Conversation No. 456-1

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 am and 9:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service] met

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Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 9:42 am

Conversation No. 456-2

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  9:42 am - 9:44 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Press
-Vietnam
-Reporting
-Ziegler=s comments to press
-President=s position
-Washington Post article
-Reporting of war

Ziegler left at 9:44 am

Conversation No. 456-3

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  9:46 am - 9:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

News summary
-Alterations
-President=s comments
-Effect of forthcoming economic meeting
-John B. Connally
-Paul W. McCracken
-George P. Shultz

Butterfield left at 9:48 am

Conversation No. 456-4

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  9:54 am - 9:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

The President=s schedule
-AOpen Hour@
-Reporters
-The President=s view
-John R. (AJack@) Williams, Jr.
-John B. Waters, Jr.
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Butterfield left at 9:55 am

Conversation No. 456-5

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  10:05 am - 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Foreign trade policy
-Peter G. Peterson
-Administration policy
-Coordination
-William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger

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-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press conference on Laos
-News summary
-Cabinet meeting
-Briefings

The President=s schedule
-Governors= conference
-Laos briefing
-John D. Ehrlichman
-President=s view

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am

Vietnam
-Military developments
-Reports
-Leak

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:25 am

Economy
-Troika meeting
-Arthur F. Burns= statement
-President=s memo
-Dissemination
-Action
-Haldeman=s conversation with Burns
-Burns= statements on confidence
-Effect
-Stock market

Appointments
-President=s view
-Retired businessmen
-Retired officers

Open Hour
-Need for accurate reporting
-Butterfield and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Color reports for press
-Role of staff reporter
-John B. Waters, Jr.
-John R. (AJack@) Williams, Jr.
-Taping system
-Butterfield
-Transcripts
-President=s orders
-Butterfield=s role
-President=s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-James H. Van Alen
-President=s conversation with Van Alan
-Publicity
-James Udall

Press report
-Vietnam incident

Public statements
-Murray L. Weidenbaum
-Revenue sharing
-Possible compromise
-John B. Connally
-Maurice H. Stans
-Departmental competition
-Administration policy

The President=s schedule
-Cabinet officers
-Staff dinner
-Radio speech
-Forthcoming White House Governors= dinner
-Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope
-Gifts

Kissinger
-Role in Middle East

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-Haig
-The President=s conversation with Moorer, February 22
-Vietnam
-Paris Peace Talks
-Conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Paris Peace Talks
-Staff meetings

-Rogers, Laird, and Connally
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Rogers= view
-Kissinger=s view
-Soviet view
-Berlin
-Middle East
-Rogers/Kissinger relationship
-National Security Study Memorandum [NSSM]
-Need for coordination
-Number
-Laird and Rogers= participation
-Kissinger role
-Kissinger/Rogers relationship
-SALT
-Joseph C. Kraft story
-Policy differences
-State of World message
-William H. Sullivan
-Leak
-Need for Administration response
-Forthcoming call to Rogers
-Effect
-State of the World message
-SALT

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 10:25 am]

[Conversation No. 456-5A]

Request that Ehrlichman join them

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger
-Abraham Lincoln
-Press image
-Kissinger=s role
-President
-Laird and Rogers

The President=s schedule
-Governors= conference
-Possible briefing on Laos operation
-Governors= concerns
-Publicity

Media reports
-Dennis Warner=s article
-[Forename unknown] Crawford
-Crosby S. Noyes
-Dissemination
-Herbert G. Klein
-Robert J. Dole
-New York Times article on revenue sharing

Ehrlichman entered at 10:25 am

-Administration response
-President=s position
-Comments to governors
-Weidenbaum=s testimony
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with Weidenbaum
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Connally=s role
-Rationale
-Substance
-The President=s meeting with Wilbur D. Mills
-President=s conversation with Connally
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Comments by the President
-Alternatives to revenue sharing bill
-Connally=s forthcoming talk to governors
-Ehrlichman=s comments
-Reaction to the President=s programs
-Rockefeller
-John Briggs
-The President=s commitment to revenue sharing
-Precedents

Governors= conference
-The President=s forthcoming talk
-Content

-Domestic issues
-Laos
-Vietnam
-Focus of conference
-Preston Smith
-Welfare costs proposal
-Rockefeller=s reaction
-John V. Lindsay
-Forthcoming lawsuit
-President=s comments
-Welfare reform
-Revenue sharing
-Ehrlichman=s comments
-Regional commissions
-Administration policy
-Edward L. Morgan
-Connally
-Democrats= counter-proposal
-Connally=s view
-Media coverage of administration presentations
-Weidenbaum
-Ziegler=s role
-President=s comments
-Administration presentation
-Connally=s view
-Media briefings by Donald H. Rumsfeld and Ehrlichman
-Media coverage
-President=s view
-Possible future press briefing
-Ziegler
-Computer printout
-Revenue sharing

Ziegler entered at 10:41 am

-Media coverage
-Statements
-Tone and style of presentation
-Rumsfeld
-Ehrlichman

Weidenbaum=s statement
-Ziegler=s and Ehrlichman=s statements

Wage and price controls
-George P. Shultz
-Administration=s options
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Effect

Ehrlichman and Ziegler left at 10:45 am

Kissinger
-Speeches
-William L. Safire and Rogers
-Burns
-Relations with Rogers
-Department of State
-Access to the President
-Haldeman=s previous conversation with Rogers
-Haldeman=s and Rose Mary Woods= roles
-Role of National Security Council [NSC]

-Ecuadorean tuna boats
-Dole
-The President=s reaction
-Rogers= role
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-Resolution
-Role and workload
-Presidential involvement
-Ambassador from Cyprus
-Nicaraguan transistors
-Peterson
-Use of NSC staff
-Compared to Domestic Council
-Presidential involvement
-Rogers
-Information routing
-Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Presidential involvement
-Compared with Department of State personnel
-Rogers
-Role
-Vietnam
-Connally

[Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:45 am and 10:52 am]

[Conversation No. 456-5B]

Request that he join them in Oval Office

[End of telephone conversation]

The President=s schedule
-NSC meeting date
-Attendance
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-Rogers

Kissinger entered at 10:52 am

-Connally
-Timing
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield breakfast
-Carl B. Albert
-Cabinet meeting
-Preparation
-Agenda
-Laotian situation
-Connally
-Timing
-Dates
-Schedule conflicts
-Attorney General
-Preparation
-Morning meetings

Haldeman left at 11:05 am

Vietnam military developments
-Death of General Do Cao Tri
-Circumstances
-Impact
-Successor
-Ellsworth F. Bunker cable to Kissinger
-Competence of Tri=s successor
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.=s and Bunker=s view

-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Cambodia operations
-Developments
-Tri
-Leadership
-Planning
-Abrams
-[Forename unknown] Davidson
-Competence
-General William C. Westmoreland
-View of war
-Charles E. (AChip@) Bohlen
-Moorer=s cable to Abrams
-Press stories
-Possible briefing
-Military situation
-Westmoreland=s view
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] competence
-Bunker=s cable
-Effect in Saigon
-Abrams and Thieu
-Lam Son operation
-[Forename unknown] Southerland
-Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Lam
-ARVN
-Public relations plan
-Briefing format
-Leaks to media

Media coverage
-Compared to civil war

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:05 am

Book by Carl Sandburg
-Civil War generals

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:30 am

Media coverage
-Newsweek story on the President
-Joseph W. Alsop

-President=s role
-European leader=s view
-Laos

-Source
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Unknown Italian

Vietnam
-President=s view of news coverage
-ARVN
-Laotian operation
-United States= troop withdrawal
-Time schedule
-Conditions
-Release of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Visit by Haig
-Laird=s view
-Abrams
-Kissinger=s position
-Kissinger=s conversation with Dobrynin
-President=s position
-Haig=s role
-Bunker and Thieu
-Peace proposal
-Condition
-Time schedule

SALT
-Dobrynin
-Letter to Aleksei N. Kosygin from the President
-Letter from Kissinger
-Response
-Gerard C. Smith
-President=s view
-Press reports
-State of World message
-SALT section
-Kissinger
-Rogers

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:05 am and 11:30 am]

[Conversation No. 456-5C]

Call to Haldeman

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 11:05 am and 11:30 am]

[Conversation No. 456-5D]

Leak in State Department
-SALT section of speech
-Ziegler
-Effect on State of World message
-Haldeman=s investigation

[End of telephone conversation]

Berlin negotiations
-Public relations
-Leak to media
-Timing
-President=s role
-President=s position
-Conclusion
-Timing
-Message to [David] Kenneth Rush
-The President=s role
-Timing
-Public relations

SALT
-Proposal
-Smith and Rogers
-New York Times editorial
-Letter to Kosygin from the President
-Smith=s reaction
-Rogers= reaction
-President=s view
-Laird

-Smith
-Credit for negotiations= success
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
-Laird
-Kissinger=s conversation with Laird
Dobrynin
-Letter to Kosygin from the President
-Editing
-Changes
-Multiple Independently-Targeted Reentry Vehicles [MIRVs]

General Joseph Maurer
-Civil War record
-General William T. Sherman
-General Ulysses S. Grant
-Lincoln
-Vietnam
-Military objectives
-ARVN troops

Vietnam
-New York Times article
-Laos action
-ARVN troops
-Tchepone
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Rationale
-Thieu=s position
-President=s view
-ARVN troops
-Press accounts
-Rowland Evans
-Administration public relations
-The President
-Laird=s statements
-Administration position
-Bombing
-ARVN
-Air strikes
-Military situation
-North Vietnamese supplies
-Possible locations
-Possible statement

-Supplies
-Surface-to-Air Missile [SAM] sites
-Rationale

Maurer

Kissinger left at 11:30 am

Conversation No. 456-6

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:30 am and 11:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

The President=s schedule
-White House entertainment
-Introduction by the President
-Up With People
-Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope
-President=s view

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:36 am

Conversation No. 456-7

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  11:36 am - 11:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Milton R. Young, Mark Andrews, Lee W. Huebner, and twenty-five members of the North Dakota Legislature [list of names unavailable]; the White House photographer was present during the meeting

[General conversation]
-Seating

Revenue sharing
-Importance to North Dakota
-Rural development
-Administration policy
-Funding

Presentation of gifts by the President

Description of Oval Office
-Theodore (ATeddy@) Roosevelt
-John B. Connally

Young, et al. left at 11:48 am

Conversation No. 456-8

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  11:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Photo with John R. (AJack@) Williams, Jr.

Bull left at 11:48 am

Conversation No. 456-9

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  11:49 am - 12:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John R. (AJack@) Williams, Jr., John D. Ehrlichman, and Lee W. Huebner; the White House photographer was present during the meeting

Greetings

Arizona
-Water consumption
-Future projects
-Timing
-Funding
-President=s view
-Arizona congressional delegation
-John J. Rhodes
-Administration policy
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Budget
-Economy
-Unemployment
-Aerospace industry
-Mining
-Agriculture
-Construction
-Real estate
-United States= economy
-Administration policy
-Administration efforts
-Water
-Arizona policies
-Effect on future

Presentation of gifts by the President

Williams left and Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:57 am

Ehrlichman=s phone conversation with the Vice President
-Governors= meeting
-Media coverage
-Rationale
-Revenue sharing
-Media coverage
-The President=s forthcoming talk
-Remarks by the President and the Vice President
-Format
-John B. Connally=s remarks
-Administration policy
-President=s comments

Ziegler=s press briefing
-Henry A. Kissinger=s briefing

White House festivities
-Photographs

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:57 am

Schedule

Ehrlichman, et al. left at 12:02 pm

Conversation No. 456-10

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  12:02 pm - 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Waters, Jr., Patsy (Temple) Waters, Cynthia Waters, John B. Waters, III, John D. Ehrlichman, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Lee W. Huebner; the White House photographer was present during the meeting

Arrangement for photo

[General conversation]
-Speaking engagement by the President
-Children
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.

Presentation of gifts by the President

Description of Oval Office

Tennessee politicians

J. B. Waters, Jr., et al. left at 12:06 pm

Conversation No. 456-26

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:06 pm and 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull talked with an unknown man

Alexander P. Butterfield

Conversation No. 456-11

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  12:06 pm - 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull [?]

The President=s schedule
-Press

Bull [?] left at 12:07 pm

Conversation No. 456-12

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  1:05 pm - 2:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

The President=s schedule
-Governors= conference
-President=s comments

[The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and 1:12 pm]

[Conversation No. 456-12A]

-Media coverage
-White House dinner

[End of telephone conversation]

Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-Briefing of congressmen
-Clark MacGregor=s view
-Robert P. Griffin
-Jacob K. Javits
-Administration position

White House dinner
-Press coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] interest
-Herbert J. (AJackie@) Gleason
-Charles W. Colson
-Guest list
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s view
-Advantages
-Compared to Edward K. (ADuke@) Ellington dinner
-Gleason
-President=s position
-Beverly Sills
-Location of stage
-Richard (ARed@) Skelton
-Johnny Cash
-Press coverage
-Mrs. Nixon=s view

Newsweek story on State of World message
-Leak
-Haldeman=s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]

Colson entered at 1:12 pm

Davis-Bacon Act
-Colson=s role
-Effect
-Wage Price Board
-Wage and price freeze
-James D. Hodgson
-Colson=s view
-Effect on unions
-Purpose

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:12 pm and 1:30 pm; the President and Colson can be heard in the background]

[Conversation No. 456-12B]

Call to MacGregor

[End of telephone conversation]

Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-Administration position
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-President=s view
-Purpose
-Labor=s view
-Peter J. Brennan
-Administration strategy
-Ehrlichman=s view
-Criticism from left
-Credibility
-John B. Connally=s view
-The President=s view

[Haldeman talked with MacGregor at an unknown time between 1:12 pm and 1:30 pm; the President and Colson can be heard in the background]

[Conversation No. 456-12C]

-Congressional briefing
-Timing

[End of telephone conversation]

-Administration strategy
-Joint statement by George P. Shultz and Colson
-Wording
-Labor Department section
-Public versus private statement
-Purpose of Davis-Bacon Act
-Union wages
-Re-instatement
-Timing
-State Department view
-President=s view

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator [?] at an unknown time between 1:12 pm and 1:30 pm; the President and Colson can be heard in the background]

[Conversation No. 456-12D]

Call to Shultz

[End of telephone conversation]

Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-Administration strategy
-Joint statement by Shultz and Colson
-Wording
-Justification of Davis-Bacon Act
-Union wages

Shultz entered at 1:30 pm

-Department of Labor view
-Paul W. McCracken
-Willie J. Usery, Jr.
-Brennan
-Effects of opposition
-William L. Safire
-Schedule
-State of the World address
-Oil and steel actions as precedent
-Steel prices

-Bargaining process
-Conditions that fostered Davis-Bacon Act
-Consistency of administration=s actions
-Steel and oil actions

Rose Mary Woods entered at 1:50 pm

-Safire
-The President=s schedule

Woods left at 1:54 pm

State of the World address
-Safire
-Price
-Kissinger
-Newsweek story
-Leak
-Rogers
-ACDA
-Haldeman=s conversation with Rogers
-Kissinger

National Security Study Memoranda [NSSMs]
-Haldeman=s conversation with Kissinger
-Melvin R. Laird
-Number
-Alexander P. Butterfield

Haldeman left at 1:56 pm

Davis-Bacon Act
-Statement from administration
-Wording
-Rationale for administration action
-Meaning to industry
-Colson=s call to concerned party
-Construction industry
-Hodgson=s statement

Colson and Shultz left at 2:09 pm

Conversation No. 456-13

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:09 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with unknown people [Manolo Sanchez and Stephen B. Bull?]

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people [Sanchez and Bull?] left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm

Conversation No. 456-14

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:09 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with unknown people [Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull?]

Schedule

The unknown people [Butterfield and Bull?] left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm

Conversation No. 456-15

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:09 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 456-16

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  3:00 pm - 3:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

The President=s schedule

Butterfield left at 3:05 pm

Conversation No. 456-17

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  3:05 pm - 3:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William L. Safire

State of the World message
-Melvin R. Laird and William P. Rogers
-National security
-Defense
-Arms control
-Schedule
Conversation No. 456-18

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:08 pm and 3:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:22 pm

Conversation No. 456-19

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:08 pm and 3:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

Schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:22 pm

Conversation No. 456-20

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:22 pm and 4:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service?] met

The President=s location

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 4:06 pm

Conversation No. 456-21

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  4:08 pm - 4:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

Media coverage
-Governors= conference
-President=s appearance
-James D. Hodgson

Ziegler left at 4:09 pm

Conversation No. 456-22

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  4:12 pm - 6:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Governors= conference
-President=s appearance
-Use of forums
-Role
-John B. Connally=s role
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Former Governors= Committee

State of the World message
-William L. Safire=s role
-Melvin R. Laird=s role
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Press report
-Leak
-William P. Rogers
-Haldeman=s conversation with Kissinger
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-News story
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-SALT
-United States= letter
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Kissinger=s role
-Length
-SALT story
-Impact
-Tactics
-Kissinger
-Workload

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Press coverage of the President
-Press conference
-Topics
-Foreign policy
-Domestic policy
-Length
-Efficacy
-Timing
-Length
-1962 campaign
-Edmund G. (APat@) Brown

The President=s schedule
-Camp David
-Connally
-Rogers
-Laird
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-President=s forthcoming press conference
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Kissinger
-Rogers

Arthur F. Burns
-Revenue sharing
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan

The President=s meeting with Science Advisory Committee
-Results
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Participants
-Congressmen

Schedule
-Press coverage
-Connally
-The Vice President
-The President=s previous meeting with North Dakota Congressmen
-Results
-Effect of Air Force One use
-Grand Forks trip
-Rationale
-National Security Study Memoranda [NSSMs]
-Haldeman coordination

Fifty-two foreign service officers who signed Cambodian letter
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Results
-Resignations
-Assignments
-Vietnam
-Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support [CORDS]
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Johnson=s view
-Promotion recommendations
-President=s view

Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
-Philippines
-Edward G. Lansdale
-Charles Bohanan [sp?]
-Unknown man

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Polls
-Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Rescue raids
-Cease-fire
-Prisoner exchanges

Dwight D. Eisenhower=s stag dinners and lunches
-Number by year
-Attendance
-Compared with the President=s social functions
-Attendance
-Heads of State
-Prime Minister of Ireland
-R. Anthony Eden [Earl of Avon]

The President=s schedule
-Rural Development Council
-Meeting with press
-Remarks by President
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Edwin L. Harper
-Briefing
-Meeting with editors
-Press plan
-Cabinet officers
-President
-Robert D. Ray
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Warren E. Hearnes
-Patrick J. Lucey

-Mechanics of arrivals
-Air Force One
-Senators and Congressmen
-Public relations
-Rochester trip
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-John N. Mitchell
-Itinerary
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Charles W. Colson
-Swearing-in of Thomas S. Kleppe
-Civil rights leaders= meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman
-George W. Romney
-Roy Wilkins
-Dorothy Height
-Whitney M. Young, Jr.
-Robert J. Blackwell
-Berkeley G. Burrell
-Value

Kissinger
-Role in foreign relations
-Rogers
-Dobrynin
-President=s possible conversation with Kissinger
-Rogers
-Laird
-Compared to Burns
-Compared to Leonard Garment

[The President talked to an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:12 pm and 5:51 pm]

[Conversation No. 456-22C]

Request for Harry S. Dent
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

The President=s schedule
-Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope
-Accommodations

-Herbert J. (AJackie@) Gleason
-Blair House

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person in Robert H. Finch=s office at an unknown time between 4:12 pm and 5:51 pm]

[Conversation No. 456-22A]

Invitation for Finch to meet with the President

[End of telephone conversation]

Old Executive Office Building office
-Finch
-Rogers= office
-Space
-The President=s offices
-Roosevelt Room
-Cabinet Room

Kissinger
-Rogers

Dent entered at an unknown time after 4:12 pm

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Dent left and Finch entered at 5:51 pm

Hope

William J. Casey appointment

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:51 pm and 5:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 456-22D]

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

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[End of telephone conversation]

The President=s schedule
-Kissinger
-Safire

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at 5:52 pm; the President and Finch can be heard in the background]

[Conversation No. 456-22B]

Status of Casey appointment

[End of telephone conversation]

Casey appointment

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Milk Fund
-Milk money
-Distribution

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The President=s activities
-Public relations
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Congressional action
-Reaction time to administration action
-Health program
-The Vice President

Old Executive Office Building office
-Office locations
-Receptions
-Secretary

Connally
-Efforts
-Attendance at White House dinners
-Health
-Schedule

The President=s schedule
-Camp David

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 6:05 pm

-Church service
-Meeting with Kissinger

Butterfield left at 6:09 pm

-Connally=s schedule
-Idanell (Brill) (ANellie@) Connally

Finch=s schedule
-Trip to Europe
-Timing

Haldeman and Finch left at 6:18 pm

Conversation No. 456-23

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:18 pm and 6:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service?] met

The President=s schedule

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 6:40 pm

Conversation No. 456-24

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  6:42 pm - 7:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Vietnam
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. visit
-Melvin R. Laird
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Purpose
-Military situation
-Purpose
-Kissinger=s conversation with John Sherman Cooper
-Democrats
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy, Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, and J. William Fulbright
-Administration response
-Troop withdrawal
-General Do Cao Tri
-Successor
-Ellsworth F. Bunker=s message to Kissinger
-Laos Briefing
-E. Ross Adair
-Age

-Congressional service
-John B. Connally
-William P. Rogers
-John N. Mitchell

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 6:42 pm

The President=s schedule
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Timing
-Swearing-in ceremony
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-George H. W.  Bush
-NSC meeting

Middle East
-Israeli/Arab talks
-Prospects
-Kissinger=s view
-Administration position
-Report to the President
-Middle East
-Laos

The President=s schedule
-NSC meeting
-Timing

State Department translator
-Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters
-President=s view
-Possible position at White House

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PEOPLE=S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

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The President=s schedule
-William J. (AJack@) Edwards
-William E. Timmons
-Public relations
-Administration policy on Vietnam
-Meetings with reporters
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr., [Arnold] Eric Sevareid, John A. Scali, and John W. Chancellor
-NSC meeting
-Briefings by Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Vietnam
-Briefing by Joseph J. Sisco
-Middle East
-Briefing by Richard M. Helms
-Laos
-Attendance
-Bush
-Connally
-Mitchell
-The Vice President
-Undersecretaries
-David Packard
-General John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Moorer

Kissinger left at 7:02 pm

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The President=s conversation with Kissinger
-Middle East

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[Duration:  30s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

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-Kissinger
-Israel
-Rogers
-Workload

Kissinger
-Role in administration
-Foreign policy
-President=s position
-United States-Soviet Union relations
-President=s role
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-The President=s role
-Workload
-Rogers
-Haldeman=s conversation with Rogers
-State Department leak
-Kissinger=s comments to press
-Gerard C. Smith
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations role
-President=s role
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Rogers
-Department of State
-Middle East

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[Duration:  46s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

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-Kissinger=s view
-Israel
-Compared to Vietnam
-Role
-Press briefings
-Meetings
-Middle East
-William L. Safire
-Laird
-Writing style
-Safire and Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Haldeman left at 7:18 pm

Conversation No. 456-25

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  7:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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The President and Sanchez left at 7:18 pm