Date: July 6, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:25 am and 9:50 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
The Pentagon Papers case
-Criminal prosecutions
-John D. Ehrlichman’s recommendation of meeting with John N. Mitchell
-J. Edgar Hoover’s conversation with Haldeman
-Mitchell’s schedule
Media briefings by the President Conv. No. 538-4 (cont.)
-Purpose
-Targeted audience
-Editors
-Frequency
-Anticipation of news event
-Vietnam negotiations
-Comparison to background briefing
-Issues
-Pentagon Papers
-Vietnam negotiations
-Domestic issues
-Ehrlichman
-Lack of interest as news event
-Revenue sharing, the environment, postal service
-Preparation of briefing
-Analysis
-Positive emphasis
-World leadership role of the President
-Counterbalance to the Vietnam issue
Poll on presidential approval
-Results
The President’s image
-Televised events
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-John B. Connally
-Cabinet meeting
-Control
US foreign relations
-Possible US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit
-Timing
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet perceptions
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-USSR Summit
-Arrangements
-Henry A. Kissinger
-PRC
-Haldeman’s views Conv. No. 538-5 (cont.)
Poll on presidential approval
-George H. Gallup
-Trend in past polls
-Supreme Court ruling on Pentagon Papers
Pentagon Papers
-Focus of attention on issue
-Charles W. Colson
-Vietnam
-John F. Kennedy’s administration
-Release of documents
-Type of material leaked by Daniel Ellsberg
-Comparison to type of material seen by President while Vice President
-Security clearances held by former members of the Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
administrations
-Haig
-List
-McGeorge Bundy, W[illiam] Averell Harriman, Robert S. McNamara
-Staff
-Loss of clearance
-The press
-New York Post’s July 4, 1971 editorial
-Responsibility for security
-Colson
-White House coordinator
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
Issues
-Revenue sharing, reorganization
-Focus of 1970, 1971 State of the Union addresses
-Domestic council staff
-California
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