Conversation No. 477-1

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  9:10 am - 10:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman and an unknown man

Charles W. Colson
-Mailings

Polls

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:33 am

-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Vietnam
-News summary
-NBC
-Washington Star
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-George H. Gallup
-Publicity
-Robert J. Dole
-Congress
-ORC
-Presidential popularity
-Democratic poll

President=s schedule

Forthcoming press conference, April 17, 1971
-Announcement
-Wire services
-Editors
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-President=s time spent with press and media
-Television network commentators
-Reporters
-Howard K. Smith
-Women=s press
-Women=s television commentators
-Press conferences

-Oval Office and television
-Scheduling
-Frequency
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
-Questions and answers
-Victor Lasky
-Allen S. Drury
-Peregrine Worsthorne
-Astronauts
-Instructions for Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-John A. Scali
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Format of future press conferences
-Opportunity
-Reaction
-News summaries
-Smith
-Views of unknown journalists
-Editors= bulletin on President=s press activities
-Press corps
-Ziegler

J. Edgar Hoover
-Possible resignation
-Washington Star article
-Congress
-Press
-President=s defense of Hoover
-Haldeman=s activities
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-John N. Mitchell
-President=s conversation with Hoover
-1972 election
-General Lewis B. Hershey
-Retirement
-President=s possible conversation with Mitchell
-Mitchell=s schedule

William P. Rogers
-Instructions to Haldeman
-Haldeman=s possible discussion with Rogers
-Attitude towards foreign service

-Charles W. Yost
-Tenure
-Views on Vietnam
-[Forename unknown] Tatu
-Cambodia
-Information to press
-State Department spokespeople
-Support for President=s Vietnam policy
-Laos
-Yost
-Rogers= attitude
-Lack of information in White House files
-State Department
-Goals
-Rogers= support for President=s Vietnam policy
-Yost
-President=s forthcoming meeting with editors
-Need for Rogers to disagree with Yost
-Possible questions
-Foreign service personnel
-Rogers= attitude
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Support for President
-Yost
-Tenure
-President=s defense
-Rogers
-Alger Hiss
-Defense fund
-Courtesy shown by White House
-Council on foreign relations
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Article
-Kissinger
-Letters
-Middle East
-Vietnam

Appointments
-[Robert M.?] O=Mahoney
-[Brian?] O=Doherty

Unknown event [Easter parade?]
-Need to abolish
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

President=s schedule
-President=s forthcoming meeting with Rogers
-Kissinger
-Vietnam
-Laos
-President=s Vietnam policy
-Sequoia
-Press conference
-Timing

Demonstrations
-Veterans, April 19, 1971
-Prospect
-Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
-Meeting
-Support
-Common Cause
-Composition
-Rennie Davis
-People=s Coalition for Peace in Vietnam
-Davis
-Names
-Timing
-April 24, 1971

President=s schedule
-Camp David
-Press conference
-Demonstrations

Demonstrations
-Focus
-Scheduling
-AMay Day@
-Weathermen
-Goals
-Edmund S. Muskie

President=s schedule
-Mitchell
-Republican Governors= Conference, April 18-20, 1971
-Importance
-President=s possible attendance
-Mitchell=s views
-Press
-Revenue sharing
-Politics
-Mitchell=s ideas
-President=s possible participation
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Meetings
-Frequency
-Agnew
-Conference, April 18-20, 1971
-DAR
-White House church service
-Press conference, April 24, 1971
-Possible questions
-Demonstrations
-Possible response
-Routineness
-Camp David
-Sequoia
-Instructions for Haldeman
-Use
-Republican Governors= Conference
-President=s participation
-Tom McCall
-Politics
-Mitchell
-Public sessions

Hoover
-Possible retirement
-Timing
-Mitchell
-Timing of announcement
-Resolution from Congress
-Praise for Hoover
-Choice of successor
-Washington Star article

-Subsequent President
-Possible strategy
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-1972 election
-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]
-Choice of successor

President=s schedule
-Speeches
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-DAR
-Duration
-Chamber of Commerce
-Content

President=s use of media
-Radio talks
-Scheduling
-Audience
-Subjects

Youth conferences
-Resolutions
-Vietnam

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AEstablishment@ dinner
-Mitchell
-List
-Editors
-Preston Wolfe

-Francis L. Dale
-President=s possible participation
-Finance

Maurice H. Stans dinner
-Compared with W. Clement Stone dinner
-Significance to participants
-President=s activities
-Timing
-John B. Connally
-Reaction
-Paul W. McCracken
-Briefing

Economy
-First quarter figures
-Predictions
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Optimism
-Laos
-Confidence
-Construction
-Employment
-President=s conversations with various people
-Recession
-Arthur F. Burns
-National agony
-Forecast

Revenue sharing
-Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
-Sales plan
-Ehrlichman=s schedule
-William L. Safire
-Price
-Need for explanation of plan

Margaret Chase Smith
-Defense of President
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.

Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Appropriations
-Senate
-Kissinger
-Date of vote in Senate
-Briefing
-Kissinger
-Clark MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Scali
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Briefing
-View of MacGregor

Staff
-Need for unity
-Yost
-United Nations [UN]
-Yost
-Tenure
-MacGregor
-Relations with Congress
-Timmons
-MacGregor and Timmons

Vietnam
-Conclusion of President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Effects
-Compared with November 3, 1969
-Stabilization
-Safire
-President=s policies
-Troop withdrawal
-Casualties
-News story
-US losses in fighting [related to North Vietnamese attack on Fire Base 6, Central Highlands, South Vietnam]
-Helicopter
-Casualties
-Timing
-Casualties
-Cambodia

-News story
-Network coverage
-Casualties
-News summary
-Press coverage
-Decline since President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-MacGregor
-Haldeman=s briefing
-Scali
-Colson briefing
-Colson
-Scali
-Attendance at meetings
-Kissinger
-MacGregor
-Morale
-President=s April 7, 1971 meeting with MacGregor and others
-Reaction to President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Kissinger

Congress
-MacGregor
-Domestic programs
-Revenue sharing
-Economy
-Military appropriations
-Draft extension
-Carl B. Albert
-Congressional reception at White House
-80th Congress members

Hoover
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Publicity
-Resignation
-Resolution in Congress
-Letter of confidence
-Resolution
-Boggs
-Letter
-Circulation
-House of Representatives
-Political implications

-MacGregor
-Justice Department
-Colson
-Congress
-Letter
-Samuel L. Devine
-Democrat
-Circulation
-Content

President=s forthcoming meeting with ASNE, April 16, 1971
-Planning
-Ziegler
-Preliminaries
-Television
-Network radio
-Planning

President=s schedule
-Possible press conference, April 17, 1971
-Preparation
-Demonstrations

Demonstrations
-Polls
-Possible press conference
-People=s Coalition for Peace in Vietnam
-Administration=s efforts

President=s schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-Press corps
-Press conference
-Scheduling
-Demonstrations
-Press conference
-Preparation
-Television coverage
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] talks
-Press conference
-Scheduling
-May Day demonstrations

-Possible conflict with press conference
-Duration
-Press conference
-Timing
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971

President=s schedule
-Executive Office Building
-Hoover
-Kissinger
-Easter parade

Kissinger entered and the President left at 9:40 am

[Pause]

Easter egg roll

White paper
-Nixon Administration
-Staff unity
-Ziegler

The President entered at an unknown time after 9:40 am

Kissinger=s morale

Vietnam
-Casualties previous week
-Predictions
-Compared with Cambodia
-Yost
-Haldeman
-Rogers
-Letter of October 1969
-Memos on all subjects
-Tenure
-George H. W. Bush
-Yost
-Washington Post
-Meeting with Associated Press [AP] board
-Meetings with Time and Newsweek editors
-Support for President

-Yost
-Statement in 1968 on negotiations
-Richard M. Helms
-News summary
-Pathet Lao desertions
-Numbers

People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Visit of ping-pong team
-Announcement of visit
-Recognition by US
-Robert D. Murphy

Vietnam
-Fire Base 6
-Central Highlands
-Possible US strategy
-South Vietnamese military activities
-Press attitudes
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Pathet Lao
-Helms
-Helms
-Network coverage of losses
-Compared to Korea
-Casualty counting
-Methods
-Korea

Calley case
-Administration=s policy
-Unknown general=s role
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.=s support for President
-Colson
-Prospects
-Release statement

PRC
-Radio broadcasts
-Reception of American ping-pong team
-Newsmen
-NBC

-AP
-Relations with US

Pakistan
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-State Department
-Rogers
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Dacca consulate
-US policy
-Analogy to Nigeria
-Civil war
-Biafra
-Nazi Germany
-Adolf Hitler
-Dangers of US involvement
-Bengali reaction
-Leadership
-West Pakistan
-Rogers
-Forthcoming policy statement for President
-State Department
-Rogers
-US role
-Vietnam
-ACivil War@
-Nigeria
-Biafra
-[Forename unknown] Bedell [sp?]
-Civil war
-Economic aid
-India
-Reaction to civil war
-Bengalis
-US policy
Neutrality
-Economic aid
-West Pakistan

Vietnam
-Demonstrations
-Effects of war on American people
-US position

-Delaying action
-Negotiations
-Timing
-PRC
-USSR
-Possible summit meeting
-Lifting of trade restrictions with PRC

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Communists
-US policy
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971

PRC initiative
-Kissinger=s conversation with Rowland Evans
-Rogers
-Marshall Green
-State Department
-Khan
-Jean Sainteny
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Indira Gandhi
-Press reaction
-Announcement on lifting of restrictions on trade
-Timing
-State Department
-Announcement by President

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Anna C. Chennault
-Meeting with Taiwan ambassador
-Press corps

The President, Haldeman, and Kissinger left at 10:33 am

Conversation No. 477-2

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  11:28 am - 12:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

President=s meeting with Taiwan ambassador Chow Shu-kai
-New foreign minister
-Announcement of lifting of trade restrictions on People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Timing
-Provisions
-Currency control
-Shipping
-Symbolism
-United Nations [UN] representation
-US policy
-Chiang Kai-shek
-US emissary
-Ping-pong team
-New York Times
-Chinese
-Visit of US ping-pong team to PRC
-Reception

Chow Shu-kai and Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr. entered at 11:31 am; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Photo session

Chow Shu-kai=s tenure
-Foreign Minister
-Schedule
-Career
-George Kung-chao Yeh

Taiwan
-Friendship for US
-President=s greetings to Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Mayling Soong
-President=s visit=s to Taiwan
-US treaty commitments
-US relaxation of trade and travel with PRC
-US relations
-Visit of ping-pong team from PRC
-Relaxation of travel, currency, and shipping restrictions with PRC
-Significance

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TAIWAN

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-Trade and currency regulations with PRC
-Lifting of restrictions
-Commerce Department
-Announcement
-Timing
-Significance
-Foreign flag vessels
-US competitive situation

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TAIWAN

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-UN representation
-Possible press queries
-President=s meeting with editors, April 16, 1971
-US position

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Travel, trade with PRC
-US policy
-Eastern Europe
-USSR
-US treaty commitments
-Melvin R. Laird
-Defense support
-Chinese people
-Walter P. McConaughy

-US support for Taiwan

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TAIWAN

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Presentation of Gifts
-Madame Chow Lily Chang

Chiang Kai-shek
-President=s previous visits

Taiwan
-UN representation
-US position
-Overseas Chinese

Chow Shu-kai=s shedule
-Afternoon meeting with Kissinger

Chow Shu-kai and Mosbacher left at 12:05 pm

Chow Shu-kai

State Department
-Charles W. Bray, III=s statement on Okinawa

Overseas Chinese
-Impact of PRC recognition 
-Difficulties

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:05 pm

Picture session

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:07 pm

PRC
-Trade announcements
-Marshall Green
-John B. Connally
-Connally=s view

An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] and Anna C. Chennault entered at 12:07 pm

Greetings

The unknown man [Bull?] left at 12:07 pm

Chennault=s trip

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:07 pm

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:41 pm

Chennault=s trip to Asia
-Taiwan
-Korea
-Thailand
-Philippines
-Singapore
-Taiwan
-Vietnam
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Schedule
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Thieu=s possible conversation with President
-Prisoner of War [POW] issue
-Thieu=s decision to release POWs
-H. Ross Perot
-Vice Presidents
-Visit to various places

-Demonstrations
-[Unintelligible]
-POWs
-North Vietnamese objectives
-Negotiations
-1968 bombing halt
-Thieu=s objectives
-Possible meeting with President in Guam or Hawaii
-Thieu and Bunker
-Relationship
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Present conditions
-Chennault=s conversation with Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Thieu
-Economic conditions
-Press
-Military operations

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TAIWAN

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-PRC
-Ping-pong team
-Businessmen=s attitude
-Trade
-US Chamber of Commerce
-Madame Duong (Tran) Thi Larg
-Flying Tiger Airlines
-Pan American/Trans World Airlines [TWA]
-Taiwan

-US policy
-Allies
-New Ambassador
-Chiang Kai-shek
-State Department

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TAIWAN

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-Thailand
-Prime Minister
-[Communications Air Chief Marshal] Dawee [Chulasap]
-Support for President
-Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman
-Problems
-Khoman
-Sugar quotas
-Singapore, Korea, and Taiwan
-Communications
-State Department
-Herbert G. Klein
-Laird
-Military aid
-Asians
-US policy in Asia
-US consultants
-Sir Robert Thompson
-Charles E. (AChip@) Bohlen
-Chennault=s possible role
-Schedule

-Contacts
-Americans and Asians
-Relationship
-Kissinger
-Chennault=s liaison role
-Thieu

Vietnam
-Problem
-US public opinion
-US policy

Taiwan
-President=s knowledge of Chinese
-President=s support
-UN representation
-Allies
-US policy

PRC
-Relaxation of travel and trade restrictions
-Significance
-Symbolism
-Reaction of Chinese community

Taiwan
-US alliance
-PRC
-USSR
-Middle East
-Chennault=s role
-President=s PRC initiative
-State Department
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Overseas Chinese
-Malaysia
-Singapore

Chennault=s position
-Title
-Taiwan
-Overseas Chinese
-Klein

-Chennault=s support for the President
-1968 campaign
-Taiwan
-US embassy
-US Chamber of Commerce
-Liaison
-Flying Tigers
-Republican Party
-Trade
-Klein
-Title
-Asian adviser
-State Department
-Asian affairs
-Everett M. Dirksen
-Murphy
-John N. Mitchell

Vietnam
-President=s possible meeting with Thieu
-Elections

PRC
-Communism

Taiwan
-Economy
-Exports
-Compared with PRC
-Lobby
Presentation of gfts

Farewells
-Chennault=s daughters

Chennault=s schedule

Kissinger and Chennault left at 12:14 pm

Conversation No. 477-3

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:41 pm and 12:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Henry A. Kissinger met with Manolo Sanchez

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Kissinger and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:42 pm

Conversation No. 477-4

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  12:42 pm - 12:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger=s schedule
-John D. Rockefeller, III
-Vietnam

Green brothers
-Press story
-Vietnam

Anna C. Chennault
-Role
-Letter
-Distribution

People=s Republic of China [PRC] - Taiwan
-US position

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:42 pm

Press photograph

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm

Vietnam
-Democrats
-Radicals
-Withdrawal
-US agreements
-Deadlines
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Withdrawal
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Charles W. Colson
-US policy
-POW wives

Kissinger left at 12:46 pm

Conversation No. 477-5

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  12:47 pm - 12:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Marilyn Cochran, Barbara Cochran, Bobby Cochran, and Henry C. Cashen, II; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Introductions

Photographic session

Skiing
-Father
-Coach

Presentation of gifts
-Cuff links

Skiing
-Practicing
-Determination

Oval Office
-Description
-Presidential seal
-Picture of White House in 1837
-Portrait of George Washington

Rose Garden

Easter egg roll

Farewells

M. Cochran, et al. left at 12:53 pm

Conversation No. 477-6

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  12:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Unknown event
-France

Bull left at 12:53 pm

Conversation No. 477-7

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  12:53 pm - 2:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Easter egg roll
-Crowd size
-Children
-Participation
-Tourists
-Previous year
-Weather

William P. Rogers
-Schedule
-Costa Rica trip
-Meeting with President
-Vietnam
-Charles W. Yost
-Points
-President=s meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
-Possible statement
-Schedule
-Vietnam
-Possible testimony in public session
-Yost
-Effect
-Vietnam
-Schedule
-Meeting with President

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Victor Lasky
-Taping of interview
-Difficulties
-Patricia (Pratt) Lasky
-Notes

Rogers
-Statement on Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule
-Yost
-Effect on Rogers
-Schedule
-Possible statement
-Yost
-Statement
-Letter of 1969
-State Department
-Rogers
-Possible reply by President
-Letters
-Foreign Service
Anna C. Chennault
-Role
-Robert J. Dole
-Title
-Level in government
-Title

Easter egg roll
-Number of children
-Band

President=s meeting with ASNE, April 16, 1971
-Press conference
-Schedule
-Television
-Press
-John A. Scali
-Radio
-Advantages
-Television cameras

President=s schedule
-Lasky meeting
-Duration
-Specific questions
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Recent visit to Southeast Asia
-Vietnam
-Possible visit to Southeast Asia
-Kissinger
-John D. Rockefeller, III
-John J. McCloy
-Kissinger
-Possible meeting with President
-New members
-Report
-Composition
-Frank C. Carlucci
-Name
-James D. Hodgson
-Press
-Surnames
-Radio talks
-Plan
-Scheduling
-Duration
-Staff support
-Subject focus
-Groups
-Possible topics
-Work and leisure
-Growth of America
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Reform movement
-Fatherhood
-Arts
-Bicentennial
-ARadio fireside chat@
-Timing
-Competition
-Advantages

Polls
-Thomas W. Benham
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Reaction
-Approval/disapproval rate
-Shifts
-Laos
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Attitude changes
-Importance of seeing President on television
-Attitude of viewers
-Approval of President=s performance
-President=s handling of Vietnam
-Approval
-Gains
-Reaction of non-viewers/viewers
-Importance of television
-President=s credibility
-Rating
-Public attitude on Vietnam
-Higher rate of approval
-Two hypotheses
-Explanation
-J. Edgar Hoover poll
-Retirement
-Telephone study
-Approval rating
-Partisan vote
-Calley case
-Public attitudes on Vietnam
-Advantages for President
-President=s television speech on Vietnam
-Viewers= reaction
-Advantages
-Interpretation of results
-Negative impressions
-Media

Staff
-Response to news summaries preparations
-Newsweek letters
-Vietnam veterans
-Department of Defense

-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Letter to Life
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Charles W. Colson
-Lyndon K. (AMort@) Allin
-News summaries
-Advantages
-Editorials
-Letters
-Loyalty
-Herbert G. Klein
-Colson
-Klein
-Activities
-Colson
-Klein
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch
-Clark MacGregor
-Leonard Garment
-Background
-Civil rights
-Liberals
-Pressure
-Mail
-Vietnam
-Economy

Vietnam
-Laos
-News
-Casualties
-Reduction
-Laos
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Timing
-Congressional reaction
-Polls
-Results
-New York Times
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-McCloskey
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Views on pacification
-Schedule
-Fact-finding trip
-Views
-Crediblity
-Withdrawal
-Yost
-Cabinet
-Impact
-News report
-Unknown administration official
-Leaks

Bureaucrats
-Partisan nature

President=s schedule
-Saint John=s Episcopal Church, April 9, 1971
-Phil Watts
-Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
-Announcement
-News story
-Easter Sunday
-Demonstrations
-John N. Mitchell

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Staff
-Mitchell
-Schedule
-Maurice H. Stans

-Peter M. Flanigan
-Businessmen
-Stans
-Dole

Easter egg roll
-Weather

Haldeman left at 2:00 pm

Conversation No. 477-8

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:00 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Peter G. Peterson=s schedule
-Meeting with President

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm

Conversation No. 477-9

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:00 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Peter G. Peterson=s schedule
-Lunch
-Meeting with President

President=s schedule
-Peterson
-George P. Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm

Conversation No. 477-10

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  2:30 pm - 3:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Maurice H. Stans
-John N. Mitchell
-Stans
-Schedule
-Mitchell
-Schedule
-Stans
-Schedule
-Peter G. Peterson
-Relationship with Stans

Polls
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Viewers/non-viewers
-Difference in attitudes

President=s use of media
-Television
-Message
-Television
-Scheduling
-President=s interview with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
-Radio
-Reporters

-Possible schedule
-Press conference, April 29, 1971
-White House photographers dinner
-Scheduling
-Television appearances
-Frequency
-Oval Office press conference
-Frequency of press conferences
-Options
-Schedule
-Evenings prior to press conferences
-Correspondents= dinner
-Photographers= dinner
-Friday evenings

Demonstrations
-Plans of demonstrators
-Dates
-April 24, 1971
-Possible vandalism
-Disruptions
-Dates
-April 25 through May 5, 1971
-Plans
-Blocking bridges and traffic
-Sit-ins
-Interference with unknown employees
-Telephone systems
-Radio
-Hanoi
-Announcement of insurrection and martial law in Washington
-Cutting power sources in Washington
-Rock Creek Park
-Campsite
-Federal troops
-Campus support
-Groups
-National Coalition Against the War
-People=s Coalition for Peace and Justice
-Communists

President=s schedule
-Press conference, April 30, 1971

-Anniversary of Cambodia speech, April 30, 1970
-Florida
-Press conference
-Voluntary action meeting
-Cabinet meeting
-Rescheduling
-Preparation
-Oval Office press conference
-Press conference
-Television
-Reviewers
-Editors
-Frank van der Linden
-Allen S. Drury
-Victor Lasky
-Stories
-Press conference
-Scheduling
-Florida
-Scheduling
-Photographers
-Weekend
-Camp David
-Scheduling
-Sequoia
-Demonstrators
-White House
-Press conference
-Cabinet meeting
-Chamber of Commerce
-Cabinet meeting

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Youth
-Richard A. Moore
-High school juniors and seniors
-Potential support
-Pliability
-College juniors and seniors
-Objectivity
-Workers
-Letters to classes
-High school graduations
-Radio and television broadcast
-Voters

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm

Peterson=s arrival
-Meeting with President

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm

Paul W. McCracken
-Picture
-Inflation alert announcement
-Schedule
-Photo session

Peterson entered at 2:50 pm

-Book on Vice Presidency
-Interview with President
-President and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Notes on Vice Presidency

Peterson=s schedule
-Time-Life interview
-Remarks
-Possible questions
-Vietnam
-President=s position
-Questions on negotiations

People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-US relations
-Visit of ping-pong team

Haldeman left at 3:00 pm

-Background
-Time-Life
-President=s initiatives
-State Department objections
-Relaxation of trade and travel restrictions
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger
-State Department
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Time-Life
-US position relative to PRC and USSR
-Bridge
-Japanese role
-Broker
-Eisaku Sato
-Trade
-Modus vivendi with US
-Compared with USSR
-Politics/philosophy
-US position
-President=s initiatives
-State Department
-Llewellyn E. (ATommy@) Thompson, Jr.
-Charles E. (AChip@) Bohlen
-Warsaw talks
-USSR
-Bureaucracy
-Kremlinologists
-Benefits
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Indira Gandhi
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-US-Soviet relations
-US policy
-Chinese/Soviet radio broadcasts
-Sino-Soviet relations
-Ping-pong team visit

-Significance
-Opening
-US strategy
-Timing
-PRC suspicion
-Isolation
-Consequences
-US-USSR
-Dangers
-Nuclear capacity
-Chou En-lai
-Leadership
-Knowledge of non-communist world
-USSR
-US
-Japan
-Isolation
-Dangers
-US policy
-Trade
-Political difficulties
-US alliance with Taiwan
-Korea
-Philippines
-Trade relaxation
-Forthcoming announcement
-Relaxation of trade restrictions
-President=s initiative
-State Department
-Time magazine article

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm

President=s schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm

East-West trade
-Relationship to President=s PRC initiative
-USSR
-US policy
-Yugoslavia
-Romania

-Prospects
-Relation to events
-Timing
-Scope
-Difficulties
-Time-Life
-Peterson=s schedule
-Review
-USSR
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin
-Middle East
-USSR
-Trade credits
-Negotiations
-PRC
-USSR

Productivity Council
-Importance
-US trade position
-Engineers
-Scientists
-Industrial research
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Need for US excellence
-Nuclear power
-Administration=s position

State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Peterson
-Reorganization
-Rogers
-George P. Shultz
-Economics
-Foreign Service
-Shultz
-Agnew
-Rogers

US world position
-Foreign policy
-Economics
-Nuclear parity
-Military parity
-Local wars
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-President=s 1959 remarks
-Vietnam
-Economic competition
-US
-Western Europe
-Japan
-PRC
-USSR
-Latin America
-Africa
-Middle East
-Great Power competition
-Population
-PRC
-Investment
-Trade
-Aid package
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Domestic Council
-International economic area
-Difficulties
-US policy
-Strategy
-Historians
-Possible Time-Life cover
-Rogers
-John B. Connally
-Shultz
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Cabinet
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-Defense Department

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm

President=s schedule
-Arrival of Shultz

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm

US economic position
-Peterson=s outline

Shultz entered at 3:11 pm

-Timing
-Bipartisanship
-President=s experiences as congressman
-Marshall Plan
-Bipartisan support
-North Altantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Arthur H. Vandenberg
-Christian A. Herter
-Economic policy
-Foreign policy
-Bipartisanship
-Labor/business
-Isolationism
-Economic plan
-Shultz, Connally, and Peterson
-President=s philosophy
-Peterson=s Time-Life meeting
-Schedule
-President=s meetings with Peterson
-President=s initiatives
-Roy L. Ash Council
-Intra-administration coordination
-Progress
-Opportunity for change in dialogue
-Committees
-Citizens groups
-Composition
-Economists, businessmen, labor
-National leaders
-Committee
-David Rockefeller
-Andre Meyer
-Easterners versus Westerners

-Patrick E. Haggerty
-Howard C. Petersen
-International Harvester
-Chicago
-William Blackie
-Caterpillar
-Peoria

Textiles
-David M. Kennedy
-Schedule
-Stans
-Schedule
-Strategy meeting
-Japan
-Negotiations
-Meeting
-Approach
-President=s position
-Connally, Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Kissinger
-Laird
-Stans
-Schedule
-Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Military aid
-Korea
-Military aid
-Economics
-President=s schedule
-ASNE meeting
-Schedule
-State Department
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Hong Kong
-Negotiations
-Japan
-Background
-State Department views
-Negotiations

-State Department
-Peterson=s possible conversation with Kissinger
-PRC/Taiwan
-Rogers= trip to Latin America
-U. Alexis Johnson

Peterson left at 3:21 pm

Civil rights
-Black Caucus
-Policy review
-Timing
-Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Ten-year program
-Civil Rights Commission
-Reverend Theodore S. Hesburgh
-Questionnaires to departments and agencies
-Domestic Council and Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Discussion with departments and agencies
-Responses
-Coordination effort

Housing
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] policy
-Review
-Civil Rights Commission
-Policy review
-Forum
-Announcement by President
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Defense Department policies
-Fair housing for personnel
-GSA site selection criteria
-Public access
-Open housing for employees
-Fair housing element
-Administration=s policy
-Issue
-Degree of sensitivity
-GSA site selection
-Fair housing
-Zoning
-Blacks

-GSA leasing
-Congress
-Policy issue
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] building in Fresno
-Possible GSA directive
-Issue
-GSA criteria
-Civil Rights Commission=s questions to GSA
-GSA statement on policy
-Criteria on available housing
-Fair housing
-Assumptions

Federal government employment
-APhiladelphia plan@
-Orders
-Textile cases
-Affirmative action plan
-Federal government requirements
-Minority employment
-OMB goals
-Civil Service Commission [CSC] policy towards agencies
-Timetables
-Remedial action
-Recruiting
-Merit system
-Administration=s policy
-Political considerations
-OMB
-Publicity
-Press releases
-Demagoguery
-Race
-Promotions
-Supergrades
-ALow key@
-CSC
-OMB=s approach
-Publicity
-Problems
-Race

-Demagoguery
-Congress
-OMB=s approach

Stans= trip
-Europe

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Shultz left at 3:37 pm

Conversation No. 477-11

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  3:37 pm - 4:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman met with Maurice H. Stans and James T. Lynn

[General conversation]

Easter egg roll

The President entered at an unknown time after 3:37 pm

Stans= upcoming trip
-Itinerary
-Romania
-Spain

-Greece
-Iran
-Austria
-Ireland
-John D. J. Moore
-US relations
-John A. (AJack@) Mulcahy
-Dublin
-Schedule
-Country
-Mulcahy
-Property

Commerce Department
-Business attitudes towards administration
-Previous discussions
-Ombudsman for business
-Reaction
-National Business Council for Consumer Affairs
-Environment
-Agencies
-Consumerism
-Codes of ethics
-Self-regulation of advertising
-Ralph Nader
-Timetable
-Conference on American business in 1990
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] minority enterprise funding proposal
-Budget
-Impact
-Sam Whiting
-OMB
-George P. Shultz
-Black Caucus
-Figures on black business franchises
-Comparison with 1969
-Administration=s initiatives
-Progress since 1969
-Automobile franchises
-Publicity
-President=s comments to an unknown group of African-Americans
-Figures

-Franchises
-Automobile industry
-Set of charts
-Accomplishments
-Comparisons with previous efforts
-Possible presentation to Domestic Council and Cabinet
-Length of presentation
-Franchising	
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP] meeting
-Commerce Department study
-Legislation
-Programs
-Congress
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Administration=s proposal
-Small business
-Forthcoming report
-Technology
-Gap
-Private enterprise economy
-Difficulties in development and transfer
-Proposals
-Program
-Timing
-State Department
-Commercial services
-William P. Rogers
-Bureaucracy
-CIEP
-Peter G. Peterson
-Kinsey public opinion survey
-Business community opinions
-Foreign services
-Publicity
-Funding
-Outside firm
-Leaks
-Rogers
-Business dissatisfaction
-Rogers
-Transfer of commercial services to Commerce Department
-Upgrading of commercial services by State Department
-Attitude

-British, Canadian, and Japanese initiatives
-Congress
-Hearings
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Hearings on upgrading commercial services
-Encouragement
-Bureaucracy
-Possible agreement
-Foreign service
-Peterson
-Multinational corporations
-Statistical study
-Timing
-CIEP
-Peterson
-Labor unions= proposals
-Double taxation
-Incentive
-Effect on earning power
-Earnings on foreign investment
-Balance of payments
-Problem
-CIEP
-Need
-Issues
-State Department

President=s instructions on government-business relations
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Schedule
-President=s recent meeting with Flanigan
-John B. Connally
-Materials for Flanigan
-Agencies
-Anti-trust
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Consumerism
-Anti-trust
-John N. Mitchell
-Environment
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Business as Awhipping boy@
-Consumers

-Virginia H. Knauer
-Demagoguery
-IRS
-Connally
-Attitude towards business
-Rulings
-Labor relations
-Flanigan
-Congress
-Legislation
-Prospects
-Flanigan
-Representation abroad
-State Department
-Rogers
-John Foster Dulles
-Foreign Service
-Commercial attaches
-View of private enterprise
-Ambassadors
-Walter H. Annenberg
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Foreign Service
-Diplomacy
-Social aspects

Commerce Department report on business attitudes towards Administration
-Summary
-Recommendations
-Fixing responsibility
-Unfavorable business factors
-Commerce Department
-Congress
-Circumstances
-Expectations from Republican administration
-Dissatisfaction
-Inadequate consultation
-Commerce Department=s initiatives
-Health insurance bill
-Time limitations
-Effects on small business
-Chamber of Commerce
-Need for time

-Health insurance bill
-Cost to business
-Business concerns affected
-Alternatives
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Costs
-Administration=s possible strategy
-Business support
-Alternatives
-Ruckelshaus
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Anti-trust
-Staff
-Richard W. McLaren
-IRS
-Consumers
-Flanigan
-Knauer
-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC]
-Instruction to Stans to meet with Flanigan
-President=s conversation with Paul W. McCracken
-Possible injunctive powers
-Defense posture of business
-Polls
-Public=s attitude to business
-Colleges
-Water pollution
-Concentration of power
-Pollution laws
-Legislation for consumers
-Environmentalism
-Nader
-Consumerism
-Self-defense efforts
-Business expectations
-Administration=s initiatives
-Political realities
-Support from business community
-Government attitude toward business
-Congress
-Agencies
-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Anti-business views

-Business criticisms
-Power of labor unions
-Congress
-Environment
-Consumerism
-Anti-trust
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Democrats
-Administration=s efforts
-President=s meeting with unknown group
-Environmentalists
-Businessmen
-Timing
-Environmentalism
-Consumerism
-Growth
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Suggestions
-Economic factors
-Cost, financing, profits, prices
-Business criticisms
-FTC
-Anti-trust division of Justice Department
-Patent licensing
-Franchises
-Limitations on rights
-Overseas investments
-Trade
-Need for solutions
-Administration=s fiscal policy
-Full employment budget
-Deficits
-Chamber of Commerce poll
-Clumsiness of government
-Bureaucracy
-Influence on decisions
-Previous administrations
-Approval of administration policies
-Congress
-Depreciation allowances
-Republican contributors
-Meeting with Stans
-Support for administration

-Critics
-Daniel C. Gainey
-Supporters
-Stock market
-Government/business relations
-Transportation industry
-Automobile industry
-Petroleum industry
-List
-Environment
-Consumer affairs
-International business
-Action against US business by foreign governments
-Since 1969
-Nationalizations
-Expropriations
-Restrictions
-Cases
-Andean group
-Venezuela
-Retroactive taxation of oil companies
-Ecuador
-Tuna boats
-Ownership of banks, insurance, and service companies
-Movement of capital
-Concerns
-List

Suggestions
-Possible agency initiatives
-Consultation with business
-Studies on impact programs on prices, small businesses, and minority businesses
-Public criticism of business by government officials
-Review of anti-trust policies
-Research and development
-Inventory of restrictive work practices
-Productivity Council
-Shultz
-Industry problems
-List of work restrictions
-Painting, transportation, utility
-Focus

-Capital
-Work restrictions
-Need for inventory
-Citizen use of courts for environmental enforcement
-Ruckelshaus
-Bias against business
-Tax Reform Act of 1969
-Environment
-Criticism of business on pollution
-Industry=s contributions
-Economic factors
-Technological limitations
-Time requirement for orderly adjustments
-Paper industry
-Modernization/obsolescence
-Time
-Financial aid
-Need for national pollution control standards
-Contact with industry
-Anti-trust restrictions
-McLaren=s speech on environment
-Government incentives for pollution control experiments
-Tax incentives
-Accelerated depreciation allowances
-Regulations
-Financial assistance to companies for anti-pollution measures
-National Industrial Pollution Control Council
-Losses due to Food and Drug Administration regulations
-Possible reimbursements
-Cyclamates
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Cranberries, chickens
-Integrated plan for environmental improvement
-Long-term
-Ten or twenty years
-Pressures on industry
-Ten-year plan regarding reduction of pollution
-Economic impact statements on anti-pollution actions
-Alaska pipeline
-Flanigan
-Foreign commerce
-Credit support for exports
-Export-Import Bank [Ex-Im] legislation

-Tax incentives for US companies
-Foerign competition
-Relaxed trade restrictions
-East-West trade
-Elimination of controls on American capital investments abroad
-Arthur F. Burns
-Connally
-Changes in export laws
-Foreign government standards
-Germany
-France
-US
-Promotion of international standards
-Standards of quality/performance
-US position
-Need for US participation
-Possible legislation
-OMB
-Protection of overseas investments
-Expropriations
-Regulations and harrassments
-Retroactive measures
-Number of cases
-Adequacy of US efforts
-Defense of US business
-Report to President

David M. Kennedy=s role
-Mission
-Press reports
-State Department
-Rogers
-Commerce Department
-Stans
-Peterson
-Trade
-Commerce and State Departments
-Peterson=s possible statement
-Departments involved
-Press
-Mission
-Trade with Japan
-Negotiations

-Peterson
-Circulation of Stans= report

Stans= schedule
-Trip to Europe

Stans and Lynn left at 4:20 pm

President=s schedule
-Flanigan
-Rogers
-Meeting with Victor Lasky
-Use of recorder
-Patricia (Pratt) Lasky

Stans
-Possible future appointment
-Presentation of report

Business/government relations
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Flanigan
-Stans= study
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council

Cabinet reports to President
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Contact with the President
-Individual meetings versus Cabinet meetings
-Stans
-Individual meetings
-Hardin
-Morton
-Individual meetings
-Frequency
-Stans= report
-President=s summarization
-Connally
-Hypothetical report to President

-Commercial attachés
-Rogers
-Stans
-Defense of Administration
-Consumerism
-Flanigan

President=s schedule
-Peterson
-[D. M.?] Kennedy
-Connally
-Ehrlichman

Business expectations
-Connally=s views
-Consumers
-Environmentalists
-Ehrlichman
-Stans= poll
-Public attitudes towards business
-Administration=s initiatives
-Public opposition
-Jews
-Israel

President=s schedule
-Sequoia

Haldeman left at 4:27 pm

Conversation No. 477-12

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:27 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-William P. Rogers

-Victor Lasky
-Patricia (Pratt) Lasky

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:30 pm

Conversation No. 477-13

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  4:30 pm - 5:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Victor and Patricia (Pratt) Lasky and an unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?]

Greetings

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm

P. Lasky

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Lasky=s book on President
-Coverage
-Administration
-Possible title
-The Man and the Myth
-Writings on President
-Knowledge of President

-1948 to present
-Alger Hiss case
-Outline
-President=s preparation for office
-Difficulties in 1968
-Internal situation
-Vietnam
-Middle East
-Economy
-Dangers
-Inflation/depression
-Emphasis
-Dramatic moments
-Crisis handling
-Publication schedule
-Possible paperback edition
-1972 campaign
-President=s approaches to problems
-Handling
-Risks
-Vietnam
-Economy

Economy
-Confidence
-Controls
-Inflation
-Business community
-Inflation
-Growth
-Rate
-Administration=s emphasis on steadiness, responsibility
-Growth
-Peace
-Foreign policy
-Avoiding extremes, sudden shifts
-Controversy
-Wage and price controls
-Cabinet
-President=s policies
-Office of Price Adminstration [OPA]
-Effect on US economy
-Foreign affairs

-Nuclear equality
-US advantages
-Inflation
-Harmful actions
-ADiet@
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-Optimism
-New York Times financial writers

Vietnam
-Vietnamization
-Troop withdrawals
-Vietnamization
-Timing
-General William C. Westmoreland
-Comparison with Korea
-South Vietnamese
-Theory
-Troop withdrawals
-President=s announcements
-US military
-South Vietnamese
-President=s policy
-Timing
-Melvin R. Laird
-1969 trip to Vietnam
-Recommendations
-President=s meeting with General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Midway
-Announcements
-First withdrawals
-Difficulty
-Defense Department
-Thieu
-South Vietnamese
-Pentagon
-US policy
-Steady course
-Flexibility
-Troop levels
-Support for President
-Henry A. Kissinger

-Establishment
-Criticism of the President
-Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem
-John F. Kennedy
-Partition of Laos
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-American involvement
-Kennedy
-Beginnings
-1963
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Diem
-Laos
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Diem
-Consequences
-Establishment
-US withdrawal
-ADomino Theory@
-President=s statements
-November 3, 1969
-Cambodia [April 30, 1970]
-April 7, 1971
-Support for President
-Compared with previous administrations
-Life
-Opposition to President
-Television networks
-Columnists
-Kissinger
-AGuilt complex@
-Spanish Civil War
-Comparison with Vietnam
-General Francisco Franco
-Isolationism
-Foreign involvements

Israel
-Compared with Vietnam
-Support for President=s policies
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Golda Meir
-[V.?] Lasky=s visit to Israel

-Liberals
-View of Israel
-J. William Fulbright
-Statement
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield

Middle East
-Prospects
-[V.?] Lasky=s visits
-Negotiations
-Israeli/Egyptian conflict
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Jordan
-US policy

US position in world
-Jordan
-Cambodia
-Trust in US
-Vietnam
-Future
-Indonesia
-Thailand
-Philippines
-Japan
-Trust in the US abroad
-American spirit
-Vietnam
-Withdrawal
-Pacific area
-South Vietnam
-Future of US
-Future of Middle East
-American spirit
-US role in world
-World peace
-World freedom
-Germany and Japan
-Economic power
-Military power
-Europe
-USSR
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]

-Establishment
-America=s role
-Vietnam
-Need for American strength
-Economy
-Military strength

Middle East
-Jordan
-Kissinger
-Israel
-West Bank
-Golan Heights
-Dodoc Kibbutz
-Liliuri [sp?] Gardens
-Golan Heights
-Syrians
-Jordanians
-Libyans
-Israel/Egypt
-USSR/US
-Chief of Israeli intelligence
-Israel
-Relations with Arab neighbors
-Internal situation
-US commitments to
-President=s successor
-US policy
-Vietnam
-US obligations

Staff
-Kissinger
-Relationship with the President
-V. Lasky=s books on
-Kissinger=s books
-Memoranda to John N. Mitchell on Vietnam
-1968 campaign
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Log
-President=s concerns
-Cabinet
-Task forces

-Arthur F. Burns= role
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration
-Program
-Domestic Council
-Purpose
-Burns
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Economic Council
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Foreign Affairs Council
-Domestic Council
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Council on International Economic Policy
-Peter G. Peterson
-Importance

US purpose in world
-Military balance
-Consequences to US economy
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Exploration
-Connection to greatness
-Historical experience
-SST/space
-Scientific research
-Need for outward look
-General Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle=s statement on France
-War
-Need for great enterprises
-Environment
-Standard of living
-Minorities
-Great enterprises
-World power
-US role
-Benevolence, dynamism
-Competition
-Trade policy
-Productivity
-SST
-Transportation
-SST
-President=s relations with Congress

-Welfare reform
-Revenue sharing
-Government reorganization
-Goals
-Appointees
-William J. Casey

President=s disappointments
-Inflation
-Unemployment
-Vietnam
-USSR

V. Lasky=s book publication schedule
-Possible developments
-PRC

US foreign relations
-President=s PRC initiative
-State Department
-Soviet/PRC radio broadcasts
-Isolation
-Trade/travel announcements
-Recognition
-United Nations [UN]
-Taiwan
-Future
-PRC, USSR, and the US
-Dangers of isolation
-State Department
-Kremlinologists
-USSR
-Recognition
-Relations with PRC/USSR
-Ping-pong team visit
-State Department
-USSR
-Taiwan
-President=s conversation with Chow Shu-kai
-Difficulites
-UN
-President=s position

V. Lasky=s book publication schedule
-Timing
-Contents
-President=s possible contribution to book
-Unofficial

Young people
-Problem
-Inherited
-View of society and the world
-Disaffection with the Asystem@
-Global phenomenon
-President=s talks at colleges and universities
-Futility
-Need for US success
-Vietnam
-Economy
-Benefits of living in US
-Comparison with other countries
-President=s own travels
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Draft
-Need for introspection
-Vietnam
-Environment
-System
-Spirit
-Solutions
-Excuses
-Need for introspection
-Self reliance

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:30 pm

President=s schedule
-Albee [sp?] [Surname unknown]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm

Democrats
-Laos
-Effect

-Edmund S. Muskie
-Demonstrations
-Position on Vietnam
-Economy
-Timing
-Vietnam

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President=s schedule
-Meeting with William P. Rogers

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm

V. Lasky=s lawyer
Democrats
-Unknown man=s book on Muskie
-George S. McGovern
-Harold Himmelman
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Vietnam
-Vietnam
-V. Lasky=s columns
-Johnson

Staff
-President=s address on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Kissinger
-Support for President
-Vietnam
-Carl Sandburg
-Book on Civil War
-General William T. Sherman
-Vietnam
-Rogers
-Troop withdrawal
-Public opinion

Presentation of gifts
-Golf

V. Lasky=s schedule

The Laskys left at 5:22 pm

Conversation No. 477-14

Date:  April 12, 1971
Time:  5:23 pm - unknown before 6:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers and an unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?]

President=s meeting with Victor Lasky

Photo session

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Photo session
-Weather
-Location
-Instructions to Ronald L. Ziegler
-Pad of paper

The President, Rogers, and the unknown man [Bull?] left at 5:35 pm

[Pause]

Ziegler entered at 5:35 pm

Photo session
-Participants

[Pause]

The President and Rogers entered at an unknown time after 5:35 pm

Ziegler=s meeting with Tricia Nixon
-Schedule

[The President talked with the White House operator at 5:35 pm]

[Conversation No. 477-14A]

[See Conversation No. 1-67]

[End of telephone conversation]

T. Nixon=s wedding
-Ziegler=s role
-Foreign guests
-Constance M. (Cornell) (AConnie@) Stuart

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  5s  ]

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-Handling of press
-Style
-Schedule
-Rose Garden
-Arrangements
-Procession
-Reception

-Television
-Film coverage
-Guests
-Decorations
-Stuart
-Prince Charles
-Press coverage
-Handling of press
-Television
-Stuart
-Prime time
-Talk shows
-Look magazine
-Cover
-Life
-Formal portrait
-Editorial control
-Ladies= Home Journal
-Foreign press

[The President talked with T. Nixon between 5:34 and 5:36 pm]

[Conversation No. 477-14B]

[See Conversation No. 1-68]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler left at 5:39 pm

-Difficulties

Julie Nixon Eisenhower=s wedding

T. Nixon=s wedding
-Interest
-Diplomatic Corps
-Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa
-Congressmen and Senators
-Cabinet
-Rose Garden

David M. Kennedy=s trip
-President=s conversation with Maurice H. Stans
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-Costa Rica
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]/Taiwan
-United Nations [UN] representation

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:39 pm

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:20 pm

PRC and Taiwan
-UN representation
Vietnam
-Staff
-Congressional reaction
-Prospects

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:39 pm

President=s schedule
-Ziegler
-Fredrick C. LaRue
-Photograph for book

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:20 pm

Unknown person=s trip to Texas

Vietnam
-Casualties
-Cambodia

LaRue entered at an unknown time after 5:39 pm

Photograph

LaRue left at an unknown time before 6:20 pm

Vietnam
-Prospects

-Prisoner of War [POW] issue
-[Clark M.?] Clifford
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes
-Negotiations
-Trade POWs for withdrawal
-Timing
-POW wives
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-POWs
-North Vietnamese
-US withdrawal
-Interruptions
-Cambodia
-President=s policies
-Protests
-Withdrawal
-Fixed date
-Flexibility
-Negotiations
-Casualties
-Prospects
-PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-PRC
-Visit of ping-pong team
-President=s initiative
-Relaxation of trade restrictions

President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 19, 1971
-PRC
-Relaxation of trade restrictions
-Scope
-Timing
-USSR

Taiwan
-UN representation
-Rogers=s conversation with John B. Connally
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Walter P. McConaughy

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[National Security]
[Duration:  30s  ]

TAIWAN

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-Chiang Kai-shek
-Timing
-Korean elections

Korea
-Possible negotiaitons
-North Korean initiatives
-US role

USSR
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Timing
-Gerard C. Smith

President=s USSR/PRC initiatives
-Credit
-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM] treaty
-Defense appropriations
-Congress
-Peace initiatives

President=s conversation with Lasky
-Middle East
-Jordan
-Cease fire
-Desire for peace

Vietnam
-US involvement
-Casualties

-Withdrawal
-Cambodia
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Korea
-Open skies

Korea
-US troops
-Levels
-Casualties
-Negotiations
-Truce
-Panmunjom

Vietnam
-Negotiaitons
-Prospects for truce
-Timing
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Elections
-Effect on the President=s policies
-Negotiations
-Peace
-Possible strategy
-Credit for the President

Admininstration=s accomplishments
-Okinawa
-Germ warfare
-Credit
-Vietnam
-Visibility
-Press
-Ping-pong team publicity
-Television

PRC
-Invitation to US ping-pong team
-Japanese
-Cambodians
-Tournament

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