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509-6

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509-6
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Stephen B. Bull
June 3, 1971
Conversation No. 509-6

Date: June 3, 1971
Time: 11:47 am - 12:08 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

President’s previous meeting with police officials
-Response
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Los Angeles Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess

President’s previous press conference
-President’s treatment of May Day demonstrators
-American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]
-President’s position
-Opinion polls
-Ziegler
-Political questions
-Ziegler
-President’s opponents’ views
-Carroll Kilpatrick’s column
-Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert Hoopes [?] of the New York Times
-Political questions
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Democratic National Committee [DNC]

President’s schedule
-Robert J. Dole

President’s forthcoming press conference
-Positive stories
-Patrick J. Buchanan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)



-President’s reaction
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.

News story
-General John W. Donaldson
-General William C. Westmoreland

Unemployment figures Conv. No. 509-6 (cont.)
-George P. Shultz

Press
-May Day demonstrators
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Robert H. Finch
-Godfrey Sperling, Jr. interview
-John N. Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Finch
-May Day demonstrators
-Views of John B. Connally and Ehrlichman

President’s press conferences
-Ziegler
-John A. Scali, Richard A. Moore
-Goals
-Development of pattern
-Location and time

President’s previous meeting with police officials
-Law and order question
-Support for the President
-Democrats
-American flag pins
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

Drugs
-Foreign aid
-Unnamed congressman
-Opposition to aid to drug-producing countries
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)



-Marijuana
-Administration opposition to legalization
-James C. Hagerty [?]
-Support for the President

Reaction to President’s previous press conference
-Administration’s foreign policy
-May Day demonstrators Conv. No. 509-6 (cont.)

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:47 am

President’s schedule
-Meeting with Corrine Griffith
-Mitchell
-Location

Presidential gifts

Roger E. Johnson

Bull and Haldeman left at 12:08 pm
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