Conversation No. 279-1

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  9:50 am - 9:55 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Items for the President's signature

[Signing documents]

Presidential appointments
-Security clearances
-Irving Brown
-Jay Lovestone
-Background
-Presidential appointment
-Support for administration
-Memorandum
-The President's desk
-Oval Office
-William P. Rogers
-Brown

Butterfield
-Briefing book of questions and answers
-The President's desk
-Oval Office

Butterfield left at 9:55 am.

Conversation No. 279-2

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  10:03 am - 10:52 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Internal politics
-Memorandum
-Summary
-Mao Tse-tung
-Reports of death
-Denials
-PRC embassy in Paris, France
-PRC embassy in Ottawa, Canada
-News Summary
-Chou En-lai
-Cancellation of event
-Announcement
-Visit of PRC Foreign Trade Minister
-Paris
-Chou En-lai
-Schedule
-Mao
-Last public Appearance
-Possibilities
-Mao’s health

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PRC

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-President’s forthcoming statements
-Question and Answer Period
-September 23, 1971
-Detroit, Michigan
-PRC
-Long-range plans

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:03 am.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:52 am.

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PRC

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-Events in the PRC
-Public articles against group
-Cultural revolution
-Leaders
-Politburo
-Ch'en Po-ta
-K'ang Shen
-Last public appearances
-Japanese News Service
-Hong Kong
-Preparations
-October 1 celebration

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PRC

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Supreme Court
-Resignations
-Hugo L. Black
-John M. Harlan
-Presidential appointment to Supreme Court
-Number
-Potter N. Stewart
-William O. Douglas
-Health

PRC
-The President's forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Edwin O. Reischauer
-News summary
-Normalizing relations with the PRC
-Reischauer's wife
-Japanese
-US-PRC Summit
-Reischauer
-Ambassador to Japan
-Japanese
-China experts, left-wingers

Union of  Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Announcement of Soviet summit
-Kremlinologists
-Charles E. (“Chip”) Bohlen
-Establishment
-Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr.
-Soviets
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Announcement of Summit
-The President's call to Thompson, Bohlen
-Soviet Summit
-Calls
-United Nations [UN]
-Alexei N. Kosygin
-Soviets
-Public
-Meeting with Kosygin
-Lyndon B. Johnson's Glassboro Summit
-Planning
-Meeting with PRC
-Timing
-The President's conversation with Andrei A. Gromyko
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
-Gromyko
-Handling
-Rogers
-Soviet Summit
-Reaction to announcement
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Sharing in Administration successes

Vietnam
-US press article
-US senators
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Elections
-South Vietnam elections
-Cable from Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Domestic situation in Vietnam
-The press
-Appraisal of situation in Vietnam
-The President's press conference
-Effect
-Haig
-Effect of air strikes
-Kissinger's conversation with Haig
-North Vietnam
-Press conference in Paris
-US action
-William J. Porter
-Viet Cong
-Prisoner of War [POW] issue
-US position
-Officials from South Vietnam
-POW issue
-Saigon
-Haig
-Bunker
-US embassy in Saigon
-Staff
-Situation in Vietnam
-Air strike
-North Vietnam
-Effect on morale
-Haig
-US morale
-Another air strike
-North Vietnam
-Press conference

Air strikes
-North Vietnam
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Range
-Effect on morale

Nguyen Cao Ky
-Possible meeting with Haig
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with William Randolph Hearst
-Eugene S. McCarthy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Meeting with John B. Connally, George P. Shultz, W. Paul McCracken

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Need for time
-US troop withdrawal announcement
-Draftees announcement
-Military opinion
-Timing of announcement
-Announcement of new economic measures
-Pressure
-North Vietnam
-US troop withdrawal
-Announcement
-Combat troops
-Draftees
-Speculation
-Date
-Purpose of announcement
-Dates of future announcement
-Number of troops
-Congress
-Final announcement
-State of the Union Address

USSR
-Reaction
-Deadline
-Date

Polls
-Changes in figures
-US election
-The President's trips to the PRC, to the USSR
-Effect on the President's standing in polls
-Public
-Economy

Foreign economic policy
-Connally
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Shultz
-Trade agreements
-General statement
-William F.  Rhatican
-Forthcoming meeting at Camp David
-Time
-Connally

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EUROPEAN AFFAIRS

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-The President's remarks on international economic issues in Detroit, Michigan, September 23, 1971
-Reiteration
-Strong US
-Economically
-International compared to Isolationist outlook
-Weak US
-Inflation
-Paul Hoffman
-Unified world
-Politically
-Economically
-East-West trade
-Economic interests
-Marshall Plan
-Effects on Europe
-Present-day situation in Europe
-Hoffman
-Trade between Great Britain and West Germany
-World War I
-World War II
-Proposal
-Connally
-Shultz
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-The President's remarks in Detroit
-IMF
-US position
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting
-Connally
-Statements
-Arthur F. Burns
-Possible calls from the President and Connally
-The President's previous conversations with Burns
-Kissinger's conversation with Haldeman
-Cabinet meeting
-Meeting with Burns, Connally
-Date
-Kissinger's conversation with Peter G. Peterson
-Peterson's memorandum to the President
-Kissinger as co-signer
-Establishment of a new group
-Meetings
-Peterson
-International monetary issues
-US position
-Knowledge of bureaucracy
-Responsibilities to the President

Kissinger's schedule
-Meetings about US-Japanese trade relations
-The President's meeting with Burns [?]

Textile negotiations
-Rogers
-Takeo Fukuda
-View of American textile producers
-Timing
-Public announcement
-Date
-Successful negotiations
-Japanese emissary to negotiations
-Date
-Negotiations
-Japan

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JAPAN

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-Reaction of the PRC to agreement
-Chou En-lai
-Opposition
-State Department
-Involvement
-PRC initiative
-Kissinger's conversation with Rogers
-Japanese press
-Relations with the US

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TAIWAN

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-Rogers
-State Department
-Staff
-Views
-Frustration
-State Department
-Loyalty to the President
-Statement drafted for the President
-Appearance in Detroit, Michigan, September 23

Vietnam
-Congress
-Senate
-South Vietnam election
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Final report
-Elections
-Thieu
-Negotiations
-Haig
-Ky
-Thieu
-Political plans
-Thieu
-Relations with the US
-Ky
-Ky
-Possible defeat of Thieu
-Cambodia
-South Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-Laos
-Winter campaign
-Military success
-Plain of jars
-Cambodia
-Military success
-Supplies
-Transportation
-Daily reports
-Guns, mortars, rice captured
-US domestic situation
-Media
-Press
-Backgrounders
-Report
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Public relations campaign about Vietnam
-Announcement of Vietnamization process

Announcement (USSR Summit)
-Time and date
-The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Telephone
-Kissinger's backgrounder
-State Department
-PRC
-US
-USSR
-Gromyko

Meeting
-Location
-Historic significance
-Rogers
-Dobrynin
-Dobrynin’s meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Gromyko's meeting with the President
-Location of previous meeting between the President and Gromyko
-Subject of meeting
-Rogers
-PRC

State Department
-Staff
-Rogers
-The President's administration
-Relations with State Department
-Liberals
-Credit
-Press stories
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Trip to Asia
-Reaction
-Relations with Japan
-PRC trip

Fidel Castro
-Private interview with Canadian reporter
-PRC initiative
-Significance

State Department
-Reischauer
-Objections to the President's administration
-Substance
-Power
-Comparison with Nixon's demeanor while out of office
-John F. Kennedy
-PRC
-Hong Kong
-Press

Textile negotiations
-Public opinion
-Japanese
-Pearl Harbor

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JAPAN

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-Japanese emissary
-The President's conversation with Fukuda
-Date of agreement
-Importance
-Kissinger's meeting with Nobusuke Kishi
-Relations between Japan and the US
-Negotiations

Connally
-Working relationship
-Compared with other Cabinet members
-Democrats
-Loyalty to the administration
-The President
-The US
-Domestic situation
-Need for authority
-Dissension within the administration
-Harmful public image
-Opinion about the President's administration
-The press
-Credit due to the President

Kissinger left at 10:52 am.

Conversation No. 279-3

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:53 am and 11:14 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler's press briefing
-The President's statement about the departure of the
Washington Senators baseball team
-Home team
-Opening day tradition of the President throwing out the first ball
-Baltimore Orioles baseball team
-Nation's capital
-Lack of baseball team
-Orioles
-Major leagues
-Game in Washington, DC
-Orioles
-California Angels baseball team
-Throwing the first ball
-Home team
-Senators
-Announcement of meeting between the President and Andrei A. Gromyko
-Date

Question and answer [Q&A] session at Detroit Economic Club, September 23, 1971
-Television cameras
-Mark I. Goode
-Arrangements for telecast
-Goode
-Arrangements for telecast
-Detroit Economic Club
-Audience position
-Position of aisles
-The President's position

-Cameras
-Television coverage of session
-Number of cameras
-Quality of coverage
-Goode
-Location of cameras
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Speculation about internal conditions
-Arrangements for telecast
-Cameras
-White House press corps
-Number participating in Q&A session
-Members of panel
-White House reporters
-Questions
-Local press
-White House press corps
-Participation in the session

News story about the President's September 21, 1971 meeting with race car drivers
-Release date
-Television
-Coverage
-Sports magazines
-Sports pages of newspapers
-Pictures
-Magazines

Ziegler's press briefing
-Foreign policy issues during news conference
-The President's press conference
-Volunteer army
-Maintaining defense
-Foreign policy
-The President's long term commitment to a volunteer army
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Catch-up period
-Figures
-Adjustment of points
-Interest in consumer issues
-The press
-Prices
-Agriculture
-Coverage of the President's meeting with special interest groups
-Governors
-Meetings with Senators and Congressmen
-Consumers
-Agriculture
-Labor
-Consumers
-The press
-Issue
-Consumers
-Possible economic issues
-Tax programs
-Ways and Means Committee
-Actions of the Committee
-Administration program
-The President's previous statement
-Vote on tax program
-Senate
-Tax action
-Speed
-Stimulation of jobs
-Congress
-Tax action

Q&A session in Detroit
-Television coverage
-Cameras
-Electronic camera
-The press corps
-Future meetings
-Size of press corps
-Television image
-Audience
-Speakers
-Typewriters
-Location of press corps
-Audience
-Monitors

White House correspondents
-Douglas B. Cornell
-Reception
-Years as White House reporter
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Wire service reporter
-Retirement
-Age
-Reception
-Attendance by wives
-Helen Thomas
-Stag
-Working press corps
-White House
-Capitol Hill
-Wire services
-Associated Press [AP]
-United Press International [UPI]
-Number of guests
-AP
-Wire services
-Marvin L. Arrowsmith
-Reporter

Ziegler’s press briefing
-Attica state prison riot
-Questions about situation
-The President's previous press conference
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Questions on Vietnam
-Answers by Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [MACV] and the Department of Defense
-Buildup in the demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-US troops
-Air strikes
-Weather
-DMZ
-Military build-up

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

Conversation No. 279-4

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:53 am and 11:14 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-111]

Conversation No. 279-5

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:53 am and 11:14 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

Conversation No. 279-6

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  11:14 am - 11:25 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 9-112: one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 279-7

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:25-11:39 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:39 am.

Conversation No. 279-8

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:25 am and 11:39 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-113]

Conversation No. 279-9

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  11:39 am - 11:41 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 9-114]

Conversation No. 279-10

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:41 am and 12:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-115]

Conversation No. 279-11

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  12:23 pm - 12:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 9-116]

Conversation No. 279-12

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:24 pm and 12:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:55 pm.

Conversation No. 279-13

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:24 pm and 12:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Meeting request

Conversation No. 279-14

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  12:55 pm - 1:50 pm
Location:	Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Arrival time, Detroit Economic Club

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-Dinner
-Arrival
-Time

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-Dinner
-Departure time
-Hotel
-Dinner
-Washington, DC departure time
-Arrival time
-Kissinger
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Meeting between the President, Henry A. Kissinger and Connally
-Time and date
-Monetary situation
-Meeting between the President, Connally, and Arthur F. Burns
-Time
-Length of meetings
-Arrangements for the President's morning schedule
-Detroit Economic Club
-Length of question and answer [Q&A] session
-Introduction of the President
-Question period

Public relations
-Mail project
-Helen M. Smith
-Roland L. Elliott in the White House mail room
-Work
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Radio talk show
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Cabinet meeting, September 24, 1971
-Attendance
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Senior staff members
-Working meeting
-Robert J. Dole
-George H.W. Bush
-United Nations [UN]
-Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Dole

Paul W. Keyes
-Miss America
-Laugh-In
-[Laurie Lee Schaefer, Phyllis Ann George]
-Public relations for the administration

The President's schedule
-Burns’ view
-Meeting recommendation
-Connally
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer

Campaign contribution
-Connally
-Armand Hammer
-Amount
-President’s view
-Further efforts
-Maurice H. Stans

Ronald L. Ziegler

Labor

Blacks
-Organized groups
-Marching
-Shirley Chisholm

Professional lobbyists
-Business Council
-Peter M. Flanigan

Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Latest figures

Justices
-John M. Harlan
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
-Harlan's health
-Justices [Hugo L. Black and Harlan]
-Announcement of resignation
-Effect

Kissinger
-Reaction on Vietnam announcement
-Front page story
-The President's conversation with Kissinger
-News commentators
-North Vietnam
-Reaction
-Opposition
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Bombing

Personnel
-Finch
-Mitchell
-Status
-Haldeman's conversation with Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Kalmbach
-Solution
-Finch
-Role in administration
-Counsel
-California
-Activities
-International drug interdiction

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-National figure
-Role in administration
-Meeting with youth
-College campuses
-Appearances in California
-Rotary Club
-Republican Club dinners
-Marge Turner
-Attendance
-Public speaking
-Size of audience
-Type of organizations
-Trips
-Latin America
-Ambassadorship to Mexico
-Voters
-Texas, California
-Public appearances
-College campuses
-Votes
-Other organizations
-Blair House
-Listening to groups
-Surrogates for the President
-Finch
-Rumsfeld
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Senators
-Liberal candidates

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Presidential appointment
-Romana Acosta Banuelos
-Swearing-in ceremony
-News coverage
-Los Angeles Times
-Minorities
-Blacks
-Mexican-Americans
-Mexico
-Spanish
-Cesar Romero
-American success story
-Family business
-Family
-Sons
-Daughter
-Accomplishments
-Horatio Alger type
-Catholicism
-Visit to the President
-Signatures
-Spelling

The President's schedule
-Groups visiting the President
-Bowling alley event
-Race car drivers
-Visit, September 21, 1971
-Effect
-Racing magazines
-Coverage
-Reception
-Number of guests
-Guests
-Popularity
-Youth
-Hot rods
-Drag races
-Lions Club activities
-Teenagers
-Motorcycles
-Motorcycle group
-Hell's Angels
-Detroit Economic Club
-Oregon

Kissinger's schedule
-Public appearances
-Philadelphia World Affairs Council
-Foreign relations
-Council on Foreign Relations
-Hugh Scott
-Spokesman for administration
-As a speaker
-Effect on audience
-Television
-Return from the People’s Republics of China [PRC]

The President's schedule
-Unknown meeting
-Arrangements
-Banuelos
-Swearing-in ceremony
-Attendants
-Family
-Location
-Oval Office
-Aldo Moro
-Date
-Announcement on Soviet Summit
-Kissinger
-Columbus Day
-Meeting with Moro
-Length
-Italian-Americans
-The President's Trip to Florida
-Columbus Day
-Moro meeting
-John A. Volpe

George W. Romney
-Trip to Michigan

Public relations
-Michigan
-Gerald R. Ford
-Impact of economic issues
-Detroit Economic Club
-The President's visit to Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire
-Massachusetts
-Public response to the President's visit
-Harvard University
-Boston
-Students
-US public
-Boston
-Harvard students
-Boston Common
-Effect on the President
-Other colleges
-The President's visit
-The President's public appearances
-Testimonial dinners
-Massachusetts
-[Edward W. Brooke]

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J. Edgar Hoover
-Jack N. Anderson's column
-The Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Handling
-Staff
-Tenure in office
CPI
-Analysis
-Components
-Automobiles

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Dinner
-Conference Room
-Connally and Mitchell
-Camp David
-Cabinet Room
-Meetings

Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-News coverage
-Public response
-Television

Media [?]
-Coverage
-Campaign
-Democratic candidate
-George C. Wallace
-Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Perceptions
-Announcement of the PRC trip
-Announcement of Soviet summit
-Viewpoint
-Trip to the PRC
-Current situation
-Experts
-Mao Tse-tung
-Rumors of death
-President’s view on impact

PRC

[Unintelligible]

USSR
-Forthcoming Summit
-Andrei A. Gromyko, Rogers

Herbert W. Kalmbach

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Haldeman left at 1:50 pm.

Conversation No. 279-15

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:37 pm.

Conversation No. 279-16

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

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Conversation No. 279-17

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-117]

Conversation No. 279-18

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  2:37 pm - 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 9-118; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

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Conversation No. 279-19

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:39 pm and 4:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:53 pm.

Conversation No. 279-20

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:39 pm and 4:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?].

President’s schedule
-Detroit Economic Club, September 23, 1971
-Paul W. McCracken
-Attendance

Conversation No. 279-21

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:39 pm and 4:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?].

President’s schedule
-Detroit Economic Club, September 23, 1971
-George L. Grassmuck
-Attendance
-Robert H. Finch

Conversation No. 279-22

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:39 pm and 4:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

President’s prior conversation with an unknown person

Instructions

Conversation No. 279-23

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:39 pm and 4:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-119]

Conversation No. 279-24

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  4:53 pm - 4:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 9-120]

Conversation No. 279-25

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Barber
-Appointment
-Date

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Bull left at an unknown time before 5:17 pm.

Conversation No. 279-26

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:17 pm.

Conversation No. 279-27

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Instruction

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:17 pm.

Conversation No. 279-28

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-121]

Conversation No. 279-29

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  5:17 pm - 5:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 9-122]

Conversation No. 279-30

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:31 pm and 5:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-123]

Conversation No. 279-31

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  5:37 pm - 5:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 9-124]

Conversation No. 279-32

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:38 pm and 5:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Request

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:41 pm.

Conversation No. 279-33

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:38 pm and 5:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-125]

Conversation No. 279-34

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  5:41 pm - 5:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 9-126; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 279-35

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  6:00 pm - 6:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 9-127]

Conversation No. 279-36

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  5:50 pm - 6:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Brig. Gen. Walter R. Tkach and Dr. W. Kenneth Riland.

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Tkach and Riland left at 6:25 pm.

Conversation No. 279-37

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:25 pm and 6:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:31 pm.

Conversation No. 279-38

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:25 pm and 6:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator [?]

The President's call to an unknown person

Conversation No. 279-39

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:25 pm and 6:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-128]

Conversation No. 279-40

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:25 pm and 6:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-129]

Conversation No. 279-41

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  6:31 pm - 6:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Charles W. Colson's call

The President talked with Colson.

[See Conversation No. 9-130]

Conversation No. 279-42

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  6:48 pm - 6:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:49 pm.

Conversation No. 279-43

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  6:49 pm - 6:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 9-131]

Conversation No. 279-44

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:51 pm and 6:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:55 pm.

Conversation No. 279-45

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:51 pm and 6:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-132]

Conversation No. 279-46

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:51 pm and 6:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Question and answer session [Detroit Economic Club, September 23, 1971]
-John B. Connally

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:55 pm.

Conversation No. 279-47

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  6:55 pm - 6:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Robert H. Finch.

[See Conversation No. 9-133]

Conversation No. 279-48

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:57 pm and 7:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-134]

Conversation No. 279-49

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  7:03 pm - 7:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with George H. Mahon.

[See Conversation No. 9-135]

Conversation No. 279-50

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:04 pm and 7:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 9-136]

Conversation No. 279-51

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  7:06 pm - 7:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 9-137; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 279-52

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:09 pm and 7:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:56 pm.

Conversation No. 279-53

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:09 pm and 7:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:56 pm.

Conversation No. 279-54

Date:  September 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:09 pm and 7:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:56 pm