Conversation No. 302-1

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  1:30 pm - 1:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Unknown man's letter of resignation

Butterfield left at 1:31 pm.

Conversation No. 302-2

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Manolo Sanchez's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm.

Conversation No. 302-3

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule

Telephone call to unknown woman [Rose Mary Woods ?]

Conversation No. 302-4

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm.

Conversation No. 302-5

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

The President's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm.

Conversation No. 302-6

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Telephone call to an unknown woman [Rose Mary Woods ?]

Conversation No. 302-7

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-28]

	Request for telephone call to Mamie G.D. Eisenhower

Conversation No. 302-8

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible] [The President's schedule ?]

Conversation No. 302-9

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

Telephone call to an unknown man

Conversation No. 302-10

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm.

Conversation No. 302-11

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  2:39 pm - 2:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Mamie G.D. Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 13-29]

Conversation No. 302-12

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:41 pm -and 2:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-30]

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 302-13

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  2:42 pm - 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[Conversation No. 302-13A]

[See Conversation No. 13-31; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:42 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]
National economy
-Arthur F. Burns's view
-Retail sales

Kissinger's conversation with William P. Rogers

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting, October 31, 1971

Forthcoming statement on Taiwan
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Berlin settlement

	Yugoslavia
	-Rogers's conversation with the President
	-Rogers previous conversation with Mirko Tepavac
	-Tepavac
	-Previous conversation with the President
	-Previous conversation with Rogers
		-Josip Broz Tito's meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
	-The President's schedule
	-Tito
	-Tepavac
	-Previous conversation with the President
	-Yugoslavia's future
		-Tito
		-US role
		-Soviet Union
	Tito

Rose Mary Woods talked with the President between 2:58 pm and 2:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 302-13B]

[See Conversation No. 13-32]

[End of telephone conversation]

Yugoslavia's future
	-Croatians
	-Souvenirs
-Serbs
	-Soviet Union
-Croatians
-Slovenians
-Tepavac's conversation with the President
-Tepvavac's conversation with Rogers
-Brezhnev's meeting with Tito

	Kissinger’s schedule
		-Japanese Ambassador

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:59 pm.

The President's schedule
-Julie Eisenhower
-George P. Shultz
-Nelson A. Rockefeller

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.

Rockefeller
-Attica
-Previous conversation with Kissinger

Soviet Union
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Policy towards Eastern Europe

United Nations [UN] vote on PRC
-Colson's conversation with the President
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson's charges

Kissinger's attendance at meeting of Woodrow Wilson Center
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Statement regarding: the President's PRC policy

Kissinger's schedule
-Japanese Ambassador

The President's schedule
	-Tito

Kissinger left at 3:05 pm.

Conversation No. 302-14

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:05 pm and 3:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-33]

	Request for a call to John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 302-15

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  3:06 pm - 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

[See Conversation No. 13-34]

Conversation No. 302-16

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:08 pm and 3:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-35]

	Request for a call to Nelson A. Rockefeller

Conversation No. 302-17

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  3:10 pm - 3:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller.

[See Conversation No. 13-36; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 302-18

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  3:20 pm - 5:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President's previous telephone call to Nelson A. Rockefeller

-Robert H. Finch's forthcoming trip to Latin America

Robert L. Kunzig
-Role in administration
	-Possible judgeship
	-The President’s view
-The President's schedule
-Role in administration

Judicial appointments
	-Confirmation possibilities
	-Kunzig
		-General Services Administration [GSA]
		-Possible appointment

Louis P. Harris poll
-Charles W. Colson's conversation with the President
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Press coverage

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Eugene C. Patterson
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
-Activities
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman

Washington Post
-Staff changes
-Paul R. Ignatius
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Edward M. Kennedy

Patterson
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman

The President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Effect on colleges

Harris poll
-Muskie
-Youth
-Statement on black Vice President
-Effect

Patterson

Washington Post
-Staff changes
-Bradlee
-Patterson

Kunzig

Welfare Reform [HR 1]

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[Duration:  53s  ]

	INTELLIGENCE

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Welfare Reform [HR 1]
-Russell B. Long's activities
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Abraham A. Ribicoff's group
-Program
-Elliot L. Richardson's reaction
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Richardson
-The President's possible veto

Government reorganization
-Department of Community Development
-Prospects
-George W. Romney, John A. Volpe, James D. Hodgson
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.'s memorandum
-The President's schedule
-Romney, Volpe, Hodgson, Krogh, Ehrlichman
-Possible activities of Colson and Clark MacGregor

Hardin
-Possible successor
-Clayton K. Yeutter
-Reactions of Clarence D. Palmby and J. Phil Campbell
-Mandate
-Palmby
-Requirements
-Donald E. Johnson

Personnel
-William H. Rehnquist
-Future Supreme Court appointments
-Woman
-William French Smith
-William O. Douglas
-Rehnquist
-Confirmation activities
-Leonard Garment's conversation with Ehrlichman
	-Views
-Lewis F. Powell
-Confirmation activities
-Birch Bayh
-Story, October 29, 1971 regarding finances

Lawyers' compensation
-Richmond
-New York
-Seattle

Personnel
-Future Supreme Court appointments
-Douglas, Thurgood Marshall
-Young man in Philadelphia
-Black woman in Chicago
-Warren E. Burger's possible reaction
-Rehnquist
-Current federal judges
-David R. Young, John W. Dean III

Research and development
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Desalinization
-Technology
-Cost
-William E. Kriegsman, Office of Science and Technology
-Unknown man's activities

Patrick J. Buchanan
-Memorandum
-Conversation with John P. Sears
-Views on Value added tax [VAT]
-Proposal regarding property tax and education
-Aid to parochial schools

Aid to parochial schools

VAT
-Buchanan's view
-Real estate tax
-Education

Presidency
-Popular expectations
-Blacks, environment, education
-The President's handling
-The President's handling
-The President's opponents' views

VAT
-Buchanan's view
-Federal budget
-Education
-Caspar W. Weinberger, George P. Shultz
-Possible cuts
-Conversations with Ehrlichman and Edwin L. Harper
-Balance
-Richard A. Moore's analysis
-Value to Catholics
-Knights of Columbus
-Peter J. Brennan
-Polls
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-The President's schedule
-John Cardinal McIntyre

Research and development
-Cost
-Magruder
-Dr. Edward E. David
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-Use of funds

Urban development
-Ehrlichman's previous meeting with the President and John R. Price
-Financing
-Congressional prospects
-John F. Kennedy's accomplishments
-Lyndon B. Johnson's accomplishments
-The President's accomplishments

The President's administration
-Compared to previous administrations
-Accomplishments
	-Environment
-Revenue sharing
-Government reorganization
-Health coverage
-1972 election

VAT
	-Buchanan
	-Analysis of VAT
-Charles W. Colson's views
	-Political benefit
-John B. Connally's views
-John N. Mitchell's views

Federal budget
-Political concerns
-Shultz's budget review

National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Administration
-Magruder's views

Cabinet
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Volpe
-Schedule
	-Italy
-Airplane
-Transportation Department
-Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts

Unknown committee

Supreme Court appointments
	-Confirmation hearings
		-Rehnquist
		-Powell
-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI] investigation

J. Edgar Hoover
-Term in office

United Nations [UN] vote on PRC
-Hugh Scott
-Israel
-South Africa

Health of Stewart J.O. And Joseph W. Alsop

Stewart Alsop
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-VAT
-Connally
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak's story
-Spiro T. Agnew's statement to Samuel L. Devine's group

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:20 pm and 4:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 302-18A]

[See Conversation No. 13-37]

	Request for a call to George P. Shultz

[End of telephone conversation]

Agnew
-Statement to Devine's group
-1972 ticket
-Alsop's view

The President talked with George P. Shultz between 4:10 pm and 4:11 pm.

[Conversation No. 302-18B]

[See Conversation No. 13-38]

[End of telephone conversation]

Agnew
-Alsop's view

Stewart Alsop
-Views regarding Connally

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:11 pm.

Dog

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:17 pm.

Stewart Alsop
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Lyndon B. Johnson's relationship with John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy
-Joseph Alsop

Rogers
-The President's conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Forthcoming visit to PRC
-Kissinger's views
-Kissinger's views

Johnson's relationship with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy

Stewart Alsop
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Johnson's relationship with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy
-Views regarding John Kennedy

Robert Kennedy

Edward Kennedy
-Africa

George P. Shultz entered at 4:15 pm.

Request for Manolo Sanchez

Ehrlichman left at 4:17 pm.

Rockefeller
-Forthcoming telephone call from Shultz
-Finch's forthcoming trip to Latin America
-Import surcharge
-Conversation with the President
-Canadian negotiations

Import surcharge
-Japanese negotiations
-Timing of Finch's forthcoming trip

Finch's forthcoming trip to Latin America
	-Postponement
-Rockefeller's previous trips
-Timing
-Rogers
-Shultz's possible conversation with Mitchell
-Import surcharge
-Itinerary
-Luis Echeverria
-Connally

Arthur F. Burns

International economy
-France
-Burns's view

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:17 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.
Shultz's schedule
-Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger
-Europe
-Burns
-Georges J.R. Pompidou

Common Market
-Great Britain

Quadriad meeting
-Shultz's forthcoming memorandum for the President
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Paul W. McCracken
-Connally
-Burns

Policy development
-Germany
-Canada
-Latin America

Latin America
-Finch's forthcoming trip
-The President's conversation with Rockefeller
-Import surcharge
-Canadian negotiations

Burns
-Conversation with Shultz
-Meeting with the President, October 29, 1971
-Statistics
-Conversation with the President, October 29, 1971
-Federal Reserve
-Conversation with Shultz
-Milton Friedman's views of policies
-Role in administration
-Money supply
-Interest rates
-Schedule
-Quadriad

International economy
-Peterson's role in administration
-The President's schedule
-Shultz, proposed meeting with Peterson and Connally
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-Connally
-Paul A. Volcker
-Peterson, Connally, Shultz
-Connally's views
-Japan
-Undeveloped nations
-Europe
-Canada
-Europe
-Germany
-France
-Kissinger
-Willy F. Brandt
-Pompidou
-Kissinger

Burns
-Role in administration
-Money supply
-Interest rates
-Views on national economy

Federal Reserve
-Interest rates
-Appointments
-Unknown man
-Burns's views
-Connally's views
-Earl Cox [?]
-Position with World Bank

Herbert Stein
-University of Virginia
-Possible role in administration

Federal Reserve
-Appointments
-Burns's views
-Stein
-Law firms' management
-Hospitals' management
-Stein
-Burns
-Money supply

Memorandum from the President
-Shultz's preparation

Peterson
-Treasury Department

Budget review
-Weinberger
-Defense Department
-California
-Timing
-General revenue sharing

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:11 pm and 4:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 302-18C]

[See Conversation No. 13-39]

	Request for a call to John C. Whitaker

[End of telephone conversation]

George Meany

The President talked with John C. Whitaker between 4:55 pm and 4:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 302-18D]

[See Conversation No. 13-40]

[End of telephone conversation]

Soviet grain deal
-Shultz's meeting with Colson and Whitaker
-Longshoremen's action
-New Orleans
-Injunction

Meany
-Goals
-Pay Board action on wage contracts

Pay Board
-Possible action on wage contracts
-Arnold R. Weber
-Meany's views
-Effect of freeze
-British experience
-Meany's views
-Friedman's article in New York Times, October 29, 1971
-Meany's views
-Shultz's forthcoming conversation with Weber

Price Commission and Pay Board
-Operation
-Importance
-Productivity
-Collective bargaining

National economy
-Profits
-Burns's view
-Industrial plant
-Build up during 1960's
-Age
-Inventories
-Consumer spending
-Polls
-The President's forthcoming memorandum

The President's schedule
-Shultz, Josip Broz Tito

Tito

The President and Shultz left at 5:16 pm.

Conversation No. 302-19

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown time between 1:46 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
-Melvin R. Laird

Conversation No. 302-20

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Conversation No. 302-21

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Conversation No. 302-22

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Conversation No. 302-23

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

The President's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Conversation No. 302-24

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Dr. W. Kenneth Riland's schedule

Conversation No. 302-25

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's schedule
-Melvin R. Laird
-Kissinger

Conversation No. 302-26

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-53]

	Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 302-27

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  2:29 pm - 2:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 13-54; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 302-28

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:30 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Folder
-Melvin R. Laird

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:47 pm.

Conversation No. 302-29

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:30 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President's conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Robert J. Dole

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Conversation No. 302-30

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:30 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-55]

	Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 302-31

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  2:47 pm - 2:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 13-56]

Conversation No. 302-32

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  2:54 pm - 4:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's conversation with William F. Buckley
-Defense budget

Kissinger's meeting

William P. Rogers
-Role with administration

Possible State Department action
-J. William Fulbright
-Clark MacGregor

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
	-Timing

Melvin R. Laird entered at 2:55 pm.

Laird's schedule
-Press
-Foreign aid
-The President's previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler

Senate vote on foreign aid program
-Laird's forthcoming statement to press
-Kissinger's conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Foreign Relations Committee's actions

Foreign aid program
-Future administration handling
-Fulbright, Michael J. Mansfield
-Defense authorization bill
-Robert J. Dole's vote
-Laird's possible statement
-Foreign military aid
-Thailand, Korea
-Vietnam
-Future administration handling
-Laird's possible statement
-Forthcoming negotiations with Soviet Union and People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Possible Congressional action
-Vietnam
-John B. Connally
-The President's opponents' view
-Charles W. Colson's memorandum to Connally
-Hugh Scott
-Senate opponents
-House's possible action
-Gerald R. Ford
-Allen J. Ellender
-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-George H. Mahon, F. Edward Herbert
-Otto E. Passman
-Rogers
-Fulbright
-Handling of legislation
-Israel, Pakistan
-Cambodia
-Israel
-Compared to Social Security and Welfare Reform [HR 1]
-Laird's possible statement
-US role in world
-Vietnam
-Korea

Laird's schedule
-Vietnam
-Cambodia, Thailand

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	NUCLEAR PLANNING GROUP

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US relations with Soviet Union
-Europeans' view
-Laird's meetings with Europeans
	-US Soviet Union treaty
		-European concern
-The President's statements
-Europeans' view
-Ireland
-Germany
-Helmut H.W. Schmidt
		-Schmidt
			-West German Foreign Minister
			-Views 
				-German financial support for US forces in Europe
-Congress
-Ludwig Erhard
-Connally

Financial support for West European defense
-Germany
-Great Britain
		-US relations with Soviet Union
-Role of US allies
-The President's schedule

Kissinger's schedule
-George R.S. Baring, Earl of Cromer
-Possible message to Edward R.G. Heath

US relations with Soviet Union
-Concerns of European Defense Ministers

Moshe Carmel
-Willy F. Brandt's Nobel Peace Prize
	-Schmidt

	Laird's schedule

US commitment to North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-Congress
		-Laird’s comments
-Buckley
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-US negotiations with Soviet Union

Federal budget
-The President's meeting with George P. Shultz and Caspar W. Weinberger
-National Defense
-Strategic weapons
-Laird's memorandum to Kissinger
	-Recommendations
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-US negotiations
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Impact on national economy
-Laird's conversation with Shultz
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Weinberger
-Kissinger's subsequent meeting with David Packard 

Vietnam
-Connally
-Nguyen Van Thieu's election
-Laird's possible statement
-Scott's view
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-POWs
-Troop withdrawal
	-Timing
-Laird's possible statement
-US military

C5A aircraft
-Robert S. McNamara
-Government contract
-Lockheed
-Packard
-Current procurement practices

Lockheed
-Airbus
-Frank E. Borman
-Eastern AirlineS

C5A aircraft
-Laird's conversation with Shultz
-Responsibility

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawals
-Announcement
-Timing
-Recruitment of volunteers

German financial support for us forces in Europe

Laird's meeting with William J. Porter
		-NATO
		-Appointment
	-President of John Deere

Defense Department
-Staffing requirements

Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
-Possible action

Mansfield D. Sprague
-Confirmation
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration
-Peter M. Flanigan's forthcoming investigation

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:55 pm.

Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

	Departure
		-Photo opportunity

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:55 pm and 3:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 302-32A]

[See Conversation No. 13-57]

	Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

Meeting

Henry A. Kissinger talked with Ronald L. Ziegler between 3:55 pm and 3:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 302-32B]

[See Conversation No. 13-58]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal announcement

Sprague
-Finances
-Relationship with John N. Irwin
-Possible role with the administration

Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-Negotiating strategy

Unknown man

Kissinger's staff
-Job prospects

Lawrence F. Eagleburger

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:59 pm.

Laird's schedule

Ziegler left at 4:00 pm.

Photograph of two children

George Sherman, Washington Star
-Report for Kissinger

The President, et al. left at 4:04 pm.