Conversation No. 335-1

Date:  May 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:32 and 2:40 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

	An unknown person
		-Return
-Time
-Return call

Conversation No. 335-2

Date:  May 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 2:32 and before 2:40 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Greetings

The President’s schedule
-The President’s view

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:40 pm.

Conversation No. 335-3

Date:  May 1, 1972
Time:  2:40-2:55 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-White House news summary report
-Alleged differences between Kissinger and the President
	-Kissinger’s view
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Vietnam
-Cease-fire
-Kissinger’s talks in Moscow
-State department reports
-News stories
	-Murrey Marder
	-Inaccuracies
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Story
-News summary
-Source
-US offers
-News reports
-George Herman
-Marder
-Henley W. Donovan
-Content
	-Kissinger’s offers
		-Kissinger’s view
-Accuracy
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Source
	-State department
		-William H. Sullivan
	-A paper
	    	-William P. Rogers
-President’s talk with Rogers
-The President’s view
-Bombing of Haiphong and Hanoi
-Kissinger’s talk with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Time
-Number of bombers
-Response
-Effectiveness
-Timing
-News stories
-Impact
-Moorer
-Thursday’s meeting
-US public response
-Soviet Union response
-US public response
	-Need for support
	-Doves
	-Hawks
	-General public
	    	-Support
        			-Reasons
-Negotiations
-Public reaction
-A memorandum
-Kissinger’s talk with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Conditions
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-North Vietnam government
-Meaning
-News stories
-State Department
	-Marder
	-Rogers
	-Haldeman
	-Purposes
		-Kissinger’s view
	-Forthcoming proposal
	-New York Times story
	-Rogers talk with the President
	-Acceptability
-North Vietnam invasion

SALT
-Gerard C. Smith
-Negotiating position
		-Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS], Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] director
-Position on SALT
-Briefing
-Melvin R. Laird
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Smith
-Negotiating position in Helsinki
-Possible news stories
-Time
-Content
-President’s actions
-Acceptance
-News stories
-Purposes
-Negotiators
-Meeting with the president
-Kissinger’s briefing

Vietnam
-Cease-fire
-News stories
-President’s position
-Kissinger’s position
-Significance
-Hugh S. Sidey
	-Recent article
-Jerrold L. Schecter
	-Kissinger’s interview
		-President’s suggestion
	-Work with Sidey
-Kissinger’s work
-Consistency with President's policies
-President’s position

SALT
-President’s public position
-Wording
-Status of talks
-President’s statement
-Wording
-Soviet negotiators
-Merits
-Smith’s proposal
-Kissinger’s view
-Substance
-Soviet submarines
-Numbers
-Limits
-US position
-Weapons
-Numbers
-US compared with the Soviet Union
-Presentation of agreement
-Wording
-Submarines
-Missiles
-Trades
-President’s statement
-Kissinger’s summary
-Presentation to Smith

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

An object

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:55 pm.

SALT
-Reduction

The President and Kissinger left at 2:55 pm.

Conversation No. 335-4

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:36 and 12:40 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-130]

Conversation No. 335-5

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Between 12:40 and 12:41 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 23-131]

Conversation No. 335-6

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  12:41 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-132]

Conversation No. 335-7

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Between 12:41 and 12:59 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 23-133; two items have been withdrawn from this conversation]

Conversation No. 335-8

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 and 2:01 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 335-9

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 and 2:01 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-134]

Conversation No. 335-10

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Between 2:01 and 2:02 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 23-135]

Conversation No. 335-11

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  2:05-2:07 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-Meeting with Richard G. Kleindienst
-President's meeting with press
-Photograph opportunity

Butterfield left at 2:07 pm.

Conversation No. 335-12

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  2:30 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-136]

Conversation No. 335-13

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  2:30 pm.

Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Call to an unknown person
-Return call
-Time

Conversation No. 335-14

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  2:30-2:40 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John K. Andrews, Jr.

Greetings

Eulogy for J. Edgar Hoover
-Length
-The President’s view
-Hoover
-Recognition
-Appreciation for Hoover
-Hoover's greatness
-Relationship with President
-Reference
-Amount of emphasis
-Hoover's greatness
-Addition
-References
-Winston S. Churchill
-Deletions
-References to the President's relationship with Hoover
-Other remarks by columnists and other speakers
-Length
-Law and order, permissiveness

-References to children
-Deletions
-Transition
-Conclusion
-Law and order in US
-Deletion
-Draft of eulogy
-Deletions
-Delivery
-Whitney M. Young funeral
-Opportunity for President

Attacks on Hoover
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-The President’s vew
-Dr. Benjamin Spock
-Jerry Rubin
-New York Times

Hoover
-President's relationship
-House Un-American Activities Committee
-The President’s view
-Civil liberties
-World War II
-Roscoe Drummond's comments
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's request
-Position on Communist Party
-Comments of Drummond
-The President’s view
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-The President’s view
-Effect on US respect for law

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-New director
-Delay
-Reasons

Eulogy
-Draft
-Return to President
-Time
-Changes
-Additions
-President's relationship with Hoover
-Draft
-Time
-President's relationship with Hoover

Andrews left at 2:40 pm.

Conversation No. 335-15

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 and 2:41 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler [?]

Conversation No. 335-16

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  2:41-2:49 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

An announcement
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-John D. Ehrlichman 
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's call to Ziegler

L. Patrick Gray, III
-Appointment
-Announcement by Kleindienst
-Disadvantages

Kleindienst
-Current position
-Reports in press

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:41 and 2:48 pm.

[Conversation No. 335-16A]

An unknown person [Ehrlichman?]
-Return call

[End of telephone conversation]

J. Edgar Hoover
-News stories
-The President’s view
-Praise
-President's support, relationship
-White House staff
-Charles W. Colson
-News stories on President's statement
-Network
-Haldeman
-Eulogy
-Length
-Delivery by the President
-Method
-Whitney M. Young
-Coverage

The President talked with Ehrlichman between 2:48 and 2:49 pm.

[Conversation No. 335-16B]

[See Conversation No. 23-137]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler's announcement
-Gray
-Appointment
-Questions
-Importance of position
-Supreme Court
-Reasons for delay
-Political pressures
-Continuity of Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] leadership
-Time
-President's meeting with Kleindienst and Gray

Ziegler left at 2:49 pm.

Conversation No. 335-17

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  2:50-3:35 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Richard G. Kleindienst and L. Patrick Gray, III.

Greetings

A joke

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm and conferred with the President.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm.

Gray
-Appointment
-Need for Gray's abilities
-Arrangements
-Political pressures
-Announcement

Kleindienst
-Nomination
-Statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler's announcement
-Meeting with the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Appointment of Gray
-Charles W. Colson's call to Kleindienst
-Ziegler's statement

John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 2:53 pm.

-Status
-Confirmation
-Questions from press
	-Ziegler, Gray, Kleindienst
-Status
-Permanent director
-Statement by Ziegler
-Political pressures

Kleindienst
-Status
-Deputy Attorney General
-Questions
-Answers
-Ziegler
-Confirmation

FBI
-Calls to Senators
-James O. Eastland
-Schedule
-Possible nominee for FBI director
-Eastland
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Reaction
-Other calls
-Timing
	-Announcement of Gray's nomination
-Mississippi, Georgia

Congress
-The President’s view
-Questions about W. Ramsey Clark
-Rep. Emmanuel Celler

Congratulations

Ehrlichman left at 3:10 pm.

Kleindienst and Gray left at 3:20 pm.

Vietnam and Soviet Summit
-North Vietnamese invasion
-US response
-Bombing
-Henry A. Kissinger's concerns
	-Possibility of Soviet summit cancellation
-Public opinion poll
-Soviet summit cancellation
-Questions
	-Percentages
	-Wording
	-Soviet aid to North Vietnam
	-President's trip
	    	-Cancellation
    		-Delay
	    	-Continuation
	-Soviet support for North Vietnam
	-President's trip
    		-Approval
	    	-Cancellation
	    	-Reasons for support for trip
	    	-Analysis of Charles D. Bennett
		        	-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
        			-North Vietnamese offensive
		        	-Soviet aid to North Vietnam
		        	-Postponement
	         		   	-Public support
-Support for trip
-Reasons
	-Percentages of approval and disapproval
	-PRC trip
-Cancellation
	-Approval and disapproval percentages
-Expected effect on war
	-Percentages
-President’s meeting with Kissinger

J. Edgar Hoover
-Eulogy
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-The President’s view
-Length
-President's delivery
-Whitney M. Young
-Ziegler
-President's schedule
-Television coverage
-Ziegler
-Amount
-Impact
	-Young
-Amount of time
-Value
-President's delivery
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Method
-Young
-President's statement at Hoover's death
-Press coverage
-Eulogy
-Television coverage
-President's relationship with Hoover
-Amount of time in preparation
-Value

Vietnam and Soviet summit
-Polls
-Kissinger
-Bennett’s analysis
-Soviet summit
-Length of war
-The President’s view
-Bombing
	-Impact
		-The President’s view

Soviet Summit
-Timing
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Hue
-President's signing of agreement
	-Trade credits
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-Friendship
-Appearance
-President's decision
-Impact
-Vietnam War
-Public opinion
-Forthcoming presidential election
	-Hawks
-Kissinger's view
-Timing of trip
	-The President’s view
-Agreements
-Cancellation
-Impact on Hanoi and Moscow
-Importance to Soviets
-Cancellation
	-Interpretation
	    	-Trip to PRC

Public opinion
-PRC trip
-Support for President
-Sense of leadership
-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Haldeman’s view
-Kissinger's judgment
	-The President’s view
	-Reasons

William P. Rogers
-Conduct
	-The President’s view
-Richard F. Pederson
-Kissinger's backgrounder
-Source
	-John A. Scali
-A story
-Accuracy
-Trips
-Peking
-Shanghai
-Soviet Union
-Vietnam

US role in world
-The President’s view
-Europe

Soviet summit
-Haldeman's forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Continuation of summit
-Public opinion
	-The President’s view

Public opinion
-Need
-Kissinger
-Tenor of public statements
-Rogers

President's speeches
-Tone
-Compared to Kissinger's statements
-Tone after Soviet summit
-Time
-Announcement of bombing

Kissinger
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Length

President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman and Kissinger
-Hoover eulogy
-Time of draft delivery

Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 2:53 and 3:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 335-17A]

Meeting
-Time

[End of telephone conversation]

Soviet Summit
-Kissinger's advice
-Public response
-Support
-Hawks
-Center
-Michael J. Mansfield on doves
	-Reaction
-Robert J. Dole
-Bombing in Vietnam
-Kissinger’s and President's concerns
-Cancellation of summit
-Possibility of summit cancellation
-Effect on forthcoming presidential election
-US appearance versus Soviet Union
-Kissinger
-Possible Soviet propaganda
-Demonstrations
-Timing
-Hoover
-Haldeman meeting with Kissinger
-Tone
-Forthcoming presidential election
-Possible effects
	-The President’s view
-Cancellation
-Results expected
-Vietnam

President's schedule
-Location

Haldeman left at 3:35 pm.

Conversation No. 335-18

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:35 and 3:43 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-139]

Conversation No. 335-19

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Between 3:43 and 3:46 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 23-140]

Conversation No. 335-20

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  3:48 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-141]

Conversation No. 335-21

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:48 and 3:49 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-142]

Conversation No. 335-22

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Between 3:49 and 3:53 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Warren E. Burger.

[See Conversation No. 23-143; one item have been withdrawn from this conversation]

Conversation No. 335-23

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 3:53-4:34 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Greetings

J. Edgar Hoover eulogy
-Drafts

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THE PRESIDENT TALKED WITH THE WHITE HOUSE OPERATOR AT AN UNKNOWN
TIME BETWEEN 3:53 AND 3:56 PM.

[Conversation No. 335-23A]

[See Conversation No. 23-144]

[End of telephone conversation]

THE WHITE HOUSE OPERATOR TALKED WITH THE PRESIDENT AT 3:56 PM.

[Conversation No. 335-23B]

[See Conversation No. 23-145]

[End of telephone conversation]

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	Edward M. Kennedy
		-Personal life
			-Publicity
			-The President’s view
			-Reports
			-Colson’s view
-Inner circle
	-Infiltration
-Catholics

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	Edward Kennedy
-Appearance
	-Colson’s view
-Health
	-Compared with John F. Kennedy
	-Treatment
	-Appearance

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	Democratic opposition
		-Effect on previous Paris peace talks
			-The President’s view
		-Edmund S. Muskie’s previous speech on Vietnam
			-Colson’s view

Vietnam
-Forthcoming demonstration
-Haldeman's report
-Turnout
-Time
-Counter demonstration
-US flag
-Demonstrators 

Hoover
-President’s remarks on Hoover’s death
	-President's statement on crime
	-Publicity
	-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
	-President's relationship
	-Stance
	-Anti-crime, anti-Communists
-Television coverage
-Wire services
-Media coverage
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Media praise
-Jack N. Anderson
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Muskie 
-Geoge S. McGovern
-Muskie statement
-President's eulogy
-The President’s view
-Critics
-Public image
-Support for Hoover
-FBI
-Repression, wiretapping
-Support for crackdown on crime
-Editorials
-Haldeman's report
-Washington Post

Vietnam
-President's policies
-Public support
-Albert E. Sindlinger poll
	-Union members and Democrats
		-Hawks
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Vietnam
	-Effect on President's rating
    		-Negotiations
-Bombing
-Effectiveness
-Negotiations
-The President’s view
-South Vietnam performance
-President's leadership
-South Vietnam performance
-Hue
-Stock market
-Impact of war
-North Vietnam offensive
-Decline
-Changes
-Other economic indicators
-James D. Hodgson
-Industrial production
	-Durable goods
	-Psychology of market
-Impact of Vietnam
-Public support for the President on Vietnam
-Media

Soviet Union summit
-Harris and Sindlinger
-Opinion on Soviet summit
-Sindlinger's opinion of country's mood
-Harris compared with Sindlinger
-President's foreign policy
-Desire for peace
-Cancellation possibility
-President's tone toward Soviets
-President's experience
-Public expectations
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Moscow trip
-Vietnam
-Public support for President
-Blockade
	-Rallying effect
-Sindlinger
-Antiwar sentiment
-Hawkishness
-Unions
-Democratic Party
-South

Colson left at 4:34 pm.

Conversation No. 335-24

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  4:55-5:10 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John K. Andrews, Jr.

J. Edgar Hoover eulogy
-Remarks by Warren E. Burger
-Andrews's review

-President's remarks
-Invocation of diety
-Changes
-Hoover's tenure at the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Law and order references
-Hoover's respect for law
-Draft
-Copy to Rose Mary Woods
-Andrews's work

President's previous address to the Nation on Vietnam

Andrews left at 5:10 pm.

Conversation No. 335-25

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 and 5:11 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 335-26

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 5:10 and before 5:11 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:11 pm.

Conversation No. 335-27

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  5:11-5:35 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

J. Edgar Hoover
-Eulogy
-Length
-Number of words
-Further work
-Funeral
-President's presence
-Importance
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower

Vietnam
-US-Soviet Union Summit

-Henry A. Kissinger’s meeting with Haldeman
-Possible cancellation by Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Bombing
-Postponement option
	-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Joint announcement
-Kissinger's advice
	-Haldeman’s view
	-North Vietnam offensive
	-Timing with Summit
	-Capture of Hue
	-Soviet trip
	-Timing
	-Bombing
	-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.’s advice
	-Timing
		-Kissinger's trip to Paris
	-Equipment
	-Reasons
	-Soviet response
		-Possibility of Soviet cancellation
-Postponement option
-Arrangements
	-Dobrynin
-Advantages
	-Political
	-Brezhnev
	-Public opinion
-Cancellation by President
-Kissinger's prediction
	-Previous meeting with Haldeman
	-Consequences
		-Public opinion
		-Political
-Postponement
-Disadvantages
	-Democratic candidates
		-Possibility of attending Soviet summit
			-Briefings
			-Times
			-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Bombing
-Necessity
-Military situation
-Kissinger's advice
-Soviet summit
	-Possibility of taking Democratic candidates
-Senators
-Congressmen
-Cabinet members
-Secretary of State
-Soviet Summit
-Bombing
	-Kissinger’s view
	-The President’s view
	-Possibility of Summit cancellation
		-US and Soviet Union responsibility
-Postponement
	-Timing
-Situation in Vietnam
-Agreement and ceremonies
	-Possible perceptions
-Link with Vietnam
	-Public perception
			-Link with Europe, People’s Republic of China [PRC], Latin America, Middle East
-Soviet Union
-Arms for North Vietnam, India and Cuba
	-Kissinger’s view
-Congress
-Military aid

President's schedule

Vietnam
-Soviet summit
-President's alternatives
-Compared to PRC trip decision

Haldeman left at 5:35 pm.

Conversation No. 335-28

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 1:59 and before 2:04 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:04 pm.

Conversation No. 335-29

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:59 and 2:04 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-165]

Conversation No. 335-30

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 1:59 and before 2:05 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Demonstration
-Gay Liberation Front

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower between 2:04 and 2:05 pm.

[Conversation No. 335-30A]

[See Conversation No. 23-166; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm.

Conversation No. 335-31

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:05 and 2:10 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 335-32

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:05 and 2:10 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown person talked with the President.

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Conversation No. 335-33

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  2:10-3:15 pm.
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

Haig's departure
-The President’s view
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Pressures
		-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Vietnam
-Mining and bombing
	-US command
-Importance
-Soviet summit
-1972 election
-US credibility
	-Prevention of US defeat
-US command in Vietnam
-Supreme allied commander
-Appointment
-Candidates
	-Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.
	    	-Command
	    	-Term
	    	-The President’s view
	    	-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
	    	-Son [John McCain]
	    	-The President’s view
	-Abrams
	    	-The President’s view
    		-Melvin R. Laird
-Abrams
-Communications from Washington
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Laird’s instructions
-Message from the President
-President’s responsibility
-Secretary of Defense
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Reports to the President
-Channels
	-Laird
	-Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
	-Secretary of Defense
-Message from the President
-Haig’s instructions
-Military operations
-Importance
-President’s responsibility
-Communications with Abrams
-Equipment
-Laird
-US command
-Abrams
-Options
	-Replacement
	    	-Advisability
			-Haig’s view
	    	-Laird
	    	-Effect
	    	-Impact on the Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] 
    		-Timing
-Personality
	-Leadership ability
-Replacement
	-Impact
	-Timing
    	-Blockade
-McCain
-Haig’s view
-ARVN
-Haig’s view
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-ARVN
-Bruce Palmer
-Haig’s view
-Rank
-Abrams
-Replacement
-New position
	-Army Chief of Staff
	-Consultant to the President
-Replacement
	-Justification
	    	-Dwight D. Eisenhower
			-The President’s view
	-New title
-Laird
-Replacement
	-New position
	    	-Alternatives
    		-Army Chief of Staff
		        	-Laird
    	-Ambassadorship
	        	-Spain
    	-Family considerations
	-Palmer
	    	-Haig’s view
	-McCain
    		-Haig’s view
-Military operations
-Air power
	-Hue
-Coordination
	-The President’s view
-A commander in Hawaii
-Palmer
-Rank
	-Abrams
-Authority
-Supreme commander
	-Abrams
	-Advantages
		-The President’s view
	-Palmer
-A navy commander
-Rank change
-Abrams’s staff
-Replacement
-The President’s view
-An unknown commander [Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.]
-Haig’s view
-Military operations
-Air operations
-North Vietnam tanks
	-Destruction
	-Number
-B-52 operations
-Ashau valley
-North Vietnam offensive
-Renewal
-An Loc area
-Bombing of North Vietnam
	-B-52s
-Hue
-Importance
-Thieu's visit
-ARVN
	-Gen. Nguyen Huu Tho 
-Operations
-A general
	-Effectiveness
-Plans
-Abrams
-McCain
-Timing
-Operations
-Helicopter assaults
	-Marines
-Artillery preparations
	-Duong Hoi
-ARVN
-Effectiveness
-Blockade
-Impact on South Vietnam
-Mining
-Impact on South Vietnam
-Bombing and blockade
-Kissinger
-Commitment
-North Vietnam
-Supplies
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Amount
-Haiphong
	-Amount
-North Vietnam offensive
-South Vietnam casualties
-Civilians
	-Number
	-An Loc
	    	-Number
	-Public statement on numbers
   	 	-Wording
-Blockade
-Timing
-Effect
-Bombing
-Warning
-Negotiations
-Cease-fire offer
-Response
-US-Soviet Union summit
-Blockade
-Timing
-The President’s view
-Possible cancellation
-Soviet response to blockade
-Pressure on North Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Capability
	-The President’s view
	-Haig’s view
-Damage
-B-52s
-Offensive
-Bombing
-Effectiveness
-Blockade
-Effectiveness
-Bombing
-North Vietnam offensive
-US response
-US troops
	-Landing of marines
    	-Psychological impact
	        	-ARVN
        		-US public
    	-Purpose
	        	-US lives
    	-Value
    	-Conditions
	        	-President’s statement
         		   	-Okinawa
    	-Number
    	-Impact on North Vietnam, ARVN
    	-Possibility
-Blockade
-Bombing
	-Targets
	    	-Supplies
    		-Hanoi
	-B-52s
-Blockade
	-Announcement
	    	-Timing
-Bombing
	-Timing
	-President’s orders
-US military
-Moorer
-Attitudes
-Laird
-Relations with President
-Relations with Laird
-Haig’s instructions
-Laird
-North Vietnam offensive
-US response
-Public opinion
-President’s actions
	-President’s accomplishments
	    	-Withdrawal of US troops
	-President’s peace offers
	    	-Rejection
-Conclusion of war
-President’s actions
-North Vietnam responsibility
-Negotiations
-Blockade
-Purpose
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Future meeting between Kissinger or Haig and POW wives
-Statement to families
	-US offers to North Vietnam
-Blockade
-The President’s view
-Congressional support 
	-Support from the right
		-Alternatives
	-Hawks
-South Vietnam
-Fighting ability
-Haig’s view
-Fall of Quang Tri
	-Marines
	-1st Division
	-Tanks
	-Artillery
	-Cavalry
-North Vietnam
-Tanks
-Destruction
-Number
-Destruction
-Size
-South Vietnam
-Tanks
-Effectiveness
-Destruction of North Vietnam tanks
-Losses
-Resupply
	-Da Nang
	-C-5A aircraft
	    	-Japan
	    	-Anniston, Alabama
	    	-Japan
	    	-Number
	    	-Frequency
	-Tank crews
-Effectiveness
-US support
-Replacement of commanders
	-Thieu
-Da Nang advisor
	-I Corps
	-Hue
	-An unknown general
	-Gen. Duong Van Minh
	-Staff
-Military operations
-Gunships
-An Loc
-Detection of North Vietnam vehicles
-I Corps
-Surface-to-air missiles [SAMs]
	-Hue
	-Quang Tri
-Gunships
-Ground troops
-Inchon landing
-Hanoi
	-POWs
	-Subterfuge
-Blockade
-Implementation
-Son Tay raid
-POWs
-Hanoi
-Location
	-Blockade
	-Implementation
	-Marines
		-POWs
		-Subterfuge
-North Vietnam
-Media blitz
	-Richard M. Helms
-Marines
-Use
	-POWs
-Effect
-Son Tay raid
-Local forces
-Timing
	-Bombing
-POWs
	-Publicity
	-Possible protests
	    	-Location of POWs
			-Hanoi
	-Propaganda
	    	-Helms
		-The President’s view
		-North Vietnam
			-Paris
-Negotiations
-Status
-Blockade
-Implementation
-Timing
			-Soviet reaction
-Berlin
-Cuba
	-The President’s view
-Thieu [?]
-Kissinger
-Dobrynin

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:10 and 3:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 335-33A]

Kissinger
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Mines
-Implement
-McCain
	-Background
-Adm. Arthur W. Radford
-The President’s view
-Abrams
-Commander-in-Chief, Pacific [CINCPAC]
-B-52s
-Strategic Air Command [SAC]
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Abrams
-Aircraft carriers
-CINCPAC
-Abrams
-Palmer
-Timing
-Abrams
-Palmer
-Southeast Asia area
-A study
-Laos, Cambodia, South Vietnam, North Vietnam
-Consolidation
-Saigon
-New structure
-Abrams
-Palmer
	-Assistants
   		-A Navy commander
	    	-Vogt
-Effectiveness
-Supreme allied command for Southeast Asia
-Abrams
-Replacement
	-Timing
-Ambassadorship to Spain

German treaties
-Kissinger

Soviets
-Meeting with Dobrynin
-Length

Vietnam
-North Vietnam offensive
-US response
-US command
-Kissinger
-Palmer
-Assistant
-Shake-up
	-The President’s view
-Extent of command
-President's orders
-Haig's view
-Plans
-Laird
	-Political problems
	-South Vietnam

Haig left at 3:15 pm.