672–2

Conversation No. 672-2

Date: February 15, 1972
Time: 9:12 am - 12:47 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule
-Valentine’s Day
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart’s office
-Departure time

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Documentary [Mrs. Nixon’s China]
-John A. Scali
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-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s visit to PRC
-Timing
-Avram R. (“Av”) Westin
-Drug documentary
-Crew
-Exclusivity with ABC
-Possible problems
-Three networks
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Speech
-Documentaries
-Possible narration from Mrs. Nixon
-Script
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-ABC
-Commitment
-Life magazine
-Similarities and differences
-White House coverage
-Previous contract
-US Navy unit
-Experience
-Cameramen
-Soundmen and lightmen
-Film availability
-Nixon Reelection Committee
-Democratic National Committee [DNC]
-Three networks
-“Behind the scenes”
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins’s pictures
-Similarities
-Flight from Hawaii to Guam
-Air Force One
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Photograph opportunities
-Availability of White House film
-Possible Nixon photograph archives
-Instructions for Scali
-ABC
-Commitment
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-Network coverage
-Instructions for Scali
-ABC
-Commitment
-Crews
-White House documentary unit
-Previous occasion
-Exclusives
-Mrs. Nixon
-President’s appearance
-Great Wall of China
-Mrs. Nixon
-Nursery at commune
-Documentary unit
-Atkins

President’s schedule
-Leadership meeting
-Camp David
-Report to the nation
-Cabinet meeting
-Key Biscayne
-Travels
-Kissinger
-Dwight L. Chapin
-President’s health
-Trip
-Possible fatigue
-Press conference
-Haldeman’s view
-Report to nation
-Bipartisan leaders
-Possible rescheduling
-Press questions
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Mrs. Nixon’s trip
-West Coast
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Key Biscayne
-Amount of time
-Cabinet
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-Staff
-Busing
-Economics
-Pay Board
-Price Board
-The President’s 1969 world trip
-San Clemente
-Report to the nation
-President’s reluctance
-PRC trip
-Communiqué
-Arrival time
-Television coverage
-Request for change
-Live coverage
-California
-Arrival statement
-Coverage
-Live
-Mrs. Nixon
-Africa trip
-Coverage
-Live
-Shanghai
-Departure time
-Length of stay
-Dinner and cultural show
-Anchorage
-Shanghai
-Washington
-Television coverage
-Length of plane ride
-Anchorage
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito meeting
-Anchorage
-The President’s quarters
-Length of stay
-Timing
-Washington
-Number of hours
-Shanghai
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Report to the nation
-President’s possible remarks
-Peace
-Issues
-Japan
-Kissinger
-Haldeman’s options for the President
-Flight
-California
-Arrival ceremony
-Washington, DC
-Public perception
-Back to work
-Congress
-Jefferson Day
-Speeches
-San Clemente
-Florida
-Length of stay
-California in February
-National television
-Diplomatic corps
-Congress
-Arrival
-Los Angeles International Airport
-Time
-News coverage
-Report to the nation
-Press conference
-President’s appearance
-Importance
-Airport setting
-News coverage
-Press conference
-Kissinger
-Primary season
-Return
-Anchorage
-Los Angeles

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:12 am.
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Arrival

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:52 am.

President’s schedule
-Hawaii
-Los Angeles
-Advantages
-Washington

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 9:12 am.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Arrival from Amherst
-Call to the President

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 9:52 am.

President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Secretaries
-Unknown person
-Rose Mary Woods
-Nellie L. Yates
-Knowledge
-Woods
-Unknown person
-Mrs. Nixon
-Yates
-Woods
-Kissinger’s secretaries
-Number
-Rogers
-Maggie C. Runkel


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-Typing
-Filing
-Letters
-Valets


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Andre Malraux dinner, February 14, 1972
-Leonard Garment
-Presence
-Malraux
-Seating
-Howard K. Smith
-Talks with Malraux
-French language
-Maquis, Gaullists
-French language
-World War II

PRC trip
-Press
-Selection process
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Smith
-Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-PRC
-Presidential visits
-PRC
-Moscow
-Peking
-Changes in schedule
-San Clemente
-Itinerary
-Shanghai
-Length of stay
-Chinese
-Dinner
-Cultural show
-PRC pride
-Freedom of action
-Possible activities
-Anchorage
-Departure
-Coverage
-Crowds at the airport
-Time change
-Arrival
-Anchorage to New York
-Arrival
-Live coverage
-Television news
-Possible scenario
-Possible comments from the President
-Washington, DC
-Arrival time
-Television coverage
-Women
-Comparisons to State of the Union speech
-Letters
-Reruns
-Viewers
-Number

Woods entered at 9:52 am.
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)



Letters
-Printing type
-Approval from the President

Woods left at 9:53 am.

PRC trip
-Shanghai to Washington
-Direct trip
-Decision
-Time on plane
-Difficulties
-Anchorage
-Stop
-Arrival
-Coverage
-Live
-Possible problem
-News
-President’s remarks

Ronald L. Ziegler
-Instruction to Haldeman to request for meeting
-Talk with Scali

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:53 am.

Request for Ziegler to come to the Oval Office

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

Scali
-ABC

Malraux dinner
-Smith
-White House dinners
-Scali
-Dinner after July 15, 1971 announcement of PRC trip
-Perino’s
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Ziegler entered at 9:55 am.

-Newspapers
-Coverage

News coverage
-PRC
-Trade
-Liberalized restrictions
-Busing
-Malraux visit

Malraux dinner
-Garment
-Smith
-Talk with Malraux
-French language
-Scali
-Malraux
-Reaction
-Notes for file
-Malraux’s comments
-Edward M. Kennedy’s claim
-Forthcoming press conference
-Kissinger’s talk with Haldeman
-Malraux
-John F. Kennedy
-Dedication of Anti-Memoirs
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-Outlook
-Press conference
-Timing
-Visit to Kennedy gravesite
-Malraux’s comments
-US economic aid to the PRC
-Possibility of question
-Financial assistance
-Malraux
-Press conference
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Bangladesh
-PRC
-Bangladesh

PRC trip
-Arrival
-Return
-Time
-State of the Union speech
-Written story
-Radio
-Viewers
-Number
-Television
-Report to the nation
-Communiqué
-Networks
-US public reaction and interest
-Taiwan
-Japan
-Trade
-Cultural exchange
-News
-Leadership meeting
-Return
-Statement
-Welcome
-Live coverage
-Arrival time at Andrews Air Force Base [AFB]
-Diplomatic corps
-Length of television coverage
-Kissinger
-European trip, 1969
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Fall
-World trip, 1969
-Arrival
-Coverage
-Live
-Anchorage from PRC
-Departure time
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Statement
-Shanghai
-Live coverage
-Anchorage
-“Mystique”
-Closed arrival
-Time
-Haldeman’s plan
-Debated by Ziegler
-Shanghai
-Departure time
-Hawaii
-Airplane trip
-Disadvantages
-Television appearance
-Rest for the President
-President’s previous experience on airplane, 1966 or 1967
-Coach
-New York
-Boston
-Washington
-Press corps
-Alaska
-Refueling stop
-Walter J. Hickel
-Prime time coverage
-Press
-Rest
-Remarks
-Live coverage of arrival
-Anchorage
-Rest for the President
-News shows
-Television audience
-Number
-Hong Kong
-Shanghai
-Attractions
-Anchorage
-Refueling stop
-Departure
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-[William A. Egan]
-Rest and sleep
-Hours
-Press
-Time
-Chapin
-Upcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Shanghai
-Schedule
-Request for meeting
-Arrival
-President’s request
-Potential problems
-Body clock
-The President’s previous stops
-Asia to Washington, DC
-New York and Tokyo
-Rest
-International dateline
-California
-Hawaii
-Anchorage
-The President’s previous stops

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

[Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 10:20 am and 10:21 am.]

[Conversation No. 672-2B]

[See Conversation No. 20-95; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
-Soil conservation ladies
-Miami Herald
-Picture
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Compared to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)



PRC trip
-Report to the nation
-Communiqué
-President’s arrival
-Publicity hiatus
-Media
-Television specials
-Preparation
-Alaska
-Shanghai
-Rest
-Arrival time

Chapin entered at 10:24 am.

-Return
-Andrews AFB
-Arrival
-Report to the nation
-Time
-Haldeman’s plan
-Shanghai
-Anchorage
-Elmendorf AFB
-Washington
-Arrival time
-Press
-Shanghai
-Communiqué
-Proposed time
-Arrival time
-Peking
-Kissinger
-Communiqué
-Hangchow
-Shanghai
-Chou En-lai
-Final meeting
-Taiwan
-Disembarkment
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Rest
-Elmendorf AFB
-Andrews AF
-Arrival time
-State of the Union speech
-Television
-Flight time
-Hawaii
-Wake Island
-Anchorage
-Shanghai
-Anchorage
-Communiqué
-Shanghai
-Time
-Chou En-lai
-Possible event
-Sightseeing
-Industrial exhibition
-Mrs. Nixon
-Children’s Palace
-Arrival time
-Washington, DC
-Press
-Communiqué
-Press corps
-Communiqué
-Chou En-lai
-Anchorage
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting
-Time
-Delay
-Children’s Palace
-Mrs. Nixon
-Communiqué
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting
-Time
-Press
-Departure time
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Shanghai
-Elmendorf AFB
-Shanghai
-Dinner
-Reasoning
-Alaska
-Elmendorf AFB
-Rest and relaxation
-Disembarkment
-Japanese
-Elmendorf AFB
-Possible closure
-General [Robert G. Ruegg]
-Townspeople
-Wires
-Kissinger
-Press secretary
-Shanghai
-Chapin’s view
-Rest
-Television
-Ziegler
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Japan
-Reugg
-Radio
-Television
-News
-Prime time
-Shanghai
-Departure
-Sightseeing
-Possible plan
-Peking
-Ch’ang Ch’un
-Singapore
-Jakarta
-Chou En-lai
-Sunday meeting
-Monday meeting
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Kissinger
-Advantages for changing meeting time
-Communiqué
-Timing
-News magazines
-Chou En-lai’s work schedule
-Sunday meeting
-Monday meeting
-Communiqué
-Prime time
-Television coverage
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Timing of release
-Chou En-lai
-Television
-Mao Tse-tung
-Television
-Shanghai
-Television
-Status of ground station
-Peking
-Networks
-Shanghai capability
-Technical equipment

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:30 am and
10:45 am.]

[Conversation No. 672-2C]

[See Conversation No. 20-96]

Announcement
-Attorney General [John N. Mitchell]

Appointments
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Meeting with the President
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Announcement
-Timing
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[The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox between 10:45 am and 10:47 am.]

[Conversation No. 672-2D]

[See Conversation No. 20-97; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]


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PRC trip
-Kissinger
-Return
-Prime time coverage
-Andrews AFB
-Shanghai
-Departure time
-Refueling
-Communiqué
-Announcement

Chapin left at 10:52 am.

-Anchorage
-Rest

The President’s schedule
-Leaders meeting
-Timing
-Technical aspects
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


PRC trip
-White House
-Cabinet Room
-Andrews AFB
-South grounds
-Network coverage
-Time
-Leaders meeting

Announcement
-The President’s correspondence with Mitchell
-Release
-Woods
-Handwritten letter
-Timing
-Kleindienst
-Possible meeting with the President
-Nomination

Ziegler left at 10:53 am.

-Low key approach

PRC trip
-Arrival
-Live coverage
-Statement
-Anchorage
-Administration critics
-Democrats
-Media
-Communiqué
-Gravity of trip

George H. Gallup poll
-Haldeman’s report
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Release
-Timing
-PRC trip
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


Kissinger entered at 10:55 am.

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Message
-Tone
-Kissinger’s message of January 26, 1972
-Record
-November 19, 1971 message
-US

PRC
-Arrival

The President left at an unknown time after 10:55 am.

-Washington, DC
-Report
-Television
-Shanghai
-Kissinger’s view

The President entered at an unknown time before 11:10 am.

-Arrival
-Rest
-Chinese
-Television
-Activities
-Difficulties in scheduling
-Anchorage
-President’s view
-Departure schedule
-Advance party
-Anchorage
-Television
-Ziegler
-Possible arrival schedule
-Washington, DC
-Arrival time
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:10 am.

[Conversation No. 672-2E]

The President’s schedule
-Instructions for Chapin

[End of telephone conversation]

PRC trip
-Report
-Leaders meeting
-Television coverage
-Communiqué
-Arrival
-Washington, DC
-President’s speech on television
-Preparation
-Mental and physical
-Public opinion
-President’s speech
-Possible reaction
-Shanghai
-Activities
-Ziegler
-Anchorage
-Departure time
-Washington, DC
-Statement
-Anchorage
-President’s possible comments
-Arrival and departure
-Refueling
-Elmendorf AFB
-News
-Arrival build-up
-Press conference
-Timing
-Florida
-Domestic issues
-Connally
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Texas
-Houston
-Upcoming talk at San Angelo College
-Report to the nation
-Communiqué
-Leaders meeting
-Importance stressed
-Report to the nation

The President’s schedule
-Florida
-White House
-Bipartisan leaders meeting
-Cabinet meeting
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-South Asia
-George Meany breakfast

Vietnam
-Meany
-News summaries
-Charles W. Colson
-Talk with the President
-Criticism of Democrats
-Votes
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Possible impact
-Haldeman’s statement
-Agnew
-Kissinger’s talk with Haldeman

Vietnam negotiations
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris
-Return
-Timing
-PRC trip
-Public perception

PRC trip
-Press inquiries
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Kissinger
-David Kraslow
-State Department
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-Warsaw meeting
-Emissary
-Tad Szulc
-Recent story
-Marshall Green
-Alfred Le Sesne Jenkins

Ziegler entered at 11:10 am.

The President’s schedule
-Possible statement

Ziegler left at 11:11 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-Warsaw meeting
-Set-up
-Channel
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Emissary
-Cambodia
-Le Duc Tho
-Location
-PRC
-Kraslow’s inquiry
-Kissinger’s view
-Chinese business
-The President’s trip
-Credit
-Communiqué
-Paris
-Private talks in Paris
-US comments
-Possible proposals
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Rogers
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Agnew

PRC trip
-Agnews welcome
-Arrival ceremony
-Possible comments
-Taiwan
-Duration
-Substance
-President’s remarks
-Communiqué
-Television
-Ziegler’s responsibility
-Nation
-Report
-Communiqué
-Speech
-Leaders meeting

Polls
-Colson
-Talk with the President
-Retail sales figures
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Louis P. Harris
-[George H. Gallup]
-Timing
-PRC trip
-Newspapers

Haldeman left at 11:20 pm.

Malraux
-The President’s talk with Haldeman
-Press conference
-Timing
-PRC trip
-Invitation
-Mao Tse-tung
-Relationship with Malraux
-News
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Picture in the New York Times
-Charles Lucet
-Paris newspapers
-Reputation in France
-Youth
-Lucet’s monographs
-Spanish Civil War, Marquis

Vietnam negotiations
-Message from US
-Publication of record
-Secret negotiations
-January 26, 1972
-Summation of proposals
-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris
-Reply
-North Vietnamese
-Proposals
-Publication
-January 26, 1972
-Forthcoming meeting
-Kissinger
-Le Duc Tho
-Xuan Thuy
-Timing
-March 15, 1972
-Lunch
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Date in question
-Potential pitfalls
-Muskie
-Breakdown
-US opposition to war
-Information
-Meetings
-Possible number
-Le Duc Tho
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-Paris
-Democrats
-Possible effect on the North Vietnamese

Moscow Summit
-Compared to PRC trip
-As historic and political events
-Communiqué
-Scale of importance
-Potsdam
-Yalta
-Impact on US-Soviet relations

PRC trip
-Significance
-Malraux’s statement
-Barbara Walters
-Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-Call to Kissinger
-White’s comments
-Chinese leaders
-Differences
-Calvinists
-Comparisons
-Compared to Soviet leaders
-Cultural Revolution
-Tactics
-Record of principle
-Chou En-lai
-US response
-Toughness
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-US response
-Chou En-lai
-Conciliatory tone
-US response and point of view
-Peace
-Justice
-PRC objective
-Malraux’s thesis on economics aid
-PRC thinking
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Soviets
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]-PRC relations
-US interests
-President’s previous conversation with Nicolae Ceausescu
-Communists
-Soviets
-Bureaucratic outlook
-Differences with PRC
-Kissinger’s view
-USSR-PRC relations
-British in 19th Century
-US relations with PRC

USSR
-Export licenses
-Announcement
-Timing
-Amount

PRC trip
-Opening statements
-Kissinger
-Staff
-Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai
-Preparation of book
-Communiqué
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Memoranda of conversations [Memcons]
-President’ marked originals
-Position papers
-Butterfield
-Locating the President’s marked originals
-Memcons
-Camp David
-Kissinger delivery
-Timing
-President’s request
-Communiqué
-Technical book
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Chinese-Soviets
-Differences
-Comparisons to Hanna Milhous Nixon
-Chinese
-US principles compared to PRC principles
-Differences discussed
-State Department
-Speech
-Plenary session
-Chou En-lai
-Statement

Vietnam
-Malraux, Lucet
-Europeans’ view
-President’s achievement
-Congress
-Demonstrations
-Timing
-PRC trip
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris
-Congress
-Moscow
-Timing
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Meetings
-Proposed dates
-Demonstrators
-Congress
-Possible attack
-Timing
-Residual forces
-Bombing
-Settlement
-Progress
-1972 campaign
-Polls
-Percentage
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Public opinion
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PRC trip
-James L. Buckley
-Taiwan
-Communiqué
-Interpretation
-Green
-Taiwan
-Public relations
-Administration plan
-Communiqué
-Kissinger’s view
-Press
-Reaction
-Communiqué
-Positive tone
-Japan
-South Korea
-Taiwan
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-The President’s involvement
-Plenary session
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Chou En-lai
-Taiwan recognition
-PRC emissary
-US emissaries
-Peking
-Chinese history
-Press
-Soviets
-Active contact
-Indians
-PRC option
-Soviets

US relations
-With the USSR
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Upcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Middle East
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Earl L. Butz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Negotiations
-Progress
-Summit
-Most favored nation [MFN] status
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peterson
-Butz

PRC
-Relations with USSR
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Speech, 1959
-Visit to PRC
-Tone

PRC trip
-Peace
-US emphasis
-Toast
-Justice
-Communiqué
-Peking
-Hangchow
-Shanghai
-Agreement
-President’s concern
-Kissinger’s location
-Timing
-Release
-Departure from Shanghai
-Television
-Newspaper story
-Taiwan
-Press
-Administration response
-Possible reaction
-Draft
-Haig
-Acceptance
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Chou En-lai
-The President’s relations with world leaders
-Mao Tse-tung
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle, 1963
-Konrad Adenauer
-Impressions
-Chou En-lai
-Talk with Kissinger
-The President and Mao Tse-tung
-Malraux
-Mao Tse-tung
-Photographers
-Mao Tse-tung
-Expression of views
-Tone
-Conversation with Haile Selassie
-The President

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:20 am.

Memcons
-President’s instructions
-Kissinger
-Marked copies
-Files
-PRC
-The President
-Marking
-Book

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:17 pm.

PRC
-Background book
-State Department
-Positions
-Legal background
-Korea
-Exchanges

Dwight D. Eisenhower trip
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-John Foster Dulles
-Secretary of State
-Attendance
-Trips with the President
-Rogers
-Attendance on PRC trip
-Kissinger’s view

Foreign policy
-British Prime Minister
-Compared to the President
-Foreign Minister
-Cabinet
-Cabinet
-US system
-Second term
-Trips
-Attendance of Cabinet officers
-First term
-Problems
-Trips
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Cordell Hull
-Yalta
-Cairo
-Eisenhower
-Dulles
-Attendance
-John F. Kennedy
-Dean Rusk
-Attendance

Malraux meeting
-Translator
-Woman [Sophia K. Porson]
-Conversation
-The President’s performance
-Kissinger’s view
-Dinner
-Evening translator [Alec Toumayan]
-Verbatim recollection
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-De Gaulle
-Understanding De Gaulle’s statement

PRC trip
-President’s return
-Report to the nation
-Statement
-Exchange of pleasantries during travels
-State Department
-Communiqué
-Foreign policy
-The President’s dominance
-Szulc
-Secretary of State
-Appointment
-De Gaulle
-Statement
-“Loyalty to the President”
-Credit for foreign policy
-Connally
-Green
-Excitement over PRC trip

The President’s record
-Kissinger’s view
-Cabinet
-Country
-Congress
-Press
-PRC
-USSR
-The President’s progress
-Western Alliance
-Japan
-Status

Soviet trip
-Return
-Brussels
-Iran
-Reception for the President
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-USSR
-Kiev
-Tehran
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] security conference
-Timing
-The President’s talk with Haldeman
-Possible report by the President
-Report to the nation
-Technical agreements
-Explanation
-Prime time
-Kiev
-Iran
-Tbilisi, Georgia
-Israel
-Jordan

Malraux
-Meeting with the President
-Spanish ambassador [Jaime Arguelles]
-Picture

Soviet trip
-Kiev, Ukraine
-Samarkand
-Tehran
-Possible schedule
-Europe
-Possible extension of trip
-Iran
-Tehran
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Reception
-NATO meeting

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 11:20 am.

-NATO meeting
-State Department
-Tehran
-Dobrynin
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Upcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Kiev
-NATO meeting
-Tehran
-NATO meeting
-Report
-Rogers
-Possible role
-Green
-PRC trip
-The President’ previous meetings with NATO leaders
-NATO meeting
-Symbolism
-Report
-Brussels
-Timing
-Rogers
-Length of visit
-Moscow
-Rogers
-Dobrynin
-Itinerary
-Announcement
-Departure time
-NATO meeting
-Timing
-Tehran
-Shah of Iran
-Cable
-Presidential visit
-Possible location
-Reception
-Election
-NATO meeting
-Symbolism
-Kissinger’s concern
-Briefing
-Congress
-Shah of Iran
-Brussels
-Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Instructions for Haldeman
-Dobrynin
-Call to Kissinger
-Planning purposes
-Schedule
-Haldeman
-White House
-State Department
-Shah of Iran
-Election
-Visit after re-election
-Commitment

The President’s schedule
-Possible re-election
-Travel
-Cabinet reorganization
-Timing
-State Department
-Secretary
-Possible changes
-Defense Department
-NATO meeting
-Rogers
-Attendance
-Reason
-Shah of Iran
-The President
-Kissinger’s view
-Iran
-Press speculation
-President’s commitments
-1972
-USSR trip
-Return flight
-Ireland
-Rest
-The President’s recent meeting with Buckley
-Calls
-Time difference
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


Haig entered at 12:17 pm.

-Tehran

Malraux dinner
-Malraux
-Haig’s view

USSR trip
-Return
-Length of flight
-Tehran
-Refueling stop

Haig left at 12:19 pm.

Greece
-Home porting issue
-Defense Department
-Naval Base
-Press guidance
-State Department
-Administrative action
-Personnel

Soviet trip
-Iran
-Length of stay
-Return
-Washington, DC
-Moscow
-Historical significance
-Prime time coverage
-Teheran
-Length of flight
-Rome
-Islamabad
-Europe
-Ireland
-Shannon
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Timing
-Possible length of stay
-Moscow
-Ireland
-Mulcahy
-Prime Minister [John M. (“Jack”) Lynch]
-Possible meeting
-Greetings upon arrival
-Richard A. Moore
-Moscow
-Arrival
-Prime time coverage
-Time difference
-News coverage
-Possible scenarios
-Arrival

Kissinger left at 12:24 pm.

PRC

USSR

European trip, 1969
-Press coverage
-Haldeman’s view

Soviet trip
-Coverage
-Timing
-Women

Dinners
-Arthur F. Burns
-Connally
-President’s request

White House social events
-Connally
-Politics
-Burns
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Visitors
-Business council members
-Unwanted visitors
-States
-Questions and answers [Q&A]
-Meeting

Kissinger entered at 12:26 pm.

Letter
-Brezhnev
-Signing by the President
-Summit

Kissinger left at 12:28 pm.

Dinners
-Small talk
-The President’s request
-Haldeman’s opinion
-Q&A
-Timing
-Receiving line
-Refreshments
-Q&A
-Receiving line
-Size of group
-Q&A
-Handshakes
-Invitation list
-Homes
-Hotels
-Size of group
-Paul Miller
-Hotel
-John W. Rollins
-Preston Wolfe
-Type of home
-Political dinner
-State dinners
-Wolfe
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


“Meet and greet”
-Alaska
-Hickel
-Wives
-Inclusion
-Mrs. Nixon
-Size of group

Butterfield entered at 12:40 pm.

President’s schedule

[No conversation-handwriting]

Butterfield left at 12:42 pm.

Dinners
-Connally
-States
-White House
-Timing
-Burns
-Businessmen
-Connally
-Relationship with business
-Businessmen
-Blair House
-The President’s view
-Information gap
-Individuals
-Group
-Congressmen
-Busing
-Views
-State dinners
-Social meetings
-Cabinet Room
-State dinner
-The President’s preference
-Expense
-Possible amount
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 672-2 (cont.)


-Political functions
-Connally
-States
-Politics
-Connally’s location
-Texas
-Laredo

[Pause]

White House social events
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
-Tea for social conservation ladies
-Extensive activities
-Value
-Example
-Black children
-Credit
-Photograph for newspaper
-District of Columbia

Haldeman left at 12:47 pm.