462–12

Conversation No. 462-12

Date: March 5, 1971
Time: 10:49 am - 11:06 am
Location: Oval Office
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The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Schedule
-Possible briefing

White House press briefing Conv. No. 462-12 (cont.)
-Unemployment
-Revenue sharing
-Congressional approval

President’s schedule
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Military action in Vietnam

Public relations
-Leonard Garment
-Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Garment
-Press release on President’s musical interest
-Compared with revenue sharing
-Charles W. Colson’s efforts
-Work with Senate and House
-J. William Fulbright

President’s press conference
-Mobilization of President’s supporters
-Call from John C. Stennis
-Cabinet officers
-Mobilization of President’s supporters
-Clark MacGregor
-White House staff efforts
-Colson
-Labor
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s staff
-Herbert G. Klein
-Colson
-President’s statement about the press
-Laos

Polls
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-David R. Derge [?]
-Laos
-Statistics
-Compared to 1968 campaign polls
-Democrat candidates
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy Conv. No. 462-12 (cont.)

President’s press conference
-William P. Rogers
-Follow-up press conference
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Middle East
-Melvin R. Laird
-Follow-up press conference

President’s schedule
-Rockefeller meeting
-Possible attendees
-John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
-Press briefing on revenue sharing
-President’s appearance
-Ziegler

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Mobilization of President’s supporters
-The President’s press conference
-Effect on troops
-Compared to a campaign


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Conv. No. 462-12 (cont.)

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President’s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Possible press response
-Ziegler’s assessment
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.’s comments
-Martin Schram’s question
-The President’s response
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Attitude of press
-Semple
-Eugene V. Risher
-Response
-Lead story
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Vietnamization
-South Vietnam
-Possible invasion of North Vietnam
-The President’s position
-Response

President’s schedule
-Quadriad meeting
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-National Security Council meeting
-Topics discussed
-John B. Connally briefing
-Comments on the economy
-Time
-Rockefeller meeting
-Photo coverage
-Ehrlichman Conv. No. 462-12 (cont.)
-Shultz
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Edwin L. Harper
-Public relations options
-Possible press briefing on revenue sharing
-Responses
-Warren E. Hearnes
-Patrick J. Lucey
-Popular support
-Photo
-Location
-Press briefing
-President’s possible appearance
-Forthcoming message to Congress

George W. Romney
-Briefing on revenue sharing
-Possible joint briefing with Rockefeller and Agnew
-Possible meeting with Ehrlichman, Shultz, and Agnew
-Talk with Ziegler

President’s schedule
-Rockefeller
-Time

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:06 am

Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs] and Missing In Action [MIAs]
-Number, definition

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