Conversation No. 702-2

Date: April 4, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:47 pm and 3:11 pm
Location: Oval Office

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


     National Catholic Education Association [NCEA] speech, April 6, 1972
          -Draft
               -Report
               -Revisions
               -Charles W. Colson's review
                     -John B. Connally
          -Delivery
               -Connally's view
               -John D. Ehrlichman's view
               -Elliot L. Richardson's view
          -Drafting
               -Patrick J. Buchanan
               -John K. Andrews, Jr.
          -Points covered
               -Education
               -Catholic schools
          -Length
          -Points covered
                                               2

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)



                -Busing
                -Problems of non-public education
                -Busing
                -Equal Education Opportunity Act
           -Catholic schools
                -Buchanan
                -Service to poor
           -Busing
                -Impact on poor
           -Catholic schools
                -Service to poor

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:55 pm.

     Vietnam
          -Ziegler's statement
                -Sense of crisis
                      -Meeting with Melvin R. Laird
                -Issuance
          -Laird's press conference
                -Weather break
                      -Bombing
                -Timing
                -Scheduling
          -William P. Rogers's trip
                -Scheduling
                -Time and day
                -Diplomatic case
                      -North Vietnamese invasion
          -Defense Department and Robert J. McCloskey briefings
                -Conventional nature of war
                      -Sophisticated weapons and tactics
                            -Surface to Air missiles [SAMs]
                            -Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
          -North Vietnamese offensive
                -Press reports
                -Soviet supplies
                      -The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
                      -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                -Air strikes
                      -Weather
                      -Tanks
                -US actions
                                               3

                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)



                       -Ziegler's comments on military operations
                            -Ship movements
                            -Limitations
                            -B-52s
                            -Presidential decisions
                                   -Study of situation
                            -Invasion


Ziegler left at 3:00 pm.

     Education
         -Speech to NCEA

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with William J. Porter
               -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
               -Time
               -Day


*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 5s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

*****************************************************************


     Drugs
          -Speech for the President
               -Length
                     -Raymond K. Price, Jr.

     Radio talk on drugs
          -Length
                -Haldeman's view
          -Content
          -Draft
                                          4

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)



           -Revisions
           -Price
     -Distribution
           -Heroin hotline
           -Advertising Council
                 -Informants
                       -Pushers
     -News value
           -Announcement
                 -Timing
                 -News magazines
                 -Phone calls
                       -Number
           -Television news coverage
     -Scheduling
     -Heroin hotline
           -Announcement
           -News value
     -Scheduling
           -Maximum audience
           -Sunday
                 -Benefits
                 -Announcement
                       -News magazines
                       -Television news

Books
    -Sale of The President’s Trip to China
          -White House involvement
                -Herbert G. Klein
                -Republican National Convention
          -Facilities
          -Bulk sale
                -Convention
          -Robert H. Abplanalp's idea
                -Businessmen
                      -John A. Mulcahy
                -James Keogh's book
          -Colleges and universities
          -Jews
          -Book company
                -Investment
    -Sellers
                                          5

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)



           -Jews
                -Jack Drown
           -Encouragement
                -White House staff
                      -Bulk sales
                      -College and university distribution

Soviet Union trip
     -Book
           -Klein
     -Press
           -Invitations
                 -Compared to the President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                 -Klein
                 -Ziegler
                 -Administration's friends
     -The President's enemies
           -Ziegler's concern
           -Networks
           -Wire services
           -New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times
     -Friends
           -Nashville Banner, St. Louis Globe-Democrat and Dallas Herald
           -Nicholas P. Thimmesch
           -Clark R. Mollenhoff
                 -Peter M. Flanigan
     -Ziegler
           -Guest list for trip
                 -Guidelines
                 -Boston Globe

White House staff
     -Handling of press
          -Easter event
          -Ziegler
     -White House aides
          -Military personnel
                -Craig S. Campbell
                -Coast Guardsman [Alexander R. Larzelere]
                -John V. Brennan
                -Vernon C. Coffey
                -Campbell
                     -Camp David
                                              6

                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)



                       -Selection
                       -Campbell
                            -Compared to Larzelere
                       -Brennan
                       -Coffey
                  -Handling of arrangements
                       -Dwight L. Chapin and Stephen B. Bull
                       -Problems
                            -Easter event
                  -Replacements
                       -Recruitment
          -Bull
               -Back-up support
          -White House aides
               -Rosselier [sp?], Campbell
               -Assignments

     Education
         -Speech to NCEA
               -Draft

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:00 pm and 3:11 pm.

     [Conversation No. 702-2A]

     NCEA speech

     The President's schedule
          -Mitchell

     [End of telephone conversation]

     The President's schedule
          -Haldeman's meeting with Mitchell
               -Possible meeting with the President
               -Time

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.