470–13

Conversation No. 470-13

Date: March 19, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:38 pm and 1:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Prisoners of War and Missing in Action [POW/MIA] families
-Compared with Congressmen and Senators
-Hardships on families
-Effect on wives and children

President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Arthur F. Burns meeting
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-Length
-Thomas E. Dewey funeral
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-John M. Harlan
-Call from Chief Justice Warren E. Burger


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-Camp David
-Possible length of stay
-March 22, 1971 program

John A. Scali
-Possible White House position
-Relations with President
-Support for Administration
-Associated Press [AP] career
-Compared with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Possible White House position
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Title
-Leonard Garment
-Implications
-Functions
-Title
-Charles B. (“Bud”) Wilkinson
-Kissinger
-Need
-Haldeman’s conversations with Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Responsibilities
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-Kissinger
-State and Defense Departments
-Henry Catto and Robert J. McCloskey
-William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Role
-Coordination policies
-Public relations
-Laird, [David] Kenneth Rush, and KissingerConv. No. 470-13 (cont.)
-Charles W. Colson
-Kissinger’s press relations
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ziegler
-Compared with Ziegler
-AP experience

Vietnam
-Laos operation
-Purpose
-President’s and Kissinger’s public statements
-Goals
-Kissinger’s statements
-Problems

Scali
-Advice on briefing
-Colson
-Press

Kissinger
-Briefing method
-Columnists
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Television
-Wire services

Burns
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Background memorandum

President’s schedule
-California
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Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Haldeman’s call to John L. McClellan
-Reason
-Vote

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown timeConv.
between
No. 12:38
470-13pm and
(cont.)
12:50 pm]

[Conversation No. 470-13A]

Call to Ford

[End of telephone conversation]

Scali
-Possible White House position
-Possible staff assignment
-Kissinger
-State and Defense Departments
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Scali’s view

[The President talked with Ford between 12:50 pm and 12:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 470-13B]

SST vote
Congress

SST vote
-William E. Timmons
-President’s opponents
-Goal
-Environmentalists
-Senate
-William M. Magruder
-Media position
-Future plans

[End of telephone conversation]
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-Ford’s response

President’s schedule
-Burns
-Dewey funeral
-Seating on plane
-Mrs. Nixon Conv. No. 470-13 (cont.)


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Scali
-Possible White House position
-Kissinger
-Responsibilities
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Colson
-Career
-Change
-Future

White House staff
-Careers before and after White House

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:05 pm
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