702–2

Conversation No. 702-2

Date: April 4, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:47 pm and 3:11 pm
Location: Oval Office

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


National Catholic Education Association [NCEA] speech, April 6, 1972
-Draft
-Report
-Revisions
-Charles W. Colson's review
-John B. Connally
-Delivery
-Connally's view
-John D. Ehrlichman's view
-Elliot L. Richardson's view
-Drafting
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Points covered
-Education
-Catholic schools
-Length
-Points covered
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-Busing
-Problems of non-public education
-Busing
-Equal Education Opportunity Act
-Catholic schools
-Buchanan
-Service to poor
-Busing
-Impact on poor
-Catholic schools
-Service to poor

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:55 pm.

Vietnam
-Ziegler's statement
-Sense of crisis
-Meeting with Melvin R. Laird
-Issuance
-Laird's press conference
-Weather break
-Bombing
-Timing
-Scheduling
-William P. Rogers's trip
-Scheduling
-Time and day
-Diplomatic case
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Defense Department and Robert J. McCloskey briefings
-Conventional nature of war
-Sophisticated weapons and tactics
-Surface to Air missiles [SAMs]
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Press reports
-Soviet supplies
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Air strikes
-Weather
-Tanks
-US actions
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-Ziegler's comments on military operations
-Ship movements
-Limitations
-B-52s
-Presidential decisions
-Study of situation
-Invasion


Ziegler left at 3:00 pm.

Education
-Speech to NCEA

The President's schedule
-Meeting with William J. Porter
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Time
-Day


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Drugs
-Speech for the President
-Length
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Radio talk on drugs
-Length
-Haldeman's view
-Content
-Draft
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-Revisions
-Price
-Distribution
-Heroin hotline
-Advertising Council
-Informants
-Pushers
-News value
-Announcement
-Timing
-News magazines
-Phone calls
-Number
-Television news coverage
-Scheduling
-Heroin hotline
-Announcement
-News value
-Scheduling
-Maximum audience
-Sunday
-Benefits
-Announcement
-News magazines
-Television news

Books
-Sale of The President’s Trip to China
-White House involvement
-Herbert G. Klein
-Republican National Convention
-Facilities
-Bulk sale
-Convention
-Robert H. Abplanalp's idea
-Businessmen
-John A. Mulcahy
-James Keogh's book
-Colleges and universities
-Jews
-Book company
-Investment
-Sellers
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-Jews
-Jack Drown
-Encouragement
-White House staff
-Bulk sales
-College and university distribution

Soviet Union trip
-Book
-Klein
-Press
-Invitations
-Compared to the President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Klein
-Ziegler
-Administration's friends
-The President's enemies
-Ziegler's concern
-Networks
-Wire services
-New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times
-Friends
-Nashville Banner, St. Louis Globe-Democrat and Dallas Herald
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Ziegler
-Guest list for trip
-Guidelines
-Boston Globe

White House staff
-Handling of press
-Easter event
-Ziegler
-White House aides
-Military personnel
-Craig S. Campbell
-Coast Guardsman [Alexander R. Larzelere]
-John V. Brennan
-Vernon C. Coffey
-Campbell
-Camp David
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-Selection
-Campbell
-Compared to Larzelere
-Brennan
-Coffey
-Handling of arrangements
-Dwight L. Chapin and Stephen B. Bull
-Problems
-Easter event
-Replacements
-Recruitment
-Bull
-Back-up support
-White House aides
-Rosselier [sp?], Campbell
-Assignments

Education
-Speech to NCEA
-Draft

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:00 pm and 3:11 pm.

[Conversation No. 702-2A]

NCEA speech

The President's schedule
-Mitchell

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Haldeman's meeting with Mitchell
-Possible meeting with the President
-Time

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.