847–5

Conversation No. 847-5

Date: February 2, 1973
Time: 9:39 am - 10:33 am
Location: Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-Edward R. G. Heath

Press relations
-Media reaction to cease-fire
-News summary
-Editorials and columns
-Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times
-White House preparation
-The President’s press conference
-Report
-Donald W. Riegle, Jr. [?]
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Attach the media
-Public opinion
-Commentators
-Public resent interpretation
-Letters to editors
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-Celebrate peace
-Vermont Royster
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Mailing
-Charles Crutchfield
-White House press conference
-Accuracy in media
-Credibility
-Edith Efron
-Book
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Analysis
-Vietnam
-Bombing
-Kissinger’s role
-Kissinger’s claims of recommendations to the President
-Peoples Republic of China [PRC]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-“Peace with Honor”
-Importance
-US position in the world
-John A. Scali
-Kissinger’s handling of questions
-Future interviews
-Kalb
-Today Show
-Press skills
-Richard Nixon
-Herbert Klein
-Elizabeth R. Drew
-Press skills
-Herbert Klein
-Colson
-Patrick J. (“Pat”) Buchanan
-Howard K. Smith
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-Discussions of the President
-Vietnam settlement
-The President’s courage
-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-News summary
-Far right publication
-William Loeb
-Manchester Union Leader
-Smith Hempstone, Jr.
-Korea
-Holmes Alexander
-William P. Rogers
-Paul Miller
-Nobel Peace Prize
-New York Times editorial
-Royster
-Harry Reasoner
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Column
-Kissinger
-Kissinger as “hawk”
-The President as “dove”
-Rogers
-Nobel Peace Prize
-Willy Brandt
-Kissinger
-New York Times
-Reasoner
-Nobel Peace Prize
-The President
-Kissinger
-Nobel Peace Prize
-The President, Kissinger
-The President’s acceptance
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-Sweden
-Rogers, Miller
-The President’s nomination
-Kissinger
-Support for the prize
-Jews
-New York Times
-Kissinger
-Hanoi
-Substantive questions
-Television [TV]
-Vietnam
-The President’s handling
-Personal character
-Kalb interview
-Process
-Implications
-Audience
-Dull
-Kissinger’s performance
-Reasoner
-John A. Scali
-Confirmation
-John B. Connally, Peter J. Brennan, Klein, Buchanan
-Capital Hill
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Jews, liberals
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-State Department
-Vietnam settlement
-The President
-Perspective
-News summary
-Sindlinger
-Popular opinion of the President
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-Inflation
-John C. Stennis
-Crime
-Blacks
-Vietnam settlement
-Kissinger
-Prayer breakfast
-Vietnam
-CBS
-Dan Rather
-Criticism of media
-Sustain
-Reactions
-Public
-Network news
-The President’s press conference
-Kalb interview
-December bombing
-Summaries of the President’s press conferences
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-Administration’s attitude toward press
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Ronald L. Zieglar
-Clay T. (“Tom”) Whitehead
-Royster’s columns
-Compared to the President’s statements
-“Peace with honor”
-“New Majority”
-President’s press conference
-Rather
-Depiction of the President at press conference
-Sindlinger
-Depiction of the President at press conference
-Robert Boyd
-“New Majority”
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-Class war
-Rather
-Ziegler
-Colson

Amnesty
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Support for the President
-William E. Timmons
-Republican “Doves”
-Amendment to legislation
-Vote
-Peace Corps
-House of Representatives
-Senate
-Mark O. Hatfield

Public relations
-Vietnam settlement
-Critics of the Administration
-The President’s letters
-Congressmen
-Senators
-Officials connected with Vietnam
-Haig’s list
-Draft of letter
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-[First name unknown] Walsh
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-Bombing
-Duration
-Dispute
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-Edward R. G. Heath
-Not talk about bombing
-Achieve objectives with Vietnamese
-Kissinger’s press conference
-Chicago Tribune
-Buffalo News

Press conferences
-Frequency
-Wisdom of keeping quiet
-Attack mode
-Press

Amnesty
-Timmons
-Republican
-Support for the President
-House of Representatives
-“Doves”

Congressional relations
-Legislation
-Washington Post
-Vetoes
-The President’s possible appearance on TV
-Deficit
-Watergate
-Washington Post story
-Dwight L. Chapin, Herbert W. Kalmbach, Donald H. Segretti
-Edward M. Kennedy’s subcommittee
-Budget
-Press coverage
-Washington Post, Washington Star, New York Times
-Repackage old stories
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Hearings announcement
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-Books
-1972 election result

Congress
-Control issues
-Poor
-Malnutrition
-Taxes
-Public’s concern
-Stennis’s shooting
-Busing
-Amnesty
-Amnesty
-West Point captain
-Canada
-End of draft
-Arrest
-Morality
-Compassion
-Individual basis
-Liberals
-Conscientious objectors
-Veteran’s benefits
-Legal
-National attitudes
-Congress
-Education, model cities, health care, Medicare
-Sindlinger
-Capital punishment
-Stennis’s view
- President’s view
-Coincide with public
-Influence the public
-Compared to 1960s
-School lunches
-Horror stories
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-John W. Warner
-Daughter
-Press question
-Day Care
-Poor and elderly
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Congress’s constituency
-Special interests
-President’s constituency
-Public interest
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Special interests versus public interests
-Prices
-Taxes
-Presidential speech
-Domestic Council
-Mail
-Ehrlichman
-Price
-Speech writing

Peace Corps
-Henry Fairlie’s book
-British Liberal
-Humphrey
-George P. Shultz
-Junket
-Against the US
-“New Majority”
-Drugs
-Homosexuality

Political message
-Controversy
-Excitement
-Price
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-Consensus
-Compassion
-Controversy
-The President’s press conference
-Buchanan
-Create excitement
-Kissinger’s interview
-Ziegler’s assessment
-Objectivity
-Dullness
-President’s previous press conference
-Reportage
-Rather
-The public’s perception of the President
-TV coverage
-Controversy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:39 am.

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.

The public’s perception of the President
-Pubic expectations
-Petulance
-Toughness
-Jules J. Whitcover

Haldeman and Colson left at 10:33 am.