Conversation No. 668-1

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:58 am and 8:28 am
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull [?] met with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:28 am.

Conversation No. 668-2

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:58 am and 8:28 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Instruction to carry an unknown time

Executive Office Building [EOB]

The unknown person left at an unknown time 8:28 am.

Conversation No. 668-3

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:58 am and 8:28 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-75]

Conversation No. 668-4

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  8:28 am - 8:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

	Newspapers

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The Presidents schedule
-Camp David
-Timing
-Possible press conference

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Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Unknown man
-Promotion
-Birthday
-Promotion
-Copy

President’s schedule

Woods left at 8:31 am.

Conversation No. 668-5

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  8:31 am - 8:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John N. Erlenborn.

[See Conversation No. 20-76]

Conversation No. 668-6

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  8:34 am - 8:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John T. Myers.

[See Conversation No. 20-77; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 668-7

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  8:39 am - 8:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John M. Zwach.

[See Conversation No. 20-78]

Conversation No. 668-8

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 am and 8:44 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-79]

Conversation No. 668-9

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  8:44 am - 8:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Gen. Walter R. Tkach.

[See Conversation No. 20-80; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 668-10

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:19 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Memorial service
-Compared to funeral
	-Cathedral

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:45 am.

-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.
-Timing

Haldeman and Bull left at an unknown time before 9:19 am.

Conversation No. 668-11

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:19 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Memorial service
-Timing
-William P. Rogers

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:19 am.

Conversation No. 668-12

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 10:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Foreign policy meeting
-Analysis
-Vietnam
-News summary
	-Importance
-Reaction
-Hugh Scott
-Dock strike
-Editorials and columns
-Reaction
-William P. Rogers and John B. Connally
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Rogers and Connally
-Talk with Haldeman
-Countries
-Proposal for Rogers
	-Country visits
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Europe
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Wilderberg [sp?] conference
	-Canada
		-Kissinger’s attendance
			-Number of years
	-Southern New England
	-Vienna
	-Munich

Invitations
-Japan
-Kissinger
-Timing after upcoming trip to PRC
-University
	-Possible plans
-Rogers
-Latin American countries
-Japan
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
	-Proposed announcement
-Haldeman’s instructions to Rogers

PRC Trip
-Briefings
	-Types

	Rogers’s schedule
-Kissinger
-South America
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
-Central Treaty Organization [CENTO] meeting
-Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO] meeting
-Romanians
-Yugoslavs
-Latin America
	-Rogers’s duties

Japan
-Kissinger
	-Invitation
-Rogers
	-Possible significance of Kissinger trip

	Rogers
		-Reaction to handling of Haldeman’s Today show interview

Nicholas and Alexandra premiere
-Location
-Haldeman’s attendance
-Rasputin
-The President’s attendance
	-Florida
-Audience support for Haldeman
-Betty Beale

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:45 am.

Stephen B. Bull’s return
-President’s questions

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:19 am.

Nicholas and Alexandra preview
-Support for Haldeman
-Beale
-Helena M. (“Obie”) Shultz

	Democrats

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Vietnam negotiations
-Ngo Dinh Diem
	-Death criticized by the President
-The President’s posture as candidate

News stories
-Connally
-Rogers
-Talk with Haldeman
-Washington Post editorial
-State of the Union Message
-Administration response
-Rogers
-Ziegler
-Haldeman
-Agnew
	-Crosby S. Noyes
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
	-Vietnam

February 7, 1972 speech [Remarks to White House Conference on Industrial World Ahead]
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-PRC
	-President’s “ad lib” near end of speech
-Maurice H. Stans
	-Previous conversation with Haldeman
-PRC
-Foreign policy

Speech
-Connally
-Stans
	-Timing

Draft of Foreign Policy Report radio speech, February 9, 1972
-The President’s efforts to end the war
-Honorable peace
-Withdrawal of troops
	-Number
-Casualties
-Air power
-Budget costs
-Draft
-Peace offer
-Criticism
-1968
-Negotiations
-The President’s comments as candidates
-Criticism
	-Candidates’ responsibility
		-Avoiding prolonging war
-Peace
-Trust in US
-John A. Scali
-Press
-Selling out
	-A question of sincerity
-The President’s policy
-Critics
-Presidential candidates
-Criticism
-Prolonging the war
-Responsibility
	-Comparisons
-Kissinger
-“Postpone the Peace”
-Line from the President
	-Optimism
-Candidates’ statements
-Wording
-Cautiousness
-Surrender compared with victory
-Nicholas and Alexandra
	-Comparisons to the present time
		-Alexander Kerensky and Tsar Nicholas II
-Criticism
-Presidential candidates
-Honorable peace
-Communists
-Cold War
-South Vietnam
	-Haldeman’s opinion
-Scali’s statements
-Prisoners of war [POWs] compared to Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-Ziegler
-American support
	-Surrender option
		-“Peace with honor”

Press conference
	-Possible appearance on television by the President

Vietnam
-Rogers
-The President’s forthcoming radio speech
-Candidates’ criticism
-Possible enemy incentive
-Prolong the war
-Election
-Presidential statements
-Haldeman statements
-Agnew statements
-Editorials
	-A question of patriotism
		-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
		-Haldeman’s comments
			-Claim
-Ziegler

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 9:19 am.

	Request for Ziegler

	The President’s forthcoming radio speech
-Scali
	-Concern
-State of the World report
-Press conference
-PRC
	-Plan by the Administration

Ziegler entered at 9:19 am.

Ziegler’s schedule
	-Call from the President, February 8, 1972
-Parent-Teacher Association [PTA] meeting
-Compared to Kissinger’s trips to Paris

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Vietnam statements
	-Involvement
		-Scali
		-Kissinger
		-President’s responsibility
-Democrats
-Criticism and accusations
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Haldeman
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Sevareid
-Washington Post
	-Editorial
		-Timing
-Agnew
-Rogers
-The President
-Haldeman
-Statement about PRC
-Democrats
	-Noyes
-Negotiations
-Criticism
	-Assessing blame
-Scali
	-Possible press briefing by Ziegler

The President’s forthcoming radio speech
-Reading of draft
-Ziegler’s opinion
-Copies of to press
	-Distribution
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-11:00 pm news
-Candidates
-Criticism
-Haldeman statements
-New York Times
-Ziegler
-Washington Post
		-Ziegler’s complaint
-Candidates
-Prolong the war
-Leaders meeting
	-Timing
-Negotiations
-Ziegler’s view
	-Responsibilities
-Statements
-Wording of speech
	-Ziegler’s opinion
		-Assistance to the President 
	-George S. McGovern
-Surrender
	-Context
	-Muskie
-McGovern
-Kissinger
-Briefing
-Statements
-Safire
-Kissinger
-PRC
	-Name
		-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Corrections of text
-Vietnam War
-Radio
-Wording
-Candidates’ criticism
	-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Prolonging the war

Rose Mary Woods entered at 9:38 am.

-Typing
-Instructions
		-Ziegler’s opinion

Woods left at 9:43 am.

-Draft
-POWs
-Wording
-Possible consequences
-President’s view
-Teleprompter
-Camera
-President’s instructions
-Distribution
-Newsmen
	-Number
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Broadcast
	-Amount of time
-Preparation by the President
	-Schedule
-Press
-Ziegler
-Haldeman
-News
-Editorials

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-Haldeman
-Call to Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-George C. Wallace
-Cousin
-Rebozo contact
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-1968
-Muskie
-Florida primary
-Agnew

Haldeman’s Today show interview
-Press conference
-Peter Lisagor
-Dan Rather
-Briefing
-PRC
-Story
-Ziegler
-Press
-Barbara Walters’s point
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Transcript availability
-Newspapers
-Television news services
-Timing
-Press
-Patriotic forces in US
	-Underestimation
-Washington, DC
-Reaction
-Nicholas and Alexandra
-Beale
-Anna C. Chennault
-PRC ambassador

	Vietnam
-Noyes
	-Story
		-Surrender
-1970 campaign
-Issue
	-Peace initiative
-Public opinion
	-US involvement
		-Possible movement to undermine the President’s efforts
-Critics
-Haldeman’s statements
	-Possible administration response
-Reston
-Kissinger
	-John W. Gardner
		-Visit to Reston’s home
-Tone of columns
-Kissinger
	-Popularity with the media
-Haldeman’s comments
	-Durability as story
		-PRC trip
		-Democrats
	-Future comments

The President’s forthcoming radio speech
-Kissinger
-Vietnam section
-Note from Ziegler
-Woods
-Typing
-Teleprompter

[The President talked with Woods at an unknown time between 9:43 and 10:09 am.]

[Conversation No. 668-12A]

-Typing

[End of telephone conversation]

Jaycees
-US Jaycees Governmental Affairs Leadership Seminar
-Convention
-Atlanta
-Timing

The President’s schedule
-Haldeman’s upcoming conversation with Connally
-Abilene, Texas
-Unknown Houston publisher
-San Antonio
	-Texas newspapers
-Abilene Christian Conference
-Rotary
-Timing
-Jaycees
	-Timing
-Campus Crusade
-Timing
-Houston
-Governors’ conference
-Timing
	-President’s attitude

Kissinger’s location
-Ziegler’s office
-Briefing
-Foreign policy report

The President’s forthcoming radio speech
-Broadcast
	-Instructions for Ziegler, Haldeman
	-Coverage

1972 Environmental Program
	-News coverage
	-Tape
-Camera
	-Number
-Mark I. Goode
-Teleprompter
-Executive Order

Woods entered at 10:09 am.

The President’s forthcoming radio speech
-Copy
-Typing

[No conversation]

-Corrections
-Subtleties
-Gerald L. Warren
-Pick-up
-Press
-Typing
-Corrections

Woods and Ziegler left at an unknown time before 10:15 am.

The President’s schedule
-Camp David
	-Timing

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Woods entered at an unknown time after 10:09 am.

Buzzer
-Manolo Sanchez

Camp David

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Woods left at an unknown time before 10:15 am.

An unknown Navy steward and Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:09 am.

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The steward and Sanchez left at 10:15 am.

[The President talked with the White House operator at 10:15 am.]

[Conversation No. 668-12C]

[See Conversation No. 20-81]

[End of telephone conversation]

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	The President’s schedule
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
	-Teamsters Union
-Letters
-Purpose
-Notes and phone calls
-Effect and advantages
	-Frequency of telephone calls
-Notes
	-Publication
-New York police

[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:15 am and 10:33 am.]

[Conversation No. 668-12D]

[See Conversation No. 20-82]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Notes
-Widows, parents
-Brevity
-Writers
-One-liners
-Type

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.

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Forthcoming press conference
-Briefing books
-PRC
-Timing
-Phraseology
	-Substance

Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.
-Funeral
-Timing
-Attendance
	-Wreath

Kissinger
-Safire
-Marilyn B. (“Missy”) Chandler
	-Support

	Otis Chandler
		-Robert H. Finch
		-Economy in California
			-Unemployment
			-Los Angeles Times
			-Administration efforts

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	Busing
		-Dallas

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.

Thompson funeral
	-Signature for letters for Jane (Monroe Goelet) Thompson
	-Rogers
		-Attendance

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.

[No conversation]

The President’s forthcoming radio speech
-Teleprompter
	-Rogers
-Microphone
	-Desk
-Cameras
-Goode
-Ziegler
-Press office
	-Teleprompter
-Messages
	-Dock strike

Woods entered at 10:33 am.

The President’s schedule

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-Helicopter
-Timing
-Speech
-Typing

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Attitude of White House staff
	-National attitude

Speech
-Teleprompter

Haldeman left at 10:40 am.

Conversation No. 668-13

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:40 am and 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President practiced a radio address about the Third Annual Foreign Policy Report To The Congress.

[A transcript of the final version of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 191-193]

Conversation No. 668-14

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:40 am and 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s instructions

Unknown men entered at an unknown time after 10:40 am.

The President’s forthcoming radio speech
-Broadcast
-Preparation
-Henry A. Kissinger

The President’s location
	-Bathroom

The President, Bull and the unknown mean left at an unknown time before 11:04 am.

Conversation No. 668-15

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  11:20 am - 11:21 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President’s recent radio speech
-Kissinger’s view
-Critics of Administration’ Vietnam policy
-Patriotism
-Responsibility
-Vietnam
	-Communists

The President and Kissinger left at 11:21 am.

Conversation No. 668-16

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:21 am and 12:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President taped the Vietnam section of the radio address about the Third Annual Foreign Policy Report to the Congress; unknown technicians are in the Oval Office at the time of taping.

[A transcript of the final version of this speech appear in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 192-193]

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

The President left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.