484–4

Conversation No. 484-4

Date: April 21, 1971
Time: 11:18 am - 11:34 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. Haldeman.
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The President's schedule
-Meeting with ping-pong team
-John A. Scali
-Ronald L. Ziegler

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 11:18 am

-Scali

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 11:22 am

Scali
-Columbia Broadcasting Systems [CBS] news story
-Marvin L. Kalb
-People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger
-State Department
-Rogers
-View regarding Rogers-Kissinger relationship
-Note to Haldeman, April 21, 1971
-Robert J. McCloskey and Ziegler

The President's PRC initiative
-Scali's view
-Rogers and Kissinger
-Implementation
-State Department
-Rogers
-Scali
-Haldeman's conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger's conversation with Scali

Scali
-Role
-Views on PRC specialists
-Camp David
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Views on the President's positions
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-Demonstrations
-Views
-Charles W. Colson

The President's PRC initiative
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-Christian Science Monitor Editorial Conv. No. 484-4 (cont.)
-Quoted
-Kissinger
-Attribution of credit
-Attribution of credit
-Scali's possible initiatives
-Editorials
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Ziegler entered at 11:22 am

-CBC News Story
-Ziegler's possible conversation with Scali
-State Department

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Graham B. Steenhoven
-Use of term ping-pong
-Preference for term “table tennis”
-Photo session
-Ziegler
-Scali
-Press
-Timing
-Steenhoven's age
-Press

Supreme Court decision
-Integration issue
-President's meeting with John N. Mitchell
-Implementation
-Richard A. Moore
-Administration's position
-”Benign neglect”
-Ziegler's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
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-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Ziegler's possible press statement
-Ziegler’s press conference, April 20, 1971
-Haldeman's staff meeting
-Leonard Garment

Press stories
-Table tennis team Conv. No. 484-4 (cont.)
-Foreign assistance message
-Peter G. Peterson

Agnew's statement on PRC
-Washington Post story, April 21, 1971
-Possible press queries
-President’s response
-Ziegler's possible statement
-State Department
-CBS news story
-Kalb
-Scali
-President's initiatives
-Kissinger
-Kalb
-Trade-off
-Story
-Rogers

Ziegler left at 11:27 am
Rogers
-Schedule
-Trip
-Meeting with the President, April 22, 1971
-Relations with Kissinger
-Attribution of credit
-Kissinger
-Attribution of credit
-State Department
-Instructions for Scali

Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger’s dinner with Haldeman and George P. Shultz
-Theodore White
-Shultz
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-Unknown story
-Weinberger's relations with Shultz
-Jane Weinberger
-Helena (“Obie”) Shultz
-White's remarks regarding the President's PRC policy
-Previous conversations with the President
-Book on PRC
-Expertise Conv. No. 484-4 (cont.)
-Circulation of remarks

PRC
-President's conversations with different persons
-Rogers
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-State Department
-Position
-President's conversation with White in 1968
-White's support for the President
-John F. Kennedy

John B. Connally

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:27 am

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Steenhoven

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:34 am

Connally
-Haldeman's conversation, April 20, 1971
-Meeting with the President, April 22, 1971
-Texas

Texas drought
-President's memorandum
-Ehrlichman
-Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr.
-George A. Lincoln
-Clifford M. Hardin
-President's conversation with Harry S. Dent
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Hardin
-Possible reassignment
-Bryce H. Harlow
-Schedule
-Purdue
-John C. Whitaker
-Tenure
-Rogers Conv. No. 484-4 (cont.)
-Career aspirations
-Possible ambassadorial appointment

Harlow
-Possible reassignment
-Secretary of Agriculture
-National chairman
-Placement
-Dent's view
-Qualifications
-Speaking

Haldeman left at 11:34 am