Conversation No. 250-1

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:58 am and 9:40 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:40 am

Conversation No. 250-2

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:58 am and 9:40 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man

News summary

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:40 am

Conversation No. 250-3

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:58 am and 9:40 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President=s schedule
-[Forthcoming greeting of Rio Grande City High School Student Council]
-Rose Garden
-Possible gifts
-Meeting with Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker, John B. Connally, Gustave L. Levy, and Albert H. Gordon
-Picture

Newspaper story
-[Commerce Department study on consumer buying]
-Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Unknown assistant Secretary of Commerce
-Maurice H. Stans
-Paul W. McCracken
-Editors
-George S. McGovern and Norris Cotton
-Dispute about Vietnam War
-William B. Saxbe
-Letter to Saxbe=s son

Instructions for Haldeman to set up a meeting with an unknown man [Saxbe?]

People=s Republic of China [PRC] story

Haldeman=s schedule

Conversation No. 250-4

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:58 am and 9:40 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Sanchez=s schedule
-Weather

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:40 am

Conversation No. 250-5

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  9:40 am - 10:30 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger=s dinner with Rowland Evans
-Editors

Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with William S. White
-Schedule

Kissinger=s conversation with Thomas Winship, Boston Globe
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-US foreign policy
-Otis Chandler

President=s speech on Vietnam

President=s panel interview with the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1971
-Frank Cormier and Eugene V. Risher
-Quality of questions
-John F. Kennedy=s press conferences
-President=s press conferences

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:40 pm

Instructions
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.=s column

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:30 am

Kissinger=s mail
-Harvard University and Yale University
-Princeton University
-Letter from Harvard University faculty members

Vietnam
-PRC initiative
-Peace conference
-William B. Saxbe
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Laos
-Laos
-Military operations
-South Vietnamese
-Casualties
-Figures
-Wounded
-Dead

Kissinger=s forthcoming call to Richard M. Helms
-Helms= speech
-Press

Kissinger=s conversation with Henry Hubbard
-Role of the press
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman [?] and Ronald L. Ziegler [?]

Vietnam
-William E. Colby [?]
-James L. Buckley [?]

President=s PRC initiative
-President=s speech on Vietnam
-Effect on liberals
-Press coverage

-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Chou En-lai

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese moves
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Instructions to Kissinger
-US proposals
-Timing
-Negotiations
-North Vietnamese
-PRC
-US air power
-Melvin R. Laird
-US goals
-Withdrawal issue
-Laird
-Residual force
-South Vietnam
-US withdrawal
-South Vietnam
-Preparation for editors= meeting
-Lee Hills
-Detroit Free Press

Preparation for editors= meeting
-PRC
-USSR
-Possible summit meeting
-Discussions
-Summit
-Vietnam
-Possible questions
-US flexibility
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-President=s possible response
-US goals
-Withdrawal issue
-US policy
-Proposals

-POWs
-Timetable for US withdrawal
-President=s address on Southeast Asia, October 7, 1970
-Kissinger=s conversation with Hubbard

USSR
-Possible summit meeting in USSR
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Benefits of President=s visit
-Josip Broz Tito
-Communists
-President=s possible participation in summit meeting
-Possible Soviet response
-Moscow
-President=s visit to Yugoslavia
-Zagreb
-Weather
-Possible response of Russian people to a summit meeting
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Actions against Romanian students
-Comments of unknown German
-Young people=s views of Communism

Preparation for editor=s meeting
-Timetable for US withdrawal
-President=s possible response
-Buchanan
-President=s accountability

Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Harry S Truman
-Norodom Sihanouk
-PRC
-President=s upcoming meeting with Mansfield
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Message for Mansfield
-PRC
-President=s policies
-Possible exchange
-Timing
-Sihanouk
-Cambodia
-Sihanouk

-Kissinger=s possible conversation with Mansfield
-President=s schedule
-Meeting with Mansfield
-PRC
-Kissinger=s possible conversation with Mansfield
-Express gratitude to Mansfield
-Attempt to get a visit from the Chinese
-President=s Possible Trip to the PRC
-Timing
-Sihanouk

Preparation for editors= meeting
-Vietnam
-Timetable for US withdrawal
-Residual force
-Air power
-Press
-US flexibility
-US-PRC relations
-Sihanouk
-Vietnam
-Significance of Abreakthrough@ in relations
-USSR
-Press
-United Nations [UN] issue
-Trade announcement
-Recognition issue
-US long-range goals
-Normalization of relations
-Ending Chinese isolation
-Timing
-Increase in Trade
-Patience
-Chou En-lai
-Polls
-Glassboro summit
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Popular desire for instant solution to problems

PRC
-Suggested speech by President
-US relations

-Negotiations
-Need for firmness

Preparation for editors= meeting
-Long-range view
-Need for communication among power centers
-US, Western Europe, USSR, PRC, Japan
-President=s possible responses to questions
-UN
-Pakistan
-Arms deal
-US policy
-USSR
-Pakistan
-US policy
-Arms deal
-Conflict with India
-East Bengali revolt
-Biafra
-US policy
-William C. Trueheart
-State Department
-Nigeria
-East Bengali revolt
-US policy
-India-Pakistan conflict
-Consequences for India
-West Pakistan
-Separatism
-Baluchistan
-Afghanistan
-US policy
-East Bengali revolt

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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Mansfield
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Meeting with President

Kissinger left at 10:30 am

Conversation No. 250-6

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 11:06 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-53]

Conversation No. 250-7

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  11:06 am - 11:12 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson

[See Conversation No. 42-54]

Conversation No. 250-8

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:12 am and 11:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Haldeman=s schedule
-Meeting with President

Conversation No. 250-9

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  11:20 am - 11:58 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Charles W. Colson
-Tasks

President=s policies
-Defensive attitude
-John B. Connally

-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Trade
-Ping-pong
-Richard V. (ADick@) Allen
-Henry A. Kissinger

President=s PRC initiative
-Allen=s views
-Conservative reaction
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Vietnam
-Allen=s view on conservatives

Economy
-Allen=s views
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Automobile and housing sales
-Retail sales
-Stock market
-Public confidence

Staff
-Allen=s views
-Surrogates
-Surveillance
-Kissinger=s staff
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Allen
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Melvin R. Laird

Economy
-King Resources Corporation
-Stock market
-John M. King
-King Resources Corporation

Staff
-Need for AGaullists@
-Allen

-Tom C. Huston
-Tenure in office
-John N. Mitchell
-Allen
-Houston
-Surveillance

State Department
-Kissinger
-Joseph J. Sisco

Polls
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-George H. Gallup
-Expectations
-Possible Summit meeting
-Economic conditions

Staff
-Possible changes
-President=s conversation with an unknown person
-Memorandum
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Clark MacGregor
-Problems
-Need for surveillance
-Connally

Congress
-Hugh Scott

President=s schedule
-Peter G. Peterson
-Textiles
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield

Staff and Cabinet
-Need for different personalities
-Need for fighters

Summit meeting
-Poll
-Announcement
-Timing

Cabinet changes
-Timing
-Submission to Senate
-Possible interim appointments
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Maurice H. Stans
-Department of Commerce
-Possible appointment
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Department of Agriculture
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Romney
-William P. Rogers and Laird
-Secretary of the Treasury
-Assistant secretaries

Ambassadorial appointments
-Kissinger
-Henry A. Byroade
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.=s opinion
-Latin America
-PRC
-Rogers

Public opinion
-Latin America
-Revolutions
-Africa
-Asia
-Pakistan

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Preparation for editors= meeting
-Surveillance
-Instructions for Patrick J. Buchanan
-Bombings by dissidents
-Schools and other institutions
-Casualties
-Polls
-Press story
-College campuses
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

Vietnam War
-Opposition
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-POW wives
-Colson
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes
-Kissinger=s relations with POW wives
-Colson
-Kissinger
-Hughes= views
-Speech
-Kissinger=s draft
-Hughes= views
-Rogers
-Position of Secretary of State
-Kissinger
-ADoves@

-Hughes
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-POW issue
-President=s options
-Hughes
-Colson
-Kissinger
-John A. Scali
-Instructions to Haldeman to get advice on President=s forthcoming visit to US Marines at Camp Pendelton
-Peterson

President=s PRC initiative
-Scali=s views
-Need for flexibility
-Visit by United States= ping pong team
-Location
-Shanghai
-Competitiveness
-Chairman of US ping pong team [Graham B. Steenhoven]

President=s schedule

Preparation for editors= meeting

President=s schedule
-Visit of Rio Grande City High School Student Council
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

The President and Haldeman left at 11:58 am

Conversation No. 250-10

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Manolo Sanchez

Request to come over

Conversation No. 250-11

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

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Bull left at an unknown time before 3:15 pm

Conversation No. 250-12

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown woman

Unknown person=s schedule

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 3:15 pm

Conversation No. 250-13

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman?]

[Prisoner of War wives]
-Instructions for unknown person [Haldeman?]
-William P. Rogers= assignment
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes

Conversation No. 250-14

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:15 pm

Conversation No. 250-16

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  3:15 pm - 3:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

Preparation for editors= meeting
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] surveillance
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Questions
-Ziegler=s responses to press
-News conference, April 16, 1971
-AFalse impression@ of FBI as spying on law-abiding citizens
-President=s possible responses
-Richard A. Moore
-Washington Post article
-President=s instructions for Buchanan
-Press irresponsibility
-Surveillance
-Washington Post
-Scare story
-Cameras on White House
-Lafayette Park
-Press corps
-Instructions to Ziegler
-Justice Department
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Wiretapping
-FBI
-[New York Times story of April 16, 1971]
-Allegation of FBI monitoring telephone conversation [involving John Dowdy]
-Wiretapping
-President

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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Preparation for editors= meeting
-FBI surveillance
-President=s possible responses
-Robert F. (ABobby@) Kennedy
-Use of wiretapping
-Edmund S. Muskie and Charles H. Percy
-Administration=s policy
-President=s possible responses to press
-Phony issue
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Press
-Peter Lisagor
-New York Times story
-Ziegler=s response to question at news conference
-FBI=s responsibility
-Crimes
-Arrests
-National security
-Press
-Need for firmness

Ziegler left at 3:27 pm

Conversation No. 250-17

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:27 pm and 5:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Manolo Sanchez met with an unknown woman

President=s schedule
-President=s meeting with an unknown person

Sanchez and the unknown woman left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm

Conversation No. 250-18

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:27 pm and 5:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Bombings
-California
-Cost of arson at Santa Cruz campus of University of California, April 8, 1971
-Riots in Washington
-Leftists
-Costs
-Figures from General Services Administration [GSA]
-Bombings of federal buildings
-Need for statistics on bombings in states
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Investigation
-Staff responsibility
-John D. Ehrlichman

Press story
-George P. Shultz
-Chicago
-Harvard University

Stock market
-Rise
-Record level

President=s schedule
-Buchanan
-Interview with unknown man
-Press
-Appointments for April 17, 1971
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Peter G. Peterson
-Mansfield

Conversation No. 250-19

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:27 pm and 5:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Preparation for editors= meeting
-Rostrum
-Press conference
-Comments of unknown man
-Presidential seal
-Effect
-Press conference
-Sound pick-up
-Press conference
-Relations with press
-Need for a relaxed attitude
-President=s advantage
-Rostrum

President=s schedule
-Appointment for April 17, 1971
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Timing
-Unknown man [Mansfield?]

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-AHawks@
-Summit
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-President=s policy
-President=s forthcoming discussions with unknown man [Mansfield?]

Conversation No. 250-20

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:27 pm and 5:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

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Conversation No. 250-21

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:27 pm and 5:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

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Conversation No. 250-22

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:27 pm and 5:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man [Alexander P. Butterfield?]

President=s meeting with newspaper editors

Herbert G. Klein

The unknown man [Butterfield?] left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm

Conversation No. 250-23

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  5:30 pm - 5:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 42-55]

Conversation No. 250-24

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:32 pm and 5:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

President=s schedule

Conversation No. 250-25

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  5:33 pm - 5:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President=s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-James L. Buckley
-John A. Scali
-Views on Vietnam
-Withdrawal
-Need for Kissinger to speak with Scali
-Instructions to Haldeman to meet with Scali, Kissinger, and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Instructions for Kissinger
-[Unintelligible name]
-People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Scali=s views
-President=s views
-Kissinger
-Instructions to Haldeman
-Scali, Kissinger, and Ziegler
-Clark MacGregor and George P. Shultz
-Congress
-Possible meeting with President
-Instructions for Scali

Conversation No. 250-26

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:34 pm and 7:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:04 pm

Conversation No. 250-27

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:34 pm and 7:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:04 pm

Conversation No. 250-28

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:34 pm and 7:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

Steel workers
-Figures
-1960 compared with 1971

Conversation No. 250-29

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:34 pm and 7:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:04 pm

Conversation No. 250-30

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:34 pm and 7:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:04 pm

Conversation No. 250-31

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  7:04 pm - 7:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President=s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Follow-up
-Administration=s possible response to media

Preparations for editors= meeting

Conversation No. 250-32

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:05 pm and 8:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

Unknown items

Conversation No. 250-33

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:05 pm and 8:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:00 pm

Conversation No. 250-34

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:05 pm and 8:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Briefcase

President=s schedule

The President and Sanchez left at 8:03 pm