Conversation No. 131-1

Date:  Unknown between May 16 and 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:01 am, May 16 and 2:26 pm, May 17
Location:  Camp David Study Table

An unknown man talked with an unknown man.

A check on recording system
-Secure telephone 
-Number
-Location
-Table
-[Forename unknown] Robinson
-Return call
-Time
-Call to Robinson

	Conversation No. 131-2

Date:  Unknown between May 16 and 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:01 am, May 16 and 2:26 pm, May 17
Location:  Camp David Study Table

An unknown person talked with the Camp David operator.

Request for a call to John (“Microwave”) Mizzer

	Conversation No. 131-3

Date:  Unknown between May 16 and 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:01 am, May 16 and 2:26 pm, May 17
Location:  Camp David Study Table

An unknown man talked with John (“Microwave”) Mizzer.

Widebands
-[Forename unknown] Cartwheel [?]
-613S

Secure telephone
-Noise
-613 and system
-Location
-Aspen Lodge
-A patch
-Check

	Conversation No. 131-4

Date:  Unknown between May 16 and 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:01 am, May 16 and 2:26 pm, May 17
Location:  Camp David Study Table

John (“Microwave”) Mizzer talked with the Camp David operator.

Request for a call to [Forename unknown] Petrie 

The Camp David operator talked with an unknown man

Request for a call to Petrie

Mizzer talked with Petrie.

Telephone check
-A patch
-Local line
-Noise

	Conversation No. 131-5

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:09 am and 2:26 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator

[See also Conversation No. 189-16]

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

	Conversation No. 131-6

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  2:26 pm - 2:35 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

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

[See also Conversation No. 189-17]

George C. Wallace
-President's visit
-Harry S. Dent
-Move to Walter Reed Hospital
-Day and time
-Dr. William M. Lukash
-President's visit
-Walter Reed Hospital
-Holy Cross Hospital
-President's call
-Walter Reed Hospital

-Advantages
-Logistics
-Departure location
-Date and time
-Announcement
-Dr. Lukash's report
-Cornelia Wallace
-Condition
-Call from President
-Considerations 
-Effect on President's visit, calls
-President's visit
-Walter Reed Hospital
-Press
-Advance notice
-Lukash
-Press statement
-Previous visits to Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Questions
-Content
-Date
-Announcement
-Lukash
-Considerations

President's schedule
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Preparations
-Past week
-The President’s view

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Blue Room reception
-Response
-Forthcoming call toThelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Press reports

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	Conversation No. 131-7

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:35 pm and 2:36 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 189-18]

Request for a call to Dr. Walter R. Tkach

	Conversation No. 131-8

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  2:36 pm - 2:40 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Dr. Walter R. Tkach.

[See also Conversation No. 189-19]

Manolo Sanchez
-Schedule
-Health

George C. Wallace

Sanchez
-Schedule
-Florida
-Fina Sanchez
-Benefits

Wallace
-Health
-Walter Reed Hospital
-Move
-Date
-Effect on President's visit
-Announcement
-Condition
-Prognosis
	-Paralysis
-Tkach's visit
-Message from President
-Dr. William M. Lukash
-Calls from President
-Time
-Cornelia Wallace
-Message from President

	Conversation No. 131-9
Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 2:42 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 189-20]

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

	Conversation No. 131-10

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  2:42 pm - 2:44 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

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

[See also Conversation No. 189-21]

George C. Wallace
-Condition
-Dr. Walter R. Tkach's report
-Effect on move to Walter Reed Hospital
-Date
-Tkach
-President's possible visit
-Haldeman’s view
-Dr. William M. Lukash
-Logistics
-Day
-Secret Service check

Charles W. Colson

Courier
-Papers
-Secret Service shift

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	Conversation No. 131-11

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:44 pm and 2:46 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 189-22]

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

	Conversation No. 131-12

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  2:46 pm - 3:01 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See also Conversation No. 189-23]

George C. Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Editorials on American society
-Rebuttals
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-William L. Safire
-Herbert G. Klein
-Other attempts
-Harry S. Truman assassination attempt
-Blair House
-Franklin D. Roosevelt assassination attempt
-Mayor Anton Cermak
-Assailants
-The President’s view
-House of Representatives shooting
-Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Theodore Roosevelt assassination attempt
-Editorials on American society
-Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt parallels
-William S. White
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Research efforts
-Clawson
-Reasons
-Liberals
	-The President’s view

-Robert J. Dole speech
-Publicity
-George S. McGovern, Hubert H. Humphrey
-"New Populism"
-Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt parallels
-Appeal
-Colson's staff efforts

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Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Historical precedents
-Colson's staff work

	Conversation No. 131-41

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:01 pm and 3:02 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 189-24]

Request for a call to John N. Mitchell

	Conversation No. 131-13

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  3:02 pm - 3:16 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See also Conversation No. 189-25]

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American society
-Age of violence
-The President’s view
-Vietnam war
-Theodore Roosevelt
-William McKinley
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Anton Cermak
-Harry S. Truman
-House of Representatives
-Price of free society
-1972 compared to 1967 and 1968
	-Mitchell’s view

-Wallace
-Responsibility
-Verbal attacks
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
-Shooting
-Assailant [Arhtur H. Bremer]
-Motive
	-The President’s view
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
	-Mitchell’s view

Soviet summit
-Possible cancellation
-Mitchell, John B. Connally predictions
-President's position

Vietnam
-President's decision to bomb North Vietnam, mine harbors [blockade]
-Importance
	-Compared with Soviet Union summit
-President's talk with Mitchell
-Mitchell’s view
-Effects
-Options
-Effects
-Morale of US
-Committee to Reelect the President [CRP] support
-Efforts
-Morale of South Vietnamese troops and people
-Morale of North Vietnam
-Democratic critics
-The President’s view
-Military situation
-Kontum
-Henry A. Kissinger
-South Vietnamese performance
-Firebase bastogne
-I Corps attacks
-An loc
-Kontum
-Importance
-Blockade
-Effect
-Comparison with 1968 situation
-Sihanoukville
-Cambodian supply lines
-Sea lanes
-Bombing
-Time
-North Vietnam oil reserves
-Time
-US military's position
-Mitchell’s view
-Central Intelligence Agency's [CIA] position
	-The President’s view
-Previous experience
-Differences
-Mechanized compared with guerilla war
-Cambodian supplies
-Intensity
-Comparison with previous experience
-Effect
-Editorial critics
	-The President’s view

Mitchell
-President's trip to Soviet Union
-Work at CRP
-President's appreciation

	Conversation No. 131-42

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:30 pm and 5:48 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 190-2]

Request for a call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

	Conversation No. 131-14

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  5:48 pm - 5:57 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See also Conversation No. 190-4]

Vietnam
-An loc
	-Air strikes
-Kontum
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Trend
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr. report
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-US propaganda
-Forthcoming memorandum by President
-Haig's instructions
-Richard M. Helms and the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
	-The President’s view
-Content
-Compared to World War II
-CIA actions
-Helms
-Inter-departmental actions
-State Department

	-The President’s view
-Commander-In-Chief Pacific Forces [CINCPAC]
-Military Advisory Command, Vietnam [MACV]
-Leaflet drops
-Content
	-The President’s view
-Broadcasts
-Enemy prisoners
-Bombing
-Effects
-A Report from Hanoi
-Casualties
-Port
-Source
-G. McMurtrie Godley
-Morale
-US propaganda
-Leaflet drops
-Helms
-President's orders
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Effectiveness to date
-Reasons
-State Department
-The President’s view
-George Creel in World War I
-Office Of Strategic Services [OSS]
-Effectiveness in World War II
-Timing
	-The President’s view
-Locations
-Expected activity
-Ho Chi Minh’s birthday
-Sappers and terrorists
-Delta, III Corps
-Kontum
-Vogt's orders for counterattack
-Damage
-Action
-Abrams
-Previous day
-Continuing
-US propaganda
-President's evaluation
-Helms
-New proposals for President
-Deadline
-Length
-Purpose
-Overtime work
	-The President’s view
-Vogt
-Work evaluated
-Moorer

	Conversation No. 131-15

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  5:57 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 190-5]

Stewart J.O. Alsop
-White House operator

	Conversation No. 131-16

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  7:33 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 190-7]

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

	Conversation No. 131-17

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:33 pm and 7:44 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The Camp David operator talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 190-8]

Charles W. Colson
-Location
-Return call

	Conversation No. 131-18

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  7:44 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator

[See also Conversation No. 190-9]

Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

	Conversation No. 131-19

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  7:49 pm - 8:20 pm

Location:  Camp David Study Table

Charles W. Colson talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 190-10]

Vietnam
-Announcement of blockade
-Support
	-Connecticut delegation
	-Cuban supporters
	-Boise (Idaho) and Wichita demonstrations of support
	-Publicity
	-Mail response
	-Demonstrations
	-Advertisement in New York Times
	-Polls
				-Louis P. Harris, Albert E. Sindlinger, Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
	-Length
	-Nash Kestenbaum
	-Rabbi [Forename unknown] Seidman
	-Rabbi Abraham (?) Gross
	-Press campaign
	-Response to President’s announcement of blockade
	-Detroit Free Press
	-Des Moines Register
	-Joseph C. Kraft
	-Administration program
-John A. Volpe
-Today show appearance
-President's trip to Soviet Union
	-Importance
-Speeches
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-William E. Brock, III
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Letters to columnists
-Robert J. Dole
-Brock
-Colson’s view

George C. Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Story on Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt parallels
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-William S. White
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Kilpatrick
-Liberal media
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Gun control legislation
-Effect
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Tracing of Arthur H. Bremer weapon

US-Soviet Union summit
-Previous meeting with John Cardinal Krol
-Announcement by Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-US Information Agency [USIA]
-Circulation
-Domestic impact
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Haig
-Cabinet
-Trade
	-Earl L. Butz, Peter G. Peterson
-Significance

Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Impact on busing issue
-Senate and House conferees' proposal
-Busing moratorium
-Housing bill
-Length of meeting
-Michigan

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Vietnam
-President's previous decision to mine harbors and bomb North Vietnam [blockade]
-Press response
-The President’s view
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Newspapers
-Milton Viorst
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Administration response
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Today show appearance
-Statements
	-The President’s view
-Columbia University Journalism School

Administration media campaigns
-Forthcoming memorandum from Colson
-Monitoring operation
-Harry Reasoner
-Network executives
-Frank Stanton
-Robert W. Sarnoff
-The President’s view
-Mail campaign
-Stanton
-Vietnam
-Media coverage
-Colson’s view
-Compared to Laos and Cambodia
-Firebase Bastogne
-The President’s view
-Reason
-Effect of President's previous speech announcing blockade
-Wallace assassination attempt
-Clawson story
-Bremer
-Political affiliations
-Washington Post
-Detroit and Chicago papers
-Black Panthers
-Young Democrats
-Chicago Tribune
-Democrats' criticisms
-The President’s view
-Colson's office's work
-Colson’s view
-Michael Gravel and Edmund S. Muskie
-The President’s view
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Muskie
-The President’s view

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Vietnam
-Senate vote on cease-fire
-Administration use of results
-Taft's speech
-McGovern's position on war
-Jerry Rubin
-Rennie Davis
-Abbie Hoffman
-Clawson
-Democrats' position 
	-The President’s view
-Harris poll
-Cease-fire amendment
-Doves
-Michael J. Mansfield
-New proposal
-President's trip to the Soviet Union
-Effect
-Dole’s statement

Senate confirmation hearings
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Timing
-President's talk with Robert P. Griffin
-Senate floor fight
-Robert C. Byrd
-Party vote
	-George P. Shultz
	-Timing
	-President's talk with Griffin
	-John B. Connally
	-Administration actions
	-John R. (“Tex”) McCrary
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Mansfield
	-The President’s view
	-Position
	-Timing
	-President's trip to Soviet Union
	-Convention recess
	-Administration actions
	-Benefits
	-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] parallel

President's policies
-Domestic policy
-Foreign policy
-Harris
-Domestic issues
-The President’s view
	-Water pollution
	-Revenue sharing
	-Welfare reform
	-Level of concern nationally
-Welfare reform
-President's actions
-Connally’s view
-Domestic policy
-Drugs
-Busing
-Effect on voting
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] analysis
-Connection with race, housing
-Cardinal Krol's parish
-Effect on voting

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	Conversation No. 131-20

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:20 pm and 8:35 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 190-11]

Ronald L. Ziegler
-Call cancelled
-Return call
-Time

	Conversation No. 131-21

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  7:46 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 190-13]

Request for a call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

	Conversation No. 131-22

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  7:50 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The Camp David operator talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 190-14]

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Location
-Return call

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Call
-Location
-Return call

	Conversation No. 131-23

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  7:59 am - 8:05 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

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

[See also Conversation No. 190-17]

Henry A. Kissinger

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Press coverage
-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Soviet Union summit
-Washington Post editorial
-Impact
-Vietnam
-President's previous speech on Vietnam blockade
-Charles W. Colson
-Parallel to Cambodia
-James Keogh
-Administration campaign against the press
-George C. Wallace shooting
-Effect

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-Vietnam
-South Vietnamese offensive
-Kontum
-Date
-Ho Chi Minh’s birthday
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Date
-Effect
-Soviet Summit
-Expectations

President's schedule
-Wallace
-Visit by President
-Transfer to Walter Reed Hospital
-Visit by President
-Logistics
-Location
-Telephone call from the President
-Visitors
-Family
-Doctors
-Staff
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-George S. McGovern

	Conversation No. 131-24

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:05 am and 10:10 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 191-2]

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

	Conversation No. 131-25

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  10:10 am - 10:33 am

Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See also Conversation No. 191-3]

Greetings

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President's schedule
-Possible  visit to George C. Wallace
-Camp David
-Advantages and disadvantages
-Telephone call to Wallace
-Publicity
	-Colson’s view
-Mrs. Wallace
-Appearance
-Advantages
-Preparation for Soviet summit
-Visit to Wallace
-Time spent
-Importance
-Timing
-Previous walk to Treasury Department
-Barry M. Goldwater's response
-Dangers
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Effect
-Hubert H. Humphrey's statement
-Publicity

Previous assassination attempts
-Colson's office's research
-James J. Kilpatrick column
-Price of free society
-Price of free society
-Arthur H. Bremer
-The President’s view
-Fate in other countries
-Price of permissiveness
-Lee Harvey Oswald
-Fate in other countries
-Bremer
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]) search of car
-George S. McGovern literature
-Publicity
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Wire service stories
-Wallace literature

US-Soviet Union summit
-President's previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Length
-Expected press response
-The President’s view
-Washington Post editorial
-Tone
-Administration campaign
-Time
-Tone of press statements
-Haldeman
-Time

Vietnam
-Cease-fire
-Doves
-Carl B. Albert's position
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Prognosis
-Albert
-Possible telephone call from President
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Importance of position
-Soviet summit
-Previous calls to Robert C. Byrd and Robert P. Griffin
-Albert
-Call
-Position
-Boggs
-Byrd resolution
-House Foreign Affairs Committee
-J. William Fulbright
-Byrd resolution
-Albert's and Boggs's support
-Effect
-Doves
-Vote in Senate
-Incumbent Democrats
-Administration campaign
-Motives
-Impact
-National sentiment
-Joseph Vicites
-Wichita
-Boise
-Albert and Boggs
-South Carolina legislature resolution
-Local actions
-Publicity
-Antiwar demonstrations
-Day
-Location
-Expectations
-New York Teamsters
-Peter J. Brennan
-Posters
-Television coverage
-Colson’s view
-Future action
-Ho Chi Minh's birthday
-Pilots
-Interviews
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Effect
-Morale
-Targets
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Colson’s view
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Public perceptions
-Future plans
-Bombing
-Timing
	-Soviet summit
-Bombing and blockade
-Effect on North Vietnam and Hanoi
-Columns
-US public opinion
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Effect on critics
-Support for President
-Louis P. Harris
-John Cardinal Krol statements
-Publicity
-Timing
-Soviet summit
-Effect on Soviet summit
	-The President’s view

1972 election
-Media campaign
-Timing
-President's accomplishments
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet relations
-Vietnam
-End of US involvement
-South Vietnam status
-Harris
-President as world leader
-Time
-Busing
-Timing
-Image

	Conversation No. 131-26

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:33 am and 10:58 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 191-4]

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

	Conversation No. 131-27

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  10:58 am - 11:08 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

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

[See also Conversation No. 191-5]

George C. Wallace
-Telephone call from President
-Visit from President

-John B. Connally's advice

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-Visit from President
-Walter Reed Hospital
-Holy Cross Hospital
-Condition
-Logistics
-Helicopter landing
-Walter Reed Hospital
-Driving time
-Walter Reed Hospital
-Press coverage
-Landing
-Visit to wounded Secret Service agent
-Secrecy

President's schedule
-Meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President’s view
-Length
-Soviet Summit
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Soviet Summit
-Preparation
-Briefing with congressional leaders
-Time
-Day
-Reception for press
-Time
-Pictures
-Handshaking
-Remarks
-Questions
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
-Agenda
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Details
-Number of stops
-Silverware
-Food
-Philosophy
-Gifts
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Mementos
-Invitation and menu
-Cadillac
-Logistics
-Considerations
-Government exchange
-Hydrofoil
	-The President 
-Cadillac
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Hydrofoil
-Cadillac
-Use
-French car for Brezhnev
-John A. Scali
-Costs
-Hydrofoil versus Cadillac
-Pandas, musk oxen
-Interest in pandas

	Conversation No. 131-28

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:08 am and 11:22 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator

[See also Conversation No. 191-7]

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

	Conversation No. 131-29

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:22 am - 11:23 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

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

[See also Conversation No. 191-8]

Head of State gifts
-Public relations problems
-Expense
-Pandas from People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-The President’s view
-Richard A. Moore's advice
-Hydrofoil
-Soviet choice
-Leonid I. Brezhnev's choice
-Car
-Cadillac
-Publicity situation
-Expense

	Conversation No. 131-30

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:23 am and 11:24 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 191-9]

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

	Conversation No. 131-31

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:24 am - 11:26 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

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

[See also Conversation No. 191-10]

Foreign official gifts
-President's gifts in 1959 trip to Soviet Union
-Type
-Cost
-Corn products
-Contributors
-President's gift to Leonid I. Brezhnev
-General Motors [GM]
-Hydrofoil
-Cadillac
-Taxpayer's expense
-President's expense
-General Motors
-Public relations

	Conversation No. 131-32

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:34 am - 11:37 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 191-11]

Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Call from George P. Shultz

Shultz talked with the President between 11:34 and 11:37 am.

Treasury Department
-Talks with John B. Connally, Charls E. Walker
	-Senators
-Possible new appointments
-Staff 
	-Shultz’s view
-Connally
-James W. Donley
-Walker
-Paul A. Volcker
-Timing
-Milton Friedman
-Need
-Shultz’s view
-Need
-Tax reform
-Possible actions
-Bill for President's signature

-Connally
-Walker
-Position
-Edwin S. Cohen
-Nominations
				-Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman discussions
-Shultz's authority

	Conversation No. 131-33

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:37 am and 11:38 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 191-12]

Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

	Conversation No. 131-34

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:38 am - 11:42 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See also Conversation No. 191-13]

Woods's schedule

President's schedule
-Soviet summit preparation

US-Soviet Union Summit
-Packing
-Types of clothes
-Social events
-Iran
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Weather

Henry A. Kissinger
-Presence at Camp David

President's trip to Soviet Union
-Earl Mazo
-Herbert G. Klein
-Financing
-Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
-Reader's Digest
-Government funds
-Woodrow Wilson Center
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Additions to passenger list
-Mazo
-Reader’s Digest
-Haldeman
-Financing
-Klein
-Haldeman

	Conversation No. 131-35

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:42 am and 11:44 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 191-14]

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

	Conversation No. 131-36

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:44 am - 11:45 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

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

[See also Conversation No. 191-15]

Earl Mazo
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Call from Rose Mary Woods to President
-Herbert G. Klein
-Call to Woods
-Financing
-Reader's Digest
-Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
-Discount rate
-Klein
	-Ronald L. Ziegler

	Conversation No. 131-37

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:45 am and 11:48 am

Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See also Conversation No. 191-16]

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

	Conversation No. 131-38

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:48 am - 11:50 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table

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

[See also Conversation No. 191-17]

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	Conversation No. 131-39

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:25 pm and 12:33 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.  The President conferred with Henry A. Kissinger before the conversation began. 

[See also Conversation No. 191-18A]

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

	Conversation No. 131-40

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  12:33 pm - 12:34 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table

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

[See also Conversation No. 191-18B]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
	-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Weinberger
-Funds cutoff
-Time