Conversation No. 719-1

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  8:43-unknown before 8:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Greetings

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:45 am.

Conversation No. 719-2

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  8:45 am - 8:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

Vietnam
-Morning report
-North Vietnam offensive
-Maj. Gen. Ngo Quang Truong
-IV corps
-Shakeup of command
-News reports
-United Press International [UPI] reporter
			-Sydney Schanberg
-Air strikes
-Effectiveness
			-Damage assessment

					-Duong Hoi
					-Quang Tri
					-Details
-Merger of divisions
-Losses
-Hue area
-South Vietnam perimeter
-Consolidation of forces
-Effects
-Cavalry squadron
-South Vietnam marines
-Mobile reserve
							-2nd Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] division
-Airborne division
-ARVN counterattack
-A South Vietnamese general
			-Brigade in Kontum
-Problems
-B-52 strikes
-III corps
-ARVN movements
			-An loc
-Fighting
			-Phouc Long (sp?)
-US retaliation
-Air strikes
			-North Vietnam losses
-Naval gunfire
-Effectiveness
-Air operations
-Damage in North Vietnam
-Reports on air action
-A news report
-Public information officer [PIO] problems
-Source
-Anti-Americanism in South Vietnam
-Washington Star
			-Article
			-UPI
			-[Forename unknown] Ward (?) 
-I Corps
-Military action
-Hue area
			-Symbolism
-Comparison with Verdun, Stalingrad
-Importance
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Haig's conversation with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Compared with Kontum
			-Firepower to be used
-South Vietnam counteroffensive
-Real problems
-Hue
-Importance
-Air strikes
-Tactical air [TACAIR]
			-Night attacks
-PIO problems
-Reports
-"Hawks"
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haig's previous meeting
-Samuel L. Devine's group
-Edward J. Derwinski
			-Haig’s view
-Statements
-Need for support
-Criticism

Haig left at 8:57 am.

Conversation No. 719-3

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  8:58 am - 9:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

	Dictation-Eulogy for J. Edgar Hoover
-Hoover's legend
-Hoover's career
-Support of presidents
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Performance as Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] director

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:58 am.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:02 am.

Woods's suggestion

Manolo Sanchez
-Health
	-Knee operation
		-Payment

Woods left at 9:02 am.

Conversation No. 719-4
Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  9:06 am – 9:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Some carpenters

President's meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Instructions to Haldeman
-Melvin R. Laird

-Responsibility in public relations
-Burning of US building in South Vietnam
	-News story

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:07 am.

J. Edgar Hoover
-President's eulogy
-Review
-Nature of statement
-Press coverage
-Distribution time

L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s previous meeting at the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Press coverage of FBI
-Congressional criticism

Hoover eulogy
-Distribution

Ziegler left at 9:09 am.

Vietnam
-Press reports
-Haig
-Ziegler
-Department of Defense interviews
-Briefing for John B. Connally
-Henry A. Kissinger's attendance

Advice on response to North Vietnam offensive
-Connally
-National Security Council [NSC]
-William P. Rogers, Laird
-The President’s view
-Charles W. Colson, Clark MacGregor
-Connally
-John N. Mitchell
-Kissinger
-Poll
-Results
-Soviet Summit
-Kissinger's advice
-Timing of North Vietnam offensive
	-Appearance of US weakness
-Briefing with Connally
-Haldeman and Kissinger
-Timing
-Connally
-Call from Haldeman
-Briefing with Haldeman, Kissinger
-Time
-President's meeting with Kissinger
-Importance
	-Forthcoming Soviet response
-Mitchell

Kissinger's previous speech at the Metropolitan Club
-Reception
-Speaking ability
-Importance
-Gordon Gray

Vietnam
-Press reports
-North Vietnam offensive
-South Vietnam response
-Shakeup of command
-US command
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-President's discussion with Kissinger
-Soviet Summit
-Cancellation
-Blockade
-Military targets
-Coordination with blockade
-Blockade
-Cessation
-Conditions
-Prisoners of war [POWs] release
-Ceasefire
-Criticism
-Conflict with Soviets
-US military evaluations
-Navy
-Haig
-The President’s view
			-Army
-Connally
-Briefing
-Time
-President's schedule
-Kissinger

FBI
-Hoover
-Gray

Vietnam
-End-the-war amendment
-John C. Stennis amendment
-Delay on vote
-Clifford P. Case-Frank F. Church amendment
-Robert C. Byrd-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Presentation to Senate
-Mansfield
-Byrd
-Content
-Mobilization of supporters
-President's response
-John A. Scali
-Leak at State Department
-Contacts with press
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Richard A. Moore
-Rogers
	-The President’s view

Haldeman's meeting with John R. (“Tex”) McCrary, Scali, Moore
-Soviet trip
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Cancellation of her trip
-Analogy to People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Itinerary
-McCrary
-Haldeman’s view

	White House staff
		-Instructions for Haldeman
		-Colson

Connally
-Meeting

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	Forthcoming election
		-National conventions
-Plans for security
-Organization

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:07 am.

Kissinger
-Meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:30 am.

Forthcoming election
-Republican National Convention
-Plans for security
-Term of service
-Advantages over National Guard and police
-Personnel
-Training

Democratic convention
-Plans for security
-Reubin O. Askew
-Miami Beach mayor
-White House help
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

Vietnam
-"Hawks"
-Fears of secret administration plans
-Knowledge of public support for the President
-Poll

Kissinger entered at 9:30 pm.

Vietnam
-Kissinger's talk with Connally
-Time of meeting
-Haldeman
-Arrangements

Haldeman talked with Connally at an unknown time between 9:30 and 9:35 am.

[Conversation No. 719-4A]

Meeting
-Time
-Place

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Advice
-Mitchell
-Value
-Meeting
-Time
-Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with Mitchell
-Time

Haldeman left at 9:35 am.

Soviet Summit
-Forthcoming briefing of Connally
-Haldeman's role
-Kissinger's role
-Connally's judgment

Vietnam
-Kissinger's reception at The Metropolitan Club
-Administration efforts
	-The President’s view
-North Vietnam offensive
-Failure
-Comparison with Dien Bien Phu
-An Loc
-Importance
-Kontum
-An Loc
-Artillery
-Haig
-South Vietnam response
-Hue
-Kontum
-Prospect of loss
-Quality of South Vietnam division
-An Khe
-Hue
-President's conversation with Haig
-Quang Tri
-Importance
-Comparison to Verdun
-Military action
-Air Force reports
	-The President’s view
-Air strikes
-Effectiveness
-World War II
-Strategic and Tactical air [TACAIR] bombing
-Use of helicopter
-US military forces
-Performance
-Reorganization
-Styx missile
-Use by Israeli destroyer
-US carriers
-Vulnerability
-Negotiations
-Le Duc Tho
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Soviet Summit
-Back-Up position
-Relation to offensive
-Air strikes
-Timing
-Intensity
-Location
-Recriminations
-President's PRC trip
-Laird's recommendations
-Previous air strikes
-US intelligence
-The President’s view
-North Vietnam intentions
-Previous offensive
-US air strikes
-Duration
-Effects
-Moorer's position
-Quang Tri
-Hanoi, Haiphong
-Helicopter gunships
-Hue
	-The President’s suggestion
-Impact on negotiations
-North Vietnam stakes in offensive
-Reports
-Saigon
-Hue
-Haig's assessment
-Press coverage
-Comparison with Tet offensive
-North Vietnam capabilities
-Evaluations
-Sir Robert Thompson
-Haig's mission
-Abrams
-Accuracy
-Kontum's future
-Pleiku
-North Vietnam advances
-Defensive withdrawals
-An Khe
-Loss of territory
-Duong Hoi, Quang Tri, Tannenberg
-President's advice to unknown person and Moorer
-Blockade
-Implementation
-Submarines
-US policy
-Major goal
	-Kissinger’s view
-Possible invasion of North Vietnam
-US troops
-South Vietnam troops
-US equipment
-Negotiations
-William J. Porter
-North Vietnam demands
-Impending US walk-out
-Thieu
-Porter 
	-Kissinger’s view

Middle East
-Kissinger meeting with Yitzhak Rabin
-Transfer of F-4s to Israel
	-Effect on Soviet Union
-Israelis
-Kissinger’s view
-US influence

Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-US response
-Israelis
-Reasons
-PRC
-President's message to Chou En-Lai
-Assurances
-President's speech
-Public response
-Resolutions in Congress
-Soviet propaganda
-Joseph C. Kraft
-1960 election
			-Nikita S. Khrushchev And John F. Kennedy
-Soviet feeling about the President
-Democratic challenge
-US bombing
-Public support
-PRC trip
-US support
-The President’s view
-Vietnam negotiations
-Soviet Summit
-Kissinger's draft for President's speech
-Time of delivery to President
-Time of Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG] meeting
-US conditions
-North Vietnam offensive
-Cessation period
-Cancellation
-Risks
-Record

Kissinger left at 9:59 am.

Conversation No. 719-5

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  9:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President rehearsed a portion of his "Eulogy Delivered at Funeral Services for J. Edgar Hoover".

[A transcript of the final eulogy appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 574-575]

Conversation No. 719-6

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  9:59 am – unknown before 10:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Location
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
-Meeting with the President
-Time

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.

Conversation No. 719-7

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 9:59 am and before 10:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President rehearsed a portion of his "Eulogy Delivered at Funeral Services for J. Edgar Hoover"

[A transcript of the final eulogy appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 574-575]

[End of transcribed portion]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 10:13 am.

John B. Connally
-Departure from administration
-Timing
-Support for the President
-Soviet Summit
-North Vietnam offensive
-Conclusion
-Continuation
-Stalemate
-Meeting with the President
-Delay
-President's speech

Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Impact
-Criticism
-"Hawks"
-Democrats
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Effect on forthcoming election

			-Similarity to 1960 election
				-Soviet propaganda
-North Vietnam offensive
-US counteraction
-Plans
-Cancellation
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-President’s previous trip
-Postponement
-Duration
-Domestic reaction
-Timing with forthcoming election
-Negotiations with Soviets
-Humphrey
-George S. McGovern
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Cancellation
-Risks

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-Soviet Summit
-Postponement
-Election issue
-Humphrey

The President left at an unknown time before 10:22 am.

Conversation No. 719-8

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  10:22 am - 10:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Unknown woman's schedule

The President entered at an unknown time before 10:25 am.

Butterfield left at 10:25 am.

Vietnam
-Poll questions
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Number
-Length of imprisonment
-Naval blockade
-Imposition
-Conditions for cessation
-Return of POWs
-Ceasefire
-Presentation of terms
-Public support
-Results
-Soviet ships
-Interception by US warships

	Decision-making process
-Effect of press reports
-Charles W. Colson, John D. Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Nomination as director
-Announcement
-Problems
-Confirmation
-Political associations
-Temporary appointment
-Conditions
-Permanent appointment
-Ziegler's announcement

J. Edgar Hoover funeral
-Lighting
-Television coverage

Haldeman left at 10:31 am.

Conversation No. 719-9

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 10:31 am - 10:41 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President rehearsed a portion of his "Eulogy Delivered at the Funeral Service of J. Edgar Hoover".

[A transcript of the final eulogy appears in Public Papers of the President, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 574-575]

[End of transcribed portion]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:31 am.

President's schedule
-Hoover funeral
-Television coverage

-President's seating arrangements
-Camera positions
-President's eulogy
-Rev. Edward L.R. Elson
-Camera position
-Recessional order
-Elson
-President
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-Secret Service agent
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Military aide
-Mrs. Eisenhower
-Escort
-Col. Vernon C. Coffey
-Seating
-Mr. and Mrs. Gray
-Mrs. Eisenhower
-Arrangements at arrival
-Grays
-Line-up

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:41 am.

The President resumed rehearsing his “Eulogy Delivered at the Funeral of J. Edgar Hoover”.

[End of transcribed portion]

The President left at 10:41 am.

Conversation No. 719-10

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 10:41 am and before 12:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Text of Something
-Distribution
	-Larry Robinson [?]

Bull and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:01 pm.

Conversation No. 719-11

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:01 pm and before 12:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Meeting with International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Meeting with L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Mrs. Gray
-Photographer

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:03 pm.

Conversation No. 719-12

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  12:03 pm - 12:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mr. and Mrs. L[ouis] Patrick Gray III.

J. Edgar Hoover
-Eulogy by the President
-Gray’s view

Mrs. Gray
-Greetings

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Gray's nomination
-John D. Ehrlichman's efforts
-Announcement
	-Press coverage
-President's support
-Permanent nomination

The White House photographer entered at an unknown time after 12:03 pm.

-Statement for press
-Mrs. Gray's statements

The photographer left at an unknown time before 12:22 pm.

-Gray's meeting with FBI officials
-Location
-Gray's remarks
-Intentions
-Hoover legacy
-W. Mark Felt's report
-Gray's nomination

-Timing
-Forthcoming presidential election
-Press questions
-Political connections with the President
-Response
-Friendship between the President and Gray
-Response
-President's relationship with Hoover
-Gray's admiration of President
-Gray's work with the President
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Adm. Arthur W. Radford
-Relationship with the President
-Contrast with Hoover
-President's relationship with Hoover
-Closeness
-Comparison with Gray
-Professional relationship
-NSC
-Justice Department
-Contrast with Hoover friendship
			-William P. Rogers
-Compared with the President’s relationship with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-First-name basis
-Statements for press
-Press
-Attitude toward Hoover
-Hoover's attitude
-Richard E. Berlin
-President’s advice for Gray
-Proper attitude
-Allen S. Drury
-James Keogh
-Edith Efron
-Hoover's relations
-Dealings with detractors
-Judgment
-Gray's relationship
-Directorship
-Proper management style
	-The President’s view
-Confirmation hearings issues
-Civil rights
-Law and order
-Repression
-Hoover
-Communism
-Directorship
-Clyde A. Tolson
-Resignation
-First steps
-Press tour
-Meetings with special agents
-President's appearance
-Time
-Stephen B. Bull, Dwight L. Chapin
-Tour of FBI offices
-Purpose
-Time
-Meeting with police officer

Press
-The President’s view
-President's relationship with
-Conflicts
-Attitude
-Allusion in President's eulogy
-Gray
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Dan Rather
-Questions regarding Gray's speech
-The President’s view
-Hoover's attitude toward Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-John W. Chancellor
-The President’s view
-Dan Rather
-The President’s view
-Dealings with CBS
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Howard K. Smith
-CBS, Rather
-Gray's dealings
-Gray's public appearances
-Television appearances
-The President’s advice
-Ziegler's advice
-Speeches
-Dealings with press
-Press conferences
-Advice from Ziegler, Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Hoover attitude toward CBS
-Time-Life, Newsweek
-Gray's dealings
-The President’s advice
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Dislike of FBI
-New York Times
-Pentagon Papers
-President’s advice
-Mrs. Gray
-Interview with Bonnie Angelo
-Sidey
-Political work
-Separation of FBI from politics
-The President’s view
-Hoover

Gray's appreciation

Mr. and Mrs. Gray left at 12:22 pm.

Conversation No. 719-13

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:22 pm and before 12:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-Meeting with Frank E. Fitzsimmons and Weldon L. Mathis
-Location
-Timing
-Charles W. Colson
	-Schedule
-Fitzsimmons
-Other meetings
-Richard A. Moore

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:28 pm.

Conversation No. 719-14

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:22 pm and 12:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown man.

John B. Connally's location
-Return call

Conversation No. 719-15

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:22 pm until 12:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Richard A. Moore
-Location
-Meeting with the President

Rose Mary Woods entered at 12:28 pm.

Butterfield left at an unknown time after 12:28 pm.

J. Edgar Hoover
-Funeral
-Rev. Edward L.R. Elson's attire
-Elson's actions

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:28 pm.

Food order

Sanchez
	-Hospital bill
		-Payment
		-Fina Sanchez

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:47 pm.

Hoover funeral
-Elson
	-Actions
-National televison appearance
-Meeting with the President
-President's eulogy
-Length
-Robert L. King
-Delivery
-Lou Nichols
-Health
-Age
-President's eulogy
-Permissiveness
-Criticism
-Difficulty of eulogies
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Winston S. Churchill
-Cabinet members
-Others
-Speaker of the House
-Vice President
-Hugh Scott
-Necessity
-President's favorite passages

Hoover
-Death
-Timing
-Forthcoming election issue
-Recommendations on resignation
-President's meeting with Hoover
-President's defense of at press conference
-Critics
-Jack N. Anderson
-Columns
-Woods’s view
-The President’s view
-Drew Pearson
-President's relationship
-Weaknesses
-Death
-Helen Gandy, Hoover's secretary
-President's call
-President's course of action

Garden
-Appearance

President's schedule
-Camp David
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Woods's schedule
-The DeLuccas (sp?)
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Meeting with the President at Camp David

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-Rebozo
-Camp David trip
-Work habits

Secretaries
-Quality of work
-Production

Hoover
-Eulogy
-Scheduling
-Prime time
-Television coverage
-Evening news reports
-Marjorie P. Acker's report
-Garrick Utley

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-Camp David visit

President's eulogy
-Woods's assessment

Woods left at 12:47 p.m.

Conversation No. 719-16

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:47 pm and before 12:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Meeting with Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Meeting with Nellie L. Yates
-Meeting with Fitzsimmons
-Instructions for Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

Conversation No. 719-17

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  12:49 pm - 12:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Nellie L. Yates.

A plant
-Growth characteristics

Picture of secretaries
-A telephone call
-Dwight L. Chapin

President's appearance

A trip to Florida
-Invitation to Yates
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-President's appearance

Yates left at 12:51 pm.

Conversation No. 719-18

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:51 pm and before 12:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's meeting with International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Gifts
-Money clips
-Ash trays
-Charles W. Colson's schedule

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

Conversation No. 719-19

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  12:56pm - 1:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Raymond Schoessling, Joseph Trerotola, William J. McCarthy, Weldon L. Mathis, and Charles W. Colson; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting. 

	Greetings

Seating
-Arrangements
-Photographs
-A chair

Pay Board
-Meetings
-Work with International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-President's appreciation
-Controls
-Workability

	Teamsters
-Contracts
-Chicago
-George P. Shultz
-Controversy
-Retroactivity
-Contracts
-West Coast
-Problems
-Harry Bridges
-Support for President

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 12:56 and 1:21 pm.

-Foreign policy support
-President's gratitude
-Past support for the President
-Dave Beck
-The President’s view

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-Labor movement
-Support for American values
-President's gratitude
-Fitzsimmons's statement
-George Meany's statement
-Political activities
-George S. McGovern
-Dave Leonard
-Appearance on television
-Affiliation
-Trip to Hanoi
-Harold Gibbons
-[Forename unknown] Caldwell 
-Meeting with Fitzsimmons
-Le Duc Tho
-Support of coalition government
-Trip to Hanoi
-Gibbons
-Coaliton governments
-Problems with Communists
			-Czechoslovakia

Organized labor
-Effects of Communists in unions
-International Labor Organization [ILO]
-[Forename unknown] Charles 
-Activities in Europe
-Caldwell
-Discussion on plane
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Access to White House
-Partisanship
-Support of Democratic party
-President's relationship
-Fitzsimmons's relationship with the President

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-Trerotola
-Peter J. Brennan
			-The President’s view
-Construction trades
-Association with Teamsters
-Brennan
-[Forename unknown] Van Horne
-Rockefeller
-Brennan
-Association with Teamsters

J. Edgar Hoover
-Age at death
-The President’s view
-Criticism
-Life magazine
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Jack N. Anderson
-Column
-Retention in office
-President's defense
-Career
-Criticism

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-The President’s view
-Career
-Administrative assistant to Adm. Arthur W. Radford
-Character
-Tenure in office
-Meeting with the President
-Liaison with Colson
-Background
-Character

Demonstrators
-Position of Trerotola
-Incident at St. Patrick's Cathedral
-Mrs. Trerotola
-Picketing nuns
-Trerotola's conversation
-Anita Trerotola
-Nuns actions in cathedral

Vietnam
-Catholics in North Vietnam
-Killings in 1954
-North Vietnam victory in 1970s
-Consequences
-Lack of publicity

Support for the President

Gifts

Anecdote
-President's dinner for retired Congressmen
-John Sherman Cooper
-The President’s view
-Joke

Gifts
-For wives
-Ash trays
-Described
-For men
-Money clips
-Described
-Golf balls
-Golf
-Jim [Surname unknown]

Goodbyes
-Support for the President
-Communists
-Appreciation

Fitzsimmons, et al., left at 1:21 pm.

Conversation No. 719-20

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  1:21 pm - unknown before 1:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Gifts
-Gratitude of International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Cost

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:24 pm.

Conversation No. 719-21

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 1:21 pm and before 1:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III announcement
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:24 pm.

Conversation No. 719-22

Date:  May 4, 1972
Time:  1:24-1:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's meeting with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-President's report

Haldeman's meeting with John B. Connally and Henry A. Kissinger

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 1:24 pm.

Ronald L. Ziegler
-Meeting with the President

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:27 pm.

Meeting with Connally
-Haldeman's discussion
-Connally's discussion
-Polls

Vietnam
-Connally's advice
-Necessity of victory
-Kissinger
-Military action
	-Bombing
	-Blockade
-Soviet Summit
-Cancellation
-Responsibility
	-Soviet Union
-Kissinger
-Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Intensity
-Targets
-Civilian casualties
-Paul N. McCloskey's charges
-Press coverage
-Kissinger's position
-Soviet Summit
-Soviet intentions
-Cancellation
-Kissinger's position
-Bombing
-President's decision
-President's speech

Ziegler entered at 1:27 pm.

J. Edgar Hoover building
-Announcement
-Release

President's eulogy
-Ziegler's opinion

Ziegler left at 1:31 pm.

Vietnam
-North Vietnam offensive
-Soviet summit
-Possible cancellation
-President’s response
-Blockade
-Timing with summit
-Advantages
-Cancellation of summit
-Connally’s advice
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Melvin R. Laird
-President’s policies
-Public support
-South Vietnam performance
-Morale
-Kissinger’s opinion
-Abrams’s opinion
-Improvements
-Effect of Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Bombing
-Risks to summit
-Kissinger’s view
-Blockade
-Kissinger’s position
-President’s position
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr’s position
	-The President’s view
-Bombing
-Impact on North Vietnam
-North Vietnam dikes
-Kissinger’s opinion
-Soviet summit
-Possible cancellation
-Connally’s advice
			-President’s opinion
-Comparison to U-2 incident
			-Effect on Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Connally’s view of public opinion
-On Vietnam
-On summit cancellation
-On People's Republic of China [PRC] visit
-President’s military response
-Kissinger’s position on cancellation
-Connally’s position on cancellation
		-Soviet initiative
				-US military action
-Blockade
-Support from Kissinger, military
-Problems
-Future North Vietnam negotiations with Democratic President
-Kissinger’s position
-Bombing
-Civilian casualties
-President’s assessment of Connally’s advice
-Soviet summit
-Possible cancellation
-Connally’s position
-Kissinger’s position
-Bombing
			-Effect on summit
		-Responsibility
-US military defeat
-Political impact
-Connally’s assessment of President's position
-President’s standing with public
-Soviet summit
-Possible cancellation
-US response
-Bombing
-Kissinger’s position
-President’s attitude
-Abrams
			-Position
-Connally’s advice
			-Compared with Laird and William P. Rogers
-Polls
-Charles H. Percy's polls in Illinois
-Statements on bombing
-Necessity of blockade
-Illinois attitudes
-Effect of polls
-US military defeat
-Soviet summit
-Possible cancellation
-Kissinger’s position
-Bombing
-Advantages
-Timing
-Kissinger’s advice
	-The President’s view
-Public opinion
-Support for the president's actions
-Damage
-Gen. John W. Vogt's report

Hoover funeral
-President's eulogy
-Reception
-Delivery
-President's conversation with Rev. Edward L.R. Elson
-Photographs
-Elson
-President's arrival
-President's eulogy
-Length
-Number of words
-Time
-References
-Law and order
-Patriotism
-Critics
-Biblical quotation
	-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Honor guard
-William F. Rhatican's idea
-US Army chorus
-Pallbearers
-Press reaction
-The President’s view

Vietnam
-North Vietnam offensive
-Bombing
-Public reaction
-Poll results
-Initiation
-Public reaction
-Relation to Soviet Summit
-Connally's views
-Possible cancellation
			-Kissinger's view

The President and Haldeman left at 1:51 pm.

Conversation No. 719-23

Date:  May 4-unknown before May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 1:51 pm, May 4, 1972 and before 8:44 am, May 5, 1972
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons [Secret Service agents] entered.

President's location

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 8:44 am, May 5, 1972.