Conversation No. 660-1

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:24 am and 8:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President’s schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Dewitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace’s departure
-Timing
-Possible arrival at the White House
	-Driver
	-Farewell greeting

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:35 am.

Conversation No. 660-2

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:24 am and 8:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-158]

Conversation No. 660-3

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:24 am and 8:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Manolo Sanchez
-Dewitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace’s departure
	-Possible arrival at White House

Bull left at 8:35 am.

Conversation No. 660-4

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  8:35 am - 8:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally.

[See Conversation No. 19-159]

Conversation No. 660-5

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  8:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-160]

Conversation No. 660-6

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  8:50 am - 9:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

John B. Connally
-Health
-Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally’s Health
-Health
	-Symptoms
-Work habits
-Vigor
-Cyclical nature
	-Burnout
-Compensation
-Pressure to resign
-Nellie Connally
	-Comment about home buying
-John N. Mitchell
	-Connally’s comment to Nicholas P. Thimmesch
		-Washington, D.C.
-Relations with Cabinet
-Social arena
-John Connally’s participation
-Work habits
-Staff
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Connally men
-Charls E. Walker
-Paul A. Volcker

	Unknown news item

	Connally
-Press coverage
-Thimmesch

Henry A. Kissinger’s press coverage
-Awareness
-Time cover story
-Henry A. Grunwald
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Kissinger’s reaction
-Newsweek cover
-Background
	-Time
		-The President as Man of the Year

International economic policy
	Personnel
	-Mitchell
	-Peter G. Peterson move
	-John B. Connally’s authority
		-Peter M. Flanigan and Ehrlichman

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:50 am.

Dewitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace, Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-Waiting for meeting with the President

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:00 am.

Supreme Court death penalty decision
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Effect
	-Convicts awaiting execution
		-Number

Meeting with the Wallaces

	The President’s forthcoming call to Haldeman

White House staff
	-Instructions
	-Ehrlichman
	-George P. Shultz
	-Flanigan
	-Kissinger

Haldeman left at 9:00 am.

Conversation No. 660-7

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  9:00 am - 9:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, Dewitt Wallace and Lila (Acheson) Wallace.

The Wallace’s comfort
-Appreciation of visit

The President’s health

	Oval Office
		-Desk
			-The President’s use as Vice President
		-Music box

George Washington
-[Charles Willson Peale]
-Rembrandt Peale

Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s crewel work

	Unknown place, Pleasantville

Transportation

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, et al. left at 9:04 am.

Conversation No. 660-8

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  9:05 am - 12:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

White House staff
-Relations with John B. Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan

[Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 9:05 am and 9:08 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8A]

[See Conversation Nos. 19-161 and 19-162; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

White House staff
	-Relations with Connally
		-Compared to George W. Romney, John A. Volpe
-Awareness by subordinates
	-Flanigan
-The President’s confidence
-Access to Connally
	-George P. Shultz
	-Memorandum
-Connally’s staff
	-Handling of work
	-Flanigan

-Compared to Henry A. Kissinger
-Need for control
-Sampling mood of administration members
-Alexander P. Butterfield’s role
	-Camp David
		-Families
-Instruction to Haldeman
-Political interest
-John N. Mitchell
-Treasury Department
-Kissinger
	-State Department
-Kissinger
-Public profile
-Press reaction
-Jack N. Anderson
-Kissinger’s awareness of problem
	-Anderson Papers
-Column in paper
-Kissinger’s greatness
	-Negotiations
-John A. Scali’s view
	-Kissinger as agent
-Kissinger’s view
-Quality of stories
-Time cover story
-Press reaction
-Fascination with secrecy of Paris trips
						-Compared to coverage of the President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] 
			-Effect of Howard R. Hughes story

Hughes
-Forthcoming biography
	-Clifford Irving’s claim
		-Helga Hughes’s deposit
-McGraw-Hill payment
	-Details of deposits
		-Deception
			-Swiss bank account
		-Irving’s pretense
		-Helga Hughes’s actions
			-False passport
			-Withdrawals
-Extent of press coverage
-Lawrence F. O’Brien and Hubert H. Humphrey
	-Possible White House action
-O’Brien
	-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

White House staff
-The President’s schedule
-Marina von N. Whitman
	-Farewell greeting
-News summary staff

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

-Quality of administration personnel
-Unknown person
-Location on political spectrum
	-Conservatives
		-Patrick J. Buchanan
		-William F. Buckley, Jr.
		-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
	-Daniel P. Moynihan’s staff
	-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Unknown writer of environment program
	-Harvard University

Welfare
-Abraham A. Ribicoff’s family assistance plan
	-Test program
	-Administration line
	-Ribicoff’s statement
	-Political attraction
-Political attraction
-Public reaction
-Necessity to work
-Moynihan
-Food stamps
-Family assistance
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Moynihan
-Ribicoff
-Budget allocation
-Revision
-Starting costs
-Test program
-Necessity for overhaul

	Connally
-Kissinger’s role
-Contact on economic matters
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Need to observe
-Desire to please the President
-The President’s need for Connally’s judgment
-Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Narcotics program meeting
-Justice Department
	-Unknown official
-Access problems
	-Ehrlichman
	-Shultz
-Need for trusted staff
-William P. Pannill
-Quality of Connally’s staff
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Problem of homogeneity
	-Texans

	The Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Staff
	-The President’s experience as Vice President
		-Budget
		-Robert L. King
		-Robert Black [?]
		-Unknown person
		-Quality of the President’s “team”
	-Quality
		-Recruitment
	-Handling

	Connally
-Handling of staff
	-Chain of command
-Work habits
	-Health
	-Visits to Camp David
		-Benefits
		-Handling
		-Use in the President’s absence
			-Florida
			-PRC trip
		-Use of helicopter
			-Timing
-Possible talk with Haldeman
	-Staff problems
	-Connally’s possible reaction
	-Connally’s work habits
	-Reliance on by Administration
-Staff
	-Possible White House assistance
-Motivation
	-Public service
	-Support for political candidates
	-Fundraisers
-Ben Valentine’s view
	-1962 campaign
-Challenge
	-United Way

	Page Belcher

	Personnel
-Support for the President
-Motivation
	-Public service
	-Personal reasons
-Perquisites
-Clifford M. Hardin’s view
-Social events
	-Compared to those in Los Angeles
		-Counsellor general
		-Ambassadors
		-Samuel W. Yorty
		-Assistant secretaries

Protest at White House dinner for DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace, January 28, 1972
-Compared to Eartha Kitt’s action

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-Martha (Beall) Mitchell’s reaction
-Benefits of candor
-Protestor [Carol Feraci]
	-Background
	-Name change
	-Manolo Sanchez’s view
-Removal
	-The President’s possible action
		-Ray Conniff’s action
-Nature of comments
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Daniel J. and Philip F. Berrigan brothers
-Conniff’s comment
-Crowd reaction
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Reaction of other singers
-Washington Post story
-Conniff
-Handling of protestor
-The President’s possible action
	-Unknown person
-Manners
-Possible reaction by group
-Singers’ reaction
		-Effect
		-Possible claim by Feraci
-Compared to Kitt’s
-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Manners
-Appropriateness of protest
-The President’s congratulations
	-Reader’s Digest
	-Marine Band
	-Reception
	-Vietnam veterans in band
		-Possible press action
-Possible press action
	-Compared to Lawrence Welk
-Feraci
	-Dress
-Protestors in other groups
-Howard De Silva
	-Political orientation
	-1776
-Benjamin Franklin
-The propriety of President’s reaction
-Crowd reaction
	-Feraci
		-Conniff’s action
		-Motivation
-Conniff’s reaction
-Singers’ reaction
-The President’s reaction
-Timing
-Conniff’s comment
	-The President’s speeches
		-Feraci
	-Press reaction

Connally
-Gregariousness
-Compared to The President
	-Frequency
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Cabinet
-Work habits
-Staff
-Grasp of problems
-Handling
	-Appointments
		-US Treasurer
		-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Attitude toward White House staff
-Press
-Flanigan
-Ehrlichman
	-VAT

Whitman appointment
-Quality
-Leak
	-University [of Pittsburgh]
-Details
-Grant to husband [Robert Whitman]

Previous night’s protest

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-Press coverage
-Reaction
-Removal of protestor
-The President’s reaction
-Mulcahy’s reaction
-Overall success of evening
-Toasts
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-William P. Rogers
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
		-The President
		-Dining Room
	-Presentation of Medal of Freedom
		-Reaction of Wallaces
-Public perception
-Recounting of events
-Amplification
	-New York
-Publicity for Conniff
-Feraci’s action
-Sign
	-Transport
	-Message
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon observation
	-The President’s view
	-Prior planning
		-Compared to Kitt’s action

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

Whitman’s meeting
	-Herbert Stein
-Shultz
-Barbara H. Franklin
-Arrangements
	-Photograph session
	-The President’s possible comments
	-Swearing-in
	-Attendance of women
	-Press coverage
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President’s possible comments

The President left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

Previous night’s protest
-Press coverage
-Herbert G. Klein
-Mulcahy
	-Comments

The President entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

Whitman announcement
-Press
-Remarks
-Confirmation
	-Status
		-Stein
		-Frederic V. Malek
		-Franklin
-Swearing-in
-Timing
-Need for confirmation
	-Compared to Chairman of CEA
	-Franklin
-Photograph session
-Press coverage
-Orchestration of announcement

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

Previous night’s protest
-Sarah McLendon’s reaction
-Crowd reaction

Whitman, Franklin, Shultz and Stein entered at 10:05 am; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

	The President’s plans for statement

Seating

Appointment of Whitman
-The President’s plans for statement
	-Necessity for confirmation
-Whitman’s background
-Father, John von Neumann
-Book, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)
-Princeton University
-Background
-Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
	-Oskar Morganstern
	-Thesis
		-Politics
			-People’s Republic of China [PRC] [?]
-Confirmation
-Whitman statement
-Importance
-Whitman’s gender
-Whitman’s qualifications
-Stein’s view
-Nondiscrimination
-Concern with ability irrespective of race, religion, gender
-Whitman’s qualifications
	-Experience
	-Intelligence
	-Stein
	-Ezra Solomon
-Other members of CEA
	-Male to female ratio
-Whitman’s family
-Economic challenge
	-Practice of economics vs. teaching
-Whitman’s previous role in CEA
-The President’s statement of August 15, 1971
-Stein
-Solomon
-Whitman’s forthcoming responsibilities
-International economics
-Wage and price controls
	-Price Commission
-Whitman’s husband, Robert Whitman
-The President’s education
-Blame and credit for economic fluctuations
-Women’s liberation groups
-Basis of selection
-Qualifications
	-Compared to gender
		-Availability of women
			-Supreme Court appointment
				-The President’s talk with Shultz
			-Stein
			-Lawyers
				-Compared to economists
				-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Public relations
-Meeting other officials
-John B. Connally
	-Health
-Paul A. Volcker
-Price Commission
-Possible call to Connally
-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD]
-Possible call to Connally
	-Stein’s schedule
		-Paris
	-Whitman’s schedule
		-Pittsburgh
-Whitman’s children
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s and Tricia Nixon Cox’s views of appointment
	-Supreme Court
		-ABA

Farewells

Whitman, et al., except Haldeman, left at 10:25 am.

Whitman appointment
-Whitman’s assets
-Appearance
-Intelligence
-Presence before cameras
-Public relations
-Assets of appointment
-Impact of gender
	-Identification with common problems
	-Compared to legal field
	-Franklin
-Swearing-in
-Attendance of women
	-Romana A. Banuelos
	-Helen D. Bentley
-Gender issue

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:25 am.

Phone call to Joanne Goldwater Ross
-Unavailability

Request that Charles W. Colson join them

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:30 am.

Whitman appointment
-Public relations
-John Von Neumann
-Story about little boy

Aging
-Lila Wallace
-Hope
	-Appearance
-Delores (Reade) Hope
-Aging of Presidents
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
-Photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt	
	-Inaugurations
-The President

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-Worrying in office
-Lyndon Johnson
-Press relations
-Press Secretary
-Bugging of briefings
-Calls during briefing
	-Connally

Colson entered at 10:30 am.

-Delores Hope’s observations of others
-Bob Hope
-World travels
-Charitable work
-Health
-The President’s aging
	-Compared to Kennedy, Johnson
-Kennedy’s health
	-Cortisone
-Lyndon Johnson’s aging
-Rapidity
-Life style
-Senate life style
-The President’s life style

George Meany
-Call from Shultz
-Follow-up to the President’s call
-Call from budget office public relations person
-Columbia inquiry
-Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes special
-Camera coverage
-Kissinger briefing
-Relations with White House
	-Foreign policy views
	-White House interns
		-Request of Wallace to Film
			-Reason
				-Desire for rapport
-Reasons
-Partisanship
-Background
-Irish
	-Courtesy
-Courtesy
	-Irish contrasted with British
-Treatment of allies

Whitman appointment
-Benefits
	-Whitman’s qualities
		-Appearance
		-Intelligence
		-Family
		-As spokesperson
			-Solomon
			-Today show
	-As saleswoman
	-Today show spot
		-Timing
			-Confirmation
	-Women’s magazines
	-Economic publications
		-Business Week
	-Uniqueness of female economist
		-Stein’s comment
	-Ability of women
		-Mathematics
		-Business world
	-Sylvia F. Porter
	-CEA
		-Spokesman role
			-Stein
			-Solomon
		-The President’s schedule
-Connally’s view
-Stein’s role
-Recollections of John von Neumann

John von Neumann’s book
-Presentation
-Health
-Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
	-Haldeman’s reading
	-International relations
		-Kissinger

	Poll

Previous night’s protestor
-Media coverage of White House parties
-Mrs. Nixon’s view
-Radio play
-Content
-Effect
	-Public perception
	-Administration reaction
-Feraci
	-Citizenship
	-Action
-Mulcahy’s remark
	-Rose Mary Woods
-Radio coverage
-Broadcast of crowd reaction
-The President’s response to protest
-Praise of Marine Corps band
-Timing 
-Conniff’s apology
-Reference to the President’s speeches
-Timing
	-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Public reception of peace efforts
-Woods
	-Schedule
	-Reaction
-Martha Mitchell’s reaction

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 10:30 am.

Woods’s location
-Attendance at meeting

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:43 am.

Previous night’s protest
-The President’s reaction
-Feraci
-Praise of Marine Corps band
-Gratitude to other singers

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:30 am and 10:43 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8B]

[See Conversation No. 19-163]

[End of telephone conversation]

Public relations
-Martha Mitchell
-Statement about Feraci
	-Press coverage
-Clark MacGregor
-Congressional wives’ inquiries
	-Luncheons given by Barbara MacGregor
	-Attendance

[The President talked with Mitchell between 10:43 am and 10:47 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8C]

[See Conversation No. 19-164]

[End of telephone conversation]

Previous night’s dinner
-Martha Mitchell’s reaction to protest
-Publicity
-Televising of award presentation
-Feraci
-Publicity possibilities
-Today show
-Wallace
-Reaction
-Removal
	-Audience
	-Conniff
-Klein’s actions
-Mood of country
-Reaction
	-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech

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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:47 am.

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:47 am.

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	Agriculture
		-Possible press conference
			-Unknown primary
		-Earl L. Butz
			-Compared to Ezra Taft Benson
-Colson’s suggestion
	-Letters to Democratic presidential candidate in Senate
		-Partisanship
-Concern with image
	-Compared to others in Cabinet
-Response of audiences
-Donald E. Johnson
-American Farm Bureau Federation

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:47 am.

The President’s schedule
-Helicopter to Camp David
-Kissinger meeting
	-Forthcoming call
-Mrs. Nixon

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.

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	Hatred for the President
		-Democrats
		-Compared to Lyndon Johnson
		-Administration response
		-Pornographic movies and books
			-Timing of release
				-1961
			-Washington, DC, New York
-Public perception
-Republican attacks
	-Roosevelt
-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Undignified actions
		-Effect on office
-Public perception of the Administration
-Protest at dinner
-John Mitchell
-James O. Eastland’s view
-Eastland’s relations with Edward M. Kennedy
	-Alfalfa dinner
	-Disagreement
	-Honesty

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	White House dinner
	-Lila Wallace
	-Health
	-Conversation with the President at the White House dinner
	-Lila Tyng
		-Henry Luce
	-Clare Booth Luce
	-Sommerset Maugham
	-Divorce
	-Wife’s comment

	Robert J. Dole

Edward M. Kennedy
-View of love
	-Compared to George A. Smathers

	Smathers
		-Wife, Carolyn Hyder Smathers
			-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
			-Colson’s congratulations
		-Rosemary Smathers

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[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:47 am and 11:44 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8D]

[See Conversation No. 19-165; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[The call was placed on hold]

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[Haldeman talked with Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally at an unknown time after 10:47 am.]

[Continuation of Conversation No. 660-8D]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:47 am and 11:44 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8E]

[See Conversation No. 19-166]

[End of telephone conversation]

Camp David trip
-Scheduling
	-John Connally
		-Health
		-Residence
			-Helicopter
			-Naval Observatory

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[Nellie Connally talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 10:47 am and 11:44 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8F]

[See Conversation No. 19-167; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:47 am.

The President’s schedule
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.

Poll
-Vietnam issue
-Support for the President
	-Publishers

Kissinger entered and Colson left at 11:44 am.

	Briefing book
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam
-Questions from press
-Preparation
-Briefing book
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
-North Vietnam
	-Response to the President’s peace proposals
		-Timing
-Military action
	-Action
-Press conference
	-Timing
		-February 10, 1972
			-Television
-Thrust of criticism
-Kissinger’s talks with press
-Edward Kennedy’s call to Thomas W. Braden
-Rowland Evans’s and Braden’s call to Katharine L. Graham
-Graham’s call to Kissinger
-Talk to editorialists
-Op-ed article
	-Marshall Green

The President’s foreign policy
-Vietnam
-State of the world speech, February 8, 1972
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Recent foreign policy coups
-Charles H. Percy
-Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
-Percy’s support for the President
-Mary McGrory
-Peter G. Peterson
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Press conference
-Timing
	-Briefing work
-Topics
-Domestic policy
-Foreign policy
	-PRC trip
-Domestic issues
-Ziegler
-Domination of foreign issues

Previous night’s protest
-Kissinger’s view
-Removal of protestor
-Applause
-Conniff
-The President’s reaction
-Appreciation
	-Reader’s Digest
	-Applause
	-Marine Band

Dinner attended by Kissinger, January 28, 1972
-Dobrynin’s remarks
-The President’s trip to PRC
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Soviet Union

McGrory
-Kissinger

Dobrynin

Israeli
-View of the President
	-Moshe Dayan
	-Golda Meir
		-Phantoms deal
			-Delay
		-Middle East problems

Dinner attended by Kissinger
-Memorandum from Kissinger to William P. Rogers
-Routing of memorandum
	-PRC trip
-Rogers
-Message from Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-Timing
-Trade negotiations
-Vietnam
-Middle East
-Kissinger’s relations with Rogers

	Rogers
		-Attendance at previous night’s dinner
		-PRC memorandum of conversations
			-Sanitization
		-Press briefings
			-Rogers’s access
		-Press relations

Previous night’s protest
-Kitt
-Lady Bird Johnson
-The President’s reaction
-Possible alternatives
-Content of protest
-Berrigan brothers
-Ellsberg

The President’s schedule
-Republican Governors Conference
-Ronald W. Reagan, Tom McCall, Daniel J. Evans meeting
	-Dock strike
-Reagan, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Richard B. Ogilvie meeting
-Revenue-sharing
-Timing
	-Press conference
-Camp David
	-Memoranda
-The President’s health
-PRC trip
-John Connally
-Effect of illness
-Republican House and Senate members breakfast meetings
-Timing
Lincoln Day recess
-Invitations
-By seniority
-By assignment
-Budget
-William J. Scherle
-Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
-John N. Ashbrook meeting
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr. meeting
-Necessity
-Timing
	-PRC trip

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Vietnam
	-As issue
-The President’s endurance of criticism
-Kissinger’s Meeting with Prisoners of war [POW] families, January 28, 1972
-Applause
	-Compared to previous meetings
-Women 
-Questions and comments
	-Tone
	-Ceasefire and withdrawal
		-Deadline
	-Unknown man’s son
-Colson’s possible actions
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s previous meeting
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
	-[Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft]

Previous night’s dinner
	-Hughes

Flu epidemic
-The President’s talk with Nellie Connally
-Dewitt Wallace
-Elmer H. Bobst

	PRC trip

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese reaction to US proposals
-Dinner party gossip
-Le Duc Tho’s return
	-Press coverage
-Implications
-Resumption of secret meetings
-Xuan Thuy
-Expectations of type of news coverage
	-Haldeman’s view
		-Mechanics
			-Compared to substance
-Criticism of United States
-George S. McGovern
-Edward Kennedy
-Muskie’s attack
	-Ceasefire
-Cease-fire
-Kissinger’s briefings
-Clark M. Clifford’s criticism
-Past criticism
	-Troop withdrawal in 1969, 1970
	-Inconsistencies
-Critics in general

PRC trip
-Preparation
	-Book of Kissinger memos
	-Background for the President
	-Best medium
		-Books
		-Tone
	-Chinese culture
		-Mrs. Nixon

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 12:10 pm.

Conversation No. 660-9

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  12:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Instructions
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Letters

Butterfield left at 12:10 pm.

Conversation No. 660-10

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:10 pm and 12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

The President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:12 pm.

Conversation No. 660-11

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:10 and 12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-168]

Conversation No. 660-12

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:10 pm and 12:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

The President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:12 pm.

Conversation No. 660-13

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  12:12 pm - 12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Possible press conference
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Vietnam
-Domestic issues
	-Budget deficit
	-George W. Romney
		-Housing
	-Busing
	-Resignation of John B. Connally
	-Jack N. Anderson papers

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 12:12 pm.

The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Preparation
	-Reading
		-Book on Chinese manners
		-James [?] Monroe
		-Background

Dinner attended by Kissinger, January 28, 1972
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Milton Viorst
	-Peter G. Peterson

Criticism of the President
-Katharine L. Graham’s call to Kissinger
-Editorials in Washington Post
-Possible request for call to editorial writer
	-Response by Kissinger

The President, et al. left at 12:15 pm.

Conversation No. 660-14

Date:  January 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:15 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	[Unintelligible]

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

Conversation No. 660-15

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:04 am and 9:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Item for Rose Mary Woods

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:23 am.

Conversation No. 660-16

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  9:23 am - 10:34 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

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John B. Connally
-Health
-Schedule
-Testifying
-News stories
-Trip to Florida
-Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
-Need for time off
-Camp David
-Trip to Florida
	-Possible call from Haldeman to Nellie Connally
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s call to Connally
-Invitation to visit
-Accommodations in Florida
-Transportation
	-Airplane
-Connally’s health
	-Influenza
		-Texas
-Call to Nellie Connally
	-Camp David
-Benefits
-Advisability
-Call to Nellie Connally

Incident at DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace dinner, January 28, 1972
-The President’s reading
-Background of protestor, Carol Feraci
-Media coverage
-Duration
-Unknown person’s view
-Television
-Time magazine
-Public perception
	-Reader’s Digest
-The President’s call to Ray Conniff
-Reaction to protest
-Emily Conniff’s reaction
-Campaign support offer
-Conniff
	-Public perception
	-Removal of Feraci
-Reaction of audience
-John N. and Martha (Beall) Mitchell

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The President’s schedule
-Meeting with John N. Mitchell
-Timing
-Frequency of meetings
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Prayer breakfast
	-Politics
		-Grady Wilson
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-John B. Connally’s schedule

John Connally’s schedule
-Possible meeting with John Mitchell about politics
-Responsibilities
	-Efforts to reduce
		-Instructions to Haldeman
		-Treasury Department
		-White House staff
		-Peter M. Flanigan
		-John D. Ehrlichman
		-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Haldeman’s responsibility
	-Offer of assistance in economics files

	Margaret Chase Smith
		-Possible retirement
			-Possible telephone call

Prayer breakfast
-Graham
	-Schedule
-Promotion
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
	-Scripture reading
	-Health
-Promotion efforts
-The President’s schedule

	Testimonial dinner for Robert J. Brown
-Attendance
-Ticket sales
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Blacks
-Political effect
-Publicity
-News coverage
	-Black press
-Benefits to administration
-Blacks in Administration
	-Brig. Gen. Daniel (“Chappie”) James, Jr.
		-Point made
	-Brown
	-Samuel C. Jackson
	-James
	-Reaction to President’s attendance
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Possible representative of President at Mahalia Jackson funeral
-Medal for the President
	-Inscription
-Jewelry
-Attendance
	-Brown’s family
-Sally Brown
-Warmth
-Symbolism

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The President’s schedule
-The President’s preference on events
-Jewish or Black groups
-Demonstrators
-Feraci
-Call to J. Edgar Hoover
-Prior plans
-Timing of actions

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Press coverage
-Boston Herald editorial
-Content
-The President’s effort
-Partisan critics
-1972 election
-Unknown writer from Harvard University

Memorandum about L. Richard Guylay letter
-Analysis of administration position
-Judgment
-William L. Safire
-Leonard Garment
-Public relations
	-Experience
-Language of White House statements
-Charles W. Colson’s role
-New York Times
	-Quotes
		-Responses to Edward M. Kennedy
			-Quality
-Colson’s role
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Hugh Scott’s talent

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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:06 am.

The President’s signature
-Butterfield’s authority
	-Rubber stamp
	-Davis as President’s representative at Jackson funeral

Butterfield left at 10:07 am.

Time story
-Henry A. Kissinger’s secret negotiations
-The President’s code name, “Quarterback”
-Meetings with the President
-Implication of story
	-Kissinger’s role
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger as secret agent
-Kissinger’s social life
-Secret Service guard
-Press corps 
-Cover stories
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Plane trouble
	-British field
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
	-Transportation
-French

Vietnam negotiations
	Compared to October 1970
		-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Prospects for success
-The President’s opposition in US and world
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-North Vietnam
-US military
-Military prospects
	-South Vietnam
	-US public opinion
		-Melvin R. Laird
	-Laird
		-B-52’s
	-South Vietnam
		-Military
			-Air Force, Navy
			-Compared to North Vietnam
-Peace proposal
	-Reactions
		-Colson’s view

	Testimonial dinner for Brown
		-Edward W. Brooke’s attendance
		-Value of the President’s attendance

Butterfield entered at 10:20 am.

The President’s schedule

Butterfield left at 10:21 am.

-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-New York ethnic groups
-Puerto Ricans
-Jews
-Latins
-Italians
-Parades
-Pulaski Day
-Attendance at ethnic events
	-Messages
-Writing staff

Public relations
	-Writing staff

Ziegler entered at 10:22 am.

North Vietnamese press conference in Paris
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Release of nine point plan
-Release of public and private eight point plans
-Ziegler’s handling of questions
-Expertise
-Kissinger’s handling of questions
-Call to Robert J. McCloskey
	-State Department
-Answering specific questions
-State Department
-North Vietnamese
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Haig
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Foreign policy message

Ziegler left at 10:26 am.

	The President’s schedule
		-Benno C. Schmidt
			-President’s Cancer Panel
			-Photograph session

	North Vietnam press conference
		-Kissinger’s handling of questions
-Reason
	-Credibility
		-White House staff concern
		-George S. McGovern’s efforts

Ziegler entered at 10:28 am.

-Content
-Press briefing
	-Delay
-Indication of statement
-Wire movement
-Haig’s information
-Counter strategy
-Timing
	-Prime time
	-Time difference between Paris and Washington, DC

Texas press during Ziegler’s trip
-Houston
-Vietnam
	-Eight point plan
-Busing questions
-Economy
-PRC questions
-Budget questions
-Question and answer [Q&A] session
	-Duration
-Administration line
-Questions
-PRC and Soviet Union summits
-Feraci’s protest
-Reaction
	-The President’s action
-Martha Mitchell and Rose Mary Woods
-Reaction
	-Feraci’s background

Ziegler left at 10:32 am.

The President’s schedule

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:32 am.

-Forthcoming meeting with Schmidt
	-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Photograph session
-Length 

Haldeman and Bull left at 10:34 am.

Conversation No. 660-17

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  10:34 am - 10:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Benno C. Schmidt, R. Lee Clark, Robert A. Good, Elliot L. Richardson, James H. Cavanaugh and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.; The White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings and introductions
-Photograph session
	-Arrangements

President’s Cancer Panel
	-Members’ geographical origin
		-Clark of Texas
		-Good of Minnesota
-Qualifications
-Clark
-Mayo Clinic
-Good
-View of scientific and medical communities
-Competition between scientists and clinicians
-Respect for Clark and Good
-Need for cooperation
-Size
-Make-up
-Roster for the President
-Increase
-Benefits
-Use of task forces
-The President’s support
	-Richardson
	-National Institutes of Health [NIIH]
-The President’s support

	-The President’s State of the Union address, January 20, 1972
-Budget
-Congress
-Public expectations
-The President’s efforts in health
-Private foundation for education
-Joseph C. Wilson
	-Xerox Company
		-R. Heath Larry
			-US steel
-Hearings
	-Report
-Involvement of people
-Cabinet discussion
-Wilson
-Organization
-Bureaucratic problems
-Non-use of talent
-Direction of research
	-Possible clearinghouse
		-Government, universities, scientific and medical communities
-International efforts
-Space shuttle program
-International use
	-Scientific research
		-Japan, West Germany
-International contributions to cancer research
	-Great Britain
-Cooperation
-John B. Connally’s efforts
	-International congress in Houston in 1970
	-March 1972 meeting in Australia
		-Possible presidential message
			-The President’s forthcoming trips to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Soviet Union
-Unknown Nobelaureate
-Soviet-US interchange
-Richardson’s memorandum
	-Richardson’s background
-Announcement at agreement
-Sino-US interchange
-Diplomatic relations
-East Asia
-Possibilities
-Table tennis team
	-Visit to US in April 1972
		-Memorandum
-Visit to facilities
-Acupuncture
-Paul Dudley White
-Harry [Surname unintelligible]
-Interest
-Memorandum from panel
-Cole
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Legislative contributions
-Public statements
	-Sharing benefits of research
	-Participation in campaign
-British
-Germans
-French
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Mention of other contributions
	-Latin America
	-Africa
	-South Asia
		-India
	-Japan
		-Virology, immunology
		-Medical training
-Government commitment
-Financial
-Moral
-Richardson
-The President’s support for research
-Effect
-Justification
-Accomplishments
	-Education
-Public perception of cancer
-Death
-Leukemia
-End of year report
-Organization
-Application to other diseases
-Criticisms
-Possible model

Presentation of gifts
	-Cufflinks
		-Presidential seal

Schmidt, et al. left at 10:59 am.

Conversation No. 660-18

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:59 am and 11:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

[Unintelligible]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:03 am.

Conversation No. 660-19

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:59 am and 11:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:03 am.

Conversation No. 660-20

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:59 am and 11:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Stewart B. McKinney

Conversation No. 660-21

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  11:03 am - 11:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Malta

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:03 am.

Cancellation of request for a call to Stewart B. McKinney

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:05 am.

Malta
-Robert F. Ellsworth
	-Possible visit
	-Possible meeting with President prior to People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Possible deal with United Kingdom
-Dominic Mintoff
-Issues
-Edward R.G. Heath

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	MALTA

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		-Moral issue
		-Money
-British Conduct

John B. Connally’s schedule
-Pittsburgh
-Forthcoming meeting
-Timing
-Connally’s presence
-Kissinger’s schedule

Joseph M. A. H. Luns entered at 11:05 am; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
-Photograph session

	Past meetings with Luns

Luns’s response to Jay Rockefeller’s statement
	-US interest in foreign policy
		-Compared to morality

Anti-American protests

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	NATO

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Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 11:54 am.