Conversation: 696-001
Prev: 695-008 Next: 696-002Start Date: 29-Mar-1972 9:20 AM
End Date: 29-Mar-1972 12:29 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.; White House operator; Eisenhower, Julie Nixon; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:39
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:10:49
NARA Description:
On March 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:20 am to 12:29 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 696-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 696-1
Date: March 29, 1972
Time: 9:20 am - 12:29 pm
Location: Oval Office
Alexander P. Butterfield met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Cabinet Committee on Spanish Speaking people
-Press
-Meeting
The President entered and Butterfield left at an unknown time after 9:20 am.
The President's schedule
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Cabinet Committee on Spanish Speaking people
-Robert H. Finch
-Cabinet meetings
-Frequency
-Agenda
Seasons
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
-Talk with Haldeman
-James O. Eastland
-Commitment to Clark MacGregor
-Hearings
-Close
-Mitchell's awareness
-Hearings
-Close
-Charles W. Colson
-Jack Gleason
-Eastland
-Witnesses
-Secretary
-Legal Counsel
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Mitchell
-Close hearings
-Robert C. Mardian
-Talk with Eastland
-Session with MacGregor and Mardian
-Time
-Promises
-Mardian-Mitchell relationship
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Filibuster
-W. Clement Haynsworth, G. Harrold Carswell
-Close hearings
-Eastland
-Agreement
-Timing
-Witnesses
-Colson
-Kleindienst possible withdrawal
-Mitchell
-Confirmation
-Option
-News coverage
-MacGregor
-Eastland
-Colson
Media coverage
-Economy
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
-CBS
-Scott
-Harry Reasoner
-Carl B. Albert, Ford
Wayne L. Hays
-Arthur K. Watson
-The President's press conference remarks
-"Glass houses" comment
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
State Department files
-Use
-William B. Macomber
-David M. Abshire
-Congressmen and senators
Media
-News summary
-Treasury security guard
-Key Biscayne
-Richard Harris
-New Yorker magazine
-The New Republic
-America
-Life
-Time
-Newsweek
-U.S. News and World Report
-Circulation of magazines
-Scott
-Harris article
-Harris
-Communists
-Constitution
-Bugging
-Washington, D.C. crime bill
-Mitchell
-Underground press
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Eastland
-Herbert G. Klein remark
-Children's march
-Matzoh ball story
-Jews
-Cake mixes
-Candy bars
George Meany
-White House reaction
-George P. Shultz
-Robert F. Lanzillotti
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Price Board
-Florida State University
Busing issue
-Clarence Mitchell
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Southern reactions
-Harry S. Dent
-MacGregor
-Judge Stephen Roth in Detroit
-Robert P. Griffin
-Southern leadership
-Constitutional amendment
-Meeting with MacGregor
White House staff
-Workload
-John D. Ehrlichman
Busing
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-John F. Osborne
-Haldeman's call to Ehrlichman
-Racial balance cases
-Edward L. Morgan
-Briefing
Klein
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
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News summary
-Kevin P. Phillips's analysis
-Victor Lasky
-Ralph de toledano
-Value
-Phillips’s circulation
-Importance to the White House staff
-News letter
Kissinger entered at 9:43 am.
Greetings
Kissinger's schedule
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham's group
Vietnam
-H. Ross Perot proposal
-Money
-Talk With Lt. Gen. Vernon A. (“Dick”) Walters
-Kissinger, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Release of 31 prisoners of war [POWs]
-Money
-Promise
-US government
-Seymour M. Hersh
-Walters
-Secret negotiations
-Publicity
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Money
-31 POWs
-Cuba
-Medical supplies
-Negotiations
-William J. Porter
Foreign policy
-Meeting with Pakistan foreign secretary [Aziz Ahmed]
-State Department
-Dinner at Pakistan Embassy
-Blair House
-Possible formal appointment with the President
-The President’s meetings with other foreign minister
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Moscow trip
PRC
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Ford
-Watson
-Kissinger’s conversations with Boggs and Ford
-Timing of Boggs’s and Ford’s trip to the PRC
-Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Kleindienst
-Chinese approval
-Scott and Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Mansfield
-Foreign aid
-Kleindienst
-Scheduling
-Chinese
-Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Huang Hua
-Vietnam Peace Plan
-Cambodia Peace Plan
-Scott and Mansfield’s forthcoming trip
-Timing
-Relations between Scott and Mansfield
-Mansfield
-Relations with the White House
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Bogg’s and Ford’s forthcoming trip
-Scheduling
-Moscow trip
-Ford
-Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Scheduling
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting
-Scott
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Ford and Boggs
-Scheduling
-Paris Peace Talks
-Ireland
-Moscow trip
-Ford
-Talk with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s forthcoming talk with Huang Hua
-Scheduling
-Moscow trip
-Chinese
-Soviets
-Kissinger's meetings with the Chinese
-Ford [and Boggs]
-Mansfield
-Scheduling
-Moscow trip
The President’s meeting with Aziz Ahmed
-India
-PRC
-Timing
-Kissinger’s role
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Length
-Kissinger's office
-Pakistan
-Timing
Kissinger's schedule
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Mansfield
-Vietnam
-PRC
Foreign policy
-Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Leaks
Conservatives
-Kissinger's role
Kissinger left at 10:03 am.
Meetings with Foreign Ministers
-Pakistan
-Cyprus
-France
-Sir Alec Douglas-Hume
-Germany
-Egon Bahr
Kissinger
-Television
-Local
-National news
-CBS
Life article
-Loudon Wainwright
-Previous work
Media
-News summary
-Political summary
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Importance
-Effect
-Columnists
-New Republic
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-John F. Osborne
-Columns
-Phillips
-Nicholas P. Thimmisch
-Lasky
-[John?] Sears
-Editorializing
-Staff
-Effect
-Importance
Russell A. Kirk
-Age
-Meeting with the President
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s view
-Conservative columnists
-Unknown person
-John R. Chamberlain
-Robert Nisbet
-California
-Age
-Production of the White House research staff
-Buchanan
-Meeting with the President
-Significance
-Russian poet [Yevgeny Yevtushenko?]
White House staff
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Bureaucracy
The President's family
-White House scheduled activities
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-New York
-Illinois
-Ohio
-Television
-New Jersey
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Tennessee
-North Carolina
-Georgia
-Texas
-Pennsylvania
-Missouri
-California
-South Carolina
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Haldeman’s view
-Compared to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-The President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
-St. Louis
-Salute to Women
-Gateway Arch
-Television
-San Antonio
-Bilingual education classroom
-Girl Scouts
-Television
-National Center For Disease Control
-David N. Parker
-Work on the White House staff
-Scheduling
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Presidential seats
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Policy regarding use
-Congressmen
-Senators
-Cabinet members
-Personnel
-Recruiting
-John B. Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Rogers
-Congressmen
-Thank you notes
-Butterfield
-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-Cabinet members
-Members of Congress
-Colson's office
-Financial contributors
-Influential individuals
-White House staff
-Congressmen
-Barbara H. Franklin
-Recruits
Franklin
-The President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Nixon
-Constance M. Stuart
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Public relations
-Rose Mary Woods
-Patricia R. Hitt
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Haldeman’s view
-Gladys O'Donnell
-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Federation of Republican Women
Kissinger
-trip
-Meeting with Aziz Ahmed
Media
-Kissinger
-Local television
-Audience
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Foreign affairs
-Soviet Union
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-PRC
-Peter M. Flanigan appearance in Robert Pierpoint interview
-The President’s view
-CBS
-The PRC trip
-Coverage of the administration
-Compared to NBC
-Dan Rather
-Interview of the President
-Response
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
The President's family
-Schedule
-Parker
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Talk with the President
-Scheduling importance
-Haldeman's talk with Parker and Dwight L. Chapin
The President's schedule
-Aziz Ahmed
-Catholic Education Conference
-Philadelphia
-Tax benefits for private schools
-Possible change
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Timing
-Attendance
-John Cardinal Krol
-Sons of Italy dinner
-Timing
-Canadian trip
-Press conference
-Camp David
-Gettysburg
The President left at an unknown time after 10:03 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
[No conversation]
The President entered at an unknown time before 11:27 am.
The President's schedule
-Outstanding young farmers
-Earl L. Butz
-Office visit
-John C. Whitaker
-Camp David
-Visit to farmer
-Food prices
-Butz
-Food prices
-Chain store representatives
-Connally's schedule
-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.’s schedule
-Young farmers
-Possible meeting
-Florida visit
-Ft. Campbell, Kentucky
-Stopover
-101st Airborne Division
-Return from Vietnam
-Highlighting troop withdrawal
-Key Biscayne
-Timing
-Television
-Media
-Vietnam veterans
-Compared to trip to Camp Pendleton, April 30, 1971
-Farmers
-Publicity
-Butz
-The President
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Prices
-Once a week events
Issues
-One-a-week
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-The President's memorandum
-Media coverage
-Welfare mothers
-Cherry Blossom Queen
-March of Dimes
-Mrs. Nixon
-Retarded children
-Calvin Hill
Public relations
-Connally’s view
-Presentation of the President
-Barbara Walters Show
-Image
-Compared to Humphrey
-Family man
-Reserved
-Coverage of the President
-Safire
-Richard A. Moore
-Produced by the White House
-Hard work
-Coverage
-Retarded children
-Muscular Dystrophy
-Mrs. Nixon's image
-Cherry Blossom Queen
-March of Dimes
-Boys Clubs of America
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
-Attendance at Congressional leadership meetings
-Compared to the President as Vice President
-Cabinet meetings
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Time with Congress
-Leadership meetings
The President’s possible appearance at a Catholic education conference
-Parochial schools
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Education
-Ehrlichman
-Edwin L. Harper
-The President
-Domestic Council
-Administration strategy
-Conference in Philadelphia
-Proximity
-Timing
-Camp David
-The President's schedule
-Easter egg roll
-Timing
-Vietnam speech
Soviet trip
-Length
-Compared to the PRC trip
-Mrs. Nixon
-Poland
-Stopover
-Length
-Kissinger’s view
-The PRC trip
-Haldeman’s view
-Agenda
-Kremlin
-Leningrad
-Moscow
-Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
-Iran
-Stopover
-Reception
-Poland
-Kissinger
-Meeting With Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Crowds
-Polish People
-Compared to Chinese
-Haig
-Stopover
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Importance
-Iran
-Stopover
-Length
-Poland stopover
-Itinerary
-Poland stopover
-Length
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] visit
-Rogers
-European trip
-NATO meeting
-Bonn
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's projected trip to the Soviet Union, 1960
-Length of stay
-Kremlin
-Spaso House
-Kremlin
-Length of stay
-Kissinger
-Chapin
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Kissinger
-Compared to guest home in Peking
-Accommodations
-Guest House
-Dacha
-Kremlin
-Length of stay
-Guest house
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Spaso House
-Rogers
-Kremlin
-Length of stay
-Guest house
-Spaso House
-Eisenhower's projected trip to the Soviet Union
-Television Speeches
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Nikita S. Khrushchev's visit to the US
-The President’s television speech in the Soviet Union
-Meet the Press
-Moscow
-Leningrad
-Kiev
-Arrival and departure statements
-toast
-Press conference
-James C. Hagerty
-Accommodations
-Kremlin
-Christian A. Herter, Jr.
-Spaso House
-Rogers
-Accommodations
-Kremlin
-Advantages
-Rogers
-Eisenhower
-Herter
-Travel arrangements
Easter egg roll
-Preparations
Soviet trip
-Accommodations
-Kremlin
-Eisenhower
-John Foster Dulles
-Herter
-Comparison to Rogers
-Moscow
-The President as Vice President
-Length of visit
-Length
-Poland
-Stopover
-Length
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-The PRC trip
-Communique
-Chou En-lai
-Effectiveness of brief meetings
-Hussein meeting
-Dinner
-The President's toast
-Moscow
-Warsaw
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Turkey
ITT case
-Close hearings
-Eastland
-Limit the list of witnesses
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ITT case
-Hearings
-Close
-Colson
-Mitchell
-MacGregor
-The President
-Colson
-John B. Connally
-Press coverage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Kleindienst
-Witnesses
-Gleason
-William R. Merriam
-Colson
-MacGregor
-Edward M. Kennedy
Soviet trip
-Scheduling
-Kissinger's discussions
-Haldeman's attendance
-Chapin
-Scott and Mansfield
-Kissinger
Vietnam
-Kissinger
-North Vietnamese
-Porter
-Lunch
Mexican ambassador
-Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Accommodations for upcoming trip to the US
-Camp David
-Europeans
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
Media
-The PRC trip
-Party for press corps
-Certificate for press corps
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Reporters unable to attend
-Certificate for press corps
-Pictures
-Safire
-The President and Chou En-lai
-Boston Globe
-“New China hands”
-Presidential seal
-Mrs. Nixon
-The President
-Lettering
-The President and Chou En-lai
-Hands
-Forthcoming Soviet Union trip
-Austin H. Kiplinger
-Attendance
-The President's prior trip, 1959
-Kitchen Cabinet
-Call to Klein
-Priority for attendance
-Haldeman's talk with Ziegler
-Members of Kitchen Cabinet
-Attendance
-The President's instructions
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Klein
Legislation
-Magazines
-Ehrlichman
-Financial beneficiaries
-Readers Digest
-Life
-Readers Digest
-Life
-Circulation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Costs
-Compard to Look
-Advertising loss
-Readership analysis
-Readers Digest
-Subscribers
-Compared to Life subscribers
-Sensationalism
-Haldeman's father
-Location of the magazine
-James A. Michener article
-The PRC trip
-Michener's writing style
-Description
Public relations
-The PRC trip
-The President’s memorandum
-Significance
-Mrs. Nixon’s meeting with the Advertising Council
-Woods
-Stuart
-Roger M. Blough
-The President’s schedule
-Mrs. Nixon’s celebrity status
-Haldeman's schedule
-Dinner at La Nicoise
-Location
-Owners
-Pro-Nixon
-Unknown man from Cleveland
-Talk with Haldeman
-The PRC trip
-Unknown man's impression
-Cartoonist
-Talk with Haldeman
-The PRC trip
-Wife
-Unknown man
-Cleveland
-Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-The President
-Public support
-Washington, DC
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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:03 and
11:27 am.
[Conversation No. 696-1A]
[See Conversation No. 22-40]
[End of telephone conversation]
[No conversation]
Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President at 11:27 am.
[Conversation No. 696-1B]
[See Conversation No. 22-41; one item has been withdrawn]
[End of telephone conversation]
[No conversation]
Political strategy
-Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Appearances
-Middlesex Club
-Chicago Executives Club
-San Francisco Commonwealth Club
-Television
-Peter G. Peterson
-George W. Romney
-Peterson
-College campuses
-Rogers
-Hearings
-College appearances
Soviet Union trip
-Ireland stopover
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Scotland Stopover
-Eisenhower Castle
-Glasgow
-Ireland
-Mulcahy
-Appearances
-Prime Minister [John M. Lynch]
-Shannon Airport
-Dublin
-Haldeman’s view
-Scotland
-Eisenhower Castle
-Mulcahy
-Poland
-Flight from Tehran
-Ireland stopover
-Flight time
-Sleeping arrangements
-andrews Air Force Base
[No conversation]
ITT case
-Committee meeting
-Colson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-MacGregor
-Vote
-MacGregor
-Eastland
-Mitchell
-The administration's position
-Close hearings
-Witnesses
-Secretary
-Lawyer
-Close hearings
-Colson
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Hearings
-Press coverage
-Television press conference
-Schedule
-Wisconsin primary
-Senate vote
-Cover-up
-Press
-Issue
-Mitchell
-Kennedy
-Eastland
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Question and answer
-Television appearance
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-CBS versus senator
-Television
-Kissinger
-Appearances
-House Foreign Affairs Committee
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
[No conversation]
White House trees
-Blooming
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Weather
Public relations
-White House image
-Press
-The President’s appearances
-Boy Scouts, Girls Nation
The President's schedule
-Philadelphia
-Speech
-Ehrlichman
-Talk with Haldeman
-Talk with Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Speech
-Buchanan
-Rev. John J. McLaughlin
-Price
-Safire
-Soviet trip
-Speech writers attendance
-Possible subsequent public appearances
-Price
-Safire
-Compared to the PRC trip
-Buchanan
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
Ehrlichman
Photograph portrait of the President
-Arrangements
-Fred Maroon
-Unknown photographer
-Critique of previous portrait
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Florida
-Unknown photographer
-Atkins
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Public relations
-Atkins
-Photographs
-The PRC trip
-Movie crew
-Classroom services
-Hearst Movietone
-Associated Press [AP]
-United Press International [UPI]
-The PRC trip
-Studies
-Compared to 1960 efforts
-Ambassador of Friendship film
-1972
-Documentary
-Republican National Convention
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
Kissinger entered at 11:51 am.
Greetings
Kissinger's previous meeting with Graham's group
-Number of participants
US foreign policy
-Bangladesh
-US recognition
-Timing
-Chinese
-State Department
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-State Department
-J. William Fulbright
-The President’s previous press conference
-Indian Missionary
-Pakistan
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:51 am.
Refreshment
The President and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.
Haldeman's schedule
Soviet Union trip
-Poland
-Haig
-Length
-Schedule
The President entered at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.
-Departure Date
-Length
-Poland
-Stopover
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-People
-US
-Chicago Wards
-Dobrynin
-Meeting With Kissinger
-The President’s trip to Poland while Vice President
-Public comments
-Polish reason For Visit
-Demonstrations
-PRC Comparison
-Crowds in the Soviet Union compared to a crowd in Poland
-Substance of summit
-Poland
-Summit
-Poland
-Dobrynin
-Meeting With Kissinger
-Tehran stopover
-State Department
-Rogers
-Poland
-The President’s 1959 trip
-Warsaw
-Demonstrations
-Kissinger’s view
-Compared to Moscow
-Soviet Statue
-Schedule
-Accommodations
-Kremlin
-Advantages compared to disadvantages
-State House
-Guest House
-Dobrynin's meeting with Kissinger
-Size
-Peking's Forbidden City
-Vatican
-Symbolism
-De Gaulle
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Eisenhower's proposed stay
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Length
PRC
-Mansfield-Scott trip
-Timing
-Soviet trip
-Boggs and Ford
-Order of visits
-Length of stay
-Mansfield
-Votes
-Mansfield
-Votes
-Vietnam
-Schedule
-Democratic National Convention
Vietnam
-End of use of draftees
-POWs
-Democrats
-Withdrawal of troops
-Negotiations
-Control of South Vietnamese government
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Resignation
-Election Results
PRC
-Scott-Mansfield trip
-Vietnam issue
-Discussion
-Chou En-Lai
-North Vietnamese
-Seven points
-Communique
-Hanoi
-The President's remarks at the Great Wall
Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Aziz Ahmed
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
Soviet Union trip
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Summit
-Success
-Poland
-Schedule
-Baku to Iran
-Iran to Poland
-Time spent in each location
-Chapin's meeting with Vorontsov
-Banquet
-First night
-Kissinger’s view
-Schedule
-Leningrad
-Ballet
-Banquet
-toasts
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Meetings
Kissinger's meeting with Aziz Ahmed
Kissinger left at 12:14 pm.
Soviet Union trip
-Events
-Meals
-Theater
-Gymnastics
-Meals
-Children
-Sports
-Eating
Canadian trip
-Speech
-Parliament
-Toronto
-Governor General's Luncheon
-Dinner compared to Luncheon
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Prime Minister
-Cultural show
Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 12:17 and 12:18 pm.
[Conversation No. 696-1C]
[See Conversation No. 22-42; one item has been withdrawn]
[End of telephone conversation]
Canadian trip
-Tree planting
-Parliament
-Dinners
-Luncheons
-The PRC trip
-Dinners
-Parliament
-Diplomatic corps
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Eisenhower
-John F. Kennedy
-Compared to the US Congress
-Hussein
-Pompidou
-Importance
Speeches
-Writing
-Writers
-White House staff
-Eloquence
-Price
-Individual needed
-Kirk
-Buchanan
-Kirk compared to Buchanan
Canadian trip
-The President’s speech before Parliament
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Dinner
-Toronto
-Luncheon
-Speech
-Motorcade
-Demonstration
-Antiwar Americans
-Ottawa
-Compared to meetings with Brezhnev and Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Diplomatic corps
-Tree planting
-The President’s speech before Parliament
-Governor General Dinner
-Parliament
-Johnson
Soviet Union trip
-Schedule
-The President's possible television Appearance
-Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Kissinger
-Eisenhower, 1960
-The President as Vice President, 1959
-Domestic impact of speech
-Translation
-[Forename Unknown] Akaloski [?]
-The President’s 1959 speech
-Walters
-State Department
-Unknown Romanian
-Unknown person
-Unknown Yugoslavian
-Experience at US embassy
-Akaloski [?]
-Letter to Haldeman
-Impressions of trip
-Walters
-Recommendation
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
Ross Perot
-Hersh
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)
-Walters’ view
The President’s forthcoming meeting with Aziz Ahmed
the President and Haldeman left at 12:29 pm.