524–8

Conversation No. 524-8

Date: June 17, 1971
Time: 9:58 am - 10:34 am
Location: Oval Office
Conv. No. 524-6 (cont.)
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting
-Tactics
-Attendance
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

Schedule
-Upcoming press conference
-Cabinet meeting

Pentagon Papers
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Coordination of administration response
-Need to consolidate legal actions
-John A. Scali
-Richard A. Moore
-Charles W. Colson
-Lack of master strategy
-Ehrlichman, Henry A. Kissinger and Haldeman meeting
-Consolidation of efforts
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Administration response
-William P. Rogers statement
-Herbert G. Klein activity
-Implications of security breaches
-Assault on government
-McGovern-Hatfield Amendment
-Administration response
-Maxwell Taylor appearance on news program
-Marvin L. Kalb question
-Distortion problem
-Release of classified material on Korea and World War II
-Research for President
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-Kissinger's role
-Franklin D. Roosevelt involvement
-Harry S. Truman involvement
-John F. Kennedy involvement
-Lyndon B. Johnson involvement
-Dwight D. Eisenhower involvement
-Canadian reaction
-Need to focus
-New York Times focus
-Censorship
-Need to end war
-Administration focus
-Violation of security
-Involvement of previous Democratic administrations
-Ronald L. Ziegler's role
-Robert J. Dole
-Integrity of Presidency
-Effect on conduct of foreign relations
-Buchanan's line
-Content
-Attack on Times
-Use at press conference
-Urgency

Speech writing
-Talking points
-Noel C. Koch and Raymond K. Price, Jr. attributes
-John K. Andrews, Jr. attributes
-Buchanan
-Terry McGinnity
-Need for concise statements
-President's upcoming drug message
-Content
-New drug program
-Scope
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Effect of drugs
-Spending
-Administration goals
-Effect
-Buchanan’s efforts
-Drug message
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-\"Total war\" line
-Drawbacks
-Effect on populace
-Use of terms
-”Offensive”
-Johnson precedent
-\"War\"
-\"War on poverty\" Conv. No. 524-8 (cont.)
-\"Public Enemy #1\"
-Previous use
-\"Offensive\"
-\"War\"
-Popular perception of the term

President's schedule
-Cutback on meetings
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Christian de Guigne III
-Drug offensive
-President's role

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 9:58 am.

Request for Lucy A. Winchester

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:34 am.

Presidential statements
-Kissinger's role
-Ehrlichman's role
-Price's prose
-Buchanan's prose
-Preparation of Presidential statements
-President's drug statement
-Content
-Treatment of addicts
-Coordination of international action
-Wedding statement
-Political statements
-Need for focus
-Foreign policy focus
-Johnson
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Polls
-Results of recent Gallup poll
-Revenue sharing
-Government reorganization
-New poll
-Issues
-Possible questions Conv. No. 524-8 (cont.)
-Phrasing
-Methodology
-Review of administration’s efforts
-President's speeches
-Polling effect
-Ehrlichman
-Creating issues
-Louis Harris’ role
-Possible questions
-\"Race\" compared with \"integration\" questions
-Integration
-Desegregation
-Housing

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:58 am.

President's schedule
-Meeting with Winchester
-Gift

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:34 am.

Pentagon Papers
-Administration response
-Ehrlichman
-Role of the law
-John N. Mitchell
-Disloyalty of Times

Haldeman left at 10:34 am.
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