532-23

Conversation No. 532-23

Date: June 30, 1971
Time: 2:31 pm - 3:07 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Greetings

[The President talked with Leonard Garment between 2:32 pm and 2:36 pm]

[Conversation No. 532-23A]

[See Conversation No. 6-51]

[End of telephone conversation]

Reception for Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Recognition of Blount and others
-Undersecretaries

Stephen B. Bull entered at unknown time after 2:36 pm.

Vote of unknown person on Mansfield amendment
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Bull left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm.

President’s schedule
-Event
-Time

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:36 pm and
2:40 pm]

[Conversation No. 532-23B]

[See Conversation No. 6-52]

[End of telephone conversation]

Seating at entertainment event
-Ticket procedures

Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:36 pm.

Vote of unknown person on Mansfield amendment

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm.

[The President talked with Special Assistant John S. Davies at an unknown time between 2:36
pm and 2:40 pm]

[Conversation No. 532-23C]

[See Conversation No. 6-53]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ongoing entertainment

[The President talked with Cynthia Frink between 2:43 pm and 2:44 pm]

[Conversation No. 532-23D]

[See Conversation No. 6-54]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Frink
-Principles
-Content of valedictory speech

College experience

Conv. No. 532-23 (cont.)
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[Ongoing entertainment]

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 2:44 pm.

Schedule
-Phone calls
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.

Social gathering
-Potter Stewart
-John M. Harlan

Woods’ schedule

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:44 pm and
2:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 532-23E]

[See Conversation No. 6-55]
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[End of telephone conversation]

Marjorie P. Acker

Woods’ schedule

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:53 pm. Conv. No. 532-23 (cont.)

Pentagon Papers
-Supreme Court ruling
-Implications

Woods left at 2:53 pm.

-Charles M. Cooke, Jr. [?]
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Elliot L. Richardson, Melvin R. Laird

[The President talked with the White House operator at 2:53 pm]

[Conversation No. 532-23F]

[See Conversation No. 6-56]

[End of telephone conversation]

Pentagon Papers
-Unknown person
-Kissinger discussion with unknown person
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Cooke [?]
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. file
-Content
-Scope
-William P. Rogers’ knowledge
-Laird
-Investigative branch
-National Security Council [NSC] documents
-Cambodia documents
-Declassification of documents
-Public perception of administration
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-Television appearance by President
-Changes
-Effect on government
-Revelation of administration peace efforts
-Effect
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Vietnam initiatives
-Supreme Court actions
-1969 documents Conv. No. 532-23 (cont.)
-Scope
-Cooke [?]
-Xeroxing efforts
-Richardson

[Davies talked with the President between 2:52 pm and 2:53 pm]

[Conversation No. 532-23G]

[See Conversation No. 6-57]

[End of telephone conversation]

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-\"Safeguard\" sites
-Gerard C. Smith's recommendation
-Moscow coverage
-Smith
-Discipline factor
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's request
-Offensive weapons
-Inter-continental Ballistic Missile [ICBM], Submarine-launched Ballistic
Missile [SLBM] limits
-Smith
-Kissinger, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin contact
-Length of agreement
-Rogers[?]
-Tie to offensive pact
-Withdrawal rights
-Smith

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:53 pm.

Unintelligible
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Bull left at an unknown time before 2:55 pm.

Timing of US responses

John N. Mitchell entered at 2:55 pm.

Pentagon Papers Conv. No. 532-23 (cont.)
-Supreme Court decision
-Vote
-Harlan, Stewart
-Social activities
-Byron R. White
-Wiretaps
-Impact
-Release of 47 volumes of documents
-Precedent
-SALT discussions
-Pursuit of Ellsberg case
-Focus on national security
-Complaint composition
-Alger Hiss precedent
-Ellsberg


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-Information
-Use of press
-Leaks
-Effect
-Laird's call to Kissinger
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-Mathias file of documents
-Mathias’ call to Mitchell
-Relation of file to Ellsberg case
-Mathias’ file
-Source
-Ellsberg
-Content
-Laird's call to Kissinger Conv. No. 532-23 (cont.)
-Mathias’ call to Laird
-Source of Mathias file
-Cooke
-Richardson
-Kissinger's recollections of Cooke
-Laird's view of file's content
-Rogers’ memoranda to President
-Kissinger's replies
-Supreme Court action
-Support for administration
-Opinion writing
-Harlan
-Warren E. Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Harlan
-Pressure of decision
-White
-Harlan, Stewart
-White
-Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas contribution to Court
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Impact on permissiveness
-Supreme Court
-Contribution to Democrats
-Future of leaks
-Ellsberg indictment
-New classification system
-Restriction of secret material
-Release of material to bureaucracy
-McGeorge Bundy comparison
-Memoranda from Kissinger to the President
-Exposure to others
-Cabinet members
-Mitchell
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-Rogers
-Laird
-Conversations with President
-Federal employees
-Clearances
-Appeal to Congress
-Legal precedents
-Recent decisions Conv. No. 532-23 (cont.)
-Effect on publication of materials

Kissinger and Mitchell left at 3:07 pm.