Conversation No. 334-1

Date:  April 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:25 pm and 3:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Note

Papers
	-John D. Ehrlichman

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:35 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-2

Date:  April 25, 1972
Time:  3:35 pm - 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Briefing

Vietnam
-Announcement on US troop levels
-Time
-Basketball game
-California
-News shows
-Ziegler's possible comments
	-The President's report to nation
		-Henry A. Kissinger’s return from Moscow

		-Camp David
			-Nguyen Van Thieu, Ellsworth F. Bunker, William J. Porter and Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Consultation
-Approval of announcement
-Changes in levels
-May 1, 1972
-Negotiations
-Announcement
-Timing
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Disclosure to press
-Ziegler's statement
-Secrecy
-Necessity
-Disclosure to press
-Soviet summit
	-Crisis
-Answers to questions

Kissinger entered at 3:40 pm.

Ziegler's briefing
-Time

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 3:42 pm.

The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Draft
-Review
-Major point
	-Doves, intellectuals
		-Cambodia’s speech [April 30, 1970]
		-November 3, 1969 speech
	-Difference in tone
	-Soviets
	-Election
	-Relation to Cambodia
-Cambodia
-Washington Post
-Problems
-Kent State University
-Appeal to hawks
-Doves
-Problems

John K. Andrews, Jr. entered at 3:42 pm.

-Copy for Kissinger
-Review with Andrews and Winston Lord
-Quality of work

Andrews left at 3:45 pm.

-Kissinger's recommendations
-Changes
	-Peace terms
		-Hyperbole
-Doves
-Concern
-Soviets
-Hawks
-Clark MacGregor's survey
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Speaking engagement
-Tone
-Changes

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:45 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Review with Kissinger
	-First part of speech
	-Casualties
	-Timing
-Negotiations
-The President's offers to North Vietnam
-Casualties
-Statement on number from previous year
-Kissinger's changes
-Review by the President
-Negotiations
-North Vietnamese refusal to talk

Kissinger's health
-Trip to Moscow
	-Time difference

Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Call to Katherine L. Graham
-Publication of secret papers in Washington Post
-Kissinger's protests
-Graham's reaction

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Kissinger's revisions
-North Vietnamese troop figures
-Battlefield reports
-Vietnamization program
-Deletions
-Future announcement
-Use of draftees
-US readiness to negotiate
-US proposals
-Bombing
-Public issue
-Statement on US objectives
-Critics

Ziegler entered at 3:55 pm.

Television networks
-Conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Request
-The President's speech
-Basketball game
-Scheduling
-Length of speech
-Delay in game

Ziegler left at 3:56 pm.

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Kissinger's changes
-North Vietnamese victory
-Deletions
-Soviet assistance to North Vietnam
-Reference to Middle East
-Liberals
	-US refusal to be humiliated or defeated or to surrender
-Deletions
-Soviets
-Tone
-US involvement
-Termination
-Deletions
-US as "great power"
-The President's responsibilities
-World leadership
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Evaluation
-Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Sherlock Holmes analogy
-Support
-Bombing
-Invitation to Moscow
-Frequency
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Meeting with Kissinger
		-Soviet Summit
-The President's forthcoming speech to retiring congressmen
-Kissinger's briefing for John B. Connally
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Cease-fire in place
-Reaction to proposal
-The President's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Porter
-Termination of war
-Possible bombing
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
-Soviets
-Assistance to US
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman, Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy
-Motives for settlement
-German Treaty
-Middle East
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Dobrynin
	-Dealings with present Administration
-Interests of "great powers"
-Gromyko
-Brezhnev
-The President's speech
-Secrecy
-Leaks
-Ziegler, Haldeman, John A. Scali, William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Kissinger's changes
-Lord
-The President's review
-Rogers
-Discussion with Kissinger
-Rogers
-Involvement in PRC, Moscow, SALT and Berlin trips

	SALT
		-Discussion with Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Gerard C. Smith
-Haig
-Plenary sessions
-Rogers
-Discussion with Kissinger
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Smith
-Contacts with Kissinger
-Rogers and Laird
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Smith and Rogers
-Kissingers' trip to Moscow
	-Paper
		-Recall of Smith
		-Wire from the President
-Rogers
-Schedule
-Announcement
-Military
-Publicity
-The President's trip to Florida
	-Meeting with Smith and verification panel
-Time
-Kissinger's return to Washington

Ronald W. Reagan
-Conversation with Kissinger
	-Soviets

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Reaction to Kissinger's trip to Moscow

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Draft
-Return to the President
-Dinner honoring congressmen
-Time

Kissinger left at 4:20 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-3

Date:  April 25, 1972
Time:  4:23 pm - 4:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 23-72]

	Conversation No. 334-4

Date:  April 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

President’s schedule

	Conversation No. 334-5

Date:  April 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-73]

	Conversation No. 334-6

Date:  April 25, 1972
Time:  4:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-74]

	Conversation No. 334-7

Date:  April 25, 1972
Time:  4:28 pm - 4:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Ronald W. Reagan
-Reaction to briefing

	Congress
		-Briefing

Vietnam
-Bombing halt
-A study
-Tom C. Huston
-Haldeman' note from Kenneth L. Khachigian [?]
					-North Vietnamese communications to Lyndon B.Johnson via William Averell Harriman
-Analysis
-Publication of documents
-Harriman

-Timing
-Arrangements
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Documents
-Huston
-Official release
-Kissinger
-Publication
-Value of story

	The President’s schedule
		-Forthcoming speech
			-Networks
		-Helicopter
			-Time

	Vietnam
-Hawks
-Reaction to Administration's policies
-Reasons
-Soviets
-Settlement
-Revelations to press on Kissinger's trip
-Kissinger's briefing
-William P. Rogers

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The President's schedule
-Meeting
	-Time
-Rogers
-Meeting with Republic of Korea Foreign Minister [Kim Yong-Shik]
-Troops in South Vietnam

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Speechwriter
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Abilities
-Contributions to text and tone
-Youth

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:35 pm.

The President's schedule
-Dinner for retiring congressmen

Butterfield left at 4:37 pm.

-Timing
-Value

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler between 4:43 and 4:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-7A]

[See Conversation No. 23-75]

[End of telephone conversation]

Press
-Reaction to Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Credibility
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Public reaction

Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Public reaction
-Katherine L. Graham
	-Washington Post
		-Letters to editor
-Press reaction
-Hostility

Press
-Administration's reactions

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Meeting with Gerard C. Smith and verification panel
-Press conference
-Foreign policy

Vietnam issue
-Congress
-Madame Nguyen Thi Binh's letter
-Robert J. Dole
-Effect on congressional elections
	-The President’s defeat of Jerry Voorhis in 1946
-Congressional reaction

The President's dinner
-Col. Albert Shoepper
-Butterfield
-Gerald R. Ford
-Carl B. Albert

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:37 and 4:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-7B]

The President's dinner
-Ford
-Albert
-Frank T. Bow

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Stephen B. Bull
-Barber

	Shoepper

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:37 and 4:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-7C]

The President's dinner
-Preparations
-Bull
-Barber
-Appointment

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at 4:55 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-8

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:06 am and 9:28 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Time
-Announcement
-Meeting
-Telephone call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr. [?]
	-Timing

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:28 am.

	Conversation No. 334-9

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:06 am and 9:28 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Alexander M. Haig, Jr.?].

Meeting with the President

	Conversation No. 334-10

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  9:28 am - 10:00 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

J. Edgar Hoover
-Death
-Call from Richard G. Kleindienst
-Announcement
-The President
-Kleindienst
-Statement
-Timing
-State funeral
-Plans
-John N. Mitchell
-Knowledge
	-Compared to Kleindienst
-Conversation with Haldeman
-The President’s schedule
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Statement by the President
-Length
-Draft
-Flags
-The President's order
-Press
-Haldeman's arrangements
-Return call
	-Mitchell

Haig entered at 9:29 am.

Haldeman left at 9:30 am.

-Time
-Recent criticism
-Pressures of job
-The President's support
-Criticism
-State Department
-Arthur K. Watson

Watson
-State Department

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Message to Haig
-Time in Paris
-Future call to Haig
-Meeting
-The President's memorandum
-Quang Tri
-Bin Dinh province
-South Vietnamese army
-Regiment
-Location
-Pacified area
-Memorandum
-Quang Tri
-Capture
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] division
 Commander Gen. Vu Van Giai
-North Vietnamese assault
-South Vietnamese units
-Escape
-Contact with North Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-US air strikes
	-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.’s request

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-Wounded
-Number to North Vietnam
-Deaths
-Significance of figures
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Abrams's report
-Tone
-ARVN
-US training program
-ARVN response
-US advisors
-Relations with South Vietnamese counterparts
-Compared with Cambodia

US military
-Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
-Recent policies
-Impact on navy
-Discipline

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Wounded
-Air strikes
-Number
-TACAIR
-Military region [MR] one
-Impact
-Quang Tri
-Capture
-Reasons
-South Vietnamese leadership
-Significance
-Hue
-South Vietnamese Commander, General Phu [sp?] [Forename unknown]
-South Vietnamese units
-Marines
-Rangers
-South Vietnamese tanks
-Losses
-Latest report
-Errors
-Capabilities
-Tanks
-West Europe
	-Shipment by air
	-Problems
-Okinawa
-Missiles
-Effectiveness
-Helicopters
-Tanks
-Tests
-Use by South Vietnamese and US helicopter crews
-North Vietnamese invasion
-MR Two
-Battles
-Kissinger's report on pause in fighting
	-Paris negotiations
-Kontum
-Possible loss
	-Timing
-Retreat
-Execution
-South Vietnamese performance
-Possible loss
-Air strikes
-Importance
-MR Three
-Saigon
-Scare stories
-Abrams
-North Vietnamese losses
-Route One in Cambodia
-Opening
-MR Four
-Abrams
-ARVN success
-An loc
-Patrols
-Contacts with North Vietnam
-MR One
-Latest reports
-South Vietnamese counterattacks
-ARVN
-Performance
-Air strikes
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Kissinger
-Abrams
-US public reaction
-Relation to Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Support
-Impact on North Vietnam
-US bargaining position
-ARVN
-Morale
-US support
-Implementation
-Paris talks
-William J. Porter
-Importance
-Air strikes
-Kissinger’s recommendations
-B-52s
-Problems
-Haig’s recommendation
-Concentration of force
-Planning
-Intensity
-First strikes
-Pressure on Abrams
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
	-Moorer
		-Call from Haig
-Importance
-North Vietnam
-ARVN morale
-US public opinion
-Press reports
	-Long Tieng
	-Pnompenh
-Press coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-ARVN unit
-Kissinger
-Press
-Liberals
-Defensiveness
-Paris talks and SALT
-Public opinion
-Desire for action
-Abrams
-Reaction to invasion
-John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Reaction
-Abrams
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
-Contacts With ARVN
-Bunker
-Message to Thieu
	-US support
-Work with ARVN
-Kissinger
	-Paris trip
		-Thieu

Hoover
-Performance
-Enemies

Vietnam
-Abrams
-Press briefings
	-The President 
-Melvin R. Laird
-Abrams
-Dealings with press
-Quang Tri
-Kontum
-Kissinger
-Soviet summit
-US acceptance
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip 
-Free elections
-Thieu
-Air strikes against Hanoi and Haiphong
-Impact on North Vietnam
-Cessation
-Reasons
	-Soviet Union

-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-Planning
-Time
-Start

Haig left at 10:00 am.

	Conversation No. 334-11

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:00 am and 10:25 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

J. Edgar Hoover
-Death
-Announcement
-Funeral
-John N. Mitchell
-White House control
-Clyde A. Tolson

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Appointment of new director
-Acting Director
-[Forename unknown] Micko [sp?]
-Tolson
-Health

Hoover
-Death
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Announcement by the President
-Information
	-Hoover’s career
-Memorial service
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Melvin R. Laird
-The President's support during career
-Opposition to critics
	-Press
-Pressures of job
-The President's forthcoming statement

	Conversation No. 334-12

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:00 am and 10:25 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Confirmation by Senate
-Loyalty
-Job at Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Compared with J. Edgar Hoover

Hoover
-Announcement of death
-Delay

	Conversation No. 334-13

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:00 am and 10:25 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Manolo Sanchez.

Request for meeting

	Conversation No. 334-14

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:00 am and 10:25 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

J. Edgar Hoover
-Successor
-Acting Director
-Clyde A. Tolson
-Confirmation
-Election
-Selection
-Compared to Cabinet appointments
-Criteria
-Confirmation
-Problems
-Delays
-Acting Director
	-Capable aide
	-Limited term
-Compared with Supreme Court vacancy
-Appointment
-Problems

	Conversation No. 334-15

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  10:25 am - 10:35 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan.

J. Edgar Hoover
-Death
-Written statement
-Release
-Text
-Mourning

-Career
-Service
-Loyalty
-Release

Typewriter

Buchanan left at 10:35 am.

	Conversation No. 334-16

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  10:35 am - 10:37 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 23-103]

	Conversation No. 334-17

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 10:37 am and 10:43 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan.

	Typing

J. Edgar Hoover
-Statement
-Release

Buchanan left at 10:43 am.

	Conversation No. 334-18

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  10:43 am - 10:44 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 23-104]

	Conversation No. 334-19

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:22 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-20

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  1:22 pm - 1:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

A book

Butterfield left at 1:23 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-21
Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Domestic activities
	-Grocery store
	-Richard A. Moore
-J. Edgar Hoover's funeral
-Eulogy
-Burial service
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Hoover
-Successor
-Nominee
-Selection
-Timing
-Postponement
-Election year consideration

-L. Patrick Gray
-Commitment
-Statement
-Preparation
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Release
-Timing
-Review by the President
-Length

	Conversation No. 334-22

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Greetings

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:38 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-23
Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:38 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-24

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 334-25

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 334-26

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file [portions were replayed].

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	Conversation No. 334-27

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 334-28

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 334-29

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Private memoranda
-Filing

Tape recorder
-Problem
-Repair

Briefcase

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:38 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-30

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 334-31

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Door

	Conversation No. 334-32

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Weather

Sequoia cruise
-Departure time

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:38 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-33

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 4:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Return call

	Conversation No. 334-34

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  4:38 pm - 4:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 23-112]

	Conversation No. 334-35

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  4:40 pm - 4:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 23-113]

	Conversation No. 334-36

Date:  May 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 4:41 pm - 6:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

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J. Edgar Hoover
-Death
-Publicity
-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower's death
-Press reports
-Past criticism

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Refugees

Hoover
-Rotunda
-Lying-in-state
-Justice Department
-Successor
-Selection
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Senate
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Congressional investigation
-Problems
-Successor
-Selection
-Senate
-1972 election
-Climate of opinion
-Postponement
-Statement
-Political issue
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
	-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
	-Congressional testimony
-L. Patrick Gray
-Present position

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President between 4:49 and 4:51 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36A]

[See Conversation No. 23-114]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-US air strikes
-Concentration
-US training programs
-[Unintelligible]
-Robert F. Kennedy

Hoover
-The President's statement
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-News reports
-Funeral
-Publicity
-Detractors
-Flags
-Half-mast
-The President's order
-1972 election
-Issue

John B. Connally

Unknown person

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:51 and 4:57 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36B]

[See Conversation No. 23-115]

[End of telephone conversation]

Meeting
-Duration
-Unknown person's speech

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:51 pm.

Machine
-Removal

Sanchez left at 4:57 pm.

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox between 4:57 and 4:58 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36C]

[See Conversation No. 23-116; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation.]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hoover
-The President's statement
-Ehrlichman
-Law and order
-Detractors

Jerry V. Wilson

Byron R. White

Robert C. Mardian

Curtis W. Tarr

Bill Woods

Connally

The President's statement
-Unknown person's reaction

Connally
-Party at ranch
-House
-Tour by Haldeman
-Reaction of Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
-Gift
-World's Fair of 1939
-Letter from the President
-Shelly [sp?] Smith
-Value
-Location

	Vietnam

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Unknown person's views
-New York Times
-Indians
-United Nations [UN]
-Blacks

Virgil Percy [sp?]
-Union magazine editor
-Time
-Meeting with the President

The President's schedule
-Trip to Annapolis
-Transportation
-Sequoia
-Naval Academy cadets
-Publicity
-Compared with meeting with astronauts
-Sequoia
-Chapel service
-Return to Washington
-Domestic events
-Ehrlichman
-Problems
-Scheduling
-Hoover statement
	-Timing
		-Price
-Radio
-Audience
-Replays

FBI
-Importance
-Director
-Nominee

Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

Vietnam
-Refugees
-News stories
-Significance
-News stories
-Public support for the President
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Soviet aid
-Soviet summit

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:58 pm.

The President's schedule
-Sequoia cruise
-Preparations
-Time
-Attendance
-The President's pipes

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:26 pm.

Vietnam
-The President's policies
-Polls
-Soviet summit
-Approval rate
		-Enemy casualties in Laos

The President's schedule
-Hoover eulogy
-Trip to Annapolis
-The President's speech
-Subject

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:58 and 5:26 pm.]

[Conversation No. 334-36D]

The President's schedule
-Speech in Annapolis
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:58 and 5:26 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36E]

[See Conversation No. 23-117]

[End of telephone conversation]

FBI
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Hoover
-Race tracks
-Movie stars
-Pictures
	-Unknown person

The President's schedule
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Announcement on steel quotas
-Unemployment

The President talked with Clyde A. Tolson between 5:26 and 5:27 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36F]

[See Conversation No. 23-118]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hoover
-Tolson
-FBI
-Private files
-Location
-Access

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:27 and 5:30 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36G]

The President’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-The President's speech at Annapolis
-Location
-Chapel
-Armory
-Mess Hall
-Problems
-Chapel
-Problems
-Tradition
-Armory
-Arrangements
-Selection
-Criteria

	Hoover
		-Eulogy
		-John Foster Dulles
		-Succession
			-Tolson
				-Age

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:27 pm.

Meeting with Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

Ehrlichman entered at 5:30 pm.

Ronald L. Ziegler

Hoover
-Death
-News stories
-The President's announcement
-News release
	-Ziegler

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:30 and 5:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36H]

[See Conversation No. 23-119]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at 5:31 pm.

Hoover
-The President's announcement
-Handling
-Hoover's career

Ehrlichman talked with Ronald L. Ziegler between 5:35 and 5:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36I]

[See Conversation No. 23-120]

Ehrlichman conferred with the President at an unknown time during the conversation.

FBI
-Acting Director
-The President's nomination
-Congress
-Timing

[End of telephone conversation]

FBI
-Acting Director
-Appointment
-Timing
-Gray
-Ehrlichman's recommendation
-Nomination
-Permanent successor
-1972 election
-Partisanship
-Gray
-Nomination
-Conditions
-Congressional investigation
-Martin Luther King
-Wiretap
-Preventive detention
-Possible questions
-Hoover's successor
-Announcement
-Kleindienst
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-Appointment
-Gerald R. Ford
-Samuel L. Devine
-Preference on speed of nomination

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:37 pm.

Unknown request

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:46 pm.

Hoover's successor
-Appointment
-Devine
-Reelection

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Bicentennial in Philadelphia
-Problem

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The President's schedule
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Statement
-Support from Republican governors
-Governors Conference in White Sulphur Springs
-Public support
-Meeting with the President
-Length

Bicentennial in Philadelphia
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Ehrlichman's call
-Commission
-Recommendation on Philadelphia
-Problems
-Finances
-Conversations with Rizzo
-State of Pennsylvania
	-Highway funds
-Appropriations
-Adverse recommendations
-Rizzo
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Alternative proposals

Tax reform
-Wilbur D. Mills's letter
-Answer
-Meeting with Mills
-Connally's recommendation
-Problems

Welfare reform
-Senate Finance Committee
-Republicans
-Meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman's recommendation
-Proposals
-Criticism
-Elliot L. Richardson and James D. Hodgson
-Russell B. Long
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Administration's position
-The President's meeting with Senate Finance Committee
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman's appearance on Meet the Press
-Question
-"Workfare"
-Family assistance
-Republican senators' proposals
-Criticism
-Possible questions for the President during recent Texas trip
	-Budget
	-Inflation
-Welfare costs

Postal system
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Subsidy
-Life
-Problems with elimination
-Life
-Future

Unemployment
-Plan
-Lewis's article
-Title
-Connally
-Mailing
-Reprints

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 5:55 pm.

Phone call
-Richard C. Valeriani

The President's schedule
-Haldeman
-An announcement
-Meeting with Rockefeller

FBI
-Acting director
-Morning briefing

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Rockefeller
-Time
-Duration
-News story
-Acting Director of FBI
-Time

FBI
-Acting Director
-Nomination
-A briefing
-Senate
-Partisanship
-Timing of selection
-Successor to Hoover
-Kleindienst announcement
-Confirmation problems
-Announcement of interim director
-Public acceptance
-Selection
-Postponement
-Election year
-Senate approval

Ziegler left at 6:03 pm.

The President talked with the White House operator at 6:03 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36J]

[See Conversation No. 23-121]

[End of telephone conversation]

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The President's schedule
-Trip to Annapolis
-Discussion with Haldeman
-Possible stops
-Hoover

The President talked with Helen Gandy between 6:06 and 6:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36K]

[See Conversation No. 23-122]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Grocery store visit
-Trip to Annapolis
-Stops
-Value
-University of Maryland
-Dinner with midshipmen
-Significance for youth
-Discussion of issues
-Arrangements
-Youth
-Naval officers
-University of Maryland students
-The President's identification
-Control of conversation
-Emphasis on young members of staff
-Control
-Transportation
-Stopover
-Supermarket
	-Planning
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Small store
	-Jews
-Chains
-Connally
-Safeway
-Sanchez
-Victorio Delacruz 
-Dinner with midshipmen
-Ziegler
-Newspaperman
-Robert Semple
-New York Times
	-Pulitzer Prize
-Wire service reporter
	-Walter Meares [sp?]
-Edward E. Carlson
-United Airlines
-Edward E. Carlson, Jr.
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Ambition
-John K. Andrews, Jr.

Andrews

Ziegler
-Age

The President's schedule
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Soviet summit
-Summer trips

Briefcase

Ehrlichman left at 6:17 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-37

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:52 pm and 2:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:51 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-38

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:52 pm and 2:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

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

	Conversation No. 334-39

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:52 pm and 2:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:51 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-40

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:52 pm and 2:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-151]

	Conversation No. 334-41

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  2:51 pm - 2:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Richard A. Moore.

[See Conversation No. 23-152]

	Conversation No. 334-42

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:57 pm and 3:02 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Ray Conniff
-Arrival
-Meeting with the President
-Photograph
-Certificate
-Tour of Oval Office
-Gifts

Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:02 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-43

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 2:57 pm until 3:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ray Conniff and Alexander P. Butterfield; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Mrs. Emily Jo Ann (Imhof) Conniff
-Trip to California
-Baby
-California adoption laws

Norman Vincent Peale
-Visit with the Conniff
	-Best wishes
	-Wishes

Meeting with Ray Conniff

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:57 pm.

Presidential gift
-Ash tray
-Emily Conniff

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:03 pm.

Ray Conniff
-Singers

Conniff and Butterfield left at 3:03 pm.

	Conversation No. 334-44

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  3:04 pm - unknown before 5:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Greetings

J. Edgar Hoover
-Funeral

John B. Connally

The President's foreign policy
-The President’s instincts
	-EC 121
	-William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
	-November 3, 1969 speech
	-Shortcomings
	-Camp David
	-Cambodia
		-Blockade
	-Laos
	-US reaction
	-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
	-US reactions
	-Laird
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s. mission
	-Rogers
	-US assault

Soviets
-Connally
-Summit
-Cancellation
-Significance

Vietnam
-Public reaction
-Lyndon B. Johnson's position
-Military moves
-The President's policies
-Compared with Johnson
-Air strikes
-Abrams and Laird
-The President's orders
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Hue
-Duration
-Intensity
-Summit
-Cancellation
-Blockade
-US goal
-1972 election
-Bombing
-Escalation
-Public opinion
-Senate reaction
-US goal
-Soviet Summit
-US stakes
-Connally
-South Vietnam
-Air attacks
-Intensity
-Connally
-Civilian casualties
-Railroad yards
-Docks
-Soviet ships
-Military installations
-Civilians
-North Vietnam
-Goals
-Defeat of the President
-Ramifications
-US defeat
-Consequences
-Domino theory
	-Thailand
	-Indonesia
	-Israel
-Soviets
-View of the President and Kissinger
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Romania
-Cuba
-Dealings with North Vietnam
-Policies toward US
-Negotiations
-Questions
	-Le Duc Tho [?]
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-North Vietnamese strategy
-Defeat of negotiated settlement
-North Vietnamese conditions
-Plenary meetings
-Preparations for bombing
-Bombing halt
-Bombing
-Blockade
-The President's explanation to public
-Kissinger
	-Moscow trip
		-William J. Porter
-Refusal to surrender
-Cutoff of military supplies
	-Soviets
	-Summit cancellation
	-Likelihood
	-Impact of two-day strike
	-Kissinger's recommendation
-Blockade
-Advantages
-Abrams and Laird
-Bombing
-Rail lines to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Oil dumps
-Extent
-The President's speech
-Duration
-Abrams
-Hue
-B-52s
-F-4s
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Targets
-Petroleum, oil, and lubricants [POL] dumps
-Power plants
-Rail yards
-Coordination with blockade
-Soviet summit
-Cancellation
-Blockade
-Bombing
-Television announcement
-Blockade
-Summit
-Warning
-The President's announcement
-Necessity
-Explanation to public
-Summit
-Cancellation
-Blockade
-Explanation to governments shipping to North Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Porter
-Le Duc Tho
-Retaliation
-Kontum
-Dong Ha
-Quang Tri
-Duration
-Cease-fire
-POW release
-Withdrawal of US forces
-Cease-fire
-Nguyen Van Thieu's response
-Bombing
-Extent
-Damage to North Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Thieu
-Cease-fire
-Bombing and blockade
-Cessation
-Conditions
	-POWs
-Cease-fire
-Conditions
-US troop withdrawal
-Senate
-Extent
-Cabinet
-Implementation
-The President's speech
-Preparation
-Loss of hue
-Bombing
-Advantages
-Soviet response
-Soviet summit
-Cancellation
-Connally's views
-US foreign policy
-Credibility
-Europe
-Soviet Union
-Middle East
-Africa
-Latin America
-US response to North Vietnamese invasion
-US policy in Vietnam
-November 3, 1969
-The President's trip to PRC
-Troop withdrawals
-Negotiations
-The President's Soviet trip
-Summit cancellation
-Bombing
-Problems
-Blockade
-Haig's views
-North Vietnamese invasion
-1972 election
-The President's response
-Bombing and blockade
-Oil supplies
-Rail lines
-B-52s
-Roads
-POL dumps
-Concentration
-Intensity
-Moorer
-The President's call
-Laird
-Haig's presence

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:04 and 3:44 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-44A]

[See Conversation No. 23-153]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hoover’s funeral
-Eulogy

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Conversation with Moorer
-Blockade
-The President's announcement
	-Timing
-Problem
	-International law

The White House Operator talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 3:04 and 3:44 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-44B]

[See Conversation No. 23-154]

The President conferred with Haldeman at an unknown time during the conversation.

Blockade
-The President's announcement

Kissinger conferred with the President at an unknown time during the conversation.

Moorer
-Location
	-Swearing-in ceremony
-Schedule
-Return call

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Blockade
-North Vietnamese invasion
-US response
-South Vietnam
-POWs
-Negotiations
-Kissinger
	-Moscow, Paris
-Porter
-North Vietnamese response
-US offers
-North Vietnamese escalation
-Plenary session
	-Kontum
-North Vietnamese positions
	-Imposition of communist government
-The President's speech
-Kissinger's speech at the Metropolitan Club
-Answer to question
-US victory
-Blockade
-Advantages
-Plans
-Naval action
-Cruiser
-Haiphong
-Attacks on shore batteries and docks
-Blockade
-Departure of ships
-Docks
-Departure of ships
-Mines
-Haig
-Problems
-Summit cancellation
-Bombing
-Kissinger's recommendations
	-Hanoi, Haiphong
-Kissinger's luncheon with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet summit
-The President's trip to Moscow
-Cancellation
-The President's statement
	-Television
-Connally
-Discussion with the President

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:04 and 3:44 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-44C]

[See Conversation No. 23-155]

The President conferred with Kissinger at an unknown time during the conversation.

Vietnam
-Moorer
-Meeting

Kissinger's trip to New York
-Departure
-Time
-Speech

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Vietnam
-Report
-Copy
-Abrams
-Verdun
-Unknown German general
-Philippe Petain
-Outcome
-Erich Falkenhayn

Israel
-Arms aid
-Yitzhak Rabin

Haldeman talked with Connally.

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Soviet summit
-Connally
-Bombing
-Blockade
-Bombing
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-North Vietnamese response

Defense Department
-Laird
-Replacement
-Connally
-Abrams
-Laird
-Contacts with the President
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Contacts with Abrams
-Moorer

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:04 and 3:44 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-44D]

[See Conversation No. 23-156]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Haig
-Attendance at meeting
-Loyalty
-Abrams
-John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Abrams
-Haig
-Chain of command
-Moorer
-Laird
-Responsibilities
-Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Contacts with the President
-Bombing

Winston S. Churchill
-Book on World War I
-World War II

The White House operator talked with Henry Kissinger at an unknown time between 3:04 and 3:44 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-44E]

[See Conversation No. 23-157]

The President conferred with Kissinger at an unknown time during the conversation.

Message to Moorer

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Chain of command
	-Laird

Connally entered at 3:44 pm.

Greetings

Hoover
-The President's eulogy
-Compared with eulogies for Dwight D. Eisenhower and Everett M. Dirksen
-Duration
-Hoover
-Hoover's career
-Significance
-Patriotism
-Greatness
-Recognition
-Appointment
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Accomplishments
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Robert F. Kennedy
-John F. Kennedy
-Joseph P. Kennedy
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Robert Kennedy

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-Disagreement with the President
-Lou Nichols
-Alger Hiss case
-J. Edgar Hoover's position
-FBI investigation
-Findings
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Staff
-Pumpkin Papers
-Whittaker Chambers
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
				-Harry S. Truman's order on FBI cooperation with House un-American Activities Committee [HUAC]
-Father John Cronin
-The President's meeting with J. Edgar Hoover
-Wiretap
-Leaks
-Consequences

Haig
-Attendance at meeting

Kissinger talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:44 and 3:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-44F]

Haig
-Attendance at meeting
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

J. Edgar Hoover
-Death
-Age
-Mistakes
-Detractors
-Estate
-Sidney Richardson
-Friendship with the President
-Swimming
-Richardson
-Clint Murchison
-Social occasions

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-Richardson
-Murchison
-Deals
-Business
-Murchison
	-Telephone call
-Robert Young
-New York Central Railroad
-Allegheny Corporation
-Murchison

Richardson
-Athens, Texas
-Locale
-Agriculture
-A bank
-Arthur Underwood's father
-Early career
-Oil field
-Bert Burnett
-Anne Burnett Andrews
-Husband
	-Burnett
-Return to Athens
-New car
-Oil prospectors
-Underwood
-Wealth
-[Forename] Winn 
-Real estate
-Murchison
-Wealth
-Corporations
-Early career
	-Switchboard operator

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:44 pm.

Refreshment

J. Edgar Hoover
-Death
-Sanchez

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Connally
-Haig

US foreign policy
-Mistakes
-North Koreans
-Shooting down of EC-21
-US response
-Kissinger
-Rogers and Laird
-The President's speech, of November 3, 1969
-Public reaction
-Follow-up
-Cambodia
-The President's meeting with Rogers and Laird
-"Menu" air strikes
-Intensity
-Confidentiality
-Rogers and Laird
-Objections
-Consequence
-Rogers and Laird
-Delays in orders
	-Testimony
-Attitude of Ellsworth F. Bunker and Abrams
-Contradictions
-Support of the President
-US casualties
	-Laird
		-Fishhook
-South Vietnamese forces
	-Delta area
	-Flooding
-Rogers and Laird
-John N. Mitchell
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Camp David
-Opposition to US policies

Vietnam
-Blockade in 1970
-Haiphong
-PRC
-Air strikes
-Impact
-Cambodia invasion
-Impact on US casualties
-Laos [Lam Son, 1971]
-Laird
-Abrams
-Rogers
-Major problem
-Abrams
-Trip to Bangkok
-Impact on US casualties
-Abrams
-Restrictions on US advisors
-Laird
-US advisors
-Sortie ceiling
	-Command structure
-Proposed assignment of Haig
	-Laird’s reaction

Haig entered at 3:55 pm.

-Soviet summit
-Cancellation
-US initiative
-Compared with U-2 incident
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Impact on public opinion
-US action
-The President's attendance
-Position
-1972 election
-Use of power of office
	-Nuclear weapons
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Stakes
-Soviet Vietnam
-US reaction
-Plans
-Bombing
-Problems
-Predictability
-Churchill on World Wars I and II
-Predictability
-North Vietnamese readiness
-Blockade
-Necessity of bombing
-Railways, roads and POL dumps
-Haig’s view
-Problems
-Goals
-Relation of summit to war
-US stakes
-Victory
-Blockade
-Implementation
-The President's speech
-US peace offers
-Kissinger
-POWs
-Justification
	-John Kennedy
-Quarantine
-Announcement
-Conditions
	-Return of POWs
	-Ceasefire in Vietnam
	-US troop withdrawals
		-Timing
-Chances of success
-Bombing
-Situation in South Vietnam
-Abrams
-Hue, Kontum and III corps
-Blockade
-Problems
-Laird
	-Kissinger
-Bombing
-Limitations
-Blockade
-Departing ships
-Bombing
-Targets
	-Docks, POL, railroads, power plants
-Civilians
-Possible effects
-Cancellation of summit
-Berlin
-Cambodia
-Berlin
	-Willy Brandt
-Cuba

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	CUBA

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-Plans
-Soviet reactions
	[Helmut Sonnenfeldt]
-Bombing
-Disadvantages
-Propaganda
-Duration
-Soviet summit
-POWs
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Impact on Johnson
-Blockade
-Advantages
-Soviet response
-Compared with Cuban blockade
-Bombing
-Targets
-POL dumps
-Mining
-Docks
-Haiphong
-Johnson’s experience
	-Guerrilla war
	-Sihanhoukville
-Shock effect
-PRC response
-Prospects
-Mobilization
-Soviets
	-Airlift
-Bombing
-Air fields
-C-5As
-North Vietnamese resupply
-Delays
-PRC
-Soviet supplies
-Blockade
-Advantages
-Problems
-Public support
	-POWs
	-Ceasefire
	-US troop withdrawal
-Connally’s reaction
-Michael J. Mansfield's resolution
-Terms
-Negotiations
-Release of POWs
-US pull-out
-Connally’s response
-South Vietnamese defeat
-US pull-out
-Blockade
-Connally’s response
-Soviet reaction
	-Summit
-US stakes in war
-Casualties
-Integrity
-Credibility
-Negotiations
-Package of offers
-Thieu
-POWs
-Emphasis
-Symbolism
-Geneva agreements
-Escalation of war
-International law
-Necessity
-Bombing
-Abrams
-Concentration
-B-52s
	-Moorer
-F-4s
	-Summit
-The President's speech
-Impact on South Vietnamese military situation
-South Vietnamese performance
-III and IV corps
-Cease-fire
-Problems
-Blockade
-Cessation
-Conditions
-Impact on South Vietnam
-Psychological effect on North Vietnam
-Landings in North Vietnam
-US ground forces
	-Marines
		-Vinh
-Diversionary tactics
-Abrams
-South Vietnamese forces
-Planning
-Operation Overlord
	-Eisenhower
-Blockade
-Time
-Conversation with Moorer
-Secrecy
-Laird
-Rush
-Plans
-Moorer
-Blockade plans
-US task force
-Mines
-Departing ships
-Mines
-The President's announcement
-Cuban blockade
-Entrance of foreign ships
-US troops in South Vietnam
-Da Nang
-Binh long
-Bombing
-Psychological impact
-The president's announcement
-Length
-Purpose
	-POWs
-US peace offers
-North Vietnamese responses
	-Le Duc Tho
-South Vietnam
-Morale
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Capture of Hue
-Kontum
-Capture
-Hue
-Ashau Valley
-Communication lines
	-Hanoi
-Hue
-Vogt's report
-US air power
-Equipment
-Bombing
-B-52s
-Hue
-Planning
-Orders to Moorer
-Abrams
-Replacement
-Haig

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:55 and 5:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-44G]

[See Conversation No. 23-158]

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm and conferred with the President, Haldeman and Connally.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

Sanchez's statement

Kissinger talked with Moorer.

[End of telephone conversation]

Rush
-Meeting with the President

Moorer
-Meeting with the President
-The President's orders
-Laird
-Direct line to the President
-Problems
	-Forces

Vietnam
-The President's announcement
-Television
-Postponements in schedule
	-John Cardinal Krol
-Abrams
-Replacement
-Civil War
-Abraham Lincoln
-Ambrose Burnside
-Benjamin F. Butler
-Robert E. Lee
-Capabilities
-Replacement
-Problems
-US command
-William E. Depuy
-Meeting with the President in 1965
-Quest for more troops
-Abrams
-Frederick C. Weyand
-Chain of command
-Contacts with Haig
-Problems
-Communication
-Haig
-Assignment to Vietnam
-Communication
-Promotion
-Removal of Abrams
	-Weyand
-Abrams
-Work with South Vietnam
-Replacement
-Haig
-Timing
-Superior
-Laird
-Control
-Troop withdrawals
-Vietnamization
-Gen. William C. Westmoreland
-Laos operation
-Problems
-Response to North Vietnam invasion
-Kontum
-An Loc
-Replacement
-Connally's reaction
-Haig
-Problems
-Replacement on National Security Council [NSC]
-William A.K. (“Tony”) Lake
-W. Averell Harriman
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie
-US command
-Laird
-Problems
	-Abrams
-Dealings with White House
-Problems
	-JCS

Alexander P. Butterfield talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 3:55 and 5:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-44H]

[See Conversation No. 23-159]

The President conferred with Connally during the conversation.

	-Rush

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Moorer
-Meeting
	-Unknown Chinese admiral
-Abrams
-Replacement
-Blockade
-Call to Rogers
-Timing
-Rogers
-Cambodia
-Return to US
-Laird
-Replacement
-Connally
-Haig
-Abrams
-Problems
-Assignment
		-Abrams
-Rush
-Abrams
-New assignment
-Chief of Staff
-Westmoreland
-Ambassadorship
-Bunker
-South Vietnam
-Commander-In-Chief, Pacific [CINCPAC]
-John S. McCain, Jr.
-Haig
-Assignment to South Vietnam
-Bombing
	-Hue
-Assignment
-Terms
-Title
-Liaison with White House
-Haldeman
-Work With Kissinger
-Work With Rogers
-NSC
-Haldeman
-Haig's absence
-Haig
-Work with Rogers and Laird
-Rogers
-Work with Haldeman
-Haldeman
-Administrative work
-L. Patrick Gray
-Work with Arthur W. Radford
-Brent G. Scowcroft
-Compared with Haig
-Religion
-Moorer
-Meeting with the President

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:55 and 5:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-44I]

[See Conversation No. 23-160]

[End of telephone conversation]

Soviet summit
-Kissinger's speech

Vietnam
-Moorer
-Meeting with the President and Haig

The White House operator talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 3:55 and 5:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-44J]

[See Conversation No. 23-161]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Moorer
-Meeting with the President
-Purpose
-The President's announcement
-Winston Lord and John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Draft
-Andrews
-Lord

Moorer entered at 5:15 pm.

Moorer's meeting
-John H. Chafee

Connally's presence

Vietnam
-The President's meeting with Moorer
-Confidentiality
-Laird
-Abrams
-Blockade
-Announcement
	-Timing
-Plans
-Working group
-Completion
-Air strikes
-Abrams
-Intensity
-Targets
-Ships
-Secrecy
-Abrams
-Planning
-Air surveillance
	-Haiphong
-Rules of engagement
-Ships
-Outline of plans
-Air assets
-Air strikes
-Abrams
-Hue perimeter
-B-52s
-Intensity
-Compared with Verdun
-Kontum
-B-52s
-Ashau Valley
-B-52s
-Targets
-Intensity

Kissinger left at 5:25 pm.

-Blockade
-Air support
-POLs
-Railroads
-Docks
-Purpose
-Coordination with strikes
-Air support
-Intensity
-Target areas
-Civilian areas
-South Vietnam
-Air force
-Attacks on North Vietnam
-Dong Hoi
-Retaliation
-Role in blockade
-South Vietnamese ports
-Morale
-South Vietnamese air force
-An Loc
-Amphibious role

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 5:35 pm.