Conversation No. 22-1

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  4:01 pm - 4:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Julie Nixon Eisenhower

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 324-37]

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Conversation No. 22-2

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:20 am and 1:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 325-10B]

Request for call to William L. Safire

Haldeman conferred with the President at an unknown time between 10:20 am and 1:31 pm.

Forthcoming Pay Board statement by the President, March 23, 1972
-Spoken
-Written

[End of conferral]

Haldeman talked with Safire.

[See Conversation No. 325-10C]

The President’s Pay Board statement for television
-Safire draft of a paragraph
-Criticism of George Meany
-Wage increase to longshoremen
-Inequity
-Meany’s walkout

Conversation No. 22-3

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:20 am and 1:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 325-10D]

Request for call to William L. Safire

[Pause]

Haldeman talked with Safire.

[See Conversation No. 325-10E]

The President’s television statement on Pay Board, March 23, 1972
-Wage earners
-Percent in American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Safire’s return call
			-President’s Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Conversation No. 22-4

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  2:36 pm - 2:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

William L. Safire talked with the President.

The President’s Pay Board statement, March 23, 1972
-Changes
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Problems
	-Pay Board
-George Meany
-George P. Shultz and John B. Connally recommendations
-Pay Board
-Decisions
	-The President’s role
-Blame on Meany
-The President’s attitude on labor
	-Proposed language
			-Labor leaders
			-Protection of wage earners’ buying power
-Figures
	-Labor leaders
				-Representativeness of wage earners
-Connally’s view
-The President’s view

Conversation No. 22-5

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 5:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 692-7B]

Request for call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 22-6

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  5:33 pm - 5:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 692-7C]

Chile
-Ziegler’s comments on International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] involvement
-State Department
-Statement
-Edward M. Korry statement
	-Dominican Republic
-Jack N. Anderson

Ziegler conferred with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[End of conferral]

-ITT statement
-Instructions
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Latin American and Chile
-The President’s previous comments

Conversation No. 22-7

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  7:41 pm - 7:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Tricia Nixon Cox

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President between 7:41 pm and 7:47 pm.

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Conversation No. 22-8

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:47 pm and 7:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 22-9

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  7:53 pm - 8:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

The President’s Pay Board statement on George Meany, March 23, 1972
-Follow-up
-Clark MacGregor
-John B. Connally
-Congressional response
-Jacob K. Javits
	-Labor Committee
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Opposition to special interests
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Calls to editors
-Washington Star
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Editorial comment
-Donald H. Rumsfeld forthcoming statement
-Intensity of effort
-Connally
-Rumsfeld

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-A report from J. Edgar Hoover
-John D. Ehrlichman conversation with Hoover
-Experts’ conclusions
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Hoover
-Disagreements among experts
-Conclusions
-Dita D. Beard
-Revelations in press
-Judiciary Committee
-James O. Eastland
-Talk with Robert C. Mardian
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] report
-Kennedy
-Leaks
-Conrad [first name unknown]
-Unknown man on Kennedy’s staff
-Colson’s call to Ehrlichman
-Kennedy’s knowledge of investigation

Bureaucratic hostility to the President
	-Colson’s view
	-1930’s
-Department of Justice
-FBI
-Meany
	-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
	-Consumer Price Index [CPI]

Meany response to the President’s statement
-Conversation with George P. Shultz
-Unknown labor official
-American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
		-ITT case
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Call from Colson
-Relations with Meany
-Call from Meany
-Pay Board
-Building trades

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ITT case
-Ehrlichman
-Kennedy
-Knowledge of FBI report

Conversation No. 22-10

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:18 am and 9:38 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 326-3]

Request for call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 22-11

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  9:38 am - 9:45 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 326-4]

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
	-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] report
	-Latest developments
	-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Robert C. Mardian
	-J. Edgar Hoover
	-Walter McCrone
	-Delivery to Judiciary Committee
	-McCrone’s findings
	-Jack N. Anderson’s findings
	-Unknown action
	-Ehrlichman
	-Discussion with Hoover
	-Delivery to Senate
	-Hoover’s motives
	-Ehrlichman and Mardian
-Changes in report
-James O. Eastland
				-FBI
		-Dita D. Beard
		-Investigation
		-FBI report
		-Forgery
		-Experts’ conclusions
	-Release
	-Eastland
	-Radio report
	-Richard A. Moore
	-Denial of forgery
	-Counter testimony
	-Effect
	-Expert testimony
	-Hoover
	-McCrone
	-Findings
	-Character of typewriter type
	-Date
	-Pearl L. Tytell
-Date
	-Composition of paper
	-June 25th document
	-Character of typewriter type
	-Tytell
	-Unknown man
	-Date
	-McCrone versus the FBI
	-McCrone’s request for meeting with Hoover
-McCrone
-Mardian
	-FBI
	-Judiciary Committee
	-Eastland
	-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Release to press
	-Moore
	-McCrone
	-Tytell
	-White House strategy
	-Timing
	-Forgery
	-Beard
	-Future committee testimony
	-Tytell
	-McCrone

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Conversation No. 22-12

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:45 am and 12:54 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 326-15]

Request for call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 22-13

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  12:54 pm - 1:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 326-16]

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
	-The President’s upcoming press conference
	-Latest developments
		-President’s statements
	-Administration’s antitrust record
	-Colson’s memorandum
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Alger Hiss case
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] file
-Period of greatest growth
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations
-FBI report
-Letter
-Contradiction of experts’ finding
-Other tests
-White House instigated
-Possible results
-ITT press conference of experts
-Colson
-Date
-Tests
-FBI
-ITT
-Pearl L. Tytell test
-Walter McCrone test
-McCrone
-Meeting with FBI on March 24, 1972
-John D. Ehrlichman
-FBI
-Leak of story
-Results of test on Dita D. Beard memorandum
-ITT strategy
-Timetable
-FBI conclusions
-Colson’s advice
-Unknown Senators’ trip to Denver
-The President’s strategy
-Beard
-FBI tests
-James O. Eastland
-Response
-Department of Justice
-Committee hearings
-Beard
-Hugh Scott
-John N. Mitchell

Section 315 vote on suspension of equal time requirements for the Presidential election
-Eastland’s vote
-Previous vote
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. Amendment
-Defeat in Senate
-Previous vote
-Partisanship
-Democrats
-Publicity
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-The President’s press conference
-Possible question
-Response
-Repeal
-Number of candidates
-Debates
-Television networks
-Free television time
-Congressional limitations on spending in presidential campaigns
-Possible veto
-Public response
-Tax check off
-Free television time
-Draft of veto message by Colson

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The President’s statement on George Meany, March 23, 1972
-Public response
-Network coverage
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Statements on the President’s statement
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Jacob K. Javits
-Support for the President
-Haldeman
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

The President’s instructions to Colson
-Letters to Time and Newsweek
-Cover story
-Letters to networks
-Busing issue
	-Effectiveness
	-Timing
	-Telephone calls
-Busing issue
-Time and Newsweek
	-Number of letters
	-Letters to Time
	-Clifford Irving hoax
	-Cover story
	-Spiro T. Agnew
	-Jack N. Anderson compared to Irving

ITT case
-Unknown action of Colson
-The President’s support
-Beard
-Document
-Colson
-Public response
-Memorandum to the President
-Mail to Congressmen
-Effect
-Source of information
-California
-San Diego
-Duration of publicity
-Anderson
-Roman L. Hruska statements
-Anderson compared with Louella Parsons
-News coverage
-White House instructions to Republican Congressmen

Labor
-Meany statement
-Network coverage
-Timing with Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-The President’s view
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Request for call to Colson
-Leaks in Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
	-CPI
		-Meany
-Officials
	-Colson’s view
-George P. Shultz
-Geoffrey H. Moore
	-The President’s view
-Colson’s view
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally
-Appearances
-Split between Building Trades Council and American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-George Meany
-Effects
		Messages to Congressmen and Senators
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Connally
-Herbert Stein
-Democrats and Meany
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Attitude towards Meany
-Timing of release of poll
-Wage increases compared to stabilized prices

Fourteenth Amendment
-Court interpretation
-Racial balance
-Busing

Conversation No. 22-14

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:12 pm and 1:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 22-15

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  1:16 pm - 1:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 326-18]

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting with the President
-Last minute details

Conversation No. 22-16

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  1:28 pm - 1:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Haldeman talked with the President between 1:28 pm and 1:29 pm.

[See Conversation No. 326-19B]

Interest rates
-[John B. Connally’s] advice
-Link with demand
-Administration’s views
-Prime rate
-Statement
-Increase
-Reasons

Conversation No. 22-17

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:29 pm and 2:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 22-18

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  2:05 pm - 2:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 326-20]

The President’s press conference
-Ziegler’s meeting with Frank Cormier and Helen A. Thomas
	-United Press International [UPI]
-Wire services
-Order of questions

Conversation No. 22-19

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:06 pm and 2:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 326-21]

Request for call to Edward J. Gurney

Conversation No. 22-20

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  2:22 pm - 2:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Edward J. Gurney.

[See Conversation No. 326-22]

Gurney’s performance as Senator
-The President’s view
-Media coverage
-The President’s news summary
-Florida primary

George Meany
-Gurney’s view
-Views
-Historical analogy
	-19th Century
-Gurney’s response
-Public response

Conversation No. 22-21

Date:  March 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:21 pm and 7:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 22-22

Date:  March 26, 1972
Time:  7:39 pm - 7:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Colson message to the President
-Manolo Sanchez
-Dita D. Beard
-Health
-Questioning by Edward M. Kennedy
-News report
-Senators’ response
-Conference
-Diagnosis
-Colson’s talk with an unknown doctor
-Time
-Diagnosis
-News photographs
-Kennedy
-Questioning of Beard
-Beard’s consent to be questioned
-Motives
-Content
-Unknown Colson source
-Report
-Possible wires to Kennedy
-President’s possible statement
-Questioning
-Public response
-News reports
-Helen A. Thomas
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Beard
-Questioning by Edward J. Gurney
-Health
-Senators’ response
-Developments
-Unknown reporter
-White House strategy
	-Response

The President’s schedule

Conversation No. 22-23

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  9:21 am - 9:22 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Haldeman talked with the President between 9:21 am and 9:22 am.

[See Conversation No. 327-4]

Staff meeting

The meeting with Haldeman

Conversation No. 22-24

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 11:11 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Ronald L. Ziegler talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Charles W. Colson

Ziegler conferred with the President.

Wire service

Testimony

[End of conferral]

Ziegler talked with an unknown woman in Colson’s office.

Request for call to Colson

Colson’s location
	-Joan [Hall]
	-Capitol Hill
-Return call

Conversation No. 22-25

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  11:10 am - 11:11 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Charles W. Colson
-Location
	-Capitol Hill

The President conferred with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The White House operator’s response

[End of conferral]

Conversation No. 22-26

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:11 am and 12:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Ronald L. Ziegler talked with Charles W. Colson.

Press briefing
-No comment on International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-William R. Merriam
-Request for call to Dita D. Beard
-White House
-Request for call to Edward J. Gerrity, Jr.
-Request for call to Merriam

Conversation No. 22-27

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:11 am and 12:04 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

Request for calls to Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein
-Locations

Conversation No. 22-28

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:11 am and 12:04 pm
Location:  White House operator

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with Robert H. Finch.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Finch calls to ITT
-San Diego
-Finch’s denial
-Dita D. Beard
-Request for call to Finch
-Meeting of ITT executives and Finch
-Finch’s Latin American trip
-Chile
-Finch calls to ITT
-William R. Merriam and Edward J. Gerrity, Jr.
-Finch’s denial
-Content
	-Beard
-Possible calls to ITT
-Herbert G. Klein
-Robert C. Wilson

Conversation No. 22-29

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:11 am and 12:04 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with Herbert G. Klein.

Klein’s location

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Dita D. Beard testimony
-Klein call to ITT
-William R. Merriam and Edward J. Gerrity, Jr.
-Klein’s denial
-Unknown campaign
-Source of story
-Leon [surname unknown]
-Robert C. Wilson
-Robert C. Mardian theory
-Wilson
-Meeting with Harold S. Geneen
-Meeting with Merriam
-Money
-Request for call to Beard
-Merriam
-Mardian
-Jack Gleason
-Conversation with Merriam
-Conversation with William E. Timmons
-White House person
-Beard
-Merriam
-Wilson
-Beard
-Margaret (“Maggie”) Young (Wilson’s secretary)
-Relationship

Klein’s schedule
	-San Diego

Conversation No. 22-30

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  12:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 328-5]

Request for call to Charles W. Colson
-Colson’s location

Conversation No. 22-31

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  1:05 pm - 1:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 328-7]

Request for call to Colson

The President talked with Colson between 1:05 pm and 1:09 pm.

[See Conversation No. 328-7]

Colson’s location
	-Capitol Hill

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Meeting with Hugh Scott
-Briefing of Scott and Roman L. Hruska
-Press conference
-Democrats
-Hearings
-Schedule
-Colson, Clark MacGregor, Wallace H. Johnson
-Hruska
-Scott

Colson’s schedule

The President’s schedule
	-Forthcoming diplomatic credentials ceremony
-Return call to Colson

ITT case
-William R. Merriam affidavit
-White House call
-Denial of call
-Dita D. Beard
-Convention arrangements
-White House involvement
-Beard memorandum
-Media coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Media coverage
-Hruska
-Press conference
-Kennedy’s questioning of Beard
-Media coverage
-New York Times
-Graham [first name unknown] story
-Washington Post
-Sanford J. Unger story
-White House call
-Denial
-White House strategy
-Hruska
-James O. Eastland
-Conversation with Robert C. Mardian
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Confirmation

Conversation No. 22-32

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  7:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Charles W. Colson

Colson’s location

Conversation No. 22-33

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:48 pm and 7:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 22-34

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  7:51 pm - 8:04 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger’s previous trip
-Location
-Activities

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Duration
-Evidence
-Dita D. Beard
-Denials

Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Previous meeting with Kissinger
-US foreign policy
-Forthcoming visit to the US
-Date

Kissinger’s schedule

US-Soviet Union relations
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Upcoming meeting with Kissinger

Middle East
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-1972 election
-Agreement
	-Timing
		-Summit meeting
-US policy
	-Soviet presence
-State Department
-Perspective of State Department compared to perspective of Administration
	-Soviet Union

Arthur K. Watson
-The President’s view
	-Haig
	-US-People’s Republic of China [PRC] negotiations
		-Paris
		-New York
		-State Department
-The President’s previous press conference
	-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view

Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] post
-Confirmation
-Requirement
-John C. Stennis

Ambassadorships
-Nominations
-Campaign contributions
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese ambassador
-Suspension and resumption of peace talks
-Date
-Kissinger’s views
-Forthcoming meeting with North Vietnamese
-Date
		-Possible settlement
	-The President’s reelection
		-North Vietnamese view

Mexico
-1972 US presidential election
-Mexican view
-Kissinger’s previous talk with Foreign Minister
	-Acapulco
-Kissinger’s previous talk with Echeverria
-Mexico City
-Echeverria’s future visit to the US
-Itinerary
-Chicago
-Los Angeles
-San Antonio
-Latin American policy
	-Organization of American States [OAS]
	-Echeverria’s views
		-Proposed communique
	-Itinerary
	-Chicago
	-Los Angeles
	-San Antonio
	-Colorado River
	-Foreign Minister
-President’s previous trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Mexican viewing of television coverage
-Acapulco

Washington, DC
-The President’s view
-Foreign policy
-Domestic policy

ITT case
-Edward M. Kennedy
-John N. Mitchell
-Kleindienst

Kissinger’s schedule
-Appearance

Conversation No. 22-35

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  8:05 pm - 8:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Colson’s schedule

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Media coverage
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Hugh Scott
-Roman L. Hruska
-Remarks
-Edward M. Kennedy
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Interview with Peter M. Flanigan
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President’s response
-Colson’s call to CBS
			-Flanigan
				-Involvement
-Kennedy
-Remarks
-Dita D. Beard
-Health
-ABC
-Flanigan interview
-Ziegler
-Policy regarding appearances by administration officials
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John A. Scali
-Flanigan
-Hruska’s press coverage
-Talk with Colson
-Appearance
-ABC
-Remarks
-Democrats
-Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr.
-Kennedy
-Gary W. Hart
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Beard
-Kennedy
-Health
-Diagnosis
-Lawyer
-Kennedy
-White House plan
-Clark MacGregor
-Visit with James O. Eastland
-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Strategy
-Television time
-Press releases

Albert E. Sindlinger
-Talk with Colson
-Poll results
-Approval of the President
-Male response
-Female response

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ITT case
	-Kleindienst
	-Confirmation
	-Opponents
	-Wallace H. Johnson
	-Chris Gay [sp?]
-Kennedy inquiry
-Witnesses
-Beard
-Public response
-ITT as an issue
-Impact on election
-Media coverage
-Funds
-White House call
-Kennedy
-CBS
	-Flanigan
-NBC
-Denver
-Marlow W. Cook interview
-Kennedy
-ABC
-Wires
-Edward J. Gurney
-Robert J. Dole
-Hruska
-Network coverage
-White House counter measures
-Easter
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Remarks to Senate Committee
-Talk with White House
-MacGregor
-Eastland
-Timing
-Eastland
-Committee hearings
-Filibuster
-Media coverage
-Talk with the President
-Talk with John N. Mitchell
-Mitchell
-Talk with Colson
-Democrats

Democrats
-Major issues
-Food prices
-Connally

ITT case
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Results of publicity
-Public response
-MacGregor

Economy
-Unemployment insurance claims
-Decline
-Herbert Stein

ITT case
-Breaks for administration
-Resolution
-Senate hearing
-Public response
-Media coverage
-Flanigan interview
-Substance
-Thomas F. Eagleton
-Senate hearings
	-Kennedy

Conversation No. 22-36

Date:  March 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 5:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Clark MacGregor

Haldeman talked with MacGregor.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Senate hearings
-MacGregor meeting with Robert C. Byrd
-Termination of hearings
-Hugh Scott
-Roman L. Hruska
-Edward J. Gurney
-Marlow W. Cook
-Strom Thurmond
-Hiram L. Fong
-Location
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Location
-Upcoming meeting with MacGregor
-James O. Eastland
-MacGregor talk with John N. Mitchell
-MacGregor meeting with Eastland
-Witnessess
-MacGregor’s location
-Scott’s office
-Witnesses
-Testimony
-Time
-MacGregor and Robert C. Mardian meeting with Eastland
	-MacGregor’s location
	-Wallace H. Johnson
	-John W. Dean III
	-Charles W. Colson
	-Termination of hearings
	-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s vote
	-Peter M. Flanigan statement
	-Dean
	-Colson
	-Republican Senators’ strategy
	-Executive privilege
	-Dean strategy
	-Hruska-Flanigan correspondence
	-MacGregor call to John D. Ehrlichman

MacGregor conferred with Colson.

Unknown person’s wishes

Sine qua non

[End of conferral]

ITT case
-Flanigan statement
-Republican Senators
-Eastland
-Byrd
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Strategy
-Vote
-Fong
-MacGregor’s meeting with Mathias

Conversation No. 22-37

Date:  March 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:20 pm and 5:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with an unknown person between 2:10 and an unknown time before or at 5:30 pm.

Unknown person’s knowledge of something

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:10 pm and 5:30 pm.

[See Conversation No. 327-8A]

Request for call to Stephen B. Bull

Conversation No. 22-38

Date:  March 28, 1972
Time:  5:30 pm - 5:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 327-9]

Barber
-Schedule

Conversation No. 22-39

Date:  March 28, 1972
Time:  5:31 pm - 5:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Stephen B. Bull talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 327-10]

Barber
-Visit by the President
-Time of day
-Appointment

Conversation No. 22-40

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:19 am and 11:27 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 696-1A]

Request for call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 22-41

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  11:27 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 696-1B]

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Conversation No. 22-42

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  12:17 pm - 12:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 696-1C]

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Conversation No. 22-43

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 328-17]

Request for call to Clark MacGregor

Conversation No. 22-44

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  3:07 pm - 3:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Clark MacGregor; H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 328-19]

Busing
-MacGregor’s meeting with Southern Congressmen
-Busing issue
-Number
-Members of the House
-Location
-Leslie C. Arends’s whip office
-Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
-Thomas N. Downing
-Results
-Gerald R. Ford
-Richard H. Poff
			-Constitutional amendment
				-Moratorium
				-Congressmen’s views
			-Moratorium
				-Congressmen’s views
			-Court order
				-Section 406 of five and ten year cleansing provisions
			-Moratorium
				-Waggonner Amendment
					-Old and new busing order
			-Equal Educational Opportunities Act proposal
				-Waggonner Amendment
					-Language
						-Three Sisters Bridge opinion
							-[Warren E. Burger]
-Authority of Congress
					-Administration support
						-Ford and Poff support

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Senate hearings
-Report to the President
-James O. Eastland’s position
-Latest developments
-Discussion
-Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Vote on termination
-Eastland
-Possible filibuster
-Timing
-Continuation of hearings
-Republican Senators’ views
-Richard G. Kleindienst debate
-White House opposition
-Senate Judiciary Committee
-MacGregor’s report to the President
-Harold S. Geneen testimony
-Additional witnesses
-Eastland
-Unknown secretary and unknown lawyer
-Geneen
-Performance
-Termination of hearings
-Republican Senators’ views
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Hugh Scott
-Strategy
-Kleindienst confirmation
-White House position
-Edward M. Kennedy versus the President on the issue
-Vote

Haldeman can be heard talking in the background.

-Termination of hearings
-Number of votes needed
-MacGregor’s efforts
-Public response
-ITT confusion

Conversation No. 22-45

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  3:50 pm - 3:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President.

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Conversation No. 22-46

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 4:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Richard G. Kleindienst

The operator placed the call on hold at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:48 pm; the President and Haldeman conferred in the background.

[See Conversation No. 328-23A]

Haldeman talked with Kleindienst.

[See Conversation No. 328-23B]

A concert
-Kleindienst’s views
-Mexico City
-Transfiguration of Jesus Christ
-Length of performance

Kleindienst’s forthcoming meeting with the President
-Entrance to the White House
	-South Grounds
		-Diplomatic Entrance
-Discretion
-Library
-Discretion

Conversation No. 22-47

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:38 am and 10:10 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. 697-2A]

Request for call to John C. Stennis

Conversation No. 22-48

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  10:10 am - 10:12 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John C. Stennis.

[See Conversation No. 697-2B]

Previous dinner with the First Family
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-John B. Connally
-Coy (Hines) Stennis
-Joseph W. Alsop and others

Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-Kissinger’s forthcoming call to Stennis
-Senate action
-Information for Stennis
-Stennis’s schedule
	-Timing of call
-Stennis’s help

Stennis’s proposed meeting with the President
-Kissinger
-Topics
-Arrangements
-Confidentiality

Kissinger’s call to Stennis

Conversation No. 22-49

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  11:28 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 22-50

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:28 am and 11:39 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 697-10]

Request for call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 22-51

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  11:39 am - 11:42 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 697-11]

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Conversation No. 22-52

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:42 am and 12:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 697-25]

Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger
	-Map Room

Conversation No. 22-53

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  12:45 pm - 12:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 697-28]

Kissinger’s location

The President’s morning briefing
-North Vietnam’s offensive into South Vietnam
-The President’s view
-US reaction
	-Understanding between the US and the Soviet Union
	-The President’s correspondence with Leonid I. Brezhnev
	-The President’s talk with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Kissinger’s response

Conversation No. 22-54

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:13 pm and 7:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 22-55

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  7:16 pm - 7:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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Conversation No. 22-56

Date:  March 30. 1972
Time:  Unknown beteween 7:20 pm and 7:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 22-57

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  7:22 pm - 7:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

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Conversation No. 22-58

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:26 pm and 7:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 22-59

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:26 pm and 7:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Charles W. Colson
-Schedule
-Return call

Conversation No. 22-60

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  7:33 pm - 7:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Colson’s schedule

Stock market
-Decline
-Rise
-Colson’s previous talk with Donald T. Regan
-Colson memorandum
-The President’s reading file
-Regan’s views

Economy
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.’s report
	-Economic indicators
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Economic indicators
-Rise
-Herbert Stein
-Talk with Cronkite
-Talk with John W. Chancellor
-The President’s meeting with Cronkite
-Retail sales
-Colson memorandum

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
	-Administration strategy
-Washington Star column

Economy
-Retail sales
-Recent figures
-Increases
		-Durable and non-durable goods
-Colson contacts in New York City
-Ichiro Nakayama
-Position
-Article on government statistics
-Mild winter
-Effect on clothing and utilities market
-Spring increases
-Retail sales
-Increases
-Colson’s talk with Stein
-Government statistics
-Stein’s views
-Unemployment
-Decline
-Stock market
-Rise
-Interpretation
-Regan’s views
	-Month-to-month figures compared to day-to-day figures
-New York Times
-Dow Jones
-International Business Machines [IBM] listing
	-Health of market
-David E. Bradshaw
-Talk with Colson
-ITT
-Illinois
	-Economy
-Travels
-California and Florida
-Mobile homes
-Public response
-Housewives
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-John B. Connally’s remarks
-Colson follow-up
-White House strategy
-Letter from the President
-Colson’s call to Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis

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Colson’s schedule
-Patricia Colson

Conversation No. 22-61

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:45 pm and 8:02 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 22-62

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  8:02 pm - 8:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Laos
-Washington Star report
-Gunship in Laos
-Kissinger’s report
-Surface-to-Air Missiles [SAMs]
-Attack
-US response
-Delay
-Possible attack on SAM sites
-Previous responses
-Air Force planes
	-Radar
-Gunship
-Number of crewmen
			-The President’s view
				-Protective reaction
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Weather
			-Scope of response
-North Vietnamese offensive
	-Kissinger’s view
-Military
-Moorer
-Kissinger’s calls to Moorer

Soviet Union
-Response

Conversation No. 22-63

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  9:33 am - 9:34 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[See Conversation No. 700-3A]

Tricia Nixon Cox call to the President

Haldeman conferred with the President.

[See Conversation No. 700-3]

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President.

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Conversation No. 22-64

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:39 am and 11:46 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Camp David

Conversation No. 22-65

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  11:46 am - 11:49 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

Weather

Easter egg roll
-Attendance
	-Weather
-Music
-Navy, Marine, Army, and Air Force bands

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Conversation No. 22-66

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:49 am and 3:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 328-33]

Request for call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 22-67

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  3:19 pm - 3:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 328-35]

The President conferred with an unknown person at 3:19 pm.

[End of conferral]

The President’s schedule
-Foreign policy matter
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-George S. McGovern
-Questioning by the press
-Mistake
	-The President’s view
-Primary
-Press coverage
-Staff
-Links with Edward M. Kennedy’s staff
-Mistake
-Taxes
-Investigation by the Committee
-Kennedy staff man
-McGovern’s statement
-Press criticism

Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Criticism of New York Times
-Boeing employee

Media
-Coverage of Senators

ITT case
-Dita D. Beard
-Criticism of Vance Hartke statment
-Developments
-Time and Newsweek
-Public response
-Peter Lisagor
-Lack of evidence
-Colson’s efforts
-Creating doubt
-Public response
-Administration’s strategy
-Timing

Economy
-Food prices
-Colson’s talk with Albert E. Sindlinger
-Poll
-Public attitude
-John B. Connally’s remarks
-Upcoming Marina von N. Whitman briefing
-Wholesale Price Index [WPI]

Vietnam
-Public issue
-North Vietnam offensive into South Vietnam
-Bombing by the US
-Publicity
-White House strategy
			-US withdrawal
-Democrats’ strategy on issue
-The President’s view
-McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie statement
-Military action
-Disadvantages
-Public response
-North Vietnamese aggression
-Treaties
	-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]

Colson’s schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-School issue
-Activities

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George Meany
-Withdrawal from the Pay Board
-James Rademacher’s criticism
				-Threatened withdrawal from the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
	-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Request for call to Colson
-Support for the President
-Teamsters and building trades
-Basis of labor support
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
	-Rademacher
-Catalyst role
-Talk with George T. Bell

ITT case
-Developments
-Other issues
-Food prices
-Busing

Busing
-Richmond case
-Importance
-Media coverage
-Department of Justice cases
-Frequency
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Public attitude
-Symbolic areas
-Richmond and Detroit

Conversation No. 22-68

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:35 pm and 7:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 22-69

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  7:12 pm - 7:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Weather
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s report to Kissinger
-Tanks
-Naval gunfire
-Route One
-Naval gunfire
-Kissinger’s view
	-Use in North Vietnam
	-Dong Hoi area
	-Authorization
	-Timing
	-Moorer
	-Route One
		-Location
	-Cruisers and destroyers
-Weather
-Improvement
-Ceiling
-Air strikes
	-Damage assessment
	-Tanks and trucks
-Weather
-Improvement
-Results
-Tanks, guns, artillery, surface-to-air-missiles [SAMs]
-Troops
-Weather
-Change
-Timetable
-Kissinger’s view
	-Possible settlement
		-North Vietnamese offensive
		-Date
-Moorer
-Melvin R. Laird
-Support for air strikes
-Moorer
	-The President’s view
	-Haiphong Attack
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Timing
	-Soviet response

Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message to Moscow
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
-Berlin
	-German treaties
	-US message to Willy Brandt
	-The President’s decision
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Poland
-Message from the Soviets
-Delay
-Kissinger’s view
	-Poles
-Soviet response
-Possibility of a news leak

Kissinger briefing for someone
-Forthcoming meeting with the President

Conversation No. 22-70

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:19 pm and 7:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 22-71

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  7:24 pm - 7:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Naval bombardment
-Range to shore
-Merit
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s response
-Instructions
	-Indian Ocean
-Aircraft carrier
	-Bombing compared to shelling
-Cruisers and destroyers
	-Quang Tri
		-Range
			-Cruisers
	-Da Nang
-Impact
-Authorization
-Kissinger’s call to Moorer
-Message to Melvin R. Laird
	-Commander-in-Chief, Pacific [CINCPAC]
		-Bombardment
	-Carriers
	-Hawaii
	-Cruisers and destroyers
	-Sea of Japan
	-Impact

Conversation No. 22-72

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 9:24 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 701-2B]

Request for call to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer

Conversation No. 22-73

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  9:24 am - 9:28 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer.

[See Conversation No. 701-2C]

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Number
-Weather
-Report for the President
-B-3 Area
-Instructions
-Current operations
-Number of sorties
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Number
-B-3 area
-Military Region Three
-Military Region One
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Ben Hai River bridge
-The President’s instructions
-Morning report
	-B-3 area
-Naval bombardment
-Instructions
-DMZ
-Range of naval weapons
-Additional ships
	-Singapore
-Destroyers
-Cruiser
-Pearl Harbor
-Western Pacific
-Number of ships
-The President’s forthcoming instructions
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-Seventh Fleet
	-Timetable
		-Cruisers and destroyers
	-Deployment
		-DMZ
	-The President’s instructions
		-Psychological operations
-Cruisers and destroyers
-Seventh Fleet
-Deployment
-Report to Kissinger
	-Timing of report

Conversation No. 22-74

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  10:44 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 701-7]

Request for call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 22-75

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  10:45 am - 10:46 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

The President’s meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
-Ingersoll’s forthcoming trip
	-Chicago
	-Tokyo
-Ingersoll
	-The President’s view
-Ingersoll’s remarks on Shultz
-Ingersoll’s job as ambassador
-The President’s view
-The President’s letters to Eisaku Sato and Takeo Fukuda

Conversation No. 22-76

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:15 pm and 8:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-8]

Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 22-77

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 329-9]

Vietnam
-Weather
-Report
-Kissinger’s call to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Projection
-Results
-Shelling
-Time
-Time Of Day
-Ground Action
-Weather
-Projection
-Possible clearing
-Opportunities for air strikes
-Possible air strike at Haiphong
-Plan
-Weather
-Timing
-Possible diplomatic reaction
-List of ships in the harbor
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger summary
-South Vietnamese ambassadors
-Talks with other ambassadors
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ] attacks
	-US ambassadors
	-The President’s instructions
-Air attacks
-Air Force
-Men
-Equipment
-B-3 area
-Attacks
-Instructions to Moorer
-Military Region One [MR 1]
-Air sorties
	-Number
-B-52s
-Areas of bombardment
	-MR 1
-Authority
	-DMZ
-Surface-to-air Missiles [SAMs]
-Moorer
-Weather

Conversation No. 22-78

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  8:45 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 330-3]

Invitation to John K. Andrews 
	-Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Conversation No. 22-79

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:16 am and 9:27 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 330-7A]

Request for call to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer

Conversation No. 22-80

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  9:27 am - 9:32 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer.

[See Conversation No. 330-7B]

Vietnam
-Kissinger’s meeting with the President
-Briefing by Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Air attacks
-Air commander
-The President’s concerns
-Experience
-[Forename unknown] Macnichol [sp?]
-Background
	-Moorer’s view
		-Thailand
-Recommendation
-Gen. Lucius DuB. Clay, Jr.
-Vogt
-Moorer’s recommendation
-Talk with the Air Force Chief of Staff
-Naval bombardment
-Destroyers
-B-52 strikes
-“Iron hand” aircraft
	-Vogt

The President talked with Moorer at an unknown time between 9:27 am and 9:32 am.

-B-52 strikes
	-The President’s instructions
	-Impact
	-Altitude
	-Number of sorties
	-B-3 area
	-Increases
	-Reasons
	-Weather
	-Technical problems
	-B-3 area
	-Number of missions
	-Region One
	-Additional aircraft
		-Timing
-Air commander
	-The President’s view
	-Experience
	-Need for change
	-Imagination
-Melvin R. Laird
-Moorer recommendation
-Time

Conversation No. 22-81

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  9:56 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 330-8]

Request for call to Stephen B. Bull

Conversation No. 22-82

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  9:57 am - 9:58 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 330-9]

Barber
-The President’s appointment

Conversation No. 22-83

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  9:59 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 330-10]

Request for call to Charles W.Colson

Conversation No. 22-84

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  10:00 am - 10:05 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 330-12]

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-News summary report
-Hearings
-Republicans
-United Press International [UPI] dispatch
-Wallace H. Johnson

[The President conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:00 am and 10:05 am.]

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[End of conferral]

ITT case
-News summary report
-UPI dispatch
-Johnson
-Source
-Hugh Scott
-Press secretary
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Inaccuracies
-Hearings
-Roman L. Hruska’s strategy
-Vote
-Democrats’ strategy
-Filibuster and walkout
-James O. Eastland
-Quorum
-Edward M. Kennedy and John V. Tunney
-Clark MacGregor report
-Number
-Scott
-Compromise
-Timing
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Statements
-Reasons
-Lloyd M. Bentsen
-Talk with Kennedy
-Campaign financing
-Public response
-Democrats
-George A. Smathers’s role
-Mansfield
-Press coverage
-Commentary on the fcase
-Bill Gill
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Talk with John A. Scali
-Public response
-Kennedy
-Perseverance
-Staff
-[Forename unknown] Foug [sp?] and [Forename unknown] Epstein
-Hearings
-Eastland
-John N. Mitchell
-Eastland
-Supporters
-Robert C. Byrd
-John L. McClellan
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Rules
-Proxies
-Filibuster
-Kennedy and Tunney
-Mansfield comments
-Tunney
-Possible talk with Eastland and Mansfield
-Republicans
-Scott
-Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Staff
-Mathias
-Supposed statement
-Defections
-Problems
-Partisanship
-Robert H. Finch remark
-Timetable
-Witnesses
-William R. Merriam
-Unknown ITT employee
-Susan Lichtman
-Press conference
-Robert C. Wilson
-Johnson’s talk with Colson
-Edwin Reinecke
-William E. Timmons
-Peter M. Flanigan

Conversation No. 22-85

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:39 am and 11:43 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 330-14]

Request for call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 22-86

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  11:43 am - 11:44 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 330-15]

The President’s schedule
-Speech drafts

Colson’s meeting with the President in the Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 22-87

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:54 pm and 4:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 703-1A]

	Request that the White House operator call Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon for Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 22-88

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:54 pm and 4:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 703-1B]

Julie Eisenhower’s location

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip television special
-The President’s question
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Arbor Day
-Script writers
-William L. Safire
-John Reagan (“Tex”) McCrary
-Duration
-Substance
-Voice over
-Prepared remarks
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-The President and Mrs. Nixon’s forthcoming trip to Canadian
-Script writers
-McCrary
-Herbert G. Klein
-Attendance on trip
-Arrangements

Conversation No. 22-89

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:19 pm and 7:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 22-90

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  7:00 pm - 7:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Assignment to Vietnam
-Schedule
-Proposed meeting with the President
	-Instructions
	-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting
	-The president’s schedule
	-Philadelphia
	-Importance of his new command
		-Future of the US Air Force
-Key Biscayne
-Adm. Thomas h. Moorer
-Timing
-Air strikes
-Reports
-Targets
-B-3 area
-Concentration of force
-Number
-Capability
-Kissinger’s talks with Moorer
-Nguyen van thieu
-Statements
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Call to Kissinger
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Call to Kissinger
	-Weather
-Haiphong
-Potential for an attack
-Public attitude
-Intensity
	-The President’s view
		-William P. Rogers
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Supply lines
-Naval gunfire
-Restriction of air strikes
-19th parallel
-The President’s instructions
	-Attack on road
-Number of ships
	-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Kissinger’s view
	-Rear areas
	-Supply routes
-18th Parallel
-Laos
-Destroyer deployment
-Moorer
	-Deployment above the 19th Parallel
-DMZ
-Plans compared with Lyndon B. Johnson’s plans
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Bombing
-Naval shelling
-Kissinger’s recommendation
-Sustainability
-The President’s view
	-Purpose
	-Psychology
	-Weather
-Orders to Moorer
-Dong Hoi
-Report to the President
-Philadelphia
-Necessity
-Dong Hoi
	-Petroleum, oil, lubricants [POL]
	-Supply depots
-Destroyers, planes, cruisers
-Thieu
-US public
-Follow up report

Conversation No. 22-91

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:09 pm and 7:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 22-92

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:09 pm and 7:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

An unknown person talked with the White House operator.

[Aborted telephone call]

Conversation No. 22-93

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  7:12 pm - 7:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

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Stock market
-Increase
-1000 mark
-Predictions

Economy
-Unemployment
-Latest figures
-Increase
-March 1972 figures
-Seasonal adjustment
-October 1971
-Jobs
-Increase in number
-Job force increase
-Figures
-Married males
-Adult women
-Herbert Stein
-New jobs
-Validity of figures
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
	-Geoffrey H. Moore
-Percentage of work force
-Inconsistency with Census figures
-George P. Shultz
-Summer months
-Unknown person’s testimony in Congress
	-Joint Economic Committee
		-William Proxmire
	-Colson’s view
-Colson’s talk with Shultz
-James D. Hodgson’s call to Colson
-Decline
-Survey
-Work force
-Stein
-Wholesale food prices
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Visits to supermarkets
-Compared with Virginia H. Knauer
-Colson’s view

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Hearings
-Schedule
-Colson’s meeting with Clark MacGregor, John N. Mitchell, Richard G. Kleindienst, Robert C. Mardian, L. Patrick Gray, III and Wallace H. Johnson
-Republicans
-James O. Eastland’s position
-Mitchell observation
-Filibuster
-Edward M. Kennedy and John V. Tunney
-Mitchell’s and Kleindienst’s role
-Republicans’ positions
-MacGregor’s and Johnson’s observations
-Eastland and Robert C. Byrd
-Outcome
-Hugh Scott and Roman L. Hruska
-Public statements
-Political inquisition
-Filibuster
-Administration response

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ITT case
-Hearings
-Termination

Conversation No. 22-94

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:44 pm and 12:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 705-13A]

Request for call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 22-95

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  12:50 pm - 12:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 705-13B]

Irini Dobrynin
-Proposed meeting with Mrs. Nixon
-Time
	-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Return to Moscow
		-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
	-Time
	-Location

Conversation No. 22-96

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:51 pm and 12:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 705-13C]

Request for call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Conversation No. 22-97

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:51 pm and 12:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin.

[See Conversation No. 705-13D]

Kissinger’s talk with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Mrs. Nixon’s tea with Irini Dobrynin
-Time
-Entrance to White House
	-Diplomatic entrance
-Location

Conversation No. 22-98

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 2:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 330-26]

Request for call to Alexander P. Butterfield

Conversation No. 22-99

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  2:59 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 330-27]

The President’s forthcoming speech in Canada
-Draft
-Completion
-Delivery to the President
-Completion

Conversation No. 22-100

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  3:05 pm - 3:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Alexander P. Butterfield talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 330-28A]

Speech draft
-Time of completion

Conversation No. 22-101

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  8:23 pm - 8:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President.

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Tricia Cox’s schedule
-Ping Pong tournament between US and People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-University of Maryland
-Mike Douglas show
-The President’s view
-Ping Pong tournament
-Tennis crowd
-Tricia Nixon Cox to welcome players

Vietnam
-Tricia Cox’s public comments
-Instructions
-Phraseology
-Invasion of South Vietnam
-Bombing
-Date of comments
-Invasion of South Vietnam
-Bombing
-US air power
-Defense against Communist invasion
-US defense of South Vietnam
-Administration spokesmen’s talking points
-Delivery to Tricia Cox
-South Vietnam
-American role
-Positive attitude
-Defense
-Treaties

The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
-Date
-Draft dodgers
	-Demonstrators
		-Soviet Union
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Schedule
-Dinner
-Governor General [Roland Michener]
-Parliament address
-State affair
-Trudeau
-Signing of agreement

Vietnam
-Tricia Cox’s public comments
-Invasion of South Vietnam 
-Defense
-American pilots
-Use of word “Communist”

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Conversation No. 22-102

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 am and 10:49 am
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 706-2B]

Request for call to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

Conversation No. 22-103

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 am and 10:49 am
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters.

[See Conversation No. 706-2C]

Congratulations
-Confirmation as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Swearing in

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Overnight stop before arrival in Moscow
-US Mediterranean Base
-Rota, Spain
-Location
-Cadiz
-Majorca
-Air field
-Sicily
-Naval base at Sigonella
	-Catania
-Rota and Sicily compared
-Weather
-Naples
-Housing
-Sicily
-Rota
	-Naval base
-Switzerland
	-Commercial facilities
-Iceland
-Distance
-Arrival time in Moscow
-Germany
-Rota
-Azores
-Distance
-Time zones
	-Spain
	-England
-Zaragoza, Spain
-Air Force base
-Moron, Spain
	-Seville
-Air Force base
-France
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

Conversation No. 22-104

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 am and 10:49 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[See Conversation No. 706-2]

[End of conferral]

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 706-2D

Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger
-Location

Conversation No. 22-105

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  10:49 am - unknown before 10:54 am
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. Haldeman talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 706-2E]

Haldeman’s location

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Stopover place
-Austria
-Salzburg
-Vienna
-Length of stay
-Meeting with Chancellor [Bruno Kreisky]
-Kissinger’s response
-Switzerland

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:49 am and 10:54 am.

-Spanish base
-Azores
-Switzerland
-Ireland
-Austria
-The President’s past trips
-Karl J. Gruber
-Nonalignment
-Salzburg
-Airfield capacities
-Constellation
-Salzburg Festival
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Switzerland
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Austria
-Gruber
-Eisenhower Administration
	-The President’s previous visits
	-Hungarian refugees
-Facilities
-Reception
-Weather
-Reception
	-The President’s view
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Proximity to Moscow
-Check with Austrian ambassador
-Kissinger
-Office
-State Department
-Soviets
-Gruber

Conversation No. 22-106

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 1:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-18A]

Request for call to Alexander P. Butterfield

Conversation No. 22-107

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  1:12 pm - 1:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 329-19]

Congress
-Leadership meeting
-Agenda
-Defense briefing
-Melvin R. Laird
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Laird
-Kissinger to give briefing
-Committee chairmen
-John G. Tower
-Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen
-William E. Minshall
-George D. Aiken
-Thomas C. Korologos and Clark MacGregor
-Attendance
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] briefing
-Kissinger’s attendance
-Briefing by Kissinger
-Photographs

Conversation No. 22-108

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:14 pm and 2:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-20]

Request for call to Richard M. Helms

Conversation No. 22-109

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  2:06 pm - 2:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Richard M. Helms.

[See Conversation No. 329-21]

Vietnam
-The President’s previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Helm’s reports
-B-52 strikes
-North Vietnamese silence on strikes
-US broadcasts
-Air strikes
-Naval units
-B-52s
-Scope and effectiveness
-Number of vessels and aircraft involved

Conversation No. 22-110

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:21 pm and 7:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 22-111

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  7:41 pm - 7:54 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger’s location

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s meeting with Irini Dobrynin
-Gift
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Message

Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird
-B-52 strikes
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Forthcoming trip to Southeast Asia
-Length of trip
		-Talk with Kissinger
-John B. Connally
-Previous talk with the President
	-Talk with Armand Hammer
	-Message to the President
	-Advice concerning Russians
	-Blockade
-US activity
	-Russian ships
	-Aircraft
	-Submarines
	-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s instructions
-Blockade
-The President’s view
	-Timing
	-Necessity
	-Prisoners of war [POWs] for withdrawal deadline
	-Election
	-Public response
-Moorer
-Previous talk with Kissinger
-Briefing of Congressmen
-Report on Congress’s mood
-Compared to 1967
-Laos
-Son Tay raid
-Cambodia
-Support for administration
-Max Frankel
-Previous talk with Kissinger
-Support for Administration
-Interest in Israel
-The President’s strategy
-Haig’s comment
-Kissinger’s views
-North Vietnamese tanks
-Washington Star report
	-Destruction
-B-52s
-Haig’s report
-South Vietnamese responsibility
-B-52s
-Capabilities
-Military Region One [MR1]
-Results of the war
	-The President’s view
-Honor of US and its military establishment
-Support of Congress
-Moorer’s report
-Forthcoming briefing
-Attendance
-Moorer
-Laird
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger’s handling of briefing
-Moorer
-Laird
-Length
-Rogers
-Negotiations
-Presence at briefing
-Moorer
-Laird
-Laird
-Presence
	-Vietnamization
	-Cambodia
	-Saigon
-Tactical aircraft [TACAIR]
-The president’s instructions to Moorer
-Ship deployment
-Distance to Hanoi
-Current movement
-Haiphong
-Air strikes
-TACAIR
-Weather
-B-52s
-Moorer arrival
	-Statement
-Weather
-Clearance
-North Vietnamese trucks
	-Hanoi
-Destruction
-TACAIRr
-Capabilities
-Timing
-Connally’s advice
	-Public opinion
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-State Department
-Communication with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s view
-William H. Sullivan
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-Frankel
-Synchronization
-Comments on the President’s policies

Foreign policy
-Dobrynin
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Michael J. Mansfield and Hugh Scott

	Kissinger’s schedule

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Public response
-The President’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Polls
-Influence
-Democrats’ response
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Connally observation
-Kennedy
-George S. McGovern
-The President’s instructions to Moorer
-Ships and planes
-B-3 area
-Naval attacks

Conversation No. 22-112

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:54 pm and 8:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to J. Edgar Hoover

Conversation No. 22-113

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  8:00 pm - 8:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Edgar Hoover.

Greetings

Hijacking incidents
-Hoover’s handling
-The President’s compliments
-Provo, Utah: San Diego: and Seattle
-Ransom money
-Recovery
-Hijackers
-Arrests
-The President’s compliments to agents

Vietnam
-The President’s orders to attack
-Necessity
-Public support
-Current activities

Conversation No. 22-114

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:58 am and 8:02 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 707-1]

Request for call to Anne Mansfield
-Location
-Phone number

Conversation No. 22-115

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  8:02 am - 8:03 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Anne Mansfield.

[See Conversation No. 707-2]

Anne Mansfield’s wedding
-The President’s previous talk with Michael J. Mansfield
-Preparations
-Senator and Mrs. Mansfield
-Forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-The President’s previous talk with Mansfield
-Wedding present

Conversation No. 22-116

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:22 am and 11:33 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 707-9]

Request for call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 22-117

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  11:33 am - 11:36 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 707-10A]

Selection of a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
-Arthur F. Burns
-[Jeffrey M. Bucher]
-Connally’s view
-[Forename unknown] Krebs
-Connally’s view
-The President’s approval for post
-Delay
-Burns

Appointments
-Youthful candidates
-Advantages
-Burns

Price Daniel
-Connally’s message to the President
-Connally’s talk with Daniel
-The President’s early support
-William F. Knowland
-Tidelands bill
-Connally’s talk with Attorney General and Daniel
-US Government suit
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Civil suit
-Lands division
-Daniel
-Brief
-Tidelands fight
-Unknown man

The conversation was cut off at 11:36 am.

Conversation No. 22-118

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  3:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 330-39]

Henry A. Kissinger to return the President’s call

Conversation No. 22-119

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  3:23 pm - 3:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 330-40]

[End of conferral]

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 330-40A]

Vietnam
-Message to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Dobrynin’s response
-The President’s decision
-Dobrynin’s message to Moscow
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Meeting with Hanoi ambassador
-Statement
-Response of Kissinger’s Soviet expert
-Canada
-The President’s remarks during forthcoming visit
-Air strikes
-Weather
-Improvements

The President’s meeting with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Camp David
-Schedule
-Location
-Kissinger’s presence
-Need for meeting
-Camp David
-Haig’s presence
-Time

Conversation No. 22-120

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  3:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 330-42]

Request for call to Alexander P. Butterfield

Conversation No. 22-121

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  3:27 pm - 3:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 330-43]

The President’s meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Haig’s schedule
-Helicopter for return trip

Trip to Camp David
-Departure time
-John N. Mitchell
-Rose Mary Woods
-Nellie L. Yates
-Beverly [Kaye?]

The conversation was cut off at 3:28 pm.

Conversation No. 22-122

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  2:56 pm - 2:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Call from Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Haldeman conferred with the President at 2:56 pm.

[See Conversation No. 329-32B]

[End of conferral]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President.

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Vietnam
-Talking points
-Sent to Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Eisenhower
-Rose Mary Woods
-Tricia Cox
-Letter from the President

Julie Eisenhower’s appearance in Louisiana
-Turnout
-F. Edward Hebert
-Speech
-Tribute to the President
-Soldiers
-Press reports
-Sailing of the Midway
-Volunteers
-Press coverage

Conversation No. 22-123

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:38 pm and 4:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 708-9A]

Request for call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 22-124

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:38 pm and 4:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 708-9B]

William P. Rogers’s location
-Arrival time
-Secretary
-Meeting with Kissinger

Conversation No. 22-125

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-36]

Request for call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 22-126

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  12:20 pm - 12:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

[See Conversation No. 329-37]

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Conversation No. 22-127

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  12:25 pm - 12:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Raymond J. Arbuthnot.

[See Conversation No. 329-39]

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Conversation No. 22-128

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:00 pm and 2:04 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-43]

Request for call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 22-129

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  2:04 pm - 2:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[See Conversation No. 329-44]

Latest developments

Haldeman’s talk with Charles W. Colson
-Unknown activity

Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Plans

The President’s message to William P. Rogers
-Delivery by Kissinger
-Rogers’s testimony

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Melvin R. Laird
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Necessity
-The President’s previous talk with Kissinger
-Blockade
-Timing
-Public response
-Colson and his staff
-Clark MacGregor
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-War effort

John N. Mitchell
-Latest news
-Call from Haldeman

The President’s state visits
-Canada trip
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Foreign relations

John D. Ehrlichman
-Busing issue
-Drug issue

Rogers
-The President’s memorandum
-Laird
-Statements
-Compared with Laird
-Congressmen, Senators
-Future meetings with the President
-Conditions for negotiations
-Public response
	-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s view

John B. Connally
-Latest news
-Location
	-Texas

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Kissinger’s concern
-B-52 strikes
-Public response
-Hanoi-Haiphong complex
-Justification
-Colson and his staff
-Conditions for halt
-Colson
-Public campaign
-”Tell it to Hanoi” Committee
-Advertisements
-Speakers
-Barry M. Goldwater
-John G. Tower
-Gerald R. Ford
-MacGregor

Conversation No. 22-130

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:01 pm and 11:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with White House operator.

Request for call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 22-131

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  11:05 pm - 11:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Dinner for Latin American ambassadors

Vietnam
-Kissinger’s previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message from the North Vietnamese
-Reply to Kissinger’s message to Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Reply to Kissinger’s previous talk with Dobrynin
-Content
-Transmittal by Soviets of message from North Vietnam to the US
-Contents
-Private and plenary meetings between North Vietnam and the US
-Dobrynin’s response
-American presidency
-Impact of Vietnam war
-Private and plenary meetings
-Scheduling
-Message from the North Vietnamese
-Contents
-Politburo
	-Foreign Minister
		-Moscow
-Paris
-Air strikes
-Intensity
-Hanoi reply
-Continuance
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Instructions from the President
-Chairman of the communist party
-Relation to Vietnam settlement
-Air strikes
-Truck parks
-Number of trucks
	-Ho Chi Minh trail
-Haiphong attacks
-Dobrynin’s meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Possible US-Soviet Summit
-Soviet response
-Soviet-West Germany agreements
-[Franz Josef?] Strauss
-Willy Brandt
-Dobrynin
-Instructions from central committee
-Soviet intermediary role
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Hanoi
-Air strikes
-Timing
-North Vietnamese message
-Peace talks delay
	-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Previous talk with the President
-Response to critics
-Kissinger’s letter to someone
-Talking points
-Private talks
-The president’s directives
	-Leadership meeting
-Rogers
-State department officials
-Advice
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meetings
-Lack of attacks in South Vietnam
-An loc
-Kissinger’s view
-Air strikes
-Number of sorties
-Kissinger’s message to Rogers
	-South Vietnamese air force
-Extent of destruction
-Casualties
-B-52s
-South Vietnam
	-Kissinger’s view
-Blockade
-Kissinger’s settlement with the Soviets
-Filibuster
-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-US conditions
-Strength of South Vietnam
-Failure of North Vietnam

US-Soviet relations
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Schedule
-Politburo meeting
-Departure

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Intensity
-Location
-Hanoi
-Haiphong
-Agreements
-Naval gunfire
-Limits
	-20th Parallel
-Haiphong
-Air strikes
-Concentration
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-US discussions with the Soviets
-North Vietnamese interpretations
-Air strikes
-News reports
-B-52s
-Tonnage dropped
-Haiphong area
-Extent of destruction
-Visual strikes
-Weather
-Johnson’s strategy
-Compared with the president’s
	-Kissinger’s view
-Power plants
-Destruction
-Hanoi
-Intensity and plane capacity
-Compared with World War I and World War II
-Rogers
-Support of policies
-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-Possible settlement
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Timing
-Meeting with North Vietnamese
-Administration strategy
-Laird strategy
-Results
	-Kissinger’s view
			-Impact on soviets
			-Defense of an loc
			-Blockade
			-Aircraft carriers
-Air attacks
-Weather
-I Corps
-Panhandle
-Abrams

The president’s previous meeting with Latin American leaders
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-The President’s view
	-Brazil

Vietnam
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing at the Pentagon
-Rogers
-Public statements
-Compared with Laird

Conversation No. 22-132

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:57 am and 10:55 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to H. R. (“Bob”0 Haldeman

Conversation No. 22-133

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-56]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s location
-The President’s return call

Conversation No. 22-134

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-57]

Request for call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

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

[No conversation]

The President talked with Mrs. Nixon.

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Conversation No. 22-135

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-58]

Request for call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

The operator placed the call on hold at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm.

[No conversation]

The President talked with Mrs. Nixon.

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Conversation No. 22-136

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-59]

Request for call to Military Aide’s office

Conversation No. 22-137

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Major John V. (“Jack”) Brennan.

[See Conversation No. 329-60]

The President’s trip to Camp David
-Helicopter
-Departure
-Time
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Manolo Sanchez

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Henry A. Kissinger’s report on Pentagon reaction

Conversation No. 22-138

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-62]

Trip to Camp David
-Message for Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Departure time

Request for call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 22-139

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 329-63]

The President’s call to Woods
-Woods’s location
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Return call

Conversation No. 22-140

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-64]

Request for call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Haldeman’s location

Conversation No. 22-141

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 329-65]

Request for call to Major John V. (“Jack”) Brennan

Conversation No. 22-142

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[See Conversation No. 329-66]

Church

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Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Effectiveness
-Pentagon
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Visual method
-Extent of damage
-Haiphong
	-Truck parks
	-Oil storage
-Naval bombardment
	-Shore batteries
-Cessation
-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Duration
-Secrecy
-William P. Rogers
-Defense in testimony
-Strategy toward critics
-Critics
-Hubert H. Humphrey
					-Call for the President to convene the United Nations [UN] Security Council
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
-Veto

The President’s schedule
	-Forthcoming trip to Camp David
	-Departure time
	-Return to Washington
	-Forthcoming luncheon for William M. Colmer
-Forthcoming meeting with John B. Connally
-Future call from Haldeman
-Camp David

Connally
-Possible resignation
	-Timing
	-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Texas
	-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit

The President’s schedule
-Free time
-Duration
-Cabinet meeting
-Value
-The President’s attendance
-Briefings on Vietnam
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-The President’s attendance
-Value
-Value
-Substitute for meeting
-Briefing on military situation
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and Laird
-Previous briefing of Congressmen and Senators
-Location
-Pentagon
-Cabinet and sub-Cabinet
-Selling points
-Kissinger
-Laird
-Timing
-Rogers’s forthcoming testimony
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Congressional retirees dinner
-Cabinet meeting
-Decision

Vietnam
-Public support
-Charles W. Colson and staff
-Clark MacGregor
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Haldeman’s previous talk with Colson and MacGregor
-Attacks on critics
-Advertisements
-Colson’s ideas and projects
-Colson

Richard G. Kleindienst
-Decision on nomination
-Upcoming Haldeman talk with John N. Mitchell
-Colson, MacGregor and Ehrlichman views
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] hearings
-Jack Gleason testimony
-Timing
-James O. Eastland
-Possible absence
-Motives
-1970 contributors
-Lawyer
-Relation with the White House
-Peter M. Flanigan testimony
-Ehrlichman’s views
-White House conditions
-Gleason testimony
-Committee decision
-Ehrlichman’s, William E. Timmons’s, Herbert G. Klein’s and Robert H. Finch’s testimony
-Flanigan testimony
-White House strategy
-Restrictions
-Withdrawal of Kleindienst’s name
-Halt of Gleason testimony
-Upcoming Haldeman talk with Mitchell
-Time
-Colson talk with Mitchell
-Mitchell’s concerns
-Flanigan deal
-Gleason
-Kleindienst
-Public response
-Restrictions
-Reasons for Kleindienst investigation
	-Richard W. McLaren
		-Involvement
-Flanigan deal
-Ehrlichman’s views
-Executive privilege
-Cover up
-White House strategy
	-Options
-Gleason
-Talk with Maurice H. Stans
-Testimony
-Perjury
-ITT cash contributions to 1970 Congressional campaign
-Gleason’s knowledge
-ITT settlement
-Flanigan deal
-Executive privilege
-Mitchell
-Call from Haldeman
-White House approval
-Announcement
-Television time
-Timing
-Gleason testimony
-Flanigan
-ITT case
-Overshadowed by war reports
-Nomination
-Flanigan deal
-White House doubts
-Russell B. Long
-Flanigan testimony
-News summaries
-Democrats
	-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Timing
-Public relations
-Preparations of offer
-Ehrlichman
-Colson and MacGregor
-Timing
-Kleindienst’s withdrawal
-Gleason testimony
-Cessation of hearings
-MacGregor’s views
-Reason for hearings

Conversation No. 22-143

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Major John V. (“Jack”) Brennan.

Sequoia
-Availability
-Check with Alexander P. Butterfield
-Offer to William P. Rogers

Camp David
-Weather conditions
-Predictions
-Thurmont, Maryland
-Request for call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 22-144

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 22-145

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

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Conversation No. 22-146

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Major John V. (“Jack”) Brennan

Conversation No. 22-147

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Major John V. (“Jack”) Brennan.

Sequoia
-Offer to William P. Rogers
-Delay

The President’s trip to Camp David
-Weather
-Predictions
-Report to the President
-Use of Sequoia

Conversation No. 22-148

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 22-149

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Apollo 16
-Lift off
-Television coverage
-Haldeman’s talk with John N. Mitchell

The President’s possible trip to Camp David
-Weather
-Delay
-Postponement

Richard G. Kleindienst nomination
-Mitchell strategy
-Peter M. Flanigan testimony
-Paul J. Fannin
-Deal with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Robert C. Byrd
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Jack Gleason testimony
-Delay
-Harry D. Steward testimony
-James O. Eastland’s return
-Steward
-San Diego
-Ervin’s approval
-Filibuster
-Byrd’s approval
-Chances
-Mitchell’s view
-Flanigan testimony
-Gleason testimony
-Gleason’s attorney
-Taking the 5th amendment
-Rules of germaneness
-Eastland’s presence
-Ervin’s approval
-Fannin’s offer
-Charles W. Colson and Clark MacGregor plan
-Talk with Haldeman
-Flanigan testimony
-Publicity
-Ervin’s response
-Acceptance
-Confirmation
-Chances
-Mitchell’s understanding
-Ervin acceptance of offer
-In committee and on the floor
-Filibuster
-Vote in Committee
-Ervin disruption
-Flanigan testimony
-Fannin
-Talk with Ervin
-White House authority
-Contacts with Mitchell
-Haldeman’s talk with Mitchell
-Colson and MacGregor
-Delays

Conversation No. 22-150

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Camp David
-Postponement
-Weather

Woods’s schedule

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Arthur F. Burns
-Previous talk with Woods
	-Support for the President
-Political consequences
-Ships and planes

Woods’s schedule
-Dinner
-Sequoia
-Camp David

Conversation No. 22-151

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 22-152

Date:  April 16. 1972
Time:  2:25 pm - 2:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Richard G. Kleindienst nomination
-Haldeman report
-Paul J. Fannin
-Contacts with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Talks with John N. Mitchell and Clark MacGregor
-Mitchell/MacGregor meeting
-Report to Haldeman
-Withdrawal
-Russell B. Long
-Mitchell view
-Chances of confirmation
-Termination of International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] hearings
-MacGregor’s view
-Republicans
-Walkout
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Peter M. Flanigan testimony
-Mathias deal
-Authority
-Mitchell
-Jack Gleason testimony
-Charles W. Colson and MacGregor view
-Kleindienst withdrawal
-Timing
-Avoidance
-Content of testimony
-Confirmation chances
-MacGregor’s views
-Ervin
-Filibuster
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Public interest
-Flanigan testimony
-Corruption in administration
-John D. Ehrlichman study
-Mitchell
-Contacts with Fannin
-Urgency

Conversation No. 22-153

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  2:35 pm - 2:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger’s location

Kissinger’s schedule

Vietnam
-Report from Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Return call

Conversation No. 22-154

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:36 pm and 3:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 22-155

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  3:19 pm - 3:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Richard G. Kleindienst nomination
-Report from Haldeman
-Haldeman’s talk with John N. Mitchell
-Paul J. Fannin
-Location
-Call to Peter M. Flanigan
-California
-Confirmation
-Mitchell’s efforts
-Jack Gleason testimony
-Charles W. Colson’s views
-Gleason testimony
-Campaign contributions
-Corporate compared with private
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Republican Party
	-Campaign contributions
	-Questionnaires for Congressmen
	-Journalist
	-Report
	-Kenneth W. Clawson
	-Flanigan strategy
-Speech
-Mitchell
-Talk with Kleindienst
-Republican Convention issue
-Confidentiality
-Speech
-Colson
	-Timing
-Gleason testimony
-Schedule
-Mitchell
-Talk with James O. Eastland
	-Delay in hearing
-Talk with Casper W. Weinberger
	-Possible appointment
-Report to the President

Conversation No. 22-156

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:27 pm and 3:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to Major John V. (“Jack”) Brennan

Conversation No. 22-157

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  3:29 pm - 3:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Major John V. (“Jack”) Brennan.

Camp David trip
-Cancellation

Sequoia

Conversation No. 22-158

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  3:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham

Conversation No. 22-159

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  3:35 pm - 3:54 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

Vietnam
-Report from Alexander M. Haig, jr.
-Air strikes
-Success
-Talk With Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Talk With Gen. James F. Hollingsworth
-Third Corps
-Route 13
	-Unknown cities
-B-52s
	-An Loc
	-Situation
	-Enemy movement
		-Tanks
		-Artillery
	-Stabilization
	-Air strikes
-Tactical situation
-21st Armored Division
-5th Division
-Duong Van Minh
-Third Corps
-North Vietnamese losses
	-Hollingsworth’s estimates
	-Tanks
		-T-54s [?]
-An Loc
-Morale of garrison
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] morale
-Vietcong
-I Corps
-Fourth Corps
-Con Tien
	-Survey team
		-Change in attitude
			-US aircraft
			-US naval reinforcements
-Rebuilding
-Future strategy
-US position
-Kissinger’s view
	-Kissinger’s schedule
		-Liberals
	-Cambodia
-David K.E. Bruce
-Arthur F. Burns
-Comment to Rose Mary Woods
	-Support for the President’s stands
-Soviet Union
	-Navigator
-Pilot
-Criticism
-Victory
-ARVN
-Blockade
-Haig’s report
	-North Vietnamese losses
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, jr.
-Use of US power
-Reinforcements
-Air strikes
-Number of sorties
-B-52s
-Effectiveness
-Tactical aircraft
	-Phantoms
	-Israelis
	-US

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-Soviet Union and PRC
-Hanoi
-Soviet Union
-German Treaty
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip
-B-52 strike
-Richard M. Helms talk with Kissinger
-Lyndon B. Johnson strategy
	-The President’s view

Kissinger’s meeting with an unknown person

Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with the President
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Date
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Message to Chinese
-The President’s schedule
-Domestic issues
-Kissinger’s preparations
-Camp David
-Kissinger’s arrival for meeting
-Plans

Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-William P. Rogers
-Notification of Kissinger’s trip
-Haig and Haldeman
		-Kissinger’s meeting with the North Vietnamese and Soviets
		-Date
		-Paris
		-Kissinger’s departure
-Results
-Possible conversation between Rogers and Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message from Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Substance
-Haldeman and Haig
-Need for notification
-Possible US-North Vietnam meeting in Paris
-Soviet request
-Kissinger discussion of Vietnam matter
-Possible attendance of North Vietnamese
-Private meetings
-Arrangements
-Rogers’s knowledge of private meetings
-Haig
-The President’s talking paper
-Kissinger’s previous talks with Rogers
-Receipt of talking paper

Haig’s return

Kissinger’s departure
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with the President
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Dinner party
-Newspaper editors
-Appearance
-Departure
-The President’s travel plans
-Key Biscayne
-Camp David
-Advantages
-Privacy
-Ronald L. Ziegler

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming reception for editors
-Camp David

Conversation No. 22-160

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  3:57 pm - 4:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William F. (“Billy”) Graham.

Greetings

John B. Connally
-Health
-Previous talk with Graham
-Texas
-The President’s view

The President’s health

Lyndon B. Johnson
-Message via Graham
-Relationship with the President
-Treatment by Democrats
-Candidates’ relationship
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Treatment by Republicans
-Children
	-Luci Baines (Johnson) Turpin
	-Lynda Bird (Johnson) Robb

Vietnam strikes

A brief disconnection or telephone malfunction occurred at an unknown time.

-Success
-Haiphong area

Recording was disconnected at an unknown time between 3:57 pm and 4:09 pm.