Conversation No. 700-1

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 am and 8:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Phone call to the President

Conversation No. 700-2

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 8:40 am and 9:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Tape for Rose Mary Woods to transcribe
	-Personal file

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 8:54 am.

Vietnam
-Briefing
	-Melvin R. Laird

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:09 am.

-Kissinger's order on reports from Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
	-Kissinger's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Delivery to the President
	-Laird
	-Editing of reports from Abrams
			-Delays

-North Vietnamese attack
	-Scope
	-Tanks
	-Number
	-Donh Ga
	-Abrams's assessment
	-Press reports
		-Compared with Laos coverage
	-Soldiers' opposition to war
			-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
				-Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [MACV]
	-Bombing
		-Laird
			-The President’s recent trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Reports on possible attack
	-Kissinger's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
			-Haig’s call to Gen. Robert E. Pursley
	-Attacks over Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
	-David Kraslow
		-Call to Kissinger
			-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
			-Laird
	-Withdrawals
	-US response
	-Bombing attacks
-Laird
	-Promise to Abrams
	-Abrams
	-Pursley
	-Attitude toward war
	-Clark M. Clifford
	-Robert S. McNamara
-Abrams
	-Call from Kissinger
	-Report to the President
	-Possible leaks
-US military operations
	-Kissinger’ schedule
		-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
	-The President’s possible meeting with Moorer and [David] Kenneth Rush
	-Laird
	-Problems
	-Attacks on North Vietnam
	-Air attacks
	-Kissinger's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
		-Weather limitations
			-Battle of the Bulge
		-Bad weather attacks
	-Reluctance to attack North Vietnam
-Press reports
	-Defense Department
	-Moorer
	-I Corps
		-Helicopters
	-Transportation to combat zone
	-Restrictions
		-Rush
-North Vietnamese attacks
	-ARVN losses
	-DMZ
	-Provincial cities
	-Hue and Da Nang
	-Kontum
	-Quang Tri
	-Assessment of gains
	-Retaliation
	-Rainy season
	-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Berlin treaty
-Soviets
	-Importance of summit
-PRC
	-US message
-North Vietnamese attacks
	-US bombing
	-Intensity
	-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
	-The President's meeting with Moorer
			-Importance of attacks
			-Direct orders
			-Laird
			-Rush
			-News summaries
				-State and Defense Departments
	-DMZ
	-Kissinger's meeting with John A. Scali
	-Ronald L. Ziegler, Robert J. McCloskey and Daniel Z. Henkin
			-WSAG meeting
	-Public relations efforts
			-Geneva 1954 accords and 1968 understanding
			-Supply depots and anti-aircraft
	-Public relations efforts
	-Departments of State and Defense
	-Ziegler's statement
	-Gerald L. Warren's comments
	-Involvement of Americans
		-Abrams
	-ARVN
	-Possible situation
			-Consequences
	-Necessity of US response
			-Japanese, Soviet and PRC cooperation
	-Air attacks
	-Delays
			-Laird
		-Weather
			-Preparations
				-JCS
	-Immediate action
		-Briefing
		-ARVN
	-Possible situation
	-Consequences
		-Soviet Union
		-PRC
		-Election
		-Kissinger’s prognostication
	-May 1, 1972
	-Negotiations
		-The President's trip to Kentucky
	-101st Airborne
	-Alternate schedule
	-North Vietnamese attack
	-US response
	-Press reports
	-US casualties
	-Hostility to US policy
		-Vietnamization
	-Distortions of ARVN strength
	-Latest reports
	-Tanks
	-Briefing
	-WSAG meeting

Kissinger left at 9:09 am.

Conversation No. 700-3

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  9:18 am - 9:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President's trip to Philadelphia
		-Plans
	-Uncertainty
-Value
-Announcements
	-Programs
-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally
	-Judgment of value
-Plans
	-Day and time

The President's schedule
-Problem with unknown activity
	-Publicity
	-Announcement
	-Changes
	-Invitations
	-News reports
	-Cancellation
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s appearance
-The President's visit to Kentucky
	-Vietnamization
	-Timing
	-Problems
	-Catholic school event in Philadelphia
	-Haldeman's conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
	-A speech

Vietnam
-US propaganda efforts
	-Deficiencies
	-News summary
	-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
	-Predictions of losses
	-Cities
	-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-North Vietnamese attacks
	-Need for US response
	-Kissinger
	-Media coverage
	-Bad news
	-Significance of loss of cities
	-Kontum
-Laos and Cambodia
-North Vietnam
	-Media departure
-The President's trip to Kentucky
	-Welcome to Airborne Division
	-Timing
-The President’s schedule
	-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Propaganda efforts
	-Prediction of offensive
	-Timing
	-Criticism
	-Ronald L. Ziegler's involvement
	-The President's credibility
-Kissinger
	-Talk with David Kraslow
		-Nguyen Van Thieu
		-Pentagon
		-Comments on offensive

Staff morale

John D. Ehrlichman's schedule
-Editorial boards
-Telecision events

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Public attitudes
	-Interest
	-Concern
	-Hugh S. Sidey
	-Howard R. Hughes case

Economy
-Ehrlichman
-Food prices
	-Connally
	-Decline
	-Giant Food Stores
	-Meat prices
			-Government pressure
	-Publicity
-Cost of Living Index
	-Release

The President's schedule
-Vietnam
	-Amount of time
	-Meeting with Moorer, Melvin R. Laird and [David] Kenneth Rush
-Domestic issues
	-Schools
-The President's meeting with John N. Mitchell and Connally

Vietnam
-William P. Rogers and Laird
-Cambodia and Laos
-Aggressiveness
-Possible actions
		-Press conferences
		-Military action
-Bombing campaign
-Bombing
		-Weather
ITT case
-George S. McGovern charges
-Taxes
-Effect on election chances
-Publicity
-Wisconsin primary
-Peter Lisagor's report
-Liberal bias
-Honesty
-Annoyance with Democrats
		-John F. Osborne on 1970 demonstrators
-Publicity
	-Dita D. Beard
	-Interview on 60 Minutes
	-Testimony
			-Senate investigation
	-Life photograph

White House staff
		-Schedules
			-Charles W. Colson
				-Meeting with unknown people

Edward M. Kennedy

1972 election
-Secret Service coverage
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Kennedy
-Connally's interpretation
-Kennedy
-Status as candidate
-Protection

Agnew
-Attack on Jules Witcover
-Book on Agnew
-Patrick J. Buchanan

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at 9:33 am.

[Conversation no. 700-3A]

[See Conversation no. 22-63]

Haldeman conferred with the President at an unknown time.

Call from Tricia Nixon Cox

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President between 9:33 and 9:34 am; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation.

[End of telephone conversation]

Witcover
-Criticism of Agnew

ITT case
-New York Times editorial
-Conclusion of case
	-Decline in interest
-Editorials
	-New York Time
	-Washington Post
	-Beard memorandum
	-Media efforts
	-Impact on Vietnam offensive
-Public interest
	-Role of newspapers and networks

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
	-The president's statement
		-Abrams
	-Initial successes
	-Gains by North Vietnam
	-Cambodia
	-ARVN losses
	-Press reports
			-News summary
			-Emphasis on negative
-Negotiations
	-Chances
	-Weather
	-US bombing attacks
	-US election
-Casualty rates
	-Distortions by press
-White House staff
	-Morale
	-Press attacks
		-ITT
		-Congress
-Critics of the president

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Easter egg hunt
-Noise
-Weather

Agnew
-Gridiron Dinner
-Trip to Kentucky
	-Greetings to 101st Airborne
	-Publicity
	-Problems for Vietnam offensive

The President's schedule
-Speech to Catholics
	-[National Catholic Education Association]
-Trip to Kentucky
-Speech in Philadelphia
	-Connally

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-Camp David trip
	-Problems
	-Gridiron Dinner
	-Time and day
	-Canadian trip
-Gridiron Dinner
	-Importance
	-Compared with Bohemian Grove event
-Trip to Camp David
	-Departure
	-Return day
-Trip to Kentucky
	-Agnew as substitute
	-Arrangements
			-101st Airborne division

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Kissinger entered at 9:49 am.

Vietnam
-Pentagon briefing of Kissinger
-Kentucky event
-North Vietnamese offensive
	-Destruction of ARVN regiments
	-Superiority
	-Defensive line
	-Sense of urgency
	-Moorer
	-Lack of US reaction
	-Laird
	-Stakes of war
	-US bombing
	-Air sorties
			-Number
			-Limitations
		-B-3 area
	-Purpose
	-North Vietnamese forces
	-ARVN re-enforcements 
		-Marine brigades
			-Saigon
	-ARVN defeats
	-US reaction
	-Moorer and Rush
			-Meeting with the President
		-Arrangements
			-Washington Special Actions Grip [WSAG]
		-Talking points
			-Informing the President
			-Moorer
				-Responsibilities
	-Air strikes
	-Number
			-Limitations
	-B-52s
			-Orders
			-North Vietnam
		-Dong Hoi
			-Importance
			-Moorer
-Military
	-Current attitudes
	-Abrams
	-Ellsworth F. Bunker
			-Return to Saigon
		-Conversation with Abrams and Thieu
	-Abrams
			-Promotion
				-Laird
			-Gen. Robert E. Pursley
			-Aggressiveness
		-Message to Moorer
		-Message To Laird

Haldeman left at 9:55 am.

-Publicity
	-WSAG meeting
	-Problems with public relations
	-Predictions of losses
		-Cities
	-Public relations efforts
	-Abrams
	-Anticipated Losses
			-Abrams
			-Kissinger’s talk with Ziegler and John A. Scali
			-Cities
		-Quang Tri and Kontum
		-Supply problems

Kissinger left at 9:59 am.

Conversation No. 700-4

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:59 am and 10:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

The President's meeting with Thomas H. Moorer and [David] Kenneth Rush
-Henry A. Kissinger

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

Conversation No. 700-5

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  10:06 am - 10:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Thomas H. Moorer, [David] Kenneth Rush and Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

Rush's new job

Easter egg roll
-Weather

Vietnam
-Purpose of meeting
	-Moorer
	-Rush's Attendance
	-David Packard
	-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meetings
-Chain of command
	-The President as Commander-In-Chief	
		-Melvin R. Laird
-Briefing
	-Orders
	-Arrival time
	-Reprimand
	-Arrival time
	-Orders
-Air strikes
	-Orders
		-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
	-Number
	-Weather
	-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.’s reaction
-North Vietnamese offensive
	-Abrams's reaction
	-Abrams's conduct
			-Chances for promotion
			-Behavior
			-Proposals for use of air power
	-Defense Department reports
	-Inaccuracies
	-Temporizing
	-US reaction
	-Massive retaliation
	-Air power
			-Battle of the bulge
		-Bad weather
			-Navy
			-Carriers on station
		-Number
			-Use Of B-52s
		-Recommendations
		-Effectiveness
			-Surface to air missiles [SAMs]
	-The President's sources of information
	-Inadequacies
	-Briefings
	-Orders
	-Abrams
				-Cancellation of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [MACV] staff social functions
	-Proposals for counteroffensive
			-Use of air power
		-Surprise
		-B-3 area
			-Tanks, ground forces
		-MACV
			-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
		-Concentration
			-B-3 area
			-Dong Hoi
	-Air strikes
	-Delays
			-Weather
				-Laird’s talk with Kissinger
	-Implementation
	-Weather
	-Effectiveness
	-ARVN
	-Risks for Air Force
			-Compared with Battle of the Bulge
	-North Vietnamese missile sites
		-Mobility
	-Abrams and John S. McCain, Jr.
			-Commander in Chief Pacific [CINCPAC]
			-Requests for authority to attack missile sites
				-Tanks
				-Mobile artillery
				-DMZ
	-Reports to the President
	-Secretary of Defense
	-Orders
			-Unsanitized reports
	-Abrams
	-Scope of authority
			-DMZ targets
						-The President’s recent trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
				-North Vietnamese targets
			-Requests
			-Weather
	-Air sorties
	-Number
	-B-52s
			-DMZ
			-Missile sites
		-Destruction
-Reports to the President
-Abrams
	-Promotion to Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
	-Past performance
	-Laos

Moorer, Rush and Kissinger left at 10:20 am.

Conversation No. 700-6

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:20 am and 10:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Air strikes
	-Authority
	-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams's request
			-Time
			-The President's trip o People's Republic of China [PRC]
			-Kissinger's investigation
		-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Implementation

Conversation No. 700-7

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  10:23 am - 11:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President's meeting with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Impact
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
	-Orders

Vietnam
-Gen. Robert E. Pursley’s and Melvin R. Laird's actions
	-Delays
	-Manipulation of figures
-North Vietnamese offensive
	-Propaganda
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-John A. Scali

		-Ronald L. Ziegler
		-Robert J. McCloskey
		-Anticipated losses
				-Concentration of strength
	-Scali
			-Involvement
	-Kissinger
			-Meetings With Scali, Ziegler and Herbert G. Klein
	-Handling
			-Macv [Military Assistance Command, Vietnam]
			-Defense Department
		-Problems
			-Kissinger
-Press reports
-Adverse news
-US response
-Timing
		-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers and Laird
		-Crossing of Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
	-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger
-Public relations efforts
		-Cambodia
		-Laos
	-Problems
-Compared with Cambodia and Laos
-US losses
		-Public relations problems
		-Helicopter
		-Bomber
		-Casualties
-US casualties
-Significance
	-Vietnamization
-Public relations efforts
	-Haldeman, Kissinger, Scali, Ziegler and Klein
	-Scali and Ziegler
	-Problems
			-Compared with Laos
	-Robert Elegant
	-Kissinger's participation in public relations group
		-Daily review
-Importance of issue
-Compared with meat prices issue

Foreign policy
-Achievements
	-Laos
-Forthcoming Soviet trip
	-Announcements

Vietnam
-Moorer
-North Vietnamese Offensive
	-Air strikes
	-Weather
	-Intensity
	-Use of tanks
	-Targets

Easter egg roll
-Attendance
-Work
-Army Band
-Marine Band
-Weather
-Importance

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Vietnam
-Public relations efforts
	-Cambodia
	-Laos
		-Daily review
		-Haldeman
		-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meetings
	-Kissinger
	-Work with Ziegler and Scali
	-Work with Haldeman
-Press
	-Removal
-Sense Of Crisis
	-North Vietnamese offensive
		-Diversion from other problems
		-George P. Shultz
-Media distortions
-South Vietnam
	-Possible settlement
	-Areas of strength
		-Delta, Saigon
-Chances of peace
	-Kissinger's negotiations
	-Paris
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Bombing
	-Suspension
	-Kissinger's meeting with People's Republic of China [PRC] officials
	-Negotiation breakthrough
	-Kissinger
	-Congress
	-Rogers and State Department
-US handling of war

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Call from Haldeman
-Trip to Kentucky
	-Laird
	-Rogers

Vietnam
-Rogers and Laird
	-Possible meeting with the President
	-Proposals
-Rogers
	-Bangladesh
	-US relations
		-State Department
		-Conflict with White House
			-Leak
		-Public opinion
		-Kissinger

Foreign policy
-Leaks
	-Use by administration

Education
-Statements for the President on Catholic education
	-John B. Connally
	-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Timing
	-Limitations
	-Trip to Philadelphia
	-Trip to Florida

The President's schedule
-Camp David
	-Ziegler's statement
	-Weather
	-Vietnam situation
-The President's image
	-Control of events
		-Florida
		-California
-Situation Room
-Camp David
-Meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
	-Length
	-Another meeting
	-Kissinger's recommendation
	-Rogers and Marshall Green
	-Kissinger's trip to Japan
	-Rogers and Green
	-Kissinger's presence
	-Length
	-Vietnam problems
-Meetings with ambassadors
	-Appointments
-Earl L. Butz
	-Trip to Soviet Union
	-US agricultural exports
	-Meeting with the President
	-Problems
	-Food prices
-Meeting with John H. Chafee
	-Farewell visit
	-John N. Mitchell's views
	-A primary
	-Call to Mitchell
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB] appointment
	-Arthur F. Burns
	-Choices
	-Younger candidate
	-Advantage
	-Problems
	-Burns's objections
	-Connally
-Meeting with Ingersoll
	-Scheduling
	-Japan
	-Kissinger
-Explorer scouts
-Environmental awards
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Problems
	-"Peaceniks"
		-Vietnam
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's handling
	-Advisory committee
	-School principal and science teacher
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Handling in Oval Office
	-Environmentalists
	-Vietnam

Bands on White House lawn
-Audience
	-Number
-Afternoon performance

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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Department of Justice
	-Mitchell, Kleindienst and Richard W. McLaren
	-Hard line against ITT
	-Connally, the Vice President and Peter M. Flanigan
	-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Pressure to ease off
	-White House
	-Antitrust policy
	-Conflict with White House
			-McLaren, Mitchell and Kleindienst
			-Connally, Stans, Peter G. Peterson, Flanigan and Ehrlichman
		-Opposition to antitrust action
-George S. McGovern
	-Statement
	-Taxes
	-Problems
	-Staff
	-Edward M. Kennedy's supporters
			-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] files
	-Candidacy

Easter egg roll
-Audience
	-Number
	-Children
-Easter Bunny
-Bands
-Temperature outside

The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office
-Trip to Philadelphia
-Trip to Kentucky
	-Publicity
	-Agnew
-EOB office

Haldeman left at 11:35 am.

Conversation No. 700-8

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:39 am and 4:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons [Secret Service agents?] met.

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

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	H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s location

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:35 am and 4:27 pm.

[Conversation No. 700-8A]

	The President’s location
		-EOB

[End of telephone conversation]

	The President’s location
		-EOB

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:39 am and 4:27 pm.

[Conversation No. 700-8B]

	The President’s location
		-EOB

[End of telephone conversation]

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The unknown agents left at an unknown time before 4:27 pm.

Conversation No. 700-9

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  4:27 pm - 4:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger; the recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress.

Vietnam
-Impact on US foreign policy
-Response to offensive
-Leadership
-Moscow summit
	-Possible cancellation
	-Consequences
-Algeria
	-Impact on France
	-France's status in world
-Significance
	-US as world power

Kissinger left at 4:31 pm.

Conversation No. 700-10

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  4:32 pm - 5:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

John D. Ehrlichman
-Preparations for meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Speech
	-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Speech
	-Price
-Discussion with John B. Connally
	-The President's trip to Philadelphia
	-Tax reform proposal

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Speech at National Cathedral School

The President's schedule
-Price
-Appointments
	-Vietnam
-Speech draft
	-Work

Education representative, Sidney P. Marland, Jr.
-Speech to convention
	-The President's greetings

Book by Russell Kirk

-The President's memorandum
-A Program for Conservatives
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, IIand Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	The Conservative Mind
-Publication
-Cover
	-Title
	-Problems
-Copies
	-Staff members
	-Patricia H. Alsop
	-Mix-up
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Drug speech
-Further work by the President
-Hotline
-Television
-Radio delivery
-Television delivery
	-Problems
-Radio speech
	-Value
	-Drafting
-Problem of drugs
	-John R. (“Tex”) McCrary, Richard A> Moore and Dwight L. Chapin
	-Personification
	-Myles J. Ambrose
			-Compared with J. Edgar Hoover
	-John N. Mitchell
	-Ambrose
			-Presence at arrests
			-McCrary
	-Announcements
	-New penalties
	-Hotline
			-Phone company
		-Notification
-Radio speech

Press conference
-McCrary
	-Office
		-Photograph pool
		-Need for more film
			-Television
-Problems
	-Timing
	-Meeting with editors

The President's schedule
-Open weeks
-Vietnam
	-Bombing
	-Weather breaks

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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:41 pm.

Ehrlichman
-Meeting with the President

Butterfield left at 4:42 pm.

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Polls
-ITT case
	-Impact
	-Dita D. Beard
-Busing
-Food prices
	-Negative impact

Busing
-Ehrlichman

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[Duration: 11s ]

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	Media relations
-Story on young men in administration
	-People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Winston Lord
-Life 

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[Duration: 9s ]

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John D. Ehrlichman entered at 4:52 pm.

Greetings

Ehrlichman’s schedule

Haldeman left at 4:53 pm.

Busing
-Ehrlichman's role in issue
	-Charles W. Colson
-Clark MacGregor
	-Meeting with southern congressmen
-Edward L. Morgan
-Administration's position
	-Publicity in Michigan
-Fifty cities
	-Visits
-Moratorium strategy
	-Work with Congress
	-Jacob K. Javits
			-Need to counteract
	-Votes in conference
	-Morgan
	-Impact in California

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:53 pm.

Refreshment

The President left at an unknown time before 5:36 pm.

	Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:36 pm.

	[No conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time after 4:53 pm.

Busing
-California
-Administration's statement
	-Television
-California
	-Ehrlichman's visits

Ehrlichman's visit to California
-St. Helena

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[Duration: 27s ]

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-Busing issue
-Interest
	-Blacks
-Support for the President

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[Duration: 2m 44s ]

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	Busing
-Constitutional amendment
	-Racial division
	-Alienation of poor blacks
	-Los Angeles Times
	-Wine growers in Napa Valley
-Los Angeles Times colloquy
	-Ehrlichman's meeting
	-Davis
	-[Unknown person]
	-Richard Burkholtz
	-Carl [?] [Surname unknown]
	-Tony Day
	-Burkholtz
-Administration position
	-Opposition to court ordered busing
	-Distinction from voluntary busing
	-State of the Union speech
	-Democratic principles
			-David Eisenhower
-Polls
	-Ehrlichman’s talks with Haldeman
	-Questions on popular perceptions
	-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Media
	-Confusion of issues
	-Editorial writers
	-Publicity for administration's opposition
		-Busing
	-[First name unknown] Mitchell
	-Marion W. Edelman
	-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] special
	-Edelman
	-Howard H. Baker, jr.
	-Abraham A. Ribicoff
			-Busing in north
	-Administration's opposition
-Congress
	-Strom Thurmond
	-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.

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[Duration: 1m 26s ]

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Bay of Pigs files
-Orders for Department of Defense
	-David Young
	-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Lucien E. Conein
-White House involvement
-Richard M. Helms
-John A. McCone
-Allan W. Dulles
-Helms
	-Involvement in Bay of Pigs incident

Pentagon Papers
-J. William Fulbright hearings
	-Release of "Kennedy papers"
	-Fulbright's intentions
	-Vietnam
-Files on assassinations
	-Television documentary
	-Kennedy allies
	-Life

Victor L. Marchetti
-Publication of story on CIA
	-Helms's concern
	-Reasons for concern
	-Harm to CIA
-Law suit against Marchetti
	-Breach of contract
	-Criminal suit
	-Injunction

Population Commission
-Ehrlichman's meetings with John D. Rockefeller III
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller's calls to Ehrlichman
-Proposals for the President
	-Treatment
	-Abortion
	-Compared with Marijuana commission
	-Administration's disagreement
	-The President’s population message
	-Handling
		-Patrick J. Buchanan’s view
				-Effect on Nelson Rockefeller
-Abortion issue
	-Political opposition
	-Support
	-Control of blacks and Puerto Ricans
-Vasectomies
-White House approval
	-Statement on abortion
	-Consideration of other proposals
	-John Rockefeller
		-Talk with Ehrlichman
	-Personal conscience
	-Support for population control
		-John Rockefeller
	-Social classes
			-Upper classes
			-Lower classes
		-Lack of control
	-San Francisco
			-Black population growth
-Blacks
	-Low standard of living
	-Migration to cities
-Administration's dealings with commission
	-William W. Scranton
	-Meeting with John Rockefeller
	-John Rockefeller's staff director
	-Length of meeting
	-Meeting with John Rockefeller
	-Call from Nelson Rockefeller
	-Vietnam

Declassification of secret documents
-John S. D. Eisenhower
-Executive Order
	-Timing
-Review procedure
	-Disputes
	-Resolution
	-John Eisenhower appointment
-John Eisenhower
	-Author of a book

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[Duration: 6s ]

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			-Submission of name for position

US Postal Service [USPS]
-Ehrlichman's meeting with Elmer T. (“Ted”) Klassen
	-Rate raise
	-Klassen's opposition
-Parcel post
	-Damage rate
	-Competition from United Parcel Service [UPS]
	-Reform
	-Cuts in work force
	-Low productivity
	-Overstaffing
-Personnel
	-Turn-over
	-Cuts in work force
	-Problems
			-Election year
	-Freeze on hiring
	-Congressional hearings
	-Firings
	-Rate increase compared to overstaffing
	-Conflicts
	-Hiring of youths
			-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
			-Costs
-Youth
	-Defense Department
	-Alternative jobs
				-Civil Service Commission, Agnew and Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Freeze
	-Jennings Randolph
	-Complaints
-Firings
	-Top people

ITT case
-George S. McGovern
	-Staff
	-Frank F. Mankiewicz
	-Links with Edward M. Kennedy
	-Comments on corporation taxes
	-Inaccuracies
			-San Diego incident
	-Press criticism
			-Colson
			-Lyndon B. Johnson
			-John F. Kennedy
	-Falsehood of statement
	-Question on panel Issues and Answers
-Payment of taxes
	-Annual report
	-Security and Exchange Commission [SEC] files
	-Public record
-Hubert H. Humphrey

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
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[Duration: 1m 21s ]

STEPHEN B. BULL ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 4:52 PM.

BULL LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 5:36 PM.

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ITT Case
-Beard's charges
	-Vance Hartke
	-Use of airplane
			-The President's experience
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
	-Use of ITT support
	-Ties with ITT
-Antitrust suit
	-Richard W. McLaren
	-Harold S. Geneen
	-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Agnew
	-Wilson [?]
	-John B. Connally
	-Peter G. Peterson
	-Pressures to drop suit
	-Flanigan
-Geneen
	-Acquaintance with the President
	-Meeting with Ehrlichman and Colson
	-Memorandum to Ehrlichman
	-Acquaintance with the President
	-Memorandum
			-Alexander P. Butterfield
			-Staff secretary
			-Haldeman
	-Dealings with Flanigan
	-Memorandum to Ehrlichman
-Antitrust suit
	-John N. Mitchell
	-Importance of case
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Problems
-Contributions
	-Flanigan's knowledge
	-Discussion
-Antitrust suit
	-Geneen's comments
	-Memorandum to Ehrlichman
	-Mitchell and Kleindienst
	-Meeting with Geneen
		-Letter to [Forename unknown] O'Brien
		-Denial

White House staff
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Necessity to relax
	-Ehrlichman, Colson, Haldeman and Kissinger
-Use of Camp David
-Facilities
-President’s trip to the Soviet Union

Ehrlichman left at 5:36 pm.

Conversation No. 700-12

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  5:36 pm - 5:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

	The President’s schedule

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[Duration: 4m 15s ]

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The President's schedule
-Florida trip
	-Henry A. Kissinger's presence
	-Gridiron Dinner
	-Decision
		-Timing
	-Departure
	-Arrangements
	-Trip to Philadelphia
	-Kissinger
	-Discussion of war
	-Public reaction
		-Busing statement
	-Vietnam War issue
	-US involvement
			-Cambodia
			-Laos
				-Helicopters
			-Air power
			-Weather
-California trip
	-Date
	-Press coverage
		-Democratic presidential candidate
	-Duration

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[Duration: 55s ]

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-Camp David
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Kissinger's presence
	-Daily reports
		-Gridiron Dinner
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Work

Instruction for Haldeman
		-Request for Kissinger's call
	-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Haldeman left at 5:48 pm.

Conversation No. 700-13

Date:  April 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:49 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons and Stephen B. Bull met.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration: 2m 40s ]

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The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.