246–26

Conversation No. 246-26

Date: April 7, 1971
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Conv. No. 246-24 (cont.)
Melvin R. Laird
-Haldeman’s conversation with William E. Timmons
-Clark MacGregor

President’s schedule
-Allen J. Ellender
-Views
-Russell B. Long
-Big Six
-George H. Mahon
-President Pro Tempore

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:42 pm]

[Conversation No. 246-26A]

President’s schedule
-Ellender
-Instructions for Timmons

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Press briefing
-Henry A. Kissinger, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Cabinet
-William P. Rogers
-Elliot L. Richardson

White House staff
-Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
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Congress
-President’s supporters
-Schedule

Cabinet
-Evaluated
-John B. Connally
-Maurice H. Stans Conv. No. 246-26 (cont.)
-George P. Shultz
-George W. Romney, James D. Hodgson
-John N. Mitchell
-Rogers, Laird, Richardson
-Rogers
-Calls to Haldeman

Business community
-Kissinger’s views
-Calls to President

President’s schedule
-Telephone calls after speech

White House staff
-Loyalty
-William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Cabinet
-Evaluated
-Mitchell, Connally, Richardson
-Rogers

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Tenure in office
-Possible future
-Television
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope

Cable television
-President’s policy
-Hope
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-Richard A. Moore
-Wife

Vice Presidency
-Connally
-Agnew
-Possible resignation
Conv. No. 246-26 (cont.)
[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:42
pm]

[Conversation No. 246-26B]

Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

John W. Dean, III

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and
4:42 pm]

[Conversation No. 246-26C]

Call to Dean

[End of telephone conversation]

Vice Presidency
-Filling vacancies
-Congress
-Connally

[The President talked with Dean between 4:42 pm and 4:44 pm]

[Conversation No. 246-26D]

Constitutional Amendment on Presidential succession
-Status
-President’s daughters
-Vice Presidency
-Congress
-President’s suggestions
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[End of telephone conversation]

Dean

Vice Presidency
-Agnew
-Possible resignation
-Supreme Court Conv. No. 246-26 (cont.)
-Activities
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra, Hope
-Possible resignation
-Future
-Richardson

J. Edgar Hoover
-Tenure in office
-Agnew’s possible resignation

Opposition to administration
-President
-Agnew
-Polls
-Dwight D. Eisenhower and the President
-Adlai E. Stevenson, II

Agnew
-Approval by President
-Possible second term
-President’s possible death
-Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Possible removal
-Connally

Connally’s schedule
-”Meet the Press”
-Rogers
-Herbert G. Klein
-Hugh Scott
-Head of Blue Cross
-George S. McGovern
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National economy
-Stock market
-Connally

[Dean talked with the President between 4:51 pm and 4:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 246-26E]
Conv. No. 246-26 (cont.)
Vice Presidential succession

[End of telephone conversation]

Vice Presidency
-Congress
-Succession Amendment
-Possible consequences
-Agnew
-Possible resignation
-Timing
-Summit
-Reasons
-Bryce N. Harlow’s possible role


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Vietnam
-Polls
-Results
-President’s expectations
-Timing
-George H. Gallup
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-Laos
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Wording of questions

President’s schedule
-Phone calls after forthcoming speech
-Women’s briefing, April 8, 1971
-Location Conv. No. 246-26 (cont.)
-Council on International Economic Policy
-Peter G. Peterson

President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Close
-Commentators’ possible reaction
-Support

Haldeman left at 5:05 pm