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1 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 278-1 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Economics -The President's speech -Subject -Tricia Nixon Cox’s comment -Speech -Use of cheer lines -Drafts -References to American spirit and work ethic -Reaction -Isolationists -US role in the world -Labor unions -Protectionism -Congress -Democratic control -Response by Republicans -US welfare system -Changes
Conversation No. 278-2 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-66] Conversation No. 278-3
2 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 42s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:33 pm.
Conversation No. 278-4 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. The President's September 9, 1971 economic policy speech -Reaction -Cabinet members John B. Connally -Possible reaction
3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-4 (cont.)
Domestic issues speech -Revenue sharing -Government reorganization -Welfare reform -Economy -The President's draft -First paragraph -Speechwriters -Role -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Speech doctor -The President's role -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -William L. Safire -Speechwriters -Cheer lines -Daniel P. (“Patâ€) Moynihan -New York -Revisions -The President's revisions -Welfare references -Price -Revisions
Conversation No. 278-5 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 1:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. Telephone call Sanchez left at 1:33 pm. Conversation No. 278-6
4 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 1:33 pm - 1:39 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Charles W. Colson. [See Conversation No. 8-67]
Conversation No. 278-7 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:39 pm and 1:48 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 21s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Manolo Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.
5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 278-8 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:39 pm and 1:48 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-68]
Conversation No. 278-9 Date: September 9, 1971 Time 1:48 pm - 1:52 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Robert H. Finch. [See Conversation No. 8-69; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
Conversation No. 278-10 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:52 pm and 1:58 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Conversation with Robert H. Finch -Finch's view of the President's speech -Robert T. Monagan -Abilities
6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-10 (cont.)
-Ronald W. Reagan -Recruitment to administration -John N. Mitchell Unknown person -Call from Clark MacGregor
Conversation No. 278-11 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:58 pm and 2:03 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Charles W. Colson. [See Conversation No. 8-70]
Conversation No. 278-12 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:03 pm and 2:05 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-71]
7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 278-13 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 2:05 pm - 2:08 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Clark MacGregor. [See Conversation No. 8-72]
Conversation No. 278-14 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:11 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-73]
Conversation No. 278-15 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:11 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-74]
8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 278-16 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 2:11 pm - 2:12 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan. [See Conversation No. 8-75]
Conversation No. 278-17 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 2:13 pm - 2:14 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr. [See Conversation No. 8-76]
Conversation No. 278-18 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 2:19 pm - 2:28 pm Location: Executive Office Building H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman talked with the President. [See Conversation No. 8-77]
9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 278-19 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:28 pm and 2:57 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 30s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:57 pm.
Conversation No. 278-20 Date: Unknown between September 9 and September 12, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:28 pm, September 9 and 3:44 pm, September 12, 1971 Location: Executive Office Building The President met with unknown women. President’s schedule -Harry S. Dent The unknown women left at an unknown time before 3:44 pm, September 12, 1971 Conversation No. 278-21
10 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Date: September 12, 1971 Time: Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:51 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-86]
Conversation No. 278-22 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 3:51 pm - 4:28 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Charles W. Colson. [See Conversation No. 8-87; four items have been withdrawn from the conversation]
Conversation No. 278-23 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 4:31 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-88]
11 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 278-24 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 4:31 pm Location: Executive Office Building The White House operator talked with the President. [See Conversation No. 8-89]
Conversation No. 278-25 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: Unknown between 4:31 pm and 4:37 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. Request for a call to Hobart D. (“Hobeâ€) Lewis or Robert H. Finch
Conversation No. 278-26 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 4:37 pm - 4:55 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Robert Finch. [See Conversation No. 8-93; five items have been withdrawn from the conversation]
12 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 278-27 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: Unknown between 4:55 pm and 4:58 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-94]
Conversation No. 278-28 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 4:58 pm - 5:02 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox. [See Conversation No. 8-95; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
Conversation No. 278-29 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 5:08 pm - 5:14 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Rose Mary Woods. [See Conversation No. 8-98; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]
13 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-29 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 51s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 **********************************************************************
Conversation No. 278-30 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 5:15 pm - 5:31 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman. [See Conversation no. 8-100; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]
Conversation No. 278-31 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:31 pm and 5:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The White House operator talked with the President. [See Conversation No. 8-101]
14 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 278-32 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 5:33 pm - 5:53 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. [See Conversation No. 8-103; six items have been withdrawn from the conversation]
Conversation No. 276-18/278-33 Date: September 13, 1971 Time: Unknown between 8:50 pm and 10:15 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. [The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress and is a continuation of Conversation No. 276-18] Foreign relations -Forthcoming announcement -Scheduling of forthcoming summits -Moscow trip -Kissinger's schedule -Vietnam negotiations -Date -Announcement -Ceasefire offer -Melvin R. Laird -Vietnam -Popular opinion shifts -Post-World War II elections -Comparison with other countries -Africa -Communists' action
15 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)
Attica Prison riots -Casualties -Guards -Numbers Vietnam -Prisoners of war [POWs] issue Foreign relations -Soviet Union trip -Announcement -Kissinger's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC] -The President's trip to the PRC -Timing -Ronald L. Ziegler -Vietnam -Troop withdrawal -Press conference -Response by Soviets -Date of trip -Vietnam negotiations -South Vietnam elections -North Vietnam -President’s view -Michael J. Mansfield -South Vietnam -Status, future -Nguyen Van Thieu -POWs -The President's PRC trip -US military action in Vietnam -Unknown person -Japan -Reaction to PRC trip -President’s handling -State Department Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:50 pm. Refreshments
16 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:15 pm. Foreign relations -Kissinger's trips to the PRC ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [National Security] [Duration: 2m 19s ] ASIAN AFFAIRS -JAPAN -CHINA END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Vietnam -Nguyen Van Thieu -Withdrawal of US troops -Future settlement -Aftermath -PRC -North Vietnamese attacks -Possible response Attica Prison riots -Casualties -Guards -Amnesty
17 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)
Vietnam -Withdrawal of US troops -Announcement of Kissinger trip -Foreign policy of the US -Military protection [Unintelligible] Kissinger left at 10:15 pm.
Conversation No. 278-34 Date: September 14, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:35 pm and 5:39 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 9-3]
Conversation No. 278-35 Date: September 14, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:35 pm and 5:39 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Stephen B. Bull. William P. Rogers -Call to the President Bull left at an unknown time before 5:39 pm. Conversation No. 278-36
18 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Date: September 14, 1971 Time: 5:39 pm - 6:35 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Donald H. Rumsfeld -Furman University The President talked with William P. Rogers between 5:39 pm and 5:42 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36A] [See Conversation No. 9-4] [End of telephone conversation] The President's schedule -[Rumsfeld] -Furman University invitation -Age -Southern schools Thelma C. (“Patâ€) Nixon’s television broadcast -Response -Milton Pitts -The President's constituents -Time magazine -Television networks -Constituents -Howard K. Smith -Meeting with Cabinet members and wives -The President and Mrs. Nixon -Preparations -Mrs. Nixon -Receptions at the White House -Handshakes -Television
19 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
Television appearances -1960 -Reaction to television use -Speech preparation -Debate with John F. Kennedy -Preparation -Schedule The President's forthcoming western states trip -Libby Dam -Kalispell, Montana Joseph M. Montoya -Amendment Television coverage -John B. Connally -William P. Rogers -Patrick J. Buchanan -Handling -Range of audience -Prime time television -Press conference Forthcoming news events -PRC announcement -Soviet Union summit announcement -Kissinger's October trip -Date -Phase II economic action -Month of October -Vietnam -Residual force -Announcement -Timing -Soviet Union trip, People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip -March 1972 -May 1972 -Report of trip -Visit to the PRC -Haldeman's meeting with Kissinger
20 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
-Ground station -Soviet Union visit in 1959 -Videotape of Kitchen Debate -Reaction of Russians -Public events -Outside activities -Time -News coverage -Network coverage in the US -Press coverage crew for the President -Value -Pool coverage -Live press coverage -Stories of the President in the PRC -Handshakes -Kissinger's opinion -The President's view -Soviet Union -State Department -The President's actions on the Soviet trip -Popular opinion -Nikita S. Khrushchev -Alexei N. Kosygin -Reactions -Kissinger -Press coverage in the PRC -Tokyo transmissions -Time of broadcast in the US -Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, Today Show -Kissinger -Understanding of television's impact -PRC -Still photographs -Newspapers, magazines -New York Times -Today Show -Afternoon special -Nightly news -Commentaries John B. Connally
21 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
-Return from trip -Time -Scheduling of National Security Council [NSC] meeting Trip to Florida -The President's plans -Weather The press -Question and Answer session [Q&A] -Daytime press coverage -Press coverage -The President's appearances -Ohio -Illinois -Idaho -Effects of press coverage -Results in polls -Ohio poll -Results -Effect -Canton, Ohio -Effect Kissinger entered at 6:05 pm. Kissinger
22 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [National Security] [Duration: 20s ] FOREIGN AFFAIRS END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ********************************************************************** Clifford M. Hardin -John N. Mitchell -Departure from administration -Timing -Farm and business groups Haldeman left at 6:07 pm. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [National Security] [Duration: 47s ] FOREIGN AFFAIRS END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 **********************************************************************
23 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
NSC -Meeting -Time -Reasons -Joseph M. Montoya Amendment on Military Procurement -The President's telephone conversation with Rogers -Funding -Election in South Vietnam -Nguyen Van Thieu Vietnam -Type of country -Amount of money spent -Monetary aid -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Francis J. Galbraith -Lt. Gen. T. N. J. Suharto -Suharto -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -The President's strategy -Bureaucracy -Kissinger’s talk with William F. Buckley -US Information Agency [USIA] The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:07 pm and 6:13 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36b] [See Conversation No. 9-5] [End of telephone conversation] Vietnam -State Department -Support -Members of the NSC -Rogers -Residual force -Melvin R. Laird -Thomas Moorer
24 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
-NSC Meeting -Strategy -Time -Paris Peace Talks -William J. Porter -Possible action -George S. McGovern's trip to Paris, Southeast Asia -Meeting with North Vietnamese -Possible reaction -Peace negotiations -Porter -Press The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller between 6:13 pm and 6:18 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36C] [See Conversation No. 9-6] [End of telephone conversation] Attica Prison riots -Rockefeller -Kissinger's telephone conversation -Comparison to [John] Calvin Coolidge's action against strikers -Presidential support -Today Show -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news coverage -Newsweek -Law enforcement -Presidential support for governors -Test case The President talked with an unknown person [Haldeman?] at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36D]
25 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
NSC meeting scheduling -Connally -Return from trip -Length of trip [End of telephone conversation] Forthcoming NSC meeting -Laird -Announcement of meeting -Citation of the President's conversation with Kissinger -Laird statement Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36E] [See Conversation No. 9-7] [End of telephone conversation] Forthcoming NSC meeting -Strategy -[Thieu] -Laird Kissinger talked with Rogers at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36F] [See Conversation No. 9-8; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation] NSC meeting [End of telephone conversation] NSC meeting scheduling -Rogers -Son's forthcoming marriage -Connally
26 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
-Return from trip -Time -Location -Camp David Vietnam -South Vietnamese government -Possible future -Thieu -Nguyen Cao Ky -Current situation -North Vietnamese -Cambodia -Laos -PRC -Soviet Union -North Vietnam -Rogers -Referendum -Elections Kissinger left at 6:35 pm.
Conversation No. 278-37 Date: September 14, 1971 Time: Unknown between 6:35 pm and 6:40 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
27 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-37 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 6s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:40 pm.
Conversation No. 278-38 Date: September 14, 1971 Time: Unknown between 6:35 pm and 6:40 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. Patrick J. Buchanan -Telephone call Sanchez talked with Buchanan at an unknown time between 6:35 pm and 6:40 pm. [Conversation No. 278-38A] Information for the President [End of telephone conversation]
28 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-38 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 18s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:40 pm.
Conversation No. 278-39 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 9:17 am - 9:20 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. Citation [for Apollo 15 astronauts] -H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman -Air Force Academy -Time -Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
29 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-39 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 28s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Butterfield left at 9:20 am.
Conversation No. 278-67 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with an unknown person. Delivery of item The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.
Conversation No. 278-40 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
30 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-40 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 7s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:33 am
Conversation No. 278-41 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 23s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left an unknown time before 10:33 am. Conversation No. 278-42
31 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Stephen B. Bull. The President's schedule -George P. Shultz -Possible telephone conversation -Location Bull left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.
Conversation No. 278-43 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Stephen B. Bull. Drafts -Unknown person President’s schedule -Meeting The President and Bull left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.
32 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 278-44 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with an unknown person. President’s schedule The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.
Conversation No. 278-45 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an unknown person. Draft extension bill -Time of action, vote -George P. Shultz, F. Edward Hébert -Deadline, time -Senate -Tactics
33 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 278-46 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 9-35]
Conversation No. 278-47 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 10:33 am - 10:34 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield. [See Conversation No. 9-36]
Conversation No. 278-48 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?]. Vietnam -William Porter -Conversation -News summary -Time -Prisoner of war [POW] issue -Questions
34 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-48 (cont.)
-Problems -POW wives -Pubic relations -Indications of action -Response to proposals -US policies -Negotiations -Claims by the US -Michael J. Mansfield -Press story -Deadline, ramifications -Casualties -Vietnam -US military and political position -Ellsworth F. Bunker -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Report -Sir Robert K.G. Thompson -Possible trip -Cable -Draft Extension Bill -George P. Shultz -All volunteer army -Cost and effectiveness -Conference Committee action -F. Edward Hébert
Conversation No. 278-49 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 9-37] Conversation No. 278-50
35 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?]. Foreign Policy -Peter G. Peterson's office -Japan -Aid issue -Gross National Product [GNP] -Comparison to Asia -The People's Republic of China [PRC] -India -Indonesia -US military budget -Free world aid -Europe -Japan -US -Comparisons
Conversation No. 278-51 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 10:48 am - 10:57 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with F. Edward Hébert. [See Conversation No. 9-38] Henry A. Kissinger was present after 10:50 am. [End of telephone conversation] Hébert
36 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.)
-Conversation with the President -Draft extension bill -Votes -Mansfield amendment Draft -Importance -Strategy -The President's opponents -Importance of Vietnam -Consequences Vietnam -Goals -Withdrawal deadlines -William P. Rogers -Melvin R. Laird -Questions on issue of Vietnam election -Response -Foreign aid -Recipients -Locations -Types of governments, elections -State Department -Comparison to South Vietnam elections -The President's conversation with Haig -Mexico -Colombia -Venezuela -Chile Chile -Future of elections -Kissinger’s view Vietnam -Prisoner of war [POW] issue -POW wives -Deadlines -Clark M. Clifford -Situation
37 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.)
-Radicals -South Vietnamese military operations -Laos -Effect on North Vietnam -Negotiations -Position of North Vietnam -Response by the US -POW issue -Effect on negotiations -North Vietnamese strategy -North Vietnamese POW deadlines -Establishment of artificial deadlines in the US -The press -Kissinger's conversation with Rowland Evans, September 16, 1971 -Evans and Robert D. Novak -Micronesia -Evans and Novak -Focus on Forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union summits Foreign relations -The President's accomplishments -John F. Kennedy comparison -PRC opening -International Monetary Fund [IMF] -Soviet Union summit -Deadline issue -Stance Attica prison riots -Killings -Hostages -Nelson A. Rockefeller's position on issue -Prison -Press conference -Public response -President’s call to Pierre E. Trudeau Media -Tendencies -Forthcoming book
38 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.)
-Vanderbilt University study of news coverage -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] -PRC -Cambodian action -Laos -Perceptions Vietnam -Suggested statement on position -Leaks -Forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting Kissinger left at 11:15 am.
Conversation No. 278-52 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Forthcoming vote on draft extension bill -The President's deal with F. Edward Hébert Schedule -October 12 Hebert portrait hanging ceremony Military draft bill -Time deadline Forthcoming events -US-Soviet Union summit announcement Draft extension bill -Volunteer army -George P. Shultz’s view
39 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-52 (cont.)
Henry A. Kissinger Robert C. Tyson -Dr. W. Kenneth Riland's information about letter -Peter M. Flanigan -Response -Secretary of State [William P. Rogers] Leonard H. Goldenson -Letter about television -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -[Virginia Sherwood] Congress -Draft extension bill -Hébert -Shultz -Kissinger -Clark MacGregor -Handling of action on legislation -Hébert, John C. Stennis, Leslie C. Arends -Meeting with Michael J. Mansfield -Mansfield's action -MacGregor’s view -The President's forthcoming trip to Montana -Scheduling -George S. McGovern -Stennis -Handling of unknown foreign policy issue -Barry M. Goldwater -Forthcoming summits with PRC, Soviet Union -MacGregor -Handling -Options President’s schedule -Alaska Press conference -Planned question -Handling
40 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 278-52 (cont.)
-MacGregor
Conversation No. 278-53 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Miss America contest -Letter -Contestants' comments -Possible meeting with previous winner [Phyllis George] Attica -John D. Ehrlichman -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Possible question -Polls -Louis Harris, George H. Gallup
Conversation No. 278-54 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with an unknown woman. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 8s ]
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.
Conversation No. 278-55 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger. Foreign policy -Us-Soviet Union relations -Mack Truck deal -Arrival -Publicity -Gerald R. Ford -Peter G. Peterson -Public relations plan -Andrei A. Gromyko's forthcoming arrival in the US for United Nations [UN] session -Timing -People’s Republic of China [PRC] -UN Security Council -US position on Taiwan, Republic of China -State Department -Message -President’s forthcoming statement -Vietnam -US aid -Communist takeover
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Conv. No. 278-55 (cont.)
Conversation No. 278-56 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 9-39]
Conversation No. 278-57 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 11:48 am - 11:50 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with George P. Shultz. [See Conversation No. 9-40] Conversation No. 278-58 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger. Accidental War announcement -Timing -Wording -Status of situation
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Conversation No. 278-59 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Schedule -Press conference -Meeting with state and local officials -Time turnaround after press conference -Preparation -[Vice President Spiro T. Agnew] -Briefing paper -Clark MacGregor -Statement -Deadline -Staff -Communications -MacGregor -Possible announcement White House staff press contacts -Henry A. Kissinger -United Nations [UN] -Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak -Meeting with Evans -Unknown book -Time spent meeting with journalists -Godfrey Sperling, Jr. -Evans -John D. Ehrlichman -Press reporters -Meeting with the President -Proposal of subject -Kissinger -Connally -Discussion of Vietnam as topic -MacGregor -Robert H. Finch
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Conv. No. 278-59 (cont.)
-William P. Rogers -Knowledge of subject -Kissinger -Negotiations -Rogers -Melvin R. Laird -MacGregor -Popularity
Conversation No. 278-60 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 34s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.
Conversation No. 278-61 Date: September 16, 1971
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Conv. No. 278-60 (cont.)
Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 9-41]
Conversation No. 278-62 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an unknown person. Photograph -Description -Astronauts -Commander and crew
Conversation No. 278-63 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 8s ]
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Conv. No. 278-62 (cont.)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.
Conversation No. 278-64 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Congressional relations -Meeting with Charles W. Colson -Plan of action on obstructionist partisan label -Senate Democrats -Victor Lasky -Column -Handling -Cabinet -Leadership meeting -Quote -The President's role -Henry A. Kissinger -Draft -Vietnam war -House of Representatives -Reaction of House members -Quotes by members -Obstructionism -Draft -Vietnam war -Public relations [PR] program in the White House -William L. Safire
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-Patrick J. Buchanan -Colson -Vietnam war -Michael J. Mansfield -Report Press conference -Time -Location -Deadline Congressional relations Conversation No. 278-65 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an unknown person. Schedule
Conversation No. 278-66 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 1:45 pm - 2:10 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Congressional action on draft extension bill -Alan Cranston -Gordon L. Allott -Position -Leslie C. Arends, F. Edward Hébert -Options -Filibuster
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Conv. No. 278-64 (cont.)
-Stance -William F. Buckley, Jr. -Staff -Conservatives -All volunteer army Henry A. Kissinger -Public statements -Ripon Society -Kevin P. Phillips Congress -Positions of members on draft extension bill -President’s forthcoming talks -Hébert -Arends H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:10 pm. [Conversation No. 278-66A] [See Conversation No. 9-42] Congress -Forthcoming action on draft extension bill -Arends -Hébert, Allott Haldeman talked with MacGregor at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:10 pm. [End of telephone conversation] Congress -Draft extension bill -Congressional leaders -Gerald R. Ford -John B. Connally -Bryce N. Harlow -Lockheed amendment example
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Conv. No. 278-66 (cont.)
President’s schedule -Helicopter -Landing area -Forthcoming dinner for Apollo 15 astronauts -Oval Room -Time -Dinner -Family members with the President First Family scheduling -Julie Nixon Eisenhower -Thelma C. (“Patâ€) Nixon -Constance M. Stuart -Handling -Briefing books -Patrick J. Buchanan -Arrangements -Crowd building Schedule -Camp David -Possible meeting The President's schedule -[Connally] -Quadriad meeting -Camp David group -Notetaking -William L. Safire -Ronald L. Ziegler Press conference -Possible considerations for press room -Film coverage -Preparations -The President's appearance on the news -Strategy -Appearance at press conference -Announcement of the President's arrival -Timing on appearance
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Conv. No. 278-66 (cont.)
President’s schedule -Detroit -Public relations [PR] film of the President's forthcoming trip -Length of film -Time -The President's arrival before film -Time -Arrangements -Length of visit Edmund S. Muskie's statement on black vice president -Birch E. Bayh, Jr. -Statement -Rights of individuals -Jews, Catholics -Reaction to Attica prison riot Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Position on particular issues -Role of the Vice President -President’s role in Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration -Action on issues -Revenue sharing -Possible role on draft extension issue Draft extension bill -Haldeman's forthcoming call to the President Haldeman left at 2:10 pm.
Conversation No. 278-68 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:47 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
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Conv. No. 278-68 (cont.)
Schedule Bull left at an unknown time before 2:47 pm.
Conversation No. 278-69 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 2:47 pm - 2:49 pm Location: Executive Office Building H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman talked with the President. Legislation -Draft extension bill -Possible decision -Unknown man's [George L. Allott's?] lack of support for the President -Motives -Ernest F. Hollings-Michael J. Mansfield report -Charles W. Colson -George P. Shultz
Conversation No. 278-70 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 3:00 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Congress -Draft extension bill -Gordon L. Allott -President’s reaction -Clark MacGregor -F. Edward Hébert [?] -John N. Mitchell
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Conv. No. 278-70 (cont.)
-Possible meeting with Republicans in Congress -The President's contacts -Allott
Conversation No. 278-71 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:41 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 3s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:41 pm.
Conversation No. 278-72 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 3:41 pm - 3:43 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Congress
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Conv. No. 278-72 (cont.)
-Draft extension bill -George P. Shultz -Follow-up with F. Edward Hébert, Margaret Chase Smith, John C. Stennis -Richard S. Schweiker -Situation -Republicans votes
Conversation No. 278-73 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 3:43 pm and 4:00 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 4s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.
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Conversation No. 278-1 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Economics -The President's speech -Subject -Tricia Nixon Cox’s comment -Speech -Use of cheer lines -Drafts -References to American spirit and work ethic -Reaction -Isolationists -US role in the world -Labor unions -Protectionism -Congress -Democratic control -Response by Republicans -US welfare system -Changes
Conversation No. 278-2 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-66] Conversation No. 278-3
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Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 42s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:33 pm.
Conversation No. 278-4 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. The President's September 9, 1971 economic policy speech -Reaction -Cabinet members John B. Connally -Possible reaction
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Conv. No. 278-4 (cont.)
Domestic issues speech -Revenue sharing -Government reorganization -Welfare reform -Economy -The President's draft -First paragraph -Speechwriters -Role -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Speech doctor -The President's role -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -William L. Safire -Speechwriters -Cheer lines -Daniel P. (“Patâ€) Moynihan -New York -Revisions -The President's revisions -Welfare references -Price -Revisions
Conversation No. 278-5 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 1:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. Telephone call Sanchez left at 1:33 pm. Conversation No. 278-6
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Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 1:33 pm - 1:39 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Charles W. Colson. [See Conversation No. 8-67]
Conversation No. 278-7 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:39 pm and 1:48 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 21s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Manolo Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.
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Conversation No. 278-8 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:39 pm and 1:48 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-68]
Conversation No. 278-9 Date: September 9, 1971 Time 1:48 pm - 1:52 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Robert H. Finch. [See Conversation No. 8-69; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
Conversation No. 278-10 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:52 pm and 1:58 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Conversation with Robert H. Finch -Finch's view of the President's speech -Robert T. Monagan -Abilities
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Conv. No. 278-10 (cont.)
-Ronald W. Reagan -Recruitment to administration -John N. Mitchell Unknown person -Call from Clark MacGregor
Conversation No. 278-11 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:58 pm and 2:03 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Charles W. Colson. [See Conversation No. 8-70]
Conversation No. 278-12 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:03 pm and 2:05 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-71]
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Conversation No. 278-13 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 2:05 pm - 2:08 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Clark MacGregor. [See Conversation No. 8-72]
Conversation No. 278-14 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:11 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-73]
Conversation No. 278-15 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:11 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-74]
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Conversation No. 278-16 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 2:11 pm - 2:12 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan. [See Conversation No. 8-75]
Conversation No. 278-17 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 2:13 pm - 2:14 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr. [See Conversation No. 8-76]
Conversation No. 278-18 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: 2:19 pm - 2:28 pm Location: Executive Office Building H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman talked with the President. [See Conversation No. 8-77]
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Conversation No. 278-19 Date: September 9, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:28 pm and 2:57 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 30s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:57 pm.
Conversation No. 278-20 Date: Unknown between September 9 and September 12, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:28 pm, September 9 and 3:44 pm, September 12, 1971 Location: Executive Office Building The President met with unknown women. President’s schedule -Harry S. Dent The unknown women left at an unknown time before 3:44 pm, September 12, 1971 Conversation No. 278-21
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Date: September 12, 1971 Time: Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:51 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-86]
Conversation No. 278-22 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 3:51 pm - 4:28 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Charles W. Colson. [See Conversation No. 8-87; four items have been withdrawn from the conversation]
Conversation No. 278-23 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 4:31 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-88]
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Conversation No. 278-24 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 4:31 pm Location: Executive Office Building The White House operator talked with the President. [See Conversation No. 8-89]
Conversation No. 278-25 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: Unknown between 4:31 pm and 4:37 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. Request for a call to Hobart D. (“Hobeâ€) Lewis or Robert H. Finch
Conversation No. 278-26 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 4:37 pm - 4:55 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Robert Finch. [See Conversation No. 8-93; five items have been withdrawn from the conversation]
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Conversation No. 278-27 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: Unknown between 4:55 pm and 4:58 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 8-94]
Conversation No. 278-28 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 4:58 pm - 5:02 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox. [See Conversation No. 8-95; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
Conversation No. 278-29 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 5:08 pm - 5:14 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Rose Mary Woods. [See Conversation No. 8-98; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]
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Conv. No. 278-29 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 51s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 **********************************************************************
Conversation No. 278-30 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 5:15 pm - 5:31 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman. [See Conversation no. 8-100; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]
Conversation No. 278-31 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:31 pm and 5:33 pm Location: Executive Office Building The White House operator talked with the President. [See Conversation No. 8-101]
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Conversation No. 278-32 Date: September 12, 1971 Time: 5:33 pm - 5:53 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. [See Conversation No. 8-103; six items have been withdrawn from the conversation]
Conversation No. 276-18/278-33 Date: September 13, 1971 Time: Unknown between 8:50 pm and 10:15 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. [The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress and is a continuation of Conversation No. 276-18] Foreign relations -Forthcoming announcement -Scheduling of forthcoming summits -Moscow trip -Kissinger's schedule -Vietnam negotiations -Date -Announcement -Ceasefire offer -Melvin R. Laird -Vietnam -Popular opinion shifts -Post-World War II elections -Comparison with other countries -Africa -Communists' action
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Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)
Attica Prison riots -Casualties -Guards -Numbers Vietnam -Prisoners of war [POWs] issue Foreign relations -Soviet Union trip -Announcement -Kissinger's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC] -The President's trip to the PRC -Timing -Ronald L. Ziegler -Vietnam -Troop withdrawal -Press conference -Response by Soviets -Date of trip -Vietnam negotiations -South Vietnam elections -North Vietnam -President’s view -Michael J. Mansfield -South Vietnam -Status, future -Nguyen Van Thieu -POWs -The President's PRC trip -US military action in Vietnam -Unknown person -Japan -Reaction to PRC trip -President’s handling -State Department Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:50 pm. Refreshments
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Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:15 pm. Foreign relations -Kissinger's trips to the PRC ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [National Security] [Duration: 2m 19s ] ASIAN AFFAIRS -JAPAN -CHINA END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Vietnam -Nguyen Van Thieu -Withdrawal of US troops -Future settlement -Aftermath -PRC -North Vietnamese attacks -Possible response Attica Prison riots -Casualties -Guards -Amnesty
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Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)
Vietnam -Withdrawal of US troops -Announcement of Kissinger trip -Foreign policy of the US -Military protection [Unintelligible] Kissinger left at 10:15 pm.
Conversation No. 278-34 Date: September 14, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:35 pm and 5:39 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 9-3]
Conversation No. 278-35 Date: September 14, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:35 pm and 5:39 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Stephen B. Bull. William P. Rogers -Call to the President Bull left at an unknown time before 5:39 pm. Conversation No. 278-36
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Date: September 14, 1971 Time: 5:39 pm - 6:35 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Donald H. Rumsfeld -Furman University The President talked with William P. Rogers between 5:39 pm and 5:42 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36A] [See Conversation No. 9-4] [End of telephone conversation] The President's schedule -[Rumsfeld] -Furman University invitation -Age -Southern schools Thelma C. (“Patâ€) Nixon’s television broadcast -Response -Milton Pitts -The President's constituents -Time magazine -Television networks -Constituents -Howard K. Smith -Meeting with Cabinet members and wives -The President and Mrs. Nixon -Preparations -Mrs. Nixon -Receptions at the White House -Handshakes -Television
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Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
Television appearances -1960 -Reaction to television use -Speech preparation -Debate with John F. Kennedy -Preparation -Schedule The President's forthcoming western states trip -Libby Dam -Kalispell, Montana Joseph M. Montoya -Amendment Television coverage -John B. Connally -William P. Rogers -Patrick J. Buchanan -Handling -Range of audience -Prime time television -Press conference Forthcoming news events -PRC announcement -Soviet Union summit announcement -Kissinger's October trip -Date -Phase II economic action -Month of October -Vietnam -Residual force -Announcement -Timing -Soviet Union trip, People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip -March 1972 -May 1972 -Report of trip -Visit to the PRC -Haldeman's meeting with Kissinger
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Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
-Ground station -Soviet Union visit in 1959 -Videotape of Kitchen Debate -Reaction of Russians -Public events -Outside activities -Time -News coverage -Network coverage in the US -Press coverage crew for the President -Value -Pool coverage -Live press coverage -Stories of the President in the PRC -Handshakes -Kissinger's opinion -The President's view -Soviet Union -State Department -The President's actions on the Soviet trip -Popular opinion -Nikita S. Khrushchev -Alexei N. Kosygin -Reactions -Kissinger -Press coverage in the PRC -Tokyo transmissions -Time of broadcast in the US -Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, Today Show -Kissinger -Understanding of television's impact -PRC -Still photographs -Newspapers, magazines -New York Times -Today Show -Afternoon special -Nightly news -Commentaries John B. Connally
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Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
-Return from trip -Time -Scheduling of National Security Council [NSC] meeting Trip to Florida -The President's plans -Weather The press -Question and Answer session [Q&A] -Daytime press coverage -Press coverage -The President's appearances -Ohio -Illinois -Idaho -Effects of press coverage -Results in polls -Ohio poll -Results -Effect -Canton, Ohio -Effect Kissinger entered at 6:05 pm. Kissinger
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Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [National Security] [Duration: 20s ] FOREIGN AFFAIRS END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ********************************************************************** Clifford M. Hardin -John N. Mitchell -Departure from administration -Timing -Farm and business groups Haldeman left at 6:07 pm. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [National Security] [Duration: 47s ] FOREIGN AFFAIRS END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 **********************************************************************
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Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
NSC -Meeting -Time -Reasons -Joseph M. Montoya Amendment on Military Procurement -The President's telephone conversation with Rogers -Funding -Election in South Vietnam -Nguyen Van Thieu Vietnam -Type of country -Amount of money spent -Monetary aid -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Francis J. Galbraith -Lt. Gen. T. N. J. Suharto -Suharto -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -The President's strategy -Bureaucracy -Kissinger’s talk with William F. Buckley -US Information Agency [USIA] The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:07 pm and 6:13 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36b] [See Conversation No. 9-5] [End of telephone conversation] Vietnam -State Department -Support -Members of the NSC -Rogers -Residual force -Melvin R. Laird -Thomas Moorer
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Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
-NSC Meeting -Strategy -Time -Paris Peace Talks -William J. Porter -Possible action -George S. McGovern's trip to Paris, Southeast Asia -Meeting with North Vietnamese -Possible reaction -Peace negotiations -Porter -Press The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller between 6:13 pm and 6:18 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36C] [See Conversation No. 9-6] [End of telephone conversation] Attica Prison riots -Rockefeller -Kissinger's telephone conversation -Comparison to [John] Calvin Coolidge's action against strikers -Presidential support -Today Show -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news coverage -Newsweek -Law enforcement -Presidential support for governors -Test case The President talked with an unknown person [Haldeman?] at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36D]
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Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
NSC meeting scheduling -Connally -Return from trip -Length of trip [End of telephone conversation] Forthcoming NSC meeting -Laird -Announcement of meeting -Citation of the President's conversation with Kissinger -Laird statement Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36E] [See Conversation No. 9-7] [End of telephone conversation] Forthcoming NSC meeting -Strategy -[Thieu] -Laird Kissinger talked with Rogers at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm. [Conversation No. 278-36F] [See Conversation No. 9-8; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation] NSC meeting [End of telephone conversation] NSC meeting scheduling -Rogers -Son's forthcoming marriage -Connally
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Conv. No. 278-36 (cont.)
-Return from trip -Time -Location -Camp David Vietnam -South Vietnamese government -Possible future -Thieu -Nguyen Cao Ky -Current situation -North Vietnamese -Cambodia -Laos -PRC -Soviet Union -North Vietnam -Rogers -Referendum -Elections Kissinger left at 6:35 pm.
Conversation No. 278-37 Date: September 14, 1971 Time: Unknown between 6:35 pm and 6:40 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
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Conv. No. 278-37 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 6s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:40 pm.
Conversation No. 278-38 Date: September 14, 1971 Time: Unknown between 6:35 pm and 6:40 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. Patrick J. Buchanan -Telephone call Sanchez talked with Buchanan at an unknown time between 6:35 pm and 6:40 pm. [Conversation No. 278-38A] Information for the President [End of telephone conversation]
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Conv. No. 278-38 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 18s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:40 pm.
Conversation No. 278-39 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 9:17 am - 9:20 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. Citation [for Apollo 15 astronauts] -H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman -Air Force Academy -Time -Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
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Conv. No. 278-39 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 28s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Butterfield left at 9:20 am.
Conversation No. 278-67 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with an unknown person. Delivery of item The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.
Conversation No. 278-40 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
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Conv. No. 278-40 (cont.)
********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 7s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:33 am
Conversation No. 278-41 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 23s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left an unknown time before 10:33 am. Conversation No. 278-42
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Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Stephen B. Bull. The President's schedule -George P. Shultz -Possible telephone conversation -Location Bull left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.
Conversation No. 278-43 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Stephen B. Bull. Drafts -Unknown person President’s schedule -Meeting The President and Bull left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.
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Conversation No. 278-44 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with an unknown person. President’s schedule The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.
Conversation No. 278-45 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an unknown person. Draft extension bill -Time of action, vote -George P. Shultz, F. Edward Hébert -Deadline, time -Senate -Tactics
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Conversation No. 278-46 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 9-35]
Conversation No. 278-47 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 10:33 am - 10:34 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield. [See Conversation No. 9-36]
Conversation No. 278-48 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?]. Vietnam -William Porter -Conversation -News summary -Time -Prisoner of war [POW] issue -Questions
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Conv. No. 278-48 (cont.)
-Problems -POW wives -Pubic relations -Indications of action -Response to proposals -US policies -Negotiations -Claims by the US -Michael J. Mansfield -Press story -Deadline, ramifications -Casualties -Vietnam -US military and political position -Ellsworth F. Bunker -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Report -Sir Robert K.G. Thompson -Possible trip -Cable -Draft Extension Bill -George P. Shultz -All volunteer army -Cost and effectiveness -Conference Committee action -F. Edward Hébert
Conversation No. 278-49 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 9-37] Conversation No. 278-50
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Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?]. Foreign Policy -Peter G. Peterson's office -Japan -Aid issue -Gross National Product [GNP] -Comparison to Asia -The People's Republic of China [PRC] -India -Indonesia -US military budget -Free world aid -Europe -Japan -US -Comparisons
Conversation No. 278-51 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 10:48 am - 10:57 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with F. Edward Hébert. [See Conversation No. 9-38] Henry A. Kissinger was present after 10:50 am. [End of telephone conversation] Hébert
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Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.)
-Conversation with the President -Draft extension bill -Votes -Mansfield amendment Draft -Importance -Strategy -The President's opponents -Importance of Vietnam -Consequences Vietnam -Goals -Withdrawal deadlines -William P. Rogers -Melvin R. Laird -Questions on issue of Vietnam election -Response -Foreign aid -Recipients -Locations -Types of governments, elections -State Department -Comparison to South Vietnam elections -The President's conversation with Haig -Mexico -Colombia -Venezuela -Chile Chile -Future of elections -Kissinger’s view Vietnam -Prisoner of war [POW] issue -POW wives -Deadlines -Clark M. Clifford -Situation
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Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.)
-Radicals -South Vietnamese military operations -Laos -Effect on North Vietnam -Negotiations -Position of North Vietnam -Response by the US -POW issue -Effect on negotiations -North Vietnamese strategy -North Vietnamese POW deadlines -Establishment of artificial deadlines in the US -The press -Kissinger's conversation with Rowland Evans, September 16, 1971 -Evans and Robert D. Novak -Micronesia -Evans and Novak -Focus on Forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union summits Foreign relations -The President's accomplishments -John F. Kennedy comparison -PRC opening -International Monetary Fund [IMF] -Soviet Union summit -Deadline issue -Stance Attica prison riots -Killings -Hostages -Nelson A. Rockefeller's position on issue -Prison -Press conference -Public response -President’s call to Pierre E. Trudeau Media -Tendencies -Forthcoming book
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Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.)
-Vanderbilt University study of news coverage -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] -PRC -Cambodian action -Laos -Perceptions Vietnam -Suggested statement on position -Leaks -Forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting Kissinger left at 11:15 am.
Conversation No. 278-52 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Forthcoming vote on draft extension bill -The President's deal with F. Edward Hébert Schedule -October 12 Hebert portrait hanging ceremony Military draft bill -Time deadline Forthcoming events -US-Soviet Union summit announcement Draft extension bill -Volunteer army -George P. Shultz’s view
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Conv. No. 278-52 (cont.)
Henry A. Kissinger Robert C. Tyson -Dr. W. Kenneth Riland's information about letter -Peter M. Flanigan -Response -Secretary of State [William P. Rogers] Leonard H. Goldenson -Letter about television -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -[Virginia Sherwood] Congress -Draft extension bill -Hébert -Shultz -Kissinger -Clark MacGregor -Handling of action on legislation -Hébert, John C. Stennis, Leslie C. Arends -Meeting with Michael J. Mansfield -Mansfield's action -MacGregor’s view -The President's forthcoming trip to Montana -Scheduling -George S. McGovern -Stennis -Handling of unknown foreign policy issue -Barry M. Goldwater -Forthcoming summits with PRC, Soviet Union -MacGregor -Handling -Options President’s schedule -Alaska Press conference -Planned question -Handling
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Conv. No. 278-52 (cont.)
-MacGregor
Conversation No. 278-53 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Miss America contest -Letter -Contestants' comments -Possible meeting with previous winner [Phyllis George] Attica -John D. Ehrlichman -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Possible question -Polls -Louis Harris, George H. Gallup
Conversation No. 278-54 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with an unknown woman. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 8s ]
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.
Conversation No. 278-55 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger. Foreign policy -Us-Soviet Union relations -Mack Truck deal -Arrival -Publicity -Gerald R. Ford -Peter G. Peterson -Public relations plan -Andrei A. Gromyko's forthcoming arrival in the US for United Nations [UN] session -Timing -People’s Republic of China [PRC] -UN Security Council -US position on Taiwan, Republic of China -State Department -Message -President’s forthcoming statement -Vietnam -US aid -Communist takeover
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Conv. No. 278-55 (cont.)
Conversation No. 278-56 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 9-39]
Conversation No. 278-57 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 11:48 am - 11:50 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with George P. Shultz. [See Conversation No. 9-40] Conversation No. 278-58 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger. Accidental War announcement -Timing -Wording -Status of situation
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Conversation No. 278-59 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Schedule -Press conference -Meeting with state and local officials -Time turnaround after press conference -Preparation -[Vice President Spiro T. Agnew] -Briefing paper -Clark MacGregor -Statement -Deadline -Staff -Communications -MacGregor -Possible announcement White House staff press contacts -Henry A. Kissinger -United Nations [UN] -Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak -Meeting with Evans -Unknown book -Time spent meeting with journalists -Godfrey Sperling, Jr. -Evans -John D. Ehrlichman -Press reporters -Meeting with the President -Proposal of subject -Kissinger -Connally -Discussion of Vietnam as topic -MacGregor -Robert H. Finch
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Conv. No. 278-59 (cont.)
-William P. Rogers -Knowledge of subject -Kissinger -Negotiations -Rogers -Melvin R. Laird -MacGregor -Popularity
Conversation No. 278-60 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 34s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.
Conversation No. 278-61 Date: September 16, 1971
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Conv. No. 278-60 (cont.)
Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 9-41]
Conversation No. 278-62 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an unknown person. Photograph -Description -Astronauts -Commander and crew
Conversation No. 278-63 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 8s ]
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Conv. No. 278-62 (cont.)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.
Conversation No. 278-64 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Congressional relations -Meeting with Charles W. Colson -Plan of action on obstructionist partisan label -Senate Democrats -Victor Lasky -Column -Handling -Cabinet -Leadership meeting -Quote -The President's role -Henry A. Kissinger -Draft -Vietnam war -House of Representatives -Reaction of House members -Quotes by members -Obstructionism -Draft -Vietnam war -Public relations [PR] program in the White House -William L. Safire
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-Patrick J. Buchanan -Colson -Vietnam war -Michael J. Mansfield -Report Press conference -Time -Location -Deadline Congressional relations Conversation No. 278-65 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 11:50 am and 1:45 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an unknown person. Schedule
Conversation No. 278-66 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 1:45 pm - 2:10 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Congressional action on draft extension bill -Alan Cranston -Gordon L. Allott -Position -Leslie C. Arends, F. Edward Hébert -Options -Filibuster
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Conv. No. 278-64 (cont.)
-Stance -William F. Buckley, Jr. -Staff -Conservatives -All volunteer army Henry A. Kissinger -Public statements -Ripon Society -Kevin P. Phillips Congress -Positions of members on draft extension bill -President’s forthcoming talks -Hébert -Arends H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:10 pm. [Conversation No. 278-66A] [See Conversation No. 9-42] Congress -Forthcoming action on draft extension bill -Arends -Hébert, Allott Haldeman talked with MacGregor at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:10 pm. [End of telephone conversation] Congress -Draft extension bill -Congressional leaders -Gerald R. Ford -John B. Connally -Bryce N. Harlow -Lockheed amendment example
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Conv. No. 278-66 (cont.)
President’s schedule -Helicopter -Landing area -Forthcoming dinner for Apollo 15 astronauts -Oval Room -Time -Dinner -Family members with the President First Family scheduling -Julie Nixon Eisenhower -Thelma C. (“Patâ€) Nixon -Constance M. Stuart -Handling -Briefing books -Patrick J. Buchanan -Arrangements -Crowd building Schedule -Camp David -Possible meeting The President's schedule -[Connally] -Quadriad meeting -Camp David group -Notetaking -William L. Safire -Ronald L. Ziegler Press conference -Possible considerations for press room -Film coverage -Preparations -The President's appearance on the news -Strategy -Appearance at press conference -Announcement of the President's arrival -Timing on appearance
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Conv. No. 278-66 (cont.)
President’s schedule -Detroit -Public relations [PR] film of the President's forthcoming trip -Length of film -Time -The President's arrival before film -Time -Arrangements -Length of visit Edmund S. Muskie's statement on black vice president -Birch E. Bayh, Jr. -Statement -Rights of individuals -Jews, Catholics -Reaction to Attica prison riot Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Position on particular issues -Role of the Vice President -President’s role in Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration -Action on issues -Revenue sharing -Possible role on draft extension issue Draft extension bill -Haldeman's forthcoming call to the President Haldeman left at 2:10 pm.
Conversation No. 278-68 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:47 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
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Conv. No. 278-68 (cont.)
Schedule Bull left at an unknown time before 2:47 pm.
Conversation No. 278-69 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 2:47 pm - 2:49 pm Location: Executive Office Building H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman talked with the President. Legislation -Draft extension bill -Possible decision -Unknown man's [George L. Allott's?] lack of support for the President -Motives -Ernest F. Hollings-Michael J. Mansfield report -Charles W. Colson -George P. Shultz
Conversation No. 278-70 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 3:00 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with an H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Congress -Draft extension bill -Gordon L. Allott -President’s reaction -Clark MacGregor -F. Edward Hébert [?] -John N. Mitchell
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Conv. No. 278-70 (cont.)
-Possible meeting with Republicans in Congress -The President's contacts -Allott
Conversation No. 278-71 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:41 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 3s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:41 pm.
Conversation No. 278-72 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 3:41 pm - 3:43 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with H. R. (“Bobâ€) Haldeman. Congress
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Conv. No. 278-72 (cont.)
-Draft extension bill -George P. Shultz -Follow-up with F. Edward Hébert, Margaret Chase Smith, John C. Stennis -Richard S. Schweiker -Situation -Republicans votes
Conversation No. 278-73 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: Unknown between 3:43 pm and 4:00 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 4s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.
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