Conversation No. 601-1

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 am and 8:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person talked with an unknown person.

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[Duration:  10s  ]

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:30 am.

Conversation No. 601-2

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 8:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:52 am.

Conversation No. 601-3

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 8:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

US foreign policy speech
-The President's trips to Moscow and Peking
			-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], People's Republic of China [PRC]

Distribution of copies of the material the President had just dictated

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:52 am.

Conversation No. 601-4

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 8:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Request for meeting with Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:52 am.

Conversation No. 601-5

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  8:52 am - 8:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

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

Bull left at 8:54 am.

Conversation No. 601-6

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  9:18 am - 9:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

US foreign relations
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan's expulsion
-William P. Rogers
	-Presidential telephone calls
-Morocco
-Mexico
-Content of possible telephone call
-Morocco
	-Content of possible telephone call
-Italy
-Haig's conversation with Graham A. Martin
-Content of possible telephone call
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule
-Discussion of talks with People's Republic of China [PRC] leaders
	-Press arrangements
-Dwight L. Chapin
-State Department
-"Two China" Policy
-PRC
-Rogers
-US-Japanese relations
-John B. Connally
-The President's meeting with Nobusuke Kishi
-Haig's conversation with Peter G. Peterson
-Okinawa
-Currency issues
-George P. Shultz
-Paul A. Volcker
-Haig’s conversation with Peterson
-Kishi
	-The President’s previous conversation
		-Okinawa
-Connally's trip
-Tokyo
	-Length
-Kishi
-US ambassador to Japan
-Connally compared to Rogers
-Purpose
-US ambassador
-UN vote on Taiwan's expulsion
-Kissinger
-Schedule
-Possibilities

Public relations for the President's activities
-Rogers
-Price Board
-UN vote on Taiwan’s expulsion
	-The President’s position

US foreign relations
-UN vote on Taiwan's expulsion
-The President's position
-Adam Malik
-US activities
-Haig’s view
-US efforts
-Greece
-Israel
-African nations
	-The President’s position

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:18 am.

Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:35 am.

US foreign policy
-UN vote on Taiwan
	-African nations
-Latin American nations
-The President’s position
-Botswana
-England
-Canada
-Italy
-Laos
-Department of State role
-Colson
-Statement for Gerald R. Ford and Hugh Scott
-African nations
-PRC
-UN
-US membership
	-The President’s view

Haig left at 9:35 am.

Conversation No. 601-7

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  9:36 am - 11:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

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[Duration:  14s  ]

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Economy
-News summary 
-Colson's survey

-Phase II
-Money supply

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:36 am and 9:44 am.

[Conversation No. 601-7A]

[See Conversation No. 12-99]

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:36 am.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with governors
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

-John A. Love
-William G. Milliken
-Possible press statement
	-Love
		-Colson’s draft
	-Milliken

Supreme Court appointments
	-The President's televised speech, October 21, 1971
	-Size
	-Impact
	-Press
	-Dan Rather's comments on Supreme Court appointments
	-Richard A. Moore
	-John N. Mitchell
	-Robert C. Byrd
	-Richard H. Poff
	-Moore
	-Time, Newsweek
	-The President's role in announcements
		-The President’s decision
	-Colson’s efforts
-Televised audience for the President's speech

Public relations efforts
-Edith Efron's book
-Sales
	-Colson’s report
-White House efforts
-Publicity

The President talked with Charles W. Sandman, Jr. between 9:44 am and 9:45 am.

[Conversation No. 601-7B]

[See Conversation No. 12-100]

[End of telephone conversation]

Sandman
-The President’s view
	-Support for the President
-Charles H. Percy

Percy
-Rose Mary Woods
	-Letter to the President
		-The President’s policy
		-Supreme Court nomination
			-Percy’s views
-The President’s view
-Colson

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[Duration:  50s  ]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:45 am.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

US foreign relations
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan expulsion
-Statements by Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford
-Haig
-African nations
			-Ford’s comments
				-UN

Polls
	-Circulation
		-Colson’s role
-Washington Post
-Gallup poll
-Harris poll
-Trial heats
-Colson's possible efforts
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Senators and Congressmen
-Gallup poll
-Harris
-White House staff
-Congress
-Clark MacGregor
-Robert J. Dole
-Colson's conversations
-Ford, Scott
-George H. Gallup
-Dole
-Harris poll
	-Colson’s efforts
-Edward M. Kennedy
-George Meany
		-Edmund S. Muskie’s reaction
		-President’s knowledge
		-Packaging of poll information

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[Duration:  39s  ]

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Press
-News summaries
-Book by Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-1960, 1962, 1968 campaigns
-Possible White House response
-"Today Show"
-Victor Lasky
-Possible comments by White House staff
-Evans and Novak
-The President’s view
-John F. Osborne
-Peter Lisagor
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-William L. Safire
-Planted stories
-[Forename unknown] Pearson
-Wall Street Journal
-Story on Colson
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Access to White House staff
-Los Angeles Times reporter
-Lisagor
	-Pearson
-Administration attitude toward enemies

Supreme Court appointments
-Press
-Moore
-Stories
	-Interest
-Time, Newsweek
-Wire service reports
-Administration's reaction
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Lewis F. Powell
-William H. Rehnquist
-United Press International [UPI], Associated Press [AP]
-Mildred L. Lillie, Herschel H. Friday
-Rehnquist, Powell

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:45 am.

The President's schedule
-Governors
-Love
-Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

Supreme Court nominees
-Leaks to media
	-John N. Mitchell
-ABA
-Lawrence E. Walsh's office
-Richard H. Poff
-Rehnquist
-Media views
-Barry M. Goldwater
-The President’s view
-Television coverage
-ABA
-Press
	-Lillie
		-White House efforts
-Clement F. Haynesworth, G. Harrold Carswell
-Attacks by liberals
-Mitchell
-Effect in south
-Powell
	-South
-James J. Kilpatrick

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[Duration:  2s  ]

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:45 am.

Removal of object

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

Supreme Court appointments
-Possible poll

Colson left and Warren E. Hearnes,  Marvin Mandel,  Dale Bumpers,  William G. Milliken,  Stanley K. Hathaway,  David Hall, Charles Byerly, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and members of the press entered at 10:04 am.

Greetings

Football
-Joe Ferguson
-Future
-University of Arkansas team

Seating arrangement

Press left at an unknown time before 11:04 am.

Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and Romania by governors
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Reception
	-View of countries
-State Department
-Briefings
	-Governors views
-Haig
-Romanian
-UN ambassador
-State Department briefings
-Governors views
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Meeting with the President in 1959
-Romania
-Ceauscescu
-US Ambassador
-Kosygin
-Canada
-Demonstrations
-The President's forthcoming trip
-USSR
-Return delegation visit
-Security arrangements
-State Department
-Haig
-Haldeman
-Executive Protection Service
	-Ambassadors and embassies
	-UN
	-Head of State visitors
-Secret Service
-The President's schedule
-Moscow, Peking
	-Security
	-Compared to Washington, DC
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Emigree groups
-Hungarians
-State police
-St. Louis, Detroit
-Aircraft
-Size of group
-Hotels in USSR
-Interpreters
-Role of governors
-Announcement of the President's forthcoming visit
	-Impact
-The President's visit in 1967
-[James] Harold Wilson
-Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
-Kurt G. Kiesinger
-USSR
-Kosygin
-American press
-Soviet-American exchanges
	-The President’s visit to Moscow
-Khrushchev
-Kosygin
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Governors’ contacts with the people
-Détente
-Jews
-Crime
-Leningrad
-Soviet ballet
-Treatment of performers in USSR
-Romanians
-Kosygin
-Meeting with Governors
		-Preparations for Summit meeting
		-Vietnam
		-Middle East
-Soviet interests
-Middle East
-Egypt
-Vietnam
	-Support for North Vietnam
-Jews
-Emigration
-Education
-Expense to the State
-Anti-Semitism
-USSR
-Poland
-Karl Marx
-David Ben-Gurion
-Middle east
-Egypt
-Israel
-USSR interests
-Joseph V. Stalin
-Alleged Jewish doctors' plot
-Religion in USSR
-Synagogues
-Youth
-Jews
-Assimilation
-Protestants
-Catholics
-Feelings of soviet people toward War
-World War II
	-Effect
			-The President's previous conversation with unknown man in Alma Ata [Almety]
-World War I
-Casualties
-Paul Von Hindenburg
-Erich F. W. Ludendorff
-Leningrad
-Germans
-American assistance to USSR during World War II
-Losses
	-Possible governor’s response
-Kosygin
-Ceausescu
-Governors view
-The President’s view
-Romania
-Sovereignty
-Trade
-Vietnam War
-Flood relief
	-US assistance
-Trade
-Maurice H. Stans
-Ceausescu
	-The President’s view
-Relationship with US and USSR
-Trade status
-Flood relief
	-US assistance
-Vietnam War
	-Ceausescu’s conversation with the governors
-Prisoners of war [POWs]

Vietnam war
-Casualties
-Negotiations
	-POWs
-Vietnamization of conflict
-Thailand
-Bombing
-North Vietnam
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Effect on negotiations
-POWs
-Domestic opinion
-Lists
	-Romania

The Governors’s trip to USSR and Romania
	-Ceauscescu
		-Kosygin

Khrushchev
	-Trip to Vienna
	-American press
	-Nicolai A. Bulganin
	-John Foster Dulles
-The President’s view

Soviet leaders

Chinese

Soviets
-Leadership
-Compared with Americans
-Ages
-Kosygin
-Brezhnev
-Compared with Chinese
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai

Romania

	Communism
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and USSR
-Attitudes
-Differences
-Negotiations with US
-Arms control
-Trade
-US foreign policy
-Middle East
-European Security Conference
-Negotiating strategy
	-The President’s position
-Forthcoming negotiations
	-USSR
	-PRC

Governors' visit
-Value 
-Haig
-POWs
-The President’s view
-Public relations efforts
-Briefing for the President
-USSR
-Romania
-Leadership report
-Attitude of Soviets toward the trip
-Recommendations
-Possible trip to PRC
-Value of exchanges
-Composition of the governors group
-Members of Congress
-Possible reception for Communist leaders
			-Soviets
	-US foreign relations
	-Contacts with Soviets
	-Objectives
		-Possible statement by governor
			-Language
		-Governors' reception
	-Possible welcome for foreign leaders

Gift presentations

Health
-Governors
-The President

Football game

Farewells

Governor Hearnes, et al. left at 11:04 am.

The President's schedule
-Previous meeting with governors
-The President’s view

UN vote on Taiwan's expulsion
-Forthcoming telephone calls
-Interpreter
	-Logistics
-Mexico

Haig left at 11:09 am.

Conversation No. 601-8

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:09 am and 11:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez [?] and Stephen B. Bull.

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[Duration:  33s  ]

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Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

	UN vote on Taiwan’s expulsion
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Interpreter
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

Conversation No. 601-9

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:09 am and 11:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Seating arrangement
	-Interpreter

Telephone calls

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

Conversation No. 601-10

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:09 am and 11:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Richard A. Moore

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

Conversation No. 601-11

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:09 am and 11:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Richard A. Moore

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

Conversation No. 601-12

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  11:14 am - 11:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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[Duration:  5m 12s  ]

[The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 11:14 am and 11:18 am]

[Conversation No. 601-12A]

[See Conversation No. 12-101]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 11:18 am and 11:19 am]

[Conversation No. 601-12B]

[See Conversation No. 12-102; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

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	Supreme Court appointments
		-Women appointees
			-Mrs. Nixon’s speech to Republic Women Conference
-Lawyers
	-Comparison to Germany
-John N. Mitchell

	The President’s schedule
	-Elmer H. Bobst
-“Dodo” Momdouha (As-Sayyid) Bobst

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:19 am.

The President's schedule
-Richard A. Moore
-Telephone calls

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.

Forthcoming social event

Typewriter used for the President's speeches
-Radio

Richard A. Moore entered at 11:21 am.

The President's schedule
-Telephone call
-President of Mexico

Woods left at 11:22 am.

The President's Supreme Court announcements
-Charles W. Colson
-Media reaction
-Dan Rather
-The President’s decision
-William French Smith
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Frank M. Johnson
-William H. Mulligan
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Time magazine
-Newsweek magazine
-Moore's recollection
-Method of the President's decision
-Herschel H. Friday
-John N. Mitchell
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Name selections
-Lawrence E. Walsh
	-Leaks
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Leaks
-Mitchell
-Wall Street Journal
-Unnamed female reporter
-The President’s statement on television
	-Reasons
	-The media
-Lillie and Friday
	-ABA
-Effect on media
-The President's decision-making process

Alexander P. Butterfield, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Donald F. Barnes entered at 11:30 am.

The President's schedule
-Telephone calls

Butterfield left at 11:30 am.

The President's Supreme Court nominations
-Moore's discussions
-Associated Press [AP], United Press International [UPI]
-Time, Newsweek
-AP, UPI
-Moore's conversation with DeVan L. Shumway

The President talked with Luis Echeverria between 11:31 am and 11:43 am.

[Conversation No. 601-12C]

[See Conversation No. 12-103]

[End of telephone conversation]

Translator's work

Barnes left at 11:43 am.

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan expulsion
	-US-Mexican relations
	-William P. Rogers
-Italy
	-Forthcoming election
		-Compared with Mexico
-Morocco

Haig left at an unknown time before 11:51 am.

The President's Supreme Court appointments
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Colson
-Decision-making process
-Attorney General
-People under consideration
-Media's activities
-Nominees 
-William H. Rehnquist
-Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy
-Possible response of media
-Need for confidentiality in decision-making
-Moore's telephone call from Potter Stewart
	-Reaction
-Supreme Court
	-Case load
		-Types of cases

Forthcoming UN vote on Taiwan
-Ireland
	-Airlines

Moore left at 11:51 am.

Conversation No. 601-13

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  11:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-104]

Conversation No. 601-14

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  11:53 am - 11:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 12-105; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 601-15

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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[Duration:  7s  ]

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.

Conversation No. 601-16

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 601-17

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:59 am and 12:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, Alexander M. Haig and Alec G. Tourmayan.

Telephone call difficulties

Briefcase

The President talked with King Hassan II between 11:59 am and 12:08 pm

[Conversation No. 601-17a]

[See Conversation No. 12-106; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Tourmayan left at 12:08 pm.

	Forthcoming United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-The President's direct role
-Ambassadors
	-Role
-Secretary of State
-The President’ view
-Mexico
	-Haig’s assessment
-King Hassan II
-US efforts
-“Two China” Policy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-William P. Rogers
-Morocco
-Botswana
-US foreign aid
	-The President’s view
	-Haig’s view
		-US Ambassador
-Haig’s view
-Rogers
-Mexico
-The President's conversation with King Hassan II

Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule

Haig left at 12:14 pm.

The President's schedule
-Camp David

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Bull left at an unknown time before 12:17 pm.

Conversation No. 601-18

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  12:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-107]

Conversation No. 601-19

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown chief petty officer.

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[Duration:  9s  ]

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The unknown chief petty officer left at an unknown time before 12:21 pm.

Conversation No. 601-20

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown chief petty officer.

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[Duration:  16s  ]

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The unknown chief petty officer left at an unknown time before 12:21 pm.

Conversation No. 601-21

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Charles W. Colson's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:21 pm.

Conversation No. 601-22

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

[Unintelligible]

Request for Alexander P. Butterfield

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:21 pm.

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Schedule
-Andrews Air Force Base
	-Arrival time
-Cabinet members
-State Department
-White House staff
	-Old Executive Office Building [OEOB] staff
-David C. (“Roger”) Hoopes

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Vice President

Butterfield left and Charles C. Colson entered at 12:21 pm.

Supreme Court nominees
-The President's conversation with Richard A. Moore
-Moore's conversation with newsmen
-Herbert G. Klein
-Colson’s conversation with Moore
-Press
-Mary McGrory
-Dan Rather
	-Commentary
	-Herschel H. Friday
	-Mildred L. Lillie
-Colson's conversation with Moore
-Rather
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Richard S. Salant's memorandum to news chief
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Warren E. Burger
-The President's decision-making process

The President's schedule

The President and Colson left at 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 601-23

Date:  October 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:25 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person talked with an unknown person.

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[Duration:  13s  ]

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	The President’s schedule
		-Location

The recording was cutoff at an unknown time after 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 601-24

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:10 pm and 12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-William P. Rogers

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.

Conversation No. 601-25

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:10 pm and 12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Affirmative responses

Conversation No. 601-26

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:10 pm and 12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Delivery of material

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

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.

Conversation No. 601-27

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-108]

Conversation No. 601-28

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  12:15 pm - 12:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 12-109; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:15 pm.

[Unintelligible]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:17 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 601-29

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-110]

Conversation No. 601-30

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm - 12:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 12-111; seven items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 601-31

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:31 pm and 12:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Ehrlichman's schedule

Conversation No. 601-32

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:31 pm and 12:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

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Conversation No. 601-33

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  12:35 pm - 2:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

[Transcript #1:  A transcript of the following portion of the conversation may be found in RG 460, pp. 1-10]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm during the transcribed portion.

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:08 pm during the transcribed portion.

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm during the transcribed portion.

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:08 pm during the transcribed portion.

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[End of transcribed portion]

Media relations
-Backgrounders
	-The President’s view
	-Kissinger
	-Ehrlichman
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Kissinger
	-Purpose
-Rogers C. B. Morton
	-Statement 
		-Walter J. Hickel
	-Ehrlichman’s view

	Department of Interior
	-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
	-Title insurance
	-Miami Herald
	-Everglades National Park
	-Bid solicitations
	-Allegation of Presidential interference
		-Miami Herald article
-Robert J. Hitt
-Morton
-Hitt’s and Morton’s efforts
[Transcript #2:  A transcript of the following portion of the conversation may be found in RG 460, pp. 1-10]

[End of transcribed portion]

Taxes
Possible proposal
-Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Income brackets
-Federal budget
-Education
-Property taxes
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Aid to parochial schools
-Election concerns
-Aid to parochial schools
-Catholics

Ehrlichman's domestic agenda
-Employment
-Crime
-Environment
-Research and development
-Aged
-Vietnam veterans
-Needs
-Economy
-Education
-National Education Association [NEA]
-Ghetto schools
-Aid to parochial schools
	-Congress
	-Catholic bishops
-John B. Connally
-John A. Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Mitchell
-Connally and Mitchell
-Charles W. Colson
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Leonard Garment
-Buchanan
-Aid to parochial schools
-John P. Sears
-Robert J. Dole, Gerald R. Ford
-John J. Rhodes
-Hoover
-Tax
-Education
-Colson
-Louis P. Harris

Mills
-Textiles
-Revenue sharing
-Possible political agenda
	-Effect on policies

Special revenue sharing

Government reorganization

Welfare reform
-Ehrlichman's schedule
-Russell B. Long
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Long
-Proposals
-Social Security
-Connally
-Ribicoff
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Eugene S. Cowen
-Administration position
-Revenue sharing
-Connally
-Ehrlichman's staff
-Springfield, Illinois

Economy
-Connally
-Schedule
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Paul W. McCracken, Peter G. Peterson, George P. Shultz
-Peterson
-Paul A. Volcker
-Connally, Shultz, McCracken, Kissinger
-Connally’s role
-Surcharge
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Connally's schedule
	-Possible meeting with Ehrlichman
-Japanese
-Peterson
-The President’s view
-Maurice H. Stans
-Connally
-Monetary affairs
-Surcharge
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Department of Treasury
-Federal Reserve
-International economic policy
-Surcharge
-Dollar float
-Shultz
-Connally
-Staff work 
-Peterson
	-Possible role
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-Surcharge
-Peterson
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Domestic Council
-Kissinger
-Connally
-Rogers
-Connally
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Peterson’s role
-Department of Treasury

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-Shultz
-Connally
-Peterson
-The President's schedule
-Peterson
-Connally
-Burns
-Burns
-Volcker
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Peterson
-Connally
-Shultz
-Connally
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Kissinger, Ehrlichman

Personnel
-Possible cuts
-Narcotics staff
-Peace Corps
-Public broadcasting
-Congress
-John W. Macy, Jr.
-Possible management changes
	-Macy
-Washington Post
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Department of Transportation

Environment
-US lawsuit
-Ford Motor Company
-Clean air
-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Justice Department

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Robert C. Byrd
-Letter to the President
-School busing and integration
-Possible conversation with the President

Ehrlichman's schedule
-School busing
-Meeting, October 26, 1971
-Mitchell, Connally, the President, Colson, Ehrlichman
-Polls
-Democrats

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm.

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

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:08 pm.

Economy
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Stans
-Commerce Secretary

[Forename unknown] Allen

Cabinet
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Successor as Secretary of Agriculture
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Henry L. Bellmon
-John C. Whitaker
-Mitchell
-Louis B. Nunn
-The President’s view
-Harlow’s view
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Clint Murchison 
-Tobacco
-Connally
-Palmby
-Earl L. Butz
-Benson
-Ehrlichman’s view

Post Office
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Staff
-Sperry-Rand employee
-Board of governors
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Magazines
	-Subsidies
	-Readers Digest
		-The President's schedule
	-Ehrlichman's meeting with Lewis
		-Proposal

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Economy
-Rumsfeld
	-Press

Secretary of Agriculture possibility
-Albert H. Quie
-William J. Scherle
		-US House of Representatives
	-Press coverage
		-H. R. Gross
	-The President’s view

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	-Rhodes
	-Farmers
	-Experience
	-Governors

	School busing
		-Congress
-Courts
-William H. Rehnquist
-Hugo L. Black

Administration's forthcoming concerns
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-War in Vietnam
-Busing
-Veterans
-Welfare mothers
-Environment
-Revenue sharing

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Ehrlichman's schedule
-Taxes
-Buchanan

Ehrlichman left at 2:08 pm.

Conversation No. 601-37

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

The President and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 601-34

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

The President's location

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

Conversation No. 601-35

Date:  October 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 am and 8:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President spoke with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-129]

Conversation No. 601-36/602-1

Date:  October 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 am and 10:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Haldeman's schedule
-Disneyworld
	-Ceremony

	-Haldeman
	-Roy O. Disney
	-Press coverage

The President spoke with William P. Rogers between 8:49 am and 8:55 am.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1A]

[See Conversation No. 12-130]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rogers

The President's schedule
-Labor meeting
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming Congressional testimony
-Budget meeting
		-Kissinger
			-Rogers
			-Timing
				-Options

The President spoke with White House operator.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1B]

[See Conversation No. 12-131]

The President conferred with Haldeman during the telephone call.

The President's schedule
-Rogers
-Kissinger

Haldeman spoke with Rogers.

[End of telephone conversation]

North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-Ambassadorial appointment

The President's schedule
-Kissinger and Rogers
	-Press statement
-The President’s trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Length

Kissinger’s trip to PRC
-Secretarial staff

The President's forthcoming trip to the PRC
	-Female staff
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Hangchow
-Mrs. Nixon
-Rose Mary Woods
-Press
-Kissinger’s trip
-Secretaries
-Logistics
-Mrs. Nixon
-Press coverage
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Mrs. Nixon
	-Press coverage
-The President's role in approval of personnel
	-Secret Service
	-Military staff
	-White House staff
	-Press corps
-Mrs. Nixon
-Staff
-Constance M. Stuart
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-J. Bruce Whelihan
-Requirements
-Woods
-Assignment
-Kissinger
-Zosimo T. Monzon
-Kissinger
-Staff
-Rogers
-Secretarial staff
-Adele Rogers
-Arrival
	-Mrs. Nixon
	-Mrs. Chou En-Lai
-Secret Service
-Mrs. Nixon
-Press coverage
-The President’s view
-Francis Lewine
-Press
-John A. Scali
-Television crews
-The President’s view
-The President's role in approval of personnel
-Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-Time-Life magazine
	-Possible effect
-Ziegler
-Scali

Patrick J. Buchanan
-Schedule
	-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-PRC trip
	-Effect

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Buchanan
-Safire
-USSR trip
	-Speechwriters
-Buchanan
-White House staff attendance
-Kissinger
-Memorandum by Haldeman
-Chapin
-Chinese position on ground station
-Networks
-Western Union, International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] Company

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

Kissinger
-Press contacts
-Backgrounders
	-The President’s view

Administration press contacts
-Ziegler
-Backgrounders
-The President’s view
-The President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman

The President's schedule
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Rogers
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
	-Countries
		-Meetings with the President
			-African nations

This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 10:00 am; it is continued on reel 602.