Conversation No. 701-1

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:31 am and 9:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Meeting with the President

	Conversation No. 701-2

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  9:05 am - 9:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John H. Chafee
-Melvin R. Laird
-Timing
-The President’s previous talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Candidacy for Senate

The President talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 9:05 and 9:08 am.

[Conversation no. 701-2A]

The President's meeting with Chafee
-Purpose
-Laird
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Secretary of the Navy
-Candidacy for Senate
-Presence of others
-Laird

[End of telephone conversation]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:08 am.

The President's meeting with Chafee
-Laird's presence
-Purpose

Butterfield left at 9:09 am.

-Press conference
				-Possible location

Vietnam
-Laird
-Criticism
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Laird's reaction
-Reports
-Meeting with the President
-Purpose
-Air strikes
-Authority
-Possible criticism
-Kissinger
					-Moorer’s opinion
						-Laird
-Weather
-Impact
					-Number of sorties
-Damage
-Bridge
-Convoy
-Secondary explosions
-Tanks
-B-52s
-Increase
					-Number
						-From the US
-Naval Gunfire
-Increase
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US intentions
-Amount of preparation
- Soviet Union and People's Republic of China [PRC]
					-Possible impact on the upcoming election
-Blockade
-Preparation of the Navy
						-President’s instructions
-Seriousness
					-Slow nature of mining
-Blockade
-Selective nature
						-Food and medical supplies
-Air strikes
-Weather
					-Impact
						-Months of activity
-Laird
-Department of State
-New ideas
					-Upcoming meeting
-Public relations
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] crossing
-New York Times
-Characterization of invasion
						-Impact
-Threefold US reaction
-Protection of US forces
-Withdrawal program
-South Vietnamese resistance
-White House, Defense and State Department statements
-Inadequacies
-Correction
						-The President’s displeasure
-Sources
			-Press coverage
-Statement by Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-New York Times coverage
-Quality
					-News summary
-II Corps-B-3 area
-US actions
-Reports
-Answer to Kissinger’s question
-Moorer
							-Gen. John A. Vogt, Jr.
							-President’s instructions to Kissinger
-Problems
				-Surface to Air Missiles [SAMs]
-Press reports
				-Public relations
-US actions
-Compared with Laos
						-Low profile
-Laird's press conference
-Press reports
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Atmosphere in White House
							-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] story
								-Source
-US foreign policy
-Soviet Union, PRC
-Impact of current offensive
-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Cambodia
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Success
-Encouragement to domestic critics
					-Nuclear weapons
-Blockade
-Soviet Reaction
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviets
-The President’s forthcoming trip
				-Poland
					-Dobrynin
-Message from Leonid I. Brezhnev
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US military
				-Possible obstacle

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:08 and 9:24 am.

[Conversation no. 701-2B]

[See Conversation no. 22-72]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US reaction
-Weather
-Naval gunfire
-Orders
-Cessation
-Location of targets
						-Accuracy
					-Bombing halt
-B-3 area

The president talked with Thomas H. Moorer between 9:24 and 9:28 am.

[Conversation No. 701-2C]

[See Conversation No. 22-73]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Kissinger's forthcoming contact with Ziegler
-Report
				-Timing
-North Vietnamese offensive
-South Vietnamese countermeasures
-Dangers
-Quang Tri and Dong Ha
					-Kissinger’s concern
-Retreat
-Effect on North Vietnamese supply lines
						-Anticipated results
-Hue
-Symbolism
-Retreat
-Counterattack
-Laos operation
							-US Air Force [USAF]
-Third division
					-Kissinger’s opinion
-Strength
-Concentration
-Effects of weather
-Crossing of river
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-South Vietnamese retreats
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Trip to South Vietnam
					-Possible options
-Laird's reaction
-Laird

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-Reaction to offensive
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US counterattack
-Restrictions on statements
-Scali
-Ziegler
-Massive invasion
-The President's Responsibilities
				-Protecting human lives
				-Ensuring withdrawal
				-South Vietnamese resistance
-Public Reaction
-Refugees
-Anticommunism
-Statements
-Rhetoric
-Scali and Ziegler
								-President’s instructions to Kissinger
-Soviet Reactions
-Impact of US bombing
-Blockade
-Ships required
					-Kissinger’s opinion
-Legality
-Mining
-Implementation
-Problems
-Compared with Cuban missile crisis
-Mines
-Delayed fuses
						-Time allotted
-Selectivity
-Problems
						-Food and medical supplies
							-PRC
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Critics
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
				-Statements on escalation
-Muskie
				-Kissinger’s view
-Charges of escalation
-US position
-Consequences of victory and defeat
-Reaction of the press
-Compared with Cambodian operation
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Impact on election
		-The President’s view
-Impact on US foreign policy
-Communist powers
-Confidence in US
-Support
-Europe and Asia
						-Seven points
							-Communists
-The President’s possible course of action in 1969
-Seriousness
-The President's policy
-Compared with Gen. Charles A. J. M. De Gaulle
-Resistance to defeat
-North Vietnamese Offensive
-Moorer’s location
-B-52s
-Attacks on North Vietnam
-Target areas
						-DMZ
-Limits to target areas
						-Possible escalation
							-18th parallel
-Criticism

The President's meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
-Instructions
-Kissinger's trip to Japan
-Length of meeting
-Meeting with Kissinger

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Kissinger's trip to Japan
-Delay
	-Decision
	-Delays
						-Possible duration
		-Statements
			-Scali
			-Ziegler

Kissinger left at 9:43 am.

	Conversation No. 701-3

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  9:44 am - 10:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Meetings
-John B. Connally
-Russell A. Kirk
-Concentration on foreign policy
-Kirk
			-Connally
-John N. Mitchell
-Delays
-Arthur F. Burns
-Length
-Purpose
-Connally
-Possible call
-Topics
-Arrangements
-The President's speech

Education
-The President's speech to the National Catholic Education Association [NCEA]
-Draft
-Haldeman’s opinion
-Revisions
	-Parochial schools
				-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Inadequacies
-Revisions
-Parochial schools
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Charles W. Colson
-Domestic Council
-Opposition to aid to non-public schools
			-John D. Ehrlichman
-Convention in Philadelphia
-Dr. Sidney P. Marland's, Jr. speech
-Reception
-Reasons
							-Enthusiasm towards administration
-The President's appearance
-Connally's view
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-The President's speech
-Price
-Article for U.S. News & World Report
-Revisions
-Buchanan's and Colson’s work on rhetoric
-Connally's advice
						-Politeness

Vietnam
-Public relations situation
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Confusion
-Ronald L. Ziegler
				-Previous meeting with the President
-Kissinger
-Current work
-North Vietnamese offensive
-New York Times editorial
-Characterization of offensive
-Compared with Laos and Cambodia operations
						-Criticism of press
-Crossing of Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Counter strategy
-B-52s
-Problems
-Unknown South Vietnamese General
-US military’s tendency
-Orderly Retreat
-Psychological impact

Ambassadors
-Assignments
-Confirmation
-Frederic V. Malek
-President’s instructions
			-Unknown person
-Meeting with Richard S. Ingersoll

Vietnam
-Public relations
-Laos operation in 1971
-Kissinger's handling
				-Haldeman’s view
-Weather
-Pictures
-Refugees
-Ziegler’s question
			-US bombing
-State Department handling of diplomats
-North Vietnamese violations
-DMZ, Geneva Accords, 1968 bombing halt
-News coverage
						-Clarity
-Muskie
-Attacks on statements
-John G. Tower
-Charge of defeatism
							-Media involvement with story
-Haldeman's control of public relations efforts
-Concern for GIs and Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Protection of Americans
					-Number
					-News summary
-Withdrawal program

	Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew’s schedule

Voice of America
-Bruce Herschensohn
-Malek
-[US Information Agency]
-Resignation

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Big business
-Contributions to Democrats
-The President’s instructions
				-Colson
-August A. Busch, Jr. [?]
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968
-Analysis

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Johnson administration
-Antitrust record
				-Haldeman’s reaction

Administration
-TV coverage
-Reports of crisis in White House
-Ziegler and John A. Scali
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Thomas E. Jarriell
					-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
						-Ziegler
						-Unknown reporter
-Robert Pierpoint
-Counterattack
					-Haldeman’s upcoming conversation with Ziegler
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting
					-Kissinger

Vietnam
-News reports
-White House handling
-Buchanan
-Richard A. Moore

1972 campaign
-Contributions
-Maurice H. Stans
-The President's campaign
-Disclosure
-John W. Gardner demands
-Other candidates
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-George C. Wallace
-Shirley Chisholm
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Lists of donors before April 7
-The President's campaign
-Stans's position
-Jackson
-Refusal to disclose

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:44 am.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

1972 campaign
-Contributions
-The President's campaign
-Stans's position
-Primary efforts
-Wisconsin
-Television
-Problems
-Amount of money
-Reports to federal government
-Stans's position
-Full reports
-Compliance with law
-Sums of money
-Importance
-Amounts
-Disclosure
-Problems
-Alternatives to reporting
-Limits to disclosure
-Reports
-Problems
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:06 am.

Vietnam
-Air strikes
			-Numbers
	-Kissinger's conversation with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer

Haldeman left At 10:06 am.

-Target areas
-Moorer’s statement
	-Damage
	Tanks and bridges
-Effectiveness
-Public relations efforts
-Ziegler
-Scali
				-Robert J. McCloskey
				-Daniel Z. Henkin

Kissinger left at 10:08 am.

	Conversation No. 701-4

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:08 am and 10:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

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The President's schedule
-The President's meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
-Duration
-Interruption by Bull
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
					-Location

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:09 am.

	Conversation No. 701-5

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  10:09 am - 10:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert S. Ingersoll, Henry A. Kissinger and Stephen B. Bull[?].

Introductions and greetings

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 10:39 am.

Ingersoll's assignment
-Preparations
-Departure
			-Timing

US-Japan relations
-Current status
			-Possible problems
-Ingersoll's role as ambassador
-Importance
-Compared to West Germany
					-Berlin agreements
						-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Compared to the Soviet Union
-Ingersoll's method of handling
-Relations with Eisaku Sato, Takeo Fukuda and power elite
-Identification of potential leaders
				-No need for limitation
-Japan's leadership
-Fukuda
-Mitsujiro Ishii
-Ingersoll's role
-Relationship with the President
-Importance
					-Armin H. Meyer
-Personal confidence
					-Representative to the government
-Use of special channels to communicate with the President
				-Ingersoll’s staff
					-Ingersoll’s relationship with the Japanese business community
-The President's knowledge of Japan
				-Importance of US-Japanese alliance
-The President's visits to Japan
-Number
-The President’s relationship with Japanese leaders
-Potential power
					-Economic, political and military
-Eastern Pacific
					-US-Japanese alliance and friendship
						-Strong emphasis from the President
-Economic competition
				-US respect
-Avoidance of protectionism, isolationism and Japanese counter reaction
-Ingersoll's dealings with Japanese leaders
-John B. Connally’s theory
-US relationship with Japan, Latin America and Canada
-Ingersoll's approach
-Closer relations
					-Mutual respect
-People's Republic of China [PRC] issue
-US-PRC opening of relations
				-US and Japanese interests
					-PRC nuclear capability
-Possibilities of influence
-Possibility for conflict
					-Similarities to Korea and Vietnam
-Reasons
					-Soviet Union
-Effect on US-Japan ties
-Difference in relationships
-Social, economic, political ties
-Trade ties between US and Japan
						-PRC, Soviet Union, and Canada
-Mutual security interests
-US intentions
-Viable policy in the Pacific
-Japan's role
						-Frequent dialogue
-Joint communique
-Development of US-Japan ties
						-Support For Clause

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Nixon Doctrine
-The President's conversation with Chou En-Lai and Mao Tse-Tung
			-State Department view
-Purpose
-US role in world and the Pacific
-Low profile
-Commitment to South Vietnam
-Continued US presence in Asia
				-PRC
-Japan
-Neutrality
	-Rearmament
	-Likelihood
	-Economic power
					-World War II

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-Choices in future
				-Nuclear guarantee
					-Firm US alliance
					-Possible Japanese rearmament
-Development of US ties

US-Japan relations
-Competition in PRC
			-Possible Japanese role
			-US Success
				-Possible discussions
					-Potential Japanese actions
			-The President's Meeting With Chou en-Lai
				-Mao Tse-Tung
			-Need for US-Japan cooperation
				-Dangers of competition
					-Soviet Union
-Kissinger's trip to Japan
-Kissinger's work with Ingersoll
-Translator
-Use
-Ingersoll's dealings with Sato and Fukuda
-Use of channels
-Other channels
-Danger of leaks in Tokyo
-State Department
						-Arthur K. Watson
							-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Private dinner
-Sato
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Privacy
-Meeting with Ingersoll
-Fukuda
-Arrangements
-Scheduling
					-Timing
						-North Vietnamese offensive
						-The President’s upcoming visit to the Soviet Union
-President’s instructions to Ingersoll
-Letters to Sato and Fukuda
-President’s signature
-Drafts
-Content
-Dispatch
-Arrangements
						-State Department files
						-Contact with the Japanese ambassador
						-Meyer
-US Asian policy
-Message to Japan
-Quotation of the President
-Shanghai communique
-US presence in Asia
-US-Japan alliance
-Importance
					-Peace
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-US policy
-Korea
-The President's message for Ingersoll to the Japanese
-Ingersoll's assignment
-Visits
-Kissinger
-The President
-Upcoming trip to Soviet Union
-Timing
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's visit
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito's visit
-Timing
-The President
-Election
				-Respect for the Japanese
-Problems
					-Economic
-The President's message to Japanese leaders
			-Europe and Pacific
-Ingersoll's assignment
-Conversations with Fukuda, Sato and Ishii
-Dealings with Japanese
-Toughness
-Eisenhower's comments on British as allies
					-Suez crisis
					-Contrasts in war and peace
-Cameras
-Kodak
-Film
				-Cost

Presidential gifts
-Golf balls

Kissinger left and Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:39 am.

Golf balls and tie clips

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:43 am.

The President's foreign policy
-Ingersoll's admiration

Ingersoll's family
-Visit to Lincoln Memorial
-Abraham Lincoln
-Compared with the President

Presidential gifts
-Golf balls
-Donald McI. Kendall
		-Money clip
-Presidential seal

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:39 am.

Photograph session
-Standing pictures

Presidential gifts
-Bronze compacts

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:43 am.

Photographs
-Copies

George P. Shultz
-Qualities
			-Previous relationship with Ingersoll
-Dedication
-Eisenhower

The White House photographer entered at an unknown time after 10:39 am.

Photographs
		-The President’s instructions

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 10:43 am.

Gifts
-Bronze compacts
-Cuff links
-Tie clasps
-Presidential seal
-Money clips
-Kendall
-“Bowser” [doggie] bags

Ingersoll's assignment
-Ingersoll's father, Roy C. Ingersoll
-Message to Japanese
			-State Department
			-The President’s initials

Ingersoll left at 10:43 am.

	Conversation No. 701-6

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:43 am and 10:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Timing

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:45 am.

	Conversation No. 701-7

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:43 am and 10:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation no. 22-74]

	Conversation No. 701-8

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  10:45 am - 10:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation no. 22-75]

	Conversation No. 701-9

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  10:46 am - 11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Robert S. Ingersoll
-Praise from the President
-Comments on the President's foreign policy
-Lincoln Memorial
-Abraham Lincoln
-Compared with the President

Political support for the President
-General public
-Gallup poll
-Press

Press
-Ronald L. Ziegler's list of names
-Number
-Hugh S.Sidey
-John F. Osborne
-Friends of the President
-Return calls
-Peter C. Andrews of Buffalo Courier Express
-New Republic and Life
-News summary
-References to Sidey and Osborne
-Importance
-Friendly journalists
-Potential importance
				-Andrews
					-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Unfriendly journalists
			-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Ziegler
-Osborne
					-Possible influence
						-Sidey
						-Henry A. Kissinger
-Avoidance
-Haldeman's enforcement

Julie Nixon Eisenhower entered at 10:49 am.

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Julie Nixon Eisenhower left at 10:53 am.

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	White House Staff
-Parties
-The President’s concern
-Movies
-Paul Fisher

	Photographs of the President
		-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
		-Problems
			-William L. Safire
			-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
			-Selection
		-Frank Leonard
		-John R. (“Tex”) McCrary
		-Leonard
			-Similarities of style
		-Atkins
			-Photographs of the President
				-Image presentation
				-Eye on Nixon

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News summary
-Comments on the President's personality
-Source
-Osborne
	-Spectrum
						-Unknown journalist
-The President's trips
-Human interest stories
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Press reports
-Trip to PRC
-Impact
-Presentation of the President as a person
				-The President’s image

Julie Nixon Eisenhower entered at 10:58 am.

Photograph session
-Scheduling
-Atkins
-The President's availability
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
				-Location

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-Time and day
-Family picture
-Preparations
-Timing
-Mrs. Nixon

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-Preparations
					-Mrs. Nixon

Julie Nixon Eisenhower left at 11:00 am.

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Press
-Attacks
-Press conferences
-Unknown White House staffer’s suggestion
-Imitation of John F. Kennedy
-Kennedy's conferences
-Comparisons to current administration
-Reports in press
-Contents
-The President's conferences
-Handling by media
					-Comparisons
-Osborne and Sidey
-Meeting with the President
				-Timing
-Ziegler
-Osborne
-Journalists
-Cultivation of friends
				-President’s instructions
					-1972 election
				-Ziegler

Drug speech
-TV appearance
-John D. Ehrlichman's advice
-Other’s view
-Need for reason
				-President’s previous conversation with Ehrlichman
-Fireside chats
-Radio
-Value
-Photographs
				-Value
-Florida trip
				-Timing
-Hotline
-Timing
-Plans
-TV coverage
				-Haldeman’s opinion

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-George S. McGovern
-Statements
-Denials
-Corporate taxes
-Amount
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] reports
-Misrepresentation
-Media hostility to the President
-McGovern's reception by press

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-Contributions
-Republicans
-Maurice H. Stans's statement
-Richard A. Moore
-Legal requirements
-John N. Mitchell
-Amounts
-Publicity
-W. Clement Stone
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Problems
-List of contributors
-Publication of list
-Problems
-Current actions
-Jackson
-List of contributors
-Publication
-The President's contributors
-List of names
-Publication
-Effect on primaries
-A mailing
-Results
-List
-Publication
-Publicity
-John W. Gardner's criticisms
-Public reaction
-Criticisms of the President's campaign
-Reaction
-ITT
-Democrats
-Edward M. Kennedy

William P. Rogers
-Trip
-Announcement
				-Possible timing

George H. Gallup group
-Call to Haldeman’s office
-PRC trip
-Relations with White House
-Louis P. Harris
-Albert E. Sindlinger
			-Charles W. Colson
-Reports to the White House
			-Interest in the polls
-Figures
-Problems
-Sampling techniques

Media
-Writers
-Appearances on Television
-Credibility
-Neil MacNeil from Time
-Spectrum television show
-ITT case
-Harm to administration
-Credibility
		-Press relations
-Peter Lisagor
-Sidey
-James Keogh
	-Osborne
	-Boycott
-President Nixon and the Press
-Condensation in Reader's Digest
-Readership
						-Comparisons

Acupuncture
-Interest
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
				-Articles
-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Article
-Interest
			-Fascination
-Age of technique
		-PRC
-Abolition and reinstatement by Mao Tse-tung
-Cultural revolution
-Article by James A. Michener

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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:00 am.

The President's schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:46 am.

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Polling Presidential popularity
-Thomas W. Benham’s analysis and numbers
-Major issues
-Reversals in public opposition
-November 3, 1969 speech on Vietnam
-Cambodia
-Economic discussions of Phases I and II
-PRC trip
-High points
-Attrition
-Reasons
-Beginning of term
-Successes
					-High approval
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman
-Unsolvable problems
					-Approval downturn
-Vietnam
-Impact
-Republican minority
-Public support
-Depth
-Expectations
-Current strategy
-Problems
-Inflation
-Food prices
			-Labor
			-Food prices
-Food chains
-Reduction of prices
-Safeway stores
							-Advertisements
								-Possible price freeze
-Weak areas
-Groups
-Independents
-Reasons for voting
-Party loyalty
-Importance
					-Mitchell
-New voters
-Party affiliation
-Independence
-The President's inroads
-Vietnam
-PRC opening
-End of draft
-Women
-High prices
-Administration record
					-Equal opportunity
					-Appointments
-Nixon family
				-Concerns
-Status of women
-Patricia R. Hitt
-Young women
-Liberal leanings and idealism
					-ITT
-Budget consciousness
-Cost of goods
						-The President and Muskie
							-Comparisons
-The President's personality
-Projection
-Importance
						-Press
-Awards
-Presentation of awards
-Timing
-Image as President rather than as candidate
-Course of the President's popularity over first term
-High and low points discussed
				-Moon landing
				-November 3, 1969 speech on Vietnam
				-Withdrawal from Cambodia
				-Laos
				-Pentagon papers
				-Phase I and Phase II discussions
				-PRC trip
-Gallup poll
-Range
-John F. Kennedy
-Johnson

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Media
-Radio speech on drugs

Education
-Forthcoming speech to the National Catholic Education Association [NCEA]
			-Ehrlichman
			-Draft
				-Timing
			-Problems
-Non-public schools
-Aid
-Colson
-Administration's position
-Division within White House
-Harris polls
-Results
-Catholic attitudes
-George P. Shultz's study
								-Ehrlichman
-Financing
-Tuition
-Parish funds
-Contributions
							-Tax deductibility
-Problems
-Non-Catholic students
								-Percentage
-Shultz and Ehrlichman
-Opposition to aid
-Shultz
-Support for private schools
-Ehrlichman
-Busing issue
-Busing
-Forum for handling
				-Television press conferences

Media relations
		-The President’s recent press conference
-Press reports on the President's tone and  physical condition
-Osborne
-Sidey
-Lisagor
-Sidey
-The President's aging
						-Description from Sidey
-Osborne
-Comments
					-Difference of opinion
-The President's press conferences
-Reports
-The President's tenseness
-Dan Rather
-Inaccuracies
-Press conferences
-President’s dislike
-Keogh's book
-Osborne's review
				-Possible press corps view of the President
-Press boycotts
-Osborne
-Ziegler’s role
-Sidey
-Osborne

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:00 am.

The President's meeting with Prisoner of War/Missing in Action [POW-MIA] lawyers
-Press picture
-Advantages
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Format
-Number
-[Louis] Patrick Gray, III
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:45 am.

John B. Connally
-Illness
-Return home
-Postponement of meeting with Arthur F. Burns

Haldeman left at 11:45 am.

	Conversation No. 701-10

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  11:46 am - 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert P. Murray, Harry Hathaway, Walter S. McLin III, John Mitchell Eger, L. Patrick Gray III and Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft; members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings and introductions
-Murray

Photograph session

Introductions
-Hathaway
-McLin
-Eger
-Gray

Unknown person's visit to White House
-Law Enforcement Assistance Act [LEAA] grant

Press picture

Meeting with the President
-Appreciation
-American Bar Association [ABA] program for Prisoners of War [POWs] and  Missing in Action [MIAs]
-Purposes
-Contacts with families
-Civil problems
						-Judge Advocate General [JAG]
-Remedial legislation
-Power of attorney
-State legislatures
-California
-Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act
-Problems
					-Department of Defense [DoD]
					-Jurisdiction
				US Air Force [USAF] Reserve lawyers
					-Possible amendments
-Hearings in California
-Coordination with military
-Contacts with families
-The President's help
-Endorsement
-Contact person at White House
-Scowcroft

POWs
-Efforts at release
-Importance of subject
-US bargaining power
-Maintenance
				-Reasoning
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Air strikes
				-Possible resolution
-Conclusion of war
-Critics
-Withdrawal
-Problems for POWs
-The President’s January 25, 1972 speech
-US bargaining power
		-POW group
			-Position on war
				-Commitment from the President
-Legal problems
			-Titles

Photographs 
-Copies

POWs
-Attorney group

Gray
		-Appearance

Murray et al left at 11:58 am.

	Conversation No. 701-11

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 11:58 am until 12:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Prisoner of War/Missing in Action [POW/MIA] lawyers
-Gifts
-Pens

John B. Connally
-Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
-Use of Camp David

Bull and Butterfield left and Oscar Dystel, Markus Jaffe, Samuel Schulman, Richard L. Wilson and Herbert G. Klein entered at 12:00 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Introductions
-Klein
-Dystel
-Jaffe
-Schulman
-Wilson

Photograph session

	Presentation of The President’s Trip to China
-Copies
-Page of book
-Production quality
-Time
-Value

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The President's trip to the Soviet Union
-Possible book
-Leningrad
-Kremlin
-Iran And Poland
-Impact on world
			-Comparison to World War II
-Substance
-News stories
-Pictures
-Kremlin
-Leningrad
-Warsaw
-Teheran
-Crowds
						-Railroads and trains
-Size of press corps
-Television
				-Compared to PRC trip

Presidential gifts
-Cuff links
-Pens

Book on the President's trip to Soviet Union
-Pending decision
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Preface by the President
		-Possible contents
		-Arms control
		-Middle East

Middle East
-Ceasefire

The President’s Trip to China
-Binding
-Cost
-Subsequent book on Soviet Union trip
-Topics
-Arms control
				-Trade
				-Space
			-Wilson

Gridiron Dinner
-The President's absence
			-Women
-Henry A. Kissinger's attendance
-The President's schedule
			-Florida
-Charles G. (“Bebe") Rebozo

Unknown person's support

San Diego Chargers
-Status
-Seattle Supersonics
-Season's record
		-John Hadl

Dystel, et al left at 12:11 pm.

	Conversation No. 701-12

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:11 pm and 12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Melvin R. Laird and John H. Chafee
-Meeting with LynRae McClintock
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Gordon C. Strachan
-McClintock's husband
-Justice Department lawyer

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

	Conversation No. 701-13

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  12:12 pm - 12:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, LynRae McClintock and Gordon C. Strachan.

Introduction

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:13 pm.

Change of jobs

Photographs

Home
-New job
-Hometown
-College [University of Southern California]
-Major
-Hometown [Riverside]
-High School
		-Gift

Gift

McClintock et al. left at 12:13 pm.

	Conversation No. 701-14

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  12:13 pm - 1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

	Kissinger’s schedule
		-Meeting

Vietnam
-Weather
-Naval gunfire
-Mining operations
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Plans
-Preparations
				-Philippines
-Richard M. Helms
-Information
-Reaction
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Conversation with Kissinger
				-Dated statement
-Review of requests for bombing authority
-Melvin R. Laird's approval
					-Surface to Air missiles [SAMs]
-Air strikes
-Increase
-Marine planes
-Location
						-Support personnel
-US Air Force [USAF]
-Marine Aircraft
					-Marines compared to USAF
						-USAF pilots
-Aircraft
-Quality
					-The President’s view
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
				-Haig’s opinion
-Moorer
-Response to the President's orders
-The President's orders
-Politics
				-US foreign policy
-Military's role and responsibilities
					-Ground troops
					-Moorer
-B-52s
-Increase
-F-4s
-Carriers
-Number
-Destroyers
-Number
				-The President’s opinion
-Cruisers
-Naval gunfire
-Targets
	-Dong Hoi airfield
					-Logistics
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Air strikes
-Weather
-Improvement
					-Possible delays
-Moorer's plans
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Moorer
	-Authority
						-18th parallel
							-Extension
								-48 hour strike
									-US position
-Mining
-Impact
-Delays
-Impact
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Challenge
-South Vietnamese strategy
-Retreat and consolidation
-The President’s theory
-Winston S. Churchill on World War I
-Comparisons to present situation
-Lt. Gen. Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough
-Allied victory
-German losses and victories
								-Ypres
									-Numbers
-British retreat
-Erich Ludendorff
-Churchill’s point
									-Necessity
-Hue and Da Nang
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
					-Possible strategy
-Formation of line
-Exposure of North Vietnam
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Impact on North Vietnam
							-Compared to Laos
							-Possible end to the war by year’s end
-Political impact
-Election
-Timing
					-Democratic National Convention
-North Vietnamese Offensive
-Need for decisive defeat
-Break in weather
-Negotiations
					-Probability before trip to Soviet Union

Announcement on Warsaw
-Notification of State Department and Warsaw
-Laird

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:13 and 12:25 pm.

[Conversation No. 701-14A]

Message for Herbert G. Klein
-Message for Richard L. Wilson
-Announcement on Warsaw
-Delay
-Diplomatic channels

[End of telephone conversation]

US-Soviet Union relations
-Kissinger's meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Note to the President
-Purpose

Laird and John H. Chafee entered at 12:25 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Chafee
-Departure from administration

	[Photograph session]

Seating

Cabinet officers
-Subcabinet officers
-Importance
-Gratitude for Chafee's work

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Kissinger's departure
-Phone call

Kissinger left at 12:35 pm.

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	Portsmouth Navy Yard
		-Decision to keep open
			-Described
		-Norris Cotton
		-Value
			-Laird
			-Cotton
		-Uses

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:42 pm.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles [SLBMs]
	-Passage
		-Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles [SLBMs]
-Naval vessels
-Submarines
-Technical problems
					-Keel laying

Presidential gifts
-Money clip

	Chafee
		-Laird

1972 election
-Chafee
-Campaign practices

Chafee left at 12:44 pm.

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SALT
-SLBMs
-Laird's position
-US negotiating position
					-Helsinki
-An agreement
-Undersea Long-Range Missile System [ULMS]
					-Keel laying
-Limitations
-Appeal
					-Powered by the State Department and Joint Chief of Staff [JCS]
-Problems
-Public apprehensions
						-Soviet Union
-Submarine agreement
-Political problems
					-Development of facilities
-Soviet [Delta Class] submarines
-Missiles
						-Range
						-Number
-Facilities
-US facilities
-Limitations

Vietnam
-President’s instructions to Laird
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Stakes For US
-US withdrawal
-President’s view
-US defeat
-Consequences
-US foreign policy
-Presidency
				-President’s awareness of situation
-US counteraction
-National Security Council [NSC]
					-William P. Rogerts
					-State Department
-Risks
-Election
-Necessity for strong action
-Air and naval power
							-Increase
-The President's meeting with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and [David]   Kenneth Rush
					-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG] reports
-Laird's Role
-Criticism
					-Assessing success and failure
-Laird's recommendation
-Cancellation of bombing
-Target areas
-Geographical limit
							-US options
-Air strikes
-Laird’s recommendation
					-18th parallel
					-No restrictions on authority
						-Timing
-Authority
					-Extension
-Time frame
					-US actions
-Resources
-Support role
-Target areas
-B-3 area
						-Activity
-Weather
-Forecasts
						-Timing
-USAF reluctance
-Battle of the Bulge
-Comparisons
-Risks
-Naval Gunfire
-Ships
-Number
-Guns
-Capacities
						-Accuracy
-Shore batteries
-Destroyers
-Targets
-Tactical Air Support [TACAIR]
					-Performance
-Tanks
-Personnel
-Sir Robert Thompson
-North Vietnamese vulnerability
-South Vietnam military
-Hue
-Thieu
-Retreat
-Advantages
-Battle of Verdun
					-French
-Reports of battle
-Criticism of Department of Defense [DoD]
-Bombing requests
						-Possible problems coming from Laird’s office
-Blame on Laird for reluctance
-JCS
						-Lack of forthcoming infromation to the President
-Air strikes
-Laird's role
-Loyalty to the President
						-Possibly questioned
-Press conference
-Rogers
-Timing
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] violations
-Schedule changes
-Recognition of Bangladesh
						-Rogers’s responsibilities
						-Laird’s previous conversation with the President
	-Previous telephone conversation with Robert J.
	 McCloskey
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Line for the press
					-Conversation with Laird’s people
-President’s instructions for Laird
-Points to make
-US purposes for air strikes
-Protection of Americans
-Vietnamization
							-Continuation
-Aid to South Vietnam's defense
-Prisoners of War [POWs] return
-US actions
-Ground troops
-Air power
-Target areas
-Violation of international law
						-Strong, hard line from Laird
-Rogers
						-Comparison to Laird
-Cambodia
-Changes in character of war
-Compared with Korean Conflict
-Violations by North Vietnam
						-1954 agreement, 1968 bombing halt
							-Rogers
-Air strikes
-Targets
-Protection of Americans
						-Number
-Escalation of war
-Edmund S. Muskie's charges
							-The President’s response
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Demands for more aid to South Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Vietnamization
-Impact
-Laird's statement
					-Possible credibility problem
-South Vietnamese strength
-Chances of success
	-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
	-Thieu
-US confidence in South Vietnamese
 Abilities
-Abrams comment
						-Football analogy
-Past retreats
-Battle of the Bulge
-World War I
							-Great Britain and Germany
-Public relations response
-Laird's statements
					-Follow-up from the President
						-Timing
-Scheduling
-Rogers and Laird
-Coordination of various agencies
-Authorities
-Ziegler
-Report of meeting between Laird and the President
-Laird
-Loyalty to the President
-Questions
-Laird's relationship with JCS
						-Hardline from Laird

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:44 and 1:11 pm.

[Conversation No. 701-14B]

Request that Ziegler join them

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Laird
-Loyalty to the President
-Problems of communication within the DoD and between the DoD    and the White House
-Weather
-Forecasts
-Effect on air sorties
-Number
-B-3 Area
						-Possible psychological impact
							-Effect on air sorties
-B-52s
-Problems
-Surface-To-Air Missiles [SAMs]
						-Countermeasures
-Target Areas
						-DMZ
-Effectiveness
						-SAMs
-Target Areas
-Risks
							-DMZ
							-SAMs
-Losses
-Florida
-US countermeasures
-Options

Ziegler entered At 1:11 pm.

-Impact on People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
-US credibility
-Impact on US allies
				-Asia, Europe and Latin America

Kissinger left at 1:12 pm.

-The President's meeting with Laird
-Ziegler's report
-Statement for press
-Laird's press conference
-Timing
						-Rogers
-Presentation

Laird left at an unknown time before 1:15 pm.

-Weather
-Impact on air strikes
-Public reaction
-Air strikes
-Muskie's criticism
-Escalation of war
-Responsibility
-North Vietnamese offensive
-McCloskey
-Ziegler's report
				-Administation’s stance
					-Ziegler’s previous conversation with Haig
-Public relations
-Strategy
-Comments to press
-Confidence
					-Possible outcome
-Press
-Contradictory reports
-Robert Pierpoint
-Crisis in White House
						-Ziegler’s previous conversatin with Bill Jarriel [?]
-WSAG meetings
-Templeton [first name unknown]

Ziegler left at 1:15 pm.

	Conversation No. 701-15

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Unknown person's schedule
-Meeting with the President

	Conversation No. 701-16

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Old Executive Office Building [EOB]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.

	Conversation No. 701-17

Date:  April 4, 1972
Time:  1:17 pm - 1:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird
-Protestations of loyalty

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-Public relations efforts
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Importance
-Weather
					-Pessimism
-Weather
-US Air Force [USAF]
-Reluctance in bad weather
-B-52s
-Naval gunfire
-Laird's evaluation
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
					-Kissinger’s trust
-Range
-Employment
-Laird's Pessimism
-Gen. Robert E. Pursley
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Support for the President
-Compared with David N. Packard
-Loyalty
-Laird
-Pessimism
-Naval gunfire
-B-52s
					-Possible psychological impact
-Soviet Union and People's Republic Of China [PRC] and Hanoi
-India-Pakistan war
				-Similarities to present situation
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Kissinger’s view
-US counteraction
-Dong Hoi
-Supply Depots
-B-52s
-Effectiveness
-B-3 area
-Air strikes
-Effectiveness
-Weather
-PRC and Soviet Union
-Duration of bad weather
-Limitations on air power
-Current aircraft
-Impact on aircraft
					-Comparisons to the Battle of the Bulge
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
						-Previous conversation with Kissinger
							-Comparison to the early stages of the Vietnam war
					-Commercial planes
-Richard M. Helms
-Support for administration's policy
					-Comments
-South Vietnamese resistance
-Hue
	-Blockade of Haiphong
-Strength of South Vietnam
-Compared with the Battle of the Bulge
-Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
-US equipment
-Laird and Rush
				-Comparisons
-Public relations
-William P. Rogers
-Press conference
-Bangladesh
-Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Northern limits
-Administration’s stance
-Options
-Target areas
-Blockade of Haiphong
-Mining
-Preparations
					-Philippines

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-North Vietnamese offensive
-PRC and Soviet Union warnings against US interventions
-US actions
-Administration’s stance
-Appearance
-Jordan
-India-Pakistan war
-Impact on PRC and Soviet Union
-Impact on election
-Soviets
-Interests
	-Berlin agreement
					-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
						-Talk with Kissinger
-Summit
-Kissinger’s previous conversations with the State Department
-Likelihood of cancellation
-Military mission in Hanoi
-Analysis
					-Military equipment
						-Inclusion in Laird’s statement
-Equipment in Vietnam
-Tanks, planes, trucks
			-Joseph W. Alsop
				-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
				-Social occasions
				-Kissinger’s previous conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
				-1972 election
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Air strikes in North
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Effectiveness
			-South Vietnam
			-1968 Tet offensive
				-Khe Sanh

The President and Kissinger left at 1:32 pm.