Conversation No. 722-1

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  9:54 am - 10:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger; the recording began at an unknown time while the meeting was in progress.

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with President
-Memorandum from President
-Press briefing
-Time

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Discussion
-Intensity
-Targets
-Railroad bridges
-Petroleum, oil and lubricant [POL] dumps
	-Haiphong
-Power plants
-Soviets
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-The President’s May 8, 1972 speech
-Agreements with US
-Protests to US

Egon Bahr
-Call to Kissinger

Kissinger talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:54 and 10:00 am.

[Conversation No. 722-1A]

Possible call From Bahr

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-President's memorandum to Kissinger
-Blockade
-President's decision
-Julius Caesar
-Success
-Requirements
-Press reports
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Public response
-George Meany
-President’s telephone call

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 9:54 am.

-Memorandum for Kissinger
-Blockade
-President's speech
-Press reaction
-Student interviews
	-George Washington University
-Tone

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

Vietnam
-Blockade
-William P. Rogers's statement
-Purpose
-Seaborne supplies
-Mining
-Soviet ships
-Avoidance
-North Vietnamese territorial waters
-Soviets
-President's previous letter
-Kissinger's previous meeting with Dobrynin
-Cancellation of Summit
-Statement

Kissinger's schedule
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-Meetings with President
-Time

Kissinger left at 10:00 am.

Conversation No. 722-2

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:00 am and 10:03 am
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Meeting with President

Conversation No. 722-3

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  10:03 am - 10:41 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-Morning work
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Coming days

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Necessity

Welfare reform
-President's meeting with George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman

Vietnam
-Blockade
	-William P. Rogers
				-Possible testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs Committees
	-Timing
	-Congress
	-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's testimony
	-Armed Services Committee
	-Rogers's testimony
	-Timing
	-Henry A. Kissinger's testimony
	-Timing
	-Rogers's testimony
	-Fact sheet draft
	-Author
	-Charles W. Colson
	-S. Steven Karalekas
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s review
	-Contents
	-North Vietnamese offensive
	-President's peace offers
	-North Vietnamese rejection
	-Necessity of action
	-Other nations
-Public opinion
-Publicity for positive responses
-White House staff
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Support for President
-Strength
-Telegram problems
-Endorsement from public figures
	-Publicity
-Tone
-Comparison with previous speech
-Intensity
-"Hawks"
-Prisoner of war [POW] wives
-Reaction
-Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
-Resolutions
	-Vietnamization
-POW wives
-Attitude
-Change
-League of POW-Missing in Action [MIA] families
-United Press International [UPI]
-Resolution
-Work with Hughes
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Press reports
-Resolution
-Changes
-POW
-President's objectives
-Necessity of blockade
-Public opinion
-Opposition
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Nebraska campaign

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  21s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

*****************************************************************

-McGovern statement
	-Compared to Cambodia statements
-Protests
-Colleges
-Number
-Demonstrations
	-White House
-Extent
-Senate and House response
-Democrats
-Clark MacGregor
-George H. Mahon
-John C. Stennis
-Caucus meeting
-Republicans
-MacGregor meeting
-Democrats
-Briefings
-Rogers’s performance
-Moorer
-Kissinger
-Melvin R. Laird and Rogers
-Briefing evaluated
-Conduct of briefing
-Rogers
-Statement on mines
-J. William Fulbright’s view
-Laird interruption
-Rogers
-Position on blockade
-Support from executive departments
-Draft statement
-President's objectives
-Methods
-Rogers
-Statement on mines
-United Nations [UN] notification
-George H.W. Bush
-"Hawks"
-MacGregor
-George D. Aiken
-Statement
-Changes
-Comparison with Bangladesh
-Republican response
-James L. Buckley
-Gerald R. Ford
-Robert P. Griffin
-Jacob K. Javits
-Margaret Chase Smith
-George C. Wallace statement
-Edward M. Kennedy statement
-Democrats
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew rebuttal
-Time
-McGovern
-Television appearance
-Purchase of television time
-News coverage
-Amount and tone
-Comparison with Cuban missile crisis
-Necessity
-Kissinger
-Contribution to US foreign policy
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union initiatives
-Soviet trip
-Necessity
-Criticism
-Democratic caucus
-Counterattack
-Comparison with Cuban missile crisis
-Republican support for John F. Kennedy
-Confrontation with Soviets
-Democrats
-Strategy
-Humphrey and McGovern
-Comparison with President's support for John Kennedy
-President's previous television speech
-Humphrey and McGovern
-Counterattack
-Humphrey
-McGovern
-Edward Kennedy
-Agnew's role
-Connally's role
-Success
-Soviet moves
-Possible Summit cancellation
-US statement
-Kissinger
-Tone of commentary
-North Vietnamese arms
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Rogers
-Schedule
-Role
-Kissinger’s view
-Testimony
	-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Support for President
-Publicity to Congress
-Methods
-Intensity and scope
-Impact
-Rogers, Moorer
-Encouragement to Congressional supporters
-Soviet ships
		-Location
		-Photographs
			-Use for publicity
			-Haig's instructions
-Soviet response
		-Haig's report
-Soviet ships
		-Location
		-Photographs
-Laird
		-Call from President
		-Support
-Rogers
-President's meeting with leaders
		-Necessity
		-President's appearance
			-Manner
-Kissinger
		-Meeting with subcabinet officers
			-Possible replacements
				-Laird
				-Rogers
			-Kissinger's appearance
-Briefings
		-Press
		-Rogers
		-Purpose
-Rogers
-Briefings
-Laird
-Rogers
-Moorer
-Congress
-MacGregor's office
-Democrats
-Stennis
-Kissinger briefing
-Democrats
-F. Edward Hebert
-Southern Democrats
-Support
-Necessity
-Haldeman's position
-Kissinger's position
-President's position
-Irreversibility
-Rogers
-Statements
-Rhetoric
-Content
-Coolness
-Dedication to peace
-National interest above political interests
-US role in world
-Further work

Haldeman left at 10:41 am.

Conversation No. 722-4

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  10:42 am - 10:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-Dinner for Duke Law School alumni
-Attendance
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Warren E. Burger
-Lewis F. Powell
-John B. Connally
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-John W. Dean, III
-Number of Administration members
-Number of law school graduates
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Gifts
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Number
-Compacts
-Cuff links
-Alternatives
-Guest book
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Location
-Stephen B. Bull
-Location
-Meeting with Soviet trade delegation
-Peter M. Flanigan's comments
-Henry A. Kissinger's presence

Butterfield left at 10:48 am.

Conversation No. 722-5

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 10:48 am until 10:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

A letter to Wilt Chamberlain
-Congratulations on National Basketball Association [NBA] championship
	-Los Angeles Lakers
-Playing skills
-Life pictures of home
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Vietnam
-Blockade
-President's previous speech
-Public response
-Telephone calls
-Support for President
-Lloyd Rain [sp?]
-Paul Cabot
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Fred Schluter
-Dr. William M. Lukash
-News commentators

Manolo Sanchez
-Knee surgery
	-Recovery time

Letter to Chamberlain
-Signature

Robert C. Hill recommendation for ambassador to Spain

-Adm. Horacio Rivero
-Visit with Gen. Francisco Franco
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Hill
-Memorandum

George Landau
-President's previous trip
-Hill's recommendation for ambassador to Ceylon
-Identified
-President’s recommendation

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  19s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
*****************************************************************

Vietnam
-Blockade
-President's speech
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's call
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's report
-Woods's report

President's schedule
-Duke Law School dinner
-Remarks by President
-A reference book
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Wife’s health
	-Previous Administration job offers
-Scholarship announcement
-Time
-Richard Kiefer

Vietnam
-Blockade
-President's previous speech
-Strain of compiling
-Delivery
	-Woods’s view
-Emotional strain
-Democrats
-President's support for John F. Kennedy during Cuban missile crisis
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-George Meany
-George C. Wallace
-Statement
-Compared with McGovern's statement
-Public support for President
-McGovern presidency
	-Woods’s view

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  45s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

*****************************************************************

-Lasker's comments
-Liberals
-The President’s view
	-New York, California 

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  1m 6s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

*****************************************************************

Telephone calls
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Perle Mesta
-Paul Bradley

Haldeman entered at 10:54 am.

-Earl L. Butz
-Report on support for President's speech

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Public reaction
-Talking points
-Support for President
-President's personal qualities
-Lasker's call
-Publicity from White House
	-The President’s view
-Lukash
-President's decision
-Risks to election
-Prisoner of war [POW] release
-Publicity
-Public response
-Publicity

Woods and Haldeman left at 10:57 am.

Conversation No. 722-6

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  2:57 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Photographs
-John B. Connally's ranch

Butterfield left at 2:58 pm.

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Cabinet meeting
-Departmental meetings
-Connally
-William P. Rogers
-Support for President

J. Edgar Hoover building
-Publicity

Vietnam
-Blockade
-President's previous speech
-Clifford P. Case and Frank F. Church statement
-President's moves toward peace
-Amendment
-Ceasefire
-US withdrawal
-Prisoners of war [POW] return
-Democrats
-Polls
-White House poll
-Validity
-Release
-Interviews
-Question
-Wording
-Response
-Release
-Albert E. Sindlinger poll
-Question
-Release of results
-Comparison of Sindlinger and White House polls
-Public response
-Mayor Richard J. Daley
-Forthcoming statement
-George P. Shultz

Haldeman left at 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 722-7

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  3:00 pm - 4:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally; Ollie F. (“Ollie”) Atkins was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Vietnam
-President's previous speech on the blockade
-Connally’s view
-Delivery

Photographs
-Atkins
-Connally ranch
-Gift to John and Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Quality
-Location
-Kay Dobson [?]
-Tom O'Connor
-Woody [surname unknown] [Horses?]
-Norman [surname unknown] [Horses?]
-Surget [sp?]

Research
-Book, Twentieth-Century Glass, American and European
	-Metropolitan Museum of Art
	-Engraving

Vietnam
-President's previous speech on the blockade
-Public opinion
-Treasury Department
-Working people
-Blacks
-Chauffeur
-Arthur F. Burns's report
-Support for action
-Support for President
-Alexander P. Butterfield [?]
-Blockade
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Connally's speech
-Cabinet meeting
-Kissinger, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Opposition
-Length
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Stance
	-The President’s view
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Connally's support for President
-Rogers and Laird
-Opposition
-Reasons
-Bureaucratic leadership
-Qualities
	-Connally’s view
	-Compared with business leaders
-Laird
-Opposition
-Success
-NSC meeting
-Rogers and Connally
-Rogers's view
	-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-Alternatives for US
-Bargaining power
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-North Vietnamese offensive
-South Vietnamese defeat
-Consequences for President and US
	-Forthcoming election
	-US defeat
-President's response

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:09 pm.

-Blockade
-Ziegler's briefing
-Report from Michael J. Mansfield and Hugh Scott
-Statement for press
	-Personal greeting
	-Chou En-lai
		-Speeches
	-Discussion of President's speech

Ziegler left at 3:11 pm.

-Opposition
-Motives
-Necessity
-Mining
-Air strikes
-Rails
-Petroleum, oil and lubricant [POL] dumps
-Military expectations of success
-The President’s view
	-Rails
	-POL
	-Connally’s view
-B-52s
-Laird
-Gen. Creighten W. Abrams, Jr.
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Possibility of success
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson's tactics
-Limitations
-President's tactics
-Rails
-Intensity of bombing
-Rails
-Repairs
-Equipment
	-Compared with World War II
-Targets
-Priorities
-Power plants
-Public opinion
-Intensity
-Benefits
	-Power failures
-Destruction of North Vietnam machinery
-Impact
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Kontum
-Hue
-South Vietnamese countermeasure
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Air strikes
-Blockade
-A treaty
-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Public opinion
-Support for President
-President's attendance
-Conditions
	-North Vietnamese offensive
-Compared to Dunkirk
-Criticism
-President's previous support for John F. Kennedy
-Democrats
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-George S. McGovern
-Cessation
-President's offers
-Connally’s view
-Troop withdrawals
-Thieu
-North Vietnamese rejection
-Reason
-North Vietnamese demands
-US response
-Compared to Armageddon
-US great power status

Public opinion
-Connally’s view
-Influence of Edward Kennedy, Muskie, McGovern
-Unrest, frustration
-Proportions
-Situation in Texas
-Governor's race
-Voting results
-Ben F. Barnes
-Dolph Briscoe
-Frances T. (“Sissy”) Farenthold
-McGovern support
-Runoff
-Briscoe
-Farenthold
-Barnes
-Briscoe
-Background
-[Forename unknown] Walker media campaign
-Effect
-Attorney General's race
-John Hill
-The President’s view
-Parallel to US
-Issues
	-Revenue sharing, welfare reform
-Leadership
-George C. Wallace and McGovern
-Response
-Humphrey
-Lack of support
-Influence of "Atomic Age"
-Nagasaki, Hiroshima
-Psychological effect on US
-Previous wars
-Psychological effect on US
-Influence on international affairs
-Influence on monetary affairs
-Influence on domestic affairs
-Government
-Manifestations
-Political leadership
-State and local levels
-Congress
-President's role
-Public expectations
-President's role
-Necessity
	-Possibility of arnarchy
-Democrats' leadership
-1972 candidates
-Edward Kennedy
-Humphrey
-McGovern
-Impact on US
-Longshoremen's strike
-President's role in ending
-Busing
-Administration's actions
-Delays
	-Studies
-Amendment
-Rhetoric
-Deficiencies of plan
-Responsibility
-Rhetoric
-Quality
-President's speech
-Show of leadership
-Congress
-Conflicts with President
	-Connally’s view

Forthcoming election
-Incumbents
-Past elections
-Governors
-Florida
-Farris Bryant
-Georgia
-Carl E. Sanders
-Kentucky
-Bert T. Combs
-Defeats
-Polls
-Reliability
-Undercurrents
-Shortcomings
-Texas election
-Polls
-Defeat of Barnes
-Farenthold
-Position on social issues
-Radicalism
	-Abortion, marijuana
-Briscoe
-Connally’s view
-Age
-Background
-Family
-Education
-Character
-Intelligence
-Home
-Constituency
-Democrat primary
-Defeats
-Democratic Party
-Unrest
-1972 compared with 1968 convention
-Texas primary
-McGovern vote
-Wallace vote
-Uncommitted
-Humphrey, McGovern supporters
-McGovern vote
-Reasons
-Support for President
-Contrast with Ohio and Illinois
-President's leadership
-Domestic
-International
-Democrats
-McGovern
-Vulnerabilities
-Taxes
-Amnesty
-Abortion
-Marijuana
-President's response
-Nomination
-Edward Kennedy
-Humphrey
-California
-Weaknesses
-Lack of support
-Compared with the President
-Edward Kennedy and McGovern
-Divisions in nation
-Convention
-Turmoil
-McGovern supporters
-Intellectuals
-Liberals
-Blacks
-Chicanos
-Lack of leadership
-John V. Lindsay
-Richard J. Daley
-Illinois delegation
-New York
-Pennsylvania
-California
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Joseph Alioto
-Texas
-Colorado
-Wisconsin
-Minnesota
-New York
-Connecticut
-New York
-McGovern support
-Lack of brokers
-Harry S. Truman
-Samuel Rayburn
-Johnson
-Daley
-Robert Wagner
-David Lawrence
-Continuity
-Lack of leadership
-McGovern supporters
-Anarchy
-Edward Kennedy
-Nomination
-Anarchy
-President's leadership
-Need
-Rhetoric
-Major issues
-Attacks on Congress
-Budget issues
-Spending cuts
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, George P. Shultz
-Size of government
-Cuts
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Social Security
-Job programs
-Manpower training
-Results compared with costs
-Taxes
-Increases
-Reforms
-Problems with Congress
-Possible recession
-Effects
-Primary results
-Democrat candidates
-McGovern
-The President’s view
-Connally’s view
-Comparison with Barry M. Goldwater
-The President’s view
-Edward Kennedy
-Connally’s view
-Humphrey
-The President’s view
-McGovern
-Radicalism
-Ideology
-Edward Kennedy
-Patriotism
-Connally’s view
-Political ambitions
	-Connally’s view
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Previous election
-Attacks on law enforcement
-Stakes in election
-Political opinion
-Need to mobilize
-Sense of lack of control
-Need for leadership
-Possible dictatorship
-Need for President's leadership
-Need to take a stand
	-Communism
-Connally's stand on international trade, monetary affairs
	-Public reaction
-Need for leadership
-Appealing to instinct
-Need for leadership on Vietnam
	-Necessity of action

Media
-View of US
-President's approach
-Agnew’s attacks
-Popular appeal
-Biases
-Columnists
-Television newsmen
	-Editorials

Jews
-Liberals
-Influence
-Actions to take against
	-Connally’s view
-The President’s view
-Department of Justice
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Lawyers in government
-Control
-Frederic V. Malek

The federal government
	-Actions in second term
	-Presidential appointees
	-Park Service director
		-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo's report
	-Dismissals
	-Impact
		-The President’s view
-Incestuousness of philosophies
-Treasury Department
-Tax lawyers
-Economists
-Harvard University Business School
-Harvard University
-Yale University
-Stanford University
-University of Chicago
-Influence on government
-Harvard University
-State universities
-Texas
-Ohio
-Environment
-Presidential appointees
-Resignations
-Cabinet
-Resignations
-Changes
-Pentagon shakeups
-Robert S. McNamara associates
-Systems analysts
-State Department shakeups
-Planning
-Malek
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Dismissal list
	-The President’s view
-Loyalists
-Number
-Appointments
-Business people
-Loyalties of appointees
					-Interior Department, Bureau of Land Management, Federal Communications Commission [FCC] , SEC, Treasury Department
-Congressional patronage
-Andrew Jackson and the spoils system
-Benefits
-Civil Service
-The President’s view
-Disadvantages
-Need for loyalists

Supreme Court
-The President’s view
-Replacements
-Number
-Importance
-Potter Stewart
-The President’s view
	-Connection with the “Georgetown social set”
-Voting record
-Influences
-Warren E. Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
-William H. Rehnquist
-Lewis F. Powell
-Thurgood Marshall and William O. Douglas
-Departure
-Effect on Court
-Effect on nation

Forthcoming election

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  38s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

*****************************************************************

	Congress
		-Connally’s view
-Charles Vanik
-Henry S. Reuss
-Sam M. Gibbons
-William Proxmire

	Economy
		-Strength
			-Unemployment

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Connally's forthcoming statement
				-National Security Council [NSC] interview with Robert B. Semple of New York Times
-Press conference
-Television
-Democratic caucus
-Connally's press conference rebuttal
-George Meany
-Support

Connally left at 4:01 pm

Conversation No. 722-8

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  4:40 pm - 4:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mary A. (“Toni”) Sidley.

Greetings

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  14s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

*****************************************************************

Sidley left at 4:41 pm.

Conversation No. 722-9

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  4:42 pm - 5:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Poll
-Release

Duke Law School dinner
-Photograph book
-President
-Resemblance to Edward C. Nixon
-President's comments
-Classmate in Colorado

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Poll
-Release of results
-Support for President
-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming statement
-Criticism
-Impeachment resolution
-Bella S. Abzug
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-United Nations [UN]
-Kurt Waldheim
-Ceasefire
-Abzug
-Response
-Statements
-Carl B. Albert
-F. Edward Hebert

-Samuel L. Stratton
-Hugh Scott
-George D. Aiken
-Dante B. Fascell
-House resolution
-President's peace offers
-Congress
-Democrat caucus
-Resolution
-Similarity to President's proposals
	-Ceasefire, prisoners of war [POW], withdrawal
-Statements
-Jack Miller
-John C. Stennis
-Strom Thurmond
-Republicans
-William M. Colmer
-William Ryan
	-Abzug
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Challenge to opponents
-Support for President
-Edward W. Brooke
-Resolution
-Ceasefire
-Political settlement
-Clark MacGregor
-Support for President
-President's peace offers
-Democrats' response
-Attacks on Democrats
-The President’s instructions
-Timing
-Patriotism
-Comparison with the 1962 Cuban missile crisis
-Intensity
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Kennedy
-Role of Charles W. Colson
-Intensity
-John B. Connally
-Press conference
-Timing
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press conference
-William P. Rogers
-Connally
-Comments on Democratic partisanship
-Effectiveness

Swimming pool
-Location
	-Blair House

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Support
-Spontaneity
-White House staff work
-Poll results
-Kissinger

President's dinner for Duke Law School alumni
-List for introductions
-Lewis F. Powell
-William P. Rogers
-Robert H. Finch

Haldeman left at 5:06 pm.

Conversation No. 722-10

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  5:07 pm - 5:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Walter H. Annenberg, John N. Mitchell and John D. Ehrlichman.

Greetings
-Annenberg
-Mitchell

Gift from Annenberg
-Described
-Drawings by Steuben Glass Works
-Theme

Oval Office
-Distinguished visitors
-Prime Ministers
-[Charles, Prince of Wales] Prince Charles
-Edward R.G. Heath
-[James] Harold Wilson
-Fate of unknown African Head of State
-Indira Gandhi

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National security]
[Duration:  12s  ]

	INDIA

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

*****************************************************************

Dominic Mintoff
-Desire to see President
-John I. Getz

Peter Carrington
-Annenberg's retirement plans

Mintoff
-Annenberg’s view
-Carrington
-Annenberg’s view

Great Britain
-Conservative Party
-William Whitelaw
-Position
-Reginald Maudling
-Position
-Heath 
-Carrington
-Whitelaw
-Appointment
	-Northern Ireland
-Ulster
-Annenberg visit
-Problems

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  1m 45s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

*****************************************************************

Annenberg's schedule
-Philadelphia
-Frank L. Rizzo
-California
-London
-William P. Rogers's visit
-Dates
-Kentucky Derby
-John W. Galbreath
-London
-Day
-Effect

Annenberg's background
-Discipline
-Adversity
-Annenberg's father
-Effect on people
-Appointment as Ambassador to the Court of St. James
-Benefits
-Recollections of meeting with President
-Palm Springs
-Annenberg's reluctance to accept

Annenberg as Ambassador
-Personal rewards
-Leonore Annenberg
-Quality of work
-Absence during President's visit to England
-Dinner at Buckingham Palace
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito dinners at Windsor Castle
-Queen Juliana
-[Elizabeth, Queen of England] Elizabeth II
-Philip [?] Hoffman
-Johnson & Johnson executive
-Reason for visit
-Annenberg’s view
-Queen Elizabeth's opinion
	-Personality
	-Queen Elizabeth's opinion

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  9m 46s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

*****************************************************************

	Norton Simon
-Marriage
-Call To Annenberg
-Jennifer Jones
-Divorce
-Archbishop of Canterbury
-Annenberg's advice
-Nice, France
-Monte Carlo
-Yacht

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  3m 31s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

*****************************************************************

Wallis (Annenberg) Weingarten
-Visit to White House
-Luncheon for Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Trustee of University of Southern California
-Introduction to President
-Chandler Pavilion event
-Future visit to White House with Dr. Seth Weingarten
-Appointment to National Commission for the Arts
-Leonard Garment
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Haldeman's role
-Duties
-Honorary capacity
-Name
-Interests
-Forms of arts
-Appointment
-Instructions for Garment
-Duties
-Children
-Number of Annenberg's grandchildren
-Number of Mrs. Annenberg's grandchildren
-Visit to California
-Beverly Hills Hotel
-Santa Monica or Malibu
-Travis
-Malibu compared to Santa Monica
-Beverly Hills Hotel
-The President’s view
-Bel Air Hotel
-Accommodations
-Compared with Beverly Hills Hotel
-President's California home
-Offer to Annenberg
-President's use

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  5m 43s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

*****************************************************************

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:07 pm.

	Gifts
-New cuff links

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:54 pm.

President's schedule
-Dinner for Duke Law School classmates

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:07 pm.

Gift
-Double cuff links
-Design
-Manufacturer
-Presidential seal

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:54 pm.

Norman Vincent Peale
-Conversation with Annenberg

Gifts
-Double cuff links

Peale
-Advice to Annenberg
-Positive thinking
-Annenberg's use of advice
-New York Herald Tribune
-Washington Post

Washington Post
-President's reading
-Katharine L. Graham
-Previous visit to London
-Annenberg's opinion of Washington Post
-Philip Graham
-Story
-Previous advice from Annenberg
-Katharine Graham
-Annenberg's advice
	-Katharine Graham’s response
-Annenberg’s view
-Criticism of Annenberg's father
-Annenberg’s view
-Peale's advice
-Philip Graham
-Annenberg's idea for book
-Purpose
	-Annenberg’s warning
-Circumstances of his death
-Katharine Graham
-The President’s view 
-Manolo Sanchez
-Location
-Opinion of war demonstrators
	-Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Language
	-English compared with Spanish
-Story on Arthur K. Watson
-White House defense
	-Washington Post
-Annenberg's advice
-State Department response
-Congressional investigation
-President's response at press conference
-Wayne L. Hays
-Frank F. Church
-W. Stuart Symington
-J. William Fulbright
-President's evidence against Congressmen
-Dick Watkins [?]

Mitchell and Ehrlichman left at 5:52 pm.

Leonard K. Firestone
-Appointment as Ambassador
-Loyalty to President

Annenberg
-Desire to remain as Ambassador
-Mrs. Annenberg's concerns

Annenberg left at 5:54 pm.

Conversation No. 722-11

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  5:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Return call
	-Cancellation

Conversation No. 722-12

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  5:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?].

Meeting with President
-Time

Conversation No. 722-13

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  5:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

List for President's speech at Duke Law School dinner

	Nomination
		-Unknown person
			-Attorney General

Conversation No. 722-14

Date:  May 9, 1972
Time:  5:55 pm - 6:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Previous Republican support for John F. Kennedy
-Melvin R. Laird's press conference
-Laird's previous position
-President's previous support for Kennedy
-Thomas Kuchel
-Previous support for Kennedy
-Democrat caucus
-Vote against President
-John Sherman Cooper-Clifford P. Case amendment
-Numbers
-Content
-Counteraction
-Intensity
-Red-baiting
-Continuation
-Senate support
-Democrat caucus
-Resolution against North Vietnam by James B. Allen
-Alan Cranston change
-Withdrawal
-Administration action
-Laird's press conference
-John B. Connally's press conference

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 5:57 pm.

-Democrat criticism
-President's attitude
-Kissinger's attitude
-Soviet ships
-Location
-Haiphong Harbor
-Purpose
-Air strikes
-Docks
-Petroleum, oil and lubricants [POL]
-Railroad bridge
-Marshalling yards
-Earlier damage
-Trucks
-Effect
-POL in Haiphong
-Blockade
-Democrat caucus
-Vote against President
-Content
-Cooper-Case amendment
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Ceasefire
-Effect
-Vote on floor
-Republican filibuster
-Resolution wording
-Absentees
-Supporters of President
-Republicans
-Case
-Jacob K. Javits
-Democrats
-Number
-Support for President
-Public support
-Timing of action
-Depth
-POW wives
-"Hawks"
-POW wives
-Strength of support
-Media coverage
-Petition to impeach
-Bella S. Abzug and William Ryan
-Effect
-Vote in Senate
-Soviet view
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Kissinger’s view
-Poll
-Advance information
-Support
-Opposition
-Soviet decision
-Primary consideration
-Hanoi decision
-Soviet goals
-Kissinger's schedule
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-Briefing
-Responses
-Laird's briefing
-William P. Rogers's briefing
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's briefing
	-Mines
-Situation assessed
-Soviet response
-Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Problems
-North Vietnam offensive
-Hue
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Air strikes
-B-52s
-Effect
-Hue to Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Intensity
-Possible Soviet summit cancellation
-Handling
-Blockade
-People's Republic of China [PRC] statement
-President's previous speech
	-Soviet Union

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 6:13 pm.

-Senate votes
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Meetings with President
-Opposition to President
-President's attitude
-House vote
-Timing with election
-Blockade
-Success
-Soviet Moves
-US reaction
-Possible air strike
	-Abrams
-Soviet options
	-Kissinger’s view
-Summit sancellation
-Significance
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-Statement of Principles
-US relations with Soviet Union and PRC
-Effect of Vietnam War
-Soviet Summit
-Postponement
-PRC
-Statement
-Kissinger's planned trip, June 21, 1972
-Statement
	-Article
	-North Vietnam dependence on PRC
	-Kissinger's responses
	-President's responses
	-Reasons
		-PRC efforts to cancel the Soviet Summit
-Public responses
-Senate
-Published commentaries
-Kissinger's and President's attitudes

Kissinger left at 6:13 pm.