589–2

Conversation No. 589-2

Date: October 12, 1971
Time: 5:28 pm - 5:53 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Supreme Court appointments
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Husband
-Herschel H. Friday
-Warren E. Burger
-University of Minnesota
-John N. Mitchell
-Arkansas
-Harry A. Blackmun

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:28 pm.

The President's schedule
-Unknown person
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.
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Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] documents
-Richard M. Helms
-State Department
-Missing files
-Kennedy family
-Kennedy Library
-Cambridge, Massachusetts
-Helms
-Declassification
-Immunity question
-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Life magazine
-Ngo Dinh Diem assassination
-Vietnam
-W. Averell Harriman
-Mcgeorge Bundy
-Roger Hilsman
-Dean Rusk
-State Department
-Strategy
-Helms
-Missing CIA documents

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:28 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.

Budget
-Kissinger
-Schedule
-Meeting of President with George P. Shultz, Kissinger, Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-The President's schedule
-Kissinger
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Negotiations
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
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-Tax plan
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Kissinger's schedule
-Domestic questions

Unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:28 pm.

Refreshments

Unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.

Phase II Wage and Price controls
-Press conference

The President's schedule
-Supreme Court appointments
-Mitchell
-Public relations
-South
-West

Supreme Court appointments
-Woman
-Necessity
-The President’s view
-Mitchell's view
-Ability
-Negroes
-Ehrlichman's experiences

Phase II Wage and Price controls
-Charls E. Walker
-Maurice H. Stans
-Shultz
-Labor
-Labor walkout

Kissinger entered at 5:40 pm.
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-The President's comments

Ehrlichman left at 5:41 pm

The President's schedule

US-USSR agreement
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President's attitude
-Kissinger's position
-Soviets
-French
-Germans
-French
-Kissinger
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Arthur K. Watson
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Willy Brandt
-Press conference
-PRC
-Dobrynin
-Reactions
-Alsop
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Kissinger
-Vietnam negotiations
-Washington Star
-Jerrold L. Schecter
-Time magazine
-W. Averell Harriman
-George H. Mahon
-F. Edward Hebert
-Attitude toward the President
-The President's commentary to Conressmen
-Soviets
-PRC trip
-Press conference
-Individual sent to Vietnam for Nguyen Van Thieu's inauguration
-Laird
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-State Deprtment
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Mitchell
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Laird
-Relationship with Thieu
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Connally
-Laird's views
-Richardson

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and 5:53
pm.

[Conversation No. 589-2A]

[See Conversation No. 11-65]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule

Rogers

Kissinger talked with Richardson at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and 5:53 pm.

[Conversation No. 589-2B]

[See Conversation No. 11-66]

[End of telephone conversation]

Thieu's inauguration
-Richardson's response
-Implications of Richardson's going

The President's schedule

The President and Kissinger left at 5:53 pm.
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