490–7

Conversation No. 490-7

Date: April 29, 1971
Time: 12:53 pm - 1:17 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vietnam negotiations
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Dr. David K.E. Bruce
-US proposals
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-South Vietnamese proposals
-President’s forthcoming press conference
-Wording
-US proposal
-Possible questions
-North Vietnamese statements
-Madame Nguyen Thi Binh
-Ceasefire
-President’s comments
-POWs
-North Vietnamese proposal
-Wire service reports
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-North Vietnamese position
-Conditions
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-Press view
-Madame Binh
-US withdrawal
-Extent
-Timing
-North Vietnamese proposals
-Press
-Possible US response
-POWs
-Philip C. Habib’s view

Haldeman entered at 1:00 pm.

-Madame Binh
-Wire service reports
-Xuan Thuy
-US withdrawal
-Wording
-Possible US position
-Possible questions at press conference

Haldeman's conversation with William P. Rogers
-Rogers’ statement on People’s Republic of Chin [PRC]
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Associated Press [AP]
-Inaccuracy of comments
-State Department
-William B. Saxbe
-John N. Irwin, II
-Charles W. Bray, III

PRC
-US policy statements
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] meeting, April 16, 1971
-President's upcoming press conference, April 29, 1971
-Rogers’ statement
-Wording
-President’s view
-President's possible press statements
-US strategy
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
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-Haig’s forthcoming telephone call to Dobrynin
-Rogers’ previous comments
-Haig’s clarification
-President's upcoming press conference
-US policy
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Wire service reports
-President’s upcoming press conference Conv. No. 490-7 (cont.)
-President’s responses to possible questions
-US policy
-Haig's possible initiatives

Vietnamese negotiations
-North Vietnamese proposals
-US withdrawal
-Press

Haig left at 1:06 pm.

[Transcript #1: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

President's schedule
-Visit to California
-[Howell Conant]
-Formal portrait
-Compared to Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Details

President's television appearances
-Mark I. Goode
-Role
-Content
-William H. Carruthers
-Memorandum
-Concerns
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
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-James Francis (“Jimmy”) Durante
-White House staff
-Role of television
-Atkins
-Portrait
-Camera
-Technique
-Substance Conv. No. 490-7 (cont.)
-Delivery
-Funds (“Checkers”) speech
-Ted Rogers
-Importance of substance
-Make-up
-Set
-1960 debates
-Production
-Lighting
-President’s appearance
-President's suit
-Ted Rogers
-Carruthers

William P. Rogers
-Trip
-Turkey
-Previous conversation with Haldeman
-Statement on PRC
-Trip
-Turkey
-Statement on PRC
-Press


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Oval Office windows
-Spring
-Open
-Curtains
Conv. No. 490-7 (cont.)
Charles W. Colson
-Schedule

[Transcript #2: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

The President and Haldeman left at 1:17 pm.