Secret White House Tapes

534–12

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534–12
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
  • H. R. Haldeman
July 1, 1971
Conversation No. 534-12

Date: July 1, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:38 pm and 2:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield at an unknown time after 1:38 pm

The President's schedule
-Camp David meeting
-John K. Andrews, Jr. speech draft for July 3, 1971

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 1:38 pm; Butterfield left at an
unknown time before 2:05 pm

Declassification project in response to Pentagon Papers case
-Haldeman's conversation with Richard V. Allen
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)



-Recommendations

July 3, 1971 speech draft
-Sentiments
-Andrews
-Draft compared to William L. Safire's effort
-1969 Bicentennial Commission remarks

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:38 pm

Request for copy of 1969 remarks

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm


Pentagon Papers case
-Declassification project head
-Allen's recommendations
-United States Information Agency [USIA] deputy general counsel
-Background
-Charles W. Colson's recommendation
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Allen's lack of knowledge
-Knowledge within intelligence community
-Possibility of assignment of head of project to work under Colson
-Tom C. Huston
-Approach to work
-Scope of project
-Need for commander
-Allen
-Colson
-Hunt
-Outside consultancy
-USIA employee
-Conspiracy orientation in outlook
-Dual nature of project
-Resistance by Departments of State and Defense to declassification effort
-Joint Chiefs of Staff opposition
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-World War II, Korea, Cuban missile crisis documents
-Alternatives
-Steering committee
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)



-Allen’s suggestions
-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-John G. Tower
-Other roles
-Frank H. Ichord's possible role
-Congressional Committee hearings on conspiracy
-Hiss case Conv. No. 534-12 (cont.)
-Conspiracy investigation
-Mitchell's views
-Effectiveness as Attorney General
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Declassification
-Tonkin Gulf, Dominican crisis, Cuban missile crisis, Berlin crisis of 1961, Bay
of Pigs, U-2 shootdown, Berlin crisis of 1958, Lebanon, Korea, Berlin
blockade, Berlin wall
-Focus on incidents
-Results and benefits
-Public announcement
-Ehrlichman
-Hunt

Unemployment
-George P. Shultz's analysis of drop
-James D. Hodgson
-Effect of technical factors
-Public perceptions of economic conditions
-Attempts to keep below six per cent
-Statistics
-Arthur F. Burns' memorandum
-Recommendation of new economic policy
-Burns

Pentagon Papers case
-Leaks
-Efforts to combat links
-Allen's perceptions
-Fred J. Russell
-Congress
-John E. Hunt
-Background
-Samuel L. Devine
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)



-Russell
-Controllability
-Further consideration of Hunt
-Colson
-Haldeman’s meeting
-Possible Presidential statement
-John D. Ehrlichman’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Patrick Buchanan's recommendations Conv. No. 534-12 (cont.)
-Call to John B. Connally

The President's schedule
-Departure for Executive Office Building office
-Drop-by in Roosevelt Room
-Property Review Board meeting
-F. Edward Hebert, Leslie C. Arends, Kenneth J. Gray, Samuel S.
Stratton

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:38 pm

Gift presentation items for Congressmen, wives

Arrangements

The President and Haldeman left at 2:05 pm
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