661–3

Conversation No. 661-3

Date: January 31, 1972
Time: Unknown between 3:51 pm and 4:00 pm
Location: Oval Office
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 661-2 (cont.)


The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Signing of documents

White House meeting with governors
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew role
-Cocktails in Blue Room
-Reception
-Agenda
-William G. Milliken role
-Number of guests
-Ronald W. Reagan role
-Nelson A. Rockefeller role
-Linwood Holton role
-Seating
-Rex W. Scouten
-Table configuration
-Cabinet attendance
-Other guests
-Harry S. Dent
-Robert J. Dole
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Press attendance

Deaths of policemen [Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie]
-Details
-Funeral arrangements
-Representative of the President
-Possibilities
-General Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-John V. (“Jack”) Brennan
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Charles W. Colson
-Cushman
-Wreaths
-Location of shootings
-New York
-Harlem
-Bedford-Stuyvesant
-Age of policemen
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 661-3 (cont.)


-Funeral
-Timing
-Cushman attendance at funeral
-Brennan

Ronald L. Ziegler entered and Butterfield left at 3:55 pm.

Press relations
-Representation on PRC trip
-Patrick J. Buchanan

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and
3:57 pm and requested a telephone call to Robert McClory.]

[Conversation No. 661-3A]

[See Conversation No. 20-4]

[End of telephone conversation]

Press representation on People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Ziegler’s talks with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Henry A. Kissinger
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Holmes Alexander
-Buckley
-Buchanan’s view
-Benefits
-Feeling toward administration
-Influence
-Kissinger
-Haldeman view
-Kissinger view
-Possible Chinese reaction

[The President talked with McClory between 3:57 pm and 3:58 pm.]

[Conversation No. 661-3B]

[See Conversation No. 20-5; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 661-3 (cont.)



Press representation on PRC trip
-Buchanan’s reaction
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Alexander
-Buckley
-US Information Agency [USIA] representative
-Reporter
-Buchanan view

Telephone call to Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Release for news
-Ehrlichman
-Earlier question to Ziegler
-Content of call
-Welfare reform
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Russell B. Long, Wallace F. Bennett
-Strategy
-The President’s support for legislation
-News summary
-Reason for call
-Advisory
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming talk with Richardson
-Strategy with Ribicoff, Long, Bennett
-Ziegler’s possible telephone call to Ehrlichman

Ziegler left at 4:00 pm.