833–21

Conversation No. 833-21

Date: January 4, 1973
Time: Unknown between 1:01 pm and 1:46 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Agenda
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Breakfast meeting
-Seating arrangements
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Carl B. Albert
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 1:06 pm.
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-Photograph
-Agnew
-Albert
-Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-George P. Shultz
-House of Representatives
-Protocol

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:46 pm.

Chinese acrobatics
-The President’s attendance
-Kennedy Center
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-National Committee on US-China relations
-President
-George S. McGovern
-Charles W. Yost
-Benefit
-Hugh Scott
-Mrs. Nixon
-The President’s work
-Gymnastics team
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Rose Mary Woods
-Talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Mood
-Ned Sullivan
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Departure
-Herbert G. Klein
-Departure
-Butterfield
-Bull
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-White House position
-Mrs. Nixon
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-Bull
-Lucy A. Winchester
-White House social functions
-Invitations Lists
-Maurice H. Stans
-New Majority
-Celebrities
-[First name unknown] Calvero [?]
-Sue Torog [?]
-Ned Sullivan
-Possible appointment
-Chief of Protocol
-James J. Reynolds
-Joan Reynolds
-Frank Borman
-Charles W. Colson
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ceremony
-Patricia Haig
-East wing
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Activities during the 1972 campaign
-Listening to staff members
-Kissinger, Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:06 pm.

The President's memoranda to Haldeman
-Copies
-Hand delivery
-Tapes
-Disposition
-The President’s private memoranda
-Typing
-Filing

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:46 pm.

Rose Mary Woods
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-Bull
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Press relations
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Vietnam settlement
-The President's talk with Haig
-Kissinger
-Call to Haig
-Puerto Rico
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Kissinger
-John Negroponte
-Leaks
-Softness
-Vietnamese expert
-Bombing
-Haig
-Relations with National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Winston Lord
-Softness
-Kissinger

Haldeman's talk with Woods

Deputy for Haldeman
-Qualities
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-John D. Ehrlichman

Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Presence
-Haig
-Toughness
-Kissinger

William P. Rogers
-Agreement with North Vietnamese
-October 1972 agreement
-North Vietnamese announcement
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-Kissinger with Le Duc Tho
-Photographs
-Press coverage

Kissinger
-Press relations
-Proper actions
-Reception in New York
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Congressional relations
-Complaints
-Resolution vote
-Charles H. Percy
-Colson

Kissinger
-Public actions
-Reluctance

Rogers
-Testimony before Congress

Laird
-Bombing targets
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Hospitals
-Publicity
-Bombing damage
-Public statements

Vietnam settlement
-Negotiations
-Relation to bombing

Congressional relations
-Laird
-Hebert
-Statement to Congress
-Explanation
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-December 1972 bombing
-Timing
-North Vietnamese reaction

Rogers
-Negotiations
-Kissinger

Rogers and Laird
-Departure
-Kissinger
-Elliot L. Richardson, [David] Kenneth Rush
-Team players

December 1972 bombing
-Press relations
-Vietnam
-Attacks on administration
-Administration rationale
-Negotiations breakdown
-North Vietnamese
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Cambodia
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-1973 Inauguration

Terry L. Decker
-Travel plans
-Loyalty
-Ohio
-Middle America

Research subsidies to higher education
-Defense Department
-Richardson
-Haldeman's talk with Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-James R. Schlesinger
-Cuts in programs
-Defense Department
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
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Conversation No. 833-21 (cont’d)

-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Advisory boards
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-Weinberger's conversation with Schlesinger
-Richardson
-Contracts to anti-defense researchers
-Shultz

Anna Chennault
-“Dragon Lady”
-Acquaintance with Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger
-William C. Westmoreland

Chinese volumes
-Gift to the President
-PRC
-State Department
-Disposition
-Nixon Library
-Research visits

The President's schedule
-Periodic meetings
-Length
-Trucker of the Year
-Selectivity
-Camp David
-Contact with outside world
-Rationale
-Congress, White House staff
-AEC chairman
-Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Trucker of the Year
-Photograph
-1973 Inauguration

Second term reorganization
-Announcements
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Conversation No. 833-21 (cont’d)

-Agriculture Department
-Assistant Secretaries
-Clayton K. Yeutter
-Marketing and consumer services
-William W. Erwin
-Rural development
-John A. (“Jack”) Knebel
-General Counsel
-Food and Drug Administration [FDA]
-Political choices
-Dixy Lee Ray
-John Foster
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Los Alamos Laboratory
-Livermore Laboratory
-Glenn T. Seaborg
-Arms control

Meeting in Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Ehrlichman

Weather

Haldeman left at 1:46 pm.