Conversation No. 650-1

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:25 am and 9:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
-Forthcoming afternoon meeting with the President
	-West Coast dock strike
				-Scheduling after the President's meeting with John B. Connally and Arthur F. Burns
		-Barber

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

Conversation No. 650-2

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  9:48 am - 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s schedule
	-Talk at Cathedral School
-John B. Connally's memorandum on Chile
-Treasury Department
-Peter G. Peterson
-Paris monetary group session
-Paul A. Volcker

Rose Mary Woods entered at 9:53 am.

Butterfield left at 9:54 am

Item for the President's signature

Correspondence
-Hal [Surname unintelligible]
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s request for letter

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President's schedule
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Christmas gift of elephant figure
-Telephone call
-Thank you letter
-J. Edgar Hoover

Wiley T. Buchanan
-Possible ambassadorship to Spain
	-Peter M. Flanigan
-Wife
-State Department

Copy of draft of State of the Union speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Deadline for delivery of final copy to the President
	-William L. Safire

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Africa
-Monday magazine
-Preparation of article for mailing
		-Editorials

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-Responsibility for compilation
-Charles W. Colson
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Herbert G. Klein
-Television coverage
-Editorials
-Newspaper photographs
	-New York Times
-Allin
-Colson
-Assignment for staff member
-Memorandum
	-Distribution
				-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, Allin, Colson, the President
	-Constance M. Stuart
	-Mrs. Nixon

Speech draft
-Price
-Safire
-Allin's duties

Woods left at 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 650-3

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  10:07 am - 10:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

John B. Connally's memorandum
-Request
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Peter G. Peterson [?]

Butterfield left at 10:09 am.

Conversation No. 650-4

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:09 am and 10:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

West Coast Dock strike
-Forthcoming meeting
-George P. Shultz
-Harry Bridges
-Possible legislation
-Forthcoming State of the Union speech
	-Public relations effect

Richmond court decision
-Option paper
-Busing
-Pending court decision
-As issue
-Leonard Garment
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Options
-Constitutional amendment
-Legislation
-Responses to issue
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Demagogues
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Administration reaction
	-Federal government responsibilities
-De facto cases
-Legislation
-Amendment to Higher Education Act
-Busing
-The President’s stand on issue
	-Misunderstanding
-The President’s schedule
-State of the Union speech
-Raymond K. Price , Jr.’s draft
-Portion on busing
-The President's schedule

Conversation No. 650-5

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  10:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 18-98]

Conversation No. 650-6

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  10:17 am - 11:27 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Colson's staff responsibilities
-Forthcoming campaign
-Edward M. Kennedy

Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:17 am.

Dictation of memorandum to John B. Connally
		-Copies
			-William P. Rogers, National Security Council [NSC]
-Connally's January 15, 1972 memorandum
-Designation of Treasury Department to head US delegation in Paris
-Chile
-Loan
-Renegotiation
	-The President’s position on issue

	-Chilean government’s attitude
	-Reciprocity
-Distribution of memorandum
-Connally
-Copy of incoming correspondence
	-Notes
-Rogers
-NSC

Woods left at 10:23 am.

Democrats' attack on the President
-News summary
-Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Strategy on response
-Publicity
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Clark MacGregor
-Meeting with Republican leaders
-Connally
-Strategy for response
-Vietnam
-Democratic Party's responsibility
	-Edmund S. Muskie
	-Humphrey
	-Edward Kennedy, John F. Kennedy
	-Casualties
-Writers
-Buchanan
-Douglas L. Hallett
-Wall Street Journal article
-Vietnam
	-Casualties
		-The President’s responsibility
-Response on issues
-Offensive
-Meeting in Hugh Scott's office
-MacGregor
-Noel C. Koch
-Robert J. Dole
-Writing
-Use of writers to prepare responses for Republicans
-Buchanan
-Barry M. Goldwater's op-ed piece in the New York Times
	-Vietnam bombing
-S. Steven Karalekas
-Complacency
-Political activity
	-Democrats
-Press
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew statement
	-Humphrey
			-Koch
				-Speeches for Congressional leaders
			-Republican Congressional leadership
-Scott
	-Goldwater
	-Dole
	-Agnew
	-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
	-Gerald R. Ford
-News summary
	-Wendell Wyatt of Oregon
	-Edward Gurney of Florida
	-Louis Wyman
	-Primary states
	-Publicity
		-Muskie
-Press
-Democrats
-Split
-Kennedy statements about the President
	-Humphrey’s response
-Kennedy speech
-Compared to Muskie
-Kennedy image
-Effects
-Muskie image
	-Colson’s view
-Vietnam
	-Democratic Party’s responsibility
		-The President’s actions
-Withdrawal
-Casualties
-Melvin R. Laird speech
-Muskie reaction
-Pentagon Papers
	-Dole's forthcoming speech

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Issues
-Republican congressional statements
	-Dole
-Vietnam
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.’s statement
-Henry A. Kissinger’s response
-Busing

Busing
	-Democratic Party Convention reforms
		-[Forename unknown] Godfrey column
		-Richard M. Scammon
		-George C. Wallace delegates
		-Busing
-President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Strategy
-Richmond decision
	-Staff work
	-The President’s statements
		-Humphrey
		-Supreme Court
	-Legislation

Vietnam

Economy

Kennedy speech
-Administration reaction
-Press response
-Scott's forthcoming response
-MacGregor and Colson
-Scott
	-Press reports
	-Relationship with Administration

Questions and answers [Q&A] for Scott on withdrawal for prisoners of war [POWs]
	-“Meet the Press”
	-Kissinger
-Kennedy speech
-Nguyen Van Thieu's government
-Democrats' responsibility
-Withdrawal
-Casualties
			-Bombing
-Issue of Vietnam
-Strength 
	-Staff

Kennedy speech
-Absence of applause
-Quality

Humphrey
-Speaking ability 

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Muskie
-Space shuttle statement
-Effect
-Environmental issues

Civil rights issue
-Edward Kennedy
-The Administration’s record
	-Dual school system
	-Minority enterprise
	-Food stamps
	-Welfare reform
	-Congress
	-Publicity
	-Budget message

The President's work on speech drafts

Daniel Yankelovich's lunch with Colson, January 17, 1972

	The President’s schedule

Money supply
-Arthur F. Burns
-Connally's talk with the President
-Shultz's beliefs
-James Dewey Daane
-Peter M. Flanigan's views
-Prime rate
-Milton Friedman
-Shuttle
-Burns

The Cabinet
-Connally
-Elliot L. Richardson
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-James D. Hodgson
-Earl L. Butz
-Bill House's reaction
	-Kansas
	-Cattlemen's Association
	-Political affiliation
	-Corn prices
	-Agriculture
		-1972 election
		-Democrats
-Dairy
-Pork products
-Corn

Polls on issues, reactions
-Yankelovich
-Youth polls
	-News summary
-Time magazine
-Louis P. Harris
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Wife
-Yankelovich
-Polling
	-Time
	-New York Times

Refreshment order

The President left at an unknown time before 10:55 am.

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:25 am.

Refreshment order

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:55 am.

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:25 am.

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:23 am and 10:55 am.]

[Conversation No. 650-6A]

[See Conversation No. 18-99]

[End of telephone conversation]

Yankelovich
-Article about malaise in American society
-View of President
-Polls

[The President talked with William L. Safire between 10:55 am and 10:58 am.]

[Conversation No. 650-6B]

[See Conversation No. 18-100]

[End of telephone conversation]

Public perception of the President
	-Mood of the country
-Yankelovich’s views
-Reaction to polls
-Institutions
	-Government
	-Unknown news column of January 17, 1972
-Theory
-"Dual moralism"
-George H. Gallup, Harris
-President's strength
-Buchanan's theory of leadership
-Compared to Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Leonard Garment theory
-Confrontation with George Meany
-Effect
	-Polls
-Polls
-Timing
-Harris
-Connally's views on perceptions of leaders
-Muskie
	-Possible nomination
		-Effect on Democrats
-Polls
	-Approval of the President
		-18-year-olds
-Mood of the country
	-Confidence
-Love
-Hate
-Fear
-Price-Garment theory
-Importance of incumbency
-Connally's views
-Connally
-Hallet's view
-Power
-Love, fear, hate
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Harry S. Truman
-Balance
-Buchanan
-Announcements regarding Soviet Union and People's Republic of China [PRC] trips
-Supreme Court appointments
-Meany confrontation
-Media
-Handling of stories about the President and his administration
-Television
-Possible effectiveness
-PRC trip announcement
-Edward Kennedy
-PRC trip
	-India-Pakistan War
-Price-Garment theory
-Buchanan's theory
-Public relations
-President's image
-Fear, hate, respect, warmth
-Handling by staff
-Richard H. Moore
-The President’s activities
-Meany confrontation
	-Effect
-Muskie
-Buchanan
-Price, Garment
-The President’s strength of character
-Image
-The President’s image
	-Meany confrontation
-Muskie’s image
	-Meet the Press
-President's image
-Connally's view
-Dan Rather
-Importance of emotions
-1970 election
	-Al Capp
		-Reaction to the projection of President's image
	-Buchanan's theory
	-Price-Garment theory
	-Telecast in 1970 election
	-Safire
		-Gallup poll
		-Media criticism

Issues
-Economy
-1971 public perceptions
-Pentagon Papers
-Laos
-Media attacks on administration
-PRC
-New economic policy
-Meany confrontation
-Effect on polls
-Timing
	-Sindlinger poll
	-Harris poll
-Polls
-Sindlinger
	-Economy
	-Vietnam
-Effects of troop withdrawal announcement
-Bombing
	-Harris
-Troop withdrawal announcement
	-News summary
	-Newsweek
-Sindlinger
-Methods
	-Responses
		-August 1971
		-November 1971
			-Meany
		-Compared to Johnson years

	Vietnam
-Use as issue
	-Democrats
-Strategy
	-Troop withdrawals
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Amnesty

	Amnesty
-Draft evaders' comments
-The President’s comments
	-Abraham Lincoln’s actions
-Muskie's views
	-Comparison with administration stand
		-POWs

	Busing
-Muskie's view
	-Use of phrase

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Republican Congressional leadership
-Schedule
-Support for the Administration
-The President's forthcoming State of the Union speech
	-Tone
	-Scott
	-Ford
	-Leslie C. Arends
	-Applause
	-Republicans 
	-Democrats
-Mood
	-Colson’s calls
-Complacency
			-Democrats’ weaknesses

Colson left at 11:27 am.

Conversation No. 650-7

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  11:27 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally

Bull left at 11:27 am.

Conversation No. 650-8

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  11:27 am - 11:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

State of the Union address
-Richard A. Moore
-Clark MacGregor

-Written statement by the President
-Duration of address
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Foreign policy
-State of the World, February 8, 1972
-Domestic policy
			-Oral message

Ziegler's schedule
-John A. Scali
-Meeting with network executives in New York
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-Invitees

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:27 am.

President's schedule
-Arthur F. Burns meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:31 am.

West Coast Dock strike
-Laurence H. Silberman

Howard R. Hughes
-Loan to F. Donald Nixon
-Ziegler's conversation with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Ziegler’s handling 
	-Age of story
	-Transfer of property

Ziegler left at 11:31 am.

Conversation No. 650-9

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  11:31 am - 12:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Arthur F. Burns and John B. Connally.

General conversation
-Weather

Quadriad meeting
-Schedule
	-State of the Union address
-Herbert Stein

Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:33 am.

Memorandum
-The President's response to note on Chilean loan
-Confidentiality
-Reciprocity
-Copies
	-William P. Rogers

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

Economy
-Money supply
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-John E. Sheehan
	-Contact with Burns
	-Monetary policy, regulatory policy
-Federal Open Market Committee
-Last meeting
-Dissent
-Basis 

-Length of meeting
-Discount rate
-Prime rate

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:31 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:31 pm.

Economy
-Discount rate
-Changes
-Interest rates
-Paul A. Volcker
-Level
-Discount rate
-Level
-Stock market
		-The President’s relationship with advisors
-Handling of issue
-Budget message
				-State of the Union
				-Spending ceiling request by President
				-Congress 
					-1968 action
-Deficits
-Inflation
-Interest rates
-Budget message
	-Phrasing
		-George P. Shultz
	-Timing
	-Burns’s possible comments
		-Budget
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Controls
			-Elliot L. Richardson
-John A. Volpe
-George W. Romney
-Defense
	-Costs
-Release of statement before budget message release
-Publicity
-Deficit
			-Timing
-Need for cooperation with Congress
-Spending ceiling
	-Taxes
-Publicity
-[First name unknown] Dale
-Hobart Rowen
-Wall Street Journal
-Agreement in administration
-Connally
-Burns
-Shultz
	-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Spending ceiling
	-Inflation
-Current year

Water bill
	-Muskie
-Effect on future spending
-Returns

Pay Board
	-Price Commission
-George H. Boldt
-Qualities
	-Administrative ability
-Relationship with Burns
-Arthur J. Goldberg
			-Possible role
-Labor management committee
-Work with President and James R. Mitchell on steel strike
-Possible appointment
	-Ability 
	-Attitude toward labor
	-Experience
		-Secretary of Labor
	-Possible meeting with the President
	-Control system
	-Administrative ability
-Luther Hodges
-Experience
	-Secretary of Labor
	-United Nations [UN] ambassadorship
-Difficulties 
-Pay increase guidelines
-Exceptions
-Coal miners, aerospace workers
-Evasion
	-Business, small farmers
-Circumvention
	-Reclassification of employees
-Farm workers
-Previous year's salary increase
-Boldt's chairmanship
-Goldberg
-Price Commission
-C. Jackson Grayson
-Administrative ability
-Meeting with Burns
					-Price increases
						-Business community
							-Reports
								-Justification
							-Risk
-Price controls
-Exemptions
-Small business retailers
-Impact 
	-Reporting
-Big business firms
	-Costs
	-Reporting
-Price Commission
-Relationship with administration
	-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
	-Recommendations
		-Exemptions 
				-Donald H. Rumsfeld
		-Burns meeting with Grayson

Controls
-The President’s role
-The President’s view
	-Public relations
	-Substance
-Extent
-Freeze
-Major firms
	-Gross National Product [GNP]
	-Employment
-Decontrol for small firms
-Pay Board and Price Commission
-Criticism
	-Big business vis-à-vis labor
-Entrepreneurs
-Role in economy
-Major firms
	-General Motors [GM]
	-General Electric [GE]
	-Relationship with administration
-Decontrol
	-Reporting
-Small business
	-Support for the President
-Small businesses
-Compared to big business
		-Timing
		-The President’s role
			-Perception

	Economy
		-Political objectives
	-Jobs
	-Prices
-Pay Board
	-Goldberg
		-Prices
-Wage Board
-Price Commission
-Profit margins
	-Compared to 1938, 1966
	-Economic growth
		-Profit sharing
	-1970
	-Cost cutting
	-Pay Board
		-Price Commission
			-November 1972
-Pay Board
-Boldt
-Handling of role
	-Difficulty
-Aerospace industry
-Mitchell
			-Boldt
				-Shultz
-Shultz's view
-Instruction for Shultz
-Goldberg 
-Relationship with the President
-Knowledge of labor
-Steel workers
-John F. Kennedy
-Administrative abilities
-UN ambassadorship
-Requirements for job
-Labor-Management committee
-Joseph L. Block 
-David P. Reynolds of Reynolds Company
-Thomas Watson
-Stuart T. Saunders of Pennsylvania
-Background
	-Virginia
-Goldberg
-Politics
-Possible meeting with the President
-Career
	-Supreme Court
	-Secretary of Labor
	-Ambassador to UN
	-Gubernatorial candidacy
	-Steelworkers' chief counsel
	-G. Harrold Carswell
	-Compared to unknown person
	-[Romney?]
-Burns’s career
		-Camp David meeting before August 15, 1971 economic action
		-Present status 
-Perceptions of economic action
		-International monetary action
		-Trade
		-Burden sharing

	Japan
	-Burns’s contact with Japanese ambassador [Nobuhiko Ushiba] and other Japanese
		-View of the President's People's Republic Of China [PRC] Policy
		-Trade and monetary problem
		-Trade
			-The President’s talks with Eisaku Sato
				-Europe
-PRC relations
-Meetings Between The President And Japanese officials, 1966, 1967
-Japanese interests
-Trade
-Compared to US interests
-Military
		-US relations with the PRC
	-Soviet Union

Congressional hearings
-Economists
-Fred R. Harris
-Edward M. Kennedy's January 17, 1972 Press Club speech on Vietnam
	-Partisanship
		-Partisanship in 1972

State of the Union address
	-Tone

Kennedy’s Press Club speech
	-Attack on the President
	-Vietnam
		-Nguyen Van Thieu

The President's opponents
-Attacks on the President
-Howard Hughes loan to F. Donald Nixon
-Harris
			-Oil
				-Harris
					-Hughes
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
	-1968 campaign
		-Allegation
			-Connally and contributions to the President
	-Depletion
	-President's position
		-The President’s congressional experience
	-Humphrey
	-1969 action by President

Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman

	The President’s instructions to Connally, Burns

President's schedule
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
	-State of the Union address
				-Draft
		-Burns

Burns and Connally left at 12:31 pm.

Conversation No. 650-10

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:31 pm and 12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Phone call from Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield

Butterfield left at 12:33 pm.

Conversation No. 650-11

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  12:33 pm - 12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield.

[See Conversation No. 18-101]

Conversation No. 650-12

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  12:34 pm - 2:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz.

West Coast dock strike
-Legislation
-Labor Department
-Forthcoming meeting
-Jurisdiction issue
	-Longshoremen, Teamsters Union
		-Merger
-Longshoremen's contract
-Tax
	-Fund
-Work guarantee
	-Teamsters
-Compromise
-State of the Union speech
-Legislation
-Strategy
-Timing
-The administration’s posture towards unions
			-Harry Bridges
				-Radicals
-Possible statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Administration image
-Media
-Injunction
-Public opinion
-Legislation
-Public perception of Administration effort
-James D. Hodgson statement
-Laurence H. Silberman
-Tom McCall
-Governors' forum
		-Legislation
-Possible legislation
-Arbitration bill
-Establishment of arbitration board
-Jurisdiction
-Teamsters
-Longshoremen
-National Labor Relations Board [NLRB]

[The President talked with Gerald R. Ford, [Thomas] Hale Boggs, and Thomas P. (“Tip”) O'Neill, Jr. between 12:41 pm  and 12:44 pm.]

[Conversation No. 650-12A]

[See Conversation No. 18-102]

[End of telephone conversation]

West Coast dock strike
-Pay Board and arbitrator relationship
-Issue
	-Money offered 
	-Camp David
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] approach
-Economic Stabilization Act
-Pay Board
-Perception of handling
		-Settlement
-Legislation
-Possible labor reaction
-Publicity
-Support of Republicans
	-McCall
	-Hugh Scott
-Congressional view of ad hoc approach
-Possible action
-Draft for inclusion in State of the Union speech
	-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
		-Deadline
	-Need for action

Economic issues
-Ceiling on expenditures
	-Settlement
	-John B. Connally
	-Arthur F. Burns
-State of the Union
-Budget message
-Administration, Congress
	-1968 ceiling statement
	-1969 ceiling statement
	-Instruction for Shultz
	-Deficit
-Budget
-Press conference
-Shultz and Connally
			-Presidential statement
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Prospects
-Deficit
-Cabinet meeting, January 20, 1972
-Briefing for 1973 budget
	-Department of Defense [DOD]
	-End of fiscal year spending by federal agencies
	-Budget authority
	-Department spending
		-DOD
	-Deficit
	-DOD
	-Ombudsman oversight
		-Domestic department

Commerce Department
-Peter G. Peterson's role
-Competitiveness of US industry
	-Transition
-Productivity Commission
-Chairmanship
	-Shultz
-Funding
-Visibility
-Steel industry
-Construction industry
-Smithsonian Agreement
				-Hodgson
	-Labor Management Committee
	-John F. Kennedy administration
	-Alternation of chairmanship
		-Labor and Commerce Departments
	-Peterson's image, energy
		-Maurice H. Stans
	-Connally
	-Hodgson
	-Announcement of Peterson appointment
-Announcement of Peterson's appointment
-Timing
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Connally
-Peterson’s memorandum for the President
	-Proposal
		-Hodgson
		-Connally
		-Ehrlichman’s talk with Peterson
-Peterson's view
-Specifics in statement
-Review 
-Connally
-Hodgson
-Shultz
-Council on competition
	-The President’s view
	-Hodgson
-Timing
-News impact
			-Peterson’s call to Ehrlichman
-Role vis-a-vis business
	-Peter M. Flanigan
				-Peterson’s talk with Ehrlichman
				-Authority
		-Peterson announcement
			-Timing

Budget
-Statement
	-Tone
-Melvin R. Laird's memorandum
-President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2, 1972
-Statement for television on budget
-Briefing
	Connally, Shultz
		-Message of January 24, 1972
-Signing ceremony
	-Timing
-Television coverage
	-Possible statement
		-Press room
-Press conference on the budget
	-Connally, Shultz
		-Cabinet Room
	-Embargoed copies of message
	-Timing
-Location
	-State Department
-David M. Kennedy
-Presidential statement
-Publicity
-Length of statement

Pay Board
-Burns's opinion
-Expectations
-Aerospace
-Construction industry
		-Composition 
			-General Electric [GE] representative, Virgil B. Day
				-Statements
			-Union members
-Treatment of Arnold R. Weber
-George H. Boldt
-Administration of board
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
	-OMB
-Boldt
	-William L. Gifford
		-Congressional relations
-Change of chairmanship
-Price Commission
-C. Jackson Grayson
-Compared to Pay Board
-Labor members
	-Wage and Price system
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
				-Court ruling
					-Impact
						-Teamsters union contracts
-Burns's perception of possible actions
-John T. Dunlop
-Construction industry
		-Labor view
-Charles W. Colson's view
-Fitzsimmons
	-Boldt
			-Contracts

The President’s schedule

Export extension bill
-Warren G. (“Maggie”) Magnuson
		-Administration position
			-Connally
			-Peterson
			-Henry A. Kissinger
-State, Commerce Departments
		-Export subsidies
		-Administration study
		-Exchange Rates
		-Negotiations
		-Transfer of commercial function of State Department to Commerce Department
			-Magnuson's bill
			-Testimony
				-Timing
			-Maurice H. Stans's view
			-William P. Rogers's view
			-The President’s view
			-Administration position
				-Shultz’s view
					-Analogy to intelligence
					-Reorganization
						-Agriculture
						-Treasury Department
					-Testimony
-Stans's position
-State Department
-Role of Congress
-Press conference
-Stans
-Peterson
	-Possible testimony
-Administration strategy
	-Study
-Rogers's view
-Connally
-Handling by OMB
-Intelligence committee
-Peterson
-Rogers

State Department
		-Need for change
			-Personnel
-Kissinger conflict with Rogers
-Connally conflict with Rogers
-Rogers’s view
-Connally
		
	Chilean loan

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[Duration:  56s  ]
[Subject: Intelligence]

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-Connally
-Expropriation
	-Rogers
	-Kissinger
	-Peterson
		-Memorandum
	-Allende
		-The President’s talk with Connally
		-Recent elections
-State Department
	-Connally
	-Weintraub

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[National Security]
[Duration:  15s  ]
[Subject: Intelligence]

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-Memorandum
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Timing
-Kissinger
	-Rogers
-Connally
	-Delegation of authority
	-Negotiations
		-Reciprocity
		-Critics’ view
	-Allende
		-Fidel Castro
-Reaction in Latin America
-Castro
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
	-The President’s recommendation
-Allen W. Dulles
	-State Department
		-State Department
-Allende

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[National Security]
[Duration:  18s  ]
[Subject: Intelligence]

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-Expropriation
-Foreign policy
-Negotiations
	-Connally
	-Paul A. Volcker
-Sidney Weintraub

State Department

Export Extension bill
	-State Department
		-Study
		-Rogers
		-Staff work
		-Study
			-Comparison to oil imports

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:44 pm.

President's schedule
-William L. Safire
-Price

Refreshment

The President and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Foreign travel
-Embargo
-Herbert Stein 

American Enterprise Institute [AEI]

The President returned at an unknown time after 12:44 pm.

Agriculture Department
-Draft regulations on food stamps
-Timing

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:44 pm.

Refreshment

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Agriculture Department
-Earl L. Butz
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Butz's statement

Timber industry
-Clear cutting
-Russell E. Train's position
		-Executive Order
-Executive Order
-Effect on jobs
-Proposal 
	-McCall
	-Environmentalists' reactions

Overseas aircraft sales
-Northrop Corporation
-Handling of businesses
-Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.

Richard Kleindienst
-Confirmation
-Ehrlichman's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Clark MacGregor report
	-Possible votes
	-Nomination
		-Delay
	-February 15, 1972

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:44 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Tax legislation
-Advisory Committee of Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR]
-Value-added tax
-Democrats
	-Polls
		-Edmund S. Muskie
-Connally role
-Spiro T. Agnew role
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Schools
		-Property tax
-Connally role
-Timing
-The President's schedule
-June 1972 trip to the Soviet Union
-Neil H. McElroy
-ACIR
-Agnew

Declassification of government documents
-Agnew
	-Official Secrets Act
	-Forthcoming recommendation
-William H. Rehnquist
-Committee report
-Executive Order
-Agnew
-Congress

Narcotics interdiction
-Justice and Treasury Departments
-Connally
-Myles J. Ambrose
-John N. Mitchell
-Joint operation with Treasury
	-Ambrose
	-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming talk with Connally [?]
-Bureaucracy
-Street pushers
	-Grand juries
		-Ambrose
			-Television
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] agents
-US attorneys
-Eugene T. Rossides
		-Forthcoming talks

Busing
-Richmond decision
-Humphrey statement
-News summary
-Edward L. Morgan
-Options paper for President
	-The President’s schedule
-Issue 
	-Complexity
-Morgan
-Viewpoint
	-Meeting with President
		-Possible administration action
-The President’s view
	-[Fredrick M.?] Coleman
	-Leonard Garment
-Recent meeting
	-Alexander M. Bickel
	-Coleman
	-Shultz
-Richmond judge [Robert R. Merhige, Jr.]
-Forthcoming cases in North
-Administration position
-Judges
-Possible legislation
-Constitutional amendment
-Robert P. Griffin
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
				-Press conference
-Form of amendment
-Legislation
-Options
-Statement by President
-Press conference
-Written
-Advantage
-Humphrey televised statement
-Neighborhood school
-Quality of education
-Press coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
	-Daniel L. Schorr
-Muskie
-Position 
-Appearance on Meet the Press
-Rogers's reaction
-Rogers’s responses to questions
-Compared to the President
	-Ziegler
	-Press reaction
		-Unknown reporter
	-Muskie’s disposition

Executive salaries
-Handling

Roles of administration officials
-Peterson
-Commerce Department role
-Duties as spokesman
	-Jobs, competition
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-Hodgson
-Connally
-Rogers
-Trade representatives
-Connally
-Peterson
-Connally
-Role
-Peterson's role vis-a-vis Hodgson, Rogers
-Peterson
	-Organization of government
		-Understanding by businessmen
			-Charles E. Wilson, McElroy
-Performance as Secretary of Defense
-David Packard
-Business, government responsibilities compared
-Connally
-Peterson
-Role in economic matters
	-Speeches

State Department
	-Rogers
	-Economic matters
	-Reorganization
	-Commercial attaches
		-Policy matters
			-Monetary
			-Trade
		-Aid to American business abroad
			-Services			
	-Foreign Service
		-The Ugly American
			-Knowledge, handling of local conditions
				-India
		-Members 
-Knowledge
-View of business
-Japan
	-Commerce Department
	-Agriculture Department
-Need for coordination abroad
	-Treasury Department
-Coordination at home
	-Presidential Regional Council
		-Denver, Colorado
-Need for strong ambassadors
-National Security Council [NSC]
	-Kissinger and staff
		-Foreign service officers comparison
		-Position vis-a-vis State Department
-Kissinger
	-Attitude
		-Relations with other officials
	-Jack N. Anderson's publication of papers
		-Joseph J. Sisco
	-View of State Department
		-Compared to the President’s
			-People's Republic of China [PRC]
			-Quemoy and Matsu
			-Cuba
-Rogers
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Personality
	-Press relations
	-Relations with State Department staff
-Press relations
-Image with the American public
-Kissinger
-Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations
-Cambodia
-Laos
-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Consultations with the President
-Press relations
-Rather
	-Relations with the President
-Relations with the President
-Cordell Hull
-John Foster Dulles
	-Suez crisis
	-Aswan Dam
	-Press relations
	-Image in State Department
	-Public visibility
	-Death
-Media
-Rogers
	-Leadership
-Future

White House staff
-Travel embargo
	-The President’s schedule
-Exceptions
-Connally and Chilean loan negotiations
	-Paris
-Stockholm
-Environmental conference
-Schedule
-George W. Romney
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
	-Environmental conference
	-Monetary conference
	-Drug conference
	-Rumsfeld, Robert H. Finch

State Department
-Staff
-Contacts with the President
-Image abroad
-Compared to Soviet Union, Great Britain
-Outlook
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Style
-NSC meetings
	-Kissinger and Rogers
	-Tactics
		-Compared to strategy
-Handling of meetings
-Dock strike
-Harry Bridges

Staff
-Speech writing
-Difficulties

Robert J. Dole
-Colson
-Divorce

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  1m 55s  ]

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-Ehrlichman's and the President’s legal experience

Kennedy
-Response by Dole
-Speech
-Congressional leadership
-Connally's reaction
-Oil depletion
-Fred R. Harris’s claim
	-1968 campaign
		-Connally and the President	
-The President’s support for concept
	-Legal experience
		-1939-1940
		-Santa Fe Springs
-Humphrey
-Connally support in 1968
-Oil depletion issue
	-Effect in Texas

Harris
-Washington Post story
-Howard R. Hughes loan

[Clifford Irving] biography of Hughes
	-Legal action by Hughes lawyers
		-Mail fraud
		-Filing of complaint with Justice Department
			-Robert Maheu
			-John W. Dean, III

	Hughes loan
		-Press coverage
-F. Donald Nixon
	-Hannah Nixon
		-Property
			-The President
-Hughes
	-President's contact
		-1959 telephone call
			-Use of Boeing 707 on trip to the Soviet Union

Connally

Edward Kennedy
-Speech
-Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
			-1972 election
-Response by Republican leadership
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends
-MacGregor
-Speeches by Republican leaders
-Noel C. Koch
-Press coverage
			-Tone
			-Publication
				-Form
-Civil rights
	-News summary
	-Reconstruction era
-Dual school system
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s record
-Food stamps
-Minority business enterprise
-Record of President's administration
-Budget message
-Father Theodore S. Hesburgh
-Catholics

Congressional relations
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC and Soviet Union 
	-Forthcoming State of the Union address

Liberals
-Amos 'n Andy show
-Attitude toward songs such as Dixie, Old Black Joe

Blacks
-Prejudice
-Mayors
-Carl B. Stokes compared to John V. Lindsay
-Medgar Evers
-Charles Evers
-Fayette, Mississippi
-Unknown official
	-Murder indictment
	-Charges

Congressional relations
	-State of the Union speech

Labor leaders' attitude towards the President
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-George Meany
-Fitzsimmons
-Peter J. Brennan
-Construction Trades Union

Drug issue
-Pushers
-Congress
-Recesses

Blake's book, Cecil's book

Shultz and Ehrlichman left at 2:29 pm.

Conversation No. 650-13

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  2:30 pm - 3:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

John B. Connally

President's schedule
-Dinner table arrangements for January 20, 1972 Cabinet dinner
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Remarks
-Maurice H. Stans
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Bryce N. Harlow, Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan, Arthur F. Burns
-[DeWitt Wallace] dinner on January 28, 1972 
-Ray Conniff Singers
-Rose Mary Woods
-Medal of Freedom presentation
-Dress
	-Readers' Digest staff

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman was present at an unknown time after 2:30 pm.

-Woods's call to Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Dinner
-Herbert G. Klein
-Conniff Singers
-Medley performance
-Guests
		-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
	-Cabinet dinner
	-Robert J. Dole
-Mosbacher
		-Governors' dinner
		-Wallace dinner
		-Mosbacher
		-Woods		
		-Rank
		-John N. Irwin, II
-William L. Safire
-Meeting

Butterfield left at 2:40 pm.

Haldeman's schedule
-Appearance at Cathedral School
-Girls Nation address by President
-Indira Gandhi
-Golda Meir
-Yvonne (Vendroux) de Gaulle
-Role of women
-Women's liberation
-Romana A. Banuelos
	-Sons
	-Background
-Blacks
-Administration efforts
	-Food stamps

President's schedule
-Connally
-George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Safire

Staff roles
-Henry A. Kissinger conflict with William P. Rogers 
-Haldeman’s meeting with John N. Mitchell and Kissinger
	-Meeting with Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
		-Kissinger’s memorandum
		-Mitchell’s comments
		-Kissinger’s tone
		-Kissinger’s tenure
			-Haig
-Mitchell's view
-Letter from President to Rogers and Kissinger
-Strategy
-President's role
-Areas of responsibility of Kissinger, Rogers
-Possible directive
	-Keeping the President informed
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Middle East
-Contacts
	-Meetings
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Israel
-Middle East
		-Objectives, talking points, memoranda of conversations
				-Mitchell, Haldeman discussions with Kissinger, Rogers
				-Possible rephrasing

State Department
-Connally's memorandum to the President
-Rogers
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Expropriation
-Sidney Weintraub
-Rogers
	-Conversation on the Sequoia
-Connally's memorandum
-National Security Council [NSC]
	-Butterfield
-Forthcoming meeting with Connally
-President's response
	-Copies to Connally, Rogers, Kissinger
	-Delegation of authority to Connally
-Chilean loan
-Renegotiation
	-US Government agency roles
		-Rogers, State Department
	-Connally
				-Treasury Department

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[Duration:  12s  ]
[Subject: Intelligence]

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-Kissinger
-Complaints about State Department
-Rogers
-The President’s talk with Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Kissinger
-Popularity
	-Press
	-Public

Staff
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Peter G. Peterson
	-Kissinger
-Paris monetary meeting memorandum from Connally to the President
-Routing
	-NSC
		-Peterson
-Flanigan
	-Connally
-Connally
-Problems 
-The President’s guidelines of January 17, 1972
-William T. Eberle
-Trade
-Peterson
-Flanigan
	-Connally
-Connally
-Flanigan
	-Role
-Monetary issues
-Connally's view of roles 
-Shultz
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Peterson's appointment
-Ehrlichman's view
-Commerce Department
-Peterson's plans
-Possible announcement
-Connally
-Shultz
-James D. Hodgson
-Rogers
-Ehrlichman
-Reorganization
	-Council on competition
		-Connally, Ehrlichman

Congressional briefing
-State of the Union address
-Meeting with President
-Clark MacGregor meeting
-Hugh Scott
-Robert P. Griffin
-Gerald R. Ford
-Leslie C. Arends
-Carl B. Albert
-Michael J. Mansfield
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs

Ehrlichman
		-View of Congress’ mood

Edward M. Kennedy speech
	-Tone
	-Vietnam
		-Nguyen Van Thieu
			-1972 election
	-Forthcoming reply
-Need for reply
			-Press

Staff
	-Mood

	Haldeman’s talk with Price 

The President left at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

The President returned at an unknown time before 3:28 pm.

Howard R. Hughes loan
-F. Donald Nixon
	-Request for a meeting with the President
-1962 statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Loan
-Property
	The President’s involvement
-Clark M. Clifford
-Frank J. Waters
	-1962 statement
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Statement
				-Property
					-Satisfaction of loan

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Wiley T. Buchanan
-Rose Mary Woods
-Possible Appointment
	-Flanigan
	-Haldeman’s possible talk with Woods
-Note
	-Effort to see the President
-Invitation to dinner
-Haldeman
-Effort to see the President
	-Haldeman
		-Flanigan	

F. Donald Nixon
-Request to see the President
	-Ehrlichman
	-Haldeman
-News story
-Tax exempt foundation
-Trans World Airlines [TWA] route
-Melvin Belli
-President's involvement
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-TWA
-Don Nixon

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[Duration:  16s  ]

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Political strategy in 1972 
-Price
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Connally
-Price
-State of the Union speech
-Effect
-Connally's thesis
-Reactions to leaders
-Love
-Hate
-Fear
	-Rogers
-Price
-View of combative mood
-President's weaknesses
-Credibility, political image
-Possible attack on opponents
	-Timing
-Polls
-Effect of incumbency in re-election
-1970 election
	-Media
-Strategy
-Approval ratings in 1971
-State of the Union address
-Laos

Polls
-George H. Gallup
	-View of the President in 1972
-December 1971
-George Meany
-A Day in the Life of the President television show
-Christmas
-Unnamed woman in Florida
-Forthcoming summits
-Monetary agreement
		-India-Pakistan war
	-Vietnam 
		-Bombing
			-Timing
			-Louis P. Harris
-Harris
	-Edmund S. Muskie
-Gallup
-The President’s popularity
	-Compared to Democrats
		-Methods used by Gallup
			-Donald H. Rumsfeld
		-1971 level
		-Republican Party
			-Harris
			-The President’s August 1971 economic initiatives
	-Timing
		-Washington Post
-Connally
-Rogers

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[Duration:  5m  ]

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President's image
-Compared to past presidents
-Theodore Roosevelt
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Harry S. Truman
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Abraham Lincoln
-Richard A. Moore
-Charles W. Colson
-Image 
-Outgoing telephone calls
-Indian child
-Cuban woman
-Price's view
	-Connally
-Effect of Meany confrontation
-Truman
-Congress
-Franklin Roosevelt
-Special interests

Monday magazine
-Frank Leonard
-Article about Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Africa
-Color photographs

President's image
-Price strategy
-Buchanan strategy
-Laird memorandum
	-Shultz
	-Press conferences
		-Rather
-Press conferences
	-Effectiveness
		-Connally's views
-Price
-Public view of incumbents
-Human nature

An unknown person [Butterfield?] entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

The unknown person left [Butterfield?] left at an unknown time before 3:28 pm.

President's schedule
		-Kissinger’s request
			-Rogers
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez visit
-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Message
	-Approval
		-US ambassador [Robert H. McBride]
-Visit of Nihat Erim of Turkey
-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Soviet Union trip
-Trip to Iran
-Timing
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
	-Soviet Union trip
		-Kissinger’s and State Department’s view 	
			-Saudi Arabia
	-Consultations

Chilean Loan
-Handling of issue by State Department
-Connally
	-Document
		-US ambassador’s [Edward M. Korry’s] apology
-Kissinger
	-Rogers
-Connally

Staff
-Rogers
-Memorandum from President
-Need for cooperation
-Election year 
-Foreign policy achievements
-Keeping the President informed
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Middle East
-New procedures outlined
	-Haldeman’s role
-Need for cooperation
-Haldeman's role
-Liaison with President
-Kissinger
-Memorandum from the President
-Memorandum
-Content
	-Rogers
	-NSC
	-Keeping the President informed
	-Rogers
-Connally
	-Memorandum from the President
-Rogers

-Kissinger
	-Memorandum 
				-Tone
				-Purpose
					-Rogers
				-Haldeman’s question

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:40 pm and 3:28 pm.]

[Conversation No. 650-13A]

[See Conversation No. 18-103]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's memorandum

Zosimo T. Monzon entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Monzon left at an unknown time before 3:28 pm.

[The President talked with Connally between 3:28 pm and 3:29 pm.]

[Conversation No. 650-13B]

[See Conversation No. 18-104]

[End of telephone conversation]

Budget message
-Shultz
-Ceiling

Rogers
-Kissinger

Connally
-Authority
		-Relationship with the President

Chilean loan
-Connally
-Weintraub
-Frederic V. Malek
		-Prospects
			-Leak
			-Allende
			-Kissinger
				-The President

President's responsibilities

Buchanan
	-Handling of color

	Price

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Democrats' attacks on the President
-Edward Kennedy's Vietnam speech
	-Tone
-Hughes loan issue
-Edward Kennedy
-Chappaquiddick
-Effect
	-1960 campaign
	-1962 campaign
-1962 campaign practices
-Attacks 
-Loan on house

Relatives of presidents
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's sons
-Don Nixon
-Johnson, John Kennedy
-Don Nixon
-Legal action
-Ehrlichman
-Possible handling

Loan issue
	-Viability

Connally
-Oil depletion issue
-1968 campaign
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
		-Astrodome
		-Statement
		-Astrodome
			-Television coverage
	-Chicago convention

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President’s image
-The President's actions
-Peace
-PRC trip 
-Soviet Union trip
-Issue of peace, war
-The President's previous meeting with Ehrlichman, Shultz
	-Congress
-Congress
-Approach to handling
-Polls
-Non-partisanship

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Scott
-Calls
-PRC trip
	-Mansfield
-Strategy
-Kennedys
-Partisanship
-Political practices

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Haldeman left at 3:42 pm.

Conversation No. 650-14

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:42 pm and 3:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman [?]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.

Conversation No. 650-15

Date:  January 18, 1972
Time:  3:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

[Conversation No. 650-15A]

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

[End of telephone conversation]