500–26

Conversation No. 500-26

Date: May 18, 1971
Time: 3:42 pm - 4:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Charles W. Colson.

[Unintelligible]

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Status of legislation
-Vote
-Boeing Corporation
-Future government contracts
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-John D. Ehrlichman
-Handling
-Termination costs
-President's future dealings
-Daniel J. Evans

Colson
-Henry A. Kissinger's view Conv. No. 500-25 (cont.)

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:42 pm.

President's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods
-Ambassadors

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.



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1972 election
-Issues
-Vietnam war
-Effect of President's foreign policy accomplishments
-Isolationism
-The economy
-Jobs
-Racism
-Welfare reform
-White House staff suggestions regarding Family Assistance Plan
-Social Security
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-Reform
-Public opinion
-1970 Vermont gubernatorial election
-Deane C. Davis
-President's statement
-Popularity

Senate Conv. No. 500-26 (cont.)
-President’s view
-Kissinger, Bryce N. Harlow
-President's May 18, 1971 meeting with Congressional leadership
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] negotiations
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield and Charles McC. Mathias Amendments

Democrats

Approval ratings
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Louis P. Harris poll
-President's position on police
-Mail
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Effect of ratings
-Ronald W. Reagan's action at University of California at Berkeley

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:55 pm.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-USSR reply
-Announcement
-Text
-Timing
-Wording
-President's schedule
-Announcements
-Meetings with Gerard C. Smith, William P. Rogers
-Times

Colson left at 3:58 pm.

-Kissinger's schedule
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-President’s upcoming address to the American National Red Cross, May 19,
1971
-Smith
-Kissinger's schedule
-Time
-Announcement
-Smith's possible response
-Senate Conv. No. 500-26 (cont.)
-Congressional leaders
-John A. Scali
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Congressional leaders
-Time
-Possible response
-Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-President's Laos statement, November 3, 1969, speech
-Cambodia incursion announcement, 1970
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] announcement
-President's schedule
-Dobrynin
-Congressional leaders
-President's role
-Possible response
-President's possible actions
-Mansfield
-Possible leak

The President, Haldeman, and Kissinger left at 4:05 pm.