Conversation No. 728-1

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  1:42-1:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 25-14 and 25-15]

[The first portion of this conversation may have been recorded on Conversation No. 25-15; however this recording is inaudible due to poor volume]

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	George C. Wallace
		-Health

Richard G. Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Timing
-H.R. Haldeman

John B. Connally

George P. Shultz
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Connally

Melvin R. Laird
-National defense budget
-Armed services

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The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Japan trip

Kleindienst
-Confirmation schedule

Shultz
-Confirmation

Congress
-Impression nationwide
-Joint session of Congress
-The President’s speech
-Public relations

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[THIS PORTION OF CONVERSATION IS RECORDED IN CONVERSATION NO. 25-15; ONE ITEM HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM THIS CONVERSATION]

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Conversation No. 728-2

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:01 and 2:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
	-Signing of documents

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:04 pm.

Conversation No. 728-3

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:01 and 2:04 pm

Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-16]

Conversation No. 728-4

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:01 and 2:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 25-17]

Greetings

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The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Florida
-Weather

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-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 728-5

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  2:04-2:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vietnam
-An Loc
-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
	-Movement
-21st ARVN Division
-Pressure
-North Vietnamese Army
	-Troop movement
		-Cambodian border
-Kontum
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Morale

-21st ARVN Division
-Morale
-James F. Hollingsworth
-Ambushes
	-North Vietnamese army
-Hue
-Quang Tri
	-Marines
-North Vietnamese action
	-Pre-emptive ARVN action
	-Effects of weather
		-II Corps and III Corps
-Problems in North Vietnam
-Hanoi
-Statements
-Shortages
-Mining
-Bombing
-Bombing in North
-Photographs of bombing accuracy
-Tartgets
	-Bridges
	-Supply routes
-Reaction in North
-Chinese-Soviet Union relations
-Ports
	-Soviet Union
-Bombing in North
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] study
-Petroleum, oil, and lubricant [POL] supplies
-Destruction of supplies
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Bombing
-CIA estimates on supply
-Additional supplies
-The President’s view
	-CIA reports
		-North Vietnam
		-1960s Vietnam reports

CIA
-Personnel changes
	-The President’s view
	-Office of Strategic Services [OSS]
	-Georgetown
-Components 
-Comparison to State Department
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Richard M. Helms announcement of mining
-Reaction
-Personnel list
-Personnel policies and tenure
	-Possible changes

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-Walters
-Opinion
-Helms
-Personnel changes
	-The President’s view
-Walters
-Haig’s view
-Reports
-Compared to military reports

Vietnam developments
-Staff's views
-Reporting 
	-The President’s view
	-Haig’s view
		-Anthony Lewis

CIA
-Instructions for personnel changes to Walters
-Policies
-Possible reassignments
	-Laos

Haig left at 2:17 pm.

Conversation No. 728-6

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  2:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-16]

Conversation No. 728-7

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:17 and 2:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule
-Memoranda
	-Woods
-Unknown book of the President's
-Dictation
-Tape
-Florida
	-Weather

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The President's previous speech to joint session of Congress
-Reactions
-Loren M. Berry
-Dayton, Ohio
-Florida
-Anne Dalmer
-Courtney Gertin (sp?)

The President's schedule
-Head of State Dinner for Luis Echeverria Alvarez
	-Timing

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H.R. Haldeman entered at 2:27 pm.

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Bethesda Naval Hospital
-Visit to Barry M. Goldwater
-Camp David
-Weather forecast
-Weather
-Washington, DC
	-Florida
-California
	-Palm Springs
-Camp David
	-Helicopter

Haldeman left at 2:28 pm.

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Angela Y. Davis trial
-Woods’s view
	-Jury
-The President’s view
-Jury
-Woods’ view
-Deportation
-Cuba
-Russia
-Poland
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Public statements
	-George S. McGovern
	-Edmund S. Muskie

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Woods left at 2:50 pm.

Conversation No. 728-8

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  2:50-4:01
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. Haldeman.

The President's schedule
-Barry M. Goldwater
	-Bethesda Naval Hospital

	The President’s previous visit to the Soviet Union
-Impressions
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-Speech
	-Deadline
-Input
-Tanya Savicheva story

The President’s schedule
-Reception
	-Republican Senators and Congressmen
		-Criteria
		-James O. Eastland
	-Location
-Press conference
	-Timing
		-Democratic National Convention
		-Congressional recess
-California
	-Workload
	-Gateway Park
	-San Francisco
-Florida
-Forthcoming meeting with Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Florida
	-Timing
-Meeting with Senators
-Meeting with South Pacific Air Transport Command [SCAT] veterans
-Florida
	-The President’s view

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Henry A. Kissinger entered 3:05 pm.

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Weather
-Fog
-Helicopter
-Bethesda
-Thurmont, Maryland

Kissinger's schedule
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] briefing
-Leslie C. Arends
-Gerald R. Ford
-George H. Mahon
-John C. Stennis
		-Camp David
			-Workload

John B. Connally trip
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-The President’s view
-Memorandum from the President
-Theme
	-Japan, People's Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union, Western Europe, US
	-The President's visit to Iran
	-US policy
-Third World
-Latin America
-Asia
-Connally’s efforts
-US policy

Kissinger
-Pakistan and India
-Indian Ambassador
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Soviet Union trip
-Connally
-Instructions for Kissinger
	-US policy

Connally’s trip
	-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
		-US relations with Soviet Union and PRC
	-India
		-US policy

The President's schedule
-Camp David
	-Kissinger
-Goldwater visit
-Telephone call

Forthcoming article
-Kissinger’s view

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:05 and 3:46 pm.

[Conversation No. 728-8A]

The President's schedule
-Bethesda
-Camp David
	-Thurmont

[End of telephone conversation]

Forthcoming article
-William L. Safire
-Price
-Contents
-US-Soviet Union Summit
-Vietnam
-Summit
-World view
-Connally memorandum
-Vietnam

Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Health
-View of the President's trip
	-The President’s accomplishments
-SALT Treaty

Joseph W. Alsop
-Columns
-SALT

J. William Fulbright
-The President's earlier briefing on SALT

The President's forthcoming article
-Price
	-Forthcoming speech
-Kissinger's schedule
-PRC and Japan briefing books
-Winston Lord
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Article
-Vietnam
-Changes
-Lord
-Japan briefing book
-PRC briefing book
-Article
-Kissinger review

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US foreign policy
-Israel
-US policy
	-Statement
-Jordan
-Jewish vote
	-The President's previous trip to Soviet Union
	-Yitzhak Rabin

Article
-Lord
-Price
	-Information on US policy
-Vietnam
-Organization of article
-Perspective
-US policy

	Vietnam
		-North Vietnam
			-Kissinger’s view
-Supplies
-Oil
		-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Reports
-Haig
	-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Personnel
	-The President’s instructions to Haig

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	-Personnel changes
	-	The President’s instructions
			-Firings
			-Reassignments
	-George C. Carver
		-Report
	-Meeting with Kissinger and staff
-Washington Special Actions Gropu [WSAG]
-Richard M. Helms
-The President’s view
-Staff
-Haig
-Walters
-Mining
-Loyalty to Administration
-Loyalty to administration

Kissinger's schedule

SALT
-Gerard C. Smith
-Henry Kissinger's possible testimony
-The President’s view
-Exposure
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Advantages
	-Public relations
-Scope
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger's expertise
-Possible precedents
-Scope of testimony
-Executive privilege
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Smith
-Timing
-Smith
-Strategy
-Limits
	-Flanigan’s previous testimony
	-SALT
-Testimony
-Presidential privileges
	-Flanigan’s previous testimony
-Possible questions
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Administration public relations efforts
-Documents prepared by Kissinger
-Charles W. Colson
-Dissemination
-Speech
-Fact sheet
-Administration spokesman
-Delibery
-Strategy
-Reaction to the President's trip to the Soviet Union
-Editorials
-Rogers's role
-Compared to PRC trip
	-Communique
-Martin J. Hillenbrand
	-Assistance
		-Communique
	-Confirmation

Foreign policy
-Kissinger’s view

Vietnam 
-Media reports
-North Vietnamese offensive
	-Kontum
	-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
		-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] report
-Kissinger’s view
-US policy
	-The President’s view
	-Bombing
-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-North Vietnam reaction

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The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Helicopter
-Thurmont
-Weather

Kissinger's schedule
-Article
-Haig
-Changes needed
-Vietnam

Peter G. Peterson
-Trade agreement
-Deadline
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Vietnam
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Possible proposal
-Meeting schedule
-Possible announcement
-Democratic National Convention
-Statement of principles
-Cease fire
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Cease fire
-Compared to Middle East negotiations
	-Cease fire
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s view
	-Possible settlement
-George S. McGovern reaction
-POWs

Kissinger's schedule
	-Camp David

Kissinger left at 3:46 pm.

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:46 pm.

The President's schedule
-Camp David
	-Helicopter

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:01 pm.

-Departure
-SALT
-Kissinger
-Public relations efforts
	-Colson's activity
	-Herbert G. Klein
	-John A. Scali
	-Background
-Safire
	-Speech

The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Kremlin

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Goldwater

Politics
-SALT
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Glassboro, New Jersey
	-1968 popularity
	-Comparison

The President's schedule
-Weather

The President's administration
-Accomplishments
-Supreme Court
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Speeches to Soviet people, Congress
-Editorials
-Time magazine
-Haldeman’s view
	-The President’s policies
-The President's image

SALT
-Press accounts
	-Jackson
		-Multiple Independently-targeted Reentry Vehicles [MIRVs]
		-Overkill capability
	-Negotiations
		-US strategy
		-Congress

Haldeman at 4:01 pm.

Conversation No. 728-9

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  4:01-4:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Items for the President’s signature

Weather
	-Camp David

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:02 pm.

The President's schedule
-Barry M. Goldwater

Woods and Butterfield left at 4:03 pm.

Conversation No. 728-10

Date:  June 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:03 and 4:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Items from the President

The President and the unknown person left with unknown person at 4:07 pm.