Conversation No. 882-8

Date: March 17, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:20 am and 11:15 am
Location: Oval Office

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

       Henry A. Kissinger
            -Trip to Mexico
            -State of the World report
            -Vacation in Mexico
                  -Tres Villas

       President’s schedule
             -Stephen B. Bull
             -Cabinet meetings
             -Congressional leaders meetings
                   -Frequency
                        -Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott
                        -Bipartisan meeting
                        -Republican meeting
                              -Value
                                    -Ford, freshmen Congress members, loyalists
                              -Scott, Ford
                        -Problems
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                   -Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
            -William E. Timmons
            -Travel plans
                   -Trip to California
-Cabinet meetings
      -Frequency
            -Regular basis
      -National Security Council [NSC]
      -Domestic Council
      -Cost of Living Council
      -Labor Management Advisory Board
      -Problems
      -Frequency
      -Last meeting
      -Republican Congressional leaders
      -Frequency
      -NSC
-Disabled American Veterans [DAV] meeting
      -Bull
      -President's opinion of group
      -President's appearance
            -Cancellation
      -Comparison with American Veterans [Amvets]
      -Dissidence
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] gymnastic team
      -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
      -Photographs
      -Rory de Valera
      -Imelda Marcos
-Meeting with attorneys
      -Domestic Council
      -Cancellation
      -Bull
-Other meetings
      -Congress members
      -Pete V. Domenici
      -Value
      -Thank you meetings
            -Photographs
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            -Selectivity
            -USSR gymnastics team
      -President's message on Federal building design
            -Value to President
                   -Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan's scheme
      -Bicentennial address
            -Value to President
                   -White House redecoration
      -Filmed messages
            -Guidelines
            -Written message
      -Experiments
            -Congress members
            -Value
            -Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
            -Changes
      -Meetings with Congress members
            -Ideological variety
                   -Jacob K. Javits
                   -Clifford P. Case
                   -Liberal Republicans
                         -Democrats
      -Bull
            -Guidance
            -David N. Parker
                   -Arrangement of meetings

State visits
      -Willy Brandt
             -Commitment
      -Italy, Great Britain
      -Georges J. R. Pompidou
             -Meeting with President
                    -Location
      -Public relations
      -Giolio Andreotti
             -Italian-Americans
                    -Political impact
      -Brandt, Pompidou
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        -Value
             -Focus on Europe

President's travel
      -Opportunities
      -William P. Rogers
             -Europe
             -Latin America
      -Africa
             -Blacks
             -Symbolism
                   -Nigeria
                   -Democratic Republic of the Congo
                   -Ethiopia
             -Press coverage
                   -Blacks
             -Timing
                   -Watergate publicity
             -Arrangements
             -Length of stay
                   -Ethiopia
      -Weekends
             -Return times
      -Travel in US
             -Reception
                   -Benefits
             -Stop in Topeka, Kansas
                   -California
                   -Air Force Project Transition
                         -Veterans vocational rehabilitation program
                               -Forbes Air Force Base
                               -President's tour
             -Chicago stopover
             -Des Moines, Kansas City
             -Topeka
             -Value for President
      -Africa

Polls
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-Influence of television [TV]
-Press conferences
      -TV coverage of daytime conferences
            -Gains for President
                   -Other factors in rise
                         -Events
                         -Departmental visits
                         -Night press conferences
                         -1969 Europe trip
                               -Gains in polls
                         -Negative foreign events
                               -EC-121 shootdown in Korea
                               -Gains
-Evening press conference
      -Gains in polls
            -Gallup
-Prime time press conferences
      -Drop in polls
            -November 3, 1969 speech
-Gains
      -Events
            -1969 Europe trip
            -Meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu at Midway Island
                   -Popularity of meeting
            -November 4, 1969 speech
            -Night press conference
            -Travel
            -Cambodia operation
      -Network interviews
            -Howard K. Smith
            -Today Show
            -Whitney M. Young funeral
-Funerals on TV
      -Losses
            -Eisenhower
            -Young
            -J. Edgar Hoover
                   -May 8, 1972 speech
            -Everett M. Dirksen
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             -Eisenhower
             -Dirksen
             -Young
-President’s conversations on network TV
      -Effects
             -Cambodia
             -Florida
-Foreign trips
      -Europe
      -Asia
             -Timing with other events
                   -Apollo astronauts dinner
                   -Welfare
      -PRC
      -USSR
      -Hawaii
             -Apollo spacecraft landing
-Effect of televised events
      -Press conferences
-Foreign trips
      -Gains in polls
             -Nature of event
                   -Speech
-Domestic trips
      -Regional meetings
             -Sioux City
      -1970
             -State of the Union Address
             -Chicago
             -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] veto
             -Evening press conference
             -Dinners
             -Losses
                   -Cambodia problems
      -Prayer breakfast
      -Indiana trip
      -Chicago trip
      -Hershey dinner
      -Hawaii dinner
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      -Voluntary Army announcement
      -Pompidou visit
      -National Governors conference
      -Vietnam problems
      -Desegregation
      -Drugs
      -Environment
      -Pompidou visit
            -New York incident
-Losses
      -Nonproliferation Treaty [NPT]
      -Laos ratification statement
      -Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] dinner
      -Republican National Committee [RNC] dinner
      -Washington Technical Institute
      -Press conference
      -My Lai charges
      -Postal strike
      -Cambodia
      -G. Harold Carswell nomination problems
      -Oil spill
-Gains
      -Cambodia
-Press conferences
      -Value
-Vietnam speeches
      -Gains
            -Troop withdrawal announcement
-One time nature of PRC, USSR, Vietnam events
-Domestic issues
      -Negatives
-Warrens E. Burger announcement
-Dirksen eulogy
-United Nations [UN] address
-Daytime press conference
-November 3, 1969 speech
-Nighttime press conference
-Vietnam announcement
-White House Christmas tree lighting
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-Active period
      -State of the Union Address
-TV coverage
      -President's appearances
             -Trips, dinners
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Postal strike
-Houston trip
-Hawaii trip
      -Apollo astronauts dinner
-Vietnam announcement
-Cambodia period
-Kent State University incident
-Walter J. Hickel letter
-Press conference
-Cambodia
-Vietnam announcement
-Speech on economy
-Network interview
-Cambodia
-Press conference
-Travel
      -California
-Kansas State University
-Vietnam announcement
-Middle East crisis
      -Jordan
-European trip
-UN and Phoenix speeches
-TV coverage
-Christmas season
      -Press conference
      -White House Christmas tree lighting
      -Network
-Economic factors
      -Unemployment
-Cambodia
-State of the Union Address
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-Laos problems in 1971
      -Tcheponi
             -Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
                   -Defeat
-Des Moines trip
-Press conference
-Gallop
-Interviews
      -Today Show
      -Young
      -Smith
-ARVN retreat
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.
      -Sentencing
             -President’s response
-Vietnam announcement
-PRC announcement
      -Ping pong team
      -Trade
-Vietnam veterans protest
-Press conference
-Mayday protests
      -Arrests
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement
-Lyndon B. Johnson library
-Railroad strike
-Press conferences
      -Economic news
      -Mayday protests
-Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-Pentagon Papers
-Cost of living figures
-July 4 event
      -National Archives
      -Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
      -Speaker of the House of representatives
-PRC announcement
-Pentagon Papers
      -Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding
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      -Court defeat
-August 15, 1971 announcement
-Busing
-Vietnam
-Speech to Congress on economy
-Phase II
-Supreme Court announcement of Lewis F. Powell, William H. Rehnquist
 appointment
-PRC announcement
      -Kissinger
      -UN admittance
-India-Pakistan war
-“A Day in the Life of the President”
-Christmas specials
-Network interview
      -Dan Rather
-Summit trips to Azores, Bermuda, Key Biscayne
-State of the Union Address
-Vietnam announcement
-Economic news
      -Cost of living
-Vietnam peace proposal
-PRC trip
-Busing
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] and Richard G. Kleindienst case
-Vietnam announcement
-President's appearances on TV
      -Frequency
             -Henry Fairlie's book
-Impact of domestic issues
      -Riot control, protests
-Foreign policy issues
      -PRC announcement
      -Middle East
-TV coverage
      -Lack
             -Erosion of support
             -Vietnam announcement
      -Night press conferences
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            -Periods of loss
                  -TV coverage
                         -Subsidiary events
                               -Cambodia
                               -Laos
                               -December 1972 bombing
            -Nighttime speeches
                  -Opportunities
                         - Vietnam settlement
                         -International monetary policy
            -Potential speech topics
                  -Economics
                         -Cost of living
                         -Food prices

       Books
            -A Statesman and His Times by Michael A. Guhin
                  -John Foster Dulles
                  -Kissinger’s staff
            -Memorandum from William L. Safire
                  -Henry Brandon’s book
                        -Portrayal of President
                        -Kissinger
                        -Melvin R. Laird
                  -Kissinger’s press relations
                  -US foreign policy
                        -Treatment by press
                        -Analogy of the President as architect, Kissinger as contractor
            -Kissinger
                  -Mistakes
                        -Publicity
                              -Bombing
            -Brandon
            -Cabinet [?]

The President and Haldeman left at 11:15 am.
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