Conversation No. 717-19

Date: May 2, 1972
Time: 12:08-12:42 pm
Location: Oval Office
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The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     President's schedule
          -President's meeting with Richard A. Moore and Richard G. Kleindienst
                 -Preparations
                 -Recommendations

     J. Edgar Hoover's funeral
          -Arrangements
                -Law enforcement officials
                -Television coverage
                      -Setting
                            -Arlington National Cemetery
                            -Church
          -President's eulogy
                -Patrick J. Buchanan
                -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                -John K. Andrews, Jr.
          -Setting
                -President's presence
                -The Kennedy family
                      -John Foster Dulles
                -Outside
                      -Weather
                      -Television problems
                      -Crowds
                -Arlington National Cemetery
                      -Beauty
                      -Ceremony
                            -Police chiefs
                                  -Guard of honor
                            -Airplanes

     Vietnam
          -Negotiations
               -Henry A. Kissinger’s meeting with Melvin R. Laird
                     -Expectations
               -President’s meeting with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
               -North Vietnamese demands
                     -Overthrow of Nguyen Van Thieu
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                                                             Conv. No. 717-19 (cont.)


          -Kissinger’s record
                 -The President’s view
                 -Haig’s view
                 -Dealings with North Vietnam
          -Raising hopes of the public
                 -President's position
          -Demands
                 -Ceasefire
                 -Coalition government
                 -President's response
                       -American public opinion
                       -South Vietnamese morale
     -Soviet Summit
          -Possible cancellation
                 -Kissinger's response
          -Possible postponement by the President
                 -Conditioner
          -US options
                 -Possible public reaction
     -Soviet trip
          -Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
     -Soviet Summit
          -Kissinger
                 -Haig
          -President's critics
          -Public support
          -Postponement
                 -Conditions
     -North Vietnamese offensive
          -Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] response
     -Negotiations
          -North Vietnamese demands
                 -Thieu
                       -US response
     -North Vietnamese offensive
          -US air strikes
                 -Hanoi-Haiphong area
                       -Impact on negotiations

Soviets
     -Kissinger's visit
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                                     Tape Subject Log
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                                                        Conv. No. 717-19 (cont.)


              -Gains
        -Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]
              -Haig
              -Announcement
              -Kissinger
                   -Ronald L. Ziegler
              -Gerard C. Smith
              -Public appeal
                   -Ziegler

Vietnam
     -US policy
          -Press reports
                -Divisions within the Administration
                      -Kissinger
                      -William P. Rogers
                -Kissinger
                -The President’s view
                      -Role of the press
          -John A. Scali
                -Statements on President's role

Press
        -Criticism
              -John D. Ehrlichman
              -Spiro T. Agnew
                   -Location
                   -Secrecy issue
                   -New York Times
                         -Pulitzer Prize
              -Clark MacGregor

Vietnam
     -Public relations efforts
          -Congress
     -Haiphong strikes
     -Public relations efforts
          -Press
          -Critics
                 -Visibility
                 -Democratic caucus
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                                                                Conv. No. 717-19 (cont.)



Hoover
    -Eulogy by the President
          -Length
    -Criticism
    -Previous replacement efforts
          -The President’s view

Stock market

Economy
    -General situation
    -Wholesale Price Index [WPI]
    -Unemployment
    -Prices
    -Employment

Vietnam
     -Soviet Summit
          -Impact of North Vietnamese offensive
                 -Public relations problems
                       -Toasting of Leonid I. Brezhnev
                       -Signing of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
          -Polling of public response
                 -Relation to North Vietnamese offensive
                 -President's cancellation of Summit
                       -Statement
                       -Wording
                 -Public opinion
                 -Conditions for Summit
          -Poll
                 -Question
                       -Relation to Summit
          -North Vietnamese offensive
                 -State at time of President's trip
     -North Vietnamese offensive
          -Populated areas
     -US morale
     -Public relations efforts
          -Charles W. Colson
                 -Release of poll results
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                                                         Conv. No. 717-19 (cont.)



     Hoover
         -Funeral at Arlington National Cemetary
               -Qualifications
               -Amphitheater
                     -Seating
                     -Haldeman’s view
               -Marine Band
                     -Music scores
               -John Foster Dulles
         -Military services
         -Funeral
               -Military funeral
                     -President's waiver
               -Location
                     -Arlington National Cemetery
                           -Demonstrators
                                 -Crowd control
         -President's announcement
               -Kleindienst
         -Death
               -Announcement

     President's radio speech
          -Subjects

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:08 pm.

     President's meeting with Haig

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:42 pm.

     Radio speech by President
          -Price
          -Timing
          -Tenor of speech
          -Timing
                -Moscow trip

     President's schedule
          -Trips
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                                       Tape Subject Log
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                                                                     Conv. No. 717-19 (cont.)


                -Ehrlichman
          -Naval Academy visit
          -Trip to Texas
                -Dallas
                -John B. Connally ranch
                      -Press focus
                -Television coverage
                      -Size of crowd
                      -Meeting with press
                -Naval Academy visit
                -Ehrlichman’s view

     Public relations
          -Vietnam issue
                 -Ehrlichamn’s and Colson’s view
          -Headlines
                 -Meeting with Connally
                 -Hoover
                 -Unemployment
                       -President's moves
                 -Food prices
                       -President's identification
                       -Visit to supermarket
                             -Colson
                             -Marina von N. Whitman
                 -Unemployment
                       -Visit to jobless line in Buffalo, New York
                 -President's efforts
                       -Personal identification
          -Vietnam

Haldeman left at 12:42 pm.