Conversation No. 459-1

Date:  February 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:18 am and 9:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

Forthcoming briefing

News story
-Henry Brandon

Unknown man=s schedule
-William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 459-2

Date:  February 27, 1971
Time:  9:35 am - 11:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

The President=s schedule
-Astronaut dinner
-Attendance
-Guest list
-Social Office
-Ronald L. Ziegler=s view
-President=s role
-Tricia Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-East Room
-Seating arrangements
-The President
-Astronauts
-The Vice President
-William P. Rogers
-John B. Connally

-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-David Packard
-William L. Safire
-Hole-in-One Club
-Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
-Awards
-President=s view
-The President=s remarks
-Citations
-William A. Anders
-The Vice President
-Children
-Camp Hoover
-Butterfield
-Peter M. Flanigan=s visit
-Robert H. Finch
-Condition of camp
-Furniture
-Possible visit by the President
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes
-Possible visit by the President
-Difficulties

Butterfield left at an unknown time after 9:35 am

-Florida trip
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Camp David
-Upcoming schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Weather

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:35 am

-Hughes= report on Camp Hoover
-Recommendation

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:46 am

-Weekend activities
-Church
-Camp David
-Florida

-Forthcoming trip
-Camp David
-Presidential work schedule
-Forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Victor Lasky
-Interview with the President
-Book
-Lasky=s research
-Proposed interview with the President
-Questions
-Fiftieth anniversary of Reader=s Digest
-Possible White House dinner
-DeWitt Wallace
-Announcement
-Lila (Acheson) Wallace
-Attitudes
-Arrangements

Butterfield entered at 9:46 am

Morning schedule

Henry A. Kissinger entered and Haldeman and Butterfield left at 9:47 am

Laos (Lam Son)
-Military situation
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Briefing
-Attitudes of military
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-ARVN airborne forces
-Strategy
-ARVN military
-North Vietnamese forces
-Kissinger=s assessment
-News reports
-Kissinger=s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet position
-North Vietnam
-Soviet view of Cambodia and Laos operations

-Cambodian operation
-Reports
-ARVN
-North Vietnamese casualties

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 9:47 am

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MIDDLE EAST

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:06 am

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Laos (Lam Son)
-Marines
-Reinforcement
-Airborne forces
-Tactical movement
-Supply routes
-Military situation
-Strategy
-Supply routes
-Tchepone
-ARVN forces
-Timing
-President=s view
-North Vietnamese supply routes
-Rationale
-Casualties
-North Vietnamese
-B-52 Strikes

-Tactical proposals
-Future prospects for success
-ARVN
-Media coverage
-October 7th speech
-John D. Ehrlichman
-James B. (AScotty@) Reston
-Democratic briefings
-Kissinger=s forthcoming conversation with Reston

[The President talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 9:47 am and 10:06 am]

[Conversation No. 459-2A]

-Ehrlichman=s call to Reston

[End of telephone conversation]

-Reston=s reaction to Laos operation
-Kissinger=s previous conversation with Reston
-Cambodia
-The President=s policy
-Reaction of European press
-Henry Brandon
-Media coverage
-Kissinger=s view

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:47 am

The President=s schedule
-John N. Mitchell
-Florida
-Des Moines
-Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo
-Weather in Florida
-The President=s decision

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:06 am

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:47 am

Schedule
-Forthcoming NSC meeting
-Melvin R. Laird
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Rogers
-Richard M. Helms
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:06 am

-Television

Laird, Helms, Sisco, Rogers, and Haig entered at 10:06 am

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[National Security]
[Duration:  1h 14m 39s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:21 am

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Admiral Thomas H. Moorer and Lieutenant Colonel Walter B. Ratliffe entered and Sisco left at 11:21 am

Laos (Lam Son) operation
-Previous briefings
-Status
-Congress
-Rogers
-The President=s forthcoming television appearance

-Rogers= forthcoming press conference
-Strategy
-US policy
-Public relations
-Abrams
-Rogers

Cambodia (Chub) operation
-Military situation
-Casualties
-Goals
-Death of General Do Cao Tri
-Effect on South Vietnamese forces
-Military operations
-General Thomas J. (AStonewall@) Jackson
-Gettysburg
-Importance of leadership

Laos (Lam Son)
-Military situation
-Strategy
-Military operations
-Ground forces
-Bombing
-North Vietnamese forces
-Casualties
-Tank Fight
-South Vietnamese [ARVN] forces
-Military situation
-Casualties
-Military operations
-Abrams= plan
-Airborne troops
-Marines
-ARVN reserves
-Laird=s view
-North Vietnamese strategy
-Troop movements
-Effect on US strategy
-General Vo Nguyen Giap
-US Air Force bombing
-North Vietnam headquarters
-Command centers

-Problems
-Intelligence
-President=s view
-Helms= response
-Press accounts
-Abrams
-Unknown ARVN general
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Decrease in North Vietnamese use
-Supplies
-Effect on Lam Son operation
-Routes
-Moorer=s assessment
-President=s view
-Need for public relations
-Intelligence
-Goals of Lam Son operation
-ARVN forces

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[Duration:  5s  ]

LAM SON

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-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-US strategy
-North Vietnamese troop strength
-American troop strength
-Khe Sanh
-US troop strength
-Estimates
-Roles

-US strategy
-Effect on North Vietnamese forces
-Marines
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA]
-Infantry role
-Press account
-Search and rescue missions
-Rogers
-John Sherman Cooper
-Search and rescue missions
-Son Tay mission
-Administration position
-Press accounts
-Department of Defense briefing
-Jerry W. Friedheim
-Press briefing
-Ziegler
-Questions and responses
-Administration position
-Vietnam policy
-President=s previous experiences
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Middle East
-Relations with press corps
-President=s position
-Ziegler=s role
-Answers to questions on Lam Son
-Goal of press corps
-President=s view
-Abrams
-Responses to questions
-Importance of public relations
-Theodore S. (ATed@) Williams
-Relations with press
-Denny D. McLain
-Need for objective coverage
-President=s position
-Rogers= view
-Laos
-Abrams
-ARVN
-Need for victory

-Terrain
-Prisoners
-Casualties
-South Vietnamese morale
-North Vietnamese morale
-Laird=s trip

Press conferences
-Ziegler
-Methods of handling
-President=s position
-Responses to questions

Laos (Lam Son)
-Objectives
-Changes
-Tchepone
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-North Vietnamese supplies
-Decrease
-Media coverage
-Laird/Kissinger Experience

Farewells

Instructions to Moorer
-Abrams
-Report

Kissinger, et al. left at 11:57 am

Conversation No. 459-3

Date:  February 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:57 am and 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

The President=s schedule
-Leonard Garment

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:58 am

Conversation No. 459-4

Date:  February 27, 1971
Time:  11:58 am - 2:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Leonard Garment
-White House Staff
-Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-Robert H. Finch
-Role of White House staff
-Minorities
-Arts
-Ehrlichman=s schedule
-Finch

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:58 am

Military retirees
-Report

John B. Connally
-Washington Post

The President=s schedule
-Des Moines
-Finch
-Location
-Youth meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  2m 59s  ]

Alexander P. Butterfield and Bull entered at 12:00 pm

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Youth meeting
-Participants
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] staff
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.=s staff
-Michael Collins
-Lyndon K. (AMort@) Allin
-Finch

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[Duration:  5s  ]

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Garment entered and Butterfield and Bull left at 12:07 pm

Greetings

Garment=s efforts
-Role on White House staff
-Responsibilities
-Roger E. Johnson
-Minority groups
-Arts

Conference of National Music Educators of America
-Garment=s participation

Public relations
-Portraits of John Quincy and Louisa C. (Johnson) Adams
-President=s role
-Carl Sandburg
-Alexander H. Stephens
-The President=s previous [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars speech
-Coverage
-Robert Pierpoint
-General Joseph Maurer
-Civil War story
-General Ulysses S. Grant
-General William T. Sherman
-Abraham Lincoln
-Staff requirements
-Sandburg
-Stephens
-Jefferson Davis
-The President=s speech on Adams
-Career
-Henry Clay
-Career
-James Monroe
-Napoleon Bonaparte
-American Revolution
-Russian mission
-Thomas Jefferson
-Speeches
-Importance of history
-White House staff
-Example of Adams
-Speeches
-The President=s speech on Adams

-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Need for better public relations efforts
-John F. Kennedy
-White House efforts
-Adams= portraits ceremony
-Attendees
-Speakers
-Adams family descendants
-Historians
-National Gallery spokesman
-The President=s presentation
-Publicity
-Techniques
-Social issues
-Ecology
-Need for uninhibited leadership
-Speeches
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Harry S Truman
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Herbert C. Hoover
-[John] Calvin Coolidge
-Wilson
-Theodore (ATeddy@) Roosevelt
-Administration efforts

Finch entered at 12:20 pm

-Bicentennial Commission remarks by the President
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.
-San Francisco
-Television

Garment
-White House role
-Minorities
-Arts
-Maurice H. Stans
-Minority business speeches
-Finch

-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Record of administration
-Administration efforts
-Desegregation
-Need for public relations
-Strategy
-Garment=s view
-Planning

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[Duration:  2m 4s  ]

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Public relations
-Garment=s role
-Arts
-Mrs. Nixon=s activities
-Adams= portraits
-Visit by Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-Press coverage
-Possible leak
-White House waiters
-Possible stories
-Rex W. Scouten
-Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Possible stories
-Peter M. Flanigan anecdote
-Absence of photographers
-Press release of visit information
-Need for public relations

Press
-Kennedy
-The Trumans
-The Eisenhowers
-Charles L. Bartlett
-Jack J. Valenti
-Mary Lou Gallagher
-Public perception
-George H. W. Bush=s swearing-in ceremony
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Ziegler
-Public relations
-Mills
-White House strategy
-Public relations efforts

Arts
-Mrs. Nixon=s activities
-Evenings at the White House
-J. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Board meeting
-Haldeman
-Founding Artists series
-Previous performance at White House
-Beverly Sills
-Johnny Cash
-Isaac Stern
-Leonard Bernstein
-Arthur Rubinstein
-Rudolf Serkin
-Age
-Eugene Ormandy
-Antal Dorati
-White House activities
-List of White House entertainers
-Release to press
-Compared to Kennedy Administration
-Brazil >66
-Sergio Mendes

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  21s  ]

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-A60 Minutes@
-Anna Maria Alberghetti
-Marine Corps Band
-Nancy Hanks
-The Kennedys
-The Johnsons
-Pearl M. Bailey
-Louis Brown
-Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope
-Edward K. (ADuke@) Ellington
-Irish entertainment
-Filming
-Cash
-Documentary
-Irish entertainment
-Art Carney
-Herbert J. (AJackie@) Gleason
-Lennon Sisters
-Jim Ryan
-Castle Group
-Duration of event

Youth
-Mrs. Nixon
-Des Moines

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-Exposure
-White House strategy
-Students
-Radio speech
-Finch
-Talk show events
-Issues

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:20 pm

Matches

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:05 pm

Public relations
-Finch
-Television
-Garment
-View of President
-ADick Cavett Show@
-Connally
-Kennedy
-Mary Martin
-Marjorie Main
-Greer Garson
-Ann Sheridan
-White House guest list
-Walter Lang
-Sheridan
-Dinner in 1961
-Metropolitan Opera

-Kennedy
-AMorning Show@
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ziegler
-Richard A. Moore
-Laos
-Revenue sharing
-Image of the President
-Alvin Snyder
-Finch=s television appearance in Miami
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Questions and responses
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Television appearance
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Ziegler
-White House staff television appearances
-Snyder
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Rumsfeld
-Issues
-Substance versus anecdotes
-Flanigan
-Garment
-Substance
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Problem of substance
-White House policy
-Press conference
-The President=s handling
-Kissinger
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Press
-Ziegler
-Press questions
-White House policy
-President=s view
-Responses
-Briefings
-Purpose
-Kissinger

-Bernard Kalb
-White House strategy
-President=s view
-Wire services
-Alger Hiss case

Press conferences
-Television
-Frank van der Linden
-Reporters= view of President
-White House strategy
-President=s view
-Press
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-View of the President

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[Duration:  6s  ]

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Public relations
-Garment=s role
-Comments about the President
-Friendship
-Background
-1960s
-Nixon=s staff compared to Edmund S. Muskie=s staff
-Staff size
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Dwight L. Chapin
-John A. Scali
-Rose Mary Woods
-Hill case
-President=s leadership style

-Comments about the President
-Finch
-Garment
-Ehrlichman
-Cabinet officers
-Connally
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Commentary article
-Paul W. McCracken
-Shultz
-Pornography
-Charlton Heston=s wire
-Hope=s previous conversation with the President
-President=s view
-Forthcoming call to Heston
-President=s view
-AI Am Curious (Yellow)@
-Low budget films

Finch left at 1:05 pm

-Garment=s speech to music teachers
-The President=s music background
-High school
-Mrs. [Forename unknown] Fuller
-College
-Margareta Lohman
-Piano background as aid to memory
-President=s view
-Latin as aid to memory
-Classical music

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Garment left at 1:11 pm

Garment
-Public relations ability
-Benefits
-Comparison with Jesus Christ

Kissinger=s interview
-President=s view
-Press
-Kalb
-Television
-President=s policy
-Ziegler

Oval Office decor
-Possible changes

Administration=s image
-Economy
-Vietnam
-Television
-Ehrlichman
-Administration=s achievements
-Gallup poll
-Effect of Vietnam
-White House staff efforts
-President=s view
-Economy
-Vietnam

Ziegler entered at 1:15 pm

Kissinger=s television interview
-Kalb
-Rogers and Laird
-Television appearance
-Circumstances
-Klein and Ziegler
-President=s position
-State of the World message
-Rationale

-Rogers
-President=s position
-Haldeman=s forthcoming conversation
-Ziegler=s proposal
-Foreign policy message
-Circumstances
-AColumbia Broadcasting System [CBS] Morning News@
-Kalb
-Robert G. Houdek=s role
-Ziegler=s view of Kissinger=s appearance
-Ziegler=s conversation with Kissinger
-Ziegler=s conversation with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Length of interview
-Future coordination
-Haldeman=s understanding
-Length of interview
-Kissinger=s schedule
-Ziegler=s role
-Press
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Use of Kissinger appearance
-Rogers= view
-Haldeman=s forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Kissinger appearance
-Klein=s role
-President=s position
-White House policy
-Role
-Television appearance
-Ziegler=s view
-Compared to backgrounders

Public relations
-Possible television appearances by White House staff
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Flanigan
-President=s position
-Content of interview
-Emphasis on President
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic policy

-Effect on Cabinet officers
-George W. Romney
-Connally
-Elliot L. Richardson
-President=s position
-Briefings
-Kissinger
-James B. (AScotty@) Reston
-Rumsfeld
-Kissinger=s use
-Backgrounders
-Television appearances
-Backgrounders
-Content
-Length
-Content
-Klein=s briefings
-Content
-Television appearances by White House staff
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Connally
-Interviews
-Support for Administration
-Associated Press request for appearance
-Ehrlichman
-Paul Miller
-Kissinger
-Television appearance
-Future coordination with Ziegler
-Circumstances

Press
-Search and rescue mission
-Laird
-President=s instructions
-Value of briefing
-Ziegler
-Kalb
-Kissinger
-Laos
-Press comments
-United States= involvement

-Search and rescue missions
-Son Tay Prison raid
-John Sherman Cooper
-Coordination
-Saigon press offices
-Allin
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] story
-US policy
-Magruder
-Search and rescue operations
-Coverage
-News stories
-Inaccuracies
-Use by Administration
-The Vice President
-President=s position
-Snyder=s role
-President=s position

Press coverage of the Vietnam War
-Administration responses
-The Vice President
-Barbara Walters
-Reporter casualties
-Larry Burroughs
-Richard L. Wilson
-Ken Crawford
-Debate among press corps
-Effect of reporter casualties
-Other casualties
-The Vice President=s role
-Timing of response
-Buchanan
-Allin
-Crosby S. Noyes
-Crawford
-Dennis Warner
-R. L. Wilson
-Editorials
-Wall Street Journal
-President=s view
-Congressional response
-Hugh Scott

-Clark MacGregor
-Robert J. Dole
-Partisan response
-Administration response

Public relations
-Press conferences
-The President=s performance
-Portraits of J. Q. and L. C. Adams
-Ziegler=s view
-Mrs. Nixon
-Washington Post story
-Radio coverage of ceremony
-James McManus
-Donald Fulsom
-Thomas Girard
-Fay G. Wells
-Compared to Washington Post=s coverage
-Dan Rather=s story
-Wire services coverage
-Press conference schedules
-Television
-Timing
-President=s view
-Network news
-Options

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:15 pm

Refreshments

The President left at an unknown time before 1:44 pm

Refreshments
-Tea
-Coffee
-Origin

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:44 pm

Television appearance
-Kissinger
-Ziegler=s role

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:15 pm and 1:44 pm]

[Conversation No 459-4A]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

Schedule

The President entered at an unknown time after 1:15 pm

Press conference schedule
-Options
-Ziegler=s view
-Coverage
-Radio and replays

Price
-Staff
-Lee W. Huebner
-William H. Carruthers
-Richard K. Cook
-William L. Safire
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John K. Andrews, Jr.

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:15 pm

Price=s whereabouts

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:44 pm

[The President talked with Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes between 1:44 pm and 1:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 459-4B]

Report on the Connallys at Camp David
-Camp commander
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

The President=s speech before Iowa legislature
-Television coverage
-Possible network coverage

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:45 pm

-The President=s schedule
-Price
-Andrews
-Cook

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:47 pm

Press conferences schedule
-Ziegler=s view
-Frequency
-Television pros and cons
-Timing
-Options
-Television pros and cons
-Film
-Audience

[Hughes talked with the President between 1:47 pm and 1:48 pm]

[Conversation No. 459-4C]

Connally at Camp David

[End of telephone conversation]

Press conferences schedule
-Timing
-Strategy of communication
-Focus
-Benefits to the President compared benefits to press
-Variation of format
-Efficacy of television
-Goals
-Ziegler=s view

-Methods of Presidential communication
-Television
-Press
-Timing

White House press corps
-Role
-Importance
-Contact with the President
-Importance
-Television
-Role
-Press conferences
-Domestic policy
-Shultz
-L. B. Johnson=s dealings with press corp
-Shortcomings

Peregrine Worsthorne=s column
-The President
-Kissinger
-Opposition to Vietnam
-Domestic violence
-Toleration of citizens
-The President
-L. B. Johnson
-The Presidency
-George S. McGovern
-Trip to New Hampshire
-Comments by unknown man
-Humphrey
-Vietnam
-Support for President
-US policy

The President=s schedule
-Time management
-Des Moines
-Blacks
-Flanigan
-Science Advisory
-Muscular dystrophy
-Communications program

-Importance
-Time management
-Health program
-Consumer program
-Revenue sharing

The President=s remarks before Iowa legislature
-Potential impact
-News coverage
-Forum for communication
-Domestic goals
-Indochina goals
-Need to respond
-Laos
-Laird=s press conference
-Ziegler=s view
-Forthcoming press conference

Public relations
-Focus on issues
-Senior citizens
-Compared to youth
-Importance
-Need for White House coordination
-John B. Martin
-Hope=s conversation with Haldeman
-Focus of activities
-The President=s schedule
-Time management
-Possible meetings with senior citizens
-White House efforts
-Press releases and news stories
-Colson
-Efforts
-Youth
-Electorate
-The President=s previous meeting with Princeton University students
-Finch
-White House policy

Iowa remarks
-Rural development
-Laos

-Pros and cons
-President=s view
-Vietnam goals

Vietnam
-Dole
-Possible statement
-Democratic caucus
-American involvement
-Eisenhower Administration
-Democratic administrations= war involvement
-Casualty figures
-Republican moves to end involvement
-The President
-Democratic minority
-John C. Stennis
-Cooper
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-Possible Dole speech
-Buchanan

Media relations
-Negative attitude of press
-Administration treatment of press corps
-Oval Office press conference
-Pres corps view of Presidency
-Reston
-Kissinger
-News stories
-Peter Lisagor
-AAgronsky and Company@
-View
-Impact
-Rather
-Wire services
-Television press conference
-One-on-one circumstances with the President
-Joe Garagiola
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Importance of television
-Effectiveness
-Benefits
-Compared to press conferences

-Radio speeches
-Special interest groups
-Length of speeches
-Live television speech
-Length
-Timing
-Radio speeches
-Use of tape
-L. B. Johnson
-Timing
-Benefits
-Live radio speeches
-Television out-takes
-Scheduling
-Newspapers
-Radio audience
-Timing
-Youth
-Women

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Schedule
-Telephone call
-Unknown man

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Radio speeches
-Timing
-Women
-Senior citizens
-Issue coverage

President=s forthcoming press conference
-Foreign policy
-Preparation
-Domestic policy
-Revenue sharing
-Press coverage

-Ziegler=s view
-Pros and cons
-Justification
-Length

One-on-one television appearances
-Public perception
-R. L. Wilson
-Emphasis of administration
-Wells
-Adams= portraits
-Washington Post
-Wells
-Influence of Washington Post

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Food

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The President=s schedule
-Dinner plans
-Finch
-Shultz

Importance of communication
-Ziegler=s role
-Klein
-Compared to other issues
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-John C. Whitaker
-Flanigan

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Forthcoming Helen A. Thomas story
-Foreign policy advisors
-Laird
-Rogers
-Richard M. Helms
-Possible Ziegler statement

-Joseph J. Sisco
-Ziegler=s statement
-Focus of White House business
-Foreign policy
-Moorer
-Sisco
-Middle East
-White House meetings
-Participants
-Topics

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The President=s schedule
-Camp David
-Connally
-Weekend plans

Public relations
-White House efforts
-Time management
-Vietnam

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Public relations
-White House efforts
-Haldeman=s view
-Issues
-Polls
-Harlow
-John R. Wanamaker
-Statement on usefulness of advertising
-Use of key resources
-Time management
-The President
-White House staff
-Effectiveness
-George E. Reedy, Jr. book

-Use of staff
-The President=s schedule

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MIDDLE EAST

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The President=s schedule
-Camp David
-Relationship between Connally and Ehrlichman

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-Departure time for Camp David
-Mr. and Mrs. Taft Schreiber
-Charles W. Butterfield
-A. P. Butterfield
-Location
-Schreiber
-Finch
-Tour of White House
-Butterfield and Schreibers

-Possible meeting with President
-Tour of Oval Office
-Meeting by helicopter

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Conversation No. 459-5

Date:  February 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:58 pm and 3:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Robert H. Finch met with Mr. and Mrs. Taft Schreiber and Charles W. Butterfield

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