Date: June 17, 1971
Time: 6:38 pm - 6:45 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See Conversation No. 261-16A]
President's schedule
-Denial of access to unnamed group [newsmen ?] during foreign travel by the
President
Pentagon Papers
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Contacts with Bryce N. Harlow
-Mike Manatos (?)
-Tom Johnson
-Johnson's need to defend himself
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Walt W. Rostow's efforts
-Call from Harlow and Manatos
-Johnson's need to defend himself
-President defense of Johnson
-Harlow's forthcoming call to Johnson
-Clark M. Clifford
-Robert S. McNamara
-McGeorge Bundy
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-Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Dean Rusk
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Comments regarding release by New York Times
-Administration's response
-Death of Ngo Dinh Diem
-Washington Post's possible publication
-Teamsters' proposal to stop delivering New York Times
-Possible effect
-Johnson's necessity to defend himself
-John B. Connally's comments, June 17th
-Ronald L. Ziegler's statements
-Colson's conversation with Harlow
-President's possible courses of action
-Harlow's forthcoming call