Conversation No. 727-1

Date:  June 2, 1972
Time:  8:25-9:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.
[This recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress]

The President's trip to Soviet Union
-Media
-Coverage
-Communiqués
-Impact
	-Colson’s view
-Television commentators
-Colson's advice
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's reception in Senate
-Colson’s view
-Press reaction
-Mrs. Nixon's appearances abroad
-The President’s view
-Compared to other First Ladies
	-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
				-[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie G.D. Eisenhower, Bess Truman, Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Mrs. Nixon's television appearance previous evening
-The President's stay at Kremlin
-The President’s view
	-Public and press
-Agreements
-Impressions
-The President's address to Soviet Union people
-Timing
-Tanya Savicheva
	-Media
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] special of President's speech
	-Viewer reaction
	-Network coverage

	-Newspaper coverage
	-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
	-Savicheva
	-New York Times profile
	-Colson's views
	-CBS coverage of speech
	-Reactions
-Editorial reaction
-Colson’s view
-The President's comments
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Cabinet
-State Department
-Howard K. Smith
-John S. (“Jack”) Knight
-Articles 
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM] treaty 

	Media
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
			-Effects
-Vietnam War
-May 8 decision on bombing Hanoi
	-The President’s view
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. efforts
-Vietnam coverage
-Vietnam
	-Washington Star reporter
		-James Earl Richert
	-Mining
-Laser-controlled bombs
		-1966
-Photograph coverage
-Impression 
		-US efforts
-News story
		-North Vietnam
			-Orr Kelly
		-South Vietnam

Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Naval gunfire
-Bombing
-Mines
-Blockade
-Morale
-Organization
-"End the War" amendment
-Clifford P. Case and Frank F. Church
-Administration efforts to bring a vote
-Trip effect
-Clark MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Foreign aid authorization
	-US Information Agency [USIA]
-Cease fire
-Vote
-Robert C. Byrd amendment
-Congress
-Demonstrators

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The President's trip
-Poland
	-Stefan Cardinal Wyszyinski
		-John Cardinal Krol
	-Media coverage
-Media coverage
-Poland
-Iran
-Mrs. Nixon's coverage
-Compared to George S. McGovern and Hubert H. Humprey

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Vietnam
-Aid
-Humphrey
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Results
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Coalition government
-Casualties
-Figures
	-Decreases
	-Colson’s view
		-Media coverage
-The President’s view
	-Peace settlement
	-Bombing
	-South Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Bombing
	-Dien Bien Phu
	-Ho Chi Minh trail
	-Colson’s view
-Press views
-Marvin L. Kalb
	-May 9, 1972 decision by the President
-The President’s credibility
-Press

George C. Wallace
-Health
-Wounds
-Infection
-Dr. [Forename unknown] Ward
-Previous conversation with Colson
-Walter Reed Hospital
-Ward’s assessment

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Colson left at 9:11 am.

Conversation No. 727-2

Date:  June 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:11 and 9:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Bi-partisan congressional leadership meeting
-John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

Conversation No. 727-3

Date:  June 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:11 and 9:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Congressional leaders
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
-Barber shop
-Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

Conversation No. 727-4

Date:  June 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:11 and 9:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at unknown time before 9:45 am.

Conversation No. 727-5

Date:  June 2, 1972
Time:  9:45-10:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

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	The President’s schedule
		-John D. Ehrlichman
-Meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders

	The President’s trip to Soviet Union
-Speech by the President
-Haldeman’s view
-Media coverage
-Points stressed
-Vietnam
-American strength
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Women's reactions
-Charles W. Colson's view
	-Helicopter
-Vice President of US Steel Corporation
	-Assessments

Kissinger entered at 9:50 am.

	-Reaction
	-Mrs. Nixon's impression

Kissinger's schedule

Pace of trip
-Kissinger
-Advancement
-William P. Rogers
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Meeting with Soviet leaders
-Negotiations
	-Kissinger’s view

	The President's schedule
-Meeting with congressional leaders
	-The president's strategy
	-Points to discuss
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-Soviet Union
	-Kissinger’s briefing
		-Negotiations
	-The president's input
		-Kissinger’s role
			-Background
	-The President's image

Briefings on the President's previous trip to the Soviet Union
-Kissinger's briefing
-Function of summit
-The President's role
-Incident at sea agreement
-SALT
-Middle East
-Negotiations 
	-Effect of President’s involvement
	-Statement of principles
	-Jacob D. Beam and Andrei A. Gromykko
-Input to press
-Max Frankel
-Time the President spent in meetings
	-Compared to diplomatic notes
-Summit meetings
-Agreements
-Soviet statements on summit success

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	SOVIET UNION

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-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Andrei Grechko
	-Negotiations
		-Undersea Long-range Missile System [ULMS]
		-Missiles
		-Submarines
-The President's input
-SALT
-Submarine program
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
	-Kissinger
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-ULMS
-B-1 bombs
-Congressional opposition
-Effect of negotiations
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson's reaction
-The President's input
-Letter to Brezhnev
-Submarines

Media
-Reaction to the President's congressional address
-Kissinger’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Vietnam statement by the President

Vietnam
-Gromyko
-North Vietnamese action
	-Hue
	-Kontum

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 9:50 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Congressional leaders

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.

Advertisement for the President's impeachment
-New York Times
-Signers 
-McGovern supporters
-Printers’ reaction

An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 9:50 am.

The President's schedule

Advertisement for the President's impeachment
-Printers' union reaction

Vietnam War
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view

The President, et al., left at 10:03 am.

Conversation No. 727-6

Date:  June 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:03 am and 12:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons met.

The President's schedule
	-Possible return to the Oval Office
	-Meeting with Congressional leaders
	-Barber shop
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to Key Biscayne, Florida

This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:08 pm.

Conversation No. 727-7

Date:  June 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:08 and 12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons met.

The President's schedule
-Barber shop

This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 727-8

Date:  June 2, 1972
Time:  12:25-1:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman

-Items for the President’s signature
-The President's departure

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:25 pm.

-Items for the President’s signature
	-Harold B. Scott letter
	-Director, Bureau of International Commerce
		-Maurice H. Stans

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:29 pm.

-Rose Mary Woods
-Health
-Schedule
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Florida
	-Woods
	-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Katherine E. Bachman
		-Ronald Ziegler
	-Possible problems
-Florida

Haldeman entered at 12:29 pm.

-Bachman
-Schedule
-Problems
-Soviet Union
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Secretarial help
-Possible problems

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:31 pm.

John N. Ashbrook delegation

The President's schedule
-Flordia
	-Woods
-Secretarial help
	-The President’s view
		-Zosimo T. Monzon
		-Secretary
		-Military aide
-The President's staff requirements
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Woods
	-Trip to the Soviet Union
-Unknown White House secretary
-Soviet trip
-Florida
-Weather
	-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

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	The President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders meeting
-The President’s view
-Clark MacGregor
	-The President’s view

Domestic issues

Haldeman's schedule

Ehrlichman entered at 12:31 pm.

-Camp David

The President's schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-George W. Romney

Haldeman left an unknown time before 12:37 pm.

Domestic issues
-Ehrlichman's summary
-Parochial aid
-John B. Connally testimony
-Debt ceiling hearing
		-Wilbur D. Mills

Ziegler entered at 12:31 pm.

Press briefing
-Soviet Union trip
-Ziegler’s press statements
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with congressional leaders
-Agreements
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Reaction

Congress
-Possible reaction to SALT
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
	-Defense spending increases
		Submarines
		-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs]
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Defense cuts
-Future negotiations
-Mansfield
-J. William Fulbright
	-George S. McGovern
-Meeting with Congressional leaders 
	-The President’s view
		-Details
-Budget
-Supplemental request
-Melvin R. Laird
-Vietnam
-SALT
-Debt ceiling increase
-Timing
-SALT treaty
-Possible press questions
-Mansfield
-Allen J. Ellender
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] recommendation
-Possible press questions
	-Responses

Ziegler left at 12:43 pm.

Domestic issues
-Welfare reform
-Elliot L. Richardson
	-The President’s view
-Legislation
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Administration strategy
-The President’s view
-McGovern
-Blacks
		-The President’s position
			-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Richardson's schedule
-Japan
-The President's schedule
-Legislation
-Richardson's compromise recommendation
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Wednesday group
-Hugh Scott
-Jacob K. Javits
-Richard S. Schweicker
-Compared to HR 1
	-Costs
-Connally
-Shultz
-Liberals
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] professors
-Cutbacks
-Legislation
-Clean Water Bill
-Rural revenue sharing
-Clean Water Bill
-Possible veto
-John N. Mitchell
-Costs
	-Effect on economy

Kissinger entered at 12:46 pm.

US foreign relations
-Soviet Union
-SALT treaty
-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Edward Teller's possible testimony before Congress
	-Support
-Congressional reaction
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-John C. Stennis
-ABM
-Leslie C. Arends
-Gerald R. Ford
-George H. Mahon
-Mansfield
-Ellender
-MacGregor
	-Senate support
-John G. Tower
-Mahon and Arends
-F. Edward Hebert
	-Kissinger’s possible call
-Mansfield
-Fulbright
-US options
	-Defense options
		-Congressional support
-SALT negotiations
-Submarines
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Mansfield
-Soviet Union
	-US policy
-Mansfield
-Letter
-Chou En-lai
-Helmut Sonnenfeldt
-The President's letter William McMahon
	-US policy on PRC
-Poland
-Piotr Jaroszewicz
-Mrs. Jaroszewicz
-Edward Gierek
-Comparison of Communist leaders
	-The President’s view
		-Backgrounds
			-US businessmen
			-Congressmen
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-William P. Rogers
-South Vietnam
	-Brezhnev
		-US policy
-Meeting with Brezhnev
-Brezhnev and Aleksei N. Kosygin 
-The President’s view
-The President’s meetings
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-George Meany
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-The President’s view
-Kissinger's previous meeting

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

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:03 pm.

US foreign relations
-Soviet Union
-Communist Party Central Committee Statement
-Vietnam War
-Brezhnev
-Mining of Haiphong Harbor
-Middle East cease-fire
-SALT negotiations 
-Kissinger's role
-Sweden
-Ehrlichman's trip
-United Nations [UN] conference on the human environment
-Olaf Palme
-Speech on Vietnam
-Russell E. Train
-John C. Whitaker
-Rogers
-Vietnam War
	-Ehrlichman’s responses to Palme

Domestic issues
-Public relations
-Welfare

The President, Kissinger, and Ehrlichman left at 1:03 pm.