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465–8
- President Richard M. Nixon
- H. R. Haldeman
- Raymond K. Price
- Noel C. Koch
- Alexander P. Butterfield
- Henry A. Kissinger
March 10, 1971
Conversation No. 465-8
Date: March 10, 1971
Time: 10:42 am - 1:15 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
President’s schedule
-George P. Shultz
President’s interview with Cyrus L. (“Cy”) Sulzberger
-William P. Rogers’ calls to President and Haldeman
A National Security Council [NSC] meeting, March 10, 1971
-Cancellation
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Rogers
-Kissinger
Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Noel C. Koch entered at 10:43 am
Greetings
President’s schedule
-April 22 event
-Josip Broz Tito
-Forthcoming Head of State visit
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Graduation exercises for Naval Officer Candidate School
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Revisions
-Vietnam War
-Length
-Subject
-Graduating class
-Eisenhower’s class standing
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Attitudes toward military service
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-Navy
-Vietnam War
-Military situation
-Effect on attitudes
-Vietnamization
-Naval situation
-President’s recollections
-Value
-President’s comments
-Years of service
-Wording
-Value
-Revisions
-Vietnam War
-President’s policy
-Audience
-Graduating class at Newport compared with the country at large
-Effect on speech content
-Youth’s attitude toward military
-Value
-Audience
-Graduating class at Newport compared with draftees and enlistees
-Volunteer army
Military
-Value to graduating class at Newport
-Compared with President’s military unit
-Compared with enlisted men
-Value to blacks, poor whites
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Next draft
-Revisions
-Audience
-Country
-Graduating class
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview
-Distribution
-Accuracy
-Audience
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview
-Audience
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-Dissemination
-Length
-Tone
-Biblical quotations
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-President
-Wording
-Another draft Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
President’s schedule
-Williamsburg
-Delivery of Newport speech
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Revisions
-Vietnam War
-Military service
-Sacrifices of young Americans
-President’s view
-US foreign policy
-Military action
-US defense capacity
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Wording
-Administration policy
-Tone
-Expected response
-Compared with President’s Williamsburg speech
-Judicial system reform
-Vietnam War
-Rogers’ previous comments to Veterans of Foreign Wars
-Headlines
-Possible television coverage
Price’s office
-Workload
-Foreign policy
-State Department
-Letters to heads of state
-Kissinger’s office’s work
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Correspondence
-Importance
-Difficulty
-Administration handling
-State Department
Price and Koch left at 11:05 am
Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Sulzberger interview
-Koch
New York Times
-Sulzberger’s story
-Press
-Influence
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-News people
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Coverage
-Compared with Sulzberger interview
Kissinger and Rogers
-Relations
James C. Fletcher story
-Daniel L. Schorr’s story
-President’s meeting with Peter M. Flanigan
-Meeting with President
-President’s position on Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Ziegler
-Attendance at a luncheon
-Schorr
-Date
-Schorr
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Robert H. Finch
President’s appearance in Des Moines, March 1, 1971
-Republican Congressional leadership meeting
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Tape Subject Log
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-President’s reception
-Demonstrations
-Republican Congressional leadership meeting
-News coverage
-Washington Post and news magazines
-Statements from a White House staffer
President’s trip to Williamsburg Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Ziegler
-Logistics
-Airport, helipad, Williamsburg Inn and Conference Center
-Possible demonstration at the College of William and Mary
President’s public appearances
-Demonstrators
-Laos (Lam Son) issue
-Forthcoming Presidential election
-Texas
-Albuquerque
-Utah
-Nevada
-California
-North Dakota
-Reason
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s experience
-Ziegler and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Des Moines
-Demonstrations
-Press coverage
-Cabinet dinner
-Jack R. Miller
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Des Moines Register
-White House responses
-Miller
-News magazines
-Counter-demonstrations
-Williamsburg
-Newport, Rhode Island
-President’s popularity
-John B. Connally’s statement
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Tape Subject Log
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-Polls
-Percentages
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Press
-Newsweek story
-President’s demeanor at previous press conference
-Possible White House response
-Letters
-Ziegler
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
-News magazines
-Laos operation (Lam Son) coverage
-President’s possible future television appearances
-A film
-March 22, 1971
-”One-on-one” interview
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Barbara Walters
-”Today” show taping, March 11, 1971
-Distribution
-Timing
-Conditions
-Length
-Editing
-Length
-Schedule
-Ladies of the press interview
-Yellow Oval Room and Red Room
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Tape Subject Log
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-Walters
-”Today” show taping
-Conditions
-Questions
-Kissinger
-Interview subjects
-Schedule
-”Today” show Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Interview with ladies of the press
-Distribution
-Content
-Time
-Walters
-Walters’ interview
-Length
-Content
-Howard K. Smith interview
-Compared with Walters’ interview
-Time
-Walters’ interview
-Content
-Role of women
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon, daughters
-Haldeman’s interview for Washington Monthly magazine
-A letter from Matt Storm [?]
-Possible action
-Magazine
-Price’s attitude
-Experience with press
-Editorial writers
-Work at White House
-Relations with administration
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-James Keogh
-Moynihan
-Newsweek
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:20 am
Camp David
-Cabinet requests
-President’s schedule
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-Cabinet requests
-John A. Volpe
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Call from Butterfield
-Gridiron Dinner
-Grandchildren
-White House staff
-Cabinet members Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Volpe
-Calls by Butterfield
-Richard M. Helms
-Facilities
-Volpe
-Senior staff at Department of Transportation
-Use
-President’s use
-Staff
-Commerce Department picnic
-File on use
-Agnew
-John N. and Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-File on use
-Major General James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Butterfield’s Cabinet list
-Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Volpe
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Use
-President
-Others
-Florida
-Offer
-Volpe
-Gridiron dinner
-Connally
-Agnew
-Use during week
-Departmental conferences
-Agnew
-Butterfield’s call
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President’s schedule
-Florida
The President left at an unknown time after 11:20 am
Volpe
-A dinner, March 9, 1971
-Camp David Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-A dinner
-Calls
-Camp David
The President entered at an unknown time before 11:36 am
President’s schedule
-Kissinger
Butterfield left at 11:36 am
Volpe
President’s dinner, March 9, 1971
-Agnew’s demeanor
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Volpe
-Possible meeting with President
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible meeting with President
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President’s dinner, March 9, 1971
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[Duration: 1m ] Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
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President’s schedule
-Meetings with Cabinet officers
-Connally
-Approach to textiles
-Shultz
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Connally’s [?] schedule
-Gridiron Dinner
-Camp David
-Gridiron Dinner
-President’s possible attendance
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
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President’s appearances since 1970 elections
-Press conferences, interviews, State of the Union address, speeches
-Public relations
-President’s popularity
-News summary reports
-Financial editors
-Paul W. McCracken
-Arthur F. Burns
-Stock market, March 9, 1971
-Gains
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Polls
-Televised interviews with the President
-Timing
-George H. Gallup results
-White House polls
-Youth in sample
-1970 polls
-Presidential approval ratings
-Economic factors
-Vietnam War
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Cambodian operation
-Compared with third year of John F. Kennedy’s administration
-Polls
-Use of President’s time
-Public relations
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Magruder
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White House staff
-Connally’s view
-Role
-Responsibilities
-Workload
-Background
-Public relations concerns
-Moynihan and Connally Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Finch and Rumsfeld
-Connally and Moynihan
-Finch and Rumsfeld
An article in Fortune
-Administration cycles
-Nixon administration compared with [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
administration
-Franklin D. Roosevelt administration
-Abraham Lincoln administration
-Nixon and Wilson administrations
-Social welfare cycle
-Roosevelt
-Nixon and Wilson administrations
-New cycle
-Democratic Party
-Republican Party
-Coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats
-Author [Forename unknown] Wrightley [?]
-Catalyst
-Liberal Republicans
-Ripon Society
-Rumsfeld
-Peer judgement
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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Volpe and Agnew
-Personnel
Public relations
-White House staff
-Importance
-President’s Des Moines appearance, March 1, 1971 Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Press coverage
-White House Press Office response
-Ziegler
-Effect
-Washington Post’s reporting
-Demonstrators
-Hardhats, farmers, and students
-Press coverage
-Possible results
-Opposition to President
-Farming states
-Need for White House response
-1964 election
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Sources
-Supporters
-Farmers, property owners, suburbanites, blacks
-Ziegler
-Oberdorfer, Washington Post, and Newsweek
-Influence
-John F. Osborne comparison
-President’s forthcoming interview with Walters
-Question on Mrs. Nixon and daughters
-President’s responses
-Richard A. Moore
-[Forename unknown] Jesselman’s [?] article
-Delivery of information
-President’s return from Williamsburg
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Work with Price
Kissinger entered at 12:00 pm
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President’s interview with Sulzberger in New York Times
-Joseph W. Alsop’s call to Kissinger
President’s previous meeting with Price
-Influence of New York Times
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Kissinger’s review
-Tone
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview
-Meeting with Price and Koch
-President’s March 7, 1971 call to Koch
An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 12:00 pm
Request for Ziegler
The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Koch’s draft
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview in New York Times
-New York Times influence
-Price
-Audience
-Television and newspaper representatives
Ziegler entered at 12:05 pm
ABM
-Fletcher story
-White House response
-Influence on nomination as National Aeronautics and Space Administration
[NASA] director
-White House response
-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-CBS
-Meeting with President
-Ziegler’s meeting with Fletcher
-President’s position
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-Fletcher
-Meeting with Ziegler
-Meeting with President
-Position on ABM
-Confirmation testimony
-Position on ABM
-Nomination
-Schorr Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-White House response to Fletcher story
-Williamsburg
-Ziegler’s handling
-Importance
-Soviet Union
-Congress
-Soviet weaponry
-Capability
-Fletcher story
-Importance
-Ziegler’s meeting with Fletcher
-Charles W. Colson
-Ziegler’s handling at press briefing
-White House response to Fletcher story
-Call to CBS
-President’s meeting with Fletcher
-President’s position
President’s interviews
-Sulzberger
-Use
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Sulzberger
-Use
-Possible review by President
-Use
-Possible reading by President
-Possible comment by White House
-Use
-Nature
-President’s policies of review and comment
-Use
-President’s policies of review
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Fletcher story
-Ziegler’s response to CBS
-Importance
-Ziegler’s and Fletcher’s response
-Flanigan
-Fletcher
-Accuracy Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Meeting with President
-Importance
-White House response
-Meeting with President
Ziegler left at 12:18 pm
-Basis
-Scientists
J. W. Alsop
Ziegler
-Work
-Response to Fletcher story
Haldeman left at 12:22 pm
President’s interview with Sulzberger
-Possible J. W. Alsop column
-Staff assistance
-Kissinger and Ziegler
-Content
-J. W. Alsop’s view
-Possible S. J. O. Alsop column
-Other attendees
-Compared with J. W. Alsop interview(s)
-Content
-Compared with other Presidents
-J. W. Alsop
-President’s reading
-President’s purpose
-New York Times coverage
-John B. Oakes
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
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Forthcoming book by Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Tone
Robert S. McNamara
-Form of address
-Possible postscript
-Meetings with Kissinger Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Importance
-Support for Administration policy
-Vietnam War
-A dinner at Alsop’s house
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
John [Surname unintelligible]
Rogers
-Kissinger’s previous conversation
-Cancellation of NSC meeting
-Israel
-Egypt
-Soviet Union
-A March 9, 1971 meeting
-Helms
-Position on Middle East
-Suez Canal
Letters to heads of state
-Postscripts
-Indira Gandhi
-Morocco
McNamara
-Position at World Bank
-Continued work
-News reports
-David M. Kennedy
-Work
-Term of service
-Possible re-appointment
-Support for Administration
-[Forename unknown] Freeman
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-President’s letter
Freeman
-Head of a British television channel
-Message for President
President’s previous interview with Sulzberger
-Reasons Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Sulzberger
-Sulzberger’s position at New York Times
-Oakes
-President’s purpose
-Reston
-Content
-President’s foreign policy
-J. W. Alsop’s response
-Southeast Asia
-Golda Meir
-Kissinger’s view
Forthcoming Evans and Novak book
-Kissinger’s interview, March 9, 1971
-President’s foreign policy
-Consistency
-President’s foreign policy report
-Foreign Affairs article
-Guam conference
-Ireland
-Kissinger’s interview
-President’s trips
-Meetings with heads of state
-Romania
-China policy
-Foreign policy compared with domestic policy
-Length
-Publication date
Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Withdrawal
-South Vietnamese position
-Timing
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
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-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Kissinger’s view
-North Vietnamese
-Military situation
-Casualties
-North Vietnamese supply routes
-Reasoning
-Thieu Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Possible US position
-Abrams
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-State Department
-Melvin R. Laird
-Moorer
-Military situation
-Possible results
-Effect on future supplies
-Laird
-Military situation
-Thieu
-Forthcoming presidential election
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Capability
-General Do Cao Tri’s death
-Effectiveness
-Compared with Austrian army in 1915
-North Vietnamese forces
-Compared with Germans
-US support
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Possible meeting with the President
-Moorer
-Abrams’ assessment of situation
-Laird
-Abrams
-Thieu’s position
-Withdrawal of ARVN forces
-Military situation
-Tchepone
-Moorer and Abrams
-North Vietnamese
-Withdrawal
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-South Vietnamese
-Press coverage
-Thieu
-South Vietnamese forces
-President’s position
-Possible effect on 1972 elections
-US forces
-Abrams’ assessment Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Results
-Weather
-Effect
-Laos operation
-Abrams
-President’s position
-Possible results
-Timing of operation
-Abrams
-Timing of withdrawal
-Abrams’ forthcoming report
-Moorer
-Laird
-General Robert E. Pursley
-Statements
-ARVN
-Capability
-US military plans
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Laird
-Abrams
-Haig
-Cambodia
-Fred Ladd [?]
-Importance
-Laos operation
-Importance
-Possible results
-Scenario
-Possible withdrawal announcement
-Negotiations in Paris
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-Le Duc Tho
-Possible US position
-US troop withdrawal
-Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA)
-Cease fire
-US military plans
-Withdrawal
-American public opinion Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Compared to Korean War
-Possible effect on 1972 election
-Withdrawal of US forces
-Residual force
-Negotiations
-Effect
-US military plans
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-A picture of Chou En-lai
-Soviet Union
-A speech by Chou En-lai on Vietnam War
-Kissinger’s analysis
-North Vietnam relations
Vietnam
-US military plans
-Air strikes
-Laird
-Effects
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Military situation
-North Vietnamese forces
-Troop locations
-Tchepone
-Casualties
-Military supplies
-Air strikes
-Effects
-North Vietnamese supplies
-Current ground location
-Negotiations
-President’s meeting with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, March 10, 1971
-US position
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-Thieu
-South Vietnamese election
-Laos Operation (Lam Son)
-Possible effects
-ARVN
-Abrams
-US influence
-ARVN Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Effects
-Public statements
-Success of operations
-Thieu
-Forthcoming South Vietnamese elections
Soviet Union
-Possible summit
-Soviet Union’s reply
-Kissinger’s view
-Foreign policy stance
-Possible summit
-US strategy
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Letter from the President to Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Public statement
-Party congress
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Effect on possible summit
-Timing of Party congress
Ziegler entered at 12:49 pm
-Possible public statement by US
ABM
-CBS story on Fletcher
-Schorr
-Retraction
-President’s contact with Fletcher
Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Moorer
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Soviet Union
-Dobrynin’s conversations with Kissinger
-President’s position
-Possible summit
-Party congress
-President’s previous conversation with Mansfield
-Vienna negotiations
-SALT Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
Kissinger left at 12:51 pm
ABM
-CBS story
-Importance of clarification
-Ziegler’s statement
-President’s position on ABM and SAFEGUARD
-President’s meeting with Fletcher
-President’s conversations
-Fletcher
-Others
-President’s meeting with Fletcher in receiving line
-White House response
The President left and Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:51 pm
A message for the President
Butterfield left and the President entered at an unknown time before 1:15 pm
ABM
-CBS story
-Schorr
-Fletcher
-Fletcher’s position
-Forthcoming press briefing
Haldeman’s location
-Maurice H. Stans
Press
-White House relations
-Ziegler’s briefings
-Retraction of Fletcher story
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-David Lawrence
-Ziegler’s retraction of Fletcher story
-President’s view
-Lawrence’s column on critics
-Connally’s position
-Agnew
-CBS story on Fletcher
-President’s March 9, 1971 meeting with CBS executivesConv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Coverage of President’s trip to Des Moines, March 1, 1971
-Cabinet dinner
-Washington Post
-Hardin
-Agnew
-Des Moines Register
-Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, and networks
-President’s conversation with Haldeman regarding demonstrations
-Need for a response
-President’s public appearances
-Williamsburg
-College of William and Mary student demonstrators
-1968 campaign appearance
-President’s attitude toward demonstrators
-President’s upcoming speeches
-Ziegler’s conversation with Price
-Coverage of President’s trip to Des Moines
-Effect
-Possible White House response
-Newsweek, Time
-Possible response
-Congressmen
-Networks
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Dan Rather
-Haldeman’s staff meeting
-Connally’s remarks
-Connally
-Ziegler’s remarks
-Hardin, other Cabinet members
-White House handling of press
-CBS story on Fletcher
-President’s demeanor at previous press conference
-Newsweek’s coverage
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-Ziegler’s view
-Connally’s remarks at Haldeman’s staff meeting
-President
-Public relations efforts
-Johnson
-Treatment of press
-Compared with President’s demeanor
-Next press conference Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Camera location in Oval Office
-President’s interviews
-Sulzberger
-Reasons for interview
-Support for Administration
-Foreign policy
-Questions at Ziegler’s briefing
-Acquaintance with President
-Philosophy at New York Times regarding Vietnam
-Oakes
-Reston
-Previous meetings with the President
-London
-Paris
-Vice Presidential years
-Purpose
-Influence of New York Times
-Effect
-Oakes and Reston
-Conditions
-President’s review of transcripts
-A 1968 post-election interview with James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-Sulzberger
-Sulzberger
-Note-taking
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-President’s statements regarding foreign policy
-Vietnam War
-US, Asia, Africa, Latin America
-Effect at New York Times
-Oakes and Reston
-President’s acquaintance
-Sulzberger
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-J. W. Alsop
-Wilson
-Sulzberger
-Roscoe Drummond
-President’s interviews
-Use of quotes
-Backgrounders
-Contacts with President Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Previous week’s press conference
-Sulzberger interview
-Upcoming Oval Office press conference
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] interview
-Walters’ interview
-Moore’s philosophy
-Schorr’s story regarding Fletcher
-Possible call from Ziegler
-Richard S. Salant of CBS
-Supersonic transport [SST] story
Ziegler left at 1:15 pm
Date: March 10, 1971
Time: 10:42 am - 1:15 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
President’s schedule
-George P. Shultz
President’s interview with Cyrus L. (“Cy”) Sulzberger
-William P. Rogers’ calls to President and Haldeman
A National Security Council [NSC] meeting, March 10, 1971
-Cancellation
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Rogers
-Kissinger
Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Noel C. Koch entered at 10:43 am
Greetings
President’s schedule
-April 22 event
-Josip Broz Tito
-Forthcoming Head of State visit
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Graduation exercises for Naval Officer Candidate School
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Revisions
-Vietnam War
-Length
-Subject
-Graduating class
-Eisenhower’s class standing
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Attitudes toward military service
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Navy
-Vietnam War
-Military situation
-Effect on attitudes
-Vietnamization
-Naval situation
-President’s recollections
-Value
-President’s comments
-Years of service
-Wording
-Value
-Revisions
-Vietnam War
-President’s policy
-Audience
-Graduating class at Newport compared with the country at large
-Effect on speech content
-Youth’s attitude toward military
-Value
-Audience
-Graduating class at Newport compared with draftees and enlistees
-Volunteer army
Military
-Value to graduating class at Newport
-Compared with President’s military unit
-Compared with enlisted men
-Value to blacks, poor whites
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Next draft
-Revisions
-Audience
-Country
-Graduating class
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview
-Distribution
-Accuracy
-Audience
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview
-Audience
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Dissemination
-Length
-Tone
-Biblical quotations
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-President
-Wording
-Another draft Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
President’s schedule
-Williamsburg
-Delivery of Newport speech
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Revisions
-Vietnam War
-Military service
-Sacrifices of young Americans
-President’s view
-US foreign policy
-Military action
-US defense capacity
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Wording
-Administration policy
-Tone
-Expected response
-Compared with President’s Williamsburg speech
-Judicial system reform
-Vietnam War
-Rogers’ previous comments to Veterans of Foreign Wars
-Headlines
-Possible television coverage
Price’s office
-Workload
-Foreign policy
-State Department
-Letters to heads of state
-Kissinger’s office’s work
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Correspondence
-Importance
-Difficulty
-Administration handling
-State Department
Price and Koch left at 11:05 am
Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Sulzberger interview
-Koch
New York Times
-Sulzberger’s story
-Press
-Influence
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-News people
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Coverage
-Compared with Sulzberger interview
Kissinger and Rogers
-Relations
James C. Fletcher story
-Daniel L. Schorr’s story
-President’s meeting with Peter M. Flanigan
-Meeting with President
-President’s position on Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Ziegler
-Attendance at a luncheon
-Schorr
-Date
-Schorr
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Robert H. Finch
President’s appearance in Des Moines, March 1, 1971
-Republican Congressional leadership meeting
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-President’s reception
-Demonstrations
-Republican Congressional leadership meeting
-News coverage
-Washington Post and news magazines
-Statements from a White House staffer
President’s trip to Williamsburg Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Ziegler
-Logistics
-Airport, helipad, Williamsburg Inn and Conference Center
-Possible demonstration at the College of William and Mary
President’s public appearances
-Demonstrators
-Laos (Lam Son) issue
-Forthcoming Presidential election
-Texas
-Albuquerque
-Utah
-Nevada
-California
-North Dakota
-Reason
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s experience
-Ziegler and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Des Moines
-Demonstrations
-Press coverage
-Cabinet dinner
-Jack R. Miller
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Des Moines Register
-White House responses
-Miller
-News magazines
-Counter-demonstrations
-Williamsburg
-Newport, Rhode Island
-President’s popularity
-John B. Connally’s statement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Polls
-Percentages
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[Duration: 2m 16s ] Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
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Press
-Newsweek story
-President’s demeanor at previous press conference
-Possible White House response
-Letters
-Ziegler
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
-News magazines
-Laos operation (Lam Son) coverage
-President’s possible future television appearances
-A film
-March 22, 1971
-”One-on-one” interview
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Barbara Walters
-”Today” show taping, March 11, 1971
-Distribution
-Timing
-Conditions
-Length
-Editing
-Length
-Schedule
-Ladies of the press interview
-Yellow Oval Room and Red Room
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Walters
-”Today” show taping
-Conditions
-Questions
-Kissinger
-Interview subjects
-Schedule
-”Today” show Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Interview with ladies of the press
-Distribution
-Content
-Time
-Walters
-Walters’ interview
-Length
-Content
-Howard K. Smith interview
-Compared with Walters’ interview
-Time
-Walters’ interview
-Content
-Role of women
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon, daughters
-Haldeman’s interview for Washington Monthly magazine
-A letter from Matt Storm [?]
-Possible action
-Magazine
-Price’s attitude
-Experience with press
-Editorial writers
-Work at White House
-Relations with administration
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-James Keogh
-Moynihan
-Newsweek
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:20 am
Camp David
-Cabinet requests
-President’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Cabinet requests
-John A. Volpe
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Call from Butterfield
-Gridiron Dinner
-Grandchildren
-White House staff
-Cabinet members Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Volpe
-Calls by Butterfield
-Richard M. Helms
-Facilities
-Volpe
-Senior staff at Department of Transportation
-Use
-President’s use
-Staff
-Commerce Department picnic
-File on use
-Agnew
-John N. and Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-File on use
-Major General James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Butterfield’s Cabinet list
-Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Volpe
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Use
-President
-Others
-Florida
-Offer
-Volpe
-Gridiron dinner
-Connally
-Agnew
-Use during week
-Departmental conferences
-Agnew
-Butterfield’s call
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
President’s schedule
-Florida
The President left at an unknown time after 11:20 am
Volpe
-A dinner, March 9, 1971
-Camp David Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-A dinner
-Calls
-Camp David
The President entered at an unknown time before 11:36 am
President’s schedule
-Kissinger
Butterfield left at 11:36 am
Volpe
President’s dinner, March 9, 1971
-Agnew’s demeanor
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Volpe
-Possible meeting with President
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible meeting with President
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
President’s dinner, March 9, 1971
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[Duration: 1m ] Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
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President’s schedule
-Meetings with Cabinet officers
-Connally
-Approach to textiles
-Shultz
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[Duration: 2m 40s ]
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Connally’s [?] schedule
-Gridiron Dinner
-Camp David
-Gridiron Dinner
-President’s possible attendance
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 25s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
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President’s appearances since 1970 elections
-Press conferences, interviews, State of the Union address, speeches
-Public relations
-President’s popularity
-News summary reports
-Financial editors
-Paul W. McCracken
-Arthur F. Burns
-Stock market, March 9, 1971
-Gains
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Polls
-Televised interviews with the President
-Timing
-George H. Gallup results
-White House polls
-Youth in sample
-1970 polls
-Presidential approval ratings
-Economic factors
-Vietnam War
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Cambodian operation
-Compared with third year of John F. Kennedy’s administration
-Polls
-Use of President’s time
-Public relations
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Magruder
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
White House staff
-Connally’s view
-Role
-Responsibilities
-Workload
-Background
-Public relations concerns
-Moynihan and Connally Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Finch and Rumsfeld
-Connally and Moynihan
-Finch and Rumsfeld
An article in Fortune
-Administration cycles
-Nixon administration compared with [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
administration
-Franklin D. Roosevelt administration
-Abraham Lincoln administration
-Nixon and Wilson administrations
-Social welfare cycle
-Roosevelt
-Nixon and Wilson administrations
-New cycle
-Democratic Party
-Republican Party
-Coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats
-Author [Forename unknown] Wrightley [?]
-Catalyst
-Liberal Republicans
-Ripon Society
-Rumsfeld
-Peer judgement
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[Duration: 30s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
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Volpe and Agnew
-Personnel
Public relations
-White House staff
-Importance
-President’s Des Moines appearance, March 1, 1971 Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Press coverage
-White House Press Office response
-Ziegler
-Effect
-Washington Post’s reporting
-Demonstrators
-Hardhats, farmers, and students
-Press coverage
-Possible results
-Opposition to President
-Farming states
-Need for White House response
-1964 election
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Sources
-Supporters
-Farmers, property owners, suburbanites, blacks
-Ziegler
-Oberdorfer, Washington Post, and Newsweek
-Influence
-John F. Osborne comparison
-President’s forthcoming interview with Walters
-Question on Mrs. Nixon and daughters
-President’s responses
-Richard A. Moore
-[Forename unknown] Jesselman’s [?] article
-Delivery of information
-President’s return from Williamsburg
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Work with Price
Kissinger entered at 12:00 pm
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
President’s interview with Sulzberger in New York Times
-Joseph W. Alsop’s call to Kissinger
President’s previous meeting with Price
-Influence of New York Times
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Kissinger’s review
-Tone
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview
-Meeting with Price and Koch
-President’s March 7, 1971 call to Koch
An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 12:00 pm
Request for Ziegler
The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm
President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
-Koch’s draft
-Similarity to Sulzberger interview in New York Times
-New York Times influence
-Price
-Audience
-Television and newspaper representatives
Ziegler entered at 12:05 pm
ABM
-Fletcher story
-White House response
-Influence on nomination as National Aeronautics and Space Administration
[NASA] director
-White House response
-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-CBS
-Meeting with President
-Ziegler’s meeting with Fletcher
-President’s position
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Fletcher
-Meeting with Ziegler
-Meeting with President
-Position on ABM
-Confirmation testimony
-Position on ABM
-Nomination
-Schorr Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-White House response to Fletcher story
-Williamsburg
-Ziegler’s handling
-Importance
-Soviet Union
-Congress
-Soviet weaponry
-Capability
-Fletcher story
-Importance
-Ziegler’s meeting with Fletcher
-Charles W. Colson
-Ziegler’s handling at press briefing
-White House response to Fletcher story
-Call to CBS
-President’s meeting with Fletcher
-President’s position
President’s interviews
-Sulzberger
-Use
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Sulzberger
-Use
-Possible review by President
-Use
-Possible reading by President
-Possible comment by White House
-Use
-Nature
-President’s policies of review and comment
-Use
-President’s policies of review
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Fletcher story
-Ziegler’s response to CBS
-Importance
-Ziegler’s and Fletcher’s response
-Flanigan
-Fletcher
-Accuracy Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Meeting with President
-Importance
-White House response
-Meeting with President
Ziegler left at 12:18 pm
-Basis
-Scientists
J. W. Alsop
Ziegler
-Work
-Response to Fletcher story
Haldeman left at 12:22 pm
President’s interview with Sulzberger
-Possible J. W. Alsop column
-Staff assistance
-Kissinger and Ziegler
-Content
-J. W. Alsop’s view
-Possible S. J. O. Alsop column
-Other attendees
-Compared with J. W. Alsop interview(s)
-Content
-Compared with other Presidents
-J. W. Alsop
-President’s reading
-President’s purpose
-New York Times coverage
-John B. Oakes
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Forthcoming book by Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Tone
Robert S. McNamara
-Form of address
-Possible postscript
-Meetings with Kissinger Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Importance
-Support for Administration policy
-Vietnam War
-A dinner at Alsop’s house
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
John [Surname unintelligible]
Rogers
-Kissinger’s previous conversation
-Cancellation of NSC meeting
-Israel
-Egypt
-Soviet Union
-A March 9, 1971 meeting
-Helms
-Position on Middle East
-Suez Canal
Letters to heads of state
-Postscripts
-Indira Gandhi
-Morocco
McNamara
-Position at World Bank
-Continued work
-News reports
-David M. Kennedy
-Work
-Term of service
-Possible re-appointment
-Support for Administration
-[Forename unknown] Freeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-President’s letter
Freeman
-Head of a British television channel
-Message for President
President’s previous interview with Sulzberger
-Reasons Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Sulzberger
-Sulzberger’s position at New York Times
-Oakes
-President’s purpose
-Reston
-Content
-President’s foreign policy
-J. W. Alsop’s response
-Southeast Asia
-Golda Meir
-Kissinger’s view
Forthcoming Evans and Novak book
-Kissinger’s interview, March 9, 1971
-President’s foreign policy
-Consistency
-President’s foreign policy report
-Foreign Affairs article
-Guam conference
-Ireland
-Kissinger’s interview
-President’s trips
-Meetings with heads of state
-Romania
-China policy
-Foreign policy compared with domestic policy
-Length
-Publication date
Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Withdrawal
-South Vietnamese position
-Timing
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Kissinger’s view
-North Vietnamese
-Military situation
-Casualties
-North Vietnamese supply routes
-Reasoning
-Thieu Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Possible US position
-Abrams
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-State Department
-Melvin R. Laird
-Moorer
-Military situation
-Possible results
-Effect on future supplies
-Laird
-Military situation
-Thieu
-Forthcoming presidential election
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Capability
-General Do Cao Tri’s death
-Effectiveness
-Compared with Austrian army in 1915
-North Vietnamese forces
-Compared with Germans
-US support
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Possible meeting with the President
-Moorer
-Abrams’ assessment of situation
-Laird
-Abrams
-Thieu’s position
-Withdrawal of ARVN forces
-Military situation
-Tchepone
-Moorer and Abrams
-North Vietnamese
-Withdrawal
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-South Vietnamese
-Press coverage
-Thieu
-South Vietnamese forces
-President’s position
-Possible effect on 1972 elections
-US forces
-Abrams’ assessment Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Results
-Weather
-Effect
-Laos operation
-Abrams
-President’s position
-Possible results
-Timing of operation
-Abrams
-Timing of withdrawal
-Abrams’ forthcoming report
-Moorer
-Laird
-General Robert E. Pursley
-Statements
-ARVN
-Capability
-US military plans
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Laird
-Abrams
-Haig
-Cambodia
-Fred Ladd [?]
-Importance
-Laos operation
-Importance
-Possible results
-Scenario
-Possible withdrawal announcement
-Negotiations in Paris
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Le Duc Tho
-Possible US position
-US troop withdrawal
-Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA)
-Cease fire
-US military plans
-Withdrawal
-American public opinion Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Compared to Korean War
-Possible effect on 1972 election
-Withdrawal of US forces
-Residual force
-Negotiations
-Effect
-US military plans
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-A picture of Chou En-lai
-Soviet Union
-A speech by Chou En-lai on Vietnam War
-Kissinger’s analysis
-North Vietnam relations
Vietnam
-US military plans
-Air strikes
-Laird
-Effects
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Military situation
-North Vietnamese forces
-Troop locations
-Tchepone
-Casualties
-Military supplies
-Air strikes
-Effects
-North Vietnamese supplies
-Current ground location
-Negotiations
-President’s meeting with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, March 10, 1971
-US position
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Thieu
-South Vietnamese election
-Laos Operation (Lam Son)
-Possible effects
-ARVN
-Abrams
-US influence
-ARVN Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Effects
-Public statements
-Success of operations
-Thieu
-Forthcoming South Vietnamese elections
Soviet Union
-Possible summit
-Soviet Union’s reply
-Kissinger’s view
-Foreign policy stance
-Possible summit
-US strategy
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Letter from the President to Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Public statement
-Party congress
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Effect on possible summit
-Timing of Party congress
Ziegler entered at 12:49 pm
-Possible public statement by US
ABM
-CBS story on Fletcher
-Schorr
-Retraction
-President’s contact with Fletcher
Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Moorer
29
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Soviet Union
-Dobrynin’s conversations with Kissinger
-President’s position
-Possible summit
-Party congress
-President’s previous conversation with Mansfield
-Vienna negotiations
-SALT Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
Kissinger left at 12:51 pm
ABM
-CBS story
-Importance of clarification
-Ziegler’s statement
-President’s position on ABM and SAFEGUARD
-President’s meeting with Fletcher
-President’s conversations
-Fletcher
-Others
-President’s meeting with Fletcher in receiving line
-White House response
The President left and Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:51 pm
A message for the President
Butterfield left and the President entered at an unknown time before 1:15 pm
ABM
-CBS story
-Schorr
-Fletcher
-Fletcher’s position
-Forthcoming press briefing
Haldeman’s location
-Maurice H. Stans
Press
-White House relations
-Ziegler’s briefings
-Retraction of Fletcher story
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-David Lawrence
-Ziegler’s retraction of Fletcher story
-President’s view
-Lawrence’s column on critics
-Connally’s position
-Agnew
-CBS story on Fletcher
-President’s March 9, 1971 meeting with CBS executivesConv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Coverage of President’s trip to Des Moines, March 1, 1971
-Cabinet dinner
-Washington Post
-Hardin
-Agnew
-Des Moines Register
-Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, and networks
-President’s conversation with Haldeman regarding demonstrations
-Need for a response
-President’s public appearances
-Williamsburg
-College of William and Mary student demonstrators
-1968 campaign appearance
-President’s attitude toward demonstrators
-President’s upcoming speeches
-Ziegler’s conversation with Price
-Coverage of President’s trip to Des Moines
-Effect
-Possible White House response
-Newsweek, Time
-Possible response
-Congressmen
-Networks
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Dan Rather
-Haldeman’s staff meeting
-Connally’s remarks
-Connally
-Ziegler’s remarks
-Hardin, other Cabinet members
-White House handling of press
-CBS story on Fletcher
-President’s demeanor at previous press conference
-Newsweek’s coverage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Ziegler’s view
-Connally’s remarks at Haldeman’s staff meeting
-President
-Public relations efforts
-Johnson
-Treatment of press
-Compared with President’s demeanor
-Next press conference Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Camera location in Oval Office
-President’s interviews
-Sulzberger
-Reasons for interview
-Support for Administration
-Foreign policy
-Questions at Ziegler’s briefing
-Acquaintance with President
-Philosophy at New York Times regarding Vietnam
-Oakes
-Reston
-Previous meetings with the President
-London
-Paris
-Vice Presidential years
-Purpose
-Influence of New York Times
-Effect
-Oakes and Reston
-Conditions
-President’s review of transcripts
-A 1968 post-election interview with James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-Sulzberger
-Sulzberger
-Note-taking
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-President’s statements regarding foreign policy
-Vietnam War
-US, Asia, Africa, Latin America
-Effect at New York Times
-Oakes and Reston
-President’s acquaintance
-Sulzberger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-J. W. Alsop
-Wilson
-Sulzberger
-Roscoe Drummond
-President’s interviews
-Use of quotes
-Backgrounders
-Contacts with President Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Previous week’s press conference
-Sulzberger interview
-Upcoming Oval Office press conference
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] interview
-Walters’ interview
-Moore’s philosophy
-Schorr’s story regarding Fletcher
-Possible call from Ziegler
-Richard S. Salant of CBS
-Supersonic transport [SST] story
Ziegler left at 1:15 pm
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