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Conversation No. 701-3
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Date: April 4, 1972
Time: 9:44 am - 10:08 am
Location: Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Meetings
-John B. Connally
-Russell A. Kirk
-Concentration on foreign policy
-Kirk
-Connally
-John N. Mitchell
-Delays
-Arthur F. Burns
-Length
-Purpose
-Connally
-Possible call
-Topics
-Arrangements
-The President's speech

Education
-The President's speech to the National Catholic Education Association [NCEA]
-Draft
-Haldeman’s opinion
-Revisions
-Parochial schools
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Inadequacies
-Revisions
-Parochial schools
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Charles W. Colson
-Domestic Council
-Opposition to aid to non-public schools
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Convention in Philadelphia
-Dr. Sidney P. Marland's, Jr. speech
-Reception
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-Reasons
-Enthusiasm towards administration
-The President's appearance
-Connally's view
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-The President's speech
-Price
-Article for U.S. News & World Report
-Revisions
-Buchanan's and Colson’s work on rhetoric
-Connally's advice
-Politeness

Vietnam
-Public relations situation
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Confusion
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Previous meeting with the President
-Kissinger
-Current work
-North Vietnamese offensive
-New York Times editorial
-Characterization of offensive
-Compared with Laos and Cambodia operations
-Criticism of press
-Crossing of Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Counter strategy
-B-52s
-Problems
-Unknown South Vietnamese General
-US military’s tendency
-Orderly Retreat
-Psychological impact


Ambassadors
-Assignments
-Confirmation
-Frederic V. Malek
-President’s instructions
-Unknown person
-Meeting with Richard S. Ingersoll
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Vietnam
-Public relations
-Laos operation in 1971
-Kissinger's handling
-Haldeman’s view
-Weather
-Pictures
-Refugees
-Ziegler’s question
-US bombing
-State Department handling of diplomats
-North Vietnamese violations
-DMZ, Geneva Accords, 1968 bombing halt
-News coverage
-Clarity
-Muskie
-Attacks on statements
-John G. Tower
-Charge of defeatism
-Media involvement with story
-Haldeman's control of public relations efforts
-Concern for GIs and Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Protection of Americans
-Number
-News summary
-Withdrawal program

Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew’s schedule

Voice of America
-Bruce Herschensohn
-Malek
-[US Information Agency]
-Resignation


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Big business
-Contributions to Democrats
-The President’s instructions
-Colson
-August A. Busch, Jr. [?]
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968
-Analysis

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Johnson administration
-Antitrust record
-Haldeman’s reaction

Administration
-TV coverage
-Reports of crisis in White House
-Ziegler and John A. Scali
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Thomas E. Jarriell
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Ziegler
-Unknown reporter
-Robert Pierpoint
-Counterattack
-Haldeman’s upcoming conversation with Ziegler
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting
-Kissinger

Vietnam
-News reports
-White House handling
-Buchanan
-Richard A. Moore

1972 campaign
-Contributions
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-Maurice H. Stans
-The President's campaign
-Disclosure
-John W. Gardner demands
-Other candidates
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-George C. Wallace
-Shirley Chisholm
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Lists of donors before April 7
-The President's campaign
-Stans's position
-Jackson
-Refusal to disclose

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:44 am.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

1972 campaign
-Contributions
-The President's campaign
-Stans's position
-Primary efforts
-Wisconsin
-Television
-Problems
-Amount of money
-Reports to federal government
-Stans's position
-Full reports
-Compliance with law
-Sums of money
-Importance
-Amounts
-Disclosure
-Problems
-Alternatives to reporting
-Limits to disclosure
-Reports
-Problems
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-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:06 am.


Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Numbers
-Kissinger's conversation with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer

Haldeman left At 10:06 am.

-Target areas
-Moorer’s statement
-Damage
Tanks and bridges
-Effectiveness
-Public relations efforts
-Ziegler
-Scali
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Daniel Z. Henkin

Kissinger left at 10:08 am.