840–5

Conversation No. 840-5
Date: February 3, 1973
Time: 10:29 am - 10:59 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President’s correspondence
-Letters
-Forms
-Telephone calls
-News summary
-Roy L. Ash
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

The President's comment
-Woods's role
-Personal call to senders
-Ash
-News summary
-The President’s comments
-Cabinet members
-John D. Ehrlichman's call to senders
-Morale

Bombing of North Vietnam
-Reactions
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The President’s press conference
-Reactions
-White House cars’ drivers
-Vietnam Veterans
-Amnesty for draft evaders
-Jail
-Nixon supporter
-Grandmother
-Patriotism

Press relations
-Patriotism
-Goldthwaite Dorr
-Anger at press and Congress
-Health
-The President's 1973 inauguration
-Henry A. Kissinger briefing of treaty
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Vietnam settlement
-Helen Frick
-Support for the President
- United Nations [UN] response to the President's peace efforts
-Chicago Tribune
-December 1972 bombing
-Explanations
-Jack Drown's call to Woods
-Press conference
-News coverage

-The President's actions
-Congressional critics
- J. William Fulbright
-William E. Timmons
-Invitations to state dinners
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]
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-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Invitation to state dinner
-Golda Meir
-Samuel L. Devine
-Support

Access to the President
-Cabinet
-William P. Rogers
-State Department
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Defense Department
-Frederic V. Malek
-Maurice H. Stans
-Contributors
-Compared to political operatives
-Clark MacGregor
-George H. W. Bush
-Heath
-Meeting with [Hussein, King of Jordan] Hussein ibn Talal
-Queen Alia
-List of contributors
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Stephen B. Bull
-Blacks
-Supporters of the President
-Symbolism
-Campaign contributors
-Lists
-Blacks
-Symbolism
-Number
-Mayors
-Robert S. Brown [?]
-Hussein dinner
-Walter E. Washington
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-Leonard Garment
-Jews
-Gold Meir dinner [?]
-Max M. Fisher’s list
-United Jewish Appeal
-Jewish supporters of the President
-Hubert H. Humphrey's worker
-New York rabbi

December 1972 bombing
-Difficulties
-Cabinet
-Cambodia bombing
-1972 Moscow summit


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Reactions
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

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-Press coverage
-Editors
-Chicago Tribune
-Los Angeles Times

Press relations
-Opposition to the President
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Consensus
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-Soviet Union
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Attacks on President
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-New York Times editorial
-Vermont Royster
-Column
-Vietnam peace
-Praise for Kissinger
-Jewish influence

Jews
-Garment
-Kissinger, Arthur F. Burns, William L. Safire
-Sense of inferiority
-Garment
-The President’s view
-Kissinger

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Wires to the President
-Camp David
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s view
-Bombing recommendations
-Television [TV] appearance by the President
-Impression
-“Peace is at hand”
-Announcement
-North Vietnam
-Congress
-Kissinger
-Press coverage
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-Jews
-Self-preservation


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The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Wood’s schedule
-Haircut
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Chicago
-Woods’s schedule
-Christmas cards
-Weather

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Heath
-Camp David
-Public statement
-The President’s courage

Great Britain
-World War II contribution
-Empire
-India
-Pakistan
-Benefits
-Africa
-Sir Alexander D. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home
-Heath
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-Rogers
-Development
-United Nations [UN]
-The President’s view
-Commonwealth
-Heads of states
-Cadillacs
-Bahamas
-Robert H. Abplanalp, Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Investment
-Blacks
-Independence
-Confiscation

Pamela Powell
-Dick Powell
-Trip to Washington
-June Allyson
-Job in ACTION
-California

June Allyson
-Heath
-The President’s reception

Daniel B. Brewster
-Anne Bullitt Brewster
-William C. Bullitt
-Divorce
-Senate
-Bribes

Woods's call to Coy Stennis
-John C. Stennis
-Chance of infection
-The President's visit
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-Gift
- Support for the President

John A. Volpe's telephone call
-The President’s response
-Note
-Telephone calls

John Stennis shooting
-The President’s call to Coy Stennis
-The President’s press conference
-Prayer breakfast
-Stennis family
-Mississippi
-Blacks
-Robbery
-George C. Wallace shooting

Weather

Woods left at 10:59 am.