334–7

Conversation No. 334-7

Date: April 25, 1972
Time: 4:28 pm - 4:55 pm
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Location: Executive Office Building

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

Ronald W. Reagan
-Reaction to briefing

Congress
-Briefing

Vietnam
-Bombing halt
-A study
-Tom C. Huston
-Haldeman' note from Kenneth L. Khachigian [?]
-North Vietnamese communications to Lyndon B.Johnson via
William Averell Harriman
-Analysis
-Publication of documents
-Harriman
-Timing
-Arrangements
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Documents
-Huston
-Official release
-Kissinger
-Publication
-Value of story

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming speech
-Networks
-Helicopter
-Time

Vietnam
-Hawks
-Reaction to Administration's policies
-Reasons
-Soviets
-Settlement
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-Revelations to press on Kissinger's trip
-Kissinger's briefing
-William P. Rogers


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The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Time
-Rogers
-Meeting with Republic of Korea Foreign Minister [Kim Yong-Shik]
-Troops in South Vietnam

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Speechwriter
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Abilities
-Contributions to text and tone
-Youth

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:35 pm.

The President's schedule
-Dinner for retiring congressmen

Butterfield left at 4:37 pm.

-Timing
-Value
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The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler between 4:43 and 4:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-7A]

[See Conversation No. 23-75]

[End of telephone conversation]

Press
-Reaction to Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Credibility
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Public reaction

Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Public reaction
-Katherine L. Graham
-Washington Post
-Letters to editor
-Press reaction
-Hostility

Press
-Administration's reactions

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Meeting with Gerard C. Smith and verification panel
-Press conference
-Foreign policy

Vietnam issue
-Congress
-Madame Nguyen Thi Binh's letter
-Robert J. Dole
-Effect on congressional elections
-The President’s defeat of Jerry Voorhis in 1946
-Congressional reaction

The President's dinner
-Col. Albert Shoepper
-Butterfield
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-Gerald R. Ford
-Carl B. Albert

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:37 and 4:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-7B]

The President's dinner
-Ford
-Albert
-Frank T. Bow

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Stephen B. Bull
-Barber

Shoepper

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:37 and 4:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 334-7C]

The President's dinner
-Preparations
-Bull
-Barber
-Appointment

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at 4:55 pm.