Conversation No. 711-1

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:18 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

William P. Rogers
	-Location

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:20 am.

	Conversation No. 711-2

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:18 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-13]

	Conversation No. 711-3

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  9:20 am - unknown before 10:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William P. Rogers between 9:20 and 9:23 am.

[Conversation No. 711-3A]

[See Conversation No. 23-14]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:22 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Rogers's testimony
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Calls from staff
-Respect for the President
-Press
-Reports on Melvin R. Laird
-Opposition to air strikes
-Story from Saigon
-Air strikes
-Laird’s position
-US policies
-Show of strength
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

PRC
-Message to the President
-Urgency
-Call to Kissinger
-Actions on air strikes
-Message
-Warning on territorial violation
-Bombing of Haiphong
-Significance
	-Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
-Hainan Island
-Geographic location

Vietnam
-Laird
-Release of story
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
	-Staff
-The President’s call to Laird
-Need for unity

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:23 and 9:27 am.

[Conversation No. 711-3B]

[See Conversation No. 23-15]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Laird
-Release of story
-Motives
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Kissinger’s trip
-American public opinion
-Support
-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Comparisons to current administration
-Air strikes
-Call to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
	-Number of sorties
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow

The White House operator talked with the President at 9:27 am.

[Conversation No. 711-3C]

[See Conversation No. 23-16]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Battle report
-Military Region One
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] action
-Effectiveness
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Fire base near Hue
-Encirclement
	-Protection
-Military Region Two
-B-52 strikes
-An Loc
-North Vietnamese movements
	-Direction
-ARVN actions
-North Vietnamese movements
-Weaknesses
-B-52 strikes
-Phantoms
-Air strikes
-Weather
-South Vietnamese strikes
-Moorer’s comments
-Need for study of US airpower
-B-25s
-World War II
	-Comparisons
-A-1s
-Capabilities
-US air tactics

Israel
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Use of Phantoms
-Altitude

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Pilots
-Naval action
-Destroyers
	-Numbers
-Surface to air missiles [SAMs]
-Destroyers
-US casualties
-Air strikes against North
-Secondary fires
-Haiphong
-Hanoi

Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 9:27 am.

Refreshment

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 9:49 am.

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Truck parks
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Bill
-Aid cut-off
	-Timing
-Prisoners of war [POWs] release
-Mansfield
	-Amendment
-Battle reports
-Further details
-Soviet note
-Mild nature
-US response
-Soviet ships
-US response
-Indian protests
-US response
-US aid
-Further discussions
-Friendly acts
-Kenneth B. Keating
	-Cable
		-Possible dialog with India
			-Keating
				-Respect from Kissinger
-Rogers’s testimony
-Soviet ships
-Charles W. Colson's staff
-Public relations work
-Discussions with Kissinger
	-News summaries
-Attack on Edmund S. Muskie
-Muskie's statements
-Kissinger's attendance at Henry Brandon dinner
-Charles D. Hamilton
-Comments regarding the President
	-The Sunday Times
-Acquaintance with the President
-Roy H. Thomson
	-Date
-Francis D. L. Astor
-The Observer
-Interest in Africa
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
	-Washington Post
-Criticism of Democratic candidates
-Comments
	-Feelings towards the administration
-Mood
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Discussion with critics
-Defense of Vietnamization
-Arguments
	-Potential success
-Bombing
-Diplomatic act
-Laird testimony
-Vietnamization
-Bombing
-Administration intentions
	-Kissinger’s upcoming talk with Laird
		-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Impact on Soviets
-Critics of Kissinger
-Defensiveness
-Current offensive
-Bradlee's comments
-Duration
-September
	-Possible end to hostilities
-Laird
-Testimony
-Line of argument
-Troop withdrawals
-Goals
-Abrams's assessment
	-Agreement with the President
-Level in 1969
-Ceiling
-Rate
-Ceiling levels
-Decline
	-Reasons
-The President's schedule
-Trip to Moscow
-Troop reduction
-Trip to Moscow
	-Kissinger’s upcoming meeting
		-Timing

PRC
-John A. Scali’s concern
-Table tennis team
	-Moscow

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Haiphong
-Kissinger’s Moscow trip
-US intentions
	-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Laird and Abrams
-USSR
-Benefits from war
	-Hanoi’s dependence
-Kissinger’s trip
-US position
	-Haiphong
-Air strikes
-Pressure on Hanoi
-1972 election
-Summit
	-Benefit for US
-US pressure
-Stance toward Hanoi
	-US pressure on Moscow and Peking
-Concessions
-Options
-Continuing relations
-Kissinger’s trip
-Results
-Further actions
-Summit
-Advantages
-Conditions
-Attacks on North Vietnam
-Options
-Strikes
-Blockade
-Soviet response
	-Timing of US position
-Kissinger’s trip
-Blockade
-Implementation
-Problems
	-Soviet summit
		-Possible response from Hanoi
-Blockade
-Duration
	-USSR
-Public support
	-Administration’s demands to USSR
-Possible results
-POWs

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:49 am.

PRC
-Table tennis game
-Scheduling
-Team
-Meeting with the President
	-Possible photograph opportunity
-The President’s remarks
	-US-PRC relations
-Soviets

Butterfield left at 9:51 am.

-Rogers’s attendance at table tennis match, April 17, 1972
-Protesters
	-Types

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Protests at University of Wisconsin
-Size
-Television coverage
-Blockade
-US capabilities
-Laird
-Ships to Haiphong
-Interception
	-Possible confrontation
	-The President’s previous conversation with Moorer
-Mining
-Moorer’s opinion
	-Mining over blockade
-Problems
-Soviet minesweepers
-Advantages
-Preparations
	-Heavy raids
-Bombing
-Effectiveness
-Laird
-Complaints
-Release of story
-Reaction of Hanoi
-Negotiations
-Le Duc Tho
-Trip to Paris
-Significance
	-Possible sign of weakness
-Soviets
-Further actions
	-Cautiousness
-Kissinger’s trip
-Dobrynin
-Summit
-Kissinger’s position
-Conditions from the President

The President talked with Laird between 9:55 and 9:56 am.

[Conversation No. 711-3D]

[See Conversation No. 23-17]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Laird’s statement
-Military operations
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s cable
-Abrams’s assurances
-Air strikes
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Morale

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:56 am.

PRC
-Table tennis team
-Arrangements
-A platform
-Press coverage

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.

Vietnam
-Military operations
-Haig cable
-Thailand
-Encouragement
-Reassurances
-Battlefield situation
-North Vietnamese units
-Saigon area
				-Abrams
-North Vietnamese capabilities
-Weaknesses
-Negotiations
-May meeting

Kissinger
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG] meeting

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese capabilities

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:56 am.

-Nikita S. Khruschev memoirs [?]
-Dien Bien Phu
-French

Kissinger left at 10:00 am.

Retention of something

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:02 am.

	Conversation No. 711-4

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  10:02 am - 10:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

News summary

Vietnam
-Captiol Hill
-News coverage
-George D. Aiken
-Charge against North Vietnam
	-Support for administration’s policies
		-Unknown people

National economy
	-Canada [?]
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Interview in U.S. News and World Report
-Inflation
-Food prices
-Spiro T. Agnew’s statement
-Government action against supermarkets
	-Supermarket Institute
-Prices
-John B. Connally's statement

Busing
-Time's criticism of the President's policies

Revenue-sharing
-Vote in Ways and Means Committee
-Passage in Congress
-George P. Shultz

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News summary

Vietnam
-Student strikes
-Protest of bombing

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:02 am.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with his barber

Bull left at an uknown time before 10:58 am.

Demonstrators
-Canada
-Anti-US group
-Positioning
-Control
-US Secret Service
-Royal Canadian Mounted Police
-Leader
-Counteraction
-Release of story
-Kissinger
	-Knowledge of story
-Method
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Release of story
-Method
	-Aldo B. (“Elbow”) Beckman
-Jack N. Anderson
-Confidentiality
	-Uses for Anderson
-Anti-US group
-Retaliation
-Method
-Buchanan release
-Anderson
-Credibility
-Herbert G. Klein

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
	-Executive privilege
-Klein
-Peter M. Flanigan testimony
-Guidelines
-Limitations
-Advice to the President
-William E. Timmons
-Testimony
-Republican convention
-Klein
-White House aides
-Timmons
-Jack Gleason
-Testimony
-Timmons as witness

Senate Judicial Committee
-Memorial service for Hugo L. Black
-Attendance
-Schedule
-Harry D. Steward testimony
-Flanigan letter

ITT case
-Witnesses
-Gleason
-Scheduling
-Problems of scheduling
-Roman L. Hruska
-John N. Mitchell
-Timmons
-Testimony on convention
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-The President's involvement
-Republican convention
-Robert H. Finch testimony
-Discussion with the President
-Site selection
-San Diego
-Chicago
-Mitchell
-The President's role
-Robert J. Dole statement
-Midwest sites
-ITT contribution
-Significance
-Chicago site
-White House staff
-Testimony
-Gleason
-Hearings
-Vote
-Flanigan

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Table tennis event
-Pandas
-Scheduling of event
-Day
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Publicity
-Exploitation
-Names
-Age
-Mating successes
	-Process and difficulties
-Housing
-Crowds
-Zoo director
-News conference
-Ceremonies
-Mrs. Nixon
-Names
-Eating habits
-Publicity
-Public interest

Vietnam
-William P. Rogers's testimony
-Kissinger's opinion
-Tone
-Rogers's assessment

Rogers
-Table tennis match
-Tricia Nixon Cox's attendance

Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird
-Agnew
-Attack on Edmund S. Muskie
-Vietnam statement
-Location
-Fundraiser
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] speech
		-Timing
-Connally
-Statement
-Agnew
-Speech to ASNE
-Buchanan
	-Agnew’s speechwriter
-Attack on Muskie
-Vietnam developments
-Line of attack
	-Proposed administration response
-Democrats
-Challenge
-Criticism of North Vietnam
-Charge of anti-Americanism
-Muskie
-Attacks
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Attacks by others

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Earl L. Butz
-Report on Soviet trip
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
	-Relationship with the President
-Kissinger
-Meeting with Butz
-Jacob D. Beam’s presence
-The President’s “Kitchen Debate” with Nikita S. Khruschev
-Value of meeting
-Brezhnev
-Administration officials
-Trips abroad
-Reports to the President
	-Opinions of Brezhnev
-Reports to Kissinger
-Donald H. Rumsfeld’s trip to Latin America
-Procedures
-Problems
	-President’s view
-Written reports
-Trips abroad
-Reports to the President
-Allen J. Ellender
-Written reports
	-Kissinger
-Senators
-Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
-Butz
-Meeting with the President
-Subjects of discussion
-Meeting with Brezhnev
-Beam
-Kissinger’s report
	-Kissinger’s view
-Trips abroad
-Robert H. Finch and Rumsfeld
-George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman
-Importance
-Agnew
-Importance
-Experience
-Value to the President
-The President’s reports to John Foster Dulles
-Reports to the President
	-The President’s experience
-Donald McI. Kendall
	-Trips to Japan
-John A. Volpe
-Meetings with the President
-Kissinger’s role
-Butz
-Meeting with the President
-Kissinger's presence
-Trip to Camp David
	-Timing
-ASNE reception
-The President's remarks
-Arrangements
-Rose Mary Woods and Alexander P. Butterfield
-The President's position in room
-Receiving line
-Use of upstairs
	-Lincoln Room, Queen’s Room [?]
-Number of people
-Upstairs tour
-The President's trip to Camp David
-Value of party
-Upstairs tour

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	Canada
-Trudeau
-Canadian nationalism question
-Demonstrations against the President
-Organizer
-The President’s trip
-Canadian Press Secretary
-Cooperation

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-Parliament rooms
-The President’s trip

The President's schedule
-A toast

Press
-Richard A. Moore and John A. Scali
-Ronald L. Ziegler's treatment
-The President's schedule
-Hard line
-Press pool
-Stories about White House
-Blind girl in Chicago
-Love of cookies
-Future dealings by White House staff
-Enemies
-Hugh S. Sidey
-John F. Osborne
-Jerrold L. Schecter
-Kissinger
	-Upcoming conversation with the President and Haldeman
-Sidey
-Ziegler and unknown person
	-Conversations
-William L. Safire
-Leaking
-Boycott
-Schecter

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Butz
	-Kissinger
-Wednesday
-Tuesday afternoon
-Photograph session with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Meeting with Butz
-Drug abuse officials
-Meeting with regional directors
-Value of meeting with the President
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Busing issue
-ITT case

ITT case
-Ehrlichman
-Clark MacGregor, John W. Dean, III and Wallace H. Johnson
-Maneuvering

White House staff
-Division of issues
-Charles W. Colson
-War
-Ehrlichman
-Busing
			-Responsibilities

Crime
-Ehrlichman's work
-Washington, DC
-Decline
-Publicity
-Washington Star
-Washington Post
-Wire services
-Ehrlichman
-Washington establishment summit, 1969
-Katharine L. Graham, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., John H.
 Kauffmann and Edward Bennett Williams
-Ehrlichman's criticism
-Lack of publicity
-Washington Post and Washington Star
-Graham
-Lack of support
-Suppression of favorable news
-Washington Post
-Wire services
-Washington Star
-Publicity for decline
-The President's activities
-Value
-Meetings with DC officials
-Ehrlichman
-Showcase value
-Example for country

Busing
-Press support
-Time
-Impact on public
-Public hostility

The President's schedule
-Meeting with PRC table tennis team
-Scali
-The President's remarks
-White House tour
-Receiving line
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting with US table tennis team

PRC
-Table tennis team
-Demonstrators

Vietnam
-Agnew
-Appearance before Congress
	-Timing
-Laird
-Testimony to Congress
	-Timing
-Debate in Congress
-Hard-liners
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Colson's work
-Kissinger
-Attacks on administration's critics
-Support for enemy
-Press reports
-Rogers's testimony
-News reports
-George D. Aiken, Gerald R. Ford and Peter A. Peyser
-James L Buckley
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Human Events
-Goldwater
-Statement
-Robert P. Griffin
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Statement
-Hard line
			-Kissinger
-William J. Casey
-Statement of support
-The President's policies
-Advantages

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:02 and 10:58 am.

[Conversation No. 711-4A]

Kissinger's meeting with the President
-The President's meeting with PRC table tennis team

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger
-Trips abroad
-Conditions

Vietnam
-US bombing
-Soviet reaction
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow

Haldeman left at 10:58 am.

	Conversation No. 711-5

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  11:00 am - 11:24 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Kissinger’s staff
-Soviets
-Strikes against Hanoi and Haiphong areas
-Kissinger’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
			-Domestic situation
-Bombing
-Intensity
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Orders
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Massive attacks
			-Number of sorties
-Possible cutbacks
-Kissinger’s conversations with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and [David] Kenneth Rush
-Intensity
-Concentration of bombing
	-Press stories
-Current number in north
-Melvin R. Laird
-Number in south
-Distribution
-Military Region Three
-Impact
-Increases
	-B-52s
-The President’s previous conversation with Moorer
-Enemy retreat
	-Increases
-Naval action
-Destroyers
-Bombing
-Resumption
-North Vietnam
-Haiphong
-Soviets

Soviets
	-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s previous conversation with the President
	-Earl L. Butz’s meeting with Kissinger
	-Scheduling
-Butz’s meeting with the President
-Trips abroad
	-Haldeman
-Problems
	-George W. Romney, Butz, and John A. Volpe
		-Reporting
-Meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Evaluations of Jacob D. Beam and Butz
	-The President’s past conduct
	-The President’s view
-Brezhnev
	-The President’s view
-Meeting with Butz
-Butz’s knowledge of Soviets
	-Grain deal
-Relevance to US-Soviet relations
	-Dobrynin
-US bombing of North Vietnam

Vietnam
-Bombing
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] reactions
-US overflights of PRC
	-Channels of protest

PRC
-Visit by Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
-Possible Mansfield statement

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Supporters
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Statement
-Significance
-The President’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Timing
-Provocation
-North Vietnamese mistakes
-Impact on Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Soviets
	-US-Soviet relationship
	-Kissinger’s trip
	-Possible results
	-Summit
-Bombing
-Impact on North Vietnam
-Blockade
-Risks to summit
	-Kissinger’s view
-Laird
-Statements
-Aggresiveness
-Statements
-J. William Fulbright
	-Questioned by Laird
-US policies
-Supporters
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Soviets
-War in south
-Moorer and unknown person [?]
-Halt in action

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

Barber
-The President’s appointment

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:24 am.

Vietnam
-Past offensives
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.’s report [?]
	-Laos and Cambodia
-North Vietnamese strength
-III Corps
	-The President’s opinion
-An Loc
-Army of Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] divisions
-North Vietnamese loss of momentum
-B-52 strikes
-Sir Robert Thompson
-Impact of bombing on enemy
-The President’s experience in Bougainville
	-Japanese planes
-Impact
-Latest report
-Naval action
-USS New Jersey
-Impact
-Use
	-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Moorer
-USS Newport News
-Employment
-USS New Jersey
-Inadequacies
-North Vietnamese reaction
-North Vietnamese small boats
-Torpedo boats
-Military operations
-Moorer
	-Previous telephone conversation with Kissinger
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Message to Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Vogt
-Effectiveness
-Abrams
-US policies
-Effectiveness
-Accomplishments
-Vietnamization
-Laird’s statements
-Success
	-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Dependence on US
-US policies
-Joseph C. Kraft article
-Hostility to summit
-Hostility to the President
-Soviets
-Summit
-Cancellation
-Kissinger’s note to Dobrynin
	-Timing
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Failure
	-Vulnerability of US position
-Blockade
-Message to Soviet leaders

Kissinger left at 11:24 am.

	Conversation No. 711-6

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  11:24-unknown before 11:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with unknown persons.

The President's schedule

The President left at 11:25 am.

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The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:52 am.

	Conversation No. 711-7

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:52 am and 11:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

John A. Scali
-The President's meeting with People's Republic of China [PRC] table tennis team

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:52 am.

Tricia Nixon Cox
-The President's call

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:55 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with PRC table tennis team
-Scali
-The President’s comments and the team’s comments
-Length
-The President's review
	-Time devoted to reading
-Schedule
-Meeting with Earl L. Butz
-Butz's trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Butz's announcement
-Publicity
-Henry A. Kissinger's trip to Moscow

Butz
-Announcement
-Reasons
-Work with administration
-Problems
-Compared with John A. Volpe

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:52 and 11:55 am.

[Conversation No. 711-7A]

[See Conversation No. 23-18]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:55 am.

	Conversation No. 711-8

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 11:52 am until 11:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

American table tennis team
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Date

The unknown woman left at 11:55 am.

	Conversation No. 711-9

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  11:55 am - 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 23-19]

	Conversation No. 711-10

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  11:58 am - unknown before 12:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

Meeting with Stephen B. Bull

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 12:04 pm.

	Conversation No. 711-11

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:58 am and 12:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

People's Republic of China [PRC] table tennis team
-Tour of White House
-Tour guide
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Michael J. Farrell
-Arrangements
-Meeting with the President
-Handshakes
-Translations
-Number of players
-Photographs
-The President's remarks
-Response
-Translation
-Charles W. Freeman, Jr.
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-John A. Scali's remarks
-The President's remarks
-Tour of White House
-Meeting with the President
-American table tennis team
-Handshakes
-Graham B. Steenhoven

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:04 pm.

	Conversation No. 711-12

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 11:58 am unitl 12:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

People's Republic of China [PRC] table tennis team
-Meeting with the President

The President and Bull left at 12:04 pm.

	Conversation No. 711-13

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  12:04 pm - unknown before 12:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons met.

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The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:21 pm.

	Conversation No. 711-14

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  12:21 pm - 1:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with People’s Republic of China [PRC] table tennis team

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Trip to University of Maryland
-William P. Rogers
-Advisability
-Radicalism
-Trips
-William and Mary College
-Detroit
-Cobo Hall
-Demonstrators
-Avoidance
-First Family
	-Purpose
-University of Maryland
-Scheduling
-Mistakes
-Bombing in Vietnam
-Demonstrators
-Purpose
-Violence
-Arrests
-Public appearances
-Demonstrations
-Campuses
-Problems
-Fieldhouse
	-Comparisons to other events
-Schedule
-Haldeman's review
-Demonstrations
-The President’s trip to Canada
	-Protests

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:28 pm.

Soviets
-Statements
-Contents
	-Approval

PRC
-Statements
-Relation to US bombing in Vietnam
	-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Visit of table tennis team
-Scali
-Table tennis team
-Press reactions
-Sympathy for enemy
	-President’s view

Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird testimony
-Effectiveness
-Exchange with J. William Fulbright
-Interruptions
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Caliborne Pell
-Public opinion
-Lack of support
-Press reports
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] News
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Editorializing
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Comment by Charles D. Hamilton
-Compared with British press
	-British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC]
-Shanahan [sp?] [first name unknown] piece
-British
-Kissinger’s meeting with George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Support for the President and administration
-News stories
-Soviets

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Trip to University of Maryland
-Demonstrations
-Scheduling
-Mistakes
-Catcalls
-Introduction
-Crowd reaction
-The President's previous experience with crowds

People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Report on Soviet trip
	-Timing
-Discussion of Vietnam
	-Chou En-lai [?]
-The President’s trip to Moscow
-Reaction to Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Discussion of US-PRC relations
	-The President’s instructions to Kissinger
-Soviet summit
-Vietnam
-PRC statements

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[Duration: 29s ]

	PRC

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Agnew
-Statements
	-Previous conversation with Haldeman

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Earl L. Butz and Kissinger
-Timing
-Picture
-Termination

Kissinger left at 12:36 pm.

Tricia Nixon Cox's schedule
-Attendance at sporting events
-Introduction
-Rogers
-Public appearances
	-Experience
	-Comparisons

The President's schedule
-Public appearances
-Capitol visit, April 17, 1972
-Protests
-Agnew
-Confrontation with protesters

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[Duration: 51s ]

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Vietnam
-Protests
-March in Washington, DC
-Date
-Event, April 15, 1972
	-Milton Pitts
-Organization
-Size
-Arrests
	-Pitts's comments
	-Appearance of protesters
-Events, April 22, 1972
-Washington, DC
-Other cities
-Build-up
-National student strikes
	-Haldeman’s view
	-Public reactions
	-Interests
	-Teacher incitement

Certificates
-Pictures
-Preparations

Press
-Meeting with reporters
-Wilson [first name unknown], Herbert E. Kaplow and Helen A. Thomas
-Arrangements

Vietnam
-Protests
-Campuses
-Issues
-Protesters
-Rogers and Laird
-Testimony
-Questions
-Cabinet officers
-Appearance before Congressional committees
-John B. Connally

Charles W. Colson
-Meeting with the President
-Timing

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:36 and 12:47 pm.

[Conversation No. 711-14A]

Request that Colson join them

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's meeting with table tennis teams
-American team
-Women
	-The President’s view
-Korean
-Blacks
-Hippie
-Absence
-Handshakes
-Trip to PRC
-Match with PRC team
-Losses
-Compared with PRC players
-PRC team
-Physical condition
-Compared with Americans
-Physical appearance of American team
-Sports teams
-Tennis and basketball
-Blacks

Colson entered at 12:47 pm.

Vietnam
-Administration's counterattacks against critics
-Agnew
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Drafting of speech
	-Christine Jorgenson [?]
-Houston speech
	-Food prices
-Speechwriter
-Speechwriters
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Abilities
-Laird and Rogers testimony
-Transcripts
	-Readiness
-Rogers
-Briefing of senators
-Morale
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Resolution for Senate
	-North Vietnamese invasion
-Colson's role
-Critics' disadvantages
-Victory of administration
-Edmund S. Muskie statement
	-President’s view
-Need to attack
-Accusation to treason
-Defense of enemy
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Compared with Laos, Cambodia and Tet
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-US peace offers
-Number of withdrawals
-US determination to win
-Colson's role
	-Kissinger’s support
-Attack on critics
-Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy
-George S. McGovern
	-President’s instructions
-Critics
-Muskie
-McGovern
-Administration assistance
-Attacks
-Humphrey
	-Agnew
-United Nations [UN] suggestion
	-PRC and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
		-Membership in UN Security Council
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Democrats
-Mood of nation
-Misleading
-Polls
-The President's policies
-Disregard of summit and election
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Leonard Garment
-Peace
-Superpowers
-US motives
-US deliberation
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Rogers and Laird
-Support for the President
-Reevaluation
	-The President’s relationship with Rogers
	-New York Times article [?]
-Call from Colson
-Cabinet
-The President's calls
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Charles E. Wilson
-Conversation with the President
-John Hannibal
-Eisenhower
-Rogers
-Initiative
-Polls
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Hawkishness
-Increase
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Condemnation
-Senate
-Accusations against Senate
-Clifford P. Case, Jacob K. Javits and J. William Fulbright
-Use of rhetoric
-Anticommunism
-The President’s instructions to Colson
-The President's speeches
	-Kissinger
-Need for strong talk
-William J. Porter
	-Rogers
-Press
-Hostility for administration
-Counter-rhetoric
-Name calling and toughness
-Speechwriters
-Price and Lee W. Huebner
-Buchanan
-Kenneth L. Khachigian
	-Hawks
-Noel Cook
-Robert J. Dole
-Clawson
-Rogers
-Testimony
-Reception
-Table tennis match attendance with Tricia Nixon Cox
-Reception
-Television coverage

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[Duration: 57s ]

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Vietnam
-The President's supporters
-Joseph L. Vicites [?] of Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Statement
-Herbert R. (“Chief”) Rainwater
-Charge against Democrats
-Desire for US loss
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Resolution by Goldwater
-Appeal for Democrats' support
-House Resolution [HR]
-Condemnation of North Vietnam
-Support for the President
-Wording
-Kennedy and McGovern
-Entrapment
	-Language
-The President's critics
-Attacks by administration
-Condemnation
-Ads
-Draft with Colson
-Networks
-Harassment
-Cronkite
-Attacks by administration
-Human Events
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Goldwater
-Use of White House materials
	-Support for the President
-Public sentiment
-Sindlinger poll
-Sindlinger's attitude on foreign policy
	-Hawkishness
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Sympathy for the President
-The President's peace offers and conditions
-North Vietnamese violations
-Sindlinger poll
-Public anger at North Vietnam
	-Percentage

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[Duration: 3m 29s ]

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Vietnam
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Critics of the President
-Reticence
-Administration response
-Kennedy
-Public opinion
-Hostility
-Sindlinger
	-Timing of new poll
-Attacks by administration
-Newsweek
-Public support for the President
-[Arnold] Eric Severeid
-Statement on the news
-Public opinion
-Support for the President
-Press hostility and fears
-Cambodia invasion
-Media reports
-War as issue
-Lessening personal involvement
-Draft calls and casualties
-Cambodia
-Kent State University
-Laos
-Photojournalism
-North Vietnamese invasion
-South Vietnamese performance
-Press reports and photography
-Battlefield proficiency
-North Vietnamese soldiers
-Enchainment to seats of tanks
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's report to the President
	-Unknown Associated Press [AP] reporter
-Press reports
-Purpose
-Casualties

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Latest news
-Peter M. Flanigan letter
-Executive session
-Disputes in committee
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Reaction of Kennedy and John V. Tunney
-Lack of agreement
-White House staff testimony
-Herbert G. Klein, William E. Timmons, John D. Ehrlichman and Colson
-Republican position in committee
-John N. Mitchell
-Advantages
-Ervin
-Robert C. Mardian
-Edward J. Gurney, Roman L. Hruska and Marlow W. Cook
-Statement
-Kennedy
-Democrats
-Questions
-Armco Steel
-American Airlines
-DC subway lines
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Disadvantages of position
-Ervin's position
-Flanigan
-Opposition to Kennedy and Tunney
-Clark MacGregor
-Testimony
-Jack Gleason
	-Hugo L. Black memorial service
-Harry D. Steward
-C. Arnholt Smith
-Recommendations for job of San Diego US attorney
-Background
-Link with Robert H. Finch
-Gleason
-Delays
-Flanigan
-Departure from town
-Latest options
-Delays
-Senate debate
-Timing
-Maneuvering
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-MacGregor
-Contacts with committee
-Flanigan testimony
-Benefits for administration

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[Duration: 18m 50s ]

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	War issue
		-Appeals to patriotism
			-Rogers

Haldeman and Colson left at 1:46 pm.

	Conversation No. 711-15

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  1:48 pm - 1:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule

Butterfield left at 1:50 pm.

	Conversation No. 711-16

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23-20]

	Conversation No. 711-17

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration: 3s ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.

	Conversation No. 711-18

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  2:45 pm - 2:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 23-21]

	Conversation No. 711-19

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  3:02 pm - 3:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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[Duration: 28s ]

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The President's schedule
-Photograph session
-Location
-Delay
-Meeting with Earl L. Butz
-Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
-Arrangements
-Timing

Julie Nixon Eisenhower left at 3:03 pm.

	Conversation No. 711-20

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:03 pm and 3:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Earl L. Butz
-Timing
-Change
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Length

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:09 pm.

	Conversation No. 711-21

Date:  April 18, 1972
Time:  3:09 pm - 3:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Kissinger’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Senior Soviet official
-Soviet intentions
-Kissinger’s Soviet trip
-Preliminary papers
-The President’s perusal
-Vietnam
-Discussion
-Vietnam
-Soviet influence
-Kissinger’s trip
	-Kissinger’s opening statement
-Secrecy
	-Involvement of the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Assurances to Chou En-lai
-North Vietnamese ambassador to Moscow
-Return to Hanoi
-Negotiations

The President’s meeting with Earl L. Butz
-Grain deal
-Length
-Kissinger’s schedule
-The President’s schedule
	-Photograph opportunity

US-USSR relations
-Kissinger’s Moscow trip
-Newsmen
	-David Craslow [?]

Butz entered at 3:12 pm.

Greetings

Butz’s trip to the USSR
-Report
-Length
-US-USSR relations
-Soviet interests
-Support on German treaty
-Middle East
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Trade
-Agricultural agreements
-US interests
-Agriculture agreements
	-Usefulness
-Posture
	-The President’s instructions to Butz
-Settlement in Vietnam
-Negotiations
-US posture
-Mining and blockade of North Vietnam
	-Haiphong
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Trade with USSR
-Need for cash
-Peter G. Peterson’s work
-Maurice H. Stans
-Credit
-Chromium
	-Comments by Brezhnev
-Butz’s role
-Dealings with Dobrynin
-Appearance on Capitol Hill
-Statement on trip
-Carl T. Curtis and George H. Mahon
-Meeting with Brezhnev
-Brezhnev’s meeting with Glenn T. Seaborg in 1963
	-Peculiarities
-Mao Tse-tung
	-Head of state meetings with Brezhnev
-Continuing relationship
	-Publicity
		-Logistics
-Butz’s press conference in Moscow
-Transcripts
-Taping by Claude W. Gifford
-Statements for press
-Pitfalls
-Credits
-Congress
-Butz’s statement
-Future trade
-Improvement of relations
-Existing conditions
-Credits
	-Possible problems
-Soviet expectations
-Trade discussions
-US and USSR terms of trade
-Butz’s meeting with Soviet officials
-Mikhail R. Kuzmin
-Credits
-Terms of interests
	-Number of years
-Deal with Soviets
-Storage costs
	-Percentage
-Brezhnev
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Ramifications
-Other nations
-Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank [?]
-Credits
-Length
-Trade
-Agriculture interests in US
-Soviet interests
-Credit problems
-Resolution
-Soviet payment
-Hard currency countries
-Butz’s meeting with Brezhnev
	-Insight
-Location
-Kremlin
-Party headquarters
	-Brezhnev’s availability
-Butz’s impressions
	-Self-confidence
-Interpreters
-Photograph
-Arrangements
-Minister of Agriculture, Vladimir Matskevich
-Previous visit to the US
-Background
-Photograph
	-Age
-Brezhnev’s previous meeting with the President
-“Kitchen Debate”
-Matskevich and Nikita S. Khruschev
-Interpretation of remarks
	-Criticism of the President
-Jacob D. Beam
-Brezhnev’s remarks
-The President’s trip to USSR
-Brezhnev’s remarks
	-Seriousness of talks
-Topics
-Soviet imports
-Winter wheat crop failures
-Soybeans
	-Trade
-Vietnam
-Message to the President
	-Beam
-US bombing
-Brezhnev’s demeanor
	-Soviet understanding
-Brezhnev
-Knowledge of situation in Vietnam
	-Concern of the Soviet people
-Message to the President
	-Vietnam
-Response
	-Intelligence
-Brezhnev’s attire
-Brezhnev’s office
-Size
-Furniture
-The President’s trip
-Courtesies at the Kremlin
-Accomodations

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:12 pm.

The President’s meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm.

Butz’s meeting with Brezhnev
-The President’s Soviet trip
-Transportation
	-Beam
-Communication
-Soviet Agriculture Minister [Matskevich]
-Entertainment of Butz
-Cognac
-Trip to Yalta
-Entertainment
	-Courteous behavior
-Vietnam
-Unknown Soviet reporter
-Questions for Butz
-Beam
-Rebuttal
	-Responsibility
-First meeting with Brezhnev
-Brezhnev
-Compared with Khrushchev
-Grain sale
-Terms
-Arrangements
-Conclusion
-Butz’s press conference
-Scheduling
-Topics
	-Financing
-Soviet imports
	-Livestock production
-Further discussions
-US-USSR relations

Agriculture
-Situation in US
-Food prices
-Attacks on middlemen

Kissinger and Butz left at 3:37 pm.