Conversation No. 706-2

Date: April 11, 1972
Time: 10:10 am - 12:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Arthur F. Burns
          -Trip to Camp David
                -Departure
                -Reasons
          -Leaders meeting
                -Burns
                -Time and day
          -Thursday
                -Meeting with Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
                      -Change of day
                      -Time of day
                      -Camp David
                      -Change of day
                           -Location
                                 -Executive Office Building [EOB]
                      -Henry A. Kissinger's presence
                      -Photograph
                           -Location
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                          Tape Subject Log
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                                                      Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                     -Map Room
                         -Compared to library, EOB
     -Free time
     -Afternoon
           -Changes
                 -Meeting with Frank DeMarco, Jr.
                       -The President's tax returns
                 -Youth conference
     -Camp David
     -Canadian trip
           -Departure
     -Afternoon meetings
           -Changes in time and day
                 -Advantages
                       -Canadian trip
           -Camp David trip
                 -Cancellation of meetings
                       -W. Kenneth Riland
-Camp David trip
     -Secretaries
-Canadian trip
     -Speech
           -Kissinger
     -Secretaries
           -Florida trip
                 -Alexander P. Butterfield
-Camp David
     -Secretaries
           -Nellie L. Yates
           -Terry Goodwin [sp?]
           -Unknown person
                 -Competence
           -Marjorie P. Acker and Rose Mary Woods
     -The President's speech
           -Revisions
     -Unknown secretary
           -Age
           -Experience
           -Background
                 -Loyalties
     -Yates
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                                                                    Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                     -Experience
                     -Work with previous presidents
                           -Lyndon B. Johnson
                           -John F. Kennedy
                           -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                     -Integrity
                     -Loyalty

     White House staff
          -Secretaries
               -Background
                     -Compared with Susan Lichtman at International Telephone and
                          Telegraph [ITT]
          -Unknown secretary
               -Loyalty
               -Typing skills
                     -Speed
                     -Yates and Woods
                          -Ages
               -Composure
          -Acker
               -Competence
               -Knowledge of White House
          -Woods
               -Staff
                     -Competence
               -Competence

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Peter G. Peterson and Peter M. Flanigan
               -John B. Connally

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49 am.

[Conversation no. 706-2A]

     The President's schedule
          -Scott and Mansfield meeting
               -Arrangements
                      -David N. [Parker]
                      -Day
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                                                               Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                      -Time
                      -Kissinger's clearance
                      -Location
                            -Cocktails
                -Invitation
                      -Kissinger's presence

[End of telephone conversation]

     Kissinger's meeting with White House staff
          -Briefing
          -Robert B. Semple, Jr. article
          -Ronald L. Ziegler
          -A leak
                -Source
          -Kissinger's briefing
          -Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein
                -Absence

     Vietnam
          -Talking points
               -Kissinger
               -Klein
          -North Vietnamese offensive
               -Press reports
                     -Unknown South Vietnamese commander
                          -Statement
                     -Tank column

     International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
           -Press reports
                 -A session of a committee
                      -Confusion
                      -William R. Merriam
                            -Staff
                            -Confusing statements
           -Testimony
                 -Robert C. Wilson
           -Senators
                 -Receipt of transportation
                 -Edward J. Gurney
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                                Tape Subject Log
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                                                          Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


     -Senate testimony
          -Henry E. Petersen
          -Conclusion
                -Date
          -Administration tactics
     -Senate
          -James O. Eastland
                -Fred R. Harris
                -Caucus
                -Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
                -Letter writing campaign
                      -Charles W. Colson

Economy
    -Food prices
         -John D. Ehrlichman
               -News summary
         -Connally
         -Unknown person

ITT case
     -Flanigan statement
          -Scott
          -John W. Dean, III
                -Letter to Senate
          -Flanigan's involvement in case
                -Richard W. McLaren
                -Richard J. Ramsden
                -Republican National Convention
                      -Denial
          -Flanigan's reaction

The President's schedule
     -Stopover on trip to Soviet Union
          -Poland
                 -Announcement
                      -Day
          -Ireland
                 -Kissinger's view
                      -Britain
                      -Northern Ireland
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                                     Tape Subject Log
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                                                                    Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                -Switzerland and Austria
                -Azores
                     -Logistics
                     -Flying time
                -Switzerland
                     -Kissinger's view
                     -Zurich and Geneva
                           -Facilities
                     -Geneva
                           -Political connotations
                           -United Nations [UN]
                -Majorca
                -Spain
                     -Protocol
                     -Majorca
                     -Bases
                -Portugal
                -Majorca
                -Monaco
                -Majorca
                     -Spanish Foreign Minister
                     -Distance from Moscow
                           -Madrid
                           -Zurich
                -Greece
                -US base
                     -Mediterranean
                -Haldeman's call to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49
am.

[Conversation no. 706-2B]

[See Conversation no. 22-102]

[End of telephone conversation]

     The President's schedule
          -Canadian trip
               -The President's speech
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                                     Tape Subject Log
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                                                                      Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                     -French phrases
                          -Walters
                     -Camp David
                          -Preparation
                               -Walters
                                     -Coaching on French

     Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
          -Confirmation of Walters
                -Handling
                -Praise for Walters

     Canadian trip
         -Walters
                -Translation

     White House staff
          -Kissinger
               -Willingness to work
                     -Briefing of Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon and Irina N. Dobrynin
                     -Meeting with prisoner of war [POW] wives
                     -John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
                           -Parents
               -Quantity of energy

Haldeman talked with Walters at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49 am.

[Conversation no. 706-2C]

[See Conversation No. 22-103

[End of telephone conversation]

     Soviet Union trip stopover
          -Zurich
          -Rota, Spain
          -Spanish bases
               -Rota, Saragossa and Seville
               -Military connotations
          -Switzerland
               -Lucerne
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                                 Tape Subject Log
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                                                          Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


           -Zurich
           -Advantages
           -Swiss reaction
                 -Cooperation
                       -Kissinger’s view
                 -Clearances
                       -Logistics
           -Facilities
           -Neutrality
     -Ireland
           -Views

Soviet trip
     -Return trip
            -Arrangements
                  -Warsaw
     -Stopover
            -Switzerland
                  -Lucerne
                       -Arrival and departure
            -Length of stay
            -Itinerary
                  -Departure from US
                       -Time
                  -Arrival in Switzerland
                  -Departure from Switzerland
                       -Time
                  -Amount of sleep
                  -News reports
                       -Compared with Hawaiian trip
                  -Time change adjustments
            -Switzerland
                  -Lucerne
                  -Geneva
            -Austria
                  -Kissinger’s view
                  -Salzburg
                  -Bruno Kreisky
                       -Meeting with the President
                  -Advantages
                  -Kissinger
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                                                                     Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                     -Meeting with Kreisky
                     -Ambassador

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:10 and
10:49 am.

[Conversation no. 706-2D]

[See Conversation no. 22-104]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Soviet Trip
          -Stopover
                -Austria
                     -Vienna
                     -Salzburg
                           -Advantages
                               -NATO
                               -Compared with Spain
                               -Neutrality
                -Switzerland

Haldeman talked with Kissinger between 10:49 and an unknown time before 10:54 am; the
president talked with Kissinger between an unknown time after 10:49 and 10:54 am.

[Conversation No. 706-2E]

[See Conversation No. 22-105

[End of telephone conversation]

     Soviet trip
          -Stopover
                 -Austria
                      -Kissinger
                           -Karl J. Gruber
                      -Meeting with Kreisky
                      -Compared with a trip to Ireland
                           -John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
                      -Importance
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                           Tape Subject Log
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                                                          Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                  -Pro-US policies
            -Salzburg
            -Welcome
     -Ireland
            -Northern Ireland
                  -The President's previous trip
     -Austria
            -Purpose
            -Meeting with Kreisky
                  -Social events
            -Working stop
            -Church service
-Possible itinerary
     -Church service
            -The President's attendance
            -Baptist church
            -Synagogue
            -Baptist church
            -The President's attendance
                  -Call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham
            -Graham
                  -People's Republic of China [PRC]
            -Kissinger
     -Tomb of unknown soldier
            -Formal ceremony
            -Departure from Moscow
            -Soviet veterans
     -Church service
            -Call to Graham
     -Schedule
            -Review
            -Advance party
            -Arrival
            -Banquet
            -Ceremonial calls
            -Meetings
            -Ballet
            -Wednesday
                  -Meetings
                  -Evening
                        -Dinner with Leonid I. Brezhnev
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                     Tape Subject Log
                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                        Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


     -Thursday
           -Leningrad visit
                 -Sight-seeing
                 -Ballet
     -Friday
           -Return to Moscow
           -Meeting
     -Saturday
           -Meeting
           -Communiqué
           -Banquet
     -Sunday
           -Church
           -Soviet television address
                 -Time
                        -Kissinger
                        -US time
                 -Translation
                        -Method
-The President's first visit
     -Six Crises account
           -Compared with State Department account
-The President's schedule
     -Press conference
     -Monday
           -Baku
     -Tuesday
           -Teheran
     -Thursday, June 1, 1972
           -Arrival in US
     -Press conference in Moscow
           -Kissinger, William P. Rogers and Connally
           -Attendees
           -Schedule
     -Return to US
-Network coverage
     -Equal time
           -Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
           -John M. Ashbrook
           -California primary
           -Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
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                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)
                                                             Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


              -The President's press conference on return
                    -Day
                          -Timing
                               -California primary
                                      -Democrats
                                      -Public opinion
                    -Announcement
                          -Foreign policy issues
                          -Ziegler's statement
                    -Discussion of trip
                          -Compared with PRC trip
                    -Interest
                          -Summit talks
                          -Vietnam
                    -Location
              -Arrangements
         -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
              -Staff
                    -Ziegler
                    -Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
                    -Klein


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                    -Stuart
                         -Work with Ziegler
                         -Ziegler
                              -Control of news
         -Press
              -Number
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                         Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                      -Soviets
                      -Kissinger
                      -PRC trip
                      -Yuli M. Vorontsov and Soviet press attaché
                            -Meeting with Ziegler and Dwight L. Chapin
                      -Selection
                            -Ziegler
                            -Favor for friends
                                 -Press pools
                                 -1972 campaign


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Ziegler entered at 11:12 am.

     Soviet trip
          -Soviet press attaché
                 -Meeting with Ziegler
                 -Number of US newsmen present
          -Press conference in Soviet Union
                 -Number
                 -Soviet press
          -Press
                 -Number
                      -The President's Vice Presidential trip
                            -Six Crises
                      -Maximum
                            -Advantages
                 -Selection
                      -PRC trip
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                    Tape Subject Log
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                                                     Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


           -Boston Globe and Newsday
     -St. Louis Post-Dispatch
           -Exclusion
     -St. Louis Globe-Democrat
     -Buffalo Evening News
     -Dallas Morning Herald
     -Pro-administration papers
           -1972 campaign
     -Networks
     -Wire services
     -Radio
     -John F. Osborne
           -Exclusion
           -The President's news summary
                 -Kissinger
                 -Osborne
                 -Hugh S. Sidey
     -Enemies
           -Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration
                 -James C. Hagerty
                       -New York Times
           -Retaliation
-Number
     -Soviet views
-Selection
     -Limitations
           -Compared with other trips
                 -Romania, Yugoslavia, Italy, France
           -Ziegler's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
           -PRC trip
-Number
     -Limitations
           -Disadvantages
           -Economic constraints of press
-Selection
     -PRC trip
           -Newsday and Boston Globe
     -Press corps
           -Attitudes
     -Limitations
           -Problems
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                                   Tape Subject Log
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                                                                  Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                  -Ziegler's conversation with Dobrynin
                       -Previous Presidential trips

Press
        -Critics
              -Kennedy
              -Franklin D. Roosevelt
              -Osborne and Sidey
                    -Finch, Klein, Ehrlichman and Kissinger
        -Supporters
              -Frank van der Linden
                    -Nashville Banner
              -Victor Lasky
              -News summaries
              -Osborne
              -Van der Linden
              -Nicholas P. Thimmesch
              -Cultivation
                    -Ehrlichman, Kissinger and George P. Shultz
        -Critics
              -Winston S. Churchill
              -Kissinger
              -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
              -James Keogh
                    -Book [President Nixon and the Press]
        -Supporters
              -Number
              -Cultivation
        -Critics
              -Martin Schram
                    -Exclusion from Ziegler's office
                          -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
              -Robert B. Semple, Jr.
              -Networks
              -Kissinger
                    -Work with Joseph C. Kraft
        -Supporters
              -Rowland Evans
              -Chalmers M. Roberts
        -Critics
              -Dealings with Kissinger
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                                 Tape Subject Log
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                                                                   Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


               -Evans
     -Dealings with administration officials
          -Egotism
               -Sans Souci
               -Georgetown

Supreme Court
     -“Nixon Court”
     -Tendency toward liberalism
          -Potter Stewart
                -Conservatism
                -Liberalism
     -Warren E. Burger

Nancy Ziegler
    -Visit to Kentucky
          -Relatives
               -Support for administration's policies on Vietnam
               -Richard G. Kleindienst hearing

Soviet trip
     -Press
            -Number
                 -Limitation
                       -Soviets
            -Supporters
                 -Inclusion
                 -Reader's Digest
                 -Small papers
                       -Subsidy
                 -William S. White
                 -Bantam Books
                 -Book on trip
                       -Forward by the President
            -US News and World Report
            -Press conference on TV
                 -Timing
                       -California primary
                 -Foreign policy
                       -Report to nation
                 -Equal time on TV
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                                     Tape Subject Log
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                                                                        Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                          -New York Times and networks
                          -Ashbrook
                    -Writing press
                          -Networks
                    -Prime time television
                    -Foreign policy
                    -Length
         -Return to US
         -Press conference upon return
              -Timing
                    -California primary
              -Ziegler
                    -Arrangements


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    Press relations
          -The President’s memorandum
          -Reports on biological warfare treaty signing at State Department
                -Networks
                -Setting
                      -Flags
                      -The President's appearance
                -The President's remarks
                -Dobrynin

    Soviet press
         -Soviet Life editor
               -Reports
               -Kissinger
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                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                                Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


     -Mrs. Nixon
          -Tea with Mrs. Dobrynin
               -Kissinger
               -Press release

Press relations
      -Evans and Kraft
            -Criticism of the President
                  -Dealings with Soviets
                       -Summit
                       -PRC
                       -Middle East
                       -German Treaty

Soviet Union
     -Soviet Summit
          -Dobrynin
          -William E. Jenner
     -The President's Soviet trip
          -PRC trip
          -Arrangements
          -Soviet people
                -Crowds
                -Interest in the President's visit
          -Stopover
                -Salzburg, Austria
                      -Meeting with Kreisky
          -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] conferences
                -Hubert H. Humphrey
                -Vienna, Austria
          -Leningrad
          -Baku
          -Stop in Teheran, Iran
          -Stop in Poland
                -Crowds
                      -PRC
          -Drama of trip
                -PRC trip
          -The President's first trip
                -Six Crises
                      -Atmosphere
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                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                            -The President's speech
                       -Kitchen debates
                            -Films
                                  -Replay

Ziegler left at 11:39 am.

     Press relations
           -Handling of critics
                 -Ziegler's opinion
                 -Osborne
                 -Sidey
                      -Readership

The President left at an unknown time after 11:39 am.

     [No conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.

     Biological warfare treaty signing
          -The President's speech
                -Haldeman's presence
                -Reading by Haldeman and staff

     The President's schedule
          -Canadian speech
          -Dinner in Philadelphia
               -The President's note to John Cardinal Krol
                      -Henry C. Cashen, II
                      -Absence from dinner
                      -Trip to Soviet Union
                      -The President's trip to Poland
                            -Visit with Krol
                            -Announcement
                                  -Timing

     Agnew
         -Lack of media coverage
         -Trip to Fort Campbell, Kentucky
         -Speech to California Republican Assembly [CRA]
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                                   Tape Subject Log
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                                                             Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


              -News summary
              -Television report
                   -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
              -Newspaper story


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    Tricia Nixon Cox
          -Schedule
               -Mike Douglas Show appearance
               -Table tennis matches
               -Space shot
                    -Time
                    -Audience
               -Table tennis match
                    -Audience
                          -Left wing
                          -Homosexuals
               -Tennis audience
                    -Make-up
                          -Left wing
                          -Homosexuals
                          -Bill Tilden
                          -Compared with opera audiences
                          -Attire
                    -Television
                          -Value
                          -Location
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    Vietnam
         -North Vietnamese offensive
               -Outcome
                    -Length
                    -Critics
                          -Fear of US success
                          -Caution
         -Tet offensive
               -Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.’s book
                    -Victory for US
                          -Enemy losses
               -Compared with 1972 offensive
                    -Viet Cong elements
                    -North Vietnamese elements
         -Buddhists
               -Support for Nguyen Van Thieu government
         -The President's critics
               -Caution
         -North Vietnamese offensive
               -South Vietnamese victories and defeats
                    -I Corps
               -Weather
               -B-52s
                    -Symbolism
               -Naval gunfire
                    -Effect on North Vietnam
               -Public reactions
                    -“Hawks”
                    -Show of strength
                    -College campuses
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                                Tape Subject Log
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                                                                 Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                     -Apathy
                     -Minnesota and University of California at Los Angeles [UCLA]
                     -Vietnam
                     -Marches
                          -PRC
                          -Bombing in North Vietnam
                          -April 22, 1972 national march
                               -Timing
                                      -Possible coordination with North Vietnam
                                           -The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
                               -Problems
                                      -Lack of support
          -Antiwar protests
               -Size and scope
               -Chicago

ITT case
     -Media coverage
          -Advantages
          -Public interest
               -POWs
          -Bombers
               -Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
               -POWs
     -North Vietnamese actions
          -US reaction
               -Blockade
                      -Soviet reactions
                           -Effect on Summit
               -Mining
                      -Option
                      -Soviet ships
               -Options other than nuclear weapons or US ground forces
               -The President's Biological Warfare Treaty signing statement
                      -George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
                      -Dobrynin
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                               Tape Subject Log
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                                                         Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


Domestic issues
    -Ehrlichman
          -Food prices
          -Crime
          -Note from the President
          -Speeches
                -Work with White House
                -White House staff
    -Speeches
          -Scheduling
          -Material for surrogates
                -Edward L. Morgan
                -John N. Mitchell
          -Ehrlichman
                -Weekly meetings with surrogates
                      -Inspirations
          -Kissinger
                -Briefings
                      -Frequency
          -Speakers
                -Self-confidence
                -Ehrlichman
                      -Self-confidence
                -Attacks on opposition
                      -White House involvement
          -Ehrlichman
          -Leadership meetings
    -Food prices
          -Decline
                -Wholesale prices
          -Leadership
                -The President
                -Price Board
                -John B. Connally
          -Publicity
                -Connally
                -Amount
    -Drugs
          -Marijuana
          -The President's speech
                -Preparations
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                                   Tape Subject Log
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                                                           Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                      -Ehrlichman
     -Crime
     -Prices
     -Busing
     -Drugs
           -Relation to crime
     -Busing
     -Prices, inflation, labor

Foreign policy
     -The President's leadership
          -Emphasis

Vietnam
     -Media
          -B-52 strikes
                -The President's responsibility
                      -Credit to the President
     -The President's leadership
          -Lyndon B. Johnson
          -Location of fleet
          -B-52s
          -Results
                -Credit for the President's success
                      -Compared with Cambodia
          -Melvin R. Laird and Rogers
                -Statements
     -Rogers
          -Caution
                -Kissinger
          -Defense of Administration
          -Possible talk with Haldeman
                -Negotiations
     -The President's speech
          -Kissinger and William L. Safire
          -Negotiations
                -William J. Porter
     -Canadian speech
          -Soviet Union

The President's trip to Canada
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                                   Tape Subject Log
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                                                             Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


         -Demonstrators
               -Restrictions
                     -Canadian Mounted Police
               -Aleksei N. Kosygin’s experience
         -Reception in Parliament
         -Itinerary in Ottawa

    Vietnam
         -Rogers
              -Defense of Administration
              -Caution
              -Edmund S. Muskie
              -Personal concerns
                   -Press
                   -Long-range interests


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    Economic issue
        -Unemployment figures
        -Positive aspect
        -Prices
        -Unemployment
        -Prices
              -Food
        -Big business
        -Food prices
              -Need for dramatic action
                    -Freeze
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                     -Protection
                     -Options
                     -Timing
                -Eventual decline
                     -Meat prices
                -Jawboning
                     -Effects
          -Inflation
                -Herbert Stein's memorandum
                     -Problems
                     -Midyear report
                           -Timing
                                 -Democratic National Convention
                           -Connally's response
                           -Advantages
                                 -Press
                                 -Speakers

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:39 am.

     Refreshment

     The President's schedule
          -Executive Office Building [EOB] office

     Economy
         -The President's midyear report
              -Connally's view
                    -Call from Haldeman

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.

     Government
         -Disenchantment
              -Youth
              -The President's trips to PRC and Soviet Union
                   -Appeal

     Media
         -Problem for administration
              -New York Times review of James Keogh's book, President Nixon and the Press
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                NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                            Tape Subject Log
                              (rev. 10/06)
                                                     Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


            -Coverage of the President
                 -Evaluation
                 -Reasons
     -Favorable coverage
            -Administration's efforts
            -Bad press
                 -Compared with Kennedy
            -Publicity concerning PRC trip
                 -Ziegler
-Publicity for administration
     -PRC trip
            -New China Hands momento
                 -Ziegler
                 -White House staff
                 -Secret Service
                 -Airplane crews
     -Ziegler
            -Social events for press
                 -Impact and worth
-Klein
-Rogers
     -Social contacts with press
            -Newsmen's response
-Dealings with the President on a social level
     -Supporters
            -Van der Linden
     -Critics
            -Cynicism
     -Supporters
     -Critics
            -Reactions
            -Ziegler
-White House Correspondents Association
     -Edgar A. Poe, president
            -Gridiron president
            -Lack of control
            -Gridiron dinner
                 -Conversation with Haldeman
                        -The President's absence
            -Soviet trip
                 -White House subsidy
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)
                                                             Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                               -Ziegler
                         -Trip expenses
                               -Air fare
                               -Hotel
                         -The President's plane
                               -Waiver of charges
                                     -Confidentiality
                               -South Carolina trip
                                     -Funeral
                    -Gridiron dinner
                         -The President's absence

    Weather
        -Spring in Washington, DC
             -Cherry blossoms
                   -Festival

    The President’s schedule
         -Arbor Day
              -Tree plantings


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    The President as head of non-government organizations
         -Boy Scouts of America
              -Meetings
                     -Frequency
         -Red Cross
              -Television
              -Tricia Nixon Cox
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                       Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)


                        -United Way

The President and Haldeman left at 12:35 pm.