Conversation No. 264‑1

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:05 am and 10:21 am
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Schedule

Conversation No. 264‑2

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:05 am and 10:21 am
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:21 am.

Conversation No. 264‑3

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  10:21 am ‑ 11:01 am
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule
‑Breakfast meeting with Max Frankel
‑Office of Management and Budget [OMB] briefing
‑George P. Shultz
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Economy
‑New York City
‑Kissinger's dinner
‑Comments
‑The US initiative towards the PRC

Foreign relations
‑The PRC initiative
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Frankel
‑The war in Vietnam
‑Dobrynin
‑The PRC initiative
‑Reaction
‑Forthcoming US - PRC Summit
‑Trip preparation
‑Advance work
‑Dwight L. Chapin
‑John D. Ehrlichman
-Importance
‑The Chinese
‑Reaction to preparations
‑Chinese people outside the PRC
-Details 
-Logistics
‑Ehrlichman
‑Experience in trip advance work
‑Sites for Presidential visits
-White House Communications Agency [WHCA]
-Kissinger=s role
-Negotiations

The Pentagon Papers case
‑Frankel
‑The Administration's reaction
‑Lyndon B. Johnson's administration
‑The New York Times
‑Approach to foreign policy
-Possible re-election of the President
‑Kissinger=s conversation with John Kenneth Galbraith
‑Edmund S. Muskie

Foreign policy developments
‑PRC Summit
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] Summit
‑Vietnam negotiations
‑Berlin
‑[David] Kenneth Rush
-Middle East
‑The PRC initiative
‑The New York Times
‑Reaction
‑Frankel
‑Attitude towards Israel
-Attitude towards USSR
‑The USSR
‑Dobrynin
-Reaction to US-PRC initiative
‑Chou En‑lai's interview with US students
-State Department message
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Vietnam War
-Le Duc Tho
-Settlement
-The Left
-Congress
‑Chou's comments
‑Frankel=s position
‑US public opinion
-Possible statement by Chou
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Forthcoming meeting with the President
‑Trip to PRC
-Announcement of trip
-Timing

-Purpose
-Arrangements
-Agenda
-Communique

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CHINA

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-Kissinger=s role
‑William P. Rogers
‑The State Department
-Cyrus R. Vance
-Letter to the President
‑Historical record on the PRC initiative
-Rogers
‑The President's conversations with Kissinger
‑Responsibility for the Initiative
‑The State Department
‑Experts on the PRC
-Hugh S. Sidey
‑Meeting in the White House Lincoln Sitting Room
‑The President
‑Rogers
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
‑US-PRC relations
‑Handling of negotiations
-Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with the PRC Ambassador
-Terms
-Role of the President
‑Conditions of PRC contact with other American visitors
‑Democrats, Republicans

-Peter H. Dominick
-John G. Tower
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑George Meany
-Visits by other US officials
-Effect on Presidential visit
-Appearances
-Bi-partisan
-Chou En-lai
-Senators
-Timing
-President=s forthcoming visit to PRC
-Compared to USSR relations
-SALT
-Dobrynin
-Laos
-Vietnam settlement
-Timing of announcement
-Congress= role
-Compared to SALT, bombing of North Vietnam
-Presidential leadership
-Press, Congress= reaction
-July 20, 1971 baseball game
-Child=s request for President=s autograph
-The US position in the world
-USSR
-Japan
-Europe
-Origin of US-PRC initiative
-Kissinger=s role
-Rogers
-State Department
-Kissinger=s forthcoming telephone call to Sidey
-Henry A. Grunwald
-Sidey

Kissinger left at 11:01 am.

Conversation No. 264‑4

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:01 am and 11:05 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

Meeting request

Conversation No. 264‑5

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:05 am and 1:14 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with John B. Connally
-Meeting regarding labor
‑Meeting with Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Meeting with Melvin R. Laird
-Trip
-Possible meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-National Security Council [NSC] briefing
‑Diplomatic credentials ceremony
-Peter G. Peterson
-Foreign trade meeting
‑Kissinger's congressional meeting
-Congressman
-Clark MacGregor=s view about leadership meeting
-John J. McCloy [?]

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‑Future leadership meetings
-Frequency
‑Connally=s view
-MacGregor
‑Budget meetings
-Location, time, frequency, duration
‑Participants
‑Kissinger
-Duration
‑Future Farmers of America
-President=s participation
-Oval Office tour
‑Other farm‑related meetings
‑[Dwight D.] Eisenhower silver dollar
-Connally
‑Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-Congressional Cabinet participation
‑Mary T. Brooks
‑Meeting with Alfred P. Chamie
‑Trip to Vietnam
‑Indonesian Ambassador to the US
‑Return to Indonesia
-Request for meeting
‑Otto E. Passman
‑Request for presidential phone call
-Monroe, LA drug conference
‑John S. Davies
‑Departure from Washington
‑Possible dinner in the White House Residence

‑Thelma C. (APat@)  Nixon
‑Patrick J. and Shelley S. Buchanan
‑Arrangements
‑Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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‑Meeting option

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‑Olin E. (ATiger@) Teague
‑Request for meeting to discuss legislation
‑Donald E. Johnson, Charles M. Teague, George P. Shultz
‑Congressional staff reception on White House South Lawn
-Congressional recess
-Previous event
‑Air Force One
‑Naming of plane "Spirit of '76"
-Announcement
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.

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‑Dr. Stanley H. Bear (?)
‑Departure from the White House staff
‑Meeting with the President
‑Presidential trip
‑Rathbun Dam, Ottumwa, Iowa
‑Presidential appearance at dedication ceremony
‑Conservation issue
‑Previous water project dedications
‑Arkansas
‑Mobile, Alabama
‑Canton, Ohio
‑Professional Football Hall of Fame
‑Parade, induction ceremony
-Wellington T. Mara
‑Vincent T. (AVince@) Lombardi
‑The President's speech
-Logistics
‑The Bohemian Grove

[Pause]

‑Order of events
‑The President's meetings with Republican Congressmen
‑Sessions
-MacGregor
-Frequency
-Attendance
-Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends

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‑Compared to Eisenhower administration 
-Bryce Harlow
-Cabinet meeting
-Congress
-MacGregor
-Schedule
‑Presidential trips
-Bohemian Grove
‑California
‑Canton, Ohio
‑Dayton, Ohio
‑Republican women's federation
‑October trip to Washington
‑Trip to the People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Congressional recess
‑President Josip Broz Tito's state visit in October, 1971
‑Florida
‑Trip to Maine
-Timing

[Pause]

‑Cancellation of event in Hawaii
-Cost
-Asian trip
-Maine
-Timing
-Congress
-Dallas
-Timing
‑New York
‑Knights of Columbus event

‑New England trip
-Maine
‑New Hampshire
‑Shipyard event
‑Portsmouth
‑Apollo 15 spacecraft splashdown
‑New England states
‑Mid-Atlantic, western states
‑Trip to the PRC
‑Departure from California
-@Gateway to the Orient@
‑Return stops in Hawaii, Alaska
‑Advance
‑Kissinger
‑Separation from other staff members
‑Kissinger's role
‑Press contingent
‑Television networks, wire services
‑Newspapers, magazines, radio
‑The New York Times, the Washington Post
-Henry A. Grunwald
‑Stopover in Hawaii
-Advantages
‑California departure
‑San Francisco
‑The President's role in trip arrangements
‑Secret Service

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[Duration:  16s  ]

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-Routine preparations

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‑Security arrangements

Ambassadorial appointments
‑Japan
‑The President's conversation with David M. Kennedy
‑Peterson
-Connally
‑Kennedy
‑William P. Rogers
-Age
‑The State Department
‑Channels of communication
-Leaks
‑Kennedy's view of State Department

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-Rogers

The President's military aides
-Kissinger
‑Appearance
-Gen. James D. (ADon@) Hughes
‑Ceremonial visits contrasted with routine duty

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[Duration:  1m 55s  ]

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Article about the President
‑Richard (ADick@) Wilson
-Look
‑Reprint in the Reader's Digest
‑Amount of time needed for meeting with the President
‑Contact with others on the White House staff
‑Kissinger, John D. Ehrlichman, Haldeman
‑Contact with Rose Mary Woods, other White House staff

Voluntary action centers
‑Progress report
-Staff
-Locations
-Funding
‑Lenore L. Romney
‑"Right to Read" program
-Youth
-Senators

The Bicentennial
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.
‑Pennsylvania
‑Washington, DC
-Boston, Massachusetts
‑Virginia

‑Miami, Florida
‑Mahoney

Efforts to appeal to youth
-Finch
-Charles W. Colson
‑The PRC
-Vietnam

Personnel
‑Rogers
‑John Richardson, Jr.
‑Educational and Cultural Affairs post
‑Previous job with Radio Free Europe
-Political work
-Youth focus
‑Public affairs position
-Political orientation
-Possible task force
-Youth, PRC

Conservatives
‑Young Americans for Freedom [YAF]
‑John Birch Society
‑Current status compared to California, 1962
-PRC
‑Laos, Cambodia actions in the Vietnam war
-Reaction of the right

Congressional leaders
-Centrists
-Colson
‑John B. Connally
‑MacGregor
‑Role
-William E. Timmons

President=s schedule
-Breakfasts
-Chowder and Marching Society
-Supporters

Youth issue
-YAF

Economic issues
‑John Kenneth Galbraith
‑Wage‑price controls
-Keynsian economic theory
‑Public opinion
‑Labor unions, business
‑Socialists, Communists
‑Galbraith, Walter W. Heller
-George P. Shultz
‑Democrats
-Economic spokesman
‑Speech
‑William L. Safire's recommendations
‑The President's Kansas City speech
‑Peterson
‑Radio speech
-Steel strike
‑Effect as example of public leadership
-Connally
‑David Lawrence's column
-Chou En-lai
-PRC initiative
-Radio

Foreign relations
‑Vietnam War
-Kissinger
‑Hanoi
‑South Vietnam
‑The PRC initiative
‑Roles, responsibilities
‑Rogers
-Kissinger, the President
‑Agnew
‑Laird
-Rogers, Laird, Kissinger

The President's schedule
‑Finch, Rumsfeld
-Finch
‑Job offers
-Mexico [Ambassadorship]
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]

-Rumsfeld
-Finch
‑California
‑Reagan
‑Rumsfeld
-Counsellor position
-Arthur F. Burns, [Surname unintelligible], Finch, Rumsfeld
‑Frequency of staff and Cabinet meetings
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Shultz
‑Burns= request for a meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Loyalty to administration

Presidential leadership
-Public relations
-PRC initiative compared to other foreign travel
-Family Assistance Program
-Eisenhower=s statement on trip to Korea

Kissinger entered at 12:40 pm.

-The President=s current conversation with Haldeman
-The PRC initiative
-Roles
-Rogers, Kissinger, the President
-Hugh S. Sidey
-President=s request for Kissinger to talk to Sidey
-Press
-Rogers
-Kissinger compared to Rogers
-[Forename not given]  Alsop=s article
-The President=s 1969 trip to Romania, European countries
-The myth of leadership
-Eisenhower=s trip to Korea
-John F. Kennedy and Cuba
-PRC initiative
-Domestic policy
-Foreign policy

Foreign relations
-State Department
-US-USSR summit

-Timing of announcement
-Vietnam War
-Settlement
-US troop withdrawal
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Dobrynin=s meeting with Maurice H. Stans personal assistant
-Invitation to Stans to visit USSR
-Dobrynin=s conversation with Kissinger

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-Stans possible visit to USSR
-Staff assistance
-Winston Lord
-Tone of trip
-Establishment of precedent
-Finch
-Rumsfeld
-Instructions to Cabinet
-Trips by others
-PRC
-USSR
-Announcement of US-USSR summit
-Timing
-US-PRC summit
-Economic matters
-Dobrynin
-Stans
-Kissinger=s conversations with Dobrynin
-The President
-Ford=s inquiry
-Mack truck deal
-Size

-Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania
-Negotiations
-President=s request for Kissinger to call Ford
-Policy on trips by Cabinet members
-Stans
-Rogers
‑Request for Kissinger to call Howard Stein
‑Economic developments
-US dollar
‑Roles and responsibilities
-Stans
‑The President, Kissinger
‑The PRC initiative, Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger=s conversation with Sidey
‑Comparison to Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Kissinger
‑Dealings with the press
‑The New York Times
-Attitude
‑Max Frankel
‑Henry A. Grunwald
‑Hedley W. Donovan
‑[First name not given] [Thomas?] Griffith
-John W. Gardner, John V. Lindsay, Edmund S. Muskie
‑Sidey
‑Role of writer vis‑a‑vis editor
‑Griffith
-Grunwald
‑Newsweek, the Washington Post
‑Grunwald
-Cyrus R. Vance, W. Averell Harriman
‑George H.W. Bush
-Newsweek
-Stans proposed trip to USSR
‑Dobrynin
‑Stans= possible statements
‑Robert J. Dole
‑Proposed trip to Vietnam
-Senator
‑The PRC
-Conservatives
‑Role as Republican National Committee Chairman as compared to role as US Senator
‑Comparison to Ronald W. Reagan's proposed trip to Taiwan

‑The South Korean government
-[Forename unknown] Gallagher
‑Taiwan
‑George A. Murphy
‑Kissinger's dinner in New York City
‑Comments about the PRC initiative
‑The Vietnam war
‑Frankel
‑Perception of issue
‑Vietnam negotiations
‑Forthcoming meeting
‑Issues
‑Coalition government in South Vietnam
‑Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
‑Options
-Kissinger=s forthcoming conversation with Ford
-President=s forthcoming conversation with Dole

Kissinger left at 1:05 pm.

‑Kissinger's role
‑Coordination of public relations effort
-@Nixon initiative@
-Colson

The President's schedule
‑Forthcoming meeting at 3:00 pm

Connally
‑Haldeman=s conversation with Harlow
‑Agnew
‑Role of Vice President
‑Possible resignation
‑Travel, speaking engagements
-Compared to Johnson
-Harlow
-Possible future
‑Kissinger
‑Agnew

Haldeman left at 1:14 pm.

Conversation No. 264‑6

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:14 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm.

Conversation No. 264‑7

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:14 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  6s  ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm.

Conversation No. 264‑8

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:14 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm.

Conversation No. 264‑9

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:14 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑171]

Conversation No. 264‑10

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:14 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  4s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm.

Conversation No. 264‑11

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  2:39 pm ‑ 2:42 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 6‑172]

Conversation No. 264‑12

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  2:43 pm ‑ 2:47 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Haakon I. Romnes.

[See Conversation No. 6‑173]

Conversation No. 264‑13

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:47 pm and 2:51 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑174]

Conversation No. 264‑14

Date:  July 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:47 pm and 2:51 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's Oval Office schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:51 pm.