Conversation No. 707-10

Date: April 12, 1972
Time: 11:33 am - 1:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

     Fishing rights
          -Three mile limit
                -Department of Justice suit against Texas
                     -Responsibility
                     -Price Daniels
                           -Meeting with the President
                           -Call to John B. Connally
                     -Connally's views

The President talked with Connally between 11:33 and 11:36 am.

[Conversation No. 707-10A]

[See Conversation No. 22-117]
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[End of telephone conversation]

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 11:36 am.

     Fishing rights
          -Three mile limit
                -Suit against Texas
                -The President's previous support
                      -California
                      -1960 and 1968 promises
                -Department of Justice
                      -Lawyers
                            -Jews
                            -Previous tidal lands suit
                      -Suit against Texas
                            -Suppression
                                  -The President’s order
                            -John C. Whitaker
                            -Ehrlichman's involvement
                            -Knowledge of White House staff
                                  -Whitaker

     Republican leaders meeting
         -Ehrlichman's briefing
               -The President’s view
         -Henry A. Kissinger's briefing on Vietnam
               -Length
               -Basic points
               -Deficiencies
                     -The President's presence
               -Need to sell congressional leaders
         -Briefings
               -Elliot L. Richardson on busing
                     -Connally
               -George P. Shultz on food prices
                     -Earl L. Butz
                     -Points to make
               -Drugs
                     -Problems
                           -Details
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     -White House staff
           -Domestic issues
                 -Shultz, Herbert Stein and Cabinet
-Questions
     -Leaders' concerns
           -Richard H. Poff
           -Peter H. Dominick
-Republican leaders
     -Lack of depth and expertise
           -The President’s view
           -Staff
     -Briefings
           -Kissinger
                 -Length
                       -Curtailment
                 -Papers
                       -Preparation
                             -Charles W. Colson and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                 -Effectiveness
                       -Compared with William P. Rogers
                       -Compared with Melvin R. Laird
           -Problems
                 -Salesmanship
           -Kissinger's staff briefings
                 -Points made
                 -Quality
           -Kissinger
                 -Positive results
                       -US Vietnam policy
                       -Negotiations
                             -US record
           -Preparation
                 -Length
                       -Limitations
                             -The President’s view
           -Troop withdrawals
                 -Hugh Scott's remarks
                       -The President’s view
     -Intellectual range
           -Ehrlichman’s view
-Kissinger
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                -Press briefings
                     -Simplicity
                     -Sophistication of newsmen

     The President's speeches
          -A memorandum
          -Speechwriters
               -Strengths and weaknesses
                      -Dullness
                      -Illustrations, anecdotes and colorful language
                            -William L. Safire
                            -Public attention
               -Winston S. Churchill
                      -Model as speaker
                            -Burke Cochran
                                   -Observations on speechwriting
                            -Simplification
                            -Criticism
               -Substance and style
               -Improvement of quality of writing
                      -Cochran's advice to Churchill
                            -Use of illustrations
                            -Use of colorful phrases
                            -"Iron Curtain" phrase
                                   -Impact
          -Canadian Parliament speech
               -Quotations
          -The President’s view
               -Shortcomings
                      -Audience response
               -Illustrations
                      -Lack

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:36 am.

          -Canadian Parliament speech
               -Delivery to the President
                    -Kissinger
               -Typing
               -Copies
                    -Kissinger
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                      -Secretary

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:41 pm.

           -Effectiveness
                 -Elements
                 -Preachers
                      -Use of stories
                      -Illustrations
           -Quality of drafts by speechwriters
                 -Problems
           -William Pitt's speech
                 -Brevity
           -Speech in Canada
                 -Raymond K. Price's version
                      -The President’s view
                      -Conclusion
                             -Pitt's speech
                             -The President's rewording
                                    -Pitt and Horatio Nelson
           -Churchill
                 -Cochran
                      -Background
           -Speechwriters
                 -Quality of writing
           -Drugs speech
                 -Memorable phrases and colorful terms
                      -Safire

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:36 am.

           -Canadian Parliament speech
                -Kissinger's draft
                -Sixth draft
                -Delivery to the President
                      -Secretary

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:41 pm.

Beverly J. Kaye entered at an unknown time after 11:36 am.
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                -Typing of draft
                -Sixth draft
                      -The President's mark-ups and notes

Kaye left at an unknown time before 12:41 pm.

               -Drafts
                     -Statements on US-Canadian relations
                           -Wording
                                -The President’s view
                           -Versions
                     -Speech staff
                           -Inadequacies
                                -The President’s view
          -Speechwriting
               -Need for examples
          -Canadian Parliament speech
               -US-Canadian relations
                     -Kissinger
                     -Versions and rewrites
                           -Simplicity and memorable phrases
          -The President as speechwriter
          -Speechwriting staff
               -Price
               -James Keogh
          -Quality
               -Problems
               -Compared with writing

     Busing
          -Richard H. Poff's proposition
               -Constitutional amendment
                     -The President’s view
               -Passage
                     -Chances
                     -Moratorium
          -Democrats
               -Responsibility
                     -Publicity
               -Poff
          -Memorandum from Edwin L. Harper
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         -Political liabilities of issue for administration
         -Value of memorandum
         -Hubert H. Humphrey's position
               -Changes
               -Support
                      -Reasons
         -Voting issue
               -Superficiality
         -Robert P. Griffin
         -Public apathy on issue
         -Administration's position
               -Change
     -Democrats
         -Dilemma on issue
               -Exploitation by administration
                      -Divisions over platform

Domestic issues
    -Arthur F. Burns
    -The President's meeting with John B. Connally
          -Tax withholding issue
          -Drug program
                -Head
                     -Myles J. Ambrose
                          -Job performance

Taxation
     -Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
           -Extra agents
                 -Shultz
                 -Tax return assistance
                       -Visibility
                       -Training
     -Customs agents
           -Increase in numbers
                 -Benefits
     -IRS
           -Withholding assistance
                 -Benjamin C. Bradlee
           -Agents
                 -Tax return assistance
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                     -Visibility
           -Withholding
                -Forms
                -Refund checks
                     -Timing of release
                     -Mailings
                -Programs
                     -Credit for administration
                     -Checks to taxpayers
                     -Implementation
                          -Connally
                -Mailing

Busing
     -David J. Armor
          -Ehrlichman’s view
     -Public opposition
     -Press
          -Support
                -Hypocrisy
          -Criticism
     -Congress
          -Democrats
                -Hypocrisy

Taxation
     -Program before House Ways and Means Committee
          -Barber B. Conable, Jr.
                -House Resolution 1
          -Presidential veto

Busing
     -Kenneth R. Cole and Shultz
     -Note from Griffin
          -Detroit judge, Stephen J. Roth's order
                -Appeal
          -Cole
          -Call from White House
     -Speech
          -Phrasing
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Taxation
     -Loopholes
          -Connally's previous speech in Chicago
               -Circulation to congressmen
                     -The President’s order
               -Support
                     -Municipal bonds
                     -State and local taxes
               -Copies
                     -Circulation

Republican leaders meeting
    -Kissinger's briefing
          -The President’s view
          -Length
          -Discussion
          -Simplification
                -Compared with Churchill's speeches
    -Margaret Chase Smith
          -Comments on Kissinger's fact sheets
    -Fact sheets
          -Congressmen
                -The President’s view
                -Use of aides
                -Simplification
                -Brevity
    -Clark MacGregor
          -Arrangements
                -White House staff
                -Tables

The President's schedule
     -Press conference

National economy
     -Food prices
           -White House efforts
                -Farmers
                     -Butz
                     -Cultivation of support
                -Middlemen
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                    -Criticism
               -Retailers
                    -Conflicts
               -Clarence Adams [?]
               -Supplies
                    -Price increase
                          -Retail competition
               -Administration position
                    -Image

Busing
     -Administration's position
          -Image of opposition
          -Public’s image
     -Benefits of controversy
          -Attacks from blacks
          -Attacks from liberals
          -Attacks from Strom Thurmond
                -Drawbacks

Drugs
     -Hotline
          -Publicity
               -Story in newspapers

Forthcoming election campaign
     -"Players" and speakers
           -The President's previous memorandum
     -Discussions
           -Haldeman, Ehrlichman and MacGregor
           -Shultz
     -Political group
           -John N. Mitchell
                 -Involvement
                 -Role in campaign
     -"Players"
           -Colson
           -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
           -Samuel L. Devine
           -First Family
           -Public appearances
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Harry D. Steward
     -Legal action
          -Nature
     -Possible dismissal

Peter G. Peterson
      -Interest in job
      -Public appearances
            -The President’s view
      -Quality of life programs
            -Change of positions
      -Productivity Council
            -Radio program
            -Shultz
            -Previous meetings
            -Events
            -Peterson speech
            -Michael P, Balzano, Jr.
                   -Colson's protege
                   -Italian background
                   -Belief in work ethic
                   -Compared with the President’s background
            -Peterson's ideas
      -Minority business enterprise
            -Value
            -Political uses
                   -Blacks
            -Maurice H. Stans
                   -Speeches
            -Peterson’s possible contribution
            -Stans
                   -Political efforts
            -Inner cities program
                   -Drawbacks
                   -Erhlichman’s forthcoming meeting with George W. Romney

Vietnam
     -Romney's speech
         -The President’s view
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    Minorities
        -Blacks
               -White House staff
               -Programs
                     -Press response
        -Integration
               -President’s position
               -Credit to administration
                     -Criticism

    Hugh Scott
        -Age

    Churchill
         -Age
                -Prime Minister
                     -Second term
                -Activities
                -Early career
                     -Travel


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    Jennie by George F. Kennan
         -Jennie (Jerome) Churchill
               -The President’s view
                     -British politics
               -Marriage
                     -Age factor
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Burns
     -Preference for Federal Reserve Board position
           -Age

Republican leaders
    -Norris Cotton
          -Meeting
                -Alertness

Richard G. Kleindienst
     -Confirmation hearings
          -Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s position
                -Peter M. Flanigan's testimony
                -Ehrlichman's testimony
                -White House staff testimony
          -James O. Eastland
                -Proposal
                      -Conversation with Michael J. Mansfield
                            -John N. Mitchell
          -Cancellation until after elections
                -Kleindienst as Acting Attorney General
                      -Problems
                      -Indictment
                            -Political issue
                      -Mitchell's opinion
                            -Options
                                  -Withdrawal of nomination
                                  -Flanigan's testimony
                      -Substitute candidate
                            -Kleindienst as Deputy Attorney General
                            -Lewis F. Powell
                            -Ehrlichman
                            -MacGregor
                                  -Problems
                            -Caspar W. Weinberger
                            -Robert H. Bork
                            -Charles A. Wright
                            -Elliot L. Richardson
                                  -Political future
                                  -Capabilities
                                  -Loyalty
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                     -Weinberger
                          -Confirmation chances
                          -Advantages
                               -Court appointment
                          -Desire for job
                          -Jewish background
                          -Conservatism
                               -Busing
                          -Standing on Capitol Hill and with American Bar Association
[ABA]
          -Deputy Attorney General post
               -Retention
          -Confirmation
               -Withdrawal
               -Edward M. Kennedy and Ervin

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:41 pm.

     US-Soviet relations
         -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
               -Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
         -Butz
               -Visit to Moscow
                      -Meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
                          -Remarks
         -Vietnam bombing
               -Brezhnev’s reaction
         -The President's trip to Soviet Union
               -Brezhnev
               -Stay in Kremlin
               -Airplane

     Vietnam
          -B-52 strikes
               -Inaccurate target charts
               -Targets
                     -Railways
                     -Binh
                          -Reaction of North Vietnam
               -Airfields
          -Weather
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      -Military Region One
-Air cavalry
      -Photograph on Washington Post
            -Violation of orders
-South Vietnam
      -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] reports on performance
            -John F. Hollingsworth
-Americans in battle zones
      -Pictures
            -Restrictions
                  -Gen. John W. Vogt and Haig
      -The President's orders
            -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
            -Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
                  -Walt W. Rostow
-North Vietnamese offensive
      -Stakes for US
            -Negotiations
      -B-52 strikes
            -Targets
            -The President's orders
                  -Concerns
                        -Civilian casualties
      -US response
            -Congressional support
            -PRC
            -Intensity of bombings
                  -Connally’s view
                  -Possible impact on negotiations
-Air strikes
      -Weather
-Naval gunfire
      -Destroyers
            -Number
      -Cruisers
      -Intensity
      -Impact
            -Dong Hoi
            -President’s previous experience in World War II
            -Accuracy
-Air strikes
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          -Ehrlichman's experience in World War II
                -Inaccuracies

Kissinger's schedule
     -Meeting with Dobrynin
           -Time
     -Meeting with PRC representatives
           -Departure

The President's Canadian speech
     -Kissinger's review
     -Soviets
          -Dobrynin
          -Summit
     -PRC

Vietnam
     -Negotiations
          -French appeal
          -State Department
          -Talks with North Vietnam
                 -H. Ross Perot
     -Detente
          -The President's Canadian speech
                 -Soviets
                 -Timing
                 -Future statements
     -Scott's remarks
          -Soviets
          -Troop withdrawals
                 -The President's forthcoming announcement
     -North Vietnamese offensive
          -Failure
                 -Kissinger’s view
                 -Air strikes
                 -Naval power
          -Kissinger's call to the President
                 -President’s trip to Camp David
          -Air strikes
                 -B-52s
                       -Airfields
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                              -Safety of crews
                                   -Abrams
                              -Navigation
                              -Targets
                                   -Civilian casualties
                 -Blockade
                      -The President’s view
                      -Implementation
                           -Kissinger’s view
                      -Public opinion

Kissinger left at 12:55 pm.

     International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
           -Kleindienst
                -Confirmation
                      -Problems
                -Retention in office
                      -Mitchell's opinion
                -Hearings
                      -Cancellation
                            -Eastland
                            -Mansfield's agreement
                            -Votes
                      -Robert C. Byrd
                      -San Diego convention site controversy
                      -Flanigan's testimony
                      -Kissinger's testimony
                            -Alger Hiss case precedent
                      -Flanigan's testimony
                            -Precedents in other cases
                            -Ehrlichman's recommendation
                -Judiciary Committee
                      -Eastland
                            -Loss of control
                -Withdrawal of nomination
                      -Justification
                            -ITT hearings
                                   -Colson and MacGregor
                                   -San Diego
                                   -C. Arnholt Smith
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                                  -Investigations
                                  -Kennedy's subcommittee
                                  -Charges of harassment
                      -Investigations
                            -San Diego
                                  -Henry E. Petersen
                            -C. Arnholt Smith
                -Post as acting Attorney General
                      -Political problems
                            -Mental reservations
                            -Impact on performance
                            -Indictment against Kleindienst
                      -Substitute
                            -Weinberger
                                  -Acting appointment
                                  -Busing problem
                                       -Benefits
                                  -Confirmation chances
                                       -Background
                                  -MacGregor and Colson

An unknown person entered after 12:55 pm and left before 1:15 pm.

                -Executive Committee
                     -MacGregor's report
                           -Number of votes
                -Executive privilege
                     -Ervin's attacks
                           -Use of leverage
                -Confirmation
                     -Mitchell's opinion
                     -MacGregor's recommendation
                           -Withdrawal
                           -Support for Weinberger
                -Candidates
                     -Loyalty
                     -Weinberger
                           -Desire for court seat
                           -San Francisco
                           -Jane (Dalton) Weinberger
                                 -Compared with Martha Mitchell
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                  -The President’s view
      -James T. Lynn
            -Age
            -Record
      -Weinberger
            -Compared with Lynn
                  -Experience
                        -Federal Trade Commission [FTC] and California posts
      -[Forename unknown] Hillums [sp?]
      -Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Confirmation
      -Failure
            -Losses to administration
      -Problems
            -Indictment
            -Colson and MacGregor
            -Eastland
-Post as acting Attorney General
-Candidates
      -Weinberger
            -Eastland's objections
-Confirmation
      -Democratic attacks
            -ITT
            -Clement F. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell
      -Withdrawal
            -Losses to administration
            -Vietnam
-Discussion with Mitchell
-Weinberger
      -Willingness to take position
      -Mitchell's opposition
      -Loyalty to the Administration
            -The President’s view
      -Jewish vote
            -Mitchell’s view
      -Ronald W. Reagan's support
            -Supreme Court
      -Jews
      -Northern California support
      -Jewish background
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                      -Compared with Barry M. Goldwater
                      -Jewish identification
                            -Cyril Magnin
                      -Appearance compared with Goldwater
                -Competence
                -Relations with Kleindienst
          -Alternative appointment
          -Chances of confirmation
          -Withdrawal
                -Statement
                      -Attacks on critics
                      -Separation of powers
                      -Importance of issues
                            -Busing
                            -Ervin
     -Mitchell
          -Eastland's investigation of Department of Justice [DOJ]
                -Antitrust cases
                      -Kennedy's subcommittee
     -Confirmation
          -Ehrlichman
          -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                -Losses
                      -Claire Boothe Luce
                      -Lewis L. Strauss
                      -Consequences
          -Timing
                -Soviet summit
                -Vietnam War
                -Democratic convention
                -Food prices
     -Kleindienst
          -Mitchell
                -Meeting with the President

The President's schedule
     -Trip to Camp David
     -Jews and blacks
           -Taft Schreiber
           -Herbert G. Stein
     -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
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          -Meeting with the President
                -Connally
                -Time
     -Youth group
     -Departure for Camp David
     -Return to Washington
          -Meeting
                -Time

ITT case
     -Public understanding
     -Press questions
           -Charges
           -White House dismissals for wrongdoing
                 -Number
     -Integrity
           -Charges of wrongdoing
                 -Ehrlichman's investigation
                 -Press queries
                       -Meet the Press
     -Political wrongdoing
           -Democrats
                 -New Jersey
                       -Cornelius E. Gallagher
                       -Convictions
                            -1968 election

Unemployment
    -California figures
          -Increase in employment
          -Decrease in unemployment
                -Quarters
          -Current levels
          -Labor market
    -Fluctuations
          -Employment figures
          -Meat prices
          -Permanently unemployed
          -Lay-offs
                -Register for jobs
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     Vietnam
          -Talking points for leaders meeting
               -Haig
               -Location

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:55 and
1:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 707-10B]

     Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

     Connally
         -Speech to National Association of Broadcasters
              -William F. (“Billy”) Graham remarks
              -News summary
                    -Phrase
         -Bearing

     Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
          -The President’s view
          -Knowledge
                -Foreign and domestic policies
          -Patriotism
          -Knowledge of foreign policy
                -The President’s view
                -Agnew’s questions in a previous National Security Council [NSC] meeting
                      -Agnew’s NSC liaison
                      -Air strikes
                      -North Vietnamese
                            -US control of air
                            -Control of sea
          -Compared with Edmund S. Muskie
          -Public demeanor

     Kleindienst
          -Handling
                -Mitchell
          -Confirmation
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                 -Withdrawal
                      -Timing

                      -Ervin and Byrd
                 -Vote in committee

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 1:15 pm.

     The President's Canadian speech
          -Seventh draft
               -Clearance
                      -Butterfield’s opinion
                      -Haig and Kissinger
               -Circulation
                      -Haig
                      -Kissinger
                           -Review
          -The President’s view

Butterfield left at 1:17 pm.

     Kleindienst confirmation
          -Withdrawal of name
                -Timing
                     -The President's Canadian trip

     Anne Mansfield
         -The President's previous call
         -The President’s view
         -Marriage

     Vietnam
          -The President's conversation with Kissinger
          -Haig's trip
          -Negotiations
          -The President's radio talk
               -Timing

     The President's forthcoming Soviet trip

     Mitchell
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           -Meeting with the President

Ehrlichman left at 1:34 pm.

     Rose Mary Woods
          -Camp David
              -Schedule

     Vietnam
          -Negotiations
              -William P. Rogers
              -Kissinger
              -Timing

     The President's meeting with Republican leaders
          -Briefings
                -Ehrlichman
                -Shultz, Stein and Richardson
                -Kissinger
                      -Length
                      -Wordiness

     Vietnam
          -Rogers
               -Actions
                    -The President’s view

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Mitchell
               -Location

The President and Haldeman left at 1:40 pm.
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