Conversation No. 571-1

Date:  September 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:37 pm and 2:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

Robert J. Dole and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 12:37 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
-Dole's appearance
	-Dole’s schedule

H. R. Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 12:37 pm.

Greetings

Dole's schedule
	-Santa Monica
-New York City
-Dole's meeting at Republican Governors' Conference

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Attica state prison riots
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Events
-Death toll
-Guards
-Prisoners
-Hostages
-Blacks
-Time of death
-Guards
-Amnesty request
-Rockefeller's response
-Police operations
-Tear gas
-Helicopters
-Death toll
-John D. Ehrlichman's previous telephone conversation with Rockefeller
-The President's forthcoming conversation with Rockefeller
-Police operation
-Public reaction
-Angela Y. Davis
-Blacks
-Uprising
-Other incidents
-California
-Blacks
-Revolution
-Prisons
-Campuses

Dole's trip to Far East
-Report
-Southeast Asian countries
	-Senate experience
-Identity
-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-North
-South

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	LAOS

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-South Vietnam presidential elections
-Dole's meetings 
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Duong Van Minh
-Withdrawal of candidacy
-Effect
-South Vietnam election
-US role
-Guarantee of free elections
-Congressional elections
-Thieu
-Electoral process
-Ballots
-Negative voting
-Announcement on television

Foreign affairs
-Nations gaining independence after World War II
-Number with Governments in power due to contested elections
-Uncontested elections, contested free elections
-Governments
-Africa
	-Attica prison
-Latin America
-Chile
-Colombia
-Venezuela
-India
-Pakistan
-Ceylon
-South Vietnam elections
-US role
-Congressional elections
-Development of electoral process
-Choices
-South Vietnam compared with North Vietnam
-Two-Party System
-Development
-France
-Italy
-Great Britain
-United States
-Commonwealth countries
-British-American phenomenon
-Europeans

Vietnam elections
-Candidates
-The South
-1948 US elections
-Nominations

Vietnam
-Dole's trip
-Meeting with Gen. Creighton W. Abrams
-Meeting with Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Dinner with South Vietnamese Senators
-Political situation in South Vietnam
-Effect on US Senate
-Reduction of US economic aid
-Troop withdrawal
-Understanding of US political system
-Drug program
-Urinalysis
-Prisoner of war camps
-School attendance
-Diet
-Visitors
	-Food
-Health care
-Cambodia
-Military training
-Cambodians 
	-Spirit
-Thailand

Japan
-Dole's visit with Armin H. Meyer
-Announcement [Economic Stabilization, September 9, 1971]
-Japanese reaction
-US position
-Economy
-Competition

Evaluation of Dole's trip to the Far East
-J. William Fulbright
-George S. McGovern
-The President's announcement
-Troop withdrawals

Dole's meeting with Republican Governors' Conference
-Support for 90-day wage and price freeze
	-Spiro T. Agnew
-Congressional support
-Public support
-Wage increase
-Government
-Public opinion
-Labor leaders
-Support for freeze
-Poll on issue reaction
-Released during Dole's trip to Far East
-Copy for Dole
-Use of poll
-California
-National poll by Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Use by the President at 90-day freeze meetings
-Surcharge
-Deferral of wages
-Wage and price freeze
-Dole's public appearances in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia
-Response to program
-Republicans

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:37 pm.

Request by Haldeman

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

Wage and price freeze program
-Labor
-Wage increase
-Farmers
	-Possible wheat sales to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Dole's visit to Kansas
-Support for program
-Decisionmaking
-Farmers
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Clifford N. Hardin
-Work 
-Farmers
-Hardin
-Orville L. Freeman
-Ezra Taft Benson
-Work 
-Freeman
-Benson
-Meeting with the Associated Milk Producers, September 3, 1971
-Support from dairy industry
-Administration action
-Democrats
	-Wilbur D. Mills’ sponsorship of bill
-Number attending meeting in Chicago
-Comparison with Republicans
-Bipartisan
-Hardin
	-Milk prices
		-Support from Dole
-Support for administration

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Busing
-Boston rally
-Charles W. Colson
-Michigan
-Pontiac
-Boston
-Blacks
-Pickets
-Whites
-Louise Day Hicks, Mills
-Issue in the South
-North
-South
-Situation
-Reaction in the North
-Local schools
-Connecticut

Democrats
-William Proxmire
-Statements
-Partisanship
-Economy
-Dole's conversation with Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Colson's response to Edmund S. Muskie's statement
-Muskie
-Presidential candidate
-Proxmire
-Suggestions on the President's welfare reform proposals
-Economy
-Democrat line
-Colson's remarks
-Muskie's statements
-Black Vice Presidential candidate
-Busing
-Time magazine article

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:37 pm.

Delivery of item

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

Muskie
	-Time’s response to statements
-Comparison between the President and Muskie
-Black Vice Presidential candidate
-Busing
-Nixon as candidate
-Public reaction
-Colson's point
-Administration strategy
-McGovern
-Call to Dole's office 
-Effect of Muskie's statement
		-The President's record
			-Black Vice Presidential candidate
				-American people
					-Voting
	-Race
-Religion
-Busing

Issues
-The economy
-Election issue
-Vietnam War
-Speeches
-World leader role of the President
-PRC initiative
-Peacemaker
-Election strategy
-Republican Party [GOP]
-"Generation of Peace"
-Republican audiences
-PRC initiative
-Vietnam
-Administration achievements
-McGovern
-Vietnam War
-Trip to Paris
-Negotiate an independent settlement
-Viet Cong's [VC] peace proposal
-News story
-Fixed withdrawal date
-Return of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Effectiveness
-Families of POWs
-Meeting in Washington, DC
-Ambassador William J. Porter
-Response
-Political visitors
-Vermont
-Robert T. Stafford
-Deane C. Davis

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Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Economy
-Speechwriters
-White House
-The President's speech "State of the Economy"
-Speechwriting
-Presidential candidates
-Muskie
-Gerald R. Ford
-Unknown person
-Speechwriters
-Support for the President
-Nofziger
-Additional staff
-The economy

The President's request of Haig
-Number of independent countries since World War II
-Government as a result of fair contested elections

Dole and Haig left at 1:12 pm.

Dole

Refreshment

The President left and Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:15 pm.

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

The President's location

Copies
-Number of people

The President entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:15 pm.

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The President talked with John B. Connally between 1:15 pm and 1:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 571-1A]

[See Conversation No. 8-111]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally
-Meeting with business leaders
-Connally's performance

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:16 pm.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:31 pm.

Connally
-George P. Shultz

The President's schedule
-Cabinet wives
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Lenore L. Romney
-John A. Volpe

Business leaders' meeting
-Reaction
-Presentation of program
-Connally's performance
-Investment tax credit
-Small businessmen
-Remarks
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Praise of women
-Six Crises
-Praise of businessmen
-Leader class

The President's speech to Congress, September 9, 1971
-Washington Post editorial
-Hobart D. Rowen
-The President's rhetoric
-Congressional speech
-Reaction
-Reaction
-James C. Hagerty
-David M. Kennedy
-Paul C. Bartholomew
-University of Notre Dame
-Speech 
-References to American spirit
-News commentators
-John A. Mayer
-Rhetoric
-Cambodian Operation (1970)
-Mayer
-Mellon National Bank
-President's leadership
-Press criticism of the US
-Agnew
-Role
-The President's substitute
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Agnew
-Comparison to the President's speeches
-Building up the country
-Richard A. Moore
-Analysis of the President's speech to Joint Session
-The President's level of leadership
	-The President’s August 15, 1971 speech
-National unity
-Revival of national pride
-Criticism of intellectuals
	-Rhetoric
-Congress
-Country built-up
	-"Speech doctor"
	-The President's speechmaking

Labor Day speech
		-Work ethic
		-Reaction
			-Editorials
				-Hobart Lewis
			-Magazines
				-Time, Newsweek

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:16 pm and 1:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 571-1B]

[See Conversation No. 8-112]

Call to Rockefeller

[End of telephone conversation]

Rockefeller
-Previous call to the President
-Ehrlichman's return call
-Attica state prison riots
-Death tolls
-Guards
-Prisoners
-New York Times
-Amnesty
-Thomas Grey Wicker
-Negotiators
-William M. Kunstler

Race
-Busing, work, welfare
-The President's position
-George C. Wallace
-Black support
-Militants

Leonard Bernstein
-Mass
-Cocktail party
	-Black Panthers
-Press coverage
-Kennedy Center
-Time
-Photographs
-Cabinet wives
	-Dress
		-September 13, 1971 meeting
-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
	-Bernstein's actions
	-Kissing
		-Unknown man
		-European tradition
		-Jewish families
		-Latin Americans' "Abrazo"
		-French
-Kennedy Center
-Failure
-New York Times review
-Bernstein
-Harold C. Schonberg

The President talked with Rockefeller between 1:31 pm and 1:38 pm.

[Conversation No. 571-1C]

[See Conversation No. 8-113]

[End of telephone conversation]

Attica state prison riot
-Death tolls
-Prisoners
-Guards
-Prisoners
-Blacks
-Puerto Ricans
-Amnesty
-New York Times
-Rockefeller's decision
-Support
-Negotiations
-Concessions
-San Quentin prison breakout attempt, August 1971
-Black prisoners' complaints
-Treatment
-Grievances
-Revolution
-Rockefeller
-Russell G. Oswald
-Prison reformers
-Model prison
-Model state prison
-San Quentin prison breakout attempt
-Riots in model prisons
-San Quentin's prison breakout attempt
-Death tolls
	-Governor’s role
-Duration of riots
-Compared with Attica
-Alcatraz
-Federal prison
-Causes
-Permissiveness
-Campuses
-Blacks

Protests
-National antiwar moratorium
-Date
-Demonstrators
-Washington, DC
-San Francisco
-New York
-National Peace Action Coalition
-People's Coalition for Peace And Justice
-Plans
-Time
-Permits
-US District Court rulings
-Underground press
-Issue focus
-Prison reform
-Civil rights
-Vietnam War
-Environment
-Prison reforms
-Comparison to Indians
-Editorials
-Effect on youth
				-Comparison to Selma and Mobile, Alabama civil rights marchers
-Revolutionary point of view
-Prisoners
-Blacks
-Militants

Cabinet meeting
-Briefers
-Shultz
-Arnold R. Weber
-Connally
-Rogers
-Cabinet members' wives
-Reaction
-Meeting
-Administration

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		SAUDI ARABIA

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	The President’s schedule
-Edwin Hoyt
-Book
-Meeting with the President and Mrs. Nixon
-Previous meetings
-Ancestry of the President
-Meeting with Mrs. Nixon

International Seminar on Illicit Drug Traffic and Abuse
-Meeting in Washington, DC
-Participants from foreign nations
-Law enforcement specialists
-Possible meeting with the President
-Presidential statement on international drug program
	-Location
		-Cabinet Room

The President's schedule
-Allen J. Ellender
-Chicken gumbo social
-Birthday
-Mrs. Nixon
-Senators' wives
-The President's attendance
		-Forthcoming Domestic Council meeting
	-Ehrlichman's previous conversation with the President
- Agnew
-The President's attendance
	-Meeting of elected state and local officials, September 16, 1971
	-National Governors' Conference
	-National Association of County Officers
	-US Conference of Mayors
	-National League of Cities
	-National Legislative Conference
	-Revenue sharing
	-The Vice President's role
	-State and local government
	-Domestic policy
	-The President's participation
	-Cabinet
	-Revenue sharing
	-The President's attendance
	-Vice President

National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia
-Dole
-Meeting in Washington, DC
-Decision on non-political status
-Administration position
-Number of attendees
-Dinner, September 28, 1971
-Melvin R. Laird
-The President's attendance
-Original schedule
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower's dinner
-Conflict in scheduling
-The President's statement
-Prisoners of war [POWs]

Mrs. Eisenhower
-Medal of Freedom
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Recognition
-Queen Mother’s role
-First Lady
	-Role
-Medal of Freedom recipient
	-Kennedys
-Manlio Brosio
-Lynda Johnson Robb
-Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Compared with Mrs. Eisenhower
-Mrs. Eisenhower's attendance at symphony
-The President's arrival
-Public response to Mrs. Eisenhower
-Magazines
-Time
-Remark about Rose Kennedy
- Bernstein
-Birthday
-Eisenhower College Fund
-Medal of Freedom recipients
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Merriman Smith
-White House staff

Williams Commission
-Appointments

The President's schedule
-Black event
-National Business Week
-Booker T. Washington Symbol of Service Award
-Presentation to the President
-Colson's view
-The President's attendance
-Location of convention
-Richmond, Virginia
-Number of attendees
-Shultz's view
-American Cancer Society dinner
-Elmer H. Bobst
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Cancer research program
-Funds
-National Institutes of Health [NIH]
-Appointment
-Speeches
-Annual awards banquet
-Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
-New York City
-Bobst
-Mary Lasker
-The President's presentation of awards
-The President's message
-Conquest of cancer
-Number of attendees
-The President's attendance
-The President's cancer program
-Visit to New York City
-Richardson as surrogate speaker
-The President's presentation of awards
-Bobst
-The President's attendance
-Conflict with schedule
-The previous trips to New York City
-Speechmaking visits
-Lyndon Johnson
	-Al Smith Dinner
-Future visits
-Advance notice
-Award banquet
-Terence Cardinal Cook
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-The President's appearance
	-Richardson
-Thanksgiving plans for the President and Mrs. Nixon
-Lucy A. Winchester
-California
-Presidential Thanksgiving dinner
-California
-Dedication of the Eisenhower Memorial Hospital
-Invitations to the President
-Number

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:38 pm.

Delivery of item

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:58 pm.

Schedule
-The President's consultation on invitations

Connally meeting
-Reaction

William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Contributions
	-Economy
-Relationships
-Public manner
	-Receiving lines
-Compared to the President
	-Touching

White House church service
-Visitors
-Treaty Room
-Lincoln Sitting Room
-Queen's Bedroom
-Drawing Room
-Mrs. Nixon
-Public demands

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The President's schedule
	-Preparation for meeting
-Hardin
	-Offer of resignation
-John N. Mitchell
-September 14, 1971
	-Michael J. Mansfield
-The President's meetings with Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-National Health Education Foundation
-Camp David
-Arrangements
-Invitations
-Apollo XV Astronauts
-Vice President and Elinor I. Agnew
-Newspaper editors meeting [September 25, 1971]
-Panel session
-Questions
-Members of panels
-Audience
-Question and answer [Q&A] session
-Television
-Media coverage
-Peter G. Peterson
-[Williams Commission]

The President and Haldeman left at an unknown time before 2:58 pm.

Conversation No. 571-11

Date:  September 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:38 pm and 2:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with an unknown woman [Terry L. Decker?].

	Unknown group

Butterfield and the unknown woman [Decker?] left at an unknown time before 2:58 pm.

Conversation No. 571-2

Date:  September 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:38 pm and 2:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
	-Upcoming meeting
		-List of participants
			-Duration

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:58 pm.

Conversation No. 571-3

Date: September 13, 1971
Time: 2:58 pm - 3:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
	-Cabinet Room [?]
	-Bookmark
-Peter Peterson
-Albert L. Williams
-Isaiah Frank
-Photo opportunity
-Cabinet Room
-The President's signal to Bull

Bull left at 3:02 pm.

Conversation No. 571-4

Date:  September 13, 1971
Time:  3:04 pm - 3:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Peter G. Peterson, Albert L. Williams, and Isiah Frank.

Introductions

Photo opportunity
-Arrangements
-Reporters
-Arrival
-Photographers

Williams Commission

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.

Press
-Photographs

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.

[Photograph session]

Bull and members of the press left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Meeting [in the Cabinet Room]

The President, Peterson, Williams, and Frank left at 3:07 pm.

Conversation No. 571-5

Date:  September 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:07 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

The President's location
-Cabinet Room

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.

Conversation No. 571-6

Date:  September 13, 1971
Time:  3:47 pm - 4:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Clifford M. Hardin.
[This recording began while the conversation was in progress]

The President's schedule
-Reading
-Report
-Williams Commission
-Delegation of authority
-S. Grover Cleveland
-Reading habits

Hardin
-Career
-Future
-Support for the President
-Accepting government job
-Guaranteed preferred income
-New job opportunity
-Ralston-Purina
-St. Louis, Missouri
-Star Kist tuna manufacturing
-Owners
	-Acquaintance with the President
-Jack-in-the-Box restaurant franchises
-Shrimp production
-Nuclear power plants
-Warm water
-Fishing
-Pacific Ocean
-Fishermen in San Clemente, California
-Manolo Sanchez
-Amount of fish
	-Gulf Stream
-Pacific Coast
-Presidents support
	-Replacement as Secretary of Agriculture

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		-New job opportunity
-Hardin’s public relations activities
-Speeches
-Location
-St. Louis
-Chief Executive Officer [CEO]
-Robert Hal Dean
-Donald Danforth, Jr.
-Public company
-Danforth
	-John C. Danforth
-Missouri

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-Role as Secretary of Agriculture
-Robert J. Dole's remarks
-Ezra Taft Benson
-Orville L. Freeman
-Achievement
-Experience as a Cabinet officer
-Job opportunities after leaving office
	-1972 election
-Lawyers compared with businessmen

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-Timing of departure
	-1972 election
-Non-controversial
-Low profile
-Hardin's strategy
-Farm organizations
-Policy works
-Leadership
-Administration achievement
-Legislation [Agricultural Act of 1970]
-Bipartisan group
-Timetable for move to new job
-Administration
-Before elections
-Hardin's successor
-Time required for transition
-Date
-Business
-September 12, 1971 remarks by unnamed minister [Reverend Ben Haden]
-Advice from William P. Rogers
-Legal
-Contract

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-Hardin's abilities
-Salesmanship
-Reputation
-Advice
-New job opportunity
-Assignments
-Research and Development [R&D]
-Advisory role
-Nebraska
-Kansas City
-Hiring
-Youth
-R&D

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				-Research
-Job situation
-Timetable
-1972 election
-Hardin's meeting with associates
-Company
-Department of Agriculture
-Officers

Economy
-Cabinet
-Administration policy
-The President's August 15, 1971 economic action
-Time
-Psychological confidence factor
-Inflation rate
-Tax incentives
-Phase II
-Labor leaders
-Position on participation
-Herbert Stein
-Arnold R. Weber
-Hardin's forthcoming meeting with farmers
-Maurice H. Stans
	-Paul W. McCracken
	-George W. Romney
-Points of view
-George P. Shultz's call to Hardin
-James D. Hodgson

Farm policy
-Tony C. DeChant
-Jacob K. Javits
-Democratic Policy Commission
-DeChant
-Patrons of Husbandry [National Grange]
-National Farmers Union [NFU]
-Remarks to Hardin
-NFU
	-Position
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-John W. Scott
-William J. Kuhfuss
-Predecessor
-Vote
-Legislation
-Family
-Farming
-Retirement
-Charles H. Percy

Hardin's career moves
-Administration's needs
-Timetable
-Hardin's successor
-Effect of resignation
-Economic initiative
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Role with administration

John D. Rockefeller, III
-Hardin's acquaintance

Attica state prison riots
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Amnesty demands
-Prisoners
-Guards
-Hostage
-Rockefeller's negotiations
-Police operation
-Death tolls
-Rockefeller's handling of situation
-Blacks
-Angela Y. Davis
-California
-Rockefeller
-Blacks
-Analysis of riot
-The President's support for Rockefeller
-National effect
-Death tolls

Hardin
-The President's appreciation
-The President's advice
-Cabinet officers
-Career moves

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-Timing

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			-Hardin’s son-in-law
-Work at Department of Justice
-John D. Mitchell
-Abilities
-Politics
-Hardin’s daughter

Hardin left at 4:16 pm.

Conversation No. 571-7

Date:  September 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:16 pm and 4:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 4:18 pm.

Conversation No. 571-8

Date:  September 13, 1971
Time:  4:18 pm - 4:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Vietnam War settlement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Date of announcement
-Dates for the President's visit
-Kissinger's visit
-Public announcement
-Date
-Chinese
-Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Strategy towards the US
-Negotiated settlements
-Status on negotiations
-Moratorium
-Norodom Sihanouk
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Election
-Effect of PRC trip announcement
-Political situation in Saigon
- Position on Thieu 
-George S. McGovern's trip to Paris
-Kissinger
-Hanoi
-Soviet Union
-PRC situation
-Status of Vietnam War
-US public opinion
-US withdrawal
-Prisoner of War [POW] wives event
-POWs
	-Release
-Laos, Cambodia, South Vietnam
-Possible events
-Vietnamization
-US withdrawal
-1972 Elections
-Hanoi
-Bombing
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Security situation
-North Vietnamese
-Saigon
-Psychology
-Political situation in Saigon
-Possible outcome
-Needs
	-Stability
-Administration's action
-POWs
-Announcements
-End of combat
-Troop withdrawal
		-Kissinger’s rationale
	-North Vietnam's demands
	-Paris negotiations
		-POWs
	-Soviet Union
	-Hanoi
	-Provision of agreement
		-Pressure from Soviet Union
	-North Vietnamese demands
	-Thieu
-South Vietnam
-Elections
-US role
	-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Support for the war in the US
-The President's speeches
-Public reaction
-US withdrawal
	-Stability
-Effects
-Casualties
	-Numbers
-US Army
-Morale
-Discipline
-Laos participation
-Effect on US military forces
-Military actions
	-I and II Corps areas
-Effect
-Da Nang shelling
	-Civilian casualties
-PRC reaction
	-Haig’s view

The PRC
-Floods
	-Devastation

Kissinger's schedule
-Return
-Time

Haig's report
-Kissinger
	-Optimism in negotiations
-Need for caution
-The President's previous experiences
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-PRC
-Soviet Union

	Accidental War Agreement
	-Newspaper story
	-Tad Szulc
		-Soviet Union
	-Reporter covering the State Department
	-London Observer
	-Newsday
	-Washington Post
	-White House
	-Washington Post's call to the State Department
	-State Department's call to Haig
	-Release of story
	-Szulc
	-State Department, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
	-Haig's call to State Department
	-Leak
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-Szulc
-Soviet response
-Agreement
-US role
-Defense budget
	-Draft

Haig left at 4:36 pm.

Conversation No. 571-9

Date:  September 13, 1971
Time:  4:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

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Conversation No. 571-10

Date:  September 13, 1971
Time:  4:36 pm - 6:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

William F. (“Billy”) Graham's story
-The President's talk with John B. Connally
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Graham's previous talk with Connally
-IRS employee

Contributors to the Democratic Party
-Jewish
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Investigation

IRS
-Graham
-Eugene Carson Blake
-IRS commissioner [?] [Harold T. Swartz]
-Haldeman's call to John Mitchell regarding IRS
-Graham
-Democrats
-Robert Abplanalp
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
-John Wayne
-Republican contributors
-The President
-Investigators
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Frank Sinatra's airplane

Business leaders meeting
-Maurice H. Stans
-Stans's previous meeting with business leaders
-Meeting performance
-White House staff
-Briefings
-Cabinet Room
-Briefers
-Dry-run
-Benefits
-The President's appreciation
-Seating arrangements
-Instructions for Stephen B. Bull
-Chairman
-Vice President

Haldeman's talk with John A. Scali and William L. Safire
-Fourth chapter of Six Crises

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:36 pm.

King Timahoe

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

Six Crises
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Chapter
-Reading by public relations staff
-Safire
-Richard A. Moore
-Scali
-Contents
-Kitchen debate
-Pictures
-Television

People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Television coverage
-Reception
-Printed media

Celebrities

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Connally

Clifford M. Hardin
-Resignation
	-Timing
-Successor
-Louie B. Nunn
-Haldeman's and Mitchell's possible actions
-Mitchell's previous talk with Bryce N. Harlow
-Appointment
-Termination date
-Nunn

Cabinet
-Hardin
-Mitchell
-Stans
-Effect
-Stability
	-Dwight D. Eisenhower's Cabinet

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Michael J. Mansfield and Hugh Scott
-Breakfast meeting
-Speaker of the House [Carl B. Albert]
-Conference Report
-House effort
-Federal employees pay-raise
-Thaddeus J. Dulski
-Morris K. Udall
-Jerome R. Waldie
-Mansfield Amendment
	-Vote
		-Floor count
-Florida
-Press conference
-Following meeting with Governors
-Time
-Coverage
-Congressional meeting
-Forthcoming weekend
-Detroit, Michigan
-Montana
-Portland, Oregon
-Seattle, Washington
-Anchorage, Alaska

Television exposure
	-Haldeman's talk with Connally
	-Trade, economics
-Power of the Presidency
-The President's press conferences
-Frequency
-Unknown woman
-News time [prime time news broadcast]
-David Brinkley
-Audience
-Prime time
-Scheduling news conferences
-Audience
										-Previous night's show with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Propaganda

Governors
-Attendance at land transfer event
	-Oregon
	-Thomas L. McCall
	-Minnesota
	-Democrat [Wendell R. Anderson]
	-Ronald W. Reagan
	-Robert H. Finch
	-William G. Milliken
	-Presence
-Federal land grant to Michigan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Attica state prison riot

	Attica State Prison riot
		-Repercussions
-Blacks
-Salutory effect
-Compared with Kent State University
-Death tolls
	-Prisons

The President's schedule
-Meetings
-Special meetings
-Cabinet
-Business
-Revenue sharing
-Breakfast meetings
-Afternoon meetings
-Effectiveness
-Criticism of the President

"A Visit with the First Lady", television show
-Benefits
-Frank S. Shakespeare
-Budget
-Documentary
-Quality of production
-Pictures
	-Pacific Ocean
-Setting of shots
-San Clemente
-Flowers
Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:36 pm.

Charles W. Colson
-Meeting with the President

King Timahoe

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Mrs. Nixon
-Press stories
	-News
	-Magazines
	-Wire services

	King Timahoe

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:36 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

Mrs. Nixon
-Television appearance ["A visit with the First Lady"]
-Dogs
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Incident with pulling ears of beagles "Him" and "Her"

Colson entered at 5:05 pm.

Television film shown previous evening
-Benefits
-Douglas L. Hallett
-Howard Law school
-Work for the administration
-Interest in politics
-Acquaintances
				-Justice Department, Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Wall Street Journal
-Memorandum to Colson

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Television film
-The President's appearance
-Reaction of viewers

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Television show "A Visit with the First Lady"
-Hallett
-Youth reaction
-Mrs. Nixon
-Mexico
	-Sanchez
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Receiving line
-Importance
-Mrs. Nixon's remarks
-Role of women
-Importance of individual
-Differences between man and woman
-Women's liberation
-Ratings
-Audience size
-Editing film
-Extra footage
-The President's appearance
-Mrs. Nixon
		-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Re-broadcast
-Tricia Nixon Cox's television show
-"Evening at the White House"
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-White House decorations and furnishings
-Jacqueline Kennedy's television show in 1962
	-Compared to Mrs. Nixon’s decorating
-Comparison between the Kennedy's family and the President's family

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Public reaction
-The President's reaction
-Leonard Bernstein
-Black Panthers

Attica state prison riot
-Death tolls
-Guards
-Puerto Ricans
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Amnesty
-News coverage
-Thomas Grey Wicker
-Kent State University
-Administration action
-Federal prison
-Wardens
-Effect on future prison riots
	-Salutary effect
-Compared to Kent State University
-Use of force
-Purpose
-Rockefeller's handling
-Prisoners
-Death tolls
-Autopsies
-News story
-Effect on the administration
-Busing
-Blacks
-Whites
-San Quentin prison
-White guards
-Duration of riot
-Negotiations
-Concessions
-Position on amnesty
-Rockefeller's handling
-Wicker
-Prisoners
-Race
-Unjust system
-Riot at San Quentin
-George Jackson
-Legal left
-Marin County killings
-Judge
-Reaction to deaths of guards

Governors' Conference
-Democrats' resolution
-Economic policy
-Democratic Governors meeting in Miami
-Individual tax cuts
-Business tax cuts
-Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
-Partisan stand
-Election year
-Reaction to Edmund S. Muskie
-Support from governors
-Democrats
-Appearance
-Statements of support
-Governor Kenneth M. Curtis of Maine
-Governor Robert W. Scott of North Carolina
-Magazine coverage on Muskie's statement
-Black for Vice President
-Robert J. Dole
-Time comment
-Reaction compared to that for the President
-US alternate delegate to the United Nations [UN]
-Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Governor of Massachusetts [Francis W. Sargent]
-Race issue
-Robert J. Brown
-Militants
-Busing
-Ralph Nader
-Blacks
-Whites

Economic policy
-Non-partisan stand
-George Meany
-House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee
-Tax issue
-Editorial
-Democrats' dilemma
-The President's program
-The President's public standing
-The President's role
-Bipartisan
-Congress

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Television show ["A Visit with the First Lady"]
-Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Mrs. Nixon
-Jane F. (Gray) Muskie
-Muriel F. (“Buck”) Humphrey

Democrats
		-Partisanship
-Candidates
-Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
	-Partisanship
	-Polls
-Vietnam War
-Foreign policy
-"Doves"
-Strong defense
-Vietnam
-Right wing
-Right wing
-Defense

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Economic program
-Public support
-Safeway supermarket
-Quote from the President's speech, August 15, 1971
-Wage and price freeze
-Wage and price freeze
-Phase II
-Taxes
-Congress
-Investment tax credit
-Auto excise tax
-Consumer tax
-The President's meeting with business leaders
-The President's speech to Congress, September 9, 1971
-Criticism
-Local media
-Business leaders' reaction
-Media
-Values

Media
-Liberal establishment
-Frank Stanton
-Change of role at CBS
-Charles T. Ireland
-Conservative commentators
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Edith Efron, The News Twisters
-John R. Chamberlain
	-Review
	-Support for the Vice President [Agnew]
	-Credibility of network
-Efron's book
- Scali
-ABC
-Frank Reynolds, William H. Lawrence
-1960, 1968 elections
-Credibility
-James Keogh
-President Nixon and the Press
-Vanderbilt University
-Tape library
-Review of television tapes on Cambodia
-Media coverage
-Administration standings in polls
-Bryce N. Harlow
	-Congressmen
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Public reaction

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	Vote
		-Timing

Unknown woman [Efron?]
-Black
-Jewish
-Conservative Party in New York
		-Democrat
-Passage from book
-Media
-Assault on the President
	-Humphrey
		- Chamberlain’s book review
-Author
-Central America
-University of Haiti
-Student
	-Columbia University
-Reviewer's political standing
-Neal B. Freeman
	-King Features
-Other books
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Southern California
-Re-election of the President
-Support of the President

Economic issues
	-The President's address to Congress, September 9, 1971
	-Democrats
	-Equal time request
	-Attitude of the networks
	-Response to the President's State of the Union address
	-Equal time law
	-Partisanship
	-Democrat spokesman
	-Wilbur D. Mills
	-Lawrence F. O'Brien
	-Partisanship
	-Obstructionism
	-Agnew
	-Speeches by administration representatives
-Labor leaders
-Administration's strategy
-Organized labor
-Senator Robert A. Taft, Sr.
-Comparison with John W. Bricker
-Right to work laws
-Colson's strategy
-David E. Bradshaw
-Democrat
-Public reaction to the President
-Support of rank and file
-Labor bosses
-George Meany
-Support among members
	-Possible poll
-Labor leaders
-John L. Lewis
-Age
	-Transcript of press interview
	-Compared with John B. Connally
-Democrats
-Equal time request
	-Congressional leaders
	-Party leaders
	-Senate
	-Candidates
	-O'Brien
	-Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
	-Internal situation within the Democratic Party
-The President's speech, August 15, 1971
-Colson's actions
-Filing equal time requests

Public affairs
-CBS
-Ireland
-William S. Paley
-Stanton
-Liberal
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Richard S. Salant
-Richard W. Jenchs
-Book
-Scali's reaction
-CBS
-Attacks on administration
-Administration's strategy
-Audience during campaign
-Women's groups
-League of Women Voters
-Efron’s book
	-Monitoring newscasts
-Keogh
-Networks' coverage of Cambodia
-Kent State University demonstration
-Laos
-Reaction
-Coverage
-Television tapes
-Public awareness
-Media bias
-Edwin P. Newman
-George Jessel
	-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
		-Public mail
-Public reaction
-Efron’s book
-Reviews
-Debate on television
-Networks' position on book
-Scali
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Agnew's speech
-Book
-Print media review
-Compared with television
-Peter Lisagor
-Dan Rather
-Self-policing board
-Bias in the media
-Compared to Great Britain
			-CBS
-Networks' agreement
-Harley O. Staggers's contempt citation
-Protective mechanism
-Complaint
- Efron’s book
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Congressional hearings
-Law
-Hearings

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King Timahoe

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Karl Mundt
	-Health
	-Democrats
	-Mary E. Mundt
	-Future

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Military service draft bill
-The President's meeting with Gordon L. Allott
-Clark MacGregor
-Allott, Mansfield
-Alan Cranston, Mike Gravel
-Melvin R. Laird's call to Allott
-Pay-raise compromise
-Gates Committee recommendation
-The President's support for Gates Commission
-Allott
-Draft
-Conference
-Jack Miller
-John F. Kennedy
-Meeting with the President
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Leslie C. Arends

Administration accomplishments
-Media
-PRC trip announcement
-Economy
-Campaign issue
-Savings
-Polls
-Housing
-Appliances
-Automobiles
-Car dealers
-Radio ads
-Competition
-Volume sales
-Interest rates
-Decrease
-Bankers
-Inflation
-Money supply
-Demand
-Loans
-Inflation
-Bankers
	-President’s view
	-Compared with businessmen
-Bankers convention
-George P. Shultz
-Administration’s Phase II economic policy
-Psychology
-Leadership
-Credit for outcome
-International reaction
-The President's speech

Speechmaking
-The President's speech
-Use of poker chip metaphor
-Graham's remarks to the President
-Unknown man
-The President's speeches
-Public reaction
-Stories
-September 9, 1971 speech
	-Poker chips
	-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Labor Day speech
	-The President's father
	-Letters
		-Texas
-Stories
	-The President’s mother, family
-Research
-History
-President’s mail while in Congress
-Mail
-Answers
	-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Roland L. Elliot
-Noble Melencamp
-Using for speech material
-Use of stories
-The President's speeches
-Abraham Lincoln
-Colloquialisms
-The President's father
-Anecdote in Labor Day speech
-Dignity of work
-Unemployment
-Washington, DC
-Welfare
	-Percentage
-Income taxes
-Use of anecdotal material
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Storytelling
-Normal Vincent Peale
-Graham
-New Testament
-Compared to present speechwriters
-Jesus Christ
-Speechwriters
	-Self-consciousnesses
	-Appeal to emotions
-Differences between speeches that read well, sound well
							-Business and consumer group meeting in Indian Treaty Room
-Effective speeches
-Speech doctor
-The President's work on Congressional speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Safire
			-Cheer lines
-Use of personal stories
-New Hampshire high school valedictorian [Cynthia R. Frink] quote
-Andrews
-Richard A. Moore
-Anecdote
-Campaigns as source for material
-Moore
	-Sign
		-Anecdote
-Agnew
-Value of speeches
-Effectiveness
-Meany
-Agnew's style as compared to the President's
-Role, workload

	Agnew
		-Organizing constituency
			-Support from Young Americans for Freedom [YAF]
			-Governors' Conference
				-Albert E.  Abrahams
				-Liaison with governors
	-Governors' Conference
	-Resolution to the President
	-The President's meeting with Republican governors
	-Rockefeller
	-Ronald W. Reagan
	-Robert H. Finch
	-Support for the President
	-The PRC
	-Reagan
	-Constituency
		-YAF convention
-Media
-Long-range plans
-Academics
-Intellectuals
-Media
-The President's previous conversation with Agnew

The President's talk to the Cabinet, September 13, 1971
-Television
	-President viewing himself

President’s television watching
		-Press conferences, speeches
-News
-"Meet the Press"
-"Face the Nation"
-"Issues and Answers"
-News summary
-Network news
-Viewing
-Connally
-William P. Rogers
-Laird
-Connally
-Compared to the President

The President's relations with the media
-The US public
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Cambodia
-Anti-Vietnam War moratorium demonstrations
-Johnson
-Herbert G. Klein, Ronald L. Ziegler

Media
-Press
-Wire services
-Editorial writers
-Television
-NBC story
-Stanton
-Julian Goodman
-Joseph R. McCarthy
-Compared with relations between the President and the press
-Agnew
-The President's attendance at Gridiron, White House Correspondents, Radio and Television Correspondents events
-White House photographers
-Relations with administration
-Network coverage of PRC trip announcement
-Credibility
-Economic program
-Length of coverage
-Congressional recess
-Re-convene

The President's forthcoming meeting with Allot
-Topics
-Loyalty
-Honesty of Senators

The President, Haldeman and Colson left at 6:40 pm.