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Conversation No. 670-6

Date: February 14, 1972
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 670-5 (cont.)


Time: Unknown between 10:02 am and 10:07 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Schedule
-Trade with the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Press
-Announcement
-Busing meeting
-Cabinet Room
-Senators
-Announcement
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Busing
-Legal aspect
-PRC trip
-Ziegler’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Meeting
-Arthur F. Burns

PRC trip
-Ziegler’s talk with Haldeman
-Press
-Briefings
-Advance trip
-Talk with Chinese

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:02 am.

Burns’s arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:07 am.

-Briefings
-Chinese customs
-Press corps
-Need for upbeat tone
-Press relations
-Henry A. Kissinger
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 670-6 (cont.)


-William P. Rogers
-John A. Scali
-Kissinger, Rogers, and Scali’s situation
-Ziegler’s actions
-The President’s briefing
-Hawaii
-Potential for questions
-Avoiding substance
-Ziegler’s talk with Haldeman
-Possible uncertainty from the press
-PRC
-Preparation of film for Kissinger
-Off the record
-Shown to the press
-Kissinger situation
-Possible lecture off the record to the press
-President’s view
-Rogers
-Potential problem
-Eugene V. Risher
-Edward R.F. Cox
-Rogers

Ziegler left at 10:07 am.