22–142

Conversation No. 22-142

Date: April 16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:25 pm
Location: White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 329-66]

Church
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Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Effectiveness
-Pentagon
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Visual method
-Extent of damage
-Haiphong
-Truck parks
-Oil storage
-Naval bombardment
-Shore batteries
-Cessation
-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Duration
-Secrecy
-William P. Rogers
-Defense in testimony
-Strategy toward critics
-Critics
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Call for the President to convene the United Nations [UN] Security
Council
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
-Veto

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Camp David
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-Departure time
-Return to Washington
-Forthcoming luncheon for William M. Colmer
-Forthcoming meeting with John B. Connally
-Future call from Haldeman
-Camp David

Connally
-Possible resignation
-Timing
-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Texas
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit

The President’s schedule
-Free time
-Duration
-Cabinet meeting
-Value
-The President’s attendance
-Briefings on Vietnam
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-The President’s attendance
-Value
-Value
-Substitute for meeting
-Briefing on military situation
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and Laird
-Previous briefing of Congressmen and Senators
-Location
-Pentagon
-Cabinet and sub-Cabinet
-Selling points
-Kissinger
-Laird
-Timing
-Rogers’s forthcoming testimony
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Congressional retirees dinner
-Cabinet meeting
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-Decision

Vietnam
-Public support
-Charles W. Colson and staff
-Clark MacGregor
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Haldeman’s previous talk with Colson and MacGregor
-Attacks on critics
-Advertisements
-Colson’s ideas and projects
-Colson

Richard G. Kleindienst
-Decision on nomination
-Upcoming Haldeman talk with John N. Mitchell
-Colson, MacGregor and Ehrlichman views
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] hearings
-Jack Gleason testimony
-Timing
-James O. Eastland
-Possible absence
-Motives
-1970 contributors
-Lawyer
-Relation with the White House
-Peter M. Flanigan testimony
-Ehrlichman’s views
-White House conditions
-Gleason testimony
-Committee decision
-Ehrlichman’s, William E. Timmons’s, Herbert G. Klein’s and Robert H.
Finch’s testimony
-Flanigan testimony
-White House strategy
-Restrictions
-Withdrawal of Kleindienst’s name
-Halt of Gleason testimony
-Upcoming Haldeman talk with Mitchell
-Time
-Colson talk with Mitchell
-Mitchell’s concerns
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-Flanigan deal
-Gleason
-Kleindienst
-Public response
-Restrictions
-Reasons for Kleindienst investigation
-Richard W. McLaren
-Involvement
-Flanigan deal
-Ehrlichman’s views
-Executive privilege
-Cover up
-White House strategy
-Options
-Gleason
-Talk with Maurice H. Stans
-Testimony
-Perjury
-ITT cash contributions to 1970 Congressional campaign
-Gleason’s knowledge
-ITT settlement
-Flanigan deal
-Executive privilege
-Mitchell
-Call from Haldeman
-White House approval
-Announcement
-Television time
-Timing
-Gleason testimony
-Flanigan
-ITT case
-Overshadowed by war reports
-Nomination
-Flanigan deal
-White House doubts
-Russell B. Long
-Flanigan testimony
-News summaries
-Democrats
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Timing
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-Public relations
-Preparations of offer
-Ehrlichman
-Colson and MacGregor
-Timing
-Kleindienst’s withdrawal
-Gleason testimony
-Cessation of hearings
-MacGregor’s views
-Reason for hearings