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Conversation No. 653-6

Date: January 24, 1972
Time: 10:04 am - unknown before 10:34 am
Location: Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule
-Budget message
-Press coverage
-Presidential statement
-George P. Shultz
-Press
-Television
-Press coverage
-Value
-Frank L. Rizzo
-John D. Ehrlichman’s conversation with Walter H. Annenberg
-Meeting with Ehrlichman, January 24, 1972
-Possible meeting
-Timing
-Ehrlichman’s staff
-Kurt Waldheim
-Subjects for discussion
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Talking points
-Length of meeting

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:04 am and 10:13 am.]
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[Conversation No. 653-6a]

-Arrangements

[End of telephone conversation]

-United Nations [UN]
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Rizzo
-Stephen B. Bull

Budget message
-Effort at composition
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] staff’s work
-Importance
-Recognition

Bicentennial celebration
-Responsibility
-Story
-Status
-Rizzo’s possible complaint
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.’s work
-The President’s possible involvement
-Shultz’s work
-Budget
-Ehrlichman’s involvement

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:04 am.

Unknown items
-Disposition

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:13 am.

Bicentennial celebration
-Shultz
-Leonard Garment
-Robert H. Finch
-Philadelphia
-Plans
-Rizzo’s involvement
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-Federal subsidy
-Fifty state parks
-Mahoney’s idea

Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:13 am.

Woods’s schedule

Budget message
-Shultz
-Typists
-The President’s gratitude

The President’s speech on Vietnam peace plan, January 25, 1972
-William L. Safire’s draft
-The President’s review
-Kissinger
-The President’s review
-Delivery to Kissinger
-Kissinger’s schedule
-The President’s schedule
-Call to Kissinger
-Meeting with Rizzo
-UN meeting

Woods left at 10:15 am.

Bicentennial
-White House staff involvement

Monday article
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Departure from administration
-Role in Administration
-Substantive matters
-Supersonic Transport [SST] briefing
-Desired role
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s role
-Military support facilities
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-Attendance at War College
-Knowledge of military strategy
-Work with prisoner of war [POWs] wives
-Briefings
-Attendance

National Security Council [NSC]
-Kissinger’s views
-Ehrlichman’s talk with Haldeman, January 24, 1972
-Conversation with Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Ehrlichman’s work

Hughes
-Command position
-White House
-[Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft]
-Mental and Administrative ability
-Departure
-Air Force decision
-Command position
-Texas
-Asia
-Promotion

Cabinet dinner, January 20, 1972
-Harry S. Dent
-Recognition
-Support for the Administration

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.

Mistaken request for Bull

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:30 am.

Cabinet dinner
-Attendees
-Robert J. Brown
-Charles W. Colson
-Dent
-John W. Dean III
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-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Arthur S. Flemming

Forthcoming dinner for John N. Mitchell
-Dent

Invitations
-Omissions

Reader’s Digest dinner
-Woods’s coordination
-Haldeman’s office’s role
-Alexander P. Butterfield’s role

Political dinners
-Mitchell’s coordination
-Woods’s role

Reader’s Digest dinner
-Woods’s coordination
-List of possible invitees
-Haldeman’s role
-Cuts

Dinners
-Dent
-News summary
-Relations with Cabinet
-Compared with Brown

Cabinet dinner
-[Virginia H. Knauer]

Herbert G. Klein
-Attendance at Cabinet and Congressional leaders meetings
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.)


Dent
-Invitation to leaders meetings
-Loyalty
-Popularity
-Midwest
-Ability

Vietnam peace plan speech
-Public relations effort
-Possible meeting with Kissinger, Haldeman, and the President
-Previous speeches
-Peace deadlines
-Congress
-POWs
-Secret negotiations
-Kissinger
-John A. Scali
-Clark MacGregor
-Klein
-Colson
-Republican senators
-John C. Stennis group
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger’s views
-Columnists

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.

The President’s schedule
-Budget message signing ceremony
-Pens
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Shultz
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman

The President and Bull left at 10:30 am.

[Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:30 am and 10:34 am.]
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[Conversation No. 653-6B]

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Budget message signing ceremony

[End of telephone conversation]