314–1

Conversation No. 314-1

Date: January 13, 1972
Time: 2:34 pm - 3:41 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

Scheduling meetings
-Carl B. Albert
-Neil H. McElroy meeting
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Robert E. Merriam
-Duration
-Delays in other meetings
-Robert O. Anderson
-Length of meetings
-Henry A. Kissinger, John D. Ehrlichman
-McElroy meeting
-Merriam, Agnew
Length
-Lack of briefing
-Purpose
-Stephen B. Bull, David N. Parker, Haldeman
-Handling of scheduling
-Estimates of length of meetings
-Overruns
-Planning
-McElroy meeting
-State of the Union speech
-Parker
-Length of meeting
-Bull
-Agnew
-Signaling end of meeting
-Kissinger
-Length of meetings

David J. Mahoney, Jr.
-Attitude
-Leonard Garment
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:34 pm.

The President’s schedule
-First Family departure
-Camp David

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.

Camp David
-Departure

State of the Union message
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s draft
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Delays
-Call from Haldeman
-Theme

The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-Camp David
-Helicopter
-Haldeman's call to Brig. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:34 pm and 2:45
pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1A]

[See Conversation No. 18-77]

[End of telephone conversation]

Camp David
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Scheduling
-Problems
-Haldeman's staff
-Ehrlichman
-Cancellations
-John B. Connally

State of the Union message

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:34 pm and
2:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 314-1H]

Request for a return call

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman's meetings
-John N. Mitchell
-Time
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Time
-Forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Kissinger
-Concern over columns by James B. (“Scotty”) Reston in New York Times
-Possible press conference
-Advisability
-Possible interview with Max Frankel
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s advice
-Forthcoming world report
-Breakfast with Melvin R. Laird
-Problem

[Haldeman talked with Hughes at 2:45 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1B]

[See Conversation No. 18-78]
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[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with the White House operator at 2:45 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1C]

[See Conversation No. 18-79]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull
-Informing Ronald L. Ziegler

[The President talked with Ziegler between 2:45 pm and 2:47 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1D]

[See Conversation No. 18-80]

[End of telephone conversation]

Notification
-Bull
-Ziegler

The President’s schedule
-Home Builders convention in Houston, Texas
-Astrodome exhibition center
-The President's attendance
-Size of crowd
-The President's schedule
-Timing
-Emilio Colombo
-Return to Washington
-Forthcoming Vietnam announcement
-Florida
-Home Builder's convention
-Announcement
-Agnew
-Florida
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-Size of crowd
-Program
-Foreign policy
-Florida

[Haldeman talked with Hughes at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09 pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1E]

[See Conversation No. 18-81]

Camp David
-Snow
-Thurmont, Frederick, Hagerstown, Maryland
-Thurmont, Maryland
-Weather
-Plane
-Helicopter
-Car
-Time of departure

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09
pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1F]

[See Conversation No. 18-82]

[Haldeman talked with Hughes at an unknown time.]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09
pm.]

[Conversation No. 314-1G]

[See Conversation No. 18-83]

[The call was placed on hold]
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Schedule
-Kissinger

[Haldeman talked with Bull at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:09 pm.]

[End of telephone conversation]

Camp David
-Transportation
-Car
-Duration of trip

Kissinger
-Meeting with the President
-Resignation threat
-Press conference
-Change of mind
-Mental state
-The President’s view


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-[William F.?] Buckley’s view
-Security risks
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Haig’s activities
-Paperwork
-Foreign visits

Kurt Waldheim
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-Meeting with the President, January 24, 1972
-Location
-Meetings with Congress
-Social events
-Meeting with the President
-William P. Rogers
-Meeting with the President

Florida trip
-Return
-Timing

Cabinet dinner, January 20, 1972
-Scheduling
-Itinerary

Florida trip
-Scheduling
-Don and Betty Hughes
-Son
-Military service
-Rose Mary Woods
-Talk with Haldeman
-Talk with Hughes
-Woods's attendance

The President’s schedule
-Houston convention
-Declination of invitation
-Waldheim
-Agnew
-Substitute

The President's Commission on School Finance
-Ehrlichman
-Richardson
-Agnew, McElroy
-Agnew
-Unknown person from Chicago
-Lewis A. Engman
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Agnew's recent behavior

Labor affairs
-Agnew meeting
-Propriety
-Chairmanship

Cabinet
-Committee on Economic Policy
-The President’s role

Appointments
-[Council on International Economic Policy]
-Peter M. Flanigan
-William D. Eberle
-Staff
-Background
-Common Cause

Common Cause
-Problems
-Finances
-John W. Gardner

Eberle

Richard V. (“Dick”) Allen
-Conservatives
-Peter G. Peterson
-Commerce Department
-1972 campaign
-Foreign policy

Ziegler entered at 3:09 pm.

Andrew Wyeth

Ziegler's talk with Leonard Garment
-Wyeth

Portrait of the President
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-Timing
-Departure from office
-Wyeth
-The President’s choice
-Sitting while in office
-Wyeth
-The President’s choice
-Timing
-Garment
-Call to Wyeth
-Press

The President's meeting with fifth grade class
-Press reports
-Children's facial expressions
-Responsiveness to the President’s questions
-Children's aspirations

Photograph sessions
-McElroy, Agnew, Arthur F. Burns
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Photos

Laird
-Press conference

US troop withdrawals from Vietnam
-Level
-Timing
-Laird
-Confidence in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-US combat role
-US airpower

Kissinger
-Possible press conference
-Timing
-Reston
-Necessity
-Reston’s views
-Importance to press
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-Forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Reston’s trip to PRC
-New York Times
-Possible press conference
-Defensiveness
-Call to Ziegler
-Ziegler’s talk with Haldeman
-Credibility with the press
-Background briefings
-Jack N. Anderson

Public relations
-India-Pakistan war
-Importance as issue
-Bangladesh
-Importance as issue
-Sheik Mujibur Rahman
-US support
-Airport reception

The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-State of the Union speech
-The President’s efforts

Ziegler and Press arrangements for forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Number of invitees
-Negotiations
-Communications with the President

Forthcoming trip to the PRC
-President’s security
-Laird
-Agnew
-Position
-India
-Ireland
-Latin America
-Recent press conference

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Africa
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-Television appearance
-Demeanor
-Women in office
-Support of women
-Leonore L. Romney
-Presidency
-Barbara Walters
-Answers
-Style
-Treatment by press
-Questions
-Handling
-Walters's question about women in office
-Responses

Edmund S. Muskie
-Anderson papers leak
-Secretaries of State or Defense
-Truth of charges
-Joseph R. McCarthy
-Administration responses
-Rogers
-Television
-Accusation of lies
-Proof
-Anderson
-Comparison to Pentagon Papers
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Neil Sheehan and wife
-Activity in Cambridge, Massachusetts
-Release of information
-Timing
-1972 election

Frankel
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] transcript
-Ziegler’s intended use
-Statements
-Interview by James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Sheehan
-New York Times
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Press
-Battles with the administration
-State of the Union speech
-Vietnam announcement
-Trip to the PRC by the President
-Vietnam troop withdrawals
-Level

Ziegler left at 3:28 pm.

Kissinger
-Problem
-Sources
-View of Haig, Ziegler, Gerald R. Warren
-Handling
-John N. Mitchell
-Forthcoming PRC trip
-William P. Rogers
-Middle East

Haig
-Qualities
-Mitchell
-Kissinger’s comments about Soviet Union

Kissinger
-Admonition by Ziegler
-Rogers
-Briefing
-Briefing of the Associated Press [AP] and United Press International [UPI]
-Rogers
-The President’s instructions
-John A. Scali
-Conversation with Rogers
-Handling
-PRC trip, Soviet Union trip
-Impact on Kissinger's position
-Position vis-a-vis Rogers
-Forthcoming 1972 presidential campaign
-Possible resignation
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[Unintelligible]

The President’s schedule
-Ceremony
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Change of command
-Fort Lauderdale

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:34 pm.

The President's schedule
-Papers for signing
-Budget message
-George P. Shultz

The President's talk with Ehrlichman
-State of the Union message
-Value-added tax [VAT]
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s forthcoming talk with Robert H. Finch


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Shultz

The President’s schedule
-State of the Union
-Birthday calls
-Delays
-Walter Trohan
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-William S. White
-Jerome H. Holland
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
-[Dilantin]
-Study
-National security indicator report
-Economic report
-Delays in calls

Forthcoming dinner for Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Wallace
-Fred Waring
-Jack Benny
-Ray Coniff Singers
-50-year medley
-Woods
-Position in charge of entertainment

Butterfield left at 3:40 pm.

Entertainment
-Tickets

Haldeman left at 3:41 pm