Conversation No. 725-1

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:55 am and 7:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

  A meeting

Conversation No. 725-2

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  7:57 am- 8:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

  President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Time
-Charles W. Colson

  Secret Service protection
-Level
			Presidential candidates
-Editorial in New York Times

  President's schedule
-Meeting public
-Reason
-Location
-Treasury Department
-Handshaking with White House tourists
-Meeting in John B. Connally's office
		-Mexico-US Interparliamentary Conference
			-Michael J. Mansfield
		-The President’s view
		-Allen J. Ellender
			-Forthcoming film
				-Audience

-Herb G. Klein
-Emil Mosbacher
-William P. Rogers
		-Henry A. Kissinger

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  President's schedule
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and Colson
-Meeting with Kissinger

Haldeman left at 8:03 am.

Conversation No. 725-3

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:03 am and 8:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

  Soviet Union
-Unknown woman's trip
-President's trip

  George C. Wallace
		-The President’s view

  William P. Rogers
-Hand-delivered packet
-Urgency
-Cabinet meeting
-Destination
-State Department

The unknown woman left.

Conversation No. 725-4

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:03 am and 8:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

  Memorandum concerning meeting with Donald McI. Kendall
-Soviet trade
-Peter G. Peterson
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Maurice H. Stans
		-Knowledge of negotiations compared with Peterson
and Flanigan
		-The President’s view
		-Job
		-Peterson
-White House staff
-Credit for negotiations
		-Peterson
		-Stans
		-Flanigan
		-Briefing on Soviet trip
		-Peterson and Flanigan
		-Stans
-Instructions for Haldeman
		-Peterson
		-Flanigan
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Memorandum copy
-Recognition of Stans

Conversation No. 725-5

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:03 am and 8:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

  [See Conversation No. 24-137]

Conversation No. 725-6

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:03 am and 8:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Marjorie P. Acker.

  Dr. William M. Lukash
-Meeting with President
-Possible location
			-George C. Wallace
-Phone call to President
-Identified

Acker left.

Conversation No. 725-7
Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:03 am and 8:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President.

  [See Conversation No. 24-138]

The President talked with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

  [See Conversation No. 24-139]

Conversation No. 725-8

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 8:12 am and unknown before 8:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Marjorie P. Acker.

  Memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

  Rose Mary Woods
-Schedule
			-Location

Acker left.

Conversation No. 725-9

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:12 am and 8:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Marjorie P. Acker.

  Dr. William M. Lukash
-Location

Acker left.

Conversation No. 725-10

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  8:14 am- 8:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

  George C. Wallace
-Assassination attempt
			-Parallel to Vietnam War
			-Arthur H. Bremer
	-Political affiliation
		-Young Democrats
						-Wisconsin
				-The President’s view

  Vietnam
-Opposition
			-Eugene J. McCarthy's comments
		-Wallace
			-Hubert H. Humphrey's comments
			-George S. McGovern's comments
		-Comments about Lyndon B. Johnson's comments
		-Vietnamese casualties
			-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Military action
			-Hue
			-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-New York Times
			-Bastogne area
	-Captured ammunition dump
	-North Vietnamese casualties
			-Fire support base Nancy
	-Air cavalry team
				-Location
	-Damage
			-Military Region II
	-Damage
	-Statistics
	-Tube-loaded, optically-tracked, wire-guided weapons [TOWs]
	-Effect on tanks
					-Haig’s previous experience with tanks
			-An Loc
	-Troop movements
	-Damage
			-Air strikes
-Level
-Hanoi
-Railroads

The President talked with Dr. William M. Lukash between 8:19 and 8:25 am.

[Conversation No. 725-10A]

[See Conversation No. 24-140]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Vietnam
-President's previous speech on the blockade
			-Psychological effect
-South Vietnamese
-North Vietnamese
-Soviets
			-Effect on Soviet summit
	-US leadership
			-Effect on People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Boeing trip
	-Reception
			-Effect on North Vietnamese military actions
			-Press coverage
	-Characterization of President
			-Soviet actions
-Czechoslovakia
-Hungary
-Timing
	-Public opinion
	-Washington, DC
						-Blacks
	-Louis P. Harris Poll
	-Results
	-Possible change
	-Press coverage
-Prisoners of War [POW] wives
-Saratoga
-Squadrons from Thailand
-New carrier
					-Anti-submarine warfare [ASW]
-Squadrons
		-Delay
	-Air strikes in North Vietnam
-Hanoi
-Vankari[sp?] Pass
-Damage
-Petroleum, oil and lubricants [POL]
-Trucks
-Missile sites
-Predicted effect
	-Peace negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Note from Aanatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Activity in Paris
					-Plenary session
-US actions
-Effect on Soviets
-Soviet summit
-Previous North Vietnam position
	-Military action
-Intensity
-Effect
-Targets
		-Power plants
-President's interest
-Anthony Lewis
-Kissinger's statements to President
-The President’s view
-Duong Ha
-Location of main Hanoi plant
-Location of previous targets
-Haiphong
-Anti-aircraft control center
					-Effect
					-Compared to Colorado Springs
	-Peace negotiations
-Timing
		-Moscow trip
-William J. Porter
		-Schedule
		-Haig’s view
		-Instructions
-US proposal
-Finality
-POWs
-Cease-fire
		-Timing
	-President's previous speech on the blockade
-Richard M. Helms's position
					-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Laird's position
-William P. Rogers's position
-Necessity
		-Press coverage
-Time
-Life
-Newsweek
		-Senate action
		-South Vietnam morale
-Haig's opinion
-Compared with 1968 situation
-Nature of warfare
-Cambodia
-Sealanes
-Railroad and POL targets
-Haig's opinion
	-Use of B-52s
-Kissinger's opinion
-Locations
-South
-Kontum area
-North
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
	-Previous US military actions
-Cambodia
-Laos
		-Effect
	-Current US military actions
-Effect
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-North Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Commanders
		-Cambodia
		-Lon Nol
		-North Vietnamese withdrawal
		-Political situation
		-Laos
		-Enemy positions
		-Peace settlement
		-Compared to World War II
		-Effect of US-Soviet Union and US-PRC relations
		-South Vietnam
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Morale
	-Tanks
-Locations
					-Central Highlands
		-III corps
-World War I analogy
		-Battle of Cambrai
						-Unknown book
-Abrams
-Location
-Numbers
-Instructions to Abrams
		-Winston S. Churchill
		-Volume II of memoirs
		-Appendix: Tanks
		-Location
		-Number
		-The President’s view
		-Promotion
		-Laird

Haig left at 8:43 am

Conversation No. 725-11

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  8:43 am - 9:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman met with Charles W. Colson.

  President's instructions to Gen. Creighton W. Abrams
-Haldeman’s view

  Winston S. Churchill
-Memoirs
-Page numbers

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 8:44 am.

  Memorandum for President's files
-Ronald L. Ziegler's position
-Subject
-Purpose
-Colson

The President entered at an unknown time after 8:44 am.

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 
8:44 am and 9:47 am. 

[Conversation No. 725-11A]

  Call to Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

The President talked with Haig.

  Vietnam
-Necessity of effort
-Military compared with bureaucracy
-Message for Abrams
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Military promotions
				-The President’s view
					-The President’s military experience

[End of telephone conversation]

  Government
-White House staff compared with bureaucracy
-Fear of failure

  George C. Wallace
-Condition
-President's previous call to Dr. William M. Lukash
-Possible visit by President
-Calls from President
-Cornelia Wallace
-Wallace's brother
-Dr. Lukash
-Conversations with President
-Times
-Offer of Presidential suite and US Navy doctors
-Prime Minister of Chad
-Prognosis for recovery
-Bullet location
-Duration
-Likelihood

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			-Franklin D.Roosevelt
	-Performance as President
	-Warm Springs trips
						-The President’s 1969 trip to California
			-Comparison with [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson

  Modern presidency
-Airplanes
-Budgets
-Vacations
-Roosevelt era

  Ehrlichman
-Nature of work
			-Work with left-wingers
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Abortion bill
	-Forest Hills housing bill
	-Busing moratorium bill

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  Wallace
-Assassination attempt
			-Wounded Secret Service agent
	-Operation
	-Family
	-Georgia detail
			-Flowers from President
	-Custom
	-Memorandum
-Effect on President's protection
			-Intent of left-wingers
-Arthur H. Bremer
			-Political affiliations
	-Story by Associated Press [AP]
-Wire reports
-United Press International [UPI] report
-Washington Post report
-Black Panther
-Wallace
			-Motivation
-Ehrlichmans’ view
-Investigation
		-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
		-Secret Service
		-The President’s view

  Secret Service
-Personnel changes
			-George P. Shultz's opinion
			-James J. Rowley
			-Robert H. Taylor
	-The President’s view
			-William L. Duncan
			-Reason

  President's personnel theories
-Supreme Court Justices
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Need to make effort
-Consequences

Bremer
		-Background

  Secret Service
-Inspection of Bremer's apartment
			-Illegality
			-Effect on conviction
			-Failure to get warrant
	-Reason
-Contrasted with FBI and Bremer's car
-Mistakes

  Wallace
-Assassination attempt
			-Investigation
	-FBI direction
	-L.[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
	-Work
	-Ehrlichman’s view
	-Compared with J. Edgar Hoover

  Gun control
-National Rifle Association [NRA]
-Rifles and shotguns
-Revolvers
			-Danger
-Hand-gun legislation
			-NRA
			-The President’s view
			-Gun owners
			-Solution to problem
			-Criminals
			-Number of gun owners
			-President's position
			-Lobby
			-Senior staff discussion
			-Publicity
			-The President’s instruction 
			-President's previous campaign position
			-Publicity
				--Egil (”Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
			-Saturday-night specials
			-Concealed weapons
			-Transportation of handguns
			-Concealed weapon legislation
	-Penalty
	-Robert F. Kennedy assassination
	-Sirhan Sirhan
	-John F. Kennedy
	-Mail-order gun used

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  Violence
-Possible editorial or AP story
-Effect of North Vietnam mining
-Effect of Vietnam War
-Effect of World War II
-Criminal tendencies
-Shooting of Wallace
			-Bremer
	-Motives
	-Ehrlichman’s view
			-Effect on Wallace's candidacy
	-Mrs. Wallace and staff
	-Motives
			-Effect on administration
	-Gun legislation
	-Necessity of speedy action
	-Announcement
	-Time
	-Penalties
	-Weapons defined
					-Saturday-night specials

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  Vietnam
-Previous briefing by Haig
-Trend of war
-Activity in North Vietnam
-An Loc
-Kontum
-Hue
-Effect of military blockade and bombing
			-Psychological
	-South Vietnam
	-US forces
	-In Vietnam
	-Worldwide
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II's report
-Sally Inge's report
-Haig's son's [Brian Haig’s] report
-US
		-Prospects for victory
		-North Vietnam
-Supply lines
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Sealanes
-US bombing
		-Petroleum, oil, and lubircants [POL]
-Press coverage
			-Characterization of President
			-Henry A. Kissinger's role
			-William P. Rogers's role
	-Melvin R. Laird's role
	-John B. Connally's role
	-Spiro T. Agnew's role
			-Tone
	-Weekly news magazines
	-Time
	-Newsweek
					-New York Times
-Psychological effect of blockade and mining
			-Importance
-Previous press coverage
			-Effect of Wallace assassination
			-Firebase Bastogne
			-South Vietnam movement and morale
-Blockade and mining
			-Risk
	-President's memorandum
	-Compared with opening to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
			-President's leadership
-President's image
			-PRC opening
	-Louis P. Harris
			-Described
			-Publicity

  White House protesters
-Arrests
			-Quakers
			-Charges
-Hippies
			-Publicity
			-Colsons’ view
			-The President’s view
-Quakers
			-The President’s view
	-President's mother and grandmother

  Wallace
-Assassination attempt
			-Bremer
	-Preliminary FBI report
	-Characterized by family
	-Political affiliations
	-Young Democrats
-Report from Theodore Bremer
-Shooting ability
-Previous arrest
-Compared with Lee Harvey Oswald’s shooting ability
-Ehrlichman's meeting with Secret Service and FBI
-Information on background
-Robert Kennedy case comparison
-Importance
-Possibility of prejudicing trial
-Story from Kenneth W. Clawson
-Time released
-Appearance in newspaper
-Political affiliation
-Washington Post story
-UPI story
-Political affiliation
-Young Democrats
-Need to release information
-Clawson's problems
-Instructions from Clawson
-Washington Post
-FBI
-Investigation
				-Gray
				-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Influence on public opinion
-President's congressional experience
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Previous jobs
-Source of funds for assassination attempt
-White House media campaign
-The President’s orders
-Effect on trial
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. case comparison
-Need
-Compared with other programs
-Revenue-sharing
-Welfare reform
-Health reform
-Transportation ("Transpo")
-William Proxmire's comparison with Little Big Horn
-John A. Volpe
			-White House media campaign on Arthur Bremer	
				-Work with agencies
				-FBI
-Gray
-Colson's office
	-Pressure
  					-Richard G. Kleindienst
							-The President’s view
						-Gray
							-The President’s view
						-The President’s relationship with Kleindienst and Gray
							-White House handling
								-FBI
-Secret Service
		-Rowley
						-Possible firing
		-Shultz’s role
		-Taylor
		-The President’s view
		-Leadership
		-Rowley
		-Thomas J. Kelley
						-Glenn Hill
							-Haldeman’s view
		-William L. Duncan
		-The President’s view
-Compared with Gray
-Background
-Work habits
		-Hoover
		-Needs
		-Compared with FBI
		-Compared with past
		-Presidential protective detail
		-President's opinions
		-Haldeman’s view

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					-Haldeman’s view
					-The President's view   

  Nixon family's protection
-Tricia Nixon Cox's appearance
			-Testimonial for Agnew
	-Date
	-Julie Nixon's Eisenhower's schedule
-Public appearances
			-Restriction
			-Duration
-President's walk to Treasury Department
			-Purpose
	-New York Times story
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
			-Location
-Philadelphia trip
-Public appearances
			-Date
			-Women's Republican meeting
			-Concerns
-President's appearances
			-Walk to Treasury Department
			-Necessity
			-Protection
-Soviet trip
			-Protection level
			-Ziegler announcement
-Public concerns

  Wallace
-Protection
			-Offer to Edward M. Kennedy
-President's press briefing
			-President's call to hospital
			-Wallace's condition
			-Secret Service agent's condition
			-Secret Service protection
			-President's comments on Wallace's condition
	-Mrs. Wallace's comments
	-Doctor's comments
				-Haldeman’s view
	-Content of future comments
			-President's offer of Bethesda Naval Hospital services
			-Secret Service agent's condition
			-Secret Service protection
				-Ehrlichman’s view
			-Alabama policeman's condition
			-Appreciation for work of law enforcement officers
			-Wounded Secret Service agent
	-Location of mother and wife

  Vietnam
-President's previous speech on the blockade
			-West Point response
	-[Brian Haig's] report
			-Morale
	-Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
	-The President’s view
	-David Eisenhower's report

	The President’s schedule
		-Cabinet meeting
			-The President’s forthcoming comments

  Colson's office
-Clawson
-Herbert G. Klein
			-Use

Haldeman, Colson and Ehrlichman left at 9:47 am.

Conversation No. 725-12

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  9:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

  [See Conversation No. 24-141]

  [End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at 9:47 am.

  President's conversation with the White House operator
-Call to Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Meeting with President

Bull left.

Conversation No. 725-13

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  9:48 am - 9:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

  Vietnam
-President's previous speech on the blockade
			-West Point
	-Haig's son's [Brian Haig’s] report
	-President's retelling to  H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
			-[Dwight] David Eisenhower II's report
	-USS Albany
			-West Point
	-Response
	-Duration
	-Reasons

  President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Haig left.

Conversation No. 725-14

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 am and 9:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

  Instructions for Haldeman
-Call to William P. Rogers
			-John B. Connally's resignation
	-Announcement at Cabinet meeting
	-Rogers's comments

  President's schedule
-Walk to Treasury Department
			-Time

Conversation No. 725-15

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 am and 9:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

  [See Conversation No. 24-142]

Conversation No. 725-16

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 and 9:57 a.m.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull.

  Material for President's attention

	-Rose Mary Woods
	-President's trip to Moscow
			-Routine paperwork

Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr’s. schedule
-Meeting with President

  Charles W. Colson's schedule

  William P. Rogers's schedule

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President between 9:56 and 9:57 am.

[Conversation No. 725-16A]

  [See Conversation No. 24-143]

Butterfield and Bull left at an unknown time before 9:57 am.

Conversation No. 725-17

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Between 9:57 am and 9:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo.

  [See Conversation 24-144]

Conversation No. 725-18

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:59 am and 10:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

  [See Conversation No. 24-145]

Conversation No. 725-19

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:00 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Mrs. Nixon.

  [See Conversation No. 24-146; one item has been withdrawn from
   this conversation.]

The President talked with Walter R. Tkach at an unknown time.

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

Conversation No. 725-20

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:05 am and 10:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

  [See Conversation No. 24-147]

Conversation No. 725-21

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Between 10:11 am and 10:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

  [See Conversation No. 24-148; one item has been withdrawn from
   the conversation.]

Conversation No. 725-22

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:12 am and 10:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

  President's schedule
-Mexican delegation
-Handshaking
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Greetings
-Time

  President's picture
-Age
-Mexican-Americans

Butterfield left.

Conversation No. 725-23

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:12 am and 10:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

  President's schedule
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler

Bull left.

Conversation No. 725-24

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  10:23 am - 10:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

  Ziegler's location
-Talk with James J. Kilpatrick
			-Soviet trip

  Soviet trip
-Richard Wilson
-Ralph deToledano
			-Funds
-Victor Lasky
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
			-Call from Ziegler
			-President's instructions
-deToledano and Lasky 
			-The President’s view
			-Reader's Digest
			-Seeds of Treason
	-Alger Hiss case
	-Excerpted in Reader's Digest
-Lewis
			-Call from Ziegler
	-deToledano and Lasky
	-President's confidence
	-Knowledge

  President's schedule
-John B. Connally
			-Resignation
	-Announcement
	-President's statement on George C. Wallace
	-President's previous statement
	-Connally, George P. Shultz, Caspar W. Weinberger
	-Location
	-President's statement on Wallace
	-Dr. William M. Lukash
	-Dr. Walter R. Tkach
	-Wallace's condition
	-Dr. Tkach
	-Talk with Mrs. Wallace
	-Wallace's future location
								-Alabama
								-Walter Reed Hospital
									-Dr. Tkach
-President's offer of services
-Dr. Tkach
-Position
-Walter Reed compared with Bethesda Hospital
-President's offer of services
-Plane to Alabama
-Conally's appearance
-President's statement on Wallace

  Wallace
-Assassination attempt
			-President's previous statement
-Tone
-Coverage
-President's appearance
-Comparison with Hubert H. Humphrey and George S.
				  McGovern statements
-President's tone
		-New York Times editorial

  President's schedule
-Walk to Treasury Department
			-Connally
			-Shultz
			-Meeting
			-Handshaking with White House tourists
				-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
			-Impression conveyed
	-Secret Service
			-Public concern about safety
	-The President’s view
-Calls to Ziegler
-Need for balance	
-Press concerns
	-Helen Thomas
			-News coverage

The President talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between
10:23 and 10:30 am.  

[Conversation No. 725-24A]

  Haldeman
-Meeting with Ziegler

  [End of telephone conversation]

	President's schedule
-Public concern about safety
			-A reception (Blue Room?)
-Persons present

Haldeman entered at 10:30 am.

		-Walk to Treasury Department
-Impression conveyed
-Connally
-Shultz
-Pace
-Picture with crowd
-Public concern for the Presidents
			-Public impression of safety
		-New York Times editorial
-Television appearances
-President's opinion
		-Walk to Treasury Department
-Connally
-Shultz
		-Meeting White House tourists
		-Announcement
-Timing
-Duration
	-Meeting with Bangladesh diplomats
		-Time
	-Cabinet meeting
		-Time
	-Walk to Treasury Department
		-Time
	-Press briefing
		-Connally
-Questions
-Timing of resignation
-Questions
-Support for Democratic presidential candidate
-The President’s view
	-Soviet trip
		-Press arrangements
-Time
-Consultation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Consultation with Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart 
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's plans
-Consequences of delay
-Press list
-Approval
-Schedule
		-Camp David
-Arrival day
-Departure day
-Purpose
-Henry A. Kissinger's briefing books
				-Peter G. Peterson
	-President's Sunday reading
	-Duration
	-Normal Sunday activities

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  Wallace
-Assassination attempt
			-President's previous statement
-Ziegler's evaluation
					-Television
-Compared with McGovern
-Compared with Humphrey
-Tone
-Calls to Ziegler
-News coverage
-Tone
-Appearance
-Appropriateness
-Mrs. Nixon's appearance

  White House redecoration
-Blue Room
			-Calls to Mrs. Nixon
			-Evaluations
	-Washington Post
	-The President’s view
	-Mrs. Nixon's response
	-New York Times
			-Furniture arrangement
			-Wallpaper
			-Colors
-Other rooms to be redecorated
			-Red Room
			-Green Room
			-State Dining Room
			-East Room
	-Delay
			-State Dining Room
	-Needs
-Improvements
-Oval Office
			-Response of visitors, President

  Vietnam
-Change in past week
-Kissinger
			-Position
			-The President’s view
	-Lot's wife
-Soviet summit
-Change in morale
			-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-The President’s view
			-American people
	-West Point
	-USS Albany
			-Compared with American students on college campuses
	-The President’s view
	-Demonstrations
-North Vietnam
			-Effect of blockade
	-Cutoff of Cambodia
	-Comparison to 1968
	-Cutoff of sealanes
			-Effect of bombing
-Bridges
-Oil dumps
-A bridge
	-News photograph
	-Kontum Bridge
	-Weaponry needed
-South Vietnam
			-Troops
	-Morale
	-Evalutated
-Press coverage
			-Washington Post
			-Washington Star
			-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II [?]
			-Washington Post
	-Comments on Firebase Bastogne capture
			-Martin Z. "Agronsky and Company" show
	-Effect on Soviet summit
	-Participants 

  Soviet summit
-Press corps
			-Peter Lisagor
			-deToledano
			-Lasky
			-Kilpatrick
			-George Healy
	-Talk with Ziegler
			-Friendly press
			-Frank van der Linden
	-Call from Ziegler
			-Texas representation
	-Robert Baskin
	-Dallas Morning News
	-Margaret Mayer
	-Dallas Times Herald
			-President's instructions
			-Columbus, Ohio representation
			-Television
	-George Putnam
-The President’s view
			-G. Duncan Bauman
			-Putnam
	-Problems
	-Compared to William F. Buckley, Jr. and PRC trip
			-Bauman
	-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
			-John F. Osborne
	-Discussions
	-The President’s view
			-Hugh S. Sidey
	-Discussions
			-Osborne
			-Sidey
	-Comments to Ziegler about People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
	-Number in press corps
			-Number of press going to Soviet Union
			-Sidey
	-The President’s view
	-Opinion of John F. Kennedy
			-Lisagor
			-Earl Mazo

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	-Freelance work on previous trip to Moscow

  President's schedule
-Walk to Treasury

Ziegler left at 10:48 am.

			-Shultz
			-Duration
			-Protection

  Trade matters
-President's meeting with Donald Mc. I. Kendall
-President's memorandum
-Maurice H. Stans
			-Meeting with Peter G. Peterson and Peter M. Flanigan on Soviet trade
	-Kendall's report
-Peterson
			-The President’s view
			-Kissinger
			-Compared to Flanigan
			-The President’s view
-Flanigan
			-The President’s view

-President's Soviet trip
			-Peterson and Flanigan
			-Kissinger
	-Knowledge of economics
			-Economic negotiations
				-Flanigan
	-Joint Economic Commission
	-Purpose
	-Credits
					-Duration
					-Consumables
	-Kissinger's position
-Peterson's role
-Guidance from Stans
-Guidance from Kissinger
-Kissinger's role
-Peterson
-Connally
-Economic advisors

  Blue Room redecoration
-Call to Mrs. Nixon
			-Rose Mary Woods
			-Nellie L. Yates
			-Stephen B. Bull
-Reviews

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-Reviews

Haldeman left at 10:52 am.

Conversation No. 725-25

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:52 am and 10:55 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

  Meeting with President

Conversation No. 725-26

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  10:55 am - 11:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

  Vietnam
-Doves
			-Kissinger's previous meeting
			-Support for President
			-Congressional action
	-Funds cutoff
	-Timing
-President's Soviet trip
-Effect
			-Kissinger's points
			-Doves' position
	-Partnership
			-Resolution of support for President
-North Vietnam
			-President's meeting with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
				-Plenary sessions
-Peace negotiations
			-Conditions
			-President's offer
			-Conditions
			-Seven points
			-US conditions
	-Prisoners of War [POW] return
	-Cease-fire
			-Plenary sessions
	-Advantages and disadvantages

  John B. Connally
-Trip to Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia
			-Purposes
			-Time
			-Other countries to visit
	-Peru
-Appointment to President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
  Board [PFIAB]
-Resignation as Secretary of Treasury
			-Announcement
	-Time
			-Reasons
			-Replacements
	-George P. Shultz
	-Caspar W. Weinberger

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-Resignation
			-Kissinger's knowledge
			-Tenure
	-January expiration
	-Monetary and economic policy work
			-Reluctance to take positions
			-Delay
	-Length
-Compared with Shultz
-Kissinger’s view
-Compared with Shultz 
-Resignation
			-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Possible trip to Africa
-Appointment to PFIAB
-Previous week's activity

  Kissinger's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
			-Connally's resignation
-Announcement
			-Press announcement

The President and Kissinger left at 11:03 am.

Conversation No. 725-39

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:03 am and 11:30 am
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Servie agents] met.

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

The agents left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 725-40

Date: May 16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:03 am and 11:30 am
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people met.

	Oval Office tour
		-Furnishings
			-Flowers

	Tour
		-Itinerary
			-Cabinet Room
			-Executive Office Building

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 725-27

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

  President's schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally

Haldeman left.

Conversation No. 725-28

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  11:31 am - 11:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally.

  Connally
-Cabinet meeting
			-Comments
	-President's appreciation
-Trip to Latin America
			-President's discussion with Henry A. Kissinger
			-Colombia
			-Brazil
			-Argentina
			-Peru
	-Reasons
	-Chile
					-Size
			-Connally's role

  Other trips
-Kissinger
			-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-William P. Rogers
			-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
		-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union

  Connally
-Trip to Latin America
			-Role
			-Mexico
			-Timing with President's Soviet trip

  President's schedule
-Announcement of Connally's resignation
			-George P. Shultz
			-President's statement
	-Departure
			-Connally's statement
	-Questions
					-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Walk to Treasury Department with Connally and Shultz
-Meeting with Treasury Department staff
			-Time
-Walk to Treasury Department
			-Purpose
	-New York Times editorial
			-Handshaking with tourists
			-Secret Service protection

  George C. Wallace
-Assassination attempt

The President and Connally left at 11:35 am.

Conversation No. 725-29

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  11:49 am - 11:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

  Unknown persons
-Location

An unknown person entered at an unknown after 11:49 am.

  Food order

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:56 am.

  President's schedule
-Walk to Treasury Department
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz

Haldeman left.

Conversation No. 725-30

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:49 am and 11:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

  John B. Connally
-Resignation as Secretary of Treasury
			-Press briefing
	-Duration
	-Reasons
	-President's statement
	-Evaluation
	-Content
	-George C. Wallace
							-President's offer of services
						-Connally
	-Tone
	-Tenure
								-December 14, 1971
								-January 1972 meeting in San Clemente
								-Extension
-Speculation on reasons
-Wallace shooting
-Texas election
-Wallace shooting

  Press
-The President’s view
-White House approach

  Connally
-Resignation
			-Feelings
			-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
				-Living in Washington, DC
	-Compared with President's return to California
	-The President’s view
				-Haldeman’s view
			-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's knowledge

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time
between 11:49 am and 11:54 am.

  [Conversation No. 725-30A]

  [See Conversation No. 24-149]

  [End of telephone conversation]

  President's Moscow trip

President talked with Mrs. Nixon between 11:54 am and 11:55 am.

[Conversation No. 725-30B]

  [See Conversation No. 24-150; one item has been withdrawn from
   this conversation.]

  [End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:57 am.

Conversation No. 725-31

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

  President's schedule
-Meeting with ambassadors
			-Time
	-Call to check

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time.

-Call to delay
-Walk to Treasury Department
		-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally

John B. Connally, George P. Shultz, Caspar W. Weinberger and Ronald L.Ziegler entered at 11:57 am.

  Connally
-Resignation as Secretary of Treasury
			-Press briefing
			-Title
			-Work with Shultz
			-Press briefing
	-Questions
	-[Wayne] Connally
	-Political future
	-Vice-Presidency
	-Continued interest
	-Connally's performance evaluated
	-President's statement
	-Connally’s view
				-Questions
	-Democratic National convention
	-Sarah McLendon
-Conclusion
-Questions
-Larry [surname not known]
-Frank Cormier
			-Interviews
				-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
				-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
				-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
	-Vietnam
	-NBC and ABC
					-Connally’s view
	-Bella S. Abzug interview
	-CBS
	-Time
	-Irving R. Levine
	-ABC
	-James W. Donley
	-Conspiracy
	-Possible interviews
-Possibility
					-Connally’s response
-CBS
-NBC and ABC

  President's schedule
-Walk to Treasury Department
			-Greeting tourists
-Meeting with Treasury staff
			-Shultz's first meeting
				-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

  Connally
-Resignation as Secretary of Treasury
			-Reasons
				-Texas election
				-George C. Wallace shooting
	-Repudiation of story
	-Speculation

  President's schedule
-Meeting with Treasury staff
			-President's statement
			-Statements by Connally, Shultz
			-President's departure
	-Walk from Treasury to White House

The President, Connally, Shultz, Weinberger, Ziegler and Haldeman left
at 12:03 pm.

Conversation No. 725-41

Date: May 16, 1972
Time: 12:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

John D. Ehrlichman met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

	The President’s schedule
		-Delivery of an unknown item

Ziegler left.

Conversation No. 725-32

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  12:46 pm - 12:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

  Gun control legislation
-Recommendations on action
			-John N. Mitchell
			-Richard G. Kleindienst
			-The President’s idea
			-Ehrlichman

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:46 pm.

	[Enayet Karim]
		-Arrival
		-Press picture

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

  President's schedule
-Walk to Treasury Department
			-Value
			-Response of tourists

  Public opinion
-Fear
			-New York Times
			-Percentage
	-Draft dodgers
	-Courageous
-President's actions
			-Mingling with public
			-Haiphong actions
	-Letters of support to John D. Ehrlichman

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:46 pm.

  Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Samuel Hoskinson
			-Bangladesh representatives

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

  Arthur G. Linkletter
-Trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Possible meeting with President
			-President's schedule
-Meeting with Ehrlichman

Ehrlichman left at 12:49 pm.

Conversation No. 725-33

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  12:49 - 12:53 p.m.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Enayet Karim and Samuel Hoskinson; the White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

  Greetings

  [Photograph session]
-Arrangements

  Bangladesh
-Establishment of US relations
-US cooperation
			-Humanitarian aid
-Suffering
			-India
			-Pakistan
			
  Pakistan
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Time article

  Bangladesh
-Problems
			-US aid
-People
-Appreciation to US
-Problems
			-War
			-Rebuilding
-The President’s previous meeting
			-Mohammed Ali Jinnah
	-Prime Minister
			-Hoolamad [?]
	-Governor - General under Mohammed Ali
			-Mohammed Ali	
	-Relationship with President
	-East Pakistan
	-The President’s view
-Wife
-The President’s view
-Death
-Wife
-Party for President
-Karachi
-The President’s view
-President's future meeting with Mujibur Rahman
			-Good wishes
-US aid
			-State department
			-White House
-Prime Minister
			-Use of term

  Karim
-Residence in Washington
-Setting up an embassy in Washington

Karim and Hoskinson left at 12:53 pm.

Conversation No. 725-34

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  12:54 pm - 1:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Toma Granfil and Helmut Sonnenfeldt; the White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

  [Photograph session]
-Josip Broz Tito

  Gift to President
-Film
			-President and Mrs. Tito
	Greetings
		-The President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

  Tito
-President's trip to Belgrade
-Tito's visit to US
-Continued relationship
-Age
			-President's age
-The President’s view
-Message from President for birthday
			-Instructions for Sonnenfeldt
			-Timing

  President's trip to Moscow
-Effect on Yugoslovia
-Tito's wishes
			-People’s Republic of China [PRC] visit
-Purposes
			-Improved understanding of other countries
			-Improved relations with Soviet Union
			-Improved relations with Yugoslavia
-Bilateral agreements
			-Assurances for Tito
-Report to Tito
-Report to President of Mexico [Luis Echeverria Alvarez]
-Report to Europeans

  Tito
-Report to President
-Appreciation of President's previous visit[?]
-The President’s view
-Concerns
			-Vietnam
	-Efforts of non-aligned countries in Paris peace talks
	-Time to intervene
	-Nature of talks
	-Settlement
	-Possibility
			-Relations with Soviet Union
	-Compared with relations with US
			-Relations with US
	-The President’s view
				-Granfil’s view
			-Smallpox
	-Luncheon for doctors
-Gift to President
			-Thank-you letter from President
			-US ties with film's production
				-US Information Agency [USIA]
					-White House, Washington DC

  Best wishes
-For President
-For all countries

The President, Granfil, and Sonnenfeldt left at 1:01 pm.

Conversation No. 725-42

Date: May 16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:01 pm and 4:58 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown persons [Secret Service] talked.

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

Conversation No. 725-35

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:58 pm  and 5:05 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Clark MacGregor; this recording began at an
unknown time while the meeting was in progress.

  Congress
-Pressures on delegations
-Polls
			-Louis P. Harris poll
-Copy from MacGregor to Senators
-Results on Haiphong harbor mining
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
			-Meeting with MacGregor
-Final vote
-Lowell P. Weicker
			-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Press reports
			-White House news summary
			-Tone
-Foreign policy
			-Ability
			-Specter of Senate negotiations with Madame Nguyen Thi
			 Binh
			-Michael J. Mansfield
	-Proposed U.S. agreement with National Liberation
				   Front [NLF]
	-North Vietnam takeover of Cambodia, Laos, and
				   South Vietnam
-Today's vote
			-Lack of understanding
	-Weicker
-Frank F. Church amendment vote
-Today's vote
			-Breakdown
			-Action by President

David Hoopes entered at 5:03 pm.

  President's schedule
-Meeting with unknown person(s)
			-Invitation
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Possible meeting with Senator Robert C. Byrd
			-Black lung bill
	-Recommendations on possible veto
				-MacGregor’s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:03 pm.

-Ray C. Bliss
-Boat trip with John Cardinal Krol
			-Other
			-Time

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

  John B. Connally
-Resignation as Secretary of Treasury
-George P. Shultz

  George C. Wallace
-Shooting
			-President's actions
	-Contrasted with Hubert H. Humphrey's actions
-Call to Cornelia Wallace
-Increased Secret Service protection
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Shirley Chisholm
-Others
-Offer of Presidential suite at Bethesda Naval
				   Hospital
-Call to Mrs. Wallace
-Evaluated
-Contrasted with Humphrey
-Meeting with doctor

  Vietnam
-President's decision to blockade
-The President’s view
-Support

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:03 pm.

  Material for President's signature
-Hoopes

  Vietnam
-North Vietnam
			-Reason for cease-fire proposal

MacGregor, Hoopes, and Bull left at 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 725-36

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  5:05 pm - 5:40 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell and Ray C. Bliss; the White House
photographer was present.

  Mitchell

  Clark MacGregor

  Bliss
-A picture

  Greetings

  Photographs
-President and Bliss
-President and Mitchell
-Arrangements

  Allen J. Ellender
-Film on Soviet Union
			-Viewing by President
			-Photography
-The President’s view

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	Bliss
-Private business
			-Increase
			-Effect on political work
	-Phone work
	-Project work
-Work for party
			-Effect on business
-Private business
			-Casualty and life insurance
	-Guardian Life Insurance Company
			-Number of employees
-Compared to Republican National Committee [RNC]
			-Business from President's friends
	-John W. Mulcahy
	-Robert H. Abplanalp

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  Age
-Ellender
-Josip Broz Tito
			-President's previous meeting with Toma Granfil
			-The President’s view

  Bliss's future
-Ambassadorship
-Trip as President's representative
			-Similar trip by John S. D. Eisenhower
	-Chiang Kai-shek's inauguration
			-Value
			-Possible destinations
			-Delegations
			-Perquisites
			-Value
			-Similar trips by Leonard W. Hall
-Commissions
			-Commerce Department
			-State Department
			-A call from an unknown man

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  Smoking in Oval Office
-Cigarettes
-Cigars
-Cigarettes
-Matches
			-White House

  Forthcoming election
-Ohio
-President's preferred role for Bliss
			-Work with Mitchell
-President's position
			-Statements to press
			-Republican convention

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  President's walk to Treasury
-Mitchell's opinion
-President's reasons
			-New York Times editorial
	-Television appearances
			-Show of courage
-John B. Connally
-Response of tourists
-Photographs
			-Blacks
				-Washington, DC

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  Ellender

  Gifts from President
-New cuff links
-Old cuff links
-Pen for Ellen Bliss

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:06 pm.

-New cuff links
-Gift for Mrs. Bliss
			-Compact
			-Ashtray
-Gifts for office worker
			-Number of men and women secretaries
			-Tieclasps
			-Part-time worker
			-Number of golfers
-Ashtray
			-Described
-Compact
			-Described
-Miniature elephant
-New cuff links
			-Value

  President's schedule
-John Cardinal Krol
			-Support for President

  Bliss
-Appreciation to President
-Proposed trip
			-Mrs. Bliss
			-Countries
	-Europe
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

  Goodbyes

Mitchell, Bliss, and Bull left at 5:40 pm.

Conversation No. 725-37

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:40 pm and 5:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

  Manolo Sanchez
-Condition
-Call from unknown man
			-Day

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:40 pm.

  President's schedule
-Camp David trip
			-Marjorie P. Acker's schedule
	-Rose Mary Woods's schedule
	-Workload
-President's preparation for Soviet trip
-Acker's workload
			-Woods
-Meeting with John Cardinal Krol
			-Oval Office meeting
	-Time before Sequoia cruise
	-Photograph arrangements
-Packet from John B. Connally
-Meeting with Krol
			-Time

Bull and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:43 pm.

Conversation No. 725-38

Date:  May 16, 1972
Time:  5:43 - 5:54 p.m.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John Cardinal Krol and Stephen B. Bull; the White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

  President's schedule
-Described
-Krol's wait

  [Photograph session]
-Location

  Sequoia cruise
-Attendees
			-William P. Rogers
			-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

  Photograph session
-Location
			-Other famous visitors

  George C. Wallace
-Assassination attempt
			-Condition
	-Press reports
	-President's doctor's reports

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

-Bullet's location
-Possible operation
-Consequences
			-Arthur H. Bremer
	-The President’s view
	-Political affiliation
	-Wallace
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
	-Young Democrats
-Motives
-Shooting ability
			-Shooting scene
-Aim
-Call to Wallace
			-Bullet locations
			-Secret Service agent's wounding

  Other shootings
-James Francis [Cardinal] McIntyre
			-Krol's lunch with unidentified psychiatrist
-Office shooting
-Murder of new secretary
-Motive
-An unknown woman in Philadelphia
			-Motive
			-Letter to Krol's office
-Psychiatrist's comments
-Comparison with McIntyre shooting

  President's walk to Treasury
-Occasion
			-John B. Connally's resignation
-George P. Shultz
-Handshaking with White House tourists
			-Reason
	-New York Times editorial
-Violent society
-Television campaigns
-President's opinion
-Setting example
			-Description of scene
-Presidential activities
			-Climate of fear
			-Balance

  Protection
-President's Secret Service detail
-Wallace's detail
			-Number of Secret Servicemen
			-Supplements
	-Alabama State Police
-Possibility of stopping killers
-Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
			-Number of guards
			-Sarajevo

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:43 pm. 

  President's schedule
-Presidential car
			-Availability
-Camp David trip
			-Briefing books, notes, and briefcases
	-Locations
-Oval Office
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office
-Lincoln Sitting Room
	-Number
			-President's preparation for Soviet trip

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

			-Departure
	-Time
-Soviet trip
			-Importance
	-Dinner discussion
			-A memorandum prepared by Krol
	-Bull

  Krol story
-National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
-An unknown person
-Six Crises

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:43 pm.

  President's schedule
-Camp David trip
			-Briefcase

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

  Soviet Union
-President's decision to blockade
			-Effect on Vietnam war
			-Effect on summit
			-Motivating factors
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US forces
-North Vietnam offensive
-Overrunning South Vietnam
-Tanks in Hue
			-Possible cancellation of summit
	-Letter to President from Polish government
-Day received
-Content
-Meaning
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haig
-Communist mindset
			-Slavs
			-Assumptions
			-Outlook on wars
	-Goals
			-Response to President's actions
-President's decision to blockade
			-Difficulty
			-Public support
	-Support observed by Krol
	-Philadelphia peace groups
	-Bishop John Joseph Dougherty
	-Identified
							-Newark, New Jersey
	-Seton College
	-Pressure to sign peace statement
	-Krol's advice

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:43 am.

  President's schedule
-Time
-Soviet trip
			-Discussions
	-Vietnam

The President, Cardinal Krol, and Bull left at 5:54 pm.

Conversation No. 725-43

Date: May 16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:54 pm and 11:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service Agents] met.

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time 
between 5: 54 and 11:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 725-43A]

	The President’s location

[End of telephone conversation]

[The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.]