Conversation No. 1-1

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:51 am and 11:53 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Brett [Surname unknown; Secret Service agent] talked with the White House operator.

Request for ring back

Conversation No. 1-2

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:51 am and 11:53 am
Location:  White House Telephone

An unknown man talked with the White House operator.

Request for ring back

Conversation No. 1-3

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:53 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-4

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:53 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's upcoming speech on Vietnam
-Input from White House staff and others
-Rose Mary Woods
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John A. Scali
-Possible American withdrawal
-Leonard Garment
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Laos
-Creighton W. Abrams
-Administration=s credibility
-Garment's views
-Kissinger's future statement
-Tone
-White House "Doves"
-George P. Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Clark MacGregor
-Robert H. Finch
-Domestic issues
-George S. McGovern
-Drop in American and Vietnamese casualties
-Bombing reduction
-Regions
-Defense of Administration
-Staff
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Joseph W. Alsop column

Recording ends while the conversation is in progress.

Conversation No. 1-5

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:10 pm and 12:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with John D. Ehrlichman and Alexander P. Butterfield.

Instructions

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:10 pm and 12:14 pm.

[See Conversation No. 475-4A]

Call to Clifford M. Hardin

Conversation No. 1-6

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  12:14 pm - 12:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Clifford M. Hardin.

[See Conversation No. 475-4B]

Agricultural Extension Service
-President's decision
-John B. Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] staff

Claude W. Gifford
-Appointment

The President talked with Gifford at an unknown time after 12:14 pm and before 12:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 1-6A]

[See Conversation No. 475-4C]

Appointment
-Benefits

The President talked with Hardin at an unknown time after 12:14 pm and before 12:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 1-6B]

[See Conversation No. 475-4D]

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Implementation of President's decision

Conversation No. 1-7

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:25 pm and 9:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 1-8

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  9:27 pm - 9:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

President's previous speech on Southeast Asia
-President's emotional at end of speech
-Network analysis
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Dan Rather
-William F. (ABilly@) Graham's reaction
-Brody F. Black, Cincinnati Inquirer
-Others' reactions
-William P. Rogers= reaction

Conversation No. 1-9

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  9:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with an unknown woman.

Unknown man

The President talked with the White House operator at 9:31 pm.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-10

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  9:31 pm - 9:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's previous speech on Southeast Asia
-November 3, 1969 speech
-Network analysis
-John W. Chancellor
-Dan Rather
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Pentagon correspondent
-Howard K. Smith
-Conclusion of speech
-Reaction of Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Winston Lord
-Kissinger's reaction
-Analysis of President=s delivery
-Congressional leaders
-Carl B. Albert
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Robert P. Griffin
-Cabinet
-Kissinger=s reaction
-Network analysis
-Chancellor, Rather
-White House staff and Cabinet
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P, Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Reaction to possible North Vietnam intransigence
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet efforts

Conversation No. 1-11

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:39 pm to 9:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 1-12

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  9:42 pm - 9:49 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

President's speech on Southeast Asia
-Reactions
-Kevin Taylor's saluting President
-John A. (AJack@) Mulcahy's reaction
-[Forename unknown] Bergen
-[Forename unknown] O=Hara

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-Bergen and O'Hara

The President conferred with Manolo Sanchez at an unknown time between  9:42 pm and 9:49 pm.

Fireplace

[End of conferral]

President's speech on Southeast Asia
-Bergen
-Length
-Cabinet
-John B. Connally
-William P. Rogers
-Callers' reactions
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Rogers
-Taylor anecdote
-John N. Mitchell
-People to be called
-Callers' reactions
-Agnew
-Rogers
-Hobart D. Lewis
-Leonard K. Firestone
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Robert J. Dole

People to be called
-Agnew
-Rogers
-Lewis

Conversation No. 1-13

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:49 pm and 9:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; Manolo Sanchez and an unknown man can be heard in the background.

Call to William F. (ABilly@) Graham

Conversation No. 1-14

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  9:52 pm - 9:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William F. (ABilly@) Graham.

President's previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Kevin Taylor's salute
-Dan Rather

Graham's schedule

President's previous speech on Southeast Asia

Role of John F. Kennedy in Vietnam War
-Graham's article in New York Times
-Overthrow of Ngo Dihn Diem
-Combat troops
-Laos
-South Vietnam
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Diem
-J. William Fulbright
-Tonkin Gulf resolution

President's previous speech of Southeast Asia
-Taylor

Conversation No. 1-15

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  9:56 pm - 10:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.

Copley newspapers

President's previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Kevin Taylor's salute
-Attitude of posterity
-Network analysis
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Congress= responsibility
-Perspective
-Message to Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope

Conversation No. 1-16

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:00 pm and 10:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

Reception at Luxemburg Embassy
-Foreign Minister

President's previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Melvin R. Laird reaction
-Kevin Taylor
-Reaction of Luxemburgers
-Reaction of American people
-President's other options
-Rogers= copy
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Taylor
-Congressional leaders

-Laird=s opinion
-Prisoners of War [POW] issue
-President's policy
-Taylor's father
-President's speech
-Delivery
-President's meeting with Congressional leaders
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Carl B. Albert
-Hugh Scott
-President's speech
-Adele (Langston) Rogers= reaction
-David M. Abshire=s reaction
-Public reaction

Conversation No. 1-17

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:07 pm - 10:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the President.

President's previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Reactions to speech
-William P. Rogers
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-William F. (ABilly@) Graham
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John N. Mitchell
-Hobart D. Lewis
-Robert J. Dole
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-John J. Rhodes
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Edwin B. Forsythe
-Clifford P. Hansen
-Hugh Scott
-George P. Romney

-James D. Hodgson
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-John A. Volpe
-Union leaders
-George Meany
-Peter J. Brennan
-Peter Fosco
-Michael J. May
-John F. Griner
-S. Frank Raferty
-Jessie M. Calhoon
-Textile workers leaders
-Charles W. Colson follow up
-C. L. Dennis
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Thomas Boyle
-John B. Connally
-Business leaders
-John A. Mulcahy
-President of Tuskegee
-Mayor of Paterson, New Jersey
-Robert Turrell (sp?)
-Public reaction
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. case
-Conservatives
-Young Americans for Freedom [YAF]
-M. Stanton Evans, American Conservative Union
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Mark I. Goode
-Leonard Garment
-Harry S. Dent
-Buchanan

Conversation No. 1-18

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:16 pm and 10:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 1-19

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman's location

Conversation No. 1-20

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:20 pm and 10:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-21

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:21 pm - 10:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Reactions to President's speech on Southeast Asia
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Military draft

Military draft
-Attitude of military
-Vietnam War
-Volunteer army

Reactions to President's speech
-Joseph W. and Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Impact
-Media
-Dan Rather
-Troop withdrawal
-Cabinet
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Ed [Surname unknown]
-Kissinger's reaction
-Kevin Taylor
-Associated Press [AP], United Press International [UPI]
-Karl Taylor, Jr.
-Mrs. Karl Taylor
-Karl Taylor
-Exploit
-Lt. William L. Calley Jr.
-Patriotism
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Donald V. Bennett
-Reaction

Conversation No. 1-22

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:27 pm - 10:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 1-23

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:28 pm - 10:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Reactions to President's speech on Southeast Asia
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Hobart D. Lewis
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Jack Drown
-Frederick H. Schroeder
-Freeman Gosden
-Health
-Floyd Ablum
-Forthcoming telephone call
-James E. Bassett
-Lewis
-Gosden
-Rockefeller

Conversation No. 1-24

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked to the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 1-25

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:34 pm - 10:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo

Conversation No. 1-26

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:35 pm - 10:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

Reaction to President's speech on Southeast Asia
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Robert C. Byrd and Hugh Scott
-Alsop

Conversation No. 1-27

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:38 pm - 10:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo.

President's previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Popular reaction
-Karl Taylor
-Kevin Taylor

Manolo Sanchez talked with Rebozo at an unknown time between 10:38 pm and 10:45 pm.

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President's previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Charts
-Deadline on Paris negotiations
-Reaction
-Kevin Taylor

Rebozo's schedule
-Conversation with John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 1-28

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 1-29

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Ronald L. Ziegler's location

Conversation No. 1-30

Date:  April 7,1971
Time:  10:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 1-31

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:46 pm - 10:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

President's previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Organized labor's reaction
-Ending of speech
-S. Frank Raferty
-George Meany
-Peter J. Brennan
-Building trades leaders
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Media reaction
-Ending
-Tone

Conversation No. 1-32

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:49 pm - 10:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler; Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower can be heard in the background.

President=s previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Reaction
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ending of speech
-Helen A. Thomas

Conversation No. 1-33

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  10:51 pm - 10:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller

President=s previous speech on Southeast Asia

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-President's options

President=s previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Chart
-Media reaction
-Young boys reaction
-Rockefeller's support
-John V. Lindsay
-Margaretta (AHappy@) Rockefeller

Conversation No. 1-34

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:52 pm and 11:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Rose Mary Woods talked with the President.

President=s previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Reaction
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Paul W. Keyes
-Cabinet

-William P. Rogers
-John N. Mitchell
-Keyes
-Moorer
-Woods
-Louis [Surname unknown]

Conversation No. 1-35

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  11:08 pm - 11:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the President.

President=s previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Orders for White House staff
-Cabinet reaction
-John N. Mitchell
-William P. Rogers
-James D. Hodgson
-George P. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-John B. Connally
-White House staff
-Public relations
-Charles W. Colson
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press
-Call to Connally

Conversation No. 1-36

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  11:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Hobart D. Lewis talked with the President .

President=s previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Lewis= reaction
-Conclusion
-Kevin Taylor
-Troop withdrawals

Lewis= schedule
-Trip
-Gifts from President

Conversation No. 1-37

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  11:13 pm - 11:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

Reaction to President's speech on Southeast Asia
-Ellsworth Bunker
-Clark MacGregor
-White House staff "doves"
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan

Conversation No. 1-38

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 pm and 11:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 1-39

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 pm and 11:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the President.

Reaction to President's speech on Southeast Asia
-Clark MacGregor
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haldeman's conversation with MacGregor
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch
-John D. Ehrlichman
-MacGregor, Finch
-Rumsfeld
-Rose May Woods
-Kissinger
-John B. Connally

Conversation No. 1-40

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 pm and 11:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-41

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 pm and 11:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

President=s previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Mrs. Karl Taylor
-Call from Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Call from Kissinger
-Return call

Conversation No. 1-42

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 pm and 11:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald W. Reagan

Conversation No. 1-43

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 pm and 11:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Freeman Gosden.

Greetings

Reaction to President's speech on Southeast Asia
-Tone
-Floyd Ablum
-Ending
-Medal of Honor winners
-Mrs. Karl Taylor
-Kevin Taylor
-Reaction

Vietnam
-President's policy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

President=s previous speech

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Movie industry
-President=s meeting
-Taft Schreiber
-Self reform
-Costs
-Samuel Goldwyn

Conversation No. 1-44

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 pm and 11:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Robert C. Byrd

Conversation No. 1-45

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  11:21 pm - 11:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the President.

Reaction to President's speech on Southeast Asia
-John B. Connally
-John Snyder
-Joe Fowler
-David M. Kennedy
-John H. Burns
-Frank T. Bow
-John G. Tower
-George H. Mahon
-Paul W. McCracken
-[Forename unknown] Barker
-Governor [Forename unknown] Robinson

-Paul A. Volcker
-Closing
-Clark MacGregor
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Charles W. Colson's talks with unionists
-Newspaper editors
-Mike O'Neil, New York Daily News
-Martin S. Hayden, Detroit News
-Frank S. Meyer, National Review
-Clayton Kirkpatrick, Chicago Tribune
-Jimmy Stolven [sp?]
-Carlyle Reed, Sacramento Union
-Victor H. Krulak San Diego Union
-Richard Pierce, San Francisco Examiner
-John H. Colburn, Wichita Eagle
-Media reaction
-John W. Chancellor
-William P. Rogers
-William E. Brock, III
-Gordon L. Allott, Jr.
-Deane C. Davis
-Reaction
-Robert C. Byrd
-Norris Cotton
-George S. McGovern
-Polls
-White House
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-White House staff
-Rumsfeld
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Telegrams
-Western Union
-Phone calls
-Polls

Conversation No. 1-46

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  11:33 pm - 11:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Robert C. Byrd talked with the President.

President=s previous speech on Southeast Asia
-Wire statements

Vietnam
-President's briefing
-Robert P. Griffin
-House leadership
-Griffin
-Byrd

Conversation No. 1-47

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:03 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 475-22a]

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This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 1-48

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:23 pm and 5:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Judge Thomas F. Murphy

Conversation No. 1-49

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:23 pm and 5:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Judge Thomas F. Murphy's location

Conversation No. 1-50

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:37 pm and 9:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-51

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  9:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Henry A. Kissinger's location

Conversation No. 1-52

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  9:59 pm - 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the President .

Dinner for W. Clement Stone
-President=s remarks
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-William J. Scott
-Charles H. Percy
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-President's remarks
-National defense
-Max M. Fisher
-Middle East
-Percy
-Vote on Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM]

President's speech, April 7, 1971
-Reaction of attendees at Stone dinner
-Poll
-Mamie D. Eisenhower

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Karl Taylor
-Kevin Taylor
-Reaction

Haldeman's schedule

Conversation No. 1-53

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  10:06 pm - 10:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President .

Vietnam
-Kissinger's dinner with Rand Corporation officials
-William R. Hewlett
-William Webster
-President's speech of April 7, 1971
-President's dinner for W. Clement Stone
-Charles H. Percy
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Reaction
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Kevin and Mrs. Karl Taylor
-Account by Mamie D. Eisenhower
-Reaction to speech
-Eric Sevareid
-Presidential use of the media
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-President's Vietnam policy options
-Prisoners of war [POW] issue
-Ziegler
-Melvin R. Laird
-Forthcoming lunch with Kissinger
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.
-Reaction
-Liberals
-Congressional reaction

Conversation No. 1-54

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 am and 10:02 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 1-55

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  10:03 am - 10:27 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.

[See Conversation No.  476-8A]

Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 1-56

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  10:27 am - 10:28 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 476-9A]

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 1-57

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  10:28 am - 10:31 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Charles W. Colson talked with the President.

[See Conversation No.  476-10]

President's dinner for W. Clement Stone
-Charles H. Percy
-Supersonic Transport [SST] controversy

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-President's position on the SST

President's speech of April 7, 1971
-Reaction

President's dinner for Stone
-References to SST
-End of President's remarks

Conversation No. 1-58

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:31 am and 11:01 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 476-11A]

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 1-59

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  11:01 am - 11:02 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 476-11B]

Future press briefing
-Washington Post story
-Paul W. McCracken
-President's position

Conversation No. 1-60

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 476-18]

Call to Arthur F. Burns

Conversation No. 1-61

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 476-21]

Call to Arthur F. Burns

The operator placed the call on hold at an unknown time.

[No conversation]

Burns= location

Conversation No. 1-62

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 476-22]

Call to Judge Thomas F. Murphy

Conversation No. 1-63

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  1:47 pm - 1:54 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Arthur F. Burns.

[See Conversation No. 476-25]

Council on International Economic Policy
-Cabinet Room briefing
-Peter G. Peterson
-Future of US economy
-International monetary policy
-Briefing
-Review by staff of Federal Reserve System and Burns
-Peterson's meeting with Burns
-Distribution
-White House staff
-Anti-trust laws
-Air transportation
-Foreign governments
-Paul W. McCracken
-John N. Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Burns= views
-Sherman Anti-Trust Act
-Administration's position
-Aviation industry
-Mergers
-Report from Burns
-Charts
-US position in world
-Aviation industry
-Justice Department
-Mitchell
-Memorandum form Burns

Anti-trust
-Study by Burns= staff
-Banks

International monetary policy
-Balance of payments
-Burns= meeting with President

Peterson
-Arrival
-Meeting with Burns

Peterson talked with Burns at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 1:54 pm.

[Conversation No. 1-63A]

[See also Conversation No. 476-25A]

Cabinet briefing
-Review by Federal Reserve System staff and by Burns
-Meeting with the President
-Arrangements

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 1-64

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  3:20 pm - 3:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Judge Thomas F. Murphy talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 476-26A]

Murray I. Gurfein
-Nomination for judgeship

Murphy
-Postal Service
-Alger Hiss case [?]
-Whitaker Chambers
-Vacation
-Gift from President

Conversation No. 1-65

Date:  April 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:12 pm and 9:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 1-66

Date:  April 11, 1971
Time:  9:19 pm - 9:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Louis Harris
-Forthcoming poll regarding April 7, 1971, speech
-Television show in Detroit

Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll
-Colson

Harris poll
-Forthcoming results
-Harris= relations with Colson
-Results

Conversation No. 1-67

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  5:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Schedule

The President talked with the White House operator at 5:35 pm.

[See Conversation No. 477-14A]

Call to Tricia Nixon

Conversation No. 1-68

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  5:34 pm - 5:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 477-14B]

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Conversation No. 1-69

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  6:20 pm - 6:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 1-70

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  6:21 pm - 6:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon.

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Conversation No. 1-71

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:22 pm and 7:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-72

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  7:23 pm - 7:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule

Invitation to dinner

Conversation No. 1-73

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:30 am and 9:36 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 478-2A]

Call to Gen. George A. Lincoln

Conversation No. 1-74

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  9:36 am - 9:40 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gen. George A. Lincoln.

[See Conversation No. 478-2B]

Texas disaster
-Lincoln's conversation with Clifford M. Hardin
-Agricultural disaster declaration
-Emergency grants and loans
-Instructions for Hardin
-Disaster declaration
-Effects
-Migratory workers
-Lincoln's schedule
-Hardin 
-Governor of Texas

-Lincoln's possible conversation with Governor
-John B. Connally
-Hardin
-Federal Housing Administration [FHA]
-Small Business Administration [SBA]
-Lincoln, Hardin
-John G. Tower
-Administration's policy
-Hardin's possible conversation with Tower

Conversation No. 1-75

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:59 am and 10:16 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 478-2C]

Call to Peter G. Peterson

Conversation No. 1-76

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  10:16 am - 10:21 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Peter G. Peterson.

[See Conversation No. 478-2D]

US-People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Timing
-Discussions
-Indian Ambassador
-Indira Gandhi

-Tone of Peterson's memorandum
-Wording
-News reports
-Background
-Wording
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Ping Pong team
-Soviet reaction
-Peterson's briefing
-Information
-US initiative

The President conferred with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:16 am and 10:21 am.

[See Conversation No. 478-2]

PRC initiative
-Peterson's background briefing for media
-Wording
-Opposition
-Department of State
-Reasons
-Purpose
-Dates

The President conferred with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:16 am and 10:21 am.

[See Conversation No. 478-2]

-Timing
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Meeting with PRC ambassador in Warsaw
-Background
-Department of State
-Press reports
-Wording
-Peterson's memorandum
-Outline
-Life magazine
-Opposition
-Peterson's briefing

Conversation No. 1-77

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  11:13 am - 11:14 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 478-5]

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 1-78

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  11:14 pm - 11:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 478-6]

President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Henry A. Kissinger and John A. Scali

Harris poll
-The President=s speech, April 7, 1971
-White House poll
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll
-News stories

Prisoners of war [POW] wives
-James D. (ADon@) Hughes
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Hughes

Conversation No. 1-79

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  7:46 pm - 7:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

South Vietnamese military operations
-Kissinger's call to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-American casualties

Henry A. Kissinger's meeting with Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Berlin
-[David] Kenneth Rush's meeting with Abrasimov
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Kissinger's conversation with Brezhnev

Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
-Dobrynin's instructions

Kissinger's conversation with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield

[Pause]

-President's forthcoming announcement, April 14, 1971
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]

Instructions for Clark MacGregor
-MacGregor's possible conversation
-Gerald R. Ford and Carl B. Albert
-George H. Mahon
-Hugh Scott
-Robert P. Griffin
-George D. Aiken

Conversation No. 1-80

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:05 pm and 7:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 1-81

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  7:27 pm - 7:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Economic indicators
-Stock market
-Gross National Product [GNP] increase
-Otto Eckstein

The President conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time.

[End of conferral]

Economic indicators
-GNP increase
-Retail sales
-Automobiles, housing
-Stock market
-Public confidence

Vietnam
-President's conversation with Robert J. Dole, April 14, 1971
-Clifford P. Case
-Edward W. Brooke
-Administration's policy
-Marlow W. Cook

-Prisoners of war [POW] resolution
-"Doves"
-Colson's conversation, April 14, 1971 with Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Reactions
-John A. Scali
-Popular
-Intellectuals
-Opinion makers
-Canadian wheat deal
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and North Vietnam
-Howard K. Smith

Vietnam
-Anti-war demonstration
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy

An unknown person entered an left at an unknown time between 7:27 pm and 7:40 pm.

President=s request

Vietnam
-Anti-war demonstration
-George S. McGovern
-Hard Hats
-Guerrilla theater
-Clark MacGregor
-Kenneth E. BeLieu
-Brooke
-Liberal Republicans
-Colson's initiatives
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-MacGregor
-Administration's policy
-William B. Saxbe
-President's popularity polls
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Republican Senators and Congressmen
-Regions

-Brooke
-PRC initiative
-President's forthcoming meeting with Brooke, May 15, 1971
-J. William Fulbright
-Case

Conversation No. 1-82

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  7:40 pm - 7:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 1-83

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  7:41 pm - 7:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Colson's possible conversation with Edward W. Brooke
-President's People's Republic of China initiative
-Howard K. Smith
-Kevin Taylor

Conversation No. 1-84

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:42 pm and 7:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 1-85

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  7:45 pm - 7:54 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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Conversation No. 1-86

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  7:54 pm - 7:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Peter M. Flanigan

Conversation No. 1-87

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  7:55 pm - 7:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan.

Stock market
-Donald T. Regan
-Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker
-Increase

Conversation No. 1-88

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  7:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 1-89

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  7:58 pm - 8:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

President's conversation with Peter M. Flanigan

Stock market
-Donald T.  Regan
-Critics
-Confidence
-William J. Casey
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]

Press Conference
-Approach

Robert J. Dole
-John B. Connally
-Cabinet
-Haldeman's possible meeting with Dole
-Dole's leadership role

Republican critics in the Senate
-Clark MacGregor
-President's conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Edward W. Brooke
-People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Dole

Senate supporters of the President
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Henry L. Bellmon
-John G. Tower
-Howard H. Baker
-Dole
-Edward J. Gurney
-William E. Brock, III
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Gordon L. Allott

-J. Caleb Boggs
-Carl T. Curtis
-Clifford P. Hansen
-Jack R. Miller
-Tower

Texas drought
-Grain shipment
-Connally
-George A. Lincoln

Conversation No. 1-90

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  8:04 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-91

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  8:05 pm - 8:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Reaction to People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Robert P. Griffin
-Kissinger's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Media reaction
-Kissinger's meeting with Michigan editors
-Vietnam
-PRC

South Vietnamese military capacity
-Kissinger's meeting with Michigan editors
-Muskegon, Kalamazoo, Flint
-Question topics

President's PRC initiative
-Reaction
-Taiwan
-Robert D. Murphy
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Administration's policy
-Vietnam
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Reaction
-Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty [SALT] negotiations
-Possible summit

President's conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Robert J. Dole
-Clifford P. Case
-Edward W. Brooke
-Prisoners of war [POW] wives
-Administration policy
-Future meeting with Kissinger
-Dole
-George S. McGovern
-Case

Conversation No. 1-92

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  8:12 pm - 8:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-93

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  8:13 pm - 8:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Stock market
-Advance since 1969
-Howard Stein
-Kissinger's possible conversation with Stein

Conversation No. 1-94

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:14 pm and 8:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

Conversation No. 1-95

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  8:17 pm - 8:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II.

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Conversation No. 1-96

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  12:40 pm - 12:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 480-7]

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Conversation No. 1-97

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  8:17 pm - 8:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 1-98

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  7:26 pm - 7:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

Meeting with securities leaders
-Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker

Stock Market
-Rise, volume
-Confidence
-"Izzy" Cohen [sp?]

Haldeman's meeting with securities leaders
-Lasker
-Howard Stein
-Gustave L. Levy
-Donald T. Regan
-Peter M. Flanigan

Conversation No. 1-99

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  7:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-100

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  7:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 1-101

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:31 pm and 7:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

George P. Shultz's location

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger between 7:33 pm and 7:42 pm.

Kissinger's interview with Newsweek
-Robert C. Christopher
-Laos
-Vietnam
-Newsweek's reaction

People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Reaction
-North Vietnam

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Tass statement
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Vorontsov
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Tass statement
-Reaction to President's PRC initiative

Kissinger's interview with Newsweek
-President's role
-Henry Hubbard, Newsweek reporter
-Fentris
-Chou En-lai
-President's policies
-Howard K. Smith
-Kissinger's clippings from President's news conferences
-Hubbard
-Fentris

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Paris
-Dobrynin
-USSR
-Kissinger's schedule
-President's speech, April 7, 1971
-Liberal reaction
-President's Vietnam policy
-Speech, April 7, 1971

Kissinger's schedule
-Robert D. Murphy
-Marshall Green

Conversation No. 1-102

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:42 pm and 7:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 1-103

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:42 pm and 7:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

John B. Connally's location

Conversation No. 1-104

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  7:47 pm - 7:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

Paul Young's restaurant

Stock Market
-Advance
-President's meeting with Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker, April 16, 1971
-Connally's schedule
-Confidence
-Cyrus R. (AC.R.@) Smith
-Secor D. Browne

Conversation No. 1-105

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  7:49 pm - 7:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

Growth in the Gross National Product [GNP]
-Washington Star headline
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Retail sales
-President=s forthcoming meeting with editors, April 16, 1971
-Strike
-Automobile production
-Stock market
-Ziegler
-Paul W. McCracken

Shultz's upcoming speech
-Theme
-Tax reduction proposal
-President's economic policies

Retail sales
-Consumer attitudes
-March 1971 figures
-Stock market

President's schedule
-Kenneth W. Dam

Conversation No. 1-106

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  10:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with Manolo Sanchez.

Call to the President

Sanchez conferred with the President at an unknown time.

Call from Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-107

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  10:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-108

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  10:45 pm - 10:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's interview with newspaper editors
-Katherine Graham
-Indian ambassador
-Sir Harold (George) Nicolson
-Sir (Arthur) George Weidenfeld

-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-Reaction
-Vietnam
-Residual force
-Withdrawal
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Emmett Dedmon, Chicago Sun Times
-Vietnam
-Indian Ambassador
-Stevenson
-Withdrawal date
-PRC
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-J. Edgar Hoover
-David Ginsberg
-Office of Price Administration [OPA]
-Dr. Herbert Harris
-David Kavers [sp?]
-Reaction
-Kermit Gordon
-Economic indicators
-Retail sales, automobile sales, housing
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Vietnam, PRC

The President conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:45 pm and 10:56 pm.

-PRC
-President's policies
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Dedmon
-Questions

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-Young person's question

Conversation No. 1-109

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:56 pm and 11:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 1-110

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:56 pm and 11:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Herbert G. Klein

Conversation No. 1-111

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:56 pm and 11:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 1-112

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  11:01 pm - 11:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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Conversation No. 1-113

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  11:04 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-114

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  11:05 pm - 11:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's possible conversation with Otis Chandler
-Chandler's questions at editors' interview with President
-Chandler

President's interview with newspaper editors
-Administration's policies in Asia
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-United Nations [UN]
-Vietnam
-Residual forces
-Korea
-Kissinger's conversation with Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
-Wiretapping
-Reaction
-Chandler
-Questions at editors' meeting
-Young people
-Environment
-Chandler

Conversation No. 1-115

Date:  April 16,1971
Time:  11:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 1-116

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  11:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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Conversation No. 1-117

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:10 pm and 11:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Herbert G. Klein

Conversation No. 1-118

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:10 pm and 11:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-119

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  11:22 pm - 11:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's interview with newspaper editors
-Statements on People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Popular reaction
-Treatment of prisoners of war [POWs]
-David Ginsberg
-Residual force in Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.

-President's PRC initiative
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-State Department
-Kissinger's conversation with Laird
-Residual force in Vietnam
-Thailand
-President's message for Stevenson
-Army in 1968 Democratic Convention

Conversation No. 1-120

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  11:28 pm - 11:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein=s location

The President talked with Ziegler at 11:28 pm.

President's interview with newspaper editors
-Reaction
-Robert M. White, II
-Wives
-William D. Cotter
-Newbold (ANewby@) Noyes, Jr.
-Questions
-Message for Otis Chandler
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Figures
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Reaction
-Felix R. McKnight
-Art Buchwald
-Ziegler's possible conversation with William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Klein

Conversation No. 1-121

Date:  April 17,1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:54 am and 8:56 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 481-1]

Call to Dr. William D. LuKash

Conversation No. 1-122

Date:  April 17,1971
Time:  8:56 am - 8:57 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Dr. William M. Lukash.

[See Conversation No. 481-2]

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Conversation No. 1-123

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  10:45 am - 10:52 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:45 am and 10:49 am.

[See Conversation No. 481-5A]

Call to Herbert G. Klein

Call from J. Edgar Hoover

The President talked with Hoover between 10:49 am and 10:52 am.

[Conversation No. 1-123A]

[See also Conversation No. 481-5B]

President's interview with newspaper editors
-President's remarks on Hoover
-Hoover's reaction

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President's defense of Hoover
-Kissinger

Kissinger talked with Hoover at 10:52 am.

[Conversation No. 1-123B]

[See also Conversation No. 481-5C]

President's interview with newspaper editors

Conversation No. 1-124

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:52 am and 11:02 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with Henry A. Kissinger.

Meeting

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:52 am and 11:02 am.

[See Conversation No. 481-5D]

Herbert G. Klein's location

Conversation No. 1-125

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:02 am and 11:24 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule

The President talked with the White House operator at 11:24 am.

[See Conversation No. 481-6A]

Call to Dr. William M. Lukash

Conversation No. 1-126

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  11:25 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

The President talked with Dr. William M. Lukash at 11:25 am.

[See Conversation No. 481-6B]

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Conversation No. 1-127

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:23 pm and 2:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with Stephen B. Bull.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:23 pm and 2:36 pm.

[See Conversation No. 481-7B]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's location

Conversation No. 1-128

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:36 pm and 2:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:36 pm and 2:51 pm.

[See Conversation No. 481-7C]

Call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Julie's Eisenhower's location

Conversation No. 1-154

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:36 pm and 2:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 481-7E]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower=s location

Conversation No. 1-129

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  2:51 pm - 2:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 481-7D]

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Conversation No. 1-130

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:10 pm and 4:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 1-131

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:10 pm and 4:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman's location

Conversation No. 1-132

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  4:19 pm - 4:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

Reaction from Cabinet to President's gifts
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Appreciation
-Effect

President's schedule

Conversation No. 1-133

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  4:21 pm - 4:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 1-134

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  4:22 pm - 4:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-Gerald R. Ford
-William P. Rogers
-Ambassador
-Melvin R. Laird
-Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-135

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Patrick J. Buchanan

Conversation No. 1-136

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  4:35 pm - 4:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

President's interview with newspaper editors
-Questions
-Foreign policy
-J. Edgar Hoover
-National security
-Hoover
-President's support
-Buchanan's conversation with Richard A. Moore
-Questions
-Foreign policy
-Domestic issues
-Format

-Questions
-Editors
-Radio
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Format
-Radio

Conversation No. 1-137

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  4:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Patrick J. Buchanan

Conversation No. 1-138

Date:  April 17, 1971
Time:  4:41 pm - 4:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

President's interview with newspaper editors
-People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Reaction by "doves"
-Emmett Dedmon, Chicago Sun Times
-Article in Foreign Affairs
-Recognition in United Nations [UN]
-Taiwan
-Liberal press
-Vietnam

Conversation No. 1-139

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 am and 9:48 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Usher's Office

Conversation No. 1-140

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  9:48 am - 9:49 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Nelson C. Pierce, Jr.

Military aide
-Location

Conversation No. 1-141

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  10:12 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Call to Stephen B. Bull

Conversation No. 1-142

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  10:12 am - 10:13 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

Arrangements for Joe Frazier's visit
-President's conversation with Commander Craig S. Campbell
-Yellow Room
-Photographs

Conversation No. 1-143

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  10:13 am 
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 1-144

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  10:13 pm - 10:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

President=s interview with newspaper editors
-Press reports
-News summary
-Radio
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Impact
-Use of television
-Use of radio

Conversation No. 1-145

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  10:23 am - 10:35 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's location

US-People's Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Statement by PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Taiwan

Vietnam
-Creighton W. Abrams= comment
-Laos
-Military operations
-President's instructions to Abrams and Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Press
-Melvin R. Laird
-Abrams
-Speculation
-Television reporting
-Ronald L. Ziegler's possible comments
-Administration's policy
-North Vietnamese reaction
-Ziegler
-Timing

President's PRC initiative
-Media reaction
-Television
-Martin Z. Agronsky's panelist
-Hugh S. Sidey
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Carl T. Rowan
-J. Edgar Hoover

Newspaper reporting on President
-Balance
-Weekly summaries
-PRC initiative

Kissinger's schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Dobrynin's schedule
-Corneliu Bogdan
-PRC negotiations
-Chou En-lai
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-Bogdan

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-Communication
-Messenger
-Bucharest
-Comparison to Vietnamese negotiations
-Bogdan
-Soviet reaction

Conversation No. 1-146

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  10:41 am - 10:48 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

Vietnam
-Press release
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Gerald L. Warren
-Content
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press reaction
-People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Laos

President's PRC initiative
-Administration's policy
-Press
-Democrats
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-State Department
-Position
-President's note to Kissinger February 1, 1969
-John F. Osborne
-Relations with PRC
-Democrats
-United Nations [UN]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

-Middle East
-Administration's policy
-Envoy

Conversation No. 1-147

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:48 am and 11:12 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Herbert G. Klein

Conversation No. 1-148

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 pm and 1:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 1-149

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 pm and 1:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Henry A. Kissinger

Call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 1-150

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  1:28 pm - 1:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Press inquiries
-Kissinger's conversation with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-South Vietnamese military operations
-Laos
-Possible Senate resolution
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Press statement
-President's remarks
-Possible Senate resolution
-Comparison to Cambodia

Soviet military dispositions in Eastern Europe
-German Democratic Republic [GDR]
-Poland
-Situation
-President's reception in Romania

US-Soviet relations
-People's Republic of China [PRC] reaction
-Speech by Leonid I. Brezhnev

Texas A & M male choir
-President's greeting
-Support for President

-Remarks on Eastern schools versus Western schools
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Eastern schools
-President's policies

Vietnam
-Abrams= statement
-Reaction by "doves"
-Statement by Melvin R. Laird
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Gerald L. Warren
-Administration's reaction
-Defense Department
-Daniel Z. Henkin
-Casualties
-Numbers

Conversation No. 1-151

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:38 pm and 1:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

John B. Connally's location

Call to the President

Conversation No. 1-152

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:38 pm and 1:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 1-153

Date:  April 18, 1971
Time:  1:52 pm - 2:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-Charges against G. McMurtrie Godley
-Henry A. Kissinger's memo to President
-Statements on "Face the Nation," April 18, 1971
-Administration's response
-Melvin R. Laird
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible statement
-Congress
-McCloskey's political situation
-Audience
-Statements on "Face the Nation"
-South Vietnamese capabilities
-Vietnamization
-Credibility
-Instructions to Ronald L. Ziegler
-State Department
-Compared to Charles E. Goodell and Donald W. Riegle, Jr.

Hard hat meeting for April 19, 1971
-Colson's conversation with James D. Hodgson
-Attitudes
-Briefing paper for President
-Economic issues
-Foreign issues
-Talking points

Edward W. Brooke
-Conversation with Colson
-President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative

Republican "doves"
-William P. Saxbe

President's Vietnam policy
-Speech, April 7, 1971
-Meeting with newspaper editors
-Reaction
-Necessity of firmness
-"Hawks" and "doves"
-President's statements
-Louis Harris poll
-Support for President
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. affair
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll on conduct of the war

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Republican "doves"
-Brooke
-Saxbe
-Charles H. Percy
-Brooke
-Jacob K. Javits
-Clifford P. Case
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Mathias
-Javits
-Case
-Schweiker
-J. Glenn Beall, Jr.

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President's interview with newspaper editors
-Value of radio
-Compared with television
-Colson's remarks
-Television coverage
-Message
-Responses to questions
-Calley affair
-Economy issue

Administration spokesmen
-John B. Connally
-Forum
-Paul W. McCracken
-George P. Shultz
-Connally
-Forum
-Rogers
-Effectiveness
-Speech to Veteran of Foreign War [VFW]
-Schedule
-Laird
-Effectiveness
-Issues
-Rogers

President's PRC initiative
-Reaction by "doves"
-Timing
-President's policy
-Reaction
-Taiwan

President's meeting with Joe Frazier
-Frazier's work with young blacks

Sammy Davis, Jr.