315–14

Conversation No. 315-14

Date: January 19, 1972
Time: 1:50 pm - 2:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

Denmark
-Death of King Frederik IX
-Henry A. Kissinger memorandum
-William P. Rogers
-John S. D. Eisenhower
-John D. Ehrlichman
-State Department
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-Danes
-US constituency
-California
-Compared to Swedes
-Death of King Frederik IX
-Eisenhower
-Rogers
-Guilford Dudley, Jr.
-Fred J. Russell
-Valley Knudsen
-Health
-Possible call from Haldeman
-Lauritz Melchior
-Victor Borge
-Dudley, Russell and Eisenhower

Appointments
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John B. Connally
-Peter G. Peterson
-Personality
-Possible working relationship with Connally
-Haldeman’s possible talks with Flanigan and Connally
-Flanigan’s possible talk with Connally
-Haldeman’s role
-Compared to Kissinger
-Possible conversation with Haldeman
-The President’s views
-Haldeman’s possible talk with Connally
-Doubts
-White House staff
-Support of Connally
-Ehrlichman
-Connally's role with administration

State of the Union speech
-Advance draft review
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s call to Connally
-Ehrlichman's report
-Connally's suggestions
-Instruction for Haldeman
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-Tone
-Ehrlichman's role
-Draft
-Completion
-Timing
-Review
-Kissinger
-Additions
-Tone
-Conciliation
-Non-partisanship
-Length

Connally
-Position in Cabinet
-Relations with Democrats
-Relations with Cabinet
-Relations with White House staff
-Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz and Kissinger
-Connally's staff
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-State of the Union speech
-The President’s schedule
-Connally’s review

White House staff
-Unknown man
-Quote
-Herbert Stein
-Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Connally
-Relations with other staff
-Compared to Rogers
-Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Haldeman’s effort
-Work

Marjorie P. Acker entered at 2:10 pm.

The President's forthcoming speech
-Length
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Acker left at 2:11 pm.

Haldeman's schedule
-Flanigan
-Paul A. Volcker

[The President talked with an unknown person [Rose Mary Woods?] at an unknown time
between 2:11 pm and 2:15 pm.]

[Conversation No. 315-14A]

The President's speech draft
-Copy
-The President's style
-Delivery to Connally
-Haldeman
-Price
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Time of release
-Reproduction

[End of telephone conversation]

-The President's reading copy
-Delivery to Connally
-Press copy

Haldeman's schedule
-Forthcoming conversation with Flanigan
-Forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Call to the President

Haldeman left at 2:15 pm.
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