Secret White House Tapes

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233–10
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
December 6, 1972
Conversation No. 233-10

Date: December 6, 1972
Time: 1:07 pm - 3:18 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
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The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Unknown matter
-Options
-Difficulty

Press relations
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s article
-Effect
-Quote
-Effect
-Controversy
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Barry M. Goldwater
-1960 election
-Double standard

Vietnam negotiations
-Report from Henry A. Kissinger
-Recent meeting
-Duration
-Meeting
-Alexander M Haig, Jr.
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Progress
-Meetings
-Kennedy’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Timing
-Kissinger
-Emotions
-Charles W. Colson
-Communications with surrogates
-John B. Connally
-Possible statement by the President
-Public relations[PR]
-[Opinion Research Corporation] [ORC] poll
-Compared to Louis P. Harris poll
-Settlement agreement
-Effect on South Vietnam
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-Return of US Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US troop withdrawals
-Support for South Vietnam
-Cessation of US bombing and mining in North Vietnam
-Return of POWs
-Cease-fire
-Supervised election in South Vietnam
-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
-Compared to Harris poll
-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s view
-Settlement agreement
-US military action
-Settlement agreement
-US military action
-Duration
-North Vietnam’s accession to US, South Vietnam
goals
-Factors
-Relative importance
-Return of POWs
-Removal of North Vietnamese troops from South
Vietnam
-Cease-fire
-Supervised elections in South Vietnam
-“Hawks”
-Approval of the President’s handling of Vietnam
-Compared to pre-1972 election
-Compared to George H. Gallup poll
-Post-1972 election

Second term
-1000 days
-Post-January 20, 1973
-John F. Kennedy
-Assassination
-Election compared to Inauguration
-Desk calendar
-Distribution to key aides
-1973 Inauguration
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Christmas gift
-Press relations
-Importance
-Loss of time

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Under Secretaries
-Purpose
-John D. Ehrlichman’s view
-Departmental heads
-Location
-Cabinet Room compared to departments
-Effect

Second term reorganization
-Loyalty
-Schedule C employees
-Harvard and Yale Universities, Ivy League
-Frederic V. Malek
-The President’s conversation with John C. Whitaker
-National Parks Service
-Edwin L. Harper
-Ehrlichman
-Oklahoma State University
-Texas School of Mines
-Texas A&M University Aggies
-Ohio State University
-Enrollments
-Texas A&M
-Malek
-William P. Rogers’s schedule
-John A. Scali
-Under Secretaries
-Commerce Departmetn
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-John E. (“Jack”) Sheehan
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB}
-Arthur F. Burns
-Commerce Department
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Donald A. MacMahon
-Malek’s recommendation
-Background
-Age
-Irish-Catholicism
-Hofstra College
-Monroe Calculator Company [Monroe International]
-International contracts
-Europe, Japan
-Baker Industries
-Support for the President
-Background
-New Jersey
-Age
-Hofstra
-Long Island University
-Wharton School of Business
-James F. Cleary
-Background
-Age
-New York University
-Eastman-Dillon
-Relationship with the President
-Compared to McMahon
-Management record, international experience
-Women
-Cleary
-Compared to McMahon
-Relationship with the President
-1972 campaign
-Telephone conversation
-Compared to McMahon
-Colson
-HEW
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Arnold R. Weber
-Van Gorkum
-TransUnion Corporation
-Compared to William P. Clements, Jr.
-Weinberger
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Compared to Weber
-Frank C. Carlucci
-Paul O’Neill
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
_Weber
-Schedule C employees
-Policy and program management positions
-Salary
-Location
-South, Midwest
-Confidential assistants and secretaries to appointees
-Salary
-Number
-Location
-South, Midwest, Far West
-Percentage
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Evaluation
-Termination
-Personnel offices
-Supergrade career executives
-State Department
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Defense Department
-Manual
-White House staff
-Advance men
-Campaign organizations
-1701 [Pennsylvania Avenue]
-States
-Training course
-Duration
-Malek
-S. Bruce Herschensohn
-Disloyalty to administration
-Gordon C. Strachan’s conversation with Haldeman
-US Information Agency [USIA]
-Performance ratings
-Edward M. Kennedy
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-1977
-Herschensohn’s view
-1972 election

The President’s schedule
-Visits to agencies
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Reaction
-Loyalists
-Cabinet Room meetings
-Congress

Second term reorganization
-Ambassadorships
-Number
-United Nations [UN] Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization [UNESCO]
-Geneva
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD]
-Bahrain
-Chad
-Cyprus
-Maldive Islands
-Disloyal ambassadors
-Protocol
-Belton K. (“B. K.”) Johnson
-James J. Reynolds
-Johnson
-Reynolds
-Non-career positions
-Number
-Maurice Stans’s list
-Recommended returns
-Austria
-John P. Humes
-Tenure
-Departure
-Belgium
-Robert Strausz-Hupe
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-Retention
-Ethiopia
-E. Ross Adair
-Strausz-Hupe
-Departure
-Timing
-Two year terms
-Strausz-Hupe
-Martin J. Hillenbrand
-Departure
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Retention
-Iceland
-Frederick Irving
-Ireland
-John D. J. Moore
-Tenure
-Departure
-Richard A. Moore
-Japan
-Robert S. Ingersoll
-Retention
-Spain
-Adm. Horatio Rivero, Jr.
-Retention
-Departure
-Timing
-Switzerland
-Shelby C. Davis
-Retention
-John N. Mitchell
-Stans
-Departure
-Timing
-Trinidad and Tobago
-Anthony D. Marshall
-Uganda
-Thomas Patrick Melady
-Tenure
-Vietnam
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-OECD
-Henry J. Tasca
-European Economic Community [EEC]
-James D. Hodgson
-The President’s conversation with Ehlichman
-[Joseph A. Greenwald]
-William D. Eberle
-Trade representative
-West Germany
-Eberle
-Compared to Hodgson
-Relationship with the President
-George P. Shultz, Peter M. Flanigan, Kissinger
-Vetting
-Recommended changes (non-career positions)
-Geneva
-Idar Rimestad
-Afghanistan
-Robert E. Neumann
-John D. Lodge
-Afghanistan
-Albert B. Fay of Texas
-Argentina
-Lodge
-Departure
-Spanish speaker
-Joseph S. Farland
-Farland
-State Department
-Middle East
-Under Secretary
-Latin America
-Robert C. Hill
-Middle East
-Spain
-Farland
-Middle East
-Australia
-Walter L. Rice
-Departure
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Harold B. Scott
-1972 campaign
-Assistant Secretary of Commerce
-John W. Rollins
-Rollins
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Canada
-Adolph W. Schmidt
-Departure
-William B. McComber, Jr.
-Eberle
-Business expenditure
-McComber
-State Department
-Pentagon Papers
-George H. W. Bush
-Denmark
-Columbia
-Leonard J. Saccio
-Spanish speakers
-Californians, Texans
-Johnson
-Val Peterson
-Connally
-Mexian-Americans
-Philip V. Sanchez
-Dr. Henry M. Ramirez
-Sanchez
-Finland
-Peterson
-John V. Krehbiel
-1972 election
-France
-John N. (“Jack”) Irwin, II
-Greece
-Tasca
-Kissinger
-John Stapler
-Fundraising
-Denmark
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Philip K. Crowe
-Charles E. (“Chip”) and Mrs. Bohlen [?]
-Tenure
-Departure
-Retention
-1972 campaign contributions
-El Salvador
-Henry E. Catto, Jr.
-Departure
-Health
-Wiley [?] Reynolds
-India
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Iran
-Richard M. Helms
-Italy
-John A. Volpe
-Jamaica
-Vincent De Roulet
-1972 campaign contributions
-Loyalty
-Norway
-De Roulet
-Crowe
-Jamaica
-Roy J. Carver
-Bandag Company of Iowa
-George Cook of Nebraska
-John Bowie [sp?]
-Johnson Wax
-Combined Communications
-Luxembourg
-Ruth J. Farkas
-Mexico
-Robert H. McBride
-Departure
-Sanchez
-Netherlands
-J. William Middendorf, II
-Herbert J. Klein
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Cook
-New Zealand
-Pakistan
-Jews
-Pakistan
-Tasca
-Jews
-Pakistan
-Tasca
-Panama
-Lloyd Miller
-[Portugal]
-Ridgway B. Knight
-Departure
-Tenure
-Leonard K. Fireston
-[Henry] John (“Jack”) Heinz, III
-Firestone
-South Africa
-John G. Hurd
-Daniel J. Terra
-Lawter Chemicals, Inc. of Chicago
-Heinz
-Career retention positions
-Bahrain
-William A. Stoltzfus, Jr.
-Bangladesh
-Hermann F. Eilts
-Barbados
-Eileen R. Donovan
-Bolivia
-Ernest V. Siracusa
-Botswana
-Charles J. Nelson
-Brazil
-William M. Rountree
-Departure
-Businessman
-Bulgaria
-Horace G. Torbert, Jr.
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Burma
-Edwin W. Martin
-Burundi
-Robert Yost
-Martin
-Argentina
-Departure
-Cameroon
-C. Robert Moore
-Central African Republic
-Melvin L. Manfull
-Ceylon
-Christopher Van Hollen
-Chad
-Edward W. Mulcahy
-Chile
-Nathaniel Davis
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Walter P. McConaughy
-Costa Rica
-Viron P. Vaky
-Cyprus
-David H. Popper
-Czechoslovakia
-Albert W. Sherer, Jr.
-Dominican Republic
-Francis E. Meloy, Jr.
-Ecuador
-Findley Burns, Jr.
-Dominican Republic
-Ecuador
-Burns
-Equatorial Guinea
-Robert Moore
-Ecudaor
-Gabon
-John A. McKesson, III
-Gambia
-G. Edward Clark
-Guatemala
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-William G. Bowdler
-Guinea
-Terence A. Todman
-Guyana
-Spencer M. King
-Haiti
-Clinton E. Knox
-Honduras
-Hewson A. Ryan
-Hungary
-Alfred Puhan
-Indonesia
-Francis Galbraith
-Departure
-Businessman
-Indonesian speaker
-Israel
-Walworth Barbour
-Ivory Coast
-John F. Root
-Jordan
-L. Dean Brown
-South Korea
-Philip C. Habib
-Kuwait
-Stoltzfus
-Laos
-G. McMurtrie Godley
-Lebanon
-William B. Buffum
-Lesotho
-Charles J. Nelson
-Liberia
-Vacancy
-Malagasy Republic
-Joseph Mendenhall
-Liberia
-Malek
-Labor people
-Black
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-Malagasy Republic
-Mendenhall
-Malawi
-William C. Burdett
-Sweden
-Black
-[Jerome H. Holland]
-Malaysia
-Jack W. Lydman
-Maldive Islands
-Van Hollen
-Malta
-John I. Getz
-Mauritania
-Richard W. Murphy
-Mauritius
-William D. Brewer
-Morocco
-Stuart W. Rockwell
-Nepal
-Carl C. Laise
-Nicaragua
-Nepal
-Laise
-Departure
-[South Vietnam]
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Departure
-Nicaragua
-Turner B. Shelton
-Niger
-Roswell D. McClelland
-Nigeria
-John E. Reinhardt
-Philippines
-Henry A. Byroade
-Poland
-Richard T. Davies
-Qatar
-Stoltzfus
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Romania
-Leonard C. Meeker
-Rwanda
-Robert F. Corrigan
-Saudi Arabia
-Nicholas G. Thacher
-Senegal
-Clark
-Sierra Leone
-Clinton L. Olson
-Singapore
-Edwin M. Cronk
-Somalia
-Matthew J. Looram, Jr.
-Swaziland
-Charles J. Nelson
-Tanzania
-W. Beverly Carter
-Togo
-Dwight Dickinson
-Tunisia
-Talcott W. Seelye
-Turkey
-William J. Handley
-United Arab Emirates
-Stoltzfus
-Upper Volta
-Donald B. Easum
-Uruguay
-Charles W. Adair, Jr.
-Venezuela
-Robert McClintock
-Yemen
-William R. Crawford, Jr.
-Yugoslavia
-Malcolm Toon
-Zambia
-Jean M. Wikowski
-Retirement ages
-Galbraith
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Career departure positions
-Cambodia
-Emory C. Swank
-Congo
-Sheldon V. Vance
-Mali
-Robert O. Blake
-Paraguay
-George W. Landau
-Peru
-Taylor G. Belcher
-Landau
-Haig
-Soviet Union
-Jacob D. Beam
-Thailand
-Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.
-McCain
-Commander in Chief, Pacific [CINCPAC]
-Western Kentucky [?]
-Office of Special Trade Representative
-Ambassadorships
-Tenure
-Two year terms
-School year
-Successors
-Confirmation

1973 Inauguration
-The President’s schedule, January 18-20, 1973
-Vice Presidential reception
-Smithsonian Institute
-Salute to the States
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Variety show compared to performances
-Purpose
-Revenue
-Four day guarantee
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Presidential box
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Concert
-Ball
-Salute to America’s heritage
-Public relations [PR]
-Smithsonian Institution
-Ethnic art, culture, food, music, dancing
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox, [Dwight] David
Eisenhower, II, Edward R. F. Cox
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
-Desi Arnaz
-Congressional lunch
-Timing
-Oath, address
-White House
-Invitations
-Congressional leaders, Supreme Court, Cabinet
-Motorcade
-Parade
-Cancellation
-White House
-Parade


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-Nixon-Ryan family reception
-Lucy Winchester
-Rose Mary Woods
-Edward C. Nixon
-Timing
-Church service

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1973 Inauguration
-Themes
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Edward Nixon
-Herschensohn
-“Let the People Come Forward”
-Safire
-“Forward Together”
-1969 Inauguration
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-“The Challenge of Peace”
-“The New Spirit of ‘76”
-Bicentennial
-“A New Century of Freedom”
-“We the People”
-“Toward a More Perfect Union”
-“Summons to Greatness”
-“One America, Indivisible”
-“Let Us Go Forward in Peace”
-“The New Spirit of ‘76”
-Haldeman’s view
-Peace
-“Let the People Come Forward”
-Safire
-“The New Spirit of ‘76”
-Tone
-“The Spirit of ‘76”
-Compared to “The New American Majority”
-Politics

Presidential airplane
-Spirit of ‘76

1973 Inauguartion
-Theme
-“Spirit of ‘76”
-Harvard University, Ivy League
-Patrick J. (“Pat”) Moynihan

Kissinger
-PR
-Pre-1972 election
-People Republic of China [PRC]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Social contacts
-Hardhats
-Lapel flags
-Message
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Return from Paris
-Schedule
-Vietnam negotiations
-Meetings
-Duration
-Timing
-Translation
-Record
-Length
-State of the world report
-Length
-Departure
-Timing
-US-Soviet Union summit, 1973
-European Security Conference

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-Personality
-Haig’s view
-Egotism
-Treatment of others

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-Personality
-Insecurity
-“Cycle theory”
-Haig’s view
-Congressional relations
-Press relations
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-Defense of White House
-Cambodia
-Burning cities
-The President’s May 8,1972 decision
-Defense of White House
-Orders
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman’s cancellation
-Vietnam negotiations
-Statements
-“Peace is at hand”
-“One more meeting”
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-“Peace is at hand”
-Intellectuals
-Presidential statement on television[TV]
-Punishment of left wing, Hanoi, Saigon
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Settlement agreement
-Effect on Thieu
-Peace with honor
-Compared to US withdrawal for POWs

The President’s schedule
-Return to Camp David
-Reception honoring administration officials from California
-Haldeman’s schedule
-Robert H. Finch
-Governorship of California
-Organizational ability
-Ziegler’s view
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Finch
-Entertainment
-Foster Brooks
-Taft Schrieber’s introduction
-Teri Foster Brooks
-Ziegler’s view
-Possible appearance at stag dinner
-Jonathan Winters
-Baseball routine
-Speeches
-Schreiber
-Finch
-Presentation
-Gold and silver coins
-Engraving
-“Californians in the White House”
-Organizing
-Schreiber
-Finch
-Ed Carter
-Clifford A. Miller
-Alternative location
-White House
-Finch’s view
-Blue Room
-The President’s possible remarks
-Departure for Camp David
-The President’s and guests’ remarks
-Holmes P. Tuttle
-William French Smith
-Forrest N. Shumway
-Orange County
-San Diego
-Gordon B. Luce
-Planning
-Order
-Alternative location
-White House
-Finch’s view
-Blue Room
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-State Dining Room
-Compared to Blair Room
-Future
-The President’s involvement
-Advanceman

Second term reorganization
-Klein
-Value
-Schreiber
-Finch
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Retention
-Office of Communications
-Social life
-Departure
-Haldeman’s view

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:50 pm.

Ziegler’s press conference
-Location
-Truck
-Hangar
-Trailer

Press relations
-Truck
-The President’s role
-Coffee
-Time article

Ziegler’s press conference
-Second term reorganization
-Peter G. Peterson
-Special assignment
-Frederick B. Dent
-Earl L. Butz
-William E. Simon
-Edward L. Morgan
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Wire services, networks
-Agriculture Department
-Responsiveness
-Farmers
-Modern methods
-Butz’s view
-United Press International [UPI]
-Leak
-Butz
-Des Moines Register
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Second term reorganization

Press relations
-UPI
-Leaks
-Chicago Tribune
-Los Angeles Times
-Annoucement
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Washington Star
-John H. Kauffman
-Smith Hempstone, Jr.
-Newbold (“Newby”) Noyes, Jr.
-David Kraslow
-National editor
-Second term reorganization
-Washington Post
-Foreign policy
-Ownership of Washington Star
-Personal benefit
-UPI story
-La Paz, Bolivia
-The President’s 1958 visit to Bolivia
-Judith and Ruth Leonardini
-Promise of college education in US
-Photographs
-Cultural exchange program
-State Department
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-Ziegler’s conversation with Leonard Garment
-Educational provisions
-Liberals
-Background
-Age
-Parents
-Ethnicity
-Indian
-Jewish
-Scholarships
-Afghanistan
-Photograph

The President left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.

Press relations
-UPI story
-Ziegler’s statement

The President entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm.

Press relations
-Edward Cox
-Conversation with the President
-New York Bar exam
-Difficulty
-California bar exam


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-The President’s experience
-Bar examination
-Difficulty

The President’s schedule
-Robert J. Dole

RNC chairmanship
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Conversation No. 233-10 (cont’d)

-George H. W. Bush’s appointment
-Announcement
-Dole
-Press story
-United Nations [UN]
-Dole
-Statement

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Second term reorganization
-Announcements
-John A. Volpe, Claude S. Brinegar, Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-[Pope Paul VI] Giovanni Battista Motini
-Robert J. Dole
-Volpe
-Timing
-Bush
-Ambassadorship to Italy
-Brinegar
-Los Angeles Times
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-San Francisco Examiner
-[William Randolph] Hearst newspapers
-Justice Department, FBI
-Moynihan
-Leak
-Timing
-New York Daily News
Jerry Green
-Timing
-Leak
-FBI
-State Department
-New York Herald Tribune
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Moynihan’s conversation with the President
-Indira Gandhi
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[Subject: India]

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-Justice Department
-Timing
-CIA, Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Timing
-Leak
-Washington Star
-Richard M. Helms
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Leak to Washington Post
-Schlesinger
-Sub-Cabinet position
-Ambassadorship
-Science Advisor to the President
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Leaks
-Washington Star, Chicago Tribune
-Wire services
-Detroit News
-Schedule
-Compared to announcements schedule
-Purpose
-Moynihan
-Hearst
-FBI
-United Nations [UN]
-John A. Scali
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Bill Gill
-Timing
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William P. Rogers
-Helms
-Ambassadorship to Iran
-Ziegler’s conversation with Rogers
-CIA
-Rogers’s view
-Joseph S. Farland
-State Department

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-Meetings
-Schedule
-Paris call to Ziegler
-Timing
-Ziegler’s press conference
-Instructions from the President
-Ziegler’s press conference
-The President’s call to Apollo XVII astronauts
-Breakdown
-Presidential statement on TV
-Kissinger’s cables
-Ziegler’s view
-North and South Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
-PR
-Settlement agreement
-Haldeman’s view
-Ziegler’s view
-Resumption of talks
-North Vietnam
-Ziegler’s view
-Previous statements
-Lyndon B. Johnson Administration
-1972 election
-Kissinger’s cables
-Kissinger
-Psychological attitude
-“Peace is at hand”
-“One more meeting”
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-Le Duc Tho
-Press relations
-North Vietnam
-The President’s role
-India-Pakistan War
-Breakdown
-PR
-Interpretation
-Defeat for peace
-Expectation
-“Peace is at hand”
-Optimism of talks
-Kissinger
-Smiling for photographs
-“We will only sign when it’s right”
-Compared to “Peace is at hand”
-North Vietnamese intransigence
-Kissinger’s possible statement
-Compared to Presidential statement
-US troops in Vietnam
-Number
-Casualties
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Media and press relations
-US casualties
-Kissinger
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Presidential statement on TV
-Kissinger
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-George S. McGovern
-Presidential statement on TV
-Settlement agreement
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Presidential statement on TV
-Kissinger’s return from Paris
-Ziegler’s press conference
-Kissinger’s possible statement
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-Tone
-Consultations
-Resumption of talks
-Timing
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-“Peace is at hand”
-North Vietnamese intransigence
-Settlement agreement
-Quality
-The President’s previous statement
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-F-104
-B-52s
-“Doves”
-Forthcoming report
-Kissinger’s reports
-Instructions
-Forthcoming meeting
-Timing
-Possible progress
-Record
-Kissinger’s cable to Haldeman

Ziegler left at 3:11 pm.

Second term reorganization
-Charles E. Walker
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

1973 Inauguration
-Duration
-Variety show
-Gala
-Stars
-Ball
-Eugene Ormandy
-The President’s schedule
-Attire
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-Black tie
-Compared to white tie
-Attire
-Black tie
-Gala
-White tie
-Labor leaders
-Colson
-Dinners

The President’s schedule
-Apollo XVII astronauts
-Return
-Dinner
-Hand-shaking, photograph session
-Camp David
-Dinner
-Families
-Public interest
-Significance of mission
-Launch
-Crowd size

1973 Inauguration
-Attire
-White tie
-Diplomatic reception
-Dinners
-Prime ministers
-Diplomatic reception
-Entertainment
-“Salute to the Ambassadors”
-Blue Room
-Announcement
-Timing

The President’s schedule
-European trip
-Timing
-March or February 1973
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-1973 Inauguration
-US trip
-1973 Inauguration
-Stops
-Duration
-Capital and outer critics
-The President’s trips to the Soviet Union and the People
Republic of China [PRC]

Haldeman left at 3:18 pm.
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