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Conversation No. 714-2

Date: April 20, 1972
Time: 8:41 am - unknown before 9:38 am
Location: Oval Office

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

Weather
-Weekend

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Confirmation
-Time
-Duration
-Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:41 am.

-Meeting with Connally
-Arrangements
-Time
-Delay
-The President's briefing
-Haig
-Time
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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:42 am.

William P. Rogers
-Meeting with Haldeman and Haig
-Value
-Advantages
-Subjects
-Message from Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Yuli M. Vorontsov

Rose Mary Woods entered at 8:42 am.

Message for Henry A. Kissinger
-Preparation
-Copies
-Review
-Corrections

Woods left at 8:43 am.

Vietnam
-Rogers's meeting with Haldeman and Haig
-Message from Brezhnev
-Contents
-Form
-Vorontsov
-References to North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
-Negotiations
-Soviet involvement
-Meeting with Rogers
-Haig’s briefing
-Rogers’s reaction
-Course of negotiations
-Camp David meeting
-The President’s comments
-State Department
-The President’s trip to Canada
-Speech before Parliament
-Negotiations
-Rogers’s questions
-Tanks and troops
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-Secrecy
-Briefing of Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers’s assurances
-Herbert Brownell
-Kissinger

The President's meeting with Connally
-Connally's statement on resignation
-Arrangements
-Work with Haldeman


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-George P. Shultz

Haig
-Abilities
-Dealings with Rogers

Connally
-Date of resignation

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Day
-Wisconsin visit

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:43 am.

-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Rescheduling of appointment
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Bull left at an unknown time before 9:26 am.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Jack Gleason
-Edgar Gillenwaters's testimony
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.'s reaction
-Bayh's criticism of Gillenwaters
-Edwin Reinecke
-Gillenwaters's response
-Gillenwaters's reputation and credibility

Law enforcement
-John N. Mitchell
-Press coverage
-Television
-Washington Post
-Jerry V. Wilson
-Award
-Coverage
-Benefits

Press
-Washington Post and New York Times
-Articles on Gross National Product [GNP]
-Differences
-Comparison
-GNP increase
-Wire stories
-Inflation
-Networks
-Washington Post coverage
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Confrontation
-Press questions
-Compared with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Position after election
-Communications work
-Herbert G. Klein

White House staff
-Ziegler
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-New job
-Network job

Giovanni Battista Motini [Pope Paul VI]
-Message from the President
-Terence Cardinal Cook and John Cardinal Krol
-Papal nuncio
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Haig
-Cook
-Conversation with Flanigan
-Charles W. Colson
-Conversation with Krol

Press conference
-\"Three on one\" press conference
-Arrangements

Connally
-Announcement of resignation
-Scheduling

The President's schedule
-Public schedule
-Dissemination
-Nellie L. Yates
-Newspapers

Connally resignation
-Dissemination of announcement
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] reception
-Cabinet officers
-Celebrities
-Officers
-Presence

War protests
-Handling
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] and Department of Health, Education
and Welfare [HEW]
-Ehrlichman
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-Cuts in Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] subsidy
-Shultz
-Resistance

Higher education
-Cuts in budget
-Nuclear reactors
-Shultz
-Strategy

Demonstrators


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Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-University of Maryland table tennis appearance
-Problems
-Audiences at universities
-Golf games
-Tennis audiences
-Problems
-Tennis players
-Compared with golfers
-The President’s constituency
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

Haldeman's handling of Rogers
-Administration backing
-Connally
-Publicity
-Washington Post and New York Times
-Radio and television
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-Speech to newspaper editors

The President's schedule
-Trip to Moscow
-Press conference
-Time
-Television coverage
-Duration
-Advantages of short time
-Best times
-Moscow trip
-Visit to church
-Arrangements
-Kissinger

ITT case
-Senate investigation
-Gleason's testimony
-Contributions
-Questions
-Objections
-Roman L. Hruska
-Edward M. Kennedy
-James O. Eastland
-Bayh
-Statements on case
-Clark MacGregor
-Flanigan
-Testimony
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Favorable report
-Administration counterattack
-Colson
-Timing
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Committee hearings
-Termination
-Democrats' reaction
-Report to Senate
-Thursday
-Delays
-Advantages
-Ervin and Robert C. Byrd
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Haig

Vietnam
-New York Times
-Colson
-House debate
-Partisanship
-John C. Stennis and Samuel S. Stratton
-Democratic caucus
-Resolution
-Counterattack
-Condemnation of North Vietnam
-Barry M. Goldwater
-News summary
-Blame for invasion
-Cartoon
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Administration stance
-Rogers, Laird, Connally and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-The President’s memorandum for Kissinger
-Kissinger’s speeches for Vietnamese, People’s Republic of China [PRC] and
Soviet Union visits
-Soviets
-Involvement in negotiations
-Kissinger’s contacts with Brezhnev and Andrei A. Gromkyo
-Summit
-Kissinger’s visit
-Brezhnev
-Compared with Chou En-lai
-Kissinger
-Role in negotiations
-Limitations
-Historical consciousness
-Meeting with Brezhnev
-View of Cold War
-Harvard University
-Meeting with Brezhnev
-Chou En-lai
-Subjects of discussion
-Concerns
-Guidelines
-Summit
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-Dobrynin
-Vietnam settlement
-Soviets
-Relation of Vietnam to summit
-Kissinger’s meeting with Brezhnev
-Length of opening speech
-Vietnam
-Other topics
-Negotiations
-Kissinger
-Handling
-Rogers
-Contrast with Kissinger
-Limitations

World War II
-Unknown book
-Winston S. Churchill
-Age
-Work routine
-Cables
-Relaxation
-Style of leadership

Connally
-Comments on the President
-Danger of over reaction to critics
-Connally's actions
-The President's level of thinking
-Ability to generalize
-Contrast with Connally's performance as governor

News summary
-Lyndon K. (\"Mort\") Allin and Patrick J. Buchanan
-The President's perusal
-Delivery to Camp David
-Negative news

The President's schedule
-Periods of rest
-Periods of strenuous mental activity
-1960 and 1968 campaigns
-James E. Bassett
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-Herbert G. Klein
-Bassett
-1956
-News stories
-Concern over criticism
-ITT case
-Time and effort spent
-Impact

Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-News stories
-Value
-World report

Rose Mary Woods entered at 9:26 am.

A message to Kissinger
-Copies
-The President's revisions
-Text
-Dictating omission
-Kissinger's opening statement
-Length
-Delivery
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Confidentiality
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Transmission to Kissinger

Woods left at 9:27 am.

-Content
-Meeting with Brezhnev
-General theme
-Advice to Kissinger
-Vietnam
-Dobrynin
-Gromyko
-Contacts with Brezhnev
-Kissinger’s objectives in discussion
-General discussion
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:27 am.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:38 am.

Message to Kissinger
-Content
-Vietnam
-Instruction to Kissinger

Meeting with Connally
-Delay
-Explanation from Haldeman
-Vietnam message
-Air strikes

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:38 am.