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Conversation No. 462-2

Date: March 5, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:00 am and 8:30 am
Location: Oval Office

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

President’s schedule
-Senior staff meeting
-Haldeman
-President’s participation
-George P. Shultz’s meeting
-Senior staff meeting
-Rochester trip
-Cancellation
-Reason
-Demonstrations
-Network coverage
-Reason

President’s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Response
-Compared to period after President’s Cambodia speech
-[Name unintelligible]
-Cancellation of Rochester trip
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
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-Herbert G. Klein
-President’s statement to television audience
-Effectiveness
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s statement about the press
-Martin Schram’s question
-President’s responses to questions
-Haldeman’s view
-Effectiveness Conv. No. 462-2 (cont.)

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Previous telephone call

President’s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Rockefeller, William S. Paley, Michael Coles
-Charles W. Colson’s staff calls
-Results
-Press reports
-President’s answers to questions on Laos (Lam Son)
-Compared with Cambodia
-Effectiveness
-Statements about the press
-Compared with Agnew’s comments
-Benefit of television
-President’s responses
-Public opinion
-Cambodia, Laos
-Agnew’s previous statements
-Effect of press reports
-Vietnam answer
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Military action
-Response
-Statistics
-William P. Rogers
-Response
-William H. Carruthers
-President’s makeup

[The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger between 8:07 am and 8:08 am]

[Conversation No. 462-2A]
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Kissinger’s location

Return call

President’s meeting with Haldeman

[End of telephone conversation] Conv. No. 462-2 (cont.)

The President’s schedule
-Staff meeting

President’s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Vietnamization answer
-Effectiveness
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-President’s position
-Carruthers’ view
-Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman’s view
-Cambodia answer
-Length
-Number of questions
-J. A. Haldeman’s view
-The President’s response to questions
-Length of responses
-Cambodia answer
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-President’s statement to television audience
-Future press conferences

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President’s schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:30 am

-Staff meeting
-Topics
-Haldeman’s senior staff meeting
-Quadriad meeting
-Haldeman’s senior staff meeting
-Shultz
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-John D. Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Clark MacGregor
-Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Effect on Haldeman’s schedule
Conv. No. 462-2 (cont.)
President’s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Calls by Cabinet officers
-James D. Hodgson
-Wives’ responses
-Rogers
-Women’s response
-Question on Rogers and Kissinger
-President’s response
-President’s view
-White House staff views

President’s press contacts
-”Today Show” appearance
-Barbara Walters
-Time slot
-Possible television special with Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-Walters
-Timing
-Possible meeting with women’s press
-William P. Clements, Jr.’s previous conversation with the President
-The President’s previous television appearance
-Mrs. Nixon
-Possible television special
-Role of women
-Format
-Walters
-Possible questions
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Rowland Evans
-Office press conferences
-Ziegler’s expectations
-Conversations
-President’s image
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President’s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Carruthers’ view
-Compared with December 8, 1970 press conference
-Pace
-Subjects
-Laos, Vietnam
-Public’s view of foreign affairs
-Disarmament Conv. No. 462-2 (cont.)
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-President’s knowledge
-Lucian C. (“Lou”) Warren’s question
-Follow-up questions
-Bombing
-President’s response
-Follow-up questions
-PRC
-Charles W. (“Chuck”) Bailey, II
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Carruthers’ view
-Public response
-Opinion on Laos
-Haldeman’s view
-Forthcoming administration poll
-Possible results
-Methodology

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:08 am and 8:30 am]

[Conversation No. 462-2B]

Administration poll results
-[Forename unknown] Andrews

[End of telephone conversation]

President’s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Calls to the President
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 53s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 Conv. No. 462-2 (cont.)

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Unknown man’s schedule

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Administration poll results
-Telephone calls
-Methodology
-President’s March 4, 1971 press conference
-Operation
-Results
-Percentage of households who viewed press conference
-President’s performance
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Compared with George H. Gallup poll

President’s schedule
-Possible television special on women
-Walters
-Nancy (Hanschman) Dickerson
-Type of interview needed

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:08 am and 8:30
am]

[Conversation No. 462-2C]

President’s schedule
-Kissinger
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[End of telephone conversation]

-Meeting with Rockefeller and Ehrlichman
-Revenue sharing
-Other participants
-Congressman
Conv. No. 462-2 (cont.)
Haldeman left at an unknown time before 8:30 am