Conversation No. 488‑1

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:22 am and 9:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
[This recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress.]

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The President and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:00 am.

Conversation No. 488‑2

Date:  April 26, 1987
Time:  Unknown between 8:22 am and 9:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with Stephen B. Bull.

Buzzes from the President

President's location

Buzzes from the President

Bull's activities

Butterfield and Bull left at an unknown time before 9:00 am.

Conversation No. 488‑3

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:22 am and 9:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:00 am.

Conversation No. 488‑4

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:22 am and 9:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
‑Breakfast meeting
‑Meeting with the President

President's schedule
‑Kissinger
‑Timing

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:00 am.

Conversation No. 488‑5

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:22 am and 9:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman at an unknown time between 8:22 and 9:00 am.

Buildings
‑Lighting
-Pan American building
‑Red Cross
‑Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]

Wiley Mayne
‑National Airport
‑Change of name
‑Eisenhower Airport
‑President's position
‑Legislation

Distribution of memorandum
‑[Unintelligible]

William F. (ABilly@) Graham
‑Ministers
‑McNutter [Forename unknown]
‑White House worship service
‑Black
-Conservatives

Conversation No. 488‑6

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  9:00 am ‑ 10:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

[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]

News summaries
‑Advantages
‑Weekend
‑Week
‑John A. Scali=s comments

Public relations efforts
-Scali
-President=s view
‑Qualifications
‑Role
‑AP
‑Television
‑Possible meeting with the President
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Buchanan
‑Qualifications
‑Richard A. Moore
‑Qualifications
‑Scali
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Press
‑Colson and Buchanan
‑Press
‑Reporting regarding administration activities
‑Television coverage
‑Administration strategy
‑Scali's possible role
‑News reporting
‑Scali's role
‑Price

[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]

Tricia Nixon Cox
‑Look magazine
‑Story
‑Coverage
‑Readers Digest
‑Look magazine
‑President's position
‑Editor
‑Publisher

[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]

President's upcoming Chamber of Commerce speech
‑Price

Speech writers
‑Haldeman's possible conversations
‑Anecdotes
‑William L. Safire

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:18 am.

Ziegler's upcoming press conference
‑Possible questions
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Mao Tse‑tung's statements to Edgar P. Snow
‑President's possible visit
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Life magazine

-Chou En-lai	
‑Mao Tse‑tung
-Hugh S. Sidey
‑President's possible response to story
-Ziegler=s comments
-President=s possible visit
‑US relations
‑PRC and Taiwan
-Asia
‑Chinese people
‑President's possible visit
‑Administration goals
‑Cuba
‑North Vietnam
‑North Korea
‑US position
‑President's initiatives
‑Eastern Europe
-President=s previous travels
‑Hungary
-Poland
‑Czechoslovakia
‑Yugoslavia
‑East Germany
‑President's foreign policy goals
-Ziegler=s comments
‑William P. Rogers' forthcoming trip to Middle East
-Ziegler=s comments
‑Significance
‑Scope
‑Press
‑Prospects
‑Purpose
‑Ceasefire
‑Discussions
‑President's position
‑Israel
-Rogers= trip
‑President's visit
‑Egypt
‑Significance of visit
‑US relations
‑US goals

‑President's 1969 visit
‑US foreign policy goals

[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]

Networks
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Vietnam
‑Coverage
‑National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
‑Economy
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Vietnam
‑President's schedule
‑Unknown man
‑John F. Kerry

[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]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

Conversation No. 488‑7

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  7:52 am - 7:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Bull left at 7:53 am.

Conversation No. 488‑8

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  7:52 am - 7:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Agnew's location

The unknown man left at 7:53 am.

Conversation No. 488‑9

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  7:53 am ‑ 7:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
‑Unknown item

Butterfield left at 7:54 am.

Conversation No. 488‑10

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  7:55 am ‑ 8:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew at 7:55 am.

[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]

[H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at an unknown time during the transcribed portion]

The President, Vice President, and Haldeman left at 8:04 am.

Conversation No. 488‑11

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  9:55 am ‑ Unknown before 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and an unknown man.
[This recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress.]

President's schedule
‑Swearing‑in ceremony
‑Arrival of party
‑James C. Fletcher
‑Timing
‑Deputy
‑Minister
‑James A. Belson

The President, Bull, and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 488‑12

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown before 10:05 am ‑ 10:16 am
Location:  Oval Office

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman met with James C. Fletcher, Judge James A. Belson, Fay Fletcher, Ginger Fletcher, Mary Susan Fletcher, James Stephen Fletcher, Missy Fletcher, Wallace F. Bennett, Clinton P. Anderson, Carl T. Curtis, George P. Miller, Olin E. Teague, James J. Fulton, George M. Low, Richard C. McCurdy, H. Dale Grubb, Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., Clay T. Whitehead, William E. Kriegsman, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Thomas O. Paine; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

[General conversation]

The President entered at 10:05 am.

Introductions

[General conversation]

[Camera noise]

Oath of office

[Applause]

Photo session
‑Fletcher's family
‑Children

[Camera noise]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
‑Importance

[Camera noise]

Space

[General conversation]
‑Cabinet meeting

Presentation of gifts
‑Presidential cuff links
‑Presidential bows
‑Seal
‑Judge Belson

Farewells

[Applause]

[General conversation]

Belson, et al., left at an unknown time before 10:16 am.

President's schedule
‑Possible meeting with Fulton
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Scheduling
‑Space

Space
‑Future
‑Ideas
‑Fulton's activities
‑Pennsylvania delegation

Fulton
‑Congressional career

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‑Congressional career

Bob [Surname unknown]
‑Health

President's schedule
‑Possible meeting with Fulton

Fulton left at 10:16 am.

Conversation No. 488‑13

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:16 am and 10:19 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Haldeman's schedule
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Meeting with President
‑President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 488‑14

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:16 am and 10:19 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:19 am.

Conversation No. 488‑15

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  10:19 am ‑ 11:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Weather

Vietnam
‑North Vietnamese military activities
-Attacks on US bases
‑US casualties
‑Figures
‑US casualties
‑Projections
‑Laos operation (Lam Son)
‑Drop

President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
‑General Vernon A. Walters
‑Jean Sainteny
‑Edgar P. Snow=s reports
‑Mao Tse‑tung
‑President's possible visit
‑Press report
‑H.R. Haldeman's reaction
‑Support for President
‑Stories
‑Hugh S. Sidey
‑John F. Osborne
‑John (unintelligible surname)
‑Snow=s report
‑Snow's activities and reports
-US messages
‑US proposals
‑Press reports
‑Possible US response
‑Press conference

Vietnam
‑Negotiations

‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑US stance
‑Networks
‑Laos operation (Lam Son)
‑Coverage
‑Administration's position

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:19 am.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:50 am.

Vietnam
‑Press
‑1970 campaign
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Stewart J.O. Alsop's forthcoming article
‑Democrats
‑1972 elections
-Policy towards Vietnam
‑Kissinger's activities
‑Woodstock
-Europeans
‑Americans
‑Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
‑Support for the President
‑David Rockefeller
‑Arthur H. Dean
‑Robert B. Anderson
‑Public relations
‑Possible administration counterattacks
‑Administration opponents
‑US bombing targets
‑Laos
‑Opponents
‑Alsop's view
-Democrats position
-Effect on US foreign policy

[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]

Public relations efforts
-Cabinet
‑John B. Connally
‑Agnew

Agnew
‑Activities
‑Remarks regarding PRC
‑Schedule
‑Jamaica
‑Timing

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

[End of transcript]

President's schedule
‑Previous meeting with Melvin R. Laird
‑Laird's health
‑David Packard
‑Family
‑Vietnam
‑Lucile Packard
‑Stanford University
‑Friends
‑Establishment
‑Government
‑President=s view of Packard=s service

Government service
‑Difficulty
‑Friends

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‑Previous Cabinet meeting
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑White House youth conference
‑Stephen Hess

Youth
‑Richardson's views
‑Need for communication
-President=s position
‑Activists
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Meetings with student groups
‑Emotions
‑Romanticism
‑Previous generation
‑Joseph P. Kennedy
-Kissinger=s view
‑Eighteen‑year‑olds
‑Twenty‑one‑year‑olds
‑US government
‑Founding fathers
‑Constitution
‑Age requirement
-President
-Senators
-Congressmen
-Age of majority
‑Robert H. Finch
‑William G. Milliken
‑Proposal
‑Eighteen‑year‑olds

‑Vote
‑Liquor
‑Marijuana
‑Congress
‑President's youth
‑President's schedule
‑Previous Cabinet meeting
‑Leadership

Youth conference
‑Richardson's report
‑Adults
‑Teachers, professors

Youth
‑Colleges
‑High schools
‑Colleges
‑Faculty
‑Kissinger's youth

[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]

Youth
‑President's schedule
‑Previous Cabinet meeting
‑Meeting with Texas A&M choir
‑Previous meeting with Ohio State group
‑Polls
‑Opposition to administration
‑Teachers
‑Vote
‑Universities
‑Views regarding administration
‑Non‑college educated
‑Figures
‑Alienation
‑Adolescence

‑Sense of identity
‑Alienation

[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]

Vietnam
‑President's press conferences
‑Possible questions
‑Bombing
‑US proposal
-Cease-fire
‑North Vietnamese Army
‑Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam
‑Troop numbers
‑Civilian dead
‑Figures
-North Vietnamese Army
‑Refugees
‑Laos
‑Partition
‑North Vietnamese refugees
‑Figures
‑North Vietnamese dead
‑Figures

Personnel officers
‑Companies
‑Veterans
‑Views of veterans
‑My Lai
-President=s view
-Businessmen
‑Sons
‑Draft

Draft
‑Avoidance
‑Ministers
‑Teachers
‑Coast Guard

Personnel officers
‑Views of veterans
‑My Lai
‑Vietnam
Vietnam
-The Establishment
‑Administration position
‑Opposition
‑Hawks
‑Support for President
‑Jingoism

Establishment
‑Views regarding PRC and Taiwan
‑Taiwan
‑Expulsion from United Nations [UN]
‑PRC
‑Recognition
‑Taiwan
‑Incorporation into PRC

PRC
‑President's initiatives
‑Soviet Union

US and Soviet Union relations
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Summit meeting
‑PRC
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Press
‑George Washington

Vietnam
‑Peace negotiations
‑North Vietnamese strategy
‑US strategy

-President=s view
‑Residual force
‑POWs
‑Residual force
‑POWs
‑Vietnamization policy
‑North Vietnamese position
‑US withdrawal
‑US military capabilities
-Air Force
‑Negotiations
‑Paris
‑Possible North Vietnamese military operations
‑US military options
‑US casualties
‑US withdrawal
‑US military options

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:19 am.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Henry Ford II
‑John D. Ehrlichman and Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Timing

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:50 am.

Vietnam
‑Peace negotiations
‑Possible US proposal
‑Possible US military operations
-Bombing
‑Possible North Vietnamese military operations
‑Possible US military operations
‑Effect on US public
‑Media
‑Press and television
‑Television
‑Coverage of administration spokesmen
‑William H. Sullivan

Germany
‑World War I

-Comparison to Vietnam War
‑1918 Revolution
‑Sentiment in 1921
‑Revolution
‑Results

Vietnam
-Senators

Press
‑Coverage of administration activities
‑Haldeman's reaction
‑Rightists
‑Press conferences
‑President's use of
‑Frequency

[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]

Press coverage
-Effect
‑Pride
‑Self‑confidence
‑Vietnam
‑Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. case

Vietnam
‑Public reaction
‑Casualties
‑US national goal
‑Cabinet views
‑Connally and Agnew
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Outlook

National Outlook
‑1976 and 1980
‑Public reaction
‑Kissinger's possible candidacy
‑President's standing
-Effect in 1972
‑President's opponents

Vietnam
‑Polls
‑Approval and disapproval rate
‑Administration initiatives
‑Troop withdrawals
‑Casualties
‑Administration's position
‑Press
‑Magazines
‑Laos and Cambodia
-Administration=s response
-North Vietnamese presence
‑Reports on administration
‑US military activities
‑Laos
-Need for public relation efforts

Kissinger's schedule
‑Trip

Press

Haldeman entered at 10:50 am.

Administration policies
‑Vietnam
‑Press
‑Economy
‑Support for the President
‑Confidence

Packard
-Kissinger=s conversation with Packard
-The President=s view
‑Role

‑Lucile Packard
‑Stanford
‑Possible Defense Department reorganization
‑Panama
‑Southern Command
‑Packard, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and Kissinger
‑Views
‑President's schedule
‑Possible meeting, May 3, 1971
‑Timing
‑Meeting, May 4, 1971
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Southern Command
-Packard=s view

Southern Command
‑Packard's views
‑President's position
‑Importance
-Military views
‑US Ambassadors
‑Latin America
-Joint Chiefs of Staff
‑Packard
‑President's schedule, May 4, 1971
‑Meeting with Packard
‑Kissinger's possible conversation with Packard
‑Panama Canal
‑Negotiations

Kissinger's schedule
‑Trip to California
‑Timing

Vietnam
‑President's policies
‑Establishment
‑Republic of South Vietnam
‑Support for US
‑Military
‑Para‑military

‑Government
‑Officials
‑Communist takeover

Ziegler entered at 10:53 am and Kissinger left.

Ziegler's upcoming press conference
‑Scheduling
‑President's schedule
‑Trip to California
‑Return date
‑First Marine Division
-Ceremonies
‑Return date
‑Length of stay
‑Return date
‑Timing
‑Wording of statement
‑Return date
‑Schedule, May 4, 1971
‑Republican leadership meeting

Ehrlichman entered at 10:55 am and Ziegler left.

Air bags
-President=s position
‑President's upcoming meeting with Ford and Lide A. Iacocca
‑John A. Volpe's activities
‑Department of Transportation regulations
‑Federal Register
‑Administration's position
-The President=s upcoming meeting with Ford and Iacocca
-The President=s comments 
‑Consumerism
‑Ford

Economy
-Manchester Guardian article
‑George P. Shultz and Connally
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Interest rates
-President=s comments to Burns
-Connally=s role

‑Shultz
‑Administration's position
-Possible White House statement
‑Burns' statement
‑Interest rates
‑Chase Manhattan Bank
-Connally=s view
‑Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑Unknown man's statement
-Connally=s jurisdiction
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Herbert Stein
‑Hendrik S. Houthakker
‑Connally=s statement
-Chase Manhattan Bank
-Unknown CEA official comments
-Effect on Connally
-President=s view
‑Burns
‑CEA
‑Connally's role
‑Chase National Bank
-President=s previous meeting with Burns
-Discussion topics
-Ehrlichman=s recollection
-Burns
‑Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Connally
‑Unknown CEA official
‑Ziegler's press statement
‑Briefing comments
-Connally=s role
‑Federal Reserve Board
‑CEA
-Shultz
-Connally=s role
-CEA
-Need for coordination
-McCracken
-Connally

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Ford and Iacocca
‑Airbags

-The President=s view
‑Bumpers
-The President=s comments

Volpe
‑Tenure
‑Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
‑Role
‑Italians
‑Department of Transportation

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:55 am.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Ford and Iacocca

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:08 am.

Cabinet
‑Volpe
‑Role
-Public relations
‑Meeting with the President
‑George W. Romney
‑Speech
‑Revenue sharing
‑Labor
‑Support for the President
‑Volpe
‑Role
-Ehrlichman=s view

President's schedule
‑Visit to California
‑Legislative meeting, May 4, 1971
-Event at shipyard

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[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.]

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Ford, Iacocca and an unknown man [Ziegler] entered at 11:08 am.  Haldeman left.

Greetings

The unknown man left at 11:08 am.

[General conversation]
‑Golf
‑Europe
‑Unknown man's trip
‑President's schedule

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from April 1983 for Special Access 65, Whitmore v. General Motors Corporation, No. C82-500 A.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time during the transcribed portion.

Ford, Iacocca and Ehrlichman left at 11:43 am.

Conversation No. 488‑16

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  11:43 am ‑ 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Winton M. (ARed@) Blount and George P. Shultz.

Greetings

Economy
‑Interest rates
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Problems

Blount's tenure
-Postmaster General

Shultz's meeting with James D. Corbett, April 26, 1971
‑New York
‑University Club

Postal Service
‑Wage negotiations
‑Labor
-Contract negotiations
‑Costs

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:43 am.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with ambassadors of Kuwait and Guinea

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

Postal Service Labor negotiations
‑Management's position
-Postal supervisors
-Previous contract
‑Outlook

‑Wage increases
‑Costs
-Effect on government
‑Productivity improvements
‑Grievance procedures
‑Discipline
‑Management rights
‑Technology improvements
‑Wage increases
‑Impact on Government employees
‑Management's position
‑Shultz
‑Budget
‑Possible rate increase
‑Wage increases
‑Amount
‑Cost
‑Legislation
‑Comparability of pay
‑Government and private sector
‑President's options
‑Congress
‑Pay bills
‑Union activities
‑Procedures
‑Wage increases
‑Pressures
-Effect on other government workers
‑Wage increases
‑Productivity
‑Negotiations
‑Timing
‑Fact‑finding procedures
‑Arbitration
‑Importance
‑Decisions
‑Postal Service's position
-President=s view
-Blount=s role
‑Balance
‑Management's position
‑Compatibility of pay
‑Productivity Commission

‑Bargaining
-Shultz=s view
‑Procedures
‑Psychology
‑Union's position
‑Arbitration
‑Postal regions
‑Local post offices
‑Political influence
‑Reorganization of regions
-Blount=s view
‑Congress
‑Management's stance
‑Reductions‑in‑force
-President=s view
‑Closing of bases
‑Russell B. Long
‑Funds

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:43 am.

Refreshment

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

Postal Service
‑Reorganization
-Blount
‑Postal regions
‑Administration's position
‑Organization
‑Top officials
‑Recruitment of talent
-Businessmen
‑Gen. Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.
‑Qualifications
‑Joint Chiefs of staff
‑Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
‑Age
‑Military
-President=s view
‑Gen. Lucius D. Clay, Jr.
‑Chapman

‑Ambassadors
‑Philippines
‑Raymond A. Spruance
 ‑Background
‑Douglas MacArthur
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Retirement
‑Salary
‑Retire Chief Executive officers
‑Bucky Newsom [sp?]
‑Bert S. Cross
‑Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company
‑Age
‑Robert C. Tyson
-Previous assignment for the President
‑US steel corporation
‑Qualifications
‑Military
‑Air Force
‑Navy
‑Bernard Schreiver
‑Texas
-President=s view
‑Missiles

Businesses
‑Hirings
‑Veterans
‑James F. Oates
‑Blacks

Postal Service
‑Recruitment
‑Newsom [sp?]
‑Possible meeting with the President
‑Blount
‑Tenure
‑Newsom [sp?]
‑Boys clubs
‑Cleveland

Blount's conversation with George C. Wallace
‑Moorer
‑Qualifications

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  8m 1s  ]

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President's schedule
‑Possible visit to Alabama
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Scheduling
‑Meeting with ambassadors of Kuwait and Guinea

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[National Security]
[Duration:  46s  ]

FOREIGN RELATIONS

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‑Previous Cabinet Meeting
‑United Nations [UN]
-Other cities
‑New York

‑George H.W. Bush
-Press coverage
‑Guinea
‑Building

Blount's performance

The President, Blount, and Shultz left at 12:16 pm.

Conversation No. 488‑17

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:16 pm and 12:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service?] entered at an unknown time after 12:16 pm.

Unknown activity

President's schedule
-Location

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:40 pm.

Conversation No. 488‑18

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  12:43 pm ‑ 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William Perkins, Gary Perkins, and John S. Davies; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions
‑Edward C. Nixon

Photo

President's schedule
‑Unknown man
‑Reception of foreign visitors
‑Ceremony
‑Meeting with ambassadors

Seal

Flags
‑Decorations

Presentation of gifts
‑Cuff links
‑Golf balls

Farewells

W. Perkins, G. Perkins, and Davies left at 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 488‑19

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  12:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule

The President and Bull left at 12:46 pm.

Conversation No. 488‑20

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:46 pm and 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield and an unknown man met at an unknown time after 12:46 pm.

President's Location
-Schedule
‑Unknown Activity
‑Barber Shop

Butterfield and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:10 pm.

Conversation No.  488-21

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:46 pm and 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

President=s location
-Schedule

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 1:10 pm.

Conversation No. 488‑22

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  4:40 pm ‑ 4:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and an unknown man.

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Federal Reserve Board officials

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:52 pm.

‑Unknown meeting
‑Length

Herbert W. Kalmbach's activities
-Campaign contributions
‑Henry Ford II

Paul Sontag [sp?]

H.R. Haldeman was present at an unknown time after 4:40 pm.

Ford

Bernard J. ("Bunny") Lasker

Edmund S. Muskie

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 4:52 pm.

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Lasker
‑Chefs
‑Madison Hotel

Stock market
-President=s view
‑Publicity
‑Level of activity
‑U.S. News & World Report

President's meeting with Russell B. Long
-Government reorganization
‑Republicans
‑Liberals
‑Compared with revenue sharing

Revenue sharing
‑Republicans
‑Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
‑Democrats
‑Liberals
-Government reorganization 
‑Stewart Alsop[?]

Government reorganization
‑Department of Agriculture
‑John B. Connally
‑Andy Rouse
‑Proposals

Economic policy
‑Connally's role
-Administration spokesman
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Statement
-President=s view
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑George P. Shultz
‑McCracken
-Connally=s role
‑Ehrlichman's role

John A. Volpe
‑President's conversation with Haldeman
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Ambassador
‑Italy
‑Cabinet
‑Speaker

Cabinet personnel
‑Italians
‑William T. Pecora
‑Unknown General Counsel
-Possible appointments at Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Possible appointment
‑Volpe

‑Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
‑Hispanics
‑Future meeting between Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Mitchell
-Department of Agriculture
‑Clifford M. Hardin
‑Tenure
-Opposition
‑American Farm Bureau Federation
‑Unknown man
‑Qualifications
‑Connally
‑Rogers C.B. Morton
‑Rumsfeld's possible role
-Public relations ability

President's previous meeting with Lide A. Iacocca and Ford
‑Air bag
-The President=s view
-Seat belts
‑Development
-Current problems
-Administration=s position
-Delay
‑Volpe
‑Administration's position
-Seat belts
‑Regulations
‑Implementation
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Schedule

Office of Emergency Preparedness
‑Directorship
‑George A. Lincoln
‑National Security Council [NSC]
‑Price Daniel
‑Agnew
-Staff
‑Lincoln
‑Reassignment
‑Tenure
‑Henry A. Kissinger
-Gen. Andrew J. Goodpastor

-The President=s view
‑Politics
‑Ehrlichman=s concern
‑Directorship
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Public relations
-Budget
-Candidates

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Elmer H. Bobst

Ehrlichman left at 4:52 pm.

Conversation No. 488‑23

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:52 pm and 4:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with National Voluntary Action Committee leadership
‑Henry Ford II
-Reception
‑Timing
‑Elmer H. Bobst
‑Rose Mary Woods
‑Voluntary action leadership
‑Location

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:57 pm.

Conversation No. 488‑24

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  4:57 pm ‑ 5:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Elmer H. Bobst

Dictation
-Machine
-Problems
‑Memoranda
‑Charles H. Percy

[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]

Stephen B. Bull entered and left at an unknown time during the transcribed portion.

Letter to Mayor James H. Tate
‑Revenue sharing
‑Tate's support
-Public statement
‑Congress
‑Governors, mayors
-Congress

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  57s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Letter from Nick Charles

Unknown item

[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]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:57 pm.

President's schedule
‑Bobst

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:12 pm.

[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]

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with voluntary action leadership
‑Unknown man (Bobst?)

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[Duration:  58s  ]

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Television
‑Coverage
-Effect
-Woods= view

President's schedule
‑Speech to Chamber of Commerce, April 26, 1971
‑Reception
‑Welfare

[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]

Letters to Woods

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Michael Newton
‑Picture
‑Jerald F. (AJerry@) ter Horst
‑Meeting with Cathy ("Mim") Frazier
‑Cystic fibrosis child
‑ter Horst's reaction

William P. Rogers and Bobst entered at 5:12 pm: the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Photograph
‑Rogers' schedule
‑Woods' schedule
‑Portrait of Washington

Manolo Sanchez entered at 5:13 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez and Woods left at 5:13 pm.

President's schedule
‑Previous meeting with Domestic Council

Rogers left at 5:13 pm.

Cancer research
‑Chief Monzon
‑Bobst's role
-Directorship
‑[Unintelligible first name] Richardson
‑Unknown man

The President talked with the White House operator at 5:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 488‑24A]

[See Conversation No. 2‑47]

[End of telephone conversation]

Cancer research
-Directorship
‑Unknown man
‑Qualifications
‑Ann Landers column
‑Telegrams
‑Congress
‑Progress
-Bobst
‑Clint, Hoffman‑La Roche
‑Albert D. Lasker and Eric G. Johnson
‑New Jersey campaign
‑Bobst's activities
‑Bond committee
‑[Unintelligible name]
‑New Jersey campaign
‑Fundraising
‑Lasker
‑Executive committee
‑Unknown man
‑Murphy [Surname unknown]
‑Son
‑Dr. James S. Murphy
‑Margaretta ("Happy") Rockefeller
‑Bobst's activities
‑Women volunteers

‑Unknown woman
-Fundraising
‑Bobst=s financial supports
-Bobst=s activities
-Funding
-Speeches
‑American Cancer Society
‑Mary Lasker=s financial support
‑Scientists
‑Affiliations
‑Societies
-Successes
‑Bobst's speeches abroad
‑Tokyo
‑Beirut
‑Athens
‑Rio de Janeiro
‑Venezuela
‑Mexico
‑National Institute of Health [NIH]
-Bobst=s meetings

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:13 pm and 5:24 pm.

[Conversation No. 488‑24B]

[See Conversation No. 2‑48]

[End of telephone conversation]

American Cancer Society
-Management
-Qualifications

The President spoke with John D. Ehrlichman between 5:24 pm and 5:25 pm.

[Conversation No. 488-24C]

[See Conversation No. 2-49]

[End of telephone]

Cancer research
‑NIH
‑Candidates
‑Dr. Henry S. Kaplan
‑Stanford University
-Bobst
‑Lung cancer
-Previous research
‑Cigarette smoking
‑Deaths
‑Number
‑Michael E. DeBakey and [unintelligible name]
‑Tulane University
‑Research
-Publicity
‑Bobst's committee
‑Lung cancer
‑Cigarette smoking
‑1950 article in British medical journal
‑London chimney sweepers
‑Coal tar
‑Incidents
-Parallels
-Deaths
‑Upcoming Peru meeting
-Bobst=s goals
-Public  awareness
‑Unknown man's reaction
‑[Unintelligible name]
‑Resolution
‑Relationship
‑Scientific committee
‑Non‑smokers and smokers
‑Report
‑Health departments
‑American Cancer Society
‑Organizations
‑Projects
‑Lung cancer
‑Cigarette smoking
‑Incidents
-Risk factors
‑Update

‑Coronaries
‑Risks
‑Chain smokers
‑American Cancer Society
‑Research
‑Bobst's activities
‑Institutions
‑National Research Council
‑Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads
‑Committees
‑Grants
‑Funds
‑Applications
‑Harvard
‑Yale
‑Columbia
‑Wisconsin
‑Minnesota

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:25 pm.

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with National Voluntary Action leadership
‑Henry Ford II
‑Number
‑Cabinet Room

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.

Cancer
‑Research
‑Bobst=s conversation with University presidents
‑Applications
‑Salaries
‑Teams
‑Grants
‑American Cancer Society
-Research grants
-Budget outlays
‑Basic research
‑NIH
‑Bobst
‑Staff

‑Accomplishments
-Bobst=s view
‑Expenditures
‑Bureaucracy
-Effect
‑Applications
‑Basic research
‑Medical education
‑Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
‑Publicity
-Importance
‑NIH
-Budget
-Spending
‑Leadership
-Qualifications

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:25 pm.

President's schedule
‑Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.

Cancer
‑Research
‑Committee
‑Head
‑Doctor
‑American Cancer Society
-Bobst=s role
‑Bobst's possible meeting with Kaplan
‑Ehrlichman
‑Kaplan
‑Position
‑Planning
‑Businessmen
‑Warner Lambert Pharmaceutical Company
-Bobst

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:25 pm.

President's schedule
‑Ehrlichman
‑National Voluntary Action leadership

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.

Warner Lambert Pharmaceutical Company
‑Gross sales
‑Prospects
‑First quarter
‑Earnings

Economy
‑President's conversations with executives
‑First quarter
-Improvements

Presentation of gifts
‑Cuff links
‑"Dodo" Bobst
‑Presidential paper weight
‑Tie clasp
‑Key chain

Ehrlichman entered at 5:45 pm.

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with National Voluntary Action leadership
‑Bobst's schedule

NIH
‑Appropriations
-President=s view
‑Leadership
‑Bureaucracy
‑Breakthrough
-Cancer

Cancer program
‑Administration's position
‑Bobst's view
-Leadership
‑Expenditures

‑Doctors
‑American Cancer Society
‑[Forename unknown] Shiely
‑Schedule

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:45 pm.

Shiely's location

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:52 pm.

Cancer program
‑Management
‑Kaplan
‑Qualifications
‑Bureaucracy
‑Money
‑Overhead
‑Organization
‑Landers' column
‑Wires
-Numbers
‑Directorship
‑Organization
‑Bureaucracy
-President=s view
‑Bobst's possible meeting with Kaplan
‑Kaplan
‑Qualifications
-Directorship
-Business background
‑American Cancer Society
‑Budget
‑Overhead

President's schedule
‑National Voluntary Action leadership
‑Bobst's schedule

Cancer
‑Crusade
-Public concerns
-State of the Union speech

‑Money
‑NIH
‑Administration's position
‑Smoking
‑Research
‑England
‑Cigarettes

Bobst's schedule
‑Woods
‑"Dodo" Bobst
‑Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Bobst and Ehrlichman left at 5:52 pm.

Conversation No. 488‑25

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  5:54 pm ‑ 6:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull at 5:54 pm.

President's schedule
‑National Voluntary Action leadership meeting
‑Length
‑Scheduling

Edwin D. Etherington, Thomas R. Donnelly, Jr., Albert L. Cole, Max M. Fisher, Henry Ford II, Leonard H. Goldenson, Gustave Levy, Raymon H. Mulford, Frank Pace, Jr., Paul Sonnabend, W. Clement Stone, Lynn A. Townsend, and George L. Grassmuck entered.

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:15 pm.

Members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
‑Cole's schedule
‑Florida

Photo session
‑Grouping

[General Conversation]

‑Volunteer
‑Chrysler

[Machine Noise]

Voluntary action
‑President
‑Etherington
‑Leadership
‑Administration support
-The President
-Cabinet officials
‑Celebrity value
‑Merits
‑Organizations
‑New activities
‑Impetus
‑Boys Clubs
‑President's travels
‑Peace Corps
‑Youth
‑Older people
‑Creativity
‑President's schedule
‑Boys Club
‑Cystic fibrosis girl
‑Cathy ("Mim") Frazier
‑Michael Newton
‑Picture
‑President's support
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Cabinet
‑Ideas
‑Form
‑Centers
-Goals
‑Performance
‑Resources

‑Robert H. Finch
‑Grassmuck
‑Government funds
‑Planning
‑Success
‑Publicity
‑Successes
‑Advertisement
‑Centers
‑Coordination
‑Local level
‑Agencies
‑National level
‑Agencies
‑Immunization program
‑Children
‑Program
‑Pragmatism
‑Centers
‑Goal
‑Pattern
‑Satisfactions
‑Examples
‑Publicity
‑Advertising
‑Rewards
‑Acceptance
‑Details
‑Deadline

Schedule
‑Reception for Voluntary Action leadership

Voluntary Action
‑Plan
‑President's dinner with [Forename unknown] Borden
‑President's support
‑Assets
‑Cabinet
‑Congressmen and Senators
‑Celebrities
‑Elvis A. Presley
-Effect

‑President's meeting with Presley
‑Older people
‑Talent
‑Lenore Romney
‑Activities
-Astronauts

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:54 pm.

Schedule
‑Sports personalities

Voluntary action
-Volunteers
‑Carl M. Yastrzemski

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:15 pm.

‑Activities
‑Hank Aaron
‑Harmon Killebrew
‑President's meeting with Yastrzemski
‑Yastrzemski's activities

[General conversation]

‑Children
‑John A. Scali
‑President's schedule
‑Reception for Voluntary Action group
‑Rose Garden

The President, Etherington, et al., left at 6:15 pm.

Conversation No. 488‑26

Date:  April 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:15 pm and 6:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield and an unknown man met at an unknown time after 6:15 pm

President's schedule
-President=s location
‑Upcoming reception for Voluntary Action Group

Unknown Activity

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 6:19 pm.