Conversation No. 342-1

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 and 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

[Unintelligible]

Unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm.

Conversation No. 342-2

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 and 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

[Unintelligible]

Unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm.

Conversation No. 342-3

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 and 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 343-4

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 and 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter to an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

A book by unknown person
-Copies for staff

Conversation No. 342-5

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 and 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person..

The President's schedule
-Meeting

Conversation No. 342-6

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  2:50-unknown before 4:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at 2:50 pm

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Haldeman left at an unknown time after 2:50 pm.

Haldeman entered at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

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The President's schedule
-Thursday
-The President's meeting with the president of Mexico

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Domestic issues
-Television
-Schedule
-Congressional adjournment

President's schedule
-Ziegler
-Forthcoming press conference
-Timing
-William P. Rogers press conference
-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Press Club
-Meetings
-Jacob K. Javits
-Conference

Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Release
-Problems
-Charles W. Colson

The President's forthcoming press conference
-Foreign policy
-US News and World Report article

The President's schedule
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kleindienst
-Personality
-John N. Mitchell
-Senate confirmation
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Domestic issues
-Cabinet meeting
-Photographs
-Arthur F. Burns
-Council of Economic Advisers [CEA]
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Warren P. Burger
-John Cardinal Krol

	Public relations
		-Publicity
-Soviet Union trip
-Reception
	-Signing ceremony
-Kiev
-Meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
	-The President’s schedule
-Tehran
-Warsaw
-The American School
-Business community
-Peoples Republic of China [PRC] trip 
-Tehran luncheon
		-Leningrad

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Haldeman spoke with the White House operator.

[Conversation No. 342-6A]

[See Conversation No. 25-57]

[End of telephone conversation]

1972 Campaign
-Frederick C. LaRue
-Mitchell
-LaRue
-The President’s view
-Peter O'Donnell [?]

Haldeman spoke with the White House operator.

[Conversation No. 342-6B]

[See Conversation No. 25-57]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

Haldeman talked with LaRue.

[Conversation No. 342-6C]

[See Conversation No. 25-57]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:30 pm.

	President’s forthcoming press conference
-Clark MacGregor
-J. William Fulbright
	-Timing
	-Coverage
-MacGregor
-Transcripts
-Radio program
-State department
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Defense Department
-White House
-Format
-MacGregor
-Master of ceremonies
-Identity of Questioner
	-Radio
-Congressmen
-Kissinger
-Fulbright
-John C. Stennis

White House briefing compared with congressional hearing
-MacGregor
-Executive privilege
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-MacGregor
-Radio broadcast
-President as master of ceremonies
-Typing in press room
-Defense Department
-CIA
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-Press Room
-Congress
-Transcripts
-Ziegler
-Timing

Haldeman left at 3:35 pm.

-President’s foreign policy efforts
-Arms control
-SALT
-William C. Foster
-Administration’s accomplishments
-John F. Kennedy
-George P. Shultz

The President's schedule
-Meeting with President of Mexico

Foreign Relations Committee compared to Armed Services Committee

Press conference
-Scheduling
-Press Club
-Kleindienst

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 342-6D]

Haldeman's location

[End of telephone conversation]

Press conference

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Moscow
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
    -Effort
	-Television
-May 8th decision
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-MacGregor
-Possibility of international incident
    -North Vietnamese
-George S. McGovern statement
-Bombing halt

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

[Conversation No. 342-6E]

[See Conversation No. 25-58]

[End of telephone conversation]

SALT
-Importance

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-William J. Porter
-Timing
-Hanoi
-PRC
-Bombing
-Weather
-The President’s previous trip to PRC
-Draftees in war
-Negotiations
-US credibility
-Hanoi
-Resolution to end the war
-Impact on negotiations
-Plenary sessions
-Dates
-Advantages
-Scheduling
-Private meeting
-Bombing
-Timing
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Cease fire
-Negotiating position

Ambassadors
-India
-Pakistan

John B. Connally

William P. Rogers

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Domestic impact
-Impact of election
-Xuan Thuy

Camp David

Format for press conference

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 4:14 pm.

Conversation No. 342-7

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:49 and 4:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-59]

Conversation No. 342-8

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  4:14-4:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 25-60]

Conversation No. 342-9

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  4:17-5:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

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[Duration:  5m 52s  ]

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	Vietnam
		-George S. McGovern
			-Statement
				-North Vietnam
				-Washington Post
		-Press conferences
	-Televised coverage
-The President's previous meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Private Talks
	-John C. Stennis
	-US position
	-Nickolai V. Podgorny's trip to Hanoi
	-Purpose
	-Outcome

	Henry A. Kissinger
		-Peking Trip
			-Forthcoming announcement
				-Meeting with Chou En-lai

	Vietnam
-Negotiations
	-US position
-Bombing, mining
	-Impact
	-North Vietnamese offensive
		-An Loc
-US public opinion
	-Support for the President’s policies
-Negotiations
	-Timing
-Democratic Convention
	-Platform
	-Negotiations
		-Public opinion poll
		-Effect on Democrats
-Television appearance by President
	-Timing
-Michael J. Mansfield’s statements
	-The President’s view

	Arms control
-Kissinger's briefing
	-Trip to Peking
		-Vietnam
		-Timing
-Armed Services Committee
-Foreign Relations Committee
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Kissinger’s role
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Gerald C. Smith
-Disarmament
-Kissinger’s briefing
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Question session
	-Length
-President's schedule
	-Mexican President Luis Alvarez Echeverria
-Kissinger’s briefing
	-Credit for arms agreement
		-White House
		-State Department
		-Arms Control Agency
			-Congressional reaction
		Stennis
		-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
		-J. William Fulbright
		-Jackson
		-Hugh Scott
	-Media reaction
	-Television cameras
	-Networks
	-Kissinger
	-Length of briefing
	-Wire stories
		-Colson’s view
		-Arrangements
		-Camera work
		-Options for setting
			-President

	Use of administration officials
-The President’s view
	-Haldeman
-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Press conference
-John N. Mitchell
-Kleindienst
	-The President’s view
	-Public statements
		-Busing
		-Law and order issue

	Discrimination and private clubs
-Blacks
-Jews
	-Hillcrest Country Club, Los Angeles
	-Woodmont Club
-Italians
-Poles
-Knights of Columbus
-Masons
-Kiwanis Clubs
-Masons

	Role of Kleindienst
-Public statements
-Bar associations
	-Appearances
-Busing
	-Ohio
	-Pittsburgh
-Higher education bill
	-Moratorium
-Boston

	Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's schedule
-Republican fund raisers
-Ethnic groups
-Michael P. Balzano
-Italians
-Poles
-Lithuanians
-Poles
-Arrangement
-Commentary on busing

	Busing
-John D. Ehrlichman's speeches
-Televised formats
-Presentation of administration position

	Major issues
		-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case

	Vietnam
-McGovern
	-Vietnam policy
		-Amnesty
		-The President’s view
	-Raymond A. Gallagher
		-Concerned Veterans Committee
			-Letter
			-Funding
			-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
			-Activities
			-Funding
	-Vietnam policy
		-Hubert H. Humphrey
	-Jay Rosenman [sp?]
	-Al Barkan
	-Publicity of McGovern's opponent
	-Accusations
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Mitchell
-Robert H. Finch
-Agnew
-Robert C. Dole
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Positions
	-Republican response
		-Amnesty
		-Letters
-North Vietnamese

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[Duration:  1m 14s  ]

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		-Campaign practices
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Speeches
-McGovern
- Robert [Surname unintelligible]
-Mitchell
-Unions
		-Balzano
		-Labor support
-Mitchell
		-Haldeman

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[Duration:  3m 7s  ]

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	Congressional leaders
		-Gerald R. Ford
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Everett M. Dirksen
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dirksen

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[Duration:  58s  ]

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	Personnel
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Leadership needs
-Murray M. Chotiner
-Magruder
	-Robert C. Odle, Jr.

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[Duration:  29s  ]

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-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Mitchell
-Decision-making
-Robert S. McNamara
-Mitchell
-Philosophy
-McGovern watch
-Secret service
-Victor Lasky
-Theodore H. White

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[Duration:  5m 1s  ]

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-Republican campaign funds reporting
-Mitchell
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Colson
-Bob [Surname unknown]
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Jeno F. Paulucci
-[Forename unknown] Ellsworth
-Sources

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[Duration:  1m 59s  ]

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-Issues of McGovern's campaign
-Defense
-Amnesty
-POWs
-Amnesty
-Abraham Lincoln
-Policy

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[Duration:  11m 52s  ]

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	The President's veto of legislation
-Buchanan
-Water bill
-Cost
-Mitchell's support
-Cost
-Jobs

	Congressional spending
-Limits
-Social Security
-Water bill
-Veto
-Education bill
-Veto
-Welfare
-House Resolution [H R] 1
-The President's veto
-Elliot L. Richardson
-The President’s view

The President talked with Haldeman.

[Conversation No. 342-9A]

[See Conversation No. 25-61]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Congress
-Fulbright
-Jackson
-Welfare bill
-President's veto
-Herman E. Talmadge amendments
-Los Angeles
-George P. Shultz
-Position 

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[Duration:  51s  ]

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-Organization
-Magruder
-Haldeman

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:17 pm.

	The President's schedule
-Briefcase

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm.

	1972 Campaign
-Organization
-Problems
-Reliability

	Rogers
-Kissinger

	Press conference

The President and Colson left at 5:38 pm.

Conversation No. 342-10

Date:  Unknown between June 13 and 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 5:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

	The President's briefcase
-Contents

The recording cut off at an unknown time before 10:20 am, June 20, 1972.

Conversation No. 342-11

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:20 and 10:25 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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[Duration:  12s  ]

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Unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:25 am.

Conversation No. 342-12

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  10:25-11:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

	Edward L. Morgan
-Performance 
-Cabinet officers
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Richard G. Kleindienst

	Education bill veto
-Casper W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
	-Funding
	-Busing
-President's proposed veto
	-Morgan’s view
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Richardson
-Welfare reform
-Higher education
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

	Welfare reform
		-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting
			-Wallace F. Bennett
	-Russell B. Long
	-Richardson
	-Abraham A. Ribicoff bill
	-James D. Hodgson
-Democratic convention

	Higher education bill veto
-Richardson

-Future appointment
	-Supreme Court

	Supreme Court ruling on wiretapping
-Votes of members
-The President’s previous press conference
-Number of taps
-John F. Kennedy 
-Robert F. Kennedy
		-Public relations
			-Possible statement
-Domestic groups
-Administration actions 
-Involvement with foreign governments
-National security
		-Possible White House statement on wiretapping
			-The President’s view
-Number of taps
-Reduction
	-John Kennedy Administration
		-Robert Kennedy
-Limitations
	-Nixon Administration
		-National security
-The President’s view
	-Public perception
-Ehrlichman
-Possible language
-J. Edgar Hoover
-L. Patrick Gray, III
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kleindienst
-John Kennedy
-Robert Kennedy
-Number of taps

	Higher education veto
-Funding
-Weinberger
-Richardson
-The President’s view
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Robert H. Finch
-Southern schools
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming briefing
	-The President’s forthcoming briefing
	-Busing
-Press conference
-President's concern 
-Haldeman
-Hubert H. Humphrey
	-Edith Efron’s book
-Press
-The President’s view
-Press conferences
-Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Congressional leaders
-Press
	-Timing of Ehrlichman’s briefing
-Timing of signing
-Congress
-Busing
	-Veto
		-Higher education
-Detroit
	-Court ruling

	Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County School Board Supreme Court decision
		-The President’s view
-Desegregation
-Busing
-Warren E. Burger's opinion
-De facto segregation
-Racial balance requirement
	-De jure segregation
-Stephen J. Roth
-Robert R. Merhige
	-Richmond, Virginia
-Roth's busing order
-Racial balance
	-Detroit
-De jure basis
-Michigan politics
-George S. McGovern

	Desegregation study at Harvard University
-Morgan's analysis
-The President’s view
-Original study's author
-James S. Coleman
-Historical background
-Roy Wilkins
-Meeting with Ehrlichman

	Higher education bill
-Veto possibility
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-Busing amendments
-Deficiencies
-Timing of decision
-Provisions of bill
	-Busing
	-Higher education
	-The President’s view
-Attorney general's opinion

	Detroit desegregation case
-Morgan
-Position 
-Nashville case
-Comparison of issues
-James G. O'Hara
-Amendments to bill
-Administration policy
-Roth's response
-Options
-Morgan's position
-Justice Department policy
-Morgan’s health
-The President’s view
-Future work
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

The President talked with White House operator.

[Conversation No. 342-12A]

[See Conversation No. 25-72]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Higher education bill
		-Possible veto

The President talked with Morgan.

[Conversation No. 342-12B]

[See Conversation No. 25-73]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Morgan
		-Health

	Higher education bill
-Possibility of signing
-President's response
-Busing
-Kleindienst
-Busing
-Assignment of lawyer

	Roth's judicial strategy [Detroit busing case]
-Final order
-Timing
-Administration response
		-Moratorium
-Civil rights groups
-Detroit school system
	-Roth’s possible actions
		-Possible appeals

	Higher education bill
-Robert P. Griffin
-Richardson
-Busing
-Tactics
-Weinberger
-The President’s views on busing

	Moratorium on busing
-Roman C. Pucinski
-Charles H. Percy, Jr.
-Equal Opportunities Act
-Committee action

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	Higher education bill
-Possible veto statement
-Richardson
-Busing
-Ehrlichman’s view
-The President’s view
	-Wording
		-Judicial review
-Griffin
-Richardson

	Stockholm Environmental conference
-Russell E. Train's report
-White House Statement
-Chinese opinion
-United Nations [UN]

	Revenue sharing bill
-Carl B. Albert
-Possible letter from the President
	-The President’s view
-Prospects in the House
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Long
-Fate of bill
	-Funds
-Welfare reform

	Welfare reform bill
-Strategy
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-The President’s view
-President's position
-Changes
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-Richardson
-Democratic platform
-George S. McGovern's position
-Shortcomings
-Position
-Shortcomings
-Weinberger's view
-Negotiations
	-Comparison with international diplomacy
	-Soviet Union
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Comparison with labor negotiations
	-H.R. 1 as a compromise
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Ribicoff

	National security
-Problems
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-State Department
-Press
-John B. Connally

[Note:  The following portion of this conversation was recorded in November 1973 by the White House and played in open court on November 27, 1973.  See Record Group [RG] 21, Miscellaneous 47-73, Exhibit 63.  There is no transcript available]

	Press conferences
-Press
	-Cabinet officers
-Higher education
	-Ehrlichman
-Questions
-Format
-The President's relations with the press
	-Response
-Public’s view
-Press
	-Intellectuals
	-Interviews
		-Formats
			-Ehrlichman
-Benefits
	-Formats
		-Richard A. Moore’s view
			-The public
		-Location
	-Press
		-Views of intellectuals
		-Richard M. Scammon

	1972 campaign
		-Speeches
			-McGovern
				-Staff
			-Issues
				-Delivery
			-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
				-Ideas
		-Democratic convention
			-Delegates
		-Media
			-White House staff
			-1968 campaign
				-Hubert H. Humphrey
				-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
				-James Keogh’s view
			-Godfrey Sperling, Jr.
				-McGovern
					-Humphrey

	Press stories
		-Newspapers
		-Television
-Pentagon Papers

Ehrlichman left at 11:20 am.

Conversation No. 342-13

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:20 and 11:26 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with unknown man.

[Note:  This conversation was also recorded in November 1973 by the White House and played in open court on November 27, 1973.  See Record Group [RG] 21, Miscellaneous 47-73, Exhibit 63.  There is no transcript available]

	Soup

	Vacation

		-Unknown man’s schedule

Unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:26 am.

Conversation No. 342-14

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:20 and 11:26 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[Note:  The following portion of this conversation was also recorded in November 1973 by the White House and played in open court on November 27, 1973.  See Record Group [RG] 21, Miscellaneous 47-73, Exhibit 63.  There is no transcript available]

	John D. Ehrlichman
-Meeting
-Higher education bill

	Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 342-15

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:20 and 11:26 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

[Note:  The following portion of this conversation was also recorded in November 1973 by the White House and played in open court on November 27, 1973.  See Record Group [RG] 21, Miscellaneous 47-73, Exhibit 63.  There is no transcript available]

	Dictating machines
-Walker's Cay
-Air Force One
-The President's preference

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:26 am.

Conversation No. 342-16

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  11:26 am-12:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[The discontinuities in this conversation appear in the original recording.]

[Note:  A portion of this conversation was also record in November 1973 and played in open court on November 27, 1973.  See Record Group [RG] 21, Miscellaneous 47-73, Exhibit 63.  There is no transcript available.]

	Weather
-Washington, DC
-Florida
	-Walker's Cay

	The President’s schedule
		-Previous trip to Florida
		-California
		-Walker’s Cay
		-Camp David
		-Gerard C. Smith’s house
			-Rehoboth Beach
		-Higher Education Bill signing ceremony

	Detroit busing issue
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
	-Higher Education Bill

	Mrs. Miller (Michigan)
-Walk to Washington
-Congressional race

	Magazine comments
-Time
-[Unintelligible]
-New Republic

-National Observer
-National Review
-Human Events
-New Republic
-Readership size 
-Richard M. Scammon
-Possibility of pro-administration articles
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Public relations
		-Elections

	Presidential letter for Richard F. Kneip
		-Natural disaster in South Dakota
			-John C. Whitaker
		-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s previous trip to South Dakota
			-Forthcoming election
			-Natural disaster
				-Tourism
				-Whitaker
		-Whitaker
	-Kneip’s concerns
-Parents of Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

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	Federal Judge’s action for Democratic convention
		-George L. Hart
		-Joseph R. Califano
		-Delegations qualifications
		-Chicago suit
		-Delegation qualifications
			-Challenges
			-George S. McGovern’s guidelines
		-Richard J. Daley
			-Supporters

	[Unintelligible]

	Movie, "Hot Rock"
-Haldeman’s view

	US conference of Mayors
		-Vietnam resolution
			-Clark MacGregor
			-Support for the President
				-Democrats
				-Republicans
		-Lawrence F. O’Brien

	Michael J. Mansfield's Vietnam resolution
-Robert C. Dole
-Substitute proposal
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Cease fire
-Effect on negotiations
-Congressional alternatives
-Nixon proposal
-Administration actions
-William P. Rogers
-Leslie C. Arends
-National defense and foreign policy

	The President’s schedule
-California trip plans
	-Mrs. Nixon
		-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

	Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-National commanders of veterans' groups
-Briefing
-Charles W. Colson
-Defense Department
-Henry A. Kissinger

	The President's schedule
-National Association of Counties meeting
-Political candidates
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-The President’s view
	-Role of President
	-Cabinet officers
-Lawrence F. O'Brien
-McGovern
-Timing
	-Banquet
	-John D. Ehrlichman
-Revenue sharing
-Local government problems
-Banquet
-Possible appearance by the President
	-Remarks
-Polish-American leaders
-Meeting
-Value
-Timing
	-Haldeman’s view
-Poland trip
-Rogers
-Reception at State Department
-Rogers
-Colson
-Briefing
	-Location
	-Ehrlichman
	-The President’s remarks
	-Location
-VIP [Very Important Patients] Program
-No Greater Love program
-POWs' children
-Picnic on White House lawn
	-The President’s view
		-Benefits
-Celebrities
-Johnny Unitas
-Arnold D. Palmer
-Bill Frasier (?)
-Ted Williams
-Arthur Ashe
-Althea Gibson
-Jack Nicklaus
-Unitas
-Carmello Espota
	-The President’s view
-Media briefing
-Black newspapers
-Reception
-Haldeman’s view
-Briefing in 1968
-Leonard Garment
		-Jewish press
		-The President’s view
		-Timing
			-California
-Requests for meetings
	-Haldeman’s role
-Black newspapers
	-Selective promotions

	1972 campaign
-Pay offs
	-Black newspapers
		-Haldeman’s view
		-The President’s view
	-Ministers
		-Haldeman’s view
-Frederick V. Malek's staff
-Duties
-Colson's staff
-Meetings
-White House staff
-Work on 1972 campaign
-Political support
-Activities related to campaign

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[Conversation No. 342-16A]

[See Conversation No. 25-74; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Public relations
-White House staff
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Foreign policy
		-Possible reception for black newspapers
			-White House staff

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	Watergate
-Wiretaps
	-The President’s view
		-Previous campaigns

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Haldeman left at 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 342-17

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  12:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-75]

Conversation No. 342-18

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  12:53-12:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Margaret Chase Smith.

[See Conversation No. 25-76; one item has been withdrawn]

Conversation No. 342-19

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:55 and 1:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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Unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:30 pm.

Conversation No. 342-20

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:55 and 1:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

	Unknown person's schedule

	Meeting
-Report
-Time

Conversation No. 342-21

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:55 and 1:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-77]

Conversation No. 342-22

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:55 and 1:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-78]

Conversation No. 342-23

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  1:30-1:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Hugh Scott.

[See Conversation No. 25-79]

Conversation No. 342-24

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 1:35-2:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[Unintelligible]

The President talked with Joseph Trerotola.

[Conversation No. 342-24A]

[See Conversation No. 25-80]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Vietnam
-Diplomatic situation
-Possibility of negotiations
-Peking
-Moscow

The President talked to White House operator.

[Conversation No. 342-24B]

[See Conversation No. 25-81]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Vietnam
-American critics of Vietnam
-Peking
-Moscow
-Report from Paris
	-North Vietnamese public relations efforts

		-US press
		-Saigon

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 342-24C]

[See Conversation No. 25-82]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Vietnam
		-North Vietnamese public relations efforts
	-US press
-[Forename unknown] Stern article
-Haig’s view
-William H. Sullivan
-State Department
-Cambodia
	-Rebuttals
-US policy
-Peking trip
-Moscow trip

	Haig's trip to Pittsburgh
-Foreign Relations Council
-Response
-George S. McGovern

	Hugh Scott
-Legislative schedule
-Democratic convention

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

[Conversation No. 342-24]

[See Conversation No. 25-83; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Vietnam
-Political support for the President's policies
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Scott
-Vote in Senate
	-Haig’s assessment
-Robert S. McNamara
-Democratic convention
-Possibility of secret talks
-Timing
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Military operations
-Targets
-Number
-Location
		-Hanoi
-Negotiations
-Soviets
-Hanoi
-Offensive campaign
-Timing
-Cease Fire
	-Haig’s view
-Terms
-Saigon
-Saigon forces
-Quang Tri area
-Cease fire in place
	-The President’s view
-Hanoi
-President's leverage
-South Vietnam
	-Haig’s view
-Assessment of strength
	-Equipment
	-Personnel
-Nguyen Van Thieu's role
-Reorganization
-Length of time for unit training
-Attacks
-North Vietnamese losses
-South Vietnamese Defense Minister
-US press
-Attitude toward President's policies
-Kissinger

	Arms Control
		-William P. Rogers
			-Previous testimony
-J. William Fulbright
-Disarmament Program
-US policy
	-Negotiations with Soviet Union

	Soviet Union
-Trade
-Interests
-European Security

	Senate
-Fulbright
-Attitude on Vietnam
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-MacGregor
-President's view
-Fulbright
-Possible meeting with President
	-The President’s view

	US foreign policy
-Relations with Soviet Union
-Relations with PRC
	-Kissinger’s meeting with Chou En-lai
	-Credibility of US
		-Policy considerations

	The President’s forthcoming press conference
		-Domestic policy
		-Reports from Kissinger

Haig left at 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 342-25

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 and 2:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-84]

Conversation No. 342-26

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  2:16-2:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 25-85]

Conversation No. 342-27

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  2:20-3:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met Charles W. Colson.

[A transcript of the following portion of the conversation may be found in RG 460, Box 172, pp. 1-14]

[End of transcribed portion]

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	Vietnam
-The President's support among Republicans
-The President's conversation with Hugh Scott
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
		-Republican support
-Soviet Summit
-Senators
-Reaction
-Edward W. Brooke
-Massachusetts
	-Democratic opposition

-Richard S. Schweiker
-Colson’s view
-Charles McC. Mathias
-Colson’s view
-Charles H. Percy
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Colson’s view
-Robert A.G. Monks

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	Katherine L. Graham
-Activities 
	-Stock
-American Stock Exchange holdings
	-Security and Exchange Commission
		-Colson’s plan
-Washington social scene
	-Possible invitation to White House dinner
	-Role
-Kenneth W. Clawson, Jr.
	-Washington Post staff

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	National economy
-Food prices
-Release of data
-Meat prices
-Changes
-Possible effect on election
	-Inflation
	-White House response
-Freeze
	-Inflation
-Expansion
-Retail sales
-Weather
-Impact
-Housing
-Dollar strength

[A transcript of the following portion of the conversation may be found  in RG 460, Box 172, pp. 14-16]

[End of transcribed portion]

	The President’s schedule
		-The press
			-Effect on the President’s actions
		-Holidays
-President's morning routine
-Colson’s routine
-Manolo Sanchez

Press
-New York Times and Washington Post
-The President’s view
-Editorials
-Intent
	-The President’s policies
-News summaries
-White House staff efforts
-Chicago Tribune
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Washington readership
-News Summary
-Value
-Percy
-Attitudes
-Contacts with constituency
-Austin Kiplinger
-Compilation
	-Clawson role
-Republicans
-Business
-Compilation
	-White House staff
	-American Enterprise Institute
-Congress
-The President’s view
	-Post-election implementation
	-New York Times and Washington Post influence
	-Purpose of summary
-Dissemination
-Purpose
-White House
-Non-involvement
-National Media Analysis group
-Resources
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Graham
-Political cartoons
-Herblock (Herbert Block)
-Media bias
-Washington Post
-The President’s view
	-Effect
-Frequency
	-Effect

Colson left at 3:30 pm.

Conversation No. 342-28

Date:  June 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:30 and 3:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-87]

The President talked with Beverly J. Kaye.

[See Conversation No. 25-87]