Conversation No. 263‑1

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 1:58 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman; this recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress.

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Secret Service agents
-Bryce N. Harlow
‑Staff
‑Attitude towards duties
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]

John B. Connally
‑The President's July 19, 1971 meeting
‑Secretary of State
‑Position in Cabinet
‑George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman
‑Handling of the Treasury Department
‑Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation
‑Personnel
‑Hiring of secretary
‑White House staff

[Pause]

-Department of the Treasury
‑Personnel questions
‑Charls E. Walker's conversation
‑National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Representative
‑Briefing by Henry A. Kissinger

Clark MacGregor
‑Members of Congress
‑Attitude during leaders meeting
‑Republican attitude compared to Democrats

Marine Corps Commandant
‑Appointee recommendation
‑Kissinger, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Leonard F. Chapman, Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

Congress
‑Lockheed bailout
‑David Packard
‑Testimony before Congress
‑Connally

Agnew
‑Connally

Meeting with Republican Congressional leaders
‑Ehrlichman's (?) comments
‑Presidential leadership issue
‑US initiative on the PRC
‑Mary McGrory's comments
‑Connally
‑Democrats
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑George H.W. Bush (?)

Agnew's trip
-President=s criticism
‑Malik Faisal Ibn Abd Al-aziz Al-saud, Prince Fahd, Jomo Kenyatta
‑Reports by the press
‑Blacks
‑Agnew's comments
‑Kenyatta
‑African Black leaders

Blacks
‑US population
‑@Rednecks@
‑African Blacks

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Haldeman left at 1:58 pm.

Conversation No. 263‑2

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 pm and 3:10 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Foreign policy developments

Schedule

Conversation No. 263‑3

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 pm and 3:10 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left an an unknown time before 3:10 pm.

Conversation No. 263‑4

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 pm and 3:10 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:10 pm.

Conversation No. 263‑5

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  3:10 pm ‑ 3:35 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

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PEOPLE=S REPUBLIC OF CHINA [PRC]

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‑Press
‑William P. Rogers
‑Coordination of action
‑The President, Kissinger
‑Roles
‑Rogers
‑Dealing with foreign governments
‑Schedule
‑Kissinger
‑Forthcoming meeting with David Rockefeller
‑Forthcoming meeting with the President

Kissinger left at 3:35 pm.

Conversation No. 263‑6

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

President=s schedule
‑Haldeman's and John D. Ehrlichman's schedule

Conversation No. 263‑7

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:41 pm.

Conversation No. 263‑8

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:41 pm.

Conversation No. 263‑9

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:41 pm and 6:09 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

President=s schedule
‑Forthcoming meeting
-H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Congress
‑Ehrlichman's meeting with Labor Committee
‑Appropriations Committee
-Cities
-California
-Formula

Haldeman entered at 3:42 pm.

-Key states
-Appropriations
-Legislative strategy
‑George H. Mahon
-Cities
-President=s role
-Distributions of funds
‑Texas, California, Ohio, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida, Indiana, Pennsylvania
-Localities of high unemployment
-Formula, discretionary spending, California
-Administration=s latitude
-Veto threat

Foreign relations
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Trips by US political leaders
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy, J. William Fulbright, Robert C. Byrd
‑Handling of issue
-Henry A. Kissinger
‑Vietnam War
‑Negotiations to end the war
‑The PRC
‑Changes in relations with the US
‑Reaction of the hardhats
‑Democrats wishing to visit the PRC
‑Alan Cranston, Fulbright, Edward Kennedy
‑Hugh Scott, Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Republican=s reaction
‑Timing of visit by the President
‑Possible summit meeting in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Admiral Perry's opening of Japan to Western Access
‑Chou En‑lai

‑Kissinger's role
‑Preparations for the President's visit
‑Ehrlichman
‑The Secret Service
‑Timing
‑US - USSR Summit
‑Other visitors to the PRC
‑Edward Kennedy
‑Kissinger's role
‑Chou En-lai
‑Mao Tse‑tung

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 3:41 pm and 5:05 pm]

[Conversation No. 263‑9A]

Schedule

PRC
‑The President's forthcoming trip
‑Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Arrangements

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Perceptions of the US
‑Dale Carnegie Outlook
‑Kissinger
‑Role in PRC opening
‑The President's leadership role
‑William P. Rogers
‑The State Department
‑Marshall Green
‑Effect of speculation on US relations with the PRC and with other countries
‑Presidential leadership
‑Congressional leaders
‑John A. Scali
‑Statements about the PRC
‑Curtis McGee
‑Effect of speculation
‑Edward Kennedy
‑Letter

‑John F. Kennedy, Robert F. (ABobby@) Kennedy
‑Dean G. Acheson
-Attack on Pearl Harbor
‑Cuban Missile Crisis

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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

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‑Forthcoming Soviet Summit
-Charles W. Colson
‑Forthcoming trip by the President to the PRC
‑Transportation
‑Air Force One
‑Change of name
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's possible resignation
‑Vietnam War
‑Settlement

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MANOLO SANCHEZ ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 3:41 PM

SANCHEZ LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 5:05 PM

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Agnew
‑Handling of foreign trips
‑Golf
‑Comparison to the President and Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon
‑Press coverage of African trip
‑Time, Newsweek
‑Incident in Kenya
‑Size of entourage

Presidential security
‑Number of Secret Service agents
‑Assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy
‑Agnew's entourage
‑Secret Service agents
‑Signal Corps
‑Communications
‑Automobile
-Bryce N. Harlow
‑Agnew's relationship with Secret Service agents
‑Comparison to the President
‑Contact with Secret Service agents

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‑Comparison to Johnson
‑Agnew's treatment of staff
‑Secretaries
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld

Agnew
‑Options for handling vice presidency
‑Choice
‑Comparison with the President
‑Latin American trip, Nikita Khrushchev
‑Comparison with Edward Kennedy (?), Hubert H. Humphrey

Vice presidential qualifications for office
‑Requirements
‑Need to balance the President

Edward Kennedy
‑Trip to the PRC
‑Group of Congressional visitors
‑Impact
‑Chou En‑lai

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Kissinger entered at 5:05 pm.

Foreign relations
‑PRC
‑Press reaction to announcement
‑Editors
‑Hugh S. Sidey
‑July 19, 1971 briefing
-David Rockefeller
-Trip to Russia
‑The Presidency
‑The President, Johnson
‑Defense of the President
‑Trip by Democratic members of Congress
‑Edward Kennedy's request
‑Timing of the Summit with the PRC
‑The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Timing of announcement of tip to the USSR
‑Advance work for the trip
‑Requirements
‑Ehrlichman
‑Dwight L. Chapin, Bruce A. Kehrli (?)

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‑Timing of Kissinger's next trip to the PRC
‑Edward M. Kennedy, Alan Cranston
‑Japan
‑Group travel
‑Republicans
‑Hugh Scott
‑Reaction to trips by others
-Vernon A. Walters
-Mao Tse-tung
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Summit meeting
‑Mao Tse‑tung
‑Announcement of trips by others
‑Briefings
‑Impact of possible statements by Congressional visitors
‑Establishment of policy line
‑Congressional group travel
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑George S. McGovern
‑Agnew
‑Mao Tse‑tung
‑Effects of speculation
‑The Press
-Kissinger=s conversation with Sidey
‑Conservative reaction
‑Colson's responsibilities
-George Meany, Jay Lovestone
‑William P. Rogers
‑State Department role
‑Unknown person's statement to Sidey

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[Duration:  2m 10s  ]

COUNTRY

CHOU EN-LAI

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‑Reaction to breakthrough
‑The press
‑The general public
‑Foreign diplomats
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Possible trip by Democrats
‑Timing of announcement
‑September date

Kissinger left at 5:34 pm.

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Connally
‑Appointments to positions
‑The President's role
‑White House staff
‑Ehrlichman, Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.
‑Relations with bureaucracy within Department
-Charls E. Walker

Other Cabinet officers
‑George W. Romney
‑John A. Volpe
‑Romney
‑Suburban housing
‑July 19, 1971 Cabinet meeting
‑The PRC initiative

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  47s  ]

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‑William P. Rogers
‑Handling of foreign policy
‑Outlook
‑The PRC trip
‑Conflicts with State Department
‑Marshall Green
‑Kissinger
‑New York City trip

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Ehrlichman and Haldeman left at 6:09 pm.

Conversation No. 263‑10

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  6:16 pm ‑ 6:17 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 6‑160; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 263‑11

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  6:19 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑161]

Conversation No. 263‑12

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  6:19 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑162]

Conversation No. 263‑13

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  6:19 pm ‑ 6:41 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 6‑163; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 263‑14

Date:  July 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:43 pm and 6:46 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

An unknown man talked with an unknown person.

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