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Conversation No. 496-16
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Date: May 10, 1971
Time: Unknown after 5:25 pm until 6:15 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
William P. Rogers
-President's previous meeting Conv. No. 496-14 (cont.)
-Relations with Henry A. Kissinger
-President's meetings
-Rogers' meetings
-Rogers' report on trip
-Kissinger's presence

Middle East
-Kissinger’s view

Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 5:28 pm

Revenue sharing
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Wilbur D. Mills
-1972 election
-President’s view
-White House strategy regarding revenue sharing
-Warren E. Hearnes
-George P. Shultz
-Upcoming conversation with Mills
-Hearnes
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Agnew
-Gerald R. Ford

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Upcoming vote
-William M. Allen
-Boeing Corporation
-Contract costs
-Current financial situation
-Cost
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-Ford
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Allen
-Business Council meeting
-Call from Warren G. (“Maggie”) Magnuson
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Bob Murphy of Boeing's Washington, D.C. office
-William M. Magruder Conv. No. 496-16 (cont.)
-Boeing
-Contracts
-Purpose
-Jobs
-Japan
-North American Rockwell Corporation in Southern California
-Boeing
-Lockheed Corporation
-Boeing
-General Dynamics Corporation

Economy
-Seattle
-Recovery
-Boeing
-Employment level
-Groceries, rent, real estate
-Labor force
-Future
-Southern California
-Compared with Seattle
-Seattle
-Community efforts
-Area
-Compared with California
-New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana
-Houston, Texas
-Climate
-Seattle and Southern California
-Government subsidies to attract new industries
-Monday night staff meetings
-Ehrlichman, Shultz, Kissinger, and Haldeman
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Location
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Middle East
-Kissinger and Rogers
-May 10, 1971 meeting
-Israel
-US policy
-Suez
-Rogers Conv. No. 496-16 (cont.)
-Israel
-Kissinger
-Editorial writers and columnists
-Israel, Vietnam
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Vietnam
-Jews
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-US policy
-Israel
-Arabs
-Great Britain
-France
-Italy
-Visits to Israel
-Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-John B. Connally
-Israel
-Rogers
-May 10, 1971 meeting with the President
-Kissinger
-Israeli requests for assistance
-Suez

Kissinger
-Israel
-Vietnam
-USSR/US relations
-People's Republic of China [PRC]

Rogers
-Role
-State Department
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Kissinger

Rogers
-Reception in Middle East
-Statements on London
-PRC/USSR relations
-Report to President, Haldeman Conv. No. 496-16 (cont.)
-Compared with Connally
Middle East
-Kissinger
-Jacob K. Javits
-Golda Meir
-Jewish attitude toward Israel
-Admiral Lewis L. Strauss
-Arthur Goldberg
-Appointment to United Nations [UN] by Lyndon B. Johnson
-Compared with Irish attitude toward Northern Ireland
-Meetings

SST
-Boeing
-Magruder
-Allen

Ehrlichman's schedule

Ehrlichman left at 5:45 pm

President's schedule
-Rogers
-Future meetings with President
-Kissinger's presence
-National Security Council meetings
-May 10, 1971 meeting with President
-Kissinger's presence
-President's schedule
-Stephen B. Bull
-Previous meeting with John N. Mitchell
-Staff presence
-George W. Romney, John A. Volpe, and Maurice H. Stans meetings
-Ehrlichman, John C. Whitaker
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-Mitchell
-Connally
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-Kissinger's presence
-Connally
-Mitchell
Conv. No. 496-16 (cont.)
Middle East
-May 10, 1971 staff meeting
-Kissinger, Rogers
-Israel
-Kissinger
-President's policy
-Military aid
-Political considerations
-Support for Israel
-Taft Schreiber, Theodore E. Cummings, Bernard (“Bunny”) Lasker, Max M.
Fisher
-Writers
-Edmund S. Muskie supporters
-Support for Israel
-Public Opinion

Staff schedules
-Kissinger's trip
-Florida trip
-Frequency and length of vacations
-White House staff
-Florida
-High-level staff
-President
-Camp David
-Work
-Florida
-Work
-Kissinger, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman
-Frequency
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Office and social schedules
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-Vacations
-Length
-Timing
-Haldeman's
-Length
-Florida, the Bahamas
-Home
-Camp David Conv. No. 496-16 (cont.)
-Ehrlichman
-Time with families
-Kissinger
-Camp David use
-President
-Ehrlichman
-Facilities
-President
-Cabinet
-Staff

Press
-Rogers
-Press and photo coverage of President's meeting
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Wire services, press pool
-Cabinet and other groups
-Press and photo coverage
-President's relationship
-Press conferences
-Social events
-President's trips
-Coverage
-Florida trip
-President's relations
-Herbert G. Klein
-Gridiron Dinner
-President's role
-White House Correspondents Association Dinner
-Program
-President's role
-Photos with entertainers
-Handshaking
-American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers [ASCAP]
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-Past and future dinners
-Gridiron Dinner, White House Correspondents dinner
-Haldeman's attendance
-Speeches
-Haldeman's role
-Compared with businessmen's dinner
-Possible meetings with candidates of press organizations
-President's relations Conv. No. 496-16 (cont.)
-Ziegler
-Press conferences
-Ziegler and Klein
-Press events
-Roles
-Compared with Kissinger and ambassadors
-Zielger's work
-\"Credibility gap\"
-Johnson's press statements
-Budget
-White House Correspondents Association dinner
-President's relations
-Possible column
-Charles W. Colson
-An event
-Press dinners
-President's attendance at Gridiron, White House Correspondents, and White
House photographers dinners
-Photos of President
-Awards
-A television segment

Vietnam
-Public opinion on Washington, D.C. demonstrations
-May 10, 1971 staff meeting
-Figures
-Kissinger
-Public opinion
-Compared with World War II
-Tanks in Africa
-Storming of beachheads
-Marines capturing Pacific Islands
-Fighting force
-Military
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-Social class
-”Gulf complex”
-Current situation
-President’s May 10, 1971 meeting with Kissinger
-USSR, PRC
-Peace settlement

Monday night staff meetings Conv. No. 496-16 (cont.)
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson

President's schedule
-Weather
-Trip to Camp David
-Golf game with Rogers
-Timing

Gallup
-Laos operation
-Timing

Rose Mary Woods entered at 6:09 pm

President's schedule
-Golf game with Rogers
-Call
-Time
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland

[The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 6:09 pm and 6:11 pm]

[Conversation No. 496-16A]

SST
-Boeing
-Ford, George Meany

[End of telephone conversation]

Correspondence[?]

A new item
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Call to Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon

Ms. Woods left at 6:11 pm

Rogers

Cabinet Conv. No. 496-16 (cont.)
-Rogers
-Possible conversation with Haldeman

PRC initiative
-Kissinger
-Pakistan
-Kissinger

Vietnam
-Negotiations with North Vietnamese

USSR
-Answer on summit

PRC

Rogers
-Statements in London

USSR
-Evaluation of US political scene

PRC initiative
-USSR knowledge

[The President talked with Woods between 6:14 and 6:15 pm]

[Conversation No. 496-16B]

[See Conversation No. 2-137]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler[?]
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Haldeman left at 6:15 pm