661–11

Conversation No. 661-11

Date: January 31, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:49 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Welfare
-Recent meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan

Environmental efforts
-Russell E. Train
-Laurance S. Rockefeller
-Conference
-Location
-San Clemente
-Park at Point Reyes
-Timing
-Point Reyes
-Weather in San Francisco

The President’s schedule
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-Gridiron Dinner
-Election year
-Reasons for attendance
-Edgar Allan Poe
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Charles G. “(Bebe”) Rebozo
-Benefits
-Piano duet
-Remarks
-Post-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip decision
-Easter parade
-Meeting with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Breakfast
-Haldeman role
-Topics
-Politics
-The President’s forthcoming telephone call to Apollo 15 crew
-Astronaut’s schedule
-Washington, DC
-Tour of communist countries
-Yugoslavia, Poland
-David R. Scott
-James B. Irwin
-Alfred M. Worden
-Previous telephone call
-Good will tour of communist countries
-Visit to White House
-Promise of dinner
-PRC trip
-Weekend at Camp David

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 5:13 pm.

Vietnam negotiations
-Public perception
-Harry Schwartz of New York Times
-Harrison E. Salisbury
-New Republic article
-View of Nixon strategy
-North Vietnamese reaction
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-Publishing of nine points
-Variations
-US reaction
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Comparison of versions
-Andre Malraux’s meeting with the president
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
-The President’s impression
-Publishing of Anti-memoirs (1967)
-Malraux’s possible future meeting with the President
-Timing
-Forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Setting up
-Charles Lucet
-Public relations
-China scholars
-Value of meeting the president
-Public relations
-Benefits
-Malraux qualifications
-Dinner
-Guest list
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Marshall Green
-Lucet
-Malraux
-Scholarship
-Family background
-Jewish contacts
-Alsace
-Timing

PRC trip
-State Department experts
-Papers
-Leaks
-Rogers’s involvement
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Tape Subject Log
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-The President’s meeting with State Department officials
-Papers
-Green
-Papers
-Gratitude
-Appearance compared to substance
-Timing
-Value
-Progress of papers
-Rogers’s role in planning
-Exposure to text of PRC meetings
-Edited copies
-Memoranda
-Soviet trip preparations
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-North Vietnamese meetings text
-Proposals
-Leaks
-Source
-Rogers’s view
-Progress on papers
-Background work
-Cancelled meeting
-The President’s role
-Substance of meetings
-Study of written word
-Questions
-State Department role
-The President’s role
-Meeting with paper authors
-Use of papers
-Timing
-Reading list

Schwartz letter to Kissinger
-Jack N. Anderson
-View of New York Times of administration
-Vietnam
-Editorial policy
-Response by Kissinger
-Schwartz’s visit to Kissinger, January 31, 1972
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Tape Subject Log
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-Editorial views
-Salisbury
-Publication of diverse views

Vietnamese negotiations
-Reaction by the President’s domestic opponents
-Revelations by North Vietnamese
-October 11, 1971 plan
-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Details
-Troop withdrawals for Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Press conference
-Use by Kissinger
-Note from the US
-Request for meeting
-Nine point plan
-Ziegler rebuttal
-Kissinger rebuttal
-Comparison of versions
-June 26, 1971
-Kissinger’s rebuttal
-October 11 proposal
-Withdrawal for POWs
-Ceasefire
-Michael J. Mansfield view
-Liberals
-Separation of military and political
-Rebuttal
-New York Times article
-Terence F. Smith
-Comparison of the President’s proposals to Lyndon B. Johnson proposal at
Manila
-Max Frankel
-Johnson’s proposal
-US withdrawal
-Timing
-Compared to the President’s proposal
-Withdrawal
-Timing
-Manila formula
-Kissinger’s recommendation to the President
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-Timing
-Ford’s Theatre
-Simultaneous mutual withdrawal
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-William P. Bundy’s view
-Australia
-Rebuttal
-Frankel
-Smith
-Error
-Stewart J.O. Alsop article
-Support for the President
-Establishment
-Democrats
-Katharine L. Graham’s telephone call to Kissinger
-Editorial policy
-Alsop’s previous telephone call to Graham
-Frankel
-Possible invitation to PRC
-Forthcoming telephone call from Kissinger
-Details of proposals
-Johnson
-Manila formula
-Conditions
-North Vietnamese withdrawal
-Vietcong
-Ceasefire
-US withdrawal
-Lack of deadline
-New York Times article
-Content
-Support for the President
-Editorial, January 30, 1972

Malraux dinner
-Timing

Malraux
-Qualifications
-Compared to China scholars
-The President’s previous meeting in Paris
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-French
-Writings
-Les Voix Du Silence (1951)
-Health
-Writings about the Long March

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
-Possible meeting with the President
-Public relations
-Relationship with liberals
-View of Soviet Union
-Dobrynin
-Effect on the Chinese
-Schedule
-New York
-Timing

National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Attendance
-John B. Connally
-Timing
-Testimony

Yevtushenko meeting, February 3, 1972
-White House Conference on Drug Abuse
-Athletes
-Reception

Alsop
-Support for the President
-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Effect on Establishment
-Remarks at dinner at W[illiam] Averell Harriman’s residence
-Forthcoming article
-Possible effect

Vietnam negotiations
-Democratic reactions
-Public relations
-October 1970 proposals
-North Vietnamese reaction
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 661-11 (cont.)


-Special circumstances
-Democrats’ tactics
-Congress
-Kissinger’s possible talk with Michael J. Mansfield
-Later PRC trip
-North Vietnam ‘s reaction to peace proposals
-Details of US proposals
-William J. Porter
-Kissinger’s talk with Alsop
-North Vietnam’s reaction to November 20, 1971 meeting proposal
-Possible reason
-Congress’s shutoff of foreign aid
-June, August 1971 offers
-North Vietnamese press conference
-Tone
-Substance
-Secrecy
-Difference between public and private stances
-Media coverage
-Kissinger press conference
-Ziegler

The President’s schedule
-Malraux

Kissinger left at 5:48 pm.

PRC trip
-Meeting between the President and State Department experts
-Value
-Timing
-Study of papers

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:49 pm.