Conversation No. 487‑1

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  9:15 am - 10:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule, April 27, 1971
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Cabinet meeting
-Timing
‑James D. Hodgson's possible briefing
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Unemployment
‑Duration
‑Administration program
‑Jobs
‑Youth
‑Veterans
‑National Center for Voluntary Action [NCVA]
‑Reception
-Timing
‑Duration
‑Attendance
-Number
‑Cabinet
‑Press coverage
-President=s instructions

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 9:20 am.

‑Pictures

The President's schedule, May 9, 1971
‑Mothers' Day
‑Worship service
‑Minister
‑Race
‑Black
‑William F. (ABilly@) Graham
‑Ehrlichman

‑Religion
‑Catholic
‑Protestant
‑Mid‑West
‑Minister
‑Black
‑Paul Goodwin
‑Graham
‑Black
‑Graham
‑[Unintelligible name]
‑Kenneth W. Clawson
‑Availability
‑Health
‑Availability
‑Penelope M. (APenny@) Adams
‑Performer

The President's schedule, April 23, 1971
‑Open door hour
‑Elton Stevens
-Winston M. (ARed@) Blount=s view
‑Medal of Honor League
‑Alabama
‑Congressman
‑John H. Buchanan, Jr.
‑Chamber of Commerce
‑Photograph
‑Buchanan
-Blount

The President's schedule, April 27, 1971
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Clawson
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Hodgson
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Report regarding White House Youth Conference
-Cabinet meeting
‑Length
‑Cuts
‑Paragraphs

‑Cuts
‑Leonard Garment

Butterfield left at 9:25 am.

The President's schedule, April 23, 1971
‑Meeting with Richardson
‑Youth Conference

Youth Conference
‑Report
‑President=s position
-Compared with obscenity report

The President's schedule, April 27, 1971
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Richardson's Youth Conference report
-Hodgson=s report
-Length

Youth Conference
‑Stephen Hess
‑Unknown Congressman
‑Invitations
-President=s position
‑Schools
‑Representation
‑Task forces
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Geno [Surname unknown sp?]
‑Harlem
‑Radical
‑Unknown man from Wisconsin
‑Unknown girl

American youth
‑Conduct

Youth Conference
‑Representation
‑@Squares@
‑Representation

‑4‑H clubs
‑Number
‑Radicals
‑Hess
‑Publicity
-Possible White House response
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Lyndon K. (AMort@) Allin

Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Haldeman's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Cabinet
‑John A. Volpe
‑William P. Rogers= schedule
‑Press conference
‑Trip to Europe
‑Volpe

Kissinger entered at 9:28 am.

Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's schedule
-Dobrynin=s call to Kissinger

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‑Kissinger's schedule

PRC
‑Mansfield's letter
‑Norodom Sihanouk
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Mansfield's letter
‑Trip
-President=s concern
‑Chinese reaction
‑Soviet Union
‑Sihanouk
‑Timing of visit
‑Chinese reaction
‑Mansfield and Hugh Scott
‑Possible US initiatives
-Need for communication
‑Visits by public officials
‑Mansfield
‑Romania
‑Corneliu Bogdan
‑Visits by US public officials
-Message to the Chinese
‑Administration's position
‑US relations
‑Contacts
-Administration=s position
‑Mansfield's visit
‑Possible impact
‑Press
‑Bipartisanship
-Administration response
-Strategy

Soviet Union
‑Edmund S. Muskie's visit
‑Compared with possible PRC visit by Mansfield
‑Results
‑Soviet strategy
‑Publicity

PRC and Mansfield
‑Mansfield visit
‑Ping‑pong team
‑Compared with Muskie=s visit to Moscow
‑Impact
‑Publicity
-Compared with Moon Landing
‑US strategy
‑Possible invitation to Mansfield
‑Ping‑pong team invitation
‑[Forename unknown] Maynard [?]
‑Sihanouk role
‑Mansfield and Maureen (Hayes)Mansfield
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Sihanouk
‑Kissinger possible initiatives
‑General Vernon A. Walters
-Possible involvement
‑Contacts
‑Mansfield visit
-President=s view
‑State Department
‑President's position
‑Romanians
‑US relations
‑Contacts
‑Political visits
‑Mansfield visit
‑Bipartisan participation
‑Political visits
‑Administration's position
‑Timing
‑Procedures
‑People‑to‑people
‑Bipartisan participation
‑Mansfield visit
‑Impact
‑Strategy
‑Envoy
‑Bipartisan participation

‑President's initiative
‑Candidates
‑Scott

Kissinger's schedule
‑Forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin
-Location

US and Soviet Union negotiations
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Possible summit meeting

Vietnam negotiations
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Paris
‑North Vietnamese
-Walters= role
‑US strategy
‑Timing
‑Kissinger's schedule

Kissinger's schedule
‑Bogdan

Youth conference
‑President's upcoming conversation with Haldeman
‑President=s view
-Kissinger=s view

[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]

Vietnam
‑Administration opponents
‑Communist takeover
‑Administration's position
-Public relations efforts
‑Deadline for withdrawal

‑Television news program, April 22, 1971
‑Democrats
‑Coverage
‑Length
‑Prisoners of war [POWs]
‑World War II
‑Germany
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
‑Hubert H. Humphrey's view
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
‑Eisenhower administration
‑US personnel in Vietnam
‑Compared with 1971
‑John F. Kennedy administration
‑Personnel in Vietnam
‑Republicans
‑Haldeman's staff meeting
‑Reaction
‑Charles W. Colson's staff
‑Media
‑Television news program, April 22, 1971
‑American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
‑Audience
‑Democrats
‑Humphrey
‑Build‑up
‑Audience
‑Humphrey
‑Responsibility
‑Kissinger's meeting with Australian Ambassador
‑Sir James Plimsoll
‑Foreign Minister Leslie H.E. Bury
‑Plimsoll's travels in US
‑President's opponents
‑Republicans
‑Administration supporters
‑Colson
‑Senators
-Press coverage
‑William B. Saxbe

-Scott
‑News summary
‑Coverage

[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]

Congressional hearings
‑William H. Sullivan
‑Media coverage
‑Edward M. Kennedy
‑Media coverage
‑Sullivan's schedule
‑Press conference
‑Questions
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Administration's position

Vietnam
‑President's meeting with Congressional hawks
‑Senators
‑Southerners
‑Congress
-Possible poll
-Results
‑Democrats
‑Attitude
‑Doves
‑Hearings
‑Sullivan
‑Senators
‑Administration supporters
‑[Thomas] Hale Boggs
‑Media
‑Ziegler
‑Congress
‑Boggs
‑Television

‑Eric Sevaried
‑Boggs

Joseph McCarthy
‑Communists
‑State Department
‑Boggs

Press corps
‑President=s view
‑White House swimming pool

PRC initiative
‑Media reaction
‑Press
‑Washington Post, April 23, 1971
‑Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
‑Credits

US and Soviet Union negotiations
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Possible Soviet proposals
‑US position
-Strategy
‑Vietnam

PRC
‑US strategy
‑Soviet Union

Vietnam negotiations
‑North Vietnamese position
‑Deadline for US withdrawal
‑Stewart J.O. Alsop
‑Communist Takeover
-Kissinger=s view
‑Economic and military aid to South Vietnam

Kissinger's schedule
‑Woodstock conference
‑Prince Bernhard

Democrats
‑Possible administration counterattacks

John B. Connally's activities
‑Washington Post
‑Editorial conference
-Public relations efforts

Paul A. Samuelson
‑Economy
‑Criticism of administration
‑Opposition to the President
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Positions

Economy
‑Outlook
‑Democrat candidates

Administration foreign policy initiatives
‑Democrat candidates

Haldeman's previous staff meeting
-President=s foreign policy
‑Staff reaction

Congress
‑Attacks on administration
‑President's Vietnam policy

Haldeman's previous staff meeting
‑MacGregor and William E. Timmons
‑Staff morale
-Defeatism

President=s policies
-Outlook
-Congressional Republicans
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Public relations

Vietnam
‑Outlook
‑Congress
‑Administration critics
‑MacGregor
‑Jacob K. Javits
-Letter from the President
‑Opposition to the President
‑Kissinger's letter to David K.E. Bruce
‑Ellsworth F. Bunker
‑Bruce's possible initiatives
‑Possible US proposals
‑Ceasefire
-Publicity
‑Press
‑Bruce

Foreign Service
‑Bruce and Bunker
‑Ages
‑[David] Kenneth Rush
‑Experience
‑Bunker and Bruce
‑Possible assignment
‑Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
-Present role
-US Ambassador to Germany

Office of Emergency Preparedness
-General George A. Lincoln
‑Replacement
‑Effectiveness
‑National Security Council (NSC)
‑George W. Anderson
‑Military background
‑Job
‑Staff
‑Anderson
‑Navy
-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
‑Lincoln
‑General Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.

‑Anderson
‑Chapman
‑Public relations ability
‑Television
‑Anderson and Chapman
‑Chapman as spokesman

Cabinet
-Need for public relations efforts
‑President and Connally
‑Administration spokesmen

Office of Emergency Preparedness
‑Chapman's television appearance
‑Anderson
‑Chapman
‑Age
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Joint Chiefs of Staff
‑Chapman
‑Political effectiveness
‑Anderson and Chapman
‑Army
‑Job

US and Soviet negotiations
‑Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin
‑Prospects
‑Dobrynin
‑Possible Soviet stance
‑US position
‑Discussions
‑Issues
‑Summit meeting
‑Rush
‑US stance
‑Kissinger's role

Kissinger left at 10:03 am.

Polls
‑Release
‑Media

Network suit
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Administration position
‑Repression
‑Anti‑administration bias

[Transcript #3:  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]

Public relations
-Administration opponents
-Administration supporters
‑Activities
‑Veterans
-Marine Corps

Italy
-John A. Volpe
-Possible ambassadorship
-Embassy staff
‑Prime Minister Emilio Colombo
‑Giuseppe Saragat
‑Possible visit to US
‑Foreign Minister Aldo Moro
‑Saragat's possible visit
‑US position
‑Colombo
‑Volpe
‑Saragat's possible visit
‑Academic degree
‑Meeting with the President
‑State visit
‑Moro

Congressional hearings
‑Administration spokesmen
‑Performance
‑John F. Kerry
‑Vietnam veterans
‑Political aspirations
‑Massachusetts
‑Ambitions
‑[Unintelligible name]

Haldeman left at 10:10 am.

Conversation No. 487‑2

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  10:12 am ‑ 10:34 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Arthur S. Fleming, John B. Martin, Elliot L. Richardson, and Leonard Garment.

[The White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.]

Greetings

Fleming's role

Photograph
‑Seating arrangement

School desegregation
‑Mobile, Alabama

Photograph
‑Seating

[Camera noise]

[General conversation]

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
‑Woodstock conference

[Camera noise]

[General conversation]

White House Conference on Aging
‑Richardson's schedule
‑Cabinet
‑George W. Romney and John A. Volpe
‑Interest
-Administration efforts
‑Programs on aging
‑Undercurrents of criticism
‑Administration concerns
‑Recommendations
‑Timing
‑National conference
‑November 29 ‑ December 2, 1971
‑State conferences
‑May 1971
‑Attendance
‑Numbers
‑Delegates
‑Selection of participants
‑Process
‑Governors
‑1961 conference
‑1961 conference
‑Timing
‑Fleming's speech
‑Fleming's role
‑Fleming
‑Participating organizations
‑Number
‑Appointments
‑1960 campaign
‑Issues
‑Aging

‑Timing
‑Economy
‑Consumer price index
‑Quarter
‑Outlook
‑Economic issues
‑Social Security benefits
‑Problem
‑Political considerations
‑Administration's constituency
‑Youth culture
‑Care
-President=s view
‑Money
‑Administration concerns
-Contributions of older people
‑Quality of life
‑Older people
‑Youth
‑Respect for age
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Respect for age
‑Indians
‑Asia
‑Respect for age
‑Government
‑Achievements
‑Chinese race
‑Respect for age
‑Communism
‑Red Guard
‑Respect for older people
‑Young people
‑Attitude towards grandparents
‑Tolerance
‑Sun Cities
‑Leisure World, California
‑Housing of elderly
‑Dutch
‑Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan's figures
‑Mixed uses
‑Quality of life

‑Activists
-Concerns
‑Older people
‑Number
‑Growth
‑Unknown editors in New York
‑Daily Oklahoman
‑Span of life
‑Older population
‑Growth
‑Birth control
‑Future
‑Europe
‑Latin America
-Youth population
‑US
-Birth control
‑Rest homes
‑Care
‑Loneliness

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‑Youth
‑Visiting the elderly
‑Concern for elderly
-President=s view
-Minorities
‑Richardson's experience in law school
‑Visit to elderly men's home
‑Volunteer agencies

‑President's schedule
‑Reception for volunteer agencies
‑National Center for Voluntary Action [NCVA]
‑Edwin D. Etherington
‑Etherington
‑Background
‑Voluntary action
‑Voluntary action
-President=s instructions
‑Older and retired people
‑Need for volunteers

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‑Older persons
‑Young people
‑Visits to older people
‑Etherington
‑Foster grandparents program
‑Agency transfer
‑Criticism of administration efforts
‑Congressional hearings
-Martin and Fleming
‑Fleming's activities
-Public relations
‑Respect for elders
-President=s position
‑Contributions to society
‑Elderly
‑Medicare
‑Old age housing

‑Social Security
-Contribution to society
‑Youth
‑Past societies
‑Administration leadership
‑Eisenhower administration
‑President's and Fleming's activities
‑Purpose of conference
‑Press coverage
‑Importance
‑Direction of administration policy
‑Preliminaries
‑Possible agenda

Presentation of gifts
‑Cufflinks
‑Tie pin
‑Presidential seal
‑Paper weight

Fleming's role

White House Conference on Aging
‑Need for publicity
‑Mrs. Fleming

Fleming, Martin, Richardson, and Garment left at 10:34 am.

Conversation No. 487‑3

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 2‑32]

Conversation No. 487‑4

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  10:35 am - 10:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John A. (AJack@) Mulcahy.

[See Conversation No. 2‑33; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 487‑5

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  10:40 am ‑ 11:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's previous conversation with John A. (AJack@) Mulcahy

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Mulcahy
‑President's schedule
‑Possible trip abroad
‑Visit
‑Ireland
‑Helicopter

Arthur S. Fleming
‑Assignment
‑White House Conference on Aging
‑Stature

Aircraft
‑Gen. James D. (ADon@) Hughes' memo to the President
-Use by family
‑Cost
-Secret Service
‑Cost to the President
‑Hughes' memo to the President
‑Purpose
‑Use by family
‑Jack N. Anderson
‑Story
‑Secret Service
‑Military aircraft
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑President's position
‑Money

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‑Cost
‑Money
-Expenses
‑Political contributions
‑Cash
‑California campaign
‑Reimbursements to the President

‑Personal expenses
‑Money
‑Hughes' memo

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‑Problem
‑Reimbursements to the President
‑Political considerations
‑Possible criticism of the President
‑President Johnson
‑Haldeman's trips to Williamsburg
‑Carlisle H. Humelsine
‑Payment for lodging
‑Personal expenses
‑White House staff
‑Robert D. (ABobby@) Baker

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:40 am.

The President's schedule
‑William L. Safire

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:56 am.

Personal expenses
‑William P. Rogers and Warren E. Burger

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‑Business expenses
‑Integrity
‑Graham B. Steenhoven
‑Trip to People's Republic of China (PRC)
‑President's meeting with Rio Grande High School student group
‑Merchants
‑Money

The President's expenditures
‑White House expenses
‑Secret Service
-Spending decreases
‑Symbolism
‑President Johnson=s expenses
‑Travel
‑"Cronies"
‑Company for wives
‑Hairdresser

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Safire entered at 10:56 am.

Forthcoming Chamber of Commerce speech
‑Welfare
‑President's speech at Williamsburg Republican Governors' Conference
-Administration position
‑Public assistance
‑Guaranteed annual wage
‑Wilbur D. Mills' conversation with John W. Byrnes
‑Possible House action

The President's speech at Republican Governors Conference in Williamsburg
‑Welfare
‑Prepared text
‑@Ad lib@ remarks
‑President's mother
‑Activities
‑Work

Welfare
‑President's position
‑Self-help
‑Capacity for self reliance
‑Children
‑First step
‑Independent businessman
‑Possibility of failure
‑Loan from rich uncle
‑National revulsion
‑Governors
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller's position
‑Ronald W. Reagan's position
‑President's speech at Republican Governors' Conference
‑Reaction
‑Television

The President's upcoming Chamber of Commerce speech
‑Words regarding welfare
‑Spirit of people
‑President's conversation with Haldeman, April 22, 1971
‑Free medicine

‑Free housing
‑Guaranteed income
‑Society
‑Theme
‑President's position regarding needy
‑President's schedule
‑Open door hour meeting
‑Blind and deaf child
‑Self-help
‑Demagoguery

The President's speech at Republican Governors Conference,
Williamsburg
‑Welfare women
‑Menial jobs

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Welfare
-Administration position
‑New York City
‑President's position
‑Welfare state
‑Popular reaction
‑Working people
‑Views regarding non‑workers
‑Food stamps
‑President's meeting with construction industry leaders
‑Upcoming speech
‑Blacks
‑Blacks and non‑blacks

‑Puerto Ricans
‑Mexicans
‑Whites
‑President's speech in 1969
‑Family assistance program
‑Guaranteed annual income
‑President's position
‑Material needs
‑Special individual quality
‑President's conversation with Haldeman, April 22, 1971
‑Self-help

The President's upcoming Chamber of Commerce speech
‑Administration's goal regarding work
-Opportunity
‑Government's role
‑Economic policy
‑American business community
‑Wording
‑Guaranteed annual income

Unknown Texas woman
‑Television appearance
‑Capitol steps
‑Demonstrators
‑Remarks on work

The President's upcoming Chamber of Commerce speech
‑Freedom phone
‑Welfare workers
‑Menial tasks
‑Self respect
‑Definition
‑Help from others
‑Needy
‑Categories
-Deaf
‑Blind
‑Unemployable
‑Mentally retarded
‑Older persons
‑Rest homes

‑Welfare recipients
‑Young people
‑Home for the Incurables
‑President's visit
‑Charity
‑Needy
-President=s view
‑Improvement in care
-Quality of care
-Effect of non-workers
‑Self-help
‑Non‑strivers
‑Thrust
‑Theme
‑Welfare rolls
‑Figures
‑@Loafers and bums@
‑California numbers
‑Non‑workers
‑Way of life
‑Possible effect

Family assistance
‑President's position
‑Support for the President
‑@Loafers and bums@

Welfare
‑President's position
‑Character
‑Mothers with children
‑Work
‑Child care

The President's upcoming Chamber of Commerce speech
‑Welfare
‑Text
‑1968 campaign
‑Welfare rolls
‑Numbers
‑Text
‑Length

‑Cuts
‑Cuts
‑Science and technology
‑Length
‑Cuts
‑Length
‑Copy
‑Text
‑Possible additions
‑Bridge
‑Character of country
‑Government
‑Effect on people
‑Character
‑Text
‑Changes
‑Notes
‑[Forename unknown] Flaherty
‑President's meeting with Congressional leaders
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Memo
‑Writing
‑Time
‑Safire's schedule
‑President's schedule, April 24, 1971
‑Camp David
‑Time
‑Safire's schedule, April 24, 1971
‑Courier plane

The President's afternoon schedule
‑Visit to David and Julie Eisenhower
‑Safire's schedule
‑Chamber of Commerce speech

Safire left at 11:15 am

‑Plane trip

Public relations activities
‑Safire's assignments
‑Speechwriting for the President

Welfare rolls
‑Safire's view
‑Recipients
‑Administration's position
‑Numbers
‑Welfare workers
‑Children

People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Memorandum
‑Rogers
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Haig
‑Press Release
‑Rogers
‑Draft
‑Draft release
‑State Department
‑State Department
‑Marshall Green
‑Rogers' schedule
‑Press release
‑Kissinger
‑State Department
‑National Security Council [NSC]
‑Undersecretaries committee
‑Ronald L. Ziegler and John N. Irwin, II
‑Haldeman's possible conversation with Rogers
‑NSC
‑Undersecretaries committee
‑Irwin
‑Press release
‑Irwin
‑State Department
‑Rogers
‑Press release
‑Haig
‑Rogers' schedule
‑Costa Rica

‑Press release
‑Marvin L. Kalb
‑Rogers' schedule

Office of Emergency Preparedness
‑Candidates for directorship
‑Gen. Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.
‑George W. Anderson
‑Chapman

Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
‑Lt. Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
‑Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

Marine Corps
‑Chapman
‑Commandant
‑Cushman
‑Chapman
‑Cushman

Reassignments
‑John J. McCloy

CIA
‑Walters
-President=s decision
‑Kissinger
‑Mitchell's view
‑Assignment
‑Role

Chapman
‑Politics
‑Loyalty
‑Hughes

Marine Corps
‑Mission
‑Chapman
‑Qualifications
‑Kissinger's view

John N. Connally, Jr.

Personnel
‑Need for public relations efforts

Department of Transportation
‑Secretary
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Rumsfeld
‑Qualifications

Personnel
‑Clifford M. Hardin
‑Rumsfeld
‑Richard G. Kleindienst
‑Effectiveness
‑Mitchell

Mitchell
‑Effectiveness
‑Qualifications

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‑Justice Department

Department of Justice
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Kleindienst

Kleindienst
‑Possible assignment
‑Future fole

Ehrlichman
‑Attorney General
‑Role
‑Domestic policy
‑Value
‑Justice Department
‑Role
‑Justice Department
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
‑Robert H. Finch
-Domestic policy
‑Importance
‑Possible assignment
‑Justice Department
‑Attorney General
‑Aspirations
‑Supreme Court
‑CIA
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-FBI
‑Directorship
‑J. Edgar Hoover
‑Assignment
‑Role
‑Election
‑Possible assignment
‑FBI
‑CIA
-CIA
‑Ehrlichman and Walters
‑CIA
‑FBI
-FBI
‑Directorship
-CIA
‑Directorship
‑Dispositions
‑Intelligence activities

‑Aspirations
‑CIA
‑FBI
‑CIA
‑Career aspirations
‑Supreme Court
‑CIA
‑NSC
‑Foreign policy
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am.

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with Rose Mary Woods

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:27 am.

National secretary week
‑Woods

Woods' activities
‑National secretary week
‑Television
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] "Morning Show"
‑"Today Show"
‑Mike Douglas
‑Haldeman's note to Woods
‑"Today Show"
‑Woods' note to Haldeman

The President talked with Bull at an unknown time between 11:15 am and 11:27 am.

[Conversation No. 487‑5A   ]

President=s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Woods' activities
‑Television show interview
‑Timing

Woods entered at 11:27 am.

‑Tom Jerrell
‑American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
‑Jerrell's views
‑"Morning Show"
‑Speeches
‑Television
‑Los Angeles
‑[Unintelligible]
-Format
-Interview
‑Speeches
‑ABC program
‑"Today Show"

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:47 am.

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[Duration:  53s  ]

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Unknown man
‑Television documentary music
‑"Victory at Sea"
‑Gift to the President
‑RCA Victor
‑Woods' possible response

Woods' schedule
‑Kentucky Derby
‑California

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‑Lucy A. Winchester's schedule
‑Woods
‑Transportation
‑Mitchell
‑Schedule
‑Transportation
‑Woods' schedule
‑[Forename unknown]Yeager
‑Louie B. Nunn
‑Mitchell
‑Transportation
‑Hughes
‑Cornelius V. (ASonny@) Whitney
‑Dinner dance
‑Woods
‑Mitchell and Martha (Beall) Mitchell
‑Governor's Derby breakfast
‑Massachusetts
‑Woods' schedule
‑Whitney dinner dance
‑Woods' possible call to Hughes
‑Mitchell
‑Transportation
‑Speech
‑Winchester's schedule

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Woods' schedule
‑Visit to [unintelligible name]

Massachusetts
‑Woods' activities
‑President's supporters
‑President's meeting with Navy League leaders, April 21, 1971
‑Unknown man's remarks

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[Duration:  41s  ]

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‑Universities
‑Harvard
‑Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
‑Brandeis
‑Smith
‑Holyoke

‑Boston University
‑Boston College
‑School system
‑Left wingers

[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]

Press
‑President=s view
‑Left
‑Status
-Woods' conversation with unknown man
‑George [Surname not known]
‑Harold Rice [?]
‑Reporting
‑Story
‑Secretary's job
‑Difficulties

Woods left at 11:47 am.

Conversation No. 487‑6

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:47 am and 11:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:56 am.

Conversation No. 487‑7

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  11:56 am ‑ 12:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Ambassadors
-G. Mcmurtrie Godley
‑Performance
-Edward M. Korry
-Chile
‑Letter to the President
‑William P. Rogers
‑Instructions
‑James L. Buckley
‑Letter to administration

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:56 am.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Ziegler left at 11:57 am.

Chile
-Korry=s activities
-Administration=s action
-Rogers
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-Department of State
-Tenure

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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Korry
-Possible reassignment
-President=s concern

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  9s  ]

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US and Soviet negotiations
-Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Possible Summit meeting
‑US position
‑Dobrynin
‑Summit announcement
‑Timing
‑Dobrynin's schedule
‑Developments
‑Summit announcement
‑Timing
‑SALT announcement

‑Timing
‑Summit announcement
‑Timing
‑US strategy
‑Dobrynin
‑Soviet strategy
‑SALT
‑Possible agreement
‑Release
-President=s position
‑Announcement
‑US position
‑Timing
‑People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative

PRC initiative
‑Press reporting
‑Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.

[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]

Vietnam
‑President's policies
‑Opposition
-The President
‑Critics
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Goals
‑South Vietnam=s survival
‑Press
‑Television
-Print media
‑Kissinger's conversation with Henry Hubbard
‑Washington Post editorial, April 23, 1971
‑Views regarding South Vietnam
‑Ceasefire
‑U.S. policy

‑Vietnamization
‑US forces
-South Vietnam
‑Critics
-Goals
‑Press
‑Christian Science Monitor
‑Radicals
-Issues
‑Confrontation tactics
‑Effect on Vietnam on national mood
-Kissinger=s view
‑College and University presidents
‑Views
‑Introspection

[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]

Vietnam
-Kissinger=s view of future
‑Post‑Vietnam society
‑Radicals
‑Views regarding the President
‑Goals
‑Tactics
‑Issues
‑End‑of‑war
‑Prospects
‑Radicals
‑US policy
‑Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky
‑Cambodia
‑Critics
-Public relations
‑Possible administration counterattacks

‑President's speech, April 7, 1971
‑President's meeting with newspaper editors, April 16, 1971
‑President's options

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[Duration:  33s  ]

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Economy
‑Outlook
‑Critics

Vietnam
‑Press
‑Otis Chandler
-Children
‑Mary McGrory
‑Liberals
‑Post‑Vietnam society
‑Liberals
‑President=s options
‑US strategy

US and Soviet negotiations

PRC initiative 

Vietnam
‑Thomas W. Braden's call to Kissinger
‑Democrat critics
‑Communist takeover issue
‑Braden's views
‑Frank Mankiewicz
‑Democrat critics
‑US Intervention
‑Withdrawal
‑US strategy
‑Kissinger's conversation with Braden
‑President's position
‑Administration critics
‑Braden
‑Mankiewicz
‑Robert F. Kennedy
‑Politics
‑Washington Post article
‑John B. Connally's views
‑1972 campaign issues
‑War
‑Economy

[Transcript #3:  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]

Congress
‑Democrats
‑George S. McGovern ‑ Mark O. Hatfield Amendment
‑John Sherman Cooper ‑ Frank Church Amendment
‑McGovern ‑ Hatfield Amendment

Vietnam
‑Withdrawal
‑Congressional critics
‑Negotiations
‑Possible North Vietnamese Initiatives
‑US stance

‑Prospects
-Kissinger=s assessment
‑Paris Peace negotiations
-Kissinger=s presence
‑Possible US proposals
‑Rogers
‑Prospects
‑Possible US proposals
-Strategy
-Possible public relations benefit
‑Stance
‑Possible North Vietnamese stance
‑US stance
‑Ceasefire
‑Timing
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Possible North Vietnamese position
‑Thieu, Ky and Tran Thien Khiem
‑Possible US proposals
‑Xuan Thuy
-Possible meeting with Kissinger
‑Possible US stance
‑Military options

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[National Security]
[Duration:  15s  ]

VIETNAM PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

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‑Outlook
‑Meeting with the President

Kissinger left at 12:19 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑8

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  12:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Open door hour
‑Deaf child
‑Communication
‑Lip‑reading
‑Age

Bull left at 12:19 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑9

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm - 12:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Michael Newton, Lt. and Mrs. Richard Newton, Mary Switzer, Edward C. Merrill, Jr., Edgar B. Porter, Bradley P. Dunn, Susan Segrest, Mary Haimbach, Karen Luzak, George T. Bell, and Lee W. Huebner.

[The White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.]

Introductions
‑Michael Newton

Photographs

[Camera noise]

Photographs

[General conversation]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:20 pm.

Cookies

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:28 pm.

[General conversation]

[Camera noise]

[Laughter]

Photograph
‑Groupings
‑Girls

Luzak
‑Teacher
‑Work

Council
‑Hearing and speech

Presentation of gifts
‑Cuff links
‑Men
‑Presidential seal
‑Ladies
‑Viewmaster

Better Hearing and Speech Month campaign
‑Children
‑Hearing
‑Compensation

‑Personality
‑Michael Newton
‑Accomplishment
‑Work of council

Contributions for work

Michael Newton, et al., left at 12:28 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑10

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  12:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and Stephen B. Bull.

Michael Newton
‑Deafness

Sanchez left at 12:28 pm.

‑Picture
‑Smile

President's schedule
‑Meeting with John H. Buchanan, Jr.
-Alabama Medal of Honor Society
‑Invitation to President
‑Timing

Bull left at 12:28 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑11

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  12:29 pm ‑ 12:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John H. Buchanan, Jr., James B. Allen, Norman Pless, Elton Stevens, George Siebels, John E. Nidecker, and Lee W. Huebner.
[Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins was present at the beginning of the meeting.]

Introductions
‑Pless
‑Birmingham Chamber of Commerce

Photographs
‑Arrangements

[Unintelligible name]
‑President's previous visit
‑Fundraising dinner
‑Family

Alabama delegation
‑Representation
‑Birmingham metropolitan area
‑Loyalty to nation
‑Congressional Medal of Honor recipients

Medal of Honor recipients
‑Forthcoming meeting, October 25, 1971
‑Birmingham
‑Veterans
‑Invitation to the President
‑Significance

Birmingham
‑One hundredth anniversary
‑Attendance
‑President's participation
‑Invitations
‑Letters

President's schedule
‑Possible visit to Alabama
‑Timing
‑Plans
‑Timing

Bart Starr
‑Award
‑Note to the President
‑Coaching
‑Leadership
‑[Forename unknown] McKenney

Presentation to the President
‑Invitation
-President=s schedule

Autograph

President's schedule
-Invitation
‑Congress

Alabama delegation
‑Accomplishments
‑National defense issues
‑Buchanan
‑Senate
‑Allen
‑John J. Sparkman
-Support for the President

[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]

Vietnam
‑President's policies
‑Withdrawal
‑Communist takeover

Presentation of gifts
‑Cufflinks
‑Presidential seal
‑Bipartisan

President=s program
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Prospects
-Ways and Means Committee

Alabama delegation
‑Support for the President

President's schedule
‑Possible visit to Birmingham
‑Turnout

Farewells
‑Thin grey line

President's schedule, April 22, 1971
‑Medal of Honor ceremony
‑Sparkman
‑Wives
‑Mothers
‑War

Farewells

Buchanan, et al., left at 12:40 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑12

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  12:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with Henry C. Cashen, II
‑Parents
‑Leslie Cashen

Bull left at 12:40 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑13

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  12:41 pm ‑ 12:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mr. & Mrs. Henry C. Cashen, II, Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Cashen, and Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Sax .
[The White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.]

Introductions

Henry Cashen's job performance
‑Irish

Photograph
‑Grouping

Presentation of gifts
‑Pens
‑Presidential cuff links
‑Seal

Farewells

Rose Garden
‑Tulips
‑Flowers

Henry Cashen's job performance

John A. Mulcahy

Cashen, et al., left at 12:42 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑14

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:42 pm and 12:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
‑Kissinger's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:52 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑15

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  12:52 pm ‑ 1:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's previous meeting with Michael Newton
‑Deaf children

Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑US strategy

National mood
‑Sickness
‑Effect
‑Eastern area
‑Chicago
‑Minneapolis
‑West coast
‑California

Vietnam
‑Administration options
‑Howard H. Baker, Jr.
‑National defense
‑White House staff
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Support for the President
‑John C. Whitaker
‑Administration's position
-Kissinger=s view
‑President's speech, April 7, 1971
‑US troop withdrawals
‑Number
‑Upbeat feeling
‑National malady
‑Press corps
‑Press
‑Unknown German newspaper article
‑Morality
‑Justification for American policy
‑Attacks against President
‑My Lai
‑Political battle
‑Attacks against administration
‑Economy

Thomas Jefferson
‑Unknown book
‑Louisiana Purchase
‑1800 elections

‑Alien and Sedition Act
‑Country
‑Political climate
‑Jefferson's opponents
‑French Republic
‑1800 elections
‑Federalists
‑Alexander Hamilton
‑Duel with Aaron Burr
‑Burr
‑Speeches
‑Admirers

Woodrow Wilson
‑World War I
‑Theodore Roosevelt
‑Opposition to Wilson

Jefferson

Wilson

John F. Kennedy
‑Intellectuals

President Nixon
‑Compared with Kennedy

Kennedy

Education
‑Academic community
‑Teachers
‑Clergy
‑Responsibilities
‑Workers
‑Uneducated
‑H. G. Wells' theory
‑Outline of History
‑Myth regarding education
‑Uneducated
‑Respect

‑Educated
‑Values
‑Values

Kissinger's schedule
‑Dobrynin

Vietnam
‑Administration's position
‑Political opposition
‑Administration strategy
‑Political opposition
‑Unknown German newspaper article

[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 and Soviet negotiations
-Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin
‑US stance
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Effect on negotiations

Kissinger left at 1:04 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑16

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:04 pm and 1:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:04 and 1:11 pm.

[See Conversation No. 2‑34]

Conversation No. 487‑17

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  1:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 2‑35]

Conversation No. 487‑18

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 1:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez at an unknown time after 1:11 pm.

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑19

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  1:17 pm ‑ 1:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Haldeman's conversation with William P. Rogers
‑Rogers' press conference
‑President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
‑Vietnam
‑Press reaction
‑John A. Volpe
-Possible ambassadorship to Italy
-Roger=s view
-Henry A. Kissinger=s view
-Haldeman=s response
-Forthcoming Italian election	
‑Clifford M. Hardin
‑Purdue Presidency
‑Rogers' possible conversation with John C. Whitaker
‑Hardin's conversation with Rogers
‑Possible attacks
‑Rogers' possible conversation with Hardin
‑President's possible position

Refreshments

Haldeman=s conversation with Rogers
‑PRC initiative
‑Press release
‑United Nations staff [UN]
‑Reorganization
‑George H.W. Bush
‑Symbolism
‑Bush
‑Rogers

Haldeman's conversation with John B. Connally
-Turkey
-Drug interdiction

-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan=s plan
-Control
-Acreage

Youth Conference
‑Motion
‑Capitalist system
‑Task forces

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 3s  ]

GREAT BRITAIN

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Volpe
‑Reassignment

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 1:14 pm and 1:32 pm.

[Conversation No. 487‑19A ]

[See Conversation No. 2‑36 ]

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Ambassador
‑Italy

[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]

PRC initiative
‑Intellectuals
‑Congress

Welfare mothers
‑William L. Safire's view
‑Work
‑Votes for President

Polls
‑PRC initiative
‑Administration constiuency
‑President's position
‑Distribution
‑Kissinger
‑John A. Scali
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Soviet Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Possible effects
-PRC
‑Ping‑pong team
‑President's stance

Media
‑Television

Vietnam
‑Issue
‑Administration support
-Effect of mass media
‑Demonstrations
‑President's television appearances
‑Polls

Polls
-Vietnam
‑Approval and disapproval rating
‑Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
‑Approval and disapproval rating
‑Shift
‑President's speech, April 7, 1971
‑President's performance
-Percentages
‑Economy
‑PRC
‑Vietnam

[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]

‑Louis Harris poll
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Figures
‑Approval and disapproval rating
‑Figures

[Transcript #3:  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]

‑Vietnam
-Percentages
‑Possible administration initiatives
-Possible effect
-Administration efforts
‑Connally's view
‑Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Effect

‑Press coverage
‑Calley
‑Administration actions
‑President's speech, April 7, 1971
‑Approval and disapproval rating
‑Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Effect
‑Vietnam
‑Significance
‑Negative impact
‑Cambodia
‑Approval and disapproval rating
‑Erosion of Administration support
‑President's speeches
‑Press conferences
‑Possible effects
‑Disapproval rating
‑November 1970‑January 1971
-Percentages

The President talked with Herbert R. Rainwater between 1:32 pm and 1:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 487‑19B]

[See Conversation No. 2‑37]

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Public relations approach
-Cabinet
-Administration spokesmen and surrogate speakers
-Revenue sharing
-President=s policies
-Success
‑Media
‑Possible administration initiatives
‑Cabinet
‑Media
-Effect
‑Vietnam
‑Cabinet
‑Approval and disapproval rating

-Percentages
-Effect of events
‑Public relations efforts
‑Calley
‑Effect on polls
-Haldeman=s view
‑Peace
‑Economy
‑Connally's views
‑Need for optimism
‑Economy
‑Consumer attitudes

[Transcript #4:  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]

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  28s  ]

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Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Television appearance, April 22, 1971
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
-Compared with President=s television appearances
-Differences
-Effect

Television ratings
‑Numbers

‑Administration standing
‑Philip A. Hart and Margaret Chase Smith
‑Equal time
‑American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
‑Time

The President's schedule
‑Press conference
‑Press
‑Press conference
‑Administration strategy
‑Subjects
‑Advantages for President
‑Tony Ramsey
‑President's meeting with editors
‑Timing
‑Advantages for President

[Transcript #5:  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]

‑Supreme Court decision on school desegregation

Supreme Court decision on school desegregation
‑Effect on administration
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr. analysis
‑Effect on administration
‑Price's view
‑De jure desegregation
‑Racial balance
‑Exceptions
‑Review

Polls
‑Results

[Transcript #6:  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]

‑PRC initiative

The President and Haldeman left at 1:51 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑20

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:51 pm and 2:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents?) met.

President's location
‑Executive Office Building [EOB]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 2:52 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑21

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  2:52 pm ‑ 3:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Unknown man
‑Hardhats
‑Meeting with with the President

Government reorganization plan
-Department of Agriculture	
-Role of Secretary of Agriculture
-Farmers
-President=s concern
-Difficulties
-Congress
-Possible compromise
‑Labor and Commerce Departments
-Compared with Department of Agriculture
-Department of Agriculture proposal
-Problems
-Need for response
‑Department of Natural Resources
-Department of Agriculture
‑President's position
‑Labor and Commerce Deaprtments
‑Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
‑Department of Transportation
‑Department of Agriculture
-Constituency
‑Commerce Department
‑Business attitudes
‑Department of Transportation
‑Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
‑HUD
‑Department of Transportation
‑Business
‑Commerce and Labor Departments
‑Labor Department
‑Constituency
‑Commerce Department
‑Business attitudes
‑Labor Department
‑Labor attitudes
-Constituency
-Support for the President
-Department of Agriculture

‑Farmers
‑Constituency
‑Support
‑Farm states
‑Senators
‑Congressmen
‑Possible administration position
-Possible changes
‑Negotiations
‑John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
‑John B. Connally
‑Political situation

Polls
‑President's schedule
‑American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
‑Press coverage
‑Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
‑Press coverage
‑People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
‑Economy
‑Vietnam
‑Approval and disapproval rating
‑Laos operation (Lam Son)
‑February 1971
‑George Gallup poll
‑Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll
‑Gallup poll figures
‑Approval and disapproval poll
‑Numbers
‑Shift
‑January 1970
‑December 1969 ‑ February 1970
‑March 1970
‑April 1970
‑Cambodia
‑May 1970
‑February 1971
‑April 1969
‑September 1969
‑October 1969

‑November 1969
‑Shift
‑Events
‑President's schedule
‑American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
‑Radio broadcast
‑Press
‑Williamsburg speech
‑PRC initiative

[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]

Network presidents
‑William S. Paley=s call to Charles W. Colson
‑Possible administration initiatives
‑Al Chamie
-Herbert R. Rainwater
‑Media
‑Chamie
‑Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
‑Rainwater
‑Rainwater
‑Possible media coverage
‑Possible administration initiatives
-Coverage

[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]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:20 pm.

US and Soviet relations
-Kissinger=s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Results
‑Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]
‑Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Exchange of letters
-Methods
‑Summit meeting
‑Timing
‑Announcement
‑Berlin
‑Prospects
‑Politburo
‑Dobrynin
-President=s possible position
‑Framework
‑Soviet strategy
‑Summit meeting
‑Negotiations
‑US position
-Kissinger=s comments
‑West German position
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Bob [Surname unknown]
‑Woodstock conference
‑Summit meeting
‑Soviet position
‑Dobrynin
‑Politburo
‑SALT
‑Soviet position
-Politburo
‑US position
‑Timing
-Exchange of letters
‑Announcement
‑Issues
‑Arms limitations
‑Negotiations
‑Henry M. (AScoop A) Jackson
‑Dobrynin
‑Soviet missile capacity

‑Possible US proposal
‑Strict military capacity
‑Possible US position
-Kissinger=s assessment
‑Summit meeting
‑Timing
‑US bureaucracy
‑US position
‑Timing
‑Negotiations
‑US strategy
‑Announcement
-Scope of public comments
‑Kissinger's possible initiatives
‑Dobrynin
‑Announcement
-Public relations
‑Timing
‑Kissinger's possible call to Dobrynin
‑Formula
‑Specifics
‑Announcement
‑William P. Rogers' schedule
‑Dobrynin's schedule
‑President's position
‑Rogers' schedule
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Soviet position
‑Possible US position
‑Politburo
‑Timing
‑President's position
‑Possible US proposal
‑Rogers' schedule
‑Rogers' position
‑Possible Kissinger initiatives
‑Dobrynin
‑Arms limitations
-Assurances
‑Negotiations
‑Final agreement
‑Issues

‑Summit meeting
‑Soviet expectations
‑Berlin
‑Berlin
‑Soviet position
‑Summit meeting
‑US position
‑Soviet position
‑Timing
‑Announcement
‑State visits
‑Soviet position
‑Berlin
‑Berlin
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Bob [Surname unknown]
‑Negotiations
‑Soviet strategy
‑SALT
‑PRC initiative
‑SALT
‑Arms limitation
‑Negotiations
‑US position
‑Summit meeting
‑Timing
‑Negotiations
‑Dobrynin
‑US position
‑Timing
‑Rogers' schedule
‑President's possible initiative
‑Soviet position
‑President's possible initiative
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Woodstock meeting
‑Summit meeting
‑Announcement
‑Timing

President's schedule
‑Meeting
‑Helicopter trip
‑Time

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 3:36 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑22

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  3:36 pm ‑ 4:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

President's schedule
‑Meeting

Briefing paper
‑George W. Romney
‑Leonard Garment
‑Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
‑Suburban integration
‑Ehrlichman's draft proposal
‑Possible administration position
‑HUD's possible position
‑Lawsuit

President's schedule
‑Meeting
‑John A. Volpe
‑Helicopter

Romney entered at 3:37 pm.

Schools
‑Problems
‑President's message
‑Administration policy

‑Diversity
‑Freedom of choice
‑Integrated areas
‑Economics

Housing integration
‑HUD
‑Position paper
‑President's position
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Blackjack case
‑HUD
‑Position paper
‑Timing
‑Issue
‑Importance
‑Garment
‑Memorandum for President
‑Discussion of alternatives
‑Romney's possible meeting with Mitchell
‑HUD proposal
‑Possible administration discussions
‑Mitchell
‑Possible alternative proposals
‑Meeting
‑Mitchell, Romney, Garment, and Ehrlichman
-Romney=s view
‑Black caucus response
‑Civil Rights Commission
‑Focus
‑Suburbs
‑HUD's activities
‑Samuel C. Jackson

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:37 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:14 pm.

Housing
‑Civil Rights Commission activities
‑Suburbs
‑Problem
‑Small towns
‑Rural areas
‑President's position
‑Administration paper
‑School integration
‑Supreme Court
‑HUD proposal
‑Garment's memorandum
‑Review of law
‑Romney
‑Mitchell
‑President's meeting with Mitchell, April 22, 1971
‑HUD's proposed message
‑President's schedule
‑Trip to California
‑Romney and Ehrlichman
‑Possible visits to housing projects
‑Production
‑Subsidies
‑Prospects
‑Outlook
‑Administration policies
-Romney=s assessment

Economy
‑Prime rate
‑Chase National Bank
‑John B. Connally
‑Money demand
-Savings and loans

Housing
‑Outlook
‑Production
‑Level
‑1972
‑Administration's position
-Effect on economy

‑National goal
‑Economy
‑Subsidized production
‑1972 budget
‑Amendment
‑HUD
‑Additional employees
‑HUD appropriations
‑Fees
‑Authorization
-Lumber
‑Lumber committee
‑Robert P. Mayo
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Hendrik S. Houthakker
‑Prices
-Effect on production
‑Forest Service
‑Logging
‑Environmentalists
‑Tree cutting
‑Russell E. Train
‑Logging
‑Congress
‑William Proxmire
‑Gaylord Nelson
‑Goal
-Number
‑Housing committee
‑Details
‑George P. Shultz
‑[Forename unknown] Jones
‑Rogers C.B. Morton
‑Train
‑Activities
‑Lumber
‑Pricing
-Scope
‑Program
‑HUD
‑House Agriculture committee
-Houthakker=s committee

‑Economic policy committee
‑Lumber
‑Economic policy committee
‑Morton's and Train's possible participation
‑Lumber
‑Environmentalists
‑President's schedule
‑Meeting with Volpe
‑Airbags

Airbags
‑Value
‑Ralph Nader
‑Testing
-The President=s view
‑Ford Company
‑Statements
‑Technical development
‑Difficulties
‑Automobile costs
‑Seat belts
‑Sales
-The President=s concern
‑Safety issue

Environment
‑Purity
‑Trees
‑Cutting
‑Romney's possible conversation with Mark O. Hatfield
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson and Warren G. (AMaggie@) Magnuson
‑Liberal Senators
‑Environmentalists
‑Forest Service
‑Funds
‑Production
‑National forests
‑Federal lands
‑Ownership
‑Issue

Revenue sharing

Race relations
‑Jackson's suggestion
‑President's possible participation at a minority conference
‑Urban League
‑Baptists
‑League of Baptist Churches
‑Minority community
-Whitney M. Young, Jr.=s death

Revenue sharing
‑President's meeting with Republican Congressmen, April 22, 1971
‑Daniel H. Kuykendall
‑Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen
‑New Jersey legislature and mayors
‑President's previous meeting with George C. Siebels, Jr.
‑Alabama
‑Support
‑Mayors
‑Governors
‑County officials
‑Congress
‑Hearings
‑Connally
‑Clifford M. Hardin
-Romney
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Views
‑Conversation with Romney and Connally
‑Significance
‑Rural
‑Overlap
‑Urban and rural
‑Rural areas
‑HUD funds
‑Republican concerns
‑Humphrey
‑Problems
‑Agriculture
‑Administration's possible position

Government reorganization
‑Departments
-Department of Agriculture
-Potential problem
-Possible solution
‑HUD
‑Commerce and Labor Department
-Labor union=s views
‑Businessmen=s view
‑Department of Natural resources
‑Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
‑Human resources
‑President's conversations with Congressmen and Senators
‑Department of Agriculture
‑Department of Agriculture
‑Connally's view
-Opposition
‑Revenue sharing

Revenue sharing and government reorganization
‑HUD budget
‑Congress
‑Hearings
‑Hearings
‑Possible administration strategy
‑HUD
‑Organization
‑Hearings
‑Romney's conversation with Charles H. Percy
‑Community development department
‑John L. McClellan
‑Possible role
‑Relations with Percy
‑Romney's possible conversation with McClellan
-The President=s instructions
‑Possible administration initiatives
‑Percy
‑McClellan=s input in legislation
‑Administration bill
‑William B. Widnall
‑Introduction
‑Water and sewage

Romney
-Health

National Center for Voluntary Action
-Robert N. Finch=s role
‑Romney's schedule
‑Edwin D. Etherington, Jr. [?]
‑Upcoming executive committee meeting
‑Romney's conversation with Etherington [?]
‑President's possible position
‑President's schedule, April 27, 1971
‑Meeting with group
‑W. Clement Stone
‑Max M. Fisher
‑Henry Ford II's note to the President
-Ford=s support
‑Prospects
‑Etherington
‑Performance
‑President's schedule, April 27, 1971
‑Reception

Collective Bargaining Commission
‑Wages and prices
‑Romney's role
‑Status
‑Discussions
‑Executive Order
‑Prices
‑Stabilization
‑Romney's role
‑James D. Hodgson
‑Construction
‑Romney
‑Administration's position

Revenue sharing
‑Romney's activities
‑Edward L. Morgan=s role
‑Romney's activities
-Public relations
‑Governors

‑Sumner G. Whittier
‑Romney's role
‑Administration strategy
-Romney=s role
-Public relations
‑Women in government
‑Morgan=s role
‑Scheduling
‑Romney
‑Administration spokesman
‑Scheduling
‑Campaign manager
‑Analogy
‑Reorganization
‑Prospects
‑Shultz's conversation with Wilbur D. Mills
‑Progress
‑Democrats
‑Strategy session
‑James Tate
‑Views
‑Tate
‑Mayors
‑Elie Low (?)
‑Tate
‑Political aspirations
‑President's possible conversation with Tate

Housing
‑New York City
‑John V. Lindsay's letter to Romney
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller's activities
‑Bond revenues
‑Public corporation
‑Brooklyn Navy Yard
‑Rockefeller and Lindsay
‑President's possible conversation with Rockefeller
‑New York state
‑HUD allotments
‑Rockefeller
‑Rockefeller compared with Lindsay
‑Administration programs

‑Romney's possible conversation with Rockefeller
‑Focus
‑HUD projects
‑San Clemente
‑Laguna Hills
‑Mission Viejo
‑Yorba Linda
‑Cost problem
‑HUD initiatives
‑Housing market
‑Producers
‑Volume
‑Benefits
‑Local building regulations
‑State inspection programs
‑Connecticut
‑Numbers
‑Legislation
‑HUD activities
‑Selection of housing systems
‑"Operation Breakthrough"
‑Companies
‑Westinghouse
‑Blakeslee
-Connecticut
‑Pre‑stressed concrete
‑Market increases
‑Romney's visit to Connecticut
‑Dedication of plant
‑Blakeslee and Westinghouse
‑Pre‑fabricated construction
‑Westinghouse
‑Fredericksburg, Virginia
‑Production
‑Activities
-Standardization
‑Levitt
‑Activities
‑Factory production
‑Production plant
‑Michigan
‑Battle Creek and Kalamazoo

‑Mid‑West market
‑Housing market
‑Possible administration policy
‑Benefits
‑President's schedule
‑San Clemente
‑Possible visit to Michigan
‑Dedication of Levitt plant
‑Ceremony
‑Romney's schedule, May 17, 1971
‑Michigan trip
‑Dedication of Levitt plant
‑President's schedule
‑Possible visit to Michigan
‑Dedication of Levitt plant
‑President's position
‑Benefits

[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 schedule
‑Possible visit to Michigan
‑Timing

Romney's schedule
‑Vacation plans
‑Fritz Carlson
‑American Bar Association
‑London meeting
‑July 1971
‑Vacation plans
‑Spain
‑Mediterranean
‑London
‑International Association of University Presidents
‑Letter to Romney
‑Liberia

‑Monrovia
‑June 15‑17, 1971
‑President's position
‑Housing problems
‑President's position
‑Africa
‑Congo
‑Nigeria
‑Liberia
‑Trip
‑Advantages
‑Length of stay
‑Timing
‑Hearings
‑Lenore L. Romney

Stephen B. Bull entered and Romney left at 4:14 pm.

Unknown specification

President's schedule
‑Meeting
‑Helicopter trip to Virginia Beach

Bull left at 4:14 pm.

The President talked with an unknown man at 4:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 487‑22A ]

Unknown activity

[End of telephone conversation]

Manolo Sanchez entered at 4:14 pm.

Instructions

Volpe entered at 4:14 pm; the White House photographer was present of the beginning of the meeting

Refreshment
‑Romney
‑Coca‑Cola

Photo
‑Seating

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm.

Volpe's upcoming European trip
‑Prospects
‑Itinerary
‑Yugoslavia
‑France
-Volpe=s meeting with French Minister
‑Yugoslavia
‑US and Yugoslav economic relations
‑Exchanges
‑Italy
-President=s view
-Possible visit by Volpe
‑US relations
‑Political situation
-Possible visit by Volpe
‑Spain
‑Yugoslavia
‑Italy
‑Scheduling
‑Political situation
‑Parties
‑Emilio Colombo
‑Mariano Rumor
‑Role
‑Christian Democrats
‑Colombo
‑Volpe's possible activities
‑Elections
‑Presidency
-Amintore Fanfani
‑Aldo Moro
‑Prospects

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:14 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm.

Volpe's upcoming Europe Trip
‑Italy
‑Political situation
‑Senate
‑Fanfani
‑Moro
‑Scheduling

President
‑Duties

Cabinet officers
‑Salaries
-Difficulties of jobs
-Volpe=s health
-Romney=s health
-Volpe=s health

-Health
‑Stress
‑Book
‑Arnold [Unintelligible surname]
‑The Will To Live

Volpe
‑Appearance
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]

SST
‑Transportation
‑Jobs
‑President's position
‑Exploration of unknown
‑Congress

Congress
‑Volpe's schedule
‑Massachusetts Port Authority
‑Reception
‑Massachusetts Congressional delegation
‑Volpe's conversation with Edward M. Kennedy
‑SST
‑March 24, 1971
‑Significance
SST
‑Kennedy's role
‑Ehrlichman's views
‑Prospects
‑[Forename unknown] Hirchuck
‑Phil Brown
‑Contributions to Volpe
‑Justin W. Dart=s suggestion
‑United Airlines
‑Views
‑Raising of capital
‑Companies
‑Interest
‑James L. Buckley
‑Volpe's initiatives
-Fairchild Industries
‑Unknown man
‑Proposals
‑Focal point
‑Chase Manhattan Bank
‑Possible raising of capital
‑Congress
‑Garment

Vietnam
‑President's speech, April 7, 1971
‑Jennie (Benedetto) Volpe
‑Reaction
‑Volpe's daughter
‑Reaction
‑President's story at end of speech

[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]

Economy
‑Airlines
‑Prospects
‑April 1971
‑Growth
‑Passenger miles
‑Outlook
‑View of 1971
‑Golf clubs
‑Sales
‑Boats
‑Sales
‑Airline traffic
‑Businessmen
‑Travel
‑Lawyers
‑Stock market
‑Rise
‑Personal participation
‑Prohibitions
‑Possible profits
‑Taxable income
‑Spending money

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Volpe
‑Support for President
‑Role within administration
‑Schedule
‑Dinner with President
‑Mrs. Volpe
‑Use of Camp David
‑Mrs. Volpe
‑Cabin
‑Dogwood

Amtrak
‑Hearings
‑Railroad passenger service
‑Democrats
‑Administration position
‑April 30, 1971
‑Beginning of service
‑President's schedule, April 30, 1971
‑Union Station
‑Ceremony
‑First Marine Division
‑California
‑Timing
‑Union Station
‑Scheduling
‑First Marine Division
‑Union Station
‑Subsidy bill
‑Directorship
‑Roger Lewis
‑General Dynamics
‑Qualifications
‑President's schedule, April 30, 1971
‑Union Station
‑Ceremony
‑Re‑conditioned cars
‑Significance

Volpe
‑Role
‑Cabinet officer
‑Relations with White House
‑Cabinet officer
‑Role

Government reorganization
‑Volpe's previous speech in Cabinet meeting
-Volpe=s role
-Input
‑Governors, mayors
‑Cabinet officers
‑Consultation
‑Transportation Department
‑Volpe=s view
‑Cabinet officers
-Efforts on behalf of administration
‑Consultation
‑Transportation Department
‑Natural Resources Department
‑Announcement
‑Upcoming Cabinet meeting, April 27, 1971
‑Breeder reactor
‑Agenda
‑Unemployment
‑Jobs

Decision‑making process
‑Cabinet
‑Need for input
‑Government reorganization
‑Announcement

Cabinet officers
‑Role
‑Difficulties
‑Schedules
‑Romney's previous meeting with the President
‑Problems
‑President's previous meeting with Mitchell
‑Housing

‑Nature of problems
‑Possible contributions
‑Participation
‑Government reorganization
‑Revenue sharing
‑Family assistance
‑Domestic Council

Government reorganization
‑Secretary of Transportation
‑Secretary of Commerce
‑Secretary of Labor
‑Consolidation
‑Proposal
‑Administrators
‑Other nations
‑Appelation
‑Appelation of top men
‑Ministers
‑Foreign affairs
‑Defense
‑Secretaries
‑Defense
‑Minister
‑Secretaries
‑Army
‑Navy
-Air Force
‑Names
‑Secretaries
‑Compensation level
‑Future top officials
‑Grades of top officials
‑Super secretaries
‑Ministers
‑Executive level A
‑Salaries
‑Ministers
‑Cabinet
‑Secretaries
‑Titles of officials
‑Present proposals

‑Secretary of Transportation
-Salaries of top officials
‑Adjustment to realities
‑Department of Agriculture

Revenue sharing
‑Proposals
‑Problems
‑John W. Dean, III
‑Trust fund
‑Taxes
‑Airports
‑Airport funds
‑Uses
‑Mass transit
‑Highways
‑Subsidies
‑Highways
‑Airport users

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:14 pm.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:54 pm.

Volpe's upcoming European trip
‑Italy
‑Political leaders
-The Vatican
‑Pope Paul VI
‑Communism
‑Latin America
‑Advisors
‑Volpe's possible conversation with Pope Paul
‑Church
‑President's possible initiatives
‑William P. Rogers' schedule
‑Visit to Middle East
‑Pope Paul
‑Pope Paul

Catholic Church
‑Latin America
‑Compared with US Protestant Church
‑Operations
‑Priests
‑Activities
‑Social reform
‑President's position
‑Priests
-President=s position
‑Liberals
‑Dangers
‑Problems
‑Pope Paul's position
‑Religious mission
‑Social problems
‑Communism

Volpe's upcoming European trip
‑Yugoslavia
‑Communism
‑Churches
‑Previous visit to Soviet Union
‑Romania
‑Poland
‑Catholic Church
‑Wladyslawr Gomulka
‑[Unintelligible Name]

Government reorganization
‑Civil Service
‑Prospects
‑Importance
‑Support for administration
‑Administration policy
‑Top levels
‑President's schedule
‑Civil Service Commissioner
‑Swearing‑in ceremony

Volpe's schedule
‑Weekly meetings with Assistant Secretaries
‑Composition
‑Federal Highway administrator
‑Urban Mass Transportation administrator
‑Federal Aviation administrator
‑Mid-level managers
‑Length of meetings

President's schedule
‑Possible quarterly meeting with Cabinet officials and subordinates
‑Possible procedure
‑Benefits
‑Transportation Department
‑Numbers
‑Assistant Secretaries, administrators
‑Structure
‑Benefits
‑Assistant Secretaries, administrators
‑Meetings with departmental officials
‑Transportation Department
‑Possible meetings with Cabinet officials and subordinates
‑Numbers
‑Administrative officials
‑Backgrounds
‑1972 campaign
‑Talent
‑Support for the President
‑Possible administration representatives
‑Assistant Secretaries
‑Volpe's activities
‑Possible meetings with Cabinet officials and subordinates
‑Location
-Cabinet Room
‑Frequency
‑Duration
‑Advantages
‑Meetings with department officials
‑State Department
‑Frequency
‑Defense Department
‑Assistant secretaries

‑Justice Department
‑Treasury Department
‑HUD
‑Transportation Department
‑Commerce Department
‑Interior Department
‑Labor Department
‑Interior Department
‑Agriculture Department
‑Areas of operations
‑Independence
‑Transportation Department
‑Volpe's schedule
‑John E. Hirten

President's schedule
‑Sunday worship services
‑Attendance
‑Hirten
‑[Unintelligible] commission
‑[Forename unknown] Keapley
‑Men
‑Sub‑Cabinet officials
‑Commerce

Volpe's meeting with [unintelligible] man
‑Date of meeting
‑Louisiana
‑Loyalty

[Unintelligible] activity
‑Volpe's possible initiatives

Ronald L. Ziegler entered and Volpe and the President left at 4:54 pm.

President's schedule
‑Previous meeting with Romney
‑Discussions

Ehrlichman left and Henry A. Kissinger and Stephen Bull entered at 4:55 pm.

President's schedule
-Conference

Bull left and the President entered at 4:55 pm.

‑Helicopter trip to Virginia Beach
‑Camp David
‑Press
‑Dinner with David and Julie Eisenhower
‑Press coverage

The President, Ziegler and Kissinger left at 4:56 pm.

Conversation No. 487‑23

Date:  April 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:56 pm and 4:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) met.

President=s schedule
‑Helicopter trip to Virginia Beach

[Helicopter noise]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 4:59 pm.