Conversation No. 308-1

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:17 pm.

Conversation No. 308-2

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Tricia Nixon Cox's schedule
-"Today" show appearance
-Taping

Conversation No. 308-3

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Clark MacGregor
-Pending legislation
-Congress

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:17 pm.

Conversation No. 308-4

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:17 pm.

Conversation No. 308-5

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

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-Call to Clark MacGregor
-Meeting

Conversation No. 308-6

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and an unknown person.

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		-Unknown person
			-Call to Birch E. Bayh, Jr.

Conversation No. 308-7

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:17 pm.

Conversation No. 308-8

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Tax bill

Meeting with Clark MacGregor
-Time

The President's schedule

Instructions to the staff

Conversation No. 308-9

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  6:27 pm- 6:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Jerrold L. Schecter.

White House operators
	-Praise from the President

The President's work
-Desk
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Speeches
-Final copies

EOB office
	-The Vice President’s materials [?]
-Gavels
-Meetings with staff
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John N. Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-The President's desk
-Books
-William L. Safire
-Daniel P. Moynihan

The President and Schecter left at 6:37 pm.

Conversation No. 308-10

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Domestic issues

Unknown events discussed

India-Pakistan situation
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Atrocities on television
-Indian censorship

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 2:58 pm.

Conversation No. 308-11

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Unknown person departs

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:58 pm.

Conversation No. 308-12

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:58 pm.

Conversation No. 308-13

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  2:58 pm- 5:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John N. Mitchell.

Yeoman Charles E. Radford incident
-Interrogation of admiral
-Results
-Robert O. Welander
-R. C. (“Hugh”) Robinson

-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] involvement 
-Documents from Henry A. Kissinger's briefcase removed
-Effect of publicity on Armed Services
-Camp David incident
-Jack N. Anderson
-Mormons
-Quakers
-Catholics
-Communists
	-Priests
-University of Notre Dame
-Administration strategy
	-Timing
-Kissinger
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Incident 
-J. Edgar Hoover
	-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]

Supreme Court
-William H. Rehnquist
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
	-Praise from the President
-Potter Stewart
	-Potential political allegiance
-“Pentagon Papers”
-Operations 
-Hugo L. Black
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Thurgood Marshall
-William O. Douglas

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:58 pm.

Refreshments [?]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:27 pm.

-Stewart
-Rehnquist
-Erwin N. Griswold

Marshall
-Health

Douglas
-Health

New selections
-Women
-William French Smith {?]
-Douglas
-Geographic considerations

Warren E. Burger
-Rehnquist and Powell

Rehnquist
-Abilities

Powell
-1st Virginian to serve on the Supreme Court since the Civil War
-Effect on public opinion
-Article about Supreme Court
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Liberals
-Court
-Pressure from labor
-Jacob K. Javits
-Unknown person from New York 
-New York Times
-Liberal establishment
-Haynsworth
-Carswell
-Reaction to new appointments
-Haynsworth
-Carswell

International monetary meetings
	-“Group of 10” meetings
-John B. Connally
	-Ability
		-Praise from the President
-Bill Morgan's opinion
-American Express
-Need for reform
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Unknown legislator from Ohio
-James A. Rhodes
-Support of President

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time after 2:58 pm.

-[Unintelligible]
-Insurance
	-Amount
-Credit unions
-Possible appointment
-Experience noted by Mitchell
-Clarence J. Brown, Jr.
-Attorney General of Ohio
	-Lieutenant Governor

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John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and David R. Young, Jr. entered at 3:27 pm.

General conversation

Radford incident
-Welander
-Interrogation results 
-Radford's activities
	-Burn bags
-Kissinger's People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Haig’s trip
-Kissinger’s PRC trip
-Information on length and type of operation
	-Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy
-Walter W. Rostow
		-Haig
-Procedures followed by Radford
-Haig’s trip to Vietnam
-Kissinger’s PRC trip
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's involvement
-Examination of files
-Kissinger's knowledge
-Haig's knowledge
-State Department
	-Backchannel messages
		-“Camp David files”
-Secret trips to Vietnam
-Memo obtained by Radford
-Moorer
-Young's investigation
-Welander's knowledge
-Robinson's role
-Radford's role in incident
-Radford
-Radford's methods 
-Directions from Welander
-Troop levels and withdrawals
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Robinson
-Radford's ability 
-Welander's attitude 
-Effect on career
-Radford
-Evidence gathered by Justice Department
-Welander memo about leaks about troop movements to Haig
	-Breakdown of Radford’s activities
-Memo's appearance in Anderson’s column
	-Djakarta
	-Philippines
-Singapore
		-Denial of Anderson’s story
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Welander
-Haig
-Welander and Radford
	-Anderson

Radford
-Interrogation
-Methods
-Communication with Moorer
				-Situation with Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] and the Department of Justice [DOJ]
-Moorer's knowledge of Kissinger's activity
	-Background and talking papers
	-President’s confidence in Moorer
-Effect of publicity on Armed Services
-Camp David
	-Negative outlook
-Young’s statement
-Relationship between Kissinger and JCS

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-India-Pakistan
-Radford's access to information
-Jordanian letter
-Radford's access to information
-Anderson's activities
	-Timing
-Surveillance
-Relationship with Radford
-Daniel Ellsberg
-"High morality"
	-Concern from Kissinger and the President
-Radford's role
	-India-Pakistan
-Alger Hiss
-Role described
-Intelligence gathering
-Leaks

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-Motive
-Sympathy for India
-Family
	-Number of children
-Ellsberg
-Transmittal of information to Anderson
-Theories discussed
-Interrogation
-Sequence of events
	-Timing
-Kissinger
-Reaction to Anderson columns
	-State Department reports
-National security
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Knowledge of incident discussed
-Notes taken at meetings
-Welander
-Talk with Kissinger about Radford
-Laird's reaction
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] involvement
-Buzhardt
-Robert C. Mardian
-Buzhardt
-Welander
-Robinson
-Location
-President's wishes
-[Forename unknown] Ginsberg
-President's wishes
-Interrogation
	-President’s concern
-Robinson
-Knowledge of incident
-Radford
	-Robinson
-Radford
-Relationship with Anderson
	-Hospitality
-Welander
	-Tenure
-Robinson
	-Young’s call to Robinson
-Knowledge of Radford's contact with Anderson
-Importance of Robinson information
-Previous Yeoman's whereabouts
-Speculation
-Robinson's tenure
-Joint Chiefs' liaison office
-President's wishes
-Possible strategy
-Effect on Moorer
-Welander
-Reaction 
-Moorer
-Strategy
			-Kissinger
-Haig
-Moorer
-Laird
-Closing of office
-Haig
-David M. Kennedy [?]
-Security offices
-Candidate
-[Forename unknown] Siker [?]
-Young's role
-FBI
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Attitude toward administration
-[Unintelligible]
-John L. Campbell [?]
-Ellsberg and Hiss case
-JCS liaison operation
-President's wishes
-Briefcase
-Conversations with Kissinger
-Moorer
-Importance of security
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Navy
-Staff size
-Military involvement
-Kissinger's staff
-Haig
	-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
	-Jonathan T. Howe
-Young
	-Kissinger
NSC

Kissinger's staff operations
-President's reaction
	-Environment
	-Welfare
	-Daniel P. Moynihan memorandum
		-Taxes
		-Walter J. Hickel
		-[Forename unknown] Coleman
		-Moynihan
			-Legislative strategy

President's interview with New York Times
-Nature of publicity
-Blacks and whites
-Liberals

Kissinger's staff
-Military influence
-State Department influence

Laurence E. Lynn [?]
-Relationship with Haig
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Kissinger 

JCS
-Moorer
-Navy liaison
-Gen. William C. Westmoreland
-Relationship with JCS chairman
-President's reaction
-Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.

Moorer

Zumwalt

Kissinger staff
-Haig
-Praise form the President
-Military background
-Problems
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Problems
-Clark MacGregor
-John A. Scali
-Kissinger attitude 
-State Department

NSC

Kissinger staff
-Military personnel
	-Difficulty finding loyal staff to the Administration

President's role as Commander-in-Chief
-Importance
	-Historical significance
-Indira Gandhi and Indian military
	-Comparisons
	-British viewpoint
	-Sir Alexander F. Douglas-Home

Welander
-Interrogation

Mitchell's military career
	-Rank
		-Location served

Welander

Memorandum about Radford incident
	-President’s instructions for Mitchell

Hiss hearing
	-The President’s recollection of the events

House un-American Activities Committee [HUAC]
-John E. Rankin 
-Parnell Thomas
-Karl E. Mundt
-Robert Stripling

Hiss hearing
-Mundt
-Whitaker Chambers
-Stripling
-“Hollywood 10”
-Gerhardt Eisler
-Ability 

Welander
-Tape of interrogation

[Forename unknown] Ginsberg

Welander
-Interrogation
-Attitude 
-India
-Role as "double agent"
-Anderson articles
-Tape of interrogation

Mitchell strategy
-Moorer

Robinson
-Prior intelligence gathering

Security
-Briefcases
	-Air Force One
	-Camp David
-Burn bag
-Need for change
	-Suggestions
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Security officer
-Candidate 
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-The Eisenhower Years
	-Walters’ involvement
-Role in Paris talks
-

Young
-Educational background
-Wheaton College
	-President’s speech
		-Timing
-Cornell University
	-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Oxford University
-Queens College
-Admittance to bar in Common Market Countries
	-Cost
-Robert D. Novak [?]
-John J. McCloy

Frederick M. Eaton
-Offer of Ambassadorship
	-Mitchell’s opinion
-Sherman Sterling [?]
-Secretary of State
	-Potential candidate
		-Japan
-Mitchell's view
-Ambassadorship
	-Japan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Anecdote

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-Peter G. Peterson
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-McCloy’s forthcoming call to Flanigan
	-Mitchell’s forthcoming talk with Rogers C.B. Morton
		-Morton’s upcoming call to Eaton

	Japan
		-Embassy
			-Importance

[David] Kenneth Rush
-Ability 
	-Dick Watson
		-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Corporate law

Supreme Court

Radford incident
-Strategy
-Robinson
-Whereabouts

Ehrlichman and Young left at 4:40 pm.

Security
-FBI
-Need for trust
-Mitchell's opinion
-Camp David
-President's briefcase
-Air Force One
-President's briefcase
-Cleaning staff

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Mitchell and Haldeman left at 5:00 pm.