Conversation No. 674-1

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:11 am and 8:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Raymond K. Price, Jr. file

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:15 am.

Conversation No. 674-2

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:11 am and 8:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Pens
	-Type

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:15 am.

Conversation No. 674-3

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  8:15 am - 8:24 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s schedule

Item for Bull
	-Secretary
	-William L. Safire
-Copy
-Charles W. Colson
-George P. Shultz
-[Forename unknown] Claxton [sp?]

Bull left at 8:24 am.

Conversation No. 674-4

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:24 am and 8:28 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  14s  ]

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	The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-Preparation
			-Clothing

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

Conversation No. 674-5

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:24 am and 8:28 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull.

Toast
-Chou En-lai
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Henry A. Kissinger

John B. Connally

Signing documents
	-Rose Mary Woods

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

Conversation No. 674-6

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:24 am and 8:28 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-102]

Conversation No. 674-7

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  8:28 am - 8:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller.

[See Conversation No. 20-103; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 674-8

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  9:00 am - 9:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Staff letter
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Photostatic copy

Bull left at 9:06 am.

Conversation No. 674-9

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:06 am and 9:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Resolution
	-Leslie C. Arends
		-Note
	-Congressional leadership meeting
-Introduction by Arends
-President’s approval

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:11 am.

Conversation No. 674-10

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:06 am and 9:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Delivery of an item to Leslie C. Arends

Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:11 am.

Conversation No. 674-11

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  9:11 am - 9:16 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

Kissinger’s well-being

Nelson Rockefeller
-President’s return call

	Alice Roosevelt Longworth
		-Call

	Washington Post
		-Joint resolution
		-George H. Gallup poll

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Tricia Nixon Cox
	-Network specials
-Networks
-Hawaii
-Press conference
-President’s statement
	-Technical remarks
-Chou En-lai’s remarks in toast
-Welcome of Kissinger to Peking, October 1971
	-Publicity
-President’s possible statements
	-Chou En-lai
	-Desired tone
-Vietnam
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-PRC’s concern
-Communications
-Ambiguity
-USSR
-Aid
	-Percentage

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  21s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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	Congressional leadership meeting
		-Planning
	-President’s filibuster
		-Questions
		-The President’s comments
	-William P. Rogers
	-Kissinger
		-Philosophical comments
		-Message for Rogers
-Seating arrangements

Kissinger left at 9:16 am.

Conversation No. 674-12

Date:  February 17, 1972
Time:  9:17 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s schedule
	-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at 9:17 am.

Conversation No. 674-13

Date:  February 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:17 am and 10:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with unknown people [Secret Service agents].

	[Unintelligible]

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

	[Unintelligible]

The conversation was cutoff at an unknown time between 9:17 am and 10:00 am.