Conversation No. 666-1

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:32 am.

Conversation No. 666-2

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown before 9:32 am and 11:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

[Unintelligible]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:32 am.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:32 am.

	Instruction

Vietnam negotiations
-Xuan Thuy

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:32 am.

Executive Office Building [EOB]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-Withdrawal
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Compared to October 1971
	-Possible advantages
-Edmund S. Muskie’s plan

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[Duration:  57m 32s  ]

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[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:32 am and 10:35 am.]

[Conversation No. 666-2A]

Request for John D. Ehrlichman to come to the Oval Office

[End of telephone conversation]

[No conversation]

Ehrlichman entered at 10:35 am.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration:  29s  ]

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The President’s schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan’s memorandum
-Compared to Peter G. Peterson’s
-Forthcoming telephone call to Alejandro A. Lanusse
	-Suggested conversation

[No conversation]

			-Memorandum
			-Forthcoming meeting with US attorneys
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Flanigan

	Economic matters
	-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
		-Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank
-John B. Connally
-Flanigan’s role
	-Kissinger
		-Political
	-Connally
-Diplomacy
-Internal politics
	-Lanusse
	-IMF
-Flanigan
-Memorandum
	-Peterson
-Complexity of job
	-Example
		-Pantyhose
-State Department
-Treasury Department
-Panty hose industry

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[Duration:  11m 29s  ]

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	Campaign finances
-Robert L. Vesco
	-Donald A. Nixon
-Securities And Exchange Commission [SEC]
-F. Donald Nixon
	-J. Willard Marriott, Jr.

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  11s  ]

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-Location
-John N. Mitchell
-William J. Casey
-F. Donald Nixon
-Marriott
-Finances
-Political contribution

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[Privacy]
[Duration:  10s  ]

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-Location

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  7m 4s  ]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:59 am.

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	Personnel
-“Official Family”
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
	-Rogers
-State Department
	-Foreign policy briefing
		-Wives and State Department staff
		-Kissinger
			-Joseph J. Sisco

Cabinet and congressional leadership meeting
-Rogers
-Timing
-Press
-Kissinger

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  2m 46s  ]

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Roger Hull
-Death
-Presidential wreath
-Note to [Rosalie (Paschal) Hull]
	-President’s instructions

Ehrlichman’s trip to California
-Leonard K. Firestone
-Foundation

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  3m 21s  ]

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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:09 am.

	The President’s schedule

PRC trip
-Press list
-Announcement
	-Timing
-Hawaii
-Guam
-Departure time
	-President’s instructions
-Press list
-Briefing
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Questions
	-John A. Scali
-Subjects

Ziegler left at 11:12 am.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  7m 53s  ]

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:12 am.

Schedule
-Rogers
-Call to Lanusse
-Donald F. Barnes

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:24 am.

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[Duration:  3m 30s  ]

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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:12 am and 11:24 am.]

[Conversation No. 666-2B]

[See Conversation No. 20-46]

Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Woods left at 11:24 am.

Kissinger and Barnes entered at 11:24 am.

The President on the line

[Barnes talked with an unknown colonel at an unknown time after 11:24 am; the President and Kissinger can be heard in the background.]

[Conversation No. 666-2C]

Colonel on the line

Memorandum
-Connally

Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Letter to the President
-Economy
-Arthur F. Burns

[The President talked with Lanusse between 11:24 am and 11:41 am; Kissinger can be heard in the background.]

[Conversation No. 666-2D]

[See Conversation No. 20-46]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler
-Briefing

President’s appreciation
-Barnes’s translation

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

President’s schedule
-Ziegler
-Forthcoming meeting
-Film production
	-Reception of diplomatic credentials
-Meeting with attorneys [drug prosecution program]
	-Length
	-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Attorney General [John N. Mitchell]
-Meeting
	-Attendance

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:43 am.

	Mujibar Rahman
		-Compared to Sukarno
		-Aid to Pakistan

Ziegler entered at 11:43 am.

Haldeman’s interview on Today show, February 7, 1972
-Ziegler’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Ziegler briefing
-Press
-Personal point of view
-Haldeman’s intent
	-Critics of war
	-Disunity
-Questions
-Ziegler’s talk with the President
	-Possible agreement with Haldeman’s statement
-Handling
	-President’s position
		-Motives of critics
	-Ziegler’s strategy
-Criticism
-Effect
-Peace proposal
	-Possible administration response
-Muskie

Xuan Thuy
-Negotiations
	-Acknowledgement
-Statements
	-Agreement with administration
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Election
-Military compared to political issues
	-May 31, 1971 proposal
		-Proposed details
	-Thieu
	-Election
	-President’s instructions
	-Rogers
	-Political condition
	-North Vietnamese
	-Propaganda
	-Negotiations
	-Transcript

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:54 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-Military compared to political issues
	-August 971
-May 31, 1971

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:43 am.

Kleindienst
-Arrival

The President, Kissinger, and Bull left at 11:54 am.

Conversation No. 666-3

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 pm and 12:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with an unknown person.

Request for a call to the press office
-Bull’s schedule

Bull and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:23 pm.

Conversation No. 666-9

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm and 12:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

	Manolo Sanchez’s location
		-Cabinet Room

	[Unintelligible]

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 12:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 666-9A]

	[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

	[Unintelligible]

The agents left at an unknown time before 12:23 pm.

Conversation No. 666-10

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm and 12:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with Manolo Sanchez.

	[Unintelligible]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:23 pm.

Conversation No. 666-4

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm and 12:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with ambassadors [Moulaye el-Hassan Ould Moktar and Witold Trampczynski]
-Telephone

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:23 pm.

Conversation No. 666-5

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm and 12:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Manolo Sanchez met with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Sanchez and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:23 pm.

Conversation No. 666-6

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  12:42 pm - 1:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  29m 25s  ]

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Cabinet
-Meetings
	-Congressional leaders
-White House staff
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Relationship with Rogers
-John N. Mitchell
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
	-Remarks made
-Robert H. Finch
	-Possible Congressional run
		-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rogers
-Unknown man
-Staff

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[Duration:  33s  ]

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	The President’s schedule
	-Cabinet
	-John B. Connally
	-Schedule
	-Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally

Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo and Robert H. Abplanalp
	-Relationship with the President 
	-Abraham Lincoln
		-[Mary Todd Lincoln]
		-Friends
-Mitchell
-Campaign committee
-Martha Mitchell
	-Relationship with Woods
	-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
	-Issues
	-Paul W. Keyes

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 57s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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	The President’s schedule
-Cabinet
-Departments
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-“Duke” Rose [?]
-Golf
	-Possible location

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  5m 18s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Manolo Sanchez and Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:42 pm.

Refreshments

Ronald L. Ziegler
-Meeting with the President

Sanchez and Bull left at an unknown time before 1:29 pm.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 4s  ]

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The President left at an unknown time before 1:29 pm.

Ziegler entered at 1:29 pm

The President’s schedule
	-Ziegler’s action
	-The President’s reaction
		-Kissinger
		-Woods’s schedule
			-The President’s schedule
-The President and Woods

Woods and Ziegler left at 1:30 pm.

Conversation No. 666-7

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  1:31 pm - 2:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Greetings

Press briefing
-Criticism
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s interview on the Today show, February 7, 1972
-Xuan Thuy
-White House

Haldeman interview briefing
-The President’s meeting with Haldeman
-Critics
	-Liberals
		-Reaction to Haldeman’s rhetoric
-The President’s peace proposals
	-Prospects
		-Need for unity
-Haldeman’s view
	-Talk with Ziegler
-The President’s view
-Unity
-Edmund S. Muskie statement
	-Honesty
	-William P. Rogers’s statement
		-Muskie’s statement questioned
			-Facts
-Motives compared to effect
-Barbara Walters

-Effectiveness of press interviews
	-Haldeman
	-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Rogers
-Haldeman’s interview
	-Timing
		-Compared to Muskie’s statement
-Muskie statements
-Possible response form the Administration
	-William E. Brock, III [?]
-Rogers
-Ziegler’s remarks
-Unity
-Cease-fire
	-1970
-Withdrawal of forces
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Talk with Ziegler
	-Possible response

Press stories
-Coverage
-Campaign
-Signing bills
-Foreign aid
-The President’s schedule
-President’s speech
-Television coverage
-Press list
-Haldeman’s interview
-Democrats’ reaction
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Criticism
	-Freedom of speech
		-Haldeman
-Hugh Scott statement
-Alan Cranston
-Public support for President
	-Ziegler’s example
-Press questions
-Kissinger
-Xuan Thuy
-Military compared to political issues
-Haldeman’s reaction to criticism
	-Haldeman’s talk with Ziegler
-Mansfield
-Critics
-Senators
	-Right to express themselves
		-Haldeman
-Administration handling

President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-Upcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Announcement
-Schedule
-Hawaii
-Briefing
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon attendance on PRC trip
	-History of Mrs. Nixon’s travels
-Buchanan
-Kissinger
-Preparations
-Questions
-Numbers
	-Frequency
-Vietnam
-Criticism
	-Possible response by the Administration
		-Motives
-Muskie
-Unity
-Critics
-President’s responsibility
-Press conference
-Television
	-Options

Press stories
-Press list for PRC trip
-Exclusions
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Cliff Evans, RKO
-Alan Leo
-Upcoming trip the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Representation
-Journalists
-Trip coverage
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
	-Location
-Attitude
-Hawaii briefing
-Today Show
	-Haldeman’s briefing
-Journalistic contacts
-Jack N. Anderson papers
	-Kissinger
	-[Yeoman Charles E. Radford]
	-Alexander M. Haig’s, Ziegler’s reactions
		-PRC
			-Air Force One
	-Wire reports
	-Henry A. Kissinger’s possible involvement
-Haldeman’s comments
	-Kissinger’s concern
	-Ziegler’s view
	-Democrats
	-Vietnam War critics
		-The President’s posture
		-Haldeman’s intent
-Effect
-Press conference
	-Call for honest criticism
		-Possible pressure from the press
-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Previous press attacks
-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Comment
-Alejandro A. Lanusse
-Telephone call
	-Length
-Meeting with attorneys
	-Drug prosecution program
-Haldeman interview
-Democrats
-Muskie
-Kennedy
-Ziegler’s press conference comments
-Muskie statements
-Rogers statement
-Timing
			-Taping time
-World report
-Busing
	-Extensive statement

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 53s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Ziegler left at 2:03 pm.

Conversation No. 666-8

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  2:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Schedule

The President and Sanchez left at 2:04 pm.

Conversation No. 666-11

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:04 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 666-11A]

	[Unintelligible]

	The President’s location
		-Executive Office Building [EOB]

[End of telephone conversation]