664–13

Conversation No. 664-13

Date: February 2, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:41 pm and 12:43 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Request for Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[The President talked with Haig at an unknown time between 12:41 pm and 12:43 pm.]

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Location

John W. McCormack
-Visit to President
-Briefing by Haig
-Haig’s schedule

The President met with McCormack at 12:43 pm; the White House photographer was present at
the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
-Pearl M. Bailey meeting
-Request for refreshments
-McCormack schedule
-Feelings for McCormack


McCormack role
-Bipartisan meetings
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-President’s upcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Carl B. Albert
-Previous conversation with the President
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Relationship with the President
-General briefings
-Representative of US
-Availability
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 664-13 (cont.)


-Anastasio Somoza Debayle
-Death of Danish King Frederik IX
-Johnson
-Johnson-Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt
-[Duke of Windsor] Edward VIII
-Representative
-Somoza
-McCormack meeting
-Location and timing
-Jim Fitzgerald role
-Attendance at West Point
-Somoza’s relationship with Fitzgerald

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.

Gratitude

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.


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National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Vietnam
-North Vietnamese attack
-South Vietnam
-Peace proposals
-Further concessions
-Communist government in South Vietnam
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu resignation
-Upcoming elections
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 664-13 (cont.)


-International supervision
-Withdrawal of US forces
-Ceasefire and prisoners of war [POWs]
-McCormack view
-Advice to Johnson
-Free elections
-International supervision
-United Nations [UN]
-Ceasefire
-Support
-North and South Vietnam


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The President’s forthcoming trips to the PRC and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR]

Congressional concerns
-Views of McCormack and President
-Similarity
-House un-American Activities Committee [HUAC]
-McCormack’s support as majority leader

State of Nation
-McCormack’s opinion
-Pearl Harbor
-Recovery
-Amount of time
-Current defense
-Need for readiness
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 664-13 (cont.)


-Defense budget
-John C. Stennis and F. Edward Hebert
-McCormack’s recent talk with Hebert
-Lucious Mendel Rivers
-Need for strength
-Gerald R. Ford
-Support for the President’s January 25, 1972 peace proposals
-Hebert
-Modern warfare
-Preparations
-McCormack’s comments at dedication
-Cook
-Pearl Harbor
-Drawbacks
-Preparation
-Necessity
-Need for top spot
-Potential encouragement to US enemies
-Importance emphasized

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

PRC trip
-Timing
-Europeans
-Japanese
-Schedule
-The President’s upcoming meetings
-Information on PRC
-President’s reading
-McCormack
-PRC ideology
-PRC women
-Radicalism in politics

Women
-Comparisons to men in politics
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 664-13 (cont.)


-Emotion compared to reason
-PRC
-Clothing
-McCormack
-Women’s liberation

Farewells
-Return visit
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Catholics
-Knights of Malta
-History
-The Crusades
-Military
-Hospitallers of St. John
-M. Harriet (Joyce) McCormack
-Pope Pius XII
-Feeling for communism

McCormack left at 1:00 pm.