Conversation No. 319-1

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:04 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Foreign policy document
-William L. Safire
-Number of words
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Need for more words
		-Number
		-Compared with Kissinger’s draft

Conversation No. 319-2

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:04 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

A request [?]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 319-3

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:04 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Material for the President’s meeting that night
	-White House Conference on the Industrial World Ahead

Conversation No. 319-4

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:04 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Request [?]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 319-5

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  3:04 pm - 3:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President’s schedule
-Speech
-Cabinet meeting
-Agenda
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Agenda
-Dock strike
-Welfare situation
-Value-added tax [VAT]
-William P. Rogers
-House and Senate reports
-Maurice H. Stans
	-Final meeting

Butterfield left at 3:09 pm.

Conversation No. 319-6

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  3:15 pm - 3:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Material for forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

President’s forthcoming speech
-White House Conference on the Industrial World Ahead
-Content
-John B. Connally’s views
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Productivity Commission
-Controls
-Presentation
-Price’s view
		-Talk on productivity
		-Suggested presentation styles
	-Compared to forthcoming meeting with volunteers

-Preparation
	-Time involved
-Length

Volunteers
	-Timing

Price left at 3:16 pm.

Conversation No. 319-7

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:16 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See also Conversation No. 20-47]

Conversation No. 319-8

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:16 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Timing
	-Busing
-Schedule
	-Meeting with Congress

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:41 pm.

Conversation No. 319-9

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  3:41 pm - 3:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See also Conversation No. 20-48]

Conversation No. 319-10

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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

Conversation No. 319-11

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  3:50 pm - 4:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Welfare
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Russell B. Long

Dean of Duke University‘s Law School, Joseph T. Sneed
-Item for President
-President’s class
	-Brian Bullock [sp?]
-Unknown person
-Number of President’s class
-Lon L. Fuller’s views
	-Recommendation for Sneed for the Supreme Court
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Busing
-Age
-Wife
-Background
	-Stanford University
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
	-Sneed and California state politics
-Possible appointment
-President’s schedule
-Ehrlichman’s experience at Duke University’s Law School

Busing
-Lawyers’ meeting at Camp David
-President’s options
	-Support of one of the existing proposals
-Timing
-Thomas J. (“Tom”) Steed’s views
	-Discharge petition
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.-William E. Brock, III constitutional amendment

	-President’s options
	-“People’s dilemma”
-Emanuel Celler
	-Possible filibuster
-William M. Colmer
-Steed’s views
-1972 campaign
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Democrats chances
-President’s options
-President’s options
-Possible constitutional amendment
-Different possibilities
-Possible effect in South
	-Dual school system 
-President’s possible meeting with Baker, Brock, Norman F. Lent and Steed
		-Timing
			-Forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-Concerns from the President
			-Suggested action taken by the President
				-Justice Department, Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Elliot L. Richardson’s views
	-Legislative approach
		-Memorandum
-Views of Ehrlichman and Edward L. Morgan
-Impact on North
-Legislation involved
-Lawyers’ meeting
-William H. Rehnquist’s replacement
	-Frank F. Church amendment
-Richardson’s representative
-President’s options
-Reiterating position on busing
-Timing
-Democratic convention
	-Timing
-Democrats’ candidates’ options
	-Opinions on busing
		-South
		-Northern liberals
-George S. McGovern
-Joseph W. Alsop’s column, February 7, 1972
-Frank F. Mankiewicz, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
-Stance on busing
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Florida
-Strategic nature of the South
-George C. Wallace’s actions
-Democratic candidates stance on busing
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Jackson’s statements, February 6, 1972
	-“Meet the Press”
		-Jackson’s child in pubic school
-Muskie, Humphrey
	-Chances for candidacy
		-Issues involved
-Wallace
	-Gaining support for candidacy
		-Florida
-President’s options
-Timing
-Schedule
-Baker, Brock
-Richardson, Attorney General
	-Timing of meeting
		-Return from PRC trip
-Discharge petition
-Baker, Brock
	-Possible constitutional amendment
		-Support from the President
-Court decisions
-Timing
-Richmond
	-Virginia school merger
-John N. Mitchell’s views
-President’s forthcoming press conference
	-Involvement of the Federal Government
		-Bill Shirley’s question
-Judge [Robert R. Marhige, Jr.]
	-Appointment
-Consolidation cases
	-Timing
-Lawyers’ meeting
-Camp David
-Effects
	-HEW
	-Department of Justice
-President’s schedule
	-Trip to Florida
-Ehrlichman, John B. Connally
-President’s options
-Blacks
	-Professionals
		-Possible perception of the President
-Steed’s views
	-Percentage of Blacks opposed to busing
-Roy E. Innis’s views
-Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.’s views
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Robert J. Brown
-President’s options
	-Legislation compared to constitutional amendment
-Dual school system
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Steed
-Lent
	-Long Island
-Baker-Brock Amendment
	-Lent’s sponsorship
-Possible meeting
-Background
-Robert P. Griffin
-Amendment
-Political decision
	-Black establishment
-Gerald R. Ford
-H[arold] R[oyce] Gross
-Griffin

President’s forthcoming press conference
-Preparation
	-Domestic issues
-Patrick Buchanan
-Welfare
-Budget
-Busing
	-Brock, Baker, Lent
		-Meeting
			-Timing
-Constitutional amendment
-Possible end of the dual school system

Busing
-President’s options
-South
-North
-De jure segregation
-Timing
-Muskie
-Celler’s hearings
-Muskie
-Baker, Brock
	-Constitutional amendment
-Lawyers’ meeting
-Delwin M. Clawson’s son
-Merits of meeting

J. Williard (“Bill”) Marriott
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Conversation with Jack N. Anderson
-Reporter’s [George Clifford]conversation with F. Donald Nixon
-John H. Meier from Howard H. Hughes’s organization
-President’s conversation with Don Nixon

Don Nixon
-Business operations
-Aristotle S. Onassis
-Donald A. Nixon’s son
-Dealings with Robert L. Vesco

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[Duration:  14s  ]

WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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-Conversation with Clifford
-Anderson’s forthcoming stories
	-Timing
-Schedule
-Ehrlichman
-President
-Mitchell
-Conversation with Clifford
-Marriott
-Meier’s role
	-Hughes
-Timing
-Democrats
	-Anderson
-Hallamore Homes, Inc
	-Stock deal
-Air West deal
-[Forename unknown] Hillings
-Ehrlichman
-Marriott’s conversation with Anderson
-President’s instructions to Marriott
-Hallamore
-Anderson’s forthcoming stories
-Anderson’s forthcoming stories
-Timing
-1960 election
-Possible effect

Donald A. Nixon
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Marriott
-Possible handling
	-Possible job
		-Don Nixon
-Job with Vesco
-Ehrlichman’s possible conversation with Mitchell
-Mitchell’s possible conversation with New Jersey state Senator Harry L. Sears
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] reports

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[Duration:  1m 1s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Don Nixon
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Association with Meier
-Meier
-Conversation with Clifford, [Lloyd G. and Barry Hallamore]
-Lunch

	Anderson’s forthcoming articles

Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Don and Edward C. Nixon
-Rose Mary Woods

Don Nixon
-Call from Marriott
-Anderson’s forthcoming articles
-Reaction
	-Threat
-Veracity
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
-Contact with the President
-Handling
	-Mitchell’s role
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s role
	-Henry A. Kissinger dispute with William P. Rogers
	-Forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 27s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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	Watergate
-Use of campaign funds for Donald A. Nixon
-Haldeman
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
		-Don Nixon
-Lyndon B. Johnson and Sam Houston Johnson
-Franklin D. Roosevelt and children

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  40s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Don Nixon
-Anderson’s forthcoming stories
-Possible reaction
-Robert F. Kennedy’s son [David Kennedy]
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.’s father

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  10s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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-Handling
-Contacts with White House
-Conversations concerning Meier
-Rebozo
-Richard Danner
-Ehrlichman
-President’s schedule
-Haldeman
	-Mitchell

Ehrlichman left at 4:40 pm.

Conversation No. 319-12

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  4:40 pm - 4:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Foreign assistance bill
-Statement
	-Status

President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Seating arrangements
	-Maurice H. Stans
	-William E. Timmons
	-Congressional leaders
-Congressional leaders
-White House staff
-Peter G. Peterson
-Timmons, Richard K. Cook, Thomas C. Korologos
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Harry S. Dent
-William E. Brock, III, William A. Steiger, Jack F. Kemp
-Harley O. Staggers

Butterfield left at 4:43 pm.

Conversation No. 319-13

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:43 pm and 4:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See also Conversation No. 20-49]

Conversation No. 319-14

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  4:44 pm - 4:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See also Conversation No. 20-50]

Conversation No. 319-15

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:49 pm and 4:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  41s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:52 pm.

Conversation No. 319-16

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:49 pm and 4:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See also Conversation No. 20-51]

Conversation No. 319-17

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:49 pm and 4:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Woods’s schedule
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 319-18

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  4:52 pm - 4:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See also Conversation No. 20-52; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 319-19

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  4:55 pm - 7:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Typing
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Format of document

	Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s drafts of speech to White House Conference on Industrial World Ahead, February 7, 1972
-Conversation with Woods
-William L. Safire

F. Donald Nixon
-Jack N. Anderson’s forthcoming stories
	-Democrats
-President’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-J. William Marriott’s conversation with Anderson
-Conversation with reporter [George Clifford]
-John H. Meier

-Conversations concerning Meier
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Conversation with Clifford
-Business activities
-Donald A. Nixon connection with Robert L. Vesco

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  5s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20

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-Lunch

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  14s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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	-Conversation with Clifford
	-Conversation with Marriott
	-Anderson’s forthcoming stories
		-Threat
		-Veracity
	-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
	-1972 campaign
		-John N. Mitchell
	-Ehrlichman’s possible meeting with Haldeman and Woods
	-Edward C. Nixon
	-Timing
-Possible reaction

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:00 pm.

Price
-Preparation of speech
	-The President’s schedule
-Price’s style
	-Background
		-President’s upcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

President’s forthcoming speech
-Price’s view
-Preparation
	-Time allotted

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 41s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Price entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

President’s forthcoming speech
-Content
-Changes
	-Described to Price
	-US competition
	-Wage and price controls
		-Inflation
		-Jobs
		-Goals
	-Industrial leaders
	-Press

Price and Woods left at 5:18 pm.

Price

President’s forthcoming speech
-Preparation
-Possible effect
	-John B. Connally

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

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:57 pm.

President’s forthcoming speech
	-Preparation
		-Compared to inaugural address

Don Nixon
-President’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Plan
-Relations with White House
-Ehrlichman, Mitchell
-Haldeman, Woods

Forthcoming conversations
-Anderson’s stories
-Marketing

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  15m 45s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO 3

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	Campaign financing
-Funds
	-Mitchell
	-Rita E. Hauser
	-Possible problems

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  2m 11s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Administration personnel
-Connally
	-Skill
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Tenure in office
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s views

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  42s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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President’s schedule
-Quadriad
-Views of Connally and George P. Shultz
	-Purpose of meeting
	-Economic stabilization
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Connally, Shultz, Herbert Stein
-Arthur F. Burns
-Haldeman’s possible conversation with Connally
	-Timing of upcoming meeting
		-Forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Connally
-Schedule
-Haldeman’s call to unknown woman
-Possible role with administration
-Vice Presidency
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Foreigners
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Possible role with Administration

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  3m 53s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Don Nixon
-Relations with the President
	-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
	-Anderson
	-Conversation with J. Williard (“Bill”) Marriott, Jr.
	-Mitchell’s views
	-Ronald L. Ziegler’s response to possible questions
	-Marriott

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 33s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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Teleprompter
-Use by President
-Purpose
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham’s views
	-Advantages
	-Future speeches

President’s schedule
-George Meany
	-Possible breakfast
		-Timing
			-PRC trip
-Location
	-Florida
-Shultz’s views

President’s schedule
-Ehrlichman
	-Busing issue
	-Florida
-Shultz
-Connally

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:18 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:57 pm.

President’s conversation with Ziegler
	-Today show

Spokesmen for administration
-Ziegler, Kissinger
-Hugh Scott’s defense of Haldeman
-Haldeman’s interview on the Today show
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Haldeman’s interview on the Today show
-Muskie

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:18 pm and 5:57 pm and requested a call to Ziegler.

[Conversation No. 319-19A]

[See also Conversation No. 20-53]

[End of telephone conversation]

William P. Rogers
	-State Department
	-Press

The White House operator talked with the President at 5:57 pm.

[Conversation No. 319-19B]

[See also Conversation No. 20-54]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman’s interview on the Today show
-The President’s Cabinet dinner
-Administration’s goals and accomplishments
	-Idealism
	-News story
		-Vietnam [?]
			-Kissinger
	-Potential longevity of news story
	-Kissinger
		-Rogers

Briefing in State Department auditorium
	-President’s concern

Rogers
	-Cabinet breakfast, February 8, 1972
		-Kissinger

Kissinger
-Style
-Relationship with Haig
-Cambodia
-Haldeman’s opinion

Scott
	-Compared to Carey Estes Kefauver
	-Relationship with Kissinger

Vietnam
	-Peace proposal plan

Haldeman’s interview
-Source
-Democratic presidential candidates
-Press coverage
-Life, New York Times, Washington Post
		-Potential longevity of news story
-Vietnam
	-Peace proposal
-Muskie
	-Proposed weakness

Ziegler
	-Press interest

Rogers

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[Duration:  3m 38s  ]

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Crime
-Possible federal action

Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe office
-Compassion towards drug addicts
-Possible arrests
-Popular opinion
	-Difference from Jaffe’s opinion
-Movie, The French Connection
-Movie, Dirty Harry
-Clint Eastwood

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[Duration:  17s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9

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Dirty Harry
-Haldeman’s synopsis of movie
-Danny Escobedo case
	-Discussed during movie
-[Dwight] David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Opinion of movie
-The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Ziegler entered at 6:11 pm.

President’s forthcoming speech

David Brinkley

Kissinger’s forthcoming talks with Chou En-lai in the PRC

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-President’s preparation
-Briefing books
	-History of PRC
	-Edgar P. Snow
-Ziegler’s statements
	-Proposed list of questions

President’s forthcoming trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
	-Invitations to press
	-Clark R. Mollenhoff
	-[Forename unknown] Wilson [?]
	-Herbert G. Klein

United Press International [UPI] story
-Ziegler’s press briefing

Press for forthcoming trip
-Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times
-Boston Globe, Newsday
-Martin Schram
	-Unknown woman
-Sarah McClendon
-Boston Globe
-Joseph C. Kraft
	-Possible questions for the President
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
	-Criticism of the President
-President’s role
	-Ziegler’s list of press
		-Possible selections
		-Washington Post

Haldeman’s interview on the Today show
-Possible press reaction
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Possible “McCarthyism”
-[Carol Feraci’s] protest at White House dinner, January 28, 1972
-Liberals

Kissinger
-Comments concerning foreign policy report
-Possible defense of Haldeman’s interview
-Possible comment concerning Vietnam negotiations
	-US stance
-Muskie
-Rogers
	-Haldeman

	Ziegler’s recent press conference
		-Muskie

	Vietnam
		-Press coverage of the President’s points

	President’s schedule
-Press conference, February 10, 1972
-Timing
-Location
-Length
	-Question and Answer [Q&A] session

Mollenhoff
-Forthcoming call from Ziegler
-President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Mollenhoff’s attendance at PRC trip
	-Press pool

Kissinger entered at 6:28 pm.

Ziegler
	-President’s upcoming speech

Ziegler left at 6:29 pm.

President’s previous speech in Vietnam
-USSR’s commentary
-Views of PRC
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
	-Reply
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Questioning US proposal
-Forthcoming PRC trip

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Xuan Thuy
-Muskie
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
-Muskie
-1972 election
	-Possible agreement
-George McGovern’s Program
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu

1972 campaign
-Muskie
-Connally’s comments on Muskie’s proposal
	-Kissinger’s briefing

Memorandum concerning PRC
	-February 5, 1972
-Kissinger
-Klemens von Metternich
-Chou En-lai
	-Style
	-Knowledge of history
	-Queen Victoria
	-Marquis de Lafayette
	-French Revolution
	-American Revolutionary War
		-Yorktown
		-Lessons for the world to follow
			-Guerrilla warfare
	-Indochina
	-USSR

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[Duration:  59s  ]

	CHINA, INDIA

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Memorandum concerning Chou En-lai
-President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Communiqué
	-Domestic matters
		-Race
-World politics
	-US policy
		-Non-intervention
			-Compared to support of national liberation movement

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-President’s preparation
-Kissinger’s efforts
	-Briefing book
		-Background
-State Department efforts
	-PRC briefing papers
-Kissinger’s efforts
	-Length of briefing book
	-President receiving briefing book
		-Timing
-Rogers
-President’s instructions
	-Possible leaks from PRC trip
		-Prevention
-Reception from PRC
	-Dobrynin
	-Tone
-Photograph opportunities
-Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-tung
-Activities
	-Visits to Great Wall, plenary session, banquets
-Press
-Thomas W. Braden
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Barbara Walters
-Helen A. Thomas
-Betty Ryan

Vietnam
-Military activity
-Kissinger’s conversation with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-The President’s proposal
-Possible effect
-Timing
	-Forthcoming PRC trip
-Braden’s columns
-Negotiations
-Xuan Thuy
-President’s January 25, 1972 speech
	-US proposals
		-August 16, 1971
-Unknown people
-US proposals
	-South Vietnam election
-Xuan Thuy
-President’s opponents
-McGovern’s position
-US public opinion
-Thieu
	-Possible overthrow
-Journalists
-Establishment
-Public opinion
-UPI story
-Prisoner of war [POW] wives
	-Current attitudes
-President’s instructions
	-News summary
	-Publicity
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes’s memorandum to President
-John A. Scali
-Stewart W. Hensley
-POW wives
	-Support from the Administration
-Vietnam Veterans Against the War [VVAW]
	-John F. Kerry
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Veracity

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press
	-UPI reporter
	-President’s concern
		-Request for factual reporting

Life magazine articles
	-Vietnam casualties
		-Vietnamese youths
	-Thomas Griffith

Time “Man of the Year”

Vietnam
-McGovern’s program
-Democrats
-Stewart J.O. Alsop’s column
	-National honor

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press approved by the PRC
-Joseph W. and Stewart Alsop
-William S. White
-Buckley
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Possible lecture fees
-Press
	-Number
-Shanghai
-Hang Chow
-PRC news story
	-Probable longevity
-Possible press conference
-Cronkite, Walters, John W. Chancellor
-PRC events
-Briefings by administration
	-Timing

President’s trip to USSR in 1959
-Congress’s “Captive Nations” resolution
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Hecklers
-Question for President
-Press coverage
	-Result

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Possible press coverage
-PRC compared to USSR
	-Communism
-Television networks

Chinese
-Medical practices
	-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
	-Account in unknown book
	-Unknown Korean medicine
		-Cost
		-Availability
			-Stories in Shanghai

PRC
-Stores
	-Compared with USSR
		-Gum
		-Markets

President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-Stores and markets
	-Compared with the US

International monetary situation
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns’s view
-US policy
	-Maintaining the value of the US dollar
-Connally
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Connally’s conversations with the Canadians
	-Possible treaty
	-Pierre E. Trudeau
		-Political situation
		-Possible confrontation with Canada
	-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Election
	-Negotiations with US
		-Trade
		-Canadian policy
		-Connally

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:29 pm.

President’s forthcoming speech [?]

Bull left at an unknown time before 7:15 pm.

President’s schedule
	-Briefing books

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Kissinger’s briefing books
	-Memoranda

Kissinger and Haldeman left at 7:15 pm.

Conversation No. 319-20

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 7:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President practiced a speech, entitled Industrial World Ahead:  A Look at Business in 1990, delivered on February 7, 1972

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 167-173]