Conversation No. 597-3

Date: October 20, 1971
Time: 9:28 am - 12:20 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

     Congress
         -Wayne L. Hays
               -Unknown event
                     -Secret Service uniformed policeman
               -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
               -Voting record
         -Harry S. Dent
         -William E. Timmons
         -Hays
               -Guest list for White House function
                     -Clark MacGregor
                     -Josip Broz Tito dinner
               -White House police
               -Reaction
         -Michael J. Mansfield amendment
               -Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
                     -Republican
               -Supporters of Administration’s position
                     -Democrats
         -Dent's activities
               -Democrats
               -O. Clark Fisher
         -The President's endorsement
               -Democrats
                     -Vietnam War
                     -House of Representatives
                            -George H. Mahon
                            -David N. Henderson
                                  -North Carolina
                            -Leslie C. Arends
         -Robert C. Wilson
               -Employees
         -Incumbents
         -Dent
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     -Senate candidates
          -Financing
          -Support for the Administration

Supreme Court appointments
     -Leaks
     -American Bar Association [ABA]
     -John D. Ehrlichman's staff
     -The President's role
     -G. Harrold Carswell
     -Leaks
          -State Department
          -Henry A. Kissinger's office
          -Economic program example
          -The President's candidate
     -John N. Mitchell
          -Philadelphia
     -ABA
     -The President's announcement
          -Television

The President's schedule
     -Florida

John B. Connally's schedule
     -Texas
     -California
           -Bankers meeting in San Francisco
     -Ranch
     -Possible meeting with the President for October 26, 1971

The President's schedule
     -Possible press conference, October 27, 1971
     -Kissinger's return
          -Paris
     -Press conference
          -Vietnam
          -Soviet announcement
     -Meeting with Kissinger, October 25, 1971
     -Budget meeting, October 26, 1971
     -Meeting with Ehrlichman, October 26, 1971
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           -Connally
     -Nobusuke Kishi
           -Textile Agreement
           -Forthcoming meeting with the President
     -William P. Rogers and George H. W. Bush, October 21, 1971
     -Kishi
           -White House dinner
           -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
     -Bush
     -Kishi

Unknown White House staff member [Connally ?]
    -Compared with the White House staff members
        -Bryce N. Harlow
        -Robert P. Mayo

The President's schedule
     -The President's work habits
     -Pace
     -Visitors
           -Jack Pardee
           -Maxie Baughan
                 -Public relations
     -Open door office hour
           -Previous meeting with Multiple Sclerosis Society
                 -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
     -Kishi
           -Dinner
                 -Mrs. Nixon
                       -Republican Women Reception
                 -Blair House
                 -F Street Club
                 -John S.D. Eisenhower
                 -Peter G. Peterson
                 -David M. Kennedy
                 -Foreign Service
                 -Rogers
                 -State Department
                       -Marshall Green
                       -Rogers
                       -U. Alexis Johnson
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               -Members of Congress
               -Japanese Ambassador
               -Haig
               -Kishi's party
               -Mitchell
               -Arthur F. Burns
               -George P. Shultz
               -Paul W. McCracken
               -Ezra Solomon
               -Time, dress
          -Entrance
               -Music
               -Honor guard
               -Photographers
          -Connally
               -Schedule
                     -Texas
                     -Wright Patman

Connally
    -Lyndon B. Johnson
         -Health

The President's schedule
     -Kishi dinner
          -Maurice H. Stans
          -Peterson
          -David M. Kennedy
          -Interpreters
     -Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
          -Postal situation
                 -Board of Governors
     -Kishi
          -Timing of dinner
     -Republican woman
     -Kishi
     -Unknown location
          -Florida
          -Haldeman's schedule
     -Proposed meeting with Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen
          -India, Pakistan, Greece
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                -Frelinghuysen’s visit
          -Haig
     -Agha Sadruddin Khan
          -United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees
          -Pakistani refugees
                -UN
                      -US response
                            -Public relations
          -Rogers
          -Kissinger
          -Francis L. Kellogg
          -The President’s view
     -Vietnam veterans
          -South Vietnam
          -Hospitals
          -Charles W. Colson, Haig, Herbert G. Klein, John A. Scali, Ronald L. Ziegler
          -Colson
          -Possible press coverage
     -Thomas Vail
          -Klein, Ziegler
          -Interview
          -Kishi
          -Klein
     -National Catholic Youth Organization Federation
          -Director, Catholic Youth Activity
                -Monsignor Leonard
          -Sheraton-Park Hotel
          -Officers
     -Crown Prince of Ethiopia
          -The President’s view
     -The President's forthcoming trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Secretary of Agriculture appointment
     -John C. Whitaker
     -Possible candidates
           -Criteria
           -Henry L. Bellmon
           -Earl L. Butz
           -Norbert (“Bobby”) Tieman
           -Harlow
           -Louie B. Nunn
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          -Butz
                -The President’s view
          -Bellmon
                -Mitchell’s view
                -Senate seat
                      -Edmond Edmonson
                      -[Forename unknown] Wilkinson
                      -David E. Bartlett
                -Mitchell’s view
                -Qualifications
          -Butz
          -Tieman
          -Harlow
          -Nunn
          -Butz
                -The President’s view
                -Bellmon
                -Farm Bureau
                -Vocation
                -Clifford M. Hardin
                -Age
                -Experience
          -Harlow
                -Bellmon
                -Clarence D. Palmby
                -Butz
          -Hardin
                -Palmby
          -Butz
                -Bellmon
                -Palmby
          -Unintelligible name
                -Democrats
                      -Fred R. Harris
                      -Edmondson
                -Bellmon
                      -Bartlett
                      -Wilkinson

The President's schedule
     -Vail
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                -Interviews
                -Dinner

     Mrs. Nixon's schedule
          -Marilyn B. (“Missy”) Chandler [Mrs. Otis Chandler]
          -Arts Council
          -F Street Club
          -JoAnn (Horton) Haldeman

     Secretary of Agriculture appointment
          -Possible candidates
                -Bellmon
                      -Mitchell
                -Butz
                -Robert R. Spitzer
                -Whitaker
                -Hyde Murray
          -Bellmon
          -Palmby
          -Butz
          -Bellmon
          -Whitaker
          -Palmby
          -Harlow
                -Farmers
                -Farm states
          -Butz
                -Vocation
                -Bellmon
                -Harlow, Thomas Hart
          -Bellmon

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 9:25 am and 10:23
am.

[Conversation No. 597-3A]

[See Conversation No. 11-158]

[End of telephone conversation]
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     Cabinet appointment
          -Harlow
          -Connally
               -Qualifications
          -Bellmon

     Cabinet
          -Rogers
          -Connally
               -Support for the President
                     -Statements
               -Jack J. Valenti

The President talked with Bryce N. Harlow between 10:23 am and 10:35 am.

[Conversation No. 597-3B]

[See Conversation No. 11-159]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Secretary of Agriculture appointment
          -Butz
                -Mitchell
                -Harlow
                -Ezra Taft Benson
          -Bellmon

     Appointment to the UN
         -Haldeman's conversation with Rogers
         -Andrew F. Brimmer
              -Ralph Bunche
         -U Thant
              -Successor

Ziegler entered at 10:35 am.

     Supreme Court appointments
          -Relations with the news media
          -Mitchell’s schedule
               -Philadelphia
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     -Timing of announcement
     -Selections
     -Mitchell
     -Names under consideration
          -ABA
     -Timing of announcement
          -ABA
     -ABA
          -Possible veto power
          -Name submissions
                 -Warren E. Burger
          -Mitchell
          -Mildred L. Lillie and Herschel H. Friday
                 -The President's position

News media's actions
    -People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
         -Economic policy
         -Soviet trip

Supreme Court appointments
     -ABA
          -Burger
          -Press
     -Timing of announcement

Nobel Peace Prize
    -Willy Brandt
          -Announcement
          -The President’s view
          -Soviets
          -Kissinger
          -Rogers
          -Gerard C. Smith
    -Brandt

Relations with the media
     -Mary McGrory
           -Kissinger
                 -Peking
     -Peter Lisagor
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-Klein, Scali
-New York Times
-Lisagor
-Klein, Scali
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Kissinger
      -Joseph A. Kraft
-Lisagor
      -Martin Z. Agronsky's television show
-Ziegler's schedule, October 19, 1971
      -Theodore H. White
            -Press
-Lisagor
-John F. Osborne
-Lisagor
-Klein
-Bill Potter of Baltimore Sun
-Lisagor
      -Klein
      -Ziegler's relationship with Lisagor
      -[Forename unknown] Sutherland
-The President's schedule for 1972
      -White House correspondents' dinner
      -Gridiron dinner
            -Cabinet officers
            -Supreme Court
      -White House photographers' dinner
            -Entertainment
      -Lyndon B. Johnson
-Ziegler's relationship with the press
      -Newsweek, Los Angeles Times
      -Marty Schram
      -Los Angeles Times
      -Newsday magazine
      -PRC trip
            -Priorities
                  -Wire services
                  -Magazines
                  -Television
                  -New York Times
                  -Associated Press [AP], United Press International [UPI]
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Ziegler left at 10:58 am.

     Employment
         -Jonathan C. Rose
              -California
              -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
                    -Federal employment reduction
              -Department of Defense
              -Personnel policies
         -Public broadcasting
         -Peace Corps
         -Rose
         -Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW], Department of Housing and
              Urban Development [HUD], Department of Transportation, Peace Corps
         -Defense
         -Shultz
         -Budget cuts

     Eliot Janeway
           -Comments

     Personnel
          -Burns
               -Kissinger
          -Connally
          -Stans
          -Donald H. Rumsfeld
          -Governors, Senate
          -Flanigan
               -Talent survey
          -Frederic V. Malek's work
          -Gordon Gray
          -Talent searches
               -Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Detroit

     Textile Agreement
          -Peterson
          -Media's opinion
          -Administration's tactics
          -Rogers
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          -Stans
          -Kennedy
          -Peterson
          -Kissinger

US foreign policy
     -Rogers
          -Trip
                -Kissinger
                -USSR
                -Andrei A. Gromyko
                -PRC
                -USSR
                -Kissinger
                -Haig and Dwight L. Chapin
                -John H. Holdridge And Chapin
     -Stans
     -USSR
          -Kissinger
     -PRC
          -Personnel for trip
          -Congressmen
     -USSR
          -Visit by governors
          -Mansfield
          -Hugh Scott
          -Senate
     -Haig
          -Rogers
          -Stans
     -Rogers
          -USSR trip
          -Kissinger
          -Media
                -Washington Star story
                -Haldeman's conversation with Haig
     -Kissinger
          -Impact on US foreign policy
          -Nixon's role
                -PRC, USSR
                -Romania
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                       -Vietnam
                            -Bombing

Ziegler entered at 11:14 am.

     Possible media inquiry
          -Brandt
               -Haig's view
               -Nobel Peace prize
                     -The President's reaction

Ziegler left at 11:16 am.

     The President's schedule
          -Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
          -John R. Price, Jr.
          -Proposed radio address for veterans
          -Robert Allen
                -Rose Mary Woods
                      -Responses to question
          -Media
                -The President's relations with reporters
                      -Woods
          -Robert H. Abplanalp
          -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
          -Ehrlichman
                -Tax cut

     US foreign policy
          -Haig
               -Rogers
                     -Moscow trip plans
               -Haldeman's forthcoming conversation
          -Rogers
               -Possible trip to USSR
                     -Stans
                     -Trade
                     -Kissinger

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:16 am
and 11:23 am.
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[Conversation No. 597-3C]

     Talking papers

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:16 am.

     Meeting with Haig

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:23 am.

     Media impressions
         -The President's conversation with Harlow
         -Mitchell
         -Comments about the President
              -The President's physical appearance
                    -Health
                    -Comparisons
                          -Johnson
                          -John F. Kennedy
                          -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                               -Health
                          -Franklin D. Roosevelt
                               -Portrait of Dorian Gray

Haig entered at 11:23 am.

     The President’s trip to the USSR
          -Rogers
               -Kissinger
          -Washington Star story on Sunday October 17, 1971
               -Story on foreign policy credits by George Sherman
                      -Kissinger
                      -PRC, Romania
                      -Rogers
                      -Haig's conversation with Kissinger
          -Kissinger
               -Connally
                      -Schedule
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-Rogers
     -Kissinger
     -Moscow
           -Compared with Kissinger in Peking
           -The President’s view
           -Kissinger
                 -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                 -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                 -The President’s view
     -Trade talks in Moscow
           -Stans
           -Brezhnev
           -Dobrynin
           -Timing
                 -NATO meeting
                 -PRC trip
                 -Moscow trip
                      -Advance staff
           -Jacob D. Beam
           -Stans
-US relations with USSR
     -Kissinger’s involvement
     -Middle East
     -Dobrynin
     -Rogers
           -Possible visit
                 -Soviet view
     -European Security Conference
           -NATO
     -Rogers
           -Dobrynin
           -Martin J. Hillenbrand
           -Gromyko
           -Middle East
           -European Security Conference
                 -Kissinger
                 -NATO
                 -The President’s view
                      -Other negotiations
     -Dobrynin's contacts with administration
     -European Security Conference
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     -Europeans
           -Brandt
                 -Time magazine
                       -Man of the Year
                       -The President’s view
                 -Nobel Prize
                       -Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Possible Soviet Summit
     -Secretary of State's role
           -The President’s view
                 -Kissinger
           -Robert H. Finch
                 -Latin America
           -Connally
                 -Asia
           -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                 -Greece
           -European countries
     -Preliminary work for Four-power meeting
           -NATO
                 -British position
                       -Paris meeting
     -Possible European tour
           -Consultations with allies
     -Possible Latin American consultations
           -Finch
           -Brazil, Venezuela
                 -Brazilia
           -Mexico City
     -Haig's assignment
           -Kissinger
     -Possible Latin American venture
           -Timing
           -Surcharge
           -Kissinger
           -Charles A. Meyer
                 -The President’s view
                 -Rogers’s role
                 -Finch
           -Haig’s responsibility
                 -Meyer
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                       -Haldeman
                  -Organization of American States [OAS]
                  -Emilio Garrastazu Medici
                       -Visit to US
                       -Brazil
                             -Brazilia
                             -Rio de Janeiro
            -Possible European tour
                  -NATO meeting
                       -Kissinger
-Possible Presidential meeting with Western European leaders
      -Timing
            -Haig’s view
            -Moscow trip
            -Peking trip
            -Rogers
            -Georges J.R. Pompidou
            -Kissinger
                  -Ecuador
                       -Fishing nights
-Role of the State Department
-Africa
      -Latin America
      -Organization of African Unity [OAU]
            -The President’s view
      -Mrs. Nixon’s forthcoming trip
            -Liberia
-Asia
      -Connally
-European meeting
      -Haig’s conversation with Kissinger
      -NATO
      -Kissinger
      -Security Conference
            -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
      -Pompidou
      -Belgium, Holland, Greece, Turkey
      -British
            -Walter H. Annenberg
      -Paris
            -US embassy
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                 -Pompidou
                      -Arthur K. Watson
                      -Rogers
                      -Paris
           -Latin America
                 -Rogers
                 -Finch

     Forthcoming UN vote on Taiwan
          -US actions
          -Greeks
                -Agnew’s actions
          -Turks
          -Venezuela
                -Oil exports
          -Argentina
          -Haig’s assessment
          -Bush
          -Ghana
          -Israel
                -Yitzhak Rabin
          -Rogers

Haig left at 11:58 am.

     Rogers
         -European Security Conference
              -The President’s view
              -Kissinger
         -Travel plans
              -Europe, Latin America

     The President's schedule
          -Europe
               -Big Four
               -Rogers
                      -Holland
                      -Luxembourg
                      -NATO

     Rogers
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     -Melvin R. Laird

Latin America
      -Democrats possible issue
      -Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico

US foreign policy
     -Latin America
           -Possible Presidential trip
                 -Mexico
     -Canada
           -Possible Presidential trip
           -Aleksei N. Kosygin's visit
                 -Demonstrations
           -The President's possible schedule
                 -USSR
                 -PRC
                 -Length of trip
                      -Official dinner
                      -Itinerary
           -Kosygin's visit
     -Foreign visitors to the US
           -Soviets
           -Tito
                 -Washington
                 -Los Angeles
     -European trip
           -Rogers
           -Kissinger
     -Democrats issues
     -Latin America

Economy
    -School milk
         -Casper W. Weinberger, George P. Shultz
         -Parents' ability to pay
    -Burns
         -Connally
         -Invitation to White House dinner
               -Connally
         -Federal Reserve Board [FRB] appointment
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                     -Connally
                     -Unknown man from Texas
                         -Connally’s view

     Personnel
          -Romana A. Banuelos
               -Senate confirmation
                    -Harris
                    -Vance Hartke
                    -Los Angeles Times

     Los Angeles Times news service
          -AP
          -UPI

     US foreign policy
          -Soviet trip
               -Kissinger
                      -Rogers
          -The President's forthcoming meeting with Chou En-lai
               -The President’s instructions
               -Kissinger
               -Rogers
               -Kissinger
               -The President’s instructions
                      -Haig
               -Mao Tse-tung
               -Interpreters

Haldeman left at 12:20 pm.