566–14

Conversation No. 566-14

Date: August 17, 1971
Time: 2:55 pm - 3:23 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-Grand Tetons
-Speech
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-Itinerary
-Sightseeing
-Rogers C.B. Morton
Accommodations
-Cabin
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Forthcoming speech at Veterans of War [VFW] meeting
-Draft
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Idaho Falls
-Montana, Oregon, Washington
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Alaska
-Michigan
-Previous trips to states
-The South
-Idaho
-James Byrnes
-South Carolina
-Number
-Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi
-Massachusetts, Rhode Island
-Trip files
-Oregon, Washington, Montana, Alaska, Michigan
-Idaho, Wyoming
-Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, South Dakota, North Dakota
-Karl E. Mundt
-General Beadle College
-Green Bay, Wisconsin

National economy
-President's program
-John B. Connally's role
-Momentum
-Public reaction
-Polls
-Possible speeches
-Inflation, employment
-Charles W. Colson
-Effect
-Congress
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-Reaction
-Stock market
-Volume
-Traders
-News media
-Possible Administration response

President's speeches
-President’s schedule

President’s schedule
-Women’s meeting

President’s speeches
-Milk producers
-Preparation
-Thomas R. Shepard, Jr. of Look magazine
-Speechwriter

Henry A. Kissinger entered and Haldeman left at 3:07 pm.

Stock market

US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Kissinger's conversation With Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Accidental War Treaty
-Signing
-Timing
-William Rogers
-President's forthcoming Summit meeting
-Announcement
-Timing
-Trip
-Timing
-Berlin
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Message
-Dobrynin
-The President’s second term
-Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
-President's economic program
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National economy
-President's program
-Kissinger's conversations
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-1930’s
-Jacob K. Javits
-Statement
-1972 election
-Administration
-Wage and price freeze
-Public psychology
-Vietnam
-USSR

News media
-Attack on presidential policy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Youth
-Vietnam
-July 15, 1971
-Madame Binh
-Negotiating points
-National economy
-Issue

US-USSR relations
-President's forthcoming Summit meeting
-Announcement
-Timing
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-India
-Kissinger's conversations in PRC
-India

Kissinger's schedule
-Children
-Vietnam negotiations
-Possible trip
-Elections
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 566-14 (cont.)


-Eight Points
-Le Duc Tho
-Eight Points
-Possible North Vietnamese attacks
-PRC
-Kissinger’s and the President’s trips

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Announcement of President's forthcoming trip to Moscow
-President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Connally's conversation with Kissinger
-Pace
-PRC
-Possible effect of USSR and PRC invitations to the President

Kissinger's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Announcement
-Timing
-Compared to USSR summit announcement

President's schedule
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy

Kennedy
-Trip to India
-Pakistan
-Claim
-Possible effect
-Biafra
-Constituency
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 566-14 (cont.)


Vietnam
-President's policy
-Johnson's policy
-Possible military activities
-President's forthcoming trips
-Possible reaction by Americans
-Negotiations
-Prospects
-US troop withdrawals
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease-fire
-Schedule

Kissinger's schedule

Javits
-Relationship with the Administration
-Schedule
-San Clemente
-Kissinger
-The President

Kissinger’s schedule
-The announcement
-PRC

Kissinger left at 3:23 pm.