229–11

Conversation No. 229-11

Date: November 21, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:25 am and 10:35 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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

The President's schedule
-November 24, 1972
-Dr. William O. Chase
-George W. Romney, John A. Volpe
-Possible delay


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-Dentist
-Haircut
-Trip to New York
-Dentist

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The President talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 9:25 am and
9:28 am.

[Conversation No. 229-11A]

[See Conversation No. 155-24]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Haircut
-Meeting with Volpe
-Preparations
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-Meeting with John [D. Ehrlichman]
-Meeting with Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Meeting with Ehrlichman

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods between 9:28 am and 9:32 am.

[See Conversation No. 155-25]

[Conversation No. 229-11B]

[End of telephone conversation]

Second term reorganization
-Rumsfeld
-Recent meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman
-White House staff
-Job offers
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Plans
-Recent meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman

The President's schedule
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Recent telephone call to the President
-Possible telephone call from the President
-Visit toWashington, DC
-Shoreham Hotel
-Purpose
-Haldeman’s recent conversation with Hope
-Possible meeting with the President
-Hope’s possible trip to the People’s Republic of China
[PRC]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible telephone call from the President
-Trip to Camp David
-Dinner
-Timing
-November 21, 1972
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-Transportation
-Helicopter
-November 22, 1972
-Meetings
-White House staff
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Barry M.Goldwater
-James D. Hodgson
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-David M. Kennedy
-William L. Safire
-Robert J.Dole


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Republican National Committee [RNC] Chairmanship
-Dole’s replacement
-Press coverage
-George H.W. Bush
-Call to Ehrlichman
-Job Offer
-Barbara Bush
-Change from United Nations [UN]
-John N. Mitchell
-Haldeman’s conversation with Mitchell
-Mitchell’s support for Bush
-Talking points
-Dole
-Mitchell
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Removal
-Rationale
-Full-time chairman
-Telephone calls
-Charles W. Colson
-Harlow
-Mitchell
-Lee R. Nunn
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-Congressional Campaign Committees
-Press coverage
-Mitchell’s advice
-Timing
-Meeting with the President
-Bush
-Acceptance of offer
-Announcement
-Dole
-Removal
-Pressure
-Gerald R. Ford
-Hugh Scott
-William E. Timmons

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Second term reorganization
-Meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Cabinet
-Sub-Cabinet
-Lower-level appointments
-Frederic V. Malek
-The President's schedule
-Herbert Stein
-Herbert G. Klein
-Councils
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Unknown person
-Russell E. Train
-David
-Cabinet appointments
-Departures
-Incoming appointees
-Volpe
-Meeting with the President
-Preparation
-Ehrlichman
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-John N. Mitchell
-Possible argument for retention
-Rumsfeld
-Recent meeting with President
-Rumsfeld’s previous meeting Ehrlichman
-Plans
-Job offers
-European Economic Community [EEC]
-Peter G. Peterson
-Ambassadorship
-Secretary of the Navy
-Cabinet post
-Duration
-Transition

The President talked with Woods between 9:43 am and 9:48 am.

[Conversation No. 229-11C]

[See Conversation No. 155-26; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]


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The President’s schedule
-Dentist
-Barber

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Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:48 am. and 10:35 am.

[Conversation No. 229-11D]

-Hope
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-Meeting with the President
-Timing
-Trip to Camp David
-Transportation
-Helicopter
[End of telephone conversation]

The President's image
-Kindness
-William P. Rogers
-Rumsfeld
-Recent meeting with the President
-Richard M. Helms

Second term reorganization
-Helms
-[Ambassadorship to Iran]
-Rumsfeld
-Recent meeting with the President
-Agenda
-Senate race
-Foreign travel
-Ehrlichman
-Senate race
-Possible problems
-Unknown book

Soviet Union
-Message from Anatoliy Dobrynin to Henry A. Kissinger in Paris
-Possible trip by Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox
-Timing
-Forthcoming message
-Soviet Union position on Vietnam

Vietnam negotiations
-Message from Kissinger
-Re-typing
-Summary
-Tone
-Kissinger’s conversation with Le Duc Tho
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
-Proposed changes
-Number
-Cease-fire
-Timing
-Laos, Cambodia
-Military action
-Settlement agreement
-Timing
-Schedule
-Current status
-Kissinger message
-Dealings with Le Duc Tho
-[log within “Kissinger’s conversations….”]
-Proposed changes
-Request for US assurances
-Hanoi, Moscow, Peking
-North Vietnam’s reaction of inflexibility, ultimatum
-Continuation of War
-Duration
-Later meeting
-Report


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1972 election
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Monographs
-New York Times
-Harrison E. Salisbury
-Op-ed
-“Dirtiest Campaign Ever”
-Reliability

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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

1973 Inauguration
-Pavilion
-Design
-Contractor
-Modern design
-The President’s view
-1969 design
-Haldeman’s view
-Origins
-Nancy Hanks, Leonard Garment
-Competition
-Metropolitan Washington chapters of American Institute of
Architects [AIA]
-Jury selection
-Winner
-Winner
-Possible Conflict
-Washington chapter of AIA
-Jury selection
-Rejection
-J. Willard (“Bill”) Marriott, Jr.
-The President's role
-Selection of design
-Planning
-Capitol building
-Acceptance
-The President’s disapproval
-Modification
-Possible conflict
-Traditional design
-Expense
-Possible conflict
-Acceptance
-The President’s disapproval

Modern art
-National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH]
-Garment
-Hanks
-Budget art
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)


Bicentennial Commission
-Frank Stanton
-Attitude toward administration
-Public statements

Second term Reorganization Commission
-Stein
-Meeting with the President
-Shultz
-Meeting with Pierre Rinfret
-Rinfret’s possible role
-Rinfret’s work in 1972 campaign
-Stein
-Rinfret
-Garment
-The President's old friends
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Klein
-Treatment
-Garment
-Work for law firm Mudge, Stern, Baldwin and Todd
-1963 salary
-1964, 1966
-Rinfret
-1972 campaign
-Campaign work
-Compared to Flanigan
-1960, 1968 campaign
-Finances
-Flanigan
-Assistant to the President
-Title
-Special consultant to the President
-Salary
-Compared to Flanigan
-Status
-Automobile
-Change in office
-Title
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-Flanigan
-Flanigan
-Office location
-Executive office building [EOB]
-West Wing
-John C. Whitaker
-Loyalty
-Garment
-Treatment
-Travel
-Title
-Original intention
-Kitchen cabinet
-Rank
-Salary

The President's schedule
-The President’s letter to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dictation

Second term reorganization
-Meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Frederick B. Dent
-Peterson
-Schultz
-Peterson
-Plans
-Commerce Department
-Departure
-Contributions to administration
-Loyalty
-Relationship with Charles H. Percy
Press relations
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Possible meeting with the President
-Effect on book


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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

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-RNC
-Dole
-Colson

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Second term reorganization
-George D. Webster
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] appointment
-John A. Scali
-United Nations [UN] ambassadorship
-Appointment
-Erhlichman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Intelligence
-Possible conflicts with Kissinger
-Controversy
Press relations
-Kissinger
-Vietnam negotiations
-Secret meetings
-Time
-Life
-[Exclusion from White House]
-Man of the year award
-Time Man of the Year award
-Possible interview
-The President’s accomplishments
-PRC trip
-May 8, 1972
-Soviet Union trip
-1972 campaign
-Vietnam negotiations
-1971
-The President’s interview
-Cooperation
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-Interviews
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Roger's view
-Oriana Fallacci, November 2 and 4, 1972
-Time Man of the Year award
-Announcement
-Timing
-The President
-Two-time winners
-Johnson [1964, 1967]
-Accomplishments
-1972 election, Soviet Union trip, PRC trip, Vietnam
negotiations and settlement agreement

The President's schedule
-Trip to New York
-Hotel accommodations
-Presidential suite
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-The President’s Family

Second term reorganization
-Cabinet
-Scali
-Italian-American
-[HUD]
-Quality of candidates
-Webster
-Schultz
-The President’s schedule
-Webster
-Peter J. Brennan
-Appointment
-Claude S. Brinegar
-Background
-Los Angeles
-Irish-Catholic
-HUD Transportation Department
-Interior Department
-Problem
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-Union Oil Company
-HUD Qualifications
-Compared to Peterson
-Interview
-Earl L. Butz
-Problem
-Independence
-Changes in Agriculture Department
-Ehrlichman
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Changes in Interior Department
-Ehrlichman
-National Park Service
-Retention
-Meeting with the President

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Rockefeller’s recent dinner with Mitchell
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Defense Department
-Kissinger
-Rockefeller’s view
-Richardson’s trustworthiness, presidential ambition
-Rumor
-Possible source
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Mitchell’s advice

Second term reorganization
-Colson
-Plans
-Announcement
-Timing
-White House Staff, Cabinet
-Colson’s recent conversation with Haldeman
-Departure
-Timing
-Malek
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-Job offer
-Cabinet appointment
-Interior Department
-[Office of Management and Budget] [OMB]
-OMB
-Work with Roy L. Ash

John V. (“Jack”) Brennan [?] entered at an unknown time after 9:48 am.

Information

Brennan left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.

Second term reorganization
-Malek
-Plans
-Retention
-Stein


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RNC
-Bush
-Reorganization
-Jimmy Allison
-William E. Brock III, Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Meeting with the President

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Second term reorganization
-Butz
-Changes in Agriculture Department
-Ehrlichman
-Job titles
-Super Cabinet
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-Use of term by Ehrlichman, Shultz, Butz
-Counsellor
-Congressional relations
-Responsibilities
-Lack of ex officio designation
-Shultz
-Move to White House
-Title
-Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs
-Ehrlichman
-Title
-Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
-Areas of division
-Economic, domestic, foreign affairs
-Economic affairs
-Domestic, foreign affairs

Kissinger
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Timing
-Vietnam negotiations
-Second term reorganization
-Key Biscayne meetings
-Relations with Rogers
-Resignation threat
-Acceptance
-Resignation threat
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Departure from administration
-Timing
-Relations with other staff members
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Timing
-Relations with Rogers
-Reorganization of State Department
-Roger’s management style
-Source of conflict
-Credit
-Departures
-Timing
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-Kissinger’s conversations with the President
-Rogers's departure
-Timing and conditions
-Haldeman’s conversations with Kissinger
-Departure of Rogers

Second term reorganization
-State Department
-Rogers’ departure
-Possible firing
-Justification
-Change of administration
-Timing
-January or June 1973
-Control
-Secretary
-David Kenneth Rush
-John B. Connally
-Connally
-Possible title
-Assistant President
-Presidential ambitions
-The President’s recent conversation with Colson
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Haldeman’s and the President’s role
-The President’s signals
-Harry S. Dent, Colson
-Secretary of State
-Assistant President
-State Department
-November 20, 1972 meeting
-Rush
-Deputy Secretary of State
-Ambassadorship to France
-Roger’s departure
-Secretary
-William J. Casey
-Deputy Secretary of State
-Rush
-Casey
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-Under secretary for Administration
-Delegation of responsibilities from Rush
-Rush
-Cooperation with the President
-Departure
-Age
-Roger’s departure
-Work with Casey
-Casey's responsibilities
-Casey
-Promotion
-Deputy Secretary of State
-Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs
-Robert S. Ingersoll
-Ambassadorship to Japan
-V. Alexis Johnson
-Job Officer
-Ambassadorship to Japan
-Ingersoll
-Age
-Departure
-Medal of Freedom
-Previous positions as Under Secretary of State, Ambassador
-Ambassadorship
-Kissinger
-Role in appointments
-Exclusion
-Communication
-Mitchell
-Connally
-Cabinet
-Interest
-Mitchell’s view
-Presidential ambitions
-1976
-Mitchell’s view
-Age, reading
-Rockefeller’s view
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Dr. James r. Schlesinger
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

-Energy
-Flanigan
-Energy problems
-Ehrlichman
-Tod R. Hullin
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Whitaker
-International aspects
-Schultz
-Toughness
-Schultz
-Position in [Council on International Economic Policy] [CIEP]
-Energy
-Publicity
-The President’s conversation with Flanigan
-Duration
-Promotion
-Senate information
-Scandal
-[International Telephone and Telegraph] [ITT]
-Colson
-Rumsfeld
-Recent meeting with the President
-Klein
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-White House Staff
-1972 campaign
-Office of Communications
-Press Office
-Ziegler's responsibilities
-Streamlining
-Colson’s departure
-Role
-Frank Dale
-Departure
-Cabinet position
-Job offer
-Ambassadorship to Mexico

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:48 am.
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)


The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.

Second term reorganization
-Klein
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Job offer
-Difficulty
-Departure
-The President's decision
-Flanigan
-Retention
-Robert H. Finch
-Responsibilities
-Klein
-Colson
-Departure
-Conflict with Klein
-Return to private life
-Departure
-Timing
-Klein’s initiative
-Conflicts with Colson
-The President's plans
-Implementation
-Date
-Congressional schedule
-Departure
-The President’s decision
-Job offer
-Ambassadorship to Mexico
-Current position
-Downgrade
-1972 campaign
-RNC position
-Work outside administration
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Conversation No. 229-11 (cont’d)

Haldeman left at 10:35 am.