Conversation No. 597-1

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:05 am and 9:17 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman ?]

Frederic V. Malek

Conversation No. 597-2

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  9:17 am - 9:25 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Frederic V. Malek.

Appointments
-Women lawyers
-Jayne B. Spain

Telephone call from the Attorney General

Woman appointees
-Judges
-Unidentified woman

John N. Mitchell talked with the President between 9:19 am and 9:25 am.

[Conversation No. 597-2A]

[See Conversation No. 11-157; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Haldeman and Malek left at 9:19 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 597-3

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  9:28 am - 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Congress
-Wayne L. Hays
-Unknown event
	-Secret Service uniformed policeman
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
-Voting record
-Harry S. Dent
-William E. Timmons
-Hays
-Guest list for White House function
-Clark MacGregor
-Josip Broz Tito dinner
-White House police
-Reaction 
		-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
	-Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
	-Republican
-Supporters of Administration’s position
		-Democrats
-Dent's activities
	-Democrats
	-O. Clark Fisher
-The President's endorsement
-Democrats
-Vietnam War
-House of Representatives
-George H. Mahon
-David N. Henderson
-North Carolina
-Leslie C. Arends

-Robert C. Wilson
-Employees 
-Incumbents
-Dent
-Senate candidates
-Financing
-Support for the Administration

Supreme Court appointments
-Leaks
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-John D. Ehrlichman's staff
-The President's role
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Leaks
-State Department
-Henry A. Kissinger's office
-Economic program example
-The President's candidate
-John N. Mitchell
-Philadelphia
-ABA
-The President's announcement
-Television

The President's schedule
-Florida

John B. Connally's schedule
-Texas
-California
-Bankers meeting in San Francisco
-Ranch
-Possible meeting with the President for October 26, 1971

The President's schedule
-Possible press conference, October 27, 1971
-Kissinger's return
-Paris
-Press conference
-Vietnam
-Soviet announcement
-Meeting with Kissinger, October 25, 1971
-Budget meeting, October 26, 1971
-Meeting with Ehrlichman, October 26, 1971
-Connally
-Nobusuke Kishi
-Textile Agreement
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-William P. Rogers and George H. W. Bush, October 21, 1971
-Kishi
-White House dinner
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Bush
-Kishi

Unknown White House staff member [Connally ?]
-Compared with the White House staff members
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Robert P. Mayo

The President's schedule
	-The President's work habits
-Pace
-Visitors
-Jack Pardee
-Maxie Baughan
-Public relations
-Open door office hour
-Previous meeting with Multiple Sclerosis Society
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Kishi
-Dinner
-Mrs. Nixon
-Republican Women Reception
-Blair House
-F Street Club
-John S.D. Eisenhower
-Peter G. Peterson
-David M. Kennedy
-Foreign Service
-Rogers
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-Rogers
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Members of Congress
-Japanese Ambassador
-Haig
-Kishi's party
-Mitchell
-Arthur F. Burns
-George P. Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-Ezra Solomon
-Time, dress
-Entrance
-Music
-Honor guard
-Photographers
-Connally
-Schedule
-Texas
-Wright Patman

Connally
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Health

The President's schedule
-Kishi dinner
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peterson
-David M. Kennedy
-Interpreters
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Postal situation
-Board of Governors
-Kishi
	-Timing of dinner
-Republican woman
-Kishi
-Unknown location
-Florida
-Haldeman's schedule
-Proposed meeting with Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen
	-India, Pakistan, Greece
		-Frelinghuysen’s visit
-Haig
-Agha Sadruddin Khan
-United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees
-Pakistani refugees
-UN
-US response
	-Public relations
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Francis L. Kellogg
-The President’s view
-Vietnam veterans
-South Vietnam
-Hospitals
-Charles W. Colson, Haig, Herbert G. Klein, John A. Scali, Ronald L. Ziegler
-Colson
-Possible press coverage
-Thomas Vail
-Klein, Ziegler
-Interview
-Kishi
-Klein
-National Catholic Youth Organization Federation
-Director, Catholic Youth Activity
-Monsignor Leonard
-Sheraton-Park Hotel
-Officers
-Crown Prince of Ethiopia
	-The President’s view
-The President's forthcoming trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Secretary of Agriculture appointment
-John C. Whitaker
-Possible candidates
	-Criteria
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Earl L. Butz
-Norbert (“Bobby”) Tieman
-Harlow
-Louie B. Nunn
-Butz
	-The President’s view
-Bellmon
	-Mitchell’s view
	-Senate seat
		-Edmond Edmonson
		-[Forename unknown] Wilkinson
		-David E. Bartlett
				-Mitchell’s view
				-Qualifications
-Butz
-Tieman
-Harlow
-Nunn
-Butz
-The President’s view
-Bellmon
-Farm Bureau
-Vocation
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Age
-Experience
-Harlow
-Bellmon
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Butz
-Hardin
-Palmby
-Butz
-Bellmon
-Palmby
-Unintelligible name
-Democrats
-Fred R. Harris
-Edmondson
-Bellmon
-Bartlett
-Wilkinson

The President's schedule
-Vail
-Interviews
-Dinner

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Marilyn B. (“Missy”) Chandler [Mrs. Otis Chandler]
-Arts Council
-F Street Club
-JoAnn (Horton) Haldeman

Secretary of Agriculture appointment
-Possible candidates
-Bellmon
-Mitchell
-Butz
-Robert R. Spitzer
-Whitaker
-Hyde Murray
-Bellmon
-Palmby
-Butz
-Bellmon
-Whitaker
-Palmby
-Harlow
-Farmers
-Farm states
-Butz
-Vocation
-Bellmon
-Harlow, Thomas Hart
-Bellmon

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 9:25 am and 10:23 am.

[Conversation No. 597-3A]

[See Conversation No. 11-158]

[End of telephone conversation]

Cabinet appointment
-Harlow
-Connally
-Qualifications
-Bellmon

Cabinet
-Rogers
-Connally
-Support for the President
	-Statements
-Jack J. Valenti

The President talked with Bryce N. Harlow between 10:23 am and 10:35 am.

[Conversation No. 597-3B]

[See Conversation No. 11-159]

[End of telephone conversation]

Secretary of Agriculture appointment
-Butz
-Mitchell
-Harlow
-Ezra Taft Benson
-Bellmon

Appointment to the UN
-Haldeman's conversation with Rogers
-Andrew F. Brimmer
-Ralph Bunche
-U Thant
-Successor

Ziegler entered at 10:35 am.

	Supreme Court appointments
	-Relations with the news media
		-Mitchell’s schedule
			-Philadelphia
-Timing of announcement
-Selections
-Mitchell
-Names under consideration
	-ABA
-Timing of announcement
	-ABA
-ABA
	-Possible veto power
	-Name submissions
		-Warren E. Burger
	-Mitchell
	-Mildred L. Lillie and Herschel H. Friday
		-The President's position

	News media's actions
		-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
			-Economic policy
			-Soviet trip

	Supreme Court appointments
		-ABA
			-Burger
			-Press
		-Timing of announcement

Nobel Peace Prize
-Willy Brandt
-Announcement
-The President’s view
-Soviets
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Gerard C. Smith
-Brandt

Relations with the media
-Mary McGrory
-Kissinger
-Peking
-Peter Lisagor
-Klein, Scali
-New York Times
-Lisagor
-Klein, Scali
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Joseph A. Kraft
-Lisagor
-Martin Z. Agronsky's television show
-Ziegler's schedule, October 19, 1971
-Theodore H. White
-Press
-Lisagor
-John F. Osborne
-Lisagor
-Klein
-Bill Potter of Baltimore Sun
-Lisagor
-Klein
-Ziegler's relationship with Lisagor
-[Forename unknown] Sutherland
-The President's schedule for 1972
-White House correspondents' dinner
-Gridiron dinner
-Cabinet officers
-Supreme Court
-White House photographers' dinner
-Entertainment 
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Ziegler's relationship with the press
-Newsweek, Los Angeles Times
-Marty Schram
-Los Angeles Times
-Newsday magazine
-PRC trip
-Priorities
-Wire services
-Magazines
-Television
-New York Times
-Associated Press [AP], United Press International [UPI]

Ziegler left at 10:58 am.

Employment
-Jonathan C. Rose
-California
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Federal employment reduction
-Department of Defense
-Personnel policies
-Public broadcasting
-Peace Corps
-Rose
		-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW], Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD], Department of Transportation, Peace Corps
-Defense
-Shultz
-Budget cuts

Eliot Janeway
-Comments

Personnel
-Burns
			-Kissinger
-Connally
-Stans
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Governors, Senate
-Flanigan
-Talent survey
-Frederic V. Malek's work
-Gordon Gray
-Talent searches
-Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Detroit

Textile Agreement
-Peterson
-Media's opinion
-Administration's tactics
-Rogers
-Stans
-Kennedy
-Peterson
-Kissinger

US foreign policy
-Rogers
-Trip
-Kissinger
-USSR
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-PRC
-USSR
-Kissinger
-Haig and Dwight L. Chapin
-John H. Holdridge And Chapin
-Stans
-USSR
-Kissinger
-PRC
-Personnel for trip
-Congressmen
-USSR
-Visit by governors
-Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-Senate
-Haig
-Rogers
-Stans
-Rogers
-USSR trip
-Kissinger
-Media
-Washington Star story
-Haldeman's conversation with Haig
-Kissinger
-Impact on US foreign policy
-Nixon's role
-PRC, USSR
-Romania
-Vietnam
-Bombing

Ziegler entered at 11:14 am.

Possible media inquiry
	-Brandt
	-Haig's view
	-Nobel Peace prize
	-The President's reaction

Ziegler left at 11:16 am.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
-John R. Price, Jr.
-Proposed radio address for veterans
-Robert Allen
	-Rose Mary Woods
		-Responses to question
-Media
-The President's relations with reporters
	-Woods
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Ehrlichman
-Tax cut

US foreign policy
-Haig
-Rogers
-Moscow trip plans
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation
-Rogers
-Possible trip to USSR
-Stans
-Trade
-Kissinger

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:16 am and 11:23 am.

[Conversation No. 597-3C]

Talking papers

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:16 am.

Meeting with Haig

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:23 am.

Media impressions
-The President's conversation with Harlow
-Mitchell
-Comments about the President
-The President's physical appearance
-Health
-Comparisons
-Johnson
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Health
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Portrait of Dorian Gray

Haig entered at 11:23 am.

The President’s trip to the USSR
		-Rogers
			-Kissinger
-Washington Star story on Sunday October 17, 1971
-Story on foreign policy credits by George Sherman
-Kissinger
-PRC, Romania
-Rogers
-Haig's conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Connally
-Schedule
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Moscow
-Compared with Kissinger in Peking
-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President’s view
-Trade talks in Moscow
-Stans
-Brezhnev
-Dobrynin
-Timing
-NATO meeting
-PRC trip
-Moscow trip
	-Advance staff
-Jacob D. Beam
-Stans
-US relations with USSR
-Kissinger’s involvement
-Middle East
-Dobrynin
-Rogers
-Possible visit
	-Soviet view
-European Security Conference
-NATO
-Rogers
-Dobrynin
-Martin J. Hillenbrand
-Gromyko
-Middle East
-European Security Conference
-Kissinger
-NATO
-The President’s view
	-Other negotiations
-Dobrynin's contacts with administration
-European Security Conference
-Europeans
-Brandt
-Time magazine
-Man of the Year
-The President’s view
-Nobel Prize
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Possible Soviet Summit
-Secretary of State's role
	-The President’s view
		-Kissinger
-Robert H. Finch
-Latin America
-Connally
-Asia
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Greece
-European countries
-Preliminary work for Four-power meeting
-NATO
-British position
-Paris meeting
-Possible European tour
-Consultations with allies
-Possible Latin American consultations
-Finch
-Brazil, Venezuela
-Brazilia
-Mexico City
-Haig's assignment
-Kissinger
-Possible Latin American venture
-Timing
-Surcharge
-Kissinger
-Charles A. Meyer
-The President’s view
-Rogers’s role
-Finch
-Haig’s responsibility
-Meyer
-Haldeman
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Visit to US
-Brazil
-Brazilia
-Rio de Janeiro
-Possible European tour
-NATO meeting
-Kissinger
-Possible Presidential meeting with Western European leaders
-Timing
	-Haig’s view
-Moscow trip
-Peking trip
-Rogers
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Kissinger
-Ecuador
	-Fishing nights
-Role of the State Department
-Africa
-Latin America
-Organization of African Unity [OAU]
	-The President’s view
-Mrs. Nixon’s forthcoming trip
	-Liberia
-Asia
-Connally
-European meeting
	-Haig’s conversation with Kissinger
-NATO
-Kissinger
-Security Conference
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Pompidou
-Belgium, Holland, Greece, Turkey
-British
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Paris
-US embassy
-Pompidou
-Arthur K. Watson
-Rogers
-Paris
-Latin America
-Rogers
-Finch

	Forthcoming UN vote on Taiwan
		-US actions
-Greeks
	-Agnew’s actions
-Turks
-Venezuela
	-Oil exports
-Argentina
-Haig’s assessment
-Bush
-Ghana
-Israel
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Rogers

Haig left at 11:58 am.

Rogers
-European Security Conference
	-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-Travel plans
-Europe, Latin America

The President's schedule
-Europe
-Big Four
-Rogers
-Holland
-Luxembourg
-NATO

Rogers
		-Melvin R. Laird

Latin America
-Democrats possible issue
-Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico

US foreign policy
-Latin America
	-Possible Presidential trip
	-Mexico
-Canada
	-Possible Presidential trip
-Aleksei N. Kosygin's visit
-Demonstrations
-The President's possible schedule
-USSR
-PRC
-Length of trip
	-Official dinner
	-Itinerary
-Kosygin's visit
-Foreign visitors to the US
-Soviets
-Tito
-Washington
-Los Angeles
-European trip
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Democrats issues
-Latin America

Economy
-School milk
-Casper W. Weinberger, George P. Shultz
-Parents' ability to pay
-Burns
-Connally
-Invitation to White House dinner
	-Connally
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB] appointment
	-Connally
	-Unknown man from Texas
	-Connally’s view

Personnel
-Romana A. Banuelos
-Senate confirmation
-Harris
-Vance Hartke
-Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times news service
-AP
-UPI

US foreign policy
-Soviet trip
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Chou En-lai
-The President’s instructions
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-The President’s instructions
	-Haig
-Mao Tse-tung
			-Interpreters

Haldeman left at 12:20 pm.

Conversation No. 597-4

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:20 pm and 12:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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

The unknown person and the President left at 12:30 pm.

Conversation No. 597-5

Date:  October 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

Job assignments

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

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