590–2

Conversation No. 590-2

Date: October 13, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:53 am and 11:06 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
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The President's schedule
-Diplomatic credentials ceremonies
-William P. Rogers
-Secretary of State

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:00 am.

-Accreditation of diplomats
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Forthcoming Presidential trips

Butterfield left at 9:05 am.

-Public activities
-Multiple sclerosis
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Public relations
-Social events
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Washington, DC
-Press coverage
-Walter E. Washington
-Crime statistics
-Home rule
-Washington
-Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy
-Demonstrations
-Problems

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 8:53 am and 9:09
am.

[Conversation No. 590-2A]

[See Conversation No. 11-76]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Washington, DC
-Home rule
-House of Representatives
-Senate
-Possible White House statement
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Elections
-Mayor
-City Council
-Julius Hobson
-Fauntroy
Police force
-Jerry V. Wilson
-Blacks
-J. Edgar Hoover

The President talked with Charles W. Colson between 9:09 am and 9:13 am.

[Conversation No. 590-2B]

[See Conversation No. 11-77]

[End of telephone conversation]

Announcement of US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] Summit
-Clark MacGregor
-Leaks
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Democrats

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The President's schedule
-Funeral of Dean G. Acheson
-Funeral of Hugo L. Black
-Editorial Writers Association
-Possibilities
-Democrats
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Background rules
-Topics
-World Series

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 9:13 am and 9:22
am.

[Conversation No. 590-2C]

[See Conversation No. 11-78]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Possibility of attending baseball game
-Pittsburgh
-Radio
-Mrs. Nixon
-Julie and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

The President talked with Congressman Ancher Nelsen between 9:22 am and 9:25 am.

[Conversation No. 590-2D]

[See Conversation No. 11-79]

[End of telephone conversation]

Nelsen
-1968 political support
-Minnesota
-Age
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The President's schedule
-Editorial Writers Association
-Herbert G. Klein
-Television
-Editorials
-Washington Post
-Baseball game
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Ziegler
-The Presidential prediction
-Pittsburgh Pirates
-Richard A. Moore
-Citizens for a New Prosperity
-White House meeting
-Robert B. Anderson
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Dewey F. Barlett
-Karl R. Bendetsen
-Albert L. Cole
-Richard P. Cooley
-Roger Fleming
-Patrick E. Haggerty
-Najeeb E. Halaby
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Administration meetings
-John B. Connally
-Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul W. McCracken, Arnold R. Weber, Peter G.
Peterson
-Press conference
-Hobart D. Lewis
-Henry H. (“Joe”) Fowler
-J. Willard (“Bill”) Marriott
-Pierre Rinfret
-Blair House
-James W. Roche
-Louis Harris
-Citizens for a New Prosperity
-Connally
-Possible meeting
-Television and press
-Possible lunch meeting
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-Possible pre-lunch reception
-Lewis
-Affiliations of members
-General Federation of Women's Clubs
-National Insurance Association
-Chrysler Corporation
-National Business League
-Milk Producers
-White House reception

Supreme Court appointees
-Robert C. Byrd
-Woman
-Top contenders
-Public relations
-Mrs. Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Women’s Liberation Movement
-Moore
-William L. Safire
-Wire service reporter
-Mrs. Nixon
-Byrd
-George S. McGovern
-Mary McGrory

The President's schedule
-Camp Hoover
-Facilities
-Lewis
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Mrs. Nixon
-Description
-Leaders' meeting
-Colson
-Rogers
-Schedule
-New York
-Pittsburgh
-Kissinger
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The President’s trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Secret Service
-Communications
-Size
-Press
-Size
-Ziegler
-Wire service
-Network crew
-Pool reports
-Kissinger’s negotiations
-Peter Lisagor
-New York Times
-Los Angeles Times
-Pool reporters
-Wire services
-Television networks
-Camera crews
-\"80\" plan
-Associated Press [AP], United Press International [UPI]
-News weekly magazines
-Business Week, Life
-Time-Life, Newsweek, US News and World Report
-Television correspondents
-Negotiations with the PRC
-Wire services
-Newpapers
-John A. Scali
-Ziegler
-The President’s view
-Photographers
-AP
-UPI
-Reuters
-Breakdown of press
-Nixon Library
-Film footage
-Kissinger
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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-Press breakdown
-Scali’s view
-Numbers compared with a trip to France
-Wire servicea
-Television
-Secret Service


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-Verbal communication maintenance
-Telephones
-Audiovisual support
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-Accomodations
-Peking
-Communications
-WHCA
-Secret Service
-Official party
-Kissinger, Rogers
-Speechwriter
-Speechwriter
-Hypothetical contengency
-Nikita S. Khrushev
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Haldeman’s view
-Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Lee W. Huebner
-Ziegler
-Gerald L. Warren
-Ziegler's possible assistants
-J. Bruce Whelihan
-Scali
-Warren
-The President's close assistants
-Haldeman
-Chapin
-Secretaries
-Kissinger
-Rose Mary Woods
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-John H. Holdridge
-Winston Lord
-Jonathan Howe
-State Department personnel
-Rogers
-Marshall Green
-Alfred LeS. Jenkins
-Emil (“Bob”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Chapin
-Protocol
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-Military aides
-Stephen B. Bull
-John V. Brennan
-Craig S. Campbell
-Vernon C. Coffey, Jr.
-General schedule
-Kissinger
-First day
-Banquet
-Second day
-Chou En-lai
-Third day
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung
-Fourth day
-Fifth day
-Shanghai, Canton
-Sixth day
-Mao Tse-tung
-Great Wall visit
-Seventh day
-Chou En-lai
-Discussion of schedule
-Length of visit
-The President’s view
-Shanghai
-Red guard
-Kissinger
-Chapin
-Concerns
-Romania, Yugoslavia
-Josef Broz Tito
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Chinese
-Impressions of Chinese
-Compared with Chou
-Mrs. Nixon
-Adele Rogers
-Possible visit to pioneer camps
-Implications
-USSR
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-Mrs. Nixon
-Kissinger
-Concerns
-Scali
-Ziegler
-John W. Chancellor

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:25 am.

The President's schedule
-Hughes
-Walter R. Tkach's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.

-Editorial writers
-Schedule
-Pittsburgh
-Democrats
-Baseball game
-Length

The Presidential trip to PRC
-Kissinger
-Communiqué
-Purpose
-Khrushchev
-Publicity
-Compared with the President's trips to Romania, Yugoslavia
-Kissinger
-Scali
-Chapin
-Role
-Schedule
-Chicago
-Charles H. Percy
-Michael J. Mansfield Ammendment
-Jews
-Relationship with Haldeman
-Jewish dinner in Los Angeles
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The President's relations with the media
-Los Angeles Times
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak

Kissinger
-Schedule
-Chicago
-Percy
-Jews
-Publicity
-Klein
-Ziegler
-George Putnam
-Chicago

The President’s trip to PRC
-Security
-Secret Service
-Whca
-Compared with the President's trip to Europe
-Food

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Connally
-Writers
-Pittsburgh
-Connally

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Liberia
-William R. Tolbert, Jr.
-Inauguration
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-State Department
-David D. Newsom
-Itinerary
-Liberia
-Advantages of trip
-Latin Americans
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The President's relations with Tolbert
-Rogers
-Graham
-Mrs. Nixon
-Adele Rogers

The President’s trip to PRC
-Kissinger
-Implications of trip
-US Presidential election
-Chou En-lai
-Publicity
-Television
-Mrs. Nixon
-Photographs
-The President's trip to Leningrad
-American people
-Attitude
-Chinese people
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung
-Kissinger
-Mrs. Nixon
-Advance work
-Relationship with Chinese for trip arrangements
-Chapin
-Compared with trip arrangements for Europe
-Values of meetings
-Intellectuals

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:25 am.

The President's schedule
-October 13, 1971: 5:00 pm

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.

The President’s trip to PRC
-Compared with trip to Italy
-Meeting with representatives of political parties
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-Analogy with George C. Wallace, Black Panthers

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:35 am.

Dean G. Acheson
-Flags
-Ziegler
-Press
-The President’s order

Butterfield left at 10:37 am.

Press

The Presiden’s trip to PRC
-Kissinger
-Schedule
-European trips
-Scali
-Press
-Chinese
-Scali
-[Forename unknown] Richardson Of AP
-Ping-pong team visit to PRC
-Publicity interests
-Kissinger
-Haile Selassie
-Soviet official
-Tass news agency
-Selassie
-Ethiopia
-Press coverage

The President's schedule
-Diplomatic credentials ceremonies
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Walter E. Washington
-Envoys
-Social functions

The President’s trip to PRC
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-Ground station
-Number of press
-Theodore H. White
-New York Times
-Numbers of media poeple
-Briefing book
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Objectives of visit for both sides
-Purpose for Kissinger
-Schedule
-Kissinger's Paris negotiations
-Schedule
-The President
-Haig
-Khrushchev
-Kissinger's preparations
-Haig
-United Nations [UN] debate on PRC and Taiwan
-Jeffrey Hart
-Book
-Popular opinion
-Column
-Conservatives views
-Human Events
-Kissinger
-US efforts to prevent expulsion
-The President's efforts
-Italy, Great Britain
-Rogers
-George H.W. Bush’s efforts
-James L. Buckley
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Vacillating nations
-Panama
-Venezuela
-US efforts
-Connally
-The President’s schedule
-Congressman
-Rogers
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-Prediction
-The President’s activities
-Kissinger's activities
-The President's possible activities
-Smaller nations
-Kissinger
-Cabinet meeting
-Rogers
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Melvin R. Laird
-Cabinet officers
-Connally
-Robert H. Finch
-Rumsfeld

The President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Historical importance
-Staff realization of day's importance
-Congressional relations
-William E. Timmons
-Soviets
-Kissinger's briefing
-The President's conversations
-Proper attitude

Kissinger
-Briefing books
-Contracted with Daniel P. Moynihan
-Contrasted with Rogers

The President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Handling of public relations
-Press conference
-Arrangements
-Haldeman's assessment of importance of announcement
-Media editorials
-USSR
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit to Yalta
-Ongoing stories
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:37 am.

The President's schedule
-Event
-Press
-Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:06 am.


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The President's accomplishments
-Rogers
-Paris peace negotiations
-Prisoners of war [POW] issue

1972 campaign
-Debates
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-Public statements
-Economy
-Campaign spending law

The President's schedule
-Diplomatic credentials presentation
-Mosbacher
-Use of the President's time
-Ziegler

Haldeman left at 11:06 am.

An unknown person entered at 11:06 am.

The President's schedule

The President and the unknown person left at 11:06 am.