Conversation No. 340-1

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  1:12 pm - 1:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule

Butterfield left at 1:13 pm.

Conversation No. 340-2

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:13 pm and 1:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown woman.

The unknown woman’s schedule
-A dinner
-A telephone call
-John B. Connally trip

Zosimo T. Monzon entered at an unknown time after 1:13 pm.

Monzon’s schedule

Monzon left at an unknown time before 1:19 pm.

Manolo Sanchez 
	-The President’s view
	-Trip to Florida

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-Mood
-Reaction to President's visit

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 1:19 pm.

Conversation No. 340-3

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  1:19 pm - 1:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
	-Reception for US Senate and Mexican delegation
		-Additional attendees

Butterfield left.

Conversation No. 340-4

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  1:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator; the discontinuities in this conversation appear in the original recording.

[See also Conversation No. 24-151]

Conversation No. 340-5

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  1:20 pm - 1:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler; the discontinuities in this conversation appear in the original recording.

[See also Conversation No. 24-168]

Conversation No. 340-6

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:22 pm and 3:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

The President’s schedule
	-Time

Unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:03 pm.

Conversation No. 340-7

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  9:20 am – 9:21 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with David C. Hoopes.  The discontinuities in this conversation appear in the original recording.

Buzzer system
-President's instructions

Hoopes left at 9:21 am.

Conversation No. 340-8

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:21 am and 9:58 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum.

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Conversation No. 340-9

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:21 am and 9:58 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to John B. Connally.

Method of delivery
	-Venezuela

Connally's trip
-President's views

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:21 am.

A box

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:58 am.

Connally's trip
-President's previous travels
-Colombia
-Brazil
	-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Bolivia
-Peru
-Luncheon at the White House for wife of the President
-Earthquake
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Argentina
-New Zealand
-Australia
-Courtesy call to former Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies
	-The President’s suggestion
-Vietnam
-Saigon

-Hanoi
-Other trips
-Malaysia
-Singapore
-Lee Kuan Yew 
-Cambodia
	-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Angkor Wat
	-North Vietnamese
-Iran
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
		-Moscow trip
-India
-Pakistan
-[Pope Paul VI] Giovanni Battista Motini

President's instructions
-Letters from the President
-Connally's role
	-The President’s recent trip to the Soviet Union
-Theme for Connally's trip
-Economic and political power centers
-US
-Western Europe
-Soviet Union
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Japan
-Industrial strength
-Defense capacity
-Military
-World resources
	-Development
		-Italy
-President's interests
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Allies

	Connally’s trip
		-New York Times, Washington Post

Conversation No. 340-10

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:21 am and 9:58 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to John N. Mitchell.

Instructions
-Copies to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Charles W. Colson

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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:21 am.

Domestic policy
-Haldeman
-Books
	-Alexander P. Butterfield

President's schedule
-Camp David
	-Delivery of books

Unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:58 am.

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Conversation No. 340-11
Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:21 and 9:58 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown woman.

Tapes
	-Dictations
	-Marjorie P. Acker
	-Rose Mary Woods

President's previous trip

Key Biscayne
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Weather

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 9:58 am.

Conversation No. 340-12

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:21 and 9:58 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Media and left-wing
-Tactics
-The President’s view
-South Vietnamese
-Cambodia
-Reporters
-The President’s view
-New York Times stories
-South Vietnam recession
-Cambodia
	-Craig Whitney
	-Anthony Lewis
	-Reports from Hanoi
	-The President’s view
-Selig Harrison 
-Writing in Hanoi
-The President’s view
-Propoganda
-1972 election
-Statements from administration
-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-Efforts to discredit
-Harrison 
-Lewis
-Charles W. Colson

-Kenneth W. Clawson
	-Statement on Lewis’s background
-Administration liberals
-Possible statement on Harrison’s background

Copies of memorandum
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Colson

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Conversation No. 340-13

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:21 am and 9:58 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown woman.

Marjorie P. Acker
	-Tape

The unknown woman’s schedule

Florida trip by the President
-Weather
	-Manolo Sanchez
	-Physical condition

Conversation No. 340-14

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:21 am and 9:58 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See also Conversation No. 25-8]

Conversation No. 340-15

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  9:58 am - 10:15 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John Cardinal Krol.

[See also Conversation No. 25-9; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation.]

Conversation No. 340-16

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:15 am and 10:26 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?].  The discontinuities in this conversation appear in the original recording.

Availability of unknown person [Haldeman?]

Conversation No. 340-17

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:15 and 10:26 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger.

Poland
	-President's previous talk with Edward Gierek
-Freedom of religion
		-Catholic leaders
		-Compared with Soviet Union
-Domestic reaction in US
-John Cardinal Krol
		-Possible trip to Poland
-Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
		-Possible trip to US
-Exclusion of State Department
-Economic issues

Conversation No. 340-18

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  10:26 am-12:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Weather 
	-Florida
	-Camp David

	-Key Biscayne
	-Palm Springs
-Plans
	-Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
	-John V. Brennan
	-Unknown person
-Key Biscayne
-Palm Springs
-San Clemente
-Henry A. Kissinger's visit
	-John B. Connally
-The President's church visit
-Press story
	-John A. Huffman, Jr.
-Reception
-Miami Herald
-Crowd sizes
-Camp David
-Haldeman’s schedule

Connally
-Forthcoming trip
-The President’s view
-Connally in San Clemente
-Story
-Foreign policy tour
	-Additional countries
		-South America, Iran
-Iran
	[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
		-Oil
-Connally's talk with President
	-Politics
-Charles W. Colson
-Connally's advice
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Connally's comments about: the President
-President's visibility
	-Forthcoming presidential election

The President's public relations efforts
-Car accident related by Haldeman
-June schedule
-Opportunities
-Public events
-Connally's advice
-Low visibility
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Foreign policy emphasis
	-Treaties
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers

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-Press conferences
	-The President’s view
-Convention schedule
-Lions International
	-Mexico City
-Rotary convention in Houston
-Jaycee convention
				-President's recent trips to the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Domestic issues
-Politics
-Colson's advice
-Haldeman’s view
-Schedule commitments
-PRC trip
-Follow-up
	-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
	-John A. Scali
	-Rogers
-Kissinger’s actions
	-Public relations
-Rogers
-Soviet Union trip
-Kissinger's advice
-Question and answer [Q&A] sessions
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] talks
-The President’s possible meeting with Kissinger

Media
-Democrats
-The President’s memoranda
-Washington Post
-The President’s view
-Communist plot
-Cambodia
-Vietnam

President's public relations efforts
-Colson's advice
-Compared with Connally
-Jaycee convention
	-Preparation
		-Atlanta
-President's visibility
	-Television
-President's demeanor
-Poland
	-Haldeman’s view
-John Cardinal Krol
-Memorandum to Kissinger
-Poland
-Colson's advice
-Need for press conference
-Press conferences
-Ehrlichman's advice
-Memoranda
-Domestic issues
-Connally's view of domestic issues
-Establishment
-Governors
	-1970 election

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-Ehrlichman’s advice
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Connally’s advice
-Domestic issues
-Constitutional amendment on busing
-Amnesty
-Taxes
-Budget cuts

	Justice Department
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Deputy Attorney General opening
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Mitchell
-Confirmation

	Treasury Department
-George P. Shultz confirmation
-Ceremony
	-Kleindienst

Justice Department
-Angela Y. Davis trial
-Haldeman’s view
-Jurors
	-Action
-The President's view
-McGovern

The President's public relations efforts
-Ehrlichman's views
-Press conference
-Return from the Soviet Union
	-Q&A
	-Public impression
		-Helicopter
-Democrats
-Press conference
-Compared to speech
	-Television
-Television
-Timing
-Schedule
-Television
-Planning
-Office conference
-Forthcoming meeting with Luis Alvarez Echeverria
-Office conference
-Television conference
	-California
-Democrats
-Speeches
-Rotary
-Jaycees
	-Preparation
-Rotary
-Kissinger's schedule
	-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. testimonial
		-Clark MacGregor
		-Japan
		-Soviet Union trip
		-Kleindienst
		-Charles H. Percy
-Speech
-Rotary
-Texas
-Television coverage
-Crowd
-Astrodome
-Houston

The President's schedule
	-Connally
		-Ranch
		-The President’s view
-Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Shultz
-Attitude
-Rotary speech
	-International meeting
		-Advantages
	-Rogers
-Party for World War II Navy veterans
	-South Pacific Air Combat Transport [SCAT]
	-Cancellation
-Camp David
	-Mexican delegation
-Astronauts
-Meeting with the President
-Possible trip to Florida
-Rotary speech
-Timing
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Echeverria
-Jaycee's speech
-The President's opinion
	-Rogers
-Haldeman's opinion
-Mathias
-Kleindienst
-Rotary speech
-McGovern’s possible attendane
-National Association of Counties request
-The President’s decision
-Revenue sharing
-Agnew
-California trip
-Camp David
-Barry M. Goldwater at Bethesda Naval Hospital
	-Kissinger

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 12:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 340-18A]

Location of Goldwater
-Call to Colson

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's public relations efforts
-Speeches
-Rotary International
-Astrodome
-Membership described
-Rotary speech
	-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
		-Compared with John K. Andrews, Jr.
	-Use of previous Russian speech
		-The President’s view
			-Themes
-Themes
	-Previous speech as Vice President
	-Changes in foreign relations
		-PRC
		-Soviet Union
	-Hopes for peace
	-Vietnam
-Writers
-Price
-Length
-Content
-Previous Soviet Union television address
		-Use of portion about girl named Tanya
			-Tanya’s diary
-PRC
-North Vietnam
-Price
-Schedule
-Draft deadline
-Content
-The President’s view
		-Partisanship
		-American strength
-Possible attendees
-McGovern
-Jaycees speech
-Agnew’s role
-Price
-Press conferences
-The President’s decision
-Haldeman's views
-Timing
-Key Biscayne
-California trip

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 12:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 340-18E]

	The President’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 12:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 340-18B]

[See also Conversation No. 25-10]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 12:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 340-18C]

[See also Conversation No. 25-11]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman's telephone call
-Richardson
-Higher education report
-Busing position
-Importance
-Richardson's reaction
-Richardson’s schedule
	-Japan
	-Meeting with the President
		-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Ehrlichman
-Schedule
		-Richardson
			-Testimony

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-President's plans
-Weather
-Swearing-in ceremony
-Kleindienst
-Shultz
-Camp David
-Executive Committee of National Governors Conference
-Conference
-Possible meeting
-Revenue sharing, welfare reform
-County officials
-Governors Conference
-Executive Committee
-Russell B. Long
-Agnew’s suggestion
-Revenue sharing
	-Long
	-George H. Mahon

Congress
-Melvin R. Laird's supplemental for Vietnam
-Revenue sharing supplement

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John S.D. Eisenhower
-Declassification
	-Ehrlichman’s role
-Possible meeting with Laotian Guerrilla Leader, General Vang Pao
	-Kissinger
-Possible meeting with Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Sultan
	-Memorandum from Rose Mary Woods
-Laird invitation
-Press conference
-King Faisal [Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud]
-President's press conference
-Office press conference
-Schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Nature of foreign visits
	-Dinners
-Arthur F. Burns
-Shultz
-Media
-Television anchorman
-Kissinger's opinions
-President's press conference
-Moscow

Staff to testify
-Kissinger
	-John A. Scali
-Herbert G. Klein
-Gerard C. Smith
-Kissinger
-SALT
	-Smith
-Blair House

President's public relations efforts
-Media
-Price
-Views
-Radio
-Rotary speech
-Radio
-Television
-Charity

Foreign relations
-SALT negotiations
-Kissinger's position
-Haldeman’s meeting with Colson [?]
-US News and World Report article
-Price

The President's schedule
-Meeting with an unknown person
-Soviet trip

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 12:23 pm. 

[Conversation No. 340-18D]

Kissinger's schedule
-Camp David
-Departure time
-Meeting with President
- US News and World Report article
-Discussion

[End of telephone conversation]

Goldwater
	-Schedule

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 12:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 340-18F]

	Goldwater’s schedule
-Raymond P. Shafer [?]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Goldwater
-Possible visit
-President's opinion
-George C. Wallace
	-Possible visit
-Timing
-Publicity

Wallace
-Health

Staff
-Secretarial coverage
	-Alexander P. Butterfield
		-Woods
-Key Biscayne
-Schedule
-Work
-Woods
	-Key Biscayne

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	Unknown person
		-Hagerstown, Maryland

Photographs
-Previous trip to Florida 
-Associated Press [AP] and United Press International [UPI] wires

The President's schedule
-Florida

Ronald L. Ziegler
-President's views

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President's schedule
-Camp David
-Departure
-Weather

Haldeman left at 12:23 pm.

Conversation No. 340-19

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:23 and 12:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:26 pm.

Conversation No. 340-20

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  12:26-12:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See also Conversation No. 25-13; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation.]

Conversation No. 340-21

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 and 1:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

White House staff
	-Weekend

Florida
-Weather

Conversation No. 340-22

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 and 1:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

	Manolo Sanchex
		-Use of crutches
		-Location
			-Florida
				-Dogs

Unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:41 pm.

Conversation No. 340-23

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 pm and 1:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

Refreshments

Unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:41 pm.

Conversation No. 340-24

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 and 1:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

Unknown items
	-Location
	-Delivery

The President and the unknown man left at 1:41 pm.