Conversation No. 318-1

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:23 pm and 3:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-107]

Conversation No. 318-2

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:23 pm and 3:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's briefing
	-Kissinger's schedule
	-The President's previous call
	-The President's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Question and answer [Q&A] format
-William L. Safire and Patrick J. Buchanan
-Distribution
	-Cabinet, Congressional leaders

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming National Press Club dinner speech
-The President's Vietnam speech, January 25, 1972
	-Reaction
		-Calls
		-Unknown newsman

		-Unknown restaurant

The President's Vietnam speech
-The President's and Kissinger's preparation
-Safire
-State of the Union address
-Reaction

Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POW] release in exchange for US troop pullout
-Possible North Vietnamese intention
	-Psychological motivation
-Cease-fire

Kissinger's schedule
-Speech

Conversation No. 318-3

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  3:29 pm - 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[Conversation No. 318-3A]

[See Conversation No. 19-108]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 3:29 pm; the President conferred with  Haldeman during the phone conversation.

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's briefing
-Quality
	-Attitude, tone, content

-Television
-William P. Rogers's press conference
-Distribution
-Questions and answers [Q & A] format
-William L. Safire
				-The President's previous conversation with Alexander P. Haig, Jr. and Colson
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew
-Consultation on peace plan
-Leaders meeting
-Performance 
-Policy-making role
	-Cabinet meetings
-Leaders meeting
-Bryce N. Harlow's possible reaction
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:35 pm and 3:58 pm.]

[Conversation No. 318-3B]

[See Conversation No. 19-109]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's Vietnam speech of January 25, 1972
-Television rating
-Timing
	-Prime time
-Network programs
-Interruption
	-Welfare veto
-Public reaction
-East
-West
-California
-Rebroadcast on radio of January 26, 1972
-The President's projection 

[Haldeman talked with Harlow at an unknown time between 3:35 pm and 3:58 pm.]

[Conversation No. 318-3C]

[See Conversation No. 19-110]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rogers's forthcoming press conference, January 27, 1972
-Television
-Kissinger's briefing
-The President's previous conversation with Colson
-Haldeman's forthcoming meeting with Rogers
-Kissinger's Q & A
-Delivery to Rogers

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming National Press Club dinner speech
-White House Communications Agency [WHCA]
	-Phone hook-up
-Phone call from the President during Kissinger's performance
-Projection to audience
-Possible format
	-Conversation
-Humorous effect
-Identification of the President
-The President's possible presence
	-Compared with a telephone call

The President's Vietnam speech
-Delivery
-The President's knowledge of subject
-Compared with other Oval Office speeches
-Phase II
-Compared with "podium speeches"
-Reaction
	-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
	-Paul W. Keyes
		-Call to the President
-The President's self-consciousness
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] crew
-Work 
-Unknown man's reaction
-Previous work for the President on Christmas show
-News commentators and producers

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:35 pm and 3:58 pm.]

[Conversation No. 318-3D]

[See Conversation No. 19-111]

[End of telephone conversation]

Forthcoming call to Frank Stanton
-Colson
-CBS crews 
-Interview with Dan Rather, January 2, 1972
-The President's Vietnam speech
-Christmas special
-Marvin L. Kalb

George H. Gallup poll
-George P. Shultz's theory on economy
-Public attitudes on unemployment and inflation
-Timing of polls
	-Price freeze

	Haldeman’s schedule
		-Rogers

Secretary of Commerce position
	-Announcement
	-Maurice H. Stans, Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan
		-The President’s appearance
			-Stans’s possible comments

[The President talked with Stanton between 3:58 pm and 4:01 pm.]

[Conversation No. 318-3E]

[See Conversation No. 19-112]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Secretary of Commerce position
		-Announcement
			-Possible comments
	-Stans
	-Peterson
	-Flanigan
-The President’s appearance

	White House staff
		-Vietnam speech of November 3, 1969
			-Haldeman’s role
		-Colson
		-Cambodia
		-John A. Scali
		-Contacts

Richard A. Moore
-View of the President's appearance during Vietnam speech
-Possible call from Haldeman
-William H. Carruthers
	-Technical detail
	-Forthcoming call from Haldeman

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:01 pm and 4:20 pm.]

[Conversation No. 318-3F]

[See Conversation No. 19-113]

[End of telephone conversation]

	The President’s Vietnam speech
		-Handling of text
			-Camera shot
			-Lighting

	Vietnam
		-As issue

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:01 pm and 4:20 pm.]

[Conversation No. 318-3G]

Kissinger's Press Club dinner speech
-Phone call from the President
-Technical set-up by WHCA
	-Phone
	-Public address system
-Notification of Press Club staff
-Possible conversation
-Technical set-up
-WHCA
-Timing with the President

[End of telephone conversation]

-First line
-Reasons for tardiness
		-Phone call from the President
		-Timing

[Haldeman talked with Carruthers at an unknown time between 4:01 pm and 4:20 pm.]

[Conversation No. 318-3H]

[See Conversation No. 19-114]

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:01 pm and 4:20 pm; this conversation occurred concurrently with Haldeman's phone conversation.]

[Conversation No. 318-3I]

The President's schedule
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland

[End of Haldeman's conversation]

-Arrangements for meeting

[End of the President's conversation]

The President's Vietnam speech
-Carruthers's view
-The President's first economic speech
-The President's delivery
-Pace
-Subject matter
-Confidence
-Technical mistakes
-Construction of speech 
	-Clarity, concision
		-Confidence
-Lights, cameras
-The President's appearance
-The President's trip to Florida
-Lighting and setting
-Weariness
-Compared with economic speech
-Television
	-Close-up
-Makeup
-Preparation
-[State of the Union Address]
-Attitude
-Trip to Florida
-The President's delivery
-Pacing
	-Duration of speech
		-Number of words
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Carruthers's view
-The President's delivery
-Pacing
-Length of speech
-Concern over time in TV industry

Kissinger's Press Club dinner speech
-The President's phone call
-Timing
	-Dinner
-Master of ceremonies
-Effect
-Timing

Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Role with administration
-Ronald W. Reagan's recent conversation with the President
-William French Smith
-Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Weinberger
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Department of Justice
	-Cabinet
		-Attorney General
		-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
		-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-The President’s view

Haldeman left at 4:20 pm.

Conversation No. 318-4

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-115]

Conversation No. 318-5

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  4:20 pm - 4:21 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 19-116]

Conversation No. 318-6

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:21 pm and 4:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-117]

Conversation No. 318-7

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  4:23 pm - 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with George W. Romney.

[Conversation No. 318-7A]

[See Conversation No. 19-118]

George P. Shultz entered at an unknown time after 4:23 pm and conferred with the President.

Greeting

[End of conferral]

[End of telephone conversation]

Quadriad meeting
-Arthur F. Burns's strategy
-Convertibility
-The President's call request for a call to John B. Connally
-Shultz’s consideration of a call to Burns

Convertibility
-Administration strategy
-The President's and Connally's views
-Burns's concern
	-Central bankers
		-US budget
-US budget
-Strength of US economy abroad
	-Exports, imports
-Money supply
-Inflation
-Connally
-European leverage
-Burns
-Camp David conference
-Gold prices
-Statement by unknown Belgium banker
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-Administration strategy
	-Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Connally
-Stein
-Forthcoming conversation with Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken

Economy
-Fluctuations in confidence
	-Economic community
	-Connally
	-Stein
-Unemployment figures
-Fluctuations
	-Stein’s memorandum
-Timing
	-Burns
		-Unknown survey
-Unknown survey
	-Behavioral test
		-Compared to attitudinal test
		-Questions
			-Time measured
				-Burns
				-Definitional problems
-Unemployment
-Change in concept
	-Burns
	-Memorandum
	-Experimentation
	-Car model changeover period
-Strength
	-Retail sales
	-Money supply
-Retail sales

[The President talked with Connally between 4:36 pm and 4:42 pm.]

[Conversation No. 318-7B]

[See Conversation No. 19-119]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally 

International economic policy
-European trade question
-Connally’s view

	Connally
		-Schedule
		-Europe

Economy
-Retail sales
-Concerns
	-Stein
-Money supply
-Figures for 1971
-December
-Money supply
-M-1 and M-2
-Checks and cash

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and 4:47 pm.]

[Conversation No. 318-7C]

[See Conversation No. 19-120]

[End of telephone conversation]

Economy
-Money supply
	-M-1
		-Stein
		-Retail sales
-Retail sales
-Inventory
-Burns

[The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan between 4:47 pm and 4:48 pm.]

[Conversation No. 318-7D]

[See Conversation No. 19-121]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Marina von Neumann Whitman
-Appointment to Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
	-Women
-Qualifications
-Stein's view
-Father, John von Neumann
-Shultz's previous conversation with the President aboard plane to Florida

John Von Neumann
-The President's previous meeting
	-Cabinet Room
-Intelligence
-Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
-Oskar Morgenstern
	-Relationship to Shultz
	-Conversation with Shultz
-Importance

Economy
	-Public confidence
		-Democrats
		-Budget
	-International economic policy
	-Need for optimistic talks
		-Shultz
		-Stein
		-Peter G. Peterson
		-James D. Hodgson
-Money supply
	-Banks
		-Burns
			-Loans
-Loans
-Interest rates
-Pressure from administration
-Possible speech by Connally to banking community
-M-1
	-Possible increase
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Andrew F. Brimmer
-Burns's view
	-Recent meeting
		-Burns
			-Concessions
				-M-1
				-Interest rates
				-Federal Reserve Bank of New York

FRB
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York
-Alfred Hayes
-Burns’s meeting with the President and Shultz
-Need for votes
	-Brimmer
		-New post
		-Burns
		-Frederic V. Malek
		-Possible call to William P. Rogers
			-Connally
			-Shultz
			-Rogers’s schedule
				-Press conference
		-United Nations [UN]
		-Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank
			-Henry Kearns
	-Shultz's forthcoming talk with Malek

Economy
-Retail sales
-Milton Friedman's views of M-1
	-Burns
	-Figures
		-Summer of 1971
		-Fourth quarter of 1971
	-1969 Cabinet meeting
		-William McChesney Martin
-Burns
-Administration action

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:48 pm.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with [Page Belcher]
-Stephen B. Bull

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Burns
-Possible meeting with the President
-Recognition of problems
-Forthcoming talk with Shultz

Brimmer
	-Possible position

Burns
	-Cabinet Room
		-Connally
	-FRB
		-Possible appointment
			-Tynan Smith
				-James L. Robertson
					-Retirement
-Convertibility

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Belcher

The President and Shultz left at 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 318-8

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.

Conversation No. 318-9

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-20]

Conversation No. 318-10

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.

Conversation No. 318-11

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  1:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 20-21]

Conversation No. 318-12

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  1:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-22]

Conversation No. 318-13

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 1:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[Conversation No. 318-13A]

The President's schedule
-Florida
-Camp David
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Camp David
-Outdoor activity
	-Weather
-Travel time

Alexander P. Butterfield [?] entered and conferred with the President at an unknown time after 1:50 pm.

Instructions

[End of conferral]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:56 pm.

The President's schedule
-Public relations
-Television
-Press
	-Television
-Prayer breakfast
-Sunday event
-Forthcoming speech
-Prayer breakfast

Public relations
-Promotion of events
-Congress
-Supreme Court
-Cabinet

The President's schedule
	-Renaming of unknown event

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 318-14

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  1:56 pm - 2:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 20-23; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 318-15

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:00 pm and 2:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator[?]

Charles W. Colson
-Schedule
-Request for a return call

Conversation No. 318-16

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:00 pm and 2:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-24]

Conversation No. 318-17

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  2:04 pm - 2:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 20-25]

Conversation No. 318-18

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:06 pm and 2:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-26]

Conversation No. 318-19

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  2:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Unknown person
-Request for a return call

Conversation No. 318-20

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  2:09 pm - 2:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 20-27; three items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 318-21

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 2:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-28]

Conversation No. 318-22

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  2:14 pm - 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Harry S. Dent.

[See Conversation No. 20-29; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 318-23

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  2:21 pm - 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

	The President’s schedule

Vietnam
-Air strike
			-The President's conversations with Melvin R. Laird and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer at recent National Security Council [NSC] meeting
	-Pentagon leak
	-Duration
	-William P. Rogers
-Effect
	-France
-Possible North Vietnamese offensive
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-State Department
-Relations with the President's People's Republic Of China [PRC] trip
	-News summary
-South Vietnam
	-The President’s trips to PRC, and Soviet Union
-US operations
	-Timing
	-The President's forthcoming PRC Trip
		-“Protective reactive” strikes
-Possible North Vietnamese offensive
	-Bombing
-Deployments
-USS Kitty Hawk
-Change In Position
-B-52's
-A-1's
-F-4's
-B-52's
-Number
-Soviet Union and PRC
-Negotiations
	-Edmund S. Muskie
		-Compared to Edward M. Kennedy
-Clark M. Clifford
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Prisoners of war [POWs] release
	-Deadline
-Cease-fire proposal
-Muskie's statements
-Administration attack
-The President’s position in 1968
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Rogers
-Negotiations
		-Partisanship
-Possible impact
-1972 campaign
-John V. Lindsay
-George S. McGovern
-Iowa and Arizona caucuses
-Harriman
-Wall Street Journal editorial
-Administration attack
-Barry M. Goldwater
-PRG [Viet Cong] peace plan
-Similarity to US position
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-POW release
	-US troop withdrawal
-Thieu's resignation
-US peace plan proposal of January 25, 1972
-North Vietnamese response
-Thieu's possible action
-South Vietnam
	-Preparedness for possible North Vietnamese offensive
-Muskie's statements
-Administration attack
-Ziegler
-Rogers
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Request for a call to the President
	-Meeting with the President and Ziegler
		-Kissinger’s schedule
-Ziegler
-Laird
-Rogers
-Delicacy of talks
-Effect of Muskie's statements
-North Vietnamese perception
-Administration attack
-Media coverage
	-Washington Post and New York Times
	-Television networks
-Kissinger's conversation with Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Muskie’s statements
-Administration attack
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Bombing
	-Hanoi
	-Previous attacks
		-Five day strike
-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming PRC trip
-Administration attack
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Rogers
-Hugh Scott
-Ziegler's statement
	-Errors in Muskie's statement
		-Ceasefire
-Rogers
-Scott
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Agnew
-Rogers
-Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Editorials
	-Unknown journalist

PRC trip
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
	-Invitation
-Meeting with the President
-Criticism of Administration
	-Meeting with Kissinger
	-James L. Buckley

Vietnam
-Air strike
	-Contingency plans
	-Timing
		-Three fronts
		-The President’s forthcoming PRC trip
-Deployments
	-US carrier
	-B-52’s

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-Agnew
-Warnings
	-Laos, Cambodia, Christmas 1971 bombings

Agnew
-Kissinger’s view
-Goldwater's view in letter
-Haldeman's report
	-Briefing on issues
	-Kissinger’s forthcoming breakfast with Goldwater

Michael J. Mansfield breakfast, February 3, 1972
-Kissinger's schedule
-The President's forthcoming PRC trip
	-Japan
-Vietnam
	-US peace proposal
		-Troop withdrawal for POWs offer
		-Political settlement
		-North Vietnamese position
		-Leaks
			-Mansfield
		-Soviet Union
			-Andrei A. Gromyko and Nikolai V. Podgorny
		-Chou En-lai
		-Gromyko
-Muskie's statements
-Threat to negotiations

Vietnam
-US peace proposals
-North Vietnamese response
	-Thieu
		-Political prospects
-Muskie's statements
-The President's speech of January 25, 1972
-Effect on Muskie
-Muskie's statement
-North Vietnamese position
-South Vietnam government
-Quotes
	-Negotiations
	-Casualties
		-Civilians
	-US troops
	-Cease-fire proposal
-Validity
-Administration attack
-Ziegler
-Cease-fire offers of October 1970, January 1972
-Withdrawal of North Vietnam
-Democrats' rhetoric
-News coverage
	-Timing
	-Kissinger forthcoming talk with Ziegler

Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Nomination as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Richard M. Helms's and Laird's actions
-Helms’s recommendation
	-John C. Stennis
-Kissinger's recommendation
-Helms's support
-Talking points
-Kissinger's possible call to Stennis
-Stennis's possible call to Helms
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Helms
-The President's wishes
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Laird
-Qualifications
	-Helms’s view
	-Position vis-à-vis Administration
	-Military attaché in France
-Compared with Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-Kissinger's call to Helms
	-The President’s decision
-Liaison with White House

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-Kissinger's call to Helms
-The Administration’s relationship with Helms

Vietnam
-US peace proposal
-Unity within the Administration
-Recent briefing
-Muskie
-Administration attack
	-1972 campaign
-Bombing
	-Timing
	-The President's forthcoming PRC trip
		-Television coverage
-US peace offers
-Muskie

Kissinger's schedule
-Kenneth B. Keating

Kissinger left at 2:50 pm.

Conversation No. 318-24

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:50 pm and 3:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Haldeman's forthcoming discussion with Patrick J. Buchanan

US peace plan proposal for Vietnam
-Edmund S. Muskie's statement
-Administration attack
	-Buchanan
		-Talking points or speech
-Democrats' responsibility for war
-Lyndon B. Johnson's policy
-Muskie's vice presidential nomination in 1968

-US casualties
-Negotiations
	-Lack of progress
-Negotiations
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Editorial opinion
-Muskie's statement
	-Effect
		-Casualties
		-Prisoners of war [POWs]

[Continued as Conversation No. 318-27]

Conversation No. 318-25

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  3:03 pm - 3:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 20-30]

Conversation No. 318-26

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 3:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:17 pm.

Conversation No. 318-27

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 3:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[Continued from Conversation No. 318-24]

US peace plan proposal for Vietnam
-Edmund S. Muskie's statement
-Cease-fire proposal of October 1970
-Timing
	-Troop withdrawal and Prisoner of war [POW] proposal
	-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-Partisanship
-Rejection of the President's proposal
-Aid to enemy
	-Negotiations

-Surrender compared to settlement
-Compared to the President’s conduct as candidate in 1968
-Majority opinion
-Buchanan
	-Points to be made

Conversation No. 318-28

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 3:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Dictabelt
-Transcription
-Rose Mary Woods

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:17 pm.

Conversation No. 318-29

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 3:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Dictabelt
	-Transcription
-Memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Edmund S. Muskie's statement
				-John V. Lindsay and George S. McGovern's success in Arizona primary and Iowa caucuses

Conversation No. 318-30

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 3:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-31]

Conversation No. 318-31

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 3:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter to Hobart D. Lewis.

Republican Governors dinner, January 28, 1972
-The President's conversation with William T. Cahill of New Jersey
-Article in Reader's Digest

[Continued as Conversation No. 318-33]

Conversation No. 318-32

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  3:17 pm - 3:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

[See Conversation No. 20-32]

Conversation No. 318-33

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:25 pm and 3:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President replayed a portion of a previously recorded dictabelt recording.

Reader’s Digest article
	-New Jersey

The President resumed dictating a letter to Hobart D. Lewis.

[Continuation of Conversation No. 318-31]

William T. Cahill
-Performance as Governor of New Jersey
-Relations with John N. Mitchell
	-Racketeers
-Environmental program
-Secondary and higher education
-Possible second article in Reader’s Digest
	-Suggested titles
	-Progress in New Jersey
	-Mitchell
	-Possible quotes from the President

Conversation No. 318-34

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:25 and 3:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-33]

Conversation No. 318-35

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  3:30 pm - 3:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 20-34]

Conversation No. 318-36

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:31 pm and 4:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter to Nelson A. Rockefeller.

Governors dinner, February 1, 1972
-Rockefeller's comments
-Appreciation

The President dictated a letter to Ronald W. Reagan.

Governors dinner
-Reagan's remarks
-Effectiveness
-Other governors
	-Peace initiative
-Appreciation

The President dictated a letter to William G. Milliken.

Governors dinner
-Milliken's comments
-Appreciation
-Michigan
	-The President’s forthcoming efforts

The President dictated a letter to Linwood Holton.

Governor’s dinner
-Holton’s remarks
-Appreciation
			-Holton’s support of the President in 1968

Conversation No. 318-37

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:31 pm and 4:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Eyeglasses

Desk drawer

Sanchez opened and closed the desk drawer at an unknown time before 4:12 pm.

Speech
-Patrick J. Buchanan [?]
-Deliver to Rose Mary Woods

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

Conversation No. 318-38

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:31 pm and 4:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Haldeman's schedule
-Meeting with the President
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-The President’s schedule
	-March, April 1972
-Polling material

Conversation No. 318-39

Date:  February 2, 1972
Time:  4:12 pm - 5:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-Edmund S. Muskie's statement on Vietnam peace plan
-Administration counterattack
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s conversation with Ziegler
-Raising question
	-Possible planting
-Press coverage
-Washington Star
-Television
-Competition with march on British embassy in Dublin, Ireland
	-Number of participants

-Administration counterattack
-Possible effects
-Timing
-Wording
-The President's peace plan proposal
-Cease-fire
	-Press coverage
-Effect on negotiations
	-Peace
	-Use of work “sabotage”

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 4:15 pm.

-Administration counterattack
-Ziegler
-John A. Scali
-The President's memorandum to Haldeman
-Barry M. Goldwater statement
-Patrick J. Buchanan's work
-Senators
-Press coverage
-Washington Star
-Reporters' attack on Muskie
-Muskie's performance
-Administration counterattack
-Staff view
	-Scali
	-Seriousness of issue
	-Scali
		-Muskie's news coverage
							-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] and American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
		-Effect of candidacy
		-Alternate stories
			-Embassy bombing
		-ABC
			-Unknown person
		-NBC
		-John W. Chancellor
	-William P. Rogers
	-Television appearance
	-Content of statement
								-North Vietnamese response to the President's proposal
	-Responsibility for Vietnam War
	-Scali's view
			-Compared with press conference format
			-Location
				-State Department
-Problem
	-Timing
-White House response to other criticisms
-George S. McGovern
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Robert J. Dole
-William E. Brock III
-Ziegler’s forthcoming comments
-The President's comments
-Rogers
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Amendment
-Withdrawal
-Prudence of White House response
-Administration response to accusations
-Cease-fire
-Troop withdrawal
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-White House comment
	-Responsibility for Vietnam War
-Irish demonstration against British embassy
-US position
-Ziegler’s conversation with unknown person and Haig
-Kennedy’s actions
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Number of marchers
-Irish 
-[Unintelligible]
-Muskie statement on Vietnam peace plan
-Administration response
-Media questions
-Rogers

Ziegler left at 4:26 pm.

-Editorial comment
-Rogers
-Appearance on "Face the Nation," February 6, 1972
-Ziegler's view of Muskie's news coverage
-Muskie's background stories
-Typewriters
-Arizona
-The President’s memorandum
	-Buchanan
-Columnists
-Timing
		-Mansfield story

Mansfield
-Withdrawal of amendment
-Effect of the President's peace proposal
-Public perception
-Muskie's response to the President's proposal

Poll

Murder of policemen in New York City
-Funeral
-Press coverage
-Attendees
-Patrick V. Murphy
-John V. Lindsay
-John V. Brennan
	-Representative of the President
-Widows
-Phone call from the President
-Letters from the President
	-Brennan
-Reactions

[The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan between 4:29 pm and 4:31 pm.]

[Conversation No. 318-39A]

[See Conversation No. 20-35]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's recent conversation with Flanigan

The President's schedule, February 3, 1972
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Reception for delegates attending White House Conference on Drug Abuse
-Possible phone call to Alejandro A. Lanusse
-Henry A. Kissinger's suggestion
-Lanusse's request
-[John D. Lodge's] report
-Argentine financial issue
-Connally’s possible call
-Kissinger
-Meeting with Argentine Minister of Justice, February 4, 1972
-Connally
-Responsibility for international monetary matters
			-[Unintelligible]
-State of the World message
	-Kissinger
-Radio talk
-Compared to television
	-Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Kissinger
-William L. Safire
-Cabinet and congressional leadership breakfast
-Competition with State of the World message
-Appearance of partisanship
-Kissinger's view
-Press coverage
-Florida
-Weather forecast
	-Florida
	-Camp David

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-Florida
-Departure
-Letters to four governors
-Letter to Hobart D. Lewis
-[William T. Cahill]
-Camp David
-Youth events
	-First Youth Forum
		-Donald H. Rumsfeld's talk in State Dining Room
			-The President’s possible appearance
-[“Expo '72”] in Dallas
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Bill Bright
	-Staff
	-Republican convention
-Southern Baptist convention in Philadelphia
-Graham's recommendation
-Probable reception
-Political consideration
-Rotary International meeting in Houston
-Conflict with "Expo '72"
-Benefits
-Compared with "Expo '72"
-Probable reception
	-Compared to Junior Chambers of Commerce [JCS]
-Service organizations
-Rotary
-Lions
-Kiwanis
-Exchange
-Optimist
-Soroptimist

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Ziegler entered at 5:05 pm.

Ziegler's recent press briefing
-Question on Muskie statement
-Dan Rather
-James J. Kilpatrick
-Ziegler's reply
	-Welfare
-Donald Fulsom of United Press International [UPI]
	-Statements about presidential candidates
-Cease-fire
	-Administration critics
		-Administration proposals of 1970, 1972
-Critics
-North Vietnamese response to US proposals
-Muskie's political motivation
-Partisanship
-Tone
-Ziegler’s role as spokesman for the President
-Rogers’s forthcoming comments
-Critics
-Burning of British embassy in Dublin
-Question on welfare
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Administration’s pilot program
	-House Resolution [HR] 1

Ziegler left at 5:10 pm.

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Peter G. Peterson

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-Forthcoming appointment as Commerce Secretary

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Anthony T. (“Tony”) Rossi[?]
	-Story

The President and Haldeman left at 5:30 pm.