Secret White House Tapes

660–8

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660–8
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Julie Nixon Eisenhower
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Barbara H. Franklin
  • George P. Shultz
  • Herbert Stein
  • Marina N. Whitman
  • UNKNOWN
  • White House operator
  • John N. Mitchell
  • Idanell Brill "Nellie" Connally
  • Henry A. Kissinger
January 29, 1972
Conversation No. 660-8

Date: January 29, 1972
Time: 9:05 am - 12:10 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

White House staff
-Relations with John B. Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan

[Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 9:05 am and 9:08 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8A]

[See Conversation Nos. 19-161 and 19-162; two items have been withdrawn from the
conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

White House staff
-Relations with Connally
-Compared to George W. Romney, John A. Volpe
-Awareness by subordinates
-Flanigan
-The President’s confidence
-Access to Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Memorandum
-Connally’s staff
-Handling of work
-Flanigan
-Compared to Henry A. Kissinger
-Need for control
-Sampling mood of administration members
-Alexander P. Butterfield’s role
-Camp David
-Families
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Instruction to Haldeman
-Political interest
-John N. Mitchell
-Treasury Department
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Public profile
-Press reaction
-Jack N. Anderson
-Kissinger’s awareness of problem
-Anderson Papers
-Column in paper
-Kissinger’s greatness
-Negotiations
-John A. Scali’s view
-Kissinger as agent
-Kissinger’s view
-Quality of stories
-Time cover story
-Press reaction
-Fascination with secrecy of Paris trips
-Compared to coverage of the President’s trip to the People’s
Republic of China [PRC]
-Effect of Howard R. Hughes story

Hughes
-Forthcoming biography
-Clifford Irving’s claim
-Helga Hughes’s deposit
-McGraw-Hill payment
-Details of deposits
-Deception
-Swiss bank account
-Irving’s pretense
-Helga Hughes’s actions
-False passport
-Withdrawals
-Extent of press coverage
-Lawrence F. O’Brien and Hubert H. Humphrey
-Possible White House action
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-O’Brien
-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

White House staff
-The President’s schedule
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Farewell greeting
-News summary staff

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

-Quality of administration personnel
-Unknown person
-Location on political spectrum
-Conservatives
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Daniel P. Moynihan’s staff
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Unknown writer of environment program
-Harvard University

Welfare
-Abraham A. Ribicoff’s family assistance plan
-Test program
-Administration line
-Ribicoff’s statement
-Political attraction
-Political attraction
-Public reaction
-Necessity to work
-Moynihan
-Food stamps
-Family assistance
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Moynihan
-Ribicoff
-Budget allocation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Revision
-Starting costs
-Test program
-Necessity for overhaul

Connally
-Kissinger’s role
-Contact on economic matters
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Need to observe
-Desire to please the President
-The President’s need for Connally’s judgment
-Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Narcotics program meeting
-Justice Department
-Unknown official
-Access problems
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Need for trusted staff
-William P. Pannill
-Quality of Connally’s staff
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Problem of homogeneity
-Texans

The Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Staff
-The President’s experience as Vice President
-Budget
-Robert L. King
-Robert Black [?]
-Unknown person
-Quality of the President’s “team”
-Quality
-Recruitment
-Handling

Connally
-Handling of staff
-Chain of command
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Work habits
-Health
-Visits to Camp David
-Benefits
-Handling
-Use in the President’s absence
-Florida
-PRC trip
-Use of helicopter
-Timing
-Possible talk with Haldeman
-Staff problems
-Connally’s possible reaction
-Connally’s work habits
-Reliance on by Administration
-Staff
-Possible White House assistance
-Motivation
-Public service
-Support for political candidates
-Fundraisers
-Ben Valentine’s view
-1962 campaign
-Challenge
-United Way

Page Belcher

Personnel
-Support for the President
-Motivation
-Public service
-Personal reasons
-Perquisites
-Clifford M. Hardin’s view
-Social events
-Compared to those in Los Angeles
-Counsellor general
-Ambassadors
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Assistant secretaries
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)



Protest at White House dinner for DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace, January 28, 1972
-Compared to Eartha Kitt’s action


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-Martha (Beall) Mitchell’s reaction
-Benefits of candor
-Protestor [Carol Feraci]
-Background
-Name change
-Manolo Sanchez’s view
-Removal
-The President’s possible action
-Ray Conniff’s action
-Nature of comments
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Daniel J. and Philip F. Berrigan brothers
-Conniff’s comment
-Crowd reaction
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Reaction of other singers
-Washington Post story
-Conniff
-Handling of protestor
-The President’s possible action
-Unknown person
-Manners
-Possible reaction by group
-Singers’ reaction
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Effect
-Possible claim by Feraci
-Compared to Kitt’s
-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Manners
-Appropriateness of protest
-The President’s congratulations
-Reader’s Digest
-Marine Band
-Reception
-Vietnam veterans in band
-Possible press action
-Possible press action
-Compared to Lawrence Welk
-Feraci
-Dress
-Protestors in other groups
-Howard De Silva
-Political orientation
-1776
-Benjamin Franklin
-The propriety of President’s reaction
-Crowd reaction
-Feraci
-Conniff’s action
-Motivation
-Conniff’s reaction
-Singers’ reaction
-The President’s reaction
-Timing
-Conniff’s comment
-The President’s speeches
-Feraci
-Press reaction

Connally
-Gregariousness
-Compared to The President
-Frequency
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Cabinet
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Work habits
-Staff
-Grasp of problems
-Handling
-Appointments
-US Treasurer
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Attitude toward White House staff
-Press
-Flanigan
-Ehrlichman
-VAT

Whitman appointment
-Quality
-Leak
-University [of Pittsburgh]
-Details
-Grant to husband [Robert Whitman]

Previous night’s protest


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-Press coverage
-Reaction
-Removal of protestor
-The President’s reaction
-Mulcahy’s reaction
-Overall success of evening
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Toasts
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-William P. Rogers
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-The President
-Dining Room
-Presentation of Medal of Freedom
-Reaction of Wallaces
-Public perception
-Recounting of events
-Amplification
-New York
-Publicity for Conniff
-Feraci’s action
-Sign
-Transport
-Message
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon observation
-The President’s view
-Prior planning
-Compared to Kitt’s action

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

Whitman’s meeting
-Herbert Stein
-Shultz
-Barbara H. Franklin
-Arrangements
-Photograph session
-The President’s possible comments
-Swearing-in
-Attendance of women
-Press coverage
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President’s possible comments

The President left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

Previous night’s protest
-Press coverage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Herbert G. Klein
-Mulcahy
-Comments

The President entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

Whitman announcement
-Press
-Remarks
-Confirmation
-Status
-Stein
-Frederic V. Malek
-Franklin
-Swearing-in
-Timing
-Need for confirmation
-Compared to Chairman of CEA
-Franklin
-Photograph session
-Press coverage
-Orchestration of announcement

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

Previous night’s protest
-Sarah McLendon’s reaction
-Crowd reaction

Whitman, Franklin, Shultz and Stein entered at 10:05 am; the White House photographer was
present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

The President’s plans for statement

Seating

Appointment of Whitman
-The President’s plans for statement
-Necessity for confirmation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Whitman’s background
-Father, John von Neumann
-Book, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)
-Princeton University
-Background
-Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
-Oskar Morganstern
-Thesis
-Politics
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] [?]
-Confirmation
-Whitman statement
-Importance
-Whitman’s gender
-Whitman’s qualifications
-Stein’s view
-Nondiscrimination
-Concern with ability irrespective of race, religion, gender
-Whitman’s qualifications
-Experience
-Intelligence
-Stein
-Ezra Solomon
-Other members of CEA
-Male to female ratio
-Whitman’s family
-Economic challenge
-Practice of economics vs. teaching
-Whitman’s previous role in CEA
-The President’s statement of August 15, 1971
-Stein
-Solomon
-Whitman’s forthcoming responsibilities
-International economics
-Wage and price controls
-Price Commission
-Whitman’s husband, Robert Whitman
-The President’s education
-Blame and credit for economic fluctuations
-Women’s liberation groups
-Basis of selection
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Qualifications
-Compared to gender
-Availability of women
-Supreme Court appointment
-The President’s talk with Shultz
-Stein
-Lawyers
-Compared to economists
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Public relations
-Meeting other officials
-John B. Connally
-Health
-Paul A. Volcker
-Price Commission
-Possible call to Connally
-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD]
-Possible call to Connally
-Stein’s schedule
-Paris
-Whitman’s schedule
-Pittsburgh
-Whitman’s children
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s and Tricia Nixon Cox’s views of appointment
-Supreme Court
-ABA

Farewells

Whitman, et al., except Haldeman, left at 10:25 am.

Whitman appointment
-Whitman’s assets
-Appearance
-Intelligence
-Presence before cameras
-Public relations
-Assets of appointment
-Impact of gender
-Identification with common problems
-Compared to legal field
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Franklin
-Swearing-in
-Attendance of women
-Romana A. Banuelos
-Helen D. Bentley
-Gender issue

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:25 am.

Phone call to Joanne Goldwater Ross
-Unavailability

Request that Charles W. Colson join them

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

Whitman appointment
-Public relations
-John Von Neumann
-Story about little boy

Aging
-Lila Wallace
-Hope
-Appearance
-Delores (Reade) Hope
-Aging of Presidents
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
-Photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Inaugurations
-The President


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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)



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-Worrying in office
-Lyndon Johnson
-Press relations
-Press Secretary
-Bugging of briefings
-Calls during briefing
-Connally

Colson entered at 10:30 am.

-Delores Hope’s observations of others
-Bob Hope
-World travels
-Charitable work
-Health
-The President’s aging
-Compared to Kennedy, Johnson
-Kennedy’s health
-Cortisone
-Lyndon Johnson’s aging
-Rapidity
-Life style
-Senate life style
-The President’s life style

George Meany
-Call from Shultz
-Follow-up to the President’s call
-Call from budget office public relations person
-Columbia inquiry
-Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes special
-Camera coverage
-Kissinger briefing
-Relations with White House
-Foreign policy views
-White House interns
-Request of Wallace to Film
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Reason
-Desire for rapport
-Reasons
-Partisanship
-Background
-Irish
-Courtesy
-Courtesy
-Irish contrasted with British
-Treatment of allies

Whitman appointment
-Benefits
-Whitman’s qualities
-Appearance
-Intelligence
-Family
-As spokesperson
-Solomon
-Today show
-As saleswoman
-Today show spot
-Timing
-Confirmation
-Women’s magazines
-Economic publications
-Business Week
-Uniqueness of female economist
-Stein’s comment
-Ability of women
-Mathematics
-Business world
-Sylvia F. Porter
-CEA
-Spokesman role
-Stein
-Solomon
-The President’s schedule
-Connally’s view
-Stein’s role
-Recollections of John von Neumann
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)



John von Neumann’s book
-Presentation
-Health
-Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
-Haldeman’s reading
-International relations
-Kissinger

Poll

Previous night’s protestor
-Media coverage of White House parties
-Mrs. Nixon’s view
-Radio play
-Content
-Effect
-Public perception
-Administration reaction
-Feraci
-Citizenship
-Action
-Mulcahy’s remark
-Rose Mary Woods
-Radio coverage
-Broadcast of crowd reaction
-The President’s response to protest
-Praise of Marine Corps band
-Timing
-Conniff’s apology
-Reference to the President’s speeches
-Timing
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Public reception of peace efforts
-Woods
-Schedule
-Reaction
-Martha Mitchell’s reaction

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 10:30 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


Woods’s location
-Attendance at meeting

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:43 am.

Previous night’s protest
-The President’s reaction
-Feraci
-Praise of Marine Corps band
-Gratitude to other singers

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:30 am and
10:43 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8B]

[See Conversation No. 19-163]

[End of telephone conversation]

Public relations
-Martha Mitchell
-Statement about Feraci
-Press coverage
-Clark MacGregor
-Congressional wives’ inquiries
-Luncheons given by Barbara MacGregor
-Attendance

[The President talked with Mitchell between 10:43 am and 10:47 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8C]

[See Conversation No. 19-164]

[End of telephone conversation]

Previous night’s dinner
-Martha Mitchell’s reaction to protest
-Publicity
-Televising of award presentation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Feraci
-Publicity possibilities
-Today show
-Wallace
-Reaction
-Removal
-Audience
-Conniff
-Klein’s actions
-Mood of country
-Reaction
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech


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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:47 am.

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:47 am.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.


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Agriculture
-Possible press conference
-Unknown primary
-Earl L. Butz
-Compared to Ezra Taft Benson
-Colson’s suggestion
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Letters to Democratic presidential candidate in Senate
-Partisanship
-Concern with image
-Compared to others in Cabinet
-Response of audiences
-Donald E. Johnson
-American Farm Bureau Federation

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:47 am.

The President’s schedule
-Helicopter to Camp David
-Kissinger meeting
-Forthcoming call
-Mrs. Nixon

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.


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Hatred for the President
-Democrats
-Compared to Lyndon Johnson
-Administration response
-Pornographic movies and books
-Timing of release
-1961
-Washington, DC, New York
-Public perception
-Republican attacks
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Roosevelt
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Undignified actions
-Effect on office
-Public perception of the Administration
-Protest at dinner
-John Mitchell
-James O. Eastland’s view
-Eastland’s relations with Edward M. Kennedy
-Alfalfa dinner
-Disagreement
-Honesty


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White House dinner
-Lila Wallace
-Health
-Conversation with the President at the White House dinner
-Lila Tyng
-Henry Luce
-Clare Booth Luce
-Sommerset Maugham
-Divorce
-Wife’s comment

Robert J. Dole

Edward M. Kennedy
-View of love
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Compared to George A. Smathers

Smathers
-Wife, Carolyn Hyder Smathers
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Colson’s congratulations
-Rosemary Smathers


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[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:47 am and
11:44 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8D]

[See Conversation No. 19-165; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[The call was placed on hold]


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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)



[Haldeman talked with Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally at an unknown time after 10:47 am.]

[Continuation of Conversation No. 660-8D]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:47 am and
11:44 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8E]

[See Conversation No. 19-166]

[End of telephone conversation]

Camp David trip
-Scheduling
-John Connally
-Health
-Residence
-Helicopter
-Naval Observatory


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[Nellie Connally talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 10:47 am and 11:44 am.]

[Conversation No. 660-8F]
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


[See Conversation No. 19-167; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:47 am.

The President’s schedule
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.

Poll
-Vietnam issue
-Support for the President
-Publishers

Kissinger entered and Colson left at 11:44 am.

Briefing book
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam
-Questions from press
-Preparation
-Briefing book
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-North Vietnam
-Response to the President’s peace proposals
-Timing
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Military action
-Action
-Press conference
-Timing
-February 10, 1972
-Television
-Thrust of criticism
-Kissinger’s talks with press
-Edward Kennedy’s call to Thomas W. Braden
-Rowland Evans’s and Braden’s call to Katharine L. Graham
-Graham’s call to Kissinger
-Talk to editorialists
-Op-ed article
-Marshall Green

The President’s foreign policy
-Vietnam
-State of the world speech, February 8, 1972
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Recent foreign policy coups
-Charles H. Percy
-Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
-Percy’s support for the President
-Mary McGrory
-Peter G. Peterson
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Press conference
-Timing
-Briefing work
-Topics
-Domestic policy
-Foreign policy
-PRC trip
-Domestic issues
-Ziegler
-Domination of foreign issues
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


Previous night’s protest
-Kissinger’s view
-Removal of protestor
-Applause
-Conniff
-The President’s reaction
-Appreciation
-Reader’s Digest
-Applause
-Marine Band

Dinner attended by Kissinger, January 28, 1972
-Dobrynin’s remarks
-The President’s trip to PRC
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Soviet Union

McGrory
-Kissinger

Dobrynin

Israeli
-View of the President
-Moshe Dayan
-Golda Meir
-Phantoms deal
-Delay
-Middle East problems

Dinner attended by Kissinger
-Memorandum from Kissinger to William P. Rogers
-Routing of memorandum
-PRC trip
-Rogers
-Message from Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Timing
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Trade negotiations
-Vietnam
-Middle East
-Kissinger’s relations with Rogers

Rogers
-Attendance at previous night’s dinner
-PRC memorandum of conversations
-Sanitization
-Press briefings
-Rogers’s access
-Press relations

Previous night’s protest
-Kitt
-Lady Bird Johnson
-The President’s reaction
-Possible alternatives
-Content of protest
-Berrigan brothers
-Ellsberg

The President’s schedule
-Republican Governors Conference
-Ronald W. Reagan, Tom McCall, Daniel J. Evans meeting
-Dock strike
-Reagan, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Richard B. Ogilvie meeting
-Revenue-sharing
-Timing
-Press conference
-Camp David
-Memoranda
-The President’s health
-PRC trip
-John Connally
-Effect of illness
-Republican House and Senate members breakfast meetings
-Timing
Lincoln Day recess
-Invitations
-By seniority
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-By assignment
-Budget
-William J. Scherle
-Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
-John N. Ashbrook meeting
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr. meeting
-Necessity
-Timing
-PRC trip


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Vietnam
-As issue
-The President’s endurance of criticism
-Kissinger’s Meeting with Prisoners of war [POW] families, January 28, 1972
-Applause
-Compared to previous meetings
-Women
-Questions and comments
-Tone
-Ceasefire and withdrawal
-Deadline
-Unknown man’s son
-Colson’s possible actions
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s previous meeting
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-[Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft]

Previous night’s dinner
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-Hughes

Flu epidemic
-The President’s talk with Nellie Connally
-Dewitt Wallace
-Elmer H. Bobst

PRC trip

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese reaction to US proposals
-Dinner party gossip
-Le Duc Tho’s return
-Press coverage
-Implications
-Resumption of secret meetings
-Xuan Thuy
-Expectations of type of news coverage
-Haldeman’s view
-Mechanics
-Compared to substance
-Criticism of United States
-George S. McGovern
-Edward Kennedy
-Muskie’s attack
-Ceasefire
-Cease-fire
-Kissinger’s briefings
-Clark M. Clifford’s criticism
-Past criticism
-Troop withdrawal in 1969, 1970
-Inconsistencies
-Critics in general

PRC trip
-Preparation
-Book of Kissinger memos
-Background for the President
-Best medium
-Books
-Tone
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Conv. No. 660-8 (cont.)


-Chinese culture
-Mrs. Nixon

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 12:10 pm.
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