Conversation No. 714-1

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:37 am and 8:41 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:41 am.

	Conversation No. 714-2

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  8:41 am - unknown before 9:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Weather
-Weekend

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Confirmation
-Time
-Duration
-Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:41 am.

-Meeting with Connally
-Arrangements
-Time
-Delay
-The President's briefing
-Haig
-Time

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:42 am.

William P. Rogers
-Meeting with Haldeman and Haig
-Value
-Advantages
-Subjects
-Message from Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Yuli M. Vorontsov

Rose Mary Woods entered at 8:42 am.

Message for Henry A. Kissinger
-Preparation
-Copies
-Review
-Corrections

Woods left at 8:43 am.

Vietnam
-Rogers's meeting with Haldeman and Haig
-Message from Brezhnev
-Contents
-Form
-Vorontsov
-References to North Vietnam
	-Kissinger’s view
-Negotiations
-Soviet involvement
-Meeting with Rogers
-Haig’s briefing
-Rogers’s reaction
-Course of negotiations
-Camp David meeting
			-The President’s comments
				-State Department
-The President’s trip to Canada
-Speech before Parliament
-Negotiations
-Rogers’s questions
-Tanks and troops
-Secrecy
-Briefing of Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers’s assurances
-Herbert Brownell
-Kissinger

The President's meeting with Connally
-Connally's statement on resignation
-Arrangements
-Work with Haldeman

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-George P. Shultz

Haig
-Abilities
-Dealings with Rogers

Connally
-Date of resignation

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Day
-Wisconsin visit

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:43 am.

-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Rescheduling of appointment

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:26 am.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Jack Gleason
-Edgar Gillenwaters's testimony
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.'s reaction
-Bayh's criticism of Gillenwaters
-Edwin Reinecke
-Gillenwaters's response
-Gillenwaters's reputation and credibility

Law enforcement
-John N. Mitchell
-Press coverage
-Television
-Washington Post
-Jerry V. Wilson
-Award
-Coverage
-Benefits

Press
-Washington Post and New York Times
-Articles on Gross National Product [GNP]
-Differences
-Comparison
-GNP increase
-Wire stories
-Inflation
-Networks
-Washington Post coverage
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Confrontation
-Press questions
-Compared with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Position after election
-Communications work
-Herbert G. Klein

White House staff
-Ziegler
-New job
-Network job

Giovanni Battista Motini [Pope Paul VI]
-Message from the President
	-Terence Cardinal Cook and John Cardinal Krol
-Papal nuncio
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Haig
-Cook
-Conversation with Flanigan
-Charles W. Colson
-Conversation with Krol

Press conference
-"Three on one" press conference
-Arrangements

Connally
-Announcement of resignation
-Scheduling

The President's schedule
-Public schedule
-Dissemination
-Nellie L. Yates
-Newspapers

Connally resignation
-Dissemination of announcement
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] reception
-Cabinet officers
-Celebrities
-Officers
-Presence

War protests
-Handling
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] and Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
	-Ehrlichman
	-Cuts in Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] subsidy
	-Shultz
	-Resistance

Higher education
-Cuts in budget
-Nuclear reactors
-Shultz
-Strategy

	Demonstrators

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	Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-University of Maryland table tennis appearance
-Problems
-Audiences at universities
-Golf games
-Tennis audiences
-Problems
-Tennis players
-Compared with golfers
	-The President’s constituency
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

Haldeman's handling of Rogers
	-Administration backing
-Connally
-Publicity
	-Washington Post and New York Times
-Radio and television
-Speech to newspaper editors

The President's schedule
-Trip to Moscow
-Press conference
-Time
-Television coverage
-Duration
-Advantages of short time
-Best times
-Moscow trip
-Visit to church
-Arrangements
-Kissinger

ITT case
-Senate investigation
-Gleason's testimony
-Contributions
-Questions
-Objections
-Roman L. Hruska
-Edward M. Kennedy
-James O. Eastland
-Bayh
-Statements on case
-Clark MacGregor
-Flanigan
-Testimony
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Favorable report
-Administration counterattack
-Colson
-Timing
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Committee hearings
-Termination
-Democrats' reaction
-Report to Senate
-Thursday
-Delays
-Advantages
-Ervin and Robert C. Byrd

	Haig

Vietnam
	-New York Times
	-Colson
-House debate
-Partisanship
-John C. Stennis and Samuel S. Stratton
-Democratic caucus
-Resolution
-Counterattack
-Condemnation of North Vietnam
-Barry M. Goldwater
		-News summary
-Blame for invasion
-Cartoon
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Administration stance
-Rogers, Laird, Connally and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
		-The President’s memorandum for Kissinger
-Kissinger’s speeches for Vietnamese, People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union visits
-Soviets
-Involvement in negotiations
-Kissinger’s contacts with Brezhnev and Andrei A. Gromkyo
-Summit
-Kissinger’s visit
-Brezhnev
-Compared with Chou En-lai
-Kissinger
-Role in negotiations
-Limitations
	-Historical consciousness
-Meeting with Brezhnev
-View of Cold War
	-Harvard University
-Meeting with Brezhnev
				-Chou En-lai
-Subjects of discussion
-Concerns
-Guidelines
-Summit
-Dobrynin
-Vietnam settlement
-Soviets
-Relation of Vietnam to summit
-Kissinger’s meeting with Brezhnev
-Length of opening speech
-Vietnam
-Other topics
-Negotiations
-Kissinger
-Handling
-Rogers
-Contrast with Kissinger
-Limitations

World War II
-Unknown book
-Winston S. Churchill
-Age
-Work routine
	-Cables
-Relaxation
-Style of leadership

Connally
-Comments on the President
-Danger of over reaction to critics
-Connally's actions
-The President's level of thinking
-Ability to generalize
-Contrast with Connally's performance as governor

News summary
-Lyndon K. ("Mort") Allin and Patrick J. Buchanan
-The President's perusal
-Delivery to Camp David
-Negative news

The President's schedule
-Periods of rest
-Periods of strenuous mental activity
-1960 and 1968 campaigns
-James E. Bassett
-Herbert G. Klein
-Bassett
	-1956
-News stories
-Concern over criticism
-ITT case
	-Time and effort spent
		-Impact

Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-News stories
-Value
	-World report

Rose Mary Woods entered at 9:26 am.

A message to Kissinger
-Copies
-The President's revisions
-Text
-Dictating omission
-Kissinger's opening statement
-Length
-Delivery
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Confidentiality
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Transmission to Kissinger

Woods left at 9:27 am.

-Content
-Meeting with Brezhnev
	-General theme
	-Advice to Kissinger
	-Vietnam
	-Dobrynin
	-Gromyko
	-Contacts with Brezhnev
	-Kissinger’s objectives in discussion
	-General discussion

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:27 am.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:38 am.

Message to Kissinger
-Content
-Vietnam
-Instruction to Kissinger

Meeting with Connally
-Delay
-Explanation from Haldeman
-Vietnam message
-Air strikes

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:38 am.

	Conversation No. 714-3

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:27 am and 9:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Message for Henry A. Kissinger

Soviet summit
-Possible cancellation
-Kissinger
-Negotiations
	-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs]
		-National Command [Authority] [NCA]

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:38 am.

	Conversation No. 714-4

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  9:38 am - 11:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally.

Greetings

Vietnam
	-Bombing

Connally’s schedule
	-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Vietnam
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Military activity
-Surface to air missiles [SAMs]
-Targets
-US air strikes
-Capitol Hill reaction
-Public reaction
	-Professors
-Congress
-Reaction
-John C. Stennis
-Criticism of administration
-Problems
-Compared with Korean War in pre-1950 election period
-Democrats
-James F. Byrnes
-Henry A. Wallace
-Helen Gahagan Douglas
-William E. Jenner
-Democratic doves
-Condemnation of US
	-North Vietnamese invasion
-Double standard
-Connally's speech
-Criticism of the President's critics
-Early support of the war
-Public attitudes
-Opposition to defeat and humiliation
-Connally's speech
	-Troop withdrawals
	-Support for Vietnamization
-Response
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
-Location of meeting
-Response
-Duration
-Questions

Connally
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Previous discussions
-Future plans
-Problems
-Role in Cabinet
-Economic policy formulation
-International trade policy
-Departure
-Public perceptions
-Politics
-President’s trip to Moscow
-Timing
-Circumstances
-Role in administration
-Advice
-Tax reform
-Fall elections
		-Temporary stay in Washington
-Future plans
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Tenure as Secretary of the Treasury
-Conflicts with White House staff
-Departure
-Circumstances
-Handling
-Public explanation
-State of economy
-Inflation
-Accomplishments
-Pay Board
-Price Commission
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-International economy
-Explanation of departure

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Treasury Department
-Connally's successor
-Haldeman
-George P. Shultz
-Charls E. Walker
-Paul A. Volcker
-Qualifications
-Relation with Arthur F. Burns
-Shultz
-Knowledge
	-International monetary policy
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Possible promotion
-Haldeman
-Shultz
-Work with staff and economic councils
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA], COLC, Pay Board, Price Commission
-Relation with State Department
-Compared with David M. Kennedy
-Stamina
-Intelligence
-Announcement
-Handling by the President
-Statements by the President and Connally
-Presentation of Shultz and Weinberger
-Connally's tenure
-Successes
-Connally's departure
-Effect
	-Texas

Connally
-Departure
-Circumstances
-Treasury Department tenure
-Personal sacrifices
-Family commitments
-Accomplishments
-Future assignments
-Speculation
-Advisory capacity
-Proper role
-Personal plans

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Economy
-Connally’s projections
-International monetary
-Japanese, US and Canadian elections
-Europe
-Great Britain
-Common Market
-Policies for 1972
-Connally’s role
-Problems
-Shultz’s role
-International agreements
-Compared to Connally
	-August 1971
		-Unknown person’s comment to the President
-Domestic economy
-Major problem
-Spending limits
-Shultz's memorandum
-Budget
-Effect of 1972 election
-Cuts
-Family Assistance Plan [FAP]
-Welfare
-Revenue-sharing
-Defense
-Soviet summit
-Bases
-Melvin R. Laird
-Air Force
-Missiles
-Vietnam
-Navy
-Size
-Missiles
-Education
-Higher education
-Agriculture
	-Austerity
-1972 election
-Impact
-Washington Post and New York Times assessments on Gross National Product [GNP]
-Distortions
-GNP
-Wholesale Price Index [WPI]
-Changes
-Consumer Price Index [CPI] impact
-Corporate profits
				-Dr. C. Jackson (“Dan”) Grayson, Jr.
					-Price increases
-Mechanism of control
-Projected boom
-Employment
-Increase
-US plants abroad
-Closures
-Automobiles
-Expansion
-Fall 1972
-Problems
-Tax reform
-John D. Ehrlichman's meeting with Connally
-Simplification
-Timing of position
-Property taxes
-Substitute for revenue-sharing
-Revenue-sharing
	-New American Revolution
	-Political appeal
-Termination
-Welfare reform
	-FAP
	-The President’s family

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-Current attitudes toward welfare
-Depression
-Able bodied workers
-Family assistance
-Russell B. Long
-National character
-Budget
-Cuts
	-Timing
-Weinberger's suggestions
-Difficulties

Cabinet
-Shake-up
-Retentions
-Changes
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Administrative abilities
-James D. Hodgson
-Peter G. Peterson
-Political views
-Make-up
-Loyalists
-Richardson
-Defense and State departments
-Changes
-Foreign economic policy
-State Department

	The President’s recent trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam
-Soviet summit
-Impact of bombing Hanoi and Haiphong
	-Joseph C. Kraft
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin meetings
	-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Hot line
-Soviets
-Role in ending war
-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s message to the President
-Blockade of ships
-US response to Soviets
	-Bombing
		-Avoidance of Haiphong and Hanoi
-Laird
			-Possible blockade
-Message from Brezhnev
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Secrecy
-Camp David cover story

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am.

-Departure time
-Meeting with Brezhnev
-Publicity
-Return to US
-The President’s trip to Moscow
-Announcement
-Summit
-Link to war

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:06 am.

-Conditions of the President’s attendance
-Soviet aid to North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
	-Announcement
		-Possible effect on “doves”
				-The President’s memorandum to Kissinger
					-Talking points
-Soviet actions
-US options
-Blockade
-Protests at home
-Conditions for ending
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
		-North Vietnamese and Soviet judgment of the President
			-Johnson
			-Consequences of US defeat
				-Middle East
		-Johnson’s actions
			-Compared to the President’s
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Bombing of North Vietnam, Hanoi and Haiphong
-Kissinger
-Political consequences
-1972 election
-Possible defeat
-US foreign policy
-Public support for the President’s successor
-Public opinion
-Support for the President
-Soviet summit
-President’s trip to the PRC
-Korean War
-Kraft
-Political benefits
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Possible defeat in 1972 election
-Consequences

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	Presidency
		-Requirements
			-World War II
				-Compared with Vietnam
					-Kissinger
					-Sorties
-Contacts with Soviet Union
-Brezhnev
-Contacts with PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung
		-Need for strength

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Vietnam
-Blockade of Haiphong
-POWs
-Summit
-Announcement
	-POW issue
	-Election

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting in Cabinet Room
-Catholic leaders
-Connally's attendance
-Clarence Walton's delivery of a report
-Size of group

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:06 am.

Connally's plans
-Conversations with Shultz and William F. (“Billy”) Graham

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Connally left at 11:06 am.

	Conversation No. 714-5

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  11:06 am - 11:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule
-Dinner
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo's attendance
-Call to Woods

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Attendance at People's Republic of China [PRC] table tennis event at the University of Maryland
-Reception by audience

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The President's schedule
		-William P. Rogers
		-White House staff
			-PRC trip
-Trip to Camp David
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Woods
-Dinner
-Rebozo
-Departure time

Woods left at 11:08 am.

	Conversation No. 714-6

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:08 am and 11:39 am
Location:  Oval Office

Rose Mary Woods met with unknown persons.

White House tour
	-Rose Garden
	-Presidential seal
		-Ceiling
	-Rose Garden
	-Flowers

Woods and the unknown persons left at an unknown time before 11:39 am.

	Conversation No. 714-7

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  11:43 am - 11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Cliffard D. Carlson, Carol A. Carlson and Max L. Friedersdorf; Stephen B. Bull and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings and introductions

Carol Carlson
-Age
-Compared with Tricia Nixon Cox

Cliffard Carlson
-Previous meeting with the President
-Death of wife

[Photograph session]
-Arrangements

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Presidential gifts
-Cuff links
-Pin
-Golf balls
-Tie clips

White House
-Tour of Rose Garden
-Plants

Cliffard Carlson's residence in Washington area
-Washington property as investment
-Cliffard Carlson's tenure in Congress

Cliffard Carlson et al. left at 11:46 am.

	Conversation No. 714-8

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person talked with the President.

Call to unknown person
-Return call

	Conversation No. 714-9

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:46 am and 11:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] matter
-Location

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.

	Conversation No. 714-10

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:46 am and 11:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Location

John D. Ehrlichman
-Location
-Meeting

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Panda ceremony
-Return to White House

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:46 and 11:48 am.

[Conversation No. 714-10A]

[See Conversation No. 23-47]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.

	Conversation No. 714-11

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  11:48 am - 12:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 11:48 and 11:52 am.

[Conversation No. 714-11A]

[See Conversation No. 23-48; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation.]

John D. Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 11:48 am.
	
	[End of telephone conversation]

Budget
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-Previous cuts
-Defense contracts
-Weapons
-Amount

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:52 am.

Refreshment

Ehrlichman's schedule
-Speech

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

Budget
-Ehrlichman's review
-George P. Shultz's figures
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Higher education
-Current state
-Cuts in subsidies
	-Science
	-Ideology of teachers
	-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
	-Possible resignation
-Science
-Cuts
-Percentage
-Approach
-Shultz
-MIT
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] contracts
-Transportation Department contracts
-Research
-Grants
-Subject
-Cuts
-Defense contracts
-Inventory
-Weinberger
-Stanford University
-Review of contracts
-Higher education
-Cut in grants
-Contracts
-Penalty clauses
-Non-renewal of grants
-Instructions to departments
-Cuts in grants
	-Weinberger
-University of Chicago
-Teaching assistants
-Austerity
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Shultz's memorandum
-Austerity budget
-Instructions to Weinberger
-National Science Foundation [NSF]
-Cuts
-Amount of funding
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Cuts
-Support
-Peter G. Peterson
-Weinberger
-Cuts in taxes
-NSF
-MIT
-NSF
-Cuts
-Management contract
	-Lincoln Labs
-Higher education
-Cuts in grants for teaching assistants
-Minimums
-Exceptions
-Defense example
-Weinberger
-Loopholes
-Protests
-Handling

Ehrlichman's schedule
-Speech
-American Enterprise Institute [AEI]
-William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Police officials
-Press coverage
-Charles W. Colson's analysis

Press
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Network news subjects
-Vietnam, International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT], economy and John B. Connally's speech
-Sunday stories
-Ehrlichman's dealings
-Story on crime
-Picture of the President
-Story
-Law Enforcement Assistance Act [LEAA]
-Other stories
-Exploitation

Ehrlichman's schedule
-Trip to Camp David
-Time

Ehrlichman's speech
-Audience

Ehrlichman left at 12:03 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-12

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:03 pm and 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Location
-Telephone call
-Briefing
-Ronald L. Ziegler

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-The President's perusal of war powers bill
-Meeting with Haig
-Call from Butterfield

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-13

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  12:06 pm - 12:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler's schedule
-Meeting with Clarence Walton’s commission

Democrats in House of Representatives

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President between 12:07 and 12:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 714-13A]

[See Conversation No. 23-49]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Vote of House Democrats
-Floor vote
-Condemnation of North Vietnam
-Democratic caucus
-Alternatives
-Administration rebuttal
-Rebuff to North Vietnamese invasion
-Break-down of vote
-Previous votes
-Opposition to resolution
-Haig
-Meeting with press
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Observations on Vietnam
-North Vietnam
	-State and Defense Departments
			-Term to be used
			-Instructions to Ziegler, McCloskey and Daniel Z. Henkin
-Negotiations
-North Vietnamese note
-US response
-Current status
-Briefing
-[Gerald L. Warren]
-Ziegler
-Warren
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Democratic resolution
-Response
-Contradictions
-Ineffectiveness against weapons
-Soviets
-College professors' protests
-Washington Post story
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Attack on Democrats
-Speech at American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] event

Press
-Coverage of panda presentation to National Zoo
-Coverage of table tennis event
-Chinese

John D. Ehrlichman's schedule
-Briefings
-Benefits

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Scheduling
-War situation
-Pennsylvania primary
-Press coverage
-Length
-Conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Troop announcement
-Foreign policy questions

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Committee action
-Decision
-Schedule
-Handling
-Peter M. Flanigan testimony

Henry A. Kissinger's Moscow trip
-Ziegler's knowledge
-Warren
-Receipt of telephone calls
-Return from Camp David
-Inquiries
	-Kissinger’s location
	-Answers
-Referral to Haig
-Telephone calls
-National Security Council [NSC] office
-Camp David
-Ziegler's statement
-Staff meeting
-Make-up of group
-Kissinger, Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Kissinger's presence
-The President's plans
	-ASNE
-Senior staff members
-Kissinger, Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Kissinger's location
-The President's schedule
-Sunday stories
-Build-up
-The President's article for U.S. News and World Report
-Foreign policy
-Taxes
-Legislation

Taxes
-Non-public schools
-Credits
-Commitments
-Clarence Walton
-Constitutionality
-Passage by Congress
-Opposition
-Commitments
-Current studies
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] and Treasury Department
-Major questions
-Administration's support for credits

The President's schedule
	-Haldeman’s schedule
		-Camp David
-Meeting with Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-White House Photographers Dinner
-Rehearsal
-Arrangements

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-Hope
-Dinners
-The President's attendance
	-Ziegler’s talk with Haldeman
-White House Photographers
-George Tames
				-Hope
-Gridiron
-White House Correspondents Association
-Women's Press Association
-Value
-White House Photographers
-Correspondents Association
-Gridiron
-Women's Press Association

ASNE Dinner
-Ziegler's evaluation
-Women's Press Club
-Reuben O. Askew
-Robert C. Wilson
			-Voice
-Slide presentation
-John B. Connally
-Speech
-Jack B. Krueger

ASNE White House reception
-Ziegler's attendance
-Cabinet members' attendance
-Arrangement
-Haldeman
-Tour of White House second floor
-California editors
-Meeting with Ziegler and Herbert G. Klein
	-Blair House
-Meeting with the President
-Question and answer session

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Haig
-Instructions to Herbert L. Porter

Ziegler left at 12:29 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-14

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  12:30 pm - 1:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig’s physical condition

Message for Henry A. Kissinger
-Receipt
-Reply

Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Possible results
-Summit
-The President’s memorandum to Kissinger
-Problems
-Purpose
-Kissinger’s discussion with Haig
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Plenary session
-Date
-Vietnam
-Soviet participation in settlement
-Secret meeting
-Date
-Announcement
-De-escalation of bombing
-Hanoi area

Vietnam
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-B-52s
-Fighter-bombers
-B-52s
-Targets
	-Supply
		-Petroleum, Oil, Lubricants [POL]
-Surveillance
-Start of raids
	-Frequency
-Intensity
-Weather
-South Vietnam
-Southern I Corps and II Corps
	-Binhdinh Province
-Hue
-Area of Vietminh strength
	-Binhdinh Province

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.

Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Area of North Vietnamese-Viet Cong strength
-Area of fighting
-North Vietnam
-Number of troops in South Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Republic of Korea operations
	-Current fighting
		-Route 19
			-Ankhe Pass
-Casualties
-III Corps
-An Loc
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] battalion
-North Vietnamese attacks
-Dou Tien [sp?]
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Duration
-South Vietnamese performance
-21st Division
-Commander, Brig. Gen. Nguyen Van Minh
-An Loc
-ARVN battalion
-Casualties
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Air sorties
-B-52 strikes
-Morale of North Vietnam
-Tanks
-Destruction
-South Vietnamese success
-Air sorties
-B-52s
-Number
-Gunships
-South Vietnam
-Performance
-Losses
-Impact on morale
-Guerrilla action
-I Corps
-Ultimate result
-Press reports
-Editorials in Washington Star
-Smith Hempstone, Jr.
-Vice President's Spiro T. Agnew’s speech
-Language
-Unknown army Lieutenant Colonel
-Criticism of press
-The President's commendation
-Press
-Treatment
-Agnew’s criticisms in speech
-J. William Fulbright
-References to Ho Chi Minh
-Congress
-Presidential candidates
-Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey
-Past statements
-Democratic caucus
-Resolution
-Publicity
-Battle reports
-Misinterpretation
-Fire bases
-Observation posts [OPs]
-Mission
-North Vietnamese offensive
-An Loc
	-Holding
		-Necessity
			-Bombing
			-Compared to Verdun
			-Thieu
-Losses
	-II Corps
	-Towns
-Retention
	-Kontum
-North Vietnamese offensive
-South Vietnamese retreats
-Resistance
-Problems
-Soviets in World War II
-Germans in World War I against Russians
-I Corps
-1st Division commander
	-Damage to North Vietnam
-Casualties
	-Fire Base Bastogne
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Air strikes
-Value
-Psychology
-Kissinger in Moscow
-North Vietnamese supplies
-Purpose
-Destruction of pacification and Vietnamization
-Soviets
-Possible role
-Pressure on North Vietnam
-Trade-off
-Bombing halt
-Prisoners of war [POW] exchange
-Effect on 1972 election
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Blockade
-Timing
-1972 election
-POWs
-Effectiveness
-Studies
-Circumvention
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Soviets
-Benefits
-Counterattacks
-Effects on North Vietnamese morale
-Wounded veterans
-Social problems
-POW testimony
-Loss of young men
-Desertions
-Lack of training
-Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Effect on North Vietnamese morale
-Effectiveness
-Compared with 1968 strikes
-Bombing halt
-Techniques
-Target selection
-Robert S. McNamara
-Restraints
-B-52s
-Impact on ground troops
-Warning
-Resolution of House Democrats

The President's return call

William P. Rogers
-Conversation with Haig

Rose Mary Woods entered at 12:56 pm.

-Rogers's trip to Camp David
-Problems
-John D. Ehrlichman
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger

Haig left at 12:57 pm.

The President's schedule
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] reception
-Duration

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	The President’s schedule
		-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Woods's call

Woods talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:57 and 1:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 714-14A]

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[See Conversation No. 23-50; one items has been withdrawn from the conversation.]

Woods conferred with the President.

Woods talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[End of telephone conversation]

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The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Helicopter
-Time

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Woods's call
-Woods's presence at Camp David

Woods left at 1:07 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-15

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:07 pm and 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:10 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-16

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 1:07 pm until 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Departure for Camp David
-Sanchez's departure
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] reception
-Time

The President and Sanchez left at 1:10 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-17

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 4:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons [Secret Service agents] met.

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:10 pm and 4:13 pm.

	[Conversation No. 714-17A]

	The President’s location
		-Executive Office Building [EOB] office

	[End of telephone conversation]

	[Unintelligible]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 4:13 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-18

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 4:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with Stephen B. Bull.

Unknown object for the President

Astronauts
-Butterfield's and Bull's involvement in unknown event
-Pictures

The President entered at 4:13 pm.

Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Location

The President’s schedule

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	White House gifts
-Putters
-Hope
-Quantity
-Contributors

Butterfield left at 4:16 pm.

-Cost

Hope
-Meeting with the President
-Photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Weather

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:18 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-19

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:16 pm and 4:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Arrival
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Meeting with the President
-Scheduling

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:18 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-20

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  4:18 pm - 4:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Manolo Sanchez
-Delivery to Woods of memoranda for private file

Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope's meeting with the President
-Photographs
-Weather

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Schedule

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo's arrival

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:18 pm.

Hope
-Arrival
-Meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:21 pm.

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Woods left at 4:21 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-21

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  4:21 pm - 4:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope, Ronald L. Ziegler and Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins.

Greetings

Hope's show

Photographs
-Rose Garden
-Lighting
-Flags

Gift presentation
-Putter
-Quality
-Hope’s trophy room
-Previous golf games with the President

American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] reception
-Jokes
-The President's attendance
-Pandas
-Jack N. Anderson

Rose Garden
-Photographs

The President et al. left at 4:24 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-22

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  4:29 pm - 4:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope and Ronald L. Ziegler.

Weather

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Meeting with the President

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:29 pm.

Haig
-Meeting with the President

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Strength
-Number of divisions
-US retaliation
	-Compared to Inchon landing

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:29 pm.

Haig
-Location

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Effects on North Vietnam
-Objectives
-US reaction
-South Vietnamese collapse
-South Vietnamese performance
-US reaction
-Bombing
-Size of force
-Carriers
-Destroyers
-Cruisers
-B-52s
-Number of sorties
	-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Retaliation
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Regular troops
	-Compared to Vietcong [VC]
-US reaction
-Bombing
	-Cessation
	-Conditions
-US casualties
-Rate
-US participation
-Air and sea support
			-Vietnamization
-South Vietnamese response
-Air sorties
-Number by South Vietnam
-Ability to resist
-Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Soviets
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet summits
-Stakes of war
-The President’s stature
-Bombing
-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s evaluation
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Naval response
-Blockade
-Soviet and North Vietnamese reaction
-Options for US
-Avoidance of defeat
-US defeat
-Consequences
-Impact on Southeast Asia and Middle East
-Middle East
-United Arab Republic [Egypt]
-Threat to Israel
-US policies
-Poker game analogy
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US response
-Negotiations
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-1972 election
-Consequences of defeat
-Peace demonstrations
-Demonstration at Soviet embassy
-American Legion
-Press reports
-Response
-Charles W. Colson
-Press reports
-Press
-Defeatism
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
-Attack on Democrats
-Golf ball
-Message

John B. Connally
-Speech to ASNE
-William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird

Vietnam
-Future US actions
-Haig briefing for White House staff
-Unknown US Lieutenant Colonel in Vietnam
-Attack on reporters
	-State Department
-Reporters’ alleged action
	-Helicopters
		-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Commendation
-Publicity
-US press
-Behavior
-Bob Hope Show
-Visit to Vietnam
-Response
-Press distortions

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Jack N. Anderson
-Hope's joke
-Henry A. Kissinger

Photograph album
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Golf game
-Arrangements
-California

Well wishes
-The President's family
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Delores (Reade) Hope

Vietnam
-US policies
-1972 election
-Bombing

Hope and Ziegler left at 4:48 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-23

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:48 pm and 4:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

Delivery of briefcase

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 4:49 pm.

	Conversation No. 714-24

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:49 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons [Secret Service agents] met.

	[Unintelligible]

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:49 and 11:59 pm.

	[Conversation No. 714-24A]

	The President’s location
		-Residence

	[End of telephone conversation]

	[Unintelligible]

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