Conversation No. 575-1

Date:  September 17, 1971
Time:  1:13 pm - 1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with David C. Hoopes and Lorenzo N. Hoopes.

The White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

[This recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress]

	David Hoopes

	Photograph
		-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks

	White House staff

Lorenzo Hoopes's work with Safeway

Alpha Beta stores
	-San Clemente, California

The President's economic policy
-Chairman's reaction
-Safeway's advertisement

Robert McGowan

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time before 1:15 pm.

Presidential gifts

California education
	-Coordinating council
-Situation
-Ronald W. Reagan
	-Unknown appointee

Hoopes and Hoopes left at 1:15 pm

Conversation No. 575-2

Date:  September 17, 1971
Time:  1:17 pm - 2:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Congress
-Results of vote
-Marlow W. Cook's vote

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:17 pm.

Schedule
-Delay in arrival of other meeting participants

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:23 pm.

Supreme Court
-Call from John N. Mitchell to Haldeman
-Justice Hugo L. Black
-Resignation
-Call to Mitchell from the Chief Justice
-Black
-Letter to the President
-Resignation
-Notification of Court

-Time
-Announcement
	-Warren E. Burger's recommendation
	-Haldeman and Mitchell's recommendation
	-Speculation by reporters
	-William O. Douglas
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Press briefing
-Burger
	-Mitchell
	-Press
-Burger
-Meeting with John N. Harlan
-Health
	-Bethesda Naval Hospital
-Resignation
-Possible appointees
	-Richard H. Poff
	-American Bar Association [ABA]
	-Law practice
		-Membership on Judiciary Committee
	-Mitchell's recommendation
	-Lawrence E. Walsh
-William French Smith
-Harlan vacancy
-Californian
-Chairmanship of Board of Regents
-Age
-Jewish
	-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
	-Philadelphian [Arlen Specter?]
-Mexican-American

Bowling
-The President's meeting with World International Bowling Federation visitors
-White House bowling alley visit
-Gutter ball
-Strike
-Comeback
-Ziegler
-Photographers
-Type of pictures
-Vida Blue
-Strike
-Pictures
-Unnamed woman
-Strike
-Bowlers
-Commercial
-Gutter balls
-Strikes

Military service draft extension bill
-Vote outcome
-Response
-Administration efforts
-Gordon L. Allott
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Reaction to defeat
-Wording of statement on Vietnam War
-Phrase "Nixon's war"
-Reaction to Vietnam War
	-Vietnam
	-Beginning of war
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC] speech
	-Mansfield
	-Wording of statement
	-Phrase "Nixon's war"

The President's meeting with bowlers

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:17 pm.

Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:23 pm.

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Cabinet positions
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Replacement for Clifford N. Hardin
-Haldeman's talk with Mitchell
-Louie B. Nunn
-Timing
-Lieutenant Governor
-Requirements for Secretary of Agriculture
-Farm background
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Communication, political abilities
	-Nunn

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 1:17 pm.

World International Bowling Federation tournament visitors
-Bowling
-Photographers
-Bowling
-Ziegler
-Number of attempts made during the President's visit to White House bowling alley
-Edwin Luther
-Number of attempts
-Photo
-Strike
-Consistency in the President's game
-Strategies
-Press photographers and wire service
-Reactions
-Blue
-Comparison
-Actions

Press corps
-Reaction to bowling photo opportunity
-Contrast to daily routine
-Photos of the President in office setting

Bowling
-Amateur winners
-Bowling abilities
-Nervousness during White House visit
-The President's effort

Colson entered at an unknown time after 1:17 pm

Bowling
-Strike comeback analogy

	Vietnam
	-Military service draft amendment
	-Mansfield
	-Wording of statement
	-Use of phrase "Nixon's war"
	-Phrase "Johnson's war"
	-Public exposure
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Observation of Mansfield's speech
	-Presentation
	-Vote results
	-Anticipated result
	-Allott
-Ziegler's statement to press
		-Democrat caucus on Capitol Hill
-Collecting information
-Telephone calls
-Wire services
-Conversations with Senators
	-Associated Press [AP], United Press International [UPI]
-Ziegler's statement to the press
-Official comment
-William L. Safire
-Report
-Mansfield's statement
-The press
-Requesting information
-Administration's response
-Handling of Vietnam in Congress
-Senate floor
-Use of phrase "Nixon's war"
-Response
-Democrat responsibility
-Origins of war
-The President's role in negotiations for peace settlement
-Defense of the President
-Robert J. Dole
	-Planned opposition to Mansfield
-MacGregor
-Strategy for response
-Mansfield's statement
-Press coverage
-Caucus
-Response to opposition
-Patrick J. Buchanan's views
-Perception of partisan, obstructionist behavior
-National security, Vietnam and economic issues

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Press briefing
-Questions from press on vice presidential candidates
-[Charles W. Bailey, II]
-Ziegler's response
-Presidential candidate qualifications
-Black candidate

Vietnam
		-The President's press conference of September 16, 1971
			-Press response to answer
				-Television
			-Comment about Ngo Dinh Diem and Nguyen Van Thieu
-Pentagon Papers
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Boston Globe's account

Economic policies
-Phase II
-Spokesperson for administration
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-William Proxmire
-Response
-Senators
-Suggestions to the President

Governors Conference

Schedule
-Wilbur D. Mills
-John W. Byrnes

Economic policies
-Profits
-Interest rates
-Bank profits
-Limits
-Possible meeting with bankers
-Prime rate
	-Connally
-Labor union leaders
-J. Walter Thompson
	-American Bankers Association
-Comparison in the public's perception
-Issue of business competition
-Inflation, profits
-Status of banking industry
-Radio commercials
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
	-Interest rates
-Charls E. Walker
-Concerns
-Compared to labor, business, agricultural groups, governors group
-Control of interest rates
-Prime rate

White House public relations
-Response to perceived Democrat partisan obstructionists
-Meeting between Haldeman, Colson, and Ziegler
-Strategy
-Possible speech by Spiro T. Agnew
-Possible outcome
-Agnew's image
-Speechwriter
-Partisanship issue
-Change of focus from comments on the press

National Security Industrial Association [NSIA]
-Businessmen
-Military-industrial complex
-Response

White House public relations
	-Partisanship
		-Administration response
			-Strategy
		-UPI
	-Agnew
		-Media
		-Unknown person
	-Press conference
	-Oval Office press conference
	-Handling
	-Warfare analogy
	-World War I
	-World War II
-Strategy
-Effectiveness of in-office press conference
	-Bailey, print media
	-Lack of television footage
	-Effectiveness without television
	-David Brinkley
	-Effectiveness
	-Impact of comments from press conference
	-Time element
	-Newspaper, radio, and television
	-Effect of message
	-Reporting of press conference
	-Three major television networks
	-Time spent on press conference coverage
	-Comparison to story on Look magazine's poll
	-Immediate effect
		-PRC initiative
		-Draft
	-Radio, local news coverage
-Prime time television
-Press conferences
-Effectiveness
-News time
-Usage by the administration
-Coverage on the President
-News time
-Prime time
-The President's use of time
-Meeting recommendations from John D. Ehrlichman
-Effectiveness of meetings
-Preparation for press conferences
-Time element involved
-Oval Office press conference
-Advantages
-Preparation
-Time element
-Amount of the President's television exposure
-Speeches
-Detroit trip
-Regional or national television broadcast of speech
-Strategy in handling the press
-Media attitude
-Ziegler's conversation with William Small
	-Network’s commercial interests
	-Reporting on the economy
			-Regional coverage
			-Manipulation
-Contact with the President
-Handling, nature
-Communicating with the American people
-Press attitudes
-Effect of different types of press conferences
-Television news reporting
						-Dan Rather, Robert Pierpoint, Thomas E. Jarriel, Herbert Kaplow
-Effect of print media
-Length of press conferences
-Presidential leadership
-Newsmakers
-Connally
-Administration officials
-William P. Rogers
-Effect
-Type of news
-Effect
-Melvin R. Laird
	-Troop withdrawal
-Connally
-Public perceptions
-The President's role
-Network news
-Staff role
-Television coverage
-Key points
-Time element
-Presidential leadership
-Reporting results
-Rather
-Press conference
-Oval Office
-Rather's reporting
-Rather
-Types of question
-Projection of leadership
-The President's response to question on Edmund S. Muskie comment about Vice Presidency
-Qualifications of candidates
-Race, gender
-Edith Efron
	-Daughter
-Husband
-Co-author
-The President's image
-Television coverage
-Trips
-Airport landings
-Live coverage
-Impact
-Air Force One, the Spirit of ’76
			-Moon landing
-Public impressions
-Press conferences
-Speeches
-Impact
-Type of impression of the President
-Office press conference
-Reasons
-Disciplining the Administration
-Amount of preparation
-Comparison to usual press conference
-Press reporters
-Individuals
-Attitude toward the President
-Type of stories
-Perceptions of presidential in-office press conference
-Handling by the President
-Comparison
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Kennedy
-Muskie
-Press conferences
-Importance
-Office press conferences
-Impressions of the President
-Importance
-Press evaluation
-Speculation
-Question and answer session [Q&A]
-East Room setting
-Preparation
-Effect
-Members of the press
-Opponents of the administration
-Impressions
-John W. Chancellor
	-News summary
-Opinion of the President expressed in speech
-Change
-Attitude
-News coverage
-Reporting on the President
-Journalism
-Issues
-Television reporters
-Questions for the President
-Jarriel
-Kaplow
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] reporters
-Speculations about the President
-Frame of mind
-Feelings
-Perceptions
-Press appearances
-Appearances on the air
-Pierpoint
-Attitude
-Type of story
-Amount of money
-Office press conference
-Time
-Location
-Announcement
-Impact
-Evening news
-Time duration
-Time of broadcast
-News time
-Network response
-Press conference
-New York network response
-Tape delay broadcast
-Regular news time
-Advantage of live broadcast
-Network coverage
-July 3, 1971; July 15, 1971; August 15, 1971 speech broadcasts
-Prime time
-Dates
-Time of day
-Previous televised news conference
-Results
-Amount of news coverage
-Television news
-Speech coverage
	-American Legion
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Live television conference
-East Room
-Time
-Type of coverage
-Amount
-Impact
-Prime time
-News time
-Timing
-Monthly
-Type of event
-Press conference
-Q&A
-Detroit trip
-Type of press coverage
-Speech
-Regional coverage
-New York
-Chicago
-College or university visit
-Types of audiences
-Enthusiasm
-The President's speeches
-Equal time issues in pre-election period
-Economics
-Vietnam War
-Presentation of the administration's policy
-Detroit
-Prime time press coverage
-Time duration
-Conflict with movie broadcast
-Change in time duration
-Press conferences
-Time duration
-Forthcoming election
-Impact
-American Association of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
-Format of event
-Impact
		-Economy
-Detroit
-Timing
-The President's speech before Congress, September 9, 1971
-The President’s speech of August 15, 1971
-Local and network coverage of speeches
-Presentation of speech
-Replay broadcast
-Network television shows
-National independent local news shows
- Detroit Economic Club speech
-Replay on television
-Local station
-CBS news
-"Today" show
-Prime time television
	-East Room
-Newscasters
-Interest in the President
-Types of questions
-Detroit trip
-Panelists
-Economic questions
-Procedure for questioning
-Processing
-Air time
-Variety of questions
-Range
-Panel
-Network members
-Number
-Ziegler’s view
-Q&A
-Format
-Effectiveness for the President
-Various forms of reporting
-Q&A
-The President as Vice President
-The President's speeches
-Questions
-Talk shows
-Popularity
-National telethon
-Answering mail
-Television
-Prime time
-Need
-Audience
-Number
-Effectiveness
-Television
-Audience
-Number of people
-Effectiveness
-Q&A
-Time of day
-Number of people
-Effectiveness
-Format
-Development
-Cabinet Room
-Meeting with the President
-Labor leaders
-Business
-Agricultural leaders
-Governors
-Press conference
-Chicago
-Cleveland
-Cincinnati
-Impact
-Time of coverage
-Prime time
-Time zone
-Chicago
-Noon
-Afternoon
-Prime time
-Regional areas
-Network programming
-Live coverage
-Prime time
-National compared to local coverage
-Individuals asking questions
-Henry A. Kissinger's press contacts
	-George Putnam
	-Columnists
-Local networks
-Major cities
-Jerry Dumfy
-Robert G. Abernathy
-Cincinnati
-Cleveland
-Detroit
-Regional event coverage
-Impact
-Audience impact
-Regional coverage
-Network coverage
-Time of day
-Press conference
-Network live broadcast
-Types of coverage
-Monthly scheduling
	-Chicago
-Effectiveness of administration spokesmen
-Connally
-Agnew
-Use of time
-Oval Office meetings
-Gifts
-Impact
-Meetings with businessman
-Effectiveness
-Press coverage of Oval Office meetings
-Follow-up
-Handling of the President's meetings
-Association executives group
-Time spent on meeting
-Effectiveness
-Number of people
-Elliot L. Richardson's health issues meeting
-Effectiveness
-The President's use of time
	-Thinking
	Preparation for office press conference
-The President's administration
-Staff
-Meetings with groups
-Necessary meetings
-Meetings with staff members and relatives
-Usefulness
	-Richardson’s health issues meeting
-The President's meeting with bowlers
-Impact
-Effectiveness
-Projected versus actual amount of press coverage
	-Television coverage
	-Prime time
	-Use by the administration
	-Equal time
	-Impact
	-The President's appearance
	-Impact
	-Three major television networks
	-Prime time
	-Coverage
	-Ziegler's feedback from the press
	-News conference
	-East Room
	-Time differences in the United States
	-Cincinnati
	-Time
	-Ohio
	-Cleveland
	-Chicago
	-Time
	-Denver
	-Press conferences
	-East Room
	-Time differences in eastern and western regions of US
	-Amount of coverage
	-Local
	-Regional
	-News show
	-Press conferences
	-John F. Kennedy's handling of press conferences
	-Time
	-Number
	-Time of day
	-Press relations
	-Number
	-Frequency
	-Relationship with the press
	-Focus
	-Prime time
	-Equal time
	-Three major networks
	-Political broadcasts
	-One network
	-Audience
	-Application of equal time provision after political conventions
	-Legal requirements
	-The President's time
	-Prime time
	-Possibility of overexposure
	-Ideal time for television coverage
	-Benefits for the administration
	-Impact
	-Use of technology
	-Radio
	-Radio coverage
	-Impact
	-Time duration of statement

Ziegler and Colson left at 2:32 pm.

Trip to Thurmont, Maryland
-Helicopter ride
-Time
-Drive
-Time
-Weather
-Thunderstorms

The President and Haldeman left at 2:32 pm.

Conversation No. 575-3

Date:  September 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:32 pm and 2:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Greetings

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:32 pm.

	President’s schedule
		-Upcoming meeting with Congressional leaders
			-Number of people absent
				-John B. Connally
		-Meeting with George P. Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:34 pm.

Pen

Schedule
-Unidentified trip
	-Time
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Haldeman

Sanchez left and Shultz entered at 2:34 pm.

Congressional leadership meeting
-Briefing
-Shultz's possible statement
-The President's possible statement

-Presentation
-William Proxmire
-Spiro T. Agnew
	-Governors meeting
-Clark MacGregor
-The President's possible statement
-Shultz
-Wage and price freeze
-Effectiveness
-Cooperation
-Support for program

Economic policies
-Industrial production index
-Reflection on the President's policies
-Preliminary report
-Gross National Product [GNP] goal
-Percentage
-Housing starts
	-Rise
		-Record high figure

Congressional meeting
-Economic legislation
-Deadline
-Date
-Extension
-Time
-Handling
	-The President’s possible statement
		-Unknown person’s statement
-Herbert Stein

The President and Shultz left at 2:37 pm.

Conversation No. 575-4

Date:  September 17, 1971
Time:  4:24 pm - 4:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Alexander P. Butterfield.
[This recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress]

John D. Ehrlichman

Deferment of action

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 4:28 pm.

Supreme Court
-Hugo L. Black
-Letter of resignation
	-Timing
		-Ziegler's announcement
		-Time
		-John N. Mitchell
		-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
		-Ehrlichman
			-Warren E. Burger

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:24 pm and 4:28 pm.

[Conversation No. 575-4A]

[See Conversation No. 575-4B]

Call to Burger

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court
-Resignation of Black

-Information
	-Ziegler’s statement
-Time
-Letter
-Time
-Meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Health reasons for resignation
-Burger
-Call to Ehrlichman
-Time
-The President's statement
-Supreme Court appearances
	-Black's qualities as Justice
	-Handling of issues

The President talked with Burger between 4:28 pm and 4:32 pm.

[Conversation No. 575-4B]

[See Conversation No. 9-63]

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court
-Resignation of Black
-Announcement
-Burger's idea
-Ziegler's forthcoming call to Mitchell
-Resignation of Black
-Press questions
	-Anticipation
	-Successor
	-Qualifications
	-The President’s previous comments

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.

	President’s schedule

Robert T. Stafford

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

Supreme Court
-Successor to Black
	-Answers to press
	-Qualifications
	-Geography

Stafford meeting
-Photographers

Black
	-Forthcoming story
-Supreme Court

Ziegler left at 4:33 pm.

Conversation No. 575-5

Date:  September 17, 1971
Time:  4:34 pm - 4:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert T. Stafford, Mrs. Helen C. Stafford, Neil Houston, William E. Timmons, and Charles W. Colson.

Greetings

Colson

Stafford’s hometown

Press photographs

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 4:34 pm.

Supreme Court
	-Forthcoming announcement
	-Resignation
	-Hugo Black
	-Hospital

	[Photographs]

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 4:41 pm.

Presidential gifts
-Cuff links
-Stafford's secretaries
-Golf balls
-Paperweight

Congress
-House of Representatives
	-The President’s experience
-Senator
-Activities
-Beliefs
-Causes
-Vermont
-Weight of representation in Senate
-New York
-Pennsylvania
-California
-William F. Knowland
-Hiram Johnson

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Controversy

Regards

Presidential gifts

Stafford
-Qualifications
-Staff
-Employment
		-Governor's term
-Mrs. Stafford

Stafford, et al. left at 4:41 pm.

Conversation No. 575-6

Date:  September 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:41 pm and 4:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Stan Smith
-Return of telephone call

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:43 pm

Conversation No. 575-7

Date:  September 17, 1971
Time:  4:43 pm - 6:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Weather
-Effect on schedule

Oval Office
-Temperature

Weather
-Storm

Bi-partisan Congressional leadership meeting

Cancer public event
	-Legislation

Economy
-Housing starts
-Statistics
	-Number

The President's conversation with Charles W. Colson

Supreme Court
-Vacancies

-Resignation
-Appointments
-John M. Harlan
-Potter Stewart
-Warren E. Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Number
-Harlan
-Qualities
-Appointments
-Future
-William O. Douglas, Thurgood Marshall
	-Handwritten letters to Hugo L. Black, Harlan
	-Harlan
		-Black
	-Term as Justice
	-Duration

Scheduling
-Jack F. Kemp's comment about possible meetings
-Black athletes
-"Cookie" Gilchrist
-Fullback
-Ernie Ladd
-Support for the President
-Follow-up
-Robert H. Finch
-Jeb S. Magruder

White House strategy
	-Use of best means
	-War, politics
	-Comparison of handling

Edward R.F. Cox
-Harvard Republican Club
-Membership
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Speaker
-Lee W. Huebner
-Handling

Bi-partisan Congressional leadership meeting
-Allen J. Ellender
-Wage and price freeze
		-Wilbur D. Mills
		-National impact

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:43 pm.

	President’s schedule
	-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] extension bill
	-Discussion with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's schedule
-Trip
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Tehran, Iran
-John [Surname unknown]
-Trip route
-Stops
-Greece
-Time duration
-William P. Rogers
-Brussels
-Nigeria
-Liberia
-Ceylon
-Greece
-Politics
-Turkey
		-Greece
-Henry A. Kissinger's advice
	-Domestic criticism
	-Henry Tasca
	-Discussion with Kissinger
	-Government
	-George Papadopoulos
	-Meeting with Tasca on visit
	-Stance on conditions
	-Action
	-Probability of action
		-Turkey
			-Rogers’s view on visit
		-Trip
		-Timing
-Countries
-Type
-Pakistan
-Iran
-Greece
-Turkey
-Alternatives
		-Brussels
-Nigeria
-Liberia
-Kissinger
-Delegation
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Leadership

President William R. Tolbert, Jr. of Liberia
-Letter

Letter to Leonard H. Goldenson
-Draft by Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President's signature
-Rose Mary Woods

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's television broadcast
-Paul W. Keyes
-Kay Gardella
-New York Daily News
-Review

Ehrlichman entered at 5:01 pm.

Greetings

OEO extension bill
-Type
-Veto
-Senate, House
-Administration's action
-New economic policy
-Businesses
-Administration's strategy
-Press reports
-Story
-Administration action
-Type of bill
-Gerald R. Ford
-Albert H. Quie
-Effort
-Bill

Supreme Court appointments
-Black
-Letter of resignation
-Date
-Time
-Type
		-The President’s conversation with Burger
-John M. Harlan
-Conservatives
-Richard H. Poff
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Clearance issue
-Legalities
	-ABA
	-Supreme Court list of appointees
	-Acceptance
	-Impact
	-Judgments
-Appointees
-Practicing lawyer
-Political area
-Poff
-Judiciary Committee
-John N. Mitchell
-ABA
-Poff
	-ABA
	-Mitchell
	-Exceptions
	-Practicing law
	-Term on Judiciary Committee in Congress
	-Length of term
	-Poff
	-Supreme Court appointment
	-Choice
	-Bar
	-Practicing law
	-Father
	-Background
	-William French Smith
	-Ronald W. Reagan
	-California
	-Corporation lawyer
-The President's goals
-Age requirements
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Articulation
-Principles
-Appointment
-Vice President's position
-Time schedule
-Months
-Vacation
	-Palm Springs, Florida
	-Newport, Rhode Island
-Appointment
-Agnew's image
-Time
-Senate confirmation
-Confirmation of Vice President
-Weinberger
-Conservative
-California
-Jewish ethnicity
	Perceptions
-Religious background
-Intelligence
-Discipline
-Strictness
-Conservative views
-Economics
-Criminal, social issues
-Welfare
-Civil rights
-Welfare
-Budget
-Civil rights
-Racism
-Busing
-Weinberger's position
-Smith
-Senate
-Robert C. Byrd
-Ku Klux Klan
-Alan Cranston
-California

Anti-trust television network suit
-Memorandum from Ehrlichman to the President
-Colson
-Advice
-Meeting between the administration and network representatives
-Administration's position
-Meeting between the administration and radio broadcasting representatives
-Advance notice

Economy
	Business Index from California
-1971
-July
-November 1970
-Compared to 1969-1970
-Counties
-Number
-Unemployment figures
-Security First National Bank
-Indicator of business and industry conditions
-Source of compilation
-Finance
-Trade
-Industry
-Employment
-Building
-Real estate activities
-Transactions
-Number
-California
-Reagan's analysis
-Unemployment figures
	-Sampling survey

J. Edgar Hoover
	-Possible appointment to Supreme Court
-Status of Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] directorship
-Handling
	-Mitchell
-Projected announcement
-Projected Hoover reaction
-Personal files
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Senator

Johnson
-Pentagon Papers
-Walt W. Rostow
-Newspaper statement
-William A. Gill, Jr.
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] News
-Texas
	-Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
	-Airport at Austin
	-Flight to Washington, DC
	-John A. Scali
-Gill's conversation with Mrs. Johnson during plane flight
-Lyndon Johnson's position on the President's foreign policy
-Goals
-Improvisation
-The President's policies
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
	-Rostow's anniversary party
	-Time
	-Lyndon Johnson's statement
	-Nixon's foreign policy stance
	-Lyndon Johnson's domestic policy stance
	-Edmund S. Muskie
	-Election
	-Scali's White House position
	-Johnson's interest
	-Advice to the President
-Scali
-Position on newspaper report
-Language
-Muskie
-Election
-Nomination
-Mrs. Johnson

Supreme Court
-Appointments
-Ehrlichman's work
-John M. Harlan
-Confirmation

Ehrlichman left at 5:18 pm.

Lyndon Johnson
-Graham
-Democrat
-Vietnam
-Event in Washington
-Value

Scali
-Kissinger's advice
	-Vice President's traveling party
	-Press relations
-Bryce N. Harlow

United Nations [UN]
-Swearing in ceremony for US delegation
-The President's attendance
-Delegation
-Arthur A. Fletcher

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UN
-Delegation
-Charles C. Diggs, Jr.
-Edward J. Derwinski
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Alan G. Shepard, Jr, Fletcher
-Gladys O'Donnell
-The President's attendance
-Kissinger

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming trips to the Midwest, Northwest
-Attendees
-Robert P. Griffin, Ford
-Members of the Executive Board of the Detroit Economic Club
-Phillip A. Hart
	-Detroit
	-Meeting with Republicans
	-Montana trip
	-Delegation's travel arrangements
	-Michael J. Mansfield
	-State meeting with State Republicans
	-Location
	-Kalispell airport
	-Oregon
	-Delegation
	-Welcoming activities
	-Location
	-Meeting with State Republicans
	-Duration of stay
	-Reception
			-Washington
	-Congressional delegation
	-Meeting with the President
	-Location
	-Time
				-Meeting with State Republicans
	-Alaska
	-Reception
	-Walter J. Hickel
	-Location
	-The press
	-Meetings with the President

Book by Hickel
-Inscription
-Hickel

The President's schedule
-Mountain State Forest Festival
-Elkins, West Virginia
-Time
-Celebration of Fall foliage colors
-Attendance numbers
-Invitation to the President
-Harley O. Staggers
-Democratic Congressional delegation
-Festival Queen
-Helicopter trip
-Lt. Col. Ralph D. Albertazzie
-Time
-Impact of trip for the President
-John W. Rollins
-Visit
-Homes
-Republican National Committee [RNC] Dinner chairman
-Helicopter trip
-Cancer event
-Elmer H. Bobst
-The President's position
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Politics
-Mountain State Forest Festival
-Albertazzie
-Background
-The President's trip arrangements
-Helicopter
-Camp David
-Farewell interview by wire service reporter
-Douglas B. Cornell
-Retirement from the Associated Press [AP]
-Chalmers Roberts
-The Washington Post
-Cornell
-Meeting with the President
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Question and answer session [Q&A]
	-Interview option
	-Possible event for retirement farewell
		-House of Representatives
	-AP staff
	-White House press corps
	-Cocktail party farewell event
		-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-The President's acquaintanceship from Congressional period
-Cornell
-Mundt-Nixon Bill
-Names on bill
-Cornell's efforts
		-Haldeman's background in college
		-Interest in Nixon
		-University of California at Los Angeles
		-Picketing Communists
		-Demonstrators against bill
		-American Youth for Democracy

Press relations
-Q&A
-National Conference of Editorial Writers
-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
-Television
	-National Conference of Editorial Writers
	-Countrywide
	-Oklahoma City
	-Nixon as Vice President
	-Briefing
	-Editorial writers compared to publishers
	-Editorial page writers
	-Editorial writers for small newspapers
	-Briefing
	-Appearance by the President
-Q&A
-Format
-Effectiveness
-Preparation
-Frequency
-Comparison to press conference
-Ziegler's viewpoint
-Mood of the press
-Opposition
-Reflection on the President
-Type of stories
-Relationship with the President
-Press conference
-Kansas City appearance
-Impact
-PRC

Lyndon Johnson
		-Personality
-Domestic policy, foreign policy
-Effect
-Politics
-Inflation
	-Increase
-Programs

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Lyndon Johnson's policies
-Poverty programs
-Language
-Speaking English
-Effectiveness

Number

Kissinger entered at 5:37 pm.

Sanchez left at 5:37 pm.

Sanchez
	-Kissinger’s view

President’s schedule
-Rollins dinner
-Handling of visit
-Event's effect
-Delaware
		-Mountain State Forest Festival
	-Elkins, West Virginia
	-Event
	-Handling
	-Byrd
	-Staggers
	-Haldeman's forthcoming call to Byrd

Vietnam
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Bombing
-Time
-Location
	-Possible domestic response
-Bombing
-Time difference between Vietnam and the US
-Announcement
-Violations
-DMZ
	-Road
-US troop withdrawal
-Status
-Press
-Type of stories
-Bombing
-Diplomacy
	-Importance
-The President's meeting with Corneliu Bogdan
-Statements on Vietnam
	-Cambodia, Laos, PRC
-Negotiations between the US and North Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Xuan Thuy
-Prisoners of war [POWs]

Military service draft extension legislation
-Passage
-Comparison of vote to Mansfield Bill
-Vote
-Number
-Vietnam situation
-Gordon L. Allott
-Time
-Vote
-Number
-Wins
-Losses
-Press conference
-The President's statement
-Influence on voting
-Voting for or against
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Kissinger's conversation with Taft
-Votes
-Influence from the President's press conference statement
-Support for the President
-Telephone calls to Senators
-Strategy
-Impact of statements
-Senators

Vietnam
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger's statement
	-Press conference
-Directive of information
	-Foreign policy
-Associated Press [AP]/United Press International [UPI] meeting
-William R. Hearst
-Editorial on Vietnam
	-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Nguyen Cao Ky's supporter
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
	-West Coast
-Question on printing the editorial
-Kissinger's trip to New York
-Meeting with Howard Stein's group
-Strategy for handling
-Kissinger's forthcoming telephone conversation with Hearst
-Understanding of Vietnam issue
-Hearst's position
-The President's statement
-Time
-Effect on Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
-Jackson
-Letter to the President
-Vietnam
-Thieu
-Election
-Foreign aid
-Withholding
-Election in South Vietnam
-Relations with the press
-Administration position
-The administration
-Offensive
-George S. McGovern's position
-AP & UPI
-Kissinger's conversation
-Definition of ceasefire
-McGovern
-Terminology
-McGovern's trip to South Vietnam
-Shopping
	-Saigon
	-The President's trips
	-Shopping
	-Photographs
	-1967 trip
-Perceptions by US public
-South Vietnamese
-Prices
-McGovern's trip
-Treatment by South Vietnamese police
-Thieu
-Senatorial demeanor
-Mansfield
-Charles H. Percy
-Photographs
-Pitchfork
-Freedom City

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Telephone call to Kissinger
-Support from the President
-Television appearances
-Staff
-Liberals
-Ehrlichman
-Comparative position on Rockefeller's staff
-The radical right
-Attica prison incident

Max Lerner
-Analysis of the President
	-PRC policies
	-Economic policies
	-Comparison to Charles A.J.M. DeGaulle
	-Strategy
-John F. Kennedy
-Revolutionary policies
-US
-Liberal
-California
-University of California
-Lerner, James ("Scotty") Reston
-Honesty

Press relations
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Story on Ngo Dinh Diem
-Kissinger's staff

Vietnam
-Diem
-Death
-Beginning of US involvement
-Thieu
-End of US involvement
-Kissinger's former staff member
-Rockefeller
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] producer
-Television documentary specials
-Vietnam
-Kennedy
-Diem
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Lodge
-Handling of duties
-Ambassador
-Vietnam policy
-Health
-Physical health
-John Davis Lodge
	-Argentina
-Francesca Lodge

W. Averell Harriman
-Marriage
-Age

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Spanish language
-Interpretation
-Spanish phrase
-Phrase
-Latin culture

The President's trips
-Venezuela
-Lima, Peru
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
-Compliments
-Spanish-speaking press
-Spanish language term
-Macho
-Interpretation

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Lerner
-Press stories
-Impact on the administration

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	Pentagon Papers
	-Paul C. Warnke
	-Ehrlichman
	-Information
	-Paul H. Nitze
	-Sensitive information
	-Daniel Ellsberg
	-Leslie H. Gelb
	-Warnke
	-Nitze
	-Involvement
			-Ziegler
	-Gelb
	-FBI
	-Kissinger
	-Harvard
	-Student
	-Brookings Institute
	-Morton H. Halperin
	-Relationship with Ellsberg
	-Gelb
	-Tom C. Huston and Richard V. Allen
	-Brookings Institute
	-Gelb, Halperin

Vietnam war
	Lyndon Johnson
	-Vietnam War
-Johnson's views
-US involvement
-causes
-Diem
-Laos
-Ending
-Bombing
-Time duration
-Cambodian action
-Background history
-Laos
-Date
-Status of Vietnam War
-Boundaries
-Bombing
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Melvin R. Laird
-Time of action
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
-New York
-Handling
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-DMZ
-US forces
-Strikes
-Casualties
-Department of defense
-Comments for the press
-Diplomacy
-The President's meeting with Corneliu
-Kissinger’s activities
-Firing from north of the DMZ
-Possible public reaction
-Administration's response
-Fact sheet
-Violation of the DMZ
-DMZ
-Build-up of enemy forces
-US forces
-Casualties
-Increase
-Withdrawal
-Diplomacy
-Soviet Union
-Memoranda from Kissinger to the President
-POWs
-National Security Council [NSC]

NSC
-Meeting
-Handling
-Briefing
-Richard M. Helms
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Military situation
-Thieu
-Government structure
-Withdrawal of troops
-Speculation
-Coordination with participants
-Agnew
-John B. Connally
-Mitchell
-Rogers
-Laird

Vietnam war
-Rogers
-Vietnam negotiations
-Options
-Negotiations
-Thieu
-South Vietnamese government
-Hanoi
-South Vietnamese
-Situation
-Kemp
-1968 trip to South Vietnam
-McGovern
-Shopping in Saigon
-Earlier situation in South Vietnam
-Kemp's analysis
-[Sir Robert] Thompson
-Bangkok
-Vietnam
-Date
-Haig
-Trip to Vietnam
-Offensive
-North Vietnam
-Status
-Laos
-Supplies
			-I Corps
-Timing of military action
-Attacks
-Highlands region
-Elections
-Attack
-Strategies
-Thieu
-US position
-North Vietnam
-Strategies
-Negotiations
-Attack
-US
-Strategy
-Buildup
-North Vietnam
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams
-Meeting with Kissinger
	-June 1971
-Attack
-Time duration
-Supplies
-Impact
-Bombing in the north

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 6:05 pm.

Meeting

Piano concert
	-“Mass”
-Kissinger's attendance with Princess Irene
-Leonard Garment
			-Postmaster General
-Type of concert
-Leonard Garment
-Frederic Chopin
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
-Chamber music

Kissinger left at 6:12 pm.

Message
-Hand delivery
-Messenger

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:19 pm.

Court
-Appointees
-Edward Girando [sp?]
-Age
-Type of individual
-District Court

Supreme Court
-Appointee

The President's workload and schedule
-Management of work
-Authority
-Leadership
-Cabinet Room
-Offices
-Meetings
-Relationship to leadership
-Ineffectiveness
-Leadership
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Press questions
-Weekly press conferences compared to Cabinet meetings
-NSC meetings

Press conferences
-Last press conference
-Impact
-John F. Kennedy
-Leadership
-Press conferences

Speeches
-Format
-Effectiveness
-External factors
-Congress
-Congress speeches compared to other speeches

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 6:12 pm.

Supreme Court
-Appointees
-Retirements
-Black
-Note from the President
-Harlan
-Supreme Court announcement
-Press reaction
-Ziegler's press briefing
-Leadership meeting
-Supreme Court announcement
-Black
-Resignation
-Conversation between the President and Burger
-Press question
-Supreme Court announcement
-Indications
-Conversation with Charles S. Rhyne
-Response
-Rhyne
-Relationship with Supreme Court announcement

Eugene V. Risher
	-UPI
-Washington, DC
-Trip
-Neiman Fellowship
-Meeting with the President

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 6:19 pm.

Risher
		-Type of job

Wire services
-Handling
-Impact

Ziegler and Risher entered at 6:19 pm.

Greetings

Photograph

Risher's background

The Citadel
		-Type of school
-Trip by the President
-Mark W. Clark
		-Investment trust board

Best wishes

Presidential gifts
-Risher
-Mrs. Risher
-Golf
-Paperweight
-Official Presidential seal

Neiman Program
-Harvard University fellowship

Campaign
-1972
-Risher's location

Risher's background
-Journalistic coverage of President Nixon
-Vietnam
-1968 campaign
			-Announcement
-Mrs. Risher
-Meeting with the President
-Time

Helen A. Thomas

Norman Kempster
-Substitution for Risher
-Trips

Risher
-Harvard University fellowship
-Opportunity
-Timing
-Father
-Harvard fellowship
-Response

Risher and Ziegler left at 6:23 pm.

Conversation prior to Risher's entrance

The press
	-Wire services

The President and Haldeman left at 6:24 pm.