477–7

Conversation No. 477-7

Date: April 12, 1971
Time: 12:53 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Easter egg roll
-Crowd size
-Children
-Participation
-Tourists
-Previous year
-Weather
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William P. Rogers
-Schedule
-Costa Rica trip
-Meeting with President
-Vietnam
-Charles W. Yost
-Points
-President’s meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors
Conv.[ASNE],
No. 477-6
April
(cont.)
16,
1971
-Possible statement
-Schedule
-Vietnam
-Possible testimony in public session
-Yost
-Effect
-Vietnam
-Schedule
-Meeting with President

President’s schedule
-Meeting with Victor Lasky
-Taping of interview
-Difficulties
-Patricia (Pratt) Lasky
-Notes

Rogers
-Statement on Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule
-Yost
-Effect on Rogers
-Schedule
-Possible statement
-Yost
-Statement
-Letter of 1969
-State Department
-Rogers
-Possible reply by President
-Letters
-Foreign Service
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Anna C. Chennault
-Role
-Robert J. Dole
-Title
-Level in government
-Title

Easter egg roll Conv. No. 477-7 (cont.)
-Number of children
-Band

President’s meeting with ASNE, April 16, 1971
-Press conference
-Schedule
-Television
-Press
-John A. Scali
-Radio
-Advantages
-Television cameras
President’s schedule
-Lasky meeting
-Duration
-Specific questions
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Recent visit to Southeast Asia
-Vietnam
-Possible visit to Southeast Asia
-Kissinger
-John D. Rockefeller, III
-John J. McCloy
-Kissinger
-Possible meeting with President
-New members
-Report
-Composition
-Frank C. Carlucci
-Name
-James D. Hodgson
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-Press
-Surnames
-Radio talks
-Plan
-Scheduling
-Duration
-Staff support
-Subject focus Conv. No. 477-7 (cont.)
-Groups
-Possible topics
-Work and leisure
-Growth of America
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Reform movement
-Fatherhood
-Arts
-Bicentennial
-”Radio fireside chat”
-Timing
-Competition
-Advantages

Polls
-Thomas W. Benham
-President’s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Reaction
-Approval/disapproval rate
-Shifts
-Laos
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Attitude changes
-Importance of seeing President on television
-Attitude of viewers
-Approval of President’s performance
-President’s handling of Vietnam
-Approval
-Gains
-Reaction of non-viewers/viewers
-Importance of television
-President’s credibility
-Rating
-Public attitude on Vietnam
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-Higher rate of approval
-Two hypotheses
-Explanation
-J. Edgar Hoover poll
-Retirement
-Telephone study
-Approval rating
-Partisan vote Conv. No. 477-7 (cont.)
-Calley case
-Public attitudes on Vietnam
-Advantages for President
-President’s television speech on Vietnam
-Viewers’ reaction
-Advantages
-Interpretation of results
-Negative impressions
-Media

Staff
-Response to news summaries preparations
-Newsweek letters
-Vietnam veterans
-Department of Defense
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Letter to Life
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Charles W. Colson
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-News summaries
-Advantages
-Editorials
-Letters
-Loyalty
-Herbert G. Klein
-Colson
-Klein
-Activities
-Colson
-Klein
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch
-Clark MacGregor
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-Leonard Garment
-Background
-Civil rights
-Liberals
-Pressure
-Mail
-Vietnam
-Economy Conv. No. 477-7 (cont.)

Vietnam
-Laos
-News
-Casualties
-Reduction
-Laos
-President’s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Timing
-Congressional reaction
-Polls
-Results
-New York Times
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-McCloskey
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Views on pacification
-Schedule
-Fact-finding trip
-Views
-Crediblity
-Withdrawal
-Yost
-Cabinet
-Impact
-News report
-Unknown administration official
-Leaks

Bureaucrats
-Partisan nature
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President’s schedule
-Saint John’s Episcopal Church, April 9, 1971
-Phil Watts
-Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
-Announcement
-News story
-Easter Sunday
-Demonstrations Conv. No. 477-7 (cont.)
-John N. Mitchell


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Staff
-Mitchell
-Schedule
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Businessmen
-Stans
-Dole

Easter egg roll
-Weather

Haldeman left at 2:00 pm
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