Conversation No. 732-1

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:45 and 8:01 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Greetings

	The President’s schedule
		-Congressional Republican leaders

Stephen Bull left at an unknown time before 8:01 am.

Conversation No. 732-2

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:01 and 9:39 am.
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 9:39 am.

Conversation No. 732-3

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:01 and 9:39 am.
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

The President’s location
	-Locator device

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 9:39 am.

Conversation No. 732-4

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:01 and 9:39 am.
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 9:39 am.

Conversation No. 732-5

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  9:39-9:50 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Clark MacGregor, Herbert G. Klein, and Ronald L. Ziegler.

[The recording began while the conversation was in progress.] 

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Support in House of Representatives
			-Statements of support
-Timing
-Soviet Union
		-Future agreements
-Delays

Vietnam resolution
-The President's view
-Timing
-Impact on negotiations

Revenue sharing
-Ford

House Resolution [HR] 1
-Scott’s actions
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
		-The President’s position

Foreign policy issues
-Congressional Republican’s efforts
-Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Peace offers
-Defense commitments
-Future agreements
-SALT negotiations
-US strength
	-Navy
					-Sixth Fleet
		-US policy
-New isolationists
-US security assistance program
-US policy
			-Israel
-U.S. prestige
-The President's prestige
-Democrats
-House Committee on Foreign Affairs
-Apprehensions
-Vietnam negotiations
-Dangers of pullout

Vietnam
-POWs
-Cease fire
-Compared with Korean War

Scott, et al., left at 9:50 am.

Conversation No. 732-6

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  9:52-11:09 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's telephone call to Dan Rather
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] coverage of wedding

Barbara Walters

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:53 am.

The President's knowledge of television coverage
-CBS
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]

Dan Rather
-The President's telephone call

Ziegler left at 9:53 am.

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Spiro T. Agnew
-Role in administration
-Nixon's relationship with Dwight D. Eisenhower
			-The President's view
-Relations with Congress
			-Senate votes
-John N. Mitchell

John B. Connally
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Approach as Secretary of Treasury
		-Presidency
		-Haldeman’s view

Kissinger
-Role in administration in second term
-Problems

Vice President's residence
		-Agnew
		-The President's view
-Possible locations
-Marjorie Merriweather Post's houses
-Possible government guest house in Palm Beach
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
				-Camp David
-Layout of beach house in Florida
-Budget conditions
			-Facilities
			-Possible congressional action

Possible Presidential appearance on Capitol Hill
-Kissinger
		-The President
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Problems of precedents
		-Alternatives

The President’s possible meeting with Congressional leaders
		-Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Presentation
-Length
-The President's response to questions from Congressmen
-J. William Fulbright
		-Possible attendees
			-Congressional committees
-Melvin R. Laird, William P. Rogers, Gerard C. Smith
		-Problems
		-The President’s role
	-Preparation
-John C. Stennis

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John D. Ehrlichman
-Administration position on busing
			-Need for public relations
				-Spokesman
-Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania
			-George C. Wallace
-Need for the President's press conference
-Position on busing
			-Rationale

The President’s possible meeting with Congressmen dealing with SALT
talks
-Timing
-Format
			-Questions
				-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
				-The President's view
		-Smith
-Fulbright
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Cambodia

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  Kissinger
-US News and World Report article
			-Length
				-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-World report
-Value of report
				-Length
				-The President's view
				-Department of State

Walter H. Annenberg
-Swimming pool
	-Contribution 
	-Edward R. G. Heath
	-Chequers
	-White House
	-Tennis court

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:53 am.

Meeting with Thomas C. Korologos, Clark MacGregor, and Stennis
-Kissinger's presence
-Kissinger's location
			-Joseph W. Alsop

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:26 am.

Tennis court at White House
-Value
			-The President's view

Sequoia
-Seaworthiness
			-The President's view
-New boats
-Timing
	-Election
-Gift to government
			-US Navy
-Seaworthiness of a new yacht
			-Specifications

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Swimming pool
		-Camp David

Kissinger
-Stennis meeting
			-MacGregor

White House staff
		-Congressional staff
			-The President's view
-Press secretaries
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
			-The President's view
				-Staff
-Domestic Council
-Staffing
-Congressional liaison office
-Staffing
-Haldeman’s view
-Eisenhower years
					-Bryce N. Harlow
					-Wilton B. (“Jerry”) Persons
-Staff cuts
			-The President's view
-Transfers to campaign staff
-Dale Grubb, Richard K. Cook, Korologos
 and Wallace H. Johnson
-Domestic Council
			-The President's view
-Ehrlichman and MacGregor
-Specialists
-Foreign policy briefing book
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Kissinger

Possible press conference
-The President's view
-Television

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Press conference
-Meeting with Gerald R. Ford, [Thomas ] Hale Boggs
-Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:53 am.

Kissinger's presence
-Meeting with the President and Stennis
		-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Bull left at unknown time before 10:26 am.

Haldeman spoke with Kissinger at an unknown time after 9:53 am.

	[Conversation No. 732-5A]

	The President’s schedule
		-Stennis
		-Kissinger

[End of telephone conversation.]

News summary
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Kissinger entered and Haldeman left at 10:26 am.

Meeting on PRC
-Haig

Kissinger's breakfast meeting with Dobrynin
-US bombing in North Vietnam
-Chinese response
				-Public statement
				-US response
-Briefing for Dobrynin
-US intentions
-Nikolai V. Podgorny's trip to Hanoi
			-US policy
	-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Hanoi
-Haiphong
-Procedures by US
-PRC
-Soviet Union response
		-Dobrynin
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Haig's conversation with Dobrynin

Stennis and Korologos entered at 10:28 am.

Greetings

Kissinger’s previous trip to Japan

	SALT
	-Defense position
			-Effect on negotiations
-Mining of Haiphong Harbor
-Negotiations
			-The President's view
-US
-Soviet Union

Negotiations with Soviet Union
-US strength
-SALT II negotiations
-New weapons systems
			-Defense Department
			-The President's view
				-Undersea Long-Range Missile System [ULMS]
				-B-1 bomber
-Stennis's support
			-Defense budget
			-Foreign aid
			-Anti-Ballistic Missil System [ABM]

Peace advocates
-US strength

North Vietnamese actions
-An Loc, Hue, Kontum
			-Military action
-Problems in north
-Antiwar resolutions
-Effect
-Encouragement of North Vietnamese
-Strength of North Vietnamese

US negotiating position in Vietnam
-US policy
			-Military actions
-Cease fire
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US leverage
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment

Vietnam war
-Negotiations
-US dealings with Soviet Union and PRC
-Impact on North Vietnamese
		-US Congressional action
			-Resolution
-Soviet Union delegation visit to Hanoi

US session with Soviet Union on Vietnam
-The President’s previous trip to Soviet Union
-Leonid I. Brezhnev, Aleksei N. Kosygin, Nikolai V. Podgorny
			-Meeting with the President
-Soviet Union position
-The President's conversation with Brezhnev
-Length
-SALT
-Location
-The President's previous trip to Soviet Union
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
			-US position
				-Brezhnev’s response
-Reasons for Soviet Union position
-Kosygin
-Head of State dinner
-Conversation with the President
				-Toast at dinner
-Kissinger's talk with Andrei I. Gromyko
-US proposals to Hanoi
				-President’s previous comments to Congress
		-US policy
			-The President’s telephone call to Brezhnev
-Podgorny's trip to Hanoi
-US-Soviet Union communique
-Reference to US actions
-President
-Soviet Union and PRC offers
-Possible Senate Resolution
			-Effect
-US position
-Cease fire
-POWs
-Senate Resolution on war
				-The President's view
				-Funding
-Soviet Union and PRC offers

The President's conversation with Brezhnev
-Khrushchev
-Offers to North Vietnamese
			-Brezhnev
				-Cease-fire
			-US position
				-Cease-fire
				-POWs
-George S. Mcgovern's election
			-Effect
-Need to stop Senate Resolution
-Soviet Union response to US proposals

Vietnam
	-Cease fire
	-US advantages
			-North Vietnam
		-Senate Resolution
			Stennis’s possible comments
US bombing
-North Vietnamese supplies
			-Effect

Stennis's motion in Senate
-Mansfield resolution
-Herman E. Talmadge
-David H. Gambrell
-William B. Spong, Jr.

McGovern
-Source of support

Mansfield resolution
-Amendments
-Stennis opposition

Military procurement bill
-Allen J. Ellender
		-Stennis’s view
		-B-1 bomber
		-Command post
-ABM
		-Command post
	-SALT talks
			-Senate action
-Impact on Moscow
			-The President's view
-B-1, ULMS
			-The President's view
-Bargaining with Soviets
-SALT
		-Soviet missile capacities
		-Jackson

US military strength
		-ULMS
	-Crash program
			-David Packard [?]
-Bargaining with Soviets
Military procurement bill
-ABM
-Cut-backs in research and development
			-Stennis’s view

The President's talk with Stennis
		-Stennis’s statement
			-The President's view
-The President's desire for second round of negotiations
-Arms programs
				-US Navy
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Laird

Talks with Dobrynin 
-Negotiations with Soviets

SALT talks
-Second round of talks
			-The President’s policy
-US security
-Weapons freeze
-Soviet Union
-Second round of talks
-Timing
-ABM
-Conditions

Stennis’s Congressional hearings
-Objections to SALT
			-Jackson
-Organization of hearings
-White House staff members
		-Senate action
			-Stennis’s efforts
			-Military procurement
				-B-1 bomber
				-Amount

The President's Vietnam military policies
		-Mining

Kissinger, et. al. left at 11:09 am.

Conversation No. 732-7

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  11:15-11:17 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] address
-Text

Bull left at 11:17 am.

Conversation No. 732-8

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:17 and 11:28 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] address

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:28 am.

Conversation No. 732-9

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:36 and 11:43 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:43 am.

Conversation No. 732-10

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:38 and 11:43 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person. 

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Conversation No. 732-11

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  11:43 am.-1:18 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger's and schedule
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Staff meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.

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Kissinger entered at 11:44 am.

	Kissinger’s schedule
		-Staff meeting
			-PRC

Meeting with the President
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] briefing
-Congresssional leaders
				-East Room
-Compared with Cambodia briefing

Kissinger left at 11:45 am.

			-Possible benefits
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Haldeman talked with Charles W. Colson at an unknown time between 11:45 am. and 12:27 p.m. The President can be heard in the background.  

	[Conversation No. 732-11a]

[See Conversation No. 25-56; one item has been withdrawn 
         from this conversation]

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Foreign policy public relations efforts
		-Patrick J. Buchanan
		-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
		-William L. Safire
-Administration spokesman
			-The President's view
				-S. Steven Karalakas
-Price
-Buchanan
-Kissinger
-Unnamed writer
-Previous Nelson A. Rockefeller employee

Possible White House staff testimony before Congress
		-Kissinger
		-Haldeman
		-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
			-Previous testimony
		-Haldeman’s view
			-Other members of White House staff
				-Cabinet officers
-Kissinger's role in presenting SALT Treaty
-Meeting with Congressmen
-J. William Fulbright
	-The President's view
					-Public relations aspect
						-Invitation to White House
				-Haldeman’s view

Irving Kristol’s book [On the Democratic Ideal in America]
	-The President’s instructions
	-Ehrlichman
-Price
-Buchanan
-Ehrlichman
-Cabinet officers
-George P. Shultz
			-Elliot L. Richardson
			-George W. Romney
		-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Herbert Stein
-Arthur F. Burns
		-Richard G. Kleindienst
		-Warren E. Burger
		-Letter from the President

Kissinger’s possible testimony
-Meeting with Congressmen on SALT
			-East Room
-Purpose
		-Briefing in East Room
			-Haldeman’s view
	-Television coverage
	-Radio coverage
			-The President's view
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Gerard C. Smith

Rogers
-Possible meeting with the President
-Rogers's forthcoming trip to Asia
				-Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO]
				-Australia, New Zealand and the US [ANZUS]
-Kissinger's trip to PRC
-Chinese invitation
-Length of trip
			-Previous trip to Soviet Union
		-Timing

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Legislation
-House Resolution [HR] 1
			-The President's view
-Richardson, James D. Hodgson

The President’s possible press conference
-Colson recommendations
			-East Room
	-Subjects
-Vietnam
-SALT
				-Political question
-Unemployment
-Busing
-Tax reform
-Timing
-Preparation
-Colson’s view
-Location
-California
-East Room
-The President's view
-Timing
-Date
-Vietnam announcement
				-Draft
				-Troop withdrawal
-Colson's recommendations
-The President’s preparation
-Ramifications
-Location of press conference
-Questions
-Timing
-Vietnam announcement
			-The President’s schedule
				-Forthcoming US News and World Report article
					-The President's view
			-New York primary
			-The President’s wedding anniversary
-Colson's group
-Qualities
-Richard A. Moore, John A. Scali
-Visit to Capitol

Kissinger entered at 12:27 pm.

Kissinger's talk with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger's possible testimony before Congress
			-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger's possible testimony in Congress
		-Disadvantages
			-Flanigan
		-Possible briefing in East Room
	-Advantages
				-Television
	-Format
-Fulbright and John C. Stennis
			-Committees
			-Attendees
-The President's opening statement
-Various formats
				-Questions
				-Statements
				-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
	-Kissinger's opening statement
	-Television
				-Senate ratification
	-Public relations 
	-Smith
	-Advantages
				-The President's view
	-Kissinger's television appearances
-Timing
-Advantages
-Presidential press conferences
-Timing
	-Colson
				-1972 election
				-US foreign policy
				-US domestic policy
				-Republican convention
-Democratic convention
-The President's image
-Scali, Moore, Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger's recommendation
-Timing
-Kissinger’s trip to PRC
-Nikolai V. Podgorny's trip to Hanoi
-Charles A. J. M. DeGaulle
-Stature
-Previous administration efforts
				-The President’s speech on Vietnam, November 3, 1969
				-The President’s PRC trip
					-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Timing
				-Colson
				-Kissinger
				-Haldeman
				-The President’s policies
-The President's image
-Opponents
-Respect for the President

The President's opponents
-Different groups
-Respect for the President

Presidential press conference
-Timing
-Date
-Podgorny trip
-Kissinger's trip
-Kissinger’s view
-Democratic convention
-Kissinger’s view
-Previous television interview of the President
-Dan Rather
					-Kissinger’s view
-Comparison with press conference
-Advantages
-Television interview
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr., Howard K. Smith, John W. Chancellor
						-Visibility
-Rather
					-Value
						-Haldeman’s view

Kissinger's possible Congressional briefing
-Advantages
-Television
-Laird, Rogers, Smith
-Fulbright
-Opening statment
-Release to press
-Length
-Radio
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Arms control
-Smith
			-White House involvement
-The President's intervention

Arms control
-Message to Congress
	-Administration policy
-Test Ban Treaty
-Smith
-Nonproliferation treaty and Test Ban Treaty
			-The President’s policy
				-Smith
-Kissinger’s trip to Japan
				-Department of State
				-US policy
-Eisaku Sato
-Takeo Fukuda

State Department
-Support for Nonproliferation Treaty
-The President's view
-Japanese position

Kissinger's trip to Japan
-PRC view
-Fukuda
-Consultation with US

SALT and Anti-Ballistic Missile [ABM] treaties briefings
-Fulbright
		-Ratification
		-Congressional hearings
-Kissinger's testimony
-Protocol
-Possible briefing at the White House
			-Timing
-Executive privilege
-Kissinger's briefing
-Timing
-The President's meeting with Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Location
-Preparation for briefing
		-Timing
		-Kissinger
			-Meeting with Echeverria and Emilio Rabasa
		-Preparation
			-The President’s role
			-Kissinger’s role
-Timing
			-Echeverria
			-Kissinger
				-Preparation
-Location
-Time
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Meeting with Fulbright
	-Kissinger
-Timing
-Location
			-White House Theatre
			-Briefing room in Old Executive Office Building [OEOB]
			-East Room
-Timing
		-Length
-The President's opening of meeting
-Recording and transcript
		-Timing

Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Kissinger's briefing of Rogers
			-Haig’s message to Philip C. Habib
-Rogers's trip
-SEATO
				-ANZUS
-North Vietnam
-John B. Connally
						-Hanoi

Press conference by the President
-Timing
-Kissinger's trip to PRC
-Public response
-Timing
-Colson
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Podgorny's trip to Hanoi
				-Public announcement

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-US bombing in North Vietnam
			-The President’s instructions
				-Podgorny's trip
	-Public announcements
	-PRC protests

PRC policy on Vietnam
-US bombing
	-Limits on bombing

Kissinger's Congressional briefing
-Time
-Wednesday compared with Thursday
-Radio coverage
-State Department
-Transcript
-Rogers, Laird
-Arrangements
-Timing
-Length of time
-Echeverria welcome ceremony
				-Public relations
-Rogers, Laird, and Smith
-Interruptions
			-Echeverria welcoming ceremony
-East Room
-Preparation
		-Timing

Press conference by the President
-Timing
			-Kissinger’s trip to PRC
-Podgorny visit to North Vietnam
		-Possible private US-North Vietnam negotiations

Kissinger left at 1:15 pm.

	Possible Presidential press conference
-Domestic policy
-Announcement
			-Possible wording
				-Domestic policy
-Timing
-Subjects
-Foreign policy
-SALT
-Domestic questions
-Timing
-Announcement
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
		-Domestic policy
			-The President's view
-MacGregor

Haldeman left at 1:18 pm.

Conversation No. 732-12

Date:  June 13, 1972
Time:  1:18 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The President and Sanchez left at 1:18 pm.