Conversation No. 321-1

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:08 pm and 12:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Unknown request

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

Conversation No. 321-2

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:08 pm and 12:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

Request

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

Conversation No. 321-3

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  12:16 pm - 1:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press relations
	-Manolo Sanchez

Democrats
-Foreign policy report, February 9, 1972
	-Associated Press [AP]
-Presidential candidates
-Criticism
-Vietnam
	-Enemies
		-Prolonging war
	-Compared to 1968
-President’s instructions to Ziegler
	-Candidates
	-Edmund S. Muskie
	-1968 bombing halt
	-1966
		-Non-Presidential election year
		-Lack of negotiations
-Ngo Dinh Diem
	-President’s earlier criticisms
-United Press International [UPI]
	-Effect of criticism on war
		-1972 election

National policy
-Network commentary
-William P. Rogers’s call
-Bomb shelters
-Nixon administration
-Foreign policy report
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Dan Rather
-Innovation
-Generosity of peace terms
	-History of warfare
-Marvin L. Kalb
	-Possible quotes
	-Nixon’s critics
-Nixon’s critics
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-George S. McGovern
-Communists
-Haldeman’s comments on Today show, February 7, 1972
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]’s views
-Peter Hackess
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]’s views
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Moscow
-Paris
-Critics
-Debate
-Kissinger
-McGovern
-Plan to end the Vietnam war
	-Communism
-Saigon
-Patriotism

Press Room
-Gerald L. Warren
-Vietnam
	-Press reaction to text of foreign policy report radio address

Vietnam
-President’s instructions
	-Muskie
	-McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Possible attacks form the left
-1968
-President’s foreign policy report speech
-Television line
-Length
-Highlights
	-Possible cuts
-Leroy Henderson
-Cameras
-Technicians
-Teleprompter
	-The President’s experience

	Foreign policy report
		-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
		-Kissinger
			-Press coverage
		-Ziegler’s role
		-John A. Scali [?]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s statement on Today show
-President’s reaction
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-The left
-Hugh Scott
-Kennedy
-Ziegler’s views
-Buchanan
-Meeting with Ziegler
	-Developing the President’s response

President’s schedule
-Camp David
-PRC
	-Readings
-Florida visit
-John B. Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Domestic issues
-Timing
-PRC
-Connally
-Ehrlichman
-Rogers
	-Location
-Connally
	-Focus on domestic issues
		-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-George P. Shultz
-Camp David
-PRC
-Rogers
-Florida
-Domestic issues

White House staff
	-President’s defense
	-Press
-Vietnam
-Cambodia and Laos
	-Unknown person
-Ziegler’s previous conversations
	-Comparison with Lyndon B. Johnson administration
	-Comparison with John F. Kennedy administration
	-Not being able to work together
		-Compared to current Administration
			-Support for Haldeman [?]
	-Domestic issues

Nicholas and Alexandra
-Kissinger
-Grigori Y. Rasputin
-Historical movies
	-Production costs

	Kissinger
		-Podium

Liberals
	-Relationship with the President

Press conferences
-Question
-Ziegler’s briefing
-Frequency
	-Presidential reaction
-Public view
-AP story
-Johnson
-Policy areas
	-Comparisons
-Unknown woman
	-Prospects for frequent press conferences
	-Previous conversation with Haldeman
-Supposed issue
	-Need for frequent press conferences
	-Administration “non-issue”
	-Credibility
-Haldeman
	-Unknown woman
		-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Upcoming press conference
	-Style
	-PRC
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi visit
	-Timing
-Briefing
-Off the record
-Ziegler’s views
	-Kissinger’s backgrounder
	-Hawaii
		-Upcoming Presidential press conference
			-Timing

President’s instructions to Haldeman
	-Kissinger
-Muskie
-Humphrey
-Reston’s influence
-Reston’s column
-Kissinger

PRC trip
-Possible press attendees
-Stanley Karnow
-Charles B. Rangel
-Peregrine Worsthorne
-PRC
-Press list
-Jews
	-Numbers
-Blacks
	-Numbers
-White House staff
-Possible questions
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Vernon G. Coffey, Jr.
-Military assistant
-Secret Service
	-Assistance
-Black reporter, [Forename unknown] Simmons
	-Style admired by the President
-Press
-Air Force One
-Nationwide selection
-NBC
-Black reporter
-CBS
-Networks
-Ability to choose reporters
-Military aide
	-Coffey
-Secret Service
-Blacks
	-Detail
-Filipino
	-Zosimo T. Monzon

News story
-Buchanan
-Handling
-Story style

President’s schedule
-Buchanan

Ziegler left at 12:50 pm.

News story
-Possible reaction
	-Foreign policy report radio address
	-“Year of the Breakthrough”
-Kissinger
-Shock
	-Statement, February 8, 1972
-Constitutional definition
-Patriotism
-Treason
	-Haldeman’s comments
-Kissinger

Veterans groups
-Meeting with Henry C. Cashen, II
-Medal of Honor
-National convention
-Herbert R. (“Chief”) Rainwater
	-Telegram

President’s speech
-Congress
	-Length of time

Vietnam
-Critics of President’s policy
-Foreign policy radio address

World report
	-Length
	-Possible impact

Foreign policy report radio address

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	Unknown person
		-Tenure
		-John N. Mitchell

Haldeman left at 1:05 pm.

Conversation No. 321-4

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 2:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:52 pm.

Conversation No. 321-5

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 2:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:52 pm.

Conversation No. 321-6

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 2:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:52 pm.

Conversation No. 321-7

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 2:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

President’s schedule
-Meeting

Conversation No. 321-8

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 2:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Ehrlichman’s upcoming meeting with F. Donald Nixon
-Helicopter
	-Timing
		-Location

	Public relations
	-Donald Nixon
	-Contact with the President
		-1972 election
	-Recent revelations about business activities
	-John N. Mitchell

		-Conversation with Ehrlichman
	-Lloyd G. Hallamore
-Donald A. Nixon [?]
	-Madrid
	-Paris
	-University
-Donald Nixon
	-Handling
		-Contact with the President
	-[Jack N. Anderson] stories
		-Timing
		-Possible tone
	-Franklin D. Roosevelt relatives
	-Use of name

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John B. Connally
-Previous conversation with the President
	-Value-added tax [VAT]
-Florida
	-Conversation during trip
-William P. and Adele (Langston) Rogers
-President’s instructions

Conversation No. 321-9

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 2:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger
-Telephone call from Bull
-Kissinger’s location
-Return call

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:52 pm.

Conversation No. 321-10

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 2:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-83]

Conversation No. 321-11

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  2:52 pm –2:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 20-84; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 321-12

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:57 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

	Request for Haldeman [?] to come to the President’s Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Conversation No. 321-13

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:57 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:15 pm.

Conversation No. 321-14

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  3:15 pm - 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Press conferences
-The President’s view
-Preparation

	-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-President’s relationship with the press
-Tone
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Possible “hard-line” stance with the press
		-Request for more press conferences
-Charles W. (“Chuck”) Bailey, II
-Television
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Carroll Kilpatrick
-Press
	-Possible hostility towards White House staff
-Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Questions
				-Reaction from the President concerning Haldeman’s comment on Today Show, February 7, 1972
-Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Questions
-Teleprompter
-Candor
	-Cautiousness from the President
	-Difficulties being candid
-Press
	-Dan Rather
-Work involved for interview, January 2, 1972

Press conference
-Preparation
	-Buchanan
-Press
-Camp David
-Ziegler

Press
-Certain reporters
	Respect from the President
-Television
	-Appearances by the President
		-Comments by the President
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Safire
-Earl Wilson [?]
-Kissinger
-Speech
-George S. McGovern
-Treason
-Patriotism
	-Questions
-Robert D. Novak
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Speech
	-Left-wing critics
		-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s cousin
		-Haldeman’s move
-Peace compared to war
-Network commentators
	-Comment on Muskie’s position

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm.

Something for delivery to Camp David

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

Bicentennial
-John D. Ehrlichman
-President’s conversation with Hugh Scott

[The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 3:40 pm.]

[Conversation No. 321-14A]

Bicentennial
-Scott
-Breakfast
-Philadelphia
	-Choice for Bicentennial celebration

Frank L. Rizzo
-Choice of venue
-Scott
-President’s instructions
-Breakfast discussion
-President’s cooperation with Rizzo
	-Possible appropriations

[End of telephone conversation]

Bicentennial
-50 states involved
-California
-Wyoming
-Emphasis
	-Possible other choices

The President and Haldeman left at 3:40 pm.

Conversation No. 321-15

Date:  Unknown between February 9 and March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:40 pm, February 9, and 12:29 pm, March 8, 1972
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:29 pm, March 8, 1972.

Conversation No. 321-16

Date:  Unknown between February 9 and March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:40 pm, February 9, 1972 and 12:29 pm, March 8, 1972
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Request

Conversation No. 321-17

Date:  Unknown between February 9 and March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:40 pm, February 9, and 12:29 pm, March 8, 1972
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Requested unknown person come to President’s Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Conversation No. 321-18

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  12:29 pm - 12:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Backgrounders
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Substance
-John A. Scali
-President’s reading
-William P. Rogers
-Lecture on the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Analysis of the world
-Press
	-Strive for accuracy on PRC trip
		-President’s analysis
		-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger
-Compared with Rogers
	-“Selling” the President
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Kissinger’s media appearances
-Story
	-Scali
-PRC trip
-Decision-making ability
-Possible perception of power
	-Potential problems
-Columnists
	-PRC trip
		-Preparation
			-Books

John N. Mitchell
-Rogers
-Moscow
-Trip
-Upcoming visit
-Kissinger

Ambassadors
-Bureaucratic problems
	-References to Japanese society
-Embassy staff meeting
-PRC
	-Lack of embassies
	-Rogers

Kissinger
-Rogers
-Meetings with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Potential troubles
	-Different line with columnists
	-Morale at the State Department
-John B. Connally
-Nelson A. Rockefeller

Mitchell
	-Previous conversation with Haldeman

Haldeman left at 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 321-19

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 321-20

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 321-21

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  2:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

	Refreshment

Busing issue
	-Release of statement
		-Timing
		-John D. Ehrlichman
		-President’s schedule

		-Hugh Scott
		-Primary
			-Timing
			-Decision-making
		-Camp David
		-Legal research
			-Ziegler’s briefing
				-Possible delay of announcement
					-Florida primary
		-Ehrlichman
			-Previous conversations with Ziegler
		-Attorney General
		-John B. Connally
		-Florida primary
		-National problem
		-Busing
		-President’s policy
			-Possible solutions
		-Referendum
		-Florida primary
			-Controversy
		-New Hampshire
		-Patrick J. Buchanan

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:15 pm

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.

	Busing issues
-Release of statement
	-Timing
		-Florida primary
		-March 10, 1972 announcement
		-John N. Mitchell
		-Connally
		-John N. Ashbrook
		-Issues
		-Ehrlichman
			-Upcoming conversation with Ziegler
		-Camp David
		-Legal research
		-President’s instructions to Ziegler
		-Decision
		-Preparation
		-Issues
		-Constitutional amendment
			-Possible legislation
				-Probable language involved
		-Time of decision
			-Optimism for reaching a decision
				-Future announcement
		-Constitutional information
			-Possible influence from the primaries
		-Drafting
		-Timing
			-Florida primary
		-Ehrlichman
		-Decision
		-Newspapers
		-Television
		-Magazines
		-George C. Wallace
		-Constitutional amendment
	-Primary
		-Upcoming decision
		-Press

Attorney General
-Nomination hearings
-Richard W. McLaren
	-John V. Tunney and Edward M. Kennedy
	-Questions
	-Supreme Court
							-Delay of submission of International Telegraph and Telephone [ITT] case
-Kennedy and Tunney
	-Public opinion on activities
-Wire services
-Settlement
-Fairness
-Influence
-Richard G. Kleindienst’s, Peter M. Flanigan’s, and McLaren’s view
-Sheraton Hotel
-White House
	-Flanigan
-Media coverage
-Flanigan

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Henry A. Kissinger’s possible television appearance
	-Ziegler’s previous conversation with Kissinger
		-Relationship with the State Department
	-Backgrounder
		-Helpfulness to the President
	-Television
	-President’s achievement
	-William P. Rogers
	-Kissinger’s “mystique”
	-Successes
		-Several keys
			-Public interest
			-The President’s involvement
	-President’s approach
	-Credibility
		-Kissinger’s viewpoint and experience
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
	-Anxiousness from the network
		-Marvin L. Kalb
	-Agreement
	-Interview
	-Kissinger’s willingness
	-Structure
		-“Behind the scenes” scenario
	-Issues
	-Communiqués
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Magazines
	-News
	-Toast
		-Chou En-lai
	-Relationships
		-Types
	-CBS
		-Potential agreement for interview [?]
	-Kissinger
		-Chou En-lai
	-Backgrounders
	-PRC
		-Kissinger’s knowledge
	-Great Hall of the People
	-President and Thelma C. (“Pat” ) Nixon
	-Journalists
	-Chou En-lai

Ziegler left at 2:45 pm.

Conversation No. 321-22

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Cancellation of request

Conversation No. 321-23

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President’s schedule
	-Stephen B. Bull

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 321-24

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  3:55 pm - 4:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Kissinger’s schedule
-Dr. Kenneth W. Riland

Lunch
-Sans Souci
-Art Buchwald
-Wife
	-Vote for the President
-Spiro T. Agnew

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	Set of questions

[Kissinger talked to an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and 4:35 pm.]

[Conversation No. 321-24A]

Delivery of questions by unknown person

[End of telephone conversation]

President’s schedule
-Moscow trip
-Possible announcement
-William P. Rogers
	-Previous conversation with the President
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting
-Kissinger’s forthcoming call
-Announcement of Paris channel
-Timing
-Possible press conference
-Possible questions from Patrick J. Buchanan
-Impact of People’s Republic of China [PRC] communiqué
	-Vietnam
	-Japan
	-Taiwan, Republic of China
	-Japan
	-Reaction
		-Eisaku Sato
		-Takeo Fukuda
-Taiwan
-Japan
-Buchanan
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Communiqué
-Settlement of issues
	-Exchange rate
	-Diplomatic contact with Taiwan
-Taiwan
-Renunciation of force
-PRC
-Questions
-Communiqué
	-Kissinger’s opinion
-Backgrounder
-Hubert H. Humphrey
	-Opinion
	-PRC authority
		-Acknowledgement
-Buchanan
	-Questions
-PRC leadership
-Age
-Need for urgent action
-Chou En-lai
-Mutual interests
-Personal reflections
-Preparations
-Vietnam
-US-Japan relationship
-PRC

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

Request to put away unknown item

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.

PRC trip
-Communiqué
-Shanghai
-Buchwald
	-Evaluation of the President
		-Liberal program
-Buchanan
-Communiqué
-Taiwan
	-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Foreign policy
-Questions
	-Kissinger

News summary
-Prospects for resolving Buchanan issue
	-Reaction time
-Buckley
-Kissinger’s intended call

Canada
-Forthcoming trip by the President
	-Timing
-Rogers’s request
-Dinner for foreign ministers of Organization of American States [OAS]
	-Timing
	-President’s opinion
	-Canada

	White House staff

	Possible press conference
	-Taiwan
		-Kissinger’s answers
			-President’s viewing

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The President’s schedule
	-Unknown place
		-Florida
	-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Gridiron dinner
	-Japan
	-Pierre E. Trudeau
	-Rogers
	-Japan
		-Aid

Possible press conference
	-Questions
		-Middle East
		-Nuclear test ban
-Compared to press conferences in Great Britain
	-House Of Commons
	-[James] Harold Wilson
	-Memory skills
	-Questions
	-English Press
	-Compared to US press

Press conference
-Old rules used by the press
	-Franklin D. Roosevelt
	-Dwight D. Eisenhower
	-Questions
	-Preparation by the President
	-Intellectual exercise
	-Busing
	-Social Security
	-Minimum wage

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Forthcoming Moscow trip
-Significance
	-Compared to PRC trip

	PRC trip
		-Newsweek
			-Honor guard
			-The President’s gesture with Chou En-lai’s coat
-Unknown person
	-Possible talk with Kissinger

Gridiron dinner
-Kissinger’s presence
	-President’s appearance at dinner
		-PRC issue

President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-Canada

Kissinger’s trips
-Length
-Guam
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Paris
-Anchorage
-Meetings
-Schedule
-Timing
-Japan
-Paris
-President’s opinion
-Canadians
	-Kissinger’s location

Kissinger left at 4:35 pm.

Conversation No. 321-25

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:35 pm and 4:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

Conversation No. 321-26

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:35 pm and 4:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-22]

Conversation No. 321-27

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  4:40 pm - 4:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 21-23]

Conversation No. 321-28

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:43 pm and 4:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

	Request for unknown person to come to the President’s Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Conversation No. 321-29

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  4:56 pm - 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President

[See Conversation No. 21-24]

Conversation No. 321-30

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:01 pm and 5:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President’s schedule
	-Meeting before haircut

Conversation No. 321-31

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  5:03 pm - 5:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

	International Telegraph and Telephone [ITT] case
	-John D. Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson

	-Haldeman’s discussion
	-ITT group
	-Press conference
	-Time
	-Jack N. Anderson
	-Testimony
	-House
	-Senate
	-Judiciary Committee
	-John N. Mitchell’s testimony
	-Anderson
	-Timing
	-Haldeman
	-Mitchell
	-Patrick J. Buchanan and Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Haldeman’s meeting with
	-Questions
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
	-Busing
	-ITT
	-New Hampshire primary
	-ITT
	-Ehrlichman
	-Colson
	-Ziegler
	-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-President mentioned
	-Mitchell
	-Haldeman
		-Unknown person
	-Haldeman’s involvement
	-Herbert G. Klein [?]
	-President’s involvement
		-Denials
	-Haldeman’s knowledge
		-Denials
	-[Robert C.?] Wilson and Robert H. Finch
	-Beard statement
		-President’s response
		-Headlines
	-Wilson
	-President’s press conference
		-Pros and cons
		-Necessity
	-[Forename unknown] McLaren
	-Ehrlichman
	-Ziegler
	-Circumstantial evidence
-Colson
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Money
	-Corporation
	-Administration
-San Diego
	-Kleindienst
	-Colson
	-Cities
	-Ziegler
	-Networks
	-Lead story

TransWorld Airlines [TWA]
-Bombing
-Los Angeles
-Las Vegas

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Press conference
-Television
-Office clean-up
-Busing
-ITT
-Mitchell’s testimony

Television coverage
-Press room
-Picture
-More news
-Televised press conference
-Timing

ITT
-John B. Connally
-Peter G. Peterson
-Connally
-Letter
-Mitchell
	-Administration involvement
	-Money
	-Ronald W. Reagan
	-Washington Star
		-Editorial
-Public relations
-William L. Safire
-Reagan
-Money
-San Diego
-Beard
-President’s involvement
		-Chappaquiddick
		-Edward M. Kennedy
		-Hearings
-Kleindienst
-Administration involvement
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Statements
-Flanigan
	-Anti-trust division
-White House
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Return of money
-Finances, campaign
-Miami hotels
-Convention
	-C. Arnholt Smith
-President in 1968
-San Diego
-White House strategy
-Pentagon
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Unknown woman
-Anderson’s testimony
-San Diego
	-Contributions
		-Sheraton
-Connally
-Eastland
-Kleindienst
	-Anderson
	-Mitchell
-Briefings
	-Buchanan
	-Responses
	-Safire

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:03 pm.

President’s schedule
-Appointment with barber
	-Cancellation
-Rogers

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.

Appointments
-Connally
-Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Previous conversation with Haldeman
		-Rogers
			-Involvement in trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

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	ITT case
-William P. Rogers
-Chappaquiddick compared
	-Kennedy
-Harry S. Truman
-Sherman Adams
-Finances
-Teapot Dome Scandal
	-Albert Fall
-Comparison
-San Diego convention
	-Money
-Justice Department
	-Efforts
	-Richard A. Moore

	Public relations
-New Hampshire primary
-PRC trip
-Backgrounders
	-Ziegler
		-Previous conversation with the President
	-Kissinger
		-Building the President
		-Politics
			-Policy
-John A. Scali
-Substance
-1972 election
-Social events
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Outlook

	Press conference
		-Timing
			-Buchanan
-Busing
-Briefing
-Ziegler
-Timing
	-Press conference
-Press conference
-Announcement
-Mitchell

The President and Haldeman left at 5:50 pm.