Conversation No. 670-1

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:52 am and 9:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Marjorie P. Acker.

Folders
-Copies
-Marked
-Book

Acker left at an unknown time before 9:12 am.

Conversation No. 670-2

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:52 am and 9:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Meeting
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 670-3

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:52 am and 9:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Andre Malraux dinner
-Guest list

Conversation No. 670-4

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:52 am and 9:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Bombing
	-Duration
	-Planes
	-Carriers
		-B-52’s
	-Melvin R. Laird

The President’s schedule
-Congressmen
-Forthcoming meeting
-Senators

Vietnam
-Public relations
-Airstrike prior to offense
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-French press
	-News summary
	-Support
		-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Saigon
-Press conference
	-Possible concessions
-North Vietnamese
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-Flexibility

-PRC
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Press
		-Toughness
-Communists
-William P. Rogers
	-Actions
		-Tone
-American public
-Critics
	-Perception
-South Vietnam
	-Airstrikes
-Laird

Conversation No. 670-5

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  9:12 am - 10:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz.

Arthur F. Burns meeting
-Convertibility
	-Push by Burns
-Quadriad meeting
-Burns’s statement
-New York Federal Reserve bank
-Press
-Hobart Rowen
-International conference
	-Suggested by Burns
-Convertibility
-Income policy
-Testimony

-Henry S. Reuss
	-Convertibility
		-Plan for the year
-Shultz’s call to Burns
	-President’s instructions
-Letter to the President
-Possible problems with the budget
-Outlay
-Revenue sharing
-Congress
-Deficit
-Outlays
	-Movement
		-Withholding rates
-Talk with Shultz
-The President’s awareness and decision
-Shultz’s memorandum to Burns
-Shultz’s meetings with Burns
	-Regularity

Economy
-Shultz’s view
	-Condition
	-Money supply
		-Retail sales
	-Remedies
		-Monetary, fiscal policies
	-Budget
	-Retail sales
		-Polls
		-Sears and Roebuck
		-Business style
			-Shultz’s meeting with Gordon M. Metcalf

Burns
	-Money supply
	-Quadriad meeting
	-October to December 1971
	-New York bank
-Economy
	-Burns’s optimism
-Money supply
-Convertibility
-Appointment
-Possibility of being mentioned by Burns
-Procedure
-Frederic V. Malek
	-Proposed list
-Swearing in
			-Secretary of Board of Governors of Federal Reserve Board [FRB] [Robert C. Holland]
		-Andrew F. Brimmer
-Possible removal
	-Burns’s opinion
-State Department
	-Brimmer’s level in the government
-St. Lawrence Seaway
-Convertibility, money supply

Economy
-1972
-Strong
-Expanding
-Burns
-Interest rates
	-Money supply
-Return flow
-Europe
-Interest rates

	Burns
-Quadriad meeting
	-Possible last meeting
	-Actions
	-Money supply
-Meeting with President
	-Timing
-John B. Connally
-Shultz
-Price Board and Wage Commission
-Jewish press
	-Influence
-Incomes policy
-Convertibility
-Stock market
-Actions
	-Concern from the President
-Israel
-FRB
	-Appointment
		-Malek
-Value-added tax [VAT]
-Revenue sharing
-VAT
	-President’s memory
-Connally
	-Rowen
		-Story
	-Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Jewish press
	-Relationship with the Administration
-National debt
	-Stein’s speech
		-Shultz’s reading
-Jews
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Herbert Stein
	-Support for the President
-FRB
	-Relationship with the Administration

	-Economy
		Milton Friedman
	-Letters to Shultz
	-University of Hawaii
	-FRB
		-Effect on economy
	-Money supply
	-FRB
		-Policy
			-Erratic direction
-Burns’s view
	-Social unrest
-August 15, 1971 [New Economic Policy Program]
-Controls
-Freeze
-Prices
	-Downward trend
	-Public attitudes
	-Money supply
		-Lack of movement
	-International money flow
	-Freeze
	-Tax cuts
	-Closing gold window
	-Freeze
-Louis P. Harris poll
-President’s instructions to Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council staff
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Connally
-Rumsfeld
-Connally
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Prices
-Wages
-Public opinion
-Possible lack of confidence
-Controls
-Stronger
-Possible Administration response
-C. Jackson Grayson’s statements
	-Utilities
	-Telephone company
-Expand
-Productivity rise
-Labor costs
-Burns’s actions

Burns meeting
-Ehrlichman’s presence
-Quadriads

Economy
-West Coast dock strike
-New York telephone strike
-Strike level
	-Lowest in 15 years
-Dock strike
-Union Executive Board
-Settlement
	-Harry Bridges
-Arbitration
-President’s view
	-Revenue sharing
	-Welfare reform
	-Public confidence
-Shultz’s speech
-National Press Club
-Inflation
-Freeze
	-Reasons
-Harris poll
-Public opinion
-Controls
	-Removal
-Rumsfeld
-Program development
-Harris poll
	-Concerns
-Farm prices
-Farm prices
	-Government policies
		-Control mechanisms
			-Corn
			-Cattle
				-Beef
	-Earl L. Butz
		-Praise from Shultz
		-Speech
-City people
-Chicago
-Opinions
	-Issues
-Rhetoric
-Farm income
-Television networks
-Farm prices
	-Attempt to control
-Middleman taxes
-Food prices

Chicago
-Shultz’s visit
-The President
-Public opinion

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-The President’s record
-Public opinion of the President
	-Television
	-Radio
	-Stance
		-Favorable stature
	-War
	-Draft
-Economy
-President’s programs
	-Apologetic reaction
	-Welfare reform
	-Revenue sharing
	-Government reorganization
	-Health program
	-Press
	-Administration reaction
		-Confidence with the Administration

Issues
-Busing
	-Highlighting the Administration’s accomplishments
-Revenue sharing
-Cities
-Housing
	-Reaction
-Ehrlichman
-Russell B. Long
-President’s talk to Connally, Long
-Thomas C. Korologos
	-Wallace F. Bennett
-Ehrlichman’s upcoming conversation with Long
-Shultz
-Connally
	-Columns
-Burns
-Congressman
-Senators
-Unknown New Yorkers

	Economy
		-Wage and price controls
-Rumsfeld
-Staff meeting
-Meat imports
	-Statements
-View
-Meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Stein
-Connally
-COLC
-Shultz
-Connally
-Location
-Stein
-Shultz’s forthcoming talk
-Connally
-Shultz’s forthcoming talk
-Public appearances
-White House staff
-Shultz
	-Similarities to Connally
		-Controls
-Talk with the President
-Pay Board and Price Board
	-Connally’s view compared to Burns’s view
-Price Board
-Longshoremen settlement
-Pay Board
-Teamsters
-Wage increases deferred
-April 1972
-Chicago local
-Pay Board standard
-Possibility of strike
-Transportation system
-Pay Board
	-Toughness questioned
		-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
		-Arnold R. Weber
			-Longshoremen and the Teamsters
-Controls
-Meeting
-After People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Strategy to be developed
-Possible attendance
	-Shultz
	-Stein
	-Connally
	-Rumsfeld
	-Long
-Shultz to organize
-Burns
-Cabinet officers
-Pay Board
-Weber
	-Usefulness
-Off the record meeting
	-No publicity
		-President’s instructions
	-Attendance
		-Connally
		-Rumsfeld
		-Stein
		-Shultz
		-Ehrlichman

Busing
-Meeting
-John G. Tower
	-Recent call
-Omission
-Amendment
-Texas
-Senate
-Ehrlichman’s upcoming talk with Tower
	-Ehrlichman’s colleagues
-Amendments
	-Key attendees

Economy
-Meeting
-Low key
-Connally
	-Location
-Talk with Shultz
	-Timing
-Burns meeting
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Controls
-Elimination
-Stimulation
	-Status of economy
		-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 10:02 am.

Conversation No. 670-6

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 am and 10:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Schedule
-Trade with the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Press
-Announcement
-Busing meeting
-Cabinet Room
-Senators
-Announcement
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Busing
-Legal aspect
-PRC trip
-Ziegler’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Meeting

-Arthur F. Burns

	PRC trip
-Ziegler’s talk with Haldeman
	-Press
		-Briefings
	-Advance trip
-Talk with Chinese

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:02 am.

	Burns’s arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:07 am.

					-Briefings
					-Chinese customs
-Press corps
	-Need for upbeat tone
-Press relations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-John A. Scali
	-Kissinger, Rogers, and Scali’s situation
		-Ziegler’s actions
-The President’s briefing
	-Hawaii
		-Potential for questions
			-Avoiding substance
-Ziegler’s talk with Haldeman
-Possible uncertainty from the press
-PRC
	-Preparation of film for Kissinger
		-Off the record
			-Shown to the press
		-Kissinger situation
			-Possible lecture off the record to the press
			-President’s view
-Rogers
	-Potential problem
	-Eugene V. Risher
	-Edward R.F. Cox
-Rogers

Ziegler left at 10:07 am.

Conversation No. 670-7

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  10:07 am - 10:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and Arthur F. Burns.

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-The President’s departure
-Timing
-Length
-Arrival time
-World changes
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] trip
-Arms control
	-Importance
		-Future impact
-Chinese
-Japanese
-Indonesians
	-Concern for Chinese neighbors
		-Importance of arms control

-Use of individuals
	-Mao Tse-tung
	-Chou En-lai
	-Mao Tse-tung
		-Chiang Kai-shek

Economy
-Ehrlichman
	-Domestic Council
-George P. Shultz
-Interest rates
-Money supply
	-Timing
		-M-1
-New York board
-Alfred Hayes
	-Assistance from Administration
	-David Rockefeller
-Unknown person
	-Relationship to Burns
-Possible disciplinary action
-Prices
	-Instability
		-President’s instructions to Burns
-November 1972
-William McChesney Martin, Jr.
-President’s recollection
-Interest rates
	-Banks
-Money supply
	-Possible increase
		-Amount
			-M-1, M-2
-Milton Friedman
	-Ideas
-Comparison to war
-Budget
-Controls
-Burns
-Testimony
-Opinion on strong factors
-Retail sales
-Rising prices
-Taxes
-Unknown man
-Reform
-Value added tax [VAT]
-Property taxes
-Schools
-John B. Connally
-Cut
-Congress
-VAT
-Corporate income tax
-Property tax
-Corporate tax
-Individual tax
-Property tax
-VAT
-Burns’s support
-Timing
-Tax bill
-Reform
-Normal operations

Busing
-White House position
-Bipartisan committee
-Neil H. McElroy committee
	-Support
-Commission
-Courts
-State level
	-Possible crisis
-McElroy Commission
	-Burns
-Parochial schools
-Public schools
	-Comparisons and differences
-Private school committee
-Public schools
-Blacks
-Public schools
	-Problems stated
-Constitutional amendments
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-William E. Brock, III
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Robert P. Griffin
-Thomas N. Downing
-Norman F. Lent
-Thomas J. (“Tom”) Steed
-John G. Tower
-Elliot L. Richardson
-John N. Mitchell
	-Possible explanation of problems to Congress
		-Scheduling
-Meeting
	-Briefing papers
	-Ehrlichman
	-Baker
	-Grasp of subject matter
	-Griffin
		-Different approach
	-Baker
-Position of Administration opponents
	-John V. Lindsay
	-Edward M. Kennedy
	-George S. McGovern
	-Edmund S. Muskie
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
		-Changes on the issues
	-Black education
	-Quality
-The President’s view
	-Brown vs. Board of Education
		-Meaning
			-Segregated education
	-Quality education
	-Black children
	-Neighborhood breakdown
	-Churches
	-Schools
	-Friends
	-Forced transportation
	-Opportunities
	-Choices
	-Legal restrictions

Appointments
-Andrew F. Brimmer
	-President’s previous conversation with William P. Rogers
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-St. Lawrence Seaway
-Panama Canal
-Ambassadorship
-Sweden
	-Black
		-Jerome H. Holland
-Europe
	-Length
		-Sweden
			-Desirability
-Black
	-Africa
-Frederic V. Malek
-Sweden
	-Responsibilities
-Finland
-Rogers
-United Nations [UN]
-Malek
	-Gathering of European ambassadors
-Latin America
-Europe
	-Potential for safety
	-Holland
		-Problems
		-Finland
-State Department
-Central Bank of Sweden
	-Austria
-Europe
	-Location
	-West Germany

Budget
-Stimulation
-Money
-Contractor
-Pay in advance
-1972-73 financial transfers
-Burns’s plan
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Report to the President
-Accomplishments
	-Buying hardware
-Fred C. Foy
-Koppers Corporation
-Press conference
-90,000 jobs created
	-California
-White House budget stimulation
-Buying hardware
	-747s
	-Production
		-Number
-Weinberger
-Reports to a committee
-Monthly compared to weekly
	-Burns’s view
-Contractors
-Shipping
-Airplanes
	-Transactions
-Weinberger
-Weekly reports
-John B. Connally
-Defense
	-Robert C. Moot
		-Weinberger
		-Shultz
-Cabinet officers
-Weekly reports
	-Created for the President and Weinberger
-Budget figures
-State Department
-Connally
-John A. Volpe
-Rohr Industries
	-Contract (Hardware)
	-San Diego
	-Urban Mass Transit experiment
	-Amount
	-California
-Treasury Department
	-Withholding problem
		-Administration awareness
-Release of tables
-Sabotage
-Withholding rates
-Change
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-John W. Dean, III
-Connally
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Publicity
-Radio and television advertisements
-Warnings in pay envelopes
-Under withholding
-Constituency
-Married people
-Over withholding
-Burns’s opinion
-Advertising
-Director of research at FRB [J. Charles Partee]
-Withholding form
-Time to prepare
	-Average American worker
		-Difficulties
-FRB
-Comptroller
-Fill out withholding forms for staff
-Business firms
-Withholding forms
-Preparation for employees
-Appeal to individuals
-Congress
	-Suggestions
-White House
-Revenue Act of 1971
-Burns’s proposal
-Dinners
-Business people
-Weekly
-Size
	-Anticipated results

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:07 am.

Schedule
-Meeting
-Senators
-Congressmen
-Cabinet Room
-Timing
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:59 am.

Business people
-White House dinners
-Possible effect
	-Campaign
	-Confidence
	-Relay messages to hometowns
	-Big business
		-Size of towns
	-Connally
	-Peter G. Peterson
-Business Council meetings
-Conduct
-40% of American businesses represented
-Connally
	-Involvement
-Blair House meetings
-Weekly
-Connally
-Maurice H. Stans
-Cabinet members
-White House staff
	-Council of Economic Affairs [CEA]
-Business and labor
-Success

Busing

Budget
-Working toward one goal
-Expansion
-Price and wage control
-Economists’ analyses
-Free economy
-Decisions and decision makers
-Governmental level
-Confidence

Economy
-Burns
	-Tone comments
-Fourth quarter 1971
-First and second quarters, 1972
-Arthur Goldberg
-Talk with the President
-Wage Board
-PRC trip
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Dr. Neil H. Jacoby
-Occidental Life Insurance Co.
	-Resignation
-Robert S. McNamara
-Chairman of Wage Board
-Rumsfeld
	-Availability

FRB
-Board of Governors
-Appointment
-Scali’s work
-Vacant post
	-Search for viable candidates
-California
	-Type of candidate
-Prestige
-William D. Eberle
-Banker
-Claire Giannini Hoffman
	-Age
-Burns
-Selection of name

Busing
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Proposed constitutional amendment
-Dual school system
-Equal education
-State level
-Florida primary
-Forced integrated housing
-Lost cost public housing

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-Public housing
-Possible effect on economy
	-Social mobility
-Burns
	-Possible statements
-George W. Romney

Burns left at an unknown time before 10:59 am.

Public housing and busing

Economy

The President’s schedule

Ehrlichman left at 10:59 am.

Conversation No. 670-8

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  10:59 am - 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods and Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
-Busing meeting
-Congressman and Senators
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:01 am.

Message from the President

Woods

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Woods and Bull left at 11:02 am.

Vietnam
-Message
-Le Duc Tho
	-Invitation to Kissinger for meeting
-Reply
		-Offensive
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Unknown book
-Kissinger
-Meeting with the President
-Issues
-Unknown book
-Timing
	-Unknown ambassador

The President and Kissinger left at 11:04 am.

Conversation No. 670-9

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:04 am and 12:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Manolo Sanchez met with an unknown man [Secret Service agent].

[Unintelligible]

The unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 11:04 am.

[Conversation No. 670-9A]

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

Sanchez and the unknown agent left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

Conversation No. 670-10

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:04 am and 12:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull and Henry A. Kissinger met.

Put something in a room

The President entered at an unknown time after 11:04 am.

Meetings
-Jaime Arguelles
-Sladeddine El Goulli
-Timing

Bull and Kissinger left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

Conversation No. 670-11

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  12:49 pm - 12:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Jamie Arguelles and Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

Arguelles’s departure

Spain
-The President’s visit in 1970
	-Two million people

Pictures

Florida
-Arguelles’s visit

Arguelles’s successor
-Angel Sagaz [?]

The President’s appreciation
	-Arguelles’s service
	-The President’s possible return visit to Spain

Arguelles and Kissinger left at 12:52 pm.

Conversation No. 670-12

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  12:58 pm - 1:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods and an unknown person.

Woods
-Talk with Richard Rogers

Refreshments
	-Served at White House dinner

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm.

Portraits
-Signatures
-Selection by the President
	-Older ones compared to newer ones
	-Possible choices
-Orders
-Staff

	Gifts
		-Watches

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Woods left at 1:02 pm.

Conversation No. 670-13

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  1:04 pm - 2:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

	Monday
		-Recent issue
			-Julie Nixon Eisenhower [?]
			-The President’s Vietnam peace plan
				-Democrats
		-Vietnam
		-Edmund S. Muskie statements form 1968
-Peace talks
	-Possible endangerment
-Chicago
-John A. Scali
-The President’s 1968 statement

Julie Eisenhower [?]

Attorney General’s [John N. Mitchell] resignation

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 1:04 pm.

Item
-Delivery to residence
-Thelma C. (“Pat”’) Nixon

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:27 pm.

Ronald L. Ziegler

Portraits
-Autographs
-Rose Mary Woods
	-Older photographs
-Milling
	-View
		-Family
-Serious
	-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Candid shots

Press
-Forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Ziegler
	-Meeting with the President
		-Possible movie shown to the press
	-News
	-Hawaii
	-Movie
	-The President’s briefing
		-Contents of movie
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Inclusion
	-Ziegler’s concern
	-Stories
	-Pressure on the press corps
	-Hawaii
	-Ziegler
		-Concern

	Kissinger
-Talk with Haldeman
	-Scali
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Briefing books
-Mrs. Nixon
-Press
-Ziegler
-Chinese
-Questions to Mrs. Nixon
			-President’s instructions
	-Brief
	-Kissinger
		-Sending a briefing book to Mrs. Nixon
	-Instructions to Haldeman
		-Guiding points and suggestions
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Questions and answers [Q&A]
		-Things to be said in contrast to things not to be said
	-Kissinger
	-Buchanan
		-Press conference
	-Guiding points
		-Length
			-Kissinger
	-Ziegler
	-Scali
	-Kissinger
	-Examination

Ambassadors
-Joseph S. Farland
	-Kissinger
-Martin J. Hillenbrand
	-West Germany
-Kissinger
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Hillenbrand
-Kissinger
	-Possible rejection
		-Foreign Service
		-[David] Kenneth Rush
		-President’s support of Hillenbrand
-William H. Sullivan
	-Iran

Press
-PRC trip
	-Movie
	-Briefing
	-Kissinger
	-Advance stories
		-Ziegler
	-Movie narration
	-Dwight L. Chapin
	-Instructions
		-Chinese
		-Chou En-lai
	-Haig
	-Ziegler
	-Press
	-Decision

Andre Malraux dinner
	-Unknown person’s location
	-Williamsburg
	-Substitute
	-Scali
		-Kissinger
		-Arrival of Howard K. Smith
-Book
	-Unknown person’s age

[No conversation]

Herbert Stein speech
	-Distribution
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Senate

John N. Mitchell resignation
-Talk with the President
-Timing
-Politics
	-Haldeman’s previous conversation with Mitchell
-Statements
	-Timing
-Story
-Announcement of resignation
-Date
-Statement
-Justice Department
-Nominations
-White House
-Nominations
	-Mitchell’s instructions
-The President’s answering letter
-The President’s handwritten note
	-Not for the public
	-Staff note
		-Contents
-Law enforcement
-Respect for the law
	-The President’s handwritten note
-Handwritten note
	-John W. Dean, III
-John D. Ehrlichman

Kissinger entered at 1:27 pm.

North Vietnamese
-Lunch
-Timing
-Scheduling

Vietnam negotiations
-Offensive
-Note
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Re-election of the President
-Peking
	-Kissinger’s view
-Moscow Summit
-Peking
-Moscow Summit
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Letter to the President
-North Vietnamese
-Settlement
-Re-election of the President
	-Timing
-Haldeman Statements
	-Attack on domestic opponents
		-Effect on Hanoi
-Air power
	-Movements
		-Numbers
-Aircraft carriers
	-Movements
		-Numbers
		-Location
-North Vietnamese
-Lunch
-Significance
-Requirements
-Future meetings
-Possible ulterior motives
	-Possible end to air strikes
-Air strikes
	-Possible end
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-PRC trip
-Return
	-Report to nation
-Lunch
-Purpose
	-Possibility of air strikes
-Meetings
-Cancellation
	-US conditions
		-Versailles conference
			-December 1971 air strikes
				-Effectiveness
-Air Force [USAF]
-Effect of bombing
	-France
	-Casualties
-Peking and Moscow
-North Vietnamese fear
-Détente
-Chou En-lai
-PRC
-Hard stance
-India-Pakistan War
-Soviets
-Chou En-lai
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-Mao Tse-tung
	-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-North Vietnamese
-Troop withdrawal
-Political condition
-PRC
-Issues
-Seven Points
	-Lack of help for the North Vietnamese
		-The President’s July 15, 1971 announcement
-Kissinger visit
-Press
-Peking
	-Pham Van Dong’s statements
	-Le Duc Tho
		-Kissinger meeting
	-Soviets
		-Possible meeting
-Moscow
-Hanoi
-Paris
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Meeting with Kissinger
	-Timing
-Moscow meeting
-Hanoi
-Deadlines
-“State of the World” report

	Press
		-Time and Newsweek
		-“State of the World” report
			-Publicity
		-PRC

	Howard R. Hughes biography
-Time magazine cover
-The President
-Hughes
-Kissinger’s request
-Cover
	-Hughes
-Noah Dietrich’s book
-John Phelan
-Clifford Irving
-Edith Irving
-Money
	-Amount
		-Swiss banks
-Literary agent
	-Phelan

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese
-Press
-Headlines
-Soviet trip
-Moscow Summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
-Trade agreement
-Middle East agreement
-Seven agreements
-Dobrynin
-Scientific exchange
-Environmental exchange
-Space
-Health
-Announcement
	-Timing

PRC trip
-Ziegler and Kissinger
-Press
	-Possible discontent
		-Stories
-Communiqué
-Cultural and economic principles
	-Importance
-Renunciation of force
	-Briefing book
-Background material
-Peking
-Shanghai
	-Ziegler
-Press
-William P. Rogers
-Marshall Greene
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Kissinger’s talks with press
-Daily briefings
-Ziegler
-PRC move
	-Importance
		-Soviets
			-Discipline
-Kissinger’s talks with the press
-Ziegler
-Arrival
-Communiqué
-Mao Tse-tung
	-Upcoming meeting
		-Pictures
-Great Wall
-Forbidden City
-Banquet
	-Television
-Opera
	-News stories
-Mao Tse-tung
	-Abundance of news stories from PRC trip

North Vietnamese
-Significance
	-Kissinger and the President
-PRC
-Soviets
-Malraux
-Soviets
-[Anti-Memoirs]
-Mao Tse-tung
-Fate of wife
	-Chiang Kai-Shek
		-Meeting
-Nationalists
-Secret talks
-Meetings
-Le Duc Tho
	-Pairs
-Public
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Democrats
-Muskie
-Credit
	-North Vietnamese request for meeting
-Lunch
	-Length of previous meetings
		-Organization of previous meetings
-Symbolism
-Le Duc Tho
	-Arrangement
		-Productivity of meetings
-Agreement
-Six out of eight points
-Settlement
-Democrats
	-Two points contested
	-Possible benefits of lunch
-Offer
-Kissinger
-Settlement
-Demonstrations
	-Timing
-Secret meetings
-Demonstrations
-Probable advantage for the Administration
-Democrats
-Settlement
	-Possible offer
-Paris
-Kissinger
	-Possible outcome
-Le Duc Tho
-Revelation of secret meetings
-Lunch
-Uniqueness
	-North Vietnamese sensibilities
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-1968
	-Attitude
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-December 1971
-Bombing
-Publicity
-Military force
-News conference
-The President’s statements
	-Hard line
		-Compared to flexible line
-Summits
-Soviets
-Offensive
-Letters
-Chou En-Lai
-Brezhnev
-Copy of the President’s January 25, 1972 speech
-Bombing
	-Psychological reasons
-South Vietnam
	-Possible air strikes
-Communists
-PRC
	-Handling

PRC
-Announcement
-Trade
-Dobrynin
-Trade negotiations
-Announcement
-Agriculture
	-The President’s approval
-Moscow
	-Announcement prior to PRC trip
-Possible March trip by US delegation
	-Peter G. Peterson
	-Maurice H. Stans
		-Compared to Peterson
			-Publicity
	-Summit
-Grain deal
-Agricultural representative
-Peterson
	-More restrictive viewpoint
-Stans
-Earl L. Butz
	-Inclusion
		-[J. Philip Campbell]
		-Political asset
			-Markets for US farmers
-Peterson
-Butz
-Kissinger recommendation
-Dobrynin
-Talk with Kissinger
-Foreign trade ministry
-Peterson
-Butz
-Lunch with Kissinger
	-Timing
-Flanigan
-Possible advantages of Moscow trip
	-Butz
	-Peterson
-Peterson
-Kissinger’s view
-Announcement
-Timing
	-PRC trip
-Importance

Ambassadors
	-West Germany
		-[Forename unknown] Hagerty
	-Rogers
-Questions
-Hillenbrand
-Rush’s view
-Berlin agreement
-Background
	-Training
	-Foreign Service
-Soviets
	-Rogers
		-Germany
-Joseph F. Farland
-Availability
	-Pakistan
-Bhutto
-Hillenbrand
	-Possible replacement
-Second term
	-Assistant Secretary Post
	-Vacant
			-Administration’s choice
	-Flanigan
	-Hagerty
	-Richard M. Paget
		-Rejection of post

North Vietnamese
-Clark M. Clifford
-Democrats
-Offer
-Democrats
	-Michael J. Mansfield
-Concessions
	-North Vietnamese peace plan
-Meeting
	-Uniqueness of present situation
		-Previous negotiations
-Negotiations
-Delegation of senators
	-Administration’s plan
-Possible settlement
	-Date
-Administration’s plan
	-Clifford
-Press Corps
-Ziegler
-President’s opinion
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Article on negotiations
	-Tone
	-Re-election of the President
-Dobrynin
	-Question to Kissinger
		-Keeping agreement
-Agreement
-Possible offensive
	-Delay
		-Bombing
			-Saving US, South Vietnamese lives
	-Credit to the Administration
		-Chances for a settlement
		-Private meetings

India
	-PRC trip
	-Rogers
		-Wire
		-Views
-Return from PRC trip
-Pakistan
	-Upcoming meeting

Kissinger left at 2:18 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting
-Sladeddine El Goulli
	-Timing
-PRC trip
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Meeting
-Barry M. Goldwater
	-Importance
-Leaders breakfast
-Agnew
-Meeting
-Breakfast
-Goldwater
-Timing
-Arthur F. Burns
-Weekly dinners
-Businessmen
	-Number
-Ehrlichman
-John B. Connally
	-Participation
-Peterson
-Maurice H. Stans
-Donald H. Rumsfeld’s view
-Dr. Franklin D. Murphy
-Connally
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Question and answer [Q&A] sessions
-Black tie

	Connally
		-Tenure
			-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
				-Texas, Mexico
			-Interests
			-Nellie Connally
				-Administration contacts
				-Washington, DC
			-Texas
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Florida
-Texas
-Schedule

	Forthcoming dinner for Malraux
		-Leonard Garment

Haldeman left at 2:25 pm.

Conversation No. 670-14

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:25 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:48 pm.

Conversation No. 670-15

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:25 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
-Andre Malraux
-Photograph opportunity
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Dinner

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:48 pm.

Conversation No. 670-16

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  2:48 pm - 3:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Briefing for People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Movie for press
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with Ziegler
	-President’s instructions
		-Narration
			-John B. Connally
-White House theater
	-Possible refreshments

-Television
	-President’s opinion

Press
-PRC trip
-Hawaii
	-Presidential briefing
-Ziegler’s role
	-Movie
	-Technical information
-Trade bulletin
-Schedule
-Trade
-Schedule
	-Peking
-Busing
-Announcement
	-PRC trip
-Busing
-Press conference
	-Timing

	Busing
		-John N. Mitchell and Elliot Richardson
-Leonard Garment
-Need for action
-Courts
-Critics
-Vietnam
	-Statements
-Racial balance
-Equal education
	-Public opinion
		-Haldeman’s view
		-John D. Ehrlichman
-Courts
	-Possible decisions
		-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Quality education
	-Balance requested
-Neighborhood schools
-Liberals
-Negro views
	-Polls
		-Percentage in favor of busing
			-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Liberals
-Blacks
	-White students compared to black students
		-White students attending black schools
	-Private schools
		-Tokens
			-Significance
				-Ambassador to Chad
-George S. McGovern
	-Statements
		-Switch
-Edmund S. Muskie
	-Statements
	-William P. Rogers’s view

PRC trip
-Leadership meeting and departure
-Announcement
	-Timing
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Democrat
	-Gale W. McGee
-Goldwater

Schedule
-Breakfast
-Announcement
-Cabinet Room
	-Ziegler’s view
		-Advantages
-Live coverage
-Press
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Talk with Ziegler
	-Talking paper

Ziegler left at 3:03 pm.

Rose Mary Woods
-President’s instructions to Haldeman
	-Request for call

Haldeman left at 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 670-17

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:04 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
-Meeting with Slaheddine El Goulli
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Photograph session

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.

Conversation No. 670-18

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  3:05 pm - 3:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Slaheddine El Goulli and Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

Photograph opportunity

Greetings to Habib Bourguiba

Kissinger
-El Goulli

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Impact on world

El Goulli left at 3:06 pm.

Vietnam
	-Message
-Possible rejection
	-Action

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:06 pm.

Thomas C. Korologos
-Arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.

Vietnam negotiations
	-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
	-Secret channel
		-Stories

James L. Buckley and Korologos entered at 3:07 pm.

	Seating arrangements

Buckley’s Far East trip
	-Length
	-South Pole
	-Ceremony
		-Flag
	-Treaty
	-US territory
-PRC trip
-Return
-Marshall Greene’s travels
-Anchorage
-Japan
-Korea
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Indonesia
-Australia
-New Zealand
-Thailand
-Media
-State Department
-Indonesia
-Thailand
-Vietnam
-Taiwan
-South Korea
-Japan
-Indonesia
	-Conservative
		-Buckley’s previous visit
-US aid
	-Difficulties
		-Indonesia
			-Military
				-US Senate
-US
	-Buckley’s comments at National Press Club
-Allaying leadership fears
	-Nixon Doctrine
	-Media
-Nixon Doctrine
	-President’s news summary
-Media
	-Effect
		-Vietnam
		-Thailand
		-Indonesia
		-South Korea
		-Taiwan
-J. William Fulbright
-Media
	-Washington Post, New York Times, Time and Newsweek
-Leadership
	-Chinese
		-Possible Administration action
		-Senators
-United Nations [UN]
	-Support of Nixon Doctrine
	-South Korea
		-Bilateral relations
			-Treaty
			-Unification of Korea
-Chinese
-South Korea
-The President’s forthcoming PRC trip
-Position
	-Japan
-Soviets
	-North Korea
-Japan
	-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Nuclear arms

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[Duration:  1m 32s  ]

	JAPAN

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-PRC
-Kissinger’s talks
	-Japan
		-Sense of destiny
-Economy
-Expansionism
	-History
-Treaty
	-US and Japan
-Soviets
-Chinese
	-South Korea
-Malaysia
	-Buckley’s possible meeting with Lee Kuan Yew

The President’s forthcoming PRC trip
	-Return
		-Possible report to American people
			-Mutual defense treaty
			-Reassurances
				-Détente
				-Nixon Doctrine
			-Congress

The President’s forthcoming trip to the USSR
	-Timing

Asia
-Soviets
-PRC
	-Avoiding sophisticated weapons
-Soviets
-Chinese
-1964-65
-Ho Chi Minh
	-Military assistance
-USSR aid to Vietnam
	-Tanks
		-Laos
		-Compared to those provided by US to South Vietnam
-Guns
-Congress
-Disarmament
	-Involvement
	-Thailand
	-Indonesia and Australia
	-Domino Theory
	-South Vietnam
-Cambodia
	-Prospects
		-Buckley’s view
			-Observations on recent trip
		-Kissinger’s view
-Laos
	-Status

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[National Security]
[Duration:  21s  ]

	LAOS

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Vietnam
-Military operations
	-Laos
		-Long Tieng
			-Timing
			-Bombing
			-Meo tribal forces
	-North Vietnamese
	-Laos
		-Budget constraints
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
		-1967, 1968
	-Bombing
	-Carriers
	-Saturation bombing
	-Possible offensive
		-Timing 
			-1972 election
	-Election

Buckley
	-Written summary of trip for Kissinger
		-Country by country analysis

	Buckley’s Far East trip
		-Hong Kong
			-PRC
-State Department
	-Buckley meetings
	-The President’s travels abroad
-Embassies

	The President’s forthcoming PRC trip
-Possible impact on US allies
	-Need for reassurance
-Possible impact on world
	-PRC, USSR
-Chinese
-Change
	-Length of time
	-Communism
-Korea
	-Involvement
-Vietnam
-PRC
-Nuclear power
-US support
	-Japan
-Thailand
-Future
-PRC’s strength as a world leader
-The President
-Soviet policy
-Cuban Missile crisis
	-US nuclear advantage
-Moscow
-Change in strategic balance
-Risks
-Changes
	-Philosophy
-Invitations to press
	-Joseph C. Kraft
	-William F. Buckley, Jr.

Housing
	-Scattered housing
		-Federal government role

Northern Ireland
-The President’s previous conversation with John M. (“Jack”) Lynch
-Edward R.G. Heath
-History
	-Irish Republic
-Heath
-Lynch

	Kissinger’s background

Buckley, Kissinger, and Korologos left at 3:45 pm.

Conversation No. 670-19

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Request for meeting

Conversation No. 670-20

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Meeting
-Andre Malraux
-Interpreter
-Sophia K. Porson
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-President’s view
-Stag dinner

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.

Conversation No. 670-21

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  3:47 pm - 4:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and John D. Ehrlichman.

Meeting
-Instructions for Alexander P. Butterfield
-Andre Malraux
-Interpreter
-Sophia K. Porson
-Attendance at dinner
	-Potential problem
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:07 pm.

Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Talk with John B. Connally
	-Timing

Arthur F. Burns
-Meeting
-Money supply
-Ehrlichman
-Informing Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Controls
-Connally
	-Ehrlichman’s agreement with Shultz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Notes
-Weekly reports

-Cabinet
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Monthly reports from Weinberger
-Weekly reports
	-Agreed to by Ehrlichman
-Treasury Department
-Withholding law
-Johnnie M. Walters
	-Previous meeting with Ehrlichman
		-Ehrlichman’s disappointment

Busing
-Courts
	-The President’s schedule
-Florida primary
	-High visibility
-Press
-Ehrlicman’s view
	-The President’s possible statement
	-Equal education
	-Racial balance
	-Use of “massive”
	-A question of quality education
-Courts
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. amendment
	-Thomas J. (“Tom”) Steed
-Chief Justice [Warren E. Burger]
	-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
	-Steed
		-Style
	-Chief Justice’s count
-Connally
-Candidate for governor
-Texas
-Justices
	-Drugs
	-Housing
-Alexander M. Bickel
-Legislation
-Congressmen
-Judges
-Constitutional amendment
-Baker
	-Precedent
-Ehrlichman
-Statement
	-Importance
	-Liberals
-Congressmen
-Gerald R. Ford
-Memorandum
-Democrats
	-Steed
		-Budget session
-Statement
-Constitutional amendment
-Mitchell
	-Involvement
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Solicitor General [Erwin N. Griswold]
-Civil Rights Division of Justice Department
-Problems
	-Mitchell
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Mitchell
	-David L. Norman
	-Mitchell
	-Possible replacement
		-Edward L. Morgan
			-Phoenix
		-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. [?]
		-Bureaucracy
			-Morgan
				-Memorandum
		-Morgan
			-Representation of school districts

Economy
-Connally
	-Follow-up by Ehrlichman

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:47 pm.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:07 pm.

[No conversation]

Economy
-Connally
-Instruction to Ehrlichman to reassure concerning Burns
-Herbert Stein
	-Background
-Shultz
	-Connally’s trust
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Schedule
	-Texas
-Rumsfeld
	-Controls
-Connally
-Rumsfeld
-Shultz
	-Involvement
		-Peter M. Flanigan [?]
-Ehrlichman’s talk with Connally
-Shultz
	-Connally’s reservations
-Rumsfeld
-Press conference
	-Rumsfeld communicating with Shultz
		-Frequency
-Controls

-Connally and Shultz
-International economics	
-Differences and similarities

Ehrlichman left at 4:07 pm.

Conversation No. 670-22

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  4:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Meeting
-Timing
	-Duration
		-Interruption

The unknown man left at 4:08 pm.

Conversation No. 670-23/671-1

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:09 pm and 5:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Andre Malraux, Sophia K. Porson and Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

Kissinger
	-Introduction

Malraux’s visit
-The President’s trip to Paris in 1969
-Writings
	-Anti-Memoirs
		-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Chinese

-Mao Tse-tung
	-Relationship with Malraux
-Malraux’s analysis
-Mao Tse-tung’s view
	-Youth and intellectuals
		-Possible reason
-Young people
	-Concern
		-Mask for army’s action
-Cultural revolution
	-Compared to events in France in 1968
-Intellectuals
	-Role according to Mao Tse-tung
		-Communist Party
-Chinese revolution
-Russian Revolution
-Mao Tse-tung
-Proletariat
-Chinese
	-Relationship with Russians
		-Consumer goods

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:09 pm

	Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:28 pm.

-Malraux’s book in 1965 [?]
-1971
-Chinese
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-A Presidential visit
-Vietnam War
-Chinese helpfulness
-North Vietnam
	-Passage of arms
	-Possible conflict between the Chinese and Soviets
-Chinese
-Foreign policy
	-Assistance to Pakistan or Vietnam
		-Chinese tanks in Pakistan
	-Expansionism
-Mao Tse-tung’s view
-Continent
-Australia
-Chinese perspective of the world
	-Sultan of Zanzibar
-Domestic policy
-Mao Tse-tung
-Fear of Soviet or US attack
	-Industrial centers
	-Bomb cities
	-Malraux’s questions to Mao Tse-tung
-Reasons for meeting with US representatives
-Mao Tse-tung
-Policies
-Standard of living
-Agriculture standard of living
-Machines
	-Incapability of creating large machinery
	-US procurement
		-Credits
-Chou En-lai
	-Negotiations with US
-Chinese self-reliance
	-Soviets
	-Aid
	-Mao Tse-tung
	-Chou En-lai
	-US trades and credits
	-Soviets
	-Standard of living compared to the cultural revolution
	-Economic questions
		-Chou En-lai
	-Mao Tse-tung’s anticipation
	-The President of US
	-A world plan
		-Compared to the Marshall Plan
		-Questions for the President from Mao Tse-tung
-Vietnam
-Chou En-lai
-John Foster Dulles policy
-Mao Tse-tung
	-Effect of policy on the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-World policy
-Prime Minister of Somalia
-Visit
	-Malraux’s view
		-Pakistan
		-Africa
-Mao Tse-tung
	-Possible successor
-Chou En-lai
-Chou En-lai
-Foreign policy
-Prime Minister
-US relations with Japan and PRC
-US relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-USSR relations with PRC
	-Breach
		-Leadership
-Powers of Pacific countries
	-Possible future
		-US economic agreement with PRC
			-Impact on USSR and Japan
-The President
	-Destiny
	-Policy
		-Impact on revolution in PRC and USSR
			-Standard of living concerns
-Mao Tse-tung
	-Need for a policy
		-Importance
-Josef V. Stalin
	-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Successor
-Revolutionary
-Mao Tse-tung’s view of the President
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Vietnam
-Withdrawal
-Japan
-US foreign policy
-Pacific
-Withdrawal from Indonesia
-Withdrawal from Japan
-Withdrawal from South Korea
	-Possible Malraux opinion
-Chinese
-Soviets
-Peace

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 5:28 pm while the tape was changed; it continues as Conversation No. 671-1.