834–22

Conversation No. 834-22

Date: January 5, 1973
Time: 4:55 pm - 5:29 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Ehrlichman's meetings

White House staff
-Press
-John F. Osborne
-Moves to departments
-Cabinet officers

Reorganization
-Success

Congressional breakfast
-Vietnam remarks
-Ehrlichman's evaluation
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Negotiations

Kissinger
-Role in negotiations

Attacks of Congress regarding Vietnam
-Reporter's question for wire services
-Dean Grisher
-Public support
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-Campaign issue
-Popular mandate in election
-Joan Baez, William Coffin, Edward W. Brooke

Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Negotiations
-The President's approach

The President's briefing regarding Vietnam
-Presentation techniques
-Explanation of policy
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Negotiations
-North Vietnamese
-Cambodia, Laos
-Kissinger's approach
-Bombing civilian areas
-North Vietnamese attacks on civilians
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Double standard
-Civilian areas of South Vietnam
-Visit by Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz

Congress
-Attacks on President
-Budget cuts
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Necessity
-Inflationary tendencies

Reorganization
-Farm programs
-Earl L. Butz
-Opposition
-Limestone Institute
-Corporate landowners
-Disaster relief
-Loopholes, abuses
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-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Caspar W. Weinberger

Congress
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Shultz
-Advice for President

Posters by Washington Redskins
-Drug program
-George H. Allen
-Lawrence (“Larry”) Brown, Jr.
-Billy Kilmer
-Christian A. (“Sonny”) Jurgensen
-Schools
-Boys Clubs
-Action shots
-Bureau of Narcotics
-Question of citation for Redskins
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Rose Bowl football game
-University of Southern California [USC]
-Ohio State
-Players of USC
-Linemen

Henry Kissinger entered at 5:15 pm.

Meeting with Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford

Canadians
-Resolutions regarding bombing
-Vietnam
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-US ambassador
-Trade relations
-Shultz
-Michelin tires
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British

French
-Maurice Schumann

Redskins posters
-Kissinger's apartment

W. Kenneth Riland
-Trip to England
-Travel with Kissinger

Attitude toward The President
-Canadians
-Reasons for resolutions
-Trudeau

Destruction in South Vietnam
-List by Col. Kennedy
-Double standard
-Canadian Parliament
-Foreign Minister
-Mitchell Sharpe
-Trudeau

Negotiations on Vietnam
-Technical meeting
-Subjects
-Canadian resolution

Congressional resolution
-Effect on negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu

Kissinger's meeting with Vietnamese envoys
-Tran Van Dong, Bui Diem
-Le Duc Tho's intentions

Press
-Criticism
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Congressional resolution
-North Vietnamese responses

Canadian resolution on bombing
-Response
-Trudeau
-Canadian-American relations

Kissinger's meetings with Congressmen
-William E. Timmons
-International Control Commission

Kissinger left at 5:25 pm.

Resolutions
-Effects
-Kissinger
-Compared to Ehrlichman
-Canadians, Italians, Scandinavians
-North Vietnamese response
-Le Duc Tho

Shultz
-Canadians

Christmas bombing in Vietnam
-Impact
-Costs of settlement
-Destruction of North Vietnam
-“Honorable end” to the war

Ehrlichman left at 5:29 pm.