Conversation No. 3‑1

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:50 pm and 4:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 497‑9A]

The President conferred with George P. Shultz and John N. Mitchell.

Call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 3‑2

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  4:52 pm - 4:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 497‑9B]

George P. Shultz
‑Economic news

Shultz talked with Connally at an unknown time.

Gross National Product [GNP] figures
‑Increase
‑Compared with 1960's
‑Method of computation
‑Release date

Conversation No. 3‑3

Date:  May  11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:53 pm and 7:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 3‑4

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  7:15 pm - 7:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

John B. Connally talked with the President.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with President
‑Time
‑Connally's location
‑Time and place
‑Subject

Conversation No. 3‑5

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 am and 9:51 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 3‑6

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 am and 9:51 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

George P. Shultz
‑Location
‑Return call

Conversation No. 3‑7

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  9:51 am - 10:12 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

Gross National Product [GNP] figures
‑Release date
‑Possible change
‑Julius (AJule@) Shiskin
‑Other components
‑Inventories
‑Profits
‑General Motors
‑Importance
‑Release date
‑William L. Safire
‑Administration handling
‑Safire
‑Release
‑Economic comment
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's briefing

Conversation No. 3‑8

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:12 am and 10:25 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 3‑9

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  10:25 am - 10:35 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

Supersonic transport [SST] vote
‑President's schedule

Michael J. Mansfield Amendment to the Draft Extension Act
‑Vote
‑Hugh Scott and Robert P. Griffin
‑Effect
‑Europe
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Henry Kissinger
‑Israel
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Rogers
‑Trip to Europe
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
‑Possible meeting with President
‑Possible meeting with Senators
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Trip to Europe

Mansfield Amendment
‑Effect
‑European Security Conference
‑Rogers
‑Call to John C. Stennis
‑Stennis= position
‑Call to Scott
‑Possible Cabinet Room meeting
‑Report on trip to Europe
‑NATO
‑Possible talk with Mansfield
‑White House action
‑Scott's and Griffin's meeting with MacGregor and Kissinger
‑George D. Aiken and John Sherman Cooper, and Scott
‑Edward W. Brooke
‑Aiken and Cooper
‑Rogers= action
‑Democrats
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Trip to Europe
‑George Ball

Democrats
‑View of Europe and Asia
‑Compared with Republicans
‑Korea, Vietnam
‑NATO
‑Ball
‑Conversation with Kissinger

Mansfield Amendment
‑Rogers= calls
‑Aiken, Cooper, and Scott
‑Coordination with White House
‑Laird's role

Conversation No. 3‑10

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:35 am and 2:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Dr. Walter R. Tkach

Conversation No. 3‑11

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  2:19 pm - 2:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Dr. Walter R. Tkach.

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Conversation No. 3‑12

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  3:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Gerald R. Ford

Conversation No. 3‑13

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:27 pm and 3:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 3‑14

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  3:33 pm - 3:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gerald R. Ford.

The President conferred with unknown people.

President's schedule

[End of conferral]

Supersonic transport [SST] vote
‑Vote in House

‑Upcoming vote in House
‑Strategy
‑A possible letter from President
‑Time
‑Ford's forthcoming call to President
‑Strategy

Conversation No. 3‑15

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:34 pm and 3:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 3‑16

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  3:56 pm - 4:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William L. Safire.

Gross National Product [GNP] figures
‑George P. Shultz
‑Revised increases
‑Shultz
‑Possible talk with Safire
‑Release date

The President conferred with Henry A. Kissinger at 3:57 pm.

President's schedule 

[End of conferral]

GNP figures
‑Release
‑Shultz
‑Administration handling
‑Possible leak
‑News magazines
‑US News and World Report publication deadline
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Shultz and Safire meeting
‑Administration handling
‑Importance
‑Compared with 1065 Dow Jones level
‑Third revision
‑Possible leak
‑US News, Time, Newsweek
‑John A. Scali
‑Louis Rukeyser of ABC
‑Timing
‑Shultz and Safire meeting

Conversation No. 3‑17

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:10 pm and 4:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

The President conferred with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's forthcoming call (?)

[End of conferral]

Call to Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson

Conversation No. 3‑18

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  4:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
‑Location
‑President's return call

Conversation No. 3‑19

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:17 pm and 4:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; other White House operators can be heard in the background.

Call to Thelma C. (APat@)  Nixon

[Pause]

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

President's appreciation

[Pause]

Conversation No. 3‑20

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  4:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Thelma C. (APat@)  Nixon
‑Location
‑President's return call

Conversation No. 3‑21

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Gerald R. Ford

Conversation No. 3‑22

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to George Meany
-Location

Conversation No. 3‑23

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  4:30 pm - 4:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gerald R. Ford.

Supersonic transport [SST] vote
‑Tally
‑President's talk with William E. Timmons
‑President's possible letters to supporters
-Democrats
‑Edward P. Boland
‑John McFall
‑Morale in House
‑Upcoming Senate vote
‑Alan Cranston, John V. Tunney, David H. Gambrell
‑Clinton P. Anderson
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
‑John Sherman Cooper
‑President's role
‑An unnamed Floridian [Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.?]
‑Hubert H, Humphrey
‑George Meany's role
‑Compared to previous vote
‑Humphrey
‑Cost figures
‑Effect
‑Future House-Senate conference action
‑Future Senate action

Conversation No. 3‑24

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:32 pm and 5:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Leslie C. Arends

Conversation No. 3‑25

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:28 pm and 5:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 499‑2A]

Calls to Frank T. Bow, Edward P. Boland, and John J. McFall

Conversation No. 3‑26

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  5:29 pm - 5:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Leslie C. Arends.

[See Conversation No. 499‑2B]

Supersonic transport [SST] vote
‑President's response
‑Arends= location

‑Burning Tree Country Club people
‑Possible House‑Senate conference committee action
‑Morale in House
‑Illinois delegation
‑Philip M. Crane, Robert H. Michel, and Harold R. Collier
‑Pairs
‑President's response

Conversation No. 3‑27

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  5:32 pm - 5:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Frank T. Bow.

[See Conversation No. 499‑2C/498‑1A]

Supersonic transport [SST] vote
‑President's and Bow's travel plans
‑President's appreciation
‑Possible House‑Senate conference committee action
‑Silvio O. Conte
‑Parren J. Mitchell
‑Don or William J. (AJack@) Edwards
‑Possible Senate action
‑William Proxmire's 1965 statement
‑John V. Tunney, Alan Cranston, and David H. Gambrell
‑Lockheed

President's schedule
‑Football Hall of Fame
‑Benefits for President in Ohio
‑Vince Lombardi
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Date

Conversation No. 3‑28

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

The President talked with Edward P. Boland.

[See Conversation No. 499‑2/498‑1B]

Supersonic transport [SST] vote
‑Boland's role
‑Upcoming Senate vote
‑House‑Senate conference action
‑National spirit

Conversation No. 3‑29

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  5:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 499‑2/498‑1C]

John J. McFall
‑Location
‑Return call

Conversation No. 3‑30

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:37 pm and 5:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 499‑2D]

Call to Wilbur D. Mills

Conversation No. 3‑31

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:37 pm and 5:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 499‑2/498‑1D]

Call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 3‑32

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  5:41 pm - 5:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 499‑2E/498‑1E]

Supersonic transport [SST] vote
‑House vote
‑Upcoming Senate vote
‑George Meany's role
‑House‑Senate conference action
‑Effect on administration morale
‑Upcoming Senate vote
‑Connally's role

‑John Sherman Cooper
‑President's role
‑Public works funds
‑Allen J. Ellender
‑Russell B. Long
‑President's action
‑President's May 13, 1971 meeting with Richard J. Daley
‑David H. Gambrell and Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.
‑Lockheed
‑Mike Gambrell
‑Identified
‑Eastern Airlines
‑Gambrell, Cooper
‑Connally's role
‑Chiles and D. Gambrell
‑Alan Cranston and John V. Tunney
‑Commitments
‑Lloyd Bentsen
‑Connally's forthcoming call
‑Position
‑Cooper
‑President's role
‑Clinton P. Anderson
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson's role
‑Cooper
‑President's role
‑Anderson
‑Connally's role
‑Number needed

Conversation No. 3‑33

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  5:45 pm - 5:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Wilbur D. Mills.

[See Conversation No. 499‑2/498‑1F]

H.R. 1
‑Mills= House Ways and Means Committee's work
‑Elliot L. Richardson's statement to press
‑Possible Senate action
‑Russell B. Long
‑Conservatives
‑Upcoming House action
‑Tax provisions
‑John J. Rhodes
‑House‑Senate conferees
‑Jackson E. (AJack@) Betts
‑John W. Byrnes
‑Long and Wallace F. Bennett
‑President's role
‑President's role and Mills= role
‑Richardson's statement

Mills= granddaughter

Conversation No. 3‑34

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:48 pm and 5:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 499‑2/498‑1G]

Call to John W. Byrnes

Conversation No. 3‑35

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  5:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 499‑2/498‑1H]

John W. Byrnes
‑Location
‑Return call

Conversation No. 3‑36

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:52 pm and 7:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo

Conversation No. 3‑37

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  7:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo's location

Conversation No. 3‑38

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  7:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Roger E. Johnson

Conversation No. 3‑39

Date:  Unknown between May 12 and May 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:25 pm, May 12, and 8:40 am, May 13, 1971
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 3‑40

Date:  May 13, 1971
Time:  8:40 am - 8:48 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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Conversation No. 3‑41

Date:  May 13, 1971
Time:  9:35 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from William P. Rogers

Rogers talked with the President between 9:35 am and 9:41 am.

[See Conversation No. 498‑2A]

Mansfield Amendment
‑Rogers= meeting with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑An afternoon meeting
‑Mansfield's position
‑Rogers= call
‑Possible meeting of President, Rogers, and Mansfield
‑Mansfield's position
‑White House action
‑Possible meeting of President, Mansfield
‑Effect on US foreign policy
‑Herbert Brownell
‑Rogers= possible Congressional testimony
‑Possible hearings
‑Mansfield's position
‑Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy administrations
‑Possible meetings with President
‑Mansfield's position on other issues
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Administration position
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO], US foreign ]olicy
‑Administration handling, Mansfield handling
‑Democratic caucus meeting
US foreign policy
‑NATO, Marshall plan

Mansfield Amendment
‑Mansfield's position
‑1966 introduction
‑1966 Senate vote compared with possible 1971 vote

‑John C. Stennis
‑Rogers= forthcoming meeting
‑Position
‑Rogers= forthcoming meeting

US foreign policy
‑Senate role in negotiations
‑Compared with Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
‑NATO
‑Negotiations
‑Senate role

Mansfield Amendment
‑Rogers= possible meeting with Republican senators
‑Number
‑White House action
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑A 4:30 meeting, May 13, 1971
‑Attendees
‑Dean Rusk
‑Location
‑Dean G. Acheson

Conversation No. 3‑42

Date:  May 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 498‑12]

Call to Dwight L. Chapin

Conversation No. 3‑43

Date:  May 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 498‑13]

Call to J. Glenn Beall, Jr.
-Location

Conversation No. 3‑44

Date:  May 13, 1971
Time:  3:38 pm - 3:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Dwight L. Chapin.

[See Conversation No. 498‑14]

White House operator

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Conversation No. 3‑45

Date:  May 13, 1971
Time:  3:43 pm - 3:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Glenn Beall.

[See Conversation No. 498‑15A]

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Senate
‑Beall's return

Conversation No. 3‑46

Date:  May 13, 1971
Time:  3:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 498‑15B]

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

A title

[End of conferral]

Call to William M. Magruder
‑Magruder's location

Magruder's call from Tod R. Hullin

President's forthcoming talk with Hullin

Conversation No. 3‑47

Date:  May 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:46 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 498‑15C]

Call to Clark MacGregor

Conversation No. 3‑48

Date:  May 13, 1971
Time:  3:47 pm - 3:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

[See Conversation No. 498‑15E]

MacGregor's location

MacGregor's schedule

Conversation No. 3‑49

Date:  May 13, 1971
Time:  3:52 pm - 3:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

John B. Connally talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 498‑15F]

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Conversation No. 3‑50

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 am and 9:37 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 499‑4A]

Call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 3‑51

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  9:37 am - 9:38 am
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 499‑4B]

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Conversation No. 3‑52

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  1:45 pm - 1:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 499‑24A]

President's schedule
‑Departure
‑Length of stay

Mansfield Amendment
‑Rogers= testimony in Senate Foreign Relations Committee
‑Coverage

‑Administration handling
‑Dean G. Acheson's comment
‑Rogers= response
‑Acheson
‑Compared with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑John C. Stennis
‑Upcoming vote
‑Stennis
‑Talk with Rogers
‑Upcoming vote
‑Rogers= meeting with senators

Rogers= testimony
‑Clifford P. Case
‑Mideast, War Powers Act, Mansfield Amendment, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
‑Senators position on Senate role
‑Civil War, World War I, World War II

President's schedule

Mansfield Amendment
‑Administration handling
‑Acheson's statements
‑President's May 13, 1971 meeting
‑Attendees

Conversation No. 3‑53

Date:  May 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:37 pm and 7:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 3‑54

Date:  May 17, 1971
Time:  7:29 pm - 7:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Kissinger
‑Location

Conversation No. 3‑55

Date:  May 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:30 pm and 7:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 3‑56

Date:  May 17, 1971
Time:  7:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

John D. Ehrlichman's location

Call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 3‑57

Date:  May 17, 1971
Time:  7:35 pm - 7:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

Railroad strike
‑Administration proposals
‑James D. Hodgson's testimony
‑Congressional hearings
‑Possible outcome
‑Jacob K. Javits
‑Possible effect on economy
‑Length
‑Harley O. Staggers
‑Role
‑Negotiations
‑Willie J. Usery
‑Previous settlement
‑Possible administration action
‑Signalmen's union
‑Possible effect on economy
‑Auto industry
‑Length of strike
‑Steel producers
‑Possible meeting of President with Signalmen's Union
‑House of Representatives
‑Committee action
‑President's May 18, 1971 meeting with leaders
‑Hearings
‑Possible meeting of President and Signalmen
‑House and Senate
‑Possible May 18, 1971 action
‑May 17, 1971 hearings
‑Hodgson
‑Future action

Conversation No. 3‑58

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:33 am and 9:34 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 3‑59

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  9:34 am - 9:38 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 500‑8]

Mansfield Amendment
‑Rogers= breakfast

Mathias Amendment
‑President's meeting
‑Provisions
‑Senator

Mansfield Amendment
‑Rogers= breakfast
‑Adlai E. Stevenson III, Lawton M. Chiles, Jr., and Ernest F. Hollings

Mathias Amendment
‑Provisions
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO], Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
‑President=s role
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Negotiations

‑USSR

President's schedule
‑Meeting with state legislators regarding revenue‑sharing
‑Forthcoming meeting with Rogers
‑Time

Mansfield Amendment
‑President's and Rogers= meetings

Mathias Amendment
‑Administration position
‑Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.

Conversation No. 3‑60

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  6:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 500‑30A]

The President conferred with Herbert G. Klein.

Previous meeting with business magazine editors
-Results

[End of conferral]

Call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 3‑61

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  6:34 pm - 6:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 500‑32]

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Conversation No. 3‑62

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 am and 8:52 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 3‑63

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  8:52 am - 8:53 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 501‑1]

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
‑Gerard C. Smith

President's schedule
‑William P. Rogers
‑Haig

Conversation No. 3‑64

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  9:45 am - 9:46 am
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 501‑4B]

President's schedule
‑Visit of King Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud
‑A dinner
‑Date
‑President's press conference
‑Date
‑King Faisal's visit
‑A dinner
‑Date

Conversation No. 3‑65

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  12:24 pm - 12:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 501‑12A]

President's schedule
‑Haldeman
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Forthcoming call to Haldeman

Conversation No. 3‑66

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:14 pm and 1:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 501‑16A]

Call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 3‑67

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  1:18 pm - 1:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 501‑16B]

Mansfield Amendment
‑A vote
‑Mathias Amendment
‑Nelson Amendment

Mathias Amendment
‑Rogers= letter to John C. Stennis
‑Warsaw Pact, North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

Mansfield Amendment
‑President's meeting with unknown persons
‑Congressional leaders
‑Timing of vote
‑J. William Fulbright
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Possible meeting with Rogers
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
‑Congressional leaders meeting
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Position on US troops, Vietnam and other issues
‑President's handling
‑Compared with John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Mansfield
‑Possible meeting with Rogers
‑President's meeting with leaders
‑Logistics
‑Possible leak
‑SALT negotiations
‑President's forthcoming meeting with leaders

SALT talks
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Rogers meeting
‑Meeting with President
‑Role
‑May 18, 1971 development
‑Letter text
‑Haldeman
‑Public announcement
‑Preparation
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Letters

‑Copy
‑Rogers, Haldeman
‑Public announcement

Chung Hee Park's inauguration
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Atoms for peace anniversary
‑U Thant
‑Geneva negotiations
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑US response
‑Location
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑USSR, PRC
‑President's role, Rogers= role
‑USSR, PRC
‑Date

SALT negotiations
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Rogers
‑Laird
‑Henry A. Kissinger briefing
‑Smith

Conversation No. 3‑68

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:10 pm and 6:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 501‑30A]

Call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 3‑69

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  6:11 pm - 6:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 501‑30B]

Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Meeting with Rogers
‑Dwight L. Chapin
‑Announcements
‑President's role
‑Possible meeting with President

Mathias resolution
‑President's meeting H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Upcoming vote
‑Rogers= talk with Charles H. Percy
‑Rogers= forthcoming call to John Sherman Cooper
‑Timing
‑Rogers= call to Percy
‑Rogers= calls
‑Cooper
‑President's position

Mansfield
‑Mansfield Amendment
‑Effect of President's announcement

Mathias resolution
‑Rogers= calls
‑Upcoming vote
‑Time
‑Possible outcome
‑Effect

‑Percy
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Rogers= letter to John C. Stennis
‑USSR
‑NATO
‑Stennis

Conversation No. 3‑70

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:16 pm and 7:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 3‑71

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  7:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Henry A. Kissinger

The President talked with Kissinger between 7:44 pm and 7:47 pm.; background noise appears in the original recording.

Mathias resolution
‑Vote
‑John Sherman Cooper
‑Phone call

‑Effect
‑Peter H. Dominick's amendment
‑Troop level

William P. Rogers
‑Kissinger's call
‑U. Alexis Johnson
‑International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium [INTELSAT] ceremony

Mathias resolution
‑Elliot L. Richardson's call to Kissinger
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Rogers= response
‑Effect

Rogers
‑Tenure in office
‑Perspective on Nixon administration foreign policy

Mathias Resolution
‑Vote
‑Mathias
‑Talk with Kissinger
‑Vote
‑Administration campaign
‑President's meeting with Congressional leaders
‑Robert P. Griffin
‑Position of former Presidents
‑Cooper
‑Forthcoming call from President

Conversation No. 3‑72

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:47 pm and 7:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 3‑73

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  7:48 pm - 7:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman; background noise can be heard in the original recording.

Mathias Resolution
‑Vote
‑Congressional relations [?] staff
‑Vice President's office, Senate galleries
‑Possible future amendment

Mansfield Amendment
‑Senate debate

Mathias Resolution
‑John Sherman Cooper
‑President's call
‑Timing
‑Effect of vote
‑Mansfield Amendment

Mansfield Amendment
‑Forthcoming vote
‑Factors

Mathias
‑Effect on Mathias Resolution
‑Possible future amendment

Calls
‑Haldeman to President
‑President to Cooper
‑Haldeman to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 3‑74

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:50 pm and 7:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 3‑75

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  7:55 pm - 7:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger; background noise can be heard in the original recording.

President's schedule
‑A cocktail party, May 20, 1971
‑Gerard C. Smith and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] delegation
‑William P. Rogers
‑Melvin R. Laird

SALT

President's schedule
‑A cocktail party
‑SALT delegates and wives
‑Invitations
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Rogers
‑Laird
‑Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
‑Location

Conversation No. 3‑76

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:56 pm and 7:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 3‑77

Date:  May 19, 1971
Time:  7:58 pm - 7:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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Conversation No. 3‑78

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  8:16 am - 8:19 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George W. Ball.

[See Conversation No. 502‑3]

Mathias Resolution
‑Ball's position
‑Clark MacGregor
‑President's appreciation for support
‑Vote
‑Compared with a J. William Fulbright resolution

Congressional relations
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑William P. Rogers
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
‑Possible State Department briefings
‑Rogers, John N. Irwin, II
‑Kissinger
‑State Department and White House
‑Rogers
‑President's role

May 20, 1971 announcement

Ball's work

Conversation No. 3‑79

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:19 am and 11:50 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Gerald R. Ford

Conversation No. 3‑80

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  11:50 am - 11:53 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gerald R. Ford.

[See Conversation No. 502‑11A]

President's Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement
‑Effect on J. William Fulbright and the "Doves"
‑President's meeting with Congressional leaders, May 18, 1971
‑Peter H. Dominick
‑Ford's response
‑The "Hawks" position on antiballistic missile [ABM]
‑Importance

Conversation No. 3‑81

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  12:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Tricia Nixon

The President conferred with John A. Scali.

Communications

[End of conferral]

Conversation No. 3‑82

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:31 pm and 12:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

[Unintelligible]

[This portion of the tape appears to be blank.  However, a conversation may have taken place]

Conversation No. 3‑83

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  12:36 pm - 12:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 502‑12A]

President's schedule
‑Announcement
‑Location
‑President's appearance
‑Commentators' remarks
‑John W. Chancellor of National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
‑People's Republic of China [PRC], Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Tricia Nixon's, Julie Nixon Eisenhower's and Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon's viewing
‑Cocktail party for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
‑Time
‑Location
‑William P. Rogers
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Ms. Nixon and Mrs. Eisenhower

Conversation No. 3‑84

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:42 pm and 1:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 502‑13]

Call to Justin W. Dart

Conversation No. 3‑85

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  1:44 pm - 1:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Justin W. Dart.

[See Conversation No. 502‑14A]

Dart's health

Jane Dart
‑Work with Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.

Dart's health

Dart's work in Republican fundraising

Dart's health

President's May 20, 1971 announcement

Conversation No. 3‑86

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 2:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 502‑16]

Call to Leslie C. Arends

Conversation No. 3‑87

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  2:08 pm - 2:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Leslie C. Arends.

[See Conversation No. 502‑17A]

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
‑Effect of antiballistic missile [ABM] support in Congress
‑F. Edward Hébert
‑President's announcement
‑Effect
‑"Doves"
‑J. William Fulbright
‑May 19, 1971 Senate vote
‑Hébert

Conversation No. 3‑88

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:09 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Arnold R. Weber

Conversation No. 3‑89

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 502‑20A]

Arnold R. Weber's location

Call to Weber's secretary, Mrs. [Forename unknown] Lee

Mrs. Lee [?] joined the conversation at an unknown time.

Greetings

Conversation No. 3‑90

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  3:43 pm - 3:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Mrs. Lee.

[See Conversation No. 502‑20B]

Weber's work on Congressional Black Caucus statement

Conversation No. 3‑91

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:49 pm and 3:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; Henry A. Kissinger can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 502-20C]

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 3‑92

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  3:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 502-20E]

Rose Mary Woods= location

The President conferred with Rose Mary Woods at 3:51 pm.

Greetings

Conversation No. 3‑93

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:51 pm and 3:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 502-20F]

Call to George P. Shultz

The President conferred with Haldeman.

Melvin R. Laird

Conversation No. 3‑94

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  3:56 pm - 3:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 502‑20D]

Consumer Price Index [CPI] figures

Conversation No. 3‑95

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:57 pm and 7:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 3‑96

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  7:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; background noise can be heard in the original recording.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Call to Herbert G. Klein

Conversation No. 3‑97

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  7:46 pm - 7:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Herbert G. Klein; background noise can be heard in the original recording.

A previous financial event
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Peterson

‑President's role
‑Lester Bernstein of Newsweek
‑Call to Klein
‑Forthcoming articles
‑President's role
‑Forthcoming articles
‑President's role
‑Peterson
‑Journalists= questions

President's May 20, 1971 announcement
‑Television coverage
‑Joseph W. Alsop's response
‑Press coverage
‑Print media
‑Washington Star headline
‑Henry A. Kissinger's briefing for columnists
‑Richard Wilson
‑Alsop
‑Kissinger's forthcoming briefing
‑Klein's call
‑Kissinger's forthcoming briefing

Naval War College
‑Klein's call regarding President's visit

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‑President's accomplishments
‑Nelson resolution
‑Response

Conversation No. 3‑98

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:50 pm and 7:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; background noise can be heard in the original recording.

Call to John A. Scali

Conversation No. 3‑99

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  7:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

John A. Scali
‑Location
‑Return call

Conversation No. 3‑100

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  7:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 3‑101

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between  7:53 pm and 7:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; noise can be heard in the background.

Call to Stephen B. Bull

Conversation No. 3‑102

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  7:59 pm - 8:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull; noise can be heard in the background.

President's schedule
‑May 20, 1971 dinner for Louisiana delegation
‑F. Edward Hébert
‑Location
‑Departure time
‑Location

Conversation No. 3‑214

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:00 pm and 8:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 3‑103

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  8:11 pm - 8:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Joseph W. Alsop
‑President's talk with Herbert G. Klein
‑Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
‑Date

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‑Forthcoming article

Dave Kraslow (sp?)
‑Call to Kissinger
‑Storyline

Alsop
‑Klein's report on response
‑Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger

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‑Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑President's statement

Conversation No. 3‑215

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:12 pm and 8:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 3‑104

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  8:14 pm - 8:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's briefings
‑Time and Newsweek
‑Jerrold L. Schecter
‑John L. Steele
‑Importance
‑[Forename unknown] Elliott
‑Steele
‑"Local ones"

Conversation No. 3‑105

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  8:25 pm - 8:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

President's Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement
‑Television news coverage
‑American Broadcasting Company [ABC], Howard K. Smith
‑J. William Fulbright
‑Jules Bergman of ABC
‑Soviet weapons
‑National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Walter Cronkite
‑[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
‑Cronkite's and Sevareid's comments
‑People=s Republic of China [PRC], Middle East, SALT, North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Henry A. Kissinger's backgrounders
‑News magazines
‑John L. Steele

Conversation No. 3‑106

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  8:28 pm - 8:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Stephen B. Bull talked with the President.

President's schedule
‑Speech for Tulane University group
‑Washington Hilton
‑Departure
‑Location

Conversation No. 3‑107

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:32 am and 9:37 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 503‑2]

Call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 3‑108

Date:  May 20, 1971
Time:  9:37 am - 9:40 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William L. Safire.

[See Conversation No. 503‑3]

A quote from Thomas Jefferson
‑President's previous use
‑Theme
‑Science medals presentation
‑Theme
‑Paraphrase
‑President's previous use

A quote from Alfred E. Smith

Audience
‑Appreciation of Smith and Jefferson

Founding Fathers
‑Benjamin Franklin
‑Interests
‑Franklin, Jefferson

President's forthcoming speech
‑Time

Conversation No. 3‑109

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:42 pm and 12:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 3‑110

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  12:45 pm - 12:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑John A. Scali's statement
‑Los Angeles Times
‑Washington Post
‑New York Times
‑Headline on antiballistic missiles [ABMs]
‑Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Max Frankel
‑Coverage
‑Scali
‑President's opponents
‑Senators, press
‑Press coverage
‑Washington Post
‑Effect on negotiations
‑Los Angeles Times
‑New York Times
‑ABMs
‑Defensive and offensive weapons
‑Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun
‑New York Times
‑Possible Agreement
‑Scali
‑Kissinger's work
‑Television coverage
‑[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
‑Scali's work
‑John F. Kennedy [?]
‑Effect on Vietnam coverage

Vietnam
‑Casualties
‑Press coverage
‑Charles W. Colson's office

SALT
‑Kissinger's forthcoming briefings
‑Time, Newsweek
‑Tone

Conversation No. 3‑111

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:50 pm and 6:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 503‑24A]

Call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 3‑112

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  6:26 pm - 6:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 503‑24B]

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Conversation No. 3‑113

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:05 pm and 8:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 3‑114

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  8:30 pm - 8:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑Max Frankel [?]
‑Coverage

Kissinger's location

SALT
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑Frankel

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SALT
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑Frankel
‑Agreement
‑Chalmers Roberts
‑Forthcoming Washington Post editorial
‑Agreement
‑President, Leonid Brezhnev
‑Press coverage
‑Agreement
‑Boston Globe
‑Robert Healy
‑President's accomplishments
‑US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
‑Kissinger's briefings
‑Frankel

US foreign policy
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑USSR
‑Poland
‑USSR
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Berlin
‑SALT
‑Dobrynin

SALT
‑Press coverage
‑New York Daily News

The President conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:30 pm and 8:36 pm.

[End of conferral]

‑Administration handling
‑Democrats

‑Roberts

President's and Kissinger's schedule

Conversation No. 3-216

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 pm and 8:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to [Name unintelligible]

Conversation No. 3‑115

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 pm and 8:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

The President conferred with an unknown person[?].

[End of conferral]

Cancellation of a call

Conversation No. 3‑116

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 pm and 8:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Alexander P. Butterfield

Conversation No. 3‑117

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  8:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Alexander P. Butterfield
‑Cancellation

Conversation No. 3‑118

Date:  May 25, 1971
Time:  8:28 pm - 8:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

President's trip to Florida and Alabama
‑Weather

Vietnam
‑Casualty figures
‑President's speech to Congress, May 28, 1971
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑William P. Rogers
‑President's forthcoming meeting with Thieu
‑W. Averell Harriman
‑Timing
‑Possible US proposal
‑South Vietnamese response
‑Thieu

‑Mansfield Amendment
‑President's forthcoming announcement
‑Importance
‑Phil [Surname unknown]
‑A meeting

US foreign policy
‑Vladimir S. Semenov
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam
‑President's meeting with Thieu
‑Timing
‑US role
‑President's forthcoming announcement
‑Effect
‑Negotiations [?]
‑US proposal
‑President's meeting with Thieu
‑Midway Island
‑Congress
‑President's forthcoming announcement
‑Alexander M. Haig
‑Laird and Rogers
‑Effect on public opinion

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Possible Summit
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Economic package
‑President's speech to Southern Regional Media, May 25, 1971
‑Berlin
‑Possible Summit
‑Economy
‑Harvest
‑Possible Summit
‑Berlin
‑Possible Summit
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Berlin
‑Economic package
‑Possible Summit

US foreign policy
‑PRC
‑Thieu
‑USSR
‑Possible Summit
‑Economic aid
‑Wheat, computers
‑Edward R.G. Heath
‑Effect
‑Timing
‑Thieu's meeting with President
‑Press and television response
‑Harriman
‑Vietnam negotiations
‑US position
‑Jean Sainteny
‑North Vietnam
‑Sainteny's schedule
‑Thieu's schedule
‑Rogers
‑Laird
‑Rogers

Rogers
‑Trip to Europe

Vietnam
‑President's meeting with Thieu
‑Date
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

SALT
‑Importance
‑Public opinion
‑Press coverage
‑Joseph C. Kraft
‑Henry Brandon's Sunday Times [London] article

President's foreign policy
‑Press coverage
‑PRC initiative
‑Vietnam

‑President's opponents
‑Vietnam
‑President's reception in Alabama
‑Outcome
‑Polls
‑President's meeting with Thieu
‑Timing

Conversation No. 3‑119

Date:  May 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 pm and 8:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with an unknown man.

Call request

Conversation No. 3‑120

Date:  May 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 pm and 8:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 3‑121

Date:  May 25, 1971
Time:  8:53 pm - 9:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
‑President's call to Henry A. Kissinger
‑Budget meeting
‑National Commission on Productivity
‑Possible California meeting
‑Meeting with Thieu at Midway
‑Budget meeting
‑California
‑Meeting with Thieu

[Unintelligible]

John D. Ehrlichman
‑A possible May 28, 1971 event
‑Kissinger
‑A possible June 1, 1971 event
‑May 26, 1971
‑A domestic event at noon
‑Kissinger
‑Preparation
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑President's May 25, 1971 press questions

[Unintelligible]

‑An upcoming event
‑Preparation
‑Kissinger

[Unintelligible]

Family contact with press
‑Julie and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
‑An advance man
‑Constance Stuart
‑Julie Eisenhower
‑Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon
‑Tricia Nixon
‑Writing press

‑Stuart
‑Daughters, Mrs. Nixon
‑Julie and David Eisenhower
‑Coverage
‑Value
‑Stuart
‑Coverage

President's schedule
‑Trip to Birmingham and Mobile
‑Coverage
‑Crowds
‑George C. Wallace
‑Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
‑Crowd response
‑Previous campaign
‑Appearance
‑Events
‑Attendees
‑Effect
‑Compared with campaigning
‑Alabama trip
‑President and crowds
‑Demonstrators
‑Crowd
‑Press response
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Helen Thomas
‑Henry Hubbard
‑President's remarks
‑Tone
‑President's briefing for Southern regional media
‑George W. Romney
‑Subjects
‑President's briefing book
‑Interest in revenue‑sharing, environment,  health, manpower training
‑Interest in foreign policy
‑Public appearances in Birmingham and Mobile
‑Effect
‑President's briefing
‑Effect
‑John B. Connally, Ehrlichman

‑Effect of editors
‑A reception
‑Local Alabama press

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Julie and David Eisenhower
‑Photos

Miss USA photo
‑Miami paper coverage

Julie and David Eisenhower
‑Photo
‑New York Daily News, Washington Post, and New York Times
‑Dogs, fishing, children

President's schedule
‑June 1, 1971 or May 28, 1971 press conference
‑President's briefing for Southern regional media
‑Effect
‑A May 28, 1971 or June 1, 1971 press conference
‑Sunday papers
‑Television audience
‑Sunday papers, news magazines
‑President's trip to Alabama
‑Television coverage
‑A May 28, 1971 or June 1, 1971 press conference
‑Television audience
‑Ratings
‑Memorial Day weekend

Conversation No. 3‑122

Date:  May 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:14 pm and 9:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Ronald L. Zeigler

Conversation No. 3‑123

Date:  May 25, 1971
Time:  9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

President's Alabama trip
‑Television news coverage
-Motorcade
‑Mobile, Birmingham crowds
‑Dedication of Tennessee ‑ Tombigbee Waterway
‑Mobile, Birmingham crowds
‑Lyndon K. ("Mort") Allin
‑Length
‑National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC], Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
‑Press response
‑Crowds
‑Birmingham Chief of Police Ed Moore
‑Crowd estimate compared with unidentified astronauts' crowd
‑George C. Wallace
‑President's remarks
‑President's briefing for Southern regional media
‑Press pool coverage
‑Bill Tice and Douglas B. Cornell
‑Eugene Risher
‑Requests for transcript

‑Transcript compared with tape
‑Tone
‑Statements regarding South
‑Arms reduction
‑Response
‑Peter Lisagor
‑Courtney Sheldon of Christian Science Monitor
‑Bill Matoney [sp?] of NBC
‑Comment to Ziegler
‑Blacks
‑Response to President
‑President's response
‑President's references to unity
‑President's remarks
‑Future coverage

President's schedule
‑A May 28, 1971 or June 1, 1971 press conference
‑Possible alternative dates
‑May 27, 1971
‑Kennedy Center event
‑Television viewing on weekends
‑Week's news
‑West Point
‑A May 28, 1971 or June 1, 1971 press conference
‑Haldeman, John A. Scali

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 3‑124

Date:  May 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 pm and 9:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 3‑125

Date:  May 25, 1971
Time:  9:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger
‑Cancellation

Conversation No. 3‑126

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:24 am and 11:07 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 505‑4A]

Call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 3‑127

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  11:07 am - 11:11 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 505‑4B]

President's schedule
‑Golf date with Rogers
‑[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II's tour in the Mediterranean

Police shootings in New York, NY
‑Victims
‑Possible legislation
‑John N. Mitchell

A slaying in Washington, DC
‑Victim
‑Compared with President

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A memo from President
‑Delivery
‑Storage

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger and Rogers concerning People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑National Security Council [NSC]
‑George H.W. Bush
‑Polls
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑President's position
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Chiang Kai‑shek
‑James C.H. Shen
‑Relations with President
‑Taiwanese position
‑US public opinion
‑Committee of One Million
‑Walter H. Judd

‑Possible talk with Rogers
‑Date
‑Haldeman, Kissinger
‑Roger's trip to Europe
‑Time
‑President's meeting with King Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud

The President conferred with Haldeman.

‑Faisal's arrival
‑Faisal luncheon

Conversation No. 3‑128

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:11 am and 1:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 505‑9]

Call to Edward J. Kiernan of New York, NY Patrolmen's Benevolent Association

Conversation No. 3‑129

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  1:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 505‑10A]

Call to Edward J. Kiernan
‑Kiernan's location
‑Return call

Conversation No. 3‑130

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  2:17 pm - 2:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Edward J. Kiernan.

[See Conversation No. 253‑10A]

Police slayings in New York, NY
‑President's condolences
‑President's letters
‑President's support for police
‑Public opinion
‑Funeral
‑Attendees

President's trip to Alabama
‑Comments to policemen

Public opinion regarding law and order
‑Effect of New York police slayings

President's condolences

Conversation No. 3‑131

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:19 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 253‑11]

The President conferred with an unknown person.

President's schedule

[End of conferral]

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 3‑132

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  2:20 pm - 2:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 253‑12]

President's call to Edward J. Kiernan
‑President's condolence letters to families of slain policemen
‑President's support for New York, NY Police Department
‑Effect of killings on public opinion
‑Publicity
‑New York Daily News

Conversation No. 3‑133

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:21 pm and 3:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 253‑15]

Call to Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 3‑134

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  3:12 pm - 3:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 253‑16]

President's West Point speech
‑John K. Andrews
‑President's work
‑Meeting with Price and Andrews
‑Draft
‑Vietnam references
‑Foreign policy
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Post‑Vietnam economic policy
‑Foreign Affairs article
‑People's Republic of China [PRC], Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑War and peace
‑Meeting with Price and Andrews
‑Location

Conversation No. 3‑135

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 253‑17]

Call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 3‑136

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  3:17 pm - 3:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 253‑18]

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Conversation No. 3‑137

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:18 pm and 3:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 253‑19]

Call to Leonard Garment

Conversation No. 3‑138

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:30 pm and 3:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Leonard Garment.

[See Conversation No. 253‑20]

President's speech on the arts
‑Comments relayed by Nancy Hanks
‑Response
‑Importance

1972 fundraising
‑Taft Schreiber
‑Sam Rothberg and another unnamed California Democrat
‑Middle East

President's meeting with movie people at San Clemente
‑An unidentified man
‑Cultural programs for children from Watts

An unidentified woman
‑Purchase of a painting in Europe

Arts
‑Importance to quality of life
‑Food stamps, Social Security
‑Musicians from poor families
‑City‑dwellers
‑President's speech
‑Hanks

Conversation No. 3‑139

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:17 pm and 6:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 253‑27]

Call to J. Edgar Hoover

Conversation No. 3‑140

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  6:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 253‑28]

J. Edgar Hoover
‑Location
‑Return call

Conversation No. 3‑141

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:33 pm and 6:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 253‑29]

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 3‑142

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  6:42 pm - 6:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 253‑31]

President's schedule
‑Drugs meetings
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Ehrlichman and J. Edgar Hoover
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.

Police
‑Killings in New York City
‑Possible legislation
‑Charles W. Colson

Economy
‑Story in May 26, 1971 Washington Star
‑Stock market
‑Dow Jones average
‑Volume

President's trip to Alabama
‑Response
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑President's editors' briefing

Senate
‑Harold E. Hughes pay amendment
‑Effect on Volunteer Army
‑Effect of North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] initiatives
‑Colson's talk with Edward W. Brooke
‑Recess

President's schedule
‑Press conference
‑Nielsen ratings estimates

Conversation No. 3‑143

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:46 pm and 6:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Alexander P. Butterfield talked with the White House operator.

Call to secretary, Toni Sidley

President's calls
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑J. Edgar Hoover

Butterfield
‑Location
‑Meetings with President
‑Hoover call
‑Call to secretary

Butterfield talked with Sidley at an unknown time between 6:46 pm and 6:50 pm.

A memo to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
‑Envelope
‑Copy

Conversation No. 3‑144

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:50 pm and 6:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 253‑34]

Call to J. Edgar Hoover

Conversation No. 3‑145

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  6:58 pm - 7:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Edgar Hoover.

[See Conversation No. 253‑35]

Killing of New York, NY policemen
‑National security information gathering
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] availability
‑New York bureau chief
‑Conference of National Association of Chiefs of Police, June 2, 1971 or June 3, 1971
‑Meeting on June 7, 1971 of sheriffs and police
‑President's visit to FBI academy
‑Apprehension of perpetrators
‑President's and Hoover's response
‑Details
‑Possible motives
‑Poverty
‑Possible New York Times editorial
‑Perpetrators

Conversation No. 3‑146

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:01 pm and 7:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 253‑36]

Call to Nancy Hanks

Conversation No. 3‑147

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  7:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 253‑38]

Nancy Hanks= location

Conversation No. 3‑148

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:10 pm and 7:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 253‑39]

Call to Nancy Hanks
-Location

Conversation No. 3‑149

Date:  May 26, 1971
Time:  7:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 253‑43]

Call to Nancy Hanks

The President talked with Hanks between 7:35 pm and 7:36 pm.

Arts events, May 26, 1971
‑President's speech
‑Response
‑Hanks= work

Conversation No. 3‑150

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:38 pm and 7:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 3‑151

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  7:53 pm - 7:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

President's schedule
‑Anastasio Somoza Debayle dinner
‑Number
‑Attendees
‑Mrs. Somoza, Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon
‑Style of dress
‑Attendees
‑Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa and wife
‑Number
‑Mrs. Somoza
‑Compared with King Saud's visit
‑Tricia Nixon's wedding
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Staff work
‑Breakfasts
‑Eightieth Congressional Club reception
‑Willy Brandt visit
‑Tricia Nixon's wedding
‑Staff work

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Kennedy Center opening
‑Julie and [Dwight] David Eisenhower II, Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
‑President's role
‑Symphony [Concert] Hall
‑Antal Dorati
‑Leonard Bernstein
‑Kennedy family
‑September 9, 1971 event
‑May 27, 1971 event

‑Status of building project
‑President's role
‑National Symphony and Dorati
‑Bernstein
‑Special composition
‑Kennedy family
‑Opening events
‑Date
‑President's schedule

Conversation No. 3‑152

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:59 pm and 8:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 3‑153

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  8:09 pm - 8:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

President's schedule
‑Dinner for Anastasio Somoza Debayle
‑Attendees
‑Tricia Nixon's wedding
‑Eightieth Congress reception
‑Breakfasts
‑Location

Conversation No. 3‑154

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:11 pm and 8:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to John K. Andrews, Jr.
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.'s office

Conversation No. 3‑155

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  8:19 pm - 8:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John K. Andrews, Jr.

President's forthcoming speech
‑Andrews= work
‑President's review
‑May 28, 1971 meeting
‑May 25, 1971 meeting
‑Andrews= work

Conversation No. 3‑156

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:20 pm and 9:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to James Cardinal McIntyre

Conversation No. 3‑157

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:20 pm and 9:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Michael McGreevey

Conversation No. 3‑158

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:20 pm and 9:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Calls to Leonard H. Goldenson and Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle

Conversation No. 3‑159

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  9:05 pm - 9:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle.

Fiftieth anniversary of O'Boyle's ordination
‑President's letter
‑O'Boyle's response

O'Boyle's support for President
‑Vietnam

Police killings in New York, NY

President's opponents

Prayers for President

O'Boyle's letter

Conversation No. 3‑160

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:07 pm and 9:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Leonard H. Goldenson
‑Location

Conversation No. 3‑161

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  9:14 pm - 9:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Leonard H. Goldenson.

Goldenson's location

John A. Scali's  work

A cable television matter
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Goldenson's meeting with President

Goldenson's location
‑Dana Ashley

Scali's work
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement

American Broadcasting Company [ABC] News
‑Reporting on President
‑Harry Reasoner and Howard K. Smith

Network news reporting
‑President's response
‑White House staff response
‑President's press conferences

Goldenson's health

Conversation No. 3‑162

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:16 pm and 9:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to James Cardinal McIntyre

Conversation No. 3‑163

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:16 pm and 9:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

James Cardinal McIntyre
‑Location
‑Call

Conversation No. 3‑164

Date:  May 27, 1971
Time:  9:28 pm - 9:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with James Cardinal McIntyre.

McIntyre's health

Fiftieth anniversary of ordination

Building of a hospital
‑President's role

President's family
‑Tricia Nixon's wedding
‑Location
‑A letter from McIntyre

McIntyre's health
‑Asa V. Call

Conversation No. 3‑165

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:47 am and 9:08 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 3‑166

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  9:08 am - 9:12 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 505‑17]

Middle East
‑Egypt
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] role
‑Anwar el-Sadat
‑Nikolai Podgorny

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[Duration:  6s  ]

MESSAGE FROM PODGORNY

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‑Us Role
‑President's press conference
‑Sadat's position
‑King Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud's statements
‑Israel
‑Cyrus L. Sulzberger's Story in New York Times
‑Israel

People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑A May 27, 1971 Washington Post story

‑Possible Leak
‑Effect
‑Austrian action
‑Administration Handling
‑Robert J. McCloskey, Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Ziegler, McCloskey

Conversation No. 3‑167

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:16 am and 9:34 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 505‑18A]

Call to J. Edgar Hoover

Conversation No. 3‑168

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:16 am and 9:34 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 505‑18B]

Call to J. Edgar Hoover

Conversation No. 3‑169

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  9:34 am - 9:43 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Edgar Hoover.

[See Conversation No. 505‑18C]

An Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
‑Harrison Williams= statement
‑Richard G. Kleindienst's response
‑White House response
‑A November directive

Killings of policemen
‑FBI role in New York, NY investigation
‑Local police role
‑Schweiker bill
‑Administration position and strategy
‑Results
‑F.B.I. role in investigations
‑Factors
‑Possible directive
‑Attorney General
‑Content
-Law enforcement
‑Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society
‑Equipment
‑Possible public statement
‑New York, NY investigation
‑FBI role
-Local authorities role
‑Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy
‑A murder of a black girl
‑Local authorities' action
‑FBI role
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's possible statement
‑New York, NY investigation
‑Williams
‑FBI role

‑FBI role
‑Possible directive from President or Attorney General
‑Bills in Congress
‑Hoover's meeting with police chiefs
‑Meeting with President
‑Williams bill and other bills
‑Possible statements to press
‑"The 100"
‑Meeting with President
‑Bills in Congress
‑Hoover's forthcoming meeting with sheriffs and police chiefs
‑Possible press statements
‑Sheriffs and police chiefs
‑Administration
‑Williams bill
‑Compared with Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., kidnapping
‑Williams and Richard S. Schweiker
‑Views on Vietnam, law and order
‑Williams
‑Possible statements to press
‑White House
‑Hoover and John N. Mitchell
‑Police chiefs
‑A November 1970 directive
‑Publicity
‑Hoover's meeting with Mitchell

Conversation No. 3‑170

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  9:45 am - 9:49 am
Location:  White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 505‑18D]

Water issue
‑Ehrlichman's meeting with the President

‑Interior Department jurisdiction
‑Ehrlichman's meeting with the President

Drug issue
‑Veterans
‑Handling
‑Veterans
-Jacob K. Javits
-Youth, addicts
‑Possible leak
‑Stewart J.O. Alsop
‑Interest in issue
‑New program
‑Veterans, youth
‑Leadership
‑Dr. Bertram S. Brown
‑National Institute of Health [NIH]
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Brown
‑Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
‑Responsibilities

Conversation No. 3‑171

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:49 am and 11:03 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to John K. Andrews, Jr.
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.'s office

Conversation No. 3‑172

Date:  May 28, 1971

Time:  11:03 am - 11:04 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John K. Andrews, Jr..

President's speech
‑Conclusion
‑Noel C. Koch
‑Letters from prisoners of war [POW] wives, parents of servicemen, Vietnam veterans
‑Purpose
‑Meeting with President
‑Time
‑Conclusion
‑Alternatives

Conversation No. 3‑173

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:04 am and 12:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with an unknown person.

Call request

Conversation No. 3‑174

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:04 am and 12:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 506‑6]

Call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 3‑175

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm - 12:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 506‑7]

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[Duration:  1m 8s  ]

THE PRESIDENT TALKED WITH [DWIGHT] DAVID EISENHOWER, II.

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Conversation No. 3‑176

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:21 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 3‑177

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  2:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

William P. Rogers
‑Location
‑Return call

Conversation No. 3‑178

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  2:50 pm - 3:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

Rogers= schedule
‑King Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud

People's Republic of China [PRC] admission to United Nations [UN]
‑Opinion polls
‑Call to Rogers from H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Gallup and Harris polls
‑Changes
‑President's PRC initiative
‑Significance
‑Public opinion
‑Walter H. Judd
‑Effect of President's PRC initiative
‑President's forthcoming press conference
‑Discussions with Rogers
‑Taiwan
‑Release of opinion polls
‑Taiwan
‑Senate hearings

‑Timing
‑An audience in England
‑Timing
‑Rogers= public statements
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑A proposal
‑US position
‑Factors
‑Public statements
‑Relations with PRC
‑A second proposition
‑Possible outcome
‑Rogers= meeting with James C.H. Shen
‑President's previous meeting Shen
‑President's possible action
‑Taiwan's possible action
‑Ping‑pong diplomacy
‑Significance
‑Message to Chiang Kai‑shek
‑President's response
‑Security Council seat
‑Taiwan's response
‑Judd
‑Rogers= trip to Europe
‑President's forthcoming meeting with Judd
‑State Department
‑Results of a leak
‑Rogers= public posture
‑Rogers= forthcoming Senate testimony
‑Compared with possible statement by President
‑Timing

Vietnam
‑President's meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu and Ellsworth F. Bunker
‑Date
‑Rogers
‑Possible results
‑Melvin R. Laird, Defense Department budget
‑Possible results
‑October election

‑Newspaper publicity
‑War
‑Drug program
‑President's meeting with Thieu
‑Timing

Middle East
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]‑United Arab Republic Treaty
‑Rogers= lunch with Faisal
‑Oilmen
‑Saudi economy

Rogers= schedule

Conversation No. 3‑179

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 254‑4A]

Call to Stephen B. Bull

Conversation No. 3‑180

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  3:10 pm - 3:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 254‑4B]

President's schedule
‑Meetings with Peter G. Peterson and John N. Mitchell
‑Time and location

Conversation No. 3‑181

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:48 pm and 4:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 254‑4C]

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

[Unintelligible]

[End of conferral]

Call to Alexander P. Butterfield

Conversation No. 3‑182

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  4:51 pm - 4:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 254‑4D]

President's speech, May 29, 1971
‑Alternative conclusions
‑Draft

Conversation No. 3‑183

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:45 pm and 5:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 506‑13A]

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 3‑184

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  5:51 pm - 5:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods; H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 506‑13B]

President's speech
‑Final draft
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Ronald Ziegler
‑Distribution to press
‑Possible advance release to news magazines
‑Reading copy

Conversation No. 3‑185

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:50 pm and 8:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Tricia Nixon

Conversation No. 3‑186

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  8:11 pm - 8:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon.

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Conversation No. 3‑187

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:12 pm and 8:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 3‑188

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  8:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Henry A. Kissinger's location

Call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 3‑189

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  8:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s location

Conversation No. 3‑190

Date:  May 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 10:00 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator; Henry A. Kissinger can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 507‑4A]

Call to Nelson A. Rockefeller

Conversation No. 3‑191

Date:  May 29, 1971
Time:  10:00 am - 10:06 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller.

[See Conversation No. 507‑4B]

Rent issue in New York, NY
‑New York Times
‑John V. Lindsay's position, Rockefeller's position, President's position
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Compared with Paris
‑Lindsay's position
‑John Loeb
‑Lindsay
‑Rockefeller's plan
‑New York state budget
‑Lindsay's authority over construction

New York, NY fiscal situation
‑Home rule
‑New York Times story
‑Lindsay's position

‑Herbert Brownell
‑Frederick R. Kappel
‑Retired president of telephone company
‑Work on Ash Commission
‑Roy L. Ash
‑Possible call from Rockefeller
‑Causes
‑Lindsay's efforts

Lindsay
‑Appearance on ADick Cavett Show@
‑Budget request
‑Cuts
‑Services
‑Police, firemen

New York, NY police
‑Killings
‑Possible federal funds
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑George P. Shultz
‑Ehrlichman's call to Rockefeller
‑Amount, significance
‑Killings
‑President's response
‑Ethnic origins
‑Possible federal funds
‑Ehrlichman
‑Forthcoming call to Rockefeller
‑Meeting with President

Conversation No. 3‑192

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:21 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 254‑6]

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 3‑193

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 254‑8]

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

Call to Alexander P. Butterfield

Conversation No. 3‑194

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  2:26 pm - 2:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 254‑9]

John B. Connally

Health
‑Possible trip to Camp David
‑Call from Butterfield
‑Logistics

Conversation No. 3‑195

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:27 pm and 5:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 254‑11]

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 3‑196

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  5:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 254‑13]

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

Haldeman's daughter

Joanne (Horton) Haldeman's location

Conversation No. 3‑197

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:38 pm and 5:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 254‑14]

Call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 3‑198

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  5:43 pm - 5:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 254‑15]

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Conversation No. 3‑199

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  5:45 pm - 6:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 254‑16]

The President conferred with Manolo Sanchez.

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Quakers

A poll
‑Issues
‑Revenue‑sharing
‑Government reorganization
‑Environment
‑Revenue‑sharing
‑List

A Domestic Council poll

Domestic issue
‑Cancer
‑Revenue‑sharing
‑Environment
‑Public interest
‑Environmentalists
‑Public interest

Approval ratings

President's schedule

Approval ratings
‑Totals
‑East
‑Midwest
‑South
‑West
‑Regional differences
‑East
‑Effect of liberals
‑Midwest
‑East
‑New York and Pennsylvania
‑Changes
‑Far West
‑Previous poll error
‑East
‑Possible error
‑Sampling methods
-Size
‑Compared to George H. Gallup
‑Gallup poll
‑Release
‑Previous poll
‑Differences from current poll

President's schedule
‑Press conferences
‑Effect
‑Compared with speeches and televised interviews
‑Public perception of President

Administration speakers
‑Public image of President
‑Cabinet member and Republican House members
‑Qualities
‑Issues
‑Importance
‑Vietnam War, inflation, and crime
‑Crime and drugs
‑Vietnam War and economy

Crime
‑Thomas E. Dewey
‑Work in New York, NY
‑J. Edgar Hoover
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Effectiveness
‑Martha (Beall) Mitchell's name recognition
‑Compared with John B. Connally
‑Martha Mitchell

President's schedule
‑Trip to Maine, June 19, 1971
‑American Medical Association [AMA]
‑Date
‑Rochester trip
‑Date
‑Leopold Sedar Senghor's visit
‑June 18, 1971
‑Rochester and Maine
‑Maine trip
‑Dates
‑Portsmouth, New Hampshire
‑AMA
‑Date
‑Possible press conference
‑Date
‑California
‑Date
‑Frederick L. Hovde dinner
‑A trip, June 28, 1971
‑Announcement
‑Congress
‑Press conference
‑Press conference
‑Questions on trip
‑A trip announcement
‑AMA
‑Date
‑Portsmouth, New Hampshire
‑AMA
‑Date
‑Publicity value

‑Portsmouth, New Hampshire
‑Publicity value
‑Compared with AMA
‑Press conference
‑Date
‑Indiana trip
‑Date
‑An announcement
‑Press conference
‑Frequency
‑Effect
‑Televised interviews
‑Date
‑An announcement
‑US military role in Vietnam
‑Use
‑Date
‑Indiana trip
‑Hovde dinner
‑Publicity value
‑Possible schedule conflict
‑Press conference
‑Date
‑An announcement
‑Date
‑California trip
‑Date and time
‑Press conference
‑Date
‑Effect
‑Compared with televised interviews
‑Televised interview
‑Walter L. Cronkite
‑Position on Vietnam
‑Timing
‑Nguyen Van Thieu's visit
‑Audience
‑Press conference
‑Date
‑AMA
‑Date

Conversation No. 3‑200

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:06 pm and 6:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 3‑201

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  6:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 3‑202

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  6:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 254‑18]

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and William P. Rogers
‑Locations

Conversation No. 3‑203

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  6:30 pm - 6:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 254‑20]

Rogers= schedule
‑Trip departure
‑Golf

President's schedule
‑Camp David
‑Press conference preparation

Middle East
‑President's press conference
‑Rogers
‑Ceasefire
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Israel
‑US position
‑Rogers= May 31, 1971 speech
‑Anwar el-Sadat
‑[Forename unknown] Burgis [?]
‑Domestic situation
‑US, USSR, Israel
‑Burgis

Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
‑President's press conference
‑Rogers
‑MBFR talks
‑US position
‑US allies
‑Rogers

John B. Connally's speech
‑Effect

Rogers= forthcoming speech
‑Compared with Connally's speech
‑Congress
‑George Meany's Position on trade quotas
‑US public opinion

Memorial Day
‑Speech by Gen. Leonard F. Chapman
‑1972 celebration
‑Effect of music
‑President's trip to West Point

July 4th celebration

American mood

Memorial Day
‑1972 celebration

Rogers= schedule
‑Trip
‑Departure
‑Adele Rogers
‑Return
‑Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD] meeting in Paris

Conversation No. 3‑204

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  6:38 pm - 6:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 254‑21]

President's call

President's speech
‑Patrick J. Buchanan's work

[Pause]

A Saturday/Sunday operation
‑Radio, press statements
‑President's West Point trip
‑Raymond K.  Price, Jr.
‑Summer 1971 events
‑Audience
‑Holiday weekends
‑Radio and television
‑President's statements
‑President's speeches
‑President's Tulsa trip
‑Publicity
‑Compared with weekday operation

Conversation No. 3‑205

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:42 pm and 6:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 254‑22]

Call to Tricia Nixon

Conversation No. 3‑206

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  6:50 pm - 6:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 254‑24]

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Conversation No. 3‑207

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:52 pm and 7:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Tricia Nixon

Conversation No. 3‑208

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  7:13 pm - 7:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 254‑27]

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Conversation No. 3‑209

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:18 pm and 7:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 254‑28]

Call to Tricia Nixon

Conversation No. 3‑210

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  7:21 pm - 7:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 254‑29]

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Conversation No. 3‑211

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:22 pm and 7:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 254‑30]

Call to Tricia Nixon

Conversation No. 3‑212

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  7:23 pm - 7:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 254‑31]

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Conversation No. 3‑213

Date:  June 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 am and 9:12 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Call to Alexander P. Butterfield