Conversation No. 337-1

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 9:11 and before 9:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Weather

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:20 am.

                 Conversation No. 337-2

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:11 and 9:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Meeting with the President
-Location

                 Conversation No. 337-29

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:11 and 9:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter to Walter H. Annenberg.

Previous meeting with the President

Retention as ambassador
-Tenure and performance
-Leonore Annenberg

                 Conversation No. 337-3

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  9:20-9:50 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

President's meeting with Walter H. Annenberg (?)

Weather

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Completion
-Report
-Visibility
-Damage
-Bridge
-Chinese and Soviet ships
-Haiphong Harbor
-Restrictions on pilots
-Blockade
-Soviet ships
-Movement
-North Vietnamese offensive
-An Loc/Saigon area
-Attacks
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] [South Vietnam] divisions
-Military Region One
-Supplies
-Air strikes

-ARVN patrols
-North Vietnam losses
-Kontum
-ARVN counterattacks
-Weather
-Rainy season
-Kontum
-Pleiku
-Central Highlands
-Military Region One
-An Loc
-Loss
	-Compared to Quang Tri
-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-North Vietnamese offensive
-President's options
-Blockade
-Compared to Cambodia, World War III
-Protests to Kissinger's staff
-Public support
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Volume

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	Vietnam
		-Blockade
-President’s peace offers
	Joseph C. Kraft commentary
-Negotiations
-George H.W. Bush
-William J. Porter
	-Plenary session
-Xuan Thuy
	-Moscow
-Le Duc Tho
	-Paris
-Blockade
-Public support
	-Comparison with missile crises
		-Washington Post
		-New York Times
		-Three networks
		-Republicans
		-Intellectuals
	-Comparison with Cambodian invasion
		-Fears of World War III
Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China [PRC] responses
	-Strength
	-US assessments
-PRC
	-Kissinger’s message
		-Contents
-Soviet ships
	-Kissinger’s call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet Summit
	-Soviet response
		-Timing
			-German treaties
	-US statement
-Public relations efforts
	-Wording of statements
	-Kissinger call to Yitzhak Rabin
		-Jewish groups
		-Hijacking
		-Jewish groups
			-Position
-Blockade
-President’s offers
-Statement to Soviets
	-Support for the President
		-US actions
			-Soviet summit
-Kissinger's backgrounder
-Response
-Department of Defense
-Melvin R. Laird
-Call
-Speech for John C. Stennis
-Tone
-William P. Rogers
-Demeanor
	-The President’s view
-President's demeanor
-Chou En-lai
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Television
-President's previious speech
-Response
-Marvin L. Kalb's party
	-Frank F. Church
   	-Indonesian ambassador
   	-Max Frankel
-Soviets
-Middle East
	-Jewish groups
-North Vietnam offensive
-Soviet arms
-Soviet Summit
-Compared with India-Pakistan crisis
-Senate Democratic response
-James B. Allen
	-Rebuttal to Church
	-Ted Stevens
-Blockade
-Soviet Summit
-US stakes in Vietnam
-North Vietnam offensive
-South Vietnam Success
	-The President’s view
-An Loc
-North Vietnam problems
-Supplies from Soviets
-PRC aid
-Air strikes
-Railroads
-Petroleum, Oils, and Lubricants [POLs]
-Targets
-Frequency
-Damage
-B-52s
-Supporting aircraft
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Losses
-Blockade
-North Vietnam response
-Bush
-Porter
-New York Times
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston commentary
-Public support
-"Hawks" and "Doves"
-Publicity
-Telegrams
   -Volume
-Television reports
	-"Man on the street" interviews
	-General Infantry [GI’s]
			-Support for President
	-Prisoner of war [POW] wives

President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Advisability
-Dinner for Duke Law School class
-Future schedule

Kissinger's schedule
-Return to Washington

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Laird press conference
-John B. Connally press conference

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Vietnam
-Blockade
-Kissinger's call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-US intentions
-The President’s view
-Soviet ships
-Compared to Cuban missile crisis
-Compared to Laos
-US troops in South Vietnam
-Message to Soviets

Kissinger left at 9:50 am.

                 Conversation No. 337-4

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 and 10:05 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter to John S. Bradley.

Introduction

Bradley's letter to the Nixons
-Appreciation
-President's stay at Duke Law School
-Faculty parties for students
-Mrs. Bradley
-An injury
-The President’s view
-Message to class of 1937
-Copies to classmates
-Bradley's advice to class
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

                 Conversation No. 337-5

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 and 10:05 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter to each member of his Duke Law School class.

Instructions

John S. Bradley's letter to the President
-Dinner attendance
-Message to class of 1937
-Enclosure

                 Conversation No. 337-6

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 and 10:05 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Meeting with the President

                 Conversation No. 337-7
Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 and 10:05 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated instructions to an unknown typist.

[This is a continuation of Conversation No. 337-5]

End of tape

                 Conversation No. 337-8

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 9:50 and before 10:05 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Dictabelt tape
-Delivery to Rose Mary Woods

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

                 Conversation No. 337-9

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  10:05 am-12:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Support for the President's policies
	-Meeting with Haldeman and Charles W. Colson
-Marvin L. Kalb's party
-The President’s view
-Level of support
	-Colson
-Coordination of public appearances
	-Responsibility
-Blockade
-Public support
-Levels
-Washington Post and New York Times
-Publicity
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Albert E. Sindlinger
	-Polls
-Press conference
	-President's reelection
	-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower
	-Polls
	    	-Level of support
    		-Questions
	    	-Results
-George H. Gallup poll
-Questions
-Samples
	-Hawks
-Laird
	-Reports
    	-Subcabinet meeting
    	-Press conference
 		-Tone
-Polls
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Results
-Publicity
-President's polls
-Questions
-Results
-Publicity
-Results
-Compared to People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Publicity
-Timing
	-Sindlinger
-Questions
-Peace offer
	-Significance of results
-Publicity
-Questions
-Results
-Questions
-Peace offer
-Results
-Publicity
-Support for the President
-Media play
-White House News Summary
-Senate action
-John W. McCormack's statement
	-Washington Post
-George Meany's statement
-Leonard Woodcock
	-President's polls
	-Effect on public opinion
	-Compared with President's previous speech
	-Military action
	-Approval rating
	-Compared with PRC trip rating

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:19 am.

[Conversation No. 337-9A]

Vietnam
-Poll results

Meeting with President

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Blockade and mining
-Support for President's actions
-President's polls
-Publicity

The President talked with the White House operator at 10:19 am.

[Conversation No. 337-9B]

[See Conversation No. 24-60]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:19 and 10:21 am.

[Conversation No. 337-9C]

Vietnam
-Blockade and mining
-Support for President's actions
-President's polls
	-Publicity
	    	-Emphasis
    		-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
	    	-Sindlinger
	    	-ORC

[End of telephone conversation]

    		-A press conference
		        	-Hugh Scott and Robert P. Griffin
		        	-ORC
	    	-Colson
	    	-Lawrence M. Higby
    		-Buchanan
		        	-ORC use of material
	    	-Scott's press conference
        			-ORC

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:19 am.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:19 and 10:21 am.

[Conversation No. 337-9D]

[See Conversation No. 24-61]

[End of telephone conversation]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:21 am.

-Elliot L. Richardson
-Appearance at Capitol Hill Club
-Television coverage

Kissinger entered at 10:21 am.

-Kissinger's evaluation
-John B. Connally
-Attack on Democrats
-Timing
-Laird and Richardson

The President talked with Colson between 10:21 and 10:22 am.

[Conversation No. 337-9E]

[See Conversation No. 24-62]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Connally
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Possible speaking appearance
-Forthcoming trip to South Vietnam and Thailand
-Air strikes
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-B-52s
-An Loc, Saigon
-Effect

Colson entered at 10:23 am.

-Blockade
-Support for President's actions
-ORC poll
-Haldeman
-Questions
-Responses
-Publicity
-Sindlinger poll
-ORC
-Questions
-Responses
	-Sindlinger's call to Colson
-Other results
-Approval of President's actions
	-Changes
	-Compared with PRC trip rating
-President's actions in Vietnam
	-Change in rating
    	-President's previous speech on Vietnam
    	-Compared with PRC trip rating
-Percent of "peace at any price" supporters
	-“Hawks”
-Laird
-A press story
	-Previous call to Kissinger
	-Source
	    	-William P. Rogers
    		-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
	    	-Connally
-Statement by Ronald L. Ziegler
-Unanimity of National Security Council [NSC] decision
-Air strikes
				-Ellsworth F. Bunker's cable
-Number of sorties
-Abrams
-An Loc
-Message to Bunker from Kissinger
	-An Loc
-Message to Kissinger from Bunker
-Effect of President's speech
-South Vietnamese morale
-Abrams
-President's decision 
	-Bunker’s view
-Support for President's actions
-Polls
-Publicity
-Dissemination
-Media
-Vietnam veterans
	-Los Angeles Times
-General Infantry [GIs] in Vietnam
-Morale
-Press reports
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Prisoners of war [POWs] wives
-Press reports
-Opposition
-Democrats
-A California Marxist
-POW wives
-Possible meeting with President
-Arrangements
	-Donald Rodgers (?)
-Possible meeting with Kissinger
-Possible meeting with the President
-Timing
-Conditions
-Sindlinger poll results
-Dates
-Sindlinger's operation
-Emotional response
-Interviews
-Democrat support
-Midwest
-David E. Bradshaw
-Comparison to Cambodian action
-Labor leaders
-Hard hats
-Peter J. Brennan
-An unknown person
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Hard hats
	-Brennan
	-Response to anti-war protests
-Meany's statement
-Woodcock
-Importance
-Jay Lovestone
-I[lworth] W. Abel
-Unions
-Nebraska primary
-George S. McGovern
-J. James Exon
-Support for the President
-Omaha
-Hubert H. Humphrey vote
-McGovern victory
-Significance
-Humphrey
-McGovern's effort

Vietnam
-Support for the President's actions
-Publicity
-Sindlinger's press conference
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger's morale
-Washington Post editorial
-Marvin L. Kalb's party
-US power
	-The President’s view

Kissinger left at 10:40 pm.

Kissinger
-The President’s view

President's demeanor
-Chou En-lai

Duke Law School reunion
-Classmates
-Age
-Appearance
-Described
-Classmates
-Political affiliation
-Great Depression effects
-President's remarks
-David Cavers
-Classmates
-Political views
-Harvard
-Duke

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:40 and 11:40 am.

[Conversation No. 337-9F]

Vietnam
-Support for the President
-ORC poll
-Dissemination

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Support for the President
-ORC poll
-Publicity
-Use by White House
-Press conference
-Use
-Calls to Congressmen
	-Clark MacGregor
-Doves
-Publicity
-Method
	-Possible Kissinger briefing for columnists
-Laird
-A press report
-Reassurance
	-Call from Colson
		-President’s instructions

Colson talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:40 and 11:40 am.

[Conversation No. 337-9G]

[See Conversation No. 24-63]

The President conferred with Haldeman.

Colson talked with Melvin R. Laird at an unknown time between 10:40 and 11:40 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Support for the President
-Laird
-A press story
-Connally
-Connally
-Possible press conference
-Criticism of Democrats
-Forum for criticism
-Support for President
	-The President’s view
-Laird
-Interview format
	-Networks and wire services
-Impact on morale
-White House
-Release of poll
-Democrats
-Caucus
-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr. speech
-Agnew speech
-Publicity
-Ohio State
-Demonstrators
  	-Number
    	-Violence
-Publicity
    	-Ziegler
		-Wire stories
-Telegrams
-Volume
-Blockages at Western Union
-Expression of support
-Letters
-Telephone calls
-Telephone calls to senators
-Undecided senators
-Volunteers of help
	-Demonstrations
	-Petitions
	-Unions

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Vietnam
-Blockade
-Support
-Herbert G. Klein
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-"Hawks"
-Commentators
	-George Bunche (?)
-Mobilization
-Telephone calls
-Commentators
	-Poll results
-Los Angeles
-Chicago
-Texas
-Philadelphia
-Right wing
-Mobilization
-Democrats
-"Hawks"
-Telegrams
-Rhetoric
-Counter to Democrats
-North Vietnam offensive
-Opposition
-Democratic candidates
-Washington Post story
-Media reports
-Criticism
-Biases
-Administration criticism
-Test for 1972 campaign
-"Dove" Democrats
-Supporters
-John McCormack
-Publicity
-President's critics
	-John G. Dow
-Laird
-A press story
-Response
-William P. Rogers
-Call to Colson
-Public statements
-Frank F. Church
-North Vietnam
	-Negotiations
-Poll results
-Sindlinger
-Poll results
-Circulation to President's supporters
-Vaughn (?) Collins
-Washington Post story
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Buchanan
-Public release
	-Media coverage
-Administration response
-Support
-Scope
-Intensity
-Media reports
-Boston
	-Government employees
	    	-Response to demonstrators
-Media reports
	-Kalb
-Popularity
-President's critics
	-White House countermeasures
    	-White House staff beliefs
-Media
	-Howard K. Smith
	    	-Previous conversation with Colson
	-Harry Reasoner
	    	-Retraction
	-Kalb, Dan Rather, CBS
	-Countermeasures
	-Press bus incident
    		-Robert D. Novak, Rowland Evans
	    	-Commentary
    		-Channel 5
-Countermeasures
	-President's travels
	-Washington press corps
	-Methods
		-Haldeman’s view
		-The President’s view
	-Washington press corps
		-Negative publicity
	-"Georgetown set"
-Support
-Novak column
	-Circulation
	-Copyright
	    	-Congressional Record
    		-Gordon L. Allot
-George D. Aiken
	-Administration efforts
	-Michael J. Mansfield

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Vietnam
-Blockade
-Support
-Scott and Griffin
-Laird
-Connally
-Richardson
-President's previous speech
	-Richardson’s view
-Cabinet
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-President's speech
-Richardson's impression
-Support
-Publicity
-ORC poll

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:40 and 11:40 am.

[Conversation No. 337-9I]

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Polls
-Scott and Griffin
-ORC results
-Release

[End of telephone conversation]

Polls
-ORC
-Influence of Administration
-Sindlinger
-ORC
-Harris
-ORC
-Credibility
-Questions
-Press releases
-Sindlinger
-Harris
-Gallup
-Questions
-Results on President's Vietnam action
-ORC poll
-Public support for President's policies
-Release of results
-Buchanan
-Scott and Griffin

Buchanan
-Haldeman’s view
-Colson’s view

Vietnam
-Support for the President
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Statements of support
-Release
-Rockefeller
-Labor meeting speech
	-James L. Buckley, Brennan
-Strength of statement
-Staff 
	-The President’s view
	-Kissinger’s view
-President's statements
-Timing
-Press conference
-Soviet Summit, Vietnam
-Timing
-Support
-Meetings with President and supporters
-Meeting with POW wives
-Timing
-American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Agnew's statements
-Timing
-Press conference
-Report to the President
-Press conference
-Demonstrations
-Size and character
-Albuquerque
-Violence
-Press reports
-Freeway traffic
-Berkeley
-City employee day off
-Blocking traffic
-Madison
-Size
-Michigan State
-Effect
-Santa Barbara
-Blocking of airport runway, traffic
-Arrests
-Urbana, Illinois
-Armory
-University of Maryland
-National Peace Action Coalition
-Rally in Washington, DC
-Size
-Significance
-Appearance of demonstrators
-Counterreaction
-Boston example
-Congressional galleries
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] reports
-Media reports
-Violence
-New York
-Columbia University
-Wisconsin
-Columbia University
-New York police
-Hard hats
-Jews
-Communist conspiracy
-Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason
-Coordination
-FBI and Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Links to Hanoi
-President's speech
-Section on student opposition
-Kissinger
-Deletion
-President's attitude toward enemies
-Polls
-Gallup results
-Harris results
-Release
-Harris poll

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Vietnam
-Blockade support
-Cabinet
-Speeches and briefings
-Rogers
-Encouragement from Colson
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer

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Colson left at 11:40 am.

President's schedule
-Public appearances
-Frequency
-Meeting with Soviet Trade Minister
-Meeting with Wilbur D. Mills, Ray C. Bliss
-Florida trip
-Meeting with Soviet Trade Minister
	-Timing

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-Meeting with Mills
-Day
-Time
-Meeting with Connally
-Public appearances
-FBI
-L. Patrick Gray, III
-Nomination

Richard G. Kleindienst
-Senate confirmation hearings
-Delay
-Reasons
-Vietnam
-Likelihood of confirmation

Connally
-Resignation
-Announcement date
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Timing of announcement
-Soviet summit
-George P. Shultz
-Knowledge of resignation
-Relationship with Connally
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Information on resignation
-Resignation
-Timing
-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
	-Kissinger’s view
-Delay
-Help to administration
-Rogers

General Services Administration [GSA] administrator

Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Andrew Brimmer
-Removal
	-Possible ambassadorship
-Arthur F. Burns
-Connally
-Burns
-Quadriad
-Shultz’s view
-Milton Friedman
-Economic views
-Changes
-Interest rates, monetary aggregates
-Conflict with board
-Votes
	-Compared with William McChesney Martin, Jr.
-Control of board
-Businessmen
-Economists
-Bankers
-[Forename unknown] Carter
-Effectiveness
-Shultz
-Quadriad meeting
-Stock market
-Recent drop
-Cambodia
-Jews

Legal Services Corporation
-Agnew letter

Family's official schedule
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Public appearance in Boston
-Cancellation

President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Manolo Sanchez
-Crowds at Homestead
-Support for the President

Democrats
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Harvard

Vietnam
-Blockade
-South Vietnam performance
-Morale
-Withdrawal
-POWs

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Vietnam
-Polls

Haldeman left at 12:06 pm.

                 Conversation No.  337-10

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:06 and before 12:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:32 pm.

                 Conversation No. 337-11

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:06 and 12:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Return of Stephen B. Bull (?)

                 Conversation No. 337-12

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:06 and 12:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press conference

Meeting with the President

                 Conversation No. 337-13

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:06 and 12:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 24-64]

                 Conversation No. 337-14

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:06-12:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Letters
-Telephone calls

The President talked with Manolo Sanchez between 12:32 and 12:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 337-14A]

[See Conversation No. 24-65]

[End of telephone conversation]

Sanchez
-Health

Telephone calls
-Letters
-Handling

Duke Law School dinner
-White House staff efforts

Butterfield left at 12:35 pm.

                 Conversation No. 337-15

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:35 and 12:36 pm

Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Vietnam
-Editorials
-Notes

                 Conversation No. 337-16

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  12:36-1:02 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Melvin R. Laird
-A press story
	-Source
		-John B. Connally
-Connally
-Confrontation with Democrats
-Laird statement
-North Vietnam
-Xuan Thuy
-Moscow
-Le Duc Tho
-Soviets
-Meeting in Paris with US official
-Statement on US-Soviet meeting
-New proposals
-Kissinger's message
-Tenor

-North Vietnam offensive
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-B-52 strikes
-Kontum
-Targets
-Hue area
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] analysis
-Long Binh
-Number of divisions
-Quality
-B-52 strikes
-Number
-Hue
-North Vietnamese failure to take
-US retaliation
-Methods
-Damage to North Vietnam
	-Mining
	-Railroads
-Air strikes
-Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants [POL]
-Haiphong area
-Accuracy
-Damage
	-Bridge
-Soviet Summit
-Cancellation
-Ronald L. Ziegler statement
-Blockade
-Press reaction
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Motives
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Soviet Summit
-Conally (?)
-Cancellation
-Possibility
	-Soviet actions
	-US response
	-Vietnam
	-Middle East
-Agreements
-Conditions
-Connally statement
-Press reports
-US stakes in Vietnam
-North Vietnam offensive
-Consequence of US defeat
-Southeast Asia
-Blockade
-Success

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

Food order

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm.

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Mobilization of Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] support
	-Nguyen Van Thieu’s statement
-Vietnamization policy
-President's decision
-Timing
-Election year
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Soviet Summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger's Georgetown friends
-Consequences of US defeat
-Domino Theory
-Thailand
-Blockade support
-Marshall Green
-Malaysia
-Cambodia
-Australia
-New Zealand
-Philippines
-Japanese

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

A delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm.

Vietnam
-Blockade support
	-British
		-Letter to George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Summit
-Cancellation
	-Compared with US victory in Vietnam
-Future Summits
-North Vietnam offensive
-Consequences for US
-President's opponents
-North Vietnam offensive
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Blockade
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Soviet Summit
-European Security Council
-Soviet Summit
-Possible postponement
	-Kissinger’s view
-North Vietnam offensive
-Hue
-Soviet Summit
-Possible postponement
-Press
-Columnists
-Kissinger's press conference
-Laird's press conference
-Clifford P. Case-Frank F. Church amendment
-Provisions
-Effects for administration
-Compared with Michael J. Mansfield proposal
-Chances of passage in House
-Effect of polls
-A memorandum
-Charles W. Colson
-Public opinion
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Kennedy
-Newsweek
-Henry Hubbard
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Criticism of the President
-North Vietnam offensive
-South Vietnam defeat possibility
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Soviet Summit
-President's attendance
	-Possible public impression

A vote on the German treaties
-Time

Vietnam
-Possible South Vietnam collapse
-Air strikes
-An Loc
-Destruction
-Kontum
-Casualties expected
-Hue
-Ground action
-North Vietnam reserve strength
-Peace offers
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s meeting with columnists

Kissinger left at 1:02 pm.

                 Conversation No. 337-17

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 1:02 and before 3:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:35 pm.

                 Conversation No. 337-18

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 and 3:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Melvin R. Laird’s press conference
-Riots
-Polls
-Support for the President

President's schedule
-Camp David
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Sequoia cruise
-Camp Hoover
-Work

Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Importance

                 Conversation No. 337-19

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 and 3:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President played a recording.

Vietnam
-Weapons
-Navy, Army, Air Force
-South Vietnam compared with North Vietnam
-Dien Bien Phu
-Henry A. Kissinger
-North Vietnam offensive
-South Vietnam capabilities
-Tanks
-Counteraction
-US response
-Navy, Army, Air Force

                 Conversation No. 337-20

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 and 3:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Propaganda
-South Vietnam, Hanoi area
-Support for the President
-US military action
	-Impact on North Vietnam leaders and people
	-Air strikes
-Supervision
-Improvement
-Quantity, quality
-Needs

                 Conversation No. 337-21

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 1:02 and before 3:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

Dictation
-Delivery to Rose Mary Woods

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:35 pm.

                 Conversation No. 337-22

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 and 3:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Dictation
-Delivery

Meeting with the President
-Time

                 Conversation No.  337-23

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 and 3:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

[Unintelligible]

                 Conversation No. 337-24

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  3:35-3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Gifts
-Official party, unofficial party, technicians
-Cufflinks, tiebars

Duke Law School reunion

Gifts

-Cufflinks
-Placement
-President's use

Manolo Sanchez
-Health
-Telephone call from the President

Dinner for law school classmates
-Appearance of classmates compared to President
-Entertainment
-President's remarks
-Caspar W. Weinberger's comments

Vietnam
-Blockade
-President's speech
-Public response
-Polls
-Protests
-Violence
-Public response

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President's previous speech on Vietnam blockade and mining
-Drafting
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Call

President's schedule
-Camp David
-Miami
-Camp David

Vietnam
-President's previous speech on blockade and mining
-Response
-John F. Kennedy
-Initial US involvement
-Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Tonkin Gulf incident
-President's comments
-American soldiers
-Congress
-Lack of support for General infantry [GIs]
-President's policies
-US role in the world
-Critics
-Communists and left-wing
-Joseph McCarthy

American society
-Schools
-Religion
-Protestants
-Catholics
-Presbyterians

Camp David
-Bowling
-Birch Lodge

Ernest F. Hollings
-Future

People's Republic of China [PRC] ping-pong team

A Chinese artifact

Woods left at 3:55 pm.

                 Conversation No. 337-25

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:55 and 3:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for an unknown person.

[Forename unknown] Jackson
-Plea in North Carolina
-President's recollection

Marilyn Phillips (?)
	-A letter

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Appropriation

Conversation No. 337-26

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:55 and 3:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 24-66]

                 Conversation No. 337-27

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Between 3:59 and 4:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 24-67]

                 Conversation No. 337-28/339-1

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  4:04-unknown before 5:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Colson talked with an unknown person between 4:04 pm and 4:25 pm.

[Conversation No. 337-28/339-1F]

[See Conversation No. 24-68]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Melvin R. Laird press conference
-Evaluated
-Television coverage
-Wire service coverage
-Length

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] live coverage
-Duration
-Assessed by Colson
-Attack on critics
-Appeal for support
-Gerald R. Ford and Hugh Scott press conference
-Names of critics
-Network coverage
-Polls
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Copies for press
-Validity
	-White House polls

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 4:05 pm.

-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Level of support for the President
	-Release
	    	-Press conference
    		-New York Times and wire services coverage
-Ronald L. Ziegler's briefing
-ORC poll
-New York Times editorial
-ORC poll
-Possible use in New York Times advertisement
-Attack on critics
-Public support
-Press reports
-Washington Post sports section
-Theodore S. (“Ted”) Williams
	-Support for President’s decision
	-Criticism of Democratics candidates
	-Support for President
	    	-Soviet Union
	    	-Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] Stadium [Washington DC]
	    	-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]'s Today show
		-President's critics
-Language
-William L. Safire
-Telegram from Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason
-Ziegler
-Support for the President’s decision
	-Walt W. Rostow
	-Dock strike
-Rhetoric
					-Memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger regarding Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
	-Propaganda efforts in Vietnam
-Choice of words
	-Speechwriters
	    	-Deficiencies
	-John B. Connally
	-Laird
-Speechwriters
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-[Forename unknown] Brooks (?)
	-Recruitment
		-Mel Grayson
	    	-Frank Gannon
		-Grayson
			-Colson’s view
	-Instructions
		-Grayson

Kissinger entered at 4:15 pm.

-Mines
-A talk by Robert H. Finch
-Atlanta
-Assessment of President's previous speech
-Dick Sykes
-Support for the President
-Televison talk show
-Man-on-the-street
-Kissinger's meeting with Prentis Hale
-Statements
-Roger L. Stevens
-Polls
-Support for President
-Scott
-Ford
-Poll in Pennsylvania
-Polls
-Sindlinger, ORC
-Support for President
-Support for President
-Rhetoric
-Camp David
-Propaganda efforts
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-President's memorandum to Kissinger
-Richard M. Helms
-Competence
-World War II
	-Office of Strategic Services [OSS]
	-Communists
-The President’s view
-Haldeman call to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Propaganda
-Content
	-South Vietnam
	-North Vietnam
-Blockade
-Laird press conference
-Assessment
-Questions
-Demeanor
-Support for President
-Robert P. Griffin and Scott press conference
-ORC poll
-Polls
-Sindlinger
-Press conference
-Level of public support for the President
	-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-New York Times advertisement
-Support for the President

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	Vietnam
-Blockade
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Statement
-James D. Hodgson
-Ziegler
-Cabinet
-President's instructions on statements
-President's previous speech
	-Wording regarding Soviet Union
-Richardson
-Hodgson's statement
-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Responsibility

Colson left at 4:25 pm.

-Soviet ship
-Note of protest
-US apology
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

US-Soviet Summit
-Arrangements
-Advance party
-Cancellation
-President's options
-President's meeting with Nikolai S. Patolichev
-Subjects for discussion
	-Vietnam
-Time

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:25 and 4:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 337-28/339-1A]

[See Conversation No. 24-69]

[End of telephone conversation]

US-Soviet Summit
-Dobrynin's remarks
-President's speech
-Dobrynin's response
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Mood
-Politburo
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Meeting with President
-Tenor
-German treaties
-Delay
-Egon Bahr
-Moscow

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:25 pm.

President's schedule
-A commercial flight
-Time of arrival

An unknown left at an unknown time before 4:45 pm.

Kissinger talked with Dobrynin at an unknown time between 4:25 and 4:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 337-28/339-1B]

[See Conversation No. 24-70]

[End of telephone conversation]

-President's meeting with Patolichev and Dobrynin
-Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan
-Notification
-Time
	-Reason
-Cancellation
-Likelihood
-Peterson
-Patolichev meeting
-Notification
-Subjects for discussion
-German treaties
-Status
-Significance
-Cancellation

Vietnam
-Blockade and mining
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Statement
-Options
-North Vietnam offensive
-Hue
-US air strikes
-Impact
-US-Soviet Summit
-Cancellation or postponement
-Likelihood
-Blockade
-Soviet response
-Hanoi statement
-Soviet ships
-Departure from ports
-Air strikes
-Docks
-Warehouses
-Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants [POL]
-Rails
-Impact on North Vietnam
-Repairs
-Evacuation
-Rationing
-Intensity
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson's 1968 bombing
-Tet offensive
-North Vietnam offensive
-Build-up
-Gains
-An Loc
-Populated areas
-Air strikes in North Vietnam
-1968 Tet offensive
-Cessation by Johnson
-Soviets
-Support for North Vietnam
-Blockade
-Soviets
-PRC

President's meeting with Patolichev and Dobrynin
-Publicity
-Peterson
	-Kissinger’s view

Kissinger's schedule
-Briefing on Vietnam
-John C. Stennis
-Hawks
-Liberal Republican senators
-Day
-Possible appearance by the President

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:25 pm.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:45 pm.

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Liberal Republican senators
-Briefing
-Withdrawal
-Support for the President
-Appearance by the President
	-Rogers and Laird
	-Advisability
		-The President’s view
	-Questions for the President
-Request for briefing by the President
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Steven S. Karalekas
	-Stennis
	-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.
	-John G. Tower
	-Griffin
	-Bryce N. Harlow
	-Margaret Chase Smith
-Kissinger
	-Arrangements
		-Soviet Summit
	    	-Time
-US-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Peterson and Soviet Union trade delegation meeting
-Scheduling
-Cancellation
-Hue
-Possible delay
-Date
-Cancellation
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger left at 4:45 pm.

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:45 and 5:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 337-28/339-1C]

President's schedule
-Sequoia cruise
-A dinner
-Time
-Peterson
-A smaller boat
-Chief of Naval Operations
-Time
-Peterson

[End of telephone conversation]

Sequoia
-Rules of use
-Peterson
-The President’s view
-Use
-President's dinner at the White House
-Changes
-Use by the President
-Use by others

President's schedule
-Camp David
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Sequoia
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Camp David
-Use by others
-Cabinet officers
-Use by the President
-Florida
-Use by others
-John N. Mitchell
-Richardson
-Conflicts with President's use
-Laurel Cabin
-President's trip to California
-Sequoia
-Purpose
-Meeting with senators
-MacGregor
-Advisability
-The President’s view
-Publicity
-Kissinger briefing
-Telephone calls

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Public support
-1972 election
-Duration
-Polls
-Release by Colson
-ORC poll
	-Release to Congressional offices and press
		-Ronald McMahon
	    	-Scott press conference
	    	-Press questions
	-Sindlinger poll
	-Quayle poll
	-ORC

An unknown person entered at an unknown time between 4:45 pm and 5:45 pm.

	Delivery of a note

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:45 and 5:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 337-28/339-1D]

Soviets
-Dinner cancellation
-Reports
-Patolichev
-Health

[End of telephone conversation]

-Confirmation
-Kissinger

[The above portion of the conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 337-28/339-1D]

The unknown peron left at an unknown time between 4:45 pm and 5:45 pm.

Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:45 and 5:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 337-28/339-1E]

-Patolichev
-Reasons
-Meeting between the President and Patolichev
-Dinner cancellation
-Significance

[End of telephone conversation]

-Peterson meeting with Patolichev

Haldeman's schedule
-Meeting with Connally
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Message from Dobrynin

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Senate Republicans
-Meeting with President
-Kissinger briefing
-Public support
-Support for the President
-White House staff
-Initiative
-Harlow
-Public support
-Reasons
	-The President’s efforts
-Republicans
-Charles H. Percy, Richard S. Schweiker
-Constituents

President's schedule
-Sequoia
-New rules for use
-Camp David
-Uses
-Emergency
-Family retreat
-Conferences
-Other locations
-Airlie House
-The Homestead
-The Greenbrier
-Airlie House
-Departmental facilities
-Value to users
-Facilities
-Other locations
-Williamsburg
-Washington
-Sans Souci
-A country club
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Movie Association Center

Social events
-Movie Association
-Arthur F. Burns
-Social activities

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-Kissinger's social activities
-Effect
-Pace of work
-President's pace

Press
-White House News Summary
-President's reading
-New York Times, Washington Post
-President's reading
-Reasons
-Bias
-President's reading
-Duration

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Polls
-Release

Polls
-Sindlinger
-Financial status
-Publicity
-ORC
-The President’s view
-George H. Gallup
-Public polls
-Expense
-Publicity advantages
-ORC
-Louis P. Harris
-Syndication
-Costs
-ORC
-Mutual benefits of White House work
-Sindlinger
-Colson
-Work with Harris and Sindlinger
-News summary
-Harris poll
-Past polls compared with current polls
-Timing of release
-Topics
-Questions
-Gallup poll
-Questions
-John A. Scali
-Republican preferences
-Release
-Work with White House
-Questions

Vietnam
-Support for the President's decision on blockade and mining
-Gallup poll
-Results
-Questions
-Results
-President's peace offer
-Call from James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Kissinger
-Reston column
-President's previous speech on blockade and mining
-Kissinger
-Duration
-News reports on previous speech on blockade and mining
-Military aspect
-Peace offer
-1971 peace offer
-Congress
-A resolution supporting the President's peace offer
-Passage
-Funds cutoff
-Kissinger’s view
-Peace offer
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Ceasefire
-Troop withdrawal
-Congressional approval
-Ceasefire
-Troop withdrawal
-Consequences
-Reston's column
-Congress
-Funds cutoff
-Effect
-US troop withdrawal in Indochina
-Possible ceasefire violations
-Cambodia
-Thailand 
-Laos
-Navy ships
-Bases
-President's peace offer
-Compared with possible Congressional proposal
-Kissinger’s view
-Political settlement
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-The President’s instruction
-Kissinger
-Soviets
-Cancellation of Patolichev dinner
-Significance
-Meeting with the President
-Peterson Dinner
-Maurice H. Stans dinner
-Effect on Sequoia schedule
-Peterson dinner
-Sequoia
-Patolichev, President, and Dobrynin meeting

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.