500–29

Conversation No. 500-29
Conv. No. 500-28 (cont.)
Date: May 18, 1971
Time: 4:42 pm - 5:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John A. Scali, and Ronald L. Ziegler.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible leaks
-Announcement
-Congressional leaders
-Vote, May 19, 1971
-Effect
-Time
-Possible leaks
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Background
-Announcement
-Congressional leaders
-Time of Kissinger's [?] briefing
-Possible leaks
-J. William Fulbright
-Staff

Kissinger entered at 4:45 pm.

-Time
-Possible leaks
-President's possible statements
-Time
-USSR agreement
-Possible leaks
-Time
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-Congressional leaders
-President's possible statement
-Fulbright
-Hugh Scott
-Possible leaks
-Time
-Backgrounders for networks and wire services
-Effect Conv. No. 500-29 (cont.)
-Associated Press [AP], United Press International [UPI]
-Actions
-Congressional leaders meeting
-President's possible statement
-Views
-Time
-President's announcement to press
-William P. Rogers and Melvin Laird
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Time
-Purpose
-Backgrounder for networks and press
-Effect of timed released
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Time
-Backgrounder for networks
-Kissinger
-Time
-Commentators
-Effect
-White House correspondence
-Time
-Importance compared with Congressional leaders meeting
-Tone
-President's Vietnam speeches
-White House efforts
-Kissinger and Scali
-AP, networks
-President’s working relationship with the USSR
-Senate
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield Amendment vote
-President's relations
-Distribution of story
-Timing
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-Mansfield Amendment
-Administration’s position
-Announcement
-Networks, wire services
-Importance
-White House story line
-First bulletin lead
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson and other Democrats position Conv. No. 500-29 (cont.)
-Announcement
-USSR
-Antiballistic missile [ABM]
-Importance to SALT
-President's statements
-Advice to President
-Charles H. Percy
-\"Selling\" the agreement
-Chalmers Roberts
-First bulletin lead
-Roberts, Time, Newsweek, [Arnold] Eric Sevareid, John W. Chancellor
-First story
-Briefings
-Times
-Attendees
-Stewart M. Hensley
-Roberts
-John L. Steele
-Proposed story on SALT
-Kissinger's role

Scali and Ziegler left at 5:00 pm.

-Notification of Rogers and Gerard C. Smith
-Timing
-President's schedule
-Knowledge

Kissinger left and John D. Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Boeing
-Ehrlichman's meetings
-Termination
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-Senate action
-Future contracts
-Hydrofoil
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Gerald R. Ford
-Ford's response

Ehrlichman left and Stephen B. Bull entered at 5:04 pm.
Conv. No. 500-29 (cont.)
President's schedule
-George P. Shultz, Herbert G. Klein and business magazine editors
-Chairs

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

SALT
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-President's credibility
-Possible statements
-Meeting with President, May 19, 1971
-Time

Haldeman left at 5:05 pm.