482–16

Conversation No. 482-16

Date: April 19, 1971
Time: Unknown between 2:32 pm and 3:03 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Schedule
-Visit to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Camp David
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-Camp David
-Gettysburg church
-Timing
-Choir
-Cabinet

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:50 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's dinner with Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Alsop's call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-National interest

President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
-J. Edgar Hoover

Earth Day

President's opponents
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Dump President movement
-Numbers
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Hoover
-Resignation
-Enemies
-President's enemies

President's appearance before Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
-Significance
DAR
-Patriotism
-Support for President
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Civic mindedness
-Appalachia
-President's appearance

President's supporters/opponents
-William F. Buckley's views
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations

Harvard committee
-Study of People's Republic of China [PRC] policy
-Congratulatory letter to President

Kissinger's relations with Alsop
-Society people

Republican conservatives
-Middle America
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Ronald W. Reagan
-President
-Political orientation
-Goldwater and Reagan
-President's speech, October 7, 1971

Issues
-Spanish Civil War
-Chiang Kai-Shek
-Fidel Castro
-Quemoy & Matsu
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-National Defense
-Antiballisitic Missiles [ABM]
-Liberals
-Communists
-Leftists
-Communists
-Clifford M. Case, Richard S. Schweiker, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Interpretation of world Conv. No. 482-16 (cont.)

National defense
-US missile capacity
-ABM sites
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Soviet missile capacity
-Liberals
-Outlook
-Cuban missile crisis
-Liberals
-Support for John F. Kennedy
-Harvard University faculty
-George B. Kistiakowsky's call to Kissinger
-Harvard reaction
-Laos
-US withdrawal
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-President's press conference, March 4, 1971
-US casualties
-Vietnam
-Firebase 6
-Liberals
-South Vietnamese military operations
-US air support
-Success
-North Vietnamese reaction

Kissinger's lunch with Benjamin C. Bradlee

George H.W. Bush's meeting with Newsweek editors, April 5, 1971
-President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Bradlee
-Opposition to US policy regarding Vietnam, Laos
-Osborn Elliott
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-Robert C. Christopher

Kissinger's conversation with Bradlee
-Press correspondents in Vietnam
-Liaisons
-Saigon
-Money
-Liaisons Conv. No. 482-16 (cont.)
-Press briefings
-Anecdote
-Unknown correspondent's activities

Press
-Newsweek
-President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Christopher
-Newsweek
-Time
-Newsweek
-Democratic left

Alsop's column, April 19, 1971
-President and the Democrats
-President's prospects
-PRC
-Democrats' program
-SALT
-Defense
-Vietnam
-Alternatives

President's 1972 reelection prospects
-Democrats' reaction
-1968 election
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Possible effect on Democrats
-Effect on entrenched bureaucracy
-President’s trip

State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Bureaucracy
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-Ivy League

Health Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Entrenched Democrats

Bureaucracy
-Democrats
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Conv. No. 482-16 (cont.)
-Republicans
-Democrats
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-New Deal
-1972 elections
-President's possible victory
-1976 elections
-Purge
-Democrats
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Liberal Republicans
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Trip to Laos

President's reelection prospects

Kissinger left at 3:03 pm.