Conversation No. 18-1

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  9:19 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 642-13]

Request for a call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 18-2

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  9:19 am - 9:23 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 642-14]

The President’s schedule
	-Forthcoming trade initiatives meeting
	-Opening of meeting
	-Purpose
	-Peter G. Peterson, John B. Connally, Paul A. Volcker
	-Attendance

Tariff proposals
-Peterson's memorandum
-Legislative strategy
-Azores meeting
	-General preferences
-The President’s memorandum to Peterson
-Chances of passage of tariff changes
-European allies
-Opposition to free trade
	-Forthcoming election
		-Labor unions, politicians

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD] Committee
-Discussions with European Community and the Japanese
-Legislative proposals

The President’s schedule
	-William D. Eberle's
-Gerard C. Smith
	-Rogers

Frederick M. Eaton
-Proposals
	-Prospects
-Age

Willis C. Armstrong
-Assistant Secretary of State
-Announcement of appointment
-Preparation
-The President's acquaintance
-Business ties
	-International Chamber of Commerce

The President’s schedule
-Clark MacGregor
-Smith

Conversation No. 18-3

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown time between 10:05 am and 10:10 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 642-16A]

Request for a call to Gerald L. Warren

Conversation No. 18-109

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  10:10 am – 10:11 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gerald L. Warren.

[See Conversation No. 642-16N]

	The President’s forthcoming State of the Union message
		-Announcement
			-Timing
		-Date
		-Announcement
			-Timing
				-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
				-Congressional relations

Conversation No. 18-110

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:11 am and 11:08 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President attempted to make a call, which was not completed.
[An unknown woman can be heard in the background]

Conversation No. 18-4

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:08 am and 11:09 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 642-24]

Request for a call to Jody Smith, mayor of Ayrshire, Iowa
-Youngest mayor
-Phone number

Conversation No. 18-5

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  11:20 am - 11:21 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Jody Smith.

[See Conversation No. 642-27A]

Congratulations on inauguration as youngest mayor in the nation

Part-time work
	-Bus driving
-Referee work
-The President's background
-Father's garage
	-The President’s background

Delegate to Republican convention
-Support for the President
	-San Diego

Conversation No. 18-7

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:42 am and 12:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 642-29A]

Request for a call to George E. Allen
	-Washington Redskins
-Friend of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Tobacco industry
-Broker

Conversation No. 18-8

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  12:13 pm - 12:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George E. Allen.

[See Conversation No. 642-31]

Harry L. Hopkins story
-George P. Shultz
	-Budget
-Requisition for shovels

Support for the President

New Year's wishes

The President's popularity reflected in poll
-Reverend William F. (“Billy”) Graham

Critics
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Reasons
	-Troop withdrawal
		-US casualties

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Reception

Hopkins story
	-Shultz

Conversation No. 18-9

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  12:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 642-32]

Request for a conference call with George P. Shultz and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

Conversation No. 18-10

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:16 pm and 12:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger.

[See Conversation No. 642-34]

The President's call to George E. Allen
-Harry Hopkins story about requisition for shovels
	-Public Works Administration [PWA]
	-Works Progress Administration [WPA]
-Melvin R. Laird

Conversation No. 18-11

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:32 pm and 12:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 642-39A]

Request for a call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 18-12

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:32 pm until 12:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 642-39B]

Tricia Nixon Cox's call
-Status
-Hold

[Butterfield conferred with the President.]

Documents
	-Distribution
		-William P. Rogers
		-Melvin R. Laird
		-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

Tricia Nixon Cox's call

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox between 12:36 pm and 12:43 pm.

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The President's television appearance, January 8, 1972
-William P. Rogers, Kissinger
-Dan Rather
-Comparison with Howard K. Smith's program
-Questions 
-Edward R.F. Cox
-Subjects
-Vietnam War, Moscow and Peking trips
	-Forthcoming election
	-1968 bombing
-Blacks
-Question on use of term “Ms.”
	-Story

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Conversation No. 18-13

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:44 pm and 5:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 643-13A]

Request for a call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 18-14

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:44 pm and 5:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 643-13B]

Greetings

[The President conferred with an unknown man.]

Manolo Sanchez's location

[End of conferral]

	Appointments
		-Ambassadorship to Japan
		-Fredrick M. Eaton's possible appointment
		-Peter M. Flanigan statement
		-Handling
		-Possible fight
		-Age
		-Rogers's role
		-Controversy over appointment
		-Election
		-Alternate job after election
		-Robert S. Ingersoll
		-Possible post
			-Flanigan
			-Borg-Warner Corporation
		-Rudolph A. Peterson
			-United Nations [UN] job
		-Flanigan
			-Illinois
		-John A. McCone
		-Age
		-Ingersoll
		-Other jobs
		-Robert W. Galvin
		-UN job
		-John N. Mitchell's opinion

[The President conferred with John N. Mitchell.]

		-Ingersoll
		-Possible Ambassadorship
			-Japan

[End of conferral]

		-Rogers's forthcoming evaluation
			-Flanigan
		-Borg-Warner
		-Business contacts

Eaton
-Alternate job
-Post after election
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

Conversation No. 18-111

Date:  Unknown between January 3, 1972 and January 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:15 pm January 3 and 11:44 pm, January 8
Location:  White House Telephone

The President’ talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger
		-California

Conversation No. 18-15

Date:  January 8, 1972
Time:  11:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Henry A. Kissinger's location

Conversation No. 18-16

Date:  January 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:39 pm and 12:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 312-2]

Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 18-17

Date:  January 9, 1972
Time:  12:41 pm - 12:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 312-4]

Happy birthday for the President

Weather in California

Vietnam troop withdrawal announcement for January 12, 1972
	-Timing
-Department of Defense [DOD] briefing
-Melvin R. Laird's role
	-The President’s role
-Statement to press
-Credit to Laird
	-Vietnamization
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Laird's efforts
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Kissinger's forthcoming talk with Laird
-Laird's briefing of the press
	-The President’s role
	-Rush
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Negotiations
-Forthcoming announcements
	-Timing
-Troop withdrawals
	-POWs
-Timing

Rush
-Kissinger’s recent conversation with Mitchell
	-Laird
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR], Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Qualifications for the job
	-Germany
	-Defense Department
-Loyalty

Sheik Mujibur Rahman's trip
-New Delhi and Dacca
-Airport arrival
	-Possible diplomatic reception
		-Islamabad
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
	-Release of Mujibar Rahman

Bangladesh
-Pakistan
-Possible recognition
-Mujibur Rahman

US recognition of Mujibur Rahman
	-Diplomatic reception
		-US political counsellor’s presence
			-Compared to ambassador
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Timing
-Pakistan
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-US political counsellor

Haig
-Trip to the PRC
	-Hangchow
-Return to the US

Morning newspapers

Malta
-British withdrawal from military bases
	-Italy
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Soviet Union
	-Possible base
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] offer
	-Italy
-British
-Heath, Dominic Mintoff

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	MALTA

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Italian government
-Future prospects
	-Possible visit by the Italians

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	ITALY

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-Republican Party in Italy
-Possible visit by the Italians
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC

Kissinger in California

Conversation No. 18-18

Date:  January 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:52 pm and 12:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 312-5]

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 18-19

Date:  January 9, 1972
Time:  12:55 pm - 1:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 312-7]

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-Space shuttle announcement
-Edmund S. Muskie's reaction
-Florida
	-Cape Kennedy
-Press reaction
-California
	-Aerospace industry
-Democrats
			-Public support
-Supersonic transport [SST]
	-Muskie’s reaction
		-Chances in Florida

George S. McGovern

Walter F. Mondale's Congressional hearings
-California, New York, Connecticut

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	Campaign practices
-Security of effort
-Apparent source
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy's friends
		-Democrats’ campaign tactics

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Tax credit legislation
-Check-off for campaign contribution
-Help for Democrats
-Elimination
-Effect on Democrats
-Tax credit issue
-John O. Pastore's proposed legislation
-Administration opposition
-Television time
-Value to Democrats

Conversation No. 18-20

Date:  January 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 pm and 1:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 18-21

Date:  January 9, 1972
Time:  1:25 pm - 1:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 312-9]

Letter to Maj. Gen. Leslie E. Brown's mother [Nora L. Moore]
-Phone call
-White House operators
-Address
-The President's location
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]

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Conversation No. 18-22

Date:  January 9, 1972
Time:  1:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 312-11]

The President's call to Nora L. Moore, mother of Maj. Gen. Leslie E. Brown
-Location
-Return call

Conversation No. 18-23

Date:  January 9, 1972
Time:  2:56 pm - 2:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Nora L. Moore.

[See Conversation No. 312-14]

Birthday greetings to Mrs. Moore

Maj. Gen. Leslie E. Brown's record

Support for the President

Conversation No. 18-24

Date:  January 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:57 pm and 4:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 18-25

Date:  January 9, 1972
Time:  4:42 pm - 4:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 312-16; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

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Conversation No. 18-26

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:46 am and 10:22 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 644-3]

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

Conversation No. 18-27

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  10:23 am - 10:24 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

[See Conversation No. 644-5A]

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Conversation No. 18-28

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:47 am and 10:49 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 644-7A]

Request for a call to Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally

Conversation No. 18-29

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  10:49 am - 10:50 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally.

[See Conversation No. 644-7B]

The President's birthday
-Gift 
-Rose Mary Woods
-Photograph of San Clemente by unknown person

Letter from the President to the Connallys

Future social event in the spring

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Trip to Africa
	-Television appearance

Conversation No. 18-30

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:58 pm and 1:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 644-14A]

Request for a call to Peter M. Flanigan

Conversation No. 18-31

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  1:11 pm - 1:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan.

[See Conversation No. 644-14B]

The President's talk with [David] Kenneth Rush
-Successor to Rush
-January 11, 1972 meeting with Melvin R. Laird
-Instructions for Flanigan
	-Candidates
	-Recommendations
-Candidates
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Robert S. Ingersoll
-Interest
	-Japan
	-William P. Rogers
-Robert W. Galvin
-Instructions for Flanigan
	-Clements

Conversation No. 18-32

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  1:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-4]

Request for a call to the Rev. William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Location

Conversation No. 18-33

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:42 pm and 2:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-5]

Availability of the Rev. William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-President’s location

Conversation No. 18-34

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:42 pm and 2:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-6]

Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 18-35

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  2:36 pm - 2:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Julie Nixon Eisenhower

[See Conversation No. 313-7]

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Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Press coverage of trip to Africa
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] News report

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Previous week's schedule
	-Big Cypress Swamp tour
		-The environmental issue
-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Press coverage of event
-The environmental issue
-Future scheduling
-Mrs. Nixon

Scheduling
-David N. Parker
-Handling of event scheduling and time use
-Workload
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox

Environmental event
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Press relations
-Nathaniel P. Reed

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Conversation No. 18-106

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:39 pm and 2:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-8]

Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 18-36

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  2:44 pm - 2:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 313-9]

Connally's schedule
-Meeting with staff

Weather in California
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Connally’s health

State of the Union address
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Discussion of value added tax [VAT]
-The President's meeting with Neil H. McElroy, Connally, Elliot L. Richardson
-Intergovernmental committee
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-The President’s possible comments
	-Reference to Connally
		-Recommendations
-Legislative strategy
	-Advisory Council on Intergovernmental relations
		-Agnew
	-Connally
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Revenue sharing, health, gold bill
-Period of consolidation for the nation
	-Domestic and international economics, diplomacy
-Legislative proposals
	-Government reorganization, health, welfare reform, revenue sharing
-International monetary policy
-New policies
-Foreign relations initiatives
	-Vietnam, forthcoming trips to Peking and Moscow
-Domestic economic policies

Connally's health
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Nelson A. Rockefeller, John N. Mitchell, Warren E. Burger

Conversation No. 18-37

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-11]

Request for a call to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Conversation No. 18-38

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  2:54 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 313-12]

Location of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Return call

Conversation No. 18-107

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:54 pm and 2:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-13]

Request for a call to Rogers C. B. Morton

Conversation No. 18-108

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  2:58 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rogers C. B. Morton.

[See Conversation No. 313-14]

The President's talk with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's assessment of Morton
	-Trip to Big Cypress Swamp

The President's trip to a wilderness area
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-John C. Whitaker
-The President’s talks with John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Parks
	-Yellowstone
-Russell E. Train
-Ehrlichman
-The President's schedule
	-State of the Union address
-Budget
-Time

Morton's conversation with Theodore Roosevelt, III
-Letter from Empress of China to Roosevelt
	-Rose Mary Woods
	-Disposition
	-Value
		-Presidential library
	-Woods

Conversation No. 18-39

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:25 pm and 3:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-20]

Request for a call to the Rev. William F. (“Billy”) Graham

Conversation No. 18-40

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:31 pm and 3:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 313-21A]

Graham's location
	-Virgin Islands

Graham's message to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

The President's birthday

Mrs. Nixon's trip to Africa
-Graham's visit

President William R. Tolbert, Jr. of Liberia
-Schedule
	-Prayer breakfast
	-Possible dinner

Conversation No. 18-41

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:34 pm and 3:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-21B]

Telephone call cut-off
	-Request for a call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham

Conversation No. 18-42

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 3:34 pm until 3:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 313-21C]

Telephone connection

President William R. Tolbert, Jr’s schedule
	-Prayer breakfast
	-Dinner
	-Visit
		-Timing

Time article on African visit
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Ruth McC. Graham

Conversation No. 18-43

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:42 pm and 3:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-21D]

Request for a call to Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 18-44

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  3:56 pm - 4:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 313-21E]

Greetings

State of the Union speech
-Progress
-First draft
-Length
-Programs
	-Agriculture, elderly
-Themes
	-Endurance
	-Forthcoming 1972 campaign
-Appeal to conservatives
-Organization
-The President's talk with Connally
-Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Intergovernmental relations committee
	-Congress
-Themes
-Consolidation
-Congress
-Burden of work
	-Tax reform
				-Government reorganization, revenue sharing, welfare reform, environment, elderly
-New proposals compared to consolidation
	-Possible tone of speech
-Appeals to Congress in election year
	-Politics
		-Bipartisan action
	-The administration's initiatives
		-Economic program
			-International monetary program
-Amount of time for preparation

The President's trip to Camp David
-Schedule
-Preparation of speech

Organization of speech
-Subjects
-Indian affairs, the environment
-Agriculture
-Aging

Draft for the President

Conversation No. 18-45

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  4:06 pm - 4:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.

[See Conversation No. 313-21F]

Thanks for present
-Razor
-Qualities

Agnew's welcome of Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Mrs. Nixon's return from trip to Africa

Secret documents
-Leak problem
-Possible meeting with the President
-Possible solution
-Court decisions
-Legislative strategy

Meeting with the President
	-State of the Union speech

Conversation No. 18-46

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:08 pm and 4:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-21G]

Request for a call to Melvin R. Laird

Conversation No. 18-47

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  4:12 pm - 4:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Melvin R. Laird.

[See Conversation No. 313-21H]

Appointments
	-[David] Kenneth Rush
		-Talk with the President
		-Forthcoming talk with Laird
		-Conflict of interest
	-Knowledge
	-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-Government
	-Respect for Laird
	-Laird’s forthcoming talk with Rush
-John N. Mitchell
	-Business background
		-Union Carbide
	-Work with the Department of Defense
	-Procurement
	-Robert C. Moot
	-Laird's conversation about Rush, William J. Porter
	-Work on Germany
	-Relationship
	-Talk with David Packard
	-Intelligence
	-Jane (Smith) Rush
		-Barbara Laird
	-Desire to stay in Bonn
		-Mitchell
	-Trustworthiness
	-Forthcoming meeting with Laird
	-Conflict of interest
	-Mitchell
	-Forced sale of assets
		-Capital gains tax
		-Packard
		-Financial holdings
		-Stocks
			-Union Carbide
		-Disposal
		-John C. Stennis
		-Union Carbide
		-Defense contracts

	Vietnam
	-Troop withdrawals
		-Henry A. Kissinger’s talk with Laird
	-Numbers
		-Forthcoming announcement
			-Timing
	-Statement in April
	-Vietnamization
	-Number
	-Change in monthly rate
	-Laird's briefing
		-Laird's briefing
	-North Vietnamese offensive
		-Tet
	-South Vietnamese counter-offensive
		-Cambodia, Laos
	-US responses
		-Air power
	-Tone
	-Congress
	-Confidence
	-Vietnamization
	-North Vietnamese actions
		-South Vietnam
	-Laos
	-Cambodia

Laos
-Bombing
	-Tonnage
		-B’52s
-Effectiveness
-Reports

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-G. McMurtrie Godley
-Psychological impact

Troop withdrawal announcement
	-The President’s instructions to Gerald L. Warren
-Laird's briefing
	-Meeting with the President
-The President's role
	-Possible diplomatic efforts
		-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Taping for TV

Rush

Leak
	-Laird’s and Mitchell’s possible meeting with the President
	-[Yeoman Charles E. Radford]
-Damage
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-The President’s view
	-Previous administrations
-Admiral Robert O. Welander

Laird's briefing
	-Meeting with the President
-Subject
-POWs
-Deadline
-North Vietnamese positions in Paris
	-George S. McGovern
	-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Bombing
	-Aid to South Vietnam
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Meetings with Porter

Conversation No. 18-48

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown time between 5:11 pm and 5:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-23]

Request for a call to Robert J. Dole

Conversation No. 18-49

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:11 pm and 5:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-24]

Request for a call to Herbert G. Klein

Conversation No. 18-50

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  5:16 pm - 5:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Herbert G. Klein.

[See Conversation No. 313-25]

Klein's program
	-News summary
-India
	-US position
		-War
-Japan, Canada
-US aid
-Anti-Americanism
-Senate opposition to aid
-B. Everett Jordan
-The President’s experiences as Vice President
	-United Nations [UN]
-Soviet Union
-Non-alliance

Henry A. Kissinger
	-Klein’s program
		-US policies toward India
-Briefing
-Popularity
-Credibility
	-Klein's call to Kissinger
		-New York Times, Washington Post
	-Press respect for Kissinger
	-Opposition to Jack N. Anderson
	-Democrats
	-Indian controversy
	-Public attitudes
-Press support for Kissinger
-Irving Kupcinet

Conversation No. 18-51

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  5:21 pm - 5:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Robert J. Dole.

[See Conversation No. 313-26]

Return of call

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Return from Africa

Dole's location
-Miami
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
	-Weather
	-Possible meeting with Dole

State of the Union address

White House dinner
-Cabinet, staff
-Maurice H. Stans's departure from the Cabinet

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Conversation No. 18-52

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  5:27 pm - 5:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 313-28]

Location

Health
-Effect of trip

Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 18-53

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:28 pm and 5:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-29]

Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 18-54

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  5:29 pm - 5:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 313-30A]

Ziegler's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Relations with the Chinese
-Press trips to the PRC
-Number
-Gerald L. Warren
-Names

Press trips to the PRC
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson, Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-List of names

Meeting with Chou En-lai

[The President conferred with Alexander m. Haig, Jr.]

Haig asked to come into office

[end of conferral]

Meeting with Chou En-lai
-Chinese table tennis team visit to the US
	-US Table Tennis Association

Conversation No. 18-55

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:31 pm and 5:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

[The President conferred with Alexander M. Haig at an unknown time after 5:31 pm.]

Wires

John A. Scali

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 313-30B]

Request for a call to Scali

Conversation No. 18-56

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  5:35 pm - 5:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John A. Scali.

[See Conversation No. 313-30C]

Trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Scali, Ronald L. Ziegler
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
	-Value

Conversation No. 18-57

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  5:47 pm - 5:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

[See Conversation No. 313-30D]

Haldeman’s talk with Henry A. Kissinger
-Melvin R. Laird
	-Vietnam
		-Troop withdrawal
			-Number
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-Max Frankel
-India-Pakistan
	-West Bengal
-Rush
-Relationship with John N. Mitchell
-Press rumors of Kissinger resignation
	-Leak

Yitzhak Rabin
-Negotiations
-Airplanes
-Soviet Union
-Meeting
	-Mitchell
	-State Department

Rumors of Kissinger resignation

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Response from the People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Signing
	-Moscow

Rumors
-Golda Meir
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Leaks
-Kissinger as target

Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger
-The PRC
-Haldeman’s conversation with Haig

Kissinger
	-Call from Haldeman
-Press relations
	-Compared to the President
		-David Kraslow, Chalmers Roberts

Meeting with William P. Rogers
-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 18-58

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:55 pm and 7:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 18-59

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  7:44 pm - 8:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Colson's health

Louis P. Harris poll
-Issues
-India-Pakistan War
-The economy
-Foreign affairs
	-Peace
	-December 1971 bombing of North Vietnam
		-Timing

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Presidential approval poll
-Issues affecting results
	-Harris poll
		-Compared to George H. Gallup poll
-India-Pakistan War
	-Press
-US relations with the People's Republic of China [PRC] and the Soviet Union
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-India-Pakistan War
-Edmund S. Muskie
	-Age and income groups
-Support for the President
	-Economic issues

Poll on ability to handle issues
	-Muskie
	-Calls to Colson
	-Economy
	-Vietnam
	-Poor
	-Crime
	-Environment
	-Health and education

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Support for the President's handling of issues
-India-Pakistan War
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-The economy
-Foreign affairs

Harris and Gallup polls

The economy
-Strengths

Foreign policy
-Recent actions
-United Nations [UN] vote, foreign aid issue

Harris poll
-The economy
-Foreign policy

Christians’ and Jews' opinion of Muskie

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Positive events for the administration
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Africa
-Japanese meeting
-San Diego trip
-January 5, 1972 approval of space shuttle development program
-Eisaku Sato's visit

Timing of polls
-Paul W. McCracken's press conference
-December 1971 bombing of North Vietnam
-India-Pakistan War
-Effect of events
	-Public opinion

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Stock market
-Status
	-Investor confidence

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Colson's health
-Schedule

Conversation No. 18-60

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:06 pm and 8:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 18-61

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:06 pm and 8:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Paul W. Keyes

Conversation No. 18-62

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  8:53 pm and 9:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Weather in California
-Weather in Washington

Work on annual foreign policy report

The President's meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Fatigue
-Trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Taiwan, Republic of China issue
-Dealings with the Chinese

	[Unintelligible]

Trip to the PRC
-Value
-Ronald L. Ziegler, John A. Scali, Haig
		-India-Pakistan War

Bangladesh
-Sheik Mujibur Rahman's arrival
-British, French
-US policy
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-The PRC
-New Delhi
-US consular official in Dacca

Haig
-Chou En-lai statement
-Mujibur Rahman

Bhutto
-Plans
	-Soviet Union

Soviet Union, India
	-Chou En-lai’s view
		-Haig

India-Pakistan relations
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Kissinger’s role
		-Possible conflict
		-Indian radio broadcast, January 9, 1972
			-Unknown people, Baluchistan
		-East Bengal
			-Possible military occupation
		-Bangladesh
		-Nationality groups

Melvin R. Laird
-Vietnam US troop withdrawal figure
	-Call to Kissinger

Vietnam negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Political prospects

State of the Union message

The President's schedule
-Kissinger's schedule

	Vietnam speech
		-Draft
		-Timing
			-State of the Union address
				-Congress

Hubert H. Humphrey's announcement
-Vietnam
	-Humphrey’s efforts

December 1971 bombing of Vietnam
-Public opinion
	-Troop withdrawal
	-Democrats

India-Pakistan War as issue
-Public opinion
	-US policy

Appointments
	-[David] Kenneth Rush
	-Talk with the President
		-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
		-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
	-John N. Mitchell
	-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
	-Mitchell
		-Trustworthiness
		-Laird, Kissinger
	-Relationship
	-Laird
	-Recommendation
	-Conflict of interest
		-[Union Carbide]
			-Defense contracts
				-David Packard
	-Confirmation
	-Term as ambassador to Germany
		-Senate
	-Meeting with Laird
	-Effectiveness
	-Compared to Packard
-Laird
-Berlin

Annual foreign policy report
-Staff effort
-India-Pakistan War
-The President’s conversation with Haldeman
-The President's press conference
-Date

Press conference
-Date of Kissinger's report

Trip to the PRC
-Schedule

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Kissinger's conversation with Haig
	-Chou- En-lai
-February 1971
-Press conference

Emilio Colombo
-Schedule
-Political prospects

Conversation No. 18-63

Date:  January 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:21 pm and 12:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation no. 312-20]

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 18-64

Date:  January 11, 1972
Time:  12:29 pm - 12:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 312-21A]

Colson's health

Trip to Camp David
-State of the Union speech

Colson’s schedule

Louis P. Harris poll on issues
-December 1971 bombing of North Vietnam
-India-Pakistan War
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. Kennedy, Edmund S. Muskie

Douglas L. Hallett's memorandum
	-Administration weaknesses
		-Compared to opponents
-Presidential approval polls
-Rise in approval from Spring 1971
-Laos
-George H. Gallup poll

Patrick J. Buchanan
-Research on Democrat candidates
-Conversation with Colson
	-Harris poll
	-Muskie
	-Positive publicity
		-Compared to the Administration
	-Primaries
		-Possible problems

Hallett's memorandum
-Contents
-Criticism
	-Objectivity
-Speechwriters
	-Nathan Glazer, Daniel J. Boorstin
-Muskie
-Suburbs
-The President's strengths
-George Meany

Colson's health
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

	The President’s schedule

Conversation No. 18-65

Date:  January 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:39 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 312-25]

Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 18-66

Date:  January 11, 1972
Time:  3:43 pm - 3:49 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 312-26]

Foreign policy annual report
	-Progress
	-Due date
-Reception
-1971 report
-Laos

South Vietnamese
-Capabilities
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Two Corps

Negotiations
-US offer
	-Possible response
		-Offensive
		-Public opinion
-Forthcoming revelation of secret negotiations

Soviet Union
-North Vietnamese offensive
	-Possible timing
	-The President's trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Haig
-Costs

Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Arrival
-Meeting with Kissinger

Maurice H. Stans

Soviet Union
-Forthcoming PRC trip by the President
-Dobrynin
	-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
	-Tone
-Relations with the PRC

The President’s schedule
	-Camp David
	-State of the Union speech

Draft of Kissinger's report

Domestic concerns

Haig
	-Laos
	-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
		-Helicopters

Laos
-Situation
	-Vientiane
-Public opinion
-1971 US operation

Weather in California

Conversation No. 18-67

Date:  January 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:49 pm and 4:02 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 312-28]

Request for a call to Stephen B. Bull

Conversation No. 18-68

Date:  January 11, 1972
Time:  4:02 pm - 4:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 312-29]

Summoning of helicopter for trip to Camp David

Conversation No. 18-69

Date:  January 11, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:03 pm and 4:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 312-30]

Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 18-70

Date:  January 11, 1972
Time:  4:05 pm - 4:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 312-31]

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Tea
-Attendance
-Comments about Mrs. Nixon's trip to Africa

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Conversation No. 18-71

Date:  January 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:30 pm and 8:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 18-72

Date:  January 12, 1972
Time:  8:09 pm - 8:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Television show with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Handling by Ziegler
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
	-Barbara Walters
	-Criticism

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-Walters
	-Stuart
-Clearance with the White House
-Editorial control
	-Instructions for Ziegler
		-Stuart
-Ziegler's forthcoming report

Conversation No. 18-73

Date:  January 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:11 pm and 8:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 18-74

Date:  January 12, 1972
Time:  8:13 pm - 8:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Colson's health

Report on Ronald L. Ziegler’s trip

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Florida issues
-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Edward J. Gurney
	-Edmund S. Muskie
		-Space shuttle
-Muskie
-Busing
-Perceptions
-Campaign to emphasize issue
-Richmond case
-Agnew
-Gurney
-Importance of issue
-Attacks on Muskie's position
-California statement
-Importance of issue
	-1972 election

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James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Public reaction to release
	-The President’s memorandum to Haldeman
		-News summary
	-Public mail
	-Colson’s conversations with unknown people
	-Press
-Importance of issue
	-Editorial comment

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Hubert H. Humphrey
-Support for space shuttle
-Busing
-J. Edgar Hoover

Campaign practices
	-Edmund S. Muskie
	-Mailings in Florida
	-Hoover
-Space shuttle
-Busing
	-John N. Mitchell’s support
	-Apparent source of mailing

Florida primary
-Humphrey's chances
-George A. Smathers
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Humphrey
-Criticism of Muskie
	-Busing, space shuttle
-Muskie
-Weaknesses
-Effect of space shuttle issue on Florida
	-George C. Wallace
-Humphrey
-Chances in primary
-Wallace
-Busing, space shuttle

Busing
-Tennessee
-Mailing on Muskie's position on busing
-Northern opposition
-Wisconsin
	-Milwaukee
		-Polish-Americans
-Humphrey

Vietnam
-Democrats' position
-New Hampshire
-Muskie
-William Loeb's influence
-Thomas J. McIntyre
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Vance Hartke
-Carey Estes Kefauver
-George S. McGovern
-Muskie

Busing issue
-Effectiveness
	-Pennsylvania, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois
-Muskie
-Mailing on busing
-Agnew

Barry M. Goldwater and Robert J. Dole

Dole
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

	[Unintelligible]

	-Muskie
	-Media coverage
	-Press view of Muskie

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Forthcoming release of economic statistics
-Gross National Product [GNP]

Stock market
	-Status

Economic indicators
	-Wholesale price figures

Colson's health

Conversation No. 18-75

Date:  January 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 pm and 9:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Price's location

Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 18-76

Date:  January 12, 1972
Time:  9:26 pm - 9:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Connally
-Qualities
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

William D. Eberle
-Japanese
-Tuna
-[Unintelligible]
	-Connally’s instructions
-Trip to London
-Japanese

Herbert Stein
-Political judgment 
-Speech
-Decontrol
-Discussion
-Cabinet committee meeting
-Inflation
-Labor opposition
-George P. Shultz, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Nathaniel Samuels
-Legislative strategy
	-Oil import controls
	-Construction trades
	-Trade council
	-Davis-Bacon Act
-Connally’s conversation with Shultz 
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
		-Competitiveness of US products
-Arthur F. Burns
	-Talks with Connally
		-Labor
-Possible talk with the President
-Shultz
	-Agreement with Connally

Economy
-Controls

The President’s schedule
-State of the Union speech
-Stein, Connally, Quadriad

Connally's conversation with Louis P. Harris
	-Public confidence in Administration
		-Bombing
		-Economic issues

Government service for youth
-Possible duration
-Unemployment
	-Democrats
-Alternatives
	-Environment
	-Local, state, federal government civilian service
	-Police
-Social and political benefits of program of national service

Budget
-Deficits
-Burns's views on money supply
-Tax cuts

Conversation No. 18-77

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:34 pm and 2:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 314-1A]

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

[Haldeman conferred with the President.]

Scheduling
	-John B. Connally
	-Unknown event
	-State of the Union speech

Conversation No. 18-78

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  2:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes.

[See Conversation No. 314-1B]

Helicopters for trip to Camp David
-Problems with weather
	-Thurmont, Maryland

Conversation No. 18-79

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  2:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 314-1C]

Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 18-80

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  2:45 pm - 2:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 314-1D]

Press relations
	-Announcement of US troop withdrawals from Vietnam
	-The President’s recent meeting with Alexandria, Virginia school children
	-The President’s birthday
	-Troop withdrawal announcement
	-Press handling
	-Melvin R. Laird
	-Soviets in Vietnam
	-Photographs
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
		-John N. Mitchell
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
	-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
	-TASS
-The President’s meeting with schoolchildren
	-Photograph

Conversation No. 18-81

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:47 pm and 3:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes.

[See Conversation No. 314-1E]

Bad weather in Camp David area
-Dangers
-Hagerstown, Frederick, Thurmont, Maryland
-Airplane
	-Anacostia
-Helicopter
-Dulles Airport
-Prospects

Conversation No. 18-82

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:47 pm and 3:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 314-1F]

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

Haldeman talked with Hughes.

The President's plans to go to Camp David
	-Transportation mode
-Best time to go
	-Thurmont, Maryland
-Weather prediction

Conversation No. 18-83

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:47 pm and 3:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 314-1G]

Request for a call to Stephen B. Bull

[Haldeman conferred with the President.]

Schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger

[End of conferral]

Haldeman talked with Bull.

The President's departure for Camp David
-First Family
-Time
-Transportation mode
	-Helicopter, car
		-Thurmont, Maryland
-Alternatives

Haldeman, Rose Mary Woods, Marjorie P. Acker
-Plans

Conversation No. 18-84

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 18-85

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  3:50 pm - 3:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 314-6]

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Conversation No. 18-112

Date:  January 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:59 pm and 7:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator called the President.

	Call from John B. Connally

Conversation No. 18-86

Date:  January 16, 1972
Time:  7:39 pm - 7:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

John B. Connally talked with the President.

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The President’s schedule

The President's call to Coach Tom Landry
	-Congratulations

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The President’s call to Landry

Conversation No. 18-87

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:24 am and 11:30 am
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 648-4B]

Request for a call to John B. Connally

[Haldeman conferred with the President.]

Schedule
-Camp David

[End of conferral]

Haldeman talked with Connally.

Meeting with the President in the afternoon

Connally's schedule
-Time
-Yugoslav Ambassador

Conversation No. 18-88

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:25 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 315-3]

Request for a call to Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 18-89

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  2:39 pm - 2:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 315-4]

Thoughts on the State of the Union message
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Leonard Garment
-Trip to Asia
-Tone and approach
	-Ehrlichman and Garment

Ehrlichman
-References to the Secretary of the Treasury
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
	-Intergovernmental relations committee
	-Tax reform
	-Intergovernmental relations committee

Revisions
-The President's notes

List of programs before Congress
-Revision of statement
-Welfare reform, revenue sharing, government reorganization
-Environment, health, education
-1971
	-Compared to 1972
-Tone
-Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor
-Handling of draft
-Additions
-Timing of delivery to the President

Conclusions
-Appeals to Congress, future generations

Conversation No. 18-90

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:43 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 315-5]

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 18-91

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  2:47 pm - 3:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 315-6]

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Dan Rather's interview with the President
-Publicity
-Compared with Edmund S. Muskie
-Response of Middle America
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] reaction
-Letters to editor
		-The President's letter to Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. about National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] show
			-Cronkite’s letter to the President about  “A Day in the Life of the Presidency”
		-William P. Rogers

Muskie's interview
-Compared with the President
-CBS handling of White House response
-Unnamed lawyer
	-Rather
-“Meet the Press”

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-Vulnerability on trust issue
-Campaign finances
	-Compared to the President
	-Maurice H. Stans

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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Interviews
	-“Meet the Press”
	-NBC
-“Issues and Answers”
	-CBS
-“Face the Nation”

Hugh Scott
-"Meet the Press"

Agnew
-Strengths
-Interviews
-John B. Connally
-Compared to Muskie
-Statement on Muskie

Media
-Buildup of Democrats
	-Hubert H. Humphrey, Muskie
	-Administration response

Democrat response to the State of the Union
	-Telephone format
		-Issues
-Television time slot

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Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-William Loeb
	-Muskie
		-Manchester Union-leader
			-Samuel W. Yorty
			-John N. Ashbrook
			-The Administration
-Help for the President
-West Coast dock strike
	-Harry Bridges

Labor
-Help for the President
-Construction workers
-Industrial states
	-New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois
	-California
-Michigan
	-Fitzsimmons
-Auto workers
	-Political orientation
-Leonard Woodcock

Conversation No. 18-92

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:16 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 315-7]

Request for a call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 18-93

Date:  January 17, 1971
Time:  3:16 pm - 3:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William L. Safire.

[See Conversation No. 315-8]

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Forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Submission of draft to the President
	-Timing
		-The President’s outline
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Form
			-National Security Council [NSC] draft
		-Negotiations
	-Troop withdrawals
	-Vietnamization
	-Numbers
	-Casualties
	-Charts
	-Conclusion of war
	-Secret negotiations
		-Substance of speech
	-References to Kissinger
	-The President's role
	-Secret talks
	-Public disclosure
	-US offers
	-Impact of disclosure
	-Purpose of disclosure
	-Secret compared to public talks
		-World War I
		-Colonel Edward M. House
	-World War II
-Deadline
-Negotiation record
	-Deadline and ceasefire
		-Prisoners of war [POWs]
		-Tone
			-Congress
			-Kissinger
	-Form of speech
	-NSC draft
	-Highlights
	-Meetings with the North Vietnamese
	-Background
		-Negotiations
			-Channels
				-The President’s interview with Dan Rather
		-Secret discussions
			-William P. Rogers, Ellsworth F. Bunker, Paris delegation
	-October 1969
		-Number of meetings
			-Kissinger
				-Paris
	-Conditions of US and the North Vietnamese
		-May 1971
			-Deadline
				-Ceasefire and POWs
		-August 1971
		-October 1971
		-Two-phase offer
		-Overthrow of South Vietnam government
			-Thieu’s offer of resignation
				-New election
	-Length of speech
	-Kissinger's reaction
		-Kissinger’s draft
	-Secret negotiations
	-Necessity of secrecy
	-The President's credibility
-Themes
	-US troop withdrawal
	-Peace in Southeast Asia
		-Vietnamization
	-Other nations
		-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Draft to the President
	-Submission time for the President
	-Kissinger
	-Second draft

Conversation No. 18-94

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:38 pm and 7:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 18-95

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  7:37 pm - 7:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

Haldeman's location

Haldeman's evaluation of Raymond K. Price, Jr.-Patrick J. Buchanan memorandum
-State of the Union speech
-1970 election
	-Price’s appraisal
		-The President’s conversation with Price
			-Camp David
	-Buchanan’s appraisal
		-Media
	-Price’s appraisal

1972 election
-Haldeman’s view
	-John B. Connally
	-Timing
-Issues
-Buchanan's analysis
	-Quality of life, revenue sharing, welfare reform
		-Value
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Price
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Leonard Garment's analysis of issues
	-1970 campaign
		-Buchanan
-1968 problems
-Richard A. Moore
-Analysis
-Charles W. Colson
-William L. Safire

Conversation No. 18-96

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:42 pm and 7:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 18-97

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  7:50 pm - 7:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo.

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Conversation No. 18-98

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  10:14 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 650-5]

Request for Charles W. Colson’s presence for meeting

Conversation No. 18-99

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:23 am and 10:55 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 650-6A]

Request for a call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 18-100

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  10:55 am - 10:58 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William L. Safire.

[See Conversation No. 650-6B]

Typing of draft
-Rose Mary Woods
-Henry A. Kissinger

Draft for the President
	-Timing for submission
-The President's schedule
-Arthur F. Burns
-Dock strike
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
	-Safire’s forthcoming meeting with the President
	-State of the Union speech
		-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Safire's draft
-Substance
	-The President’s outline
	-Kissinger
	-Theme
		-Credibility
-Points of speech
-Secrecy of negotiations
	-Seven Points
	-Deadline
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Delivery to the President
	-EOB
		-Zosimo T. Monzon

Conversation No. 18-113

Date:  January 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:58 am and 12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President attempted to make a call, which was not completed.
[The President can be heard talking to an unknown person]

Conversation No. 18-101

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  12:33 pm - 12:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield.

[See Conversation No. 650-11]

Assembling of US Senate
-Communications from the President
-Scott’s and Mansfield’s schedules
-The President's address on January 20, 1972
-Time
-Length

Possible visit of the President to Capitol Hill
	-Mansfield’s and Scott’s candidacies

Conversation No. 18-102

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  12:41 pm - 12:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with [Thomas] Hale Boggs, Gerald R. Ford, and Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 650-12A]

Greetings

Super Bowl

Assembling of the House of Representatives
-State of the Union message
	-Timing

Super Bowl
-Dallas Cowboys

State of the Union message
-Written message
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Thomas Jefferson

The US House of Representatives
-Presidential candidates
-The US Senate

Conversation No. 18-103

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 3:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 650-13A]

Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 18-104

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  3:28 pm - 3:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 650-13B]

Budget message
-Release
	-Timing
		-Arthur F. Burns

Leak on budget
-Handling
	-Burns
	-Budget message
	-Background

Announcement

Conversation No. 18-105

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  4:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 314-12]

Request for William L. Safire to come to the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building [EOB]