Secret White House Tapes

824–2

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824–2
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Manolo Sanchez
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • UNKNOWN
  • White House operator
  • Julie Nixon Eisenhower
  • Charles G. "Bebe" Rebozo
  • Peter J. Brennan
December 15, 1972
Conversation No. 824-2

Date: December 15, 1972
Time: 9:25 am - 12:44 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Paperwork
-Private file

Refreshment
-Coffee

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:30 am.


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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)


The President’s foot
-Refusal to see Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Compared to past football injuries
-Pampering

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The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Vietnam War
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Timing
-Weather
-Helicopter
-Christmas tree
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Second term reorganization
-Michael P. Balzano, Jr.
-New Majority
-John D. Ehrlichman’s view
-Retention
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s and Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s and Tricia Nixon
Cox’s views
-Ehrlichman
-Compared to John C. Whitaker
-Ehrlichman
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Public relations [PR]
-Peter J. Brennan
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Ethnic groups
-George P. Shultz
-Property taxes

Budget
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-Cuts
-The President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Paraplegics
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Paraplegics
-Savings
-Ambassadors
-Sweden
-Blacks
-[Robert J. Brown]
-Labor Department
-[Philip K. Crowe]
-Blacks
-Right wing
-Draft evaders
-Appointment of black
-Norway
-Denmark
-Scandinavia

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:30 am.

-Blacks
-Scandinavia
-Austria
-Scandinavia

Press relations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing
-The President’s memorandum to Kissinger
-Dictation
-Typing
-Unknown woman
-Conversation with Stephen B. Bull
-The President’s meeting with Kissinger and Ziegler
-Alexander M Haig, Jr.
-Timing
-Location
-White House
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-Tours
-Executive Office Building
-Announcement
-Ziegler’s press conference
-Tone
-Television [TV]
-Length
-The President’s memorandum
-Kissinger
-“Kraut Character of the Year” award
-Sauerkraut
-The President’s News Summary comment
-Timing


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The President’s foot

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Vietnam War
-US bombing, mining north of 20th Parallel
-The President’s meetings with Kissinger
-Ziegler’s press conference
-PR
-North Vietnam’s military buildup
-Precautionary measures
-Cease-fire
-The President’s meeting with Ziegler
-[The President’s May 8, 1972 speech]
-Cessation of military action
-Conditions
-Prisoners of War [POWs], cease-fire
-The President’s meeting with Kissinger
-B-52s
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-Number
-PR
-B-52s
-Hanoi
-F-104s
-Duration
-Negotiations

Press relations
-Time’s Man of the Year award
-Nelson A. Rockefeller’s effort
-Kissinger
-The President’s schedule
-Kissinger’s possible meeting with Jerrold L. Schecter
-White House
-Time
-The President’s conversation with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Orders to Haldeman
-Washington Post, Time
-Christmas
-[Oriana Fallaci’s] interview with Kissinger
-Time
-Schecter
-Kissinger
-Schecter
-The President
-Vietnam negotiations
-Interview with the President, 1971
-Kissinger
-Order
-Instructions to Haldeman
-Interviews, social contact, return telephone calls
-Duration of restrictions
-White House operators
-Instructions
-John F. Osborne’s telephone calls
-Handling
-Ziegler
-Private telephone
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-Call to Osborne
-Reason
-Correction of Osborne article
-The President’s relationship with Kissinger
-Quotes
-Time
-Schecter
-White House operators
-Telephone calls to Kissinger, the President, Haldeman
-Ziegler’s office
-Man of the Year Award
-Effect on US foreign policy
-Hedley W. Donovan
-Kissinger
-Rockefeller
-Administration reaction
-Box story
-Tone
-Schecter
-Treatment of the President
-The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger
-US-Soviet Union summit
-Second term
-Ziegler’s role

Second term reorganization
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Ziegler’s conversation with Mrs. Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Marital status
-[Charles Stuart]
-PR
-Public Information Officer [PIO]
-Press relations
-Communications, film
-White House
-Women
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-Assistant Secretary
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Management
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Marge Byers
-Forthcoming meeting with Ziegler
-Timing
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
-Mrs. Nixon
-White House staff
-Byers
-Women
-The President’s schedule
-Meetings
-Ziegler’s staff
-Meetings
-East Wing
-Meetings
-Eliska Hasek [?]
-Press relations
-Press office
-Mrs. Nixon
-Connie Stuart’s conversation with Haldeman
-Activities
-Byers
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Women
-Secretaries, administrators
-Byers
-J. Bruce Whelihan
-Neal Ball
-Gerald L. Warren
-Whelihan, Warren
-Byers
-Connie Stuart
-Byers
-Meetings
-Richard A. Moore
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.

The President’s memorandum
-Typing
-Unknown woman

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger

Memorandum
-Draft

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:13 am.

Second term reorganization
-Byers

Press relations
-Schecter
-The President’s and Kissinger’s schedules
-Conversations with Ziegler
-The President’s schedule
-1972 election
-Mandate
-Conversations with the President, Ehrlichman
-Ziegler’s role
-Ehrlichman
-Tone
-Haldeman’s role

Congressional relations
-Haldeman
-Image
-Efforts
-The President

PR
-Haldeman
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Sherman Adams

Press relations
-Ehrlichman’s briefing
-Herbert G. Klein

Vietnam War
-Settlement agreement
-Quality
-POWs
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Barry M. Goldwater’s statement
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Kissinger’s view
-Cambodia
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-Protests
-White House
-Christmas
-Press relations
-The President’s memorandum
-Tone
-Justification for actions
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Press relations
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Murrey Marder
-Max Frankel
-Future perspectives on war
-June 1973
-Cambodia, Laos
-Second term
-End
-The President’s conversation with Charles G.
(“Bebe”) Rebozo

Budget
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-Cuts
-Paraplegics
-Weinberger

Vietnam War
-Protests
-Settlement agreement
-Quality
-PR
-December 1971 bombing
-PR
-Charles W. Colson’s view
-Polls
-1972 campaign

1972 election
-Vietnam negotiations
-Watergate
-Thomas F. Eagleton
-Press relations
-The President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Ziegler’s view
-Advocacy, predictions concerning George S. McGovern
-Robert D. Novak’s article
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s article
-Credibility
-Predictions

The President’s schedule
-Press relations
-White House social events
-Christmas candlelight tour
-Families
-Trip [to Florida]

Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Trip to Pasadena, California [Rose Parade]
-Advance man
-Press person
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Football
-Rose Bowl
-University of Southern California [USC]
-Green Bay Packers
-Washington Redskins
-Inconsistency
-Ohio State University
-USC
-Defeat of Notre Dame
-Personnel
-Redskins-Dallas Cowboys game
-Larry Brown
-George E. Allen
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Herbert Mul-Key
-Speedy Duncan
-Alvin Haymond
-George Nock
-Compared to Brown
-Fumbling
-Brown
-Redskins
-Game against Packers
-Coaching
-Mul-Key

Press relations
-Time
-Ehrlichman
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-Telephone call to William P. Rogers
-The President, Kissinger
-Man of the Year award
-State Department
-Klein
-William L. Safire
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-Schedules
-State of the Union address
-Schecter meeting with Ziegler
-Administration’s accomplishments
-The President’s trip to the PRC and the Soviet Union
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-1972 election
-Man of the Year award
-Reaction letters
-The President’s or Haldeman’s telephone call to Colson

The President’s picture
-Secretary of Labor [Peter J. Brennan]
-Conversation with the President at reception for 1972 election supporters
-Labor Department offices
-The President’s instructions to Cabinet officers, ambassadors
-John F. Kennedy
-Press relations

White House social events
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Maurice H. Stans
-Clark MacGregor
-Comportment
-Receptions for 1972 election supporters
-Labor officials
-Plumbers
-Iron workers
-Joseph T. (“Joe T.”) Trerotola
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Wives
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s view
-White Anglo-Saxon Protestants [WASPs]

Second term reorganization
-John A. Volpe
-Ambassadorship to the United Nations [UN]
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-John A. Scali
-Conversation with Ziegler
-Klein
-Constance M. Gerrard
-Meeting with the President
-Haldeman’s note
-Conversation with Ziegler
-The President
-Compared to Secretary of State, foreign service
-Cabinet
-Announcement
-Timing
-December 16, 1972
-Haldeman’s conversation with George H. W. Bush
-General Assembly
-Haldeman’s conversation with Bush
-Vietnam War
-US bombing
-Qualifications
-Media
-Benjamin Franklin
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Editor
-Trip to the PRC, Soviet Union
-Policy
-White House
-State Department, White House, Congress, UN
-The President’s convictions
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.

Kissinger entered at 10:13 am.

Second term reorganization
-NASA
-David
-[Dixy Lee Ray]
-[Atomic Energy Commission] [AEC]
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

Haldeman’s and Ziegler’s schedules
-Meeting with the President

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 10:13 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Timing
-Le Duc Tho
-Departure from Paris
-Statement
-Tone
-“No comment”
-Peace
-Christmas
-“No comment”
-US bombing, mining north of 20th Parallel
-The President’s memorandum
-Kissinger’s view
-Tone
-Tho’s statement
-Details
-Status report
-Timing
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-North Vietnam’s strategy
-Delays
-Message
-US bombing, mining north of 20th Parallel
-Timing
-Duration
-Cessation
-POWs
-B-52s
-Compared to World War II
-London
-The President’s experience
-Bougainville
-Japanese bombers
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Targets
-Foxholes
-Duration
-Settlement agreement
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Timing
-Press relations
-PR
-“Shock”
-Timing
-Church service
-John Cardinal Krol
-International affairs
-“Euphoria”
-West Germany
-Left-wing government
-Polls
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Australia
-Unknown country
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s statement
-Peace
-The President’s trips to the PRC and the Soviet Union
-1973 Inaugural Address
-Draft
-Buchanan
-Peace
-Tone
-The President’s meeting with Kissinger and Haig
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Timing
-Breakdown
-Responsibility
-Tho’s departure from Paris
-Tho’s statement
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Kissinger’s briefing
-The President’s memorandum
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-POWs
-Conditions
-Cease-fire
-Lasting peace
-Compared to temporary truce
-The President’s language
-Notes
-South Vietnam-North Vietnam relations
-Resumption of war
-Ballot box
-Timing
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-The President’s memorandum
-Settlement agreement
-Long war, short peace
-Press relations
-Continuation of serious talks
-Technical points
-Kissinger’s “peace is at hand” statement, October 26, 1972
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Ziegler and Haldeman
-Tho’s statement
-Tone

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 10:13 am.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Ziegler and Haldeman

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:27 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Timing
-Tho’s schedule
-Peking
-Hanoi
-Kissinger’s briefing
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Timing
-Tho’s schedule
-Peking, Hanoi
-US mining
-Timing
-Haig’s trip to Saigon
-Announcement
-Timing
-Letter to Thieu

Haldeman and Ziegler entered at 10:27 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s briefing
-The President’s memorandum
-Dictation
-Timing
-Outline
-The President’s conversation with Kissinger
-Settlement agreement
-Long war, short peace
-Press relations

Second term reorganization
-Scali
-Announcement
-Leaks
-Timing

Vietnam negotiations
-US bombing, mining north of 20th Parallel
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-Timing
-Status report
-Timing
-Tho’s statement
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Timing
-US mining north of 20th Parallel
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-Timing
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Timing
-Tho
-The President’s memorandum
-Tone
-Problems
-Settlement agreement
-Timing
-Tho’s statement
-Tho’s schedule
-Peking
-Deliberation
-North Vietnam’s delays
-Weather
-Tone
-The President’s recent conversation with Kissinger
-The President’s memorandum
-Press relations
-Kissinger’s previous statements
-Caveats
-The President’s speeches
-Timing
-1972 election
-[“Look to the Future”]
-Settlement agreement
-Peace
-Timing
-Honorable and lasting peace
-Status report
-Details
-Progress
-Post-October 8, 1972
-Differences
-Technical nature
-Resolution
-Settlement agreement
-Conditions
-The President’s speech
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-Temporary peace
-North and South Vietnam
-1968 bombing halt
-Conditions
-Goals
-Cease-fire
-The President’s speeches of January 25, 1972 and May 8,
1972
-“Peace is at hand”
-Policing machinery
-Violations
-North Vietnam’s preparations
-Enforcement
-POWs
-North Vietnam’s conditions
-Civilian prisoners in South Vietnam
-South Vietnam’s self-determination
-Imposition of Communist government in South Vietnam
-North Vietnam’s tactics
-Protocols
-PR
-Summation of goals
-Settlement agreement
-Exchange of messages
-Understandings
-North Vietnam
-POWs
-Cease-fire
-Permanence
-Temporary truce
-South Vietnam’s self-determination
-Imposition of Communist government in South Vietnam
-International supervision
-Political parties
-Communists
-Settlement agreement
-The President’s interest
-1972 election
-Christmas
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-POWs
-North and South Vietnam
-Deadline
-Truce
-Continuation of war
-Means of attainment
-Pushing around, blackmail, stampeding
-Casualties
-North and South Vietnam
-Charm
-Gifts for Kissinger

Labor relations
-Fitzsimmons
-Harold J. Gibbons
-Trip to Hanoi
-Firing from union [International Brotherhood of Teamsters]
-Relationship with Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Gibbons
-Golf in San Clemente
-Mary Patricia Fitzsimmons
-Frank Fitzsimmons’s private compared to public statements
-Support for the President

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s briefing
-The President’s memorandum
-Casualties
-North Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-US leadership
-Settlement agreement
-Responsibility
-South and North Vietnam
-South Vietnam-North Vietnam relations
-Battlefield to ballot box
-Cease-fire
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-Coalition government
-Settlement agreement
-Long war, short peace
-Continuation of serious talks
-Technical points
-US bombing and mining of North Vietnam
-Ziegler’s press conference
-Duration
-Settlement agreement
-Volunteer armed forces
-POWs
-North Vietnam’s military buildup
-Christmas
-Draft
-Casualties
-Ground combat
-Settlement agreement
-The President’s conversation with Kissinger
-POWs
-Imposition of Communist government in South Vietnam
-Resumption of war
-Timing
-Tho’s statement
-The President’s memorandum
-Tone
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Timing
-Tho’s schedule
-Peking
-Ziegler’s press conference
-The President’s meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s meetings with Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff [Adm. Thomas
H. Moorer], Secretary of Defense [Melvin R. Laird], Secretary of State
[Rogers], Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], Richard M. Helms
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Timing
-Press relations
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Timing
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-Church service
-Krol
-Kissinger’s briefing
-US mining north of 20th Parallel
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Timing
-PR
-Military, diplomatic factors
-Effect
-Tone
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s meeting with Kissinger
-North Vietnam
-Saigon, Hanoi
-Haig’s trip to Saigon
-Timing
-Announcement
-Timing
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Tone
-The President’s memorandum
-Status report
-Tho
-Technical differences
-Cease-fire
-Tone
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Technical differences
-Phrasing
-Press relations
-Tho
-Audience
-US
-South and North Vietnam
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Specifics
-Bernard Gwertzman of The New York Times
-Marder
-Differences
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-Nature
-Principles
-“Peace is at hand”
-POWs, cease-fire, imposition of coalition
government
-Technicalities
-Motives
-POWs, cease-fire, coalition government
-“Peace is at hand”
-Technicalities
-B-52s
-POWs, cease-fire, coalition government
-Tone
-Press relations
-POWs, cease-fire, coalition government
-1972 campaign statements
-Justification
-North Vietnam’s possible statements
-North Vietnam
-Responsibility
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Settlement agreement
-PR
-Differences
-Nature
-Technicalities
-Principles
-Coalition government, cease-fire, POWs
-Protocols
-Conditions
-Press relations

US-India relations
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan’s conversation with the President
-Ambassadors
-Moynihan
-Quality
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Chester Bowles
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Kenneth B. Keating
-Indira Gandhi
-State Department
-Kissinger
-The President’s previous conversation with Moynihan
-The President’s conversation with Scali
-Gandhi
-Meeting with Kissinger
-UN
-Moynihan’s speech, 1971
-Moynihan’s possible conversation with Gandhi
-Recent meeting with Kissinger
-Harvard University
-Ambassadorship
-[Elizabeth Therese Moynihan]
-New York
-UN
-New Delhi
-Blacks
-[The Negro Family: The Case for National Action]

Second term reorganization
-Ambassadorship to Pakistan
-Assistant Secretaries of State
-Middle East
-Joseph S. Farland
-Latin America
-Robert C. Hill
-Africa
-David D. Newsom
-Hill
-Toughness
-Latin America
-Spain
-Latin America
-Jack B. Kubisch
-US embassy, Paris
-Mexico
-Loyalty
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-Haldeman’s view
-Africa
-Hill
-Loyalty
-State Department
-Middle East
-Farland
-India-Pakistan War
-East Asia
-G. McMurtrie Godley
-Laos
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Ambassadorship to Turkey
-Sisco
-Pakistan
-William B. Macomber, Jr.
-Ambassadorship to Pakistan
-Sisco
-India
-Departure
-East Asia
-Marshall Green
-Age
-Sisco
-Godley
-Loyalty
-Ambassadorship to Laos
-Charles Whitehouse
-Saigon
-Ambassadorship to South Vietnam
-Graham A. Martin
-State Department
-Conversation with Haig
-Conversation with Rogers
-Haldeman’s conversation with Kissinger
-Back channels
-Haig’s conversation with Kissinger
-State Department
-Conversation with Rogers
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Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger briefing
-Timing
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Timing
-Church service
-US mining north of 20th Parallel
-Haiphong estuary
-Kissinger’s briefing
-The President’s memorandum
-Outline
-Kissinger’s statement during departure from Paris
-Tone
-Film
-US image
-1973 Inauguration
-Speech
-Price’s draft
-Peace
-North Vietnam
-End of war
-Second term
-The President’s possible statement
-Vietnamization
-US bombing, mining north of 20th Parallel
-Duration
-POWs
-Future
-End of second term
-Kissinger’s message from Paris
-US-Soviet Union relations
-US-PRC relations
-US-Europe relations
-The President
-Press relations
-Time
-Life
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Strike
-Financing
-The President’s credibility
-Trips to PRC and the Soviet Union
-Comparison with George S. McGovern and Hubert H. Humphrey
-Soviet Union, PRC
-Settlement agreement
-Duration
-Timing
-POWs
-Kissinger’s briefing
-“Peace is at hand”
-Ziegler’s meeting with Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-Historical perspective
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s meeting with Kissinger
-Tho
-South Vietnam
-Tho’s concessions, conditions
-Thieu
-Haig’s trip to Saigon
-Possible letter from the President
-Handwriting
-Length
-Tone
-Letter from the President
-Tone
-Cease-fire
-US-South Vietnam relations

Kissinger left at 11:15 am.

Second term reorganization
-Scali
-Announcement
-Leaks
-Timing
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Washington Star
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Ziegler’s schedule
-Rogers

Ziegler left at 11:16 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s meetings with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s briefing
-North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
-Tone
-The President’s memorandum
-Appearance
-Problem
-Plodding
-The President’s memorandum
-Points
-Protocols
-Copies
-Lines
-Ziegler
-Long war, short peace
-Price, speechwriters
-Timing
-The President’s memorandum
-The President’s memorandum
-Safire
-Style
-Alliteration

Second term reorganization
-Scali
-Announcement
-Leaks
-Washington Star
-Washington Post
-ABC
-Leonard H. Goldenson
-Meeting with Bush
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Meeting with Krol [?]
-Church attendance
-Frequency
-UN
-St. Patrick’s Cathedral
-Terence Cardinal Cook
-Appointment of Catholic
-Cook
-Lawrence M. Higby
-[Warren R. Austin]
-Vermont
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Background
-WASP

Ziegler entered at 11:20 am.

Second term reorganization
-Scali
-Announcement
-Leaks
-Ziegler’s conversation with Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner
-Moore
-Request to use telephone
-Scali’s trips to the PRC and the Soviet Union
-The President’s confidence
-Catholicism
-Protestants
-Atheists
-Horner
-Washington Star
-ABC
-News
-Radio
-Timing
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Catholicism
-Cabinet status
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-ABC
-Scali’s background
-Scali’s understanding of and advice on policies
-Catholicism
-Austin
-Lodge
-James J. Wadsworth
-Charles W. Yost
-Rogers
-Horner
-Deadline
-Telephone
-Washington Post

Press relations
-Washington Post
-Horner
-Newsweek article
-Ziegler’s conversation with Bill Cook
-Horner’s interview with the President
-Interviews with the President
-Cyrus L. (“Cy”) Suizberger
-[Henry Brandon]
-Washington Post
-Ziegler’s meeting with White
-White’s conversation with Katherine L. Graham
-Second term
-White
-New York Daily News
-1972 campaign
-Endorsement
-New York Times
-1972 election
-New York

Second term reorganization
-Scali
-Announcement
-Rogers
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Bush
-Timing

Unknown woman

The unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 11:20 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s memorandum
-Copy for Ziegler

Ziegler left at 11:29 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s memorandum
-Copy for Ziegler
-Kissinger’s copy
-Copy for the President’s file
-Kissinger’s copy

A memorandum
-Copy for Ziegler
-Copy for President

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 11:56 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Ziegler’s role
-Points
-Previous briefings
-Scali
-Kissinger
-Kissinger’s view
-Compared with the President’s view
-Tone
-North Vietnam’s actions
-The President’s press conferences
-Kissinger’s mood
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-US bombing north of 20th Parallel

1973 Inauguration
-Previous addresses
-Memoranda
-Word count

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 11:29 am.

1973 Inauguration
-Previous addresses
-Word count
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Theodore Roosevelt
-William McKinley
-1905
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-1937
-Kennedy
-Timing
-David R. Gergen

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 11:56 am.

Second term reorganization
-Control
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-John C. Whitaker
-Peter M. Flanigan
-The President’s memoranda
-PR
-Shultz
-Meetings with the President
-Press conferences
-Preparation
-The President’s memoranda
-The President’s schedule
-Klein
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Kissinger
-Scali, Ziegler
-Previous performances
-Points
-Brilliance
-Ziegler
-Points
-Brilliance
-Compared to effectiveness
-Klein
-Ehrlichman
-Tone
-Ehrlichman
-Compared to Flanigan, Whitaker
-Flanigan, Whitaker
-The President’s view
-Loyalty
-Flanigan
-European Economic Community [EEC]
-NASA
-Shultz
-AEC
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman’s schedule
-Meeting with Anne L. Armstrong
-Meeting with Maurice H. Stans
-Meeting with the President
-Meeting with Robert H. Finch
-Announcement
-Sarah Bernhardt
-“Farewell tours”
-Meeting with William J. Baroody
-Baroody
-Colson’s view
-Bryce N. Harlow’s view
-Possible meeting with the President
-Baroody’s physical appearance
-Physical appearance
-Staff
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-WASPs
-The President’s view
-Balzano
-Donald F. Rodgers
-Armstrong

Vietnam War
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-PR
-Colson
-Conversation with Haldeman or the President
-Ziegler announcement
-Goldwater
-Peaceniks

Press relations
-Time
-Man of the Year award

The President left and reentered at an unknown time before 11:56 am.


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White House social affairs
-Christmas tree lighting reception
-[First name unknown] Davis [?]
-The President’s attendance

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-Harry S. Truman
-Possible death
-Timing
-Christmas tree lighting
-Cabinet dinner
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Funeral
-Church service
-Cabinet dinner
-Moment of silence
-PR
-Cabinet dinner
-Press relations
-Fred Waring
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Washington Post

Press relations
-Time
-Ziegler
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Klein
-Man of the Year
-Kissinger
-1972 election
-McGovern
-Eagleton
-The President’s role
-Principal
-Kissinger’s role
-Agent

White House social affairs
-Truman
-Possible death
-Timing
-Cabinet dinner
-Moment of silence
-Entertainment
-Waring
-Singing, dancing
-Youth

Second term reorganization
-Scali
-Mrs. Nixon’s view
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)


The President’s schedule
-Truman
-Possible death
-Lying in state
-Compared to funeral service
-Truman Library
-TV
-Truman’s friends
-Timing
-Eisenhower
-Airplanes
-The President’s meeting with Laird

Vietnam War
-US bombing, mining north of 20th Parallel
-Rogers’s and Laird’s views
-Kissinger
-Rogers’s view
-Departure

Second term reorganization
-Ambassadorship to South Vietnam
-Martin
-Conversation with Rogers
-Conversation with the President
-Ehrlichman
-Intelligence
-Physical appearance
-Personality
-Toughness
-Personal relations
-Youth
-Flanigan
-Departure
-Whitaker
-Personality
-Departure
-Ronald H. Walker
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-National Park Service [NPS]
-Young people
-Compared to ages of campaign contributors
-Stans’s friends

The President’s schedule
-Christmas telephone calls
-“Hawks”
-Michael J. Mansfield

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:29 am and
11:36 am.

[Conversation No. 824-2A]

[See Conversation No. 34-86]

[End of telephone conversation]

Second term reorganization
-Control
-Post-1972 election
-1972 election
-Victory percentage
-Vietnam negotiations
-Administration’s image
-Brennan
-Comparison with Eisenhower administration
-Control
-The President’s experience as Vice President
-The President’s conversations with Eisenhower
-Speeches

The President talked with Mansfield between 11:56 am and 12:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 824-2B]

[See Conversation No. 34-87]
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

[End of telephone conversation]

Congressional relations
-The President’s conversation with Mansfield
-Breakfast meeting

1973 Inaugural speech
-Previous speeches
-Word count
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Price’s draft
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Franklin Roosevelt
-Kennedy
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Kennedy
-The President, 1969

The President’s schedule
-Refrigerator installation
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s report
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Timing
-Reception for 1972 election supporters


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Congressional races
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Edward C. Nixon
-Unknown person

Edward Nixon
-Nixon Foundation
-Position
-Qualifications
-Fundraising
-Presentation to trustees
-Library
-Location
-San Clemente
-Whittier
-Trustees meeting
-Work out of Washington, DC
-Jack Drown
-Leonard K. Firestone

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Second term reorganization
-Control
-Pace
-Scali’s appointment
-Claude S. Brinegar appointment
-Haldeman’s possible conversation with Ehrlichman

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Reception for 1972 election
-Supporters
-Timing
-Duration
-Number of guests

The President talked with the White House operator at 12:17 pm.
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

[Conversation No. 824-2C]

[See Conversation No. 34-88]

[End of telephone conversation]


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Assistance to the President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Organizational abilities
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Subtlety
-Rebozo’s financial transactions
-Florida land
-Bethesda house

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White House renovation
-Refrigerator
-Theater
-Bowling alley
-Theater
-Tunnel
-Carpenters’ shops
-North Portico
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Kitchen
-Driveway
-Sauna
-Rummy table
-Sauna, shower
-Whirlpool
-Size
-Filter
-Mrs. Nixon
-Operation
-Filter

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:17 pm.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s arrival
-The President’s schedule
-Rebozo

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm.

White House renovation
-Expense

Julie Nixon Eisenhower entered at 12:18 pm.

Rebozo
-Location


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Weather

Haldeman’s house
-Georgetown
-Yard

The President’s foot
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Refusal to see Gen. Walter R. Tkach

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The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Rebozo
-House
-Rebozo’s location

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:18 pm.

Rebozo
-Location

Refreshment
-Consumme

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:21 pm.


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Haldeman's schedule
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)


Second term reorganization
-Byers
-Life magazine
-Ziegler’s recommendation
-Relationship with the President’s family
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Mrs. Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s view
-Mrs. Nixon’s view
-David Eisenhower’s view
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s view
Sauna [?]
-Cost

Rebozo entered at 12:21 pm.

Haldeman left at 12:22 pm.


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House purchase
-Rebozo
-Price
-Note to Bull

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:22 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:44 pm.

House purchase
-Rebozo’s bargaining
-Quality
-Swimming pool

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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

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-Congress
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Residence
-Ownership
-Rent

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-Secret Service
-Trees
-Haldeman
-Security

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-David Eisenhower
-Congressional race
-Pennsylvania
-Residence
-Place to write
-The President’s work
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

-Speechwriting
-Price
-Current owners
-Background
-Privacy
-Down payment
-Closing

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Rebozo talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:22 pm and 12:44
pm.

[Conversation No. 824-2D]

[See Conversation No. 34-89]

[End of telephone conversation]

Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-Telephone call
-Instructions
-Contract


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House purchase
-Patio
-Tour for the President

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Rebozo talked with Buchanan at an unknown time between 12:22 pm and 12:44 pm.
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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)


[Conversation No. 824-2E]

[See Conversation No. 34-90]

[End of telephone conversation]

Shelley Buchanan’s schedule
-Weather

White House renovation
-Refrigerator
-Installation
-Mrs. Nixon
-Shelves
-Removal
-Storage
-Refrigerator
-Installation
-Purpose
-Kitchen staff
-Solarium
-Furniture
-Color
-Reclining chair
-Chairs at Camp David
-Table
-Draperies
-Bar


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Conversation No. 824-2 (cont’d)

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The President’s schedule
-Reception for 1972 election supporters

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:22 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Ziegler
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Budget
-Domestic issues
-Sallyanne Payton
-Meeting with Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:44 pm.


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The President’s schedule
-Tour
-Automobile

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Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Rebozo left at 12:44 pm.
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