Conversation No. 665-1

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  9:18 am - 10:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Unknown man
	-Candidate

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Michael J. Mansfield’s point
	-President’s critics
	-Japan

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:20 am.

Edmund S. Muskie
	-Strategy
-Speech
-Press coverage

Bangladesh
-US humanitarian assistance
	-President’s upcoming trip to PRC
	-Edward M. Kennedy’s criticism
	-Percentage

Pearl M. Bailey
-Presentation of watch to President
-News conference
-Relationship with President
	-Previous gift

Ted Lewis
-Criticism
	-Vietnam peace plan
-Possible conversation with Herbert G. Klein

Muskie
-Speech

Arthur D. Sulzberger

Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Content of newspaper story
-Compared to Joseph W. Alsop
	-Liability
	-Otis Chandler’s opinion

Muskie speech
	-Possible Administration response
		-William P. Rogers’s role
		-Call to President, February 2, 1972
		-Schedule
		-Irish Foreign Minister [Patrick Hillery]
		-Rogers’s conversation with [Earl of Cromer] Georges R.S. Baring
		-Vietnam
			-Possible topic of conversation
		-Conversations
		-John A. Scali
		-Charles W. Colson
			-Follow-up conversation
		-Patrick J. Buchanan
			-Working on the approach
		-Melvin R. Laird
		-Location
		-Forthcoming conversation with Colson
		-Forthcoming statement
		-Rogers
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
		-Statements by Gerald R. Ford, Robert J. Dole and William E. Brock, III, February 1, 1972
	-Muskie

Media hearings
-Coverage of Edith Efron testimony
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Frank Stanton
-1968 campaign
-Coverage of President
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Ziegler, Klein
-Coverage of President
-Efron
	-Access to audiotapes
-Laos
-Harley O. Staggers
-Stewart Alsop
-Rogers
	-Possible statements

	Muskie’s speech
		-Possible Administration response
-Rogers, Laird
-Congressional hearings
-Buchanan’s view
-Media coverage
	-Press conference
		-Aid to Saigon
-Possible administration response
	-Kissinger’s view
	-President’s 1968 statement
		-Rogers
	-President’s 1966 statement concerning Lyndon B. Johnson’s Manila statement
	-1968 statement
		-Colson
			-Rogers
-Manila statement
	-US intentions

	Vietnam
-Mansfield
	-Withdrawal of amendment
		-News summary
-New York Times communication with North Vietnam
-Timing
	-Possible withdrawal for prisoners of war [POWs]
-William J. Porter
-Negotiations
-Probable deadline for POW release
-Press coverage
-Muskie’s speech
	-Reported rejection of President’s peace plan
	-Poll

Lewis
-Vietnam
	-Criticism
	-PRC initiative
	-Colleagues’ views
		-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Conversation February 2, 1972
	-Kenneth B. Keating

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press coverage
	-Possible tone
-Communiqué
-Taiwan, Republic of China 
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
	-Proposed opinion
-US policy
-Defense treaty
-Japan

Muskie speech
-Possible administration response
-Rogers
-Newsweek
-Foreign Service
	-Loyalty
-Test

Ireland
-US policy
	-Possible impact on the British
	-Rogers’s concern
		-Inquiries from Buckley and Richard J. Daley
		-Rogers’s upcoming meeting with Hillery

Keating
-Upcoming meeting with the President
-Conversation with Kissinger
	-Type of communication
-Forthcoming Senate testimony
	-Lakshmi Kant Jha
	-Foreign Relations Committee
		-Cable
-Efforts of Joseph J. Sisco and Rogers
-India - Pakistan War
-Indira Gandhi
	-State Department talking points
-Jack N. Anderson papers
-Forthcoming conversation with President
-Gandhi’s visit
	-State Department memoranda
-US-Indian relations
-Possible problems
-Kissinger’s conversation with Jha
	-Timing
-Bangladesh
-US policy
	-Possible willingness to accept recognition
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Bangladesh
-Pakistan
	-Arms sales

Bangladesh
-US aid
	-Humanitarian relief
	-Percentage of United Nations [UN] contributions
-State Department views
	-Definitive answer after President’s trip to PRC

Keating
-Forthcoming Senate testimony
-Gandhi
	-Restoration of US aid
-The President’s forthcoming world report
-Restoration of US aid
	-Kissinger’s view

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Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Forthcoming conversation with President
-Tenure in office
		-Upcoming offensive

Porter
-Style

President’s schedule
	-Joseph S. Farland
		-Florida
		-Previous meeting
		-Keating
		-Forthcoming call from Farland
	-Ambassadors

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
-Rogers’s memorandum to the President
	-Content
	-Announcement

Rogers’s schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s memorandum
	-Location
	-Florida

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:18 am and 9:49 am.]

[Conversation No. 665-1A]

Kissinger’s memorandum

Kissinger left at 9:49 am.

[No conversation]

Kissinger entered at 9:51 am.

Kissinger’s memorandum

Yevtushenko
-State Department
-Comment about Vietnam
	-Liberals

[The President talked with Rogers between 9:52 am and 9:55 am.]

[Conversation No. 665-1B]

[See Conversation No. 20-43]

Yevtushenko
-Views of Vietnam
-Dobrynin
-Liberals
-Public relations
-Memorandum from Rogers

Ireland
-President’s recent conversation with Rogers
-US policy
-Rogers’s conversations
-Earl of Cromer, Hillery
-US policy
-Possible impact on the British
-Edward R.G. Heath
	-Analogy to US domestic situation

President’s schedule
-Farland
	-Upcoming meeting
-Key Biscayne
	-Briefing books
-Preparation for forthcoming trip to PRC
-Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai
	-Biographies
	-Mao’s favorite novels
-Keating
	-Timing
-Bunker
	-Timing

Kissinger left at 9:59 am.

-Farland
-President’s reading material on PRC
	-Buchanan
	-Kissinger
-Key Biscayne
	-Timing
	-Departure time
		-Reception

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Vietnam
-Problems with departments
-Negotiations
	-October 1971
-Rogers, Laird
-Cambodia
-Kissinger compared to Rogers
	-Kissinger’s personality
		-Conflict

President’s schedule
-Yevtushenko
-Rogers’s possible actions
-Rogers’s memorandum
	-Timing
-Press photograph
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Kissinger’s request
-Drug story

	Rogers
	-Henry Kissinger
		-Previous conversation with Haldeman
	-Lunch with Benjamin C. Bradlee, February 2, 1972
-Katharine L. Graham
	-Concern for Rogers
-Previous relationship with Graham
-Foreign policy problems
-John N. Mitchell
-Schedule
-Dobrynin’s meeting
-Israelis
	-Unknown meetings
-Kissinger
-Credit
-Assumed credit

John B. Connally
-Relations within administration
-David M. Kennedy

Kennedy
-Perceived role
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-The President, Kissinger
-Tenure
-Travel allowance
	-Amount
-Rogers, Connally
	-Request for more money
-Haldeman’s forthcoming meeting with Connally, Peter M. Flanigan, and Kissinger
	-President’s instructions

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:59 am.

	Keating

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

	Kennedy
-Role with administration

Kissinger entered at 10:08 am.

	-NATO post
-US Ambassadors in Brussels and Geneva
-Relations with Connally
-Kissinger’s possible conversation with Kennedy
-Kissinger’s possible conversation with Connally
	-Haldeman
	-Flanigan
-Connally’s role
	-Leadership

Flanigan
-Role with administration
-Peter G. Peterson

Connally
-Role with administration
	-Kennedy

Kennedy
-Role with administration
-NATO job
	-Supervisory role
-Relations with Connally
	-Cabinet
	-Geneva
					-Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD] ambassador’s report
-Flanigan’s forthcoming efforts
	-Connally’s view
-Relations with Connally
	-Negotiations
	-Kissinger’s previous talk with Connally
-Trade negotiations with Japan
	-Kennedy’s role
		-State Department
-President’s instructions
-Haldeman’s forthcoming efforts

	The President’s schedule

Keating and the White House photographer entered at 10:14 am.

	Prayer breakfast

Distribution of photographs

Haldeman and the White House photographer left at 10:15 am.

India-Pakistan relations
-Historic relationship
	-Previous wars
		-Partition
		-1962
		-1971
	-Possible future
-Possible future relationships
-European Community
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Mujibur Rahman
-Gandhi
-USSR
-PRC
-Relationship with India
-1962 War
-Pakistan
-Keating’s forthcoming testimony
	-Timing
-Anderson’s papers
-Keating’s cables
	-Keating’s approach and knowledge
		-Farland [?]

	Bangladesh
		-US policy
			-Peking visit

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INDIA

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-Decision making process
-Announcement
-Timing
	-PRC trip
-Semantics
-Proposed US action
-President’s instructions to Keating
	-Pragmatism
-PRC
	-India

President’s forthcoming world report to Congress
-Timing
-US relations with India
	-Dialogue
-Use by Keating
-Indian foreign secretary [Trikoli Nath Kaul]
-Senate testimony
	-Foreign aid

India-Pakistan
-US policy
	-President’s conversations with Gandhi, November 4-5, 1971
	-State Department memoranda
		-Kissinger
	-Toast
		-Jawaharlal Nehru
	-US aid
	-Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
		-Unilateral withdrawal
	-Refugee problems
	-Keating’s forthcoming conversations with Indians
	-President’s previous contributions to India
		-Competition with PRC
		-Democracy
		-UN
			-Non-alignment
	-USSR
	-Kissinger’s briefing of Keating
	-PRC
		-President’s and Keating’s experience

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	INDIA

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Triloki Nath Kaul
-Relationship with Keating
-Conversations with Keating
	-Overtures for better relations
	-Relationship with Kissinger
		-Kaul’s USSR sentiment

[Forename unknown] Dar

President’s conversation with Kaul
-Blair House
	-Accommodations
		-Compared to British

Kaul
-Closeness to the USSR
	-Conversations with Keating
-Kissinger’s conversations with Jha
	-Gandhi
	-Kissinger’s instructions to Keating

Keating
-Communications with Kissinger
	-State Department
-[David] Kenneth Rush and Bunker
-Walter H. Annenberg
-State Department

Leaks
-State Department
-French
	-Kissinger’s previous trips to Paris

India
-Relations with the Administration
-Japan
-President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Aid
	-US law
-US policy
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
	-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
	-B. Everett Jordan
	-Republicans’ views
	-UN resolutions on conflict with Pakistan
		-Apology
		-Point by UN Secretary General
	-Aid
		-Basis
	-Refugees
		-Percentage of UN assistance
		-Bangladesh
	-PRC trip
		-Announcement

Bangladesh
-US policy
	-Refugees
		-Edward M. Kennedy’s statement
			-Veracity

Keating’s forthcoming senate testimony
	-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
	-White House
-India-Pakistan War
-US policy
	-State of the Union address
-Briefing for Keating
	-Dr. David K.E. Bruce
-State Department’s views
	-Keating’s upcoming testimony
-Previous meetings with Kennedy and W[illiam] Stuart Symington
	-Possible political issue
-Anderson’s papers

Keating
-Role as ambassador
	-Previous conversations with Kissinger and the State Department
-Forthcoming Senate testimony
-India-Pakistan War
-US policy

US-India relations
-Keating’s conversations
-Kaul’s speech
	-Relationship with Gandhi
-India’s relationship with
	-USSR
	-PRC
	-US
		-US wish for India to succeed
-Keating’s forthcoming message for Kaul
	-Discussion with the President
-Memorandum

Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Kennedy
-Conversations with Keating
-Rockefeller’s location
-Ron Stafford

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	Personnel management
		-Annenberg
			-Tenure
		-Keating
	-Tenure in office
		-Preparation for possible resignation

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	Gifts
		-Money clip

Keating
-Security

Unknown woman

Keating and Kissinger left at 10:52 am.

Conversation No. 665-2

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  10:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s meeting with Ellsworth F. Bunker

Bull left at 10:53 pm.

Conversation No. 665-3

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  10:53 am - 11:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ellsworth F. Bunker and Henry A. Kissinger.

President’s previous meeting with Kenneth B. Keating

President’s letter to Nepal
-Death of King [Mehendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva]
	-Relationship with the US
-Bunker’s wife [Carol C. (Laise) Bunker]

King Mehendra’s health
	-Illness
	-News summary
	-Skill at hunting

Crown Prince Birendra
	-Age

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NEPAL

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Mrs. Bunker’s schedule
	-Saigon
		-King Mahendra’s death

Keating’s schedule
	-Preparation for testimony
		-Papers

US-India relations
	-Keating’s previous conversation with Triloki Nath Kaul
	-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

US foreign policy
-John B. Connally’s views

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:53 am.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.

US-India relations
-The President’s and Keating’s experience
-US policy on India
-President’s previous conversation with Keating
-USSR and People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-US aid
-Amount
	-United Nations [UN]
-PRC
	-1962
-USSR
	-Calcutta
-US policy
	-Proposed relationship with India
		-Advantages
		-Possible concessions

Bangladesh
-Indian Army
	-Bengalis
-USSR, PRC
	-West Bengal
-US interests
	-Possible outcome

Vietnam
-Edmund S. Muskie’s speech, February 2, 1972
-Assessment
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-President’s policy
-Morale
-News reports
-News summary
	-New line
-Military situation
-Carrier
-B-52’s and A-1’s
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
	-Show of US strength
-President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Communists’ morale
-Bombing
	-Potential for devastation
		-Morale
-Efficacy of interdiction
-Surface-to-Air Missile [SAM] sites
-Protective reaction
-SAM sites
-Kissinger’s upcoming conversation with Robert F. Ellsworth
-Shrikes [?]
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
	-Accuracy of attack
-PRC trip
	-Request to limit the attack
-Briefings
	-PRC trip
-Protective reaction
	-Definition
	-President’s instructions to Bunker
-Bunker’s forthcoming conversation with Abrams
	-Briefings
		-PRC trip
-SAM sites
	-Number and location
		-Laos
		-B-52
		-Giap Pass
-PRC trip
	-Timing
	-President’s request
		-Protective reaction
-South Vietnam
	-B-3 [?] front
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
	-PRC trip
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Moorer
	-Timing
-I Corps
-Timing of possible attack
-Bunker
-Increase of planes and carriers
-Briefing, February 2, 1972
-Bombing
-Navy pilots
	-Compared to US Air Force [USAF] pilots
		-Accuracy of bombing
			-B-3 [?]
-Laos
-Long Tieng
-Vang Pao’s forces
	-Morale
-South Vietnamese army
-South Vietnamese army
-B-52s attacks
	-Need for follow-up
		-Number of casualties on the ground
-Abrams
-Melvin R. Laird
-Bunker’s conversation with Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam
-Timing
-DMZ
-Gen. [Forename unknown] Nam
	-US 9th Division
		-Delta
	-South Vietnamese 7th Division
-Conversation with Joseph W. Alsop
	-Timing
-Cambodia
-Outcome of maneuver
-Abrams
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu’s actions
	-Psychological aspect of upcoming offensive
		-Unknown person
-B-52s
-Numbers
	-Guam
-Moorer, Laird
	-Kissinger’s upcoming conversation with Laird
-Aircraft carrier
	-Delivery date
		-Number of planes
-South Vietnamese army
	-Offensive
		-Aid
-Vietnamization
-Communists’ casualties
	-Numbers
-Lam Son operation
-Lam Son
	-Press reporting
-Cambodia
	-34th Corps
-Sir Robert Thompson’s views
-Bunker’s tenure in office
-Request from the President
-G. McMurtrie Godley, William H. Sullivan
-Washington Post’s views
-New York Times
-American “establishment”
	-Reaction to Vietnam
-Bunker’s tenure in office
-Mrs. Bunker
-Offensive
-Upcoming Vietnam negotiations
-1972 election

Kissinger’s schedule
-Keating
-[Earl of Cromer] George R.S. Baring
	-Foreign minister

Kissinger left at 11:25 am.

Vietnam
-Abrams
	-Approximate force levels
-Negotiations
-Possible effect
-Residual force
	-Potential numbers
-Gen. [Forename unknown] Leander’s letter to Abrams
-Request for divisions
-South Korean divisions
	-Withdrawal in 1973
-Size of South Vietnamese army
-Popular forces
-Korean divisions
-Tran Kim’s Quang’s trip to Seoul
-Thieu
-Withdrawal
-Chief of Staff visit to Saigon
-Abrams
	-Timing
		-Type of military support
-Residual force
-President’s forthcoming troop announcement

Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 11:27 pm.

		-President’s instructions to Haig
		-Abrams
-Residual force
	-Forthcoming announcement, April 1972
-Korean divisions
-Concerns
	-Helicopters, logistical support
-Economic aid
-Congressional action
-Mrs. Bunker
-Bunker’s tenure
-Views of American people

Bunker and Haig left at 11:33 am.

Conversation No. 665-4

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:33 am and 11:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:33 am.

Conversation No. 665-5

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:33 am and 11:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to William P. Rogers.
Rogers’s memorandum, February 1, 1972

Rogers’s forthcoming conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-President’s forthcoming trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Leonid I. Brezhnev, Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Agenda
	-Timing of discussions
-Middle East
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Vietnam

European Security Conference
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-President’s conversations
-Joseph M. Luns, Edward R.G. Heath, Willy Brandt, Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Timing
-Substance
	-Evaluation with allies and USSR

SALT
-Verification panel

US trade with USSR
-US negotiating position
-Linkage
-Credits
-Views of Maurice H. Stans and Peter G. Peterson
-Negotiations

Middle East
-Israel
-Negotiations
-USSR
	-Upcoming summit
		-Timing

Distribution of President’s memorandum
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Dobrynin

Conversation No. 665-6

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  11:53 am - 1:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

	Memorandum for William P. Rogers

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President’s schedule
-Florida

-Forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Preparation
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Talking points
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Books read by the President

Memorandum to William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
	-Copy of memorandum

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Nellie L. Yates
-Forthcoming conversation with Woods

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Woods left at 11:58 am.

Kissinger’s schedule
-Florida
-President’s State of World Message

President’s schedule
-Athletes
-Introductions
-Bowie K. Kuhn, Walter Kennedy, Alvin R. (“Pete”) Rozelle
-Interest
	-Possible attendance
		-Wives
-Buffet
-Views concerning drugs
	-Seriousness of issue
-Florida
-George P. Shultz
	-Location
		-Proposal to give Shultz time off
-Popular impression
	-Study time for the President
-Key Biscayne
-Walker’s Cay
-Haldeman
	-Attendance
-Manolo Sanchez
-Camp David compared to Key Biscayne
	-Weather

National economy
-Stock market
-Trade volume
-American Stock Exchange
	-American buyers
	-Institutional buying
-Unemployment
	-Percentage
-New jobs
	-Credit
-Herbert Stein, Paul W. McCracken, and Shultz
	-Concern
-Money supply
	-Shultz
-President’s letter to Arthur F. Burns
-Unemployment
-Possible press coverage
	-Acceptable percentages

John B. Connally
-Relationship with David M. Kennedy
	-Kissinger
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman and Peter M. Flanigan

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:58 am.

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Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.

Kennedy
-Forthcoming meeting with Flanigan
-Ambassador’s authority
-Role with administration
	-State Department
-Connally
	-Chain of command
		-Kissinger’s possible conversation
-Connally
-Kennedy’s style
-Peter G. Peterson
-Role with administration
-Flanigan, Peterson, Rogers
-Role of Ambassador specified
-Compared to Connally
	-Group of Ten
-Cabinet status

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:58 am.

President’s schedule
	-Florida
		-Forthcoming call to Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
		-Athletes reception

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.

Rogers
-Life article concerning President’s foreign policy
	-Rogers taking credit
		-Woods’s reaction
-Interviews concerning foreign policy
-Credit
-Reports
	-Kissinger
-China initiative, Vietnam, Cambodia
-Kissinger’s attitude

The President left and returned at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.

	Kissinger’s relations with Rogers
-Possible solutions
-Resignation threat
-Present situation
		-Articles
		-State Department

Kissinger

Rogers
-Role with Administration
-Relations with the President, Kissinger
	-Spokesman
-Kissinger’s conversation with Marshall Green
-State Department
-Memorandum to the President
	-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
		-Kissinger
		-The President’s memorandum to Rogers
-Compared to Kissinger
	-Attitude
-Statements concerning President
-Attitude
-John N. Mitchell
-Benjamin C. Bradlee and Katharine L. Graham
-Bradlee’s conversation with Kissinger, February 2, 1972
	-Rogers’s job performance
	-State Department
-Kissinger’s views
-Bradlee’s views
-Graham’s conversation with Peterson
	-Length
	-Haldeman’s possible conversations with Peterson
-Bradlee’s views on Rogers
	-Comparisons
		-Concern
		-Rogers’s emotions
-President’s schedule
	-Key Biscayne
		-Kissinger
-Call to President, February 2, 1972
	-Irish Foreign Minister’s [Patrick Hillery’s] arrival
		-Statement
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Ireland
-Edward R.G. Heath
-William R. Buckley, Jr.
	-US position

Ireland
-Terrance Cardinal Cooke

Rogers
-Role with Administration
	-[Earl of Cromer] Georges R.S. Baring
-Ireland
-Hillery
-Rogers’s quest for publicity
	-President’s upcoming trip to PRC
		-Kissinger
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] trip
-Attitude
-Recognition

Woods entered at 12:34 pm.

Memorandum to Rogers
-Kissinger

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 12:34 pm and 12:36 pm.]

[Conversation No. 665-6A]

Memorandum to Rogers
-Distribution
-Woods
-Sanchez
-Kissinger’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Memorandum to Rogers
-Sanchez

Woods left at 12:36 pm.

Rogers
-Intellectuals
-Possible actions
-Bradlee and Graham
	-Attitude toward the President
	-Kissinger
-Possible actions
-Experience as Attorney General
-State Department
	-National Security Council [NSC]
		-Kissinger
-Marshall Green
	-Working group meeting
		-President’s upcoming PRC trip
			-Rogers’s action
-President’s forthcoming State of the World message
-State Department’s role
	-Rogers’s contribution
		-Kissinger
		-PRC

State Department
-Robert S. Ingersoll
-Interview with Japanese press
-Congress
-Views concerning Ambassadorship to Japan
-Foreign Service
-Kissinger
	-Outlook
		-Presidency

Rogers
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger entered at 12:43 pm.

President’s forthcoming memorandum
	-PRC
	-Kissinger’s opinion
		-Wording
	-Rogers

Dobrynin
-Conversation with Kissinger, February 3, 1972
	-Length of conversation
	-State Department

Rogers
-President’s forthcoming memorandum
	-European security, trade

Kenneth B. Keating
-Conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Keating’s possible location
		-New York
	-Campaign activities

Rogers
-President’s forthcoming memorandum
-US-Soviet trade with USSR
-Views of Maurice H. Stans and Peter G. Peterson
	-Importance to USSR
-Middle East

Middle East
-USSR
-Egypt

Rogers
-President’s forthcoming memorandum
	-Praise

Rose Mary Woods entered at 12:46 pm.

-Distribution
	-Contents of memorandum

Woods left at 12:47 pm.

US relations with USSR
-Staff roles
-High interest
-Peterson
	-East-West trade
-President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Peking compared with Moscow
-Washington Star article
	-Timing
		-Possible story leanings
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Michael J. Mansfield
	-Possible leaniness
-President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Middle East
-Vietnam
-Trade
-SALT
	-Submarines
-Middle East
	-Possible US concessions
-Israel
	-US guarantees
		-Planes

[The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 12:47 pm and 12:49 pm.]

[Conversation No. 665-6B]

[See Conversation No. 20-44]

[Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 12:49 pm and 12:51 pm.]

[Conversation No. 665-6C]

[See Conversation No. 20-45; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

President’s schedule
-Yeygeny Yevtushenko
-Agenda
	-Mood of US
	-Vietnam

Yevtushenko
-Conversation with Kissinger at Jacob K. Javits’s dinner
	-The President’s PRC initiative
-Political views
	-Liberals
	-Support for Vietnam

PRC trip
	-Briefing books
		-Buchanan
		-Press conference

President’s schedule
-Television
-Trip to PRC
-President’s opinion
-Trip to PRC
-Toasts
-Chou En-Lai
	-Context
-Illness
-Vernon C. Coffey, Jr.
-Travel
	-Status of individuals
-Banquet
-Kissinger’s possible measures
-Chou En-Lai
-Media coverage
	-Justification
-President’s conversation with Mansfield, February 3, 1972
	-Japan
	-India
-Foreign relations implications
-News summaries
	-Buchanan
-Taiwan
-Critics
	-Potential motives
-Eisaku Sato’s conversation with President
	-Request from Sato
-Foreign relations implications
	-Vietnam
-Japan
	-US commitment
-India
-USSR
-PRC
-Popular reaction
-President’s barber
-Vietnam
-Military situation
	-Pleiku
	-Comparisons to 1968
-PRC trip
	-Media coverage
		-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Press conference
-Format
	-PRC trip
-Agenda
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Budget
-Dock strike
-Connally
-Kissinger
-President’s forthcoming meetings in PRC
-Talking points
-Proposed opening statement
-Chou En-lai
-Florida
	-Timing
		-Andre Malraux
		-Kissinger’s schedule
-Florida
-Connally

	Forthcoming trip to PRC
-Possible press coverage
	-Barbara Walters
	-Briefings for the press
		-Kissinger
			-Briefing in Hawaii
		-Rogers’s role
		-Communiqué
		-Rogers
			-Marshall Green
-First plenary session
	-Chou En-lai
-Rogers
	-PRC foreign minister
		-Influence
		-Chou En-lai
	-Role
-Agreements on culture and science
	-Kissinger’s instructions
-Kissinger’s briefing in Hawaii
-Press briefings
	-Hawaii
-PRC trip
	-Substantive briefings
	-President’s relationship with the press
		-Instructions
	-Importance of PRC trip
		-PRC impressions
-Possible farewell party
	-Potential sensitivities

Kissinger left at 1:12 pm.

		-Press briefings
-Kissinger compared to Rogers
	-Avoidance of problem
-President’s role
-President’s role compared to Kissinger’s
	-Possible perception by the press
	-Communique

Rogers
-Role with administration
	-Potential team player
		-Credit
-Bradlee’s conversation with Kissinger
-Washington Post
-Intellectuals
-Rogers’s tenure

Haldeman left at 1:30 pm.

Conversation No. 665-7

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm.

Conversation No. 665-8

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  2:25 pm - 4:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Vietnam
-Edmund S. Muskie’s speech
-William P. Rogers’s statement
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Ronald Ziegler’s conversation with Rogers
-Reaction
	-State Department
-Roles of John A. Scali and Charles W. Colson
-Democrats’ possible reaction
-Possible response
	-Mansfield
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s opinion
-Robert J. Dole, Barry M. Goldwater
-Ronald W. Reagan
-John Sherman Cooper, Charles H. Percy
	-Edward W. Brooke
	-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
	-William B. Saxbe
	-Toughness
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Walter R. Meares
-William E. Brock, III
-Democrats’
	-John C. Stennis
	-Rogers
-Henry M .(“Scoop”) Jackson

Public relations
-Administration counterattacks

Rogers
-Forthcoming television appearance, February 6, 1972
-Xuan Thuy
-Time allotment
-Face the Nation
-Statement, February 3, 1972
-Muskie
	-Responsibility
-Vietnam negotiations
-Public reaction to Muskie statement
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Involvement
	-Unknown executive at Sans Souci

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Viet Cong proposal
	-Media focus
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Possibility of leaving office
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Possible exchange
-US position
	-Possible withdrawal date
-Viet Cong proposal
-Strategy
	-Potential for criticism
		-Propaganda
-Thieu
-Cease-fire
-US-Vietnam strategy
	-Possible cease-fire
-William J. Porter’s response
-Ziegler’s comments to press
-US position
-Election Commission
	-Thieu
-Rogers’s comments on Muskie’s speech

Elliot R. Richardson
-Statement concerning welfare reform, February 3, 1972
-Compromise
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Pilot programs
-Abraham A. Ribicoff

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Press questions
-Possible differences of opinion between Agnew and the President
-Legal services
-Ziegler’s comments
	-Legislation

	White House Conference on Drug Abuse
		-Press coverage

	Television

Leonard H. Goldenson and Elton Rule
-Conversation with Ziegler, February 3, 1972
-Previous meeting with Colson and Peter M. Flanigan
-Conversation with Ziegler
-Television news
-Daniel L .Schorr
	-Claim
	-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

Ziegler left at 2:45 pm.

President’s schedule
-Florida
-Previous meeting with athletes
	-Press coverage
-Bowie K. Kuhn, Alvin R. (“Pete”) Rozelle
-President’s comments
	-Effect
		-Emulation of the President
	-Athletes in commercials
-Blacks
	-Competition
-Introduction of the President
-Possible changes suggested by the President
-Military aide
-Signal corpsman
-Trained announcer
-British system
	-Example
	-Professionalism
-Army Chorus
-Selection of songs

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	White House social events
		-Music
			-Prayer breakfast
				-America
	-DeWitt Wallace dinner
		-Incident
			-God Bless America
	-Army Chorus
		-Road to Mandalay

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	Music
		-Walter E. (“Walt”) Disney
		-Churches

Prayer breakfast
-Two black girls with guitar
-Ethel Waters
	-Performance

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
-Kissinger
-Background
-Babi Yar
	-Theme

Jews

Peter G. Peterson
-Role with administration
-John B. Connally

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President’s previous meeting with athletes
-Importance
	-Briefing

Kissinger entered at 3:01 pm.

Muskie
-Rogers’s comments February 3, 1972 concerning speech on Vietnam
-Quotes
	-Mansfield

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Viet Cong proposal
-President’s conversation with Ziegler
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Withdrawal
	-POWs
-Thieu
	-Possible resignation
-US position
-US position
-Viet Cong proposal
-Ceasefire negotiations
-US position
	-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s conversation with Mansfield, February 3, 1972
-Viet Cong proposal
-Possible US response
	-Press
	-US proposal
		-October 1971

Cuba
	-Ad hoc approach

Haldeman left at 3:07 pm.

Yevtushenko and Demitri Zarechnak entered at 3:07 pm.

Photograph opportunities

Cuba

Seating
-Andrei A. Gromyko
	-Other Heads of State
		-Seating

Yevtushenko
-Visit to US
-Poetry readings
	-Language
-Background

Local pride
	-Yevtshenko’s hometown
		-Location
			-The President’s travels
				-Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk
		-Comparisons to the US

President’s college experience
-Leo Tolstoy

Russian literary tradition
-Dr. Zhivago
	-Description

President’s 1959 visit to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Nikita S. Khrushechev
-President’s speech
	-Sincerity
	-Understanding of conditions in USSR
	-Tone
	-Effect

Yevtushenko’s poetry

Values of USSR people
	-Yevtushenko’s view

Unite of mankind

The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Effect

Yevtushenko’s visit to Chile in 1968
-Reception
	-Accusations from left and right

	Yevtushenko’s visit to Library of Congress in 1966
		-Robert S. Mcnamara
			-Photograph caption

The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
	-Effect
		-USSR
		-Vietnam

USSR invasion of Prague
	-Historical relevance

USSR relations with US
	-Propoganda
		-Khrushchev
		-Josef V. Stalin

Anti-American propaganda
-Worldwide Leftist movement
-Yevtushenko’s previous visit to South America
	-Yevtushenko’s opinion
-Socialists
-USSR relations with US
	-Apparent closeness
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
	-Meeting with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai
		-Effect

President’s meeting with Yevtushenko

President’s forthcoming visit to USSR
-Kissinger
-Duration
-USSR intelligentsia
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Classical ballet
-Itinerary

Theatre
	-Moscow
	-Receptions

Kissinger’s visit to USSR

President’s visits to Paris, London, Bonn
	-Timing

President’s forthcoming visit to USSR
-Itinerary
-Meetings with leaders
-Cultural exchange
	-Bureaucracies

Russia
-Abolition of serfdom
-Freedom
-October Revolution
-Tsar
-Interim government
-Maxim Gorky’s letter to Vladimir Ilich Lenin [Ulyanov]
-Censorship
	-Civil War

Slavery in US
-Effect

USSR
	-History
		-Ideals compared to reality
	-Political conditions

Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Desire to visit US
	-Possible timing

President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
	-France [?]

Kissinger’s schedule
-Connally

Kissinger left at 3:55 pm.

President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-Itinerary
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Recommendations
	-President’s reputation

President’s 1967 visit to USSR
-Cultural exchange
	-Moscow
	-Samarkand
	-Alma-Ata

US-USSR relations
	-Common interests

President’s forthcoming visit to PRC
-Possible USSR reaction
-President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-Possible PRC reaction
-The President’s pragmatism
-Importance
	-US differences with PRC, USSR
-Intelligentsia

President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-Brezhnev
-Khrushchev
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Agenda for talks
	-Arms limitation, trade
-Spirit of visit
	-World War II

US-USSR relations
-Korea

World peace
	-“Watershed”
-President’s forthcoming trips
	-Possible impact on viewing PRC and USSR leaders
-Brezhnev’s possible trip

Yevtushenko’s poetry
	-Suggestions from Yevtushenko

Nancy Hanks
-Role with Administration

President’s 1967 visit to USSR
-Samarkand
-Conversation with one-legged man

Presentation of gifts by President
	-Cufflinks

World peace
-US, USSR, PRC

Yevtushenko’s book

Yevtushenko and Zarechnak left at 4:10 pm.

Conversation No. 665-9

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:10 pm and 4:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
-Compared to German Professor

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:23 pm.

Conversation No. 665-10

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:10 pm and 4:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Charles W. Colson’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:23 pm.

Conversation No. 665-11

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  4:23 pm - 4:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler, Charles W. Colson and Rose Mary Woods.

President’s previous meeting with Yevgeny Yevtushenko
-Ziegler’s forthcoming comments to press
-The President’s reading
			-President’s forthcoming visits to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Yevtushenko’s visit to US
-Poetry
	-Discussion of arts
		-Transcending politics

Note to William P. Rogers

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	President’s upcoming meeting with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
		-Timing

Woods and Ziegler left at 4:26 pm.

National economy
-Unemployment
-Administration’s statistics
-Unknown person
-Married men
	-Percentage
		-Compared to early 1960’s
-Colson’s conversation with James D. Hodgson
-Prospects
	-Comparisons to last year

Rogers
-Comments concerning Edmund S. Muskie’s speech on Vietnam

Muskie
-Speech on Vietnam
-Possible administration response
-President’s 1968 Republican Platform Committee statement
-Negotiations
-Peace
	-Muskie’s involvement
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s possible response
-Jackson’s forthcoming Meet the Press, February 6, 1972
-Briefing by White House staff member

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Muskie
-Speech on Vietnam
-Possible administration response
-President’s memorandum, February 2, 1972
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-John A. Scali
-Rogers
	-Compared to John Foster Dulles

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-Barry M. Goldwater
-Rogers

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:26 pm.

President’s schedule
-Moorer
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-President’s instructions

Kissinger’s schedule
	-Possible delay
		-Robert S. Ingersoll

President’s schedule
-Moorer
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Ingersoll
-Haig

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:42 pm.

National economy
-Unemployment
-Herbert Stein
-Status
	-Income
	-Inflation
	-Unemployment

Rogers
-Conversation with Colson
-Relations with press
-Conversation with Colson
-Forthcoming Face the Nation, February 6, 1972
	-Jackson
-Goldwater speech
-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Possible Administration resposne

Muskie
-Speech on Vietnam
	-Arizona and Iowa
-Press comment on Muskie speech
-Unknown reporter’s conversation with Colson, January 31, 1972
-Press conference
-Possible attacks by Democrats
-Forthcoming attacks by Jackson
	-The environment, busing, and the space shuttls
-Goldwater
-Speech on Vietnam
-Possible administration response

Vietnam
-Negotiations
	-Peace offer
		-Reaction by Viet Cong 
-Wall Street Journal editorial
-Distribution
-Administration propaganda
	-Upcoming special issues of Monday
		-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s trip to Africa
		-The President’s peace initiatives

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National economy
-Stock Market
-Volume
-American Stock Exchange
-Brokers’ profits
	-Comparisons to 1968

Michael J. Mansfield

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:26 pm.

	The President’s schedule
		-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:42 pm.

The press
-Edith Efron
-Colson’s conversation with Leonard H. Goldenson, February 3, 1972
-Network coverage of Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. Committee
-Walter J. Cronkite, Jr.’s testimony
-Accuracy in Media’s challenge to Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
	-David Brinkley’s previous commentary about military state

President’s schedule
-Florida
-Preparation for forthcoming trip to PRC
	-Readings

Colson left at 4:42 pm.

Conversation No. 665-12

Date:  February 3, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:42 pm and 5:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and Henry A. Kissinger.

President’s previous meeting with Yevgeny Yevtushenko
-President’s 1959 speech in Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-President’s forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Effect on USSR
-Interpreter
-Notes for Kissinger

Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Contact with President
-Importance
	-Yeoman Charles E. Radford incident
		-Jack N. Anderson
-Secretary of Defense
	-Responsibility
-Kissinger, Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-President’s instructions

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 5:08 pm.