665–11

Conversation No. 665-11

Date: February 3, 1972
Time: 4:23 pm - 4:42 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler, Charles W. Colson and Rose Mary Woods.
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President’s previous meeting with Yevgeny Yevtushenko
-Ziegler’s forthcoming comments to press
-The President’s reading
-President’s forthcoming visits to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
and People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Yevtushenko’s visit to US
-Poetry
-Discussion of arts
-Transcending politics

Note to William P. Rogers


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President’s upcoming meeting with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Timing

Woods and Ziegler left at 4:26 pm.

National economy
-Unemployment
-Administration’s statistics
-Unknown person
-Married men
-Percentage
-Compared to early 1960’s
-Colson’s conversation with James D. Hodgson
-Prospects
-Comparisons to last year

Rogers
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-Comments concerning Edmund S. Muskie’s speech on Vietnam

Muskie
-Speech on Vietnam
-Possible administration response
-President’s 1968 Republican Platform Committee statement
-Negotiations
-Peace
-Muskie’s involvement
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s possible response
-Jackson’s forthcoming Meet the Press, February 6, 1972
-Briefing by White House staff member


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Muskie
-Speech on Vietnam
-Possible administration response
-President’s memorandum, February 2, 1972
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John A. Scali
-Rogers
-Compared to John Foster Dulles
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-Barry M. Goldwater
-Rogers

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:26 pm.

President’s schedule
-Moorer
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-President’s instructions

Kissinger’s schedule
-Possible delay
-Robert S. Ingersoll

President’s schedule
-Moorer
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Ingersoll
-Haig

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:42 pm.

National economy
-Unemployment
-Herbert Stein
-Status
-Income
-Inflation
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-Unemployment

Rogers
-Conversation with Colson
-Relations with press
-Conversation with Colson
-Forthcoming Face the Nation, February 6, 1972
-Jackson
-Goldwater speech
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Possible Administration resposne

Muskie
-Speech on Vietnam
-Arizona and Iowa
-Press comment on Muskie speech
-Unknown reporter’s conversation with Colson, January 31, 1972
-Press conference
-Possible attacks by Democrats
-Forthcoming attacks by Jackson
-The environment, busing, and the space shuttls
-Goldwater
-Speech on Vietnam
-Possible administration response

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Peace offer
-Reaction by Viet Cong
-Wall Street Journal editorial
-Distribution
-Administration propaganda
-Upcoming special issues of Monday
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s trip to Africa
-The President’s peace initiatives
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National economy
-Stock Market
-Volume
-American Stock Exchange
-Brokers’ profits
-Comparisons to 1968

Michael J. Mansfield

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:26 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:42 pm.

The press
-Edith Efron
-Colson’s conversation with Leonard H. Goldenson, February 3, 1972
-Network coverage of Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. Committee
-Walter J. Cronkite, Jr.’s testimony
-Accuracy in Media’s challenge to Federal Communications Commission
[FCC]
-David Brinkley’s previous commentary about military state
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President’s schedule
-Florida
-Preparation for forthcoming trip to PRC
-Readings

Colson left at 4:42 pm.