Conversation No. 245-1

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:49 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

[Unintelligible]

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:20 am

Conversation No. 245-19

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:49 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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[Duration:  11s  ]

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Copy of an unknown document
-Yellow copy

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:20 am

Conversation No. 245-2

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  9:20 am - 9:59 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird

Meeting with Congressional leaders
-Gerald R. Ford
-Hugh Scott and Ford

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:22 am]

[Conversation No. 245-2A]

[See Conversation No. 42-5]

[End of telephone conversation]

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew as speakers

Carl B. Albert

[The President talked with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield between 9:22 am and 9:27 am]

[Conversation No. 245-2B]

[See Conversation No. 42-6]

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s meeting with National Security Council, Congressmen, April 7, 1971
-Mansfield
-Albert
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs

Meeting with Congressional leaders
-Albert
-Ford
-Scott

Haig

Haldeman=s schedule

Press
-Unknown story
-Coverage

Staff
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Clark MacGregor
-Charles W. Colson
-John A. Scali
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Defense spending

Mood of nation

Vietnam War

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[National Security]
[Duration:  6s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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White House staff and Cabinet
-Accomplishments

ATed Gates@
-Vietnam War

Harrison A. Williams, Jr.

Henry A. Kissinger

Cambodia
-Bombing
-Kent State University
-Public attitudes

Congressional attitudes
-Rumsfeld
-Problems with Congress
-Robert H. Finch
-Republicans
-MacGregor
-Supporters of Administration
-Labor leaders
-Southerners
-Support or non-support
-Consequences
-President=s options

Scali
-MacGregor
-Staff situation

Economy
-Stock market
-Retail sales
-Apparel
-New York
-Chrysler Corporation
-First quarter
-Home furnishings
-Apparel

-Stock market
-Buying power

White House staff
-Haldeman=s assessment

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:59 am]

[Conversation No. 245-2C]

Meeting with the President

Kissinger
-Rogers
-Laird
-Conflicts

Chicago Tribune

Sidney R. Yates and John S. Nolan

Staffing for unknown agency
-Right-wingers

Haldeman left at 9:59 am

Conversation No. 245-3

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  9:59 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man [H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman?]
[This conversation is a continuation of Conversation No. 245-2]

Economic situation

William P. Rogers

President=s schedule

The unknown man [Haldeman?] left at 9:59 am

Conversation No. 245-4

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  9:59 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-8]

Conversation No. 245-5

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  9:59 am - 10:06 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Gerald R. Ford

[See Conversation No. 42-9]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:05 am

Conversation No. 245-6

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  10:05 am - 11:03 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Laos
-Casualty figures
-Military operations
-Comparison

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-President=s forthcoming statement on Prisoners of War [POWs]
-President=s options
-Possible statement
-Warning
-Credibility
-Kissinger=s statement on POWs

Laos
-Casualties
-South Vietnamese casualties
-Air sorties
-George S. McGovern=s statements
-Kissinger=s possible statement

President=s speech on Vietnam, April 7, 1971
-Draft
-President=s presentation
-Press
-Release
-Air sorties
-South Vietnamese casualties
-Warning
-Statement
-Warning
-Staff

Vietnam
-Withdrawal
-ABlockbusters@
-John D. Ehrlichman
-US proposals
-Negotiations
-Kissinger and Clark MacGregor
-Press
-Proposals
-ADoves@

-Congress
-Withdrawal date
-Military aid
-General Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky
-Communist victory
-Kissinger=s relations with MacGregor
-Troop announcements
-Date for United States= withdrawal
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-President=s meeting with Thieu
-United States= position
-President=s policy
-North Vietnamese
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Date for Withdrawal
-POWs
-Cease fire
-Negotiations
-Cease fire
-United States= proposals
-Kissinger=s role
-Paris talks

Chile
-Elections
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Control of media
-Eduardo Frei Montalva
-Christian Democrats
-Allende
-State Department
-Charles A. Meyer
-Allende
-United States= policy
-Jorge Alessandri

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[National Security]
[Duration:  13s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Edward M. Korry

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration:  26s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Korry
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Pakistan
-India

Kissinger=s relations with MacGregor
-Melvin R. Laird
-Ehrlichman

Vietnam
-Ehrlichman
-Public opinion
-Johnson

Cambodia
-United States= involvement
-Public opinion

Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Impact on administration
-Background

President=s speech on Vietnam
-Possible question to Kissinger
-President=s policy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am

Arrival of Mansfield

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:35 am

President=s speech on Vietnam
-Success of policy
-Possible wording on Vietnamization policy
-Relation to troop withdrawals

Mansfield entered at 10:35 am

Greetings

Kissinger left at 10:36 am

Vietnam
-President=s forthcoming call to Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Military situation
-Withdrawal date
-South Vietnamese leaders
-Withdrawal of United States= troops
-Rate
-Numbers
-Ceiling

-Level
-Announcement
-Dates
-Level
-Future announcements
-President=s options
-Negotiations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Attitude
-United States= position
-President=s options
-Soviet Union
-President=s options
-Deadline
-President=s plans
-Troop withdrawals
-Chance of a breakthrough
-Announcements
-Withdrawal of troops
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin=s mission
-United States= offer
-Date
-United States= plans
-Cease fire
-President=s speech, April 7, 1971
-Negotiations
-President=s forthcoming conversations with Dobrynin
-Possible topics
-North Vietnamese
-Madame Nguyen Thi Binh and Long Di [sp?]
-Date
-United States= position
-Troop withdrawals
-Laos
-President=s policy

Arms control negotiations
-Leonid I. Brezhnev and Andrei A. Gromyko
-Communist Party Congress
-Fight
-Military people
-Arms limitation issue
-Political people

-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Brezhnev=s role
-Detente
-Arms limitation
-Date
-President=s options

Berlin
-United States-Soviet Union negotiations

Middle East
-United States= policy
-Israel
-Support
-United States= policy
-Other nations
-Cease fire
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Soviet Union

Vietnam and Laos
-Mansfield=s support for President
-Troop withdrawal
-Announcement
-South Vietnamese
-Military operations
-Location
-Negotiations
-Prospects

President=s trip to Montana
-Timing
-Labor Day
-Announcement

President=s briefing on Vietnam
-Value

Mansfield left at 11:03 am

Conversation No. 245-7

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:03 am and 11:10 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-10]

Conversation No. 245-8

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:03 am and 11:10 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Marjorie P. Acker

[See Conversation No. 42-11]

Conversation No. 245-9

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:03 am and 11:10 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-12]

Conversation No. 245-10

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  11:10 am - 11:11 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Marjorie P. Acker

[See Conversation No. 42-13]

Conversation No. 245-11

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:11 am and 11:13 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-14]

Conversation No. 245-12

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  11:13 am - 11:14 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Marjorie P. Acker

[See Conversation No. 42-15]

Conversation No. 245-13

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 am and 11:19 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-16]

Conversation No. 245-14

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  11:19 am - 11:21 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield

[See Conversation No. 42-17]

Conversation No. 245-15

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:21 am and 11:35 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-18]

Conversation No. 245-16

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  11:35 am - 11:37 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull

[See Conversation No. 42-19]

Conversation No. 245-17

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:37 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

Changes in a report or speech

Kissinger=s schedule

Conversation No. 245-18

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  1:00 pm - unknown before 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

President=s speech on Vietnam, April 7, 1971

Draft
-Changes
-Page 1
-Kissinger=s suggestions

-Language
-Dates
-Additions
-Language
-Withdrawal of troops
-Language
-Points
-Wording
-Negotiated settlement
-Articles
-Additions
-President=s intentions
-Wording
-Withdrawal of troops
-Dates
-Numbers
-Figures
-William P. Rogers= briefing
-Chart
-Use
-Cabinet briefing
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Chart
-Casualties
-Sensitivity
-Kissinger=s briefings
-Casualties
-Tet offensive
-Use of figures
-Tet comparison
-Laos
-Background
-Estimates
-Comparisons
-South Vietnamese casualties
-Significance
-United States= ground forces
-Replacement by United States= air sorties
-Charges by George S. McGovern
-McGovern
-Possible Kissinger rebuttal
-Television
-United States= policy goals in Southeast Asia

-Wording
-Changes
-United States= casualties
-Rate
-South Vietnamese operations
-Wording
-North Vietnamese attacks from Laos on United States forces
-Supply lines and logistics
-North Vietnamese major offenses
-Language
-Vietnamization policy
-Success of Cambodian operations
-Unknown man=s views
-Consequences of failure in Vietnam
-Middle East
-President=s policy
-Popular opinion
-Jews in Europe
-Nazis
-American attitude
-Vietnamization policy
-Success
-Language
-End of United States= involvement in war
-Wording of statement
-South Vietnamese defense
-Residual force
-Rogers
-United States= options
-Opposition to President=s policies
-United States= policy
-Press
-Intellectuals
-Harvard University
-Yale University
-Princeton University

Support for the President
-President=s conversation with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Kissinger=s list
-John J. McCloy
-[Forename unknown] Kekold [sp?]
-[Forename unknown] Nolan

-[Forename unknown] Wheeler
-Thomas S. Gates, Jr.
-Conservatives
-Liberals
-McCloy
-Lawyers
-David Rockefeller
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Kissinger=s forthcoming conversation with Rockefeller
-Politicians
-Veterans of Foreign Wars
-Congressmen

Ford Foundation
-Unknown man at foundation
-McGeorge Bundy
-Support for Edmund S. Muskie=s trips to Africa
-President=s travels contrasted
-Emoluments
-Muskie
-Unknown man=s conversation with Kissinger

Soviet Union
-Soviet Minister to the United Nations
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-United States - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Possible United States= response
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Communist Party Congress
-Result
-Haldeman
-President=s political options
-Cambodia and Laos
-Bombing of North Vietnam

President=s speech on Vietnam, April 7, 1971
-Revisions
-Goal
-Withdrawal
-Program
-Peace conference
-Prisoners of War
-All-Indochina peace conference

-Wording of appeal to Hanoi to start serious negotiations
-Withdrawal
-American involvement
-Timetable of withdrawal of outside forces
-Offer

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 1:45 pm