Conversation No. 648-1

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:58 am and 9:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a letter to Allen S. Drury.

Drury's letter regarding press in Washington Star
-The President's appreciation
-Timing
-Possible effect
-Drury's relations with press corps

Conversation No. 648-2

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:58 am and 9:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a letter to Don Shula.

Miami Dolphins
-Loss in Super Bowl, January 16, 1972
-Expression of sympathy
-Shula's coaching
-Super Bowl game
	-Dallas Cowboys
-Previous season

Conversation No. 648-3

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:58 am and 9:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Material for briefcase in Executive Office Building [EOB] office

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

Conversation No. 648-4

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  9:48 am - 1:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Weather

Daily briefing and position paper
-Distribution
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Staff dealings with media
-The President
-Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Clark MacGregor
-Charles W. Colson
-Compared with news summary
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]

-Attacks by left and right
-Kissinger
-Distribution
	-Buchanan
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Richmond, Virginia busing decision
-Buchanan's analysis
-John D. Ehrlichman's and staff's work on formulating the President's position
	-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman’s work
-Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Buchanan
-Ziegler
-The President's involvement
-Buchanan's work
-Political content
	-John N. Mitchell and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Frequency
-Burden on staff
-Day of issuing
		-Choice of stories
		-Buchanan
		-Memoranda
-Distribution
-Colson
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-MacGregor
-Kissinger
-Buchanan
-Conservatism
	-Ehrlichman and his staff
-Importance in campaign

Drafts of State of the Union address
-Circulation
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Possible tone
-Speculation about content
-Circulation
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Leonard Garment

Official trips
	-Garment
	-Trip with Frank J. Shakespeare
	-Cultural exhibits
-Buchanan
	-Soviet Union
		-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
		-Garment
		-Long Beach, California
		-Buchanan
		-Perks
-Meetings and dinners
	-The President’s trips

Howard Hughes's loan to the President's family
-Clark M. Clifford's involvement
-Law firm
-F. Donald Nixon
-Repayment
-1962 statement by the President
-Rose Mary Woods
-Transfer of property
-Hughes 
	-Clifford Irving book
	-Paradise Island
-Ziegler's briefings
-Public interest
-Public comments by the President
	-1962 statement
-Herbert G. Klein
-Familiarity with issue
-Ziegler
-Publicity
-Ziegler
-Repayment through transfer of property
-Hannah (Milhous) Nixon
-Donald Nixon
-Possible action
-Ziegler's possible role
-Washington Post story
-Drew Pearson article in 1959
-Irving book on Hughes
-Noah Dietrich's view
-Hughes's supplying of information
-Hughes's lawyers
-Dietrich
-Book
-Effect on Hughes
-Publication
-Irving book
-Life and McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
-Ownership of rights
	-Hughes's authorship
-Haldeman’s possible call to Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Publicity

Eleanor and Franklin [by Joseph P. Lash]
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Popularity
	-Lucy Mercer
	-The President's conversation with William Bullitt
	-Children
-[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt
-Children
-Excerpts
	-Haldeman’s reading
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Appearance
-Marriage
-Sunrise at Campobello
-Veracity of story
-Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship
-Children
-Mercer
-Franklin Roosevelt's vice presidential campaign in 1920
-Franklin Roosevelt's position as Under Secretary of Navy
-Longevity
-Presence at Franklin Roosevelt's death in Warm Springs, Georgia
-Publicity
-Mercer's marriage
-Portrait of Franklin Roosevelt
-Elizabeth Shoumatoff

Abraham Lincoln
-Mary (Todd) Lincoln
-Mental state
	-Modern medicine
-Apparitions

John F. Kennedy

Eleanor and Franklin
-Tone
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's opinion
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Private life
-Relationship with Lash
	-Bullitt’s view
	-The President’s view
	-Lash’s military service

John and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-Relationships
-Lack of publicity
	-Reason
	-Compared to Whigs of 19th century
		-Divorce

Hughes

Mitchell

Peter M. Flanigan
-News summary
	-Mitchell
-Conversation with James L. Buckley
-Mitchell's knowledge
-Buckley's request for appointment for [Forename unknown] Corwin [sp?]
-Buckley's support of the President's opponent [John N. Ashbrook]
	-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak story

Mitchell
-Necessary role
-Flanigan
-Buchanan
-Buckley
-Flanigan's view of political support
-Knowledge of Flanigan-Buckley exchange
-Buckley's letter
-Flanigan letter
-Copies to Mitchell and Haldeman

News summaries
-Report of political issues
-The President's reading of foreign and domestic policy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Humphrey
-Quality
	-Haldeman’s possible comments to unknown person
-Press corps
-Networks
-Coverage of news
-Wire service material
-Rogers's concerns
-Importance
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Omaha World Herald
-Los Angeles Times
-Chicago Tribune

The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Invitations to media
	-Television
	-New York Times
		-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
	-Networks

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Commerce Department
-Announcement of change
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peter G. Peterson
-Flanigan
-Stans's resignation
	-Stans’s letter
		-Draft of the President’s reply
-Peterson's views on reorganization
	-Ehrlichman’s and Shultz’s view
-Peterson
-Concern about public view of position
		-Opportunity
			-Jobs
-Accessibility
-Compared to Stans
-Announcement
	-Stans
-Reorganization

Peterson
-Replacement by Flanigan
-Kissinger's view
-John B. Connally's view
-Concerns on monetary policy
-Kissinger
-Flanigan
-Treasury Department
	-Haldeman’s possible talk with Flanigan and Connally
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
	-Connally
	-State Department
-The President’s schedule
	-Connally
		-Haldeman
-Connally
	-Kissinger
	-Flanigan
-Economic policy
-Paul A. Volcker Committee
-Announcement
	-Timing
-Three way move
-Flanigan
	-Council on international Economic Policy [CIEP]
		-Effectiveness
			-Credit
			-Staff

Commerce Department
-Stans's departure
-Leaks
-Announcement
	-Forthcoming Cabinet dinner
-Connally's view

Economic policy
-Connally's control
-International monetary policy
-Flanigan’s role

Ziegler entered at 10:56 am.

-Conversation with Haldeman and the President

Connally
-Possible meeting with the President, January 17, 1972

Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-Stans announcement
-State of the Union message
-Budget
-Possible questions
-Jack N. Anderson Papers
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s view
-The President's concerns
-Investigation
-Leak
-The President's concerns
-Possible statement
-Press involvement
-Investigation
-Anderson
-Investigation
-Presidential discussions
	-Confidentiality
-Kissinger's role
-The President's confidence in Kissinger
-The Administration’s public and private positions
-Presidential discussions with advisers
	-Leaks
	-Options
-Possible effects of publication
	-Advice to the President
	-India-Pakistan War
		-US position
-The President's confidence in Kissinger
-Klein’s comments
-Gerald L. Warren's comments
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Hughes biography by Irving
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's call to Ehrlichman
-Charges regarding Nixon family loan
-Clifford
-Possible handling
-Veracity
-1962 statement
	-Satisfaction of loan
		-Transfer of property
-Ziegler's handling
	-1962 campaign
-Possible Klein statement
	-1962 statement
-Acquaintance with facts
-Mrs. Nixon's position
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
-Hannah (Milhous) Nixon's repayment
-Transfer of property
-Irving
-Credibility
-Meetings with Hughes
-Interview with Mike Wallace, January 16, 1972
-Ziegler's possible statement
	-Ziegler’s age
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Chilean election of January 16, 1972
-Ghana
-Recognition
-Department of State
			-Allende
				-Recent election
-The President's possible stopover in Poland after Soviet Union trip
-Italian newspaper report
-Verification

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Invitations to press
-Ratio of news media to television reporters
-Audience
-"News" compared to "show business" aspect
-Ziegler's meeting with television officials in New York City
-John A. Scali's and Timothy G. Elbourne's presence
-PRC purchase of RCA ground station for Shanghai
-Invitations to press
-Pressure on White House
-Meetings with Ziegler

Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-State of the Union message
-Timing
-Content
	-Domestic and foreign policy
		-Report
-The President's possible press conference
-Letter to Ziegler from head of Associated Press [AP]
-The President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2, 1972
	-Duration
	-Reaction

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The President's possible press conference
-Democrats
-Fairness Doctrine response
-Mansfield
-Carl B. Albert
-Phone-in questions
		-State of the Union message
		-Press room

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:56 am and 11:24 am.]

[Conversation No. 648-4A]

Kissinger
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's possible press conference
-Equal time for Democrats
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-John N. Ashbrook
-TV coverage

Ziegler left at 11:24 am.

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at 11:24 am.]

[Conversation No. 648-4B]

[See Conversation No. 18-87]

[The call was placed on hold]

The President's schedule
-Camp David

[Haldeman talked with Connally at an unknown time between 11:24 am and 11:30 am.]

[Continuation of Conversation No. 648-4B]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Connally
-Peterson
-William L. Safire
-Work on Vietnam statement

Safire
-Work on Vietnam statement
-Compared with Price
-Previous conversation with Kissinger

Kissinger

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:24 am.

Request for Kissinger to join them

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Safire
-Draft of Vietnam statement
-State Department
-Timing

The President's schedule
-Florida
	-Draft of Vietnam statement
-Kurt Waldheim
-United Nations [UN]
-Budget signing
	-Ziegler
	-Press
	-Staff
-Photograph session
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Waldheim
	-Photographs session
		-Atkins
-Photographs of the President
	-Frequency

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William P. Rogers and Kissinger
-Relationship
-Mitchell

Kissinger entered at 11:30 am.

Statement on Vietnam
	-Safire
	-Conversation with Kissinger, January 17, 1972
	-Kissinger's briefing
-Duration
-Release of text
-Kissinger's forthcoming briefing
-Effect
	-US proposal
-Scheduling
-Target dates within speech
-Effect on US proposal
-W. Averell Harriman's possible reaction
-Release of text
	-Timing
-Troop withdrawal
-Proposals
	-Phase I
		-Prisoners of war [POWs] for troop withdrawal
			-Nguyen Van Thieu
		-Phase II
			-Cease-fire
	-Elections
-Unknown man's opinion
-Rose Mary Woods
-Possible delay
	-Effects
		-National Press Club dinner speech
		-North Vietnam response
			-Timing
-Draft
	-Timing
		-Safire
		-Compared with Price
-Safire’s view
	-Pubic relations
-Impact
-Publicity for Kissinger’s trips
-POWs
	-Peace proposal, October 11, 1970

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Troop withdrawal proposal
-Muskie's statement, January 16,, 1972
-Muskie's negotiating schedule
-Administration proposal
-Schedule
-POWs and ceasefire
	-Troop withdrawal deadlines
		-North Vietnam response
		-Timing
-North Vietnamese response
-US Air Force
-Laos and Cambodia
-Trails
-Quality
-Infliction of casualties in Northern Laos

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

Request for books in President's bedroom

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

Vietnam
-Long Tien
-South Vietnam
-Morale
-Effect of US withdrawal
	-Washington Post article
-Timing
	-Air Force
	-1972 election
-US troops 
-Highlands
-Strategy
	-Possible consequences
-Strategic Reserve Division
-Movement
-Laos
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Operation
-Compared with US troop actions
-Prospects
-Press reports
-Inaccuracies
	-Loss of Laos and Cambodia
-Troop withdrawal record
-Kissinger's meeting with Senior Review Group, January 17, 1972
-Papers on Vietnam
-Time of meeting
-The President's meeting with Connally

Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Yeoman Charles E. Radford incident
-Kissinger's conversation with Melvin R. Laird, January 14, 1972

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-Channels to the President
-Laird's view

The President read from a work by H. G. Wells.

Trench warfare in World War I
-Scientists
	-Military personnel
-Tanks
	-Allies
-Military minds
-Military mind 
-Alexander the Great
-Napoleon Bonaparte
-Julius Caesar
-Muhammed
-Mongols
-Oliver Cromwell
-George Washington
-Control of World War I
-Destruction of traditional methods

[End of reading]

Author of previously recited work
-Winston S. Churchill
-Wells
-Thesis
	-Emphasis on education

Education of women

Soviets
-Message from Andrei A. Gromyko, January 17, 1972
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's return to US
-Schedule
	-Negotiations
-Negotiations
-Communication with Kissinger
		-Yuli M. Vorontsov

The President read from a work by Wells.

World War I era
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson's role
-American public's view
-World outlook

[End of reading]

Vietnam
-Military mind
-Air Force
-Navy pilots
-Press reports
-Interviews on TV
-Pilots' views on bombing in December 1971
-Laos operation
-Pilots' views
-US actions
-Lack of time

Anderson Papers
-Effect on US credibility
-Evans's poll of European diplomats
-Evans's conversation with Kissinger
	-Max Frankel's statement
	-Diplomats' views
-Evans's view
-Effect on the President's forthcoming trip to PRC
	-Right and left
-Liberals
-Soviet Union
-View of the President
-Possible public reaction to trip
-The President's conversation with Ziegler, January 17, 1972
-Average person's reaction
-Trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Clayton Fritchey's column
-Effect of columnists
-Readership
	-Opinion makers

PRC trip
-TV coverage of trip
-Fritchey's view
-India
-US relations
-Media visitors to PRC
-Possible effect of trip
-The President's opening of relations
-Anderson
-The President’s and Kissinger's role
-Press
	-Reports
-Interest

US-Soviet relations
-India
-PRC
-Vorontsov
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Dobrynin's schedule
-Middle East
-Soviet Minister of Culture's toast
-Press reaction
		-Press
-Soviet Summit
	-India
	-Anderson papers

India
	-US relations
		-Press treatment
-Anwar El-Sadat's speech
	-Intention to start war in December 1971
		-India-Pakistan War
			-Soviet advice
				-Intelligence
-War with Pakistan
	-US policy
		-Middle East
		-PRC
		-West Pakistan

JCS
-Anderson Papers
-Radford
-Transfer to Seattle
					-Ehrlichman's conversation with daughter, Jody Ehrlichman, January 16, 1972
-Jody Ehrlichman's conversation with friend at school
-Friend's father's information
-Mormon
-Job at Indian embassy with Radford
-Mormons
-Original plan
-Memphis
-Choices
-R[embrandt] C. (“Hugh”) Robinson
-Possible revelations
-White House cover-up for JCS
-Case against Radford
-Confession
-Witnesses
-Anderson
-Guilt
-Witnesses
	-Purloining papers
		-Disclosure to Anderson
-Security violations
-Disclosure of documents
-Case against Daniel Ellsberg
	-Ellsberg’s confession
-Ellsberg
	-Conscience matter
-Administration action
-Administration record
-Observation
-Security regulations
-Closure of liaison office
	-Reorganization
-Intelligence
-Motivation
-Espionage 
-Anderson
-Background
-Compared with Pentagon Papers
-Role of press
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]

WSAG
-Role
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Jordan crisis
-India-Pakistan War
	-Planes in Pakistan

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-India
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Kissinger's position

Anderson Papers
-Effects
-The President
	-Kissinger
-1972 election
	-Possible leaks
-Anderson
	-Editorials
-Leaks
-Informing bureaucracy

Leaks
-Foreign policy
-White House source
-Supreme Court appointments

Safire

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
-Shultz's request
-Acceptance of Japan ambassadorship
-State Department
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Shultz's presence

Kissinger left at 12:15 pm.

-Meetings with ambassadors
-West Germany
-Value

William P. Clements
	-Connally

Rogers
-Mitchell
-Call to Haldeman, January 16, 1972
-Rogers's memorandum from Kissinger
-Kissinger's memoranda
-Soviet Union and PRC
	-Forthcoming meetings and talking points
-State Department
-The President's directives
-NSC
	-Function
		-Policy
			-Operations
-Informing Kissinger
-NSC
-Middle East
-Rogers's role
	-Operations
-Kissinger's role
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Grievances
-PRC
-Kissinger's meetings with the President
-Rogers's meetings with the President
-Rogers's knowledge of issues
-Kissinger's role
-Israel
-Kissinger's meeting with Rabin
-The President's directives
-Middle East
-Soviet Union and PRC trips
-Information from Haig
-The President's instructions to Kissinger
-Haldeman’s view
-Middle East
-Rogers's role
-Kissinger's role
-Rabin
-Kissinger's call to Haldeman, January 15, 1972
-Kissinger's meeting with Rabin, January 15, 1972
-Rabin's meeting at State, January 14, 1972
-Rogers's notification of Kissinger
-Joseph A. Sisco memorandum to Rabin
-Israeli Cabinet meeting
-Kissinger’s tenure
-Relations with Kissinger
-Haldeman’s and Mitchell’s meeting with Rogers
	-Exchange of information
	-Mitchell
	-Kissinger's role as NSC advisor
	-Compared with role of State Department Secretary
-Press
-Kissinger’s role as NSC advisor
-European Security Conference
-Rogers's role
-NSC
-Soviet Summit
-Rogers's role
-Rogers’s conduct
-Instructions from the President
-The President’s 1970 talk with Rogers
	-European security
		-Gromyko
-NSC
-Policy function in government
-Previous role compared to revised role
-WSAG
	-Function
-Mitchell
-Rogers's advising of the President
-Kissinger
-The President's memorandum regarding speech changes
-Woods
-Safire's delivery to Kissinger
-Delivery to Rogers
-Length of speech
-Distribution
-Woods
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Safire
-Price
-Garment
-Negotiating role
	-Haldeman
	-Kissinger
-The President's knowledge
-1972 election
	-Jews
	-Mitchell's possible action
		-State Department
	-Israel
	-Arabs
-PRC and Soviet Union trips
-Mitchell's and Haldeman's possible actions
-Kissinger's memoranda
-Tone and contact
-The President’s instructions
-Motive
-Rogers

Kissinger
-View of Radford case
	-Jody Ehrlichman’s comments

Kissinger, Shultz and Ingersoll entered at 12:31 pm.

	Greetings

Ingersoll's appointment as Ambassador to Japan
-Job 
-Importance
-Soviet Union
-New residence
-Herbert C. Hoover
-"Hoover's Folly"
-Date of construction
-Viceroy of India's residence
-Ingersoll’s gratitude
-Importance
-Canada
-Belgium
-Netherlands
-Communications

Japan
-Economic issue
-Connally

Ingersoll
		-Foreign Service role
			-Bureaucracy
		-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Father 
-Confirmation in Senate
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
	-Japan
-Appointment
-Timing
-Forthcoming call to Rogers
	-Publicity
	-Senate

Tokyo
-Compared with Paris

Kissinger, Shultz and Ingersoll left at 12:36 pm.

Rogers
-Kissinger memorandum
-Rogers's reaction
-Advisability
-Haldeman's and Mitchell's actions
-Kissinger's conversation with Haldeman
-Clearance of communications through Kissinger
	-Phrasing
	-Necessary for directive
-Kissinger's motive
-Kissinger’s background
-Rogers's reaction
-Israel
-Mitchell
-The President's control of issue
	-Kissinger’s relations with Rabin
-Kissinger's bias
-Haig
-Rabin
-Memoranda to the President through Haldeman

Memoranda to the President
-Laird
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Kissinger
-Rogers's private delivery through Haldeman
-Woods
-Channel of delivery
	-White House staff

Rogers
-Kissinger
	-Israel
-European Security Conference
-Kissinger
-PRC trip

	State of the World message
		-Distribution by Kissinger
			-Rogers
			-Defense Department
		-Defense portion
		-Foreign policy section

The President's State of the Union message
-Foreign policy section
	-Kissinger
-Domestic policy section
	-Ehrlichman

Rogers
-Kissinger

State of the Union message
-Status

	Vietnam speech
-Safire

	State of the Union message
		-Price

NSC system
-Kissinger
	-Memoranda
		-Rogers
-Establishment
-Conflicts with State Department

Rogers conflict with Kissinger
-Subordination to foreign policy and reelection concerns
	-Haldeman’s and Mitchell’s view
-Middle East
-Informing the President
-Kissinger's role
-European Security Conference
-Rogers's views
-Kissinger
-The President's meetings
-Reliance on State Department and NSC

British cabinets
-Past problems

Cabinet
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's problems
-Jessie H. Jones
-Vice Presidents
-Jealousies
-Staffs
-Compared with Rogers conflict with Kissinger
	-Involvement of the President

Rogers conflict with Kissinger
-The President's confidence
-Impact on Kissinger's views
-Kissinger’s role
-Informing the President on issues
	-Rogers
	-Kissinger
	-Laird’s memoranda
-Rogers

Middle East
-Israel
-Possible action
	-Kissinger’s views
	-US support
-Kissinger's views
-Cease-fire
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Planes
-Soviet Summit
-Rabin
-Clearance of Rogers’s communications through Kissinger
-Kissinger's bias
-Kissinger's meetings with Rabin
-Informing the President

European Security Conference
-Kissinger
-State Department

The President’s forthcoming trips to the Soviet Union and PRC
	-State Department

Soviet Union
-Kissinger's possible trip
-Kissinger's meeting with Mitchell
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger's advance work on the President's PRC trip
	-Rogers
	-Necessity
		-Romania, Paris
		-Dobrynin

Kissinger
-Possible resignation
-Mood
-Introspection
-Conversation with Haig
-1972 election
-Rogers

Foreign policy
-Jewish influence in forthcoming campaign
-Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Rogers
	-State Department
	-Mitchell
	-Votes
	-Money
	-The President's opponents
	-Humphrey in 1968

Ziegler
-View of position as press secretary
	-December

Rogers
	-Rabin
		-State Department
-Meetings with Dobrynin
-Kissinger's meetings with Dobrynin
	-Informing the President
	-Informing Rogers
-Possible talk with the President
-Possible instructions

Kissinger
-Possible instructions
-Directives
-Mitchell
-Haig
-Delivery to the President

Peterson
-New position as Secretary of Commerce
-Ehrlichman
-Relations with Connally
-Flanigan
	-International monetary policy
-Connally's control of domestic and foreign monetary issues
-White House support
	-Flanigan

Cabinet
-Flanigan’s view
	-Conduct of Ehrlichman and Kissinger
	-Access to the President
	-Connally's view
	-Ehrlichman and Kissinger
	-Role
	-Reorganization
		-Reduction in number
	-Connally
	-Shultz
	-Mitchell
	-Ehrlichman
-Reliance on under secretaries
	-Cabinet officers as executive vice presidents
		-Offices in Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Model on British cabinet system
-Elimination of intermediate staff
-Kissinger and Ehrlichman
	-Ehrlichman
	-Work with Cabinet
	-Staff
	-John A. Volpe
	-Rogers C. B. Morton
	-Maurice H. Stans
-Kissinger
-Relations with Laird and Rogers
-Compared to Sherman Adams
-Behavior

Behavior
	-Changes from the past

Rogers
-Contact with the President
-Management of State Department
-Talk with Haldeman
-White House relations with State Department
	-White House staff, NSC, Kissinger criticism
-State Department criticism
	-Press coverage
-Rogers's view
	-Press
-Press relations
-Political judgment
-Public image
-Recognition
-Blame on Kissinger and NSC
-Analogy to John Foster Dulles
	-NSC
-Work 
-Briefings
	-Kissinger
-Vietnam
-The President's initiative on November 3, 1969 statement
-Image
-Spokesman ability
	-Telegenic quality
-Intelligence
-Kissinger's view
-Approach to problems
	-Thought process

	The President’s schedule [?]

	Rogers
-Conflict with Kissinger
-Future conversation with Haldeman and Mitchell

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming announcement
	-Flanigan and Stans
		-Connally
-Peterson
-Flanigan
-Peterson
	-Connally

Cabinet council
-Peterson
	-Connally
-“New competition”

Peterson
-Future work with staff

Cabinet
-George W. Romney and Volpe
-Reorganization
-Forthcoming PRC trip
-Second term

Kissinger
-Power
	-Relations with the President
	-Abuse
	-Relations with the Cabinet
	-WSAG

Radford 
-Transfer
-Leak
	-Ehrlichman's view
		-Jody Ehrlichman
		-Public knowledge
	-Perception of White House role
		-Ziegler’s comments
			-Evidence
			-Investigation
-Suspect
-Anderson
-Prosecution
-Supreme Court
	-1972 election

	Kissinger
		-Possible press conference
-Defense by the Administration
	-Klein
	-Ziegler
	The President’s schedule

The President and Haldeman left at 1:23 pm.

Conversation No. 648-5

Date:  January 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 pm and 3:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 1:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 648-5A]

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

[End of telephone conversation]