Conversation No. 467-1

Date:  March 12, 1971
Time:  8:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Conversation No. 467-2

Date:  March 12, 1971
Time:  8:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Ronald L. Ziegler=s schedule

Bull left at 8:15 am

Conversation No. 467-3

Date:  March 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:15 am and 8:18 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

President=s call to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Call to General John W. Vogt, Jr.

Conversation No. 467-4

Date:  March 12, 1971
Time:  8:19 am - 8:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

President=s AToday@ show interview
-Use
-President=s instructions
-Howard K. Smith
-Excerpts
-Promotional spots
-President=s instructions
-News shows
-Ziegler

Ziegler left at 8:20 am

Conversation No. 467-5

Date:  March 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:20 am and 8:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

[Conversation No. 467-5A]

President=s schedule
-A meeting in the Map Room
-An unknown person
-Forthcoming call
-Length

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:20 am

President=s appreciation

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:32 am

[The President talked with General John W. Vogt, Jr. at an unknown time between 8:20 am and 8:32 am]

[Conversation No. 467-5B]

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-President=s call to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Military situation
-Possible withdrawal
-North Vietnamese troop strength
-Moorer
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Military viewpoint
-Compared with World War I
-Washington Post coverage
-Duration of operation
-Air strikes
-President=s instructions
-Weather
-President=s instructions
-Effect
-Tchepone
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Vogt=s assessment
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Cambodian operation
-Air strikes
-Possible limits
-Budget
-President=s role
-Moorer
-Air strikes
-Budget
-President=s role
-President=s instructions

Conversation No. 467-6

Date:  March 12, 1971
Time:  8:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Items for President=s signature

Butterfield left at 8:45 am

Conversation No. 467-7

Date:  March 12, 1971
Time:  8:46 am - 8:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods

Materials for President=s reading
-Delivery

Woods left at 8:47 am

Conversation No. 467-8

Date:  March 12, 1971
Time:  8:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 467-9

Date:  March 12, 1971
Time:  8:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

[Unintelligible]

Bull left at 8:48 am

Conversation No. 467-10

Date:  March 12, 1971
Time:  8:48 am - 8:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

Press
-A story by Helen A. Thomas
-Release
-Pool coverage at next press conference
-Ziegler
-President=s position
-Women press corps
-Compared to male reporters
-President=s interview with Cyrus L. (ACy@) Sulzberger
-Women press corps
-Relations with Ziegler, President
-President=s interview with Thomas
-President=s interview with Howard K. Smith
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Use of President=s interview with Barbara Walters
-President=s instructions
-Ziegler=s call
-Length of interview
-Promotional photograph
-Excerpts

-Radio
-AToday@ television show

Ziegler left at 8:51 am

Conversation No. 467-11

Date:  March 12, 1971
Time:  8:51 am - 9:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger=s meeting with an unknown person
-A draft letter to the President
-Reply
-A letter from the President
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Possible summit with the Soviet Union
-Announcement

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-US proposal
-Kissinger
-President=s previous letter
-Dobrynin=s response
-Soviet Union reply
-Soviet Union proposal
-Order of negotiations
-Kissinger=s response
-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM]
-Soviet missiles
-ABM
-Kissinger=s view

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 8:51 am

Items for President=s signature

President=s schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:01 am

SALT negotiations
-President=s view
-Soviet Union proposal
-President=s response
-Future meeting
-Draft letter from the President
-Kissinger
-Timing

US textile negotiations with Japan
-President=s assessment

Vietnam
-President=s Call to General John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Military situation
-Washington Post story
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] News story
-Need for White House response
-Military situation
-Vogt=s view
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Increased interdiction
-Decreased traffic
-Possible call to Howard K. Smith or Thomas E. Jarriel
-Success of Laotian operation
-Effect on Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Tchepone
-Truck traffic
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid=s commentary
-US foreign policy
-Isolationism
-Compared with position after World War II
-Marshall Plan
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Relations with newsmen
-Military situation

SALT negotiations
-President=s position
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Forthcoming letter from the President
-Kissinger
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-Kissinger

The President and Kissinger left at 9:01 am

Conversation No. 467-12

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:01 am and 9:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Forthcoming press briefing
-A draft of President=s eulogy for Whitney M. Young, Jr.
-Possible release

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:10 am

Conversation No. 467-13

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:01 am and 9:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Conversation No. 467-14

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  9:10 am - 9:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Military situation
-Associated Press Report
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Inaccuracy
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Time magazine report
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Truck traffic
-Inaccuracy
-Tchepone
-Air strikes
-Weather
-Press reports
-Inaccuracies

Conversation No. 467-15

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  9:15 am - 9:16 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule [?]
-An unknown woman

Butterfield left at 9:16 am

Conversation No. 467-16

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:16 am and 9:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Vietnam

President= schedule
-March 19, 1971 funeral of Thomas E. Dewey
-Time
-Effect on President=s schedule
-Press conference
-Departure for Dewey funeral
-President=s forthcoming press conference
-Timing
-Television and radio coverage

Vietnam
-Democrat caucus meeting
-Discussion of President=s policies
-Decision

Transportation
-Possible statement by President
-President=s position
-Compared with statement on agriculture
-Publicity
-Possible message to Congress
-Possible briefing by John A. Volpe
-President=s involvement
-Budget message
-Timing
-President=s forthcoming trip to California
-Compared with President=s education statement

An article by Hugh S. Sidey
-View of the President
-Possible source on White House staff
-Haldeman=s instructions
-William L. Safire

-Sidey
-Joseph C. Kraft
-President=s previous interview on television
-Possible relation to polls
-President=s previous interview with Cyrus L. (ACy@) Sulzberger
-White House staff relations
-President=s instructions
-Richard A. Moore
-White House staff
-Press
-Possible source
-Charles W. Colson
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Leonard Garment
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Sidey and John F. Osborne

Head of State dinner for John M. (AJack@) Lynch
-Coverage
-Television
-President=s view
-Length
-Reasons
-Gifts
-Lynch=s toast

Tricia Nixon=s engagement
-Press coverage
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Possible press conference
-Photographs
-Marya McLaughlin=s report
-Administration coverage on Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell story
-Story on Edward R. F. Cox
-Work for Ralph Nader
-List
-Constance M. (Cornell) (AConnie@) Stuart
-Betty Beale
-Distribution
-Helen A. Thomas
-Los Angeles Times story
-Stuart

-Role
-Haldeman=s role

President=s schedule
-T. Nixon=s wedding
-Oklahoma
-River project
-President=s possible attendance
-Timing
-California trip

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:16 am

-Departure time for Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:42 am

-New York
-Young funeral
-Motorcade logistics
-Dewey funeral
-Schedule

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:42 am

Conversation No. 467-17

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:16 am and 9:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-Flight
-Time change
-Flying time to Lexington, Kentucky

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:42 am

Conversation No. 467-18

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:16 am and 9:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s schedule
-Thomas E. Dewey funeral
-Time
-Dinner, March 17, 1971
-Unknown event

Notes to women press members
-Preparation
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Content

President=s schedule
-Dewey funeral
-Flight time
-Andrews Air Force base
-Press conference

Public relations
-Leonard Garment
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Herbert G. Klein, and Constance M. (Cornell) (AConnie@) Stuart
-Public relations efforts

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:16 am

President=s schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:42 am

Press and public relations
-Ziegler, Klein, and Stuart
-Work
-Garment
-White House staff
-Garment

Haldeman left at 9:42 am

Conversation No. 467-19

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:42 am and 10:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

Manolo Sanchez met with unknown men

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Sanchez and the unknown men left at an unknown time before 10:04 am

Conversation No. 467-20

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:32 pm and 2:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man

President=s schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:43 pm

Conversation No. 467-21

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:32 pm and 2:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 467-22

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  2:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Clifford P. Hansen

Conversation No. 467-23

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  2:43 pm - 3:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Weather
-Timing
-Kissinger=s view
-Possible effect on Soviet Union reply to US proposal
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting

[The President talked with Clifford P. Hansen between 2:45 pm and 2:46 pm]

[Conversation No. 467-23A]

Hansen=s support on a bill
-Charles W. Colson
-President=s appreciation

[End of telephone conversation]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 2:46 pm

A book from Library of Congress
-[Forename unknown] Fuller
-Publication date
-Content

A television report
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Woods left at 2:47 pm

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Associated Press [AP] story
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Inaccuracy
-An AP reporter
-Previous story on Cambodia
-Military situation
-Moorer=s view
-Possible withdrawal of Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] forces
-Military situation
-ARVN troops
-Withdrawal
-Reason
-Tchepone
-Effectiveness
-Interdiction of supplies
-President=s call to Moorer
-Possible Presidential statement
-Moorer
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-North Vietnamese supplies
-Effect of Lam Son
-President=s use of figures
-Accuracy
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Richard M. Helms
-Relations with Pentagon
-Figures on supplies
-Compared with Cambodia
-Helms
-Directorship
-Kissinger=s meeting, March 16, 1971
-Figures on North Vietnamese supplies
-Decreases
-Kissinger=s view
-South Vietnam
-Cambodia
-Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting
-President=s view
-Moorer
-President=s April 7, 1971 speech
-Future
-Kissinger=s efforts

-Intelligence estimates
-Discrepancies
-Kissinger=s March 16, 1971 meeting
-Kissinger=s previous talk with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Haig=s trip
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Military personnel
-Military situation
-Haig=s assessment
-ARVN forces
-North Vietnamese supplies
-President=s April 7, 1971 speech

President=s March 16, 1971 party
-Harvard Law School students
-Kissinger=s acquaintance
-Edward R. F. Cox=s acquaintance
-Vietnam views
-Stafford Hutchinson
-Background
-Geoffrey M. Connor
-Relation to former Congressman

Vietnam
-President=s  forthcoming April 7, 1971 speech
-Kissinger=s view
-Reference to Apeace with honor@
-Howard K. Smith interview
-President=s November 3, 1969 speech
-Theme compared with other statements
-Cambodia
-President=s policy
-Effect
-Public opinion
-Changes
-President=s interview with Cyrus L. (ACy@) Sulzberger
-AThe Establishment@
-Kissinger=s view
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman=s view
-Laos
-Future announcements
-Time and content
-Draftees

-President=s previous call to Moorer
-Current press coverage
-Laos, Tchepone
-Accuracy
-Military situation in Laos
-President=s position
-AP story
-Results
-Compared with Cambodian operation
-Future of Asia
-Importance of US efforts
-Possible future of negotiations
-Indian ambassador
-William P. Rogers

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INDIA

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Indira Gandhi
-President=s reference in AToday@ show interview
-Copy for Indian ambassador
-State Department

John G. Gorton
-Possible letter from the President
-Position
-Political situation
-Relations with US

-Replacement [William McMahon]
-Previous Head of State dinner on May 6, 1969
-Gorton=s toast

President=s dinner for John M. (AJack@) Lynch, March 16, 1971
-Effect
-Publicity
-Press stories

Kissinger=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Military situation
-US Air Force
-Delays
-President=s view
-Moorer
-Circumstances
-Weather
-Kissinger=s previous conversation with Moorer
-Worldwide

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-An AP story
-President=s response
-Military situation
-Moorer
-Haig
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Tchepone
-ARVN
-Haig
-An AP story
-Source
-US losses
-Decreases
-President=s credibility
-Press
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson

John B. Connally
-Kissinger=s previous attendance at a dinner
-Rowland Evans
-Henry Catto=s toast
-Connally=s toast
-The President
-Effect on Evans
-Ability
-Presidency
-President=s view
-Public opinion
-Television
-Compared with Johnson
-Texans
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Cabinet members
-Elliot L. Richardson

Agnew
-Appearance at Gridiron Club dinner
-Robert J. Dole

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Thomas E. Dewey=s funeral
-President=s attendance
-Kissinger=s possible attendance
-Kissinger=s previous telephone conversation
-President=s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Dewey
-Opinion of President
-Kissinger and Rogers=s possible attendance

Vietnam
-Figures
-Need for accuracy
-Haig=s reports
-Military situation
-Cambodia
-Vietnamization
-Melvin R. Laird
-President=s policy
-Effect of Cambodian and Laotian operations
-North Vietnam
-Laird
-Effect of Cambodian and Laotian operations

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Duration
-Military situation
-Laird
-President=s role
-Possible statement
-Purpose of current actions
-Effect on supply routes
-Effect of current actions

Kissinger left at 3:17 pm

Conversation No. 467-24

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:17 pm and 3:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man

[Unintelligible]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:21 pm

Conversation No. 467-25

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:17 pm and 3:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to William M. Colmer

Conversation No. 467-26

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  3:21 pm - 3:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William M. Colmer

Colmer=s health

Colmer=s location

President=s schedule
-Lunch with Colmer
-California trip

Colmer=s district

President=s greetings to [Names unintelligible]

President=s call to F. Edward Hébert
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] story on Pat Johnson

Conversation No. 467-27

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:23 pm and 3:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Samuel S. Stratton

Conversation No. 467-28

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  3:25 pm - 3:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Samuel S. Stratton

Vietnam
-Stratton=s support
-President=s knowledge compared with press

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Military situation
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Purpose
-Effect on North Vietnamese supply routes
-A vote in Congress
-A troop withdrawal announcement
-Outcome
-US foreign policy
-Public opinion
-Laos news
-Stratton=s support

Conversation No. 467-29

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:29 pm and 3:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 467-30

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  3:31 pm - 3:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

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Conversation No. 467-31

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  3:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Al Chamie

Conversation No. 467-32

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:36 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

An unknown man [H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman?]
-Location
-Return call

Conversation No. 467-33

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:36 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Edward K. (ADuke@) Ellington

Conversation No. 467-34

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:36 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

President=s call to Al Chamie [?]

Conversation No. 467-35

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  3:43 pm - 3:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Edna (Thompson) Ellington

Edward K. (ADuke@) Ellington=s election to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
-President=s congratulations

E. K. Ellington=s White House appearance

President=s congratulations

Conversation No. 467-36

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Item(s) for President=s signature

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:48 pm

Conversation No. 467-37

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to LaMar Baker

Conversation No. 467-38

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 467-39

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  3:48 pm - 3:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with LaMar Baker

Baker=s health

Conversation No. 467-40

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  3:51 pm - 3:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William L. Safire

Stock market
-Possible article [?]
-Effect of President=s April 28 statement
-Current Dow-Jones averages

Press
-President=s previous interview with Peregrine Worsthorne
-Background
-President=s previous interview with Cyrus L. (ACy@) Sulzberger

-Background
-President=s previous interview with Barbara Walters
-Background
-Edward VIII=s [Duke of Windsor] visit
-President=s image
-Accessibility
-President=s previous interviews
-Richard L. Wilson
-Bernard Kalb
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-President=s interviews
-List
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Worsthorne
-Cambodia
-Sulzberger
-An unknown person=s premise
-White House response
-President=s interviews [?]
-List [?]
-Haldeman

President=s campaign speeches

Conversation No. 467-41

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:58 pm and 5:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s image with press
-President=s call to William L. Safire
-Hugh S. Sidey
-John F. Osborne
-President=s accessibility
-President=s Quaker background
-President=s campaign speeches
-President=s interviews
-Ronald L. Ziegler=s office

-Sidey
-Richard L. Wilson
-Distribution of list
-President=s instructions
-Haldeman=s role
-Safire
-Peregrine Worsthorne
-Cyrus L. (ACy@) Sulzberger
-Worsthorne
-Background of interview
-Haldeman
-Cambodia
-Ziegler
-Sulzberger
-Background of interview
-Safire=s knowledge
-Barbara Walters
-Background of interview
-Edward VIII=s [Duke of Windsor] visit
-Interview with Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon
-Safire
-Theory of new image
-Public relations
-President=s interview with Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], August 1970
-Ziegler
-Frequency of interviews
-Meaning
-President=s interview with three networks
-President=s interview with representatives of women=s press corps
-Background
-President=s interview with Walters
-President=s call to Safire
-President=s Quaker background
-President=s speech at [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
-Safire
-President=s meetings with mayors
-President=s interviews
-List

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:58 pm and 4:15 pm]

[Conversation No. 467-41A]

-Delivery

[End of telephone conversation]

-Safire
-Interest
-White House responsibilities
-White House efforts
-President=s appearances
-Safire
-State of the Union address
-Changes

Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-White House attendees
-Press coverage
-White House staff efforts
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Leonard Garment
-Press coverage
-Ziegler
-Rumsfeld
-Press coverage
-White House staff efforts
-Live television
-Evening news
-Haldeman=s viewing
-President=s eulogy
-Interviews
-John Conyers, Jr.
-An unidentified CBS reporter in New York
-Publicity
-Thurgood Marshall=s comments
-Coverage
-Importance
-White House staff
-Role
-Public relations
-President=s eulogy
-Preparation and delivery
-John Marshall reference
-Compared with toasts and arrival ceremonies

-Importance
-Unknown Congressmen
-Compared with Martin Luther King, Jr.=s funeral
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Johnson=s attendance
-Date
-Johnson
-President=s attendance
-Robert F. (ABobby@) Kennedy=s attendance
-President=s eulogy
-Importance
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.=s staff=s work
-Delivery
-Importance
-Other participants
-[Name unintelligible]
-A black minister
-Teacher at Young=s school
-Margaret (Birchner) Young
-Background

Ziegler entered at 4:15 pm

William Proxmire
-Supersonic transport [SST] story
-White House influence on Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Ziegler=s response
-White House response
-William M. Magruder
-John B. Connally
-Charges
-Proxmire=s comments to press
-National Institutes of Health [NIH] scientist
-White House response
W. M. Young funeral
-Possible publicity
-Network coverage
-Wire service coverage
-Gerald L. Warren

Ziegler left at 4:18 pm

President=s schedule of meetings with press
-CBS
-Sidey
-R. L. Wilson
-William S. White
-William Raspberry
-Carroll Kilpatrick
-Sulzberger
-Frequency
-Numbers
-Frequency
-Compared with President=s phone calls to press
-Change in 1971
-Background interviews
-Television interviews
-Safire
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-List of interviews
-Frequency
-White House response
-Numbers
-Frequency
-Compared with previous years
-Sulzberger and Worsthorne interviews
-Walters
-Background of interview
-Previous breakfast interview
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Nancy (Hanschman) Dickerson
-CBS interview with Bernard Kalb and John Hart
-Henry Brandon
-Need for White House response
-Formats
-One-on-one interviews
-Post-1970 election
-Women=s press representatives
-New Year=s Eve [1970?]
-Entry in log
-November and December 1970 meetings
-Women=s press representatives
-Importance
-Need for public relations efforts
-Effect of Cambodian and Laotian operations

-Importance of columnists
-Safire
-Sidey
-Osborne
-Influence
-Sidey
-Osborne
-Future contacts with Safire
-Sidey

Safire
-Work
-Public relations efforts
-President=s view
-Haldeman=s view
-Compared with other speechwriters
-Anecdotes

President=s speeches
-Garment
-Delivery of W. M. Young eulogy
-Speechwriters
-Fuller quote
-Safire
-Price

W. M. Young funeral
-President=s delivery of eulogy
-Press coverage
-Television
-Camera angle
-W. M. Young=s daughter and wife
-The President
-White House role
-Vernon C. Coffey, Jr. and Ronald H. Walker
-Order of service
-Coffey
-Bugler
-M. Young
-Coffey
-Bugler
-President=s exit
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

-M. Young=s exit
-ATaps@
-President=s role
-Compared with New York service
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-John V. Lindsay
-Jacob K. Javits

Thomas E. Dewey funeral
-President=s possible role
-Eulogy
-Compared with [Forename unknown] Lipscomb, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Everett M. Dirksen funerals

Catholic and Protestant funeral customs
-Kennedy funeral
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy=s role
-President=s attendance

President=s image with press
-Safire=s role
-President=s interviews
-Worsthorne
-Background
-Sulzberger
-Andre L. Fontaine
-Le Monde
-Brandon
-Times of London
-Frank Giles
-Sulzberger
-Previous interviews
-Background of interview
-Press story
-President=s interview with Sulzberger
-Frequency
-Ziegler
-Safire=s role
-Purpose of President=s press conferences
-Purpose of President=s interviews
-President=s Quaker background
-Safire
-Price

-President=s mother=s views on war
-1968 acceptance speech
-Safire=s knowledge
-Columns by Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-References to Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-President as sports fan
-Sports Illustrated interview, March 27, 1969
-Effect of Eisenhower=s death on story

W. M. Young funeral
-President=s eulogy
-A quote from Fuller Stors lecture
-Lawyers
-Rose Mary Woods
-Yale Law School
-Reference to morality
-Compared with John F. Kennedy, R. F. Kennedy, and E. M. Kennedy press coverage
-Press coverage
-Compared with President=s speech at T. W. Wilson Center
-White House efforts
-Compared with President=s other events
- T. W. Wilson International Center for Scholars
-John Quincy Adams portrait ceremony
-President=s trip to Nebraska
-White House efforts
-Garment

James Farmer
-Importance
-Future with Urban League
Woods entered at an unknown time after 4:18 pm

President=s eulogy for W. M. Young
-Stors lecture
-President=s remarks
-Press release
-Call to Garment

Woods left at an unknown time before 5:17 pm

President=s image with press
-President=s call to Safire

-Methods of improvement
-Connally
-Cabinet officers
-White House staff efforts

Public relations
-@Open Door@

Head of State visits
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Gifts from the President
-Forthcoming Visit of King [Moulay] Hassan II
-Gifts for the President
-Gifts
-Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Disposition
-Butterfield

Louie B. Nunn
-Proposal to name a school for W. M. Young
-Funding
-Relations with W. M. Young
-President and Nunn=s attendance at W. M. Young funeral
-Haldeman=s contacts
-Public relations efforts

Public relations
-March 22, 1971
-President=s call to an unidentified policeman=s wife
-Press coverage
Dewey=s funeral
-Attendees
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Rogers
-President=s role
-President=s schedule
-Other guests of the President
-Javits
-James L. Buckley
-Compared with Kentucky trip
-Javits and Buckley

-Rogers
-Flanigan

W. M. Young funeral
-Demonstrators
-Attendees

President=s appearances
-W. M. Young funeral
-Working the fenceline
-Naval base at Quonset Point
-Charles R. Larson
-Logistical problems
-Working the fencelines
-President=s position
-Extent

White House social evenings
-Receiving lines
-Mrs. Nixon
-Alternative
-Diplomatic reception
-White House military staff
-Compared with State Department staff
-William B. Macomber, Jr.
-Financial people
-State Department protocol staff
-Military aides
-Receiving line, March 16, 1971
-President=s schedule
-Length
-Mrs. Nixon
-Alternatives to receiving lines
-Christmas party
-Compared to Aworking the fences@
-Experience with royalty in 1953
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-Public opinion

Public relations efforts
-Package on Nixon Administration reforms
-White House staff assignment
-Content

-Safire
-Package on crime problem
-White House staff assignment
-Administration trademark
-Congress
-AGeneration of peace@
-John M. (AJack@) Lynch=s arrival ceremony

Boxing match
-Remark by [Name unintelligible]
-Effect
-Madison Square Garden
-Coverage
-Compared to Super Bowl
-Compared to first lunar landing
-Cost for seat
-Patrick J. Buchanan and family

President=s schedule
-West Point Commencement ceremony
-Naval Academy
-Options
-Commencement
-Parade
-Convocation

Mailings
-President=s speech at Newport, Rhode Island
-Further distribution
-Press coverage
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Agriculture
-President=s speech at T. W. Wilson International Center for Scholars event
-President=s speech in Nebraska
-Use
-Importance

Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Haldeman=s forthcoming conversation with Moynihan
-Future
-Flanigan
-Maurice H. Stans

Speechwriters
-Assistance to the President
-Speech material
-Adams and T. W. Wilson events= speeches
-Work

[The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and 5:17 pm]

[Conversation No. 467-41B]

President=s schedule
-Possible March 18, 1971 meeting
-Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz

Public relations
-Possible statement
-Haldeman and John N. Mitchell
-The President=s view
-Connally
-Role
-Position on an unknown issue
-Ehrlichman=s view

President=s work on trip from Kentucky
President=s forthcoming call to Shultz

[End of telephone conversation]

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President=s schedule
-Departure time

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and 5:17 pm]

[Conversation No. 467-41C]

Call to Dwight L. Chapin

[End of telephone conversation]

W. M. Young funeral
-President=s eulogy
-Method of delivery
-Publicity
-Garment
-Safire

[Haldeman talked with Chapin [?] at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and 5:17 pm]

[Conversation No. 467-41D]

President=s schedule
-Hugh Scott
-Meeting with the President
-Purpose
-Time
-Mitchell=s participation
-Haldeman

[End of telephone conversation]

-Signing ceremonies

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-Signing ceremonies
-House Resolution [HR] 16
-Possible March 19, 1971 ceremony
-Timing
-Prisoners of War [POW] and Missing In Action [MIA] week
-Possible White House ceremony
-Attendees
-Congressmen
-Frank Borman
-Representatives from the families
-Publicity
-Use
-Benefit
-A Michigan high school choir
-Gerald R. Ford
-Possible appearance in Rose Garden
-Possible demonstrators
-Previous appearance in Grand Rapids
-Tour of White House
-Presidential participation
-Future appointments for this type of group
-AOpen Hour@

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and 5:17 pm]

[Conversation No.  467-41E]

Call to Rogers

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s schedule
-National Association of Newspapers
-Ziegler
-A workshop
-Date

[The President talked with Rogers between 5:17 pm and 5:24 pm]

[Conversation No. 467-41F]

-Dewey=s funeral
-Time of departure
-Rogers= possible attendance
-President=s forthcoming press conference
-Domestic policy
-March 16, 1971 dinner
-Announcement of Tricia Nixon=s engagement
-Jazz concert
-Edward R. F. Cox and Harvard law students= response
-Dennis Day
-Fred MacMurray
-Length

Dewey
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Plans to attend President=s March 16, 1971 dinner
-President=s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Connally replacement
-Dewey=s possible appointment
-President=s view

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President=s March 16, 1971 Head of State dinner
-Lynch
-Comments
-Toasts
-Publicity

Dewey funeral

[End of telephone conversation]

-Rogers= attendance
-Wives= attendance
-Mrs. Nixon
-Hotel Pierre in New York City
-Proximity to church
-Adele (Langston) Rogers and other wives

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-[Name unintelligible] attendance
-Possible meeting en route with President
-President=s guests
-New York Congressional delegation
-Scott
-Position in 1948 campaign

President=s schedule
-Possible press conference
-Questions
-AToday@ show appearance
-Possible press conference
-Possible television coverage
-April 8, 1971 speech

The President left at an unknown time before 5:52 pm

Conversation No. 467-42

Date:  March 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:24 pm and 6:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with an unknown man [Ronald L. Ziegler?]

[Conversation No. 467-42A]

President=s schedule
-Possible press conference
-Type
-Television coverage
-Domestic policy
-Television coverage
-Preparation
-Howard K. Smith interview
-Domestic policy

The President entered at an unknown time after 5:24 pm

-Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-President=s eulogy
-Press coverage
-Live coverage
-Delivery

[End of telephone conversation]

-Possible press conference
-Possible television coverage
-Unknown man=s advice
-Content
-Domestic affairs, Middle East, Laos
-Compared with Smith interview
-Foreign policy
-Press coverage
-Content and publicity
-Domestic affairs
-Haldeman=s view
-Laos
-Middle East

-Interview with Smith
-Publicity
-Possible press conference
-Press corps
-President=s previous interview with women press corps
-Possible press conference
-Public relations effect
-California
-Interview with Smith
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-American Society of Newspaper Editors= [ASNE] event
-Possible press conference(s)
-Television exposure
-Date
-California
-Date
-ASNE event
-Possible press conference
-California
-Television coverage
-Smith interview on American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-ASNE event, April 13, 1971
-Troop announcement
-Sports questions for the President
-Joe Garagiola
-Live coverage
-Baseball season opener
-Topics
-AToday@ show
-Scheduling
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] interview
-Possible press conference
-Preparation
-An unknown man [Leonard Garment?]

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:24 pm and 5:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 467-42B]

Call to Garment

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s schedule
-Possible press conference
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Garment
-California

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:24 pm and 5:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 467-42C]

Return call to Garment

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s schedule
-Possible press conference
-Frequency of past conferences
-Effect on Smith interview
-Content
-Domestic affairs
-Smith interview topics
-Foreign policy
-Length
-Preparation
-An unknown man=s advice
-Preparation
-Middle East
-Laos
-Content
-Compared with Smith interview
-Middle East
-Domestic affairs
-Compared with Smith interview
-Television coverage
-Ziegler
-Press corps
-Women
-Domestic affairs
-California
-Time
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-ASNE event

-Possible press conference in California
-Location
-Attendees
-California press
-Washington press
-President=s view
-Possible press conference in Florida, Iowa, or California

Press
-Carl Greenberg
-California press
-Compared with Washington, DC  press corps
-Compared with Chicago and New York press corps
-Squire Barrons
-Jack McDowell
-Greenberg
-Richard Burkholtz
-Jud Baker

President=s schedule
-Possible press conference
-Content
-Domestic policy
-Questions
-Effect
-Effect of ABC interview, March 22, 1971
-Preparation
-Domestic policy compared with foreign policy
-Use for Smith interview
-Press reporting
-California
-ASNE event
-Press coverage
-Washington, DC press corps
-Press conferences
-Frequency
-Type
-Effect
-ABC

President=s March 16, 1971 Head of State dinner
-Rogers= response
-A United Press International [UPI] story

-Helen A. Thomas
-Fred MacMurray
-Entertainment
-Tricia Nixon and Edward R. F. Cox=s dancing
-Friends
-Compared with other White House social events
-Public perception
-President=s behavior
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-John F. Kennedy
-Press coverage
-Dinners at restaurants

President=s schedule
-Dinners at restaurants

An unknown man

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:24 pm

Schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:52 pm

Schedule

Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Press conferences

Johnson
-Press conferences
-Post-Presidency
-Health
-Gadgetry

Eisenhower and Johnson
-Television appearances after leaving White House
-Republican Convention
-Eisenhower

Johnson
-Television appearance with Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.

Presidency
-Role for former Presidents
-John Quincy Adams= example
-Unnamed other Presidents

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:24 pm and 5:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 467-42D]

Call to Charles W. Colson

[End of telephone conversation]

Presidency
-Role for former Presidents
-Possible televison appearances by President

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[The President talked with Colson between 5:52 pm and 6:05 pm]

[Conversation No. 467-42E]

Colson=s work

President=s conversation with Haldeman

An event
-President=s call to Clifford P. Hansen

A press article
-President=s review in White House News Summary
-F. Edward Hébert=s response
-Background
-Reporter
-Compared with [Forename unknown] Mendel [?]
-Colson=s efforts

Louis Harris
-Colson=s follow-up
-Possible polling and contract
-Assistance to the White House

An unknown man
-Possible resignation
-Possible meeting with President

Press

Labor leaders
-White House relations
-Possible agreement

[End of telephone conversation]

Colson
-Work at White House

Press stories

Robert J. Dole
-A speech
-Benefit for Republicans

The President and Haldeman left at 6:07 pm