Conversation No. 337-28/339-1

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

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

[Continued from EOB 337-28]

[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed]

Dinner for Duke Law School classmates
	-President’s lifestyle
	-Compared with unknown person(s)
	-President’s habits
	-President’s appearance
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Age process
	-Drinking habits
	-Working habits
-Classmates
	-Age
	-Suitability for Supreme Court
		-Compared with Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Dean Joseph T. Sneed
	-Supreme Court justice possibility
		-The President’s view
		-Texas
-John D. Ehrlichman's comments
-Public relations advantages
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Female classmates
-Seating
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-JoAnne (Horton) Haldeman
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s view
-Classmates 
	-Reaction

-Supreme Court justices
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-An unknown female classmate
-Appearance

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Forthcoming election
-Henry A. Kissinger's stake in Vietnam blockade
-President's stakes in decision to blockade in Vietnam
	-Compared with Johnson
-Johnson
-Importance of Vietnam for reelection
	-Haldeman’s view
	-John B. Connally’s view
	-William P. Rogers’s view
	-The President’s view
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-McGovern
-Connally’s view
-McGovern's and George C. Wallace's appeal
-Leadership
-Busing
-Constitutional Amendment

Vietnam
-Support for President's actions
-Telegrams and letters
-Liberals
				-Compared with John F. Kennedy and Cuban missile crisis and media liberals
-A Vietnam War veteran
-A Korean War veteran
-A Vietnam War veteran
-Stephen Page
-A military wife
	-Prisoners of War [POWs] and Missing in Action [MIA]
-Young man from Massachusetts
-Presbyterians
-A Vietnamese War veteran
-A soldier
-A family of a deceased Vietnam veteran
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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	-Comments
	-Spanish-American Business Association
	-A Democrat
	-Joseph [surname unknown], Lima, Ohio
	-Young Americans for Freedom
	-Silent Majority
	-Phil and Moiya Lear
	-American Security Council
	-Robert W. Galvin
	-John Fisher
	-Hawks
	-Polls
	-Percentage
	-Jesse Bush, Jr.
	-Disabled American Veterans
	-Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
	-Russell DeYoung
	-Business Council member
	-Total of wires and letters
	-Percent of support
-Polls
-Publicity
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Democrats
	-The President’s view
-Polls
-Charles H. Percy
-Jacob K. Javits

Haldeman left at 5:45 pm.

Conversation No. 339-2

Date:  May 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:45 and 5:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Delivery of an item

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:48 pm.

Conversation No. 339-3

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  6:33-unknown before 7:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

George C. Wallace
	-Assassination attempt
		-The President’s previous prediction
	-Inflammatory rhetoric
		-Compared with Edward M. Kennedy

Kennedy
-Secret Service protection
-Request
-John B. Connally's previous call
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view

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The President left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm.

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:33 and 6:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3A]

[See Conversation No. 24-94]

Haldeman talked with Charles W. Colson at an unknown time.

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 6:33 and 6:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3B]

Unknown person's schedule
-Haldeman's schedule

The President entered at an unknown time after 6:33 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Colson
-Meeting with the President

Wallace
-Condition
-Cornelia Wallace's assessment

Kennedy [John F. or Robert F.?]
-Assassination
-Effect

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Effect on popularity
-Effect on campaign

Colson entered at 6:45 pm.

-Wallace’s effect on people
-Possible third party candidate
-Condition
-Reports
-Location of wounds
-Seriousness
-Location of bullets
-Dr. William M. Lukash
-Assailant's identity
-John D. Ehrlichman
-L. Patrick Gray, III
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Secret Service
	-Call to James J. Rowley
	-President’s request for a report
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-FBI
-Rowley
-President’s request for a report
	-Cover up possibility

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:45 and 7:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3C]

[See Conversation No. 24-95]

[The call was placed on hold]

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Assailant
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
	-Possibility of a Wallace supporter
-Colson’s view
	-Political leaning
-Compared with John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald
-Political leanings
-Oswald
	-Political leanings
		-Media distortion

Vietnam
-News reports
-Blockade
-Effect on South Vietnamese morale
-Press response
-Newsweek, Life and New York Times
-The President's decision
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.’s call

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time.

[Continuation of Conversation No. 339-3C]

[The call was placed on hold]

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Stance of Senators
-Forthcoming vote on funds cut-off
-The President's trip to Soviet Union
-South Vietnamese offensive
-The President's decision
-Effect
-A meeting

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time.

[Continuation of Conversation No. 339-3C]

[The call was placed on hold]

Vietnam
-Blockade
-The President's decision
-Press response
-Soviet Summit

Rowley
	-The President’s view

Blue Room reception
-President's attendance

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time.

[Continuation of Conversation No. 339-3C]

[The call was placed on hold]

Blue Room reception
-Clark M. Clifford
-Derek C. Bok
-Ivy League college presidents
	-The President’s instructions

Haldeman talked with Rowley at an unknown time.

[Continuation of Conversation No. 339-3C]

[End of telephone conversation]

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Report on assailant
-Time

Rowley
-The President’s view

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Assailant
-Custody
-Questioning
-Lawyer
-Press
-Report to the President
-Time

[The above portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 24-95]

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:45 and 7:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3D]

[See Conversation No. 24-96]

[End of telephone conversation]

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-The President’s orders
	-Report to the President
-Press leaks
-Appearance of cover-up
-Compared to John F. Kennedy's assassination
-Secret Service
-Rowley
-The President’s view
-Ehrlichman
	-The President’s instructions
-Investigation
-Secret Service
	-The President’s view
-FBI
-Jurisdiction
-President's orders
-Secret Service
-The President’s view
-Jurisdiction
-Wounded Secret Service agent and Alabama state policeman
-Rowley
-Haldeman’s view
-FBI investigation
-President's orders
-Ehrlichman

[The above portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 24-96]

Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 6:45 and 7:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3E]

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Assailant
-Secret Service reports
-President's concerns
-FBI
-Report to the President
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Richard G. Kleindienst

The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time.

-Investigation
-John F. Kennedy assassination
-Direction
-Rowley
-The President’s view
-White House staff
-Ehrlichman, Krogh
-Assailant
-Questioning
-Communist lawyer
-Custody
-Identity
-Investigation
-The President’s orders
-Ehrlichman
-Secret Service
-FBI
-Gray
-Assailant
-Questioning
-Ehrlichman
-Gray
-Secret Service
-Gray
	-The President’s orders

[End of telephone conversation]

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 6:45 and 7:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3F]

[See Conversation No. 24-97]

Haldeman talked with Kleindienst at an unknown time.

The President talked with Kleindienst at an unknown time.

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 6:45 and 7:07 pm; the President conferred with Haldeman and Colson during the telephone conversation.

[Conversation No. 339-3G]

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Investigation
-The President’s view
-Assailant(s)
-Ages(s)
-Kleindienst's report
-Identity
	-Arthur H. Bremer
-Secret Service
-Location
-Prince George's Hospital, Cheverly, MD
-Kleindienst's view
-Gray
-Investigation
-FBI
-Kleindienst
-The President’s view

[End of telephone conversation]

-Ehrlichman
-Confidence in Secret Service
-FBI
-Connally
-Rowley
-Assailant
-Bremer
-Gun purchase
-Milwaukee
-Location
-Prince George's Hospital, Cheverly, MD
-Jurisdiction
-Montgomery County, MD
-Secret Service
-Investigation
-Confusion
-Ehrlichman's responsibility
-Kleindienst
-Miranda case concerns
-Bremer
-Custody
-Questioning
-Kleindienst
-Ehrlichman
-Effect on forthcoming presidential campaign
-Third party race
-Effect of violence
-Polarizing ability
-Comparison with Robert F. Kennedy assassination
-Responsibility
-New York Times
-Gun control
-Administration action
-Reasons
-Saturday night specials
-Legislation

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:45 and 7:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3H]

[See Conversation No. 24-98]

[End of telephone conversation]

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Extent of injury
-Caliber of weapon
-Visits
-George S. McGovern
	-The President’s view
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-President’s decision
-Call to Mrs. Wallace
-Statement
-Appearance of grandstanding
-Humphrey
-Confusion
-Compared to Houston visit [Apollo 13]
-Statements by Wallace's opponents
-President
-McGovern
-The President’s view
	-Future campaigning activities
-Assassination attempt
-President's call to Mrs. Wallace

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The President talked with the White House operator at 7:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3I]

[See Conversation No. 24-99]

[End of telephone conversation]

Manolo Sanchez
-Call

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 7:37 pm.

Vietnam
-Blockade and mining
-President's previous decision
-Compared with Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt
-Support
-John B. Connally
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Opponents
-Richard M. Helms
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Public opinion
-Rightness
	-The President’s view
-Anticipated success
-Opponents
-Mathias and Charles H. Percy
-Counterattacks
-Soviet summit
-Call from Mathias to Colson
-Public support
-Doves' expectations
-Cambodia, Kent State
-US peace offers
-Cease-fire
-POWs
-Vietnamese government
	-Communism
-President's actions
-Public support

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 7:07 pm.

Sanchez
-Concern for the President

President's trip to Austria, Soviet Summit, Iran and Poland
-Secret Service protection
	-The President’s view
		-Requirements in Soviet Union
	-Compared with Aleksei N. Kosygin
	-Iran
	-Poland
	-The President’s view

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
	-Colson’s previous prediction
-Appeal
-The President’s view
-Compared to McGovern
-Security consciousness
-Compared to Huey P. Long
-Danger to life
-Effect on campaign
-Appeal
-Assassination attempt
-Connally's call to Edward M. Kennedy
	-Offer of Secret Service protection

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 7:07 pm.

Refreshment

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 7:37 pm.

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Thomas J. Kelley talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 7:07 and 7:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3J]

[See Conversation No. 24-100]

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 7:07 pm.

Food
-Quantity

John Cardinal Krol dinner
-Letter
-The President’s view
-Visit
-Mount Vernon
-Meeting with Colson
-Identified
-Trip to Mount Vernon

Murray Kempton
-Article on Vietnam war
	-Press coverage

[End of telephone conversation]

Colson left at an unknown time before 7:37 pm

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Secret Service
-Three teenagers
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 7:37 pm.

-Bremer
-Residence
-Arrest record
-Questioning
-Secret Service, FBI and Prince George's County Police
-Injury
-Identity
-Press knowledge
-Press photograph
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Age
-Kleindienst's report

Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Ehrlichman?] at an unknown time between 7:07 and 7:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3K]

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Bremer
-Identity
-Residence

Colson entered at an unknown time after 7:07 pm.

-Police
-Injury
-Secret Service agent's injury
-Protection

[End of telephone conversation]

-Information
-Reports
-Caliber of weapon
-Delay
	-The President’s view
-Kleindienst
-Investigation 
-FBI
-Kleindienst

Ehrlichman talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 7:07 and 7:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3L]

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Reports
-Kleindienst
-FBI
-The President’s order
-Gray
	-Locations
-W. Mark Felt
-Report to the President
-Frequency
-Purpose

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 7:07 and 7:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3M]

[See Conversation No. 24-104]

[End of telephone conversation]

Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

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HALDEMAN TALKED WITH THE WHITE HOUSE OPERATOR AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BETWEEN 7:07 AND 7:37 PM.

[CONVERSATION NO. 339-3N]

[SEE CONVERSATION NO. 24-105]

[END OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION]

[THE ABOVE PHONE CONVERSATION TOOK PLACE SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE OFFICE CONVERSATION.]

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Nelson A. Rockefeller
-New York Times
-Positions on foreign and domestic policy
-Staff
-Political leanings
-Relations with press

Businessmen
-Donald McI. Kendall’s request
-President's meetings
-Support for President's Vietnam actions
-Kendall
-Rusty Young

Labor
-Support for President's Vietnam actions
-Leonard Woodcock

Peter G. Peterson
-The President’s view
	-Background
-Business ties
-Businessmen
	-Compared with college professors
-The President’s view
-Business Council
-Support for President

Businessmen
-Kendall
-Background
-John W. Mulcahy
-Business Council
-Wealth
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Wealth
-Kendall and Business Council
-Peterson
-The President’s view
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Background
-Kendall
-Previous meeting with the President
-Length
-Peterson
-Colson’s view
-Kendall
-The President’s view
-David Rockefeller
-Business Council
-The President’s view
-Rogers's appearance
	-Topic of peace
		-The President’s view

The President's appointees
-Tone of administration
-George P. Shultz
-Support for President
-George Meany
-Henry A. Kissinger
-President

Support for the President
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Peter J. Brennan
-Hardhats

White House staff
-Needs
-Research staff
-A signing ceremony
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Priest [John J. McLaughlin]

Press
-Battle with the Administration
-Attitude of White House staff
-Price
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Safire
-Herbert G. Klein
-Safire
-The President’s view
-Compared with Rogers
-Ziegler
-Colson's view
-Klein's attitude in previous campaigns
-Effect
-Compared with Ziegler

Allen S. Drury
-New book
-Article

Kleindienst talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 7:07 and 7:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3"O"]

[See Conversation No. 24-106]

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 7:07 and 7:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3P]

Call to Ehrlichman
-Return call

[End of the President's telephone conversation]

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Assailant
-Delay in information
	-The President’s view
-Kleindienst
-Gray
-Pennsylvania
-Connecticut
-Assailant
-Need for information
-The President’s orders for Colson
	-Call to Lukash
	-Need for information
-Need for control of situation
	-Appearance in the press

Colson left at an unknown time before 7:37 pm.

-Kleindienst's reports

[The above portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 24-106]

[End of Haldeman's telephone conversation]

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Assailant(s)
-Number
-Questioning
	-Kleindienst’s efforts
	-Legal problems
-Custody
-Maryland State Police
-Protection
-Charges
-US attorneys
-Kendall
-Gray
-Location
-Connecticut
-Return to Washington, DC
-Comparison with John F. Kennedy assassination investigation
-President's lack of information
	-Wallace’s condition
-Investigation
-Ehrlichman
-Kleindienst
-Press reports
-Vietnam

Rogers
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-Kendall meeting
-Poland trip
	-Possible invitation
-Iran trip
-The President’s view
-Meeting with President
-Compared with Kendall meeting

Peterson
-The President’s view

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at 7:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3Q]

[See Conversation No. 24-107]

Ehrlichman talked with the President between 7:37 and 7:42 pm.

Colson entered at an unknown time after 7:42 pm.

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 7:42 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

George Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Investigation
-Wallace's supporters' demands
-FBI
-The President’s view
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Gray
-Location
-Assailant
-Background
-Wisconsin
-Age
-University of Wisconsin
-Check by Colson's staff
-Age
-Political leanings
-Radical
-Vietnam war
-Possible story
	-The President’s instructions for Colson 
-Questioning about the Vietnam War
-Ehrlichman's report
-The President’s orders
	-Time

Colson talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 7:42 and 7:57 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-3R]

[See Conversation No. 24-108]

[The call was placed on hold]

Unknown person's intelligence

The White House operator talked with Colson at an unknown time.

[Continuation of Conversation No. 339-3R]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman
-Telephone conversation with Haldeman

The President and Colson left at an unknown time before 7:57 pm.

Conversation No. 339-4

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 7:42-8:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

George C. Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Investigation
-Call to Kenneth W. Clawson
-Creation of a story on assailant
-George S. McGovern-Edward M. Kennedy supporter
-Responsibility of left-wing groups
-Charles W. Colson
-Reason

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 7:42 and 7:57 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-4A]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

Colson

Colson entered at an unknown time after 7:47 pm.

Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Condition
-Dr. William M. Lukash's report
	-Prognosis
-Caliber of gun
-Assailant
-Possible release of press story
-McGovern-Kennedy supporter
-Investigation
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Colson's talk with W. Mark Felt
	-Rumors about political affiliation
-Assailant
-Political leanings
-FBI check
-Clawson
-Possible story

Colson talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 7:47 and 7:57 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-4B]

[See Conversation No. 24-111]

Colson conferred with the President at an unknown time.

Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Assailant
-Press story on political leanings
-Clawson
-McGovern-Kennedy supporter

[End of conferral]

Colson talked with an unknown woman in Clawson's office at an unknown time.

Colson talked with Clawson at an unknown time.

[End of telephone conversation]

Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Assailant
-Political leanings
-Clawson
-Veracity
-Call to Wisconsin
-Condition
-Lukash's previous report
-Effect on forthcoming presidential election
-Compared to John F. Kennedy assassination
-The President’s view
	-Assailant
	-Political leanings
		-John Birch Society
-Responsibility
-Assailant
-Political leanings
-Erroneous press reports
-Possible story
-The President’s instructions
	-McGovern-Kennedy supporter
	-Clawson
	-A tip for friend in the press

Colson left at 7:57 pm.

-Authenticity
	-The President’s view
-Punishment
-Other victims
-Secret Service agent
-A secretary
-Weapon
-Caliber
	-The President’s previous weapon in the Navy

William F. (“Billy”) Graham

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 7:57 and 7:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-4C]

[See Conversation No. 24-112]

[End of telephone conversation]

John B. Connally
-The President’s view
	-Media skills

Richard G. Kleindienst talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 7:57 and 7:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-4D]

[See Conversation No. 24-113]

[End of telephone conversation]

Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Assailant
-Questioning
-Time

[The above portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 24-113]

-Kleindienst's report
-Delay
-Local police, press

Colson entered at 7:59 pm.

-Possible story
-Clawson’s view
-University of Wisconsin
-McGovern supporter
-Clawson
-A tip
-Reason
-Possible busing stories
-McGovern's statement
-Weapon
	-Gun control issue
-Secret Service protection for Edward M. Kennedy
-President's call to Connally
-Colson’s view
-Security
-Huey P. Long comparison
-Assassination attempt
-Effect on President's Secret Service protection
	-Soviet Summit trip
	-Effectiveness

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 7:59 and 8:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-4E]

[See Conversation No. 24-114]

[End of telephone conversation]

Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Protection
-Amount
-Effect

The President talked with Connally between 8:02 and an unknown time before 8:04 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-4F]

[See Conversation No. 24-115]

The President talked with Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally at an unknown time.

The President talked with Connally between an unknown time after 8:02 and 8:04 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Wallace
-Condition

Graham

Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Control of investigation
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Questioning of assailant
-Ehrlichman's instructions
	-Bremer’s safety
-Colson's intructions
-Felt
	-Questioning about political leanings
-Reports to President
-Wallace's condition
-FBI interrogation
-Time

Dinner

Haldeman and Colson left at 8:10 pm.

Conversation No. 339-5

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:10 and 9:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Nellie L. Yates.

George C. Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Compared with Robert F. Kennedy assassination
-Secret Service agent's condition
-Assailant

-The President’s view
-Assassination attempt
-Theodore Roosevelt
		-Third party candidacy
		-Possible recovery

W. Mark Felt talked with the President between 8:15 and 8:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-5A]

[See Conversation No. 24-116]

[End of telephone conversation]

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President's travels
-Moscow’s [Soviet] Summit
-Iran
-Previous travels
-Warsaw

Wallace
-Future victories
	-Maryland

Robert F. Kennedy

John B. Connally
-Wounding in John F. Kennedy assassination

	Wallace
		-Assassination attempt
			-Responsibility

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Yates left at an unknown time before 9:16 pm.

Conversation No. 339-6

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:18 and 9:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 24-117]

Conversation No. 339-7

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:18 and 9:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 24-118]

Conversation No. 339-8

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:18 and 9:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 24-119]

Conversation No. 339-9

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:18 and 9:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 24-120]

Conversation No. 339-10

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  9:16-9:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 24-121]

Conversation No. 339-11

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:19 and 9:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 24-122]

Conversation No. 339-12

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:19 and 9:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 24-123]

Conversation No. 339-13

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  9:23-9:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 24-124]

Conversation No. 339-14

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  9:25-9:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

[See Conversation No. 24-125; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation.]

Conversation No. 339-15
Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  9:29-9:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 24-126]

Conversation No. 339-16

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:35 and 9:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 24-127]

Conversation No. 339-17

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  9:36-9:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 24-128]

Conversation No. 339-18

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  9:40-9:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Dr. William M. Lukash.

[See Conversation No. 24-129]

Conversation No. 339-19

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  9:44-9:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ann Duggan.

[See Conversation No. 24-130; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation.]

Conversation No. 339-20

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:45 and 9:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

President's office
-Blinds

Manolo Sanchez
-Health

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:48 pm.

Conversation No. 339-21

Date:  May 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 and 3:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

An unknown item
-Retention

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:20 pm.

Conversation No. 339-22

Date:  May 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 and 3:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Tapes

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:20 pm.

Conversation No. 339-23

Date:  May 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 and 3:20 pm 
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vietnam
-President's orders
-Responsibility
-Departmental bureaucracies
-Weapons for South Vietnam
-Defense Department
-Consequences
-Psychological warfare program
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], Richard M. Helms
-The President’s view
-Defense Department
-Staff
-The President’s view
-Robert S. McNamara
-Meeting with Kissinger
-B-52 deliveries
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Trip to Southeast Asia
-Bombing in North Vietnam
-Air Force performance
-The President’s view
-Responsibility

-Hanoi-Haiphong area
-Jurisdiction
-Targets
-Discipline
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Air Force
-CIA
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Chiefs of Staff
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Ellsworth F. Bunker

Instructions to Rose Mary Woods
-Copies
-Haig
-Kissinger

Conversation No. 339-24

Date:  May 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 and 3:20 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 3:20 pm.

Conversation No. 339-25

Date:  May 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 and 3:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Dictation
-Delivery to unknown woman

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:20 pm.

Conversation No. 339-26

Date:  May 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 and 3:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown woman.

Dictation
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger

Forthcoming trip
	-Soviet Summit

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 3:20 pm.

Conversation No. 339-27

Date:  May 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 and 3:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

An unknown person
-Location
-Return call

Conversation No. 339-28

Date:  May 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 and 3:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 24-159]

Conversation No. 339-29

Date:  May 19, 1972
Time:  3:20-3:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 24-160]

Conversation No. 339-30

Date:  May 19, 1972
Time:  3:25-4:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President's schedule
-President's reception for press
-William P. Rogers’s invitation
	-Reason
-Length

Henry A. Kissinger

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-The President’s view
-Compared with Patrick J. Buchanan
-Compared with John B. Connally

President's schedule
-Visit to George C. Wallace
-An unknown person
-Comments on Soviet summit

US-Soviet Union summit
-Response of American people
-Kissinger
-Speeches
-President's call to an unknown person
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Others on trip
-Adele Rogers
-Trip to Poland, Europe, Soviet Union
-The President’s view

-Patricia R. Mosbacher
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Adele Rogers
-William Rogers

Senate
-Charles W. Colson
-Clark MacGregor
-Gordon L. Allott
-John W. Dean, III [?]
-William M. Magruder[?]
-Comments on summit
-Effects of President's previous speech on the blockade
-Administration effort
-Reason
-Press veracity

Parties during Soviet summit trip
-Rose Mary Woods
-Attendance
-Salzburg
-A helicopter

Black lung legislation
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Robert C. Byrd
-President's signing
-Cost
-President's position on veto
-Compared with day-care center legislation

National Security Council [NSC]

John B. Connally
-Resignation

George P. Shultz
-The President’s view

President's trip to the Soviet Union
-Briefing books
	-Kissinger
-William Rogers's role
-The President’s view
	-Haldeman’s view
-Plenary session
-Kissinger's role
-William Rogers's role
-Signing ceremonies
-The President’s role
-Kissinger
-William Rogers
-Gifts
-Cadillac
-General Motors [GM]
-Hydrofoil
-Publicity
-General Motors
-Value
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-William Rogers
-Environment
-Stories

President's schedule
-Visit to George C. Wallace
-Agnew
-Wallace's condition
-Cornelia Wallace
-President's previous call
-George Wallace 
	-The President’s view
		-Compared with George S. McGovern
			-Patriotism
				-Haldeman’s view

Busing issue
-Edwin L. Harper
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Buchanan
-Political connotations
-President's position on integration

Soviet Summit
	-Public support

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:25 and 3:49 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-30A]

[See Conversation No. 24-161]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally's trip
-Presidential plane
-Staff

The President talked with Connally between 3:49 and 3:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 339-30B]

[See Conversation No. 24-162; two items have been withdrawn from this conversation.]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally's trip
-Florence, Italy
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally

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President's schedule
-Camp David

Haldeman left at 4:03 pm.