Conversation No. 314-1

Date: January 13, 1972
Time: 2:34 pm - 3:41 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

     Scheduling meetings
          -Carl B. Albert
          -Neil H. McElroy meeting
                -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                -Robert E. Merriam
                -Duration
                -Delays in other meetings
                      -Robert O. Anderson
          -Length of meetings
                -Henry A. Kissinger, John D. Ehrlichman
          -McElroy meeting
                -Merriam, Agnew
                Length
                -Lack of briefing
                -Purpose
          -Stephen B. Bull, David N. Parker, Haldeman
          -Handling of scheduling
                -Estimates of length of meetings
                      -Overruns
                -Planning
          -McElroy meeting
                -State of the Union speech
                -Parker
                -Length of meeting
                -Bull
                      -Agnew
          -Signaling end of meeting
          -Kissinger
                -Length of meetings

     David J. Mahoney, Jr.
          -Attitude
                -Leonard Garment
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                                                                   Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)


Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:34 pm.

     The President’s schedule
          -First Family departure
                -Camp David

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.

     Camp David
         -Departure

     State of the Union message
           -Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s draft
                 -Elliot L. Richardson
                 -Delays
                       -Call from Haldeman
                 -Theme

     The President’s schedule
          -Kissinger
          -Camp David
               -Helicopter
               -Haldeman's call to Brig. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:34 pm and 2:45
pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1A]

[See Conversation No. 18-77]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Camp David
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                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)


     Scheduling
          -Problems
                -Haldeman's staff
          -Ehrlichman
          -Cancellations
                -John B. Connally

     State of the Union message

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:34 pm and
2:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 314-1H]

     Request for a return call

[End of telephone conversation]

     Haldeman's meetings
          -John N. Mitchell
               -Time
               -Ehrlichman
               -Kissinger
                     -Time
                     -Forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

     Kissinger
          -Concern over columns by James B. (“Scotty”) Reston in New York Times
          -Possible press conference
               -Advisability
          -Possible interview with Max Frankel
          -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s advice
               -Forthcoming world report
          -Breakfast with Melvin R. Laird
          -Problem

[Haldeman talked with Hughes at 2:45 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1B]

[See Conversation No. 18-78]
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                                                                   Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)



[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with the White House operator at 2:45 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1C]

[See Conversation No. 18-79]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Bull
            -Informing Ronald L. Ziegler

[The President talked with Ziegler between 2:45 pm and 2:47 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1D]

[See Conversation No. 18-80]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Notification
          -Bull
          -Ziegler

     The President’s schedule
          -Home Builders convention in Houston, Texas
                -Astrodome exhibition center
                -The President's attendance
                -Size of crowd
                -The President's schedule
                      -Timing
          -Emilio Colombo
          -Return to Washington
          -Forthcoming Vietnam announcement
          -Florida
          -Home Builder's convention
                -Announcement
                -Agnew
                -Florida
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                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)


                -Size of crowd
                -Program
                -Foreign policy
          -Florida

[Haldeman talked with Hughes at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1E]

[See Conversation No. 18-81]

     Camp David
         -Snow
              -Thurmont, Frederick, Hagerstown, Maryland
         -Thurmont, Maryland
              -Weather
                    -Plane
              -Helicopter
         -Car
         -Time of departure

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09
pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1F]

[See Conversation No. 18-82]

[Haldeman talked with Hughes at an unknown time.]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09
pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1G]

[See Conversation No. 18-83]

[The call was placed on hold]
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                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)


     Schedule
          -Kissinger

[Haldeman talked with Bull at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09 pm.]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Camp David
         -Transportation
              -Car
                    -Duration of trip

     Kissinger
          -Meeting with the President
               -Resignation threat
          -Press conference
               -Change of mind
          -Mental state
               -The President’s view


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                -[William F.?] Buckley’s view
                -Security risks
                -National Security Council [NSC]
                     -Haig’s activities
                     -Paperwork
                     -Foreign visits

     Kurt Waldheim
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                                   Tape Subject Log
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                                                           Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)


     -Meeting with the President, January 24, 1972
         -Location
     -Meetings with Congress
         -Social events
         -Meeting with the President
               -William P. Rogers
     -Meeting with the President

Florida trip
      -Return
            -Timing

Cabinet dinner, January 20, 1972
     -Scheduling
           -Itinerary

Florida trip
      -Scheduling
      -Don and Betty Hughes
            -Son
                 -Military service
            -Rose Mary Woods
                 -Talk with Haldeman
                 -Talk with Hughes
            -Woods's attendance

The President’s schedule
     -Houston convention
          -Declination of invitation
                 -Waldheim
          -Agnew
                 -Substitute

The President's Commission on School Finance
     -Ehrlichman
     -Richardson
     -Agnew, McElroy
     -Agnew
           -Unknown person from Chicago
     -Lewis A. Engman
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                                       Tape Subject Log
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                                                                   Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)


     Agnew's recent behavior

     Labor affairs
          -Agnew meeting
                -Propriety
                -Chairmanship

     Cabinet
          -Committee on Economic Policy
          -The President’s role

     Appointments
         -[Council on International Economic Policy]
              -Peter M. Flanigan
              -William D. Eberle
                    -Staff
                    -Background
                          -Common Cause

     Common Cause
        -Problems
             -Finances
                  -John W. Gardner

     Eberle

     Richard V. (“Dick”) Allen
          -Conservatives
          -Peter G. Peterson
                -Commerce Department
                -1972 campaign
                     -Foreign policy

Ziegler entered at 3:09 pm.

     Andrew Wyeth

     Ziegler's talk with Leonard Garment
          -Wyeth

     Portrait of the President
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                                   Tape Subject Log
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                                                             Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)


        -Timing
              -Departure from office
        -Wyeth
              -The President’s choice
        -Sitting while in office
        -Wyeth
              -The President’s choice
        -Timing
        -Garment
              -Call to Wyeth
        -Press

The President's meeting with fifth grade class
     -Press reports
     -Children's facial expressions
     -Responsiveness to the President’s questions
          -Children's aspirations

Photograph sessions
     -McElroy, Agnew, Arthur F. Burns
     -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
          -Photos

Laird
        -Press conference

US troop withdrawals from Vietnam
     -Level
     -Timing
     -Laird
          -Confidence in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
          -US combat role
          -US airpower

Kissinger
     -Possible press conference
          -Timing
                -Reston
          -Necessity
     -Reston’s views
     -Importance to press
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                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)


          -Forthcoming trip to the PRC
                -Reston’s trip to PRC
                -New York Times
     -Possible press conference
          -Defensiveness
          -Call to Ziegler
          -Ziegler’s talk with Haldeman
          -Credibility with the press
                -Background briefings
          -Jack N. Anderson

Public relations
     -India-Pakistan war
            -Importance as issue
     -Bangladesh
            -Importance as issue
            -Sheik Mujibur Rahman
                 -US support
                 -Airport reception

The President’s schedule
     -Camp David
          -State of the Union speech
                 -The President’s efforts

Ziegler and Press arrangements for forthcoming trip to the PRC
     -Number of invitees
           -Negotiations
     -Communications with the President

Forthcoming trip to the PRC
     -President’s security
           -Laird
           -Agnew
           -Position
           -India
           -Ireland
           -Latin America
           -Recent press conference

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Africa
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                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                            Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)


     -Television appearance
          -Demeanor
          -Women in office
                -Support of women
                      -Leonore L. Romney
                -Presidency
                      -Barbara Walters
          -Answers
                -Style
          -Treatment by press
                -Questions
                      -Handling
                -Walters's question about women in office
                      -Responses

Edmund S. Muskie
    -Anderson papers leak
         -Secretaries of State or Defense
         -Truth of charges
              -Joseph R. McCarthy
         -Administration responses
              -Rogers
              -Television
                    -Accusation of lies
         -Proof
              -Anderson
    -Comparison to Pentagon Papers
         -Daniel Ellsberg
              -Neil Sheehan and wife
                    -Activity in Cambridge, Massachusetts
                    -Release of information
                          -Timing
                                 -1972 election

Frankel
     -National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] transcript
           -Ziegler’s intended use
     -Statements
           -Interview by James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
                 -Sheehan
                       -New York Times
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                                        Tape Subject Log
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                                                                       Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)



     Press
             -Battles with the administration
                   -State of the Union speech
                   -Vietnam announcement
             -Trip to the PRC by the President
             -Vietnam troop withdrawals
                   -Level

Ziegler left at 3:28 pm.

     Kissinger
          -Problem
               -Sources
          -View of Haig, Ziegler, Gerald R. Warren
          -Handling
               -John N. Mitchell
               -Forthcoming PRC trip
                    -William P. Rogers
               -Middle East

     Haig
             -Qualities
             -Mitchell
                  -Kissinger’s comments about Soviet Union

     Kissinger
          -Admonition by Ziegler
          -Rogers
                -Briefing
          -Briefing of the Associated Press [AP] and United Press International [UPI]
                -Rogers
                -The President’s instructions
                -John A. Scali
                -Conversation with Rogers
          -Handling
          -PRC trip, Soviet Union trip
                -Impact on Kissinger's position
                      -Position vis-a-vis Rogers
                            -Forthcoming 1972 presidential campaign
                -Possible resignation
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                                       Tape Subject Log
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                                                                    Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)



     [Unintelligible]

     The President’s schedule
          -Ceremony
               -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
                      -Change of command
                      -Fort Lauderdale

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:34 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Papers for signing
               -Budget message
                      -George P. Shultz

     The President's talk with Ehrlichman
          -State of the Union message
                -Value-added tax [VAT]
                -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s forthcoming talk with Robert H. Finch


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     Shultz

     The President’s schedule
          -State of the Union
          -Birthday calls
                -Delays
                      -Walter Trohan
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                                        Tape Subject Log
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                                                                    Conv. No. 314-1 (cont.)


                       -William S. White
                       -Jerome H. Holland
                       -National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
           -Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
                 -[Dilantin]
                       -Study
           -National security indicator report
           -Economic report
           -Delays in calls

     Forthcoming dinner for Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Wallace
          -Fred Waring
          -Jack Benny
          -Ray Coniff Singers
                -50-year medley
          -Woods
                -Position in charge of entertainment

Butterfield left at 3:40 pm.

     Entertainment
          -Tickets

Haldeman left at 3:41 pm