529–20

Conversation No. 529-20

Date: June 28, 1971
Time: 10:23 am - 10:51 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy [CCEP] meeting
-President's comments
-John B. Connally
-Repetition at June 29 Cabinet meeting
-Foreign policy points
-Domestic policy points

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:24 am. Conv. No. 529-20 (cont.)

-Toughness
-Need for discipline in foreign policy
-Credit for policy success
-Arthur F. Burns’ letter
-Connally
-Connally meeting with Burns
-Burns’ criticism
-Scope
-Audience
-Effect on morale
-Permissiveness
-Lack of discussion

Criticism of President
-Kissinger’s lunch with Edward R.G. Heath, Sir Alexander Douglas-Home, and
William Whitelaw
-Public criticism of President
-British tradition
-Effect on negotiations

Congressional attendance on People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-President's visit
-Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-Protocol problems
-Press conferences

PRC visit announcement
-Consulation with Congressional leaders
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] consultation
-Benefits from consultation
-Location of announcement
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-Consultation with staff
-Staff work with Congress
-Television timing
-Time differences
-Television build-up

Pentagon Papers
-Supreme Court decision Conv. No. 529-20 (cont.)
-Herbert G. Klein
-Daniel Ellsberg surrender and admission
-Legal problems
-Injunction criteria
-Damage
-Ellsberg perjury
-Supreme Court Justices
-John M. Harlan
-Potter Stewart
-Law clerks
-Social activity
-Charles W. Colson's memorandum
-Ellsberg prosecution
-Problems
-Need to keep issue alive
-Senate hearings
-Democratic fears
-Administration exploitation
-Revelation of material by Republicans
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Banner headline
-Korean War and World War II document release


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Domestic policy
-Burns
-Background
-Dwight D. Eisenhower era
-Nelson A. Rockefeller support
-European trip
-Federal Reserve appointment Conv. No. 529-20 (cont.)
-Age
-Debt to President
-Respect among economists
-Foreign travels
-Israel
-Korea
-Japan
-Future plans
-President's Domestic Policy Council comments
-Morality of administration
-Maurice H. Stans
-Plugging of leaks

Foreign Policy
-Attacks on President's critics
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Attack on President
-Timing
-US openings to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-President's comments to Mansfield
-Carl B. Albert
-July 15th annoncement
-Prospect for PRC visit
-Position of Taiwan
-Robert Bruce Atwood
-William P. Rogers
-Revelation of Kissinger’s efforts
-Timing
-President's knowledge
-Story presented
-Retrieval of message
-Knowledge of destination
-Final Ok for trip
-President's involvement
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-Kissinger's report
-Camouflage for trip
-Rogers
-Yahya Khan's role
-Publicity benefits
-Charges of deception
-Leaks
-David K.E. Bruce Conv. No. 529-20 (cont.)
-Rogers’ negotiating ability
-Congressional questions
-Rogers
-Bruce
-Bruce's view of PRC initiative
-Bruce's attendance on PRC trip
-Attendance on PRC trip
-President
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Bruce
-Bruce's view on Vietnam negotiations
-Need for toughness
-Bruce
-Future negotiations

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:24 am.

Meeting with Vernon E. Jordan

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:51 am.

Foreign policy
-Bruce's view of Vietnam negotiator
-New initiatives
-Congressional view of Vietnam negotiations
-Charles H. Percy
-Support for President
-Repetition of President's CCEP remarks
-Cabinet meeting
-Haldeman’s repetition to staff
-Focus on Pentagon Papers
-Staff attendance
-Haldeman
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Vietnam Peace Negotiations
-July 15th announcement
-Le Duc Tho’s probable response
-Negotiations
-Le Duc Tho social contact
-Le Duc Tho visits to Peking
-Vernon A. Walters
-Comment to Kissinger Conv. No. 529-20 (cont.)
-Precedent
-Le Duc Tho visit to Peking
-Peking support for North Vietnam
-Vietnam negotiations
-South Vietnamese election
-Incentive to settle
-Impact of November 1 settlement
-MacGregor
-Work with Senate
-Mansfield

Kissinger and Haldeman left at 10:51 am.