68–7

Conversation No. 68-7

Date: August 10, 1971
Time: Unknown after 9:14 am until 11:54 am
Location: Cabinet Room

Unknown people met

Preparation of room for Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] meeting
-Seating arrangements

Unknown men entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am

-President, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew
-Newspaper report

Forthcoming meeting
-Seating arrangements

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and an unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am

-President, JCS, Agnew
-Haig
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Agnew, JCS
-Agenda
-Seating arrangements

Members of the JCS entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am

Seating arrangements
-President, Agnew, Melvin R. Laird, David Packard, Moorer, Henry A. Kissinger

Agnew entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am

Greetings

Order of presentation
-Army, Air Force, Navy
-Marine Corps
-General Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.
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Kissinger

Football

The President met with Agnew, Laird, Packard, Moorer, General John D. Ryan, General William
C. Westmoreland, Chapman, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., Kissinger, and Haig; the White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

National defense
-Political conservatives


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[National Security]
[Duration: 11s ]


DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE


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[To listen to the segment (1h27m) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-544, E-
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-Budget
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz
-Briefing
-Laird
-President, Vice President
-William P. Rogers


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Defense
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[To listen to the segment (12m50s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-546.]

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-Presentation
-Budget
-Public reaction to taxes
-Personnel


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Defense

[To listen to the segment (2m57s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-546.]

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[General conversation/Unintelligible]

Presentation of gifts by President

[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 11:54 am
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