Conversation No. 329-1

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:15 pm and 8:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The President left at an unknown time before 8:45 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-2

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:15 pm and 8:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown man met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The unknown man and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:45 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-3

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:15 pm and 8:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:45 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-4

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:15 pm and 8:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 329-5

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:15 pm and 8:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man [John K. Andrews, Jr.?].

Greetings

The President's visit to Catholic Education Convention
-Version of a speech
-The President's comments
-Departure
-Speech
-Comments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:45 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-6

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:15 pm and 8:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 329-7

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:15 pm and 8:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 329-8

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:15 pm and 8:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-76]

	Conversation No. 329-9
Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 22-77]

	Conversation No. 329-10

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:50 pm and 9:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 329-11

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:50 pm and 9:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 329-12

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:50 pm and 9:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:42 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-13

Date:  April 6, 1972
Time:  9:26 am -10:10 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

State of the Union speech

Edward M. Kennedy
-Charles W. Colson
-IBM
-Veterans issue

Henry A. Kissinger and John W. Vogt entered at an unknown time after 9:26 am

[Unintelligible]

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Surface to Air Missiles [SAM]
-Naval gunfire
-Bombing of North
-Air strikes
-SAM sites
-B-52s
-Use against north
-Target areas
-Naval gunfire
-Damage
-Reports
-Vogt's assignment
-Mission
-7th Air Force
-Creighton W. Abrams
-Air Force
-Inadequacy of performance
-Performance 
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Performance
-Results
-Vogt's instructions
-Bombing
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Air strikes
-Weather
-Results
-North Vietnamese offensive
-The president's support of military
-Son Pei [sp?]
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Riots
-Results
-Naval commanders
-Instructions
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Laos operation
-Vogt's mission
	-Rescue operation
-The President's support
-Probable casualties
-Haiphong
-Operation plans
-Air strikes
-SAM sites
-B-3 area
-B-52s
-Number of strikes
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Control
-Ground radar
-Weather
-SAMs
-Problems
-F-105s
-Bomber operations
-Changes
-Clearing
-Duration
-Air strikes
-SAMs
-Movement
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Artillery
-William P. Rogers
-Quang Tri
-Highway
-Countermeasures
-Laos
-Vogt's assignment
-Vogt's record
-Abrams
-Record in World War II and Vietnam
-Saigon
-Bangkok
-Reports to the President
-Abrams
-Risks
-Instructions
-Air strikes
-New strategy
-New ideas
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Concentration of forces
-Napoleon Bonaparte's use of artillery
-Effectiveness
-World Wars I and II
-Concentration of forces
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Air Force
-Air Force strategy
-B-52s
-Airfields
-Carriers
-Number
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-Meeting
-Vogt's assignment
-The President's confidence
-Relations with Abrams and Frederick C. Weyand
-Laos
-Air Force strikes
-Impact on negotiations
-Kennedy's comments
-Burden of responsibility
-Headquarters
-Reorganization
-Kissinger’s conversation with Moorer
-Timing of changes
-Ground action
-News reports
-Kissinger’s analysis
-Tactics
-Moore
-North Vietnamese artillery
-Vogt's analysis
-Thieu
-Strategic reserves
-III corps
-B-3 front
-Air strikes
-Air strikes
-B-3 area
-US losses
-Impact on North Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Effect of US strikes
-Thieu
-Casualties
-Air strikes
-Areas of concentration
-Air strikes
-B-52s
-DMZ
-Importance
-Vogt's assignment
-The president's backing
-Vogt as student at Harvard
-Importance
-US foreign policy

Kissinger and Vogt left at 9:55 am.

-Air Force
-Future
-Importance of Vogt's mission

Air Force
-Changes in warfare
-Cuba
-Argentina

Vietnam
-Vogt's assignment
-Importance
-Vogt's conversation with Kissinger
-The President's backing
-Abrams
-Future
-Melvin R. Laird
-Vogt
-Future
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-Vogt
-Briefings
-Cambodia
-Governors
-Air strikes
-Intensity
-Damage
-Past strikes
-Johnson
-Kissinger
-The president
-Rogers
-Laird
-B-52s
-Public response

Publicity
-Property tax issue
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Impact on public
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-ABC
-Time
-Air strikes
-B-52S

White House staff
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Compared with Price
-Work 
-Speeches
-Presentation
-Busing
-John Reagan (“Tex”) McCrary
-Advice

Public relations
-Philadelphia trip
-Headlines
-Pictures
-The President with Frank L. Rizzo and John Cardinal Krol
-Speech
-Planning
-John A. Scali's advice
-McCrary
-Price
-Arrangements
-Dwight L. Chapin
-David N. Parker
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-"Front Page" publicity
-Kennedy
-Handling of public relations
-The President's handling of public relations in 1960's
-White House staff
-Need to support the President
-John D. Ehrlichman and Price
-Criticisms
-Headlines
-Control by White House of news content
-The President's appearances on TV
-Planning
-Length
-Ziegler
-Content of news coverage
-Photo opportunities
-Subject
-Captions
-An Easter shot
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Craig S. Campbell
-TV coverage
-Photo coverage
-Plans
-A family picture
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Quality
-Mark I. Goode
-Advice
-Judgment
-Technical advice for TV

Haldeman left at 10:10 am.

	Conversation No. 329-14

Date:  April 6, 1972
Time:  10:31 am - 10:34 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Items for the President's signature

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:31 am.

A speech
-The President's reading copy

Democrats
-J. William Fulbright

A list
-Charles W. Colson's review
-Letters

The President's trip to Philadelphia
-Departure

Butterfield and Bull left at 10:34 am.

	Conversation No. 329-15

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:35 pm and 12:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:37 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-16

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  12:37 pm - 12:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:40 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at 12:40 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-17

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 1:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Pen

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-18

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 1:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Conversation with unknown man

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:40 and 1:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 329-18A]

[See Conversation No. 22-106]

[End of telephone conversation]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-19

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  1:12 pm - 1:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 22-107]

	Conversation No. 329-20

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:14 pm and 2:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-108]

	Conversation No. 329-21

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  2:06 pm - 2:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Richard M. Helms.

[See Conversation No. 22-109]

	Conversation No. 329-22

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's conversation with Alexander P. Butterfield
-President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird

The President's meeting with congressional leaders
-Arrangements
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Busing
-Points to make
-Food prices
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Decline
-John B. Connally's statement

-Wholesale prices
-Compared with Elliot L. Richardson and Shultz
-Stein
-Length
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Points to cover
-Busing
-Drugs
-Food prices

	Conversation No. 329-23

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum.

Spokesmen for administration
-Points to make to supporters
-Vietnam
-Current situation
-Airmen
-Navy men
-Defense of South Vietnam
-Accomplishments
	-Reduction in casualties
-Henry A. Kissinger's office
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tricia Nixon Cox

John D. Ehrlichman

Best spokesmen for administration
-The Vice President
-Cabinet members

-Congressmen
-Governors
-White House staff
-Robert J. Dole
-First Family
-Subcabinet
-Veterans and other organizations
-Charles W. Colson's office's list
-Advantages

Taxes
-Public relations efforts

Public relations
-Frequency of stories
-Follow-up
-The President's policies
-Positive publicity
-Rebuttal to opposition
-The President's image
-Proper projection
-Vietnam development
-Issues
-Foreign policy
-Peace
-The President's image as leader
-Cost of living
-Food
-Crime
-Drugs
-Jobs
-Busing
-Democrats' position
-Programs
-Welfare
-Revenue-sharing
-Government reorganization
-Health
-Use of programs
-Political Group discussion
-Reform
-Congress
-Democratic convention
-Property tax
-Jobs
-Busing
-Property tax

The President replayed portions of the tape.

Public relations efforts
-Busing
-Property tax
-Jobs
-Busing
-Property tax

The President resumed dictation.

Public relations efforts
-List of issues
-Tax relief for non-public schools
-Changes
-Environment
-Foreign competition
-John B. Connally
-Political Group discussion

	Conversation No. 329-24

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Something for Rose Mary Woods
-Transcription

Return of unknown object

The President's future meeting with Sanchez

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-25

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting

Vietnam
-Air attacks
	-Loss of planes
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Authority
-The President's call to Thomas H. Moorer
-Timing
-Melvin R. Laird
-Public response
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Trip
-Report to the President
-Air attacks
-The President's call to Moorer
-The President's instructions to Kissinger
-US Navy
-Naval gunfire
-Targets
-Orders

-Briefing
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-Mansfield
-Soviet Issues
-Soviet Summit
-The President's attendance
-Air attacks
-Casualties
-Naval fleet
-B-52s
-Tacair
-Haig's trip
-The President's previous Conversation with John W.  Vogt
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

The President's trip to Soviet Union
-Kissinger's conversation with Carl Gruber
-Stop in Vienna
-Salzburg
-Possible stopover
-Tourists
-State dinner

The President's meeting with Kissinger

	Conversation No. 329-26

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  2:45 pm - 2:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's meeting with Michael J. Mansfield and Hugh Scott
-Announcement
-Mansfield's and Scott's trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Bipartisan mission
-The President's approval

-PRC policy
-Report to the President
-The President's letter to Chou En-lai
-Public statement
-Personal message
-Mao Tse-tung
-Possible meeting with Mansfield and Scott

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's call to Ziegler
-Return call
-Constance M. Stuart
-Speeches
-Ziegler's handling
-Trip
-Use of White House staff
-Secretaries

Ziegler left at 2:55 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-27

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-28

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Materials

The President's schedule
-Meeting with unknown persons
-Press
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Time

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-29

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm

	Conversation No. 329-30

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech in French.

[A transcript of the final form of this speech appears in PPP 1972, pp. 537-541.]

	Conversation No. 329-31

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Meeting with the President
-Scheduling

The President's meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger's presence

	Conversation No. 329-32
Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  2:00 pm - unknown before 4:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Weather

The President's schedule
-Organization of American States [OAS] Dinner
-Statement
-Copies
-Speech
-The President's delivery
-Toast
-Statement to press
-Speech to Canadian Parliament
-Press embargo
-Time

Canadian visit
-Arrival statement
-Toast
-Dinner statement
-Speech to Parliament
-Ceremony speech
-Brevity
-Speeches

-British custom
-Toasts
-Governor General
-The President's 1953 trip
-Toasts
-Audience

Unknown presentation ceremony
-Certificate
-Letter from the President
-Richard Wilson
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-[Forename unknown] Ottoburger [sp?]
-William L. Safire
-Ziegler
-Check with Rose Mary Woods
-Organizations
-Order of the Hound's Tooth
-Previous events
-1958 and 1960
-Background
-Helen Thomas
-Photos

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 2:00 and 2:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 329-32A]

Trip to Canada in 1957
-Paul Miller
-Harry F. Byrd
-Call from Woods
-Name of town visited
-Toast
-Mayor
-Gifts to the President

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's stopover in Austria
-Accommodations
	-Compared to Ireland
-A meeting
-A luncheon
-Size
-Degree of formality
-Length
-Carl Gruber
-Invitation to accompany the President
-Salzburg
-Canadian ambassador
-Accompanying the President
-Gruber
-Schedule
-Invitation

Charles W. Colson
-Report on conversation with Albert E. Sindlinger
-The President's meeting with John B. Connally
-Return to Colson
-Food prices

The President's Canadian visit
-Meeting with unknown man
-Coaching the President in French
-Unknown man's proficiency in French and English

Vernon A. Walters
-Proficiency in French
-Unknown woman
-Proficiency in French
-Walters
-Unknown woman
-Translation

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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
-Convention
-Colson's report

Vietnam
-Critics of administration policy
-White House response
-Henry A. Kissinger's views
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kissinger's trip to Paris
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-William P. Rogers's reaction

Kissinger entered at 2:16 pm.

-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message from Moscow
-Kissinger's trip
-Kissinger's response
-Vietnamese delegation
-Visit to Moscow
-Kissinger's schedule

The President's trip to Canada
-Speech
-Rhetoric
-Substance
-Revisions
-The President's reading of the speech for Kissinger
-Copy to Kissinger

The President rehearsed a speech at an unknown time between 2:16 and 2:50 pm.

[A transcript of this speech, with slight variations, appears in PPP 1972, pp. 537-541]

The President's speech
-Kissinger’s revisions

Vietnam
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
-Attacks
-US response
-News summaries
-Networks
-Muskie
-Interviews with soldiers
-Troops’ resistance
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Unknown commander's response
-Commendation
-Press reports
-Foreign policy aspects
-Domestic dissent
-Expenditures
-Democrats’ letter
-North Vietnamese conditions
-Message from Dobrynin
-Plenary sessions
-Bombing halt
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Message from Dobrynin
-Soviet interests
-W. Averell Harriman's view
		-US position
		-Kissinger’s statement to Dobrynin
		-Military operations
		-Negotiations
		-Truce
		-Hanoi’s position
		-Soviet guarantee
		-US naval fleet
		-Size
		-Haig
			-Deployment
		-Soviet position
		-Compromise settlement
		-Cessation of North Vietnamese military operations
		-Effect in North Vietnam
		-Allies’ agreement to terms
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC] position
		-Changes
		-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
		-Coalition government
		-Soviet intentions
		-Cessation of fighting
		-Compared with Cuban missile crisis
		-American losses
-Possible Hanoi proposal
-Compromise
-Bombing halt
-Air strike plans
-Truck parks
-Petroleum, oil and lubricants [POL] dumps
-Kissinger’s recommendation
-Truck parks
-US fleet
-The President's conversation with Haig
-Peace talks
-Possible reasons for Hanoi’s involvement
-Battles in South Vietnam
-Soviet response
-US blockade
		-US responses
		-PRC response
		-Kissinger’s message to Dobrynin
		-Laos and Cambodia
		-Past operations
		-Camp David strategy meeting with Kissinger
-Abrams
-Haig’s view
				-Local commander
				-Instructions from the president
				-Psychology
-The President's message to John S. McCain, Jr.
	-Haig’s trip
	-Air strike
	-Effectiveness
	-Soviets
	-Hanoi
-Kissinger’s schedule
-April 24th meeting
-Secrecy
-Rogers’s knowledge
-Congressional pressure
-Laird
-Conversation with Rogers
-B-52 strikes
-President’s meeting with Rogers and Laird
-Strategy
-Kissinger’s presence
-Rogers
-Testimony before congress
-Reluctance
-John N. Irwin, II’s testimony
-Canada
-United Nations [UN]
-Meeting with the President at Camp David
-UN
-Knowledge of B-52 strikes
-Laird
-Meeting with the President
-B-52 strikes
-Testimony before congress
-Air strikes
-Congressional response
-Laird
-Strategy
-Soviet position
-Avoidance of October offensive
-Rogers
-Diplomatic strategy
-The President's decision
-October offensive
-Testimony before congress

Polish visit
-Public announcement

The president's trip to Soviet Union
-Stopover in Austria
-Luncheon
-Size
-Gruber
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Stopover in Poland
-Connections with Catholic Church
-Unknown cardinal
-John Cardinal Krol
-Views
	-Vietnam

PRC
-Visit by Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
-The president's letter to Chou En-lai
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ambassador Chien Yi
-Meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-Rogers
-Letter to Chou
-Delivery
-Kissinger’s conversation with unknown person

Vietnam
-Bombing

Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Itinerary
-Arrival
-Back-up plane
-Advance party
-Leaks
-Dobrynin
-Possible accompaniment
-News leaks
-Rogers’s knowledge
-Secrecy
-Purpose of trip
-Vietnam
-Advance of the President's trip
	-Kissinger’s Paris trip
-Importance
-The President's conversation with Ehrlichman
-Impact on Vietnam negotiations

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Humphrey, Muskie and Kennedy
-Possible handling of negotiations
-US strategy
-Middle East
-Mrs. Nixon
-The President's conversation with Dobrynin
-Rogers
	-Speech in Chicago
-Speech at UN
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Middle East

Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Forthcoming press event
-The President's possible attendance
-Announcement
-April 24th meeting

Unknown reception
-Length

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Public opinion
-POL dumps
-Haiphong
-Hanoi
-B-5’s
-7th fleet
-Impact on negotiations
-Message from US

Kissinger left at 2:50 pm.

Richard G. Kleindienst

The president's Canadian trip
-Publicity
-Compared with a theoretical trip to France
-American television coverage

The President's schedule
-Publicity
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Camp David
-Florida
-California
-Rose Mary Woods
-Possible appearance on TV
-The President's trips
-Staff
-Florida
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Florida
-The President's work during good weather
-Camp David
-The President's amount of work
-Nellie L. Yates
-Woods
-Unknown secretary [Beverly J. Kaye?]
-Moscow trip
-Yates
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Woods
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Unknown secretary [Kaye?]
-Amount of work
-Yates
-Woods
-Unknown secretary [Kaye?]

The White House operator talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at 2:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 329-32B]

[See Conversation No. 22-122]

Haldeman conferred with the President.

Call from Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Julie Eisenhower talked with the President between 2:56 and 2:57 pm; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation.

[End of telephone conversation]

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Public relations assignment

ITT
-Peter M. Flanigan's issue
-John [Surname unknown]
-Administration position
-Congressional committee vote
-Scott's absence
-Possible loss of vote
-Clark MacGregor
-Call from Haldeman

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:57 pm.

Food order

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

Unknown person
-Withdrawal from presidential race

Connally
-Conflicts with White House
-Focus
-Reasons
-Cancellation of meeting
-Dinner party
-Ehrlichman
-Connally's demeanor
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Guests

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-Calls to George P. Shultz and Ehrlichman
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Meeting with the President
-Press event
-Misunderstanding
-Message to Connally
-Briefing
-Meeting with Connally
-Haldeman's call to Connally
-Value
-The President's trip to Canada
-Meeting
-Possible cancellation
-Non-attendance
-Briefing of the President on misunderstanding
-Timing
-Walters
-Conflict with White House staff
-Kissinger
-National Security Council meeting
-Agenda
	-Chile
-Walters issue
-National Security Council meeting
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Conflicts with White House staff
-Herbert Stein
-Mid-year economic report
-Conversation with Shultz
-Consultation with the President
-Troika meeting
-Connally's attendance
-Unknown person's assessment of conflicts
-Duration
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Meeting with the President
-Connally's cancellation
-Reason
-Health
-Dr. Walter R. Tkach
-Johnson's health
-Appearance
-The President's Canadian trip
-Connally’s attendance
-Media coverage
-Major concerns
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Forthcoming conversation with the President
-Defense of administration
-Possible departure from administration
-Reasons

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-Effect
-The President's instructions to Alexander P. Butterfield
-Butterfield's calls to Connally
-Camp David
-Haldeman's calls to Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally

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-Conversations with Haldeman
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Walters issue
-Economic meeting
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Scheduling
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Conversation with Shultz
-David N. Parker
-Council of Economic Advisors meeting with the
 President
-Attendees
-Relationship with the President and Haldeman
-Conflicts with White House staff
-Kissinger
-Dinner with the President
-Connally dinner parties
-Haldeman's attendance at one
-Ehrlichman's attendance, April 12, 1972
-Nellie Connally

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[Duration: 9s ]

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-Conversations with the President
-Role in administration
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Value
-The President's orders concerning conflicts with White House staff
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Haldeman's role
-Haldeman's mediation
-Staff

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-Possible briefing by Kissinger
-Moscow trip
-Walters issue
-Reaction
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] event
-Ehrlichman
-Government Accounting Office [GAO] official
-Testimony before Congress
-Lockheed case
-White House denial of involvement
-A plot
-Role in administration
-Conflicts with White House staff
-Rogers
-Possible removal from office
-Feasibility
-Compared with Kissinger

ITT case
-Damage to administration

Vietnam
-Current situation
-Press coverage

Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Rogers
-Explanation of trip
-Haldeman
-Hangchow
-Paris
-Message regarding negotiations
-Timing
-Schedule
-Rogers
-Press coverage of trip
-Kissinger’s explanation of trip to Rogers
-Meeting with North Vietnamese
-Timing
-Paris
-Moscow
-Call to the president
-Leonid I. Brezhnev's message to the president
-Vietnam
-Summit
-Full disclosure
-Haldeman’s presence
-Meeting with the president
-Secrecy
-Soviet guarantee
-Reasons
-The President's schedule
-Meeting with editors
-Camp David
-Florida
-Kissinger’s absence
-Diversion from news about trip
-Rogers
-Appeal to Haig
-Explanation of trip
-Kissinger
-Florida cover story

The President's Canadian trip
-Connally
-Meeting with Trudeau
-Talking points
-Connally’s handling of economic matter

Connally
-Disenchantment with Democrats
-Commitment to the President

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:57 pm.

Food order

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

Connally
-Position as Secretary of State

	Ehrlichman
-Position as Attorney General
-Qualifications
-Appointment
-Timing
-Statements
-Timing
-Length
-Topics

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:57 and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 329-32C]

Republican Senators' activities
-News summary report
-White House knowledge

Crime
-Administration reports
-Record
-Rehabilitation
-Minimum wage for prisoners
-MacGregor's work

Administration statements
-Frequency
-Topics
-Food prices
-Value

Busing
-Rev. Theodore S. Hesburg
-Position
-Ohio situation
-Media problem
-Constitutional amendment

[End of telephone conversation]

Domestic affairs
-Coordination between Colson, Ehrlichman and MacGregor
-The President's attention to other issues
-Major issues
-Focus
-Ehrlichman
-Delegation of authority
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Shultz
-Kleindienst issue
-Vietnam

Connally
-Realization of responsibility
-Conflicts
-Johnson
-Resignation
-Call from Haldeman
-William E. Simon

Foreign policy
-Canadians and Europeans
-Kissinger

The President's schedule
-Trip
-Rose Mary Woods's presence

Connally
-Handling by White House
-Compared with Kissinger
-Meeting with the President
-Frequency
-Vietnam
-Briefing by the President
-North Vietnamese
-B-52S

The President's schedule
-Easter vacation
-Florida trip
-Soviet trip
-Church attendance
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham's comments
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
-Baptist church in Moscow
-Interdenominationality
-Unknown Catholic priest
-Number of services
-Format of service

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:57 pm.

Request for razor

Unknown person
-Letters [?]

Haldeman and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-33

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Delivery of something

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:20 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-34

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

	Conversation No. 329-35

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Kissinger briefing
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and Melvin R. Laird
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams
-Cancellation of unknown event
-Conversation with the President
-Briefing on military situation
-Kissinger's request to attend
-Moorer
-Laird
-Unknown conspiracy
-Field commanders
-Air strikes
-Necessity
-Impact on battle
-Briefing
-Kissinger's attendance
-The President's possible attendance

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 12:20 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-36

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-125]

	Conversation No. 329-37

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  12:20 pm - 12:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 22-126; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

	Conversation No. 329-38

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:22 pm and 12:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Rose Mary Woods?].

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	Conversation No. 329-39

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  12:25 pm - 12:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Raymond J. Arbuthnot.

[See Conversation No. 22-127; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

	Conversation No. 329-40

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 pm and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

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[Duration: 1m 25s ]

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	Conversation No. 329-41

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 pm and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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[Duration: 4s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-42

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

William P. Rogers
-Call to Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-Rogers's schedule

-Messages to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Rogers’s meeting with Dobrynin

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese public statement
-Private message
-Request for private meeting on April 27
-Disclosure to Rogers
-Rogers’s possible reaction
-William J. Porter
-Public meeting
-Porter’s views
-Bombing
-Cancellation of private session
-US agreement to attend
-Private meeting on April 24
-Kissinger’s conversation with porter
-Kissinger’s meeting with Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Dobrynin
-Schedule
-Le Duc Tho
-Travel to Paris
-An Loc
-Present situation
-Military briefing
-Credibility
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger’s conversation with unknown person
-Present situation
-Prisoner of war [POW] reports
-US bombing in area
-Air sorties
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Air Force
-New chief
-John D. Ryan's term
-B-52s
-Rogers
-Laird
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Instructions
-Moorer
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Actions in South Vietnam
-Motives
-Administration’s tactics
-Demonstrations in France
-Compared with Lyndon b. Johnson's administration
-US statement
-U. Alexis Johnson
-French
-Ties with Hanoi
-Public meeting with North Vietnam on April 27
-Kissinger’s message
-Attendance
-Private meeting on April 24
-Scheduling
-Message to Vorontsov
-Naval gunfire
-Deployment
-Targets
-Intensity
-Increase in destroyers
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US reaction
-Blockade of Haiphong
	-Naval forces
	-Strategy
-An loc
-US shelling
-Situation
-Air strikes
-B-52s
-Rogers’s reaction to bombing
-Lack of communication with Kissinger
-White house communication with other State Department officials
-Briefing
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Negotiations
-Private meeting
-Porter’s views
-Public meeting
-Bombing issue
-Possible North Vietnamese cancellation of plenary session
-Possible cancellation by North Vietnam
-Date
-Timing
-Soviet summit
-North Vietnamese concessions
-Democratic convention
-Role of Soviet Union
-Demonstrations
-Effect
-Bombing
-Canada, France, Great Britain and Stockholm
-Burning of US embassies
-Negotiations
-Lyndon B. Johnson example
-Kissinger’s concern
-Rogers
-Plenary session
-Rogers
-Meeting with Laird
-Laird’s statement
-Criticism of White House policy
-B-52s
-Hanoi
-[Unintelligible]
-Blockade
-Timing
-Level of support in US
-Demonstrations
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Secret meeting
-Topics of discussion
-Vietnam
-Standards of progress
-End of the war
-Kissinger’s trip to Soviet Union
-Negotiations
-Soviet summit
-Conditions in Vietnam
-Blockade
-West German treaty issue
-US offers to north Vietnam
-North Vietnamese refusal regarding April 24 meeting
-Meeting on April 24
-The President's approval of Kissinger’s trip
-Blockade
-Hanoi
-Battle area and "I" corps
-Impact
-Intent
-Plans
-Conditions for cessation
-POW return
-Subsequent withdrawal of US troops
-Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam
-Blockade
-Reactions
-North Vietnam
-Ability to withstand
-Length of time
-US attacks
-Railroad
-Petroleum, oil and lubricants [POL] and weapons dumps
-Truck parks
-Soviet Union
-Confrontation with US
-Hanoi relationship towards People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Effect
-PRC involvement
-Relationship with US
-Soviet Union
-Possible cancellation of summit
-Fall of South Vietnam
-Effect on Soviet and PRC initiatives
-Soviet summit
	-Israel

US foreign policy
-Taiwan
-Israel
-Vietnam
-Pierre E. Trudeau

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Soviet summit
-Battles in South Vietnam
-Opposition in US and worldwide
-Build-up
-Timing
-Soviet Union
-Relations with North Vietnam
-Domestic support
-Erosion
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Effect
-Possible public revelation of trip
-Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Dobrynin
-Message to soviets
-Vietnam
-Summit
-Soviet proposals
-US response
-Value to US and Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Andrei A. Gromyko
-Blockade
-Summit
-Blockade
-Timing
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Domestic reaction
-Plans
-Bombing
-Trip to Moscow
-Blockade
-Air strike
-Laird’s and Moorer’s actions
-Reasons
-Rogers

The President's trip to Canada
-Rogers
-Margaret Trudeau
-News summary report
-The President's speech

Vietnam
-Soviet summit
-Possible cancellation
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible cancellation
-Blockade
-Impact
-1972 presidential election
-Democratic victory
-Possible republican candidates
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Warren E. Burger
-John B. Connally
-The President's withdrawal
-The President's endorsement of Connally
-Loss of South Vietnam and soviet summit
-Impact on Nixon presidency
-Blockade
-Alternative candidate
-Connally
	-Foreign policy
-Kissinger’s role
-Reagan
-Rockefeller
-Burger
-Possible democratic candidates
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Thieu
-Possible loss of war
-Impact on administration
-Blockade
-Strategy
-Kissinger’s posture in Soviet Union
-Summit
-Possible soviet reaction
-Possible North Vietnamese reaction
-Kissinger’s reputation
-Kissinger’s message
-The President's responsibility
-Alternatives
-Bombing of ports
-Soviet ships
-Harbors
-Bridges
-American public support
-Compared with support for bombing
-Casualties
-POWs
-Kissinger’s message to Soviets
-Transmittal
-Contents
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Soviet ambassador
-North Vietnamese views regarding meetings
-Soviet views
-Concrete proposal on agenda for Kissinger’s meetings
-Negotiations
-Plenary sessions
-Porter’s responsibility
-US position
-Private meeting
-May 7th
-Public meeting
-Porter’s strategy
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris visit
-US position regarding private and public meetings
-Plenary sessions
-Schedule
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Bombing
-Public and private meetings
-Porter
-US conditions
-Dates
-US responses
-Kissinger’s message

Kissinger left at 2:00 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-43

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:00 pm and 2:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-128]

	Conversation No. 329-44

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  2:04 pm - 2:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 22-129]

	Conversation No. 329-45

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:12 pm and 5:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

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[Duration:  24s  ]

	SOVIET UNION

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	Conversation No. 329-46

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:12 pm and 5:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Call to Melvin R. Laird
-Vietnam negotiations
-Support for the President
-Gratitude

	Conversation No. 329-47

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:12 pm and 5:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:35 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-48

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:12 pm and 5:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's meeting with an unknown person
-Entrance to White House
-Arrangements with Rex W. Scouten

	Conversation No. 329-49

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:12 pm and 5:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Request for unknown action

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:35 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-50

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:12 pm and 5:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration: 3s ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:35 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-51

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:12 pm and 5:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Henry A. Kissinger's request to meet with the President

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:35 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-52

Date:  April 15, 1972
Time:  5:35 pm - 5:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Kissinger’s conversation with Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Attack on Haiphong
-Haiphong operation
-Harbor
-Shore batteries

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:35 pm.

Food order

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:59 pm.

Vietnam
-Haiphong

-Shore batteries
-Bombardment
-Feasibility
-Damage
-US landing
-Harbor
-Naval operations
-Coastal artillery
-Air strikes
-B-52s
-Number
-Targets
-Truck parks
-Oil storage areas
-Shore batteries
-Kissinger’s message to Vorontsov
-Soviet reaction
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Views
-Blockade
-Blockade
-Cancellation of Kissinger’s Moscow trip
-Public reaction
-Compared with reaction to bombing
-Bombing
-Destruction of supplies
-Soviet summit
-Possible conciliation
-US reaction
-Soviet/German issue
-Possible meeting with [Franz J.?] Strauss
-Air strikes
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Plenary meeting on April 27
-Meeting on April 24
-North Vietnam
-Soviets
-Meeting on April 27
-Benefit to US
-William j. Porter's views
-Bombing
-Private meeting on April 24
-Conditions
-Bombing
-William P. Rogers's statement
-Timing
-Porter
-The President's instructions to Kissinger
-Porter’s statement
-White house support
-Rogers
-An loc
-Current situation
-Rogers’s proposed statement
-Past negotiations
-October 1968 bombing halt
-North Vietnamese refusal to negotiate
-Negotiations
-Resumption
-Conditions
-US position
-Kissinger’s conversation with Melvin r. Laird
-Thanks for support
-Conflict with Rogers
-Negotiations
-Edmund S. Muskie's and Edward M. Kennedy's positions
-Value
-Air strikes
-Effectiveness
-Meeting on April 24
-Hanoi’s acceptance
-Vorontsov's message to North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s Moscow trip
-Naval bombardment
-Schedule
-Kissinger’s instructions to Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Cancellation
-US response
-German issue
-Strauss
-Blockade
-Timing
-Public support
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s report

Kissinger left at 5:59 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-53

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:57 am and 10:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Thanks for unknown action

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:20 am.

	Conversation No. 329-54

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:57 am and 10:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

A meeting
-Completion
-Meeting with the President in Old Executive Office Building [EOB] office

	Conversation No. 329-55

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  10:20 am - 10:55 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Reaction of Pentagon
-Kissinger's meeting with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Washington Post and Washington Star articles
-George W. Wilson article in Washington Post
-The President's policy compared with Lyndon B. Johnson's
-An Loc article
-South Vietnamese army
-An Loc
-Kissinger's meetings with Melvin R. Laird and Moorer
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s trip to South Vietnam
-South Vietnamese attitude towards fighting
-Current situation
-New York Times editorial
-Public statement
-Hubert H. Humphrey demand
-United Nations [UN] Security Council
-Vetoes
-Soviet Union
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Johnson Administration
-Edmund S. Muskie statement
-Confrontation with Soviet Union and PRC

Dinner for Latin American Ambassadors
-Call from Kissinger
-Jose A. Mora Otero
-The President's remarks to John V. Brennan

-Birgit Nilsson
-Mora Otero
-Secretary
-Toast
-PRC
-Soviet Union

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-The president's conversation with Brennan
-American viewpoint
-Support for Administration's policy
	-Effort to end the war
-Blockade
-Effect on the election and the war
-Duration
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Air strikes
-Extent
-Haiphong
	-Oil storage areas
-B-52s
-Losses
-Unknown navy pilot
-Rescue by US destroyer
-North Vietnamese ships
-Moorer’s remark
-Destroyers and cruisers
-Gun installations
	-Haiphong
	-Fireball
	-Size
	-Observation from the carrier, Kitty Hawk
-Air strikes
-Hanoi
-Petroleum, oil, and lubricants [POL] dumps
-Fires
-Extent and size
-Pilot reports
-Damage reports
-Fires
-Haiphong
-Damage reports
-Extent
-Surface to air missile [SAM] sites
-Explosions
-Observation from the USS Kitty Hawk
-Naval bombardment
-Damage report
-Recovered pilot's report
-Extent of success
-North Vietnamese fishing and torpedo boats
-Naval morale
-Damage reports
-Truck parks
-Extent of damage
-Soviet response
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Cancellation
-Success
-Impact on US foreign policy
-PRC
-Soviet union
-Compared with John F. Kennedy and Cuban missile crisis
-An Loc
-Tank attacks by North Vietnam
-Extent of destruction
-21st airborne division
-Capture
-Air strikes
-B-52s
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Compared with Verdun strategy
-Field Marshal Erich Von Falkenhayn
-French
-Symbolism
-Abrams
-Air strikes
-Intensity
-Military region one
-Schedule
-Number of sorties
-B-52s
-Destroyers
-Impact
-Hue
-Unknown White House source
-New York Times report
-Soviet trip cancellation
-The President's instructions
-Hue
-Kissinger staff meeting
-Impact
-Soviets
-North Vietnamese
-Possible fall
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Third corps
-Ability to sustain offensive
-Casualties
-Compared with 1968 tet offensive
-Losses
-Cambodia
-An Lc
-Military region one
-New York Times
-Wilson
-Press
-Honesty
-Expected US-South Vietnam losses
-Duration
-Washington Star headline
-Air strikes
-B-52s
-Increase
-Hanoi area
-North Vietnamese losses
-Duration
-Soviets
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Schedule
-Blockade
-Meeting with Leonid I Brezhnev
-Subjects for discussion
-The president's instructions to Kissinger
-Politburo meeting
-Discussion of US attacks
-Summit
-Cancellation
-Soviet/German treaties
-Kissinger’s preparation
-US goals
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US bombing
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Military areas
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Soviets
-Kissinger’s assessment
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Hanoi
-North Vietnamese meeting with Kissinger
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Hypothetical actions as president
-Advisors
-B-52 increase
-Tacair increases
-Naval increases
-Public opinion
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Haiphong
-Effect on foreign policy
	-Bombing
-Air attacks
-B-52s
-Tacair
-Impact on Hanoi
-B-52s
-Damage
-Effect on North Vietnamese population
-Moorer’s conversation with Kissinger
-Compared with Johnson Administration
-Number of planes
-Targets
-Time frame
-Targets
-Number of sorties
-John W. Vogt
-Targets
-Conversation with Dobrynin
-Negotiations
-Meeting on April 24
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Rockets
-Number
-POL dumps
-Impact on election
-Negotiations
-Cease-fire
-POWs
-Issue in election
-Rogers
-The President's memo
-Statements
-Hanoi
-Laird
-Support for the President
-Statements
-Air attacks
-Panhandle
-Secondary explosion
-Fires and smoke
-Extent
-Negotiations
-US posture
-North Vietnamese invasions
-Bombing
-Compared with Johnson administration
-Moscow trip
-Kissinger’s meeting with North Vietnamese on April 24
-Plenary meeting on April 27
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Bombing
-Air strikes
-Blockade
-Soviet summit
-Kissinger’s statement to Dobrynin
-Soviet-North Vietnam relationship
-US options
-Air strikes
-Weather conditions
-Negotiations
-Cambodia
-Soviet summit
-Blockade
-Blockade
-Public support
-Impact on US
-Impact on Nixon presidency
-Criticism
-Compared with Cambodia
-Muskie statement
-Moscow trip
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Soviet summit
-Public opinion
-Compared with PRC trip
-Cancellation
-US response
-Soviet-German issue
-Willy Brandt
-Blockade
-Kissinger’s conversations with Dobrynin
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-War support
-Christians
-Catholics
-Baptists
-Quakers
-Episcopalians
-Hawks
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Richard Wilson
-Unknown person's call to Kissinger
-White House involvement in unknown issue
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Success
-The President's Canadian trip
-Johnson's leaders meetings
-Laird's comments
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Authority
-Concentration
-19th Parallel
-Naval Gunfire
-Haiphong
-Authority
-Damage
-Truck parks
-Explosions
-POWs
-Morale
-Probable observation of explosions and air attacks
-USS Kitty Hawk
-PRC
-The President's message to Destroyer crew
-John S. McCain

Kissinger left at 10:55 am.

	Conversation No. 329-56

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-133]

	Conversation No. 329-57

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator; the President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 22-134; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation.]

	Conversation No. 329-58

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator; the President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 22-135; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation.]

	Conversation No. 329-59

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-136]

	Conversation No. 329-60

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John V. Brennan.

[See Conversation No. 22-137]

	Conversation No. 329-61

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration: 1m 4s ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

	Conversation No. 329-62

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-138]

	Conversation No. 329-63

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 22-139]

	Conversation No. 329-64

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-140]

	Conversation No. 329-65

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-141]

	Conversation No. 329-66

Date:  April 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 22-142; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation.]