Conversation No. 703-1

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  2:54 pm - 4:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Edward R. F. Cox, Tricia Nixon Cox, Dwight David Eisenhower II, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, David N. Parker and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

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National Catholic Education Association [NCEA]
-The President's trip to Philadelphia

First Family's schedule
-Review
-Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox
-Problem areas
-American Broadcasting System [ABC] show with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s previous conversation with Mrs. Nixon
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
				-Review of films
				-Voice-over
-Call to Mrs. Nixon
			-Stuart

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:54 and 4:05 pm.

[Conversation no. 703-1A]

[See Conversation no. 22-87]

[End of telephone conversation]

ABC show on PRC trip
-Assignment
-Alvin Snyder
				-Involvement
-Mrs. Nixon
-William L. Safire and Patrick J. Buchanan

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with Mrs. Nixon at an unknown time between 2:54 and 4:05 pm.

[Conversation no. 703-1B]

[See Conversation no. 22-88]

Various persons conferred during the conversation.

[End of telephone conversation]

ABC show on PRC trip
-Production
-Manager
-Buchanan
-John Reagan (“Tex”) McCrary
-Script
-Television consultants
-Unknown writer
-Qualifications

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-Review of film
-Buchanan
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s choice
		-Film editing

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First Family's schedule
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Television appearances
-Various cities
-Scheduling
-National television shows
-Various media areas
					-Prime television outlets
-Projected schedule
-Cities
					-Timing
-National television shows
-Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] spot
-Media coverage
				-Mike Douglas Show
-Television coverage of public service appearances
				-Importance of appearances
-Mike Douglas Show
			-Dinah Shore
-Local television shows
-Increased emphasis
-Northern California
					-Cities
-Southern California
					-Cities
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's trip to Los Angeles
-New York market outside New York City
-Suburban areas
-Syracuse, Rochester and Elmira
						-Excellence of market
-Buffalo
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Westchester and Suffolk County, New York appearances
-New York Daily News
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Talk shows
-Amount of work
-Morning shows
-Dinah Shore
-Size of market
						-Possible increase in women viewership
-Dick Cavett
				-Johnny Carson
				-Merv Griffin
-Audience compared to Dinah Shore’s
				-Cavett
				-Audiences
				-Cavett
-Concentration on issues
						-Plight of the American Indian
						-National Cancer Act

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-Radio talk shows as an option
-Value
-Helen A. Thomas and Frances Lewine
-Size of audience in Washington and Los Angeles
-Compared with availability of television shows
-Call-in shows
-Difficulty compared to newspapers
					-Avoidance
-Experiment
					-Herbert G. Klein
-Robert J. Brown
					-Farmer’s Home Administration [FHA]
					-Guest on call-in show with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Issues
-Busing
-Edward C. Morgan
						-John W. Dean, III [?]
-Drugs
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Myles J. Ambrose
							-Importance of drug issue
-Credit to administration
-The President's forthcoming talk
							-Timing
-Talking points
							-Tricia Nixon Cox
							-Briefing book
			-Appearances
				-Preparation of remarks
					-John K. Andrews, Jr.
						-Raymond K. Price, Jr. 

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-Price
-Drugs
-John B. McDonald
-Preparation and advice
-McCrary
-Talking points
					-Imagination
				-President’s view
-Need for better writing
-Reading
-Lack of warmth
-Young people
-Potential for more events for young people
-Identification with administration
-Youth Conference
-Invitation to White House
-An Orange County, California group
				-Noted in past new summaries
-Opinions
-Ivy League
-Blue-collar youth
-High School seniors
					-Age
-Junior colleges
-Conservative colleges
					-Texas Christian University, Brigham Young University
-Support for the President
-News events
-Coverage
-Talking points
-Small groups
-Receiving lines
						-Advantages of small groups
							-Compared to large groups
-"Rap sessions"
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Image of caring

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White House speechwriters
		-Andrews
		-Difficulty of job
-Speeches
-Background reading
-History and biography
-Anecdotes
-Graham and Norman Vincent Peale
-Story-telling and parables
					-Ability

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:54 pm.

The Eisenhowers, Coxes, Parker and Sanchez left at 4:05 pm.

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PRC trip
-Certificates of attendance
-Mrs. Nixon
-Wording of certificate
-Presentation to participants on trip
-Press corps
-Wording of certificate
-Alternatives
					-Participation
-Symbolism
-Two hands

The President's schedule
-Congressional dinner
-List
-Retirees
-Time and date
-Problems
-Other meetings and dinners
-William M. Colmer luncheon
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] dinner
-Retirees
-Party affiliation
					-Number of Republicans compared to number of Democrats
-Key legislators
					-Usefulness
-Invitations
-Congressional leaders not invited
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Allen J. Ellender, 
 (Thomas) Hale Boggs and Thomas P. (“Tip”) O'Neill, Jr.
-Supporters of the President
-Chowder and Marching Club
-Reserve list
-Tables
-Shape
-Invitations
-Republicans
					-Numbers
						-Compared to Democrats
							-Rationale

The President left at an unknown time before 4:30 pm.

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MANOLO SANCHEZ ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 4:05 PM.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:30 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time after 4:05 pm.

The President's schedule
-Congressional retirees dinner
-Invitations
-Date

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:05 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:30 pm.

First Family's schedule
-White House speechwriters
-Price
-Talking points
				-Preparation

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	PRC table tennis team visit
		-Place for possible exhibition match
			-Weather
			-East Room
		-Exhibition match
			-Cole Field House at University of Maryland
				-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
					-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger and Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-North Vietnamese offensive

[Pause]

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:05 and 4:30 pm.

[Conversation no. 703-1C]

John D. Ehrlichman’s location

[End of telephone conversation]

	Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Delivery of speech at Johns Hopkins University

[Pause]

The President's schedule
-April 6, 1972 meeting
-Timing

Haldeman left at 4:30 pm.

	Conversation No. 703-2

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:30 pm and 4:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:36 pm.

	Conversation No. 703-3

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:30 pm and 4:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John K. Andrews, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:36 pm.

	Conversation No. 703-4

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  4:36 pm - 4:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John K. Andrews, Jr.

The President's forthcoming Philadelphia speech on non-public education
-Busing
-Discussion with John D. Ehrlichman
				-National Catholic Education Association [NCEA]
-Changes
-Restrictions
				-Possible Edmund S. Muskie stance
-Language
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Reception by audience
						-Political viewpoint
-Inner-city schools
-Aid
-Private education
-Differences of opinion concerning busing
-Busing for racial balance
-Conflicts
-Revisions
-Administration's opposition
-Support for desegregation and quality of education
				-Moratorium
-Physical problems
-Ineffectiveness
-Administration's opposition
-Draft statements
-Concessions to audience
					-Previous draft
-Recognition of differences of opinion
					-Educators and the public at large
-Draft by Patrick J. Buchanan
-Testing time for public education
-A statement
-Wording
-Formulation of problem
-Andrews's conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Non-public education
-National crisis
-Public education
						-Testing time
-Headline phrase
-School closing rates
-Data
				-Possible numbers
-Parochial schools
			-Catholic schools
				-Problems
					-Wording
-Length
-Statement on promises
-Statement on partisanship
			-Democrats compared with Republicans
-Closing paragraph
-Divisions in nation
				-Inserted line
-Importance of education
-Need for unity
-Place in speech
-Role of non-public schools
-Busing
-Inclusion in speech
-Overemphasis by press
-Benefits
-As opposed to administration's program
-Preparation of text

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:36 pm.

-Unknown secretary
-Location

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.

-The President's review
-Meeting with [Rogers]

Andrews left at 4:55 pm.

	Conversation No. 703-5

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:55 pm and 4:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger and [William P. Rogers]
-Rogers's location

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:59 pm.

	Conversation No. 703-6

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  4:59 pm - 6:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
		-Weather
-US Air Force [USAF]
-Gen. JohnW. Vogt, Jr. 
	-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Melvin R. Laird 
-Replacement
		-Possible peace offer
		-Air Strikes

William P. Rogers entered at 5:00 pm.

Greetings

Vietnam
-Vogt
-USAF
-Replacement of commander
-Reluctance
				-Timing
					-The President’s previous conversation with Moorer
-Air commander
-Research and Development [R & D]
-Replacement
-Vogt
-Candidates
-A-3
-Vogt
-Laird
-Strategic thinking
	-The President, Laird and Moorer
						-Rogers’s previous conversation with an unknown person
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Agency cooperation
-Robert J. Mccloskey briefing
-South Vietnamese capabilities
-News summary reports
	-South Vietnamese embassies
-State Department
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting
-William H. Sullivan
-Rogers's press conference
-Laird
	-Timing
		-Air strikes

John K. Andrews, Jr. entered at 5:04 pm.

-Weather
-Problems

Introductions

The President's speech on Catholic education, Arpil 6, 1972
		-Andrews
			-Religion

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-Wording
-Concessions
-Statement on non-partisanship
-The President's review
-Rose Mary Woods
-Religion

Andrews left at 5:06 pm.

Vietnam
-Press biefings
-McCoskey
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Meetings with Kissinger, John A. Scali and Daniel
 Z. Henkin
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Aggression
-Responsibility
-Compared with prior situation in Cambodia and Laos
				-Laird press conference
-Air strikes
-Area above Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
					-Possible escalation
-Withdrawal program
-Air strikes
-Press expectations
				-Unrestricted bombing
-Compared with Laos operation
-Provocations
-Plans
-Laird
					-Previous conservation with the President
						-Timing
				-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] plans
					-Laos

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:06 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:43 pm.

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-JCS Plans
-President’s visit to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Surface to Air Missiles [SAMs]
	-Limitations
-Purposes
-Provocations
					-Military
-Timing
-Criticism
-PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
					-US
-Moorer
-Previous conversation with Rogers and the President
-Cambodia and Laos
-Casualty figures
-Weather
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-USAF delays
					-Criticism of USAF delays
-Coordination with PRC trip
-Strikes against aircraft
				-Timing
-Compared with Israeli-Egyptian conflict
-USAF delays
-Sophisticated equipment
-Viewed by the President
-Weather
						-Landings
-Concerns
					-Lives at risk
-Weather
-Ceiling level
						-USSR
-Complexity of aircraft
-Battle of the Bulge
-Air strikes
-Weather
-Effectiveness of US air power
-Pentagon briefing attended by Rogers
-Targets
					-SAM sites
						-Ineffective air power
						-Rogers’s previous conversation with unknown person
							-Hostile environment
-Hunt 130s
-B-52s
			-Expectations
-Problems
-South Vietnam
-Will to fight
-Chances of success
				-Possible discouragement of Vietnamization program
-Effectiveness
-Cambodia and Laos
-Mixed reports
					-Success of South Vietnamese army
					-Moorer
-North Vietnamese offensive
-A Bridge
-Surprise element
-Expected targets
-DMZ
-A Shau Valley
-Hue
-Naval gunfire
-Effectiveness
					-Rogers’s acknowledgment
-Increase and extension
-Range
-Targets
-Planes
-Cruisers
-Number
-Location
						-USS Constellation
-Vessels
-Dispersion
						-Single Integrated Operating Plan [SIOP]
-Targets
-Bridge destruction
-Dong Ha
-South Vietnam
-Morale
-Third Division
					-Inaccurate reporting
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Tanks
-Duration
-US-South Vietnamese successes
				-Chances
-Effects on Vietnamization
-South Vietnam
-Resistance
-Success of Vietnamization
-Expectation of attacks
-Laird's statements
						-Administration’s stance
							-Possible questions
-Overstatement
						-Possible administration explanation
-Ziegler's statements
-Public relations efforts
						-Rogers’s view
-Vietnamization
-Conditions of success
-Equipment
-Air power
						-North Vietnam compared to South Vietnam
-Deployment of tanks and artillery
							-Previous National Security Council [NSC] meeting
							-Effectiveness of North Vietnam’s artillery
-Army
-Use of artillery
						-Unknown person
						-US artillery compared to USSR artillery
-Anti-aircraft capacity
-SAMs
					-Compared to US
-B-52s and Phantom jets
-Tanks
-Weight
					-Comparisons
				-Unknown person
-US-South Vietnamese power
-US air superiority
-Possible discouragement
-Problems
						-Weather
-Effectiveness of SAMs
-Inadequacies of conventional air power
						-Mach II
				-Roger’s view
-B-52s
-Inaccuracies
-SAMs
-Effectiveness
-Weather
-Attacks on SAMs
							-Possible losses
								-Planes and Phantom jets
-Air strikes
-Areas of effectiveness
-Roads
-Tanks
				-SAMs
					-Possible difficulties
						-130 guns
-Public opinion
-Support for bombing
					-Support for the President
-Highland areas
-Targets
-B-3 Area
						-SAMs
-Intensity of attacks
-Air strips
					-Location
						-Possible problems
-South Vietnam
-II Corps
-Ellsworth F. Bunker's reports
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
					-Possible timing of attacks

USSR
-The President's trip
-Stop In Poland
-The President’s previous dinner conversation with an unknown person
-Soviets
					-Possible objections
-Arrangements
					-State Department
-Problems

Rogers's Trip
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Time
-Coordination with USSR trip
			-Possibility of Rogers travelling to Poland
-Iran and Baku
			-Possible time of Rogers’s departure
-The President's notes to heads of governments
-Purposes of trip
-USSR trip discussions
-European suggestions
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Willy Brandt
-Rogers's Role
-Announcement of Rogers’s trip
-Preparation
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Copies to Rogers
-Stopovers
-Duration
-Iceland
-Stockholm conference and world conference on the human environment
-Conversation With H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Value
					-Duration
-Democratic National Convention
-Public perception of foreign policy
					-Compared to domestic policy
						-Tone
-Rogers’s talk with an unknown person
-Speech by Rogers
-Date of conference
-NATO meeting
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Public support on environment
-Russell E. Train

Haldeman entered at 5:43 pm.

-Rogers's meeting with Business Advisory Committee
-John E. Swearingen
-John D. Harper
-Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr.
-Human longevity

Environment
-Human longevity
-Cleanliness of environment and cities
-Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Unknown book
-New York City in 1880s and 1890sw
-Population
-Foreign population
							-Number
								-Unable to speak English
-Gangs
-Crime rates
						-Law and order
-Environmental conference in Sweden
-Rogers's visit
-Value
-High-level interest
				-Speech
-Train
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Visit with delegation
					-High-level committee
-Rogers's visit
-Length
-Speech
					-NATO meeting
					-The President’s instructions to Rogers
						-Train
-US delegation
-Size
-Responsibilities
-Division
						-Length of conference
-Rogers’s view
				-Rogers’s speech
-US committee
				-Importance
-Laurance S. Rockefeller
						-Train
-Recruitment of experts
-Administration's record
						-Train’s council to check with Rockefeller
-Rogers's visit
-Discussion of world pollution problems
-Possible effect
-Europe
-Tokyo
-Air
-Water
						-Smog
							-Compared to the US

Rogers's Trip
-Departure and return
-Coordination with USSR trip
-Departure date
-Leak to Washington Star
-Irish government
-British interest
-Possible protests
-Letter from William Whitelaw
						-Timing
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
					-Proposed plan

USSR trip
-Stopover in Poland
			-Upcoming announcement
				-State Department
-Stopover in Iran
			-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
				-Duration
-A luncheon
-Sponsorship
					-Administration’s relationship with the Shah of Iran

The President's trip to Canada
-State events
			-Number
			-Compared to the PRC trip

Iran
-Ambassadorial recommendation
-Joseph S. Farland
	-Confirmation

Arthur K. Watson
		-Schedule
		-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
		-The President’s press conference of March 24, 1972
			-Comment 

The President's speech on Catholic education, April 6, 1972

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Weather reports
				-The President’s instructions to Kissinger
					-Timing
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Logistics problems
				-Thieu
					-Possible withdrawal
-Weather changes

Gridiron Dinner attendance
-Rogers’s talk with [Warren E. Burger]
-The President
-Kissinger
-Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew
-Rogers
-Haldeman
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
		-Burger

Rogers's meeting with the President
-Ziegler's announcement
			-The President’s instructions to Kissinger

Rogers left at 5:51 pm.

Vietnam
-Laird's press conference
-Rogers’s view
-Laos
-Air strikes
-Haiphong
				-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Limits
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-New targets
-Haiphong
-Civilian casualties
						-Number
-Resumption
-Targets
-Impact
				-Rogers’s view
-Intensity
-Naval gunfire
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US countermeasures
				-Bombing
					-Moscow trip
-Movements of planes and vessels
					-Navy and USAF
					-Japan
-Mines
-Preparation

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	VIETNAM

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-Rogers And Laird
-Trip
-Letters to heads of governments
					-Contents

USSR trip
	-Rogers's trip
	-Heads of governments
	-Letters from the President
	-Wording
						-Views from the heads of governments
							-Possible leaks
								-Agenda
-Irish
-Message to Heath
-State Department approach
-Relations with British
-[Earl of Cromer] George R. S. Baring
				-Upcoming phone call from Kissinger
-Mulcahy
				-Possible problems
-Arrangements and schedule
-Kissinger’s role
-Haldeman's work
-Dwight L. Chapin
-The President's possible itinerary
-State Department suggestions
-Moscow University
-Meeting with American students
-Kiev
-Possible conversations with Jews
-The President's trip to Asia in 1950's
-Arrangements
-US Consulate in Leningrad
-Rogers’s possible visit
-US consulate in San Francisco
-Warsaw stopover
-Visibility
-Rogers's presence
-NATO meeting
	-Problem
			-Symbolism
			-NATO meeting
-Iran stopover
-The President's stay
-Palace
-Dinner
-Iranian catering
					-Shah of Iran
-Types of food
-Agnew
-Haile Selassie
					-PRC
-Flight to Warsaw
-Length
-Arrival in Warsaw
-Shah of Iran
				-Importance
-Departure for Warsaw
-Arrival time
-Crowds
						-The President’s concern
-Flying time
-Luncheon
				-Timing
-Warsaw stopover
-Arrival time
-Reception by Poles
-Length of flight across the USSR
-Teheran
-Length of stay
-Poland
-Arrival
-Reception
					-Importance
-Itinerary
-Baku
-Teheran
-Arrival
-Meals
-Departure
-Meals
-Shah of Iran
-Number and type
						-Harold H. Saunders

Foreign policy
-Rogers's work
-PRC
				-Marshal green
-Support for the President's policies
-USSR
-NATO

USSR trip
-Baku
-Iran
-Meals
-Arrival Time
-Meals
-Poland
-Departure Time

The President's schedule
-Florida trip for Kissinger
-Kissinger's return to Washington, DC
-Work
-Philadelphia
-Press plane
-Departure
-Ziegler
-Trip to Florida
-Press reports
-Decision making

Vietnam
-Media coverage
			-Public interest
-Current situation
-Hubert H. Humphrey’s view
-Support for South Vietnam
		-Edmund S. Muskie’s view
-Reaction to invasion
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STEPHEN B. BULL ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 5:51 PM.

BULL LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 6:18 PM.

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The President's speeches
-References to "Silent Majority"
		-November 3, 1969 speech
	-References to "Silent Majority"
-Cambodia speech
-1952 speech
-Emotional content
-Intellectuals' reaction
-Cambodia
-Kent State University
-White House reaction
-Poll
					-Opposition to students
-Positions
	-Busing
	-Administration's opposition
-Marijuana
-Positive stance
-PRC trip
-Attacks on George Meany
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Public support for the President
-Conversation with Kissinger
-PRC trip

USSR trip
-Rogers
-Letters to heads of governments

Kissinger and Haldeman left and Manolo Sanchez entered at 6:18 pm.

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The President and Sanchez left at 6:19 pm.

	Conversation No. 703-7

Date:  April 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:19 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person [Secret Service Agent] talked with an unknown person.

	[Unintelligible]

The President's location

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