Conversation No. 730-1

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  9:05-9:07 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Marjorie P. Acker.

Greetings
	-Weather
	-Rose Mary Woods

Tapes for transcribing

The President's schedule
	-Sequoia

Notes and tapes for transcribing
	-Soviet Union trip

Memoranda
-John N. Mitchell
-H.R. Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
		-Filing

Acker left at 9:07 am.

Conversation No. 730-2

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  9:09 am - unknown time before 9:56 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. Haldeman. 

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] and Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty [ABM]
-Submission to Senate
-Television appearance by the President
-Statement
-Value
	-The President's possible role

Vietnam War resolution to end war
	-Michael J. Mansfield

Domestic economic policies
	-Expenditures ceiling in Congress
-William E. Brock III
-Instruction
-Increases
				-Black lung disease

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South Dakota disaster relief
-Public relations
-George A. Lincoln
-Robert H. Finch
-The President's appearances
-George S. McGovern's previous appearance
-Eleanor S. McGovern
	-Spiro T. Agnew's appearance
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Family background in South Dakota
-Flood in Peru
-Flood in US

The President's schedule
	-Reception line
-Handshakes
-Length
-Value
-Congressmen
	-Swearing-in ceremony
-George P. Shultz
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Confirmation
-Rank
-Kleindienst
-Shultz

H.R. Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:56 am.

Conversation No. 730-3

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:09 - 10:57 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. Haldeman. 

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George C. Wallace
-Health
-Visits
-Ethel (Skakel) Kennedy
-Health
			-Condition
-Democratic National Convention
-Medical report
			-Condition
-Dr. William M. Lukash

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:09 and 9:56 am. 

		 [Conversation No. 730-3A.]

[See Conversation No. 25-45.]

[End of telephone conversation]

Wallace
	-Medical condition statement
-Contents

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US economic policies
	-Arthur F. Burns
-Suggestion
-Bonds
-Interest
-Taxes
-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Shultz
-National economy
-Infusion of cash

The President talked with Lukash between 9:56 and 9:58 am .

	 [Conversation no. 730-3B.]

[See Conversation No. 25-46.]

[End of telephone conversation]

Wallace
	-Physical condition
			-Democratic National Convention

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:58 am.

Virginia Sherwood
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] correspondent
-son's death
-The President's note of condolence

Barbara Walters
	-The President's note
		-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
		-Delivery

Unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:57 am.

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Telephone recordings
	-Instrument
-Problems

The President's schedule
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Note taking by the President

Documentation of historic meetings
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Head of State dinner
-Winston Churchill's account
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Josef V. Stalin
-Yalta conference
-Kissinger's recollections
-William L. Safire
-Details of meetings
-Kissinger
		-Notes of meetings

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The Democratic Ideal in America by Irving Kristol
	-Copies

The President talked with unknown person at an unknown time between 9:58 and 10:57 am.

[Conversation No. 730-3C.]

Copies of the Kristol book

[End of telephone conversation]

Irving Kristol
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Political philosophy
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Lionel Trilling
-Will Dofsky (sp?)
		-Robert A. Nisbet [?]
		-Political philosophy

The President's philosophy
	-Conservatives
-Compatibility with the President
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-William F. Buckley, Jr. 
-Neal Freeman [?]
-Human Events
-National Review
		-Hearst corporation
			-King Features Syndicate
-Conservatives
-John Birch Society
-Attitudes toward the President
-General attitudes
	-Contacts with intellectuals
-Motives
	-Price
-Buchanan
-LeonardGarment
-Moynihan
-George P. Shultz
-Qualities
-Buchanan
-Ronald Berman [?]
			-Literature compared to philosophy
-Kristol
-Analysis of book
				-The President’s view
	-Richard E. Neustadt
	-Moynihan
-Qualities
				-Compared with other liberal intellectuals
-Legacy
				-Family Assistance Plan

Urban problems
	-Moynihan's analysis
-Riots
-Riot control
-Advertisement
	-Martin Luther King's death
-Riots
				-Washington
	-Cambodia
-Riots
-Kent State killings
-Significance
-Demonstrations

White House staff
	-Soviet Union
-Kissinger
-Expertise
-Kremlinologists
-Discussions
-News summary material
-Buchanan's readings
-Biases
	-Domestic Council
-Biases
	-John D. Ehrlichman
-Political leanings
	-“Left” compared with the “right”
-Views for the President
	-Kristol book
-The President's perusal
-White House staff
				-Ehrlichman
-Censorship
				-Price

American mores
	-Movies
-Profanity
	-Haldeman's daughter
	-Reaction
	-Haldeman's son
	-Sexual presentation
-Public displays
				-Movies
-Homosexuality
-Depictions
	-Permissiveness
-Impact on literature and art
	-Steward at Camp David
-Movies
-Quality
	-Jews in publishing and motion pictures industries

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Authors on the Presidency
	-David S. Broder
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Views
-Theodore H. White
-James MacGregor Burns
-Sidey
-Broder
-Views
-Method of writing

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[Apparent discontinuity in the recording for an unknown length of time.]

Yitzhak Rabin
	-Public statement
	-Issue of Israel

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Schedule
	-Kissinger
-Press conference
				-Timing

Television coverage of Tricia and Edward Cox's wedding
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Quality

The President's schedule
	-Reception

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H.R. Haldeman left at 10:57 am.

Conversation No. 730-4

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:57 and 11:10 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Speech
	-Attorney General

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:10 am.

Conversation No. 730-5

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  11:10-11:15 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield .

Tricia Nixon Cox

The President's schedule for swearings-in
	-Timing
		-George P. Shultz
		-Number of Attorneys General
		-Number of Secretaries of the Treasury
		-Gifts for ceremony
			-Pens
		-Order of swearing-in
		-Richard G. Kleindienst

[No conversation]

Number of Secretaries of the Treasury and Attorneys General

Butterfield left at 11:15 am.

Conversation No. 730-6

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:21 am and 12:13 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons entered at an unknown time after 11:21 am.

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This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:13 pm.

Conversation No. 730-7

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:13 and 12:19 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull. This recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress.

The President's schedule
	-Soviet Union trip
		-Forthcoming trip on the Sequoia

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:19 pm.

Conversation No. 730-8

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:13 and 12:19 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
		-Secretary

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:19 pm.

Conversation No. 730-9

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:13 and 12:19 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

A letter
-File
-Address
-Dispostion
-Copies

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 12:19 pm.

Conversation No. 730-10

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  12:19-1:31 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. Haldeman. 

Swearing-in ceremony
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Order of ceremony
			-Press relations
				-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Warren E. Burger
-Views of the President's accomplishments
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Tricia and Edward Cox's wedding
-Attendees
			-Spiro T. Agnew
			-The President’s view
-Applause
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-George P. Shultz
-Press reactions to applause
-Dan Rather
-Handshakes
-Length

Rogers C.B. Morton
	-Olaf Palme
	-Swedish press

Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
	-The President's memorandum to Haldeman
-Purpose
-Tone
				-The President’s view
-Agenda
-Alexander P. Butterfield
					-Legislative leaders

Possible press conference
	-Haig, Jr.  
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-Capitol Hill appearance
-Television coverage
					-Marvin L. Kalb
-Camp David meeting with Haldeman
-Television appearance

Television appearances
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Comportment

The President's schedule
	-Press conference
	-Meeting with Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Cabinet meeting
-John Cardinal Krol
-Golf game with the President
				-Charles W. Colson
				-Timing
	-Cabinet meeting
	-Arthur F. Burns
		-Shultz
				-Quadriad meeting
-Meeting with the President
	-South America
	-Shultz and Burns
-Meeting with the President
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Quadriad
	-Burns
-Shultz
-Attendance
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Press conference
-Kissinger
-Value
-In-office meeting

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Senate ratification
-News coverage
-Debate

The President's schedule
	-Press conference
-In-office meeting
	-Kissinger
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip announcement

Kissinger
-Television appearance
-William P. Rogers
-"Meet the Press"
-Rogers
-"Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation"
-Value

Press conference
-Value
-Taxes, budget
-News coverage
-Television
-Issues
-Television coverage
			-The President’s view
-Foreign policy
-Interest of newsmen
			-Haldeman’s view
				-Domestic policy

Vietnam
		-Press coverage 
		-North Vietnamese
	-Bombing
	-Hospitals
	-Hue
-Napalm incident
-Photographs of little girl
-Bombs
	-South Vietnamese
-Photographs
	-Press coverage
			-Associated Press [AP]
			-Washington Star
			-Baltimore Sun
	-An Loc
-Press coverage
			-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
-Siege
-Relief
	-News presentation
-An Loc
-Fairness
	-Saigon
			-North Vietnamese Army
-Possible attacks
-North Vietnamese maneuvers
-B-52 attacks
-Popular reaction to war
-Polls
-George H. Gallup and Louis P. Harris results
-Withdrawal
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-North Vietnamese victory
-Reasons
-US ground troop withdrawals

Ehlichman's son's college graduation
	-Stanford University
-"Star Spangled Banner"
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Address to graduates
-Reaction

Young Americans
-Dwight David Eisenhower II
-Edward R. F. Cox
-David Eisenhower II
-Response to the President
	-Support for the President
	-Scholastic goals
	-U.S. News and World Report survey
			-Young attitudes

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Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Possible trip to South Dakota
	-John C. Whitaker analysis
	-Ehlichman's analysis
	-Ties to state
			-The President’s view
				-George S. McGovern
		-Agnew
	-Value
				-The President’s previous trip to Mississippi

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The President's schedule
	-John N. Mitchell
-Time
-Colson
-Farm Family of the Year
-Photograph
-Arkansas
-Value
	-Heart research
-Dr. John S. Millis
-Heart and Lung Institute agreement
-Soviet Union
-Value

The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Publicity
-Peter G. peterson
			-Forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger
		-Apollo astronauts
-Dinner with the President
				-Head of state dinner
					-Echeverria
-Camp David
-Meeting with the President
-Statements
					-Relationship with Soviet Union cosmonauts
						-Frank Borman
-Publicity
					-Benefit
	-William C. Westmoreland
		-Retirement
	-Medal
		-Leaders meeting

	SALT
	-Possible Presidential televised statement
-Effectiveness
-US congress
-Statement
-Length
-Press reports
				-Ziegler

Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox’s possible trip to PRC
	-David N. Parker
		-The President’s view
	-David Eisenhower, II
-Schedule
				-Naval service
-Republican Convention
-Cox
-Law bar examination
	-Tricia and Edward Cox

Latin American trip
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Value
-Colombia
-Susan Eisenhower
-Venezuela
		-Richard Nixon Library and School, Colombia
	-Parents' association
	-Visit as Vice President
			-Commercial flight
		-Colombia itinerary
		-Venezuela itinerary
		-Puerto Rico
		-Mexico

Dinner for Echeverria
	-Entertainment
			-Van Cliburn

Possible PRC trip by Julie and David Eisenhower
-Value
-Rationale for trip
-Invitation
-Soviet Union trip
-Value
-Domestic significance
-Itinerary
-Peking
-Great Wall of China
			-Forbidden City
			-Canton
-Soviet Union trip
-Kissinger
-Public relations between PRC and US

Ronald K. Evans and Robert D. Novak article
	-Poland
-Polish government
-Soviet Union
-The President's political future
-Polish-Americans
-The President's trip
-Edward Gierek
-Trade ties

The President's schedule
-Leaders meeting
-Press
-Kissinger
-PRC trip announcement
		-Possible press conference
-Television
-East Room
		-California
-Timing
-Democratic convention
-Time of day
-Reporters
	-Quality of questions
	-Kissinger
-PRC
-SALT
	-Press conferences
-Democratic convention
-California
-Timing
-Economy
-Location
-Frequency
	-Camp David visit
		-Astronauts' visit
	-Major trips
-Physical appearance
-Popularity
	-Kissinger
-Return time

H.R. Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:19 and 1:31 pm. 

	 [Conversation no. 730-10A]

Kissinger
	-Time of return

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
	-Press conference
-Time
-Arrangements
				-Patrick J. Buchanan

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 12:19 pm.

The President's schedule
	-Sequoia
-Time of return
-Helicopter at Mount Vernon
-Length of cruise
-Return trip

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 1:31 pm.

Press conferences
-Strategy
-Frequency
-Format
-Television
-Political questions
					-Responses
-Timing
-Political questions
-Nature of questions

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	The President’s schedule
		-Mitchell
		-Colson
		-Rogers

Haldeman left at 1:31 pm.

Conversation No. 730-11

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  3:03-3:24 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Bui Diem and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.[Members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.]

Greetings

Departure of Ambassador Diem

Vietnam
	-Military operations
-Mekong Delta
	-Weather
-Rains

Photograph session

Diem
-Feelings about the US
		-The President’s policies
			-1969 moratorium
	-Cambodia operation
	-Laos operation
			-North Vietnamese offensive

Vietnamese attitudes toward US
	-World War II
		-US foreign policy
		-Diem
			-The President’s policies

The President's message to Nguyen Van Thieu
-US policy
-South Vietnam
-An Loc
-Hue
-South Vietnam morale
		-US policy
-Negotiations
			-The President’s view
-North Vietnamese
-Military condition
-US military operations
	-North Vietnamese military offensive
			-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
				-Response
					-The President’s view
-Rubicon analogy
-Ground troops
				-ARVN
				-US troops
-ARVN response
				-An Loc
				-II Corps
				-I Corps
-Air power
	-Comparison with other battles
-World War II
-World War I
-Battle of the Bulge
-German offensive
					-Allied response
-George S. Patton
-ARVN offensive operation
			-The President’s view
-1972 election
			-North Vietnam
-International implications
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-The President's assessment
-Soviet Union involvement
-Chinese
-North Vietnamese
-Hanoi position

South Vietnam
-Fighting strength
-Soviets
-Chinese

Damage to North Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Sea blockade
			Sihanoukville
		-Bombing
-Effectiveness analyzed

South Vietnam
	-Morale
-Comparison to North Vietnamese
-Thieu
		-Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
		-Military Region [MR] I
-Quang Tri
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-An Loc
-Saigon
-Parrot's Beak
-B-52s
	-Air power
		-Ground forces

Diem
	-Recollection of seeing the President in 1968
			-US policy

The President's view of war developments
-Mining of North Vietnamese ports
-Conclusion of war

Gifts

Diem and Haig left at 3:24 pm.

Conversation No. 730-12

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:24 and 3:30 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

H.R. Haldeman's location

The President's schedule

Michael P. Balzano
	-Background

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Photographs for first anniversary

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

Conversation No. 730-13

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  3:30-4:09 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson, Donald F. Rodgers, and Michael P. Balzano. 

[Members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.]

Greetings

Photograph session

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Busing
	-Presidential actions
-Detroit
-Pittsburgh
-Higher education bill
				-Public relations efforts
-Timing of actions
			-Public relations
	-Michigan
-Robert P. Griffin
-Administration intervention
-Constitutional amendment
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Confirmation
-Intervention in busing cases
	-Higher education bill
-Liberals
	-Detroit, Pittsburgh, Connecticut, Ohio
-Balzano’s efforts
-Importance of issue

Balzano’s speech
	-New York
-Edward C. Nixon
-Appearance
		-The President’s policies
		-Response

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Balzano and Rodgers
-Ages
			-The President’s recollections
		-Thomas E. Dewey
			-The President’s advice

Youth and American success
-Protests
-Attitudes
-California
-Texas
-Midwest
-East
-Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]
-Liberal faculties
			-Balzano’s view

Irving Kristol book [The Democratic Ideal in America]

An unknown man [Stephen B.]entered at an unknown time after 3:30 pm.

Kristol book

Unknown man [Bull?]left at an unknown time before 4:09 pm.

Kristol book
-Political views
-Critique of contemporary society

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Kristol book presentation
-Uses
			-Balzano
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Background
-Education
-Analysis of book
-Changing philosophies
-Achievement ethic
-Ethnics
-Attitudes
	-Busing
-Study by Harvard professor
-Blacks
-Impact
-Liberal attitudes

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Secretary James D. Hodgson
	-Speech in New York
			-Rule of government
-Peter J. Brennan

Role of government
-Extent
-Welfare
-Education
-Housing
-Extent
-Emergencies
-South Dakota
			-Flooding
		-The President’s view
		-Freedom and democracy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Poland
-Soviet Union
				-The President’s previous trip
-Leningrad
-Kiev
	-Ukrainians
		-Poland
-Response to the President's trip
-Germans
	-Russians
				-The President’s previous trip

	Canada

Presidential gifts  

Brennan
-Qualities
		-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Background
			-Building trades
				-George Meany

Colson, Rodgers, and Balzano left at 4:09 pm.

Conversation No. 730-14

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  4:09-5:40 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell.

Greetings

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 4:09 pm.
	
	Documents to sign

Richard G. Kleindienst's confirmation
-Kleindienst
-Difficulties
-Senate filibuster

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

		-Disclosure
		-Chappaquiddick issue

-Press handling
	-Peter M. Flanigan
					-Edward M. Kennedy 

	-Support
-Robert C. Byrd
-Philip A. Hart
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
		-Richard W. McLaren

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:09 pm.

The President's schedule
	-H.R. Haldeman
-Phone call

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

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John B. Connally
	-Public office
-Previous conversation with Mitchell
-Presidency
-Vice presidency
			-Presidency
	-Qualifications
			-The President’s view
	-Public office
-Secretary of State
	-The President's second term
-Problems
	-Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger
	-Second term duties

Connally
	-Future position
-Secretary of State
-Secretary of Defense
-Treasury role
-Secretary of State
-William P. Rogers

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Vice presidency
	-Role
-Vietnam policy
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Relationship with the President
				-The President’s view
-First term
-Problems
-Intergovernmental relations
-Domestic policies
-Welfare programs
-Changes
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Elliot L. Richardson

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Spiro T. Agnew
-Salary
-Vice presidential residence
			-Purpose
			-The President’s view
				-Timing
			-Other official residences

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[Duration:  3m 39s       ]

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Agnew
	-Future plans
-Supreme Court appointment
-Popularity
-Financial standing
-Residence

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Supreme Court
	-Warren E. Burger
-William H. Rehnquist
-William O. Douglas
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Thurgood Marshall
-Performance
-Decision
-Private clubs
						-Vote
							-Potter Stewart
							-Byron R. (“Whizzer”) White
	-The President's appointments
	-Rehnquist
-Burger's opinion
			-The President's view
-Douglas
-Qualities
	-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Legal approach
	-Burger
-Rehnquist's opinions
	-Douglas
-Successors
	-Nixon's nominees
-Powell
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Burger
-Work load
-Blackmun
-Burger
-View of 1972 campaign

	Unknown letter
		-Location

Kleindienst
	-Confirmation

Spending program
	-John D. Ehrlichman

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[Duration:  26s          ]

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Burger
	-The President's accomplishments
-Communists
	-Supreme Court decisions
-Criminal cases
-Busing decision
-Timing
-1972 election
						-The President's view

Busing
-Constitutional amendment
			-The President's view
-Michael P. Balzano and Donald F. Rodgers
-Public sentiment
-Detroit
-Pittsburgh
			-Need for public relations
-Michigan

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[Duration:  3m 39s       ]

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Busing
	-Higher education bill
-The President's veto
	-Patrick J. Buchanan's counterattack
-Language
			-The administration’s position
	-Rodgers
-The President's position
	-Constitutional amendment
-Problems
-Congressional action
-Political issue
	-Democrats
		-Timing
	-The President's action

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[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  2m 44s       ]

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The President’s schedule

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[Duration:  12m 33s      ]

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Delivery of u unknown item

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[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  14m 46s       ]

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The President's schedule
	-Kissinger
-Japan

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George C. Wallace
	-Health
-Dr. William M. Lukash
-Treatment
-Time
-Return to Alabama
-Doctors
-Successor in Alabama
-Legal requirements
-California requirements
-Health
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[Duration:  14m 43s        ]

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Kissinger entered at 5:39 pm.

Greetings

Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding anniversary

Mitchell
	-Travel to Ohio

Haldeman and Mitchell left at 5:40 pm.

Kissinger's schedule
		-Travel

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Refreshment

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[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded at this time while the tape was changed.]

[Conversation No. 730-14 continues as Conversation No. 731-1.]