537–2

Conversation No. 537-2

Date: July 2, 1971
Time: 2:50 pm - 4:02 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

White House social events
-Luncheon for Consuelo Velasco Alvarado
-Dinners for state guests

The President’s schedule
-William H. Carruthers

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm

Meeting Carruthers and Mark I. Goode

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm

Schedule

Carruthers and Goode entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm

National Archives speech, July 3, 1971
-Arrangements
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-Seating, podium, camera set-up
-Timing
-The President’s arrival
-Audience
-Holding room
-Makeup
-Speaker Carl B. Albert, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
-Camera set-up
-Off-camera announcers
-Introduction of the President
-Army Chorus
-The President’s closing remarks
-Army Chorus rendition of the National Anthem
-The President’s location during anthem
-Use of anthem
-Timing cues for the President
-Length of remarks by others
-Applause
-Size of audience
-Camera angles
-Need for holding room
-The President’s method of presentation
-Use of text
-Closing remarks
-Playing of national anthem
-Timing

Carruthers and Goode left at 3:06 pm

National Archives speech
-Arrangements

Certification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment
-Procedures
-Administrator of General Services
-”Young Americans in Concert” group
-Honor America Day
-Audience for ceremony
-Witnesses to ceremony
-Male, female
-Race
-Timing of ceremony
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-Effect
-Support for the eighteen-year-old vote
-California
-Concert group tour of Europe
-The President’s schedule
-California
-Ohio
-Oklahoma Conv. No. 537-2 (cont.)
-Location, timing
-The President’s departure for Camp David

National Archives speech
-Elements
-Patriotism
-Public reaction to negativism
-Use of John Brown anecdote
-Raymond K. Price, Jr., John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Thomas Jefferson theme in William L. Safire’s draft
-George Washington, John Adams
-Appeal to Democrats
-John F. Kennedy
-Jefferson
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, [John] Calvin Coolidge
-Deaths of Jefferson and Adams
-Youth of Revolutionary War figures
-Comparison to Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander III [the Great]
-Timing
-Compared to the Cambodia speech
-Length and pace
-Theme
-Use of television
-Joint appearance by leaders of executive, judicial, legislative branches
-Pentagon Papers case
-Burger
-Albert
-Contrast to John W. McCormack, Samuel Rayburn
-Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott, John Sherman Cooper

Effectiveness of speakers
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird, Elliot L. Richardson
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-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe

Ambassadorial appointments
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Japan
-Business interests Conv. No. 537-2 (cont.)
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Argentina
-Finland
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Financial status
-Assignment

National Archives event
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule

Latin America
-Mrs. Velasco’s visit
-Economic conditions
-United States
-Family assistance program

Unnamed child

Unemployment statistics
-Washington Star

News events
-Economy
-Kissinger
-Concerns
-1969 October anti-Vietnam War demonstrations
-Letter to Georgetown student
-General Lewis B. Hershey
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Le Duc Tho, Xuan Thuy
-Hershey
-Flanigan
-The draft
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-Popularity
-As symbol of the draft
-Forthcoming statement
-Kissinger
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:37 pm

News coverage
-Unemployment Conv. No. 537-2 (cont.)
-James D. Hodgson
-Statistical aberration
-Decrease
-Vietnam casualties
-Monthly figures
-Charles W. Colson
-Reporting
-John A. Scali, Colson
-Pentagon Papers case
-Rogers’ comments
-Laird
-Research and Development [RAND] Corporation
-Declassification of documents

Pentagon Papers
-Public reaction
-Brookings Institute
-Acceptance of classified documents
-RAND Corporation
-Reaction to case
-Tom C. Huston
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Status of case
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Conspiracy investigation
-Richardson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Action on Defense Department employee [Surname unknown Cooke]
-Polygraph examinations
-Ehrlichman
-Laurence E. (“Larry”) Lynn, Jr.
-Richard V. (“Dick”) Allen
-Comments about Lynn
-Laird
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-Comments
-Declassification investigation
-Laird
-Congressional investigation
-Frank Stanton
-Television program about the “Selling of the Pentagon”
-Congress, television
-Confidential sources Conv. No. 537-2 (cont.)
-Colson
-Potter Stewart
-Question to Washington Post reporter about publishing information
-Delay or prevention of prisoner of war [POW] release in Vietnam
-First Amendment rights
-Alexander M. Bickel
-Limitation of White House access by Washington Post, New York Times
-National security stories
-Background briefings
-Off-the-record, political stories

Kissinger’s trip
-Press
-Ziegler
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Discussion of Pentagon Papers case with ambassadors
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Leonard Unger
-Press interest
-Paris
-Albert
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Rogers, Laird

Asia
-Agnew, Kissinger, Laird
-Focus
-Vietnam
-Israel
-Richard M. Helms
-Lyndon B. Johnson comparison

Unemployment statistics
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-Decrease
-Handling of news story
-Statistical aberrations
-Hodgson
-Comparison to George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally

The President, Haldeman, and Ziegler left at 4:02 pm Conv. No. 537-2 (cont.)