Conversation No. 592-1

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  9:00 am - 9:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 11-86]

Conversation No. 592-2

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  9:13 am - 9:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

Dr. Walter R. Tkach talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 11-87; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 592-3

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:14 am and 9:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Dr. Walter R. Tkach

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:32 am.

Conversation No. 592-4

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  9:32 am - 9:34 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Dr. Walter R. Tkach.

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Dr. Tkach left at 9:34 am.

Conversation No. 592-5

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:34 am and 9:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Request for meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.

Conversation No. 592-6

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:36 am and 11:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

John B. Connally's schedule
		-Hot Springs, Arkansas
-James D. Hughes
	-Use of airplane
-Donald McI. Kendall
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon's schedule

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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:38 am.

Supreme Court nominees
-John N. Mitchell
-Woman appointment
	-Press stories
-Ziegler's possible comments to the press

Ziegler left at 9:40 am

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Agriculture
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Meeting with Jack Miller on October 13, 1971
-Corn prices
-Corn blight
-Corn harvest
-Possible departure from post
-Miller
-The President's schedule
-Carl T. Curtis
	-Haldeman’s view
-Corn
-Prices
	-Price supports
		-Possible administration action
-Politics
-Robert J. Dole
-Wheat
-Significance
-Ohio, Illinois, Indiana
-Wheat
-Hogs
-Miller
-Milk
-Hardin
-Hardin
-Possible successors
-Mitchell
-Louis B. Nunn
-Earl L. Butz
-Unintelligible name [Irwin Coates?]
-Butz
-Possible tenure
-Mitchell
-Requirements
	-Miller
-William B. Spong
	-Sugar

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Agriculture
-William J. Scherle
-Hardin

	The President’s schedule
		-Senators

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	Michael J. Mansfield amendment
		-Administration action
			-Strategy
-F. Edward Hebert
-Military procurement
-Timing for seeking legislation
	-Administration strategy
-Trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons
-Hebert
-Leslie C. Arends
-Melvin R. Laird
-MacGregor
-Republicans

Peace
-Nationwide moratorium, October 13, 1971
-Veterans Day event
-White House march
-Permit
-Campuses
-Grades
-Scholarships

Connally
-Conversation with the President
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Work habits
-Compared with the President

The President's schedule
-Reception for Citizens for a New Prosperity
-Composition of group
-Robert B. Anderson
-Judge William E. Walk
-Rotary
-Receiving lines
-League of Women Voters
-Leonard Garment
-Aid to underdeveloped countries
-Arthur F. Burns
-Level of knowledge of people at receptions
-John Birch Society
-Receptions
-After dinner entertainment at the White House
-Marshal Josef Broz Tito

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Corn prices
-George P. Shultz
-Price support increases
-Hardin
-Curtis
-Miller
-Curtis
-MacGregor's possible call

Support for the President's policies
-Miller
-Curtis
-Miller
-Charles H. Percy

The President's schedule
-Miller
-Page Belcher
-Aircraft highjacking convention
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Charles W. Colson
-State Department
-Malcolm S. Toon
-Tito
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Flight
-Graham
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Camp Hoover
-Weather
-Camp David
-Description
-Mrs. Lewis

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-Lewis
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
	-Graham
-Mrs. Lewis
-Connally
-Business Council

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:40 am.

John D. Ehrlichman's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:18 am.

Agriculture
-Hardin

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:40 am.

Ehrlichman's schedule
-Newsweek magazine
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:18 am.

-Henry Hubbard

Laird
-Previous press conference
	-The President’s accomplishments

Supreme Court
-Nominations
-Mitchell
-American Bar Association [ABA]
	-The President’s view

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 10:18 am.

Agriculture
-Corn prices and federal subsidies
-Hardin's position
	-The President’s view
-Budget
-Robert J. Dole
-Wheat
	-Political benefit
-Political importance
	-Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
-Tobacco, wheat, soy beans
-Milk
-Colson
-Administration action
-Importance of swift action
-Hardin's successor
-Haldeman
-Butz
-Nunn
		-Corn subsidies
			-The President’s schedule
	-Miller
	-Curtis

Haldeman left at 10:25 am.

Supreme Court appointments
-Mitchell
-Nominations
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Warren E. Burger
-ABA
	-Future submissions
		-The President’s view
-Democrats
-Media
	-Leaks of names
-Dow Jones wire
-The President's previous conversation with Ziegler
	-Possible women nominee
-Mitchell
-Announcements
			-The President’s plan
-Herschel H. Friday
				-By New York Times
				-Background
				-Political outlook
-John W. Dean, III
	-William J. Brennan
-Political outlook
-Wife
-League of Women Voters
-J. William Fulbright
			-Charles Clark
				-Mississippi
			-Friday
				-Ehrlichman’s questioning
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Husband
	-Investigation
-Friday
-Dean
-(Miranda v. Arizona) Decision
-Busing
-Forced integration
-Political outlook
-Clark
-Forthcoming interview with Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Mitchell's views
-Mississippi
-James O. Eastland
-Judicial experience
-Friday
-Civil Rights
-Dean
-Confirmation
-Richard H. Poff
-California candidate
	-William French Smith
-William H. Mulligan
-Catholics
-Conservatives
-Southerners' concerns
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Poff
-Friday
	-The President’s view
-Mitchell
-Dean
-Women
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Qualifications
	-Educational and professional background
-Senate Judiciary Committee
-Federal Bar Association
-Arizona
-Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Mitchell
	-The President’s view
		-Conservative
-Byron R. (“Whizzer”) White
-Rhodes scholar
-Background
			-South
	-Haynesworth, Carswell, Poff
-Political considerations
-Kleindienst
-President's possible conversations with Mitchell
-Dean
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman's possible conversation 
	-Appointments
-Kleindienst
-Eastland
-Age
-Justice Department
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Robert T. Mardian
-Friday
-Dean
-Kleindienst
-ABA

Newsday series on the President's finances
	-Purchase
	-Lots
-Stock sale
-Article, October 14, 1971
	-Stock sale
	-Ehrlichman’s investigation
-Preemptive right of stockholders
-Price
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield's investigation
-Dick Wilson
	-Ehrlichman
-The President's departure from his law firm
-Mitchell
-Garment
			-Possible story
-Stock purchases
	-The President’s recollection
-Fred T. Maroon
	-Ehrlichman’s investigation
-Charter Corporation
-Joseph D. Tydings
-Colson
-Life Magazine
		-Press plan
			-Ehrlichman
	-Columnists
	-The President’s view
	-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Contents of article
	-Accuracy
-Wilson
	-Ehrlichman
-Article
-Rebozo
	-Knowledge
-Schedule
-Ehrlichman's schedule
-The President's schedule
-Camp Hoover
-North Carolina
-Graham
-Series of articles
-The President’s view
-Ehrlichman’s assessment
-Inquiries to White House
-Dean's replies
-Rebozo's transactions with Federal government
-Relationship with the President
-Fisher’s Island, Coco Lobo
-Dante B. Fascell
-Park Department
-Contract
		-Fisher’s Island
			-Ehrlichman’s assessment
	-Price per share of stock
		-Rebozo
		-The President’s recollection
-Maroon
-Contacts with the President
-Rebozo
-Question of libel
	-Rebozo’s godson
-Florida
-Schedule
-Wilson
	-Law firm
	-Ehrlichman’s previous conversation
	-The President’s action
-The President's account
-The Pierre Hotel
-The President's sale
-Fisher's Island
	-Documents
		-Improvements
	-Need for response
-Jews
-Newsday magazine
-Marty Schram
-Greenstein, Greenberg [Robert Greene]
-Rebozo
	-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Rebozo
		-Possible comments to press
		-Possible libel suit
-Media
-News summary
-Colson
	-Accuracy of press
-Walter Cronkite
-Investigation
-Johnson
	-[Forename unknown] Morrison
		-Administration response
			-The President’s finances
-Drew Pearson
-Allegations
-Jack N. Anderson
			-Law firm
-Possible conversation with Ehrlichman
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Kissinger

Conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:08 am.

Conversation No. 592-7

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:08 am and 11:16 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Charles W. Colson

Sanchez and Bull left at an unknown time before 11:16 am.

Conversation No. 592-8

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:08 am and 11:16 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Charles W. Colson

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

Conversation No. 592-9

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:08 am and 11:16 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Henry A. Kissinger

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:16 am.

Conversation No. 592-10

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  11:16 am - 12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Charles W. Colson's schedule

Hobart D. Lewis

Neal B. Freeman

Edith Efron's book
-Freeman
-DeVan L. Shumway
-William F. Buckley
-Bookstores
-Possibility of making book a best seller
-Controversy

Colson entered at 11:19 am.

-Broadcast magazine
-Clifford P. Hansen
-House of Representatives
-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
-Torbert H. MacDonald
-Harley O. Staggers
-Buckley
-"Firing Line"
-Mike Douglas show
-Television stations
-Congressmen
-Dean G. Acheson
-"Accuracy in Media"
-Views

-Network concerns
-Efron 
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Distribution of book
-Louis Harris
-Poll
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Blacks
-John P. Roche
-New York Times
-Forthcoming review
-Washington Post

Book by Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.'s review
			-People's Republic of China [PRC]
			-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
		-Colson’s view
-Melvin R. Laird
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Foreign policy
-Footnote
	-Colson
-Massachusetts primary
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Colson
-[Forename unknown] McCarthy
		-Evans

[Forename unknown] Pierce

Evans and Novak
-William L. Safire
-Efforts
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Efron book
-Freeman
-Irv Kupeiner's show
-George Putnam
-Los Angeles
-Finances for Efron's travels

George Meany
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Chappaquiddick

	Campaign practices
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
		-Campaign strategy
	-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kennedy

Laird's activities

John N. Mitchell's activities

The President's previous meeting with Harris
-National economy
-John B. Connally
-Ehrlichman
-Peace
-Kissinger
-Administration issues
-Colson

The President's schedule
-Aircraft hijacking convention
-John A. Volpe

The President's previous meeting with Harris
-Poll
-Haldeman
-Popular view of President
-Laos
-Campaign
-Peace
-Vietnam War
-Networks
-CBS
-JoAnne Haldeman
-Washington Star
-Unnamed Prisoner of War [POW]
-Manolo Sanchez
-POWs

Television networks
-Sam J. Ervin, Jr. Committee hearings
-Fred W. Friendly
-Strom Thurmond
-Performance
-Media
-Motorcycle accidents
-Vietnam

Comments on the President's Soviet Summit announcement
-Kissinger
-War in Vietnam
-Television
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Democrats
-Article by James Doyle
-Democratic National Committee
-Wage and price controls
	-Stock market
-Trip to USSR
-Trip to PRC
-Birch Bayh
-Harold E. Hughes
-Supreme Court nominees
-Robert C. Byrd
-Clement F. Haynesworth, G. Harrold Carswell
-George S. McGovern
-Muskie
-Byrd

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-Mike Royko's column
-Comparison of Nixon and Kennedy
-Posters
	-Campaign practices
		-Kennedy

Royko's column
-The President
-Kennedy

News summary remarks
-Boston Globe
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Kennedy
-Radio
-Impact on popular opinion
-Humphrey
-Democrats

George H. Gallup's poll
-Timing of release

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The President's accomplishments
-Vietnam
-PRC
-USSR

Networks
-Ziegler, Herbert G. Klein
-New York Times
-Washington Star
-Washington Post
-Vietnam
-David Brinkley
-Haldeman
-Vietnam
-Soviet Summit announcement
-Doyle

Republicans in Congress
-Goldwater
-Kennedy
-Administration involvement
-Edward W. Brooke
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-National figures
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Head count
-Clark MacGregor
-[Unintelligible name]
-United Press International [UPI]
-[Forename unknown] Smith
-Rumsfeld's views
-Congress
-Richard B. Russell
-William Proxmire
-Staff

The President's legislative accomplishments

Spiro T. Agnew
-Visit to Greece

National economy
-Stock market
-Labor
-Phase II
-Retail sales
-Paul W. McCracken
-Sales
-Harry Reasoner
-Dan Rather
-Jacob K. Javits

Cabinet
-Connally
-Agnew
-William P. Rogers
-[Unintelligible name]
-Kissinger
-Laird
-Edward M. Kennedy
-John A. Scali
-Maurice H. Stans
-John A. Volpe
-George Romney
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
	-Harold L. Ickes
-Connally
	-Democrat background
-Rumsfeld, Finch

Robert J. Dole
-Franklin C. Nofziger
-Networks
-Talk show
-Wichita, Kansas

Republican spokesmen
-The President's schedule
-California
-Cabinet
-Dole
-POWs
-Vermont
-Governor
-Federal Housing Administration [FHA]
-Becker Poll
-Importance 
-Finch
-California
-Patricia R. Hitt
-Rose Mary Woods
-Arkansas
-Missouri
-Gladys O'Donnell
-Mary Roebling
-Romana A. Banuelos
-MacGregor
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Samuel L. Devine
-Brown
-Senators
-Brooke
-Javits
-Charles H. Percy
-Javits
-Kissinger
-Effect of polls

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Instructions to Haldeman
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Kissinger

Ehrlichman

Colson left at 12:18 pm.

Camp Hoover

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:19 pm.

The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:24 pm.

Colson
-Compared to Mitchell

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:19 pm.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger's schedule
-Woods
-Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jorgensen

Butterfield left at 12:24 pm.

Haldeman left at 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 592-11

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:25 pm and 12:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule

	Items for the President’s signature
	-Autopen machine
	-Operation

The President and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:30 pm..

Conversation No. 592-12

Date:  October 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

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

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.