Conversation No. 465-1

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:25 am and 9:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield [?]

President=s schedule
-William L. Safire meeting

Butterfield [?] left at an unknown time before 9:33 am

Conversation No. 465-2

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  9:33 am - 9:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William L. Safire

Draft of President=s forthcoming speech on law enforcement
-Length of draft
-President=s revisions
-Wording
-Warren E. Burger
-John N. Mitchell
-Wording
-Reform of judicial system
-Priority
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Wording
-Respect for law
-Radicals
-Lawyers
-Police
-Leonard Garment and Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
-Legal services reference
-Office of Economic Opportunity

-Delivery of final draft
-Burger=s remarks
-Burger=s review
-Williamsburg
-President=s previous speech

Interviews with President
-Cyrus L. (ACy@) Sulzberger
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-New York Times and Sulzberger
-James B. (AScotty@) Reston

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:45 am

President=s schedule
-Ceremony for Revenue Sharing for Rural Community Development
-Signing ceremony
-Television appearance
-Mark I. Goode
-Handshakes and photographs
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
-Signing ceremony
-Message to Congress
-Talking paper

Butterfield left at 9:45 am

President=s previous interview with Sulzberger
-Possible review by President

Safire left at 9:45 am

Conversation No. 465-3

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  9:50 am - 9:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mark I. Goode

Meeting with farm leaders
-A signing ceremony
-Roosevelt Room
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Camera locations
-Pen distribution
-Stephen B. Bull

Goode left at 9:51 am

Conversation No. 465-4

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  9:51 am - 10:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John W. Scott, Robert N. Hampton, Lowell J. Endahl, C. W. McMillan, John E. Butterbrodt, Don F. Magdanz, John Palmer, Eugene Moos, Robert Lederer, Patrick Healy, Harry Graham, Claude W. Gifford, Devoe H. Willard, John I. Sutherland, Parke Brinkley, Frank Frazier, Walter W. Goeppinger, Charles Toan, Albert Russell, Robert J. Andrews, Elbert Harp, Ralph T. Jackson, Lorraine Kirker, Roy B. Keppey, and unknown men

[General conversation]

President=s message on Revenue Sharing for Rural Community Development
-Briefing
-Length
-White House theater

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:51 am

-Press briefing

White House tour

Rural problems
-Priority for Nixon administration
-President=s message to Congress
-Signing ceremony
-Briefing

Scott, et al. left at 9:56 am; unknown men remained

-A bill in Congress
-Opposition
-Position on revenue sharing
-Democratic governors
-Administration efforts
-Minority groups
-Reorganization

The President and the unknown men left at 10:01 am

Conversation No. 465-5

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 10:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?]

President=s schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan

The unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 10:13 am

Conversation No. 465-6

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  10:13 am - 10:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Peter M. Flanigan

Textile trade negotiations with Japan
-President=s conversation with John N. Mitchell, March 9, 1971
-Concessions
-Wilbur D. Mills

-Flanigan=s conversation with Mitchell, March 9, 1971
-Mills= efforts
-Effect on negotiations
-President=s position
-A letter to Eisaku Sato
-Possible Presidential statement
-Textile legislation
-Possible action
-Mills
-Wording
-Conversation with Peter G. Peterson
-President=s message
-Draft
-Review
-Mitchell
-John B. Connally
-Tone
-Administration position
-Textile legislation
-Timing
-George P. Shultz and Peterson
-Possible action
-Congress
-Administration
-Administration=s position
-President=s view
-Japan
-Peterson
-Flanigan=s conversation with Japanese ambassador
-Mills= role
-President=s position
-Trade requirements
-Mills
-Mills
-Steel compared with textiles
-Textile industry position
-Public relations efforts
-Administration
-Mills

Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM] treaty
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-A statement on Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-James C. Fletcher
-Meeting with President
-Position
-Ziegler clarification
-President=s position
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Meeting with Fletcher and university presidents
-President=s position
-Ziegler=s meeting with Fletcher
-Clarification of comments
-Schorr
-Fletcher

William J. Casey
-Senate confirmation
-Committee
-Full Senate
-William Proxmire
-A federal judge=s testimony
-John G. Tower

Flanigan left at 10:23 am

Conversation No. 465-7

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:23 am and 10:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Noel C. Koch

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:42 am

Conversation No. 465-8

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  10:42 am - 1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s schedule
-George P. Shultz

President=s interview with Cyrus L. (ACy@) Sulzberger
-William P. Rogers= calls to President and Haldeman

A National Security Council [NSC] meeting, March 10, 1971
-Cancellation
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Rogers
-Kissinger

Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Noel C. Koch entered at 10:43 am

Greetings

President=s schedule
-April 22 event
-Josip Broz Tito
-Forthcoming Head of State visit
-General Nguyen Van Thieu

President=s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Graduation exercises for Naval Officer Candidate School
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Revisions
-Vietnam War
-Length
-Subject
-Graduating class
-Eisenhower=s class standing

President=s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Attitudes toward military service
-Navy

-Vietnam War
-Military situation
-Effect on attitudes
-Vietnamization
-Naval situation
-President=s recollections
-Value
-President=s comments
-Years of service
-Wording
-Value
-Revisions
-Vietnam War
-President=s policy
-Audience
-Graduating class at Newport compared with the country at large
-Effect on speech content
-Youth=s attitude toward military
-Value
-Audience
-Graduating class at Newport compared with draftees and enlistees
-Volunteer army

Military
-Value to graduating class at Newport
-Compared with President=s military unit
-Compared with enlisted men
-Value to blacks, poor whites

President=s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Next draft
-Revisions
-Audience
-Country
-Graduating class
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview
-Distribution
-Accuracy
-Audience
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview
-Audience
-Dissemination
-Length

-Tone
-Biblical quotations
-William F. (ABilly@) Graham
-President
-Wording
-Another draft

President=s schedule
-Williamsburg
-Delivery of Newport speech

President=s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Revisions
-Vietnam War
-Military service
-Sacrifices of young Americans
-President=s view
-US foreign policy
-Military action
-US defense capacity
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-Wording
-Administration policy
-Tone
-Expected response
-Compared with President=s Williamsburg speech
-Judicial system reform
-Vietnam War
-Rogers= previous comments to Veterans of Foreign Wars
-Headlines
-Possible television coverage

Price=s office
-Workload
-Foreign policy
-State Department
-Letters to heads of state
-Kissinger=s office=s work

Correspondence
-Importance
-Difficulty
-Administration handling
-State Department

Price and Koch left at 11:05 am

President=s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Sulzberger interview
-Koch

New York Times
-Sulzberger=s story
-Press
-Influence
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-News people

President=s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Coverage
-Compared with Sulzberger interview

Kissinger and Rogers
-Relations

James C. Fletcher story
-Daniel L. Schorr=s story
-President=s meeting with Peter M. Flanigan
-Meeting with President
-President=s position on Anti-ballistic Missiles  [ABM]
-Ziegler
-Attendance at a luncheon
-Schorr
-Date
-Schorr
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Robert H. Finch

President=s appearance in Des Moines, March 1, 1971
-Republican Congressional leadership meeting
-President=s reception

-Demonstrations
-Republican Congressional leadership meeting
-News coverage
-Washington Post and news magazines
-Statements from a White House staffer

President=s trip to Williamsburg
-Ziegler
-Logistics
-Airport, helipad, Williamsburg Inn and Conference Center
-Possible demonstration at the College of William and Mary

President=s public appearances
-Demonstrators
-Laos (Lam Son) issue
-Forthcoming Presidential election
-Texas
-Albuquerque
-Utah
-Nevada
-California
-North Dakota
-Reason
-Lyndon B. Johnson=s experience
-Ziegler and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Des Moines
-Demonstrations
-Press coverage
-Cabinet dinner
-Jack R. Miller
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Des Moines Register
-White House responses
-Miller
-News magazines
-Counter-demonstrations
-Williamsburg
-Newport, Rhode Island
-President=s popularity
-John B. Connally=s statement
-Polls
-Percentages

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Press
-Newsweek story
-President=s demeanor at previous press conference
-Possible White House response
-Letters
-Ziegler
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
-News magazines
-Laos operation (Lam Son) coverage
-President=s possible future television appearances
-A film
-March 22, 1971
-AOne-on-one@ interview
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Barbara Walters
-AToday@ show taping, March 11, 1971
-Distribution
-Timing
-Conditions
-Length
-Editing
-Length
-Schedule
-Ladies of the press interview
-Yellow Oval Room and Red Room
-Walters
-AToday@ show taping
-Conditions
-Questions
-Kissinger
-Interview subjects

-Schedule
-AToday@ show
-Interview with ladies of the press
-Distribution
-Content
-Time
-Walters
-Walters= interview
-Length
-Content
-Howard K. Smith interview
-Compared with Walters= interview
-Time
-Walters= interview
-Content
-Role of women
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon, daughters
-Haldeman=s interview for Washington Monthly magazine
-A letter from Matt Storm [?]
-Possible action
-Magazine
-Price=s attitude
-Experience with press
-Editorial writers
-Work at White House
-Relations with administration
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-James Keogh
-Moynihan
-Newsweek

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:20 am

Camp David
-Cabinet requests
-President=s schedule
-Cabinet requests
-John A. Volpe
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Call from Butterfield
-Gridiron Dinner
-Grandchildren
-White House staff

-Cabinet members
-Volpe
-Calls by Butterfield
-Richard M. Helms
-Facilities
-Volpe
-Senior staff at Department of Transportation
-Use
-President=s use
-Staff
-Commerce Department picnic
-File on use
-Agnew
-John N. and Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-File on use
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes
-Butterfield=s Cabinet list
-Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Volpe
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Use
-President
-Others
-Florida
-Offer
-Volpe
-Gridiron dinner
-Connally
-Agnew
-Use during week
-Departmental conferences
-Agnew
-Butterfield=s call

President=s schedule
-Florida

The President left at an unknown time after 11:20 am

Volpe
-A dinner, March 9, 1971
-Camp David

-A dinner
-Calls
-Camp David

The President entered at an unknown time before 11:36 am

President=s schedule
-Kissinger

Butterfield left at 11:36 am

Volpe

President=s dinner, March 9, 1971
-Agnew=s demeanor

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Volpe
-Possible meeting with President
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible meeting with President

President=s dinner, March 9, 1971

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President=s schedule
-Meetings with Cabinet officers
-Connally
-Approach to textiles
-Shultz

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Connally=s [?] schedule
-Gridiron Dinner
-Camp David
-Gridiron Dinner
-President=s possible attendance

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President=s appearances since 1970 elections
-Press conferences, interviews, State of the Union address, speeches
-Public relations
-President=s popularity
-News summary reports
-Financial editors
-Paul W. McCracken
-Arthur F. Burns
-Stock market, March 9, 1971
-Gains
-Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker
-Polls
-Televised interviews with the President
-Timing
-George H. Gallup results
-White House polls
-Youth in sample
-1970 polls
-Presidential approval ratings
-Economic factors
-Vietnam War
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Cambodian operation
-Compared with third year of John F. Kennedy=s administration
-Polls
-Use of President=s time
-Public relations
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Magruder

White House staff
-Connally=s view
-Role
-Responsibilities
-Workload
-Background
-Public relations concerns
-Moynihan and Connally
-Finch and Rumsfeld
-Connally and Moynihan
-Finch and Rumsfeld

An article in Fortune
-Administration cycles
-Nixon administration compared with [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson administration
-Franklin D. Roosevelt administration
-Abraham Lincoln administration
-Nixon and Wilson administrations
-Social welfare cycle
-Roosevelt
-Nixon and Wilson administrations
-New cycle
-Democratic Party
-Republican Party
-Coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats
-Author [Forename unknown] Wrightley [?]
-Catalyst
-Liberal Republicans
-Ripon Society
-Rumsfeld
-Peer judgement

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Volpe and Agnew
-Personnel

Public relations
-White House staff
-Importance
-President=s Des Moines appearance, March 1, 1971
-Press coverage
-White House Press Office response
-Ziegler
-Effect
-Washington Post=s reporting
-Demonstrators
-Hardhats, farmers, and students
-Press coverage
-Possible results
-Opposition to President
-Farming states
-Need for White House response
-1964 election
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Sources
-Supporters
-Farmers, property owners, suburbanites, blacks
-Ziegler
-Oberdorfer, Washington Post, and Newsweek
-Influence
-John F. Osborne comparison
-President=s forthcoming interview with Walters
-Question on Mrs. Nixon and daughters
-President=s responses
-Richard A. Moore
-[Forename unknown] Jesselman=s [?] article
-Delivery of information
-President=s return from Williamsburg

President=s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Work with Price

Kissinger entered at 12:00 pm

President=s interview with Sulzberger in New York Times
-Joseph W. Alsop=s call to Kissinger

President=s previous meeting with Price
-Influence of New York Times

President=s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Kissinger=s review
-Tone
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview
-Meeting with Price and Koch
-President=s March 7, 1971 call to Koch

An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 12:00 pm

Request for Ziegler

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm

President=s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Koch=s draft
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview in New York Times
-New York Times influence
-Price
-Audience
-Television and newspaper representatives

Ziegler entered at 12:05 pm

ABM
-Fletcher story
-White House response
-Influence on nomination as National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] director
-White House response
-Ziegler=s previous press briefing
-CBS
-Meeting with President
-Ziegler=s meeting with Fletcher
-President=s position

-Fletcher
-Meeting with Ziegler
-Meeting with President
-Position on ABM
-Confirmation testimony
-Position on ABM
-Nomination
-Schorr
-White House response to Fletcher story
-Williamsburg
-Ziegler=s handling
-Importance
-Soviet Union
-Congress
-Soviet weaponry
-Capability
-Fletcher story
-Importance
-Ziegler=s meeting with Fletcher
-Charles W. Colson
-Ziegler=s handling at press briefing
-White House response to Fletcher story
-Call to CBS
-President=s meeting with Fletcher
-President=s position

President=s interviews
-Sulzberger
-Use
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Richard (ADick@) Wilson
-Sulzberger
-Use
-Possible review by President
-Use
-Possible reading by President
-Possible comment by White House
-Use
-Nature
-President=s policies of review and comment
-Use
-President=s policies of review

Fletcher story
-Ziegler=s response to CBS
-Importance
-Ziegler=s and Fletcher=s response
-Flanigan
-Fletcher
-Accuracy
-Meeting with President
-Importance
-White House response
-Meeting with President

Ziegler left at 12:18 pm
-Basis
-Scientists

J. W. Alsop

Ziegler
-Work
-Response to Fletcher story

Haldeman left at 12:22 pm

President=s interview with Sulzberger
-Possible J. W. Alsop column
-Staff assistance
-Kissinger and Ziegler
-Content
-J. W. Alsop=s view
-Possible S. J. O. Alsop column
-Other attendees
-Compared with J. W. Alsop interview(s)
-Content
-Compared with other Presidents
-J. W. Alsop
-President=s reading
-President=s purpose
-New York Times coverage
-John B. Oakes
-James B. (AScotty@) Reston

Forthcoming book by Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Tone

Robert S. McNamara
-Form of address
-Possible postscript
-Meetings with Kissinger
-Importance
-Support for Administration policy
-Vietnam War
-A dinner at Alsop=s house
-Laos operation (Lam Son)

John [Surname unintelligible]

Rogers
-Kissinger=s previous conversation
-Cancellation of NSC meeting
-Israel
-Egypt
-Soviet Union
-A March 9, 1971 meeting
-Helms
-Position on Middle East
-Suez Canal

Letters to heads of state
-Postscripts
-Indira Gandhi
-Morocco

McNamara
-Position at World Bank
-Continued work
-News reports
-David M. Kennedy
-Work
-Term of service
-Possible re-appointment
-Support for Administration
-[Forename unknown] Freeman
-President=s letter

Freeman
-Head of a British television channel
-Message for President

President=s previous interview with Sulzberger
-Reasons
-Sulzberger
-Sulzberger=s position at New York Times
-Oakes
-President=s purpose
-Reston
-Content
-President=s foreign policy
-J. W. Alsop=s response
-Southeast Asia
-Golda Meir
-Kissinger=s view

Forthcoming Evans and Novak book
-Kissinger=s interview, March 9, 1971
-President=s foreign policy
-Consistency
-President=s foreign policy report
-Foreign Affairs article
-Guam conference
-Ireland
-Kissinger=s interview
-President=s trips
-Meetings with heads of state
-Romania
-China policy
-Foreign policy compared with domestic policy
-Length
-Publication date

Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Withdrawal
-South Vietnamese position
-Timing
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

-Kissinger=s view
-North Vietnamese
-Military situation
-Casualties
-North Vietnamese supply routes
-Reasoning
-Thieu
-Possible US position
-Abrams
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-State Department
-Melvin R. Laird
-Moorer
-Military situation
-Possible results
-Effect on future supplies
-Laird
-Military situation
-Thieu
-Forthcoming presidential election
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Capability
-General Do Cao Tri=s death
-Effectiveness
-Compared with Austrian army in 1915
-North Vietnamese forces
-Compared with Germans
-US support
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Possible meeting with the President
-Moorer
-Abrams= assessment of situation
-Laird
-Abrams
-Thieu=s position
-Withdrawal of ARVN forces
-Military situation
-Tchepone
-Moorer and Abrams
-North Vietnamese
-Withdrawal
-South Vietnamese
-Press coverage

-Thieu
-South Vietnamese forces
-President=s position
-Possible effect on 1972 elections
-US forces
-Abrams= assessment

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Results
-Weather
-Effect
-Laos operation
-Abrams
-President=s position
-Possible results
-Timing of operation
-Abrams
-Timing of withdrawal
-Abrams= forthcoming report
-Moorer
-Laird
-General Robert E. Pursley
-Statements
-ARVN
-Capability
-US military plans
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Laird
-Abrams
-Haig
-Cambodia
-Fred Ladd [?]
-Importance
-Laos operation
-Importance
-Possible results
-Scenario
-Possible withdrawal announcement
-Negotiations in Paris
-Le Duc Tho
-Possible US position
-US troop withdrawal

-Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA)
-Cease fire
-US military plans
-Withdrawal
-American public opinion
-Compared to Korean War
-Possible effect on 1972 election
-Withdrawal of US forces
-Residual force
-Negotiations
-Effect
-US military plans

People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-A picture of Chou En-lai
-Soviet Union
-A speech by Chou En-lai on Vietnam War
-Kissinger=s analysis
-North Vietnam relations

Vietnam
-US military plans
-Air strikes
-Laird
-Effects
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Military situation
-North Vietnamese forces
-Troop locations
-Tchepone
-Casualties
-Military supplies
-Air strikes
-Effects
-North Vietnamese supplies
-Current ground location
-Negotiations
-President=s meeting with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, March 10, 1971
-US position
-Thieu
-South Vietnamese election
-Laos Operation (Lam Son)
-Possible effects

-ARVN
-Abrams
-US influence
-ARVN
-Effects
-Public statements
-Success of operations
-Thieu
-Forthcoming South Vietnamese elections

Soviet Union
-Possible summit
-Soviet Union=s reply
-Kissinger=s view
-Foreign policy stance
-Possible summit
-US strategy
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Letter from the President to Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Public statement
-Party congress
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Effect on possible summit
-Timing of Party congress

Ziegler entered at 12:49 pm

-Possible public statement by US

ABM
-CBS story on Fletcher
-Schorr
-Retraction
-President=s contact with Fletcher

Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Moorer
Soviet Union
-Dobrynin=s conversations with Kissinger
-President=s position
-Possible summit
-Party congress

-President=s previous conversation with Mansfield
-Vienna negotiations
-SALT

Kissinger left at 12:51 pm
ABM
-CBS story
-Importance of clarification
-Ziegler=s statement
-President=s position on ABM and SAFEGUARD
-President=s meeting with Fletcher
-President=s conversations
-Fletcher
-Others
-President=s meeting with Fletcher in receiving line
-White House response

The President left and Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:51 pm

A message for the President

Butterfield left and the President entered at an unknown time before 1:15 pm

ABM
-CBS story
-Schorr
-Fletcher
-Fletcher=s position
-Forthcoming press briefing

Haldeman=s location
-Maurice H. Stans

Press
-White House relations
-Ziegler=s briefings
-Retraction of Fletcher story
-David Lawrence
-Ziegler=s retraction of Fletcher story
-President=s view
-Lawrence=s column on critics
-Connally=s position
-Agnew

-CBS story on Fletcher
-President=s March 9, 1971 meeting with CBS executives
-Coverage of President=s trip to Des Moines, March 1, 1971
-Cabinet dinner
-Washington Post
-Hardin
-Agnew
-Des Moines Register
-Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, and networks
-President=s conversation with Haldeman regarding demonstrations
-Need for a response
-President=s public appearances
-Williamsburg
-College of William and Mary student demonstrators
-1968 campaign appearance
-President=s attitude toward demonstrators
-President=s upcoming speeches
-Ziegler=s conversation with Price
-Coverage of President=s trip to Des Moines
-Effect
-Possible White House response
-Newsweek, Time
-Possible response
-Congressmen
-Networks
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Dan Rather
-Haldeman=s staff meeting
-Connally=s remarks
-Connally
-Ziegler=s remarks
-Hardin, other Cabinet members
-White House handling of press
-CBS story on Fletcher
-President=s demeanor at previous press conference
-Newsweek=s coverage
-Ziegler=s view
-Connally=s remarks at Haldeman=s staff meeting
-President
-Public relations efforts
-Johnson
-Treatment of press
-Compared with President=s demeanor

-Next press conference
-Camera location in Oval Office
-President=s interviews
-Sulzberger
-Reasons for interview
-Support for Administration
-Foreign policy
-Questions at Ziegler=s briefing
-Acquaintance with President
-Philosophy at New York Times regarding Vietnam
-Oakes
-Reston
-Previous meetings with the President
-London
-Paris
-Vice Presidential years
-Purpose
-Influence of New York Times
-Effect
-Oakes and Reston
-Conditions
-President=s review of transcripts
-A 1968 post-election interview with James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Ziegler=s press briefing
-Sulzberger
-Sulzberger
-Note-taking
-Ziegler=s press briefing
-President=s statements regarding foreign policy
-Vietnam War
-US, Asia, Africa, Latin America
-Effect at New York Times
-Oakes and Reston
-President=s acquaintance
-Sulzberger
-J. W. Alsop
-Wilson
-Sulzberger
-Roscoe Drummond
-President=s interviews
-Use of quotes
-Backgrounders
-Contacts with President

-Previous week=s press conference
-Sulzberger interview
-Upcoming Oval Office press conference
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] interview
-Walters= interview
-Moore=s philosophy
-Schorr=s story regarding Fletcher
-Possible call from Ziegler
-Richard S. Salant of CBS
-Supersonic transport [SST] story

Ziegler left at 1:15 pm

Conversation No. 465-9

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?]

President=s schedule

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 1:37 pm

Conversation No. 465-10

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

President=s schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:37 pm

Conversation No. 465-11

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  1:37 pm - 1:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Press release on class standing at Naval Officers Candidate School

James C. Fletcher
-Conversation with Ziegler
-Daniel L. Schorr story
-Conversation with Ziegler
-Position on Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-President=s Science Advisory Committee
-Retraction
-Meeting with President
-Position on ABM
-Support for Administration policy

President=s Science Advisory Committee
-Position on ABM
-Influence

Fletcher story
-President=s position

Ziegler left at 1:40 pm

Conversation No. 465-12

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 1:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

A letter
-Name of Central Treaty Organization [CENTO] Secretary General

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:53 pm

Conversation No. 465-13

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 1:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

A delivery

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:53 pm

Conversation No. 465-14

Date:  March 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 1:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s correspondence

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The President and Bull left at 1:53 pm