Conversation No. 266‑1

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:06 pm and 1:44 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.

[Unintelligible]

Poll
‑Capability of handling foreign relations with People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑The President
‑J. William Fulbright
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑William P. Rogers
‑Ratings analyzed
‑Two China policy
‑PRC
-Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC]
‑United Nations membership
‑Effect on the Vietnam war
‑The President
-Political leanings
‑Rating on handling of job
-The Nixon-Cox wedding and the Pentagon Papers case, June 1971
‑Comparison to President Lyndon B. Johnson
‑US‑Union Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit at Glassboro, New Jersey
‑Timing of poll
‑Factors affecting approval
-PRC initiative
-Vietnam

[Unintelligible - tape malfunction]

-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Effect of economic factors on approval rating
-Johnson
-PRC initiative

-White House staff
-World peace
-Awareness
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. court martial

[Pause]

-Appeal to youth
-Rumsfeld, Robert H. Finch
-Pentagon Papers case
-Gallup Poll
-Compared to the President=s poll

Haldeman talked to an unknown person at an unknown time after 1:06 pm.

[Conversation No. 266-1]

Request for Gallup Poll results

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-Factors affecting ratings
-Louis Harris polling theory
-The economy
-Vietnam War
-The economy
-Awareness
-The economy
-PRC initiative
-John Kenneth Galbraith=s and others statements
-Kennedy

Finch
-The Vice Presidency
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Spiro T. Agnew
-The Republican Party
-The Cabinet
-Forthcoming conversation with John N. Mitchell
‑Offer of Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
‑Departure from Washington, DC area
‑Eldest son
-Mexico [Ambassadorship]
‑Appearances on television
‑Future

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[Unintelligible - tape malfunction]

Poll
-PRC initiative
-Harris poll

Personnel
‑Finch
-OEP
-Mexico, campaign
-Retention in the Cabinet
-National Security Council [NSC]
‑Rumsfeld
‑Reaction to the PRC initiative and the President's July 6, 1971 Kansas City speech
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-State Department
‑John N. Irwin, II
‑Special Trade Representative
‑Rogers

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-NSC staff
‑Latin American
-White House staff
‑OEP
-Finch
-California politics
-Intergovernmental relations
-Manager
-NATO
-[Surname unknown]
-Speeches
‑Rogers

Poll
‑Leadership
‑Rogers
‑Fulbright, Humphrey, Mansfield, Kissinger, Kennedy, Muskie

Schedule
-Rogers, Kissinger, Melvin R. Laird

Issues
‑Effect of the PRC initiative

Haldeman left at 1:44 pm.

Conversation No. 266‑2

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  1:44 pm ‑ 2:47 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:47 pm.

Conversation No. 266‑3

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  1:44 pm ‑ 2:47 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6‑184]

Conversation No. 266‑4

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  2:47 pm ‑ 3:02 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 6‑185; two items have been withdrawn]

Conversation No. 266‑5

Date:  July 22, 1971
Time:  3:02 pm ‑ 3:03 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at 3:03 pm.

Conversation No. 266‑6

Date:  Unknown between July 22 and July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:02 pm, July 22 and 2:45 pm, July 29, 1971
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Unknown person's schedule and location

Conversation No. 266‑7

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:45 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.

Conversation No. 266‑8

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 5:45 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.

Conversation No. 266‑9

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 5:45 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.

Conversation No. 266‑10

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown time between 2:45 pm and 5:45 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.

Conversation No. 266‑11

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 5:45 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

Requested meeting

Conversation No. 266‑12

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 5:45 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Unknown person's schedule

Conversation No. 266‑13

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 5:45 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 266‑14

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:45 pm and 6:35 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Items for the President's signature

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered and Butterfield left at 5:45 pm.

The President's schedule
‑Bohemian Grove
-Press coverage
‑Wire services
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Off‑the‑record coverage
‑Arrangements
-Prohibitions on recording speeches
-Herbert C. Hoover
-The President=s previous speech at Bohemian Grove, 1957
-Transcripts
-The National Archives
-Compared to Barry M. Goldwater

-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Presence of the press
-Ziegler=s role
-Marine One
-Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Presence of the press
-Ziegler
‑Robert B. Semple
-Segregation
-Walter Trohan, Semple, Michael Coles
‑Comparison to the Gridiron Club
-Timing
-Arrangements
-Goldwater
-Gridiron
-Segregation
William Raspberry
‑Ohio
‑Meeting with John S. (AJack@) Knight
-Prayer meeting
-Air Force One
‑Release of story
-@Spirit of >76"

Foreign policy
‑Developments in US‑People's Republic of China [PRC] relationship

Schedule
-Cabinet
-George P. Shultz
-Ronald W. Reagan

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John B. Connally
‑Contact with Haldeman

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑The President's conversation with Murray M. Chotiner
‑Chotiner's perceptions
‑Domestic Council
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Agnew's perception of duties
‑Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Connally
‑Involvement in handling issues
‑Access to the President
‑Domestic Council
‑Perception of Bryce N. Harlow's activities, duties
‑Leak of news story
‑John A. Scali
-Cabinet
‑Agnew, William P. Rogers
‑Robert C. Hill
‑John N. Mitchell's forthcoming conversation with Chotiner
‑Foreign trips
‑Duties
-Ehrlichman
-Issues
‑Staff
‑Schedule
‑Florida
-Apollo 13 event
-Martin C. Anderson
-Arthur F. Burns
-Conservative viewpoint
‑Chotiner
-Leak of news story
-Scali
-Cabinet
-Agnew, Rogers
‑Melvin R. Laird
-Cambodia
-Harlow
-Relationship with Secret Service, staff
‑Mitchell's forthcoming conversation with Chotiner
‑Foreign trips
‑Amount of work
‑Greece
‑Mitchell

-Chotiner
-Haldeman=s forthcoming conversation with Mitchell
‑Rogers
-Chotiner
-Scali
‑Harlow's role
-Foreign trips

The President's schedule
‑Signing of environmental report
-Press coverage
‑Mitchell and Robert J. Dole
‑Deputy Chairman, Republican National Committee
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
‑Educational organizations group
-National Education Association [NEA]
‑Parade magazine photo session
‑Cover story
-Female appointees
‑Scheduling

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:45 pm and 6:32 pm]

[Conversation No. 266‑14A]

[See Conversation No. 7‑26]

[End of telephone conversation]

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[The President talked with Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon between 6:32 pm and 6:33 pm]

[Conversation No. 266-14B]

[See Conversation No. 7-27]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Harlow
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Henry Vollon (?)

The President and Haldeman left at 6:35 pm.