Date: March 30, 1973

Time: 8:42 am-8:50 am

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See also Conversation No. 890-3]

President’s March 29 speech

-President’s talk with Rose Mary Woods

-Buchanan’s schedule

-Russian art exhibit

-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan

-Preparation by President

-Vietnam

-Demonstrations

-Troop withdrawal

-Ending

-Divisiveness

-President’s opponents

-Budget

-Prisoners of war [POWs]

-Amnesty

-News stories

-President’s warning to North Vietnam

-Meat price ceiling

-POWs

-News summary

-Col. Robinson Risner

-Meeting with President

-Divisiveness

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Mar.-09)

-Troop withdrawal

-Demonstrators

-President’s preparation of speech

-Bombing of Cambodia, Laos, Ho Chi Minh trail

-Defense budget cuts

-Laos and Cambodia

-Troop withdrawal

-Bombing

-Ho Chi Minh trail

-Public confidence

-Peace agreement

-South Vietnam

-POWs

-December 1972 bombing

-Chicago Tribune

-POWs

-William J. Baroody group

-Budget

-“Buck stops here”

-Defense

-Popular will

-Arms control

-Public confidence

-Vietnam

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Soviet Union

-Watergate

-Possible statement

-White House staff involvement