395–25

Conversation No. 395-25

Date: January 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 9:23 am and 10:30 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Haldeman

Henry A. Kissinger

White House
-US Army
-West Wing
-East Wing staff

National Football League [NFL]

The President's schedule
-Kissinger
-Florida
-Timing
-Kissinger's schedule
-Effect
-Meetings
-Return from Florida
-Peoples Republic of China [PRC] acrobats
-Press coverage
-Kissinger
-House in Florida
-Effect of others' schedules
-Kissinger
-Cabinet
-William P. Rogers
-Press

Vietnam settlement
-Announcements
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-Conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Bombing halt
-Timing
-Haig trip
-Briefings
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Haig
-Kennedy
-Content of agreement
-Signing
-Timing
-Kissinger’s meeting with the President
-Rogers
-Laird
-Kissinger
-Briefing for Charles H. Percy
-Rogers
-Announcements
-Bombing halt
-Haig’s trip
-Saigon
-The President’s decision
-Further public statements

The President's schedule in Florida
-Telephone calls
-Rogers
-Laird
-Ziegler’s response
-Access to the President
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Haig
-Schedule

Vietnam settlement
-Announcement
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Content
-Timing
-Kennedy
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-Ziegler
-1973 Inauguration
-Congress
-Content
-Haig’s schedule
-Kissinger’s trip to Paris
-The President’s briefing for Congress
-Kissinger
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Content
-Kissinger’s trip to Paris
-Purpose
-Questions
-Thieu’s actions
-Final agreement
-Kissinger
-Thieu’s actions
-Effect on announcement
-Timing
-Bunker
-Thieu
-Kissinger
-Signing
-North Vietnamese
-Announcement
-Ziegler
-Press relations
-Government of South Vietnam
-Cease-fire
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Congress
-Thieu’s response
-The President’s response
-Timing
-Report to Congress
-Image of the administration
-Announcement
-Timing
-1973 Inauguration
-New York Times, Washington Post
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-Press relations
-Compared to Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty Agreement [SALT]
-Compared to 1972 Moscow Summit
-John V. Scali
-Hugh S. Sidey [?]
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Robert Pierpoint
-John W. Chancellor
-Murrey Marder
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Ziegler's expectations
-Past experience
-Scali
-Response to bombing
-Chancellor
-Howard K. Smith
-Richard Wilson
-Story on bombing halt
-Scali, Wilson
-White House
-Signals

The President's schedule
-Florida Trip
-Ziegler's statement
-Work on 1973 Inauguration
-State of the Union
-Budget
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-The President’s birthday

Vietnam settlement
-Paris talks
-Kissinger
-Thieu [?]
-Congress [?]
-Bombing
-Public opinion
-Right-wing
-Polls
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-Press relations
-The President's briefing of Congressional leaders
-Agreement
-Public statement
-The President's objective
-Congress

Congressional relations
-George P. Shultz
-Responsibility
-Wage and price controls
-Corporation
-Shultz

Ziegler left at 10:00 am.

Press relations
-Need for staff members' secrecy
-Wives, children, secretaries, aids
-Stephen B. Bull
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Leaks
-White House staff [?]
-Concern

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-L. Patrick Gray [?]
-Cartha Deloach
-Director
-J. Edgar Hoover
-The President's term
-Survival
-Requirements
-Mitchell
-Political affiliation
-Gray
-Requirements
-Mitchell, John B. Connally
-Dwayne Andreas
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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-Blackmail
-Deloach
-Bugging
-Mitchell

Watergate
-John J. Sirica
-Sentencing
-Bail for burglars
-Mitchell's Response
-E. Howard Hunt
-Conduct
-Implication of others
-Sirica
-Instructions to grand jury
-Evidence at trail
-Democratic Party National headquarters
-1972 campaign
-Justice Department
-American Bar Association [?]
-Responsibilities

Second term reorganization
-Red Cross
-Postal Rate Commission
-Gordon L. Allott
-1972 campaign
-George S. McGovern
-Jack Miller

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods[?] at an unknown time between 10:00 am and
10:30 am.

[Conversation No. 395-25A]

The President's schedule
-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Item to be delivered
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

Ties
-Courier

[End of telephone conversation]

-Size
-Style

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The President's schedule

Gift calendar
-Purpose
-Press
-Message

The President left at an unknown time before 10:30 am.