Conversation: 648-004
Prev: 648-003 Next: 648-005Start Date: Monday, January 17, 1972 2:48 PM
End Date: Monday, January 17, 1972 6:23 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ziegler, Ronald L.; [Unknown person(s)]; White House operator; Connally, John B.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Wells, H. G.; Ingersoll, Robert S.; Shultz, George P.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:34:15
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:02:37
NARA Description:
On January 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, unknown person(s), White House operator, John B. Connally, Henry A. Kissinger, H. G. Wells, Robert S. Ingersoll, and George P. Shultz met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:48 am to 1:23 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 648-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 648-4
Date: January 17, 1972
Time: 9:48 am - 1:23 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Weather
Daily briefing and position paper
-Distribution
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Staff dealings with media
-The President
-Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Clark MacGregor
-Charles W. Colson
-Compared with news summary
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Attacks by left and right
-Kissinger
-Distribution
-Buchanan
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Richmond, Virginia busing decision
-Buchanan's analysis
-John D. Ehrlichman's and staff's work on formulating the
President's position
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman’s work
-Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Buchanan
-Ziegler
-The President's involvement
-Buchanan's work
-Political content
-John N. Mitchell and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Frequency
-Burden on staff
-Day of issuing
-Choice of stories
-Buchanan
-Memoranda
-Distribution
-Colson
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-MacGregor
-Kissinger
-Buchanan
-Conservatism
-Ehrlichman and his staff
-Importance in campaign
Drafts of State of the Union address
-Circulation
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Possible tone
-Speculation about content
-Circulation
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Leonard Garment
Official trips
-Garment
-Trip with Frank J. Shakespeare
-Cultural exhibits
-Buchanan
-Soviet Union
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Garment
-Long Beach, California
-Buchanan
-Perks
-Meetings and dinners
-The President’s trips
Howard Hughes's loan to the President's family
-Clark M. Clifford's involvement
-Law firm
-F. Donald Nixon
-Repayment
-1962 statement by the President
-Rose Mary Woods
-Transfer of property
-Hughes
-Clifford Irving book
-Paradise Island
-Ziegler's briefings
-Public interest
-Public comments by the President
-1962 statement
-Herbert G. Klein
-Familiarity with issue
-Ziegler
-Publicity
-Ziegler
-Repayment through transfer of property
-Hannah (Milhous) Nixon
-Donald Nixon
-Possible action
-Ziegler's possible role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Washington Post story
-Drew Pearson article in 1959
-Irving book on Hughes
-Noah Dietrich's view
-Hughes's supplying of information
-Hughes's lawyers
-Dietrich
-Book
-Effect on Hughes
-Publication
-Irving book
-Life and McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
-Ownership of rights
-Hughes's authorship
-Haldeman’s possible call to Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Publicity
Eleanor and Franklin [by Joseph P. Lash]
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Popularity
-Lucy Mercer
-The President's conversation with William Bullitt
-Children
-[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt
-Children
-Excerpts
-Haldeman’s reading
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Appearance
-Marriage
-Sunrise at Campobello
-Veracity of story
-Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship
-Children
-Mercer
-Franklin Roosevelt's vice presidential campaign in 1920
-Franklin Roosevelt's position as Under Secretary of Navy
-Longevity
-Presence at Franklin Roosevelt's death in Warm Springs, Georgia
-Publicity
-Mercer's marriage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Portrait of Franklin Roosevelt
-Elizabeth Shoumatoff
Abraham Lincoln
-Mary (Todd) Lincoln
-Mental state
-Modern medicine
-Apparitions
John F. Kennedy
Eleanor and Franklin
-Tone
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's opinion
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Private life
-Relationship with Lash
-Bullitt’s view
-The President’s view
-Lash’s military service
John and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-Relationships
-Lack of publicity
-Reason
-Compared to Whigs of 19th century
-Divorce
Hughes
Mitchell
Peter M. Flanigan
-News summary
-Mitchell
-Conversation with James L. Buckley
-Mitchell's knowledge
-Buckley's request for appointment for [Forename unknown] Corwin [sp?]
-Buckley's support of the President's opponent [John N. Ashbrook]
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak story
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
Mitchell
-Necessary role
-Flanigan
-Buchanan
-Buckley
-Flanigan's view of political support
-Knowledge of Flanigan-Buckley exchange
-Buckley's letter
-Flanigan letter
-Copies to Mitchell and Haldeman
News summaries
-Report of political issues
-The President's reading of foreign and domestic policy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Humphrey
-Quality
-Haldeman’s possible comments to unknown person
-Press corps
-Networks
-Coverage of news
-Wire service material
-Rogers's concerns
-Importance
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Omaha World Herald
-Los Angeles Times
-Chicago Tribune
The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Invitations to media
-Television
-New York Times
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Networks
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Commerce Department
-Announcement of change
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peter G. Peterson
-Flanigan
-Stans's resignation
-Stans’s letter
-Draft of the President’s reply
-Peterson's views on reorganization
-Ehrlichman’s and Shultz’s view
-Peterson
-Concern about public view of position
-Opportunity
-Jobs
-Accessibility
-Compared to Stans
-Announcement
-Stans
-Reorganization
Peterson
-Replacement by Flanigan
-Kissinger's view
-John B. Connally's view
-Concerns on monetary policy
-Kissinger
-Flanigan
-Treasury Department
-Haldeman’s possible talk with Flanigan and Connally
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-State Department
-The President’s schedule
-Connally
-Haldeman
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Flanigan
-Economic policy
-Paul A. Volcker Committee
-Announcement
-Timing
-Three way move
-Flanigan
-Council on international Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Effectiveness
-Credit
-Staff
Commerce Department
-Stans's departure
-Leaks
-Announcement
-Forthcoming Cabinet dinner
-Connally's view
Economic policy
-Connally's control
-International monetary policy
-Flanigan’s role
Ziegler entered at 10:56 am.
-Conversation with Haldeman and the President
Connally
-Possible meeting with the President, January 17, 1972
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-Stans announcement
-State of the Union message
-Budget
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Possible questions
-Jack N. Anderson Papers
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s view
-The President's concerns
-Investigation
-Leak
-The President's concerns
-Possible statement
-Press involvement
-Investigation
-Anderson
-Investigation
-Presidential discussions
-Confidentiality
-Kissinger's role
-The President's confidence in Kissinger
-The Administration’s public and private positions
-Presidential discussions with advisers
-Leaks
-Options
-Possible effects of publication
-Advice to the President
-India-Pakistan War
-US position
-The President's confidence in Kissinger
-Klein’s comments
-Gerald L. Warren's comments
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Hughes biography by Irving
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's call to Ehrlichman
-Charges regarding Nixon family loan
-Clifford
-Possible handling
-Veracity
-1962 statement
-Satisfaction of loan
-Transfer of property
-Ziegler's handling
-1962 campaign
-Possible Klein statement
-1962 statement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Acquaintance with facts
-Mrs. Nixon's position
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
-Hannah (Milhous) Nixon's repayment
-Transfer of property
-Irving
-Credibility
-Meetings with Hughes
-Interview with Mike Wallace, January 16, 1972
-Ziegler's possible statement
-Ziegler’s age
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Chilean election of January 16, 1972
-Ghana
-Recognition
-Department of State
-Allende
-Recent election
-The President's possible stopover in Poland after Soviet Union trip
-Italian newspaper report
-Verification
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Invitations to press
-Ratio of news media to television reporters
-Audience
-"News" compared to "show business" aspect
-Ziegler's meeting with television officials in New York City
-John A. Scali's and Timothy G. Elbourne's presence
-PRC purchase of RCA ground station for Shanghai
-Invitations to press
-Pressure on White House
-Meetings with Ziegler
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-State of the Union message
-Timing
-Content
-Domestic and foreign policy
-Report
-The President's possible press conference
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Letter to Ziegler from head of Associated Press [AP]
-The President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2, 1972
-Duration
-Reaction
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The President's possible press conference
-Democrats
-Fairness Doctrine response
-Mansfield
-Carl B. Albert
-Phone-in questions
-State of the Union message
-Press room
[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:56 am and 11:24
am.]
[Conversation No. 648-4A]
Kissinger
-Location
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's possible press conference
-Equal time for Democrats
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-John N. Ashbrook
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-TV coverage
Ziegler left at 11:24 am.
[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at 11:24 am.]
[Conversation No. 648-4B]
[See Conversation No. 18-87]
[The call was placed on hold]
The President's schedule
-Camp David
[Haldeman talked with Connally at an unknown time between 11:24 am and 11:30 am.]
[Continuation of Conversation No. 648-4B]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Connally
-Peterson
-William L. Safire
-Work on Vietnam statement
Safire
-Work on Vietnam statement
-Compared with Price
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
Kissinger
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:24 am.
Request for Kissinger to join them
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.
Safire
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Draft of Vietnam statement
-State Department
-Timing
The President's schedule
-Florida
-Draft of Vietnam statement
-Kurt Waldheim
-United Nations [UN]
-Budget signing
-Ziegler
-Press
-Staff
-Photograph session
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Waldheim
-Photographs session
-Atkins
-Photographs of the President
-Frequency
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William P. Rogers and Kissinger
-Relationship
-Mitchell
Kissinger entered at 11:30 am.
Statement on Vietnam
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Safire
-Conversation with Kissinger, January 17, 1972
-Kissinger's briefing
-Duration
-Release of text
-Kissinger's forthcoming briefing
-Effect
-US proposal
-Scheduling
-Target dates within speech
-Effect on US proposal
-W. Averell Harriman's possible reaction
-Release of text
-Timing
-Troop withdrawal
-Proposals
-Phase I
-Prisoners of war [POWs] for troop withdrawal
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Phase II
-Cease-fire
-Elections
-Unknown man's opinion
-Rose Mary Woods
-Possible delay
-Effects
-National Press Club dinner speech
-North Vietnam response
-Timing
-Draft
-Timing
-Safire
-Compared with Price
-Safire’s view
-Pubic relations
-Impact
-Publicity for Kissinger’s trips
-POWs
-Peace proposal, October 11, 1970
Vietnam
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(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Negotiations
-Troop withdrawal proposal
-Muskie's statement, January 16,, 1972
-Muskie's negotiating schedule
-Administration proposal
-Schedule
-POWs and ceasefire
-Troop withdrawal deadlines
-North Vietnam response
-Timing
-North Vietnamese response
-US Air Force
-Laos and Cambodia
-Trails
-Quality
-Infliction of casualties in Northern Laos
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.
Request for books in President's bedroom
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.
Vietnam
-Long Tien
-South Vietnam
-Morale
-Effect of US withdrawal
-Washington Post article
-Timing
-Air Force
-1972 election
-US troops
-Highlands
-Strategy
-Possible consequences
-Strategic Reserve Division
-Movement
-Laos
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Operation
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Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Compared with US troop actions
-Prospects
-Press reports
-Inaccuracies
-Loss of Laos and Cambodia
-Troop withdrawal record
-Kissinger's meeting with Senior Review Group, January 17, 1972
-Papers on Vietnam
-Time of meeting
-The President's meeting with Connally
Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Yeoman Charles E. Radford incident
-Kissinger's conversation with Melvin R. Laird, January 14, 1972
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-Channels to the President
-Laird's view
The President read from a work by H. G. Wells.
Trench warfare in World War I
-Scientists
-Military personnel
-Tanks
-Allies
-Military minds
-Military mind
-Alexander the Great
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Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Napoleon Bonaparte
-Julius Caesar
-Muhammed
-Mongols
-Oliver Cromwell
-George Washington
-Control of World War I
-Destruction of traditional methods
[End of reading]
Author of previously recited work
-Winston S. Churchill
-Wells
-Thesis
-Emphasis on education
Education of women
Soviets
-Message from Andrei A. Gromyko, January 17, 1972
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's return to US
-Schedule
-Negotiations
-Negotiations
-Communication with Kissinger
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
The President read from a work by Wells.
World War I era
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson's role
-American public's view
-World outlook
[End of reading]
Vietnam
-Military mind
-Air Force
-Navy pilots
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Press reports
-Interviews on TV
-Pilots' views on bombing in December 1971
-Laos operation
-Pilots' views
-US actions
-Lack of time
Anderson Papers
-Effect on US credibility
-Evans's poll of European diplomats
-Evans's conversation with Kissinger
-Max Frankel's statement
-Diplomats' views
-Evans's view
-Effect on the President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Right and left
-Liberals
-Soviet Union
-View of the President
-Possible public reaction to trip
-The President's conversation with Ziegler, January 17, 1972
-Average person's reaction
-Trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Clayton Fritchey's column
-Effect of columnists
-Readership
-Opinion makers
PRC trip
-TV coverage of trip
-Fritchey's view
-India
-US relations
-Media visitors to PRC
-Possible effect of trip
-The President's opening of relations
-Anderson
-The President’s and Kissinger's role
-Press
-Reports
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Interest
US-Soviet relations
-India
-PRC
-Vorontsov
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Dobrynin's schedule
-Middle East
-Soviet Minister of Culture's toast
-Press reaction
-Press
-Soviet Summit
-India
-Anderson papers
India
-US relations
-Press treatment
-Anwar El-Sadat's speech
-Intention to start war in December 1971
-India-Pakistan War
-Soviet advice
-Intelligence
-War with Pakistan
-US policy
-Middle East
-PRC
-West Pakistan
JCS
-Anderson Papers
-Radford
-Transfer to Seattle
-Ehrlichman's conversation with daughter, Jody Ehrlichman, January
16, 1972
-Jody Ehrlichman's conversation with friend at school
-Friend's father's information
-Mormon
-Job at Indian embassy with Radford
-Mormons
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Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Original plan
-Memphis
-Choices
-R[embrandt] C. (“Hugh”) Robinson
-Possible revelations
-White House cover-up for JCS
-Case against Radford
-Confession
-Witnesses
-Anderson
-Guilt
-Witnesses
-Purloining papers
-Disclosure to Anderson
-Security violations
-Disclosure of documents
-Case against Daniel Ellsberg
-Ellsberg’s confession
-Ellsberg
-Conscience matter
-Administration action
-Administration record
-Observation
-Security regulations
-Closure of liaison office
-Reorganization
-Intelligence
-Motivation
-Espionage
-Anderson
-Background
-Compared with Pentagon Papers
-Role of press
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
WSAG
-Role
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Jordan crisis
-India-Pakistan War
-Planes in Pakistan
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-India
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Kissinger's position
Anderson Papers
-Effects
-The President
-Kissinger
-1972 election
-Possible leaks
-Anderson
-Editorials
-Leaks
-Informing bureaucracy
Leaks
-Foreign policy
-White House source
-Supreme Court appointments
Safire
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Shultz's request
-Acceptance of Japan ambassadorship
-State Department
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Shultz's presence
Kissinger left at 12:15 pm.
-Meetings with ambassadors
-West Germany
-Value
William P. Clements
-Connally
Rogers
-Mitchell
-Call to Haldeman, January 16, 1972
-Rogers's memorandum from Kissinger
-Kissinger's memoranda
-Soviet Union and PRC
-Forthcoming meetings and talking points
-State Department
-The President's directives
-NSC
-Function
-Policy
-Operations
-Informing Kissinger
-NSC
-Middle East
-Rogers's role
-Operations
-Kissinger's role
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Grievances
-PRC
-Kissinger's meetings with the President
-Rogers's meetings with the President
-Rogers's knowledge of issues
-Kissinger's role
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Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Israel
-Kissinger's meeting with Rabin
-The President's directives
-Middle East
-Soviet Union and PRC trips
-Information from Haig
-The President's instructions to Kissinger
-Haldeman’s view
-Middle East
-Rogers's role
-Kissinger's role
-Rabin
-Kissinger's call to Haldeman, January 15, 1972
-Kissinger's meeting with Rabin, January 15, 1972
-Rabin's meeting at State, January 14, 1972
-Rogers's notification of Kissinger
-Joseph A. Sisco memorandum to Rabin
-Israeli Cabinet meeting
-Kissinger’s tenure
-Relations with Kissinger
-Haldeman’s and Mitchell’s meeting with Rogers
-Exchange of information
-Mitchell
-Kissinger's role as NSC advisor
-Compared with role of State Department Secretary
-Press
-Kissinger’s role as NSC advisor
-European Security Conference
-Rogers's role
-NSC
-Soviet Summit
-Rogers's role
-Rogers’s conduct
-Instructions from the President
-The President’s 1970 talk with Rogers
-European security
-Gromyko
-NSC
-Policy function in government
-Previous role compared to revised role
-WSAG
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-Function
-Mitchell
-Rogers's advising of the President
-Kissinger
-The President's memorandum regarding speech changes
-Woods
-Safire's delivery to Kissinger
-Delivery to Rogers
-Length of speech
-Distribution
-Woods
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Safire
-Price
-Garment
-Negotiating role
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-The President's knowledge
-1972 election
-Jews
-Mitchell's possible action
-State Department
-Israel
-Arabs
-PRC and Soviet Union trips
-Mitchell's and Haldeman's possible actions
-Kissinger's memoranda
-Tone and contact
-The President’s instructions
-Motive
-Rogers
Kissinger
-View of Radford case
-Jody Ehrlichman’s comments
Kissinger, Shultz and Ingersoll entered at 12:31 pm.
Greetings
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Ingersoll's appointment as Ambassador to Japan
-Job
-Importance
-Soviet Union
-New residence
-Herbert C. Hoover
-"Hoover's Folly"
-Date of construction
-Viceroy of India's residence
-Ingersoll’s gratitude
-Importance
-Canada
-Belgium
-Netherlands
-Communications
Japan
-Economic issue
-Connally
Ingersoll
-Foreign Service role
-Bureaucracy
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Father
-Confirmation in Senate
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Japan
-Appointment
-Timing
-Forthcoming call to Rogers
-Publicity
-Senate
Tokyo
-Compared with Paris
Kissinger, Shultz and Ingersoll left at 12:36 pm.
Rogers
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Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Kissinger memorandum
-Rogers's reaction
-Advisability
-Haldeman's and Mitchell's actions
-Kissinger's conversation with Haldeman
-Clearance of communications through Kissinger
-Phrasing
-Necessary for directive
-Kissinger's motive
-Kissinger’s background
-Rogers's reaction
-Israel
-Mitchell
-The President's control of issue
-Kissinger’s relations with Rabin
-Kissinger's bias
-Haig
-Rabin
-Memoranda to the President through Haldeman
Memoranda to the President
-Laird
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Kissinger
-Rogers's private delivery through Haldeman
-Woods
-Channel of delivery
-White House staff
Rogers
-Kissinger
-Israel
-European Security Conference
-Kissinger
-PRC trip
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
State of the World message
-Distribution by Kissinger
-Rogers
-Defense Department
-Defense portion
-Foreign policy section
The President's State of the Union message
-Foreign policy section
-Kissinger
-Domestic policy section
-Ehrlichman
Rogers
-Kissinger
State of the Union message
-Status
Vietnam speech
-Safire
State of the Union message
-Price
NSC system
-Kissinger
-Memoranda
-Rogers
-Establishment
-Conflicts with State Department
Rogers conflict with Kissinger
-Subordination to foreign policy and reelection concerns
-Haldeman’s and Mitchell’s view
-Middle East
-Informing the President
-Kissinger's role
-European Security Conference
-Rogers's views
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-The President's meetings
-Reliance on State Department and NSC
British cabinets
-Past problems
Cabinet
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's problems
-Jessie H. Jones
-Vice Presidents
-Jealousies
-Staffs
-Compared with Rogers conflict with Kissinger
-Involvement of the President
Rogers conflict with Kissinger
-The President's confidence
-Impact on Kissinger's views
-Kissinger’s role
-Informing the President on issues
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Laird’s memoranda
-Rogers
Middle East
-Israel
-Possible action
-Kissinger’s views
-US support
-Kissinger's views
-Cease-fire
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Planes
-Soviet Summit
-Rabin
-Clearance of Rogers’s communications through Kissinger
-Kissinger's bias
-Kissinger's meetings with Rabin
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Informing the President
European Security Conference
-Kissinger
-State Department
The President’s forthcoming trips to the Soviet Union and PRC
-State Department
Soviet Union
-Kissinger's possible trip
-Kissinger's meeting with Mitchell
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger's advance work on the President's PRC trip
-Rogers
-Necessity
-Romania, Paris
-Dobrynin
Kissinger
-Possible resignation
-Mood
-Introspection
-Conversation with Haig
-1972 election
-Rogers
Foreign policy
-Jewish influence in forthcoming campaign
-Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Rogers
-State Department
-Mitchell
-Votes
-Money
-The President's opponents
-Humphrey in 1968
Ziegler
-View of position as press secretary
-December
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
Rogers
-Rabin
-State Department
-Meetings with Dobrynin
-Kissinger's meetings with Dobrynin
-Informing the President
-Informing Rogers
-Possible talk with the President
-Possible instructions
Kissinger
-Possible instructions
-Directives
-Mitchell
-Haig
-Delivery to the President
Peterson
-New position as Secretary of Commerce
-Ehrlichman
-Relations with Connally
-Flanigan
-International monetary policy
-Connally's control of domestic and foreign monetary issues
-White House support
-Flanigan
Cabinet
-Flanigan’s view
-Conduct of Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Access to the President
-Connally's view
-Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Role
-Reorganization
-Reduction in number
-Connally
-Shultz
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Reliance on under secretaries
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Cabinet officers as executive vice presidents
-Offices in Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Model on British cabinet system
-Elimination of intermediate staff
-Kissinger and Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman
-Work with Cabinet
-Staff
-John A. Volpe
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Maurice H. Stans
-Kissinger
-Relations with Laird and Rogers
-Compared to Sherman Adams
-Behavior
Behavior
-Changes from the past
Rogers
-Contact with the President
-Management of State Department
-Talk with Haldeman
-White House relations with State Department
-White House staff, NSC, Kissinger criticism
-State Department criticism
-Press coverage
-Rogers's view
-Press
-Press relations
-Political judgment
-Public image
-Recognition
-Blame on Kissinger and NSC
-Analogy to John Foster Dulles
-NSC
-Work
-Briefings
-Kissinger
-Vietnam
-The President's initiative on November 3, 1969 statement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Image
-Spokesman ability
-Telegenic quality
-Intelligence
-Kissinger's view
-Approach to problems
-Thought process
The President’s schedule [?]
Rogers
-Conflict with Kissinger
-Future conversation with Haldeman and Mitchell
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming announcement
-Flanigan and Stans
-Connally
-Peterson
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-Connally
Cabinet council
-Peterson
-Connally
-“New competition”
Peterson
-Future work with staff
Cabinet
-George W. Romney and Volpe
-Reorganization
-Forthcoming PRC trip
-Second term
Kissinger
-Power
-Relations with the President
-Abuse
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Relations with the Cabinet
-WSAG
Radford
-Transfer
-Leak
-Ehrlichman's view
-Jody Ehrlichman
-Public knowledge
-Perception of White House role
-Ziegler’s comments
-Evidence
-Investigation
-Suspect
-Anderson
-Prosecution
-Supreme Court
-1972 election
Kissinger
-Possible press conference
-Defense by the Administration
-Klein
-Ziegler
The President’s schedule
The President and Haldeman left at 1:23 pm.