Conversation No. 552‑1

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:54 am and 10:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:23 am.

Conversation No. 552‑2

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:54 am and 10:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 7‑37]

Conversation No. 552‑3

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  10:23 am ‑ 12:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.
‑California trip
‑Ronald W. Reagan's planned speech
‑Cancellation
‑The President's proposed trip to the Bohemian Grove
‑Encampments
‑Mitchell, John B. Connally

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:25 am.

The US‑People=s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
‑Message from Harvard University
‑East Asian Center

Haldeman talked to an unknown person at an unknown time after 10:25 am.

Request

[End of conversation]

-Kissinger
-Texas A&M

Presidential letter to Soviet Union Cosmonaut's daughter
‑Public release
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Haig
‑Handling

US-Soviet Union relations
-Andrei A. Gromyko
‑Leonid I. Brezhnev contact with the President
‑Channel
-Action
-Leaks
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]

[The President talked with Louis Harris between 10:27 am and 10:34 am]

[Conversation No. 552‑3A]

[See Conversation No. 7‑38]

Presidential letter to Soviet Union Cosmonaut=s daughter
-Dobrynin
‑Public release
‑Source

[The above portion of the office conversation between Kissinger and Haldeman took place simultaneously with telephone Conversation No. 552‑3A]

[End of telephone conversation]

Poll
‑Re‑issue
‑Frank Leonard
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑Management of staff

Foreign policy
‑Photograph
‑The President
‑Role
‑Kissinger
‑Hugh S. Sidey

Vietnam War
‑Le Duc Tho
-Conversation with French foreign minister
‑Maurice Schumann
‑North Vietnamese
-Dobrynin

‑Chances of settlement
-Kissinger=s conversation with Dobrynin
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Proposals
‑Situation

The PRC initiative
‑Letter from Harvard University student
‑Francois De Ticornot De Rose

Letter
‑Release
‑Source
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Form

Spiro T. Agnew
‑John D. Ehrlichman's attitude
‑Staff relations
‑John A. Scali
-Ehrlichman

US foreign aid
-The President=s conversation with Otto E. Passman
‑Post‑World War II period
‑Amount
‑Military aid
‑Economic assistance

US foreign policy
‑Kissinger's conversation with James L. Buckley
‑Conservatives
‑Shift in support for the President
‑Effect
‑1972
‑Buckley's possible meeting with the President
‑Kissinger=s conversation with William F. Buckley, Jr.
‑The President
‑New York Conservative Party
‑Presidential endorsement
‑Administration relations with Conservatives
‑Kissinger, Mitchell
‑New York

‑J. Daniel Mahoney
‑Issues
‑The PRC
‑National defense
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑William Buckley
‑Kissinger=s forthcoming meeting with James Burnham
‑Meeting
‑National Review
‑[Frank S.?] Meyer
‑North Vietnam=s reaction to the PRC initiative
-Soviet Union=s reaction to the PRC imitative
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Summit
‑Schedule
‑William P. Rogers
‑Emperor Hirohito
‑Meeting with the President
-Anchorage, Alaska
‑Arrangements
‑Effect
‑Coordination with Rogers
‑Agnew
‑State Department

Conservatives
‑Relations with the President
‑James Buckley
‑1960, 1968, 1962
‑John Birch Society
‑1962 California activities
-The President's record
‑Cambodia, Laos
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑National Review
‑Activities
‑Young Americans for Freedom [YAFs]

The President's schedule
-The President=s proposed September 27, 1971 meeting with Hirohito in Alaska
‑Emilio Garrastazu Medici=s visit
‑Scheduling
‑Logistics
‑Arrangements for foreign visits

Mitchell
‑Handling
‑News summary

The PRC initiative
‑Reaction
‑Liberals
‑Clayton Fritchey
‑W. Averell Harriman
‑Executive privilege
‑Previous Laotian negotiations
‑The President
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Memorandum on Le Duc Tho
‑Reaction to secret negotiations
‑Fritchey
‑Philadelphia Bulletin item
‑Responsibility for the PRC initiative
‑State Department
‑Marshall Green
‑Handling of the President's foreign trip
‑Briefing books

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‑Kissinger's staff
‑Contact with the press
‑Philadelphia Bulletin
-Pentagon Papers
‑Max Lerner
‑Conservatives
‑Handling

Vietnam War
‑Le Duc Tho
-Settlement

The PRC initiative
‑George Meany's reaction
‑Hardhats
‑Attitude towards the President
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Conservatives
‑News coverage 
-Kissinger's trip to Pakistan
‑Kissinger's secret trip to Peking
-Paris Talks
-Dobrynin
‑Le Duc Tho

Agnew
-Foreign trip
-Press coverage
-Agenda
-Greece
-Request for future trip
-Arrangements
-Korea, Europe, Arab countries, Greece
-Theme
-Golf
-Portugal, Spain
-Duration
-Press perception
-Agnew=s role
-Morocco, Spain, Portugal
-Congo, Kenya
-Iran
-Handling

-American communities
-Kissinger=s staff
-Press conferences
-Events
-Compared to Kissinger, William P. Rogers
-Press coverage
-Future trips
-Iran
-Greece
-Iran
-Forthcoming celebration
-Iranian=s reaction
-Greece
-Agnew=s ethnicity

Iran
-Forthcoming celebration
-US attendance
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Agnew
-Compared to Theodore (ATeddy@) Roosevelt
-Kissinger=s opinion
-Health
-Logistics
-Agnew
-Johnson

Agnew
-Compared to President=s handling of foreign trips while Vice President
‑Attitude
‑Comment about Africans
-Reaction
-Forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
-Conversation with Kissinger
‑Murray M. Chotiner meeting with the President
-PRC initiative
‑Source of story
‑Scali
‑Preparation of memorandum
‑Agnew=s request to visit PRC, Taiwan

‑Staff
‑Public relations
‑Public image
‑Relations with the President's staff

White House staff
‑Restrictions on comment
‑Agnew
-Affect

Agnew
‑Memorandum on the PRC story
‑Scali
‑Relationship with the President
‑Kissinger's comment to Agnew
‑Kissinger=s opinion

PRC-Soviet Union relations
-Agnew=s opinion
‑Conservatives
‑Actions
‑Human Events
‑Intelligence reports
-Buchanan=s view
‑Conservative view of Communists
‑The President
‑James Buckley

The President's 1967 speech
‑Bohemian Grove
‑ABM

Kissinger left at 11:20 pm.

Agnew
‑Handling
‑Scali
‑Haldeman, Ehrlichman

The Bohemian Grove
‑Presidential visit
-Walter Baird
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's conversation with Walter Trohan

‑Wire services
-United Press International [UPI]
‑Grove members
‑Reaction
‑Effect of press attention
‑Members activities
‑Effect of cancellation
‑Ziegler, Richard Moore
‑Members reaction
‑Baird
‑Transportation
‑Arrangements
-Trohan
‑Cancellation of trip
‑Effect
-Compared to the Gridiron

The President's schedule
‑Gridiron
‑White House Correspondent's dinner

The President left at an unknown time after 11:20 am.

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Ziegler?] at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:20 pm]

[Conversation No. 552‑3B]

Moore
-Proposed Presidential visit to the Bohemian Grove
-Reaction

[End of telephone conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time after 11:20 am.

The Bohemian Grove
‑Presidential visit
‑Background to arrangements
-Baird
‑Ziegler
‑Press coverage
‑Wire services

The President's schedule
‑Advance press notice
‑Ziegler
‑Visit to baseball game
‑Perrino's Restaurant
‑The President's visit after the PRC announcement
‑News report on wine

Handling of response to issues
‑Buchanan
‑Attitude
‑John G. Tower, Peter H. Dominick
‑Haldeman, Colson, Ehrlichman
‑Reaction comparison
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Attitude
-William E. Timmons

The Bohemian Grove
‑Attendance
‑The President's 1967 speech

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Social activities
‑Attitude
‑Connally
‑The President
‑Individual contacts
‑Receiving lines
‑Effectiveness
-Colson

Bohemian Grove
‑Presidential visit cancellation
-Baird
‑Issue of press coverage
‑Off‑the‑record tradition
‑Ziegler
‑Herbert C. Hoover
‑Visits to Grove
‑Press coverage
‑Activities
-Compared to the Gridiron

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‑Members
‑Effect of cancellation on the President's schedule
‑California
‑Reagan
‑Meeting

Speech
‑Work
‑The President's 1967 speech
‑John S. Davies
‑Creation
-Model for speechwriters
‑Use of transitions
‑Topics
‑Vietnam
-Spaceflight
‑Use of draft speech

Bohemian Grove
‑President's visit
-Cancellation
‑Effect on the press
‑Effect on the Grove

Connally
‑Schedule
‑International Monetary Fund [IMF]
‑International economic situation
‑Paul A. Volcker

Bohemian Grove
‑Replacement speaker
‑George H.W. Bush
‑The President's cancellation
‑Moore, Mosbacher
‑Handling
‑Grove members
‑Baird
‑California elite
‑Western White House social function
‑Arrangements
‑Compared to Johnson
‑Response to cancellation
‑Handling of cancellation
-Press
‑Off‑the‑record tradition
‑Previous speeches by Rogers, Melvin R. Laird
‑The Gridiron
‑Off‑the‑record White House events
‑Baird, Trohan
‑Attitude
‑Press coverage

The Press
‑Advance notice on the President's schedule
‑UPI, CBS
‑Arrangements on Grove speech coverage
‑The President's 1967 speech
‑Reaction
‑The President's position compared to Rogers, Laird

Bohemian Grove
-Nixon as Vice President
‑Cancellation
‑Handling of notification
‑Haldeman, Baird
‑Off‑the‑record tradition
‑CBS, UPI
-Ziegler

Social functions
‑Connally

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 11:20 am.

Ziegler

[End of conversation]

‑Attitude
‑White House events
‑Sequoia, Camp David

Schedule
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:09 pm]

[Conversation No. 522‑3C]

[See Conversation No. 7‑39]

[End of telephone conversation]

Schedule

[The President talked with Mrs. Nixon between 12:09 pm and 12:10 pm]

[Conversation No. 522‑3D]

[See Conversation No. 7‑40; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler entered at 12:10 pm.

Labor disputes
‑Rail industry
-Press reports
-Paul W. McCracken
‑The President's July 30, 1971 meeting with union and management executives
‑George P. Shultz
‑White House involvement
‑Presidential role
‑Compared to John F. Kennedy
‑John Robinson (?)
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Willie J. Usery, Charles Luna

Bohemian Grove
‑President's trip
‑Press attitude
‑Off‑the‑record tradition
‑UPI, CBS
‑Cancellation
‑Comparison to the Gridiron
‑Off‑the‑record
‑Tradition of off‑the‑record handling
-Attendance
‑Hoover
-Nixon as Vice President
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Ziegler's conversation with aide
‑Candidate position
‑The President
‑Grove members
‑Effect of press coverage or leak

The President's schedule
‑Iowa, Ohio trip
‑California
‑Timing of announcement
‑Appropriations Committee event

Presidential letter to Soviet cosmonaut's daughter
‑Release
‑Source
‑William L. Safire
‑Knowledge of letter
‑Rose Mary Woods, Haig
‑Source
-Safire, Price
‑Timing of release
‑Apollo XV
‑Recipient
‑Soviet Ambassador
‑Circumstances
‑Source
-Herbert G. Klein
-Handling

Ziegler left at 12:20 pm.

The President's schedule
‑California
‑Timing, transportation
-Mitchell, Connally

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-California
‑Possible activities
‑Steel strike
‑IMF
‑Revision of schedule
‑Connally

‑Mitchell
‑Camp David
‑Forthcoming press conference
‑Buchanan's staff
‑Preparation of briefing books
‑Types of events
‑Photo opportunities
‑Transportation
‑Camp David
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Timing of departure
-Baird
‑Connally, Mitchell
‑Cancellation of Bohemian Grove visit
‑Press coverage
‑Off‑the‑record tradition
‑Secret Service contingent
‑Size
‑Arrangements

Haldeman left at 12:30 pm.

Conversation No. 552‑4

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  12:31 pm ‑ 1:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods and Manolo Sanchez.

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The President's schedule
‑Bohemian Grove
-Walter Baird
‑Arrangements for visit
‑Secret Service
‑Confidentiality
‑Press coverage
‑Off‑the‑record tradition
‑Staff
‑Members
‑Conrad Hilton
‑Telephone call
‑Effect of confidentiality
‑Camp David
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Invitation to Woods

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-Trip to California
‑Staff
‑Henry A. Kissinger, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, Caspar W. Weinberger
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Alexander P. Butterfield
-Woods

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Pakistani Ambassador
‑Inscription on autographed photograph

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Rose Mary Woods left at 1:04 pm.

Conversation No. 552‑5

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  1:10 pm ‑ 1:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The Bohemian Grove
‑Haldeman's conversation with Walter Baird
‑Cancellation of the President's visit
‑Old members
‑Speech
‑Wording of announcement
‑Richard A. Moore
-Discussion with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Tax status
‑John N. Mitchell, John B. Connally

The President's letter to cosmonaut's daughter
‑Release
‑Alexander P. Butterfield
‑Herbert G. Klein
-William L. Safire
‑Effect
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news report
-Klein
‑Nature of letter
‑Butterfield, Klein
-Rose Mary Woods
‑Delivery
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Klein's role
‑Safire
‑Walter Cronkite's report
‑The Soviet Union
-Reaction
‑Haig, Henry A. Kissinger
‑Reaction

Spiro T. Agnew
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Schedule
‑The press
‑Attitude

Apollo XV flight
‑Time of landing on the moon
‑James C. Fletcher
‑Presidential call

The President and Haldeman left at 1:20 pm.

Conversation No. 522-6

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 1:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service ) met.

An unknown person (Secret Service?) talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 1:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 522-6A]

The President=s schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

[End of conversation]

[Pause]

An unknown person (Secret Service?)talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 1:20 pm.

Conversation No. 522-6B]

The President=s location
-EOB
-White House

[End of conversation]

The President=s location
-EOB

[Pause]

An unknown person talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 1:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 522-6C]

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[End of conversation]

[Pause]

An unknown person talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 1:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 522-6D]

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The President=s location
-East Wing
-EOB

[End of conversation]

An unknown person talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 1:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 552-6E]

[Unintelligible]

The President=s location
-EOB

[Laughter]

[Telephone rings]

[End of conversation]

An unknown person talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 1:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 552-6F]

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Affirmative

[End of conversation]

[Pause]

[Telephone rings]

This recording was cut off at an unknown time after 1:20 pm.