846–11

Conversation No. 846-11

Date: February 1, 1973
Time: Unknown between 1:13 pm and 1:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Weather
-Camp David
-Edward R. G. Heath’s visit

President's schedule
-Heath
-Television [TV] coverage

Prayer Breakfast
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-Mark O. Hatfield
-President’s prepared remarks
-Hatfield
-Prayer
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-John C. Stennis
-President’s remarks
-Vietnam settlement
-Hatfield
-Stennis
-Applause
-Remarks
-John T. Myers
-Testimonial
-Compared to Hubert H. Humphrey
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press coverage
-Heath
-Compared to other prayer meetings
-Promotion
-Cynicism
-Compared to other events
-Inauguration
-Address to a joint session of Congress
-State of the Union address
-National Prayer Breakfast
-Name change
-Advance planning
-President’s possible trips
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
President’s schedule
-Dinner for Eisaku Sato
-Preparation for Heath’s arrival
-Preparation for prayer breakfast
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-Overnight

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-Prayer breakfast
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Republican governors
-Heath
-Roy L. Ash
-Postponed meeting
-Trip to California
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Negotiations
-Timing
-Golda Meir
-Possible visit to Stennis
-President's actions regarding shooting
-Telephone call
-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]
-Tributes
-Press conference
-Prayer breakfast
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Press conference
-Ziegler
-TV coverage
-Stennis
-Julie Nixon Eisehower
-Amount
-Compared to remarks from Oval Office
-Thomas E. Jarriel
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-Dan Rather
-Commentary
-Impromptu press conference
-Presence of TV cameras
-Amnesty
-President's attitude toward press
-Vietnam settlement
-“Peace with honor”
-President’s mood
-Kissinger’s trip
-Stennis
-Handgun
-Saturday night special
-Stennis
-Jules J. Witcover
-Column

Kissinger
-Preparation for TV interview
-Mood
-President's remark to Ziegler
-Schedule
-Washington Star
-Editorial board
-Call to Haldeman
-Vietnam bombing
-Opposition
-Interview with Marvin L. Kalb
-Rehearsing
-Format
-Mood
-Dave Rathstein [?]
-Editorials
-Reaction to press
-Washington Post, New York Times
-TV
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-09)
Conversation No. 846-11 (cont’d)



-Sensitivity

Press relations
-Congressional relations
-Constituents
-Vietnam settlement
-Bombing
-Thieu
-Coalition government

-Kissinger
-TV appearance
-President’s remark to Ziegler
-Kalb
-Haldeman’s prediction

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.