Conversation No. 480-1

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:59 am and 11:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger]

The President=s schedule
-Instructions regarding meeting [with Moulay Ahmed Laraki]
-Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.

Conversation No. 480-2

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:59 am and 11:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Trip to Europe
-Press
-Report
-Instructions
-Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 480-3

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  11:02 am - 12:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger, Alec G. Toumayan, and Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.

[General conversation]

Mosbacher left at 11:03 am

Moulay Ahmed Laraki entered at 11:04 am

Greetings
-French language
-King [Moulay] Hassan II=s greetings to the President
-US-Moroccan friendship

Mosbacher entered at 11:04 am

King Hassan II=s forthcoming trip
-Forthcoming talks with the President
-David D. Newsom
-Stuart W. Rockwell
-Rabat

Middle East crisis

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MIDDLE EAST

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-King Hassan II=s initiatives
-Timing
-Possible Arab summit meeting
-Press reaction
-New York Times
-Le Monde

-Islamic countries
-United Nations [UN] resolution
-Arab summit meeting
-King Hussein ibn Talal
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Palestinians
-Current situation
-Arab summit
-Moroccan objectives
-Realism
-Arabs
-Errors
-King Hassan II=s possible initiatives
-Arab summit meeting
-Schedule
-King Hassan II=s visit to US

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[National Security]
[Duration:  3m 24s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

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King Hassan II=s possible visit to US
-Schedule
-Proposed visit, April 22, 1971
-National Press Club
-AMeet the Press@
-Silence
-Arabs
-Middle East
-US efforts
-Difficulties

-Silence or jeopardizing King Hassan II=s role in Arab summit meeting
-President=s schedule
-Options
-Private visit
-Possible itinerary
-US-Moroccan relations
-Context
-Options
-President=s decision
-Postponement
-Postponement
-Duration
-Arab summit meeting
-Arabs
-Moroccan position
-King Hassan II=s role in Middle East
-President=s conversation with Moroccan ambassador
-Morocco
-Status in region
-Stability
-Objectivity
-Strength
-King Hassan II=s role in Middle East
-Avoiding interference by the US
-King Hassan II=s prerogative
-Private visit
-Schedule
-Dinner
-Meeting with press
-Statement
-Nature
-US-Moroccan relations
-Toast
-Dinner
-National Press Club
-Postponement
-Timing
-President=s schedule
-Difficulties
-Official/private visit
-Avoiding misunderstanding
-Arab summit meeting
-Options summarized

-Private visit
-Dinner
-Protocol
-Statement
-Bilateral relations
-Postponement
-President=s schedule
-King Hassan II=s schedule
-Formal or private visit
-Timing
-King Hassan II=s role in Middle East
-Postponement
-Private visit
-Lunch or dinner
-King Hassan II=s prerogative
-King Hassan II=s delegation of decision to Laraki

Possible reaction to private meeting
-Arab leaders
-Press and public opinion
-Impression

Postponement of meeting
-Timing
-Arab summit meeting
-Possible Moroccan course of action
-Briefing

Possible future meeting
-Private visit
-Formal dinner
-President=s 1957 trip to Morocco
-Timing
-Moroccan ambassador
-President=s schedule
-Timing
-June/October
-Postponement
-Timing
-Kissinger and H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Postponement
-Arab summit meeting
-John N. Irwin, II

-Briefing
-Newsom
-President=s schedule
-Schedule
-Blair House
-Williamsburg
-New York
-Finance dinner
-Importance for US-Moroccan relations

Middle East
-President=s statement on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-President=s and King Hassan II=s tutors
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-King Mohammed V [Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef]

Visit of King Mohammed V to US
-Reception by Eisenhower at airport
-Eisenhower=s stroke
-President=s role as host
-Mamie G. D. Eisenhower

Visit of King Hassan II
-Postponement
-Middle East

Presentation of gifts
-Golf balls
-Cufflinks

Visit of King Hassan II
-Schedule

Farewells

Toumayan, et al., left at 11:42 am; Kissinger remained

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger and Haldeman
Reaction to Laraki visit
-King Hassan II
-Admiration for President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Comments about the President

-Eisenhower and King Mohammed V
-Foreign visitors

King Hassan II=s visit
-Postponement
-Timing

Haldeman entered at 11:45 am

-European summit

President=s schedule

State visits
-Yakubu Gowon
-Senegal
-Leopold Sedar Senghor
-Willy Brandt
-President=s forthcoming trip [to Florida]
-Tricia Nixon
-Wedding
-Trip to Florida
-Timing
-Gowon
-Josip Broz Tito
-Indira Gandhi
-European summit
-King Hassan II
-Timing
-Peru
-[Juan Velasco Alvarado]
-King Hassan II
-Schedule
-President=s schedule
-Western trip
-Congressional recess
-Peru
-President=s schedule
-Congressional recess
 		-Peru
-State visit
-Dinner
-Summer

-General Lon Nol
-King Hassan II
-President=s schedule
-Press conference
-King Hassan II
-Timing
-Congress
-General Lon Nol
-King Hassan II
-State visits in 1972
-President=s schedule
-Newsom
-Ivory Coast
-Value
-Time-consuming
-State Department
-Importance
-Africa
-Latin America
-Brazil
-Asia
-Japan
-Emperor Hirohito
-Timing
-US policy
-Problems
-Scheduling
-William P. Rogers
-Irwin
-Dates
-State Department
-List of visitors
-Foreign policy perspective
-Edward R. G. Heath
-1972
-Foreign activities
-Possible security conference
-Possible visit by Russians
-Laraki
-King Hassan II
-Postponement
-State Department
-King Hassan II

-Schedule
-Timing
-General Lon Nol
-Problems
-Cambodian situation
-President=s schedule

Haldeman left at 11:55 am

Cambodia
-Possible enemy strategy
-Interpretation of US military actions
-Sanctuary operation
-US position

People=s Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam
-Fire Base 6
-Deadline
-Congress
-John Sherman Cooper
-Edward W. Brooke
-Charles H. Percy
-PRC

PRC
-John A. Scali
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Ronald L. Ziegler=s press briefing
-Scali
-State Department
-US policy
-USSR
-US relations
-Evaluation of PRC diplomacy
-American press corps
-Compared with European press
-Peregrine Worsthorne
-View of the President=s initiative
-Scali

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese position
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Negotiations
-Effect of War
-PRC
-Laos

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[National Security]
[Duration:  5s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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PRC
-British ambassador
-USSR
-Chou En-lai
-North Vietnam

Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-News magazines
-President=s November 3, 1969 speech on Vietnam War
-Messages to Kissinger

Kissinger left at 12:00 pm

Conversation No. 480-4

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  12:01 pm - 12:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

The President=s schedule
-Open Door Hour
-Rose Garden
-Photograph
-Presentation of gifts
-Plaque
-Remarks
-Nebraska
-Robert Santin
-Press corps
-Photograph
-Robert and Richard Santin
-Gift
-Press corps

The President and Bull left at 12:02 pm

Conversation No. 480-11

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:02 pm and 12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] entered

President=s location
-Rose Garden

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm

Conversation No. 480-5

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Press
-Story
-Sammy Davis, Jr.

President=s schedule
-Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Arrival

Bull left at 12:15 pm

Conversation No. 480-6

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  12:15 pm - 12:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld

Appointment of John A. McCone
-Congress
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Breeder reactor
-Clinton P. Anderson
-Disarmament
-Congress
-Resignation from Common Cause
-Possible delay
-Release
-Common Cause
-ABM
-Rumsfeld=s forthcoming conversation with Henry A. Kissinger

-Disarmament committee
-William F. Knowland
-Qualifications
-Experience
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Breeder reactor

Finch and Rumsfeld=s upcoming visit to World Health Organization [WHO] meeting
-Kissinger
-Possible invitation to People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-President=s visit in 1951
-Herbert H. Lehman
-Geneva
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Paris
-Possible invitation to PRC
-Votes
-United Nations [UN] representation
-Kissinger
-US position
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Possible visit of PRC doctors
-Finch=s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-US policy regarding PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

USSR
-US policy
-PRC
-Possible reaction
-Composition
-Health ministers
-Subjects
-Health
-Drugs
-Education

Racial discrimination in armed forces
-Congress
-Mail
-Black Caucus

-Work assignments
-Blacks
-Benefits of military service

Finch and Rumsfeld=s visit to WHO meeting
-Countries in itinerary
-England
-Morocco
-Spain
-Italy
-Romania
-Yugoslavia
-Austria
-Germany
-Switzerland
-France
-Specific subjects
-Drugs
-Medical education
-Prisoner relief
France
-Jacques M. P. Chaban-Delmas
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-President=s relations with Chaban-Delmas

Morocco
-Visit of King [Moulay] Hassan II
-Scheduling
-Arab summit meeting

Great Britain
-[James] Harold Wilson
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Sir Alexander F. (AAlex@) Douglas-Home
-Tories
-Labor
-Wilson
-Heath
-Douglas-Home
-Roy Thomson Herbert
-Times of London
-[Maurice] Harold MacMillian
-R. Anthony Eden

Germany
-Willy Brandt
-Opposition
-Berlin
-West/East
-Mayor
-Evenhandedness

Italy
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Pope Paul VI [Giovanni Battista Motini]
-Social gospel

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[National Security]
[Duration:  59s  ]

THE VATICAN, ITALY

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Spain
-General Francisco Franco
-Age
-Robert C. Hill
-Foreign Minister
-Political conditions
-Franco

Yugoslavia
-William Leonart
-Josip Broz Tito
-PRC
-Romania
-Nicolae Ceausescu

-Role
-Tito

Belgium

Paris

Austria
-Vienna
-Salzburg
-US relations

Germany
-East Berlin

European press
-Kissinger
-Editors
-Intellectuals
-Editors
-Paris
-England
-Germany
-Italy
-Compared with US press

International drug control
-Justice Department
-UN
-Possible US initiatives
-Amendments
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan and Russell E. Train
-Health
-[Charles B. Rangel]
-Harlem

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[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 29s  ]

DRUG CONTROL

THE VATICAN

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Overseas political contributors
-France
-Paris
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-England
-Duration of Finch and Rumsfeld=s trip
-Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo
-J[ean] Paul Getty
-Property
-Possible contribution
-Amount
-1970 campaign
-Contribution
-Kalmbach
-Property
-Living habits
-Possible contribution

Finch and Rumsfeld=s trip
-Paris

The President=s schedule
-Call from Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Finch and Rumsfeld=s trip

Finch and Rumsfeld left at 12:40 pm

Conversation No. 480-7

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  12:40 pm - 12:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 1-96]

Conversation No. 480-8

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:41 pm and 12:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person

Unknown activity

Conversation No. 480-9

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:41 pm and 12:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Henry A. Kissinger=s schedule
-Barber

The President=s schedule
-Barber

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm

Conversation No. 480-10

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:41 pm and 1:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Veterans= demonstration
-Capitol grounds
-President of Senate
-Speaker of House
-Carl B. Albert
-Health

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:41 pm

The President=s schedule
-Barber

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm

Agnew
-Forthcoming demonstration
-Use of Capitol
-Attorney General=s [Richard G. Kleindienst=s] opinion
-Effect on Congress
-Ellipse
-Agnew=s meeting
-Administration=s possible position
-Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC]
-Precedent
-Possible crisis
-Effect on Congress

-Vietnam
-Numbers
-Veterans
-Schedule
-Albert
-Health
-Democratic leadership
-Personal life

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John B. Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger

Campaign practices
-Interview with Edmund S. Muskie=s mother
-AChapman=s friend@
-Age
-Jane F. (Gray) Muskie
-Background
-E. S. Muskie
-Wife
-Portland, Maine
-Children
-Gene Muskie
-Daughters
-President
-E. S. Muskie
-Abraham Lincoln simile
-Education

-Presidential aspirations
-Daughters
-Political views

Interviews with other E. S. Muskie family and staff members
-Portland Press Herald
-Mickey Wiesenthal [sp?]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 12:41 pm
The President=s schedule
-John P. (AJack@) Sutherland
-Alma mater=s yearbook
-Photo session with the President

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm

Campaign practices
-AChapman=s friend@
-Jay Lovestone=s meeting with Hubert H. Humphrey and George Meany

Sutherland and Ziegler entered at 12:50 pm

Photo session
-Notes
-Autographed photo of the President
-Unknown forthcoming event, May 8, 1971
-Golf balls
-Cuff links

Ziegler
-Editors= meeting
-Performance

Sutherland and Ziegler left at 12:54 pm

Campaign practices
-AChapman=s friend@
-Lovestone=s meeting with Humphrey and Meany
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-1968 election campaign
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-James L. Buckley

-Republicans
-Locals
-Economic situation
-Democrats
-Jackson
-E. S. Muskie
-1962 campaign
-Leaks
The President=s schedule
-Televised press conference
-Office press conference
-California trip
-Press conference
-Announcement
-Demonstrations
-Timing
-Veterans
-April 19, 1971
-April 24, 1971
-May 1-5, 1971
-April 24, 1971
-May 5, 1971
-Press conference
-California trip
-Timing
-Photographers
-State visits
-Church
-President=s meetings
-Number
-Daily
-Frequency
-Leonard Garment=s call
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Flexibility
-Staff members
-Press conferences
-Statements
-Speeches
-Agriculture Day
-California trip
-Press conference
-Florida weekend

-Giuseppe Saragat
-Alabama

Elections in Berkeley, California
-Results
-Activism
-Faculty and students
-Electorate
-Blacks
-Hippies
-Radicals
-Longshoremen=s union
-Stanford University

Santa Cruz, California incident
-Reaction
-Los Angeles Times
-Burning of building
-Haldeman=s son=s reaction

May Day demonstrations
-Security
-Disruption on White House grounds
-ASalute to Agriculture@
-Washington Post story on cameras at White House
-Police state image
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-San Clemente
-Florida
-Security
-Number of police at the White House
-Ziegler

Berkeley, California

Economy
-George P. Shultz
-Industrial production
-Briefing, April 15, 1971
-Paul W. McCracken

Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch
-Compared to Connally
-Performance

Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 12:54 pm

The President=s schedule
-Davis
-Awards at Open Door Hour
-[Muscular Dystrophy Association of America]
-Nebraska
-Garment
-Davis
-Picture
-Harold Russell
-Press
-Davis

Davis
-Schedule
-Press
-Robert J. Brown
-Schedule
-Shady Grove
-Brown
-Wife
-Retirement
-Revenue sharing
-Entertainment

The President=s schedule
-Davis
-Muscular Dystrophy Association of America
-Davis
-Picture

Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 1:18 pm

Davis
-Appearance
-Possible meeting with the President

The President=s schedule
-Morocco [canceled visit of King [Moulay] Hassan II]
-Press conference

The President and Haldeman left at 1:18 pm

Conversation No. 480-12

Date:  April 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 and 1:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] entered

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[Agency Policy]
[Duration:  1m 27s  ]

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The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm