460–28

Conversation No. 460-28

Date: February 26, 1971
Time: 6:09 pm - 6:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule
-Peter G. Peterson
-Congress
-Receiving diplomatic credentials

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:09 pm

-Frederic V. Malek

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:15 pm

-Diplomatic credentials
-Medals of Honor ceremonies
-The Vice President’s role
-Press coverage

Middle East
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Role
-President’s position
-Kissinger
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Judgement
-Haldeman’s conversation with Kissinger
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-Haig
-William P. Rogers

The President’s schedule
-Previous meeting with youngster
-Color report
-Inaccuracies
-President’s recollection
-Staff efforts
-Malek
-Richard Ferry
-Role

Middle East
-Kissinger
-Haig

Bull, Malek, and Ferry entered at 6:15 pm

Greetings

Ferry
-Efforts
-President’s appreciation
-Rogers C. B. Morton

Gifts

Bull, et al. left at 6:17 pm

Personnel
-Malek
-[Forename unknown] Hoffman’s job
-Peter M. Flanigan
-J. Willard (“Bill”) Marriott, Jr.
-Roy L. Ash’s conversation with Haldeman
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton

Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:17 pm

Call from Rogers
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Bull left at an unknown time before 6:18 pm

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:17 pm and
6:18 pm]

[Conversation No. 460-28A]

Call to Rogers Conv. No. 460-28 (cont.)

[End of telephone conversation]

Personnel
-Ambassadors
-Thornton
-Australia
-Mexico
-Marriott
-Australia
-Mexico

[The President talked with Rogers between 6:18 pm and 6:19 pm]

[Conversation No. 460-28B]

Forthcoming meeting, 2/27
-Timing

[End of telephone conversation]

-Kissinger
-Melvin R. Laird
-Richard M. Helms
-Rogers
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Israel

Personnel
-Thornton
-Hoffman’s job
-Ambassadorship
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-John N. Irwin, II’s job
-Sale of stock
-Hoffman job


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 Conv. No. 460-28 (cont.)
[National Security]
[Duration: 3m 9s ]


MIDDLE EAST


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Public relations efforts
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-White House staff
-Speeches
-Middle East
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Background briefings
-President’s role
-Connally’s views
-The President’s schedule
-George H. W. Bush
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Charles W. Colson’s role
-Strategy
-Articles
-Television
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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:19 pm and
6:29 pm]

[Conversation No. 460-28C]

Call to Rogers

[End of telephone conversation] Conv. No. 460-28 (cont.)

Public relations efforts
-The President
-White House staff
-The President’s previous remarks
-Reference to Carl Sandburg

[The President talked with Rogers between 6:29 pm and 6:30 pm]

[Conversation No. 460-28D]

Preparation for meeting

[End of telephone conversation]

Middle East
-Kissinger


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m ]


MIDDLE EAST


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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-Forthcoming meeting, February 27

Kissinger
-President’s conversation with James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Kissinger
-Briefing to Congressmen
-Ehrlichman’s briefing about revenue sharing
-Ehrlichman’s call to Reston Conv. No. 460-28 (cont.)
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Carl B. Albert
-Kissinger’s television appearance
-Laos comment

J. William Fulbright
-Call to Haldeman
-Secret meeting

Kissinger
-State Department
-Role
-Television appearance
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Bernard Kalb
-Circumstances
-The President’s position

Television appearances
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-White House staff
-The President’s position
-Flanigan
-Clark MacGregor
-Rose Mary Woods
-MacGregor
-Kissinger
-Foreign policy
-President’s position
-The President’s policy about television appearances
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George H. Gallup polls
-Laos
-Effect
-Discussion of figures
-Forthcoming poll
-Compared to Cambodia
-Figures
-Changes Conv. No. 460-28 (cont.)
-Economy
-Forthcoming press conference
-Need for regular polls

The President and Haldeman left at 6:45 pm