313–21

Conversation No. 313-21

Date: January 10, 1972
Time: 3:31 pm - unknown before 5:11 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with William F. (“Billy”) Graham.

[Conversation No. 313-21A]

[See Conversation No. 18-40]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 3:34 pm.

The telephone conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 3:42 pm.

Phone cut-off

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:34 pm and
3:42 pm.]

[Conversation No. 313-21B]

[See Conversation No. 18-41]

[End of telephone conversation]

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's visit to Africa
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 313-21 (cont.)


-Time magazine article
-Text and photograph
-Commentary
-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, [Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt and
Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Mrs. Nixon's reception in Liberia
-Flight
-Itinerary
-US aid projects

Foreign visits
-Schedule
-Host countries
-The President's trip in 1953
-US officials
-State Department
-Peace Corps

Mrs. Nixon's visit to Africa
-Time commentary
-Reprints
-Mailing
-Newsweek commentary
-Time
-Photos

George W. Romney
-Meeting with the President
-Rescheduling

Edward M. Korry
-Possible appointment
-Henry A. Kissinger's view
-Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] position
-State Department's view
-Kissinger's activity
-Korry's religion
-William F. Buckley, Jr.’s views
-Appointment by John F. Kennedy
-Adlai E. [?]Stevenson, II
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Buckley
-United States Information Agency [USIA] advisory board
-Reappointment
-Opposition to administration
-Kissinger's views

Korry
-Liberals
-Possible HEW position
-Kissinger's views

[David] Kenneth Rush
-Previous conversation with the President

Melvin R. Laird
-Troop announcement
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Rush appointment
-Conflict of interest

[The President talked with Graham between an unknown time after 3:34 pm and 3:42 pm.]

[Conversation No. 313-21C]

[See Conversation No. 18-42]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger
-Possible call from the President
-Conversation with Yitzhak Rabin
-State Department
-Calls to Haldeman and John N. Mitchell
-Conversation with William P. Rogers
-Haldeman's call to Mitchell
-Kissinger's conversation with Mitchell
-Meeting at State Department
-Conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Tenure in office
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 313-21 (cont.)


Sisco
-Tenure in office
-Kissinger and Israel
-Comments at Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-India-Pakistan
-Middle East
-Possible ambassadorship
-Haldeman's and Mitchell's possible conversation with Rogers
-Kissinger

India-Pakistan War
-Max Frankel
-Kissinger
-Credibility
-Administration's position
-Article by Jack N. Anderson
-Neutrality
-Kissinger
-West Pakistan
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-The President's possible motives for action
-Foreign policy prerogatives
-Kissinger


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 47s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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Richard G. Kleindienst
-Appointment
-Public relations
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 313-21 (cont.)


-Timing of announcement
-Maurice H. Stans's resignation
-The President's People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-John N. Mitchell
-New Hampshire primary

Kissinger
-Relations with Rogers
-Japan
-Analogy to Roger Staubach and Bob Griese
-Credibility
-PRC
-Mitchell

Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:42 pm and
3:56 pm.]

[Conversation No. 313-21D]

[See Conversation No. 18-43]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger
-Conversation with Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Rockefeller

[The President talked with Price between 3:56 pm and 4:05 pm.]

[Conversation No. 313-21E]

[See Conversation No. 18-44]

[End of telephone conversation]

Submission of speech draft
-Timing
-Camp David

Rabin
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-Mitchell
-Kissinger

[The President talked with the Vice President Spiro T. Agnew between 4:06 pm and 4:08 pm.]

[Conversation No. 313-21F]

[See Conversation No. 18-45]

[End of telephone conversation]

Agnew
-Meeting with the President

Rabin
-Mitchell
-Kissinger

Kissinger
-Laird
-Vietnam issue

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:08 pm and
4:12 pm.]

[Conversation No. 313-21G]

[See Conversation No. 18-46]

[End of telephone conversation]

Troop announcement
-Impact

John B. Connally
-Health
-Invitation to Mrs. Nixon's arrival ceremony
-Possible speaking tour
-Scheduling
-New economic policy slogan
-Nonpartisanship
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-Economic issues
-Television
-“Question and answer” programs
-Haldeman’s possible talks with Connally

[The President talked with Laird between 4:12 pm and 4:27 pm.]

[Conversation No. 313-21H]

[See Conversation No. 18-47; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal level
-Laird’s view
-Possible call to Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Problems
-Laird

Kissinger’s
-Conversation with the President [?]
-National Security Council [NSC]
-WSAG meeting
-Mitchell and Rush
-Control

Rush
-Public relations
-Compared with Kissinger and David Packard

Kissinger
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-The President's conversations with Laird and Rush
-WSAG
-Mitchell

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:11 pm.
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 313-21 (cont.)