310–19

Conversation No. 310-19

Date: December 23, 1971
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Robert H. Finch.

Finch's schedule

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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 3:05 pm.


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Watergate
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Financing
-New York
-California


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Administration staffing
-John D. Lodge
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Peter G. Peterson
-John A. Volpe
-Possible withdrawal of Lodge

President’s schedule
-Henry E. Ford II
-Resignation from the Board of Directors of the National Center for Voluntary
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Action
-National Center for Voluntary Action
-Awards dinner
-Speech
-February 10, 1972
-Spirit in US for volunteerism
-Ford
-Support

National Cancer Act of 1971
-Ceremony
-Bill signing
-Number of participants
-Cancer
-Unknown person with cancer
-Non-smoker and non-drinker
-Unknown woman
-Virus
-University of Southern California [USC]
-University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Possible cure for cancer [?]

President's \"kitchen cabinet\"
-Elmer H. Bobst

National Cancer Act of 1971
-Ceremony
-Edward M. Kennedy present at ceremony
-Photograph
-Kennedy's position behind the President

Abe Fennel [?]
-Bureaucrats
-Toughness

Volunteers
-Importance
-Raising money
-Various causes
-Young people
-Interest
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-“Long hairs”

Charles H. Percy
-Appearance

Youth
-“Long hairs”
-Appearance


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John B. Connally
-Previous conversation with the President
-Connally’s trip to Monaco
-Louis H.M.B. Rainier, III [Rainier, Prince of Monaco]
-Princess Grace of Monaco

Homosexuals
-Prince’s uncomfortableness


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Current show at the Kennedy Center
-Haldeman’s attendance
-Aesop’s fables and Grimm’s fairy tales
-Haldeman’s view
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-William L. Safire
-President's box at Kennedy Center
-Use of
-Unknown person
-Enhancements to President’s box
-Cabinet
-Connally
-Staff
-Congress
-Charles W. Colson
-Twenty-eight seats

William McCormick Blair
-Alai E. Stevenson, II
-Ambassador to Denmark
-Robert F. Kennedy [?]
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Roger L. Stevens
-Kennedy family
-Arts
-Appreciation of
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White House
-Christmas decorations
-Open to the public

President's schedule
-Christmas visitors
-Meeting with Willy Brandt
-Meeting with Eisaku Sato
-Golf At Walter Annenberg's
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

Report on unknown subject
-John D. Ehrlichman
-President’s forthcoming call to Ehrlichman

Finch left at 4:25 pm.

California
-Reagan
-Support

Yeoman Charles E. Radford incident
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger’s knowledge of the incident
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Jack N. Anderson
-Ehrlichman's reaction
-Kissinger's reaction
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Kissinger's briefcase
-Reaction
-New security officer for national security
-Pentagon
-Potential new security measures
-Attorney General
-Prosecution
-Jail
-Robert O. Welander
-Assessing blame
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-Moorer
-Kissinger's reaction to his involvement
-Prosecution
-Kissinger's reaction to incident
-Briefcase
-R[embrandt] C. (“Hugh”) Robinson
-JCS
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Robinson
-Possible replacement for Haig
-Timing
-Evidence against

Lie detector test

President’s schedule

[Unintelligible]

Christmas
-Tree and decorations
-Party
-President's attendance

Unknown person's health
-Proposed trip to the hospital [?]
-Nick Wards [?]
-Unknown person’s location
-Unknown person
-Diplomatic channel

Haldeman’s schedule
-Unknown person
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Haldeman left at 4:40 pm.