Conversation 705-019

On April 10, 1972, United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:01 pm and 11:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 705-019 of the White House Tapes.

Canada
    -The President's trip
         -Speech to Parliament
               -Revisions

Memoranda to Haldeman

Domestic programs
    -Ehrlichman's job
    -Problems
          -Public relations arrangements
               -The President’s instructions
                      -Haldeman's work with Colson and Ehrlichman
                      -Mobilization of staff
                      -Follow-up
                            -Edward L. Morgan
                            -Colson

The President's schedule
     -Portrait
           -Cancellation
     -Meeting with John B. Connally
     -Meeting with John N. Mitchell
     -Philadelphia trip
           -Demonstrators
                 -Ottawa
                 -Impact on war
           -John A. Volpe
                 -Commitment
           -John Cardinal Krol
           -Political benefits
                 -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew as substitute
     -Meetings
           -Consumption of time
                 -Domestic Council
     -William F. (“Billy”) Graham
           -Call from Kissinger
           -Advice
                 -Political nature

Gridiron Dinner
     -Goldwater's performance
          -Rebozo and Robert H. Abplanalp
                -Location
     -Carl B. Albert and Warren E. Burger
     -Abplanalp's account
           -Clark M. Clifford
           -David Kraslow
           -Rebozo
     -Unknown women
     -Hubert H. Humphrey
           -Quality of performance
                -Assistance
                -One-liners
                      -Paul W. Keyes
                            -Compared to Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
                            -Quality
     -Robert J. Dole
           -Keyes
     -Goldwater
           -Keyes
           -Revisions
                -Kissinger
                      -Frank F. Church
                            -Goldwater
           -Jokes
                -The President's administration
                -Republicans
                      -Goldwater’s relationship with the President
           -Compared with Humphrey
                -Joke about Lyndon B. Johnson
                      -Johnson’s health

Wilson
     -ITT case
     -President’s view
           -Concern

California
      -Unemployment
           -Figures
                -George P. Shultz
                -Department of Labor
                     -Statistics

Domestic issues
    -Shultz's role
          -Ehrlichman
          -Statements
                -George W. Romney
          -Meeting with the President
                -Alaskan pipeline
                     -Rogers C. B. Morton's meeting with the President
          -Management of issues
-Ehrlichman
      -The President’s instuctions
            -Speeches
            -Public appearances
            -Concentration on big issues
            -Responsibilities and duties
                  -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
                  -Shift in emphasis of Domestic Council
                        -Competence of personnel
                              -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr., Lewis A. Engman
      -Issues to be emphasized
            -Use of charts
            -Busing
            -Property taxes
            -Food prices
            -Environment
            -Drugs
                  -Marijuana
            -Identification of big issues
                  -Administration position
            -Development of positions
                  -Attack on Administration
                  -Attack on opposition
                        -Raising taxes
            -Marijuana
            -Morality
                  -Abortion
                  -The President’s beliefs
            -Adminstration's aggressiveness
                  -Concern from the President
                        -Domestic Council
            -Environment
-Shultz
      -Attendance at Conference Board, Inc. meeting
      -Conversations with economists
            -Optimism about economy
                  -Report
      -Energy
            -Concern
            -Proposition 9 in California
                  -Impact on industries and energy supplies
                        -Edgar F. Kaiser
                  -Pollution standards
      -Environment
            -Blame on Democrats
            -Proposition 9
                  -Threat to jobs
                  -Pollution requirements
                  -Opposition
                        -Slogan on billboards
                              -Leader, Clem Whitaker, Jr.

Clem Whitaker, Sr. and Leonie (Smith) Baxter
    -1962 California gubernatorial campaign

Gridiron Dinner
          -Reasons
                -Previous conversation with the President
                -Lack of recognition as press secretary
                     -Compared with James C. Hagerty, Pierre E. G. Salinger, Klein and
                            Gerald L. Warren
                            -Introductions

Press
        -Relationship with the President
        -Soviet trip
             -List
             -Ziegler's views
             -Exclusion of reporters
                    -Logisitics
                    -Precedence
                         -The President’s previous trip to the Soviet Union
                    -Enemies
                         -Boston Globe and Newsweek
                    -Logistics
                         -Accommodations
                                -People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
        -Conversations with White House staff
             -Friends in press
                    -Hugh S. Sidey
                    -Soviet trip
                         -Press pools
                         -Comparison to Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding
             -John F. Osborne and Sidey
                    -Boycott
                         -Ziegler
        -Kissinger's contacts
             -Haldeman’s view
                    -Rowland Evans
                         -Foreign policy coverage
                    -Sidey
                         -Favorable comments
                                -Credibility

Forthcoming remarks at signing ceremony of Biological Weapons Convention
     -Drafting
          -Theme
          -Editing
          -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
          -William L. Safire
                -Canadian Parliament speech

     White House staff
          -The President's speeches
               -Price
                     -Duties
                           -Research and writing
                           -Acceptance speech
                                 -The President’s instructions
                                       -Amount of time to write speech
               -Klein
               -Ehrlichman
                     -Usefulness to the Administration
               -Editing
               -Foreign policy
               -Staff
                     -Philosophical orientation
                           -Patrick J. Buchanan
                           -Compared with the President
                           -John K. Andrews, Jr.
                           -Problems
                                 -Philosophical disagreements
                                       -Importance of words
                                       -Kissinger

                -Canadian speech
                     -Drafts
                          -Lee W. Huebner
                          -Sentimentality
                     -Kissinger's responsibility for review
                     -References to Soviet Union and PRC in speech
                     -Kissinger's review on foreign policy speeches
                     -Soviet Union and PRC references
                          -Compatibility of interests

     Connally
         -Health

Haldeman left at 10:38 am.