717–19

Conversation No. 717-19

Date: May 2, 1972
Time: 12:08-12:42 pm
Location: Oval Office
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The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President's schedule
-President's meeting with Richard A. Moore and Richard G. Kleindienst
-Preparations
-Recommendations

J. Edgar Hoover's funeral
-Arrangements
-Law enforcement officials
-Television coverage
-Setting
-Arlington National Cemetery
-Church
-President's eulogy
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Setting
-President's presence
-The Kennedy family
-John Foster Dulles
-Outside
-Weather
-Television problems
-Crowds
-Arlington National Cemetery
-Beauty
-Ceremony
-Police chiefs
-Guard of honor
-Airplanes

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s meeting with Melvin R. Laird
-Expectations
-President’s meeting with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-North Vietnamese demands
-Overthrow of Nguyen Van Thieu
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-Kissinger’s record
-The President’s view
-Haig’s view
-Dealings with North Vietnam
-Raising hopes of the public
-President's position
-Demands
-Ceasefire
-Coalition government
-President's response
-American public opinion
-South Vietnamese morale
-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Kissinger's response
-Possible postponement by the President
-Conditioner
-US options
-Possible public reaction
-Soviet trip
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-Soviet Summit
-Kissinger
-Haig
-President's critics
-Public support
-Postponement
-Conditions
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] response
-Negotiations
-North Vietnamese demands
-Thieu
-US response
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US air strikes
-Hanoi-Haiphong area
-Impact on negotiations

Soviets
-Kissinger's visit
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-Gains
-Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]
-Haig
-Announcement
-Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Gerard C. Smith
-Public appeal
-Ziegler

Vietnam
-US policy
-Press reports
-Divisions within the Administration
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Role of the press
-John A. Scali
-Statements on President's role

Press
-Criticism
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Location
-Secrecy issue
-New York Times
-Pulitzer Prize
-Clark MacGregor

Vietnam
-Public relations efforts
-Congress
-Haiphong strikes
-Public relations efforts
-Press
-Critics
-Visibility
-Democratic caucus
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Hoover
-Eulogy by the President
-Length
-Criticism
-Previous replacement efforts
-The President’s view

Stock market

Economy
-General situation
-Wholesale Price Index [WPI]
-Unemployment
-Prices
-Employment

Vietnam
-Soviet Summit
-Impact of North Vietnamese offensive
-Public relations problems
-Toasting of Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Signing of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Polling of public response
-Relation to North Vietnamese offensive
-President's cancellation of Summit
-Statement
-Wording
-Public opinion
-Conditions for Summit
-Poll
-Question
-Relation to Summit
-North Vietnamese offensive
-State at time of President's trip
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Populated areas
-US morale
-Public relations efforts
-Charles W. Colson
-Release of poll results
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Hoover
-Funeral at Arlington National Cemetary
-Qualifications
-Amphitheater
-Seating
-Haldeman’s view
-Marine Band
-Music scores
-John Foster Dulles
-Military services
-Funeral
-Military funeral
-President's waiver
-Location
-Arlington National Cemetery
-Demonstrators
-Crowd control
-President's announcement
-Kleindienst
-Death
-Announcement

President's radio speech
-Subjects

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:08 pm.

President's meeting with Haig

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:42 pm.

Radio speech by President
-Price
-Timing
-Tenor of speech
-Timing
-Moscow trip

President's schedule
-Trips
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-Ehrlichman
-Naval Academy visit
-Trip to Texas
-Dallas
-John B. Connally ranch
-Press focus
-Television coverage
-Size of crowd
-Meeting with press
-Naval Academy visit
-Ehrlichman’s view

Public relations
-Vietnam issue
-Ehrlichamn’s and Colson’s view
-Headlines
-Meeting with Connally
-Hoover
-Unemployment
-President's moves
-Food prices
-President's identification
-Visit to supermarket
-Colson
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Unemployment
-Visit to jobless line in Buffalo, New York
-President's efforts
-Personal identification
-Vietnam

Haldeman left at 12:42 pm.