Conversation No. 278-1

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Economics
-The President's speech
-Subject
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s comment
-Speech
-Use of cheer lines
-Drafts
-References to American spirit and work ethic
-Reaction
-Isolationists
-US role in the world
-Labor unions
-Protectionism
-Congress
-Democratic control
-Response by Republicans
-US welfare system
-Changes

Conversation No. 278-2

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-66]

Conversation No. 278-3

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:33 pm.

Conversation No. 278-4

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's September 9, 1971 economic policy speech
-Reaction
-Cabinet members

John B. Connally
-Possible reaction

Domestic issues speech
-Revenue sharing
-Government reorganization
-Welfare reform
-Economy
-The President's draft
-First paragraph
-Speechwriters
-Role
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Speech doctor
-The President's role
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Speechwriters
-Cheer lines
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-New York
-Revisions
-The President's revisions
-Welfare references
-Price
-Revisions

Conversation No. 278-5

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  1:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Telephone call

Sanchez left at 1:33 pm.

Conversation No. 278-6

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  1:33 pm - 1:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 8-67]

Conversation No. 278-7

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:39 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Manolo Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.

Conversation No. 278-8

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:39 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-68]

Conversation No. 278-9

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time   1:48 pm - 1:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Robert H. Finch.

[See Conversation No. 8-69; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 278-10

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:52 pm and 1:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Conversation with Robert H. Finch
-Finch's view of the President's speech
-Robert T. Monagan

-Abilities
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Recruitment to administration
-John N. Mitchell

Unknown person
-Call from Clark MacGregor

Conversation No. 278-11

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 pm and 2:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 8-70]

Conversation No. 278-12

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:03 pm and 2:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-71]

Conversation No. 278-13

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  2:05 pm - 2:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

[See Conversation No. 8-72]

Conversation No. 278-14

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-73]

Conversation No. 278-15

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-74]

Conversation No. 278-16

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  2:11 pm - 2:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 8-75]

Conversation No. 278-17

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  2:13 pm - 2:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 8-76]

Conversation No. 278-18

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  2:19 pm - 2:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 8-77]

Conversation No. 278-19

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:28 pm and 2:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:57 pm.

Conversation No. 278-20

Date:  Unknown between September 9 and September 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:28 pm, September 9 and 3:44 pm, September 12, 1971
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with unknown women.

President’s schedule
-Harry S. Dent

The unknown women left at an unknown time before 3:44 pm, September 12, 1971

Conversation No. 278-21

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-86]

Conversation No. 278-22

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  3:51 pm - 4:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 8-87; four items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 278-23

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  4:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-88]

Conversation No. 278-24

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  4:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 8-89]

Conversation No. 278-25

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:31 pm and 4:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis or Robert H. Finch

Conversation No. 278-26

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  4:37 pm - 4:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Robert Finch.

[See Conversation No. 8-93; five items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 278-27

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:55 pm and 4:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-94]

Conversation No. 278-28

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  4:58 pm - 5:02 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 8-95; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 278-29

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  5:08 pm - 5:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 8-98; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

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Conversation No. 278-30

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  5:15 pm - 5:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

[See Conversation no. 8-100; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 278-31

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:31 pm and 5:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 8-101]

Conversation No. 278-32

Date:  September 12, 1971
Time:  5:33 pm - 5:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 8-103; six items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 276-18/278-33

Date:  September 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:50 pm and 10:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress and is a continuation of Conversation No. 276-18]

Foreign relations
-Forthcoming announcement
-Scheduling of forthcoming summits
-Moscow trip
-Kissinger's schedule
-Vietnam negotiations
-Date
-Announcement
-Ceasefire offer
-Melvin R. Laird
-Vietnam
-Popular opinion shifts
-Post-World War II elections
-Comparison with other countries

-Africa
-Communists' action

Attica Prison riots
-Casualties
-Guards
-Numbers

Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POWs] issue

Foreign relations
-Soviet Union trip
-Announcement
-Kissinger's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-The President's trip to the PRC
-Timing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-Press conference
-Response by Soviets
-Date of trip
-Vietnam negotiations
-South Vietnam elections
-North Vietnam
-President’s view
-Michael J. Mansfield
-South Vietnam
-Status, future
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-POWs
-The President's PRC trip
-US military action in Vietnam
-Unknown person
-Japan
-Reaction to PRC trip
-President’s handling
-State Department

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:50 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:15 pm.

Foreign relations
-Kissinger's trips to the PRC

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ASIAN AFFAIRS
-JAPAN
-CHINA

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Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Withdrawal of US troops
-Future settlement
-Aftermath
-PRC
-North Vietnamese attacks
-Possible response

Attica Prison riots
-Casualties
-Guards
-Amnesty

Vietnam
-Withdrawal of US troops
-Announcement of Kissinger trip
-Foreign policy of the US
-Military protection

[Unintelligible]

Kissinger left at 10:15 pm.

Conversation No. 278-34

Date:  September 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:35 pm and 5:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-3]

Conversation No. 278-35

Date:  September 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:35 pm and 5:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

William P. Rogers
-Call to the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:39 pm.

Conversation No. 278-36

Date:  September 14, 1971
Time:  5:39 pm - 6:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Furman University

The President talked with William P. Rogers between 5:39 pm and 5:42 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36A]

[See Conversation No. 9-4]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-[Rumsfeld]
-Furman University invitation
-Age
-Southern schools

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s television broadcast
-Response
-Milton Pitts
-The President's constituents
-Time magazine
-Television networks
-Constituents
-Howard K. Smith
-Meeting with Cabinet members and wives
-The President and Mrs. Nixon
-Preparations
-Mrs. Nixon
-Receptions at the White House

-Handshakes
-Television

Television appearances
-1960
-Reaction to television use
-Speech preparation
-Debate with John F. Kennedy
-Preparation
-Schedule

The President's forthcoming western states trip
-Libby Dam
-Kalispell, Montana

Joseph M. Montoya
-Amendment

Television coverage
-John B. Connally
-William P. Rogers
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Handling
-Range of audience
-Prime time television
-Press conference

Forthcoming news events
-PRC announcement
-Soviet Union summit announcement
-Kissinger's October trip
-Date
-Phase II economic action
-Month of October
-Vietnam
-Residual force
-Announcement
-Timing
-Soviet Union trip, People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-March 1972
-May 1972
-Report of trip
-Visit to the PRC
-Haldeman's meeting with Kissinger
-Ground station
-Soviet Union visit in 1959
-Videotape of Kitchen Debate
-Reaction of Russians
-Public events
-Outside activities
-Time
-News coverage
-Network coverage in the US
-Press coverage crew for the President
-Value
-Pool coverage
-Live press coverage
-Stories of the President in the PRC
-Handshakes
-Kissinger's opinion
-The President's view
-Soviet Union
-State Department
-The President's actions on the Soviet trip
-Popular opinion
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Alexei N. Kosygin
-Reactions
-Kissinger
-Press coverage in the PRC
-Tokyo transmissions
-Time of broadcast in the US
-Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, Today Show
-Kissinger
-Understanding of television's impact
-PRC
-Still photographs
-Newspapers, magazines
-New York Times
-Today Show
-Afternoon special
-Nightly news
-Commentaries

John B. Connally
-Return from trip
-Time
-Scheduling of National Security Council [NSC] meeting

Trip to Florida
-The President's plans
-Weather

The press
-Question and Answer session [Q&A]
-Daytime press coverage
-Press coverage
-The President's appearances
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Idaho
-Effects of press coverage
-Results in polls
-Ohio poll
-Results
-Effect
-Canton, Ohio
-Effect

Kissinger entered at 6:05 pm.

Kissinger

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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Clifford M. Hardin
-John N. Mitchell
-Departure from administration
-Timing
-Farm and business groups

Haldeman left at 6:07 pm.

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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NSC
-Meeting
-Time
-Reasons
-Joseph M. Montoya Amendment on Military Procurement
-The President's telephone conversation with Rogers
-Funding
-Election in South Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu

Vietnam
-Type of country
-Amount of money spent
-Monetary aid
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Francis J. Galbraith
-Lt. Gen. T. N. J. Suharto
-Suharto
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President's strategy
-Bureaucracy
-Kissinger’s talk with William F. Buckley
-US Information Agency [USIA]

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:07 pm and 6:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36b]

[See Conversation No. 9-5]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-State Department
-Support
-Members of the NSC
-Rogers
-Residual force
-Melvin R. Laird
-Thomas Moorer
-NSC Meeting
-Strategy
-Time
-Paris Peace Talks
-William J. Porter
-Possible action
-George S. McGovern's trip to Paris, Southeast Asia
-Meeting with North Vietnamese
-Possible reaction
-Peace negotiations
-Porter
-Press

The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller between 6:13 pm and 6:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36C]

[See Conversation No. 9-6]
[End of telephone conversation]

Attica Prison riots
-Rockefeller
-Kissinger's telephone conversation
-Comparison to [John] Calvin Coolidge's action against strikers
-Presidential support
-Today Show
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news coverage
-Newsweek
-Law enforcement
-Presidential support for governors
-Test case

The President talked with an unknown person [Haldeman?] at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36D]

NSC meeting scheduling
-Connally
-Return from trip
-Length of trip

[End of telephone conversation]

Forthcoming NSC meeting
-Laird
-Announcement of meeting
-Citation of the President's conversation with Kissinger
-Laird statement

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36E]

[See Conversation No. 9-7]

[End of telephone conversation]

Forthcoming NSC meeting
-Strategy
-[Thieu]
-Laird

Kissinger talked with Rogers at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36F]

[See Conversation No. 9-8; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

NSC meeting

[End of telephone conversation]

NSC meeting scheduling
-Rogers
-Son's forthcoming marriage
-Connally
-Return from trip
-Time
-Location
-Camp David

Vietnam
-South Vietnamese government
-Possible future
-Thieu
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Current situation
-North Vietnamese
-Cambodia
-Laos
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-North Vietnam
-Rogers
-Referendum
-Elections

Kissinger left at 6:35 pm.

Conversation No. 278-37

Date:  September 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:35 pm and 6:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:40 pm.

Conversation No. 278-38

Date:  September 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:35 pm and 6:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Patrick J. Buchanan
-Telephone call

Sanchez talked with Buchanan at an unknown time between 6:35 pm and 6:40 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-38A]
Information for the President

[End of telephone conversation]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:40 pm.

Conversation No. 278-39

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  9:17 am - 9:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Citation [for Apollo 15 astronauts]
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Air Force Academy
-Time
-Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]

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Butterfield left at 9:20 am.

Conversation No. 278-67

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Delivery of item

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.

Conversation No. 278-40

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:33 am

Conversation No. 278-41

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left an unknown time before 10:33 am.

Conversation No. 278-42

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Possible telephone conversation
-Location

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.

Conversation No. 278-43

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Drafts
-Unknown person

President’s schedule
-Meeting

The President and Bull left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.

Conversation No. 278-44

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.

Conversation No. 278-45

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Draft extension bill
-Time of action, vote
-George P. Shultz, F. Edward Hébert
-Deadline, time
-Senate
-Tactics

Conversation No. 278-46

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-35]

Conversation No. 278-47

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  10:33 am - 10:34 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 9-36]

Conversation No. 278-48

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:48 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?].

Vietnam
-William Porter
-Conversation
-News summary

-Time
-Prisoner of war [POW] issue
-Questions
-Problems
-POW wives
-Pubic relations
-Indications of action
-Response to proposals
-US policies
-Negotiations
-Claims by the US
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Press story
-Deadline, ramifications
-Casualties
-Vietnam
-US military and political position
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Report
-Sir Robert K.G. Thompson
-Possible trip
-Cable
-Draft Extension Bill
-George P. Shultz
-All volunteer army
-Cost and effectiveness
-Conference Committee action
-F. Edward Hébert

Conversation No. 278-49

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:48 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-37]

Conversation No. 278-50

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:48 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?].

Foreign Policy
-Peter G. Peterson's office
-Japan
-Aid issue
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Comparison to Asia
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-India
-Indonesia
-US military budget
-Free world aid
-Europe
-Japan
-US
-Comparisons

Conversation No. 278-51

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  10:48 am - 10:57 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with F. Edward Hébert.

[See Conversation No. 9-38]

Henry A. Kissinger was present after 10:50 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

Hébert
-Conversation with the President
-Draft extension bill
-Votes
-Mansfield amendment

Draft
-Importance
-Strategy
-The President's opponents
-Importance of Vietnam
-Consequences

Vietnam
-Goals
-Withdrawal deadlines
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Questions on issue of Vietnam election
-Response
-Foreign aid
-Recipients
-Locations
-Types of governments, elections
-State Department
-Comparison to South Vietnam elections
-The President's conversation with Haig
-Mexico
-Colombia
-Venezuela
-Chile

Chile
-Future of elections
-Kissinger’s view

Vietnam
-Prisoner of war [POW] issue
-POW wives
-Deadlines
-Clark M. Clifford
-Situation
-Radicals
-South Vietnamese military operations
-Laos
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Position of North Vietnam
-Response by the US
-POW issue
-Effect on negotiations
-North Vietnamese strategy
-North Vietnamese POW deadlines
-Establishment of artificial deadlines in the US
-The press
-Kissinger's conversation with Rowland Evans, September 16, 1971
-Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Micronesia
-Evans and Novak
-Focus on Forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union summits

Foreign relations
-The President's accomplishments
-John F. Kennedy comparison
-PRC opening
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Soviet Union summit
-Deadline issue
-Stance

Attica prison riots
-Killings
-Hostages
-Nelson A. Rockefeller's position on issue
-Prison
-Press conference
-Public response
-President’s call to Pierre E. Trudeau

Media
-Tendencies
-Forthcoming book
-Vanderbilt University study of news coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-PRC
-Cambodian action
-Laos
-Perceptions

Vietnam
-Suggested statement on position
-Leaks
-Forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting

Kissinger left at 11:15 am.

Conversation No. 278-52

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Forthcoming vote on draft extension bill
-The President's deal with F. Edward Hébert

Schedule
-October 12 Hebert portrait hanging ceremony

Military draft bill
-Time deadline

Forthcoming events
-US-Soviet Union summit announcement

Draft extension bill
-Volunteer army
-George P. Shultz’s view

Henry A. Kissinger

Robert C. Tyson
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland's information about letter
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Response
-Secretary of State [William P. Rogers]

Leonard H. Goldenson
-Letter about television
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-[Virginia Sherwood]

Congress
-Draft extension bill
-Hébert
-Shultz
-Kissinger
-Clark MacGregor
-Handling of action on legislation
-Hébert, John C. Stennis, Leslie C. Arends
-Meeting with Michael J. Mansfield
-Mansfield's action
-MacGregor’s view
-The President's forthcoming trip to Montana
-Scheduling
-George S. McGovern
-Stennis
-Handling of unknown foreign policy issue
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Forthcoming summits with PRC, Soviet Union
-MacGregor
-Handling
-Options

President’s schedule
-Alaska

Press conference
-Planned question
-Handling
-MacGregor

Conversation No. 278-53

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Miss America contest
-Letter
-Contestants' comments
-Possible meeting with previous winner [Phyllis George]
Attica
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Possible question
-Polls
-Louis Harris, George H. Gallup

Conversation No. 278-54

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown woman.

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The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.

Conversation No. 278-55

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Foreign policy
-Us-Soviet Union relations
-Mack Truck deal

-Arrival
-Publicity
-Gerald R. Ford
-Peter G. Peterson
-Public relations plan
-Andrei A. Gromyko's forthcoming arrival in the US for United Nations [UN] session
-Timing
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-UN Security Council
-US position on Taiwan, Republic of China
-State Department
-Message
-President’s forthcoming statement
-Vietnam
-US aid
-Communist takeover

Conversation No. 278-56

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-39]

Conversation No. 278-57

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  11:48 am - 11:50 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 9-40]

Conversation No. 278-58

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Accidental War announcement
-Timing
-Wording
-Status of situation

Conversation No. 278-59

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Schedule
-Press conference
-Meeting with state and local officials
-Time turnaround after press conference
-Preparation
-[Vice President Spiro T. Agnew]
-Briefing paper
-Clark MacGregor
-Statement
-Deadline
-Staff
-Communications
-MacGregor

-Possible announcement

White House staff press contacts
-Henry A. Kissinger
-United Nations [UN]
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Meeting with Evans
-Unknown book
-Time spent meeting with journalists
-Godfrey Sperling, Jr.
-Evans
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Press reporters
-Meeting with the President
-Proposal of subject
-Kissinger
-Connally
-Discussion of Vietnam as topic
-MacGregor
-Robert H. Finch
-William P. Rogers
-Knowledge of subject
-Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-MacGregor
-Popularity

Conversation No. 278-60

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.

Conversation No. 278-61

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-41]

Conversation No. 278-62

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Photograph
-Description
-Astronauts
-Commander and crew

Conversation No. 278-63

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.

Conversation No. 278-64

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Congressional relations
-Meeting with Charles W. Colson
-Plan of action on obstructionist partisan label
-Senate Democrats
-Victor Lasky
-Column
-Handling
-Cabinet
-Leadership meeting
-Quote
-The President's role
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Draft
-Vietnam war
-House of Representatives
-Reaction of House members
-Quotes by members
-Obstructionism
-Draft
-Vietnam war
-Public relations [PR] program in the White House
-William L. Safire
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Colson
-Vietnam war
-Michael J. Mansfield

-Report

Press conference
-Time
-Location
-Deadline

Congressional relations

Conversation No. 278-65

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Schedule

Conversation No. 278-66

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  1:45 pm - 2:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Congressional action on draft extension bill
-Alan Cranston
-Gordon L. Allott
-Position
-Leslie C. Arends, F. Edward Hébert
-Options
-Filibuster
-Stance
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Staff

-Conservatives
-All volunteer army

Henry A. Kissinger
-Public statements
-Ripon Society
-Kevin P. Phillips

Congress
-Positions of members on draft extension bill
-President’s forthcoming talks
-Hébert
-Arends

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-66A]

[See Conversation No. 9-42]

Congress
-Forthcoming action on draft extension bill
-Arends
-Hébert, Allott

Haldeman talked with MacGregor at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:10 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Congress
-Draft extension bill
-Congressional leaders
-Gerald R. Ford
-John B. Connally
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Lockheed amendment example

President’s schedule
-Helicopter
-Landing area
-Forthcoming dinner for Apollo 15 astronauts
-Oval Room
-Time
-Dinner
-Family members with the President

First Family scheduling
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Constance M. Stuart
-Handling
-Briefing books
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Arrangements
-Crowd building

Schedule
-Camp David
-Possible meeting

The President's schedule
-[Connally]
-Quadriad meeting
-Camp David group
-Notetaking
-William L. Safire
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Press conference
-Possible considerations for press room
-Film coverage
-Preparations
-The President's appearance on the news
-Strategy
-Appearance at press conference
-Announcement of the President's arrival
-Timing on appearance

President’s schedule
-Detroit
-Public relations [PR] film of the President's forthcoming trip
-Length of film
-Time
-The President's arrival before film
-Time
-Arrangements
-Length of visit

Edmund S. Muskie's statement on black vice president
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Statement
-Rights of individuals
-Jews, Catholics
-Reaction to Attica prison riot

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Position on particular issues
-Role of the Vice President
-President’s role in Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration
-Action on issues
-Revenue sharing
-Possible role on draft extension issue

Draft extension bill
-Haldeman's forthcoming call to the President

Haldeman left at 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 278-68

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule

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

Conversation No. 278-69

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  2:47 pm - 2:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President.
Legislation
-Draft extension bill
-Possible decision
-Unknown man's [George L. Allott's?] lack of support for the President
-Motives
-Ernest F. Hollings-Michael J. Mansfield report
-Charles W. Colson
-George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 278-70

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Congress
-Draft extension bill
-Gordon L. Allott
-President’s reaction

-Clark MacGregor
-F. Edward Hébert [?]
-John N. Mitchell
-Possible meeting with Republicans in Congress
-The President's contacts
-Allott

Conversation No. 278-71

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  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. 278-72

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  3:41 pm - 3:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Congress
-Draft extension bill
-George P. Shultz
-Follow-up with F. Edward Hébert, Margaret Chase Smith, John C. Stennis
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Situation
-Republicans votes

Conversation No. 278-73

Date:  September 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:43 pm and 4:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.