Conversation No. 249-6

Date: April 15, 1971
Time: 8:59 am - 10:45 am
Location: Executive Office Building

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

     President’s statements
          -Governors
                -John D. Ehrlichman
                -Length
                -Memo
                -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
          -Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
                -Price
                -Length
                -Memo
          -Deadlines
          -Length
          -Instructions for Price
          -Chamber of Commerce
                -Length
          -DAR
                -Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech
                      -Press reaction
                      -DAR reaction
                -Immigrants
                -[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt
                -Marian Anderson

     May Day demonstrations
         -Wording of statement by Price
         -Patriotism
         -Ronald L. Ziegler
         -Richard A. Moore
         -William L. Safire
         -North Vietnamese involvement
         -”Nixon endorses moratorium”
         -Hardhats
         -Liberals
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          -Robert H. Finch
          -Donald H. Rumsfeld
          -George P. Shultz
          -Price
     -Composition
     -Senators
          -Robert P. Griffin
          -Edmund S. Muskie
     -Leaders
          -Rennie Davis
          -Parren J. Mitchell
          -Bobby Yorsett [sp?]
          -Communists
          -Davis
     -Surveillance
          -Patrick J. Buchanan
          -Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]
          -Moore
          -Henry A. Kissinger
          -Memorandum
          -President’s forthcoming meeting with editors
          -Muskie
                -Earth Day
          -Timing
          -FBI
          -Griffin
          -Muskie’s possible objections
          -President’s activities
          -Secret Service
          -FBI
          -Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of John F. Kennedy
          -President
          -Wiretapping
          -President’s instructions to Buchanan

President’s forthcoming meeting with editors
     -George Minot
     -President’s schedule
     -Boston Traveler
     -Charles W. Colson
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James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.’s editorial
     -President’s conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower, April 14, 1971
     -President’s Vietnam speech

Economy
    -News summary
    -Industrial production
    -Shultz                                                      Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
    -Paul W. McCracken
    -Meeting of April 15, 1971
    -Indicator
    -Retail sales
          -Figures
    -President’s forthcoming meeting with editors
    -Buchanan
    -McCracken
    -Figures
    -National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
    -Industrial production
          -Instructions for Colson’s people

Networks’ reporting
    -Colson
    -John B. Connally
          -Arthur F. Burns
    -Cabinet officers
          -Connally’s views
          -George W. Romney
          -John A. Volpe
          -Connally

Possible meeting with stock analysts
     -Safire
     -Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
     -Bull market
     -Certificate
     -Donald T. Regan, Lasker, and Bela Gold
     -Gus C. Lee

Economy
    -Stock market performance
    -First quarter figures
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          -Reporting
          -Stock market
                -Importance
                -Financial writers
          -Inflation
                -Compared with 1969
                -Profits
                                                                    Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
     Historical analysis of President’s administration
          -Niccolo Machiavelli
          -Stock market performance
          -Economy
          -War problem
                 -Cambodia and Laos
          -Demonstrations
          -Cities
          -Integration in the South
          -Foreign policy

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:59 am

     Report for President

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:30 am

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:59 am and 9:30
am]

[Conversation No. 249-6A]

     Meeting with President

[End of telephone conversation]

     President’s image
          -Staff
          -Connally’s analysis
                -John A. Scali
          -Connally’s analysis
                -Lack of emotion
          -Reaction to President’s press conferences
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          -Speeches
                -Buchanan
                -Richard K. Cook
          -Samuel Rosen’s conversation with Safire
          -Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
          -Expectations of youth
                -Sincerity
          -Staff                                                     Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
          -Public relations
                -Television media
          -Connally

Stephen B. Bull and an unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:59 am

     Kissinger’s arrival

     Rose Mary Woods’ trip
          -New England

     Letter from unknown Florida mayor
           -Kissinger
           -President’s image
           -Connally
           -President’s style
                 -Press conferences
                 -Lack of emotion
                 -William H. Moore

Bull and the unknown man left and Kissinger entered at 9:30 am

          -President’s People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
          -Letter from unknown mayor in Florida
          -Hubert H. Humphrey
                -1972 campaign
          -Moore
          -Kissinger’s conversation with Haldeman
          -Humphrey and Muskie
                -Editors’ opinions
          -Emotionalism in press conferences
          -Press
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          -Connally
                 -Cabinet
                      -Romney
                      -Melvin R. Laird
                      -William P. Rogers
                      -Leadership
                      -Press conferences
                            -Chile                             Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
          -Lyndon B. Johnson
          -J. F. Kennedy
          -Letter from Florida mayor
          -Connally
          -Press conference

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am

          -Possible reaction to press

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:45 am

          -J. F. Kennedy
          -Newsmen
          -Johnson
          -Connally’s views
          -Press conferences
          -Texas drought
                 -Bureaucracy
          -Press
          -Letter from an unknown boy
                 -Press conferences
                 -Media
          -President’s public exposure
                 -Conversations
                 -Press conferences
                 -Campaign appearances
          -Connally
          -President’s image
          -House, Senate, Cabinet
                 -Need for “Nixon men”
                 -Connally
          -President’s images
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     -General Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
          -Image
          -Guallists
          -Press conferences
          -Arrival in England in 1940
          -French language
     -Press conferences
     -Cabinet                                             Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
          -Changes
          -Connally’s views

Ambassadorial appointments
    -John S. D. Eisenhower
    -Edgar D. Whitcomb
           -Australia
           -Qualifications
    -Robert C. Gordon
    -J. S. D. Eisenhower
           -Possible appointment

Cabinet and staff
     -Unknown man discussed
     -J. F. Kennedy
            -Treatment of staff
            -Image
     -President’s image
            -Courage, boldness, “guts”
     -Connally’s views
     -Staff
            -Ziegler
            -Herbert G. Klein
            -Maurice H. Stans
            -Safire

Presidential image
     -”Guts”
     -Intelligence
     -”Guts”, boldness, coolness under fire
     -Ziegler
     -Press coverage
           -Washington Post
                 -Trade with PRC
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President’s PRC initiative
     -Ping-pong team
     -President’s policy
            -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
     -J. F. Kennedy
     -General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
            -Reception at Indonesian embassy
                                                                Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
President’s upcoming speech to DAR
     -Possible wording
     -Patriotism
           -Sergeant Karl Taylor
     -Demonstrators
     -Possible address to Chamber of Commerce
     -Demonstrators
           -Composition
           -Draft dodgers
           -Service in Vietnam
           -Wording of speech
                 -Price
           -Staff
                 -Press releases
                 -Haldeman
                 -Suggestions
                 -Connally
                 -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
           -Possible wording

PRC
      -Trade announcement
           -British ambassador’s conversation with Soviet ambassador
           -Reaction
           -Media Coverage
                 -Washington Post
                      -Department of State
                 -Marvin L. Kalb
           -Commerce Department
           -Defense Department
           -State Department
           -Media coverage
                 -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
                      -Kalb
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                 -[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
           -Kalb
           -State Department
                 -Vietnam policy

Earth Day
     -Muskie
     -FBI surveillance                                             Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
     -Davis
     -FBI role
     -Assassination of J. F. Kennedy
          -Oswald
     -Muskie
     -Samuel A. (“Sammy”) Abbott

PRC
      -Trade announcement
           -State Department
                 -Marshall Green
                 -”Nixon Initiative”
           -USSR
                 -Possible reaction
                 -Kissinger’s possible call to Yuli M. Vorontsov
           -State Department
                 -Scali
                 -US-Soviet relations
                 -PRC
           -Instructions to Scali
           -Taiwan
           -Unknown diplomat

Vietnam
     -Military activity
     -Media coverage
     -PRC
     -Peace initiatives
           -Stefan Olszowski
     -North Vietnam
     -Prisoners of War [POWs]
           -Possible United States’ initiative
           -Unilateral return
           -United States’ options
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              -POW wives
              -Possible action
                     -Frank Borman
         -Possible North Vietnamese military operations
         -POW wives
         -Nguyen Cao Ky
         -Cease fire deadline
         -Kissinger’s possible message to the North Vietnamese   Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
              -Timing


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         -POW issue
               -POW wives
         -Clark M. Clifford and George S. McGovern
         -POW wives
         -United States’ initiatives
               -Timing
         -Troop withdrawal
               -Harlow Resolution
               -Effect on South Vietnam
         -1972 Elections
         -Dr. David K. E. Bruce
         -POW wives
               -Kissinger, Haldeman, and Colson
         -POW issue
               -Polls
                     -Figures
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          -Major General James D. (“Don”) Hughes
          -Congress
          -POW issue
               -McGovern
          -POW wives
               -Laird
               -Promises
          -POW issue                                                 Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)

     PRC initiative
         -Instructions for Ziegler
         -Media
                -Vogue, Newsweek, Time
         -State Department
                -Press

Haldeman left at 10:23 am; Sanchez was no longer present at an unknown time before 10:23 am

     President’s schedule
          -Morocco
                -Visit of King [Moulay] Hassan II
                -Timing
                -Arab summit
                      -Moulay Ahmed Laraki
                -United States’ Middle East policy
                -Possible postponement of state visit
                -Possible private visit
                -William B. Saxbe

     State visits
           -President’s policies
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    AFRICA                                                    Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)


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         -Instructions for Kissinger
               -President’s schedule


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         -Juan Velasco Alvarado
              -Possible visit
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    FOREIGN AFFAIRS                                          Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)


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         -Edward R. G. Heath
         -1972
         -Mexico
               -Mexican-Americans
         -Morocco
               -Upcoming meeting
         -President’s policies
               -European summit meeting
               -Soviet visit
         -PRC

    PRC initiative
        -Muskie
        -Charles H. Percy
        -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
        -Earth Day
        -Media coverage
               -Sevareid
        -Haig’s visit to Indonesian embassy
               -Percy
               -J. William Fulbright
        -President’s policies
        -J. F. Kennedy
               -USSR
               -PRC
               -Nikita S. Khrushchev
        -Indochina
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     -Laos
     -William S. White
            -J. F. Kennedy
            -Johnson
     -Ping-pong team
     -USSR
            -Vorontsov
            -Peter G. Peterson                            Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
     -Media coverage
            -Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
     -USSR
     -Possible appointees
     -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
     -USSR
     -Mao Tse-tung
     -Chou En-lai
     -Ping-pong team
     -Withdrawal from Vietnam
     -USSR
     -Bureaucracy
     -J. F. Kennedy
     -Cambodia and Laos
            -En-lai
     -Possible negotiations

President’s image
     -Haldeman
     -Conveyance by staff and Cabinet
           -Shultz
           -Ehrlichman
           -Peterson
           -Klein
           -Jack J. Valenti
           -Haig
           -Connally
                 -Taft Schreiber
           -John N. Mitchell
           -Ziegler
           -Haldeman
           -President’ conversation with Burns
                 -Connally
                 -Kissinger
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                -Ehrlichman
          -Volpe
          -Romney
          -Stans
          -Elliot L. Richardson
          -Mitchell
          -Rogers and Laird
          -Burns                                             Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
          -Instructions for Kissinger
                -Finch and Rumsfeld
          -Burns
          -Valenti
     -Support of President’s positions
          -November 3, 1969, speech on Laos and Cambodia
          -April 7, 1971, speech on Vietnam
          -Kissinger
          -Shultz
          -Rogers
          -Press

USSR
    -Mood
    -Vorontsov
         -Message
    -PRC
    -United States’ policy

PRC initiative
    -Media coverage
           -Evans and Novak
           -Ziegler
    -USSR
           -Scali
           -United States’ policy
           -PRC
           -Summit
           -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                 -Announcement
           -Summit
           -POW issue
                 -POW wives
           -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Vorontsov
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                -Scali
                -State Department

     President’s schedule

     Moroccan meeting

Kissinger left at 10:45 am                                        Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)