Conversation No. 478-12

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:17 am and 9:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person talked with the President

President=s schedule

Conversation No. 478-1

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:17 am and 9:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-John N. Irwin, II
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Location
-San Francisco
-Speech

Bull left at unknown time before 9:30 am

Conversation No. 478-2

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  9:30 am - 11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Cabinet
-Structure of meetings
-Structured and non-structured
-William P. Rogers
-Comparison
-Agenda
-Congress
-Staff
-John B. Connally
-John A. Volpe
-George W. Romney
-Maurice H. Stans
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Subjects
-Questions
-Structured meeting
-Subjects
-Volpe
-Cabinet officers
-Purpose
-Stans
-Problems of business
-Commerce Department
-Transportation Department
-Stans
-Commerce Department
-Minority Enterprise office
-Business community
-Census Bureau
-Agriculture Department
-Programs

Media
-Leonard Garment=s appearance on AToday Show@
-News summary
-President=s notation
-Evaluation

Cabinet meeting [on civilian uses of nuclear energy], April 13, 1971
-Participants
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Chet Holifield

-John O. Pastore
-John B. Anderson
-Compared to Cabinet
-National exposure
-Need for assertiveness
-Romney and Volpe

Governors
-Evaluation
-Richard B. Ogilvie and Volpe
-Ronald W. Reagan and Nelson A. Rockefeller

News item
-Vance Hartke
-Contributions from business
-Trucking industry
-Follow-up

President=s schedule
-James E. Bassett
-Possible meeting with the President
-Rose Mary Woods
-Book
-Previous meeting with the President

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:30 am and 9:36 am]

[Conversation No. 478-2A]

[See Conversation No. 1-73]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with General George A. Lincoln between 9:36 am and 9:40 am]

[Conversation No. 478-2B]

[See Conversation No. 1-74]

[End of telephone conversation]

Texas disaster
-Crop
-Governor
-Connally
-John G. Tower

Economy
-Stock market
-Advance from November 5, 1968 to January 20, 1969
-Shares traded since low
-Trading, April 12, 1971
-Financial writers
-Arthur F. Burns
-Confidence
-Increase
-Bull market
-Need for publicity
-Periscope
-[Charles W. Colson=s efforts?]
-Wall Street Journal
-Advance
-Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker
-Possible dinner for financial writers
-President=s forthcoming Chamber of Commerce speech, April 26, 1971
-William L. Safire
-Anniversary of message about National Invest-in-America Week, April 27, 1970
-Length
-Subjects
-First quarter figures
-Consumer confidence
-Current state of economy
-Inflation and unemployment
-Caution
-Waste and responsibility
-Body of speech
-Technology
-Productivity
-Paul W. McCracken
-Five-point program
-Technology, unemployment
-Peroration
-Businessmen

-Consumer
-President=s philosophy
-Location of power
-Foreign policy
-Economic policy
-Revenue sharing
-Thrust
-System
-National Association of Manufacturers [NAM]
-Theme
-Length
-System
-President=s meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971

Administration
-Attitude
-Negativism
-Congress
-Report by William E. Timmons and Clark MacGregor
-91st Congress
-Administration=s record
-Circumstances
-Possible story
-Richard A. Moore
-Safire

Press
-Possible administration stories
-Stock market
-Thomas E. Dewey
-J. Edgar Hoover

Staff
-Need for confidence in economy
-Stans
-Connally
-Compared to Congressmen and Senators
-Volpe
-Romney
-Problem
-Tenure
-Timmons-MacGregor report

-Need to publicize
-Need for confidence

Press
-Attitude
-Problem
-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-Laos
-Casualties
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Vietnam casualties
-[Forename unknown] Ellison
-Publicity
-Lois [sp?] [Surname unknown]
-Networks
-Attitudes

Visit of United States= ping-pong team to People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Unknown man discussed
-Views on Mao Tse-tung
-Reaction
-News stories
-John A. Scali
-Kissinger
-Publicity
-Newsworthiness
-President=s image
-Peace maker
-Secretary of State
-Kissinger=s possible conversation with Scali

President=s schedule
-Scali
-Possible meeting with President
-John C. Stennis
-Hearings on draft extension and military pay increase
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Senate action
-Melvin R. Laird
-Florida plans
-Giuseppe Saragat=s visit
-Key Biscayne

-Timing
-Agriculture day
-Saragat visit
-Kissinger
-Saragat visit
-Length
-Meeting
-Lunch
-Conversation
-Honorary degree
-[Forename unknown] Colbert [sp?]
-Wife
-First Marine Division
-Kissinger
-Return to Camp Pendleton
-Timing
-Demonstration
-King [Moulay] Hassan II dinner
-Camp David
-Possible California trip
-Parade
-Presentation of unit citation by President
-New General
-Ceremonies

Kissinger entered at 9:59 am

-Symbolism
-Timing
-Demonstrations
-King Hassan II dinner
-Chamber of Commerce speech
-Florida plans
-Marine division
-Timing of ceremony
-Possible California trip
-Ceremony

Demonstrations
-Kissinger=s meeting with Frank F. Mankiewicz
-Crowd estimates
-Veterans parade
-Crowd estimates

Vietnam
-Kissinger=s conversation with McGeorge Bundy
-President=s conversation with Kissinger at dinner, April 12, 1971
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Abraham Lincoln
-Mary Todd Lincoln
-Loss of brothers in Civil War
-Cabinet
-Disloyalty
-Edwin Stanton
-Draft riots
-New York City
-Press

Media
-Supportive press
-Richmond Times Dispatch
-New York Daily News
-Chicago Tribune
-Television coverage
-Vietnam casualties
-News item

Vietnam
-Kissinger=s conversation with Bundy
-Unknown Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] United Nations [UN] official
-Ping-pong team
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Speech
-David Rockefeller
-Negotiations
-President=s position
-Deadline
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Bombing of civilians
-Laos
-Bundy

Staff
-Scali
-Role defined

-Press briefing
-John N. Mitchell
-Scali

Media
-Kissinger=s appearances on television
-Time and Newsweek
-Television commentators
-John W. Chancellor
-David Brinkley
-White House staff
-Time and Newsweek stories
-Interest
-Chart
-US News and World Report
-Chart
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-William H. Carruthers
-Chart
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Scali

India-Pakistan conflict
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-USSR
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-US policy
-State Department
-West Pakistan
-Scali

Peter G. Peterson
-Talking points for meeting with Time/Life editors
-President=s schedule

PRC
-Scali=s views regarding visits of ping-pong team
-President=s image
-Peace maker
-President=s initiatives
-Scali
-Credit to Administration

Economy
-Stock market
-Rise
-President=s meeting with financial analysts
-News story in Periscope and Wall Street Journal

Peterson=s meeting with Time/Life editors
-Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-International situation
-PRC
-President=s initiatives
-Haldeman
-Foreign Service
-Kremlinologists
-USSR
-Relations with USSR
-US position
-Relaxation of trade restrictions
-Trade relations with USSR
-Linkage
-Timing

PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting with US ping-pong team
-Announcement regarding relaxation of US trade restrictions
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-News summary
-News leaks
-Publicity
-Dangers
-USSR

USSR
-Summit meeting

PRC
-Scali
-President=s initiatives
-Points for Peterson=s meeting with Time/Life editors

-Isolation
-President=s initiatives
-Timing

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:59 am and 10:16 am]

[Conversation No. 478-2C]

[See Conversation No. 1-75]

[End of telephone conversation]

PRC
-Trade restrictions

President=s schedule
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Possible trip to Vietnam

[The President talked with Peterson between 10:16 am and 10:21 am]

[Conversation No. 478-2D]

[See Conversation No. 1-76]

[End of telephone conversation]

PRC
-Peterson=s briefing with Time/Life editors
-Possible exploitation by Administration
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-Possible press story
-Initiative
-Scali=s role
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Publicity

President=s schedule
-Possible interview with John McRoberts
-Timing

PRC
-State Department
-Green
-Credit for initiative
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Richard (ADick@) Wilson
-William S. White
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Announcement regarding relaxation of trade restrictions

Taiwan
-Robert D. Murphy

Haldeman left at 10:25 am

-Green

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TAIWAN

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PRC
-Ping-pong team
-UN representation

Taiwan
-UN representation
-State Department
-Murphy
-Chiang Kai-shek
-President=s possible speech

-State Department
-George H. W. Bush
-William P. Rogers
-Murphy

Vietnam
-Media coverage
-Binh Dinh province
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]

Kissinger=s meeting with Mankiewicz
-Liberals
-Demonstrators
-Crowd estimates
-Mankiewicz=s reaction
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.

Press
-Peterson=s meeting with Time/Life editors
-Time
-Newsweek
-White

Vietnam
-Bryce N. Harlow=s view
-Democrats
-Withdrawal issue
-Congress
-President=s position
-Cambodia
-Indonesia
-Economic assistance
-Military assistance
-Negotiations
-Chou En-lai
-Visit to Hanoi
-North Vietnamese attitude
-PRC

PRC
-Unknown ping-pong player
-Mao Tse-tung

-Benefits of exchange

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 10:32 am

Preparation for Ziegler=s press briefing
-PRC
-Athletic teams exchange
-Relaxation of trade and travel restrictions
-Possible questions
-President=s position
-Forthcoming announcement
-Timing
-Impact
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-ABC
-New York Times
-Democratic Party
-Partisanship
-President=s position
-Republican Party
-Fairness
-PRC
-April 14, 1971 story

Ziegler=s schedule
-Tricia Nixon

Ziegler left at 10:37 am

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Lodge
-Vietnam
-Police forces

Vietnam
-Sir Robert Thompson
-Report on police forces
-Peace initiatives

PRC
-Forthcoming announcement of relaxation of trade and travel restrictions, April 14, 1971
-Possible press reaction

-Ziegler
-Department of State
-Possible leak to press
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Cronkite
-Rogers

Lodge and an unknown man entered at 10:38 am; the White House photographer and members of the press were present

Greetings

Kissinger left at 10:39 am

Photograph

Ping-pong

Golf

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:42 am

Statue

PRC
-Visit of ping-pong team
-Significance
-Newsmen

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Kissinger entered at 10:42 am

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Vietnam
-Possible trip by Lodge
-Timing
-Thompson
-Report on police
-David M. Kennedy
-Trip
-Military activity
-Cambodia
-Central Highlands
-Binh Dinh province
-Casualties
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Lieutenant General Duong Van (ABig Minh@) Minh
-Lodge=s possible trip
-Thieu
-Election
-US position
-Withdrawal
-Reception for Minh
-Bunker
-Thieu
-Importance
-1963 Coup
-General Nguyen Khanh

-Compared with Nguyen Cao Ky
-Ky
-Thieu
-Ky
-President=s position
-US economic assistance
-Anti-American sentiment
-President=s esteem for
-Candidate
-Economic assistance
-Philippines
-Elections
-Withdrawal
-Ky
-Lodge=s role
-Age
-Need for unity
-Casualties
-Withdrawal
-Bombing
-Cambodia
-Political Upheaval
-Ky
-Prospects
-Bunker
-Candidates
-Thieu
-Ky
-Minh
-Tran Van Dong
-Lai Van Tim [sp?]
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Minh
-Thieu
-US announcement
-Bunker
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-General Frederick C. Weyand
-Troop withdrawals
-Levels

Lodge=s schedule

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President=s greetings to Emily (Sears) Lodge

Kissinger and Lodge left at 11:07 am

McCracken entered at 11:08 am; the White House photographer and members of the press were present

[General conversation]

Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]

Photograph

Economy
-Stock market

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:08 am

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:13 am

Stock market
-Dow-Jones average
-Rise
-Bull market
-Volume
-Brokerage firms
-Profits
-Merrill Lynch & Company

Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Prospects
-Rise
-1970 figures
-Predictions for 1971
-Confidence

McCracken left at 11:13 am

Conversation No. 478-3

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-John A. Scali
-Length of meeting
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at 11:13 am

Conversation No. 478-4

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

Schedule

Conversation No. 478-5

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  11:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 1-77]

Conversation No. 478-6

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  11:14 am - 11:17 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson

[See Conversation No. 1-78]

Conversation No. 478-7

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:17 am and 12:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s conversation with Charles W. Colson

Henry A. Kissinger and John A. Scali entered at 11:19 am; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Scali on payroll

Photograph

Scali=s assignment
-Orientation
-Difficulties
-First weeks
-Contribution
-Long-term
-Differences from previous career
-Senior consultant
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Taking initiative
-Colson
-Responsibilities
-Herbert G. Klein
-Staff meetings
-Outgoing matters versus internal ones
-Decision making
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger
-Peter G. Peterson
-International economic policy
-Speeches
-Kissinger
-Relationship with
-Kissinger
-Importance
-Responsibilities
-Television commentators
-John W. Chancellor
-Priorities
-Networks
-Wire services
-Radio
-Columnists
-Magazines
-Networks
-Importance
-Wire services
-Columnists
-Stewart M. Hensley
-Arthur P. Henderson
-Hensley

Scali=s assignment
-Analysis of television industry
-Kissinger
-Klein

President=s People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Scali
-Background
-Press corps
-State Department
-Announcements
-Timing
-State Department
-Foreign Service
-Kremlinologists
-Charles E. (AChip@) Bohlen
-Llewellyn E. (ATommy@) Thompson, Jr.
-William P. Rogers
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-State Department
-USSR
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-US policy
-Ping-pong team
-Forthcoming announcement [Relaxation of trade and travel restrictions with the PRC, April 14, 1971]
-Publicity
-Dangers
-USSR
-Ping-pong team
-US goals
-Benefits
-Announcement, April 14, 1971
-Ping-pong team
-US relations
-Thaw
-Warsaw
-Chinese
-Compared to Soviets
-USSR
-Ping-pong team

-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Announcement
-State Department
-President=s Position
-Rogers
-President=s initiative
-National Security Council [NSC]
-President=s 1969 world trip
-Dangers
-NSC
-Critical areas
-Sensitivity
-Scali=s recommendations
-Ping-pong team
-President=s image
-Demonstrators
-Vietnam
-Farsightedness
-President=s schedule
-Visit to San Diego
-Camp Pendleton
-Timing
-Demonstrations

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FOREIGN VISIT

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-Timing
-News stories

Kissinger=s schedule
-Scali=s briefing
-Peterson

President=s schedule
-Camp Pendleton visit

Scali=s role
-Advocacy
-Preparation for Ziegler=s briefings
-Benefits
-Announcement of relaxation of PRC trade and travel restrictions
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Wire
-Television
-Framework
-Possible changes
-Atmosphere
-Access to President
-Possible use
-Consultant
-Possibilities
-Speech
-Television
-Problem
-Kissinger
-State Department
-State/Defense Department
-Ziegler
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Coordination
-Haldeman
-Need to study problems
-Timing
-Pressure
-Value
-Ideas
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Klein
-Richard A. Moore
-Location
-Ziegler

-Colson
-Moore
-Price
-Safire
-Relationship with Kissinger

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Scali=s role
-Summary
-Emotions
-Issues
-Publicity
-Carl M. Yastrzemski
-Goals
-News stories
-Foreign policy
-PRC initiative
-Significance
-Press
-Credit for Administration
-Vietnam
-Relation to PRC initiative
-Issues
-PRC
-US initiatives

Scali=s office
-Location
-Executive Office Building

Scali and Haldeman left at 11:46 am

Henry Cabot Lodge

Scali
-Forthcoming Kissinger briefing
-Summit meeting
-Need for confidentiality
-Haldeman
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Dobrynin
-Schedule
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-Need for confidentiality
-PRC

US/USSR relations
-Kissinger=s meeting with Dobrynin=s replacement
-Berlin
-[David] Kenneth Rush=s meeting with Pyotr A. Abrassimov
-Timing
-Arrangements

Lodge

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-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Lieutenant General Duong Van (ABig Minh@) Minh
-Forthcoming trip to Vietnam

-Health
-Beverly, Massachusetts
-New York establishment
-New England upper class
-Harvard University
-Cambridge, Massachusetts

Eastern establishment
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Opinion
-Boston

Vietnam

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THE VATICAN

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-PRC/USSR relations
-North Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Hanoi

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THE VATICAN

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PRC/Taiwan
-Lodge=s view regarding US/Japanese initiative
-United Nations [UN] representation
-State Department
-Sponsorship
-Dual representation
-US policy
-John B. Connally=s views

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PRC

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Japan
-Textiles
-Eisaku Sato
-Armin H. Meyer

Peterson=s trip to Far East
-David M. Kennedy
-Marshall Green
-Taiwan
-Korea

Korea
-William J. Porter
-Assignment
-Green

State Department
-William H. Sullivan
-Reorganization
-Scope
-Assistant secretaries
-Resignations
-Replacements
-Promotions
-Secretary

Cabinet
-Resignations
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-Career aspirations
-John N. Mitchell
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Maurice H. Stans
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-James D. Hodgson
-Shultz
-Elliot L. Richardson
-State Department

State Department
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Richardson
-Qualifications
-Career
-Conditions
-Resignations

Defense Department
-Resignations
-David Packard

President=s second term
-Changes in government
-First term

Vietnam
-Kissinger=s conversation with Frank F. Mankiewicz
-Democrats
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Robert F. (ABobby@) Kennedy
-Troop levels
-Kissinger=s call from McGeorge Bundy
-USSR
-Kissinger=s response to Bundy
-Moral issue
-Deadline for withdrawal
-Negotiations
-Issue
-Withdrawal
-North Vietnam
-Deadline for withdrawal
-US options
-Cease fire
-Deadline
-Bombing
-Withdrawal
-Bombing
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease fire
-Residual forces

-Bombing
-USSR

USSR
-Summit

Vietnam
-Bombing

Bundy
-Telephone calls to and from Kissinger
-Career

Secretaries of State
-President=s conversation with Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo, 1967
-Dean G. Acheson
-John Foster Dulles
-Bundy
-James B. (AScotty@) Reston
-1960 recommendation

Bundy
-Career
-Qualifications
-Harvard University
-Haldeman
-Shultz
-Liberal position
-William P. Bundy
-Call to Kissinger regarding Vietnam

Vietnam
-Mankiewicz=s views
-Bundy=s defense of administration=s Southeast Asia policy
-Bombing
-Robert S. McNamara
-Compared with Bundy
-Mankiewicz=s views
-Liberal

Press
-Time
-Ziegler

-Newsweek
-Hugh S. Sidey

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:46 am

President=s schedule
-Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm

Press
-Phone calls to Kissinger
-Ziegler

PRC
-Press
-US initiatives
-Timing
-President=s position
-USSR
-US relations
-Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Chou En-lai=s visit to Hanoi
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Negotiations

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:46 am

Ziegler=s schedule
-Location
-Cabinet briefing

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm

PRC
-Intervention
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Administration=s position
-State Department

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-North Vietnam

Press

Vietnam
-Bundy=s reaction
-Mankiewicz
-Reaction to Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Calley case
-President=s role
-George C. Wallace
-Ronald W. Reagan

1972 elections
-President=s re-election
-Foreign policy
-Economy
-Research and Development [RAND] Corporation Board

Stock market
-Rise
-Howard Stein

Vietnam
-Kissinger=s possible conversation with Stein
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Press reaction
-Structure

-Emotion
-Congress
-President=s speech, April 7, 1971
-Impact
-Compared with President=s November 3, 1969 speech
-Withdrawal issue
-Resignation
-Possible consequences of a loss of Vietnam
-Public reaction
-Casualties
-Calley
-Negotiations
-Settlement

USSR
-Summit meeting
-SALT negotiations
-Summit meeting
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-USSR/US relations
-Brezhnev=s position
-Summit meeting
-Possible trip to Moscow by President
-Attitude of Russians toward Americans
-Symbolism
-SALT negotiations
-Non-aggression pact
-Dobrynin

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-European Security Conference
-Negotiations
-US policy

President=s re-election
-Importance
-Connally
-Tenure
-Qualifications
-Richardson
-Connally
-Richardson
-Cabinet
-Connally
-Qualifications

Bull and an unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:46 am

President=s schedule
-Ziegler
-Yastrzemski
-Press

Kissinger left at 12:16 pm

-Wire service
-Open Door Hour

Bull and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:16 pm

Unknown activity

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm

Conversation No. 478-8

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  12:18 pm - 12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Carl M. Yastrzemski and Henry C. Cashen, II; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Photo session

Yastrzemski=s family
-Wife
-Daughter
-Health
-Children
-Number
-Boston
-Travel
-Family
-Baseball
-Children

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Baseball
-Yastrzemski=s contributions to
-All Star game
-Location

Massachusetts
-Drug program
-Yastrzemski=s activities with Elliot L. Richardson
-Unknown doctor and Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts
-Reception
-Youth
-Parents
-Ignorance of drug problem
-Marijuana
-ASpeed@
-Heroin
-Marijuana use
-High school
-Use
-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide [LSD]
-Anecdote
-Suicide

Baseball
-Predictions
-Weather
-Spring training
-Cleveland
-Sam McDowell
-Boston
-Sonny Siebert
-McDowell

Presentation of gifts
-Cuff links
-Golf balls
-Wife
-Girls/Boy

Farewells

[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Location

Farewells

Yastrzemski and Cashen left at 12:33 pm

Conversation No. 478-9

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Carl M. Yastrzemski

President=s schedule
-Frank DeMarco, Jr.

Bull left at 12:33 pm

Conversation No. 478-10

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  12:34 pm - 12:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Schedule

Frank DeMarco, Jr. and John DeMarco entered at 12:34 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

F. DeMarco

Bull left at 12:34 pm

-Children

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Photograph

Presentation of gifts
-Brothers/sister
-Mother
-Golf ball
-Cuff links
-Paper weight

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Carl M. Yastrzemski
-Speeches to high schools regarding drugs
-Baseball

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Bull entered at an unknown after 12:34 pm

Rose Garden
-F. DeMarco

The DeMarcos and Bull left at 12:40 pm

Conversation No. 478-11

Date:  April 13, 1971
Time:  12:41 pm - 1:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler

General Accounting Office [GAO]
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Call to unknown woman

Press
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Time and Newsweek
-Freeze
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Staff
-John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
-William L. Safire
-Time and Newsweek

Ping-pong team
-Interest
-Unknown girl=s activities
-People=s Republic of China [PRC] tour
-Hawaii
-Age

Ziegler=s press conference
-Announcement of John A. Scali as Special Consultant
-Ideas
-Public relations activities

-Cutbacks
-Films
-Public information structure
-Director of Communications office
-President=s goals
-Informing American people

President=s schedule
-Hours spent by President on questions and answers [Q&A]
-Meeting with American Society Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
-Live radio
-Public relations
-Public information

Media
-President=s use of television in past year
-Press conferences
-Howard K. Smith
-Cyrus L. (ACy@) Sulzberger
-Barbara Walters
-Women=s press
-ASNE
-Usefulness
-Follow-up
-Flexibility
-Communication with American people
-ASNE
-Press conference
-White House press
-Suggestions
-Selection of a pool
-Sigma Delta Chi
-White House press
-Oval Office press conference
-Peter Lisagor
-Schedule
-Kissinger
-Timing
-Office press conference
-Schedule
-Televised press conference
-Schedule
-Scali=s role in administration

-New perspective
-Experience
-Reassessment
-Questions
-Pentagon
-Jerry W. Friedheim
-Mistakes
-Attitude

Ziegler left at 12:51 pm

Ziegler=s performance

President=s conversation with Kissinger
-Scali
-Summit meeting
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Prospects
-Summit
-Scali
-Announcement
-PRC
-Kissinger

President=s schedule
-Camp Pendleton trip
-Publicity
-Parade
-Activities
-California
-Timing
-Demonstrations
-Camp David
-Camp Pendleton trip
-Announcement

Public relations
-Charles W. Colson and Safire
-Stock market
-ANixon market@
-Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker=s possible letter to President
-President=s predictions
-Possible return of letter to Lasker

-Investment advice
-Market figures
-Election day
-Inaugural day
-Rise
-Fortunes
-Letter
-Story
-New York Times article
-ANixon market@
-Anniversary of April 28, 1970 stock market high
-Circulation
-Anniversary of date of stock market high
-President=s meeting of Wall Street leaders
-Cambodia
-Office press conference
-Safire
-Unknown Cabinet Room meeting
-Farm related
-Emphasis on day of stock market high
-Meeting with Lasker

President=s schedule
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming meeting
-Sequoia
-Dinner plans
-Sequoia
-Daylight Saving Time
-Camp Pendleton trip
-Kissinger=s views
-Visibility
-Parade
-Timing
-Mayday demonstrations
-Correspondents= dinner
-Press conference
-Camp Pendleton
-Western White House
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Camp Pendleton
-President=s possible remarks

-Citations
-Symbolism
-First Marine Division
-Peter G. Peterson meeting

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-Camp David
-Church
-Sequoia

Personnel
-Possible appointment of Edgar D. Whitcomb
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US ambassador to the Philippines
-Henry A. Byroade
-Kissinger

[An unknown person talked with the President at an unknown time between 12:51 pm and 1:23 pm]

[Conversation No. 478-11A]

Schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

State Department
-Marshall Green
-William J. Porter

-Assistant Secretary for Southeast Asia
-Byroade
-Porter

Appointments
-Rudolph A. Peterson
-United Nations [UN] Day chairman

Defense Department
-Stanley R. Resor
-Tenure
-Melvin R. Laird
-Resignation

President=s schedule
-President of American Farm Bureau Federation [AFBF]
-D. Elton Trueblood
-Landrum Bolling
-Earlham College
-Trip to Moscow
-Kissinger=s staff
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Book on international law
-Dinners for foreign ambassadors
-Kissinger
-Asian dinner
-European dinner
-Timing
-Near East, Middle East, and South Asian countries
-Greece
-Turkey
-Cyprus
-Israel
-India
-Ceylon
-Nepal
-Iran
-Afghanistan
-Pakistan
-Arab states
-Timing
-Israel/Arab countries
-Farm and business publishers

-Schedule
-Meeting with President
-Dinner
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Use of Blair House
-Maurice H. Stans= dinner
-Blair House

Congress
-John N. Mitchell
-List of supporters
-Clark MacGregor

President=s schedule

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-Robert M. White=s swearing-in
-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
-Brother
-Theodore H. (ATeddy@) White
-Carl M. Yastrzemski
-Award to President
-Compared with other visitors
-Press conference
-Yastrzemski
-Certificate for leadership
-Speeches regarding drugs
-Young people

Stans= report
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Haldeman=s summary

President=s schedule
-Shultz
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Time
-Executive Office Building

The President and Haldeman left at 1:23 pm