Conversation No. 449-1

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:19 am and 9:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Greeting

The President left at an unknown time after 9:19 am.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:19 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left and John D. Ehrlichman entered at 9:22 am.

Pentagon Papers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Henry A. Kissinger's telephone call about release of official version
-Ehrlichman's contacts with J. Fred Buzhardt
-Kissinger

The President entered at an unknown time after 9:22 am.

-Buzhardt
-Pentagon General Counsel
-Release of official expurgated version
-Kissinger, Laird
-Release
-Kissinger
-Issue
-Administration policy
-Kissinger
-Washington Post story
-Leak
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman's talk with Kissinger

-Politics of the issue
Ehrlichman's and Charles W. Colson’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Effects on Vietnam elections
-Vietnam issue
-Administration strategy
-Pressure
-New York Times
-Kissinger
-Discrepancies between versions
-Politics
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Differences between versions
-New York Times
-The President's schedule
-International drug seminar
-Forthcoming call from the Pentagon
-Meeting between Kissinger, Colson and Ehrlichman
-Political situation
-Colson's role
-Importance of issue
-Democrats
-Kissinger's concerns
-Vietnam issue
-Release of Pentagon version
-Newspaper story
-Japan
-Use by political opposition
-Eisaku Sato

Pentagon papers and the declassification issue
-Ehrlichman's schedule
-Meeting with Richard M. Helms
-List
-Cuban missile crisis
-Bay of Pigs

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-Tom C. Huston
-Bombing halt information
-Timing of issue
-Release
-Pentagon Papers
-Timing
-Kissinger
-Issue
-Involvement in Vietnam
-Democrats
-Nixon administration
-News story
-Possession of documents
-John N. Mitchell

Ehrlichman's schedule

Ehrlichman left at 9:27 am.

Kissinger
-Pentagon Papers

Haldeman's schedule
-Previous staff meeting
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit

Public affairs
-Kissinger
-Polls
-Distribution
-Contacts
-Washington, DC
-Negotiations
-Polls
-Gallup
-Haldeman's previous conversation with Kissinger
-Colson
-Trial heat
-Businessman

Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Meeting between Haldeman, Kissinger, and John B. Connally
-Planning and staffing
-Connally
-White House
-Kissinger
-Peter G. Peterson
-Responsibility
-George P. Shultz
-Economic programs
-Importance
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-Peterson
-Kissinger's strategy
-Peterson's counsel
-Other advisers
-Connally
-Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-Kissinger
-Private meetings
-CIEP
-Decisions
-CIEP staffing
-Connally
-Shultz
-Kissinger
-McCracken
-Staffing
-The President's plan
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Connally
-Shultz's responsibility
-Paul A. Volcker
-Shultz
-Meeting with the President
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Commerce Department
-Administration strategy
-Peterson
-Maurice H. Stans
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-San Diego
-Peterson

The President's schedule
-The President's forthcoming trip to Detroit, September 25-27, 1971
-Radio broadcast at the Detroit Economic Club
-Television
-Coverage
-Live television
-Midwest regional broadcast
-The President's meeting with consumer leaders, September 21, 1971
-Arrangements
-Proposals
-The President's contact with consumers
-Consumer affairs advisor [Virginia H. Knauer]
-Stans's approach
-Work with people prior to meeting
-Television coverage of the President's trip
-Film coverage
-Portland, Oregon
-Coverage
-News shows
-Local shows
-"Today" show
-Length of coverage on news shows
-Picture

The President and Haldeman left at 9:36 am.

Conversation No. 449-2

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:36 am and 11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] entered.

[Unintelligible]

The President's location
-Cabinet Room
-Conference

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 11:13 am.

Conversation No. 449-3

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President’s schedule
-Meeting with consumer council

Butterfield left at 11:13 am.

Conversation No. 449-4

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  11:13 am - 11:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with King Olav V of Norway, Arne Gunneng, Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr., and Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt.

Greetings

General conversation

Welcome

Arrangements for photograph
-King Olav
-Gunneng
-Mosbacher

Mosbacher
-Background

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 11:13 am.

General Conversation

[Photographs]

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 11:33 pm.

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AN UNKNOWN PERSON ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 11:13 AM.

THE UNKNOWN PERSON LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 11:33 AM.

AN UNKNOWN PERSON ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 11:13 AM.

THE UNKNOWN PERSON LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 11:33 AM.

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The President, King Olav V, Gunneng, Mosbacher, and Sonnenfeldt left at 11:33 am.

Conversation No. 449-5

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:33 am and 11:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield, Stephen B. Bull and Manolo Sanchez met.

President’s location

Bull's call

Butterfield, Bull and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:38 am.

Conversation No. 449-6

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  11:38 am - 11:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and Alexander P. Butterfield.

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Sanchez and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:38 am.

Conversation No. 449-7

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:40 am and 11:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Paul G. Hoffman
-Meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.

Conversation No. 449-8

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  11:48 am - 12:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Paul G. Hoffman and Richard T. Kennedy; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

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United Nations [UN] economic program

Hoffman's position
-Retirement in 1958
-Offer of position by Dag Hammarskjöld
-Reason for accepting offer
-World situation

-Peacekeeping
-Economic and social activities
-Program to build up economic and social policies
-Budget for programs
-US position
-Budget
-Changes in budget
-World Bank
-Robert S. McNamara
-Allocation of monies for UN development program
-Amount
-Investment
-McNamara
-Pre-investment work
-Education
-Surveys
-Foreign countries
-Development
-Understanding of countries' problems
-UN representative
-Pre-investment
-Planning of programs
-Technical inputs
-Presence in foreign countries
-Successor
-Hoffman’s trips
-Japan
-Germany
-France
-Great Britain
-Fundraising for 1972
-US foreign economic aid
-Policies
-Budget for UN
-Development programs budget
-Resources
-Reserves
-Hoffman's successor
-Declining resources
-Hoffman's role
-House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee
-Recommendations
-Approval of Senate
-Committee
-Otto E. Passman
-Possible conversation with the President
-View of the world
-Hoffman's meeting with John A. Hannah
-Hannah’s programs
-State Department
-Budget
-Hoffman's programs
-Budget
-Hoffman's successor
-Hoffman's retirement
-Date
-Successor
-Rudolf A. Peterson
-Qualifications
-Hoffman's assistance
-David A. Morse
-Transition
-Organization
-Funds
-World development
-Funds
-Technical assistance
-The President's role
-Congress
-Foreign assistance aid

International trade
-The President's meeting with consumer representatives
-Cabinet Room
-Tariffs
-Quotas
-Guaranteed price
-Liberalized trade
-Labor leaders
-Cheap labor abroad
-Multinational companies
-American consumers
-Business leaders
-Loss of will to compete
-Congressmen
-Concerns
-Textiles
-Shoes
-Automobiles
-Steel
-US position
-Economic isolationism
-Dangers
-Effects on US
-Consumers

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-Competition in world marketplace

UN
-Social and economic programs
-Importance
-Hoffman's trips
-Thailand
-Sarat Thanarat
-Prince Norodom Sihanouk
-Visit to Japan
-Meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
-Ministers
-Mekong Valley
-Newspapers
-Story on Prince Norodom Sihanouk
-Sarat’s comment
-Ministers of Thailand, Vietnam, Laos
-Development of Mekong Valley
-Neutrality
-Unifying influence
-Political influences
-Ideologies of member countries
-World War III
-World economy
-Peace
-Political world
-Objectives of Marshall Plan
-Recovery
-Common Market
-Significance
-Marshall Plan
-Hoffman's role
-Experiences

Hoffman
-Retirement
-Senior citizens
-Age
-Golf
-Fishing
-Hoffman's wife
-Length of retirement

International drug traffic conference

Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks
-Golf
-Golf balls
-Paperweight
-Presidential seal
-Tie pin

White House
-Powder room
-Oval Office
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Rugs
-Color
-Color television
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Colors in rooms
-The President's greetings to Mrs. Hoffman

Hoffman and Kennedy left at 12:14 pm.

Conversation No. 449-9

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:14 pm and 12:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with the International Seminar on Illicit Drug Traffic and Abuse
-The President's statement
-Sponsors of seminar
-US
-Canada
-France
-Language

-Translation
-Photo opportunity
-Number of attendees
-Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks

The President and Bull left at 12:17 pm.

Conversation No. 449-10

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:23 pm and 12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Kenneth E. BeLieu
-BeLieu's family

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 449-11

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  12:25 pm - 12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Kenneth E. BeLieu, William E. Timmons, Clark MacGregor; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Photograph

BeLieu
-Career
-Diplomats
-Washington Post story
-Army
-BeLieu's new position
-Undersecretary of the Army
-Army
-Problems
-Management
-Military
-Congress
-Previous job
-Deputy assistant to the President for Congressional Relations
-Congress
-MacGregor, Timmons
-Federal agencies
-Congressional votes on defense
-Cooperative effort
-MacGregor
-Timmons
-Swearing-in ceremony
-Date
-Time
-The President's attendance
-Location
-Pentagon
-Melvin R. Laird's office
-Loyalty to the President
-Laird
-Timmons
-MacGregor
-Relations with the President
-BeLieu's new job
-Qualifications
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Speech
-Relations with the administration

Defense
-Army
-Importance to nation
-BeLieu's new job
-Support for military services
-BeLieu
-Support for the country
-New office
-Location in the Pentagon

BeLieu's career
-Active military service
-BeLieu's acquaintances in the services
-Fred C. Weyand
-Korea
-Congressional relations for the Army
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John F. Kennedy
-Joe Kelly, United States Air Force
-John S. McCain, Jr.
-Weyand
-Richard B. Russell
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Paris
-Father
-Policeman
-Berkeley, California
-Successor to Gen. William C. Westmoreland
-Westmoreland
-Present tour of duty
-John C. Stennis
-Speech in Congress
-Edward W. Brooke
-Credibility
-Possible actions
-Reflection on Vietnam
-Possible successor
-BeLieu's responsibility
-Laird
-Robert F. Froehlke
-Candidates [Chiefs of Staff]
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Senior branches
-Army
-Air Force
-Chiefs of Staff
-Gen. John D. Ryan
-Westmoreland
-Chief of Naval Operations
-Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
-Moorer
-Navy experience
-Robert S. McNamara
-William Raymond Peers
-Military career
-Vietnam
-Acquaintance with BeLieu
-1940
-Relations with MacGregor
-Commanding officer
-World War II
-Southern California
-University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Reserve Officers Training Corps [ROTC]
-Military service
-Korea
-BeLieu's responsibility
-Selection of Westmoreland's successor
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Qualifications

Presidential gifts
-Cost
-BeLieu's son
-Compact
-BeLieu's wife

Vote on military service draft extension
-MacGregor
-New York City
-Chicago
-President’s representative at Citizenship Day
-Timmons

BeLieu
-Work
-Senate
-Draft
-Volunteer Army
-Draft bill

BeLieu, Timmons, and MacGregor left at 12:34 pm.

Conversation No. 449-12

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  12:35 pm - 1:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:36 pm.

The President's schedule
-September 21, 1971
-Exhibition of race cars
-White House south grounds
-Race cars
-Number
-Types
-Race drivers
-Photo opportunity

Butterfield left at 12:37 pm.

The President's schedule
-Race car exhibition
-Location
-Press
-Photograph

Pentagon Papers
-Haldeman's meeting with Henry A. Kissinger, John D. Ehrlichman, and Charles W. Colson
-Meeting between Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Colson's absence
-Kissinger
-Understanding of situation
-Ehrlichman's call to Melvin R. Laird
-Haldeman's call to Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Kissinger's objections
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Release of Pentagon version
-Public interest
-Personal
-Ehrlichman

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

[Delivery of voting results note]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm.

Draft bill
-Senate vote
-Cloture
-Vote count
-Timing
-Administration’s position
-Public relations
-Note
-Final passing of bill
-Cloture
-Procedure
-Votes on bill
-Michael J. Mansfield

Foreign policy
-Effect of release
-Pentagon version of Pentagon Papers
-Vietnam
-Political aspects
-Kissinger's statements on Pentagon Papers
-Vietnam
-Moscow scenario
-Release of Pentagon version
-Effect within Vietnam
-Ehrlichman's previous conversation with Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Release of Pentagon version

Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Haldeman's previous conversation
-Meeting
-John B. Connally's presence
-George P. Shultz
-Kissinger's forthcoming talk with Connally
-Connally's view on CIEP organization
-White House office
-Conversation with Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Responsibility for CIEP
-Kissinger
-Staffing problems
-Knowledge
-White House
-Peter G. Peterson
-Shultz’s view
-Peterson
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Responsibility for CIEP
-Staff
-Camp David meeting
-Work on CIEP
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-CIEP work
-National economic policy
-Shultz
-CIEP members
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-Connally
-Paul W. McCracken
-Swing votes
-Study on issues
-Subcommittees
-Shultz as chairman
-Staff for research
-Peterson
-Connally's view
-Shultz
-Kissinger's view
-Shultz
-Loyalty
-"Honest broker position"

Textile negotiations between Japan and the US
-Leak
-Brussels, Belgium
-Peterson
-Date of US decision
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-Release
-Peterson
-Paul A. Volcker
-Location

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:46 pm.

Vietnam
-Air raids
-POL [Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants]
-Effectiveness
-Storage for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Weather
-Supplies
-Dong Hoi
-US position
-Reiteration
-Airplanes
-Air Force

Military leadership
-Air Force
-Army
-Gen. C. William Westmoreland
-Air Force
-Gen. John D. Ryan
-Marine Corps
-Lt. Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-Position at Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

Military service draft bill
-Cloture vote

Kissinger's schedule
-Dates
-Visit

Peterson
-CIEP
-Japan
-Textile negotiations
-Leak
-Possible actions
-Responsibility
-Previous conversation
-Lack of leadership

Japan textile negotiations
-Leak
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-Policy issue
-Japanese reaction
-Nobusuke Kishi
-Visit to the US
-Date
-Negotiations
-Request from Japan
-Information of US actions
-Kissinger's possible actions
-US Ambassador to Japan, Armin H. Meyer
-Compared with D[avid] Kenneth Rush
-Middle East
-Vietnam
-Rush
-Textile negotiations
-Peterson's report
-Kissinger's strategy
-Peterson
-David M. Kennedy
-Negotiations
-Strategy
-Peterson
-Talk with Kishi
-Discussion period
-Date of announcement
-Simultaneous announcements
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit
-Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Japanese
-Kishi
-Meeting between the President and Takeo Fukuda
-Anchorage, Alaska meeting [With Emperor Hirohito]
-Informing Fukuda of US position on negotiation by William P. Rogers
-Previous conversation between the President and Fukuda
-Japan response
-Time requirement
-US position
-Dateline
-Rogers
-Meeting with Fukuda
-Strategy
-Possible meeting between Kissinger, Peterson, Rogers, Kennedy
-Preparation of plan for negotiations

CIEP
-Kissinger's scheme on staffing
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Previous meeting
-Responsibility for CIEP
-Shultz
-Inclinations
-Free trade
-Taxes
-Peterson
-Chairman of subcommittee
-Shultz
-Staff
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Peterson
-Removal
-Acceptable recommendations
-Shultz
-Leak
-Brussels
-Sources
-Volcker
-Peterson
-Effects on textile negotiations
-Textile people [producers]
-Details
-Need for committee
-Members
-Kissinger
-Need for political understanding
-Issues
-State Department negotiators
-Political compared to economic aspects
-Connally
-Economic points
-Shultz
-Economic point
-Domestic political
-Peterson

Other negotiations
-Relations with foreign countries
-Canada
-Surcharge tax
-Strategy
-Rules
-US actions
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Staff work
-Camp David
-Staff work necessary
-The President's options, role
-Implementing
-Peterson
-Briefings
-Peterson
-Staffing limitations
-Shultz's offer of Office of Management and Budget [OMB] staff

USSR summit
-Kissinger's conversation with unknown man
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Forthcoming conversation with the President
-Rogers
-Cabinet
-Summit invitation
-Informing Rogers
-Announcement
-Kissinger's role
-Rogers's Reaction
-Date
-Secrecy
-Compared with PRC announcement
-USSR
-Effect of Announcement
-Public Speculation
-USSR
-PRC
-Alexei N. Kosygin
-Gromyko
-Kosygin
-Visit to United Nations [UN]
-Itinerary
-Canada
-UN
-Meeting with the President
-Speculation on the President's forthcoming trip to Alaska
-PRC trip
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Value of surprise
-USSR position
-The President's attendance at signing of Accidental War Agreement
-Gromyko
-Soviets
-Announcement of Summit
-Date

Textile negotiations
-Kissinger's role
-Japanese negotiations
-Peterson
-Connally
-Waiting Period
-Length
-Kissinger's Meeting with Kishi
-Rogers's meeting with Fukuda
-Date
-Agreement
-Negotiations
-Dates
-Kissinger's schedule
-Return from the PRC
-John N. Mitchell, Harry S. Dent
-Relations with textile people [producers]
-Textile groups
-Kennedy, Peterson
-Commitment
-Time
-Quota bill

CIEP
-Shultz
-Responsibility
-Kissinger's working with Shultz
-Connally
-Economic
-Political
-Shultz
-Initiative
-Staff
-Proposals
-Effect on opponents
-Economic platform
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Meeting in Washington, DC
-Connally
-IMF
-European trip
-Reaction
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Reaction
-Camp David
-Connally
-Kissinger
-McCracken
-Committee
-Program

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Meeting
-Time

Plans for working group
-President’s schedule
-Racing group
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
-The President's previous conversations with Kissinger
-Shultz
-Working group for CIEP
-Members
-Haldeman's attendance at meetings
-Meetings
-Peterson
-Peterson's memo to the President
-Kissinger's signature
-Organization of new group

Polls
-USSR and PRC
-Colson
-George H. Gallup
-Louis P. Harris
-The President's popularity
-Comparison with Democrat candidates
-Effect on foreign relations
-Trial heats

Military service draft extension legislation
-Senators
-Debate
-Final vote

USSR
-Soviet public opinion on the President
-Dobrynin
-View of the President
-Change
-Willy Brandt

Kissinger left at 1:08 pm.

Peterson

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.

Letter from John C. Stennis
-Liaison from White House
-Delivery from the President
-Tom C. Korologos

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.

US Supreme Court
-Recommendation from Stennis
-James P. Coleman
-Mississippi
-Mitchell
-Votes
-Stennis
-Mitchell

Haldeman left at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.

Placement of object

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.

Margaret Chase Smith

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.

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Haldeman entered at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.

Haldeman's previous meeting with Mitchell and Bryce N. Harlow
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Agriculture Secretary

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.

The President's schedule

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.

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The President’s schedule
-The President's Question and Answer [Q&A] at Detroit Economic Club, September 23, 1971
-Possible meeting with Agnew

J. Edgar Hoover
-Tenure in office
-Robert C. Mardian
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Conversation with the President
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Leaks
-White House
-Department of Justice
-Network
-Mardian
-White House

Agnew
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Behavior
-Raising negatives
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Cabinet meetings
-Nixon as Vice President
Cheerleader
-Demonstrations
-Cabinet meetings
-Connally
-Rogers
-Testimonial
-White House staff
-Campaign
-Build-up
-Organization
-Leadership
-Response
-Haldeman's call to Agnew
-Mitchell's call to Agnew
-Political responsibility
-Testimonial event
-White House staff
-Kissinger
-Dent
-Robert J. Dole
-Cabinet
-National chairman [of Republican National Committee]
-Connally
-Democrat
-Connally
-Support for administration
-Cabinet
-Mitchell
-The President's possible dinner meeting with Agnew
-Situation
-Action
-The President's Q&A at Detroit Economic Club
-Connally

Candidates for Secretary of Agriculture
-Louie B. Nunn
-Harlow’s view
-Congressional approval
-Federal system
-Democrats
-Support of farmers
-Farm issues
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Harlow’s view
-Farmer credibility
-Experience with federal system and Congress
-Mitchell’s view
-Harlow
-Bellmon
-Albert H. Quie
-Farmers
-Administration strategy
-Farm program
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Receptivity to farmers' concerns
-Bellmon
-Compared with Nunn
-Nunn
-Relations with farmers
-Bellmon
-Congressional seat
-Election outcome
-Ed Edmondson
-Democrat candidate
-Dewey F. Bartlett
-Mitchell
-Control
-Special elections
-Support for administration
-Re-election of the President
-Support for the administration
-Harlow and Mitchell
-Outcome of meeting
-Harlow’s view
-Nunn
-Bellmon
-Other candidates
-Publicity
-Harlow
-Possible appointment as Secretary
-Congressional relations
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
-Clark MacGregor
-Background
-Minnesota
-Agriculture
-Analogy to Richard H. Poff
-Present position
-Speechmaking
-Nunn
-Bellmon
-Harlow
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
-Harlow
-Changes in administration
-Nunn
-[Dole?]
-National chairman
-Senator
-Other candidates
-Leslie C. Arends
-Career
-Age
-Congressional relations
-Background
-Department of Agriculture
-Undersecretary
-J. Philip Campbell
-MacGregor
-Congress
-Possible election outcome
-Republican Congress
-Gerald R. Ford
-Speaker of the House
-Arends
-Majority Leader

Supreme Court appointment
-Harlow's conversation with Emanuel Celler
-House of Representatives Judiciary Committee resolution
-Poff
-Possible endorsement
-Nomination
-Ford
-The President's morning meeting with Carl B. Albert
-Support for Poff
-House
-Circulate letter to House members
-Endorsement of Poff
-Cellar
-Democrats
-Ford's possible conversation with Cellar
-Harlow's possible conversation with Cellar
-Endorsement of American Bar Association [ABA]
-Reflection on Judiciary Committee
-Letter circulation
-Congress
-Republicans
-Civil rights
-Judiciary Committee
-Southern Democrats
-Background
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Poff

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-Southern Manifesto
-Ku Klux Klan

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The President's schedule
-Breakfast meeting
-Call from Connally

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.

Conversation No. 449-13

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull[?].

Note from the President
-Virginia H. Knauer

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.

Conversation No. 449-14

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  2:30 pm - 2:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Public relations [television]
Detroit Economic Club question and answer [Q&A] session, September 23, 1971
-The President's appearance
-Report
-Previous meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Ziegler, and the President
-Television coverage
-Demonstrators
-Report on news shows
-Networks
-Commentator
-Film from Detroit
-Coverage of Portland, Oregon event
-Time
-Date

-News coverage
-News shows
-Comparison to Detroit appearance coverage
-Preparation for Q&A session
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
-Cameras
-Arrangement
-The President's performance
-Quality of coverage
-Live television
-Size of audience
-News shows
-Cumulative effect
-Evening news shows
-West Coast
-Time zone differences
-Morning news shows
-The President's appearance
-Response to questions
-Demonstrations
-Chicago
-Audience
-Akron
-Dayton
-Idaho Falls
-California
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-News shows
-Live television coverage
-Preparation for Q&A session
-Television
-Radio
-Press
-The President's performance
-Preparation
-Detroit Q&A session
-Electronic coverage
-Press conference
-Extensive coverage
-Use in news shows
-Michigan
-Live coverage
-Nationwide
-News shows
-The President's decision on Detroit Q&A session
-Location of press
-Television
-Number of press corps members
-Monitor

Ziegler left at 2:35 pm.

Conversation No. 449-15

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:35 pm and 2:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's trips
-William P. Rogers
-Attendance
-Anchorage
-Montana
-Foreign policy issues
-Oregon
-Editors
-Domestic policy issues
-Oregon
-Staff
-John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 449-16

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:57 pm and 4:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

The President's location
-Residence

The unknown men [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 4:04 pm.

Conversation No. 449-17

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  4:04 pm - 4:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Reception

Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-Reception for IMF wives
-Number of guests
-Date
-Tour reception
-The President's appearance

Department of the Treasury
-Smithsonian Institution reception for the IMF
-Guests
-White House
-IMF wives

The President's northwestern trip
-Alaska
-Newspaper group
-Number
-Walter J. Hickel
-Reception
-Press reception
-The President's appearance
-William P. Rogers
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-John A. Scali
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-The President's appearance
-Hickel
-Reception
-Number of guests
-The President's schedule
-Speaking appearance
-Receiving
-Reception
-Rogers
-Attendance
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Southern California
-Media briefing
-Rogers
-Press reception
-Alaska
-The President's schedule
-Hickel's reception
-Rogers's appearance at press reception

The President's previous trips
-Scheduling
-Receptions
-Dinners

The President's schedule
-Appearances
-Cancellation
-Scheduling the President's time
-Receptions
-Dinner
-The President's appearance
-Guests
-Foreign visitors
-Background
-Diplomatic Credentials Ceremony
-Importance to diplomats
-Emil (“Bus’) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Staff
-State Department
-Receiving foreign visitors
-Meeting the President
-Background
-Country of origin
-Foreign post
-Foreign service
-Presentation of credentials to the President
-Photo opportunity
-Impact
-Presentation of diplomatic credentials
-The President's performance
-Meetings in the Cabinet Room
-The President's performance
-Haldeman's conversation with Virginia N. Knauer
-Reaction of guests
-Knauer
-Weekly meetings
-Length
-Congressmen
-Different groups
-Views of different groups
-The President's attendance
-Impact
-Cabinet Room
-Number attending
-Length of meeting
-Subject
-The President's attendance at Business Council meetings

Kissinger entered at 4:16 pm.

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Domestic situation
-Civil aviation airports
-Parade for national holiday
-Status
-Mao Tse-tung
-Pictures
-Health
-Domestic situation
-Commercial aviation
-Cancellation of flights
-Date
-Resumption of flights
-Date
-Cancellation
-Flights to and from Peking
-Diplomatic communications between the US and PRC
-Government leaders
-Public appearances
-Cultural revolution group
-Possible actions
-Red Guard
-Purges
-Mao Tse-tung
-Position
-1960
-"Great Leap Forward"
-Liu Shao-ch'i
-Cultural revolution
-Chou En-lai
-Health
-Cancellation of parade
-Chou En-lai
-US initiative
-Cultural revolution
-Relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Incident with the Soviet Ambassador
-Domestic situation
-Factions
-Mao
-Organization
-Trip to the PRC
-Dates
-Kissinger's October 1971 trip, the President's 1972 Summit trip
-Communications between the US and PRC
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters, Jr.
-The President's proposal for PRC trip
-Dates
-The PRC's response
-Cancellation of civil aviation flights
-Peking

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PRC

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-Press reports
-Ronald L. Ziegler

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SAUDI ARABIA

KISSINGER LEFT AT 4:23 PM.

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Haldeman left at 4:23 pm.

Conversation No. 449-18

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  4:23 pm - 5:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Prince Fahd abd al-Aziz al-Saud, Ibrahim Al-Sowayel, Joseph J. Sisco, Camille Nowfel, and Harold H. Saunders.

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SAUDI ARABIA

AN UNKNOWN MAN [MANOLO SANCHEZ?] ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 4:23 PM.

THE UNKNOWN MAN [SANCHEZ?] LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 5:00 PM.

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The President, et al. left at 5:00 pm.

Conversation No. 449-19

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:00 pm and 5:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Manolo Sanchez met with an unknown person[Henry A. Kissinger?].

[Unintelligible]

Sanchez and the unknown person [Kissinger?] left at an unknown time before 5:02 pm.

Conversation No. 449-20

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  5:02 pm - 5:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's schedule
-Exhibition of race cars
-Reception for race drivers
-Compared to horse racing
-Invitation to Kissinger

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[Duration:  1m 47s  ]

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA [PRC]

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-Mao Tse-tung
-Status
-Political changes
-Comeback
-"Great Leap Forward"
-Status
-Kissinger’s forthcoming visit
-Effect on the President's visit to the PRC

-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Chou En-lai
-Timing
-Kissinger's meeting with the PRC Ambassador
-Timing
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters's meeting
-Report on meeting
-The PRC’s response
-Meeting
-The PRC’s response
-The President's communique
-Announcement of Kissinger’s forthcoming visit
-Dates
-Crew lists
-Dates

Negotiations
-Nikolai Podgorny
-Trip to North Vietnam
-Dates of the President's trip to the PRC
-Announcement of Kissinger's trip
-Effect of the PRC’s domestic situation
-Date of announcement
-Agreement

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PRC

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-US position
-Middle East
-PRC trip
-USSR
-Soviet Summit
-The President's trip to the PRC
-Kissinger's memorandum to the President
-Soviet response

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[Duration:  30s  ]

PRC

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-The President's visit to the PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger's meeting with PRC officials

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:02 pm.

The President's schedule
-Exhibition of race cars
-The President's remarks
-Photo opportunity
-Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins
-Racing magazines
-Press
-Time
-Racing cars
-State Dining Room

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

PRC
-Domestic situation
-National holiday
-Parade
-Cancellation of events
-PRC's response to the President's communique
-Kissinger's proposals
-Dates

The President and Kissinger left at 5:15 pm.

Conversation No. 449-21

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:15 pm and 8:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents ] met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 8:20 pm.

Conversation No. 449-22

Date:  September 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:32 pm and 11:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

The President's location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 11:27 pm.