Conversation No. 483‑1

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:55 am and 7:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 7:57 am.

Conversation No. 483‑2

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:55 am and 8:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger
‑Location

Bull left and H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 7:57 am.

Economists
-Stock market predictions
-[Paul A. Samuelson and Walter W. Heller]

Editorial opinion
‑Possible administration study
-Lyndon K. (AMort@) Allin
‑Stock market
-Figures
‑Letter
-Retraction

William P. Rogers
‑Call to the President, April 19, 1971
‑Meeting with the President

Bull entered at an unknown time after 7:57 pm

Kissinger
‑Location
‑Rogers= possible visit to Eastern Europe

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:06 am.

‑Itinerary
‑Israel
‑Egypt
‑Possible press conference
‑Schedule
‑William H. Sullivan
Hearing, April 21, 1971
‑Vietnam
‑Press Conference
‑Laos
‑Administration initiatives

Reorganization
‑Gen. George A. Lincoln
‑George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman
‑Need for politician
‑Publicity regarding disasters
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
‑Deputy director Darrell M. Trent
‑Trent
‑National Security Council [NSC]
‑John B. Connally

Appointments/resignations
‑Holdovers within government
‑President's options regarding appointments
‑Schedule C
‑Possible resignations
-Timing
‑Exemptions

‑J. Edgar Hoover
-Richard M. Helms
‑Stanley R. Resor
‑Barry J. Shillito
‑Holdover list
‑Evaluation
‑Criteria
‑Support for the President

Support for the President
‑White House staff
‑Maj. Gen. James D. (ADon@) Hughes
‑Connally
‑Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
‑Connally
‑John L. McClellan
‑Lack of support among Republicans
‑Charles W. Yost

Bull entered at an unknown time after 7:57 am.

The President's schedule
‑Republican Congressional leadership meeting
‑Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:06 am.

United Nations [UN] staff
‑George H.W. Bush
‑Loyalty to the President
‑Yost's colleagues
‑Need for reorganization

Kissinger's relations with John A. Scali
‑President's forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
‑Scali's role

President's schedule, April 22, 1971
‑Meeting with Connally

Texas disaster
‑Instruction for Connally
‑Clifford M. Hardin and Lincoln

Personnel
-Possible removal
‑Bureau of Indian affairs
‑Bonnie Greene (sp?)
‑Ehrlichman
-President=s instructions
-Possible removal 
-Timing
‑Ehrlichman
‑California earthquake
‑[Donald E. McLarnan]

The President's schedule
‑Republican Congressional leadership meeting

Personnel
-Possible removals
-Official
‑Congress
‑Party affiliation
‑Removal
‑John R. Price, Jr.

The President and Haldeman left at 8:06 am.

Conversation No. 483‑3

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:06 am and 9:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) met.

[Unintelligible]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 9:46 am.

Conversation No. 483‑4

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  9:46 am ‑ 11:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with agricultural editors
‑Possible remarks
‑Press interviews

The President's press interviews
‑Remarks
‑Staff preparations
‑Des Moines
‑Future preparations

The President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with agricultural editors
‑Welcome
‑Remarks
‑Television cameras
‑Agriculture
‑Importance
‑Press coverage
‑Speech
‑Advantages
‑Upcoming meeting with International Red Cross committee
‑Upcoming meeting with US Jaycees officials
‑Resolution
‑Presentation
-Story

William P. Rogers
‑Press conference
‑Timing
‑Announcement
‑William H. Sullivan
‑Testimony
‑Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.

‑Timing
‑Administration's possible position
‑Testimony regarding war powers
‑Schedule
‑Trip to Israel and Egypt
‑Publicity
‑Press conference
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Middle East
‑Press conference
‑Timing

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's press interview at Williamsburg, April 19, 1971
‑Reporters
‑Kissinger
‑Schedule
‑Meeting with Israeli official
-Deputy Prime Minister
-Suez Canal
‑Reporters
‑New York Times
‑Los Angeles Times
‑Washington Post
‑St. Louis Post‑Dispatch
‑Los Angeles Times
-Conversation with reporters
-Timing
-Williamsburg Lodge
-Duration
‑Aides
‑Victor Gold
‑Roy Goodearle
‑Peter Malatesta
‑Malatesta
‑John A. Scali's view
‑Administration's policy regarding People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Calculated leak versus discondant policy
‑Conservatives
-Possible confusion
‑Policy regarding PRC

-Agnew=s lack of information
‑Gold's call to Herbert G. Klein, April 19, 1971
‑Haldeman's conversation with Klein
‑Los Angeles Times

Lighting of buildings around White House
‑Constitution Hall
‑Red Cross
‑Pan American Union
‑Corcoran Gallery

Corcoran Gallery
‑Red exterior design
‑Leonard Garment
‑Modern art
‑Abstracts
‑Modern art
‑Kissinger's paintings
‑Corcoran
‑Exterior design
‑Los Angeles County museum
‑Metal structures in court yard
‑Corcoran structure

Lighting of buildings around White House
‑Constitution Hall
‑Red Cross
‑Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
‑Pan American Union
‑DAR
‑Finances
‑National Symphony
‑Kennedy Center
‑Fees
‑Prospects
‑Capitol police
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon's views

Agnew's press interview at Williamsburg
‑Haldeman's possible conversation with Scali
‑Scali's view regarding the President's PRC initiative
‑Effect on Vietnam critics
‑Asia

-Peace
‑Circumstances
‑Reporters
‑Congressional campaign
‑PRC reference
‑Discussion on press
‑Gold
‑Judgement
‑Associated Press [AP] reporter's [John Roderick] story on PRC ping‑ pong team

PRC
‑Agnew's view
-Ping-pong team
-Use of second string team
‑Art
‑Food
‑Use of second string team

The President's schedule
‑Harry S. Dent
‑Robert H. Finch

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[Privacy]
[Duration:  41s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15

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Personnel

UN staff
‑[Charles W. Yost]
‑George H.W. Bush
‑Removal

Stock market
‑Publicity
‑Rise
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Associated Press [AP] reporter [Dave Burke]
‑View towards administration
‑Washington Post
‑New York Times
‑Washington Post compared with New York Times
‑[Burke]
‑Instructions for Klein
‑Ethnic background
‑Unknown AP reporter in Laos
‑Klein
‑Lyndon K. ("Mort") Allin
‑[Burke]

Agnew's press interview at Williamsburg
‑Scali's analysis

Stock market
‑Rise
‑Value of stocks traded

The President's previous meeting with Republican Congressional leadership
‑Attendees
‑George P. Shultz
‑Topics
‑Draft
‑Agency for International Development [AID]
‑Topics for future meetings
‑Clark MacGregor

The President's schedule, April 21, 1971
‑Bipartisan leaders meeting
‑AID
‑State Department

AID
‑Rudolph A. Peterson
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Public relations aspects

United Nations [UN] commission report
‑Henry Cabot Lodge
‑Release
‑Timing
‑Publicity
‑President's meeting with Lodge and committee

‑President's position
‑Lodge
‑State Department
‑Lodge
‑Possible reassignment to Southeast Asia
‑Report
‑President's position

President's schedule
‑Israel
‑Kissinger

UN commission report
‑Release
‑President's position

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Kissinger

Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 9:46 am and 10:13 am.

[Conversation No. 483‑4A]

Request that Kissinger join him

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:46 am.

Kissinger's schedule

The President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with agricultural editors
‑Press
‑Upcoming meeting with International Red Cross officials
‑Photo

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

Agnew's press interview in Williamsburg
‑Bryce N. Harlow
‑Judgement
‑Remarks regarding PRC
‑Reporters
‑Circumstances

Kissinger entered at 10:13 am.

Rogers
‑Conversation with the President
‑Trip to Middle East
‑Invitation
‑Timing
‑Itinerary
‑Europe
-Middle East

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[National Security]
[Duration:  15s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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‑Trip to Middle East

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[Privacy]
[Duration:  3s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16

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‑Conversation with the President, April 19, 1971
‑Itinerary
‑Israel
‑Jordan
‑Egypt
‑Administration's Position

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
[National Security]
[Duration:  3s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17

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‑Joseph J. Sisco
-Invitations
‑Suez negotiations

Israeli‑Egyptian conflict
‑Suez negotiations
‑Sisco
‑US policy
‑Sisco

‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Suez negotiations
‑Possible Israeli position
‑Kissinger's initiatives
‑Egyptian reaction
‑Possible deadlock
‑Administration's initiative
‑State Department
‑President's conversation with Rogers
‑Suez negotiations
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Israelis
-Rogers plan

Rogers
‑Itinerary
‑Israel
‑Reception
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Dobrynin
‑Andrei Gromyko
‑Possible Summit
‑National Security Council [NSC] meeting

Sisco

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18
[National Security]
[Duration:  14s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18

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Rogers
‑Possible visit to USSR
‑Gromyko
‑Dobrynin
‑President's position
-Dobrynin

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19
[National Security]
[Duration:  4s  ]

USSR

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19

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‑Suez negotiations
‑Prospects
‑Israel
‑Kissinger
‑US policy

USSR
‑Possible summit meeting

US-Israeli relations

Agnew's press interview at Williamsburg, April 19, 1971
‑Story recounted
-Unknown reporter
‑Time of meeting
‑Topics
‑Press
‑Campaign
‑Duration
‑Remarks on PRC

‑Possible effects
‑Administration's position
‑Scali's memorandum
-Calculated leak versus discordant policy
‑Vietnam
‑Conservatives
-Possible confusion
‑Possible administration reaction
‑Haldeman's conversation with Klein
‑Klein's view regarding Kissinger's role
‑Difficulties
‑Possible statement by Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Press
‑Stories
‑Reporters
‑Drinks
-Possible scenario
‑Agnew and Gold
‑Agnew, Goodearle, and Malatesta
‑Press
‑Off‑the‑record remarks
‑Kissinger's possible briefing
‑Vice President and foreign policy views
‑NSC
‑Agnew's possible statement to press
‑Ziegler's possible statement

Ziegler entered at 10:25 am.

The President's PRC initiative
‑Ziegler's conversation with Agnew at previous Republican leadership meeting
-Ziegler=s press conference
-Comments
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑Ford
-Ziegler=s background
‑Press
‑President's position
‑Ziegler's statement at press conference
-Agnew=s support of US policy
‑Expressions of news in NSC meetings
-Agnew=s role
‑Policy regarding PRC

-Ziegler=s conversation with Agnew
‑Agnew's position
‑Possible PRC reaction
‑The right
‑US Public opinion
‑Liberals

Ziegler's activities
‑Press briefing
‑Republican leadership meeting
‑Ford
‑Hugh Scott
‑McCloskey
-Joseph McCarthy
‑Economy

The President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with agricultural editors

Agnew
‑Foreign policy views
‑President's position
‑Ziegler's possible press statement

PRC initiative
‑Opposition tactics
‑Agnew

Agnew's press interview at Williamsburg
‑Ziegler's conversation with Gold
‑Remarks regarding PRC
‑Circumstances
‑Gold

Ziegler left at 10:32 am.

President's PRC initiative
‑Agnew Briefing
‑Haig
‑Agnew's views
-Judgement
‑USSR
‑Chiang Kai‑Shek

‑Taiwan
‑USSR
‑Agnew
‑Foreign Visits
‑Taiwan
‑Korea
‑Taiwan
‑William F. Knowland
‑Chaing Kai‑Shek
‑President's policy
‑Agnew
‑Recognition of PRC
‑Admission of PRC to UN
‑Trade
‑Taiwan
‑Henry Kearns
‑Conversation with Chiang Ching‑Kuo
-News story
‑Hubert H. Humphrey

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20
[National Security]
[Duration:  7s  ]

PRC

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20

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‑US bureaucracy
‑Possible discussions with PRC
‑Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
‑Kissinger's possible initiatives
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield possible visit to PRC
‑Nicolae Ceausescu
‑Walters

‑Senators
‑Mansfield
‑Ceausescu
‑Kissinger's forthcoming activities
‑North Vietnamese
‑Vietnam negotiations
‑Kissinger
‑PRC
‑Walters
‑US/PRC discussions
‑Contact with President
‑Warsaw

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 21
[National Security]
[Duration:  10s  ]

PRC

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 21

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‑Jean Sainteny
‑Georges Pompidou
‑Walters
‑PRC emissaries
‑State Department
‑Kissinger's possible initiatives
-Possible contact
‑Agnew
‑Development/preparation
‑President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971

Agnew's press interview
‑Publicity
‑Knowledge of foreign policy
-Possible impact on Agnew

McCloskey
‑Testimony
-Timing
‑Scali
‑MacGregor
‑Sullivan
‑Testimony
‑Rogers's upcoming press conference
‑Laos and Vietnam
‑Administration's position
‑Rogers
‑Schedule

Rogers
‑Middle East visit
‑Israeli/Egyptian conflict
‑Press conference
‑Laos and Vietnam

Kissinger left at 10:40 am.

Kissinger's schedule
‑Laos
‑Scali

Monday night dinners
‑Haldeman, Kissinger, John D. Ehrlichman, and Shultz
‑Informal discussions
‑Time
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Shultz
‑Loyalty
‑Peterson
‑Staff attendance
‑MacGregor
‑Ziegler
‑Peterson
‑Area

‑Location
‑Shultz, Ehrlichman, and Kissinger
‑Morning staff meetings
‑Kissinger

Rogers
‑Middle East visit
‑Conversation with the President
‑Invitations
‑Kissinger's view
‑Prospects
‑Kissinger's view
‑Israel
-Credit
‑Visit to USSR
‑Middle East visit
‑Previous conversation with Haldeman
‑Itinerary
‑Israel and Egypt
‑Jordan
‑Saudi Arabia
‑Turkey
‑Central Treaty Organization [CENTO]
‑State Department
‑PRC
‑Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Shultz
‑White House
‑Kissinger
‑Visit to USSR
‑1970 European trip
‑Publicity
‑Visit to USSR
‑Summit
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Dobrynin

Middle East
‑Kissinger's reaction
‑Possible motivation
-Credit
‑NSC
‑Rogers

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Republican Congressional leadership

Scott
‑Defense of McCloskey

McCloskey
‑Ford
‑Peter H. Dominick
‑William B. Saxbe
‑Dominick
‑MacGregor

White House Youth Conference, Estes Park, April 16, 1971
‑Weather
‑News story
‑President's resignation
‑Weather
‑President's possible attendance

The President's appearance at DAR, April 19, 1971
‑Support for the President
‑DAR women
‑Appearance
‑Presidential appearance

The President's speeches
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Anecdotes
-Personal and other
‑Importance
‑William L. Safire
‑Upcoming speech
-US Chamber of Commerce, April 26, 1971

The President's address at DAR
‑Anecdote
-American flag
‑Prose
‑Story

Stories
‑Importance

-Type
-Historical
-Biblical
-Biographical
‑Speech writers
‑John K. Andrews, Jr.
‑Price
-Safire
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Unknown

President's address at DAR and at Republican governor=s conference
‑Extemporaneous remarks

Kissinger
‑Work habits

Agnew's press interview at Williamsburg
‑Remarks regarding NSC meeting
‑Attendance at NSC meetings
‑Remarks regarding NSC meeting
‑Press story
‑PRC policy
-Opening
-Two China policy
‑Press story
-Quoted

Agnew
‑Position within administration
‑Behavior
‑Beliefs
‑Press
‑PRC policy

The President's forthcoming meeting with US Jaycees officials
‑Handshakes
‑Presentation of resolution
‑Remarks
‑1970 convention

Agnew
‑Staff

The President as Vice President
‑Staff
‑Robert L. King
‑Robert Ladd
‑Christian A. Herter

Agnew
‑Staff
‑Malatesta
‑Goodearle
‑Relationship with the Vice President
‑Problem

The President's speeches
‑Preparation
‑Study
‑Ideas
‑Jaycees
‑Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
‑Whitney M. Young, Jr.
‑DAR
‑Republican Governors' Conference
‑Young
‑Television coverage
‑Nature of event
‑Chamber of Commerce
‑DAR
‑Governors
‑Mileage
‑DAR
‑Demagoguery
‑President's appearance
‑Length of speech
‑Emotion
‑Ziegler
‑Klein
‑Press reaction
‑Governors
‑Television coverage
‑Welfare reform
‑Guaranteed annual wage
‑Ehrlichman and Shultz
‑President's position

‑Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
‑Busing
‑Integration
‑Credibility
‑President's position on issues
‑Buchanan's intuitions
‑Integration
‑Busing
‑Abortion
‑Guaranteed annual income
‑Abortion
‑Ziegler

Ziegler entered at 11:03 am.

Supreme Court decision on school busing
‑Garment
‑Findings
‑Charlotte‑Mecklenburg case
‑De jure/de facto segregation
‑Pasadena case
‑Los Angeles County case
‑Garment
‑Robert C. Mardian
‑Ziegler's conversation with Richard A. Moore
‑Justice Department
‑Ziegler's possible comment
‑Administration's position
‑Parameters
‑Review by departments
‑Issue
‑Parameters
‑De jure/de facto aspects
‑De facto segregation
‑Local options
‑Court's intention

The President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with agricultural editors
‑Story
‑Statement

‑Cameras
‑Pool
-Cameras
‑Wire story

Ziegler left at 11:07 am.

‑Press
‑Meetings with groups
‑Wire coverage
‑Upcoming meeting with Jaycees
‑Wire
‑Press
‑Photo pool and reporters

Supreme Court decision on school busing
‑Charlotte‑Mecklenburg case
‑Constitutional amendment
-Freedom of choice

Agnew
‑Qualities
‑Haldeman's conversations with John B. Connally
-Pace
-Connally=s possible involvement

The President's schedule, April 22, 1971
‑Meeting with Connally

Agnew's press interview at Williamsburg
‑Statement about NSC
‑Compared with George W. Romney and John A. Volpe
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Wage and price controls
‑Vice President's responsibilities
‑Support for President

Rogers
‑Possible visit to USSR
‑Prospects
‑Gromyko
‑President's position

UN commission report

Loyalty of administration members
‑Holdovers within government
‑Resolution of doubts

Clifford M. Hardin
‑Job offer at Purdue
‑Possible acceptance
-President=s possible action

Reassignments of Cabinet posts
‑Hardin
‑Secretary of Agriculture
‑Stans
‑Secretary of Commerce
‑Hardin
‑Agriculture
‑Rogers C.B. Morton
‑Interior
‑Volpe
‑Romney
‑Hardin

The President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with agricultural editors
‑Greeting

Supreme Court decision on school busing
‑Wire story
‑Constitution
-Desegregation
‑Racial composition
‑White/black ratio system
‑Charlotte‑Mecklenburg district
‑Opinions
‑Earl Warren
‑1954 court case on segregation
‑North Carolina anti‑busing law
‑Constitutionality
‑Implementation of desegregation plans
‑De jure plans
‑Involuntary busing

‑Blacks
‑Administration's position
‑North Carolina anti‑busing law

Haldeman left at 11:15 am.

Conversation No. 483‑5

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with agricultural editors
‑Number
‑Rose Garden
-White House tour
‑Clifford M. Hardin
‑Wives
‑Gifts
‑Gerald R. Warren and Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Press

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:20 am.

Conversation No. 483‑6

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:20 am and 11:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) met.

[Unintelligible]

President's location
‑Rose Garden

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:50 am.

Conversation No. 483‑7

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  11:50 am ‑ 12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. Haldeman; this recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress.

Removal of Donald E. McLarnan
‑George P. Shultz
-Small Business Administration [SBA]
‑Thomas S. Kleppe
‑Administration appointee
‑Career status
‑Republican
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
‑Competence
‑H. Allen Smith
‑Kleppe
‑Administration's position
‑Career status
‑Kleppe's view
‑Ronald W. Reagan
-Jurisdiction

The President's previous meeting with agricultural editors
‑Washington office
‑Clifford M. Hardin

Supreme Court decision on school busing
‑Administration's response
‑Leonard Garment and Robert C. Mardian
‑Edward L. Morgan
‑Garment

‑Requirement
‑De jure case
‑Racial balance in schools
‑Quotas
‑Freedom of choice

Henry A. Kissinger
‑Concerns
‑Israel
‑William P. Rogers
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Rogers
‑Trip to Middle East
‑Kissinger's view
‑Joseph J. Sisco
‑Forthcoming announcement

President=s schedule
-The President's previous meeting with Republican Congressional leadership
‑Leslie C. Arends
‑Robert P. Griffin
‑Arends
‑Robert J. Dole
‑Gerald R. Ford
-Republican Governors Conference
-The President's meetings with legislative leaders
‑Need for optimistic tone
‑"Good news"
‑Clark MacGregor
-The President's upcoming meeting with Jaycees
‑Rose Garden
‑Special tour of White House
‑Size of group
‑President's schedule
‑Rose Garden
‑Tour
‑Cabinet Room

Supreme Court decision on busing
‑Administration's position
‑Charlotte case
‑Impact

‑The South
‑Los Angeles case
‑School district
‑Voters
‑Bonds or special tax assessment
‑Charlotte
‑Los Angeles
‑Physical problem

Department of State
-Staff
‑George H.W. Bush
-Request
‑Rogers
‑State Department
‑Bush
-Unknown man

Democrats in the White House
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
-Invitation to White House
‑Visits to White House
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Agnew
‑The President's invitation to Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Agnew

Press
‑Rogers' view regarding administration's obsession
‑Staff
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Realism
‑Delusion
‑Use
‑Work with reality
‑Agnew
‑President's position
‑Hardliners
‑Rogers' view
‑Ziegler
‑Relationship with press
‑Futility of correcting the press
‑Television network commentators

‑Dan Rather
‑Herbert E. Kaplow
‑Tom Jerrell
‑Robert Pierpoint
‑Bill Manley
‑Influence on public opinion
‑President's television appearances
‑Television commentators

Hardin
‑Replacement
‑Salesmanship in campaign
‑Rogers' view
‑Position at Purdue University
‑Tenure

The President's television appearances
‑President's conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon's view
‑Sharpness
-Timing
‑Public interest
‑Rogers
‑Press conference
-Family=s opinion
‑Forum
‑Meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
‑Robert White
‑Timing
‑CBS interview
‑Press conference
‑CBS interview
‑Audience
‑Time slot
‑Agnew
‑Pentagon
‑Press conference
‑Announcement
‑John A. Scali
‑Kissinger
‑Arms negotiations
‑Follow‑up

The President's use of radio
‑Speech
‑Youth conference
‑ASNE meeting
‑Audience

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  l9s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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‑Publicity
‑Cabinet
‑Kissinger's dinner with Katharine L. Graham

Radio
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt
‑Prize fights
‑Joe Louis
‑Adolf Hitler
‑Transmission

The President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Jaycees

Hardin

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  22s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 11:50 am.

The President's schedule
‑Stephen B. Bull

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.

The President's schedule

Earth week
‑Crowd
‑John V. Lindsay
‑March of Dimes
‑Health research
‑Press

New York
‑Rich
‑Filth
‑Unknown hotel near Pierre Hotel
‑Central Park
‑Republican headquarters
‑Edward C. Nixon
‑Prostitution
‑Prostitution
‑58th Street
‑Ed Nixon
‑Pierre Hotel
‑Plaza Hotel
‑Garbage
‑Crowds

-5th Avenue
‑Jews
‑Puerto Ricans
-Blacks
‑Jews
‑Italian policemen
‑Theatre

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:50 pm.

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with Jaycees

New York
‑Theatre

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with Jaycees
‑Presentation of plaque to the President

The President, Haldeman, and Bull left at 12:15 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑8

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:15 pm and 12:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) met.

[Unintelligible]

This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:37 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑9

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  12:37 pm ‑ 12:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President=s schedule
-The President's meeting with US Jaycees
‑Haldeman's conversation with John O. Marsh, Jr.
‑The President's talk
‑Revenue sharing
‑Need for optimistic remarks
‑Jaycees
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Media coverage
-Television

Stephen B. Bull entered and Haldeman left at 12:40 pm.

The President's schedule
‑Marcel A. Naville

Bull left at 12:40 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑10

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  12:40 pm ‑ 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger, Marcel A. Naville, and Melchior Borsinger; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

The President's previous meeting with Borsinger
‑Hungary
‑Unknown place
-Unknown occasion

Photo session
‑Seating arrangements
‑Kissinger

General conversation
‑Spring time
‑Kissinger

Work of Red Cross

Refreshments

International Red Cross activities
‑Jordan
‑Nigeria
‑Vietnam
‑South Vietnamese areas
‑Hanoi
‑Progress
-Contacts
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Thailand
‑Paris
‑North Vietnamese
‑Confidence
‑North Vietnamese view of the Red Cross
‑POW pilots
‑Possible Vietcong delegation
-PGR?
‑Geneva
‑Impartiality/neutrality
‑Vietnam
‑North Vietnam
‑Alleged atrocities in South Vietnam
‑Investigations
‑Civilian population
‑US soldiers
‑Rules and regulations

‑Code of honor
‑POWs rights
‑Protection of civilian population
‑Possible statement by the President
‑Forthcoming conference in Geneva regarding international humanitarian law
‑American experts
‑Code of honor

Laos
‑Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.'s statement on bombing of villages
‑US military activities
-Allegations of bombing villages
-Presence of North Vietnamese forces
-Numbers
‑Individual acts
‑Rules

Vietnam
‑Communist atrocities
-Decapitations
‑Starvation
‑Catholic refugees
‑Vietnamese standards
‑Inspections by International Red Cross in South Vietnam
‑US efforts/policy
‑Instructions for US soldiers
-Humaneness

Laos
‑US policy
‑Review
‑Rules of engagement
-McCloskey=s changes
‑Bombing of Civilians
-Congressional committees
-Orders and actual practice
‑Regulations for American soldiers

Anecdote
‑World War II
-German border
-Treatment of POWs
-Orders
-Restraint

Vietnam
-US POWs
-Relation to moral image of US Army
-US government
‑Kissinger's conversation with Clark MacGregor

Pakistan
‑Position toward International Red Cross

Brazil
‑Political detainees

International Red Cross
‑Visits to political detainees
‑Greece
‑Middle East
‑Israel
‑Geneva Convention on Arab civilian population
-West Bank
‑Problems
‑Improvement/adaptation of conventions
‑Present‑day conflicts
‑Need for new protocols
‑Civil wars
‑Nigeria
‑Pakistan
-Jurisdiction
‑International war
-Civil war
‑Staffing
‑Geneva
‑Professionals
‑Field
‑Number
‑Problems
‑Finances

‑Costs
‑Credibility
‑Avoiding double standards
-US and Europe

Vietnam
‑Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. case
‑Trial and conviction
‑Review by the President
‑Rules of engagement
‑President's Quaker background
‑Convictions of soldiers
-Publicity of Calley case
‑U Thant's attitude

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:40 pm.

The President's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:10 pm.

International Red Cross
‑Vietnam
-Balance
‑Atrocities
‑POW situation
‑South Vietnamese
‑North Vietnamese POWs
‑Possible US position regarding POWs
-Possible trade
-Unilateral releasee

Farewells
‑Naville's role

Kissinger, Naville, and Borsinger left at 1:10 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑11

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  1:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man at 1:11 pm.

Schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger

The unknown man left at 1:11 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑12

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  1:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at 1:11 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑13

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  1:12 pm ‑ 1:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's meeting with International Red Cross
‑Marcel Naville
‑Naville's message to the President
-Clark MacGregor
‑Translation from French
‑Behavior of American soldiers
‑North Vietnamese
‑Humaneness
‑Naville's possible action
-Geneva
-State Department
‑North Vietnamese
‑Single standard
‑U Thant
‑Internationals
‑Attitude Towards US
‑President's position
‑Union of Soviet Republics [USSR]
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑North Vietnamese
‑USSR
‑Hungary
‑East Germany
‑Czechoslovakia
‑Poland
‑Possible North Vietnamese message to Naville

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SWITZERLAND

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‑Kissinger's conversation with Naville
‑US soldiers
-Neutrality

American people
‑Leadership group

The President=s schedule
-The President's meeting with Republican legislative Congress leaders
‑Hard‑hats
‑Bureaucracy

The President's previous meeting with International Red Cross
‑Prosecution of offenses
‑North Vietnam
‑US treatment of POWs
‑South Vietnamese treatment of POWs
‑Peaceniks

Laos
‑US policy
‑William H. Sullivan
‑Congressional hearings

USSR
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's schedule

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USSR

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‑US position
‑PRC
-Elections
‑US defenses
‑Public opinion
‑Negotiations
‑PRC
‑Leonid I. Brezhnev
‑US elections
‑President's PRC initiative
‑US position
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Middle East
‑Berlin
‑Willy Brandt
‑Cambodia
‑Dobrynin

The President's meeting with International Red Cross officials
‑The President's position
‑Naville's request regarding Vietnam
‑US position
‑U Thant
‑New York Times

U.S. posture in the world
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Lyndon B. Johnson

Opponents of the President's policies
‑Peaceniks
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
‑Defense appropriations
‑View of US world role
‑Military‑industrial complex
‑Ghettos
‑World war
‑USSR
‑Nuclear danger
‑USSR
‑Future of America
‑Turn towards the right
‑George C. Wallace, Ronald W. Reagan
‑Leadership
‑Administration policies
‑PRC initiative
‑USSR
‑Swiss

The President and Kissinger left at 1:25 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑14

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:25 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown person (Secret Service agent) talked with an unknown person.

President's location

Conversation No. 483‑15

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:25 and 3:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) met.

The President's schedule

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑16

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  3:06 pm ‑ 3:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz.

Schedule
‑John B. Connally

Removal of Donald E. McLarnan
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Republican
‑Competence
‑Replacement
‑Career status
‑Possible appeal
‑Ronald W. Reagan
‑Loyalty
‑Charles W. Yost
-Vita

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‑Acquaintance of President
‑Competence

Social Security taxes
‑Issue
‑Budget
‑Wage base
‑Social Security bill
‑Wage base
-Date
‑Increase in wage base
-President=s statemnet on signing bill increasing social security benefits, March 17, 1971
‑Impact
‑Maximum
‑Deduction
‑H.R. 1
‑Alternatives
‑Committee's intent
‑Alternatives
‑Raise of wage base
‑Impact
‑1972 budget
-Revenue
‑Further increase of wage base
‑Impact
‑Tax deductions
‑Income
‑Problem
‑Opinions
‑Herbert Stein

-Murray L. Weidenbaum
‑Shultz
‑Connally
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Connally
‑Inflation
‑Budget
‑Stein
‑McCracken
‑Shultz's conversation with Arthur F. Burns
‑Budget deficits
‑Wage‑price board
-Fiscal stimulus
‑Monetary policy
-Tight
‑Economy
‑Economy
‑Consumer confidence
‑Possible administration policy
-Social Security bill
‑President's position
‑Burns
-Expanding economy versus fighting inflation

Budget
‑Fiscal Year [FY] l972/1973
‑Deficit

Economy
‑Prospects
‑Federal Reserve Board [FRB] policy
‑Burns
‑Dollar
‑Administration's policy
‑Inflation

Meetings
‑Administration's position
‑Wage and Means Committee
-FY 1973
‑Revenue
‑Congress

Shultz's upcoming talk at Chicago Economic Club, April 22, 1971
‑President's possible comments
‑Black tie
‑Schedule
‑Economic conditions
‑Slow down
‑Future perspective
‑Compared with 1954, 1958
‑Recession
‑Pessimism
‑Stock market
‑Youth
‑Lack of interest in materialism
‑Avant‑garde
‑Materialism
‑Cars
‑Radios
‑Liberals
‑Unemployment
‑Wages
‑Autos
‑Steel negotiations
‑Administration's possible position
‑Prospects
‑Price increases
‑Impact on US economy
‑Steel industry
‑Importance
‑Watershed
‑Dangers
‑Administration's concern
‑Productivity
‑Wage increase
‑United Steelworker of America [USWA]
‑Clint Hildon [sp?] and Joe Scammon
‑Rhetoric
‑Speech
‑Trade
‑US representatives abroad
‑Economic personnel
‑American private enterprise
‑President's travels abroad
‑Peter G. Peterson

‑Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
‑US economic representatives abroad
‑Compared with other countries
‑Quality
‑US business abroad

Economy
‑Wall Street
‑Confidence

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:06 pm.

President=s schedule
-Unknown apointment

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:34 pm.

‑View from Washington/New York
-Tone of rhetoric
‑Consumer psychology
‑Change
‑Improvement
‑Budget
‑Monetary policy
‑Football analogy
‑Administration policy
‑President's meeting with US Jaycees

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:06 pm.

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Clifford M. Hardin

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:34 pm.

Shultz's upcoming talk at Chicago economic club
‑Unemployment
‑Economy

Bull entered at 3:34 pm.

Schedule
‑Press corps

Bull left at 3:34 pm.

Shultz's upcoming talk at Chicago economic club
‑Unemployment
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Shultz left at 3:34 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑17

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  3:35 pm ‑ 4:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Clifford M. Hardin, General George A. Lincoln, and Peter M. Flanigan; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

[General conversation]

Texas drought
‑Oklahoma
‑George H. Mahon
‑Support
‑Robert D. Price
‑John G. Tower

Press
‑Sarah McLendon
‑Location

Texas drought
‑Political implications
‑Concern
‑Lack of rain
‑Issue
‑Hay
-Politics over economics

‑Farm act
‑Impact
‑Hay
‑Availability

Refreshments

Texas drought
‑Hay
‑Montana
‑Idaho
‑Wisconsin
-Illinois
‑Nebraska
‑Grain
‑Sheep
‑Cattle
‑President's position
‑Hay
‑Farm act
‑Crop acreage
‑Authority
‑Oklahoma
‑Precedent
-Possible disaster loans
‑South Dakota
‑Congress
‑Agriculture Department
‑Crops
‑Cost
‑Political problem
‑Land
‑Possible Congressional resolution
‑Administration's options
‑Emergency credit
‑Small Business Administration [SBA]
‑Operating loans
‑Budget
‑Congress
‑Funds
‑John B. Connally
‑Connally's view
‑Hardin and Lincoln

‑Tower's and Connally's forthcoming visit to Texas
‑Governor Preston Smith
‑Unemployment compensation
‑Migrant workers
‑Rio Grande valley
-Cost
‑Loans
‑Farmers
‑Rains
‑Problem
‑Possible disaster declaration
‑Hardin's previous conversation with Connally
‑Hardin's forthcoming conversation with Connally

The President talked with the White operator at an unknown time between 3:35 pm and 3:47 pm.

[Conversation No. 483‑17A]

[See Conversation No. 2‑7]

[End of telephone conversation]

Texas drought
‑Budget
‑Connally's recent visit to Texas
‑Rains
‑Oklahoma
‑South Texas

The President talked with Connally between 3:47 pm and 3:48 pm.

[Conversation No. 483‑17B]

[See Conversation No. 2‑8]

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Credit bill before Congress
‑Impact
‑Administration's position
‑Connally
‑Administration proposals
‑Credit bill

‑Clark MacGregor
‑Connally
‑Agriculture committees
‑Problem
‑Budget
‑Appropriated money
‑Export-Import Bank
‑MacGregor
‑Connally
‑Administration's concern
‑President's conversation with unknown agricultural editor from Texas
‑Farmers
‑Emergency funds
‑Smith
‑Oklahoma Governor David Hall
‑Schedule
‑President=s regards
‑President's scheduled visit to Oklahoma
‑Tulsa
‑Concern
‑Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben F. Barnes
‑Tower
‑Price
‑Plane for visit
‑Visit to Texas
‑Price
‑Mahon
‑Thomas J. (ATom@) Steed
-Mahon
‑W.R. Poage
‑Plane
‑Jetstar
‑Capacity
‑Size
‑Maj. Gen. James D. (ADon@) Hughes

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:48 pm and 3:54 pm.

[Conversation No. 483‑17C]

[See Conversation No. 2‑9]

[End of telephone conversation]

Schedule
‑Lincoln and Hardin

Texas drought
‑Texas and Oklahoma
‑Hardin's and Lincoln's trip to Texas
‑Mahon

The President talked with Hughes between 3:54 pm and 3:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 483‑17D]

[See Conversation No. 2‑10]

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Plane for trip
‑"970"
‑Price
‑Mahon

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and 4:04 pm.

[Conversation No. 483‑17E]

[See Conversation No. 2‑11]

[End of telephone conversation]

Clark MacGregor entered at 3:55 pm.

‑Texas drought
‑Forthcoming trip by Hardin and Lincoln
‑Press
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Number
‑Size of plane
‑Press
‑McLendon
‑Money

‑Press
‑McLendon
‑Steed
‑Plane for trip
‑Availability
‑Steed
‑Oklahoma Senators
‑Henry L. Bellmon
‑Fred R. Harris
‑Location
‑Bellmon
‑Schedule
‑Ezra Taft Benson
‑Possible invitation
‑Tower's view
‑Statements critical of the President
‑Tower
‑Text in Texas papers
‑Poage and Mahon
‑Tower
‑Benson=s criticism of administration's activities
-Lincoln=s conversation with Tower
‑Politics
‑Hardin and Lincoln's trip to Texas
‑San Antonio
‑Amarillo
‑Liberal Democrat Congressmen
‑Plane
‑Itinerary
‑Alice
‑Kingsville
-King Ranch
‑Size
‑Itinerary
‑Gonzales
‑Southern area
‑Eligio de la Garza
‑Helicopters
‑San Antonio
‑Benson
‑Connally
‑Administration's activities
‑Benson's criticism of the President

‑Disaster declaration
‑Assistance
‑Possible disaster declaration
‑Hay/grain
‑Search
‑Montana
-Possible story
‑Disaster declaration effects
‑Unemployment compensation
‑SBA loans
-Agriculture declaration
‑Limits
‑Food stamps
‑Food stamps
‑Distribution
‑Farms and ranches
‑Crops
‑Money
‑Loans
‑Unemployment
‑Agriculture Department's study
‑Administration=s possible action
‑Unemployment compensation
‑Administration's position
-Disaster declaration
‑Precedent
-Dust bowl
‑Other drought areas
‑New Mexico and Arizona
‑Southern California
‑Florida
‑Governor Reubin O. Askew
‑Dust bowl

The President talked with Mahon between 4:04 pm and 4:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 483‑17F]

[See Conversation No. 2‑12]

[End of telephone conversation]

‑President's conversation with Mahon
‑Disaster declaration
‑Rain
‑Mahon's view
‑Amarillo
‑Dryness
‑Price
‑Hardin=s and Lincoln's trip to Texas
‑Plane
‑Press
‑Department of Agriculture officials
‑Plane
‑Food
‑Flanigan
‑Agriculture
‑Flanigan

Schedule
‑Lincoln and Hardin
-Directions

Harden, Lincoln, Flanigan, and MacGregor left at 4:10 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑18

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  4:10 pm ‑ 4:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods and Ronald L. Ziegler at 4:10 pm.

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with Fred Maroon
‑Photos
‑Woods

Maroon entered at 4:12 pm.

Woods' trip
‑President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
‑Reaction
‑Radio
‑Carrol W. Orcutt
‑Reaction
‑San Clemente
‑Gift for the President

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:12 pm.

The President's gift
‑Picture

Photos

Unknown document for the President's signature

Doug Spencer

Sanchez left at unknown time before 4:14 pm.

Woods's forthcoming call to John H. Alexander
‑Joe [Surname not known]
‑Firm
‑Father
‑Joe Batchelder

Ziegler and Maroon left at 4:14 pm.

Schedule
‑John N. Mitchell

Letter for the President
‑California
‑Elmer H. Bobst
‑Unknown woman

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‑Schedule
‑Santa Monica Outlook
‑President's remarks on welfare
‑Mother
‑Welfare
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.

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The President's remarks on welfare
‑Reaction

Welfare

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:14 pm.

The President's schedule
‑Mitchell

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:19 pm.

The President's meeting with ASNE
‑Television
‑Woods's activities
‑Unknown congressman
‑Buz Jaeger
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Lee Thompson

Gift for the President
‑Pewter tray
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
‑Sanchez
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Sanchez

The President's schedule
‑Roses
‑Plane
‑California
‑Weekend

Cabinet
‑Reaction

Public mood
‑Improvement
‑Vietnam
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Woods's conversation with Elliott M. Gordon
‑First quarter

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 4:19 pm.

The President's schedule
‑Mitchell

Haldeman and Woods left at 4:19 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑19

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  4:20 pm ‑ 5:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman, John N. Mitchell, and John W. Dean, III; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Supreme Court decision on busing
‑Questions
‑Chief Justice Warren Burger
‑Administration's school aid program
‑Impact
‑Approach
-Take credit or distance administration
‑Implications
‑Local options
‑Statement

Mitchell's trip

Photo

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Supreme Court decision on school busing

Mitchell's visitors

Supreme Court decision on busing
‑Implications
‑De jure
‑Application
‑Los Angeles County case
‑De jure
-Gerrymandering
‑Unanimity
‑Burger
‑Implications
‑Racial balance
‑Necessity
‑Opinion
‑Charlotte‑Mecklenburg case
‑Incidents of racial balance
‑Walter F. Mondale
‑Abraham A. Ribicoff
‑Guidelines
‑Equity proceedings
‑Dual school systems
‑Previous decisions
‑Neighborhood schools
‑Desegregation/racial balance
‑Non‑contiguous school districts
‑Charlotte‑Mecklenburg case
‑Future impact
‑General principle
‑Resegregation
‑Washington, DC
‑Possible effect on South
‑Cities
‑Neighborhood schools
‑School districts
‑The courts
‑Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
‑National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
‑Jack Greenberg
‑Joe Brown
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Power under Title VI
‑School districts
‑Compliance under court order
‑Procedure

‑HEW "zealots"
‑Non‑contiguous districts
‑Racial balance
‑Whitten amendment
‑State legislatures
‑Racial balance

Ronald L. Ziegler was present at an unknown time after 4:20 pm.

‑Leonard Garment and Dean
‑Administration's legislative proposals
‑Possible administration statement
‑Local school board responsibility
‑Local school authorities
‑District courts
‑HEW
‑De facto segregation
‑White House involvement
‑Possible comment by the President
‑President=s view
‑Burger
‑Administration's position
-Resignation to court decision
‑Possible administration statement
-Spending for busing
-Administration=s attitude
‑Ziegler's possible statement
‑Possible wording
‑Changes
‑Local school authorities and district courts
‑Compliance with Court's mandate
‑Possible public effects
-Conveys administration=s attitude
‑Burden on local school authorities and district courts
‑Justice Department/HEW
‑Ziegler's possible statement
‑Local school district obligations
‑District Courts
‑HEW/Justice Department
‑Public interpretation
‑Compliance with the law
‑Administration's position
‑Obligation to follow law of the land

‑Local school districts and district court responsibilities
‑Ziegler's possible statement
‑Federal enforcement procedure requirements
‑HEW/Justice statutory responsibilities
-Federal role
‑Edward L. Morgan
‑HEW's responsibilities
‑Redrawing of school district lines
‑Administration's policy
‑Arguments/controversies
‑HEW's position
‑Ziegler's possible statement
-President=s view
‑President's statement March 24, 1970
‑Law of the land
‑Constitutional precepts
‑President's statements on busing, neighborhood schools
‑Law of the land
‑Justice/HEW's statutory responsibilities
‑Local school district and district courts responsibilities
‑Justice/HEW powers
‑Whitten amendment
-President=s March 24, 1970 statement
‑Desegregation of school systems
‑Context
‑Law of the land
‑Administration's position
‑Press conference
‑Law of the land
‑Context
‑Compliance
‑Enforcement of desegregation
‑Local districts/district courts
‑Relevance of past decisions
‑Law of the land

The President's schedule, April 21, 1971
‑Meeting with Graham B. Steenhoven
‑US table tennis team
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Supreme Court decision on school busing
‑Burger

The President's schedule
‑Picture of the President and Mitchell
‑Phyllis Slocum [sp?]
‑Meeting with Republican Senators

Desegregation
‑Burger

Haldeman and Dean left at 4:42 pm.

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 4:59 pm.

Supreme Court decision on school busing
‑De facto segregation
-Ruling
‑Dual school systems
‑The South
‑The President's position
‑Garment
‑Hypocrisy
‑Opinions within administration
‑Richard A. Moore
‑Public reaction

The President's schedule, April 18, 1971
‑Drive through Washington with Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Supreme Court
‑Possible resignations
‑Burger
‑John Marshall Harlan
‑Tenure
‑Mitchell's conversation with Burger
‑Herbert Brownell
‑Burger
‑Republican
‑Harlan
-Burger
‑Hill case
‑Legal opinions

‑William O. Douglas
‑Hugo L. Black
‑Thurgood Marshall
‑Health

Mitchell's trip to Florida
‑Meeting with Marshall and Whitney M. Young, Jr.

Florida
‑President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
‑Mitchell and Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo's call to the President
‑Television

Influence of television
‑Impact on nation
‑President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
‑Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. case
‑President's visit to California
‑Laos
‑President's speech on Vietnam
‑President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
‑Significance
-@Doves@
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Economic report
‑Stock market
‑Rise
-Number of stockholders

National mood
‑Psychology
‑Mitchell's meeting with Lee R. Nunn
‑Nunn's trip to Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, West Coast
‑Popular attitude towards the President
‑Columnists
‑Polls
‑Press corps

The President's meeting with John L. McClellan
‑McClellan's views regarding the President's supporters
‑Democrats
‑McClellan's support for the President
‑Mrs. Norma McClellan

The President's schedule
‑James O. Eastland

Eastland
‑James C. Wright

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‑Support for the President
-Votes

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:42 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:59 pm.

Jack N. Anderson

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 4:42 pm.

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with Eastland and Roman L. Hruska
‑Mitchell
‑Executive Office Building [EOB]
‑Hugh Scott

Scott

Eastland
‑Louisiana
‑Support for the President

Southern Democrats
‑Eastland
‑McClellan
‑Richard B. Russell
‑Spessard L. Holland
‑David H. Gambrell
‑Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.

Republicans
‑McClellan's criticism

Schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Republican Senators
‑Supreme Court decision of school busing

The President's schedule, April 21, 1971
‑Morning
‑Afternoon

Mitchell's schedule, April 21, 1971
‑Secretary Sue Morrison

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and 4:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 483‑19A]

[See Conversation No. 2‑13]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule, April 21, 1971

The President talked with Sue Morrison between 4:59 pm and 5:01 pm.

[Conversation No. 483‑19B]

[See Conversation No. 2‑14]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with Steenhoven
‑Mitchell
-Meeting with national 4-H Club leaders
‑Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Morrison
‑Maiden name

Harry S. Dent
‑Schedule
‑Location

Supreme Court decision on school busing
‑Impact
-Supreme Court
‑The South
‑HEW
-Possible shake-up
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Robert H. Finch
‑John G. Veneman
‑Lewis H. Butler
‑Unknown name
-Order
‑Morgan
‑Dean
‑Morgan
‑Requirements
‑President's position
‑Butler
‑Bureaucracy
‑Richardson
‑Finch
-Richardson=s possible response
-Non-contiguous zoning
-Busing
-Administration=s position
‑School authorities' obligations

‑Plans for District Courts
‑HEW
‑Plans for school districts
‑Consultant role

Mitchell's schedule, April 21, 1971
‑HEW
‑Richardson
‑Meeting with the President
‑Richardson
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Timing
‑Richardson
‑Ehrlichman

Supreme Court decision on school busing
‑Possible administration initiatives
-Leadership on issue
‑Credit for decision
‑Blacks

Southern blacks
‑Support for administration
-1968 election
-White liberals
‑Possible response to Supreme Court decision on busing

Desegregation
‑Effect of integration on black colleges
‑Black schools
‑Black teachers
‑Separate society
-Gradualism

Supreme Court decision on school busing
‑President's position
-Staff meeting
-Law
‑Demagoguery
‑Instructions for Ziegler

The President's schedule
‑Upcoming photo with Mitchell

The President's schedule, April 21, 1971
‑Meeting with Haldeman and Mitchell

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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:01 pm.

The President's schedule
‑Picture with Mitchell

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:14 pm.

The President's schedule

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The President, Mitchell, and Haldeman left at 5:14 pm

Conversation No. 483‑20

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:14 pm and 5:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with unknown persons (Secret Service agent).

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The President's location
-Duration of absence
-Cabinet Room

Unknown man's schedule

The President's location

The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 5:17 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑21

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:14 pm and 5:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield, John N. Mitchell and H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

The President's schedule
‑Previous photo session

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The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 5:17 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑22

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  6:22 pm ‑ 6:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's meeting with Republican Senators, April 20, 1971
‑Howard H. Baker, Jr. and Edward J. Gurney
‑"Hawks"
‑Vietnam
-Danger of communism

Laos
-US military move
‑Polls
‑Television coverage
‑Public opinion

Vietnam
‑Baker's view
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]

‑Defense
‑Administration's policy
‑Senators and Congressmen
‑Mail
‑Editors
‑Small groups
‑Need for good news
‑Baker's view
‑President's position
‑Negotiations
-Timing

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Negotiations
‑Summit
‑US options

The President's meeting with Republican Senators
‑"Hawks"
‑Clark MacGregor
‑John G. Tower and Henry L. Bellmon

Vietnam
‑Possible communist takeover
‑Political impact
‑Cambodia
‑Laos
‑Withdrawal of US forces
-Pace
‑Meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Possible withdrawal announcement
-Interpretation
‑Negotiations
-Leverage
‑USSR
‑North Vietnam
‑Effects of possible collapse
‑Administration's position
-Pressures
‑President's speech, April 7, 1971
‑Support for the President
‑Poll
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

‑US position
‑Withdrawal
-Announcements

Haldeman entered at 6:25 pm.

The President's meeting with Republican Senators
‑MacGregor
‑Polls
‑Vietnam
‑Prisoners of war [POWs]
‑Conduct of the war
‑Results
‑Robert J. Dole

Polls
‑Vietnam
‑Possible communist takeover
‑Dole
‑Distribution to Senators and Congressman
‑Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Harmon trophy
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Publicity

Polls
‑Conduct of the war
‑George Horace Gallup

Stock market
‑Rise
‑Fall
‑Increase in dollar value
‑Optimism
‑Rise

Surveillance of [Thomas] Hale Boggs
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
‑Unknown agency

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[Duration:  11s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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‑State Attorney General Jack Gremillion
-Bank fraud
‑Indictment
‑Personal life
‑Unknown Louisiana State University [LSU] professor

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[Law Enforcement]
[Duration:  3s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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‑Public incident

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[Law Enforcement]
[Duration:  3s  ]

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-Incident
-Marriot Hotel
-Airplane
-Jay McDermott
‑Indictment
‑Gremillion
‑Louisiana oil people
‑Press

Polls
‑Vietnam
‑MacGregor, William E. Timmons, and Kenneth E. BeLieu
‑Distribution to Congressmen and Senators
‑Personal contact
‑Jack F. Kemp
‑Call to Haldeman

Football player artists
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑Ernie Barnes compared to Erich Barnes

Polls
‑MacGregor and Dole
‑White House
‑Cabinet
‑Play back
‑Vietnam

‑Possible communist takeover
‑Gallup
‑Dole
-ORC
‑Circulation to administration supporters

The President's meeting with Republican Senators
‑MacGregor
‑Value
‑Objective
‑Goldwater
‑MacGregor
‑BeLieu
‑Vietnam
‑Ending the war
‑Baker
‑Hugh Scott
‑Republican loyalists

Bellmon
‑Tenure
‑Secretary of Agriculture
‑Candidates

The President's schedule
‑Residence

The President, Kissinger and Haldeman left at 6:44 pm.

Conversation No. 483‑23

Date:  April 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:44 pm and 7:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) met.

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[Duration:  18s  ]

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The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 7:00 pm.