587–7

Conversation No. 587-7

Date: October 8, 1971
Time: 10:58 am - 12:12 pm
Location: Oval Office
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The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] classified documents
-Ehrlichman’s previous meeting with Richard M. Helms
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Helms's relationship with Presidents
-Desire for meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman's request for documents
-Helms response
-Cables and summaries
-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
-Democrats
-Helms view
-Declassification possibilities
-Charles w. Colson
-William H. Rehnquist
-Ehrlichman
-CIA responsibility
-The President’s view
-CIA responsibility
-Bay of Pigs invasion
-CIA position
-Problems
-Helms
-Possible replacements
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Reason for the president's desire for documents
-Declassification
-Ehrlichman's rationale to helms
-Forthcoming negotiations
-Cuban missile crisis
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Diem
-Questions at press conferences
-Desire for facts
-Life magazine
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Helms
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Colson
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-CIA

Helms entered at 11:06 am.

Law enforcement
-John n. Mitchell
-J. Edgar Hoover
-John B. Connally
-justice department
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-CIA
-Defense department
-Cooperation
-Theodore S. (“Ted”) Williams
-FBI

CIA classified documents
-Purpose for the President receiving documents
-Cuban situation
-USSR
-Negotiations
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-\"Dirty tricks\"
-The President’s knowledge and support
-Iran
-Guatemala
-Bay of Pigs
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Planning
-John F. Kennedy
-CIA
-Allen W. Dulles
-Plan
-The President’s view
-Fidel Castro
-Purpose
-Pentagon papers
-Significance of leak
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Chilean election
-The President's reasons of wanting documents
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-Ehrlichman and Helms
-Pentagon papers
-Vietnam
-Diem
-Questions
-Eisenhower
-Lyndon Johnson
-John Kennedy
-Nixon
-The President's intention to protect intelligence gathering
-Protection for predecessor presidents
-CIA directors
-FBI
-Hoover
-The President’s assurances
-CIA
-Operations
-The President’s view
-The President's need to be fully informed
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-USSR
-Berlin
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Importance
-State department
-Soviets
-Chinese
-Chile
-Funds
-Need to be fully informed
-Need to be fully informed
-The President’s knowledge
-CIA
-Pentagon Papers
-Lyndon Johnson
-John Kennedy
-Relationship between the President and the Director of CIA
-Diem
-The President’s knowledge
-Henry Cabot lodge
-Vietnam
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-The President's need for information
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic council
-Hoover
-Vietnam, Laos, Kent State, Cambodia
-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Eisenhower
-The President's regard for the institution of the Presidency
-The President's need for information
-Purpose
-Pentagon Papers
-Effect of the President
-John Kennedy
-Lyndon Johnson
-Developments
-Chile
-Political implications
-Republicans
-Democrats
-Hubert h. Humphrey
-Edward Kennedy
-Prisoners of War [POW] comments
-Humphrey
-George Meany
-Edward Kennedy forces
-Lyndon Johnson
-Situation
-Ehrlichman
-Diem
-John A. McCone
-Helms position
-Marshall S. Carter
-Helms's review of documents
-Types of documents
-McCone’s documents
-Secretary of State
-Defense department
-John Kennedy
-The President's need for information
-“Dirty tricks”
-Vietnam War
-The President’s view
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-Press conference
-John Kennedy
-Bay of Pigs
-Declassification problem
-Lyndon Johnson
-The President's decision regarding Nguyen Van Thieu

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:06 am.

The president's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:34 am.

-Diem
-Thieu
-Bay of Pigs
-The President's schedule
-Connally
-Herbert Stein
-George P. Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-Connally
-[Unintelligible name]
-Spiro T. Agnew

Ehrlichman and Helms left at 11:34 am.

David M. Kennedy, Henry A. Kissinger, Peter G. Peterson entered at 11:34 am; members of the
press were present at the beginning of this meeting.

Diplomacy
-Textile negotiations
-Anthony J. Jurich
-David Kennedy’s discussion
-Kakuei Tanaka
-Status of negotiations
-Kissinger's conversation with unknown person
-Nobusuke Kishi
-Agreement

-State Department
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-Peterson
-David Kennedy as negotiator
-Connally
-Trade with the Enemy Act
-The President’s view
-David Kennedy
-Forthcoming trip to Guam
-Tactics
-Kishi
-Previous meeting with the President
-Okinawa
-Trade issues
-Taiwan
-Japan
-Korea
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Negotiating strategy
-Jurich
-Japan
-Kissinger
-The President's conversation with Takeo Fukuda
-Conversation of Kissinger
-Peterson
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Koreans
-The President's schedule
-Kishi
-Agricultural Act
-Trade agreement
-Japan
-Negotiations
-American position
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-American credibility
-The President’s view
-Tanaka
-Surcharge on textiles
-Discussions with Tanaka
-Most Favored Nation status
-Connally
-Public relations
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-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press photograph
-Textiles
-Assessment
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-Connally
-State Department
-Kissinger

Salvador Allende Gossins
-The President’s view
-Kissinger's meeting with Chile's Foreign Minister
-Discussion
-US policy

Ziegler and members of the press entered at an unknown time after 11:35 am.

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm.

Public relations
-Japanese
-Textiles
-The President's schedule
-Kissinger's schedule
-David Kennedy

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm.

Diplomacy
-Textile negotiations
-Japanese
-Public relations
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Charlotte Observer
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Harry S. Dent
-Mitchell
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-State Department
-David Kennedy
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Japanese
-US embassy
-The President's alleged views toward agreement
-Mills
-Timing
-Peterson
-Mills


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-Korean ambassador
-Conversation
-Taiwan
-Growth of industry
-Title I
-Percentage changes
-Submarine
-Timing on delivery
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China
[PRC]
-David M. Kennedy’s instructions
-Japan
-Kendall
-Monetary reform
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-Trade
-Defense
-Tanaka
-Kissinger's conversation with European business group
-David Kennedy
-Meany
-Labor people
-Shultz
-State Department

Kennedy and Peterson left at 12:00 pm.

Peterson's work

Kissinger's schedule
-David Rockefeller

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:00 pm.

John D. Ehrlichman

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:03 pm.

Middle East
-Egypt
-Kissinger’s comments
-Israel
-Negotiation
-New York
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-US explanation
-Israelis
-Possible forth coming meeting with Dobrynin
-Anwar el-Sadat

Unidentified people
-Kennedy Center
-The President's schedule
-Leonard Garment
-Alexander M. Haig, jr.
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The President's economy speech announcing Phase II
-William L. Safire

Economy
-Rockefeller
-Kissinger’s comments

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 12:03 pm.

The President's schedule
-Mitchell
-Hoover
-Sullivan
-Mrs. Bunaro Overstreet
-Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
-Kissinger’s view

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:03 pm.

The President’s schedule

FBI
-Sullivan

Refreshments
-The President’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm

FBI
-Hoover
-Mitchell
-Directorship
-Sullivan
-Assistance to the administration

Ehrlichman left at 12:05 pm.

US foreign relations
-The President’s view
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-Accomplishments
-Middle East
-US negotiation options
-Vietnam
-India and Pakistan

[Unintelligible]

Kissinger and the President left at 12:12 pm