100–1

Conversation No. 100-1

Date: May 5, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:00 am and 11:59 pm
Location: Cabinet Room

Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. met with Dr. William O. Baker, Gordon Gray, Franklin B.
Lincoln, Jr., Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Frank Pace, Jr., Nelson A. Rockefeller, Dr. Edward Teller,
Gerard P. Burke, Thomas Latimer, and Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 54m 9s ]


VIETNAM

PRESIDENT’S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD [PFIAB]

MILITARY CAPABILITIES

The President entered at 10:11 am


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

[To listen to the segment (3m54s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-592.]

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Teller’s presentation

American leaders
-Establishment
-The President’s actions
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Media
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-Networks
-University presidents
-Ivy League
-Position on Vietnam
-Texas A & M University
-Position on Vietnam
-Support for World War II
-Influences
-Businessmen
-Press
-Trade with Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China
-Germany
-Adolf Hitler
-Position
-Politicians
-Rockefeller
-The President
-”Old guard” leaders
-World War II, Turkish loan, and Marshall Plan
-Position
-President’s Board on Disarmament
-John J. McCloy
-General Lauris Norstad
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Soviet Union
-United States’ expectations
-Unidentified Harvard University colleague of David


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SALT

[To listen to the segment (50s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-592.]

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-Advice to the President
-Religious leaders
-John Cardinal Krol
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
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-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Educators
-Religious leaders
-Press executives
-Politicians
-Southern Democrats
-Position
-Republicans
-Advantages
-Richard B. Russell
-John C. Stennis
-John L. McClellan
-George H. Mahon
-F. Edward Hébert
-Labor leaders
-View of elite
-Teamsters
-Meeting with the President
-Education
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Joseph (“Joe T.”) Trerotola
-William J. McCarthy
-Raymond Schoessling
-George Meany
-Position on Vietnam
-Position on other issues
-Elite class
-The President’s experience
-”Georgetown set”
-International set
-Nassau, Bahamas
-Newport, Rhode Island
-Palm Beach, Florida
-Palm Springs, California
-Beverly Hills, California
-Westchester County, New York
-The President’s experience
-Source of national weakness
-Education
-Educators, publishers, communications executives, college administrators, and big
businessmen
-Small businessmen
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-Erosion
-The President’s actions
-Students
-University presidents and professors
-Influence
-PFIAB contacts


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China trip

[To listen to the segment (1m50s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-592.]

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PFIAB meeting
-Value

Current United States situation
-Senate
-Antiballistic missile [ABM] appropriations
-Teller
-Democratic candidates
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Position on defense budget
-Educational institutions
-Harvard University
-University of California
-Ohio State University
-Texas A & M University
-Wyoming
-H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells
-Theory of decline of civilizations
-French
-British
-Romans
-Greeks

Leader class
-Influence on masses
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-Media
-Portrayal of United States
-Influence on youth
-Media


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Vietnam

[To listen to the segment (4m44s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-592.]

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United States’ spirit
-Farmers
-Southerners
-Laborers
-American leader class
-Failures
-Consequences
-Meeting with “the people”
-Values
-Changes
-Leaders
-Change
-Contrast with “the people”
-Ivy League presidents
-The President’s role
-Relation with “the people”
-Leaders
-Ivy League
-Response to change
-Network heads
-Newspaper heads
-Reasons
-Attica riot
-Prisoners
-Rockefeller’s actions evaluated
-The President’s position
-Leadership
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-The President
-Open skies policy
-Teller
-First strike
-United Nations
-Position of “the people”
-Leaders and “the people”
-Newspapers
-Newsday
-Articles on the President and other leaders
-Reasons
-American people
-New values
-Prospects for future
-The President


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Foreign policy

[To listen to the segment (1m24s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-592.]

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-Credibility
-Leader class
-Impact on the President
-Compared with other twentieth century Presidents
-Knowledge of media
-Media
-Position
-Students
-International group in Budapest
-Position on Vietnam policy
-Follow-up
-Editors
-Majority position
-The President’s meetings
-Omaha World-Herald
-Kansas City Star
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-[Forename unknown] McKnight
-Newsday

The President left at 11:37 am

Meeting
-Southern Democrats

Schedule

[General conversation/unintelligible]

Vietnam
-Leadership
-Robert S. McNamara
-Unidentified general
-Withdrawal of United States’ troops
-Loss of popular confidence
-McNamara
-General Maxwell D. Taylor
-New York Times
-Withdrawal of troops
-Timing
-McNamara
-New York Times
-The President’s policies
-Consequences in United States

Anderson, et al. left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm
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