512–18

Conversation No. 512-18

Date: June 4, 1971
Time: 1:18 pm - 1:42 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Arlen Specter
-Views
-Pre-indictment probation for drug offenders
-John N. Mitchell’s reaction
-Legalization of marijuana
-Unknown man’s views
-Possible role in Administration’s anti-drug efforts
-Possible appointment to Supreme Court
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger


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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 33s ]


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Strength of character
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President’s economic program
-Economic group
-John B. Connally, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
-Timing of meeting
-Unemployment

Pending legislation
-McGovern-Hatfield resolution

Specter
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Henry A. Kissinger

Polls
-Domestic Council
-Crime
-National economy
-[Charles D.?] Bennett
-Haldeman’s conversation with Leonard Garment
-Payment
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-George H. Gallup
-Use by news media
-Louis Harris
-Harris versus Gallup

National economy
-Status
-Effect on college students
-Haldeman’s experiences as recruiter
-President’s experiences visiting law schools, 1961-1968

Vietnam

President’s People’s Republic of China [PRC] policy
-Visit to PRC
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Effect on public
-Compared with visit to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Safety
-District of Columbia
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-Mexico
-Latin America
-Soviet Union
-Moscow
-Leningrad

President’s possible trip to the Soviet Union
-Lyndon B. Johnson Conv. No. 512-18 (cont.)
-Yalta conference
-Moscow

President’s possible visit to PRC
-Kissinger’s reaction
-President’s role in policy formation
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Kissinger
-Versus William P. Rogers
-Schedule
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew


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PRC NEGOTIATIONS


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-Timing
-Kissinger

Vietnam
-Possible administration action
-McGovern-Hatfield resolution
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-Businessmen’s group
-John W. Gardner
-[Forename unknown] Willens [sp?]

The President and Haldeman left at 1:42 pm


Conv. No. 512-18 (cont.)