Conversation No. 280-1

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 am and 10:01 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:01 am.

Conversation No. 280-2

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 am and 10:01 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:01 am.

Conversation No. 280-3

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  10:01 am - 10:35 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Message to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Time
-Mao Tse-tung
-Kissinger's communication with PRC delegation
-Meeting
-Time
-Mao
-Health
-Cancellation of flights
-Resumption of civilian flights

-Military flights
-Chou En-lai
-PRC Army
-Air Force
-Leadership

Foreign economic policy
-Preparation of statement for the President
-The President's appearance at the Detroit Economic Club
-Speech
-Length of statement
-Announcement
-Possible speech by John B. Connally
-Confidence in the US
-Surcharge
-Floating currencies
-Restrictions
-Surcharge
-Automatic adjustment of currencies
-Trade
-Devaluation of currencies
-Negotiations
-Floating of currencies
-New program
-Old system
-Germany, Japan
-Arthur F. Burns
-Cabinet meeting
-Date
-Connally
-Meeting
-The President's speech at International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Changes
-Memorandum to the President
-US balance of payments
-Preservation of system
-Reform international monetary system
-Import surcharge
-Policies
-Negotiations
-Old monetary system
-New program
-Crisis-free
-Connally
-Adjustment of exchange rate
-Negotiations
-Assessments
-Competitive position
-Kissinger's preparation of talking point paper
-Preparation
-Connally
-Attaching Burns’ memorandum
-Cabinet meeting
-Time
-Connally's schedule
-Time
-Burns
-Length of meeting
-Technical discussions

Kissinger's schedule
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Call to Kissinger
-Harriman's fiancee [Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward]
-Background
-Leland Hayward
-Randolph Chuchill
-The President's meeting, Chicago Convention
-1952
-Background
-Opposition to the administration
-Opposition to draft bill
-Vietnam negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Motivation
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Actions
-Democrats
-Pressure

Polls
-Gallup
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-US involvement in Vietnam
-Vietnam election
-David Brinkley
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Brinkley and Sevareid
-Brinkley
-Kennedy family
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-President’s view
-Kennedy family

PRC
-Domestic situation
-Message
-The President's trip to the PRC
-Possible cancellation
-Changes in the PRC
-Kissinger’s forthcoming visit
-Possible cancellation
-Announcement
-Soviet Union-US summit
-Harriman
-Support for the President’s PRC initiative
-Concerns
-Effect on Soviet Union

Japanese-US relations
-Edwin O. Reischauer
-George W. Ball
-Amount of Retainer as Lobbyist
-John N. Mitchell
-Ball's actions

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JAPAN	

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-The President's Administration
-Relations with Japan
-Visit by the President to Tokyo
-Stopover from Peking
-PRC response
-Japanese response
-Possible visit by the President
-Eisaku Sato
-Japanese Government
-Textile negotiations
-Japanese representative
-Visit to Kissinger
-Negotiations deadline
-President's conversation with Takeo Fukuda
-Date
-Announcement

Foreign policy
-Sato
-Soviet Union reaction
-Japanese reaction
-State Department Reaction
-Characterized
-Soviets
-PRC
-Soviets
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Josip Broz Tito
-Soviet response
-Kissinger's conversation with PRC delegation
-US strategy

The President's schedule
-Trip to Alaska
-West Coast
-Kissinger's schedule
-Taft Schreiber
-Meeting with businessmen
-Visit to Ronald W. Reagan
-Cabinet meeting
-Kissinger's attendance
-William P. Rogers
-Peter G. Peterson
-Handling of issue [Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP staffing?]
-Connally
-Paul A. Volcker
-Peterson

Kissinger's schedule
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Herbert Stein meeting
-Vietnam War opponents
-Agreements
-Administration actions
-Public support
-Stein
-McCarthy
-Kissinger's conversation
-The President
-Politics
-Political parties
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
-Philadelphia

Public relations
-1972 campaign
-Television
-Cabinet officers
-Kissinger's role
-Celebrity
-Television
-Coverage
-Kissinger's television appearance
-Audience size
-Trip to the PRC
-Quality of coverage
-Mike Wallace
-CBS
-Invitation for television appearance
-Foreign relations groups
-University appearances
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Post-trip activities
-New York City
-Universities appearances
-Debate at Yale University
-Princeton University
-Kissinger's schedule
-Appearances
-Off-the-record
-On-the-record
-Philadelphia
-Southern California
-University of Southern California [USC]
-Schreiber
-Kissinger’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Businessmen
-Dinner
Number of guests
-Mass audiences
-Universities
-Audience
-Off-the-record
-Outcome of events in PRC

PRC
-Delay in PRC's response
-Amount of information
-Kissinger's negotiations with PRC delegation
-Advance men
-Questions
-Aircraft
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-PRC's response
-Announcement of the President's trip
-Walters
-Time
-Television
-Press conference
-Oval Office
-Walters
-Mao
-Delay
-Vietnam
-PRC's response
-Effect on the President's trip
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Relations with the US
-Hanoi
-Domestic situation
-Possible events
-Airports
-Chou En-lai
-President’s trip

Kissinger's schedule
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-The President's visit

Vietnam negotiations
-Seven Points
-US position
-Constitutional process
-Demands
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Communist takeover
-US position

Kissinger's schedule
-Walters

Kissinger left at 10:35 am.

Conversation No. 280-4

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  10:35 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-138]

Conversation No. 280-5

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  10:35 am - 10:38 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 9-139]

Conversation No. 280-6

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:38 am and 11:15 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Administration's position
-Prayer in school amendment
-Voluntary

Conversation No. 280-7

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:38 am and 11:15 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:15 am.

Conversation No. 280-8

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:38 am and 11:15 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Dates
-Time
-Unknown person
-Testimony
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John B. Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-Japanese
-Meeting
-Length
-Detroit Economic Club
-Attendance
-The President's appearance
-National television coverage

Negotiations between Japan and the United States
-Charles W. Colson
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John N. Mitchell
-George W. Ball
-Representation of Japanese
-Publicity
-Textile negotiations
-Edwin O. Reischauer
-Wife
-Activities
-Colson

-Columnist, member of Congress

The President's schedule
-Appearance
-Television coverage
-Consumer representatives meeting on September 21, 1971
-Attorney General of Arizona [Gary K. Nelson]
-Check on party affiliation
-The President's appearance
-Live coverage

Handling of press stories
-Newspapers
-Treatment of stories
-Color
-Coordination between Ronald L. Ziegler, Richard A. Moore
-California Angels
-Announcement
-Sportswriters

The President's schedule
-Baseball game
-Schedule arrangements
-California Angels

Baseball
-National story
-Washington Senators
-Departure
-US Senators reaction

Staff morale

Conversation No. 280-9

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  11:15 am - 11:16 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Changes
-Time
-Helicopter pad

Butterfield left at 11:16 am.

Conversation No. 280-10

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:16 am and 12:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The President schedule
-Instruction

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:58 pm.

Conversation No. 280-11

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:16 am and 12:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

White House entertainment and social affairs
-Arthur F. Burns
-Dinner for Japanese
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Instructions for Haldeman
-Burns
-State Department
-List
-Burns
-The White House
-State Department
-List
-White House staff
-Forthcoming events
-Burns
-Invitations
-Burns
-Dinner
-Call to Haldeman

The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Time
-Call to Burns
-Burns’ call to Haldeman
-State Department

Conversation No. 280-12

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  12:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 9-140]

Conversation No. 280-13

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  12:58 pm - 1:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 9-141]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 1:00 pm.

Conversation No. 280-14

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  1:06 pm - 1:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:16 pm.

Supreme Court appointments
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-John M. Harlan
-Resignation
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's and John D. Ehrlichman's views
-Announcement
-Time
-Ziegler's call to John N. Mitchell
-Press briefing
-The President's statement on Harlan
-Harlan's career
-Appointments to Supreme Court
-Criteria
-Philosophy
-Strict construction of Constitution
-Advance notice
-Anticipating Harlan's resignation
-Harlan's health
-Advance information
-Letter from Harlan
-Resignation
-Time
-Announcement
-Hugo L. Black’s vacancy
-Selection process
-Appointment

-Supreme Court
-Vacancies
-Nomination
-Confirmation
-Nominees
-Names of nominees
-Sending names to Congress
-Information
-Date
-List of nominees
-Black's vacancy
-Consultation with American Bar Association [ABA]
-Veto power
-Consultation with Congressmen
-Mitchell's consultation with the Judiciary Committee
-House
-Senate
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Woman nominee
-Nominees
-Women
-Lower courts appointments
-Future appointments to the Supreme Court
-Justice Department
-Discussion
-Mitchell
-William O. Douglas
-Appointments of Justices
-Other Presidents
-George Washington
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Nominees
-Geographical considerations
-Political considerations
-Geographical considerations
-Minnesota
-Warren E. Burger
-[Harry A. Blackmun]
-Southern seat perception
-Black
-Selection process
-Representation of the country
-Nominees
-Geographical considerations
-Statement
-The South
-Process
-Politics
-Selection
-Richard H. Poff
-Mitchell

The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Assessment of domestic situation
-Kissinger
-Call from Paris
-Chinese embassy
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung

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PRC

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Forthcoming press briefing
-Questions
-News briefing
-The President's trip to the West Coast
-Time
-California
-Other events
-Question and answer session

Ziegler left at 1:16 pm.

Conversation No. 280-15

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.

Conversation No. 280-16

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?]

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The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.

Conversation No. 280-17

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Meetings

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.

Conversation No. 280-18

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  2:20 pm - 2:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Announcement of Kissinger's Trip
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Date
-Dates of the President's trip to the PRC
-Press conferences
-Earlier dates
-PRC’s position

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:20 pm.

The President's schedule book

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm.

The PRC
-Announcement of Kissinger’s trip
-Time
-Domestic situation
-Chou En-lai
-Position
-Message from the PRC
-Communique
-Formosa [Republic of China]
-July 15, 1971 statement
-Proposals
-United Nations [UN]
-Tactics
-Debate over admission of the PRC
-PRC press
-Issues to be discussed
-Kissinger's meeting with PRC officials
-Arrangement of dates
-Alternate Dates
-Agenda
-Statement
-Outline of Communique
-Trade

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 2:25 pm.

The President's schedule
-Detroit Economic Club question and answer session, September 23, 1971

Butterfield left at 2:27 pm.

The PRC
-Kissinger's role in initiative
-Press conference
-Protocol for the President's visit
-Announcement of Kissinger's visit
-Date
-Soviets
-Questions
-Background
-Ronald L. Ziegler's role
-Handling of announcement
-Time of press conference
-Questions
-Press conference
-Announcement of Kissinger's PRC visit
-Soviet Union
-Relations
-Information on the President's trip to the PRC
-Date of Kissinger's Trip to the PRC
-Ziegler's Statement [?]
-State Department
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger's visit to the PRC
-Handling of meeting
-Congressional staff
-The President's schedule and news events
-Anchorage, Alaska trip
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Signing of Accidental War Agreement
-Kissinger's trip
-Press conference
-Soviet Summit
-Soviets
-Previous PRC trip
-Reaction
-Chou En-lai
-Relations with the Soviet Union

Foreign economic policy
-John B. Connally
-Return from trip
-Connally

The PRC
-Trip

Butterfield entered at 2:34 pm.

Item
-Book
-Placement
-Book
-Detroit Economic Club statement
-Changes

Foreign policy
-Soviets' reaction to announcements
-Announcements
-Details

Placement of item

Butterfield left at 2:36 pm.

Kissinger's previous meeting with unknown man
-The President's decisions
-William Moyers
-William P. Rogers

Foreign relations
-PRC announcement
-Advance notice
-Japan
-Announcement
-Soviet Union
-Japan
-Time
-Press conference
-Exact date
-Arrangements for the President's visit
-President’s group
-Reactions

The President's Detroit appearance

Kissinger's schedule
-Los Angeles

Kissinger left at 2:42 pm.

Conversation No. 280-19

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:42 pm and 3:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

Conversation No. 280-20

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:42 pm and 3:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

Conversation No. 280-21

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  3:30 pm - 3:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Cabinet meeting, September 24, 1971
-John B. Connally

-Statement on US position
-The President's forthcoming call to Connally
-Discussion
-Meeting
-Length

Butterfield left at 3:31 pm.

Conversation No. 280-22

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:31 pm and 4:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:09 pm.

Conversation No. 280-23

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:31 pm and 4:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:09 pm.

Conversation No. 280-24

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  3:31 pm - 4:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

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Conversation No. 280-25

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  4:09 pm - 4:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 9-142]

Conversation No. 280-26

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:13 pm and 4:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Position of item

The President and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

Conversation No. 280-27

Date:  September 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:40 pm and 4:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Manolo Sanchez [?] met with an unknown woman.

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Sanchez [?] and the unknown woman left at an unknown time before 4:54 pm.