Conversation No. 291-1

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:37 pm and 9:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger’s meeting with Chou En-lai
-Size of delegation
-Yugoslavia
-Romania
-Compared with first list
-Number
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Secret Service
-Press
-Communications
-Press

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[National Security]
[Duration:  3s  ]

PRC

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-Secret Service

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Agency Policy]
[Duration:  19s  ]

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-Press
-Communications support

Kissinger's schedule
-Press briefing
-Chicago
-Richard J. Daley
-Charles H. Percy
-Administration accomplishments
-Prey
-Bell and Howell
-Peter G. Peterson

Peterson’s schedule
-Forthcoming foreign trip
-Timing
-Egypt

US foreign relations
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Chinese
-French
-Soviets

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 9:07 pm.

Conversation No. 291-2

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:37 pm and 9:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-69]

Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 291-3

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  9:07 pm - 9:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 11-70; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 291-4

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:09 pm and 9:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-71]

Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 291-5

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  9:12 pm - 9:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 11-72; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 291-6

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:13 pm and 9:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 19s  ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:41 pm.

Conversation No. 291-7

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:13 pm and 9:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  37s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:41 pm.

Conversation No. 291-8

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  9:41 pm - 9:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 11-73]

Conversation No. 291-9

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:44 pm and 10:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator

[See Conversation No. 11-74]

Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 291-10

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:44 pm and 10:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  20s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at 10:09 pm.

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger between 10:09 pm and 10:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 291-10A]

[See Conversation No. 11-75; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 291-11

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  3:47 pm - 5:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

John D. Ehrlichman met with John N. Mitchell.

Supreme Court nominations

Media

Herschel H. Friday
-Washington Post
-Dick Wilson
-John W. Dean, III
-Investigation
-Financial statement

The President entered at an unknown time after 3:47 pm.

Supreme Court nominations
-Warren E. Burger
-Tenure on Court
-Health
-Conversation with Mitchell
-Health
-Mitchell’s conversation with Lawrence E. Walsh
-Forthcoming American Bar Association [ABA] meeting

-Mildred L. Lillie
-ABA’s view
-Possibility of woman appointee
-Sylvia Bacon
-Superior Court
-Lillie
-Stanley N. Barnes
-Philip Burton
-ABA’s view
-Friday and Lillie
-Mitchell’s position
-ABA’s decision
-Assessment of candidates
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
-Louis D. Brandeis
-Dissents
-Lillie's husband
-Activities
-Friday
-Walsh’s view
-ABA’s view
-National recognition
-Financial transactions
-Editorial, Arkansas paper
-Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
-Contact with James O. Eastland
-John L. McClellan''s conversation with Mitchell
-Lawrence F. O'Brien
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Dean of Arkansas law school
-Walsh
-Forthcoming meeting with Mitchell
-ABA vote
-Possible woman appointee
-Sarah T. Hughes
-Unknown woman in North Carolina

J. Edgar Hoover
-Ehrlichman
-Time magazine
-Newsweek magazine
-Ehrlichman's views
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Problems
-The President's conversation with Hoover

Ehrlichman left at 4:00 pm.

Supreme Court nominations
-Edward H. Levi
-Lillie
-Desirability
-Qualifications
-ABA
-Women's vote
-Walsh
-William French Smith
-The President’s view
-Lillie
-Qualifications
-Chancellor, Chairman Board of Regents University of California
-Harvard
-Law firm
-Friday
-Lewis F. Powell
-Age
-Qualifications
-ABA
-Law school
-Civil rights record
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Robert C. Byrd
-Mitchell’s view
-The President’s view
-Possible political interests
-Reference to Baker
-Busing
-Replacement for Baker appointed by governor
-Daniel H. Kuykendall
-Lillie
-The President’s view
-Qualifications
-ABA
-Shirley M. Hufstedler
-Circuit Court of Appeals, California
-Husband
-Age
-Walsh's opinion of qualifications
-Lillie
-Californians
-ABA
-Earl Warren
-Earl C. Adams
-Smith
-Background
-Possible appointments’ second term
-Attorney general
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Chairman Board of Regents
-ABA
-Names collection

Cancer
-Smoking

Supreme Court nominations
-ABA action
-Smith
-Baker
-William Mulligan
-Smith
-Qualifications
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Qualifications
-Age
-Powell
-Clement F. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell
-The President's past appointees
-Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Hugo L. Black
-Criticism of appointment
-Walsh
-Powell
-Baker
-Political benefits
-Friday
-Baker
-Legislation background
-Powell
-Age
-Burger's opinion
-Baker
-The President’s position
-ABA
-Experience as qualification
-Baker
-Powell
-Smith
-Powell
-Busing issue
-The President’s view
-Frank M. Johnson
-Judicial experience
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Mitchell’s view
-Thurgood Marshall
-Powell
-Smith
-Powell
-Baker [?]
-Walsh
-Schedule
-Lillie, Friday
-Powell
-The President’s decision
-Burger and Blackmun
-Burger's memorandum to Mitchell
-Powell
-Johnson
-Friday
-Friday
-ABA
-Powell
-The President’s position
-Friday
-Age
-Smith
-John A Sutro, Jr.
-Powell
-Clients
-Law firm
-Practice
-Possible leaks
-Walsh
-ABA
-Timing
-The President’s view
-Circuit Court of Appeals vacancies
-Lillie
-Possible Court appointments
-Robert W. Packwood
-Role of White House staff
-Compared with other foreign policies
-The South
-Politics
-Powell
-Burger
-Powell
-Smith
-ABA
-Lillie
-Friday
-Powell
-Friday
-McClellan
-Winthrop Rockefeller
-[Forename unknown] Rodgers [sp?]
-Powell
-The South
-Conservatives view
-Crime
-The President’s view
-Smith and Powell
-Byrd
-Friday
-ABA
-Powell and Smith
-Walsh
-Concern over leaks
-Burger's views
-Lillie
-Friday
-Powell
-Mitchell’s view
-Lillie
-Role of ABA
-Future role

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 291-11A]

[See Conversation No. 11-109]

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court nominations
-Political considerations
-Importance of Virginia
-Compared to Arkansas
-Powell
-Political affiliation
-Walsh
-Smith
-Lillie
-Powell
-ABA
-Powell
-Mitchell’s conversation with Walsh
-Rosser L. ("Ross") Malone
-Timing

The President's schedule
-John F. Kennedy Center
-Mitchell
-J. Willard Marriott

Hoover
-Possible resignation
-Ehrlichman
-Possible meeting with the President
-Tenure in office

The White House operator talked with John N. Mitchell at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 291-11B]

[See Conversation No. 11-110]

[End of telephone conversation]

Powell
-Schedule

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 291-11C]

[See Conversation No. 11-111]

[End of telephone conversation]

Mitchell's schedule
-Powell

Supreme Court nominations
-Walsh
-Forthcoming conversation with Mitchell
-ABA
-Lillie
-Possible ABA view

The President talked with Tricia Cox between 4:56 pm and 4:57 pm.

[Conversation No. 291-11D]

[See Conversation No. 11-112; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hoover
-Possible meeting with the President
-Cartha D. (“Deke”) DeLoach
-Personal staff
-Role
-Future

Supreme Court nominations
-Powell
-ABA
-Lillie
-Powell
-Walsh
-ABA
-Women in positions of responsibility
-Possible judgement on qualifications
-Powell
-Health
-Mitchell's schedule
-Forthcoming telephone call to Burger
-Bernard Steiger [?]
-Powell
-Friday
-ABA
-Media
-Lillie
-Smith
-Reagan Republican
-Wife
-Lillie
-Walsh

Mitchell's schedule

Mitchell left at 5:00 pm.

Conversation No. 291-12

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:00 pm and 5:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

John N. Mitchell's activities
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Resignation
-The President's schedule
-Future position with government

Budget meeting

Newsday articles
-Ehrlichman’s previous meeting with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Fisher Island
-Stock
-Pre-emptive rights
-The President’s view

-Strong accuracy
-Lawsuit
-The President’s view
-Possible response
-Retraction

Conversation No. 291-13

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:00 pm and 5:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-114]

Request for a call to Chet Holifield

Conversation No. 291-14

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  5:15 pm - 5:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule

The President talked with Chet Holifield between 5:19 pm and 5:21 pm.

[Conversation No. 291-14A]

[See Conversation No. 11-115]

[End of telephone conversation]

Butterfield left at 5:20 pm.

Conversation No. 291-15

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:21 pm and 5:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig's activities
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 291-16

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:21 pm and 5:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-116]

Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 291-17

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  5:24 pm - 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 11-117; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 291-18

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-118]

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 291-19

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  5:32 pm - 5:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[Conversation No. 291-19A]

[See Conversation No. 11-119]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 5:32 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler's schedule
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming trip
-United Nations [UN]
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Japan
-White House press statement
-Indonesia
-Japan
-Vietnam
-Health
-Forthcoming announcement
-William P. Rogers
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Press coverage
-John F. Kennedy Center reception
-Dwigh D. Eisenhower Theatre
-Publicity
-Mrs. J. Willard Marriott
-Forthcoming public announcements
-Legislation
-Wage and Price Board
-Supreme Court nominations
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Possible nominees
-Ziegler's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Press coverage of event
-The President’s view
-Ziegler’s view

Ziegler left at  5:45 pm.

Conversation No. 291-20

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:45 pm and 5:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-120]

Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 291-21

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:45 pm and 5:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-121]

Conversation No. 291-22

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  5:54 pm - 5:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 11-122]