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Conversation No. 726-4
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-2 (cont.)

Date: May 19, 1972
Time: 11:45 am- 12:19 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President's schedule
-3 o'clock meeting
-Meeting with Robert C. Byrd
-Black lung bill
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Plans
-President's absence

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:46 am.

-Meeting with Shultz
-Morale
-Personnel
-Following John B. Connally’s policies
-Amount of time

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:46 am.

-Length of meeting
-Time
-Shultz
-Time
-Ehrlichman
-Time
-Shultz
-Time
-Ehrlichman
-Meeting on Capitol Hill
-Time
-Briefing books
-Number
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Shultz
-Meeting with President
-Time allotted
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-4 (cont.)

-Appointments

Soviet Summit
-Robert J. McCloskey call
-Briefing
-William P. Rogers
-Call
-Appearance at McCloskey's briefing
-Purpose
-President's press conference
-Time
-Rogers's briefing
-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-Talking points
-McCloskey
-Bilateral discussions
-Effect on President's press conference
-Purpose
-Kissinger briefing
-Austria
-Date
-Content
-President's press conference
-McCloskey call to Ziegler
-Rogers's call to Ziegler
-Ziegler's response
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Rogers's press briefing
-Ziegler's response
-President's press conference

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 11:46 am.

Kissinger
-Meeting with President
-Location

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 11:55 am.

Soviet Summit
-Rogers's press briefing
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-4 (cont.)

-Advantages
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Presence in Poland
-Rogers
-Visit to Vladimir Lenin's tomb
-Described
-Knowledge
-President's press conference
-Press coverage
-Rogers's press conference
-Press coverage

President's visits to George C. Wallace
-Press coverage

Rogers
-The President’s view

President's press conference
-Purpose

Kissinger
-Meeting with President
-Rogers
-Briefing in Austria

Soviet Summit
-Rogers
-Absence
-President's press conference
-Scope
-Briefings by Rogers, Peter G. Peterson, and Earl L. Butz
-Rogers
-Plenary sessions
-Meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
-The President’s view
-Vietnam blockade position
-Briefings
-Science

Kissinger
-Meeting with President
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-4 (cont.)

-An unknown woman
-Length of meeting

Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 11:46 am and 11:55 am.

[Conversation No. 726-4A]

Meeting with President
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

Soviet Summit
-McCloskey
-Rogers
-Call from Ziegler
-Press conference

Kissinger entered at 11:55 am.

-Calls from Rogers and McCloskey
-Reasons
-Kissinger briefing in Salzburg
-President's press conference
-Conflict with Rogers
-Rogers's press conference
-Reasons
-Marvin L. Kalb report
-Rebuttal
-State Department compared with the White House
-Rebuttal
-Rogers
-Position in National Security Council [NSC]
-Talk with Connally
-President's press conference
-The President’s decision
-Relation to Rogers's press briefing
-Time
-Possible attendees
-Rogers
-Staff members
-Purpose
-Attendees
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-4 (cont.)

-Rogers
-Kissinger
-White House staff
-Kissinger
-William L. Safire
-Herbert G. Klein
-Press office staff

Ziegler
-Call to Rogers
-President's press conference

Kissinger
-Background briefing in Salzburg

President's attitude
-Priorities
-Conflicts

Ziegler left at 11:58 am.

Vietnam
-Spiro T. Agnew's comments
-Target limitations
-President's response
-Air strikes
-Limits
-Melvin R. Laird
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Abrams
-Future as Chief of Staff
-Reasons
-President's orders
-Kissinger’s view
-Psychological campaign
-Laird's amendments
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Laird-Abrams telephone call
-President's orders
-Air Force comments to Agnew
-Call to Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.
-President's response to Air Force's work
-Rush
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-4 (cont.)

-Possible call from Haldeman concerning Laird
-Soviet trip

Kissinger's schedule
-A meeting
-Postponement
-Meeting on Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

Adm. Thomad H. Moorer

SALT
-Described
-Conditions
-Gerard C. Smith
-Hawks' position
-Soviet demand
-Weapons freeze

Ehrlichman entered at 12:00 pm.

Vietnam
-Air action
-President's orders
-Complaints to Agnew
-Agnew's position
-Additional action in North Vietnam
-Propaganda
-Failure
-Richard M. Helms
-Replacement
-The President’s view

Ziegler entered at 12:01 pm.

Soviet Summit
-Rogers
-An announcement
-President's press conference
-Clark M. Clifford
-Rogers's press briefing

President's schedule
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-4 (cont.)

-Meetings with Ehrlichman and Shultz

Soviet Summit
-Ziegler's statement to Rogers
-Plans
-President's press conference
-Rogers's press conference
-Plans
-Statements
-President's press conference
-Time
-Rogers's press conference
-Call from Haldeman
-Problems
-Problems
-Vietnam
-Impression
-President's press conference
-Handling
-Roger's press conference
-Impression
-Haldeman call
-Ziegler call
-Time
-Soviet Summit

Ziegler left at 12:04 pm.

Vietnam
-Psychological warfare
-Delay
-Duration
-Timing
-Soviet Summit
-Leaflets
-Hanoi
-Other forms of propaganda
-Past performance
-Kissinger's understanding
-Air strikes
-Agnew's report on Abrams
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-4 (cont.)

President's schedule
-Briefing books
-Last book
-Locations
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Authority

Vietnam
-Psychological warfare
-Leaflet drops
-Locations
-News story
-Rebuttal

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 12:05 pm.

Black lung legislation
-President's signing
-Cost
-Administrative concerns
-Robert C. Byrd's suggestion
-President's veto
-Political damage
-Arch A. Moore
-Pennsylvania
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Congress
-Override
-Byrd
-Senate and House support
- of bill
-Support for President
-Effect on President's reelection chances
-Meeting with President
-Time
-News story
-Date of release
-Moore
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-4 (cont.)

-Moore
-President's veto
-Call from Ehrlichman
-Byrd

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] report
-Wallace shooting
-Arthur H. Bremer
-The President’s view
-Political affiliations
-Wallace support
-Diary
-Transcription for President
-Mental state
-Wallace, McGovern
-Motives
-Publicity
-Money
-Political affiliation
-Wallace, McGovern

Wallace
-Meeting with President
-Physical condition
-Morale
-President's visit
-Physical condition
-Analysis
-Effect on Wallace

Busing
-Ehrlichman's briefing
-Constitutional amendment
-The President’s memeorandum
-Congressional conference report
-Congressional action
-Time
-President response
-Legislation
-Time
-Richard M. Scammon's surveys
-Domestic Council
-Edwin L. Harper, Raymond K. Price, Jr., Leonard Garment
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-4 (cont.)

-The President’s view
-Political sensitivities
-President's position
-Freedom of choices
-Use of term
-Housing, schools
-Connotations
-Dual school system
-Ehrlichman's trip to Michigan
-Quote on President's position


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-Conference report
-New York Times support
-President's veto
-The President’s view

Welfare reform
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Memorandum to President
-Compromise with Abraham A. Ribicoff
-President's orders
-Ehrlichman's memorandum to Richardson and James D. Hodgson

Rebuttal memorandum
-President's initials
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-4 (cont.)

Budget
-President's position
-House Resolution [HR]1
-Ehrlichman memorandum
-President's signature
-Effect

Shultz
-Confirmation
-Timing with Richard G. Kleindienst's confirmation
-Reason
-Order of confirmation
-Clark MacGregor

Kleindienst
-Confirmation
-Timing
-Swearing-in
-Notary public clerk
-Shultz
-President's role

Shultz
-President's view
-Swearing-in
-President's role

Revenue sharing
-Bill in House of Representatives
-Celebration
-Connally, Ehrlichman's position
-Statement

Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-Caspar W. Weinberger plan
-Political considerations
-Funds cutoff
-Contracts with agencies
-Termination
-Method
-Rationalization
-Method
-Possible complaints
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(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 726-4 (cont.)

-Vietnam

Gun control
-Effect of Wallace shooting
-Need for action
-\"Saturday night specials\"
-Bremer
-Gun control laws in Maryland
-Laws
-Impact on citizen
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Impact on criminals
-Senate bills
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr. Roman L. Hruska
-Administration’s position
-Press office
-Ehrlichman speech
-Philadelphia
-Impact on citizen
-Administration position
-Press coverage

Soviet trip
-Ehrlichman's best wishes
-Meeting with Ehrlichman

Ehrlichman left at 12:19 pm.