Conversation No. 20-43

Date: February 3, 1972
Time: 9:52 am - 9:55 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 665-1B]

     Breakfast with Michael J. Mansfield
          -Edmund S. Muskie speech
                -Mansfield’s possible view

     Irish problem
           -News summary
           -Domestic perception
                 -Need for statesmanlike role
           -Embassy burning
           -US role
                 -John M. (“Jack”) Lynch
                      -Possible visit
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

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               -Rogers’s forthcoming press conference
                     -Rogers’s visit with Foreign Minister [Patrick J. Hillery?]
                     -US involvement
                           -Analogy to US problems
                                 -Blacks
                     -US talks with Foreign Minister and Ambassador William Warnack
                     -US involvement
               -Private citizen role possibilities
               -George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
               -President's discussion with Edward R.G. Heath
                     -Rhodesian problem
                     -Irish problem
                           -US handling vis-a-vis Great Britain

     The President’s schedule
          -Russian poet [Yevgeny Yevtushenko]
               -Forthcoming visit with President
                      -Vietnam
                      -Leonard Garment
                      -Book
                      -Photograph opportunities