Conversation No. 252-1

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:43 pm and 2:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm

Conversation No. 252-2

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:43 pm and 2:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-62]

Conversation No. 252-3

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  2:31 pm - 2:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson

[See Conversation No. 42-63]

Conversation No. 252-4

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:42 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

President=s schedule

Conversation No. 252-5

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:42 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

People=s Republic of China [PRC] ping pong team=s upcoming visit
-John A. Scali
-United States Information Agency [USIA]
-State Department
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Scali=s role
-State Department
-Kissinger and Scali
-Culture exchange
-State Department
-USIA
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-William T. Gossett
-Marriage to daughter of Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes
-President=s policies
-Press
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Scali
-PRC

United Nations

Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with Scali
-Ping pong team visit
-State Department
-President=s instructions to Kissinger
-Need for subtlety
-Gossett

Conversation No. 252-6

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:42 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-64]

Conversation No. 252-7

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  2:54 pm - 3:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John A. Scali

[See Conversation No. 42-65]

Conversation No. 252-8

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:01 pm and 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule
-Meeting

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm

Conversation No. 252-9

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:01 pm and 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm

Conversation No. 252-10

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:01 pm and 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Instructions

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm

Conversation No. 252-11

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:01 pm and 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm

Conversation No. 252-12

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:01 pm and 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Instructions

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm

Conversation No. 252-13

Date:  April 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:01 pm and 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Instructions

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm

Conversation No. 252-14

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  3:53 pm - 3:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Wilderness statement [proposals to establish new national wilderness areas]

Jacob K. Javits

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Butterfield left at 3:57 pm

Conversation No. 252-15

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:57 pm and 4:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-67]

Conversation No. 252-16

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:57 pm and 4:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:33 pm

Conversation No. 252-17

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  4:33 pm - 4:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson

[See Conversation No. 42-68]

Conversation No. 252-18

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:47 pm and 4:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

Call to unknown man

Schedule

Conversation No. 252-19

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  4:49 pm - 4:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 42-69]

Conversation No. 252-20

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  4:51 pm - 6:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger=s trip to California
-Schedule
-Timing

Kissinger=s conversation with Pakistani Ambassador Agha Hilaly

People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-US policy

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Negotiations
-[David] Kenneth Rush and Philip J. Farley

PRC
-Chou En-lai

USSR
-Negotiations
-Kissinger=s conversation with Dobrynin
-Vienna
-Arms control
-Possible agreement
-US policy
-Possible agreement
-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM] treaty
-Soviet strength

PRC
-Pakistani ambassador
-US emissary
-Possible candidates

-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-[Unintelligible name]
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Taiwan
-Chiang Kai-shek
-John B. Connally
-Personal style
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

USSR
-Cuba
-Middle East
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Prospects
-Kissinger=s discussion with Dobrynin
-Possible summit
-SALT
-US position
-PRC

PRC
-Possible US emissary
-Rockefeller [?]

Vietnam
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-PRC
-US policy
-Possible withdrawal of US forces
-Thailand
-Indonesia
-William P. Rogers= speech
-Criticism
-Cambodia and Laos

PRC
-Kissinger=s conversation with Henry Hubbard
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Marshall Green
-Rogers
-State Department

-Goal of US policy
-End isolation of PRC
-President=s possible statement on April 29, 1971 regarding Taiwan
-US relations
-Treaty commitments
-United Nations= [UN] representation
-Two-China policy
-US policy
-State Department
-Negotiations
-Pakistan
-Rawalpindi
-Bruce
-Robert D. Murphy
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Haldeman
-Chou En-lai
-Rockefeller
-Taiwan
-Bruce
-Vietnam negotiations
-State Department
-Signal to the USSR
-Berlin talks
-Bruce
-Rockefeller
-Vietnam
-USSR
-Timetable
-Bruce
-Kissinger
-Bruce=s possible role
-Kissinger
-Possible visit by President
-Vietnam
-Meeting in Rawalpindi
-Possible US emissary to Peking
-Bruce

Haldeman entered at 5:20 pm

-Possible summit meeting
-Timing of President=s visit

-Vietnam negotiations
-Taiwan
-Vietnam
-Announcement
-Kissinger=s possible role
-Bruce
-Visit by President
-Arrangements
-Kissinger
-Meeting with PRC representatives
-Kissinger=s possible itinerary
-Timing
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Personal emissary
-Risks
-USSR
-Laos, Indonesia, and Thailand
-Kissinger
-Bruce
-Meeting in Rawalpindi
-Timing
-USSR
-Rockefeller
-Need for subtlety
-Preparation for meeting with President
-Arrangements
-Agenda
-Kissinger
-Agenda
-Emissary
-Announcement
-Press conference

President=s conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Television coverage

PRC
-Timing of President=s visit
-USSR
-Announcement
-Kissinger
-Rockefeller and Bruce
-State Department

-Meeting in Rawalpindi
-PRC emissaries
-Chou En-lai
-Timing
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Tour of China
-Purpose of negotiations
-Summit meeting
-Vietnam
-Emissary
-Possible discussions
-Purposes of Kissinger=s visit
-President=s visit
-Possible visit by Apublic@ envoy
-US position
-Meeting in Rawalpindi
-Pakistan ambassador
-Kissinger and Rogers
-Negotiations
-Possible Apublic@ emissaries
-Bruce and Murphy
-Condition of presidential visit
-End of Vietnam War
-Timing of President=s visit

USSR
-Summit meeting

Vietnam
-Bruce=s statement on Prisoners of War [POWs]

[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]

Kissinger left at 5:49 pm

State Department
-Possible change of secretary
-Rogers

-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rockefeller
-Connally
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Need for Amechanic@ as secretary
-Richardson and Rogers
-Rogers
-Accomplishments
-Middle East and USSR
-Career aspirations
-Supreme Court
-Warren E. Burger
-John M. Harlan
-President=s PRC policy
-Taiwan
-Speech

Barry M. Goldwater
-Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]
-Comments in Tennessee
-Social Security
-Comments in St. Petersburg, Florida
-Press
-Television
-Marvin L. Kalb

State Department
-Rogers
-President=s PRC policy
-Green
-President=s PRC policy
-Kissinger
-Rogers

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:55 pm

George P. Shultz
-Minimum wage
-President=s schedule
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland

Minimum wage
-Decision
-James D. Hodgson
-Testimony
-President=s schedule
-Shultz
-President=s instructions to Haldeman
-Purpose of Shultz=s request to discuss minimum wage
-President=s upcoming press conference
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Administration=s position
-Hodgson

State Department
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Career aspirations
-Rogers

Television networks
-President=s conversation with Colson
-Demonstrations
-Public opinion
-Veterans
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-John A. Scali
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Pentagon [Department of Defense]
-Media
-President=s reaction to media in 1962

President=s meeting with editors

State Department
-Connally
-Rogers

PRC
-Visit by US emissary
-Kissinger
-Richardson
-Announcement
-Emissary

-Public and private
-Timing
-Conditions
-Vietnam
-Taiwan
-President=s visit
-Mansfield

Shultz
-Hodgson=s testimony
-President=s schedule
-Call back

Butterfield left at 6:06 pm

-John D. Ehrlichman

The President and Haldeman left at 6:08 pm

Conversation No. 252-21

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:14 pm and 9:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s book
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:08 pm

Conversation No. 252-22

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:14 pm and 9:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-70]

Conversation No. 252-23

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  9:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 42-71]

Conversation No. 252-24

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 pm and 9:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:20 pm

Conversation No. 252-25

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 42-73]

Conversation No. 252-26

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:30 pm and 9:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-74]

Conversation No. 252-27

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  9:35 pm - 9:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 42-75]

Conversation No. 252-28

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:36 pm and 11:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with unknown person

President=s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:10 pm

Conversation No. 252-29

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:36 pm and 11:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Noise of demonstrators

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:10 pm

Conversation No. 252-30

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:36 pm and 11:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Newspapers for President

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:10 pm

Conversation No. 252-31

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-87]

Conversation No. 252-32

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan

[See Conversation No. 42-88]

Conversation No. 252-33

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-89]

Conversation No. 252-34

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull

[See Conversation No. 42-90]

Conversation No. 252-35

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-91]

Conversation No. 252-36

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-92]

Conversation No. 252-37

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alvin Snyder

[See Conversation No. 42-93]

Conversation No. 252-38

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 42-94]

Conversation No. 252-39

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-95]

Conversation No. 252-40

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 42-96]

Conversation No. 252-41

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Werner P. Gullander

[See Conversation No. 42-97]

Conversation No. 252-42

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 42-98]

Conversation No. 252-43

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm

Conversation No. 252-44

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 42-99]

The President talked with John F. Griner at an unknown time between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm

[Conversation No. 252-44A]

[See Conversation No. 42-99A]