Conversation No. 655-1

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  9:18 am - 9:19 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

The President’s schedule
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Meeting with Richard M. Scammon
-Postponement
-Rescheduling
-Colson and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Books written with Benjamin J. Wattenberg, The New Majority (1970)
-The President’s reading

Conversation No. 655-2

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 9:19 am until 9:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Speech draft [?]

Butterfield left at 9:53 am.

Conversation No. 655-3

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown before 9:55 am and 12:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

India-Pakistan
-Unknown person’s conversation with Haldeman
	-Questions

Butterfield left and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:55 am.

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Scheduling
-Networks
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] special
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Problem
-Ziegler’s knowledge of content
-Kissinger’s informing
-Contact with Haldeman

John A. Scali
-Henry A. Kissinger’s assessment
	-State Department
-Opinion of William P. Rogers
-State Department
-Kissinger’s conflict with Rogers
-Haldeman’s reluctance to inform about Kissinger-Rogers conflict
-Scali’s possible book
-Kissinger
-Kissinger’s view
	-Haldeman’s view

Kissinger
-Handling

-Clark MacGregor
-Problems with Congress
-Relations with White House staff
	-Disagreements
-Patrick J. Buchanan [?]
-The President’s talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:55 am.

Unknown object

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.

Scali
-Knowledge of content of US peace proposal for Vietnam
-Timing of release
	-White House staff
-Leaks
-Kissinger
-Background information
-Networks
-Credibility
-Previous actions
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip preparations
-Kissinger
	-Talk with the President
		-Newsmen in PRC
-PRC
	-Release of information

US peace proposal for Vietnam
-Edward W. Brooke
-Speech before Republicans, January 24, 1972
-Troop withdrawals
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Possible leaks from administration
-Kissinger
-The President
-Defense Department
-Brooke’s administrative assistant
-Relation to Murrey Marder story
-Melvin R. Laird’s concern
-Kissinger’s view
	-Speculation
-Speech
	-Importance
-Effect on the President’s address
-Publicity
-Effect on the President’s address
-Speculation
-Possible lessening of impact
-Administration strategy
-Perception of the President’s forthcoming speech
-Secret talks
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s resignation
-Publicity
-Public perception of senators’ speeches
-Haldeman’s talk with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s briefing, January 26, 1972
-Preparation
-The President’s schedule, January 24, 1972
	-Talk with Kissinger
-Preparation for television set-up
-The President’s schedule

The President’s schedule
-Richard M. Scammon
-The President’s recent call to Charles W. Colson
-Robert H. Finch

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Finch
-Speeches
-Importance
-Constituency
-News coverage
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
	-Attacks on opponents
-Example
	-Dartmouth College
-Schedule
-News summary

Speeches
-News coverage
	-News summary
-John B. Connally
-John A. Volpe
-George W. Romney
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Volpe
-New Hampshire
-Rogers C. B. Morton
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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Budget message, January 24, 1972
-Buchanan’s news analysis
-Economy
-Conservatives’ reactions to budget proposal
		-Holmes Alexander
		-Unknown person
-News summary
-Connally and George P. Shultz
-Network appearances
-The President’s refusal to comment
	-Ziegler’s reaction
-Ziegler
-Performance 
-Quality as a news story
-Connally’s view
-Compared to that of rest of Cabinet
-Blame and credit for the President
-Rogers’s and Laird’s reactions
-Connally’s actions
-Shultz
-Deficits
-Problem
-Significance as issue
	-State of economy
-Democrats’ suggestions
-Human resources
-Defense
-Ceiling
-Concrete alternatives
-Press coverage

Economy
-Wage and price controls
-Colson
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Connally’s outline
-Dan Rather’s question during interview, January 2, 1972
-Paul W. McCracken
-The President’s response
-Duration of controls
	-Inflation
-Connally’s view
-Shultz’s view
-Buchanan’s comments
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Reaction
	-Shultz’s understanding
-McCracken’s assessment
-Administration reaction
-Herbert Stein
-Shultz
-Connally
-Result
-Rumsfeld and Shultz
-Connally’s plan
-Cabinet meeting
	-Need for Administration unity
-Duration of controls
	-Inflation
		-Goal
-Press

News summaries
-Buchanan
-Work
	-Organization
	-Quality
-Frequency
-Need for perspective
-Coverage of issues
-News coverage of administration policy issues
-Forthcoming campaign
-The President’s annotations
-Buchanan’s outlook
-Vietnam
-PRC announcement
-Economy
	-Inflation

Economy
-Economic writers
-Buchanan’s assessment
-Left wing
-Equivocation
	-McCracken’s memoranda

News coverage of administration
-Hugh S. Sidey article
-Criticism of the President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
	-Expense of television coverage
-Compared with John F. Kennedy’s foreign travel
-Thesis
	-Democrats
	-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
	-Publicity
-The President’s trips, 1961-69
-Publicity
	-Time-Life Corporation
	-New Hampshire
		-Television networks
			-Primary
-Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Televised news conferences
-Double standard
-Sidey
-Possible conversation with Haldeman
-Possible conversation with Ziegler
-Recent article
	-Fairness
	-Effect
-Writing about underdogs
-Power of the presidency
-Sidey
	-Purpose of writing
-Frustration of the President’s opponents
	-New Hampshire primary
		-PRC trip
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-The President’s talk with Kissinger, January 24, 1972
	-Kissinger’s concerns
		-Criticism
		-Press anger, attacks
-Bias
	-Kissinger’s backgrounders
-Television
	-Press conferences
-Vietnam announcements
	-November 3, 1971
-Cambodia announcement, April 30, 1970
	-Effect on polls
	-The President’s efforts
		-Press conference, statement
		-California
-Laos invasion
	-Handling
-Budget
	-Connally
-Laos
	-Handling
	-Kissinger’s backgrounders
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-Public reaction
-POWs
	-Wives
-Thieu resignation
	-Possible reaction
		-Intellectuals
		-Accusation of surrender
	-Initiation of offer
	-Election
-PRC trip
-Jack N. Anderson [?]
-Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
	-Fear of US victory

The President’s State of the Union Address
-Buchanan and Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s theses
-John D. Ehrlichman’s view
-The President’s view

The President’s interview with Rather
-The President’s tactics
-Buchanan’s view
	-Alexander column
-Other officials’ views
	-Desire for fight

Buchanan thesis on the presidency
-Controversy in issues
-Desirability
-Compared with presidential stature
	-Ehrlichman’s view
		-Incumbency
	-Price’s view
-Campaigning
-1970 election
-Media reaction
-1972 campaign
	-Edith Efron’s book [The News Twisters]
-Credibility
-[Forename unknown] Weiner [sp?]
	-Ehrlichman
	-Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944
	-World War II

Ziegler entered at 10:36 am.

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-Scheduling
			-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC] and Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-NBC
-Special, The Search for the Nile
-West Coast viewers
-ABC movie
-NBC special
-Audience make-up
-School children
-Size
-NBC
	-Compared to ABC, CBS
-Scheduled network programs
-CBS
-Hawaii Five-O
-Special, I’m a Fan
-Dick Van Dyke
-Carol Channing
-Ziegler’s call to the networks
-ABC, CBS preference
-NBC preference
-Administration review and decision-making
-Audience
-West Coast consideration
-Advance announcement
-News build-up
	-Brooke
-Audience
-Replaying out-takes
	-West
	-Value
-Scheduling
-Press briefing
	-Congress
-A Day in the Life of the President
-NBC special on the Nile River
-Serialization
-Audience make-up
-Compared with probable audience for CBS and ABC scheduled programs
-Hawaii Five-O
-All in the Family
	-Archie Bunker
	-Michael Stivick

All in the Family
-ABC
-Writers
	-Background
		-Paul W. Keyes
-Intentions and results
	-Bunker
	-Compared to Stivick
	-Prejudices
		-Possible changes to character
	-Changes
	-Social message
		-Compared to entertainment value
	-Compared with movie, Joe
-Ziegler’s viewing
-Portrayal of blacks

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-Scheduling

Kissinger entered at 10:48 am.

-Notification of Thieu
-West Coast consideration
-Networks’ preferences
-Radio audience on West Coast
-NBC special
-Compared with ABC movie and CBS special
	-Audiences
-Ziegler’s briefing

Ziegler left at 10:51 am.

-Connally’s views
-Lack of proposals in Johnson Administration
-Johnson’s possible reaction
	-Paris talks
		-“Shape of the table” phrase
	-Release of text
	-The President’s May 14, 1969 announcement
-Origins of wars
-Study
-Possible deletion
	-Public opinion
	-Private comment
	-Safire’s view
-Purpose for inclusion
-William L. Safire’s work
-Deletions
-Connally’s views
-Diction
-Thieu’s forthcoming statement
-Quality of suggestions
-Rogers
-Safire’s work
-Cute phrases
-Deletion
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-Details of agreement
-Complexity
-Press reception
-Residual force
-POWs
-Eight-point plan
-Previous withdrawal and cease-fire for POWs offers
	-May 31, 1971
-Kissinger’s call to Ellsworth F. Bunker, January 24, 1972
-South Vietnamese perception of plan
	-Complexity
-Two stage plan, October 11, 1971
	-US flexibility
-Residual force
-North Vietnamese reaction
-POW for troop withdrawal proposal
-Cease-fire
-Variations on terms
	-Public statements
		-Duration
-David Kraslow’s call to Kissinger, January 25, 1972
-Brooke’s speech
			-Kissinger’s speech to Women’s National Press Club in New York City, January 26, 1972

The President left at an unknown time before 11:07 am.

-Brooke speech
-Leak to Brooke
-Laird
			-Possible effect
				-Speculation
				-Leaks
				-Laird’s call to Kissinger, January 22, 1972
					-Vietnam bombing
-Troop withdrawal for POWs proposal
-State Department reaction
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Compared with Dwight L. Chapin’s probable reaction
-Call to Haldeman or Ziegler
-Ziegler
-Kraslow’s call to Kissinger
-Accusation
-POW troop withdrawal for POWs proposal
-North Vietnamese refusal
-New York Times
				-Kraslow’s deadline

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:56 am.

-Troop withdrawal for POWs proposal
-North Vietnamese reaction
-Kraslow’s call to Kissinger
-Differentiation from previous proposal
	-Kraslow
-Possible media reactions
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Time
-Newsweek
-Compared with reaction to Cambodia and November 3, 1969 statements
-Agreement
-Administration strategy
-Reasons behind disagreement
-Compared with criticism on PRC trip and India-Pakistan policy

India-Pakistan
-US policy
	-Kurt Waldheim’s views
	-United Nations [UN] vote

Waldheim
-Compared to U Thant

The President’s trip to PRC
-Initial reactions
-Revised reactions
	-Possible success
-Edward Kennedy’s comments
-PRC embassy in Ottawa

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-Connally’s view
-Initial reaction, January 20, 1972
-Current view
-Suggestions
-Deletions
-Qualities

POW families
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting
-Organizing for campaign
-News summary
-Sidey’s [?] view
-Primaries
-Democrats
-Possible effect of the President’s speech
-Previous talks with Kissinger
	-Plea for deadline
-Previous talks with the President
-Cease-fire and Thieu resignation
	-POWs

Time’s scenario on Vietnam
-News summary
-The President’s trip to PRC
-Possible North Vietnamese offensive against South Vietnam
-Possible effect
	-Likelihood
	-Effect of the President’s speech

Ziegler entered at 11:07 am.

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-Scheduling
-ABC movie
-CBS interruption of Hawaii Five-O
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Length of speech
-Complications of reporting approximate length
-Address
	-Compared to statement
-Questions from reporters
-Nature of speech
-Ziegler’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s possible meeting with William J. Porter
-Photograph
-Kissinger’s meeting with Porter
-Length
-Significance of address
-Caution to reporters about speculation
-Fixed withdrawal date
				-Previous North Vietnamese refusal of proposal to New York Times, January 21
-Ziegler’s credibility
-Porter
-Schedule

Ziegler left at 11:14 am.

Thieu
-Speech, January 26, 1972
-Speech
-Reference to reelection
-US stance
-Possible resignation
	-Possible effect
-Laird
-Kissinger’s call, January 25, 1972
	-Briefing by Haig
-Testimony before Congress
-Bunker
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Porter

Vietnam
-Laird
-Bombing attacks
-Call to Kissinger, January 22, 1972
-Dealing with Haldeman
-Bombing
-Washington Post story by Mike Getler
-Accuracy
-Duration
-The President’s effort
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Defense Department
-Targets
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Gen. Robert E. Pursley
-Restrictions
-Haig’s return from PRC
-Congressional schedule
-Weather
-Possible success
-Protest to French by Hanoi
-Damage
-Washington Post story
-Leaks
-Possible call to Laird
	-Rogers
-Duration
-Laird’s view
-JCS view

Ziegler entered at 11:17 am.

Vietnam peace proposal speech
-Brooke speech
-POWs for deadline
-Viet Cong reaction
-Ziegler’s briefing
-Caution to reporters about speculation
-Viet Cong

Ziegler left at 11:18 am

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Possible calls to Laird and Moorer
-Duration
-JCS
-The President’s order
	-Compared to JCS request
-Targets
-Restrictions
-Record
	-Possible White House publication
-Washington Post story leak
-JCS
-Pursley
	-Clark M. Clifford
-Doves
-Air Force
-Air Force
-Weather
	-Visibility
-Laos
	-Restriction
-Weather
	-February, March 1971
-Duration
-Washington Post story leak
-Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
-Knowledge of bombing
-Laird
-Defense Department and JCS
-Moorer
	-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with the President
	-Possible White House action

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-Position
	-Recent meeting
-Compared to Laird

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-Laird
-Targets
-White House position
			-Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Laird
-Selection of targets
	-Restrictions
-JCS and Defense Department
-Duration of bombing
	-Extension

Leaks
-Laird
-State Department
-Rogers
-Troop withdrawals
-Departments
-White House

Responsibility for issues and actions
-Connally
-Shultz
-John N. Mitchell
-Connally
-Philosophy
	-The President’s role
		-Compared to that of staff and Cabinet
-Compared with John F. Dulles with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Kissinger’s experience during Kennedy administration
-Bureaucracy
	-Difficulty for Republican president
-Connally
-Bureaucracy
	-Leaks

U. Alexis Johnson
-Conversation with Kissinger, January 24, 1972
-Views of political climate of Washington, DC
-Difficulty of meetings
-Loyalty
-Foreign service
-Compared to John N. Irwin, II

Irwin

Ambassadorial position
-Richard M. Paget
-Connally
-Roy L. Ash Council
-William P. Clements
-Irwin
-[David] Kenneth Rush
	-Rogers

State Department
-Reorganization
-Schedule
	-1972 election

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-Kissinger’s briefing of Congressmen and Senators
-Carl B. Albert
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Gerald R. Ford
-Allen J. Ellender
-John C. Stennis
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-J. William Fulbright
-George D. Aiken
-Stennis
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Thomas E. Morgan
-William S. Mailliard
-F. Edward Hebert
-Leslie C. Arends
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Stennis
-Complexity of plan
-Hebert
-Possible meeting, January 26, 1972
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Lyndon Johnson
-Goldwater and Stennis
-John G. Tower
-Schedule
-Attendance
-The President
-Leadership meeting, January 25, 1972
-The President’s attendance
-The President’s comments
-Haig
-Kissinger’s briefing
-TV press
-Leaders
-Writing press
-Complexity
-Alteration
	-Kissinger’s meeting with the President, January 24, 1971
	-Stages
		-Ceasefire and withdrawal
-Acceptance of terms
-North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
-Brooke speech
-Alternate plans
-Administration strategy
-Seven points
-Colson
-Scali
-Herbert G. Klein
-MacGregor
-Attack on opponents
-List of US concessions
-Reading by Kissinger, January 26, 1972
-Summer 1971
-Thieu’s offer to resign

Ziegler entered at 11:30 am.

-Ziegler’s briefing
-Brooke speech
-Release of nature of speech
-Speculation
-Effect
	-Diplomacy

Ziegler left at 11:31 am.

-Public interest
-Brooke speech
-Benefits
-North Vietnam’s turndown of proposal of withdrawal for POWs
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
	-US compliance with nine points
	-Resignation of Thieu
	-Installation of communist government in South Vietnam
-Liberals
-Administration opponents
-Analogy to May 14, 1969 statement
-Probable media reaction
	-Withdrawal date
		-POWs
	-North Vietnam’s turndown of proposal
	-Publicity
	-New York Times proposal
	-Laotian military victories
	-Porter
	-Possible rejection of Administration proposals
-Secret talks
-Compared with reaction if the President did not make speech
	-Senate
	-Military victory
		-Negotiations
	-POWs wives
-Rather’s interview with the President
	-The President’s responses
	-Rather 
		-Public reaction
-Negotiations
-Vietnamization
-Possible military action
-Fulfillment of the President’s promises
	-Criticism
-Administration line
-News summaries
-Colson’s efforts
-Obstacles facing Administration
	-Historical perspective

PRC trip
-Press
-Number of invitees
-Robert B. Considine
-Influence
-Previous trip to Soviet Union
-Credibility
-Number
-Trade-off
-Secret Service
-Communications staff
-PRC’s views
-Ziegler
-Conversation with Haig
-Technical staff
-Writer

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-Final draft
	-Timing
-Typing problems
-Safire
	-Schedule
-Connally’s changes
-Deletion
	-Conference table shape

PRC trip
	-Invitations
	-Safire
	-Buchanan
	-Soviet Union trip
	-Conservatives
	-Safire
	-Klein
	-Benefits after return
	-Scali
	-Previous Administration inaction
	-Mark I. Goode and William H. Carruthers
	-Television coverage
	-Importance
	-Goode and Carruthers
	-Appearance of public relations presence
		-PRC
		-Press
	-Television experts
	-Goode and Carruthers
	-Chapin
	-Ability
	-Recognition of photograph opportunities
		-Great Wall, Forbidden Palace
	-Hawaiian opportunity with astronauts
		-Goode
	-Goode
	-Klein
	-Press staff
		-Scali, Buchanan, Ziegler
	-Official party status
	-Ability
		-Salesmanship
		-Contact with the President
	-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
	-Ambassadorship to Spain
	-Acceptance
	-Value
		-Gifts
	-Gifts
	-Chapin
	-Value
	-Klein
	-Alvin Snyder
	-Benefits
	-TV transmission
	-Incorporation of duties
	-Klein, Scali, Ziegler
	-Klein
	-Benefits
	-Value
		-Return from trip
	-Briefing

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-Release to Ziegler
-Timing
-Kissinger
-Check with Rose Mary Woods
-Preparation for briefing
-Complexity
-Improvements in text
	-Kissinger’s previous meeting with the President
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Relaxation
-Study of previous record
-Woods
-Probable reaction

Kissinger left at 11:52 am.

PRC trip
-Invitations
	-Klein
	-Snyder
	-Goode and Carruthers
	-Chapin
	-Television experts
	-Compared with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s trip to Africa
		-Staff
	-Goode
	-Work with the President on State of the Union
	-Snyder
	-Klein
	-Soviet Union
	-Scali
	-Klein
	-Administration efforts
	-Value
	-Emphasis on domestic issues
	-Ehrlichman
	-Shultz
	-Public relations impact of PRC trip
	-Rank
	-Military aides
	-John V. Brennan
	-Vernon C. Coffey, Jr.
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Brennan
	-Michael Schrauth
	-Family
	-Schedule
-Hangchow
-Talks
-Length of stay
-Kissinger’s view
-Hangchow and Shanghai
-Value
-Compared with Soviet Union trip
-Moscow
-Leningrad, Novosibirsk and Sverdlovsk
-Spontaneous events
	-Television

Kissinger
-Health
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Work on peace proposal speech
	-Effect
-Riland
	-Transportation to White House

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PRC trip
-Invitations
	-Klein
	-Domestic work
	-Ehrlichman
	-Shultz
	-Possible misinterpretation
	-Colson
	-Ehrlichman
	-Cabinet officers
	-Klein
		-Performance
	-Domestic work
	-Soviet trip
		-Previous trip
-Soviet trip
	-White House staff
	-Official party status
	-Woods and Buchanan
	-Social functions
		-Receiving line
	-Secretaries
	-Kissinger’s office
	-Nellie L. Yates
	-Marjorie P. Acker
-Acker
	-Qualifications
	-Rogers’s office
-Security concerns
	-Secret Service
-Press coverage
-Car
-PRC airplane
-Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC] story

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	CHINA

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-Car

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PRC trip
-Staff
-Shortages
-Communications
-Kissinger and Rogers
-Telephones
-Schedule reminders
	-Advancemen
-Marshall Green and Alfred Le S. Jenkins
-Kissinger
-Staff
-Anticipated work
-Staff
-Follow-up upon return home
-Exhaustion
-Advance staff
-Health
	-Time change
-Food
-Ehrlichman
-Weather
-Work level
-Doctors
-Riland
-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Need
	-Number of people
		-Press
-Advance staff
-Riland
-Rockefeller’s trip
	-Duties
-Tkach
	-The President
-Staff illness
-Mrs. Nixon
-Constance M. (Cornell) Stuart
-Ziegler
-Schedule
-Schrauth
-Television coverage
-Events
	-Petroleum factory
	-Art museum
	-The President’s schedule
-Stuart
	-Independent activity
	-Television coverage
-Mosbacher
-Ambassadorship to Spain
-Haldeman’s conversation with Chapin and Haig
-Need
-Haldeman
-Rank
-Role
-Klein

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:52 am.

The President’s schedule
-Finch

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

PRC trip
-Staff
-Duties
-Klein, Mosbacher, Goode and Carruthers
-TV coverage
-Snyder
-Scali
-Buchanan
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Buchanan
-Kissinger’s staff
-Price
-Lee W. Huebner
-Safire
-Buchanan
-Soviet trip

Soviet trip
-Price and Safire
-Press corps
-Admission to the Soviet Union

Vietnam
-Washington Post story
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Laird

Finch entered at 12:15 pm.

Finch’s schedule

Kissinger
-Riland’s schedule
-[Unintelligible name]
-Riland’s and Tkach’s schedule

Haldeman left at 12:16 pm.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 25
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  36s  ]

The President left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm.

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:16 pm.

Alexander P. Butterfield entered and Sanchez left at 12:18 pm.

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 25

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Finch’s health
-Charlotte M. Butterfield’s health

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:18 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Congressional leadership meeting
-William E. Timmons
-Schedule
-Budget presentation
	-Probable length
	-Stein

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:23 pm.

Woods

[The President talked with Woods at an unknown time between 12:18 pm and 12:23 pm.]

[Conversation No. 655-3A]

Speech draft
-Schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-Schedule
-Liberals
-North Vietnam

Vietnam
-Secret negotiations
-Paris
-Xuan Thuy
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Origin
	-Fall 1969
	-Le Duc Tho
	-Xuan Thuy
	-Georges J.R. Pompidou
		-Airport landings
			-Walters
			-Meetings with Xuan Thuy and Le Duc Tho

Woods entered at 12:23 pm.

The President’s speech draft
-Changes
-Legibility
-Grammar
-Deletion
-Kissinger
-Addition
-Connally

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 12:23 pm and 12:32 pm.]

[Conversation No. 655-3B]

-Paris negotiations reference
-Retention

[End of telephone conversation]

-Ziegler
-Woods’s work

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 27
[Privacy]
[Duration:  17s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 27

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Woods left at an unknown time before 12:32 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office
-Oval Office
-TV set-up for speech
		-California

Finch
-Conversation with Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes [?]
-POW’s
	-Finch’s fundraising effort for Hughes’s [?] activities

Lunch

The President and Finch left at 12:32 pm.

Conversation No. 655-4

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:32 pm and 8:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

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

[An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:32 pm and 8:19 pm.]

[Conversation No. 655-4A]

	The President’s location
		-EOB

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  2s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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[End of telephone conversation]

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 8:19 pm.

Conversation No. 655-5

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  8:19 pm - unknown before 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mark I. Goode, William H. Carruthers, and unknown television technicians.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Preparation for forthcoming speech
-Placement of lighting [?]
-Microphone
-Placement of speech pages
-Lighting
-Microphone
-Placement of speech pages
-Camera angles

-Air time
-Temperature of room
-Air time
-Running time
-Earpiece
	-Connection
-Air time
-Outside camera shot
-Air time
-Outside shot
-Air time
-The President’s hair
-Cue

The President delivered his Address to the Nation Making Public a Plan for Peace in Vietnam between 8:30 pm and an unknown time before 8:55 pm.]

[A transcript of the final version of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 100-105]

Lights
	-Shadows

The President’s gratitude

Christmas program, 1971
-Quality
-Compliments
	-Compared to other Columbia Broadcasting Corporation [CBS] programs
-The President’s performance
-Film crew
-Unknown person’s work

	The President’s interview with Dan Rather, January 2, 1972
		-Set-up

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 8:19 pm.

	Gerald R. Ford’s and Leslie C. Arends’s schedule
		-Flight
			-Wives

	Unknown person’s [Goode’s] schedule

The President and Ziegler left at 8:55 pm.

Production staff

Clean-up
-General Services Administration [GSA] crew

[General conversation]
	-Gratitude
		-Wide angle camera shot
	-Paper

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