Date: January 10, 1972
Time: 4:12 pm - 4:27 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Melvin R. Laird.
[See Conversation No. 313-21H]
Appointments
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Talk with the President
-Forthcoming talk with Laird
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Conflict of interest
-Knowledge
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Government
-Respect for Laird
-Laird’s forthcoming talk with Rush
-John N. Mitchell
-Business background
-Union Carbide
-Work with the Department of Defense
-Procurement
-Robert C. Moot
-Laird's conversation about Rush, William J. Porter
-Work on Germany
-Relationship
-Talk with David Packard
-Intelligence
-Jane (Smith) Rush
-Barbara Laird
-Desire to stay in Bonn
-Mitchell
-Trustworthiness
-Forthcoming meeting with Laird
-Conflict of interest
-Mitchell
-Forced sale of assets
-Capital gains tax
-Packard
-Financial holdings
-Stocks
-Union Carbide
-Disposal
-John C. Stennis
-Union Carbide
-Defense contracts
Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-Henry A. Kissinger’s talk with Laird
-Numbers
-Forthcoming announcement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Timing
-Statement in April
-Vietnamization
-Number
-Change in monthly rate
-Laird's briefing
-Laird's briefing
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Tet
-South Vietnamese counter-offensive
-Cambodia, Laos
-US responses
-Air power
-Tone
-Congress
-Confidence
-Vietnamization
-North Vietnamese actions
-South Vietnam
-Laos
-Cambodia
Troop withdrawal announcement
-The President’s instructions to Gerald L. Warren
-Laird's briefing
-Meeting with the President
-The President's role
-Possible diplomatic efforts
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Taping for TV
Rush
Leak
-Laird’s and Mitchell’s possible meeting with the President
-[Yeoman Charles E. Radford]
-Damage
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-The President’s view
-Previous administrations
-Admiral Robert O. Welander
Laird's briefing
-Meeting with the President
-Subject
-POWs
-Deadline
-North Vietnamese positions in Paris
-George S. McGovern
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Bombing
-Aid to South Vietnam
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Meetings with Porter
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