Conversation No. 708-1

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:05 pm and 4:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Briefcases

White House Conference on Youth report
-Executive branch response
-Release

Autographs
-Forthcoming meeting
-Schedule

Rayburn D. Hanzlik
-Robert H. Finch

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:10 pm.

	Conversation No. 708-2

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  4:10 pm - unknown before 4:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Michael A. Dively, Christiane Garcia, Alan Cameron, Stephen Hess, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Rayburn D. Hanzlik, Howard A. Cohen and Stephen B. Bull; members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings and introductions
-Hanzlik
-Garcia
-Cameron
-Age

Photographs
-Arrangements

	[General conversation]

Movie

Photographs
-Individual conferees

Presidential gifts
-Gold pens
-Congressmen

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:27 pm.

The President's trip to Canada

Hess

Conference report

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:10 pm.

-Delivery somewhere

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

-Concern for young people
-Recommendations
-Responses
-Hess
-Officers of conference
-Budget of conference
-Breakdown of expenditures
-Grants
-Priority topics
-University of Michigan
-Recommendations
-Memorandum
-Unknown governor's report
-Republican platform
-Presentation to committee
-The President's membership in 1948
-Publicity value
-TV coverage
-John J. Rhodes
-Democratic platform
-Richard E. Neustadt
-Equal time

Garcia
-Plans for future
-College
-Birthplace
-Home state

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Birthplace

Cameron
-Job
-Background
-Military service

Army
-All-volunteer
-Draft

Political conventions
-Value
-Friendship
-Dialogue

White House conference reports
-White House library and Library of Congress
-Number
-Value
-Youth report
-Grants
-Platform committees
-Publicity

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:10 pm.

The President's schedule

White House Conference on Youth
-Conferees
-Future trips to People's Republic of China [PRC]

Dwarf tree
-Age
-PRC

White House Conference on Youth
-Conferees
-Age

White House staff
-Cole
-Age
-Winston S. Churchill

Miami and San Diego conventions

Dively et al., left at 4:27 pm; Bull remained.

Photograph
-Conference on Youth report

The President's meeting with Hess
-Gifts
-Hess's children

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:28 pm.

	Conversation No. 708-3

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  4:28 pm - 4:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen Hess, Elena (Shayne) Hess, Charles P. Hess, James R. Hess and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr; Stephen B. Bull and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Photographs
-Family
-Arrangements

Presidential gifts
-Apollo viewer
-Money clip
-Compact

Biography of the President
-Charles P. Hess
-Age

Hess children
-Favorite school subjects
-The President

Dwarf tree
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Age
-Size

Travel
-Future
-PRC, the Moon and the Soviet Union
-Value
-Age factor
-Money

Hess children
-Sidwell Friends School
-School subjects
-The President's daughters

Hess et al left at 4:31 pm.

	Conversation No. 708-4

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  4:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Frank DeMarco, Jr. and John W. Dean III
-Purpose

Briefcase

Bull left at 4:31 pm.

	Conversation No. 708-5

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  4:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Meeting with unknown person

	Conversation No. 708-6

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  4:31 pm - 4:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Frank DeMarco, Jr. and John W. Dean, III.

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DeMarco and Dean left at 4:34 pm.

	Conversation No. 708-7

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:34 pm and 4:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President rehearsed French portions of a speech for his Canadian trip.

Speech
	-Rehearsal in French

	Conversation No. 708-8

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:34 pm and 4:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President resumed rehearsing French portions of a speech for his Canadian trip.

Speech
	-Rehearsal in French
		-The President's greetings upon his arrival in Ottawa

	Conversation No. 708-9

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  4:37 pm - 4:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's Canadian speech
-Draft
-Typing
-Airplane
-Changes
-Place
-Press copy
-Deletion
-The President's meeting with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Instruction in French language

The President's trip o Canada
-Dinner
-Attire
-Scheduling

Weather

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:38 pm.

The President's trip to Canada
-Speech
-Kissinger's review
-Deletion
-Draft
-Press copy

Woods left at 4:40 pm.

Vietnam
-George H. Mahon
-John C. Stennis
-Briefing
-F. Edward Hebert
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Speech
-Press
-Call from Kissinger
-US policies
-Public support
-Kissinger's briefing
-Mahon
-Support for US policies
-Haiphong
-Air strikes
-Petroleum, oil, lubricants [POL] dumps
-Timing
-Current plans
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
-Necessity
-Lyndon B. Johnson and W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Effectiveness
-Cambodia operation
-Melvin R. Laird
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Laos operation
-Effectiveness
-North Vietnamese tank losses
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Haiphong
-Target
	-POL dumps
	-Truck parks
-Air strikes
-Aircraft
-Number
-B-52s
-Surface to air missile [SAMs]
-Effectiveness
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Casualties
-Rate
-Comparisons

William P. Rogers
-Kissinger's call
-Schedule
	-United Nations [UN]

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:40 and 4:46 pm.

[Conversation no. 708-9A]

[See Conversation no. 22-123]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Kissinger's call to Hebert
-Thanks for support

The President's trip to Canada

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:40 and 4:46 pm.

[Conversation No. 708-9B]

[See Conversation No. 22-124]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's Canadian speech
-Soviets

Rogers

Rogers's testimony

Kissinger's call from Albert Stein
-US bombing

Kissinger left at 4:46 pm.

	Conversation No. 708-10

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:46 pm and 4:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:47 pm.

	Conversation No. 708-11

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  4:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President rehearsed French portions of a speech for his Canadian speech.

Speech
	-Rehearsal in French

	Conversation No. 708-12

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  4:47 pm - 4:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters.

Walters
-Confirmation
-Congratulations

The President's trip to Canada
-Address to Parliament
-French portions
-Walters's review
-Speech draft
-Walters's rendition
-Pronunciation
-The President's rendition
-Walters's review

-The President's accent
-Pronunciation
-Arrival speech
-The President’s rendition
	-Pronunciation
-Speech draft
-Phonetic translation
-The President's knowledge of French

Rose Mary Woods entered at 4:53 pm.

-The President's rendition
-Walters's corrections
-Speech typewriter
-Placement

Woods left at 4:55 pm.

-Speech draft
-The President's rendition
-Walters's corrections

Walters's new job
-Progress

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.

Delivery of unknown article

Unknown person's location

Signing of documents

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

Vietnam
-Reports
-North Vietnamese movements
-The President's conversation with [Forename unknown] Palms 
-Gen. Haig
-H. Ross Perot
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US actions
-Negotiations
-People's Republic of China [PRC]

Walters's knowledge of Russian language

[Unintelligible]

Walters left at 4:59 pm.

	Conversation No. 708-13

Date:  April 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons [Secret Service?] met.

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