574–3

Conversation No. 574-3

Date: September 17, 1971
Time: 9:08 am - 10:03 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. Haldeman, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Oliver F. (“Ollie”)
Atkins.
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Color photographs
-Atkins
-Publication in Monday
-Time
-Type
-Posing
-Conversation with H. R. Haldeman

New Senator from Vermont [Robert T. Stafford]
-George D. Aiken, Michael J. Mansfield
-Possible meeting and telephone call
-Congratulations
-Time
-Aiken
-House conference report

Atkins and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:17 am.

-Support for the President
-Handling of congratulatory telephone call

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:08 am and
9:17 am.

[Conversation No. 574-3A]

[See Conversation No. 9-57]

[End of telephone conversation]

Press relations
-Miami Herald
-Orientation
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Miami Herald, Chicago Sun-Times
-Story
-Effect
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Press stories
-Type of stories
-Vote against military service draft bill
-President’s statement
-Handling of news story
-Economic issues
-Dollar

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

New York Daily News
-Constance M. Stuart
-Review
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's television program

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:17 am.

The President's schedule
-Race car drivers
-Reception
-Time
-Image of race car drivers
-Astronauts
-Previous conversation with the President
-Competitiveness
-American spirit
-Mechanics
-Haldeman’s view
-Meetings
-Type of people
-Supporters of the President
-College professors
-Meetings with professional bowlers, September 12, 1971
-Scheduling of event
-Meeting with the Head of the American Legion
-John H. Geiger
-White House bowling alley
-Visit
-Bowling
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-Photographers
-Number of professional bowlers
-People interested in bowling

Tennis
-Players
-Los Angeles
-Stan Smith
-Previous visit to the White House
-Jack Kramer
-Type of game
-The President’s view
-Men
-Popularity of game
-Robert H. Finch
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Tennis matches
-Comparison to opera
-Bowling comparison to rock or pop concerts
-Reception at event

The President's schedule
-Previous meeting with astronauts
-Familities
-Children
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Handling of news story
-David R. Scott
-Race car drivers
-Presence of race car

Forthcoming Congressional meeting at the White House
-William Proxmire
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein, Paul W. McCracken
-Counterbalance to Congressmen and support for the President
-John B. Connally
-Effect of absence
-Vice President Agnew
-Tone and type of presentation
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Look magazine
-Forthcoming cessation of publishing
-Unknown writer and Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Life's status
-Magazines
-Gardner Cowles
-Status in current marketplace
-Special interest magazines and newsmagazines
-Racing car magazine
-Special interest
-Movie magazines
-California magazine
-Articles
-Pictures
-Patios
-Hawaii
-Layout
-Travel
-Homemakeing
-Gardening
-Cooking

The President talked with Stafford between 9:17 am and 9:18 am.

[Conversation No. 574-3B]

[See Conversation No. 9-58]

[End of telephone conversation]

Stafford
-Location
-Appointment situation
-Swearing-in

Robert J. Dole

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:18 am and
10:03 am.

[Conversation No. 574-3C]
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[See Conversation No. 9-59]

[End of telephone conversation]

Military service draft bill
-Dole
-Interest
-Clark MacGregor
-Projected support of bill
-Key issues
-Defense issues
-Dole
-Type of position
-Support for the President

Economic policies
-Announcement of the end of Phase I
-Shultz
-William L. Safire
-Ideas
-Wording
-Shultz
-Connally
-Channels and coordination

Speechwriting
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Safire
-Buchanan
-Safire
-Leading news story
-Quote from the President
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Statement
-Wording
-Freeze duration
-Program
-Type of news story
-Safire
-Type of writer
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-Long term assignments compared with daily stories
-Safire's ideas and focus

Economic policies
-The economy
-Connally
-Wage-price freeze
-Freeze
-Duration
-Time
-Date
-Psychological effect
-Wording of announcement

Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak's story
-Handling
-Correction of errata for historical record
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view

Press stories
-Articles
-Summary
-Controversy
-Lack of argument
-Administration response
-Mansfield story
-Reflection on the Prsident
-The President's strategy
-Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Buchanan
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Wording of statement
-Response to Democrats
-Issues affecting the national interest
-Vietnam
-Military service draft
-Economic policies
-Wage and price freeze
-Response
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-Kissinger
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Safire
-Focus issues on economic issues
-Foreign issues
-Buchanan
-Mobilization of conservatives
-Safire
-Comparison with Buchanan
-Appeal to conservatives
-Answers to reporters in briefings
-Type of job
-Mansfield
-Safire
-United Press International [UPI]
-Source of information
-Speechwriter
-Wider coverage of Mansfield's story
-Implications
-Safire
-MacGregor
-Response
-Coslon
-MacGregor
-Response
-Effect of Safire and UPI on the administration
-Response
-Ernest F. (“Fritz”) Hollings
-Meeting of the Senators
-Voting position
-Handling of story by the administration
-Safire
-Written story
-Source of information
-Democrat Senator
-Safire's response
-Democrats' response
-Administration's position
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Staff
-Allen Locke
-Possible appointment
-Professor of geology
-Environmentalist
-Shepard
-Position on advisory council
-Domestic Council
-Speech for the President
-Shepard's article
-Response to administration
-Statistics
-Government reporting
-Misinterpretation
-John C. Whitaker

The environment
-Pollution
-Birds
-Mockingbirds
-Shepard
-Whitaker
-Position paper
-Reconciliation of facts
-Paper
-Resolution
-Ehrlichman

Foreign affairs
-White House announcements
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Japan
-Terms
-Overseas customer
-Semantics
-Comparison to Canada
-Size
-US foreign relations
-Overseas customer

Press relations
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-Winchester's handling of astronaut news story
-Safire
-Buchanan
-Safire
-Type of work
-Support for the President

Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Work on speech series
-Projected completion
-Subjects
-Busing
The President's trip to Detroit
-Busing question
-Regional appeal of issues
-Pontiac, Michigan

Speeches
-Issues
-The position of the US in the world
-Isolationism
-Use of quotes from the President's speeches by Cabinet officials
-Buchanan
-John A. Scali, Price
-Speechwriters
-Effect of speech
-Congressmen
-Senators
-Effectiveness of speeches
-Congressmen
-Senators
-Buchanan
-Economy issue
-The President's speech
-Effect on Capitol Hill

Administration's response to the Democrats
-Colson
-Vice President Agnew's role
-Governors' Conference
-Revenue sharing
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-Democrats
-Defense issues
-Right wing
-Buchanan
-Senate

Television
-Independent group of television station owners
-Accuracy in news reporting
-Monitoring system
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] affiliate
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC], National Broadcasting Corporation
[NBC]
-Use of data from Edith Efron's book
-Network officials
-Counteraction
-Forthcoming 1972 presidential system
-Handling of bias issue

Democrats
-Handling of issues
-Military draft
-Obstruction
-Partisanship
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam war
-Peace efforts
-Draft
-The economy and the wage and price freeze
-Support for the President

The President's schedule
-Trip to Camp Hoover
-Comparison to Camp David trip
-Length
-Time
-Flight pattern
-Dinner

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:18 am.
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Kissinger's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.

The President's schedule
-Camp Hoover
-Feasibility of using facility
-Cabin
-Dining room
-Winter season
-Spring season
-Manolo Sanchez, King Timahoe

Scheduling
-Press conferences and speeches
-Role of the President
-Public appearances and meetings
-Comparison to Connally
-Press conferences
-Use of the President's time
-Leadership projection
-The President's role
-Buchanan
-Appearances
-Number
-In Washington, DC
-Out of Washington, DC
-Nebraska, New Hampshire
-Cow Palace
-Possible impact
-Types of speeches
-Iowa
-Texas
-Projection of leadership qualities
-Press conference
-Effectiveness
-Speeches
-Comparisons on effectiveness and time spent on preparation
-Wording
-Effect compared with prepared speech
-Radio talks
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Kissinger entered at 9:52 am.

Press briefing
-Scali
-Associated Press [AP], UPI

Vietnam
-Public relations
-Impact
-Speculation
-Policy
-The President
-George S. McGovern
-Timing and method of withdrawal
-Troop withdrawal
-Timing
-Strategy
-Plan
-Goal
-South Vietnam
-Retention of government
-Return of Prisoner of War [POWs]
-Responsibillity of the President's opponents
-McGovern's comments on ceasefire
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam position
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Strategy
-Flexibility
-Time duration
-Forthcoming US Presidential election
-Effect on negotiations
-Post North Vietnamese action
-Strategy


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- Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-North Vietnam
-Artillery action
-Target
-The President’s instructions
-Statement
-Timing
-Armed forces
-North Vietnam action
-US military action
-Melvin R. Laird
-DMZ
-Negotiations
-US position
-Target
-Dong Hoi
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Forthcoming trip
-Time
-Military action
-The President’s instructions
-Public relations
-Handling
-Violations
-DMZ

Press conference, September 16, 1971
-The new economic policy
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
-Use of quotes from the President's press conferences
-US image
-Isolationism
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-International role
-Partisanship
-Democrats
-Agnew
-Draft
-Vietnam
-Reaction
-Party
-Press response

Vietnam
-Withdrawal
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-News reporting of the President's comments
-Diem
-Thieu
-The President's response in press conference
-Follow-up
-Effect of present stance
-Press
-Saigon

Foreign relations
-US foreign aid
-Elected foreign leaders
-Manner of attaining office
-Statistics
-Percentages
-Parliamentary governments

Environmental issues
-Birds

Kissinger's press briefing
-Stewart M. Hensley
-Vietnam issue
-Administration strategy
-The President's position
-Opponents

Schedule
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-Maurice H. Stans

Kissinger left at 10:03 am.

Stans's forthcoming meeting with the President
-Minority Business Enterprise
-Fundraising dinners

Meeting with Safire
-Use of quotes from presidential statements

Haldeman left at 10:03 am.