Conversation No. 475-1

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:53 am and 11:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man

Greetings to unknown man

President=s schedule

Cabinet

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:55 am

Conversation No. 475-2

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:53 am and 11:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man

Forthcoming Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Positioning of cameras
-Charts
-Type

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:55 am

Conversation No. 475-3

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:53 and 11:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Meeting with revenue sharing working team
-Gifts
-Positioning
-Schedule
-Composition of team
-Gifts
-Tie bars
-Paper weights

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:55 am

Conversation No. 475-4

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  11:55 am - unknown before 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman, Edward L. Morgan, Dana G. Mead, Jamie McLane, John Gartland, John F. Evans, Jr., Edwin L. Harper, Raymond J. Waldman, Peter Michel, William F. Rhatican, Donald B. Rice, Donald E. Crabill, David Page, Roger Adkins, Richard P. Nathan, William Robinson, James Blum, Harry S. Havens, William Hamm, Wilfred H. Rommel, C. William Fischer, Naomi Sweeney, Richard K. Cook, John Russell Dean, Bill Fuller, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Robert Joss, Wallace H. Johnson, Richard W. Velde, Jerry Copf, Charles J. Orlebeck, Henry Ahlgren, William W. Blunt, Jr., John P. Olsson, Malcolm R. Lovell, Jr., Christopher T. Cross, John R. Ottina, Ned Gramlich, and Larry Thompson; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greeting

General conversation

President=s message to Congress
-Timing

Revenue sharing proposals
-Praise for team=s preparation of legislation
-Gratitude to everyone involved
-Importance of revenue sharing reform
-Previous legislative programs
-Bureau of the Budget
-Reform Arevolutionary@
-Difficulties
-Congress
-Support in the agencies
-Support in the Cabinet
-Need for support
-Necessity for reform
-Congress
-Expectations
-Achievements of team
-Components of team
-Preparers of program
-Sellers of program
-Those working with Congress and country
-Need for confidence in proposals
-Battle in press, Congress
-Prospects
-Absence of alternatives
-Types of revenue sharing
-Tax credits
-Welfare reform
-Prospects
-Judgement of team
-Faith in people
-Mood of the country
-Intellectuals
-Praise for team=s efforts
-Machinery of government
-New Aengine@, Abody@
-Achievement
-Ehrlichman

Presentation of gifts
-Paper weights
-Wives
-President=s conversation with motion picture actors and producers, April 5, 1971
-Wives and secretaries

[General conversation]

Morgan, et al. left at 12:08 pm; Ehrlichman remained

Clifford M. Hardin
-Special revenue sharing
-Agriculture Extension Service
-President=s possible call to Hardin
-Avoiding reductions in service

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:10 pm

Photographing President during talk
-White House photographer
-Other photographers
-President=s instructions to Butterfield

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:10 pm and 12:14 pm]

[Conversation No. 475-4A]

[See Conversation No. 1-5]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman left at 12:14 pm

-Pictures

[The President talked with Hardin at an unknown time between 12:14 pm and 12:17 pm]

[Conversation No. 475-4B]

[See Conversation No. 1-6]

Butterfield left at 12:16 pm

[The President talked with Claude W. Gifford at an unknown time between 12:14 pm and 12:17 pm]

[Conversation No. 475-4C]

[See Conversation No. 1-6A]

[The President talked with Hardin between an unknown time between 12:14 pm and 12:17 pm]

[Conversation No. 475-4D]

[See Conversation No. 1-6B]

Conversation No. 475-5

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

 The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Arrival of Alaskan Federation group

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:20 pm

Conversation No. 475-6

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm - 12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Don Wright, Rogers C. B. Morton, Ted Stevens, Frank Bracken, Leonard Garment, Bradley H. Patterson, Jr., and Barbara (Greene) (ABobbie@) Kilberg; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

[General conversation]

Photo session

[Alaska Natives= Claim Bill]
-Passage efforts
-Request for President=s help in passage through Congress
-Stevens
-Senate
-Western Senators
-House of Representatives
-Uniqueness of AEskimo Bill@
-Importance of bill
-Gifts to participants in preparing bill
-Paper weights
-Bracken
-Patterson
-Kilberg
-Garment
-Prospects
-House
-John P. Saylor
-James A. Haley
-Support
-Cost
-Denver, Colorado
-Constituent groups
-Locations

[General conversation]

Wright, et al. left at 12:25 pm

Conversation No. 475-7

Date:  April 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:25 pm and 12:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Photographing President during talk

President=s schedule
-Barber

Gifts
-Paper weight
-Signature by President
-Cost

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:27 pm

Conversation No. 475-8

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  8:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man

President=s forthcoming speech on Southeast Asia
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

The unknown man left at 8:59 pm

Conversation No. 475-9

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President delivered a speech

[A transcript of the final version of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 522-527]

Conversation No. 475-10

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 pm and 9:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with unknown members of the television crew

Schedule

Time of speech

[General conversation]

Gratitude to television crew

President=s next speech
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Forthcoming interview at convention of American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1971

[General conversation]

The President left at 9:25 pm

Conversation No. 475-11

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule

Possible action on unknown matter
-Briefing [forthcoming domestic briefing for Administration wives, April 8, 1971] [?]
-Timing

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:08 am

Conversation No. 475-12

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  9:08 am - 9:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods

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Letters to Cabinet members
-John B. Connally
-George H. W. Bush

-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Ordering letters
-Price

Julie Nixon Eisenhower=s call
-President=s schedule
-April 7, 1971
-Speech on Southeast Asia
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Cabinet calls taken by Woods
-John N. Mitchell
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Rogers
-Robert J. Dole

Other calls regarding speech
-Freeman Gosden
-Health
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Paul W. Keyes
-Betty Calmer [?]

Speech

Woods left at 9:13 am

Conversation No. 475-13

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:13 am and 9:18 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with President

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:18 am

Conversation No. 475-14

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:13 am and 9:18 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Henry A. Kissinger=s schedule
-Staff meeting

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Bull left at an unknown time before 9:18 am

Conversation No. 475-15

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:13 am and 9:18 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 475-16

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  9:18 am - 10:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Reaction to staff
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

[The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 9:18 am and 9:37 am]

[Conversation No. 475-16A]

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[End of telephone conversation]

Staff meeting

Kissinger=s schedule
-Briefing of columnists

Kissinger=s possible call to Shirley Taylor
-Public comments

[Admiral [Thomas H. Moorer] talked with the President at an unknown time between 9:18 am and 9:37 am]

[Conversation No. 475-16B]

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Reaction
-Senate and House Adoves@
-Military
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Left wingers
-Atrocity stories

[End of telephone conversation]

-Moorer=s call to Kissinger, April 7, 1971
-Woods
-Praise for the President
-Kissinger=s New York friends
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Comments
-Rockefeller family
-Kissinger=s meeting with David Rockefeller
-Kissinger=s conversation with John D. Rockefeller, III
-Wealth
-N. A. Rockefeller=s support for President

Congress
-Support for President in House and Senate
-Gerald R. Ford
-Carl B. Albert
-Robert C. Byrd
-Prisoners of War [POW] issue
-Democratic Caucus report
-Troop levels
-POW Atrade@

People=s Republic of China [PRC] invitation to US Ping-pong team
-Significance

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Location
-Schedule

Staff and Cabinet
-Kissinger and Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Pressures
-Family
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Robert H. Finch
-Kissinger=s conversation with Taft Schreiber
-Finch
-Finch
-Response to speech

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Length
-Conclusion
-Reaction
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Kissinger
-President=s bearing
-Unknown woman friend of Kissinger
-Reaction
-President=s bearing
-Foreign policy researcher for N. A. Rockefeller
-Creative aspects of speech
-President=s own idiom
-Kissinger=s evaluation
-Kissinger=s conversation with unknown Harvard University professor
-Reaction
-Kissinger at Harvard University
-Cabinet and staff
-Unknown Harvard University professor
-Reaction
-Responsibility
-President as commander-in-chief
-Congress
-Withdrawal from Vietnam
-Consequence of early departure

-Doves
-Residual force in South Vietnam
-Figures
-US policy
-Draftees in Vietnam
-James L. Buckley
-US Army

Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.=s criticism of President
-Doves reaction
-Country=s reaction
-President=s role in case
-Review

President=s speech on Southeast Asia
-Unknown Georgia Republican=s call to Kissinger
-Calley
-Response to President=s speech

Vietnam
-American people=s desire for victory
-@Right wing@ point of view
-Definition of a US victory
-Save South Vietnam
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia
-Impact on negotiations

Press questions to Kissinger
-Television commentators and commentary
-Laos
-Cabinet statements on combat in Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird and William P. Rogers
-Inconsistency with White House statements
-Number of combat troops
-Reduction
-Combat mission changing
-Defensive
-Withdrawal date
-Air sortie figures
-Press reaction

-Reporting
-Washington Post
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Kissinger=s comments to Albert
-[Distribution to members of Congress]
-Questions
-Air sorties
-Killing of civilians
-Substitution of Asians for Americans
-Reporters
-[Forename unknown] MacGavern [sp?] of Chicago Sun-Times
-Criticism of speech
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press bias
-MacGavern [sp?]
-Kissinger=s reply to press
-Accomplishments by President in withdrawal program and in military situation in Vietnam since July 1, 1969

[The President talked with Stephen B. Bull at an unknown time between 9:18 am and 9:37 am]

[Conversation No. 475-16C]

President=s call to Haldeman

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s speech on Southeast Asia
-Writing press
-Commentaries
-Kalb and Dan Rather
-Unknown Pentagon correspondent
-John W. Chancellor
-Television briefing

Haldeman entered at 9:37 am

White House staff and Cabinet
-President=s frustration
-Haldeman and Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-John B. Connally
-Support for administration=s Vietnam policy

-Support in future campaign
-Butterfield and Bull
-Opposition
-[Establishment, Washington Post, news magazines, television, Congress]
-Need to get tough
-Charles W. Colson
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia
-Praise for Kissinger and Haldeman=s support

Charts on casualties
-Use in briefings
-President=s possible uses
-Talking points

Kissinger left at 9:41 am

Kissinger=s forthcoming memorandum
-Circulation to spokesmen, Congressmen, Senators, editors

President=s speech on Southeast Asia
-Chart used in speech
-President=s evaluation
-Line
-Lettering
-Mark I. Goode
-William H. Carruthers
-Schedule
-President=s conversation with Goode
-Importance of chart
-Television crew
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Goode
-Understanding problem
-Connally
-Evaluation
-President=s movements
-Chart
-Connally
-Chart
-Impact

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Rather
-Troop withdrawals
-Timing
-Figures
-Use of television images
-Illustration of soldier
-Troop withdrawals
-Chart
-Picture/chart contrasted
-Rogers= use
-Goode, Haldeman, and Butterfield
-Rogers= chart
-Picture of a soldier
-Camera work
-Evaluation
-Praise
-Difficulty
-White House coordination with producers
-Goode
-Producers= view
-Haldeman=s view
-Goode

Dinner for W. Clement Stone, April 8, 1971
-Receiving line versus mingling
-Attendees
-Number
-Announcements
-Table
-President=s remarks
-Location
-Press coverage

President=s speech on Southeast Asia
-Poll
-Telephone calls
-Priority calls

Meeting with Peter G. Peterson
-Opening remarks for briefing

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:41 am

-Arrangements for forthcoming briefing [domestic briefing for Administration wives, April 8, 1971]

President=s schedule
-President=s instructions to Bull
-Instructions for Peterson [for forthcoming meeting of Council on International Economic Policy, April 8, 1971]

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:07 am

Moral support for President by staff
-Reflection of country
-Lack of use for weak men
-Haldeman and Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-White House staff
-Rumsfeld
-Clark MacGregor
-Kissinger=s attitude
-Congress
-Ford
-Administration=s spokesman
-Effectiveness

Haldeman=s staff meeting
-Kissinger
-Response of staff
-Evaluation
-Backup
-Bombing and casualty reductions
-Charts
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Graphs
-Use in revenue sharing speeches

George P. Shultz

Congress
-House
-Education bill
-Ford

Polls
-President=s performance
-Approval rating
-Figures
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia
-Audience
-Figures
-Favorable/unfavorable reaction
-Figures
-President=s Vietnam policy
-Approval/disapproval ratios
-Political make-up of respondents
-Gender of respondents
-Approve/disapprove
-Calley
-Bayh
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll
-Calley
-Instructions to Haldeman to publicize poll
-George H. Gallup poll
-Current standing
-Figures
-Calley poll
-Publicity
-Circulation to Congress
-Ehrlichman and Robert A. Taft, Jr.

Taft
-MacGregor
-Colson

Polls
-ORC poll
-Figures
-Gallup poll
-Circulation
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia
Haldeman=s conversation with Colson

Calley issue
-Taft
-President=s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Captain Aubrey M. Daniel

-Possible strategy
-Letter to President
-Stanley R. Resor
-Possible letter to Daniel
-President=s possible conversation with Laird
-White House handling

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Connally=s reaction
-Press reaction
-Ending
-CBS analysis
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]/National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Telephone responses
-Telegrams
-Compared with November 3, 1969 speech
-Silent majority
-Telegrams
-Emotional appeal
-Possible demonstrations
-Peace groups
-John W. Gardner
-Reassurance to followers
-Finch and Rumsfeld
-Opponents
-Delivery, presentation
-Charts
-Rogers= chart
-Kissinger
-Department of Defense
-Rogers
-Effects
-Telephone calls
-Editorial reactions
-@Hawks@
-President=s supporters
-Laos
-Vietnam
-Casualties
-Compared with 1970
-Decline since 1969

Kissinger=s conversation with Shirley Taylor

Taylor family
-Response to speech
-Kevin Taylor
-Karl (ASkipper@) Taylor, Jr., and daughter
-Family watching speech on television
-S. Taylor=s comments
-Sergeant Karl Taylor
-Comments about Vietnam War
-Visit to White House
-Kevin Taylor
-Story in newspaper
-Kevin Taylor
-Press play
-Kevin Taylor=s salute
-S. Taylor

Haldeman left at 10:07 am

Conversation No. 475-17

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  10:07 am - 10:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Peter G. Peterson

President=s review of materials regarding meeting with Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP], April 8, 1971
-President=s opening remarks
-Comments on importance and organization of Council
-Introduction of Peterson
-Table of organization
-High points of briefing
-Substantive materials
-Chart
-Outside people
-Review groups
-David M. Kennedy
-Review group

-Shoes and textiles
-Peterson=s role
-Review group
-Treasury Department
-Possible conflict with CIEP
-John B. Connally

Textiles
-Agenda
-Commercial
-Quotas and categories
-Anthony J. Jurich, Commerce Department, and State Department
-Jurich and Harry S. Dent
-Roger Milliken
-Department and industry officials

US trade
-Economic and military aid
-Japan and other countries
-Issue before council
-Henry A. Kissinger and Peterson
-President, William P. Rogers, Connally, Peterson, and Maurice H. Stans
-Kennedy
-President=s conversation with Stans
-Rogers
-Approach
-Kennedy=s visit to Europe
-Timing
-Papers on CIEP
-Grains
-Cheese
-Shoes
-Work projects
-Grains and cheese
CIEP meeting
-Procedures on Council meetings
-Peterson=s role as President=s representative
-Shoes
-Stans
-Franco Mario Malfatti
-Malfatti
-Photo session with President and Kennedy
-Timing

-Press
-Mary Anne Allin
-Shoes
-Stan= trip to Spain
-Quota
-Kennedy
-Use of word Amonetary@
-Agriculture, shoes, other economic issues in Europe and Asia
-Kennedy as President=s ambassador
-Strategy
-Shoes, textiles, and agriculture
-Malfatti
-Peterson
-Malfatti
-Dealings with
-President=s role
-Political problems
-Citrus and tobacco
-California
-Tobacco
-Border states
-Kennedy=s trip
-Malfatti
-Timing
-Textiles
-Work of Council
-Kissinger=s staff
-Kissinger and Peterson
-Textiles and military aid
-Carl J. Gilbert

The President and Peterson left at 10:20 am

Conversation No. 475-18

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  12:17 pm - 1:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Franco Mario Malfatti, Peter G. Peterson, C. Fred Bergsten, Neil A. Seidenman, David M. Kennedy, William P. Rogers, John B. Connally, Clifford M. Hardin, Maurice H. Stans, James D. Hodgson, George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, Henry A. Kissinger, Carl J. Gilbert, Rocco C. Siciliano, Deane R. Hinton, and Donald A. Webster; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

 [General conversation]

US position on trade issues
-Malfatti=s conversations with Rogers and other US officials
-President and Malfatti=s remarks
-Political opposition in US to liberalized trade policies
-Need for support
-Protectionism in Congress
-Rise since the President was a Congressman
-Importance of citrus, textiles to US trade
-Symbolism
-European Economic Community=s [EEC]
-Support for expansion to include Great Britain
-Support for more open trade policies
-Rising protectionism in the US
-Need for more liberalized policies from other countries
-Trade bills sent to Congress
-Chances of success
-EEC=s trading policies
-Political realities
-State Department
-Possible protectionism in the US
-Need for mutual movement
-Japan
-US and Europe
-EEC=s experience

US and EEC=s positions
-Goals

-Removing trade barriers
-Resolving political difficulties
-Malfatti, Peterson, Kennedy, Rogers, and Stans

Integration of European economies
-President=s message on foreign policy of the US
-European unification
-Economic and monetary union
-Enlargement of the EEC
-Political difficulties
-Customs union
-Desire for economic integration
-Discussion of political powers
-Awareness of EEC countries
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Recent pronouncements on European government
-Willy Brandt and Edward R. G. Heath
-Limitations of European community
-Negotiations for enlargement
-Size
-Six or ten countries

EEC
-Malfatti as President of European community
-Council of Ministers
-Technical and financial matters
-Negotiations for enlargement
-Concern for promoting free trade

US - EEC trade problems
-Two sets
-Domestic political difficulties
-International
-Broad, long-term
-Citrus
-Possible technical solution
-Malfatti=s conversation with Prime Minister Emilio Colombo
-Preferential agreements
-Tunisia, Spain, and Israel
-Shoes
-Italy=s current situation
-Other problems
-AExplosion@ of trade with Japan

-Developing countries
-Discussions among six foreign affairs ministers
-Possible discussions over free trade
-ANixon Round@
-ANixon-Malfatti  Round@
-Trade barriers
-Strategy towards developing countries
-Practical solutions
-Improving atmosphere
-Economic integration between US and EEC
-US agricultural exports

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:17 pm

Malfatti=s schedule
-Upcoming luncheon

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm

US - EEC trade relations
-Peterson=s role
-Small problems obstacle
-Congressional concerns regarding citrus, tobacco, etc.
-Forthcoming announcement of Kennedy=s trip to Europe, Asia

Kennedy=s trip
-Itinerary
-Asia
-Japan
-Hong Kong
-Taiwan
-Europe
-Timing
-Bert Russell
-Spain and Italy
-Shoes

US - EEC trade relations
-Trade concessions by EEC
-President=s relations with Congress
-Possible Congressional reaction
-Political considerations
-Kennedy=s trip to Brussels, Belgium

-Malfatti=s meetings with colleagues at The Hague, Netherlands
-Avoidance of protectionism
-Negative results
-Improvement of Political atmosphere
-Promotion of free trade
-Importance of gesture
-Peterson
-Paper on US Senate=s concerns
-Protectionism
-US political problems
-Public versus private statements
-Textiles
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Multilateral needs

Malfatti=s luncheon
-Schedule

[General conversation]
-Brussels

Malfatti, et al. left at 1:00 pm

Conversation No. 475-19

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:00 pm and 1:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Herbert G. Klein and Ralph H. Cake
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler and students
-Texas
-Time of meetings

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:04 pm

Conversation No. 475-20

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  1:04 pm - 1:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ralph H. Cake and Herbert G. Klein; the White House Photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Photographs

Cake=s age

Photographs

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Klein=s television appearances
-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
-AMeet the Press@
-AFace the Nation@

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Presentation of Presidential cufflinks
-Golf balls
-Signature and Seal

President=s greetings to Walter [Surname unknown]

Cake and Klein left at 1:11 pm

Conversation No. 475-21

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  1:12 pm - 2:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler, Bryan Lewis, Jenifer Pine, James Little, Erich Hoffman, Harmon Carswell, Susan Horsley, Carol Eags, and Amy Gellis; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

[General conversation]
-Texas
-Missouri
-Introductions
-Stephens College
-University of Texas
-Hometowns
-Austin

Photo session
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
-Ziegler

University of Texas football
-Gift to the President
-Picture
-[Forename unknown] Wooster [sp?]
-Notre Dame

Interested in politics

Presentation of gifts
-Paper weight
-Presidential Seal

Pictures

Mood of country

Lewis, et. al. left at 1:17 pm; Ziegler remained

President=s remarks at end of speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Surprise
-President=s decision to include remarks
-Timing

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 1:18 pm

-Notes
-Staff
-Decision
-Timing
-Check with military aides
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes
-Sergeant Karl Taylor=s son
-Name
-Age
-Kevin Taylor
-Salute
-Hughes= response

Dinner for W. Clement Stone, April 8, 1971
-Foster G. McGaw, American Hospital Supply Corporation
-Neal Ball
-Appointment to Ziegler=s staff
-McGaw
-Ball=s qualifications
-Deputy Press Secretary

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Extemporaneous nature of conclusion
-Press
-United Press International [UPI]
-Washington Post
-Story on Shirley Taylor
-UPI
-Son

President=s meeting with K. Taylor
-Brother
-Karl (ASkipper@) Taylor, Jr.
-Nickname ASkipper@
-Possible news story
-@Skipper@
-Kevin Taylor=s salute
-Hughes
-@Skipper@

Ziegler left at 1:23 pm

Poll results after President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7,l971
-Rating
-Figures
-Compared to Columbia Broadcasting System=s [CBS] A60 Minutes@
-Tricia Nixon

President=s schedule, April 9, 1971
-Paul W. McCracken
-Composition of council
-George P. Shultz
-David M. Kennedy
-Trip
-California
-John B. Connally

-Church service
-Duration
-Phil Watts
-Dr. John Harper
-Pictures
-Hughes
-Secret Service
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Watts
-Mrs. Nixon
-President=s instructions to Haldeman
-Dean Burch
-Camp David
-Cabinet meeting

Camp David
-Weather

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[Duration:  52s  ]

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Support for President by staff
-Difficulties

President=s meeting with William J. Casey
-Postponement
-Schedule
-[April 14, 1971]
-Swearing-in ceremony
-[Casey as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission]
-Leonard W. Hall
-Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker
-Fred C. Scribner, Jr.

Domestic briefing for administration wives, April 8, 1971
-Mrs. Nixon
-John D. Ehrlichman and Mrs. Nixon

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

President=s schedule

Gordon C. Strachan and family
-Arrival
-Background
-Attorney for Nixon, Mudge

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:36 pm

Strachan
-Background
-Work on staff
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Herbert G. Klein
-Schedule
-Speeches

State visits
-Henry A. Kissinger=s review
-Changes in schedule
-King [Moulay] Hassan II
-April
-Josep Broz  Tito
-General Lon Nol
-August
-Emilio Garrastazu Médici
-September
-Tito
-Schedule
-October
-Yakubu Gowon
-October
-Indira Gandhi
-November
-King Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud
-May or June
-Willy Brandt

-June
-Leopold Sedar Senghor
-Anastasio Somoza Debayle
-State dinner
-Anniversary
-Twenty-fifth
-Nicaragua
-Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa
-Schedule
-Rogers
-Thailand
-Somoza Debayle
-Graduation exercises
-Luncheon with Maurice H. Stans
-Dinner with President
-Juan Velasco Alvarado
-[Unintelligible name]
-July
-Lon Nol
-Health
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Emperor Hirohito of Japan
-Kissinger
-Schedule
-Textile negotiations

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:23 pm

Introduction of Strachan and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dempsey

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:36 pm

Strachan and Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey entered at 1:36 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Residence
-California
-Santa Rosa
-Valley of the Moon

Education
-Law school
-University of Southern California
-Berkeley

Photo session
-Atkins

Tour of White House grounds
-Rose Garden
-Tulips

Presentation of Presidential gifts
-Presidential Seal
-Cufflinks

Rose Garden

Strachan and parents left at 1:40 pm

Strachan and parents

President=s meeting with White House staff members
-Unstructured basis

Domestic briefing for administration wives, April 8, 1971
-Complaints by unknown man
-Upcoming briefing for Congressional wives at State Department

Staff
-Enthusiasm
-Appointment of staff members
-Need for loyalists
-President=s speeches

Press
-Impact on administration families
-Need for new staff

News summaries
-President=s instructions to Haldeman
-Read and take action
-President=s forthcoming interview by editors

-Significance
-AFor your information@
-President=s wish to focus on important matters

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Exercise at end
-Effort in preparation
-Staff
-Story
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Staff
-Theodore (ATeddy@) Roosevelt
-Story
-Anecdote form

Administration women
-President=s briefing
-Attitude of wives
-Social events
-Women in general
-Gossip
-Attitude
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Loyalty to President
-Professor AHiggins@
-Role in government
-Women in general
-Clothes
-Conversation
-Social events
-Social events
-Idanell (Brill) (ANellie@) Connally
-Wives of Italian and Nicaraguan ambassadors
-Giulia (Rossi) Ortona
-Doña Lillian Somoza de Sevilla Sacasa
-Somoza=s daughter

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[National Security]
[Duration:  14s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-D. L. S. de Sevilla Sacasa
-Wife of British ambassador
-Catherine (Dove) Freeman

Domestic briefing for administration wives, April 8, 1971
-Value

Vietnam
-President=s speech, April 7, 1971
-Conclusion
-Poll results
-Rogers= view
-Administration=s policy
-Hugh Scott
-Emotion
-Intellectuals

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-President=s credibility
-Effectiveness
-Camera work
-President=s pause
-Impact
-Chart
-Effectiveness
-Rogers= chart
-Graph
-Use of illustration of soldier

-Audience
-CBS
-Ziegler=s report on press reaction
-Possible criticisms by press
-Laos
-Credibility
-Connally=s response
-Defense of Lyndon B. Johnson
-Previous administration=s policies
-Responsibility for involvement in Vietnam
-1972 campaign
-Charts
-William L. Safire
-Kissinger=s draft
-Casualties
-Rogers= response
-Contribution
-Emotional impact
-Reaction by Adoves@
-Possible poll by television
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Tom Denham [sp?]
-Support for President
-Release of results
-Timing
-George H. Gallup
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-President=s decision to review case
-Demonstrations
-Haldeman=s conversation with Denham [sp?]
-Distribution of results to Senators and Congressmen
-Republican National Committee

Polls
-White House relations with ORC
-Haldeman=s conversation with Denham [sp?]
-Refusal to tamper with figures
-Selective use of figures
-David R. Derge and Charles E. Benton
-Reactions to Calley actions by President
-Popular reaction
-Calley case
-Strength in Presidency

-Contrast with Congress
-Calley
-Vietnam
-Personal approval
-Possible overstatement by President
-Democratic Caucus
-Approval of war
-Figures
-AHawks@

President speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Polarization on Vietnam
-Demonstrations
-Supporters
-Opponents

President=s schedule
-Florida
-King [Moulay] Hassan II
-Florida
-Demonstrations
-Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR] dinner
-King Hassan II dinner
-Florida
-Chamber of Commerce meeting
-Time-off period
-Shultz

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:40 pm

David Rockefeller
-Luncheon with President
-President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm

President=s schedule
-Stone dinner
-Questions and answers session
-Duration of dinner
-President presiding
-Breakfast
-Remarks at Stone dinner

-Questions and answers session
-Media response

Polls
-Rating on President=s speech on Southeast Asia
-Emotion

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:40 pm

President=s schedule
-Date
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Briefing
-Stone dinner
-Questions and answers session
-Breakfast

Bull and Haldeman left at 2:00 pm

Conversation No. 475-22

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  3:03 pm - 3:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz

[Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. case]
-Letters from unknown contacts
-[Letters from Captain Aubrey M. Daniel and unknown man]
-Releases
-Ehrlichman=s recommendations
-Possible press reaction
-Background of contacts
-Referral to Stanley R. Resor
-Instructions for Resor
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Questions
-Press
-Unknown people writing a book

-Publicity
-APeaceniks@
-Resor

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 8s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Demonstrations
-Intelligence estimates
-Veterans
-Dates
-April [1971]
-Numbers
-Moratoria
-Dates
-May [1971]
-Sit-ins
-Rennie Davis
-Moratoria

President=s message on the District of Columbia, April 7, 1971
-Last of special messages

Ehrlichman=s schedule

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  47s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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Shultz=s schedule

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  43s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Domestic briefing for administration wives
-Briefing for Congressional wives
-Clark MacGregor and George W. Romney
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Duration
-Questions
-Comments

Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP] meeting
-Peter G. Peterson
-Pace of meeting

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration:  4s  ]

FOREIGN RELATIONS

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-Schedule
-John B. Connally and Maurice H. Stans
-Instructions for Shultz
-Discussion of priorities
-Peterson, Shultz, Ehrlichman, Henry A. Kissinger, and President
-Discussion of priorities
-Possible action
-Peterson

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  3m 8s  ]

[The President talked with Tricia Nixon at an unknown time between 3:03 pm and 3:55 pm]

[Conversation No. 475-22A]

[See Conversation No. 1-47]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Peterson

Anti-trust
-Cartelization
-Need for decisions
-Agriculture
-Franchise
-Stans
-Need for decision

US economic goals
-Peterson
-Imports and exports
-Markets
-High technology
-Balance of payments
-Investment in industrial research
-Defense and space
-National Science Foundation [NSF]
-Defense Department
-Problem
-Peterson=s view
-Breeder reactor
-Possible reaction
-Chet Holifield
-Impact on energy
-Coal technology
-Prospects
-Shale oil
-Peterson=s view
-Items for group discussion
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman, Shultz, Peterson, and President
-Russell W. Peterson
-Paul W. McCracken
-David M. Kennedy
-Ad hoc meetings
-Federal research efforts
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Research vs. space business
-Space
-Productivity Commission
-Federal effort outside Defense Department

-Medical field
-P. G. Peterson=s view regarding outside people
-General Motors [GM]
-General Electric [GE]
-Bell [Telephone]
-Ten-year projection
-Costs
-Business combinations
-Labor policies
-Difficulty in competition
-Need to revitalize economy
-Sherman Act
-Standard Oil
-Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard Oil of Indiana
-Airlines
-International competition
-Communications
-Adam Smith theories
-Ominous trends
-Connally=s view on international monetary crisis
-Discussions
-Ehrlichman, Shultz, and P. G. Peterson
-Kissinger, McCracken, President
-Possible meeting at Executive Office Building
-ABrainstorm@
-Timing
-Stans, Richard W. McLaren
-P. G. Peterson, Stans

McLaren
-Report on anti-trust division [Justice Department] operating policy

Cabinet meeting, April 13, 1971
-Peaceful uses of atom
-Holifield
-Craig Hosmer
-Glenn T. Seaborg
-Agenda item

CIEP meeting
-P. G. Peterson
-Pace of briefing
-Connally

-Possible report to staff
-Evaluation
-Possible Cabinet briefing
-Possible abbreviated report
-Background material
-World events
-Japan
-Need to keep up-to-date
-Possible book by P. G. Peterson for President
-Charts

Sub-Cabinet
-P. G. Peterson
-Relations with William P. Rogers and Connally

P. G. Peterson=s briefing on CIEP meeting
-Possible presentation to Domestic Council staff, National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Under Secretaries, Cabinet officers
-The President

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Douglas MacArthur, II and Sir Keith J. Holyoake
-Meeting with McCracken, April 9, 1971

McCracken
-Possible resignation
-Hendrik S. Houthakker
-Ezra Solomon
-McCracken
-Michigan
-President=s possible response
-President=s meeting with Shultz, April 9, 1971
-Evaluation
-Policy
-Salesmanship
-Arthur F. Burns
-Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Solomon [?]

Economy
-Prospects
-Earnings
-Department store sales
-Home sales, autos
-Decline of inventories
-GE profits
-Stock market

McCracken
-Future within administration
-Policy

Administration=s economic policy
-Shultz=s appearance in Cleveland
-Steady-as-you-go line
-Taxes
-Spending
-Tone
-Long-term performance of economy
-Criticism
-1972 elections
-Shultz=s appearance in Cleveland
-Burns= comments
-Burns

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Comments at Joseph W. Barr=s party for Connally
-Burns
-F Street Club
-Timothy [Surname unknown]
-Reaction of group
-Shultz
-End of war
-Stability
-Effect on economy
-Congress

Vietnam
-Projections
-Combat
-End of draft
-President=s plans

-General Nguyen Van Thieu=s re-election
-October 1971
-Negotiations
-Negotiations
-Prospects
-Timing
-Terminal date
-Possible agreement
-Odds
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease fire
-Announcement of withdrawal of US forces
-Effect on North Vietnamese
-Conditions of withdrawal
-POWs
-Effect on South Vietnam
-Time element in negotiations
-Popular sentiment
-Draft
-US combat role
-Withdrawal date
-Analogy with economy
-Time element in negotiations
-Negotiations
-Effect on economy
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Style
-Effectiveness
-Compared with 1959, 1960
-Conclusion
-Effect of reading
-Lack of pretense
-Drama

Shultz=s meeting with Wilbur D. Mills
-Package proposal
-Burns
-Revenue sharing
-Fiscal relief

-Statement of purpose
-Categories
-Structure of dollar

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:03 pm

President=s schedule
-Postponement of Holyoake meeting
-Meeting with MacArthur

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm

Shultz=s meeting with Mills
-Revenue sharing
-Level
-Figure
-Formula for funding
-Personal tax basis
-Mills= changes in formulas
-Element of need
-Population
-Tax effort
-Low income areas of cities
-President=s instruction to Shultz
-Element of need test
-Administration=s efforts
-Role of Treasury as loan bank for states and cities
-Premium interest rate
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Connally
-John N. Mitchell
-Talk with Shultz
-John W. Byrnes
-Tax credits
-State and city taxes
-APiggy-back@ on federal income tax
-Percentage of federal tax
-Aggregation to state
-Decision-making by locality
-Service value
-Efficiency aspects
-Avoidance of tax duplication
-Facilitation of tax ability of city and state in income tax area

Tax reform
-Prospects for 1972
-Administration=s position
-Mills
-Budget
-APiggy-back@ option
-Connally
-Possible action
-Study on value-added tax
-Mills and Byrnes
-Possible package proposal
-Meeting with Mills and Byrnes
-Administration=s position
-Congress
-Shared credit with Administration

Welfare bill
-Current situation

Intelligence reorganization
-Memorandum
-Distribution
-President=s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Melvin R. Laird and Richard M. Helms
-Shultz and Kissinger
-Shultz=s meeting with PFIAB
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-President=s meeting with PFIAB, April 15, 1971
-PFIAB=s membership
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.
-Shultz=s and Kissinger=s memorandum on PFIAB
-Benefits
-Opposition

Defense budget
-Pay overrun
-Figure
-Fight in House
-Laird
-Administration=s position
-Figures
-Congressional response

-Need for program
-Difficulties
-Pay raise
-Manpower costs
-Capital intensiveness in defense
-President=s meeting with Shultz, April 9, 1971
-Possible Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM]
-Funds

President=s schedule, April 9, 1971
-Meeting with Shultz
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Ehrlichman=s schedule
-Vacation trip

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 3:55 pm

Conversation No. 475-23

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  3:56 pm - 4:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Douglas MacArthur, II and General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

Greeting

President=s schedule
-Veto of bills

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971

Iran
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-President=s possible visit to Iran
-MacArthur=s memorandum

-President=s visit
-Timing
-President=s message to Shah

[Camera noise]

-President=s message to Shah
-President=s trip to Iran
-Timing
-Scheduling
-President=s itinerary
-Haig
-Central Africa, Northern Africa
-Morocco
-King Hassan II
-President=s visit to Iran
-Symbolism
-President=s previous trips
-Message to Shah
-Scheduling
-Timing
-Vietnamese elections
-Scheduling
-British pull-out from Persian Gulf
-Vacuum
-Iranian role
-Capabilities
-US review
-Defense Department
-Shah=s strength
-Vacuum
-US
-Japanese imports of petroleum
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO], Europe
-Radical Arab countries
-Liberation fronts
-Shah=s conversation with MacArthur
-Shah=s comments about the President
-Previous US presidents
-Middle East
-President=s trip to Iran
-Suggestions for discussions
-Scheduling

-British pull-out from Persian Gulf
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Scheduling
-Instructions to Haig
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Message to Shah
-Timing
-Shah
-Need for money, arms
-Role in region
-Need for money, arms
-Development of five-year plan
-Equipment
-Infrastructure
-Personnel
-Identifying priorities
-MacArthur=s conversation with Henry Kearns
-Export-Import Bank
-Need for Credit
-Type
-Amount of loan
-Fiscal Year 1972
-Importance to US
-Japan, Europe
-Iranian friendship for US

Asia
-India
-Pakistan

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[National Security]
[Duration:  20s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Vietnam

Thailand
-President=s conversation with Robert C. Byrd
-Reduction of forces
-Compared with Vietnam
-Treaty with US
-Consequences of US withdrawal
-Vietnam
-Credibility
-Japanese interest in US presence
-Reduction of forces

Iran

Philippines
-Political stability

Taiwan
-Strength

Malaysia and Singapore
-Conflicts
-Lee Kuan Yew

Indonesia

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  9s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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Middle East
-Iran
-Petroleum
-Importance
-Arab-Israel conflict
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Iran
-Strength
-Balance to Soviet influence
-Strength
-Friendship with US
-Compared with
-Morocco
-King Hassan II
-Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Sudan, United Arab Republic, Jordan, Lebanon
-US alliance with Israel
-Morocco
-USSR
-US ties with Israel
-Effect on US-Arab relations
-Iran
-Shah=s ties to US
-President=s conversation with the Shah

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 9s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

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Iran
-Reform program
-Land reform, education, health, housing
-Tudeh Party
-Youth
-Activists
-Aspirations
-Reform program
-Feudalism
-Effects on social structure
-Shah=s conversation with MacArthur
-Aspirations
-Hospitals, health services, housing, schools
-Social conscience
-Stability
-Economic growth
-Petroleum
-Manufacture
-Diversification
-Automobiles
-Agriculture
-Exports
-Dates
-Wheat
-Tractors
-John Deere Company
-Romanian activity
-Ford Motor Company

-US and European investments
-Scott=s tissues
-Free enterprise
-Security
-MacArthur=s conversation with Shah
-Petroleum negotiations
-Radical Arabs and Shah
-Investment profits
-Investment climate
-Exports
-Industrial investments
-Saudi Arabia, Persian Gulf
-Industrial projects
-Leadership
-Shah=s ability
-Zaire
-Belgium
-Constitution
-Mobutu Sese Seko
-Compared with African nations
-Africa
-Development
-Democracy
-Compared with Vietnam

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[National Security]
[Duration:  7s  ]

AFRICA

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-British
-US

Latin America
-Brazil
-State visit
-Colombia
-Political situation
-Mexico
-Venezuela
-Other countries
-Brazil
-Stability
-Argentina
-General Juan Domingo Perón
-US policy
-Democracy
-Dictatorship
-Recognizing different stages of development

Political developments in other countries
-Japan
-Business oligarchy
-Constitution

President=s responsibilities

Laura L. (Barkley) MacArthur
-Tehran
-Conversation with President
-Alben W. Barkley
-Tehran

President=s visit to Tehran
-Accommodations

President=s meeting with ambassadors

Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks

President=s visit to Iran
-Scheduling
-Message to Iranians

MacArthur and Haig left at 4:21 pm

Conversation No. 475-24

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  4:23 pm - 4:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Sir Keith J. Holyoake and Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

[General conversation]
-Picture-taking session

Gift for President

[General conversation]

President=s forthcoming trip to California

[Camera noise]

Schedule

President=s trip to New Zealand
-Scheduling

President=s visit to New Zealand
-Auckland, Wellington

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Excellence
-Technique
-Reaction

Vietnam
-Attitude of country
-Forthcoming demonstrations
-Staff=s reaction
-Draft, combat, withdrawal date
-President=s policies
-President=s critics
-New Zealand and Australia

-Interest in US Southeast Asia policies
-Forces in Vietnam
-US withdrawal plans
-Communist threat in Southeast Asia
-US policy
-North Vietnam
-US withdrawal plans
-Rate
-General Nguyen Van Thieu and Ellsworth F. Bunker
-US losses
-Marine sergeant [Karl Taylor]
-President=s critics

New Zealand
-Agriculture
-President=s conversation with Clifford M. Hardin
-Regard for New Zealand interests
-Lamb
-President=s previous conversation with Holyoake
-American consumption
-Production

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:30 pm

-Population
-Human, lamb
-Lamb
-Sheep-growing industry
-Cooperation with Australia
-Export to US
-US consumption
-Merchandisers
-Production
-Great Britain
-Butchers
-Exports
-Production
-Great Britain
-Butchers
-Consumers
-Exports to US
-Frozen food
-Consumers

-Increase of quotas
-US
-Australia
-Levels
-Agriculture
-Compared with US
-Subsidy problem
-Dairy products
-Specialization
-Meat and dairy products
-Exports
-Levels
-Diversification
-Trade
-Trade decline
-Inflation
-Increase in prices of imports
-Standard of living
-Compared to Europe
-Drop
-Importance of trade
-Trade with Japan
-Market

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  17s  ]

JAPAN

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-Standard of living
-Drop
-Overseas trade
-Percentage of Gross National Product [GNP]
-Compared with US

-Fluctuations in world market
-Dairy products

Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Meeting
-Peter G. Peterson
-Bell and Howell
-Kissinger
-Functions
-Coordination of State, Agriculture, and Commerce Departments

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration:  39s  ]

MEXICO

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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US relations with New Zealand
-Review
-Departments of State and Agriculture
-Agricultural lobby

Great Britain=s entry into Common Market
-Effect on New Zealand
-Impact
-Special arrangements with New Zealand
-Holyoake=s conversation with Willy Brandt
-Bonn
-New Zealand=s special relationship with Great Britain
-Exports
-Lamb, dairy products
-British quota system
-Butter
-French butter production
-Arrangements between Great Britain and New Zealand
-French reaction

-British proposals
-Lamb
-US response to New Zealand
-Hardin
-Holyoake=s appreciation
-Need for special arrangements with Great Britain
-President=s conversation with Edward R. G. Heath
-Reluctance of Britain to enter Common Market

New Zealand exports
-Butter
-World market
-Milk
-Demand for non-fat products
-Cholesterol
-Stress, diet
-Eggs, milk, butter
-President=s level
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Blood pressure, cholesterol
-Eisenhower
-Cholesterol
-Heart attack
-Blood pressure
-President=s blood pressure
-Cholesterol level
-Heart attack

Butter consumption
-US level
-New Zealand level

Heart attack levels
-New Zealand compared with US

Egg consumption

Kissinger=s health
-Cholesterol, blood pressure

Kissinger left at 4:48 pm

Holyoake=s trip to London
-Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO] conference
-Meeting of five powers
-Britain, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand

Great Britain
-Presence in Southeast Asia
-Heath
-Position in world
-US presence in Southeast Asia
-Sir Alexander F. (AAlec@) Douglas-Home
-Presence in Southeast Asia
-British public opinion
-Singapore
-Isolationism
-Heath
-Strength
-Previous meeting with President
-Douglas-Home

Southeast Asia

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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Holyoake=s trip to London
-President=s greeting to Heath, Douglas-Home
-Australian Prime Minister William McMahon
-Wilbur Manns [?]
-John G. Gorton, Australian Minister of Defense
-President=s greetings to Gorton

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-Paul Matthews
-Harold E. Holt
-Gorton
-Manns

President=s past trips to Europe
-Heath
-Asia
Holyoake=s trip to Europe
-European Economic Community [EEC]
-British entry into Common Market
-Meeting with Brandt, Georges J. R. Pompidou and Emilio Colombo
-New Prime Ministers in West Germany, France and Italy
-Brandt
-Mariano rumor
-Colombo
-Italy
-Economy

President=s health

President=s speech on Southeast Asia
-Reaction
-Vietnam
-US goals
-South Vietnamese operation in Laos

Presidential gift
-Presentation
-Norma (Ingram) Holyoake
-Bow tie with Presidential Seal

-Cufflinks

Holyoake=s schedule
-Meeting in Kissinger=s office

Rose Garden

US friendship with New Zealand
-President=s letter to Holyoake

President=s greeting to N. Holyoake

Holyoake and Mosbacher left at 4:59 pm

Conversation No. 475-25

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:59 pm and 5:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Charles W. Colson

Dinner for W. Clement Stone
-Appeal for money
-Format
-President=s remarks
-Schedule
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-President=s leaving
-Appeal for money
-President=s leaving

Proclamation
-Signing

President=s schedule, April 9, 1971
-Meeting with Leonard Garment and Nancy Hanks
-George P. Shultz

Gift for Prime Minister Sir Keith J. Holyoake and Norma (Ingram) Holyoake

Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB]
-Positions

Judge Thomas F. Murphy
-[Alger] Hiss case
-Phone call
-Judge Murray I. Gurfein

Shultz meeting
-Length

Meeting with Hanks and Garment
-Robert H. Finch

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:13 pm

Conversation No. 475-26

Date:  April 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:59 pm and 5:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 5:13 pm

Stock market
-Rise
-Price levels
-Fluctuations

President=s schedule, April 9, 1971
-George P. Shultz
-Nancy Hanks
-Trip to Camp David

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:23 pm

President=s meeting with Prime Minister Sir Keith J. Holyoake
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Holyoake=s comments
-Holyoake=s support for US
-New Zealand
-Compared with British

US strength
-Middle America
-American establishment
-British establishment
-President=s speech
-Sir Alexander F. (AAlec@) Douglas-Home
-Edward R. G. Heath
-[James] Harold Wilson
-American establishment

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman=s comments
-Compared with 1959 and 1960 period
-Notes versus reading
-Audience
-Format
-Compared with press conference
-Camera position
-Compared with Howard K. Smith interview
-White House staff dealings with networks
-Harden position
-Representatives of the President

Tricia Nixon=s call to President
-Look magazine story
-Cover
-Life
-Constance M. (Cornell) (AConnie@) Stuart
-Stuart=s role

-Cover
-Richard A. Moore
-Ronald L. Ziegler

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Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Appearance on Metromedia
-Claire Crawford
-Interview
-Effectiveness on television

Tricia Nixon
-Look magazine article
-Cover
-Life magazine
-Richard (ADick@) Wilson
-Interest in President
-Television appearances
-Prime time
-A60 Minutes@
-Ratings
-The Pentagon [Department of Defense]
-Stuart

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