Conversation No. 476-1

Date:  Unknown between April 6 and April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 pm, April 6 and 8:59 pm, April 7, 1971
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person entered

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Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 8:59 pm, April 7, 1971

Conversation No. 476-2

Date:  April 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:59 pm and 9:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office 

The President met with unknown members of the television crew

President=s previous speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Unknown show
-Time
-Use of microphone
-President=s position
-Microphone
-Handkerchief

-President=s position
-Chart
-Time

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 9:25 pm

Conversation No. 476-3

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 am and 8:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

President=s schedule

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 8:52 am

Conversation No. 476-4

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 am and 8:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an Stephen B. Bull

Picture frame
-Location for hanging
-Gold

President=s schedule
-Meeting with T. Kong Lee [?] and [Name unintelligible]

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:52 am

Conversation No. 476-5

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 am and 8:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:52 am

Conversation No. 476-6

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 am and 8:52 am
Location:  Oval Office 

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Henry A. Kissinger
-Location
-Call back to President

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:52 am

Conversation No. 476-7

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  8:52 am - 9:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Haldeman=s schedule

-Williamsburg
-Media coverage
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC], Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Shirley Taylor
-Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
-Reaction
-Congress
-Carl B. Albert
-Withdrawal
-Pace
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Support for April 24, 1971 demonstrations
-Washington Post
-Hugh Scott
-Scott
-Withdrawal from Vietnam issue
-Impression about President=s plan
-Secrecy of plan
-Robert C. Byrd
-Robert P. Griffin
-Withdrawal from Vietnam
-Timing
-Griffin=s view
-Timing
-Accountability
-Ronald L. Ziegler=s statement
-Clark MacGregor
-Support for President

Economy
-George P. Shultz
-Retail sales indicators
-Los Angeles Times
-Stock market
-Retail sales
-Apparel
-Home furnishings
-Automobiles
-Clothing
-Sears, Roebuck & Company
-Shultz
-Compared with Vietnam
-Possible role of Administration

-Credit
-Administration=s legislative program
-Administration=s possible response
-Congress

Legislative program
-Revenue sharing
-John D. Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Haldeman=s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Edward L. Morgan
-ASelling@ job
-Ehrlichman
-AProduction@ job
-Packaging problem

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-William L. Safire
-Length of speech
-Importance of brevity

Peter G. Peterson
-Briefing on Council on International Economic Policy, April 8, 1971
-[Name unintelligible]
-Comments
-Shultz

Revenue sharing
-Ehrlichman
-Response to questions
-President=s strategy
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Production problem
-Need for summarization
-Chicago Sun-Times
-Unknown journalist
-Definition

Ziegler entered at 9:00 am

President=s schedule

Preparation for Ziegler=s forthcoming press briefing
-Vietnam withdrawal

-Deadline
-Ziegler=s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Scott
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Ehrlichman
-Vietnam withdrawal
-Press understanding
-Questions and answers
-Need for simple explanations
-Press conferences
-President=s instructions for Kissinger, Ehrlichman, and Shultz
-Need for staff discipline
-Ziegler=s situation
-Possible meeting with senior staff members
-Methods of answering
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Herbert G. Klein
-Klein=s methodology
-Repetition of few points
-Importance of brevity
-Termination of questions
-Ehrlichman=s briefing
-Calley case
-President=s possible role
-Lack of intervening in case
-Judicial process
-Review
-Ziegler=s conversation with Scott
-Vietnam negotiations
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Gerald R. Ford
-Timing
-Scott
-President=s conversation with Mansfield
-Scott
-Mansfield
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Mansfield
-Ehrlichman
-President=s plan for American withdrawal

-Final date
-President=s unwillingness to discuss
-Jeopardizing plan
-Conditions
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-North Vietnamese military activity
-Negotiations
-Vietnamization
-US options
-Confidentiality
-Byrd
-Total withdrawal
-News story
-Scott and Byrd
-Inconsistency with April 7, 1971 speech
-Fixed date for withdrawal
-Effect on negotiations
-POWs
-Public pressure
-Max Frankel=s column, April 9, 1971
-Scott and Byrd remarks
-Fixed date for withdrawal
-Ziegler=s possible answer to queries
-Dependent on circumstances
-Scott
-Interpretations by senators
-President=s plan for withdrawal
-Discussion of fixed date
-Certainty of total withdrawal
-Fixed date
-President=s thesis of presentation
-Effect on negotiations
-Scott
-Fixed date
-President=s plan for total withdrawal
-Timing
-President=s conversation with Scott
-Fixed date
-Need for US flexibility
-Possible dates
-Future election
-President=s accountability
-Reduction of US forces

-US goals
-Total American withdrawal
-North Vietnamese actions
-American forces
-Date question
-Vietnamization
-Fixed date
-Negotiations
-President=s future announcements
-Factors influencing date
-Negotiations
-POWs
-Residual force
-POW issue
-President=s public announcements
-Address on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Fixed date
-President=s conversations with senators
-Need for constant revaluation
-Fixed date constraint
-Future announcements
-Ziegler=s responses
-Scott
-Washington Post
-Dan Rather
-CBS
-Possible US moves
-ADoves@
-Frankel
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Story on White House Staff
-Kissinger and Haldeman
-Laos
-President=s Vietnamization policy
-Washington Post editorial
-Vietnamization
-General William C. Westmoreland
-1967 speech
-President=s policies
-Reluctant credit to President
-Withdrawal
-Casualties
-Plan for total withdrawal

-Discussion of fixed date
-US goals
-Negotiations to end war
-POWs
-North Vietnam
-Possible fixed date
-President=s plan
-Factors influencing date
-President=s plan
-Ziegler=s possible answers
-Period of time versus fixed date
-Laird
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak column
-Ford
-Calley case
-Calley case
-Ziegler=s conversation with Ford
-President=s decision
-President=s conversation with Ford
-Ford=s reaction
-Democratic caucus vote
-Draft extension
-Democratic caucus
-Draft extension
-Vote
-Ford
-Calley case
-Ford
-Congressional reaction
-Evans and Novak
-Ford and Laird
-Michigan Congressional caucus
-Ford
-President=s decision
-Rogers
-Laird
-Ford
-Ziegler=s call to Dan Akin [sp?]
-Pentagon
-Laird
-President=s conversation with Ford
-Ziegler=s possible responses
-Democratic caucus

-Draft extension
-Vote
-Compared with World War I, World War II
-Calley case
-President=s conversation with Ford
-Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
-Griffin
-Byrd
-Instructions to Ziegler
-Albert
-Mansfield
-Ford
-Byrd and Griffin
-Griffin
-Vietnam
-Scott
-Fixed date for withdrawal
-President=s plans
-Factors influencing date
-Criteria
-Vietnamization
-US withdrawal
-US objectives
-Factors influencing date
-South Vietnam
-POWs
-US objectives
-Haldeman
-Reaction
-Democrats
-President=s critics
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Reaction of press
-Scott
-Questions to Ziegler
-Robert Pierpoint
-Scott
-Withdrawal
-Responsibility
-Reaction
-Muskie
-Endorsement of moratorium
-Staff

-Tricia Nixon
-Edward R. F. Cox
-[Harvard Law School] reaction to President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Reactions
-Kevin Taylor
-Salute
-Karl (ASkipper@) Taylor, Jr.
-S. Taylor
-Support for President
-Hopes for children
-Sincerity
-Withdrawal date
-S. Taylor
-Reaction on television
-President=s meeting with senators
-Withdrawal date issue
-Withdrawal of forces
-Summary of President=s plans
-Fixed date
-Factors influencing date
-Congress
-Chicago group reaction
-Businessmen
-New York businessmen
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia
-Reactions
-Unknown football player
-Tone
-Personalizing the war
-Casualty chart
-Kevin Taylor
-War in human terms
-Public reaction
-Appearance
-Salute
-Television
-Taylor family
-Scholarships
-Colin Kelly
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-West Point
-Father

-Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
-Roosevelt
-Compared with Kevin Taylor
-Scholarships
-Ziegler=s forthcoming call to Scott
-Kelly
-Opportunity for Kevin Taylor
-Annapolis [US Naval Academy]
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Ceremony
-S. Taylor
-Public reaction
-Kelly
-Colonel [Forename unknown] Hocking [?]
-Schweiker

Ziegler left at 9:48 am

-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Scott
-John Sherman Cooper
-Ziegler
-Klein

Staffing
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Establishment
-Thomas S. Gates, Jr.
-Draft
-Lists for appointments
-William J. Casey
-Instructions for Flanigan
-Eastern establishment
-Chicago group
-Education
-Northwestern University
-University of Chicago
-John J. McCloy and Gates
-Leonard H. Lavin
-Fundraising
-Norman Stein
-Instructions for Flanigan
-John A. (AJack@) Mulcahy

-Elmer H. Bobst
-Henry E. Ford, II
-Gates
-David Rockefeller
-William S. Paley
-Attitude toward the President

Media
-Television
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Ziegler
-Tricia Nixon

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Ziegler=s press briefing
-Public reaction to President=s April 7, 1971 speech
-Telephone calls, telegrams

President=s television appearances
-Ehrlichman
-Reaction
-Written text
-Order
-Effort involved
-Need for re-evaluation of methods
-Reading
-Haldeman=s, Rogers= opinion
-Text/spontaneity
-Pattern
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

-Peroration
-Structure
-Delivery of text
-President=s April 7, 1971 speech
-Teleprompter
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Memorization
-Frequency
-Future appearances
-Future press conferences
-Audience
-Buchanan
-Cambodian speech of April 30, 1970
-Meeting with editors
-Speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-State of the Union address, January 22, 1971
-Press conferences
-Meeting with editors
-Television
-Radio
-Risks
-Frequency
-Schedule
-Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman
-Interview with Howard K. Smith, March 22, 1971
-President=s exposure
-Frequency
-Interview with representatives of television networks, January 4, 1971
-State of the Union address
-J. A. Haldeman=s views
-Effect
-Planning
-Press conferences
-Television
-Editors

Haldeman left at 9:58 am

Conversation No. 476-8

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  10:03 am - 10:27 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz

Economy
-Paul W. McCracken
-Possible resignation
-John D. Ehrlichman
-McCracken

[The President talked with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. between 10:03 am and 10:27 am]

[Conversation No. 476-8A]

[See Conversation No. 1-55]

[End of telephone conversation]

Economy
-Need for confidence in plan
-Strategy
-McCracken
-Policy
-Need for consistency
-Construction trades

Cambodia
-Press story in New York Times
-Terence F. Smith
-Forrest Boyd
-Political situation
-Economy
-Leaks
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-Fred Ladd
-Instructions to Henry A. Kissinger

Economy
-McCracken
-Shultz=s role
-News stories
-Optimism
-Indicators
-Sales
-Weather
-Sears sales
-Automobile sales
-General Motors [GM]
-American Motors Corporation [AMC]
-Business community
-Inventories
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Money supply
-McCracken
-Possible resignation
-University of Michigan
-Economic reports
-Preparation
-Shultz=s previous conversations with McCracken
-President=s forthcoming conversation with McCracken
-Profits statements
-Long-term goals

Haig entered at 10:05 am

Defense
-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM] agreement
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
-Ehrlichman
-ABM agreement
-Timing
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] missiles
-Freeze on deployment
-ADoves@
-President=s initiatives
-William P. Rogers and Kissinger
-ABM sites
-Washington and Moscow
-Freeze on Soviet offensive missiles
-ABM funds

-Possible US-USSR agreement
-ADoves@
-Possible ABM freeze
-USSR strength
-Polaris
-US strategy
-ABM agreement tied to missile freeze
-Impact
-Budget
-Military opinions

Haig left at 10:08 am

-Public statement
-Need for confidentiality
-Leaks
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-Congress
-Prospects for agreement with USSR
-Shultz=s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Domestic initiative
-Impact
-Budget
-Congress
-Possible funds
-Department of Defense
-Budget
-Hardware
-Bases
-Force structure
-Manpower and bases
-Prospects for agreement with Soviets
-Cambodia

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-Cambodia and Laos
-President=s strategy
-Perception of turn Aright@
-USSR options
-Risks
-Possible agreement with US
-Leadership

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-South Vietnamese elections
-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Resources
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-Prospects
-USSR
-US policy
-North Vietnamese
-Risks
-US election
-ADoves@
-US policy

ABM agreement with USSR
-Prospects

McCracken

Shultz left at 10:27 am

Conversation No. 476-9

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:27 am and 10:28 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man

Schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:28 am

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:27 am and 10:28 am]

[Conversation No. 476-9A]

[See Conversation No. 1-56]

Conversation No. 476-10

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  10:28 am - 10:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson

[See Conversation No. 1-57]

Conversation No. 476-11

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  10:33 am - 11:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Paul W. McCracken

Greetings

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Kevin Taylor
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Posthumous awards
-East Room
-Ceremony with Sergeant Karl Taylor family
-Kevin Taylor
-Brother Karl (ASkipper@) Taylor, Jr.
-ASkipper@
-Sergeant K. Taylor
-Shirley Taylor
-Television appearance
-Support for President
-Sons to Annapolis

McCracken=s role and plans
-University of Michigan
-Personal considerations
-Change in position
-Analogy
-Vietnam
-Cambodia and Laos

Economy
-Policies
-Prospects
-Vietnam
-McCracken=s possible departure
-Possible interpretations
-Change in economic plan
-Need for steadfastness
-Future re-evaluation

-Wrong signal
-President=s conversation with Arthur F. Burns
-Confidence
-Unemployment
-Figures
-Consumer spending
-Optimism
-Michigan
-New York department store sales
-Apparel
-Home furnishings
-Automobiles
-Leadership
-Changes
-McCracken
-John B. Connally
-James D. Hodgson
-Maurice H. Stans
-Need for unity
-Washington Post story, April 9, 1971
-McCracken=s possible resignation
-Administration=s economic policy
-McCracken=s plans
-University
-Need for steadfastness
-Possible response to stories
-Administration=s economic policy
-Labor
-Stock market
-Rise
-Gold
-Speculation
-Margin
-McCracken=s possible resignation
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Plans
-Council of Economic Advisers [CEA]
-Present composition
-Replacement for Hendrik S. Houthakker
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Schlesinger
-Confirmation by Congress
-Ezra Solomon

-George P. Shultz
-George J. Stigler
-Solomon
-Reputation
-California
-West
-Schlesinger
-Solomon
-Schlesinger
-Congress
-Carl B. Albert
-Staffing for CEA
-Schlesinger
-Solomon
-Background
-Western focus, California
-Stanford University
-Heritage
-Liberia
-[Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr.]
-Instructions to Solomon
-Possible appointment
-Qualifications
-International economics

Peter G. Peterson
-Briefing at Council of International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-President=s conversation with Shultz
-Manner of presentation
-Need for expressions of opinions
-Pace
-Scope
-Possible briefing to Congressional leadership

International balance of payments
-Complexity
-US policy

CEA
-Solomon=s possible appointment
-Background

-President=s first choice
-Possible meeting with President
-Age

Economy
-California
-Unemployment
-Pacific Northwest
-Southern California
-Growth
-Unemployment
-Population
-Work force
-California
-Task force
-Tax incentives for research and development
-Possibilities
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Tax reform
-Scientists and engineers
-Executive Order
-Tax bill
-Mills
-Unemployment
-Significance
-Recent rates
-Type
-Teenagers
-Average worker
-Condition
-General state of economy
-Temporary unemployment

McCracken=s meetings with businessmen
-Nathan Cummings
-Background
-Support for President
-Arts committee position
-List of names
-President=s meeting with Leonard Garment
-Ted Cummings
-Art collection
-Labor costs

-Attitude of business community
-Pollution
-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC]
-Gavin McVay [sp?]
-Henry Crown
-Pollution
-Anti-trust
-EEOC
-EEOC
-Letter [Vicente T. Ximenes to McCracken, April 15, 1971]
-Minorities
-Ximenes
-Environmentalists
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Connally
-McCracken
-Flanigan
-Charles W. Colson
-Stans
-Task force
-Flanigan, Connally, and Stans
-Colson
-Responsibilities
-President=s support for business community
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Anti-trust
-Richard W. McLaren
-John D. deButts
-American Telephone & Telegraph [AT&T]
-Blacks

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:33 am and 11:01 am]

[Conversation No. 476-11A]

[See Conversation No. 1-58]

[End of telephone conversation]

Future press briefing for Ziegler

Economy
-Prospects
-Retail sales
-Rise
-Spring

[The President talked with Ziegler between 11:01 am and 11:02 am]

[Conversation No. 476-11B]

[See Conversation No. 1-59]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler

Steven Parker
-Speech writing
-Michigan

McCracken left at 11:05 am

Conversation No. 476-12

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  11:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

Meeting with John B. Connally

Conversation No. 476-13

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  11:05 am - 11:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and David M. Kennedy; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Gift from Kennedy
-Rock [Micronesian currency]
-Weight
-Photographs
-Greetings
-Prop for rock
-Gift from people of Yap
-[Micronesian] trust territory [Western Caroline Islands]
-Palau [Islands]
-Origin
-Islands
-Canoeing
-Age
-Photograph for Kennedy and press
-Display
-Museums

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 11:06 am

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Delivery
-Dinner at F Street Club
-George H. Mahon
-Russell B. Long

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:38 am

-Oliver Oakes [sp?]
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-John W. Byrnes
-Wilbur D. Mills
-John B. Connally
-Honored
-Arthur F. Burns

Kennedy=s trip to Asia
-Airplane
-Rest
-Food
-Health
-Bali
-Ambassador [Francis J. Galbraith]
-Briefing by ministers
-Social occasion
-Indonesians
-Finances
-Hong Kong
-Harold Lee and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Chinese people
-Sir Kenneth Ping-Fan Fung
-C. Y. Kong [?]
-David L. Osborn
-Vietnam
-Robert W. Drexler
-Briefing regarding People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Vietnam
-Benchmark
-David Engel
-State Department
-Benchmark
-Comparative report
-Saigon
-Condition
-Mekong Delta
-Surprise
-American press reports
-Hue
-Destruction
-Structures
-Rebuilding
-Comparison with World War II
-Cologne
-London
-Mekong Delta
-Farm areas
-Guided tour
-Sights
-Hog, chicken farms

-Demonstration farm
-Private enterprise
-Agriculture
-Farmers
-Hogs, chicken
-French rubber plantation owners
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Report to President
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Morale problems
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-Withdrawal
-Rate
-Instructions to Haig
-Dr. John A. Hannah
-Presence
-Agriculture
-Kennedy=s conversation with General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Vietnamization
-Economy
-Congress
-Annual review
-Need for self-reliance
-Economic Vietnamization
-Personnel
-Reduction
-Shift in resources
-Hardware
-Thieu
-Morale
-Funds
-Sir Robert Thompson
-Kennedy=s conversations with Thompson
-Optimism
-Cambodia and Laos operations
-Effect on security of South Vietnam
-Economy
-Internal security
-Thieu
-Cooperation
-Thieu
-Opposition
-Nguyen Cao Ky

-Lieutenant General Duong Van (ABig Minh@) Minh
-Re-election
-US position
-Japanese ambassador=s views
-Nation building in South Vietnam
-Vietcong
-Economy
-Stability in prices
-Economic problems
-Regulation (Ared tape@)
-Customs regulations
-Black market
-Possible solution
-Single exchange rate
-Timing
-Thieu
-Bunker
-American community
-Complaints
-American embassy
-Customs graft
-Licensing corruption
-Thieu and Bunker
-Administrative changes
-AID
-American economic advisors
-Korea
-Henry J. Tasca
-Japan
-Joseph Dodge
-Indonesia
-Timing
-State Department
-AID
-Indonesia and South Vietnam
-Bunker
-Criticism
-Charles A. Cooper
-Instructions to Haig
-Dodge
-Japan
-Tasca
-Korea

-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Bunker
-Department of State
-Military
-Dodge
-Instructions to Kennedy
-List of names
-Qualifications
-Former chief executive officers [CEOs]
-Bert S. Cross
-3M [Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company]
-Admiral [William C.?] Mott
-Cooper
-Timing
-Thieu
-Bunker
-Possible transfer
-Indonesia
-William P. Rogers
-Marshall Green
-Unknown technical adviser
-Government officials
-Cross
-Suitable candidates
-Former CEOs
-Schlesinger
-[Peter G.?] Peterson
-Business community
-Japan
-Green
-State Department economic staff
-Political side
-Deficiency in economics
-Need for economic experts
-Attitude towards business
-Eastern schools
-View towards private enterprise
-Woodward [Surname unknown]
-Memorandum from Philip H. Trezise
-US trade with Japan
-Briefing
-Meeting of Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP], April 8, 1971
-Peterson

-Knowledge of Japan
-Instructions for Haig
-Future briefing for White House staff National Security Council [NSC], Domestic Council staff, Council of Economic Advisers [CEA], Office of Management and Budget [OMB] Staff
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Vietnam
-American economic agencies
-Cooper=s idea for post-election meeting
-Kennedy=s view
-Possible administration position
-Need for single exchange rate
-Timing
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Thailand
-King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara

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-Press reports
-Allegations of US dumping rice on Indonesia
-Effect on Thai economy
-Deflation
-Meeting with Cabinet
-State Department
-Aid
-Indonesia
-Cambodia

-Indonesia
-Lieutenant General T. N. J. Suharto
-Military aid
-Political situation
-Kennedy=s conversation with Suharto
-Need for military aid
-Visit by US team
-Green
-Rogers
-Green
-Possible reassignment
-Japan
-Embassy staff
-Lenora (Bingham) Kennedy
-Galbraith
-Micronesian islands
-Independence
-Mariana Islands
-Caroline Islands
-Marshall Islands
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Saipan
-Peace Corps
-Joseph H. Blatchford
-Reduction
-Congo
-Value
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Peace Corps
-Morton
-Haig=s forthcoming report
-Reduction
-Possible changes
-Value
-Composition
-Protestors
-Kennedy=s possible conversation with Morton
-Mariana Islands

Kennedy and Haig left at 11:38 am

Conversation No. 476-14

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  11:40 am - 1:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman, Leonard Garment, Robert H. Finch, and Nancy Hanks

Greetings

Hanks= visit to Philadelphia arts center, April 8, 1971
-Walter H. and Leonore (Cohn) Annenberg

President=s meeting with movie industry group
-San Clemente, California, April 5, 1971
-Aid for industry
-Haldeman
-Praise for Hanks
-Garment
-Taft Schreiber
-Columbia Pictures
-Unknown people

Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum
-Names
-Location
-Mall
-Sculptures
-Architecture
-Modern
-Whitney Museum
-New York
-Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
-Architecture
-Aesthetics
-Washington, DC
-Possible controversy
-Plans approval
-Possible changes
-Sculpture garden
-Collection
-Appointments to Board of Trustees

-ATherapy@
-Changes
-Easterners
-Schreiber
-Hal B. Wallis
-L. Annenberg
-Jack Hines
-Nathan Cummings
-Waldorf Hotel
-Democrat
-Art collection
-Ted Cummings
-California
-Art collection
-Appointments
-Schreiber, N. and T. Cummings
-Mrs. T. Cummings
-Instructions to call N. Cummings
-President=s conversation with N. Cummings at Waldorf
-Paul W. McCracken=s meeting in New York
-N. Cummings
-Leigh Block
-Chicago
-H[jorvardur] Harvard Arnason
-Background of group
-Arnason
-Schreiber
-[Lyndon B.?] Johnson
-Hobart Taylor, Jr.
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Mr. and Mrs. T. Cummings
-N. Cummings
-Invitation to White House

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Associated Councils of the Arts
-Annual conference
-President=s possible speech
-Art
-Environment
-Conference title
-AWashington and the Arts@

-Membership
-State arts councils
-Size
-Possible speech topics
-Arts
-Environment
-Mood of country
-Garment, Haldeman, Finch
-Hunter Conference for Children and Youth
-Support for President
-Speech
-Length
-Protestors
-Garment and Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Price=s responsibility

Movie industry
-Administration=s program
-Tax incentives
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Foreign films
-Percentage
-Problem
-US producers
-Expense
-President=s meeting with industry group
-Flanigan
-Haldeman
-Opportunities for domestic movies
-US world position
-Costs
-Movie producers
-Jack L. Warner
-Schreiber
-Threat to US film industry
-Export of jobs, production
-Need for strength
-Relation of movies to television
-Anti-trust requirements
-Divestiture
-Possible reversal
-Cost
-Attendance

-Theater owners
-Producers
-Subsidies
-Difficulties
-Congress
-Taxes
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Timing
-Special treatment
-Producers
-Anti-trust
-Foreign imports
-Tariff barriers
-Imports
-Japan
-Automobiles
-Foreign Trade
-Peter G. Peterson
-Moving pictures, oranges
-Franco Maria Malfatti
-Citrus products
-Hanks= contacts with artists
-Preserving opportunities
-Television
-Quality of movies
-Compared to baseball
-Public broadcasting
-Quality of movies
-Compared to foreign films
-Types of movies
-Family movies
-Instructions to Hanks, Garment
-Opinion of the President=s daughters
-Walter E (AWalt@) Disney
-Old movies on television
-Opinion of Garment=s children
-Story
-Instruction to Hanks
-Possible study of industry
-Arts perspective
-Subsidies
-Congress
-Quality

-Situation of movie industry
-Need for Administration=s help
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Dean Burch
-Flanigan
-Haldeman
-Follow-up
-ATherapy@
-Care
-Educational aspects
-Schools
-University of Southern California [USC]
-University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Indiana University
-Northwestern University
-USC
-Cost
-Figures
-Interns, fellows
-Film people
-Types of movies
-Stories
-Charlton Heston
-Storytelling
-John Wayne
-Popularity
-Film seen by the President
-Story
-Problems
-Relation with public
-Reflection of national intelligentsia
-Haldeman
-Flanigan
-Necessity of industry to right itself
-Six steps
-Labor policies
-Production costs
-Quality of films
-Need for better movies
-Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo
-Jane Fonda
-APatton@
-ALove story@

-Bob Evans
-ALawrence of Arabia@
-Television
-Support for literature
-Writers
-Support for music
-Symphonic
-Jazz
-Painting
-Visual
-Effects of movies
-Young people
-Networks
-Subsidies for movies
-John N. Mitchell
-Anti-trust
-Legislation
-Need for change

Arts and music
-President=s conversation with unknown person
-Watts
-Children and the Arts
-Number
-Art gallery
-Music
-President=s support
-Inspiration
-Effect on youth
-Television
-Instructions to Garment to contact movie industry
-Responsibility of Arts commission
-Quality of movies

Movie industry
-Schreiber
-Studios
-Flanigan
-John B. Connally
-Tax plan
-Quality of movies
-Costs
-Stories

-Comments of unknown writer
-Self-sufficiency of movie industry
-Screen Writers= Guild
-Commendation for commission
-Finch

Appointments to Board of Trustees of Hirshhorn Museum
-L. Annenberg
-T. Cummings
-Mrs. T. Cummings
-Wealth
-Home near Hillcrest Golf Course
-Art collection
-Hirshhorn
-Hines
-Eastern Establishment
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Hirshhorn
-Hines
-T. Cummings
-Hines
-Norton Simon
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-Possible meeting with President
-Instructions to Haldeman
-Wealth
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.
-Art collection
-Possible ambassadorial appointment
-Appointment to Board of Trustees

Hirshhorn Museum
-Simon
-President=s view

Simon
-Modern art
-Quality of collection
-Renaissance art
-President=s schedule
-Views on airlines= problems
-George P. Shultz
-Free enterprise system

-Meeting with President
-Garment=s previous meeting
-Management ideas
-President=s schedule
-Shultz

Arts budget
-Comments of unknown black New York state senator
-Bronx
-Importance of program
-Support for commission

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Shirley Taylor
-Picture in newspaper
-Kevin Taylor
-Salute
-Television
-Reaction
-Use of text
-Conclusion
-Finch=s call to President

Movie industry
-Importance
-Relation to television
-Quality
-Support 
-Costs

Garment, Finch, and Hanks left at 12:18 pm

Hanks
-Arts appeal

President=s schedule
-Judge Thomas F. Murphy=s call to President

Poll results
-Approval rating
-Changes regarding Vietnam
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Rating

-Reaction among those aware of speech
-Consistency of figures
-Figures
-Comparison with press conference
-State of the Union
-Audience
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Analysis
-Favorable
-Unfavorable
-Press conference
-State of the Union
-Cambodia speech
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Reaction
-Vietnam withdrawal issue
-Approval of the war
-Shift
-Rate of withdrawal
-Shift in opinion
-Timing of withdrawal
-Immediate
-By end of 1971
-Vietnamization
-Complete victory
-Vietnamization
-Analysis
-President=s plan compared with  Democrat caucus
-J. Edgar Hoover and Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Approval rating
-Results
-Compared with January 1971
-Analysis
-Retirement
-Age
-Losses
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. issue
-Approval
-Disapproval
-Vietnam withdrawal issue
-George H. Gallup and Louis Harris polls
-Benchmark
-Timing of polls

-Effects of President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Calley
-Laos
-Calley
-Laos
-Disapproval
-Undecided, unfavorable
-Solidification of support
-End-of-war issue
-Need for confidence
-President=s problem
-Economy
-President=s approval rating
-Revenue sharing
-Economy

President=s schedule
-Possible use of television at forthcoming American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] interview, April 16, 1971
-President=s opinion
-Against use of television
-Staff opinions
-Charles W. Colson
-For use of television
-William L. Safire
-For use of television
-Not over-exposure
-Good alternative to press conference
-President=s best forum, question and answer session
-William H. Carruthers
-Against use of television
-Over-exposure
-Vietnam questions
-John A. Scali
-Against use of television
-Media coverage
-Cliff Miller
-Against use of television
-Richard A. Moore
-Against use of television

-Scali
-Carruthers
-Scali
-Defensiveness on Indochina policy

President=s uses of media
-Television
-Forthcoming appearances
-Press conference
-ASNE interview
-Production problems
-Black-tie dinner
-Written press
-Television
-Cambodian speech
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Emotional impact
-Duration
-Withdrawal issue
-K. Taylor
-ASNE interview
-Colson and Safire
-Colson=s views
-Public relations
-Safire=s views

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:15 pm

Refreshment

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:44 pm

President=s uses of media
-Safire
-ASNE interview
-Possible questions
-Emphasis on Vietnam
-Possible press conference on April 17, 1971
-Film coverage
-Television
-Scali
-Radio
-Microphones

-Advantages
-Miller
-Television
-Scali and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Coverage of posthumous medal ceremony
-Scali
-Disadvantages to television
-Cameras
-Heat
-Discomfort
-Arguments for television
-Pause for applause after questions
-Another possible television forum
-Chamber of Commerce
-ASNE interview
-Forum
-Chicago Executives Club
-Detroit
-Automobile business

Polls
-Evaluation
-Calley
-Emotional impact
-Predictions
-Partisans

Television
-Unknown person=s opinion on use
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Removing as issue temporarily
-Possible positive news
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

Ziegler entered at 12:44 pm

Ziegler=s press briefing, April 9, 1971
-Summary
-Vietnam
-Impressions and interpretations [of President=s policy by Hugh Scott]
-Plan
-Withdrawal date

-Conditions of withdrawal
-Vietnamization
-Negotiation
-Reassessment of conditions
-Withdrawal date
-McCracken
-[Possible resignation from Council of Economic Advisers]
-National Endowment for the Arts
-Budget
-Hanks
-Under-privileged children
-Heston

ASNE interview
-Media
-Television
-Forthcoming ASNE interview, April 16, 1971
-Forthcoming press conference
-Follow-up to ASNE interview
-Vietnam
-Questions
-ASNE interview
-Speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Adversarial format
-As televised issue
-Televised press conference
-Timing
-Disadvantages
-Heat of television lens
-Film
-Radio
-Possible use
-Advantage of audio
-Television
-Film
-Timing
-Television
-Possible news items
-Vietnam
-Economic indicators

-Howard K. Smith [American Broadcasting System interview with the President, March 22, 1971]
-Vietnam
-Strategy
-Vietnam questions
-Domestic issues
-Foreign policy
-Speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Audience
-Impact
-Over-exposure
-Forum
-Scali
-Image, popularity
-Reaction of ASNE
-Written press
-Future use of television
-ASNE use of cameras
-Miller
-Moore
-Scali
-Defensive on Indochina
-Carruthers
-Timing
-Vietnam questions
-Safire
-Contrivance
-Film
-Radio
-Film
-One camera
-Lights
-Set-up
-Kennedy
-Press conference
-Use of camera
-One camera
-Lights
-Black tie
-Television
-Networks

-Radio
-Audience
-Replay
-Background
-Panel
-Unknown person
-Wire service
-Economic indicators
-Release
-Retail sales
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Unemployment

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:44 pm

President=s schedule
-Donald H. Rumsfeld and parents
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:04 pm

ASNE interview
-Film
-One camera
-Ziegler=s possible action

President=s schedule
-Saint John=s Episcopal Church
-Transportation
-Walking
-Lafayette Park
-Driving
-Announcement

Rumsfeld, Joyce (Pierson) Rumsfeld, and his parents, George D. and Jeannette (Husted) Rumsfeld, entered at an unknown time after 1:04 pm

Greetings

Photograph

[General conversation]

Gifts
-Cufflinks

Rumsfeld=s trip to Europe
-Timing
-Rome, Paris, London

The Rumsfelds left at an unknown time before 1:06 pm

ASNE interview
-Use of media
-Film
-Television
-Reaction
-Film editing problems
-Coverage
-Possible questions
-Vietnam
-Revenue sharing
-Economy
-Washington newspapers
-Vietnam

Press briefing
-Economy
-Inflation
-Summer youth program
-Timing

President=s Easter plans
-Gettysburg [Pennsylvania] church
-Eisenhower
-Minister
-Funeral of Eisenhower
-Gettysburg College students
-Possible demonstrations
-Announcement
-Gettysburg church
-Connection with Abraham Lincoln
-Gettysburg Address
-Networks
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]

-Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
-Media coverage
-Appearance
-Demonstration

Demonstrations
-Veterans
-ASNE
-Schedule of events
-Edmund S. Muskie=s endorsement
-Robert J. Dole
-Rennie Davis
-Staff
-Clarification on Muskie=s endorsement
-Muskie
-Revenue sharing
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-US foreign policy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Muskie

Muskie
-Polls
-Ratings

George W. Romney and Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Polls
-Ratings

Muskie
-Staff difficulties
-Infiltration
-Identity
-Report of infiltrator
-Muskie=s comments at meeting
-Suspicion of disloyalty
-Staff director=s comments
-Muskie=s comments at meeting
-Mayor=s meeting
-Conflict with staff
-Evaluation

Rockefeller
-Staff handling
-Advice

Muskie
-Staff difficulties
-Responsibility

Muskie=s staffers
-Kissinger
-William A. K. (ATony@) Lake
-Identity
-J. F. Kennedy
-Old administrative assistant
-Replacement
-New administrative assistant
-Infiltrator
-Conflict
-Cover for infiltrator

Campaign practices
-Humphrey
-Coverage
-E. M. Kennedy
-Coverage
-George S. McGovern
-Coverage
-E. M. Kennedy
-Coverage

E. M. Kennedy
-Judgement
-[Virginia] Joan (Bennett) Kennedy
-Visit to White House
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-V. J. Kennedy
-Dress
-Jet set
-Chappaquiddick
-Ethel (Skakel) Kennedy
-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Muskie

-Staff difficulty
-Reflection on Muskie
-Staff meetings
-Strategy
-Transcript provided by infiltrator

E. M. Kennedy
-Taping
-Congress
-Bugging
-Hoover

[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Charges against Hoover
-Congressional Record
-Response by Congress
-House Republicans
-Samuel L. Devine
-Carleton J. King

Richard H. Ichord
-Demonstrators
-Communist front groups
-Publicity for change

Demonstrations
-Size
-Composition
-Organization
-Cambodia demonstration
-Spark
-Organization
-Cambodia demonstration
-Santa Cruz demonstration
-University of California at Santa Cruz [UCSC]
-Acceptance of Haldeman=s son
-Burning
-Experimental college
-Oxford Plan
-Claremont
-Vietnam
-Dean E. McHenry
-Political scientist

-UCLA
-Political affiliation
-Congressional run
-Setting
-Fire damage
-Percentage of students involved
-Washington demonstrators
-Motivation
-Ziegler=s experience
-National Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA]
-Balboa
-UCLA
-Youth
-Meeting with Mitchell and Colson
-Issues
-Youth
-Action
-Interest in business politics
-Revenue sharing
-Haldeman=s conversation with son
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Haldeman=s conversation with unknown woman
-Stanford University
-Harvard University
-Columbia University
-Yale University
-Wellesley College
-Peterson
-Harvard University

President=s schedule
-Travel to church service
-Walking
-Driving

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 1:30 pm

Conversation No. 476-15

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 1:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Henry A. Kissinger met with Manolo Sanchez

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Kissinger and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:33 pm

Conversation No. 476-16

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  1:33 pm - 1:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger=s schedule
-David Brinkley

President=s schedule
-Meeting with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and David M. Kennedy
-Kissinger=s meeting about Pakistan
-Time
-Good Friday services

Kissinger=s schedule
-Brinkley

Kissinger left at 1:35 pm

Conversation No. 476-17

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:47 pm

Conversation No. 476-18

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 1-60]

Conversation No. 476-19

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:47 pm

Conversation No. 476-20

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Peter G. Peterson

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:47 pm

Conversation No. 476-21

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 1-61]

Conversation No. 476-22

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 1-62]

Conversation No. 476-23

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man

President=s schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:47 pm

Conversation No. 476-24

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Peter G. Peterson

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:47 pm

Conversation No. 476-25

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  1:47 pm - 2:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Arthur F. Burns

[See Conversation No. 1-63]

Henry A. Kissinger and Peter G. Peterson entered at 1:50 pm

[Peterson talked with Burns at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 1:54 pm]

[Conversation No. 476-25A]

[See Conversation No. 1-63A]

[End of telephone conversation]

Peterson=s Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP] briefing
-Kissinger
-Significance
-Future policy
-President=s conversation with George P. Shultz
-Audience
-White House staff and other administration officials
-Under secretaries
-Congress
-Bipartisan group
-Sanitization
-Clark MacGregor
-William P. Rogers
-Possible problem in briefing
-Trade policy
-Bipartisan
-Opportunities
-Congress
-Size of group
-Location
-State Department
-Commerce Department
-White House theater

-MacGregor
-Organization
-President=s opening remarks
-Length of briefing
-Discussion
-President=s conversation with Shultz
-Briefing with Burns
-Anti-trust
-Influence with Congress
-Length of briefing
-Instruction to Kissinger
-Use of chart
-President=s possible attendance
-Briefing
-Shultz
-Charts
-Peterson
-The President
-Possible conversation with Maurice H. Stans
-Businessmen
-Labor
-Business council executives
-Foreign competition
-Issues
-Charles H. Percy
-Conservatives

Anti-trust policy
-Need for planning
-President=s conversation with Burns
-President=s conversation with Chicago businessmen, April 8, 1971
-Long-range projections
-US goals

Peterson=s CIEP briefing
-US competitive position
-Japan
-Europe
-Communist world
-Chart
-Bloc countries versus free world

Mexico
-Issues
-Ontario Airport landing rights
-Eggs
-Textiles
-New group of leaders
-Foreign Minister
-Kissinger=s forthcoming call to Ambassador Jose Juan de Olloqui
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez

Bolivia
-Tin
-Stockpiling
-President=s conversation with Ambassador Antonio Sanchez de Lozada
-Shultz
-Sanchez de Lozada
-Stockpiling

Pan-American Highway
-Panama
-Memorandum to President
-Role of departments
-Bureaucratic problems
-Importance of Latin America
-Benefits to Mexico
-Mexico City
-Economic growth
-President=s trip to Mexico, 1955
-Bureau of Public Roads
-Long-range plan

Tariff preferences
-Effect on Latin America
-Need for legislation
-Franco Maria Malfatti
-Rogers
-Unknown conference
-Need for legislation

Sugar
-Importance to Latin America
-Quota
-Page Belcher

-Conversation with Peterson
-State Department
-Latin America
-Philippines
-Possible US policy
-Kissinger
-Ambassadors
-State Department
-Charles A. Meyer

CIEP
-Peterson
-Rogers
-State Department
-Representation
-Commerce Department
-Stans
-Trade with Eastern Bloc
-Perspective
-Likelihood of trade
-Timing
-Possible US overtures
-Economic basis
-Time magazine article
-Stans
-Evaluation
-Opportunities
-Possibilities
-Perspective
-Political standpoint
-Commerce Department
-Meeting at Executive Office Building
-Report to Peterson
-Use of trade abroad
-Stans= speech
-US policy
-Foreign policy aspects
-Kissinger and Peterson meeting

Peterson=s meeting with Time editors
-April 13, 1971
-Possible briefing
-Economic stance

-Defensiveness
-Regulation
-Outdated policies
-AGeneration of peace@
-Possible review with Kissinger
-Economic leadership
-Future
-Belief in competition
-Home and abroad
-US leadership
-Emergence of free world
-President=s leadership role
-Need for programs
-David Davis
-Peterson=s meeting
-Technology
-Raw materials
-Business-government relationship
-Anti-trust
-Airlines
-Burns
-Reaffirmation of US leadership
-US political position
-US diplomatic position
-Administration=s policy
-Economic leadership
-Malfatti
-Multinational corporations
-Role of government in industrial research
-Peace
-Era of economic competition
-US preparation
-Revitalization
-Public and private sector
-Trade policy
-Anti-trust laws
-International monetary policy
-Long-range view versus election view
-Difficulty of long-range goals
-Past perspective
-President=s congressional career
-US aid to Europe, Japan, and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Reciprocal trade

-Foreign aid
-Marshall Plan
-President=s internationalism
-New isolationism
-Economic policy
-Need for Presidential leadership
-Impact on industry, labor, Congress
-Military study
-Gaither Committee
-President=s leadership position
-Need for constructive partnership
-Technology study
-David M. Kennedy
-Presidential commissions
-Staff
-Timing
-Joseph C. Wilson, Xerox
-Other leaders
-Business-government relationship
-Anti-trust
-Business Council
-Raw materials
-Recommendation
-Business Council
-Representation
-Heartland
-Chicago
-Los Angeles
-Dallas
-Houston
-Atlanta
-Easterners
-Parochialism
-Patrick E. Haggerty
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Energy policy
-Breeder reactor
-Clean energy
Peterson=s briefing
-Peterson=s staff

Kissinger=s briefing, April 8, 1971
-Research and Development [RAND] Corporation

Burns

Peterson left at an unknown time before 2:35 pm

Ronald L. Ziegler=s press briefing
-Hugh Scott
-Impressions of President=s statement
-Vietnam withdrawal date
-Press
-Residual force
-Terminal date
-Circumstances
-Election
-Negotiations
-Administration=s position
-Withdrawal
-Unilateral withdrawal
-Residual force
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Melvin R. Laird
-Memorandum on residual force
-Goal of total withdrawal
-Vietnamization
-Prisoners of War [POWs] wives
-Ziegler
-Timing
-Conditions
-POWs
-Negotiation
-Vietnamization
-Negotiations

Kissinger=s conversation with David Brinkley
-President=s program of seeing POWs
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Domestic tensions
-Relation with war
-Administration=s opponents
-Post-war reconciliation
-Kissinger=s possible call to Brinkley

President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Reaction
-Calley
-Brinkley
-Mail
-Public opinion
-Frustration prior to speech

Cambodia
-President=s conversation with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Press story by Terence F. Smith
-Floyd E. (ARed@) Smith

Possible leak
-State Department

Kennedy=s trip to Asia
-Marshall Green
-Indonesia
-T. N. J. Suharto
-Military aid
-Peace Corps
-Micronesia
-Haig
-Joseph H. Blatchford
-Evaluation
-Haig
-Micronesia
-Blatchford
-Indonesia
-Staff
-Green
-Vietnam
-Sir Robert Thompson
-Optimism
-[Laos and Cambodia]
Thompson=s views
-Views on Indochina
-Timing

T. F. Smith article
-Cambodia
-[Forename unknown] Ladd

-T. F. Smith
-Cambodia
-Possible loss
-Timing

Vietnam
-Withdrawal rate
-Mistakes
-Deadlines on operations
-Re-equipment of South Vietnamese Army
-Cambodia
-Military aid
-Consequences of loss
-Impact on the President
-Laos
-Lam Son
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Instruction for Kissinger
-Laird

Economy
-Vietnam
-Possible ATet@ [North Vietnamese military operation]
-Timing
-Consequences
-For US and the President
-RAND
-Recession
-Unknown San Francisco and New York bankers
-Pockets of recession
-Interest rates

Agency for International Development [AID] personnel
-Thompson
-Numbers
-Saigon
-Indonesia
-US aid

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:50 pm

President=s schedule

Documents for president=s signature

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:35 pm

Vietnam
-Residual force
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Telephone call to Rogers
-Laird
-Residual force
-US goal
-Total withdrawal
-Timing
-Conditions
-Training of South Vietnamese Army
-POWs
-Negotiations
-Vietnamization
-US plans
-POW issue
-Enemy objective
-US goal
-Negotiations
-US policy
-Laird
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger

Phil Watts entered at 2:35 pm

Greetings

President=s schedule
-Saint John=s Episcopal Church
-Good Friday services

President, Kissinger, and Watts left at 2:37 pm

Conversation No. 476-26

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  3:16 pm - 3:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

President=s schedule
-Open Door Hour
-Boys Club
-Frequency
-Value
-Cancer Crusade
-Marguerite Piazza
-Easter Sunday
-Demonstrators
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Time
-Announcement
-Wire story
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Gettysburg
-Demonstrators
-President=s plan
-Notification to press pool
-Camp David
-Thurmont church
-Minister
-Ziegler

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:16 pm

Judge Thomas F. Murphy
-Call to President

Instructions to Ziegler
-Meeting with President

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:20 pm

-President=s Easter Sunday plans

[The President talked with Murphy between 3:20 pm and 3:21 pm]

[Conversation No. 476-26A]

[See Conversation No. 1-64]

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s schedule
-Instructions for Ziegler at forthcoming news conference
-Easter Sunday plans
-Family
-Lack of firm plans

Ziegler entered at 3:23 pm

-Gettysburg church
-Press coverage
-Camp David
-Lack of firm plans
-Possible churches
-Press coverage
-Thurmont church
-President=s visit to Saint John=s Episcopal Church
-Press coverage
-Cameras
-Timing
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Secret Service
-Ministers
-Thurmont church
-Possible locations
-Lack of firm plans
-Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
-Wire story
-Details
-Gettysburg church
-M. G. D. Eisenhower
-Call to the minister
-Chapin
-President=s plans
-Gettysburg church
-Thurmont church

-M. G. D. Eisenhower
-Lack of firm plans
-President=s plans
-Camp David
-Strategy
-United Press International [UPI] story
-M. G. D. Eisenhower=s plans
-J. N. and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-M. G. D. Eisenhower
-Publicity
-UPI story
-Camp David
-Possible churches
-Lack of firm plans
-M. G. D. Eisenhower
-Demonstrations
-Thurmont church
-Pennsylvania State University
-Possible discussion with M. G. D. Eisenhower
-Call to J. N. Eisenhower
-Location

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 3:33 pm

-Thurmont church
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Churches
-Ministers

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:23 pm

-Open Door Hour
-Duration

Bull and Haldeman left at 3:33 pm

Conversation No. 476-27

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  3:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Open Door Hour
-Press picture

Bull left at 3:34 pm

Conversation No. 476-28

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  3:34 pm - 3:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Marguerite Piazza, F. Harry Bergtholdt, Shirley Condon, William J. Condon, Anna B. Condon, Dr. and Mrs. H[erman] Marvin Pollard, Irving I. Rimer, and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions

Photo session

Presentation of award to Piazza
-[American Cancer Society=s Annual Courageous Person Award]

Presentation of gifts
-Cufflinks

Cancer research

Farewells

Piazza, et al. left at 3:37 pm

Conversation No. 476-29

Date:  April 9, 1971
Time:  3:40 pm - unknown before 3:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Bowie K. Kuhn, Joseph E. Cronus, Charles S. Feeney, Robert E. Short, Theodore S. (ATed@) Williams, and Henry C. Cashen, II

Introductions

Baseball

President=s schedule
-Camp David

Baseball
-[Name unintelligible] pitcher

Henry L. (AHank@) Aaron
-Recent performance
-Evaluation
-Sport writers
-Recognition

President=s schedule
-Possible attendance at baseball game

Senators

Presentation to the President of a 1971 American League baseball pass

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[General conversation]
-Baseball

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 3:50 pm