Secret White House Tapes

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821–1
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Gordon C. Strachan
  • Frank J. Shakespeare
  • James Keogh
  • White House photographer
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • UNKNOWN
December 12, 1972
Conversation No. 820-24/821-1

Date: December 12, 1972
Time: Unknown between 3:38 pm and 6:10 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Gordon C. Strachan.

An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed.

Second-term reorganization
-The President’s possible visits to departments
-1969
-The President’s confidence
-Loyalty
-Appointees
-Visits to White House
-Government employees
-Wearing of flag lapel pins
-The President, White House staff
-Effect
-State Department
-The President's instructions to Strachan at US Information Agency [USIA]
-Studying
-Strachan’s possible conversations with James Keogh
-Visiting embassies abroad
-Keogh
-Removal of flag lapel pin
-Vietnam War
-Information gathering
-Ambassadors, ministers
-Foreign service officers [FSOs]
-Diplomatic Chiefs of Mission [DCMs]
-Quality
-Departures
-Promotions
-Young people
-Bureaucracy
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Recommendations for change
-Administrative duties
-Lawyers
-Bureaucrats
-1972 election
-Effect
-The President’s visit to letter writers, 1971
-Christmas
-John F. Kennedy portrait
-First term
-Anticipation
-New appointees
-Edward M. Kennedy

White House gifts
The President's appreciation
-Loyalty

Rose Bowl game
-University of Southern California [USC]
-Ohio State University
-Offense
-Professional football

Strachan left and Frank J. Shakespeare and Keogh entered at 3:58 pm. The White House
photographer and Stephen B. Bull were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Geetings

Press relations
-Accuracy in Media [AIM]

Seating arrangements

[Photograph session]

Press relations
-The President’s meeting with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis, Michael J. O'Neill and
John H. Kauffmann
-Lewis’s, Kuaffman’s and O’Neill’s recent trip to the Soviet Union
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-O'Neill
-New York Daily News
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Kauffmann
-[Washington Star]
-Lewis
-[Reader’s Digest]
-Lewis, Kauffman and O’Neill
-Importance
-Previous failure to visit Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
-Shakespeare's future
-The President’s conversation with O’Neill
-New York
-Lewis’s, Kauffman’s and O’Neill’s recent trip to the Soviet Union
-Left
-USIA Exhibition Research and Development
-O’Neill’s study of USIA in Moscow
-Length
-Second term reorganization
-O’Neill
-USIA Advisory Commission
-New York Daily News
-Editorials
-Readership
John M. Shaheen
[The New York Press]
-Financing
-Compared to television [TV] station
-Shakespeare’s future
-Shaheen’s The New York Press
-O’Neill
-Financing
-Capital
-Shaheen’s relationship with Peter M. Flanigan
-New York
-Financing
-Shakespeare’s conversation with Walter H. Annenberg
-Shaheen’s “heart”
-Financing
-Life
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Wealth of administration allies
-W. Clement Stone
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Westinghouse
-TV, radio stations
-Soft drink bottlers
-Broadcast learning
-Title
-Executive Vice President
-Donald H. McGannon
-White House support for Shakespeare
-Clay T. (“Tom”) Whitehead
-TV licenses
-TV
-Channel 9, Florida
-Washington Post
-TV, radio stations
-Markets
-San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia
-Operations compared to requisitions
-White House support for Shakespeare
-Charles W. Colson
-Money making
-Leisure time

Second term reorganization
-Advisory commissions
-Arms control
-USIA
-Keogh
-John C. Stennis
-Employee lists
-Haldeman, Frederic V. Malek
-Stanton D. Anderson
-State Department
-Ambassadors, Diplomatic Chiefs of Mission [DCMS]
-State Department
-William J. Casey
-Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-“Cover”
-Promotion
-Deputy
-Firings
-Casey
-Travel
-Timing
-Confirmation
-Consultant
-Leonard C. Meeker
-Christine Rhoda (Halliday) Meeker
-Bucharest
-Opposition to administration
-Departure
-The President’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-White House staff
-Cuts
-USIA
-Policy role
-Need for consultation
-Kissinger
-Attitude
-Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement
-Relationship with Keogh
-State Department
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Casey
-Travel
-Casey’s conversation with Shakespeare
-Personnel abroad
-The President’s experience as Congressman
-Social affairs
-Manners
-The President’s relationship with FSOs
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Relationship with FSOs
-Tennis
-The President’s experience
-Manners
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Loyalty
-Casey
-Social affairs
Enemies
-Press
-Bureaucrats
-USIA, State Department
-Defense Department
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Administration supporters
-USIA
-Promotions
-Career officers
-State Department
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-Peace Corps
-USIA
-USIA
-Travel
-Meeting people
-Reading files
-1967, 1966
-State Department
-Casey
-Shakespeare’s experience in USIA
-Travel
-Compared to Kissinger, the President, William P. Rogers
-Protocol
-State Department
-Casey
-Travel
-Business community
-Career officers
-Important places
-Business community
-Establishment
-Chase Manhattan Bank
-The President’s experience as Vice President
-Protocol
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Agnew
-The Presidents experience as Congressman, Senator and as a
private citizen
-Shakespeare
-USIA
-Keogh
-Bureacratic position
-The President’s role
-Kissinger, State Department
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG] meetings
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Senior Review Group [SRG] meetings
-Votes, speaking, listening
-Kissinger
-May 1972
-Listening
-WSAG meetings
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rush
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Old group
-Melvin R. Laird
-David Packard
-US Foreign relations
-Post-1972 election
-End of Vietnam War
-Timing
-Shakespeare's tenure
-Comments about the administration
-Effect
-Compared to John Kennedy administration
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Attorney General
-Use, expansion, personnel, visits
-Henry Loomis
-Chairman of advisory commission
-Toughness, courage
-First term
-Timidity
-The President’s conversation with John. D. Ehrlichman
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-1968 election
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-John Kennedy
-Blacks
-1972 election
-Administration supporters
-Business community
-Post-1960 elections
-Compared to Robert and John Kennedy
-Removal of Dwight D. Eisenhower Republicans
-Exception
-Homer H. Gruenther

US foreign relations
-The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Soviet Union
-Effects
-Lessened perception of peril
-Sense of euphoria
-Vietnam War
-Sense of euphoria
-The West
-Press relations
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Soviet Union
-Motive
-Interests
-PRC
-Motive
-Interests
-US
-Motive
-Interests
-Western view
-Change
-Peace
-Chile
-Salvador Allende Gossins dinner
-New York
-Richardson
-State Department
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Cuba
-Fidel Castro
-State Department
-Communist countries
-Philosophy
-Compared to the West’s philosophy
-Public Opinion
-Idealism
-Indian Fighters
-Peace
-The President’s relationship with foreign leaders
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Toasts
-Leonid I. Brezhnev, Aleksei N. Kosygin, Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Compared to the President’s policies
-PRC
-Time
-Communism
-Détente
-European Security Conference
-Soviet Union
-Recent Elections
-Japan, Australia, New Zealand, West Germany, Britain, France
-Left shift
-Canada
-Nationalism
-Japan
-Specialists, Communists
-Georges J.R. Pompidou, Edward R.G. Heath, Willy Brandt
-Erosion of beliefs
-Youth
-College students
-View of Vietnam War
-Killing
-South Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Soviet Union, PRC

Shakespeare's residence
-Greenwich, Connecticut
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Keogh

Second term reorganization
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Donald McI. Kendall’s recommendation
-Pepsico
-Commissions
-Federal Power Commission [FPC]
-FTC
-Euphoria
-Free enterprise
-Demolition
-Foreign policy

Shakespeare’s expression of appreciation

The President’s expression of appreciation
-Shakespeare
-Conversations with the President
-Participation
-Compared to others in Federal agencies
-Retirement
-Administration support

The President’s administration
-Compared to Eisenhower administration
-John Foster Dulles
-Herbert Brownell
-Rogers
-Bureaucracy
-Shakespeare’s experience
-Social affairs
-Activities
-Harry S. Truman administration
-Effect
-White House staff
-Wives
-Cabinet
-Wives
-Activities
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Clubs, golf, parties, bridge, cruises, vacations
-Need for new Establishment
-Senators, Congressman
-J. William Fulbright
-Compared to Charles H. Percy, Charles McC. Mathias
-Social elite
-Shakespeare’s return to New York

1972 election
-Results
-New York
-Rhode Island, Connecticut
-Upper middle class
-White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
-Compared to 1960 election
-Gains
-Middle class
-Catholics, non-Catholics
-Working class, white collars

Elitists
-US
-Softness
-Compared to Britain, France, West Germany, Japan
-California
-Beverly Hills
-Right, left
-Los Angeles
-San Francisco
-David Packard
-East Coast
-New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC
-Influence
-Press relations
-Publishers, editors
-Teachers, professors
-Businessmen
Government
-[Taxes]
-Kendall
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Business committee
-“Main Street”
-Compared to Business Council
-Education, readings, social affairs
-Ivy League schools
-Ambassadors' background
-Compared to US
-Quotas
-Ohio State University [OSU]
-Kansas, Nebraska, Texas
-Georgetown, New York
-West
-View of the President
-The President’s education and background
-[Duke University]
-Grades
-Social affairs
-Alger Hiss case
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Joseph McCarthy
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Education
-Emphasis
-Change
-Timing
-Press relations
-Educational system
-Kinshasa Ambassadorial Meeting
-Shakespeare role
-Duration
-Views
-Unanimity
-South Africa
-US Marines
-US Chiefs of Mission
-Africa
-Education
-Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University
-Life
-Audience
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Middle class

1972 election
-George S. McGovern nomination
-Effect
-The President’s public statements
-The President’s victory margin
-California
-Democratic Party
-Cost
-Victory margin

Press relations
-1972 election
-Robert D. Novak article
-Press credibility
-Alleged McGovern gains, shift
-Polls
-Belief in McGovern
-Populism
-Harriet Van Horner’s article
-Issues
-Marijuana, abortion, busing, welfare, Vietnam War, flag lapel pins,
work ethic
-Life, Look, Saturday Evening Post
-Endorsement of the President in 1972
-Photographs
-Reporters’ view
-Letter
-Editor’s view
-Publisher’s view
-TV licenses
-Reasons for failure
-Misjudgment of the public
-Cambodia invasion
-The President’s conversation with Peter J. Brennan
-Hardhats
-Haldeman’s view
-Colson
-Kissinger’s view
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Leonard Garment’s view
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s view
-Resignation
-Haldeman’s view
-Hardhats
-Students
-Treatment
-US flag
-Washington, DC
-Effect on administration supporters
-Washington Post, Washington Star, New York
Times, networks
-Social affairs
-Katherine L. Graham
-Erotic content
-Editorials
-[Max] Gissen [?]
-Sensationalism
-Loss of audience
-Elitism of staff
-New York Daily News
-Harvard University
-Movies
-The President’s recent conversation with Jack L. Warner
-The President's viewing of [What the Peeper Saw]
-The President’s view of movies
-Sexual explicitness
-What the Peeper Saw
-Plot
-Rating
-Patriotic movies
-Public opinion
-The President’s conversations with [Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie
Nixon Eisenhower]
-Music, sexual explicitness in arts

John Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Modern art
-Audience
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

Theater
-New York
-The President’s attendance at Much Ado About Nothing
-Two Gentlemen of Verona
-William Shakespeare
-Garment
-OSU
-Elite
-Liberal Establishment
-Corruption
-Pornography
-Garment
-Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White’s article
-Columbia School of Journalism
-Berlin in 1920s
-Avant-garde trends
-Art
-Sex
-Public opinion
-Adolf Hitler
-Cabaret
-Public opinion
-Press relations

Leader class
-Weakness
-Dictators
-Leadership
-Mobilization of masses
-Slogans
-The President and contemporaries
-Last of old guard
-Second term reorganization
-Departures
-Perquisites
-Cadillacs
-Competence
-Rogers
-State Department
-Press relations
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Respect
-Appointees
-Need for value judgment
-Concern about perceptions
-Portraits
-New York Times
-Cabinet, administration personnel
-Qualities needed
-Courage
-Conviction
-Intelligence
-Courage
-Loyalty
-Conviction
-Supreme Court
-Williams H. Rehnquist
-Background
-Judgeship
-Age
-Office of Legal Counsel
-Arizona lawyer
-Stanford University
-Confirmation
-Value
-Warren E. Burger’s view
-Age
-Workload
-Conservatism
-Age
-Compared to Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Intelligence
-Compared to Henry A. Blackman,
Burger
-Politics
-William O. Douglas
-Friday conferences
-Loyalty, courage, conviction
-Left compared to right
-Loyalty, courage, conviction
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Intelligence
-Flag lapel pins
-George Meany
-Business leaders
-Education
-Presidency or Papacy
-Intelligence
-Spiritual and philosophical values
-Free Society
-Diversity
-Vietnam War
-Orders
-Conservatives
-Republicans
-Business
-Liberals
-Government, media
-Hostility to business
-Second term reorganization
-Moral, religious values, loyalty
-Left
-Sacrifice
-Character
-Obsession with power
-Individuals
-Masses
-Manipulation by government
-Weaknesses
-Lack of character
-Lack of courage
-US
-Compared to Communists
-Brezhnev
-View of Michael J. Mansfield, McGovern
-View of the President
-Fear
-Sentimental idealism
-Contempt from right, far left
-Right
-Inflexibility
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Far left
-Left
-Liberals
-Danger
-Lack of character
-Business, media, professors
-Ivy League presidents

US foreign relations
-US philosophical strength
-Communism
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Press relations
-Images
-Fermentation, uncertainty, ruthlessness, values
-Communism
-Need to convey
-Public relations [PR]
-Mission
-USIA, philosopher
-Speech writing
-Tone

1972 election

Bicentennial
-Compared to overseas assignment
-Presentation

White House gifts
-Pins
-Wives
-Ash trays

Manolo Sanchez entered and left at an unknown time before 5:18 pm.

White House gifts
-Ash trays
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

Keogh and Frank Shakespeare left at 5:18 pm.

Frank Shakespeare
-Value
-Working relationships
-Difficulty
-Kissinger
-The President


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Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Possible position in White House
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler


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Second term reorganization
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Recent conversation with Haldeman
-East Wing
-The President’s, the President’s Family, and White House staff
schedules
-Planning
-Perceptions
-Compared to issues
-Richard A. Moore
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Garment
-William L. Safire
-John Reagan (“Tex”) McCrary
-Planning
-Review
-Objectives
-Chapin
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Planning
-David N. Parker
-Office
-Meetings
-Haldeman, the President
-East Wing
-Thelma (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule
-Cabinet
-Perceptions
-“Human”
-East Wing
-Press relations
-Ziegler’s view
-Mrs. Nixon
-Haldeman’s role
-Ziegler’s conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Briefings
-White House dinners
-Entertainment
-Fred Waring
-Constance M. (Cornell)(“Connie”) Stuart
-Ziegler’s conversation with Mrs. Nixon
-Stuart
-Retention

The President left and entered at an unknown time before 5:24 pm.

Letter from unknown sculptor
-Tone
-Humility
-The President’s schedule
-Possible meeting
-Gift for the President


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Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Work with Mrs. Nixon
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)


Butterfield entered at 5:24 pm.

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The President’s schedule
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Errors
-Identities
-The President’s knowledge
-Military aide
-Maurice H. Stans, Clark MacGregor
-Democrats
-New Majority
-Democrats

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.

The President's schedule
-Frank Shakespeare
-Guidance
-Lewis’s, Kauffmann’s and O’Neill’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Report
-First term
-Cancelled meeting with [Blake Sanborn and Donald Kemp] of Whittier, California
-Parker
-Rose Mary Woods
-Telephone call
-The President’s family
-Woods
-Letter
-Mrs. Nixon
-Parker
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s possible job
-Woods's judgment
-[John H. Alexander]
-Necessary meetings
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Visits to agencies
-Meetings
-Control
-Meetings with administration officials
-Problems
-John A.Volpe, Clifford M. Hardin
-Volpe
-Massachusetts
-Philosophy
-Trust funds

Second term reorganization
-John C. Whitaker
-Young people
-Women
-Under Secretaries
-[Atomic Energy Commission] [AEC]
-Dr. Edward David
-[Dixie Lee Ray]
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Relationship with Stennis
-Possible meeting with the President
-CIA memorandum
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Colson
-Congressional relations

Congressional relations
-Stennis
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman

The President's schedule
-Cabinet dinner
-Guests
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman's view
-Kissinger's view
-Social events
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Ziegler, William E. Timmons
-Social, cultural events
-White House staff
-Compared to Cabinet
-The President’s experience as Vice President
-Mrs. Nixon
-Haldeman's leadership
-Facilities
-Blair House
-Corcoran Museum of Art [?]
-National Portrait Gallery
-Lectures
-Wives
-Families
-View of Washington, DC
-William and [Helena (Julius)] Safire
-John and [Jeanne] Ehrlichman
-H. R. and [JoAnne (Horton)] Haldeman
-Caspar and [Jane (Dalton)] Weinberger
-George P. and Helena M. (“Obie”) Shultz
-Helena Shultz’s view
-Lectures
-Role as surrogates
-Jo Haldeman’s view
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-White House staff
-Cabinet
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Teas
-Receiving lines
-Red Room
-Green Room
-Tours
-Mrs. Nixon
-Example
-Republican Woman’s Committee of Ames, Iowa
-Jeanne Ehrlichman
-Cabinet
-White House
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Jo Haldeman’s experience at Los Angeles art
museum
-Cabinet Room, Oval Office
-Guards
-Jeanne Ehrlichman, Obie Shultz
-White House tours
-Friends
-Letters
-Michael J. Farrell
-Mrs. Nixon
-Sanborn and Kemp of Whittier
-Congressional relations
-Administration supporters
-Republicans, Democrats
-Administration opponents
-Ticket availability
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s conversation with H.R. Haldeman
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s meeting with Sam Steiger
-Sanborn and Kemp of Whittier
-Presentation
-Credit
-Sandborn and Kemp of Whittier
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tour
-Presentation of Seroll
-Mrs. Nixon’s role
-Meeting with Robert Nisbet
-Compared to meetings with mayors
-Leadership
-Schlesinger
-CIA
-Keogh
-USIA

Second term reorganization
-Whitaker
-Ronald H. Walker
-National Park Service [NPS]
-Reaction
-Qualifications
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Rogers, C.B. Morton and Whitaker
-Robert Kennedy
-[George Hartzog]
-Leonard C. Meeker
-The President’s conversation with Kissinger
-O’Neill, New York, New York Daily News
-Kauffman of Washington Star
-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s trip to Romania
-US-Romania relations
-Margaret G. Beam
-Jacob D. Beam
-Departure
-Departures
-Age
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Ambassadorship to the Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s recommendation
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Ambassadorship at large
-Rogers
-Meetings
-Shakespeare
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA] advisory committee
-[State Department]
-Soviet Union
-John J. McCloy
-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-USIA advisory commission
-The President’s view
-Rogers
-Robert J. Dole
-Conversation with the H.R. Haldeman
-John A. Scali

Stephen B. Bull entered at unknown time after 5:24 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.

White House gifts
-Records [Mormon Tabernacle Choir, gift from Isaac M. Stewart]
-Eugene Ormandy
-Recipients
-Congress
-Diplomatic corps
-Celebrities
-1972 campaign
-Congress
-Friends
-Timmons
-Woods
-Recipients
-Celebrities, friends

1973 Inauguration
-Swearing-in ceremony
-Attire
-Compared to 1969 Inauguration
-Dave Harris

Haig entered at 5:50 pm.

The President's schedule
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Timing

Haldeman left at unknown time before 6:10 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Shower
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Hand-shaking

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s message
-Haig’s telephone call
-Length
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Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Kissinger’s views
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Military action
-Public relations [PR]
-Press relations
-Settlement agreement
-Timing
-Settlement agreement
-Intelligence reports
-Post-October 6, 1972
-North Vietnam
-Instructions to cadres
-Reorganization of forces in South Vietnam
-Briefings
-North Vietnam
-Perception of US
-“Pre-Christmas anxiety”
-Kissinger’s message
-Record
-Concessions
-Future
-December 13, 1972 meeting
-The President’s message to Kissinger
-Breakdown
-Tone
-Kissinger’s view
-North Vietnam’s reaction
-Publicity
-Thieu’s speech at National Assembly, December 12, 1972
-North Vietnam’s reaction
-Demands
-US responsibility
-Madame Nguyen Thi Binh
-Thieu’s relations with theUS
-Settlement agreement
-Military supplies
-Civilian’s in military role
-Vietnamization
-December 13, 1972 meeting
-Breakdown
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)

Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Kissinger’s return from Paris
-Settlement agreement
-Kissinger’s view
-December 9, 1972 meeting
-December 9, 1972 meeting
-Compromise
-Reopening of issues
-US military aid to South Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
-Messages
-The President’s reading
-Compared to the President’s view
-Messages
-The President’s reading
-Settlement agreement
-North Vietnam’s position
-Communists
-Timing
-Breakdown
-Ziegler’s statement, December 13, 1972
-Guidance
-Kissinger’s return from Paris
-Consultation
-The President’s schedule
-Haig
-Progress
-Issues
-Consultation
-Resumption of talks
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Haig’s view
-1972 election
-PR
-Christmas
-North Vietnam
-Pace of bombing
-Military buildup
-Delays
-Cessation of US bombing
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)

Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Settlement agreement
-Cessation
-Timing
-Settlement agreement
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger's view
-Le Duc Tho
-North Vietnam
-Congressional reconvention
-Resumption of talks
-Weather
-B-52s
-Escorts
-Cease-fire
-Thieu’s offer
-Timing
-North Vietnam’s position
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Timing
-Christmas
-New Year’s Day
-Thieu’s offer
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Thieu
-Spiro T. Agnew’s possible trip Saigon
-Timing
-Settlement agreement
-US military action
-North Vietnam
-Haig’s possible role
-Kissinger’s view
-1972 election
-The President’s and Haig’s views
-Kissinger’s view
-Haig’s trip to Saigon
-Thieu
-End of war
-William F. Buckley, Jr.’s article
-Thieu
-US support
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)

Conversation No. 820-24/821-1 (cont’d)

-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.’s view
-US position
-Compared to North Vietnam’s position
-South Vietnam
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-North Vietnam’s position
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Option
-Pace of bombing
-Breakdown
-Kissinger’s possible statement
-Tone
-Press relations
-Settlement agreement
-Soviet Union
-PRC

The President’s schedule
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Meeting with Haig

Vietnam negotiations
-Status
-Settlement agreement
-Timing

An unknown person entered and the unknown person and Haig left at 6:10 pm.
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