676–15

Conversation No. 676-15

Date: March 1, 1972
Time: 9:57 am - 11:19 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Testimony
-Request for Ronald L. Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:00am.

-Haldeman’s schedule
-West Virginia flood damage
-Lack of landing space
-Compared to Mississippi
-Robert C. Byrd
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman or Clark MacGregor
-Decision
-Helicopter


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Ziegler entered at 10:00 am.
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The staff’s forthcoming trip to Florida
-Ziegler’s participation
-Orlando
-Disneyworld
-Arrangements
-Schedule
-Participants
-Henry A. Kissinger’s, staff
-Winston Lord
-Jonathan T. Howe
-Ziegler’s staff
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John A. Scali
-Key Biscayne
-Buchanan
-Rose Mary Woods
-Entertainment
-The President’s possible trip to Disneyworld
-Patriotic theme
-Hall of Presidents
-Liberty Square
-Previous visits by Haldeman and Ziegler
-Activities available
-Compared to Disneyland
-Lake
-Beach
-Surfing
-Water skiing
-Horseback riding trails
-Sailing
-Florida primary
-Effect on trip

Ziegler’s press schedule
-Briefings
-Ziegler’s afternoon briefings
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip; Soviet trip
-Gerald L. Warren’s morning briefing
-Postings
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-Kissinger’s backgrounder
-[Forename unknown] Dudlin, James A. Michener and Robert [?] Boyd
-Television network
-Broadcast journalists
-Wire services
-Leaders of Congress
-Bipartisan leadership
-Possible PRC trip
-Hugh Scott
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Chou En-lai
-Washington Post
-US- PRC exchange
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Ping Pong players
-Ballet dancers
-Taiwan
-Walter H. Judd
-United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-US commitments
-Congressional leader’s reactions
-The Presidents previous meeting with Congressional leadership
-John C. Stennis

PRC trip
-Effect of return from the PRC on participants
-Press


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-Press members reactions
-Awareness of significance
-News summaries
-Public reaction
-State dinners

-Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming backgrounder

Ziegler left at 10:12 am.

Ziegler
-The PRC trip
-Work during the trip
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Hugh S. Sidney

PRC
-Sidey’s article
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Press exposure
-View of the PRC
-Possible trip to the PRC
-The President’s view
-Press interest
-Compared to second dinner
-Compared to second moon landing
-Scott and Mansfield
-Trips to the PRC
-Public interest
-The President’s status as first official visitor
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Candidates possible trips
-Press coverage
-Reception by the PRC
-Publications
-Polling
-Haldeman’s efforts
-John N. Mitchell
-Press reaction to the People’s Republic of China trip
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-Monday
-Layout suggestions
-Pictorial coverage
-Homecoming of the President
-Thank you letters for the PRC trip
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Kennedy
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.


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Presidential gifts to government officials
-Gifts to the Cabinet
-Boxes
-Gifts to the Congressional leadership
-Teacups

The President’s recent meeting with Connally
-Pay Board, Price Commission

Congress
-Leadership
-Connally
-Senate
-Ways and Means Committee
-Testimony by Cabinet officers
-Haldeman

William P. Rogers
-Flag pin
-Cambodia
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-The President’s previous meeting with the Cabinet
-Previous telephone call to the President
-Call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s schedule
-Time of call
-Timing of the President’s return call
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Florida
-Rogers’s possible participation
-Announcement
-Ziegler
-Haig
-PRC
-Compared to Taiwan
-Rogers’s travels abroad
-Soviet Union
-Yugoslavia
-The President’s previous trip to Yugoslavia
-Romania
-Yugoslavian security
-The President’s possible telephone call
-Rogers’s comments
-The President’s view
-Ziegler

The President’s forthcoming meeting with Haig

The President’s Florida trip

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:12 am.

Meeting with Haig

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

Florida
-Weather
-Camp David

The PRC trip
-Homecoming
-Television
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-Akron
-Columbus

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:12 am.

Haig’s location
-Kissinger


Bull left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

The PRC trip
-Possible support to country
-Ziegler
-Openness with the PRC
-Shanghai Communiqué
-America’s reaction

Press conference
-Television exposure
-Busing
-New Hampshire
-Economy
-Unemployment
-Timing
-PRC trip
-New Hampshire primary
-Haldeman’s view
-Florida primary
-Forthcoming messages to Congress
-Special Message to the Congress on Health Care, March 2
-Urban message
-Special Message to the Congress on Older Americans, March 23
-Special Message to the Congress on Science and Technology, March 16
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA] message
-Special Message to the Congress on Equal Educational Opportunities and
Scholl Busing, March17
-Special Message to the Congress on Welfare Reform, March 27


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The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Reactions
-Staff
-Cabinet
-Congress
-Buchanan
-Taiwan

Buchanan
-Shanghai communiqué
-Participation in PRC trip
-The President’s view
-William F. Buckley Jr.
-Haldeman’s view
-Purchases by Buchanan and Buckley
-Buchanan’s photograph
-Chinese ballet
-The President’s view
-Compared to Soviet ballet
-Swan Lake
-Chinese and Soviets
-Compared by Buchanan
-Shanghai communiqué
-Taiwan
-Buchanan’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-Communism
-Kissinger
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Efforts
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-Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Buchanan
-Florida
-Speechwriters
-William L. Safire and Price
-Participation in the President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-Travel accommodations
-Number of planes
-Shanghai Communiqué
-The Presidents view
-Conservative constituency
-Buckley

Republican views
-Kissinger’s briefing
-John G. Tower
-Wallace F. Bennett
-James L. Buckley
-Gordon Allott

Kissinger’s schedule
-Florida
-Possible meeting with James Buckley

The PRC trip
-Rogers
-Recent talk with Haig
-Haig compared to Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Opinion of Chinese society
-Transportation
-Korean War
-Population
-Communism
-Example of Haldeman’s interpreter
-Mao Tse-tung
-Classes
-Leaders
-Compared to American society
-Discipline
-Improvements since revolution
-Concept of freedom
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-Mao Tse-tung’s programs
-Inspiration for the masses
-Spiritual
-Intellectual
-Compared to the early Catholic Church
-Rogers’s use of background material
-Kissinger’s view
-Long March
-Children

-Shanghai
-Physical fitness

Buchanan
-Future talk with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s view
-Buchanan’s possible resignation




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The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Herbert G. Klein
-Desire to travel on the President’s plane
-Work done on plane
-Haldeman’s staff
-Logistics
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-Kissinger’s staff
-Substance

Buchanan
-Shanghai communiqué
-Ziegler
-Ziegler’s view

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Florida
-White House staff
-Relaxation
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Staff meeting
-Camp David
-Connally
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Cabinet members
-Staff accommodations
-George P. Shultz’s stay in Florida
-Forthcoming staff visit to Disneyworld
-Allin’s schedule
-Maimi
-Fort Myers
-Work on news summaries
-Haldeman’s view
-Trip to Florida
-Fort Myers
-Kissinger’s staff
-Kissinger
-Per diem for staff members and their families at Disneyworld
-Sandy Quinn
-Background
-Press relations for the President, 1962
-Klein
-Reagan


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-Walt Disney


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White House gifts from the President’s trip to the PRC
-Possible telephone call to Rose Mary Woods
-The President’s brothers
-Tea sets
-Rose Mary Woods
-Candy for staff
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Marjorie P. Acker entered at an unknown time after 10:12 am.

-Acker’s possible telephone calls to the President’s and Mrs. Nixon’s brothers
-The President’s brothers
-Ryan families
-Bender family
-Ryans
-F. Donald Nixon
-Edward C. Nixon
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-Wives
-Postcards from the President
-Tea sets
-Children
-Elephants
-Dolls
-Scrolls
-Clara Jane Nixon
-Ed Nixon
-Ryan families
-Ed Nixon
-Mitchell

Acker left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

Rose Mary Woods
-Schedule
-The President’s view


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The PRC trip
-Eating and sleeping habits
-The President
-Haldeman
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Key Biscayne
-Sleep
-The President’s view
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Conv. No. 676-15 (cont.)


-Kissinger
-Haldeman’s view

Butterfield entered at 11:14 am.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming briefing
-Warren
-Announcement
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Florida
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council
-Busing
-Kissinger
-Mrs. Nixon
-Connally [?]
-California

Butterfield left at 11:17 am.

Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Buchanan
-Florida trip
-Staff plane
-Haldeman’s view
-Orlando
-Miami

Haldeman left at 11:19 am.