857–1

Conversation No. 857-1

Date: February 15, 1973
Time: 9:02 am - 9:12 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Pentagon visit
-Service secretaries
-Press representative
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft

Operation Homecoming
-Command center
-Coincidence with Pentagon visit
-Public relations [PR]

Cabinet meeting
-Deputy Secretaries
-Earl L. Butz
-Absence
-Staff attendance
-John D. Ehrlichman
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-William E. Timmons
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Scowcroft
-Gerald L. Warren [?]
-William L. Safire [?]
-Ziegler
-Timmons
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Conversation No. 857-1 (cont’d)




Briefing meeting
- Flanigan
-International monetary situation
-Length
-Scowcroft
-George H. W. Bush
-John A. Scali
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Roy L. Ash
-George P. Shultz

President's schedule
-Next week
-Ehrlichman

Sir Christopher Soames
-European community
-Meeting with President
-Henry A. Kissinger’s recommendation
-Cabinet meeting
-Official position of Soames
-Purpose of visit with President
-European relations
-Kissinger

Cabinet meeting

Haldeman
-Appeal

US-Cuba hijacking agreement
-Fidel Castro
-President’s letter
-Delay
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct.-09)
Conversation No. 857-1 (cont’d)




-Haldeman’s opinion
-Scowcroft’s role
-Reply from President
-Ambassador to deliver message

Flowers to Prisoners of War [POWs] wives
-Response
-Timing
-Charles G. (\"Bebe\") Rebozo

Washington Star article
-News summary
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Content
-Herblock

Command cantor

Dr. Walter R. Tkach
-Editorial
-London paper

Bull left at 9:12 am.