Conversation No. 640-1

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:46 am and 9:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:48 am.

Conversation No. 640-2

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:46 am and 9:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Arthur F. Burns appointment
-Timing
-Location

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:48 am.

Conversation No. 640-3

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  9:48 am - 11:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Television show "A Day in the Life of the President"
-Effect
	-Documentary value compared to public impact
-Haldeman’s opinion
-Review in paper
-Type of show
-Pace of presidency
-Ceremonial aspects
-Interesting parts of the show
	-Chat with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-John W. Chancellor interview
	-Used by news media
		-“Today” show
		-Forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Criticism
	-Television unable to capture the operation of the Oval Office
-Presence of cameras
	-Effect
-John A. Scali
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Image of the President as leader
	-Newsworthiness
-Compared to US News & World Report article
-Press
	-Atkins
-Pierre E. Trudeau
	-President’s relationship with the press
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]

President's schedule
	-Travel plans

Current news
	-Vietnam
		-Bombing
			-Plaine des Jarres
-Indian atrocity story
-Henry A. Kissinger's talk with the President
	-Photographs of the atrocities
		-Number
-Peter G. Peterson
	-Clark MacGregor
-William P. Rogers statement in Bermuda regarding trade preference bill
-Latin America
-Instructions
	-Peterson
-Bermuda
-Coverage 
-Photographs
-The President’s relations with other foreign leaders
-NBC special
-Summitry

President's schedule
-Meeting with foreign leaders

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-Plans for meeting Willy Brandt
-Paul W. McCracken schedule
-Possible physical
	-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Florida
	-Timing
-Rogers's schedule
-Kissinger's schedule
-President's departure
-Brandt
	-Timing of meeting

Yeoman Charles E. Radford incident
	-John N. Mitchell
	-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Zeal for job
	-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Courses of action
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Knowledge compared with Ellsberg
	-Kissinger
-Vietnam
-President's instructions
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Leaks
	-State Department
-Ehrlichman
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Ehrlichman's knowledge
-Security
	-Need to increased
-Staff meetings
	-Lack of meetings
-Potential leaks
		-Rogers
		-Melvin R. Laird
		-President’s style

President's schedule
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Budget
	-Defense
-Arthur F. Burns
-Money supply
-Appointment
	-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-President's instructions
-Haldeman
-John B. Connally and Burns
-Carl J. Thomsen
-President's role
-Supreme Court
-Texas
	-Connally
-Potential
-Appointee
-John E. Sheehan
-Appointments
	-Burns’s recommendations
-Supreme Court
	-Warren E. Burger
-FRB
-Burger
-Veto power
	-Connally and Burns
-Money supply

Media
-Coverage 
-Laos
-India-Pakistan
-Kissinger
-Unknown person
-Column
Kissinger
-Leaks
	-Responsibility
	-Mitchell
	-State Department
	-Yeoman Radford
	-David R. Young. Jr.
		-Ehrlichman

President's schedule
-Christmas parties
-President's appearance

Kissinger and Shultz entered and Haldeman left at 10:17 am.

Kissinger's schedule
-Florida
	-Timing
	-Accommodations
		-Children

Defense budget
-Laird
-Request
-Amount(s)
-Pay raise
-Jobs memorandum
-Burns
	-Previous conversation with Shultz

Burns
-Money supply
	-Inflation
-Wage and price guidelines
-Milton Friedman
-Laird party for David Packard
-Memorandum to Burns
	-Robert C. Moot
-Military jobs
-Decrease
	-Number
-Civilian personnel and defense contractors

Budget
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Elliot L. Richardson
-DOD
-Job reductions
	-Numbers
-Contracting
	-Numbers
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Shultz’s attempts to modify budget
-Meeting with Burns and Shultz
-Phone call from the President to Burns
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Defense outlays
	-Numbers
		-1973 budget
-F-111
-US Air Force [USAF]
-Cost of plane
-DOD spending
-Kissinger’s earlier conversation with Shultz
-USAF
-Planes
-Vietnam
	-Authorizations
-Laird
	-Negotiations
		-James L. Buckley

Kissinger left at 10:27 am.

Burns
-Upcoming meeting with the President
-Appointment process
	-Haldeman
-Sheehan
-Possible Presidential statement
-Burger
-Guidelines
-Money supply
-Increase
	-Agreement
-Burns
-Connally
-Open Market Committee

Burns entered at 10:29 am.

[General conversation]

Meetings with Brandt and Eisaku Sato

President's schedule
-Walter H. Annenberg's residence
-Activities
-Sato
	-Takeo Fukuda
-Burns’s schedule

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FRB
-Burns's need for appointment guidelines
-January 1972 appointment
-James L. Robertson
-Haldeman briefing with Burns
-Selection
-Connally
-Thomsen
-Burns's action
-Sheehan
-Selection 
	-Civil Service Commission
	-Knowledge and previous experience
-Thomsen
-Experience
	-Dallas bank
-Appointment process
-Appointments to other agencies
-Appointments
-Compared to Supreme Court
				-Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC] and Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
	-Length of appointments
-Franklin D. Roosevelt action
-President’s view
-Need for compatible group
-Supreme Court
	-Burger
-Mitchell
-Female justice
	-Prospects for future
-Claire Giannini Hoffman
-Head of Trenton bank
	-[Forename unknown] Rowling [?]
-Background
	-J. Edgar Hoover’s call to Burns
		-Task force
-Frederic V. Malek's role
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] checks
-Burns's role
	-Comparison to Burger
-Shultz
-Connally
-Recommendations from Congress
-Process described by the President
	-Connally and Shultz
-Burger
	-Mitchell
-Appointment to Court
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-William H. Rehnquist
	-Approved by Burger
-Process described by the President
-Burns's approval
-Input from Burns
-Malek
-Haldeman
-Thomsen
	-Age
-Texas
	-Connally
-Connally input
-Burns
-Sheehan
	-Connally
	-Kentucky
-Thomsen
	-Relationship with Connally
-Malek input
-New appointments
	-Possible conflict between Burns and Connally
	-President’s upcoming talk with Burns about nominees
		-Selection
	-Shultz
	-Kissinger
	-Burger
-William McChesney Martin
	-Relationship with the President
-Money supply
-Letters
-Connally

Burns left at 10:52 am.

-Shultz
	-Malek
-Burns
-Appointments
-Shultz’s letter
	-Connally
-Friedman's letter
-Money supply
-Newsweek column
	-Burns’s commitment
-Money supply
	-President's instructions to Shultz
-Open Market Committee

Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Timing of release
	-Percentage
	-Positive numbers

Pay Board
-Price Commission
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Instructions to Shultz
	-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-President’s view

Federal pay
-Increase
-Congress
-Comparability Act
-Economic Stabilization Act
	-Discussion of defense budget
		-Position taken
-Shultz
-Bob Hansen
-Administration position
	-Federal pay raise

Money supply

Appointment process
-President's instructions
-Shultz call to Connally
-Burns's conversation with the President
	-Possible conflict between Burns and Connally
	-Malek

Friedman's letter

International monetary reform
-Convertibility
-Edward R.G. Heath
	-Previous conversation with the President
-US view
-France
-Kissinger’s notes
-Heath
-Connally

President's schedule
-Rehnquist
	-Confirmation
-Connally

Shultz left at 11:02 am.

Conversation No. 640-4

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  11:02 am - 11:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Associate Justices Commissions ceremony
-John N. Mitchell
-Press picture
-Gifts
-Press coverage
	-Presentation
-Family members

Bull left at 11:03 am.

Conversation No. 640-5

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  11:03 am - 11:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Mrs. Josephine Powell, Mrs. Richard S. Smith, Mrs. Christopher Sumner, Lewis F. Powell, III, William H. Rehnquist, Mrs. Natalie Rehnquist, James
Rehnquist, Janet Rehnquist, Nancy Rehnquist, John N. Mitchell, Wallace Johnson, John D. Ehrlichman, Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr., Richard A. Moore, Charles W. Colson. Herbert G. Klein, Geoffrey C. Shepard; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

[General conversation]
	-Introductions

Formal ceremony
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Press coverage

[General conversation]
-Certificates
-Civil War

Presentation of commissions
-Powell
-Remarks by the President
-Rehnquist
-Remarks by the President
-Senate confirmation
-President's law experience
-Duty to the law
-Politics

[General conversation]
-Picture
-Powell family with the President

-Rehnquist family with the President
-Gifts
-Cufflinks
	-Presidential seal
-Mike Reynolds
	-White House tour
-“A Day in the Life of the President”
-Football
-Mitchell
-Larry Johnson
-Performance
-Rehnquist vote
-Charles E. Hughes
-Louis D. Brandeis
-Johnson
	-Roman L. Hruska
	-Unknown person
	-Annapolis
		-Unknown dinner
			-[David] Dwight Eisenhower II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Age
	-Gifts

	The President’s remarks

	Shepard [?]
		-Health
		-Schedule
			-Ehrlichman
			-Revenue sharing
			-Welfare reform

Powell, et al. left at 11:21 am.

Yeoman Charles E. Radford
-Polygraph

Adm. Robert O. Welander
	-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger's letter

Alger Hiss

Whitaker Chambers

Jack N. Anderson
-Possible blackmail of yeoman

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-Re-interrogation of Radford
-Polygraph

Radford
-Compared to Daniel Ellsberg
	-Knowledge
-Strategy
-Threat of prosecution
-Welander's involvement
-Kissinger
-Transfer
-Meeting with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Interrogation of Welander
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] involvement
-Possible admission from Welander
-JCS
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes's successor
-Welander
-Difficulties
-Effect on career

Anderson
-Relationships within the government
-Compared to Drew Pearson
-Walter J. Hickel
-Sources
-William L. Safire
-Hidden sources
-Check of columns
	-Young

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:21 am.

	The President’s schedule
		-Cabinet Room

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:33 am.

Justice Department staff
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Eisenhower
-John W. Dean, III
-Donald E. Santarelli
-Johnson
	-Duties
		-Hruska
		-Congress
-Eisenhower
-Dealing with Congress
-Campaign reform legislation
	-Letter from the President
		-Congratulations

Radford
-Instructions to Mitchell
	-Methods
-JCS
-Kissinger
	-State Department
		-Leaks
	-William P. Rogers
-Security officer
-Briefing from Young
-Memorandum from Young about incident
-Espionage

Chairman of Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation
-Address
	-Washington State
		-Tacoma

The President, Mitchell, and Ehrlichman left at 11:33 am.

Conversation No. 640-6

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 12:11 pm until 12:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Anthony T. (“Tony”) Rossi and Achilles Mangelli

Bull left and Flanigan entered at 12:15 pm.

Savings and Loans
-James H. Edgerton
-Effect of commission report
-Flanigan's advice
-Edgerton

Ambassadorships
-Japan
	-Frederick M. Eaton
	-Robert S. Ingersoll
	-George P. Shultz [?]
	-Relationship with the President
	-Reed O. Hunt
	-Background
	-Style
	-Eaton
-Spain
-Wiley T. Buchanan, Jr.
-Style
	-Compared to Cornelius V. (“Sonny”) Whitney
-Holland
-Lloyd I. Miller

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 12:15 pm.

-Henry L. Hillman
-Robert W. Galvin
-Hillman
-Elsie Hillman
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller support
		-Pennsylvania
-John N. Mitchell
-Eaton
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Arlen Specter and Arlin Adams
-Rockefeller 
-J. Fife Symington
-Vincent W. de Roulet
-Herbert W. Kalmbach

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	SPAIN

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-Galvin
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Reputation
-Hillman
	-Pennsylvania
-Galvin
-Australia
-Jack Drown
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Helena (Colesie) Drown
-Kissinger’s opinion
-William Liedtke, Jr.
-Miller
	-Cincinnati
	-Support of the President
	-Maurice H. Stans
-John D. Lodge
	-Argentina
-Pay
-Drown
-Buchanan
-Drown
-Liedtke
-Miller
-Argentina
-Galvin
	-Oil
		-Liedtke
-Hillman
-Spanish speaking ability
	-Importance in Argentina
-State Department
-Ingersoll
-Donald McI. Kendall
	-Interest in Latin America
-Compared to Brazil
	-Description of job
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Dick Watson
	-Buchanan

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-Kissinger input
-State Department
-Spanish speakers
	-California
		-Businessmen
	-Drown

Flanigan left and Bull entered at 12:29 pm.

Charles W. Colson

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:31 pm.

	President’s schedule
-James Suffridge appointment with the President
-George Meany
	-Unknown person
-Colson
-Meany's location
		-Mitchell

Haldeman left at 12:31 pm.

Conversation No. 640-7

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  12:31 pm - 12:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Paul W. McCracken.

McCracken's departure from administration
	-Timing

Economy
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
	-Percentage
-Non-food commodity prices
	-Service
-International monetary situation

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:31 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.

	Economy
		-International monetary situation
			-The President’s August 15, 1971 speech
-Surcharge
-US strategy
-Germany
-McCracken
	-Deutschemark
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-John B. Connally
-Ability 
-Group of Ten
-Anthony P. Barber
-US competitive position
	-McCracken’s visit to a US auto dealer
-Buick Opel prices
-Japanese cars
-Pompidou meeting
-McCracken’s previous meeting with [Forename unknown] Bernard
	-Timing
	-Location
-Attitude 
	-Eagerness to talk

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:31 pm.

Refreshments served

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.

-US relations with Europe and Japan
-Japanese
-Negotiation style
-French
-Negotiation style
-Japanese
-Negotiation style
	-The President’s experience
		-New York
-McCracken’s trip to Tokyo
-Economic planning
	-Prospects for a economic relationship with Japan
-Meeting
-Ezra Solomon
-Toshio Kimura
	-Proposed frequency of meetings
-Public relations
-Eisaku Sato
-Cabinet meeting
-Breakfast meeting with Japanese
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-George P. Shultz
-Takeo Fukuda
-Unknown person
-Kakuei Tanaka
	-Ministry of International Trade and Industry [MITI]
-Results
	-Fukuda

McCracken's future plans
	-Home
-Lecturing
-Anecdotes
	-Parables
-President's appreciation
-Cabinet party
-Gifts

Economy
	-President’s instructions to McCracken
	-Burns
	-Money supply
	-Possible letter
-Prospects
	-1972
		-Unemployment

McCracken left at 12:43 pm.

Conversation No. 640-8

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:43 pm and 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:45 p.m.

Conversation No. 640-9

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  12:45 pm - 1:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Anthony T. Rossi and Achilles Mangelli.

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Rossi and Mangelli left at 1:13 pm.

Conversation No. 640-10

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:13 pm and 1:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s request for a tour for previous guests
	-Christmas decorations

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:16 pm.

Conversation No. 640-11

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  1:16 pm - 1:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Paul W. McCracken
-Inclusion in Cabinet parties
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]

[President signs clemency documents]

Clemency
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa release
	-John N. Mitchell
-Conditions upon release
-Josephine (Poszywak) Hoffa’s health
	-Lewisburg Prison
-Edward M. Kennedy

Mitchell
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Desire for position at Department of Defense [DOD]
	-David Packard
-Possible opposition
-Joseph D. Tydings
-Melvin R. Laird
	-Potential confirmation problems
-Packard
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Mitchell

Yeoman Charles E. Radford incident
	-Possible motive
-Daniel Ellsberg case
	-Comparisons
-Motive for leaks
-Possible action by administration

Arthur F. Burns
	-Mitchell
-Appointment process
-President's position
-Burns's concerns
-Wallace H. Johnson
-John E. Sheehan
-John B. Connally

George P. Shultz

Media
-Columnists

President's schedule
	-I[lwirth] W[ilbur Abel’s location
	-Possible note to George Meany

George H. Gallup poll on approval of President
	-Percentage
		-Stability
			-Laos
-"Pentagon Papers"
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Trends 
-Previous years' polls
-Analysis
	-Support from more intelligent people
-David S. Broder
-Elmo Roper poll
-Effect of incumbency

Campaign
-Strategy
	-Improvements
		-Economy
		-Vietnam
		-World peace
		-Campuses

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	Public support for the President
		-Broder-Johnson poll analysis
	-Polls
	-PRC
	-Economy

Gallup poll
-Results
	-Partiality
	-1972

Attitudes in US
-Connally's opinion
	-Connally’s conversations with different groups of people

Broder-Johnson poll analysis
-Race emphasized
-Youth emphasized
-Compared to rest of electorate
				-Possible PRC trip and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] trip effects on youth

	Gallup poll
-Timing of poll
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Stock market rise
	-New York
-Phase II
-Recession
-India-Pakistan War
-Effect on public opinion
	-Compared to Pentagon Papers

Media
-Effect on public opinion
	-Marvin L. Kalb
	-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Administration position
-"A Day in the Life of the President"
-Reactions 
	-Tone
-Richard A. Moore’s call to station in Los Angeles
-Calls to the President
-Lewis F. Powell's son
-Haldeman's children's reaction
	-Possible interest to youth
-Impressions created
	-Work ethic
	-Leadership
-Subjects covered
-Talk with George H.W. Bush
-Talk with Haldeman
	-Dock strike
	-Transportation legislation
-Drugs
	-“Snow job”
-Human interest angle
	-Painting
		-Moore
-Interview with the President
-PRC
-Moore's reaction 
-Coverage of meeting with Edward R.G. Heath
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] special on the summit
-William P. Rogers
-"A Day in the Life of the President"
	-Rogers’s opinion
	-Editing 
		-Impressions
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's appearance on show
		-John W. Chancellor
		-The President’s work ethic
		-Mail
-Highlight on White House staff
	-Kissinger
	-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Shultz
	-Quadriad group
	-Donald H. Rumsfeld
	-Arthur F. Burns
	-Connally
	-Rogers
	-Spiro T. Agnew
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-King Timahoe
-Manolo Sanchez
-King Timahoe
	-Performance
-Christmas show
-Still shots in Time
-Dogs
-Christmas tree
-Edward R.F. Cox and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Christmas message
	-Public reaction
-Polls
	-Public attitudes

Stock market
-Performance 
	-Numbers
-Effect of President's economic policy

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Radford incident
-Kissinger's knowledge
-Ehrlichman

The President and Haldeman left at 1:50 pm.

Conversation No. 640-12

Date:  December 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	The President’s location
		-Executive Office Building [EOB]

An unknown person [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 640-12A]

	[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.