Conversation No. 328-1

Date:  March 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:23 pm and 2:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez [?].

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Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 2:59 pm.

Conversation No. 328-2

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 11:11 am until 12:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

The President’s schedule
-Possible press conference
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Before Soviet trip

-Tempo of activities
-Preparation for trip
-Amount of time
-The President’s possible trip to Philadelphia
-Sons of Italy meeting
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
-Possible speech
-American ethnics
-Chicago
-Cleveland

Leslie C. Arends
-The President’s view
-Leaders meeting
-Republicans
-Norris Cotton
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-John J. Sparkman
-Chou En-lai
-Cotton
-Health

The President’s schedule
-Possible satellite press conference
-Press coverage
-Topics
	-Foreign policy
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC
-Translation
-Timing
	-Forthcoming Soviet trip
-Preparation
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

Haldeman left at 12:04 pm.

Conversation No. 328-3

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:04 pm and 12:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig’s schedule
	-Possible meeting with the President
		-Executive Office Building {EOB]

Conversation No. 328-4

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  12:06 pm - 12:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greeting

Possible message to Edward R.G. Heath
	-Northern Ireland
		-The President’s view
			-US Senators
			-Administration
				-State Department
				-White House

William Warnack
-Contact with the Administration

US foreign policy

-Africa
-Rhodesia
-Haig’s view
	-Health
-Sanctions
	-British proposals
-The President’s view
	-Heath
	-Future
-Haig’s view
-Black Americans
	-Protests
		-Wage demands
		-Teachers
-Marshall Green’s previous trip to Asia
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger’s work
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming Soviet summit
-Cooperation with the State Department
	-Leonid i. Brezhnev
	-William P. Rogers
		-Substance
-Green’s performance
	-Haig’s view
		-US aid
		-Taiwan, Republic of China
	-PRC trip
-Quality of work

Kissinger
-Conflicts with Rogers
-Depth of conflict
-Democrats strategy
	-Kissinger’s lack of responsibility to Congress
-Rogers’s role as a spokesman
	-Forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
		-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-Forthcoming trip to Europe
		-Iceland

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Possible stopovers
	-Iceland
	-Iran
	-Poland
		-Haig’s view

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	POLAND

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	-Possible visit by Rogers
	-Possible visit by Spiro T. Agnew
		-Polish-Americans
		-Agnew’s work
		-The President’s view

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[Duration:  47s  ]

	SOVIET UNION

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	Germany
		-International agreements
-Haig’s view
	-Economics
	-Politics
		-Egon Bahr
-Berlin agreement
-Haig’s view
	-Willy Brandt
	-Economics
-Rogers’s and Agnew’s trips
-The President’s trip
-Stopover
-Nonofficial stops
-Cyprus
	-Greece
-Ireland
-John W. Mulcahy
-Azores
-North Africa
	-Morocco
-Azores
-Ireland

Cuba
-Unknown Cuban

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[Duration:  25s  ]

	CUBA

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Middle East
-The President’s forthcoming memorandum
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Israel
-Cease fire
-US policy
-Soviets military presence
-Eastern Mediterranean
-Middle East
-US presence
-Possible withdrawal
	-Israeli territorial concessions
	-Kissinger’s view
				-1970 election
							-The President’s previous conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
						-The President’s view
							-State Department
-Willingness of Soviets to deal with the US
-Outcome of 1972 election
-Jewish vote
-Jewish media
	-Kissinger
-New York Times
	-Washington Post
	-Television networks
-Votes for the President
	-Non-Israel oriented foreign policy
	-Opposition to the Soviet Union
-Joseph J. Sisco’s view
-Soviet presence
-US presence
	-Arab nations
		-United Arab Republic [UAR]
		-Algeria
		-Libya
		-Israel
		-Syria
		-Iraq
	-US problems
-Israel
-Haig’s view
-1972 election
	-Democratic victory
		-US policy
	-Republican victory
		-Soviet interest in negotiation
-Major issues at the Soviet summit
-Israel
-Timing of the US action
-1972 election
-Impact on soviets
	-Soviet intentions
-Max M. Fisher’s views
-Policy
-Haig’s view
-Kissinger
	-State Department
	-Sisco
-Soviet intentions
-Seriousness
-Israel
-Haig’s view
	-Policy
		-Concern for the PRC
		-Desire for settlement with the US
-US interests
-Relationship with Israel

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	ISRAEL

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-1972 election
	-Kissinger
-Soviets
-Influence in the Mediterranean
-US strengths and weaknesses
-Golda Meir

Morocco
	-Unknown man’s vacation

Public officials foreign policy
-Ambassadors
-Drinking on airplanes
-Congressmen
-Wayne L. Hays
-Rogers
-Arthur K. Watson
-Public conduct
-The President’s view
-J. William Fulbright

	Arms control
		-The President’s previous meeting with the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament
-Test ban treaty
-J[ack] P[hilip] Tuina
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-American establishment
-Lauris Norstad
-William W. Scranton
-John J. McCloy
-Gerard C. Smith
-Submarine-launched Ballistic Missiles [SLBMs]
-Communiqué
-Department of Defense
	-Congressional support
		-Navy
	-Melvin R. Laird
	-Support
-Congress
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s concern
-State department
	-Rogers
-Laird
-Smith
	-Negotiations with the soviets
	-The President’s view
-The President’s previous trip to the PRC
	-Changes in negotiations
	-Donald McI. Kendall’s view
		-Soviet Union
		-PRC
-Soviet leadership
	-Leonid I. Brezhnev
	-Détente
		-Berlin agreement
		-PRC

Soviet Union
-Impact of the PRC trip
-Chinese motives
-Benefits for the US
-Relations with the PRC

Kissinger’s vacation
-Acapulco
-Climate
-Necessity

Handling of US foreign policy
	-Northern Ireland
	-State Department

Kissinger
-Travel

Haig left at 12:55 pm.

Conversation No. 328-5

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  12:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 22-30]

Conversation No. 328-6

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 1:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:05 pm.

Conversation No. 328-7

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  1:05 pm - 1:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-31]

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 22-31]

Conversation No. 328-8

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:09 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Something to be delivered

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 328-9

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:09 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum.

Alaska Pipeline
-The President’s review
-Canada
-Environmental problems
-A compromise
-The President’s decision
-Value of pipeline
	-1972 election
-International impact
-Value
-Jobs in Alaska

-Price of West Coast oil
	-California
-International Issues
	-Canada
	-Peter M. Flanigan
-Michael Gravel

Conversation No. 328-10

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:09 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

An unknown man’s location
-Return call

Conversation No. 328-11

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:09 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown woman met with an unknown man.

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[Duration:  6s  ]

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The unknown woman and man left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 328-12

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

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Signing documents

Instruction

Forthcoming Organization of American States [OAS] dinner
-Entertainment
-Possible presentation of Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jose A. Mora [?]
-Format
-The President’s statement
-Guests
	-Number
-Time

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Conversation No. 328-13

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter to Luis Alvarez Echeverria.

The President’s appreciation
	-Henry A. Kissinger’s trip to Mexico
		-Kissinger’s talk with the Foreign Minister of Mexico
		-Kissinger’s talk with Echeverria

US-Mexican relations
-Bilateral relations
-Echeverria’s forthcoming trip to the US
	-Invitation to Camp David

The President dictated a letter to Gen. William C. Westmoreland [?].

Entertainment
	-The President’s appreciation

Conversation No. 328-14

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Recording machine
-Problems with operation

The President dictated a letter to Luis Alvarez Echeverria.

The President’s appreciation
-Courtesy to Henry A. Kissinger in Acapulco
-Kissinger’s work
-Amount
-Hospitality of Mexicans

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Latin America

Echeverria’s forthcoming visit to US
-Invitation
	-Camp David
-Reception
-Time of year
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

The President dictated a letter to Gen. William C. Westmoreland.

Army chorus
	-Performance at a dinner
	-The President’s attendance
	-Singing

		-Stout-Hearted men
	-Impact on audience
		-The President’s appreciation to “The Singing Sergeants”

The President dictated a letter to Norman Vincent Peale.

The President’s previous conversation with H. E. Ahmad Toukan
-Former Prime Minister of Jordan
-Knowledge of Huseein ebn-Talal’s [Hussein, King of Jordan] family
-Huseein’s early hardships
	-Assassination of grandfather
	-Father’s health
-Hussein’s achievements
	-Toukan’s view
		-Hussein’s good temper
		-Hussein’s mother

Motherhood
	-The President’s view

The President’s conversation with Ahmad Toukan

The President replayed part of the dictation.

The President continued dictating.

Mother’s Day sermon

The President’ dictated a memorandum to Kissinger.

Robert Amory,Jr.
	-Attendance at previous dinner for Hussein
	-Former assistant to Allen W. Dulles
	-Previous conversation with the President
		-Incident in 1954-44
			-Joseph McCarthy’s investigation of Dulles
				-White House staff
				-The President’s defense of Dulles
					-Amory’s view
		-George Ball
		-1968 attack on the President
		-Amory’s letter to the New York Times
			-Editing of letter
-Eastern Establishment
-Possible appointment to a board

Conversation No. 328-15

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Schedule

Conversation No. 328-16

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President’s schedule

Tape
-Transcription

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Conversation No. 328-17

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 22-43]

Conversation No. 328-18

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Weather

Task

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Conversation No. 328-19

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  3:07 pm - 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

Manolo Sanchez left at an unknown time between 3:07 pm and 3:15 pm.

[See Conversation No. 22-44]

Conversation No. 328-20

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Haldeman’s meeting

Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 328-21

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

A dinner
-Deputy Secretary of Defense
-Robert [surname unintelligible]

Conversation No. 328-22

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  3:50 pm - 3:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 22-45; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 328-23

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  4:00 pm - 4:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
-Robert C. Mardian
-Wallace Johnson
-ITT lawyer
-An affidavit
-Edwin Reinecke
-Indictment of Mitchell
-Johnson
-A lawyer’s testimony
-James O. Eastland
-Call to Mardian
	-Hearings
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Termination of hearings
-Witnesses
	-ITT lawyer
	-Harold S. Geneen
-Current strategy
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Postponement
-Problems
-Eastland’s weaknesses
-Hugh Scott
	-Clark MacGregor’s analysis
-Scott, Charles McC Mathias, Jr.

-Roman L. Hruska and Edward J. Gurney
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Marlow W. Cook
-Charles W. Colson’s view
-Kleindienst
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Options
-Floor vote to recommit
-Committee vote
-Kleindienst
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Statement
	-Timing
-Colson’s strategy
-John V. Tunney, Edward M. Kennedy
	-Press
-Life magazine charges
	-Herbert G. Klein
-Severance of issue
-Problems
-Goals of strategy
-Hearings
-Mitchell
	-Eastland
-ITT lawyer
-Testimony
-Reinecke
-Affidavit
	-Amount
-Dita D. Beard
	-Kennedy
-Harold S. Geneen
-Testimony
-Flanigan
-Role in case
-Testimony
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s committee
-Ervin’s aims
-Executive privilege
-Meeting
-Arrangements
-Letter to Hruska
	-Explanation
	-Ervin’s rejection
-MacGregor’s negotiations
	-Ervin
		-Executive privilege
-Investigation
-Political motives
-Colson and MacGregor
-Eastland
-Relationship with Mitchell
-Mitchell and Mardian
-Concern over Kleindienst
-Hearings
-Mitchell’s views
-Problems
-Mitchell’s role
-Call to Mathias
-Scott
-Severance of issue
-Problems
-Gurney’s views
-Termination
-Executive session
	-Geneen
-Eastland
-Kleindienst
-Failure of confirmation
-Political implications
	-John B. Connally’s views
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Problems
-Colson’s view
-Handling
-Committee hearings
-Kleindienst’s statement
-Filibuster
-Circumstances
-Likelihood
-Votes to confirm
-Hearings
-Termination
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Reopening
-Filibuster
-Democratic strategy
	-Eastland
	-Mansfield
	-Removal from political campaign
	-Handling
-Colson’s view
	-Need to act
-Timing
	-Strategy
-Timing
	-Hearings
	-Reopening
	-Mitchell
	-Handling of confirmation
	-Dealings with the White House
		-Bryce N. Harlow
		-John D. Ehrlichman
		-MacGregor
-Meeting with President
	-Discussion
	-Haldeman
	-Withdrawal of nomination
	-Colson’s view
	-Meeting
	-MacGregor
	-Ehrlichman
	-Colson
		-Call to Kleindienst
			-Meeting with the President and Haldeman
		-Place

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:48 pm.

[Conversation No. 328-23A]

[See Conversation No. 22-46]

[End of telephone conversation]

ITT case
	-Hearings
	-Kleindienst

[Haldeman talked with Kleindienst at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:48 pm]

[Conversation No. 328-23B]

[See Conversation No. 22-46]

[End of telephone conversation]

Forthcoming meeting with Kleindienst
-Entrance
-Walk to the White House
-Haldeman’s call
-Kleindiensts’s reaction

The President and Haldeman left at 4:48 pm.

Conversation No. 328-24

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:49 am and 12:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:55 pm.

Conversation No. 328-25

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  12:55 pm - 1:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

A meeting
-Arrangements

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Time
-Weather
-March 8, 1972 strikes
-The President’s recollections
	-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
	-Surface to air missiles [SAMs] sites

	-Strikes
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Authority for military strikes
		-Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger’s opposition
-Kissinger’s forthcoming call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:55 pm and 1:28 pm.

[Conversation No. 328-25A]

Requested a call to Haig

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger talked with Haig at an unknown time between 12:55 pm and 1:28 pm.

[Conversation No. 328-25B]

Kissinger’s schedule

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Authority
-March 8, 1972 request from the Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-SAM sites
-Authorization
-Denial of requests
-North Vietnam build up
-Reports
-Number of sorties
-Limitation
-Adm. Thomas h. Moorer’s report on the Air Force
	-Sorties
		-Number
	-The President’s interest
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Compared to Laos operation
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Proposals
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Gen. Robert E. Pursley
-Kissinger’s view
-Melvin R. Laird
-Soviets
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Kissinger’ forthcoming message to the Chinese
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Berlin Agreement
		-Situation in Vietnam
		-Soviet military equipment
		-US air strike
		-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s letter
		-Pressure on the North Vietnamese
			-Soviet Union
			-PRC
-Brezhnev’s possible meeting with William P. Rogers
-Air strikes
-Press reports
-The President’s view
-Press
-The President’s view
	-Compared to Laos operation
			-Kissinger’s briefing of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John A. Scali and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert g. Klein
-Scali
-Department of Defense, State Department
-Reports
-Anticipated loss of territory
-State department
-North Vietnamese crossing of the DMZ
-Geneva agreement of 1954
	-Defense Department statement
		-North Vietnamese units across the DMZ
-North Vietnamese offensive
-South Vietnamese resistance
-Intensity
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Moorer’s view
-Artillery
-South Vietnamese armor
-Number
-Defense line
-Dong Ha
-Quang Tri
-Hue
-Tanks
-Use of air power
	-Weather
-North Vietnamese casualties
	-Compared to Laos operation
-Public relations
-Rogers, Laird
-Public comments
-Sense of crisis
-The President’s contacts
	-Rogers
	-Laird
	-Moorer
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG] meeting
	-Department of defense, state department
	-Bureaucracy
	-Laird
	-Rogers
	-Public comments
	-Kissinger’s possible public comments
	-Laird
	-Press conference
	-Bombing
	-South Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Capacities
-North Vietnam
-Destruction in the North
-Hypothetical attacks
	-Gen. Douglas MacArthur
	-Hanoi

Cambodia
-News summary
-Phnom Penh
-North Vietnam presence
-Movement
	-South Vietnamese border
		-Tay Ninh province

Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Troops in Saigon
-Vietnamization
-Withdrawal of US troops
-Noncommunist nations’ fight against Communism
-The President’s and Kissinger’s doubts
-Laird
-South Vietnam
-Survival
		-Cambodia invasion
		-Laos
-Compared to British and French experience in 1918
-Incidents of mass surrender
-North Vietnamese artillery and tank attacks

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 12:55 pm and 1:28 pm.

-Artillery
-Technology
	-Kissinger’s view
-North Vietnamese artillery
	-Moorer’s report
		-II Corps fire bases
	-The President’s view
	-Leadership
		-Kissinger’s view
		-Haig
-Vietnamization
-Air strikes
-Reports on damage
-The president’s goals
-Safety of US forces
-Press
	-Public relations
-Survival of South Vietnam
	-US press
	-Loyalty to the nation
		-Depiction of North Vietnam
		-Kissinger’s view
			-Laos
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Use of air power
-Importance
	-Laos
-Hue and Da Nang
-Possible fall
-Impact on US withdrawal
-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Possibility
	-Air Force
-Consequences
-Necessity for US action
-US options
-Impact of US defeat
	-PRC
	-Soviet Union
	-Indonesia
	-Japan
	-Laird
		-Politics
-US bombing
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Soviet response
-Influence on the North Vietnamese
-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-US offer to the Soviets
-South Vietnam
-Thieu
-Performance during offensive
	-Defense structure
		-Weaponry of the North Vietnamese
			-Weaponry
			-Morale
-Losses
-North Vietnamese casualties
-North Vietnam
-Casualty rates
-Bombing

Kissinger left at 1:28 pm.

Conversation No. 328-26

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 2:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:43 pm.

Conversation No. 328-27

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 2:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  4s  ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:43 pm.

Conversation No. 328-28

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 2:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

	Request
	-Envelope

Conversation No. 328-29

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 2:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 328-30

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  2:43 pm - 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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[Duration:  59s  ]

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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:45 pm.

Greetings

Woods left at 2:46 pm.

	William P. Rogers
		-Schedule
			-Western Europe

Vietnam
-Press relations
-State Department
-Defense
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Support for the Administration’s position
	-Communiqué
	-Geneva Agreement of 1954
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
			-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming meetings with John A. Scali, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ziegler
-White House involvement
-Disassociation
-Ziegler’s statements
	-North Vietnamese offensive
	-The President’s concerns
		-Gerald L. Warren’s statement
		-Ziegler’s forthcoming statement
			-Points to make
			-Review of situation
			-US reactions
				-Bombing halt
					-Geneva Agreement of 1954
				-Understandings
				-US reactions
				-US ground forces
				-Bombing
				-The President’s comments
			-US ground forces
				-McCloskey’s previous statement
			-Possibility of recommitment
			-Handling of statement
			-Ziegler’s statement
			-Mccloskey
			-US position on recommitment
			-Kissinger’s assessment
			-The President’s forthcoming announcement
&&		-Formulation By Ziegler
		-Speculation
		-Loss Of Territory
		-Press Reports, Assessment
		-Advantages Of Attacker
		-Scope Of Attack
		-
		-Us Reaction
		-Expectation
		-A Statement From Saigon
		-Us Evaluation
		-Extent
		-Ziegler’s Comment
		-Day-To-Day Reports
		-American Involvement
		-Limitations
		-Air Strikes
		-Abrams
		-Comments
		-South Vietnamese Response
		-Ziegler’s Statement

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ITT case
-Dita Beard
-Television appearance

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[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 24s  ]

VIETNAM
-NORTH VIETNAMESE OFFENSIVE
-BREAK IN WEATHER
-PRESS REPORTS
-SOUTH VIETNAMESE PERFORMANCE
-WWII
-LOSS OF WAR BY GERMANS
-BRITISH LOSSES
-GERMAN OFFENSIVE
-FAILURE
-ANALOGY TO VIETNAM
-NORTH VIETNAM OFFENSIVE
-SOUTH VIETNAM RESISTANCE
-NEED TO HOLD LINE
-GENERAL GOUGH IN WORLD WAR I

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Ziegler left at 3:05 pm

Conversation No. 328-31

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:05 pm and 3:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file

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Conversation No. 328-32

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:05 pm and 3:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Report on a speech
-John B. Connally
-Spiro Agnew’s comments

The President’s schedule
-Check with someone
-Speech
-Subject
-Press conference
-Time
-Check with Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman

John N. Mitchell
-Location

The President’s schedule
-A meeting with someone
-Ehrlichman
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Meeting with the President
-Arrangements
-Time
-Clearance with Connally
-A press conference
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 328-33

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:05 pm and 3:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 22-66]

Conversation No. 328-34

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:05 pm and 3:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:19 pm

Conversation No. 328-35

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  3:19 pm - 3:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson

[See Conversation No. 22-67]

Conversation No. 328-36

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  3:55 pm - 4:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

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[Duration:  28m 23s  ]

VIETNAM
-NORTH VIETNAM
-TROOPS
-NORTH VIETNAMESE OFFENSIVE
-COMMITMENT TO ATTACK
-US RESPONSE
-SOUTH VIETNAM RESPONSE
-COLLAPSE OR END OF WAR
-US RESPONSE
-TROOPS
-SOUTH VIETNAM
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-OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH
-SAIGON, HUE
-US RESPONSE
-HENRY A. KISSINGER’S RECOMMENDATION TO MILITARY
-AIR STRIKES
-AREAS
-SOVIET UNION
-THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
-SCOPE OF ATTACKS
-KISSINGER’S RECOMMENDATIONS
-MELVIN LAIRD’S CONCURRENCE
-SOUTH VIETNAM
-CHANCES OF SURVIVAL
-RESPONSES
-US RESPONSE
-BOMBING ATTACKS
-THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
-SEYMOUR HERSH’S TALKS WITH NORTH VIETNAMESE LEADERS
-SWEDISH AMBASSADOR’S REPORT
-PHAM VAN DONG
-CHOU EN-LAI
-TIES TO HANOI
-COMMENTS ON THE PRESIDENCY
-THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
-ALLIANCE WITH HANOI
-NORTH VIETNAM’S COMPLAINTS
-HERSH’S TALKS
-NORTH VIETNAMESE OFFENSIVE
-LAIRD’S COMMENTS ON AIR STRIKES
-BATTLE AREAS
-US RESPONSE
-CHARGES AGAINST THE PRESIDENT
-WIDENING THE WAR
-LAOS, CAMBODIA
-STATE, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE COMMENTS
-PUBLIC RELATIONS
-LAIRD’S COMMENTS
-CHARGES OF NORTH VIETNAMESE INVASION
-SOUTH VIETNAM
-CHANCES OF ROUT
-NGUYEN VAN THIEU
-
-CONTINUATION
-PARIS TALKS
-POSSIBLE US RESPONSE
-NORTH VIETNAMESE CAPACITIES
-LATEST REPORTS
-SOUTH VIETNAMESE CAPACITIES
-AIR POWER
-THOMAS H. MOORER
-AIR ATTACKS
-PROBLEMS
-A-1's
-F-14's
-CLOSE SUPPORT AIRCRAFT
-WEATHER CEILING
-NORTH VIETNAMESE OFFENSIVE
-US POSITION
-LOSS OF TERRITORY
-WEATHER
-US AIR STRIKES
-PROBLEMS
-WEATHER
-DELAYS
-CHANGE IN WEATHER
-US MILITARY CAPACITIES
-SOVIET UNION
-SOUTH VIETNAM
-ALLEGIANCE OF PEOPLE
-RESISTANCE TO NORTH VIETNAMESE OFFENSIVE
-EXTENT
-COMPARISON WITH GERMANY IN MARCH 1918
-TANKS
-SUPPLIES
-NORTH VIETNAMESE OFFENSIVE
-PROPER RESPONSE BY THE US
-MEDIA COVERAGE
-BLAME ON NORTH VIETNAM
-MARSHALL GREEN
-US PUBLIC OPINION
-SUPPORT FOR THE PRESIDENT

FOREIGN POLICY
-POLAND
-USSR
-THE PRESIDENT’S CRITICS
-THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
-THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
-RELATIONSHIP WITH THE US
-MESSAGE
-CONTENTS

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Kissinger left at 4:26 pm