705–18

Conversation No. 705-18

Date: April 10, 1972
Time: 4:46 pm - 5:01 pm
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Location: Oval Office

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

Henry A. Kissinger

Food prices

Vietnam
-US policies
-Domestic politics
-Possible demonstrations
-Staff meeting
-The President’s instructions to Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Article in New York Times by Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-White House contact
-Identity
-1972 election
-Peace efforts
-William J. Porter statement
-Negotiations
-Outcome
-Press hostility
-Press
-Hostility to the President
-Reasons
-Foreign policy
-Press
-John F. Osborne and Hugh S. Sidey
-Opposition
-Cambodia, Laos and demonstrations
-Criticism
-Support on People's Republic of China [PRC] matter

The President's schedule
-Meetings with Cabinet members
-Herbert Stein
-George P. Shultz
-Free time
-Mornings
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-Afternoons

White House staff
-Cambodia and Laos
-Stakes in Vietnam

Vietnam
-Press
-Areas of support for policies
-Stakes in war
-US defeat
-Aggression
-US casualties
-Memorandum

Domestic issues
-National Alliance of Businessmen [NAB] reception
-Value
-NAB programs
-Minority hiring
-Costs
-Concept of volunteerism
-Haldeman’s view
-National Center for Voluntary Action
-Local and national levels
-Great Society programs
-Legal aid
-Lawyers
-Government interference
-Radicals
-Costs
-Impact

Jews
-Kissinger's parents
-Number in world
-Percentage in New York City
-Other minorities
-Number
-Political influence
-Compared with Indonesians, Indians, Americans, Soviets, Japanese and
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Germans

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:46 pm.

The President's schedule
-NAB reception

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:59 pm.

Jews
-Ultraliberalism
-Adolph Hitler
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Republicanism
-Influence before 1932
-Economic status
-Private enterprise
-Blacks
-Democratic loyalties
-Kissinger

Foreign policy
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Tactical issues
-Crisis handling
-Jordan
-India
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Vietnam
-Policy advice
-PRC initiative
-Soviets

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:59 pm.

The President's schedule

Butterfield left at 5:00 pm.
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Unknown persons [Jews?]
-Actions

The President’s schedule

The President and Haldeman left at 5:01 pm.