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Conversation No. 333-8

Date: April 26, 1972
Time: Unknown after 10:29 am - 11:36 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered and Sanchez left at 10:30 am.

The President’s forthcoming speech
-The President's suits
-Color
-Selection by Mark I. Goode
-Style
-Color
-Importance
-Television reception
-Goode
-William H. Carruthers
-Selection
-Ties

Vietnam
-Soviets
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Henry A. Kissinger

Soviet Union
-The President's trip
-Selection of reporters
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-Administration's supporters
-Haldeman's task

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:30 and 10:44 am.
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[Conversation No. 333-8A]

Russell A. Kirk
-New book for the President
-Florida

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Bombing halt
-Implementation
-Kissinger's opinion
-May 2, 1972 meeting
-Preparations
-William Averell Harriman to Cyrus R. Vance cable
-Understandings with North Vietnam
-Artillery
- Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Attacks on cities
-Bombing halt
-Condition
-Use in speech by Kissinger
-Bombing halt
-Conditions
-North Vietnamese position
-US reply
-Verbal agreements
-Lyndon B. Johnson's queries
-Soviet cable
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Resumption
-Harriman's cable
-Disclosure
-Soviets
-Philippines
-Johnson
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Resistance to halt
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Anna C. Chennault
-Tactics
-Negotiations
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-National Liberation Front [NLF]
-Ky plot
-Cable traffic
-Narrative
-Tom C. Huston
-Harriman's cable
-Bombing halt
-North Vietnamese agreement
-Xuan Thuy
-Huston

Reception for Congressmen
-Col. Albert Shoepper
-Certificate
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Impressions of Congressmen at dinner
-Clark MacGregor
-The President's remarks

The President's forthcoming speech
-Responsibilities
-Winston Lord and John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Liberals
-Remarks about demonstrators
-United Nations [UN]
-Changes
-Personal terms
-Kissinger

Reception for Congressmen
-John Sherman Cooper
-William M. Colmer
-Cooper's joke
-MacGregor
-Army Chorus
-Unknown baritone
-The Road to Mandalay
-Modern music
-Type of music
-Audience reaction
-PRC trip
-America the Beautiful
-Turkey in the Straw
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-Nostalgia
-Performance
-Marine Band
-Performances
-Gridiron
-The President’s schedule
-The President’s knowledge of guests
-George H. Mahon
Texas Tech University Red Raiders
-Press coverage
-Neglect
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein

The President's career
-Memory of places visited
-Amarillo, Texas

Reception for Congressmen
-Effect

The Presidency
-Credibility
-Vietnam War
-Impact
-Speech
-Andrews's and Lord's draft
-Passage
-PRC and Moscow trips
-Wording
-First person singular
-UN
-“Silent Majority”

The President's speeches
-Cambodia [April 30, 1970]
-Effectiveness
-Kent State University
-Winston S. Churchill
-Statement on British Empire
-Andrews's draft
-Changes
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
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-Speechwriters
-Deficiencies
-Use of first person singular
-April 26, 1972 speech
-Changes
-Presidential election
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Texas
-Length
-Review with Kissinger
-Troop announcement
-Stories in press
-Peace talks

Kissinger's Moscow trip
-Press reports
-News summary
-Thomas E. Jarriel
-Summit
-Errors
-Misstatements to press
-Ziegler

Kissinger
-Trip to Moscow
-Television coverage
-Washington Post editorial
-Kissinger's conversation with Katharine L. Graham

Vietnam
-The President's speeches and policies
-Washington Post criticism
-Vietnamization
-Johnson
-Offensive
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams
-Briefing policy
-John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Refugees
-Press reports
-John A. Scali
-Press
-Battle stories
-Reports on perspective
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-Refugees
-South Vietnam
-Population centers
-Control
-Reports on Kissinger trip
-Time cover
-Washington Post
-Life cover
-Time cover
-Washington Post
-Kissinger and John B. Connally

Haldeman's schedule
-The President's speech
-Follow-up work
-The President's trip
-Kissinger’s trip
-Charles W Colson

Press
-Madam Nguyen Tri Binh letter
-Publicity
-Barry M. Goldwater's speech
-Colson follow-up
-Circulation

The President’s forthcoming speech
-Publicity
-Reasons
-Vogt
-Follow-up
-Attacks on \"Dove Democrats\"
-The President's memorandum for Patrick J. Buchanan
-George H. W. Bush
-Haldeman's role
-Florida trip
-Arrangements

Stock market
-Colson's analysis
-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.
-Vietnam
-Grayson
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-Prices
-Correction
-Articles
-Biases of writers
-Jewish left-wing
-Economic indicators

Frank T. Bow
-Appointment as ambassador to Panama
-Qualifications
-Canal treaty
-[Robert M. Sayre?]
-Conversation with Peter M. Flanigan
-William P. Rogers

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Public relations
-White House staff
-Television commentators
-Vietnam

Manolo Sanchez entered and left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.

Refreshments

-Scali
-Colson's staff
-Thomas C. Korologos
-Kenneth Khachigian
-Buchanan
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Washington Post
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-Scali
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-Volunteers
-Letter writing operation
-Unknown female staff member
-Distribution
-Forthcoming speech
-Calls

Vietnam
-US troop withdrawals
-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
-Left wing critics
-Problems
-Kissinger's trip

Press
-Ziegler
-Contacts with reporters
-Fears of the President's policies
-Kissinger
-Trip
-Handling of foreign policy
-Soviets
-Hanoi
-Public opinion
-Role of press

The President’s schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman [?]

The President's speech
-Draft
-Kissinger
-Completion
-The President's review

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Herbert F. De Simone
-Photograph opportunity
-Meeting with Korean Foreign Minister Kim Yong-Sik
-Time
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Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:30 and 11:22 am.

[Conversation No. 333-8B]

-Scheduling
-Preparations
-Location
-Time

[End of telephone conversation]

-Photograph opportunity

Vietnam
-The President's opponents
-Effectiveness
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-Demonstrations
-University of California at Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Haldeman's conversation with son, Harry
-Size
-Problems
-Reaction
-Defacement of library building
-Property damage
-Damage to antiwar movement
-John F. Osborne

Instruction for Haldeman

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:22 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Kim Yong-sik
-Time
-Kissinger
-Length
-Change in time
-Kissinger

Butterfield left at 11:23 am.

-Meeting with foreign ministers
-Rogers
-Meeting with De Simone
-Time
-Speech draft
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-Place

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:23 and 11:36 am.

[Conversation No. 333-8C]

The President's schedule
-Meeting with De Simone
-Photograph opportunity
-Time
-Place

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-The President's policies
-Briefings
-Vogt
-Scali
-White House staff
-Refugees
-North Vietnamese attacks
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news report
-An Loc
-Highway 13
-Return to Quang Tri
-Battlefield reports
-National Security Study Memorandum [NSSM]
-Vietnamization
-Cable from Harriman
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Haldeman left at 11:36 am.