Conversation No. 345-1

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:54 and 9:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 26-19]

Conversation No. 345-2

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  9:06-9:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Frank L. Rizzo.

[See Conversation No. 26-20; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation]

Conversation No. 345-3

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 and 9:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Briefing book
-Location
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Domestic affairs

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:44 pm

Conversation No. 345-4

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 and 9:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Briefing book
-Delivery

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:44 pm.

Conversation No. 345-5

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 and 9:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 26-21]

Conversation No. 345-6

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  9:44-10:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 26-22; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation.]

This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 10:20 pm.

Conversation No. 345-7

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:35 and 2:40 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 2:40 pm.

Conversation No. 345-8

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:35 and 2:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Unknown person
-Location
-Return call

Conversation No. 345-9

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:35 and 2:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Meeting

Conversation No. 345-10

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  2:40-3:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Weather

President's schedule
-Camp David visit
-Value
-Press conference
-The President’s responses to questions
	-White House staff
	-President's efforts

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-Foreign trips
-Press conferences
-President's preparation
-William L. Safire

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-Charles W. Colson's intelligence reports
-George S. McGovern
	-Democratic National Convention
		-Nomination

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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 2:50 pm.

A draft of unidentified item

Butterfield left at 2:52 pm.

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John N. Mitchell
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Watergate break-in
-Resignation as campaign manager

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:00 pm.

Greetings

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Vietnam
-Preparation for President's forthcoming press conference
	-Troop withdrawal
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Draftees
		-Navy
			-Melvin R. Laird
	-Prisoners of war[POWs]
	-Criticism
	-Assistance to South Vietnam
	-Jane Fonda
	-May 8, 1972 proposal
	-Response
		-North Vietnamese Army
			-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
		-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Troop withdrawal
		-Hubert H. Humphrey
		-Edmund S. Muskie
		-US Army
			-Military advisors
				-Laos
		-The President’s possible response
	-Joseph C. Kraft
	-Invitation to Hanoi
		-North Vietnam intentions
	-Anthony Lewis
	-John D. Lavelle
	-Margaret Chase Smith
-Leo Cherne
-Harold J. Gibbons
-Colson's suggestion
	-Diplomatic mission
	-Kissinger’s view
-Committee for Peace and Freedom

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Kissinger's announcement on the draft
-Press reports
-Laird
-Effects on public

Kissinger left at 3:20 pm.

Mitchell
-Watergate break-in
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Health
-Knowledge of Watergate break-in
-Health
-Support for the President
-Emotional state

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-Blame for Administration's activities
-Martha's opinion
	-Watergate
-Role in campaign
-Resignation
-Previous conversation with Haldeman
-Timing
-Public relations
-Mail
-Reporters at Westchester Country Club
-Martha Mitchell
-Possible course of action by husband
-Press reaction
-Role
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-New Jersey scandal
-William T. Cahill
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Mitchell
-Alleged payoff
	-Cahill
-Secretary of state
-Attorney General
-Resignation
-Martha Mitchell
-Move to New York
-Impact
-Future role in campaign
-Possible question at press conference

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	Watergate break-in
-Effects of Mitchell's resignation
	-Martha Mitchell
-John Mitchell's knowledge
-Break-in 
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Firing
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-Effects
-Possible resignation statement by Mitchell
-Effects of Mitchell's resignation
-Frank Dale
-Effect of Mitchell’s reorganization
-Clark MacGregor and Frederic V. Malek

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Congress's schedule

President's schedule
-Trip to California
	-Timing
-Congress's schedule
	-Carl B. Albert
	-Leslie C. Arends

Pending legislation
-Social Security increase
-Provisions
	-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Impact
	-1972 election

Hiring of East Wing employees
-Unknown woman
-Constance M. Stuart
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s view
	-David N. Parker
-Advance staff
-Scheduling
-Schedule planner
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Parker
-Mrs. Nixon
-Unknown woman

Tricia Cox’s schedule
-California
-Mexico
-Merv Griffin show

Mitchell's role
-Comparison with John B. Connally

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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:20 pm.

Delivery of an item [?]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:50 pm.

President's schedule
-Mark I. Goode

President's forthcoming press conference
-Clothing
	-The President’s view
		-The President’s previous television appearance in the Soviet Union
-Make-up

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Haldeman left at 3:50 pm.

Conversation No. 345-11

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:50 and 3:55 pm

Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

Delivery of unidentified items

Unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 345-12

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  3:50-4:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[Conversation No. 345-12A]

[Request for telephone call]

[End of telephone conversation]

Charles W. Colson entered at 3:55 pm.

President's press conference
-Colson's location

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Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:00 pm.

Preparation for the President's forthcoming press conference
-Vietnam
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
	-Wording
-Troop withdrawal announcement
	-Kissinger’s view
-Progress of talks
-Draftees
	-Navy
-Announcements
-Negotiations
-North Vietnamese posture
-North Vietnamese negotiator

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KISSINGER LEFT AT 4:10 PM.

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:10 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:30 pm.

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Price controls
-Albert E. Sindlinger poll
-George P. Shultz's analysis
-Farmers

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Colson left at 4:35 pm.

Conversation No. 345-13

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:35 and 5:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Conversation No. 345-14

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:35 and 5:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:55 pm.

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[Conversation No. 345-14A]

Capital punishment
-Statement

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 345-15

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  5:55-6:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan.

Capital punishment
-Supreme Court opinions

Buchanan spoke to an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:55 pm and 6:00 pm.

[Conversation 345-15A]

	Capital punishment

[End of conversation]

	Capital punishment
		-Supreme Court opinion

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Buchanan left at 6:00 pm.

Conversation No. 345-16

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:00 and 6:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Pending legislation on Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Clark MacGregor

Conversation No. 345-17

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:00 and 6:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Telephone call to the President

Conversation No. 345-18

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:00 and 6:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:25 pm.

Conversation No. 345-19

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  6:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry Kissinger at 6:25 pm

Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] ratification
-James L. Buckley
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Effects of non-ratification
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Submarines
-Missiles
-Critics
-Senators
-Melvin R. Laird
	-Defense budget

1972 campaign
-George S. Mcgovern's statement
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Chou En-lai
-Leonid I. Brezhnev

Foreign relations
-South Vietnam

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vietnam negotiations
	-Preparations for forthcoming press conference
	-Ceasefire without prisoners of war [POWs] release
	-US options
	-Bombing
	-Duration

Kissinger left at 6:32 pm.

Conversation No. 345-20

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  6:54-6:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with David C. Hoopes.

Henry A. Kissinger
-Delivery of material

Hoopes left at 6:55 pm.

Conversation No. 345-21

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:55 and 8:27 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 8:27 pm.

Conversation No. 345-22

Date:  June 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:55 and 8:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Documents

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:27 pm.