620–1

Conversation No. 620-1

Date: November 17, 1971
Time: 8:45 am - 9:55 am
Location: Oval Office

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

Henry A. Kissinger
-Le Duc Tho
-Health
-Meeting with Ronald W. Reagan
-Haldeman
-Time
-Location
-Roosevelt Room

Invitations to White House Dinners
-Rose Mary Woods
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Charles W. Colson
-Activities
-Butterfield
-Frederic V. Malek
-Views
-Colson
-Woods
-Josip Broz Tito Dinner
-Butterfield's memorandum
-Haldeman
-The President’s instruction
-Japanese Dinner
-Cabinet attendance
-The President's conversations with Butterfield and Woods
-Butterfield's conversation with Colson
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White House staff
-Butterfield, Dwight L. Chapin, Lawrence M. Higby and Stephen B. Bull
-Female staff members
-Woods
-Haldeman
-Female staff members


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-Conversation with the President
-Butterfield
-Butterfield
-Memorandum
-Woods
-Haldeman
-Conversation with the President
-Schedule
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Schedule
-Acker
-The President’s forthcoming State of the Union address
-Acker
-Nellie L. Yates
-Woods
-Butterfield
-Conversation with the President
-Butterfield
-Invitations to White House Dinners
-Cabinet
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-Woods
-Colson
-Views regarding the President's schedule
-The President's friends
-Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman

Oval Office
-Decor
-Windows
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon


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-Curtains
-Secret Service

White House
-Redecoration

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-Fountain
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-Rooms
-Family
-Public
-Red
-Diplomatic reception
-Green
-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Wives


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-[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt and Bess (Wallace) Truman


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The President's possible speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Noel C. Koch
-Colson
-Colson
-Possible release to press
-Requirements
-James D. Hodgson
-News summary
-John D. Ehrlichman's views
-Alternatives
-Colson
-George Meany
-Draft
-Quoted
-White House staff's views
-Colson
-Ehrlichman's contacts
-Hodgson
-Willie J. Usery
-Possible content
-Labor support
-Cambodia
-The President’s comments of November 16, 1971
-Ehrlichman

Speechwriters
-Ehrlichman’s efforts

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-The President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-Value

The President's schedule
-Reagan
-AFL-CIO convention
-Pay Board
-Retroactivity
-Vote
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David N. Parker
-Mrs. Nixon's schedule

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
-Conversation with Parker
-Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Events

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Colson's views
-George P. Shultz
-Value
-Symbolism
-Meany
-Teamsters, clerks, construction workers
-Support
-Meany
-The President’s possible reception
-Unknown man's views
-Phase II
-Dock strike
-Steel settlement
-Timing
-Others' speeches
-Meany
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Tallahassee
-Possible announcement of candidacy for President
-Timing
-Television
-The President's schedule
-Connally
-Draft
-Content
-Writing
-Colson and Koch
-Colson's material
-Length
-Content
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-Labor
-Administration actions,
-Phase II
-Omissions
-The President's schedule

The President’s schedule
-Reagan

Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger


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-Possible Administration handling


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Reagan
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Compared to Patrick J. Buchanan
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-Former position
-Polls
-Economy and taxes
-Student demonstrations
-State income tax problems
-Political style

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Content
-Hodgson
-“Laundry list” of accomplishments
-Phase II
-Phraseology


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Connally's previous speech
-Haldeman's possible call

The President's schedule
-Connally

Woods
-Haldeman
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Invitations to White House Dinners
-Haldeman's conversation with Butterfield
-Willy Brandt
-Christmas
-Woods

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-William R. Codus's role
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Kissinger
-W. Marshall Wright
-Constance M. Stuart
-John V. Brennan
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Compared to Bill [Surname unknown]

Mosbacher
-The President's foreign trips
-Duties
-Social functions
-Camp David
-Blair House
-Patricia R. Mosbacher

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:45 am

Delivery of information

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

Thailand
-Thanom Kittikachorn's coup
-Purpose

Herbert Stein
-Health
-Possible call from the President
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Peterson
-Schedule
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Foreign trips
-Cabinet
-1972
-1973

Cabinet
-John A. Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Hodgson
-Peterson


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-William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Resignations after 1972 election
-Volpe
-Possible ambassadorship
-Possible second term
-Recruiting
-The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's role
-Meetings
-Members' roles
-Administering departments
-Policy
-Goal

White House staff
-Congressional liaison
-The President's conversation with Mitchell
-Clark MacGregor
-Kissinger
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Harlow
-Approach
-Views regarding the President's schedule
-Gerald R. Ford
-Margaret M. Heckler
-Ehrlichman and Connally
-MacGregor and William E. Timmons

MacGregor

George H. W. Bush

Cabinet
-Requirements
-Walter J. Hickel, George W. Romney and Volpe
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Reagan
-Possible role with administration
-The President’s conversation with Mitchell
-Experience

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Possible role with administration
-Defense Department
-Compared to State Department

Cabinet
-Laird and Rogers
-Rogers
-Mitchell's views
-Kissinger
-Compared to Kissinger
-Meeting
-John A. Scali
-The President's conversation with Mitchell
-Calls to Agnew, Mitchell, Haldeman
-The President's role
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John Foster Dulles
-Rogers
-Compared with Mitchell
-Rogers
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Forthcoming decision
-Draft
-Content
-Work
-Meany
-Foreign policy
-Accomplishments
-Phase II
-Connally's schedule

The President's schedule
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-Dedication of Eisenhower Hospital
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Plans
-Timing of announcements
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Stuart
-Mrs. Nixon


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-California
-Tricia Nixon and Edward R. F. Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Christmas
-Florida
-Mrs. Nixon's trip
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-State of the Union speech
-Brandt
-Mrs. Nixon's trip
-The President’s forthcoming remarks

Haldeman left at 9:55 am.