Conversation No. 706-1

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  9:41 am - 10:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's parents
-Comments on previous meeting with the President

Democrats
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern

Soviet Union
-Message to Kissinger

White House staff
-Public talking points
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Herbert G. Klein
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-The President's outline
-Kissinger's additions

Soviet Union
-The President's trip
-Stopover in Poland
-Invitation
-Polish Ambassador
-Announcement
-Publicity
-Vietnam
-B-52 strikes

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-B-52 raids
-North Vietnamese accounts to its public
-Withholding of knowledge
-Reasons
-Repeat strikes
-Time
-Size

The President's schedule
-Meetings with Kissinger
-Time
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting

The President's Canadian trip
-Mention of Soviets

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Response
	-Importance
-Weapons
-Soviet knowledge
-Uses in South Vietnam
-Military Region One
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] counter-attacks
-The President’s call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr., April 10, 1972
-Resupply efforts
-South Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Movement of tanks and troops
-Twenty-first division
-An loc
-B-52 strike
-North Vietnamese losses
-US actions
-Concentration of power
-Haig
-II Corps and I Corps
-Air strikes
	-B-3
		-Haig
-Concentration of forces
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
	-Gen. Omar N. Bradley
-Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery
-Military Region One
-Attacks over Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-North Vietnamese retreat
-Compared with Laotian operation
-Air strikes
-Naval gunfire
-Cruiser
-Destruction of tanks
-Guns
-Size
-Range
-Secondary explosions
-Destruction
-Tanks
-Number
-Military Region Three
-Setbacks
	-Ammunition dump
		-Saigon
		-Replacement of ammunition
-Dong Ha
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Air strikes
-B-52s
	-Psychological impact on North Vietnam
-Number
-Increase
-Carriers
-US policy
-News reports
-Jerry W. Friedheim
-Ground forces
-Withdrawal
-The President's news summary
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Newsweek
-Time
-Newsweek
-Kissinger's meeting with Mel Elfin
-Time
-Circulation of evidence
-New Republic
-US public opinion
-Polls
-Instructions to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-The President's television appearance
-Timing
-Vietnamization
-Support
-Opposition to war
-Kissinger's staff meeting
-Prisoners of war [POW] meeting with relatives
-Haig
-The President's policies
-Kissinger's explanation
	-Communist government in South Vietnam
	-Withdrawal deadline
		-Rejection by North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Kissinger's meeting with congressional group
-Leaders meeting
-Kissinger's talk
-Purpose
-John C. Stennis
-Political opposition
-The President's news summary
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Statement of April 10, 1972
-Compared with Hanoi’s statement
-Interpretation
-The President’s hypothetical statement
	-Thieu
-Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRV]
-Demands
-US-PRC relations
-US attacks on Hanoi
-Kissinger’s meeting with PRC ambassador
-Michael J. Mansfield’s visit to PRC

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Briefing by Kissinger

Vietnam
-Public relations efforts
-State Department
-Melvin R. Laird and William P. Rogers
-John A. Scali and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Joseph C. Kraft column
-Blame on Soviets
-Soviet summit
-Problems for democrats
-Rowland Evans column
-Soviet summit
-Soviet foreign policy
-Importance
-Germany
-PRC
-US-Soviet Union relations
-India-Pakistan War

Alastair Buchan
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Vietnam
-US responsibility
-Consequences of defeat
-Lectures to Council on Foreign Relations
-Defense of the President's policies
-Balance of power policies
-Criticism of liberals
-Liberals
-United Nations [UN]
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Kissinger’s meeting with Robert S. McNamara
-Kissinger’s conversation with John B. Connally
-Call to Otto E. Passman
-NATO
-Soviets
-Miscalculation
	-Cambodia
	-Laos
-Edward M. Kennedy's criticism
-Mistake
-[Julie Nixon Eisenhower]
-Appearance on Mike Douglas Show
-Today Show
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Tone
	-Compared to Laos operation
-Wording
-The president's critics
-Views
-Hegemony
-Balance of power
-Relationship with alliances
	-Nineteenth century
-Intellectual establishment
	-Council on Foreign Relations 
-Failure of ideas, ideals and heroes
	-John F. Kennedy
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Hanoi press
-US success
-Compared with Laos operation
	-Level of commitment
-Miscalculations
-Strength of South Vietnam
-US unresponsiveness
-Weather
-B-52 strikes
-DMZ
-Risks
-Surface-to-air missile [SAM] concentrations
	-Hanoi

	Kissinger’s schedule
		-WSAG meeting
			-Report

	Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Scheduling
-Value compared to risks
-Domestic and foreign policy

Canadian speech
-Draft
-Delivery to the President
-Time

Kissinger left at 10:09 am.

	Conversation No. 706-2

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  10:10 am - 12:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Arthur F. Burns
-Trip to Camp David
-Departure

-Reasons
-Leaders meeting
-Burns
-Time and day
-Thursday
-Meeting with Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
-Change of day
-Time of day
-Camp David
-Change of day
-Location
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Henry A. Kissinger's presence
-Photograph
-Location
	-Map Room
		-Compared to library, EOB
-Free time
-Afternoon
-Changes
-Meeting with Frank DeMarco, Jr.
-The President's tax returns
-Youth conference
-Camp David
-Canadian trip
-Departure
-Afternoon meetings
-Changes in time and day
-Advantages
-Canadian trip
-Camp David trip
-Cancellation of meetings
-W. Kenneth Riland
-Camp David trip
-Secretaries
-Canadian trip
-Speech
	-Kissinger
-Secretaries
-Florida trip
	-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Camp David
-Secretaries
-Nellie L. Yates
-Terry Goodwin [sp?]
-Unknown person
	-Competence
-Marjorie P. Acker and Rose Mary Woods
-The President's speech
-Revisions
-Unknown secretary
-Age
-Experience
-Background
-Loyalties
-Yates
-Experience
-Work with previous presidents
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-John F. Kennedy
	-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Integrity
-Loyalty

White House staff
-Secretaries
-Background
				-Compared with Susan Lichtman at International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Unknown secretary
-Loyalty
-Typing skills
-Speed
-Yates and Woods
-Ages
-Composure
-Acker
-Competence
-Knowledge of White House
-Woods
-Staff
-Competence
-Competence

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Peter G. Peterson and Peter M. Flanigan
-John B. Connally

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49 am.

[Conversation no. 706-2A]

The President's schedule
-Scott and Mansfield meeting
-Arrangements
-David N. [Parker]
-Day
-Time
-Kissinger's clearance
-Location
-Cocktails
-Invitation
-Kissinger's presence

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's meeting with White House staff
-Briefing
-Robert B. Semple, Jr. article
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-A leak
-Source
-Kissinger's briefing
-Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein
-Absence

Vietnam
-Talking points
-Kissinger
-Klein
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Press reports
-Unknown South Vietnamese commander
-Statement
-Tank column

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Press reports
-A session of a committee
-Confusion
-William R. Merriam
-Staff
-Confusing statements
-Testimony
-Robert C. Wilson
-Senators
-Receipt of transportation
-Edward J. Gurney
-Senate testimony
-Henry E. Petersen
-Conclusion
-Date
-Administration tactics
-Senate
-James O. Eastland
-Fred R. Harris
-Caucus
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Letter writing campaign
-Charles W. Colson

Economy
-Food prices
-John D. Ehrlichman
-News summary
-Connally
-Unknown person

ITT case
-Flanigan statement
-Scott
-John W. Dean, III
-Letter to Senate
-Flanigan's involvement in case
-Richard W. McLaren
-Richard J. Ramsden
-Republican National Convention
-Denial
-Flanigan's reaction

The President's schedule
-Stopover on trip to Soviet Union
-Poland
-Announcement
-Day
-Ireland
-Kissinger's view
	-Britain
	-Northern Ireland
-Switzerland and Austria
-Azores
-Logistics
-Flying time
-Switzerland
-Kissinger's view
-Zurich and Geneva
-Facilities
-Geneva
-Political connotations
-United Nations [UN]
-Majorca
-Spain
-Protocol
-Majorca
-Bases
-Portugal
-Majorca
-Monaco
-Majorca
-Spanish Foreign Minister
-Distance from Moscow
-Madrid
-Zurich
-Greece
-US base
-Mediterranean
-Haldeman's call to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49 am.

[Conversation no. 706-2B]

[See Conversation no. 22-102]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Canadian trip
-The President's speech
-French phrases
-Walters
-Camp David
-Preparation
-Walters
-Coaching on French

Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Confirmation of Walters
-Handling
-Praise for Walters

Canadian trip
-Walters
-Translation

White House staff
-Kissinger
-Willingness to work
	-Briefing of Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon and Irina N. Dobrynin
	-Meeting with prisoner of war [POW] wives
	-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
	-Parents
-Quantity of energy

Haldeman talked with Walters at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49 am.

[Conversation no. 706-2C]

[See Conversation No. 22-103

[End of telephone conversation]

Soviet Union trip stopover
-Zurich
-Rota, Spain
-Spanish bases
-Rota, Saragossa and Seville
-Military connotations
-Switzerland
-Lucerne
-Zurich
-Advantages
-Swiss reaction
-Cooperation
	-Kissinger’s view
-Clearances
-Logistics
-Facilities
-Neutrality
-Ireland
-Views

Soviet trip
-Return trip
-Arrangements
-Warsaw
-Stopover
-Switzerland
-Lucerne
-Arrival and departure
-Length of stay
-Itinerary
-Departure from US
-Time
-Arrival in Switzerland
-Departure from Switzerland
-Time
-Amount of sleep
-News reports
-Compared with Hawaiian trip
-Time change adjustments
-Switzerland
-Lucerne
-Geneva
-Austria
-Kissinger’s view
-Salzburg
-Bruno Kreisky
-Meeting with the President
-Advantages
-Kissinger
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Ambassador

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49 am.

[Conversation no. 706-2D]

[See Conversation no. 22-104]

[End of telephone conversation]

Soviet Trip
-Stopover
-Austria
-Vienna
-Salzburg
-Advantages
-NATO
-Compared with Spain
-Neutrality
-Switzerland

Haldeman talked with Kissinger between 10:49 and an unknown time before 10:54 am; the president talked with Kissinger between an unknown time after 10:49 and 10:54 am.

[Conversation No. 706-2E]

[See Conversation No. 22-105

[End of telephone conversation]

Soviet trip
-Stopover
-Austria
-Kissinger
	-Karl J. Gruber
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Compared with a trip to Ireland
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Importance
-Pro-US policies
-Salzburg
-Welcome
-Ireland
-Northern Ireland
-The President's previous trip
-Austria
-Purpose
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Social events
-Working stop
-Church service
-Possible itinerary
-Church service
-The President's attendance
-Baptist church
-Synagogue
-Baptist church
-The President's attendance
-Call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Graham
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Kissinger
-Tomb of unknown soldier
-Formal ceremony
-Departure from Moscow
-Soviet veterans
-Church service
-Call to Graham
-Schedule
-Review
-Advance party
-Arrival
-Banquet
-Ceremonial calls
-Meetings
-Ballet
-Wednesday
-Meetings
-Evening
-Dinner with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Thursday
-Leningrad visit
-Sight-seeing
-Ballet
-Friday
-Return to Moscow
-Meeting
-Saturday
-Meeting
-Communiqué
-Banquet
-Sunday
-Church
-Soviet television address
-Time
-Kissinger
-US time
-Translation
-Method
-The President's first visit
-Six Crises account
-Compared with State Department account
-The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Monday
-Baku
-Tuesday
-Teheran
-Thursday, June 1, 1972
-Arrival in US
-Press conference in Moscow
-Kissinger, William P. Rogers and Connally
-Attendees
-Schedule
-Return to US
-Network coverage
-Equal time
-Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
-John M. Ashbrook
-California primary
-Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
-The President's press conference on return
-Day
-Timing
-California primary
-Democrats
-Public opinion
-Announcement
-Foreign policy issues
-Ziegler's statement
-Discussion of trip
-Compared with PRC trip
-Interest
-Summit talks
-Vietnam
-Location
-Arrangements
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Staff
-Ziegler 
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
-Klein

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				-Stuart
-Work with Ziegler
	-Ziegler
	-Control of news
-Press
-Number
-Soviets
-Kissinger
-PRC trip
-Yuli M. Vorontsov and Soviet press attaché
-Meeting with Ziegler and Dwight L. Chapin
-Selection
-Ziegler 
-Favor for friends
-Press pools
-1972 campaign

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Ziegler entered at 11:12 am.

Soviet trip
-Soviet press attaché
-Meeting with Ziegler
-Number of US newsmen present
-Press conference in Soviet Union
-Number
-Soviet press
-Press
-Number
-The President's Vice Presidential trip
	-Six Crises
-Maximum
-Advantages
-Selection
-PRC trip
-Boston Globe and Newsday
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-Exclusion
-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
-Buffalo Evening News
-Dallas Morning Herald
-Pro-administration papers
-1972 campaign
-Networks
-Wire services
-Radio
-John F. Osborne
-Exclusion
-The President's news summary
-Kissinger
-Osborne
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Enemies
-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration
-James C. Hagerty
-New York Times
-Retaliation
-Number
-Soviet views
-Selection
-Limitations
-Compared with other trips
	-Romania, Yugoslavia, Italy, France
-Ziegler's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-PRC trip
-Number
-Limitations
-Disadvantages
-Economic constraints of press
-Selection
-PRC trip
-Newsday and Boston Globe
-Press corps
-Attitudes
-Limitations
-Problems
-Ziegler's conversation with Dobrynin
-Previous Presidential trips

Press
-Critics
	-Kennedy
	-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Osborne and Sidey
-Finch, Klein, Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Supporters
-Frank van der Linden
-Nashville Banner
-Victor Lasky
-News summaries
-Osborne
-Van der Linden
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Cultivation
-Ehrlichman, Kissinger and George P. Shultz
-Critics
-Winston S. Churchill
-Kissinger
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-James Keogh
	-Book [President Nixon and the Press]
-Supporters
-Number
-Cultivation
-Critics
-Martin Schram
-Exclusion from Ziegler's office
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Networks
-Kissinger
-Work with Joseph C. Kraft
-Supporters
-Rowland Evans
-Chalmers M. Roberts
-Critics
-Dealings with Kissinger
	-Evans
-Dealings with administration officials
	-Egotism
		-Sans Souci
		-Georgetown

Supreme Court
-“Nixon Court”
-Tendency toward liberalism
-Potter Stewart
	-Conservatism
	-Liberalism
-Warren E. Burger

Nancy Ziegler
-Visit to Kentucky
-Relatives
-Support for administration's policies on Vietnam
-Richard G. Kleindienst hearing

Soviet trip
-Press
-Number
-Limitation
-Soviets
-Supporters
-Inclusion
-Reader's Digest
-Small papers
-Subsidy
-William S. White
-Bantam Books
-Book on trip
-Forward by the President
-US News and World Report
-Press conference on TV
-Timing
-California primary
-Foreign policy
-Report to nation
-Equal time on TV
-New York Times and networks
-Ashbrook
-Writing press
-Networks
-Prime time television
-Foreign policy
-Length
-Return to US
-Press conference upon return
-Timing
-California primary
-Ziegler
-Arrangements

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	Press relations
		-The President’s memorandum
		-Reports on biological warfare treaty signing at State Department
			-Networks
			-Setting
				-Flags
				-The President's appearance
-The President's remarks
-Dobrynin

Soviet press
-Soviet Life editor
-Reports
-Kissinger
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tea with Mrs. Dobrynin
-Kissinger
-Press release

Press relations
-Evans and Kraft
-Criticism of the President
-Dealings with Soviets
-Summit
-PRC
-Middle East
-German Treaty

Soviet Union
-Soviet Summit
-Dobrynin
-William E. Jenner
-The President's Soviet trip
-PRC trip
-Arrangements
-Soviet people
-Crowds
-Interest in the President's visit
-Stopover
-Salzburg, Austria
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] conferences
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Vienna, Austria
-Leningrad
-Baku
-Stop in Teheran, Iran
-Stop in Poland
-Crowds
-PRC
-Drama of trip
-PRC trip
-The President's first trip
-Six Crises
-Atmosphere
-The President's speech
-Kitchen debates
	-Films
		-Replay

Ziegler left at 11:39 am.

Press relations
-Handling of critics
-Ziegler's opinion
-Osborne
-Sidey
-Readership

The President left at an unknown time after 11:39 am.

[No conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.

Biological warfare treaty signing
-The President's speech
-Haldeman's presence
-Reading by Haldeman and staff

The President's schedule
-Canadian speech
-Dinner in Philadelphia
-The President's note to John Cardinal Krol
	-Henry C. Cashen, II
-Absence from dinner
-Trip to Soviet Union
-The President's trip to Poland
-Visit with Krol
-Announcement
-Timing

Agnew
-Lack of media coverage
-Trip to Fort Campbell, Kentucky
-Speech to California Republican Assembly [CRA]
-News summary
-Television report
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Newspaper story

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Tricia Nixon Cox
-Schedule
-Mike Douglas Show appearance
-Table tennis matches
-Space shot
-Time
-Audience
-Table tennis match
-Audience
-Left wing
-Homosexuals
-Tennis audience
-Make-up
-Left wing
-Homosexuals
-Bill Tilden
-Compared with opera audiences
-Attire
-Television
-Value
-Location

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Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Outcome
-Length
-Critics
-Fear of US success
-Caution
-Tet offensive
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.’s book
-Victory for US
-Enemy losses
-Compared with 1972 offensive
	-Viet Cong elements
	-North Vietnamese elements
-Buddhists
-Support for Nguyen Van Thieu government
-The President's critics
-Caution
-North Vietnamese offensive
-South Vietnamese victories and defeats
-I Corps
-Weather
-B-52s
-Symbolism
-Naval gunfire
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Public reactions
-“Hawks”
-Show of strength
-College campuses
-Apathy
-Minnesota and University of California at Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Vietnam
-Marches
-PRC
-Bombing in North Vietnam
-April 22, 1972 national march
	-Timing
	-Possible coordination with North Vietnam
		-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
	-Problems
	-Lack of support
-Antiwar protests
-Size and scope
-Chicago

	ITT case
-Media coverage
	-Advantages
-Public interest
-POWs
-Bombers
	-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
	-POWs
-North Vietnamese actions
-US reaction
-Blockade
-Soviet reactions
	-Effect on Summit
-Mining
-Option
-Soviet ships
-Options other than nuclear weapons or US ground forces
-The President's Biological Warfare Treaty signing statement
-George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Dobrynin

Domestic issues
-Ehrlichman
-Food prices
-Crime
-Note from the President
-Speeches
-Work with White House
-White House staff
-Speeches
-Scheduling
-Material for surrogates
-Edward L. Morgan
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Weekly meetings with surrogates
-Inspirations
-Kissinger
-Briefings
-Frequency
-Speakers
-Self-confidence
-Ehrlichman
-Self-confidence
-Attacks on opposition
-White House involvement
-Ehrlichman
-Leadership meetings
-Food prices
-Decline
-Wholesale prices
-Leadership
-The President
-Price Board
-John B. Connally
-Publicity
-Connally
-Amount
-Drugs
-Marijuana
-The President's speech
-Preparations
-Ehrlichman
-Crime
-Prices
-Busing
-Drugs
-Relation to crime
-Busing
-Prices, inflation, labor

Foreign policy
-The President's leadership
-Emphasis

Vietnam
-Media
-B-52 strikes
-The President's responsibility
-Credit to the President
-The President's leadership
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Location of fleet
-B-52s
-Results
-Credit for the President's success
-Compared with Cambodia
-Melvin R. Laird and Rogers
-Statements
-Rogers
-Caution
	-Kissinger
-Defense of Administration
-Possible talk with Haldeman
-Negotiations
-The President's speech
-Kissinger and William L. Safire
-Negotiations
	-William J. Porter
-Canadian speech
	-Soviet Union

The President's trip to Canada
-Demonstrators
-Restrictions
	-Canadian Mounted Police
-Aleksei N. Kosygin’s experience
-Reception in Parliament
-Itinerary in Ottawa

Vietnam
-Rogers
-Defense of Administration
-Caution
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Personal concerns
	-Press
-Long-range interests

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Economic issue
		-Unemployment figures
-Positive aspect
-Prices
-Unemployment
-Prices
-Food
-Big business
-Food prices
	-Need for dramatic action
-Freeze
-Protection
-Options
-Timing
-Eventual decline
-Meat prices
-Jawboning
-Effects
-Inflation
-Herbert Stein's memorandum
-Problems
-Midyear report
-Timing
	-Democratic National Convention
-Connally's response
-Advantages
-Press
-Speakers

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:39 am.

	Refreshment

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

Economy
-The President's midyear report
-Connally's view
-Call from Haldeman

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.

Government
-Disenchantment
-Youth
-The President's trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Appeal

Media
-Problem for administration
-New York Times review of James Keogh's book, President Nixon and the Press
-Coverage of the President
-Evaluation
-Reasons
-Favorable coverage
-Administration's efforts
-Bad press
-Compared with Kennedy
-Publicity concerning PRC trip
-Ziegler
-Publicity for administration
-PRC trip
	-New China Hands momento
		-Ziegler
		-White House staff
	-Secret Service
	-Airplane crews
-Ziegler
-Social events for press
-Impact and worth
-Klein
-Rogers
-Social contacts with press
-Newsmen's response
-Dealings with the President on a social level
-Supporters
	-Van der Linden
-Critics
-Cynicism
-Supporters
-Critics
-Reactions
-Ziegler
-White House Correspondents Association
-Edgar A. Poe, president
-Gridiron president
-Lack of control
-Gridiron dinner
-Conversation with Haldeman
-The President's absence
-Soviet trip
-White House subsidy
	-Ziegler
-Trip expenses
-Air fare
-Hotel
-The President's plane
-Waiver of charges
-Confidentiality
-South Carolina trip
	-Funeral
-Gridiron dinner
-The President's absence

Weather
-Spring in Washington, DC
-Cherry blossoms
-Festival

The President’s schedule
-Arbor Day
-Tree plantings

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The President as head of non-government organizations
-Boy Scouts of America
-Meetings
-Frequency
-Red Cross
-Television
-Tricia Nixon Cox
	-United Way

The President and Haldeman left at 12:35 pm.

	Conversation No. 706-3

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:35 pm and 2:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons [Secret Service agents] met.

	[Unintelligible]

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

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm.

	Unknown agent

	The President’s location
		-EOB

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 2:56 pm.

	Conversation No. 706-4

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  2:57 pm - 3:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield; the recording began at an unknown time while the meeting was in progress.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Clark MacGregor, Henry A. Kissinger and Democrats
-Briefing
-Day
-John C. Stennis
-George H. Mahon
-F. Edward Hebert
-Hawkish Democrats
-Kissinger's briefing
-Memoranda to be read

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 3:02 pm.

-Meeting with Ehrlichman and Peter G. Peterson
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.'s attendance
-Memorandum to be read

Butterfield and Ehrlichman left at 3:03 pm.

	Conversation No. 706-5

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  3:06 pm - 5:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Peter G. Peterson, John D. Ehrlichman, Peter M. Flanigan, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. and Stephen B. Bull; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

John B. Connally
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Delay

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:48 pm.

Commerce Department
-Undersecretary
-James T. Lynn

Economy
-Foreign trade
-Commercial attaches
-Legislation before Congress

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:06 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:48 pm.

Economic issues
-Commercial attaches
-Problems with pending legislation
-Foreign trade
-Foreign Service officers
-Indoctrination on economic issues
-State Department
-Lack of leadership on economic issues
-Undersecretaries
-Textiles
-Agriculture
-Foreign trade
-Leadership
-Attaches

US-Soviet Union relations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Flanigan
-Trade
-Linkage
-Soviet needs
-Commercial deals
-Raw materials
-Capital demands
-Oil and gas
-Scope
-Return
-Soviet debts
-Gradual increase
-Export-Import [Ex-Im]
-Most favored nation status [MFN]
-Raw materials
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-US credits
-Soviet gains
-Resources
-Capital demands of Soviets
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Conversations with Peterson
-Peterson's meeting with Soviet Trade Minister, Nikolay S. Patolichev
-Arrangements
-Ex-Im and MFN status
-Talks
-Issues
-Ex-Im agreements
-Credits
-MFN status
-1972 election
-Congress

Foreign trade
-Poland
-Yugoslavia and Rumania
-US attitudes
-Kissinger
-Poland
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Poland, Yugoslavia and Rumania
-Visits to US
-Eastern European nations
-Contacts with US
-Soviet trade
	-Peterson memorandum
-Recommendations
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Benefits to US
-US businessmen
-Sales
-Credit and investment guarantees

Energy
-Flanigan
-Ehrlichman
-Problems
-Long-range view
-Politics

Economy
-Maritime Administration
-Andrew E. Gibson
-Study of imports
-Maritime implications
-Energy
-Oil imports
-Percentage
-Maritime fleet
-Projected size
-Supertankers
-Japanese
-Economic advantages
-Dock facilities
-Political problems
	-Delaware
-Problems
-Subsidies
-Domestic problems
-Incentives
-Environment
-Supertankers
-Ports of call
-Canada and the Bahamas
-Docking problems
-Japan
-Australia
-Recommendations
-George P. Shultz
	-Budget problems
-Investment areas
-Welfare
-Hard and soft goods
-Investments
-Welfare
-Summer youth programs
-Maurice H. Stans
-Day care centers
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Democratic political pressures
-Conflicts between business and welfare
-Energy
-Supertankers
-Shultz
-Docking problem
-Pacific Northwest
-Local resistance
-Maine
-Gulf states
-Louisiana and Texas
-Off-shore leasing

Energy
-Alaska
-Political problems
-Environment
-Costs to consumers
-Domestic ownership
-Petersons' job
-Budget
	-Shultz
-Monitoring issue
-Cole
-Business representation
	-Environment
		-1972 election
-Public awareness
-Increase
-Publicity
	-Business community
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Testimony
	-News summary
-Power shortages
-Gibson
-Power stations
-Construction
-Objections
-Compared with Vietnam War
-Peterson's role
-1972 election
-Stans
-Links to liberals

Foreign trade
-US competitiveness
-Information gathering
-Steel output
-Japanese
-Japanese
-Strategic industries
-Studies
	-Machine tools, steel
	-Depreciation, write-offs
-Study program
-Commerce Department
-Connally
-Depreciation policies
-Strategic industries
-Foreign government support
-US tax reform bill
-Congress
-Connally
-1969 talk with the President at San Clemente
-Cattle
-Reform
-Connally's role
-Study program
-Depreciation policies
-Problems
	-Housing
	-ADR
		-Investment tax credit
-German and Japanese policies
-Successes
-New jobs
-Speech
-Publicity for reform
-Study for Congress
-Investment tax credit
-Japanese
-Responsiveness
-Tax reforms
-Criticism
	-Rich compared to poor
-Jobs
-Treasury conservatism
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Peterson's meeting with Connally
-Tax lawyers

Technology
-Industrial technology
-Study by Commerce Department
-Patents
-US government ownership
-Commercial production
-Review of policies
-Costs
	-Research and development [R&D]
-Nonexclusive provisions
-Patent policies
-State of the Union address
-Incentives for technology
	-Cost sharing
-Government patents
-Commercial production
-Government R&D
-Roadblocks
-William M. Magruder
-Commerce Department
-Aggressiveness
-Salesmanship
-1972 election
-Business
-Jobs
-Prices
-Job creation
-R&D
-Emphasis on jobs
-Environment
-Necessity to sell
-Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Image of business
-Administration's image
	-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

Environment
-National Industrial Pollution group
-Comments
-Growth
	-Club of Rome study
-Quality of life programs
-Costs
	-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
	-Health, welfare, mass transit
-Long-range costs
-Source of funds
-Projections
-Economic growth
-Zero-growth advocates

Economy
-Productivity Commission
-Shultz
-I[lworth] W[ilbur] Abel and Leonard Woodcock
-Membership
-Popular appeal
-Advertising Council
-Identification of the President with campaign
-Cost-wage push
-Range of problems
-Germany and France
-Productivity
-The President’s August 15, 1971 statement
-Popular appeal
-International problem
-Bargaining system
-Phase II
-Businessmen's doubts
-Strikes
-Costs
-Strikers
-Benefits
-Food chains
-Meeting with Connally
-Bargaining system
-Reform
-Post-election changes
-Shultz's ideas
-Dangers
-Pre-election attacks against labor
-Minority economic development
-Appeal to voters
-Political appeal
-"Bridge to dignity"
-Problems
-Peterson’s speeches
	-Chicago
	-New York
-Lack of knowledge in public
-Bold steps
-Prominent blacks to sell program
-Stars
-Athletes
-Dinner
	-New York
-Inner cities
-Deterioration
-Economic stimulation
-Unknown person's suggestion
-Focus on business
		-1969 campaign theme
-[Forename unknown] Messig [sp?]
	-Stans
-Productivity
-Peterson's recommendations
-Advertising Council
-Wage-cost push
-Pre-election actions
-Peterson's meeting with Connally
-Date and location

Connally, Arthur F. Burns, Shultz and Frederic V. Malek entered at 3:48 pm.

Greetings

Connally
-Health

Economy
-Connally's meeting with Peterson
-International competition
-Productivity
-Environment

Peterson, Ehrlichman, Flanigan and Cole left at 3:49 pm.

[General conversation]

Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Vacancy
-Number
-Sherman J. Maisel
-Andrew F. Brimmer
-Ambassadorship
-Removal
-Black ambassadors
-Position security
-Election
	-Rogers
	-United Nations [UN]
	-Secretary General
	-Confirmation
	-European post
	-African post

Jerome H. Holland
	-Background
		-College
			-Football
-Tenure
-Post
-Future

FRB
-Vacancy
-Candidates
-Names
-Districts and regions
	-California
-Candidates
-List
-Jeffrey M. Bucher
-Ward C. Krebs
-Bucher and Krebs 
-Origins
-Age
-Selection
-Criteria
-Compared with Supreme Court
-Age of justices
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-William H. Rehnquist
-Youth
-Length of term
-Age
-Compared with Supreme Court justices
-Earl Warren
-Warren E. Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
	-Powell
-Bucher
-Aspirations
-Short-term
	-Banking job
-Experience on board
-Krebs 
-Duration of term
-Criteria
-Banking background
-Krebs 
-Experience in banking
-Bucher
-Youth
-Requirements
-Judgment
-Maturity
-Longevity
-Bucher
-Other positions in second term
-Krebs
-Bucher
-Longevity on board
-Burns's influence
-[John E. Sheehan]
-Bucher
-Potential
-Krebs 
-Interview with Burns
-Compared with Bucher
-Bucher
-Harry J. Volk
-Asa V. Call and Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
-United California Bank
-Bank of America
-Security First National Bnak
-United California Bank
-Volk
-Prudential Insurance Company
-Robert H. Volk
-Burns's preference
-Ernest C. Arbuckle
	-David Packard's work
	-Background
		-Stanford University
	-Present position
	-Krebs
-Candidate selection
-E. Penn James's and Malek's work
-Brimmer case
-James L. Robertson
-Possible resignation
-Robert C. Holland
-Position on board
-Political affiliations
-Respect in banking world
-Appointment
-Replacement for Robertson
-Pension
-Rules
-Age
-Robertson
-Meeting with the President
-Sheehan's swearing-in
-Possible retirement
-Populism
-Support for small banks
-Appointments
-Future make-up
-Candidates
-Krebs
-Bucher
-Youth
-Work with Burns
-Compatibility
	-The President’s talk with Burger
-Conflicts within board
-Number of dissents
-Alfred Hayes
-Work with Burns
-Hayes's staff
-Candidates for vacancy
-Names
-Criteria

Malek left at 4:13 pm.

Budget
-Information for the President
-Money supply and interest rates
-Wage and prices
-Deficit
-Decrease

Environment
-Commerce Department study
-Peterson
-Costs
-Quality of life programs
-Relation to economic growth
-Population
-World
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-US
-Stabilization
-The President's meeting with Peterson
-Oil imports
-US needs
-Supertankers
-Docking facilities
-Local resistance
-Texas
-Quality of life programs
-Family assistance
-Day care centers
-Costs
-Budget
-Environmental field
	-Regulatory activity
-Proposition in California
-Loss of jobs if passed
-Edgar F. Kaiser
-Steel plants
-Peterson
-Political implications
-Need for economic growth

Economy
-Welfare programs
-Family Assistance Program [FAP]
-Education and health programs
-Summer youth programs
-FRB
-Peterson
-Charles H. Percy
-Change of attitude
-Stans
-National Association of Businessmen [NAB]
	-Optimism
-The President's meeting with Gordon E. Metcalf and John D. Harper
-Prices and stocks
-Rate

Burns and Shultz left at 4:20 pm.

	Connally
		-Health
			-Illness
				-Gen. Walter R. Tkach

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Connally's schedule
-Trip to Texas
-Stansville [?]
-Dinner honoring Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice
-Speech
-Time off

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:20 pm.

Refreshment
-Tea
-Effects
-Type

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:46 pm.

Connally
-Reports
-World situation
-Trip to Camp David
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-The President's Canadian speech
-Transportation
-Rest
-Camp David
-Golf
-Work ethic
	-Speech
-Health

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		-Work ethic

The President's schedule
-Vietnam
-Reports
	-News summary
-Critical decisions
-Conversation with Haldeman

Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Air Force
-Naval gunfire
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Victory
-Impact on Soviet Summit
-Cancellation
-Impact on foreign policy
-India, Middle East and Europe
	-Soviet Union

Treaty on biological warfare
-Effect
-Great power restraint
-The President's remarks at signing ceremony
-Arms control
-Great powers restraint
-Soviet's views on Summit
-Dobrynin

Vietnam
-Navy
-Fleet
-Shelling of roads in North Vietnam
-B-52 strikes
-Polls
-Critics
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Foreign policy

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Economy
-Interest rates
-Burns's policies
-Burns's work
-Interest rates
-Money supply
-European problems
-Paul A. Volcker's meetings
-Press conferences
-The President's Canadian trip
-Trade negotiations
-Great Lakes agreement
-The President's speech draft
-Connally's review
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Reelection
-Quebec
-Separatism
-Trudeau
-Reelection campaign
-Connally's speech in Chicago to national broadcasters
-Reaction
-Business leaders
-Location
	-Continental Plaza Hotel
-Tourist Bureau
-Dallas and Houston
-Format
-Agenda
	-Foreign policy, taxes, loopholes, productivity
-Taxes
-Loopholes
-Definition
-Major reforms
-Republican initiatives
-Eisenhower and the President
-Democratic interests
-George C. Wallace
-Loopholes
-Creation of jobs
-Home mortgage interests
-Abolition
-Opposition
-Purpose of loophole
-Municipal bonds
-Support of cities
-Abolition
-Failures
-Charitable contributions
-Abolition
-Impact
-Capital gains
	-Dow-Jones Industrial Average
-Depletion allowance
-Energy crisis
-Abolition
-Disadvantages
-Casualty losses
-Estate taxes
-Peterson
-US competitive position
-Depreciation allowance
-Japanese and West German example
-Change of position
-Support for loopholes

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-ITT case
-Relations with ITT
-Vance Hartke 

Taxation
-Overwithholding
-News summary
-Agents of Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Correction of problem
-Timing
-Public campaign
-W-4 exemptions
-Mailings
-Shultz
-Tax returns
-IRS aid to average taxpayer
-Publicity
-Announcement of task force
-IRS agents
-Number
-Customs Bureau in Florida
-Agents
-Sufficient number for job
-Number for searches
-Financing problems
-Customs Bureau
-Agents
-Increase
-Port officers
-Value of inspections
-Specific case
	-[Recent heroin seizure]
-Budget and personnel cuts
-Customs
-IRS
-Agents
-Help for returns
-Political benefits
-Personnel available
-Returns
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Survey of small professional preparers
-H&R Block
-Fraudulency rate
-Costs of delinquency

	ITT case
-Edmund S. Muskie charge
	-Corporate taxes
	-Validity of claim

Economic policies
-Food prices
-Administration's actions
-Albert E. Sindlinger poll
-Support
-Offensive stance
-Sindlinger's conversation with Colson
-Administration statements
-Wholesale price index
-Graham Purcell's hearings
-News coverage
-Administration's image
-Farmers
-Middlemen
-Retailers
-Safeway
-Need for discussions
-Profits
-Actions before election
-Freeze on food prices
-Effect
-Risks
-Farm vote
-Packers and producers
-Current state of economy
-Unemployment
-Level
-Figures
-State in October
-Inflation
-Agitation of issue
-Housewives
-Networks
-Public statements
-Frequency
-Connally
-White House staffers
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Mood of nation
-Florida
-Youth
-Tricia Nixon Cox's assessment
	-Harvard University
	-Nostalgia
	-Stability and leadership
-Kennedy and Muskie
-Lack of support
-Unemployment
-Figures
-Analysis
-Youth
-New workers
-Creation of jobs
-Positive perspective
-Social changes
-Wives and youth
-Entrance into labor force
-Job seekers

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:20 pm.

The President's meeting with Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Aggression
-Analysis
-Compared with Laos and Cambodia
-US public reaction
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-US troops
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Bombing of other cities and railroads
-US countermeasures
-US choices
-Consequences of failure
	-Credibility of foreign policy

The President and Connally left at 5:05 pm.

	Conversation No. 706-6

Date:  April 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service] and Manolo Sanchez met.

	[Unintelligible]

Stephen B. Bull
	-Door
		-Alarm

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