Conversation No. 251-1

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:26 pm and 2:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

President=s schedule

Conversation No. 251-2

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:26 pm and 2:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:38 pm

Conversation No. 251-3

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  2:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-58]

Conversation No. 251-4

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:38 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm

Conversation No. 251-5

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:38 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Location of phone

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm

Conversation No. 251-52

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:38 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-59]

Conversation No. 251-6

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  2:39 pm - 2:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon

[See Conversation No. 42-60]

Conversation No. 251-7

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  2:45 pm - 2:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Leslie C. Arends

[See Conversation No. 42-61]

Conversation No. 251-8

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:46 pm and 2:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President=s schedule
-Request for unknown person=s [Haldeman?] presence at Oval Office for appointments
-Picture session with John N. Mitchell
-Timing

Appointment
-Need [for Office of Emergency Preparedness] to Asell@ economy, foreign policy

-Possible candidates for Cabinet positions
-Unknown man
-[Forename unknown] Delaney

Conversation No. 251-9

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  2:55 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Ziegler left at 3:00 pm

Conversation No. 251-10

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Conversation No. 251-11

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm

Conversation No. 251-12

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm

Conversation No. 251-13

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm

Conversation No. 251-14

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm

Conversation No. 251-15

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm

Conversation No. 251-16

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm

Conversation No. 251-17

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  2:25 pm - 4:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President=s schedule

President=s conversation with John B. Connally
-John A. Volpe
-Requiring seat belts
-Cost

Seat belts
-Safety of life
-Popular reaction
-Accidents
-Safety council
-Labor costs
-Poor people

Environment
-Pressure from Congress
-Enforcement
-Auto emissions
-Cost
-Possible effect of legislation
-American Motors Corporation, Chrysler Corporation

Volpe
-President=s conversation with Connally
-Competence

Clifford M. Hardin
-Maurice H. Stans
-Volpe
-Bryce N. Harlow
-White House
-Department of Agriculture
-John C. Whitaker
-Farm Bureau

Economic policy
-Need for one spokesman
-Council of Economic Advisers [CEA]
-Disagreement with Connally
-Paul W. McCracken
-Staff
-Connally
-McCracken and George P. Shultz
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Connally and McCracken
-Interest rates
-Haldeman=s conversation with Connally
-Washington Post interview
-McCracken

-Whitman=s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Economy

President=s schedule
-School financing meeting
-Travel
-California and Florida
-Timing

[Forename unknown] Martin

John J. Sparkman

Everett M. Dirksen
-Age

Demonstrations
-Strategy
-Need for firmness
-District of Columbia police
-Unknown man

Polls
-Timing
-George C. Wallace
-California

Unemployment
-Briefing
-California
-Midwest, South, Northeast
-California
-Airplanes and defense
-Haldeman and Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Edwin Reinecke
-Task force on aerospace
-Space shuttle
-Weinberger
-Available talent
-James G. Fulton
-Space program
-Fulton

Viet Cong flag burning
-Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut
-Instructions for Charles W. Colson
-Hardhats
-Possible strategy
-Instigating fights
-Washington, DC
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Police
-Instructions for Colson

Tricia Nixon
-Ziegler
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Possible tour of White House
-Television networks
-White House weddings
-Possibilities
-White House weddings
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Gown
-Frances (Folsom) Cleveland
-Blue Room
-Ziegler
-Possible assignment
-Television networks
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] or National Broadcasting Company [NBC]

Mock elections
-Timing
-Party nominating conventions
-John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Youth conference
-White House press conferences

Presidential commissions
-United Nations [UN]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Public opinion
-Location

Youth conference
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Advisors and youth
-Views on resolutions

Polls
-Louis Harris
-Faculty
-Radicalism
-1960 elections
-Schools
-John F. Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Elections
-Faculty
-Harris
-George H. Gallup
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]

Demonstrators
-Russell B. Long
-Reaction
-Protection for cabinet
-Secret Service
-State Department
-[Forename unknown] Young

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Press
-Support for President

Networks
-CBS presentation of Ohio glee club
-Motivation
-Youth
-Mrs. Nixon
-Rio Grande City high school
-Chamber of Commerce
-NBC
-President=s welfare statements at governors= meeting

Welfare reform
-Popular reaction
-Editorials
-Unemployment
-President=s statements
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Votes
-Liberals
-Conservatives
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Leonard Garment
-Liberals
-President=s conversations with senators
-Votes
-Liberals and conservatives
-Republicans
-Conservative Democrats

Demonstrators
-Youth

Ehrlichman, Edward L. Morgan, and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., entered at 3:05 pm

Automobile safety
-Procedures
-Seat belts
-Air bags
-Department of Transportation
-Volpe
-President=s meeting with Henry E. Ford, II
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with Charles D. Baker
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Suspension of order by Department of Transportation

-President=s schedule
-Timing
-Volpe=s schedule
-Department of Transportation
-Authority
-Safety regulations
-Automobile Safety Act of 1966
-Decision-making power
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]

Automobile Safety Act
-President=s options
-Volpe
-Procedures
-Ralph Nader
-Possible reaction
-Volpe=s possible role
-Air bags
-Nader
-Wall Street Journal article
-Volpe
-Seat belts
-Regulations

Regulations
-Farmers= union
-Votes
-Environment
-Muskie
-Air bags
-Nader
-Volpe

School desegregation cases
-Meetings with departments
-HEW and Justice Departments
-Procedures
-Memos for Richardson and Mitchell
-Numbers
-Swann case
-Racial balance

-Departments
-Administration=s response
-Motions

Haldeman left at 3:11 pm

Supreme Court
-Ruling on housing cases
-Garment and Price=s memorandum
-Neighborhood schools
-Warren E. Burger
-March 24, 1971 statement
-California statute
-Provisions
-Public housing
-Justices
-William O. Douglas
-Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Hugo L. Black
-Thurgood Marshall
-Low-income housing
-Lackawanna case
-People=s elected representatives
-Cities
-Racial considerations
-State councils
-Blackjack case
-Missouri
-Quasi-public housing corporation
-Low-income housing
-Zoning
-Federal question involved
-Grants
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] and Justice Department
-Lackawanna case
-District court level
-Racial discrimination
-Possible federal involvement
-HEW and Justice Department
-Need for court finding
-Litigation

-Theory of case
-Possible federal involvement
-Civil rights

Ehrlichman=s draft housing statement
-George W. Romney and Mitchell
-Meeting
-Lackawanna and California cases
-Recent Supreme Court cases
-Guidelines for administration=s policies
-Possible HUD and Justice Department joint statement
-President=s possible statement

School desegregation cases
-Administration=s response
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] action
-Rulings
-Reaction
-Case

Cancer
-Elmer H. Bobst
-President=s possible conversation with Bobst
-Government organization
-Possible new federal agency
-E. M. Kennedy
-Research
-National Institute of Health [NIH]
-Bureaucracy
-E. M. Kennedy
-Administration=s policy
-Search for ALos Alamos@ cure for cancer, heart disease
-Undramatic solutions
-Cosmetics
-Efficiency
-Government organization
-Director for institute
-Richardson=s conversation with Dr. Henry S. Kaplan
-Direct access to President

William L. Scott
-Ehrlichman=s memorandum to Rogers C. B. Morton
-Salem Church Dam

-Environmentalists
-Interstate highway

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School desegregation
-President=s conversation with Richardson
-Court directives
-Administration=s policy
-Cooperation with local officials
-Richardson and Mitchell

Interest rates
-Statement by McCracken
-Connally and McCracken
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman=s meeting with Connally
-Mitchell
-Anti-trust

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:25 pm

President=s schedule
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-[Forename unknown] McCord [sp?]
Butterfield left at 3:26 pm

Bobst
-Concern
-President=s possible appointment
-Candidates
-Concern

-Kaplan
-Need for communication
-Cancer panels
-Ralph Yarborough
-Appointments

Cole and Morgan left at 3:35 pm

Interest rates
-Connally=s idea
-Need for single voice
-Arthur F. Burns
-Vietnam
-William P. Rogers and Kissinger
-McCracken=s statement

School aid bill
-John C. Stennis amendment
-Prospects

Morton, William T. Pecora, and Whitaker entered at 3:36 pm

Greetings

Micronesia
-Peace Corps
-Congress
-High Commissioner
-[Unintelligible name] [William J. Randall?]
-Peace Corps
-Teachers
-Language problems
-Native teachers
-Schools

Peace Corps
-Teacher corps
-Composition
-Value
-Possible abolition
-Director
-Joseph H. Blatchford
-Demonstrations

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Rogers
-Composition
-Micronesia

Micronesia
-Ambassador
-Edward E. Johnston
-High Commissioner of the Peace Corps
-Qualifications
-Status
-Administration
-Appropriations
-Status
-District administrators
-Districts
-AMariana group@
-Population
-Franklin Haydn Williams
-Need to work with Interior Department
-Importance

Alaska pipeline
-Permit
-Timing
-Pecora
-Need for energy
-Government consolidation
-Politics
-Need for Alaskan oil
-Need to sell program to youth, general public
-Morton=s initiatives
-University of Southern California
-Oil white paper
-General public
-Pecora
-Circulation
-Case for pipeline
-Timing
-Pecora
-Ashland Oil Co.
-Application
-Case for pipeline

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[Duration:  8s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Courts
-Administration=s white paper
-Supply side
-Energy statement
-Public relations
-Consistency with energy statement
-Energy statement
-Atomic energy
-AGeneration of oil@
-Breeder reactor
-Alaska
-Domestic oil
-Environmentalists

Santa Barbara leases
-Number
-Funding
-Elk Hills naval reserve
-Funds
-Exploration of Alaskan oil
-Legislative prospects
-Senate Armed Services Committee
-Melvin R. Laird
-Need for action
-Consequences of inaction
-Southern California
-Los Angeles Times

-White House support
-Armed Services
-Laird
-Congress
-Interior committees
-Armed Services committees
-F. Edward Hébert
-Federal-State cooperation
-Oil production
-Environmental protection of islands

San Clemente
-President=s statement
-Land for public sale [near Camp Pendleton]
-Ehrlichman=s press conference
-Consequences
-State intentions
-Administrations intent
-Recreation
-Bill Mott
-Administration=s intent
-Public statement
-Mott
-Value of land
-National recreational area
-Laird

Gateway east and gateway west
-[Parks]
-Development plans
-Budget
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Budget
-Land acquisition
-Figures
-Ferry
-Subway
-Development
-State control
-New York and New Jersey
-Florida [Everglades]
-Corps of Engineers
-Mitchell

-James L. Buckley
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-California
-Unemployment
-Morton=s possible conversation with Ehrlichman
-OMB
-Administration statements
-Fort Hancock
-Floyd Bennett field
-Jamaica Bay
-Fish and wildlife
-New York Port Authority
-Subway and ferry
-[Forename unknown] Mason
-Advantages for President
-OMB
-Area near Presidio
-Nature conservationists
-[Walter J. Hickel]
-Unknown Florida developer
-[Edward Baker?]
-Controversy
-Parks
-San Clemente
-Parks
-Money problems
-Costs
-Development plans
-Land
-West coast and East coast development
-Federal role
-Land acquisition
-Fort Hancock
-Development costs
-Figures
-Benefits
-Funds
-OMB
-Weinberger
-Whitaker
-Defense
-New York

-Federal park
-Land use
-San Francisco
-Benefits of plan
-J. F. Kennedy International Airport
-New York Parks Department
-Federal role
-Great Falls
-National seashores
-User fees
-Weinberger

Desalinization plant
-Contract
-California
-Orange County
-Budget
-Figures

Oil shale
-Denver, Colorado
-Program

Breeder reactor
-Location
-Southern California
-Study
Oil shale
-Unknown client of President
-Debts
-Location
-Colorado, Wyoming, Utah
-Petroleum industry
-Long-term program
-Composition
-Sodium bicarbonate
-Macolite [sp?]
-Sulphur
-Geologists
-By-products
-Macolite
-Sodium minerals
-Uses

-Development
-Leasing program
-Morton
-Energy needs
-Energy policy statements
-Agreement on program
-Environmental effects
-Sulphur
-Macolite
-Coal
-Oil shale
-Aluminum oxide
-Oil
-Delay
-Huntington Hartford
-Difficulty of access to reserves
-Investment protection
-Leasing plan
-Morton=s plan
-Environmental problems
-Coyotes

Morton=s schedule
-Nashua, New Hampshire, Chamber of Commerce
-Timing
-Administration=s record
-Greg Landry
-Howard Johnson motel
-President=s speech writers
-Patrick J. Buchanan and Price
-Primaries
-Florida
-William Loeb
-Possible speech in Nashua
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam
-President=s 1968 campaign
-Themes
-Conservative state
-Welfare
-Inflation
-Gateway east and gateway west
-Town forum

-Non partisan terms
-Positive tone
-Portsmouth Navy Yard
-Importance of New England
-New Hampshire
-Maine
-Vermont
-Emphasis on unity
-Racial, religious, geographic minorities
-Representation
-Massachusetts

Government reorganization
-Congress
-Department of Natural Resources
-Agriculture
-Department of Natural Resources
-Chet Holifield
-Breeder reactor

Withholding funds
-President=s meeting with Long and Wallace F. Bennett
-Budget problems
-Debt limits
-Weinberger
-Effect on Congress
-Ambassadorships for friends
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Republican leadership
-Environment
-OMB
-Federal budgetary deficit
-Debt ceiling
-Spending limitations
-Weinberger
-Fiscal restraint
-Departments
-Timing
-Budget
-California
-Housing
-Romney
-Spending limitations

-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Unknown man=s public relations
-Activities
-Congress
-J. William Fulbright
-Long
-Romney
-Housing
-Elford A. Cederberg
-Left-wing Democrats
-Necessity to talk to Cederberg
-Cederberg
-Possible role

Withholding funds
-Johnson
-Long
-Johnson
-OMB
-Administration=s input
-William L. Gifford
-Shultz and Weinberger
-Weinberger
-President=s possible conversation with Weinberger
-Budget
-Social Security
-OMB and the CEA
-President=s instructions to Ehrlichman

Hugh Scott
-Dam
-Claim of promise to him
-Political future
-Dam
-Environment
-Whitaker, Bill Shirley, Harlow, and William E. Timmons
-President=s prior instructions
-Bureau of Reclamation report
-Whitaker=s conversation with Scott
-Consequences
-Morton

[General conversation]

The President, Ehrlichman, Morton, Pecora, and Whitaker left at 4:40 pm

Conversation No. 251-18

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:05 am and 9:29 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-76]

Conversation No. 251-53

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:05 am and 9:29 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:29 am

Conversation No. 251-19

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  9:29 am - 9:31 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods

[See Conversation No. 42-77]

Conversation No. 251-20

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:31 am and 9:48 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Instructions

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:48 am

Conversation No. 251-21

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:31 am and 9:48 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Prisoners of War [POW] statement

Vietnam
-Ashau Valley operations
-South Vietnamese
-Secrecy

Aid to India
-Pakistani refugees
-Possible US assistance
-West Pakistan government
-Request from India

Pakistan fighting
-Possible US mediation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Developments

Middle East
-Statement in President=s briefing book
-Suez
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Visit to Suez
-State Department
-Rogers
-US role
-Possible breakthrough
-Suez
-President=s policies
-Suez
-Peace prospects
-Israel

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:31 am

News summaries

Vietnam
-Casualties
-Unknown man=s views on negotiations

People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-President=s policy
-New York Times story, April 29, 1971
-State Department
-Press statement by Charles W. Bray, III
-President=s policy

POWs

Vietnam
-Casualties
-Number killed in North Vietnam
-Number killed in South Vietnam

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:48 am

Conversation No. 251-22

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  9:48 am - 9:50 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Schedule
-John B. Connally=s possible announcement

Butterfield left at 9:50 am

Conversation No. 251-23

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 am and 10:24 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Memorandum from Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 251-24

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 am and 10:24 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Unknown man=s location

Paris peace talks
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Statement on refugees
-John A. Scali
News story
-Television
-Charles W. Colson
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Preparation for President=s forthcoming visit to US Marines at Camp Pendleton, California, April 30, 1971
-Unknown man and Scali
-Location

President=s schedule
-Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo
-Hobart D. (AHobe@) Lewis

News
-John B. Connally
-Internal Revenue Service [appointment for commissioner]

Connally

Staff

Foreign relations
-Charles W. Bray, III statement
-President=s meeting with editors [American Society of Newspaper Editors]
-Instructions for William P. Rogers
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Use of word Adividend@
-People=s Republic of China [PRC] relations
-PRC initiative

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Instructions for Haldeman to have Clark MacGregor call unknown person [George D. Aiken]

Conversation No. 251-25

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 am and 10:24 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vietnam
-Casualties two years ago
-1st Marine Division
-Number

Conversation No. 251-26

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 am and 10:24 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Schedule

Conversation No. 251-27

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  10:24 am - 10:48 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Jayne B. Spain
-Civil Service Commission
-Public relations impact

-Background
-Education
-President=s press conference
Personnel
-Frederic V. Malek

Unknown appointee [Vicki L. Keller?]
-Covington and Burling

Unknown woman

[The President tried to make a telephone call; the call was incomplete]

Vietnam
-Withdrawal rate
-Division size
-1st Marine Division
-John A. Scali
-Division size
-Withdrawal rate

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Patrick J. Buchanan
-Suggestion for President
-Response to critics

Cabinet officers= statements
-Maurice H. Stans
-William P. Rogers
-Television interview
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-State Department
-President=s instructions to Haldeman
-Rogers
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Economic indicators
-Confidence factor
-Stock market
-Consumer spending
-Investment psychology
-Stock market
-Small investors
-Mutual funds

Agnew
-Location

Haldeman left at 10:48 am

Conversation No. 251-28

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  10:48 am - unknown before 11:08 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman

[See Conversation No. 42-78]

Conversation No. 251-29

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:48 am and 11:08 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-106]

Conversation No. 251-30

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:48 am and 11:08 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

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JAPAN

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Conversation No. 251-31

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:48 am and 11:08 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman

[See Conversation No. 42-79]

Conversation No. 251-32

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:08 am and 12:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:03 pm

Conversation No. 251-33

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:17 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm

Conversation No. 251-34

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:17 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm

Conversation No. 251-35

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  2:53 pm - 2:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

News wires
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Timing

Butterfield left at 2:56 pm

Conversation No. 251-36

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:56 pm and 3:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Release
-Conditions
-Offer
-US position
-Unilateral offer
-Number of enemy POWs
-US response
-Number of Americans held
-US position

Conversation No. 251-37

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:56 pm and 3:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-80]

Conversation No. 251-38

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  3:57 pm - 3:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Marjorie P. Acker

[See Conversation No. 42-81]

Conversation No. 251-39

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  4:44 pm - 4:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

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Butterfield left at 4:45 pm

Conversation No. 251-40

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  6:32 pm - 6:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 42-82]

Conversation No. 251-41

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:37 pm and 7:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person

Instructions
-Supper

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 7:27 pm

Conversation No. 251-42

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:37 pm and 7:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Repatriation
-Unilateral
-Internment in neutral country
-Bilateral
-New proposal

Conversation No. 251-43

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:37 pm and 7:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

Staff

Social worker

Conversation No. 251-44

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:37 pm and 7:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:27 pm

Conversation No. 251-45

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:37 pm and 7:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President

Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Intermediaries

Conversation No. 251-46

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  7:27 pm - 7:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 42-83]

Conversation No. 251-47

Date:  April 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:30 pm and 8:02 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Briefcase

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:02 pm

Conversation No. 251-48

Date:  May 4, 1971
Time:  1:11 pm - 1:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Unknown activity

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:11 pm and 1:12 pm]

[Conversation No. 251-48A]

[See Conversation No. 42-84]

[End of telephone conversation]

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo and Robert H. Abplanalp
-Schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm

Conversation No. 251-49

Date:  May 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 1:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 42-85]

Conversation No. 251-50

Date:  May 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 1:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Instruction for Sanchez

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm

Conversation No. 251-51

Date:  May 4, 1971
Time:  1:12 pm - 1:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William B. Macomber, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 42-86]