Date: May 29, 1973
Time: 9:58 am – 11:06 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with William P. Rogers.
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Roger’s health
-Weather
-President’s trip to Florida
-Virus
President’s schedule
-Report from Rogers’s trip to Latin America
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders
-Rogers’s presentation on Latin American trip
-J. William Fulbright
-Henry A. Kissinger’s presentation
-Paris
-Communique
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s input
-Georges J. R. Pompidou’s visit
-Kissinger and John A. Scali
Scali
-Possible statement on Middle East
-Scali’s conversation with Joseph J. Sisco
-Briefing
-President, Rogers support
-United Nations
-Job performance
-Possible conversation with Rogers
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-Progress
-Arabs
-Danger [?]
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:58 am and
10:45 am.
[Conversation No. 929-7A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
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[See Conversation No. 39-26]
[End telephone conversation]
Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 9:58 am.
Refreshment
Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 10:45 am.
Scali
-Possible statement on Middle East
Watergate
-Views of Latin American leaders
-Compared to Europe
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Michael Manley
-Effect on administration
-Paralysis
-Newspapers
-President’s activities
-Prisoners of War [POW] dinner
-Council of Economic Advisors
-Energy
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Instructions for William Sullivan
-Thieu
-Congress members
-Government business
-Haig’s view
William P. Rogers talked with Joseph J. Sisco at an unknown time between 9:58 am and 10:45
am.
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[Conversation No. 929-7B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 39-27]
[End telephone conversation]
Scali’s statement on the Middle East
-State Department
President’s schedule
-Rogers, Scali
-Photograph
-Middle East, Latin America
Presidency
-Responsibilities of office
-Burdens
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Sherman Adams
-Roles of Vice President Nixon and Rogers
-Attacks on the President
-Press coverage
-Television [TV]
Watergate
-News coverage
-Firings of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s view of Sherman Adams affair
-Politics and the military
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John N. Mitchell, Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Effect on President
-President’s possible grand jury appearance
-John W. Dean III
-Possible statements
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-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Dean
-Conversations with President
-Subornation of Jeb S[tuart] Magruder’s perjury
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] hiring of Watergate burglars
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Offer of clemency
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Mitchell
-Meetings with President
-Number and timing
-Clemency
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Mitchell’s role
-Grand Jury
-Archibald Cox’s possible activities
-George S. McGovern’s supporter
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Possible presentment
-Possible recommendation for impeachment
-Ervin Committee
-Samuel Dash
-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-President’s possible resignation
-Spiro T. Agnew
-White House response
-Views of world leaders
-Compared to attacks on other presidents
-Harry S Truman
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Billy Sol Estes and Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-Cover-up
-Mitchell’s possible role
-Mitchell
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-Possible prison term
-Family
-Possible prison term
-Bobby G. Seale case
-President
-Possible trial
-White House response
-Haig
-President’s possible press conference
-Barry M. Goldwater and the Vice President Agnew
-Rogers
-Cabinet
-Republican Congressional leaders’ statements
-Leaks
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield and Carl B. Albert
-Bryce N. Harlow’s return to White House staff
-Grand Jury
-Possible presentment
-President’s possible appearance
-Washington Post story, May 29
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible testimony
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Dean
-Mitchell
-Robert L. Vesco
-Timing of indictment
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Dash’s scheduling
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-Dean
-Fear
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible convictions
-Grand jury testimony
-United States Attorneys’ actions
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-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible convictions
-Funds for defendants
-Intent
-Funds for defendants
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-President’s investigation
-Haldeman’s $350,000
-Ehrlichman’s approval of Herbert W. Kalmbach’s fund-raising
-President’s knowledge
-Mitchell
-Role
-Magruder and Dean
-Vesco
-Vesco
-Maurice H. Stans’s role
-Compared with Adams
-William J. Casey’s role
-Participants
-Effect on families
-Functioning of system of government
-Rogers’s conversation with Richardson
-Cox
-Cox
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy and McGovern
-Popular interests
-As an issue
-Harlow’s view
-White House response
-Dean’s documents
-John J. Sirica
-Huston Plan
-Dean’s knowledge
-Implementation
-J. Edgar Hoover’s views
-Adm. Noel Gayler, Donald Bennett and Richard M. Helms
-Hoover’s views
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-Implementation
-Dean
-Knowledge
-Possible immunity
-Documents
-President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Leaks
– Memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Memcons
-Contrasted with direct testimony
-Dean
-Possible effects of testimony
-President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Haldeman’s mood
-Ehrlichman’s mood
-Firings of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Mood of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s knowledge
-Ehrlichman’s investigation
-Report to President
-Ehrlichman’s report
-Grand jury testimony
-Executive privilege
-President’s orders regarding Henry E. Petersen
-Effect on Mitchell
-Mitchell
-Conversations with President
-Public statement
-President’s conversations
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible testimony by Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible indictments
-Rules of evidence
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-Response to previous testimony
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-Possible duration
-Public reaction
-Compared with Howard Hughes and Owen Brewster
-Possible White House response
President’s schedule
-Meeting in Iceland
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Scali and Kissinger
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Rogers’s health
-Virus
-Contagious
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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John A. Scali entered at 10:45 am.
Rogers’s Latin American trip
-Scali’s Dinner with Argentine Ambassador, May 29
-Rogers’s meeting with Hector J. Campora
-Campora
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-Public stance
-Left-leaning
-Youth
-Private stance
-Right-leaning
-Support for US
-Ministers
-Sensibility
-Rogers’s message for ambassador
-Foreign Minister
-University of Pennsylvania
-Law school
-New York
-Wife
-New York University
-Doctor
-Minister of Justice
-Closeness to Campora
-New York hospital
Kissinger entered at 10:46 am.
Rogers’s Latin American trip
-Rogers’s meeting with Hector J. Campora
-Minister of Education
-Eva Peron’s doctor
Kissinger’s fiftieth birthday
-Compared to sixtieth birthday
-Dwight D. Eisenhower [?]
The White House photographer and members of the press entered at 10:46 am.
Kissinger’s fiftieth birthday
-Dwight D. Eisenhower [?]
-Age
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The White House photographer and press left at an unknown time before 11:03 am.
US foreign policy
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Middle East
-Arab diplomats
-Prioritization
-Year of Europe
-President’s interest
-Direct, indirect discussions
-Interim settlement
-Trajectory
-United Nations [UN]’s role
-Public relations [PR] posture
-US role
-Year of Europe
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Priorities
-Middle East
-Latin America
-Middle East
-“Hot spot”
-False hopes
-Solution
-Interests
-Stakes
-Powers
-Contact
Scali’s votes in UN Security Council
-Vetoes
-Abstentions
-Resolution on motherhood
-Mark Russell
-Humorist
-Skit
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US foreign policy
-Scali’s public and private statements
-Record
-Reassurance
-Certainty
-UN schedule
-Adjournment
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Statement
-Brezhnev
-Visit
-New York
-Jewish demonstrations
-Security
-Camp David
-Risk
-US-Soviet Union summit
-Cancellation
-President’s response
-“Responsible Jews”
-Max M. Fisher
-Orderly
-Camp David
-Hippies
-Support for Brezhnev
-Lebanon crisis
-UN
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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US foreign policy
-Kissinger’s conversation with Fulbright, May 23
-Marquis Childs
-Article on Vietnam settlement
-Troop withdrawal
-Chou En-lai
-Fullbright’s concern
-US public opinion
-Vietnam settlement
-Chou En-lai’s influence
-Possible approval of appointments
-Graham A. Martin
-William Sullivan
-G. McMurtrie Godley
-Association with Vietnam
-Martin
-Thailand
-Foreign Service officers
-Accusations
-Public relations [PR]
-Orders
-Chou En-lai
-Public statement
-Childs
-Column
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-France
-US troops
-Quotation
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President’s schedule
-Milton R. Young
-John McFall
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:03 am.
Scali’s schedule
-New York Italian Rifle Club
-Dinner
-Stature of club
-Lawyers
-Doctors
-Businessmen
-Artists
-Support for President
-Mood
-Speeches
Watergate
-Attacks on President
-Effect on President’s support
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President’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:03 am.
Watergate
-Support for President
-Accomplishments
-Vietnam settlement
-Prisoners of War [POW] return
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of Chinia [PRC]
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-Emotional reaction
President’s schedule
-Robert C. Byrd
The President et al. left at 11:06 am.