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Conversation No. 396-7

Date: January 12, 1973
Time: 11:55 am - 1:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Price's schedule
-Camp David

President's schedule
-Florida

President's Inaugural speech
-Theme
-Quotability
-Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-1968 speech
-\"Lower our voices\"
-Theme
-Quotable lines
-Theme
-Vermont Royster
-“Reaffirmation of faith”
-Blacks
-Crime
-Overpopulation
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Attendant problems
-Environment
-Cities
-Hospital capacity
-Congress
-Appalachia
-Hypochondriacs
-Thomas Malthus
-President's college professors
-Work and production
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-Latin America
-Poverty
-US agricultural capacity
-Food production
-Audience
-Middle America
-Rednecks
-Hard hats
-Intellectuals
-Critics of America
-Tone
-Thoughtful
-Patriotic
-Foreign policy goals
-US role in the free world
-Responsibilities
-Burdens
-United Soviet Socialist Republic [USSR]
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Necessity
-Predatory powers
-Peace
-U.S. position
-Domestic issues
-Materialism
-Values
-Youth
-Need for renewal
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Theme
-Future
-Problems of the present
-Past civilizations
-Military and economic power
-Loss of spirit
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-American problems
-Change
-Role of leaders
-Role of the people
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-Religious references
-Inaugural worship service
-Environmental group's meeting with President
-Russell Train
-1970 State of the Union speech
-Eisenhower
-Environmental legislation
-Theme
-Environment
-Government's role
-Individual's role

Possible series of Presidential messages
-Television [TV]
-Congressional leaders
-State of the Union Speech
-Special message to Congress
-Race relations
-Benefits

President's Inaugural speech
-Environment
-Price's draft
-Tone
-Theme
-US role in the world
-Responsibilities
-Thomas Jefferson
-Youth
-US outlook
-Compared to France
-President's 1968 acceptance speech
-Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and
[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson quotes
-Message to youth
-Excitement
-Special time
-President's 1972 acceptance speech
-President’s meetings with chiefs of state
-Housing, industry [?]
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-John M. “(Jack”) Lynch
-US role in the world [?]
-Next four years
-Congressional relations
-Past four years
-Progress
-President's trips to PRC and USSR
-Next four years, next generation
-Congressional relations
-Democrats
-Goals
-Interest of government
-Constitution
-Theme
-Hard work
-Individual responsibility
-Self-reliance
-Other ideas
-Faith [?]
-Government’s role
-Public’s role
-Tone
-Religious references
-Faith
-Philosophy
-Faith in God
-Individual responsibility
-Sentiments to avoid
-Franklin Roosevelt
-Charles W. Colson
-Massachusetts
-Blacks
-Vietnam settlement
-Status
-Past events
-Foreign policy
-Pride
-Goals of US

Vietnam settlement
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-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Negotiations
-Congressional relations
-Timing
-Bombing
-Pressure
-Phases
-Timing
-Congressional relations
-Spending
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule
-Haig
-Schedule
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Congress
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Prospects for agreement
-Haig’s meeting with Thieu
-Congress
-Public statements
-Substance
-Haig’s trip to Saigon
-Thieu's possible position on agreement
-Congress
-South Vietnam’s survival
-Haig meeting
-Possible situation at 1973 Inauguration
-President's possible statement
-May 8, 1972 statement
-Considerations
-Announcement
-Haig's schedule
-Thieu
-Possible agreement
-Demilitarized zone provisions
-Cease-fire
-South Vietnam
-Signing
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-Provisional Revolutionary Government [PRG]
-Cease-fire provisions
-US, PRC, USSR, roles
-South Vietnamese leaders
-Announcements
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Congress
-William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Response to inquiries
-Ziegler
-Haig’s schedule
-Thieu’s position
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Understanding
-Ambassador [?]
-President's announcement
-Thieu's position
-Rogers
-President's response
-Effect
-Haig
-Congress
-President's announcement
-U.S. military response
-1973 Inauguration
-Congress
-Ziegler
-Robert Vesco
-Possibilities
-Public Opinion
-U.S. military response
-Bombing halt
-Thieu’s cooperation
-South Vietnamese people
-USSR
-US goals
-Honorable peace
-Cambodia
-Laos
-North Vietnam
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-South Vietnam
-Thieu’s cooperation
-U.S. Military Response
-Bombing
-1973 Inauguration
-Situation
-Announcement
-Congress

President's inaugural speech
-Vietnam
-US role in world
-Vietnam
-Challenges of the future
-Foreign policy
-US responsibility in peacetime
-\"Peace with honor\"
-Wording
-Meaning

US foreign policy
-South Vietnam
-Thieu
-Survival
-US aid
-Effect
-Possible announcement
-President’s Inaugural speech
-Peace message
-PRC, USSR
-Middle East
-Nicaragua
-Earthquake
-Uganda
-South Vietnam
-Continuation of US role
-Public opinion
-USSR
-Anatoliy F. Dobryin
-Vietnam settlement
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Conversation No. 396-7 (cont’d)


President's Inaugural speech
-Price’s thoughts

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:55 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:55 pm.

President's inaugural speech
-Themes
-Future
-Critics of US
-Loss of faith
-Vietnam announcement
-\"New Majority\"
-Press response
-November 3, 1969, and May 8, 1972 speeches
-Press response
-PRC
-Arrogance
-Pandering
-Racial references
-\"One America\"
-President's 1968 campaign
-Blacks, Jews
-Theme for next four years
-Public opinion

Press relations
-Price’s views
-Response to President's actions
-Frustration
-Moscow summit
-May 8, 1972 speech
-1972 election
-Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Bombing, mining
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Conversation No. 396-7 (cont’d)


President's Inaugural speech
-Themes
-Price’s ideas

Press relations
-Congressional relations
-Washington Post [?]
-Edward M. Kennedy [?]
-Analysis
-Writing
-Analysis
-George S. McGovern
-Spokesman
-Memorandum from Price
-Public response
-Vietnam, busing, welfare
-Personality
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower [?]

Politics
-Price’s views
-Government
-[First name unknown] Berry
-Book
-The Best and the Brightest
-David Halberstam

New era
-New ideas
-1970s
-People's desires
-1960s
-Racial unrest
-Vietnam War
-Effect

President's accomplishments
-Revenue sharing
-Mayors and governors
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-Support for the President
-1972 election
-Richard Daley, Mayor of Chicago

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Kissinger [?]
-Reagan
-Winston Churchill
-Burdens of leadership

President's staff
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Kissinger

The President’s schedule
-Appointment

President's Inaugural speech
-Drafting
-Camp David

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:55 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:53 pm.

The President’s schedule [?]

Price left at 1:55 pm.