Conversation No. 643-1

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:57 am and 4:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins met with unknown people.

Forthcoming photograph session
-Preparations
-Unknown object
-Height

Alexander P. Butterfield and Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:57 am.

-The president's views
-Yellow Room
-West Wing

Butterfield and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:18 pm.

-Camera shots
-Style

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 4:18 pm.

Conversation No. 643-2

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:20 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins and unknown men.

[The recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress]

Photograph session
-Posing
-Atkins's previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ziegler's and Atkins’s views
	-Smiling
-Smiling
-Speed of film
-Lighting
-Time of day
-Daylight Savings Time
-Posing
	-Timing
	-Smiling
	-Coco-lobo II

Helen Thomas
	-Rumor
		-Unknown journalists
		-Atkins

[Unintelligible]

Season’s greetings

The President's family
-Yellow Room

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Cuff links
-Golf balls

The President left at 4:28 pm.

Forthcoming photograph session
-Edward R. F. and Tricia Nixon Cox
-[Dwight] David, II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Preparations

Atkins and the unknown men left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.

Conversation No. 643-16

Date:  December 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:28 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] entered at an unknown time after 4:28 pm.

	[Unintelligible]

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

Conversation No. 643-3

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  2:07 pm - 2:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.

The President's and Dreyfus's ages

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:07 pm.

Dreyfus's schedule
-Meeting with Kenneth R. Cole
-Cole's location
-John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm.

Dreyfus
-Golf
-Tennis

-Physical condition
-Tennis courts

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Walter H. Annenberg
-Position
-Gift
-Steuben glass
-Presidential seal
-Philadelphia Inquirer and TV Guide
-Palm Springs
-Esthetic sense

Portrait of George Washington
-Charles Willson Peale

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Dreyfus left at 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 643-4

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:17 pm.

Conversation No. 643-5

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
-Location
-Dogs

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 2:17 pm.

Conversation No. 643-6

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

The President's schedule

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 2:10 pm.

Mistake in requesting Butterfield

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:17 pm.

The President's schedule
-Charles W. Colson

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 2:17 pm.

Conversation No. 643-7

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Charles W. Colson
-Forthcoming meeting with Cabinet level group on trade legislation
-Meeting with Peter G. Peterson

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's views
-Recent meeting of Council on International Economic Policy
-Peterson's synopsis
-Henry E. Ford, II
-William P. Rogers
-Peterson
	-Film

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:10 pm and 2:17 pm.]

[Conversation No. 643-7A]

Canceling call

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Peterson
-Ford
-Group on trade legislation
-Peterson
-Time

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:17 pm.

Conversation No. 643-8

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  2:17 pm - 3:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

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The President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2, 1972
-The President's preparation
-Staff research
-The President's use
-Questions
	-Number anticipated
	-Briefing book
	-The President's previous effort
	-Briefing book
	-Vietnam and Cambodia
	-The President's use
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Questions
	-Topics omitted
		-India-Pakistan relations
-Staff research
	-Kissinger’s staff
	-Quality
		-Vietnam
	-Compared to the President’s
		-Economic questions
			-Points
-Quality
-Time

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-Colson’s schedule
-Colson's viewing
-Emotional aspect
-Rather's performance
-Call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Request to see the President
		-The President's response
-Briefing book
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Use of interviewer's first name
-Lyndon B. Johnson's practice
-The President's practice
-The President's performance
-Haldeman's view
-Compared with unknown press conference
-John B. Connally's views
	-Badgering by Rather
	-The President's response
-Tone
-Lighting
-The President's performance
-The President's responses
-Use of Rather’s first name
-Rather's office and wife
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

Rather
-Importance of interview
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. and [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Mike Wallace
-Letter to Kissinger
-Jews
-Feelings regarding selection of Rather for interview
	-CBS’s decision
	-Political orientation
-Selection for interview
-Performance

The President's interview with Rather
-Technical aspect
-The President’s talk with Haldeman
	-George P. Shultz's view
	-William Carruthers
	-Mark I. Goode
	-Network's responsibility
-Camera angles
-The President's appearance
	-Staff meeting
		-Colson’s view
		-Shultz’s view
-Tone
	-Lighting
	-Effect on Rather's appearance
-Rather's performance
-Preparation
-Note cards
	-Reactions
-Reactions
-Calls by Harry S. Dent
-Rather's performance
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
	-Rather’s aggressiveness
-The President's performance
	-Compared to his other television performances
-Rather's hostility
-Unnamed Florida National Committeewoman's views
	-Media hostility
		-Political people
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Possible reaction
-Supporters' possible reactions
-The President’s support
-The President's response to question
-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower's support of the President
-Republican National Convention
-Agnew’s performance
	-Controversy
-Significance
	-Options

J. Edgar Hoover
-Retention in office

Agnew
-Retention in office
-Forthcoming convention
-Media speculation
	-John B. Connally

The President's interview with Rather
-Question on 1968 bomb halt
-The President's response
-Political aspects
-Glassboro summit
-Press credibility
-Rather's attitude
-Public reaction
-Calls to Rather's office
	-Number
-Rather's secretary
-Reaction to complaints
-Rather's supporters

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 2:17 pm.

Refreshment

Manolo Sanchez
-Location
	-Residence
-Call to the President
-White House operator

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:35 pm.

The President's interview with Rather
-Reactions
-Calls and wires from White House
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Gerald L. Warren
-DeVan L. Shumway
-Dealings with press
-Colson's previous conversation with Louis P. Harris
-Harris's letter to Rather
-Correction on quote of survey
-Context
	-The President's 1968 promises
	-Poll results
-Copies to Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Harris's view of program
	-The President’s performance
		-Effectiveness
-Audience
-Size
-Compared with "Christmas at the White House"
-Nielson ratings
-New York audience
-Compared with "A Day in the Life of the President"
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] figures
	-Ratings
-Simultaneous programming
-Advertising
-Howard K. Smith interview
-Rating

"Christmas at the White House"
-Rating
	-Increase over preceding program
-Promotion

The President's interview with Rather
-Reaction
-Letters
-White House staff
-Leaks
-Non-government people
-[Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]] polls
-White House based letter campaigns
-Outcome
-Rather's performance
-Compared with the President's performance
-Political people
-Accuracy in Media group
-Network
-Response
-Charles Crutchfield group
	-CBS affiliates
-Question on Agnew
-Peace question
-Vietnam
-Bombing question
-Troop withdrawal
-News impact
	-Wires
-News value
-Walter R. (“Wally”) Meares [?]

Rather
-Press conferences
-Usual reporting of the President's demeanor
	-Azores trip of December 1971
-Feelings toward the White House and the President
	-Antagonism
	-Credibility
-The President's response to question on press credibility
-Rather's response
-Incorrect reporting of unemployment rate
-Correction
-Damage
-Possible press conference about the press
-Questions regarding the press
-The President's response
-Contacts with White House staff
-Colson
-Other staff
-Compared with Daniel L. Schorr

Schorr
-Story on Connally
-Veracity
	-Haldeman’s talk with Connally

Connally
-Possible departure
-Reaction after Texas election loss
-Possible sources
	-Periscope
	-Newsweek
-Importance to Administration
-Possible pressures
-Associates
-Johnson

The President's interview with Rather
-Question on George C. Wallace
-The President's response
	-Democratic Party
		-Primaries

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:35 pm.

Response to the President's call

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.

National economy
-Time article
	-Timing
	-Length
-Economic indicators
-The President's predictions
-Predictions by Board of Economists
-Christmas sales
-Tone
-Advertising
-1972 forecast
-Conference Board's views
-Growth rate
-Unemployment rate
-Time and Fortune
-Bullish views
-1971
-New Economic Policy
-Gross National Product [GNP] figures
-Public psychology
-Stock market
-Consumer attitudes
	-Media
-Stock market
-Figures
-Increases
-Media
-Rather
-Negative reports
-Public attitudes
-The President's announcement of New Economic Program
-Administration response
	-Recent reports
		-Tone
		-Democrats
	-Effects
	-Issues
-August 1971 announcement
-Albert E. Sindlinger poll

George Meany
-Attacks on administration
-Health
-Impact
				-The President's speech at American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization [AFL-CIO] convention, November 19, 1971
-Health
-Possible death
	-Timing
-Federationist
-Story and photographs on convention
-Contacts with the President
	-Escorting
	-Shaking hands
-Contacts with the President at convention
-TV coverage
-Editorials
-Summary by Herbert G. Klein
-Contents
-Support of the President
	-The President’s note to Colson
	-Themes

The President's schedule
-Edwin D. Etherington
-Colson’s role
-Forthcoming dinner
-Government support
-Value of meeting
-Henry E. Ford, II
-Resignation

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 2:35 pm.

-Salary as chairman of National Center for Volunteer Action [NCVA]
-Etherington

Colson left at 2:54 pm.

Connally
-Future plans
-Colson's view
-Newsweek story
-Instructions for the White House staff
-Haldeman’s recent meeting with Peter G. Peterson
-Connally's trip to Azores
	-Return
		-Meeting with Peterson
-International agreement
		-Connally's mood
		-Connally’s position
		-Press coverage
		-Credit
-Haldeman's responsibility
-The President’s recent meeting with George P. Shultz
	-Appointment of woman to Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
	-Forthcoming call from Shultz
-Value to Administration
-Relations with White House staff
-Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman
-Junior staff

State of the Union address
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-California
-Draft
-Kissinger
-The President’s schedule

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:55 pm.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Ford and Etherington

Unknown room
-Cleanliness
-TV crew
-Responsibility
-Janitors
-Cigarette butts and trash
-The President's meeting with Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
-Custodial staff
-Schedule
-The President's activities
-Instruction for Bull
-Responsibility
-Rex W. Scouten
-General Services Administration [GSA]

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

-Importance

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Eisaku Sato dinner
-Kissinger
-Presence
-Forthcoming Middle East trip
-David M. Kennedy
-Nobuhiko Ushiba
-Armin H. Meyer
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Possible number of invitees
-The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Middle East trip
-Presence

Haldeman left at 3:07 pm.

Conversation No. 643-10

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  3:07 pm - 3:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry Ford II, Edwin D. Etherington, Charles W. Colson and Rayburn Hanzlik; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

New Year's greetings

Introductions

Seating

Briefcase

Etherington
-Key Biscayne
-Home in Hobe Sound, Florida

National Center for Volunteer Action [NCVA]
-The President’s gratitude
-Importance
-Funding
-Ford's letter to the President
-ACTION
-Budget for 1973
-Private sector
	-Government

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[Duration:  23s  ]

	EASTERN EUROPE

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-Private sector
-Competition with other organizations
-Pledges
-Ford's letter to the President
-Pledges
-White House aides
-Financial supporters
	-Election year
-Tax deduction
	-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] ruling
-The President’s instruction
-Project
-The President's recent conversation with Robert H. Finch
-Local centers network
-Number operating
-Timing
-Number forming
-Money from ACTION
-Awards dinner
-The President's attendance

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

The President's schedule
-Datebook
-Retrieval

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

-Scheduling

NCVA
-Awards dinner
-The President's presence

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

Datebook

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

NCVA
-Awards dinner
-Date
-The President's presence

Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

Refreshment
	-Sanchez

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

NCVA
-Awards dinner
-Date
-Location
-Kennedy Center
		-Size
		-Reservation
		-Board meeting
		-Honorees
-Honorees
-Date
-The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Press
-The President's schedule
-California
-Trip to PRC
-Fund-raising possibilities
-Pre-dinner gathering
-The President's presence
-Advertising
-Funding
	-Amount
-ACTION appropriations
-Programs
-"Right to Read"
-Volunteers
-The President
-Blacks
-Non-English language speakers
-“New math”
-“Aid to the Elderly”
-Volunteers
-Ages
	-College students
-“Right to Read”
-Funding
	-Costs
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] grant
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Hanzlik, Finch and Etherington
-Colson's forthcoming conversations
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and George P. Shultz
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-The President's support
-ACTION budget
-Congressional support
-Costs of “Right to Read” and “Aid to the Elderly”
-HEW
	-Richardson
	-Support
	-Support from the President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-“Right to Read”
	-Richardson
	-Mrs. Nixon
-Organization
-Chairmanship
-Ford's forthcoming resignation
-Etherington's possible succession
-Etherington's work with Frederic V. Malek
-Ford’s future role
-Presidency
-Schedule
-Salary
-Etherington's work

Malek

William D. Eberle
-Job 

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

Peter G. Peterson
-Forthcoming meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

Eberle
-Previous role
	-American Standard
-Peterson
	-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Previous support for Etherington
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Eisaku Sato

Malek
-Performance
-Support for women
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
	-[Marina von Neumann Whitman]
	-Herbert Stein
		-Ezra Solomon
		-Paul W. McCracken
		-Whitman
			-Women in government

International monetary agreement
-John B. Connally
-Work with Group of Ten

Peterson entered at 3:30 pm.

Greetings

NCVA awards dinner

Ford, Etherington, Colson, and Hanzlik left at 3:30 pm.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with group on trade legislation
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Issues to be discussed
-Gold price
-Legislation before Congress
-Banking Committee
-Generalized preferences
	-Ways and Means Committee
	-Senate Finance Committee
-Timing
		-Paul A. Volcker's views
		-Eberle
		-European Economic Community [EEC]
		-Agriculture issue
			-Connally’s view
				-Forthcoming talk with Peterson
				-Politics
-Agriculture
-Citrus and tobacco
-Grain
	-Midwestern states
-Eberle's work
-Congress' actions
-Measures to Congress
-Timing
	-State of the Union message
	-Hearings
	-Debate
-Filibuster
	-The President's forthcoming meeting with Connally
		-California
	-Peterson's forthcoming call to Connally
	-Filibuster
-Trade legislation
-Timing
	-Delay
-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD] trade group report
-Congress
-Eberle

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:30 pm.

-Request for Shultz's presence

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

-Issues to be discussed
-Trade legislation
-Exchange rate
-Other legislation
	-Revenue sharing, health
-Ways and Means Committee
	-Senate Finance Committee
-Wilbur D. Mills
-James A. Burke
-Vance Hartke-Burke Bill
-Labor
-Relationship with Mills
-Prospects
	-The President’s view
		-Peterson’s memorandum
		-Protectionist measures
		-Peterson's responsibility
		-William P. Rogers
		-Peterson
			-Business community
		-Connally
		-The President’s comments
		-Public statements
			-Peterson, Rogers, Connally, Stein
		-US credibility abroad and at home
			-Protectionism

Trade legislation
-Rogers
	-Generalized preferences
	-Recent conversation with the President
	-Submission to Congress
	-Timing
	-"Christmas Tree" approach
	-Staff meeting
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Consultation

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:30 pm.

	The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

	-Instructions
		-Forthcoming talk with Rogers
			-Foreign policy concerns
	-Quotes

	Press coverage
		-Peterson
			-New York Times
				-Charts

State of the Union message
	-Staff contact with Congress, business
-1972
-Themes
	-Confidence, employment, competition

Peterson's schedule
-California
-Japan

Japan
-Negotiations with US
-Eberle
-Kakuei Tanaka
-Maurice H. Stans

The President and Peterson left at 3:40 pm.

Conversation No. 643-11

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:40 pm and 4:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

[An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:40 pm and 4:44 pm.]

[Conversation No. 643-11A]

The President's location
-Cabinet Room

The unknown men [agents] left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm.

Conversation No. 643-12

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:40 pm and 4:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret service agents] met.

	[Unintelligible]

The President's location
-Cabinet Room
-Stephen B. Bull

[An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:40 pm and 4:44 pm.]

[Conversation No. 643-12A]

Affirmation of unknown comments

[End of telephone conversation]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm.

Conversation No. 643-13

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  4:44 pm - 6:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell.
[The recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress]

Yeoman Charles E. Radford
-Removal
-Relations with Jack N. Anderson
-Unknown chief petty officer
-Indebtedness
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] participation in White House infiltration
-John D. Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Mitchell

Anderson
-Possible litigation
-Timing
	-1972 election
	-Statute of limitations
-Possession and publication of documents
-JCS
-New York Times investigative reporting team
-Contact with Radford
-Source of story

Radford
-Reassignment
	-Office closure
-Anderson
-Possible revelation of admirals’ activities
	-Delivery of secret material to JCS
-Office
-Closure

	Radford
		-Options
	-Melvin R. Laird
	-Plan
	-Ehrlichman
	-Impunity

The President's need to sign documents

William D. Eberle
-Performance
-Trade negotiations
-Compared with Peter G. Peterson
-The President’s view

White House staff
-Performance

John B. Connally
-Relations with White House
-Daniel L. Schorr’s story about Azores trip
-Preston Smith
-Maury Cohen [sp?]
-Mitchell's conversation with Ehrlichman
			-The President's and Mitchell's law firm [Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander
-Unknown suit

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:44 pm and 5:15 pm.]

[Conversation No. 643-13A]

[See Conversation No. 18-13]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally
-Smith
-[Forename unknown] Gallagher's [sp?] letter
	-New York
-Relations with White House
-Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander
-The President's schedule
-California

[The President talked with William P. Rogers at unknown time between 4:44 pm and 5:15 pm.]

[See Conversation No. 18-14]

An unknown man entered and conferred with the President at an unknown time after 4:44 pm.

Manolo Sanchez
-Location

[End of conferral]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

The President conferred with Mitchell at an unknown time.

Robert S. Ingersoll
-Possible ambassadorship
	-Japan

[End of conferral]

[End of telephone conversation]

Appointments
	-Ambassadorship to Japan
	-Fredrick M. Eaton
	-Rogers's views
	-Age
	-Appearance
	-Conflict of interest
	-Rogers C. B. Morton
	-Morton
	-Ingersoll
	-Morton

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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 4:44 pm.

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	Ronald W. Reagan
-Conflict with Elliot L. Richardson
	-Mitchell as arbitrator
		-Ehrlichman's advice
	-Richardson's prerogatives
	-Concessions
		-The President's concession on Medicaid
			-George P. Shultz
		-John N. Ashbrook
		-Reagan's possible response
	-Welfare reform
		-Reagan's planned press conference
	-Concession
		-1972 election
-Refusal to compromise
		-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] legal service issue
-Compared with Nelson A. Rockefeller

New York
-Rockefeller
-Tax package
-Work with Mitchell
-Conservatives

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Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Schedule
-[California]
-State of the Union message
	-Drafts

Connally
-Administration's support
-Smith
-Investigators
-Los Angeles Times
-Cohen
-Attacks on Connally
-Reasons
-Ben F. Barnes
-Mood
	-Golf in El Dorado
-Investigation
-Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander
-Suit

Trade negotiations with Japan
-Eberle's presence in California
-Kakuei Tanaka
		-Maurice H. Stans
-Stans
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Past performance
-Eberle
-Stans
-Presence
-Dinner
-Stans
-Tanaka
-Kissinger’s view
	-Stans compared to Eberle
		-Tanaka
-David M. Kennedy

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 33s  ]

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Indiana
-John A. Schneider
-Position with administration
-Frederic V. Malek
-Background
	-State treasurer

Deputy Secretary of Defense
-Schneider
-Necessity
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Finances
-Compared with David Packard
-Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
-Conservatives
-Background
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]

	Appointments
		-Conservatives
			-Defense Department and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]

Defense Department
-Expenditures compared to authorizations
-Secretary
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Timing
-Impact
-John G. Tower
-Deputy Secretary
-Legislation to split job
-Goldwater
-George H. W. Bush
-Qualifications
-Loyalty
-United Nations [UN] position
-UN
-Possible political ambitions
-UN position
-Prestige
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Confirmation
-Relations with Congress
-Joseph D. Tydings
-Loyalty
-Legislative programs
-Peterson's job
	-Possible downgrade

Commerce Department Secretary
-Peterson
-Helen D. Bentley
-Letter from Vice President Spiro T. Agnew to the President
	-Mitchell
-Language

Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Position on list of Top Ten Most Admired Women in World
	-George H. Gallup
-Ethel (Skakel) Kennedy
-Shirley Chisholm
-Cover photograph for unknown newsmagazine
-Replacement by Angela Davis
-Martha Mitchell's reaction

Defense Department
-Deputy Secretary
-Flanigan
-Confirmation
-Laird
-Role
-Qualifications
-Relations with Kissinger
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meetings
-Qualifications
-Confirmation
-Tydings issue

Eberle

Malek
-Job performance

Eberle
-Position 
	-Performance
	-Peterson’s position
	-Testimony

Flanigan
-Possible position with Defense Department
-Clark MacGregor
-Kissinger
-Previous relations
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Qualities

Kissinger
-Breakfast meeting with Mitchell, January 3, 1972
-Kissinger's relationship with Rogers and State Department

Gerard C. Smith
-Meeting with the President, January 3, 1972
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
	-Vienna
-Rogers's presence
-Kissinger's view
-Rogers’s knowledge of negotiations

Kissinger
-Meeting with Mitchell
-India-Pakistan War
-Rogers's and Richard F. Pederson's actions
-Backgrounders
-Effects on foreign policy
	-Democrats
-Relations with State Department
-Leaks
	-Kissinger’s possible handling
-Middle East
	-Back channels
-Soviet Union
	-Forthcoming summit
-Rogers's dealings with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Kissinger’s talk with Haldeman in Key Biscayne
-Possible resignation
	-Timing
		-Moscow Summit
-Importance to Administration
-Rogers and Laird
-State Department

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 4:44 pm.

The President's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:00 pm.

Kissinger
-Return from Azores
-Statement to press
-India-Pakistan relations
-State Department
-State Department
	-Radford
		-Anderson’s columns
			-Reports from others
	-Rogers
		-Foreign policy

India-Pakistan War
-New York Times task force
-Kissinger
-Request for interview with Rogers
-Rogers's response
-Kissinger's cooperation
-Ehrlichman's reaction
-New York Times' report on Anderson and his sources
-Reasons
-Public interest
	-The President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2, 1972
-New York Times task force
-Kissinger's cooperation
-Reasons
-State Department
-Leaks to Marvin L. Kalb, et al.
-Rogers's meeting with Haldeman, January 3, 1972
-Rogers's concerns

	Kissinger
		-Relations with State Department
			-Self-defense
			-The Administration’s foreign policy
				-Middle East
				-Soviet Union
					-Dobrynin
					-Forthcoming summit
		-Talk with Mitchell
			-The President’s interests

State Department
-Rogers’s conversations with Dobrynin
-Notification of Kissinger
-Compared with Kissinger’s conversations with Dobrynin
-Briefing the President
-Middle East
-Rogers’s conversation with Dobrynin
-Briefing the President
-Substance
	-Kissinger’s view

Rogers
-Relations with the President
-Kissinger's view
	-Conversation with Haldeman
			-Meeting with the President and J. Edgar Hoover on plane
			-Birthday cake
	-Dinner with the President, Hoover and Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

	Kissinger
		-Relations with the President
-Kissinger's conversation with Haldeman
-Meetings
	-Tone
-India-Pakistan War
	-Kissinger’s press conference comments
		-Talks with the President
	-Responsibilities for Rogers
		-Consequences
		-Kissinger
	-Kissinger’s talking paper
		-The President’s meeting with Indira Gandhi
	-State Department

Kissinger
-Relations with the President
-Kissinger’s view
-Niceties
	-Calls from the President and Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Relations with State Department and Rogers
-Kissinger's possible action
-Consequences
	-Hawks’ departure
	-Dove
-Leaks 

Radford 
-Kissinger's views
-State Department
-Meeting with Mitchell, January 3, 1972
-Possible firing of Adm. Thomas H. Moorer

State Department
-The President's forthcoming trip to Moscow
	-Structuring of activities
-Kissinger's views
-Rogers's responsibilities
-Informing Rogers
-Middle East and Moscow
-Memoranda

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[National Security]
[Duration:  4s  ]

	INTELLIGENCE

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-Joseph J. Sisco

Rogers
-Relations with Kissinger and the President
-Candor
-Performance 
-Leaking
-Loyalty
-Cambodia
-Kissinger's views
-Relations with the President
-Vietnam
	-Bombing
-Possible talk with Mitchell and Haldeman
-Kissinger, the President
-Discussion of problems
	-1972 election
	-Personality conflicts
-Trip to Soviet Union for negotiations
-Kissinger
-Kissinger's view
	-Publicity
	-Kissinger 
-Qualities
	-Foreign affairs
		-Knowledge
	-Public relations
	-Compared with Kissinger
-Balance and self-confidence
	-Kissinger

India-Pakistan War
-Inevitability
-US policy
-Kissinger
-Soviets
	-Lack of cooperation
			-The President's meeting with Soviet Agricultural Minister [Vladimir Matskevich]
-Gandhi
-Rogers's possible views
	-Possible talk with Haldeman
		-State Department

Kissinger and Rogers
-Contrast
-Concern for historical compared to immediate image
-Concern for “editorial page” compared to “front page” image
-Long compared to  short view
-Rationality and self control
-Rogers
-Composure
-Conversation with John A. Scali
-Manners

Cabinet
-Kissinger's views
-Rogers
-Laird
-Responsibilities

Kissinger and Rogers
-India-Pakistan War
-Leaks
-Value
-Loyalty
	-State Department

Kissinger
-Relations with the President
-Kissinger's view
	-Trips to Florida, California
-Attendance at forthcoming Japanese dinner
-[Unknown person]
-Calls from the President
-Talks with Haldeman and Mitchell
-Rogers's retention in office
-Kissinger's views
-Possible resignation
-Timing
-1972 election
	-Soviet Summit
	-Possible announcement
		-June 1972
-Middle East
-Kissinger's background
-Kissinger's view
	-Talk with Mitchell
	-Talk with the President
		-1970 elections
-Kissinger’s meetings
	-Promises
-India-Pakistan War
-Rogers
-Kissinger's responsibility
	-The President’s view
-State Department
-The President's orders at WSAG meeting
	-Kissinger’s view
-Relations with Rogers
-Cooperation with New York Times
-Reasons
	-Justification of Kissinger’s role
-Kissinger's importance vis-a-vis the President's
-Relations with the President
-Announcements
	-Troop withdrawals
-The President’s interview with Dan Rather, January 2, 1972
	-Kissinger foreign policy suggestions
		-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Honesty
-Reaction to India-Pakistan War
-Press treatment

	The President’s schedule
		-San Clemente
			-Possible instructions to Rogers and Kissinger
				-Contact with press
					-Anderson
					-India-Pakistan War

New York Times
-The President's instructions
-Pentagon Papers
-Kissinger
-Kissinger
	-Interviews
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
		-Haldeman
		-Talks with Haldeman and Mitchell
			-State Department
				-India-Pakistan War
-Possible leaks

The President's trip to California
-Mitchell's schedule
-Talk with Rogers
-Haldeman's presence

Kissinger
	-Possible talk
-Possible talk with the President
-Complaints regarding Rogers and State Department
-Possible talk with Mitchell
-Rockefeller
-Relations with Kissinger

The President's schedule
-Recent meeting with Rogers in Florida
-Rogers's interest
-Dinner with Rogers, Hoover and Rebozo
-Plane trip
-Meeting with Hoover, Rogers and Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Haldeman's meeting with Rogers
-Meetings with Rogers
-Kissinger's presence
-Meetings with foreign leaders
-African leaders
-Upper Volta
-Kissinger's presence
-Kissinger’s presence
	-Georges J.R. Pompidou
	-Willy Brandt
	-Manner
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Kissinger's notes
-Trip to California
-Mitchell
-Talk with Kissinger
-Timing
-Talks with Kissinger and Rogers
-The President’s instructions
-Anderson
-Investigation
	-Ehrlichman

Kissinger
-Relations with the President
-Hypothetical relations with Connally as President
-Kissinger's tenure in office
-Rogers's tenure in office
-Contrasted with other Cabinet members
-Cambodia and Laos
-Pentagon Papers
-Encouragement

The President's trip to California

Unknown matter

Mitchell and Haldeman left at 6:00 pm.

Conversation No. 643-14

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 6:00 pm until 6:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with unknown people.

[Unintelligible]

The President and the unknown people left at 6:01 pm.

Conversation No. 643-15

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:01 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

Schedules

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

Conversation No. 643-9

Date:  January 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:01 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

[An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 6:01 and 11:59 pm.]

[Conversation No. 643-9A]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.