Date: March 29, 1973

Time: 10:50 am

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Henry A. Kissinger.

President’s address

-Announcement

-Release of prisoners of war [POWs]

-Foreign policy and domestic issues

-Briefing of press by George P. Shultz

-Press reaction

-Ziegler’s comments

Ronald Ziegler left at 10:55 am.

House Foreign Affairs Committee

-Meeting with Kissinger

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-Cambodia bombing

-Questions for Kissinger

-Donald M. Fraser [?]

-War powers

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-Kissinger’s answers

-Authority

-Peace agreement

-Article 20

-North Vietnam

-Aid

-H. Ross Perot’s position

-Cambodia

-Questions

-President’s opponents

-Charles C. Diggs

-Fraser

-Jonathan B. Bingham

President’s address

-Text of speech

-US troop withdrawal

-Peace agreement

-Missing in action [MIA]

-Laos, Cambodia

-Infiltration

-Compliance

-North Vietnam

Laos

-Bombing

President’s address

-Support for President

Watergate

-Impact on administration

-John N. Mitchell

-Loyalty

-Martha (Bealle) Mitchell [?]

-Involvement with break-in [?]

-Culpability

-Incarceration

-President’s speech

-Public acceptance

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-President’s response

-Morality [?]

-Comparison with divorces

-Divorce lawyers

-Kissinger’s recommendation

-Removal of John W. Dean, III [?]

-Dean

-Involvement with break-in

-Role in defense of burglars

-Role as lawyer

-White House Counsel

-Access to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] reports

-Inappropriateness [?]

-Bugging

-Daniel Ellsburg break-in [?]

-National security justification

-Public reactions

-President’s speech

-President’s stature

-Lyndon B. Johnson scandals

-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker

-Walter Jenkins

-1964 election

-Margin of victory

-Press exaggeration

-Comparison with Truman and Johnson cases

– Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]

-Lack of control

-President’s responsibilities

-May 8, 1972 decision

-1972 Moscow summit

-Lack of contact with Mitchell

-Break-in

-Intentions

-Results

-Dean’s involvement

-Handling of investigation [?]

Vietnam settlement

-Cambodia bombing

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-Congressional reaction

-President’s powers

-Cut off of funding

-Survival of Cambodia

-Blaming Congress

-Unlikelihood

-Negotiations

-Trip by Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-President’s opponents

-Bureaucracy

-India-Pakistan War of 1971

-US withdrawal

-Peace with honor

-Bugging out

-George S. McGovern

-Duration

-1974 election

Soviet Union

-Supplies to North Vietnam

-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s veracity

-Future summit

-Timms

-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War

-New version

-Kissinger’s talk with President

-Infiltration from North Vietnam

-Cessation

People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Visit by Kissinger

-Visit by Chou En-Lai

-Arrangements

-Visit by President

France

-Meeting with President

-Montenegro

-President’s knowledge of geography

-Martinique

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-Caribbean Sea

Joint statement with Great Britain

-State visit by [Elizabeth, Queen of England] Elizabeth II

-Discussion with Edward M. Heath

-1976 Bicentennial

-Protocol

-Ceremony

President’s schedule

-Meetings with Great Britain, France

-International economic policy

-Charter

-Atlantic countries

-Japan

-Possible progress

Cambodia

-Support for President

-House Foreign Affairs Committee

-Compared with Vietnam negotiations

Kissinger left at 11:10 am.