733
Date:
Jun 14, 1972
Location:
Oval Office
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1 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conversation No. 733-1 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: Unknown before 8:31 am Location: Oval Office Manolo Sanchez met with an unknown man.
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Sanchez and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:31 am.
Conversation No. 733-2 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 9:00-10:04 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. Cabinet meeting -Timing -Subjects for discussion -The President’s previous visit to the Soviet Union -William P. Rogers -Peter M. Flanigan
2 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Domestic issues -Flanigan -Trade -John D. Ehrlichman Telephone calls -Compared with letters -Birthday greetings -The President’s instructions H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:05 am Butterfield left at an unknown time after 9:05 am. Letters and telephone calls to Congressmen -Foreign Affairs Committee -Henry A. Kissinger -Democrats -Republicans -Telephone calls -John L. McClellan -Time element -Clement P. Zablocki Senate Foreign Affairs Committee -Compared to House -Vote on floor on Vietnam -Clark MacGregor -Michael J. Mansfield amendment -Vietnam troop withdrawal -Chances of defeat -Amendments -John J. Sparkman’s role Revenue sharing -Chances of success in Congress -Nelson A. Rockefeller on Capitol Hill -George P. Shultz Welfare bill -Ehrlichman -Welfare program -The President’s view -Draft -MacGregor Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Social Security -Passage in Congress Revenue sharing -Votes in Congress -Wilbur D. Mills -Support in Administration -Robert H. Finch Budget problems -The President's vetoes Kissinger -Rogers -Forthcoming meeting with the President An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am. The President's schedule -Meeting with Rogers and Kissinger -Time The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:04 am. Rogers' trip itinerary -Australia, New Zealand, and the US [UNZUS] -Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO] -John B. Connally Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
4 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
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HALDEMAN TALKED WITH AN UNKNOWN PERSON AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BETWEEN 9:05 AND 10:04 AM [CONVERSATION NO. 733-2A] [END OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION]
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White House staff salaries -Younger staffers -Older staff members -The President’s view -John C. Whitaker -Patrick J. Buchanan -Future -William L. Safire -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Buchanan -Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin -Buchanan -Senior level -Youth salaries
5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
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William F. (“Billy”) Graham -Explo '72 rally -The President’s position Presidential scholars -Elliot L. Richardson -The President’s participation -Selection criteria -Caspar W. Weinberger -Michigan interns -Support for George S. McGovern -Government interns -Abolition of program -The President’s view -Interns in Republican campaign organization -White House -Intership programs -Presidential interns -Spiro T. Agnew -Tricia Nixon Cox -Political leanings -Haldeman's conversation with Richardson -Selection process -Advisory committees -President’s Science Advisory Committee [PSAC] -The President's selections -Interns -Political opposition to the President
6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Kissinger's appearance for Congressional briefing -Location -Weather -Arrival of Luis Echeverria Alvarez -Logistics Head of State visit of Echeverria -Political benefits -Spanish-Americans -Visits to Los Angeles, Texas, and Chicago Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
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The President's position -Trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union -The President's domestic opponents -Effect of accomplishments -Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] -Republicans Revenue sharing -Shultz -Lobbying -Advantages to the President -Welfare program Presidential scholars -Tour of White House -Potential opposition to the President -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] -Richardson
7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) The President's schedule -Florida -Weather -Echeverria Report on the President's trip to the Soviet Union -Butterfield -Cabinet meeting -Flanigan -Peter G. Peterson’s trip to the Soviet Union -Revenue sharing -Rogers -Aleksei N. Kosygin -The President’s view -Earl L. Butz Cabinet meeting -The President’s view -Timing -Agnew -Subjects -John D. Ehrlichman -Butz -Connally Transportation exhibit at Dulles Airport -John A. Volpe -Problems -Traffic jams -Blue Angels -Fatalities Cabinet meeting -Subjects -Ehrlichman -Availability The President’s schedule -Richardson -House Resolution [HR] 1 -Cabinet meeting -Echeverria -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Scheduling -Press conference -Scheduling -Incumbent Republican Senators and Congressmen -Scheduling -Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr. -John M. Ashbrook McCloskey -Statements on prisoners of war [POWs] -Democratic response Ashbrook Tricia Nixon Cox -"Merv Griffin Show" -Rerun of wedding -Audience -Possible hostility Protocol office -William R. Codus -Transfer to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's staff -Informing Mrs. Nixon Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am. The President's schedule -Meeting with Kissinger and Rogers The President, Bull, and Haldeman left at 10:04 am. Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
Conversation No. 733-3 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 10:04-11:07 am Location: Oval Office William P. Rogers met with Henry A. Kissinger.
9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Refreshments Vietnam -Kissinger’s meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko -Meeting between the President and Leonid I. Brezhnev -Nguyen Van Thieu -Prisoners of war [POWs] -Hanoi -Nikolai V. Podgorny’s forthcoming visit -US response to Soviet Union proposals An unknown man entered and left at an unknown time. Kissinger's plans -Possible meetings with the Soviet Union -People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Consultations -Reaction to Podgorny trip to Hanoi -Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to PRC -Podgorny’s trip John B. Connally -Possible trip Vietnam -Bombing -PRC reaction -Press reactions -Military Kissinger’s meeting with Eisaku Sato -Briefing for Rogers -Takeo Fukuda -Press conference International Labor Organization [ILO] -Kissinger’s memorandum -Rogers’s memorandum -Charles Colson -George Meany Rogers’s forthcoming trip -Austalia, New Zealand and the US [ANZUS]
10 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing for Congressmen -Gerard C. Smith -Presence -Forthcoming testimony The President entered at 10:12 am. Rogers -Health -Lee Trevino Rogers forthcoming trip to Asia -Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO] meeting -The President's earlier trip to Poland -Yugoslavia -SEATO -Canberra -Timing -Congress -Democratic National Convention -Possible itinerary -Indonesia -Indochina -Cambodia -Laos -Persian Gulf -Bahrain -Iran -Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran] -Spiro T. Agnew -Kuwait -Romania And Yugoslavia -Request for Rogers -Hungary -Czechoslovakia -Cyprus -Ceylon -Relations with India -Visit by US officials -The President's 1953 trip to Colombia -Compared to Switzerland -Greece Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
11 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] -Turkey -Political considerations -SEATO -Sir Alexander F. Douglas-Home -ANZUS -Indonesia -Japanese -Sato -Takeo Fukuda Rogers forthcoming trip -Ceylon -US relations -Robert Strausz-Hupe -Afghanistan -Visit by Rogers -John B. Connally -Pakistan -Bangladesh -Shah -Persian Gulf -Romania and Yugoslavia -Soviet Union reactions -Visit by Rogers -Josip Broz Tito -Moscow -Gromyko -Paris -Yugoslavia -US relations -Romania -The President’s view -Nicolae Ceausescu -Tito -Age -Tito’s previous meeting with Brezhnev -Romania -Visit by Rogers -Greece -The President’s view -Agnew -NATO reactions to visit Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
12 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Scandinavians -Importance to US -Political considerations -Romania -Domestic reactions by Romanian-Americans -Political considerations -Chicago -Pittsburgh -Spain -Portugal -Morocco -Political considerations -Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia -Domestic reactions -Rogers’s view -Korea -Talks with North Korea -Credit to the President -Taiwan -Possible problem -Amount of time -John S. D. Eisenhower -Singapore, Malaysia Middle East -Oil supplies -Bahrain -Kuwait -Connally, Agnew -Iran -Bahrain -Saudi Arabia -Port facilities -British reaction -Douglas-Home -Shah's reaction -Itinerary -Length -Report to the President The President's schedule -San Clemente -Congressional recess Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
13 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Rogers speech at Commonwealth Club -Press coverage -Television Possible speaking engagements for Rogers -Ethnic groups -Reactions to Rogers's trip -Chicago Execuritves Club -Arrangements -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Foreign relations councils -Rogers visit -Los Angeles -Town Hall -Advantages -Labor organizations -Colson -International Brotherhood of Teamsters -Building trades -Import for foreign policy -American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] -Rogers's appearance -Ethnic groups -Catholic groups Personnel -Ambassadorships -Blacks -John E. Reinhardt -Nigeria -W. Beverly Carter, Jr. -Tanzania -Terrance A. Todman -Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr. -Liberia -Jerome H. Holland -Quality of appointments -Photograph sessions -Ceylon -Ambassadorship -Racial factors -Tamils -Black Ambassadors Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
14 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
-Pakistan -Robert G. Neumann -Background -Afghanistan -Haldeman -University of Califorinia at Los Angeles [UCLA] -James R. Schlesinger -Rogers view -Background -Support for the President -1960 -UCLA -Kissinger’s view -Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. -Martin J. Hillenbrand -Ambassadorship to Poland -Possible representative to NATO David M. Kennedy -Qualifications -Advantages of appointment as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs -European Security Conference -The President’s view -Hillenbrand -Ambassador to West Germany -Background -George C. McGee -Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy -The President's meeting with Hillenbrand Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] -Forthcoming testimony to Congress -Reservations -Potential problems -Re-negotiations -Timing -Defense expenditures -J. William Fulbright -Melvin R. Laird -Opposition -Defense budget -Trident submarines -Washington, DC anti-ballistic missile [ABM] site
15 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Administration position -B-1 bomber -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson -Talk with Kissinger -George S. McGovern -Jackson’s view -Statement on Vietnam War -Prisoners of war [POWs] -Kissinger’s view -John C. Stennis -Previous meeting with the President -Vietnam -John L. McClellan The President talked with the White House operator at 10:45 am. [Conversation No. 733-3A] [See Conversation No. 25-63] [End of telephone conversation] The President's call to McClellan SALT -Jackson’s view -Support for defense budget -Clark MacGregor -Michael J. Mansfield, J. William Fulbright -Support for the President -Defense appropriations -Testimony before Congress -Laird -Negotiations with the Soviets -The President's conversation with Stennis -Next round of SALT negotiations -Passage of SALT I -Jackson -US military strength -The President’s view -Congressional limitations on defense budget -Weaponry Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
16 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Philip A. Hart [?] -ABM -Future of US strength -Weapons systems -Undersea long-range missiles [ULMS] -B-I bomber -Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] -Laird -ABM -Malmstrom site -Gen. Royal B. Allison -Adm. Thomas H. Moorer -Paul H. Nitze The President talked with McClellan between 10:51 and 10:53 am. [Conversation No. 733-3B] [See Conversation No. 25-64] Rogers talked with McClellan. [See Conversation No. 25-64] [End of telephone conversation] SALT -The President's talk with Republican leaders -Need for SALT -The President’s view -Laird's statement -Soviet Union -Missile defense system -Protection -PRC -Advantages -Technology development -Defense costs -Defense budget -Opponents -Laird's testimony Forthcoming negotiations with Soviet Union Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
17 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Resignation of Smith -Replacement -Qualities Rogers's trip -White House announcement -Itinerary -Meeting with the President Rogers's testimony -Smith -Format -Questions -Laird and Moorer -Smith’s role Colson -Signals to Rogers on television appearances -Haldeman -Role of Cabinet heads -Richard G. Kleindienst "Meet the Press" -Rogers's appearance The President's press conference -Scheduling -Timing -Colson and John A. Scali -The President’s view -Foreign policy achievements -Domestic issues -Timing -Relation to the President's trip to Soviet Union -Content The President's previous meeting with Brezhnev -Vietnam -Podgorny's trip to Hanoi -Itinerary -Proposals to Hanoi -Secrecy of trip -US hopes for trip Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
18 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) John D. Lavelle -Actions -Removal by Laird -Testimony before Congress -Effect -Actions -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams. Jr. Television appearances by Rogers -Haldeman -SALT -Rogers's trip "Issues and Answers" -Compared with a press conference -Quality of show -Importance of show -Press conference -Colson John N. Mitchell Press conference -Publicity Rogers and Kissinger left at 11:07 am. Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
Conversation No. 733-4 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 11:07 and 11:15 am Location: Oval Office The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. Discussion of case of John D. Lavelle
19 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.) Conversation No. 733-5 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 11:07 and 11:15 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] ] [Duration: 7s
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Conversation No. 733-6 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 11:15-11:55 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. Kissinger 's previous talk with Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. -Dinner -Remarks -Humor -Charles H. Percy Clark MacGregor -Mathias -Richard G. Kleindienst Kissinger's remarks -Vietnam -Response by audience
20 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -The President's foreign policy
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Nikolai V. Podgorny’s trip to Hanoi -India -Press reports -Calcutta -Aircraft -Soviet aviation -Kissinger's call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin The President’s previous meeting with William P. Rogers -Reasons for trip abroad -The President’s view -Press conference -Charles W. Colson -"Issues and Answers" -Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] -“Issues and Answers” -Congressional testimony Rogers's forthcoming trip -Romania -Possible Soviet Union response -The President’s view -Leonid I. Brezhnev -Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Dobrynin -Rogers trip -Greece -Brezhnev -The President
21 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Ceylon -Behrain -Iran -Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran] -Oil -John B. Connally -Value of trip -Greece -Vietnam Possible press conference by Rogers -Colson Rogers's itinerary -Romania -Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Convention -Value of trip -Travel around country -Commonwealth Club Kissinger -Public appearances -Forums -Television appearances -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Elite groups -Benefits John D. Lavelle’s removal -Melvin R. Laird -Circumstances -Air strikes -Laird’s role -Kissinger’s view Laird's performance -Compared to Rogers's -Kissinger’s view -Budget requests -Kissinger, George P. Shultz -Supplemental requests -Military expenditures for Vietnam Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
22 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Lavelle -The President’s view -Compared to Daniel Ellsberg case -Military responses Adm. Thomas H. Moorer -Air strikes -Kissinger’s instructions -US relationship with Soviet Union Lavelle -Administration action -Replacement -Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr. -Timing of removal -Laird -Informing the President -Kissinger’s knowledge -Public relations aspects -Rogers -Administration response -Press response -Number of unauthorized air raids -Public response People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement -Press coverage -Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. The President talked with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?] at an unknown time between 11:15 and 11:55 am. [Conversation No. 733-6A] Ronald L. Ziegler [End of telephone conversation] PRC announcement -Michael J. Mansfield -Podgorny trip -Publicity Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
23 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am. Ziegler’s location -Press briefing Bull left at an unknown time before 11:55 am. Lavelle -Administration action -Laird Moorer -Air strikes -Kissinger’s instructions -Laird -Opposition to the President -Lyndon B. Johnson -Soviet Union -Podgorny’s trip -The President’s conversation with Brezhnev Rogers -Purpose of Podgorny trip Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
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Warren E. Burger -Letter John C. Stennis Laird
24 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Negotiations with Soviet Union -Rogers -Mining of North Vietnam harbors -Cambodia, Laos -Lavelle -Political ambitions -Kissinger’s view Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
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Lavelle -Haig -News summary Kissinger's trip -Schedule -Departure -Dinner for Luis Echeverria Alvarez -Schedule -Echeverria -Kissinger PRC -Military information SALT ratification -Approval -Timing -Republican convention -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson's response -The President’s concern -Soviet Union responses
25 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Jackson's concerns -Defense appropriations -Opposition -George S. McGovern -Jackson -Opposition -B-1 bomber -Undersea long-range missiles [ULMS] -McGovern -Kissinger’s possible responses -Defense appropriation -Appropriations -Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs] -Relations with Soviet Union -John J. McCloy -Support to SALT and military program -Wall Street Journal -Talk with Kissinger -Keisling (sp?) [New York editor] Kissinger left at 11:55 am. Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
Conversation No. 733-7 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:26 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. Luis Echeverria Alvarez's visit -Head of State dinner -Astronauts -Gift -Entertainment -Pete Fountain Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:58 am. -Presidential gift
26 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Timing -Astronauts -Timing -Entertainment -Entertainment -Fountain The President’s schedule -Astronauts -Echeverria -Astronauts Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:10 pm. Head of State dinner for Echeverria -The President's presence -Charles W. Colson -Astronauts' entrance -Logistics -Guests -Family -White House staff -Henry A. Kissinger -Herbert G. Klein -Robert H. Finch -Guest lists -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Maurice H. Stans -Colson -Harry S. Dent -Harry S. Flemming -Ann C. Whitman -Dr. W. Kenneth Riland -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Mexican-Americans -Future state dinners -The President’s view Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:10 pm. Press conference -Nikolai V. Podgorny’s trip to Hanoi -Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Moscow summit -Agreement by both sides -Importance -Details of trip -William P. Rogers -Trip to Asia -Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO] -Future announcement -Strategic Arms and Limitation Tretaty [SALT] Ziegler left at 12:12 pm.
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White House functions -Dinners -The President's view -Fundraisers -Stans
28 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Political dinners -The President’s view -George S. McGovern supporters -The President's attitude -Woods’s view -Problems -Preparation -Speech -Television -Lyndon B. Johnson -Guest lists Conv. No. 733-7 (cont.)
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The President and Woods left at 12:26 pm.
Conversation No. 733-8 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 12:30-1:02 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. John D. Ehrlichman -Controversy -Television interview remarks in Los Angeles -Presidential press conferences -Ehrlichman’s response
29 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Quality of reporters' questions -The President's dealings with the press -Format Conv. No. 733-8 (cont.)
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Press briefing -Ziegler -The President's schedule -Press conference -Domestic policy -Timing -Kissinger’s trip to Peking -Subjects for possible press conference -Domestic issues -Foreign issues -Vietnam Haldeman left at 1:02 pm.
Conversation No. 733-9 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 2:53 and 2:54 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Stephen B. Bull. The President’s schedule -Warren E. Burger Bull left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.
Conversation No. 733-10 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 2:54-3:59 pm Location: Oval Office
31 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) The President met with Warren E. Burger. Greetings Work of Supreme Court -John N. Mitchell -Case load -Work of Chief Justice -Court executives -Chief Justice -Legislation -Personnel -Reorganization of circuit courts Burger's children -Employment -Item for the President’s signature Earl Warren -Age -Travel Item for the President’s signature -Wade Burger Photograph -J. Lee Rankin -Fred Vinson -Rankin -Herbert Brownell Vinson -Capabilities -Conversation with Burger -Mitchell -Age Supreme Court Justices -Age -Harry A. Blackmun Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
32 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Health -Lewis F. Powell, Jr. -Health -Performance Wade Burger -Photographs -The President’s signature -Burger’s appointment announcement -Elvera Burger -The President’s signature Weather Burger's exercise -Walking -Golf -Tennis -Swimming -Gym at Supreme Court -Swimming Congress -Strom Thurmond -Exercise -Allen J. Ellender -Health -Exercise -Appearance -John L. McClellan -Judiciary committee -James O. Eastland -Work with Burger -Burger -Judiciary committee -McClellan, Eastland, and Roman L. Hruska -Eastland -The President’s view Burger's possible trip to Japan -Invitation -Value -Japanese Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
33 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -The President’s view -Timing -Burger's schedule American Bar Association [ABA] convention -Warren -Leon Jaworski -Robert Meserve -Burger's activities -Powell Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:54 pm. Refreshments Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm. Supreme Court Justices -William H. Rehnquist -Forthcoming speech to state Chief Justices -Burger -Powell -Schedule -Public appearance -Rehnquist -Blackmun -Hugo L. Black -John M. Harlan -William O. Douglas -William J. Brennan, Jr. -Wife -Thurgood Marshall -Powell -Potter Stewart -Byron R. (“Whizzer”) White Supreme Court -Importance -The President’s view -Changes -Appointments Book by Irving Kristol -On Democracy in America Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
34 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Domestic issues Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:54 pm. Kristol book Bull left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm. Kristol -Disenchantment with liberalism -Domestic issues -Chapter on censorship -Burger Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:54 pm. Kristol’s book Bull left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm. Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
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Kristol’s book -Burger -Clerks -The President’s view Reading by Burger -Philadelphia Constitutional Convention -Use in opinion -Dictated section
35 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Dictation system -Purpose -Typing Secretaries at Supreme Court -Sherman Adams -Mary Byrnes -Joseph H. Ball The President's reading -Winston S. Churchill -Quality of writing -Dictation -Details -Diary Memoranda -Record of conversations -Leonid I. Brezhnev, Chou En-Lai -Henry A. Kissinger’s role -Vignettes -Interest -The President’s view Burger's nomination as Chief Justice -Recollections -Mitchell -Brownell -Tax returns -Burger's income -Conversation with Mitchell -Acceptance -Brownell -Eastland -Meeting with Mitchell -Public announcement -Burger’s recollections -Family response -Elvera Burger -Wade Burger -Meeting with the President -Record of meeting -Announcement Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
36 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Appointment of Burger -Experience -Warren -Experience -Black -The President’s recollections -Abe Fortas -The President’s view -Burger’s views -Black -First Amendment -Privacy -Support for Burger -Testimonial dinner -Press reports Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
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Testimonial dinner for Black -Black’s comments -Endorsement for Burger Future Supreme Court appointments -Vacancies -The President’s concern -Qualifications -Burger -Names for vacancies -Rehnquist -The President’s view -Role
37 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Mitchell -G. Harrold Carswell -The President’s view -Clement F. Haynesworth An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:54 pm. The President's acknowledgement The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm. Future Supreme Court appointments -The President’s policy -Black appointment -Jewish appointment -Caspar W. Weinburger -White House staff -Arthur F. Burns -Federal Reserve Board [FRB] -Kissinger -Herbert Stein -Edward Levy -Background -University of Chicago -William H. Brown III -Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] -The President’s view -Possible meeting with Burger -Duke Power Supreme Court decision -EEOC case -Brown -William French Smith -University of California Board of Regents -Mitchell’s previous conversation with Burger -The President’s view -Smith’s background -Age Administration appointments -The President’s view -Ivy League -Middle America -Geographic areas Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
38 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Douglas -Possible retirement -Age -Western background -Regional identification -Education Attacks on Supreme Court -Liberal press -National Observer -Wall Street Journal -[Forename unknown] Perry -Woman reporter’s column -Douglas -Burger -Liberal press -Criminal law -Burger’s view -The President’s view Kristol Decisions of Supreme Court -Trends -Right of counsel -Press accounts -ABA recommendations -Douglas -Dissent -Rehnquist and Powell -Burger -Capital punishment case -Forthcoming ruling -The President’s view Liberal press -Reaction by Powell -Rehnquist and Blackmun -The President's relation with justices New Supreme Court justices -Effects of Washington social climate Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
39 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -The President’s advice -Rehnquist -Burger, Blackmun -The President’s view -Congress -John Sherman Cooper -Effect -Vote on Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM] -Burger -Powell -Rehnquist -Blackmun -Stewart -White -Burger’s view -Possible successor to Burger -White -Burger’s view -Blackmun -Powell -Rehnquist -White -Burger’s view -Background -Support for Burger White House dinner for Supreme Court Justices -Timing -Guest list -Confidence of citizenry in judiciary -The President’s view -John B. Connally's opinion -Warren court Issues before Supreme Court -Busing -Cases -The President’s view -Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case -Press depiction -Burger’s view -Busing limits -Restraining order Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
40 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Burger -Effect -Detroit judge [Stephen Roth] -Robert P. Griffin -Gerald R. Ford Judges -John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson -Political appointments Supreme Court decision on private clubs -American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] -Rights to privacy -Jewish clubs -Restrictions -The President’s view -Opposition on club restrictions -Breakdown of restrictions -Fitz Weiner (sp?) -Legal arguments -Private clubs -Blacks -The President’s view -Burger’s view -Restrictions -Professional organizations -Jewish and Catholic support -Moose Lodge No-fault insurance -The President’s policy -Opposition -Cost of litigation -Christian Science Monitor -Costs of inquiry -Litigation -Workman's compensation Lord Chief Justice of England -Burger's house guest -Possible visit to White House -Trip to San Francisco -Powell Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
41 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Qualities, philosophy -New York Times -Opposition to philosophy New York Times and Washington Post, Time, Newsweek -Opposition to the President and Burger -The President’s view The Right Honorable Lord John Passmore Widgery -Background -World War II -Appointment -Friendship with Burger -Burger's lecture trip to England -Walter H. Annenberg -Visit to the White House -Arrangements -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman Kissinger The President's opening to People's Republic of China [PRC] -Impact -Burger’s view -Importance -Soviet Union World future -Burger’s predictions -Merger of Catholic and non-Catholic worlds -Convergence of Communist and non-communist worlds -The President's efforts Nation's mood -1972 election -Thomas E. Dewey -George S. McGovern -Strengths -Weaknesses -Hubert H. Humphrey Burger left at 3:59 pm. Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
42 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
Conversation No. 733-11 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 3:59 and 4:02 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Manolo Sanchez. Weather An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 3:59 pm. The President’s schedule -Clark MacGregor The unknown woman and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:02 pm.
Conversation No. 733-12/734-1 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 4:02-6:03 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Clark MacGregor. Forthcoming Congressional briefing on the Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] -Attendees -Format -The President's opening statement -Henry A. Kissinger -Questions -MacGregor -Moderator -Foreign Relations Committee -Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] Treaty -Questions -J. William Fulbright
43 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Questioning by Committee -Format -Moderator role -Identifying speakers -Fulbright -George D. Aiken -House Foreign Affairs Committee -William S. Maillard -John C. Stennis -Chairmen and ranking members -Fulbright -Thomas C. Korologos, MacGregor -Kissinger Fulbright -Support for SALT -John L. McClellan -Primary in Arkansas -David Pryor -McClellan -The President's call to McClellan -William P. Rogers Congressional briefing on SALT -Kissinger -Statement -Starting time -The President’s meeting with Luis Echeverria Alverez -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Length -Breaks -Importance -Kissinger’s role -Melvin R. Laird, Rogers -Kissinger -Knowledge of issues -Transcript -Effect on forthcoming Congressional testimony -The President's opening statement -Substance of the President's remarks -Kissinger’s role -Congressional reactions to Kissinger -Department of State
44 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-12/734-1 (cont.)
-Department of Defense -Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA] -Gerard C. Smith -Adm. Thomas H. Moorer -Richard M. Helms -Importance of National Security Council [NSC] -White House control -Smith -Rogers -Interest -Kissinger Testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee -Fulbright -Rogers and Smith -Laird -Schedule -Karl Marcy -Laird -Stennis The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:02 and 4:13 pm. [Conversation No. 733-12A] Forthcoming meeting with the President [End of telephone conversation] Kissinger -Japan -People’s Republic of China [PRC] Kissinger entered at 4:13 pm. Laird's testimony before Stennis's committee -Fulbright’s committee -Marcy -Rogers's testimony -Timing Kissinger's Congressional briefing -Laird's and Rogers's testimony
45 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Advantages -Coordination -Problems -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson -Fulbright Senate schedule -Robert P. Griffin -Treaty approval Testimony before Congress -Laird and Rogers -MacGregor -Work with Congress -Laird -Role -Soviet Union -Position Kissinger's forthcoming trip -Schedule -Effect on SALT -Acapulco -Echeverria -Meeting with the President -MacGregor -The President’s recollections Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft -Predecessor -Jamaica -Possible visit by the President -Beauty Testimony before Congress -Laird and Rogers Forthcoming congressional briefing on SALT -Format -MacGregor -Congressional questions -Order of questions -The President’s opening remarks Conv. No. 733-12/734-1 (cont.)
46 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Kissinger’s role -Substance -Kissinger's role in negotiations -Length -Recess -Arrival ceremony for Echeverria -Timing -Fulbright -Aiken -Kissinger's remarks -Length -Time for questions Kissinger left at 4:23 pm. -Length -Importance -Questions -Congress Conv. No. 733-12/734-1 (cont.)
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Forthcoming Congressional briefing on SALT -Alexander P. Butterfield -Chairs Haldeman entered at 4:25 pm. -The President’s view -Stephen B. Bull -Selection -Location
47 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-12/734-1 (cont.)
-State Dining Room compared with the East Room -Head of State dinner -The President’s view -Staff -Rex W. Scouten
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Legislation -John H. Dent -Support for the President on black lung bill -Pennsylvania -Kentucky -Ohio -New Jersey
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Amnesty -Administration policy -George S. McGovern
48 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -The President’s statements -Canada -Service Conv. No. 733-12/734-1 (cont.)
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Amnesty -The President's position -Widows -Veterans -Alternative service -Motives of draft resisters -Number of resisters [Conversation No. 733-12/734-1 continues on Tape Subject Log 734]
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Conversation No. 733-2 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 9:00-10:04 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. Cabinet meeting -Timing -Subjects for discussion -The President’s previous visit to the Soviet Union -William P. Rogers -Peter M. Flanigan
2 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Domestic issues -Flanigan -Trade -John D. Ehrlichman Telephone calls -Compared with letters -Birthday greetings -The President’s instructions H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:05 am Butterfield left at an unknown time after 9:05 am. Letters and telephone calls to Congressmen -Foreign Affairs Committee -Henry A. Kissinger -Democrats -Republicans -Telephone calls -John L. McClellan -Time element -Clement P. Zablocki Senate Foreign Affairs Committee -Compared to House -Vote on floor on Vietnam -Clark MacGregor -Michael J. Mansfield amendment -Vietnam troop withdrawal -Chances of defeat -Amendments -John J. Sparkman’s role Revenue sharing -Chances of success in Congress -Nelson A. Rockefeller on Capitol Hill -George P. Shultz Welfare bill -Ehrlichman -Welfare program -The President’s view -Draft -MacGregor Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Social Security -Passage in Congress Revenue sharing -Votes in Congress -Wilbur D. Mills -Support in Administration -Robert H. Finch Budget problems -The President's vetoes Kissinger -Rogers -Forthcoming meeting with the President An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am. The President's schedule -Meeting with Rogers and Kissinger -Time The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:04 am. Rogers' trip itinerary -Australia, New Zealand, and the US [UNZUS] -Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO] -John B. Connally Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
4 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
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White House staff salaries -Younger staffers -Older staff members -The President’s view -John C. Whitaker -Patrick J. Buchanan -Future -William L. Safire -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Buchanan -Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin -Buchanan -Senior level -Youth salaries
5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
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William F. (“Billy”) Graham -Explo '72 rally -The President’s position Presidential scholars -Elliot L. Richardson -The President’s participation -Selection criteria -Caspar W. Weinberger -Michigan interns -Support for George S. McGovern -Government interns -Abolition of program -The President’s view -Interns in Republican campaign organization -White House -Intership programs -Presidential interns -Spiro T. Agnew -Tricia Nixon Cox -Political leanings -Haldeman's conversation with Richardson -Selection process -Advisory committees -President’s Science Advisory Committee [PSAC] -The President's selections -Interns -Political opposition to the President
6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Kissinger's appearance for Congressional briefing -Location -Weather -Arrival of Luis Echeverria Alvarez -Logistics Head of State visit of Echeverria -Political benefits -Spanish-Americans -Visits to Los Angeles, Texas, and Chicago Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
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The President's position -Trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union -The President's domestic opponents -Effect of accomplishments -Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] -Republicans Revenue sharing -Shultz -Lobbying -Advantages to the President -Welfare program Presidential scholars -Tour of White House -Potential opposition to the President -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] -Richardson
7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) The President's schedule -Florida -Weather -Echeverria Report on the President's trip to the Soviet Union -Butterfield -Cabinet meeting -Flanigan -Peter G. Peterson’s trip to the Soviet Union -Revenue sharing -Rogers -Aleksei N. Kosygin -The President’s view -Earl L. Butz Cabinet meeting -The President’s view -Timing -Agnew -Subjects -John D. Ehrlichman -Butz -Connally Transportation exhibit at Dulles Airport -John A. Volpe -Problems -Traffic jams -Blue Angels -Fatalities Cabinet meeting -Subjects -Ehrlichman -Availability The President’s schedule -Richardson -House Resolution [HR] 1 -Cabinet meeting -Echeverria -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Scheduling -Press conference -Scheduling -Incumbent Republican Senators and Congressmen -Scheduling -Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr. -John M. Ashbrook McCloskey -Statements on prisoners of war [POWs] -Democratic response Ashbrook Tricia Nixon Cox -"Merv Griffin Show" -Rerun of wedding -Audience -Possible hostility Protocol office -William R. Codus -Transfer to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's staff -Informing Mrs. Nixon Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am. The President's schedule -Meeting with Kissinger and Rogers The President, Bull, and Haldeman left at 10:04 am. Conv. No. 733-2 (cont.)
Conversation No. 733-3 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 10:04-11:07 am Location: Oval Office William P. Rogers met with Henry A. Kissinger.
9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Refreshments Vietnam -Kissinger’s meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko -Meeting between the President and Leonid I. Brezhnev -Nguyen Van Thieu -Prisoners of war [POWs] -Hanoi -Nikolai V. Podgorny’s forthcoming visit -US response to Soviet Union proposals An unknown man entered and left at an unknown time. Kissinger's plans -Possible meetings with the Soviet Union -People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Consultations -Reaction to Podgorny trip to Hanoi -Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to PRC -Podgorny’s trip John B. Connally -Possible trip Vietnam -Bombing -PRC reaction -Press reactions -Military Kissinger’s meeting with Eisaku Sato -Briefing for Rogers -Takeo Fukuda -Press conference International Labor Organization [ILO] -Kissinger’s memorandum -Rogers’s memorandum -Charles Colson -George Meany Rogers’s forthcoming trip -Austalia, New Zealand and the US [ANZUS]
10 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing for Congressmen -Gerard C. Smith -Presence -Forthcoming testimony The President entered at 10:12 am. Rogers -Health -Lee Trevino Rogers forthcoming trip to Asia -Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO] meeting -The President's earlier trip to Poland -Yugoslavia -SEATO -Canberra -Timing -Congress -Democratic National Convention -Possible itinerary -Indonesia -Indochina -Cambodia -Laos -Persian Gulf -Bahrain -Iran -Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran] -Spiro T. Agnew -Kuwait -Romania And Yugoslavia -Request for Rogers -Hungary -Czechoslovakia -Cyprus -Ceylon -Relations with India -Visit by US officials -The President's 1953 trip to Colombia -Compared to Switzerland -Greece Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
11 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] -Turkey -Political considerations -SEATO -Sir Alexander F. Douglas-Home -ANZUS -Indonesia -Japanese -Sato -Takeo Fukuda Rogers forthcoming trip -Ceylon -US relations -Robert Strausz-Hupe -Afghanistan -Visit by Rogers -John B. Connally -Pakistan -Bangladesh -Shah -Persian Gulf -Romania and Yugoslavia -Soviet Union reactions -Visit by Rogers -Josip Broz Tito -Moscow -Gromyko -Paris -Yugoslavia -US relations -Romania -The President’s view -Nicolae Ceausescu -Tito -Age -Tito’s previous meeting with Brezhnev -Romania -Visit by Rogers -Greece -The President’s view -Agnew -NATO reactions to visit Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
12 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Scandinavians -Importance to US -Political considerations -Romania -Domestic reactions by Romanian-Americans -Political considerations -Chicago -Pittsburgh -Spain -Portugal -Morocco -Political considerations -Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia -Domestic reactions -Rogers’s view -Korea -Talks with North Korea -Credit to the President -Taiwan -Possible problem -Amount of time -John S. D. Eisenhower -Singapore, Malaysia Middle East -Oil supplies -Bahrain -Kuwait -Connally, Agnew -Iran -Bahrain -Saudi Arabia -Port facilities -British reaction -Douglas-Home -Shah's reaction -Itinerary -Length -Report to the President The President's schedule -San Clemente -Congressional recess Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
13 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Rogers speech at Commonwealth Club -Press coverage -Television Possible speaking engagements for Rogers -Ethnic groups -Reactions to Rogers's trip -Chicago Execuritves Club -Arrangements -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Foreign relations councils -Rogers visit -Los Angeles -Town Hall -Advantages -Labor organizations -Colson -International Brotherhood of Teamsters -Building trades -Import for foreign policy -American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] -Rogers's appearance -Ethnic groups -Catholic groups Personnel -Ambassadorships -Blacks -John E. Reinhardt -Nigeria -W. Beverly Carter, Jr. -Tanzania -Terrance A. Todman -Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr. -Liberia -Jerome H. Holland -Quality of appointments -Photograph sessions -Ceylon -Ambassadorship -Racial factors -Tamils -Black Ambassadors Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
14 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
-Pakistan -Robert G. Neumann -Background -Afghanistan -Haldeman -University of Califorinia at Los Angeles [UCLA] -James R. Schlesinger -Rogers view -Background -Support for the President -1960 -UCLA -Kissinger’s view -Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. -Martin J. Hillenbrand -Ambassadorship to Poland -Possible representative to NATO David M. Kennedy -Qualifications -Advantages of appointment as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs -European Security Conference -The President’s view -Hillenbrand -Ambassador to West Germany -Background -George C. McGee -Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy -The President's meeting with Hillenbrand Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] -Forthcoming testimony to Congress -Reservations -Potential problems -Re-negotiations -Timing -Defense expenditures -J. William Fulbright -Melvin R. Laird -Opposition -Defense budget -Trident submarines -Washington, DC anti-ballistic missile [ABM] site
15 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Administration position -B-1 bomber -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson -Talk with Kissinger -George S. McGovern -Jackson’s view -Statement on Vietnam War -Prisoners of war [POWs] -Kissinger’s view -John C. Stennis -Previous meeting with the President -Vietnam -John L. McClellan The President talked with the White House operator at 10:45 am. [Conversation No. 733-3A] [See Conversation No. 25-63] [End of telephone conversation] The President's call to McClellan SALT -Jackson’s view -Support for defense budget -Clark MacGregor -Michael J. Mansfield, J. William Fulbright -Support for the President -Defense appropriations -Testimony before Congress -Laird -Negotiations with the Soviets -The President's conversation with Stennis -Next round of SALT negotiations -Passage of SALT I -Jackson -US military strength -The President’s view -Congressional limitations on defense budget -Weaponry Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
16 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Philip A. Hart [?] -ABM -Future of US strength -Weapons systems -Undersea long-range missiles [ULMS] -B-I bomber -Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] -Laird -ABM -Malmstrom site -Gen. Royal B. Allison -Adm. Thomas H. Moorer -Paul H. Nitze The President talked with McClellan between 10:51 and 10:53 am. [Conversation No. 733-3B] [See Conversation No. 25-64] Rogers talked with McClellan. [See Conversation No. 25-64] [End of telephone conversation] SALT -The President's talk with Republican leaders -Need for SALT -The President’s view -Laird's statement -Soviet Union -Missile defense system -Protection -PRC -Advantages -Technology development -Defense costs -Defense budget -Opponents -Laird's testimony Forthcoming negotiations with Soviet Union Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
17 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Resignation of Smith -Replacement -Qualities Rogers's trip -White House announcement -Itinerary -Meeting with the President Rogers's testimony -Smith -Format -Questions -Laird and Moorer -Smith’s role Colson -Signals to Rogers on television appearances -Haldeman -Role of Cabinet heads -Richard G. Kleindienst "Meet the Press" -Rogers's appearance The President's press conference -Scheduling -Timing -Colson and John A. Scali -The President’s view -Foreign policy achievements -Domestic issues -Timing -Relation to the President's trip to Soviet Union -Content The President's previous meeting with Brezhnev -Vietnam -Podgorny's trip to Hanoi -Itinerary -Proposals to Hanoi -Secrecy of trip -US hopes for trip Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
18 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) John D. Lavelle -Actions -Removal by Laird -Testimony before Congress -Effect -Actions -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams. Jr. Television appearances by Rogers -Haldeman -SALT -Rogers's trip "Issues and Answers" -Compared with a press conference -Quality of show -Importance of show -Press conference -Colson John N. Mitchell Press conference -Publicity Rogers and Kissinger left at 11:07 am. Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.)
Conversation No. 733-4 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 11:07 and 11:15 am Location: Oval Office The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. Discussion of case of John D. Lavelle
19 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-3 (cont.) Conversation No. 733-5 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 11:07 and 11:15 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] ] [Duration: 7s
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Conversation No. 733-6 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 11:15-11:55 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. Kissinger 's previous talk with Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. -Dinner -Remarks -Humor -Charles H. Percy Clark MacGregor -Mathias -Richard G. Kleindienst Kissinger's remarks -Vietnam -Response by audience
20 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -The President's foreign policy
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Nikolai V. Podgorny’s trip to Hanoi -India -Press reports -Calcutta -Aircraft -Soviet aviation -Kissinger's call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin The President’s previous meeting with William P. Rogers -Reasons for trip abroad -The President’s view -Press conference -Charles W. Colson -"Issues and Answers" -Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] -“Issues and Answers” -Congressional testimony Rogers's forthcoming trip -Romania -Possible Soviet Union response -The President’s view -Leonid I. Brezhnev -Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Dobrynin -Rogers trip -Greece -Brezhnev -The President
21 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Ceylon -Behrain -Iran -Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran] -Oil -John B. Connally -Value of trip -Greece -Vietnam Possible press conference by Rogers -Colson Rogers's itinerary -Romania -Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Convention -Value of trip -Travel around country -Commonwealth Club Kissinger -Public appearances -Forums -Television appearances -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Elite groups -Benefits John D. Lavelle’s removal -Melvin R. Laird -Circumstances -Air strikes -Laird’s role -Kissinger’s view Laird's performance -Compared to Rogers's -Kissinger’s view -Budget requests -Kissinger, George P. Shultz -Supplemental requests -Military expenditures for Vietnam Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
22 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Lavelle -The President’s view -Compared to Daniel Ellsberg case -Military responses Adm. Thomas H. Moorer -Air strikes -Kissinger’s instructions -US relationship with Soviet Union Lavelle -Administration action -Replacement -Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr. -Timing of removal -Laird -Informing the President -Kissinger’s knowledge -Public relations aspects -Rogers -Administration response -Press response -Number of unauthorized air raids -Public response People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement -Press coverage -Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. The President talked with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?] at an unknown time between 11:15 and 11:55 am. [Conversation No. 733-6A] Ronald L. Ziegler [End of telephone conversation] PRC announcement -Michael J. Mansfield -Podgorny trip -Publicity Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
23 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am. Ziegler’s location -Press briefing Bull left at an unknown time before 11:55 am. Lavelle -Administration action -Laird Moorer -Air strikes -Kissinger’s instructions -Laird -Opposition to the President -Lyndon B. Johnson -Soviet Union -Podgorny’s trip -The President’s conversation with Brezhnev Rogers -Purpose of Podgorny trip Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
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Warren E. Burger -Letter John C. Stennis Laird
24 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Negotiations with Soviet Union -Rogers -Mining of North Vietnam harbors -Cambodia, Laos -Lavelle -Political ambitions -Kissinger’s view Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
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Lavelle -Haig -News summary Kissinger's trip -Schedule -Departure -Dinner for Luis Echeverria Alvarez -Schedule -Echeverria -Kissinger PRC -Military information SALT ratification -Approval -Timing -Republican convention -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson's response -The President’s concern -Soviet Union responses
25 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Jackson's concerns -Defense appropriations -Opposition -George S. McGovern -Jackson -Opposition -B-1 bomber -Undersea long-range missiles [ULMS] -McGovern -Kissinger’s possible responses -Defense appropriation -Appropriations -Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs] -Relations with Soviet Union -John J. McCloy -Support to SALT and military program -Wall Street Journal -Talk with Kissinger -Keisling (sp?) [New York editor] Kissinger left at 11:55 am. Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
Conversation No. 733-7 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:26 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. Luis Echeverria Alvarez's visit -Head of State dinner -Astronauts -Gift -Entertainment -Pete Fountain Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:58 am. -Presidential gift
26 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Timing -Astronauts -Timing -Entertainment -Entertainment -Fountain The President’s schedule -Astronauts -Echeverria -Astronauts Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:10 pm. Head of State dinner for Echeverria -The President's presence -Charles W. Colson -Astronauts' entrance -Logistics -Guests -Family -White House staff -Henry A. Kissinger -Herbert G. Klein -Robert H. Finch -Guest lists -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Maurice H. Stans -Colson -Harry S. Dent -Harry S. Flemming -Ann C. Whitman -Dr. W. Kenneth Riland -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Mexican-Americans -Future state dinners -The President’s view Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)
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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:10 pm. Press conference -Nikolai V. Podgorny’s trip to Hanoi -Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Moscow summit -Agreement by both sides -Importance -Details of trip -William P. Rogers -Trip to Asia -Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO] -Future announcement -Strategic Arms and Limitation Tretaty [SALT] Ziegler left at 12:12 pm.
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White House functions -Dinners -The President's view -Fundraisers -Stans
28 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Political dinners -The President’s view -George S. McGovern supporters -The President's attitude -Woods’s view -Problems -Preparation -Speech -Television -Lyndon B. Johnson -Guest lists Conv. No. 733-7 (cont.)
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The President and Woods left at 12:26 pm.
Conversation No. 733-8 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 12:30-1:02 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. John D. Ehrlichman -Controversy -Television interview remarks in Los Angeles -Presidential press conferences -Ehrlichman’s response
29 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Quality of reporters' questions -The President's dealings with the press -Format Conv. No. 733-8 (cont.)
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Press briefing -Ziegler -The President's schedule -Press conference -Domestic policy -Timing -Kissinger’s trip to Peking -Subjects for possible press conference -Domestic issues -Foreign issues -Vietnam Haldeman left at 1:02 pm.
Conversation No. 733-9 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 2:53 and 2:54 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Stephen B. Bull. The President’s schedule -Warren E. Burger Bull left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.
Conversation No. 733-10 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 2:54-3:59 pm Location: Oval Office
31 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) The President met with Warren E. Burger. Greetings Work of Supreme Court -John N. Mitchell -Case load -Work of Chief Justice -Court executives -Chief Justice -Legislation -Personnel -Reorganization of circuit courts Burger's children -Employment -Item for the President’s signature Earl Warren -Age -Travel Item for the President’s signature -Wade Burger Photograph -J. Lee Rankin -Fred Vinson -Rankin -Herbert Brownell Vinson -Capabilities -Conversation with Burger -Mitchell -Age Supreme Court Justices -Age -Harry A. Blackmun Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
32 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Health -Lewis F. Powell, Jr. -Health -Performance Wade Burger -Photographs -The President’s signature -Burger’s appointment announcement -Elvera Burger -The President’s signature Weather Burger's exercise -Walking -Golf -Tennis -Swimming -Gym at Supreme Court -Swimming Congress -Strom Thurmond -Exercise -Allen J. Ellender -Health -Exercise -Appearance -John L. McClellan -Judiciary committee -James O. Eastland -Work with Burger -Burger -Judiciary committee -McClellan, Eastland, and Roman L. Hruska -Eastland -The President’s view Burger's possible trip to Japan -Invitation -Value -Japanese Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
33 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -The President’s view -Timing -Burger's schedule American Bar Association [ABA] convention -Warren -Leon Jaworski -Robert Meserve -Burger's activities -Powell Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:54 pm. Refreshments Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm. Supreme Court Justices -William H. Rehnquist -Forthcoming speech to state Chief Justices -Burger -Powell -Schedule -Public appearance -Rehnquist -Blackmun -Hugo L. Black -John M. Harlan -William O. Douglas -William J. Brennan, Jr. -Wife -Thurgood Marshall -Powell -Potter Stewart -Byron R. (“Whizzer”) White Supreme Court -Importance -The President’s view -Changes -Appointments Book by Irving Kristol -On Democracy in America Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
34 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Domestic issues Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:54 pm. Kristol book Bull left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm. Kristol -Disenchantment with liberalism -Domestic issues -Chapter on censorship -Burger Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:54 pm. Kristol’s book Bull left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm. Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
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Kristol’s book -Burger -Clerks -The President’s view Reading by Burger -Philadelphia Constitutional Convention -Use in opinion -Dictated section
35 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Dictation system -Purpose -Typing Secretaries at Supreme Court -Sherman Adams -Mary Byrnes -Joseph H. Ball The President's reading -Winston S. Churchill -Quality of writing -Dictation -Details -Diary Memoranda -Record of conversations -Leonid I. Brezhnev, Chou En-Lai -Henry A. Kissinger’s role -Vignettes -Interest -The President’s view Burger's nomination as Chief Justice -Recollections -Mitchell -Brownell -Tax returns -Burger's income -Conversation with Mitchell -Acceptance -Brownell -Eastland -Meeting with Mitchell -Public announcement -Burger’s recollections -Family response -Elvera Burger -Wade Burger -Meeting with the President -Record of meeting -Announcement Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
36 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Appointment of Burger -Experience -Warren -Experience -Black -The President’s recollections -Abe Fortas -The President’s view -Burger’s views -Black -First Amendment -Privacy -Support for Burger -Testimonial dinner -Press reports Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
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Testimonial dinner for Black -Black’s comments -Endorsement for Burger Future Supreme Court appointments -Vacancies -The President’s concern -Qualifications -Burger -Names for vacancies -Rehnquist -The President’s view -Role
37 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Mitchell -G. Harrold Carswell -The President’s view -Clement F. Haynesworth An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:54 pm. The President's acknowledgement The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm. Future Supreme Court appointments -The President’s policy -Black appointment -Jewish appointment -Caspar W. Weinburger -White House staff -Arthur F. Burns -Federal Reserve Board [FRB] -Kissinger -Herbert Stein -Edward Levy -Background -University of Chicago -William H. Brown III -Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] -The President’s view -Possible meeting with Burger -Duke Power Supreme Court decision -EEOC case -Brown -William French Smith -University of California Board of Regents -Mitchell’s previous conversation with Burger -The President’s view -Smith’s background -Age Administration appointments -The President’s view -Ivy League -Middle America -Geographic areas Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
38 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Douglas -Possible retirement -Age -Western background -Regional identification -Education Attacks on Supreme Court -Liberal press -National Observer -Wall Street Journal -[Forename unknown] Perry -Woman reporter’s column -Douglas -Burger -Liberal press -Criminal law -Burger’s view -The President’s view Kristol Decisions of Supreme Court -Trends -Right of counsel -Press accounts -ABA recommendations -Douglas -Dissent -Rehnquist and Powell -Burger -Capital punishment case -Forthcoming ruling -The President’s view Liberal press -Reaction by Powell -Rehnquist and Blackmun -The President's relation with justices New Supreme Court justices -Effects of Washington social climate Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
39 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -The President’s advice -Rehnquist -Burger, Blackmun -The President’s view -Congress -John Sherman Cooper -Effect -Vote on Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM] -Burger -Powell -Rehnquist -Blackmun -Stewart -White -Burger’s view -Possible successor to Burger -White -Burger’s view -Blackmun -Powell -Rehnquist -White -Burger’s view -Background -Support for Burger White House dinner for Supreme Court Justices -Timing -Guest list -Confidence of citizenry in judiciary -The President’s view -John B. Connally's opinion -Warren court Issues before Supreme Court -Busing -Cases -The President’s view -Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case -Press depiction -Burger’s view -Busing limits -Restraining order Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
40 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Burger -Effect -Detroit judge [Stephen Roth] -Robert P. Griffin -Gerald R. Ford Judges -John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson -Political appointments Supreme Court decision on private clubs -American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] -Rights to privacy -Jewish clubs -Restrictions -The President’s view -Opposition on club restrictions -Breakdown of restrictions -Fitz Weiner (sp?) -Legal arguments -Private clubs -Blacks -The President’s view -Burger’s view -Restrictions -Professional organizations -Jewish and Catholic support -Moose Lodge No-fault insurance -The President’s policy -Opposition -Cost of litigation -Christian Science Monitor -Costs of inquiry -Litigation -Workman's compensation Lord Chief Justice of England -Burger's house guest -Possible visit to White House -Trip to San Francisco -Powell Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
41 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Qualities, philosophy -New York Times -Opposition to philosophy New York Times and Washington Post, Time, Newsweek -Opposition to the President and Burger -The President’s view The Right Honorable Lord John Passmore Widgery -Background -World War II -Appointment -Friendship with Burger -Burger's lecture trip to England -Walter H. Annenberg -Visit to the White House -Arrangements -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman Kissinger The President's opening to People's Republic of China [PRC] -Impact -Burger’s view -Importance -Soviet Union World future -Burger’s predictions -Merger of Catholic and non-Catholic worlds -Convergence of Communist and non-communist worlds -The President's efforts Nation's mood -1972 election -Thomas E. Dewey -George S. McGovern -Strengths -Weaknesses -Hubert H. Humphrey Burger left at 3:59 pm. Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
42 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-10 (cont.)
Conversation No. 733-11 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 3:59 and 4:02 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Manolo Sanchez. Weather An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 3:59 pm. The President’s schedule -Clark MacGregor The unknown woman and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:02 pm.
Conversation No. 733-12/734-1 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 4:02-6:03 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Clark MacGregor. Forthcoming Congressional briefing on the Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] -Attendees -Format -The President's opening statement -Henry A. Kissinger -Questions -MacGregor -Moderator -Foreign Relations Committee -Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] Treaty -Questions -J. William Fulbright
43 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Questioning by Committee -Format -Moderator role -Identifying speakers -Fulbright -George D. Aiken -House Foreign Affairs Committee -William S. Maillard -John C. Stennis -Chairmen and ranking members -Fulbright -Thomas C. Korologos, MacGregor -Kissinger Fulbright -Support for SALT -John L. McClellan -Primary in Arkansas -David Pryor -McClellan -The President's call to McClellan -William P. Rogers Congressional briefing on SALT -Kissinger -Statement -Starting time -The President’s meeting with Luis Echeverria Alverez -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Length -Breaks -Importance -Kissinger’s role -Melvin R. Laird, Rogers -Kissinger -Knowledge of issues -Transcript -Effect on forthcoming Congressional testimony -The President's opening statement -Substance of the President's remarks -Kissinger’s role -Congressional reactions to Kissinger -Department of State
44 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-12/734-1 (cont.)
-Department of Defense -Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA] -Gerard C. Smith -Adm. Thomas H. Moorer -Richard M. Helms -Importance of National Security Council [NSC] -White House control -Smith -Rogers -Interest -Kissinger Testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee -Fulbright -Rogers and Smith -Laird -Schedule -Karl Marcy -Laird -Stennis The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:02 and 4:13 pm. [Conversation No. 733-12A] Forthcoming meeting with the President [End of telephone conversation] Kissinger -Japan -People’s Republic of China [PRC] Kissinger entered at 4:13 pm. Laird's testimony before Stennis's committee -Fulbright’s committee -Marcy -Rogers's testimony -Timing Kissinger's Congressional briefing -Laird's and Rogers's testimony
45 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Advantages -Coordination -Problems -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson -Fulbright Senate schedule -Robert P. Griffin -Treaty approval Testimony before Congress -Laird and Rogers -MacGregor -Work with Congress -Laird -Role -Soviet Union -Position Kissinger's forthcoming trip -Schedule -Effect on SALT -Acapulco -Echeverria -Meeting with the President -MacGregor -The President’s recollections Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft -Predecessor -Jamaica -Possible visit by the President -Beauty Testimony before Congress -Laird and Rogers Forthcoming congressional briefing on SALT -Format -MacGregor -Congressional questions -Order of questions -The President’s opening remarks Conv. No. 733-12/734-1 (cont.)
46 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -Kissinger’s role -Substance -Kissinger's role in negotiations -Length -Recess -Arrival ceremony for Echeverria -Timing -Fulbright -Aiken -Kissinger's remarks -Length -Time for questions Kissinger left at 4:23 pm. -Length -Importance -Questions -Congress Conv. No. 733-12/734-1 (cont.)
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Forthcoming Congressional briefing on SALT -Alexander P. Butterfield -Chairs Haldeman entered at 4:25 pm. -The President’s view -Stephen B. Bull -Selection -Location
47 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-12/734-1 (cont.)
-State Dining Room compared with the East Room -Head of State dinner -The President’s view -Staff -Rex W. Scouten
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Legislation -John H. Dent -Support for the President on black lung bill -Pennsylvania -Kentucky -Ohio -New Jersey
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Amnesty -Administration policy -George S. McGovern
48 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -The President’s statements -Canada -Service Conv. No. 733-12/734-1 (cont.)
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Amnesty -The President's position -Widows -Veterans -Alternative service -Motives of draft resisters -Number of resisters [Conversation No. 733-12/734-1 continues on Tape Subject Log 734]
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