Conversation No. 320-1

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:15 pm and 9:05 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 version of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 167-173]

Conversation No. 320-2

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:15 pm and 9:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s schedule
	-Departure time

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:05 pm.

Conversation No. 320-3

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:15 pm and 9:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:05 pm.

Conversation No. 320-4

Date: February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:15 pm and 9:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See also Conversation No. 20-55]

Conversation No. 320-5

Date: February 7, 1972
Time: Unknown between 7:15 pm and 9:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President practiced a speech entitled Industrial World Ahead: A Look at Business in 1990.

[See also Conversation No. 320-1]

Conversation No. 320-6

Date:  Unknown between February 7 and February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:52 pm, February 7 and 10:21 am, February 8, 1972
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule

Conversation No. 320-7

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:23 am and 12:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Manolo Sanchez.

	Instruction

Conversation No. 320-8

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:23 am and 12:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See also Conversation No. 20-56]

Conversation No. 320-9

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  12:28 pm - 12:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Dr. W Kenneth Riland

[See also Conversation No. 20-57]

Conversation No. 320-10

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:29 pm and 2:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.

Conversation No. 320-11

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:29 pm and 2:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.

Conversation No. 320-12

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:29 and 2:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Speech draft
-William L. Safire
-Changes
-Typing
-Safire
	-Henry A. Kissinger approval

Schedule
-Jack Brown

Manolo Sanchez
	-Speech draft for Woods

Visitors to Woods

Conversation No. 320-13

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:29 pm and 2:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Speech draft for Rose Mary Woods

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.

Conversation No. 320-14

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:31 pm and 2:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See also Conversation No. 20-58]

Conversation No. 320-15

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:31 pm and 2:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 20-59]

Conversation No. 320-16

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:31 pm and 2:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Attempt to reach Robert H. Finch
	-Location

Visit to Japan
	-Announcement
-Arrangement
-Peter M. Flanigan

President’s schedule
-Florida
	-John B. Connally
		-Travel plans
			-Scheduling
	-Busing
	-Accommodations for President
	-Atmosphere
		-Number of people
	-Travel plans
		-Key Biscayne
	-Attendance
		-[William P. Rogers]
		-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Connally
-Japan trip
-Europe trip
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] trip
	-William Rogers
-Reactions to invitations

Photographs of speech delivery
-Stephen B. Bull
	-President’s economic and budget messages
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
	-President radio address
-Henry A. Kissinger

President’s schedule
	-The President’s health
	-Upcoming meeting with the press

William Rogers
-Upcoming travel plans

Ambassadors
-Flanigan
	-Plans

	William Rogers
		-Attention

Conversation No. 320-17

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:31 pm and 2:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See also Conversation No. 20-60]

Conversation No. 320-18

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  2:44 pm - 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See also Conversation No. 20-62]

Conversation No. 320-19

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  2:49 pm - 2:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Hugh Scott.

[See also Conversation No. 20-63]

Conversation No. 320-20

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See also Conversation No. 20-64]

Conversation No. 320-21

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President’s schedule
-Stephen B. Bull
-Robert S. McNamara and John B. Connally
	-Upcoming meeting
-Robert H. Finch
	-McNamara
-Hugh Scott
	-The President’s “Hawks”

Conversation No. 320-22

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President’s schedule
-John B. Connally
-Robert S. McNamara
-Robert H. Finch
	-The President’s forthcoming conversation with Finch
-Connally and McNamara
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Timing

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 320-23

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 20-65]

Conversation No. 320-24

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  2:54 pm - 2:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Earl B. Ruth.

[See also Conversation No. 20-66]

Conversation No. 320-25

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  2:57 pm - 3:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Robert H. Finch.

[See also Conversation No. 20-67; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 320-26

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  3:00 pm - 3:02 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President’s schedule

Butterfield left at 3:02 pm.

Conversation No. 320-27

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  3:05 pm - 3:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald Ziegler.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s interview on Today show, February 7, 1972
	-Possible statement
		-John A. Scali
			-Talk with Haldeman, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Henry A. Kissinger
		-Ziegler’s view
			-Previous talk with Patrick J. Buchanan
		-Public relations
		-Buchanan’s view

Questions for press statement
	-Handling
	-Potential story for the press

Vietnam issues
	-Ziegler’s possible meeting with Haig
	-Kissinger
		-Peter M. Flanigan [?]
-Scali
	-Potential story for the press
-Foreign policy address on the radio
-Timing
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] visit
-Arrangements
	-Ziegler’s concern
	-Participation by Scali
		-Administration’s relationship with the Press
-George S. McGovern
-Kissinger
-Upcoming conversation with Ziegler

Ziegler left at 3:14 pm.

Conversation No. 320-28

Date:  February 8, 1972
Time:  3:15 pm - 5:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John B. Connally, Robert S. McNamara, and Henry A. Kissinger; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Seating

Cartoons
	-Russell B. Long
	-The President’s visit to the Harry S. Truman Library in 1969
	-Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Asian subcontinent 
-Political problems
-Pakistan, India, Nepal, Ceylon, Bangladesh
-Ceylon
	-Sirmavo Bandaranaike
	-International Monetary Fund [IMF] and World Bank
	-Insurgency
-Relationship with World Bank
-Performance

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-Cabinet
	-Communists
-Military operations
-Detention camps
	-Numbers
-Military operations
-Instability
-Nepal
-Stability
	-Dependence on India
-PRC
-Advantages to geographic location
-Economy
	-US aid
		-Bi-lateral
-Rupee situation
-McNamara’s talk with [Kirti Nedhi Bista]
	-Chou En-lai
	-India
	-Aid
-Pakistan
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
	-Intelligence
		-University of California, Berkeley
	-Compared to unknown person
	-Ambition
	-Interests
		-US
-Unrest
	-Student
-Frontier problems
	-Northwest
-Territory seized in war with India
-Repatriation of prisoners
-Performance in India-Pakistan War
-Pakistani army
	-1965 war
-USSR
	-Amount of aid to India
-US support
	-Amount for India
	-McNamara’s previous conversation with Bhutto
-Bhutto
	-Political prospects
		-Pakistani army
	-Mujibar Rahman
		-Karachi
	-Recognition of Bangladesh
	-Bulgaria
	-Australia
	-New Zealand
	-Great Britain
	-Political prospects
-Bangladesh
	-Destruction caused by India-Pakistan War
		-McNamara’s talk with Mujibar Rahman
	-Deaths

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	-Emotional content of war
		-Rahman
			-Tone of meeting with McNamara
	-Arms shipments to Pakistan
	-Attitude toward US
-Aid programs
	-India
-McNamara’s talk with Indira Gandhi
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Importance
-US aid to Pakistan
	-Military
		-Airplanes
-PRC aid to Pakistan
-Soviet aid
-US interests
	-Number of USSR arms
-State of the population
	-Standard of living
-Bangladesh
-United Nations [UN] involvement
-Aid
-Sources
	-Belgium, Britain
-Quantity
-From US
-Funds
	-Amounts
		-Kissinger’s call to unknown person
		-Unknown ambassador
-Pakistan
-Rescheduling debt
	-McNamara’s talk with Bhutto
	-Allocation of resources
-US steps
-Humanitarian aid
-Military-political aid
-Benefits
	-Raising revenues [?]
-Economic aid
-Benefits
	-Probable results
-Diplomacy
-Benefits
-Special contact
	-Emissary
-Quiet contact
-Accomplishments of aid
-India
-Accomplishments of quiet contacts
-McNamara’s advice to Gandhi
-The President’s contacts with Gandhi
-Congressional problems
-Presidential power
-Sub-continent potential
-Aid program
	-Possible results
	-President’s support
		-Political support
-Diplomacy in India
-UN
-Humanitarian aid
	-Refugees
		-Return to Bangladesh
-Problems
	-Gandhi
	-Lakshmi Kant Jha
	-Kenneth B. Keating
		-Triloki Nath Kaul’s relationship with USSR
		-Kissinger’s previous and future conversations with Jha [?]
			-Forthcoming world report
-McNamara contacts
-Need for quiet diplomacy
-Bilateral us aid bill
	-Reinstatement
-British
-Japanese
-Quiet aid
-Consortium for aid
	-US participation
		-Timing
-Amount of money involved
-Humanitarian aspect
	-Recommendation of McNamara
	-PRC
		-Attitudes towards Bangladesh
	-Gandhi
	-US participation
		-British
	-Announcement
	-PRC
		-USSR
		-Bangladesh
		-Pragmatism
-Bangladesh
-Emissary
	-PRC trip
	-Counsel
	-UN
	-Benefits
	-Identity
	-Qualifications
India
-Aid programs
	-The President’s possible involvement
-Reactions
-Bangladesh
	-Press conference question
-Emissary
-Identity
	-Unknown person
		-Familiarity with area
-PRC
-Possible attitude
	-US, India, USSR
-Possible confrontation between Chou En-lai and Bhutto
-India
-Jha
	-Kaul
		-Compared to Egon Bahr
-Previous US aid
-Magnitude
	-History of US aid
-Results
	-US commitment
-British aid
-Japanese aid
-Nature of aid agreement
	-Normalization of relations
-Role of aid in halting USSR expansion
-Iran
-Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Nepal
-Concerns
-Nepal
-Chou En-lai
	-Need for a relationship with India
-PRC reaction
-Relationship with India and the USSR
-Effect on US-PRC relations
-Geopolitics
-PRC position
	-Attitudes
-USSR position
	-Attitudes
-Chinese qualities
-Indian position
-Goals
-Bangladesh
-Context of larger picture
	-Possible scenarios
		-Humanitarianism
-British
-Need for discussion
-Later discussion

McNamara and Kissinger left at 4:20 pm.

Qualifications of McNamara

McNamara evaluation
-Objectivity
-John Petty
-Paul A. Volcker
-Humanitarian angle
-Trade
-Aid
-Expenditure of resources
-Amount
-President’s upcoming trip to PRC
	-Possible meeting with Antonio Ortiz Mena
-President’s instructions
	-Connally’s role
	-Connally’s upcoming conversation with Ortiz Mena
		-Latin America

Chile situation
-Pressure
-Arguments
	-Foreign minister
-Economy
-Expropriations
-US aid
-Effect
	-Subsidizing communization of Chile
-USSR aid
-USSR economy
-USSR requests for credits from US
	-Developing resources
		-Amount
-Extent of Chile’s needs
-Desire for support
-Chilean elections
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Effect of US aid
	-Potential problems
	-Paris
-Argentina
	-Gen. Juan Domingo Péron
	-The President’s talk with Lt. Gen. Alejandro A. Lanusse, February 7, 1972
-Connally’s schedule
	-Upcoming meeting with Finance Minister
	-Alternatives to aid
	-World Bank
	-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
	-American business in Argentina
	-Unknown US company
	-Benefits to Argentina
	-Pérons
	-Qualifications
	-European influence
	-Economy
		-Compared to Italy before World War II
-Uruguay
	-Meat imports
-Latin American capability
	-Effect of subsidization

Congressional strategy
-Trade bill
	-Timing
-Japan and European community
-Status
-Communiqué from Kissinger
	-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Trade negotiations
-France
	-Potential problems
-European community
	-PRC
-Canada
-US position
-End of negotiations
-Canadian elections
	-Timing
-Offers
-Canadian initiatives
					-Discussions with State Department, Kissinger, Peter M. Flanigan, Department of Commerce
-Maurice H. Stans’s opinion
	-Previous conversation with Connally
-Canadian strategy
-Bill presentation
-Status of negotiations
-Connally view
-William P. Rogers
-Committee-Administration relations
-Canada talks
-Melvin R. Laird
-Connally’s upcoming conversation with Laird
	-Timing
-Defense agreements with Canada
-Status
	-McNamara
-Canadian surplus
	-Laird
-Canadian desires
	-Connally comparisons
	-Connally’s opinion
-Future of US power
-Military compared to economic power
-Particular time in US history
-Economy
-Basis for future decisions
-France
	-Arthur F. Burns
-Dollar drop
	-Convertibility of the dollar
-Wage and price controls
-US economic strength
	-Defense of the dollar
		-Possible effectiveness
-French desires
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
	-Feelings toward currency policy
-Bill presentation
-Explanation of problems
	-The President’s credibility
-Quality of package
	-Canada
-Congressional opinions
-Japan
-Administration strategy
-Canada
-Europe
	-Slight setbacks for the Administration
-Prospects of success in talks
-Administration goals
-Seeking progress
-State department opinion
-Diplomacy
	-Continuation of fair treatment
		-Progress
-Canada
-Rogers’s opinion
-Connally’s opinion

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:40 pm.

President’s schedule
-Announcements
	-Foreign policy report
		-Timing
-Upcoming briefing
	-Gerald L. Warren

Ziegler left at 4:42 pm.

	Connally’s schedule

	Rogers’s schedule

President’s schedule
-Volunteers dinner
	-Timing

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	Connally’s schedule
-George Washington’s birthday celebration in Laredo
	-Proximity to Mexico
-Golf
	-Acapulco
-Houston
			-Connally’s upcoming speeches to mortgage bankers’ convention and the Santa Gertrudis Association
-Stock show
	-Attendance

	The President’s schedule
		-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

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	The President’s schedule
-Length of stay
-Connally’s schedule
-Abilene Christian University
	-Past visit
		-Crowds

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	The President’s schedule
		-Abilene
			-Location
-Religious community
-Benefits
	-California

	Connally’s schedule
		-Press event
			-John W. Chancellor
	-Headliners
-Eva Gabor
-Miss World
-Houston
-Colorado
-Boston
-Crowd reception

	The President’s schedule
-California
-Need to maintain contacts
	-Difficulties

	Connally’s schedule
-Reception in Fort Worth, Texas
	-Chief Justice of Texas Supreme Court
-Connally’s upcoming speech to the Santa Gertrudis Association
	-Houston

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Santa Gertrudis cattle
	-Origin of name
		-Creek
			-King Ranch
		-Mexican tradition

Value added tax [VAT] memorandum
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Receipt by President
-Property tax
-Benefits
-Tax strategy
	-Edmund S. Muskie
-Tone of memorandum
-Ehrlichman
-New York Times
-Ways and Means Committee
-George P. Shultz
-Loopholes
-Administration strategy
	-Tax bill
		-Connally’s talk with the President at San Clemente

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The President and Connally left at 5:06 pm.

Conversation No. 320-29

Date:  Unknown between February 8 and February 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:06 pm, February 8, and 4:00 pm, February 10, 1972
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown woman met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The unknown woman left and the President and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time before 4:00 pm, February 10, 1972.

President’s schedule

The President and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm, February 10, 1972.

Conversation No. 320-30

Date:  February 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 4:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Whereabouts of papers

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.

President’s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Rose Mary Woods
	-Location

Bull and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.

Conversation No. 320-31

Date:  February 10, 1972
Time:  4:55 pm - 6:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Unknown person’s schedule

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Kissinger entered at 5:00 pm.

Woods left at 5:02 pm.

The President’s press conference, February 10, 1972
	-India
	-Vietnam
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-President’s speeches
	-US advantages
		-Comparisons
	-Bangladesh
	-Vietnam
		-India
		-Possible US strategy
	-President’s image
	-World Report

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Forthcoming trip to the PRC
	-Talks with Chou En-lai
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR
-Current attitudes
-Message
-Reasons
-Future of aid
-USSR influence
	-Bangladesh
	-Attempt to counteract USSR influence
-US announcements
-Alternatives
-Domestic aspect
-PRC trip
	-Possible plenary session
-War with Pakistan
	-US stance
		-Compared to Suez crisis
-Aid
	-Robert S. McNamara
	-John B. Connally
	-President’s opinion
		-PRC
		-Democrats
	-Vietnam
	-US position
	-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
		-Peace offer
-Message
-PRC trip
	-William P. Rogers

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

Request for H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:20 pm.

Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

The President’s schedule
	-National Security Council [NSC]

	PRC trip
-Plenary session
	-Kissinger’s experts
-Kissinger call to Rogers
	-Attendance request
-Briefing books
	-Length
	-Rogers previous conversation with Kissinger [?]
	-Upcoming meetings

Formosa [Taiwan, Republic of China]
-Press conference mention

Briefing
-Dobrynin
	-Timing
		-Forthcoming meeting with Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Flexibility of position

Message to PRC
	-US public posture
		-The President’s recent press conference
		-Talking points
			-India
			-Bangladesh

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	SOUTH ASIA

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	Vietnam
-Haldeman
-Rogers
	-Comments at February 3, 1972 press conference
-Negotiations
	-The President’s recent press conference
		-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-The President’s recent press conference
	-PRC trip

Haldeman entered at 5:20 pm.

The President’s recent press conference
	PRC trip
	-Schedule
	-Flexibility
	-PRC feeling
		-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
		-Vietnam
	-Negotiations
		-Previous speeches
			-Ngo Dinh Diem
				-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
					-Laos
	-History of President’s feeling
	-Candidate Nixon compared with President Nixon
	-Search for peace
-Foreign policy report
-Busing
-Tax reform
-Neighborhood legal services
-News conferences
-Format
-Dan Rather
	-Allotted time for remarks

	The President’s schedule
		-Florida
-Rogers
	-Previous conversation with the President
		-Briefing book
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Potential meeting area
		-John B. Connally
		-Walker’s Cay
-Rogers
-NSC

	Vietnam
		-Rogers’s comments at press conference
			-Negotiations
-Consultation with Thieu
	-Negotiations
		-Thieu’s attack on Rogers
-Thieu offer to resign
	-Status of US initiatives
		-Potential problems
-Future offers
	-US flexibility
-The President’s recent press conference
	-Unknown journalist
		-Demeanor
-Press deadlines
-General feeling of the Administration
	-Consultation with Democrats
	-History of consultation
	-Lyndon B. Johnson Administration
		-Consultation with the President
			-1968 bombing halt
	-Number of Democrat candidates
	-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
	-John N. Ashbrook
	-California
		-Upcoming trip
		-New Hampshire and Florida
	-Protocol chief
	-Robert H. Finch
		-Unknown family
	-Thieu
	-Surrender compared to negotiated settlement
	-Cost of war
	-Reaction to negotiations
	-North Vietnamese strategy
		-Blame placed upon Democrats
	-Democrat strategy

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:20 pm and 5:45 pm.]

[Conversation No. 320-31A]

Request for Ronald L. Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Detractors of US policy
-Criticism of policy
	-Democrats
-Blame for stalled negotiations
-Forthcoming Republican convention
-Casualties
-USSR note
	-Impact on note
		-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Military actions
	-Carrier movements
	-Air Force
		-Airstrikes
			-Timing
-Israel
-Analysis of personalities
-Chou- En-lai
	-Kissinger’s opinion
-Mao Tse-tung

	PRC
		-Andre Malraux
			-Anti-Memoirs
				-The President’s recent press conference
					-The President’s 1969 meeting with Malraux
					-Economic aid
						-Mao Tse-tung possible question

Ziegler entered at 5:45 pm.

Press relations
	-The President’s recent press conference
-Sanchez
-Mood of press
	-Jim Deakin
-Humor
-PRC trip
	-Request for information from the press
		-Nature of questions
-Thieu
-Consultations
-Taxes
-Criticism of former policies
	-Murder of Diem
	-Laos
	-Ho Chi Minh Trail
	-Conduct of war
-Making of news
	-President’s opinion
		-Rather interview with the President, January 2, 1972
	-Desirability of press conference
		-Timing
			-Thieu
-Press conference compared to speech
	-Vietnamese News
	-Hanoi
		-Reported strength
	-Saigon
	-Possibilities
	-US flexibility
		-Elections
			-Rogers
	-PRC
	-President’s schedule
	-US initiatives
	-Busing
	-Taxes
	-Busing
	-The President’s previous telephone conversation with Ehrlichman
	-Senate

	The President’s schedule
		-Briefing book
	-Reading
	-Timing
	-Delivery
	-Number of pages
	-Memoranda
	-Florida trip
-Connally
	-Domestic issues
	-Camp David
-Speculation

	Press relations
-Newspaper articles
-Content
-Nature of news questions
-Editorial writers
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Vietnam
	-Negotiations
		-Prisoners of war [POWs] for troop withdrawal
			-Xuan Thuy
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Frank Chiles [?]
-Boston Times
-Article
-Content
	-Harriman
-Haldeman’s recent appearance on Today show
-Quality of press
	-Possibility of negative reporting
-Possible groundswell of public opinion
-Day of prayer
	-Timing
	-National cathedral
	-John H. Buchanan Jr.
		-Proposals
			-Ready for the President’s signature
-Timing
	-International dateline
-President’s attendance at church
-PRC trip
-Benefits
	-Prospects for a national event

	PRC trip
		-Newsmen traveling with the President

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[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 15s  ]

	INTELLIGENCE

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Henry Kissinger left at 5:55 pm.

	Prayer Day

	PRC trip
-News reporters
-Dynamics
-Possible agenda and ideologies
-Skin Isaacs [?]
	-Affiliation
-Baltimore Sun [?]
-Make up
	-Clark R. Mollenhoff
	-Unknown individuals from Nashville and Texas
	-Friends of President
		-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Thomas E. Jarriel
-Richard L. Wilson
-Robert Considine
-Television people
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Radio people

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 6:00 pm.

		-President’s schedule
			-Edwin D. Etherington [?]

Butterfield left at 6:03 pm.

-The President’s recent press conference
-Gerald L. Warren’s press briefing

	Press relations
-Rogers
	-Thieu’s possible resignation
-Quality of coverage
-Administration line
-1968 campaign
	-Johnson
		-Clark M. Clifford
-Quality of coverage
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with unknown person
	-Ziegler’s opinion
-Credit to administration
	-Reacting to press coverage
-Public perception of the President
-[Unintelligible]
-Headlines
-Campaign

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:15 pm.]

[Conversation No. 320-31C]

	Request

[End of telephone conversation]

	Malraux’s Anti-Memoirs
		-Critique

	The President’s schedule
		-Volunteer groups

	[Unintelligible]

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:15 pm.]

[Conversation No. 320-31B]

Discussion of the President’s recent press conference

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s recent press conference
	-Unknown person’s view
	-Coverage of briefing
	-Points covered
	-Vietnam
	-Busing
	-Action

Ziegler left at 6:15 pm.

NSC meeting
-Request by Kissinger
-Subject
	-Southeast Asia
	-Timing
-Reasons
-Necessity
-Purpose
-Willingness
-Schedule
-Timing

	Personnel management
		-Connally
		-Peter G. Peterson
			-Confirmation
				-Timing
			-William E. Timmons
-Ehrlichman involvement
-Connally
-Charles W. Colson
-Peterson
	-Memorandum
	-Confirmation
		-Timing
	-Connally
-Necessity
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-State Department

Public relations
-Press conferences
-President’s style and appearance
	-Effect
-Public delivery
	-State and Defense Departments
-John N. Mitchell and Connally
-Haldeman’s advice and opinion
-Preparation
-Wording of statements
	-Amount of time
-Teleprompter
-Benefits
	-President’s appearance
		-Effect
-Adaptability to situation
-Problems
-Eye-contact
	-Proposed corrections
-Length of appearance
-Problems
	-Compared to Muskie
-Shorter compared to longer delivery
-Content policy compared to opinion
-Effect on appearance
-Rogers
-Ziegler
	-Previous conversation with Haldeman
		-Timing

Schedule

Haldeman left at 6:30 pm.