Conversation No. 189-1

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  9:14 am - 9:33 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Charles W. Colson; the recording began at an unknown time while the telephone call was in progress.

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Foreign policy
-Senate role
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Actions
-An unidentified person's vote
-Michael J. Mansfield[?]
-Senate vote

President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Preparations
-Reading material
-Expectations
-Planning

Mansfield
-The President’s view
-Position
-Senate
-Filibuster

President's nominees
-Delays in Congress
-Political issue
-Order of confirmation
-Senate 
	-The President’s view

	Conversation No. 189-2

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:33 am and 9:34 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Request for a call to John B. Connally

	Conversation No. 189-3

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  9:34 am - 9:41 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with John B. Connally.

Greetings

Connally's note
-President's thanks
-Sequoia

Connally's health

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George P. Shultz
-Succession at Treasury Department
-Personnel
-Replacements
-Timing
-Staff meeting
-James W. Donley
-Role

Connally's trip to Latin America
-Preparations 
-Australia and New Zealand

Rest
-Golf

	Conversation No. 189-4

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:41 am and 9:44 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Return calls to Dr. William M. Lukash, Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Henry A. Kissinger

	Conversation No. 189-5

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  9:44 am - 9:46 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Dr. William M. Lukash..

George C. Wallace
-Prognosis
-Call from President
-White House operator

	Conversation No. 189-6

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  9:48 am - 9:51 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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	Conversation No. 189-7

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:51 am and 9:52 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

	Conversation No.189-8

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  9:52 am - 10:06 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire 

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

Greetings

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Preparations
-Reading material
-The President’s view
-Andrei A. Gromyko and Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Communications
-The channel
-William P. Rogers
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message
-Brezhnev
-Rogers
-Kissinger's preparations

Vietnam
-Decision to mine and blockade
-The President’s view
-Public support
-South Vietnamese morale
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Kontum
-Air Strikes
-Sorties
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Number
-Weather in North Vietnam
-A bridge
-Priorities
-Number of sorties
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Position
-Amendment
-The President’s view

Soviet Summit
-Salzburg stopover
-Plenary sessions
-President's participation
	-The President’s view
-Negotiations
-Conditions
-Agreements
-News release
-Limitations

Kissinger's schedule
-Dinner with Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Camp David
-Dogwood Lodge
-Breakfast
-Meeting

Vietnam
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] estimates in 1968
-Importance
-Soviet Summit
-Congress
-Bills to end the war
-Media coverage
-Soviets

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-President's television speech to Soviet people
-Length
-Toasts
-Length
-Speechwriters
-Length
-Method of delivery
-Translations
-Brezhnev
-Method of delivery
-Dobrynin
-Length
-Translation

	Conversation No. 189-9

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 and 10:15 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with Beverly J. Kaye.

Camp David
-Kaye's visit
-Cabin
-Maple

-Arrival
-Time
-Transportation
-Huey helicopter
-Pentagon

Recording
-Memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Delivery

Briefing books
-Underlinings
-Typing instructions
-Purpose
-Notations
-Typing instructions

Kaye's schedule
-Typing
-Walks
-Swimming

Kaye left at an unknown time before 10:15 am.

	Conversation No. 189-10

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  10:15 am - 10:32 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

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

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Preparations
-Briefing books
-Henry A. Kissinger

-Instructions for speechwriters
-Toasts
-Length
-Notes
-A speech
-Draft
-Kissinger's review
-President's review
-President's meeting with Kissinger
-Speeches
-Drafts
-Haldeman's review
-Kissinger's work
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Duties
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Duties
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President’s view
-William L. Safire
-The President’s view
-Price and Safire
-Toasts and other speeches
-Method of delivery
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Translation
-Length
-Substance
-Notes
-Television coverage
-Length
-Television coverage
-Length
-Notes

Calls to Dr. William Lukash, John B. Connally, Charles W. Colson and Henry A. Kissinger

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Wallace
-Injury
-Paralysis
-Lukash's diagnosis

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Connally
-Resignation announcement
-Speculation

Michael J. Mansfield
-Colson's report
-Dealings with administration
-The President’s view
-Trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam
-Robert C. Byrd Amendment
-Vote timetable
-Clifford P. Case-Frank F. Church Amendment
-Cease fire
-Case-Church Amendment
-Robert A. Taft, Jr. and Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Votes
-Senate role in war
-Kissinger
-Charles H. Percy
-Taft

Soviet Summit
-Plans

President's previous walk to Treasury Department
-Press coverage
-Importance
-Wallace

Vietnam War
-Critics
-Soviet Summit

Soviet Summit
-Logistics
-Arrangements
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Role
-A speech
-Andrews
-Work in the Soviet Union
-Secretaries
-Beverly J. Kaye
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Typing work
-PRC trip
-Price and Safire 
-Typing ability
-Rose Mary Woods
-Work on speeches
-Work on trip

Connally
-Telephone calls
-Purpose
-Ehrlichman

	Conversation No. 189-11

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:32 and 10:33 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call

	Conversation No. 189-12

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  10:33 am - 10:43 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Harry S. Dent.

Connecticut
-Trip
-Support for Vietnam action

An unknown man 
-The President’s view

Vietnam
-Vote in Congress
-Republican vote
-Soviet summit

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George C. Wallace
-The President’s view
-Dr. William M. Lukash's report
-Possible call by President
-President's call to Cornelia Wallace
-Possible visit by President
-Hubert H. Humphrey visit
	-The President’s view
-Telephone call
-Day and time
-Arrangements
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Day
-Press coverage

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Vietnam
-Blockade
-Henry A. Kissinger
-President's decision
-The President’s view
-John B. Connally
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Necessity
-Alternative
-South Vietnam and US troop morale
-Future of war
	-The President’s view

	Conversation No. 189-13

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  10:43 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

	Conversation No. 189-14

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  10:52 am - 11:09 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s draft
-References to Vietnam
-References to liberty and freedom
-World War II alliance
-Suffering in war
-American goals
-World peace
-Great power influence
-President’s respect for the Russian people
-Anecdotal material
-Speechwriters
-Russian people
-President’s 1959 speech
-Samarkand in 1967
-President’s meeting with war casualty
-Price’s draft
-Substance
-References to agreements
-Arms control
-Trade
-Importance of President's trip
-Great power responsibilities
-Peace
-Peoples Republic of China [PRC]
-Price

-Possible cancellation [?]
-Talks
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Preparation
-Topics
-Briefing books
-Helmut Sonnenfeldt and Winston Lord
-The President’s view
-Meetings
-Talking points
-Lord and Sonnenfeldt
-President’s abilities
-Dobrynin
-Meeting with William P. Rogers
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Rogers and Andrei A. Gromyko
-Middle East
-European security
-Statement of principles
-Handling
-Rogers
-Call from Kissinger
-President’s preparation
-Rogers
-Itinerary
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Poland
-Iran
-President’s schedule
-Leningrad
-Kiev
-President’s party
-Itinerary
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Relations with Gromyko
-Comparison with President and Rogers
-Dobrynin's understanding
-Gromyko
-The President’s view
-Stature
-Cabinet officers
-Future foreign travel with President
-The President’s view
-Haldeman
-Plenary sessions
-Number
-Rogers
-Rogers
-Possible meeting with Brezhnev
-Haldeman
-The President’s view
-Purpose
-Meetings
-Gromyko
-Rogers
-Brezhnev
-President
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Kosygin's role
-Meeting with Rogers
-Meeting with opposite numbers
-Dobrynin
-Rogers
-Gromyko
-President
-Brezhnev
-Kosygin
-Gromyko
-Rogers
-Presence at a meeting
-Soviet plans

	Conversation No. 189-15

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

The President dictated a portion of a memorandum to an unknown person.

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SOVIET UNION

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	Conversation No. 189-16

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

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-5]

	Conversation No. 189-17

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  2:26 pm - 2:35 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with H. R. Haldeman.

[See Conversation No. 131-6; two items have been withdrawn from this conversation.]

	Conversation No. 189-18

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

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-7]

	Conversation No. 189-19

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  2:36 pm - 2:40 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Dr. Walter R. Tkach..

[See Conversation No. 131-8]

	Conversation No. 189-20
Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 2:42 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-9]

	Conversation No. 189-21

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  2:42 pm - 2:44 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

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

[See Conversation No. 131-10; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation.]

	Conversation No. 189-22

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

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-11]

	Conversation No. 189-23

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

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 131-12; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation.]

	Conversation No. 189-24

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

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-41]

	Conversation No. 189-25

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  3:02 pm - 3:16 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 131-13; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation.]