Conversation No. 489‑1

Date:  April 26, l971
Time:  Unknown between 10:24 am and 11:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

Manolo Sanchez and an unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] met.

President's location

Sanchez and the unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 11:05 am.

Conversation No. 489‑2

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:24 am and 11:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with John G. Gorton
‑Trip to Constitution Hall
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

President and Bull left at an unknown time before 11:05 am.

Conversation No. 489‑3

Date:  April 26, l971
Time:  Unknown between 11:05 am and 11:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) entered.

President's location

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:52 am.

Conversation No. 489‑4

Date:  April 26, l971
Time:  Unknown between 11:46 am and 11:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Instructions

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:52 am.

Conversation No. 489‑5

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:46 am and 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
‑Upcoming Congressional half‑hour
-Frequency
‑Previous Chamber of Commerce speech
-Haldeman=s reaction
-Examples
‑Rio Grande High School
‑Demonstrations
‑William L. Safire
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Freedom
‑Lines
‑Foreign aid
‑Examples
‑History
-Importance of using examples

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:52 am.

United Nations [UN] Anniversary Commission
‑Report
‑Henry Cabot Lodge
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑John A. Scali

Vietnam
‑Lodge
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Possible conversation with the President

Kissinger's schedule
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

President's schedule
‑Haldeman
‑Press

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

Vietnam
‑North Vietnamese military activity
‑Possible US military response
-Bombing
-Rationale

[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]

‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Woodstock
‑Possible US military activity
-President=s instructions
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑US withdrawal
‑Peace negotiations
‑David K.E. Bruce
‑Congress
‑Jack R. Miller
-Proposal
‑POWs
‑Bruce
‑POW proposal
-Public relations
-North Vietnamese reaction
‑Possible US position
-Deadline for US withdrawal
‑POWs
-Possible Presidential statement on television
‑Ceasefire
-Timing

[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]

‑Possible US proposal
-US strategy
‑Scali
‑US withdrawal
‑Lodge
‑Pope Paul VI
-Possible meeting with the President

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with UN Anniversary Commission members
‑Lodge

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-Kissinger's schedule
‑Dobrynin
-President=s assessment

Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑POWs
‑Bruce
‑Miller=s proposal
‑POWs
‑Release
‑Possible US proposal on POWs
-President=s concern
‑Bruce
‑POW wives
‑Veterans
‑POW wives
-Possible Kissinger involvement
‑Unknown woman leader

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:52 pm.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with UN anniversary commission members
‑Cabinet Room
‑Gifts
‑Pens
‑Cufflinks
‑Andrew Wyeth

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

SALT negotiations
-Kissinger's schedule
‑Dobrynin

Vietnam
‑Peace negotiations
‑Possible US proposal
-President=s view
‑POW wives
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Gen. James D. (ADon@) Hughes
‑Veterans
‑POW wives
‑Unknown woman
-Kissinger=s possible meeting
-Previous public statements
‑POWs
‑Possible US proposal
‑Bruce
-Previous US proposal
-Bruce

[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
-Approval
‑Kissinger's possible initiatives

SALT negotiations
-Kissinger's schedule
‑Dobrynin

[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]

‑Possible summit meeting
-Kissinger=s possible comments to Dobrynin
‑US position
‑Anti‑ballistic Missiles [ABMs]
-Kissinger=s view
-Soviet Union=s position
‑Possible US position

The President and Kissinger left at 12:07 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑6

Date:  April 26, l971
Time:  Unknown between 12:07 pm and 12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) entered.

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

Conversation No. 489‑7

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  12:17 pm ‑ 12:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Cathy ("Mim") Frazier, Mr. & Mrs. James Frazier, Paul Frazier, Robert P. Griffin, David Laro, Ann Brewer, John C. Nidecker, and John K. Andrews, Jr.; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions
‑Poster child
‑Michigan
‑Joe Butts (sp?)

[General conversation]

Photo session

[Camera noise]

Photo session
‑Grouping
‑Atkins

Presentation of gifts
‑Seal
‑Cufflinks
‑Viewmaster

White House tour

President's autograph
‑Signature
‑Laro

President's schedule

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Cathy Frazier, et al.,  left at 12:24 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑8

Date:  April 26, l971
Time:  12:26 pm ‑ 12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Howard H. Baker, Jr., La Mar Baker, Gordon Wetmore, Benjamin L. Longley, Paul V. Nolan, Paul L. Johnson, A.C. Ball, John C. Nidecker, and John K. Andrews, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

President's schedule
‑Tennessee

Greetings

Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]

Photos
‑John W. Dean, III
‑Grouping
‑Wetmore

Wetmore's activities
‑Father
‑Career
‑Office
‑Richard V. Allen

Photos
‑Posing

Tennessee
‑Baker's conversation with Winfield Dunn
‑Dunn
‑Schedule
‑Republican Governors Conference
‑Legislation
‑Message to the President

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‑Legislative program
‑House
‑Democrats
‑Dunn
‑Legislative program
‑Republicans

Presentation of gifts
‑Cuff links

Tennessee

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Schedule
‑Flowers

President's schedule
‑Ohio State Fair Youth Choir

Baker's schedule
‑Winton M. (ARed@) Blount

Tennessee
‑Delegation

Farewells

Baker, et al., left at 12:33 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑9

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Ohio State Fair Youth Choir
‑Songs
‑Certificate
‑Unknown Ohio Congressman

The President and Bull left at 12:33 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑10

Date:  April 26, l971
Time:  Unknown time between 12:44 pm and 1:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Barber
‑Appointment

President's schedule, April 27, l971
‑Barber
‑Diplomatic credentials
‑Kuwait and Guinea
‑Timing

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑11

Date:  April 26, l971
Time:  1:00 pm ‑ 2:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Farm organizations
-Concern
‑Farm bill
‑Roger W. Fleming
-Support for the President
‑President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Fleming
‑John C. Whitaker
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Farm Bureau
‑Support for administration
‑Whitaker's possible role
-John D. Ehrlichman=s view
‑Robert R. Spitzer
‑Veto power
‑Environment
‑Farmers
‑Clifford M. Hardin

Secretary of Agriculture
‑Appointment
‑Candidates

Farm organizations
-@Salute to Agriculture@ event
-Participation
‑Farm Bureau
‑Farmers union
‑Chamber of Commerce
‑Food stamps
‑Support for the President
‑Congress
‑Farm unions
‑Farm Bureau

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Farm Bureau officials
‑Whitaker

Zosimo Delacruz
‑Chef
‑Possible promotion
-President=s view

‑Navy
‑Rank
‑[Forename unknown (sp?)] Mendoza
‑Possible promotion

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Elvis A. Presley
-Previous meeting with the President
-Drug prevention
-Colson
‑Look and Life magazine
‑[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
‑Francis A. (AFrank@) Sinatra
‑Royalties
‑Records and movies

Cabinet
-Public relations efforts
-President=s view
‑George W. Romney
‑Speech
‑Revenue sharing
‑John B. Connally
‑Connally
‑Activities
‑Publicity
‑Haldeman's possible conversation with Ehrlichman
‑President's meetings with department heads
‑Romney
‑John A. Volpe
‑Maurice H. Stans

‑Scheduling
‑Volpe
‑Rogers C.B. Morton
‑Romney
‑Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑James D. Hodgson
‑John N. Mitchell
-Connally
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑William P. Rogers
‑Hardin
‑Possible meeting
‑Hodgson
‑Volpe
‑Ehrlichman's view
‑Volpe and Stans

Secretary of Agriculture
-Hardin
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Herbert Brownell
-Possible replacement
-Haldeman=s forthcoming conversation with Harlow
-Whitaker=s previous conversation with Harlow
-Rogers

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Farm Bureau leaders
‑Harlow
‑Ohio State Fair Youth Choir
‑Tour
‑Europe

President's previous speech to Chamber of Commerce
‑Use of examples
-Rio Grande story
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Text
‑Importance of stories
-Use of examples
‑Press coverage
‑Audience

‑Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
‑Republican Governors Conference
‑Rio Grande story
‑Television
‑Press conference
‑Use of examples
‑Richard A. Moore
‑Stories and anecdotes
‑Press coverage
‑Guaranteed annual wage
-President=s position
‑Welfare reform
‑William L. Safire
‑DAR speech
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt quote
‑Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie
-Speeches
‑Audiences
‑Republican Governors Conference
‑Story
‑Rio Grande High School group
‑Mexican‑Americans
‑Welfare reform

Vietnam
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Schedule
‑Italy
‑John A. Scali
‑US policy
‑Tactics
-Scali
-President=s view
‑POW wives
‑Gen. James D. (ADon@) Hughes
‑Publicity
‑Colson
-Public relations efforts
‑Kissinger

Possible Presidential press conference
‑Kissinger

[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]

‑Scali=s view
‑Timing
‑Audience
‑Prime time
‑Movies
‑Networks
‑Disruption
‑Timing
‑Movies
‑Audience
-President=s view
-Haldeman=s view
-Timing

Upcoming demonstrations
‑Haldeman's conversation with Gen. Walter R. Tkach
‑Traffic disruptions

Possible Presidential press conference
‑Timing
‑President's schedule
‑Scali's view
‑Television
‑Advantages
‑Frequency
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Possible announcement
‑People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
‑Press coverage
‑Interpretation of President's possible remarks
‑Distortions
‑First Marine Division speech
-Camp Pendleton

‑Agricultural day
‑Announcement
-Previous press conference
‑Editors
‑Howard K. Smith

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:00 pm.

President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm.

Press conference
‑President's goals
‑Staff
‑Strength
‑Audience
-Number
‑Columnists
‑President's schedule
‑Florida
‑Giuseppe Saragat
‑Timing
‑President's schedule

President's schedule
‑Visit to Lyndon B. Johnson Library
‑Florida
‑California
-Timing of press conference
‑Saragat
‑Service academies
‑West Point
‑May 15, l971
-President=s view
‑First Marine Division speech
-Themes
‑Talking points
‑Length
-President=s view
‑Armed Forces Day
‑Reception
‑First Marine Division speech

-Possible public relations efforts
‑Florida
‑Timing
‑Visit to Johnson Library
‑Indianapolis
‑Race
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] conference of cities
-President=s attendance
‑Johnson Library
-Guests
‑Plane
‑Florida
‑Plane
‑Seats
‑Alabama visit
‑Possibilities
‑Birmingham
‑Parade
‑Previous Chamber of Commerce speech
‑Support for the President
‑Florida
‑Johnson Library
-Plane logistics
‑National Council of Boys Scouts, April 27, 1971
‑Atlanta
‑Adults
‑Alabama visit
‑Explorer Scouts, June 2, 1971
‑Washington conference
‑Possible visit to White House
-Haldeman=s view
‑Arkansas River
‑Timing
‑Tricia Nixon's wedding
‑First Marine Division
‑Kissinger's reaction
‑Senegal
-President=s view
-Upcoming events
‑Wedding anniversary
‑Fathers' Day
‑California

Kissinger's schedule
‑Lunch
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:00 pm.

‑Location

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm.

President's schedule April 27, 1971
‑Meeting with Elmer H. Bobst
‑Cancer research
‑Bobst's schedule
‑Morton
‑Walter Williams[?]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:00 pm.

Kissinger's schedule
‑Lunch
‑Dean G. Acheson

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm.

President's schedule, April 27, 1971
‑James C. Fletcher swearing‑in ceremony
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Blount
‑Bobst
‑National Center for Voluntary Action leadership
‑National Center for Voluntary Action

Press conference
‑Timing
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Reception
‑Staff reaction
‑President=s preparation
-Difficulties
-White House staff
‑President's remarks

President's schedule
‑Visit to Johnson Library
‑Planes
-Guests
‑Hughes
‑Braniff
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Role
‑Johnson

President's upcoming schedule
-April 29, l971
‑Jayne B. Spain
‑Civil Service Commission
-Possible press conference
-Preparation
-April 28, 1971
‑Laird
‑James E. Johnson
-April 29, 1971
‑Spain
-April 28, l971
‑Johnson
‑Assignment

Appointments
‑Women
‑Publicity
‑Release
‑Spain

President's wilderness message
‑Bill
‑Signing ceremony

President's schedule
‑California
‑Lockheed

 Lockheed
‑Possible announcement
‑Ehrlichman's view
‑Connally
‑Pennsylvania Railroad
‑Humphrey
‑Announcement
-Ehrlichman=s location

President's schedule
‑California
‑Private school financing
‑Publicity
‑Buchanan

President's upcoming speeches
‑@A Salute to Agriculture@ speech
‑Radio
‑Quality of life
‑Price
‑Noel C. Koch
‑Complexity
‑Price
‑Quality
‑Anecdotes
-Importance
‑Sermons
‑Camp David
‑Unknown man
‑Bible reading
‑Abraham Lincoln's speeches
-Gettysburg Address
‑Cold intellectualism
‑@A Salute to Agriculture@ speech
‑Stories
‑Rio Grande High School group
-Human interest
‑Value of work
‑Youth
‑Self help

President's previous Chamber of Commerce speech
-Welfare reform
-President=s comments
-Compared with youth
‑Inflation
‑Economy
‑Safire
‑Audience

President's schedule
‑Visit to Johnson Library
‑Plane
-Guests
‑Democrats
-Logistical problems
‑Florida
‑Claudia A. (Taylor) (ALady Bird@) Johnson
‑Press conference
‑Timing

Press conference
‑Value
‑Timing
‑June 13, 1971
‑Office press conference
‑President's schedule
‑Florida

President's schedule
‑Alabama
‑Congressional recess

Press conference
‑Office press conference

Mitchell
‑Richard G. Kleindienst

Haldeman left at 2:00 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑12

Date:  April 26, l971
Time:  Unknown time between 2:00 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑13

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:00 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule

President's schedule
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑14

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:00 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

President's schedule
‑Ronald L. Ziegler

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑15

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:00 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Ronald L. Ziegler's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑16

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  2:54 pm ‑ 2:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Dwight L. Chapin.

President's schedule
‑California
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo

Chapin left at 2:55 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑17

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  2:57 pm ‑ 4:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Vietnam
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Gen. James D. (ADon@) Hughes
‑Memorandum
‑US policy
‑Charles W. Colson
‑POW wives
‑Issues
‑Henry A. Kissinger and John A. Scali
‑President's position
-Public relations efforts
‑POWs
‑North Vietnamese position
‑Demonstrations
-Possible effect on North Vietnamese position
‑US stance
‑Peace negotiations
‑Paris
‑Kissinger's schedule
-US strategy
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
-President=s view
‑Possible North Vietnamese stance
‑US strategy
‑South Vietnamese

‑Kissinger
‑US troop withdrawals
‑Residual force
-Numbers
‑POWs
-Effect on negotiations
‑Congressional resolutions
‑US position
-Possible proposals
-Return of POWs
-Ceasefire
‑North Vietnamese position
‑Possible US military activities

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:03 pm.

Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon's schedule
‑Meeting
‑Tricia Nixon
‑Wedding cake

[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.

Ziegler's press briefing
‑Attributions to the President
‑Supreme Court decision on school integration
-Possible comments by the Presidents
‑President=s previous [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson speech
‑Vietnam
‑U.S. goals
‑President's speech, April 7, 1971
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Mao Tse‑tung
‑President's remarks before American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
-Possible visit to PRC

President's schedule, April 27, 1971
‑United Nation concert
‑Unknown man's schedule
‑Announcement

Ziegler left at 3:05 pm.

John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz entered at 3:07 pm.

Anti-trust
-John N. Mitchell
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Solicitor General
-Erwin N. Griswold
-Opinion
-Networks
-Mitchell
-Administration=s position
-Pentagon
-Movie industry
-ITT
-Grinnell Corporation
-Unknown man activities
-Moratorium
‑Walter J. Cummings
‑President's schedule
‑Meeting
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Mitchell
‑Richard W. McLaren
‑John B. Connally
‑Politics
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Connally
-Involvement
‑Airlines
-President=s instructions
-McLaren
‑Politics
-President=s instructions
‑McCracken
‑Herbert Stein and Hendrik S. Houthakker
-Connally

-Mitchell
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Shultz
‑Council of Economic Advisers [CEA]

Haldeman left at 3:12 pm.

‑Economics
-Shultz=s speeches
‑Mitchell=s role
-Problems
‑Cases
‑Possible administration position

Anti-trust
-Networks
-Flanigan
-ITT
-President=s conversation with Mitchell
-Griswold
-Tenure
-Archibald Cox
-Cox
-John F. Kennedy
-Griswold
-Harold S. Geneen
-Administration=s position
-Griswold
-McLaren
-Tenure
-Importance
-Geneen

 Lockheed
‑Ehrlichman's previous conversation with Fred J. Borch
-Borch=s view
‑Great Britain
‑Guarantees
‑Borch's views
-Forthcoming Congressional testimony
‑General Electric [GE] Company
‑McDonnell‑Douglas
‑Hubert H. Humphrey=s support

-Borch=s view
‑Financing
-Great Britain
‑Guarantees
-US government role
‑Connally=s role
‑Robert S. Ingersoll
-Shultz
-Ingersoll=s view
‑Administration's position
‑Great Britain
‑Borch=s suggestion
-US government role
-Airlines
-Connally=s analysis
‑President=s position
‑California
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Borch
-Need for US government assistance
‑McDonnell‑Douglas
‑Connally

Revenue sharing
‑General
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Russell B. Long
‑John W. Byrnes
-Shultz=s meetings with Mills and Byrnes
‑Talking paper
‑States
‑Shultz's conversation with Mills
-Mills possible support
‑H.R. 1
-Administration proposal
-Special revenue sharing
‑Fund distribution
‑Formula
‑State needs
‑Arkansas
‑Byrnes view
‑Mills view

-Byrnes view
-Possible support
‑H.R. 1
‑Hearings
-Shultz=s meeting with Mills
‑William L. Gifford
‑State supplements
‑Administration's position
‑Welfare bill
‑Mills political activities
-Effect on revenue sharing
‑Texas state legislature
-Cities
‑Byrnes
-Support
‑Possible meeting with the President

Budget
‑Fiscal 1973
-Fiscal 1972
‑Full employment
‑Balance
-Congressional hearing
-Fiscal 1973
‑Defense
-Shultz=s testimony
‑Overview
‑Shultz's initiatives
‑Balance
‑Full employment
‑Options
‑Review
‑Full employment
‑Balance
‑Taxes
‑Outlays
‑Fiscal 1973
‑Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
‑Funding
‑Administration options
-Effect of full employment
‑Increment
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

‑Kissinger
‑Cash realizations
-Effect on Fiscal 1973
‑Safeguards
-Effect on future budgets

Revenue sharing
‑Mills
‑Political aspirations
‑Richard B. Russell
‑Southern Democrats
-President=s view
‑Cooperation with administration
‑Pressure from colleagues
‑Plan
‑Welfare reform bill

Welfare reform
‑Administration position
-Administration=s meetings with Congressional leaders
‑Ehrlichman's schedule
‑President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Long
‑Health plan
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Mills staff
‑Gifford
‑Views
‑Long
‑John J. Williams
‑Administration position
‑Family assistance program
-Administration action
-Need for support
‑Liberals
‑Opposition
-Family assistance program
‑Minimum wage
‑Mills view
‑Unemployed
‑Coverage
‑Secretary of Labor
‑James D. Hodgson

‑Exceptions
‑Youth differential
-Mills
‑18 year‑old vote

President's schedule, April 27, l971
‑Connally
‑Elmer H. Bobst
‑Heath initiative
‑Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
‑Connally
-Presidential involvement
‑Lockheed
-Connally=s role

 Lockheed
‑Review
‑Penn Central Railroad
-Presidential involvement
-Ehrlichman=s view
‑Competitors

Welfare reform
‑Mills
-Administration proposal
‑Mayors
‑Carl B. Albert
‑Democrat leadership
‑President's previous speeches
-Republican Governors Conference
‑ Chamber of Commerce
‑Guaranteed annual income
‑Popular reaction
‑George W. Romney
‑Speech
‑View regarding labor
‑Revenue sharing
‑Chamber of Commerce

Shultz's schedule
‑Trip to Chicago
‑Speech to Economic Club
‑Reception
-Questions for Shultz

Economy
‑Profits
‑Productivity
‑Administration position
‑Ezra Solomon
‑McCracken
‑Stanford
-Possible position
‑Schedule
‑Janet Solomon
‑Retail sales
‑Weather
‑General Motors
‑Airlines
‑Stocks
‑Tickets
‑Businessmen
‑American Express
‑Shultz's schedule
‑Trip to Chicago
‑Montgomery Ward
‑Unknown executive
‑Mail order
‑Sales
‑Sears
‑Bell & Howell
‑Peter G. Peterson
-Mail order
-Increases
‑Retail sales
‑March 1971
‑First quarter
‑April 1971
‑Dan Cerrill [sp?]
‑Recruitment of scientists
‑Difficulties
-Views

‑Ford Company
‑Building complex
‑Scientists and engineers
-Campus setting
‑Schools
‑Welfare
‑Chicago
‑Transition

Chicago
‑Shultz=s view
‑Washington

States
‑Unemployment
‑New England
‑Grants
‑Shift

Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑Solomon and Stein
-Abilities
‑Stein
‑Mildred Stein

Economy
‑Paul A. Samuelson's views
‑Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-Shultz=s association with Samuelson
‑Samuelson and Milton Friedman
‑Qualities
‑Federal Reserve Board
‑Shultz's schedule, April 29, 1971
‑Meeting with Friedman

President's schedule, April 29, 1971
‑[James] Harold Wilson
‑Trip to California
‑First Marine Division
‑Shultz's schedule, April 29, 1971

‑National Commission on Productivity
‑First Marine Division
‑Ceremony
‑Timing

Economy
‑Administration policies
‑Issues
‑Vietnam
-Welfare reform

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:12 pm.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with John G. Gorton
‑Kissinger
‑Farm Bureau leaders

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:56 pm.

Economy
‑Vietnam
‑Administration policies
‑Shultz's forthcoming activities
‑Talks with business groups
‑New York
‑Academics
‑Vietnam

Environment

Youth
‑Bombings
‑Vietnam
‑Ehrlichman's schedule
‑Stanford University
‑President
‑Richard W. Lyman

Stanford University
‑Lyman
-Background
‑Faculty

‑Disorders
‑Element
-Ehrlichman=s previous visit
-Meeting With alumni and faculty
-Reception

Vietnam
‑"Winter of discontent"
‑"Spring of uncertainty"
‑Outlook

President's schedule
‑California

Ehrlichman's schedule
‑Trip to Prague
‑UN meeting regarding environment 

Czechoslovakia
‑Prague
-President=s view
‑Jewish cemetery
‑University
‑Communists
‑Churches
‑Economy
‑Pre‑World War II
‑Income
‑French

Ehrlichman's schedule
‑Trip to Prague
‑Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Plan
‑Jean Ehrlichman

Kissinger entered at 3:56 pm.

‑Shultz's schedule
‑Trip to Prague
‑Timing

President's schedule
‑Trip to California
‑First Marine Division
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑President's speech

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 3:57 pm.

-Kissinger=s view
‑Vietnam
-Elections
-Length
-Content
‑Chamber of Commerce

SALT
‑Negotiations
-Kissinger=s previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President=s instructions

President's schedule
-Farm Bureau
‑Gorton

Kissinger's schedule
‑Henry Ford II
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

President's schedule
‑Gorton

US-Soviet Union negotiations
-Kissinger=s previous meeting with Dobrynin
-SALT negotiations
-Summit meeting
-Possibility
-Soviet Foreign Minister=s comments
-Timing
-Soviet position
-Announcement
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Berlin
-Egon Bahr and [David] Kenneth Rush

-Possible US position
-Kissinger=s view
-Soviet Union

SALT
‑US and Soviet negotiations
-Kissinger=s comments to Dobrynin
‑US position
-Wording
-Offensive weapons
-Freeze
‑Soviet position
‑Announcement
-Exchange of letters
‑Prospects
-Kissinger=s view
-Exchange of letters
-Logistics
-The President
-Soviet Union reply
-The President=s response
-Jacob D. Beam
‑William P. Rogers and Gerard C. Smith
-The President=s concern
‑Dobrynin
‑Rogers= schedule
-Kissinger=s involvement
‑Smith

Vietnam
‑President's forthcoming press conference
‑Prisoners of War [POW] issue
‑Possible US proposal
-Public relations aspect 
-Proposal US proposal
-Kissinger

SALT
‑Prospects
-Timing
‑Rogers schedule
‑Announcement
-Timing

‑Dobrynin
‑Possible Soviet position
-Dobrynin
‑Berlin negotiations

Vietnam
‑North Vietnam
‑Possible US military activities
-Bombing
‑Demonstrations
-Bombing
‑Timing
‑Negotiations
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Dobrynin
‑Cuban missile crisis

Summit
‑Prospects

PRC initiative
‑Kissinger's conversation with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
‑Jean Sainteny
‑Mao Tse‑tung's Meeting with Edgar Snow
‑Soviet Union
‑Liberals
‑Intellectuals
‑Hugh S. Sidey
‑John F. Osborne
‑New Republic

Kissinger's previous meeting with Dean G. Acheson
‑Rogers forthcoming trip to Middle East
‑Vietnam
‑Cambodia and Laos
‑Support for President
‑Acheson's dinner at Joseph W. Alsop's, April 26, 1971

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:56 pm.

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Gorton
‑Timing
‑Upcoming meeting with Farm Bureau leaders
‑William J. Kuhfuss
‑Congressional leadership
‑Farm Bureau leaders
‑Wire services

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:12 pm.

Kissinger's previous meeting with Acheson

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Vietnam
‑POWs
‑Hughes activities
‑Possible US proposal
-Public relations effect
‑Possible North Vietnamese position
-Strategy
‑US withdrawal
‑US military options
‑POW'S

Kissinger left at 4:12 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑18

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  4:13 pm ‑ 4:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William J. Kuhfuss, Roger Fleming, Bryce N. Harlow, Charles W. Colson, and John C. Whitaker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with John G. Gorton
‑Timing

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

Photo session

[General conversation]
‑Peoria
‑John B. Connally
‑Cattle

Farm Bureau convention
‑Houston
‑Rogers C.B. Morton

Connally
‑Views regarding agriculture

Agriculture
‑Trade
‑Great Britain
-European union
‑Connally

Farm Bureau
-Relationship with Administration
-The President=s concern
-Meeting with the President
-Fleming
‑Relations with administration
‑Congress
‑Agriculture Committees
‑Harlow
‑Administration's program
‑Farm bill
‑Problems
-Farm Bureau opposition
-Congressional opposition
‑Fleming
‑Relations with administration
‑Areas of cooperation
‑White House staff
‑Meeting with leaders
-Timing
‑President's relations with Fleming
‑[Unintelligible first name] Wilson
-Administration programs
‑Farm organizations
‑Farm unions
‑Administration's problems
-Congress
-Allen J. Ellender
-Page Belcher
‑Farm bill

‑Congress
‑Eisenhower administration
-Previous efforts
‑Farm bill
-Administration=s efforts
‑Consensus of opinion
‑Harlow's activities
‑Belcher
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑Leslie C. Arends
‑Farm bill
‑Fleming's activities
‑Congress
‑White House staff
‑Department of Agriculture
‑Relations with administration
‑Congress
‑Communications
‑White House staff
‑Whitaker
‑Colson
‑Department of Agriculture
‑Issues
-Membership
‑Farm organizations
‑Guidelines
‑Impressions

Agriculture
‑Changes
‑1965
‑Farmer attitudes
‑Market system
‑Administration programs
‑Politics
‑Consumers
‑Department of Agriculture
‑Subsidies
‑Political decisions
-Compared with economic decisions
‑Productivity
-President=s view
‑Farm surpluses

‑Economy
‑Growth
‑Productivity
‑Farm programs
‑Commodities
‑Parity
‑Farm Bureau
‑President's speech
-President=s policies
‑Impact
‑Areas of concern
‑Compared with textiles
‑Farmers beliefs
‑Trade
‑Exports
‑Curtailments
‑Congress
‑Quota bill
‑Textiles
‑Steel
-President=s concerns
‑Agriculture lobby
-Textiles
-Japanese
‑Shoes
‑Steel
‑Jobs
‑Imports and exports
‑Voluntary quotas
-Administration efforts
‑Legislation
‑Connally
‑Trade
-Agriculture

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[National Security]
[Duration:  31s  ]

GREAT BRITAIN

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‑Markets
‑Textiles
‑Farm exports
‑Agricultural commodities
-American industry
‑Steel
‑Radios
‑Japan
‑Markets
‑Australia
-US policy
‑Lamb
‑Beef
‑Cattlemen
‑Quotas
‑Beef
‑Imports
‑Australia
‑Farm community
‑Farm Bureau
-Membership
‑Markets
‑Commodities
-Agricultural products
‑Steel
‑Textiles
‑Shoes
-Markets

‑Congress
‑Quotas
‑President's schedule
‑Meeting
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Peterson's activities
-Report on quotas
‑Trade
-Farm Bureau=s position
-Free trade
-President
‑Congress
‑Competition
‑Farm labor
-President=s policy
‑Democrats
‑Grapes
‑California
‑Harlow
‑Strikes and boycotts
‑Effects
‑Legislation
‑Concerns of Farm Bureau
‑Possible administration initiatives
‑Payments
‑Unknown man
‑Farmers
‑Dependency on government
-Administration=s effects
‑1968
-Increases in dependency
‑Cotton
‑Dependency on government
‑Opposition
‑Future policies
‑President's policies
‑Farmer concerns
-Foreign trade
‑Legislation
‑Congress
‑Labor & Education Committee
‑Prospects
‑Bill

‑Amendments
‑Harlow's possible initiatives
‑Pesticides
‑Administration bill
-Farm Bureau concerns
‑House Agriculture Committee
‑Importance
‑Environment
‑Administration position
‑Administration Bill
‑William R. Poage and [unintelligible name]
‑Conference Committee
‑Prospects
-Language
‑Administration position
-President=s instructions to Whitaker
-Environmentalists
-Farm Bureau efforts
‑Department of Agriculture
‑Farm organizations
‑Bill
‑Processors
‑Administration position
‑Chicago Stock yard
‑Cooperatives
‑Farm Labor Bill
‑Farmers' unions
‑Farm Bureau=s role
-Work with cooperatives
-[Forename unknown] Payton [?]
-Farm Bureau
-Consulation with Administration
‑Department of Agriculture
‑Colson and Whitaker
‑Hyde Murray
‑Legislation
‑Belcher
‑President's conversation with Murray
‑[Forename unintelligible] Johnson
‑Administration's position

‑Farm Bureau
‑President's schedule
-@A Salute to Agriculture@
-@A Salute to Labor@

Farm Bureau
‑Leadership
‑Relations with the President
‑Connally
‑Role
‑Peterson
‑Trade

Presentation of gifts
‑Cufflinks
‑Wives
‑Golf balls
‑Presidential paperweight

Kuhfuss, Fleming, Colson, and Whitaker left at 4:57 pm.

Farm Bureau
‑Issues
‑Pesticides

Harlow left at 4:52 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑19

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  4:58 pm ‑ 5:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John G. Gorton and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

President's schedule
‑Previous meeting with Farm Bureau leaders

Photo session

[General Conversation]

[Machine Noise]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:58 pm.
 
Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.

Australia
-Support for the US
‑Government
-Compared with American government

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[Duration:  24s  ]

AUSTRALIA

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‑President's schedule
‑Possible visit
‑Haig's schedule
‑Chester Waring
‑Floyd Waring
‑Barry Goldwater [?]
‑Patricia Haig
‑Madeline Kane
‑President=s view
-Accomplishments
-Prospects
‑Saline Water

‑Prospects
-Press reports
-American press
-British press
-Compared with Australian press
-Rejection
-President=s view
-Educated elite
-Freedom and totalitarian states
-President=s experiences
-Poland
-Romania
-Yugoslavia
-Hungary
-Czechoslovakia
-Press Corps

Vietnam
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]

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[National Security]
[Duration:  29s  ]

VIETNAM

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‑North Vietnamese
‑US position
-US troops withdrawals
-Support for Republic of South Vietnam
-US efforts on behalf of POWs
‑World opinion

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:58 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.

President's schedule
‑Previous meeting with Farm Bureau leaders
-Imports
‑William Kuhfuss
‑Imports
‑Australian beef
-Kuhfuss= position

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  15m 44s  ]

VIETNAM

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH

AUSTRALIA

WORLD AFFAIRS

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:58 pm.

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Senators

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.

Australia
‑Prospects
-The President=s view
‑Arthur G. (AArt@) Linkletter
‑People

Presentation of gifts
‑Presidential cufflinks
‑Presidential seal
‑Paperweight

Farewells

Gorton and Haig left at 5:25 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑20

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:28 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑21

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  5:28 pm ‑ 6:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Russell B. Long, Wallace F. Bennett, James D. Hodgson, Elliot L. Richardson, John G. Veneman, John D. Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor, and Eugene S. Cowen; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Schedule
‑Meetings with demonstrators

[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]

Photo session
‑Grouping

Welfare policies
‑Richardson

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:28 pm.

Refreshment

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:36 pm

[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 policies
‑Congress
-Support
‑Southern Democrats
‑Long

Gen. Douglas MacArthur
‑Presidency
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Richard B. Russell
‑Television
-Lyndon B. Johnson [?]
-Robert R. Siegrist

Vietnam
-President=s policies
-Long=s view
‑Popular reaction
‑Communist takeover
‑Prisoners of war [POWs]

Legislation
‑Health bill
‑Welfare bill
‑Revenue sharing
‑President's conversation with Richardson
‑Welfare
-Long=s committee
‑Health
-Long
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy's plan
‑Costs

Health bill
‑Senate Finance Committee
‑Possible vote
‑Kennedy bill
‑Catastrophic protection
‑Richardson's testimony
‑Taxes
‑Proposals
‑Kennedy bill

-President=s view
-Costs
‑Medical care
‑Doctors
‑Costs
-Long=s view
-Costs
‑Medicare
‑Costs
‑Dentist
‑1975 projections
‑1990 projections
‑Psychiatrists
‑Contact lenses
-Prosthetic devices
‑Plastic surgery
-Contact lens
-Braces
‑Stock market
-Bausch and Lomb
-Contact lens
‑Medicare
‑Costs
‑Medicaid
‑Costs
‑Calculations
‑Senate Finance Committee
‑Kennedy bill
‑Herman E. Talmadge
‑Long
‑Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
‑Jack R. Miller
‑Possible Amendment
-Background

George McKenna
‑Circuit Court
-Services in Congress
-Amendments
‑Senate Labor Committee

Health bill
‑Senate Finance Committee
‑Possible vote
‑House
‑Kennedy bill
‑Possible vote
‑Ways and Means Committee
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Martha W. Griffiths
‑Walter Reuther=s role
‑Kennedy
‑Labor
‑Kennedy's testimony
-Veterans
‑Catastrophic illness
‑Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's [HEW] cost projections
-Kennedy bill
‑Taxes
‑Financing
‑Senate Finance Committee
‑Possible vote
‑Long and Talmadge
‑Byrd
‑Miller
‑Iowa
‑American Medical Association [AMA]
‑Medicredit bill
‑Clifford P. Hansen
-B. Everett Jordan
-Carl T. Curtis
-Compared with Kennedy bill
‑Administration bill
‑Bennett's conversation with Hansen
‑American Medical Association [AMA]
‑Kennedy
‑Abraham A. Ribicoff
‑President's possible conversation with Ribicoff
-Possible compromise
‑Liberal Democrats
‑Ribicoff
‑Insurance industry
‑Hartford
‑Scope and benefits

‑Mandated coverage
-Costs
-Ribicoff=s possible supports
‑Private insurance
‑Social Security program
‑Reserves
‑Insurance carriers
‑Consortium
‑Administration of program
‑Pan American
‑Louisiana
‑Ribicoff
‑Blue Cross, Blue Shield
-Bennett=s comments
‑Long
‑Catastrophic protection
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Doctors
‑Medical profession
‑Kennedy bill
‑AMA bill
‑Hansen's testimony
‑Tax credits
‑Approach
‑Cost
‑Responsibility for insurance
-Private sector
-Government assistance to the poor
‑Kennedy bill
‑Private insurance sector
‑Long's possible initiative
‑Free medicine
‑Senate committee hearing
-Long
-Public relations
‑Education
‑Educational process
‑Kennedy bill
-President=s view
‑Costs
‑Effect on private insurance sector and medical profession
‑Congressional hearings
‑Chamber of Commerce

‑Welfare program
‑Kennedy bill
‑Hearings
‑Budget for health
-Health expenditures
‑Costs
‑Compared with wage and price controls
-Centralization
‑Costs
-Richardson=s view
‑Federal Government
-Problems of centralization
‑Medicare
‑Costs
‑Pressures
‑Allocating resources
‑Penicillin
‑Costs
‑Tuberculosis
‑Cancer
‑Cure
‑Medical care
‑Costs
-X-rays
-Treatments
‑Medical science
-Innovation
‑Ceiling
‑Levels of care
‑Private sector
‑Lid
‑Care
‑Union insurance plans
‑Unions
‑Kennedy bill
‑Support
‑Administration bill
‑Benefits
‑Catastrophic protection
‑President's schedule
‑Possible meeting with Ribicoff
-Long=s action
‑Kennedy bill

-President=s view
‑Political appeal
‑Unions
‑Catastrophic protection
‑Ribicoff's views
‑Medical bills
‑Costs
‑Senate Finance Committee
‑Possible vote
-Ribicoff
‑Liberals
‑President's possible position
‑Southern Democrats
-Support
‑John C. Stennis
‑Republicans
‑George P. Shultz
-Stennis
‑Johnson
‑President's possible position
‑Senate
‑Report
‑Possible vote
‑Long and Allen J. Ellender
‑John L. McClellan
‑[Unintelligible name]
‑Stennis
‑William B. Spong, Jr.
‑James B. Allen
‑Talmadge and David H. Gambrell
‑Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., and Jordan
‑Virginia
‑Spong and Henry F. Byrd, Jr.
‑West Virginia
‑Jennings Randolph and Robert C. Byrd
‑Texas
‑Lloyd M. Bentsen
‑Southerners
‑Nevada
‑Alan Bible
‑Republicans
‑Defectors
‑Paul J. Fannin

-Bennett=s possible conversation
‑Sponsors
‑Fannin
‑Jordan, Roman L. Hruska and Clinton P. Anderson
‑Hugh Scott and Robert P. Griffin
‑Medical profession
‑Medicare
‑1972 campaign

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[Duration:  16s  ]

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‑1964 campaign
‑AMA
‑Johnson and Barry Goldwater
‑Long and Mills
‑Anderson bill
‑Reaction
‑Goldwater's political prospects
‑Johnson's program
‑[unintelligible name]
‑Health insurance
‑AMA

Welfare
‑Administration's welfare program
‑Work requirement
‑John R. Williams
‑Richardson
‑Congressional hearings
‑Loopholes
‑President's previous speech at Chamber of Commerce
‑Senate Finance Committee

‑Hearings
‑Housing
‑President's remarks at Republican Governors Conference, Williamsburg
‑Mrs. Long
‑Incentive to work
-Long
-The President
‑Menial work
‑Incentives
‑Work requirements
‑Fathers
-Responsibility
‑Contributions to family
‑Mills
‑Aid to mothers
‑Working people
‑Long's political activities
‑American Federation of Labor [AFL] convention in Louisiana
‑Blacks
‑Administration Bill
‑President's previous remarks to Chamber of Commerce
-Incentive to work
‑Child support
‑Taxes
‑Fairness
‑Bill
-Long=s view
‑Changes
‑Family support
‑President's meeting with Curtis
‑Possible administration position
‑Child support
-Responsibility
‑Approach
‑Long's maid

Blacks
‑Civil Rights Act
-Long
‑Concerns

‑Jobs
‑Schools
‑Civil Rights Act
-Housing

Employment
‑Liberal activists
‑Blacks and whites
‑Housing

Welfare
‑Bill
‑Blacks
‑Long's appearance before AFL
‑Issue
‑Leaders
‑Equal rights
‑Audience
‑Work
‑Unknown man's views
‑Mills
‑Improvement of conditions
‑Employment
‑Provisions
-Transition
‑Burden
‑Tax credits
‑Environmental Proctection Agency [EPA] example
‑Loan guarantees
‑Economic development programs
‑Marginal jobs
‑Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC]
‑Work
‑National Welfare rights
‑President's schedule
‑Meeting with Senators
-White House staff

Legislation
-Long
‑Health bill
‑Welfare bill

Vietnam
‑Support from Southern Democratic Senators

Presentation of gifts
‑Cuff links
‑Key chain
‑Long's family
‑Paperweight

President's Vietnam policies

Long, et al., left at 6:36 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑22

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  6:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Previous meeting with Senators
‑Length

Bull left at 6:36 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑23

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  6:37 pm ‑ 6:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s previous Chamber of Commerce speech
-Television news
‑American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Haldeman=s view
‑National Broadcasting Company [NBC]

President's schedule
‑Upcoming press conference
‑Plane
‑Reading
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Butterfield left at 6:38 pm.

Television news
‑NBC
‑Henry Cabot Lodge
‑United Nations [UN] anniversary commission
‑People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑Demonstrators
‑Congress

President's schedule
‑Previous meeting with Senators

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:37 pm.

‑Kissinger's location

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:40 pm.

President's previous meeting with Senators
‑Russell B. Long
‑Compared to Republican Senators
‑Hugh Scott
‑Robert P. Griffin
‑Robert A. Taft, Jr.
‑Howard H. Baker, Jr.
‑Welfare
‑Press
‑John F. Osborne

Kissinger entered at 6:40 pm.

Kissinger's schedule

President's previous meeting with Long and Wallace F. Bennett
‑Welfare
‑John D. Ehrlichman

[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]

Senate
‑Hubert H. Humphrey

The President, Haldeman and Kissinger left at 6:45 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑24

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:45 pm and 8:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 8:30 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑25

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 pm and 8:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:51 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑26

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 pm and 8:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for Henry A. Kissinger.

President's previous meeting with Congressmen
‑State and Defense Departments
‑Jacob K. Javits resolution
‑President's war powers
‑President's position

Conversation No. 489‑27

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 pm and 8:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for John D. Ehrlichman.

Elford A. Cederberg
‑Housing projects
‑Democrats and dissident Republicans
‑Administration's position

Conversation No. 489‑28

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 pm and 8:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

President's schedule
-Possible Presidential appearances
-American Legion
‑Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
‑1972

People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
‑Trade
‑Soviet Union
‑Communist nations
‑Announcements

Conversation No. 489‑29

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 pm and 8:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for Betty Graham.

Dr. Harold Brown
‑Religion
‑Conservatives
‑White House service
‑Liberals

Conversation No. 489‑30

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 pm and 8:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for George P. Shultz.

Appropriations
‑Freeze
‑Russell B. Long
‑Republicans
‑Budget
‑Administration policies

Schedule
‑Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.
‑Coral Sea
‑President's position
‑Gerald R. Ford

Conversation No. 489‑31

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 pm and 8:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
‑Press coverage
‑Possible administration response

Conversation No. 489‑32

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 pm and 8:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for Rose Mary Woods.

President's schedule
‑Alice Lewis
‑Church services
-Invitation

Turkey
‑Poppy crop
‑Unknown man's view
‑President's position

Conversation No. 489‑33

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 pm and 8:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for Rose Mary Woods.

President's schedule
‑California
‑Meeting with George Allen
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace Corps
‑Marianas Islands

President's schedule
‑Meeting with railroad executives
‑Peter M. Flanigan

Conversation No. 489‑34

Date:  April 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 pm and 8:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) met.

President's location
‑Bowling alley

The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 10:11 pm.

Conversation No. 489‑35/491‑1

Date:  April 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:28 am and 11:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Memoranda
‑Number
‑Tape
‑John D. Ehrlichman and H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Copies

Frederick Stone
‑Louis Stone [?]
‑Letter
‑Louis Stone (sp?)
‑Family

Woods schedule
-The President=s schedule
‑California
‑Kentucky Derby

Haldeman entered at 9:30 am.

‑Timing

Memoranda
‑Ehrlichman

Woods schedule
‑President's schedule
‑California
‑Kentucky Derby
‑Jack Whitney

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:28 am.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:30 am.

Woods schedule
‑Kentucky Derby
‑President's schedule

Kentucky Derby
‑President's 1969 visit
‑Ehrlichman and Secret Service
‑Departure
‑Woods schedule
‑Roses

Woods left at 9:31 am.

President's schedule
‑Possible meeting with Gerhardt Schroeder
‑Kissinger
‑Dr. Rainer Barzel
‑Kissinger=s view
-April 29, 1971
‑Civil Service Commission
‑Jayne B. Spain
‑Scheduling
‑Forthcoming press conference
‑Spain's appointment
‑Significance

Unknown black admiral
‑Press story
‑Leonard Garment
‑President's schedule
‑James E. Johnson
‑Appointment
‑Press story
‑Gen. James D. (ADon@) Hughes
‑Johnson
-Forthcoming meeting with the President

Press story
‑Baltimore Sun‑Times
‑[Forename unknown (sp?)] Sinnelli

Kissinger entered at 9:34 am.

Stock market
‑Volume
‑Dow-Jones average

Kissinger's schedule

Forthcoming press conference
‑Preparation
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Questions
‑Format
‑Talking points
-President=s view
‑Answers to questions
‑Preparation
‑Questions
‑Buchanan, John A. Scali, and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Briefing book
-Possible questions and responses
‑Scali
‑Input
‑Richard A. Moore and William L. Safire
‑Format

People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑Message from Chou En-lai
-Agha Hilaly

Vietnam
‑Military activity
‑Casualties
‑Press reports
-Numbers

[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 conference
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Recommendations
‑Homosexuality
‑Consenting adults
-The President=s view
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Report
‑Stephen Hess
‑Cabinet meeting, April 27, 1971
‑Alexander P. Butterfield
‑Role

Cabinet
‑Meetings
‑Hess
‑Richardson
‑Youth conference

[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]

Gays
-Allen Ginsberg's call to Kissinger
-The President=s position
‑Problem
‑Boy scout leaders
‑Young Men=s Christian Association [YMCA] leaders
‑Teachers
‑Societies
‑[Unintelligible name]
‑Oscar Wilde
‑[Unintelligible name]
‑Nero
‑Vitality
‑Romans
‑Greeks
‑Legislation
-The President=s view

‑Discretion
‑Ginsberg's call to Kissinger
‑Gay liberation
‑Ginsberg
‑Public policy
‑Issue

Youth and Society
-Drinking
‑18‑year olds
-President=s view
-Swearing
‑Girls
-Men
‑Drinking and swearing
‑Masculinity
-Swearing
‑Girls
‑Femininity
‑Dirty stories
-Jewish religion
‑Old Testament
‑Drinking
-Prostitution
‑Legalization
‑Barriers
‑Girls
‑Love
-Morality
-The President=s view
‑Beliefs and disbeliefs
‑Homosexuality
‑Marijuana
‑Drinking
‑Prostitution
‑Decadence
-Communist societies
-Personal morals
-Ethics

PRC
-Letter from Chou En-lai
-Secrecy

Kissinger left at 9:54 am.

Memoranda
‑Ehrlichman
‑Haldeman
‑Woods
‑Cancer policy
-Ehrlichman
-White House staff
‑President's conversation with Elmer H. Bobst
‑John B. Connally's speech to Chamber of Commerce, April 27, 1971

Cabinet
‑Clifford M. Hardin
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Effectiveness
‑Public relations efforts
-The President=s policies
‑Harold L. Ickes
‑Effectiveness
‑Republicans
‑Connally's speech to Chamber of Commerce

Kissinger entered at 9:55 am.

‑Reception
‑Support for the President
‑Ickes
‑Dean G. Acheson
‑Harry S Truman
‑Dean Rusk
‑John Foster Dulles
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Connally
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Hardin
‑James D. Hodgson
‑Optimistic outlook
‑Herbert L. Block
‑Connally
‑Administration strategy

Cancer program
‑National Institutes of Health [NIH]
‑Bobst=s view
‑Funding
‑Accomplishments
‑Bureaucracy
‑Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
‑Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
‑President's State of the Union address
-Funding
‑Credit
-Public relations
‑President's name
‑Rogers C.B. Morton
‑Slogans
‑Safire
‑Peace Corps
-John F. Kennedy
‑William D. Blair, Jr.
‑"Open skies"
‑Eisenhower
-Administration programs
‑Medicare
‑Health
‑Richardson
‑Heart program
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑NIH
‑Memorandum
‑Cole
‑George P. Shultz
‑Ehrlichman
‑Funding
‑Dr. Henry S. Kaplan
‑Stanford University
‑Background
‑Research
‑Bobst=s view
‑Bobst's views
‑Agency
‑Purpose
-Cure
-Public relations efforts

‑Administration objectives
‑NIH
-The President=s position
‑Salaries
‑Research
‑Mice
‑Credit
-Public relation efforts

Administration programs
‑Nixon legacy
‑Nixon Doctrine
-Foreign policy
‑White House staff
‑Public relations
-Need for slogans
‑Speechwriters
‑Safire
-Public relations efforts
‑Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Cancer initiative
‑Special funds
‑Space program
‑Atomic energy
‑March of Dimes
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt
‑Polio
‑White House staff
‑Cabinet officers
‑Spokesmen
-Need for public relations
-White House staff
‑John A. Scali
‑Cole
‑Ehrlichman
‑John C. Whitaker
‑Excitement

Memorandum
‑National Center for Voluntary Action leadership
‑Edwin D. Etherington
‑Unknown man
‑Staff

‑Professionals
‑Left‑wing Democrats
-Backgrounds
‑President's reception for April 27, 1971
‑Unknown California man
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
‑President's meeting, April 27, 1971
‑Etherington
‑George L. Grassmuck
‑Robert H. Finch
‑Location
‑President's reception
‑Attendees
-Jaycees
-Boys Club
-Farmer
‑Etherington
-The President=s view
‑Plans
‑East
‑Charts

Kissinger's schedule
‑California

White House staff
‑Need for public relations efforts
-Abilities
‑Congress

Cabinet officers
‑Meetings
-Public relations efforts
‑Reflection of President
‑Richardson
‑Report on Youth conference

Youth Conference
‑Report
-The President=s view
‑Hess
‑Cabinet meeting
-Previous attendance

-Reasoning
‑Ehrlichman
‑Cabinet meeting

Cabinet
‑Youth Conference
‑Richardson
‑Hodgson
‑Jobs
‑Hess
‑Possible letter

Youth Conference
‑Dialogue
-Kissinger=s view
‑Richardson
‑Administration's position
-Youth
‑[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II's views
‑Ivy League
‑Richardson=s view
-Haldeman=s view

Foreign relations
-PRC initiative

Press conference
‑Briefing
‑Buchanan
‑Leadership

Cabinet
‑Press
‑Administration counterattacks
‑Connally
‑Robert J. Dole
-Role
‑Richardson
‑Hodgson
‑Stans
‑William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
‑Rogers= press conference, April 23, 1971
‑Southeast Asia

-The President=s policy
‑Vietnam
‑Possible US military activity
‑US options
‑Television

Gen. George A. Lincoln
‑Tenure
‑Reassignment
-Kissinger=s role
‑Ehrlichman's view
‑Ambassadorial appointment
‑Spain
‑Latin America
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Robert F. Ellsworth
‑Andrew J. Goodpaster

Office of Emergency Preparedness
‑Director
‑General Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.
‑Maj. Gen. Earl E. Anderson
‑Politics

Vietnam
‑Democrats
‑Henry A. (Scoop@) Jackson
‑J. William Fulbright

Cabinet
‑Effectiveness
‑Hardin
‑Bryce N. Harlow's views
‑Farm organizations
‑Accomplishments
‑Farm bill
-Replacement
-Farm Belt
‑Foreign policy
‑Domestic scene
‑Stans
‑Mitchell

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Cabinet
-Commerce Department
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Role
‑Charles H. Percy
‑Possible activities
‑Benefits
‑Camp David
‑Gifts
‑Trips abroad
‑Stans
‑Remarks
‑Athens
‑Peterson
‑Connally
-Qualifications
‑Peterson
‑Loyalty
-Publicity for the President
‑Opportunists
‑Walter J. Hickel
‑Color
‑Dismissal
‑John A. Volpe
‑Tenure
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Peterson
‑Possible role
‑Connally
‑Commerce Department

Ambassadorial appointment for Volpe

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Volpe=s possible activities
-Public relations
-Compared with Clara Booth Luce
-Publicity
-Congressional opposition
-Argentina

Ambassadorships
-Congress
-Luce
-Lewis L. Strauss

Cabinet
‑Connally
-Congressional opposition
‑Hardin
‑Replacement
‑Harlow
‑Purdue University
‑Cattleman

Office of Emergency Preparedness
-Lincoln
‑Tenure
‑Replacement

‑Director
‑National Security Council [NSC]
‑Administration spokesman
‑Lincoln
‑Chapman
‑Mrs. Chapman
‑[David] Kenneth Rush
‑Political ability
‑Public relations abiltiy
-Speeches
-Lincoln
-Price denial
-Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Rush
‑Berlin negotiations
‑Possible US position
‑Timing
‑Cabinet

Cabinet
‑Rumsfeld
‑Volpe
‑Rumsfeld
‑Trade negotiations

People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-The President=s previous letter to Chou En-lai
‑Mohammad Yahya Khan
‑United Nations [UN]
‑Negotiations
-The Chinese response to the President=s letter
‑Mao Tse‑tung and Lin Piao
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Pakistan
-Possible visit
-Chou En-lai=s comments
‑State Department=s knowledge
-The Chinese response to the President
-Text
‑Negotiations
‑PRC position
‑Taiwan
‑The President=s latest letter to Chou En-lai

-Direct negotiations
-US position
-Taiwan
-Yahya Khan
‑Direct negotiations
-Topics
-Taiwan
-US position
-Southeast Asia
-US proposal
‑Meeting
-Attendees
-Agenda
‑Timing

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:03 am.