460–17

Conversation No. 460-17

Date: February 26, 1971
Time: 1:26 pm - 2:20 pm
Location: Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
Schedule
-Open Hour
-Delays
-Participants

The President entered at an unknown time after 1:26 pm

The President’s schedule
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-Report to the President
-Yugoslavia
-Saudi Arabia


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-Egypt
-Shakespeare’s meeting with Egyptian publishers
-Possible meeting with the President
-Timing
-Henry Brandon
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-Shakespeare
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Possible conversation with President
-Ambassadorship
-Peter M. Flanigan

-Open Door Hour
Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
Butterfield left at 1:30 pm

-Camp David
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon’s trip to New York
-John B. and Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally

Butterfield entered at 1:31 pm

-Camp David
-The Connallys
-Arrangements
-Accommodations

Butterfield left at 1:35 pm

George H. W. Bush
-White House ceremony

Wilbur D. Mills
-Breakfast meeting with the President

White House ceremonies
-Bush
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Need for ceremony
-Mills
-Bush

Portraits of John Quincy and Louisa C. (Johnson) Adams
-Press accounts
-The Johnsons
-The Kennedys
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-Mrs. Nixon
-Dolley P. T. Madison
-Book to Rose Mary Woods and Marjorie P. Acker

Media
-Mark I. Goode
-Tricia Nixon
-Previous talk at the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Conv.
Performing
No. 460-17
Arts(cont.)
-Assistance
-Mrs. Nixon
-T. Nixon
-Efforts
-Al Scott
-William H. Carruthers
-Goode
-Efforts


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Bryce N. Harlow
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with Harlow
-Contact with the Vice President
-Tennis
-Attendance at Gridiron Dinner
-The Vice President
-Position of Vice President
-Role of Vice President
-Intergovernmental relations
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The President’s schedule
-William P. Rogers
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Middle East
-Charles W. Yost
Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm

-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Timing

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm

Harlow
-Agriculture
-Hyde Murray
-Possible position
-Robert J. Dole
-Forthcoming Presidential trip to Iowa
-Murray
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Conversation with the President
-Page Belcher
-Gerald R. Ford’s view
-Attendees
-Murray

The President’s schedule

Louis Harris poll
-Congressional effectiveness
-The President’s relationship with Congress
-Questions
-Results
-Congressional reputation
-Pollution
-Cigarette advertisements
-Federal aid to education
-Vote for eighteen-year-olds
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-Supersonic Transport [SST] subsidy
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM] treaty
-Anti-crime efforts
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. nomination
-G. Harrold Carswell nomination
-Hospitalization
-Welfare reform
-Social Security Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
-Revenue sharing
-Trends

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm

Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm

State of the World message
-Media
-Kissinger
-New York Times
-Television
-Length
-New York Times
-Length
-William L. Safire
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Radio

Media
-Radio compared to television
-Press conferences
-Benefits of radio
-Use by Administration
-Health message
-Revenue sharing
-Environment
-Health care
-Minorities
-Youth
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-Methods

Media techniques
-Television
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Still photography
-Goode
-Bull Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
-Length of television film
-Speeches
-Brevity
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars speech
-Ziegler
-Safire
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Television
-State of the World speech
-Radio
-Television appearances
-Rogers’ view
-The President’s position
-Radio speech
-Safire

George H. Gallup poll
-Results
-Timing of release

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:35 pm and 2:20 pm]

[Conversation No. 460-17A]

Request for Chapin to join them

[End of telephone conversation]

Chapin entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm

Gallup poll
-Results
-Timing of release
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Chapin left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm

-Interpretation
-Massachusetts
-Cambodia
-Harris poll
-Field poll Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
-Charles W. Colson
-Washington Post
-Edmund S. Muskie compared with the President
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Vietnam
-Economy

Haig
-Kissinger

Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Colson
-Harlow’s view
-Intergovernmental relations
-The Vice President
-Interests


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Haldeman left at 2:20 pm
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