Conversation No. 462-1

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:00 am and 8:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

Call to Henry A. Kissinger
-Return call

Conversation No. 462-2

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:00 am and 8:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

President=s schedule
-Senior staff meeting
-Haldeman
-President=s participation
-George P. Shultz=s meeting
-Senior staff meeting
-Rochester trip
-Cancellation
-Reason
-Demonstrations
-Network coverage
-Reason

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Response
-Compared to period after President=s Cambodia speech
-[Name unintelligible]
-Cancellation of Rochester trip
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-Herbert G. Klein
-President=s statement to television audience
-Effectiveness
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew=s statement about the press
-Martin Schram=s question
-President=s responses to questions
-Haldeman=s view
-Effectiveness

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Previous telephone call

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Rockefeller, William S. Paley, Michael Coles
-Charles W. Colson=s staff calls
-Results
-Press reports
-President=s answers to questions on Laos (Lam Son)
-Compared with Cambodia
-Effectiveness
-Statements about the press
-Compared with Agnew=s comments
-Benefit of television
-President=s responses
-Public opinion
-Cambodia, Laos
-Agnew=s previous statements
-Effect of press reports
-Vietnam answer
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Military action
-Response
-Statistics
-William P. Rogers
-Response
-William H. Carruthers
-President=s makeup

[The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger between 8:07 am and 8:08 am]

[Conversation No. 462-2A]

Kissinger=s location

Return call

President=s meeting with Haldeman

[End of telephone conversation]

The President=s schedule
-Staff meeting

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Vietnamization answer
-Effectiveness
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-President=s position
-Carruthers= view
-Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman=s view
-Cambodia answer
-Length
-Number of questions
-J. A. Haldeman=s view
-The President=s response to questions
-Length of responses
-Cambodia answer
-Ziegler=s press briefing
-President=s statement to television audience
-Future press conferences

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:08 am

President=s schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:30 am

-Staff meeting
-Topics
-Haldeman=s senior staff meeting
-Quadriad meeting
-Haldeman=s senior staff meeting
-Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Kissinger

-Clark MacGregor
-Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Effect on Haldeman=s schedule

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Calls by Cabinet officers
-James D. Hodgson
-Wives= responses
-Rogers
-Women=s response
-Question on Rogers and Kissinger
-President=s response
-President=s view
-White House staff views

President=s press contacts
-AToday Show@ appearance
-Barbara Walters
-Time slot
-Possible television special with Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Walters
-Timing
-Possible meeting with women=s press
-William P. Clements, Jr.=s previous conversation with the President
-The President=s previous television appearance
-Mrs. Nixon
-Possible television special
-Role of women
-Format
-Walters
-Possible questions
-Richard (ADick@) Wilson
-Rowland Evans
-Office press conferences
-Ziegler=s expectations
-Conversations
-President=s image

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Carruthers= view
-Compared with December 8, 1970 press conference
-Pace
-Subjects
-Laos, Vietnam
-Public=s view of foreign affairs
-Disarmament
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-President=s knowledge
-Lucian C. (ALou@) Warren=s question
-Follow-up questions
-Bombing
-President=s response
-Follow-up questions
-PRC
-Charles W. (AChuck@) Bailey, II
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Carruthers= view
-Public response
-Opinion on Laos
-Haldeman=s view
-Forthcoming administration poll
-Possible results
-Methodology

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:08 am and 8:30 am]

[Conversation No. 462-2B]

Administration poll results
-[Forename unknown] Andrews

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Calls to the President

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[Duration:  53s  ]

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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:08 am

Unknown man=s schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:30 am

Administration poll results
-Telephone calls
-Methodology
-President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Operation
-Results
-Percentage of households who viewed press conference
-President=s performance
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Compared with George H. Gallup poll

President=s schedule
-Possible television special on women
-Walters
-Nancy (Hanschman) Dickerson
-Type of interview needed

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:08 am and 8:30 am]

[Conversation No. 462-2C]

President=s schedule
-Kissinger

[End of telephone conversation]

-Meeting with Rockefeller and Ehrlichman
-Revenue sharing
-Other participants
-Congressman

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 8:30 am

Conversation No. 462-3

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:08 am and 8:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

Call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 462-4

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:08 am and 8:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

Call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

The President talked with Haldeman

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Possible press briefing
-Revenue sharing
-Call from Haldeman
-Possible press briefing
-Possible appearance by President

Conversation No. 462-5

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  8:30 am - 10:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Laos (Lam Son)
-Military situation

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Laos
-President=s performance evaluated
-The President=s preparation
-Kissinger=s view
-President=s statements about the press
-AToday@ show
-President=s response to questions
-President=s advisors
-Kissinger=s viewing
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount=s dinner
-Charles L. Bartlett
-Melvin R. Laird
-Response
-A Democrat Congressman from Oklahoma [John Jarman]
-Response
-Bob Dudley
-President=s acquaintance at Office of Price Administration
-Bartlett=s response
-Cambodia, Laos
-The President=s policies
-Democrats
-John C. Stennis= call to the President
-President=s performance
-Kissinger=s view
-Middle East
-Possible settlement
-Cease fire
-US guarantee
-Israelis
-Soviet Union

Vietnam
-Possible US military action
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Winston S. Churchill=s book on World War I
-On the Eastern Front
-Response to North Vietnamese action
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-President=s comments at press conference
-President=s strategy
-Bombing of missiles sites
-President=s view
-Bombing
-Effect
-Laird, Richard M. Helms, William P. Rogers, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer meeting
-President=s position
-Briefing by Moorer
-Time

[Kissinger talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:30 am and 8:44 am]

[Conversation No. 462-5A]

Forthcoming meeting on Vietnam
-Laird, Helms, Rogers, and Moorer
-Calls from General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Briefing on Laos and Cambodia
-Moorer
-Haig=s telephone calls

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Questions about President=s advisors on foreign policy
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-President=s comments
-Garnett D. (AJack@) Horner
-Kissinger
-Calls from press
-Response

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration:  31s  ]

CANADA

[The President talked with the White House operator at 8:44 am]

[Conversation No. 462-5B]

[End of telephone conversation]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Preparation
-State Department, Kissinger
-The President=s role
-John F. Kennedy comparison
-The President=s role
-Possible Kissinger press statement
-Kissinger=s staff work
-State Department

Pakistan
-National Security Council [NSC] study
-Rogers, State Department
-Conflicting views
-US policy options
-Kissinger

President=s press conference
-Kidnaping of US soldiers in Turkey
-President=s comments
-Kissinger=s view
-Executive privilege

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:02 am

President=s schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:04 am

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:02 am and 9:17 am]

[Conversation No. 462-5C]

President=s call to Pierre E. Trudeau

[End of telephone conversation]

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration:  12s  ]

CANADA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Leadership
-On the Eastern Front by Churchill
-German generals
-President=s evaluation
-Erich F. W. Ludendorf
-Paul von Hindenburg
-[Forename unknown] von Schwanslof [?]
-General William C. Westmoreland
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Compared to General George S. Patton, Jr.
-Kissinger=s view

Forthcoming meeting on Vietnam
-Timing
-Congressional meeting

Haig entered at an unknown time after 9:02 am

President=s press conference
-Haig=s view

Haig left at an unknown time before 9:19 am

Forthcoming meeting on Vietnam
-Participants
-Timing

The President=s press conference, March 4, 1971
-President=s response to Executive privilege question
-Rogers
-Congressional testimony
-Private meetings with congressmen
-Relationships with the President
-Public relations
-Foreign policy
-State Department views
-Agency input
-Department of State
-Department of Defense
-Laird
-Vietnam
-Troop levels
-President=s comments
-Number
-Review
-Announcement by President
-Forthcoming meeting with newspaper editors
-Television
-Timing
-Ellsworth F. Bunker=s view
-General Nguyen Van Thieu

Vietnam
-Leadership
-President=s reading of Churchill book

-President compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Troop levels
-Tchepone
-Support for the President
-Moorer=s previous conversations with Kissinger
-US victory prospects
-Kissinger=s view
-Military situation
-President=s press conference, March 4, 1971
-Questions on possible peace proposal
-The President=s response
-Possible effects of US withdrawal
-North Vietnam
-Cambodia, Laos
-Possible agreement
-Military situation
-Moorer
-Momentum
-Kissinger=s view
-Churchill book on World War I
-Germans, Russians, Austrians
-History of World War I
-von Hindenburg, Ludendorf
-Germans, Russians, Austrians

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[National Security]
[Duration:  49s  ]

THAILAND

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Brazil
-Possible visit
-Date
-State Department
-President=s instructions

President=s press conference, March 4, 1971
-News reports
-Taiwan, People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-President=s comments
-United Nations

Brazil
-Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters
-Assignment
-President=s instructions

Italy
-President=s forthcoming letter to Pope Paul VI [Giovanni Battista Motini]

President=s leadership
-World role
-Effect of Vietnam
-Dutch leader
-President=s foreign policy report
-Impact in Europe

President=s AWorld Report@
-Distribution
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Members of White House staff and Cabinet officers
-Elliot L. Richardson
-President=s accompanying letter to foreign leaders
-Distribution
-US ambassadors
-Importance
-US policy
-Relations with Soviet Union
-Contents
-President=s philosophy
-Press
-Joseph W. Alsop and Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Chalmers Roberts

-Evaluation
-Robert S. McNamara
-Cyrus R. Vance, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach

Vietnam and Laos (Lam Son)
-President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Prospects for success
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Enemy supplies
-James C. Hagerty=s press report
-Moorer
-Level
-President=s comments
-Rationale for military action
-Decreases
-Effect
-Compared to previous year
-Laos
-President=s comments
-Press coverage
-Military situation
-Tchepone
-ARVN progress
-Importance
-Effect
-ARVN progress
-President=s forthcoming meeting
-A report from Bunker

US foreign policy

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[National Security]
[Duration:  19s  ]

GERMANY

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11

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-Letter from President to the Pope
-Targut Menemencioglu
-State Department
-Peter G. Peterson
-Nathanial Samuels

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[National Security]
[Duration:  21s  ]

GREAT BRITAIN

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-Cevdet Sunay and Suleyman Demirel
-Domestic situation
-Greece
-Henry J. Tasca
-Pakistan
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-A policy review

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  3s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13

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-Khan
-The President=s position
-A possible letter from President to Khan
-Possible Presidential letters
-Lieutenant General T. N. J. Suharto
-Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-President=s previous meeting with Menemencioglu
-President=s position
-Suharto
-President=s foreign policy report
-Economy
-The President=s foreign policy report
-Dissemination to foreign leaders
-Accompanying letters from the President
-Yahya

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 51s  ]

JAPAN

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Vietnam
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Kissinger=s possible meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-President=s press conference
-US policy
-Bombing of North Vietnamese missile sites
-Justification
-President=s press conference, March 4, 1971
-US bombing
-Press inquiries to Kissinger
-Radio broadcasters= dinner
-President=s press conference
-President=s demeanor
-Television
-Kissinger=s view
-Compared with Kennedy
-McNamara=s previous comments to Kissinger
-Cabinet

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:17 am

President=s schedule
-Rogers, Helms
-NSC meeting
-Possible statement to the press
-Quadriad meeting
-Possible press briefing by John B. Connally

Ziegler left and Rogers, Laird, Moorer, and Haig entered at 9:19 am

Greetings

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Ziegler
-Evaluated
-Question on Executive privilege
-Rogers= meetings with Congress
-Number

Meeting agenda
-Vietnam policy

Rogers and Laird
-Forthcoming press conferences
-Laird=s forthcoming Congressional testimony
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs]
-Defense procurement
-Responses to questions
-Schedule
-Press conference
-Rogers
-Timing
-Press coverage
-Wire services
-Television
-Robert J. McCloskey, Ziegler

Vietnam
-Military situation
-North Vietnamese missiles
-US response
-Bombing
-President=s position
-Pass area

Military situation in Laos (Lam Son)
-ARVN First Armored Division
-Artillery support
-Routes 9, 914, 23, 92
-Location of ARVN troops
-Developments

-Abrams= reports
-President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Comments about ARVN forces
-Public relations
-Rogers= forthcoming press conference
-Bunker and Abrams
-ARVN forces
-Enemy losses
-Abrams= report
-Artillery, tanks
-Use
-Effectiveness
-An anecdote
-General John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Performance
-Briefings
-North Vietnamese supplies entering South Vietnam
-Enemy losses

Helms entered at 9:25 am

-Enemy build-up
-Route 9
-Abrams
-Thieu
-Possible action
-DMZ
-US countermeasures
-Capability
-Location
-Possible US response
-Trucks, missiles

Vietnam
-Thieu
-Possible ARVN offensive into North Vietnam
-US policy
-President=s press conference on March 4, 1971
-Enemy missiles, trucks, guns
-US countermeasures
-President=s statements
-US aircraft
-Supplies and equipment

-Lessons of military history
-Levels of force
-President=s position
-Enemy missiles
-DMZ
-President=s Response
-US strategy
-Area of operations
-Public portrayal
-Rogers
-AProtective reaction@
-Bombing
-Public statements
-Protective reaction
-President=s previous statements
-Justification
-Press inquiries
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-US air support
-Bunker
-Vietnamization
-Public relations
-ARVN ability
-Compared to North Vietnamese forces
-Cambodia
-US air power
-Amount, type
-President=s position
-Increases
-Public opinion
-Duration of increase
-B-52 strikes
-President=s press conference, March 4, 1971
-Tricia Nixon=s comments
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington=s comments

Rogers left at 9:45 am

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:45 am

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:47 am

Vietnam
-US military actions
-B-52 air strikes
-Numbers
-Churchill=s On the Eastern Front
-Lessons
-President=s position
-US military action
-Possible South Vietnamese military actions
-North Vietnam

Laird and Moorer left at 9:47 am

Laos
-Military situation
-Possible outcome
-US efforts
-Air strikes
-Preparations
-Long Thieng
-Vientiane
-Importance of public relations
-President=s view
-President=s view
-Kissinger=s view

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[National Security]
[Duration:  29s  ]

LAOS

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-Vientiane and Long Thieng
-Need for public relations
-Cambodia
-Health of unknown leader
-Effect of Laotian action
-North Vietnamese
-Press reaction

President=s press conference on March 4, 1971
-Questions
-Vietnam, Middle East, PRC, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Possible result
-Press
-President=s comments
-Helms= view

Vietnam
-Vietnamization
-Helms= view
-President=s view
-Possible future
-Laos (Lam Son)
-ARVN forces
-The President=s decision
-Helms= view
-Justification
-North Vietnamese forces
-Effect on future operations
-I Corps
-Public relations efforts
-Helms= conversation with J. W. Alsop
-Importance
-President=s view
-Effect on US position in the world
-Possible US withdrawal
-Need for action
-Public opinion
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Polls
-Possible US withdrawal
-1969
-Justification
-Impossibility

-Justification
-ADomino Theory@
-Indonesia
-Thailand
-Malaysia
-Philippines
-Japan
-India
-President=s policy
-Haig=s opinion
-US public opinion
-Kissinger=s meeting with student body presidents
-Discussion of President=s policy
-Media influence
-Importance for US
-President=s position
-Cambodia
-Helms= view

US foreign policy
-Cuba
-President=s position
-Effect on Latin America
-Chile
-Cuba=s foreign policy
-Communism
-Helms= position
-US policy
-Latin America
-Chile
-President=s position

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 36s  ]

CUBA, ITALY, SPAIN

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Catholic Church
-Ideological change
-President=s view
-Latin America
-Influence of Marxism
-American Catholics

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[National Security]
[Duration:  17s  ]

SPAIN

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-Study by Roger [Surname unintelligible]
-Contents
-Compared to Protestant Church
-William F. (ABilly@) Graham
-Quakers

-Pacifism
-President=s policy
-Eastern Europe
-Poland
-Political orientation

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[National Security]
[Duration:  42s  ]

SPAIN, ITALY

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US foreign policy
-Radio Free Europe
-Senate committee hearings
-Clifford P. Case
-Kissinger=s previous conversation with Bartlett
-Brazil
-Forthcoming visit to the US by Emilio Garrastazu Médici
-Department of State
-President=s position
-Latin America
-President=s policy
-Leadership

Leadership
-President=s view
-France
-General Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
-Italy
-Spain
-Latin America
-Colombia

US foreign policy
-Latin America
-Helms= view
-Possible 40 Committee meeting
-Nelson A. Rockefeller=s visit
-President=s view
-Chile
-Ecuador
-Brazil
-Argentina

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
[National Security]
[Duration:  16s  ]

ARGENTINA

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-Importance
-Venezuela
-Oil
-Colombia
-Possible visits
-Peru
-Announcement
-Brazil
-Medici
-Announcement
-President=s view
-Population increases
-President=s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Latin America
-President=s view
-Compared to previous Southeast Asia trip

PFIAB
-Possible appointment of Thomas E. Dewey
-Call from Kissinger
-Possible call from the President
-Forthcoming meeting
-Schedule
-Dewey
-President=s view

Helms= schedule
-House and Senate Armed Services Committee
-Testimony
-Soviet Union
-PRC

Kissinger, Haig, and Helms left at 10:15 am

Conversation No. 462-6

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:15 am and 10:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

Previous meeting
-Richard M. Helms
-Positions
-President=s view

Conversation No. 462-7

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:15 am and 10:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

The President=s schedule
-Herbert Stein
-Forthcoming meeting with the Quadriad

Papers for President=s signature

Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:20 am

Butterfield left at 10:20 am

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  52s  ]

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President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-President=s statement to television audience
-Paul W. Keyes
-Call to Woods

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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[Duration:  9s  ]

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-President=s statement about William P. Rogers
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-President=s demeanor
-Lillie and Bill Strauther [?]
-Response
-Melvin R. Laird
-Call to Woods
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount=s dinner
-Rogers, Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Call to Woods
-Rockefeller
-Call to President
-John C. Stennis

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:20 am and 10:28 am]

[Conversation No. 462-7A]

Call to Stennis

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

President=s press conference
-Call from [Forename unknown] Lockhart
-Key Biscayne
-[Robert D.?] Bob Murphy
-Possible call from President
-Note from President
-Wife
-President=s preparation
-Call from Laird

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 21s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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[The President talked with Stennis between 10:28 am and 10:30 am]

[Conversation No. 462-7B ]

President=s press conference, March 4, 1971
-Stennis= call to Woods

Vietnam
-President=s position
-Public opinion polls
-Withdrawal
-Laos
-Military situation
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Laird
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Effect

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s call to Stennis

Vietnam
-Public opinion
-Media influence
-Influence of President=s press conference
-Woods= view

[Unintelligible]

Copies of a letter to Edward R. G. Heath
-Dissemination
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Rogers

Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
-A Sunday church service photo
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  5s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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-A previous photo
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon

A television appearance
-Eisenhower, T. Nixon, President and Mrs. Nixon

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  38s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Woods left at 10:40 am

Conversation No. 462-8

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:40 am and 10:41 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Leonard Garment

Conversation No. 462-9

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  10:41 am - 10:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Leonard Garment

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President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Statement about press
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Current situation
-Compared to World War I

-Israel
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.=s question
-President=s response
-Cease fire
-Yitzhak Rabin

Conversation No. 462-10

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  10:45 am - 10:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 462-11

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  10:46 am - 10:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson

President=s schedule
-Possible trip to Rochester
-Potential problems

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Need for follow-up
-Colson=s calls
-President=s statement about the press
-Cambodia
-Supporters
-Peter J. Brennan

-Veterans
-American Legion
-Congress
-President=s response to question

Conversation No. 462-12

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  10:49 am - 11:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Schedule
-Possible briefing

White House press briefing
-Unemployment
-Revenue sharing
-Congressional approval

President=s schedule
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Military action in Vietnam

Public relations
-Leonard Garment
-Haldeman=s forthcoming call to Garment
-Press release on President=s musical interest
-Compared with revenue sharing
-Charles W. Colson=s efforts
-Work with Senate and House
-J. William Fulbright

President=s press conference
-Mobilization of President=s supporters
-Call from John C. Stennis
-Cabinet officers
-Mobilization of President=s supporters

-Clark MacGregor
-White House staff efforts
-Colson
-Labor
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.=s staff
-Herbert G. Klein
-Colson
-President=s statement about the press
-Laos

Polls
-David R. Derge [?]
-Laos
-Statistics
-Compared to 1968 campaign polls
-Democrat candidates
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy

President=s press conference
-William P. Rogers
-Follow-up press conference
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Middle East
-Melvin R. Laird
-Follow-up press conference

President=s schedule
-Rockefeller meeting
-Possible attendees
-John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
-Press briefing on revenue sharing
-President=s appearance
-Ziegler

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Mobilization of President=s supporters
-The President=s press conference
-Effect on troops
-Compared to a campaign

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President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Possible press response
-Ziegler=s assessment
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.=s comments
-Martin Schram=s question
-The President=s response
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Attitude of press
-Semple

-Eugene V. Risher
-Response
-Lead story
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Vietnamization
-South Vietnam
-Possible invasion of North Vietnam
-The President=s position
-Response

President=s schedule
-Quadriad meeting
-National Security Council meeting
-Topics discussed
-John B. Connally briefing
-Comments on the economy
-Time
-Rockefeller meeting
-Photo coverage
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Edwin L. Harper
-Public relations options
-Possible press briefing on revenue sharing
-Responses
-Warren E. Hearnes
-Patrick J. Lucey
-Popular support
-Photo
-Location
-Press briefing
-President=s possible appearance
-Forthcoming message to Congress

George W. Romney
-Briefing on revenue sharing
-Possible joint briefing with Rockefeller and Agnew
-Possible meeting with Ehrlichman, Shultz, and Agnew
-Talk with Ziegler

President=s schedule
-Rockefeller
-Time

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:06 am

Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs] and Missing In Action [MIAs]
-Number, definition

Ziegler left at 11:06 am

Conversation No. 462-13

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  11:06 am - 1:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally, Arthur F. Burns, George P. Shultz, and Paul W. McCracken

Greetings

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-President=s statement about the press

Quadriad meetings
-Format
-McCracken=s and Burns= roles
-Format

Rolls-Royce
-White House news summary
-Lockheed
-Possible deal
-Current situation
-British government involvement
-Assessment of cost

-Connally=s statements to British ambassador
-Administration=s position
-Negotiations
-New Rolls-Royce offer
-Costs
-Guarantees
-Possible restrictions and delays
-Guarantees
-Possible Lockheed bankruptcy
-Dan [Surname unintelligible] response
-Connally=s response
-Airlines= response
-Lockheed=s financial situation
-Connally=s actions
-Banks
-Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr.
-Banks, airlines, Lockheed
-George R. S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Tillinghast

James S. McDonnell of McDonnell-Douglas
-Previous conversation with Connally
-DC-10 compared with L-1011
-Lockheed
-Trans World Airlines [TWA]
-United Airlines
-Sales
-Future problems
-L-1011s
-DC-10s
-Possible merger with Lockheed
-John N. Mitchell
-President=s position
-Pratt and Whitney
-TriStar
-Financial obligations
-Subcontractors

Aircraft industry
-Outlook
-Administration policy
-Secor D. Browne
-Richard W. McLaren

-View of possible merger
-Peter M. Flanigan
-American Airlines, TWA
-Braniff
-President=s position
-Lyndon B. Johnson=s position
-Need for White House staff expert
-The President=s view
-Department of Transportation
-General Lucius DuB. Clay, Jr.
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Herbert Brownell
-Pan American Airlines= interests
-Dewey
-Connally=s concerns
-Banks= and insurance companies= concerns
-Lockheed-Rolls-Royce merger
-Financial situation
-United, American, Eastern, TWA, and Pan American Airlines
-Profits
-Effect on Wall Street
-Thomas S. Gates, Jr.
-A possible meeting
-Flanigan=s work
-Possible need for White House expert
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Supersonic Transport [SST] work
-Qualifications
-Banking, insurance, airline, and Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB] jurisdictions
-Chief executive officers
-Bert S. Cross
-Robert C. Tyson
-Clay
-Dewey
-Albert H. Smith, Jr.
-Walter N. Thayer
-Frederic G. Donner
-List of recommendations
-Shultz=s role
-Lockheed merger
-Mitchell
-McLaren

-President=s position
-Possible Connally conversations
-President=s goal
-Mitchell
-Dan [Surname unintelligible]
-Justice Department
-Possible leak

Unemployment
-Figures
-Trend
-Average work week
-Rates of employment
-Size of workforce
-Factors
-Figures
-Administration stance
-Public relations
-Public statements
-President=s position
-Unity
-Comparison to 1930s
-Franklin D. Roosevelt=s speeches
-Confidence
-Credibility
-McCracken, Shultz
-Confidence
-President=s position
-Roosevelt=s example
-Public statements
-Administration spokesman
-President=s comments
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower=s D-Day landing
-Compared with President=s Vietnam policy
-Press position
-Bias
-Administration position
-Possible wage and price controls
-Figures
-Administration position
-Credibility

-Press
-Federal Reserve Board
-Burns
-Economic policy
-Effect of criticism
-Need for unity
-Eisenhower administration example
-Federal Reserve Board
-George T. Humphrey
-Robert B. Anderson
-Jim Bains [sp?] [?]
-Burns= position
-Press
-Credibility
-President=s timing of press conferences
-President=s statement about press at March 4, 1971 press conference

Quadriad
-Relationship with the President
-Burns
-President=s relationship
-Advisory capacity
-Compared with President=s use of Henry A. Kissinger, William P. Rogers, and National Security Council
-Response to press conference question
-Federal Reserve Board
-Burns
-Position
-Shultz
-McCracken
-Connally
-Uses
-SST testimony

SST
-President=s decision
-Burns= position
-Testimony
-George H. Mahon=s assessment
-Connally
-Warren G. (AMaggie@) Magnuson
-William Proxmire
-Support

-Compared with Wayne Morse
-A previous filibuster
-Administration=s position
-Importance

Interest rates
-Need for a decrease
-Connally=s view
-Percentage
-M1 money supply
-Need for administration action
-Prime rate decrease
-Extent
-Effect
-General Motors
-Average American
-Foreign capital
-Burns= view
-M1 money supply
-Federal Reserve Board action
-Long-term rates
-New public offerings of corporate securities
-Trends in recent years
-Current situation
-Reasons
-Expansionary effect
-Effect on interest rates
-Federal actions
-Monetary policy
-Possible negative effect
-Banking
-Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo=s view
-Effect of prosperity
-Statements by Burns and Connally
-Internal, public
-Alfred Hayes= press conference
-New York Times
-Possible Federal actions
-Short-term rates
-Long-term rates
-Burns= forthcoming Congressional testimony

Dupont brokerage firm
-Possible insolvency
-Connally=s previous conversations
-Gustave L. Levy of Goldman Sachs
-Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker
-H. Ross Perot
-Financial support
-Connally=s efforts
-Possible Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] action
-Possible action by Burns and Connally
-Call from Connally to Perot
-Possible action by Perot
-SEC
-Possible actions
-Possible meeting between Perot and SEC
-Securities Investors Protection Insurance Corporation [SIPIC]
-SEC and Federal Reserve Board rules
-Violations
-SIPIC
-Possible actions
-Burns= view
-Connally=s forthcoming call to Perot
-Administration efforts
-President=s instructions
-Lockheed and Penn Central comparisons
-Anti-trust actions
-Shultz=s instructions
-Study
-Domestic Council review
-John D. Ehrlichman
-John W. Dean, III and Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
-President=s position
-Enforcement
-Mergers
-Criteria
-Dupont family actions
-Perot=s actions
-Withdrawal of financial support
-Purpose
-Stanford University research study
-Connally=s forthcoming call to Perot

Milk price supports
-Parity level
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Importance
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Department of Agriculture, Shultz=s position
-Cost estimates
-Department of Agriculture
-Mills
-Importance
-Mills
-Cheese
-President=s position on parity level
-Cost estimates
-Land O= Lakes of Sarasota, Florida
-Possible effects
-Mills
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Mills
-Farmers= lobby
-1970 campaign
-Compared with Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]
-Mills
-Cheese, school milk
-Farmers= lobby
-Program
-Effect on textile quotas
-Government actions to date
-Cheese for school lunch program
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] response
-Political and trade implications

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Milk price supports
-Farmers= lobby
-Price goal
-Possible effect on production
-Hardin
-US consumption of dairy products
-School lunch program
-Effect on farm program, economy as a whole
-Mills
-Possible action
-Cheese and school milk program
-Possible meeting between the President and Mills
-An anecdote
-House Ways and Means Committee
-John W. Byrnes
-Mills
-Byrnes
-Social Security and Welfare Reform
-Possible meeting between Connally and Byrnes

President=s schedule
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Rochester trip cancellation
-Forthcoming Evening at the White House
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s birthday party
-Invitations

-Entertainment
-Irish singers
-Irish Prime Minister [John M. (AJack@) Lynch]
-Refreshments
-Shultz=s wife

Ireland
-Lynch
-History
-Great Britain
-Potato Famine
-Immigration to US
-View of US

Economy
-Capital expenditures
-Increases
-Trend
-Importance
-Commerce Department figures
-Need for credibility
-Press
-President=s relations with the press
-Statement at March 4, 1971 press conference
-Money supply
-Report by Burns
-President=s understanding
-Federal Reserve Board action
-Hayes
-President=s understanding
-Weekly figures
-President=s staff=s understanding
-Bankers= position

President=s staff
-Kissinger and Rogers
-Need for unity
-Comparison with Johnson=s staff
-Clark M. Clifford
-Vietnam policy
-H. H. Humphrey

-Need for unity
-Teamwork
-James B. (AScotty@) Reston
-Winston S. Churchill=s On the Eastern Front
-Lessons of World War I
-Leadership
-Austria
-Soviet Union
-Germany
-Erich F. W. Ludendorf
-Helmut von Moltke

Economy
-Quadriad
-Press comments
-President=s response
-Meetings
-Frequency of President=s contacts with individual members
-Money supply
-Connally=s testimony
-Shultz=s, McCracken=s, and Burns= responses
-Wage and price increases
-Effect on individual savings
-President=s position
-Need for unity
-Burns, McCracken, Connally
-Effect
-President
-Ronald L. Ziegler

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Economy
-Need for unity
-Interest rates
-Burns= forthcoming Congressional testimony
-Connally=s response
-President=s position
-Federal Reserve Board
-Press reports
-Burns= report to the President

President=s schedule
-Forthcoming Rockefeller meeting
-Time
-Purpose
-Revenue sharing
-Reorganization

Connally=s schedule
-Possible meeting with Rockefeller
-New York

Burns and McCracken left at 12:47 pm

-Possible press briefing

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 12:47 pm

Evening at the White House
-Invitations
-Cabinet members
-Mr. and Mrs. Burns
-McCracken
-Connally

Woods left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 12:47 pm

Unemployment
-July 1
-Press coverage
-James D. Hodgson=s statement
-Post-Quadriad briefing

-Press questions
-Connally=s possible statement
-Compared with confirmation testimony
-Connally=s role
-Compared with confirmation testimony
-New plant and equipment figures
-Shultz=s view
-Tone, content
-Shultz=s view
-President=s view

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm

Burns
-Actions
-Effect on Administration
-Shultz
-Position
-Interest rates discussion
-President=s demeanor

Building trades
-Agreements
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Acceptance prospects
-Administration follow-up
-Possible problems
-Wage and price freeze
-Possible labor response
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Wage and price controls
-President=s position

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 1:00 pm

President=s schedule

Butterfield left at 1:02 pm

Milk price supports
-Shultz=s preparation
-Mills
-Administration position

-Possible announcement
-Effect
-Department of Agriculture
-President=s position
-Political implications
-Compared to steel
-Connally=s view
-Farmers
-Importance
-Parity levels
-Importance compared to other industries
-Grain negotiations with Great Britain
-Connally=s conversation with Hardin
-President=s position
-Cheese

President=s schedule
-Rockefeller meeting
-Shultz=s attendance

Connally=s schedule
-Hardin
-New job
-Confirmation testimony
-A party in New York
-John Loeb [?]
-Rockefeller

Connally and Shultz left at 1:05 pm

Conversation No. 462-14

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  1:06 pm - unknown before 1:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-General Walter R. Tkach

Tkach entered at 1:06 pm

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H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 1:08 pm

Tkach left at 1:10 pm

John A. (AJack@) Mulcahy
-Possible meeting with the President
-Meeting with William H. Carruthers
-Evening at the White House, March 16, 1971
-Location
-Meeting with President

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm

Conversation No. 462-15

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  1:17 pm - 2:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John A. (AJack@) Mulcahy and H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Greetings

Evening at the White House, March 16, 1971
-Mulcahy=s arrival

-Mulcahy family
-Schedule
-Daughter
-Kevin Mulcahy

A story about a cemetery
-Henry C. Cashen, II
-Mulcahy

Mulcahy=s tour of duty in Ireland

Mulcahy=s briefing, March 5, 1971
-Peter M. Flanigan [?]

Mulcahy=s previous meeting with Jerry Brown [?]
-A list on union activities
-Transmittal to President

Plans for an addition to Afrin [?] Castle
-William P. Rogers= previous visit
-Location

Possible trip by President to Ireland

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Jack McCarthy
-Position
-Coverage of St. Patrick=s Day parade
-Trip from Ireland
-Evening at the White House, March 16, 1971
-Invitation

-Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy=s attendance
-Arthur F. and Helen (Bernstein) Burns= attendance
-Support for the President

Presidential gifts
-Golf balls, cuff links, and tie clasps for Mulcahy and McCarthy

Mulcahy=s schedule

Mulcahy left at 1:23 pm

Mulcahy

President=s schedule
-Camp David
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Departure time
-Nelson A. Rockefeller meeting and briefing
-Time

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Wrong buzzer

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:25 pm

Mulcahy
-Compared with Robert H. Abplanalp
-Background

A telegram from Charlton Heston
-Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope=s previous conversations with the President
-Receipt
-Haldeman=s instructions to Bruce A. Kehrli
-Kehrli=s effort to locate Heston

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:23 pm

President=s schedule
-John B. Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:25 pm

Telegram from Heston
-A call from Kehrli
-Hope
-White House efforts
-Content of telegram
-Pornography

Connally entered at 1:25 pm

Connally=s press briefing
-Ronald L. Ziegler=s response

Connally=s schedule
-Work at Treasury Department
-Social schedule
-Purpose
-Cyrus R. (AC. R.@) Smith, Robert S. Strauss, and Henry H. (AJoe@) Fowler dinner at the Metropolitan Club
-Andre Meyer [?], Lewellyn A. Jennings, Frank Stanton, Clark M. Clifford, Hubert H. Humphrey, John D. Harper
-Thomas C. (ADel@) Barger, Gustave L. Levy, Joseph A. Thomas
-Political orientation
-Purpose
-Work at Treasury Department
-National security work
-The President=s view
-Purposes

US foreign policy
-Middle East

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-World War II
-AOperation Overlord@
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Omaha Beach

-Vietnam
-US military forces
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Connally=s possible public comments
-President=s possible actions
-President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Outcome of war
-Possible Connally conversations
-Possible US military actions
-Reasons
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Vietnamese elections
-US strategy
-Critics
-Polls
-Laos (Lam Son)
-President=s position
-US strategy
-Outcome
-President=s advisors
-Connally=s role
-Kissinger
-Rogers

Economic policy
-Connally=s role
-Charls E. Walker=s role
-Connally=s work at Treasury Department
-Paul W. McCracken
-Burns
-Knowledge
-Personnel at Treasury Department
-Walker
-Paul A. Volcker
-Walker
-James E. Smith
-Staff
-Need for additional staff
-Frederic V. Malek=s role

Economic policy
-Statements to ANew York crowd@
-Confidence
-Compared to foreign policy statements
-Stock market
-Trend
-Interest rates
-Connally=s statements to Burns
-President=s response
-Banker=s response
-Burns
-George P. Shultz=s role
-Connally=s role
-The President=s handling
-Quadriad meetings
-Leaks to press
-Relations with Congress
-Humphrey
-Federal Reserve Board
-President
-Connally
-Quadriad meeting, March 5, 1971
-Bonds
-Interest rates
-Burn=s forthcoming Congressional testimony
-Response
-Effect on banks

-Tax payments
-Disposition
-Connally=s view
-Time deposits
-Response
-Interest rates
-Burns
-Connally
-Banks
-Long-term
-Connally=s finances as an example
-Ranch
-Loan
-Interest rate
-Discussions with bankers
-Decreases in interest rates
-Loans
-Banks
-Money supply
-Interest rates
-Administration policy
-Short-term
-Prime rate
-Connally=s discussion with Jake Jacobson
-Lyndon B. Johnson administration work
-Jacobson=s bank
-Loans
-Number
-Rates
-President=s position
-Administration policy
-Rates
-Connally=s check of other banks
-Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo=s bank
-Average citizen
-Trends in economy
-Unemployment figures
-Stock market levels
-Increases
-Confidence
-Burns= view
-Other economists= views
-Shultz

-McCracken
-Connally=s view
-Rate of economic growth
-Unemployment decrease
-President=s budget
-Corporate taxes and profits
-Unemployment
-Federal revenue
-Comments to press
-Press view

Connally=s schedule
-New York trip
-Transportation
-Rockefeller
-Albany, New York City
-John T. Logan

Connally left at 1:50 pm

Connally
-Future
-Work at Treasury Department

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:50 pm

Refreshment order

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm

Burns
-Quadriad meeting, March 5, 1971
-President=s statements

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Sanchez=s schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm

President=s schedule
-Cancellation of Rochester trip
-Possible problems
-J. Edgar Hoover

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Charles W. Colson
-Calls
-Senate
-Possible public response
-Cambodia issue
-Press
-Ziegler
-Washington Post, New York Times
-President=s response
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-President=s response to a question
-Tone
-Content
-Coverage

Vietnam
-News coverage
-Public opinion
-Effect
-Editorials
-Tchepone battle
-Coverage
-Possible outcome
-Kissinger
-Troops
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting, March 5, 1971
-US military action
-The President=s instructions
-Bombing
-Reasons

President=s press conferences
-Preparation
-Results
-Importance

-Possible office press conferences
-William H. Carruthers
-Meeting with President

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:05 pm]

[Conversation No. 462-15A]

President=s schedule
-Carruthers

[End of telephone conversation]

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President=s schedule
-Carruthers

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm

[Unintelligible]

An unknown man

Polls
-An analysis
-Vietnam War
-George H. Gallup poll
-Questions
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Compared with White House poll and another poll
-Results
-Compared with previous Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll
-Chilton, ORC
-Compared with previous polls
-Chilton

Carruthers entered at 2:05 pm

President=s future press conferences
-Oval Office
-Camera coverage

-Carruthers= view
-Seating options
-Camera locations
-President=s and press positions
-Camera positioning
-President=s and press positions
-Briefing room
-Oval Office
-President=s view
-Lighting
-Types of cameras
-President=s and press positions
-Camera positions
-History
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Camera positioning
-Coverage
-Lighting
-Blue Room
-Lighting
-Briefing room
-Blue Room
-Radio simulcast
-Old Executive Office Building [EOB] office
-Radio coverage
-Capacity
-Radio coverage
-Locations
-Radio, film considerations
-Pool coverage
-Types of cameras
-Oval Office
-Atmosphere
-Photo coverage
-Atmosphere
-Photo coverage
-Lighting
-Set-up time
-Lead-time
-Scenario
-Costs
-Photo coverage

President=s schedule
-Rockefeller meeting
-Location

President=s future press conferences
-Carruthers= work
-Make-up
-Importance
-President=s preparation
-Importance
-Time needed
-Importance

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Carruthers= response
-Ziegler
-Press response
-Compared to the Vice President=s comments
-President=s preparation
-President=s statement to audience
-Effect

President=s schedule
-Rockefeller

Carruthers= schedule

Haldeman and Carruthers left at 2:20 pm

Conversation No. 462-16

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  2:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

The President=s schedule [?]

The President and Sanchez left at 2:20 pm

Conversation No. 462-17

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:20 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown Secret Service agents met

[Unintelligible]

The unknown Secret Service agents left at an unknown time before 4:20 pm

Conversation No. 462-18

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 4:20 pm until 4:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

President met with Robert H. Finch
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Young people=s response
-Finch children
-Vietnam policy
-Effect of Laos (Lam Son)
-Interdiction of North Vietnamese supplies
-US withdrawal
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Middle East
-Jewish response
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-President=s comments
-Jewish response
-Symington
-J. William Fulbright
-Rogers
-Critics

-President=s response
-Effect on press

President=s press conferences
-Television
-Frequency
-Possible office press conferences
-Frequency
-Coverage
-Frequency
-Importance of television

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Finch=s previous conversation with a barber
-President=s familiarity with press
-Peter Lisagor, Lucian C. (ALou@) Warren, Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Effect of President=s statements
-Compared with Cambodia 
-Justification

Ronald W. Reagan
-A proposal
-Funding problems
-A poll
-Medicaid proposal
-Congressional and California state legislature

Polls
-President=s support
-George H. Gallup poll
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Vietnam
-Economy
-Stock market level
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Effect of President=s policies

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Cabinet
-George W. Romney
-John B. Connally
-Press, Congress
-Committee on education
-Atlanta trip

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Finch
-Laos
-Youth

President=s appeal to youth
-Question and answer technique
-Compared with Edmund G. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Finch children
-President=s responses at March 4, 1971 press conference
-Nixon daughters
-Rogers
-Vietnam
-President=s phraseology, tone

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Unasked question
-Finch=s uses
-Tone of answer prepared
-Humphrey, Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson, John C. Stennis
-Vietnam
-1961 compared with 1969
-US plans

-Clark M. Clifford=s 1968 statement
-Withdrawal of US forces
-President=s record
-Withdrawal of US troops
-Casualty rate
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-1961 situation
-Compared with John F. Kennedy administration
-Humphrey, Muskie
-Use of surrogate speakers
-Administration plans

Mexicans

Finch left at 4:28 pm

Conversation No. 462-19

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  4:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

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The unknown person left at 4:29 pm

Conversation No. 462-20

Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  4:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 462-21
Date:  March 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:30 pm and 4:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Stock market
-Dow Jones average
-Volume

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:30 pm

President=s schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler meeting
-President=s departure time

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 4:32 pm

Stock market
-Previous day=s Dow Jones average
-Volume
-Dow Jones average

[The President talked with Charles W. Colson at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:33 pm]

[Conversation No. 462-21A]

President=s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Response
-Colson=s findings
-Unknown persons (members)
-Laos
-Administration action
-Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:33 pm

Kissinger=s schedule

President=s schedule
-Camp David

Vietnam
-Developments
-Reports

Middle East
-A meeting
-A statement on Israel
-President=s statement in March 4, 1971 press conference
-Possible settlement
-Joseph J. Sisco=s statement
-Response

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Meeting with President
-Meeting with Kissinger

Press coverage of Vietnam War
-A tape of Howard K. Smith and [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Laos (Lam Son) commentary
-President=s critics
-White House news summary
-Press coverage

President=s schedule
-Helicopter

Public relations
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Comments on Vietnam
-Press
-President=s comments
-Press

President=s critics
-Brookings Institute meeting
-Kissinger=s comments to John W. Gardner
-President=s policies
-President=s March 4, 1971 press conference comments
-President=s policies
-Effect of the AEstablishment@

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 4:40 pm