Conversation No. 114-1

Date:  February 16, 1973
Time:  9:39 am - 11:59 am
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, William P. Rogers, George P. Shultz, Elliot L. Richardson, Richard G. Kleindienst, Rogers C. B. Morton, J. Philip Campbell, Frederick B. Dent, Peter J. Brennan, Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger, James T. Lynn, Claude S. Brinegar, Roy L. Ash, John A. Scali, H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Peter M. Flanigan, William E. Timmons, Ronald L. Ziegler, Raymond K. Price, Jr., General Brent G. Scowcroft, George H. W. Bush, Bryce N. Harlow, and Arthur J. Sohmer

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

	Greetings

	President=s trip to Jacksonville, Florida
		-Visit by Julie Nixon Eisenhower and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
		-Hard hats

	Subjects for discussion
		-Vice President=s report
		-War in Vietnam

	President=s visit with Sir Christopher Soames
		-President=s schedule
		-Vice President as moderator
			-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration

	Vice President=s report on trip
		-Value
		-Foreign policy
		-Economic relations

	Briefing by Shultz
		-International monetary situation

	Vice President=s trip
		-Response in foreign countries
		-Meeting with the President in California

The President and Flanigan left at 9:44

	Vice President=s trip
		-Length, number of nations
		-Southeast Asia
		-Association of Southeast Asian Nations [ASEAN]
			-Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
		-Itinerary
			-Indochina
			-Insurgencies

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  4m 46s  ]

	AGNEW’S SOUTHEAST ASIA TRIP BRIEFING

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 10:33 am

The President entered with Soames, Flanigan, and Helmut (AHal@) Sonnenfeldt at 10:33 am

	INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Soames and Sonnenfeldt left at 10:42 am

	MILITARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

	INTERNATIONAL MONETARY POLICY

	VIETNAM AID

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

[To listen to the segment (1h21m6s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-608, E-609.]

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	Harlow
		-Clark MacGregor
		-Dealings with Congress
		-Presence at meetings

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 11:59 am