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Conversation No. 418-2

Date: March 7, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:15 pm and 5:50 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Meeting with President
-Enthusiasm
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-Speaking abilities
-Congressional leaders meeting [?]
-Compared with William P. Rogers

Charles Gill
-Employment
-Roy L. Ash
-Alternatives

Rose Mary Woods
-Camp David
-Salary
-Raise
-Compared with secretaries, special assistants
-Leonard Garment
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Stephen B. Bull, David N. Parker
-Raise
-Problems
-Compared to Haldeman

Manolo Sanchez's salary
-Raise
-Fina Sanchez
-Rex W. Scouten
-White House staff
-Government pay
-Hours of work
-Raise

Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Celebrity value
-Reduction
-White House reception
-Scheduling
-Need for time to recover
-Scheduling
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-Flag Day
-Defense Department
-Calls
-Col. Robinson Risner
-Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.
-Meetings with President

Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Voice of Democracy contest winners
-Appearance
-Clothing
-White House tours
-Press coverage
-Ronald L Ziegler
-Wire services
-Appearance
-President’s reaction
-Compared with Future Farmers of America, Boy Scouts of America,
Choral Group
-Stephen B. Bull

Dress
-Secret Service agents
-President's opinion

Visitors to White House
-Dwight Chapin [?]
-Bull
President’s introduction
-Applause
-Effect
-Congressional members
-Children
-Bull
Thomas C. Korologos

Stag dinners
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-Invitations
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Republican state chairmen
-Cabinet
-Supporters of President
-Convenience for President
-Women attendees
-Compared to men

Women
-Number of appointees
-Qualifications for high positions
-Compared to Blacks, Mexican Americans
-Women in administration
-Performance

Vietnam Veterans
-Radio speech
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Compared to police officers

The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:15 pm and 5:50 pm.

Rockefeller
-Capital punishment
-Organized Crime
-Drugs
-Possession amount
-Distribution
-President’s speech on crime, drugs

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:15 pm and 5:50 pm.

Telephone call
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[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman

POWs
-Event at White House
-Announcement
-Timing
-Other events
-Sammy Davis, Jr. show
-Vietnam Veterans
-Armed Forces Day
-Memorial Day
-Vietnam War dead
-Parade
-Television [TV] coverage
-Radio speech
-Naval Academy
-Armed Forces Day
-Officers
-Memorial Day
-Unknown soldier
-Missing in action [MIA]
-Dinner
-Announcement
-Event for children
-Children at dinner
-Behavior
-Numbers
-Later party
-Tour of White House
-MIA
-Meetings with President

President's meeting with freshmen Congress members
-Format
-Size
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-Location
-Cabinet Room
-Reaction
-Oval office


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Speech [?]
-Earl L. Butz
-Moral theme

Dinners for contributors
-1972 Election

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Evening at the White House
-Introductions of individuals
-Paul Keyes’ role
-Impresario
-Assistance
-George H. W. Bush
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox
-Show themes
-Irving Berlin
-“Broken Hearted” [?]
-Female performer
-Country
-“Okie from Muskogee”
-Patriotic music
-Berlin
-President’s introduction
-Orchestra medley
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-Fred Astaire, Ethel Merman, Harry L. (“Bing”) Crosby
-Finale
-“No Business Like Show Business”
-Army Chorus
-“God Bless America”
-Patriotism
-Jack Benny
-Supporter of President
-Classical music
-Comedy
-Lucille Ball
-Appeal to children
-Reruns of \"I Love Lucy\"
-Value
-Compared to dinners
-President’s experience
-Entertainers
-Benny
-Davis
-Positive publicity
-Washington Post
-Ziegler
-Washington Post coverage
Donald Radcliffe

Stag dinners
-Press coverage
-Effect
-Toasts
-Advantages
-Army Chorus
-Songs

Evenings at White House
-Army Chorus
-\"Road to Mandalay\"
-Response of men
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-Response of women
-\"Strolling Strings\"

Nyugen Van Thieu's visit
-Arrival ceremony
-El Toro Air Base
-President’s attendance
-Parade
-Crowd
-Statements
-Accommodations in California
-House
-Compared to hotel
-La Jolla
-San Clemente
-Rose Mary Woods

President's schedule
-John Ford dinner
-Citation
-President's appearance
-Reception
-President as host
-Room capacity
-Attendees
-Film institute trustees
-Supporters of President
-Taft Schreiber’s opinion
-President's appearance at dinner
-Compared to John B. Connally event
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] taping of dinner
-Excerpts of Ford's films
-Marine Corps Band
- Schreiber
-Medal of Freedom
-Daily Variety article
-Reception
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-Head table
-Introductions
-Photographs
-Drafting schedule
-Camp David
-Dinner
-Meetings with President
-Departure
-Ehrlichman
-Afternoon visits
-International Conference on Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger and Rogers
-State Department lunch
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Cabinet meeting
-Cabinet meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Peter J. Brennan
-Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
-Budget
-Surrogate program
-Aid to Vietnam
-Rogers
-Report to President

Haldeman talked with the White House operator and Rogers at an unknown time between 4:15
pm and 5:50 pm. The President conferred with Haldeman during the call.

[Conversation No. 418-2A]

[See Conversation No. 37-61]

President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Aid to Vietnam
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[End of telephone conversation]

Contributors
-Congressional leaders
-Reaction to Rogers
-Line in speech
-President's stature in other countries
-Concerns of supporters
-Rogers' handling
-Compared to Kissinger
-Public relations
-Rogers’ role

Melvin R. Laird
-Consultant to White House
-Attendance at meetings
-Cabinet
-congressional leaders
-Strategy on Congressional relations
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Recruitment to White House staff
-Defense Department
-Harlow
-Compared to Ehrlichman, Brennan [?], Peter M. Flanigan, William E. Timmons,
Korologos, Richard M. Cook
-Congress’s opinion
-Need for White House staff with Congressional background
-Timmons’ position

President’s schedule
-Meeting with federal Woman’s Award recipients
-Press [?]
-Length
-Other meeting
-Value
-Bull
-Haldeman’s recommendation
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Public relations
-Goals
-Congress
-Ehrlichman
-Need to decide
-President's image
-World leader, peacemaker
-Rogers
-Preservation
-Compared to John F. Kennedy’s administration
-Civil rights
-Bangladesh
-President's speeches
-Focus on big picture
-Compared to international monetary situation, budget
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics {USSR]
-National spirit
-President’s image as world leader, peacemaker
-Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
-John Kennedy’s failures
-“John Kennedy’s 13 Great Mistakes in the White House”
-Publishing information
-Haldeman's copy
-Library book
-Check-outs
-Frequency
-Publisher
-Malcolm Smith, Jr.
-Mutual Broadcasting System [MBS]
-Need for reprinting
-Haldeman's meeting with Newsweek reporter
-Writer's point of view
-Kissinger
-Support for President's philosophy
-Nixon Doctrine
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-Second Inaugural Address
-Chapter on Laos
-Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem assassination
-Criticism of John Kennedy
Press conference on Laos
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Smith
-Whereabouts
-First printing
-Purchase
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Goals
-Clarification
-President’s historical legacy
-President as political innovator
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-New Federalism
-Boldness
-Anticommunism
-PRC trip
-Price and wage controls
-Leadership
-Domestic programs
-Legacy
-Avoidance
-Crime
-Problems for President
-New Federalism, New Majority
-Energy, environment
-Public interest
-Oil industry
-CBS TV show
-Negative results
-Taxes
-New Federalism
-Lack of positive credit
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-Value
-Government reorganization
-Public interest
-Lack
-White House counselors
-Cabinet departments
-Leadership
-Achievement of goals
-Limitations
-Foreign Policy
-Crises
-Trips
-Africa
-Latin America
-Europe
-USSR
-PRC
-Japan
-Major issues
-Government spending, taxes
-Bureaucracy
-Revenue sharing
-New majority
-Reestablishment of U.S. world leaderships
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US-PRC relations
-Social issue
-Family
-Police department
-Army
-Volunteers
-Religion
-Patriotism
-Self-help
-Moral integrity
-Sacrifice
-Puritan work ethic
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-“Square America”
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-New Establishment
-Herman Kahn
-Scheduling approach
-Goals
-1974 election
-Scheduling approach
-Senate, governorships
-House of Representatives
-Target districts
-Visit to localities
-Regional balance
-South
-Mississippi
-John C. Stennis event
-New Orleans
-Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
-Al Smith event
-New York
-Iowa
-Herbert Hoover birthplace event
-Focus on big issues
-TV appearances
-Vetoes

President's schedule
-March, April
-State dinners
-Lee Kuan Yew
-Giulio Andreotti
-Lee Kuan Yew
-Stag dinner
-Wife’s attendance
-Speech
-Press coverage
-Howard K. Smith
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-Roscoe Drummond
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Views on world
-Vietnam
-Stag dinners
-Size
-New Establishment
-Leaders
-Howard K. Smith
-Donald McI Kendall
-New Labor
-Conservative Academics
-Texas
-Labor, church leaders
-Foreign policy interest
-“Elites”
-Invitations
-Newbold (“Newby”) Noyes, Jr.
-Katherine L. Graham
-Mike Flynn, New York Daily News
-Adrian Lee [?], [unintelligible name]
-Lee Kuan Yew
-Private dinner
-Press coverage
-Guest list [?]
-State dinners
-Andreotti
-Trip to Key Biscayne
-Congressional recess
-Kakuei Tanaka Visit
-Scheduling
-Relation to trip to USSR
-Another state visit
-Black
-VFW speech
-Trip to California
-Europe trip
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-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Tanaka visit
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran] visit to US

Public relations
-Tour of nation
-Value
-Reception
-Influence of POWs
-Events at White House
-Value to President
-Paul Keyes
-Pearl M. Bailey, Willy Brandt
-TV
-Film footage
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Publicity of previous trips
-Need for activity

Congressional relations
-Objectives
-Budget battle
-Legislated appropriations
-Veto overrides
-Public pressure on Congress
-Surrogates
-Support for President
-Letter writing campaign
-Self-help
-President’s veto
-Aid to North Vietnam
-Compared to budget battle
-Public support
-Rogers, Kissinger, Elliot L Richardson, George P. Shultz, William E. Simon
-Assistant Secretaries
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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:15 pm.

Women

Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Marriage

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Sanchez and Haldeman left.