Conversation No. 709-1

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 am and 8:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 709-2

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 am and 8:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Ronald L. Ziegler
-Meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:58 am.

	Conversation No. 709-3

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 am and 8:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated notes for the file.

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	Conversation No. 709-4

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 am and 8:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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	Conversation No. 709-5

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 am and 8:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated notes for the file.

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	Conversation No. 709-6

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 am and 8:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-William M. Colmer luncheon

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:58 am.

	Conversation No. 709-7

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:36 am and 8:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Tape of memoranda for the file

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:58 am.

	Conversation No. 709-8

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  8:58 am - 9:34 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s cable
-Possible US action
-Military situation
-Predictions
-Troop withdrawals
-Conversation with Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Figures
-Announcement
-Timing
	-Numbers
	-Kissinger’s recommendation

-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Message to the President
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Hanoi
-US response
	-Soviet reply
-Summit
-The President's trip
	-Impact on domestic issues
-Kissinger's trip
	-Timing after bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Soviet message from Dobrynin
	-Hanoi
		-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Chou En-lai

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-William P. Rogers
-The President's conversation with Rogers
-Kissinger's conversation with Rogers

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 8:58 and 9:03 am.

[Conversation No. 709-8A]

Request for a call to Rogers

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Resumption of Paris Peace Talks
-Le Duc Tho
-Plenary sessions
-Cessation of bombing

The President talked with William P. Rogers between 9:03 and 9:10 am.

[Conversation No. 709-8B]

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Resumption
-Cessation of bombing
-US response
-Blockade
-Rogers's statement
-Delays
-Wording
-Military targets
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Necessity of weapons
-Military operations
-South Vietnam
-Courage
-Air sorties
-Figures
-Negotiations
-Statement
-USSR and PRC protests
-US replies
-CIA analysis
-Nature of responses
-Summit
-Cancellation
-Rogers's statement
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Conversation with the President
-Conversation with University of North Carolina Chancellor
-Student protests
-Students
-Acceptance of US policies
-Support for the President
-The President’s trips to the PRC and USSR
-Military operations
-An loc
-Ground action
	-Newspaper reports
-Air power
-Abrams
-Military targets

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Necessity
-Legality
-Timing
-US commitment
-Kissinger's trip to USSR
-Return
	-Timing
-Soviet responses
-The President's Administration
-Kissinger’ analysis
-Impact of war
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s Administration
-Confidence in government
-John F. Kennedy's Administration
-Foreign policy
-Advisors
-Johnson's Administration
-Foreign policy
-Successor
-Democrats
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Republicans
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Possibilities for the nomination
-Legacy
-US strength
-Possible successors’ strength and experience
	-Leadership evaluated
-Muskie
-Kennedy
-Successors
	-Strength in foreign policy
-US credibility
-North Vietnamese victory
-Foreign policy initiatives
-Policies
-Criticism
-Hue
-Vietnamization
-Muskie
	-Statements
-World War I
-Verdun
-Comparisons
	-France and Germany
-Costs
-South Vietnamese losses
-Hue
-An loc
-Hue
-New York Times article
	-Unknown reporter
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Hugh S. Sidey article
-The President's demeanor
-Jerrold L. Shechter
-Conversation with Kissinger
	-Location
-The President’s instructions to Kissinger
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
	-New York Times
-Max Frankel
-Leads
-Victory
-Consequences
-Soviets
-Middle East
-Message for Golda Meir
-Kissinger's call to Yitzhak Rabin
-Military operations
-Kissinger’s upcoming conversation with Dobrynin
	-Soviet Message
	-US reply
	-Wording
		-Kissinger’s upcoming trip to the USSR
	-Summit
-Chou En-lai
-Soviet message
-Private talks
-US reply
-Dobrynin
-US response
-Rogers's cable
-Kissinger's trip to USSR
-Possible agenda
-Reasons
-Compared with PRC trip
-Press conference
-Announcement
-The President's statement
-Kissinger’s television appearance
-Democrats' responses
-Kissinger's trip to USSR
-Possible North Vietnamese presence in Moscow
-Announcement
-The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Kissinger's presence
	-Low key
-Return to Washington
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Arrangements
	-Meeting in Paris
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Trip to Moscow
-Timing
-Place
	-The Executive Office Building [EOB]
-USSR
-Dealings with US
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Bombing
-Target areas
-Scheduling
-B-3
-South Vietnam
-Timing
-Public reception
-USSR and PRC protests
-Intensity
-Kissinger's return to US
-Soviet talks
-Kissinger's trip
-Blockade
-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-US stance
-Impact
	-Tone to be used witho the Soviets
-Johnson
	-Differences
-North Vietnamese troop levels
-Possibility of cease-fire during USSR trip
-US conditions
	-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Cessation of bombing
-Domestic opinion
-Abrams
-Air attacks
-Intensification
-Military operations
			-Number of sorties
-Naval action
-Number of destroyers, cruisers and carriers
	-Location
-Bomb damage
-Haiphong petroleum, oil, and lubricants [POL]
	-Photographs of damage
-Rail cuts
-Railroads
-Hanoi POL
-Railroads in Hanoi
-Haiphong
-Warehouse
-Naval base
-Shipyards
-Warehouse
-Truck parks
	-Photographs

Frank J. Shakespeare
-Withdrawal of resignation

Vietnam
-An Loc
-North Vietnamese tank losses
-Noth Vietnamese maneuvers
-Losses
-Hue
-Military action
-Quang Tri
-South Vietnamese movements and offensive
-South Vietnamese tanks
-Damage against North Vietnam

Kissinger left at 9:34 am.

	Conversation No. 709-9

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  9:35 am - 10:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Meeting with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Clark MacGregor
-Call to Ervin
-Reason
-Paul J. Fannin
-Next move
-Likely result
-Options
-Russell B. Long's statment
-John N. Mitchell
-Belief in success
-MacGregor
-View of Kleindienst's chances
-Democrats' strategy
-Washington Post story
-Replacement
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Risks
-Rejection
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Risks
-William French Smith
-Interests
-Oil
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Prestige
-Dean at Duke Law School
-Qualities
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Washington Post story

News summaries
-The President’s instructions
	-Cambodia and Laos
	-Screening
	-Vietnam
	-Developing stories
	-Republican National Convention [?]
	-The President's attention
	-Haldeman's review
	-Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson

Issues
-ITT
-Colson
-Busing
-Ehrlichman's project
-Vietnam
-Cabinet meeting
-Publicity
-Alarmism

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Length of stay
-Monday
-Kissinger's Paris meeting
-Kissinger's Soviet trip
-Public statements
-Cover
-Ehrlichman and Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Comparisons to Key Biscayne
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Return to US
-Kissinger's trip
-Meeting with Haig
-Report to the President
-Camp David
-Time
-Press conference
-Troop withdrawals announcement
-The President's trip to Capitol
-The President’s instructions
-Press coverage
-Ziegler
-Problems
-Entrance to building
-Blocking reporters

Kleindienst nomination
-Mitchell
-Support for Kleindienst

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:49 am.

William P. Rogers's television appearance
-Time

Pandas
-Photographs
-Ziegler's conversation with Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Conflicts with table tennis event
	-Two People’s Republic of China [PRC] stories
-Ziegler's call to Mrs. Nixon
-Mrs. Nixon’s location
-Washington Post story
-Musk oxen from the PRC
-Sickness
-Treatment in zoo
-Washington Post story
-Photographs
-Associated Press [AP] story
-Postponement
-Theodore H. Reed
-Musk oxen
-Sickness
-Thelma C. (“Pat” ) Nixon's schedule
-Photographs with pandas
-Table tennis match
-Publicity
-Schedule of team

Table tennis
-PRC’s team visit
-Publicity value
-Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Ziegler's call
	-Historic significance
-Postponement of appearance with pandas
-Scheduling problems

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Polish Ambassador, Witold Trampczynski
-Photographs
-Kissinger
-Arrangements
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] trip
-The President’s upcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Ramifications

Soviet summit
-Ziegler's line
-Answer to USSR and PRC protests on Vietnam
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Bombing
-Impact
-Ziegler's statements
-Guidelines
	-Possible questions
-New York Times
-Terence F. Smith
-Story about Hue
-World War I
-France and Germany
-Verdun
-Losses
-Symbolism
-White House staff
-Conversations with New York Times reporters
-Prohibitions
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.

Vietnam
-Ziegler's comments
-Protests
-Edmund S. Muskie and Hubert H. Humphrey
-Counterattacks
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Failure
	-Resolutions in the US Senate
-Critics
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Lack of criticism
-US policies
-Rhetoric
	-Criticism
-Support for the enemy and hostility toward South Vietnam
-Rogers's statement
-White House support
-Negotiations
-Ziegler's statements
-Bombing
-Limitations
	-The President’s previous conversation with Rogers
-Cessation
-Nuclear weapons
-Withdrawal of US forces across the demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Conditions
-Wording
-South Vietnam
-Praise
-US Air Force [USAF]
-Praise
-Defensiveness
-Bombing
-Escalation of debate
-Colson and Kissinger
	-Kissinger’s view
-Democrat attacks
-Critics
-Answer
-Need to defend South Vietnam and US airmen and seamen
-Current line
-Muskie
-United Nations [UN] consideration
-UN Security Council
-Humphrey's resolution
	-President’s view
-Soviet and PRC vetoes
	-Humphrey as Vice President
-Muskie's resolution
-Cessation of all operations by US
-Ziegler's responses
-Individual attacks
-Rogers
-The President's decision to bomb
-The President’s instructions to Ziegler
-Press
-Hugh S. Sidey and John F. Osborne
-Boycott
-The President's decision to bomb
-Ziegler's response
-Soviet summit
	-The President’s previous conversation with Kissinger
		-Possible comments by Kissinger
-US policies
-Hard line
-Defense of policies
-Attack from Democrats
-Counterattack
-Posture of confidence
-Negotiations
-Ziegler's statement
-The President's November 25th speech
-US policies and record of Administration
-Private channels
-Release of record
-Embarrassment of press
	-“Red faces”
-Rogers's statement

Mrs. Nixon
-Ziegler's upcoming telephone call
-PRC related stories
-Number
-Pandas
-Table tennis game

Ziegler left at 10:12 am.

Vietnam
-Public relations
	-Press reports
	-Embarrassment
	-Colson
	-Spiro T. Agnew
	-Attacks
	-Patrick J. Buchanan speech
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller and Ronald W. Reagan
	-Joint statement
	-Agnew
	-Schedule and location
	-Buchanan
	-Draft of speech
	-Criticism of critics

Rogers
-Relations with Kissinger
-Conflict
	-Possible action taken by Kissinger

Unknown treaty

Vietnam
-Unknown lieutenant colonel
-North Vietnam
-Press
-President’s view
Press
-Quality
-Decline
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-William S. White
	-Public relations
-White House
-Indifference to press hostility
-An Loc
	-Television media reports
-Terence F. Smith
-Conversation with unknown White House aide
-Identity of aide
-Story of Hue loss
-Joseph W. Alsop

Moon shot
-Audience
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Diplomatic Corps
-Invitations
-Acceptances
-The President's daughters
-Haldeman’s children [?]
-Television equipment
-Increase in amount of coverage

The President's schedule
-William M. Colmer luncheon
-Bicentennial Gardens
	-Location
-Frank T. Bow
-Meeting with the President
	-Future plans
-Colmer luncheon
-Seating
-Bow
-Age

Vietnam
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Criticism about Vietnam
-White House strategy
-White House position
-Public opinion
-Hawkishness
-Supporters
-Rockefeller
	-Kissinger [?]
-Young Americans for Freedom [YAF]
	-Input
-White House staff
-Buchanan
-Timidity
-Show of pride for administration
	-Support for the President
-Criticism of administration
-Public reactions of leaders
	-British view [?]
-Public support for administration
-Leaders
-Rockefeller
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Chancellor of University of North Carolina 
-North Vietnamese offensive
-State Department
-Public relations value
-Press reports
-Compared with Cambodian invasion
-North Vietnamese violations
-Horror stories on television
-Refugees
-US-South Vietnamese atrocities
-Reports
-North Vietnam
-Propaganda about US advisors
-Truck driver incident

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:12 am.

-US bombing of Haiphong
-Sanchez’s view
	-North Vietnamese and Soviet complaints
	-US responses

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:32 am.

-North Vietnamese invasion
-US responses
-Softness of American Society
-White House staff
	-Problems
-Soviet Summit
-The President’s instructions to Haldeman

White House staff
-Problems
-Dealings with aides
-Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz and Herbert G. Stein
-Dealings with Cabinet officers
-John B. Connally
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Dealings with Connally
-Meetings with the President

Weather at Camp David
-Spring
-Sunlight
-Rain and thunderstorms

White House staff
-Kissinger's staff

Vietnam
-Haig
-B-52s
-Navy
-Success
-Vietnamization
-Muskie's criticism
-Cease-fire
-Problems

Haldeman left at 10:32 am.

	Conversation No. 709-10

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  10:32 am - 10:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Witold Trampczynski
-Photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Press

Henry A. Kissinger entered and Bull left at 10:32 am.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Message to US
-Analysis

The President's forthcoming trip to Poland
-Announcement
-Trampczynski
-Soviets
-Possible cancellation

USSR
-Soviet Summit
-Collapse
-Initiative
-U-2 incident
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
	-Possible similarities
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Conversation with Kissinger
	-Soviet response

Trampczynski entered at 10:34 am.

Greetings

Photographs
-Arrangements
	-Message for the President

Warsaw
-Kissinger's visit

Poland
-The President's last visit
-Meeting with Wladyslaw Gomulka
-Chou En-lai
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Letter inviting the President to visit Poland
-Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz
-Chairman of the Council of State, Henryk Jablonski
-Visit to US

US-Poland relations
-US aspirations
	-Differences
			-Similarities to the President’s trips to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and USSR
-Polish-Americans
-Special ties
-Mutual agreement
-Polish-Americans
-The President’s Polish acquaintances
	-Locations
-John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia
-The President's forthcoming visit to Poland
-Lodgings
-Size of party
	-Request from the Polish government
-President and Thelma C. (“Pat” ) Nixon
-Arrangements
-The President's stop in Teheran
-Meetings with officials
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tours
-Schools
-Hospitals
-Areas of interest
-Culture
-Poznan Boys' Choir
-Past performances
-Future performances
-Trampczynski's home town
-Warsaw
-Historic site
	-Memories
-Kissinger's visit in 1964
-Visit of Polish Jews
-Kissinger's reaction
-Trampczynski's stay in US
-Berkeley, California
-University of California at Berkeley [?]
-Return visit
-The President's trip to Poland
-Symbolism
-Benefits
-Economic cooperation
	-Warsaw

Trampczynski left at 10:45 am.

Vietnam
-Haiphong
-Kissinger's meeting with press
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-US bombing
-Haiphong and Hanoi
-Visit of Polish Ambassador with the President
-Invitation to visit Poland
-Soviet attitude
-Press reports

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with press
-Robert J. McCloskey, Daniel Z. Henkin and Ziegler
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting
-Meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-WSAG meeting
-Kissinger's attacks on Democrats
-Support for North Vietnamese invaders

Kissinger left at 10:47 am.

	Conversation No. 709-11

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:48 am and 10:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons met.

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The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 10:51 am.

	Conversation No. 709-12

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:48 am and 10:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons met.

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The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 10:51 am.

	Conversation No. 709-13

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  10:51 am - 11:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam

-Daniel Z. Henkin's speech
-Democrats' criticism
-White House response
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Defense of the President
-Attacks on Democrats
-Escalation in rhetoric
	-[Forename unknown] Coleman [?]
		-Previous conversation with the President
-Resolutions in Senate
-Curtailment
-Hanoi's response
-Charge of defeatism
-Administration's attacks
-Press coverage
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-PRC statement
-Mansfield statement
-The President's Soviet trip
-Kissinger's conversation with PRC Ambassador
-Mansfield
-Administration attacks
-Soviets
-Kissinger offer
-Interim solution
-Le Duc Tho
	-Paris Peace Talks
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Defeats
	-Attitude after bombing
-US conditions for negotiations
-North Vietnamese refusal
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Exchange
	-Sick and wounded
-Democrats
-Criticism
-US policies
-Possible hardline
-Blockade
-End of war
-Involvement of Soviets
-Negotiations
-May announcement
-Timing
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Upcoming press conference
-Troop reductions
-Show of confidence
	-Paris Peace talks
-Public impact
	-Upcoming press conference
-Number
-Soviets
-Kissinger's trip
-Conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message for the President
-Reason for the talks
-Reply
	-Administration’s position
	-Soviet summit
-Blockade
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Soviet response
-Option

Ziegler entered at 11:01 am.

Soviet summit
-United Press International [UPI] story
-The President's itinerary
-Locations
-Ziegler
-Source from the Kremlin

Kissinger left at 11:02 am.

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese invasion
			-William P. Rogers's televised statement before Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Number of North Vietnamese tanks with equipment
-Frank F. Church
-Criticism of Congress
-Length

Thelma C. (“Pat” ) Nixon
-Schedule
-Visit to National Zoo
-S. Dillon Ripley III
-Table tennis game
-Planning

PRC
-Table tennis game
-The President's schedule
-Thelma C. (“Pat” ) Nixon
-Changes in schedule

Ziegler left at 11:03 am.

	Conversation No. 709-14

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  11:07 am - 11:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Edward C. Nixon
-Dinner

Weather

Vietnam
-William P. Rogers's statement
-President’s view
-Edmund S. Muskie
	-Rogers’s difficulties
-Democrats
-Woods’s opinion

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Pandas
-Thelma C. (“Pat” ) Nixon's schedule
-Table tennis team visit
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Conflicts with Ziegler
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John B. Connally
	-Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
		-Ziegler
	-President’s view

Soviet Trip
-Mrs. Nixon
-Schedule
-John V. (“Jack”) Brennan
-The President's schedule
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-White House staff
	-President’s instructions
	-Rogers
		-Mrs. Nixon

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The President's schedule
-Meeting with retiring members of Congress
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Army Chorus
-Newspaper editors event
-Arrangements similar to Christmas parties
-The President’s instructions
-Chorus
-Entertainment
-Music
-Location
-Reception line
	-Number of people
		-Entertainment
-Duke Law School class event
-Whittier College class event
-Enjoyment of party
-Dinner
-Navy comrades event
-Social events
	-The President’s Canadian trip [?]
	-Concert
	-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
	-Organization of American States [OAS] function
	-Concert
	-Kennedy Center
	-Buffet
	-Preparations
	-White House staff
-Mexican President's visit
-State dinner
-The President's Canadian trip
	-Previous State dinners
-Concert
-Buffet
-Toasts
-Navy comrades
-Party
-Reception
-Army Chorus
-Uniforms
-Planning
-Butterfield and Lucy A. Winchester
	-The President’s view
-Modern dancers
-Nancy Hanks
-The President’s request

Arts
-Modern dancers
-Makeup of dancers
-Hanks
-Modern music
-Modern painting
-Entertainment during administration
	-Quality of entertainment
-President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy
-Reputation for support
-Pablo Cassals
-Current administration
-Invitations
-Stuart
-Press distortions
	-Entertainment at the White House
-The President's memorandum
-Stuart
	-Publicity

Woods left at 11:33 am.

	Conversation No. 709-15

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  11:35 am - 12:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-John N. Mitchell's report
-Negotiations with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. and Paul J. Fannin
-Robert Mardian
-Clark MacGregor

Vietnam
-William P. Rogers's testimony, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Rogers’s hearing
-Press coverage
-Clifford P. Case's questions
-Support for the President and Vietnamization
-Criticism of air war
-Press coverage
-Rogers's bearing
-Frank F. Church's questions

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:35 and 11:50 am

[Conversation No. 709-15A]

[See Conversation No. 23-1]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Rogers's testimony

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:35 and 11:50 am.

[Conversation No. 709-15B]

[See Conversation No. 23-2]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Rogers's testimony

Kleindienst confirmation
-MacGregor
-Mitchell
-Advice on Kleindienst
-Speech
-Scheduling
-Ervin's tactics
-Delay of testimony
-Michael Gravel case
-Supreme Court
-Privilege of Congress
-Criticism of Ervin's position

Vietnam
-Rogers's testimony
-Substance
	-Haldeman’s opinion
-Television appearance
-Bearing
-Criticism of invasion
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Plane loss
-Figures and casualties
-US bombing
-Military reasons
-Diplomatic reasons
	-Importance
-Talents
-Legal abilities
-Public relations sense
-Clarity
-Compared with Henry A. Kissinger
-North Vietnamese intentions
-Negotiations
	-Possible offer from North Vietnam
-US bombing
-Cessation
-Conditions
-Violations
-Cessation
	-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-US bombing
-Conditions for cessation
-Changes of policy under the President
-Compared to 1968
-Troops
-Retaliation for attacks
	-Protection of troops
		-Rogers compared to Kissinger
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Mechanized forces
-Source of supply
	-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Petroleum dependence
-US attacks on dumps
	-Purpose of bombings
-News coverage
-Edmund S. Muskie's resolution
-Comments
-Dangers to Democrats
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson's criticism
-George C. Wallace

Wallace
-Tax reform
-Letter to the President
-Congress
-Donald H. Rumsfeld’s reaction

John B. Connally
-Return from Texas
-Timing
-Haldeman's call
-Appointment with Haldeman
-Vacation in Texas
-Benefits
-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Need to get back to Texas

Vietnam
-US bombing
-Haiphong
-Supporters
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Charles W. Colson briefing
-Albert E. Sindlinger poll
-Hawkishness of public opinion
-Voluntary reaction
-Sindlinger's press conference
-The President’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-Desire for negotiations
	-Possible partial deal
-Negotiations with the USSR
-Blockade
-Imposition
-Timing
-North Vietnamese troop withdrawal from South Vietnam
-Blockade
-Johnson's compared with the President's policies

White House staff
-Donald B. Rice
-Job with Rand Corporation
-Meeting with the President
-Value
-Departures
-Meetings with the President
	-Kissinger’s people
-Rice
-Meeting with the President
-George P. Shultz
-Reasons
-Departures
-Meetings with the President
-Scheduling
-Alexander P. Butterfield
	-Individuals to meet with the President
-Stephen Hess
-Capitalization on White House job
-Meetings with the President
	-President’s view
		-Unknown accountant [?]

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Mix-up with pandas
-Two People's Republic of China [PRC] related events on same day
-Rescheduling
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Upcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Work with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Soviet trip
-Ziegler's staff
-Plane
-Reason for trip
	-Favor to Mrs. Nixon
-Haldeman's conversation with William R. Codus
-Stuart’s staff people
-Problems
-Mrs. Nixon's trip to Africa
-Codus
-Stuart
	-Job description
-Assignments
-Work with Mrs. Nixon
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Soviet trip
-Restrictions
-Hairdresser on Soviet trip
-The President’s insistence
-Work on previous trips
	-Helpfulness
		-Value to Mrs. Nixon

Soviet trip
-Warsaw stopover
-Announcement

Vietnam
-Rogers's testimony
-Haldeman's call
-Complements
-The President's call
-Blockade
-The President’s previous conversation with Rogers
-Rogers's statement
-Options
-Exclusions
-Ground forces
-Nuclear weapons
-Rogers's testimony
-Blockade question

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:52 am.

The President's schedule
-Luncheon with William M. Colmer
-Meeting with Rice
-Length
-Next job
	-Rand Corporation
-Family
-Gift
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
	-MacGregor
	-Ervin

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:02 pm.

Kleindienst confirmation
-Ervin
-Meeting with MacGregor
-Jack Gleason

Haldeman left at 12:02 pm.

	Conversation No. 709-16

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  12:02 pm - 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Donald B. Rice, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger and George P. Shultz; Stephen B. Bull and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Rice's next job
	-Locaiton

Photographs

Rand Corporation
-Rice's job
-Experience
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
	-Shultz
-Press office
-Location
-Work
-Home
-Rice's family

Presidential gifts
-Money clip
-Cuff links
-Wife
-Compact
-Golf balls

Best wishes

Rice and Weinberger left at 12:05 pm.

Vietnam
-Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Troop withdrawals
-Negotiations
-US peace offers
-US bombing
-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Toughness
-Blockade
-Implementation
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Number of divisions
-Lyndon B. Johnson's Administration
-US response
-Defense of South Vietnam
	-Odds

-Ground forces
-Press reports
	-US Marines

Shultz left at 12:06 pm.

	Conversation No. 709-17

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:06 pm and 12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person in Henry A. Kissinger's office.

Kissinger
-Location
-Meeting with Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and [David] Kenneth Rush
-Location

	Conversation No. 709-18

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:06 pm and 12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person in Henry A. Kissinger's office.

Kissinger
-Return from meeting
-Meeting with the President
-Length
-The President's departure
-Time

	Conversation No. 709-19

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  12:15 pm - 12:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-William P. Rogers's testimony
	-Praise from Kissinger
-Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
-Purpose
-Interim compromise
-Difficulties
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr’s report
	-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-North Vietnamese capabilities
-US response
-Negotiations
-US bombing
-Soviets
	-Pressure
		-Dobrynin
-Blockade
-Implementation
-Immediacy
	-Upcoming elections
-Interim agreement
-Rejection
-Consequences
-Possible Soviet actions

-Advantages according to Kissinger
-Soviet Summit
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] summit
	-Possible Middle East settlement
-Problem
-1972 election
-Continuation of war
-Possible outcome
-Haig’s report
-Cessation of offensive
-Prevention of future offensive
	-Timing
		-Assurance by the Soviets
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Possible actions by Hanoi
-US response
	-Timing
		-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Failure
	-Concern from Kissinger
-Blockade
-Impact
	-Compared to 1969
-Weaknesses
-Circumvention
-Interim Solution
-POWs
-Haig report
-Military Region One
-South Vietnamese performance
-Increase in South Vietnamese strength
-US bombing
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Carriers
	-Bombing support
-North Vietnam
-Number of sorties
-South Vietnam
	-increase
-I Corps
-North Vietnamese weakness
-B-52s
-Ground action
-South Vietnamese strength
-Improved situation
	-Compared with Laos operation
	-Retreats
	-Provincial capitals
	-Demoralization of North Vietnam
-US strategy
-Military action
	-Toughness from the President
-Peace offers
-Soviet Summit
	-Preservation of US integrity
-Blockade
-Implementation
-Timing
-Threat
-Soviet Summit
-Meeting with Polish Ambassador [Witold Trampczynski]
-Cancellation 
-Chances
-Symbolism
-Kissinger's Moscow meeting
	-Press reports

Kissinger left at 12:28 pm.

	Conversation No. 709-20

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  12:28 pm - unknown before 12:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

The President talked with the White House operator at 12:28 pm.

[Conversation No. 709-20A]

[See Conversation No. 23-3]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Call to William P. Rogers
-Meeting with William M. Colmer
-Trip to and from Capitol Hill
-Clark MacGregor
-William E. Timmons

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:31 pm.

	Conversation No. 709-21

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:28 pm and 12:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

President’s schedule [?]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:31 pm.

	Conversation No. 709-22

Date:  April 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:31 pm and 4:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Manolo Sanchez met with an unknown person.

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Sanchez and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:53 pm.