Conversation No. 19-1

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:12 pm and 5:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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Conversation No. 19-2

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  5:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 314-14]

	Request for Raymond K. Price, Jr. at Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 19-3

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:55 pm and 7:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator and requested a call to Charles W. Colson

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 19-4

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  7:35 pm - 7:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Edward M. Kennedy
-Comments about Vietnam
-Robert J. Dole, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends
	-Wire services story
-Scott's appearance on Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Roger H. Mudd's comments
-Michael J. Mansfield's statement
-Republican response
	-Arends
	-Dole
	-Colson's conversation about unknown book

Congress
-Clark MacGregor's efforts
-Republican leaders
-Noel C. Koch
-Republicans' mood
	-Scott
-John D. Ehrlichman's views
	-State of the Union
-Koch's views
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Mary McGrory's column, January 18, 1972
	-Kennedy
	-”Meet the Press” appearance
		-Tone
-Kennedy
-Elliot L. Richardson's forthcoming speech
-Civil rights issue
-Boston
-Administration response
	-Use of rhetoric

National economy
-Stock market
-Housing starts
	-1971 figures
	-Mortgage rates
	-Prediction
-Federal budget deficit
-Washington Star, Washington Post stories
-Responses
	-Conservatives
	-Public
		-Inflation
		-Jobs

Muskie
-Effects of negative press
-Comparisons with Kennedy
	-”Meet the Press”
-Hubert H. Humphrey's possible actions
-McGrory's column
	-”Meet the Press”

Vietnam
-Dole's forthcoming speech
-Speechwriting source
-Ngo Dinh Diem coup
-Background of US involvement in war
-Democrats' responsibility for the war

Jay Lovestone
-Conversation with Colson, January 18, 1972
-George Meany
-Space shuttle
				-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] reaction
					-Supersonic transport [SST]
-Humphrey, Muskie
	-Possible Administration strategy

Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Peter J. Brennan
-Fitzsimmons's relations with the administration
-Pay Board
-Dock strike
-Fitzsimmons's actions
-Harry Bridges
	-Executive council

National economy
-Pay Board
	-Teamsters Union
-Views of George P. Shultz and Colson
	-Fitzsimmons
-West coast dock strike
-Colson’s memorandum of January 18, 1972
-Meany
-Bridges
	-Administration handling
-The President's meeting with Shultz, January 18, 1972
-Possible administration response
	-Timing
-Possible Administration response
-Proposed legislation's status
	-Effect of strike on the West coast and on farmers
	-John B. Connally's views
	-Public reaction to strike

Congressional Republicans
	-Ford
-Scott
-Meany
-Dole's forthcoming “Today” show appearance
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Conservatives
-Reaction to proposed defense budget increase
-Ford

Conversation No. 19-5

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 10:13 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 651-4]

	Request for a call to Nelson A. Rockefeller

Conversation No. 19-6

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  10:13 am - 10:21 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller.

[See Conversation No. 651-7]

Rockefeller's “State of the State” speech
-New York Times article, January 19, 1972
-[John V. Lindsay]
-The President's programs
-”New Federalism”
	-Federal, state, city responsibilities
-New York City
-Organization of government compared to London
-Local borough councils
-Lindsay
-Tammany Hall
-New York Times' views
-Condition
-Purpose
	-Lindsay
-The President’s view
-Rockefeller’s comments about the President

Lindsay
-The President’s view
-Reaction of New Yorkers
-New York Daily News story
-Political orientation

The President's forthcoming “State of the Union” message
	-Congress
		-The President’s tone
	-Revenue sharing
	-The President's possible actions
		-Timing
	-Edward M. Kennedy
		-Partisanship
	-Rockefeller’s efforts
		-New York Times
	-Revenue sharing
	-Wilbur D. Mills
	-Republican and Democrats
	-Mass transportation
	-Use of funds
	-The President's possible conversation with George P. Shultz

National economy
-Federal budget deficit
	-Full employment
-Inflation
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Food stamps
-Mass transportation

Rockefeller's schedule

Conversation No. 19-7

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 1:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 315-10]

	Request for a call to Gen. Walter R. Tkach

Conversation No. 19-8

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  1:43 pm - 1:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gen. Walter R. Tkach.

[See Conversation No. 315-11]

Fina Sanchez
-Schedule
-Manolo Sanchez's conversation with the President
-Health
-Tkach's staff

Conversation No. 19-9

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:15 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 315-15]

	Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 19-10

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  2:29 pm - 2:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 315-16]

John B. Connally's schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan
-The President's forthcoming “State of the Union” speech
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Draft
-Request for a call from Connally

The President's forthcoming “State of the Union” speech
-The President's January 17, 1972 conversation with Connally
-Tone
-Edward M. Kennedy, Fred R. Harris
-Length
-Legislative proposals
	-Number
	-Taxes
	-Technology
	-William M. Magruder
-Tone, style
-Structure of speech
	-Outline
		-Rhythm and cadence
-Tone
-Kennedy

1972 campaign
-The President's possible organization

Kennedy
-Charles W. Colson's and Clark MacGregor's activities
-Response by Congressmen
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Robert Dole

Harris
-Possible White House response
-Attack on Connally and the administration
-Oil interests
-Possible effect
-Barry M. Goldwater's possible response
-Connally's conversation with members of Congress
-Political status

The President's forthcoming “State of the Union” speech
	-Foreign policy section
-Forthcoming foreign policy report
	-February 8, 1972

Conversation No. 19-11

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:34 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 315-18]

	Request for a call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 19-12

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  3:43 pm - 3:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William L. Safire.

[See Conversation No. 315-20]

Vietnam speech preparation
-Safire's schedule
-William P. Rogers
-The President's schedule
	-State of the Union speech
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Manolo Sanchez

Conversation No. 19-13

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  3:58 pm - 3:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 315-23]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's schedule

Conversation No. 19-14

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  4:30 pm - 4:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 315-24A]

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Conversation No. 19-15

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  4:39 pm - 4:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

John B. Connally talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 315-24B]

The President's forthcoming “State of the Union” speech
-Phraseology
	-Monetary agreements
		-Europe, Japan
			-Canada

-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Connally
-Tone
	-Campus unrest
	-Foreign policy
-Change
	-Canada
	-Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 19-16

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:42 pm and 4:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 315-24E]

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

Conversation No. 19-17

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  4:46 pm - 4:49 pm
Location:    White House Telephone

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 315-24F]

The President's forthcoming “State of the Union” speech
-Phraseology
-Price's forthcoming call to Marjorie P. Acker
-The President's previous conversation with John B. Connally
	-Canada, Japan
-Taxes
-Canada, Japan
	-Acker
-Taxes
	-Connally
		-John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 19-18

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:06 pm and 5:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 315-24I]

	Request for a call to Gen. Walter R. Tkach

Conversation No. 19-19

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  5:17 pm - 5:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gen. Walter R. Tkach.

[See Conversation No. 315-24J]

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Conversation No. 19-20

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:30 pm and 7:02 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Fina Sanchez

Conversation No. 19-21

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  7:02 pm - 7:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Fina Sanchez.

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Conversation No. 19-22

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:03 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 19-23

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  7:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
	-Kennedy Center

Conversation No. 19-24

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:14 pm and 7:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 19-25

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  7:22 pm - 7:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

Charles W. Colson's schedule
-White House dinner, January 20, 1972
	-Cabinet officers
-Herbert G. Klein

Conversation No. 19-26

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:38 am and 10:47 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 19-27

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:38 am and 10:47 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's schedule

Conversation No. 19-28

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  10:47 am - 11:06 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Desk
-Clement Conger

[End of conferral]

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

The President's conversation with Butterfield

Previous staff meeting
-John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, Clark MacGregor
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule
-Loyalty
-The People's Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-India-Pakistan
-Bombing
-Polls
	-Haldeman’s comments

White House staff
-Attitude
	-Campaign
-Raymond K. Price, Jr., Patrick Buchanan, Douglas L. Hallett
-Harry S. Dent
-Compared to 1971
-News summary
	-Buchanan
-Butterfield, Ehrlichman
-Arrangements to sign State of the Union message
-Work of staff in preparation of message
-MacGregor, Charles W. Colson
-Attitude
	-Realism
-John B. Connally

Date
-Anniversary of the presidential inauguration in 1969
	-Recent staff meeting

The President's schedule
	-Breakfast
	-Democrats
	-Republicans
		-Michael J. Mansfield, Carl B. Albert
-F. Edward Hebert, John C. Stennis
-Republicans
	-Seniority
-Cabinet dinner toasts
-Wives of Cabinet members
	-Butterfield
-Kathleen (Carmody) Stans, Martha Love (Woods) Hardin
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew, Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Mrs. Rogers
-Mrs. Hardin and Mrs. Stans
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Butterfield
-White House dinner
-Colson
-Virginia H. Knauer
-John A. Scali

Previous staff meeting
-Kissinger's presentation
	-Analysis

The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting, January 20, 1972
-Agenda
-Shultz
	-Budget
-Haldeman's conversation with Connally
-Herbert Stein, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-State of the Union speech
-Possible duration

Harlow
-Conversation with Haldeman
	-Oklahoma

The President's schedule
-White House dinner, January 20, 1972
-Arrangements
	-Timing
		-Receiving line
		-Comparison with state dinners
		-Mrs. Nixon
	-Guests
		-Cabinet compared to non-Cabinet

The administration's standing
-Status
-Factors
-Congress
-Foreign policy
-Economic policy

Polls
-George H. Gallup
-Louis P. Harris
-Typified

Conversation No. 19-29

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:06 am and 11:10 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 19-30

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  11:10 am - 11:11 am
Location:  White House Telephone

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

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming speech
-Make-up man

Conversation No. 19-31

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  11:12 am - 11:13 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President.

State of the Union message
-Rose Mary Woods
-Changes in wording of text
	-Supreme Court decisions

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Conversation No. 19-32

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:22 pm and 1:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 652-3A]

Request for a call to William [C. Lewis]
-Margaret Chase Smith

Conversation No. 19-33

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:22 pm and 1:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 652-3B]

Request for a call to William C. Lewis
-Margaret Chase Smith

Conversation No. 19-34

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  1:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 652-3C]

William C. Lewis’s location
	-Return call

Conversation No. 19-35

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:52 pm and 5:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 652-13A]

	Request for a call to Richard E. Berlin
		-Berlin’s location
			-Roosevelt Hospital
				-New York

Conversation No. 19-36

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  5:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 652-13B]

Request for a call to Richard E. Berlin
	-Hospital room number

Conversation No. 19-182

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:22 pm and 6:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked to the President.

	Status of call placed to Richard E. Berlin

Conversation No. 19-37

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:00 pm and 6:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 652-15A]

Request for a call to Robert H. Finch
-Location

Conversation No. 19-38

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  6:06 pm - 6:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President conferred with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President talked with Robert H. Finch.

[See Conversation No. 652-15B]

Finch's health
-The President's conversation with Butterfield
-Carol (Crothers) Finch

The President's previous “State of the Union” speech
-Tone
-Harry S. Truman
	-The President’s support for programs

Finch's health

Conversation No. 19-39

Date:  January 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:04 pm and 10:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 19-40

Date:  January 23, 1972
Time:  10:07 am - 10:31 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's location

The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Draft
	-The President’s efforts
		-Florida
	-Timing
		-Rose Mary Woods
	-William L. Safire
-Secret negotiations
-World War I and [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Compared to public channels
	-World War I, World War II, Korea
-Possible reaction by the President's opponents
-Safire's views about revelation
-Status of proposals
	-Vietnamization
-Possible US military activity

Vietnam
-[Unintelligible]
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

The President's forthcoming speech
	-Conclusion
-Vietnam
-Secret negotiations
-Jack N. Anderson papers, Pentagon Papers
-Critics
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Safire
	-Woods
-Vietnam
-Possible US military activity
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Popular expectations

	[Unintelligible]

-Tone of speech
-Vietnam
-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Washington Post editorial
	-Deadline for POWs
		-Ceasefire

Vietnam
-Negotiations
	-POWs
		-Deadline and ceasefire
	-South Vietnam government
-Press handling
-The President's interview with Dan Rather
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Administration's response
-The President's schedule
-Meeting with Republican Congressmen
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Public action by supporters of the President's policy
-Tone of speech
-Withdrawal
-The President's critics
	-Haldeman’s comments

[Unintelligible]

Vietnam
-The President' opponents
-Left’s conflicts with right
	-Spanish Civil War
-Liberals

Harrison E. Salisbury
-US foreign relations
-Soviet Union, People's Republic of China [PRC]

	[Unintelligible]

The President's schedule
-United Nations [UN]
-Budget
-Kurt Waldheim
-Safire

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Possible effect on the President's support

	[Unintelligible]

-South Vietnamese military capacity

Conversation No. 19-41

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 317-5]

	Request for a call to Wilbur D. Mills

Conversation No. 19-42

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  1:52 pm - 1:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Wilbur D. Mills.

[See Conversation No. 317-6A]

Mills's health
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Nelson A. Rockefeller, Warren E. Burger, John N. Mitchell, the President
-Rockefeller's call to Mills
-Mills’s doctor
-Schedule

Mills's granddaughter

The President talked with Mills’s granddaughter.

Mills's health

The President talked with Mills.

Mills's granddaughter

Mills's mother, Abbie L. (Daigh) Mills

The President talked with Abbie Mills.

Mills

The President's health

Mills's health

The President talked with Mills.

The President conversation with Mitchell
-Mills's schedule

Conversation No. 19-43

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  3:08 pm - 3:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

William L. Safire talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 317-8]

The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-The President's schedule

Conversation No. 19-44

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:17 pm and 3:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 317-11]

	Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 19-45

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  3:23 pm - 3:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 317-12]

The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Connally's forthcoming review
-Henry A. Kissinger, William L. Safire

Connally's previous speeches
	-Labor and business
-Reaction
	-Labor

Connally's schedule
-Speech and meetings in New York City
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Peter G. Peterson

Aid to parochial schools
-Possible action by the administration
	-Legislative strategy

Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-William P. Rogers
-Gift for San Clemente from the Cabinet members
-Hammer Galleries
-Nellie Connally, Adele (Langston) Rogers

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Conversation No. 19-46

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:29 pm and 3:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 317-13]

	Request for a call to Adele (Langston) Rogers

Conversation No. 19-47

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  3:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 317-14]

Adele (Langston) Rogers's schedule

Request for a call to Frank T. Bow

Conversation No. 19-48

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  3:36 pm - 3:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Congressman Frank T. Bow.

[See Conversation No. 317-15A]

Bow's tenure in office
-Elford A. Cederburg
-Congressional committee

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-The President's schedule
	-Bahamas

	Bow’s schedule
		-Key Biscayne

	The President’s schedule
		-Walker’s Cay

Conversation No. 19-49

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  3:46 pm - 3:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger conferred with the President.

Vietnam negotiations

[End of conferral]

[The President talked with Adele (Langston) Rogers between 3:46 pm and 3:47 pm.]

[See Conversation No. 317-15B]

Gift for San Clemente from Cabinet members
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Sculptor

The President's previous dinner for the Cabinet
-Reaction

Conversation No. 19-50

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:05 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 317-15E]

	Request for a call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 19-51

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:05 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Kissinger talked with William L. Safire; the President can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 317-15F]

The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Kissinger's conversation with the President
-Rose Mary Woods
-Changes
-Translation
-William Rogers's possible review
	-Changes
-Nguyen Van Thieu's clearance
-Rogers's expectations
-Typing
-Woods
-Preparation
	-Editing

Conversation No. 19-52

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:20 pm and 4:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 317-16]

	Request for a call to John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 19-53

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  4:27 pm - 4:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 317-17]

The President’s schedule
	-Recent trip to Walker's Cay

The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible reaction
-Negotiations
	-Proposals
		-Withdrawal
			-Duration
			-Ceasefire and prisoners of war [POWs]

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	-[John Sherman Cooper]
		-Campaign efforts
	-Appointment for staff member

Frank L. Rizzo
-Conversation with the President
-Government funding
-Conversation with Walter H. Annenberg

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Rizzo [?]
	-John D. Ehrlichman's possible actions
	-Federal funds, agencies
			-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA], Department of Transportation
	-Possible calls from Mitchell

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-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Revenue sharing
-Taft-Hartley Act
-Dock strike
	-Farmers
-Rural Electrification Administration [REA] funds
-Prospects

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The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Kissinger's forthcoming press briefing
-Response to opponents of the President's policies
	-Secret negotiations
	-Congressional deadline
		-Administration offer
			-Ceasefire and POWs

Vietnam
-Negotiations
	-October 1971

1972 campaign
-Issues
-Rockefeller and Ogilvie
	-Revenue sharing
	-Democrats

	Vietnam
-South Vietnam’s survival
	-Prospects
		-Armed Forces
			-US air support
			-Compared to North Vietnam
				-Communication lines
				-Air power
-Press treatment
-North Vietnam
	-Prospects for military progress
-Rainy season
-Military press briefings in Saigon
	-Mitchell's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
			-The President's forthcoming meeting with Melvin R. Laird and Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Conversation No. 19-54

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  4:59 pm - 5:02 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William S. White.

[See Conversation No. 654-1A]

White's health
-The President's conversation with Patrick J. Buchanan
-Status

Conversation No. 19-55

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:18 pm and 5:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 654-1B]

	Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 19-56

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  5:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 654-1C]

John B. Connally's location

Conversation No. 19-57

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  7:08 pm - 7:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

John B. Connally talked with the President.

Ambassadorship to West Germany
-The President's conversation with Peter M. Flanigan
-William P. Clements, Jr.
	-Richard M. Paget of the First National City Bank
	-Walter B. Wriston
	-Personality
	-Possible reaction by West Germany
	-Health
	-Possible conversation with Connally
	-Experience
		-World War II
			-Navy
				-Procurement office
	-Ash Council

Conversation No. 19-58

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  7:55 pm - 7:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Review
-John B. Connally
-U. Alexis Johnson
	-State Department
	-Cables
-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Suggestion for phrasing
		-Election
			-Proposal
		-Doves

Thieu
-Forthcoming speech
	-Possible resignation
-Kissinger's cable to Ellsworth F. Bunker
	-Backgrounder
-Prospects
	-Election

The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Johnson
-Reaction
-Previous conversation with William P. Rogers
-Possible effect
-October 11, 1971 proposal by the US
-Complexity
	-Two stages

Conversation No. 19-59

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:36 pm and 5:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 316-14]

	Request for a call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 19-60

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  5:30 pm - 5:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 316-15]

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Conversation No. 19-61

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  6:31 pm - 6:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 316-18B]

Call from Alexander M. Haig, Jr. to the President

Haig talked with the President.

The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger's suggestions
-Military options
-Negotiations
	-October 1971
-Troop withdrawal
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Recent briefing
-North Vietnam
-Phrasing
	-The President’s credibility
-Kissinger's briefings
	-Interdepartmental group
	-Press
	-White House political staff
	-Tone
	-Negotiating history
-Kissinger's draft

Conversation No. 19-62

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  6:41 pm - 6:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Informing people
-Robert J. Dole, Henry Cabot Lodge, David K.E. Bruce
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-Cabinet
-Clark MacGregor
-Handling of Republican leaders
-Kissinger's previous meeting
-Marshall Green, Robert J. McCloskey, Dan Hankin, G. Warren Nutter
-Value
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Content and phraseology
-Chronology of negotiations
	-Kissinger’s draft
		-Tone
			-Compared to the President’s draft
-White House staff's reaction
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Possible reaction
-Nguyen Van Thieu's actions
-Secret negotiations

Conversation No. 19-63

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:44-8:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

An unknown person talked with the White House operator.

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Conversation No. 19-64

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 9:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger conferred with the President.

Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 19-65

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin.

Vietnam
-Negotiations
	-Tone
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Meeting with the President
-Possible resolution of conflict
	-Possible military outcome
-Kissinger's conversation with the President
	-Possible Moscow meeting
-Dobrynin’s telegram
-Negotiations
	-Publicity
		-Advantage
-Possible North Vietnamese actions
	-Possible US response
-US negotiations with North Vietnam

Kissinger's schedule
-Dobrynin’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Negotiations
	-Dobynin’s possible transmittal of message
		-Dobrynin’s schedule
-North Vietnam

	Kissinger’s schedule

	Negotiations
		-North Vietnam
			-Possible military action

Conversation No. 19-66

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Status of Kissinger’s call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 19-67

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger conferred with the President.

Vietnam
	-Possible military action
-US response

[End of conferral]

Kissinger talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President's previous speech on Vietnam
-Reaction
-Television commentators
				-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC], National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC], Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Marvin L. Kalb, [Arnold] Eric Sevareid, Dan Rather
	-Broadcasting
-Forthcoming television network special broadcasts
	-CBS, NBC
-The President's delivery
-National press reports
-The President’s schedule
-Kalb
	-Possible interview
-Charles W. Colson's possible action
-Telegrams
-Rather's comments
	-Withdrawal date, Vietnamization
		-Responses by Sevareid and Kalb
-ABC, CBS
-Duration
-The President's delivery
-Kissinger's previous briefings
	-Staff

Conversation No. 19-68

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Tricia Nixon Cox's call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Location
-The President
-Lincoln Sitting Room

Conversation No. 19-69

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator; the President can be heard in the background.

Request for a call to his office

Kissinger talked with Mildred M. Marshall.

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s location

Telephone calls
-Martin Schram, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Haig

Kissinger talked with Haig.

The President's previous speech on Vietnam
-Reaction
-George H.W. Bush's call to Haig
	-United Nations [UN]
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's call to Kissinger
-Press
-John A. Scali's view
-Networks
-Leslie H. Gelb on Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

Cables
-Winston Lord

Conversation No. 19-70

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson for Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 19-71

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with Charles W. Colson.

The President's previous speech on Vietnam
-Reaction
-Colson's possible efforts
-Press, veterans, business, labor
-Kissinger's recent staff briefing
	-Colson's efforts
-Reaction
	-Left-wing
-Efforts by George P. Shultz and Robert H. Finch

Conversation No. 19-72

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 19-73

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Reaction to the President's previous speech on Vietnam
-Ziegler's conversation with Ralph Marini of St. Joseph’s College, Indiana
-The President's efforts
-Marini’s voting record
	-John F. Kennedy
-Calls to White House
	-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.
-Kissinger's briefing, January 26, 1972

Conversation No. 19-74

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to John A. Scali

Conversation No. 19-75

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

Call to John A. Scali

Request for a call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 19-76

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Status of calls to John A. Scali and William P. Rogers

Kissinger talked with Scali.

The President's previous speech on Vietnam
-Reaction
-Tone
-Delivery
-Reaction
-Press
-Scali's role

Conversation No. 19-77

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with William P. Rogers.

The President's recent speech on Vietnam
-Rogers's meeting with Congressional leaders

The President talked with Rogers.

Rogers’s meeting with Congressional leaders
-Views of Kissinger, John A. Scali, Ronald L. Ziegler

Rogers's location
-The Prime Minister of the Netherlands

The President's recent speech on Vietnam
-Reaction
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Conversation with Rogers
-Perception of Rogers
-Mansfield
-The Prime Minister of the Netherlands
	-View of the President’s delivery

Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Political future
-Administration efforts
	-Public expectations
-US offers
-Possible US military action
-The President's schedule
-The President’s talk with Kissinger
				-Rogers, Melvin R. Laird, Thomas H. Moorer, Richard M. Helms, Kissinger
			-Timing
						-Possible North Vietnamese attack
-Military advice
-The President's schedule
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.’s telegram
-Purpose
-Military's projections

The President's schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Rogers
-Vietnam meeting
-Ambassador William J. Porter
	-Paris
-Contingency planning

Vietnam
-Possible US military action
	-Administration culpability
-Washington Post story, January 25, 1972
-The President's previous speech

Conversation No. 19-78

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 19-79

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 19-80

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  10:03 pm - 10:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

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Conversation No. 19-81

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 pm and 10:l7 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

Status of call to John B. Connally
-Connally's operator

Conversation No. 19-82

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 pm and 10:l7 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 19-83

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 pm and 10:l7 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

John B. Connally's location

Request for a call to John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 19-84

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 pm and 10:l7 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with John N. Mitchell.

The President's recent speech on Vietnam
-Reaction
-Television commentators
	-J. William Fulbright
-Peter H. Dominick
-”Doves”
	-Negotiations
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Withdrawal date
-Public
-Views of John A. Scali and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-State and Defense Departments
	-Haldeman
-Kissinger's meeting with Haldeman and White House staff
-Possible effect

Conversation No. 19-85

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 pm and 10:l7 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator..

Possible call from John B. Connally
	-Kissinger’s office

Conversation No. 19-86

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 pm and 10:l7 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 19-87

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  10:17 pm - 10:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

The President's previous speech on Vietnam
-Possible effect
-Colson's conversation with Louis P. Harris
-Presidential credibility
-Public sympathy
-Possible reaction
-The President's opponents
-Veterans groups
	-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Prisoners of war [POWs] wives
-Reaction
	-“Hawks”
-John N. Ashbrook
	-Left-wing
	-POWs
-Colson's conversation with Brad Morris
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Mansfield Amendment
-Colson's conversation with Howard K. Smith
-Colson's meeting in MacGregor's office
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends, Robert J. Dole
-J. William Fulbright
-Edward M. Kennedy, Edmund S. Muskie
-Douglas L. Hallett
-Call to Kingman Brewster of Yale University

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News focus
-Budget
	-Effect of Vietnam speech

Conversation No. 19-88

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  10:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 19-89

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  10:25 pm - 10:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

The President's recent speech on Vietnam
-Reaction
-The President's conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Clark MacGregor, William P. Rogers
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] special broadcast
-J. William Fulbright
	-Vietcong, North Vietnamese
-Peter H. Dominick
-Fulbright
	-Deficit, budget
-Congress
-Robert J. Dole, Frank F. Church, Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Clement Zablocki
					-New York Times, Washington, Post, NBC, American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC], Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Olin E. (Tiger”) Teague, Florence P. Dwyer, Wallace F. Bennett, Jacob K. Javits, Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
-Lou Frey, Jr.
-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Effect on Democrat opposition
	-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
		-1972 election
-Frank T. Bow
-Sam Devine
-Donald D. Clancy, John H. Kyl, Richard Roudebush
-Gale W. McGee
-John Sherman Cooper
-John C. Stennis
-Michael J. Mansfield
-William B. Saxbe
-Unions
-President of Sheet Metal Workers
-Prisoners of war [POW] wives
-Wine union workers
-Secretary-treasurer of the United Steelworkers
-Two sons
-Businessmen
	-John F. McGillicuddy of Hanover Trust
	-Oscar Mayer
	-Taft Schreiber
	-Chairman of Philadelphia National Bank
	-[Frederick King?] Weyerhaeuser
-Academic community
	-Hagen Smith of California Technical Institute
	-Engineering dean of Penn State University
	-National Science Foundation Research Director
	-Foreign Policy Research Institute of the University of Pennsylvania
	-Dracovitch (sp?) of Hoover Institute
	-Michigan State University
		-POW wives
		-Thieu
-Armed Forces Associations
	-Air Force Association
	-Jewish War Veterans
	-Disabled American Veterans
	-American Legion
	-Reserve Officers' Association
	-Commandant, Marine Corps League
	-Retired Officers Association
	-National Guard Association
-Press
	-Bob White of Mexico, Missouri
	-Martin S. Hayden
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement
	-Mike O'Neill of the New York Daily News
	-James S. Copley
	-Lou Guzzo (sp?) of Seattle Post-Intelligencer
	-Ken Morrell (sp?) of Nashville Banner
	-George Healy in New Orleans
	-Fred Marquard of Phoenix Gazette
		-Jack N. Anderson
-Forthcoming telephone poll
-Press
	-Bruce Palmer of Kansas City Star
	-Vincent M. Dwyer of Rocky Mountain News
	-Murray Light of Buffalo News
	-Reg Murphy of Atlanta Constitution
	-Robert Eddy of Hartford Courant
		-Fulbright, William Proxmire, David Brinkley
-Ronald L. Ziegler's conversation with [Ralph Marini]
-Wire services
-Stennis, Dole
-The President's opponents
-Philip A. Hart
-Mansfield amendment
-Alan Cranston
-Jerry Gordon of National Peace Action Coalition
-Congress
-John G. Tower
-J. Glen Beall
-Robert C. Byrd
-Gerald R. Ford
-Reverend Carl McIntyre
-Congress
-John N. Ashbrook
	-POWs
-Henry M. (“Scoop”)Jackson
-Tower, Javits
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Kissinger's conversation with John B. Connally

Henry A. Kissinger talked with Haldeman.

Vietnam speech
	-Connally
	-Comments on speech delivery, political effect
	-Kissinger’s conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller

1972 campaign
-Rockefeller
	-Labor

Kissinger's schedule

The President talked with Haldeman.

The President's previous speech on Vietnam
-Reaction
-James D. Hodgson
-George W. Romney
-George H.W. Bush
	-Schedule
		-Addis Ababa
-United Nations [UN]
-The President's opponents
-Reaction
	“Doves”
		-North Vietnam
-Fulbright
-Thieu
		-Thieu
			-Political prospects

Conversation No. 19-90

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:47 am and 7:52 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 656-5]

	Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 19-91

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  7:52 am - 7:53 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 656-7A]

Woods’s schedule
	-Reaction to Vietnam speech at party, January 25, 1972

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Conversation No. 19-92

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 am and 10:11 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 656-9]

	Request for a call to Paul J. Fannin

Conversation No. 19-93

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  10:11 am - 10:12 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Paul J. Fannin.

[See Conversation No. 656-10A]

Fannin’s schedule
	-Europe
	-Fannin's birthday

Carl T. Hayden
-President's conversation with Barry M. Goldwater

The President's previous speech on Vietnam

Conversation No. 19-94

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:12 am and 10:17 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 656-10B]

	Request for a call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 19-181

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  10:17 am - 10:18 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 656-10C]

The President's schedule
-Prime Minister of the Netherlands
-Rogers’s performance
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Attitude
	-The President’s recent Vietnam speech
	-Budget meeting
-Compared to the President's conduct as Vice President
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles

Barry M. Goldwater
-Comment about the North Vietnamese

Conversation No. 19-95

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:18 am and 10:42 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 656-10D]

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

Conversation No. 19-96

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  10:42 am - 10:43 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 656-10E]

The President's schedule
-The Prime Minister of the Netherlands
-J. William Middendorf, II

Conversation No. 19-97

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  12:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 656-13A]

	Request for a call to Ronald W. Reagan

Conversation No. 19-98

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

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 656-15]

Request for a call to Cornelius A. Scott of the Atlanta Daily-World
-Telephone number

Conversation No. 19-99

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:14 pm and 12:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

The President conferred with Rose Mary Woods.

	Henry A. Kissinger

[See Conversation No. 656-17A]

Ronald W. Reagan's location

Call to Cornelius Scott

Conversation No. 19-100

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:14 pm and 12:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Cornelius A. Scott.

[See Conversation No. 656-17A]

Death of Scott's brother

Stanley S. Scott
-Performance in office at the White House

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Death of Scott's brother

Conversation No. 19-101

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  12:56 pm - 1:02 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald W. Reagan.

[See Conversation No. 656-18]

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Reagan's schedule
	-Trustees meeting
	-Interview

The President's previous speech on Vietnam
-Call to Reagan
-Henry A. Kissinger, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible effect
-Negotiations
	-Senate

Vietnam negotiations
-Need for unity
-Possible response by North Vietnam to US proposals

William French Smith's possible role with the administration
	-Reagan’s conversation with John N. Mitchell
		-Supreme Court, Attorney General

Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Possible role with the administration
	-Attorney General

Replacement of Mitchell as Attorney General
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Requirements

Robert H. Finch
-Meeting with the President, January 25, 1972
-Forthcoming meeting with Reagan

Conversation No. 19-102

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 pm and 1:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 656-22]

Request for a call to Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess
-The President's schedule

Conversation No. 19-103

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 pm and 1:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 656-23]

	Request for a call to M. Gene Snyder

Conversation No. 19-104

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  1:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 19-105

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  1:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 656-24]

M. Gene Snyder's location

Conversation No. 19-106

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  2:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 656-25]

	Request to hold a call

Conversation No. 19-107

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:00 pm and 3:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 318-1]

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 19-108

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  3:29 pm - 3:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 318-3A]

The President's previous speech on Vietnam
	-The President’s talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger's press briefing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Forthcoming question and answer [Q & A] session
-Haig
-Patrick J. Buchanan, William L. Safire
-Peace plan
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Agnew's forthcoming speech
-Edmund S. Muskie
	-Florida
-Forthcoming Q & A
	-National unity
		-Negotiations
			-POWs
	-Briefing
-Haig
-Safire, Buchanan
-Reaction
-Efforts of Colson's staff
-Wire services
-Credibility of and sympathy for the President
	-Louis P. Harris
-Harris's views
-Albert E. Sindlinger's poll
-Colson's conversation with Edward W. Brooke
-North Vietnam
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Agnew
-George H.W. Bush
-William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming press conference
	-Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing
	-Television
-Clark Kerr
-George P. Shultz
-Frank Stanton's call to Colson
-House of Representatives
	-“Doves”
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Telegrams from POW families
-Ziegler
-TV ratings
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 19-109

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 318-3B]

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

Conversation No. 19-110

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with Bryce N. Harlow.

[See Conversation No. 318-3C]

Haldeman's schedule

Congressional January 25, 1972 leadership meeting about the President's Vietnam speech
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's conduct
-Previous meetings
	-Staff meeting
	-Harlow’s possible efforts
	-Cabinet meeting
		-Budget
		-Decisionmaking process
-Motivation
-Mentality
	-Congressional relations
-Henry A. Kissinger's comments
-Kissinger's reaction

Harlow's schedule
-Agnew
-Clarence D. Ward

Agnew
-Role in the 1972 campaign
-Conduct

Conversation No. 19-111

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 318-3D]

	Request for a call to Frank Stanton of Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

Conversation No. 19-112

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  3:58 pm - 4:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Frank Stanton.

[See Conversation No. 318-3E]

Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] television technical crews
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's Christmas show
-Dan Rather's interview
-The President's speech, January 25, 1972
-Professionalism

The President's speech, January 25, 1972, on Vietnam
-Stanton's conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Ratings

	Stanton’s health

The President's health

	The President’s schedule
		-Speechwriting
			-State of the Union speech
			-Vietnam speech
			-Forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
			-Press conference

CBS television technical crews
-Message from the President
-William S. Paley

Conversation No. 19-113

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:01 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:   White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 318-3F]

	Request for a call to William H. Carruthers

Conversation No. 19-114

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:01 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with William H. Carruthers.

[See Conversation No. 318-3H]

The President's January 25, 1972 speech on Vietnam
-The President's delivery
	-Pace
-The President's physical appearance
	-Florida
-The President's delivery
	-Pace
-Reaction
-Construction
	-The President’s confidence
-Compared to the President's first economic message
-Camera angle

Conversation No. 19-115

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  4:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 318-4]

	Request for calls to John B. Connally and George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 19-116

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  4:20 pm - 4:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 318-5]

The President's schedule
-Shultz
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Congressman Page Belcher

Conversation No. 19-117

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:21 pm and 4:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 318-6]

	Request for a call to George W. Romney

Conversation No. 19-118

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  4:23 pm - 4:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George W. Romney.

[See Conversation No. 318-7A]

The President's speech, January 25, 1972, on Vietnam
-Romney's comments

The President asked an unknown person [George P. Shultz?] to enter the room.

Vietnam
-Negotiations
	-Secrecy

Conversation No. 19-119

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  4:36 pm - 4:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 318-7B]

International monetary situation
-Convertibility
-The President's meeting with George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Arthur F. Burns's comments

Canada-US trade relations
-Connally’s possible conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Importance
-Signal to Japan, Europe
	-Currency realignment
		-Flotation
-The President's schedule
-Pierre E. Trudeau
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-Connally’s forthcoming testimony

International monetary situation
-Convertibility
-Burns
-The President’s conversation with Shultz
-Stein
-Burns's contacts with the central banks
-The President's conversation with Shultz
-Europeans
	-Convertibility
		-US budget

India
-Bangladesh
	-Grant
		-Amount
-Connally’s note to Kissinger
	-US aid to India
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Kissinger

Connally's schedule
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Richmond Chamber of Commerce
	-The President’s congressional experience
-Busing issue

Conversation No. 19-120

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:42 pm and 4:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 318-7C]

	Request for a call to Peter M. Flanigan

Conversation No. 19-121

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  4:47 pm - 4:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan.

[See Conversation No. 318-7D]

Appointments
	-Marina Von N. Whitman’s children
	-Schools
	-Sidwell Friends
	-Landon
	-National Cathedral School
	-Herbert Stein
	-Landon
	-William P. Rogers
		-Unnamed headmaster

Conversation No. 19-122

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:12 pm and 5:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 657-1A]

	Request for a call to Clark MacGregor

Conversation No. 19-123

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  5:14 pm - 5:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

[See Conversation no. 657-1B]

MacGregor's forthcoming call to Tulsa, Oklahoma
-The President's meeting with Page Belcher

Conversation No. 19-124

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:47 pm and 7:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 19-125

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  7:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Charles W. Colson's location
	-Sheraton Park Hotel

Conversation No. 19-126

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:51 pm and 8:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 19-127

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  8:00 pm - 8:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

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Conversation No. 19-128

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:03 pm and 8:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis

Conversation No. 19-129

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  8:18 pm - 8:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis.

Dinner, January 28, 1972
-Tayloe House
-Medal of Freedom presentation to DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace
-The President's toast
-Wallaces
-DeWitt Wallace's toast
	-State Dining Room

The President's January 25, 1972 speech on Vietnam
-North Vietnamese reaction
-US response
-“Doves”
-Possible North Vietnamese offensive
-Negotiations
	-Secrecy
	-Seven Points
	-Deadline, Prisoners of war [POWs], ceasefire
-Production
	-State of the Union speech

The Wallace's forthcoming White House visit

Conversation No. 19-130

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  8:40 pm - 8:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's location

Kissinger's schedule

Conversation No. 19-131

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  11:30 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 658-8]

	Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 19-132

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  11:32 am - 11:41 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 658-9A]

Connally's January 26, 1972 speech to the Richmond Chamber of Commerce
-Attendees
	-Crowd size
	-Reception
-Governor Linwood Holton
-Lt. Governor Henry E. Howell, Jr.
-The Attorney General of Virginia
-Congressman David E. Satterfield, III
-Virginia Holton
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Views of the President’s position
-Richmond court decision
	-Judge [Robert R. Merhige]
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Connally's comment
		-Response

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-Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Law partner Robert Buford[?]

Connally's January 26, 1972 speech in Richmond
-Crowd size
	-Mrs. Holton’s comment to Mrs. Connally

Connally's schedule
-Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce
-Chambers of Commerce
	-Composition

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Cabinet changes
-Maurice H. Stans, Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan
-The President's comments about his talk with Connally

Connally's schedule
-Bankers

National economy
-The President's conversation with George P. Shultz
-M-1 monetary indicator
-Arthur F. Burns's views
-Burns
	-Alfred Hayes of the New York Federal Reserve Bank
	-Andrew Brimmer
-Bankers
-Connally's schedule
	-Possible speech
-Meeting, January 26, 1972
-Refinancing issue
-Loans
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Brimmer
-Possible role with the administration
-Shultz
	-William P. Rogers
-Bankers
-Connally's forthcoming conversation with William B. Camp
-Connally's schedule
-The President's schedule
-Interest rates
-Views about the FRB’s money policy
-Views about inflation
-Inflation
	-Output per man-hour
	-Wage and price board

Richard M. Paget
-Forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Conversation with Connally
-Business situation
	-First National City Bank
	-Business climate

Appointments
	-Candidates
	-Posts
		-Examples
			-Bonn

Conversation No. 19-133

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:03 pm and 2:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 658-12]

	Request for a call to Michael J. Mansfield

Conversation No. 19-134

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:10 pm - 2:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Michael J. Mansfield.

[See Conversation No. 658-15]

The President's January 25, 1972 speech on Vietnam
-Mansfield's statement

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Possible North Vietnamese military activity
	-Timing
-President’s opponents
	-President’s motives
		-Politics
-The President's conversations with Mansfield
-Secrecy
				-The President's conversation with William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger
	-World Wars I and II
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] and the Soviet Union
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

The President's forthcoming trip to the PRC
-The President's schedule
	-Hawaii, Guam
-Meetings with congressional leaders
-Advance party
	-Illness
-Negotiations
	-Duration
-The President's schedule
	-Hawaii, Guam
	-Talks, tours
-Schedules of Mansfield and Hugh Scott

Conversation No. 19-135

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:17 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 658-16]

	-Request for a call to George Meany

Conversation No. 19-136

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 658-17]

George Meany's location

Conversation No. 19-137

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:20 pm and 2:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 658-18]

	Request for a call to Jerry V. Wilson

Conversation No. 19-138

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:23 pm - 2:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Jerry V. Wilson.

[See Conversation No. 658-20]

District of Columbia crime rate
	-State of the Union speech
-The President's letters to police inspectors

Frank L. Rizzo
-Meeting with the President

Wilson's wife's health

Conversation No. 19-139

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:24 pm and 2:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 658-21]

	Request for a call to Peter J. Pitchess

Conversation No. 19-140

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:32 pm - 2:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Peter J. Pitchess.

[See Conversation No. 658-22]

Pitchess's health
-The President's note
-Pritchess’s location
-George Griffin

The President's health

The Bohemian Grove

Conversation No. 19-141

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:34 pm and 2:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 658-24]

	Request for a call to John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 19-142

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:40 pm - 2:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 658-25]

The President's January 25, 1972 speech on Vietnam
-Reaction
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Media
	-Compared to Congress
-David Brinkley
-Effect
	-Congress

Maurice H. Stans
-Role with the administration
-Robert J. Dole

The President's schedule
-Mitchell

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[David] Kenneth Rush
-Defense Department
-Role with the administration

The President's schedule
	-Camp David

Conversation No. 19-143

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:56 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George Meany.

[See Conversation No. 658-26A]

Meany's health

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger's possible meeting with Meany
-Status
-The President's January 25, 1972 speech
-John C. Stennis's reaction
	-Honorable withdrawal
-The Middle East
	-Soviet Union
-Meany's conversation with Jews

Defense budget
-George P. Shultz's possible meeting with Meany
-Shipbuilding
	-Soviet navy
-The Soviet navy

Meany's schedule
	-Productivity meeting

Vietnam
-Deadline amendments in Congress
-Negotiations
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.’s statement
-Analogy to collective bargaining

Conversation No. 19-144

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 658-28]

	Request for a call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 19-145

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  3:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 658-29]

George P. Shultz's location

Conversation No. 19-146

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:24 pm and 1:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 659-8]

Request for call to Joanne Goldwater Ross
-Barry M. Goldwater

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Conversation No. 19-147

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  1:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

The President's call to Joanne Goldwater Ross

Conversation No. 19-148

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 19-149

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  5:23 pm - 5:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Attendance at DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace dinner, January 28, 1972
-William P. and Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Herbert G. and Marge Klein
-Melvin R. and Barbara Laird
-Rogers C. B. and Anne Morton
-Robert J. Dole
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Woods
	-Prisoners of war [POWs] wives briefing
		-Roosevelt Room
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) and Betty Hughes

Conversation No. 19-150

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator

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

Conversation No. 19-151

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  5:26 pm - 5:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

Appointments
	-John N. Mitchell
		-Law firm
			-Criticism
	-Robert H. Finch
	-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
	-Possible role with the administration

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Budget director replacement
	-Weinberger
-George P. Shultz

Henry A. Kissinger
-Conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
	-Memorandum for William P. Rogers

Polls
-Approval of the President's performance
	-Polarization factor
	-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
	-Vietnam
		-The President's January 25, 1972 speech
			-Awareness

Conversation No. 19-152

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:30 pm and 5:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 19-153

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  5:33 pm - 5:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

Polls
	-Timing
-The President's January 28, 1972 speech on Vietnam
-Comparisons
-The President's announcements about the People's Republic of China [PRC] and about economic action [August 15, 1971]
	-Peace
	-George H. Gallup
-Negotiations
-Political affiliation of respondents
-Comparison with previous ratings on Vietnam
-Negotiations
	-Secrecy
	-Strength of the President’s effort
-Possible release
-Defense spending
	-Soviet Union
-Property taxes
-Balanced budget
	-Jobs
-Compulsory busing

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The President's schedule
-DeWitt and Lila Wallace
-Ray Conniff

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-Marina Von N. Whitman
-Possible activities by Patricia R. Hitt and Barbara Franklin
-Significance of appointment

Whitman

Herbert Stein
-Personality
	-Sense of humor
		-Compared to Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope

Polls
-The President's January 25, 1972 speech on Vietnam

Conversation No. 19-154

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  5:49 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 19-155

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  5:49 pm - 6:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Vietnam
-The President's opponents
-Hugh Scott's statement
-Silence
-“Doves”
			-Brad Morris, Charles W. Whalen, Jr., Charles McC. Mathias, John Sherman Cooper
				-Possible statement or resolution
-Scott's statement
-Vietnam War alternatives
	-Vietnamization
	-Negotiation
	-Surrender

Scott
-Position in Congress

The President's memorandum

The President's January 25, 1972 speech on Vietnam
-William P. Rogers's messages to US posts abroad
-Reaction in foreign countries
-Reaction
	-Rogers’s possible press conference
		-Timing
	-Georges J.R. Pompidou
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-Italy
-Laird
-Forthcoming appearance on “Meet the Press”
-Agnew
-Colson’s view
	-Moderates
	-National unity
-Points made
	-Positivity
-The President's statements in 1968 about candidate's responsibility
-Comments on Vietnam negotiations
-Editorial writers
-Question and answer [Q & A] session
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-The President’s 1968 comments

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Polls
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Colson's conversation with Frank Stanton
-Conversation with Colson
	-Vietnam
-Use of poll results by Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

Stanton
-Conversation with Colson
-The President's previous conversation with Stanton
-Sindlinger
		-CBS
			-Technical performance

Media relations
-Dan Rather
-John A. Scali's activities
-David Brinkley
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Murrey Marder

The press
-Tone
	-News summary
-Kissinger's concerns
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston, Joseph C. Kraft
-New York Times
-The President's use of the news summary

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West coast dock strike
-James D. Hodgson's statement on January 28, 1972 concerning Congress

Labor leaders
-American flag pins
-John H. (“Jack”) Lyons
-Identification with the President
-The President January 27, 1972 call to George Meany 
-Colson's January 28, 1972 conversation with Jay Lovestone
-Colson's conversation with Lovestone
-Meany
-Reaction to article by Andrew J. Biemiller and Alexander E. Barkan
-1972 campaign

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National economy
-Stock market
-Factors
-Retail sales figures, leading indicators
-Insured unemployment claims
-Colson's forthcoming conversation with Herbert Stein
-Teenage and full-time labor employment
-Labor surplus areas
-West Coast
-Hodgson
	-Congress

Haldeman's poll transmittal

Conversation No. 19-156

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  6:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 19-157

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:13 pm and 11:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Manolo Sanchez talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to the White House usher's office

Sanchez talked with Ray Hair.

Maintenance
	-Fireplace

Conversation No. 19-158

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:24 am and 8:35 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 660-2]

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

Conversation No. 19-159

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  8:35 am - 8:50 am
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 660-4]

John B. Connally's health

Mrs. Connally's health

Schedule
	-Dinner party

Illness
-The President's conversation with Dr. W. Kenneth Riland and Gen. Walter R. Tkach

The President talked with John Connally.

Connally's health
	-Connally’s schedule
		-Richmond
-Doctors

Illness
-The President's conversation with Riland
-Dinner for Dewitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace, January 28, 1972

National economy
-Stock market
-George Keith Funston
-The President's conversation with Donald T. Regan
-Volume
-Economic indicators
	-Consumer Price Index [CPI], insured unemployment, retail sales
-Winston S. Churchill
-George H. Gallup poll

Connally’s health

The President's schedule
-Marina von N. Whitman

Whitman
-The President's conversation with Herbert Stein
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
	-Price Commission
-Husband [Robert Whitman]
-Father, Dr. John von Neumann
-Atomic Energy Commission
-Eisenhower administration briefings
-The President's conversation with Stein
	-Appointment of women to positions
-Role with administration

White House dinner for the Wallaces, January 28, 1972
-Ray Conniff Singers
-Carol Feraci’s comment about Vietnam
-Daniel Ellsberg
-The Berrigan brothers
-Eartha Kitt
-Conniff's comments
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy's comments
-Unknown person’s comments
	-Coniff’s action
-The President's conversation with Manolo Sanchez
-Feraci
-The President’s comment to Coniff and his singers
-The President's comments about the Marine Band
-Audience reaction
-The President's conversation with Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
	-Faraci
-Audience reaction

The President's schedule
	-Camp David

William F. (“Billy”) and Ruth McC. (Bell) Graham

White House dinner, January 28, 1972
-Billy Graham
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Norman Vincent Peale

John B. Connally's health

The President's schedule
-Texas
-Latin Americans
-William P. Rogers
	-Texas

Conversation No. 19-160

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  8:50 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 660-5]

Request for a call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Embassy Row Hotel
-Madison Hotel

Conversation No. 19-161

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  9:05 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 660-8A]

Call from Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham

Conversation No. 19-162

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  9:05 am - 9:08 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 660-8A]

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Julie and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s schedule
-Puerto Rican-Hispanic Sports Council
-Presentation of awards
-Baseball
-Brooks Robinson
-Remarks
-The President's interest in sports
	-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Sporting events
-Value
-Robinson
-Team spirit, fair play
-The President’s experience
	-Comradeship
-The President's visits to San Juan, Puerto Rico
-The President's interest in sports
-Football
-Team preference
-Effect on Texas

Schedule

Conversation No. 19-163

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 10:43 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 660-8B]

	Request for a call to John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 19-164

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  10:43 am - 10:47 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 660-8C]

White House dinner for DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace, January 28, 1972
-Ray Conniff Singers
-Carol Feraci’s comment about Vietnam
				-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Charles W. Colson
	-Martha (Beall) Mitchell’s statement
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Berrigan brothers
-Possible origination
-Secret Service
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy's comment
-Rose Mary Woods
-Audience reaction
-Mitchell's conversation with Conniff
-The President's conversation with Conniff
-The President's comment about the Marine Band
-Television coverage
-Eartha Kitt
-Possible popular reaction
-Mrs. Mitchell

Conversation No. 19-165

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:47 am and 11:44 am
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 660-8D]

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[The President conferred with Haldeman at an unknown time.]

[End of conferral]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally.

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John B. Connally's health

The President's schedule
-John and Mrs. Connally
	-Camp David

The President
-Return call from Connallys

Conversation No. 19-166

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:47 am and 11:44 am
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 660-8E]

Forthcoming call from Idanell (“Nellie”)Connally

Conversation No. 19-167

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:47 am and 11:44 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[See Conversation No. 660-8F]

John B. Connally's schedule
-The President
-Health

Conversation No. 19-168

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:10 pm and 12:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 660-11]

	Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 19-169

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:10 pm and 12:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Rose Mary Woods's schedule
	-Camp David
-Claudia [Surname unknown]

Camp David

White House dinner for DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace, January 18, 1972
-Ray Conniff Singers

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-Carol Feraci’s comment about Vietnam

Conversation No. 19-170

Date:  January 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:35 pm and 4:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 19-171

Date:  January 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:35 pm and 4:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 19-172

Date:  January 30, 1972
Time: 4:53 pm –4:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's schedule

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Conversation No. 19-173

Date:  January 30, 1972
Time:  4:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 19-174

Date:  January 30, 1972
Time:  4:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 19-175

Date:  January 30, 1972
Time:  4:57 pm - 5:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

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Ray Conniff
-Call from the President
-The President’s memorandum
-Support for the President
-Carol Feraci of Ray Conniff Singers
-Background check

Feraci
-White House security
-Comments about the Vietnam War at White House dinner, January 28, 1972

Maj. Gen. and Mrs. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
	-Woods’s possible comments
		-Assistance to the President
			-Apple Valley
		-The President's book, Six Crisis

Conversation No. 19-176

Date:  January 30, 1972
Time:  5:07 pm - 5:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Congressman Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
-Call from the President
-Brad Morris
-Vietnam negotiations
-Support for the President
	-Economic policy
-Dayton, Ohio

The President's January 25, 1972 speech on Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Reaction in New York City
-Audience in theater
-Reaction
-Albert E. Sindlinger's poll
-The President's November 3, 1969 speech
-“Hawks”
-The President’s efforts to end war
-Democrats
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-John V. Lindsay
-George S. McGovern

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	Campaign practices
-Possible write-ins in New Hampshire
-Lindsay

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	Campaign practices
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Stance
-Possible actions
-Polls
-Issues
	-The President’s January 25, 1972 speech on Vietnam
-Dan Rather's interview with the President
-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon's trip to Africa
-The President’s birthday
-Muskie
	-India-Pakistan War
		-John N. Anderson papers
	-Vietnam
		-Bombing
-Louis P. Harris's views
-Vietnam
-Bombing
-Smith Hempstone, Jr.’s views
	-The President’s opponents

Vietnam
-New York Times
-Henry A. Kissinger's view
-Washington Post
-Marshall Green's letter
-Washington Star

Hempstone [?]

George P. Shultz
-”Face the Nation” appearance
-Melvin R. Laird
	-Daniel L. Schorr

National economy
-Economic indicators
	-Unemployment

Ray Conniff
-Conversation with the President, January 30, 1972
-Carol Feraci of Ray Coniff Singers
-Conduct at White House dinner, January 28, 2972
-Timing of anti-Vietnam War protest
	-Effect

The President's schedule
-Shultz
-Laird

Conversation No. 19-177

Date:  January 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:24 pm and 5:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 19-178

Date:  January 30, 1972
Time:  5:26 pm - 5:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

Shultz's “Face the Nation” television appearance
-The President's previous conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Shultz's reaction

National economy
-Economic indicators
-Insured unemployment
-Retail sales figures
-Money supply
-The President's forthcoming note to Arthur F. Burns
-Burns's role
-Statistics
-Administration's reaction
	-Unemployment
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Appointment
	-Press coverage
		-Washington Post

Conversation No. 19-179

Date:  January 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:29 pm and 5:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 19-180

Date:  January 30, 1972
Time:  5:32 pm - 5:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

“Face the Nation” television appearance
	-Melvin R. Laird
	-The President's previous conversation with Charles W. Colson
	-George P. Shultz
	-The President's recent call to Shultz
	-Laird’s performance
		-Haldeman’s forthcoming check

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