Conversation No. 470-1

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 8:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Conversation No. 470-2

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 8:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull [?]

Greetings

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 8:51 am

Conversation No. 470-3

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  8:51 am - 9:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Military situation
-Timing of withdrawal
-White House news summary

-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] withdrawal
-Media interpretation
-Administration response
-North Vietnamese losses
-Press accounts
-Interviews with pilots

Conversation No. 470-4

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  9:23 am - 9:25 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Helicopter
-Arthur F. Burns meeting

Butterfield left at 9:25 am

Conversation No. 470-5

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:25 am and 11:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Ehrlichman=s previous conversation with Bryce N. Harlow
-Confirmation as Under secretary of Interior
-Gordon L. Allott
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with Harlow
-A8:00 group@
-Harlow=s view
-Allott

-President=s wishes
-Harlow
-Allott
-Possible meeting with President
-Senate Appropriations Committee meeting
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Timing
-Attendance at leadership meeting, March 22, 1971
-Clark MacGregor
-Hugh Scott
-Relations with Schlesinger
-Background
-Research and Development [RAND] Corporation in Santa Monica
-University of Virginia
-Confirmation of Under secretary of Interior
-Effect of background
-Allott
-Conversation with Harlow
-Effect of background
-Allott=s concerns
-Effect on administration proposal to Senate Appropriations Committee
-Harlow
-Allott
-Allott, Scott, Robert P. Griffin, Norris Cotton
-Allott=s forthcoming re-election campaign
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Senate Interior Committee
-Possible alternatives
-William T. Pecora
-Experience
-Coast and Geological Survey
-Allott
-Melvin R. Laird=s suggestion
-Confirmation
-Strategy
-President=s position
-Type needed for job
-Morton=s position
-George P. Shultz
-Allott
-President=s position
-Morton
-Decision on deputy

-Allott
-Cabinet officers and White House staff
-Morton
-Possible alternative position
-Confirmation
-Morton
-Possible alternative position
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Kenneth E. BeLieu
-Background

Economy
-George W. Romney=s group
-A meeting, March 22, 1971
-Ehrlichman, Arthur F. Burns
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Construction costs
-Wages and prices
-Inflation
-Paul W. McCracken
-Haldeman=s call
-Meetings attended
-Burns
-Construction wages
-A report to Ehrlichman
-McCracken=s talk with Haldeman
-March 22, 1971 meeting
-McCracken
-Burns
-John B. Connally
-Shultz
-Romney
-Burns
-Connally
-Romney
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with Romney
-Burns= role
-March 22, 1971 meeting
-James D. Hodgson
-Burns
-Meeting with Cabinet members
-Meeting with President
-Romney

-John A. Volpe
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-Maurice H. Stans
-Compared with Romney, Volpe, Blount, and Burns
-Romney
-Unions
-March 22, 1971 meeting
-McCracken
-Significance
-Time
-Stans
-Ehrlichman

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Morton
-A meeting with Ehrlichman
-Schlesinger
-Allott
-[Forename unknown] Knowles [sp?]
-Morton=s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Choice of Under secretary of Interior
-Allott
-Future action

Economy
-Meetings
-Construction costs
-Wages and prices
-Romney
-Ehrlichman
-A report

-Herbert Stein and Frederick Deming
-McCracken
-President
-Delivery

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:25 am and 10:03 am]

[Conversation No. 470-5A]

Call to McCracken for Haldeman

[End of telephone conversation]

Cabinet

[Haldeman talked with McCracken at an unknown time between 9:25 am and 10:03 am]

[Conversation No. 470-5B]

Economy
-A report for March 22, 1971 meeting by CEA
-Delivery to President

[End of telephone conversation]

-McCracken=s response
-March 22, 1971 meeting
-Romney
-Significance
-Quadriad
-Burns, McCracken
-Connally and Shultz
-Shultz
-McCracken
-Burns
-Connally=s conversation with Burns
-Possible leaks
-Possible media reaction
-Effect on Administration
-Report
-Delivery to President
-Ehrlichman=s attendance

-Romney and Volpe
-Stans
-Burns
-Burns
-Inflation
-Taxes
-Relations with financial writers
-Administration policy
-Hobart Rowen
-Relations with Connally
-Significance
-Possible meeting with President
-Ehrlichman=s view
-Support for President=s policies
-Burns= policies
-Shultz
-Relations with President
-Conversations with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Principle compared with politics
-Relations with Rowen
-Possible meeting with President
-Rowen

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[Duration:  26s  ]

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Meetings

President=s schedule
-Clarine (Billingsley) Mills, daughter, son-in-law, and three grandchildren
-White House tour

Economy
-March 22, 1971 meeting
-Ehrlichman=s attendance
-Stans
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming conversation with Stans
-Burns
-Romney and Volpe
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming conversation with Stans
-Burns
-Burns
-Compared with Connally
-Connally
-Institutional investment analysts meeting
-Peter M. Flanigan=s speech
-Edmund S. Muskie=s speech
-Support for President=s policies
-Flanigan=s speech
-Alan Greenspan=s speech
-Flanigan=s response
-Taxes
-Burns
-Shultz
-Martin C. (AMarty@) Anderson
-Burns
-Anderson
-March 22, 1971 meeting
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan=s memorandum
-Flanigan
-McCracken
-Outcome of President=s policies
-Budget proposals
-News stories
-Stock market
-Dow-Jones average
Cabinet
-William P. Rogers
-Romney and Volpe
-Stans and Clifford M. Hardin
-Frequency of meetings with President
-Attendance at social events
-Romney and Volpe

-Meetings
-Organization
-March 1971 meeting
-Future meetings= purpose
-President=s position

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:25 am

Mills family White House tour
-Son, daughter-in-law, State Senator Randy Carlson [?]
-Cabinet Room

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:03 pm

Cabinet
-Social events with President
-White House dinners, church, Camp David
-Value
-Use of Camp David
-Value

Mills family tour
-A photo

Cabinet
-Meetings
-Frequency
-Length
-Ehrlichman
-President=s role

Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mills Dickson and children, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Young, and John S. Davies entered at 10:03 am; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings and introductions

A photo

Wilbur D. Mills

Photo arrangements

Gifts

Tour of White House

C. Mills, et al. left at an unknown time before 10:07 am

Unknown people [Carlson=s family?] entered at an unknown time after 10:03 am; the White House photographer was present during the meeting

Greetings

Hawaii [?]

A photo

Gifts

Vacation in Washington

Randy [Carlson?]

The President, the unknown people [Carlson=s family?], and the photographer left at an unknown time before 10:07 am

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:07 am

President=s schedule [?]

Domestic Council
-White House staff
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

-An article concerning listing as White House staff in Congressional Directory
-Possible footnote

Butterfield left and the President entered at 10:10 am

A W. D. Mills granddaughter

President=s forthcoming call to W. D. Mills
-Value

The Cabinet and the President
-Previous meeting with Connally
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Rogers
-Laird
-Rogers
-John N. Mitchell
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Stans
-Justification for meetings with the President
-Columnists, Washington, DC gossips
-Romney and Volpe
-Hardin
-Morton
-Choice of Under secretary of Interior
-Social events
-Frequency
-President=s view
-Church services
-Evenings at the White House
-Head of State dinners
-Frequency
-Haldeman=s view
-Sub-Cabinet
-Possible future inclusion at social events
-Value
-Rocco C. Siciliano
-Wives
-Siciliano and wife=s attendance at Italian dinner
-Attendance at social events prior to President=s administration
-Siciliano=s experience
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration
-Haldeman=s view

-Possible future inclusion at social events
-Siciliano

Administration wives
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s program
-Value
-Briefings
-March 23, 1971 schedule
-A conflicting event
-Follow-up
-Number of Cabinet and sub-Cabinet wives
-White House staff wives
-Mrs. Nixon=s work

Cabinet
-Sub-Cabinet
-Possible future inclusion at social events
-Siciliano=s advice
-Social events
-Boats
-Camp David
-Meetings
-Purpose
-Frequency and length
-President=s role
-Length
-Upcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman=s role
-Agenda
-Length
-President=s role
-Possible briefing by Henry A. Kissinger
-Vietnam
-Rogers
-Interest
-Possible televised meeting
-Scheduling
-Eisenhower Administration experience
-The President=s recollection
-The President=s position
-Romney and Volpe
-Eisenhower Administration experience
-Harlow

-Possible briefing
-Japanese experience
-Eisenhower experience
-Japanese experience
-Des Moines, Denver
-President=s position
-Volpe
-Subjects of discussion
-President=s experience
-Public opinion
-Possible televised meeting
-Past experience
-Cabinet meetings
-Structure
-Frequency
-Agenda
-Domestic issues
-President=s role
-Value
-Value
-Compared with use of Camp David
-Donald H. Rumsfeld, Shultz
-Frequency
-Meetings with Ehrlichman
-Location
-Ehrlichman=s and Shultz=s role
-Compared with NSC meetings
-National security affairs
-Kissinger
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers
-Laird
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger
-Meetings with the President
-Inclusion of others in meetings
-Staff participation
-Value
-Meetings with President

White House staff
-Meetings with President
-President=s view

-Flanigan
-John C. Whitaker
-Cole
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Ehrlichman and Shultz

Cabinet
-Romney and Volpe
-Meetings
-Topics
-Problems
-Compared with Shultz
-Compared with Kissinger
-Value of meetings with President

White House staff
-Meetings with President
-Cole, Whitaker, Edward L. Morgan
-Participation
-Purpose
-Whitaker
-Participation
-Shultz and Ehrlichman
-Frequency
-Donald E. Johnson
-Unnamed AEC official
-Value compared with President=s other meetings
-Congressmen and Senators
-Businessmen
-Meetings
-Social events
-Administration wives gathering
-Mrs. Nixon
-Value
-Mrs. Nixon=s briefings
-Frequency
-Inclusion in Mrs. Nixon=s volunteer activities
-Value
-Husbands

President=s social schedule
-Value
-Outsiders

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Economy
-Meetings of Romney=s group
-Importance
-Burns
-Ehrlichman=s role at upcoming meeting
-Possible re-creation of cabinet committee
-Shultz
-Domestic Council
-Stans
-Hodgson
-Shultz
-Hodgson
-Influence
-Article in Nation=s Business
-Other articles
-Influence on Romney=s group

Cabinet
-History
-Abraham Lincoln
-Salmon [P. Chase?]
-Economic affairs
-Shultz
-Articles on influence
-A forthcoming speech in Chicago
-Connally
-Size
-Volpe and Romney
-Stans
-Reason for appointment

-Lyndon B. Johnson=s Secretary of Commerce
-General Bruce Palmer
-Alexander B. Trowbridge
-Current position

Businessmen
-National Alliance of Business [NAB]
-Meetings
-NAB
-The Homestead
-Meetings
-Leonard K. Firestone

Cabinet
-Meetings with the President
-Topics
-Administration wives= program
-President=s schedule
-Possible meeting with wives
-Timing
-Sub-Cabinet meetings
-State Department
-Agenda
-Possible meeting with wives
-Mrs. Nixon
-Meetings at White House
-Adele (Langston) Rogers at State Department
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell at Justice Department
-Interior Department
-Value
-White House
-White House staff
-Scheduling
-Ehrlichman=s view
-California

President=s schedule
-Coming week
-Meetings with mayors and dairymen
-Administration wives
-Social events
-March 22, 1971 interview with Howard K. Smith
-March 23, 1971 dinner with Edwin D. Etherington

-National Center for Voluntary Action
-Romney
-March 24, 1971 Republican picnic
-March 25, 1971 Stans dinner
-Reception
-March 26, 1971
-San Clemente
-Possible meeting with administration wives
-Scheduling
-Republican fundraiser, March 24, 1971
-Cabinet meeting, March 26, 1971

Mrs. Nixon=s schedule

President=s schedule
-California
-Timing
-Administration wives= meeting
-Timing
-Cabinet meeting, March 26, 1971
-California
-Possible event en route
-Administration wives= meeting
-Ehrlichman=s position
-A. Rogers
-M. Mitchell
-Cabinet meeting
-Administration wives
-Timing
-Mayors= meeting
-Etherington dinner
-Timing
-Location
-Administration wives= meeting
-Timing and location
-Etherington dinner
-Board of directors of Center for Voluntary Action
-Possible future dinner
-Robert H. Finch
-Etherington
-President=s acquaintance
-Romney
-Etherington=s meeting with Finch and Rumsfeld

-Romney
-Meeting with Etherington and Finch
-Possible board of directors= dinner
-Size of board
-Scheduling
-Previous reception or dinner
-Charles B. (ABud@) Wilkinson
-Max M. Fisher
-Effect
-President=s recollection
-Ehrlichman=s schedule
-Possible board reception
-Compared with NAB
-Possible board dinner
-Need for a decision
-Ehrlichman=s position
-Justification
-Effect
-Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.
-Possible White House reception
-State Department dinner
-Romney

Ehrlichman=s schedule

President=s schedule
-Luncheon meetings
-Frequency
-Volpe
-J. N. Mitchell
-Romney
-Cabinet meetings
-Frequency
-Sub-Cabinet
-President=s supporters
-Value
-Richardson
-Schedule
-Stans
-White House dinner
-Richardson

Richardson
-Dinner parties
-White House staff
-Congressmen
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] staff
-Work at HEW
-Anne F. Richardson
-HEW auxiliary

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[Duration:  14s  ]

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Ehrlichman left at 10:53 am

Ehrlichman=s work
-Compared with Kissinger and Rogers
-Volpe and Romney

President=s press contacts
-Press relations
-Administration efforts
-A story by Frank Cormier
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Schedule
-Ziegler
-Possible appearance at press briefing
-SST
-California
-One-on-one interview with Smith
-Follow-up questions
-Cormier
-Jerald F. (AJerry@) terHorst
-Cormier
-Effect
-An unknown man

Cabinet meetings
-Previous meeting

[An unknown person talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 10:53 am and 11:15 am]

[Conversation No. 470-5C]

An unknown item
-Nellie L. Yates

George H. Gallup poll

[End of telephone conversation]

The President left at an unknown time before 11:15 am

Conversation No. 470-6

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:53 am and 11:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman met with an unknown man [Manolo Sanchez?]

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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The unknown man [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 11:15 am

Conversation No. 470-7

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:53 am and 11:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Patrick J. Buchanan=s speech on foreign policy
-AGeneration of peace@
-Public opinion
-Vietnam War
-Possible response by a dictator against US allies
-[Arthur] Neville Chamberlain
-Public opinion
-Defense policy
-ABrushfire wars@
-President=s use of phrase in interview
-Africa, Asia

US defense policy
-Disarmament
-Public opinion
-Vietnam
-Israel
-Soviet Union
-Deterrent to war
-AGeneration of peace@
-President=s policies
-Buchanan
-President=s Newport, Rhode Island speech
-Buchanan=s work on forthcoming speech by Robert J. Dole
-Effect

Speech themes
-New Federalism
-New American Revolution
-Press coverage
-Domestic issues
-New American Revolution
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-White House staff
-Cabinet

-Henry A. Kissinger
-Forthcoming conversation with Buchanan
-Vietnam War
-US goals
-Peace
-President=s view
-Importance
-Defense
-Buchanan
-Public opinion

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Charles W. Colson

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:53 am and 11:15 am]

[Conversation No. 470-7A]

-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

-Meetings with John A. Volpe and George W. Romney
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Meetings on defense
-Size
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 10:53 am and 11:15 am]

[Conversation No. 470-7B]

President=s call to Kissinger

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:53 am and 11:15 am]

[Conversation No. 470-7C]

Kissinger=s schedule

The President conferred with Haldeman

Colson=s schedule

Kissinger=s schedule

Laos operation (Lam Son)
-President=s previous call to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Haig
-Military action
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Withdrawal
-Residual forces
-Future operations
-Kissinger=s view of operation

[End of telephone conversation]

Cabinet
-John B. Connally=s party

Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz=s meetings with President
-Compared with Kissinger=s meetings with President
-Staff

Dr. James R. Schlesinger confirmation
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Ehrlichman
-Harlow
-Gordon L. Allott

Colson entered at 11:15 am

Agnew
-Speech in Boston concerning Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Maurice H. Stans
-Program on hunger
-Stans
-Writer

Buchanan=s speech
-Press coverage of war
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-CBS
-Administration response

CBS coverage of war
-Colson=s view
-Melvin R. Laird
-F. Edward Hébert
-Clifford P. Hansen=s letter
-Rebuttal
-Retraction
-A film at broadcasters= convention
-Pentagon film
-Possible Federal Communications Commission [FCC] response
-Possible request for equal time
-Pentagon
-Rebuttal
-Use of Afairness doctrine@
-Armed Services Committee
-White House involvement
-Agnew=s speech

NBC report on war
-Buchanan=s speech
-Thomas W. Braden

Network news coverage
-Effect of White House action
-Public opinion
-Colson=s view
-Biases

President=s interview with Howard K. Smith
-Colson=s relations with Smith
-Questions
-Boundaries
-President=s position
-Negotiations in Middle East
-President=s responses

-Southeast Asia
-Domestic and foreign affairs
-President=s responses

John A. Scali
-Hiring on White House staff
-Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler=s office functions
-Role
-Colson=s relations with Scali
-Previous conversation
-President=s foreign policy
-Speeches
-Neo-isolationism
-Financial sacrifice

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am

President=s forthcoming call to an unknown man

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:45 am

Scali
-[Name unintelligible]
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Possible White House position
-Colson=s view of Scali
-Support for Administration policies
-Smith

Smith=s interview with President
-Questions
-Press image
-President=s possible responses
-Colson=s role
-Press conference questions
-Role of Presidency
-Possible answers
-Buchanan
-President=s schedule

Scali
-Possible White House position
-Relations with Washington people
-John W. Chancellor
-Public relations
-Media relations
-Buchanan meeting
-Colson=s previous conversation with Scali

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-Relations with press
-Role
-Scope of assignment
-Television
-Ziegler=s position
-Ziegler=s role
-Scali=s role
-Relations with White House staff
-Kissinger and National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-Scali=s role
-Public relations strategy
-Laos news
-Press
-U. Alexis Johnson
-David Packard
-Moorer
-Relations with Ziegler
-Scali=s role
-Public relations strategy
-Possible WSAG membership

-Haldeman=s view
-Relations with press
-Television and foreign policy
-WSAG
-Value
-Possible White House position
-Scali=s previous meeting with Colson
-Colson and Haldeman=s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Possible White House position
-Scali=s previous conversation with Colson
-Kissinger=s relations with press
-Ziegler
-Scali=s observations
-Functions and responsibility
-Haldeman

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am

[Unintelligible]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:45 am

George H. Gallup poll
-Results
-Distribution
-Date and figures
-Approval ratings
-Method
-Advance figures
-Meaning
-February poll
-Timing
-President=s press conference
-Laos
-White House poll
-Timing
-Tricia Nixon=s engagement announcement
-Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-AToday@ Show appearance
-Women=s press interview

President=s AToday@ Show appearance
-Ratings
-New York City
-Alvin Snyder=s view
-Value

Gallup poll
-President=s standing with men and women
-War issue
-Support of Labor
-T. Nixon=s engagement

Lyndon B. Johnson
-Lynda B. (Johnson) Robb=s wedding
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon and daughter=s television viewing
-President=s television viewing habits
-President=s note to L. B. Johnson
-Effect on L. B. Johnson=s popularity

President=s popularity
-Effect of family functions
-Gallup poll results

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am

President=s schedule
-Kissinger

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:45 am

-Scali

The President=s schedule
-Meeting with unknown individual

The President, et al. left at an unknown time before 11:45 am

Conversation No. 470-8

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:45 am and 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

President=s schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-Previous call to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-President=s March 22, 1971 Interview
-Effect
-Public statements
-Administration position
-Press reaction
-Kissinger=s comments
-Moorer
-Effect
-Success
-Memos to President
-Howard K. Smith interview
-Administration position
-Justification
-Public comments
-B-52 strikes
-Effect on North Vietnamese army
-Casualties
-Supplies
-Raids
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Withdrawal
-Reelection campaign
-President=s interview with Smith
-President=s comments
-ARVN withdrawal
-Withdrawal of ARVN
-North Vietnamese reaction
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-ARVN forces
-Tchepone
-Withdrawal
-Logistics
-Potential problems
-Offensive preparations
-Effectiveness
-Press coverage
-President=s comments
-Withdrawal
-Effect
-Administration campaign
-President=s interview with Smith
-Possible backgrounder by Kissinger
-North Vietnamese offensive actions
-Effect on future actions
-Possible negotiations
-President=s opponents
-Thieu
-Thieu=s actions
-Tchepone
-Effect
-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-Moorer
-Kissinger=s assessment
-Effect
-[Forename unknown] Schultz [?]
-North Vietnamese supplies and troops
-Food supplies
-Ammunition
-Destruction of pipeline

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am

A delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Effect on North Vietnamese forces
-Supplies
-Food

-Ammunition
-Weaponry
-Costs
-Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA]
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Compared with Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM] figures
-Sihanoukville [Kompong Som]
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INTELLIGENCE

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-Decreases
-Raids
-ARVN
-President=s opponents
-Effect
-Compared with Cambodia
-US casualties
-President=s troop withdrawal announcement
-Numbers
-Positive public reaction
-Melvin R. Laird
-Effect
-Laird and Kissinger
-A story in news summary
-William P. Rogers
-Press Conference
-Call to President
-Laird and Kissinger
-Purpose
-President=s press conference statement
-Withdrawal rates

-Laird and Kissinger
-Numbers
-President=s position
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Cambodia, Laos
-US bombing
-Timing
-Reasons
-Kissinger=s talk with Moorer

Sino-Soviet relations
-Party Congress

Vietnam
-US troop withdrawals
-Laird
-Numbers
-Notice
-Announcement
-JCS, General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., Thieu, Moorer
-Armed Services Committee
-President=s possible successor
-Timing
-Numbers
-Kissinger=s view
-Laird
-Laird and Kissinger
-President
-Peace negotiations
-Timing
-President=s view
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Remaining troops
-Purpose
-Public opinion
-Haig=s view
-Numbers
-Timing
-President=s view
-California trip

-Laird and Rogers
-Moorer
-President=s previous conversation
-Laird

Soviet Union
-Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Berlin
-Willy Brandt
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am

President=s schedule
-Forthcoming signing ceremony
-Mark I. Goode
-Television coverage

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm

-Time

The President and Bull left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm

Conversation No. 470-9

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  12:15 pm - 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

An unknown item
-Location

Butterfield left at 12:16 pm

Conversation No. 470-10

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  12:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Clark MacGregor

Conversation No. 470-11
Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President

Clark MacGregor=s location

Call to William E. Timmons

Conversation No. 470-12

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  12:33 pm - 12:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William E. Timmons

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-White House lobbying in Congress
-Vote in House
-Senate vote
-Warren G. (AMaggie@) Magnuson, Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-Prospects

Conversation No. 470-13

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:38 pm and 1:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Prisoners of War and Missing in Action [POW/MIA] families
-Compared with Congressmen and Senators
-Hardships on families
-Effect on wives and children

President=s schedule
-Camp David
-Arthur F. Burns meeting
-Length
-Thomas E. Dewey funeral
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-John M. Harlan
-Call from Chief Justice Warren E. Burger

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-Camp David
-Possible length of stay
-March 22, 1971 program

John A. Scali
-Possible White House position
-Relations with President
-Support for Administration

-Associated Press [AP] career
-Compared with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Possible White House position
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Title
-Leonard Garment
-Implications
-Functions
-Title
-Charles B. (ABud@) Wilkinson
-Kissinger
-Need
-Haldeman=s conversations with Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Responsibilities
-Kissinger
-State and Defense Departments
-Henry Catto and Robert J. McCloskey
-William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Role
-Coordination policies
-Public relations
-Laird, [David] Kenneth Rush, and Kissinger
-Charles W. Colson
-Kissinger=s press relations
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ziegler
-Compared with Ziegler
-AP experience

Vietnam
-Laos operation
-Purpose
-President=s and Kissinger=s public statements
-Goals
-Kissinger=s statements
-Problems

Scali
-Advice on briefing
-Colson
-Press

Kissinger
-Briefing method
-Columnists
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Television
-Wire services

Burns
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Background memorandum

President=s schedule
-California

Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Haldeman=s call to John L. McClellan
-Reason
-Vote

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 12:50 pm]

[Conversation No. 470-13A]

Call to Ford

[End of telephone conversation]

Scali
-Possible White House position
-Possible staff assignment
-Kissinger
-State and Defense Departments
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Scali=s view

[The President talked with Ford between 12:50 pm and 12:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 470-13B]

SST vote

Congress

SST vote
-William E. Timmons
-President=s opponents
-Goal
-Environmentalists
-Senate
-William M. Magruder
-Media position
-Future plans

[End of telephone conversation]

-Ford=s response

President=s schedule
-Burns
-Dewey funeral
-Seating on plane
-Mrs. Nixon

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Scali
-Possible White House position
-Kissinger
-Responsibilities
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Colson

-Career
-Change
-Future

White House staff
-Careers before and after White House

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:05 pm

Conversation No. 470-14

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:52 pm and 1:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Wilbur D. Mills

Conversation No. 470-15

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:52 pm and 1:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:05 pm

Conversation No. 470-16

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:52 and 1:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

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Rose Mary Woods entered at 1:05 pm

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President=s schedule
-Camp David
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Henry A. Kissinger

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[The President talked with Wilbur D. Mills between 1:06 pm and 1:08 pm]

[Conversation No. 470-16A]

Mills= grandchildren and daughter
-Tour of White House

[End of telephone conversation]

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Woods and Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:30 pm

Conversation No. 470-17

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:08 pm and 1:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Arthur F. Burns
-Thomas E. Dewey funeral
-Departure time
-Weather in New York
-Burns meeting
-Length

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:30 pm

Conversation No. 470-18

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  1:30 pm - 2:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Arthur F. Burns and an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?]

Refreshments

The unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm

Burns= schedule
-Need for meeting with President

A former teacher of Burns=
-Books written

Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Relations with Burns

Burns= relations with President
-Vice Presidency

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:30 pm

Refreshment order

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm

Burns= relations with President
-Support for the President
-Support for President=s welfare and family assistance plan
-Friends in Congress

Burns= work
-At Federal Reserve Board
-A possible bank failure
-Burns= efforts
-Effect
-As Counselor to President
-At Federal Reserve Board
-Goals
-Support for President
-Press and White House criticism
-At Federal Reserve
-Background preparation
-Burns= actions
-Press
-Burns= actions

Interest rates
-Burns= actions
-Possible international monetary crisis
-Effect at home and abroad
-A memorandum to President
-Treasury Department
-Contingency plans
-International bank notes
-Effect of future fluctuation
-Burns= actions
-Housing in 1972

-Jurisdiction
-Burns
-John B. Connally

Economy
-Growth of money supply
-Postwar period
-Rates of growth
-1946, 1966, and [unintelligible]
-Burns= view
-Burns= actions, goals, and methods

Burns
-Career
-Business compared with government service
-Reasons for choosing government service
-Role as Chairman of the Federal Reserve
-Compared with work as Counselor to the President
-President=s view
-Connally

Economy
-Burns= goals
-Compared with President=s
-Compared with William McChesney Martin
-Compared with President=s
-Alternatives
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Effect
-Economic policy
-1972 election
-1970
-Milton Friedman=s letter to President
-Economic policy
-1972
-Compared with President
-Family assistance plan
-Rate of growth
-President=s view
-Budget

-1065
-Future
-March and April 1971
-Investment tax credit
-Possible changes
-Burns= testimony before Congress
-Investment tax credit
-Social Security
-President=s meeting with Connally
-Press reports

Presidents and Federal Reserve chairmen
-Burns
-Eisenhower and Martin
-Nixon=s relation with Martin

Economy
-Burns and President
-Burns previous work for the President
-Importance
-Press reports
-President=s staff
-Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Relations
-Role as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
-Press reports
-Importance
-Connally
-Administration=s policy
-Politics and economy
-Consumer confidence
-Burns= and President=s relations
-A review
-Burns
-April figures
-Taxes
-Monetary supply
-A position paper by Burns
-Connally
-Burns= goal
-President=s position
-Fiscal policy

-Taxes and budget
-Public statements
-February, March figures
-President and Burns= policy
-Relations between President and Burns
-Public statements
-White House staff
-Connally
-Relations between Burns and Connally
-Future meetings between Burns and Connally
-Interest rates
-Connally
-President=s advisors
-Shultz, Paul W. McCracken
-Political role
-Burns and Connally
-Possible future meetings
-President, Connally, and Burns
-Quadriad
-Political considerations
-Connally
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Relations between President and Burns
-Quadriad
-Public statements
-Administration policy
-Unity
-Goals
-President=s view
-Compared with Vietnam War
-Unemployment
-Compared with Great Britain
-Press accounts
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Labor problems
-Common Market entry
-Polls
-Term of office
-Scope and direction
-Administration policy
-Variables
-Unemployment
-1972, 1971

-Importance
-President=s view
-1960
-Burns= and Jim [James L.?] Mitchell=s meeting with President
-A call from Burns to President in February
-Rose Mary Woods
-[Unintelligible]
-Relations between President and Burns
-Press reports of Congressional testimony
-Goals
-Burns= work
-Confidence
-Relations between President and Burns
-Press reports
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-President=s view
-Quadriad
-Connally
-Shultz
-McCracken
-A review
-Date
-April figures
-A meeting

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 2:00 pm

President=s schedule
-Clark MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:03 pm

Thomas E. Dewey
-Funeral
-Appearance in recent times
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:00 pm

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm

Economy
-Investment tax credit
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Vance Hartke=s bill
-Burns= and public statements
-Burns= forthcoming meeting with [Name unintelligible]
-President=s policy and public statements
-Howard K. Smith interview
-Ziegler

Burns
-Forthcoming trip to Europe
-Goal
-Meetings with European bankers
-Paris
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Economic background

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 2:00 pm

Item for the President

Woods entered at an unknown time after 2:10 pm

Delivery of unknown item(s)
Burns

Burns left at 2:10 pm

[Unintelligible]

The President left at 2:12 pm

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Recording was cut off at an unknown time after 2:12 pm