Conversation No. 249-1
Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:32 am and 8:36 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Assignment for Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Rose Mary Woods
-Marjorie P. Acker

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:36 am

Conversation No. 249-2

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:32 am and 8:36 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:36 am

Conversation No. 249-3

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  8:36 am - 8:42 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

Rose Mary Woods talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 42-41]

Conversation No. 249-4

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:42 am and 8:59 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

Schedule

Conversation No. 249-5

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:42 am and 8:59 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:59 am

Conversation No. 249-6

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  8:59 am - 10:45 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President=s statements
-Governors
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Length
-Memo
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
-Price
-Length
-Memo
-Deadlines
-Length
-Instructions for Price
-Chamber of Commerce
-Length
-DAR
-Franklin D. Roosevelt=s speech
-Press reaction
-DAR reaction
-Immigrants
-[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt
-Marian Anderson

May Day demonstrations
-Wording of statement by Price
-Patriotism
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Richard A. Moore
-William L. Safire
-North Vietnamese involvement
-ANixon endorses moratorium@
-Hardhats
-Liberals
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

-George P. Shultz
-Price
-Composition
-Senators
-Robert P. Griffin
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Leaders
-Rennie Davis
-Parren J. Mitchell
-Bobby Yorsett [sp?]
-Communists
-Davis
-Surveillance
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]
-Moore
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Memorandum
-President=s forthcoming meeting with editors
-Muskie
-Earth Day
-Timing
-FBI
-Griffin
-Muskie=s possible objections
-President=s activities
-Secret Service
-FBI
-Lee Harvey Oswald=s assassination of John F. Kennedy
-President
-Wiretapping
-President=s instructions to Buchanan

President=s forthcoming meeting with editors
-George Minot
-President=s schedule
-Boston Traveler
-Charles W. Colson

James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.=s editorial
-President=s conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower, April 14, 1971
-President=s Vietnam speech

Economy
-News summary
-Industrial production
-Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-Meeting of April 15, 1971
-Indicator
-Retail sales
-Figures
-President=s forthcoming meeting with editors
-Buchanan
-McCracken
-Figures
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Industrial production
-Instructions for Colson=s people

Networks= reporting
-Colson
-John B. Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-Cabinet officers
-Connally=s views
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Connally

Possible meeting with stock analysts
-Safire
-Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker
-Bull market
-Certificate
-Donald T. Regan, Lasker, and Bela Gold
-Gus C. Lee

Economy
-Stock market performance
-First quarter figures
-Reporting
-Stock market
-Importance
-Financial writers
-Inflation

-Compared with 1969
-Profits

Historical analysis of President=s administration
-Niccolo Machiavelli
-Stock market performance
-Economy
-War problem
-Cambodia and Laos
-Demonstrations
-Cities
-Integration in the South
-Foreign policy

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:59 am

Report for President

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:30 am

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:59 am and 9:30 am]

[Conversation No. 249-6A]

Meeting with President

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s image
-Staff
-Connally=s analysis
-John A. Scali
-Connally=s analysis
-Lack of emotion
-Reaction to President=s press conferences
-Speeches
-Buchanan
-Richard K. Cook
-Samuel Rosen=s conversation with Safire
-Robert F. (ABobby@) Kennedy
-Expectations of youth
-Sincerity

-Staff
-Public relations
-Television media
-Connally

Stephen B. Bull and an unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:59 am

Kissinger=s arrival

Rose Mary Woods= trip
-New England

Letter from unknown Florida mayor
-Kissinger
-President=s image
-Connally
-President=s style
-Press conferences
-Lack of emotion
-William H. Moore

Bull and the unknown man left and Kissinger entered at 9:30 am

-President=s People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Letter from unknown mayor in Florida
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-1972 campaign
-Moore
-Kissinger=s conversation with Haldeman
-Humphrey and Muskie
-Editors= opinions
-Emotionalism in press conferences
-Press
-Connally
-Cabinet
-Romney
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Leadership
-Press conferences
-Chile
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-J. F. Kennedy

-Letter from Florida mayor
-Connally
-Press conference

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am

-Possible reaction to press

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:45 am

-J. F. Kennedy
-Newsmen
-Johnson
-Connally=s views
-Press conferences
-Texas drought
-Bureaucracy
-Press
-Letter from an unknown boy
-Press conferences
-Media
-President=s public exposure
-Conversations
-Press conferences
-Campaign appearances
-Connally
-President=s image
-House, Senate, Cabinet
-Need for ANixon men@
-Connally
-President=s images
-General Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
-Image
-Guallists
-Press conferences
-Arrival in England in 1940
-French language
-Press conferences
-Cabinet
-Changes
-Connally=s views

Ambassadorial appointments
-John S. D. Eisenhower
-Edgar D. Whitcomb
-Australia
-Qualifications
-Robert C. Gordon
-J. S. D. Eisenhower
-Possible appointment

Cabinet and staff
-Unknown man discussed
-J. F. Kennedy
-Treatment of staff
-Image
-President=s image
-Courage, boldness, Aguts@
-Connally=s views
-Staff
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-Maurice H. Stans
-Safire

Presidential image
-AGuts@
-Intelligence
-AGuts@, boldness, coolness under fire
-Ziegler
-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-Trade with PRC
President=s PRC initiative
-Ping-pong team
-President=s policy
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-J. F. Kennedy
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Reception at Indonesian embassy

President=s upcoming speech to DAR
-Possible wording
-Patriotism
-Sergeant Karl Taylor

-Demonstrators
-Possible address to Chamber of Commerce
-Demonstrators
-Composition
-Draft dodgers
-Service in Vietnam
-Wording of speech
-Price
-Staff
-Press releases
-Haldeman
-Suggestions
-Connally
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Possible wording

PRC
-Trade announcement
-British ambassador=s conversation with Soviet ambassador
-Reaction
-Media Coverage
-Washington Post
-Department of State
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Commerce Department
-Defense Department
-State Department
-Media coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Kalb
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Kalb
-State Department
-Vietnam policy

Earth Day
-Muskie
-FBI surveillance
-Davis
-FBI role
-Assassination of J. F. Kennedy

-Oswald
-Muskie
-Samuel A. (ASammy@) Abbott

PRC
-Trade announcement
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-ANixon Initiative@
-USSR
-Possible reaction
-Kissinger=s possible call to Yuli M. Vorontsov
-State Department
-Scali
-US-Soviet relations
-PRC
-Instructions to Scali
-Taiwan
-Unknown diplomat

Vietnam
-Military activity
-Media coverage
-PRC
-Peace initiatives
-Stefan Olszowski
-North Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Possible United States= initiative
-Unilateral return
-United States= options
-POW wives
-Possible action
-Frank Borman
-Possible North Vietnamese military operations
-POW wives
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Cease fire deadline
-Kissinger=s possible message to the North Vietnamese
-Timing

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-POW issue
-POW wives
-Clark M. Clifford and George S. McGovern
-POW wives
-United States= initiatives
-Timing
-Troop withdrawal
-Harlow Resolution
-Effect on South Vietnam
-1972 Elections
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-POW wives
-Kissinger, Haldeman, and Colson
-POW issue
-Polls
-Figures
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes
-Congress
-POW issue
-McGovern
-POW wives
-Laird
-Promises
-POW issue

PRC initiative
-Instructions for Ziegler
-Media

-Vogue, Newsweek, Time
-State Department
-Press

Haldeman left at 10:23 am; Sanchez was no longer present at an unknown time before 10:23 am

President=s schedule
-Morocco
-Visit of King [Moulay] Hassan II
-Timing
-Arab summit
-Moulay Ahmed Laraki
-United States= Middle East policy
-Possible postponement of state visit
-Possible private visit
-William B. Saxbe

State visits
-President=s policies

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AFRICA

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-Instructions for Kissinger
-President=s schedule

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AFRICA

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-Juan Velasco Alvarado
-Possible visit

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Edward R. G. Heath
-1972
-Mexico
-Mexican-Americans
-Morocco
-Upcoming meeting
-President=s policies

-European summit meeting
-Soviet visit
-PRC

PRC initiative
-Muskie
-Charles H. Percy
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Earth Day
-Media coverage
-Sevareid
-Haig=s visit to Indonesian embassy
-Percy
-J. William Fulbright
-President=s policies
-J. F. Kennedy
-USSR
-PRC
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Indochina
-Laos
-William S. White
-J. F. Kennedy
-Johnson
-Ping-pong team
-USSR
-Vorontsov
-Peter G. Peterson
-Media coverage
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-USSR
-Possible appointees
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-USSR
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Ping-pong team
-Withdrawal from Vietnam
-USSR
-Bureaucracy
-J. F. Kennedy

-Cambodia and Laos
-En-lai
-Possible negotiations

President=s image
-Haldeman
-Conveyance by staff and Cabinet
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Peterson
-Klein
-Jack J. Valenti
-Haig
-Connally
-Taft Schreiber
-John N. Mitchell
-Ziegler
-Haldeman
-President= conversation with Burns
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Volpe
-Romney
-Stans
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Mitchell
-Rogers and Laird
-Burns
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Finch and Rumsfeld
-Burns
-Valenti
-Support of President=s positions
-November 3, 1969, speech on Laos and Cambodia
-April 7, 1971, speech on Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-Rogers
-Press

USSR
-Mood
-Vorontsov
-Message
-PRC
-United States= policy

PRC initiative
-Media coverage
-Evans and Novak
-Ziegler
-USSR
-Scali
-United States= policy
-PRC
-Summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Announcement
-Summit
-POW issue
-POW wives
-Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with Vorontsov
-Scali
-State Department

President=s schedule

Moroccan meeting

Kissinger left at 10:45 am

Conversation No. 249-7

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:30 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule
-Time
-Weather

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:15 pm

Conversation No. 249-8

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:30 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:15 pm

Conversation No. 249-9

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:30 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown man

President=s schedule

Unknown person=s schedule

Conversation No. 249-10

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  3:15 pm - 3:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 42-43]

Conversation No. 249-11

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:16 pm and 3:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-44]

Conversation No. 249-12

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  3:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 42-45]

Conversation No. 249-13

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  3:45 pm - 3:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Donald H. Rumsfeld

[See Conversation No. 42-46]

Conversation No. 249-14

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:48 pm and 4:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Press briefing

News

Conversation No. 249-15

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:48 pm and 4:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman

Surveillance
-Suggested comments for forthcoming interview at convention of American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1971
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Department of Justice
-Numbers
-Concern

-Public opinion
-Lee Harvey Oswald
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Earth Day
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Protection for President
-Rennie Davis
-Unknown black leader
-Muskie
-Protection for President
-Washington Post story on White House cameras
-Camera locations
-Richard A. Moore

Economic indicators
-George P. Shultz
-Industrial production
-Retail sales
-Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-March retail sales
-McCracken
-Buchanan
-Comparative figures
-Use by President in unknown speech
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-McCracken

Conversation No. 249-16

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  4:05 pm - 4:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch
-Trip

People=s Republic of China [PRC] policy
-President=s initiative
-Critics
-Press reaction
-Time and Newsweek
-Kissinger=s meeting with unknown person
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Cambodia
-Finch and Rumsfeld
-Invitation to Chinese doctors
-Rumsfeld

Preparations for press conference, April 16, 1971
-Vietnam War
-Possible statement on Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease fire
-Residual force
-Robert C. Byrd

United States-PRC relations
-Soviet statement
-Kissinger=s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler

Kissinger=s call from Martin [?]
-Campus atmosphere
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kissinger=s Conversation with Charles H. Percy
-Senate

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-USSR
-Summit
-Deadline

Vietnam negotiations
-Message to Hanoi
-North Vietnamese intentions
-Residual force
-United States= objectives
-Withdrawal
-Return of prisoners

-Defense of South Vietnam
-Laos
-State Department

Preparation for press conference
-Pakistan
-Middle East
-Melvin R. Laird
-Balance
-Arms shipments
-Negotiations

President=s PRC initiative
-Liberals
-Peter Lisagor
-Marshall Green
-President=s role
-Leadership
-Kissinger=s Conversation with [Name unintelligible]
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-State Department
-Policy directive of February 5, 1969
-Policy directive of May 15, 1969
-Relaxation of economic controls, June 26, 1969
-Other dates of announcements
-Lifting of restrictions
-Leadership
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Muskie
-State Department
-Announcements
-J. Edward Murray
-Chou En-lai
-Chinese
-Timing

Kissinger=s press interviews
-[Forename unknown] Fentris [sp?]
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Reaction to news story on Vietnam

Kissinger left at 4:31 pm

Conversation No. 249-17

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:05 pm and 4:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-47]

Conversation No. 249-18

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  4:31 pm - 4:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan

[See Conversation No. 42-48]

Conversation No. 249-19

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:34 pm and 4:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-49]

Conversation No. 249-20

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  4:35 pm - 4:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull

[See Conversation No. 42-50]

Conversation No. 249-21

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  4:42 pm - 4:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan

Foreign policy
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule

Press
-Possible response
-Routineness
-Subpoenas
Surveillance
-Washington Post story about White House cameras
-San Clemente and Camp David
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Earth Day
-Rennie Davis
-Unknown black Communist leader
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Secret Service
-Protection of President
-Muskie
-Earth Day
-Actions of participants
-FBI

-J. Edgar Hoover
-Catholics
-Status
-Hoover
-Youth culture

Forthcoming interview at convention of American Society of Newpaper Editors, April 16, 1971
-Participants
-Associated Press [AP], United Press International [UPI]
-Emmett Dedmon
-Eugene V. Risher
-Strategy
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-1968 interview

People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Ping-pong team
-Effect on liberals

Buchanan left at 4:52 pm

Conversation No. 249-22

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  5:05 pm - 5:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Robert D. Murphy

Butterfield=s trip

Request for materials for President=s signature

Air Force promotion
-Signing
-Congratulatory note to unknown person

President=s schedule
-Meeting
-Henry A. Kissinger

Butterfield left at 5:07 pm

Conversation No. 249-23

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:07 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

President=s schedule

Conversation No. 249-24

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:07 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man [Manolo Sanchez?]

Request for name of unknown woman [Faith Sutton?]

The unknown man [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm

Conversation No. 249-25

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:07 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown woman [Faith Sutton?]

Instructions for Stephen B. Bull
-Request for article

The unknown woman [Sutton?] left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm

Conversation No. 249-26

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  5:25 pm - 6:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Look magazine story
-Feature story
-Presidency
-Herbert G. Klein
-Unknown columnist [Christopher S. Wren?]
-Anecdotes
-Haldeman=s sources
-Wedding story
-Timing

James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.=s column
-Haldeman=s possible call to Kilpatrick
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll
-George H. Gallup poll
-Joseph W. and Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Possible distribution
-Staff
-News summary
-Linwood Holton
-Governors
-Congress
-Klein
-John W. Rollins

People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Reaction of intellectuals
-Vietnam

-Media coverage
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Harvard University faculty

Opponents
-Maoists
-Ho Chi Minh and Mao Tse-tung
-Possible violence
-Media coverage
-November [1969?] demonstrations
-Psychology of demonstrators
-Cambodia
-May 1970 demonstrations
-Press conference

Polls
-Patrick J. Buchanan=s forthcoming call to Liv Kilborne [sp?]
-Gallup and ORC
-Figures
-Vietnam War

Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Conservatives
-James L. Buckley
-Walter H. Judd

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:25 pm

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm

Conservatives
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Vietnam

President=s meeting with editors
-Klein
-Charles W. Colson
-Klein
-Clark MacGregor

Haldeman left and Robert D. Murphy and Kissinger entered at 5:38 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Official photograph

Murphy=s trip to Taiwan
-Timing
-Chow Shu-kai
-State Department
-American ambassador Walter P. McConaughy
-United Nations [UN] General Assembly vote
-Evaluation
-Taiwan
-Colonel William R. Usher
-Need for secrecy
-Message for Chiang Kai-shek
-Possible new policy
-ATwo Chinas@
-USSR
-PRC/Taiwan
-Special circumstances
-President=s PRC initiative
-AOverseas Chinese@
-Concerns
-Ping-pong team
-Possible recognition of PRC
-State Department=s views
-Effects on United States= Asian allies
-United States= commitments to Taiwan
-Arms
-Trade
-Textiles
-UN
-President=s attachment to Taiwan
-Murphy=s role
-Cabinet position
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-UN
-Senate and the military
-UN
-Security Council

-ATwo China@ possibility
-United States= policy
-Delay
-Department of State position
-Need for leadership
-PRC/Taiwan
-State Department
-Marshall Green=s argument
-PRC entry into UN
-PRC opinion on Vietnam
-Chou En-lai
-Laos

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[Duration:  59s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Mao
-Laos
-USSR
-Mao=s statement
-Vietnam
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Mood

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Murphy=s experiences in 1945
-Berlin
-President=s meeting with Nikita S. Khrushchev in 1959
-Sino-Soviet border
-Importance of Murphy=s mission
-Message for Chiang Kai-shek
-Effects on United States= Asian allies
-Taiwan
-Importance
-Exports
-Need for a flexible policy
-UN
-Possible reaction in Congress
-Military assistance
-President=s message for Chiang Kai-shek
-Democrats
-Senate
-Reaction to President=s PRC initiative
-Public
-AHawks@
-Congress
-Glassboro summit
-Polls
-Peace movement
-State Department
-Green
-USSR
-President=s trip to Romania

-Unknown person=s opposition to PRC initiative
-Reasons for President=s PRC initiative
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Travel arrangements
-PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Instructions for talking to Green
-Murphy=s possible conversation with Green
-William P. Rogers
-Need for secrecy
-Report to President
-Rogers and Green
-State Department
-Memorandum on UN
-George H. W. Bush
-President=s policies
-PRC
-Chou En-lai
-President=s instructions for McConaughy
-Kissinger=s possible instructions to McConaughy
-Need for secrecy
-McConaughy
-Franklin D. Roosevelt=s conversation with Murphy regarding North African operation
-Rogers= views toward mission
-Importance of PRC/Taiwan

Murphy left at 6:10 pm

PRC/Taiwan policy
-Possible consequences of President=s initiative

Lyndon B. Johnson
-Problems with Vietnam War
-Polls
-Figures
-Fluctuations in support
-Glassboro summit

United States= policy
-Murphy
-Glassboro meeting

Summit meeting
-PRC
-Kissinger=s conversation with [Name unintelligible]
-Negotiations
-Timing

Vietnam
-Prisoner of War [POW] wives and POW issue
-Possible North Vietnamese moves
-Difficulties
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Instructions for Kissinger
-United States= policy
-Troop withdrawals
-[Forename unknown] Fentris [sp?]

USSR
-Kissinger=s conversation with Peter G. Peterson
-United States-PRC relations
-United States= position in the world
-Reaction
-Kissinger=s conversation with Dobrynin
-Peterson=s meeting on trade
-PRC initiative

Kissinger left at 6:20 pm

Conversation No. 249-27

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:20 pm and 6:21 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-51]

Conversation No. 249-28

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  6:21 pm - 6:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

[See Conversation No. 42-52]

Conversation No. 249-29

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Lyndon B. Johnson=s polls
-Glassboro summit
-Fluctuations

Summit meetings
-Dangers for cosmetic purposes
-Charles W. Colson
-William P. Rogers

Stock market
-Activity
-Gimmick
-Confidence
-Speech writing
-Haldeman=s conversation with Fay G. Wells [?] and Sarah McClendon
-Robert D. Murphy
-Gross National Product [GNP]

GNP
-George P. Shultz
-Haldeman=s conversation with McClendon

People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Effects

-Liberals
-Intellectuals
-Media coverage
-Television
-Balance
-Visit of ping-pong team
-Human interest stories

American people
-Attitudes
-Demonstrators
-San Jose incident
-President=s speech
-William L. Safire
-Administration response
-Press
-Administration press

Haldeman=s Look interview
-Haldeman=s conversation with Christopher S. Wren
-President=s speech at the University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Media collusion
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Meetings
-Establishment
-Henry A. Kissinger
-President=s role in government
-Distinction between political role and head-of-state role
-November 3, 1969 speech
-Exercise of leadership
-Reaction
-Cambodia
-President=s speech
-Laos
-April 7, 1971 speech
-Troop withdrawal
-Timing
-President=s leadership
-Public reaction

Cabinet and staff
-Clark MacGregor
-John A. Scali

-Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-John B. Connally=s view
-Changes
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Maurice H. Stans
-Melvin R. Laird and Rogers
-Stans
-Clifford M. Hardin
-James D. Hodgson
-Stans
-President=s ideal
-Stans
-Rogers and Laird
-Rogers
-April 7, 1971 speech
-Kissinger

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ISRAEL

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-Rogers C. B. Morton
-George W. Romney
-Rumsfeld
-Romney
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Blacks

The President and Haldeman left at 6:50 pm

Conversation No. 249-30

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:50 pm and 7:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman met with an unknown woman

President=s schedule
-President=s location

Haldeman and the unknown woman left at an unknown time before 7:00 pm