Conversation No. 549‑1

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:02 am.

Conversation No. 549‑2

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 549‑3

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  9:02 am ‑ 9:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 7‑17]

Conversation No. 549‑4

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  9:03 am ‑ 10:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Items for the President's signature

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 9:06 am.

Schedule

Butterfield left at 9:06 am.

The President's schedule
‑Professional Football Hall of Fame
‑Attendance at game
‑Attendance at dinner
‑Handling
‑Frank T. Bow

[Pause]

‑Photograph coverage
‑Wire services

[Pause]

‑Source of story
‑Iowa trip
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Hall of Fame game in Ohio
‑Hall of Fame induction ceremony
-Time
‑Attitude

[Pause]

‑American Legion Boys Nation group
‑Type of event
‑Handling

‑Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins= photograph
‑Effectiveness
‑Preparation for event
‑Remarks
‑Photographs, writing press pool
Spiro T. Agnew
-Arrival at the White House after trip
‑Press coverage
‑Photograph
‑William P. Rogers
‑The President's attendance at Congressional ceremony
‑Patrick J. Buchanan, John D. Ehrlichman
‑Status
-Duties
‑Handling of trip
‑Henry A. Kissinger's attitude
‑Portugal
‑Golf game with Francis A. (AFrank@) Sinatra
‑Press coverage
‑Attitude towards advance scheduling
‑Bryce N. Harlow
-Compared to the President

The President left at an unknown time after 9:06 am.

The President entered at an unknown time before 10:00 am.

[Pause]

Agnew
-Pubic perception
‑Comparison with the President
‑Trip
‑Golf game
‑Press briefings
‑Meetings
‑Staff
‑Handling
‑Options
‑The President's trips
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Schedule
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]

East Wing staff
‑Julie Robinson
‑Tricia Nixon Cox
‑Constance M. (AConnie@) Stuart
‑Press responsibilities
‑Status
‑Salary
‑Husband
-Children
-United States Information Agency [USIA]
‑Salary action

Schedule
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Trips in August, 1971
‑Types of events
-National Parks
‑Handling
‑July 28, 1971
‑Dinner
‑John S. Davies
‑Walter R. Tkach
‑Meeting
‑Time, length
‑The President's schedule
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Type of guests
‑The President's work schedule
-Protocol
-Arrangements
‑Setting
‑Truman balcony
‑Sequoia
‑Length of dinner

Poll
‑Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
‑Youth portion of poll
‑Shifts in attitude

The press
‑Ziegler
‑Perrino's restaurant
‑Prices of menu items
‑Press coverage
‑Wine
‑Cost
‑Press report
‑Coverage of the President's activities
‑Detail, extent
‑Golf
-Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower

The President's schedule
‑Bowling event
‑Automobile racing event
‑Golf
‑Bowling

Speech draft for radio broadcast
‑William L. Safire
‑July 3, 1971 National Archives speech, July 6, 1971 Kansas City speech
‑Effectiveness of draft
‑Focus, approach
‑Television compared with radio
‑Domestic issues
‑Steel strike settlement
‑Length
‑Radio speech
‑Focus
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑US competitive position in the world
‑Roy L. Ash
‑News value
‑Purpose
‑John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Noel C. Koch
‑Safire
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Speechwriter group
‑Staff assignments
-Harlow
‑[Unintelligible name]

‑Douglas L.  Hallet
‑Haldeman's conversation with Charles W. Colson
‑Attitude
‑Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan, Buchanan
‑View of Haldeman, Colson
‑Colson
‑Labor groups liaison
‑Philosophy
‑Patricia Colson

The economy
‑Handling and presentation of issue
‑Agnew
‑Focus of speeches
‑Maurice H. Stans, James D. Hodgson
‑John B. Connally
-Peter M. Flanigan
‑George W. Romney
‑View of administration's economic policies
‑Terminology
‑Balance of payments
‑Peterson, George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, Flanigan
‑Colson
-Harold C. Passer
‑Handling of leading indicators story

Hubbell case (?)
‑Martin (ATex@) Schramm
‑Haldeman's conversation with Ehrlichman
‑Response
-Hobart D. (AHobe@) Lewis
‑The President
‑Financial position

The President's schedule
‑California
‑Lee Trevino

Connally
‑Unnamed woman [Mrs. Romana A. Banuelos (?)]

The President=s schedule
-California
-Proposed meeting with Ronald W. Reagan
-Welfare

[Pause]

Veterans hospital

The President and Haldeman left at 10:00 am.

Conversation No. 549‑5

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 am and 10:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men entered.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 10:20 am.

Conversation No. 549‑6

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 am and 10:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 10:20 am.

Conversation No. 549‑7

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  10:20 am ‑ 11:16 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
‑American Legion Boy's Nation group
‑Response
-Press coverage
‑Number, type of events
-Congressional event
-Youth, military
-Newport, West Point, Camp Pendleton
‑Meeting with Boy's Nation group
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
‑American Legion
‑Robert Volk
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld

Personnel and staff changes
‑Finch
‑Future
‑Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
‑National Security Council [NSC]
‑Departure from White House staff
-Role
‑Perception
‑California
‑Handling
‑Narrow compared with broad scope
‑Events
‑Leonard K. Firestone
‑Acceptance of OEP job
‑Staff
‑George L. Grassmuck
‑Frederic V. Malek
‑Assistant
‑Darrell M. Trent
‑Leonard Garment

-Rumsfeld
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Mexico
‑Comparison with Finch
‑Role in White House or in campaign
‑Finch
‑OEP job
‑Perceptions
-NSC

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:29 am.

James B. ("Scotty") Reston
‑Article about the People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Reston's trip
‑Kissinger's trip to the PRC
‑Request to interview Chou En‑lai, other leaders
‑Anecdote about appendicitis attack

PRC
‑Trip by J. William Fulbright, Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] news report
‑Withdrawal of proposal
‑Kissinger
‑Chou En‑lai
‑US‑PRC relations
‑Motivations
‑Joseph W. Alsop
‑1972 Presidential election
-Communism
‑William Atwood
‑Chou En‑lai
‑The President
‑PRC‑Soviet Union relations
‑PRC reaction
-Air raid shelter construction
‑Marshal Yeh Chien‑Ying=s comments
‑Perceptions
-President=s past comments
‑Charles A.J.M. Degaulle, Konrad Adenauer, Winston S. Churchill

-The Soviet Union
‑The President's trip around the World
‑Foreign Minister of India
-The Soviet Union
‑Hugh S. Sidey's letter to Kissinger
‑Role of the President and Kissinger
‑The PRC initiative
‑Editorial changes in article
‑Reasons

Kissinger left at 10:38 am.

The PRC
‑Press coverage
‑Article by Sidey
‑Kissinger's presentation of foreign policy roles
‑Time‑Life
‑Presentation of foreign policy roles
‑The President
‑Kissinger
‑William P. Rogers
‑Attitude

Kissinger entered at 10:39 am.

The PRC
‑Sidey article
‑Foreign policy role
‑Editorial change
‑Responsibility
-Public perception
‑The President
‑Time‑Life's attitude
‑Sidey's article
‑New York Post article
‑Roles of the President, Kissinger
‑Fulbright's call to Kissinger
‑Invitation
‑Foreign policy handling
‑Fulbright
‑War Powers Act
‑Accountability

Foreign policy
‑Dean G. Acheson
‑Forthcoming testimony
‑Senate Foreign Relations Committee
‑Liberals
‑Joseph R. McCarthy
‑Democratic Party
‑Compared to Moroccan birthday party
‑War Powers Act
‑Possible Congressional action
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Fulbright
‑Response
‑Charles W. Colson
-New York Times
‑John P. Roche
‑Column
‑Brandeis University researcher's book
‑Press coverage analysis
‑1967 to present
-Sidey
‑Newsweek article about PRC policy
‑Henry Hubbard
‑Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Newsweek
‑Time
‑Kennedy
‑Reaction to the PRC initiative
‑Reasons

The PRC initiative
‑Expectations
-Press coverage
‑The PRC=s stance
‑The Vietnam War
‑PRC Summit
‑Timing
‑Vietnam
‑Reaction by Republicans
‑Speculation or silence
‑Congressional leaders
‑Kissinger's return trip in October
‑Communique

-The Press
‑Predictions, reactions
‑Summit comparison

White House‑Congressional relations
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield's resolution
‑Congressional leaders
‑View of White House meetings
‑Republicans
‑1953‑54 meetings with President Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Hugh Scott
-Ziegler

The PRC initiative
‑Effect on the Cabinet
‑Rogers
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Conversation with Kissinger

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‑Effect of initiative on 1972 election
‑Post‑1972 Cabinet changes
-Economy
‑Defense Department contracts
‑Focus, handling
-George P. Shultz
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
‑Shultz's view
‑July 24, 1971 budget meeting
‑Family Assistance Program, Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

-John D. Ehrlichman
-Effect on unemployment
-The President=s, Kissinger=s position
-Congress= perception
-Kissinger=s stance among liberals		
‑Strategy

Japan
‑David M. Kennedy
‑Textile issue
‑Eisaku Sato
-Cancellation of September meeting
‑Trade relations
-Balance of payments

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[National Security]
[Duration:  26s  ]

JAPAN

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‑Laird's speech
‑Emperor Hirohito
‑Schedule
‑Ziegler
‑U. Alexis Johnson, Nobuhiko Ushiba
‑Nobusuke Kishi's trip

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[National Security]
[Duration:  20s  ]

JAPAN

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‑Scheduling
‑Announcement
‑The 1953 trip to Japan

The PRC initiative
-The press
‑Possible outcomes
-Renunciation of force
-Accidental War agreement
-Cultural exchange
-Release of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Supporter=s reaction

Theodore H. White

Schedule

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:16 am.

The PRC initiative
‑White
‑Books about the presidency
‑Briefing by Kissinger
‑Press attitude
‑Inclusion on trip
‑Kissinger's October trip
‑The President's summit trip
‑Stance

Vietnam
‑Possible settlement of war
-Haldeman=s view
‑Secret negotiations
‑POWs
‑Reduction of US military force
-Effect
‑Timing
‑Negotiating tactics
-US troop strength
-Sustaining military force
-Le Duc Tho
‑Political and military situation
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
-Duong Van Minh
‑Military situation
‑Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Laos (Lam Son)
‑US domestic critics
-The PRC
‑Madame Binh's Seven Points
‑Le Duc Tho

The PRC initiative
-Haldeman=s view
-Reaction of supporters
‑Edward Kennedy
‑Expectations
-Recognition
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC]
‑The Vatican
‑Vietnam War

Kissinger left at 11:16 am.

Conversation No. 549‑8

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:16 am and 11:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Note
‑Requirements

Scheduling of White House social events
‑Lowell Watham
‑Guest list
‑Frank McCarthy
‑Unknown boy
‑Dinner
‑Patrick J. and Shelley A. (Scarney@ Buchanan
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr., William L. Safire
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 549‑9

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  11:16 am - 11:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Items for signature

Butterfield left at 11:23 am.

Conversation No. 549‑10

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:26 am and 11:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown member of John D. Ehrlichman's staff.

Ehrlichman's schedule

Conversation No. 549‑11

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:26 am and 11:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑The President

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:51 am.

Conversation No. 549‑12

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  11:51 am ‑ 12:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Pentagon Papers
‑Daniel Ellsberg
-Department of Justice
‑Extent of documents
‑Henry A. Kissinger

‑Legal action
-Timing
-Lt. William Calley, Jr. case
‑Trial publicity

Tax reform
‑Minimize disincentives
‑Depreciation
‑John B. Connally
-Department of the Treasury
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
‑Lawyers
‑John H. Alexander
‑Roles of administration officials
‑Connally, Peter M. Flanigan
-Ehrlichman=s staff

Personnel shifts
‑Flanigan
‑State Department
-Peter G. Peterson
‑William P. Rogers
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑William D. Eberle
‑Special Trade Representative
‑Peterson
‑Economic responsibilities
‑Export rebate, import licensing
‑Balance of trade
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Peterson, George P. Shultz, Stans
‑Research and development, technology
‑Responsibility of William M. Magruder
‑Contacts
‑Eugene Black, Milton Friedman

Voting reform
‑On‑campus voting
‑William F. (ABilly@) Graham
‑Responsibility of individual states
‑Limitation on administration response
‑Federal legislation

‑Walter F. Mondale, Birch Bayh
‑Youth
‑Attitude
‑Forthcoming settlement of the Vietnam war
‑The People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative

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[Duration:  1m 27s  ]

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Graham
‑Call from California

Drug abuse issue
‑Letter from the President
‑Editors
‑Television stations
‑New York Times, Washington Star, Washington Post
‑T. Harding Jones
‑University of California
‑Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe

The press
‑New York Times, Newsday
‑The President's property
‑Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
‑The President's conversation with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑John N. Mitchell
‑The President's financial situation
‑Property, stocks
‑Fisher Island
‑Press investigative effort
‑Martin Schramm, [First name not known] Green, Rosensweig [Rosenblatt?], Mark Walters

‑Rebozo
‑George A. Smathers
‑Lawyers
‑Income
‑Clark M. Clifford, Edward Bennett Williams

Leaks
‑Elliot Richardson
‑Tran Ngoc Chau case
‑State Department
-Kissinger
‑Ellsworth F. Bunker
‑Rogers
‑Kissinger

Granite City‑National Steel merger
‑Case
‑Mitchell

Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
‑Staff
‑Jews
‑Biographies
‑Investigation

Development of The Mall, Washington, D.C.
‑Matthew Owings
‑Flanigan, Leonard Garment, Ehrlichman
‑Proposals
‑Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen
-Restaurants
‑Disneyland
‑Orange County setting
‑Tivoli
‑Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
‑Use of space
‑National Capitol Planning Commission
‑Written proposal
‑Children
‑Orientation of children's playground concept
‑Museums
‑Automobile ban
‑Trolley‑type transportation

Economic issue coordination
‑Connally, Shultz, Peterson, Flanigan, Paul W. McCracken, Charles W. Colson
‑Meeting
‑Speaker emphasis
‑Connally, Shultz, Peterson
-McCracken, Colson
-Stans, James D. Hodgson
‑Spiro T. Agnew
-Subcabinet
‑Compared to revenue sharing
‑Fluctuations of the economy
-Haldeman
-Colson
-Edward L. Morgan
-Schools

Leaks/Pentagon Papers
-Justice Department
-Grand jury information

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-Brookings Institution
-Leslie H. Gelb

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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-Investigation
-Reports

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[Closed by Statute]
[Duration:  35s  ]

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-Investigation

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[Closed by Statute]
[Duration:  5s  ]

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Justice Department
-Grand jury
-Information
‑Pentagon Papers document sets
‑Custody
‑Clifford, Robert S. McNamara
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Return of copies
‑McNamara
‑World Bank presidency
-Kissinger
-Rogers
‑W. Ramsey Clark, McNamara
‑Custody of notes
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
-Meetings
‑Number of people taking notes
‑Haldeman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Restriction

News reports
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Salary increase
-Federal Reserve Board size
-Shultz=s conversation with Burns
‑Executive branch staff
‑Connally
‑United Press International [UPI] questioning
‑Public perception of salary increases

Foreign aid assistance
‑Peterson
-Otto E. Passman
‑Appropriation
‑Military, bi‑lateral, foreign, interdevelopment banks, other aid
‑Peace Corps
‑Amount of aid funded through multi‑lateral organizations
‑Control
‑Peterson, Connally
‑Bi‑lateral funding

‑Magruder's Supersonic transport [SST] briefing of July 27, 1971
‑Forthcoming briefings
-Peterson, Connally
‑Ehrlichman's remarks at Carleton Club
‑Businessmen's reaction
‑Administration stance
-Magruder
-Memorandum
-Schedule
‑Trade
‑1940's‑1950's orientation
-Donald McI. Kendall
‑Foreign policy
‑Domestic policy
‑Other countries
‑Japan
‑Italy
‑France
‑Consortium
‑Changes in policy direction
-Connally, Magruder
‑World markets
‑Shultz
‑Market economy
‑Japan, France
‑Britain
‑Rolls‑Royce
‑U.S. anti‑trust laws
‑Effect
‑Yankee traders
-William L. Safire
‑US business and labor
-Proposed speech
-State Department

The President's schedule
‑Bohemian Grove
‑Tone of the President's speech
‑Kansas City speech
‑Caveman Camp
‑Visit
‑Lowell Thomas

‑Refreshment
‑California
‑Types of members
‑Fraternal organizations
‑American Legion

Economic issues
-Peterson, Magruder
‑Use of foreign policy
‑Trade policies
‑Domestic policies
‑Magruder
‑Shultz
-Peterson
‑Camp David meeting
‑Divisions
‑Council of Economic Advisors, State Department, National Security Council [NSC}
‑Commerce, Labor, Treasury Departments, Peterson's staff
‑Balance of trade
‑Handling of issue
‑Rogers
-Stans
‑Congressmen
‑Magruder's aerospace industry meeting
-Shultz=s view
‑Boeing
‑Italian contract
‑Automobile industry
‑California
‑European share of market
‑Size of cars
‑Forthcoming meetings
‑Research and development
-Magruder
-Edward E. David, Jr.
-President=s schedule
‑Shultz
‑Availability of meetings with the President
‑Peterson, Ehrlichman

‑Outlook
‑Burns
-McCracken
‑John Kenneth Galbraith

Ehrlichman left at 12:44 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑13

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  12:46 pm ‑ 1:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
‑Postponement of William M. Magruder's briefing
‑John D. Ehrlichman

[Pause]

The economy
-Public perception
-Administration=s strategy

[Pause]

Legislative action
‑Cloture bill
‑Timing
-Vote
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, Robert C. Byrd (?)

The economy
‑Administration coordination of effort
‑The President's conversation with Ehrlichman
‑Use of John B. Connally, Maurice H. Stans, James D. Hodgson, Spiro T. Agnew

The President's schedule
‑Canton, Ohio
‑Hall of Fame football game
-Frank T. Bow
‑Scheduling problem
‑Perceptions
‑John A. Scali, Rose Mary Woods

White House staff
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Handling of Congressional liaison duties
‑View of Congress

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Speechwriting
‑Handling
‑Requirements
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑John J. McLaughlin
‑John K. Andrews, Jr.
‑Approach to writing
‑William L. Safire
‑Radio speeches

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:46 pm.

Information
‑MacGregor's recommendation
-Dwight L. Chapin, Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm.

United Nations [UN] development program job
‑Rudolph A.  Peterson
‑Paul G. Hoffman's job
‑Henry A. Kissinger, George H.W. Bush
‑John B. Connally
‑Foreign aid
‑Connally

Bush
‑Role as speaker
‑The US‑People's Republic of China (PRC) initiative
‑Report to Congress
‑The UN
‑New York City contacts
‑Presidential leadership issue
‑Kissinger

Charles S. Rhyne
-Assignment of special ambassador
‑[Forename unknown] Tyson comparison
‑Panama Canal negotiations
-Robert O. Anderson
-Length
-Peter M. Flanigan

The President's schedule
‑The Bohemian Grove
‑Caveman encampment
‑Handling of visit
‑George M. Mardikian

White House staff
‑Roles in assignment follow‑up
‑Haldeman, Charles W. Colson, Ehrlichman
-Flanigan
‑Flanigan
‑State Department
‑William D. Eberle
-William P. Rogers
‑Political, economic responsibilities
‑Douglas L. Hallett
‑Outlook
‑Ivy League

‑Possible role
‑Colson, Haldeman
‑Role
-Price
‑Handling
‑Patrick J. Buchanan

Conservatives
‑Buchanan
‑New York meeting
‑Domestic policy
‑Inflation, unemployment, welfare
‑Foreign policy
‑Soviet Union, Mediterranean, PRC, Vietnam
‑Members
‑National Review
‑William F. Buckley, Jr., James Burnham, Frank Meyer, William Rusher
‑Human Events
‑[Forename unknown] Weir (?), Allen H. Ryskind
‑New York Conservative Party
‑J. Daniel Mahoney
‑Young Americans for Freedom [YAF]
‑Randal C. Teague
‑Anthony Harrigan
‑Southern States Industrial Conference
‑John Jones (?)
‑American Conservative Union
‑Neil McCaffrey
‑Conservative Book Club
‑James L. Buckley
‑Security arrangements
‑Conservatives outside of Congress
‑Ronald W. Reagan, James Buckley
‑Issues
‑Soviet arms buildup
‑Congressional support
‑Kissinger
‑Possible conversation with William Buckley
‑Understanding of foreign policy issues
‑First Mansfield Amendment
‑William Buckley
-Opposition to Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
‑The PRC initiative

‑William J. (AJack@) Edwards, Otto E. Passman, Reagan, James Buckley
‑Kissinger conversation
‑Human Events
-Buchanan
‑Conservative opposition
‑PRC perceptions
‑Soviet Union perception
‑William Buckley
‑Burnham
‑Other foreign policy issues
‑Vietnam war
‑Action on Cambodia, Laos
‑Administration=s response
-George P. Shultz
‑San Clemente
-YAF
‑Kissinger
-Reagan
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Response

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

[Pause]

The President reentered at an unknown time after 1:20 pm.

The President's schedule
-Lunch
‑Agnew's return from trip
‑Timing of arrival at White House

Haldeman left at 1:20 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑14

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  1:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Affirmative

Conversation No. 549‑15

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  1:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

Bull left at 1:22 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑16

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  1:21 pm ‑ 1:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Conservatives
‑J. Daniel Mahoney
-John N. Mitchell
‑William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger

The President and Haldeman left at 1:22 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑17

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:25 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men (Secret Service) entered.

[Pause]

Farewells

[Pause]

The President's location
-Automobile

This recording was cut off at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑18

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  2:54 pm ‑ 2:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler; this recording begins at an unknown time after the meeting is in progress.

Congressional ceremony
-George H. Mahon
‑[Forename unknown] Simon

Conservatives
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑The US‑PRC initiative

-Opposition from the Right	
-PRC perspective
‑National Review
‑Response

Ziegler left at 2:58 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑19

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:58 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Manolo Sanchez

Conversation No. 549‑20

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:58 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Manolo Sanchez entered.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑21

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:58 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Spiro T. Agnew=s arrival (?)

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑22

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:58 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑23

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:58 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Spiro T. Agnew's arrival

The President and Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑24

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  3:04 pm ‑ 3:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men (Secret Service) entered.

The President's location

The unknown men (Secret Service) left at 3:05 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑25

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  3:05 pm ‑ 4:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Spiro T. Agnew, William P. Rogers, and Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's schedule
‑Congressional ceremony
‑Speakers
‑Photographs of meeting

Agnew's Trip
‑Portugal
‑Reports
‑Rogers, Kissinger
‑Perceptions
‑Saudi Arabia
‑The press
‑Time magazine
‑The President's conversation with Kissinger
-Walter Cronkite
‑Press coverage
‑Time, Newsweek
‑Comparison with daily news reports
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
-Kenyan Ambassador to the US
-Ambassador from Kenya
-Letter to Newsweek
-Compared to the president=s experiences
-Conversations with foreign leaders
-Reactions
-Eisaku Sato
-Lee Kuan Yew
-Bombay, India
-Governor
-University President
-Sese Seko Mobutu
-Jomo Kenyatta
-Ethiopia
-Monarchy
-The Pentagon Papers case
-Foreign reaction
-Ethiopia
-Nairobi
-Perception of the press
-Portugal
-Lee Kuan Yew
-US Ambassador
-Kuwait
-John P. Walsh
-Comments to the press
-Conversation with Agnew
-Ireland
-Saudi Arabia

-Nicholas Thacher
-Promotion
-Compared to the President=s previous Vice Presidential trip
-[Forename unknown] Vance
-Thacher
-Robert C. Hill
-William J. Porter
-Charles T. Cross
-Singapore
-Lee Watson (?)
-Singapore
-Ambassadorial post
-Lee Kuan Yew
-Business experience
-Lee Kuan Yew
-Education
-Wife
-Harvard University
-Arab nations
-Relations with the Soviet Union
-Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Kuwait

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EGYPT

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-John A. Scali

-The People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Newsweek article
-Agnew=s prior knowledge

-Rogers
-Kissinger=s efforts
-Pakistan
‑Source of story
‑White House
‑The National Security Council [NSC]
-State Department
-Agnew=s forthcoming memorandum to the President

Warsaw talks
-Rogers

Agnew=s trip
‑The State Department
‑Foreign Service
-Memorandum of conversation [Memcon]

Scali entered at 3:28 pm.

‑Articles about trip
‑Scali
‑Wire services
‑Memcon
‑Significance of visits
-The Middle East
‑Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Congo
‑Korea, Singapore
‑Agnew's handling of trips
‑Briefings
-Rogers= conversation with Davidson (?)
-Impressions
-Nature of trip
‑Press reports
‑Newsweek
‑The PRC move as main press focus
‑Editing
‑Japan, Korea
‑Report
-Kenya story
‑Presentation of trip
-Newsweek
‑Role
‑Story

‑Possible White House source
‑Perceptions
‑Handling
-Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Scali=s role
-Kenyatta

Scali left at 3:38 pm.

Sudan
-Coup attempt
-The Soviet Union
-Mohammed Gaafar el-Nimeiry
-Foreign policy towards the West
-Rogers= conversation with Sudanese Ambassador to the United Nations [UN]

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[Duration:  19s  ]

SUDAN

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-Counter-coup
-Executions
-The Soviet Union

Arab-Soviet relations
-Anwar el-Sadat=s message to Rogers
-Israel
-Sadat, Mammar Qadaffi, el-Nimeiry

Africa
-Egypt
-Cable to Sadat
-US diplomatic presence
-President=s opinion
-Vice Presidential trip

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[National Security]
[Duration:  26s  ]

EGYPT

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-Morocco
-King Hassan II
-Cancellation of US trip
-Arab summit
-Coup attempt
-Repairs to Summer Palace
-Dean G. Acheson

Israel
-Arab view
-Arab Jews compared to European Jews
-Moshe Dayan
-Golda Meir
-Sadat=s opinion of Dayan
-Dayan

Spain
-Gen. Francisco Franco
-Reaction to the PRC initiative
-Health

-Diplomatic reception
-Cuban charge d=affaires

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[National Security]
[Duration:  14s  ]

SPAIN

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-Succession
-Luis Carrero Blanco
-Conversation with Agnew
-Agnew=s conversation with Franco
-Ethiopia [Kenya]
-Jomo Kenyatta
-Prime Minister
-Prince Juan Carlos
-Status
-Gregorio Lopez Bravo de Castro
-Franco

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[National Security]
[Duration:  55s  ]

SPAIN

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-Franco

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[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 8s  ]

PORTUGAL

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Portugal
-African colonies
-Nixon administration=s position
-Public opinion
-Compared to past administrations
-The President=s opinion

African leaders
-Mobutu
-Role as post-colonial mediator
-Humor
-The President=s opinion
-Riverboat
-Helicopter
-Pilots
-Agnew=s tour of the Congo River
-Lifestyle
-Popularity
-Army
-Draft of university students
-Anti-communist
-Wife
-Relationship to the US
-Visits
-Residence
-Gardens
-Compared to the White House
-Staff
-Taiwanese
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Jomo Kenyatta
-Agnew=s opinion
-Presentation of monkey cloak
-[Unintelligible name]

PRC initiative
-Background briefing for Agnew
-Kissinger
-Rogers, the President, Agnew
-Dissemination
-Papers
-Rogers= conversation with Agnew

UN membership issue
-Rogers responsibility
-John B. Connally
-Japan, Australia
-Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC]
-Sustain membership
-Security Council

-PRC
-Expulsion
-Reaction
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Handling
-Timing
-Television coverage
-President=s role
-Rogers= statement
-Briefing paper
-Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Security Council
-US stance
-Great Britain, Canada, Italy
-Expulsion
-US stance
-Possible statement
-Probable questions
-Handling
-Order of appearance
-Congress
-J. William Fulbright, Dr. Thomas E. (ADoc@) Morgan
-Kissinger=s briefing
-Agnew

Canada
-Mitchell Sharp
-Conversation with Rogers
-Pierre E. Trudeau=s invitation to Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Time of announcement
-Invitation to the President
-Timing of possible visit
-Canada=s general election
-Public reaction
-Political consequences
-Timing
-Postponement
-President=s visit

-Appearances
-Canada=s general election
-US Presidential election
-Schedule

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[Duration:  21s  ]

CANADA

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Agnew=s schedule

Agnew and Rogers left at 4:07 pm.

Vietnam negotiations
‑Le Duc Tho
‑Schedule
‑Issues
‑Political
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Strategy

White House leaks

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:07 pm.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:17 pm.

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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

CANADA

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UN membership issue
-Prospects
-Handling
-Rogers

William F. Buckley, Jr.
-H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Kissinger's conversation
‑Stance of conservatives
‑The President
‑Fulbright
-Administration=s position
‑Forthcoming trip to Europe
‑Forthcoming meeting with the President or Kissinger
‑Conservative criticism
‑The PRC initiative

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[Duration:  18s  ]

CANADA

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The President=s schedule

Ziegler entered at 4:17 pm.

Federal Reserve Board
‑Vacancy
‑Speculation
‑Connally

Conservatives
-Administration=s reaction
‑PRC initiative

The economy
-Ziegler=s conversation with Connally
‑Balance of trade
‑Effect of wartime compared with peacetime economy
-Howard Stein
‑Call to Kissinger
‑Stock market

Agnew
‑Trip
-Scali=s role
‑Briefing of Rogers, the President
‑Knowledge of the PRC initiative

Ziegler left at 4:18 pm.

Stein
‑Federal Reserve Board
‑Burns

Dinner
‑Atlantic Oil, Westinghouse, North American Insurance
‑McGeorge Bundy
-President=s leadership

Foreign policy
‑New York Post
‑Vietnam negotiations
‑Le Duc Tho's schedule
‑The PRC
‑Agnew briefing
‑Comparison to Rogers= briefing
‑Kissinger's negotiations
‑Chou En-lai
‑Negotiations

Joseph S. Farland and a White House photographer entered at 4:21 pm.

Pleasantries

Farland=s schedule
-Pakistan
‑Letter

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 4:33 pm.

The PRC initiative
‑Farland's role

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 4:21 pm.

‑Kissinger
-Rogers
‑Agha Hilaly
‑The State Department
‑Vietnam negotiations
‑Announcement
-Voice of America [VOA]
‑Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan

Pakistan‑Indian relations
-Public opinion
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Farland
-PRC initiative

Congress
‑Farland's conversation with Charles H. Percy
‑State Department luncheon
Francis L. (AFred@) Kellog
‑Testimony

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 4:33 pm.

Congress
-Testimony
‑[Unintelligible Name]
‑Briefing
-Charles [Unintelligible Surname]

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[Duration:  7m 56s  ]

INDIA-PAKISTAN

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[Duration:  1m 4s  ]

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‑Compared to Farland's experience as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
-Rafael Trujillo

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[Duration:  28s  ]

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

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Farland
-Loyalty
-State Department
‑Ambassador to Pakistan
‑Tenure

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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‑Abner (?)
-Kissinger
‑Possible future post
-Japan
‑Language skill
-Europe
-Romania
‑Conversation with the Ambassador from Thailand
-Importance of ambassadorial post to Thailand
‑Possible future post
-Vienna
-Bangkok, Japan, Romania
‑Handling of future ambassadorial appointments

The PRC initiative
-Farland=s role
-Pakistan
-Yahya Khan
‑Potential effect
-Liberal reaction
‑Chou En-lai
‑US foreign policy
-The Soviet Union
‑Vietnam

‑The PRC's position in the World
-The Soviet Union
‑Japan
‑Soviet Union
‑Arms control
‑Taiwan
‑Chiang Kai‑shek
-UN membership issue
-Great Britain, Canada, Italy
-Reaction from the right
‑US Congress
‑Otto E. Passman, William J. (AJack@) Edwards
-Human Events, National Review
‑Public reaction
-American Legion
‑The President's role
‑Democrats
‑Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. Kennedy, Edmund S. Muskie
‑John N. Mitchell=s comments to Farland

Pakistan
‑Farland's return
‑Conversation with Kissinger
‑Letter
‑Handling of departure from post
‑Yahya Khan

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[Duration:  38s  ]

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‑Tenure
-Conversation with Kissinger
‑George D. Aiken's conversation with Farland

Farland left at 4:54 pm.

Conversation No. 549‑26

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:54 pm and 4:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  12s  ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.