Conversation No. 282-1

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 pm and 2:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Delivery of something

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:23 pm.

Conversation No. 282-2

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 pm and 2:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

Request for a call to the Attorney General

[See Conversation No. 11-160]

Conversation No. 282-3

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 pm and 2:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:23 pm.

Conversation No. 282-4

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 pm and 2:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:23 pm.

Conversation No. 282-5

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 pm and 2:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Haldeman’s conversation with John B. Connally

[Unintelligible]

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming White House Dinner with Japanese Delegation
-Henry Kearns
-Nobusuke Kishi
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-Timing
-Location
-Forthcoming meeting with unknown group, October 25, 1971
-Timing
-Unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger ?]
-Jews
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Los Angeles Times
-Administration's actions

Conversation No. 282-6

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 pm and 2:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 282-7

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 pm and 2:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-162]

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 282-8

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  2:23 pm - 2:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 11-163]

Conversation No. 282-9

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  2:47 pm - 2:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

Request for a call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 282-10

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  2:51 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 12-1]

Conversation No. 282-11

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-2]

Request for a call to Donald H. Rumsfeld

Conversation No. 282-12

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  3:06 pm - 3:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Donald H. Rumsfeld.

[See Conversation No. 12-3]

Conversation No. 282-13

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

The President's schedule
-Previous telephone call to William P. Rogers
-Request for meeting

Conversation No. 282-14

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  3:15 pm - 3:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

Previous conversation with William P. Rogers
-Proposed announcement
-Peter G. Peterson
-Latin America
-Economics
-Politics
-Meetings
-Expropriation
-Chile
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Travel
-Timing

The President's schedule
-State of the Union

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman ?] at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 3:37 pm.
[Conversation No. 282-14A]

Congress
-Date of return

[End of telephone conversation]

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Foreign travel
-Timing
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Liberia
-Hospital
-Children
-Education
-Culture
-Welfare
-Volunteerism

Latin America
-Unknown person
-The President
-Haig
-Peterson
-Preferential tariff

Europe

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Nobusuke Kishi
-People's Republic of China [PRC] Summit
-Trade issues
-Surcharge
-John B. Connally
-US-Japanese trade
-Connally's forthcoming trip to Far East
-Textiles
-Solution to trade problem
-President’s involvement
-Forthcoming conversation between Haig and Nobuhiko Ushiba
-Okinawa
-Connally
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Voice of America
-Reversion of Okinawa
-Connally
-Voice of America
-Briefing paper
-Connally
-Department of State
-Marshall Green
-Attendees
-Translation
-Japanese ambassador

Summit Meetings
-Kissinger
-PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-President’s role
-Other attendees
-Attendance at meetings
-Rogers
-Attendance at meetings
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai

Willy Brandt
-Nobel Peace Prize
-Foreign Policy
-Berlin
-President’s view
-Martin Luther

Vietnam
-Election
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-News summary
-Ky
-Casualties
-South Vietnamese
-Melvin R. Laird's comments
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Haig’s view
-John A. Scali
-Public relations
-Cambodia
-Laos
-South Vietnamese
-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
-Operations
-Cambodia
-Vietnamese Peace negotiations

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PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

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-US efforts
-Timing
-Congress
-Economic aid
-Xuan Thuy
-Paris meeting
-South Vietnamese delegates
-Vernon A. Walters
-Kissinger

Haldeman talked with the President between 3:37 pm and 3:39 pm.

[Conversation No. 282-14B]

[See Conversation No. 12-4]

[End of telephone conversation]
Mrs. Nixon's forthcoming trip

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 3:39 pm and 3:40 pm.

[Conversation No. 282-14C]

[See Conversation No. 12-5]

[End of telephone conversation]

Latin America
-Proposed meetings
-Bilateral problems
-Topics for discussion
-Fishing rights
-Haig's conversation with Rogers

The President talked with Mrs. Nixon between 3:40 pm and 3:42 pm.

[Conversation No. 282-14d]

[See Conversation No. 12-6]

[End of telephone conversation]

Arthur K. Watson
-French

Haig left at 3:42 pm.

Conversation No. 282-15

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  3:42 pm - 3:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-7]

Conversation No. 282-16

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  3:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-8]

Conversation No. 282-17

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:43 pm and 4:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

The President's schedule

Unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:05 pm.

Conversation No. 282-18

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  3:43 pm - 4:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Busing issue
-The President's conversation with Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
-Legislative proposal
-Constitutional amendment
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
-Previous discussion
-Education
-Parochial schools
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Earl Warren
-Education lobby
-Revenue sharing
-Special interests

Conversation No. 282-19

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:43 pm and 4:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-October 21, 1971
-Morning schedule
-Afternoon schedule
-Timing of unknown meeting
-Nobusuke Kishi
-Henry Kearns

Conversation No. 282-20

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  4:05 pm - 4:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Items for the President's signature
-Photograph
-John R. Brown, III

The President's schedule
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Dinner for Nobusuke Kishi
-Number of attendees
-Henry Kearns
-Frank J. Shakespeare

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 4:05 pm and 4:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 282-20A]

Forthcoming White House dinner
-Family dining room
-Guest list
-Attendees
-George P. Shultz

[End of telephone conversation]

Forthcoming White House dinner
-Number of attendees
-Food
-Wine
-Family dining room
-Winchester
-Number of guests
-Interpreter
-Photographs
-Honor guard
-Attendees
-Japanese delegates
-Kishi
-Nobuhiko Ushiba

Butterfield left at 4:12 pm.

Conversation No. 282-21

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  4:12 pm - 4:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at 4:13 pm.

Conversation No. 282-22

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  4:13 pm - 4:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 12-9]

Conversation No. 282-23

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:18 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-10]

Request for a call to Richard A. Moore

Conversation No. 282-24

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  4:20 pm - 4:21 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Richard A. Moore.

[See Conversation No. 12-11]

Conversation No. 282-25

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:21 pm and 4:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:23 pm.

Conversation No. 282-26

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  4:23 pm - 5:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Richard A. Moore.

Greetings

Supreme Court appointments
-Leaks
-White House staff
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Mildred L. Lillie
-John N. Mitchell
-Women candidates
-Qualifications
-Public reaction
-Lewis F. Powell
-Age

-Qualifications
-Southern background
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Qualifications
-Law background
-Senate
-Age

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[Duration:  24s  ]

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-Supreme Court Justices
-Finances
-William O. Douglas
-Outside income
-Baker
-Age
-Possible tenure
-Contrasted with Potter Stewart
-William H. Mulligan
-Background qualifications
-New York
-Dean of Fordham Law School
-ABA
-Powell
-ABA's reaction
-Mulligan
-ABA
-Mulligan
-Powell
-Moore's conversation with Mitchell
-Analysis of candidates
-Herschel H. Friday
-Lillie
-Tennessee
-Baker
-Civil rights
-Congressional approval
-ABA
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press
-Role in appointment process
-Powell
-Ziegler
-Powell
-Mulligan
-Reaction by people in New York
-Fordham Law School
-Experience
-Mitchell
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Qualifications
-Powell
-Powell
-Baker
-William French Smith
-Qualifications
-Experience
-John M. Harlan
-Corporate law
-California
-Wife
-Kansas City, 1968
-Powell and Smith
-William H. Rehnquist
-Qualifications
-Possible ABA reaction
-Department of Justice position
-Stanford Law School
-Robert H. Jackson
-Department of Justice position
-ABA
-Mitchell’s view
-John W. Dean, III
-Arizona
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Stanford
-Smith
-Harvard
-Rehnquist

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 4:21 pm and 4:44 pm.

[Conversation No. 282-26A]

[See Conversation No. 12-12]

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court appointments
-Rehnquist
-Age
-Jackson
-Department of Justice position
-Compared with Byron R. ("Whizzer") White

The President talked with John N. Mitchell between 4:44 pm and 4:49 pm.

[Conversation No. 282-26B]

[See Conversation No. 12-13]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Powell
-Age
-Length of term
-Warren E. Burger
-Leaks
-John D. Ehrlichman
-White House staff
-Previous mistakes
-Rehnquist
-Qualifications of candidates
-New Jersey
-Illinois
-Mulligan
-Smith, Rehnquist
-Baker
-Leonard Garment
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Mulligan
-Experience
-William J. Brennan, Douglas
-Powell and Baker
-South
-J. Strom Thurmond
-Virginia, Tennessee
-Busing issue
-Powell
-Baker
-Rehnquist
-Smith
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Powell
-Mitchell's forthcoming conversation with Lawrence E. Walsh
-Lillie
-Lillie
-Earl Adams’ opinion
-Possible appointment scenario
-Powell
-Baker
-Women
-The President's instructions to Mitchell
-Sylvia Bacon
-Circuit Court
-Law schools
-Television announcement
-Advantages compared with press conference
-Contents of announcement
-Qualifications of appointments
-The President's  philosophy
-Powell
-Rehnquist
-Jackson
-Jackson
-Previous letter to the President
-David Capers [sp?]
-Career
-Nuremberg trials
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Background

Newsday articles
-Moore’s view
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
-Possible legal action
-Moore’s view
-Time magazine
-Robert G. ("Bobby") Baker
-The President's finances
-Possible Ehrlichman statement
-Law firm
-Fisher Island stocks
-Sale
-Moore
-Sale
-Ehrlichman
-Rebozo

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-The President's finances
-Real estate

The President's schedule

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:05 pm.

Items for the President's signature
Forthcoming White House event
-Guest list
-Frank Shakespeare
-Donald M. Kendall

Butterfield left at 5:07 pm.

Newsday articles
-Rebozo

Vietnam
-Announcement
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-POW issue
-Possible bombing
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] summit
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit
-Mary McGrory’s article
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers

Supreme Court nominees
-Robert C. Byrd
-Democrats
-Lillie
-Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown
-Smith
-Academic background

Moore left at 5:16 pm.

Conversation No. 282-27

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  5:20 pm - 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Supreme Court nominees
-Associated Press [AP] story
-Herschel H. Friday
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Timing of announcement
-New York Times
-Timing
-John N. Mitchell
-Ziegler’s comments
-American Bar Association [ABA]

Ziegler left at 5:25 pm.

Conversation No. 282-28

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.

Conversation No. 282-29

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Supreme Court nominees
-Timing of announcement
-American Bar Association's [ABA] rating of Mildred L. Lillie

Conversation No. 282-30

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  5:33 pm - 5:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

John N. Mitchell talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 12-15]

Conversation No. 282-31

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:40 pm and 5:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Supreme Court appointments
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Timing of announcement

Conversation No. 282-32

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:40 pm and 5:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Supreme Court appointments
-Ziegler's previous conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Press statements
-Announcement
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Media
-Timing of announcement
-Attorney General
-Announcement

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:40 pm.

Dogs

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:49 pm.

The President's forthcoming announcement of Supreme Court appointments

The President talked with White House operator  at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and 5:49 pm.

[Conversation No. 282-32A]

[See Conversation No. 12-16]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler's daily briefing

The President talked with John N. Mitchell between 5:49 pm and 5:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 282-32B]

[See Conversation No. 12-17]

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court appointments
-Ziegler's daily press briefing
-Timing of announcement

Ziegler's forthcoming meeting with Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Price Board

The President's schedule
-Veteran's Day speech

Ziegler left at 5:53 pm.

Conversation No. 282-33

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  5:53 pm - 6:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-18]

Request for a call to Richard A. Moore

Conversation No. 282-34

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:53 pm and 6:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm.

Conversation No. 282-35

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  6:05 pm - 6:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Richard A. Moore.

[See Conversation No. 12-19]

Conversation No. 282-36

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  6:08 pm - 6:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 12-21]

Conversation No. 282-37

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  6:09 pm - 6:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Reschedule meeting with George H. W. Bush
-Forthcoming White House dinner

Conversation No. 282-38

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  6:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-22]

Request for a call to Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 282-39

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  6:10 pm - 6:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 12-23]

Conversation No. 282-40

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:11 pm and 6:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Announcement of Supreme Court appointees
-Writer
-William L. Safire
-Contents of speech

Conversation No. 282-41

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:11 pm and 6:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-24]

Request for a call to John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 282-42

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  6:17 pm - 6:21 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 12-25]