Conversation No. 656-1

Date:  January 25, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mark I. Goode [?] and unknown people.

Arrangements for the President’s speech
	-Ceiling
	-Placement of unknown object

Weather
	-Coat
	-Wind

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

Conversation No. 656-2

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:47 am and 7:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s location
	-Desk
	-Breakfast

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 7:52 am.

Conversation No. 656-3

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:47 am and 7:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Request for Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 7:52 am.

Conversation No. 656-4

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:47 am and 7:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
-Timing
-John B. Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 7:52 am.

Conversation No. 656-5

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:47 am and 7:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator and requested a call to Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 19-90]

Conversation No. 656-6

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:47 am and 7:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Colson left [?] at an unknown time before 7:52 am.

Conversation No. 656-7

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  7:52 am - 8:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

[The President talked with Rose Mary Woods between 7:52 am and 7:53 am.]

[Conversation No. 656-7A]

[See Conversation No. 19-91; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Newspaper stories concerning reaction to the President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
		-News summary
-Washington Post

-New York Times
-Washington Post
	-Richard (“Dick”) Lyons
-Accuracy
	-Effect
-Administration reaction
-Herbert G. Klein

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 7:57 am.

-The President’s schedule
	-Forthcoming congressional leaders meeting
	-Talks with Haldeman and Colson, January 25, 1972
-Administration’s handling
-Truth
-Lyons
-John Sherman Cooper
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Philip A. Hart [?]
-F. Bradford Morse
-Administration handling
	-Klein
	-Need to challenge stories
-Positive information
-Nature of stories
-Tone
-Sander Vanocur
		-Administration handling
-Friendly journalists
-Need to attack
-Publishers
-Compared to the President’s November 3, 1969 speech
	-Public perception
	-Polls
-Press releases
	-Ronald L. Ziegler

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 8:03 am.

Conversation No. 656-8

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 and 10:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:08 am.

Conversation No. 656-9

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 am and 10:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator and requested a call to Paul J. Fannin.

[See Conversation No. 19-92]

Conversation No. 656-10

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  10:08 am - 12:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Henry A. Kissinger.

Congressional resolution
	-Preparation of a letter
	-Kissinger’s talk with Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford
		-Scott’s and Ford’s view
	-The President’s talk with Ford
	-Scott
	-Benefits
	-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Ford’s and Scott’s location
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Scott

Kissinger briefing

Proposed terms of cease-fire
-Kissinger’s briefing
	-Political benefits
				-George S. McGovern’s comments concerning the President’s statement about Nguyen Van Thieu and North Vietnam
	-Possible revelation of North Vietnamese position
		-Thieu overthrow
		-Troop withdrawal
		-Documentation
		-As consequence of denial

Kissinger left at 10:11 am.

[The President talked with Paul J. Fannin between 10:11 am and 10:12 am.]

[Conversation No. 656-10A]

[See Conversation No. 19-93]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
	-News coverage
		-Inaccuracy of reporting
			-Administration handling
				-Assigning responsibility
-The President’s schedule
-Recent Congressional leaders meeting
-Kissinger
-Kissinger briefing to staff, January 25, 1972
-Tone
-Secret diplomacy
-First draft of speech
-Robert H. Finch’s reaction
-Politics
-John A. Scali
-State and Defense Department
		-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Staff meeting
-Thieu resignation
	-Timing of announcement
		-Peace proposal
		-Public relations
		-Kissinger

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:12 am and 10:17 am and requested a call to William P. Rogers.]

[Conversation No. 656-10B]

[See Conversation No. 19-94]

[End of telephone conversation]

Budget meeting
-Agnew
	-Complaints
	-Political future
-Demeanor
	-Compared to John B. Connally
		-Approach to problems

[The President talked with Rogers between 10:17 am and 10:18 am.]

[Conversation No. 656-10C]

[See Conversation No. 19-181]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Agnew
		-Demeanor

White House staff
-Charles W. Colson
	-Scali
-William L. Safire
-Scali
-Kissinger’s call to Scali, Rogers, Connally
-The President’s schedule
	-Congressional leaders meeting
		-Agnew
			-Demeanor
			-Consultation
			-Staff meeting
-Kissinger
-Handling
-Loyalty of White House staff
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Winston Lord
-Demeanor concerning Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-Negotiations
	-Status
	-Trips
		-Kissinger’s comments
			-Progress of talks
	-Rogers
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Ellsworth F. Bunker
	-Creation of record
-Positive outlook
-Press conference
			-Press conference
-Ziegler
-Necessity

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-News coverage
-Marvin L. Kalb
	-Kissinger briefing
		-Scali
-First draft
	-Kissinger’s reaction
	-Edits
		-Safire
-Kalb
-Scali
-Dan Rather
-Possible letters
	-Demand for apology
-Vietnam troop withdrawal
-Timing
	-1972 election
		-Kalb
		-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Public perception
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Troops
-Ceasefire
	-Korea
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-F. Bradford Morse
	-Letter
		-Colson
-Withdrawal from race
-Conditions
-Effect on credibility of Administration
-McCloskey’s comment
	-Secret negotiations
		-Administration action
-Right wing’s reaction
	-Speech ending
-Effect on attention to budget message
-Thrust of PR
-“Keep America United” theme
	-Congressional leaders meeting
	-Negotiations
-Clark MacGregor
-Delivery
	-Lack of Vietnam speeches
	-Complexity of subject
	-Clarity
		-Process
	-Style
		-Atmosphere
			-Eye contact with camera
-Campaign benefit

The President’s schedule
-Signing of economic report
	-Press interest
-Need for study
-Forthcoming meeting with Richard M. Scammon
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Press picture
-Maurice H. Stans’ announcement
-Peter G. Peterson
-Camp David
-Economic report signing
-Press interest
-Photographs
-Quadriad meeting
-Timing
-Connally
-Economic report
-Stans
	-Dinner
-Peterson
	-Press interest
		-Swearing-in
-Earl L. Butz
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Camp David
-Friday schedule
-Dr. Rainer Barzel
-Dewitt Wallace dinner
-Weekend plans
-PR
-Preparation for People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Briefing books
-Rogers and Kissinger

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:18 am.

-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Press briefing

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:42 am.

-PRC trip
-PR
		-Camp David
		-Preparations
		-Return to Washington, DC
-McGovern and McCloskey
-Administration counterattack
-Congressional leaders
-Vietnam critics
-Media support

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:18 am.

-Kissinger
	-Briefing

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:42 am.

-Television messages and domestic affairs
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Environment
-Drugs
-Benefits
-J. William Middendorf, II
-The President’s meeting with Prime Minister of Netherlands [Barend W. Biesheuvel]
	-Review
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Attendance at meeting of the President and Biesheuvel
-Haig
-State Department
-Rogers

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 10:42 am and requested Haig.]

[Conversation No. 656-10D]

[See Conversation No. 19-95]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with Haig between 10:42 and 10:43 am.]

[Conversation No. 656-10E]

[See Conversation No. 19-96]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
	-Middendorf

Kissinger entered at 10:44 am.

Kissinger schedule

Vietnam
	-North Vietnamese terms
	-McGovern
	-Thieu government
	-Overthrow
	-Secret deal
	-Thieu
	-Publication of terms
	-Kissinger press conference
	-Review of peace process
	-Timetable
	-Withdrawal
	-Government
	-Ceasefire
	-Eight point plan
	-US proposal
	-Terms
		-Unilateral withdrawal
	-Surrender
		-Deadline
	-Return of POWs
	-Overthrow of government
	-South Vietnamese people
	-US reaction
-Agnew
-Attitude
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
	-Separation of military and political issues
		-Clarity
-Demeanor
-Support for the President
	-Kissinger’s comment to Bryce N. Harlow
-Congressional meeting
	-Budget meeting
	-Possible approach to the President or Kissinger
-Effects
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Troop withdrawal for ceasefire and POWs or political issues
-January 25, 1972 meeting
-Agnew stance
	-Ceasefire
		-Effects
-North Vietnamese ceasefire terms
-Troop withdrawal
-Administration offer
	-Troop withdrawal for POWs
	-May 31, 1971 negotiations
		-Political proposal
-Indication of weakness
-Laos and Cambodia
-South Vietnam
-Bombing
-US aid to Thieu
-North Vietnamese thinking
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
	-POWs
-Administration defense
	-Kissinger
	-Rogers
	-Agnew
-Analogy to the President vis-à-vis Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Football analogy
-Support for US proposals
-Agnew
	-Compared to Congress
-Congress
-Scott and Ford
	-Meeting with Kissinger in Ziegler’s office
-Press conference
	-Ziegler
	-Preparation by Kissinger
-Kalb
	-Possible interview with Kissinger

	The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC

	Press conference
		-Ziegler

Kissinger left at 10:57 am.

-Timing
	-Ziegler

Public support for peace proposals
-Mail
			-Quotes from Winston-Salem; Maryland; New York; Birmingham; Philadelphia; Connecticut; Searsdale; Texas; Amherst; Columbia, South Carolina; Arlington, Texas; Wichita; La Grange Park, Illinois
	-Frank L. Rizzo
	-William A. Rago [?]
	-Maureen Mullen [?] of Brooklyn
	-Religious and minority groups
	-Judge William Garbose of Massachusetts
	-Mrs. Joseph Patrick Kennedy of Winnipeg
	-Generation of peace, Adelphi [?], Illinois

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:57 am.

Biesheuvel meeting
-Schedule
-Protocol
	-Baron Rijnhard B. Van Lynden

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:02 am.

PRC trip
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Herbert G. Klein
	-Domestic matters
		-Domestic Council
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union

Haldeman left at 11:02 am.

Biesheuvel, Middendorf, and Haig entered at 11:02 am; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions
-Seating arrangements
-Photographs

	Biesheuvel’s schedule
		-Antilles and Surinam

	[Photograph session]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:02 am.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:20 am.

Travel
-Indonesia
-India
-Indonesia
	-The President’s visits

Colonial legacy
	-Jakarta, Indonesia
	-Education
-The president’s conversation with Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto
-Antilles
-Retention of influence
-African and Caribbean nations
-Nassau, Bahamas
	-Soviet Union
	-British withdrawal
	-Tourism
	-Transition pace
-Indonesia
	-Relations with the Netherlands
		-Brink of war in early 1960’s
		-West Iran (West New Guinea)
	-Suharto
	-Inflation
	-Progress
-Possible visit by Biesheuvel
	-Dutch professionals
	-Suharto
		-Sukarno
	-Indonesian revolution
	-State visit by Queen Juliana, 1971
		-Students
	-Suharto
-US position in Pacific area
-Edward R. G. Heath
	-Singapore
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-West Germany
	-Relations with Japan
-The Netherlands’ role in world
	-European community
	-Inter-government committee
		-Financial aid to Indonesia
-Japan’s role in world
-Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia
-Indonesia
	-Population
	-Geography
	-Natural resources
	-Java
		-Population
			-Jakarta
-Indonesia
The Netherlands relations with the Pacific area
-Surinam and Antilles
	-Role
		-Kingdom of the Netherlands
	-Foreign policy and defense
-United Nations [UN]
	-Small nations
-Antilles
	-Geography
	-English-speakers
	-Venezuela
		-Aruba
			-Oil
	-Defense
-Autonomy
	-Preparation for independence
	-African nations
-The President’s previous trip around the world in 1953
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-The president’s meeting with Winston Churchill in 1958
	-Autonomy
	-Great Britain’s experience

Common market
-National sovereignty
-Great Britain
-France
-Economics
-International trade
		-Political cooperation
-Use of economic power
-Effects
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

	Power centers
-Brazil
-Africa
-Asia
	-Indonesia
-US
-Europe
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Japan
-Coexistence with PRC, Soviet Union
	-Philosophical differences
-Europe, Japan, US
	-Productivity
		-Compared to Communists
-Monetary system, trade
-Security
-Japan
	-Economic power
	-Military
		-World War II
	-Reassurances by US, Europe
		-Treaty commitment
		-Nuclear deterrent
		-PRC, Soviet Union

Europe
-NATO
-West Germany
-Forces
-Unilateral reduction
	-Soviet Union and Warsaw pact
-Sense of belonging
-West Germany
	-Soviet Union
		-East Germany
	-Willy Brandt
	-Kurt Kiesinger
	-Great Britain
	-Ostpolitik
-Unity
-Konrad Adenauer
-Alcide de Gasperi
-Robert Schumann
-Biesheuvel’s experience
-The Netherlands’ role
	-World affairs

	Common Market
		-Statement
		-US role
			-Protectionism
-Economic prospects
-Britain
	-Heath
-Pompidou
-Compared to previous one
-Rotterdam
	-Perception of market
	-Wars
		-Manufacturing

Attendance of ambassador
	-Protocol

	Rotterdam
		-Exports
			-Compared to New York
			-Common Market
				-Trade
					-West Germany

Van Lynden entered at 11:25 am.

	Greetings

World affairs
-US protectionist sentiment
-US intentions
	-Outward look
-Reaction to possible European protectionism
	-Japan
-Europe, US, Canada, Japan cooperation
-Security
-Competition
-Monetary matters
	-Group of Ten
-Japan
-The President’s talks with Heath, Brandt, Pompidou [?]
-Group of Ten
-Beliefs
	-Compared to western world
		-Economic self-interest
-Political cooperation
	-World War II
-[Emperor of Japan[ Hirohito
	-Visit
-Contributions
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Productivity
	-World War II
-Tanker purchase by Dutch
	-Oil companies
		-Dutch-Shell
-US economic power
-The President’s trip preparation for trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Meetings with European leaders
-Italy
-Italy	
	-Government
		-Emilio Colombo
		-French constitutionalism
-Latin countries
	-Italy, France, Spain
-French Constitution
-Fragmentation
-France
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
	-Political unity
-Communist Party
-De Gasperi
-Meeting with Biesheuvel
-Benefits
-NATO
	-Netherlands as an ally
		-Public opinion
	-Joseph M.A.H. Luns
		-Manlio Brosio

The President’s forthcoming trips to the PRC and Soviet Union
-Difference between trips
-Enmities
	-US position vis-à-vis PRC and Soviet Union
	-Soviet Union relations with PRC
	-PRC
		-Japan
			-US, Soviet Union

	PRC trip
-US intentions
-Contact
	-Prospects of recognition
		-Taiwan, Republic of China
		-US treaty commitments
-Benefits
	-Communication
	-Reduction of chance of confrontation
		-Korea
		-Vietnam
		-PRC nuclear power
-PRC power
-Population
-Japan
-US pacific responsibilities
-Gulf in philosophies between US and PRC
-Need to bridge gap
	-Nuclear weapons
-Nuclear weapons in PRC

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	-Prospects
-Soviet reaction to PRC trip
-Paranoia
-Bilateralism
-PRC’s relationships
-Isolationism
-Soviet Union
	-Hostile border
-US
	-Korea
	-Vietnam
-Japan
-India
-Rivalry with US, Soviet Union

Defense spending
-Biesheuvel’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Effect on Europe
-The Netherlands
	-Increase in 1972
-NATO
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Alternative uses
	-Ghettoes

Soviet Union trip
-Substantive nature
-US relations with Soviet Union
-Relations
-Difference
-Trade
-Middle East
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Europe
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Arms limitation
-SALT
	-Briefing of NATO countries
	-US commitment to NATO
	-Scope
-Familiarity
	-Problems and benefits
	-Pragmatism
	-The President’s background
-European discussions
-European security conference
-Rogers
-Timing
-Bilateral discussions
-Benefits
-Views
-Italy

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:25 am.

	Rogers’s arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:02 pm.

-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Soviet intentions
-US view
-Need for security
	-Germany
	-NATO
	-Defense budgets
-Soviet aims
-Germany
-Loosening of Europe’s ties with US
-MBFR
	-Timing
	-Linkage to European Security Conference
		-US caution
	-Agreement among allies
		-Brosio
	-Danger of linkage to European Security Conference
-Cultural component
-Agenda
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Likelihood
-Eastern Europeans
-The President’s previous travles
	-Poles, Romanians, Hungarians, Czechoslovakians
-Agenda
-Possible benefits
	-Communication, trade, security
-Germany
-Italy
-Brandt
	-Ostpolitik
-Rogers
-Gromyko
-MBFR
	-Rogers
	-Gromyko
	-Search for formula
		-Dutch domestic situation
			-Multilateralism
		-NATO
-Need for caution
-Timing

	Forthcoming European meeting on monetary matters
		-Timing
-Possible location
-The Hague
	-World Court
			-Europe’s relationship with Communist nations, Japan
			-Possible locations
-Rivalries
-London, Paris, Bonn, Rome
-Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg
-The Hague
-Belgium

	The President’s schedule
		-Biesheuvel
			-Schedule
		-PRC and Soviet Union trips

State dinner, January 25, 1972
-Van Lynden
-Rogers
-The president’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Location
	-Oval Office
-Preparation
	-Drafts
		-Idiom
-Michael J. Mansfield
	-Rogers
-Rogers
	-Talk with the President
		-Biesheuvel’s interest in television
-Mass media impact on politics
-Dutch cabinet sessions
-Reporting
	-Interviews

Dutch television
	-State involvement
		-Broadcasting companies

Vietnam
-The President’s peace proposal plan
	-Possible reaction in Europe
-Elections
	-Thieu offer of resignation
	-International oversight
-North Vietnamese reaction
-Possible North Vietnamese military action
	-South Vietnam
		-US aid
-North Vietnam
	-Analogy to North Korea
-Peace proposal plan
-US troop withdrawal
	-Political agreement
-US aid to South Vietnam
-Soviet and PRC aid to North Vietnam
		-Political agreement

Biesheuvel’s schedule

	Briefcase

The President, et al. left at 12:02 pm.

Conversation No. 656-11

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:02 pm and 12:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown agents left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.

Conversation No. 656-12

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  12:05 pm - 12:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and J. William Middendorf, II.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Middendorf plans
-Retirement
-Jerry [Surname unknown]
		-Middendorf’s loan of painting [Washington crossing the Delaware] in Roosevelt Room
-William P. Rogers
-Replacement

Announcement of resignation
	-Timing
		-Maurice H. Stans and Jerry [Surname unknown]

US-Dutch relations

Presentation of gifts
	-Money clip

Middendorf and Haig left at 12:08 pm.

Conversation No. 656-13

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  12:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator and requested a call to Ronald W. Reagan.

[Conversation No. 656-13A]

[See Conversation No. 19-97]

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at 12:09 pm.

Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule

Bull left at 12:11 pm.

Conversation No. 656-14

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:09 pm and 12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s schedule
	-Board of trustees meeting

Butterfield left at 12:12 pm.

Conversation No. 656-15

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator and requested a call to Cornelius A. Scott.

[See Conversation No. 19-98]

Conversation No. 656-16

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:12 pm and 12:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Schedule
-Items for signature
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
	-Butterfield’s view
	-North Vietnamese
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

Conversation No. 656-17

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  12:14 pm - 12:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President’s schedule
	-Recent meeting with Barend W. Biesheuvel

Woods’s schedule

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	Speeches
		-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal, January 25, 1972
-Woods’ conversation with Joseph Woods
-Length
		-Preparation
-Possible story
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Editing

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[The President talked with Cornelius A. Scott at an unknown time between 12:14 pm and 12:22 pm.]

[Conversation No. 656-17A]

[See Conversation Nos. 19-99 and 19-100; one item have been withdrawn from 19-100]

[End of telephone conversation]

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The President’s schedule
-Telephone calls
-Wiley T. and Mrs. Buchanan
-Murray M. and Nancy Chotiner
	-Family
-Possible note to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-John W. McCormack
-Wife’s death
-Possible overnight stay at White House
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger
-Letter from John J. McCloy
	-Advisor to Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament
-Judge G. Harrold Carswell
-Thank you note
-Dan L. Beebe
	-Letter
	-Editorials
	-Correspondence
-Visits by friends
-Mrs. Olive Marshburn
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s wedding
-Church services
-Kennedy Center tickets

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:22 pm.

			-White House tour
			-Western White House
			-Herbert W. Kalmbach

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	White House gifts
		-Paperweight
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John R. (“Tex”) McCrary
-Box
	-Thomas A. Pappas
	-Greek Orthodox Church head

	White House dinner for DeWitt Wallace, January 28, 1972
		-Guest list
			-Pappas
			-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Emil (“Bus”) and Patricia R. Mosbacher
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Edward W. Brooke
-John J. Rhodes

Woods left at 12:25 pm.

Kissinger briefing
-Quality
-Outline
	-Clarity, feeling
-The President’s letter
-Television coverage
-Still photographs
-The President’s communications
-US intentions
		-Recap of the President’s position outlined in Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Negotiation progress
-Duration
-Details of secret negotiations on Vietnam
-Comment by J. William Middendorf, II [?]
-Helen A. Thomas
-Travel
	-Airplanes and airports
	-July 1971
		-PRC

Kissinger entered at 12:27 pm.

	-New York Times editorial
		-Hanoi
-Duration
-Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford meeting with press
-Exchange of Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Cease-fire
-Cease-fire
-US position
-George S. McGovern
-Overthrow of Nguyen Van Thieu
	-US aid
-Confidentiality of channel
-Effect
-India-Pakistan War
-Truthfulness of administration
-Relations to other governments
	-PRC
-Eight point proposal
	-Compared to nine point proposal
		Reparations

Woods entered at 12:32 pm.

Gift from head of Greek Orthodox Church
	-Greek junta
	-Catholics
-Mrs. Nixon
	-Catholics
-Value
-Disposition
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Pappas
	-“Handling” of gifts

Woods left at 12:34 pm.

Kissinger’s briefing
-Tone of questions
-The President’s point at congressional leaders meeting
	-North Vietnam’s war aims
		-Overthrow of South Vietnam government
	-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
	-John F. Kennedy
		-Initial involvement in war
	-McGovern opposition
	-Reason for criticism
-Nature of proposal
-Complications
-Reasons
	-North Vietnamese outline
		-Compared to US proposals
			-POWs, ceasefire, withdrawal
		-Political components
	-Pace of negotiations progress
-Reason for criticism
-Critics of administration’s policy
-The President’s April 7, 1971 speech
	-Kissinger’s briefing
-Tone
-Politics
-Timing of publicity
	-Scott
	-Peter Lisagor
	-David Kraslow
-Domestic politics
		-The President’s meeting with congressional leaders
-Mansfield amendment
	-Effect on negotiations
-New developments in negotiations
	-Publicity
-Thieu resignation
-Nature of governments
-Timing of the President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
	-North Vietnamese offensive
		-Possible effect
			-December 1971
-Congress
-Need for unity
	-Release of terms
-Difference in proposals
-Nine points
	-Compared to seven points
	-Cease-fire provision
-Cease-fire in principle
-Eight points
	-Disputes
	-Withdrawal
		-Deadline
	-Overthrow of Thieu
	-Installation of North Vietnam allied government
		-US support
-Political aspects
-US view toward particular governments
	-August 16, 1971 proposal
-Thieu resignation
-Electoral commission
	-Formation
-Press reaction

Legislative leaders meeting
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s demeanor
-Ziegler’s schedule
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
	-Terms
		-Timeline
	-Clarity

Agnew
-Objections to administration’s proposals
	-Staff briefing comments
		-Withdrawal and ceasefire
-Leak of proposals

	Kissinger’s briefing
-Reading of secret notes of Vietnamese meetings
-Purpose
-Folders
-Speeches

Public relations
-Kissinger’s talks with Ziegler and the President
-Press
-Congress
-Vietnamese
-Kissinger telephone call
-Brian MacDonald
-Fast in LaFayette Park
-Background
-Reaction to proposals
	-Possible statement
-Death of wife, Alice MacDonald
-Ziegler telephone call
-[Forename unknown] Marino [sp?] of St. Joseph’s College
	-Reaction to proposals
	-Voting record
-Administration strategy
-PRC trip
-Kissinger briefing
	-Effect on McGovern
	-Effort toward unity
-Press coverage
-New York Times
-Scott and Ford
-Scott’s comment about surrender
		-Attack on liberals
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
	-Roger H. Mudd
	-Brooke
	-Statement
		-Mudd
	-The President’s State of the Union address
-Influence
-Previous evening’s speech
-Length
-Delivery
-Pace
-Tone
-John A. Scali
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Charles W. Colson’s group
-Reaction to criticism
-William P. Rogers
-New proposals
-US stance
-Congressional leadership meeting

Ziegler left at 12:56 pm.

-Kissinger’s briefing
	-Ziegler’s view
-Peaceniks
-Administration reaction
-Kissinger’s briefing, January 26, 1972
-Television coverage
-Radio
-Extemporaneous speech
	-Effect of television
-Text of proposals

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:56 pm.

Return telephone call from Ronald W. Reagan

Butterfield and Kissinger left at 12:57 pm.

Conversation No. 656-18

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  12:57 pm - 1:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Ronald W. Reagan.

[See Conversation No. 19-101]

Conversation No. 656-19

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 pm and 1:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Instruction about picking-up unknown item

The President and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:58 pm.

Conversation No. 656-20

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 pm and 1:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Henry A. Kissinger briefing
-Preparation for briefing book
	-Questions and answers [Q&A]
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Distribution of Q&A
	-Congressman, senators, press

Conversation No. 656-21

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 pm and 1:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

Schedule
-John B. Connally

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 1:58 pm.

Conversation No. 656-22

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 pmand 1:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator and requested a call to Peter J. Pitchess.

[See Conversation No. 19-102]

Conversation No. 656-23

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 pm and 1:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator and requested a call to M. Gene Snyder.

[See Conversation No. 19-103]

Conversation No. 656-24

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  1:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversations No. 19-105]

Conversation No. 656-25

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  2:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator and requested a call to Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 19-106]

Conversation No. 656-26

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  2:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-John B. Connally

Bull left at 2:00 pm.

Conversation No. 656-27

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally.

Greetings

Agenda for forthcoming meeting
	-International monetary situation
	-Quadriad
	-Budget
		-Deficits
	-Inflation
	-Unemployment
	-Forthcoming report

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:00 pm and 2:02 pm.]

[Conversation No. 656-27A]

The President’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

	Trade

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:00 pm and 2:02 pm.]

[Conversation No. 656-27B]

Request to hold all telephone calls

[End of telephone conversation]

	Connally’s schedule

Arthur F. Burns, George P. Shultz, and Herbert Stein entered at 2:02 pm; Stephen B. Bull and Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins were present at the beginning of this meeting.

Greetings

Photographs

[Pause]
	-Agenda

The President’s speech of January 25, 1972
-Connally’s telephone call to Henry A. Kissinger
-Charles W. Colson’s request of Shultz to call Clark Kerr
	-Colson’s talk with the President and Kissinger
	-Kerr’s possible public statement
		-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
	-Kerr’s previous comments about the President’s unknown speech

Kerr’s activities
	-Vietnam committee
		-Ceasefire
		-Political orientation

Economic problems
-Stein’s memorandum
-Budget
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-International monetary affairs
-Economic forecast
-Congressional leadership meeting
-Federal spending
	-Increases
	-Revenue sharing
-Drop in economic indicators
-Drop in retail sales
	-Reasons
	-Commerce Department
	-Automobiles
	-Durable orders
		-Steel
	-Home building
-M-1
-Gross National Product [GNP]
			-Expansionist fiscal policy
-Reaction
	-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD]
	-France’s concern
-Wage and price controls
-Performance
-Dock strike
	-Impact
-Settlement
-Upward movement of economy
-Retail sales
	-Seasonal adjustments
-Monthly figures
-Indications
-Projected rise
-Business
-Possible cyclical recovery
	-1971 indicators
		-Contracts
		-Orders for capital equipment
		-Capital expenditure appropriations
		-Durable goods
	-GNP
	-Retail figures
	-Wall Street Journal survey of retailers
		-Sears-Roebuck, unknown stores
		-Christmas sales
		-Commerce Department figures
	-Labor market indicators
		-Increased work week
		-Unemployment and employment
			-Prices
			-Housing starts
	-Leading economic indicators
		-Forthcoming report
		-Revision
-Stein’s view
	-Compared to Burns’s and Connally
-Public expectations
-Manufacturing layoffs compared to new hiring
	-1969
-Federal spending
		-Unemployment
			-Connally’s forthcoming study
				-Cabinet meeting
				-Stein’s office
				-Commerce Department
				-James D. Hodgson
				-Identifying the unemployed
					-Household heads
					-Women
					-Multi-jobs
					-Eighteen year olds
				-Timing
	-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
	-Development
		-Common sources
		-Survey
			-Statistics
				-Revision
					-1967
				-Survey question
					-Phrasing

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:02 pm.

Unknown matter

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:26 pm.

Economy
-Wording of unemployment studies
-Effects
-Statistical experts
	-Politics

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:26 pm.

Photograph session
	-Quadriad meeting
		-Novelty
		-Congressional leadership meeting
		-Business magazines

Ziegler left at 2:27 pm.

Economy
	-Budget
-Federal spending
-Gerald R. Ford
	-Note to the President
		-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
		-Unused money
			-George W. Romney
			-Queens, Forrest Hills
		-Check by administration
			-Housing
-Inner city public housing
-Forthcoming testimony by unknown person
	-Camp David
-Water and sewer spending
-Press perception of administration
	-Withholding and dumping funds
		-1972 election
			-Withholding funds
				-Deficits
				-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Spending ceiling
-OMB pressure on departments
-Timing
-Effect on economy
-Spending ceiling
-1973
-Congress
-Intentions
-Spending ceiling
-Defense spending
	-GNP
	-Employment
-Past record
	-1969, 1970
-Decline
-Trends
-Rates
-Domestic agencies
-Fiscal management
	-Compared to Defense Department
	-Information technology
		-Rolling budget system
			-OMB effort
	-Record keeping
	-Treasury Department
	-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Concerns for upcoming budget
-Deficit
-Handling
	-Inflation
	-Shultz’s and Connally’s comments at briefing
		-Employment
		-Economic expansion
	-Fiscal year [FY] 1973 budget
	-Spending ceiling
	-FY 1974 budget
-Spending ceiling
-Probability of cuts
	-Defense
	-Domestic programs
			-Congressional intentions
			-Edmund S. Muskie
			-Edward M. Kennedy
			-Largesse
			-FY 1975
-Congressional actions
-Shultz’s efforts
-Departments
-Revenue sharing
-Revenue sharing
-Benefits
	-State and local spending
-Ways and Means Committee action
	-Hearings
	-Timing
		-House of Representatives
		-State and local action
-Shift from FY 1972 to FY 1973
-Effect
-Construction projects
-Welfare payments
	-States
-Revenue sharing
-Rate of expenditure
-Defense contracts
	-Employment
-Congressional action
-Timing of administration proposals
-FY 1972
	-Cabinet
		-Recent meeting
		-Budget responsibilities
		-Unknown Defense Department official
-Money supply
-M-1
	-Ability to control
	-Reserve control
	-Individual decisions
		-Checking accounts
		-Interest bearing accounts
-Rates of increase
-M-1
-M-2
-Savings deposits
-Certificates of deposit [CDs]
			-Individual decisions
				-Liquid assets
					-Form
-Commercial bank reserves
-Administration action
	-Reaction
-New York Federal Reserve bank management
	-Burns’s possible action
	-Manager’s activities
-Administration links
-FRB system
-Management personnel
	-Salaries
	-Burns’s possible action
	-The President’s possible action
		-Andrew F. Brimmer

Brimmer
	-United Nations [UN]
	-Under Secretary General
		-[Kurt Waldheim]
		-Dr. Ralph Bunche
		-Request of Burns to call William P. Rogers
			-Possible ambassadorship

International economic situation
-Trade negotiations
	-Status
-European agreement
-Substance
	-Preferential treatments
-Citrus
-Tobacco
-Grain (wheat, barley)
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Pricing
	-France
	-Italy
		-Citrus, tobacco
			-France
-Japan
-Tariffs
-Soybeans
	-Sales value
-Beef
-Wheat
-Citrus
	-Oranges
-US concessions
-Canada
-Status
-Politics
	-1973, 1972
-US strategy
	-Possible unilateral action
	-Possible termination of automobile agreement
	-Tourism
	-Possible repeal of unknown act
-The President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
	-Substance
	-State and Commerce Departments
	-Pierre E. Trudeau
	-Timing
	-Trudeau’s visits with Soviets
-Benefits
-Possible reconsideration
	-Kissinger
-France
-US responsibility
	-Budget deficits
	-European central bankers
		-US stance on International Monetary Fund [IMF]
			-Convertibility
			-Paul A. Volcker, Bill Dale [?]
			-Moratorium
-Ghana
-Methods of payment
	-Dutch guilders
	-Belgian francs
				-US negotiating position
				-Effect on central bankers
				-Great Britain
-Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
-West Germany
-International confidence
	-US budget
-The President’s message to Congress
-Connally’s action on debt
		-Trade
			-Surplus
				-Great Britain
				-Japan
					-Revaluation
		-US
			-Competitive position
				-Administrative, tariff barriers
			-Trade deficits
				-Expectations
		-Common Market
			-Preferential trade ties
			-Power
		-Convertibility
			-Feasibility
			-US trade policy
		-Japanese decisions
		-Canadian decisions
		-[Common Market]
		-Canada
			-US strategy
-The President’s possible meeting with Connally, Kissinger, Rogers
-Backchannels
-State Department
	-Attitude
-Need for consistency
-Trudeau
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Dinner
		-Convertibility
			-Banking
			-Need for new plan
			-Exchange markets
			-Smithsonian Agreement
			-Gold
				-Legislation
			-Trade negotiations
		-Fiscal and monetary policy
			-Location of money
			-Quantity of money
				-Customers
		-US business confidence
			-Damage since 1965
				-Vietnam
				-Riots
			-Rebuilding
				-Time required
		-Gold bill
			-Debt ceiling
			-Revenue sharing
			-Timing
				-Trade negotiations
		-Need for confidence by bankers
			-Conally’s possible talks

	The President’s schedule
		-Quadriad meetings
			-Frequency
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
			-Timing

	Ziegler
-Photograph session

Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:27 pm.

	Photograph session

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:20 pm.

The Netherlands
	-Dutch Prime Minister [Barend W. Biesheuvel]
		-Recent meeting with the President
		-Travel to Indonesia
			-State visit by Queen [Juliana]
-Relations with Indonesia
-The President’s 1953 trip
	-Dutch tourists
-Colonial legacy
	-School, health systems, language, cultural ties

	Africa
		-US relations
		-Colonial powers
			-British, Dutch

Ziegler and members of the press entered at an unknown time after 2:27 pm.

[Photograph session]
	-[General conversation]

Ziegler, et al. left at an unknown time before 3:20 pm.

Brazil
	-Compared to the US
	-Alaska
-Natural resources
	-Climate
	-Compared to US Midwest
-Prospects
	-Population
-Portugese
-Government
-The President’s previous conversation with Biesheuvel
	-Latin needs
	-French constitution
	-Strong leaders
-Italians
-Spain
-Gen. Francisco Franco
-Latin government
-Need for moderation, balance
			-French
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Contributions
	-National spirit
	-Presidency
		-Parties
-Needs
-State Department
	-US constitutional model

The President’s telephone call to Wilbur D. Mills, January 24, 1972
-Health
	-Mills’s schedule
-Mother [Abbie L. (Daigh) Mills]
-Granddaughter

Connally, et al. left at 3:20 pm.

Conversation No. 656-28

Date:  January 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:20 pm and 3:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman[?].

Schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 656-29

Date:  Jaunary 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:20 pm and 3:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The President and Sanchez left at 3:23 pm.

Conversation No. 656-30

Date:  Jaunary 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:23 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] entered at an unknown time after 3:23 pm.

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

An agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 3:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 656-30A]

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[Duration:  6s  ]

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	The President’s location
		-EOB

[End of telephone conversation]

An agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 3:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 656-30B]

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[End of telephone conversation]