Secret White House Tapes

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255–38
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
  • Manolo Sanchez
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
  • White House operator
  • George P. Shultz
June 9, 1971
Conversation No. 255-38

Date: June 9, 1971
Time: 2:53 pm - 4:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

Schedule

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:53 pm

Delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 46s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Ronald W. Reagan
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[Ronald L. Ziegler talked with the President between 3:07 pm and 3:09 pm]

[Conversation No. 255-38A]

[See Conversation No. 4-96]

[End of telephone conversation]

News summary
-John A. Scali
-Leak of information
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
Commendations
-Letters
-Certificates
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-President’s previous meeting with police chiefs

[Ziegler talked with the President between 3:13 pm and 3:14 pm]

[Conversation No. 255-38B]

[See Conversation No. 4-97]

[End of telephone conversation]

Melvin R. Laird
-Source of news leak
-Howard K. Smith

Commendations
-Presidential Citizens Medal
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 Conv. No. 255-38 (cont.)

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Robert [Surname unknown]
-Appointment to Federal Communications Commission [FCC]

Peter G. Peterson

John B. Connally
-President’s previous conversation
-Hubert H. Humphrey’s [?] presentation, June 8
Proposed trip to California

Charles W. Colson

Unknown person in Ziegler’s office
-Work with press corps
-Press corps

Letter writing campaign by Cabinet officers to press
-Allin
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Lyndon B. Johnson

President’s schedule
-Young Republicans
-Annual leadership conference
-Proposed meeting with President
-18-year-old vote
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-State Department
-Reception for Washington press corps retirees
-William P. Rogers
-Scali
-John M. Hightower
-[Forename unintelligible] Roberts
-Paul W. Ward
-Hightower Conv. No. 255-38 (cont.)

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:14 pm

[Unintelligible]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:50 pm

-Directors of the National Association of Broadcasters meeting
-Presentation to President of book
-White House reception
-Forthcoming press conference
-George Putnam
-Paul Harvey
-Briefing for the American Society of the Association Executives
-George W. Romney
-Rumsfeld
-Connally
-Proposed meeting with the President
-Proposed meeting with unknown organization
-Timing of meeting


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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[Duration: 46s ]


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-Vietnam announcement
-Forthcoming summit
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Vietnam negotiations
-Xuan Thuy

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:50 pm Conv. No. 255-38 (cont.)

President’s schedule

Butterfield left at 3:51 pm


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-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Forthcoming sale of Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s house in Key Biscayne
-John N. Mitchell
-Rental of house to administration officials
-Presidential residence at Camp David
-Termites
-Repairs
-Lack of facility for support staff

Economics and government spending
-Rogers
-State Department reception rooms
-New office buildings for House and Senate
-Unknown committee
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Unknown person discussed [Robert H. Finch?]
-Counselor to the President
-”Free agent”
-Harlow

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:51 pm and
4:04 pm]
Conv. No. 255-38 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 255-38E]

[See Conversation No. 4-98]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Finch
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Rumsfeld

[George P. Shultz talked with the President between 4:04 pm and 4:17 pm]

[Conversation No. 255-38C]

[See Conversation No. 4-99]

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation with Shultz
President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Quadriad
-Budget meeting
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Forthcoming trip to Rochester, New York
-Wednesday’s schedule

Foreign policy
-President’s schedule
-State visits
-Value
-Timing

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 10s ]


COUNTRY
Conv. No. 255-38 (cont.)

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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-Foreign travel
-Europe
-Moscow
-PRC
-Possible meeting with Europeans
-Camp David
-State dinners
-Scheduling
-[Unintelligible]
-Haile Selassie
-Value
-Photographic value of foreign travel
-Peking
-Moscow
Trip to Moscow
-Timing
-Democrat Convention (1972)
-Possibility of a Democratic candidate visit

President’s schedule
-Transition period
-Timing
-Public awareness
-Possible General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. announcement

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:17 pm and
4:38 pm]
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[Conversation No. 255-38D]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

Peterson [?]
Conv. No. 255-38 (cont.)
Haldeman left at 4:35 pm
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