715–2

Conversation No. 715-2

Date: April 26, 1972
Time: 12:03 pm - 12:19 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Clark MacGregor
-Advance copies
-Circulation
-John R. (“Tex”) McCrary
-Purpose
-Problems

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:03 and 12:18 pm.

[Conversation no. 715-2A]

McCrary's note
-Retrieval

[End of telephone conversation]

-The President's perusal
-Content
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 715-2 (cont.)


Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Television
-Bombing halt
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman document
-Henry A. Kissinger's views
-Public record
-Declassification of records

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 12:03pm and 12:18 pm.

-Declassification of records
-The President's speech
-Comments by McCrary
-Advance copies
-Value
-Advance copies
-Television networks
-McCrary
-Newspapers
-Kissinger briefing of writing press
-Time
-Headlines
-Withdrawal of troops
-Ziegler
-MacGregor
-Congressmen
-Distribution
-J. William Fulbright
-Value
-Phone calls
-Announcement
-Bombing
-Content
-Rhetoric
-Press release
-Summary
-Text of speech
-MacGregor and Ziegler
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Text of speech
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 715-2 (cont.)


-Release
-Rhetoric
-Congressional criticism
-Decisions
-History of US involvement in Vietnam
-Television coverage
-Newspaper coverage
-Highlights
-Press coverage
-Hostility
-McCrary
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston column
-Former column on President's trip to People’s
Republic of China [PRC]
-Winston S. Churchill
-Reston column on Kissinger's trip
-Comments on Kissinger's role
-Chou En-lai and PRC
-Relation with the President
-Kissinger’s morale
-The President's speech
-Highlights
-Preparation
-Release to press

Stock market
-Recent changes
-Prices

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Weather
-Washington, DC
-Florida


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[Duration: 18s ]
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 715-2 (cont.)



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White House staff
-Demonstrators
-Focus of attention
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Dealings
-Meetings with the President
-Church
-A specific example
-Kissinger
-Outcome

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:18 pm.

The President's meeting with Herbert F. DeSimone
-Reminder

Delivery of unknown article to Executive Office Building [EOB]

Haldeman left at 12:18 pm.

The President's meeting with DeSimone
-Pictures
-Navy photographers

Butterfield left at 12:19 pm.