Conversation No. 833-21

Date: January 4, 1973
Time: Unknown between 1:01 pm and 1:46 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

       The President’s schedule
            -Alexander P. Butterfield
                  -Agenda
            -Donald H. Rumsfeld
            -George P. Shultz
            -John D. Ehrlichman
            -Breakfast meeting
                  -Seating arrangements
                         -Spiro T. Agnew
                         -Carl B. Albert
                         -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 1:06 pm.
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                                                         Conversation No. 833-21 (cont’d)

                        -Photograph
                        -Agnew
                        -Albert
                        -Mansfield
                        -Hugh Scott
                        -Gerald R. Ford
                        -George P. Shultz
                        -House of Representatives
                        -Protocol

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:46 pm.

       Chinese acrobatics
            -The President’s attendance
            -Kennedy Center
            -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
            -National Committee on US-China relations
                   -President
                   -George S. McGovern
                   -Charles W. Yost
                   -Benefit
            -Hugh Scott
            -Mrs. Nixon
            -The President’s work
            -Gymnastics team
            -Julie Nixon Eisenhower

       Rose Mary Woods
            -Talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                   -Mood
            -Ned Sullivan
            -Dwight L. Chapin
                   -Departure
            -Herbert G. Klein
                   -Departure
            -Butterfield
            -Bull
            -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                   -White House position
            -Mrs. Nixon
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                                                              Conversation No. 833-21 (cont’d)

            -Bull
            -Lucy A. Winchester
            -White House social functions
                  -Invitations Lists
                  -Maurice H. Stans
                  -New Majority
                  -Celebrities
                  -[First name unknown] Calvero [?]
                  -Sue Torog [?]
            -Ned Sullivan
                  -Possible appointment
                         -Chief of Protocol
                         -James J. Reynolds
                                -Joan Reynolds
                         -Frank Borman
            -Charles W. Colson
            -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                  -Ceremony
                  -Patricia Haig
            -East wing
                  -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
            -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
            -Activities during the 1972 campaign
            -Listening to staff members
                   -Kissinger, Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:06 pm.

       The President's memoranda to Haldeman
            -Copies
            -Hand delivery
            -Tapes
                  -Disposition
                  -The President’s private memoranda
                        -Typing
                        -Filing

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:46 pm.

       Rose Mary Woods
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                                                     Conversation No. 833-21 (cont’d)

     -Bull
           -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
     -Press relations
           -Ronald L. Ziegler

Vietnam settlement
     -The President's talk with Haig
           -Kissinger
                 -Call to Haig
                 -Puerto Rico
                 -James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
           -Kissinger
                 -John Negroponte
                        -Leaks
                        -Softness
                        -Vietnamese expert
     -Bombing
     -Haig
           -Relations with National Security Council [NSC] staff
                 -Winston Lord
                        -Softness
                 -Kissinger

Haldeman's talk with Woods

Deputy for Haldeman
     -Qualities
     -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
           -John D. Ehrlichman

Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
     -Presence
     -Haig
     -Toughness
     -Kissinger

William P. Rogers
      -Agreement with North Vietnamese
           -October 1972 agreement
                -North Vietnamese announcement
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                                                   Conversation No. 833-21 (cont’d)

        -Kissinger with Le Duc Tho
              -Photographs
              -Press coverage

Kissinger
      -Press relations
            -Proper actions
      -Reception in New York
            -People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Congressional relations
     -Complaints
     -Resolution vote
     -Charles H. Percy
     -Colson

Kissinger
      -Public actions
            -Reluctance

Rogers
     -Testimony before Congress

Laird
        -Bombing targets
              -Prisoners of war [POWs]
              -Hospitals
        -Publicity
        -Bombing damage
              -Public statements

Vietnam settlement
     -Negotiations
           -Relation to bombing

Congressional relations
     -Laird
     -Hebert
     -Statement to Congress
           -Explanation
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                                                       Conversation No. 833-21 (cont’d)

                -December 1972 bombing
                -Timing
                -North Vietnamese reaction

Rogers
     -Negotiations
     -Kissinger

Rogers and Laird
     -Departure
           -Kissinger
     -Elliot L. Richardson, [David] Kenneth Rush
           -Team players

December 1972 bombing
    -Press relations
          -Vietnam
          -Attacks on administration
          -Administration rationale
                 -Negotiations breakdown
                      -North Vietnamese
                 -May 8, 1972 decision
                 -Cambodia
                 -Senate Foreign Relations Committee
                      -1973 Inauguration

Terry L. Decker
      -Travel plans
      -Loyalty
      -Ohio
      -Middle America

Research subsidies to higher education
     -Defense Department
           -Richardson
     -Haldeman's talk with Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
           -James R. Schlesinger
           -Cuts in programs
           -Defense Department
           -Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
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                                                   Conversation No. 833-21 (cont’d)

           -Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
                  -Advisory boards
                         -Lyndon B. Johnson
      -Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
           -Weinberger's conversation with Schlesinger
           -Richardson
      -Contracts to anti-defense researchers
           -Shultz

Anna Chennault
     -“Dragon Lady”
     -Acquaintance with Nguyen Van Thieu
     -Kissinger
     -William C. Westmoreland

Chinese volumes
     -Gift to the President
            -PRC
     -State Department
            -Disposition
            -Nixon Library
                  -Research visits

The President's schedule
     -Periodic meetings
           -Length
           -Trucker of the Year
           -Selectivity
           -Camp David
     -Contact with outside world
           -Rationale
           -Congress, White House staff
           -AEC chairman
     -Ehrlichman, Shultz
     -Trucker of the Year
           -Photograph
     -1973 Inauguration

Second term reorganization
     -Announcements
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                                                           Conversation No. 833-21 (cont’d)

                   -Agriculture Department
                         -Assistant Secretaries
                               -Clayton K. Yeutter
                                     -Marketing and consumer services
                               -William W. Erwin
                                     -Rural development
                               -John A. (“Jack”) Knebel
                                     -General Counsel
                                           -Food and Drug Administration [FDA]
            -Political choices
                   -Dixy Lee Ray
            -John Foster
                   -Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
                   -Los Alamos Laboratory
                   -Livermore Laboratory
                   -Glenn T. Seaborg
                   -Arms control

       Meeting in Executive Office Building [EOB]
            -Ehrlichman

            Weather

Haldeman left at 1:46 pm.