533–1

Conversation No. 533-1

Date: June 30, 1971
Time: 5:14 pm - 6:23 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Telephone
-Rose Mary Woods

[President talked with Rose Mary Woods between 5:14 pm and 5:15 pm]

[Conversation No. 533-1A]

[See Conversation No. 6-60; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]

Cynthia Frink
-Plans

[Signing documents]

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 5:15 pm.

President's schedule
-Toast
-Peru

Melvin R. Laird, John N. Mitchell, Henry A. Kissinger entered at 5:17 pm.

President's schedule
-William E. Timmons’ suggestion
-Alvin E. O'Konski
-Invitations

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:46 pm.

Pentagon Papers
-Supreme Court
-Decision
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-Ronald L. Ziegler's possible comment
-Status
-Effects
-Document security
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Document review
-Publication of documents
-Sanitization of documents
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Chicago Tribune
-Availability of documents
-Possible release
-Supreme Court decision
-Chicago Tribune
-Release of World War II and Korean War documents
-Hearst papers, Copley papers, New York Daily News
-Administration's position
-Release of information
-Press uncertainty
-Declassification
-World War II and Korean War documents
-Release of documents
-Court decision
-Justification
-Heart papers
-Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
-Declassification
-Possible effect
-Additional documents
-Diplomacy
-Impact
-Declassification review
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Michael Gravel
-Sanitization of documents
-Hugh Scott, Philip A. Hart
-Gravel
-Activities
-Administration's position
-Declassification
-Supreme Court's decision
-Negotiations
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-Kissinger’s position
-Public relations
-Extent
-Prior restraint of publications
-Supreme Court's decision
-Statement
-Declassification
-Supreme Court decision Conv. No. 533-1 (cont.)
-Administration's position
-Administration's response
-Declassification and release of documents
-Terminology
-Media position
-Availability of documents to the press
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Possession of documents
-Westinghouse Corporation
-Charles M. Cooke [?]
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Background
-Duties
-Possible actions
-Haldeman's forthcoming call to Richardson
-Possible actions
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Ellsberg
-New York Times
-Content
-Robert S. McNamara study
-Research and Development Corporation [RAND]
-Rand Corp.
-Brookings institute
-Possible break-in
-Haldeman's possible conversation with an unknown person
-Administration's possible response
-Statement
-Declassification
-Release of documents
-Possible New York Times action
-Supreme Court decision
-Administration's possible response
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-Effects of Supreme Court decision
-Kissinger’s view
-Publication of documents
-Impact
-Damage to national interest
-DOD
-Declassification
-Extent Conv. No. 533-1 (cont.)
-Access
-Government’s court position
-Lyndon B. Johnson efforts
-Public opinion
-Integrity of government
-Declassification study
-Release of documents
-Leaks
-Procedures
-Supreme Court decision
-New York Times
-Ellsberg
-Potter Stewart
-Health
-Administration's possible response
-Declassification
-Justification
-Cuban missile crisis
-President’s view
-Ramifications
-Release of documents
-New York Times
-Chicago Tribune

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.

-Ziegler's statements
-Press briefings
-Department of Justice
-Declassification
-Interagency group
-System of classification
-Release of documents
-Kissinger’s view
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-Chicago Tribune
-Declassification study
-Release of documents
-Declassification
-System of classification
-Defense of system
-Effect
-New York Times Conv. No. 533-1 (cont.)
-Washington Post
-Publication of Pentagon Papers
-Public opinion
-Public opinion
-Timing of decision
-Delivery of report
-Laird's schedule
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Solicitor General
-Supreme Court's ruling
-Prior restraint
-Possible criminal prosecution
-Administration's possible action
-Questions directed to Ziegler
-Ziegler's responses
-Supreme Court opinion
-Defendants
-Leonard Garment
-Prosecution of Ellsberg
-Department of Justice
-Cooke [?]
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Forthcoming conversation with Richardson
-Government service
-DOD
-Department of State
-HEW
-Administration's possible response
-Justice Department
-Supreme Court's decision
-Effect on prosecution
-Classification system
-Unauthorized disclosure
-System of classification
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-Effect on national security
-Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Declassification
-Kissinger’s view
-Completion date
-Rogers
-Possible statement Conv. No. 533-1 (cont.)
-Release of documents
-Declassification
-Completion date
-Public statements
-Availability to the press
-Damage to national interest
-Richard A. Moore, John A. Scali
-Cooke
-President’s view
-Possible conspiracy
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Laird's investigation
-Brookings Institution
-Break-in
-Administration's possible response
-Criminal charges
-Ziegler's press briefings
-Presidential statement
-Backgrounders
-Declassification
-Rationale
-Ellsberg
-Release of documents
-Effect
-Democrats
-Possible New York Times article
-John F. Kennedy
-Effect
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Chicago Tribune
-Impact of publication
-Articles
-Wire service reports
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-Administration's possible response
-Rationale
-Television
-McCloskey
-New York Times
-Max Frankel
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] Conv. No. 533-1 (cont.)

Mitchell's schedule
-W. Kenneth Riland

Pentagon Papers
-Possible administration response

The President, et al., left at 6:23 pm.