Conversation No. 331-1

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:09 pm and 2:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

William P. Rogers

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-2

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  2:10 pm - 2:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

William P. Rogers

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 2:10 and 2:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 331-2A]

Current meeting
-Review of something
-Briefing

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler's schedule
-Morning briefing
-Conversation with unknown person
-Gerald L. Warren

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?] at an unknown time between 2:10 and 2:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 331-2B]

Clark MacGregor
-Report

The President's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Press conference
-Questions
-Soviet ships
-Soviet summit
-Indochina
-Answers

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
	-Announcement
		-Invitation to Poland
		-Warren

Kissinger entered at 2:15 pm.

Ziegler’s schedule
	-Forthcoming briefing

Soviet Union
-Question at Rogers's press conference
-Soviet ships
-Use of official channels
-US reply to a message
-Vietnam
-Soviet ships
-US public opinion
-Ziegler's statement on bombing
-US message to Soviet Union

Ziegler left at 2:17 pm.
Ziegler’s work

Kissinger's conversation with Stewart J.O. Alsop

Kissinger's schedule

Ziegler's press conference

Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet ships

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	REPORTS

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-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Relations with US
-Soviet summit
-Soviet position
-German Treaty
-Middle East settlement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-PRC
-The President 
	-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Kissinger's Moscow trip
-Announcement
	-Timing
-Haiphong bombing
-Significance

Vietnam
-Kissinger's meeting with Alsop
-The President's trip to Moscow
-Invasion by North Vietnam
-Alsop article
-Ziegler's press conference
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-US bombing

US-Soviet relations
-Middle East
-European security
-State of relations
-Current situation
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Blockade
-1972 election
-Impact
-Soviet concerns
-Summit
-Risks of bombing
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Kissinger’s trip
	-Timing

Vietnam
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Testimony by Melvin R. Laird and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, April 18, 1972
-Meeting with the President
-Rogers's testimony
-Time
-Kissinger's call
-Arrangements
	-Laird and Moorer
	-Public stance
	-Compared with Rogers's testimony
	-Laird’s previous testimony
	-Meeting with the President
	-Necessity
	-Ziegler
	-Time
	-Ziegler’s announcement
		-The President’s talks with Rogers
			-Forthcoming meetings with the President
				-Timing

Kissinger left at 2:28 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-3
Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:28 pm and 2:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-5]

	Conversation No. 331-4

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:28 pm and 2:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

	Conversation No. 331-5

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  2:36 pm - 2:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 23-6]

	Conversation No. 331-6

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  2:43 pm - 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 23-7]

	Conversation No. 331-7

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:50 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Vietnam
-William P. Rogers's testimony
-Democratic Senatorial opponents of the President's policies
-Counterattacks
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Failure to condemn
-Draft of criticism
-Clark MacGregor

	Conversation No. 331-8

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:50 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:48 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-9
Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  3:48 pm - 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 23-8]

	Conversation No. 331-10

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  3:55 pm - 4:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Manolo Sanchez.

Refreshment

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

Vietnam
-Ziegler’s recent press conference
	-William P. Rogers
	-Talks with the President
	-Melvin R. Laird
	-Meeting with the President
	-An announcement
	-Testimony
	-Rogers's testimony
	-Press reaction to Ziegler's statements
	-Negotiations with North Vietnam
	-January 25, 1972 proposal
	-Xuan Thuy
	-Negotiations
	-Ziegler's statements

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 4:00 pm.

	-A resolution
	-Condemnation of North Vietnam
-Message to Soviet Union
-Release of US and Soviet texts
-Henry A. Kissinger's and Rogers's advice
-The President's approval

-Timing
-Rogers's television appearance
-Newspapers
-Contents
	-US air attacks on North Vietnam
	-Anti-aircraft fire
	-Hanoi and Haiphong
	-Ziegler’s talk with Robert J. McCloskey
-Release of texts
-Timing
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
		-Confirmation hearings
-Congress
-A resolution
-Democrats
-Press conference
-Ziegler's handling of questions about the President's policies
	-North Vietnam
	-Nature of US air attacks
		-Targeting
			-Hanoi, Haiphong
-Antiwar Democrats
-Patriotism
-Charges of supporting North Vietnam
-Rogers’s comments
-Press conference
	-Invasion
		-Responsibility
			-Vietcong [VC]
		-Enemy troop build-up

Rogers's statements
-Television coverage

Ziegler left at 4:10 pm.

Vietnam
-Congress
-Republicans
-Resolution to condemn North Vietnam
-The President's conversation with Kissinger
-Charles W. Colson and Clark Macgregor
-News story
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Democratic support
-House of Representatives
-F. Edward Hebert
-Democratic support for the President
-Resolution against North Vietnam
-MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Gerald R. Ford
-Muskie resolution
-Location in congress
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Congressional resolution
-Colson
-Hebert
-The President
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
		-Democratic resolution
		-Partisanship
-Congressional resolution
-John B. Connally
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 22, 1972 meeting
-Wording
-Agnew
-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Rogers
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Soviet Union
-South Vietnam
-Soviets
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Communists
-Senators
-South Vietnam
-George P. Shultz
-Statements

Ziegler
	-State Department

Kissinger
-Work with Administration
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Vietnam
-Soviet summit
-Congress
	-Senate

Connally
-Testimony
-Possible resignation
	-Timing
		-Soviet summit
		-Vietnam

Secretary of the Treasury
-Confirmation
-Acting Secretary
-World economy
	-Confidence
-Possible nominations
-Connally’s staff
	-[William P. Pannill?]
-Wallace H. Johnson
-The President's schedule
-Trip
	-Texas
-A dinner

	Connally
		-Possible resignation
			-Timing
		-Soviet summit
		-Timing
		-Democratic National Convention
	-Delays
	-Shultz
	-Summit
	-Tour
	-Democratic Nomination

	Vietnam
		-Summit

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Dinner for retiring congressmen
-Time

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] hearings
-Conclusion
-Schedule
-Vietnam War issue
-Written interrogatories
-House of Representatives
-Busing
-Jay Lovestone
-Texas

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Rogers's schedule
	-Television

The President and Haldeman left at 4:48 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-11

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:13 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Meeting with the President

	Conversation No. 331-12

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:13 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?].

President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:20 am.

	Conversation No. 331-13

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  9:20 am - 9:55 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule
-Book
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Kissinger's statement
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-North Vietnamese message

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	CABLE TRAFFIC

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-People's Republic of China [PRC] Ambassador
-Xuan Thuy
	-Comments
		-US bombing
	-Soviet Union
	-Tass statement
-Naval action
-Destroyers
-Casualties
-Da Nang
-Air strikes
-Number
-Targets
-Impact
-Bombing in South
-Tactical sorties
-B-52s
-Concentration of strikes
-Effectiveness
	-Military Region [MR] 1
	-Long Tieng
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Long Tieng
-III Corps
-An Loc
-North Vietnamese attacks
-Tank losses
-Current situation
-US helicopters
-US gunships
-South Vietnamese garrison
-North Vietnamese siege
-Hue
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Failure
-Press reports
	-South Vietnamese army
		-Desertions
-Press coverage
-Television coverage
-Campus demonstrators
-Size of crowds
-Harvard University
-Future trips to PRC by newsmen
-Networks
-Hostility to the President
-Campus demonstrators
	-University of Wisconsin at Madision
-Democrats
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Statement
-Rebuttal
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-George C. Wallace
-Support for the President
-Public opinion
-Support for the President
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Laird
-Statement
-Blockade
-Laird
	-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-The President's possible conversation with [David] Kenneth Rush
-Kissinger's conversation with Rush
-Laird
-Military man assigned to Rush's and David Packard’s office
-Rush
	-WSAG meetings
	-Packard
	-Support for the President
-Relations with Kissinger
-Television networks
-Hostility to the President
-Criticism
-Newsmen
-PRC trip
-Behavior
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Margaretta (Fitler) (“Happy”) Rockefeller
-Mrs. Rockefeller's mother, Margaretta (Harrison) Bartol
-Cambodia views
-A luncheon
-Liberal compared to conservative support
	-Attica prison riots
-Attica
	-Press
	-Misrepresentations

PRC
-Photograph
-Publicity
-White House reception for PRC Table Tennis players, April 18, 1972
	-Kissinger's conversation with [Chien Yi]
	-Rose Garden
	-Statement
	-State Department
	-Interpreters
	-John A. Scali
	-Television
	-State Department
-Kissinger’s conversation with Chien Yi
	-Joseph W. Alsop

Kissinger's schedule
-Trip to Moscow

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Impact on Soviets
-Soviet Union
-Message
-The President's press conference
-Soviet trip

Soviet trip
-Kissinger's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Announcement
-Publicity
-Soviets
-Agreement
-Announcement
-Time
-The President's role
-Kissinger's trip
-The President's schedule
-Time
-Day

Vietnam
-White House staff morale
-Campus riots
-Reinforcement
-Haldeman
-Staff meeting
	-Robert H. Finch
-Cabinet
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Time

PRC
-Relations with US
	-Normalization
-Current actions
-Note
	-Vietnam
		-Bombing
-Chien Yi
-Scali
-Table Tennis team
-Appearance of members
-Compared with US team members
	-Graham B. Steenhoven
	-The President’s talk with Haldeman
		-Ceremony

Vietnam
-Kissinger's meeting with David E. Bradshaw
-Miami Herald
-Bradshaw's conversation with unknown person
-Soviet reaction
-PRC reaction
-The President's conversation with Kissinger
-Soviets
-1972 election
-The President's policies
-Survival of South Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Need for movement in negotiations
-POWs
-Kissinger's talking paper
-North Vietnamese position
-Negotiations
-Settlement
-POWs
-Peking and Moscow
-Impact on 1972 Election
	-Food prices
-Offensive
-Le Duc Tho
	-Paris
-The President's television appearance
-Information for Rogers
-Haldeman
-Soviets
	-Picture
		-Release
-Speech by the Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Press support
-Opponents of the President's policies
-Speculations about US defeat

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:20 am.

The President's receipt of something

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

PRC
-White House reception for PRC table tennis players
	-Interpreters
	-Reaction to bombing in Vietnam
	-Kissinger's conversation with Chien
-Soviet Ambassador

Vietnam
-Issue in 1972 election
-Soviets

Kissinger left at 9:55 am.

	Conversation No. 331-14

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:55 am and 10:11 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator [?].

The President's meeting with unknown person

	Conversation No. 331-15

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:55 am and 10:11 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 331-16

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  10:11 am - 12:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Greetings

	Henry A. Kissinger

Sequoia cruise
-Weather

White House staff
-Kissinger
-Quality of work
-Staff
-Position papers
-Options for the President
-Thoroughness
-Compared with Cabinet officers and White House staff
-Robert H. Finch
-Clark MacGregor
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-MacGregor
-Colson

Vietnam
-William P. Rogers
-Call to Haldeman

-British statement in support of bombing
-Call to British Foreign Minister
-Call to Mitchell Sharp
-Canada's position
	-Bombing
	-Invasion
-Briefing of congressmen
-Democratic caucus
-Melvin R. Laird
-Statements

John B. Connally
-Meeting with Haldeman
	-Donald McI. Kendall
-Resignation as Secretary of the Treasury
	-Decision
	-The President's policy on Vietnam
	-Haiphong
	-National economy
	-Importance of confidence
	-International economy
	-Trade
-Relationship with the President
-Work with White House staff
-Current problems
-Decision-making
-Under Secretary
-Lack of authority
-Connally's decision-making methods
-Relationship with the President
-Fear of erosion
-Connally's departure
-Reasons
-Relations with White House staff
-Relations with Cabinet officers
-Possible conflicts
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
-The President's trip to Texas
-Conversation with Connally
-Invitation
-Announcement of resignation
-Timing
-The President's Soviet trip
-Departure
-Timing
-Conditions
-Help for the President

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-Departure
-Return to Texas
-New York
-Johnson
-Texans
-Timing
	-1972 election
		-Clifford M. Hardin
-Future relations with the President
	-Advisory capacity
		-Advantages for the President

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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 10:25 am.

Vietnam
-United Press International [UPI] story
-Troop withdrawals
-Possible announcement
	-Timing
-Report from Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Schedule
-Commitment
-Ziegler's statement
-Troop withdrawals
-Schedule
-Sources
-Haig's report
-Kissinger's opinion
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey
-Rogers's statement
-Laird's statement
-Senate
-Laird’s statement
-Comments by Ziegler
-Reflection of the President's views
-Phrasing
-Demonstrations
-Type of crowd
-Weather
-Television reporters
-George S. McGovern supporters
-George C. Wallace
-Support for bombing
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Casualties

Ziegler left at 10:30 am.

-News stories
-Connally
-Sources
-White House staff
-Conversations with press
-Problems
-William L. Safire
-John A. Scali

Department of the Treasury
-Successor to Connally
-Paul A. Volcker
-Confirmation by Senate
-Problems
	-1972 election
-Shultz
-Connally's opinion
-Strengths
	-Expertise
	-Loyalty to the President
	-Free market philosophy
-Support for Shultz
-Volcker
-Charls E. Walker
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] head
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Connally's support
-Shultz
-Qualifications
-Relations with Arthur F. Burns
-Timing of appointment
-The President's press conference
-The President's Soviet trip
-Distraction from Connally's departure
-Connally's departure
-Announcement
-The President's handling
-Connally's future relationship
-Advisory role
-Advantages
-Loss of platform
-Support for the President
-Possible reasons for resigning

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Connally
-Health
	-Nellie Connally
-Departure from administration
-Timing
-The President's trip to Texas
-Current week
-Problems
-Vietnam news stories
-Return from Texas
-The President's Soviet trip
-Publicity
-Future role with administration
-Counsel to the President
-David M. Kennedy
-Finch
-Best position
-Declaration of support for the President

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-Departure
-News stories
-Democrats
-Speculation
-Stories of disaffection
-Impact on economy
-New Cabinet post
-Rogers
-Secretary of State
-Vice Presidency
-Attorney General
	-Ehrlichman
-Departure
-Health
-Timing
-1972 election
-Financial future
-Department of the Treasury
-Control
-Theoretical presidency
-Problems
-Compared with Johnson
-Relationship with the President
-Concern for details
-Domestic economy
-Current situation
-Future problems
-Inflation
-Future rates
	-1973
	-November 1972
	-Food prices
	-Shultz
-Congress
-Debt ceiling
-Conflicts with Congress
	-Tax reform
-Increases
-Congress's position
-Connally's position
-Spending freeze
-Spending freeze
	-Social Security
	-Protests
	Russell B. Long
-MacGregor
-Criticism
-Congress
	-Taxes, appropriations
		-Deficit
	-Social Security
	-Vietnam
-Government workers
	-The President

Tax reform
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Cooperation with the President
-Letter

Connally
-Departure from administration
-Possibility of remaining
-Cabinet members
-State Department
-Vice Presidential position
-Availability
-Departure
-Timing
-Personal finances

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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Image in press
-Publicity

Connally
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
	-Vietnam
		-Critics
-Vietnam
	-Views
-Attitude toward the President
-Departure from administration
-Timing
-Conversation with Haldeman
-The President's trip to Texas
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow

Soviet Union
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Rogers
-Haig
-Message from Soviets
	-Rogers
	-Leonid I. Brezhnev
	-Vietnam negotiations
		-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
	-US bombing of Vietnam
	-Summit
	-Haldeman's discussion with Rogers
		-Kissinger
		-Canada
		-Biological warfare treaty
-Kissinger announcement
	-Timing
-Press reports
	-Ziegler
	-Kissinger
		-Murray Marder
		-David Kraslow
-Rogers
-Publicity
-Kissinger
-Soviet Agreement
-Press conference
-Time
-Hostility of press
-Questions
-Secrecy of Kissinger's mission
	-Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-Conversation with congressmen

Connally
-Departure
-The President's trip to Texas
-Shultz
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Planning
-Announcement
-Ehrlichman
-Treasury Department
-Narcotics division
-Ehrlichman's option paper
-Tax reform
			-Shultz

National economy
-Deficits
-Shultz, Connally, Kissinger and Weinberger
-Memorandum
-1973 and 1974 budgets
-Current legislation
-Defense cuts
	-Base closings
-Special revenue-sharing
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Social Security and Medicare
-Welfare
-Costs
-Federal budget
-White House position
-Shultz
-Meeting with the President
	-Connally
-Memorandum from the White House
-Position on HR 1
-Memorandum to Ehrlichman on administration's position
	-1972 election
-Defense spending
-Costs
-Decisions
-Moscow summit
-Vietnam
	-Offensive
		-Base closings
-Revenue-sharing
-Passage in Senate
-Chances
-Ehrlichman's assessment
-The President's veto
-Special and general revenue-sharing
-Retroactivity
-HR 1
-Welfare bill
-Social Security and Medicare Bill
-The President's veto
-Revenue-sharing
-Shultz's position
-Purpose of a letter to Congress
-HR 1
-Federal budget
-HR 1
-Connally
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Social Security
-Defense spending
-Moscow summit
-Kissinger
-Belt tightening
-Arms limitation
-Increase in taxes
-Publicity
	-Base closings
-Shultz
-Meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Contacts with Haldeman
			-Memorandum
-A veto by the President
-Scheduling of the President's work on budget
-Texas trip
-Connally
-Conversation with the President
-Politics of federal budget
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-HR 1
-MacGregor
-White House opposition
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Shultz
-Revenue-sharing
-Problems
-Political benefits
-Property taxes
-Benefits
-Vietnam
-Defense spending
-Cuts
-Kissinger's handling
-Laird and [David] Kenneth Rush
-Problem of leaks

Vietnam
-Conclusion of war
-Time
-Air war
-1972 election
-The President's victory
-Future action
-Blockade
-Bombing
-POW release
-Impact on war

Defense spending
-Cuts
	-Air Force
-Shultz

Kissinger's trip to Soviet Union
-Secrecy
-Kissinger's location
-Camp David
-The President's location
-Announcement

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:30 and 11:20 am.

[Conversation No. 331-16A]

Meeting with the President
-Discussion of Kissinger's cover story

[End of telephone conversation]

Soviet Union
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Cover story
-New York
-Vacation
-Health
-Speculation

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:30 and 11:20 am.

[Conversation No. 331-16B]

			-Senate
			-Vietnam

[End of telephone conversation]

People's Republic of China [PRC] table tennis team reception
-Chinese translators
-Incident related by Kissinger
-Scali's reaction
-Absence
-Selection
-Rose Garden ceremony
-Absence

Kissinger entered at 11:20 am.

		-Telephone
			-Haldeman
		-Scali
			-Boycott
-Selection
-Scali
-State Department
-Tour
-White House conflicts with State Department
-US table tennis team
-Unknown member
-Absence
-Appearance
-Publicity
-Statement by the President
	-Television
-Scali
-Rose Garden
-New York Daily News
-Photograph
-Scali
-Responsibility

Kissinger's secret trip to Moscow
-Cover story
-Camp David
-Problems
-Ziegler
-Kissinger's schedule
	-New York
	-Meetings
		-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-Distraction of press
-Camp David
-Kissinger's schedule
-Dinner with newspaper editors
-Katharine L. Graham
-Cover story
-Trip to Camp David
-Plausibility
-Haig report
-Press speculation
-Troop withdrawal
-Meeting with Haig
-Bureaucracy
-Trip to Paris
-Trip to Camp David
-Ziegler's statement
-Guest list
-The President's schedule
-Domestic issues
	-Ehrlichman
	-White House staff
	-Distraction
		-Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Kissinger's presence
-Ziegler's statement
-Calls from press
-Kissinger's departure
-Time
-Kissinger's schedule
-Party
-Trip to Camp David
-The President's schedule
-Ziegler's and Gerald L. Warren’s knowledge
-The President's schedule
-General staff meeting
-Shultz and Ehrlichman 
-Kissinger's absence
-Domestic subjects
-Budget planning
-Shultz
-Connally
-Cover story
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Haig
-The President's schedule
-Editors meeting
-Trip to Camp David
-Staff schedule
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Trip to Camp David
-Ehrlichman
	-Graham
-Shultz
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Kissinger's trip to Camp David
-Kissinger’s trip to Andrews Air Force Base
-Staff meetings
	-Troop withdrawal
-Scheduling
-Graham event
-Transportation
-Arrangements
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Graham event
-Shultz
-Connally
-Rogers
-Trip to Camp David
-Kissinger's trip to Camp David
-Helicopter
-Kissinger's schedule
-Public statements
-The President's meeting with top staff
-Emphasis
-Cancellation of dinner appearance
	-Ehrlichman
-Public statement
-Dealings with Rogers
-Discussion of Vietnam with Soviets
	-Kissinger
-Meeting with North Vietnamese
	-Haldeman’s meeting with Rogers

Vietnam
-Naval actions
-Soviet ships
	-Haiphong
-Laird's concerns
-Destroyer
-Manila
	-Newspaper coverage
		-Mine loading
-Soviets
-Perceptions of US actions
-Private message
	-Ships
-Bombing
-North Vietnam
-Continuation
-Carriers
-7th Air Force
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.’s cancellation
-Carriers
-Number of sorties
	-Protective reation
-Thanh Hoa
- D-Day, 1944
-Winston S. Churchill's account
-Number of air sorties
-Number of British air strikes
-Number of planes
-B-52s
-Bomb load
-Compared with World War II
-Concentration of forces
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-World War II
-D-Day
-Second landing
-Deception of Germans
-Churchill's account
-Repetition of operations
-Massive reaction
-Impact on North Vietnam
-Soviet reaction

Soviet Union
-Earl L. Butz's meeting with Brezhnev
-Brezhnev's comments
-Jacob D. Beam's response
	-Vietnam
		-Response to invasion
-Butz
-Soviet intelligence
	-Beam

Vietnam
-Bombing
	-Soviet response
-Impact on North Vietnam
-The President's message
-North Vietnamese response
-Counterproposal
-The President's response

Soviet Union
-Kissinger's trip
-Cover story
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Trip to Camp David
-Schedule
-Rogers
-Kissinger's meeting with the President

Kissinger left at 11:47 am.

-Dealings with Rogers
-Call to Rogers
-Timing
-Haig
-Haldeman's meeting with Rogers
-Brezhnev's message
-Secrecy of meeting
-Explanations of reasons for meeting
-Meeting place
-Time of Haldeman's call
-Urgency
-Problems
-President Of Pakistan [Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]
-Public disclosure
-Ziegler's statements
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman at Camp David
-Kissinger's presence
-Shultz's presence
-Purpose of meeting
-Connally
-Knowledge of trip
-Trip to Camp David
-Budget
	-Planning session
		-Weinberger
-Ziegler's statement
-Length of stay
	-Haldeman
	-Kissinger
-Haldeman's conversation with Ziegler
-Staff meeting
-Travel
-Haig's presence
-Graham’s dinner
-Domestic news
-News summary

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Peter M. Flanigan's testimony
-New York Times story
-Handling
-Edwin Reinecke and Edgar Gillenwaters
-Testimony
-Testimony
-Jack Gleason
-Harry D. Steward
-Senate debate
-Testimony
-Flanigan
-Gleason
-Written interrogatories

Vietnam 
-Democrats
-McGovern
-Antiwar speeches
-Reception
-Press reports
-Press
-Opposition to war
-Television
-Coverage of demonstrations
-Kissinger's views
-Coverage of Laird testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Coverage of demonstrations
-Opposition
-Harvard University
-Violent demonstration
-Kissinger's reaction
-New York Times story
-University of Wisconsin at Madison
-University of California at Berkeley
-Democratic mayor of Alexandria, Louisiana
-Switch to Republican party
-Reasons
-Hawks
-Reagan
-Messages of support for the President
-Condemnation of North Vietnamese invasion
-John C. Stennis
-Support for bombing
	-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Soviet ships
-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
-Opposition
-Press reports
-UPI
-Harvard
-Center for International Studies
-Fire
-Columbia University
-Stanford University
-Strike
-University of Wisconsin at Madison
	-CBS film
-Bombing
-Campus demonstrations
-Time of year

Soviet Union
-Kissinger's trip
-Rogers's role
-Haldeman's call to Rogers
-Purpose
-Meeting with Soviet
-Possible meeting with North Vietnamese
-Haldeman's conversation with Connally
-Trip to Camp David
-Shultz
-Connally
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Meeting with the President

	Connally
-Resignation as Treasury Secretary
-Timing
-Announcement from White House
	-Press play
-Soviet summit
	-Planning
-Shultz
-Timing
	-Soviet trip
-Support for the President

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-Attitude
	-Campaign
	-Budget
	-Compared with Shultz

Budget
-Meeting with Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Defense issues
-Soviet trip
-Cuts
-Timing

HR 1
-Chance of passage in Congress
-Ehrlichman's views
-The President's budget

Revenue-sharing
-Chance of enactment
-MacGregor
-Administration's view of bill
-Social Security
-Separation of issues

National economy
-Connally's outlook
-Leadership
-Improvements
-Compared with 1960
-Peak
-1972 election
-Prediction in the Kiplinger Letter
-Optimism
-Improvement in California
-Housing starts
-Unemployment
-Rate
-Base
-Boom
-Stock market
-Improvements
-War issue
-Current level
-Improvements
-Rate
-Peak
-Timing
-1000 points
-Democratic National Convention
-Impact
-Stock brokers
-Haldeman's blind trust
-Quarterly Report
-Holdings
-Gains
-Production
-Yachts
-Television sets
-Spending
	-Travel
-Retail sales
-Spring
-Money supply
-Burns
-Shultz
-Predicted performance as Treasury Secretary
-Compared with Connally

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	Connally
		-Talk with Haldeman
			-Vietnam
				-Haig
-Meeting with the President
-Time

Soviet Union
-Kissinger's trip
-Haldeman's call to Rogers

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Connally
-Time
-Haldeman's call to Rogers
-Haldeman's meeting with Connally
-Haldeman's and Ehrlichman's trip to Camp David
-Meeting with Connally
-Time
-Meeting on non-public education
-Report
-Press story
	-Briefing
		-Clarence Walton
-Length
-Meeting with Jerry V. Wilson and Washington, DC police officers
-Past practice
-Instructions to Ehrlichman
-Meeting with Clifford D. Carlson
-Length
-Charlotte T. Reid
-Meeting with Wilson
-Publicity value
-[Walter E. Washington]
-Ehrlichman's arrangements
-Meeting on non-public education
-National coverage
-Meeting with Wilson
-Coverage
-[National Catholic Education Association meeting]
-DC crime rate
-Coverage
-1971 demonstrations
-National scope
-Meeting with Wilson
-Ehrlichman
-Graham
	-Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

Haldeman left at 12:17 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-17

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:57 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-18

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

The President's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:57 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-19

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Ronald L. Ziegler?].

Press
-An investigation
-Washington, DC press corps
-Number with children in Washington, DC public schools
-Statement
-Release of figures
-Queries
-Calls to press corps
-Study of DC school system
-Due date

	Conversation No. 331-20

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:57 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-21

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:57 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-22

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:57 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-23

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-31]

	Conversation No. 331-24

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  12:57 pm - 1:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 23-32]

	Conversation No. 331-25

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:09 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Meeting with Jerry V. Wilson and Washington, DC police officers
-Arrangements

-Rose Garden
-The President's appearance
-The President's remarks
-DC crime rates
-Wilson's achievements
-[Walter E. Washington]
-Time

ITT hearings
-Edwin Reinecke's testimony

John B. Connally
-Meeting with the President

	Conversation No. 331-26

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  1:48 pm - 1:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 23-33]

	Conversation No. 331-27

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:49 pm and 2:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:11 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-28

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:49 pm and 2:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Jerry V. Wilson
-Time
-Location
-Table tennis team
-Meeting with Wilson
	-Talking points
		-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
			-The President’s comments
				-Duration

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:11 pm.

	Conversation No. 331-29

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:49 pm and 2:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-34]

	Conversation No. 331-30

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  2:11 pm - 2:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 23-35]

	Conversation No. 331-31

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:16 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-36]

	Conversation No. 331-32

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  2:17 pm - 2:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 23-37]

	Conversation No. 331-33

Date:  April 19, 1972
Time:  5:05 pm - 5:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with W. Kenneth Riland.

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Office furnishings

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger's arrival

Kissinger entered at 5:20 pm.

Soviet summit
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
	-US allies
	-Leaks
	-Soviet Union
	-People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-US allies
	-Europe
-Announcement
-Problems
-Announcement
	-William P. Rogers
-Plenary meeting date
-US bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Announcement
-Southeast Asia
-Plenary session
-Conditions
-Relationship to Vietnam
-Blockade
-Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Tonkin Delta
-Possible second trip

Vietnam
-The President's policies
-Resumption of bombing
	-Unknown Harvard University graduate school dean's statement

Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Vietnam
-Plenary session
-Announcement

Vietnam
-The President's policies
-Criticism of college presidents
-Fear of students
-Opposition to the President
-PRC trip
-Cambodia invasion
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s countercriticism

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:20 and 5:28 pm.

[Conversation No. 331-33A]

[See Conversation No. 23-43]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-The President's policies
-An announcement
-Intensity of bombing

Riland and Kissinger left at 5:28 pm.

The President talked with Charles W. Colson between 5:28 and 5:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 331-33B]

[See Conversation No. 23-44]

[End of telephone conversation]