249–6

Conversation No. 249-6

Date: April 15, 1971
Time: 8:59 am - 10:45 am
Location: Executive Office Building

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

President’s statements
-Governors
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Length
-Memo
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
-Price
-Length
-Memo
-Deadlines
-Length
-Instructions for Price
-Chamber of Commerce
-Length
-DAR
-Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech
-Press reaction
-DAR reaction
-Immigrants
-[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt
-Marian Anderson

May Day demonstrations
-Wording of statement by Price
-Patriotism
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Richard A. Moore
-William L. Safire
-North Vietnamese involvement
-”Nixon endorses moratorium”
-Hardhats
-Liberals
 4

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-George P. Shultz
-Price
-Composition
-Senators
-Robert P. Griffin
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Leaders
-Rennie Davis
-Parren J. Mitchell
-Bobby Yorsett [sp?]
-Communists
-Davis
-Surveillance
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]
-Moore
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Memorandum
-President’s forthcoming meeting with editors
-Muskie
-Earth Day
-Timing
-FBI
-Griffin
-Muskie’s possible objections
-President’s activities
-Secret Service
-FBI
-Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of John F. Kennedy
-President
-Wiretapping
-President’s instructions to Buchanan

President’s forthcoming meeting with editors
-George Minot
-President’s schedule
-Boston Traveler
-Charles W. Colson
 5

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.’s editorial
-President’s conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower, April 14, 1971
-President’s Vietnam speech

Economy
-News summary
-Industrial production
-Shultz Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
-Paul W. McCracken
-Meeting of April 15, 1971
-Indicator
-Retail sales
-Figures
-President’s forthcoming meeting with editors
-Buchanan
-McCracken
-Figures
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Industrial production
-Instructions for Colson’s people

Networks’ reporting
-Colson
-John B. Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-Cabinet officers
-Connally’s views
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Connally

Possible meeting with stock analysts
-Safire
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Bull market
-Certificate
-Donald T. Regan, Lasker, and Bela Gold
-Gus C. Lee

Economy
-Stock market performance
-First quarter figures
 6

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Reporting
-Stock market
-Importance
-Financial writers
-Inflation
-Compared with 1969
-Profits
Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
Historical analysis of President’s administration
-Niccolo Machiavelli
-Stock market performance
-Economy
-War problem
-Cambodia and Laos
-Demonstrations
-Cities
-Integration in the South
-Foreign policy

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:59 am

Report for President

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:30 am

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:59 am and 9:30
am]

[Conversation No. 249-6A]

Meeting with President

[End of telephone conversation]

President’s image
-Staff
-Connally’s analysis
-John A. Scali
-Connally’s analysis
-Lack of emotion
-Reaction to President’s press conferences
 7

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Speeches
-Buchanan
-Richard K. Cook
-Samuel Rosen’s conversation with Safire
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Expectations of youth
-Sincerity
-Staff Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
-Public relations
-Television media
-Connally

Stephen B. Bull and an unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:59 am

Kissinger’s arrival

Rose Mary Woods’ trip
-New England

Letter from unknown Florida mayor
-Kissinger
-President’s image
-Connally
-President’s style
-Press conferences
-Lack of emotion
-William H. Moore

Bull and the unknown man left and Kissinger entered at 9:30 am

-President’s People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Letter from unknown mayor in Florida
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-1972 campaign
-Moore
-Kissinger’s conversation with Haldeman
-Humphrey and Muskie
-Editors’ opinions
-Emotionalism in press conferences
-Press
 8

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Connally
-Cabinet
-Romney
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Leadership
-Press conferences
-Chile Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-J. F. Kennedy
-Letter from Florida mayor
-Connally
-Press conference

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am

-Possible reaction to press

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:45 am

-J. F. Kennedy
-Newsmen
-Johnson
-Connally’s views
-Press conferences
-Texas drought
-Bureaucracy
-Press
-Letter from an unknown boy
-Press conferences
-Media
-President’s public exposure
-Conversations
-Press conferences
-Campaign appearances
-Connally
-President’s image
-House, Senate, Cabinet
-Need for “Nixon men”
-Connally
-President’s images
 9

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-General Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
-Image
-Guallists
-Press conferences
-Arrival in England in 1940
-French language
-Press conferences
-Cabinet Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
-Changes
-Connally’s views

Ambassadorial appointments
-John S. D. Eisenhower
-Edgar D. Whitcomb
-Australia
-Qualifications
-Robert C. Gordon
-J. S. D. Eisenhower
-Possible appointment

Cabinet and staff
-Unknown man discussed
-J. F. Kennedy
-Treatment of staff
-Image
-President’s image
-Courage, boldness, “guts”
-Connally’s views
-Staff
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-Maurice H. Stans
-Safire

Presidential image
-”Guts”
-Intelligence
-”Guts”, boldness, coolness under fire
-Ziegler
-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-Trade with PRC
 10

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



President’s PRC initiative
-Ping-pong team
-President’s policy
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-J. F. Kennedy
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Reception at Indonesian embassy
Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
President’s upcoming speech to DAR
-Possible wording
-Patriotism
-Sergeant Karl Taylor
-Demonstrators
-Possible address to Chamber of Commerce
-Demonstrators
-Composition
-Draft dodgers
-Service in Vietnam
-Wording of speech
-Price
-Staff
-Press releases
-Haldeman
-Suggestions
-Connally
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Possible wording

PRC
-Trade announcement
-British ambassador’s conversation with Soviet ambassador
-Reaction
-Media Coverage
-Washington Post
-Department of State
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Commerce Department
-Defense Department
-State Department
-Media coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Kalb
 11

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Kalb
-State Department
-Vietnam policy

Earth Day
-Muskie
-FBI surveillance Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
-Davis
-FBI role
-Assassination of J. F. Kennedy
-Oswald
-Muskie
-Samuel A. (“Sammy”) Abbott

PRC
-Trade announcement
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-”Nixon Initiative”
-USSR
-Possible reaction
-Kissinger’s possible call to Yuli M. Vorontsov
-State Department
-Scali
-US-Soviet relations
-PRC
-Instructions to Scali
-Taiwan
-Unknown diplomat

Vietnam
-Military activity
-Media coverage
-PRC
-Peace initiatives
-Stefan Olszowski
-North Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Possible United States’ initiative
-Unilateral return
-United States’ options
 12

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-POW wives
-Possible action
-Frank Borman
-Possible North Vietnamese military operations
-POW wives
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Cease fire deadline
-Kissinger’s possible message to the North Vietnamese Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
-Timing


******************************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration: 7s ]


FOREIGN AFFAIRS


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

******************************************************************************


-POW issue
-POW wives
-Clark M. Clifford and George S. McGovern
-POW wives
-United States’ initiatives
-Timing
-Troop withdrawal
-Harlow Resolution
-Effect on South Vietnam
-1972 Elections
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-POW wives
-Kissinger, Haldeman, and Colson
-POW issue
-Polls
-Figures
 13

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Major General James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Congress
-POW issue
-McGovern
-POW wives
-Laird
-Promises
-POW issue Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)

PRC initiative
-Instructions for Ziegler
-Media
-Vogue, Newsweek, Time
-State Department
-Press

Haldeman left at 10:23 am; Sanchez was no longer present at an unknown time before 10:23 am

President’s schedule
-Morocco
-Visit of King [Moulay] Hassan II
-Timing
-Arab summit
-Moulay Ahmed Laraki
-United States’ Middle East policy
-Possible postponement of state visit
-Possible private visit
-William B. Saxbe

State visits
-President’s policies
 14

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



******************************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[National Security]
[Duration: 27s ]


AFRICA Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

******************************************************************************


-Instructions for Kissinger
-President’s schedule


******************************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[National Security]
[Duration: 20s ]


AFRICA


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

******************************************************************************


-Juan Velasco Alvarado
-Possible visit
 15

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



******************************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[National Security]
[Duration: 11s ]


FOREIGN AFFAIRS Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9

******************************************************************************


-Edward R. G. Heath
-1972
-Mexico
-Mexican-Americans
-Morocco
-Upcoming meeting
-President’s policies
-European summit meeting
-Soviet visit
-PRC

PRC initiative
-Muskie
-Charles H. Percy
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Earth Day
-Media coverage
-Sevareid
-Haig’s visit to Indonesian embassy
-Percy
-J. William Fulbright
-President’s policies
-J. F. Kennedy
-USSR
-PRC
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Indochina
 16

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Laos
-William S. White
-J. F. Kennedy
-Johnson
-Ping-pong team
-USSR
-Vorontsov
-Peter G. Peterson Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
-Media coverage
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-USSR
-Possible appointees
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-USSR
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Ping-pong team
-Withdrawal from Vietnam
-USSR
-Bureaucracy
-J. F. Kennedy
-Cambodia and Laos
-En-lai
-Possible negotiations

President’s image
-Haldeman
-Conveyance by staff and Cabinet
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Peterson
-Klein
-Jack J. Valenti
-Haig
-Connally
-Taft Schreiber
-John N. Mitchell
-Ziegler
-Haldeman
-President’ conversation with Burns
-Connally
-Kissinger
 17

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Ehrlichman
-Volpe
-Romney
-Stans
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Mitchell
-Rogers and Laird
-Burns Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Finch and Rumsfeld
-Burns
-Valenti
-Support of President’s positions
-November 3, 1969, speech on Laos and Cambodia
-April 7, 1971, speech on Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-Rogers
-Press

USSR
-Mood
-Vorontsov
-Message
-PRC
-United States’ policy

PRC initiative
-Media coverage
-Evans and Novak
-Ziegler
-USSR
-Scali
-United States’ policy
-PRC
-Summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Announcement
-Summit
-POW issue
-POW wives
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Vorontsov
 18

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Scali
-State Department

President’s schedule

Moroccan meeting

Kissinger left at 10:45 am Conv. No. 249-6 (cont.)