Conversation No. 658-1

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 8:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Temperature in office

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:50 am.

Conversation No. 658-2

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 8:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Schedule
-Medal of Freedom citations
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-John K. Andrews, Jr.

Funeral of Carl T. Hayden
-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Representation of the President

Butterfield left at 8:50 am.

Conversation No. 658-3

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  9:10 am - 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Recent press conference
	-Schedule
-Opposition
-Clark M. Clifford
-Unknown person’s comment
-Ceasefire
-Terms
-Reaction by the North Vietnamese
-George S. McGovern
-Nguyen Van Thieu overthrow
-Kissinger’s recent briefing

Middle East
-Rogers view
-Airplane delivery
-Haldeman’s talk with Rogers
	-Political signals
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Schedule of delivery
-Israeli view
-Kissinger’s view
-Memorandum
-Problems
	-Sisco
		-Bargaining chip
-Bargaining chip
-The President’s conversation with Golda Meir
-Israeli’s conferences with Arab nations

-Timing
-US participation
-Anwar El-Sadat participation
-Student uprisings
-US strategy
-Use of conferences
	-Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s view
-Haldeman’s briefing
-Rogers
-Overreaction
-Plane deal

	Media conference by Rogers
-Kissinger
-Television
-John A. Scali’s skill
-Kissinger
	-Scali
	-Clark MacGregor
	-View of questions

Dinner, January 26, 1972
-The President’s telephone call to Kissinger during dinner
	-The President’s talk with Kissinger
-Effect
	-Impression
		-Tape
-News coverage
		-The President’s possible presence
-John D. Ehrlichman’s view
-Gridiron-type dinners
	-Women’s view
-Frank F. Church’s comments
-Kissinger’s comments
	-Paul W. Keyes
	-Delivery
		-Accent
-Church comments
-Kissinger references
	-Forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
		-Kissinger’s comments
-Protocol

Forthcoming dinners
-Gridiron
-Attendance
-Herbert G. Klein
-Edgar Allan Poe
-Barry M. Goldwater
-White House photographers
-White House correspondents
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Gridiron
	-Poe
		-Loyalty
	-Previous dinners
	-Democrats’ behavior
	-Press relations
-The President’s attendance
-Drop-in appearance
-Poe
-Show
Rogers’s briefing

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:10 am.

-Timing

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:30 am.

Kissinger’s recent press conference
-Advisability
-Television appearance
-Pros and cons
-Necessity
-Rogers
-Impression of Kissinger
-Public perception
	-Bryce N. Harlow’s view
	-Television
-Press coverage
-John B. Connally
-Kissinger delivery
-Pros and cons of television appearances
	-Direct answers
		-Compared to the President

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:10 am.

Rogers
-Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:30 am.

-Kissinger
	-Vietnam
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

	Oval Office
		-Position of sun

Agnew
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Criticism of administration policy
	-Congressional leaders meeting
-Input to policy making
-Role with administration
-Congressional relations
-Harlow
-Agnew’s view
-Presiding over the Senate
-The President’s experience
-Vice President’s job
-Outlook
-Associates
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John Birch Society members
-Republican Governors Dinner
-Attendance
-White House staff
-Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Cabinet
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-White House staff compared to Cabinet
-Rogers

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:10 am.

Unknown request

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:30 am.

Personnel management
	-Partisanship
-Unknown person
	-Transfer
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Senate action on equal opportunity bill
-The President’s memorandum to Ehrlichman
	-House of Representatives
-Possible veto
-Radicals
-Rev. Theodore S. Hesburgh Commission
-Business harassment
-Black reaction
	-Votes
-Leonard Garment
-William L. Safire
-Ehrlichman
-MacGregor
-Possible veto
-Compared to 18 year old vote amendment
-Liberals
-Frank L. Rizzo

The President’s schedule
-Graham A. Martin meeting
-Kissinger’s view
-Future meetings with members of Foreign Service officers, prime ministers
-Reasons for Martin meeting
	-Vietnam
		-Presidential elections

Kissinger entered at 9:30 am.

Dinner, January 26, 1972
-Telephone call from the President
-Church comments
-PRC trip
-Herbert J. (“Jackie”) Gleason
-Keyes
-Partisanship
-Crowd reaction
-Kissinger’s theme
-Call for national unity
-Art Buchwald
	-Today show
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news

Distribution of Questions and Answers [Q&A] sheet
-Completion
-Distribution
	-Rogers
	-Timing
	-MacGregor
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s telephone call to Theodore L. Elliott
-Briefing
-State Department responsibility
	-Haldeman’s talk with Rogers

Kissinger’s recent press conference
-Television
-Media coverage
-Rogers briefings
	-Compared to Kissinger’s

Vietnam
-Ceasefire demand
-Clifford’s proposal
-North Vietnamese position
	-Point Seven
	-Kissinger’s briefings
		-Timing of ceasefire
			-Settlement
-Accuracy of criticism
-Administration rebuttal
-Ziegler
-Rogers’s responsibility
-Telephone call from Kissinger
-News summary
-Part in overall plan
	-North Vietnamese position
-Edward M. Kennedy attack
-Prisoners of War [POW] return for withdrawal
-Rogers’s possible rebuttal
	-Ceasefire
-North Vietnamese position
	-US proposal of May 31, 1971
-Rogers’s possible rebuttal
-Ziegler
-US offers
-Negotiating tactics
-New York Times editorial
-Washington Post article
	-Inaccuracy
		-Current proposal
		-Compared to October 7, 1970
			-Nguyen Van Thieu
			-Ceasefire
				-Timing
			-Electoral commission
			-Deadline
			-Mutual withdrawal
				-Compared to unilateral withdrawal
-Possible letter to Washington Post
-Authorship
-State compared to Kissinger
	-Rogers
	-Marshall Green
	-Kissinger’s preparation
-Content
-Administration initiative
-Washington Post
-Alternative to the Washington Post
-Washington Star editorial
-Smith Hempstone, Jr.
-New York Times
-Editorials
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Representation on PRC trip
	-Consequences of invitation

Reporters on PRC trip
-Ziegler effort
-The President’s friends
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Exclusion of Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Hugh S. Sidey
-United Press International [UPI], Associated Press [AP]
-Instruction for Ziegler
-Instruction for Ziegler
	-Unknown reporter
	-Marquis Childs
	-Washington Post’s policy
	-Notification of reporters
	-The President’s approval of list
-Criticism
	-Fairness
-Television
-Exclusion of Washington Post
-PRC view

Vietnam
-Terms of settlement
-Rogers
-North Vietnamese reaction
	-Request for surrender

PRC
-Interest at dinner, January 26, 1972
	-Washington Post
	-Entertainment
	-Theme
-Soviet Union trip compared to PRC trip
	-Substance

Q&A prepared by Rogers
	-Staff meeting
		-News summaries
-Vietnam ceasefire
-Clifford
-Negotiating point
-Kennedy’s criticism
-North Vietnamese position
-POWs for withdrawal
-Ziegler
-History of proposal
	-Military and political issues
		-Linkage
			-New York Times
-Kissinger’s telephone call to Rogers
	-Forthcoming briefing

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.

List of reporters on PRC trip
-Delivery
-Ziegler
	-Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:52 am.

Vietnam
-Opinion of the President’s program by news community
-January 26, 1972 dinner reception
-The President’s efforts
-Tone
-The President’s efforts
	-The President’s talk with Charles W. Colson, January 26, 1972
		-Colson’s view
-David Brinkley
-James Doyle of the Washington Star
-Unknown captain’s comments
-Sacrifice for POWs
-South Vietnam
	-Communism
-Kennedy
-Possible administration counter-attack
-Attack on Democrats
-Surrender
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Robert J. Dole
-Communism in South Vietnam
-Need for initiative
-Advantages
-Audience size
-Media support
-Hubert H. Humphrey criticism
-Edmund S. Muskie criticism
-Ceasefire terms
	-Negotiating point of North Vietnam
	-Clifford criticism
-Overall plan
	-POWs
-Administration strategy
	-North Vietnam, Vietcong, Democrats
-Nancy (Hanschman) Dickerson
	-Talk with Kissinger at dinner
		-Press

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:52 am.

-Response to Washington Post editorial
-Ziegler
-Marshall Green
-Dictation of letter
-Authorship
	-State Department

Kissinger left at 9:55 am.

Press list for PRC trip
	-Washington Post
			-Stanley Karnow
		-Review

Butterfield left at 9:55 am.

Vietnam
-Kissinger
	-State Department reply to Washington Post editorial
-Haldeman meetings with Colson, Ziegler, Scali
-Analysis of and responses to coverage
	-PRC trip
-Foreign policy line
-Camp David
-Politics and peace
-Administration critics
	-Partisanship
		-POWs
-Written statement
-Buchanan
-Noel C. Koch
	-Colson
-Buchanan
-Lee W. Huebner

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:55 am.

The President’s schedule
-Signing ceremony
	-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
	-Press
		-Announcement
	-Maurice H. Stans

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

-Haldeman’s attention to scheduling
-Bull
-Ziegler

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:52 am.

-Signing ceremony
	-Details of photograph session
	-Time limit
	-Removal of photographers
		-January 26, 1972 event

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:52 am.

-Peter G. Peterson replacement
-Knowledge by Cabinet
	-Notification
-Announcement
-Peter M. Flanigan

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

Vietnam
-Counter to Democratic criticism
	-PRC trip
-Surrender, communism, defeat
-Sustaining attack
-Washington Post 
-Administration supporters
	-Mailings
		-Kissinger
-Public confusion

	Press list for PRC trip

The President and Haldeman left at 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 658-34

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  10:05 am – unknown before 10:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

	[Unintelligible]

The unknown agents left at an unknown time before 10:14 am.

Conversation No. 658-4

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  10:14 am - 10:27 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Dinner, January 26, 1972
-Henry A. Kissinger’s performance
-Frank F. Church’s performance
-Reception of Church’s remarks
-Contrasted with reception of Kissinger’s
		-Audience

The President’s schedule
-Herbert G. Klein
-White House correspondents
-Broadcasters’ dinner

-Gridiron
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Edgar Allan Poe

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:14 am.

-Richard M. Scammon

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:27 am.

Dinner, January 26, 1972
-Kissinger
	-Reception
-Church’s comments
-Forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Convention

Court decision
-Stock case
	-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s conversation with the President
	-Dismissal
	-Details of decision
		-Unknown person
			-International Business Machines [IBM]
	-Press coverage
	-Consistency

Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s trip to Texas
-Reception
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972

Dinner, January 26, 1972
-Feedback on the President’s Vietnam speech
	-Ruth Haggey [?] and husband
	-The President’s sincerity
-Mr. and Mrs. Vance Hartke
-Kissinger’s remarks
	-Church
	-Harvard University
-The President’s call to Kissinger
	-Perception
		-Tape
		-Vera Glazer [?]
-Glazer [?]

Camp David trip

Dewitt Wallace dinner
-Woods
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-White House staff
-Lewis, Wallace
	-Financing of the President’s articles, 1962-1968
		-Trips
-Albert L. Cole

Camp David
-Woods’s schedule
-Renwick Gallery opening
-Preparation for PRC
	-Reading, dictation

Dinner, January 26, 1972
-Kissinger
	-Talk with Woods
	-Outlook

Woods left at 10:27 am.

Conversation No. 658-5

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  10:27 am - 11:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Richard M. Scammon and Charles W. Colson; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

	[Photograph session]

Seating
-Prime Minister of Ghana [Kofi A. Busia]
-Education
-London
-Coup d’etat

Scammon’s book with Ben Wattenberg, The Real Majority (1970)
-Effect
	-1970 election
-Responsibility
	-Soundness of theories
-Marijuana legalization
-John V. Lindsay’s position
-Polls

Politics
-Prohibition Party
-Use of election process
-Robert M. La Follette
-Effect on politics
-Political orientation
-Grover Cleveland
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Progressivism
-Herbert Hoover
-Depression
-Contribution
-History of politics in early twentieth century
-La Follette
	-Compared to Alfred E. Smith
-Historical speculation
	-Theodore Roosevelt
	-Wilson

Book on historical counterfactualism
-Charlotte Corday’s murder of Jean Paul Marat
-J. William Fulbright
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Civil War

Social issues
-Busing
	-Richmond decision
	-Forest Hills
-View of whole country
-Feasibility
-Voting blocks
-Philadelphia
	-Frank L. Rizzo
		-Republican coalition
		-Jewish votes
		-Black votes
-Cleveland
	-Ralph J. Perk
		-Black votes
-Black voting psyche
-Education
	-James M. Carney
-Rizzo
-Difficulties
	-Party identification

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-Perception of the Administration
-Rizzo
	-Law and order
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Tom Bradley
-Liberal views
-Forest Hills
-Jews
-Perception of public
	-Supreme Court
-Presidential action
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Effect
		-Compared to Rizzo
	-Johnson
-Busing
-Housing
-Public wishes
	-Crime
	-Morality
	-Marijuana
	-New York-Washington axis
	-Los Angeles, Chicago
	-Commentators
		-Problems
			-Liberal viewpoints
			-Lack of “guts”
	-Strength of America
	-George Meany
-Busing
	-Milton Viorst
		-Judith Viorst
	-George S. McGovern stance
	-Court decisions
		-Detroit, Richmond
	-Problems
		-Fear of violence
-Public education
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Edward M. Kennedy
-George C. Wallace
-Economic issues
	-Social security
	-Unemployment insurance
	-Government spending
-Individual and group fears
-Ghetto problems
	-Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans
	-California
-Montgomery County, Maryland
-Black residents of Washington, DC
	-Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
		-Sidney Poitier
-Bourgeoisie
-Race relations
	-Social mobility
-Polls
-Busing, crime, housing
	-Economic issues
-Leadership
-Message to Democrats
-Encouragement of strongest elements
-Fitness to rule
-The President’s reading
	-Biography, history
-H.G. Wells
-Nineteenth century Britain
-Wells
	-Importance of education
-History of ruling classes
-Politicians
-Intellectuals
-Use of intellectuals
-College environment
-Elites
	-Fitness to rule
		-Republicans
			-New York, Los Angeles
-Resentments
-Vietnam
-Meany
-Peter J. Brennan
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Intellectual in power
	-Democrats, Republicans
	-Washington Post
	-New York Times
	-Time, Life
	-Networks
	-Consequences
		-Analogy to France
		-Isolationism
	-“Guts”, coverage
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Background
-“Hard hats” compared to intellectuals
-“Know nothings”
-Blacks
-Farmers
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Problem with college graduates
-Scammon’s military experience
-Willingness to fight in war
	-Stamina
-McGovern
	-Programs
-Democratic Party
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
				-Abdication of power
				-Shame
				-Power
-Presidential qualities
-US leadership
-The President’s reading
	-Editorials
		-News summaries
-Ultra-liberals, right-wing
-Prospects of US in world
-US sense of destiny
-Desire to excel
-Effects
			-Compared to other nations
-British
-French
-Dutch
-Danes
-Swedes
-Economy
	-Japan
	-Britain
	-France
	-Japan
	-Chinese, Soviets
	-Governmental system
	-Strength of people
	-West Germany
	-Britain
	-Problems
		-Division
	-Japan
	-Courage
	-Drive
	-Socialists
-Turn inward
	-Consequence
		-Decline
-“Intellectual incest”
-Strength of US
-Majority
-Public perception of issues
-Rejection of permissiveness
-Size of strong elements in population
	-John Wayne
-Qualities of majority
-Religion
-Compared to intellectuals
-Administration strategy
-Doing what is fashionable
	-National Press Club
	-Compared to doing what is right
-Presidential qualities
	-Responsibility
-Appeal to majority

Presentation of gifts
	-Cufflinks

Scammon and Colson left at 11:12 am.

Conversation No. 658-6

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:12 am and 11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Secretary [Maurice H. Stans]

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:13 am.

Conversation No. 658-7

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  11:13 am - 11:24 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Maurice H. Stans.

Stans’s resignation
-Announcement
-The President’s gratitude
-Announcement
	-Stans’s forthcoming role
-Secrecy
-The President’s gratitude
	-Stans’s past support
		-1960 election
		-1962 election
		-1968 election

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Business
	-Support for the Administration

Economy
	-As issue
		-Democrats
	-Retail sales
		-Arthur F. Burns
-General thrust
-Economic indicators
	-Retail sales
		-Stans’s reports
	-Stock market
-Rise in economy
-Unemployment

Stans’s future attendance at meetings
-Legislative leaders
-Robert J. Dole
-Cabinet
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Notification of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Attendees at White House functions
-Dinners
-Rose Mary Woods notification
-Haldeman
-Stans’s talk with Woods

Business problems
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC] decision
-Breakup of breakfast cereal companies
-FTC administrator [Miles W. Kirkpatrick]
-The President’s support for business
-Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. Kennedy
-Perception of business community
-Stans
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Control of commissioners
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Kirkpatrick
-Virginia H. Knauer

Stans’s notes to the President
-Telephone call to be made
-Former head of 3M, Camden Knight
-View of wage and price controls
-Political pressure from right wing
-Foster [?] McGraw [sp ?]
-Birthday greetings

Mike McGill
-Books
-Possible position with administration
	-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Qualifications
-Stans’s possible talk with Flanigan
-Possible ambassadorship

Forthcoming announcement
	-Duration
	-Speaking rules
		-Stans, Peterson, Flanigan
	-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]

Peter G. Peterson, Flanigan, and the photographer entered at 11:20 am.

Forthcoming announcement

Arrangement for photograph session

[Photograph session]
	-[General conversation]
		-Germany

Announcement of appointments
-Protocol
	-Flanigan’s forthcoming position
-The President’s remarks
-Stans’s remarks
-Peterson’s remarks
-Duration
-Content

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:23 am.

Camera
	-Position

The President, et al. left at 11:24 am.

Conversation No. 658-35

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:24 am and 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	The President’s location
		-Press Room

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 658-35A]

	[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 658-8

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-131]

Conversation No. 658-9

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  11:30 am - 11:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Weather

[Signing documents]

The President’s schedule

[The President talked with John B. Connally between 11:32 am and 11:41 am.]

[Conversation No. 658-9A]

[See Conversation No. 19-132; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.

Herbert Stein

	[Signing documents]
		-Ezra Solomon

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:45 am.

J. Willard Marriott
-Request of Butterfield to be liaison
-Honor America Day
-Unknown person

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:41 am.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:45 am.

-Camp David
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Forthcoming meetings

Butterfield left at 11:45 am.

Conversation No. 658-10

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  11:47 am - 1:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Maurice H. Stans
-Loyalty
-Responsibilities
-Preferences in assignments
-Performance
-Previous assignments

George Meany
-Possible telephone call from the President
-Report from Murray M. Chotiner’s source
	-Labor relations with Administration
	-George P. Shultz
	-Charles W. Colson
	-John B. Connally
	-Alleged anti-labor feelings
	-Relations with the President
			-Treatment of the President at union convention in Miami, November 19, 1971
		-Reasons

			-Schedule
			-Meany’s mood
	-Gift from the President
	-Telephone call by the President
	-Meany’s health
	-Reluctance by Meany to initiate call
		-Reason

Colson entered at 11:49 am.

-Shultz
-John F. O’Connell
	-Talk with Meany
		-Meany’s health
-Productivity Commission meeting
	-Treasury Department
-O’Connell
-Meany’s view of administration relations
	-James D. Hodgson, Connally
-Possible telephone call from the President to Meany
-1972 election 
-Budget briefing by Shultz
	-Defense
-Relations right-wing Republicans
-Common views
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Defense
-Communism
-Health
	-Golf
-Administration strategy
-Telephone call from the President
-Shultz briefing

Richard M. Scammon
-Recent meeting with the President
	-Observations
-Qualities
	-Polling
	-Social science
-Compared with Elmo Roper
-Intelligence
-Friendship with Colson
-Political views
-View of meeting with the President
-Intellectuals
	-Domestic Council
-Labor relations
	-Alexander E. Barkan, Meany

Meany strategy
-Attack on administration
-Severity

Scammon
-Recent meeting
-Social issues
	-Perception of Administration action
		-Patrick J. Buchanan
		-Meetings with John D. Ehrlichman
			-Busing
	-Law and order
	-Scatter housing
-Colson's talk with Scammon
		-Democrats
		-Scatter housing
			-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
		-Busing
			-Amendment
		-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Possible George W. Romney resignation

Social issues
-HUD
	-Romney resignation
	-Possible Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger appointment
	-Qualifications
	-Instructions
-Scammon’s arguments
-Quality
-Busing
-White supremacy
	-Richmond decision
-Canada analogy
	-Roman Catholic minority
		-School system
-Parochial schools
	-Tax exemption
		-Connally
-Ehrlichman’s position
-Difficulties
-Washington, DC
-Integration
	-Haldeman’s view
-Colson’s view
	-Background
		-Boston
-Haldeman’s view
-Blacks
	-Administration’s treatment
-Scammon’s views
-Possible paper
-Book, The Real Majority
	-Effect on 1970 election
		-Adlai E. Stevenson III
		-Peter Williams
-Visit with the President
	-Effect on Scammon
	-Reason

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Social issues
	-Perception of administration action
-Haldeman possible conversation with Ehrlichman
	-Need for administration action
-Integration
-Richmond decision
-Court appointments
-Possible administration action
	-Suburbs
-Charlotte-Mecklenberg decision
-HUD, HEW
-Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr.
-Court appointments
-Edward L. Morgan
-Politics
-Attorney General’s [John N. Mitchell] role
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Ehrlichman
-Law compared to politics question
-Amendment possibility
	-Decision of people
		-Scammon’s view
-Effect on other issues
	-Schools, housing
-Authors of Declaration of Independence, Constitution

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Social issues
-Youth group
-White House visit
-Media coverage
-Memoranda
-1972 campaign
-Henry A. Kissinger and Robert H. Finch meeting
-Result
			-White House tour
-Meetings at White House
-The President’s availability
-Kissinger’s availability

Vietnam War issue
-Reaction to the President’s January 25, 1972 speech
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Texas
-Telegrams
	-Favorable
	-Unfavorable
	-Details
-Majority sentiment
-Unfavorable
	-Dr. Carl McIntyre
	-Liberals
		-Surrender
-New York Times story
-John Finney
-Content
	-Republicans
-Democrats’ stand
	-Surrender
-Administration reaction
-Attack on Democrats
	-McCarthyism
	-Communism in South Vietnam
-Administration strategy
-Democrats’ remarks
	-Humphrey, Muskie
	-Statements
	-Wire service coverage
	-Washington Post
	-New York Times

Dinner, January 26, 1972
-Colson’s reaction to the President’s telephone call
-Position of Colson’s table
-Others’ reaction
-Rose Mary Woods
-Tape
-Woods’s action
	-Kissinger
		-Washington Post

The President’s relations with Meany
-Possible telephone call to Meany from the President
	-Meany’s health
	-George P. Shultz meeting
	-Meany support for the President
	-Michael J. Mansfield amendments
	-The President’s appreciation
	-Meany reaction

Social issues
-Effect on administration
-Child care veto, December 10, 1971
-Scammon’s view
-Nationality of social issues
-Possibility
-Federal Government involvement
	-Crime
		-Local problem
	-Education
	-Housing
-Dinner [for DeWitt Wallace], January 28, 1972
-The President’s Reader’s Digest article on Vietnam
-Timing of appearance
	-Speech
-John Wayne’s movies
	-Popularity
-Heckling of Jackson
	-Florida universities
	-Defense spending
	-Perception
		-Accuracy

Edith Efron’s book, The News Twisters (1971)
-Staff
	-1972 campaign
-1968 campaign
-Media coverage
	-Receptions
			-Jackson
-Scammon
-Leonard Garment
-Sales
-Testimony by Efron
	-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. committee
-Testimony
	-Daniel L. Schorr
	-Colson’s schedule
		-Ervin
	-Roman L. Hruska
	-Strom Thurmond
-Viewers
	-Book sellers
	-Book publication
	-Promotion
	-Re-orders
-Compared to Scammon’s book, The Real Majority (1970)
-Efron’s appearance on Today show
-Broadcasters’ view
-Irving Kristol’s article in Fortune

Public relations
-Circulation of information
-Q&A circulation
	-Kissinger’s briefing
-Consistency of line
-William P. Rogers
-Refinement
-Haldeman’s and Colson’s effort
-William L. Safire
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Readability
-Simplification
-Kissinger’s speech draft
	-Negotiating points
-Editing
-Purpose
-Main point
-The President’s efforts for peace
	-North Vietnam’s recalcitrance

Colson left at 12:26 pm.

	The President’s schedule
-Camp David

	Colson
		-Public relations

The President’s schedule
-Announcement of cancer panel
-Administration strategy
-Make-up of panel
-Photograph opportunity
-Details
-Brevity
-Benno C. Schmidt
-Pearl Bailey visit
	-Award
-Elmer H. Bobst
-Timing
	-Oval Office press conference
-Camp David visit
-Reading
-Visit with US attorneys
-Benefits
	-Drug programs
-Benefit of public relations from visits
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Athletes
-News coverage
-Domestic programs
-Reception for athletes
-Attendance
-Preparation
-Governors dinner
-Brevity
-Attendees
-Purpose
-Timing
-Jaycee leadership conference
-The President’s attendance
-Length of conference
-Attendance
-Political considerations
-Location
-Reception
-Volunteers dinner
-Need for brevity
-Long range schedule
-Kissinger’s office, State Department
-Set visits
-State visits
-Nihat Erim of Turkey
-Canada
	-Connally
	-Postponement
	-Trade
		-US retaliation
			-Possible pickets
	-Erim
		-Dinner
		-Duration of visit
-Scheduling strategy
-Open days
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez visit
-Timing
	-Moscow summit
-Television anchormen reception
-George Putnam
-Briefing
-Receiving line
-Photographs
-Attendees
	-Radio disc jockeys
-Benefit
-Timing
-Gridiron dinner
-Edgar A. Poe
-Timing
-California visit
-Timing
-Congressional recess
		-Correspondents’ dinner [?]
-Press attendance
-Writing press
-White House correspondents and photographers, radio and television corespondents
-Overseas visits
-Rogers
	-San Francisco
		-Latin America
-Connally
-Tehran
	-Soviet Union trip

Ambassadorial appointment to Iran
-Rogers’s recommendation
-Walter J. Stoessel, jr.
-Armin H. Meyer
-Herman Idles [?], War College Advisor
-William H. Sullivan
-Kissinger’s recommendation
-Sullivan
-Reasons
	-Southeast Asia
	-Stoessel
-Sullivan
-Meyer
-State Department experience
-Previous experience

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:26 pm.

The President’s schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:03 pm.

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The President’s possible address to black group
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s recommendation
	-Purpose
	-Political possibilities
	-Black feeling for Muskie
	-Busing
		-Black middle class
-Possible forums
	-Editors, publishers
	-United Negro College Fund [UNCF]
		-Whites

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Presidential citizens medal
	-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-History
-Intent
	-Awardees
		-Amputees, medical people, adoption program for Korean children
-Voluntarism
-Awarding
-Public ceremony
-Publicity
-Cabinet officer
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Publicity
	-East Room
-Contrast to Congressional medals

The President’s schedule
-Preparation for PRC trip
-Political staff
	-Instructions to Haldeman
-Harry Dent, Buchanan
-Staff access to the President
-Congressional relations
	-Page Belcher
		-Access to the President
			-Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower
			-Plane trip
				-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
				-Church trip
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Compared to Bryce N. Harlow
	-Telephone calls to Congressmen
		-Birthday greetings
		-Votes
			-Letters

Personnel
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Departure
-Qualities
-Performance as military aide
-Accomplishments as military aide
-Women
-Arrivals
-Interservice competition
-History
	-Delivery of reports
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Contact with dead congressmen’s families
-Transition of power
-Prospects
-Replacement
-New command
-Austin, Texas
-Responsibilities
-Prospects
	-Vietnam
		-Reconnaissance

Butterfield entered at 12:46 pm.

-Herbert G. Klein operation
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Colson

Butterfield left at 12:47 pm.

-Counselor to the President
-Finch
-Arthur F. Burns
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Finch
-Future
	-Congress
	-California
		-Campaigning
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Abolition
-Expansion of Cabinet
-David M. Kennedy
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Richard V. (“Dick”) Allen
-Job preferences
	-Ambassadorship
		-Portugal
			-Klein
-Stoessel
	-European Economic Community [EEC]
		-Brussels
-EEC
-Kennedy, Allen, Robert Strausz-Hupe
-Portugal
-Value to the President’s reelection
-Haldeman’s view
-Foreign policy
-Domestic political impact
-Colson
-National security
	-Responsibilities
		-Political attacks
		-Monitoring opposition
-Post-reelection possibilities
-Stoessel
-Portugal
-Allen’s fears
-Kissinger
-Location
	-White House
		-Colson
	-Campaign organization
-Stoessel
	-1972 election
-EEC
-Connally
-Strausz-Hupe
-Qualifications
-Franklin D. Murphy
	-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]

Haldeman left at 1:03 pm.

Conversation No. 658-11

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:03 pm and 2:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[Unintelligible]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 658-12

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:03 pm and 2:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-133]

Conversation No. 658-13

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:03 pm and 2:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 658-14

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:03 pm and 2:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule

	The President’s schedule
		-Reading

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 658-15

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:10 pm - 2:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Michael J. Mansfield.

[See Conversation No. 19-134]

Conversation No. 658-16

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:17 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-135]

Conversation No. 658-17

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-136]

George Meany’s schedule
-Request for a return call

Conversation No. 658-18

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:20 pm and 2:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-137]

Conversation No. 658-19

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:20 pm and 2:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Photograph opportunities
	-Rate
	-Previous Quadriad photograph
	-Herbert Stein
	-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
	-Bull’s responsibility

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:23 pm.

Conversation No. 658-20

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:23 pm - 2:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Jerry V. Wilson.

[See Conversation No. 19-138]

Conversation No. 658-21

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:24 pm and 2:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-139]

Conversation No. 658-22

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:32 pm - 2:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Peter J. Pitchess.

[See Conversation No. 19-140]

Conversation No. 658-23

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:34 pm and 2:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President.

Telephone call to unknown person cannot be completed
-Meeting
-Urgency

Conversation No. 658-24

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:34 pm and 2:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-141]

Conversation No. 658-25

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:40 pm - 2:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 19-142; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 658-26

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  2:50 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Telephone call to George Meany
-Return of telephone call

Butterfield left at 2:52 pm.

-Trip to Camp David
	-Helicopters
-Photograph opportunities
	-Rate
	-Meeting with Jewish group, January 28, 1972
-Jewish group

Bull left at 2:56 pm.

[The President talked with George Meany between 2:56 pm and 3:00 pm.]

[Conversation No. 658-26A]

[See Conversation No. 19-143]

Conversation No. 658-27

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Conversation No. 658-28

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-144]

Conversation No. 658-29

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  3:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 19-145]

Conversation No. 658-30

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:07 pm and 3:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

George P. Shultz’s schedule
	-Testimony
		-The President’s attempted call
-Message from the President
-The President’s telephone call to George Meany
-Content
-Meany’s reaction
	-Possible meeting with Shultz
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Briefing
-John C. Stennis
-Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
-Collective bargaining
-Meany
	-Compared to business leaders

Conversation No. 658-31

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  3:13 pm - 3:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger’s meeting with newsmen
-Procedure of Vietnam peace talks
	-Kissinger’s trips
	-The President’s involvement
		-Reports
		-Instructions
		-Media-created impression

The President’s schedule
-Camp David

Unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:13 pm.

Refreshment

Unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:28 pm.

The President’s involvement in Vietnam negotiations
-Physical effects
	-State of the Union address, peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Dynamics of creation
-Media interests
-The President telephone conversation with Meany
	-George Meany briefing by Kissinger
-Details of negotiations
-The President’s forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Soviet Union
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Critics of negotiations
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Responses
	-Advocacy of surrender
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Charles W. Colson’s rebuttal
	-Communism in South Vietnam
	-Colson’s rebuttal
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s rebuttal
-Public opinion
-The President’s recent talk with John N. Mitchell
-Congress
-News media
-The President’s peace proposal speech
-Quality
-Delivery
-Impact
-Kissinger briefing
-Impact

Kissinger’s briefings
-Contrasted with the President’s peace proposal speech
-Meany

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Administration accomplishments
-PRC trip
-Soviet Union trip
-Prestige
	-Compared to previous presidents
-Soviet grain deal
-Consistency
-Aggressive rebuttal
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Accepting criticism
-Abuse of President by opponents
-Peace
-Dan Rather
-Bureaucracy

	Vietnam
-Attack by Senators
-Edward M. Kennedy
-John F. Kennedy
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Edward Kennedy’s 1968 peace plan
-Wooster, Ohio
-Details
	-Vietnamization
-Overthrow of Nguyen Van Thieu government
-Recent peace proposal speech
-Reference to overthrow
	-Recent congressional leadership meeting
		-North Vietnamese position
-Attack by opponents
-Overthrow
-Ceasefire
-North Vietnamese desires
	-Negotiating points

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:28 pm.

Schedule

Butterfield left at 3:30 pm.

Vietnam negotiations
-Significance
	-The President’s recent talk with Kissinger
	-Historical context
	-British prime ministers
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Panama Canal
-World War II
	-[Franklin D. Roosevelt]
	-Morality
	-The President’s experience
		-Pacific
			-Rome
		-New York
			-V-J Day
	-London Times
		-Compared to Washington Post
	-Television

US-relations with the PRC and Soviet Union
	-Significance
	-Soviet fears
		-US détente with the PRC
			-Kissinger view
				-The President’s possible talk with Chou En-Lai
					-Return trip to the PRC
		-Soviet summit
		-Timing

	Vietnam
		-The President’s peace proposal speech
			-Lack of national unity
-The President’s part in negotiations
-Post-election strategy
	-Bombing

	The President’s schedule
		-National Security Council [NSC]
-Kissinger schedule
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] meeting
-Melvin R. Laird orders
		-January 31, 1972
			-Announcement

Vietnam
	-Kissinger’s forthcoming talk with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
		-Mitchell
			-Verification panel meeting
		-Pentagon Papers
		-Jack N. Anderson papers
		-Laird
-Story on bombing targets
	-Laird
	-Haldeman
	-Accuracy
		-Military targets
		-Bombing period
		-Bureaucracy

Nixon presidency
-Critics
	-Haldeman’s role
		-White House staff
	-Period since July 1971
	-Response
	-US public
-Legitimacy
-Intellectuals attack 
-Hugh S. Sidey
	-Talk with Kissinger
		-The President’s background
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
	-The President’s background
		-Whittier
	-Kissinger’s background
		-Germany
	-Kissinger’s talk with Sidey
		-Robert F. Kennedy
-Robert Kennedy
-Reasons
	-The President’s independence
-Irrelevance of intellectuals
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Voice of American people
-Democrat prospects
-Kissinger’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-1972, 1976 elections
-Foreign policy comprehension
-Domestic policy
-India-Pakistan War
	-PRC
		-Soviet Union
-Bangladesh
-Intellectuals
-Liberals
	-Kissinger’s friends
	-Blindness
-College campuses
	-Harvard University
	-University of California
	-Whittier College
-Dangers to nation
-The President’s view
	-George C. Wallace
-Danger on left
	-India
	-North Vietnam
	-Communists
-Opponents
-Accusation of critics
-Involvement in Asia
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech
-Fitness to rule
-The President’s conversation with Richard M. Scammon
	-Kissinger

The President’s conversation with Scammon
-Administration opponents
-US responsibilities
-PRC
-Criticism of US
-Europe
-West Germany
-Great Britain
-West Germany
	-Geography
	-Philosophical differences
	-War
-Communism
-As a system
-Soviet people
-Chinese people
-Japanese people
-German people
-US leadership
-Critics of policy
-Intellectuals
-Washington, DC, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis
-Manner
-Lack of courage
	-Compared to Meany
	-Business, college presidents
-Democrat leadership
-Possible consequences

The President’s opponents
-Awareness of the President’s view
	-Barry M. Goldwater
-The President’s point of view
	-Training

The President’s schedule

Kissinger’s relations with news media
-Magazines
-William L. Safire
-John A. Scali
-Story of negotiations

Vietnam
-Negotiations
	-Prospects
		-The President’s talk with Mansfield
		-North Vietnam
-Soviet Union trip
-US military
-Bombing
-Air Force
-Navy
-Success

Kissinger left at 3:46 pm.

Conversation No. 658-32

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:46 pm and 3:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

[Unintelligible]

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:49 pm.

The President left at 3:49 pm.

Conversation No. 658-33

Date:  January 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:49 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	[Unintelligible]

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