Conversation No. 191-1

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

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.

Conversation No. 191-2

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

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-24]

Conversation No. 191-3

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  10:10-10:33 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 131-25; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation.]

Conversation No. 191-4

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

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-26]

Conversation No. 191-5

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

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

[See Conversation No. 131-27; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation]

Conversation No. 191-6

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

The President met with an unknown person.

Camp David jacket
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's size
-Gift

Lunch
-Laurel Lodge

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.

Conversation No. 191-7

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

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-28]

Conversation No. 191-8

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:22-11:23 am 
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

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

[See Conversation No. 131-29]

Conversation No. 191-9

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

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-30]

Conversation No. 191-10

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:24-11:26 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

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

[See Conversation No. 131-31]

Conversation No. 191-11

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:34-11:37 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 131-32]

Conversation No. 191-12

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:37 and 11:38 am.
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-33]

Conversation No. 191-13

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:38-11:42 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 131-34]

Conversation No. 191-14

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

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-35]

Conversation No. 191-15

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:44-11:45 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

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

[See Conversation No. 131-36]

Conversation No. 191-16

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:45 and 11:48 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 131-37]

Conversation No. 191-17

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  11:48-11:50 am
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

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

[See Conversation No. 131-38; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation]

Conversation No. 191-18

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time: 12:25-12:45 pm
Location:  Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Briefing materials
-Bilateral agreements
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Nuclear Agreement
-Communiqués
-Henry A. Kissinger's review with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Agreement with Soviets
-Kissinger’s view
-President’s schedule
-Space cooperation treaty
-Environmental agreement
-Russell E. Train
-SALT principles
-Signings
-Publicity
-Press commentaries
-Science agreements
-Environment
-Arrangements
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Meeting with Kissinger
-State Department work
-Settlement
-Incidents at sea
-Military view
-Formula of resolution
-Dobrynin
-Melvin R. Laird and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Soviet acceptance of proposals
-President’s role
	-Kissinger’s view
-Agreements
-President’s role
-Peter G. Peterson
-Gerard C. Smith
-Publicity
-Kissinger's meeting with journalists
-President’s role
-National impact
-Kissinger’s meeting with press
-State Department
-The President’s view
-Handling
-President’s role
-Signings
-Format
-Number
-SALT
-Space treaty
-1959 speech
-Itinerary
-President’s first speech
-Length
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Translation
-President’s speech at Spaso House
-Leonid I. Brezhnev's speech
-Length
-Toast to the President
-President’s toast
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-President’s television speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Work with Kissinger
-Preparation
-President’s first speech
-Tone
-Agreements
-Space
-Environment
-William P. Rogers
	-Kissinger’s view
-Space treaty
-Environment
-SALT
-Statement of principles
-Signing
-President and Brezhnev
-Communiqué
-Agreements
-John F. Kennedy
-Space treaty
-President’s meeting with congressional leaders
-Tenor
-Statements
-SALT
-Content of trip
-News stories
-Space
-Environment
-Health
-Science and technology
-Maritime
-Incidents at sea
-Commercial agreement
-Agricultural agreement
-Value
-President's meeting with Dobrynin
-William P. Rogers
-Vietnam
-Middle East
-Review of paper
-US-Soviet talks
-Israel
-US proposals
-Agreement
-Kissinger’s view
-Statement
-Gunnar Jarring
-Final agreement
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Discussion
-Value
-Soviet position
-Kissinger’s view

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam document
-Length
-Kissinger offer
-Reply
-Soviet role
-Dobrynin
-North Vietnam

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-Morale in Hanoi
-Children
-Casualties in South Vietnam
-Destruction of bridges
-Blockade
-Possible riots
-North Vietnamese army
-Military Region I
	   -Troop strength
-An Loc
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Kontum
-US equipment
-Troop and artillery strength
-Possible fall
-Effects
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view
-Quang Tri
-Press coverage
-Blockade
-Impact on South Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-An Loc
-South Vietnamese agression
-South Vietnamese response
-President’s speech
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Blockade and bombing
-Damage
-Soviet Union and PRC response
-Resupply efforts
-Repair work
-Time involved
-Negotiations
-President’s meeting with Brezhnev
-Kissinger’s view
-Approach
-Basis for settlement
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Soviet position
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Military Region I
-Quang Tri
-Possible future moves
-Compared to Germany in 1918
-Ivy League presidents
-Meeting with Kissinger
-President's view
-Request for meeting with the President
-Haldeman
-The President's view
-Future
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s view
-Cut-off of aid to South Vietnam
-President of Harvard University
-The President's view
-Future schedules
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Future meetings with President
-Condemnation of bombing
-Response to North Vietnamese offensive
	-Kissinger’s view
-President of Brown or President of Cornell University
-Statement on President
-Consequences
-President's plans
	-The President’s view

The President talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 12:25 and 12:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 191-18A]

[See Conservation No. 131-39]

[End of telephone conversation]

John B. Connally
-Dinner with Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Soviet trip
-Expectations
-1972 election

Michael J. Mansfield
-PRC trip
-The President’s view

The President talked with Haldeman between 12:33 and 12:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 191-18B]

[See Conversation No. 131-40]

[End of telephone conversation]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-Federal funds
-Cut-off

Ivy League presidents
-President's PRC trip
-Soviet trip

Soviet Summit
-Expected results
-Right wing's position
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Statement of principles
-Criticism
	    -The President’s view
-Kissinger's briefing
-Clark Macgregor
-Moorer
-SALT
-Rogers
	    -Smith
	    -Kissinger’s view
-President's role
-Brezhnev

Vietnam
-Ivy League presidents
-Press
-The President’s view
    -Time
    -Newsweek
    -New York Times
    -Washington Post
	    -Networks
-Business elite
-Time
-Coverage
-The President’s view
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Kissinger’s view
-Life
-Kissinger’s view
-New establishment
-Harvard graduates
-White House staff positions
-The President’s view
-Quality of education
-Compared to Ohio State University
-Yale graduates
-Compared to Harvard 
-Columbia
-Princeton
-Ivy Leaguers
-The President’s view
-Position on President's policies
	    -Kissinger’s plan
-The President’s plan
	    -Presidential election
	    -Soviet summit
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Duration
-Blockade
-Air strikes
-Timing
-Intensity
-Casualties
-Intensity
-Number
-Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts
-Petroleum, Oil, Lubricants [POL]
-Hanoi power plant
-Transformer station
-Power station
-Rail Yards
-Timing
-Power station
-Transformer

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Dobrynin's meeting with Rogers
-Time
-Rogers
-Suggestions to the President
-Shanghai Communiqué
-SALT
-Berlin Agreement
-Signing
-German treaties
-Rogers
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Agreements
-Rogers's position
-Brezhnev Doctrine
-President's meeting with Dobrynin
-Brezhnev's trip to US
-Trip to California
-Talking points
-Rogers

The President and Kissinger left at 12:45 pm.