Defense release of June figures
-Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers case
-Potter Stewart’s concern
-Hypothetical effect of classified information leak on negotiations to end the
war
-Prisoner of war [POW] release
-Reaction of New York Times reporter [Forename unknown] Bickel

Pentagon Papers case
-Appearance by Dean Rusk
-Vietnam War actions during Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration
-Bickel
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Possible Presidential statement
-Application of espionage laws
-Revelation of activities during John F. Kennedy’s and Johnson’s
administrations
-New York Times revelation of substance of secret documents
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-Vietnam War negotiations
-The President’s obligation to POWs and their families
-Use of secret negotiations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], People’s Republic of China
[PRC], Middle East
-Journalistic desire for news scoops
-Obligation to prisoners of war
-Comparison to Dwight D. Eisenhower Conv. No. 536-10 (cont.)
-Duties as chief of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
[SHAEF]
-US journalists
-Bickel
-New York Times
-Government action
-Possible Presidential statement
-Ellsberg’s actions
-Impact
-The President’s obligation to uphold the law
-Supreme Court decision
-Journalistic goals
-Impact on lives of US servicemen in Vietnam
-Comparison with journalistic standards during World War II
-Rights compared to morality
-The President’s role in the case
-Method of presenting statement
-Arrangements for letter from the editor of a small town newspaper
-Martin S. Hayden
-Newspaper compared to press conference
-Timing
-Bickel
-Article
-Stewart
-Presidential statement
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Bickel’s statement
-Democrat’s reaction
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s statement
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie’s statements
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 5m 51s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 Conv. No. 536-10 (cont.)

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BLS
-”Goldstein”, Moore
-Personnel changes
-Release on unemployment figures
-Time magazine
-Journalistic contact with BLS
-”Goldstein”
-Approval of release
-Hodgson
-Shultz’s conversation with Hodgson

[Pause]

Frank C. Carlucci
-Handling of the Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-California

Law enforcement
-Crime
-US News and World Report
-Forthcoming article
-”Era of permissiveness”
-Letter from the President to law enforcement officials
-White House meeting with police chiefs
-Reaction to letter
-Patrick V. Murphy

Colson’s forthcoming meeting with Buchanan
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BLS
-Hodgson
-Bureaucracy

Colson left at 9:55 am


Conv. No. 536-10 (cont.)