Date: March 8, 1972
Time: 12:29 pm - 12:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Backgrounders
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Substance
-John A. Scali
-President’s reading
-William P. Rogers
-Lecture on the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Analysis of the world
-Press
-Strive for accuracy on PRC trip
-President’s analysis
-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger
-Compared with Rogers
-“Selling” the President
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Kissinger’s media appearances
-Story
-Scali
-PRC trip
-Decision-making ability
-Possible perception of power
-Potential problems
-Columnists
-PRC trip
-Preparation
-Books
19
John N. Mitchell
-Rogers
-Moscow
-Trip
-Upcoming visit
-Kissinger
Ambassadors
-Bureaucratic problems
-References to Japanese society
-Embassy staff meeting
-PRC
-Lack of embassies
-Rogers
Kissinger
-Rogers
-Meetings with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Potential troubles
-Different line with columnists
-Morale at the State Department
-John B. Connally
-Nelson A. Rockefeller