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1 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 681-1 Date: March 9, 1972 Time: Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:28 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:28 am.
Conversation No. 681-2 Date: March 9, 1972 Time: 9:28 am - 12:50 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with H. R. Haldeman. Haldeman’s schedule -Door International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] investigation -Clark MacGregor -Roman L. Hruska -Hearings -Meeting with leadership committee -Peter M. Flanigan and Henry A. Kissinger -Jack N. Anderson’s prepared statement -Copy needed -Hruska -Contributions to campaign -Advertising -John W. Byrnes -Richard W. McLaren -Television appearance -Haldeman -Compared to Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court case
2 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Public opinion -Lobbyists -Problems -John N. Mitchell -Dita D. Beard memorandum -John B. Connally -Hilton -Federal Communications Commission [FCC] investigation -Congressional knowledge -Hruska -Edward M. Kennedy -General Motors [GM] -Pennsylvania Central Transportation Company -Maurice H. Stans, the President, Mitchell, David M. Kennedy -Arthur F. Burns -Hearings -Democrats News stories -Aircraft bombing -New Hampshire primary -Aircraft bombing -Possibility of additional bombs -Checking passengers -Deputies -Placement of bomb -Los Angeles -Lack of injuries -New Hampshire primary ITT case -Anderson -Leaks to press -Amount of information -Story in Washington Post -Contribution -Haldeman -Public relations efforts -Strategy -Charles W. Colson -Robert J. Dole -Hotels
3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Contributions -Link with ITT -Strategy -Corporate contributions -Court decision -Contribution Tricia Nixon Cox -Schedule -Young Republicans -National Portrait Gallery -Dinner -Read statement from the President Dinner -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Speech -MacGregor -Politics -The President’s position -New Hampshire
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Editorials
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Guns -William Loeb on the Today show -Connally -Texas -Los Angeles
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-Watts riot
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Guns -Haldeman’s view -The President’s experience -Haldeman’s experience
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ITT case -Press conference -Schedule -Testimony -Mitchell -Administration side -Mitchell -Health -Dr. W. Kenneth Riland -Martha (Beall) Mitchell -Possible vacation -Timing -Hearings -Florida -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:28 am and
6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
9:59 am. [Conversation No. 681-2A] [See Conversation No. 21-26] [End of telephone conversation]
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The President talked with Richard (“Red”) Skelton between 9:59 am and 10:00 a.m. [Conversation No. 681-2B] [See Conversation No. 21-27] [End of telephone conversation] Skelton -1968 Washington Post story -Poll Cabinet Room -Heat -Fireplace -Portable heaters
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7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
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An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 10:00 am. Rose Mary Woods -Schedule -Forthcoming meeting with the President The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:09 am. Woods -Work habits -White House staff -Speeches -Drafts The President’s schedule -Gridiron dinner -Agnew -California -Republicans -Agnew -The President -Ronald W. Reagan -Mitchell -Henry A. Kissinger Kissinger entered at 10:09 am. Kissinger’s schedule -California -Roast
8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
News summary -The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip -Hugh S. Sidey -Time-Life -Stewart J.O. Alsop -John F. Osborne -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon -Joseph W. Alsop -Composition of news summary -Right-wing -Sidey, Stewart Alsop, Life, Osborne -Balance of stories -Stewart Alsop -Kissinger -State Department -Television -Spectrum [?] -Rogers -Mao Tse-tung -Alsop’s talk with Kissinger -State Department -Life -Shanghai Communique -Sidey -Thomas Griffith -Balance -Impact on White House staff -Woods -Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin -William F. Buckley, Jr. -United Press International [UPI] wire -New York Times -Stewart Alsop -Balance Kissinger’s schedule -Previous meeting with Melvin R. Laird -Public opinion -The President -Second term -Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Cooperation -Adm. Thomas H. Moorer US – Soviet Union relations -SALT -James L. Buckley and John G. Tower -Submarines -Land based missiles -Agreements -Submarines -Land based missiles -Rogers -Development of submarines -Undersea Long-range Missile Systems [ULMS] -Congress -Communique -PRC trip -Compared to forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union -Gerard C. Smith Rogers -Stewart Alsop -Possible change of Secretary of State -Connally -Mitchell -The President’s view -Administration opponents -Elliot L. Richardson -[David] Kenneth Rush -Kissinger’s view -Rush -Press stories -State Department relations with the White House -The President’s view -Cabinet relations -British parliamentary system -Kissinger’s view -Democratic convention -Soviet summit -Rogers Forthcoming US-Soviet Union summit
10 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -The President’s presence -Kissinger -Rogers -Rogers’s forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin -The President’s role -Rogers -The President’s previous meeting with Rogers -Rogers’s role during summit -Trade and grain discussions -Cabinet members’ desire to participate in summit -Earl L. Butz’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union -Trade and grain discussions -Peter G. Peterson -Middle East -The President’s role -SALT -Middle East -European Security Conference -Middle East -Rogers -European Security Conference -Rogers’s submission of paper -Rogers’s possible talks with Andrei A. Gromyko -State Department -SALT -Rogers -JCS -Laird -The President’s view -Soviet goals -Southeast Asia -PRC -Gromyko -South Asia -Rogers -Grain -Environment -Space -Science cooperation -European Security Conference -Dobrynin
11 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Location -Rogers
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-Advance for summit -Ronald H. Walker Reelection of the President -Personal papers -New government -The President’s talk with Kissinger, March 8, 1972 -Edward M. Kennedy -Chou En-lai -Edmund S. Muskie -Hubert H. Humphrey -Taiwan -Asia -Arms control -Chou En-lai -Soviets -India -The President’s view -Need for Soviet perspective -Rogers Foreign policy -Need to understand motives of opposition -Whittaker Chambers -Talk with the President at Pipe Creek Farm
12 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Alger Hiss -Robert A. Taft, Sr. -Korea -The President’s view as a Congressman -The President’s talk with Chambers -Communists -Japan -Korea -Dean G. Acheson -Vietnam War -Strait of Malacca -National Security Council [NSC] meetings -Gen. George A. Lincoln -Agnew -Compared to Patrick J. Buchanan -Laird -Richard M. Helms -PRC -Rogers’s view -Andre Malraux -Trade -US presence in Asia -The President’s position -Rogers -The President’s meeting with Chou En-lai -Rogers -Kissinger’s view -SALT -Soviet goals -Rogers’s view -Negotiations -India-Pakistan situation -PRC -Cuban submarine base [Cienfuegos] State Department -Foreign Service -The President’s possible meeting with U. Alexis Johnson -Appropriations -Advisory role -Jurisdiction question -Harry S. Truman
13 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-The President’s view -Acheson -Bureaucracy -Dwight D. Eisenhower -Comments on using opponent’s perspective -NSC meetings -Robert (“Bobby”) Cutler -John Foster Dulles -The President’s previous defense -Advisors’ role -Bureaucracy compared with the President -Secretary of State -Possible change -Bureaucracy -Example of Attorney General -Mitchell -Appointments -Civil Rights Division -Legal aid -Kissinger’s view -Josef V. Stalin -Purges -Timing -Election -Inauguration -Kissinger’s view -Eisenhower administration -Deputy Assistant Secretary Richard T. Davies -Testimony before the House -Greece -Yugoslavia -Romania -New Secretary of State -Chad -Rogers -The President’s view -Press -The President -Herbert Block [Herblock] cartoons -Loyalty -Press -Steward Alsop
14 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Washington Star article -John N. Irwin, II -PRC trip -Mao Tse-tung meeting with the President -Life -Chou En-lai -Influence -Kissinger’s view -Chinese television -Newsweek -Visits by heads of state -Location of host head of state -News summary -Unknown Chinese professor [Liu?] -Article in Newsweek -Pham Van Dong -Reception at airport -Red Guard -Politburo -Reception -Nicolae Ceausescu The PRC trip -News summary -Osborne article -Ronald L. Ziegler -William F. Buckley, Jr., Osborne, Sidey -Kissinger’s view -Forthcoming Soviet trip -Television coverage -Kissinger’s view -Haldeman -Specials -Chinese -The President’s image -Editorials -Newspapers -Life -Tone -Shanghai Communique -Public opinion of the President -Haldeman at Ford’s Theatre
15 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Talk with Father Gilbert V. Hartke -Message from Giovanni Battista Motini [Pope Paul VI] -Catholic Church -Call to Woods -The PRC trip -Hartke’s view -Letters to Kissinger -John K. Fairbanks’s comments -Knowledge of the PRC -Buckley -Forthcoming Soviet trip -National Review -Communism -Peking against Moscow -The PRC trip -Sidey Foreign policy -Rogers’s possible trips -Poland -Yugoslavia -Romania -Poland -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] -Soviets -Poland -The President’s meeting with Dobrynin -Soviet summit -Rogers -Communique -Drafting -Chou En-lai -Trade -Space -Environment -European Security Conference -Trade -The President’s memorandum -Position papers -Trade -The NSC system -Meeting
16 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Agnew -The President -Rogers’s negotiations -Forthcoming paper from NSC working group -Kissinger’s comparison paper -The President’s approval -Peterson -Peter M. Flanigan -Treasury Department -State Department -Middle East comparison to trade issue -Trade -Peterson and Flanigan -Dobrynin -State Department negotiations -Flanigan -Basic preparation -The President’s view -Rogers’s negotiations -NSC position papers -Middle East -SALT negotiations -European Security Conference -Middle East -Dobrynin meeting -Rogers compared with the President -Chinese -Mao Tse-tung conversation with the President -Kissinger’s view -The President -Mao Tse-tung -The President’s reelection -Chinese compared to the Soviets -Soviet summit -Rogers -European Security Conference -Middle East -Golda Meir -SALT -European Security Conference -Rogers’s role compared with Kissinger’s role -PRC
17 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Haldeman’s view -Gromyko, Aleksei N. Kosygin, Leonid I. Brezhnev -European Security Conference -Middle East -SALT -European Security Conference -Dobrynin’s meeting with Rogers -NSC -Rogers’s reports -Memoranda of conversation -SALT -Middle East -Position of the US -Rogers -Kissinger’s view -Richardson -Rogers’s possible position -Dulles and Eisenhower example -PRC trip -Rogers’s report to Congressional leaders -Dobrynin -Rogers’s work during the PRC trip -The PRC trip -State Department -Shanghai Communique -Washington Star article -Leaks -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III -Under Secretary -Washington Star -George Sherman’s article -Colson -Irwin -Bureaucracy -Joseph C. Kraft -Stanley Karnow -Washington Star -Sherman’s possible meeting with Kissinger -Washington Post -Kraft -Sherman -Columns
18 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Marvin L. Kalb interview of Kissinger -Ziegler -The President’s view -Questions to expect -Shanghai Communique -State Department -Prime time coverage -Networks -National Broadcasting Company [NBC] -Columbia Broadcasting System[CBS] -Subjects -News summary -Ziegler -Haldeman’s view -Positives -Negatives -Senate Foreign Relations Committee -J. William Fulbright -Call to Kissinger -Blair House -State Department -Shanghai Communique -The President’s meeting with Chou En-lai -The President’s image -Plans for trip -State Department -Warsaw -Prime time audience -Press conference comparison -Shanghai Communique -Questions -PRC, Soviet Union, US -Plans for trip -Herbert G. Klein -Ziegler -Timing of interview -Shanghai Communique -The President -Rogers -Kissinger’s view -Prime time -Reasons for interview
19 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Kalb -The President’s view -Compared to Howard K. Smith -Compared to Dan Rather -Smith -Foreign policy -The President -Timing -Foreign policy discussion -PRC -Soviets -Kissinger’s story -JCS -Questions -Decisions -Preparations for meetings -Rogers -Leaders meeting -Kissinger’s comments -The President’s guidance -Dobrynin -Forthcoming Soviet trip -Memoranda -Preparations -The President’s view -Election -Ziegler -Questions -Sherman story -Decisions by the President -Rogers and Irwin -National television -Kissinger and Foreign Service officers -Marshall Green -Networks -CBS -The President’s view -PRC trip -American Broadcasting Company [ABC] -NBC -John W. Chancellor -Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
20 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Rather -News summary -The PRC trip -Cambodia -The New Republic -Ziegler -Sidey -State Department -ITT -Shanghai Communique -Rogers -Berlin Agreement -Announcement, March 10, 1972 -PRC -Michael J. Mansfield -House leaders -Change in public viewpoint -Art Buchwald -Agnew -The President’s accomplishments -Soviet summit -PRC -Another trip -Rogers’s possible foreign trips -Yugoslavia -Romania -Poland -Press -Yugoslavia -Romania -Poland -Political impact of visit -Iran -Soviet summit -Eastern European countries -Czechoslovakia -Poland -Iran -Pope Paul VI -Iran -Rogers’s possible participation -NATO
21 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Pope Paul VI -Italy Ambassadorships The President left at an unknown time after 10:09 am. Rogers -Possible replacement -Mitchell -Connally -Kissinger’s view -Soviet summit The President returned at an unknown time before 11:50 am. Ambassadorships -West Germany -Martin J. Hillenbrand -Australia -Adm. Horacio Rivero, Jr. -Background Woods entered at 11:50 am.
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Woods left at 12:02 pm. Ambassadorships -Rivero
22 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Puerto Rico Appointments -Possible replacement as Secretary of Defense -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. -Laird -The President’s view -Chief of Staff of the Army -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Vice Chief of Staff -Kissinger’s view -Laos -[First name unknown] Davidson [?] -Europe -Andrew J. Goodpaster -Supreme Allied Commander, Europe [NATO] [SACEUR] -US forces in Europe -Seventh Army -Haig Ambassadorships -Rivero -Australia -Spain -Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr. -Possible conflict of interest -Mosbacher -Portugal -Flanigan’s view -Chief of Protocol -Guatemala -Caribbean -Jamaican Prime Minister [Michael Manley] -Nationalization of bauxite industry -Vincent W. de Roulet -Australia -Rivero -Portugal -George W. Anderson, Jr. -Sixth Fleet Appointments
23 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Army -[First name unknown] Davidson -United Nations [UN] -Jerome H. Holland Ambassadorships -Sweden -Lloyd Miller -Australia -Australia [?] -Wiley Buchanan -Andrew F. Brimmer -Federal Reserve Board [FRB] -Unknown person -Florida -Brimmer compared to Buchanan -Portugal -Buchanan -Rivero -Buchanan -The President’s view -Rivero -Finland -Ability to speak Spanish and Portuguese -Buchanan -Emory C. Swank -Cambodia -Ceylon [Sri Lanka] -Kissinger’s view -Cambodia -Charles S. Whitehouse -Nicaragua -Iran -Joseph S. Farland -Rogers -Flanigan -The President’s view -Farland -Kissinger’s view -The President’s view The President’s schedule
24 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Unknown man -Meeting -Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM] -The President’s view -Jack N. Anderson papers -Kissinger’s view -Rogers -Meeting with Pope Paul VI -Example of Romanian foreign minister -Reasons for not meeting -Foreign policy -Domestic policy -Busing -Social Security -Welfare reform -Pensions -Kissinger’s schedule -California -Rogers -Kissinger’s schedule -Forthcoming dinner for Nihat Erim -Forthcoming interview with Kalb -Dobrynin meeting -Senate Foreign Relations Committee -House Foreign Affairs Committee -Forthcoming trip to Japan -California -Gridiron dinner -Kissinger -The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada -Organization of American States [OAS] meeting -Timing -Ontario -Ottawa Kissinger’s schedule -Japan -Paris -Japan -Eisaku Sato -Paris talks compared to Japan -Paris talks
25 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-European Conference -Brussels -Vietnam -Troop announcement -Timing -Canada -Laird -Brussels -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] -Rogers -Joseph M. Luns -European relations -Kissinger’s talk with Luns -NATO -David M. Kennedy -Connally -Soviet Union -PRC Kissinger left at 12:27 pm. Kissinger’s schedule -NATO -Rogers -Relations with Kissinger -Luns Connally -George P. Shultz’s view -Politics -Issues -Polls -Unemployment benefits -Administration programs -Elderly -Spending -Inflation -Connally -Domestic issues -Haldeman’s view -Connally’s background -John F. Kennedy
26 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Texas -Lyndon B. Johnson -Democrat -Press -Compared to the President The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 12:31 pm. [Conversation No. 681-2C] [See Conversation No. 21-28] [End of telephone conversation] Connally -Politician as an advisor -Haldeman The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox between 12:31 pm and 12:34 pm. [Conversation No. 681-2D] [See Conversation No. 21-29; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation] [End of telephone conversation]
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Agnew’s schedule -California Republicans
27 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Ronald W. Reagan The President’s schedule -Gridiron dinner -Edgar Allen Poe -Erim dinner -Klein -Kissinger -Rogers -The President’s forthcoming trip to California -Haldeman’s view -Agnew -Toast -Democratic candidates presence -“Women’s Lib” -Invitations to women -Mrs. Nixon’s presence -Julie Nixon Eisenhower -Tricia Nixon Cox -The President’s view -Agnew Rogers -Kissinger -Trade -SALT -Dobrynin meeting -Forthcoming US-Soviet summit -Rogers’s role -Kissinger -PRC Kissinger -Press appearances -Scali -Ziegler -Talk with Haldeman -Backgrounder -Foreign policy -Characteristics of leaders -The President -Mao Tse-tung
28 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle -Winston S. Churchill -Franklin D. Roosevelt Buchanan -Something for him -Meeting with the President
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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:34 pm.
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The President, Haldeman, and Sanchez left at 12:50 pm.
Conversation No. 681-3 Date: March 9, 1972 Time: 4:31 pm - 4:33 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. The President’s schedule -Documents to be signed Butterfield left at 4:33 pm.
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Conversation No. 681-4 Date: March 9, 1972 Time: 4:36 pm - 4:41 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. The President’s schedule -Staff -Meeting -[Signing documents] -[Unintelligible] Butterfield left at 4:41 pm.
Conversation No. 681-5 Date: March 9, 1972 Time: 4:41 pm - 5:35 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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30 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
The President’s schedule -Telephone call from John B. Connally -Possible meeting -Economic policy Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm. The President’s schedule Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm. The President’s schedule -Forthcoming breakfast -George Meany -Henry A. Kissinger Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm. -Meany -George P. Shultz Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm. -Prisoners of war [POWs] -National wreath laying ceremony -Congressional resolution -Participants -Carol Hanson -Evelyn Grubb -Janice Ray -William E. Brock, III -Robert J. Dole -John H. Rousselot -Harrison A. Williams -Jack Edwards [?] -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins -Press -John D. Ehrlichman, Elliot L. Richardson, Arthur S. Flemming, Shultz -Meeting -Social Security -Prescription drugs
31 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Richardson -Domestic issues -Ehrlichman -Water bill -Forthcoming meeting with Connally -Shultz -The President’s view -Busing meeting -Shultz -Forthcoming meeting -Ehrlichman -Connally -Shultz -Timing Approval polls -White House -November 1971, January 1972, and March 1972 polls -Comparison of percentages -Men and women -Elderly and youth -Vietnam War -The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip -Blacks -John F. Becker poll -State polls -Vietnam War
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-Vietnam War
32 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Economics -The President -Characteristics -Percentages -George H. Gallup Kissinger -Kalb interview Television special -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon -“World Ambassador” -United States Information Agency [USIA] -Documentary -Local stations -Networks -“The Nixon Years” -Tribute to Mrs. Nixon -Democratic Convention -Edward M. Kennedy -Julie Nixon Eisenhower -Tricia Nixon Cox -Unknown man -Madison Square Garden Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm. The President’s schedule -Forthcoming meeting -Ehrlichman and Shultz Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm. Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970 [?] -Signing -Ehrlichman -Robert H. Finch -Leonard Garment -Charles W. Colson [?] -Connally -18 year olds
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm. The President’s schedule -Executive Office Building [EOB] Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm. Connally The President’s schedule -Social Security meeting -Busing meeting -Bill signing Transportation use -The President’s use of helicopters -Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case -Jack N. Anderson -Marlow W. Cook -Roman L. Hruska -Cook -James O. Eastland -Unknown man -Interview -Testimony -Dita D. Beard -John N. Mitchell -Call from the President Kissinger entered at 5:15 pm. The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union -Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -Announcement of agreements -Agreements -Grain and trade -Maritime -Incidents at sea -Health -Science
34 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Space -Environment -Earl Butz -Grain deal -Soviet Commerce Minister -Peter G. Peterson -David W. Kendall’s view -Public relations -Robert J. McCloskey -State Department -William P. Rogers -Dobrynin -White House staff -Soviet secret police -Communication with Secret Service -Dobrynin -Public relations -Rogers -Ronald L. Ziegler -Dobrynin -Dwight L. Chapin -Ziegler -Dobrynin -McCloskey -The President’s view -Rogers -NATO -The President’s previous trip around the world -Dobrynin -Advance arrangements -Press -Ziegler -Secret Service -McCloskey ITT case -Haldeman’s forthcoming telephone call to Mitchell -Peter M. Flanigan [?] -Haldeman’s view -Anti-trust activity -Ehrlichman
35 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Busing -Announcement PRC -Instructions for cadres -Imperialists -Use of word -US-PRC relations -Trade -Technical personnel -Kissinger’s view -Dobrynin -Meeting with Kissinger -Chinese sources -Kissinger’s October trip to the PRC -Soviet forces in Asia -Missiles -Kissinger’s response -PRC relations with the US, Soviet Union, Japan,and India -Kissinger’s view -Kissinger’s view -September upheaval in PRC -The President’s meeting with Mao Tse-tung -PRC opponents -Soviet Union -Mongolia The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip -State Department -McCloskey -Rogers -Compared to the PRC trip -Agreements between the US and Soviet Union -Rogers -Memorandum -Taiwan, Republic of China and PRC -Names of each country Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:15 pm. The President’s schedule -Ehrlichman
36 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Location -Busing meeting Bull left at an unknown time before 5:18 pm. The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip -Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] -Submarines -Conversion of missiles -Gerard C. Smith Haldeman left at 5:18 pm. -Grain deal -Preliminary negotiations -Butz -Clarence D. Palmby -Butz -Dobrynin -The President’s schedule -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] -Warsaw -NATO -Iran -Japan -Leningrad -Moscow -Tiblisi, Georgia -Iran -Tiblisi -Frank J. Shakespeare -SALT -Middle East The President and Kissinger left at 5:35 pm.
Conversation No. 681-8
37 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Date: March 9, 1972 Time: Unknown between 5:35 pm and 6:07 pm Location: Oval Office Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met. The President’s location -Barber shop The unknown agents left at an unknown time before 6:07 pm.
Conversation No. 681-6 Date: March 9, 1972 Time: 6:07 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with an unknown person. The President’s schedule -Meeting -Ronald L. Ziegler The unknown person left at 6:07 pm.
Conversation No. 681-7 Date: March 9, 1972 Time: 6:07 pm - 6:20 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Manolo Sanchez and Ronald L. Ziegler. The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union -Public relations -Robert J. McCloskey Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:09 pm.
38 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -William P. Rogers -Ziegler’s view Press briefing -International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case -Foreign scope -Henry Ford, II -Jack N. Anderson -Brit Hume -Dita D. Beard -The President’s call to John N. Mitchell -White House response -Charles W. Colson -Marlow W. Cook -Statement -Mitchell’s statement -Content Henry A. Kissinger entered at 6:09 pm. The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip -McCloskey -Dobrynin -McCloskey’s telephone call to Dobrynin -Ziegler’s view -Dobrynin’s reaction -Kissinger’s view -Rogers -The President compared to the Secretary of State Ziegler left at 6:13 pm. -Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin -Forthcoming summit -Premature publicity for agreements -Leonid I. Brezhnev -Rogers -Agriculture -Butz -Health
39 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
-Elliot L. Richardson -Science -Dr. Edward E. David, Jr. -Environment -Russell E. Train -Lend-Lease -State Department -Commerce -Peter G. Peterson -Rogers -Dobrynin briefing -State Department -National Security Council [NSC] -Agriculture -Publicity for agreements -Dobrynin -Plenary session -Rogers Kissinger’s schedule -Forthcoming meeting with businessmen -Colson -The President’s view -The People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Negotiations -Forthcoming US-Soviet Union summit -Andrei A. Gromyko -Dobrynin -Stewart J.O. Alsop article -Rogers The President and Kissinger left at 6:20 pm.