496–12

Conversation No. 496-12

Date: May 10, 1971
Time: 2:40 pm - 3:08 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman


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[Transcript #1: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

President's schedule
-Plans for radio speeches
-President's review
-Possible forthcoming press conference
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-Patrick J. Buchanan's schedule
-Possible radio speech
-Senior Citizens Week
-A Florida event
-Possible radio speech
-Demonstrations

Cancer program Conv. No. 496-11 (cont.)
-Congress
-Announcement
-Responsibility
-National Institutes of Health [NIH], President
-Announcement
-President
-Elliot L. Richardson

Agency briefings
-President's role
-Role of Richardson and others
-President's role
-Press

Henry A. Kissinger's briefing
-Press

Press briefings
-John A. Scali, Ronald L. Ziegler
-Length

Demonstrations
-William L. Safire

[Transcript #2: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

President's conversation with Kissinger

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
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-President’s trip
-Plans
-Kissinger
-Soviet interests
-William P. Rogers
-A Reply

Vietnam Conv. No. 496-12 (cont.)
-Negotiations
-Le Duan
-Moscow
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Prospects

Berlin negotiations

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Initiative
-Kissinger

Vietnam
-US combat role
-Negotiations
-Nguyen van Thieu
-Kissinger
-Timing
-US position
-Le Duan

PRC initiative

Rogers

President's schedule
-Republican congressmen
-Meeting with Rogers
-Press photo coverage
-Republican congressmen
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-Possible breakfast
-William M. Colmer's luncheon, May 11, 1971
-Leslie C. Arends
-Gerald R. Ford
-Number
-Timing of President's meeting
-Colmer luncheon
-Carl B. Albert Conv. No. 496-12 (cont.)
-Possible breakfast
-Cabinet meeting
-Rogers’ trip report
-Maurice H. Stans's trip report
-Rogers' trip report
-An East Room event
-Meetings with Congressmen
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-John A. Volpe
-Cabinet meeting
-Staff meetings
-An event
-Scali, Safire
-Possible speech by President[?]
-Theme
-Lyndon B. Johnson Library dedication
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Florida or Washington departure
-Graham's schedule
-North Carolina
-Possible flight plans

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm

President’s schedule
-President's signature
-Photographs
-Rose Mary Woods
-Secretaries
-Woods

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm
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President's schedule
-Johnson Library dedication
-Graham's schedule
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-President's departure from Florida
-Presidential plane
-Graham's[?] schedule
-Florida Conv. No. 496-12 (cont.)
-Florida

George P. Shultz's schedule
-May 10, 1971 staff dinner
-Return from a trip
-Lunch with Fortune magazine staff

President’s schedule
-Upcoming meeting with Ehrlichman


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Public opinion
-President's policies
-California
-Kissinger's report
-Washington
-Compared with Johnson's \"Great Society\"
-Johnson Library opening publicity
-\"Great Society\"
-Revenue sharing, welfare reform, government reorganization, environmental
reform
-\"New American Revolution\"
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-Raymond K. Price, Jr., Safire
-Public relations
-Accomplishments
-Population issue, Urban Affairs Council, food programs
-A slogan
-Law and order theme
-Washington, D.C. demonstrations
-Ziegler Conv. No. 496-12 (cont.)
-Wilson
-Effectiveness
-Ziegler
-Wilson's statement

Haldeman left at 3:08 pm