Conversation No. 696-1

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  9:20 am - 12:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

	The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Cabinet Committee on Spanish Speaking people
-Press
-Meeting

The President entered and Butterfield left at an unknown time after 9:20 am.

The President's schedule
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Cabinet Committee on Spanish Speaking people
	-Robert H. Finch
-Cabinet meetings
-Frequency
-Agenda

Seasons

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
			-Talk with Haldeman
-James O. Eastland
-Commitment to Clark MacGregor
-Hearings
-Close
-Mitchell's awareness
-Hearings
-Close
		-Charles W. Colson
			-Jack Gleason

-Eastland
-Witnesses
-Secretary
			-Legal Counsel
-Mitchell
-Close hearings
			-Robert C. Mardian
-Talk with Eastland
				-Session with MacGregor and Mardian
					-Time
						-Promises
-Mardian-Mitchell relationship
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Filibuster
-W. Clement Haynsworth, G. Harrold Carswell
-Close hearings
-Eastland
	-Agreement
		-Timing
		-Witnesses
-Colson
-Kleindienst possible withdrawal
-Mitchell
-Confirmation
-Option
-News coverage
-MacGregor
-Eastland
-Colson

Media coverage
		-Economy
			-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
-CBS
-Scott
-Harry Reasoner
	-Carl B. Albert, Ford

Wayne L. Hays
-Arthur K. Watson
-The President's press conference remarks
-"Glass houses" comment

State Department files
-Use
-William B. Macomber
-David M. Abshire
-Congressmen and senators

Media
-News summary
	-Treasury security guard
-Key Biscayne
	-Richard Harris
-New Yorker magazine
	-The New Republic
	-America
	-Life
	-Time
	-Newsweek
	-U.S. News and World Report
	-Circulation of magazines
	-Scott
	-Harris article
-Harris 
-Communists
-Constitution
-Bugging
-Washington, D.C. crime bill
-Mitchell
	-Underground press
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Eastland
-Herbert G. Klein remark
-Children's march
-Matzoh ball story
		-Jews
-Cake mixes
-Candy bars

George Meany
-White House reaction
-George P. Shultz
-Robert F. Lanzillotti
-Price Board
-Florida State University

Busing issue
-Clarence Mitchell
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Southern reactions
	-Harry S. Dent
	-MacGregor
-Judge Stephen Roth in Detroit
-Robert P. Griffin
-Southern leadership
	-Constitutional amendment
-Meeting with MacGregor

White House staff
-Workload
	-John D. Ehrlichman

Busing
		-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-John F. Osborne
-Haldeman's call to Ehrlichman
	-Racial balance cases
-Edward L. Morgan
-Briefing

Klein

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	News summary
-Kevin P. Phillips's analysis 
-Victor Lasky
-Ralph de toledano
-Value
-Phillips’s circulation
-Importance to the White House staff
	-News letter

Kissinger entered at 9:43 am.

Greetings

Kissinger's schedule
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham's group

Vietnam
-H. Ross Perot proposal
-Money
-Talk With Lt. Gen. Vernon A. (“Dick”) Walters
	-Kissinger, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Release of 31 prisoners of war [POWs]
-Money
-Promise
-US government
	-Seymour M. Hersh
	-Walters
		-Secret negotiations
	-Publicity
-Money
			-31 POWs
			-Cuba
-Medical supplies
-Negotiations
	-William J. Porter

Foreign policy
-Meeting with Pakistan foreign secretary [Aziz Ahmed]
-State Department
		-Dinner at Pakistan Embassy
-Blair House
-Possible formal appointment with the President
-The President’s meetings with other foreign minister
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Moscow trip

PRC
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Ford
-Watson
-Kissinger’s conversations with Boggs and Ford
-Timing of Boggs’s and Ford’s trip to the PRC
	-Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Kleindienst
-Chinese approval
-Scott and Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Mansfield
	-Foreign aid
	-Kleindienst
-Scheduling
-Chinese
-Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
	-Huang Hua
-Vietnam Peace Plan
-Cambodia Peace Plan
-Scott and Mansfield’s forthcoming trip
	-Timing
	-Relations between Scott and Mansfield
-Mansfield
	-Relations with the White House
-Bogg’s and Ford’s forthcoming trip
-Scheduling
		-Moscow trip
-Ford
-Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
	-Scheduling
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting
-Scott
-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Ford and Boggs
-Scheduling
	-Paris Peace Talks
		-Ireland
			-Moscow trip
-Ford
	-Talk with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s forthcoming talk with Huang Hua
-Scheduling
	-Moscow trip
		-Chinese
		-Soviets
-Kissinger's meetings with the Chinese
-Ford [and Boggs]
-Mansfield
	-Scheduling
		-Moscow trip

The President’s meeting with Aziz Ahmed
	-India
	-PRC
-Timing
-Kissinger’s role
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Length
-Kissinger's office
-Pakistan
-Timing

Kissinger's schedule
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting
	-Mansfield
	-Vietnam
	-PRC

Foreign policy
-Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]
	-State Department
		-William P. Rogers
-Leaks

Conservatives
-Kissinger's role

Kissinger left at 10:03 am.

Meetings with Foreign Ministers
-Pakistan
-Cyprus
-France
-Sir Alec Douglas-Hume
-Germany
-Egon Bahr

Kissinger
-Television
	-Local
	-National news
		-CBS

	Life article
		-Loudon Wainwright
			-Previous work

Media
-News summary
-Political summary
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Importance
-Effect
-Columnists
-New Republic
	-John F. Osborne
	-Columns
-Phillips
-Nicholas P. Thimmisch
-Lasky
-[John?] Sears
-Editorializing
-Staff
	-Effect
-Importance

Russell A. Kirk
-Age
-Meeting with the President
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s view
		-Conservative columnists
			-Unknown person
			-John R. Chamberlain
		-Robert Nisbet
			-California
			-Age
-Production of the White House research staff
	-Buchanan
-Meeting with the President
	-Significance
		-Russian poet [Yevgeny Yevtushenko?]

White House staff
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Bureaucracy

The President's family
-White House scheduled activities
			-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-New York
-Illinois
-Ohio
	-Television
-New Jersey
-Tennessee
-North Carolina
-Georgia
-Texas
-Pennsylvania
-Missouri
-California
-South Carolina
			-Tricia Nixon Cox
				-Haldeman’s view
-Compared to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
		-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
		-Tricia Nixon Cox
		-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
		-The President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Schedule
-St. Louis
	-Salute to Women
	-Gateway Arch
	-Television
-San Antonio
	-Bilingual education classroom
	-Girl Scouts
	-Television
-National Center For Disease Control
-David N. Parker
-Work on the White House staff
		-Scheduling

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Presidential seats
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Policy regarding use
-Congressmen
-Senators
-Cabinet members
-Personnel
	-Recruiting
-John B. Connally
-Rogers
-Congressmen
-Thank you notes
-Butterfield
-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-Cabinet members
-Members of Congress
-Colson's office
	-Financial contributors
	-Influential individuals
-White House staff
-Congressmen
-Barbara H. Franklin
	-Recruits

Franklin
-The President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Nixon
-Constance M. Stuart
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Public relations
-Rose Mary Woods
-Patricia R. Hitt
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Haldeman’s view
-Gladys O'Donnell
	-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Federation of Republican Women

Kissinger
-trip
-Meeting with Aziz Ahmed

Media
-Kissinger
	-Local television
-Audience
-Marvin L. Kalb 
	-Foreign affairs
		-Soviet Union
		-PRC
	-Peter M. Flanigan appearance in Robert Pierpoint interview
		-The President’s view
-CBS
-The PRC trip
-Coverage of the administration
	-Compared to NBC
-Dan Rather
	-Interview of the President
		-Response
	-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
	-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid

The President's family
-Schedule
-Parker
		-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
			-Talk with the President
				-Scheduling importance
-Haldeman's talk with Parker and Dwight L. Chapin

The President's schedule
-Aziz Ahmed
-Catholic Education Conference
-Philadelphia
-Tax benefits for private schools
		-Possible change
			-Ehrlichman
			-Connally
-Timing
-Attendance
-John Cardinal Krol
		-Sons of Italy dinner
-Timing
		-Canadian trip
		-Press conference
-Camp David
	-Gettysburg

The President left at an unknown time after 10:03 am.

[No conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time before 11:27 am.

The President's schedule
-Outstanding young farmers
-Earl L. Butz
-Office visit
		-John C. Whitaker
-Camp David
		-Visit to farmer
-Food prices
		-Butz
-Food prices
	-Chain store representatives
-Connally's schedule
	-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.’s schedule
	-Young farmers
-Possible meeting
-Florida visit
-Ft. Campbell, Kentucky
		-Stopover
		-101st Airborne Division
			-Return from Vietnam
			-Highlighting troop withdrawal
		-Key Biscayne
		-Timing
			-Television
		-Media
			-Vietnam veterans
		-Compared to trip to Camp Pendleton, April 30, 1971
	-Farmers
	-Publicity
	-Butz
	-The President
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
		-Prices
-Once a week events

Issues
-One-a-week
-The President's memorandum
-Media coverage
-Welfare mothers
-Cherry Blossom Queen
-March of Dimes
		-Mrs. Nixon
-Retarded children
		-Calvin Hill

Public relations
-Connally’s view
	-Presentation of the President
-Barbara Walters Show
-Image
-Compared to Humphrey
-Family man
-Reserved
-Coverage of the President
-Safire
-Richard A. Moore
-Produced by the White House
		-Hard work
		-Coverage
-Retarded children
-Muscular Dystrophy
		-Mrs. Nixon's image
-Cherry Blossom Queen
-March of Dimes
-Boys Clubs of America
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew
-Attendance at Congressional leadership meetings
	-Compared to the President as Vice President
-Cabinet meetings
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Time with Congress
-Leadership meetings

The President’s possible appearance at a Catholic education conference
	-Parochial schools
-Education
	-Ehrlichman
	-Edwin L. Harper
-The President
-Domestic Council
-Administration strategy
-Conference in Philadelphia
-Proximity
-Timing
		-Camp David
-The President's schedule
		-Easter egg roll
			-Timing
		-Vietnam speech

Soviet trip
-Length
	-Compared to the PRC trip
	-Mrs. Nixon
-Poland
	-Stopover
-Length
	-Kissinger’s view
-The PRC trip
-Haldeman’s view
-Agenda
	-Kremlin
-Leningrad
-Moscow
-Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
-Iran
	-Stopover
	-Reception
-Poland
-Kissinger
		-Meeting With Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Crowds
-Polish People
		-Compared to Chinese
		-Haig
-Stopover
		-Importance
-Iran
	-Stopover
		-Length
-Poland stopover
-Itinerary
-Poland stopover
	-Length
	-Kissinger
		-Rogers
			-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] visit
-Rogers
	-European trip
	-NATO meeting
-Bonn
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's projected trip to the Soviet Union, 1960
	-Length of stay
	-Kremlin
	-Spaso House
-Kremlin
	-Length of stay
	-Kissinger
	-Chapin
	-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
	-Kissinger
	-Compared to guest home in Peking
-Accommodations
-Guest House
-Dacha
-Kremlin
		-Length of stay
-Guest house
		-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Spaso House
		-Rogers
-Kremlin
		-Length of stay
-Guest house
-Spaso House
-Eisenhower's projected trip to the Soviet Union
	-Television Speeches
-Nikita S. Khrushchev's visit to the US
	-The President’s television speech in the Soviet Union
	-Meet the Press
-Moscow
-Leningrad
-Kiev
-Arrival and departure statements
-toast
-Press conference
-James C. Hagerty
-Accommodations
-Kremlin
-Christian A. Herter, Jr.
-Spaso House
-Rogers
-Accommodations
	-Kremlin
		-Advantages
			-Rogers
-Eisenhower
	-Herter
		-Travel arrangements

	Easter egg roll
		-Preparations

Soviet trip
-Accommodations
	-Kremlin
	-Eisenhower
		-John Foster Dulles
			-Herter
-Comparison to Rogers
-Moscow
-The President as Vice President
	-Length of visit
-Length
-Poland
	-Stopover
-Length
-Kissinger
-The PRC trip
		-Communique
		-Chou En-lai
-Effectiveness of brief meetings
		-Hussein meeting
			-Dinner
				-The President's toast
-Moscow
-Warsaw
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Turkey

ITT case
-Close hearings
-Eastland
	-Limit the list of witnesses

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ITT case
-Hearings
	-Close
	-Colson
-Mitchell
-MacGregor
			-The President
-Colson
-John B. Connally
		-Press coverage
-Kleindienst
-Witnesses
-Gleason
		-William R. Merriam
-Colson
-MacGregor
-Edward M. Kennedy

Soviet trip
-Scheduling
-Kissinger's discussions
		-Haldeman's attendance
		-Chapin
-Scott and Mansfield
		-Kissinger

Vietnam
-Kissinger
	-North Vietnamese
		-Porter
		-Lunch

Mexican ambassador
-Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call
	-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
		-Accommodations for upcoming trip to the US
			-Camp David
			-Europeans

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Media
-The PRC trip
-Party for press corps
-Certificate for press corps
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Reporters unable to attend
-Certificate for press corps
		-Pictures
			-Safire
			-The President and Chou En-lai
		-Boston Globe
-“New China hands”
-Presidential seal
-Mrs. Nixon
-The President
-Lettering
-The President and Chou En-lai
-Hands
-Forthcoming Soviet Union trip
	-Austin H. Kiplinger
-Attendance
	-The President's prior trip, 1959
-Kitchen Cabinet
-Call to Klein
	-Priority for attendance
-Haldeman's talk with Ziegler
	-Members of Kitchen Cabinet
		-Attendance
			-The President's instructions
		-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
		-Klein

Legislation
-Magazines
	-Ehrlichman
-Financial beneficiaries
		-Readers Digest
-Life
-Readers Digest
-Life
		-Circulation
-Costs
-Compard to Look
-Advertising loss
-Readership analysis
-Readers Digest
		-Subscribers
			-Compared to Life subscribers
				-Sensationalism
	-Haldeman's father
		-Location of the magazine
-James A. Michener article
	-The PRC trip
		-Michener's writing style
		-Description

Public relations
	-The PRC trip
		-The President’s memorandum
	-Significance
-Mrs. Nixon’s meeting with the Advertising Council
	-Woods
	-Stuart
	-Roger M. Blough
	-The President’s schedule
	-Mrs. Nixon’s celebrity status
-Haldeman's schedule
	-Dinner at La Nicoise
-Location
-Owners
	-Pro-Nixon
-Unknown man from Cleveland
	-Talk with Haldeman
		-The PRC trip
			-Unknown man's impression
-Cartoonist
	-Talk with Haldeman
		-The PRC trip
	-Wife
-Unknown man
	-Cleveland
-Connally
-The President
-Public support 
					-Washington, DC

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:03 and 11:27 am.

[Conversation No. 696-1A]

[See Conversation No. 22-40]

[End of telephone conversation]

[No conversation]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President at 11:27 am.

[Conversation No. 696-1B]

[See Conversation No. 22-41; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]

[No conversation]

Political strategy
-Connally
-Appearances
		-Middlesex Club
		-Chicago Executives Club
		-San Francisco Commonwealth Club 
				-Television
-Peter G. Peterson
-George W. Romney
-Peterson
	-College campuses
-Rogers
	-Hearings
	-College appearances

Soviet Union trip
-Ireland stopover
	-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Scotland Stopover
	-Eisenhower Castle
		-Glasgow
-Ireland
-Mulcahy
		-Appearances
			-Prime Minister [John M. Lynch]
			-Shannon Airport
			-Dublin
		-Haldeman’s view
-Scotland
	-Eisenhower Castle
-Mulcahy
-Poland
-Flight from Tehran
-Ireland stopover
-Flight time
		-Sleeping arrangements
		-andrews Air Force Base

[No conversation]

ITT case
-Committee meeting
-Colson
-MacGregor
-Vote
-MacGregor
		-Eastland
			-Mitchell
-The administration's position
		-Close hearings
-Witnesses
		-Secretary 
			-Lawyer
-Close hearings
			-Colson
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Hearings
-Press coverage
		-Television press conference
-Schedule
-Wisconsin primary
		-Senate vote
-Cover-up
-Press
-Issue
-Mitchell
-Kennedy
-Eastland
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Question and answer
-Television appearance
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-CBS versus senator

	-Television
-Kissinger
			-Appearances
				-House Foreign Affairs Committee
				-Senate Foreign Relations Committee

[No conversation]

White House trees
-Blooming
	-Weather

Public relations
-White House image
-Press
-The President’s appearances
	-Boy Scouts, Girls Nation

The President's schedule
-Philadelphia
-Speech
-Ehrlichman
	-Talk with Haldeman
	-Talk with Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Speech
	-Buchanan
	-Rev. John J. McLaughlin
	-Price
	-Safire
-Soviet trip
-Speech writers attendance
		-Possible subsequent public appearances
		-Price
		-Safire
				-Compared to the PRC trip
					-Buchanan

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Ehrlichman

Photograph portrait of the President
-Arrangements
-Fred Maroon
-Unknown photographer
-Critique of previous portrait
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
			-Florida
			-Unknown photographer
			-Atkins

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	Public relations
		-Atkins
			-Photographs
-The PRC trip
			-Movie crew
		-Classroom services
	-Hearst Movietone
	-Associated Press [AP]
	-United Press International [UPI]
	-The PRC trip
	-Studies
	-Compared to 1960 efforts
	-Ambassador of Friendship film
	-1972
	-Documentary
-Republican National Convention

Kissinger entered at 11:51 am.

Greetings

Kissinger's previous meeting with Graham's group
-Number of participants

US foreign policy
-Bangladesh
	-US recognition
				-Timing
-Chinese
-State Department
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
	-State Department
	-J. William Fulbright
-The President’s previous press conference
-Indian Missionary
		-Pakistan

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:51 am.

Refreshment

The President and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

Haldeman's schedule

Soviet Union trip
-Poland
-Haig
-Length
-Schedule

The President entered at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

-Departure Date
-Length
-Poland
-Stopover
-People 
		-US
			-Chicago Wards
-Dobrynin
		-Meeting With Kissinger
			-The President’s trip to Poland while Vice President
				-Public comments 
-Polish reason For Visit
-Demonstrations
		-PRC Comparison
-Crowds in the Soviet Union compared to a crowd in Poland
-Substance of summit
-Poland
-Summit
-Poland
-Dobrynin
-Meeting With Kissinger
-Tehran stopover
-State Department
-Rogers
-Poland
			-The President’s 1959 trip
-Warsaw
					-Demonstrations
						-Kissinger’s view
					-Compared to Moscow
					-Soviet Statue
-Schedule
-Accommodations
-Kremlin
				-Advantages compared to disadvantages
					-State House
				-Guest House
				-Dobrynin's meeting with Kissinger
				-Size
					-Peking's Forbidden City
					-Vatican
				-Symbolism
				-De Gaulle
				-Georges J.R. Pompidou
				-Eisenhower's proposed stay
					-Length

PRC
	-Mansfield-Scott trip
-Timing
	-Soviet trip
-Boggs and Ford
	-Order of visits
	-Length of stay
	-Mansfield
	-Votes
-Mansfield
-Votes
-Vietnam
-Schedule
	-Democratic National Convention

Vietnam
-End of use of draftees
-POWs
	-Democrats
-Withdrawal of troops
-Negotiations
	-Control of South Vietnamese government
	-Nguyen Van Thieu
		-Resignation
		-Election Results

PRC
-Scott-Mansfield trip
	-Vietnam issue
-Discussion
-Chou En-Lai
	-North Vietnamese
		-Seven points
	-Communique
		-Hanoi
			-The President's remarks at the Great Wall

	Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Aziz Ahmed

	Soviet Union trip
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
	-Summit
		-Success
-Poland
-Schedule
-Baku to Iran
-Iran to Poland
-Time spent in each location
-Chapin's meeting with Vorontsov
	-Banquet
		-First night
-Kissinger’s view
		-Schedule
-Leningrad
-Ballet
-Banquet
-toasts
		-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Meetings

	Kissinger's meeting with Aziz Ahmed

Kissinger left at 12:14 pm.

Soviet Union trip
-Events
			-Meals
			-Theater
			-Gymnastics
			-Meals
			-Children
			-Sports
			-Eating

Canadian trip
-Speech
			-Parliament
-Toronto
-Governor General's Luncheon
-Dinner compared to Luncheon
-Prime Minister
-Cultural show

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 12:17 and 12:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 696-1C]

[See Conversation No. 22-42; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]

Canadian trip
-Tree planting
-Parliament
-Dinners
-Luncheons
-The PRC trip
		-Dinners
-Parliament
			-Diplomatic corps
			-Lyndon B. Johnson
			-Eisenhower
			-John F. Kennedy
			-Compared to the US Congress
-Hussein 
-Pompidou
			-Importance

Speeches
-Writing
-Writers
			-White House staff
-Eloquence
-Price
-Individual needed
-Kirk
-Buchanan
			-Kirk compared to Buchanan

Canadian trip
-The President’s speech before Parliament
-Dinner
-Toronto
			-Luncheon
			-Speech
			-Motorcade
			-Demonstration
				-Antiwar Americans
-Ottawa
			-Compared to meetings with Brezhnev and Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Diplomatic corps
-Tree planting
-The President’s speech before Parliament
-Governor General Dinner
-Parliament
	-Johnson

Soviet Union trip
-Schedule
			-The President's possible television Appearance
-Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Kissinger
-Eisenhower, 1960
-The President as Vice President, 1959
-Domestic impact of speech
-Translation
-[Forename Unknown] Akaloski [?]
		-The President’s 1959 speech
-Walters
-State Department
-Unknown Romanian
	-Unknown person
-Unknown Yugoslavian
		-Experience at US embassy
		-Akaloski [?]
		-Letter to Haldeman
			-Impressions of trip
-Walters
		-Recommendation
		-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

	Ross Perot
		-Hersh
		-Walters’ view

	The President’s forthcoming meeting with Aziz Ahmed

the President and Haldeman left at 12:29 pm.

Conversation No. 696-2

Date:  March 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:57 and 4:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

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An unknown man talked with an unknown man.

[Conversation 696-2A]

		The President’s location
			-Executive Office Building [EOB]

[End of telephone conversation]

The unknown men left, at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.