Conversation No. 407-8

Date: January 23, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:55 pm and 5:24 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the files.


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       Testing

The President played the recording.

       Introduction

       The President’s dictation machine
            -White House Communications Office
            -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

       Incomplete previous memorandum on relatives
            -Alice [Last Name Unknown]
                  -Appearance
                  -Background
                  -Children
            -Ezra’s wife Anna [Last names unknown]
                  -Grandmother Milhous
                  -Real name
                  -Home
                  -Grandchildren

       Vietnam settlement
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Apr.-09)

                                                               Conversation No. 407-8 (cont’d)

            -The President’s speech

An unknown person left at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:24 pm.

            -The President’s letters to congressional supporters
            -Unnamed secretary in Tom Johnson’s office
            -Haldeman
            -Compared with other efforts of the White House
            -Correspondence section
                  -Heads of State

      The President’s schedule
           -Sleep
           -Office arrival

      White House Dinners
           -Rose Mary Woods
           -Staff
           -George P. Schultz
           -Haldeman
                  -Role

      Vietnam settlement
           -Message from Henry A. Kissinger
           -Cabinet meeting
                 -Length
           -The President’s speech
                 -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                 -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                 -Compared to Inaugural speech
           -The President’s statement
                 -Lyndon B. Johnson’s death
                 -Length
                       -The President’s discussion with Haldeman
                             -Ronald L. Ziegler
           -The President’s speech
                 -Location
                       -Press
           -Congress
                 -Price, Haldeman, White House staff, Haig
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                              Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. Apr.-09)

                                                       Conversation No. 407-8 (cont’d)

           -Price’s views
                 -Moscow
                 -North Vietnam, South Vietnam
           -Haig’s views
           -Ziegler’s views
                 -Publicity
           -Calls to Carl B. Albert, Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
                 -Problems
                        -John C. Stennis
           -John B. Connally
           -Gerald R. Ford
           -Publicity for President
                 -George S. McGovern
                 -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
                 -Bella Abzug
                 -Television [TV]
     -Significance
           -The President’s opponents
           -Bureaucracy
           -Congress

The President’s schedule
     -Sleep
     -Refreshments
     -Charles W. Colson meeting
     -Sleep
     -Colson meeting
           -Lawsuit vs. time
                  -Public opinion
                  -Possible outcome
                  -Courts
     -Campaign against the President’s opponents
           -Haldeman
     -Haig meeting
           -Kissinger
                  -Elliot L. Richardson, [David] Kenneth Rush
                  -William P. Rogers, Melvin Laird [?]
     -Price and Haig meeting
           -Press response to the President’s speech
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Apr.-09)

                                                       Conversation No. 407-8 (cont’d)

Vietnam settlement
     -The President’s expectations
           -Press response
                 -Compared to Cambodian invasion
                 -Price’s comment
                 -Washington Post editorial on the President’s May 8, 1972 decision
     -Effect of bombing
           -Polish ambassador to Hanoi
                 -North Vietnamese leaders
                 -Hospital

The President’s call to William S. White
     -The President’s last call to Lyndon Johnson
           -Louis P. Harris poll
           -Vietnam settlement

Lyndon Johnson
     -1968 election
     -Response to The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
     -Public opinion on Vietnam War
           -Harris
           -The President’s opponents
           -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] [?]
           -Lessons for future
                 -Domestic policy, foreign policy

Rose Mary Woods
     -Views on White House staff salaries

Personnel and salaries

The President’s meeting with Haldeman
     -Possible budget groups
           -John D. Ehrlichman, Schultz

The President’s schedule
     -Stephen B. Bull
     -Cabinet meetings
     -Press conferences
     -Congressional meetings
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Apr.-09)

                                                             Conversation No. 407-8 (cont’d)

            -Haldeman
            -Goals
            -Ehrlichman
                  -The President’s speech followed by a press conference
            -Goals
                  -Pacing
                  -Haldeman
                  -Ehrlichman, Schultz
                        -Compared to Haldeman

      Vietnam settlement
           -Announcement
           -Briefing
           -Press relations
           -New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times

      The President’s conversation with Haldeman
           -Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
           -Tom Johnson
           -Positions in administration

      Vietnam settlement
           -Bombing
                 -Comment by Haig

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