505–4

Conversation No. 505-4

Date: May 26, 1971
Time: 10:03 am - 11:35 am
Location: Oval Office

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

Police
-Funeral
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Richard A. Moore
-Memorandum to William P. Rogers
-Telephone call to widow of policeman
-Moore
-President’s view
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Bill
-John N. Mitchell
-Vietnam
-Demonstration
-Constituency
-Moore
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Riots
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-Police Benevolent Association [PBA]
-Charles W. Colson
-Moore
-Black Panthers
-Bobby G. Seale
-Jury
-Chicago
-Unknown woman

Marijuana
-Statement
-Domestic Council
-News summary
-Jews
-Psychiatrists
-Moore
-Legalization
-Congress

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:08 am.

President’s schedule
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible meeting
-Date
-Frederick L. Hovde
-California
-Budget Sessions
-North Vietnam
-Forthcoming appointments
-Paris
-Meeting with Thieu
-People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Date of Meeting
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Aleksei N. Kosygin’s letter
-Walt W. Rostow
-Lyndon B. Johnson Appreciation
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Proposed Trips
-Korea
-PRC
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-Greece


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 20s ] Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)


GREECE


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-Korea
-Thailand
-Japan
-Kissinger's trips
-Korea
-PRC
-Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip
-Deception


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PAKISTAN


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-Pope Paul VI
-Rogers
-John A. Volpe
-Italy
-Spain
-Portugal Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)
-Congo
-Kenya
-Cabinet officers’ trips
-Trip report
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Maurice H. Stans
-Reports
-[Forename unknown] Gleason
-Vice President's proposed trips
-Greece
-Indonesia
-Australia
-New Zealand
-Thailand
-Iran
-Cabinet officers
-Air Force One
-Rogers

William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Unknown religious persecution case
-Riga, Latvia
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Meeting with the President
-Anti-Semitism
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Poland
-James O. Eastland
-Negroes
-Poles
-Anti-Semitism
-Rogers
-Agnew’s possible trip to Israel
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Graham

Vice Presidential trips
-Africa
-Congo
-Europe
-Austria Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)
-Hungary
-Scandinavia
-Denmark
-Sweden
-Austria
-Germany
-Berlin

Dobrynin
-Summit

Planned press conference
-Timing
-Audience
-Moore
-Timing

Schedule
-Forthcoming remarks at US Military Academy at West Point
-Moore

Press conference
-Timing
-Publicity

Killing of policemen in New York and Washington, D.C.
-Support of police
-Staff
-Negroes
-Policeman [Waverly Jones]
-Funeral, May 25, 1971
-Seale
-Mood of country
-John A. Scali
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-Moore
-Mitchell
-Civil rights
-Plot
Max M. Fisher and Rabbi [Forename unknown] Schecter
-Request to see President
-Plight of USSR Jewry
-Telegram Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)
-Nature of issue
-State Department
-President’s comments on January 11, 1971
-Political issue
-Patrick J. Buchanan

Kissinger’s forthcoming talk at Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam
-President’s comments at briefing for Southern Regional Media, May 25, 1971
-USSR
-PRC

Schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Trip
-Announcement

Letter to President from Indira Gandhi
-India
-Military action
-Pakistan
-Yahya Khan
-Indians
-Ambassador
-Yahya Khan
-Refugees
-East Pakistan
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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INDIA Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)


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Book on foreign policy
-Henry Brandon
-SALT

Press view of President
-Domestic policy
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Polls
-Public opinion
-Thieu
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Trust
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Explanation
-Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Casualties
-PRC
-USSR
-Middle East
-Cuba

-Domestic situation
-Economy
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Vietnam
-President's meeting with Senators
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Abrams
-Possibility of peace
-Ceasefire
-Announcement
-South Vietnamese Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)
-Election
-Public disbelief
-Gallup poll
-Press
-Establishment
-Congressional action
-News summary
-Vote on draft
-Gaylord Nelson amendment
-John V. Tunney
-Tunney amendment
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Polls
-Results
-Effect of Laos
-Press
-Problems
-Public understanding
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-News blackout
-Abrams
-Cambodia
-Nature of war
-Italians
-US Civil War
-Responsibility
-Laird
-Robert F. Froehlke
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13 Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)

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-Abrams
-Gen. William C. Westmoreland [?]
-Laird
-Public views
-SALT
-PRC
-Patriotism
-Newspaper columns
-Television
-Press
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-John W. Chancellor
-Effect of pictures
-Vietnam war
-Casualties
-Laos
-Casualties
-Tchepone
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Green Bay Packers
-Comparison
-President’s comments at briefing for Southern Regional Media, May 25, 1971
-Uncertainties
-Vietnam
-USSR
-PRC
-Middle East
-Berlin
-Cuba
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-Vietnam
-Possible peace settlement
-Thieu
-Forthcoming election
-Saigon

Race relations
-Blacks Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)
-Vernon C. Coffey

House of Representatives
-Camp Pendleton
-Lease
-Committee
-Review

California political situation
-F. Edward Hébert

Summit with USSR

PRC
-United Nations [UN]
-Rogers
-President's meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-UN decision
-Two China policy
-Perceived cynicism
-Detente
-Taiwan
-Right-wingers
-Kissinger's meeting with Rogers, May 25, 1971
-President's forthcoming meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Councils of the Arts
-Laird
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Poll
-UN
-Consultations
-Britain
-Proposed meeting
-Harold Lee
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-Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting
-Rogers
-President's forthcoming call
-Golf
-PRC
-Press conference
-Timing Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]

Vietnam
-Kissinger's schedule
-Trip to Paris
-Timing
-Unknown Man
-French
-Rogers’ concern
-North Vietnamese
-Jean Sainteny
-Kissinger's trip to England
-Cover for trips
-Rogers
-Sainteny
-Ho Chi Minh
-Haldeman’s view
-Rogers
-SALT
-Kissinger

The President left at an unknown time after 10:03 am.

-PRC trip
-Rogers
-Private trip
-Publicity
-Rogers
-Lack of knowledge
-Suspicion
-London
-Sainteny
-Cover
-Rogers’ forthcoming trip to Paris
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-Sainteny
-Elliot L. Richardson
-SALT
The President returned at an unknown time before 11:07 am.

-Middle East
-Rogers
-Cover for forthcoming trip Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)
-Informing Rogers
-Rogers’ forthcoming trip
-Possible story
-Gen. James D. (\"Don\") Hughes
-Military plane
-Friends
-England
-Paris
-Sainteny

Council of the Arts
-Nancy Hanks

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:08 am and
11:07 am]

[Conversation No. 505-4A]

[See Conversation No. 3-126]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-PRC

President's schedule
-Golf

[The President talked with Rogers between 11:07 am and 11:11 am]

[Conversation No. 505-4B]

[See Conversation No. 3-127; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
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[End of telephone conversation]

SALT
-Announcement of agreement, May 20, 1971

Foreign policy
-Rogers
-Public understanding Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)
-Intellectual elite
-USSR
-PRC
-Peace

Vietnam
-Casualties
-Figures

President's visit to Birmingham, Alabama
-Bands
-Number
-Reserve Officer Training Corps [ROTC]
-Schools bands
-Certificate of appreciation
-Advance men

Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:13 am.

Kissinger left at 11:14 am.

Xerox copy
-Typing

Jewish vote
-Kissinger’s view

Typewriter
-International Business Machines [IBM]
-Size
-Type
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Jews in USSR
-Possible meeting with the President
-Fisher
-Paul W. McCracken
-Rabbi Schecter
-Fisher

Woods left at 11:23 am. Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)

[No conversation]

President's schedule
-Mitchell's meeting with Richardson
-Mayflower Hotel
-Drug abuse
-Foundation
-Jack E. (“Jack”) Ingersoll
-President's appearance
-Publicity
-Drugs
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Publicity
-Maine
-Jack J. Dreyfuss, Jr.
-Hughes
-Security check
-President's possible visit
-Weather
-Mitchell’s and Richardson’s meeting
-Mayflower Hotel
-News summary
-Leonard Garment
-Briefing
-Hanks

President's schedule
-Forthcoming address to Council of the Arts
-Mayflower Hotel
-News summary
-Garment
-Hanks
-Political issue
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-Coverage
-Arts
-Public television
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Frank Pace
-Robert [unintelligible surname]

President’s trip Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)
-News summary
-Birmingham, Alabama
-Coverage
-George C. Wallace
-Other trips
-Midwest
-Small towns
-Mobile
-Chicago and suburbs
-Southern Regional media meeting
-Midwest and South
-Herbert G. Klein
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]

President's schedule
-Harry S. Dent
-Meeting with Haldeman

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:23 am.

President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:35 am.

-Advance men
-Authority
-Haldeman
-Approved list
-Jim Martin
-Dent
-Additions
-Dent
-Cancellations
-State chairman
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-Dent
-State chairman
President's trip
-Staff response
-William E. Timmons
-Coverage
-Alabama
-Coverage Conv. No. 505-4 (cont.)
-Crowds
-News summary
-Coverage
-Frank Cormier
-Demonstrators
-Dan Rather
-Coverage
-Signs
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Strategy

The President and Haldeman left at 11:35 am.