Conversation No. 479-1

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  9:10 am - 9:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger=s call to President

[The President talked with the White House operator [?] at an unknown time between 9:10 am and 9:45 am]

[Conversation No. 479-1A]

Telephone call

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger=s dinner with Joseph W. Alsop

Unknown people entered at an unknown time after 9:10 am

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 9:45 am

Kissinger=s dinner with Alsop
-Attendees
-Katharine L. Graham
-Marilyn B. (AMissy@) Chandler
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Esteem for President
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Conversation regarding 1972 elections
-Graham
-Bradlee
-President=s prospects

-Possible Democrat candidate
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George W. Romney
-Bradlee=s remarks
-Romney

President=s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Rogers= location
-Cornell University
-Muskie
-US Senate
-Television
-Press conference

Kissinger=s dinner with J. W. Alsop
-Chandler
-Support for President
-Vietnam
-Chandler
-Mood
-S. J. O. Alsop
-Reaction to President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-S. J. O. Alsop
-Article
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Vietnam article
-Withdrawal
-Laos
-J. W. Alsop
-Attendees
-Robert S. McNamara
-McNamara=s remarks regarding 1972 elections
-President=s prospects
-McNamara
-Letter
-World Bank
-Graham
-Polls
-Mood
-Kissinger=s support for the President

-Attitude toward the President
-Chandler

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-Population Control Council
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Vietnam
-J. W. Alsop
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-John B. Connally
-Leavenworth military prison
-Trial

Middle East
-J. W. Alsop=s views
-State Department
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] arms shipments
-Israel
-Administration=s possible response

Kissinger=s dinner with J. W. Alsop
-McNamara
-Graham
-Bradlee
-Trip around world
-View regarding President=s foreign policy
-Support
-Trip to Vietnam

Vietnam
-Press coverage
-Bradlee
-Peter Jay
-Laos

Kissinger=s dinner with J. W. Alsop
-Comments
-Tone
-Chandler
-Remarks
-Otis Chandler
-M. B. Chandler

Vietnam
-Television coverage
-Media
-Newspaper

People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-[Announcement of relaxation of trade and travel restrictions, April 14, 1971]
-Chou En-lai
-Statement
-Ping-pong team
-US relations
-Ping-pong team

USSR
-PRC initiative
-Kissinger=s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Congratulations on Central Committee=s elections
-Kissinger=s possible initiatives
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-US priority
-Dobrynin=s schedule
-Kissinger=s conversation with Vorontsov
-Pyotr A. Abrassimov
-Leonid I. Brezhnev=s speech
-Kissinger=s response
-Dobrynin=s schedule
-Brezhnev=s speech
-Air Force One
-Kissinger=s response

-Dobrynin=s election to Central Committee
-Kissinger=s conversation with Dobrynin
-Telephone number
-Congratulations
-Letters
-Dobrynin=s schedule
-Instructions
-Possible soviet responses
-Brezhnev

PRC
-US relations
-Possible diplomatic relations
-Timing
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Location
-Support for the President
-Possible use by Administration
-President=s initiatives
-Credit
-Peter G. Peterson
-Time/Life briefing
-State Department
-Press
-Trade
-United Nations [UN] representation
-Publicity
-Marshall Green
-Pakistan
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Trade
-Jean Sainteny
-State Department
-Advantages for US
-Confusion of opponents
-Possible North Vietnamese reaction
-USSR
-Brezhnev
-Coincidence of needs

Support for President
-Kissinger=s dinner
-Criticism of Kissinger
-Senate
-PRC
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Compared with November 3, 1969 speech
-Conclusion
-Accountability
-Kissinger=s dinner with J. W. Alsop
-Vietnam
-Draft, withdrawal rates
-M. B. Chandler
-Bradlee
-McNamara
-S. J. O. Alsop
-Longworth
-Bradlee
-Longworth=s views

Draft legislation
-Dwight L. Chapin
-House
-Pay increase
-Defense budget
-Troop increase
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Senate
-Margaret Chase Smith
-John C. Stennis
-Four-year draft extension

ABM
-Prospects
-Senate
-Ernest F. (AFritz@) Hollings
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-J. Glenn Beall, Jr.
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-California and Illinois
-Unknown person

-Smith
-Karl E. Mundt
-Prospects
-Congress
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-USSR
-Dobrynin
-Negotiations
-Possible statement
-Timing
-Senate
-Vote
-Difficulties
-PRC
-Dobrynin=s schedule
-Kissinger=s possible initiatives
-State Department
-Exchange of letters
-PRC
-Relations with US
-Vorontsov
-Politburo meeting

Vietnam
-Military activity
-South Vietnam
-Timing
-Ashau Valley
-Casualties
-Risks
-US policy
-Casualties
-Helicopters

PRC

USSR
-SALT negotiations
-PRC
-Timing
-Summit meeting
-Timing
-SALT negotiations

-State Department
-Summit
-US position
-State Department
-Jacob D. Beam
-Summit meeting
-Announcement
-Vietnam
-SALT/Summit
-Prospects
-Timing
-Press
-Summit
-Vorontsov
-Dobrynin
-President=s schedule
-Negotiations
-Style

Laos
-Effects on PRC and USSR
-PRC

Vietnam
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Congress
-White House staff
-Democrats
-Prospect of end of war
-Liberal Republicans
-John V. Lindsay
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Kissinger=s dinner with J. W. Alsop
-Reaction to the President
-President=s speech, November 3, 1969
-Hardhats
-Cambodia
-Kissinger=s dinner with J. W. Alsop
-Consensus
-John Freeman
-Kissinger=s attempted telephone call to the President
-President=s location

-S. J. O. Alsop
-Patricia (Hankey) (AMissy@) Alsop

PRC
-Announcement
-Relaxation of trade and travel restrictions
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-State Department

Vietnam
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Reaction of State Department

International support for President
-Report on President=s special message to Congress on American foreign policy
-Bradlee

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Dr. Rainer Barzel
-Duration
-Translator
-Kissinger=s role

Kissinger left at 9:45 am

Conversation No. 479-2

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  9:50 am - 10:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John C. Stennis, Margaret Chase Smith, David Packard, Henry A. Kissinger, Clark MacGregor, and Peter M. Flanigan

[General conversation]
-Greetings
-Speeches
-Senate rules

Senate
-Armed Services Committee
-Legislation
-President=s appreciation for Smith and Stennis= support
-National security issues in 1969 and 1970
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. case

Defense
-Current mood of the country
-Importance of leadership of Smith and Stennis
-Cutbacks
-Media
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] program
-Senate
-Armed Services Committee
-Opinions
-Defense Department
-Responsibilities
-Draft extension
-Timetable
-Stennis
-Senate Armed Services Committee
-Hearings
-Manpower [draft extension]
-Military pay increase
-Manpower levels
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Timetable
-Bills
-Draft extension
-Manpower
-Schedule
-C5A
-Military construction
-Hardware funds
-ABM
-Senate rule
-Climate of opinion
-Legislation
-Procurement bill
-Ceiling

-Weapons
-ABM
-Conference
-Procurement bill
-Manpower reductions
-Budget cuts
-Manpower
-Appropriation bill
-Military procurement
-Hardware
-Research & development
-Operations and maintenance money
-Reductions
-Draft bill
-Prospects
-Extension of draft
-Four years
-Two years
-House
-Action
-Volunteer Army
-Mark O. Hatfield and Barry M. Goldwater
-Extension
-Two years
-Armed Services Committee
-Informal talks
-Goals
-Budget cuts
-Membership
-William Proxmire
-Strategists
-Armed Services Committee
-Procurement bill
-Manpower reductions
-President=s announcements
-Bargaining
-Armed Services Committee
-Negotiations
-Overall cut
-Ceiling
-Armed Services Committee
-Solidarity
-Procurement

-Weapons
-Navy
-Target
-Carrier
-Amendment
-Talks
-Armed Services Committee
-Difficulties
-Selective Service
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Goldwater
-John G. Tower
-Peter H. Dominick
-Goldwater
-Armed Services Committee
-Individualists
-William B. Saxbe
-Goldwater
-One-year extension vote
-Effort
-Stennis= forthcoming initiatives
-Members of Committee
-Vote on Senate floor
-Selective Service
-Timing
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Procurement bill
-Timing
-Timing of Congressional recess
-Agreement
-Chairman
-Manpower reductions
-National Security
-Stennis= role
-President=s role
-Members of Armed Services Committee
-Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr.
-Harold E. Hughes
-Saxbe
-President=s possible action
-Stennis and Smith=s contributions
-Context

International conditions
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-[Twenty-fourth Soviet Party] Congress
-Leadership
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Speech
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-US military position
-Leadership
-Brezhnev
-Negotiations
-USSR missile strength
-US negotiating position
-US military budget
-Negotiations
-SALT 
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-US policy

Stennis= schedule
-Speech

Defense

Stennis left at 10:17 am

-Upcoming Senate votes
-Stennis
-Manpower reductions
-Budget
-Pay increase
-Draft extension
-Two-year limitation
-Importance
-US relations with USSR
-Procurement
-Vote
-Timing
-Administration=s position
-International conditions
-US negotiations with USSR
-USSR leadership
-President=s PRC initiative

-Ping-pong team
-Vietnam negotiations
-Budget cuts
-Need for steadiness
-US negotiating position
-Timing of procurement bill
-Possible delay
-Administration=s position
-Discussion with leadership
-August/September
-Flexibility
-Smith=s possible initiatives
-Timing of ABM vote
-Manpower bill
-Vietnam
-Smith=s mail
-Calley case
-Research
-Guilt
-Standards
-Comparison to civilian crimes
-District of Columbia
-Judge
-Fort Leavenworth military prison
-President=s possible actions
-Confinement
-Fort Leavenworth
-President=s review
-Armed Services Committee
-Possible investigatory commission
-Earl Warren Commission
-Military justice
-Manpower
-Two-year extension
-Chairman
-Stennis
-Armed Services Committee
-Difficulties
-Smith and Stennis
-Two-year extension
-Volunteer army
-Draft
-Goldwater and Hatfield

-Transition
-Politics
-Four-year extension
-Strategy
-Two-year extension
-Armed Services Committee
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Saxbe

Rose Garden
-Trees

Smith, Packard, Kissinger, MacGregor, and Flanigan left at 10:30 am

Conversation No. 479-3

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  10:30 am - 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Vote
-Administration=s position
-Staff meeting
-Strategy
-Political price for votes
-Quid pro quo
-Contracts, judgeships
-Staff
-Necessity
-Trades
-Timing of vote
-Trades
-President=s possible meeting with Senators
-Arguments
-Administration losses in Senate
-Illinois
-Gains

-Margaret Chase Smith
-William E. Brock, III
-President=s previous meeting
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Administration=s position
-President=s instruction for staff
-President=s meeting with Senators
-Timing
-Melvin R. Laird
-Cabinet
-William B. Saxbe
-Clark MacGregor and William E. Timmons
-Presidential involvement
-Timing
-Staff responsibilities
-Firmness
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-William P. Rogers
-Possible statement
-Arguments
-Deals
-President=s previous meeting
-Timing of vote
-President=s possible involvement
-Senators
-David H. Gambrell
-Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.
-Arguments
-Laird
-Gambrell
-Kissinger=s role
-Gambrell
-Chiles
-Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr.
-Smith
-Shifts
-Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application [NERVA]
-Administration=s position
-Timing of vote
-Kissinger=s views
-President=s previous meeting
-Smith
-Timing of vote

-Timing
-Administration=s advantages
-Deals
-Presidential involvement
-Appropriations bill
-Prospects in Senate

Texas drought
-President=s conversation with General George A. Lincoln
-John G. Tower
-Publicity
-John B. Connally
-Involvement
-Political handling
-Haldeman=s forthcoming call to Tower
-Political handling
-Lincoln
-President=s interest
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Presidential interest
-Haldeman=s forthcoming call to Hardin
-Publicity

Justice Department
-Drugs
-[J. Edgar Hoover?]
-War on crime
-John N. Mitchell
-Richard A. Moore

President=s conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger=s dinner with Joseph W. Alsop
-Marilyn B. (AMissy@) Chandler

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Arthur F. Burns
-Burns= schedule
-Forthcoming trip
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Leonard Garment
-Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken

-Quadriad
-Ehrlichman
-Time
-Forthcoming Republican Governors= Conference, April 19, 1971
-Mitchell=s views
-Ehrlichman=s views
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Ronald W. Reagan and Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Issue
-Poll
-Families with children
-Framing of questions
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Timing
-Ehrlichman
-Hard line
-Timing
-Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
-Meeting
-President=s participation
-Greetings
-Marine Corps Band
-AHail to the Chief@
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Schedule
-Tricia Nixon
-Schedule
-Office press conference
-Congressional leadership
-Republican Governors= Conference
-Statement on welfare reform
-Harry S. Dent
-Opening
-Worship service
-Invitations
-Editors
-List

Smith
-Approach toward Administration

-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Speech
-Support for Administration

President=s schedule

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ZAMBIA

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-Visit to Camp Pendleton
-1st Marine Division
-Visit by Moroccan King [Moulay] Hassan II
-Visit to California
-Timing
-Chamber of Commerce
-Visit by King Hassan II
-Prime Minister Mohammed Karim Laurani
-Visit to Camp Pendleton
-Ceremony
-Invitations
-Meeting with Dr. Rainer Barzel [?]
-Duration
-Previous meeting with Barzel
-Visit to California
-Kissinger=s view
-Timing
-Demonstrations
-Possible public perception
-Camp David
-White House

-Visit to California
-Kissinger=s view
-Demonstrations
-Timing
-Press conference
-Camp Pendleton
-Ceremony
-Chamber of Commerce
-Camp Pendleton
-Moore
-Welcome-home ceremony
-Ehrlichman
-John A. Scali
-Timing
-California
-Florida

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:30 am

-Swearing-in ceremony for William J. Casey

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:10 am

Tricia Nixon=s  wedding
-Invitations to White House staff and Cabinet
-Rose Mary Woods
-John S. Davies
-McCracken
-Kissinger
-Woods
-Casey
-Dean Burch
-Problem
-Analogy
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Unknown ceremony
-Ehrlichman=s views
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-McCracken
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Kissinger
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Assistants to the President
-Scali
-Charles W. Colson
-Scali
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Klein
-Woods
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Scali
-Shelley A. Scarney
-Garment
-Buchanan-Scarney
-Wedding
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Assistants to the President and Klein
-Number of invitations
-Limit
-Staff
-Peterson
-Flanigan
-Klein
-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Peterson
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower=s wedding

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:30 am

Casey swearing-in ceremony
-Statement
-President=s position
-John J. Sirica

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:10 am

T. Nixon=s wedding

Casey, Sophia (Kurz) Casey, Bernadette Casey, George Casey, Mrs. Thomas Langan, Mrs. Fred Nimmich, Mary Blend, Lillian Kurz, John M. Shaheen, Leonard W. Hall, Constance Kirk, Joseph Virdone, Raymond R. Dickey, John A. Wells, Ben Frank, Hugh F. Owens, Richard B. Smith, James J. Needham, Dolores A. (Habick) Needham, A[lbert] Sydney Herlong, Jr., Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker, Donald T. Regan, Charles F. Morin, Glenn E. Anderson, Albert H. Gordon, Gordon L. Calvert, Felix Rohatyn, Andrew J. Melton, Jr., Maurice H. Stans, Burns, Connally, William L. Springer, Robert Carter, John C. Folger, Sirica, and Michael B. Ryan entered at 11:10 am; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

[General conversation]

[Applause]

Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Office
-Regulatory agencies
-Impact
-Business
-W. J. Casey

[Applause]

Swearing-in of W. J. Casey
-Oath of office

[Applause]
Burns

Ceremony
-President=s confidence in W. J. Casey

W. J. Casey=s statement
-Gratitude
-SEC
-Administration=s policy
-Tradition
-Staff
-Capitalist system
-Investor confidence
-Capital machinery
-Capital resources
-Importance
-Economic health

-US competitive position in world
-Objectives
-Cooperation with other agencies/Congress
-Responsibility

[Applause]

[General conversation]

Presentation of Bible/gifts

[General conversation]

Unknown man=s collaboration with W. J. Casey

[General conversation]
-Relief rolls
-Potomac fever

Bull entered at 11:26 am

Gifts for W. J. Casey party
-Tie clasp

Bull, W. J. Casey, et al. left at 11:26 am

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am

Weather

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:30 am

President=s schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Agriculture dinner
-Florida
-Visit of Giuseppe Saragat
-Trip to California
-Agricultural dinner
-Entertainment
-Trip to Florida
-Saragat visit
-Trip to California

-Dinner for King Hassan II
-Camp David
-Office press conference
-Trip to California
-Press conference
-Photographers= dinner
-Press conference
-California trip
-Duration
-Correspondents= dinner
-Church service
-Correspondents= dinner
-Publishers & editors
-Church service
-Marines
-1st Marine Division
-Calley
-Timing
-Kissinger
-Announcement
-California trip
-Western White House
-Vacation
-California
-August
-Congress
-California
-Bohemian Grove
-Arts and sciences
-Republican Governors= Conference
-ABull@ session
-Timing
-Topics of conversation
-Dent
-Mitchell
-Robert H. Finch
-Thomas W. Evans
-Robert J. Dole
-Franklyn C. (ALyn@) Nofziger

Appointments
-W. J. Casey
-Charles W. Yost

-Recommendations
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-Dismissals
-Alain C. Enthoven
-McGeorge Bundy
-Shultz
-1972 election campaign

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Barzel

Cabinet and staff
-Connally=s view
-John A. Volpe
-Passion

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Barzel
-Rolf Pauls
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:44 am

Cabinet and staff
-Commitment to President=s policies
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Lack of passion
-Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Ziegler
-Klein
-Reflection upon the President
-Garment=s theory
-Connally=s view
-Texas drought
-Lincoln
-Statistics
-Lack of warmth/passion
-Speech writing
-Noel C. Koch
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-Need for warmth/commitment
-Procedures
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-John F. Kennedy
-Victor Lasky=s Man & the Myth
-Publicity
-Garment=s opinion

Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am

President=s schedule
-Barzel meeting

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 11:44 am

Cabinet and staff
-Commitment to President=s policies
-Need for warmth
-Price
-Letter from unknown person in Florida
-Public statement by the President
-Press conferences and conversations
-Connally=s view
-Need for emotion
-Peterson, Kissinger, Ehrlichman, et al.
-Connally=s view
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Style compared with the President
-Ehrlichman, Shultz, Kissinger, Mitchell, Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Garment
-Instructions for Haldeman
-Illusion
-Press conferences and conversations
-President=s image
-Television
-Demonstrators
-Connally=s view
-Price, Safire, Moore, Klein, Ziegler, Scali, and Colson
-Instructions for Haldeman
-Public relations
-Press conferences
-President=s image
-Press conferences
-Need for evaluation

-Kennedy=s image
-Rumsfeld=s possible view
-McCracken
-President=s credibility
-Style
-Moore, Price, Garment, and Safire
-Klein
-Scali
-Ziegler, Shultz, and Kissinger
-Commitment to President=s policies
-Connally=s view
-Passion
-Apathy, efficiency, lack of warmth
-Rogers
-Schedule
-Connally
-Views

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Burns

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:44 am
President=s image

Kissinger entered at 11:44 am

Barzel meeting

Haldeman left at 11:44 am

-Barzel
-Minority leader of parliament
-Chancellor candidate
-Christian Democratic Union [CDU]
-Kurt Georg Kiesinger
-Points of discussion
-Berlin
-Presence of Federal Republic of Germany [FRG]
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Access routes to Berlin
-Sovereignty of East Germany [German Democratic Republic [GDR]]

-CDU
-Possible vote on negotiations
-US/Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] negotiations
-Berlin
-Access routes
-GDR
-Presence of FRG
-Points of discussion
-Interpreter
-Duration
-President=s schedule
-Meeting with Burns

Article on People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Haldeman
-Henry Hubbard

Barzel, Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr., and Pauls entered at 11:47 am; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

[General conversation]

Photo session
[General conversation]
-Weather

Berlin
-Importance
-US position
-Statements to Pauls
-President=s conversation with Gromyko
-[Talking points]
-FRG=s presence
-Access routes
-GDR sovereignty
-Negotiations
-GDR sovereignty
-Negotiations
-President=s meetings with FRG leaders
-Willy Brandt
-Gromyko
-FRG=s presence
-Sovereignty over access routes

-GDR
-Negotiations
-Technical issues
-President=s conversation with Gromyko
-FRG presence
-Sovereignty
-Treaty draft
-US position
-Four-power responsibility
-Technical issues
-Points of discussion
-Barzel=s September 1970 meeting with the President
-FRG=s position
-Barzel=s possible public statement
-Domestic/foreign policy considerations
-Soviet position
-Lack of concessions
-CDU/Christian Socialist Union [CSU] position regarding Soviet treaties
-Vote in Bundestag
-President=s Congressional message [Second annual report to Congress on US foreign policy, February 25, 1971]
-Effect on Berlin people
-Prevent mass departure from city
-Young workers
-Links with FRG
-US/North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Democracy
-Question of FRG presence
-Administrative presence
-Parliamentary controls
-Committees
-Group meetings
-President=s statements on FRG presence and access rights
-Four powers
-Possible Soviet rights over three western sectors
-Four powers
-Impact on democracy
-Seriousness of issues
-Modus vivendi with USSR
-Practical matters
-Kissinger
-Lack of settlement
-Soviet views regarding Brandt=s Ostpolitik

-FRG/Soviet differences in point of view
-Finality versus lack of settlement
-CDU=s position
-Leonid I. Brezhnev=s statement
-Common concerns of Western world
-Skepticism
-Soviet intentions
-Issue
-Soviet intentions
-Modus vivendi
-Possible FRG concerns
-Kissinger=s relations with [David] Kenneth Rush
-Impact of problem
-German people
-CDU
-Desire
-Viable Berlin
-Lessening of tensions
-Dangers
-Treaty with USSR
-Berlin
-US policy regarding Soviet/FRG treaty
-US position regarding Berlin
-Principles
-Ambassador [Rush]
-Brandt
-President=s conversation with Gromyko

Germany
-FRG public opinion regarding USSR
-Evaluation
-Anti-communism
-Disappointments
-Brandt=s Ostpolitik
-Results
-Possible consequences of failure on Berlin issue
-Nationalism
-FRG foreign policy issues
-Nationalism
-President=s second annual report to Congress on US foreign policy
-Progress on German question
-Connection to lessening of tension in Europe
-Modus vivendi with GDR

-Ostpolitik
-German question
-FRG government
-Temporary arrangement
-USSR
-Permanent arrangement
-FRG domestic politics
-Dangers
-Economic situation
-Political situation
-State elections, or Landtag
-CDU
-European policy field
-Summary of general mood

Marxism
-Appeal
-Moscow and East Berlin
-Karl Marx
-FRG and Catholic theologians
-Renaissance
-Latin America
-Intellectuals
-Workers

Barzel=s visit
-Candor
-President=s conversation with Kissinger

Kissinger
-Possible visit to US

Foreign visitors
-Visits from governments and opposition
-Great Britain
-Harold Wilson
-France
-Italy
-Germans/British
-Japan
-Socialists
-Prime Minister [Eisaku Sato]

Berlin
-Status

Farewells
-President=s greeting to Barzel=s colleagues
-President=s foreign policy views
-Kissinger

Kissinger, Barzel, Mosbacher, and Pauls left at 12:20 pm

Conversation No. 479-4

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  12:21 pm - 12:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

John D. Ehrlichman met with Arthur F. Burns

President=s location

Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Unknown story

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:22 pm

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The President entered at an unknown time after 12:22 pm

Economic policy
-Ehrlichman
-President=s forthcoming conversation with Burns
-Paul W. McCracken
-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Troika
-Quadriad
-Burns= position
-Future meetings

Butterfield left at 12:26 pm
Burns= schedule
-Appointment
-Duration

Germany
-President=s meeting with Dr. Rainer Barzel
-Berlin negotiations
-Kurt Georg Kiesinger
-Opposition party
-Willy Brandt
-German treaty
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Possible Berlin agreement
-Opposition party
-Brandt
-US position
-Federal Republic of Germany [FRG]/Soviet agreement regarding Berlin
-Possible consequences
-Nationalism
-Schizophrenia
-Henry A. Kissinger=s view
-Leftists
-Franz Josef Strauss
-US policy

Connally
-Burns= view
-Burns= forthcoming meeting with central bankers
-Asset to the President

-Manner
-Warmth, affection
-Confidence

Cabinet
-Loyalty
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-John A. Volpe
-President=s conversation with Burns
-Treasury
-David M. Kennedy
-Economic team
-Burns
-Connally
-Connally=s speech to Southern California businessmen
-San Clemente
-Republican reaction
-Unknown man=s reaction
-George W. Romney
-Political ambitions
-1968 election campaign
-Connally

Balance of payments
-President=s conversation with Connally
-Dollar outflow from Germany
-Stabilization
-Connally=s forthcoming report to President
-[Balance of payments]
-Paul A. Volcker
-Consultation between Burns and Volcker
-Contingency plan
-Understanding between Connally and Burns
-Connally=s views
-Burns= possible statement to central bankers
-No benign neglect of balance-of-payments problems
-Administration=s policy regarding inflation
-Firmness
-Budget increases
-Use of veto
-Discussions with labor
-Congress

-Needed legislation
-President=s interest in and awareness of problem
-Recommendations
-Burns= conversation with Connally

Monetary policy
-Treasury Department activities
-Interest rates
-Connally
-Higher rates to bankers
-Flow of dollars to European central banks
-Contingency funds
-Tightened monetary policy
-Outflow of dollars
-Interest rates
-Treasury activities
-Balance of payments
-Money supply
-Growth
-Rate of growth

Economic indicators
-Retail sales
-Interest rates

Interest rates
-Administration=s objectives
-Short-term use
-Bond yields, mortgages
-Money supply
-Rise

Economy
-Steel situation
-Wage and price freeze
-Composition of board
-Public members
-Economics/politics
-Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy
-Authority
-Price index
-Wage and price review board
-Risk

-Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy
-President=s possible directive
-Inflation
-Authority
-Connally
-Maurice H. Stans
-Labor
-Commerce
-Labor
-Treasury
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Transportation
-Wage and price board
-Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy
-Lumber
-Oil
-Construction
-McCracken
-Steel
-President=s experience in 1959
-I[lorwith] W[ilbur] Abel
-Unknown General Motors [GM] labor leader
-Inflation
-Danger of inaction
-Appeal to American people
-Possible administration response
-Cabinet
-Congress
-Steel
-Foreign competition
-Unions
-Older workers
-Wage and price review board
-Composition
-Cabinet committee

Burns= trip to Europe

Ehrlichman and Burns left at 12:40 pm

Conversation No. 479-5

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 1:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Ronald L. Ziegler=s schedule
-Meeting with President

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:05 pm

Conversation No. 479-6

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 1:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Ronald L. Ziegler=s schedule
-Briefing

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:05 pm

Conversation No. 479-7

Date:  April 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 2:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Polls
-Approval ratings
-Disapproval ratings

-No opinion
-Possible influence
-Undecided level
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. case
-Undecided
-Calley case
-Vietnam
-Approval/disapproval ratings
-Shift
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Television report, April 7, 1971
-Awareness
-Reaction figures
-Withdrawal from Vietnam plan
-April 13, 1971 poll
-Previous poll
-Figures
-Change
-President=s speech, April 7, 1971
-State Department=s releases
-Use of word Acommunists@
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Withdrawal from Vietnam
-George H. Gallup and Louis Harris poll
-Calley
-Gallup poll
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll
-Calley
-Stockade
-Review
-Gallup poll
-President=s speech, April 7, 1971
-Trends
-Forthcoming
-Gallup poll
-Demonstrations
-Calley
-Economy and Vietnam
-ORC
-Calley
-Conviction
-Gallup poll
-Timing

-ORC
-Gallup poll
-Calley
-Timing of release
-Review
-Gallup poll
-President=s speech, April 7, 1971
-POWs
-Communist takeover issue
-Democrats

Haldeman=s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger=s dinner with Joseph W. Alsop

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 12:40 pm and 1:05 pm]

[Conversation No. 479-7A]

Kissinger=s schedule
-Lunch
-Meeting with President

[End of telephone conversation]

Calley case
-Kissinger
-President=s decision to review case
-Poll

Polls
-Gallup poll
-ORC poll

Kissinger entered at 1:05 pm

Kissinger=s schedule
-Lunch with [Arnold] Eric Sevareid

Kissinger=s press interviews
-Newsweek and Time
-Sevareid

President=s meeting with Dr. Rainer Barzel
-Berlin

Kissinger=s press interviews
-Newsweek and Time
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Newsweek
-Article on US policy on the People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-State Department
-Vietnam
-Newsweek
-Article on PRC policy
-Implications
-State Department
-Memoranda
-Llewellyn E. (ATommy@) Thompson, Jr. and Charles E. (AChip@) Bohlen
-Memoranda
-Opposition to Administration=s PRC policy
-Marshall Green
-Thompson
-President=s visit to Romania
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Kissinger=s possible conversation with Sevareid
-Stoessel
-President=s 1967 Foreign Affairs article on PRC
-Kissinger=s dinner with Alsop
-Stewart J. O. Alsop=s remarks
-President=s foreign policy
-Planning
-Kissinger=s conversation with Herbert E. Kaplow
-Ping-pong team visit

PRC
-Press
-Invitation to three New York Times newsmen [[Frank] Tillman Durdin, James B. (AScotty@) Reston, and Seymour Topping]
-Significance
-Durdin
-Chou En-lai=s statement

Kissinger=s conversation with Kaplow
-President=s toast at Nicolae Ceausescu=s dinner
-Use of term APRC@

PRC
-President=s use of term APRC@
-Chou En-lai=s interview with unknown Japanese newsman
-President=s 1967 article in Foreign Affairs
-President=s policy regarding recognition/United Nations [UN] representation
-Taiwan
-Overseas Chinese
-Taiwan
-Robert D. Murphy
-Schedule

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Moroccan Prime Minister Moulay Ahmed Laraki
-Meeting with Murphy
-Meeting with Kissinger

Taiwan
-Murphy=s visit
-Presidential emissary
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Murphy

PRC
-Ping-pong team
-Newsmen
-Significance
-Ronald L. Ziegler=s briefing
-Relaxation of trade restrictions
-Timing
-December 1970 news conference
-Second annual report to Congress on US foreign policy, February 25, 1971
-Ping-pong team
-President=s initiative
-President=s trip to Romania
-India
-Foreign Minister
-Josip Broz Tito
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Jean Sainteny

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[Duration:  11s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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-Ceausescu
-Romanians
-UN representation
-President=s upcoming meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
-Television
-US position
-Taiwan
-US alliance
-Two Chinas
-Chou En-lai=s statement
-North Vietnam
-Taiwan
-US/PRC relations
-USSR
-Possible US envoy
-USSR
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Middle East
-US press
-President=s PRC initiative
-Domestic considerations

Vietnam
-Casualties
-Figures

-Cambodia
-Upcoming Communist offensive
-South Vietnam
-Planning dates
-Laos
-Khe Sanh
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Richard M. Helms

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[National Security]
[Duration:  25s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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PRC
-Timing of invitation to ping-pong team
-Possible perception of the President
-Demonstrations
-USSR

President=s meeting with Barzel
-Danger of German nationalism
-Popular support for Communism
-Eastern Europe
-East Germany [German Democratic Republic [GDR], Moscow, Budapest
-Western Europe
-Rolf Pauls= statement
-Intellectuals and workers
-Christian Democratic Union [CDU]

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[Duration:  6s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Kissinger left at 1:15 pm

Polls
-Trial heats
-ORC poll
-March 1971
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George C. Wallace
-Figures
-Gallup poll
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Gallup trial heats
-Laos
-Changes
-Reaction
-People reporting
-President=s Cambodia speech
-May 1-2, 1969 poll
-Favorable/unfavorable ratings
-President=s November 3, 1969 speech
-November 23, 1969 poll
-Cambodia speech
-Awareness
-March 1971 press conference
-Vietnam
-Press
-Approval of President=s Vietnam policy

-Approval of President
-Calley
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Kissinger=s dinner with J. W. Alsop

Robert J. Dole
-Meeting with President
-Forthcoming Republican Governors= Conference, April 19, 1971
-Schedule
-John N. Mitchell
-Meeting with President
-President=s schedule
-Popular feeling on Vietnam
-Withdrawal

Vietnam
-Staff
-Clark MacGregor
-President=s position
-Dole=s views

President=s conversation with Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally=s observations about Cabinet
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Burns= observations
-Cabinet
-Loyalty
-Ehrlichman=s comments
-Staff and Cabinet
-Connally

Polls
-Results
-May 1971 poll
-PRC

Staff opinion on Cabinet
-Public relations
-Views
-Connally
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch
-Herbert G. Klein

-William L. Safire
-Richard A. Moore
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Leonard Garment
-Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Kissinger
-Patrick J. Buchanan

President=s forthcoming meeting with ASNE, April 16, 1971

President=s public appearances
-Danger of intemperate statements
-Charles A. Halleck=s memorandum
-Conversations
-Warmth
-Speeches
-Press conferences
-Humor
-Connally=s view
-Impression
-Peter Lisagor
-Anecdote
-Suggestions

Ziegler entered at 1:39 pm

Ziegler=s conversation with Lisagor

Press leads on Vietnam
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Story

Ping-pong team
-Press interest

PRC initiative
-Ziegler=s press briefing
-Development of President=s policy
-President=s 1967 Foreign Affairs article
-President=s December 1970 press conference

President=s ping-pong game
-Law school
-Chou En-lai
-National Table Tennis Association
-Ping-pong table
-Camp David

President=s bowling score
-Achievement
-Games
-Score
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Spectators
-Robert H. (ABob@) Taylor
-Manolo Sanchez
-Dogs
-Score
-Ziegler=s bowling score
-Games
-Strikes
-Champions

Press conference
-Announcement of relaxation of trade and travel restrictions, April 14, 1971
-Ping-pong team
-President=s previous initiatives
-Normalization of trade and travel
-President=s recent initiatives
-Kissinger
-Ping-pong team
-Expectations
-UN
-Recognition issue
-Envoy
-President=s initiatives

Ziegler=s meeting with Tricia Nixon
-Film of Luci B. (Johnson) Nugent=s wedding
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Filming

Film
-Administration=s use

-Johnson=s filming
-Possibilities
-Historical
-Occasional use
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
-Johnson
-Crew
-Cabinet meeting, April 13, 1971
-Atkins
-Atkins= role
-Johnson
-Atkins

Frank Leonard=s criticism of administration
-Use of statements
-Word orientation
-Pictures
-Press
-Atkins
-President=s Caracas visit
-Atkins= alleged picture
-Frank E. Cancellare
-Hank [Surname unknown]

Pictures
-Rogers
-Use
-Cabinet meeting
-Chet Holifield
-Carl M. Yastrzemski
-Washington Post
-New York Daily News
-Baltimore Sun

Ziegler=s meeting with T. Nixon
-Coverage by Look
-Edward R. F. Cox
-Ladies Home Journal
-Life
-Cover picture
-President and T. Nixon
-Cox and T. Nixon
-June cover

-Timing
-President and T. Nixon
-Editorial control
-Writer
-Pre-wedding picture
-President and T. Nixon
-Family photograph
-Engagement
-T. Nixon and Cox
-Wedding portrait
-Look
-Photographs
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s view
-Television interviews
-Controls
-Metromedia
-Prime time
-Other magazines
-Readers= Digest
-Use of art
-Brides magazine
-Gowns
-Wedding arrangements
-Ziegler=s conversation with Constance M. (Cornell) (AConnie@) Stuart
-Press
-Wedding cake
-Champagne
-Tent
-Filing facilities
-Press
-Tent
-Foreign press
-Briefing
-Stuart
-Helen Smith
-Handling of press
-Discretion
-Weather
-Time

President=s meeting with ASNE, April 16, 1971
-Network coverage
-Single camera

-Electronic camera
-Lighting
-Heat from lights
-Air conditioning
-Intensity
-Spotlight on President
-Cameras
-Electronic camera
-Tape
-Film

T. Nixon=s wedding
-Story
-Mood of staff and press
-T. Nixon=s concerns
-Wesley [Surname unknown]
-Intrusion of cameras
-Private wedding
-Pictures, not audio
-Press
-Cameras
-Photographs
-White House steps
-T. Nixon=s views
-Rose Garden
-Stuart
-Network coverage
-Filming
-Live coverage
-Film
-Tape
-Show
-Cutting of cake
-Formal picture
-Live coverage

Democrat candidates
-President=s Vietnam policy
-Vietnam critics

May Day demonstrations
-Disruption of traffic and public power
-Muskie

-Sidey=s views
-Timing
-Weather

Ziegler left at 2:06 pm

President=s upcoming meeting with Dole
-Advice to President
-Foreign policy
-Feeling towards Vietnam
-Poll results regarding Vietnam

Polls
-End-the-war poll
-Timing
-Calley
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Calley
-Results
-Charles D. Bennett
-March poll
-Upcoming demonstrations
-Calley
-Communist takeover
-POWs
-Vietnam
-Stories

The President and Haldeman left at 2:11 pm