266–1

Conversation No. 266-1

Date: July 22, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:06 pm and 1:44 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman; this recording begins at an unknown time
while the meeting is in progress.

[Unintelligible]

Poll
-Capability of handling foreign relations with People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-The President
-J. William Fulbright
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Edmund S. Muskie
-William P. Rogers
-Ratings analyzed
-Two China policy
-PRC
-Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC]
-United Nations membership
-Effect on the Vietnam war
-The President
-Political leanings
-Rating on handling of job
-The Nixon-Cox wedding and the Pentagon Papers case, June 1971
-Comparison to President Lyndon B. Johnson
-US-Union Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit at Glassboro, New
Jersey
-Timing of poll
-Factors affecting approval
-PRC initiative
-Vietnam

[Unintelligible - tape malfunction]

-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Effect of economic factors on approval rating
-Johnson
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-PRC initiative
-White House staff
-World peace
-Awareness
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. court martial

[Pause]

-Appeal to youth
-Rumsfeld, Robert H. Finch
-Pentagon Papers case
-Gallup Poll
-Compared to the President’s poll

Haldeman talked to an unknown person at an unknown time after 1:06 pm.

[Conversation No. 266-1]

Request for Gallup Poll results

[End of telephone conversation]

-Factors affecting ratings
-Louis Harris polling theory
-The economy
-Vietnam War
-The economy
-Awareness
-The economy
-PRC initiative
-John Kenneth Galbraith’s and others statements
-Kennedy

Finch
-The Vice Presidency
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Spiro T. Agnew
-The Republican Party
-The Cabinet
-Forthcoming conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Offer of Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Departure from Washington, DC area
-Eldest son
-Mexico [Ambassadorship]
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-Appearances on television
-Future

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 Conv. No. 266-1 (cont.)
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 11s ]


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[Unintelligible - tape malfunction]

Poll
-PRC initiative
-Harris poll

Personnel
-Finch
-OEP
-Mexico, campaign
-Retention in the Cabinet
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Rumsfeld
-Reaction to the PRC initiative and the President's July 6, 1971 Kansas City
speech
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-State Department
-John N. Irwin, II
-Special Trade Representative
-Rogers


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Privacy]
[Duration: 23s ]
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-NSC staff
-Latin American Conv. No. 266-1 (cont.)
-White House staff
-OEP
-Finch
-California politics
-Intergovernmental relations
-Manager
-NATO
-[Surname unknown]
-Speeches
-Rogers

Poll
-Leadership
-Rogers
-Fulbright, Humphrey, Mansfield, Kissinger, Kennedy, Muskie

Schedule
-Rogers, Kissinger, Melvin R. Laird

Issues
-Effect of the PRC initiative

Haldeman left at 1:44 pm.