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June 26, 1971

Introduction

This almanac page for Saturday, June 26, 1971, pulls together various records created by the federal government and links to additional resources which can provide context about the events of the day.

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Schedule and Public Documents

  • The Daily Diary files represent a consolidated record of the President's activities. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

    The President's day began at Camp David, Maryland

  • The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents made available transcripts of the President's news conferences; messages to Congress; public speeches, remarks, and statements; and other Presidential materials released by the White House.

    Digitized versions can be found at HathiTrust.

  • The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other Presidential documents.

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Archival Holdings

Any selection of archival documents will necessarily be partial. You should use the documents and folders identified below as a starting place, but consult the linked collection finding aids and folder title lists and the collections themselves for context. Many documents to be found this way do not lend themselves to association with specific dates, but are essential to a complete understanding of the material.

  • Selective document listing

    President's Office Files

    The President's Office Files consists of materials drawn together by the Special Files Unit from several administrative subdivisions within the White House Office. It is the handwriting and sensitive papers sent to the Staff Secretary that now comprise much of the President's Office Files. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

  • The H. R. Haldeman Diaries consists of seven handwritten diaries, 36 dictated diaries recorded as sound recordings, and two handwritten audio cassette tape subject logs. The diaries and logs reflect H. R. Haldeman’s candid personal record and reflections on events, issues, and people encountered during his service in the Nixon White House. As administrative assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, Haldeman attended and participated in public events and private meetings covering the entire scope of issues in which the Nixon White House engaged in during the years 1969-1973. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

    • Transcript of diary entry (PDF)
      Saturday, June 26 at Camp David.

      President came over to Laurel for the budget meeting, which lasted about three and a half hours, with Shultz, Connally, Weinberger, Ehrlichman, McCracken and Ed Harper. They went through a whole basic economic presentation and a review of the budget situation as it now stands, and tomorrow they'll get into specifics on the budget decisions to be made.

      Haig called again on the Rogers problem on the Kissinger trip, and that seems to be basically settled now. He also called to report on Henry's meeting in Paris. Apparently the North Vietnamese came in with a detailed proposal that was constructive in many elements, but one was very bad and will be a problem for us. He says this was the first really detailed session, so he thinks we may be in an actual negotiation. He how--we'll have to give them an answer, however, to their proposal. If they don't give in on their one bad point, then it's insurmountable; but Henry says the meeting was very businesslike, very serious and they appear to be very flexible, so he thinks there's some hope.

      The latest flap is that Henry and Haig are furious because State Department has brought the DCM [Deputy Chief of Mission] from Dacca, Pakistan, a guy named Blood, who has been putting out a lot of bad stuff. They brought him back to testify at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which they feel does serious damage to our position. The fact that we would bring back a known dissident to testify is ridiculous. Also, the Foreign Service Association gave him a reward for forthright reporting. We weren't notified of any of this ahead of time. So that gives them a new basis for being furious with the State Department.

      President called me over to Aspen this afternoon and got to probing very deeply on some remarks Connally made at the end of the budget meeting this morning, regarding the fact that our image of leadership is not coming through. He feels that--the President feels that it's very hard to get at this and wants me to talk to Connally about what we really do. The President reads it as being the need for other people to speak about him. Connally's point, I think, was to try to get through the fact that we've got to discipline our people, so that they don't talk about their recommendations, and so forth, outside of the White House that they've got to present their recommendations to the President, not to the public. In any event, he wants to get -- wants me to get from Connally his thoughts as to what the President can and should do and how he should approach this. He kept coming back to this during an hour session that we had at Aspen, and it obviously is bugging him.

      We talked about the plans for press conferences. He's now decided that he won't do a Q&A at the Midwest media briefing, which is what he was planning to do in lieu of a press conference. Instead, he'll go at the news hour and make a statement on television regarding the Pentagon Papers, explaining why we did it, the policy of this government, the status of the war, and that sort of thing, and then wait and do a press conference in California.

      He got back on to Henry's trip and felt that in order to solve Rogers' problem, we should have Sisco go to India at the same time Kissinger's in Pakistan, or else have Haig go to India. I checked this out with Haig, and he talked to Henry about it in London, and they're both very much against that idea in any way, shape or form. Then he got to the point of maybe just having Al go with Henry instead of Henry taking his staff, because he's concerned about Henry's staff's loyalty. Also, he feels he needs Al's evaluation in Vietnam.

      End of June 26.
    • Original audio recording (MP3)

  • The National Archives Catalog is the online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records. It is the main way of describing our holdings and also provides access to electronic records and digitized versions of our holdings.

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National Security Documents

  • The President's Daily Brief is the primary vehicle for summarizing the day-to-day sensitive intelligence and analysis, as well as late-breaking reports, for the White House on current and future national security issues. Read "The President's Daily Brief: Delivering Intelligence to Nixon and Ford" to learn more.

  • The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Visit the State Department website for more information.

    Vol. II, Organization and Management of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1969-1972

    The Intelligence Community and the White House

    Vol. VII, Vietnam, July 1970-January 1972

    The Consequences of Operation Lan Som 719 and the Search for a Settlement, April 8-October 6, 1971

    • 223. Memorandum of Conversation, Paris, June 26, 1971, 10:45 a.m.-3:05 p.m.

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 1039, Files for the President, Vietnam Negotiations, HAK II 1971. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. The meeting took place at the North Vietnamese Residence in Paris, 11 Rue Darthe. Kissinger summarized this meeting in a June 27 memorandum to the President. (Ibid., Box 853, For the President’s Files—Lord, Vietnam Negotiations, Camp David, Vol. VIII)

    Vol. XI, South Asia Crisis, 1971

    South Asia Crisis, 1971

    • 79. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India, Washington, June 26, 1971, 2258Z

      Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1970–73, REF PAK. Secret; Priority; Exdis. Drafted and approved for transmission by Schneider and cleared in substance by Van Hollen. Also sent to US Mission Geneva and repeated to USUN, Islamabad, Dacca, Calcutta, and London.

    Vol. XIX, Part 1, Korea, 1969-1972

    Republic of Korea Troops in Vietnam and Force Modernization, April 1971-December 1972

    Vol. XL, Germany and Berlin, 1969-1972

    Germany and Berlin, 1969-1972

    Vol. XLII, Vietnam: The Kissinger-Le Duc Tho Negotiations

    Discovering the Possible, May 1971-September 1971

    • 9. Memorandum of Conversation, Paris, June 26, 1971, 10:45 a.m.-3:05 p.m.

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 1039, Files for the President, Vietnam Negotiations, HAK II 1971. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. The meeting took place at the North Vietnamese Residence at 11 Rue Darthé. In the list of participants, Nguyen Minh Vy’s name was crossed out and Phan Hien’s inserted in its place. Kissinger summarized the meeting in a June 27 memorandum to the President. (Ibid., Box 853, For the President’s Files—Lord, Vietnam Negotiations, Camp David, Vol. VIII)

      Kissinger later related what he believed significant about this meeting. “In the fairy-tale atmosphere of Vietnam negotiations,” he wrote, “after two years of Communist stonewalling and domestic flagellation, my colleagues and I were elated that Hanoi had for the first time responded to a proposition by us, even though the response could hardly be called generous. It was a major step forward only by the standards of previous exchanges. For the first time Hanoi presented its ideas as a negotiating document and not as a set of peremptory demands.” (Kissinger, White House Years, p. 1023)

    Vol. E-1, Documents on Global Issues, 1969-1972

    U.S. Policy Towards International Production and Trafficking in Illegal Drugs

    • 199. Telegram 4439 From the Embassy in Turkey to the Department of State, Ankara, June 26, 1971, 2245Z

      Ambassador Handley reported to Secretary of State Rogers that a private conversation with Prime Minister ERIM had resulted in a realistic approach to opium control. He urged the Department to follow through immediately.

      Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1970-73, INCO-DRUGS TUR. Secret; Immediate; Exdis.

  • The Kissinger telephone conversation transcripts consist of approximately 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger’s telephone conversations during his tenure as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1969-1974) and Secretary of State (1973-1974) during the administration of President Richard Nixon. Visit the finding aid for more information.

    Digitized versions can be found in the National Archives Catalog.

Audiovisual Holdings

  • The White House Photo Office collection consists of photographic coverage of President Richard Nixon meeting with prominent social, political, and cultural personalities; speaking engagements and news conferences of the President and various high-ranking members of the White House staff and Cabinet; Presidential domestic and foreign travel, including Presidential vacations; social events and entertainment involving the First Family, including entertainers present; official portraits of the President, First Family, and high-ranking members of the Nixon administration; the 1969 and 1973 Inaugurals; the President’s 1972 Presidential election campaign appearances (including speeches) and other official activities of the White House staff and the President’s Cabinet from January 20, 1969 until August 9, 1974 at the White House and the Old Executive Office Building; other locations in Washington, DC, such as The Mall; and the Presidential retreats in Camp David, Maryland, Key Biscayne, Florida, and San Clemente, California. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

    Roll WHPO-6697 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: B&W

    • Frame(s): WHPO-6697-02A-08A, President Nixon sitting with advisors and staff during a budget review meeting. 6/26/1971, Camp David, Maryland Aspen Lodge. President Nixon, Paul W. McCracken, John Ehrlichman, John Connally, George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, Edwin Harper.
    • Frame(s): WHPO-6697-08, President Nixon sitting with advisors and staff during a budget review meeting. 6/26/1971, Camp David, Maryland Aspen Lodge. President Nixon, Paul W. McCracken, John Ehrlichman, John Connally, George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, Edwin Harper.

  • The White House Communications Agency Sound Recordings Collection contains public statements that took place between 1969 and 1974. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

    P - Formal Presidential Remarks

    • WHCA-SR-P-710626
      Remarks by President Nixon to Nat'l Assn. of Retired Teachers in Chicago's Pick-Congress Hotel. (6/26/1971)

      Runtime: 30:42:00

      Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.

  • The White House Communications Agency Videotape Collection contains “off-the-air” recordings of televised programs produced between 1968 and 1974. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

    • WHCA-4478
      "The Supreme Court and The Pentagon Papers". President Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon.
      Undetermined
      Runtime: 0:30

Context (External Sources)