313–22

Conversation No. 313-22

Date: January 10, 1972
Time: Unknown after 4:27 pm until 5:11 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?]

[Conversation No. 313-22B]

Schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird


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India-Pakistan War
-Bangladesh
-US ambassador
-Kissinger's credibility
-Alexander P. Haig, Jr.
-Max Frankel
-John D. Ehrlichman's view
-India
-Press reaction
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 313-22 (cont.)


-Time
-Herbert G. Klein's statements
-Haldeman’s talk with Kissinger
-Administration's position
-Japan, Mexico and Canada
-Indira Gandhi’s trip to US
-Reception
-Kissinger
-Administration's position
-Press coverage
-Rogers
-1972 election
-Democratic candidate
-Administration white paper
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Administration's policies
-Press coverage
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Bureaucracy

Criticism
-Kissinger
-Compared to State Department
-Rogers

White paper
-The President’s instruction to Haldeman

James J. Kilpatrick
-Martin Z. Agronsky's television show
-Jack N. Anderson
-Criticism

Anderson

Howard B. Hughes memoirs
-Veracity
-McGraw-Hill and Life
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-Hughes's press conference
-Paradise Island
-Voice analysis
-McGraw-Hill and Life claims
-Public interest

India
-Aid
-Jordan’s view


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India-Pakistan War
-Rush’s view
-India
-West Bengal

The President as statesman
-World stature
-Frankel’s view
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Trip by Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-Activities
-Press coverage
-Networks
-Expectations

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:27 pm and 5:11
pm.]
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[Conversation No. 313-22A]

Time magazine
-Article on Mrs. Nixon's trip
-Copy to Mrs. Nixon

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger
-Criticism after People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Haig
-Herbert G. Klein's views
-Rogers
-Israel issue
-State Department
-Yitzhak Rabin
-As issue in public mind
-PRC trip
-Vietnam
-Xuan Thuy
-[Shah of Iran] Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza
-Possible resignation
-Timing
-1972 election


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Charles W. Colson
-Qualities and goals
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-Loyalty
-John N. Mitchell's views

Haldeman left at 5:11 pm.