Conversation No. 190-1

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  5:30 pm - unknown before 5:48 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President dictated a diary entry.

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Conversation No. 190-2

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

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-42]

Conversation No. 190-3

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

The President dictated a diary entry.

[This conversation is a continuation of Conversation No. 190-1]

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Conversation No. 190-4

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Between 5:48 and 5:57 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 131-14]

Conversation No. 190-5

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  5:57 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-15]

Conversation No. 190-6

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  6:40-unknown before 7:33 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with Beverly Kaye and an unknown man.

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THE UNKNOWN MAN LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 7:33 PM.

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Kaye left at an unknown time before 7:33 pm.

Conversation No. 190-7

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  7:33 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-16]

Conversation No. 190-8

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

The Camp David operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 131-17]

Conversation No. 190-9

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  7:44 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-18]

Conversation No. 190-10

Date:  May 17, 1972
Time:  Between 7:49 and 8:20 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

Charles W. Colson talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 131-19; three items have been withdrawn from this conversation]

Conversation No. 190-11

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

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-20]

Conversation No. 190-12

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 7:20 and before 7:46 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with an unknown person.

Greetings

[Unintelligible]

Number of people

Dinner guests
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-A doctor
-Secretary 

Return to White House

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 7:46 am.

Conversation No. 190-13

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  7:46 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-21]

Conversation No. 190-14

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  7:50 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-22]

Conversation No. 190-15

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 7:50 and before 7:59 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with an unknown person.

[Discontinuities appear in the original recording]

Fire in fireplace

Filipino cooks

White House

[Unintelligible]

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 7:59 pm.

Conversation No. 190-16

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:50 and 7:59 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President dictated a memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
	-US propaganda
		-The President’s view
	-White House statements
	-Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [MACV] statements

Conversation No. 190-17

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Between 7:59 and 8:05 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

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

[Discontinuities appear in the original recording]

[See Conversation No. 131-23; two items have been withdrawn from this conversation]

Conversation No. 190-18

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:05 and 8:44 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President dictated a memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger.

[Discontinuities appear in the original recording]

Vietnam
-US propaganda
-Compared with World War I, World War II, Korean War
-Richard M. Helms and intelligence community
-Need for director of propaganda on White House staff
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Ronald L. Ziegler, John A. Scali, Herbert G. Klein
-Relationship with the press
-Timing of further discussion

Conversation No. 190-19

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:05 and 8:44 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President dictated a memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Relations with business community
	-Previous conversation with Donald McI. Kendall
-State Business Chairmen
-The President’s view
-Administration efforts
-Previous business appearances
	-Chambers of Commerce
	-National Alliance of Businessmen [NAB]
	-The Business Council
-Kendall, Robert H. Abplanalp, John W. Mulcahy
-Maurice H. Stans
-J. Irwin Miller
-Peter M. Flanigan, John D. Ehrlichman
-Kendall
-Frederic V. Malek, Stans
-The President’s view

Conversation No. 190-20

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  8:44-9:50 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin and Henry A. Kissinger.

[Discontinuities appear in the original recording]

[Unintelligible]

The President, Dobrynin, and Kissinger left at 9:50 am.