521–12

Conversation No. 521-12

Date: June 15, 1971
Time: 4:40 pm - 5:13 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:45 pm.

H.R. (“Bob’) Haldeman entered at 4:45 pm.

President's schedule
-Willy Brandt
-Shortage of time
-Charles H. Percy
-John B. Connally
-Meeting between Connally and Brandt

Brandt dinner
-Peter G. Peterson
-John A. Scali
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-William J. Baroody
-George Meany statement
-Jay Lovestone
-Eastman Kodak
-Robert S. Oelman, National Cash Register official
-John M. Huntsman's friend
-Dudley Swim
-Friendship with Huntsman
-Demeanor
-View of Ronald W. Reagan
-Calls to Huntsman

Butterfield left at 4:47 pm.

Scheduling
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles Bluhdorn
-Message to President from President of Dominican Republic
-Content
-Sugar quotas
-President's role in meeting
-[Unintelligible name]
-Effect of meeting with President
-Kissinger
-Time compared with money
-Contact with John D. Ehrlichman

Pentagon Papers
-Handling
-John N. Mitchell
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-President's meeting with Mitchell, Ehrlichman, and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Necessity of leadership
-John A. Scali role
-Collection of ideas
-Attorney General's role
-Barry M. Goldwater role
-Vice President’s role
-Impact
-Statement by President
-Drawbacks
-Possible statements by Senators
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-Naming of papers
-John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson papers
-Compared with Robert S. McNamara papers
-Administrations basic position
-Protection of national security
-Effect of publication on national security
-William P. Rogers
-Concern of foreign governments Conv. No. 521-12 (cont.)
-Need for coordination of administration efforts
-William L. Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Public relations nature of problem
-Involvement by staff
-Charles W. Colson
-Scali
-Richard A. Moore
-Safire
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Political involvement
-Public relations
-\"Family quarrel\" nature of problem
-Protection of US security
-Impact of administrations action against New York Times
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-Access of Times to press pools
-Ziegler’s role
-Access of Times to airplane pools
-Question and answers session by President
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-Impact on Justice Department action
-Mitchell
-Formulation of reason for avoiding comment
-Intent of briefing
-Domestic policy
-Drugs
-Revenue sharing
-Reorganization
-Criminal proceedings
-Effect of publication on President
-Perception of people
-Rogers' statement
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-President's role in period covered by papers
-Ziegler
-Colson
-Emphasis on originating administrations
-Kennedy-Johnson papers
-Administration use of secrecy
-Ehrlichman
-Polls Conv. No. 521-12 (cont.)
-Need for statement by President


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Administration policies
-Economic problems
-Arthur F. Burns
-Inflation
-Scope
-Connally and George P. Shultz
-Arthur F. Burns
-Consistency
-Paul W. McCracken
-War issue
-Negotiations

Pentagon Papers
-Impact of Times stories
-Kennedy-Johnson papers
-Nature of original studies
-Extent of reading by public
-Perception by public
-Security breech
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-Consequences
-Press interests compared to public interest
-Need for Congressional speeches
-Reasons for publication
-Safire
-Ultimate effect of publication
-Area effect
-Pearl Harbor Conv. No. 521-12 (cont.)
-Adm. Ellis M. Zacharias indictment of Franklin D. Roosevelt
-US News and World Report
-Long term effect
-Possibility of successful legal action
-Administration role
-Development of new policy
-Administration responsibilities

President's schedule
-Meeting with Ambassador Kenneth B. Keating
-Keating's competence
-Age factor
-Future plans
-Age
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-David K.E. Bruce
-Other meetings
-Level of visitors
-Martin Joseph Hillenbrand
-[David] Kenneth Rush

Benefits of adversary relations
-New York Times story

Pentagon Papers story
-Johnson role in fight
-Enlistment of other spokesman
-Dean G. Acheson
-Dean Rusk
-McNamara
-Kissinger role
-Mobilization of \"establishment\" spokesmen
-Rogers press conference
-Leaks
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-Drawbacks
-Effect on foreign policy

President's schedule
-Press conference
-Rochester, New York
-News-making potential
-Upcoming speech Conv. No. 521-12 (cont.)
-American Medical Association [AMA] meeting
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Press conference
-Letters regarding conference
-Timing of conference
-Rationale
-Timing
-Price

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:47 pm.

Schedule
-Kissinger and Keating

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:13 pm.

President's schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-Audience reception
-Exposure
-Johnson
-Rose Mary Woods
-Audience reception
-Trade-offs
-Content effect
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Kissinger request
-Changing in time
-Question and answer

Haldeman left at 5:13 pm.
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