Conversation No. 314-1

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  2:34 pm - 3:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Scheduling meetings
	-Carl B. Albert
-Neil H. McElroy meeting
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Robert E. Merriam
-Duration
-Delays in other meetings
	-Robert O. Anderson
-Length of meetings
	-Henry A. Kissinger, John D. Ehrlichman
-McElroy meeting
-Merriam, Agnew
Length
-Lack of briefing
-Purpose
-Stephen B. Bull, David N. Parker, Haldeman
-Handling of scheduling
-Estimates of length of meetings
	-Overruns
-Planning
-McElroy meeting
	-State of the Union speech
	-Parker
-Length of meeting
-Bull
	-Agnew
-Signaling end of meeting
-Kissinger
-Length of meetings

David J. Mahoney, Jr.
-Attitude
-Leonard Garment

Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:34 pm.

The President’s schedule
-First Family departure
	-Camp David

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.

Camp David
-Departure

State of the Union message
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s draft
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Delays
	-Call from Haldeman
-Theme

The President’s schedule
	-Kissinger
	-Camp David
	-Helicopter
	-Haldeman's call to Brig. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:34 pm and 2:45 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1A]

[See Conversation No. 18-77]

[End of telephone conversation]

Camp David

Scheduling
-Problems
-Haldeman's staff
-Ehrlichman
-Cancellations
	-John B. Connally

State of the Union message

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:34 pm and 2:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 314-1H]

Request for a return call

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman's meetings
-John N. Mitchell
-Time
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
	-Time
	-Forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Kissinger
-Concern over columns by James B. (“Scotty”) Reston in New York Times
-Possible press conference
-Advisability
-Possible interview with Max Frankel
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s advice
	-Forthcoming world report
-Breakfast with Melvin R. Laird
-Problem

[Haldeman talked with Hughes at 2:45 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1B]

[See Conversation No. 18-78]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with the White House operator at 2:45 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1C]

[See Conversation No. 18-79]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull
-Informing Ronald L. Ziegler

[The President talked with Ziegler between 2:45 pm and 2:47 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1D]

[See Conversation No. 18-80]

[End of telephone conversation]

Notification
	-Bull
-Ziegler

The President’s schedule
	-Home Builders convention in Houston, Texas
	-Astrodome exhibition center
	-The President's attendance
	-Size of crowd
	-The President's schedule
	-Timing
-Emilio Colombo
-Return to Washington
-Forthcoming Vietnam announcement
-Florida
-Home Builder's convention
	-Announcement
	-Agnew
	-Florida
	-Size of crowd
	-Program
	-Foreign policy
-Florida

[Haldeman talked with Hughes at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1E]

[See Conversation No. 18-81]

Camp David
-Snow
	-Thurmont, Frederick, Hagerstown, Maryland
-Thurmont, Maryland
-Weather
	-Plane
-Helicopter
-Car
-Time of departure

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1F]

[See Conversation No. 18-82]

[Haldeman talked with Hughes at an unknown time.]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1G]

[See Conversation No. 18-83]

[The call was placed on hold]

Schedule
-Kissinger

[Haldeman talked with Bull at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09 pm.]

[End of telephone conversation]

Camp David
	-Transportation
	-Car
		-Duration of trip

Kissinger
-Meeting with the President
	-Resignation threat
-Press conference
-Change of mind
-Mental state
	-The President’s view

**************************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Privacy]
[Duration:  9s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

**************************************************************************

	-[William F.?] Buckley’s view
	-Security risks
	-National Security Council [NSC]
	-Haig’s activities
	-Paperwork
	-Foreign visits

Kurt Waldheim
-Meeting with the President, January 24, 1972
	-Location
-Meetings with Congress
-Social events
-Meeting with the President
	-William P. Rogers
		-Meeting with the President

Florida trip
	-Return
		-Timing

Cabinet dinner, January 20, 1972
-Scheduling
	-Itinerary

Florida trip
-Scheduling
-Don and Betty Hughes
-Son
-Military service
-Rose Mary Woods
	-Talk with Haldeman
-Talk with Hughes
-Woods's attendance

The President’s schedule
	-Houston convention
	-Declination of invitation
		-Waldheim
	-Agnew
	-Substitute

The President's Commission on School Finance
-Ehrlichman
-Richardson
-Agnew, McElroy
-Agnew
-Unknown person from Chicago
-Lewis A. Engman

Agnew's recent behavior

Labor affairs
-Agnew meeting
-Propriety
-Chairmanship

Cabinet
	-Committee on Economic Policy
	-The President’s role

Appointments
	-[Council on International Economic Policy]
		-Peter M. Flanigan
		-William D. Eberle
		-Staff
		-Background
		-Common Cause

Common Cause
-Problems
-Finances
	-John W. Gardner

Eberle

Richard V. (“Dick”) Allen
-Conservatives
-Peter G. Peterson
-Commerce Department
-1972 campaign
-Foreign policy

Ziegler entered at 3:09 pm.

Andrew Wyeth

Ziegler's talk with Leonard Garment
-Wyeth

Portrait of the President
-Timing
	-Departure from office
-Wyeth
-The President’s choice 
-Sitting while in office
-Wyeth
	-The President’s choice
-Timing
-Garment
	-Call to Wyeth
-Press

The President's meeting with fifth grade class
-Press reports
-Children's facial expressions
-Responsiveness to the President’s questions
	-Children's aspirations

Photograph sessions
-McElroy, Agnew, Arthur F. Burns
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Photos

Laird
-Press conference

US troop withdrawals from Vietnam
-Level
-Timing
-Laird
	-Confidence in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
	-US combat role
	-US airpower

Kissinger
-Possible press conference
-Timing
	-Reston
-Necessity
-Reston’s views
-Importance to press
-Forthcoming trip to the PRC
	-Reston’s trip to PRC
	-New York Times
-Possible press conference
-Defensiveness
-Call to Ziegler
-Ziegler’s talk with Haldeman
-Credibility with the press
	-Background briefings
-Jack N. Anderson

Public relations
	-India-Pakistan war
	-Importance as issue 
-Bangladesh
-Importance as issue
-Sheik Mujibur Rahman
	-US support
	-Airport reception

The President’s schedule
	-Camp David
		-State of the Union speech
			-The President’s efforts

Ziegler and Press arrangements for forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Number of invitees
	-Negotiations
-Communications with the President

Forthcoming trip to the PRC
	-President’s security
	-Laird
	-Agnew
	-Position
	-India
	-Ireland
	-Latin America
	-Recent press conference

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Africa
-Television appearance
	-Demeanor
-Women in office
-Support of women
	-Leonore L. Romney
-Presidency
		-Barbara Walters
-Answers
-Style
-Treatment by press
-Questions
	-Handling
-Walters's question about women in office
	-Responses

Edmund S. Muskie
-Anderson papers leak
-Secretaries of State or Defense
-Truth of charges
-Joseph R. McCarthy
	-Administration responses
	-Rogers
	-Television
	-Accusation of lies
-Proof
	-Anderson
-Comparison to Pentagon Papers
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Neil Sheehan and wife
-Activity in Cambridge, Massachusetts
-Release of information
	-Timing
		-1972 election

Frankel
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] transcript
	-Ziegler’s intended use
-Statements
	-Interview by James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
		-Sheehan
			-New York Times

Press
-Battles with the administration
	-State of the Union speech
-Vietnam announcement
-Trip to the PRC by the President
-Vietnam troop withdrawals
	-Level

Ziegler left at 3:28 pm.

Kissinger
-Problem
-Sources
-View of Haig, Ziegler, Gerald R. Warren
-Handling
	-John N. Mitchell
	-Forthcoming PRC trip
		-William P. Rogers
	-Middle East

Haig
-Qualities
-Mitchell
	-Kissinger’s comments about Soviet Union

Kissinger
-Admonition by Ziegler
-Rogers
	-Briefing
-Briefing of the Associated Press [AP] and United Press International [UPI]
	-Rogers
	-The President’s instructions
-John A. Scali
-Conversation  with Rogers
-Handling
-PRC trip, Soviet Union trip
-Impact on Kissinger's position
-Position vis-a-vis Rogers
-Forthcoming 1972 presidential campaign
			-Possible resignation

	[Unintelligible]

The President’s schedule
	-Ceremony
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
		-Change of command
		-Fort Lauderdale

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:34 pm.

The President's schedule
-Papers for signing
-Budget message
	-George P. Shultz

The President's talk with Ehrlichman
-State of the Union message
	-Value-added tax [VAT]
	-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s forthcoming talk with Robert H. Finch

**********************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  13s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

**********************************************************************

Shultz

The President’s schedule
	-State of the Union
-Birthday calls
-Delays
-Walter Trohan
-William S. White
-Jerome H. Holland
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
	-[Dilantin]
		-Study
-National security indicator report
-Economic report
-Delays in calls

Forthcoming dinner for Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Wallace
-Fred Waring
-Jack Benny
-Ray Coniff Singers
-50-year medley
-Woods
-Position in charge of entertainment

Butterfield left at 3:40 pm.

Entertainment
-Tickets

Haldeman left at 3:41 pm

Conversation No. 314-2

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  3:41 pm - unknown time before 3:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President’s schedule
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Robert E. Merriam
		-Value-added tax [VAT]
-Agnew
	-Briefing on meeting
	-Length of statement

State of the Union message
-Raymond K. Price, Jr’s draft
	-Length
	-Timing
-Elliot L. Richardson's memorandum
-Quality
-The President’s conversation with Price
-New draft
-Outline
-Price
-Deadline
	-Length
-Copy to the President
-The President’s schedule
-Opening statement
-The President's early experiences in Congress
	-[Harry S. Truman]
-Confidence in government
-Divisions in Congress
-Truman
	-The President’s view

Conversation No. 314-3

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:41 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:50 pm.

Conversation No. 314-4

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:41 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [John D. Ehrlichman?].

Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s draft
-Supplementary notes

Conversation No. 314-5

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:41 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

Return call by unknown person

Conversation No. 314-6

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  3:50 pm - 3:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 18-85; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 314-7

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:52 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig
	-Location
-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John N. Mitchell
-Meeting with the President
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 314-8

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:52 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

**********************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  8s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

**********************************************************************

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 314-9

Date:  January 13, 1972
Time:  3:55 pm - 4:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Melvin R. Laird's press conference
-Performance

-The President’s role
	-Announcement
		-US troop withdrawals from Vietnam
-Questions
-US troop withdrawals
-Laird's handling

Camp David
-Work on State of the Union message
	-Draft

Henry A. Kissinger
	-Forthcoming foreign policy report, February 9, 1972
-Credibility with the press
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Statement to the press
		-The Soviet Union
			-Haig’s view

Russian student [Merab Kurashvili]
-Defection in New York
	-Return to Soviet Union
	-Tunnel
		-State Department and Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS]
		-Soviet view
-Yuli M. Vorontsov's call to Haig
	-Aeroflot
-Haig’s call to State Department
-Interrogation
-State Department

Kissinger
-State of mind

**************************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Privacy]
[Duration:  38s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

**************************************************************************

-Negotiations with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Tenure in office
	-Possible resignation
	-Possible Administration action
		-Timing
	-Possible results
		-Timing
-PRC and Soviet Union trips
	-The President’s possible handling
-1972 campaign
-Attacks on Kissinger
	-Senate
-Kissinger's possible reactions
-Haig’s view

John V. Brennan entered at 4:06 pm.

Status of First Family departure for Camp David
-Briefcase

Brennan left at 4:07 pm.

PRC and Soviet trips
-Outcome
-Détente
	-Europe
		-West Germany

PRC

Kissinger
-The President’s instruction to Haig
	-Message
		-Support
-Further attacks
-Haig’s handling
-Overreaction to attacks
-Personal life

Brennan entered at 4:08 pm.

First Family's schedule

Brennan left at 4:09 pm.

Kissinger
-Tenure in office
	-Possible book
	-Press coverage

Haig left at 4:15 pm.

Conversation No. 314-10

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 4:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

**********************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  7s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

**********************************************************************

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:12 pm.

Conversation No. 314-11

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 4:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

John B. Connally
-George H. Gallup
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Cooperation
-Paul A. Volcker, Charls E. Walker
-Peter G. Peterson
	-Announcement of nomination as Commerce Secretary
		-Timing

Flanigan's work 
	-Unknown trip

Conversation No. 314-12

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  4:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 18-6]

Conversation No. 314-13

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with William L. Safire.

Draft for Vietnam speech of January 25, 1972
-Foreign policy
-[National Security Council [NSC]]
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Personality
	-Drafts
		-Construction
		-Theme
		-State of the World
-Negotiations
	-Kissinger
	-May 31, 1971
		-Troop withdrawal deadline
		-Prisoners of war [POWs], ceasefire
-August 1971
	-Nine month deadline

-October 1971
-June 1971
-Kissinger’s draft
-Phrasing
	-Last paragraph
		-Possible audience
		-Negotiations
			-Peace offer
	-Opening paragraph
	-Troop withdrawal deadline
		-POWs
	-The President’s draft
	-The President’s pledge
-Negotiations
	-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-David K.E. Bruce
-William J. Porter
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Bruce
-Bunker
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Page seven
-Public concern over the peace issue
	-The President’s memorandum
	-Peace plan
-Deadline
	-Troop withdrawal
-Ceasefire
	-October 1971 proposals
-Deadline
	-Ceasefire, POWs
-Proposals
	-Kissinger
		-Deadline
			-Troop withdrawal, return of POWs
			-Ceasefire
	-The President’s proposal
		-Nguyen Van Thieu
			-Possible resignation
-Reference to North Vietnamese
	-State Department
-Page eight
	-Congress
	-Kissinger
-Page eleven
	-Nine month proposal

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:15 pm and 5:00 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-13A]

Schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Speech draft
-Negotiations
	-Secrecy
		-Deadlock
-Thieu's offer to resign
-Free elections
	-Communists
-Exchange of POWs
-New South Vietnamese elections
-Agreement on principles
	-Kissinger’s draft
	-Troop withdrawal, return of POWs
	-Paris negotiations
-Safire’s possible talk with Kissinger
-US relations with South Vietnam
-Public opinion

Vietnam
-Possible military action
	-The President’s 1966 proposal
-Mining Haiphong Harbor
-Bombing railroads, dykes
-Blockade
-World Wars I and II
-Civil War
-Robert E. Lee

	Speech draft
-Cuts
-Public trust
	-Support
-Ending of wars
-Tone
-Negotiation record
	-Troop withdrawal

Kissinger
-Safire’s meeting with the President
	-Call from the President
-References to in speech
	-Le Duc Tho
-Work with Safire on draft
-The President’s schedule
	-State of the Union speech
-Record of negotiations
-Publication of proposals
-Speech draft
-Thieu
-Submission to Rogers
		-Possible briefing of Thieu

Final draft
-Submission to the President
-Date
	-Dinner
-Study by the President
	-Florida
	-Meeting with Safire and Kissinger
	-Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

	Forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Resolutions by Senators in Congress
-John Sherman Cooper, Frank F. Church,, Michael J. Mansfield amendments
-Impact on negotiating position
-Possible public reaction
	-Secret negotiations
	-Thieu
	-POWs
-Secret negotiations
	-Kissinger’s draft
-Vietnamization
-Effectiveness
-Withdrawals
-Peace in Vietnam, Southeast Asia

	Final draft
		-Rogers
			-Kissinger
		-Thieu
		-Rogers
			-References to Kissinger
			-Consultation
				-Timing
					-Kissinger and Safire
				-Thieu, Bunker
				-Winston Lord
				-Draft preparation

Cabinets
-Conflict
	-Kissinger, Rogers
-Cordell Hull, Harry Hopkins
-Abraham Lincoln
-Winston S. Churchill
-Lord Melbourne, Benjamin Disraeli
-Rogers and Kissinger
	-Opinions
		-State Department
	-Rogers
	-Qualities
		-Tactical skills
		-Public relations
	-Deficiencies
	-Kissinger
	-Self-confidence, knowledge
		-Compared with Rogers

Kissinger
-Visit by Safire
	-Draft
		-Congress
		-Thieu
		-Rogers

Rogers-Kissinger conflict
-The President’s relationships with others
-Melbourne and Disraeli
-Lack of conflict

Safire left at 5:00 pm.

Conversation No. 314-14

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  5:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-2]

Conversation No. 314-15

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:23 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person on Henry A. Kissinger's staff.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's office
-Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 314-16

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:23 pm and 5:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

William L. Safire's draft of speech
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Changes
	-August 1971 proposal
	-Deadlines
		-Nine months
		-Ceasefire
-Kissinger’s forthcoming talk with Safire
-Safire
	-Pace of work
-Introduction and conclusion

Conversation No. 314-17

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  5:26 pm - 6:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

State of the Union speech
	-Final drafts
	-Phrasing
		-John B. Connally
		-John D. Ehrlichman
					-Taxes
		-Vietnam
		-Troop withdrawals
		-Announcements
		-Vietnamization
		-End of war
		-Generation of peace
		-Competition
		-Value of statement
		-World markets
		-American goods and services
		-Labor costs
		-Jobs
		-Deletion
		-Congress
			-Welfare reform
		-Six goals
		-Final paragraph
		-Pressures on Congress
		-Political year
		-Achievements
-Neighborhood schools
		-Length of speech
		-Reorganization and rewording
			-Deletions
			-Generation of peace

State of the Union speech
-Views
	-Price
	-Leonard Garment
	-John D. Ehrlichman
-Democratic criticism
-Edward M. Kennedy, Fred R. Harris
-Clark MacGregor’s views
-Carl B. Albert
-Earlier drafts
	-Albert
-Ehrlichman
-Technology
-Initiatives
	-Education, welfare reform, revenue sharing, health, environment

State of the Union speeches
-Anachronisms
-Early messages
-State of the world messages
-Kissinger's drafts
	-Lengths

State of the Union speech
-Number of words

Washington, DC
-Crime
-Decline
		-Tourists, business

Crime
-Blacks
-Violent crimes
	-Murder
	-Rape, assault
-Murder
-Increase
-Decline

**********************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  2m 52s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

**********************************************************************

State of the Union speech
	-Instruction to Price
		-Rose Mary Woods
	-Delivery
		-Timing
-Congressional reaction
	-Election year
-Basis for judgments
	-Interruptions by applause
		-The President's 1968 speech at Notre Dame
			-1967 example
			-Reception
-Preparation
-Press reaction
-Honesty
-References to war
-Domestic programs
-Neighborhood schools
-Public relations
	-Congress
	-Criticism
-Press
	-Focus on foreign policy
		-Recent interview with Dan Rather
-Length of speech
-Comprehensiveness
	-Daniel P. Moynihan
				-Government reorganization, revenue sharing, welfare reform, health, environment

Radio talks
	-Number and timing
	-Theme
	-Supplemental notes
	-Format of speeches
-Format
-Press coverage
-Number
-Foreign policy
-State of the Union speech
-Organization
-Ease for press

	State of the Union speech
		-Phrasing

US involvements abroad
-US interests
	-Safety of US citizens
		-Lebanon, Dacca
-Civil war
	-Biafra, South Asia
-Israel
-Lack of treaty
-Reasons for support
-Middle East
-Oil
-Mediterranean Sea
-North Atlantic Treaty Organizations [NATO]

**************************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration:  9s  ]

	ISRAEL

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

**************************************************************************

-Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Treaties

US treaty commitments
-Latin America
-Africa
-Middle East
-Israel
-India-Pakistan
-Baghdad pact
-Latin America
-Nature of commitments
	-Intra-state conflicts
	-European instructions

First draft of State of the Union speech
-Vietnam
-Original commitment
-Value of intervention
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Thailand
	-US casualties

	State of the Union speech
-Length
	-Compared to previous speeches
	-Compared to other Presidents
	-Compared to previous speeches
		-Applause
		-Press releases
	-Compared to other presidents
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Dwight D. Eisenhower
	-Length of speeches

1968 election
	-A speech by Robert F. [?] Kennedy
		-News summary
	-The President’s comments about Johnson
	-Amount of work
	-Vietnam

**********************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  5m 57s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

**********************************************************************

Price left at 6:16 pm.