319–19

Conversation No. 319-19

Date: February 7, 1972
Time: 4:55 pm - 7:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Typing
-Marjorie P. Acker
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-Format of document

Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s drafts of speech to White House Conference on Industrial World
Ahead, February 7, 1972
-Conversation with Woods
-William L. Safire

F. Donald Nixon
-Jack N. Anderson’s forthcoming stories
-Democrats
-President’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-J. William Marriott’s conversation with Anderson
-Conversation with reporter [George Clifford]
-John H. Meier
-Conversations concerning Meier
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Conversation with Clifford
-Business activities
-Donald A. Nixon connection with Robert L. Vesco


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-Lunch


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-Conversation with Clifford
-Conversation with Marriott
-Anderson’s forthcoming stories
-Threat
-Veracity
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-1972 campaign
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman’s possible meeting with Haldeman and Woods
-Edward C. Nixon
-Timing
-Possible reaction

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:00 pm.

Price
-Preparation of speech
-The President’s schedule
-Price’s style
-Background
-President’s upcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

President’s forthcoming speech
-Price’s view
-Preparation
-Time allotted


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Price entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

President’s forthcoming speech
-Content
-Changes
-Described to Price
-US competition
-Wage and price controls
-Inflation
-Jobs
-Goals
-Industrial leaders
-Press

Price and Woods left at 5:18 pm.

Price

President’s forthcoming speech
-Preparation
-Possible effect
-John B. Connally

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:18 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:57 pm.

President’s forthcoming speech
-Preparation
-Compared to inaugural address

Don Nixon
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-President’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Plan
-Relations with White House
-Ehrlichman, Mitchell
-Haldeman, Woods

Forthcoming conversations
-Anderson’s stories
-Marketing


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Campaign financing
-Funds
-Mitchell
-Rita E. Hauser
-Possible problems


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Administration personnel
-Connally
-Skill
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Tenure in office
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s views


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President’s schedule
-Quadriad
-Views of Connally and George P. Shultz
-Purpose of meeting
-Economic stabilization
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Connally, Shultz, Herbert Stein
-Arthur F. Burns
-Haldeman’s possible conversation with Connally
-Timing of upcoming meeting
-Forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Connally
-Schedule
-Haldeman’s call to unknown woman
-Possible role with administration
-Vice Presidency
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Foreigners
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-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Possible role with Administration


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Don Nixon
-Relations with the President
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Anderson
-Conversation with J. Williard (“Bill”) Marriott, Jr.
-Mitchell’s views
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s response to possible questions
-Marriott


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Teleprompter
-Use by President
-Purpose
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-William F. (“Billy”) Graham’s views
-Advantages
-Future speeches

President’s schedule
-George Meany
-Possible breakfast
-Timing
-PRC trip
-Location
-Florida
-Shultz’s views

President’s schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Busing issue
-Florida
-Shultz
-Connally

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:18 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:57 pm.

President’s conversation with Ziegler
-Today show

Spokesmen for administration
-Ziegler, Kissinger
-Hugh Scott’s defense of Haldeman
-Haldeman’s interview on the Today show
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Haldeman’s interview on the Today show
-Muskie

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:18 pm and
5:57 pm and requested a call to Ziegler.

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[See also Conversation No. 20-53]

[End of telephone conversation]

William P. Rogers
-State Department
-Press

The White House operator talked with the President at 5:57 pm.

[Conversation No. 319-19B]

[See also Conversation No. 20-54]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman’s interview on the Today show
-The President’s Cabinet dinner
-Administration’s goals and accomplishments
-Idealism
-News story
-Vietnam [?]
-Kissinger
-Potential longevity of news story
-Kissinger
-Rogers

Briefing in State Department auditorium
-President’s concern

Rogers
-Cabinet breakfast, February 8, 1972
-Kissinger

Kissinger
-Style
-Relationship with Haig
-Cambodia
-Haldeman’s opinion
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Scott
-Compared to Carey Estes Kefauver
-Relationship with Kissinger

Vietnam
-Peace proposal plan

Haldeman’s interview
-Source
-Democratic presidential candidates
-Press coverage
-Life, New York Times, Washington Post
-Potential longevity of news story
-Vietnam
-Peace proposal
-Muskie
-Proposed weakness

Ziegler
-Press interest

Rogers


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Crime
-Possible federal action
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Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe office
-Compassion towards drug addicts
-Possible arrests
-Popular opinion
-Difference from Jaffe’s opinion
-Movie, The French Connection
-Movie, Dirty Harry
-Clint Eastwood


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Dirty Harry
-Haldeman’s synopsis of movie
-Danny Escobedo case
-Discussed during movie
-[Dwight] David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Opinion of movie
-The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Ziegler entered at 6:11 pm.

President’s forthcoming speech

David Brinkley

Kissinger’s forthcoming talks with Chou En-lai in the PRC
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President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-President’s preparation
-Briefing books
-History of PRC
-Edgar P. Snow
-Ziegler’s statements
-Proposed list of questions

President’s forthcoming trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Invitations to press
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-[Forename unknown] Wilson [?]
-Herbert G. Klein

United Press International [UPI] story
-Ziegler’s press briefing

Press for forthcoming trip
-Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times
-Boston Globe, Newsday
-Martin Schram
-Unknown woman
-Sarah McClendon
-Boston Globe
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Possible questions for the President
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Criticism of the President
-President’s role
-Ziegler’s list of press
-Possible selections
-Washington Post

Haldeman’s interview on the Today show
-Possible press reaction
-New York Times, Washington Post
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-Possible “McCarthyism”
-[Carol Feraci’s] protest at White House dinner, January 28, 1972
-Liberals

Kissinger
-Comments concerning foreign policy report
-Possible defense of Haldeman’s interview
-Possible comment concerning Vietnam negotiations
-US stance
-Muskie
-Rogers
-Haldeman

Ziegler’s recent press conference
-Muskie

Vietnam
-Press coverage of the President’s points

President’s schedule
-Press conference, February 10, 1972
-Timing
-Location
-Length
-Question and Answer [Q&A] session

Mollenhoff
-Forthcoming call from Ziegler
-President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Mollenhoff’s attendance at PRC trip
-Press pool

Kissinger entered at 6:28 pm.

Ziegler
-President’s upcoming speech

Ziegler left at 6:29 pm.
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President’s previous speech in Vietnam
-USSR’s commentary
-Views of PRC
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Reply
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Questioning US proposal
-Forthcoming PRC trip

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Xuan Thuy
-Muskie
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
-Muskie
-1972 election
-Possible agreement
-George McGovern’s Program
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu

1972 campaign
-Muskie
-Connally’s comments on Muskie’s proposal
-Kissinger’s briefing

Memorandum concerning PRC
-February 5, 1972
-Kissinger
-Klemens von Metternich
-Chou En-lai
-Style
-Knowledge of history
-Queen Victoria
-Marquis de Lafayette
-French Revolution
-American Revolutionary War
-Yorktown
-Lessons for the world to follow
-Guerrilla warfare
-Indochina
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-USSR


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CHINA, INDIA


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Memorandum concerning Chou En-lai
-President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Communiqué
-Domestic matters
-Race
-World politics
-US policy
-Non-intervention
-Compared to support of national liberation movement

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-President’s preparation
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Briefing book
-Background
-State Department efforts
-PRC briefing papers
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Length of briefing book
-President receiving briefing book
-Timing
-Rogers
-President’s instructions
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-Possible leaks from PRC trip
-Prevention
-Reception from PRC
-Dobrynin
-Tone
-Photograph opportunities
-Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-tung
-Activities
-Visits to Great Wall, plenary session, banquets
-Press
-Thomas W. Braden
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Barbara Walters
-Helen A. Thomas
-Betty Ryan

Vietnam
-Military activity
-Kissinger’s conversation with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-The President’s proposal
-Possible effect
-Timing
-Forthcoming PRC trip
-Braden’s columns
-Negotiations
-Xuan Thuy
-President’s January 25, 1972 speech
-US proposals
-August 16, 1971
-Unknown people
-US proposals
-South Vietnam election
-Xuan Thuy
-President’s opponents
-McGovern’s position
-US public opinion
-Thieu
-Possible overthrow
-Journalists
-Establishment
-Public opinion
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-UPI story
-Prisoner of war [POW] wives
-Current attitudes
-President’s instructions
-News summary
-Publicity
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes’s memorandum to President
-John A. Scali
-Stewart W. Hensley
-POW wives
-Support from the Administration
-Vietnam Veterans Against the War [VVAW]
-John F. Kerry
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Veracity

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press
-UPI reporter
-President’s concern
-Request for factual reporting

Life magazine articles
-Vietnam casualties
-Vietnamese youths
-Thomas Griffith

Time “Man of the Year”

Vietnam
-McGovern’s program
-Democrats
-Stewart J.O. Alsop’s column
-National honor

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press approved by the PRC
-Joseph W. and Stewart Alsop
-William S. White
-Buckley
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
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-Possible lecture fees
-Press
-Number
-Shanghai
-Hang Chow
-PRC news story
-Probable longevity
-Possible press conference
-Cronkite, Walters, John W. Chancellor
-PRC events
-Briefings by administration
-Timing

President’s trip to USSR in 1959
-Congress’s “Captive Nations” resolution
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Hecklers
-Question for President
-Press coverage
-Result

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Possible press coverage
-PRC compared to USSR
-Communism
-Television networks

Chinese
-Medical practices
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Account in unknown book
-Unknown Korean medicine
-Cost
-Availability
-Stories in Shanghai

PRC
-Stores
-Compared with USSR
-Gum
-Markets
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President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-Stores and markets
-Compared with the US

International monetary situation
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns’s view
-US policy
-Maintaining the value of the US dollar
-Connally
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Connally’s conversations with the Canadians
-Possible treaty
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Political situation
-Possible confrontation with Canada
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Election
-Negotiations with US
-Trade
-Canadian policy
-Connally

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:29 pm.

President’s forthcoming speech [?]

Bull left at an unknown time before 7:15 pm.

President’s schedule
-Briefing books

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Kissinger’s briefing books
-Memoranda

Kissinger and Haldeman left at 7:15 pm.
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