278–36

Conversation No. 278-36
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Date: September 14, 1971
Time: 5:39 pm - 6:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Furman University

The President talked with William P. Rogers between 5:39 pm and 5:42 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36A]

[See Conversation No. 9-4]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-[Rumsfeld]
-Furman University invitation
-Age
-Southern schools

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s television broadcast
-Response
-Milton Pitts
-The President's constituents
-Time magazine
-Television networks
-Constituents
-Howard K. Smith
-Meeting with Cabinet members and wives
-The President and Mrs. Nixon
-Preparations
-Mrs. Nixon
-Receptions at the White House
-Handshakes
-Television
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Television appearances
-1960
-Reaction to television use
-Speech preparation
-Debate with John F. Kennedy
-Preparation
-Schedule

The President's forthcoming western states trip
-Libby Dam
-Kalispell, Montana

Joseph M. Montoya
-Amendment

Television coverage
-John B. Connally
-William P. Rogers
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Handling
-Range of audience
-Prime time television
-Press conference

Forthcoming news events
-PRC announcement
-Soviet Union summit announcement
-Kissinger's October trip
-Date
-Phase II economic action
-Month of October
-Vietnam
-Residual force
-Announcement
-Timing
-Soviet Union trip, People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-March 1972
-May 1972
-Report of trip
-Visit to the PRC
-Haldeman's meeting with Kissinger
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-Ground station
-Soviet Union visit in 1959
-Videotape of Kitchen Debate
-Reaction of Russians
-Public events
-Outside activities
-Time
-News coverage
-Network coverage in the US
-Press coverage crew for the President
-Value
-Pool coverage
-Live press coverage
-Stories of the President in the PRC
-Handshakes
-Kissinger's opinion
-The President's view
-Soviet Union
-State Department
-The President's actions on the Soviet trip
-Popular opinion
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Alexei N. Kosygin
-Reactions
-Kissinger
-Press coverage in the PRC
-Tokyo transmissions
-Time of broadcast in the US
-Johnny Carson's Tonight Show , Today Show
-Kissinger
-Understanding of television's impact
-PRC
-Still photographs
-Newspapers, magazines
-New York Times
- Today Show
-Afternoon special
-Nightly news
-Commentaries

John B. Connally
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-Return from trip
-Time
-Scheduling of National Security Council [NSC] meeting

Trip to Florida
-The President's plans
-Weather

The press
-Question and Answer session [Q&A]
-Daytime press coverage
-Press coverage
-The President's appearances
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Idaho
-Effects of press coverage
-Results in polls
-Ohio poll
-Results
-Effect
-Canton, Ohio
-Effect

Kissinger entered at 6:05 pm.

Kissinger
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 20s ]


FOREIGN AFFAIRS


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Clifford M. Hardin
-John N. Mitchell
-Departure from administration
-Timing
-Farm and business groups

Haldeman left at 6:07 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 47s ]


FOREIGN AFFAIRS


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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NSC
-Meeting
-Time
-Reasons
-Joseph M. Montoya Amendment on Military Procurement
-The President's telephone conversation with Rogers
-Funding
-Election in South Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu

Vietnam
-Type of country
-Amount of money spent
-Monetary aid
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Francis J. Galbraith
-Lt. Gen. T. N. J. Suharto
-Suharto
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President's strategy
-Bureaucracy
-Kissinger’s talk with William F. Buckley
-US Information Agency [USIA]

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:07 pm and
6:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36b]

[See Conversation No. 9-5]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-State Department
-Support
-Members of the NSC
-Rogers
-Residual force
-Melvin R. Laird
-Thomas Moorer
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-NSC Meeting
-Strategy
-Time
-Paris Peace Talks
-William J. Porter
-Possible action
-George S. McGovern's trip to Paris, Southeast Asia
-Meeting with North Vietnamese
-Possible reaction
-Peace negotiations
-Porter
-Press

The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller between 6:13 pm and 6:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36C]

[See Conversation No. 9-6]
[End of telephone conversation]

Attica Prison riots
-Rockefeller
-Kissinger's telephone conversation
-Comparison to [John] Calvin Coolidge's action against strikers
-Presidential support
- Today Show
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news coverage
-Newsweek
-Law enforcement
-Presidential support for governors
-Test case

The President talked with an unknown person [Haldeman?] at an unknown time between 6:18
pm and 6:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36D]
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NSC meeting scheduling
-Connally
-Return from trip
-Length of trip

[End of telephone conversation]

Forthcoming NSC meeting
-Laird
-Announcement of meeting
-Citation of the President's conversation with Kissinger
-Laird statement

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35
pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36E]

[See Conversation No. 9-7]

[End of telephone conversation]

Forthcoming NSC meeting
-Strategy
-[Thieu]
-Laird

Kissinger talked with Rogers at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 278-36F]

[See Conversation No. 9-8; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

NSC meeting

[End of telephone conversation]

NSC meeting scheduling
-Rogers
-Son's forthcoming marriage
-Connally
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-Return from trip
-Time
-Location
-Camp David

Vietnam
-South Vietnamese government
-Possible future
-Thieu
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Current situation
-North Vietnamese
-Cambodia
-Laos
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-North Vietnam
-Rogers
-Referendum
-Elections

Kissinger left at 6:35 pm.