Conversation No. 644-1

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:30 am and 9:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

Agent’s schedule
	-Assignment

The agents left at an unknown time before 9:46 am.

Conversation No. 644-2

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:46 am and 10:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Manolo Sanchez.

[Conversation No. 644-2A]

Request for Sanchez

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 644-3

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:46 am and 10:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 18-26]

Conversation No. 644-4

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:46 am and 10:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull at an unknown time after 9:46 am.

The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Value-added tax [VAT]
-Gerald L. Warren
	-Press

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:22 am.

Conversation No. 644-5

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  10:22 am - 10:37 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

	Replacement of drinking glasses
		-Champagne
		-Water

[The President talked with Charles B. (“Bebe”) Rebozo between 10:23 am and 10:24 am.]

[Conversation No. 644-5A]

[See Conversation No. 18-27; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone call]

Materials to Woods
	-Unknown person
-Correspondence
-Frank Urich
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Unknown Jewish man in New York
	-Wife
-Unnamed person

	Replacement of drinking glasses
		-Differences
			-Water glasses
		-Order

	Birthday cards
		-Responses

Unnamed Navy captain's business project
-F. Donald Nixon
-John C. Whitaker

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Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s recent trip to Africa
-Draft letter for the President to send to the Grambling band
-Performance in Liberia
	-Certificate
-Draft letter to heads of states about African trip
-Correspondence channels
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William R. Codus
-Mrs. Nixon’s reception
	-The President’s appreciation
		-Courtesies
	-Liberia, Ghana, Ivory Coast
-Letters
	-Replies

	Unknown instruction

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Work on State of the Union speech
-Use of time
-Price’s draft 
	-Length
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Departure from White House post
	-Possible occasion
		-Location
-Coordination

Birthday
-The President's January 9, 1972 birthday
	-Telegrams
-Selection of cards received
	-Florida
-Special Christmas cards
-Odes
	-Mrs. Nixon
	-Walter [Surname unknown]
	-Fifth-grade class birthday greeting for the President
-Packages of cards
	-Florida

Mrs. Strauss [?]
-Handwritten note of support for the President
-Campaign contribution to Committee to Re-elect the President

Replacement of drinking glasses
	-Champagne

Woods left at 10:37 am.

Conversation No. 644-6

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  10:37 am - 10:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Gerald L. Warren

Bull left at 10:38 am.

Conversation No. 644-7

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  10:38 am - unknown time before 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman; Gerald R. Warren was present after 10:39 am.

Herbert G. Klein's televised statement on Jack N. Anderson papers, January 9, 1972
-Henry A. Kissinger

-Investigation of leak
-Possible libel by the press
	-Misinterpretation

Warren's statement on Klein
-Affirmation of Klein's statement
	-White House Press Office involvement
		-Possible new story
			-Kissinger
-News angle compared with analysis
-Warren’s view
-Press reaction
-No comment position
-Kissinger
-Administration’s public and private statements
	-Press analysis

The President's schedule
-State of the Union speech
-Budget messages
-Economic report
-Messages to Congress

Vietnam troop withdrawal announcement
-Speculation in Newsweek
	-Timetable
-Warren's forthcoming statement
	-The President’s forthcoming announcement
-Speculation
-Warren's statement
-Time of announcement
		-Troop withdrawal rate

The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Return of Ronald L. Ziegler and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. from trip
	-Possible weariness
	-Ziegler’s possible comments
-Press applications for accompanying the President on his forthcoming trip
-Number
	-Warren’s handling
	-Specifics
		-Forthcoming announcement

Warren left at 10:47 am.

Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:47 am.

The President's meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and group

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:49 am.

Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon's trip to Africa

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:47 am and 10:49 am.]

[Conversation No. 644-7A]

[See Conversation No. 18-28]

[End of telephone conversation]

Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon's trip to Africa
-Press coverage

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[The President talked with Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally between 10:49 am and 10:50 am.]

[Conversation No. 644-7B]

[See Conversation No. 18-29]

[End of telephone conversation]

Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon's return from Africa
-Airport arrival
-Attendees
	-Connallys

John B. Connally
-Attendance at events
-Alexander P. Butterfield

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 644-17

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:50 am and 11:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

	Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon’s return from Africa
		-Airport arrival
			-Invitations
				-Alexander P. Butterfield’s check
				-William P. Rogers, Maurice, H. Stans, John B. Connally
				-Butterfield’s responsibility
					-Follow-up

State of the Union speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s draft

-Length
-Readiness

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-John E. Sheehan
-Swearing-in ceremony
-Robert O. Anderson appointment
-Arthur S. Flemming swearing-in
-Time
-Camp David
-Vietnam statement preparation
-Anderson
-Meeting with Neil H. McElroy
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Timing
	-State of the Union speech
-School finance meeting

School financing
-Ehrlichman
	-John B. Connally
	-McElroy
-Advisory Council on Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR]

John N. Mitchell's meeting
-Timing
	-Political meetings

Connally

Mitchell

State of the Union speech

[David] Kenneth Rush
-Meeting with the President
-Scheduling

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:50 am.

Rush meeting
-Rescheduling

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Vietnam troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing
	-Anderson
-Swearing-in
-Scheduling

Sheehan appointment
	-Public relations
		-Press
		-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
		-Photograph session
			-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Flemming meeting
-Press
-Scheduling

Cabinet meeting

Meeting with Congressional leaders
-Clark MacGregor's and Ehrlichman's suggestions
-Briefing
	-Bipartisanship
-Format
	-Message
-Scheduling
-Vietnam announcement
-Committee chairman
-Timing
	-Vietnam peace proposal
-Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing
	-Foreign policy leaders

White House social affairs
-February 10, 1972
	-National Center for Voluntary Action
	-Press conference
	-Florida
-February 1, 1972
	-National prayer breakfast
		-William R. Tolbert, Jr. of Liberia
	-Tolbert
		-Black-tie dinner
		-Day meeting
		-Blair House
	-Republican governors dinner, January 31, 1972
		-Mitchell
		-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
		-Cabinet
		-Senior White House staff
		-Briefings
		-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-DeWitt Wallace dinner
	-Republican governors dinner
	-Timing
	-Tolbert
	-Mitchell's, Agnew’s, and Ehrlichman’s recommendation
	-Scheduling
	-Timing
		-1972 election

Briefings
-Ehrlichman
-Presidential involvement
	-Dinner

Vermont congressmen
-Robert T. Stafford, [Richard W. Mallary]
-Meeting with the President
-Atkins's possible photograph session

	Kissinger

	School financing
		-McElroy

Connally
-Invitation to [Mrs. Nixon’s airport reception]
	-Personal secretary
		-Others
-Schedule

School financing
-McElroy

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:50 am.

Arrival of Rush at National Airport
-Meeting with the President
-Scheduling
	-Kissinger
		-Hilton Hotel

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

McElroy
	-January 13, 1972
		-State of the Union speech
		-Anderson

Anderson
-Industrial conference board
-Time of meeting

Meeting with Netherlands Prime Minister Barend W. Biesheuvel
-Scheduling
	-Kissinger, State Department
		-State of the Union
		-Timing
		-Ehrlichman, John C. Whitaker
-Dutch ambassador's [Baron Rijnhard Van Lyden’s] call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Press conference

Meeting with cabinet and congressional leaders
-Scheduling
	-Prayer breakfast

The President's schedule
-Netherlands Prime Minister
	-Meeting duration

Dr. Rainer Barzel
-Meeting proposal
-Kissinger
	-Previous meeting
	-Willy Brandt
	-Wallace dinner
	-Biesheuvel

The President's schedule
-Kissinger
-The President’s forthcoming PRC trip
-Nihat Erim of Turkey
	-France
	-Alexander P. Haig, Jr.
	-Possible future visit
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez of Mexico
	-The President’s forthcoming trips to the PRC and Soviet Union
		-Erim
-Haig

State visits
-Arrangements
	-Duration
	-Camp David, Blair House
	-Office visit, dinner

The President's schedule
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Morocco, Peru and Nigeria
-Ivory Coast
	-Mrs. Nixon’s trip
		-Courtesies
	-Kissinger

State visits
-Arrangements
	-Itinerary
	-Camp David

Donald McI. Kendall
-Soviet Union report
-Scheduling of meeting with the President
	-The President’s forthcoming trips to the PRC and Soviet Union

Meetings with the President
-Allen J. Ellender
-Scheduling
-Kissinger
-Ivory Coast
-Eheverria
-The President’s forthcoming trip  to the Soviet Union
-Foreign visits
	-Rate
-Foreign policy issue

The President schedule
-Camp David
-Super Bowl VI

Atkins's photograph sessions of forthcoming meetings
	-Health Services Industry Committee

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Vietnam
	-Negotiations
		-Kissinger
			-Possible message for Anna C. Chennault
				-Five power alliance
				-Haig

Ehrlichman entered at 11:30 am.

	McElroy

Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
-Agnew’s recommendation
-Composition
-Edmund S. Muskie, Dale Bumpers, Warren E. Hearnes, Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., Howard (“Bo”) Calloway, Edward C. Banfield, Ronald W. Reagan, Richard B. Ogilvie, Robert H. Finch, George W. Romney, George P. Shultz, Al Ullman, Florence P. Dwyer
-Local leaders
-Russell Arrington, Robert Knowles
-Muskie
-Dilemma
-Agnew, Connally, Elliot L. Richardson
-Possible presentation to ACIR
-Value-added tax [VAT]
	-State sales taxes
-Federalism
-McElroy Commission
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Focus on real estate taxes
-The President's proposals for ACIR
	-State of the Union speech
-Connally's reactions
	-Talk with Ehrlichman
	-The President’s possible posture
		-State of the Union speech
		-Agnew

State of the Union speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s draft
-Length
		-Supplemental notes
		-Need for editing
			-The President’s role
			-Ehrlichman’s role
		-Contents of message
		-Farmers, elderly
		-Omissions
			-Farmers, Latin America
		-Amount of time on subjects

VAT
-ACIR proposal
	-Connally
	-Possible statement
	-Connally
	-Talk with Ehrlichman
	-Agnew
		-Talk with Ehrlichman

Meeting of committee
-McElroy
-Agnew, Richardson, Connally
-Clarence Walton
-ACIR
-Presentation
	-Scheduling
		-Agnew, Connally, Richardson
		-Press
		-State of the Union speech
		-Vietnam speech
	-Agnew
-Finch, Romney, Shultz
-Richard G. Lugar
-Presentation to Congress of proposals
	-Publicity
		-Press coverage
-Connally

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Haldeman left at 11:32 am.

Story on Howard Hughes
	-Television coverage

Whitaker
-Film on environmental policy
	-Delivery to networks
		-Timing
			-Special message on environment
-Introduction or cameo appearance by the President
-Memorandum
	-Environmental events
		-Rate

Environment
	-Possible trip by the President
	-Timing
		-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
	-Publicity
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Big Cypress Swamp tour
		-Publicity
-Interest in environment
	-Legacy of parks
	-Timing
	-Russell E. Train
	-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Speeches by the President
-Effectiveness
-Chicago, Minneapolis
	-Environmental congress
-Publicity on TV
-Grand Teton trip
-Eisenhower
-Press coverage of trip to swamp

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.

Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Presidential gift
	-Bookmark

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.

Environment
-Eisenhower

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.

Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.

Environment
-Tricia Nixon Cox, Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-Program for publicity
-Youth
-Trip to Yellowstone National Park
-Centennial
-Air, water-related issues

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.

The President's meeting with Fletcher
-Carthur L. M. Drake

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.

Mrs. Nixon's trip to Africa
-Value
-Comparison to Agnew's trips

Fletcher, Robert J. Brown, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Drake, and Stanley S. Scott entered at 11:48 am; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting; Ehrlichman left at 11:50 am.

	Introductions

Mrs. Nixon's trip to Liberia
	-Grambling University band
	-US Information Agency [USIA] funding limits
	-Grambling band's reception in Liberia
		-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
	-Television coverage

Presentation of check

	[Photograph session]

Fletcher, et al. left at 11:52 am.

Conversation No. 644-8

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:52 am and 11:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

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The President's schedule
	-Photograph sessions
	-Health Service Industry Committee
	-[David] Kenneth Rush

Taping of audio messages

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:55 am.

Conversation No. 644-9

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:52 am and 11:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Audio taping

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:55 am.

Conversation No. 644-18

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:52 am and 11:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Greetings

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:55 am.

Conversation No. 644-10

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 pm and 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule
-Emilio Colombo
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Cabinet crisis
-Kissinger
-Message to the President
	-Timing
-Message to the President
-Possible meeting with the President
-Barend W. Biesheuvel
-Dinner and office meeting
-Biesheuvel
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes's farewell
-Betty Hughes

	-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:00 pm.

Meeting of the Health Services Industry Committee with the President
-Location
	-Roosevelt Room
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Handshakes
-Photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

	The President’s schedule

Meeting with Colombo

Cabinet dinner
-Robert J. Brown
-Invitation
-Guests
	-Russell E. Train
	-Seating
	-Farewell tributes
		-Maurice H. Stans
		-Clifford M. Hardin
	-Strolling Strings, Army Chorus, Navy Sea Chanters
-Location of dinner
-East Room
-Music
	-Strings

Entertainment
-Max Morath
-Appearances at Ford's Theater
-Ragtime piano
	-Political commentary
	-"Mr. Dooley"
-Evening at the White House
-Musical style

The President's talk with John D. Ehrlichman
-Environment
	-John C. Whitaker
		-Memorandum
	-Possible speeches
	-Possible trips

Environment
	-1972 election
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
	-Park tour
-The President’s possible efforts
-Films
-Network interest
-Importance as issue
-Young people
-Interest
-Recycling centers
	-Volunteer efforts
-Usefulness
-Copy of Atlantic article by Peter Drucker forwarded by Ehrlichman
	-Solutions
	-Technology
-Administration's policy
-Congress

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Kissinger

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

Conversation No. 644-11

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 pm and 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

	Instruction

Scheduled meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

Conversation No. 644-12

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  12:16 pm - 12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Barbara Dunn, Karl D. Bays, Earl W. Brian, Rita R. Campbell, D. Brooks Chandler, Jane Claflin, Frank C. Coleman, James R. Cowan, Theodore E. Cummings, Rosamond C. Gabrielson, James W. Haviland, John A. Hill, Alice K. Leopold, Kennth M. McCaffree, J. Alexander McMahon, C. Joseph Stetler, William H. Thomas, Samuel J. Tibbitts, Donald J. Walden, John C. Whitwell, Raymond J. Waldmann, Donald H. Rumsfeld and Stephen B. Bull; John Tomayko and Doreas Hardy may also have been present; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions
	-General conversation
		-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s return from African trip
		-Stanford University
		-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

[Photograph session]

Recommendations of committee
-Duration of efforts
-Health services industry
-The President’s gratitude
-Costs of medical services

Health industry
-Quality
-Leadership
-Cooperation with the administration’s economic program
	-Phase I
-The President's economic program
-Costs of services
	-Inflation
-Management, technology, labor
-Economic programs
-As example
-Representatives
	-Background
-Volunteers
-Value
-Role of government

White House dining services
-Chefs, staff 
	-Europeans

White House Mess
-Filipino staff
	-Navy

Presentation of gifts
-Cuff links, bow pins

The President's health

General conversation
	-Unknown person
		-California

Dunn, et al. left at 12:34 pm.

Conversation No. 644-13

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Ambassador [David] Kenneth Rush

Bull left at 12:34 pm.

Conversation No. 644-14

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  12:35 pm - 1:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with [David] Kenneth Rush and Col. Richard T. Kennedy; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Rush’s health

Rush's living arrangements
-Davenport
-Piper Key
-Beaches

	Key Biscayne
		-Compared to San Clemente
			-Weather
			-Views
			-Houses

Rush's possible appointment as Deputy Secretary of Defense
	-John N. Mitchell
	-Discussion with Rush
-Rush’s schedule
	-Return to Bonn
-Forthcoming meeting with Melvin R. Laird
	-Recent telephone conversation in New York
	-Financial aspects of Rush's holdings
	-Job candidates
		-Laird’s view
			-Compared to the President’s
	-Rush's experience
				-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR], Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
				-Business
			-Lair’s schedule
				-Vacation
			-West Germany

Frank E. Cash, Jr.
-Assistant to Rush
-Present position
-Russell Fessenden

Nominations for ambassador to replace Rush
	-Rush's recommendations
	-Meeting with Peter M. Flanigan
	-Recommendations
		-Unknown Texan
-West Germany
-Ambassadorial candidates 
	-Age
-Gen. Lucius DuB. Clay, Jr., John J. McCloy
-MBFR, European Security Conference

Free Democratic Party [FDP]
-Walter Scheel
	-Poll results
	-Relationship with Rush
-Size
-Importance

Poll results
	-Scheel
		-Compared to Dr. Rainer Barzel

Barzel
-Head of Christian Democratic Union [CDU] party in Bundestag

Forthcoming West German elections
-September 1973
-Moscow agreements
	-Ratification
		-CDU’s possible position
			-Gerhard Schroeder, Franz Josef Strauss
			-Bundestag
			-FDP
		-Willy Brandt
		-Effect of failure on foreign policy and relations
				-Berlin agreement, European Security Conference, détente, Soviet-West German relations
			-Brandt
				-Possible election
					-Economic situation
						-Timing
		-Timing

The President's meetings with Brandt in Key Biscayne, December 1971
-The President’s impression

US-West German relations
-Status
	-Rush’s view
-Britain, France
-West German security
	-Brandt
	-Troop levels
	-Socialists
-Kissinger
-Neutrality
-MBFR
-European security conference
-Brandt’s talks with Leonid Brezhnev in 1971
	-Purpose

Brandt
-Stance on detente
-US initial attitude
-Relations with the US vis-à-vis the Soviets
-Attitudes toward détente
-Soviet allies
	-Attitude toward East Germany, East Berlin
	-Konrad Adenauer
		-France
-Motivations and goals
-[Ostpolitik]
-Michael J. Mansfield
	-Vietnam
	-Impact on German attitudes

Barzel
-Christian Social Union [CSU]
	-Strauss
-Attitude toward Moscow Agreements Brandt’s Ostpolitik
	-Relationship with CDU
		-Bavaria
-Moderation on foreign policy
-Moscow agreements
	-Ratification
		-Party unity
			-Analogy to [James] Harold Wilson
				-Labor Party
					-Common Market
-Economic and internal issues
	-Possible effect on Brandt
-Political position of CDU
	-Western allies
	-Anti-Soviet posture, economic
		-Brandt
	-Berlin Agreement, European Security Conference
-Forthcoming trip to the US
-Electoral prospects
-Compared to Edward R.G. Heath
-West German economy

Schedule

Kennedy left at 12:58 pm.

Laird
	-Forthcoming talk with Rush
		-Rush’s talk with the President
			-Secretary of Defense and Deputy Secretary
			-Teamwork
			-Rush
			-Experience
				-Government, MBFR, SALT
				-Business
					-Bureaucracy
				-Loyalty

	Rush
		-Possible future responsibilities as Deputy Secretary of Defense
	-Examination of Defense Department’s operation and management
		-David Packard
		-Laird
	-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]

WSAG
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Laird's attitude
-Mission
	-Implementation of White House decisions
		-Bureaucracy
-Members
			-Deputy, Undersecretary of State, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS], Director of Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], Kissinger
-Rush's role
-Kissinger

Rush
-Talk with John N. Mitchell
-Role of Mitchell
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
	-Kissinger
-Necessary relationship with Laird
-Kissinger
-Possible relationship with John B. Connally
	-Purchase of planes by Latin America countries, West Germany
		-Northrup
	-State Department
	-Management problems
	-Treasury Department
		-Financial problems
-State Department
	-John N. Irwin, II, U. Alexis Johnson
-Support from Laird
-Management role
-Independence
-Charlie McCarthy
-WSAG
	-Israel
	-Kissinger
	-Mitchell
	-State Department
		-Arabs
	-Mediator role
	-India-Pakistan crisis
-Relationship with JCS
-Support
-Interest of job
			-Compared to Secretary of State, Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of Treasury
			-Fund management

	Kissinger

Talk with Mitchell
-Advice
	-WSAG
-Kissinger, Laird, Rogers

Rush's schedule

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:58 pm and 1:11 pm.]

[Conversation No. 644-14A]

[See Conversation No. 18-30]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rush's schedule
-Meeting with Flanigan

Election year
-Scrutiny of Administration

	Kissinger

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:58 pm.

The President's call to Flanigan

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:11 pm.

[The President talked with Flanigan between 1:11 pm and 1:12 pm.]

[Conversation No. 644-14B]

[See Conversation No. 18-31]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's image
-Europe
-Momentum
-1972 election
-Europe
-In business community
-Europe
-Max Frankel's conversation with Rush
-New York Times and Washington Post 
	-The President compared with Franklin D. Roosevelt
	-American public
		-World
	-Kissinger
-Rush’s conversation with David Binder of the New York Times
	-Roosevelt and Nixon
	-The President’s foreign policy record

Jack N. Anderson Papers
-India-Pakistan War
-Kissinger

US policy on India-Pakistan relations
-Public interest
-US-India relations
	-West Pakistan
		-Soviet Union
	-Middle East
	-Criticism
	-Mutuality
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Alternatives
-Vietnam
-The President’s forthcoming PRC trip
	-Soviet Union
-Soviet Union
-Middle East
-Balance of power
	-Soviet pilots in United Arab Republic [UAR] planes
		-Possible effect on Israel
-US reactions
	-Sixth fleet
-US efforts
	-United Nations [UN] resolution
	-Soviet Union
	-Refugee aid
	-Preservation of stability
-Status of India
	-West Bengel
		-California
-East Pakistan
-Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
-Communists in West Bengal

India
-Rush’s knowledge
	-Union-Carbide

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	INDIA

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-War aims
	-Pakistan
	-PRC
	-Kashmir

Vietnam War
-North Vietnam
	-Laos, Cambodia, South Vietnam
-1954 Geneva Accords

	US policy on India-Pakistan relations
		-The President’s position
			-Support for India
	-Newspapers
	-Stories
		-Comment
			-Presidential advisors
	-Sources
-General public
-Attitude towards India-Pakistan relations
-Comparison to Pentagon Papers, Vietnam
-Opposition to the President's policy

Rush's meeting with Mitchell
-Laird’s talk with Mitchell
	-Laird’s recommendations
-Work with Laird, State Department

Rush left at 1:24 pm.

Conversation No. 644-15

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  1:24 pm - 1:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  30s  ]

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The President and Sanchez left at 1:25 pm.

Conversation No. 644-16

Date:  January 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:25 pm and 1:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

[Conversation No. 644-16A]

The President's location
-Area outside oval office
	-Reception area

[The President only heard talking with an unknown person [Stephen Hess?] in the hallway.]

[End of telephone conversation]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:25 pm.

An agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 1:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 644-16B]

[Unintelligible]

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[Federal Statute]
[Duration:  6s  ]

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Need for agent

The President's schedule

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[Federal Statute]
[Duration:  3s  ]

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