Conversation No. 17-1

Date:  December 23, 1971
Time:   Unknown between 12:09 pm and 1:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 310-16]

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 17-2

Date:  December 23, 1971
Time:  1:25 pm - 1:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 310-16]

Lunch

Colson to meet with President

Conversation No. 17-3

Date:  December 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:26 pm and 2:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Charles W. Colson talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 310-17A]

Call to his office

Colson talked with Joan Hall [?].

[See Conversation No. 310-17A]

Jane F. (Gray) Muskie
-Time and Newsweek
-"People" section of current issue
-Feature on Mrs. Muskie in New Hampshire
-Delivery of articles by Manolo Sanchez

Conversation No. 17-4

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 1:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 309-2]

	Request for a call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 17-5

Date:  December 24,1971
Time:  1:37 pm - 1:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 309-3]

Shultz's schedule

President's meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and Henry A. Kissinger

Defense budget
-Numbers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Right wingers
-Arthur F. Burns
-Defending the budget
-Kissinger
-Laird will defend the budget
-$82 billion outlay
-$78.6 billion
-Defense spending in fiscal '72
-75.8
-Monthly rate of expenditure
	-Approximately $1 billion more
-Effect on economy
-Laird
-Meeting with the President

Water Bill
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Budgetary implications
	-Amount
-Appropriations
-Congress
-Override
-Budgetary implications
-Political implications
-Veto
-Edmund S. Muskie

Environment
-Cleaning up the air
-Political issue
	-Future discussions

Water Bill
-Shultz to meet with Ehrlichman
-Signature
-Appropriations

Budgetary issues
-Unknown issues to be discussed later

Money supply
-Burns
-President's influence on Burns
-Burns
-Voted to increase money supply
-Burns's trip to Virgin Islands

Federal Reserve Board of Governors
-Procedures for appointment
-Burns
-Warren E. Burger
-"Fed" compared to Supreme Court
-Burns

Foreign policy
-Kissinger 
-India
-Pakistan
	-US neutrality
		-Relief
-Public reaction to possible US involvement in India-Pakistan War
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
	-Shultz’s view
-War
-India

Kissinger
	-Forthcoming call to Kissinger from Shultz

Public reaction to India-Pakistan War
-Kissinger's reaction to press
	-Moral support for Kissinger
-Joseph S. Kraft
-Marquis W. Childs
-Kissinger
-Middle East
-Wall Street Journal
	-Editorial
-US foreign policy

Christmas greetings

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President's signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971 on December 23, 1971
-Shultz's and daughters' attendance
-Ceremony

Movie "Brian's Song"
	-Ehrlichman
-Monday night in White House theatre
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] movie
-Brian Piccolo
-Gale E. Sayers
-Race relations
-Shultz and family invited

Conversation No. 17-6

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes

[See Conversation No. 309-5]

Conversation No. 17-7

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  1:48 pm - 1:49 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes.

[See Conversation No. 309-6]

Hughes called by William E. Timmons
-Otto E. Passman
-Grambling College Band
-Invited to Liberian inauguration
-Political decision
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Christmas greetings

Conversation No. 17-8

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  1:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 309-7]

	Request for a call to Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes

Conversation No. 17-9

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  1:50 pm - 1:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes.

[See Conversation No. 309-8]

	President’s initiatives
		-Hughes to call Representative Otto E. Passman
	-Talking points
	-Passman
	-Taxpayers' money

Conversation No. 17-10

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:51 pm and 1:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 309-9]

	Request for a call to John W. Chancellor

Conversation No. 17-11

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  1:56 pm - 2:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John W. Chancellor.

[See Conversation No. 309-10]

Christmas greetings

Congratulates Chancellor and staff
		-"Day in the Life of the President", National Broadcasting Company [NBC] program
-Program’s length
-Audience
-Depth and perspective
-Number of calls
-President in operation
	-Chancellor grateful for opportunity
-Second term for President
-Vietnam War

India-Pakistan conflict
-Compared to Middle East
-India, People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], US
-Chancellor's lunch with Golda Meir
-Meir's visit with President
-United Nations [UN]
-Indira Gandhi

Women
	-Liberation movement
-Chancellor commentary
-Leaders
-War
-Toughness 
-Willingness to take risks
-Gandhi
-Sirimauo D. Bandaranaike of Ceylon
-Fidel Castro
-Successor

"A Day in the Life of the President" NBC television show
-President's gratitude

Conversation No. 17-12

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:01 pm and 2:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 309-11]

	Request for a call to Nelson A. Rockefeller

Conversation No. 17-13

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  2:06 pm - 2:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller.

[See Conversation No. 309-12]

Christmas greetings
	-Margaretta (“Happy”) Rockefeller

Rockefeller at his home
	-Camp in the woods
		-Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr.
Henry A. Kissinger
-Foreign policy
-India-Pakistan War
-Rockefeller's possible call to Kissinger
-Christmas greetings
-War
-West Pakistan
-Kissinger to be in New York
	-Timing

Rockefeller's gratitude

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Vietnam

People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

US economy

Revenue sharing
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Senate
-Rockefeller's budget
	-Amount
-Press
-Federal budget
	-Revenue sharing
-Getting it passed

Merry Christmas greetings

Rockefeller’s children

Calling Kissinger

Conversation No. 17-14

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:12 pm and 2:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 309-13]

	Request for a call to Ronald W. Reagan

Conversation No. 17-15

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  2:16 pm - 2:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald W. Reagan.

Reagan's schedule

Weather

Christmas greetings

Eisaku Sato's visit
-Play golf at Walter H. Annenberg's
	-Timing
-President
-Sato
-Date
-Reagan
-William P. Rogers
-Takeo Fukuda
-Dinner at Annenberg's
-Sato
-Talks with President
-Reagan’s meeting with Sato
-Sato
-John V. Tunney and Alan Cranston
-Reagan's schedule

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Conversation No. 17-16

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  3:09 pm
Location:  White House telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for calls to John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy and W. Clement Stone

Conversation No. 17-17

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 17-18

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  3:12 pm - 3:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

Christmas shopping

[Unintelligible]

Henry A. Kissinger
	-Spirit  boosting

	[Unintelligible]

William P. Rogers's press conference
-North Vietnam
-John D. Ehrlichman [?]
	-Rogers

India-Pakistan War
-Commitment

Kissinger
	-Mood

National Cancer Act of 1971 bill signing

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
	-Situation at home

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-Rogers
-Kissinger

Television
	-News reports
-Hoffa
-National Cancer Act of 1971
-Rogers
-Donald H. Rumsfeld's press conference
-India-Pakistan War
-North Vietnam bombing
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Prisoners of War [POWs] release
	-Amount
-Vietnamese children
-Kissinger
-POW release
	-Hope

President’s schedule
	-Christmas activities
		-“Meet and greet” opportunities
-St. John's church
-Metropolitan Police Boys Club
-Tree picture
	-Time conflicts
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower television show

Kissinger
-John A. Scali
	-Haldeman’s talk with Scali
		-Concern for Kissinger
-Spokesman role
	-Reduced role for Kissinger in future
	-Allegations
-Backgrounders
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Scali
-Backgrounders
-Scali
	-Concern
-Interviews
-Rogers
	-Kissinger
		-Stress
-Backgrounders
-India-Pakistan War
-State Department
-Backgrounders
	-Press
-Scali
	-Acrimony
-Rogers's call to Scali
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
	Call to Haldeman
		-Kissinger
-Airplanes
-Rogers
-Moorer’s call to Rogers
	-State Department
-Press
	-Kissinger
		-Potential problem
-Scali
-Azores and Bermuda
	-California
-Schedule
-Florida
-Rogers
	-Attendance at the Orange Bowl
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Florida
-California
-Key West
	-Kissinger

Conversation No. 17-19

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  3:37 pm - 3:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy's and W. Clement Stone's locations

The President's schedule

Request for a call to Ralph H. Cake

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 17-20

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  3:45 pm - 3:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Ralph H. Cake's location

Call from Charles W. Colson

The President talked with Colson.

Colson's schedule
-Staff
-Christmas

Media coverage
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
			-Hoffa’s daughter-in-law on the Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] program, “60 Minutes”
				-Dan Rather
				-Josephine (Poszywak) Hoffa
				-Compared to the Kennedy’s
-New York Times
	-Editorial
-Washington Post
-Wires
	-Democrats

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-Hoffa
-Ability for compassion
-Mrs. Hoffa
-National Cancer Act of 1971 signed
-William P. Rogers press conference
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Possible problems with Rogers
-Vietnam questions
	-Praise for Rogers
-Kissinger
-India-Pakistan War
-Louis Harris poll
	-India-Pakistan War
		-Results
-Longshoreman situation
-Strike
-James D. Hodgson

George Meany health

Hoffa
-Wires
-Leonard Woodcock
-Teamsters
	-Money problems
-William Loeb
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
	-Hoffa

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-Supporters

India-Pakistan War
-Henry C. Cashen, II

The Pentagon Papers

Meany confrontation

	Christmas wishes

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Conversation No. 17-21

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:58 pm and 4:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Incoming calls

Request for calls to F. Donald Nixon and Edward C. Nixon

Conversation No. 17-22

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  4:34 pm - 4:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Call to Edward C. Nixon
		-F. Donald Nixon location

The President talked with Edward Nixon.

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Gaye Lynne (Woods) Nixon joined the conversation.

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Conversation No. 17-23

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:39 pm and 4:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Donald H. Rumsfeld

Conversation No. 17-24

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  4:41 pm - 4:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Rumsfeld's press conference

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Henry A. Kissinger
	-Concerned with world events
-India-Pakistan War
-US responsibility
-West Pakistan
-Public interest

Vietnam

Israel

Indians

Pakistanis

President's schedule
-Meetings
-Rumsfeld's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-US economy
-President's leadership
-President to do program with Dan Rather for Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Rather
-Style
-Walter L. Cronkite and [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Questions
-Credibility
-President's trips
	-Timing
-State of the Union
-Vietnam announcement
-President's meeting with Eisaku Sato
-Economy
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

US economy
-Christmas retail sales
-In US
-In Southern California
-Robert H. Finch
-Increases over last year
	-Amount
-Public confidence
-Wage and price controls
	-Percentage
-Lifting controls
-Rents
	-Thomas B. Curtis
		-Recommendations
-January and February
-De-control
-Luxury apartments
-Vacancies
	-Percentage
-Los Angeles, California
-Florida
-Competition
-Press
	-Secondary story
-President's trip to PRC

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Football games

"Brian's Song" movie
-Chicago Bears
-Brian Piccolo
-Gale E. Sayers
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] movie
-White House, December 23
-Rumsfeld family invited
-Race relations

Conversation No. 17-25

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:55 pm and 4:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Stewart J.O. Alsop

Conversation No. 17-26

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  4:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Stewart J.O. Alsop's location

Request for a call to Elliot L. Richardson

Conversation No. 17-27

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:57 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 17-28

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  5:01 pm - 5:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Christmas greetings

Henry A. Kissinger
-India-Pakistan conflict
-Lack of public reaction
	-President’s various phone calls
		-Public apathy

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Surveillance of White House
-Military
-Kissinger
-June 1972
-Moorer
-Leak
-Daniel Ellsberg syndrome

Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
	-Tensions
		-India and Vietnam
			-State Department
-State of the World
	-Concern for Kissinger
-Relation with reports
-World report
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam

PRC

Anatoliy F. Dobrynin Visit
	-Timing

India
-State Department
-Indira Gandhi
-East And West Pakistan

Kissinger
-Haig’s forthcoming cal to Kissinger

President's conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Kissinger
-Rockefeller’s forthcoming call to Kissinger

Kissinger
- Moorer
-John N. Mitchell
-Yeoman Charles E. Radford
-Assignment
	-The Pentagon
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Radford
-Under surveillance

Conversation No. 17-29

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  5:09 pm - 5:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for calls to John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans

Elliot L. Richardson's location

W. Clement Stone on the line

The President talked with Stone.

Christmas greetings

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Accomplishments
-Vietnam
	-Troops returning home
-Stone's help

Stone's granddaughter [?]

Conversation No. 17-30

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 17-31

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  5:18 pm - 5:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

William P. Rogers's location

Ralph H. Cake on the line

The President talked with Cake.

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Accomplishments

Conversation No. 17-32

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  5:20 pm - 5:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

Rogers's location

Christmas wishes

The President's schedule
-Florida
	-Timing
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Rogers's press conference
-Charles W. Colson report
-Media play
	-Positive

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa's release
	-Timing
		-Unknown person
-Josephine (Poszywak) Hoffa
	-Health
-Conditions on Hoffa’s release
	-New York Times

Football

Conversation No. 17-33

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  5:22 pm - 5:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House Operator.

	Call from Stewart J.O. Alsop

The President talked with Alsop.

Christmas greetings

Alsop's health

[Unintelligible]

National Cancer Act of 1971
-President's program
-Diagnosis
	-Statistics

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Conversation No. 17-34

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  5:25 pm - 5:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House Operator.

	Call from Peter M. Flanigan

The President talked with Flanigan.

	Christmas greetings

Fredrick M. Eaton
-Post
	-Argentina [?]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Significance of post
-Negotiations
-Rogers
	-Flanigan’s forthcoming talk with Rogers concerning Eaton
-Hubert H. Humphrey[?]
-Talk with the President
-Visit to islands
-The President's schedule
-Florida
-Meeting with Eaton
-Time
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Donald McI. Kendall
-George S. Moore
-National City Bank
-Rogers
-Jack Drown
-Appointment

Conversation No. 17-35

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  5:29 pm - 5:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Call from Elliot L. Richardson

The President talked with Richardson.

	Christmas greetings

Richardson's location

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National Cancer Act of 1971
	-Ceremony
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Richard S. Schweiker
	-Conference

The President's schedule
-Florida
-Willy Brandt

Conversation No. 17-36

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  5:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 17-37

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  5:33 pm - 5:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Call from John N. Mitchell

The President talked with Mitchell.

Mitchell's location

Christmas greetings
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell

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James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa release
-Josephine (Poszywak) Hoffa
	-Health

Henry A. Kissinger
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Melvin R. Laird
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Yeoman Charles E. Radford
-Surveillance
	-Pentagon
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Kissinger
		-President’s concern
-Talk with Mitchell
-State Department
-JCS
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Moorer
-William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 17-38

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  5:40 pm - 5:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House Operator.

	Call from Maurice H. Stans

The President talked with Stans.

Christmas greetings

Stans's location
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Weather
-Health
-Mulcahy's location
-Eisaku Sato
-Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republic [USSR]

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US-USSR negotiations

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Kathleen (Carmody) Stans

Conversation No. 17-39

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  5:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for call to F. Donald Nixon

Return call from John B. Connally

Return call from John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy

Conversation No. 17-40

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  8:53 pm - 8:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with F. Donald Nixon.

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Conversation No. 17-41

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:56 pm and 9:04 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 17-42

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  9:04 pm - 9:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

Christmas greetings

Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Note from the family
	-Connally’s anniversary

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Connally's schedule

Conversation No. 17-43

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:05 pm and 9:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
 
Conversation No. 17-44

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  9:09 pm - 9:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy.

Christmas greetings

Mulcahy's location and schedule

President's schedule
-Florida
-Meeting with Willy Brandt
	-Timing

Mulcahy's health
-Family
-Baby

Christmas

President's performance

Conversation No. 17-45

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 pm and 9:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to J. Edgar Hoover

Conversation No. 17-46

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  9:14 pm - 9:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Edgar Hoover.

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President schedule in Florida
-Meeting with Willy Brandt

James R. “(Jimmy”) Hoffa's release
	-John N. Mitchell
-Josephine (Polszynak) Hoffa
	-Illness
-Hoffa
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Investigation

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Conversation No. 17-47

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:17 pm and 9:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to McIntyre Faries

Conversation No. 17-48

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  9:19 pm - 9:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with McIntyre Faries.

Christmas greeting
-Judge's wife

President's appreciation of the judge

Geraldyne Faries joined the conversation.

-Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 17-49

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 pm and 9:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for calls to Donald McI. Kendall and Hobart D. Lewis

Conversation No. 17-50

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  9:22 pm - 9:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Donald McI. Kendall.

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George S. Moore
-Ambassadorship
	-Argentina
-Peter Flanigan
-Call to Kendall
	-President’s forthcoming call to Flanigan

Moore
	-Skills and abilities
-Kendall
-Money
-Golf balls

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Flanigan

Moore

Kendall's negotiations with Moscow
-Maurice H. Stans
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Nikolay V. Patolichev
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] vodka
-Pepsi
-Kosygin
-Stans
-Monopoly
-Vodka

President's USSR Summit
-Kendall
	-Possible invitation
-April

President's People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

Stans

Jack Powers

Robert S. Ingersoll

Negotiations with USSR
-Kendall

Foreign policy
-USSR influence in the world

Kendall's negotiations with USSR
-PRC

President's best to Kendall's wife

Pepsi sales
-Forecast for next year
	-Flanigan’s phone call
-Concern about Argentina
-Moore
-Present Ambassador
-Potential Ambassadors
-Businessman
-Flanigan
-Speaks Spanish
	-Importance
	-Jack Duncan
	-[Forename unknown] Myers [sp?]
		-Job

Conversation No. 17-51

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  9:32 pm - 9:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Hobart D. Lewis.

	Christmas greetings

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President's call to Lewis
	-Lewis expresses gratitude to the President

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The President's interview
	-Readers Digest

Lewis's note to the President
	-Praise

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Football

Conversation No. 17-52

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:35 pm and 11:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with Ann Davis.

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Conversation No. 17-53

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:35 pm and 11:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 17-54

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:35 pm and 11:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 17-55

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  11:17 pm - 11:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. Haldeman

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's television show
	-“Christmas at the White House”
-Performance
	-Presence
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Edward R.F. Cox
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Message for the season
-The President's statement
-The President interview
-Grandmother
-Young boy
-Dogs
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-David Eisenhower
-Train
	-Past Christmases at the White House
-Marya McLaughlin

The President's call to Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Spirit boosting

The President's schedule
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Dinner
-Key Biscayne
-William P. Rogers
-Frederick M. Eaton
	-Ambassador to Japan
-James Suffridge
-Eaton
-Hoover

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Release
	-Photograph
		-Sympathy for Hoffa
-Teamsters
-Leonard Woodcock

Conversation No. 17-56

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:22 pm and 11:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 17-57

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  11:26 pm - 11:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's location

Rose Mary Woods on the line

The President talked with Woods.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's television show
	-“Christmas at the White House”
-Woods's viewing
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Mary [Surname unknown]

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		-Phone calls
-McIntyre Faries
-Health
-Ralph H. Cake

Christmas greetings

Conversation No. 17-58

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:28 pm and 11:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 17-59

Date:  Unknown between December 24  and December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:30 pm and 8:43 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Colson's location

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's television show
	-“Christmas at the White House”
	-Praise from Colson
		-Patricia Colson
-Charles B. Kuralt
-Past Christmas
-Dogs
-Kuralt
-Ending
	-Strong emotional content
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-The President's interview
-Effect
-Ratings
	-Coverage of show on local and network news

Conversation No. 17-60

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:43 am and 9:34 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for calls to Rogers C. B. Morton, Clifford M. Hardin, John A. Volpe, George W. Romney, and Earl L. Butz

Conversation No. 17-61

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  9:34 am - 9:38 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rogers C. B. Morton.

Morton's schedule

Morton's health

Morton's schedule
-Pacific
-Time

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The President's schedule
-Florida
-Meeting with Willy Brandt
-California
-Meeting with Eisaku Sato
	-Timing

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa's release
-Josephine (Poszynak) Hoffa
	-Health
		-Public sympathy
-Robert F. Kennedy
-President's conversation with J. Edgar Hoover on December 24, 1971
-Hoover's comments
-Hoover's testimony

Conversation No. 17-62

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  9:39 am - 9:43 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John A. Volpe.

Christmas greetings

Volpe's location

Volpe’s family
-Health

Italy
-Giovanni Leone
-Volpe
-Midnight mass
-Apostolic delegation
-Italian Ambassador
	-Discussion with Volpe
-Leone
-Compared to Giuseppe Saragat
-President
-Emilio Colombo
-US  Ambassador to Italy, Graham A. Martin
-Mariano Rumor
	-Praise for Martin
		-Support for President
-Italian Ambassadorship for Volpe
-Value of Volpe in the US
-John N. Mitchell
-Martin's value
-Confidence of Italian leaders

Christmas greetings

Football games

Volpe’s health

Volpe’s grandchildren

Conversation No. 17-63

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  9:45 am - 9:50 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked to the White House operator.

	Request for calls to William F. (“Billy”) Graham and Lyndon B. Johnson

Conversation No. 17-64

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  9:53 am - 9:56 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Lenore L. and George W. Romney.

Christmas greetings

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Julie Nixon Eisenhower's television show
	“Christmas at the White House”
-Grandmother
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Praise for show

Romney's location

Romney's family

Football

Christmas greetings

Housing
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Romney's meeting with the President

The President's schedule
-Florida
-Meeting with Willy Brandt
-Romney’s proposed meeting with Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 17-65

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  9:57 am - 9:58 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William F. (“Billy”) Graham.

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"Christmas at the White House" on television
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news
-President playing with dogs

Greetings

Graham coming to White House on Friday
-Ruth McC. (Beall) Graham

Graham's schedule
	-Timing

President's schedule
	-Timing

Mrs. Graham
	-Human Events

Conversation No. 17-66

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:58 am and 10:01 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for calls to Frank B. Rackley and Robert K. Gray

Conversation No. 17-67

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  10:01 am - 10:02 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Earl L. Butz.

Christmas greetings

Butz's location

Butz's family

Butz's speeches
-"Meet the Press" and the "Today" show
	-Butz’s appearance on regional shows
		-Timing

Conversation No. 17-68

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  10:06 am - 10:08 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Lyndon B. Johnson.

Christmas greetings

Picture in newspaper
-Johnson and Luci B. (Johnson) Nugent's son

Lynda B. (Johnson) and Charles S. Robb
-Transportation

Lyndon Johnson's appearance

The President's location

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Football
	-Johnson’s attendance at football game
		-Timing

Claudia A (“Lady Bird”) Johnson joined the conversation.

Johnsons' visit to Washington DC
-Blair House

Family greetings

Lyndon Johnson's health

Family greetings

Mamie G.D. Eisenhower

Conversation No. 17-69

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 10:08 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for calls to Herbert Brownell and Peter J. Brennan

Conversation No. 17-70

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  10:14 am - 10:16 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Frank B. Rackley.

Christmas greetings

Rackley family

Rackley's gift to President

Rackley family

Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo

Marguerite Rackley joined the conversation.

Family greetings

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Conversation No. 17-71

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:16 am and 10:29 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for calls to Winton M. (“Red”) Blount and Arthur E. Summerfield

Status of call to Clifford M. Hardin

Conversation No. 17-72

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  10:29 am - 10:30 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Winton M. (“Red”) Blount.

Christmas greetings

Blount's location
-Gerald R. Ford

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Julie Nixon's Eisenhower's television show
	“Christmas at the White House”

Economy
-Pay Board compared to Price Board

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Conversation No. 17-73

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  10:37 am - 10:38 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Arthur E. Summerfield.

Christmas greetings

Summerfield's location

Tax Bill

Miriam Summerfield joined the conversation.

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Julie Nixon Eisenhower's television show
	-“Christmas at the White House”

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Football games

Family greetings
-Bud Summerfield

Conversation No. 17-74

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:38 am and 10:53 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Warren E. Burger

Conversation No. 17-75

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:38 am and 10:53 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White house operator.

	Request for calls to Hugh Scott, Michael J. Mansfield, Gerald R. Ford and Carl B. Albert

Conversation No. 17-76

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  10:53 am - 10:55 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Warren E. Burger.

Christmas greetings

Supreme Court
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-William H. Rehnquist
-Praise
-Robert C. Jackson
-Swearing-in
-The President's schedule
-Florida
-Meeting with Eisaku Sato

Burger's family
	-Visit to Williamsburg, Virginia

Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon

Supreme Court

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-The US compared

Conversation No. 17-77

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 11:02 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Michael Lauer

Conversation No. 17-78

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:02 am - 11:05 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Michael Lauer.

Lauer's letter to the President
-The President's answer

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President offering encouragement

Lauer's family
-Brothers and sisters
	-Number
-Mother

Mrs. Lauer joined the conversation.

Mrs. Lauer's family

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	Encouragement to the Lauer family

Ann Marie Lauer Joined the conversation.

Age

Kathy Lauer joined the conversation.

Age

College

Kevin Lauer joined the conversation.

Age

Mother

Conversation No. 17-79

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:07 am - 11:09 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Hugh Scott.

Christmas greetings

Scott's health

Campaigning

Scott
-President's appreciation

Marian Scott joined the conversation.

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Julie Nixon Eisenhower's television show
	-“Christmas at the White House”
		-Praise

Conversation No. 17-80

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:10 am - 11:12 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Carl B. Albert.

Christmas greetings

George W. Andrews's death
	-Lucius Mendel Rivers
		-Cause of death
-Elizabeth Andrews
-University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital
-Home
-Union City, Alabama
-President to call Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
-Military aide to Mrs. Andrews
	-New procedure
		-John W. McCormack
-George Andrews

Football games
-Sugar Bowl

Albert's schedule

President's schedule
	-Edward R.G. Heath
-Meetings with Willy Brandt and Eisaku Sato
	-Timing

Conversation No. 17-81

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:12 am and 11:21 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Elizabeth Andrews

Conversation No. 17-82

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:12 am and 11:21 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 17-83

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:12 am and 11:21 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes

Conversation No. 17-84

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:21 am - 11:22 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes.

Congressman George W. Andrews's death
-Aide for his widow [Elizabeth Andrews]

Conversation No. 17-85

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:23 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for calls to F. Edward Hebert, George H. Mahon, and Leslie C. Arends

Elizabeth Andrews's location

Conversation No. 17-86

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:29 am - 11:31 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gerald R. Ford.

Ford's location

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Football
-Washington Redskins
-Michigan

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George W. Andrews's death
	-Military aide to Elizabeth Andrews
-The President's talk with Carl B. Albert
-Lucius Mendel Rivers

Christmas greetings

Campaigning

Conversation No. 17-87

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:31 am and 11:34 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for calls to John C. Stennis, and Virginia H. Knauer

Conversation No. 17-88

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:34 am - 11:36 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Michael J. Mansfield.

Christmas greetings

Weather
-West coast

Schedule
-Meeting
-January 18, 1972

Conversation No. 17-89

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:38 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Edward R.G. Heath

John D. Ehrlichman's call

Conversation No. 17-90

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:38 am and 11:45 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Melvin R. Larid

Conversation No. 17-91

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:45 am - 11:46 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Melvin R. Laird.

Christmas greetings

Laird's location

Laird's work
-Military
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster
-John N. Mitchell
-Moorer

Conversation No. 17-92

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:47 am - 11:48 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to James D. Hodgson

Edward R.G. Heath on the line

The President talked with Heath.

Christmas greetings
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Music
	-Piano and orchestra

Mamie G.D. Eisenhower

The Royal Family

Conversation No. 17-93

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:49 am - 11:51 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with James D. Hodgson.

Christmas greetings

The President's location
-Camp David
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
Julie Nixon Eisenhower's television show
	“Christmas at the White House”
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Praise

Dock strike issue
-Eisaku Sato meeting
-J[ames] Curtis Counts

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
	-Public sympathy
-Leonard Woodcock wire
	-Stand on Hoffa issue

Conversation No. 17-94

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  11:51 am - 11:55 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Busing
-Texas case
-John B. Connally
	-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming talk with Connally
-California
-Texas
-Legislative matters

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's television show
	“Christmas at the White House”
		-Praise from Ehrlichman
-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-Balance
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

The President's calls
	-Number
	-Michael Lauer letter

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-Mother
-Family

George W. Andrews death
	-Carl B. Albert
-Call to Elizabeth Andrews

The President's calls
-George W. Romney
-Ehrlichman meeting
-Ideas
-Eisaku Sato meeting
-Letters
-John A. Volpe

Conversation No. 17-95

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to David M. Kennedy

Conversation No. 17-96

Date:  December 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 17-97

Date:  December 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:21 am and 11:25 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 310-20]

	Request for a call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 17-98

Date:  December 26, 1971
Time:  11:25 am - 11:30 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 310-22]

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Conversation No. 17-99

Date:  December 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:30 am and 11:45 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 310-23]

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 17-100

Date:  December 26, 1971
Time:  11:45 am - 11:52 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 310-24]

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-Children

Weather in Florida
-J. Edgar Hoover call
-Kissinger's children
	-Walk to the lighthouse

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Planes
	-Timing
	-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
	-Release of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Election
-Negotiations
-Paris
	-Timing
-October plan
-Peace plan
-Meetings
-7 Points
-Press
	-Newspaper coverage
		-Proposed action
-Bombing

India
-Bangladesh

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Pakistan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller call to Kissinger
-East Pakistan
-Intellectuals
-Religious sect

Kissinger’s health

Conversation No. 17-101

Date:  December 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:52 am and 12:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 310-27]

	Request for a call to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer

Conversation No. 17-102

Date:  December 26, 1971
Time:  12:12 pm - 12:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer.

[See Conversation No. 310-29]

Christmas greetings

Redskins game
-Playoffs

	Vietnam
		-Bombing
-Weather
-Targets
	-Shipping and petroleum, oil and lubricants [POL]
-South Vietnamese
-Captured weapons
-Time
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Weather
-Situation room
-Airplane
	-Losses

Conversation No. 17-103

Date:  December 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:16 pm and 1:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 310-35]

	Request for a call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 17-104

Date:  December 26, 1971
Time:  1:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 310-36]

Cancellation of call to William P. Rogers

Call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 17-105

Date:  December 26, 1971
Time:  1:44 pm - 1:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 310-37]

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Conversation No. 17-106

Date:  December 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to William P. Rogers 

Conversation No. 17-107

Date:  December 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 310-38]

William P. Rogers's location
-Return call

Conversation No. 17-108

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:41 pm and 7:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Requested a call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 17-109

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  7:40 pm - 7:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

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Conversation No. 17-110

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  7:47 pm - 7:49 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Taft Schreiber talked with the President.

New year greetings
-1972
-Optimism for upcoming year

The President's schedule
-Interview with Dan Rather
	-Timing

Schreiber's schedule
-Theodore E. Cummings
-Art

Conversation No. 17-111

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:49 pm and 7:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to C. Arnholt Smith

Conversation No. 17-112

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  7:55 pm - 7:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with C. Arnholt Smith.

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Mrs. Helen Smith joined the conversation.

	President’s location

New Year greetings

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Conversation No. 17-113

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:59 pm and 8:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Elmer H. Bobst

Conversation No. 17-114

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:59 pm and 8:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Paul W. Keyes

Conversation No. 17-115

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  8:14 pm - 8:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Paul W. Keyes.

New year greetings

Time magazine article

The President's schedule
-Florida
-White House
-California
	-Timing
-Dan Rather interview

Keyes's work
-Shows

Keyes's location

Unknown woman

Conversation No. 17-116

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  9:08 pm - 9:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Elmer H. Bobst.

[See Conversation No. 311-2]

New year greetings
-ADodo@ Momdouha (As-Sayyid) Bobst
-Party
-Beach Club

The President's schedule
-White House
-Year end review

The President's performance

Dodo Bobst joined the conversation.

New year greetings
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Mrs. Bobst's location

Conversation No. 17-117

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:11 pm and 9:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 311-3]

	Request for a call to Mike Wallace

Conversation No. 17-118

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:11 pm and 9:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

[See Conversation No. 311-4]

	Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 17-119

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  9:13 pm - 9:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 311-5]

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Conversation No. 17-120

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:14 pm and 9:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

[See Conversation No. 311-6]

	Request for a call to George H.W. Bush

Conversation No. 17-121

Date:  December 31, 1971
Time:  9:22 pm - 9:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George H.W. Bush.

[See Conversation No. 311-7]

New year greetings

Bush's performance
	-President offers congratulations

New York society crowd

Bush's job

Football
	-Timing
	-Dallas Cowboys

The President's location
-White House

Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon

Cabinet party
-Timing

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Bush's family
-Father, Prescott Bush
-Golf

Nixon administration
	-Praise from Bush
		-Bush’s trip to Texas
		-Optimism for upcoming year

Conversation No. 17-122

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:40 am and 10:28 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 311-11]

	Request for a call to Fina Sanchez

Conversation No. 17-123

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  10:28 am - 10:29 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Fina Sanchez.

[See Conversation No. 311-12]

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Conversation No. 17-124

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:29 am and 10:57 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 311-13]

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 17-125

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  10:57 am - 11:19 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 311-14]

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Kissinger's location

World developments
-Newspapers
-Malta
-Dominic Mintoff
-Call to the President
-Call to Robert F. Ellsworth
-British
-Libya
	-Potential economic problems
-Ellsworth
-Deadline
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Message from the President

India
-Indira Gandhi
-Parliament
	-Similarities to the Hawks
-Foreign aid
-Kissinger’s view
-John Freeman's talk with Henry Brandon
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and Pakistan
	-1967
-Communist Party
	-USSR influence
		-Supposed strength
-East Bengal
-Pakistan
	-Similar problems
		-Lack of food and a strong government
-Calcutta and Dacca
	-Martial law enactor
-Bangladesh
-Bhutan and India
	-Recognition
-US position
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] comparisons
	-Tibet and unknown name
-USSR, India, and Bhutan
-US Consul in Dacca
-Kenneth B. Keating

India

Vietnam
-Bombings
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
	-Close to “moment of truth”
-Press
-POW wives
-President's upcoming interview with Dan Rather
	-Potential questions
-POWs
-North Vietnamese
-US negotiating offers
-Kissinger's comments to POW wives
	-Plea from POWs
-American surrender
	-Administration’s commitment
-Wives
-Patriotism
-Polls
-Support for war in US
-Australian Ambassador's comments to Kissinger
-Stance on war
-President’s stance
	-More “Hawkish”
-November 1969
-Cambodia
-Air strikes
-US elections
-US casualties
-US involvement
-Kissinger’s view
	-Gauging US public reaction
	-Air strikes in Vietnam
	-The war
	-US media
-Air power
	-Duration
	-Vietnam
	-Polls
	-US perception on Vietnam War
		-Size potential of issue
			-Negative
	-Louis Harris
	-George H. Gallup
		-Potential response from Democrats
-Amount of USSR military aid per year
-US bombing of Vietnam
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Possible overthrow
		-Timing
-President's conversation with Kissinger, December 31, 1972
	-June 1972
-Administration’s attempt to remove Vietnam issue from public debate
	-Duration
-Bombing halt
-Political move
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Election of 1968
-US foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Moscow Summit
	-Timing
-President’s schedule
-The President's next Vietnam announcement
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Humphrey's announcement
-New Hampshire's delegations letter
-Thieu
-US peace program
-Affect in Asia
-Thailand
-President's next Vietnam announcement
	-Timing
-Date of Humphrey's announcement
-US peace program
-Bunker
-Thieu
-New Hampshire
-Congress convenes
	-Opportunity to make Vietnam announcement
-State of the Union Address
-President's insistence to discuss Vietnam before State of the Union Address
	-Kissinger’s view
-Response of North Vietnamese negotiators
	-Reaction
-President's PRC trip
-Negotiations
-State of the Union address
	-Timing of announcement
	-Haldeman

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-Planning date of President's upcoming Vietnam announcement
-Between January 10 and 20th
-Thieu's reaction to peace proposal
	-President’s view
-Factors included in peace proposal
	-Curtail of military aid
	-South Vietnam foreign policy
		-Neutrality

Conversation No. 17-126

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 2:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Requested a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 17-127

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 2:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 311-17]

Scheduling President's upcoming Vietnam announcement

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Upcoming visit of Eisaku Sato
-Luncheon
	-Timing
-Press conference
	-Location
		-Mode of travel
-Luncheon schedule
	-Type of lunch
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Time

Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr. luncheon
-Location
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Haldeman to talk to Rex W. Scouten

Herbert W. Kalmbach's list
-Contributors by dollar amount
-$100,000

Sato luncheon
-Toasts
	-President’s decision
-Statement by President

President's Vietnam announcement
-John N. Mitchell

Vietnam
-Bombing stories in the papers and magazines

President's meeting with Sato in California
-William P. Rogers attendance
-Rogers's house in California
-Ambassadors

J. Edgar Hoover meeting with the President

Conversation No. 17-128

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 2:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 17-129

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 2:42 am
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 311-18]

President's Vietnam announcement
-Haldeman to talk to William P. Rogers
-Publicity
-Television
-Haldeman to talk to Melvin R. Laird
	-Rogers and Lairds judgment
-Judgement of other Cabinet members
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Haldeman to call Elliot L. Richardson
-Richardson's political abilities 
-John B. Connally
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch

President's interview with Dan Rather
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Format of show
	-Format types discussed
-Refreshments
-Location of interview
-Oval Office
-Format of show
-Haldeman's conversation with Rather
-Howard K. Smith

Conversation No. 17-130

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  2:42 pm - 2:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Robert H. Abplanalp.

[See Conversation 311-21]

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Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip

Conversation No. 17-131

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:43 pm and 3:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 311-22]

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 17-132

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:43 pm and 3:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 311-23]

President's Vietnam announcement
-Date of
-President spoke to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Hubert H. Humphrey's election announcement, January 10th
-President's election announcement
-January 8th[?]
-Date
	-January 14th
-Sunday
-Super Bowl
-Kissinger spoke to Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Troop announcement
-Prior to Congress convenes
-Peace plan
-After President's State of the Union address
-Troop announcement
-Television
-Peace plan
-Timing release of
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-Bunker
-President's political opponents
-Peace initiatives
	-Split
-Michael J. Mansfield’s proposal
-Bombing
-Thieu
-Pre-empting them
-Ceasefire
-Mansfield proposal
-President's schedule
-Peace plan
-Foreign policy report
-Trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Announcing peace plan after State of Union address
-Troop announcement
	-Advantages
-Humphrey's election announcement
	-Timing
-Troop announcement
	-Media coverage
		-Amount
-Date
-State of the Union Address
-Peace speech
	-Possible scenarios
-Vietnamese
	-Possible problem
-State of the Union Address
-Mention of Vietnam situation
-Possible inclusion of foreign policy in Address
-Including troop announcement
-Date
-Kissinger to speak to Melvin R. Laird
-Draftees
-Troop announcement
-Draftees
-Whether to include in State of the Union address
	-Decision to do separately
-President's schedule
-Troop announcement
-State of the Union
-Peace plan
-Foreign policy report
	-Timing
-Peace plan
-Broadcast
-Troop announcement
-Including statement on draftees
-Laird
-Leaks
-Kissinger’s concern
-Kissinger to speak to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer on January 2, 1972
-Peace plan announcement

Conversation No. 17-133

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:43 pm and 3:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 311-24]

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 17-134

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  3:56 pm - 4:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 311-26]

Prisoners of War [POW's]
-Statement
-US peace offer
-2 people released by People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-US working on release
	-Working continuously
-Prisoners released for US withdrawal
-Kissinger's talks around the US
	-Assurances
-Audience reaction to President's interview with Dan Rather
-Style compared to substance of President's remarks
	-Lack of understanding from American public
	-Possible remarks from the President
		-Press conference
		-Need for a substantive answer
-President's interview with Rather
-Toughness of Rather's questions on POWs
-Democrats
-Deadline for POWs' release
-North Vietnamese
-US POWs
-Deadline for US withdrawal

Draftees
-Announcement on
-Kissinger researching
-Leaks

Conversation No. 17-135

Date:  January 1, 1972
Time:  4:05 pm - 4:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 311-27]

New Year greetings

Football games

President's studying for interview with Dan Rather, January 2nd

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Conversation No. 17-136

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:17 am and 10:27 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 311-32]

	Request for a call to Patrick Buchanan

Conversation No. 17-137

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  10:27 am - 10:34 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 311-33]

India
-United Nations [UN] General Assembly
-Vote
-Ceasefire resolution

News Summary
-Article on salaries of public broadcasters
	-Amount
		-Sander Vanocur

India-Pakistan partition
-Deaths
	-Number
		-1948

News summary
-Events over the weekend

President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2nd

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Conversation No. 17-138

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:34 am and 12:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 311-36]

	Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 17-139

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  12:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 311-37]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's location

Conversation No. 17-140

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  12:24 pm - 12:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 311-39]

President's interview with Dan Rather
-Photographs
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Gerald L. Warren
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins and 2 wire services
-Reporters
	-Number
-Atkins and 2 wire services

News Summary
-Patrick J. Buchanan

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President's schedule
-President to meet with Gerard C. Smith, January 3rd
-President's luncheon with Jack Dreyfus, January 3rd
-President's meeting with John N. Mitchell
		-Peter G. Peterson, George P. Shultz, Henry A. Kissinger, Clark MacGregor, John B. Connally

Conversation No. 17-141

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:28 pm and 12:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 311-40]

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 17-142

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  12:39 pm - 12:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 311-41]

Kissinger's schedule
-Kissinger going to California with President
-Kissinger returning to Washington, DC
-Kissinger meeting on Laos
-Kissinger and Gerard C. Smith to meet with President, January 3rd
-Smith
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Vienna
-Submarine missiles
	-Total numbers
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM] Treaty
-Executive agreement
	-Possible concessions

Laos and Cambodia
-Duration of US air activities
-Troops
-Laos and Cambodia
-Infiltration
-Defense of Cambodia and Laos
	-Degree of US commitment
-Vietnam and Vietnamization
-Defense of Cambodia
-Tet offensive
-Negotiations on Vietnam

India and Pakistan
-Movement of US carrier force
-Reasoning
-Evacuation
-American lives
	-Contingency planning
-John Freeman's (former US ambassador to India) comment to Henry Brandon
			-India's foreign policy concerning the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] in 1967
-Role of US
-Indira Gandhi's speech
	-Unaggressive in nature
-Future Indian foreign policy
-US aid
	-Possible refusal by India
-US public reaction

Armed forces
-Deserters
-Amnesty question
-President's decision
	-No action at present time
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US termination of Vietnam involvement
	-Issue will then be dealt with
-Robert A. Raft, Jr.’s amnesty resolution
-POWs

Situation room
-Kissinger
	-Quiet

Laos
-Shelling
-Long Tien [sp?] area
-Defeat in January
-Victory in July
-Weather
	-Results

Conversation No. 17-143

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:48 pm and 3:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 17-144

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  3:30 pm - 3:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 311-44]

News Summary
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Daniel L. Schorr's article on John B. Connally
	-Substance [?]
-Calvin E. Brumley
-Fortune
-White House
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-Henry A. Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Connally
	-Back in Texas
-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
	-Haldeman’s phone call to Connally
-Substance
-Azores agreement
	-Speculation and assumptions
-Connally
-Florida
-Willy Brandt meeting
-California
-Eisaku Sato meeting
-Relations between Burns, Shultz and Connally
	-Different views

Schorr
	-Potential phone call to Schorr by Haldeman
-Haldeman to meet with Schorr prior to Eisaku Sato meeting
	-Connally matter
-President to have dinner with Schorr
-Time and date
	-Scheduling
-Schorr and Dan Rather

Connally
-Haldeman to call Connally
-University of Texas “Longhorns”
	-Football loss
-Economy
-Haldeman to call President back
-President's interview with Rather
-Comments about Connally
	-Support for Connally

Conversation No. 17-145

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:36 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 311-45]

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 17-146

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  3:40 pm - 3:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 311-46]

Kissinger's note sent over by Patrick J. Buchanan

Weekend News Summary
-Washington Star's article of US's bombing of North Vietnam
-Effect on Laos
-Prisoners of War [POW] wives
-Effect on their husbands
	-Objection to bombing
-India-Pakistan conflict
	-Heavy press coverage

Laos operation
	-New divisions
		-Duration
			-Provocation

POW wives
-US policy
	-Every proposal turned down by the North Vietnamese
-Getting POWs back
-Deadline for US withdrawal from Vietnam
-North Vietnamese negotiators
-US aid
	-Cutoff
-Political structures of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
-Deadline for US withdrawal
-congress
-North Vietnamese negotiator's response
	-US proposals consistently turned down
Newspapers
-John B. Connally
-Foreign economic policy
		-Duration of story
-Connally
-Year-end summaries
-News items not mentioned
-Moscow summit
-Berlin
-Accidental war
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-New York Times
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Editorial
	-US dealings
-US
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Credibility problems
-Los Angeles Times
-Improvement [?]

Kissinger's schedule
-Kissinger to meet with conservatives in California
-Kissinger's interviews with Los Angeles Times

India-Pakistan

US bombing of Vietnam

Man of the Year
	-Time magazine

India-Pakistan
-US policy
-PRC
-US relations with India
-Aid

President's interview with Dan Rather
-President's style and ability
	-Aggressiveness
-Rather and Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Rather
-President's knowledge of foreign policy

Conversation No. 17-147

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:50 pm and 3:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 311-47]

The President's schedule
-Phone calls
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Rose Mary Woods
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 17-148

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  3:58 pm - 4:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 311-48]

John B. Connally
-Talk with Haldeman
	-Good spirits
-Connally's call to President, January 1st
	-New Year’s greetings
-Connally meeting with President, January 5th
-President's interview with Dan Rather
-Connally's assessment
-Domestic and international arenas
-Public mood
	-Optimism
-Stock market
-Bombing in Vietnam
	-News worthiness
-International area
-US trading partners
-US interests
	-Connally’s advice
-Schedule
-William P. Rogers's schedule
		-President’s upcoming trip to Florida
			-Mode of travel for Connally
			-Newporter Hotel

Daniel L. Schorr's article on Connally
-Gerald L. Warren
-Calvin E. Brumley
-Brumley's comments
-Interview with Fortune
		-Date and time
-President's call to Connally on Christmas
-Connally
	-Attitude
-Article in Newsweek on Connally
-Origin of Schorr's article
-Warren
	-No press inquiries concerning Schorr’s article

Connally
-President's dinner with Connally, January 5th
-Bombing in Vietnam
-George H. Mahon and F. Edward Hebert
	-Reactions

Bombing in Vietnam and India-Pakistan
-Reaction of the press
-Public opinion

News Summary
-Tendency to be critical
-Rogers's comments
-Wire services
-Frank F. Church
-Charles W. Colson
	-Problems
-Balance
	-“Story of the Day”

President's schedule
-Peter G. Peterson meeting
-Rogers
-Maurice H. Stans
-William D. Eberle
-Council on Economic Policy
-Paul A. Volcker
-Peterson

Rogers
-Meeting with Haldeman
	-Advice
-Ability in public relations
	-Praise from the President
-Compared to Henry A. Kissinger

Haldeman's call to Connally

Conversation No. 17-149

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:07 pm and 6:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 311-53]

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 17-150

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  6:35 pm - 6:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 311-54]

Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Patrick J. Buchanan's note to President
-Mike Wallace's "60 Minutes" show, January 2nd
-POW wives
-Their views on President's administration
-End of war
-Negotiations
-Wallace
	-Responses from POW wives
		-President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2nd
		-President's trips to Moscow and Peking
		-Democrats
		-Deadline
-Report from Pentagon
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
		-Letter
-POW
-POW wives
	-Unknown numbers
-Dissidents
-Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
-Deadline
	-Possible rescheduling of President’ Vietnam announcement
-US negotiations
-Statement President can make to Rather
		-President's trips to People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Raising issue on POWs
-POWs held by PRC

President's upcoming announcements
-Troop announcement
-January 13th
-Peace announcement
-January 24th or 25th
-Networks and politicians
	-Risks involved
-Response in Saigon
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-Delay decision on when to make announcements
-North Vietnamese
-Channels of Communication

POWs
-Kissinger's call to Hughes
-POWs and POW wives
	-CBS
-Call to the President

Conversation No. 17-151

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  7:09 pm - 7:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 311-56]

Prisoner of War [POW] wives
-Kissinger unable to get in touch with Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
-Deadline for US withdrawal from Vietnam
-Kissinger's dealings with POW wives
-US bombing of Vietnam
-Mike Wallace
-Dan Rather
-Laos
-Questions Rather might ask
			-President to discuss POW issue with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and People’s Republic of China [PRC] 
-President's response
-Release of POW discussed by
-Kissinger
-Chou En-Lai
-President
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Josip Broz Tito

Conversation No. 17-152

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:30 pm and 11:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Commander Coach[?] talked with the White House operator.

Interview with Dan Rather
-Completion

Conversation No. 17-153

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:30 pm and 11:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 17-154

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  11:11 - 11:12 pm
Location:  January 2, 1972

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Woods's location

Woods's schedule
-Phone calls from William P. Rogers and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Call from Woods
	-Reaction from the President’s interview with Dan Rather

Conversation No. 17-155

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  11:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 17-156

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  11:13 pm - 11:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

The President's interview with Dan Rather
-Responses
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Spiro T. Agnew
	-President’s style and ability
-Brady F. Black
	-Prisoners of War [POWs]
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Keith Wilson
	-Omaha World Herald
	-Agnew question
-Rather’s interview style
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Rose Mary Woods
-Leslie C. (“Les”) Arends
	-Praise for the President
-Gordon L. Allott
	-Farm issue
		-Agnew
-Robert P. Griffin
-Martin S. Hayden
	-Statements on amnesty and POWs
-Reginald Murphy
	-Agnew
-Businessmen
	-Balance of issues
		-The economy compared to Vietnam
		-Agnew, POWs, Taiwan and the Moscow summit
		-Congress
-Louis Harris
	-Rather
		-Old poll results
			-Praise for the President when “challenged”

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-Questions
	-Number
-Economy
-Politics
-The President's candidacy
	-Future announcement
-Politics
-PRC and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Clarity of the President’s points
-Rather
-Charles W. Colson
-Letters
-Wires
-Haldeman's call to W. Richard Howard
-Harris
-Quote of poll
-Future of interviews
-Haldeman's call to William P. Rogers
-Haldeman's call to the President

Conversation No. 17-157

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  11:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 17-158

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  11:23 pm - 11:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Calls Woods took in regard to President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2nd
-William P. Rogers and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Praise for the President

Woods's location

Calls Woods took in regard to President's interview with Rather, January 2nd
-Rogers's views
-President’s style and ability
-Rather's questions
-Rather
-Louis Harris poll
	-President’s style and ability
-Rumsfeld's views
-Praise for the President
-Rather
-Edward M. Kennedy
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
	-John F. Kennedy
-Watched with friends of Rather
-Rather
	-President’s style and ability

President's interview with Rather, January 2nd
-Rather's questions
-Rather
-Rather's questions
-Praise for the President from Woods
-Public reaction
-Woods's reaction
-Amnesty
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Amnesty
-Prisoner of War [POWs]
	-President’s answers to Rather’s questions
	-Woods’ view

Call from Rogers and Rumsfeld

Conversation No. 17-159

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:28 and 11:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 17-160

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  11:30 pm - 11:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2nd
-Rogers's views
-Praise for the President
-Rather
-Rogers's phone conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Rather's questions
-President's answers
-Overall impact of show
-Public reaction
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Rather's question
-Foreign affairs
-Differences between blacks and whites
-President's answer
-President ‘s style and ability
-Rather
-On television
-At a press conference
	-Type of questions
-Value of interview

Rogers's and President's schedule
-Trip tomorrow to San Clemente
-Howard K. Smith
-West Coast
-Meeting with Gerard C. Smith
	-Timing
	-Discussion of Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Meeting with Peter G. Peterson
	-President requesting Rogers’ attendance at meetings
	-Trade meeting

Conversation No. 17-161

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  11:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 17-162

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  11:36 pm - 11:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Reactions to President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2nd
-General reactions to President and Rather
-Creed C. Black
	-Philadelphia Inquirer
-President’s style and ability
-Rather’s interview style
-Media
-President's instructions to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Rather
-Colson
	-Media involvement
-Louis Harris's views
-Possible statement by Harris
-Frank Stanton
-William S. Paley

President's interview with Rather, January 2nd
-President answers
-Amnesty
-Return of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-[Unintelligible]
-Blacks compared to whites
-[Unintelligible]
-President's answers
-Rather's technique
-"Meet the Press"
-President's ability
-[Unintelligible]
-Colson
-Rather

Conversation No. 17-163

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:42 pm and 11:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

An unknown man talked with the White House operator.

Conversation No. 17-164

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:42 pm and 11:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 17-165

Date:  January 2, 1972
Time:  11:44 pm - 11:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

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Conversation No. 17-166

Date:  Unknown between January 2 and January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:45 pm, January 2 and 12:29 am, January 3, 1972
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo

Conversation No. 17-167

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  12:29 am - 12:30 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo.

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Conversation No. 17-168

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  12:30 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 17-169

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  12:31 am - 12:45 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger
-New York
-Call to President

President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2nd
-India-Pakistan
-Rather’s interview style
	-Possible advantages to the President
-President's answers
-Rather's questions
-President's performance and answers
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Taiwan
-Chou En-lai
-US relations with Taiwan
-Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-The President's opponents
-Vietnam casualties
	-Numbers
-POWs
-Withdrawal of US from Vietnam
-Amnesty
	-Possible interpretation by viewing public
-Moscow
-Politics
-Rather
-John W. Chancellor
-Rather's questions
-President's answers
-Vietnam
-US withdrawals

Vietnam
-US withdrawals
-Numbers

[The recording was cut off at an unknown time before 12:45 am]