535–5

Conversation No. 535-5

Date: July 2, 1971
Time: 10:41 am - 11:26 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson and Peter J. Brennan.
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[The White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting]

Introductions

Vietnam war
-Support for the President's policies by the “hardhats”
-Photograph taken in the Roosevelt Room
-Pentagon Papers case Conv. No. 535-5 (cont.)
-Publication of documents by the New York Times
-Congress
-Political effect
-Lyndon B. Johnson's administration
-The New York Times
-“Hardhat” reaction
-John N. Mitchell
-Washington Post article
-Effect of publication of Daniel Ellsberg's documents
-Delay in return of US prisoners of war [POWs]
-Delay in settlement of the War

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:41 am

Refreshment

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:26 am

Pentagon Papers case
-Public reaction

Public perceptions of issues
-Blacks
-News reports
-Arthur A. Fletcher
-[Forename unknown] Silverberg in the New York Attorney General's office
-Handling of union issues
-Newspaper reporting of issues
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-New York Daily News
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Employment
-Minorities
-George Meany
-New York plan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-John V. Lindsay
-Comparison of Chicago and New York
-Richard J. Daley's attitude Conv. No. 535-5 (cont.)
-Police

New York City
-Tourists compared to inhabitants
-Prostitution
-Madison Avenue, Park Avenue
-Permissiveness
-Crime control
-Lindsay
-Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Jobs plan
-Reasons for delays in implementation
-Rockefeller
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Henry C. Cashen, II
-Board of Education decision
-Minorities
-Dispute about job
-Newspaper average
-Jobs plan
-Fletcher's actions
-Ehrlichman
-Robert J. Dole
-Effect on building trades unions

Unions
-Meany
-Support for the President on foreign policy
-Stephen D. Bechtel’s attitude
-Record of the President's administration
-Fletcher
-Statement
-Compared to Martin Luther King, Jr.
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-Ambitions
-Comment about parade
-Building trades union members
-Attitude towards the President and his policies
-Infiltration of communists
-Painters union
-Teamsters
-Attached by the “New Left” Conv. No. 535-5 (cont.)
-Frank S. Fitzsimmons
-Hate mail
-Origins in James R. Hoffa prosecutions
-Size
-Fitzsimmons compared with Hoffa
-Patriotism
-Joe Teretola
-Teamsters leader in New York City
-Building trades
-Longshoremen
-Newspapers
-Lawsuits
-Minorities
-Fletcher
-Statement
-Reaction to administration's efforts
-Attacks on those who support the President on foreign policy
-New York jobs plan
-Political affiliation
-1968 Presidential election
-The President, Hubert H. Humphrey
-The President's 1950 campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas
-Teamsters
-Ray [Surname unintelligible]
-Foreign policy
-Importance of bipartisan support for the President's policies
-Union members
-Support for the President
-Compared to business, educational, press
-Priority of the country's interests
-Award of Medal of Merit to Brennan
-Audience
-Reaction to military ceremony
-Patriotism
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-Forthcoming National Archives ceremony opening the Bicentennial Era, July
3, 1971
-Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chief Justice, the President
-1970 election
-Wearing of the flag pin during election period
-Continued daily wearing of flag pin
-White House staff
-Union members Conv. No. 535-5 (cont.)
-Response to queries

Building trades
-Brennan's forthcoming meeting
-Agenda
-Wage stabilization and economic policies
-Union members
-Support for the President's foreign policy
-Reaction to criticism for support


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Pentagon Papers case
-Vietnam war
-Responsibilities of Johnson, John F. Kennedy
-Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie
-Muskie's 1968 speech
-Johnson's record
-Humphrey's 1968 switch on war
-The President's treatment of Johnson in comparison with Democratic
candidates
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
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An unknown person [Stephen B. Bull ?]entered at an unknown time after 10:41 am.

President’s schedule

The unknown person left at at unknown time before 11:26 am.

Building trades
-Rockefeller's actions in New York Conv. No. 535-5 (cont.)
-Legislation
-Emergency Public Employment Bill
-Release of construction funds
-Environmentalists
-Delay of construction projects due to alleged environmental danger
-Cashen
-Meany
-Muskie
-Con Edison
-Lindsay
-Supersonic transport [SST]
-California nuclear power plant
-Housing
-Minorities

Presidential gifts

Communication and public relations
-The President's previous meeting with Pennsylvania labor leaders Fred Gualtieri and
Frank DeLuca

Colson and Brennan left at 11:26 pm