665–6

Conversation No. 665-6

Date: February 3, 1972
Time: 11:53 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Memorandum for William P. Rogers


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President’s schedule
-Florida
-Forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Preparation
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Talking points
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Books read by the President

Memorandum to William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
-Copy of memorandum


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Tape Subject Log
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Nellie L. Yates
-Forthcoming conversation with Woods


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Woods left at 11:58 am.

Kissinger’s schedule
-Florida
-President’s State of World Message

President’s schedule
-Athletes
-Introductions
-Bowie K. Kuhn, Walter Kennedy, Alvin R. (“Pete”) Rozelle
-Interest
-Possible attendance
-Wives
-Buffet
-Views concerning drugs
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Tape Subject Log
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-Seriousness of issue
-Florida
-George P. Shultz
-Location
-Proposal to give Shultz time off
-Popular impression
-Study time for the President
-Key Biscayne
-Walker’s Cay
-Haldeman
-Attendance
-Manolo Sanchez
-Camp David compared to Key Biscayne
-Weather

National economy
-Stock market
-Trade volume
-American Stock Exchange
-American buyers
-Institutional buying
-Unemployment
-Percentage
-New jobs
-Credit
-Herbert Stein, Paul W. McCracken, and Shultz
-Concern
-Money supply
-Shultz
-President’s letter to Arthur F. Burns
-Unemployment
-Possible press coverage
-Acceptable percentages

John B. Connally
-Relationship with David M. Kennedy
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman and Peter M. Flanigan

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:58 am.
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[Duration: 11s ]


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Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.

Kennedy
-Forthcoming meeting with Flanigan
-Ambassador’s authority
-Role with administration
-State Department
-Connally
-Chain of command
-Kissinger’s possible conversation
-Connally
-Kennedy’s style
-Peter G. Peterson
-Role with administration
-Flanigan, Peterson, Rogers
-Role of Ambassador specified
-Compared to Connally
-Group of Ten
-Cabinet status

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:58 am.

President’s schedule
-Florida
-Forthcoming call to Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Athletes reception
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.

Rogers
-Life article concerning President’s foreign policy
-Rogers taking credit
-Woods’s reaction
-Interviews concerning foreign policy
-Credit
-Reports
-Kissinger
-China initiative, Vietnam, Cambodia
-Kissinger’s attitude

The President left and returned at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.

Kissinger’s relations with Rogers
-Possible solutions
-Resignation threat
-Present situation
-Articles
-State Department

Kissinger

Rogers
-Role with Administration
-Relations with the President, Kissinger
-Spokesman
-Kissinger’s conversation with Marshall Green
-State Department
-Memorandum to the President
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger
-The President’s memorandum to Rogers
-Compared to Kissinger
-Attitude
-Statements concerning President
-Attitude
-John N. Mitchell
-Benjamin C. Bradlee and Katharine L. Graham
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-Bradlee’s conversation with Kissinger, February 2, 1972
-Rogers’s job performance
-State Department
-Kissinger’s views
-Bradlee’s views
-Graham’s conversation with Peterson
-Length
-Haldeman’s possible conversations with Peterson
-Bradlee’s views on Rogers
-Comparisons
-Concern
-Rogers’s emotions
-President’s schedule
-Key Biscayne
-Kissinger
-Call to President, February 2, 1972
-Irish Foreign Minister’s [Patrick Hillery’s] arrival
-Statement
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Ireland
-Edward R.G. Heath
-William R. Buckley, Jr.
-US position

Ireland
-Terrance Cardinal Cooke

Rogers
-Role with Administration
-[Earl of Cromer] Georges R.S. Baring
-Ireland
-Hillery
-Rogers’s quest for publicity
-President’s upcoming trip to PRC
-Kissinger
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] trip
-Attitude
-Recognition

Woods entered at 12:34 pm.
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Memorandum to Rogers
-Kissinger

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 12:34 pm and 12:36 pm.]

[Conversation No. 665-6A]

Memorandum to Rogers
-Distribution
-Woods
-Sanchez
-Kissinger’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Memorandum to Rogers
-Sanchez

Woods left at 12:36 pm.

Rogers
-Intellectuals
-Possible actions
-Bradlee and Graham
-Attitude toward the President
-Kissinger
-Possible actions
-Experience as Attorney General
-State Department
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Kissinger
-Marshall Green
-Working group meeting
-President’s upcoming PRC trip
-Rogers’s action
-President’s forthcoming State of the World message
-State Department’s role
-Rogers’s contribution
-Kissinger
-PRC
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State Department
-Robert S. Ingersoll
-Interview with Japanese press
-Congress
-Views concerning Ambassadorship to Japan
-Foreign Service
-Kissinger
-Outlook
-Presidency

Rogers
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger entered at 12:43 pm.

President’s forthcoming memorandum
-PRC
-Kissinger’s opinion
-Wording
-Rogers

Dobrynin
-Conversation with Kissinger, February 3, 1972
-Length of conversation
-State Department

Rogers
-President’s forthcoming memorandum
-European security, trade

Kenneth B. Keating
-Conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Keating’s possible location
-New York
-Campaign activities

Rogers
-President’s forthcoming memorandum
-US-Soviet trade with USSR
-Views of Maurice H. Stans and Peter G. Peterson
-Importance to USSR
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-Middle East

Middle East
-USSR
-Egypt

Rogers
-President’s forthcoming memorandum
-Praise

Rose Mary Woods entered at 12:46 pm.

-Distribution
-Contents of memorandum

Woods left at 12:47 pm.

US relations with USSR
-Staff roles
-High interest
-Peterson
-East-West trade
-President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Peking compared with Moscow
-Washington Star article
-Timing
-Possible story leanings
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Possible leaniness
-President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Middle East
-Vietnam
-Trade
-SALT
-Submarines
-Middle East
-Possible US concessions
-Israel
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-US guarantees
-Planes

[The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 12:47 pm and
12:49 pm.]

[Conversation No. 665-6B]

[See Conversation No. 20-44]

[Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 12:49 pm and 12:51 pm.]

[Conversation No. 665-6C]

[See Conversation No. 20-45; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

President’s schedule
-Yeygeny Yevtushenko
-Agenda
-Mood of US
-Vietnam

Yevtushenko
-Conversation with Kissinger at Jacob K. Javits’s dinner
-The President’s PRC initiative
-Political views
-Liberals
-Support for Vietnam

PRC trip
-Briefing books
-Buchanan
-Press conference

President’s schedule
-Television
-Trip to PRC
-President’s opinion
-Trip to PRC
-Toasts
-Chou En-Lai
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-Context
-Illness
-Vernon C. Coffey, Jr.
-Travel
-Status of individuals
-Banquet
-Kissinger’s possible measures
-Chou En-Lai
-Media coverage
-Justification
-President’s conversation with Mansfield, February 3, 1972
-Japan
-India
-Foreign relations implications
-News summaries
-Buchanan
-Taiwan
-Critics
-Potential motives
-Eisaku Sato’s conversation with President
-Request from Sato
-Foreign relations implications
-Vietnam
-Japan
-US commitment
-India
-USSR
-PRC
-Popular reaction
-President’s barber
-Vietnam
-Military situation
-Pleiku
-Comparisons to 1968
-PRC trip
-Media coverage
-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Press conference
-Format
-PRC trip
-Agenda
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-Edmund S. Muskie
-Budget
-Dock strike
-Connally
-Kissinger
-President’s forthcoming meetings in PRC
-Talking points
-Proposed opening statement
-Chou En-lai
-Florida
-Timing
-Andre Malraux
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Florida
-Connally

Forthcoming trip to PRC
-Possible press coverage
-Barbara Walters
-Briefings for the press
-Kissinger
-Briefing in Hawaii
-Rogers’s role
-Communiqué
-Rogers
-Marshall Green
-First plenary session
-Chou En-lai
-Rogers
-PRC foreign minister
-Influence
-Chou En-lai
-Role
-Agreements on culture and science
-Kissinger’s instructions
-Kissinger’s briefing in Hawaii
-Press briefings
-Hawaii
-PRC trip
-Substantive briefings
-President’s relationship with the press
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-Instructions
-Importance of PRC trip
-PRC impressions
-Possible farewell party
-Potential sensitivities

Kissinger left at 1:12 pm.

-Press briefings
-Kissinger compared to Rogers
-Avoidance of problem
-President’s role
-President’s role compared to Kissinger’s
-Possible perception by the press
-Communique

Rogers
-Role with administration
-Potential team player
-Credit
-Bradlee’s conversation with Kissinger
-Washington Post
-Intellectuals
-Rogers’s tenure

Haldeman left at 1:30 pm.