228–1

Conversation No. 228-1

Date: November 20, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:09 am and 11:16 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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

The recording began while the conversation was in progress.

Second term reorganization
-William L. Safire
-Plans
-Retention
-Book writing
-Slogans, speeches
-Treatment by administration
-Book writing
-Book writing
-Inside account
-Work with White House
-The President’s schedule
-Trust
-Publication
-Public interest
-Self-promotion
-Television [TV] interviews
-Safire’s experience
-Domestice and foreign policy knowledge
-Jewish background
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Comparison with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Work with White House
-Honesty
-Work with White House
-The President’s schedule
-Access to memoranda, notes
-Safire’s possible conversations with John B. Connally,
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Press relations

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:09 am.

Delivery of Life magazine

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

Second term reorganization
-Safire
-Book writing
-Richard A. Moore
-Work with White House
-Moore
-Kissinger
-Sales
-Work with the President
-Memoranda
-Dictaphone
-The President’s interview with Garnet D. (“Jack”) Horner
-Excerpts for press syndication
-Importance to administration
-Pre-1972 election period
-TV
-Post-1972 election period

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:09 am.

[Life cover] photograph
-Sanchez’s view

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

Life magazine
-Text
-Editorials
-Tone
-Pre 1972 election period
-Editor
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-Louis Banks
-[Ralph Graves]
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Comments on the President’s attitude
-Press relations
-Ivy League
-Kissinger

The President’s schedule
-Social events
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and [Patricia Antoinette (Fox) Haig]
-Purpose
-Cover
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Patricia Haig
-Counter-culture, art conversations
-Kissinger

Kissinger’s list
-Meeting with the President
-The President’s opponents
-Size

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Haig
-Timing
-[Camp David]
-Cabinet schedule

Second term reorganization
-Meetings
-John A. Volpe and George W. Romney
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Timing
-New York
-James D. Hodgson
-Hodgson
-Job offer
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Loyalty
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-Ambassadorship
-[Maria (Denend) Hodgson]
-1972 election
-Ambassadorship
-Maria Hodgson
-Committee for Industrial Peace post
-Leonard Garment
-Meeting with the President
-Commissions
-Bicentennial
-Italian-American [Volpe]
-Blacks
-Stanley S. Scott
-Retention
-Work with Garment
-Charles W. Colson’s office
-Title
-Socialist
-Garment
-White House staff
-Social functions
-Rank
-Garment
-Colson
-Michael P. Balzano
-William P. Rogers

The President’s schedule
-Possible meeting with Edward R. G. Heath
-Roger’s concern
-Timing
-Inauguration

Kissinger
-Possible trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Timing
-January 1973
-Need for restraint
-Statements
-Publicity
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-“Frankenstein”
-Mail operation
-Price
-Instruction for Haldeman
-The President’s schedule
-Lyndon B. Johnson letter
-Response
-The President’s reading
-The President’s dictation
-Rose Mary Woods
-Price
-Process
-Present conversation
-Haldeman’s notes
-Memorandum for the President’s file
-Dictation
-Reconstruction

Federal-state relations
-Democratic governors
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Illinois
-Ohio
-Pennsylvania
-Daniel Walker
-John J. Gilligan
-Milton J. Shapp
-Small states
-Mayors
-Administration allies
-Richard J. Daley
-Walker

Memoranda for the President’s file
-Kissinger memoranda
-The President’s library file
-Taping system
-Transcriptions
-Locations
-Oval Office
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-The President’s dictations
-Memoranda
-Topics
-Notes
-Value
-Transcriptions
-Woods
-Frequency
-Value
-Biographers
-Safire
-Quantity
-Kissinger’s memoranda
-First term
-Originals
-The President’s custody
-Copies
-Memoranda to the President
-Custody
-The President’s acquisition
-Kissinger’s assurance to Haldeman
-White House staff
-First term papers


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Republican Party
-Republican National Committee [RNC] chairmanship
-Robert J. Dole
-Removal
-John N. Mitchell
-Initiative
-Source
-House of Representatives, Senate
-Leadership
-1972 election defeats
-Blame
-Peter H. Dominick
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-Colson

1972 election
-New Hampshire votes
-The President’s victory
-Analysis
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-The President’s memorandum
-Compared to 1964 election
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Minority report
-Press relations
-Landslide
-Status of Republican Party
-Registered voters
-Significance of landslide
-Press
-Surprise
-Mood
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Press relations
-The President’s image
-News summary
-The President’s actions, courage
-John B. Connally
-Life photograph session with the President, November 7, 1972
-The President’s conversation with Ziegler
-[Harry Benson]
-Previous photograph session
-Mrs. Nixon
-Cover photograph
-Bobby Fischer
-Support for the President
-Cover photograph
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-Time
-Newsweek
-Motivation
-Response
-Colson’s office
-Letters
-Colson
-1972 campaign
-Endorsement of the President
-Editorial staff
-Opposition to the President
-Photograph editor
-Life and Time
-Ziegler
-Sidey
-Effect on public
-Hostility to administration
-Exclusion from White House
-Cover photograph
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-John Chancellor
-Compared to Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-The President’s instruction
-Sidey
-Conversations with Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-NBC
-White House selectivity
-Newsweek
-Arnaud de Borchgrave
-Possible interview with the President
-Support for the President
-Newsweek
-Jerrold L. Schecter
-Work with Kissinger
-Compared with Aldo B. (“Elbow”) Beckman
-Intelligence
-Jewish background
-Ziegler’s view
-Kissinger
-Buchanan
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-Safire
-Life cover photograph
-Response
-Colson’s office
-Letters
-Advertisers
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Possible telephone call
-General Electric [GE]
-American Motors Corporation [AMC]
-Unknown person
-Program
-Justin W. Dart [?]
-United Fund drives
-Sidey
-Edward C. Nixon
-Status
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Comments on White House staff
-Garment
-“Technicians”

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:09 am.

Memorandum
-Unknown woman
-Delivery to the President
-Typing instructions
-Location of typist

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

Second term reorganization
-Unknown woman
-Nellie L. Yates
-Work pace
-Marital status
-Patricia B. McKee
-Personality
-Intelligence
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-Beverly J. Kaye
-Loyalty
-State Department
-Tests
-The President’s forthcoming memoranda
-The President’s forthcoming memoranda
-Woods
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Woods
-Secretarial help
-Intelligence
-Loyalty
-Age
-Marital status
-Age
-Experience
-Marital status
-Work pace
-Loyalty
-Yates
-Age
-Work pace
-Intelligence
-Age
-Stamina
-Abstention from drinking
-Performance under pressure
-Loyalty
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Secretary to Stephen B. Bull [Kaye]
-Competence
-Bull
-Replacement
-Personality
-Advance man assignment
-Ronald H. Walker
-The President’s trips
-Protocol
-James J. Reynolds
-South American ambassadorship
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-Personality
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Commerce Department
-Anne L. Armstrong
-[Howard (“Bo”) Callaway]
-George P. Shultz
-Business Council
-Southerner
-Secretarial help
-[Kaye]
-Compared to Woods
-Mistakes
-Woods
-Competence
-Compared to past
-Other assignments
-McKee
-Dealings with people
-Compared to Haldeman
-Personal appearance
-Competence
-Loyalty
-Yates
-Travel
-Yates
-Husband

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-Travel
-California
-World trips
-Haldeman’s staff
-Woods
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Press relations
-Life and Time
-Exclusion from White House
-Sidey
-Sidey
-John F. Osborne
-Hostility to administration
-Balance
-Credibility
-Compared to Osborne
-Support for John F. Kennedy
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Intelligence
-Work with White House
-Sidey
-Syndicate
-Leak
-Inside stories
-Ziegler
-Relationship with White House
-Ziegler
-Intelligence
-“Heart”
-Sidey
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-[New York Times]
-“Heart” and intelligence
-Thimmesch
-Column
-Newsweek
-Sidey
-Relationship with Washington Post
-Editorial policy
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Sidey
-Exclusion from White House
-Kissinger
-Cut off of relations
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-White House operator

Second term reorganization
-Kissinger
-Departure
-Timing
-European Security Conference
-Arrangements
-Replacement
-Connally
-[Secretary of State]
-Effect on foreign policy
-Tone
-Connally
-Possible role
-Assistant President
-Political party exchange
-Timing
-December 9, 1972 meeting

The President’s schedule

The President’s notes
-Secretarial help
-Copies
-Distribution
-Unknown woman

The President let and entered at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

Public relations [PR]
-Rogers
-Possible assistance
-Memorandum
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Comments on the President’s management of the office
-Efficiency
-The President’s image
-Courage
-Kissinger’s role
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-Big events
-Personal warmth
-Compared to 1970
-White House staff perceptions
-Public opinion
-Surrogates
-Emphasis on the President’s personality (“Nixon the man”)
-Women surrogates
-Memorandum
-Ehrlichman reaction
-Possible supermarket appearance by the President
-Safire’s reaction
-Photograph opportunity
-White House staff work
-Memorandum
-Previous memorandum to Haldeman
-Result
-The President’s TV appearance
-Barbara Walters
-Long-term progress
-Public discourse
-The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-TV coverage
-Impact
-Press relations
-TV appearances
-Dan Rather
-TV coverage of the President’s activities
-Improvements
-Network TV appearances
-Press conferences, interviews
-Press conferences
-East Room
-Interviews
-Oval Office press conferences
-East Room
-White House staff
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)


Ziegler entered at 10:40 am.

Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-Review with the President
-Press pool

Press relations
-Press trailer
-Helen A. Thomas story
-Cost
-Mrs. Nixon’s recent conversation with the President
-Criticism
-Francis Lewine story
-Removal
-Lewine story
-Ziegler’s reaction
-Schedule delay
-Life cover photograph
-Ziegler’s view
-Sanchez’s view
-Display
-Photograph editor responsibility
-The President’s schedule
-Benson
-The President’s amd Mrs. Nixon’s previous photograph session with Life
-Ziegler’s response
-Recent conversation with [Jack Newcomb]
-The President’s schedule
-Benson
-White House contact with Life
-James C. Hagerty
-Benson
-Recent conversation with Newcomb
-Unknown woman
-Time, Newsweek
-White House contact with Life
-Sidey
-Returning telephone calls
-Osborne
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-Returning telephone calls
-Schecter
-Time
-Newsweek
-Henry Hubbard
-Schecter
-Kissinger
-Schecter
-Sidey
-Life
-Newsweek
-[Oriana Fallacci] interview
-Future interviews
-Clearances with Haldeman

Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-Second term reorganization
-Ehrlichman
-Story in Washington Star
-Veracity
-Stories on Kissinger
-The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Cabinet
-Washington Star story
-The President’s schedule
-Meetings with Cabinet
-Announcements
-Release
-Timing
-Cabinet
-Previous meeting with the President
-New ideas, approaches
-Impact of landslide
-Maintenance of momentum
-Cabinet
-Departments
-Size of government
-Reduction of personnel
-Timing
-Rethinking in bureaucracy
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-Meetings with the President
-Bureaucracies
-Analyses of departments
-Timing of announcements
-Anticipation
-The President’s schedule
-Meetings with Cabinet
-Kleindienst
-Defense issues
-Melvin L. Laird
-Departure
-Changes in assignments
-Value of officers
-New job offers
-Completion
-The President’s decisions
-Consideration of recommendations
-White House staff
-The President’s schedule
-Thanksgiving plans
-Camp David
-The President’s family

Second term reorganization
-George H. W. Bush
-Opposition to Treasury Department appointment
-Interest in Cabinet position
-Opposition to Walter E. Washington appointment
-Haldeman’s message to Bush
-Ehrlichman
-RNC job offer
-Laird
-Political significance

The President’s schedule
-Announcements
-Ehrlichman
-Dinner
-Ziegler
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

Press relations
-Life cover photograph
-Ziegler’s forthcoming telephone call to Life
-New York
-The President’s schedule
-Sensitivity
-Public reaction
-Telephone calls, letters
-Responsibility
-Editorial staff
-Opposition to the President
-Photograph department
-Tone

Ziegler left at 10:53 am.

Ziegler
-Press relations
-Tone

PR
-The President’s image
-Rogers’s conversation with Haldeman
-Advice on the President’s image
-Second term
-Management of office
-Qualities
-Skill, courage, boldness
-Personal warmth
-The President’s speech to [Los Angeles] Jewish [leaders at
the Beverly Hills Hotel, October 29, 1952]
-Reaction
-Personal warmth
-White House staff
-Moore
-Buchanan
-Rogers
-State Department
-Recommendations
-Receptions for the President at United Nations [September 18, 1969
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and October 23, 1970]
-Charles W.Yost
-White House staff
-Safire’s possible book
-John A. Andrews, Jr.
-Possible book
-Quality of writing
-William F. Gavin
-Lee W. Huebner
-Compared to Moynihan
-Moynihan
-Ideas, programs
-Possible meeting with Haldeman
-Technical issues
-Announcements
-Work load
-Appointments
-Pace
-Colson
-Value

Second term reorganization
-Colson’s role
-Forthcoming meeting
-Input
-Peter J. Brennan
-Labor Department
-Frederic V. Malek
-Transportation Department and Commerce Department recommendations
-Commerce Department
-Frederick B. Dent
-Transportation Department
-[Anne L. Armstrong]
-Howard (“Bo”) Callaway
-Ethnic
-John A. Scali
-UN job
-Italian-American background

Press relations
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-Kissinger’s interview with Fallaci
-The President’s handling
-Effect of article
-Compared to Maxine Cheshire’s articles
-Kissinger’s concern
-The President’s and Kissinger’s image
-Memorandum
-Rogers’s possible reading
-Haldeman’s possible rewrite


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-Roger E. Johnson

Edward C. Nixon
-Aide to the President
-Personality
-Compared to Rebozo, Roger Johnson
-Roger Johnson
-Intelligence
-Personality
-Mrs. Nixon

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-F. Donald Nixon
-Meeting with the President
-Florida
-Responsibilities
-Donald Nixon
-Relatives
-Donald McI. Kendall’s associates
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-Telephone calls
-Nepotism
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Attorney General
-Abilities
-Campaign activities
-Surrogate

Nixon Foundation

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White House staff
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-First Lady’s office
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie) Stuart
-Retention
-Haldeman’s handling
-Mrs. Nixon’s chief of staff
-Abilities
-Intelligence
-Personality

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Nixon Foundation
Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman
-Handling of Presidential papers
-Announcement
-Work with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Loie Gant
-Signal to archives
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)


John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Use by White House
-The President’s request for a report
-Colson
-Hosts
-Number of seats

The President’s schedule
-[Meeting with Bush, Ehrlichman]

The President talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 10:53 am and
11:10 am.

[See Conversation No. 155-12]

[Conversation No. 228-1A]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Bush
-Ehrlichman

The President talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 10:53 am and
11:10 am.

[See Conversation No. 155-13]

[Conversation No. 228-1B]

[End of telephone conversation]

Second term reorganization
-Military aide office
-Changes

The President talked with Ehrlichman between 11:10 am and 11:11 am.

[See Conversation No. 155-14]
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)


[Conversation No. 228-1C]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule

Nixon Foundation
-Jo Anne Haldeman
-Job

Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 11:11 am.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Bush
-Location

Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 11:16 am.

Nixon Foundation
-Jo Anne Haldeman
-Volunteer job
-Pay
-Purpose
-[Yorba Linda] property sale
-Plans
-Ehrlichman
-F. Edward Hebert
-Timing
-Congress
-Standards of Official Conduct Committee
-Hebert
-The President’s schedule
-California
-Christmas
-Tour
-House
-Possible donation
-[Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox]
-Mrs. Nixon
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Conversation No. 228-1 (cont’d)

-Market price
-Appraisers
-Value

Second term reorganization
-Problems
-Dole

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:16 am.