246–5

Conversation No. 246-5

Date: April 7, 1971
Time: 10:55 am - 12:15 am
Location: Executive Office Building

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

Weather

Wood left at an unknown time before 10:59 am

Sergeant Karl Taylor
-Older son Karl (“Skipper”) Taylor, Jr.
-Family

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 10:59
am]

[Conversation No. 246-5A]

Congressional Medal of Honor
-Sergeant Taylor
-Sons “Skipper” and Kevin Taylor

Taylor’s son

[End of telephone conversation]

Lieutenant William L Calley, Jr.
-Prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel, III
-President’s possible conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.’s press conference April 7, 1971
-President’s responsibilities regarding final review
-Stanley R. Resor
-Haldeman’s possible call to Melvin R. Laird
-Tenure in office
-Prosecutor
-White House comments
-Ehrlichman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
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-New York Times, Washington Post
-Prosecutor
-Calley case
-Review
-President’s call to Ehrlichman’s secretary

News stories
-Ziegler
-White House handling

[Rose Mary Woods talked with the President between 10:59 am and 11:00 am]

[Conversation No. 246-5B]

President’s forthcoming speech April 7, 1971
-Changes
-Unknown man

[End of telephone conversation]

Revenue sharing

[The President talked with Ehrlichman between 11:01 am and 11:07 am]

[Conversation No. 246-5C]

Calley
-Prosecutor’s letter
-President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Resor’s tenure in office
-Inaccuracies
-Prosecutor
-Robert Goralski
-President’s review
-Ziegler
-Background

Woods entered at 11:05 am

-Ziegler
-President’s review
-Robert B. Semple, Jr., Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal
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-Press coverage
-White House comments
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman’s possible briefing
-George Herman

[End of telephone conversation]
Conv. No. 246-5 (cont.)
President’s forthcoming Vietnam speech April 7, 1971
-Changes
-Distribution of copies
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Woods’ forthcoming conversation with Kissinger

Ziegler entered at 11:15 am

-Changes

Weather

Woods left at 11:16 am

President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Length
-Text
-Kissinger
-Distribution

Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-President’s schedule
-William P. Rogers, Laird
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger
-Bipartisan meeting
-Congressional leaders
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Schedule
-Senate Whips
-Messages to President
-President’s conversations
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-President’s forthcoming speech
-Possible statements
-South Vietnam

Calley
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-President’s policy
-Judicial process Conv. No. 246-5 (cont.)
-Appeal
-Prosecutor’s letter
-President’s policy
-Review
-Ehrlichman’s press briefing
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Prosecutor
-Possible White House comments

Ziegler left at 11:25 am

Ziegler
-Handling of press
-Ehrlichman

Calley
-Judicial process
-Possible White House involvement
-Daniel

President’s forthcoming Vietnam speech April 7, 1971
-Television
-Camera work

[Pause]

Calley
-Taft’s forthcoming press conference
-Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Laird
-Resor’s tenure in office

Resor
-My Lai Massacre
-President’s schedule
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[Pause]

President’s forthcoming Vietnam speech April 7, 1971
-Preparation
-Final copy
-Kissinger
-Patrick J. Buchanan Conv. No. 246-5 (cont.)
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s style
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Thomas Jefferson
-Kissinger
-Editing
-Draft
-Winston Lord

Clark MacGregor
-Kissinger’s views
-Bryce N. Harlow
-William E. Timmons
-Role with administration
-Gerald R. Ford
-Peter H. Dominick
-Southern strategy
-Kissinger’s views
-Conversation with White House staff members

White House staff views
-Cambodia and Laos
-President’s church attendance
-Vietnam

George Meany
-Attitude

Staff

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
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-President’s policy
-Ehrlichman’s comments April 7, 1971
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Troop withdrawals
-George D. Aiken
-Laird
-President’s policy
Conv. No. 246-5 (cont.)
White House staff
-Review
-Peter G. Peterson
-Ehrlichman
-President’s policies
-Opposition
-Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Draftees

Pending legislation
-Education bill
-Possible veto

President’s forthcoming speech April 7, 1971
-Phone calls to President
-Cabinet
-Kissinger, Woods, Haldeman, and Charles W. Colson
-John B. Connally
-Preparation
-Kissinger’s forthcoming backgrounder
-President’s efforts
-Consultation with Cabinet
-Laird
-Rogers
-Moorer

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:25 am

President’s schedule
-Shultz, Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:49 am
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National economy
-Stock market

President’s schedule
-Franco Maria Malfatti
-Council on International Economic Policy
-European Economic Community
-Connally Conv. No. 246-5 (cont.)

National economy
-Stock market
-Economic indicators
-Automobile sales
-Views of Haldeman’s friend from J. Walter Thompson Co.
-Sears, Roebuck & Co.
-Industrial production
-Construction
-Retail sales

President’s forthcoming speech April 7, 1971
-Possible effect
-War weariness

Shultz and Ehrlichman entered at 11:49 am

President’s schedule

The President and Haldeman left at 11:49 am

[Pause]

[Unintelligible]

The President entered at an unknown time after 11:49 am

Congress

Pending legislation
-Education bill
-Possible veto
-Cost
-William D. Hathaway
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-Possible amendment
-Possible White House response
-Military pay
-House vote
-Cost
-Education bill
-Possible veto
Conv. No. 246-5 (cont.)
Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 11:50 am

President’s schedule
-Laird, Rogers, Kissinger
-Talking points
-Vietnam withdrawal

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm

Pending legislation
-Education bill
-Possible veto
-Military pay
-Transportation
-Urban renewal
-Revenue sharing
-Possible veto
-Budget
-President’s program

National economy
-Status
-Stock market
-Economic indicators
-Automobile sales
-Department store sales
-Home furnishings
-New York
-Southern California
-Stock market
-People’s actions
-Confidence
-Business magazines
-Washington Post, Washington Star, New York Times
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-Stock market
-Administration’s economic policies
-Business writers
-Staff, Time, Life
-Southern California
-Status
-Federal Reserve
-Federal budget Conv. No. 246-5 (cont.)
-Steadiness
-Public confidence

Pending legislation
-Education bill
-Effect on budget
-Possible veto
-Instruction for Ford
-Education lobby
-Possible veto
-Elliot L. Richardson’s forthcoming speech
-Instructions for Ford
-Possible motion to re-commit
-Tactics
-Hathaway’s amendment
-Provisions
-President’s policies
-Authorization
-Levels
-Possible amendments

J. Edgar Hoover
-Tenure in office
-Alger Hiss case
-Tom C. Clark, Harry S Truman
-Taps on President’s phone
-Surveillance of Congressmen
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Charges
-Compared with Joseph McCarthy

McCarthy
-Allegations regarding State Department
-Communists
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Hoover
-Boggs
-Health
-Possible Congressional hearing
-Ehrlichman’s possible conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Possible hearings
Conv. No. 246-5 (cont.)
Boggs
-Carl B. Albert’s conversation with MacGregor, April 6, 1971
-Health
-Wife
-President’s conversation with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Relationship with Wilbur D. Mills

Pending legislation
-Education bill
-Possible veto
-Military pay

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 12:15 pm