Conversation No. 315-1

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:25 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm.

Conversation No. 315-2

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:25 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm.

Conversation No. 315-3

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:25 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 18-88]

Conversation No. 315-4

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  2:39 pm - 2:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 18-89]

Conversation No. 315-5

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:43 pm and 2:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 18-90]

Conversation No. 315-6

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  2:47 pm - 3:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 18-91; four items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 315-7

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 18-92]

Conversation No. 315-8

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  3:16 pm - 3:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William L. Safire.

[See Conversation No. 18-93; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 315-9

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 1:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm.

Conversation No. 315-10

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 1:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-7]

Conversation No. 315-11

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  1:43 pm - 1:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Gen. Walter R. Tkach.

[See Conversation No. 19-8]

Conversation No. 315-12

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:44 pm and 1:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?].

Request

Conversation No. 315-13

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:44 pm and 1:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:50 pm.

Conversation No. 315-14

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  1:50 pm - 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Denmark
-Death of King Frederik IX
-Henry A. Kissinger memorandum

-William P. Rogers
-John S. D. Eisenhower
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-State Department
-Danes
-US constituency
	-California
	-Compared to Swedes
-Death of King Frederik IX
-Eisenhower
-Rogers
-Guilford Dudley, Jr.
-Fred J. Russell
-Valley Knudsen
-Health
-Possible call from Haldeman
-Lauritz Melchior
-Victor Borge
-Dudley, Russell and Eisenhower

Appointments
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-John B. Connally
-Peter G. Peterson
-Personality
	-Possible working relationship with Connally
		-Haldeman’s possible talks with Flanigan and Connally
		-Flanigan’s possible talk with Connally
		-Haldeman’s role
	-Compared to Kissinger
-Possible conversation with Haldeman
-The President’s views
			-Haldeman’s possible talk with Connally
-Doubts
-White House staff
-Support of Connally
	-Ehrlichman
-Connally's role with administration

	State of the Union speech
-Advance draft review
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s call to Connally
-Ehrlichman's report
-Connally's suggestions
-Instruction for Haldeman
	-Tone
-Ehrlichman's role
-Draft
	-Completion
		-Timing
	-Review
		-Kissinger
	-Additions
	-Tone
		-Conciliation
		-Non-partisanship
-Length

Connally
-Position in Cabinet
-Relations with Democrats
-Relations with Cabinet
-Relations with White House staff
-Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz and Kissinger
-Connally's staff
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
	-State of the Union speech
		-The President’s schedule
		-Connally’s review

White House staff
-Unknown man
-Quote
	-Herbert Stein
-Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Connally
-Relations with other staff
-Compared to Rogers
-Ehrlichman, Shultz
	-Haldeman’s effort
-Work 

Marjorie P. Acker entered at 2:10 pm.

The President's forthcoming speech
-Length

Acker left at 2:11 pm.

Haldeman's schedule
-Flanigan
	-Paul A. Volcker

[The President talked with an unknown person [Rose Mary Woods?] at an unknown time between 2:11 pm and 2:15 pm.]

[Conversation No. 315-14A]

The President's speech draft
-Copy
-The President's style
-Delivery to Connally
-Haldeman
-Price
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Time of release
-Reproduction

[End of telephone conversation]

-The President's reading copy
-Delivery to Connally
		-Press copy

Haldeman's schedule
-Forthcoming conversation with Flanigan
-Forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Call to the President

Haldeman left at 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 315-15

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:15 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-9]

Conversation No. 315-16

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  2:29 pm - 2:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 19-10]

Conversation No. 315-17

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:34 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed his "Address on the State of the Union Delivered Before a Joint Session of Congress".

[A transcript of the speech in its final form appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 34-41]

Conversation No. 315-18

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:34 pm and 3:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-11]

Conversation No. 315-19

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 2:34 pm until 3:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter to Roger Staubach.

Staubach
-Performance in Super Bowl

[Continued as Conversation No. 315-21]

Conversation No. 315-20

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  3:43 pm - 3:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William L. Safire.

[See Conversation No. 19-12]

Conversation No. 315-21

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President resumed dictation of a letter to Roger Staubach.

[Continued from Conversation No. 315-19]

Staubach
-Performance in Super Bowl
-Press reports
-Washington Star
-Significance to youth

The President dictated a letter to the editor of the Ladies Home Journal [John Mack Carter] at an unknown time.

Instructions to Rose Mary Woods
-Editor or publisher of Ladies Home Journal
-The President's possible contact
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein

Thelma C. (”Pat”) Nixon
	-Story in Ladies Home Journal
	-The President's appreciation
		-Writer [Lenore Hershey]
		-Photographers

Ladies Home Journal 
	-Hannah (Milhous) Nixon

Conversation No. 315-22

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's speech draft on dictabelt
-Delivery to Rose Mary Woods
-Letters

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:58 pm.

Conversation No. 315-23

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  3:58 pm - 3:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 19-13]

Conversation No. 315-24

Date:  January 19, 1972
Time:  4:00 pm - 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President’s schedule

Appointments
	-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Previous conversation with Haldeman
	-John B. Connally
	-Tenure in office
	-Meeting with Connally and Haldeman
	-Haldeman's subsequent conversation with Connally
	-Flanigan's possible role with administration
		-Connally's views
			-Haldeman’s talks with Flanigan
		-Richard V. Allen
			-Flanigan's relations with the President
			-Need for strength
			-Connally's tenure in office
			-Treasury Department reorganization
				-Trade
								-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
			-State Department reorganization
					-Leaks

Flanigan’s schedule
	-Ross Liedtke
		-H. Ross Perot
		-William J. Liedtke

Flanigan

The President talked with the White House operator.

[Conversation No. 315-24K]

	Request for a call from an unknown person

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods
	-The President’s call to Haldeman

The President's speech draft on Vietnam peace plan
-Henry A. Kissinger’s draft
-William L. Safire's work 
-The President's style

The President read his "Address to the Nation Making Public a Plan for Peace in Vietnam" at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:30 pm.

[A transcript of the speech in its final form appears in Public Papers of the Presidents Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 100-105]

[End of recitation]

The President's speech draft on Vietnam peace plan
-Television quality
-Facts presented
-Understanding by Americans
	-Evidence
-Tone
-Vietnamization
-Nguyen Van Thieu's offer to resign
	-Deadline

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-The President’s opponents
	-Peace offers
		-Hubert H. Humphrey
		-Overthrow of South Vietnam government
		-The President’s efforts
-Thieu's offer to resign

The President's speech draft on Vietnam peace plan
-Mentions of Kissinger and William P. Rogers
	-Press conferences
-Kissinger's and Rogers's work in negotiations
-Safire
	-Kissinger
-Length
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Deadline on cease-fire
-Reaction

	Forthcoming State of the Union address
-Length
-Compared with other speeches
-Topics covered

White House dinner, January 20, 1972
-Attendance
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Philip V. Sanchez

The President's State of the Union Address
-Draft
-Concluding portions

	Connally

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[Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 4:30 and 4:31 pm]

[Conversation No. 315-24A]

[See Conversation No. 19-14; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

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The President read a portion of his "Address on the State of the Union Delivered Before a Joint Session of Congress" at an unknown time between 4:31 pm and 4:39 pm.

[A transcript of the speech in its final form appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 34-41]

[End of recitation]

State of the Union Address
-Compared with Inaugural Address, 1969
	-Idealism
-Particular phrases
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President
-Haldeman's concerns
	-Television coverage
		-Timing
-Price
-Conversation with the President

[Connally talked with the President between 4:39 pm and 4:42 pm.]

[Conversation No. 315-24B]

[See Conversation No. 19-15]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with Marjorie P. Acker at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and 4:46 pm.]

[Conversation No. 315-24C]

State of the Union Address
-Phraseology
	-Canada

[End of telephone conversation]

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and 4:46 pm; this conversation occurred simultaneously with Conversation No. 315-24C.]

[Conversation No. 315-24D]

The President’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and 4:46 pm.]

[Conversation No. 315-24E]

[See Conversation No. 19-16]

[End of telephone conversation]

State of the Union address
	-Draft
		-Connally

[The President talked with Price between 4:46 pm and 4:49 pm.]

[Conversation No. 315-24F]

[See Conversation No. 19-17]

[End of telephone conversation]

State of the Union Address
-The President’s schedule
	-Price
-The President's work
	-Previous State of the Union address

	[Unintelligible]

John N. Mitchell
	-Forthcoming departure from Cabinet
		-Handling

National economy
-Indicators
	-Housing
	-Retail sales

The President's People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Accompanying staff and aides
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's views
	-Mrs. Nixon’s recent Africa trip
-Constance M. Stuart
-Safire
	-Patrick J. Buchanan [?]
-Press

The President's schedule
-Page Belcher
-Call from Bryce N. Harlow or Clark MacGregor
-Calls from the President to Congressmen and Senators
-Belcher's secretary
-Publicity
-Richard A. Moore
-Belcher
-Call from Harlow
	-Letter
-Meeting on January 26, 1972
	-State of the Union address

Ladies Home Journal article
-Haldeman's perusal

[The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 4:49 pm and 5:05 pm.]

[Conversation No. 315-24G]

-Delivery

The President's speech draft
-Changes

[End of telephone conversation]

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Flanigan
-Possible role with administration
-Connally announcement
-Cabinet
	-Haldeman's conversation with Connally
-Age

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:49 pm.

Delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

Mrs. Nixon
-Photograph
	-Press coverage
		-News summary
-Other photos
-Dress
-Style
-Color

Marjorie P. Acker entered at 5:05 pm.

Delivery

Acker left at 5:06 pm.

Ladies Home Journal article
-Photos of Mrs. Nixon
-Cover photograph

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Forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Safire's work
-Changes
-Safire
-Peace negotiations
-Comparison to PRC announcement
-Secrecy
	-Public reaction
		-Safire
	-Public talks
-Kissinger
-Trips to Paris
-Wire services
-Rogers
-South Vietnam government

The President's schedule
-Dinner
-Guests
	-Knauer and Sanchez
-Mrs. Nixon
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Herbert Stein
-Connally
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Pay Board and Price Commission
-Budget
-Economic issues
-Forthcoming staff meeting
-Agenda
	-Current status of issues
		-Budget
		-Domestic and foreign policy
		-Legislative program

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-The President's recent call
	-Ronald W. Reagan
-Rockefeller's previous State of the State speech

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:06 pm and 5:17 pm.]

[Conversation No. 315-24H]

Unknown request

[End of telephone conversation]

Rockefeller
-Support for the President

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:06 pm and 5:17 pm.]

[Conversation No. 315-24I]

[See Conversation No. 19-18]

[End of telephone conversation]

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[The President talked with Gen. Walter R. Tkach between 5:17 and 5:18 pm.]

[Conversation No. 315-24J]

[See Conversation No. 19-19; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

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The President's schedule
	-Staff
	-Cabinet
-Gen. William C. Westmoreland and Melvin R. Laird, January 20, 1972
	-Kissinger
-Westmoreland’s schedule
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Dinner
-Arrangements
	-Helicopter
	-Mrs. Nixon
	-Guests
	-Family
	-Receiving line
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
	-Tables
	-Clifford M. Hardin
	-Maurice H. Stans
	-Harlow
	-Daniel P. Moynihan
	-Arthur F. Burns
	-Agnew

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:18 pm.

Ladies Home Journal
-Pictures of Mrs. Nixon

The President, Haldeman and the unknown man left at 5:25 pm.