450–10

Conversation No. 450-10

Date: February 16, 1971
Time: 10:28 am - 10:49 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman; an unknown man [Alexander P. Butterfield?]
was present at the beginning of the meeting

Previous Cabinet meeting
-Melvin R. Laird
-Briefing
-Duration
-Compared to Henry A. Kissinger
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-William P. Rogers
-Butterfield
-Role
-Instructions for future
-Length of meeting
-Carl Wallace
-John B. Connally
-Length of meeting Conv. No. 450-8 (cont.)
-Problems
-Number of people at meeting
-Reduction
-William L. Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Rank of attendees
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Attendance of subordinate
-Robert J. Brown
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Role in future scheduling
-Impact
-George P. Shultz
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-George H. W. Bush
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Cole
-Need for reduction
-Problems
-Key staff participation
-Future meetings
-Compared to other staff meetings
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Price
-Safire
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Speech writers
-John K. Andrews, Jr. [?]
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Peter G. Peterson
-Richard M. Helms
-Robert J. Dole
-Paul W. McCracken
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-Clark MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Herbert G. Klein
-Safire
-Weinberger
-Budget
-Key White House staff
-Instructions for future meetings Conv. No. 450-10 (cont.)
-Attendance
-Agnew
-Limitations
-Bush

Files
-President
-Haldeman
-Content
-Tape records
-Use

White House taping system
-Knowledge of

The unknown man [Butterfield?] left at an unknown time before 10:49 am; Stephen B. Bull
entered at an unknown time after 10:28 am

Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:49 am

Medal of Honor ceremony

Press conferences
-Preparation
-Staff responsibilities
-Frequency
-Television press conferences
-Advantages and disadvantages
-Questions

European trip
-Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
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-Wives
-List of attendees
-Travel arrangements
-Air Force planes
-Use by Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Agnew
-Use
-Wives of party Conv. No. 450-10 (cont.)
-President’s policy
-Haldeman

Schedule
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Haldeman
-Leonard Garment [?]
-Content of State of World message [?]
-Congress
-Timmons
-Walter Scheel
-Staff meeting tomorrow
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-State of World message
-Arrangements
-Timing
-Weekly schedule
-Events
-Quadriad meeting
-News summaries
-Delivery to President
-Weekends
-Newport, Rhode Island event

Haldeman left at 10:49 am