Conversation No. 317-1

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:51 pm.

Conversation No. 317-2

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Papers from William L. Safire
-Stephen B. Bull

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:51 pm.

Conversation No. 317-3

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Ehrlichman's schedule
-Meeting with the President
-Previous meeting with Frank L. Rizzo
-Location
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 317-4

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Papers from William L. Safire
-Stephen B. Bull's transmittal to the President

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:51 pm.

Conversation No. 317-5

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-41]

Conversation No. 317-6

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  1:51 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Frank L. Rizzo
-Recent meeting with the President and Ehrlichman, January 24, 1972
-Meeting with the President
-Ward leaders
-Salary
-Pennsylvania budget
-Subsequent meeting with Ehrlichman
-Pennsylvania Congressmen
-Patronage
-Rizzo's control
-Relations with White House
-George P. Shultz and Leonard Garment
-Pennsylvania

[The President talked with Wilbur D. Mills between 1:52 pm and 1:56 pm.]

[Conversation No. 317-6A]

[See Conversation No. 19-42]

[The President talked with Mills's granddaughter at an unknown time.]

[The President talked with Mills at an unknown time.]

[The President talked with Abbie L. (Daigh) Mills at an unknown time.]

[The President talked with Wilbur Mills between an unknown time after 1:52 pm and 1:56 pm.]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's previous conversation with Wilbur Mills
-Abbie Mills and Wilbur Mills's granddaughter
-Ages

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Federal programs
	-Funding
-Rizzo
-Low income housing
-George W. Romney
-Chicago
-Romney
-Robert H. Finch

Romney
-Future
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
	-Church
	-Public service

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	Campaign financing
		-Walter H. Annenberg
-Financial contribution
-Deal with White House

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Frank T. Bow
	-Political plans
	-Meeting with the President
	-Age

National economy
-Unemployment
-December 1971 figures
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Political staff
-By region and state
-South
-Texas
-Florida
-West
-California
	-News summary
-Oregon
-Washington
-Colorado
-North Dakota
-East
-Connecticut
-New Jersey
-New York
-Pennsylvania
-Midwest
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Michigan
-California project
-Ohio and Illinois
-Pennsylvania
-Rizzo
-William J. Green
	-Philadelphia
-[Milton J. Shapp]
-New York
-New York City
-Compared with California
-Nelson A. Rockefeller's welfare program
-Federal money
-California
-Federal money
-Ohio
-John J. Gilligan
-Illinois
-Ohio
	-US Senate and House
-Gilligan
	-Political prospects
-Illinois
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Richard J. Daley
-California
-November 1971 figures
-Shifting patterns
	-California
	-New York
	-Connecticut
-Texas, Florida, Illinois
-Demography
-Black teens, Puerto Ricans and minority women
-New York City
-Married heads of households
-Ehrlichman's possible discussions
-Charles W. Colson, John N. Mitchell and Haldeman
-Texas and Florida
-South
	-Atlanta
-Blacks
	-Menial labor
		-North
-Women
-Unions

Rizzo
-Instruction for Ehrlichman
	-Domestic Council
-Rizzo's constituency in other cities

Busing
-Edward L. Morgan's memorandum
	-Richmond case
		-Judge [Robert R. Merhige, Jr.]
			-Lyndon B. Johnson appointee
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Administration position
	-State of the Union address
		-Local control of local schools
-Constitutional amendment or legislative proposal
-Democratic National Convention
-Result
	-Political polarization

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	Rizzo
-Blacks' views
-Philadelphia police
-Meeting with the President
-Photograph
-Announcement to Philadelphia press
-Federal money
-Hugh Scott's administrative assistant
-1972 election
-Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Scott
-Congressional seats
-Annenberg's influence
-Campaign financing

Annenberg
-Nomination as Ambassador to Great Britain
-Withdrawal
-Father
-Religion
-British Ambassador John Freeman
-Conversations with Ehrlichman
	-Rizzo

Rizzo
-Recent meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming call to Annenberg
-Pittsburgh
-Labor leaders
-Colson

Rockefeller
-Call to Ehrlichman, January 22, 1972
-State of the Union Address
-Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Federal funding for transportation
-VAT
				-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s briefing of executive committee of governors
-Agnew’s Cabinet briefing

	VAT
		-Sales tax
-Ehrlichman's possible conversation with the Vice President
-Administration line
-Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR]
-Democrats
-Options
	-Agnew
	-States
-Calvin L. Rampton's views
-Tax rebates
-Agnew’s views
	-Rockefeller

Agnew
-Possible conversation with Ehrlichman

Legal services
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Congressional action
-Board of Directors
-[Lois G. Forer]
-Rizzo
-Appointment by Shapp
-Legal suit against Philadelphia
	-Police court
-Board of Directors
-The President's appointment
-Government control
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.’s and Richard H. Nordahl's views
	-Public view
	-Possible veto

Kissinger
-Military security files
	-Allegation
	-Haldeman
-Kissinger's conversation with Melvin R. Laird
-Laird's possible action
-Possible White House action
-Jack N. Anderson
-Ehrlichman
	-Laird

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Howard R. Hughes
	-Book hoax
	-Payment of $625,000 to "Helga Hughes" [Edith Irving] by McGraw-Hill
		-Switzerland
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
	-Humphrey's son-in-law
	-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Loan to the President's family

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	1972 election
		-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Possible financing by administration
	-California

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Yeoman Charles E. Radford
	-Possible revelation of information
	-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
	-Comments to acquaintances
-Conversations with Anderson
-Radford's conversations with [Forename unknown] Cole [sp?]

	Watergate
-Wiretaps
	-Anderson
-Unknown woman at State Department
-Unknown man
-Background
-Eugene J. Carroll, Jr. [?]
-Relations with Radford
-Expansion
-Unknown woman at State Department
-Sensitivity of position
-Unknown man
-Reports
-Ehrlichman's perusal
-David R. Young, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Unknown man's conversation with Carroll [?]
-Radford's transfer
-Unknown yeoman
-Transfer
-Reason
	-White House action
-Clearance
-Access to documents

Responses to administration's opponents
	-Attacks

Richmond busing case
-Newspapers' reaction
	-The President’s State of the Union address
-Linwood Holton's views

The President's State of the Union Address
-Tone
-Delivery

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US foreign policy
-The President's role
-Kissinger
-1972 election
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-India-Pakistan relations
-PRC
-Analogy to Great Britain's role in nineteenth century
-PRC
-Press coverage
	-PRC, Japan, Soviet Union
-PRC
	-Soviet Union
	-Détente
-Japan
-Visit By Andrei A. Gromyko
-Defense
-Soviets
	-Trade
-The President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-PRC
	-Soviet Union
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
	-State Department
		-Soviet Union
-Polls
-1972 election
	-Economy
	-“Generation of peace”

Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Herbert Stein
-Paul W. McCracken

John B. Connally
-Relationship with Ehrlichman
-Relationship with Peter M. Flanigan
-Views of Peter G. Peterson
	-Commerce Department
-Presidential statement
-Connally's conversation with Ehrlichman
-Relationship with Flanigan
-Compared with relationship with Peterson
-Drug enforcement
-Eugene T. Rossides
-Treasury Department
	-Bureaucracy
		-Justice Department
		-Krogh
-Schedule
-Flanigan's role
-Use of White House staff
	-Conversation with Ehrlichman
	-Possible conversation with the President

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Unknown people
	-Richardson [?]

The President's forthcoming peace plan proposal speech
-Scheduling

Ehrlichman left at 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 317-7

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-John B. Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm.

Conversation No. 317-8

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  3:08 pm - 3:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

William L. Safire talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 19-43]

Conversation No. 317-9

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Changes in draft
-The President's previous conversation with William L. Safire

Conversation No. 317-10

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  3:15 pm - 3:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Bills for the President's signature

Robert Anderson
-Background
-Ambassadorship to Dahomey

Butterfield left at 3:17 pm.

Conversation No. 317-11

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:17 pm and 3:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-44]

Conversation No. 317-12

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  3:23 pm - 3:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 19-45; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 317-13

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:29 pm and 3:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-46]

Conversation No. 317-14

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  3:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 19-47]

Conversation No. 317-15

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  3:35 pm - 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Briefing books

	-State Department
-The President's preparation

[The President talked with Frank T. Bow between 3:36 pm and 3:38 pm.]

[Conversation No. 317-15A]

[See Conversation No. 19-48; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Congress
	-Tenures
		John Sherman Cooper and Bow
	-Bow
		-Age
	-Louie B. Nunn

The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Content and phraseology
	-Tone
-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Negotiations
		-The President’s courtesies
			-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Progress in negotiations
-William L. Safire's dictation
	-Compared to the President’s
-Records of private and public negotiations
	-Historical record
	-The President’s previous statements
	-Leaks
-Safire's suggestion
-Soviet Union

[The President talked with Adele (Langston) Rogers between 3:46 pm and 3:47 pm.]

[Conversation No. 317-15B]

[See Conversation No. 19-49]

[End of telephone conversation]

Mrs. Rogers

The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Content and phraseology
-Changes
-Record of private negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Thieu
-Le Duc Tho
-Xuan Thuy
	-Kissinger’s briefing
-Thieu
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Negotiations
-Possible US military action
-Peace settlement
-Kissinger’s briefing
	-US threat
		-US peace plan
-Possible deletion
	-Tone
-Ending
-Final draft
-Rose Mary Woods

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:47 pm and 3:59 pm.]

[Conversation No. 317-15C]

Speech draft [?]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with an unknown person [Woods?] at an unknown time between 3:47 pm and 3:59 pm.]

[Conversation No. 317-15D]

The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Instructions

[End of telephone conversation]

-William P. Rogers's possible review
	-Necessity
-The President's previous conversation with John B. Connally
	-Safire
-Connally
-Kissinger's possible call
-Thieu
	-Final draft
-Rogers
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Quality
-Changes
-Rogers
-Safire
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Thieu
-Possible public reaction
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Safire
-Translations

Woods entered at 3:59 pm.

-Changes
-Completion
-Distribution
-Thieu
-Copies
	-Safire
	-Kissinger
		-Connally, Safire

Woods left at 4:05 pm.

-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Safire
	-Rogers

[Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:05 pm and 4:20 pm.]

[Conversation No. 317-15E]

[See Conversation No. 19-50]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Review
-Changes
	-Rogers

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-The President's preparation
	-Reading

[Kissinger talked with Safire at an unknown time between 4:05 pm and 4:20 pm; the President conferred with Kissinger during the conversation.]

[Conversation No. 317-15F]

[See Conversation No. 19-51]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-The President's preparation
	-Reading
-Kissinger's conversations with PRC officials
	-Background material
-Briefing book
-Kissinger’s synopsis

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The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-The President's preparation
	-Reading
		-Vietnam
			-Verbatim transcripts

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:05 pm

Refreshment

Briefcases
-Delivery to the President

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:20 pm

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-The President's preparation
-Kissinger’s briefing books

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-Kissinger’s conversations with Chou En-lai
-Book on issues
-Kissinger’s synopsis
	-Subjects
-Meetings with Chou
-Kissinger's previous meetings with Chou
-Tone
	-The President’s visit
-Chou’s style compared to the President’s
-Notes
-Winston Lord
-Kissinger
-Translators
-State Department
	-Chou
	-Number
	-Forthcoming communiqué
	-Meetings
-The President's preparation
-The President's files
-Briefing book
-Timing
-Camp David

The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Connally’s possible suggestions
-Thieu

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.’s recommendation
	-The president's authority
	-Leak
-Timing
-Abrams
-Air Force

Kissinger left at 4:20 pm.

Conversation No. 317-16

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:20 pm and 4:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-52]

Conversation No. 317-17

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  4:27 pm - 4:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 19-53; four items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 317-18

Date:  January 24, 1972
Time:  4:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Briefcases

The President and Sanchez left at 4:55 pm.