Conversation No. 333-1

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:41 am and 8:43 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:43 am.

	Conversation No. 333-2

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:41 am and 8:43 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Speech
-Copies

	Conversation No. 333-3

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  8:43 am - 8:44 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's receipt of an unknown item.

Butterfield left at 8:44 am.

	Conversation No. 333-4

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:44 am and 9:26 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [John K. Andrews, Jr.?].

Speech draft
-Word count
-Copy
-Word count

	Conversation No. 333-5

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:44 am and 9:26 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [John K. Andrews, Jr.?].

Speech draft
-Word count

	Conversation No. 333-6

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:44 am and 9:26 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The unknown person's schedule

	Conversation No. 333-7

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  9:26 am - 10:29 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's talk with Charles W. Colson
-Barry M. Goldwater
-James L. Buckley

Vietnam
-Paris negotiations
-Resumption
	-Announcement
-Military situation
-Military Region Two
-North Vietnamese advances
				-Central Highlands
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams's actions
-Commitment of forces
-Central Highlands
-Abrams's actions
-Air attacks
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Melvin R. Laird
-Bombing
-Extension
-Kissinger's wire from Moscow to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Approval
-Joint Chiefs of Staff
					-Memorandum to Laird
-President’s orders
-Political objectives
					-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Laird
-Rush
-David Packard
-Rush
-Loyalty to the President
-Quality of work
			-Laird
-Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
-Robert S. Mcnamara

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[National security]
[Duration: 8s ]

Soviets

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-Kissinger’s schedule
			-Haig
-Laird
-The President's message
-Kissinger's order
					-Haig
-Impact of Laird's actions on negotiations
-B-52 strike
-Compared with Tacair
-Target on the 20th parallel
				-Thanh Hoa
			-Haiphong
-Le Duc Tho
-Trip to Paris
-Telvision news stories
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Press reports
-Third North Vietnamese division
-Headquarters
						-Coast
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's project
-Kissinger's meeting with Haldeman
					-Haig
-Summit meeting
-Press
					-Thomas E. Jarriel
-Kissinger's briefing
-Press reports
-Washington Post
-Editorial
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Washington Post
				-Katharine L. Graham
-New York Times
-Loyalties
-Washington Post
-Democratic National Committee
-Press reports
-Kissinger’s trip
				-Lack of coverage
-Soviet summit announcement
				-Lack of coverage
-Possible effect of Soviet summit on negotiations
			-William P. Rogers
-Press reports
-Administration's reaction
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Haldeman
-Democrats
-Massachusetts
-Soviets
-Negotiations
-Kissinger's Trip
			-Public opinion
-Press
-Defeatism
-Haldeman's project
-Defeatism
			-Laos
-Military operations
-Central highlands
-An Loc
-Television coverage
-III Corps
-Momentum
-I Corps
-North Vietnamese attack
-II Corps
-Necessity for US
-Kontum
-Pleiku
-Abrams
-Cable from Ellsworth F. Bunker and Abrams
-Contents
-Bombing
-Haiphong
-Effects
-Negotiations with Hanoi
-Negotiations
-Cease-fre
-Bombing
-Timing with summit
-North Vietnamese offers

Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Trip to Florida
-Itinerary

The President's forthcoming speech
-Kissinger's assessment
-Toughness
-Length
-Kissinger's review
-Start of speech
-Changes in text
-Positive emphasis
-Revisions
-Page two
-Page three
-North Vietnamese victory
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Cambodia references
-Number of North Vietnamese regulars

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:44 am.

-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Changes in speech
-Meeting with the President

Butterfield left at 9:45 am.

-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Changes of wording
-Weaknesses
-White House staff
-Demonstrations
-References
-Deletion
-Attitude of average American
-Slogan
-Draft of speech
-Andrews
-Compared with William L. Safire
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Influence of Washington Post
-Reference to young demonstrators
-Ho Chi Minh
-Personal tone
-Andrews's work
-Compared with Safire

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

Kissinger talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:45 am and 10:29 am.

[Conversation No. 333-7A]

Call to Haig

Kissinger talked with Haig, at an unknown time.

Kissinger's schedule
-Speech
-WSAG meeting
-Haig's presiding
-Chairman
-Bob Lamour [?]
-Rush

[End of telephone conversation]

Speech draft
-Andrews
-Assessment
-November 3, 1969 speech
-Cambodia speech [April 30, 1970]
-Personalization
-January 25, 1972 speech
-Edmund S. Muskie's reaction
-North Vietnamese divisions
-Changes in text
-Deletions
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ] crossing
-Cambodia
-Number of troops
-Change of wording
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-South Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-US support

Vietnam
-News reports
-Nelson A. Rockefeller's call to Kissinger
-Democratic critics
-George S. McGovern and Hubert H. Humphrey
				-Soviet trip
	-The President's position in nation

Speech draft
-Changes and revisions
-American newsmen

Vietnam
		-Vietcong [VC]
-North Vietnamese goals
-Provincial capitals
					-US press
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Losses
-An Loc
-Quang Tri
-Provincial capitals
				-An Loc
-State of offensive
-Counteraction
-Trips To PRC and Soviet Union
-Moscow trip
-Press hostility
-Kissinger's trip
-Publicity
-The President's trip to Moscow
-Benefits
-Press hostility
-Ziegler
-Press reports
-Favorable articles

	The President’s schedule
		-Meeting with Gerard C. Smith, May 1, 1972
			-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
			-Navy
				-Submarines
			-Florida
			-Texas

Kissinger's schedule
-Trip to Paris
-Meeting with Le Duc Tho
-Publicity
				-Announcement

Vietnam
-Critics
-Soviets
-Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Troop levels
-Negotiations
-Compared with The President
-Dealings with Soviets
-Soviets
-May 2, 1972 meeting
-Mission to Hanoi
			-Summit
-The President’s comments in February 1969
-Linkage
		-State Department

Willy Brandt
-Government
-Vote of "No Confidence"
-Social Democratic Party [SDP]
-Possible Outcome
-Secret Ballot
-Balance of power
-Treaties
-Ratification
-Possible outcome of "No Confidence" vote
-Impact
-Treaties
-Ratification
-Impact
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-US
-Government
-Strength
-"No Confidence" vote
-Procedures
-Treaties
-Ratification
-Upper and Lower Houses
					-Moscow trip
-US

Speech draft on Vietnam
-Changes
-South Vietnam
				-Page five
-Page six
-Page seven
-Page nine
-Victory of communists
			-Page ten
-Andrews's draft
-References to doves
-Changes
-Recommendations
-Surrender of US
-Wording
-US involvement in Southeast Asia
-Wording
-Deletions
				-Rogers
-Public impact
-Presidency
-McGovern
-Wording of speech
-Andrews's draft
-Sentences
-Future of US foreign policy
-The President's talk at Congressional retirees dinner, April 25, 1972
-Presidency
-McGovern
-Copies
-Kissinger's WSAG meeting
		-Kissinger's work with Winston Lord and Andrews
			-Quality of work of speechwriters
			-Lord’s tenure
				-Cambodia
			-Personalizations
-Andrews's draft
-Abstractions
-References to demonstrators
-Popular perceptions
-Support for Muskie and McGovern

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[Duration: 1m 22s ]

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Vietnam
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
			-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Kissinger's meeting with Le Duc Tho
-SALT breakthrough
-Significance
-Kissinger’s trip
		-Summit
			-Expectations

	The President’s schedule
		-Haldeman

	Vietnam
		-Announcements
		-Bombing halt
			-Summit
-Message to PRC
-Private meeting
-Laird
-Thieu
-Copy of April 26, 1972 speech

Soviet trip
-Haldeman
-The President's schedule
-Church service in Moscow
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet leaders
-The President's reelection
-Church
-Maintenance
-Reasons
-Message for Dobrynin
-Brezhnev
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-The President's schedule
-Consultation with Soviet leaders
-Brezhnev
-Attitude toward the President
				-[Napoleon, King of France] Napoleon [Bonaparte] I
-Chou En-Lai
-Office
-Foreign policy
		-The President’s accommodations
			-Lay-out and furnishings
			-Refurbishing Kremlin
				-Courtyard
		-US relations with Soviets
-Compared to Harriman and Joseph Davies
-North Vietnamese news article
-US efforts in Soviet Union
-Significance
-Compared with US aid to Iran
-Andrei A. Gromyko
					-Shah of Iran [Moahmmed Reza Pahlavi]
-Bombing of Haiphong
-Relation to summit
-Harriman
-Henry C. Lodge
-Discussion with Giovanni Battista Motini [Pope Paul VI]
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow

The President's speech
-Kissinger meeting
-Work on draft
-Speechwriters
-Meeting with Kissinger
-New draft
-Time
-Wording
-Demonstrators
			-Actions

Vietnam
-Support for the President
-Congressmen
-Kissinger's briefing
-John Sherman Cooper
-Colson

The President talked with an unknown person [Haldeman?] at 10:29 am.

[Conversation No. 333-7B]

The unknown person's schedule

Kissinger left at 10:29 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

	Conversation No. 333-8

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 10:29 am - 11:36 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration: 24s ]

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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered and Sanchez left at 10:30 am.

	The President’s forthcoming speech
-The President's suits
-Color
-Selection by Mark I. Goode
-Style
-Color
-Importance
-Television reception
-Goode
-William H. Carruthers
-Selection
-Ties

Vietnam
-Soviets
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Henry A. Kissinger

Soviet Union
-The President's trip
-Selection of reporters
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-Administration's supporters
-Haldeman's task

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:30 and 10:44 am.

[Conversation No. 333-8A]

Russell A. Kirk
-New book for the President
-Florida

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Bombing halt
-Implementation
-Kissinger's opinion
					-May 2, 1972 meeting
-Preparations
-William Averell Harriman to Cyrus R. Vance cable
-Understandings with North Vietnam
-Artillery
- Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Attacks on cities
-Bombing halt
-Condition
-Use in speech by Kissinger
-Bombing halt
-Conditions
	-North Vietnamese position
-US reply
	-Verbal agreements
	-Lyndon B. Johnson's queries
	-Soviet cable
	-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Resumption
-Harriman's cable
-Disclosure
-Soviets
				-Philippines
-Johnson
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Resistance to halt
-Nguyen Cao Ky
					-Anna C. Chennault
-Tactics
-Negotiations
							-National Liberation Front [NLF]
				-Ky plot
-Cable traffic
			-Narrative
				-Tom C. Huston
-Harriman's cable
-Bombing halt
-North Vietnamese agreement
					-Xuan Thuy
			-Huston

Reception for Congressmen
-Col. Albert Shoepper
			-Certificate
-Kissinger’s briefing
			-Impressions of Congressmen at dinner
				-Clark MacGregor
-The President's remarks

The President's forthcoming speech
-Responsibilities
-Winston Lord and John K. Andrews, Jr.
				-Liberals
-Remarks about demonstrators
-United Nations [UN]
-Changes
-Personal terms
				-Kissinger

Reception for Congressmen
-John Sherman Cooper
-William M. Colmer
-Cooper's joke
			-MacGregor
-Army Chorus
-Unknown baritone
	-The Road to Mandalay
-Modern music
-Type of music
-Audience reaction
-PRC trip
-America the Beautiful
-Turkey in the Straw
-Nostalgia
-Performance
-Marine Band
-Performances
-Gridiron
-The President’s schedule
-The President’s knowledge of guests
	-George H. Mahon
				Texas Tech University Red Raiders
-Press coverage
-Neglect
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein

The President's career
-Memory of places visited
-Amarillo, Texas

	Reception for Congressmen
		-Effect

The Presidency
-Credibility
-Vietnam War
-Impact
-Speech
-Andrews's and Lord's draft
-Passage
-PRC and Moscow trips
-Wording
-First person singular
							-UN
-“Silent Majority”

The President's speeches
-Cambodia [April 30, 1970]
-Effectiveness
-Kent State University
-Winston S. Churchill
-Statement on British Empire
-Andrews's draft
-Changes
			-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Speechwriters
-Deficiencies
-Use of first person singular
-April 26, 1972 speech
-Changes
-Presidential election
					-The President’s forthcoming trip to Texas
-Length
-Review with Kissinger
-Troop announcement
-Stories in press
-Peace talks

Kissinger's Moscow trip
-Press reports
-News summary
-Thomas E. Jarriel
-Summit
-Errors
-Misstatements to press
			-Ziegler

Kissinger
-Trip to Moscow
-Television coverage
-Washington Post editorial
-Kissinger's conversation with Katharine L.  Graham

Vietnam
-The President's speeches and policies
-Washington Post criticism
			-Vietnamization
				-Johnson
-Offensive
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams
-Briefing policy
-John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Refugees
-Press reports
-John A. Scali
-Press
-Battle stories
-Reports on perspective
-Refugees
-South Vietnam
				-Population centers
					-Control
-Reports on Kissinger trip
-Time cover
-Washington Post
-Life cover
-Time cover
-Washington Post
-Kissinger and John B. Connally

Haldeman's schedule
-The President's speech
-Follow-up work
-The President's trip
-Kissinger’s trip
-Charles W Colson

Press
-Madam Nguyen Tri Binh letter
-Publicity
		-Barry M. Goldwater's speech
-Colson follow-up
-Circulation

	The President’s forthcoming speech
		-Publicity
			-Reasons
				-Vogt
			-Follow-up
-Attacks on "Dove Democrats"
-The President's memorandum for Patrick J. Buchanan
-George H. W. Bush
-Haldeman's role
-Florida trip
-Arrangements

Stock market
-Colson's analysis
			-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.
			-Vietnam
-Grayson
			-Prices
-Correction
-Articles
-Biases of writers
				-Jewish left-wing
-Economic indicators

Frank T. Bow
-Appointment as ambassador to Panama
-Qualifications
-Canal treaty 
-[Robert M. Sayre?]
-Conversation with Peter M. Flanigan
				-William P. Rogers

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Public relations
-White House staff
			-Television commentators
				-Vietnam

	Manolo Sanchez entered and left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.

	Refreshments

-Scali
-Colson's staff
-Thomas C. Korologos
-Kenneth Khachigian
-Buchanan
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Washington Post
-Scali
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-Volunteers
-Letter writing operation
-Unknown female staff member
-Distribution
		-Forthcoming speech
			-Calls

Vietnam
-US troop withdrawals
	-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
-Left wing critics
-Problems
-Kissinger's trip

Press
-Ziegler
-Contacts with reporters
-Fears of the President's policies
-Kissinger
-Trip
-Handling of foreign policy
-Soviets
-Hanoi
-Public opinion
-Role of press

The President’s schedule
		-John D. Ehrlichman [?]

The President's speech
-Draft
-Kissinger
-Completion
-The President's review

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Herbert F. De Simone
-Photograph opportunity
-Meeting with Korean Foreign Minister Kim Yong-Sik
-Time

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:30 and 11:22 am.

[Conversation No. 333-8B]

-Scheduling
-Preparations
-Location
-Time

[End of telephone conversation]

-Photograph opportunity

Vietnam
-The President's opponents
-Effectiveness

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-Demonstrations
-University of California at Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Haldeman's conversation with son, Harry
-Size
-Problems
-Reaction
-Defacement of library building
-Property damage
-Damage to antiwar movement
-John F. Osborne

	Instruction for Haldeman

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:22 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Kim Yong-sik
-Time
-Kissinger
-Length
-Change in time
-Kissinger

Butterfield left at 11:23 am.

-Meeting with foreign ministers
-Rogers
-Meeting with De Simone
-Time
-Speech draft
-Place

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:23 and 11:36 am.

[Conversation No. 333-8C]

The President's schedule
-Meeting with De Simone
-Photograph opportunity
-Time
-Place

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-The President's policies
-Briefings
-Vogt
-Scali
-White House staff
-Refugees
-North Vietnamese attacks
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news report
					-An Loc
				-Highway 13
-Return to Quang Tri
-Battlefield reports
-National Security Study Memorandum [NSSM]
-Vietnamization
-Cable from Harriman

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Haldeman left at 11:36 am.

	Conversation No. 333-9

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:45 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 1:45 pm.

	Conversation No. 333-10

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's speech
-Suggested addition
-Draft page
-Speechwriters
-Changes
-Deletions
-South Vietnamese
-Revisions
-Length
-Completion
-Review

	Conversation No. 333-11

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Vietnam
-Report
-US military involvement
-Termination
			-Civilians
			-Advisors
-Briefing
-Troop losses
			-Compared to World Wars I and II
-Kontum
-Liberals
-US response

	Conversation No. 333-12

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.

	Conversation No. 333-13

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's speech
-Last draft
-Copies
-Henry A. Kissinger
-The President's copy
-Final revisions

	Conversation No. 333-14

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's trip
-Secretary
-Nellie L. Yates

	Conversation No. 333-15

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-80]

	Conversation No. 333-16

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  1:45 pm - 2:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 23-81; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation.]

	Conversation No. 333-17

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:07 pm and 2:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-82]

	Conversation No. 333-18

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  2:08 pm - 2:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer.

[See Conversation No. 23-83]

	Conversation No. 333-19

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:12 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez [?].

Retrieval of unknown item

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 3:43 pm.

	Conversation No. 333-20

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:12 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:43 pm.

	Conversation No. 333-21

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  3:43 pm - 4:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Current developments
-Le Duc Tho
-Trip to Paris
-Secret talks
-Xuan Thuy
-Statement to press
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Associated Press [AP] story
-Kissinger's press conference
-Questions
-Reports from Moscow
-Leonid I. Brezhnev's meeting with Kissinger
-Source
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union 
-Brezhnev's offer
-Significance
-Willy Brandt
-Other issues
-Middle East
-Source
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President's visit
-Schedule
-Brezhnev
							-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Significance of reports
-Soviets
-US bombing
				-Hanoi
-Dobrynin
-The President's message
-Summit
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-The President's speech
-Kissinger's revisions
-Additions
-Paris talks
-Use of channels
-US objectives
-Prisoners of War [POW] return
-Soviets
-Delegation in Hanoi
-Significance
-Report of Kissinger's trip
-Purpose
-Brezhnev
-Press reports
-The President's speech
-Revisions
-Draft
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Changes
-The President's orders for counterattacks
-US role in Vietnam
-Limitations
-George S. McGovern's supporters
-Response in North Vietnam and Soviet Union
-Kissinger's conversation with Brezhnev
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Abilities
			-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-The President's decision
				-Kissinger’s trip
-The President's Canadian trip
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Melvin R. Laird
-Negotiations
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-The President's speech
-William J. Porter
-Changes
-Kissinger's views
-Revisions
				-Bombing halt
-US public opinion
-South Vietnam
-Changes in speech
-Defense
-Stakes in war
-The President's speech
-Bloodbath of non-communists
-Number
-Wording of statement
-US goals
-Prevention of bloodbath
-Changes

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 4:04 pm.

-Cable from Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Release
-John A. Scali
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Network coverage
-Kissinger's office

Kissinger talked with an unknown person in his office at an unknown time between 4:04 and 4:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 333-21A]

Vietnam
-Cable from Bunker and Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Delivery to Oval Office
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Senate Democratic caucus
-Robert C. Byrd
-Vote against administration policy
-Kissinger's call to Byrd
-Delays in meeting
-Sensitive developments
-Jeopardy
-Caucus action
-Problems
-The President's reception for Congressmen
-Report from Clark MacGregor
-Response
				-Forthcoming speech
					-Presidency
					-Speechwriters
					-Wording
-Positive tone of the President
-The President's speech
-Text
-Distribution to press
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Scali and Charles W. Colson
-Time
					-Briefing

Haldeman left at 4:10 pm.

The President's speech
-Deletions
-Copies
-Distribution
-US goals
-Stopping invasion

Vietnam
-Kissinger's call to Byrd

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:10 and 4:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 333-21B]

[See Conversation No. 23-84]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Revisions
-Consequences of defeat
-Loss of respect

Kissinger talked with Byrd at an unknown time between 4:10 and 4:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 333-21C]

[See Conversation No. 23-85]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Byrd's support of the President
-Democratic caucus
-Delay
-J. William Fulbright's request in writing
-Byrd's problem
-Byrd
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Confidentiality
-Scheduling
-Time and day
-Negotiations
-Private meetings
-Democratic caucus
-Time and day
-Errors
-Kissinger's call to Haldeman

Kissinger talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:10 and 4:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 333-21D]

Call to Haldeman
-Return call

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Review
-Stakes in war
-US credibility with allies
-Future aggression
-Changes
-Kissinger's copy
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] crossing
-Shelling of civilians
-Violation of 1968 bombing halt understanding
-Deletions
-Issues in war
-Negotiations
-Return of POWs
-Conclusion
-Press copy
-Kissinger's copies
-Rose Mary Woods
-Press copies

The President talked with Woods at an unknown time between 4:10 and 4:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 333-21E]

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Kissinger's copy
-Corrections
-Delivery
-Press copy

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Further changes
-Impact on country
-Kissinger's press briefing
-Time
-Format
-Negotiations
-Resumption

Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:10 and 4:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 333-21F]

[See Conversation No. 23-86]

The President conferred with Kissinger twice during the conversation.

Confirmation of Senate Democratic caucus meeting time

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Democratic caucus
-Kissinger's conversation with Byrd
-Byrd's reliability
-Change of date
-Certainty
-Kissinger's trip to Paris
-Secrecy
-Byrd
-Byrd's position
-Kissinger's conversation with Fulbright
-Kissinger's call to Byrd
-Byrd's response
-Fulbright
-The President's speech
-Compared with the President's talk to Congressmen
			-Simple language

	The President’s schedule

Kissinger left at 4:31 pm.

	Conversation No. 333-22

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:31 pm and 4:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-The President's copy
-Completion
-Delivery
-Press copy

	Conversation No. 333-23

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  4:34 pm - 4:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 23-87]

	Conversation No. 333-24

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:37 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Unknown person's attendance
				-Raymond K. Price, Jr. 
		-Democratic caucus
-Response
-Negotiations

	Conversation No. 333-25

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:37 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person in H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's office.

Call to Haldeman
-Return call

	Conversation No. 333-26

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  5:01 pm - 5:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-The President's call to Kissinger
-Kissinger's trip to Paris
-Private talks
-Kissinger's call to Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Timing
-Leaks
-Message to Laird
-The President's speech
-Rogers's copy

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger's meeting with Gerard C. Smith
-Rogers's role
-Credit
-Leaks
-Proposals
-Rogers's Vvew
-Issues
-Submarines
-Proposal
-Smith
-Rogers's knowledge
-Kissinger's call to Smith
-Rogers's presence at meeting
		-State Department

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Copy to Rogers
-Corrections
-Haldeman
-Rogers's call to Kissinger
				-Meeting
-Copy to Rose Mary Woods
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Copy to Rogers
-Problems
-Changes
-State Department proposals

SALT talks
-Leaks
-Chalmers M. Roberts
			-Washington Post
-State department involvement
-Rogers
-Involvement
-Knowledge
				-Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles [SLBMs]
-Interest
-Call to the President
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President's call
-Joint Chiefs of Staff and Department of Defense
			-SLBMs
-US proposals
-Rogers
			-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
				-SLBMs
			-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
				-Converstaion with Kissinger
				-Conversation with Rogers
			-SLBMs

	The President's speech
		-Copy to Rogers
			-Key section
				-Delivery
					-Time
				-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.'s report
			-Other sections

Kissinger left at 5:10 pm.

	Conversation No. 333-27

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  5:14 pm - 5:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Changes
-Number of words
-Additions
-Completion
-Length
-Contents
-Diplomatic negotiations
-Meetings in Paris
			-US bombing
				-Hanoi
-Soviets

Woods left at 5:16 pm.

	Conversation No. 333-28

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:16 pm and 5:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Rose Garden
-Meeting with the President

	Conversation No. 333-45

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:16 pm and 5:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person in Henry A. Kissinger's office.

Return call from unknown person

	Conversation No. 333-29

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:16 pm and 5:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears
in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States,1972, pp. 550-554.]

The President answered the phone at an unknown time between 5:16 and 5:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 333-29A]

[Mistaken connection?]

	Conversation No. 333-30

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  5:50 pm - 6:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with the President and Haldeman
-Location

William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Greetings
-Support for the President's Moscow trip and bombing in
 North Vietnam
-Press conferences
-Minneapolis newspaper's headlines
-Support for the President
-Work with presidents
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-The President

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Delivery
-Associated Press [AP]
-Time
-Final draft
-Completion
-John A. Scali
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. 
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Richard G. Valeriani
-News stories
-Release
-Kissinger
-Soviet delegation in Hanoi
-The President's speech
-Rhetoric
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Deletions
-Troop withdrawals

The President rehearsed a speech at an unknown time between 5:50 and 6:06 pm.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears
in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States,1972, pp. 550-554.]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:50 pm.

The President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:06 pm

The President resumed rehearsing his speech at an unknown time.

[End of speech]

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Tone
-Haldeman's opinion

Walk in Rose Garden

The President and Haldeman left at 6:06 pm.

	Conversation No. 333-31

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  6:20 pm - 6:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Vietnam
-1972 election
-The President's speech

	William P. Rogers
-Haiphong
-Bombing
-Unknown person's testimony
-Effectiveness
		-Initiative
		-Interest in public relations
		-Cabinet
-Abilities
-Moscow
-The President's visit
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-The President's visit
				-Wreath laying

	Trips
		-Mrs. Nixon
			-Press coverage
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Soviet trip
-Visibility
-Location of meetings

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:20 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:32 pm.

The President's schedule
-The President's speech
-Press conference
-Scheduling
-The President's speech
-Audience
-Response
-Rhetoric
-“Invasion”
-"Communist"
-"Bloodbath"
				-Media
-Public support for the President
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:20 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:32 pm.

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Response of hawks
-Bombing
			-Hawks
-Rogers

Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]
	-Announcement
-Gerard C. Smith
-Meeting on May 1, 1972
-Rogers
-Knowledge of issue
-Negotiations
-Timing of announcement
-Henry A. Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-State Department
-Difference from the White House
-Timing of announcement
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Kissinger
			-Chalmers M. Roberts

Kissinger
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Story on Soviet delegation to Hanoi
-Chicago Tribune
-Source
-Significance
-Leak to Chicago Tribune
-Denials
-New York Daily News and Copley News Service
-Interview with Joseph C. Kraft
-Press stories
-Image
-Meetings with Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, Charles A. J. M. De Gaulle and     Brezhnev
-Conversations
-Possible book written by Kissinger
-Samantha Eggar
-Visit
-Haldeman's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Social life

Haldeman left at 6:32 pm.

	Conversation No. 333-32

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:32 pm and 6:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No 23-88]

	Conversation No. 333-33

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  6:35 pm - 6:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No 23-89; one item has been withdrawn from
the conversation.]

	Conversation No. 333-34

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:36 pm and 7:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Greetings

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 7:07 pm.

	Conversation No. 333-35

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:36 pm and 7:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears
in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States,1972, pp. 550-554.]

	Conversation No. 333-36

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:36 pm and 7:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Acknowledgement

	Conversation No. 333-37

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:36 pm and 7:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears
in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States,1972, pp. 550-554.]

	Conversation No. 333-38

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  7:07-7:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No 23-90]

	Conversation No. 333-39

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:10 pm and 7:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears
in, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States,1972, pp. 550-554.]

	Conversation No. 333-40

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:10 pm and 7:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No 23-91]

	Conversation No. 333-41

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  7:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No 23-92]

	Conversation No. 333-42

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:37 pm and 8:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No 23-93]

	Conversation No. 333-43

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:37 pm and 8:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears
in, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States,1972, pp. 550-554.]

	Conversation No. 333-44

Date:  April 26, 1972
Time:  8:20 pm - 8:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

[See Conversation No 23-94]