675–8

Conversation No. 675-8

Date: February 29, 1972
Timing: Unknown between 8:55 am and 10:06 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

President’s forthcoming meeting
-William P. Rogers
-Questions

The President’s recent rip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger’s and the President’s health
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Tape Subject Log
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President’s schedule
-Florida
-Timing
-Kissinger’s schedule

President’s trip to PRC
-Communiqué
-Press reaction
-Washington Post
-Reception by Congress
-Reception
-Television summaries
-Dan Rather
-Comments
-Washington Post
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-Backgrounder
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr., [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Rather
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Quoted statement
-Sevareid
-Communiqué
-Left’s response
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-President’s forthcoming briefing
-Possible responses
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


-President’s meeting with Chou En-lai
-Number of hours
-Description of leaders
-Mao Tse-tung
-Public statements
-Appearance
-Personality
-US role in Asia
-Japan
-Foreign aid
-President’s talks with PRC officials
-Charles W. Colson, William L. Safire
-Preparation
-Taiwan
-Taiwan
-Kissinger’s conversation with Barry M. Goldwater, February 28, 1972
-Communiqué
-President’s conversation with William P. Rogers, February 28, 1972
-Rogers’s forthcoming congressional testimony
-PRC
-Goldwater
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Support
-Goldwater
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meetings
-Goldwater
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Possible argument
-Communiqué
-President’s opponents
-Left
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s forthcoming meeting with North Vietnamese
-March 20, 1972 invitation to Kissinger
-Forthcoming actions
-Michael J. Mansfield, Hugh Scott
-Announcement
-Talks on exchanges
-Le Duc Tho
-President’s speech, February 28, 1972
-Report to the nation
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


-Praise from Kissinger
-Kissinger’s conversations with New York conservatives, February 28, 1972
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-William L. Safire , Raymond R. Price, Jr.
-Work

President’s forthcoming trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Safire
-Compared to Price
-Working relationship with Safire
-Writing style
-Buchanan
-Drafts
-Quality
-Work by the President
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Buchanan, Price

President’s trip to PRC
-The President’s and Kissinger’s efforts
-Hangchow
-Communiqué
-Rogers
-Mood
-Meeting with PRC Foreign Minister
-Importance
-Kissinger’s conversation with John B. Connally, February 28, 1972
-Importance
-Potential world events
-Peace
-President’s forthcoming briefing
-Mansfield, J. William Fulbright
-US role in Asia
-Nixon Doctrine
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Stewart J.O. and Joseph W. Alsop

President’s schedule
-Florida
-Timing
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


President’s trip to PRC
-Outcome
-President’s return
-White House reception
-Kissinger’s conversation with telephone operator, February 28, 1972
-Reaction
-National mood
-Intellectuals
-Writing press
-Kissinger’s backgrounder

Haldeman entered at 9:10 am.

-Hugh S. Sidey

An unknown woman entered at an unknown timing after 9:10 am.

Stephen B. Bull’s location

Stanley Karnow

President’s forthcoming briefing
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Location

The unknown woman left at an unknown timing before 9:18 am.

President’s trip to PRC
-Press backgrounder [by Ronald L. Ziegler]
-Karnow
-Sidey
-Buckley
-Peter Lisagor
-Invitations
-Possible exclusions
-Karnow
-Leaks
-Sidey
-Karnow
-Sidey
-Ziegler’s comments
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


-Kennedy
-President’s view
-Ziegler’s forthcoming backgrounder
-Rather
-Haldeman
-Cronkite, Sevareid
-Harry Reasoner, Howard K. Smith
-John W. Chancellor, David Brinkley [?]

Sidey
-Kissinger’s view

Public relations
-Time

President’s trip to PRC
-Forthcoming backgrounder
-Jerrold L. Schecter
-Sidey
-Press contingent
-Buckley, Joseph C. Kraft
-Balance
-Forthcoming backgrounder
-Buckley

Kissinger’s schedule
-Agnew

President’s trips to PRC
-President’s February 28, 1972 speech
-Television coverage
-Praise from Kissinger
-Content
-Children
-Color
-Crowds
-Colson
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Content
-Crowds
-PRC
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


-Correspondents’ stories
-Cronkite
-Remarks
-Return to US
Kissinger’s schedule
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Telephone numbers

Kissinger’s schedule
-Stewart and Joseph Alsop

Kissinger left at 9:18 am.

President’s trip to PRC
-President’s forthcoming briefing
-Knauer
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-The President’s previous conversation
-Robert J. Brown
-Haldeman’s list

Harry S. Dent

President’s schedule
-News summaries
-President’s instructions
-Cambodia

White House staff
-Preferring criticism
-The President’s position
-Need for positive mood
-Program
-View of the President
-Buchanan, Colson
-Safire
-Buchanan
-Negativity
-Memoranda
-1968 campaign
-John P. Sears
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


-News reporting
-Colson
-Safire
-Washington Post

President’s trip to PRC
-Taiwan
-Headline
-Alleged withdrawal
-Alaska
-Karnow
-Relationship with the Administration
-Haldeman’s possible calls to California
-President’s February 28, 1972 arrival and speech
-Press coverage
-Chancellor
-Camera angle
-President’s conversation with unknown man [Thompson?]
-Crowd reaction
-Audibility
-Cabinet meeting
-Television coverage
-Arrivals and children
-Atmosphere
-President’s arrivals from South America and USSR
-Comparisons
-Agnew’s statement
-Length
-Content
-Television coverage
-Kissinger
-Unknown children
-Camera shot
-Crowd reaction
-America The Beautiful
Commentators
-Reading
-Length
-Content
-James L. Buckley’s comments
-Taiwan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


-John G. Tower’s comments
-Possible reaction
-Buckley
-The President’s re-election

Bull entered at an unknown timing after 9:18 am.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming briefings
-James Buckley

Bull left at an unknown timing before 9:56 am.

-Gifts
-Leaders meeting
-Cabinet meeting
-Tea cups
-Staff
-Wives
-Jewel boxes
-Carved elephants
-Rose Mary Woods

Bull entered at an unknown timing after 9:18 am.

-Woods
-Gifts
-Cabinet meeting
-Jewel boxes
-Wives
-Staff
-Tea cups
-Agnew, Rogers
-Kissinger
-Location

Bull left at an unknown timing before 9:56 am.

-Woods
-Dwight L. Chapin
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Tape Subject Log
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President’s schedule
-Florida
-White House staff
-Accommodations
-Possible locations
-Paradise Island, Disneyworld
-Ronald H. Walker
-Woods
-Buchanan
-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-Walker
-Ziegler
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-News summaries
-Transportation
-Timing
-Accommodations


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Tape Subject Log
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-Weather in Florida
-Camp David


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-Swearing-in
-Peter G. Peterson
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Timing
-Possible comments by the President
-Peterson
-Cabinet meeting
-Haldeman’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman, February 28, 1972
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Peterson’s schedule

Bull entered at an unknown timing after 9:18 am.

-Timing
-Oval Office
-Talking points
-Attendance
-William E. Timmons
-Maurice H. Stans
-White House staff
-Congress
-Press
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


-Photograph opportunities
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Kleindienst
-Warren E. Burger
-William H. Rehnquist, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Relationship with Rehnquist
-Justice Department
-Arizona
-Timing

Bull left at an unknown timing before 9:56 am.

-Calls from Woods
-Woods’s conversation with Mrs. Nixon
-Direct line to the President
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Chapin
-President’s conversation with Woods
-Higby, Chapin
-Call hierarchy

Woods
-Preparation of President’s speech, February 28, 1972
-Kissinger
-Views concerning President’s trip to PRC
-Comments concerning rooms in Hawaii
-Guam
-Possible problems
-Views about President’s February 28, 1972 speech
-President’s meeting with Kissinger
-Communiqué
-Buchanan
-Kissinger
-Communists

Buchanan
-Work
-Quality
-President’s standards
-Role on White House staff
-Press conference
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


-Safire
-John Sears
-Safire
-Research

Woods
-Views concerning President’s PRC trip
-Communiqué
-Kissinger
-The President’s February 28, 1972 speech
-Tone
-Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
-Chief of Staff
-L. Nicholas Ruwe
-Chief of Protocol
-Mrs. Nixon
-Loyalty
-Possible view of the President
-Attendance at meeting
-Haldeman
-Roles of Higby and Chapin
-Relationship with Woods
-Bull
-Relationship with Butterfield
-Role on White House staff
-Gifts in PRC
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Mrs. Nixon

President’s trip to PRC
-President’s forthcoming briefings
-Gifts
-Republicans
-Elephants

Woods


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-Behavior

Buchanan
-Conversation with Kissinger

Kissinger

Buchanan
-Political views
-Communists
-Nuclear weapons

World political situation
-Number of communists
-PRC and USSR
-Eastern Europe
-Nuclear weapons
-Will to fight
-US
-Buchanan’s possible view of President’s role
-Administration view [?]

President’s forthcoming trip to USSR

President’s trip to PRC
-President’s February 28, 1972 speech
-Preparation
-Work involved
-Woods
-Rogers
-President’s arrival and speech February 28, 1972
-Presidential image
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


-Handshakes
-Necessity
-Haile Selassie, Gen. Charles A.J.M. DeGaulle
-Selectivity

President’s schedule

Bull entered at an unknown timing after 9:18 am.

-Scott, Mansfield
-President’s forthcoming briefing

Bull left at an unknown timing before 9:56 am.

President’s trip to PRC
-Mansfield’s and Scott’s statements


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Mansfield and Scott entered at 9:56 am.

Greetings

President’s trip to PRC
-Forthcoming announcement
-Communiqué
-Exchanges
-Journalists
-Political leaders
-Channel of communications
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


-Taiwan
-President’s conversation with Chou En-Lai
-Exchanges by political leaders
-Mansfield and Scott, et. al
-Formalities
-Revelation of substance of talks
-Allen J. Ellender
-Life and death
-Mao Tse-tung
-Politics
-Bi-partisanship support
-Criticism
-Exchanges by political leaders
-Mansfield and Scott
-Invitation
-PRC knowledge
-Work on communiqué
-Kissinger
-Chiao Kuan-Hua
-United Nations [UN] representative
-Kissinger
-President’s conversation with Chou En-lai
-Exchanges of political leaders
-Mansfield and Scott
-Timing
-Conventions

Bull entered and left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

The President’s schedule

PRC
-Forthcoming trip by Mansfield and Scott
-Announcement
-Channel of communication
-Chou En-lai
-Maureen (Hayes) Mansfield and Marian Huntington Chase Scott
-Presence of women at functions
-Official capacity
-Mrs. Nixon
-President’s conversations with Chou En-lai
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)


-Mansfield
-North Vietnamese
-Schedule
-Channels of communication
-Confidentiality
-Canada
-Paris


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-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters, Kissinger
-Political exchanges
-Duration of trip
-Senate recess
-Conventions
-Forthcoming congressional leadership meeting
-The President’s efforts
-Chou En-lai

-Recent trip
-The President’s health

The President, Haldeman, Mansfield, and Scott left at 10:06 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 675-8 (cont.)