Secret White House Tapes

696–1

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696–1
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • White House operator
  • Julie Nixon Eisenhower
  • UNKNOWN
March 29, 1972
Conversation No. 696-1

Date: March 29, 1972
Time: 9:20 am - 12:29 pm
Location: Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Cabinet Committee on Spanish Speaking people
-Press
-Meeting

The President entered and Butterfield left at an unknown time after 9:20 am.

The President's schedule
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Cabinet Committee on Spanish Speaking people
-Robert H. Finch
-Cabinet meetings
-Frequency
-Agenda

Seasons

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
-Talk with Haldeman
-James O. Eastland
-Commitment to Clark MacGregor
-Hearings
-Close
-Mitchell's awareness
-Hearings
-Close
-Charles W. Colson
-Jack Gleason
-Eastland
-Witnesses
-Secretary
-Legal Counsel
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Mitchell
-Close hearings
-Robert C. Mardian
-Talk with Eastland
-Session with MacGregor and Mardian
-Time
-Promises
-Mardian-Mitchell relationship
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Filibuster
-W. Clement Haynsworth, G. Harrold Carswell
-Close hearings
-Eastland
-Agreement
-Timing
-Witnesses
-Colson
-Kleindienst possible withdrawal
-Mitchell
-Confirmation
-Option
-News coverage
-MacGregor
-Eastland
-Colson

Media coverage
-Economy
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
-CBS
-Scott
-Harry Reasoner
-Carl B. Albert, Ford

Wayne L. Hays
-Arthur K. Watson
-The President's press conference remarks
-\"Glass houses\" comment
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

State Department files
-Use
-William B. Macomber
-David M. Abshire
-Congressmen and senators

Media
-News summary
-Treasury security guard
-Key Biscayne
-Richard Harris
-New Yorker magazine
-The New Republic
-America
-Life
-Time
-Newsweek
-U.S. News and World Report
-Circulation of magazines
-Scott
-Harris article
-Harris
-Communists
-Constitution
-Bugging
-Washington, D.C. crime bill
-Mitchell
-Underground press
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Eastland
-Herbert G. Klein remark
-Children's march
-Matzoh ball story
-Jews
-Cake mixes
-Candy bars

George Meany
-White House reaction
-George P. Shultz
-Robert F. Lanzillotti
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Price Board
-Florida State University

Busing issue
-Clarence Mitchell
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Southern reactions
-Harry S. Dent
-MacGregor
-Judge Stephen Roth in Detroit
-Robert P. Griffin
-Southern leadership
-Constitutional amendment
-Meeting with MacGregor

White House staff
-Workload
-John D. Ehrlichman

Busing
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-John F. Osborne
-Haldeman's call to Ehrlichman
-Racial balance cases
-Edward L. Morgan
-Briefing

Klein
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

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News summary
-Kevin P. Phillips's analysis
-Victor Lasky
-Ralph de toledano
-Value
-Phillips’s circulation
-Importance to the White House staff
-News letter

Kissinger entered at 9:43 am.

Greetings

Kissinger's schedule
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham's group

Vietnam
-H. Ross Perot proposal
-Money
-Talk With Lt. Gen. Vernon A. (“Dick”) Walters
-Kissinger, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Release of 31 prisoners of war [POWs]
-Money
-Promise
-US government
-Seymour M. Hersh
-Walters
-Secret negotiations
-Publicity
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Money
-31 POWs
-Cuba
-Medical supplies
-Negotiations
-William J. Porter

Foreign policy
-Meeting with Pakistan foreign secretary [Aziz Ahmed]
-State Department
-Dinner at Pakistan Embassy
-Blair House
-Possible formal appointment with the President
-The President’s meetings with other foreign minister
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Moscow trip

PRC
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Ford
-Watson
-Kissinger’s conversations with Boggs and Ford
-Timing of Boggs’s and Ford’s trip to the PRC
-Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Kleindienst
-Chinese approval
-Scott and Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Mansfield
-Foreign aid
-Kleindienst
-Scheduling
-Chinese
-Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Huang Hua
-Vietnam Peace Plan
-Cambodia Peace Plan
-Scott and Mansfield’s forthcoming trip
-Timing
-Relations between Scott and Mansfield
-Mansfield
-Relations with the White House
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Bogg’s and Ford’s forthcoming trip
-Scheduling
-Moscow trip
-Ford
-Mansfield’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Scheduling
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting
-Scott
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Ford and Boggs
-Scheduling
-Paris Peace Talks
-Ireland
-Moscow trip
-Ford
-Talk with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s forthcoming talk with Huang Hua
-Scheduling
-Moscow trip
-Chinese
-Soviets
-Kissinger's meetings with the Chinese
-Ford [and Boggs]
-Mansfield
-Scheduling
-Moscow trip

The President’s meeting with Aziz Ahmed
-India
-PRC
-Timing
-Kissinger’s role
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Length
-Kissinger's office
-Pakistan
-Timing

Kissinger's schedule
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Mansfield
-Vietnam
-PRC

Foreign policy
-Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Leaks

Conservatives
-Kissinger's role

Kissinger left at 10:03 am.

Meetings with Foreign Ministers
-Pakistan
-Cyprus
-France
-Sir Alec Douglas-Hume
-Germany
-Egon Bahr

Kissinger
-Television
-Local
-National news
-CBS

Life article
-Loudon Wainwright
-Previous work

Media
-News summary
-Political summary
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Importance
-Effect
-Columnists
-New Republic
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-John F. Osborne
-Columns
-Phillips
-Nicholas P. Thimmisch
-Lasky
-[John?] Sears
-Editorializing
-Staff
-Effect
-Importance

Russell A. Kirk
-Age
-Meeting with the President
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s view
-Conservative columnists
-Unknown person
-John R. Chamberlain
-Robert Nisbet
-California
-Age
-Production of the White House research staff
-Buchanan
-Meeting with the President
-Significance
-Russian poet [Yevgeny Yevtushenko?]

White House staff
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Bureaucracy

The President's family
-White House scheduled activities
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-New York
-Illinois
-Ohio
-Television
-New Jersey
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Tennessee
-North Carolina
-Georgia
-Texas
-Pennsylvania
-Missouri
-California
-South Carolina
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Haldeman’s view
-Compared to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-The President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
-St. Louis
-Salute to Women
-Gateway Arch
-Television
-San Antonio
-Bilingual education classroom
-Girl Scouts
-Television
-National Center For Disease Control
-David N. Parker
-Work on the White House staff
-Scheduling

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Presidential seats
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Policy regarding use
-Congressmen
-Senators
-Cabinet members
-Personnel
-Recruiting
-John B. Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Rogers
-Congressmen
-Thank you notes
-Butterfield
-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-Cabinet members
-Members of Congress
-Colson's office
-Financial contributors
-Influential individuals
-White House staff
-Congressmen
-Barbara H. Franklin
-Recruits

Franklin
-The President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Nixon
-Constance M. Stuart
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Public relations
-Rose Mary Woods
-Patricia R. Hitt
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Haldeman’s view
-Gladys O'Donnell
-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Federation of Republican Women

Kissinger
-trip
-Meeting with Aziz Ahmed

Media
-Kissinger
-Local television
-Audience
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Foreign affairs
-Soviet Union
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-PRC
-Peter M. Flanigan appearance in Robert Pierpoint interview
-The President’s view
-CBS
-The PRC trip
-Coverage of the administration
-Compared to NBC
-Dan Rather
-Interview of the President
-Response
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid

The President's family
-Schedule
-Parker
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Talk with the President
-Scheduling importance
-Haldeman's talk with Parker and Dwight L. Chapin

The President's schedule
-Aziz Ahmed
-Catholic Education Conference
-Philadelphia
-Tax benefits for private schools
-Possible change
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Timing
-Attendance
-John Cardinal Krol
-Sons of Italy dinner
-Timing
-Canadian trip
-Press conference
-Camp David
-Gettysburg

The President left at an unknown time after 10:03 am.
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

[No conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time before 11:27 am.

The President's schedule
-Outstanding young farmers
-Earl L. Butz
-Office visit
-John C. Whitaker
-Camp David
-Visit to farmer
-Food prices
-Butz
-Food prices
-Chain store representatives
-Connally's schedule
-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.’s schedule
-Young farmers
-Possible meeting
-Florida visit
-Ft. Campbell, Kentucky
-Stopover
-101st Airborne Division
-Return from Vietnam
-Highlighting troop withdrawal
-Key Biscayne
-Timing
-Television
-Media
-Vietnam veterans
-Compared to trip to Camp Pendleton, April 30, 1971
-Farmers
-Publicity
-Butz
-The President
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Prices
-Once a week events

Issues
-One-a-week
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-The President's memorandum
-Media coverage
-Welfare mothers
-Cherry Blossom Queen
-March of Dimes
-Mrs. Nixon
-Retarded children
-Calvin Hill

Public relations
-Connally’s view
-Presentation of the President
-Barbara Walters Show
-Image
-Compared to Humphrey
-Family man
-Reserved
-Coverage of the President
-Safire
-Richard A. Moore
-Produced by the White House
-Hard work
-Coverage
-Retarded children
-Muscular Dystrophy
-Mrs. Nixon's image
-Cherry Blossom Queen
-March of Dimes
-Boys Clubs of America
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew
-Attendance at Congressional leadership meetings
-Compared to the President as Vice President
-Cabinet meetings
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Time with Congress
-Leadership meetings

The President’s possible appearance at a Catholic education conference
-Parochial schools
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Education
-Ehrlichman
-Edwin L. Harper
-The President
-Domestic Council
-Administration strategy
-Conference in Philadelphia
-Proximity
-Timing
-Camp David
-The President's schedule
-Easter egg roll
-Timing
-Vietnam speech

Soviet trip
-Length
-Compared to the PRC trip
-Mrs. Nixon
-Poland
-Stopover
-Length
-Kissinger’s view
-The PRC trip
-Haldeman’s view
-Agenda
-Kremlin
-Leningrad
-Moscow
-Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
-Iran
-Stopover
-Reception
-Poland
-Kissinger
-Meeting With Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Crowds
-Polish People
-Compared to Chinese
-Haig
-Stopover
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Importance
-Iran
-Stopover
-Length
-Poland stopover
-Itinerary
-Poland stopover
-Length
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] visit
-Rogers
-European trip
-NATO meeting
-Bonn
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's projected trip to the Soviet Union, 1960
-Length of stay
-Kremlin
-Spaso House
-Kremlin
-Length of stay
-Kissinger
-Chapin
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Kissinger
-Compared to guest home in Peking
-Accommodations
-Guest House
-Dacha
-Kremlin
-Length of stay
-Guest house
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Spaso House
-Rogers
-Kremlin
-Length of stay
-Guest house
-Spaso House
-Eisenhower's projected trip to the Soviet Union
-Television Speeches
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Nikita S. Khrushchev's visit to the US
-The President’s television speech in the Soviet Union
-Meet the Press
-Moscow
-Leningrad
-Kiev
-Arrival and departure statements
-toast
-Press conference
-James C. Hagerty
-Accommodations
-Kremlin
-Christian A. Herter, Jr.
-Spaso House
-Rogers
-Accommodations
-Kremlin
-Advantages
-Rogers
-Eisenhower
-Herter
-Travel arrangements

Easter egg roll
-Preparations

Soviet trip
-Accommodations
-Kremlin
-Eisenhower
-John Foster Dulles
-Herter
-Comparison to Rogers
-Moscow
-The President as Vice President
-Length of visit
-Length
-Poland
-Stopover
-Length
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-The PRC trip
-Communique
-Chou En-lai
-Effectiveness of brief meetings
-Hussein meeting
-Dinner
-The President's toast
-Moscow
-Warsaw
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Turkey

ITT case
-Close hearings
-Eastland
-Limit the list of witnesses


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ITT case
-Hearings
-Close
-Colson
-Mitchell
-MacGregor
-The President
-Colson
-John B. Connally
-Press coverage
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Kleindienst
-Witnesses
-Gleason
-William R. Merriam
-Colson
-MacGregor
-Edward M. Kennedy

Soviet trip
-Scheduling
-Kissinger's discussions
-Haldeman's attendance
-Chapin
-Scott and Mansfield
-Kissinger

Vietnam
-Kissinger
-North Vietnamese
-Porter
-Lunch

Mexican ambassador
-Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Accommodations for upcoming trip to the US
-Camp David
-Europeans


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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

Media
-The PRC trip
-Party for press corps
-Certificate for press corps
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Reporters unable to attend
-Certificate for press corps
-Pictures
-Safire
-The President and Chou En-lai
-Boston Globe
-“New China hands”
-Presidential seal
-Mrs. Nixon
-The President
-Lettering
-The President and Chou En-lai
-Hands
-Forthcoming Soviet Union trip
-Austin H. Kiplinger
-Attendance
-The President's prior trip, 1959
-Kitchen Cabinet
-Call to Klein
-Priority for attendance
-Haldeman's talk with Ziegler
-Members of Kitchen Cabinet
-Attendance
-The President's instructions
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Klein

Legislation
-Magazines
-Ehrlichman
-Financial beneficiaries
-Readers Digest
-Life
-Readers Digest
-Life
-Circulation
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Costs
-Compard to Look
-Advertising loss
-Readership analysis
-Readers Digest
-Subscribers
-Compared to Life subscribers
-Sensationalism
-Haldeman's father
-Location of the magazine
-James A. Michener article
-The PRC trip
-Michener's writing style
-Description

Public relations
-The PRC trip
-The President’s memorandum
-Significance
-Mrs. Nixon’s meeting with the Advertising Council
-Woods
-Stuart
-Roger M. Blough
-The President’s schedule
-Mrs. Nixon’s celebrity status
-Haldeman's schedule
-Dinner at La Nicoise
-Location
-Owners
-Pro-Nixon
-Unknown man from Cleveland
-Talk with Haldeman
-The PRC trip
-Unknown man's impression
-Cartoonist
-Talk with Haldeman
-The PRC trip
-Wife
-Unknown man
-Cleveland
-Connally
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-The President
-Public support
-Washington, DC

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:03 and
11:27 am.

[Conversation No. 696-1A]

[See Conversation No. 22-40]

[End of telephone conversation]


[No conversation]


Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President at 11:27 am.

[Conversation No. 696-1B]

[See Conversation No. 22-41; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]


[No conversation]

Political strategy
-Connally
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Appearances
-Middlesex Club
-Chicago Executives Club
-San Francisco Commonwealth Club
-Television
-Peter G. Peterson
-George W. Romney
-Peterson
-College campuses
-Rogers
-Hearings
-College appearances

Soviet Union trip
-Ireland stopover
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Scotland Stopover
-Eisenhower Castle
-Glasgow
-Ireland
-Mulcahy
-Appearances
-Prime Minister [John M. Lynch]
-Shannon Airport
-Dublin
-Haldeman’s view
-Scotland
-Eisenhower Castle
-Mulcahy
-Poland
-Flight from Tehran
-Ireland stopover
-Flight time
-Sleeping arrangements
-andrews Air Force Base

[No conversation]

ITT case
-Committee meeting
-Colson
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-MacGregor
-Vote
-MacGregor
-Eastland
-Mitchell
-The administration's position
-Close hearings
-Witnesses
-Secretary
-Lawyer
-Close hearings
-Colson
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Hearings
-Press coverage
-Television press conference
-Schedule
-Wisconsin primary
-Senate vote
-Cover-up
-Press
-Issue
-Mitchell
-Kennedy
-Eastland
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Question and answer
-Television appearance
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-CBS versus senator

-Television
-Kissinger
-Appearances
-House Foreign Affairs Committee
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee

[No conversation]

White House trees
-Blooming
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Weather

Public relations
-White House image
-Press
-The President’s appearances
-Boy Scouts, Girls Nation


The President's schedule
-Philadelphia
-Speech
-Ehrlichman
-Talk with Haldeman
-Talk with Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Speech
-Buchanan
-Rev. John J. McLaughlin
-Price
-Safire
-Soviet trip
-Speech writers attendance
-Possible subsequent public appearances
-Price
-Safire
-Compared to the PRC trip
-Buchanan


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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

Ehrlichman

Photograph portrait of the President
-Arrangements
-Fred Maroon
-Unknown photographer
-Critique of previous portrait
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Florida
-Unknown photographer
-Atkins


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Public relations
-Atkins
-Photographs
-The PRC trip
-Movie crew
-Classroom services
-Hearst Movietone
-Associated Press [AP]
-United Press International [UPI]
-The PRC trip
-Studies
-Compared to 1960 efforts
-Ambassador of Friendship film
-1972
-Documentary
-Republican National Convention
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)


Kissinger entered at 11:51 am.

Greetings

Kissinger's previous meeting with Graham's group
-Number of participants

US foreign policy
-Bangladesh
-US recognition
-Timing
-Chinese
-State Department
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-State Department
-J. William Fulbright
-The President’s previous press conference
-Indian Missionary
-Pakistan

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:51 am.

Refreshment

The President and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

Haldeman's schedule

Soviet Union trip
-Poland
-Haig
-Length
-Schedule

The President entered at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

-Departure Date
-Length
-Poland
-Stopover
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-People
-US
-Chicago Wards
-Dobrynin
-Meeting With Kissinger
-The President’s trip to Poland while Vice President
-Public comments
-Polish reason For Visit
-Demonstrations
-PRC Comparison
-Crowds in the Soviet Union compared to a crowd in Poland
-Substance of summit
-Poland
-Summit
-Poland
-Dobrynin
-Meeting With Kissinger
-Tehran stopover
-State Department
-Rogers
-Poland
-The President’s 1959 trip
-Warsaw
-Demonstrations
-Kissinger’s view
-Compared to Moscow
-Soviet Statue
-Schedule
-Accommodations
-Kremlin
-Advantages compared to disadvantages
-State House
-Guest House
-Dobrynin's meeting with Kissinger
-Size
-Peking's Forbidden City
-Vatican
-Symbolism
-De Gaulle
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Eisenhower's proposed stay
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Length

PRC
-Mansfield-Scott trip
-Timing
-Soviet trip
-Boggs and Ford
-Order of visits
-Length of stay
-Mansfield
-Votes
-Mansfield
-Votes
-Vietnam
-Schedule
-Democratic National Convention

Vietnam
-End of use of draftees
-POWs
-Democrats
-Withdrawal of troops
-Negotiations
-Control of South Vietnamese government
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Resignation
-Election Results

PRC
-Scott-Mansfield trip
-Vietnam issue
-Discussion
-Chou En-Lai
-North Vietnamese
-Seven points
-Communique
-Hanoi
-The President's remarks at the Great Wall

Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Aziz Ahmed
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

Soviet Union trip
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Summit
-Success
-Poland
-Schedule
-Baku to Iran
-Iran to Poland
-Time spent in each location
-Chapin's meeting with Vorontsov
-Banquet
-First night
-Kissinger’s view
-Schedule
-Leningrad
-Ballet
-Banquet
-toasts
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Meetings

Kissinger's meeting with Aziz Ahmed

Kissinger left at 12:14 pm.

Soviet Union trip
-Events
-Meals
-Theater
-Gymnastics
-Meals
-Children
-Sports
-Eating

Canadian trip
-Speech
-Parliament
-Toronto
-Governor General's Luncheon
-Dinner compared to Luncheon
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Prime Minister
-Cultural show

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 12:17 and 12:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 696-1C]

[See Conversation No. 22-42; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]

Canadian trip
-Tree planting
-Parliament
-Dinners
-Luncheons
-The PRC trip
-Dinners
-Parliament
-Diplomatic corps
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Eisenhower
-John F. Kennedy
-Compared to the US Congress
-Hussein
-Pompidou
-Importance

Speeches
-Writing
-Writers
-White House staff
-Eloquence
-Price
-Individual needed
-Kirk
-Buchanan
-Kirk compared to Buchanan

Canadian trip
-The President’s speech before Parliament
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Dinner
-Toronto
-Luncheon
-Speech
-Motorcade
-Demonstration
-Antiwar Americans
-Ottawa
-Compared to meetings with Brezhnev and Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Diplomatic corps
-Tree planting
-The President’s speech before Parliament
-Governor General Dinner
-Parliament
-Johnson

Soviet Union trip
-Schedule
-The President's possible television Appearance
-Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Kissinger
-Eisenhower, 1960
-The President as Vice President, 1959
-Domestic impact of speech
-Translation
-[Forename Unknown] Akaloski [?]
-The President’s 1959 speech
-Walters
-State Department
-Unknown Romanian
-Unknown person
-Unknown Yugoslavian
-Experience at US embassy
-Akaloski [?]
-Letter to Haldeman
-Impressions of trip
-Walters
-Recommendation
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

Ross Perot
-Hersh
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep-01)
Conv. No. 696-1 (cont.)

-Walters’ view

The President’s forthcoming meeting with Aziz Ahmed

the President and Haldeman left at 12:29 pm.
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