Conversation No. 652-1

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 am and 1:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents?] met.

[Unintelligible]

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.

Conversation No. 652-2

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:17 pm and 1:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Briefcase

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Briefcase
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Relocation

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:22 pm.

Conversation No. 652-3

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  1:22 pm - unknown before 1:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President’s State of the Union Address, January 20, 1972
-Woods’s view
-Woods’s presence

Instruction

State of the Union Address
-Woods’s view
-Length
-Compared with addresses by Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-The President’s previous addresses
		-Woods’s view

Equal Rights Amendment [ERA]
-Note to John D. Ehrlichman
-Administration position
-Publicity
-Edward M. Kennedy’s position
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s report

-Administration position
-Barbara H. Franklin
-Letter
-Publicity
-Ehrlichman
-Women in Congress

State of the Union Address
-Woods’s observations
-Edward Kennedy, Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey and Harold E. Hughes
-Senate
	-Members

Margaret Chase Smith

An unknown man [Alexander P. Butterfield?] entered at an unknown time after 1:22 pm.

	-Administrative Assistant
		-Name [William C. Lewis]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:29 pm.

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:22 pm and 1:29 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-3A]

[See Conversation No. 19-32]

[End of telephone conversation]

Lewis
-Name
-Health
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Name

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:22 pm and 1:29 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-3B]

[See Conversation No. 19-33]

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[Conversation No. 652-3C]

[See Conversation No. 19-34]

[End of telephone conversation]

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State of the Union Address
-The President’s efforts
-Compared with previous addresses
-Delivery
	-Woods’s view
-Length
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s view
-Cuts
-Delivery
-Price’s view
-Edward Kennedy’s reaction
-Clark MacGregor’s comment
-Previous speech
-John Kennedy quotation
-Woods’s observance of Edward Kennedy
-John Kennedy quotation
-The President’s handling
	-US commitments
-Critique
	-Bolivia
	-US foreign policy

John Kennedy
-Accomplishments
-Death
-Compared to Johnson

Johnson
-Accomplishments
-Poverty program
-John Kennedy
-Blacks
-Johnson’s support
-Racism
-Compared with the President
-Liberalism
-Compared with John Kennedy
-The Great Society

State of the Union Address
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally’s presence
-Clothes
-Cabinet wives
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-John B. Connally
-The President’s glance during tax section delivery
-Nellie Connally 
-Cabinet wives
-Atmosphere
	-Supreme Court
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Applause

Woods left at an unknown time before 1:33 pm.

Conversation No. 652-4

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:29 pm and 1:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Charles W. Colson and Clark MacGregor

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:33 pm.

Conversation No. 652-5

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  1:33 pm - 2:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Clark MacGregor.

Charles W. Colson
-Schedule

The President’s schedule
-Taping
-Unknown technician

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:37 pm.

State of the Union Address, January 20, 1972
-MacGregor’s view
-MacGregor’s viewing on TV
	-Commentary by Paul Duke and Herbert E. Kaplow
	-The President’s expectations of Congress
	-Welfare reform
	-Revenue-sharing
	-Government reorganization
	-Environment
			-Commentary by Hugh S. Sidey, Charles L. Bartlett and unknown black woman
	-Shirley Chisholm
	-Politics
		-Democrats
		-1960s issues
			-Demonstrations
				-Campuses, cities
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] commentary

	-Media commentary
	-MacGregor’s secretary
	-Notes
	-Address compared with 1971 Address
		-Language
			-Tone

Charles W. Colson entered at 1:37 pm.

-Dan Rather’s commentary
-Democrat leadership
-The President’s political tone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 1:37 pm.

-William H. Lawrence’s commentary
-Strength of speech
-1972 election
-The President’s platform
-Economy
-Lewis Gulick’s comments on Associated Press [AP] wire
-Bipartisanship
	-Historical comparison
		-Democrats

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:37 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Taping

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm.

State of the Union Address
-John F. Kennedy comparison
-Vietnam
-Schools
-Local control
	-Reception by audience
	-Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie
	-Applause
-CBS
-Daniel L. Schorr’s analysis
-West Coast dock strike
-Reception by audience
-Congress
-Humphrey’s and Muskie’s reception
-Edward M. Kennedy’s reception
-CBS commentary
-The President’s ad-lib
-Future media coverage
-The President’s schedule
	-Tom McCall
	-Daniel J. Evans
-The President’s statement from Florida, January 21, 1972
-Calls to Ronald W. Reagan and others
-Reactions to speech
-Publicity
-William E. Brock, III’s views
-Challenge to Congress
-Hugh Scott’s views
-Michael J. Mansfield’s views
-Tax measures
-Political strategy
-Kaplow’s commentary
-Neil H. McElroy Commission on school finance
-Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR]
-The President’s concern and initiative
-Muskie’s reaction to the President’s reference
-Humphrey
-Muskie’s role on committee
-Attendance at meetings
-National interest
-Tone
-Conclusion
			-Contrast with Edward Kennedy’s National Press Club speech, January 17, 1972
-State of nation
-Compared to Edward Kennedy’s and Muskie’s statements
-Confidence in government
-Congressional reaction
-Wright Patman
	-Forthcoming Gross National Product [GNP] figures
-Gerald R. Ford
	-1972 election
-Margaret C. Smith
-George D. Aiken
-Smith
-Appearance
-Age
-Reelection
-Compared with Aiken
-Republican Congressional leaders
	-Mood

Scott
-Commentaries from Pennsylvania newspapers
-Delivery to MacGregor
-1972 election
	-Pennsylvania
-Political work

Congressional breakfast, January 19, 1972
-William E. Timmons and MacGregor
-Scott
-Ford
-Robert P. Griffin
-Leslie C. Arends
-The President’s submitted State of the Union Address
-Recommendations
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s incorporation into address
-Republican Congressional leaders
		-Mood

Congress
-Recess
-State of the Union Address
-Election year

State of the Union Address
-Approach avoided
-The President’s treatment of Congress
-Roger H. Mudd’s comment
-Political impact
-Political impact
-Statesmanship
-Length
	-Compared to previous addresses
		-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Price’s view
-Specific passage
-Response to the nation’s critics
-Impact
-State of nation
-Credit for the Administration
	-Vietnam
	-Casualties
	-Troop withdrawals
-Congressional recess
-Griffin’s view of submitted address
-Lincoln Day speeches
-Use by Congressmen
-National defense issue
-Response
-Republicans
-Gale W. McGee
-John C. Stennis
-John N. Ashbrook
-Barry M. Goldwater
-J. William Fulbright’s reaction
-John V. Brennan’s observation
-Muskie
-Humphrey
-John Sherman Cooper’s views of Fulbright
-Partisanship
-Cooper’s reaction at meetings of Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Welfare reform
	-Work
		-Lincoln Day speeches
		-Reagan
-Family assistance issue
-Reaction received by Colson
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Welfare reform
-Trial program
-Conservative response

Congress
-The Administration’s possible political strategy
	-Democrats
	-Partisanship
	-Allegations by MacGregor’s office
		-Duration
	-Attendance at sessions
	-Passage of the President’s legislation
	-Official daily reminder by Republicans
	-Number of presidential initiatives
	-Scheduling
	-Public view
-Polls
	-Passage of the President’s legislation
	-State of the Union reference
		-Proposals
			-Budget
			-Bipartisanship
	-Timetable for conciliation
	-June 1972
	-Democratic National Convention
	-The President’s trip to Soviet Union
	-Official daily reminders by Republicans
	-Samuel L. Devine
	-Robert J. Dole
		-Humor
	-Scheduling
	-Democrat reaction
	-Sensitivity
	-Dock strike
		-Possible hearings

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Republican leaders
-MacGregor’s coordination with Haldeman
-Scheduling

MacGregor and Colson left at 2:05 pm.

State of the Union Address
-Tone
-Delivery
-Reception
-Kennedys

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 2:05 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

White House staff
-Richard A. Moore
-Sidey
-William L. Safire
-Moore
-Ability 
-Compared with Safire

State of the Union Address
-Length
-Written compared to spoken message
-Delivery on prime time television
-Compared with delivery before Congress
-Written compared to spoken message
-Public and Congress
-Ceremony
-Number of attendees
-Congress, Cabinet and Supreme Court
-TV viewing

Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing
-The President’s previous phone call to Kissinger
-Humor
-Substance

State of the Union Address
-Press and media
-Reaction
-Bi-partisanship

Vietnam
-The President’s forthcoming speech on peace plan, January 25, 1972
-Possible impact
-Secret negotiations
-Ending war
-Congressional involvement
-Talks with North Vietnam and Vietcong
-Secret talks
-Publicity

Kissinger
-Resignation
-Effect
	-William P. Rogers

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming taping session

The President and Haldeman left at 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 652-6

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:20 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule
-Meeting with the President
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Trip to Florida

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.

Conversation No. 652-7

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:20 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger’s location

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.

Conversation No. 652-8

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:20 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.

Conversation No. 652-9

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  2:30 pm - 2:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Items for the President’s signature
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting

Butterfield left at 2:32 pm.

Conversation No. 652-10

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:32 and 2:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Harold O. Lovre
-Death
-Wreath
-Military aide

Conversation No. 652-11

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  2:57 pm - 3:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Dinner, January 20, 1972
	-Cabinet
-Business session

The President’s schedule
-Cabinet and Congressional leaders
-Meetings
-Frequency
-Value
-Frequency
	-Selection of new Cabinet in second term
	-Review
-Individual Cabinet members

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 2:57 pm.

Robert E. Merriam
-Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR] study
-The President’s letter to Merriam
	-Release to press

		-Ziegler’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
		-Ziegler’s conversation with Merriam

Edmund S. Muskie
-Membership on ACIR
-Attendance at meeting
-Reaction to the President’s State of the Union Address
-Applause
-Statement
	-Bi-partisanship

State of the Union Address
-Democrats’ reactions
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Unemployment issue
	-Television coverage
	-Ziegler’s watching
	-Cut to audience at closing remark
	-Bella S. Abzug’s reaction
	-Statement
	-The President’s tenure in office
	-Partisanship
	-Muskie’s reaction
	-Number of proposals
	-Statement for television
	-Competition with Hubert H. Humphrey
-Republican reaction
-The President’s bipartisanship
-Attack on Democrats
	-Tone
-Muskie statement
-Vietnam war
-Personal attacks
-Edward M. Kennedy’s reaction

Dock strike announcement, January 21, 1972
-Handling by Ziegler and Laurence H. Silberman
-The President’s involvement
-Statement, January 20,, 1972
-Rhetoric
-Toughness
	-Labor Department
-Legislation for arbitration
-Congress
-The President’s State of the Union reference
-The President’s input
-Attack on strikers
	-Irresponsibility
	-Economy
-George P. Shultz
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Charles W. Colson’s office
-Rhetoric
-Toughness
-Silberman
-Legislation
-Rhetoric
-Toughness

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:57 pm.

Cabinet meeting

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.

Dock strike announcement
-Rhetoric
-Toughness
-Buchanan

The President, Haldeman and Ziegler left at 3:05 pm.

Conversation No. 652-12

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:05 pm and 4:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President’s location
	-Cabinet Room

Conversation No. 652-13

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  4:52 pm - 5:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Terence Cardinal Cooke, Theodore E. McCarrick, Peter M. Flanigan and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; Stephen B. Bull, the White House photographer, and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

The President’s schedule

Cooke’s return from trip to Vietnam
-Servicemen
-Haig’s question to Cooke
	-Morale

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:52 pm.

Refreshment

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.

The President’s State of the Union Address
-Cooke’s watching on television

The President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting

-Cooke’s activity during meeting

[General conversation]

	[Photograph session]

The White House photographer and the press left at an unknown time after 4:52 pm.

Cooke’s trip to Vietnam
-Unknown bishop
-Travel to Greenland, Iceland and Europe
-US armed forces
-Drugs
-Situation 
	-Prevention, education, treatment
	-Incoming troops
-Da Nang
	-Compared to other areas
-Morale
-Troop withdrawal
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.’s report to Cooke
-Commanders
	-Concern
-General [Forename] McDonough [sp?]
-Da Nang
-Defensive action
-Explanation to troops
-Compared to earlier tone
-Peace time forces
-Korea
-Japan
-Western Europe
-US bases
-Pride in duty
-Compared with rear area service in World War II
-The President’s experience
-Noumea
-Guadalcanal
-South Vietnamese
-Morale
-Farming, housing
-New schools, seminary buildings
				-Da Nang
		-Hospitals
-Pacification
-Effects
	-Publicity
-Military forces
-Harvest
-Land reform
-Building
	-Schools, stores, roads
-Vietnamization
-Term 
	-Connotation
-Military
-Troop withdrawal
	-Melvin R. Laird
-Public response
-Greek-Turkish aid program
-Marshall Plan
-Alliance for progress
-South and North Vietnamese development
-Self-help
	-“Partnership for development”
-Rice surplus
-South Vietnamese population
-Vietcong
-US, South Vietnamese casualties
-Decline
-South Vietnamese army
-Forthcoming offensive by North Vietnam
-Handling
	-Prospects
-Nature of wars
-Retreating
-Battle at Tannenberg
-Book by Winston S. Churchill
-Russians
	-L’vov
-German retreat
-Effect on Russians
	-Prisoners
-Battle of the Bulge
-Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
	-Pincher movement

Vietnam
-Statement by Catholic Bishops
-End of war
-Justness of wars
-Useful purpose of Vietnam war
-Peace
-Aid to South Vietnam
-Number of North Vietnamese in Laos, Cambodia and
 South Vietnam
-1954 accords
-Self defense
-Justness of wars
-Self defense
-South Vietnamese survival
-US support
-1954 events
-Bishop of Da Nang
-Civilian casualties
	-Starvation
-Possible casualties
-US withdrawal
	-Peace
	-Avoiding South Vietnamese casualties
-Catholics
-Conduct of war
-The President’s view
-Statement by Catholic Bishops
-Cooke’s position
-Minority opinion
	-US unilateral withdrawal
-Cooke’s editing
-Immorality of war
	-Possible impact on US troops
-Consistency with US policy
-Treatment by press
-Compared with actual statement
	-The President’s reading
-Francis Cardinal Spellman
-Minority opinion
-Press treatment
-Compared with Quakers’ response
-Support of the President’s policies
-Cooke’s conversation with unknown men

Cooke’s speech
-Rose Mary Woods’s assessment

Richard E. Berlin
-Health
	-Roosevelt Hospital
-Media report, January 19, 1972
-Religion
-Invitation to Readers’ Digest dinner, January 28, 1972
-Location

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:52 pm and 5:22 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-13A]

[See Conversation No. 19-35]

The President conferred with Cooke during the telephone conversation.

Berlin’s location

[End of conferral]

[End of telephone conversation]

White House operator

Berlin
-Admiration for the President
-Muriel (“Honey”) (Johnson) Berlin

Vietnam
-Forthcoming developments
-End of war in 1972
-US involvement
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-US withdrawals
	-US aid to South Vietnam
-Cooke’s trip
-Stop in Bethlehem
-“Generation of peace”
-Mass for peace
-Cooke’s previous visits
-The President’s travels
-Mass for peace
-“Shepherd’s Field”
-Remembrance of the President

People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-The President’s forthcoming trip
-Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing of Cooke
-Instructions to Haig
-Population
-Catholic missionaries
-Captivity
-Bishop James E. Walsh

The President’s forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-Briefing of Cooke

State of the Union Address
-The President’s foreign trips and relations
-Differences
-Hopes for peace

Cooke’s talk with Soviet Friends in New York
-Communists
-The President’s foreign trips

[The White House operator talked with the President at 5:22 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-13B]

[See Conversation No. 19-36]

[End of telephone conversation]

Berlin
-Forthcoming conversation with Cooke
-The President’s attempted call

India
-Cooke’s visit to Calcutta
	-Refugees
-Relief work by voluntary agencies
-US aid
-Humanitarian efforts
-United Nations [UN]
-Catholic efforts
-Pakistan

Parochial schools
-Rate of closings
-Prospects
-Government assistance
	-Presidential commission [President’s Committee on School Finance]
		-Forthcoming report
-Administration plan
-Tax credit
-Supreme Court decision
-Child benefits
-Direct subsidy
-Tax credit
-Benefit to public and parochial schools
-Legislation
-Flanigan’s possible conversation with John B. Connally
-Property tax substitute
-Justice Department view
-Bishops’ view
-Constitutionality
-Government assistance
	-Legislation
-Flanigan’s possible talks with Connally and John D. Ehrlichman
-Congressional schedule
-Tax Bill
-Revenue sharing
-Health program
-Ways and Means Committee
-Tax Bill
			-Neil H. McElroy Committee [President’s Committee on School Finance] report
-Connally
	-Talk with Flanigan
-Meeting with Cooke
-Need for support
-The President’s policy
-Connally
-Relation with Cooke
-Schedule
	-Meeting
		-Publicity
-Speech in New York City to conference board
-Cooke’s home
-Need for public confidence
-Legislation
-Prospects for educational pluralism
-Government assistance
-Connally
-Schedule
-Forthcoming Cabinet dinner
-Possible conversation with the President
-New York City
-Meeting with Cooke
-International monetary matters
-Standing in Cabinet
	-School closing rate
	-Educational pluralism
-Public education 
-National Education Association [NEA]
-Values
-Schools in foreign countries
-The President’s visits
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Romania
-Hungary
-Poland
-Czechoslovakia
-Public education
	-State control
-Government assistance
-Inflation
-Character compared to intelligence
	-Arrogance, pride
-Legislation
	-Timing
-Flanigan’s comment
-Justice Department
-Supreme Court
-William H. Rehnquist
-Position 

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with William C. Westmoreland

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:22 pm.

-Request that Westmoreland join them
-Kissinger’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm.

The President’s schedule

State of the Union Address
-Reaction

The President’s health
-Predecessors

William Westmoreland entered at 5:38 pm.

Greetings

	Introduction

Vietnam
-Armed forces
-Morale
-Cooke’s talks with troops
-Families at home
-Societal problems
-Education by military

Westmoreland
-Forthcoming trip to Indonesia

	Cooke’s forthcoming meeting with Connally

	[General conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Trip to PRC
-Future meeting with Cooke

Cooke, McCarrick and Flanigan left and Melvin R. Laird entered at 5:40 pm.

Harold O. Lovre
-Funeral
-Chowder and Marching Club
-Formerly Representative from South Dakota
-Home
-Funeral
-Cabinet meeting
-Laird
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-The President’s wreath
-Recent health
-Laird’s recent meeting
-Cancer
-Recent party

Indonesia
-Westmoreland’s talk with Haig
-The President’s letter
-Lt. Gen. TNJ Suharto
-Forthcoming conversation with Westmoreland
-Francis J. Galbraith
-Economic assistance
-State department policy
-Marshall Green
-Former ambassadors
-Military security program
-Suharto
-US support
-Geography
-Population
-Agriculture
	-Rice
-Nixon Doctrine
-Aid program
	-Size
-Congress
-Westmoreland trip
-US policy in Southeast Asia
-Vietnam
-US interest and presence
-The President’s trip to PRC
-US policy
-Population and resources
-Compared with Southeast Asia, Thailand
-Vietnam
-Soviets
-US aid
-Congress
-Aid to other nations
-Cambodia
	-Consortium
-Connally’s previous trip
-US aid
	-India
-Military aid
	-Military
		-Communism
		-Training
	-Importance

US military influence
-International sales
-Laird’s possible conversation with Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Latin America
-French sales
-Training
-Peru
	-Chile
	-Salvador Allende Gossens
	-US policy
-JCS
-J. William Fulbright
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Frank F. Church
-Arms
-Civilian compared to military regimes
-Yugoslavia
-Reorganization of Communist Party
-Latin America
-Military attaches
-Function
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Brazil
-Relationship with the President
-Venezuela
-Commander of army
-Visit with Westmoreland
-Latin America
-Trade
-France
-Oil
-US purchases
-France
-Bolivia
-President [Hugo Banzer-Suarez]
-Relations with Westmoreland
-Military assistance
-Rate of delivery
-Relations with US
-Latin American aid
-Limitations
-Fulbright and Church
-Non-military uses
	-Education
-Soviet Union
-MIGs
-India
-Economic compared to military 
-Soviet Union
	-Military aid
-Political problems
-Military regimes
-Congress
	-Unknown person
-Military sales
-India
-US compared to Soviet equipment
-Congressional limitations
-Effect on Nixon Doctrine
-Paper from Laird
-Delivery to the President through Haig
-National Security Council [NSC]
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Forthcoming Cabinet dinner
-Laird’s presence

State of the Union Address
-Westmoreland’s presence

Indonesia
-Westmoreland’s trip
-The President’s view
-Population
-Wealth
-Westmoreland’s trip
-Suharto
-[Unintelligible name]
-Vietnam
-Cambodia
	-Phnom Penh
-Vietnam
	-Military prospects
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Cambodia
	-Gen. Lon Nol
	-Udorn
	-C. McMurtrie Godley
	-The President’s trip to PRC

Haig, et al. left at 5:59 pm.

Conversation No. 652-14

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:59 pm and 6:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Document signing

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:00 pm

Conversation No. 652-15

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  6:00 pm - 6:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s schedule
-Preparation for Cabinet dinner

Items for the President’s signature

[Signing documents]

Robert H. Finch
-Health
	-Location
		-Home
		-Cabinet meeting

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 6:06 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-15A]

[See Conversation No. 19-37]

[End of telephone conversation]

Finch
-Health

	[Signing documents]

Memorandum

[The President talked with Finch between 6:06 pm and 6:08 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-15B]

[See Conversation No. 19-38]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:08 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 652-16

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:08 pm and 6:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
	-Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 652-17

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 6:08 pm until 6:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Briefcases
-Airplane
-Materials
-Alexander P. Butterfield

Henry A. Kissinger entered and the unknown man left at 6:12 pm.

Forthcoming Cabinet dinner

State of the Union Address
-Success

The President’s schedule
-Terence Cardinal Cooke

Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Call to Kissinger

The President’s schedule
-Gen. William C. Westmoreland

Dobrynin
-Call to Kissinger
-India-Pakistan relations
-Dinner with Kissinger, January 21, 1972
-Outlook

Vietnam
-Message from Gen. Creighton W. Abrams

-North Vietnamese offensive
-Reserve units
-US bombing of logistic build-up
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Dobrynin
-Possible effect on the President’s People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Possible US bombing
	-Location
	-Timing
		-The President’s peace plan speech, January 25, 1972
		-Possible North Vietnamese response
	-Buildup
		-US bombing
	-Abrams’s plan
-Settlement
-II Corps
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-I Corps
-US air power
-DMZ
-Dobrynin
-Forthcoming dinner with Kissinger

India-Pakistan War
-Dobrynin
-Conversation with Kissinger, January 20, 1972
	-Tone
-Schedule
-Vasily V. Kuznetsov
-December 10, 1971 telegram from Soviet ambassador to India, Nikolai M. Pegov
-Kashmir
-Kuznetsov
		-The President’s December 9, 1971 meeting with Soviet Agriculture Minister [Vladimir Matskevich]

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Dobrynin
-Forthcoming dinner with Kissinger
-Peace plan speech
-Dobrynin
	-Possible message about negotiations
-Build-up
-Abrams’s report
	-Build-up
		-Reserve units
-Hanoi
-Location
-Ho Chi Minh trail
-DMZ
-Road
-Bombing
-Building
-Possible attack schedule
-II Corps
	-February 1972
-I Corps
	-March 1972
-Completion
	-May 1972
-The President’s trips to Soviet Union and PRC
-Soviets
-Middle East negotiations
-Trade
-1972 election
-Abrams’s recommendation
	-Soviet Union
	-PRC
	-Timing
	-Peace plan speech
	-Peace plan speech
	-Notes to PRC and Soviet Union
	-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
	-Dobrynin
	-Timing
-Previous US air strike
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Dobrynin
	-The President’s previous and forthcoming actions
-South Vietnamese army
-Change of commanders
-I Corps
-Tanks
-Publicity
	-US troops
-Peace plan speech
-Rogers’s suggestions
-William L. Safire
-Kissinger’s review
-The President’s schedule
	-Florida
		-Copy to Butterfield
			-Briefcase
-The President’s review
-Kissinger’s suggestions
-Complexity of certain passages
-Explanation of proposal
	-Agreement in principle and substance
	-Remaining US troops
-Rogers’s suggestions
	-Principle
	-Rhetoric
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Rogers

State of the Union Address
-Final passages
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s work
-Compared to speeches of the Kennedys
-Press treatment
-Tone
-Foreign policy sections
	-Bi-partisanship
-Defense program section
-Dobrynin’s reaction
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Arms limitation
-Soviets
		-Dobrynin’s reaction

India-Pakistan War
-US actions
-Soviet response
-Cultural Minister [Ekaterina A. Furtseva]
-Relations with Kissinger
-Dobrynin
-Schedule
	-Kissinger
-Kissinger’s talk with White House staff, January 20, 1972

Soviet summit
-Dobrynin
-Possible US proposals
-Kissinger’s meeting with Soviet Trade Minister
-Maurice H. Stans
		-Possible effect of Soviet propaganda
		-Dobrynin
		-Return to US

Vietnam
-Kissinger’s possible conversation with Dobrynin
-Soviet trade
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US air force
-US withdrawal
	-Effect
-Possible settlement
	-Timing

	Foreign policy
		-Goals

State of the Union address
-Foreign policy section
-US commitments
-US interests
-Bolivia
-Intervention
	-“Peaceniks” view

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
	-US Air Force
-South Vietnamese
-Strength
	-North Vietnam
	-Laos, Cambodia
-US bombing
-Strategy
	-Duration
-Results
-Timing
-Peace plan proposal
-North Vietnamese response
-Peace plan speech

Vietnam peace plan speech
-Readiness of draft
-Florida
-Kissinger and Safire
-The President’s further work

The President’s schedule
-Vietnam peace plan speech
	-Preparation
	-Briefing
		-Timing
			-Legislative leaders
		-The President’s role vis-à-vis Kissinger’s
-State of the Union Address
-Length
	-Compared to previous ones
-Cooke’s comment to the President
-The President’s appearance
-Joan Braden’s comment
-Lunch with Kissinger
-Previous meetings with the President
-Peace plan speech
-The President’s review
-Thieu
-The President’s instructions to Safire

North Vietnam
	-Recognition by Norway and Denmark
		-Possible return of US ambassadors
		-Fact finding mission

[Funeral of King Frederick IX of Denmark ?]
	-US representatives

	International monetary matters
-Connally
-Chilean loan
-Connally’s previous meeting with the President
-Connally’s knowledge

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	-Cabinet
	-Possible military action

Vietnam
		-Connally’s view
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation, January 21, 1972
-Recent talk with Kissinger
	-Tone

The President and Kissinger left at 6:36 pm.

Conversation No. 652-18

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:36 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	The President’s location

	Messenger

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

Conversation No. 652-19

Date:  January 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:36 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

[Conversation No. 652-19A]

The President’s location

An unknown agent entered at an unknown time.

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

Unknown people entered at an unknown time.

[Unintelligible]

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