329–32

Conversation No. 329-32
Date: April 13, 1972
Time: 2:00 pm - unknown before 4:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

Weather

The President's schedule
-Organization of American States [OAS] Dinner
-Statement
-Copies
-Speech
-The President's delivery
-Toast
-Statement to press
-Speech to Canadian Parliament
-Press embargo
-Time

Canadian visit
-Arrival statement
-Toast
-Dinner statement
-Speech to Parliament
-Ceremony speech
-Brevity
-Speeches
-British custom
-Toasts
-Governor General
-The President's 1953 trip
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Toasts
-Audience

Unknown presentation ceremony
-Certificate
-Letter from the President
-Richard Wilson
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-[Forename unknown] Ottoburger [sp?]
-William L. Safire
-Ziegler
-Check with Rose Mary Woods
-Organizations
-Order of the Hound's Tooth
-Previous events
-1958 and 1960
-Background
-Helen Thomas
-Photos

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 2:00 and 2:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 329-32A]

Trip to Canada in 1957
-Paul Miller
-Harry F. Byrd
-Call from Woods
-Name of town visited
-Toast
-Mayor
-Gifts to the President

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's stopover in Austria
-Accommodations
-Compared to Ireland
-A meeting
-A luncheon
-Size
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Degree of formality
-Length
-Carl Gruber
-Invitation to accompany the President
-Salzburg
-Canadian ambassador
-Accompanying the President
-Gruber
-Schedule
-Invitation

Charles W. Colson
-Report on conversation with Albert E. Sindlinger
-The President's meeting with John B. Connally
-Return to Colson
-Food prices

The President's Canadian visit
-Meeting with unknown man
-Coaching the President in French
-Unknown man's proficiency in French and English

Vernon A. Walters
-Proficiency in French
-Unknown woman
-Proficiency in French
-Walters
-Unknown woman
-Translation


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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)



International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
-Convention
-Colson's report

Vietnam
-Critics of administration policy
-White House response
-Henry A. Kissinger's views
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kissinger's trip to Paris
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-William P. Rogers's reaction

Kissinger entered at 2:16 pm.

-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message from Moscow
-Kissinger's trip
-Kissinger's response
-Vietnamese delegation
-Visit to Moscow
-Kissinger's schedule

The President's trip to Canada
-Speech
-Rhetoric
-Substance
-Revisions
-The President's reading of the speech for Kissinger
-Copy to Kissinger

The President rehearsed a speech at an unknown time between 2:16 and 2:50 pm.

[A transcript of this speech, with slight variations, appears in PPP 1972, pp. 537-541]

The President's speech
-Kissinger’s revisions
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

Vietnam
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
-Attacks
-US response
-News summaries
-Networks
-Muskie
-Interviews with soldiers
-Troops’ resistance
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Unknown commander's response
-Commendation
-Press reports
-Foreign policy aspects
-Domestic dissent
-Expenditures
-Democrats’ letter
-North Vietnamese conditions
-Message from Dobrynin
-Plenary sessions
-Bombing halt
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Message from Dobrynin
-Soviet interests
-W. Averell Harriman's view
-US position
-Kissinger’s statement to Dobrynin
-Military operations
-Negotiations
-Truce
-Hanoi’s position
-Soviet guarantee
-US naval fleet
-Size
-Haig
-Deployment
-Soviet position
-Compromise settlement
-Cessation of North Vietnamese military operations
-Effect in North Vietnam
-Allies’ agreement to terms
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] position
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Changes
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Coalition government
-Soviet intentions
-Cessation of fighting
-Compared with Cuban missile crisis
-American losses
-Possible Hanoi proposal
-Compromise
-Bombing halt
-Air strike plans
-Truck parks
-Petroleum, oil and lubricants [POL] dumps
-Kissinger’s recommendation
-Truck parks
-US fleet
-The President's conversation with Haig
-Peace talks
-Possible reasons for Hanoi’s involvement
-Battles in South Vietnam
-Soviet response
-US blockade
-US responses
-PRC response
-Kissinger’s message to Dobrynin
-Laos and Cambodia
-Past operations
-Camp David strategy meeting with Kissinger
-Abrams
-Haig’s view
-Local commander
-Instructions from the president
-Psychology
-The President's message to John S. McCain, Jr.
-Haig’s trip
-Air strike
-Effectiveness
-Soviets
-Hanoi
-Kissinger’s schedule
-April 24th meeting
-Secrecy
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Rogers’s knowledge
-Congressional pressure
-Laird
-Conversation with Rogers
-B-52 strikes
-President’s meeting with Rogers and Laird
-Strategy
-Kissinger’s presence
-Rogers
-Testimony before congress
-Reluctance
-John N. Irwin, II’s testimony
-Canada
-United Nations [UN]
-Meeting with the President at Camp David
-UN
-Knowledge of B-52 strikes
-Laird
-Meeting with the President
-B-52 strikes
-Testimony before congress
-Air strikes
-Congressional response
-Laird
-Strategy
-Soviet position
-Avoidance of October offensive
-Rogers
-Diplomatic strategy
-The President's decision
-October offensive
-Testimony before congress

Polish visit
-Public announcement

The president's trip to Soviet Union
-Stopover in Austria
-Luncheon
-Size
-Gruber
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Stopover in Poland
-Connections with Catholic Church
-Unknown cardinal
-John Cardinal Krol
-Views
-Vietnam

PRC
-Visit by Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
-The president's letter to Chou En-lai
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ambassador Chien Yi
-Meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-Rogers
-Letter to Chou
-Delivery
-Kissinger’s conversation with unknown person

Vietnam
-Bombing

Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Itinerary
-Arrival
-Back-up plane
-Advance party
-Leaks
-Dobrynin
-Possible accompaniment
-News leaks
-Rogers’s knowledge
-Secrecy
-Purpose of trip
-Vietnam
-Advance of the President's trip
-Kissinger’s Paris trip
-Importance
-The President's conversation with Ehrlichman
-Impact on Vietnam negotiations

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Humphrey, Muskie and Kennedy
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Possible handling of negotiations
-US strategy
-Middle East
-Mrs. Nixon
-The President's conversation with Dobrynin
-Rogers
-Speech in Chicago
-Speech at UN
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Middle East

Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Forthcoming press event
-The President's possible attendance
-Announcement
-April 24th meeting

Unknown reception
-Length

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Public opinion
-POL dumps
-Haiphong
-Hanoi
-B-5’s
-7th fleet
-Impact on negotiations
-Message from US

Kissinger left at 2:50 pm.

Richard G. Kleindienst

The president's Canadian trip
-Publicity
-Compared with a theoretical trip to France
-American television coverage

The President's schedule
-Publicity
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Camp David
-Florida
-California
-Rose Mary Woods
-Possible appearance on TV
-The President's trips
-Staff
-Florida
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Florida
-The President's work during good weather
-Camp David
-The President's amount of work
-Nellie L. Yates
-Woods
-Unknown secretary [Beverly J. Kaye?]
-Moscow trip
-Yates
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Woods
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Unknown secretary [Kaye?]
-Amount of work
-Yates
-Woods
-Unknown secretary [Kaye?]

The White House operator talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at 2:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 329-32B]

[See Conversation No. 22-122]

Haldeman conferred with the President.

Call from Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Julie Eisenhower talked with the President between 2:56 and 2:57 pm; one item has been
withdrawn from the conversation.
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

[End of telephone conversation]


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Public relations assignment

ITT
-Peter M. Flanigan's issue
-John [Surname unknown]
-Administration position
-Congressional committee vote
-Scott's absence
-Possible loss of vote
-Clark MacGregor
-Call from Haldeman

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:57 pm.

Food order

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

Unknown person
-Withdrawal from presidential race

Connally
-Conflicts with White House
-Focus
-Reasons
-Cancellation of meeting
-Dinner party
-Ehrlichman
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Connally's demeanor
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Guests


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-Calls to George P. Shultz and Ehrlichman
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Meeting with the President
-Press event
-Misunderstanding
-Message to Connally
-Briefing
-Meeting with Connally
-Haldeman's call to Connally
-Value
-The President's trip to Canada
-Meeting
-Possible cancellation
-Non-attendance
-Briefing of the President on misunderstanding
-Timing
-Walters
-Conflict with White House staff
-Kissinger
-National Security Council meeting
-Agenda
-Chile
-Walters issue
-National Security Council meeting
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Conflicts with White House staff
-Herbert Stein
-Mid-year economic report
-Conversation with Shultz
-Consultation with the President
-Troika meeting
-Connally's attendance
-Unknown person's assessment of conflicts
-Duration
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Meeting with the President
-Connally's cancellation
-Reason
-Health
-Dr. Walter R. Tkach
-Johnson's health
-Appearance
-The President's Canadian trip
-Connally’s attendance
-Media coverage
-Major concerns
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Forthcoming conversation with the President
-Defense of administration
-Possible departure from administration
-Reasons


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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)



-Effect
-The President's instructions to Alexander P. Butterfield
-Butterfield's calls to Connally
-Camp David
-Haldeman's calls to Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally


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-Conversations with Haldeman
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Walters issue
-Economic meeting
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Scheduling
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Conversation with Shultz
-David N. Parker
-Council of Economic Advisors meeting with the
President
-Attendees
-Relationship with the President and Haldeman
-Conflicts with White House staff
-Kissinger
-Dinner with the President
-Connally dinner parties
-Haldeman's attendance at one
-Ehrlichman's attendance, April 12, 1972
-Nellie Connally
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Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

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-Conversations with the President
-Role in administration
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Value
-The President's orders concerning conflicts with White House staff
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Haldeman's role
-Haldeman's mediation
-Staff


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-Possible briefing by Kissinger
-Moscow trip
-Walters issue
-Reaction
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] event
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Ehrlichman
-Government Accounting Office [GAO] official
-Testimony before Congress
-Lockheed case
-White House denial of involvement
-A plot
-Role in administration
-Conflicts with White House staff
-Rogers
-Possible removal from office
-Feasibility
-Compared with Kissinger

ITT case
-Damage to administration

Vietnam
-Current situation
-Press coverage

Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Rogers
-Explanation of trip
-Haldeman
-Hangchow
-Paris
-Message regarding negotiations
-Timing
-Schedule
-Rogers
-Press coverage of trip
-Kissinger’s explanation of trip to Rogers
-Meeting with North Vietnamese
-Timing
-Paris
-Moscow
-Call to the president
-Leonid I. Brezhnev's message to the president
-Vietnam
-Summit
-Full disclosure
-Haldeman’s presence
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Meeting with the president
-Secrecy
-Soviet guarantee
-Reasons
-The President's schedule
-Meeting with editors
-Camp David
-Florida
-Kissinger’s absence
-Diversion from news about trip
-Rogers
-Appeal to Haig
-Explanation of trip
-Kissinger
-Florida cover story

The President's Canadian trip
-Connally
-Meeting with Trudeau
-Talking points
-Connally’s handling of economic matter

Connally
-Disenchantment with Democrats
-Commitment to the President

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:57 pm.

Food order

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

Connally
-Position as Secretary of State

Ehrlichman
-Position as Attorney General
-Qualifications
-Appointment
-Timing
-Statements
-Timing
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Length
-Topics

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:57 and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 329-32C]

Republican Senators' activities
-News summary report
-White House knowledge

Crime
-Administration reports
-Record
-Rehabilitation
-Minimum wage for prisoners
-MacGregor's work

Administration statements
-Frequency
-Topics
-Food prices
-Value

Busing
-Rev. Theodore S. Hesburg
-Position
-Ohio situation
-Media problem
-Constitutional amendment

[End of telephone conversation]

Domestic affairs
-Coordination between Colson, Ehrlichman and MacGregor
-The President's attention to other issues
-Major issues
-Focus
-Ehrlichman
-Delegation of authority
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Shultz
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

-Kleindienst issue
-Vietnam

Connally
-Realization of responsibility
-Conflicts
-Johnson
-Resignation
-Call from Haldeman
-William E. Simon

Foreign policy
-Canadians and Europeans
-Kissinger

The President's schedule
-Trip
-Rose Mary Woods's presence

Connally
-Handling by White House
-Compared with Kissinger
-Meeting with the President
-Frequency
-Vietnam
-Briefing by the President
-North Vietnamese
-B-52S

The President's schedule
-Easter vacation
-Florida trip
-Soviet trip
-Church attendance
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham's comments
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
-Baptist church in Moscow
-Interdenominationality
-Unknown Catholic priest
-Number of services
-Format of service
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 329-32 (cont.)

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:57 pm.

Request for razor

Unknown person
-Letters [?]

Haldeman and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.