334–36

Conversation No. 334-36

Date: May 2, 1972
Time: Unknown after 4:41 pm - 6:17 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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Conv. No. 334-36 (cont.)

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J. Edgar Hoover
-Death
-Publicity
-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower's death
-Press reports
-Past criticism

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Refugees

Hoover
-Rotunda
-Lying-in-state
-Justice Department
-Successor
-Selection
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Senate
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Congressional investigation
-Problems
-Successor
-Selection
-Senate
-1972 election
-Climate of opinion
-Postponement
-Statement
-Political issue
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Conv. No. 334-36 (cont.)

-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Congressional testimony
-L. Patrick Gray
-Present position

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President between 4:49 and 4:51 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36A]

[See Conversation No. 23-114]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-US air strikes
-Concentration
-US training programs
-[Unintelligible]
-Robert F. Kennedy

Hoover
-The President's statement
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-News reports
-Funeral
-Publicity
-Detractors
-Flags
-Half-mast
-The President's order
-1972 election
-Issue

John B. Connally

Unknown person

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:51 and 4:57
pm.
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Conv. No. 334-36 (cont.)

[Conversation No. 334-36B]

[See Conversation No. 23-115]

[End of telephone conversation]

Meeting
-Duration
-Unknown person's speech

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:51 pm.

Machine
-Removal

Sanchez left at 4:57 pm.

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox between 4:57 and 4:58 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36C]

[See Conversation No. 23-116; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation.]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hoover
-The President's statement
-Ehrlichman
-Law and order
-Detractors

Jerry V. Wilson

Byron R. White

Robert C. Mardian

Curtis W. Tarr

Bill Woods

Connally
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The President's statement
-Unknown person's reaction

Connally
-Party at ranch
-House
-Tour by Haldeman
-Reaction of Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
-Gift
-World's Fair of 1939
-Letter from the President
-Shelly [sp?] Smith
-Value
-Location

Vietnam


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Unknown person's views
-New York Times
-Indians
-United Nations [UN]
-Blacks

Virgil Percy [sp?]
-Union magazine editor
-Time
-Meeting with the President
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Conv. No. 334-36 (cont.)

The President's schedule
-Trip to Annapolis
-Transportation
-Sequoia
-Naval Academy cadets
-Publicity
-Compared with meeting with astronauts
-Sequoia
-Chapel service
-Return to Washington
-Domestic events
-Ehrlichman
-Problems
-Scheduling
-Hoover statement
-Timing
-Price
-Radio
-Audience
-Replays

FBI
-Importance
-Director
-Nominee

Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

Vietnam
-Refugees
-News stories
-Significance
-News stories
-Public support for the President
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Soviet aid
-Soviet summit

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:58 pm.

The President's schedule
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-Sequoia cruise
-Preparations
-Time
-Attendance
-The President's pipes

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:26 pm.

Vietnam
-The President's policies
-Polls
-Soviet summit
-Approval rate
-Enemy casualties in Laos

The President's schedule
-Hoover eulogy
-Trip to Annapolis
-The President's speech
-Subject

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:58 and 5:26 pm.]

[Conversation No. 334-36D]

The President's schedule
-Speech in Annapolis
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:58 and 5:26
pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36E]

[See Conversation No. 23-117]

[End of telephone conversation]

FBI
-Richard G. Kleindienst
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-Hoover
-Race tracks
-Movie stars
-Pictures
-Unknown person

The President's schedule
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Announcement on steel quotas
-Unemployment

The President talked with Clyde A. Tolson between 5:26 and 5:27 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36F]

[See Conversation No. 23-118]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hoover
-Tolson
-FBI
-Private files
-Location
-Access

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:27 and 5:30 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36G]

The President’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-The President's speech at Annapolis
-Location
-Chapel
-Armory
-Mess Hall
-Problems
-Chapel
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Conv. No. 334-36 (cont.)

-Problems
-Tradition
-Armory
-Arrangements
-Selection
-Criteria

Hoover
-Eulogy
-John Foster Dulles
-Succession
-Tolson
-Age

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:27 pm.

Meeting with Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

Ehrlichman entered at 5:30 pm.

Ronald L. Ziegler

Hoover
-Death
-News stories
-The President's announcement
-News release
-Ziegler

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:30 and 5:31
pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36H]

[See Conversation No. 23-119]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at 5:31 pm.
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Hoover
-The President's announcement
-Handling
-Hoover's career

Ehrlichman talked with Ronald L. Ziegler between 5:35 and 5:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36I]

[See Conversation No. 23-120]

Ehrlichman conferred with the President at an unknown time during the conversation.

FBI
-Acting Director
-The President's nomination
-Congress
-Timing

[End of telephone conversation]

FBI
-Acting Director
-Appointment
-Timing
-Gray
-Ehrlichman's recommendation
-Nomination
-Permanent successor
-1972 election
-Partisanship
-Gray
-Nomination
-Conditions
-Congressional investigation
-Martin Luther King
-Wiretap
-Preventive detention
-Possible questions
-Hoover's successor
-Announcement
-Kleindienst
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-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-Appointment
-Gerald R. Ford
-Samuel L. Devine
-Preference on speed of nomination

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:37 pm.

Unknown request

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:46 pm.

Hoover's successor
-Appointment
-Devine
-Reelection


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Bicentennial in Philadelphia
-Problem


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THE UNKNOWN PERSON LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 5:46 PM.


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The President's schedule
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Statement
-Support from Republican governors
-Governors Conference in White Sulphur Springs
-Public support
-Meeting with the President
-Length

Bicentennial in Philadelphia
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Ehrlichman's call
-Commission
-Recommendation on Philadelphia
-Problems
-Finances
-Conversations with Rizzo
-State of Pennsylvania
-Highway funds
-Appropriations
-Adverse recommendations
-Rizzo
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Alternative proposals

Tax reform
-Wilbur D. Mills's letter
-Answer
-Meeting with Mills
-Connally's recommendation
-Problems
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Welfare reform
-Senate Finance Committee
-Republicans
-Meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman's recommendation
-Proposals
-Criticism
-Elliot L. Richardson and James D. Hodgson
-Russell B. Long
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Administration's position
-The President's meeting with Senate Finance Committee
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman's appearance on Meet the Press
-Question
-\"Workfare\"
-Family assistance
-Republican senators' proposals
-Criticism
-Possible questions for the President during recent Texas trip
-Budget
-Inflation
-Welfare costs

Postal system
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Subsidy
-Life
-Problems with elimination
-Life
-Future

Unemployment
-Plan
-Lewis's article
-Title
-Connally
-Mailing
-Reprints

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 5:55 pm.
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Phone call
-Richard C. Valeriani

The President's schedule
-Haldeman
-An announcement
-Meeting with Rockefeller

FBI
-Acting director
-Morning briefing

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Rockefeller
-Time
-Duration
-News story
-Acting Director of FBI
-Time

FBI
-Acting Director
-Nomination
-A briefing
-Senate
-Partisanship
-Timing of selection
-Successor to Hoover
-Kleindienst announcement
-Confirmation problems
-Announcement of interim director
-Public acceptance
-Selection
-Postponement
-Election year
-Senate approval

Ziegler left at 6:03 pm.

The President talked with the White House operator at 6:03 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36J]
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[See Conversation No. 23-121]

[End of telephone conversation]


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The President's schedule
-Trip to Annapolis
-Discussion with Haldeman
-Possible stops
-Hoover

The President talked with Helen Gandy between 6:06 and 6:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-36K]

[See Conversation No. 23-122]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Grocery store visit
-Trip to Annapolis
-Stops
-Value
-University of Maryland
-Dinner with midshipmen
-Significance for youth
-Discussion of issues
-Arrangements
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-Youth
-Naval officers
-University of Maryland students
-The President's identification
-Control of conversation
-Emphasis on young members of staff
-Control
-Transportation
-Stopover
-Supermarket
-Planning
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Small store
-Jews
-Chains
-Connally
-Safeway
-Sanchez
-Victorio Delacruz
-Dinner with midshipmen
-Ziegler
-Newspaperman
-Robert Semple
-New York Times
-Pulitzer Prize
-Wire service reporter
-Walter Meares [sp?]
-Edward E. Carlson
-United Airlines
-Edward E. Carlson, Jr.
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Ambition
-John K. Andrews, Jr.

Andrews

Ziegler
-Age

The President's schedule
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Soviet summit
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-Summer trips

Briefcase

Ehrlichman left at 6:17 pm.