Conversation No. 661-1

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  1:28 pm - 3:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Welfare reform legislation
-Meeting with Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-John G. Veneman
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Administration line
-Budget deficit
-Abraham A. Ribicoff’s amendments
-Call from the President to Ribicoff
-Desire for reform
-Public statements by the President
	-State of the Union address
-Ribicoff’s tactics
-Pilot projects trade off
-Ribicoff’s possible meeting with the President
-Timing
-Hearings
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Scheduling
	-Russell B. Long, Wallace F. Bennett
		-Richardson, Ehrlichman
-Richardson view
-Pilot projects
-Public posture
-Possible Ribicoff meeting
-Long, Bennett inclusion
	-Timing
		-PRC trip
-Family assistance

-Strength as political issue
	-Polls
		-State of the Union [?] address
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Liberals
-Ribicoff
-Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey calls to Ribicoff
-Advocacy of the President’s bill
-Pressure

F. Donald Nixon
-Jack N. Anderson
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Lines of White House communication
-Instructions to operators
-Herbert W. Kalmbach role
-Possible telephone
-White House schedule
-Interview with Anderson
-J. Willard Marriott, Sr. role
	-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Analogy to James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
	-Invitation to Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Problems
-Howard R. Hughes’s association
-John H. Meier’s role
-Clifford Irving’s biography
-News coverage
-Access to information
-Robert A. Maheu’s role
	-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield
-Noah Dietrich
-Frank Waters’s role

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:28 pm.

Unknown item or service

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:38 pm.

Hughes
-Legal action
	-Maheu’s action
		-Service of subpoena for a deposition
			-[Nevada] Supreme Court ruling

Ziegler entered at 1:38 pm.

Press relations
-Choosing reporters for PRC trip
	-Ziegler’s telephone call to James J. Kilpatrick
-Holmes Alexander
-William F. Buckley, Jr. request
-Herbert G. Klein
-US Information Agency [USIA]
-View of Chinese
-Comparison with Kilpatrick
-Television presence
-Position on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Influence
-Alexander
-William S. White
-Columnists on trip
-Washington Post, Washington Star representation
-Smith Hempstone
-Joseph C. Kraft
-White
	-Compared to Hempstone
-Kilpatrick
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Alexander
-Compared to White
-Influence
-Number of papers
-Taiwan
-Forum
-White’s qualifications

Ziegler left at 1:43 pm.

Donald Nixon
-Meier’s role
-Air West deal
	-Anderson
	-[Forename unknown] Hillings
	-Marriott’s role
-Agreement with Anderson
-Meier’s connection
-Trip to Dominican Republic
-Hughes loan
-Public interest
	-Media coverage
-Administration handling
-Innocence
-Proof
-Marriott’s influence with Anderson
-Ehrlichman request
-Anderson
-Marriott 
-Anderson use of material
-Problem
-Meier
	-Air West
-Kalmbach’s role

Official secrets meeting
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Television appearance
-Media relations

Anderson column
-Donald Nixon request
-Marriott
	-Call from Ehrlichman
-Threat of suit
-Hughes loan
-Ehrlichman’s advice

	Donald Nixon
-Hughes publicity
-Public perception
-Dietrich’s book
-Loan story
-News coverage
	-Newsweek
	-Timing
		-Irving’s book’s account
-Mike Wallace interview of Irving
-Hughes loan coverage
-Clark M. Clifford role
-Clifford’s reaction
-Irving’s contact with Hughes
-Jimmy Golden’s role
-Jimmy Crosby
-Donald Nixon’s role
-Hughes’s loan
-The President’s view of politics and family
-Book account by Dietrich
-Waters’s view
-Vic [?] Johnson’s role
-Waters’s telephone call to the President
-The President’s reaction
-Service station as security
-Media coverage of Hughes story
-Security for loan
-Dietrich
-Service station
	-Present value
		-Waters’s view
		-Compared to time of loan
			-Appraisal
				-Market value
			-Covenant provisions
				-Loan proceeds
					-Effect on mortgage and property value
-Use of loan proceeds
	-Restaurants
-Handling
-Kalmbach role
	-White House telephones
	-Possible taps
	-Logs
-Telephone call
-Timing
-Benefits
-Marriott
-Anderson and Drew Pearson
-Marriott view
-Business relationship with Marriott Corporation
	-Airline food service
	-Political aspect

John B. Connally’s schedule
	-Pittsburgh
	-National Security Council [NSC] meeting

The President’s property
	-Kalmbach
	-Frank De Marco, Jr.

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-Access to the President’s papers
-Intellectuals
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming trip to Lyndon B. Johnson Library
-Release of Johnson papers
-Claim
-Talk with archivists
-The President’s use of papers
	-Assistance
-Pressure on Johnson
-Oral histories
-Douglas Cator
	-Swimming
-Abuse of staff
-Cator
-Reason for release
-Walter W. Rostow’s advice
-Johnson book, The Vantage Point (1971)
	-Criticism
	-Sales
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.’s view
-Lesson from Johnson
-Distrust of intellectuals
-Rostow
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Decisions on release
-Johnson role
-Oral history
-Mellowing of public view of Johnson
-Harry S. Truman
-Herbert Hoover

	Johnson
-Treatment by Democrats
-Visits from candidates
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Ehrlichman visit
-Timing
-Conversation with Johnson
-Volubility
-Ehrlichman visit
-Schedule
	-Watching the President’s PRC trip on television
	-Mexico
-Brother, Samuel Houston Johnson
	-Handling

	Donald Nixon
		-Handling
		-Greece
			-Dinner with leadership
			-Thomas A. Pappas

Preview of Tivoli Gardens project
-Ehrlichman visit
-Rogers C.B. Morton

Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Vernon E. Jordan of Urban League, Maurice H. Stans

Ehrlichman left and Ziegler at 2:15 pm.

Press relations
-Choosing reporters for PRC trip
-Kilpatrick attendance
-White attendance
-Health
-Support for the President
-Alexander
-Buckley
-Kissinger’s view
-Chinese impression
-Buckley support for Chiang Kai-Shek
-Possible criticism of Administration
-Letter
-Alexander
-Availability
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-White
-Kilpatrick
-Buckley
-Buckley influence
-Number of papers
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Availability
-Alexander
-Influence
	-Buchanan’s view
-Other columnists
-Victor Lasky
-Maury [Surname unknown]
-Thimmisch
-Alexander
-Dallas News
-Justification for choices
-Attempt at balance
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Kraft and Wilson requests
-Balance
-Dallas News
-Courtney R. Sheldon
-Roscoe Drummond
	-Background
		-Christian Science
-Money considerations
-White
-White
	-Health
-Vermont C. Royster
-Drummond
-Geoffrey Drummond
-Wilson
-Position on roster
-Other openings
	-Voice of America [VOA]
	-Dallas News
	-Alexander
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-White
	-Health

Ziegler left at 2:22 pm.

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The President’s possible speech to black group
		-[The President’s appearance at Robert J. Brown testimonial dinner, January 30, 1972]
-Buchanan view
-Benefits
-Possible theme
-Haldeman’s possible talk with Buchanan
-Prospects of support
-South
	-Harry S. Dent
	-Compared to North
		-New York, Detroit, Los Angeles, Ohio
	-Richmond
	-Atlanta
-White compared to black event
-Timing
	-News coverage

The President’s schedule
-NSC meeting
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s schedule

The President left at an unknown time after 2:22 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time before 2:34 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Revenue sharing meeting
-Benefits
-Ronald W. Reagan and Daniel J. Evans meeting
-Dock strike
-NSC
-Boy Scouts meeting
-Past scout meeting
-Agnew’s role
-NSC meeting
-Timing
-Connally testimony
-Conflict in scheduling

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:22 pm and 2:34 pm and requested a telephone call to Ribicoff.]

[Conversation No. 661-1A]

[See Conversation No. 20-2]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Reading for the PRC trip
-Reception for White House Conference on Drug Abuse, February 3, 1972

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 2:22 pm.

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:34 pm.

-Florida trip
-Timing
-Rationale
-Return to Washington, DC

[The President talked with Ribicoff between 2:34 pm and 2:42 pm.]

[Conversation No. 661-1B]

[See Conversation No. 20-3]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ribicoff‘s possible meeting with Ehrlichman
-Welfare reform bill
	-Prospects
		-Working poor provision
			-Ribicoff’s view

White House Conference on Drug Abuse
-Athletes
-Opening by the President
-Briefing
-Reception
-Ehrlichman role
	-Federal program
-William P. Rogers role
	-Diplomatic strategy, supply
-Myles J. Ambrose role
	-Domestic law enforcement
-Dr. Jerome Jaffe role
	-Treatment
-Opening
	-Publicity
		-Television
-Reception
-Experience of gratitude

Scheduling
-Ribicoff
-Florida trip
-Weather
-Timing
	-Congressional recess
-PRC preparation
	-Camp David
-Benefits of relaxation
-Kissinger view
-Reading
-PRC preparation
-Prayer breakfast

PRC trip
-Gifts
-Recommendations
-Kissinger view
-Porcelain swans [“Birds of Peace”]
-Background
-Helen F. Boehm
-For Chou En-lai
-For Mao Tse-tung
-Mounted clock
-Swans
-Public gift
-For Chou
-Mounted clock
-People to people gift
-Trio of live musk oxen
	-Delivery
-Photographs of national parks
-Recipients
-Parker pens presentation
-Apollo spacecraft metal
	-Mayors of Shanghai and Hangchow
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s gifts
-Bean birds
-Gorham silver flower arrangements
-Viewmasters
-Titanium parker pens
	-Presidential seal
-Recipients
-Redwood saplings
-Hangchow Park
-National Park Service
-Musk oxen
-VOA representation
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-James A. Michener
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Ziegler
-Benefits
	-Bureaucracy
-USIA coverage
-Size
	-Restriction
-Columnists
-Wilson
-Kraft
-Kissinger
-Value
-Ziegler view
-Kissinger
-Possible columns
	-Value
-General schedule
-Reading
-Details
-Need for flexibility

Welfare reform
-Ehrlichman
-The President’s talk with Ribicoff
-HEW

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-Ziegler’s schedule
	-Houston
	-Busing
	-Budget

Hughes books
-Dietrich
-Irving book
-Publication status
-Sales
-Interest in Hughes
-Dietrich book
-Timing of publishing
-Possible confusion with Irving
-Irving’s book
-Publication status
-Public interest
	-Compared to movie magazines
		-Lana Turner
-Interest in Hughes
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-Compared to Charles Manson murder trial

Power of incumbency
The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Brown testimonial dinner
	-Reception
		-Compared to business groups
-Public contact
	-Motorcades
-Press coverage
-Ability to draw crowds

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:42 pm.

James R. Schlesinger meeting
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:12 pm.

Brown testimonial dinner
-Stans
-Brig. Gen. Daniel (“Chappie”) James, Jr.
-Benefit to Brown

Time and Newsweek stories on Kissinger
-Quality
-State Department information
-Bureaucracy
-Quality
-Topics
-Secret negotiations
-Details
	-Travel
-Surprise of press
-Kissinger’s social life
-Kissinger reaction
-Kissinger demeanor
-Kissinger sympathy for Prince Klemens von Metternich
-The President’s leadership in decisionmaking
-Kissinger’s executive role
-Cover captions
-Substance

The President’s television appearances
-Vietnam peace proposal speech
	-Kissinger
	-Preparation
		-State of the Union speech
		-William L. Safire
-January 1972
-Washington Post story
-State of the Union speech, January 20, 1972
-Dan Rather interview, January 2, 1972
-Cabinet changes announcement
-Mrs. Nixon’s return from Africa
-Quality
-PRC trip
	-Repetition
-Public viewing patterns
-Political conventions
-John F. Kennedy assassination
-Moon landing
-PRC trip
-Great Wall
-Forbidden Palace
-Chou En-Lai meeting
-Mao Tse-tung
-Unanticipated opportunities

Telephone call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Graham schedule
-Prayer breakfasts

Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:42 pm.

The President’s schedule

Haldeman and Bull left at 3:12 pm

Conversation No. 661-2

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  3:13 pm - 3:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with James R. Schlesinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Number of commissioners
-Staff make-up
-James T. Ramey
-Lyndon B. Johnson protégé
-Congressional

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 3:13 pm.

The President’s schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:51 pm.

AEC staff
-William O. Doub
-Wilfrid E. Johnson
-Clarence E. Larson
-Political loyalty
-Vacancy
-Commissioners
-Length of term
-Frederic V. Malek
-Replacements
-Possible appointment of woman
-Nuclear scientist
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
	-Marina von N. Whitman
		-John von Neumann
-Jane Hall
	-Los Alamos
	-Political preferences

Amchitka
-Criticism
-Reason
-Effect
	-World attention to US military power
		-Moscow, Peking
-Press
-Scientist
-Press
-Turnaround
-Mike Gravel’s statement
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Native Americans
-Indiscretion

AEC 
-Schlesinger’s job
-Compared to previous job at Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

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	ATOMIC WEAPONS

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Nuclear applications
-History
	-Seaborg
	-John A. McCone
	-Plowshare
	-Projects

	Plowshare
-Upcoming program
-Natural gas release
-Problems
-Public perception of safety
-Environmental concerns
	-Tritium
-Australia
	-Harbor construction
-The President’s view
-Environment
-Soviet advances
	-Reservoir construction
-Geography
-Excavation
	-Problems
		-Undersecretary’s committee
			-Possible violation of nonproliferation treaty
-Natural gas release
	-Revenue
		-Algeria
	-Local politics
		-Colorado
			-John A. Love
		-Wyoming
			-Stanley K. Hathaway
		-Denver
	-Revenue increases
		-Clifford P. Hansen
	-Plans
		-Gordon L. Allott meeting
		-Political problems
			-1972 election
-Fears of population
	-Amchitka
	-The President’s visit to Alaska
		-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Supersonic Transport [SST] cancellation
-Reasons
	-Leadership

	Foreign energy sales
-Balance of payments
-Schlesinger talks Peter G. Peterson and John B. Connally
-Status of balance of payments
-Brazil  contacts
-Joint Committee
-Chet Holifield
-Connally’s view
-Problem
-Industrial compared to government structure
	-Budget process
-Availability of products to US business
-Sacrifice of foreign exchange
-Connally
-Borrowing
-Follow up with Connally
-Peterson
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Maintaining US military presence
	-Foreign exchange

	Nuclear applications
-New programs
-Breeder-reactors
-Goals
-Fusion
-US supremacy
-National security
-Problems
-Fear
	-Environment
	-Soviet reaction
-Timing
-Elections
	-Colorado
-International talks
-Political acumen
		-Undersea Long-range Missile System [ULMS]

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	DEFENSE

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	Haig

	Schlesinger’s family
		-Alaska

Schlesinger and Haig left at 3:51 pm.

Conversation No. 661-3

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:51 pm and 4:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Signing of documents

White House meeting with governors
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew role

	-Cocktails in Blue Room
	-Reception
-Agenda
	-William G. Milliken role
	-Number of guests
	-Ronald W. Reagan role
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller role
	-Linwood Holton role
-Seating
	-Rex W. Scouten
	-Table configuration
-Cabinet attendance
-Other guests
-Harry S. Dent
-Robert J. Dole
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Press attendance

Deaths of policemen [Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie]
-Details
-Funeral arrangements
-Representative of the President
-Possibilities
-General Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-John V. (“Jack”) Brennan
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Charles W. Colson
-Cushman
-Wreaths
-Location of shootings
-New York
	-Harlem
	-Bedford-Stuyvesant
-Age of policemen
-Funeral
	-Timing
-Cushman attendance at funeral
-Brennan

Ronald L. Ziegler entered and Butterfield left at 3:55 pm.

Press relations
-Representation on PRC trip
-Patrick J. Buchanan

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and 3:57 pm and requested a telephone call to Robert McClory.]

[Conversation No. 661-3A]

[See Conversation No. 20-4]

[End of telephone conversation]

Press representation on People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Ziegler’s talks with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Henry A. Kissinger
	-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Holmes Alexander
-Buckley
-Buchanan’s view
	-Benefits
	-Feeling toward administration
	-Influence
	-Kissinger
-Haldeman view
-Kissinger view
-Possible Chinese reaction

[The President talked with McClory between 3:57 pm and 3:58 pm.]

[Conversation No. 661-3B]

[See Conversation No. 20-5; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Press representation on PRC trip
-Buchanan’s reaction
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Alexander
-Buckley
-US Information Agency [USIA] representative
-Reporter
-Buchanan view

Telephone call to Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Release for news
-Ehrlichman
-Earlier question to Ziegler
-Content of call
-Welfare reform
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Russell B. Long, Wallace F. Bennett
-Strategy
-The President’s support for legislation
-News summary
-Reason for call
-Advisory
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming talk with Richardson
-Strategy with Ribicoff, Long, Bennett
-Ziegler’s possible telephone call to Ehrlichman

Ziegler left at 4:00 pm.

Conversation No. 661-4

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 4:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-6]

Conversation No. 661-5

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 4:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman’s request for a meeting
-Renovation of the Mall

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:01 pm.

Conversation No. 661-6

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  4:01 pm - 4:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Leslye A. Arsht.

[See Conversation No. 20-7; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 661-7

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:03 pm and 4:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-8]

Conversation No. 661-8

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:03 pm and 4:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Request for meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Forthcoming announcement

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:04 pm.

Conversation No. 661-9

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  4:04 pm - 5:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Stewart B. McKinney.

[Conversation No. 661-9A]

[See Conversation No. 20-9]

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 4:05 pm.

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:06 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Press relations
-Representation on People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

-Joseph C. Kraft, William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Telephone calls from Henry A. Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Conservatives, liberals
-Timing
-Announcement of the President’s telephone call to Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Ehrlichman
-Russell B. Long
-The President’s support for welfare reform
-The President talks with Long and Wallace F. Bennett
-Need for common ground
	-Ehrlichman
	-Richardson

Ziegler left at 4:10 pm.

Welfare reform
-The President’s previous telephone call to Ribicoff
-Content
-Reference to working paper
-Ribicoff amendments
-Elderly
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming telephone call to Ribicoff
-Status of welfare reform bill
-Ribicoff view
	-House Resolution [HR] 1
	-Senate
	-Testing
		-Medicare, Medicaid
-Drawbacks of bill
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Richardson
-Size of welfare rolls
-Medicare
-Medicaid

Mall renovation
-Picture of model
-Lincoln Memorial
-Reflecting Pool
-Proposed facilities
	-Dining, shopping
	-Pool
	-Parking
	-Trains
	-Boats, canals, lakes
	-Ampitheatre
	-Children’s park
	-Lake
-Cost
-Finishing date
	-Bicentennial
-Benefits
-Museums
-Needs of visitors
	-Restrooms
	-Food
-Night activities
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-Visit to see model
-Possible ideas
-Model
	-Confidentiality
		-Interior Department
		-Architect
-Morton’s view
-Congress
-Capital Planning Commission
	-Highway plan
-Spending
-Needs
-Tourism
-Concessions
-Types
	-Food services
-Family orientation
-J. Willard Marriott
-Transportation
-Lake size and depth
-Other uses
	-Exhibits
		-Japanese art
-Nathaniel A. Owings
	-Plans

Environment
-The President’s conversation with Laurance S. Rockefeller
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower as salesperson
	-New York
	-Houston
	-Florida
-Proposed conference
-Location
-Camp David
-San Clemente
-Russell E. Train
-William D. Ruckelshaus role
-Rockefeller’s associates
-Gala to focus attention
-Options
-Camp David constructions
-Laurel
-Open house
-Problems
-Press
-San Clemente
-Key Biscayne
-San Clemente
-Benefits
-San Francisco park at Point Reyes
-Possible visit by the President
-Quality
-Possible meeting
-Daniel L. Schorr job
-Attendance
-Timing
-Moscow trip
-Location
	-San Clemente
		-Patio
-Air Force One trip to Point Reyes
-Television use
-Documentary
-Compared to comments by President
-Train role
-Ruckelshaus role
-Rockefeller role
-Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower role
-The President’s schedule
	-California
-Camp David
-Benefits
-Camp Hoover
	-Press
-Centennial of national park system
-Morton’s view of the President’s schedule
-Morton
	-Forthcoming talk with Ehrlichman
-Rockefeller’s role
-Environmentalists in attendance
-Republicans
-Edmund S. Muskie’s supporters
-Environmental accomplishments
	-Parks for the people
-Public relations
	-Unknown person
-William L. Safire

Mall renovation
-Likeness to Tivoli Gardens
-Environmentalists’ view
-Grass removal
-Underground parking
-Effect on watertable
-Peripheral parking
	-Trams
-Mrs. Nixon
-Viewing of mall model
-Decision on original model
-Viewing of mall model
	-The President
-Owings
-Need for necessities
	-Restroom, facilities
-Old world
-Disneyland [and Disneyworld]
-Facilities
-Miami Beach
-Jews
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo view

Modern entertainment
-Children
-Old entertainment
-Amos n’ Andy
-Fred Allen
-State of television
-The President’s viewing habits
	-News shows
		-Reading
	-Television specials
	-Camp David
	-Television compared to reading

Ehrlichman’s reading
-Zimmerman Telegram
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Barbara Tuchman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Wilson

Wilson’s foreign policy
-Mexico
-Francisco (“Pancho”) Villa
-Winston Churchill description in the Search for World Order
	-Versailles
	-Wilson’s political experience
		-Compared to British politicians
-Irony
-Record
-World War I
-British casualties, March 21, 1918
-Effort at mediation
-Lack of realism
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Theodore Roosevelt
-League of Nations
-Congressional fights
-Partisanship
	-Republicans
-Wilson speeches
	-First inaugural address
-Wilson writings
	-Fourteen points
-Speeches

The President’s speeches
-Quality
-Press
-Inaugural address
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
	-Preparation
-November 3, 1969 speech
-State of the Union address, 1970, 1972
	-Eloquence
-Written compared to spoken word
	-Abraham Lincoln
		-Gettysburg address
			-Second inaugural address
-Speechwriters
-Douglas L. Hallett
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Radio speeches
	-Price
-Time to prepare
-The President’s efforts at writing
-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-Time consumed
-Effect
-Inaugural address
-Value compared to time consumed in preparation
-Effect
	-Toasts
-Extemporaneous talks
-The President’s talk to Cabinet
-Abraham Lincoln
	-Congress
-Repetition of speeches
-Lincoln’s A House Divided speech
-Cross of Gold speech by William Jennings Bryan
-Congressman or Senate
	-Compared to presidential candidate
		-Stump speech

Narcotics appointment
-Myles J. Ambrose
-Prospects for success
-Local police problems
-Corruption
-Resentment of federal officials
-Overall benefit

Law enforcement
-Changing of Earl Warren court
-Effect
	-Restoration of balance
-Changes
	-Process
-Average person’s desires
-Federal role
	-Effect on urban areas

	Busing
-Constitutional amendment
-Ehrlichman trip to Camp David
-Complications
-Timing
-Previous Supreme Court decisions
-Hearings
	-Timing
-John N. Mitchell
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. view
-Urban League
-Communications with Ehrlichman
	-Welfare reform testimony
-View of allies

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John B. Connally
	-Health
	-Telephone call to Ehrlichman
		-Classification meeting
-Governors’ meeting
-Property tax
-Briefing

Aid to private schools
-Amendment
-Tax credits
-Neil H. McElroy Commission
-Use by administration
	-Politics
-Briefings
-Administration line
-Possible solutions
-Effect on taxes
	-Burden shift
		-Value added tax [VAT]
-Opponents
-Public relations
-Use by administration
	-Briefings, panels, national publicity
	-Congressional votes
-Muskie’s advisory commission
-Use

Congressional relations
-State of the Union address
-Administration program
	-Defense
	-Need for identify
		-L. Richard Guylay
-Congressional action record
-Wilson’s accomplishments
	-Federal Reserve system
-House Republican meeting
-George P. Shultz
-Upcoming Senate meeting
-Contact between the White House and Congressional staff
-Perception
-House Administrative Assistants meeting
-Briefings
-Subcabinet and wives
-Congressional wives
-Lincoln Day recess
-Handouts
-Details
-Goals of administration
	-Economy
-John F. Kennedy handouts in 1960
-Issues
-Effect
-Six goals of administration
-Topics
	-Environment, health
-Details
-Telephone call to Ribicoff
-Telephone call to George H. Mahon

Ehrlichman left at 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 661-10

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:13 pm.

Conversation No. 661-11

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Welfare
-Recent meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan

Environmental efforts
-Russell E. Train
-Laurance S. Rockefeller
-Conference
-Location
-San Clemente
-Park at Point Reyes
-Timing
	-Point Reyes
	-Weather in San Francisco

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron Dinner
-Election year
-Reasons for attendance
-Edgar Allan Poe
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Charles G. “(Bebe”) Rebozo
-Benefits
	-Piano duet
-Remarks
-Post-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip decision
-Easter parade
-Meeting with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Breakfast
-Haldeman role
-Topics
-Politics
-The President’s forthcoming telephone call to Apollo 15 crew
-Astronaut’s schedule
	-Washington, DC
	-Tour of communist countries
		-Yugoslavia, Poland
-David R. Scott
-James B. Irwin
-Alfred M. Worden
-Previous telephone call
-Good will tour of communist countries
-Visit to White House
-Promise of dinner
-PRC trip
-Weekend at Camp David

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 5:13 pm.

Vietnam negotiations
-Public perception
-Harry Schwartz of New York Times
-Harrison E. Salisbury
-New Republic article
-View of Nixon strategy
-North Vietnamese reaction
-Publishing of nine points
-Variations
-US reaction
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Comparison of versions
-Andre Malraux’s meeting with the president
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
-The President’s impression
-Publishing of Anti-memoirs (1967)
-Malraux’s possible future meeting with the President
-Timing
	-Forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Setting up
-Charles Lucet
-Public relations
-China scholars
	-Value of meeting the president
		-Public relations
-Benefits
-Malraux qualifications
-Dinner
-Guest list
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Marshall Green
-Lucet
-Malraux 
-Scholarship
-Family background
-Jewish contacts
	-Alsace
-Timing

PRC trip
		-State Department experts
	-Papers
	-Leaks
-Rogers’s involvement
-The President’s meeting with State Department officials
-Papers
-Green
-Papers
	-Gratitude
	-Appearance compared to substance
-Timing
-Value
-Progress of papers
-Rogers’s role in planning
-Exposure to text of PRC meetings
	-Edited copies
-Memoranda
	-Soviet trip preparations
	-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-North Vietnamese meetings text
	-Proposals
-Leaks
-Source
-Rogers’s view
-Progress on papers
	-Background work
	-Cancelled meeting
-The President’s role
-Substance of meetings
-Study of written word
	-Questions
-State Department role
-The President’s role
-Meeting with paper authors
-Use of papers
-Timing
-Reading list

Schwartz letter to Kissinger
-Jack N. Anderson
-View of New York Times of administration
	-Vietnam
-Editorial policy
-Response by Kissinger
-Schwartz’s visit to Kissinger, January 31, 1972
-Editorial views
-Salisbury
-Publication of diverse views

Vietnamese negotiations
-Reaction by the President’s domestic opponents
-Revelations by North Vietnamese
-October 11, 1971 plan
-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Details
	-Troop withdrawals for Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Press conference
-Use by Kissinger
-Note from the US
-Request for meeting
-Nine point plan
-Ziegler rebuttal
-Kissinger rebuttal
-Comparison of versions
	-June 26, 1971
-Kissinger’s rebuttal
	-October 11 proposal
		-Withdrawal for POWs
			-Ceasefire
-Michael J. Mansfield view
-Liberals
-Separation of military and political
-Rebuttal
-New York Times article
-Terence F. Smith
			-Comparison of the President’s proposals to Lyndon B. Johnson proposal at Manila
-Max Frankel
-Johnson’s proposal
	-US withdrawal
		-Timing
	-Compared to the President’s proposal
	-Withdrawal
		-Timing
-Manila formula
	-Kissinger’s recommendation to the President
		-Timing
			-Ford’s Theatre
		-Simultaneous mutual withdrawal
		-Henry Cabot Lodge
		-William P. Bundy’s view
		-Australia
-Rebuttal
-Frankel
-Smith
	-Error
-Stewart J.O. Alsop article
-Support for the President
	-Establishment
	-Democrats
-Katharine L. Graham’s telephone call to Kissinger
	-Editorial policy
-Alsop’s previous telephone call to Graham
-Frankel
	-Possible invitation to PRC
-Forthcoming telephone call from Kissinger
-Details of proposals
-Johnson
-Manila formula
-Conditions
	-North Vietnamese withdrawal
	-Vietcong
	-Ceasefire
	-US withdrawal
		-Lack of deadline
-New York Times article
-Content
-Support for the President
-Editorial, January 30, 1972

Malraux dinner
-Timing

Malraux
-Qualifications
	-Compared to China scholars
-The President’s previous meeting in Paris
-French
-Writings
	-Les Voix Du Silence (1951)
-Health
-Writings about the Long March

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
-Possible meeting with the President
	-Public relations
	-Relationship with liberals
	-View of Soviet Union
		-Dobrynin
	-Effect on the Chinese
	-Schedule
		-New York
	-Timing

National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Attendance
-John B. Connally
-Timing
	-Testimony

Yevtushenko meeting, February 3, 1972
	-White House Conference on Drug Abuse
		-Athletes
			-Reception

Alsop
-Support for the President
-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
	-Effect on Establishment
-Remarks at dinner at W[illiam] Averell Harriman’s residence
-Forthcoming article
	-Possible effect

Vietnam negotiations
-Democratic reactions
	-Public relations
-October 1970 proposals
-North Vietnamese reaction
-Special circumstances
-Democrats’ tactics
	-Congress
-Kissinger’s possible talk with Michael J. Mansfield
-Later PRC trip
-North Vietnam ‘s reaction to peace proposals
-Details of US proposals
-William J. Porter
-Kissinger’s talk with Alsop
-North Vietnam’s reaction to November 20, 1971 meeting proposal
	-Possible reason
		-Congress’s shutoff of foreign aid
			-June, August 1971 offers
-North Vietnamese press conference
-Tone
-Substance
	-Secrecy
	-Difference between public and private stances
-Media coverage
-Kissinger press conference
-Ziegler

The President’s schedule
	-Malraux

Kissinger left at 5:48 pm.

PRC trip
-Meeting between the President and State Department experts
-Value
-Timing
	-Study of papers

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:49 pm.

Conversation No. 661-12

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  5:49 pm - 6:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Review of gifts
	-Congressional medals

The President’s schedule
-John W. Dean III request for signature
-Supreme Court
-Fred F. Fielding
-Farewell ceremony for Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes, January 31, 1972
	-Hughes’s family
-Melvin R. Laird

-Mrs. Hughes [?]

Busts
-John Foster Dulles
	-David Waters
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Winston Churchill
	-Waters

Weather

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:50 pm.

Prayer breakfast
-Length of the President’s remarks

Butterfield left at 5:52 pm.

[The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 5:52 pm and 5:55 pm.]

[Conversation No. 661-12A]

Prayer breakfast
-Length of the President’s remarks

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Prayer breakfast
-Warren E. Burger speech
	-Length
		-Toast
-Toasts
-Scripture reading
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
	-Augusta, Georgia
			-European guests

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:52 pm.

Item for the President

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:55 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Demands on the President’s time
-Charitable groups

Death of Dudley Swim
-Age
-Aging statesmen
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Dean G. Acheson
-Ann [Surname unknown]

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:55 pm.

Remarks for prayer breakfast
	-Length
		-The President’s talk with Haldeman

Butterfield left at 5:55 pm.

Prayer breakfast, 1971
-Program
	-Length of speeches and readings
	-Charles M. Teague
	-Marvin L. Esch
	-Walter E. Washington
	-Length
	-Lyndon B. Johnson

	Speeches
		-Anachronistic nature

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Woods left at 6:00 pm.

Conversation No. 661-13

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:00 pm and 6:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Daniel J. Evans, February 1, 1972

	Resignation letter of unknown person

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:00 pm.

Rose Mary Woods
-Telephone call with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Butterfield and Bull left at an unknown time before 6:06 pm.

Conversation No. 661-14

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:00 pm and 6:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[Conversation No. 611-14A]

Vietnam negotiations
-Administration counter to North Vietnamese releases
-Handling of rebuttal
-Media coverage
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-New summary
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Handling of press
-Max Frankel
-Xuan Thuy
-Public perception of rebuttal
-Telephone call to Michael J. Mansfield
-Telephone call to Frankel

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 6:00 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Prayer breakfast

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
	-Telephone call

The President and Rose Mary Woods left at 6:06 pm.

Conversation No. 661-15

Date:  January 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:06 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield and unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	Butterfield’s schedule

	[Unintelligible]

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