Conversation No. 659-1

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  10:25 am - 11:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Camp David
	-Weather
	-Snow

The President’s schedule
-Marina von Neumann Whitman’s appointment to Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Announcement
-Timing
-Herbert Stein
	-Photograph session
	-News coverage
	-Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Commission
	-Drug enforcement program announcement

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:25 am and 10:47 am.]

[Conversation No. 659-1A]

-Timing
	-News coverage

[End of telephone conversation]

	Whitman appointment
		-Public relations [PR]
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s role
-Patricia R. Hitt
-Barbara H. Franklin

-Republican National Committee
-Congresswomen
-Attendance
-Significance
-The President’s idea
-John von Neumann
	-John A. Scali
-Compared to Supreme Court
-Significance
	-Women in economics
-Women in administration
-Price Board position
-Stein
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Arnold R. Weber

	Congressional testimony
		-George H. Boldt
		-Prepared answers
			-William Proxmire’s questions
				-Leak

	The President’s schedule
		-Testimonial dinner for Robert J. Brown
			-Location
				-Hilton Hotel
					-Washington, DC
			-Timing
-Sickle cell anemia
	-Fund raising
-Opportunity for the President
-Attendance
-Sammy Davis, Jr. and Edward W. Brooke
-Sickle cell anemia
	-Research
-Attendance by blacks
-John Roosevelt (“Jackie”) Robinson
-Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
-Roy Ennis
-Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Richard Hatcher
-Jesse L. Jackson
-Charles Evers
-Berkeley G. Burrell
-Opportunity for the President
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Middle class blacks
-The President’s remarks
-Sickle cell anemia
-Description
	-The President’s cancer program
-Announcement of attendance
	-Haldeman’s handling
		-Camp David
-Length of stay

	Henry A. Kissinger

Stock market
-Economic indicators
-Rise
-News coverage

Vietnam
-William P. Rogers
	-News conference, January 27, 1972
		-Kissinger
		-News coverage
-Attendance at staff meeting
	-Recent press briefing
-Mood
-Views on peace talks

Gloria Steinem
-Criticism
	-Statements
	-Edmund S. Muskie
	-Ronald W. Reagan
	-George C. Wallace

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Editorials
	-Vietnam peace initiative
	-Quality
	-New York Post
	-St. Louis Post Dispatch
	-Tone
-St. Louis Globe-Democrat

	Memoranda from the President
-The President’s memorandum to Arthur F. Burns
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Rose Mary Woods

	Busing
-Supreme Court
	-Ehrlichman
-Make-up
	-Cases
		-Timing
			-1972 election
-Decision
			-Ehrlichman
				-Relations with Leonard Garment
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Social programs
-Administration support
	-Civil rights
	-Food stamps
-Strategy
-Charles W. Colson

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Administration strategy
	-Memorandum
-Attack on critics
-Nature of attack
-Noel C. Koch
-Haldeman’s talk with Colson
-Nature of critics
-Aims
	-Aid and comfort to enemy
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Support
-Kissinger’s draft of the President’s January 25, 1972 peace proposal speech
	-President’s draft
-Communist government in South Vietnam
-Use as an issue
-October 11, 1971 communication to North Vietnam
					-Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Muskie
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s attack
	-News coverage
					-Buchanan speech
						-Agnew
-Agnew
-News coverage
-Barry M. Goldwater
	-[Democrats]
		-Surrender
-Praise for support
	-Bradford F. Morris
	-Michael J. Mansfield
	-John C. Stennis
-The President’s memorandum
-Preparation
-Douglas L. Hallett
-Koch
-Buchanan
-Use of material
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger

Ziegler entered at 10:47 am.

Drug enforcement program announcement
-Preparation

Whitman announcement

United Press International [UPI] story
-Departure date for People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Inaccuracy
-Announcement of actual date
	-Tentative plan
-Interim stops
-Hawaii
-Guam
-Final decision
-Timing
-Wording of statement
-Departure date
-Intermediate stops

Attacks on critics about Vietnam cease-fire terms
-Clark M. Clifford
-News coverage
	-Details of cease-fire plan
		-Ziegler’s handling
			-Kissinger’s and the President’s explanations
			-Negotiating points
-Muskie
-Criticism
-Articulation
	-Opponents’ ambition
-US surrender
			-Communist government in South Vietnam
			-Source of counterattack
				-White House
-New York Times
-Thieu overthrow
		-Thieu overthrow
			-Question asked of Kissinger
		-South Vietnam
			-Self-determination
			-Communist government
		-US surrender
-Ziegler’s schedule
-Houston editors
	-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
	-UPI
-Ziegler’s speech
	-Question and Answer [Q&A] session
	-Timing
	-The President’s memorandum to Colson
	-Use against critics
-News coverage
	-The President’s efforts
		-Negotiations
			-Prisoners of War [POWs]
	-Negotiations
	-Secrecy
		-George Meany
	-North Vietnamese strategy
	-Rejection of critics
	-The President’s memorandum
		-US internal division
			-Need for unity
				-World Wars I, II
		-Praise for Stennis, Mansfield
		-Opponents
			-Advocates of surrender
			-Aid and comfort to the enemy

The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-Rainer Barzel
-Ehrlichman meeting

Ziegler left at 10:58 am.

-Ehrlichman’s schedule

Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:58 am.

-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Swearing-in [of Myles J. Ambrose]
	-Signing of Executive Order
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Rogers

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:12 am.

Administration counterattack
-Colson
-Workload
-Richard A. Moore
-Herbert G. Klein
-Work quality
		-Need for strategy
			-Scali
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Colson
	-Haldeman
-Coverage
-Colson back-up men
-Quality
-Robert J. Dole
-Frontal attack
	-Partisan problem

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Administration counterattack
-Colson
-Quality of effort
-Burdens
-Forthcoming talk with Haldeman about Koch
		-Goldwater
		-Haldeman’s talk with an unknown person
		-Cabinet
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Expertise
-Kissinger comparison
	-PR

	White House staff
-Scali
-Notification of the President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
	-Memorandum
	-Staff meeting
	-Kissinger
			-Speech writing
	-Secrecy
	-Kissinger
		-Ziegler
	-Negotiations
	-PRC trip
			-Vietnam negotiations
	-Strength of the President’s argument
	-Kissinger
-Kissinger
	-Contact with the President
	-Press coverage
		-Kissinger’s efforts
			-Compared to the President’s
			-Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Need for help
	-Speech draft
	-William L. Safire
					-Q&A
				-Briefing
					-Talk with the President
			-Speechwriting
-The President’s position
-The President’s efforts
-Kissinger
	-North Vietnamese reaction to peace proposals
		-Rejection
			-Timing
				-Discussion in staff meeting
		-[Le Duc Tho’s] health
-Handling of press
-Use of Scali
-Reaction to questioning
	-Ziegler
	-Kissinger’s staff
-Need for aggressive rebuttal
-Buchanan

[Unintelligible]

Haldeman left at 11:12 am.

Conversation No. 659-2

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  11:17 am - 11:27 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Time magazine
-Cover
	-Kissinger’s appearance
	-The President’s appearance
		-Kissinger’s call to Henry A. Grunwald and Hugh S. Sidey
		-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam negotiations
	-The President’s efforts
		-Kissinger’s talk with Sidey
			-Forthcoming story
-North Vietnamese strategy
	-Meeting excerpt releases
		-Prisoners of War [POWs]
		-Response
			-Selective excerpting of record
		-As issue
			-Troop withdrawal
				-POWs
			-Record
-Criticism
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
	-Cease-fire
	-Clark M. Clifford

-Problem
	-Points made
		-Compared to enemy’s points

Forthcoming meeting with Rainer Barzel
-Opposition to treaty [West Germany’s non-aggression treaties with Poland and Soviet Union]
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman’s view
	-Democrats’ support for Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-Kissinger’s view of strategy
-US position
	-[Christian Democrats]
		-Relationship to the administration
	-Lack of pressure
-Pressure
-Deal with Soviet Union
-Willy Brandt
			-Backgrounder
-Ambassador [Rolf Paul’s] reports
	-William P. Roger’s talks with Barzel, January 27, 1972
		-Neutrality
			-German domestic problem
			-Berlin
				-Treaty
					-Linkage
		-Brandt
-US interests
-Soviets
	-Moderation of Barzel
	-Timing

Criticism of cease-fire terms
	-Reston
-Kissinger’s view
-Leaders’ reaction
-Kissinger phone call
-Discussion of cease-fire
	-Surrender
-Reston
	-Misunderstanding
		-North Vietnam’s position
		-Reston’s view
-Vietnam as an issue
-Florida primary
		-Reston’s schedule
			-Florida
				-Candidates
-Los Angeles Times
-Sidey’s view
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Schedule
		-Houston
-Forthcoming briefing
	-Barzel
-POWs
-Selective excerpting of record 
-Proposals
-May 31, 1971, October 11, 1971
-North Vietnam
	-Call for surrender, communist government in South Vietnam

Kissinger left at 11:27 am.

Conversation No. 659-3

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  11:32 am - 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Rainer Barzel

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:36 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-Cease-fire terms

-Prisoners of War [POWS]
	-Discussion on May 31, 1971
-Link to political solution
-North Vietnamese position
	-Point Seven
-POWs for troop withdrawal deadline
	-Effect
		-End of war
			-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
			-Kissinger’s call from Robert Kleiman, January 28, 1972
-New York Times
-Vietnamization
		-Cease-fire
-Opposition to administration
-Compared to North Vietnam
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
-North Vietnamese strategy
-Talks
-Timing
	-November 1971
-Xuan Thuy
-Use by North Vietnam
-Response to proposal
-TASS report
	-Pravda
		-Hanoi correspondent
-Prospects for settlement
-Link with military offensive
-US domestic situation
-Bombing
-March, May 1972

Barzel and Heinz Weber entered at 11:36 am; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

	Introduction

	Record of meeting

Barzel’s schedule
-Travel
	-Moscow
-Georges J.R. Pompidou

Gratitude for reception

US relations with West Germany
	-[David] Kenneth Rush
	-Berlin
		-Communication with the President
-Vietnam
	-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
		-Effect
-Mutual friendship
-The President’s 1971 meetings with European heads of state
	-Frustration in Europe
	-Soviet Union
	-European affairs
-European Community
	-Cooperation
-Mutual problems
	-Environment
	-Domestic policy
-Economic unity
	-Soviet rhetoric
		-Tone
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Recognition of European Community
	-Compared to Soviet Union
-The President’s policy
-Soviet Union
-The President’s forthcoming trips to the PRC and Soviet Union
			-Relations with West Germany
			-Intentions
				-Tone
				-Neutralization of West Germany
					-Détente
						-Effect on military spending
			-Berlin Wall
				-Shootings
					-Aleksei N. Kosygin’s response
-Soviet view of free Europe
-Soviet goals
-West Germany’s ties to free Europe
-Stability of policy
-Concern about PRC
-Mutuality
-Détente with Europe
	-PRC
-View of free Europe
-Tactical considerations
	-Europe
-Middle East
-PRC
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Kosygin
-Long range view
-The President’s forthcoming trips
-US public opinion
-Intellectuals
	-Naivete
-Place of conflict
-Prospects
-Place of competition
-Currency devaluation, trade
-The President’s meeting with Willy Brandt
-Berlin settlement
-German treaty
-Propiety of US effort to influence
-Brandt’s view
-Kosygin
-Position vis-à-vis European Community, West Germany
-Division of Germany
-US position
	-Meeting with Brandt
		-West German productivity
-Value of ties with West Germany
-West Germany’s value to Europe
-West Germany’s ties to freedom
-Price of detente
-Retention of ties
-German treaty
	-Vote
-Soviet trip
-The President’s meeting with Brandt
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Reduction of forces
-SALT
-European Security Conference
-”Pig in a poke” term
-Meaning
				-Brandt meeting
					-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
					-Kissinger’s health
-Soviet tactics
-Detente
-European Security Conference
	-US interest
		-Agenda setting
-Andrei A. Gromyko’s visit to the President
-European Security Conference
-Purpose
-Soviet view
			-Mutual interests
				-Berlin
				-Middle East
-Progress in world relations
	-The President’s lack of sentimentality
	-Cultural exchanges
-Relations between leaders
-Personal and professional
	-Dobrynin, Gromyko
	-Separation
		-Substantative discussions
-War in Europe
-Kosygin’s remarks
	-Timing
		-India
-Interests
-India
-Vietnam
-US commitment to Europe
-US commitment to Middle East
-European Security Conference
-Benefits
-Topics
	-Arms limitation, trade
-Basis
-Pragmatism
	-Sentimentality
		-Personal relations
	-Substance
-German view
		-Konrad Adenauer
-The President’s visit to Gen. Charles A.J.M. DeGaulle and Adenauer, 1963, 1967
-US relations with Soviet Union and PRC
	-Condominiums
		-Advisibility
			-Talk with Kissinger, 1958
				-US relations with Soviet Union and PRC
-Human rights

Gift presentation
-Greetings to West German friends
-US goal
-West German role

	Kissinger’s schedule

Kissinger, et al. left at 12:16 pm.

Conversation No. 659-4

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  12:17 pm - 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Stephen B. Bull.

Meeting with Rainer Barzel
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
	-Speech

	France
		-Press briefings
			-The President’s leadership

Vietnam negotiations
-Public relations
-Hugh S. Sidey
	-Forthcoming articles

	-Time cover picture
		-Timing
		-Life
		-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
			-The President’s efforts
				-Paperwork
					-Camp David
				-Work with Kissinger
					-Jerrold L. Schecter

The President’s schedule
-Signing of Executive Order
-John B. Connally’s health
-Paul A. Volcker
-Myles J. Ambrose

Kissinger and Bull left at 12:20 pm.

Conversation No. 659-5

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  12:21 pm - 12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Myles J. Ambrose, John N. Mitchell, Paul A. Volcker, John D. Ehrlichman, Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr., Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe, Geoffrey C. Shepard, Mark W. Alger and John J. Caulfield; Ronald L. Ziegler; the White House photographer, and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

[Photograph session]
	-Seating arrangements
-Signing of Executive Order [EO]

Drug enforcement program
	-Significance of EO
	-Approach of administration
	-Comprehensiveness
	-Previous approaches
		-Turkey
			-Heroin
	-International effort toward supply control
	-Turkey and France
				-Customs effort
					-Border stoppage
	-Help for addicts, prevention
	-Jaffe
	-Law enforcement
	-Treasury Department
	-Mitchell’s view
	-Ambrose’s responsibilities
		-New office
				-Drug traffic
					-Seriousness of crime

						-The President’s view
							-Law school experience
							-Heroin
								-Regional offices, grand juries
								-Effect on lives
-Need for enforcement
	-Congress
-State and local cooperation
-Peter J. Pitchess
	-Talk with the President, January 27, 1972
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Talk with the President
					-Desired effect
-Prospects for program
-Jaffe’s support for policy towards drug pushers
			-The President’s recent public statements

Stephen B. Bull, Elaine (Miller) Ambrose, Myles J. Ambrose, Jr., Kevin Ambrose, Elise Ambrose, Nora Ambrose, Kathleen Ambrose, and Christopher Ambrose entered at 12:30 pm.

Introductions

[Photograph session]
	-Seating arrangement

Presentation of gifts
	-Tie pins
		-Presidential seal

Need for tough drug enforcement
-The President’s appreciation
-Death penalty

	Alger
		-Introduction
		-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
		-Budget signing
		-Bureaucracy

		-Gift
			-Cufflinks

Myles J. Ambrose, et al. left at 12:34 pm.

Conversation No. 659-6

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  12:34 pm - 1:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and Stephen B. Bull.

Presentation of Encyclopedia Judaica
-Ceremony
	-Max M. Fisher
	-Photograph session
	-Yitzhak Rabin

Bull left at 12:35 pm.

School memorandum from the President
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with John N. Mitchell, Elliot L. Richardson and George P. Shultz
-Timing

Fisher entered at 12:35 pm.

	[Photograph session]

	Introduction

Encyclopedia Judaica
-Fisher inclusion
-Location
	-Index
-Workmanship

Vietnam 
-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972

-Status of negotiations
-The President’s position
-Surrender
-Communist government in South Vietnam
-Resignation of Nguyen Van Thieu

Yitzhak Rabin, Chaim Herzog, Jeremiah Kaplan, Herbert Stein and Lawrence Y. Goldberg entered at 12:37 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings and introductions
	-Keter Publishing House
	-MacMillan Company, Incorporated

Encyclopedia Judaica presentation
-Description of volumes
-Writing
-Publishing
-Scholarship
	-Significance of work
-Reasons for writing
-Heritage, tradition, history, culture
-Liberty, equality
		-Common heritage of Israel, US
-Role of US in Israeli history
	-Peacemaking, defense
		-Israel’s gratitude
-[Photograph session]
-US heritage
-Diversity
-US commitment to Israel
-Middle East peace
-Israel’s independence
-Presentation of bookmarks
	-Presidential seal
	-Stein
		-Council of Economic Advisers [CEA]
-Preparation
	-Time required
-The President’s travel experience
	-Argentine Jews
-Appreciation
-Presentation to Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli [Pope John XXIII] and [Elizabeth, Queen of England] Elizabeth II
-Unknown person

	Maurice H. Stans

Fisher, et al., except Ehrlichman, left at 12:46 pm.

Ehrlichman’s schedule

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Frederick R. Kappel Commission
-Appointment
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Reason
-Probe of executive, judicial, congressional salaries
-Administration position
-1972 election
	-Possible commission
-Budget deficit
-Salary revision
-Post-election action

Congressional relations
-Cease and desist portion of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] legislation
	-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s talk with Ehrlichman
-Position
-Veto
-Southern strategy
-Disposition of bill
-Peter H. Dominick amendment
-Court action
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s filibuster threat
-Rev. Theodore S. Hesburgh
-The President’s position
-Filibuster
-Clarity of position
-Constitutional amendment on busing
	-The President’s memorandum
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Edward L. Morgan
			-Legislation
			-Need for action
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Supreme Court
-Make-up
-Trust
-Effect
-Housing
-Schools
-Busing
			-Offer
			-Strategy session
				-Camp David

	Housing
		-George W. Romney’s schedule
			-Five city tour
				-Message
					-Central city problem
					-Suburban housing
			-Romney
				-Recent meeting with Ehrlichman
				-Political insensitivity
				-Richard C. Van Dusen
			-Romney’s possible goals
				-Political
					-Vice presidency
					-Mayor of Detroit
				-Personal
			-Housing
				-Jews
			-Frank L. Rizzo’s election
				-Jews and blacks
			-Long Island problems
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Romney
-Racial impact of Romney’s action
	-Political impact of Romney tour
			-Romney
				-Appointment difficulty
				-As governor
				-Van Dusen’s role
					-Constitution

	Busing
		-The President’s memorandum on amendment
			-Race
			-Distribution
				-Garment
				-Patrick J. Buchanan
			-Dynamics of change
				-History
					-Abraham Lincoln
						-Pragmatism
						-Emancipation Proclamation
							-Motivation
						-Amnesty
							-Motivation
						-Cabinet
						-Personality
						-Union
		-Strategy for change
			-William T. Coleman, Jr. [?]
		-Supreme Court
			-Professionalism
			-Prospective action
				-Reason
			-Legal basis of decision
				-Racial mixing
			-Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
				-Dwight D. Eisenhower
				-Herbert Brownell
				-Brief
				-Earl Warren
			-Coleman
			-Richard M. Scammon’s views
				-Political orientation
-Racism
	-Education
			-Racism
				-Housing
				-Cities
				-Colonialism
			-Decision
				-Prospects
				-Influences
					-Social factors, press
					-Washington, DC
			-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
		-Constitutional amendment
			-Work program
	-Mitchell, Richardson, Shultz
	-Morgan’s role
				-Legal assistants
				-Political volatility
				-Necessity for honesty
				-Food stamps
-Completion of work
	-Timing
	-The President’s schedule
	-Political events
	-Forthcoming testimony by Mitchell, Richardson
	-Emanuel Celler Committee
-Lincoln’s birthday
	-The President’s schedule
		-Ehrlichman’s view
			-Ehrlichman’s schedule
				-Housing
-Court action
-Feasibility
-Congressional action
-Unpredictability
-Amendment action
-Form
				-Possible perception of administration
-White Paper publication
-Court decisions
-Facts
-Passions
-Results
-Method
-School financing
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
	-Value Added Taxes [VAT]
-Money
	-Equality of distribution
-Problems
-Need for totality
		-Congressional leadership meeting
			-Federal government promotions
				-Race
	-Shultz
	-Gordon L. Allott
	-Compared to television industry
	-Allott
		-Interior Department
		-Race problems
			-Romney’s reaction to talk with Ehrlichman

VAT
-Real estate taxes
-1972 campaign
-Details
-Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR] role
	-Timing of possible action
		-Republican Convention
		-Election
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s feeling
-Ehrlichman’s feeling
	-Bipartisan report
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with John B. Connally
-Property taxes
-Tax reform
-Politics
	-Media influence
-Congressional consultation
	-State of the Union address
		-Briefing
-Blue collar taxes
-Reaction
-Deficit
-As an issue
	-Republican concern
				-New taxes
-Reaction
			-Deficits
-Political opponents
-Domestic and defense spending
-Inflation
-Relation to deficit spending
	-Shultz’s chart
	-Reaction of conservative Republicans
	-Jobs

Bicentennial
	-Philadelphia
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.’s role
	-Model
-Funding
	-Congressional appropriations
-Bicentennial parks
-Location
	-States
-Use
	-Shows, displays
-Permanence
-Benefits
	-Public works
		-Cost
		-Federal land
-The President’s approval
	-View of model
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] consideration
-Location
-Funding
-Purpose
-Focus on Bicentennial
-Activities
-Year round use
-Problems
-Television

	Forthcoming dinner [for DeWitt and Lila Wallace]
		-Guests
			-Magazine people

Postal subsidy
-Magazine postage
-Elmer T. (“Ted”) Klassen
-US Post Office
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Legislation’s prospects
-Administration support
	-Lewis

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Congressional enthusiasm
-William M. Magruder’s advice
	-1972 election
-Magruder’s role
-Selling planes
-State Department role
	-Stephen M. Boyd
	-Public relations
		-Strength as political issue
-Second term strategy
-Necessity of program
	-Compared to moon mission

Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Denver visit
-Reason
	-Children’s camp charity
-Weather
	-Seattle

Ehrlichman left at 1:21 pm.

Conversation No. 659-7

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:21 pm and 1:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-White House dinner [for DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace], January 28, 1972
-Protocol
	-The President’s toast
		-Protocol
		-Readability
			-Lighting
		-East Room
	-Medal of Freedom
	-Press coverage
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Entertainment

		-Introduction
-Typing of remarks
-Readability
	-Lighting
-Entertainment
-Ray Coniff Singers
-Program
	-God Bless America

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:35 pm.

Conversation No. 659-8

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  1:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-146; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 659-9

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 2:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Schedule

	Memorandum

Room temperature

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.

Conversation No. 659-10

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  2:24 pm - 2:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

White House dinner for DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace, January 28, 1972
-John B. and Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally’s attendance
		-Illness of invitees
-John Connally
-Influenza
-Elmer H. Bobst
			-Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser
				-Wife
-Cancellation call from Nellie Connally
-Attendance

Robert P. Griffin
	-Letter
	-Photograph

Influenza

	Room temperature
		-The President’s request of Manolo Sanchez

Dinner for Wallaces
-Seating arrangements
-Laurance S. and Mary Rockefeller
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
			-Charles A. and Anne (Morrow) Lindbergh
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Celebrity status
-Lucy A. Winchester

-Nellie Connally
-The President’s preference
-Mary Rockefeller
-Lila Wallace
-Placement
-Congressional attendance
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Norman Vincent Peale
-Lionel Hampton
-Mrs. Nixon
-Stephen W. Royce
-Charles and Anne Lindbergh
-Fred MacMurray
-Allison DeWitt
-Katharine Rollins
-Mrs. John A. Mulcahy
-Harold H. Helm
-G. Keith Funston
-Thomas A. Pappas
-W. Allen Wallis
-George Champion
	-Attitude toward the President
		-Mrs. Nixon
		-Economics
-Funston
	-Olin-Mathieson Chemical Corporation
-Martin S. Hayden, Sr.
-Laurance Rockefeller
	-Previous invitation
-[Richard G. Lugar]
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Woods’s attendance
-Late arrival
-Mrs. Lila Tyng
-Henry R. Luce
-Wife
-Hank Luce
-Lewis
-Winchester
-Hope
			-Nellie Connally

The President’s schedule
	-Camp David
	-Weather
	-Reading

Woods’s schedule
-Renwick Gallery opening
	-Restoration
-Warren E. Burger
-Woods’s conversation with John A. Volpe
-Volpe’s son’s [Jack’s] health
-Possible call from the President to Jack Volpe

Dinner lists
-Burger
-Popularity
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Unknown person
-Repetition
-Need for new faces
-MacMurray
-June Haver
-Taft Schreiber

Letter from Maurice H. Stans

Equal Rights Amendment [ERA]
-John D. Ehrlichman’s memorandum
-Mitchell’s view

Unemployment
-John B. Connally’s letter
-Price Commission
	-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Campaign financing
	-Howard Simon
	-Request for meeting with the President
	-Contribution
		-Maurice H. Stans
	-Location
	-Stans, Herbert W. Kalmbach
	-Fundraising

	The President’s schedule
		-California

	[Fund-raising campaign for athletic hall of fame at Whittier College]
		-Use of President’s name
	-Letter from Kenneth L. Ball
		-Clinton Harris
			-Response

Letter from Richard M. Helms
	-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972

Letter from L. Richard Guylay
	-New York

Letter from I. Irving Davidson
	-Indonesia lobby
-Meeting with George Meany on airplane

Letter from [unknown person]
	-European Community
-Henry A. Kissinger

Office procedure
-Mail
-Reading
-Possible contact

Dinner party
-Late invitations
-Haldeman
-Tayloe House
-Wallaces
-Reception
-Entertainment
	-Mrs. Nixon
	-Television
-Seating
-Arrangement
	-Winchester
			-Longworth
				-Mrs. Nixon
			-Hayden
			-Laurance Rockefeller
			-Nelson A. Rockefeller
			-Ronald W. Reagan
-Lugar
-Royce
-Hampton
-Charles Lindbergh
-Andre Kostelanetz
-Mulcahy
-Rollins
-Pappas
-Conversation
	-Lindbergh
-Longworth
			-Wallaces
			-Laurance Rockefeller
			-Hayden
			-Funston
			-Howard A. Rusk
-Peter Mennin
	-The Julliard School
-Charles Lindbergh
-Rusk
-Laurance Rockefeller
-Mrs. Rollins
-Mrs. Mulcahy
-Delores (Reade) Hope
-Louise Seymour
-J. Walter Thompson Company
-Mrs. James A. Suffridge
-Mrs. Tyng

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:24 pm.

Kissinger’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:51 pm.

Dinner party
-Guests
	-Women
	-Mrs. Nixon
-Ehrlichman
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

	Letters

Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:24 pm.

Kissinger’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:51 pm.

Letters

	Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Edward M. Kennedy

Dinner party
-Guests

Woods left at 2:51 pm.

Conversation No. 659-11

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 2:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

White House dinner for DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace, January 28, 1972
-Guests
-John N. and Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Maurice H. and Kathleen (Carmody) Stans
-Herbert G. and Marjorie G. (Galbraith) Klein
-Cabinet members
-William P. and Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Melvin R. and Barbara Laird
-Medal of Freedom
-Rogers C. B. and Anne Morton
-Unknown man
-Robert J. Dole
-Wallaces

Conversation No. 659-12

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 2:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Apology

Instruction

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:59 pm.

Conversation No. 659-21

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 2:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and an unknown person.

Greeting

Introduction
	-Frank A. Bonadio

The President, et al. left at 2:59 pm.

Conversation No. 659-22

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:59 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:59 pm and 3:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 659-22A]

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

[End of telephone conversation]

The unknown agents left at an unknown time before 3:50 pm.

Conversation No. 659-13

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  3:50 pm - 3:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

The President’s schedule
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
	-Photograph session

Ziegler left at 3:52 pm.

Conversation No. 659-14

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:52 pm and 4:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with John N. Mitchell

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:06 pm.

Conversation No. 659-15

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:52 pm and 4:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Birthday remembrance
-Foster G. McGaw
-Maurice H. Stans’s reminder

Conversation No. 659-16

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  4:06 pm - 4:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

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Barbara Walters interview of Haldeman
-Attack on administration critics
	-Aid the enemy in Vietnam

Mitchell’s retirement as Attorney General
-Preparation
-Timing of announcement
			-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

	Appointments
-Richard G. Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Prospects
-Edward M. Kennedy’s intention
-James O. Eastland
-John V. Tunney’s intention
-Tally of prospects
-Mark Price
-Results
-Roman L. Hruska
-Paul J. Fannin
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Hugh Scott’s view
	-Talk with Mitchell
-L. Patrick Gray’s promotion
-Deputy slot
-Benefits
-Qualities
-Legal skill
-Administrative skill
-Confirmations of Gray and Kleindienst
-Submission to Senate
-Timing
-Eastland
-Timing of announcement
-Maurice H. Stans
-PRC trip
-Timing of swearing-in
	-Kleindienst
		-Photograph session

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Encyclopedia Judaica
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Volumes
	-Number
-Workmanship
-Other presentations
-Giovanni Battista Motini [Pope Paul VI] and [Elizabeth, Queen of England Elizabeth II
-Phantom jets
-Yitzhak Rabin
	-Israeli generals
		-Toughness
-Presentation
-Max M. Fisher
	-Photograph session
	-Mitchell and Stans
	-Efforts for the administration
-Stephen B. Bull

Jews in America
	-Compared to those in Israel
	-Fisher
-Professionals
-Israel
-Economic conditions
-Compared to Irish in US

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  11m 52s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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White House dinner for DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace, January 28, 1972
-White tie
	-Frequency
	-Compared to black tie
	-Collars

Mitchell’s resignation
	-Timing
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa comparison
	-Executive clemency

Mitchell and Haldeman left at 4:46 pm.

Conversation No. 659-17

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:46 pm and 4:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Photographs for Life magazine
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Henry A. Kissinger

-The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.

Conversation No. 659-18

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:46 pm and 4:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Briefcase
	-Residence

Weather

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.

Conversation No. 659-19

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:46 pm and 4:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Photographs for Life magazine
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
	-Assistant
-Viewing by the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.

Conversation No. 659-20

Date:  January 28, 1972
Time:  4:48 pm - 5:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins.

Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Photograph for Life magazine
-Poses
	-Expressions

Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union

	Photographs for Life
		-Poses

Atkins left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.

	Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
		-Review
-Middle East situation
-Forthcoming meeting
-Soviet attitude
		-Soviet Union trip
			-Expectations
-Communique
-Negotiation
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
-Trade
-Middle East
-Vietnam negotiations
-Withdrawal for Prisoners of War [POWs]
	-Ceasefire
		-Compared to “standstill”

			-Kissinger’s reaction
-Geneva Conference

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese reaction to US terms
-Reaction in US to terms
-Joseph C. Kraft
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Press
-Communist takeover of South Vietnam
-Public support
-Kissinger’s schedule
-POW wives’ visit
-Benefits from the President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972

	Time magazine cover
		-Kissinger’s picture
		-Caption
		-William P. Rogers’s reaction
		-Kissinger’s concern
			-Reasons
				-Credit
				-Reelection

	Vietnam negotiations
		-Reaction in US to terms
-Kraft’s reaction
-Washington Post
-Editorial support
-John A. Scali
-Public support
-Kraft
-Robert Kleiman editorial
-New York Times
-Suggestions of terms
-Moral collapse of leadership
-The President’s meeting with construction industry leaders
-Flag pins
-Support for administration on national defense
		-Intellectuals
	-Public support
-Secrecy
-Public reaction
	-Calls to Kissinger
	-Inquiries about airplanes
-Time research
-Routes used
-Lt. Gen.Vernon A. Walters’s role
-France
	-Reaction
	-Role
		-US gratitude to Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. Degaulle
	-Resignation
		-April 1969
			-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s funeral
-August 1969
-Azores meeting, December 1971
-Maurice Schumann’s aid offer
		-Reaction in US to terms
-Opposition view
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Democrats
-Joseph W. Alsop’s comment
-Los Angeles Times
-Robert S. Elegant’s column
-Overall reaction of papers
-Reston
-Muskie wavering
-The President’s instruction to staff
	-Negotiation prospects
		-Need for unity
			-Consequence of disunity	
-POW wives’ visit
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Explanation of negotiation terms
		-POWs for troop withdrawal
		-North Vietnam’s reaction
-Ceasefire
-North Vietnamese intransigence
	-May, August 1971 proposals
	-Overthrow of South Vietnam government
		-Imposition of communist government
		-Edward L. Morgan
			-Reaction to the President’s peace proposal speech
				-Script
		-David Brinkley’s view
		-POW wives
			-The President’s regards

Kissinger left at 5:03 pm.

												Conversation No. 659-23

Date: January 28, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:03 pm and 11:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:03 pm and 11:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 659-23A]

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[Duration: 5s]

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[End of telephone conversation]

	[Unintelligible]

	The President’s location
		-Residence

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:03 pm and 11:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 659-23B]

	The President’s location
		-Residence

[End of telephone conversation]

	[Unintelligible]