Conversation No. 248-1

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm

Conversation No. 248-2

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm

Conversation No. 248-3

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Mark I. Goode

Reception for diplomatic corps

[The President conferred with Manolo Sanchez at an unknown time]

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Reception for diplomatic corps
-Staff
-William P. Rogers
-Congressmen and Senators
-Herbert G. Klein
-Patrick J. Buchanan and Shelley A. Scarney
-Leonard Garment

Conversation No. 248-4

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person

President=s scheduling

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm

Conversation No. 248-5

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm

Conversation No. 248-6

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

Request for call back

Conversation No. 248-7

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-36]

Conversation No. 248-8

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm

Conversation No. 248-9

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  3:05 pm - 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler

[See Conversation No. 42-37]

Conversation No. 248-10

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:07 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Ronald L. Ziegler?]

Polls
-Approval of Vietnam War policy
-Timing
-George H. Gallup

-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Trial
-Approval of war policy

Conversation No. 248-11

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:07 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman

Ehrlichman=s memo on welfare
-John B. Connally=s report from Texas
-Drought
-Reaction to welfare
-Administration=s policy
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Addition to welfare rolls
-Nelson A. Rockefeller and Ronald W. Reagan
-Instructions to William L. Safire
-President=s welfare program
-Purposes
-Employment
-Advertising
-Reagan
-Food stamps
-Jobs
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-National Governors= Conference
-Revenue sharing
-Need of support of governors
-Bipartisanship
-President=s welfare program
-Welfare reform
-HR 1
-Status
-Lack of progress
-Statistics
-Examples from Reagan=s speeches

-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Patrick J. Buchanan and Safire
-Instructions to Safire

Conversation No. 248-12

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:07 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Tricia Nixon=s wedding
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Unknown man=s role in planning details
-Possible Look magazine story
-Magazine coverage
-Constance M. (Cornell) (AConnie@) Stuart
-Haldeman and Ziegler

Conversation No. 248-13

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:07 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Briefcase

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:20 pm

Conversation No. 248-14

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:07 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

John A. Scali
-President=s forthcoming visit to US Marines at Camp Pendleton
-Rose Mary Woods
-Instructions for Haldeman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 248-15

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:07 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Polls
-Ending the Vietnam War
-Congress
-Results

Conversation No. 248-16

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  4:20 pm - 5:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger=s meeting with [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Howard K. Smith=s views
-Possible adverse reaction
-State Department
-President=s public statements
-Vietnam
-Political considerations
-Effect on 1972 elections
-Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie
-President=s policies

Cambodia
-1970 election
-Possible effect on 1972 elections
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Media coverage
-PRC
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Clark MacGregor
-Media reaction to President=s speech
-Washington Star
-Press coverage

PRC negotiations
-North Vietnam
-North Korea
-Embargo on US fuel oil
-Visa requirements
-Currency restrictions
-Export licenses
-Coordinating committee
-Topics
-Under Secretary of State
-Chou En-lai=s statement
-US-PRC relations

Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Americans visiting Paris
-Possible discussions with North Vietnam
-US policy
-Negotiations

Kissinger=s meeting with Sevareid
-Time-Life reaction
-Media
-Development of President=s PRC policy
-Public statements
-President=s article
-Visit to Romania
-Highlights
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Press relations
-Possible ABill of Rights@
-President=s visit to Yugoslavia
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Political considerations
-Liberals
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Laos and Cambodia

PRC
-State Department
-Recognition issue
-Possible effect
-President=s policies
-USSR

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USSR

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-Reaction
-Possible action
-US-USSR relations
-Unknown Soviet diplomat
-Middle East

[Ronald L. Ziegler talked with the President between 4:33 and 4:36 pm]

[Conversation No. 248-16A]

[See Conversation No. 42-38]

[End of telephone conversation]

Muskie=s statement on Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Surveillance of Earth Day
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Possible candidacy
-Richard M. Helms
-1972 elections
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy and Humphrey

Vietnam
-Campaign issue
-USSR
-Possible summit meeting

Foreign relations
-Vietnam

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VIETNAM

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-Vietnam
-Paris Peace Talks
-Cease fire
-Middle East

Kissinger=s relations with the press
-Meeting with Sevareid
-Administration critics
-Sevareid
-San Clemente
-Laos
-Vietnam
-Sevareid=s views
-Negotiations

USSR
-US-USSR negotiations

PRC
-Taiwan
-US relations

Vietnam
-Unknown man=s reaction
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia
-Joseph W. and Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Robert S. McNamara
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Cambodia
-President=s policies
-Timing
-Laotian incursion
-Cambodia
-President=s conversation with Victor Lasky

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Kissinger=s conversation with Sevareid
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations

US-USSR relations
-SALT negotiations
-Summit meeting
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Glassboro Summit
-Bombing halt
-J. William Fulbright
-Senate delegation
-Johnson=s bombing halt
-PRC-US relations
-Chou

PRC
-US relations
-Chou

USSR
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-SALT
-Timing
-State Department
-Possible summit meeting
-SALT
-Timing
-Paris negotiations

-Timing
-Kissinger=s conversations with Dobrynin
-North Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Laos

Vietnam
-MacGregor
-Congress
-Robert P. Griffin and the Michigan editors
-MacGregor and Haig

Polls
-Results
-President=s Vietnam speech
-Press
-Laos
-President=s speech on Vietnam, November 3, 1969
-Anti-intellectuals
-McNamara=s address to Democratic group

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger=s conversation with McGeorge Bundy
-President=s policies
-Timing
-Korea
-George S. McGovern and Humphrey
-Troop withdrawals
-President=s options
-Second team
-Possible settlement
-PRC
-Troop levels
-Possible North Vietnamese position
-POWs
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-South Vietnam
-Cease fire
-President=s conversation with John B. Connally, April 13, 1971
-Timing
-Troop withdrawals
-Timing
-Wilbur D. Mills

-Possible effects on 1972 campaign
-South Vietnam
-Possible US options
-MacGregor and William P. Rogers

PRC
-Significance
-Reporters= meeting with President
-Ping-pong team
-Reporters= meeting with President

Kissinger left at 5:10 pm

Conversation No. 248-17

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-39]

Conversation No. 248-18

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  5:26 pm - 5:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan

[See Conversation No. 42-40]

Conversation No. 248-19

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:29 pm and 5:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Meeting with Robert J. Dole and H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm

Conversation No. 248-20

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:29 pm and 5:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Forthcoming meeting with Robert J. Dole and H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm

Conversation No. 248-21

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  5:40 pm - 6:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Robert J. Dole and H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Greetings

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Vietnam resolutions
-Marlow W. Cook
-Dole=s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Need for initiative
-Leadership
-Gerald R. Ford
-Possible hearings
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Possible letter
-Strategy
-Foreign Relations Committee
-J. William Fulbright
-Cook=s conversation with Melvin R. Laird
-Withdrawal of forces
-Timing
-Wording of resolution
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-POWs
-Delay
-Cook=s resolution
-Possible implementation
-POWs
-South Vietnam
-Polls
-POWs
-Polls
-Wives
-Polls
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Results
-Withdrawal of troops

-Democrats
-Responsibility for Vietnam
-Korean War
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Polls
-Results
-POWs
-Withdrawal of forces
-POWs
-Risks
-Muskie
-Strategy
-1968 campaign
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Kennedy
-Laos
-Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem
-Vietnam
-Johnson

Dole=s suit against American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Julian Goodman
-Letter
-Robert E. Hampton
-First Amendment
-Composite picture
-Public Broadcasting System [PBS] panel
-Fulbright and General [Forename unknown] Marshall
-Brigadier General Daniel (AChappie@) James, Jr.

Vietnam
-Senate
-Laos
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Polls
-ORC
-Statement
-Democrats
-Influence of 1972 elections
-Withdrawal

-POWs
-South Vietnam
-Casualty rates
-Korea
-Democratic candidates opposing President
-Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Republicans opposing President
-James B. Pearson
-Deadline
-Senate
-Democrats
-Young voters
-Polls
-Casualties
-Muskie and Humphrey
-End-the-war sentiment
-President=s actions to end war
-Casualties
-Withdrawal
-Avoid Communist takeover
-Polls
-Goal of war
-Avoid Communist takeover
-Polls
-George H. Gallup
-Louis Harris
-Withdrawal
-Communist takeover
-POWs
-Robert C. Byrd
-Strategy

Dole=s visit to West Coast
-Timing
-Need for initiative
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes, Charles W. Colson, [Thomas] Hale Boggs, and James
-Gimmick
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Ping-pong

President=s PRC initiative
-Ping-pong team visit
-Chou En-lai
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Democrats
-ADoves@

Vietnam
-War issue
-Importance

Economy
-Issue
-Retail sales
-Stock market
-Interest rates
-Inflation

Vietnam
-War issue
-Democrats
-Johnson
-Republican response to policies
-Responsibility
-Congressional activity
-1952 election
-Adlai E. Stevenson, II
-Eisenhower
-Administration=s policies
-Withdrawal
-Democratic responsibility
-Humphrey
-Johnson
-Humphrey and Muskie

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Issues
-Vietnam
-Democrats
-President=s actions
-President=s PRC initiative
-USSR
-Peace
-AGeneration of peace@

1960's
-Democrats
-Unemployment

Prosperity issue

Vietnam
-Withdrawal

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Number of prototypes
-Airplane business
-J. F. Kennedy=s letter

Dole=s associates, other Senators
-William E. Brock, III
-Clifford P. Hansen
-Barry M. Goldwater
-James L. Buckley
-J. Glenn Beall, Jr.
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.

Vietnam
-Withdrawals
-Timing
-POWs
-Communist takeover
-Withdrawal
-Figures
-Casualties
-Figures
-Draft
-Dole=s forthcoming call to Taft

The President, Dole, and Haldeman left at 6:15 pm