Conversation No. 724-1

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:39 and 2:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President' schedule
-John Cardinal Krol meeting
-Length
-Time

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 2:25 pm.

-Attendees
-Charles W. Colson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Location
-Sequoia
-Photograph opportunity
-Time of departure
-Mount Vernon
-Transportation

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

-Blue Room reception
-Introductions
-Military aide
-Clement E. Conger
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Number of attendees
-Location of receiving line
-Remarks in East Room
-Conger's role
-Mrs. Nixon

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Conversation No. 724-2

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:25 pm and 3:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

John B. Connally
-Arrival

Connally entered at 2:29 pm.

Arthur F. Burns
-A speech
-Distribution
-Disagreement with Connally
-The President’s view
-Discussion with [First name unknown] Turner 

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:29 pm.

Refreshment orders

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:32 pm.

Burns
-A speech
-Canadian government
-The President’s view
-A speech
-Effect
-International monetary negotiations
-Possible rebuttal
-Paul A. Volcker
-Pepperdine College speech
-Domestic monetary situation
-Discussions with the President
-Value to administration

-The President’s view
-Value to Administration
-Appointment of Andrew F. Brimmer
-Alternatives
-Work of Jeffrey M. Bucher
-Connally’s view
-Story on speech
-Comparison to Pepperdine speech
-Controls
-Domestic
-International
-Relations with the press

Jews
-In press
-In government
-Plans for second term
-Frederic V. Malek
-Background
-Check by H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Schedule C appointees
-Percentage of Jews to be allowed
	-The President’s view
	-Haldeman's views
-Geographical areas
-Schools to avoid
-Harvard
-Yale
-Princeton
-Columbia
-Malek's work
-The President’s view
-President's review of Schedule C list
-Change in philosophy

Effect of Washington environment
-Potter Stewart
-The President’s view
-Compared to William O. Douglas
-"Georgetown set"
-Mrs. Stewart
-Effect on others
-Texans
-Californians
-Embassy officials
-Similarities

Connally's schedule
-Montreal
-Cancellation
-Reasons
-Latin America trip
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Resignation
-Montreal banking meeting
-Number and nationalities attending
-Attendees
-Volcker
-Burns
-James Dewey Daane
-Herbert Stein
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Council of International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Desire to make news

Business Council
-The President’s view
-Donald McI. Kendall
-President's actions in behalf of business
-Stance on Vietnam
-Compared with George Meany
-The President’s view
-The President’s and Connally’s view
-Administration representatives at meeting
-Secretary of Commerce
-William P. Rogers
-Administration actions in behalf of business
-Alternatives
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-George S. McGovern
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Meetings with the President and government officials
-The President’s view
-Compared with Elmer H. Bobst
-Compared with Robert H. Abplanalp
-Compared with John W. Mulcahy
-1968 campaign contributions
-Amount
-Compared with Mulcahy
-Cyrus R. Smith
-Attitude toward Business Council
-The President’s view
-Stance on Vietnam policy
-Greg Borchers [?]
-Kendall
-The President’s view
-Wife
-The President’s view
-Mail survey on the blockade decision
-Amount of response
-Use
-Business Council responses
-Rusty Young
-Expected results
-Reasons
-Kendall
-Advice on Soviet trade policy
-Trade policy
-President's knowledge compared with Business Council
-Peter G. Peterson
-Flanigan
-Soviet trade
-Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank credits
-Grain crop
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Statistics
-Peterson
-US return
-Soviet return
-Computers
-Grain
-US return
-Kendall's interest
	-PepsiCola
-Meetings with the President
-Texas Eastern
	-Oil and gas interests
-George Kirby
-Reports on meetings with Alexei N Kosygin
-Need for deal

Soviet Summit
-Cancellation
-Connally's prediction
-Timing
-Likelihood
-Communications on preparations
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Gifts
-Hydrofoil
-Cars
-Cancellation
-Predictions
-Likelihood
Previous speech on the blockade
-People's Republic of China [PRC] response
-Soviet response

Vietnam
-Recent victories
-Effect on morale
-US
-South Vietnam
-Firebase Bastogne
-Sorties
-Number since blockade decision
-Effect
-Targets
-Red River Bridge
-Oil dumps
-Expectations of success
-1968 Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] comparison
-Cambodian support
	-Sihanoukville
-Ports
-Mechanization
	-Oil
	-Rolling Stock
	-Railroads
-Effect on railroads
-Weaponry
-North Vietnam-Soviet Union relations
-US military actions
-Risk
-Effects
-Settlement
-Timing
-Destruction of North Vietnamese assets

Soviet Union`
-Role in Vietnam settlement
-Timing
-Credit
-Communications
	-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Summit

Vietnam
-US military actions
-State Department
-Story on mines
-Repudiation
-Kissinger meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Public opinion
-Polls
-Louis P. Harris
-Percentage
-Pennsylvania
-John Getz's report
-President's decision
-The President’s view
-Alternatives
-Fall of Hue
-Da Nang evacuation
-Summit cancellation
-The President’s view
-Demonstration
-Effect

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Vietnam
-President's previous speech on the blockade
-Senate Democratic Caucus vote
-Necessity
-Connally’s view

President's schedule
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Time
-Meeting with Connally

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:29 pm.

Refreshment order

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:32 pm.

Shultz
-Appointment as Secretary of Treasury
-Connally's appointment
-Date
-Connally's tenure
-Length
-Qualifications
-Discussions
-Nomination process
-Acting Secretary status
-Connally's discussions with Haldeman
-Confirmation
-Connally's status
-Likelihood
-Transition period
	-Volcker
	-Charls E. Walker
-Business community
-Effect
-Opinion of Shultz
-Burns
-Timing of appointment
-President's return from Moscow
-Connally's schedule
-Idanell Brill (“Nellie”) Connally
-Travel
-New positions at Treasury
-Shultz's decision
-Advantages to the President
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Cabinet
-Budget
-Transition
-Support
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Connally’s view
-Forthcoming announcement of appointment
-Calls
-Clark MacGregor
-Cabinet meeting
-Time
-Attendees
-President's comments
-Connally's comments
-Press briefing
-The President, Connally, Shultz, Weinberger
-President's remarks
-Connally's role in transition
-Shultz's qualifications
-Weinberger's appointment
	-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Ronald L. Ziegler [?]
-Connally's remarks
-Reasons for resignation
-Review of accomplishments
-Future plans
	-Smithsonian Agreement
	-Control programs
-Support for the President
	-National Security Council [NSC] membership
-Expected questions
-Future plans
-Endorsement of Democrats
-Support for the President
-Nellie Connally

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Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Veto on busing moratorium
-The President’s view
-Vetoes
-Anti-abortion bill
-Forest Hills integrated housing

President's opinions
-Integrated housing
-Busing
-Abortion
-Religious considerations
-Graham
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Personal consideration

Connally
-Availability
-Parallel to end of term as governor
-Mark Connally
-Move to Houston
-Connally's work
-Richardson and Bass law firm
-Sid Richardson
-Length of service
-Nellie and John Connally's plans
-Trip to South America
-Brazil
-Purpose
-Trip to Europe
-Trip to South America
	-Robert H. Finch
-Trip to Africa
-Trip to South America
-Discussion with Kissinger
-Timing
-Soviet Summit
-Shultz's confirmation
	-Russell B. Long and Senate Finance Committee
-Purpose
-Brazil
-Argentina
-Value
-Possible trip to Africa
	-South Africa
		-The President’s view
-Trip to Arab countries
-Jewish influence in US
-Oman
-Saudi Arabia
-Algeria
-Iran
-Morocco
-North African countries
-Value
-Need for trip
-Brazil
	-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Timing
-Value of Connally visit
-Celebrity status in other nations
-Continuity of relationship with the President
-Trip to Iron Curtain countries
-President's trips to Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Hungary
-Connally's trip
-President's preference
-Latin America
-President's visit to Mexico
-Itinerary
-Colombia
-Brazil
-Argentina
-Connally’s view
-Appointment to President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Reasons

Restructuring of intelligence bureaucracy
-Richard M. Helms
-The President’s view
-Replacement
-Removal of Georgetown influence
-Adm. George W. Anderson
-PFIAB
-Retention
-Disarmament Board
-President's plans
-The President’s view
-Improvements
-Accuracy of intelligence on Soviets
-Connally's role
-Announcement
-Timing
-Purposes
-Visits to Washington, DC
-Information
-Need
-Defense of US
-Foreign policy
-Economic intelligence
-Discussion with Anderson
-Appointment to PFIAB

Connally
-Resignation
-Announcement
-Cabinet meeting
-Press briefing
-Ziegler
-Press speculation
-Return to Texas
-Ben F. Barnes

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Connally
-Schedule
-Attendance at Blue Room reception
-Nellie Connally
-Location
-Shultz meeting
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Location of Shultz meeting

Connally left at 3:32 pm.

Conversation No. 724-3

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  3:32pm - 4:06 pm

Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz.

Greetings

Shultz's health

Shultz's trip to South
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's report
-States visited
-North Carolina
-Mississippi
-Louisiana
-Meeting with bi-racial committees
-Support for President's Vietnam policy

President's discussion with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:32 pm.

Refreshment order

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:54 pm.

Vietnam
-Support for the President
-Washington-based ambassadors
-Swiss ambassador's [Felix Schnyder] report
-Polls
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Percentages
-Success
-Previous Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] report
-Contrast with current situation
-Cambodian supply lines
	-Sihanoukville
-Sea lanes
-Railroad Bridges
-Surgical bombing
-Oil reliance
-Contrast with guerrilla warfare
-Support for the President's actions
-President's peace offer
-Lifting blockade
-Releasing prisoners of war [POWs]
-Ceasefire
-Alternative
-US withdrawal
-Consequences

Shultz's nomination as Secretary of Treasury
-Surprise nature
-Reasons
-John B. Connally
-Agreement with President on tenure
-Extension
-Resignation
-Announcement
-Day
-Future plans
	-National Security Council [NSC]
-Announcement
-Qualifications
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Nomination as Director of Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Alternatives
-Value to Administration
-Work with Arthur F. Burns
-Work with OMB
-Ease of confirmation
-Surprise nature
-Qualifications
-Changes at Treasury Department
-Number of positions
-President's and Connally's choice
-Announcement
-Haldeman meeting with Burns
-Cabinet meeting
-Time
-Press briefing
-Connally's role
-Weinberger's and Shultz's role
-President's advice
-Choice of lieutenants
-Difficulty of position
-Shultz's reply
-Connally's resignation
-Reasons
-Political
-Private
-Idanell Brill (“Nellie”) Connally
-Budget preparation
-Weinberger's role
-Advice from Shultz
-Qualifications and philosophy
-Connally's concurrence
-International markets
-Tax reform
-Budget
-Work with Weinberger, Herbert Stein
-Work with Burns
-Difficulty
-Press and congressional opinions
-Acceptance
-Honor
-Responsibility
-Work with Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Coast Guard
	-John A. Volpe
-Work on Vietnam

Shultz's topics for meeting with the President
-Discussion postponed

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:32 pm.

Connally
-Meeting with the President and Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:54 pm.

Budget
-President's position
-Haldeman's report
-Publicity
-Campaign issue
-Stringency
-Connally's work
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Revenue sharing
-Agricultural programs
-Cotton program
-Director
-Weinberger
-Shultz’s view
-Replacement possibilities
-Frank C. Carlucci
-Arnold R. Weber
	-The President’s view
	-Future possibilities

Vietnam
-Support for the President
-George Meany
-President's call
-Statement

Shultz as Secretary of Treasury
-Lack of free time
-Proximity to White House

Connally entered at 3:54 pm.

Greeting

Connally
-Resignation
-Shultz as successor
-Work with Shultz

Shultz
-Qualifications
-Background
-Work with Weinberger
-Work with Burns
-Milton Friedman
-Appointments
-Connally's advice
-Richard V. Adams
-John S. Nolan
-Jack F. Bennett
-Frederic W. Hickman
-Connally’s view
-Paul A. Volcker
-Connally’s view
-Possible replacement
-Bennett
-Adams
-James W. Donley
-Staff meeting
-Time
-Connally's and Shultz's appearance
-Transition
-Confirmation
-Acting Secretary status
-Transition
-Duration
-Date
-Meetings
-OMB staff
-Connally
-OMB staff
-Weinberger's attendance
-Sequence
-Press briefing
-Walk to Treasury Department
-Treasury Department staff
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Customs
-Available positions
-Gordon Gooch
-Current position
	-Federal Power Commission
-Background
-Connally’s view
-Background
-Connally’s view
-Desire to leave Federal Power Commission
-Connally’s view

Connally
-Future
-President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]

Shultz
-Position to take
-International monetary affairs
-Trade
-Convertibility

	Burns
-Position as Governor of International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Nathaniel Samuels
-Resignation as alternate
-Agreement with Burns and Edward M. Kennedy
-Burns as alternate governor
-Authority under Nixon
			-The President’s view

Connally gift
-Sculpture
-1939 World's Fair
-Cyrus R. Smith

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:54 pm.

President's schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with Weinberger

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:06 pm.

Schedules
-Shultz
-Connally
-Press briefing

Connally left at 4:06 pm.

-Shultz and Weinberger
-Meeting with the President
-Time
-President
-Donald McI. Kendall meeting

Shultz left at 4:06 pm.

Conversation No. 724-4

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  4:06-4:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Donald McI. Kendall and Peter M. Flanigan.

Greetings

Trip to Soviet Union
	-Flanigan’s attendance

Soviet Union
-Vodka Agreement
-Pepsi Agreement
-Trade
	-Pepsi for Vodka
-Alexei N. Kosygin
-Vodka sales in US
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Effect on price
-Summit
-President's departure
-Itinerary
-Austria
-Moscow

-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Kosygin
-Presence at talks
-Economic expertise
-Compared to Brezhnev
-Leadership
-Nature
-Kosygin
-Brezhnev
-Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Trade
-Nikolai S. Patolichev
-Meeting with the President
-Kendall's meeting with Patolichev and Yuri [?] Ivanov
	-Identified
	-Kendall’s view
	-Other meetings
-Vladimir Alkhimov
-Identified
-Alexei Manzhulo
-Identified
-An unknown person
-Kendall's advice
-Previous efforts
-Importance of personal relationships
-Continuity
-Specialization
-President's previous speech on the blockade
-Support for the President's position
-Business
-Labor
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-George Meany
-Leonard Woodcock
-Business
-Telegrams
-Influences
	-New York Times
	-Washington Post
	-Chet Huntley
	-David Brinkley
	-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-The President’s view
-Rusty Young
-Trade
-Brezhnev
-Soviet economic, political, and social objectives
-US position
-Soviet as bargainers

Vietnam
-William P. Rogers
-Speaking ability
-Business Council speech
-Kendall’s assessment
-Content
-Paul Ostend [?]
-Assessment
-Feedback

Soviet Union
-1959 compared with 1972
-Differences
-Consumer goods
-Marketing opportunities for Pepsico
-Eastern Europe compared with Western Europe
	-Romania
	-Yugoslavia
	-Czechoslovakia
	-Hungary
	-Poland
-Agreement to market bicycles
	-Montgomery Ward
-President's trip
-Stop in Poland

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

Refreshment order

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

Pepsi-Cola

Soviet Union
-Trade
-Pepsico
-Soviet assessment
-Technology
-Japanese
-German
-US
-Soviet attitude
-Patolichev
-Alkhimov
-Manzhulo
-Other countries' experiences
-French
-German
-Japanese
-Commercial transactions
-Kendall’s view
-Credit
-Negotiations
-Kendall’s view 
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters 
	-Kendall’s experience
-Brezhnev
-Eisaku Sato
-Ivanov
-Identified
-David Rockefeller
	-Ivanov’s view
-Relations with US
-Alkhimov's comments
-Change
-Philosophy of spreading communism
-Chile
-Cuba
-Political persuasion
-Alkhimov
-Summit
-Preparations
-Military
-Alkhimov's comments
-Influenced by US expenditure
-Supply of North Vietnam
	-Competition with People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Mikhail Suslov
-Economic interests
-Growing power
-Summit
-Effect on the President's Vietnam actions
-Follow-up negotiating team
-Business issues
-Grain
-Lend-Lease
-Kama River
-Composition
-White House
-State Department
-Commerce Department
-Agriculture Department
-Rotating chairmanship
-Continuity
-Problems
-Bureaucracy
-Williston Scott's level
-Department Secretary level
-Stature
-Peter G. Peterson
-Rogers
-Earl L. Butz
-Personal relationships
-Alkhimov's comments
-Continuity
-Importance
-Kendall’s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

President's schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Caspar W. Weinberger

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:46 pm.

Soviet Union
-Trade
-Summit
-Follow-up negotiating team
-Jewish team members
-Henry A. Kissinger
					-Soviet attitude
-Soviet attitude
-Nathaniel Samuels
-Limitation of numbers
-Kissinger
	-Soviet attitude
-Ambassador from US
-Change
-Jacob D. Beam
-New post
-Health
-Agriculture
-Credits on consumables
-Refusal
-Flanigan
-Credits on capital goods
-Acceptance
-Reason
-Grain
-Length of commitment
-Commercial credit
-Level
-Fixed
-Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank
-Establishment
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Advice from Kendall
-Amount
-MFN status
-Necessity
-Trade with US
-Importance
-Poltical impact
-Kendall's opinion
-President's and Kissinger's opinion
-Role of new Ambassador
-Maurice H. Stans
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Communications
-The President
-Peterson
-Flanigan
-Butz
-The President
-Peterson
-Criticism
-A party
-Peterson

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George C. Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Condition
-Attacker(s) 

Support for the President
-Businessmen
-Kendall
-Flanigan
-William S. Renchard
-Stans
-Service as Secretary of Commerce
-The President’s view
-Complaints of elite
-Exceptions
-Young
-Frederick Weyerhauser
-Kendall
-Labor leaders
-Fitzsimmons
-Meany
-The President’s view
-Election support
-Businessmen
-Compared with labor leaders
-The President’s view
-Need to build new establishment
-Difficulty
-James M. Roche
-Assessment of hippie culture
-Replacement of General Motors [GM]
		-Richard Gerstenberg
-The President’s view
-Harvard Business School
-Problems
-Chairman for San Francisco
-Number called
-Chairman for Los Angeles
-Forest Shumway
-The President’s view
-Future
-Liberal-labor hegemony
-Need for businessmen to unite
-Kendall as exception
-Business Council
-Membership
-The President’s view
-Fair-weather support
-Number of supporters of the President
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Attitude of other businessmen
-Amount of holdings
-Source of fortune
-Attitude toward businessmen
-Kendall
-Background
-Businessmen
-Prospects of support for the President
-Roche
-Business Council
-President's appearances when Vice President
-Follow-up
-President's expectations for future

US establishment
-Businessmen
-Press
-Time
-Newsweek
-Life
-Three major television networks
-Ownership
-Jewish
-Philosophy
-Left-leaning
-Los Angeles Times
-Education leaders
-Ivy League professors and presidents
-Position on Vietnam
-Larger colleges
-Social class
-The President’s view
-Exceptions
-Kendall
-Flanigan
	-The President’s view
-President's treatment of establishment
-Kendall's attitude
-Business Council
-Flanigan's suggestions
-President's attitude
-Problems
-Texas chairman for the President
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Kendall’s view
-John B. Connally
-Desire for David Packard's job
-Connally
-Lawyers
-Compared to businessmen
	-The President’s view
-Business leaders
-Kendall's efforts
-President's appreciation
-The President’s view
-Abplanalp
-President's invitations

Pepsi

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:46 pm.

-PRC
-Women in PRC and Hong Kong
	-The President’s view
-Soviet market

Soviet Union
-Trade with US
-Centralization of US decision making
-Role of lesser figures

President's schedule
-Golf with Joe Wolf

Kendall and Flanigan left at 4:48 pm.

Soviet Union
	-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Wallace
-Shooting
-Assailant
-Suspected George S. McGovern supporter
-Violence

Soviet Union
-Captured Soviet spy
-Appeals
-Deportation
-Richard G. Kleindienst position
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] and Justice Department
-Kissinger's recommendation
-Exchange
-[Forename unknown] Malekov [?] release
-Conditions
-Trade
-Kendall's meeting with Nikolai S. Patolichev
-Effect of meeting with the President
-Kendall’s view
-US policy
-Kendall knowledge
-Flanigan
-Knowledge
-Kissinger’s view
-Haldeman's recommendations
-The President’s view
-Decision making
-High level
-President's meeting with Brezhnev
-Responsibility for Flanigan
-Agriculture credits
-Butz
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-Duration
-Kendall's recommendation
-Kissinger's recommendation
-Benefits
-Lower level bureaucrats
-High level officials
-Negotiating team
-Kendall's recommendation
-Kendall's impressions
-Peterson
-Butz
-Flanigan
-Samuels
-[Forename unknown] Dean 
-Peterson
-Kissinger’s view
-Decision on credits and MFN status
-Timing
-Reasons
-Fragility
-Soviet spy
-Importance
	-The President’s view

Vietnam
-Military action
-Bastogne-Birmingham Road
-Reoccupation
-Previous reporting
-Current headline
-Washington Star

Kissinger's schedule
-East Room reception

Kissinger left at 4:54 pm.

Conversation No. 724-5

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  4:54 pm - 5:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz and Caspar W. Weinberger.

Greetings
-Weinberger

George C. Wallace
-Shooting

John B. Connally
-Appointment as Secretary of Treasury
-Duration
-Reasons
-Extension
-Reasons

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 4:56 pm.

Wallace
-Shooting
-Location
-Condition
-Other victims
-Alabama state trooper
-Dora Thompson
-Weapon
-Assailant
-Race
-Age
-Apprehension
-Secret Service
-Other victims
-Secret Service agent
-Assailant
-Motive
-Background
-Attire
-Condition
-Effect on President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's knowledge
-Services offered by the President
-White House press release
-Preparation

Haldeman left at 4:57 pm.

Connally
-Resignation
-Announcement
-Political implications

Shultz
-Nomination as Secretary of Treasury

Weinberger
-Nomination for director of Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Work with Shultz
-Meeting with the President
-Time
-Delay
-Work with Shultz
	-"Troika" and "Quadriad"
-Characteristics desired

Connally
-Resignation
-Loss
-Reasons
-Political work

Weinberger
-Acceptance
-Difficulty of work
-Pay
-Perquisites
-The President’s view
-Compared to Chiang Kai-shek

Budget
-Connally's appearance at hearings
-Philosophy
-Stringency
-Taxes
-Effect on OMB
-Vetoes
-Fiscal policy
-Business Council
-Herbert Stein's presentation
-Reception
-The President’s view
-Donald McI. Kendall
	-The President’s view
-The President’s view
-Compared to Ivy League college presidents
-Defined

New appointees
-Weinberger
-Intentions
-Shultz
-President's and Connally's decision
-Weinberger
-President's and Connally's decision
-Decision
-Time made
-Secrecy
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Unanimous choice

President's anecdote
-Leonid I. Brezhnev meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Opinion of elite

Goodbyes

Shultz and Weinberger left at 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 724-10

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  5:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 24-81]

Conversation No. 724-6

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  5:06-5:14 pm

Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

George C. Wallace
-Condition
	-Possibility of paralysis
-Offer of services by the President
-Dr. William M. Lukash
-Facilities
-Assailant
-Race
-Sex
-Identity
-Other victims
-Alabama state policeman
-Secret Service protection
-Shooting
-Other victims
-Dora Thompson
-Wallace staffer
-State policeman
-Secret Service agent
-Assailant
-Apprehension

Butterfield left and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 5:06 pm.

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-Press coverage
-Possible public reaction
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-President's appearance
-Mrs. Nixon's schedule

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:06 and 5:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-6A]

[See Conversation No. 24-82]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-President's attendance
-Actions

The President talked with Mrs. Nixon between 5:10 and 5:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-6B]

[See Conversation No. 24-83]

The President conferred with Haldeman during the telephone conversation.

Blue Room reception
-Press coverage

[End of conferral]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally and John N. Mitchell

Haldeman left at 5:14 pm.

Conversation No. 724-7

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:14 and 5:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.

Conversation No. 724-8

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  5:16-6:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-Cancellation of meeting with John N. Mitchell
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Blue Room reception
-Press coverage
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's presence
-President's presence
-Disadvantages
-Mrs. Nixon's presence
-Press coverage
-President's presence

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:16 and 5:21 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-8A]

[See Conversation No. 24-84]

[End of telephone conversation]

George C. Wallace
-Shooting
-News story
-Cornelia Wallace

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-Effect of Wallace shooting

-Connally announcement
-Possible postponement
-Pros and cons

Wallace
-Shooting
-Press coverage
-Effect on Vietnam coverage
-Bulletproofing
-Events
-Location
-Laurel, Maryland
-Bowie [Maryland] racetrack
-Secret Service protection
-Possible complaints
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Connally's decision

Connally
-Tenure
-George P. Shultz confirmation
-Future plans
-President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Latin America trip
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Brazil
-Support for the President
-Announcement
-Timing
-Democratic candidates
-Hubert H. Humphrey

The President talked with Mrs. Nixon between 5:21 pm and 5:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-8B]

[See Conversation No. 24-85]

The President conferred with Haldeman during the telephone conversation.

Connally's arrival

[End of conferral]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-President's presence
-Mrs. Nixon's advice
-Connally's views

Connally entered at 5:24 pm.

Greetings

Secret Service protection
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Connally's decision
-Announcement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Reasons
-Connally's opinion
-Eugene T. Rossides

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:24 and 5:30 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-8C]

[See Conversation No. 24-86]

[End of telephone conversation]

Secret Service protection
-Edward Kennedy
-Reasons

Wallace
-Condition
-Press reports

Connally
-Wounding in John F. Kennedy assassination
-Condition
-Location
-Connally
-Idanell Brill (“Nellie”) Connally
-Jacqueline (Bouvier) Kennedy
-Nellie Connally's view
-Location
-Connally
-John Kennedy
-Connally's actions

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 5:24 and 5:30 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-8D]

[See Conversation No. 24-87]

Connally talked with Rossides at an unknown time between 5:24 and 5:30 pm. 

[The following portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 724-8D]

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-President's presence

Connally conferred with the President and Haldeman during the telephone conversation.

	Secret Service protection
-Shirley Chisholm request
-Duration
-Edward Kennedy
-Priority
-Candidates
-Wilbur D. Mills
-John N. Ashbrook
-Chisholm
-Edward Kennedy
-Request

[End of conferral]

[The following portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 724-8D]

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-President's presence

[End of telephone conversation]

Secret Service protection
-President's anticipation
-President's decision
-Duration
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Reduced coverage
-President's coverage while Vice President
-Caracas, Venezuela incident
-Wallace's coverage

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-Connally's advice

Ziegler entered at 5:30 pm.

Secret Service protection
-Announcement
-Ziegler
-Connally
-Edward Kennedy
-Chisholm
-Offer to others
-Reduced coverage
-Kennedy
-Debate
-Chisholm
-Request
-Announcement
-Ziegler
-Connally
-Ziegler
-Wording
-Edward Kennedy
-Chisholm
-Mills
-Analogy to Robert F. Kennedy shooting
-Presidential order
-Edward Kennedy
-Chisholm
-Possible questions
-Possible answers
-Need
-Edward Kennedy
-John W. Gardner
-Edward Kennedy
-Wallace
-Notification of Edward Kennedy's office
-Rossides
-James J. Rowley
-Advisory committee
-Members
-Hugh Scott
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Thomas Kuchel
-Carl B. Albert
-Gerald R. Ford
-Criteria
-Edward Kennedy's inclusion
-Legal opinion
-Judge Allin Hugh Pierce’s view
-Copies to Mansfield and other committee members
-Presidential decision
-Legal basis
-Precedents
-John Foster Dulles
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Edward Kennedy
-Notification of Edward Kennedy
-Call from Connally
-Notification of unknown person [Chisholm?]
-Call from Rowley

Haldeman talked with with White House operator at an unknown time between 5:30 and 5:38 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-8E]

[See Conversation No. 24-88]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Senate action
-Mansfield
-Resolution
-Decision-making authority
-Purpose
-Edward Kennedy protection
-House action
-Instructions for Rossides

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at 5:38 pm.

The President talked with Cornelia Wallace between 5:38 and 5:41 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-8F]

[See Conversation No. 24-89]

[The following portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 724-8F]

President's statement

Mrs. Nixon

Wallace shooting

[End of telephone conversation]

Wallace
-Shooting
-Call from Cornelia Wallace
-Effect on forthcoming election
-Condition
-Effect on Maryland primary
-Effect on Michigan primary

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-President's attendance
-Mrs. Nixon's attendance
-Clement E. Conger's role
-Effect of Wallace's condition
-Conversation with guests
-President's remarks
-Press coverage
-President's remarks
-Call from Cornelia Wallace
-Change in plans
-Press coverage

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 5:41 and 5:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-8G]

[See Conversation No. 24-90]

[End of telephone conversation]

Edward Kennedy
-Location
-Georgetown
-Delay in protection
-Connally’s view
-Location
-New car

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-Press coverage
-President's remarks
-President's and Mrs. Nixon's attendance
-Appreciation to donors

Wallace
-Shooting
-President's statement for press
-Preparation
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Ziegler left at 5:45 pm.

Connally
-Resignation
-Announcement
-Timing
-Effect of Wallace condition

Wallace
-Condition
-Reports
-Problems
-Dr. William M. Lukash
-Location
-Offer of services
-Bethesda Naval Hospital

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-President's remarks
-Call from Cornelia Wallace
-President's and Mrs. Nixon's attendance
-Receiving line

Wallace
-Condition
-Length of hospital stay
-The President’s view
-Cornelia Wallace
-The President’s view
-[Ruby ("Big Ruby") Folsom Ellis Austin]
-Connally’s view
-Call from the President
-Theodore Roosevelt assassination attempt
-Outcome of election

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 5:45 pm and 5:52 pm.

Connally talked with Edward Kennedy at an unknown time between 5:45 pm and 5:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-8H]

[See Conversation No. 24-91]

[The following portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 724-8H]

Secret Service protection
-Edward Kennedy
-White House announcement

Ziegler entered at 5:52 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

-Acceptance
-Duration
-White House announcement
-Connally's call to Edward Kennedy

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:52 pm and 5:54 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-8I]

[See Conversation No. 24-92]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Duration
-President's orders
-Edward Kennedy's acceptance
-Necessity

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 5:52 pm and 5:54 pm.

Connally talked with Rossides at an unknown time between 5:52 pm and 5:58 pm.

[Conversation No. 724-8J]

[See Conversation No. 24-93]

[The following portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 724-8J]

-Number of agents assigned
-Statement for the press

Ziegler left at 5:54 pm.

Wallace's condition [?]

Donald McI. Kendall

President's schedule
-Call from Haldeman

[End of telephone conversation]

Wallace
-Shooting
-Visit from Humphrey
-Visit from George S. McGovern
-Possible visit from the President
-Time
-Call
-Disadvantages
-Services offered by the President
-Lukash
-Condition
-Location of wounds
-Other victims
-Secret Service agent
-Wounds
-The President’s view
-Assassination attempt
-Compared with Robert F. Kennedy assassination
-Causes
-Compared with Abraham Lincoln assassination
-Effect on other victims
-Secret Service agent
-Condition
-Visit from Humphrey
-Time
-Visit from McGovern
-Location
-Condition

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:58 pm.

				-Lukash's report

Butterfield left at 5:59 pm.

Connally's wounding
-Bleeding
-President's reading of reports
-Nellie Connally
-Location
-Care
-Details
-Surgeon
-Background
-Location
-Operation
		-John Kennedy's condition
-Connally's awareness
-Nellie Connally
-Condition
-Surgeon
			-Background
-Wound
		-Severity
		-Consequences

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-President's attendance
-Mrs. Nixon's knowledge

Connally's schedule
-Nellie Connally
-Arrangements to meet
-Location

President's schedule
-Blue Room reception
-President's attendance
-Time

Connally left at an unknown time after 5:58 pm.

Connally
-The President’s view
		-Domestic Council

President's schedule
-Blue Room
-President's preparation for reception

Connally entered at an unknown time before 6:06 pm.

Blue Room
-Described
-Mrs. Nixon's role

Dining room
-Light fixture
-Change
-Described
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Redecoration
-Light fixture
-Problem

Office
-Panelling

Dining Room
-Light fixture
-Change
-Time needed
-Alternative

The President, Haldeman, and Connally left at 6:06 pm.

Conversation No. 724-9

Date:  May 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:48 and 10:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vietnam
-Military action
-II Corps area
-Assessment
-Casualty figures
-I Corps
-Press coverage
-Firebases
-Bastogne
-Action
-An Loc
-Bombing
-Ground action
-III Corps
-Action
-Location
-Casualties
-Ground action assessed
-II Corps
-Action
-Assessed
-Enemy ground attacks
-Morale
-Assessed
-I Corps
-II Corps
-Air Strikes
-North Vietnamese railroads

-Hanoi and Haiphong plans
-Targets
-Time
-Targets
-Transformers
	-Proximity to Hanoi
-Damage
-Tank attacks
-Plans
-Problems
-Equipment
-Surprise enemy actions
-I Corps
-Hue
-Da Nang
-Enemy encounters
-Melvin R. Laird
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Importance of counter-offensive action
-Air mobile operation
-Purpose
-Location
-Hue
	-B-52s
	-Morale
	-Effect
	-An Loc
-Enemy action
-Compared with previous week
-Motives
-III Corps
-Weather
-An Loc
	-Haig’s view
-Results
-I Corps
-Performance
-Location
-Surprise actions
-Abrams
-Possible South Vietnamese raid own North Vietnam
-Effect
-Location
	-Vinh
-Effects
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Risk
-Adm. John S. McCain
-Airborne operations
-Effect
-Press coverage
-Effect
-II Corps
-Recapture of bases
-Press coverage
-Reinforcements
-US aircraft carrier
-US squadrons
-Thailand
-Expectations
-Cambodia
-Bombing
-Targets
-Recent results assessed
-Damage
-Bridges
-Photographs
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Follow-up
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Memorandum from the President
-Winston S. Churchill
-Tanks
-World War I example
-Haig's experience
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] meeting
-Gen. Douglas MacArthur
-Inchon Landing
-Location
-Tokyo
-Adm. Forrest Sherman
-Gen. J. Lawton Collins
-Gen. Omar N. Bradley
-Gen. Hoyt Vandenburg
-Support For Macarthur
-Macarthur's Decision
-Bradley And Collins
-The President’s view
-Tactics to use
-The President’s memorandum
-Abrams's understanding
-Service with Gen. George S. Patton
-Use of air power
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Age
-Philosophy
-President's philosophy
-North Vietnamese attacks
-South Vietnamese forces
-Counterattacks
-Effect of victories
-Tanks
-Artillery
-B-52s
-F-4s
-Patrols
-Attrition
-Numbers
-Effect
-Hue
-Materiel
-Air power
-Aircraft carrier
-Arrival time
-Purpose
-Soviets
-USS Saratoga
-Destroyers
-Cruiser
-Carriers
-Psychological effect
-President's previous speech on the blockade
-Changes in past week
-Response
-West Point
-Haig's son's report
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II's Report
-Washington-based diplomatic corps
-Report from Swiss Ambassador's [Felix Schnyder] wife
-Effect on war
-North Vietnamese people
-Haig’s view
-Will to fight
	-The President’s and Haig’s view
-Military action
-Tactics to use
-Bombing
-Intensity
-Targets
-II Corps
-Kontum
-I Corps
-III Corps
-An Loc
-Number
-II Corps
-Number 
-Schedule
-II Corps
-Chances of saving
-Kontum
-Attacks
-Losses
-Recapture
-Firebase Bastogne
	-Importance
	-Casualties
	-Gains
-North Vietnamese counterattacks
-Location
-Time
-Weather
-Location
-II and III Corps
-IV Corps
-Lack of activity
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Effects
-South Vietnamese morale
-Timing
-End of war
-Effect of military action
-Political situation
	-Possible terms
-Effect of military action

Haig left at an unknown time before 10:15 pm.