576–6

Conversation No. 576-6

Date: September 18, 1971
Time: 10:40 am - 2:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with John N. Mitchell and Henry A. Kissinger.

Oval Office
-Set-up
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-Button
-Kissinger's previous encounter with Secret Service agents

The Middle East
-Jerusalem Resolution
-Status
-Arabs
-Text

Mitchell’s health

The President entered at 10:40 am.

Foreign policy
-The Middle East
-Suez Canal
-Shooting incidents
-Israelis
-Egypt
-Airplanes shot down earlier in week
-Israeli territory
-Sinai Peninsula
-Surface to air missile [SAM] sites
-US reaction
-Options
-Possible appeal by the President for restraint
-Cease-fire
-Negotiations
-Appeal for restraint
-Conditions
-Phantoms
-Israeli withdrawal
-William P. Rogers
-Israeli and Egyptian action
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Call to Kissinger
-The Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Palestinian raids
-Lebanese border
-Fedayeen
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-Jordan

US-Soviet relations
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Dobrynin
-Offensive weapons
-Gerard C. Smith
-Defensive weapons
-Melvin R. Laird
-US delegation
-State Department view
-May 20th [proposal?]
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM] levels
-Previous week's meeting
-The President's letter to Smith
-Smith's handling of negotiations
-Soviet proposals
-Berlin agreement
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger's friend in the Pentagon
-Memorandum
-[Forename unknown] Kramer
-View on Berlin
-Agreement with US
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Laws
-SALT
-Delegation
-Smith
-Congress
-ABM
-Dobrynin
-Helsinki meetings

Middle east
-Rogers's plans
-New York-United Nations [UN] meeting
-Mahmoud Riad
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-US-Soviet summit
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-US policy with Israelis
-Soviet policy with Egypt

The President's press conference
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Ambassador
-Chou En-lai's view

Middle East policy
-Rogers
-Israelis

The President talked with Congressman Roger H. Zion between 10:51 am and 10:54 am.

[Conversation No. 576-6A]

[See Conversation No. 9-80; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]


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Middle East
-UN meetings
-Rogers's plans
-George H.W. Bush
-Role
-Mitchell
-Possible call from Mitchell
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-Israelis
-Support and opposition
-Moshe Dayan
-Max M. Fisher
-Phantoms
-Delivery
-Rogers's negotiations
-Suez Canal issue
-Delivering arms
-Israelis
-Golda Meir's letter to the President
-Israel
-Possible deal
-Senate
-Egypt
-Forthcoming conversation with Yitzhak Rabin
-Kissinger and Mitchell
-Politics
-Soviet Union
-Egypt
-Balance of power
-Negotiations
-Planes
-Rogers
-State Department
-Delivery of military equipment
-Dayan
-Fisher
-Timing
-Rabin
-Laird, William J. Baroody, Jr.
-US relations with the Soviet Union, PRC
-Vietnam
-Mitchell
-Middle East issues
-Rogers
-Kissinger's involvement
-Middle East relations
-US-Israel
-Soviet Union, Egypt
-Soviet Union
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-Equipment aid to Egypt
-Israel
-French role
-Airplanes
-Mirage fighter parts
-Kissinger's memorandum
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Bush
-Rogers

Kissinger left at 11:01 am.

Supreme Court
-Decision on nominee to fill vacancy
-John D. Ehrlichman's views
-Richard H. Poff
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Hugo L. Blacks replacement
-Southern background
-Conservative
-Busing view
-Forced housing integration
-Pentagon Papers
-Harry Blackmun-type judge
-Poff
-Age
-Mitchell's possible conversation with [Lawrence E.?]Walsh
-ABA
-Supreme Court appointment
-Judiciary Committee service as equivalent to service as lawyer
-Constitutional questions

“Laugh-In”
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell's appearance
-Paul W. Keyes's call to the President

The President talked with Charles E. Wiggins between 11:05 am and 11:07 am.

[Conversation No. 576-6B]

[Conversation No. 9-81]
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[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court
-Appointment
-Mitchell's forthcoming meeting with Walsh
-Black announcement
-Practice of law by nominee
-Poff
-Leadership meetings
-Age
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Confirmation situation
-Southern Manifesto
-Warren E. Burger
-John M. Harlan
-Letters from the President
-[Black]
-Illness
-John Foster Dulles
-Tenure
-Liberal
-Busing
-Effects in the South
-Forced housing integration
-The President’s campaign commitments
-Woman as a Justice
-New York
-Representation in Supreme Court
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Thurgood Marshall
-California
-Lawyer
-William French Smith
-Ronald W. Reagan
-California Board of Regents
-Approval by the ABA
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Work with Justice Department on behalf of Reagan
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Perceived ethnicity of appointee
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-Ehrlichman's view
-Perceptions
-Religious background
-Importance of stand on busing and integration
-Mitchell’ conversation with potential nominee
-Weinberger
-Mitchell’s view
-Felix Frankfurter
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Weinberger's work as Chairman
-Expansion of agency activities
-Miles W. Kirkpatrick
-Reorganization of FTC
-Age
-Religious background
-Significance
-Burger's views
-Herschel H. Friday
-Little Rock, Arkansas
-Age
-Mitchell's acquaintance
-Law firm
-Pat Mehaffy
-Blackmun
-Teacher
-College
-Arkansas School Board
-Supreme Court arguments
-ABA
-Burger
-Harlan seat
-Poff
-Friday
-Paul H. Roney
-Florida
-Dave Dyer
-Burger's views on age of justices
-William O. Douglas
-Marshall
-Harlan
-Black
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-Edward W. Brooke
-As Attorney General of Massachusetts
-Intelligence


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-Military Court of Appeals
-Unnamed black judge
-6th Circuit Court of Appeals
-Michigan
-Party affiliation
-Strict constructionist
-Bill Pullman [?] from Philadelphia
-William H. Brown, III
-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] head
-Brooke
-Support for Mitchell
-Law practice
-Congress
-Bill
-Marshall
-Edmund S. Muskie

Muskie
-Statement on Black as Vice President
-Statement by Muskie's aide
-George W. Romney
-Comment at Governors Conference
-Attica prison incident
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
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-Action
-Staff
-Action
-Irony
-Timing

Supreme Court appointment
-Brown
-Option
-Friday
-Arkansas
-Wilbur D. Mills
-House Of Representatives and Senate
-Poff
-Walsh
-Judiciary Committees
-[Frederic M. Brandes?]
-Liberal Democrat
-Role of ABA in confirmation
-Walsh
-Judiciary Committees
-1970 election
-Robert McClory
-Thomas F. Railsback
-Emanuel Celler
-Unknown man from Denver
-Charles Thone
-Roman L. Hruska
-Abe Fortas
-Blackmun
-Need for speedy action
-Walsh
-Prayer service
-Alexander M. Bickel
-View of Constitutional construction
-18-year old vote
-Busing
-Work with Leonard Garment
-Criminal law
-Scholar
-Age
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-Charles S. Rhyne
-Philosophy
-Age
-Bickel
-Age
-Garment
-Harry D. Goldman
-Mitchell's conversation with Garment
-Rockefeller
-Committee to investigate Attica
-Fourth Circuit Court
-Bickel
-Busing
-Criminal law
-Economy
-Frankfurter
-Busing
-Forced integration
-Criminal law
-Friday
-Politics of the appointment
-Bickel
-New England
-South
-Conservative
-Minnesota
-New York
-Conservatives
-Reagan
-Rockefeller
-William French Smith
-California
-Conservative
-William French Smith
-Philosophy
-Jean Webb Smith
-First husband [George Vaughan]
-Outlook
-Reagan
-Haldeman
-University of California Board of Regents
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J. Edgar Hoover
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-The President's forthcoming talk with Hoover
-Hoover's tenure as FBI director
-1972 election
-Age
-Current status of FBI
-William C. Sullivan
-Health
-Possible honorary position
-Possible appointment as presidential advisor
-Coordination of intelligence activities
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Narcotics and crime
-FBI
-Travel
-Law enforcement agencies
-Special consultant to the President
-Domestic law enforcement
-Office in FBI
-George Champion
-Attorney General
-Department of the Treasury
-Successor
-L. Patrick Gray
-Ehrlichman
-Compared to Hoover
-Possible appointment as assistant
-Timing
-Cartha D. (“Deke”) DeLoach
-Political skills
-Lyndon B. Johnson's bugging of airplanes
-Arrangements for meeting with the President
-Possible speculation
-Map Room
-Kissinger, Dobrynin meetings
-Press speculation
-Breakfast meeting
-Mitchell's birthday
-Martha Mitchell
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-Sequoia
-Memos
-Schedule

The President talked with an unknown person [Haldeman] at an unknown time between 11:01
am and 11:59 am.

[Conversation No. 576-6C]

The President's schedule
-Breakfast meetings
-Carl B. Albert
-Hoover

[End of telephone conversation]

Hoover
-Presence as campaign issue
-Popularity
-Forthcoming study of the FBI
-Princeton University Group
-Burke Marshall
-John Doar
-Justice Department
-Sullivan
-DeLoach's views
-Hoover's actions
-Sid W. Richardson
-Money
-Oil ventures
-The President' wealth
-Johnson's property

The President's wealth
-The President's property
-San Clemente
-Nixon Library location
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Unknown horse rancher
-Robert A. Abplanalp, Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
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Johnson Presidential Library
-Dedication
-Comparison with the Taj Mahal

The Pentagon Papers
-Johnson
-Democrats
-Defense of Johnson
-Walt W. Rostow
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

Middle East
-Israel
-Kissinger's Role
-Rogers
-Fisher
-Dayan
-Withdrawal
-Suez Canal Settlement
-Donald Bergus
-US policy
-Egypt

Cabinet
-Clifford M. Hardin’s resignation
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:01 am.
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The President's schedule
-Weinberger

Request for Ronald L. Ziegler to join meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.

Secretary of Agriculture post
-Louie B. Nunn
-Demeanor
-Border states, South, Ohio, Illinois
-Bryce N. Harlow's view
-Haldeman
-Background
-John B. Connally

Ziegler entered at 11:59 am.

Supreme Court nomination
-Attorney General's meeting with the President
-Speculation on Supreme Court nomination
-Poff
-ABA
-Names under consideration
-Number
-Strict constructionists
-Southerners
-Harlan
-Poff
-Timing of announcement
-ABA
-Lyle Dennison
-Story
-Poff
-ABA
-Timing
-The President's schedule
-Detroit trip
-Harlan
-Health
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[Burger]

An unknown person entered at an unknown after 11:59 am.

The President’s schedule
-Trip to Camp David

The unknown person left at an unknown before 12:07 pm.

-Camp David
-Attorney General

Ziegler left at 12:07 pm.


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Ambassadorship
-Reagan
-Walter H. Annenberg

Pentagon Papers
-Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson
-Forthcoming meeting with the President

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:07 pm.

The President's schedule
-Ehrlichman, Colson

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:11 pm.
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Ambassadorships
-Ronald and Nancy Reagan
-Annenberg's views
-Reagan's views
-Ambassadorship
-Resignation
-Campaign work
-Reagan as Ambassador
-Issues in the Common Market
-Contributors
-Amount


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Haldeman and Colson entered at 12:11 pm.


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The President left and Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 12:13 pm.

Supreme Court
-Colson
-Black's resignation
-Carswell

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:14 pm.
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Supreme Court appointment
-Governor of Virginia [Linwood Holton]'s call to Haldeman
-Joel T. Broyhill, William L. Scott
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr., William B. Spong, Jr.
-Hruska
-Walsh
-Possible meeting with the President
-Holton's activities
-Circuit Court
-Comparison with Supreme Court
-District Court
-Reagan
-Burger
-Bickel
-Garment
-Age
-Intellectuals
-Busing
-Housing
-Criminal law
-Writings
-William H. Rehnquist
-Academic community
-Pentagon Papers case
-First Amendment
-Black
-New York Times
-Marshall
-Liberals
-Future generations
-Reagan
-William French Smith
-Jean Webb Smith
-Corporation lawyer
-Political association with Reagan
-Conservatism
-Harlan's seat
-Corporation lawyer background for appointee
-Academic background
-Smith
-Board of Regents
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-Age
-Brown
-EEOC
-President’s view
-Support for administration
-Congress
-Marshall
-Brooke
-Senate
-Brown
-Jackie Robinson-Brooklyn Dodgers analogy
-“Ethnic seats”
-Blacks
-Jews
-Democrats
-[Forename unknown] O'Reilly [?]
-Support
-Brown
-Marshall's seat
-Poff
-ABA standards
-Practicing law
-Black
-Potter Stewart
-John W. Bricker of Ohio
-The President's experiences
-Supreme Court
-Legal scholars
-Frankfurter
-Harvard University

Pentagon Papers
-Impact
-Democrats
-The President's previous conversation with Colson
-William S. White, Louis P. Harris
-Strategy
-Johnson
-Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-War issue
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-Democrats' record
-Focus
-Congress
-Ehrlichman's views
-Effects on administration control
-Control
-Court effects
-Election
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Leslie Gelb
-Administration view
-Leaks to press
-Impasse
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] inquiry
-Interests
-Democrats
-Administration
-Kissinger
-Involvement of students and associates in issue
-Elliot L. Richardson's involvement
-Effect of Congressional hearing
-Congressional investigation
-Testimony
-Richardson
-Kissinger
-Involvement
-Contents
-Democrats
-Focus
-Possible Senate and House investigation
-Origins of the Vietnam War
-Revelations of the Pentagon Papers
-Diem coup
-Bombing decisions during Vietnam war
-Gulf of Tonkin
-Kissinger and Richardson
-W. Averell Harriman
-McGeorge Bundy
-Kissinger's views
-Timing of investigations, revelations
-Vietnam elections
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-Democrats' focus
-Responsibilities of Democrat administration
-Diem coup
-Congressional committee's budget
-J. William Fulbright's actions
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Executive Committee
-Public hearings
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Politics of the Pentagon Papers
-Effect on Muskie's advisors
-Democrat foreign policy establishment
-Delivery of documents to Congress
-Columnists
-Ellsberg's views
-Coverup
-Public scrutiny
-Newspapermen
-First Amendment rights
-Content of the Pentagon Papers
-Diem
-Controversy
-Duong (“Big Minh”) Van Minh
-John Paul Vann
-Harriman
-Henry Cabot Lodge


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-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. (?)
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-Vietnam election
-Leaks
-Effects of revelation of the Pentagon Papers
-October 3
-Congressional hearings
-Fulbright's action
-Study
-Executive session of Foreign Relations Committee
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Policy decisions
-Republicans
-Joint hearings
-Armed Services Committee
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Democrats' views
-John G. Tower
-Armed Services
-Suppression
-Coup
-Cables and documents
-Ehrlichman and Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Boston Globe
-Times
-Neil Sheehan
-Ellsberg source
-Lucien Conein
-Articles
-Lodge
-Harriman
-Leaks of documents


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-Effects of information


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-Effects of information
-Berrigan brothers' case
-Mitchell’s experience
-John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Cornell University


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-Conein, theories
-Republicans
-Effects on Democrats
-Other investigations
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-Bay of Pigs
-Cuban Missile Crisis
-Exposure of documents
-White House efforts
-Physical quantity
-1960 missile gap issue
-Vietnam War
-Origins
-Kissinger
-Democratic involvement
-Mansfield's use of phrase \"Nixon's war\"
-Responsibilities
-Krogh, David R. Young, Jr.
-Diem
-Previous administrations
-Exposure of Vietnam, dirty tricks
-Kissinger's conversations with Ehrlichman
-Vietnamese election
-Referendum
-Trip to San Clemente
-NSC meeting
-Democrat administration
-Vietnam War
-Richard A. Falk and Bundy issue
-Presidency of Foreign Relations Council

Tennis
-St. Louis

Pentagon Papers
-Exposure of facts
-Requirements
-Young
-NSC staff
-Diem and Democrats
-Involvement
-CIA
-Implications for Democrats
-Harriman
-Bundy
-Rostow
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-Harriman
-Muskie
-Connections with candidates
-John Kennedy administration
-Edward M. Kennedy candidacy
-Portrayal
-Edward Kennedy and Muskie
-Poll

Muskie
-Black as Vice President
-Principle of equal opportunity

Pentagon Papers
-Interview
-Conein
-Edward Landsdale
-Diem and Democrats
-Harriman
-Muskie
-Kennedy
-Kissinger
-View of liberal press on Diem
-Peter A. Lisagor's question at press conference
-Diem's death
-US involvement in the war
-Laotian agreement
-Harriman's involvement
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Diem's death
-Johnson's view
-Liberal press
-Kennedy's role
-Kissinger's view
-Election
-Democratic involvement
-Congress
-TV exposure


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-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Gen. Paul Harkins's view
-Resignation
-Life in Texas
-Congress
-Leaks
-Newsweek
-Diem
-Senate
-Documents in Senate
-Use
-Liberal press views
-Senator’s statement
-Conein
-Administration policy
-Possible statement
-Goldwater
-William E. Brock, III
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Conein
-Richard M. Helms
-CIA
-Diem story
-Handling
-Entire file
-CIA
-President’s order
-Reasons
-Ronald L. Ziegler
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-CIA
-Bay of Pigs
-Access
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Hierarchy
-Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-Walters
-Kissinger
-Diem and Bay of Pigs information
-President’s wishes
-Helms and Cushman
-Resignations
-Information for the President
-Reasons
-Cuban missile crisis
-Bay of Pigs involvement
-Eisenhower
-Kennedy
-Military
-CIA
-The President
-Story deadline
-President’s order
-Urgency
-Bombing halt study
-White House use
-Johnson administration
-Last month
-Joseph Califano
-Trip to the Department of Defense [DOD]
-Materials in files
-Austin, Texas
-Haig
-Gelb, Morton Halperin and Paul Warnke
-Paul H. Nitze
-National Archives and Records Service
-Contract
-Robert Kunzig
-J. Fred Buzhardt
-Pictures of documents
-DOD
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-Edgar Allan Poe
-Tom C. Huston’s investigation
-DOD
-Kissinger's views
-Huston’s views
-Richard V. Allen's views
-Goldwater
-Role in history

Foreign policy events
-Review for facts
-Bombing halt
-Bay of Pigs
-Diem
-Nixon’s orders
-Haig
-White House use
Summary
-Bay of Pigs
-Instructions for Helms
-CIA
-Public release
-Diem coup
-Information
-Press


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-Defense and State Departments
-Leaks to press
-Kissinger
-Handling
-Kissinger
-The President's right to know
-Staff
-Allen
-Huston
-Krogh
-Huston
-Allen
-Job with Peter G. Peterson
-Krogh
-G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt
-Allen
-Possible motives
-State Department
-Parody of Patrick B. Oliphant's cartoon
-Japanese
-Rogers
-Timing of efforts to obtain facts
-Jackson
-Image on Vietnam issue
-Liberal associates


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The President's schedule
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-Forthcoming meeting
-Minority business
-Budget
-Maurice H. Stans
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

Mitchell left at 1:22 pm.

OEO legislation
-Possible veto
-Legislation
-Albert H. Quie's views

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:22 pm.

President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm.

OEO legislation
-Senate bill

The President left at an unknown time after 1:22 pm.

OEO legislation
-The President's views
-Veto

The President returned at an unknown time before 2:05 pm.

Supreme Court appointment
-Bickel
-18-year old vote issue
-Liberals
-Bickel
-Stance
-Future Marshall vacancy
-Brown
-Impact of appointments
-Congress
-Brown's philosophy
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OEO legislation
- Great Society
-Signal
-Busing
-Veto
-Possible consequence
-Effect of action on conservatives
-Supreme Court
-Poff
-Southern manifesto
-Veto
-Alternative
-The President's possible actions
-State of the Union address
-Attack on the Great Society
-Lack of success in programs

Hispanics
-Leadership of OEO
-Philip V. Sanchez
-Appointment of Romana Acosta Banuelos
-The President's meeting September 17, 1971 with Puerto Rican bowling champion,
Aida L. Gonzalez
-Case of rum

Bowling
-The President's meeting with champion bowlers
-News coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Strike in White House bowling alley
-Bowlers
-Professionals
-Strikes
-“Middle America”
-White House bowling alley
-Use
-Harry S. Truman
-Security officers, photographers
-White House staff
-Tennis court
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-Perceptions

Pentagon Papers
White House stance
-Politics
-OEO
-Coordination with Colson's staff
-Mansfield's views
-Johnson's views
-Democratic Party
-Clark M. Clifford
-Administration policy
-Kissinger's position

Use of Federal agencies
-1972 campaign
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Abplanalp, Hobart D. Lewis
-Rebozo
-John Wayne
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-John B. Connally's reaction
-Bureaucracy
-Mitchell's department [Department of Justice]
-1960 Presidential campaign

The federal bureaucracy
-Leaks
-Amount in previous six months
-National security
-CIA
-Tad Szulc
-Cabinet officers' actions vis-a-vis bureaucracy
-Rogers
-Mitchell
-Rogers's statement
-Contacts with the press
-State Department
-Ehrlichman's investigation
-William Beecher
-Szulc
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-Effect on State Department security office
-Lie detector tests
-The President's possible statement
-New York Times
-PRC
-Administration's stance towards
-Ziegler's expression of the President's views on the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare [HEW]
-Effects on HEW
-Cabinet
-Connally
-Treasury Department
-Paul A. Volcker
-Charls E. Walker
-Cabinet secretaries' staffs
-Department of Justice
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Mitchell
-Treasury
-Walker's relations with the White House
-Connally
-Connally

Cabinet
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Melvin R. Laird
-Profile
-News coverage
-Muskie's statement
-Response by Cabinet
-Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Television exposure
-Connally
- M&M characterization of George Meany, Muskie
-Rogers and Laird
-Rogers
-Speech to American Legion
-Sites for speaking engagements
-Middle East
-John A. Scali
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-Laird
-Statements about Congress
-Mitchell
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Attack on Democrat partisanship
-Praise from Governors Conference
-Speech contents
-Unity
-Forthcoming speech
-Buchanan
-Rhetoric, tone
-Michigan poll
-Support for the President
-Youth
-Contrast with Agnew's statistics
-Opposition
-Alabama poll
-Strategy for Agnew
-Youth support
-Possible college campus tour
-Speeches
-Themes
-David Frost show appearance
-Campus appearances
-Colloquies
-Radio
-Newscast
-Paul Harvey
-Herbert G. Klein
-Image following Governors Conference
-Recent trip
-Focus during 1972 primary campaign
-Agnew's forthcoming trips to Iran, Greece, Turkey
-Speeches

Supreme Court appointment
-Agnew
-Projected confirmation hearing
-Agnew's background as lawyer
-James O. Eastland
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr., Walter F. Mondale, Edward Kennedy
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-Nominations of Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., G. Harrold Carswell
-Political aspect
-Stance with the press
-Comparison with the President
-Lisagor

The President's handling of the press
-Alger Hiss case
-1954 and post-1954 periods
- Dump Nixon movement
-Vice Presidency

Economy
-Meeting
-Statistics
-Growth
-Security First National Bank
-California
-Housing starts
-Automobile sales
-Impact
-Business community
-Phase II
-Recovery
-George P. Shultz
-Second quarter 1971 growth
-Tax field
-Budget
-Arthur F. Burns
-Housing
-Media coverage
-Shultz
-Interest rates
-Romney
-Number of starts
-California
-Demographics
-Washington, DC
-Elimination of housing units
-Replacements
-New York City
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-Decline in numbers
-Phase II
-Public support
-Inflation
-Trend of unemployment statistics
-Adjustments
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-John F. Kennedy's administration
-Moynihan’s position

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:22 pm

President’ schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm.

Economy
-BLS
-Current handling of statistics compared to Kennedy administration
-Reagan’s view of statistics
-Unnamed man
-Quote in Washington Post about economy
-Eastern Establishment
-Type of governor for Michigan
-Romney, William G. Milliken
-United Auto Workers [UAW]
-Employment cutbacks
-Phase II, III
-July 1971
-Possible aberration
-Employment
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Governor Daniel J. Evans
-Boeing
-Hiring
-Washington
-Aerospace industry
-Supersonic transport [SST]
-William M. Magruder
-Japan
-Possible joint effort
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The President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Colson left at 2:05 pm.