Conversation No. 729-1

Date:  June 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:15 and 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Butterfield and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 729-2

Date:  June 10, 1972
Time:  12:45-1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Henry A. Kissinger
-Trip to Japan
-Visit's value
-Future visit of Hirohito [Emperor of Japan] to US
-Timing
-Kissinger's view of trip

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Note
-Military activity on coast of Vietnam
-Supply ships
-Bombing
-Captured vessels
-PRC merchant ships
-Stockholm Conference
-Problems
-Analysis

-PRC motives
-Soviet Union
-US response
	-Joseph Morton
-Christian A. Herter
-The President’s instructions
-William P. Rogers
-United Nations [UN]
-Note of response
-Jonathan T. Howe
-Content

Vietnam
-Blockade of North Vietnam
-US actions
-Equipment 
-Destroyers
-Aircraft
-Bombing
-US actions
	-PRC response
		-US response

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[National Security]
[Duration:  4s  ]

	PRC

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-Progress of conflict
	-John Paul Vann
	-Death
	-Previous meeting with the President
	-The President’s view
	-Posthumous Medal of Freedom
		-Potential problem
-Family
-Next of kin
-Message to Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Activities
	-US policies
	-Personality
	-Paul D. Harkins
	-Haig’s view
	-Vann and Fred Ladd
	-Reports

Vietnam
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-B-52s
-Raid on power plant
-Accuracy
-Results
-Repairs
		-North Vietnam
			-US attacks
				-Effect
				-Reports
-Sources
-Reports on war effort
-Internal signs
-Effect on antiwar groups
-John N. Mitchell
-Strategy
	-Public relations efforts
		-US policy
-Coverage from PRC and Eastern Europe
-Effect of Kissinger's trip to PRC
-PRC’s possible response to Kissinger's visit
-Nature of visit
	-Haig’s view

PRC
-Note from New York
-Arrangements to receive note
-Significance
-The President’s possible response
	-Instructions to US delegation in Stockholm
	-Firing from merchant ship
	-US complaints
	-Need for privacy
-Rogers's reaction to PRC statement in Stockholm
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Nature of Rogers statements
-Value
	-Compared to Soviet Union
	-Value of Stockholm Conference
		-Olaf Palme
			-The President’s view

Press
-US News and World Report article
-Kissinger's report
-US policy
	-Rationale of Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Quality
-Critics
-Effects of Moscow trip
-Effect of mining

Vietnam
-Effect of mining
	-Hanoi
	-South Vietnam
-US position
-An Loc
-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN] 21st Division
-North Vietnamese strength
-Military operation
-Effects of weather
-Enemy strategy
	-Small operations
-Hue
-ARVN military operations
		-325th Division
		-Location
			-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Quang Tri
	-ARVN
	-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kontum
	-ARVN response
	-Fighting ability
-ARVN morale
-D'acord (sp? French correspondent) conversation with Haig
-An Loc
-ARVN strength
-Outcome of offensive
	-North Vietnam
		-Effect on US media

Press
-Newsweek
-Editor
-Coverage of Vietnam War
-Position on mining
-Henry Hubbard
-Relations with editor

Vietnam
-Position of the North Vietnamese
	-Peace negotiations
-Effect on election
-Strategy of Administration
-Public relations efforts
	-Reporting
		-Doves
-Presidential election
	-North Vietnam view

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[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  17s   ]

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Vietnam
-Kissinger
	-Japan
-Views of George S. McGovern
-Bombing
-Effect on Hanoi
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Bombing halt
	-Length
-Madame Nguyen Thi Binh
	-Bombing halt
-Bombing
-Continuation
	-The President’s policy
		-Mining

Environmental Conference in Stockholm
-Soviet Union boycott
-Motives
	-PRC
-East Germany

The President's trip to the PRC
	-PRC and Soviet Union policies

PRC statement at Stockholm Conference
-Herter’s response
-Haig’s view

State Department
-Decisions

The President's foreign policy
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Middle East
-Cuba
-Jordan
-South Asia
-India

John B. Connally's trip
-Reception
-Message from the President
-The President’s comments
-Australia
-Press reaction
-Bolivia stopover
-Timing
-Success of trip

Vietnam
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Trucks
	-US action

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[National Security]
[Duration:  6s  ]

	PRC

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-Railways
-Truck bridges
-Bombing
-North Vietnam
-Effectiveness
-Casualties in North Vietnam
-B-52 strikes
-Kontum
-An Loc
-Frenchman's report
-Effect on morale

PRC
-Reports

Haig left at 1:15 pm.

Conversation No. 729-3

Date:  June 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 and 1:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Meeting in Oval Office

Conversation No. 729-4

Date:  June 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 and 1:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

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

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm.

Conversation No. 729-5

Date:  June 10, 1972
Time:  1:20-1:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Melvin R. Laird’s memorandum
-Henry A. Kissinger's conversation with Laird
-Laird 
	-The President's instructions
		-Clark MacGregor
	-Reports

Haig left at 1:23 pm.

Conversation No. 729-6

Date:  June 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 1:25 pm

Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
	-Briefcase
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:25 pm.

Conversation No. 729-7

Date:  June 10, 1972
Time: 1:25 and 1:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Carl B. Albert
-Health

Butterfield left at 1:28 pm.

Conversation No. 729-8

Date:  June 10, 1972
Time: 1:29 - 1:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Carl B. Albert
	-Health

Butterfield left at 1:30 pm.