Conversation No. 471-1

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:01 pm and 7:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger

Conversation No. 471-2

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  7:03 pm - 7:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-President=s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming announcement
-Kissinger=s previous conversation with Rogers
-Forthcoming announcement
-Number
-Forthcoming announcement
-Effect on South Vietnamese
-Timing
-Figures
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Timing
-Number
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Potential problems
-Laird
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Ellsworth F. Bunker

-Timing of announcement
-Laird

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-Abrams and Bunker
-Kissinger=s schedule
-President=s forthcoming trip to California
-Support for President=s position
-Rogers
-Abrams, Laird, and Bunker
-Rogers
-Possible press story
-Bunker
-Laird

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-Laird=s position
-Number
-Compared with White House position
-Number
-Timing of withdrawal
-President=s goal
-Laird
-Bunker
-Abrams
-Thieu
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

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-Air strikes
-Kissinger=s dissatisfaction
-President
-Moorer
-Trucks
-Lack of visibility
-Timing
-Troop withdrawal
-Rogers=s view
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Possible speech by President
-Effect on North Vietnamese Army
-Supplies
-Sihanoukville [Kompong Som]
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Withdrawal

-Effect on North Vietnamese Army
-Kissinger=s analysis
-Supplies
-Forthcoming withdrawal announcement
-Possible speech by President
-Laotian operation (Lam Son) success
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal
-Number
-Timing
-President=s position
-Thieu
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-US objectives
-Public opinion
-North Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-Number
-Timing
-Effect on South Vietnam
-Kissinger=s view
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Effect of troop withdrawals
-Timing
-Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters
-Laos operation
-Effect on North Vietnamese Army
-Compared with Dien Bien Phu
-North Vietnamese supplies
-Soviet Union
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Effect of Sino-Soviet split

Soviet Union and PRC relations
-Public pronouncements

Communist world
-President=s view
-Kissinger=s view
-Poland
-Riots
-Aleksei N. Kosygin=s visit to North Vietnam
-Ho Chi Minh=s funeral

Vietnam
-Possible negotiations
-President=s view
-Troop withdrawals
-Return of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Troop withdrawals
-Possible effects
-US prestige
-Public opinion
-Forthcoming Presidential election
-US Air Force
-Need for strikes
-Trucks
-Equipment

President=s schedule
-Camp David

President=s forthcoming speech
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Middle East
-Rogers= statement
-Problems
-Arabs
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-ARVN troop withdrawal
-Howard K. Smith=s forthcoming interview with the President
-ARVN success
-Effect on future negotiations
-Effect on North Vietnamese Army
-Supplies
-Compared with previous years
-Forthcoming Presidential speech
-Troop withdrawals

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-Timing of announcement
-Peace demonstrations
-Kissinger=s view
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Rogers

-Possible lack of announcement
-Events
-President=s November 3, 1969 Speech
-Demonstrations
-Cambodia, Laos
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Media coverage
-Future debates
-Senate
-President=s forthcoming interview with Smith
-President=s forthcoming speech
-Effect on North Vietnamese
-Supplies
-Casualties
-Supplies
-Kissinger=s conversation with Henry Hubbard
-Effect on North Vietnamese troops
-Supplies
-Food
-Ammunition
-Sihanoukville [Kompong Som], Cambodia
-Compared with German offensives in 1918
-Effect on ammunition and supplies
-Results
-Objectives achieved
-President=s assessment
-Kissinger=s assessment
-Effect on media coverage
-Possible losses of ARVN forces
-Compared with North Vietnamese losses
-Objectives
-President=s forthcoming speech
-Justification for ARVN withdrawal

Kissinger=s schedule
-Camp David

Kissinger left at 7:27 pm

Conversation No. 471-3

Date:  March 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:27 pm and 7:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man

President=s coat

The President and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 7:30 pm

Conversation No. 471-4

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  9:32 am - 9:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President with Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander P. Butterfield
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Clifford P. Hansen
-Other meetings with Senators
-Louie B. Nunn
-Kissinger=s schedule
-Luncheon
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr. [?]
-William P. Rogers

Harvard University faculty
-A petition

Items for the President
-Letters

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:38 am

President=s television interview
-Ellsworth F. Bunker=s view
-Kissinger=s previous conversation with Bunker
-Reception in Vietnam

Harvard University faculty petition

Vietnam
-Current situation
-Moscow Radio
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Bunker
-Forthcoming military action
-President=s forthcoming speech
-Timing
-Kissinger=s assessment
-An unknown man=s position
-Effect of media coverage
-President=s forthcoming speech
-Tone
-Liberals= position

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Ecology
-Soviet Union
-Environment
-George Meany
-A report by President
-Outcome

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 9:38 am

President=s interview, March 23, 1971
-Follow-up
-Public relations efforts
-Kissinger=s role
-Meeting with Max Frankel
-Melvin R. Laird and Rogers= role
-Role of departments
-Public relations efforts
-A March 25, 1971 meeting

-Senators= role
-Speeches
-Robert J. Dole
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Laird and Rogers= role
-Laird=s 3:00 event
-Monday=s speeches
-Dole=s speech
-Al Capp
-National Association of Broadcasters
-Mailings
-Columns
-Meany=s statement on Vietnam
-Support for the President
-Agnew
-Possible re-broadcast
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Public Broadcasting Service [PBS]

President=s previous televised interview
-White House phone poll
-Ratings
-Viewership
-Response
-Format

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 9:47 am

-Job approval rating for President
-Compared with George H. Gallup poll
-Party alignment

President=s schedule
-Hansen

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am

-Marlow W. Cook and John Sherman Cooper
-Nunn
-Whitney M. Young, Jr. memorial

Haldeman and the unknown man left at 9:47 am

Conversation No. 471-5

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  9:47 am - 10:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Clifford P. Hansen and Clark MacGregor

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Hansen=s support
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman, Charles W. Colson
-Public statements
-President=s televised interview
-Martha E. (Close) Hansen=s response
-C. P. Hansen=s support
-President=s conversation with James L. Buckley, March 23, 1971
-President=s position
-Ecology and economy
-Importance to US
-Soviet Union
-Ecology
-Buckley
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-President=s position
-Ecological policy
-C. P. Hansen=s support
-President=s position
-Importance
-George Meany
-Breakfast with President
-National pride
-Ecology
-C. P. Hansen=s view
-Local air service
-Frontier Airlines= service to Wyoming
-Current situation
-Compared with period when C. P. Hansen was governor
-Jackson, Wyoming
-Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB]
-Secor D. Browne

-Cost
-Compared with local airline service
-Denver and Salt Lake City
-Compared with reclamation projects

C. P. Hansen=s public statements
-SST
-Previous opposition
-C. P. Hansen=s concerns
-Local airline service
-President=s use of Frontier Airlines
-Possible White House action
-Casper-to-Billings service
-Sheridan service
-President=s visit
-Importance to constituents
-C. P. Hansen=s opposition
-SST
-Importance of meeting with President
-C. P. Hansen=s talks with other Senators
-Importance of meeting with President
-C. P. Hansen=s opposition

SST
-Under secretary of Interior job
-Senate Committee on Interior
-C. P. Hansen, Gordon L. Allott, B. Everett Jordan
-President=s position
-C. P. Hansen=s position
-1972 election
-Public statements
-President and MacGregor=s experience in Congress
-Previous support for President
-Local airline service
-Wyoming
-President=s assurances

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SST
-C. P. Hansen=s position
-Public statements to constituents

C. P. Hansen left at 10:02 am

-Forthcoming meeting of President and Peter H. Dominick

MacGregor left at 10:02 am

Conversation No. 471-6

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Clark MacGregor

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Peter H. Dominick

MacGregor left at an unknown time before 10:05 am

Conversation No. 471-7

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  10:05 am - 10:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Peter H. Dominick and Clark MacGregor

Greetings

President=s previous conversation with MacGregor

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Current count in Senate
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-George Meany
-Previous conversation with the President
-Margaret Chase Smith
-A letter from the President to Smith
-Portsmouth, New Hampshire naval facility

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am

Refreshment order

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:43 am

Ernest F. (AFritz@) Hollings [?]

A letter signed by the President

Kenneth E. BeLieu=s schedule

A letter signed by the President concerning Portsmouth, New Hampshire
-Campaign promise
-Norris Cotton
-Smith
-George D. Aiken
-Louis C. Wyman

Dominick=s March 23, 1971 meeting with the President
-Future series of meetings

-Robert C. (ABob@) Wilson [?], Robert J. Dole
-Charles H. Percy

President=s interview with Howard K. Smith
-Cotton=s comments
-Access to the President
-Consultation with Congress

Columns
-A personal secretary

Republican leadership meeting
-A leak
-H. Allen Smith
-Possible solutions
-Problems
-Dominick=s concerns
-Dominick=s notetaking

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Environment
-William H. Chisholm
-Relations with Dominick
-Former president of Rockford Paper Company
-Ethyl Corporation plant in Maine
-Operations
-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] study
-Results
-Injunction
-Violation of Clean Water Act

-Justice and Interior Departments
-Walter J. Hickel
-Call from Dominick
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. story
-Court action
-Plant closing
-Hickel=s statements concerning Kennebec River
-Pollution
-DuPont research on nitrilotriacetic acid [NTA] chemical
-Unleaded gasoline
-American and/or General Motors
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] action
-Hickel
-Relations with Dominick
-Congress
-Legislation
-Administration position
-White House staff
-President=s position
-Business
-Procter and Gamble
-Movement supporters
-President=s view
-Florida barge canal
-Letter-writing campaigns
-White House staff action
-Alaskan pipeline
-President=s position
-Location
-Rogers C. B. Morton=s position
-Opponents= position
-Hickel
-Possible action
-John N. Mitchell
-Location
-President=s position
-Canadian alternative
-SST
-Opponents
-Position
-Danger of cancer

-Legitimate environmental issues
-Water
-Business
-Oil and manufacturing industry
-Effect
-Automobile industry
-Effect
-Chisholm
-Administration action
-Bureaucracy
-Interior Department
-Future action by Dominick and White House
-Movement supporters
-Position
-Resources
-Use
-The West
-Alaska
-Florida
-Colorado
-Views of Colorado residents
-SST
-SST
-Polls
-Public opinion

Farm reorganization
-A luncheon, March 23, 1971
-Milton R. Young
-Department of Agriculture
-Farmers
-Farm vote in 1972
-Support for the Administration
-Agriculture Department
-Farmers= view
-School lunch program and farm surplus
-Pork
-Publicity
-Public relations
-Dominick=s view
-Need for better publicity

-Farmers
-Dominick=s view
-Farmers= fears
-Bureaucracy
-Department of Agriculture
-Colorado
-Iowa
-South Carolina
-1968 election results
-Support for the President

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Relations with press
-Relations with youth
-Credibility problems
-Speeches by Agnew
-Relations with press
-Dominick=s view
-Agnew=s speeches
-Press attacks
-1972 election
-Relations with youth
-Dominick=s children
-Fundraising
-Relations with youth
-1972 election
-An unknown person=s suggestion to Dominick
-Jack N. Anderson

Republican leadership meetings with President
-Cotton
-President=s style
-Decision-making
-Congressional briefings
-Input from Congress
-Scope
-Gordon L. Allott
-Suggestions for changes
-President=s programs
-Republican support
-Leaders= relations with constituents
-Walter F. Mondale, Gaylord Nelson

President=s March 23, 1971 meeting with mayors
-Washington Post
-Picture
-Three Democrat mayors
-Statements on Edmund S. Muskie
-Joseph Alioto

An unknown man

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Vietnam War
-Possible action
-Effect on future
-1972
-Hue

Economy
-Stock market
-Current and future levels
-President=s view
-Targets
-Money supply
-Milton Friedman=s prediction
-Summer and fall 1972
-Stock market
-Effect
-Levels

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Dominick and MacGregor left at 10:43 am

Conversation No. 471-8

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:43 am and 10:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Louie B. Nunn
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:45 am

Conversation No. 471-9

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  10:45 am - 10:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Harry F. Byrd, Jr. and William E. Timmons

Greetings

A filibuster
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield=s statement
-Southern senators
-William Proxmire

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Byrd=s statements
-Byrd=s position
-Fiscal concerns
-Private sector role
-Importance
-President=s view
-Space program, industry comparison
-Technology innovation
-US position as a power
-Leadership
-President=s view
-Economic and environmental considerations
-President=s view
-Importance
-American competition with Soviet Union, France
-National defense
-US prestige
-Byrd=s position
-Opposition
-Cost to government
-Environment
-Public statements
-President=s view
-Need for Senate support
-Byrd

Vietnam
-Byrd=s view
-President=s critics
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Withdrawal
-Enemy losses

-President=s actions
-Troop withdrawals
-Forthcoming announcement
-American troops
-Decreases
-Byrd=s position
-Effect
-Byrd=s statements
-Effect
-Middle East
-Support for Administration actions

SST
-President=s position

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Byrd and Timmons left at 10:55 am

Conversation No. 471-10

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  10:56 am - 11:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

Jack Miller met with Clark MacGregor

President=s location

Miller=s schedule
-A meeting on trade and European Economic Community [EEC]
-Citrus issue
-Pesticides
-A meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-A meeting with the President

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-President=s position
-Economy, jobs

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:56 am

President=s schedule

Taxes

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:56 am

Refreshments

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

SST
-March 24, 1971 vote
-Tally
-Miller=s statement to press
-Margaret Chase Smith
-David H. Gambrell
-Richard B. Russell=s successor
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Position
-Gambrell
-Meeting with Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-Relation with John Sherman Cooper
-Position
-Meeting with Jackson
-President=s position
-Environmental concerns
-Economy
-DC-6 production in Great Britain
-Boeing

-Government role
-Subsidy
-Importance
-President=s view
-Exploring the unknown
-Space program
-President=s position
-Satellites
-Computer technology
-US prestige
-National interest
-Communists
-Miller=s view
-History
-French, British, Spanish empires
-US leadership
-President=s position
-Miller=s view
-Effect on economy or ecology
-Development of prototypes
-Miller=s view
-John A. Volpe=s statement
-Government and private sector role
-Investment
-Benefits
-London-to-Paris flights
-Tokyo
-Compared to costs
-Economic issues
-Future
-Use
-Military and commercial aviation
-US position in aviation
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Political considerations
-Miller
-George S. McGovern
-Miller=s opponent, John C. Culver
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy connection
-Possible effects of Miller=s SST vote
-Culver

-American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] support
-Kennedy
-Miller=s previous SST vote
-Constituent response
-Miller=s position
-Opposition
-Compared with President=s votes while Congressman
-Cost and benefit analysis
-Soviet Union
-Cost and benefit analysis
-An unnamed Miami friend of Miller=s
-Possible alternative use of money
-Education
-Iowa constituents
-State government experiences
-Political considerations
-Pairing
-Karl E. Mundt
-Iowa constituent reactions
-Effect on Miller
-Culver
-Miller=s previous statements
-Opposition
-Clifford P. Hansen
-Possible 1972 opponent
-Voting record
-Pairing
-B. Everett Jordan
-Health
-Procedures
-Absences
-Jordan
-Mundt, Hansen

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1972 issues
-Economy
-Vietnam War

SST vote
-Miller=s position
-President

Miller and MacGregor left at 11:15 am

Conversation No. 471-11

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  11:16 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-John Sherman Cooper
-Location

Bull left at 11:16 am

Conversation No. 471-12

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  11:16 am - 11:25 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Louie B. Nunn, Whitney M. Young, Sr., James D. Hodgson, Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher, and Robert J. Brown

Greetings

Young and family
-Background
-Work with a school

Arrangements for photo

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 11:16 am

[Unintelligible]

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 11:25 am

Whitney M. Young, Jr.=s work

W. M. Young, Sr.

A school
-Vocational training
-Fletcher
-Importance
-Jobs, skills
-Blacks
-Opportunities
-Occupations
-Training
-An unnamed boy

Gifts

President=s schedule

Nunn

Farewells

Nunn, et al. left at 11:25 am

Conversation No. 471-13

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  11:26 am - 11:37 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Joseph H. Blatchford, Carol M. Khosrovi, and George P. Shultz

Greetings

Arrangements for photo

Government reorganization
-President=s speech in Nebraska
-Peace Corps, Volunteers in Service to America [VISTA]
-Benefits
-Publicity
-Teaching Corps
-Congress
-Possible legislation
-Administration=s actions
-Peace Corps
-Office of Education
-Dr. Sidney P. Marland, Jr.
-Teaching Corps
-Peace Corps
-Service
-Members
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Marland
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Headstart, Job Corps, VISTA

-Future
-Shultz=s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am

Press photograph

Government reorganization
-Chet Holifield

Arrangements for photo

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am

Arrangements for photo

[Unintelligible]

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 11:37 am

Weather
-Tulips
-August, March

Youth
-Administration=s policy
-Blatchford=s trip to Northwestern University
-Opinions
-Outlook
-Vietnam War
-Draft

Gifts

Blatchford, et al. left at 11:37 am

Conversation No. 471-14

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  11:37 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-John A. Scali
-Signing ceremony

Butterfield left at 11:37 am

Conversation No. 471-15
Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  11:38 am - 11:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield, Admiral Aldo Massarini, General Paul Moniez, General Jacques Bullet, Major General Kenneth G. Wickham, Major General Earl E. Anderson, Colonel Maocyr Paiva, Colonel Willi Rieke, Colonel Jae Chul Lee, William G. McNamara, Raoul Mollet, and Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes

Introductions

Arrangements for photo

A photographer entered at an unknown time after 11:38 am

[General conversation]

The photographer left at an unknown time before 11:43 am

Presentation to President

International Military Sports Council

Press photograph

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 11:38 am

[Unintelligible]

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 11:43 am

Gifts

Council=s work
-Presentation
-Role of military

Massarini, et al. left at 11:43 am

[Butterfield remained in the Oval Office]

President=s schedule
-Signing of proclamation
-United Service Organization [USO] day

Butterfield left at 11:43 am

Conversation No. 471-16

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  11:44 am - 11:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson [?]

[Conversation No. 471-16A]

President=s schedule
-Meeting with John A. Scali
-Length, location
-Choir tour

[End of telephone conversation]

The President met with Harvey Firestone, General Emmett O=Donnell, Jr., and George T. Bell at 11:44 am

Greetings

[General conversation]

Arrangement for photo

A photographer entered at an unknown time after 11:44 am

[General conversation]

The photographer left at an unknown time before 11:50 am

Signing of proclamation

O=Donnell=s previous position
-Military aide
-Bell=s association

Signature

Presentation to President of a photo
-Nixon Library

Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope
-Call from President
-Work for United Service Organization [USO]
-Criticism by New York religious leaders
-Attitudes toward military

Gifts

President=s work

Gifts

Photo

Firestone, et al. left at 11:50 am

Conversation No. 471-17

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  11:50 am - 11:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Charles R. Larson

Gold cufflinks

Bull left at 11:51 am

Conversation No. 471-18

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  11:51 am - 11:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Commander Craig S. Campbell, Charles R. Larson, and Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes; a photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions

Larson=s career
-forthcoming assignment

Arrangements for photos

Larson=s new assignment
-San Diego, San Clemente
-Submarines

Hughes
-Submarines

Gifts

President=s appreciation

Campbell, et al. left at 11:54 am

Conversation No. 471-19

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Creston High School Choir

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:58 am

Conversation No. 471-20

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Creston High School Choir
-Selections
-Tour of Oval Office

The President left at an unknown time before 11:58 am

Conversation No. 471-21

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with Gerald R. Ford

[Unintelligible]

The President entered at an unknown time after 11:54 am

Weather

The President and Ford left at 11:58 am

Conversation No. 471-22

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:58 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents?] met

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men [Secret Service agents?] left at an unknown time before 12:10 pm

Conversation No. 471-23

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  12:10 pm - 12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Charles W. Colson and John A. Scali
-Location

Creston High School Choir
-Gifts
-Tour

Butterfield left at 12:10 pm

Conversation No. 471-24

Date:  March 24, 1971
Time:  12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule

The President and Butterfield left at 12:12 pm

Conversation No. 471-25

Date:  Unknown between March 24 and March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:12 pm, March 24 and 8:30 am, March 25, 1971
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man [Secret Service agent?] entered

President=s location

Unknown people entered at an unknown time after 12:12 pm

President=s location

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 8:30 am, March 25, 1971