Conversation No. 672-1

Date:  February 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:02 am and 9:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Books
-Marking sentences and paragraphs
	-President’s instructions
-Anti-Memoirs
	-Marking
		-Sections about China
	-Hardcover copy
-Memorandum

The President’s schedule
-Valentine’s Day
	-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart’s office

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

Conversation No. 672-2

Date:  February 15, 1972
Time:  9:12 am - 12:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule
	-Valentine’s Day
		-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart’s office

		-Departure time

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Documentary [Mrs. Nixon’s China]
-John A. Scali
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s visit to PRC
-Timing
-Avram R. (“Av”) Westin
	-Drug documentary
-Crew
-Exclusivity with ABC
	-Possible problems
-Three networks
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Speech
-Documentaries
	-Possible narration from Mrs. Nixon
	-Script
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
	-ABC
		-Commitment
-Life magazine
	-Similarities and differences
-White House coverage
-Previous contract
	-US Navy unit
	-Experience
-Cameramen
-Soundmen and lightmen
-Film availability
-Nixon Reelection Committee
-Democratic National Committee [DNC]
-Three networks
	-“Behind the scenes”
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins’s pictures
	-Similarities
-Flight from Hawaii to Guam
-Air Force One
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Photograph opportunities
		-Availability of White House film
		-Possible Nixon photograph archives
-Instructions for Scali
	-ABC
		-Commitment
-Network coverage
-Instructions for Scali
	-ABC
		-Commitment
		-Crews
-White House documentary unit
-Previous occasion
-Exclusives
-Mrs. Nixon
-President’s appearance
	-Great Wall of China
-Mrs. Nixon
	-Nursery at commune
-Documentary unit
-Atkins

President’s schedule
-Leadership meeting
-Camp David
-Report to the nation
-Cabinet meeting
-Key Biscayne
-Travels
-Kissinger
-Dwight L. Chapin
-President’s health
-Trip
	-Possible fatigue
-Press conference
-Haldeman’s view
-Report to nation
-Bipartisan leaders
	-Possible rescheduling
		-Press questions
	-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Mrs. Nixon’s trip
-West Coast
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Key Biscayne
	-Amount of time
-Cabinet
-Staff
-Busing
-Economics
-Pay Board
-Price Board
-The President’s 1969 world trip
	-San Clemente
-Report to the nation
	-President’s reluctance
-PRC trip
-Communiqué
-Arrival time
-Television coverage
	-Request for change
	-Live coverage
-California
-Arrival statement
-Coverage
-Live
-Mrs. Nixon
-Africa trip
-Coverage
-Live
-Shanghai
-Departure time
	-Length of stay
		-Dinner and cultural show
-Anchorage
-Shanghai
-Washington
	-Television coverage
	-Length of plane ride
-Anchorage
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito meeting
-Anchorage
	-The President’s quarters
		-Length of stay
		-Timing
-Washington
	-Number of hours
-Shanghai
-Report to the nation
-President’s possible remarks
-Peace
-Issues
-Japan
	-Kissinger
	-Haldeman’s options for the President 
-Flight
-California
-Arrival ceremony
-Washington, DC
	-Public perception
		-Back to work
-Congress
-Jefferson Day
-Speeches
-San Clemente
-Florida
	-Length of stay
	-California in February
-National television
-Diplomatic corps
-Congress
-Arrival
-Los Angeles International Airport
-Time
-News coverage
-Report to the nation
-Press conference
-President’s appearance
	-Importance
	-Airport setting
-News coverage
-Press conference
-Kissinger
-Primary season
-Return
-Anchorage
-Los Angeles

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:12 am.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Arrival

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:52 am.

President’s schedule
-Hawaii
-Los Angeles
	-Advantages
-Washington

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 9:12 am.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Arrival from Amherst
-Call to the President

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 9:52 am.

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Secretaries
	-Unknown person
-Rose Mary Woods
-Nellie L. Yates
-Knowledge
-Woods
-Unknown person
-Mrs. Nixon
-Yates
-Woods
-Kissinger’s secretaries
	-Number
-Rogers
	-Maggie C. Runkel

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-Typing
-Filing
-Letters
		-Valets

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	Andre Malraux dinner, February 14, 1972
-Leonard Garment
-Presence
-Malraux
-Seating
-Howard K. Smith
-Talks with Malraux
	-French language
-Maquis, Gaullists
	-French language
	-World War II 

	PRC trip
		-Press
			-Selection process
				-Smith
					-Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
		-PRC
-Presidential visits
-PRC
-Moscow
-Peking
-Changes in schedule
-San Clemente
-Itinerary
-Shanghai
	-Length of stay
	-Chinese
	-Dinner
	-Cultural show
		-PRC pride
	-Freedom of action
		-Possible activities
-Anchorage
-Departure
-Coverage
	-Crowds at the airport
-Time change
-Arrival
-Anchorage to New York
-Arrival
	-Live coverage
		-Television news
		-Possible scenario
		-Possible comments from the President
-Washington, DC
	-Arrival time
		-Television coverage
			-Women
	-Comparisons to State of the Union speech
		-Letters
		-Reruns
	-Viewers
		-Number

Woods entered at 9:52 am.

Letters
-Printing type
	-Approval from the President

Woods left at 9:53 am.

PRC trip
-Shanghai to Washington
-Direct trip
-Decision
-Time on plane
	-Difficulties
-Anchorage
-Stop
-Arrival
-Coverage
-Live
	-Possible problem
-News
	-President’s remarks

Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Instruction to Haldeman to request for meeting
-Talk with Scali

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:53 am.

Request for Ziegler to come to the Oval Office

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

Scali
	-ABC

Malraux dinner
-Smith
-White House dinners
-Scali
	-Dinner after July 15, 1971 announcement of PRC trip
		-Perino’s

Ziegler entered at 9:55 am.

-Newspapers
-Coverage

News coverage
-PRC
	-Trade
		-Liberalized restrictions
-Busing
-Malraux visit

Malraux dinner
-Garment
-Smith
-Talk with Malraux
	-French language
-Scali
-Malraux
-Reaction
-Notes for file
-Malraux’s comments
	-Edward M. Kennedy’s claim
	-Forthcoming press conference
	-Kissinger’s talk with Haldeman
-Malraux
	-John F. Kennedy
		-Dedication of Anti-Memoirs
			-Robert F. Kennedy
			-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
	-Outlook
	-Press conference
	-Timing
	-Visit to Kennedy gravesite
-Malraux’s comments
-US economic aid to the PRC
	-Possibility of question
-Financial assistance
-Malraux
	-Press conference
		-Bangladesh
-PRC
-Bangladesh

PRC trip
-Arrival
-Return
-Time
	-State of the Union speech
	-Written story
	-Radio
	-Viewers
		-Number
-Television
-Report to the nation
	-Communiqué
-Networks
-US public reaction and interest
-Taiwan
-Japan
-Trade
-Cultural exchange
-News
-Leadership meeting
-Return
-Statement
-Welcome
-Live coverage
	-Arrival time at Andrews Air Force Base [AFB]
	-Diplomatic corps
	-Length of television coverage
-Kissinger
-European trip, 1969
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
	-Fall
-World trip, 1969
-Arrival
-Coverage
-Live
-Anchorage from PRC
-Departure time
-Statement
-Shanghai
-Live coverage
-Anchorage
-“Mystique”
-Closed arrival
	-Time
	-Haldeman’s plan
		-Debated by Ziegler
-Shanghai
-Departure time
-Hawaii
-Airplane trip
	-Disadvantages
-Television appearance
	-Rest for the President
-President’s previous experience on airplane, 1966 or 1967
	-Coach
-New York
-Boston
-Washington
-Press corps
-Alaska
	-Refueling stop
	-Walter J. Hickel
-Prime time coverage
-Press
-Rest
-Remarks
-Live coverage of arrival
	-Anchorage
		-Rest for the President
-News shows
-Television audience
	-Number
-Hong Kong
-Shanghai
	-Attractions
-Anchorage
-Refueling stop
-Departure
-[William A. Egan]
-Rest and sleep
	-Hours
-Press
-Time
-Chapin
-Upcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Shanghai
-Schedule
	-Request for meeting
-Arrival
-President’s request
	-Potential problems
-Body clock
	-The President’s previous stops
		-Asia to Washington, DC
		-New York and Tokyo
	-Rest
-International dateline
-California
-Hawaii
-Anchorage
-The President’s previous stops

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

[Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 10:20 am and 10:21 am.]

[Conversation No. 672-2B]

[See Conversation No. 20-95; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Schedule
	-Soil conservation ladies
-Miami Herald
-Picture
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Compared to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

PRC trip
-Report to the nation
-Communiqué
-President’s arrival
-Publicity hiatus
	-Media
-Television specials
-Preparation
	-Alaska
	-Shanghai
	-Rest
-Arrival time

Chapin entered at 10:24 am.

-Return
-Andrews AFB
-Arrival
-Report to the nation
	-Time
	-Haldeman’s plan
-Shanghai
-Anchorage
	-Elmendorf AFB
-Washington
-Arrival time
-Press
-Shanghai
	-Communiqué
		-Proposed time
			-Arrival time
-Peking
-Kissinger
-Communiqué
-Hangchow
-Shanghai
-Chou En-lai
	-Final meeting
-Taiwan
-Disembarkment
-Rest
	-Elmendorf AFB
-Andrews AF
-Arrival time
-State of the Union speech
-Television
-Flight time
-Hawaii
-Wake Island
-Anchorage
-Shanghai
-Anchorage
-Communiqué
-Shanghai
-Time
-Chou En-lai
	-Possible event
-Sightseeing
-Industrial exhibition
-Mrs. Nixon
-Children’s Palace
-Arrival time
-Washington, DC
	-Press
-Communiqué
-Press corps
-Communiqué
-Chou En-lai
-Anchorage
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting
-Time
-Delay
-Children’s Palace
-Mrs. Nixon
-Communiqué
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting
	-Time
-Press
-Departure time
-Shanghai
-Elmendorf AFB
-Shanghai
	-Dinner
-Reasoning
-Alaska
	-Elmendorf AFB
		-Rest and relaxation
			-Disembarkment
	-Japanese
	-Elmendorf AFB
		-Possible closure
			-General [Robert G. Ruegg]
			-Townspeople
			-Wires
			-Kissinger
			-Press secretary
-Shanghai
-Chapin’s view
	-Rest
		-Television
	-Ziegler
	-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Kissinger
-Japan
-Reugg
-Radio
-Television
-News
-Prime time
-Shanghai
-Departure
-Sightseeing
	-Possible plan
-Peking
-Ch’ang Ch’un
-Singapore
-Jakarta
-Chou En-lai
-Sunday meeting
-Monday meeting
	-Kissinger
		-Advantages for changing meeting time
-Communiqué
	-Timing
-News magazines
-Chou En-lai’s work schedule
-Sunday meeting
-Monday meeting
-Communiqué
-Prime time
	-Television coverage
		-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Timing of release
	-Chou En-lai
	-Television
-Mao Tse-tung
	-Television
-Shanghai
-Television
	-Status of ground station
-Peking
-Networks
	-Shanghai capability
		-Technical equipment

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:30 am and 10:45 am.]

[Conversation No. 672-2C]

[See Conversation No. 20-96]

Announcement
	-Attorney General [John N. Mitchell]

Appointments
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Meeting with the President
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Announcement
-Timing

[The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox between 10:45 am and 10:47 am.]

[Conversation No. 672-2D]

[See Conversation No. 20-97; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

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PRC trip
-Kissinger
-Return
-Prime time coverage
-Andrews AFB
-Shanghai
	-Departure time
		-Refueling
		-Communiqué
		-Announcement

Chapin left at 10:52 am.

-Anchorage
	-Rest

The President’s schedule
-Leaders meeting
-Timing
	-Technical aspects

PRC trip
-White House
	-Cabinet Room
	-Andrews AFB
-South grounds
-Network coverage
	-Time
-Leaders meeting

	Announcement
		-The President’s correspondence with Mitchell
			-Release
				-Woods
-Handwritten letter
-Timing
-Kleindienst
	-Possible meeting with the President
		-Nomination

Ziegler left at 10:53 am.

	-Low key approach

	PRC trip
-Arrival
-Live coverage
	-Statement
-Anchorage
-Administration critics
	-Democrats
	-Media
	-Communiqué
	-Gravity of trip

George H. Gallup poll
-Haldeman’s report
	-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Release
	-Timing
		-PRC trip

Kissinger entered at 10:55 am.

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Message
	-Tone
-Kissinger’s message of January 26, 1972
-Record
-November 19, 1971 message
-US

PRC
-Arrival

The President left at an unknown time after 10:55 am.

-Washington, DC
-Report
-Television
-Shanghai
	-Kissinger’s view

The President entered at an unknown time before 11:10 am.

		-Arrival
			-Rest
-Chinese
-Television
-Activities
	-Difficulties in scheduling
	-Anchorage
-President’s view
	-Departure schedule
	-Advance party
-Anchorage
-Television
	-Ziegler
	-Possible arrival schedule
-Washington, DC
-Arrival time

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:10 am.

[Conversation No. 672-2E]

	The President’s schedule
		-Instructions for Chapin

[End of telephone conversation]

	PRC trip
		-Report
		-Leaders meeting
-Television coverage
-Communiqué
-Arrival
-Washington, DC
-President’s speech on television
-Preparation
	-Mental and physical
	-Public opinion
-President’s speech
	-Possible reaction
-Shanghai
	-Activities
-Ziegler
-Anchorage
-Departure time
-Washington, DC
	-Statement
-Anchorage
-President’s possible comments
-Arrival and departure
	-Refueling
	-Elmendorf AFB
-News
	-Arrival build-up
-Press conference
-Timing
-Florida
-Domestic issues
-Connally
	-Texas
		-Houston
		-Upcoming talk at San Angelo College
-Report to the nation
	-Communiqué
-Leaders meeting
	-Importance stressed
	-Report to the nation

The President’s schedule
-Florida
-White House
-Bipartisan leaders meeting
-Cabinet meeting
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-South Asia
		-George Meany breakfast

	Vietnam
-Meany
-News summaries
-Charles W. Colson
-Talk with the President
-Criticism of Democrats
-Votes
-Edmund S. Muskie
	-Possible impact
-Haldeman’s statement
	-Agnew
-Kissinger’s talk with Haldeman

Vietnam negotiations
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris
	-Return
		-Timing
			-PRC trip
				-Public perception

	PRC trip
		-Press inquiries
			-Kissinger
				-David Kraslow
			-State Department
				-Previous conversation with Kissinger
				-Warsaw meeting
-Emissary
	-Tad Szulc
		-Recent story
			-Marshall Green
			-Alfred Le Sesne Jenkins

Ziegler entered at 11:10 am.

The President’s schedule
-Possible statement

Ziegler left at 11:11 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-Warsaw meeting
	-Set-up
		-Channel
			-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Emissary
	-Cambodia
-Le Duc Tho
-Location
	-PRC
		-Kraslow’s inquiry
		-Kissinger’s view
			-Chinese business
		-The President’s trip
			-Credit
				-Communiqué
-Paris
-Private talks in Paris
-US comments
	-Possible proposals
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Rogers
-Agnew

PRC trip
-Agnews welcome
-Arrival ceremony
-Possible comments
	-Taiwan
	-Duration
	-Substance
	-President’s remarks
-Communiqué
-Television
-Ziegler’s responsibility
-Nation
	-Report
		-Communiqué
			-Speech
		-Leaders meeting

	Polls
-Colson
	-Talk with the President
	-Retail sales figures
	-Albert E. Sindlinger
	-Louis P. Harris
-[George H. Gallup]
	-Timing
		-PRC trip
		-Newspapers

Haldeman left at 11:20 pm.

	Malraux
		-The President’s talk with Haldeman
		-Press conference
			-Timing
-PRC trip
		-Invitation
		-Mao Tse-tung
			-Relationship with Malraux
-News
-Picture in the New York Times
-Charles Lucet
	-Paris newspapers
-Reputation in France
	-Youth
	-Lucet’s monographs
	-Spanish Civil War, Marquis

Vietnam negotiations
-Message from US
	-Publication of record
	-Secret negotiations
		-January 26, 1972
	-Summation of proposals
-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
	-Kissinger
		-Paris
	-Le Duc Tho
	-Paris
-Reply
-North Vietnamese
-Proposals
-Publication
-January 26, 1972
-Forthcoming meeting
-Kissinger
-Le Duc Tho
-Xuan Thuy
-Timing
	-March 15, 1972
	-Lunch
	-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
	-Date in question
		-Potential pitfalls
-Muskie
-Breakdown
-US opposition to war
	-Information
-Meetings
	-Possible number
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris
-Democrats
	-Possible effect on the North Vietnamese

	Moscow Summit
		-Compared to PRC trip
			-As historic and political events
		-Communiqué
		-Scale of importance
			-Potsdam
			-Yalta
			-Impact on US-Soviet relations

PRC trip
-Significance
-Malraux’s statement
-Barbara Walters
-Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-Call to Kissinger
	-White’s comments
-Chinese leaders
-Differences
-Calvinists
	-Comparisons
-Compared to Soviet leaders
-Cultural Revolution
	-Tactics
		-Record of principle
-Chou En-lai
-US response
	-Toughness
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-US response
-Chou En-lai
-Conciliatory tone
-US response and point of view
-Peace
-Justice
	-PRC objective
		-Malraux’s thesis on economics aid
-PRC thinking
-Soviets
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]-PRC relations
	-US interests
	-President’s previous conversation with Nicolae Ceausescu
		-Communists
-Soviets
-Bureaucratic outlook
	-Differences with PRC
-Kissinger’s view
-USSR-PRC relations
	-British in 19th Century
	-US relations with PRC

USSR
-Export licenses
	-Announcement
		-Timing
		-Amount

PRC trip
-Opening statements
-Kissinger
	-Staff
-Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai
	-Preparation of book
-Communiqué
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Memoranda of conversations [Memcons]
	-President’ marked originals
-Position papers
	-Butterfield
		-Locating the President’s marked originals
-Memcons
-Camp David
-Kissinger delivery
-Timing
	-President’s request
-Communiqué
	-Technical book
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Chinese-Soviets
	-Differences
		-Comparisons to Hanna Milhous Nixon
-Chinese
	-US principles compared to PRC principles
		-Differences discussed
			-State Department
-Speech
-Plenary session
-Chou En-lai
-Statement

Vietnam
-Malraux, Lucet
-Europeans’ view
-President’s achievement
-Congress
-Demonstrations
	-Timing
		-PRC trip
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris
-Congress
-Moscow
	-Timing
		-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Meetings
	-Proposed dates
-Demonstrators
	-Congress
-Possible attack
	-Timing
		-Residual forces
		-Bombing
	-Settlement
		-Progress
-1972 campaign
	-Polls
		-Percentage
			-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Public opinion

PRC trip
-James L. Buckley
	-Taiwan
-Communiqué
	-Interpretation
-Green
-Taiwan
-Public relations
	-Administration plan
-Communiqué
	-Kissinger’s view
-Press
	-Reaction
-Communiqué
-Positive tone
-Japan
-South Korea
-Taiwan
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-The President’s involvement
-Plenary session
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Chou En-lai
-Taiwan recognition
-PRC emissary
-US emissaries
-Peking
-Chinese history
-Press
-Soviets
	-Active contact
-Indians
-PRC option
	-Soviets

	US relations
		-With the USSR
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Upcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Middle East
-Earl L. Butz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Negotiations
-Progress
-Summit
	-Most favored nation [MFN] status
		-Maurice H. Stans
			-Peterson
			-Butz

PRC
-Relations with USSR
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Speech, 1959
	-Visit to PRC
-Tone

	PRC trip
		-Peace
			-US emphasis
			-Toast
		-Justice
-Communiqué
-Peking
-Hangchow
-Shanghai
-Agreement
-President’s concern
	-Kissinger’s location
-Timing
-Release
	-Departure from Shanghai
-Television
	-Newspaper story
-Taiwan
-Press
	-Administration response
		-Possible reaction
	-Draft
	-Haig
		-Acceptance
-Chou En-lai
-The President’s relations with world leaders
	-Mao Tse-tung
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle, 1963
-Konrad Adenauer
	-Impressions
-Chou En-lai
-Talk with Kissinger
-The President and Mao Tse-tung
-Malraux
	-Mao Tse-tung
		-Photographers
-Mao Tse-tung
	-Expression of views
		-Tone
-Conversation with Haile Selassie
	-The President

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:20 am.

Memcons
-President’s instructions
	-Kissinger
		-Marked copies
	-Files
	-PRC
	-The President
	-Marking
	-Book

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:17 pm.

PRC
-Background book
-State Department
	-Positions
	-Legal background
		-Korea
	-Exchanges

Dwight D. Eisenhower trip
-John Foster Dulles
-Secretary of State
	-Attendance
-Trips with the President
-Rogers
	-Attendance on PRC trip
	-Kissinger’s view

Foreign policy
-British Prime Minister
	-Compared to the President
-Foreign Minister
-Cabinet
-Cabinet
	-US system
	-Second term
-Trips
-Attendance of Cabinet officers
-First term
-Problems
	-Trips
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Cordell Hull
-Yalta
-Cairo
-Eisenhower
-Dulles
	-Attendance
-John F. Kennedy
-Dean Rusk
	-Attendance

Malraux meeting
-Translator
-Woman [Sophia K. Porson]
-Conversation
-The President’s performance
	-Kissinger’s view
-Dinner
	-Evening translator [Alec Toumayan]
		-Verbatim recollection
-De Gaulle
	-Understanding De Gaulle’s statement

PRC trip
-President’s return
-Report to the nation
-Statement
	-Exchange of pleasantries during travels
-State Department
-Communiqué
-Foreign policy
-The President’s dominance
-Szulc
-Secretary of State
-Appointment
-De Gaulle
-Statement
	-“Loyalty to the President”
-Credit for foreign policy
-Connally
-Green
-Excitement over PRC trip

The President’s record
-Kissinger’s view
-Cabinet
-Country
-Congress
-Press
-PRC
-USSR
	-The President’s progress
-Western Alliance
-Japan
	-Status

Soviet trip
-Return
-Brussels
-Iran
	-Reception for the President 
-USSR
-Kiev
-Tehran
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] security conference
	-Timing
	-The President’s talk with Haldeman
	-Possible report by the President
	-Report to the nation
		-Technical agreements
			-Explanation
		-Prime time
-Kiev
-Iran
-Tbilisi, Georgia
	-Israel
-Jordan

Malraux
-Meeting with the President
	-Spanish ambassador [Jaime Arguelles]
-Picture

Soviet trip
-Kiev, Ukraine
-Samarkand
-Tehran
	-Possible schedule
-Europe
	-Possible extension of trip
-Iran
-Tehran
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
	-Reception
-NATO meeting

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 11:20 am.

-NATO meeting
	-State Department
-Tehran
-Dobrynin
	-Upcoming meeting with Kissinger
		-Kiev
-NATO meeting
-Tehran
-NATO meeting
	-Report
-Rogers
	-Possible role
-Green
	-PRC trip
-The President’ previous meetings with NATO leaders
-NATO meeting
	-Symbolism
	-Report
		-Brussels
	-Timing
	-Rogers
-Length of visit
-Moscow
-Rogers
	-Dobrynin
	-Itinerary
		-Announcement
		-Departure time
-NATO meeting
	-Timing
-Tehran
-Shah of Iran
-Cable
	-Presidential visit
		-Possible location
-Reception
-Election
-NATO meeting
-Symbolism
-Kissinger’s concern
-Briefing
-Congress
-Shah of Iran
-Brussels
-Rogers
	-Instructions for Haldeman
		-Dobrynin
		-Call to Kissinger
			-Planning purposes
	-Schedule
	-Haldeman
	-White House
	-State Department
	-Shah of Iran
	-Election
		-Visit after re-election
	-Commitment

	The President’s schedule
		-Possible re-election
			-Travel
			-Cabinet reorganization
				-Timing
-State Department
-Secretary
	-Possible changes
-Defense Department
-NATO meeting
-Rogers
	-Attendance
		-Reason
-Shah of Iran
-The President
	-Kissinger’s view
-Iran
-Press speculation
	-President’s commitments
		-1972
-USSR trip
	-Return flight
	-Ireland
		-Rest
		-The President’s recent meeting with Buckley
			-Calls
	-Time difference

Haig entered at 12:17 pm.

			-Tehran

Malraux dinner
-Malraux
-Haig’s view

USSR trip
-Return
	-Length of flight
		-Tehran
		-Refueling stop

Haig left at 12:19 pm.

Greece
-Home porting issue
	-Defense Department
	-Naval Base
	-Press guidance
		-State Department
		-Administrative action
	-Personnel

Soviet trip
-Iran
	-Length of stay
-Return
	-Washington, DC
-Moscow
	-Historical significance
		-Prime time coverage
-Teheran
	-Length of flight
		-Rome
		-Islamabad
-Europe
-Ireland
-Shannon
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Timing
	-Possible length of stay
-Moscow
-Ireland
-Mulcahy
-Prime Minister [John M. (“Jack”) Lynch]
	-Possible meeting
		-Greetings upon arrival
		-Richard A. Moore
-Moscow
-Arrival
-Prime time coverage
	-Time difference
	-News coverage
		-Possible scenarios
			-Arrival

Kissinger left at 12:24 pm.

PRC

USSR

European trip, 1969
-Press coverage
	-Haldeman’s view

Soviet trip
-Coverage
	-Timing
		-Women

Dinners
	-Arthur F. Burns
	-Connally
-President’s request

	White House social events
	-Connally
	-Politics
-Burns
-Visitors
	-Business council members
	-Unwanted visitors
-States
-Questions and answers [Q&A]
-Meeting

Kissinger entered at 12:26 pm.

Letter
-Brezhnev
-Signing by the President
-Summit

Kissinger left at 12:28 pm.

Dinners
-Small talk
-The President’s request
-Haldeman’s opinion
-Q&A
	-Timing
-Receiving line
-Refreshments
-Q&A
-Receiving line
-Size of group
-Q&A
-Handshakes
-Invitation list
-Homes
	-Hotels
	-Size of group
-Paul Miller
-Hotel
-John W. Rollins
-Preston Wolfe
	-Type of home
-Political dinner
-State dinners
-Wolfe
	“Meet and greet”
-Alaska
	-Hickel
-Wives
	-Inclusion
	-Mrs. Nixon
-Size of group

Butterfield entered at 12:40 pm.

President’s schedule

[No conversation-handwriting]

Butterfield left at 12:42 pm.

Dinners
	-Connally
-States
-White House
	-Timing
-Burns
-Businessmen
-Connally
	-Relationship with business
-Businessmen
	-Blair House
	-The President’s view
		-Information gap
-Individuals
-Group
-Congressmen
-Busing
	-Views
-State dinners
-Social meetings
-Cabinet Room
-State dinner
	-The President’s preference
-Expense
	-Possible amount
		-Political functions
-Connally
-States
	-Politics
-Connally’s location
-Texas
-Laredo

	[Pause]

	White House social events
		-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
			-Tea for social conservation ladies
		-Extensive activities
		-Value
			-Example
				-Black children
					-Credit
					-Photograph for newspaper
					-District of Columbia

Haldeman left at 12:47 pm.

Conversation No. 672-3

Date:  February 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:47 pm and 12:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President’s schedule
-Camp David

John B. Connally
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Connally’s comments
-Meeting
-Arthur F. Burns
-Notes
	-George P. Shultz
	-Meeting
-Burns
	-Meeting with the President
		-Purpose

Donald H. Rumsfeld

Shultz

Connally

Welfare reform

Busing
-Statement
-William H. Brown, III
-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC]
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Charles W. Colson
-Memoranda
-Constitutional amendment
	-Chief Justice [Warren E. Burger]
	-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
	-Burger
	-“Nixon Court”
	-Judges opinions

	The President’s schedule

Conversation No. 672-4

Date:  February 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:47 pm and 12:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.

Conversation No. 672-5

Date:  February 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:47 pm and 12:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Richard G. Kleindienst
-Request for a call from Ehrlichman
-Meeting with the President
-Timing
-Camp David
-Lunch
-Meeting
-Time

Conversation No. 672-6

Date:  February 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:47 pm and 12:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Richard Kleindienst meeting
-Timing
-Barber
-Timing

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:47 pm.

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.

Briefcase

	Black books
		-Executive Office Building [EOB]

******************************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  13s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

******************************************************************************

Books
-EOB

	Refreshment

******************************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  19s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

******************************************************************************

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.

Conversation No. 672-7

Date:  February 15, 1972
Time:  12:56 pm - 1:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Book
	-Placement

Food

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm.

Richard G. Kleindienst
-Meeting with the President
-John D. Ehrlichman

-Timing
-Necessity
-Possible telephone call
-Dinner
-Ehrlichman
	-Call to Kleindienst

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
	-Weather
		-Evenings
	-Dinner
	-Rogers
	-Masseurs
	-Flight
		-Length
	-Chou En-lai
	-Meetings

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:56 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm.

PRC trip
-Riland
-Arrival
-Sessions
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Assistance
-Rose Mary Woods
	-Assistance

Sanchez entered and left at an unknown time between 12:56 pm and 1:20 pm.

	“Vickie”

	PRC trip
		-Schedule
	-Rest
	-Meetings
	-Timing
		-Mornings
	-Great Wall visit
	-Timing
-Meeting
-Banquet
-Chou En-Lai
-Mao Tse-tung
-Opera
-Gymnastic exhibition
-Great Wall
-Forbidden City
	-Length of tour
-Meetings
-Time
	-Flexibility
		-Chou En-lai
-Evenings
-Morning
-Report to the nation
-Preparation
-Meetings
-Cabinet
	-Scheduling
-Domestic advisors
-Busing
-Wage Board
-John B. Connally
	-Timing
-John N. Mitchell
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
	-Location for meeting
-Businessmen, Scouts
-Ehrlichman
-Leaders
-Cabinet

The President’s schedule
-Florida
	-Timing
-Cabinet meeting
-Florida
-Timing
-Key Biscayne
	-Length of stay
-The President’s appearances
-Timing
-US public reaction
-California
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Arrival time
-Florida
-Timing
-San Clemente
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Talking points
-First draft
	-Information on PRC for Mrs. Nixon
-Hawaii
-Quality
							-Compared to State Department, Kissinger’s office, [National Security Council [NSC]]
-Tone
-Suggested answers and guidelines
	-Simplified reports
-Rita R. Di Santis

PRC trip
-Return
	-Commitments

The President’s schedule
-Key Biscayne
-New Hampshire
-Traveling

George Meany
-Stance towards Democrats
	-Stance toward Administration
		-Economy
	-Vietnam
-Economy
-Hard hats
	-Supporters

	Edmund S. Muskie
		-Charles W. Colson’s report
-John Loeb
	“Moscow Muskie”
-Press treatment
-Abraham Lincoln
-Vacillation
	-Press
-Vietnam
	-Stance

US public’s memory
-The Pentagon papers
-The [Jack N.] Anderson papers
-India-Pakistan War
-Bangladesh
	-US recognition
		-Timing
			-PRC trip return
-Biafra
	-Ibo tribe
-Andre Malraux
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Forthcoming press conference
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.

Haldeman’s children
-Calls
-President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
	-Politics
-Haldeman’s Today show interview, February 7, 1972
	-Professors
	-School
	-Discussion
	-McCarthyism
		-Lack of understanding
	-Douglas L. Hallett
	-Buchanan
	-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Students
-President’s January 25, 1972 speech

[Unintelligible]

Woods entered at 1:20 pm.

The President’s schedule
-PRC trip
-Mrs. Nixon
	-Photographs
		-Formal thank you
	-Gifts
		-Watches
	-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
	-Chou En-lai
	-Mao Tse-tung
	-Autographs
	-Gifts
		-Framing

Woods left at 1:24 pm.

Dinners
-[Malraux] February 14, 1972
-The President’s schedule
-Lyndon B. Johnson

The President’s schedule
-PRC trip
-Moscow trip
-Traveling in US
	-Question and answer [Q&A] session
		-Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Connally [?]
-Leaders meeting
-Timing
	-Historic significance
-Clark MacGregor
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Carl B. Albert
-Timing

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 1:24 pm.

-Timing

The President, Haldeman, and Butterfield left at 1:30 pm.

Conversation No. 672-8

Date:  February 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	[Unintelligible]

[The conversation was cut off at an unknown time between 1:30 pm and 11:59 pm.]