Conversation No. 673-1

Date:  February 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:25 pm and 3:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 673-2

Date:  February 16, 1972
Time:  3:44 pm - 4:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Greetings

Choice of eyeglasses
-Instructions

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President’s schedule
-Forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Well-wishers
		-Calls
		-Prayer groups
			-Unknown people
				-Possible gift
	-Lyndon B. Johnson’s letter
	-J. Edgar Hoover
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Bess (Wallace) Truman
	-The President’s birthday message
-Walter H. Annenberg note
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Martin J. Hillenbrand
	-Possible appointment
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Ronald W. Reagan and Nancy (Davis) Reagan
	-Anniversary
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Schedule
		-Lunch
		-San Clemente
	-Letter
-Dictation of letter to Johnson
	-PRC trip
	-Appreciation for wishes
	-Possible briefing

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	Letters
		-Reading
			-Work involved
		-Woods

Alan Brown’s call to President
	-Return
-Mrs. Nixon
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
	-Return of call
-Woods
	-President’s instructions

	The President’s schedule
		-The President’s work
			-Reading
		-National Security Council [NSC]
-Domestic policy and problems

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	The President’s schedule

Typing
-Completion
-Proofing
-Book
	-Fastening
	-Labeling
	-President’s instructions

PRC trip
-People’s views

Manolo Sanchez, Zosimo T. Monzon

Woods left and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 3:56 pm.

	Domestic matters

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Ambassadors
-West Germany
	-Hillenbrand
		-Possible selection
			-1972 election
			-Kissinger
-Training
	-Rush
	-Relocation

Appointments
-Assistant secretaries
-Chief of Protocol
-Frederic V. Malek
-Marion H. Smoak
-James J. Reynolds
-Contribution
	-Amount
-Smoak
-Strom Thurmond
-L. Nicholas Ruwe
-John J. Rhodes
-John C. Whitaker
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Ruwe
	-Mrs. Nixon
-Ruwe
-Ambassadorship
	-Portugal
		-[Ridgeway B. Knight]
-Chief of Protocol
	-Description of position
-Reynolds
	-Trips
-Trips
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Foreign visitors
-Turk [Nihat Erim]
-Mexican [Luis Echeverria Alvarez]
-1972 campaign
-Smoak
-Ruwe

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-Ambassadorship
	-Portugal
		-President’s opinion
			-Hunting

Malek
-Responsiveness of government
	-Domestic Council
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Charles W. Colson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Malek

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-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Maurice H. Stans
-Finance
-Colson
-Malek
	-John N. Mitchell’s view

PRC trip
-Woods
-Letters
-Hoover
-Johnson
-Hoover
-Hoover
	-Liberals
	-Conservatives
	-Ehrlichman
-Life
-Princeton University group
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Cameras
-Leaders
-Possible departure plan
	-Michael J. Mansfield
	-Hugh Scott
	-Airport
		-Gerald R. Ford
		-Possible photograph opportunity
	-Spirit of ‘76
-Farewell ceremony
	-Mansfield
		-Unknown person

Haldeman left at 4:14 pm.

Conversation No. 673-3

Date:  February 16, 1972
Time:  4:15 pm - 5:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bangladesh aid
-Humanitarian relief
-Amount
-Bureaucracy
-Joseph J. Sisco

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Haig
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Vietnam
-Offensive
-North Vietnam
	-President’s instructions
		-Possible criticism
-Chinese
	-Significance of President’s visit
-Kissinger’s lunch at San Souci
	-Dr. David K.E. Bruce
	-Good wishes for the President
		-Phil Potter

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:20 pm.

Additions
	-Bags

Butterfield left at 4:22 pm.

PRC trip
-Potter
-Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-Call to Kissinger
-Press
-Briefings
-Communist countries
-The President’s and Kissinger’s previous trips
-Nikita S. Khrushchev, 1959
-Press
	-Exhibition
		-Debates
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule
-Opera
	-Mao Tse-tung
-Communiqué
-Language
	-President’s suggestion for Kissinger
-Marshall Green
-William P. Rogers
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Trade
	-US position
-Talks
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
	-Foreign minister
-Trade
	-State Department interest
		-Rogers, Green
		-Rogers
			-Kissinger
-Kissinger’s view
	-Communiqué
	-Revolution
	-First draft
	-Taiwan
	-Mao Tse-tung
		-Potential problems with the communiqué

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	TAIWAN

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-Talking points
-Leaders
-Domestic matters
-Plane
-Arrival in Hawaii
-Press
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Upcoming conversation with Kissinger
	-Previous discussions with the press
-Movie
	-Haig
-Kissinger
	-Plane
-Press conference
-Prepared statement
	-President’s upcoming meeting with Congressional leaders
-Ziegler
-Briefings
-Communiqué
-Communiqué
-Release
	-Possible timing
		-The President’s announcement
-Peking
-Shanghai
-Hangchow
-Return to Washington, DC
	-The President’s statement
-Kissinger
-Background work
	-Treaty with Taiwan
-Shanghai
	-Release
-October 1971
	-Chou En-Lai
	-Rogers
		-Role
	-State Department
		-Draft
-Rogers
	-Knowledge of parallel communiqué
-Formosa
	-Agreement
-South Korea
-Japan
	-US defense commitments
-Peking
-Formosa
-Wording
-Renunciation of forces
-State Department
-Pacific
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Chinese
	-Self-restraint
-Pacific
-Issues for agreement and disagreement
	-Rogers
		-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger draft
-Chou En-lai
-Press
	-October 1971

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:22 pm.

Richard G. Kleindienst
-Arrival

John D. Ehrlichman
-Meeting with the President

Memorandum
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Press
-Hawaii
-PRC
	-Technical matters
		-Questions
		-Movie

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:34 pm..

PRC trip
-Agenda
-Chinese
-Notes
-Vietnam
-Vietnam
	-Talking points
		-Possible change in time
-USSR
	-President’s future trips
-Staff
-Cabinet officers
	-Attendance on future trips
	-Briefing books
		-Rogers
-Calls to Kissinger
	-Unknown investment firm
		-New York
	-Council on Foreign Relations
-Ziegler
-Patrick J. Buchanan [?]

Kissinger left and John D. Ehrlichman entered at 4:34 pm.

Kleindienst
-Briefing paper
-Confirmation
	-Jerris Leonard

	Leonard
		[Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA?]]
			-White House

Kleindienst entered at 4:36 pm.

Greetings

	PRC trip

	Confirmation

Jews

Election

John N. Mitchell
	-Praise for Kleindienst

Kleindienst
-Attorney General post
	-Mitchell
	-Relationship with the President

Politics
	-Mitchell

Busing

Kleindienst appointment
-Role as Attorney General
-Staff
-Morale
-White House
-Relationship
		-Inter-departmental conflict
-Reputation as a “team player”
-Narcotics
-President’s request
	-John B. Connally
		-Working relationship
	-Call from Kleindienst
		-Connally’s location
	-President’s remarks
							-Kleindienst’s upcoming conversation with Connally
								-Relationship
									-Similar position
-White House
-Department of Justice [DOJ]
	-Possible problems
-Connally
-Housing
-Busing
-Ehrlichman
	-Role
-Edward L. Morgan
-John W. Dean, III
-Civil Rights Division
	-David L. Norman
-Kleindienst
-Comparisons to Mitchell
-Civil rights issues
	-PRC
	-Political volatility
-Ehrlichman
-News summaries
-Mitchell
-Deputy Director
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Praise from Kleindienst
-Housing issue
-Cabinet
-George W. Romney
-Proposal
-Request from Kleindienst
-Housing
	-Romney
		-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-DOJ
-Busing
-Civil Rights Division
	-Office of Legal Counsel
		-Ralph E. Erickson and William H. Rehnquist
		-Office of Legal Council
-Camp David
	-Erickson
-Norman’s involvement
-Sensitivity as issue
	-Compared to wage and price controls
	-Housing
	-Forest Hills
		-Jews
			-Airplane
				-Miami
				-John V. Lindsay
-Housing
	-As issue
		-Law, politics
	-Kleindienst’s experience
-Confirmation
-Issues
-Policy papers
-Morgan
-Housing
-Confirmation
-Questions
-Briefing
-The President’s intended responses
	-Federal support
	-Communities
-Chicago Congressmen
-Long Island
	-Relevance of issues
-St. Louis
-Blackjack case
-Atlanta
-Congressmen
-Blackjack case
-Mitchell
-Integration
-Forced
-Government
	-President’s view
-Busing
-Race issue
	-Reverse racism
	-Political volatility
-Confirmation
-White House
-Working relationship with Ehrlichman
	-Deniability for the President
-Anti-trust
	-Unknown person
		-Rehnquist
		-Politics
	-Moratorium
	-Unknown person
		-Politics
-International Business Machines [IBM]
-Peter M. Flanigan
-S. Stephen Karalekas
-Meeting with Kleindienst
	-Timing
-Bureaucrats
-Karalekas
	-Richard W. McLaren
		-Purpose of meetings
-DOJ
-The President’s re-election
-Activism of Administration
-Busing
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Constitutional amendment
-Court action
-Kleindienst
-Meeting
-William E. Brock, III
-Robert P. Griffin
-Mitchell
-Timing
-DOJ
	-Support of amendment
-DOJ
-Possible intervention
-Earl Warren Court
	“Nixon Court”

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-White House staff
-Blacks
	-Forthcoming meeting
-Statement
-Brief
-Brown vs. Board of Education
	-Alexander M. Bickel
-Supreme Court
-Constitution interpretation
-Education
-Constitutional amendment
-Lawyers
-Amendments
-The President’s view on busing
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-William Raspberry
-Washington Post
-Education
-Race
-Symbolism
-Black leadership
	-Potential criticism of Edmund S. Muskie
		-Opposition to amendment
			-Percentage
				-Vote in 1968
-Elliot Richardson
-Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
-School districts
-Richardson
	-Possible busing lawsuits
-Romney
-Paper
-Education
-National television address
-Constitutional amendment
-Paper
-Ehrlichman
-Camp David
-George P. Shultz
-Cabinet committee
-Chairman
	-Role
-California
	-Weather
-Florida
-Camp David
	-Aspen Lodge
	-Erickson
-Guidance
-The President
	-Ehrlichman
-Dual school system
-Clauses
-Draft
	-Simplicity
-Attorney General
-Congress
-Amendment
	-President’s view
-Muskie
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Today show
	-Appearance
		-Agnew’s opinion on the Constitutional amendment
		-Timing
								-The President’s press conference, February 10, 1972
-Women
-Supreme Court
	-President’s view
	-Mitchell
	-Chief Justice [Warren E. Burger]
-Preparation for position
-Ku Klux Klan [KKK]
-Number qualified
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
	-[Marina Von N. Whitman]
-Law school attendance
	-Number of women
		-The President’s experience
-Kleindienst
-Meetings with Ehrlichman
-Timing
	-Work relationship
-Meetings with the President
	-Mitchell
-Bureaucrats
-White House
-Cooperation

Salary of Cabinet officers
-Amount
-Confirmation
-Swearing-in

Shultz entered at 5:08 pm.

Shultz
-Busing
	-Cabinet committee
	-Chairman
	-Ehrlichman
-Conference
-Camp David
-Kleindienst

Busing
-Lawyers
-Paper
-Compared to brief in Brown vs. Board of Education
-Quality education
	-Administration goal
-Amendment
	-Possible end to busing
-Inferior education
-Speech by the President
-Television
-Integrated education
	-Potential results
-Equal education for all children
-Freedom of choice
	-Example
-Amendment
-Liberals
	-Principle
		-Consequence
			-Racial strife
-Level of education
-Quality and quality
	-Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Shultz
-Cabinet committee
-Meeting
	-Timing
-Ehrlichman
-Agnew’s statement
-Press conference
-Cabinet committee
-Timing of meeting
-Attorney General
-Richardson
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Kleindienst
-Blacks
	-Opinions
-The President’s schedule

Kleindienst left at 5:14 pm.

PRC trip
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Haig
-Agnew
	-Role
		-Cabinet meeting
		-Domestic Council
		-Cabinet meeting
			-Rogers
		-Domestic Council

Economy
-Administration action
	-Compared to appearance
-Controls
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Wage and price controls
-Dr. Jackson (“Dan”) Grayson, Jr.
-[George H. Boldt]
-Policy
-White House
-Connally
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-International spokesman
-Connally’s work schedule
	-Allocation of time
		-Staff
-Wage and price board
-Rumsfeld
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz, Ehrlichman
-Narcotics
-Possible meeting
	-Timing
	-Rumsfeld

	Labor disputes
		-Teamsters Union
		-Dock strike
	-Wage board
		-Activity
-Teamsters
	-Public support
	-Connally
	-Rumsfeld
-Dock strike
	-Possible damage to the economy
	-Wage board
		-Shultz’s possible work with Arnold R. Weber
	-Docks
		-Productivity gains
		-Contract
			-Cost of living clause absence
	-Wage Board
		-Shultz talk with Connally
		-Congress
			-Possible injunction
				-Possible scenario
-British
	-Coal settlement
		-Criticism
		-Camp David
	-Bill
		-Signing
			-10-day period
	-Executive Board
		-Contract
			-Approval
		-Voting structure
			-Process
				-Possible results
	-Law
		-Signing
-PRC
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Cable
-Haldeman
-PRC
-Teamsters
	-Chicago local
	-General contract
	-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
	-Pay Board
		-Press
			-Criticism
	-Members
		-Aerospace industry
		-Dock workers
			-Attitude

	Economy
-Controls
-Price Commission
-Staff
-Increase
-Controls
	-Public view
-Poll
	-Rumsfeld
-Wall Street Journal
-Public view
-Harvard University Club
-Meeting
	-Liberals
-Unions
-New York
-Conservatives
-Liberals
-Age
-Alumni
-Child development
-Liberals
-Conservatives
	-Wages
	-Prices
	-Unions
-Arthur F. Burns meeting
-Shultz
	-Ehrlichman
-Convertibility
-Money supply
-Budget
-Value-added tax [VAT]
-Spending for January 1972
-Defense
	-Assistant secretaries, comptroller
		-Meetings
-Connally
-Shultz’s meeting 
	-Possible return to convertibility
		-The President’s view
-Burns
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Shultz’s letter
-Possible signature
-President’s instructions to Butterfield
-Cabinet Room meeting
-Wage and price controls
-Rumsfeld
-As political issue
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Memorandum
	-VAT
-Meat prices
	-Possible Administration response
-Decision paper
-Imports
-Expansion
	-John C. Whitaker
		-Proposed figure
	-Cattle growers
	-Earl L. Butz
	-Housewives
	-Support
	-Ehrlichman
	-Butz
-Connally
-Mitchell
-Bargaining
-Farm prices
-Butz
-Television appearance
-Cost
-Middleman
-Wage cost
-Processing
-Food prices
-Meat
-Fish
-Consumption
	-Types of fish
-Consumerism
-Environmentalism
-Maurice H. Stans
-Saccharin

	PRC trip

	Shultz’s and Ehrlichman’s schedule
		-Camp David

	The President’s schedule

	Economy
		-Connally
		-Shultz’s responsibilities
			-Rumsfeld
		-Rumsfeld
			-Talk with the President
			-Schedule
		-Connally
			Schedule
				-Texas
			-Rumsfeld
				-Meeting
			-Cattle growers
			-Food prices
				-Whitaker
			-Unions

	Labor
		-Unions
			-Construction
				-Meeting with the President
			-Votes
				-President’s view
			-George Meany
-Budget briefing
	-Response
-Stephen D. Bechtel
	-Ideas

PRC trip

	The President’s schedule
		-Barber

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 5:38 pm.