Conversation No. 507‑1

Date:  May 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:13 am and 9:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Location of a folder

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:08 am.

Conversation No. 507‑2

Date:  May 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:13 am and 9:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

President=s schedule

Conversation No. 507‑3

Date:  May 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:13 am and 9:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Call to the Secretary of Defense

Conversation No. 507‑4

Date:  May 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:13 am and 10:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Bodies in Yuba City
‑Victims described
‑Itinerant workers
‑Machete
‑Unnamed killer

News coverage
-Domestic
-International

Middle East
-Soviet Union
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑William P. Rogers
‑Anwar el-Sadat
‑Arabs
‑Possibility of war
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Jews

1972 Elections
‑Jews
‑Quakers
‑Kissinger
‑Memoranda
‑Rogers

Kissinger entered at 9:08 am.

President's schedule
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑George P. Shultz
‑President's possible telephone call
‑Ehrlichman

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:32 am.

Kissinger's meeting

Kissinger's travel
‑Cable from [David] Kenneth Rush
‑North Vietnamese
‑W. Averell Harriman
‑David K.E. Bruce
‑Claude Sainteny

Berlin Agreement
‑Cable from Rush
‑Negotiations
‑Time
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Soviets
‑East Germany
‑Soviets
‑Berlin
-Access
‑Rush

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

The President left at an unknown time before 10:32 am.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:32 am.

The President entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

Latin America
‑Brazil
‑Fisheries question
‑Law of the Seas
‑200 Mile Limit
-State Department
-Defense Department
‑Negotiations
-Possible effect
‑Navigation
‑Fisheries
‑Kissinger's recommendations

Vietnam negotiations
-President's statement
‑Historical record
‑US offer
-Wording of statement
-Negotiating stance
‑Political and military issues
‑Wording of statement
‑Terminal date
-Infiltration
‑Withdrawal
‑Laos
‑Cambodia
‑Ceasefire
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Negotiating stance
‑President's meeting with Nikita S. Khrushchev
‑State Department suggestions
‑Negotiating stance
-Wording
-President=s position
‑North Vietnamese
-Kissinger=s conversation with Dobrynin [?]
‑POWs
‑Ceasefire
‑US troop withdrawal
‑Election
‑Bombing

‑Deadline
‑Timing
‑POWs
‑Ceasefire
‑Ground forces
‑Timing
‑Air support
‑Thailand
‑North Vietnamese
‑Ground forces
‑POWs
‑Infiltration
‑Ceasefire
‑POWs
‑Bombing
‑International supervision
‑Cambodia
‑Laos
‑Prospects for 1972
-Southeast Asia
-Kissinger=s assessment
‑Democrats
‑Communists
‑Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
-US troop withdrawal
‑Melvin R. Laird's testimony
‑Rogers
‑Kissinger's directives
‑Vietnamization

News reports
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-News summary
‑Human Events
‑National Review
‑New Republic
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑POW issue
‑Communist

Soviet Union
‑Vladimir S. Semenov
‑Hot Line argument
‑Berlin agreement
‑Summit
-Berlin agreement
‑Willy Brandt, Rush
‑The President's and Kissinger's meeting with Brandt
‑Dobrynin
‑Cuba
‑Presence of Soviet Nuclear submarine in Cienfuegos
‑Press conference
-Possible questions
-The President=s response

People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑Polls
‑Admittance to United Nations [UN]
‑Two‑China Policy
‑Admission
‑Expulsion
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-PRC reaction
‑Question of independent government
‑Taiwan
‑State Department
‑Rogers
‑Marshall Green
‑George H.W. Bush
-Timing

Vietnam
‑Nguyen Van Thieu meeting
-US peace proposal
‑Deadline
-Presidential statement
‑Ceasefire
‑POWs
‑US withdrawal
‑Communists
‑Negotiations
‑Soviet-Chinese relations

Soviet Union
‑Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
-Communique
‑Manipulation of the US press
‑New Republic article
‑SALT
-Possible US-Soviet Summit
-SALT
-Accidental War Agreement

Soviet Union
-SALT
‑Vienna
-Moscow
-Summit
-1972 election
-Democrats
‑Irresponsibility of candidates
-Radicals
-Eastern Establishment
‑SALT
‑ABM Agreement
‑Offensive weapons

News media
-Communists
-Approach to administration
‑Joseph W. and Stewart J.O. Alsop
‑Kissinger's dinner
‑Stewart Alsop
‑Poll of Democrat candidates
‑Vietnam
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
‑Support for SALT
-Marquis Childs
-David Brinkley
-Clark MacGregor
-John Sherman Cooper

Berlin
-Negotiations
-Timing of settlement

President=s schedule
‑Rush
‑Work
‑Foreign Service
‑Possible future position
‑Loyalty
‑John B. Connally
‑Warren E. Burger
-Trip to England
‑Burger
‑Edward R.G. Heath
‑British industry
‑Henry Ford II
‑British automobiles
‑Germany and France

US industry
‑Ralph Nader
‑McCarthyism

Nelson A. Rockefeller

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:08 am and 10:00 am]

[Conversation No. 507‑4A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑190]

[End of telephone conversation]

John V. Lindsay
‑Rockefeller
‑Housing
‑New York City
‑Compared to Paris
‑Compared to the Kennedys

American educational system
‑Study of political science
‑Development of leadership
‑British public school system
‑PRC

‑Soviet Union
‑Israelis
‑Compared to American Jews
‑Soviet system
‑British system
‑Winston S. Churchill

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

[The President talked with Rockefeller between 10:00 am and 10:06 am]

[Conversation No. 507‑4B]

[See Conversation No. 3‑191]

[End of telephone conversation]

Police brutality
-New York City

Lindsay
-Rockefeller

Education
-Character

Military history
-World War I
-Compared to Laos operation (Lam Son)
‑March 21, 1918
‑Marne Battle
‑Casualties
‑Erich F.W. Luddendorf
-Churchill
‑Italy
‑Battle of Caparetto
‑British
‑Field Marshall Sir William(?) Robertson
-Laos
‑Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Douglas Macarthur
-Strategy
-World War II

‑Korea
‑Yalu
-PRC
‑Effect on Asian history
‑Vietnam
‑Soviets
‑Dean G. Acheson
-World War I
‑British General, Hubert de la Poer Gough
‑German mistakes

Laos
‑American television
-Public opinion
-Strategic impact
‑Casualties
‑Intelligence
-Inaccuracy
-The President=s view
‑Cambodia
‑Abrams
‑Compared to the Battle of the Bulge
‑Compared to Verdun
-Military history
‑Marshal Ferdinand Foch
‑Gen. Magnin
‑Gen. Gourand

Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
‑Anecdote regarding Jacqueline Kennedy
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Algeria
‑Kennedy

US
‑Economics
‑Nixon presidency
-Effect on foreign policy
‑Hubert H. Humphrey as President
‑Other Republicans
‑George W. Romney
‑Eric Sevareid

‑Rockefeller
‑Policies
‑Wife
‑Ronald W. Reagan
-Rockefeller
‑John W. Gardner
-Reagan
‑Policy toward Europe
-Compared with other Republicans
‑International leaders
-View of the President
‑New conservatives
-Reagan
-President=s view

President=s foreign policy
‑Berlin
‑SALT
‑PRC
‑Summit
‑Europe
‑Vietnam
‑Berlin
‑Brandt
‑Harriman's talk with Kissinger
‑Vietnam
‑Berlin
‑Difficulty of presenting issues
‑Berlin
‑Brandt
‑Possibility of Western Summit

Laird
‑Kenneth E.  BeLieu appointment

Kissinger
-Trip
-Schedule 

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 10:32 am.

Conversation No. 507‑5

Date:  May 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:32 am and 10:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman [?].

Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑Rent issue
-New York=s city budget
‑John V. Lindsay
‑Police
‑Ehrlichman's call
-Direct assistance
‑Police
‑Revenue sharing

Conversation No. 507‑6

Date:  May 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:32 am and 10:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person [Alexander P. Butterfield?].

The President's schedule [?]

The unknown person [Butterfield?] left at an unknown time before 10:48 am.

Conversation No. 507‑7

Date:  May 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 10:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Henry A. Kissinger
-Trip to Paris
-Talking points
-Purpose

West Point
-Weather
-Alumna on trip
-Special Assistants to the President [SAP]

Kissinger
-Press
-Administration=s position
-Chalmers Roberts

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David R. Derge
-Wife

Thomas W. Fletcher, Sr.
‑Note from President
‑Daughter

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Haldeman left at an unknown time after 10:32 am.