Conversation No. 330-1

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:33 am and 8:45 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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

Conversation No. 330-2

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:33 am and 8:45 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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

Conversation No. 330-3

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  8:45 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-78]

Conversation No. 330-4

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  9:00 am - 9:10 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John K. Andrews, Jr.

Greetings

Speech on education
-Draft
-Revisions
-Cuts
-Limited education funds
-Change in text
-Busing
-Additions
-Education
-Busing
-Neighborhood schools
-Cuts in text
-Busing
-Additions to text
-Constitutional problems to busing
-State legislatures
-Non-public schools
-Congressional action
-Problems
-Tax cuts
-The President's solution to problems
-False hopes
-Statement
-Place in speech
-Non-public schools
-Assistance
-Wording
-Changes
-The President's commitment
-False hopes
-Solutions
-Constitutional problems
-Text of speech
-Additions
-Partisan issue
-Religious issue
-Changes by Andrews
-John D. Ehrlichman's advice
-Another meeting on speech
-Time
-Final copy

Andrews left at 9:10 am.

Conversation No. 330-5

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 am and 9:16 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 330-6

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 am and 9:16 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

The President's approval of something

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:16 am.

Conversation No. 330-7

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  9:16 am - 9:55 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Morning report
-Weather conditions
-Destroyers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Report on air attacks
-Veracity
-Dong Hoi and Hue
-Reports
-Robert E. Pursley
-Reports to Laird
-Positioning of destroyers
-Destroyers
-Use
-Origin of instructions
-The President's orders
-Losses
-Air attacks
-Plane losses
-Number
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Crossing of river
-Tanks
-Latest reports
-Quang Tri
-Counterattack
-US response
-Unknown Air Force commander
-Replacement
-Promotion

-Air strikes
-General Lucius Dub. Clay Jr.'s report
-Cloud cover
-Effect on instruments
-Air Force reluctance
-Weather
-Compared with the Battle of the Bulge
-George S. Patton
-Lack of imagination

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:16 and 9:27 am.

[Conversation No. 330-7A]

[See Conversation No. 22-79]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Administration’s opponents
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Mansfield
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Air strikes
-Necessity
-B-52s
-Tactical aircraft
-Number
-III Corps
-Benefit
-Thomas H. Moorer's return call
-Kissinger
-Air commander
-Replacement
-Clay
-Experience
-Air strikes
-Moorer’s reluctance
-Creighton W. Abrams
-Handling of Laos operation
-The President's comments to Moorer
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] Chairman
-Moorer’s comments to D. Kenneth Rush
-Moorer’s recommendation
-Abrams’s capabilities

Henry A. Kissinger talked with Moorer between 9:27 and 9:32 am.

[Conversation No. 330-7B]

[See Conversation No. 22-80]

The President conferred with Kissinger during the conversation.

The President joined the conversation at an unknown time.

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-B-52 strikes
-Targets
-B-3 area
-Number of sorties
-Air commander
-Compared with a doctor operating
-Destroyers
-Route one
-Effectiveness
-Briefing given by Kissinger on April 5
-Weather
-Clearing
-Naval gunfire
-Range
-Route One to Da Nang
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] morale
-Reports
-Verification
-Effectiveness of fighting
-News stories
	-Laos
-Civil war
-Mansfield
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Possible conversation with the President
-The President's response
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US response
-Air strikes
-Weather
-Break
-Aircrafts’ vulnerability
-Weather
-Predictions
-Air Force command
-Shake-up
-Abrams
-Laird
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Commander
-Unknown person's suggestion
-Ability
-Army Commander
-Kissinger’s recommendation
-[Forename unknown] Davidson
-US offensive
-Moorer’s role
-Destroyers
-New ideas
-The President's and Kissinger’s role
-F-4s
-Destroyers
-B-52s
-Carriers
-Moorer’s call to Abrams
-Abrams’s role
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Countermeasures
-Haiphong
-Determination
-Soviet Union's role
-Hanoi
-PRC
-Risk for Soviets
-Gains
-Impact of a US defeat
-US-Soviet Union summit
-Air strikes
-B-52s
-Moorer’s report
-Number
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Flying ceiling
-US air command
-John W. Vogt
-Clay
-Abrams
-Replacement
-Effect
-JCS appointment
-Moorer
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Hue
-Moorer
-Gain of territory
-Negotiations
-Laos
-North Vietnamese request
-US refusal
-William J. Porter
-Abilities
-Decision regarding a walk-out
-U. Alexis Johnson
-US command
-Loyalty to the President
-Secretary of Defense
-Loyalty to the President
-Control of military
-Undersecretary
-Porter
-Kissinger’s recommendation

Soviet summit
-William P. Rogers
-Letter from the President
-Approach to summit
-Report on PRC
-Request for Rogers’s views
-Recommendations
-Subjects to be discussed
-Possible call from Haig

Blackmail of unknown person
-Private army [?]

Vietnam
-Guerillas
-Air commander
-Loyalty

Soviet summit
-Timing
-The president's schedule
-National Security Council [NSC]

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Break in weather
-Cambodia
-Bombing
-Haiphong area
-Alternatives
-Weather
-Bombing
-Haiphong
-Weather
-Cloud cover
-Optimism on outcome

Kissinger left at 9:55 am.

Conversation No. 330-8

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:55 am and 9:57 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-81]

Conversation No. 330-9

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  9:57 am - 9:58 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 22-82]

Conversation No. 330-10

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:58 am and 10:00 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-83]

Conversation No. 330-11

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:58 am and 10:00 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 330-12

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  10:00 am - 10:05 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 22-84; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation.]

Conversation No. 330-13

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  10:05 am - 11:39 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
-Statement
-Publicity
-Public statements
-Robert J. Dole
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Charles W. Colson

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-ITT case
	-Impact on Administration
	-Administration’s response
	-Photograph
	-Boston Globe

	-Mock-up for the President's perusal

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Education
-The President's speech to Philadelphia convention
-Revised draft
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Wording
-Rewriting
-Call to Ehrlichman

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:05 and 11:39 am.

[Conversation No. 330-13A]

Ehrlichman
-Location
-Return call

[End of telephone conversation]

Education
-The President's speech to Philadelphia convention
-Ehrlichman's location
-Speech
-Revisions
-Consultation with Ehrlichman
-The President's drafts
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 10:05 and 11:39 am.

[Conversation No. 330-13B]

-Catholics
-Speech
-The President's revisions
-Time
-Arrangements
-Philadelphia

Haldeman and the President conferred at an unknown time during the conversation.

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's speech on education
-Trip to Philadelphia
-Transportation
-Helicopter
-Time of travel

The President's trip to Florida
-Press coverage
-Prior notice
-Henry A. Kissinger's accompaniment
-Kissinger's plans
-Publicity

The President's schedule
-Haldeman's plans
-Gridiron Dinner
-Haldeman's attendance
-Philadelphia convention
-Buchanan's presence on trip

Drug enforcement

John R. (“Tex”) McCrary
-Possible assignment

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-As opposed to someone else's assignment

William L. Safire

Photographs

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-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Judgment
-Abilities as photographer
-Photographs of the President
-James Keogh's book
-Allen S. Drury's book
-Action shots

People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Public memory
-Need to revive
-Unknown person's judgment

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Schedule
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] special
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 11:39 am.

[Conversation No. 330-13C]

Mrs. Nixon
-Location
-Schedule
-ABC special

[End of telephone conversation]

McCrary
-Work with Mrs. Nixon
-White House staff
-Work with Mrs. Nixon
-Stuart

PRC trip
-A letter

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White House Dinner
-Retiring members of Congress
-List of invitees
-Memorandum
-Ranking members of committees
-Size of list
-Republicans
-Degree of formality
-Time
-The President's schedule

The President's schedule
-Duke Law School graduates
-Meeting
-Dinner
-Number
-Professors
-Dean of Law School
-Army Chorus
-Length
-Classmates
-Number
-Reception
-Military
-Time
-Arrangements
-The President's remarks
-Business meeting
-Duke Law School Dinner
-Dean of school
-Invitation
-President of the University
-Ehrlichman

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McCrary idea

The President's drug message
-Format
-Use of telephones
-Hotline number
-One minute spot
-Presidential posture
-Advisors' proposals
-Haldeman's views
-Myles J. Ambrose
-Announcement
-Timing
	-Ehrlichman
-Fireside chat
-Importance of the issue
-Drug programs
-Results
-Publicity
-Timing

The President's appearances
-Issues
-Vietnam War
-Demands on the President's time
-Philadelphia education convention
-Drug message
-Fireside chat
-Arrangements
-Hotline
-Time and day of the week
-Television time
-Hotline
-Requests
-Delays
-Press conferences
-Equal time
-Remarks
-Length
-Maximum
-Televison coverage
-Hotline
-Phone number
-Announcement
-Ambrose
-As symbol
-Work with McCrary
-Compared with J. Edgar Hoover's tactics in
 1930's
-Strike force
-Drug peddlers
-Arrests
-Presidential awards
-Follow-up to press conference

The President's schedule
-Meeting with William P. Rogers
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press conference
-Cancellation
-Meeting with unknown person
-The President's speech
-Vietnam
-Kissinger's presence
-Day of week

Vietnam issue
-Laird
-Propaganda
-Rogers
-Meeting with the President
-Time

Haldeman talked with an unknown person (or persons) at an unknown time between 10:05 and 11:39 am.

[Conversation No. 330-13D]

Unknown person's schedule

The President conferred with Haldeman during the conversation.

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Rogers
-Time
-Meeting with Kissinger

	Anti-trust suit against networks
		-Richard G. Kleindienst
		-Mitchell's approval
			-The President's review
		-Colson
			-Herbert G. Klein
		-Areas of review
			-Programming
		-Report to the President

ITT hearings
-News story
-Senate Judiciary Committee
-Convention hall
-Press reports
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Businessman in San Diego
-Misinterpretation

Kleindienst
-Statement on demonstrations
-Mitchell's concern

Mitchell
-Public relations sense
-Staff meetings
-Judgment
-Colson
-Judgment

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	George S. McGovern
		-White House plant
			-Compared with plant in Edmund S. Muskie organization
			-Ties to Edward M. Kennedy

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The President's trip to unknown place
-Kissinger
-Report
-Impact

Drugs
-Delay of speech
-Marijuana
-Legalization
-The President's opposition
-Statement
-Heroin
-Opposition
-Users
-Views on legalization

Haldeman left at 11:39 am.

Conversation No. 330-14

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:39 am and 11:43 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-85]

Conversation No. 330-15

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  11:43 am - 11:44 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 22-86]

Conversation No. 330-16

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:44 am and 11:45 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter to Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson.

Instructions

New York Times editorial
-Copy to be sent to Margaret [Surname unknown]

Conversation No. 330-17

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  11:45 am - 12:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

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The President's Philadelphia speech on non-public education

John Cardinal Krol
-Conversation with Colson
-Reaction to the President's visit
-Dinner
-1968 campaign
-White House church service
-Remarks concerning the President
-1968
-Catholics' views

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am.

Refreshment
-Calories

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:23 pm.

The President's Philadelphia speech on non-public education
-Opposition
-John B. Connally
-Reasons
-Aid for non-public education
-Public schools
-Lack of confidence
-Need for religion
-Criticisms
-Fundamentalists
-National Education Association [NEA]
-Colson's meeting with Krol
-The President's convictions
-Krol's understanding of the Catholic Church
-Respect for the President
-Domestic Council
-Conflicts
-John Dewey
-Progressive education proponents
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Ed [Surname unknown]
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-The President's convictions
-Connally's remarks
-Richardson
-Tax credits
-Support for aid
-Prejudice
-Antagonism
-NEA
-Political damage
-Knights of Columbus
-Southern Baptists
-Fred Rose
-Assessment
-Southern Baptists

Catholics
-Views on population control
-Timing
-Patricia Colson
-Abortion
-Colson's church attendance
-Literature
-Opposition to abortion and legalization of marijuana

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	Campaign practices
		-Reports from inside George S. McGovern organization
			-Compared with George W. Romney
			-Lack of humor
			-Organization
				-Strength
				-Douglas L. Hallett
					-Former roommate
					-Providing information to White House

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Congress
-Check-off Bill
-Presidential veto
-Reasons
-Press coverage
-Bipartisan support
-Passage in Senate
-Conference consideration
-House

Colson's conversation with unknown person

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	Campaign practices
		-Theoretical attack by McGovern
	-Use of rumor
	-Missouri
	-New Hampshire
		-Photographs
	-Oregon primary
	-Press coverage

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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Senate Judiciary Committee hearings
-Schedule
-Colson's conversation with Wallace H. Johnson
-Hiram L. Fong
-Strom Thurmond
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-James O. Eastland
-Hugh Scott
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Witnesses
-Clark MacGregor
-Richard G.Kleindienst
-John N. Mitchell
-Robert C. Mardian
-Roman L. Hruska

Education
-The President's Philadelphia speech draft
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Note to Colson
-Nuances
-Religion
-Buchanan
-Sensitivities to Catholic view

Colson left at 12:23 pm.

Conversation No. 330-18

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:23 pm and 1:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez..

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:32 pm.

Conversation No. 330-19

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:23 pm and 1:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:32 pm.

Conversation No. 330-20

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:23 pm and 1:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The President and Sanchez left at 1:32 pm.

Conversation No. 330-21

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:32 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown woman met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The unknown woman and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 330-22

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 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. 330-23

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 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. 330-24

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 2:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

A report
-Distribution

Conversation No. 330-25

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 2:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Delivery of unknown article to Rose Mary Woods
-Copies for the President
-Number

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

Conversation No. 330-26

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 2:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-98]

Conversation No. 330-27

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  2:59 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 22-99]

Conversation No. 330-28

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  3:05 pm - 3:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Alexander P. Butterfield talked with the President between 3:05 and 3:06 pm.

[Conversation No. 330-28A]

[See Conversation No. 22-100]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:06 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 330-29

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 3:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?].

Meeting with the President
-Time

Conversation No. 330-30

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 3:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Unknown article from Rose Mary Woods's office
-Sanchez's retrieval
-Henry A. Kissinger

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:10 pm.

Conversation No. 330-31

Date:  April 10, 1972
Time:  3:10 pm - 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Private talks
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] talks
-South Vietnam’s survival
-Soviets
-Responsibilities in Vietnam
-US message to PRC
-US propaganda line
-Spokesmen
-Congressmen and Senators
-William F. Buckley, Jr.

-Fact sheet
-Clark M. Clifford’s statement
-Buckley
-B-52 strikes
-Targets
-Hanoi’s attitudes
-Impact of strikes
-Madam Nguyen Thi Binh
-Statements
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Karl E. Mundt's statement
-William J. Porter's statement
-Publicity
-Scheduling and timing
-Porter’s statement
-B-52 strikes
-Negotiations
-Proposal
-US restraint
-Private channels
-Soviets
-Agreements

The President's schedule
-Options
-Camp David

Vietnam
-Political losses
-Appearance of ferocity
-Hanoi
-Soviet Union
-Encouragement to adversaries
-Deterioration of domestic support
-Impact
-The President's speech
-Soviet Union
-Demonstrations
-Letters from the President
-Perception of the President's strength
-Domestic support
-Confusion
-Washington Star report
-An Loc
-Caution of the President's opposition
-George S. McGovern
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Trip to PRC
-J. William Fulbright
-Fear of taking on the President

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:10 pm.

Unknown article that Buckley should read

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

-The President's speech
-Timing
-Moderate tone
-Defense of policies
-Points to make
-Kissinger’s opinion
-Talking points for John A. Scali, Charles W. Colson
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Thrust of speech
-US role
-Support for South Vietnam
-Text of speech
-Aggressive tone
-Patriotic appeal
-Timing
-B-52 strikes
-Effectiveness
-North Vietnamese objectives
-Attacks on Saigon
-Real goals
-Vo Nguyen Giap
-US bombing
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Casualties
-Military Region One
-Weather
-Gunshots
-An Loc
-South Vietnamese army
-Creighton W. Abrams
-Performance
-US attacks
-Tanks
-Kissinger’s reports
-Weather
-Hoang Xuan Lam
-Number
-Casualties
-B-52s
-Binh
-Airfield
-Petroleum, oil, and lubricants [POL] dumps
-Intensity
-Photographs
-B-52s
-North Vietnamese expectations
-Unknown persons' performance
-Election year
-Dien Bien Phu
-1964
-1968 and 1972
-US bombing
-Naval gunfire
-Populated areas
-Number of ships
-Destroyers
-Cruisers
-Airplanes
-Numbers
-B-52 strikes
-Number
-Talking points
-Scali and Herbert G. Klein
-Clark MacGregor
-Domestic criticism
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Humphrey
-Proposals
-Gridiron meeting
-Constitutional amendment
-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

The President's Canadian trip
-Draft of speech
-Substance
-Disarmament statement
-William L. Safire
-US-Canadian relations
-Statements
-Speech
-Role of superpowers
-Peking and Moscow
-Long-range interests of superpowers
-Arms limitations
-Progress
-Goals
-Restraint on arms export
-Last drafts
-Kissinger’s input
-The President's phraseology
-Changes
-Impact
-Tone
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's reaction
-PRC
-State Department
-Analysis

US-Soviet relations
-Central Europe
-Détente
-Mutual dependence
-Democrats

Israel

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-Problems
-Schedule
-Democratic convention
-Draftees in Vietnam
-Timing of announcements
-Haiphong

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:10 and 3:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 330-31A]

Call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

The operator placed the call on hold at an unknown time; the President and Kissinger conferred.

Vietnam
-Change in policy
-South Vietnam

The President talked with Haig at an unknown time.

Vietnam
-Troop ceiling in 1969

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-Rate
-Total numbers
-Timing
-Goal by July 30
-Domestic issues
-PRC
-Soviets
-Dealings with US
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s message to Egon Bahr
-Prospect of relating message to Soviets
-Text
-Bahr
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Dealings with Germans
-Letter to unknown person
-Receipt by Rolf Pauls
-Reporting through channels
-Summit
-Need for German settlement by Soviets
-Pressure by PRC
-Shanghai communiqué
-Scali
-Democratic convention
-Outcome of Vietnam war
-The President's reputation
-South Vietnam
-Fighting capacities
-Compared with Laos
-Control of offensive
-Abrams
-Tacair uses
-Performance
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting
-Reaction to the President's policies
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US bombing
-Necessity
-Impact on Southeast Asia and US foreign policy
-Thailand and Indonesia
-Democrats
-Possible lines of criticism

The President's meeting with Kissinger's parents
-Time
-Location

Kissinger left at 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 330-32

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?].

Trip to New York
-Departure preparations

Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 330-33

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

John N. Mitchell

Henry A. Kissinger
-Conversation with the President
-Time

Camp David
-Departure time

Conversation No. 330-34

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Manolo Sanchez
-Unknown article to be picked up

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:47 pm.

Conversation No. 330-35

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 1:40 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at 2:47 pm.

Conversation No. 330-36

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  2:47 pm - 3:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Consultations
-Soviet Union
-Relations with North Vietnam
-Military equipment
-Propositions
-Negotiations
-Hanoi’s interest in summit
-Message to the President from Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Secrecy
-Message to Hanoi

Kissinger's schedule
-Postponed meeting

Vietnam
-Soviet Union
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Reactions to US-Soviet relations
-Kissinger’s message to Soviets
-Appearances
-Kissinger’s trip
-Secrecy
-Guarantees
-Kissinger’s trip to Soviet Union
						-Brezhnev
						-William P. Rogers

						-Soviet Summit
-Influence with Hanoi
-Reaction to US attacks
-Kissinger’s message to Brezhnev
-US military effort
-Secrecy
-Effect on Hanoi
-Irini N. Dobrynin's visit with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Letter from Mrs. Dobrynin to Viktoriya Brezhnev
-Soviet attitudes
-Desire to discontinue summit
-Brezhnev's statements to Kissinger
-Comments concerning the President
					-India
-Kissinger’s trip
-Negotiations with Hanoi
-Aid
-US election
-Dobrynin
-Advisability
-Negotiations with Soviets
-The President's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-US limitations
-Soviet summit
-Soviet requests
-The President's Canadian speech
-Message to the President
-The President's response to Dobrynin
-Camp David
-The President's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-The President's Canadian trip
-Domestic problems
-PRC
-Democrats
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Cessation of war
-Chances

Alexander P. Butterfield and Lee W. Huebner entered at an unknown time after 2:47 pm.

The President's Canadian speech
-Changes
-Kissinger's approval
-Wording of a sentence

Kissinger left at 3:01 pm.

-Wording of a sentence
-Tone
-Change
-Wording
-Changes
-Further work
-National Security Council [NSC] considerations
-A copy
-Retyping
-Further work
-Changes
-Consistency
-Compared with a speech at a conference
-Copies
-Retyping
-Rose Mary Woods
-Sentences
-Shortening
-Tone
-Distribution
-Work at Camp David
-Huebner's schedule
-Completion of speech

Butterfield's schedule
-Camp David
-Haldeman
-Arrangements for Huebner
-Secretary
-Typewriters

Butterfield and Huebner left at 3:09 pm.

Conversation No. 330-37

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Relations with US
-Rhetoric
-Message from the President
-Chou En-lai
-Michael J. Mansfield's and Hugh Scott's trip
-US-Soviet relations
-PRC’s responsibilities

Soviet Union
-Kissinger's trip
-Call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Secrecy
-Advantages
-Preparation for Summit
-William P. Rogers

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 330-38

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

A meeting
-Time

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

The President's return call

Conversation No. 330-39

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  3:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-118]

Conversation No. 330-40

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 3:20 pm and 3:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Meeting
-The President's call from Henry A. Kissinger

Camp David
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Secretary

Kissinger talked with the President between 3:23 and 3:26 pm.

[Conversation No. 330-40A]

[See Conversation No. 22-119]

Bull left at 3:23 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 330-41

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:26 pm and 3:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

	The President’s schedule

Conversation No. 330-42

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:26 pm and 3:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 22-120]

Conversation No. 330-43

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  3:27 pm - 3:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 22-121]

Conversation No. 330-44

Date:  April 12, 1972
Time:  3:29 pm - 4:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John N. Mitchell and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Greetings

Mitchell's position
-Office
-Justice Department
-Type

The President's schedule
-Trip to Camp David
-Trip to Canada
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr. mission

Vietnam
-Role of Melvin R. Laird and William P. Rogers
-Cambodia

-Laos
-Creighton W. Abrams
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US retaliation
-Impact on North Vietnam
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Laird
-Soviet Union
-Henry A. Kissinger
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US response
-Seriousness
-Democrats
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Criticism
-Republican response
-Robert J. Dole
-Attack on critics
-Democratic nominee
-Kennedy
-Humphrey

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:29 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Timing

Disarmament Conference
-The President's attendance
-Television coverage

Vietnam issue
-Democrats
-Timing of current negotiations
-The President's involvement
-Polls
-Vietnam War
-Women

Soviet Union

	[Unintelligible]

-Summit
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Protests
-US attacks on North Vietnam
-Level

Canada
-Steve Ronan [sp?]
-Pierre E. Trudeau's party
-Situation
-Parliament
-Election
-Political comeback

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation hearings
-Chances of confirmation
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Robert C. Byrd and Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Predictability
-James O. Eastland
-Issues
-Kissinger
-Testimony
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John D. Ehrlichman
-William E. Timmons
-Kissinger
-Concerns
-Flanigan
-Resolution of germaneness
-Testimony
				-Flanigan's conversations with Ralph McLaren and [Forename unknown] Brandon [sp?]
-Committee vote
-Executive session
-Hugh Scott
-Robert P. Griffin
-John L. McClellan
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Subpoenas
-Defeats
-Flanigan
-Timmons
-Flanigan's testimony
-Eastland
-Byrd
-Ervin
-Chances of Kleindienst's confirmation
-Cancellation of hearings
-Atmosphere
-Michael J. Mansfield resolution
-Eastland

Rose Mary Woods entered at 3:45 pm.

Greetings

The President's schedule
-Trip to Camp David
-Time
-Haig
-White House staff
-Secretaries
-Changes in the President's speech
-Lee W. Huebner
-Woods
-Nellie L. Yates
-Speech
-Changes

Woods left at 3:47 pm.

ITT case
-Kleindienst confirmation hearings
-Strategies
-Testimony of White House staff
-Flanigan
-Ehrlichman
-Ervin
-Byrd
-Position on confirmation
-Ervin
-Position on confirmation
-Eastland
-Cut-off date
-Byrd
-Partisan vote
-Flanigan
-Testimony
-McClellan
-Issue
-Relation to North Vietnamese offensive
-James L. Buckley
-Democrats' defensiveness
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Administration strategy
-Liabilities
-The President's conversation with Kleindienst
-Republican convention
-Issues
-Carol [sp?] [Forename or Surname unknown]
-Withdrawal of name
-Investigation
-Kennedy's committee
-Antitrust investigation
-Decline in public interest

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Kleindienst confirmation
-Strategy/scenario
-Statement
-Senate committee
-A speech
-Tenor
-Busing
-Law and order
-Justice Department
-Problems
-Withdrawal

Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Possible nomination as Attorney General
-Criteria
-Chances of confirmation
-Acceptability
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Jews
-Qualifications
-Loyalty
-Agreement with the President's program
-Busing
-Other options
-Clark MacGregor
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Chances of confirmation
-Acceptance by right wing
-Reagan
-Compared with Richardson
-Busing
-Qualifications
-Options
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Problem of control
-Confirmation
-Senate Judiciary Committee
-Experience
-Conservatism
-Fiscal matters
-Positions on issues
-Busing
-Civil rights
-Record
-[Forename unknown] Hillen [sp?]
-[Forename unknown] Lawson [sp?]
-San Francisco
-Hillen
-Los Angeles
-Reagan support
-Conservatism
-Loyalty to Reagan
-Voting record in California Assembly

William French Smith
-Supreme Court nomination
-The President's conversation with Reagan
-Weinberger nomination
-Mitchell's conversation with Reagan
-ITT
-Qualifications to be Attorney General

Weinberger
-Possible nomination to be Attorney General
-Jewish support
-Cabinet position
-Kissinger
-Herbert Stein
-Arthur F. Burns
-Prestige
-Record
-Investigation of background
-Mitchell
-MacGregor
-Confirmation
-Preparation
-Supreme Court position
-Desire for job
-Character
-Reagan
-Loyalty
-Knowledge of issues
-Compared with Smith
-Busing
-Bureaucracy
-Congress
-Kleindienst as Deputy Attorney General
-Problems
-Conflicts with Weinberger

Ambassadors
-Mexico
-Candidate

Kleindienst
-Theoretical resignation

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-Course of action
-A speech
-Attack on critics
-Withdrawal of nomination
-News
-Timing
-Television news
-Audience
-Coverage
-Byrd's announcement
-A signal
-Replacement
-Weinberger
-Jewish support
-Conservative support
-Miranda case
-Civil Rights Act
-Record
-Meeting with the President
-Decision
-Offer of Attorney General position
-Civil rights position
-Record
-Timing
-Speech
-John B. Connally's support

Weinberger
-Reagan
-Ambition
-Example of Winston S. Churchill
-Party changes
-Example of Ogden R. (“Brownie”) Reid

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Kleindienst
-Future position
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Law firm
-Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander and
 Mitchell
-Possible job offer
-Financial support
-Cash
-Speeches
-Justice Department
	-Mulcahy
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Staff lawyer
-Business alliance
-Book
-An advance

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-Unknown foundation
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Sympathy
-Harm to administration
-Compared with Abe Fortas

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:47 pm.

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Demonstrators at Key Biscayne
-Females
-Age
-Appearance

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:34 pm.

Demonstrators

Weinberger
-The President's meeting with Mitchell
-Discussion
-Charles W. Colson
-Meeting with Mitchell
-G. Harrold Carswell and Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
-Confirmation
-Money
-Wife, Jane (Dalton) Weinberger
-Name
-Compared with Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Conversation with Mitchell

Kleindienst
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Preparedness
-The President's reaction

ITT
-Judiciary Committee hearings
-Timing of withdrawal of Kleindienst's nomination
-Ervin
-Byrd
-Termination of hearings
-Flanigan
-Philip A. Hart's conversation with MacGregor
-Problems
-Witnesses
-Dita D. Beard
-Unknown US attorney
-Appearance of cover-up
-Jack Gleason
-Scheduling
-Termination of hearings
-Quentin N. Burdick
-Beard
-Ervin
-Flanigan
-Timmons
-White House staff
-Withdrawal of Kleindienst's name
-Ervin's and Byrd's statements
-Eastland
-Germaneness of issue
-Withdrawal of Kleindienst's name
-Problems
-Timing
-Leaks
-Preparation
-Leaks
-Consequence
-White House staff
-Knowledge
-Replacement
-Weinberger
-Consultation
-Secrecy
-Kleindienst
-Offer of position to Kleindienst
-Offer of position to Weinberger

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WALTER R. TKACH AND W. KENNETH RILAND ENTERED AT 4:34 PM.

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The President and Riland left at 4:50 pm.