Conversation No. 482‑1

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:58 am and 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑Ronald L. Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:07 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑2

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:58 am and 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and an unknown man [Mark I. Goode?].

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Rio Grande (Texas) High School student council members
-Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Photo
‑Tour
‑Meeting with securities leaders

Bull and the unknown man [Goode?] left at an unknown time before 12:07 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑3

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  12:07 pm - 12:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mark I. Goode.

President's schedule

Goode left at 12:09 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑4

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 12:09 pm - 12:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Bernard J. (ABunny@) Lasker, Albert H. Gordon, Donald T. Regan, Peter M. Flanigan, and John B. Connally met.

Presentation to the President
‑Steven Delaney
‑Gift to President
‑Bull
‑Shopping
‑General Services Administration [GSA]
‑Gift to President
‑Bull

[Break in tape recording]

The President entered at 12:23 pm.

Presentation to President
‑President's economic accomplishments
‑Bull
‑Press

An unknown man entered at 12:25 pm.

Press

The unknown man left at 12:25 pm.

Positions for press photo

Members of the press entered at 12:25 pm.

[Camera noise]

Presentation to President
-Economy
‑Stock market
‑Bull
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Economy
‑Wall Street
-Confidence
‑Prospects
‑Stock market
‑Rise
‑Institutional buying
‑Individuals

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 12:38 pm.

‑Confidence in President's policies
‑Numbers
‑President's policies
‑Inflation
‑Stock market
‑Institutional buying
‑Individuals
‑Blue chips
‑Bonds
‑Insurance companies
‑Individuals
‑Numbers
‑Projections
‑Confidence

‑Growth rate
‑Economists
‑Politics
‑Otto Eckstein

Presentation of gifts by President
‑Bull
‑Eisenhower
-Gettysburg Farm
‑Presidential paper weights
‑Blue chips

Stock market
‑Performance
‑Fall
‑Decline in earnings
‑Brokerage firms
‑Difficulties
‑President's conversation with unknown broker
‑Improvement
‑Long‑range projections

Economy
‑March economic indicators
‑Gross National Product [GNP]
‑Growth
‑Automobiles
‑Home building
‑Retail sales
‑March figures
-Household furnishings
‑Automobiles
‑General Motors [GM]
‑Consumers
‑Confidence
‑Stock market
‑Shares
‑Growth
‑Institutions/individuals
‑President's foreign policy
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Ping-pong team

Foreign relations
-Middle East
‑PRC
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Stock market
‑President's forthcoming meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
‑State Department
‑PRC
‑Communism
‑President's initiatives
-Pace
‑USSR
‑US/USSR relations
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑PRC
‑Detente
‑US/PRC relations
‑US policy
-Need for confidentiality
‑USSR
‑USSR
-Possible interpretations of US/PRC relations
‑PRC
‑US missionaries
‑Relations with US

Merrill Lynch's public sale of stock
‑Timing

Unknown man's daughter
‑Connally

Stock market

Connally
‑Anecdote
‑Bull

Wall Street

 Lasker, Gordon, Regan, Flanigan, and Connally left at 12:38 pm

Conversation No. 482‑29

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:38 pm and 12:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Outer office of Executive Office Building [EOB]
‑Alexander P. Butterfield
‑Meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:41 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑5

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  12:41 pm - 12:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield, Jon M. Huntsman, Mrs. Jon M. Huntsman, David Haight, and Mrs. David Haight; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions
‑Weather
‑Dinner in Palo Alto
‑Stanford

Jon Huntsman's position

Support for President

Photo session
‑Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins

Presentation of gifts
‑Cuff links

Farewells
‑Brazil

Butterfield, et al. left at 12:43 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑6

Date:  April 16, 1971
Time:  12:43 pm - 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑Work

The President and Bull left at 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑7

Date:  Unknown between April 16 and April 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm, April 16 and 9:03 am, April 19, 1971
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons (Secret Service agents) entered.

[Unintelligible]

Unknown persons left at an unknown time before 9:03 am, April 19, 1971

Conversation No. 482‑8

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  9:03 am - 9:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman; the recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress.

Vietnam
‑Unknown man's article

Polls
‑George H. Gallup
‑Approval of President
‑18‑21 year old
‑Other age groups

Edmund S. Muskie
‑Support

Draft
‑William F. Buckley's views
‑Staff opinions
‑Unknown man's view

Media
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
-Middle America
‑Commentators
-White House
‑Newsmen

[Transcript #1:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak column of April 19, 1971
-William Morton [?]
-Victor Lasky

-Ralph de Toledano
-Trotskyites
‑Muskie
-National Peace Action Coalition [NPAC]
‑Names
‑Compared with communists
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Maoists
‑Leon Trotsky
‑Successes
‑Non‑violent opposition to Vietnam
‑Compared with other radical groups
-Communist Party
‑Goals
-Revolution

Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
‑Evans' television appearance, April 18, 1971
‑Interview of McCloskey
-Evaluated
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
‑William B. Saxbe
‑William P. Rogers
‑William H. Sullivan
‑Laos
‑G. McMurtrie Godley
‑Instructions for Sullivan
‑Rogers

Rally
‑McCloskey
‑Muskie
‑Democrats
‑Non‑partisan
‑Allard K. Lowenstein
‑Muskie and Birch Bayh
‑Number of attendees
‑Marilyn Berger
‑Dan Rather
‑Rather
-Fairness

‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news report
-Numbers
‑Governors Conference
‑Impounded funds

President=s schedule
‑President's possible meeting with Graham B. Steenhoven
-Table tennis team
‑Steenhoven
-Trip to PRC
-Chrysler Corporation
‑US table tennis team
-Described
-Maoist member
‑President's possible meeting with Steenhoven
‑President's possible meeting with newsmen
‑Manager
‑Schedule

Joe Frazier's visit to White House, April 18, 1971
‑Picture in Washington Post
-Tour
‑Frazier
‑Wife/children
-Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali]
-US Supreme Court
‑Frazier
‑Statements to press
‑Physical appearance	
-Clay

John N. Scali
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Meeting with President/Haldeman
‑Kissinger
‑Role
‑Haldeman's meeting with Kissinger

Robert J. Dole's speech to Republican governors, April 19, 1971
‑Washington Post coverage
‑Gordon L. Allott

‑Release, April 18, 1971
‑Advance text
-Content

President's radio talks
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Number
‑Possible booklet
‑Timing
‑Releases

President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
‑Scali's views regarding television coverage
‑Radio
-Cameras
‑Advantages of television

Media
‑PRC
‑Frazier
‑Television
‑CBS

Response to McCloskey
‑Rogers and Sullivan
‑State Department
-White House
‑Report to President
‑Rogers
‑Sullivan
‑McCloskey
‑Robert C. ("Bob") Wilson
‑Trip to Laos, Vietnam

McCloskey
‑Trip to Laos
‑Itinerary
-Intentions
‑Wilson's forthcoming visit to Laos
‑Itinerary
-Assignment
‑Publicity
‑Media attention

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‑Gerald R. Ford

Earth Day
‑President's proclamation
‑Congress
‑John V. Lindsay
‑Participants
‑Ehrlichman
‑Environmental issues
‑Participants
-Publicity
‑Congress
‑President's role
-Earth Week
‑President's schedule
‑Thelma C. (Ryan (APat@)  Nixon's schedule

President's meeting with ASNE
‑Live television coverage
‑Staff reaction
‑Richard A. Moore
‑Strategy
‑Timing
‑President's speech on Vietnam, April 7, 1971
-Applause
‑Compared to pres conference
‑Questions & answers [Q&A]
‑Questions
‑Vietnam
‑PRC
‑Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.

‑PRC
‑J. Edgar Hoover
-National security

[Transcript #2:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

President's schedule
‑Television
-Timing
‑Press conference
‑White House press
‑Frank Cormier
-Eugene V. Risher
‑Williamsburg [Republican Governors Conference]
‑Helicopter passengers
‑Ford
‑Schedule

President's PRC initiative
‑Michael (AMike@) Mansfield
‑News summaries
-Credit
-Right wing
‑Criticism
‑Ping‑pong team

President's television appearances
‑Prime time
‑News time
‑Meeting with ASNE
‑Advantages
‑Rather
‑News time
‑Audience
‑Meeting with ASNE

‑Effect on people
‑Editors
-Influence
-President=s forthcoming  remarks to Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]

President's forthcoming speech to US Chamber of Commerce, April 26, 1971
‑William L. Safire
‑Memorandum to Safire
-Tone
-Enthusiasm
‑Audience
‑Themes
‑President=s speech to National Association of Manufacturers [NAM], December 4, 1971
-Faith in system
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑US economic leadership in world
‑Peace
‑Length
‑Upbeat

President's meeting with Rio Grande [Texas] High School students, April 16, 1971
‑Mexican students
‑Hard work
-Trip to Washington

President's meeting with Texas A&M University choir
‑[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
‑Size of Texas A&M
-Compared to Ivy League schools
‑Vietnam
‑Support for President

President's audience
‑Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld memorandum
‑Charles W. Colson
‑College students
‑President's visits to colleges and universities
‑Kansas State
‑Nebraska
‑South
‑California
‑Polytechnical schools

‑Southern California
‑Whittier
‑Radicals
‑Opportunities
‑Professors

President's schedule
‑Republican Governors' Conference
‑President's public appearance
‑John N. Mitchell's views
-Avoiding politics of private session

McCloskey
‑Moore
‑Demagoguery
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Sullivan and Rogers
‑House
‑Governors
‑Ronald W. Reagan
‑White House role
‑Analogy to President's meeting with ASNE
-Hoover
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Press
-Hoover

McCloskey
‑White House involvement
-Ziegler

Muskie
‑Press
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑George W. Romney

Hubert H. Humphrey

Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
‑Presidential ambitions
‑Vietnam

President's schedule
-Scali
‑Kissinger
‑Scali
-Haldeman=s forthcoming meeting with Kissinger

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:52 am.

Conversation No. 482‑9

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  9:52 am ‑ 9:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President signs unknown papers

Butterfield left at 9:56 am.

Conversation No.  482‑10

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  9:58 am ‑ 10:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Foreign relations
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Schedule
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam
‑Anti‑war rally
‑Allard K. Lowenstein
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson

‑Liberal Democrats
‑Television coverage

Earth Day
‑John V. Lindsay
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Environment
‑Possible Congressional resolution
‑President's proclamation

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‑Participants
‑Gen. Lewis B. Hershey
‑J. Edgar Hoover

PRC
‑Newsweek coverage
‑Mention of President
‑Time coverage
‑Newsweek coverage
‑Time
-President=s 1967 article in foreign affairs
‑John F. Osborne

Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑Pham Van Dong
-French change` d=affaires
‑Kissinger=s forthcoming message to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Dobrynin's Schedule

[Transcript #1:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

‑US position
‑Dobrynin
-Message
‑USSR
‑Negotiations
-Timing
-Demonstrations
‑Dobrynin

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[Duration:  28s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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US ‑ Soviet Relations
-US position
-Negotiations on Vietnam
‑Newsweek article
‑Zbigniew Brzezinski
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Washington Post article, April 19, 1971
‑Administration's foreign policy
-Lyndon B. Johnson administration
‑Democrats
‑SALT
‑Soviet military buildup

-Possible consequence by 1972 election
-Size
‑Democrats
‑Jackson

Stewart J.O. Alsop's article
‑Democrats
‑Vietnam
‑Defense

Vietnam
‑US casualties
‑Compared with previous week

Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑Schedule
‑Meeting with Kissinger

President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Media coverage
‑Questions

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:58 am.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:13 am.

President's meeting with ASNE
‑Television
‑Applause
‑Questions
-PRC
‑Vietnam
‑Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.

Polls
‑Vietnam
‑Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-News summary
‑Approval rate
‑President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971

Cabinet
‑John B. Connally
-Domestic issues
‑William P. Rogers
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑John Foster Dulles
‑Presidency
‑Dulles

Democrats
‑Disloyalty

The President and Kissinger left at 10:13 am.

Conversation No. 482‑11

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  1:30 pm ‑ 2:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's visit to Republican Governors' Conference, Williamsburg, April 19, 1971
‑Robert J. Dole
‑Schedule
‑Gerald R. Ford

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Ford, Leslie C. Arends and Abomb throwers@ [Congressmen]

Invitations to Tricia Nixon's wedding
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Number
‑Maj. Gen. James D. (ADon@) Hughes
‑John S. Davies
‑[Unintelligible name]
‑Dean Burch
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.

‑William L. Safire
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Price
‑Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
‑Hughes
‑Davies
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Congressmen and Senators
‑Leonard Garment
‑Bill [Unintelligible surname]

Demonstrations
‑Ziegler

Donald E. McLarnan
‑Reorganization of Small Business Administration [SBA]
‑Thomas S. Kleppe
‑Removal
‑Democrats
‑George P. Shultz
‑Removal
‑Shultz
‑Reasons for removal
‑Publicity

President's visit to Republican Governors' Conference
‑Schedule
‑Golf
‑Government
‑Business
‑American Association of Advertising Agencies
‑Haldeman's past attendance
‑Pebble Beach
‑Informal exchanges

Press briefings
‑Ziegler
‑Performance
‑Pattern
‑President's schedule
‑Stories
‑George S. McGovern

‑Possible technique
‑Appointments
‑Questions
‑Events
‑Press
‑Choice of questions
‑Vietnam
‑Haldeman's possible conversation with Ziegler

President's visit to Republican Governors' Conference
‑Television coverage
-Networks
‑Advantages for President

Press coverage of President
‑President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
‑National Broadcasting Company [NBC]/Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Dan Rather
‑Earth Day crowd

Earth Day
-Haldeman=s conversation with Rather
‑Crowd size
-David S. Broder
‑Picture in newspaper
‑Networks

President's meeting with ASNE
‑Television coverage
‑Applause

President's visit to Republican Governors' Conference
-Williamsburg
‑Reception

[Transcript #1:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

‑Anti‑war protestors

President's meeting with Rio Grande High School students
‑Rather
-Story
‑Hard work
‑Welfare recipients

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Welfare recipients
‑Children
‑Men
‑Work
‑Do‑gooders

Pictures of Edward C. Nixon's family
‑Ziegler
‑Children
-Dresses
-Tricia Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
‑Possible release to press
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
‑Press
‑Magazines
‑Seventeen
‑Youth
‑Tricia Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
‑Gowns
‑Ziegler
‑Constance M. (AConnie@) Stuart
‑Family Circle
‑Magazines
‑Readers Digest

-Family Circle
‑Parade

President=s visit to Republican Governors Conference
-Speech
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Welfare system

Earth Day
‑Environment
‑Picture in New York Times
‑Participants
‑Appearance
-George Washington University
‑[Dwight] David, II and Julie Eisenhower
‑Comments on styles

President's visit to Republican Governors' Conference
‑Governors= intentions
‑Forum
‑President's role
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Thomas W. Evans

President's speeches
-Possible speech before Congress
‑Preparation
‑Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]

President's forthcoming speech at DAR session
‑Significance
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Significance

President=s forthcoming speech before US Chamber of Commerce, April 26, 1971
‑Media coverage
‑Television

President's speeches
-Reading
‑Frequency
‑Chamber of Commerce

‑Length
‑Press
‑Live audience
‑Advance text
‑Republican Governors' Conference
‑DAR
‑Story about little old lady [Mrs. Paul W. Heatwole]
‑Flag
‑Seal in President's office

Personnel
-John S. Davies
‑Plans to resign
‑Mrs. Nixon
-Hawaii

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-Michael J. Farrell
‑Qualifications
‑Staff
‑Qualifications
-1968 campaign
-Davies
‑Job performance
‑Selection of assistants
‑Kennedy staff
‑Plans

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
-Midway
‑Davies
‑Trip to Hawaii

Tricia Nixon's wedding
‑Flowers
‑Media coverage
‑Photos
‑Cameras
‑Mrs. Nixon

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‑Rules
‑Congressmen and Senators
‑House assistants
‑James T. Lynn

Price
‑Assistants
‑Speech writing

Haldeman left at 2:04 pm.

Conversation No.  482‑12

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:04 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Request

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm.

Conversation No.  482‑13

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:04 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑14

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  2:25 pm ‑ 2:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule

President's schedule
‑Meeting with George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:32 pm.

Unknown recommendation
‑Kissinger

President's schedule
‑Meeting with John L. McClellan
‑Kenneth E. BeLieu and Clark MacGregor
‑Relationship with McClellan
‑MacGregor
‑Meeting with Republican Senators, April 20, 1971
‑Executive Office Building [EOB]

Butterfield left at 2:32 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑15

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:32 pm and 2:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Unknown man's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑16

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:32 pm and 3:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Schedule
‑Visit to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
‑Camp David
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
‑Camp David
‑Gettysburg church
‑Timing
‑Choir
‑Cabinet

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:50 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's dinner with Stewart J.O. Alsop
‑Alsop's call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑National interest

President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
‑J. Edgar Hoover

Earth Day

President's opponents
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Dump President movement
‑Numbers

Hoover
‑Resignation
‑Enemies
‑President's enemies

President's appearance before Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
‑Significance

DAR
‑Patriotism
‑Support for President
‑Cambodia
‑Laos
‑Civic mindedness
-Appalachia
‑President's appearance

President's supporters/opponents
‑William F. Buckley's views
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations

Harvard committee
‑Study of People's Republic of China [PRC] policy
‑Congratulatory letter to President

Kissinger's relations with Alsop
‑Society people

Republican conservatives
-Middle America
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Ronald W. Reagan
‑President
-Political orientation
‑Goldwater and Reagan
‑President's speech, October 7, 1971

Issues
‑Spanish Civil War
‑Chiang Kai‑Shek
‑Fidel Castro
‑Quemoy & Matsu
‑National Defense
‑Antiballisitic Missiles [ABM]
‑Liberals
‑Communists
‑Leftists
‑Communists
‑Clifford M. Case, Richard S. Schweiker, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
‑Interpretation of world

National defense
‑US missile capacity
-ABM sites
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Soviet missile capacity
‑Liberals
‑Outlook
‑Cuban missile crisis
‑Liberals
-Support for John F. Kennedy
‑Harvard University faculty
‑George B. Kistiakowsky's call to Kissinger
‑Harvard reaction
‑Laos
‑US withdrawal
‑Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
‑President's press conference, March 4, 1971
‑US casualties
‑Vietnam
‑Firebase 6
‑Liberals
‑South Vietnamese military operations
-US air support
-Success
-North Vietnamese reaction

Kissinger's lunch with Benjamin C. Bradlee

George H.W. Bush's meeting with Newsweek editors, April 5, 1971
‑President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
‑Bradlee
‑Opposition to US policy regarding Vietnam, Laos
‑Osborn Elliott
‑Robert C. Christopher

Kissinger's conversation with Bradlee
‑Press correspondents in Vietnam
‑Liaisons
‑Saigon
‑Money
‑Liaisons

‑Press briefings
‑Anecdote
‑Unknown correspondent's activities

Press
‑Newsweek
‑President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
‑Christopher
‑Newsweek
‑Time
‑Newsweek
‑Democratic left

Alsop's column, April 19, 1971
‑President and the Democrats
‑President's prospects
‑PRC
‑Democrats' program
‑SALT
‑Defense
‑Vietnam
‑Alternatives

President's 1972 reelection prospects
‑Democrats' reaction
‑1968 election
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Possible effect on Democrats
‑Effect on entrenched bureaucracy
-President=s trip

State Department
‑William P. Rogers
‑Bureaucracy
‑Ivy League

Health Education and Welfare [HEW]
‑Entrenched Democrats

Bureaucracy
‑Democrats
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Republicans
‑Democrats
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt
‑New Deal
‑1972 elections
‑President's possible victory
‑1976 elections
‑Purge
‑Democrats
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Liberal Republicans
‑Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
‑Trip to Laos

President's reelection prospects

Kissinger left at 3:03 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑17

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  3:03 pm ‑ 3:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz.

International Telephone and Telegram [ITT] case
-Richard S. McLaren
-John N. Mitchell
-McLaren
-Grinnell case
-Conglomerates
-Lyndon B. Johnson administration

[Transcript #1:  A transcript of the following portion of the conversation was initially prepared for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force [WSPF] and can be found in Record Group [RG] 460.  The Nixon Presidential Materials Staff has reviewed the transcript and has made changes as necessary.  This transcript has been reviewed under the provisions of the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act of 1974 [PRMPA].  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

The President talked with the White House operator at 3:04 pm, during the transcribed portion.

[Conversation No. 482‑17A]

[See Conversation No. 2‑1]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with Richard G. Kleindienst between 3:04 pm and 3:09 pm, during the transcribed portion.

[Conversation No. 482‑17B]

[See Conversation No. 2‑2]

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:03 pm, during the transcribed portion.

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:34 pm, during the transcribed portion.

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 3:34 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑18

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  3:34 pm ‑ 3:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

[A transcript of the following portion of the conversation was initially prepared for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force [WSPF] and can be found in Record Group [RG] 460.  The Nixon Presidential Materials Staff has reviewed the transcript and has made changes as necessary.  This transcript has been reviewed under the provisions of the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act of 1974 [PRMPA].  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Bull left at 3:35 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑19

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  3:35 pm ‑ 3:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert A. Taft, Jr., John E. Nidecker, Mrs. Preston Davie, Jeremiah Milbank, Jr., Ross Reid, Thomas W. Evans, Henry Catto, Jr., and Mrs. Catto, Adelaide M. Dempsey, Marion J. Epley III, Robert L. Garner, Edward J. Gerrity, Jr., E. Frederic Morrow, William Wood Prince, Dr. Louis L. Rader, Richard M. Scaife, George M. Steinbrenner III, Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, Arthur E. Summerfield, Dr. W. Allen Wallis, David K. Wilson and Marilyn Chelstrom; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

[General Conversation]

Presentation of award to President

[General Conversation]

Award to President
-Robert A. Taft Institute of Government
‑Certificate

Robert A. Taft, Sr.
‑Service in Senate
‑Robert Taft, Jr.
‑Loyal opposition

‑Qualities
-Two party system
‑Unpopular causes
‑1950 campaign
‑Taft‑Hartley act
‑Unions
‑Service to country
‑Robert, Jr.
‑Leader of Republicans
‑Principles of government
‑Taft Institute of Government
‑Teachers
‑Two‑party system
-Loyal opposition

Photo session
‑Rose Garden

Distribution of gifts
‑Presidential cuff links
‑Presidential seal and bow
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
‑White carpet
-Seal and bow

Rose Garden
‑Spring
‑Tulips
‑Crab apple trees

[General conversation]

The President, Taft, et al. left at 3:47 pm.

Conversation No. 482-30

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:47 pm and 3:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown Secret Service agents (?) talked at an unknown time after 3:47 pm.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Agency Policy]
[Duration:  3s  ]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:47 pm.

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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President=s location

[End of telephone conversation]

Unknown instruction

Sanchez

Unknown persons and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:49 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑20

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:49 pm and 3:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑Meeting with John L. McClellan
‑Kenneth E. BeLieu and Clark MacGregor

Bull left at 3:52 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑21

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  3:52 pm ‑ 4:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Haldeman's conversation with William P. Rogers regarding Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
‑William H. Sullivan
‑McCloskey's charges
-Validity
‑Sullivan meeting with McCloskey
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy hearings, April 22, 1971
‑Rogers
‑Sullivan
‑G. McMurtrie Godley
‑Air Force
‑Rogers's upcoming press conference
‑Godley
‑Henry A. Byroade and William J. Porter
‑Shift
‑Byroade
‑Personal life

‑Qualifications
‑Relations with Rogers
‑Porter
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Personal life

President's conversation with George P. Shultz
‑Donald E. McLarnan
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Discipline in bureaucracy
‑Removals from office
‑White House
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
‑Agencies
‑Disloyalty
‑McLarnan
‑Frederic V. Malek
‑Disloyalty

International Telephone and Telegram [ITT] anti‑trust case
‑Ehrlichman
‑Richard G. Kleindienst, John N. Mitchell
‑Richard W. McLaren
‑McLaren
‑Resignation
‑Mitchell
‑Loyalty

United Nations [UN] staff
‑Charles W. Yost
‑Removal
‑George H.W. Bush
‑Appointees
‑Study
-Timing
‑Possible removals
‑Supporters of Yost
‑Bush
‑Bush

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  6s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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‑State Department
‑Removal of Yost's associates
‑Rogers
‑Byroade
‑Yost
‑Bush
‑Removals
‑Yost's State Department associates

McLaren
‑Resignation
‑Mitchell
‑Kleindienst
‑Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
‑Kleindienst
‑President's role
‑Staff's role

Haldeman's conversation with Daniel P. (APatrick@) Moynihan
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Harvard University

[Transcript #1:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

‑J. Edgar Hoover

Stephen B. Bull entered at unknown time after 3:52 pm.

President's schedule
‑John L. McClellan

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:05 pm.

Haldeman's conversation with Moynihan
‑Moynihan's optimism
‑Harvard
‑Speeches
‑Ideas
‑Support for President
‑Democrat support for President
‑John B. Connally

Cabinet resignations
‑Rogers
‑John A. Volpe
‑Rogers
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Timing
-1972 election

President's conversation with Shultz
‑Removal of McLarnan
-Timing
‑Publicity
‑Demotion

Discipline of bureaucracy
‑Office of Management and Budget [OMB] and Cabinet
‑Connally's view
‑Administrations position
‑Walter J. Hickel
‑Unknown man
‑Robert H. Finch
‑Yost
‑[Forename unknown] Long
‑Alain C. Enthoven
‑Dr. Lee A. DuBridge
‑Cabinet

‑Volpe
‑DuBridge
‑McLaren
‑Mitchell
‑Removal

Haldeman left at 4:05 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑22

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  4:07 pm ‑ 4:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John L. McClellan, Clark MacGregor, and Kenneth E. BeLieu; the White House photographer was present at the beginning and end of the meeting.

Greetings
‑Arkansas
‑Seating
‑Photo

[General conversation]

BeLieu

Staff

Agenda
-Senate Government Operations Committee

National defense
‑McClellan's support for President

Attacks on President
‑Effect
‑Armed Services
‑Police
‑Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]
‑Press

-Vietnam
‑Politics
‑Vote on Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Robert P. Griffin
‑Lack of support for President from Republicans
‑Politicians
‑Economy
‑Confidence in FBI

FBI
‑Mission
‑Attacks on J. Edgar Hoover
‑Criticism
-@National gestapo@
‑Number of wiretaps
‑Destruction of confidence
‑Protection

National defense
‑Soviet Union [USSR] Intercontinental Ballistic Missile [ICBM] program
‑Nuclear submarines
‑Negotiations
‑US defenses
‑World safety
‑McClellan's appearance at University of Arkansas
-Questions posed
‑Disarmament
‑Dangers
‑Unilateral disarmament
-Ecological consequences
-Conversion of weapons
‑USSR
‑ICBM's
-Numbers compared to US
‑Nuclear submarines
-Timing of parity
‑Conventional sea & air
‑Offensive weapons
-Possible freeze on defensive weapons
‑First strike capability
‑US position
-Analogy to football
‑Negotiations

‑Prospects
‑Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
‑Effectiveness for money spent
‑Pentagon
‑Cost accounting
‑Robert S. Mcnamara
‑Congressional oversight
‑Need for strength
-Diplomacy conditions
‑Germany
‑Britain
‑France
‑Germany
‑Economy
‑Asia
‑Japan
‑Economy
‑PRC
‑Credibility of US nuclear deterrent
‑Germany and Japan
‑Questioning
‑Japan/PRC
‑Pacific
-Long term prospects
‑Germany
‑Europe
‑US position in world
‑USSR
‑Japan
‑Germany
‑US nuclear credibility
‑USSR
‑Diplomacy/war

Vietnam
‑John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
‑President
‑McClellan's appearance at University of Arkansas
‑Withdrawal
‑Johnson
‑Lack of support for President from Republicans

SST
‑Vote
‑Lack of understanding
‑Competition

US merchant marine
‑Ocean‑going cargo
-Percentage of share since 1947

Aviation
‑SST
‑US position in world

Steel industry
‑Labor negotiations
‑Wages
‑Efficiency
‑Decline in world market
‑US production
‑Japan
‑Japanese production

US merchant marine

Steel

Textiles

SST
‑US position in commercial aviation

US position in world
‑Goals
‑Frustrations
‑Japan
‑Germany
‑Great Britain/France
‑PRC/USSR
-Quality of systems
-Subsidies
‑Clean‑up of ghettos
-Need for production

Congress
‑McClellan's support for President
‑Partisanship
‑Robert J. Dole
‑House Republicans
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑Senate Republicans
‑Richard S. Schweiker
‑Lack of support for President
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Effectiveness
‑Griffin

President's schedule
‑Project
‑Trip to Williamsburg
-Photograph
‑Dedication of project in Tulsa
‑Arkansas River navigation project
-McClellan-Kerr navigation project
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Ceremony
‑Value

Economy of Arkansas
‑Optimism
‑Trade potential
‑Natural gas
‑Federal Power Commission [FPC]
-Arkansas [River?] Gas Company
‑Chairman
‑[John N. Nassikas]
‑Peter M. Flanigan

Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB]
‑Unknown airline company
‑Secor D. Browne

Independent agencies
‑FPC
‑Decisions
‑Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
‑Cable systems

‑Copyright bill
‑Section III
‑Cable systems
-Commerce committee
‑Regulations
‑Dean Burch
‑Nicholas Johnson
‑Staff
‑President's conversation with Burch
‑FPC
‑Flanigan's possible conversation with McClellan
‑Natural gas case
‑Flanigan
‑FPC
‑MacGregor's possible conversation with Flanigan
‑Arkansas River navigation project
‑Importance
‑Corps of Engineers
‑President's schedule
-Possible visit and speech

New Democrat Senators
‑Vote on SST
‑Lawton M. Chiles, Jr. 
‑David H. Gambrell
‑Richard B. Russell and Spessard L. Holland
‑Chiles
‑Gambrell
‑Lockheed

Space program
‑US leadership
-Exploration
‑USSR

Defense budget
‑Prospects
‑US position
‑USSR
‑Negotiations

President's reorganization plan
‑Government Operations Committee
‑John B. Connally
‑McClellan's conversation with Jacob K. Javits
-Frank E. Moss
‑Charles H. Percy's activities
-White House
‑Hearings
‑Democrats
‑Abraham A. Ribicoff
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
‑Wilbur D. Mills

State compact bill
‑Hearings
‑Schedule
‑Prospects

McClellan's career
‑Senate
‑Judgeship
‑Arkansas
‑Senate
‑Allen J. Ellender
‑George D. Aiken
‑James O. Eastland
‑Mississippi

Eastland
‑Performance
‑John N. Mitchell's views
‑Republicans
-View of colleagues
-Judiciary committee
‑Anecdote

Supreme Court
‑Harry A. Blackmun
‑McClellan's initiatives
‑The Sequoia
‑Relationship with Warren E. Burger
-@Minnesota Twins@
‑Hugo L. Black

‑John M. Harlan
‑Black
‑Vacancy
‑Permissiveness
‑Moral standards
‑Decisions

McClellan, MacGregor, and BeLieu
‑Schedule
‑President's accessibility
‑Percy

Bill‑signing
‑Photo
‑Mrs. John L. McClellan
-Manolo Sanchez
‑Date
-Arkansas River navigation project
-Government partnership
-Navigation and conservation
-Fish and Wildlife

[Photo session]

Farewells
‑President's regards to Mrs. McClellan

Presentation of gifts by President
‑Cuff links
-Paper weights

McClellan, MacGregor, and BeLieu left at 4:53 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑23

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  4:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Schedule

The unknown person left at 4:54 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑24

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  4:54 pm ‑ 5:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR] appearance
‑Attire for women
‑Black tie

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:54 pm.

‑Attire for women
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.

President's meeting with John L. McClellan
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Senate
‑Attacks on President
‑Defenders
‑Robert J. Dole
‑Southern Democrats

‑Republicans
‑Enemies/friends
‑Barry M. Goldwater

Silent majority
‑Evidence
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Possible attacks on Senate "doves"
‑Defense of President
‑Dole
‑Agnew
‑Possible initiatives
-Television

President meeting with McClellan
‑Dump Agnew movement
‑President
‑President's Democrat opponents
‑Staff
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑George P. Shultz
‑Partisanship

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:54 pm.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with James D. Hodgson

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.

John B. Connally

United Nations [UN] staff appointees
‑George H.W. Bush
‑Charles W. Yost
‑Removal
‑Frederic V. Malek
‑Publicity
‑Loyalty

Discipline within administration
‑Shultz
‑Views on personnel management

‑Politics
‑Yost
‑Walter J. Hickel
‑Charles E. Goodell
‑MacGregor
‑Senate
‑William E. Brock, III
‑Speakers

Haldeman=s conversation with Daniel P. (APatrick@) Moynihan
-Economy
‑Stock market

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:54 pm.

President's schedule
‑Hodgson

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.

Moynihan
‑Vietnam

Hodgson and Bull entered at 5:03 pm.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with AFL‑CIO Building & Construction Trades members
‑Rose Garden

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

‑Length of meeting
‑DAR appearance
‑Meeting with AFL‑CIO members
‑Length of meeting
‑Rose Garden
‑Agenda
‑Hodgson's possible remarks
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Issues
‑Davis‑Bacon act

President, Haldeman, and Hodgson left at 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑25

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  6:09 pm ‑ 6:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr..

Haig's meeting with Allen J. Ellender
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Israeli‑Egyptian negotiations
‑William P. Rogers
‑Suez Canal
‑Israeli withdrawal
‑State Department position
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Israeli position
‑State Department
‑Possible Egyptian response
‑President's possible role
‑Israel
‑Kissinger
‑Rogers
‑President's possible position
‑Egyptians

Haig left at 6:11 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑26

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  6:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Charles W. Colson
‑Location
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Bull left at 6:12 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑27

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  6:12 pm ‑ 6:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
‑Residence

Sanchez left at 6:12 pm.

Stock market
‑Rise
‑Shares

President's meeting with AFL‑CIO Building & Construction Trades members
‑Support for President
‑Businessmen
‑Support for President in national defense

Schedule
‑Clifford M. Hardin and Gen. George A. Lincoln
‑Trip to Texas
‑John B. Connally
‑President's upcoming meeting with Jaycees, April 20, 1971
‑Press coverage
‑Resolution regarding Southeast Asia
‑State Dining Room
‑Press coverage
‑Duration
‑Presentation
‑Remarks

‑Press coverage
‑Farm story
‑Red Cross
‑Prisoners of war [POWs]

Charles W. Colson entered at 6:14 pm.

‑President's upcoming meeting with Jaycees
‑Photographic coverage
‑Resolution
‑Press coverage
‑Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
‑Press
‑Cameras

President's meeting with AFL‑CIO hardhats
‑Support for President's national defense policy
-Convention reaction
‑Publicity
‑Davis‑Bacon Act
‑Support for President's Vietnam policy
‑Cabinet

[Transcript #1:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

President's meeting with John L. McClellan
‑Senate Republicans
‑Defense of President
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Opponents of President
‑Clark MacGregor and Kenneth E. BeLieu
‑Possible administration response
‑Southern Democrats
‑Senate Republicans
‑Stories
‑Articulate spokesman

National mood
-Economy
‑Vietnam
‑People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑Republicans
‑Caution
‑Democrats
‑Demagoguery

Mrs. Paul W. Heatwole
-Donor of knitted flag
‑Age
‑John O. Marsh, Jr.
‑Child

Unknown woman donor of President's seal

President's schedule
‑Senate loyalists, April 20, 1971
‑John G. Tower
‑Henry L. Bellmon
‑Robert J. Dole
‑Clifford Hansen
‑Howard H. Baker, Jr.
‑William E. Brock, III
‑Republicans' meetings with President
‑Need for positive attitude
‑Compared with McClellan
‑Complaints
-Possible reasons
‑MacGregor
‑House Republican loyalists, April 22, 1971
‑Revenue sharing group

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  34s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Democrats
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Maine sugar plant
‑Development Administration
‑Loans
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Clark Mollenhoff

National issues
‑Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. case
‑President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
‑PRC
‑Economy
‑Democrats
‑Confidence
‑Press
‑Daniel P. (APatrick@) Moynihan's view
‑Problems
‑Optimism
‑Good news
‑Media
‑Moynihan's view
‑Administration's possible activities

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 6:14 pm.

William P. Rogers' call to President

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 6:32 pm.

President's schedule
‑Return call to Rogers

The President, Haldeman, and Colson left at 6:32 pm.

Conversation No. 482‑28

Date:  April 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:32 pm and 9:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) entered.

President's schedule
‑Executive Office Building [EOB]
‑Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]

The conversation with cut off at an unknown time before 9:24 pm.