Conversation No. 720‑1

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  8:45 am ‑ 8:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

John B. Connally
-Meetings with the President
-Time
-Subjects for discussion
-Time

Butterfield left at 8:48 am.

Conversation No. 720‑2

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  8:50 am ‑ 8:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Tricia Nixon Cox
	-Television interview with Barbara Walters
		-Woods’s view
		-Duration
		-Taping

Woods left at 8:51 am.

Conversation No. 720‑3

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:51 am and 8:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 23‑163]

Conversation No. 720‑4

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  8:55 am ‑ 10:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Peter J. Brennan.

[Conversation No. 720-4A]

[See Conversation No. 23‑164]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 8:56 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:58 pm.

Henry A. Kissinger
-Location
-Meeting with the President
-Time

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:14 am.

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Interview with Barbara Walters
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's report
-Walters's demeanor
-Tricia Nixon Cox's appearance
-Walters's questions
-Anti‑war hecklers
-George S. McGovern's appeal
-Tricia Nixon Cox's handling
-Tricia Nixon Cox's appearance
-Tricia Nixon Cox's self‑assessment
-Personal strength
-Manner
-Comments on the President's job
-Manner

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Meeting with the President

Nixons' travel
-Mrs. Nixon
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Funding
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's public appearances
-Woods's opinion
-Mrs. Nixon
-Democrats

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Forthcoming letter to Francis E. Meloy, Jr.
-Retirement of Donald L. Jackson
-Dictation

Kissinger entered at 9:14 am.

Kissinger's previous speech in New York
-Response
-Soviet Summit
-Asia Society
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
	-Foreign Affairs Council
-Audience
-Columbia University/Time‑Life sponsorship
-Kissinger statement on Vietnam
-A heckler
-Hedley W. Donovan
-Applause

Vietnam
-Press reports
-President's talk with Brennan
-Effect of President's televised speeches
-Lyndon B. Johnson comparison
-Kissinger's Asia Society audience
-Statement
-Response
-Donovan

Woods's schedule
-New York

Kissinger's schedule
	-Speeches

Woods's schedule
-Camp David
-Visit
-President's trip
-Departure time

Woods left at 9:15 am.

Soviet Union
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President’s instructions
-Mrs. Nixon
-Irina N. Dobrynin

Vietnam
-North Vietnam offensive
-US response
-Planning
-Orders to Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger's schedule
					-President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB] meeting
-Meeting with Haig and Moorer
-Leak on blockade
-Dan Rather’s report
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John A. Scali
-Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman

Haldeman entered at 9:21 am.

-Rather
-Ehrlichman
-Richard A. Moore
-Charles W. Colson
-Scali
-News reports
-Rather
-Wall Street Journal
-Rather report
-Source
-Melvin R. Laird
-Moorer
-State Department leak
-Robert Keatley [?] report
-Terms for settlement
-Source
	-William H. Sullivan
-Cable about cease-fire
-William P. Rogers
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Haig
-Rogers
-Department of Defense [DOD] briefing
-Soviet arms
-Speculation
	-President’s previous remarks
-Settlement
-Blockade
-Bombing
-Sources
-Marvin L. Kalb report
-Sources
-Rather report
-Sources
-Haig
-Press
-White House staff
	-The President’s instructions
-Moorer
-Plans
-Kissinger meeting with Moorer
-Attendees
-Time
-President's review
-Haldeman
-Notes

Haldeman left at 9:30 am.

-State Department involvement
-Timing
-Rogers
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Blockade
-Advantages
-Disadvantages
-Bombing
-Disadvantages
		-Peace demonstrations
-Blockade
-Commitment
-Soviet response
-India's response
-PRC response
-Bombing
-Targets
-Dissent
-Blockade
-Advantages
-Alternatives
-Ground action
-Latest reports
-Weakness
-Kontum
-North Vietnam casualties
-North Vietnam attacks
-US response
-US landing in panhandle
-Effect
-US bombing
-Effectiveness
-Blockade
-Effectiveness
-Bombing
-Impact
-Haiphong
-Hainan
-President's instinct
-Su Nan [Sp?]
-William J. Porter walkout
-Kissinger backgrounder
					-Talk with Henry Hubbard, Jerrold L. Schecter, and Max Frankel
-Blockade
-Kissinger's view
-Public support
-Advantages
-Decisiveness
-Effect on forthcoming election
-End of war
-Bombing
-Advantages
-John B. Connally's advice
-Advantages
-Soviet response
-Cancellation of Summit

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.

-Soviet Summit

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:09 am.

-Timing with North Vietnam offensive
-Public perception
-Hue
-Kontum

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.

-Bombing
-Timing

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:09 am.

-Lines of communication
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Instructions
-Abrams
-The President
-Kissinger
-Bunker
-Abrams
-Laird
-Moorer
-Abrams
-Laird
-Abrams
-Moorer
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Bunker
-Laird
-Actions
-Motives
-US position
-Haig
-Moorer
-Connally
-Soviet reply to US message
-Bombing
-Soviet response
-Effect on bombing
-PRC summit
-Effect of Hanoi and Haiphong bombing
-Blockade
-Soviet goals
-Kissinger's assessment
-Foreign Affairs Council speech
-Hubert H. Humphrey, McGovern, Edward M. Kennedy
-Dealings with Soviets
-Connally's advice
-Escalation
-Issues in Vietnam
-Communist government
-Control of US policy
-US response
-Peace offers
-North Vietnam motives
-US long-term interests
-Soviet Summit
-Cancellation
-Connally's advice
-Public response
	-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s cancelled trip to the Soviet Union
	-Eisenhower’s cancelled trip to Japan
-The President’s trip while Vice President to Venezuela
-Bombing
-Soviet response
-Summit
-Comparison with blockade
-Connally's advice
-Avoidance of defeat
-Bombing
-Effectiveness
-Blockade
-Effectiveness compared with bombing
-Commitment
-Soviet Union response
-PRC response
-President's foreign policy
-Risks
-Legacy
	-PRC
-Compared to Laos operation
-End of war
-President's efforts
-Dealing with Soviets, PRC, Europeans, and Japanese
-Alternatives to President
-Connally
-McGovern
-Humphrey
-Kennedy
-Ability to conduct foreign policy
-US stakes
-President's incumbency
-US foreign policy
	-Rogers and Laird
-Disentanglement from war
-North Vietnam terms
-Kissinger’s view
-May 31, 1971 proposals
-Forthcoming election
-Effect on South Vietnam
-Blockade compared with bombing
-North Vietnam actions
-Break-off of talks
-Responsibility
	-Porter
-Peace groups
-Press coverage

Forthcoming election
-Democrats
-Draft of Connally
-Possibility

Vietnam
-McGovern
-Impact on US foreign policy
-Humiliation
-Blockade
-Necessity
-Bombing
-Moorer
-Extent
-Civilian casualties
-Targets
-Petroleum, Oils, and Lubricants [POL] dumps
-Dikes
-Civilian casualties
-Forthcoming study
-President's familiarity
-Evacuation of civilians
-Destruction
-Impact
-Questions raised by Kissinger
	-The President’s view
-Effectiveness
-Coordination with blockade
-Relationship to averting defeat
-Return of prisoners of war [POWs]
-South Vietnam performance
-Collapse
-Losses
-Kontum
-Provincial capitals
-Slow movement
-Quang Tri
-Capture
	-Value
-Blockade
-Effectiveness
-Only sure option
-Peace terms
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-US dignity

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.

	Forthcoming PFIAB meeting
		-Delay
		-Refreshments

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:09 am.

Vietnam
-Blockade and bombing
-Effect on South Vietnam
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Connally's comment
-Haig
-Trip to South Vietnam
-Haldeman
-Trip to South Vietnam
-Abrams
-Lt. Col. W.E. Depuy
-Kissinger’s view
-Assignment
-Bunker
-Responsibility to the President
-New assignment
-Replacement for Abrams
-Laird involvement
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger's call to Laird
-President's meeting with Laird and Rogers
	-Johnson
-Cable from Bunker
-Kissinger’s view
-Contents
-Abrams
-Moorer
-Abrams
-Bunker
-Moorer
-Rush
-Laird
-President's meeting with Laird about the blockade
-Kissinger's instructions
-Secrecy
-Rogers and Cambodia comparison
-President's need for Laird's support
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] comparison
-President's decision on blockade
-Rogers
-Meeting with the President
-Time
-Day
-Kissinger's schedule
-Day
-President's speech
-President's meeting with Rogers
-Laird
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Briefings
-Congressmen
	-Rogers
-John J. McCloy
-Announcement
-Time
-J. William Fulbright
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Rogers
-Laird
-Kissinger's briefings
-Press
-Timing
	-The President’s view
-Kissinger meeting with Dobrynin
-Manner
-Speculation
-Response to questions
	-Chou En-lai

Kissinger left at 10:09 am.

Conversation No. 720‑5

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  11:37 am ‑ unknown before 11:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s forthcoming meeting
	-Press

Gifts
-Costs

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:40 am.

Conversation No. 720‑6

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  11:40 am ‑ 11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Frank J. Rauscher, Elliot L. Richardson, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., and James H. Cavanaugh; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

The President’s schedule
	-Previous meeting with the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]

Greetings
-Rauscher
-Accomplishments

Photograph
-Arrangements

Steuben crystal [“Star of the President”]
-Walter H. Annenberg gift

[Photograph session]

Cancer program

-President's support
-Instructions to Rauscher
-New approaches
-Other health fields
-Concentration of resources

Gifts
-Cuff links
-New set

Congress
-Duplicity
-Health program
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Social Security
-Spending policies

Rauscher, et al., left at 11:46 am.

Conversation No. 720‑7

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  11:47 am ‑ 12:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-Meeting with the President
-Day
-Camp David
-Speechwriters
-William L. Safire
-Speech content
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John K. Andrews, Jr.

-Safire
-The President’s view
-Draft
-President's efforts
-Andrews
-Kissinger's draft
-Previous speech 
-Kissinger collaboration

Vietnam
-President's forthcoming speech on the blockade
-Winston Lord
	-Kissinger's follow-up briefing
-Contents
-Public acceptance
-Conclusion of war
-Blockade
-Haldeman's view
-Andrews's assistance
-Safire
-Andrews's instructions

An unknown man entered and left at an unknown time before 12:09 pm.

President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB] meeting
-Dr. Edward Teller
-Dr. William O. Baker
-Advice on speech
-Dissent
-Ivy League college presidents
-Media
-Networks
-Los Angeles Times
-University presidents
-Religious leaders
		-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
		-John Cardinal Krol
-Press opposition
-Supporters of President's policies
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Joseph (“Joe T.”) Trerotola
-George Meany
-Franklin D. Murphy
-Leaders of American society
-Failures
-Nelson A. Rockefeller's comments
-Murphy's comments
-Support for People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-President of Massachussetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-Criticism of South Vietnam policy
	-Lack of criticism of North Vietnamese offensive

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Vietnam
-President's forthcoming speech on the blockade
-Andrews
-Trip to Camp David
-Time

Haldeman's schedule
-Trip
-Return to Washington, Dc
-Time

	Vietnam
	-President's forthcoming speech on the blockade
	-Kissinger
	-William P. Rogers's return
	-Kissinger briefing
	-President's briefing of congressional leaders
	-J. William Fulbright
	-Michael J. Mansfield
	-Rogers's briefing
	-Foreign Relations Committee
	-Melvin R. Laird's briefing
	-Armed Services Committee
	-Mansfield's schedule
	-Hugh Scott
	-President's briefing
	-Size of group
	-Relationship to speech delivery

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:47 am.

President's meeting with Delbert L. Latta

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:09 pm.

Vietnam
-Clifford P. Case-Frank F. Church Amendment
-John Sherman Cooper-Church Amendment
-Provisions
-Defeat
-Likelihood
-Possible vote
-Mansfield Amendment
-Delay by "doves"
-Negotiations breakdown
-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-"Hawks" position
-Democrats and "Doves"
-Blame for North Vietnam intransigence
-Publicity
-The President’s instructions
-Speeches
-Encouragement of enemy
-American leader class
-Murphy
-Failures
-Businessmen
-Economic concerns

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:47 am.

Instructions

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:09 pm.

	Vietnam
-Scientists
-Soviet weapons for North Vietnam
-Quality compared with South Vietnam weapons
-American scientists refusal to work on weapons
-Contrast with Soviet scientists
-MIT
-Resolution on weapons research
-Defeat
-Grants

Haldeman's schedule
-Trip
-Time of departure

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:47 am.

Latta
-President's meeting
	-Ronald L. Ziegler’s comments

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:09 pm.

Vietnam
-President's forthcoming speech on the blockade
	-Trip to Camp David
	-Andrews
	-Kissinger
	-Alexander P. Butterfield
	-Rose Mary Woods
	-Kissinger

Haldeman left at 12:09 pm.

Conversation No. 720‑8

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  12:09 pm –12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Delbert L. Latta, Delbert Springer, Mrs. Delbert Springer, Jill Springer, and John E. Nidecker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
-Latta
-Springer
-Mrs. Springer
-Miss Springer

Photographs

Springer's woodcarving
-The President’s praise
-Time spent

Photographs
-Arrangement

Wood
-Type and amount used

Springer's hometown
-Size
-Small‑town America
-The President’s view
-Latta
-The President’s view
-Support for the President

Gifts
-Cuff links
-Bow
-Ashtray

Jill Springer
-First name
-Request for President's autograph
-For Jill
-For Rose Ellen
-Gift of pen

White House tour

Goodbyes
-Latta

Latta, et al., left at 12:15 pm.

Conversation No. 720‑9

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:15 and before 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's meeting with Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

Conversation No. 720‑10

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  12:16 pm ‑ 12:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe, Mrs. Jerome H. Jaffe, Miriam Jaffe , Celia Jaffe , and Ari Jaffe; and Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
-Celia Jaffe
-Ari Jaffe

Photographs

Jaffe's job
-Confirmation

Photographs
-Arrangements
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Cameras used

Gifts
-Cuff links
-Tie clasps
-Bows

Jaffe's work

Jaffe, et al., left at 12:18 pm.

Conversation No. 720‑11

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:18 and before 12:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's meeting with John D. Rockefeller III group
-Length

-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Seating
-Refreshments
-Length
-Seating

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:19 pm.

Conversation No. 720‑12

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  12:19 pm ‑ 12:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Rockefeller III, Grace Olivarez, Dr. Christian N. Ramsey, Jr., Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., and Raymond J. Waldmann; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
-Rockefeller
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Olivarez
-Ramsey

Photographs
-Arrangements
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Arrangements

Father Theodore S. Hesburgh and Father Edmund Patrick Joyce
-President's acquaintance

Commission on Population
-Dorothy Buffum Chandler
-Discussion with the President on population problems
				-Rockefeller's commission [Commission on Population Growth and the American Future]

-Beginning
-President's population message to Congress
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Abortion issue
-Sensitivity
-Differences between commission and the President
-President's message
-Goals
-Means
-Bureau of the Budget
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Report
-Service of commission
-Abortion issue
-Handling
-Population problem
-Scope
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Legislation
-Latin America
-Urban areas
-Rio De Janeiro
-Sao Paolo
-Buenos Aires
-Africa
-India
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Japan
-PRC
-India
-Difficulties
-Political leadership
-Indira Gandhi
-Studies
-Speeches
-Citizens committees
-Moynihan's role
-Bill Draper
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Richardson
-Recommendations
-Citizens committees
-Representation
-West Coast
-Chandler
-Nationwide
-Youth and minority representatives
-Population problem
-Gandhi's problems
-US problems
-Minority and younger members
-President's leadership
-Reports
-Follow‑up report
-Work with Cole, Ehrlichman
-Richardson
-The President’s view

Gifts
-Cuff links

Walter H. Annenberg gift
-Steuben piece [“Star of the President”]

Gifts
-Bow

Commission
-Work
-President's appreciation

Doctors, lawyers

Rockefeller, et al., left at 12:32 pm.

Conversation No. 720‑13

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:32 pm and before 12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Meetings

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.

Conversation No. 720‑14

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:32 pm and before 12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Documents for signature

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.

Conversation No. 720‑15

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  12:34 pm ‑ 12:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Television appearance
-Follow‑up call
-Tricia Nixon Cox's schedule

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:34 pm.

President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:41 pm.

President's viewing of interview videotape

President's schedule
-Camp David
-Time
-Woods's schedule
-Speech draft

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
-Trip to Camp David
-Time with the President

President's schedule
-Blockade of Haiphong
-Forthcoming announcement
-Timing
-William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-The President’s view
-Number of people

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Necessity
-Soviet Summit
-Cancellation

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	Tricia Nixon Cox’s television appearance
-Call from Woods
-Call from Carol (Crothers) Finch
-Barbara Walters
	-Possible letter
		-Anonymity
-Appearance

Camp David trip
-Woods's preparation
-Time of departure

Woods left at 12:41 pm.

Conversation No. 720‑16

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:41 pm and 12:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Unknown person's schedule
-Lunch
-Meeting with the President
-Time

Conversation No. 720‑17

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:41 pm and before 12:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.

Conversation No. 720‑18

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  12:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Camp David
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Rose Mary Woods

Bull left at 12:43 pm.

Conversation No. 720‑19

Date:  May 5, 1972
Time:  12:44‑unknown before 1:59 pm

Location:  Oval Office

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

Haldeman's schedule
-Weekend
-Camp David
-Day of arrival
-Purpose

Vietnam
-President's forthcoming speech on the blockade
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-The President’s view
-Concerns
-Confrontation compared with compromise
-Assignment
-Schedule
-Instructions
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Compared with Price and William L. Safire
-John B. Connally
-Connally
-Meeting with Haldeman and Henry A. Kissinger
-Contribution to President's decision

Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Kissinger's position
-President's previous position
-Connally's position
-Soviet position
	-Responsibility

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-The President's trip
-Dr. Franklin D. Murphy
-Support for the President's trip
-Reasons
-American leader class
-Attitude toward Nixon's stand on communism
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-PRC relations with Soviet Union
-President's policies
-Reasons
-American leader class
-Chou En-lai
-Expectations
-Public's attitude
-Decision makers' attitudes

William P. Rogers
-The President’s view
-Relationship with Andrei A. Gromyko
-Attitudes

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Kissinger
-Criticism
-Public support
-Criticism
-Media
-Possible Soviet Summit cancellation
-Announcement
-Soviet Summit
-Kissinger's views
-Soviet experts
	-Helmut Sonnenfeldt
-Importance
-Comparison with Vietnam
-Stakes in Vietnam
-Bombing
-Effectiveness
-Blockade
-Impact
-Scope
-Comparison with bombing
-Effectiveness

Kissinger entered at 12:52 pm.

-President's decision
-President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB] meeting
-Murphy
-A previous dinner
-Frank Pace, Jr.’s conversation with Kissinger
-Support for President
-Social circles

PFIAB meeting
-The President’s view
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Dr. Edward Teller
-Rockefeller
-Support for the President's Vietnam policy
-The President’s view
-Possible role in an administration
	-Vice President
-Ideas
-Friends
-Reactions
-Attendees
-National Security Council [NSC] staff
	-Jack N. Anderson
	-Leaks
-Review of meeting
-Discussion of strategic weapons
	-“Open skies”
-President’s instructions
-Study of conventional US forces
-Weaknesses evident in Vietnam War
-Soviet weapons
-Quality
-Styx missiles
-Compared with US weapons
-Effect on Nixon Doctrine
-Quality of US weapons
-Middle East
-Previous conversation with Nihat Erim
-Western Europe
-Compared with Soviet weapons
-President’s instructions for a study
-Work by US scientists
-Dr. William O. Baker
-Kissinger’s view
-Plans for programs
-Teller
-Ivy League colleges
				-Opposition by president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] to Vietnam policy
-Murphy's suggestion
-Speech by the President
-Effects
-Young people
-Influences
-Universities
-Media
-Los Angeles Times
-Newsweek
-Time
-Major networks
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Failure of leader class
-President's decisions
-Teller
	-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] movement
-Opposition to the President
-Media
-Time
-Newsweek
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Networks
-Los Angeles
	-Education leaders
	-Religious leaders
	-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
	-John Cardinal Krol
	-Business leaders
	-“Main Street” businessmen
	-Elite
	-Business Council
	-Trade with Soviet Union and PRC
	-Products
-Support for the President
-Farmers
-Southerners
-John C. Stennis
-James O. Eastland
-Richard B. Russell
-American leader class
-Labor leaders
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters' previous meeting with President
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Joseph (“Joe T.”) Trerotola
-William J. McCarthy
-George Meany
-The President’s view
-Contrasted with other leaders
-Business
-Education
-Press
-Religious
-Relation to US decline
-H.G. Wells
-Examples from history
-British
-French
-Romans
-Greeks
-Opposition to the Presidency
-Pre-World War II
-Post-World War II
-George C. Marshall Plan
-Rockefeller's report to Kissinger
-Kissinger's meeting with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and U. Alexis Johnson

President's forthcoming speech
-Kissinger's conversations with Haldeman
-Tone
-Tone toward Soviets
-Rhetoric
	-Compared to the President’s November 3, 1969 speech on Vietnam
-Blockade
-Length
-Time
-Tone toward Soviets
-Tone toward PRC
-Request for support
-Work by speechwriters
-Winston Lord draft
-Time

Rockefeller's advice
-Similarity to Connally's advice
-Consequences of blockade
-Effect on forthcoming election

President's decision to enforce a blockade of North Vietnam
-Consequences
-For Soviet Summit
-For forthcoming election
-Alternatives
-Consequences
-Effect on forthcoming election
-Charles W. Colson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Disagreement between Kissinger and the President
-Bombing
-Civilian casualties
-President's attitude
-Kissinger's attitude
-Reasons
-Lyndon B. Johnson's actions
	-The President’s view
-Irresponsibility of US military
	-Kissinger’s view
-Blockade
-Scope
-Bombing
-Rail lines
-Highways
-Size
-Gunships
-Use around Hue
-Number
-B-25s
-Kissinger's and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s position
-Effectiveness
-C-130s
-Use by Air Force
-North Vietnamese offensive
-South Vietnam performance
-New South Vietnamese General
	-Gen. Ngo Quang Truong
-Movement of units
-Hue
-South Vietnamese division
-Gen. Ngo Quang Truong
-Harsh measures
-Execution of deserters
-Press stories
-Blockade
-Commitment
-Laird and Rogers's position
-Rogers
-Briefing
-Meeting with the President
-Time
-Laird
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Support for the President
-Rogers
-Soviet response
-North Vietnamese delegate to Moscow
-Proposals
-Ceasefire
-US conditions for acceptance
-Negotiations
-Ceasefire
-Blockade
-President's decision
-Necessity
-Kissinger's concerns
-Rockefeller
-Connally
-Implementation
-Intensity
-Leaks at State Department
	-Ceasefire
-President's speech
-Cessation
-Terms
-Ceasefire
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Ceasefire
-POWs
-POWs
-Wives
-Negotiations for release
-Conditions
-Cessation of bombing
-Lifting blockade
	-Possible North Vietnamese offers
		-Withdrawal of POWs
-Return of POWs
-Honolulu
-May 31, 1971 proposal
-Blockade
-Kissinger's discussion with Soviets
-Summit

Press coverage
-Henry Hubbard
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Assessment of President's actions
-Washington Post editorial
-Newsweek reporter
-Hubbard's information
-Assessment of President's actions
-Image of irrationality

Kissinger left at 1:19 pm.

-Washington Post editorial
	-Negotiations
		-South Vietnam government
-J. Edgar Hoover eulogy
-Television coverage
-Length
-Camera work
-Church layout
-Length of eulogy
-Reception
-Televison coverage
-Camera shots
-Mrs. [Forename unknown] Gartner [sp?]
-Card
-Victor Gartner [sp?]
-Stamp
-Photograph of the President
-American flag sticker

President's attire
-American flag lapel pin
-Times to wear

Vietnam
-President's forthcoming speech on the blockade
-Kissinger's advice
-Length
-Tone
-Contents
-Delivery
-Ceasefire
-Duration
-Mining of Haiphong

Kissinger
-North Vietnamese delegation
-Le Duc Tho
-Lunch with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Postponement
-Instructions from the President
	-Kissinger’s tenor

Vietnam
-Blockade
-White House staff leaks
	-John A. Scali
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Work
	-Amount of information given

President's public appearances
-Impression to be conveyed
-Impression from media
-Dan Rather
-John F. Osborne
-Use of television
-Rather
-Instant analysis

Media
-Kenneth W. Clawson's idea
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Job offer
-Acceptance
-Reasons

The President left at an unknown time after 1:19 pm.

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The President entered at an unknown time before 1:58 pm.

A previous meeting
-Connally
-Attendance

Media
-Kaplow
-Clawson
-Background
-Kaplow
-Information from Mrs. Kaplow to Mrs. Clawson
-Work with National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Conflicts over content
-Attitude toward treatment
-Talk with Clawson

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:19 pm.

Beverage order

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:58 pm.

Media
-Robert D. Novak paper
-Distribution
-Source
-Rowland Evans
-Copyright
-Cambridge College
-Novak's revisions
-Distribution
-Analogy to Pentagon Papers
-Use of Congressional Record
-Internal distribution and instructions

Thomas E. Kurtz's book, Programming for Conservatives
-Distribution
-Arguments

Media
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Demonstrations at Kent State
-Story
-Distortions
-United Press International [UPI] reports
-Number of students participating
-Call of protest to CBS
-UPI reports
-President's belief
-Kevin P. Phillips's comments
-Student attitudes on Vietnam
-Ignorance
-Survey
-Campus culture
-Students 
	-Phillips’s opinion
-Murphy
-Report on Dorothy Buffum Chandler

Vietnam
-Demonstrations
-Capitol Hill rally
-Judy Collins
-Identified
-William Kunstler
-Identified
-Number attending
-Effect on Senate "Doves"
-Trenton rally
-Number attending
-New York City rally
-Number attending
-Tucson rally
-Number attending
-University of Arizona
-San Diego rally
-Number attending
-University of Maryland rally
-Number attending
-Kent State rally
-Cancellation of classes
-Glenn A. Olds
-Anniversary observance
-Speeches
-Number attending
-Parade
-Number marching
-Media reports
-Distribution
-Colson

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Vietnam
-President's forthcoming speech on the blockade
-Time
-Television schedule
-"Gunsmoke"
-"Laugh‑In"
-Movies
-Time

President's assessment of past week

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Losses
-Provincial capital
-Hue
-Nguyen Van Thieu's visit
-Gen. Ngo Quang Truong
-Image
-Command of Hue
-Evacuation of refugees
-Deserters
-Execution wall
-Counteroffensive
-Highway reopened
-South Vietnam
-Air support
-Bombing
-Hanoi
-US casualties
-Kontum
-Refugees from cities

President's public appearances
-Hoover statement and eulogy
-Image of the President
-Law and order message
-Ehrlichman's view
	-Frank L. Rizzo

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-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] directorship
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Tenure
-Rizzo
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Job possibilities
-Bicentennial job

Bicentennial
-Scope
-Planning
-Delay
-Temper of nation
-Effect of Vietnam

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	Tricia Nixon Cox’s television appearance
-Rose Mary Woods's report
-Interview with Barbara Walters
	-"Today" show

Patrick J. Buchanan
-Interview with National Educational Television [NET]
-Criticism of media
-South Vietnamese defeats
-Busing
-President's proposals
-President's meetings with press
-Press
-Liberal domination
-Recruitment of conservatives
-David Brinkley
-Pulitzer Prize
-Anderson
-New York Times
-Anderson
-Pakistan issue
-President's view

Media
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Time
-Newsweek
-Life
-Three major networks

Vietnam
-Blockade
	-Navy
	-Mining
	-Functioning of mines
	-Advantages
	-Moorer
	-Prior warning
-Announcement
-Congressional criticism
-Difficulties
-POWs
-US forces
-Communist government in South Vietnam
-Purpose
-Criticism
-George S. McGovern
-Difficulties

Press conference
-Arrangements

The President’s schedule
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Rose Mary Woods
-Connally

Marjorie P. Acker entered at an unknown time after 1:19 pm.

Woods
-Location
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Haldeman left at 1:58 pm.

-President's call

Acker left at an unknown time before 1:59 pm.