456–22

Conversation No. 456-22

Date: February 23, 1971
Time: 4:12 pm - 6:18 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Governors’ conference
-President’s appearance
-Use of forums
-Role
-John B. Connally’s role
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Former Governors’ Committee

State of the World message
-William L. Safire’s role
-Melvin R. Laird’s role
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Press report
-Leak
-William P. Rogers
-Haldeman’s conversation with Kissinger
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-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-News story
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-SALT
-United States’ letter
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Kissinger’s role
-Length
-SALT story
-Impact
-Tactics
-Kissinger
-Workload


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Press coverage of the President
-Press conference
-Topics
-Foreign policy
-Domestic policy
-Length
-Efficacy
-Timing
-Length
-1962 campaign
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown

The President’s schedule
-Camp David
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-Connally
-Rogers
-Laird
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-President’s forthcoming press conference
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Kissinger
-Rogers Conv. No. 456-22 (cont.)

Arthur F. Burns
-Revenue sharing
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan

The President’s meeting with Science Advisory Committee
-Results
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Participants
-Congressmen

Schedule
-Press coverage
-Connally
-The Vice President
-The President’s previous meeting with North Dakota Congressmen
-Results
-Effect of Air Force One use
-Grand Forks trip
-Rationale
-National Security Study Memoranda [NSSMs]
-Haldeman coordination

Fifty-two foreign service officers who signed Cambodian letter
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Results
-Resignations
-Assignments
-Vietnam
-Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support [CORDS]
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Johnson’s view
-Promotion recommendations
-President’s view
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Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
-Philippines
-Edward G. Lansdale
-Charles Bohanan [sp?]
-Unknown man

Conv. No. 456-22 (cont.)
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Polls
-Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Rescue raids
-Cease-fire
-Prisoner exchanges

Dwight D. Eisenhower’s stag dinners and lunches
-Number by year
-Attendance
-Compared with the President’s social functions
-Attendance
-Heads of State
-Prime Minister of Ireland
-R. Anthony Eden [Earl of Avon]

The President’s schedule
-Rural Development Council
-Meeting with press
-Remarks by President
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Edwin L. Harper
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-Briefing
-Meeting with editors
-Press plan
-Cabinet officers
-President
-Robert D. Ray
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Warren E. Hearnes Conv. No. 456-22 (cont.)
-Patrick J. Lucey
-Mechanics of arrivals
-Air Force One
-Senators and Congressmen
-Public relations
-Rochester trip
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-John N. Mitchell
-Itinerary
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Charles W. Colson
-Swearing-in of Thomas S. Kleppe
-Civil rights leaders’ meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman
-George W. Romney
-Roy Wilkins
-Dorothy Height
-Whitney M. Young, Jr.
-Robert J. Blackwell
-Berkeley G. Burrell
-Value

Kissinger
-Role in foreign relations
-Rogers
-Dobrynin
-President’s possible conversation with Kissinger
-Rogers
-Laird
-Compared to Burns
-Compared to Leonard Garment

[The President talked to an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:12 pm and 5:51 pm]
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[Conversation No. 456-22C]

Request for Harry S. Dent
-Location

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule Conv. No. 456-22 (cont.)
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Accommodations
-Herbert J. (“Jackie”) Gleason
-Blair House

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person in Robert H. Finch’s office at an unknown time
between 4:12 pm and 5:51 pm]

[Conversation No. 456-22A]

Invitation for Finch to meet with the President

[End of telephone conversation]

Old Executive Office Building office
-Finch
-Rogers’ office
-Space
-The President’s offices
-Roosevelt Room
-Cabinet Room

Kissinger
-Rogers

Dent entered at an unknown time after 4:12 pm


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Dent left and Finch entered at 5:51 pm

Hope Conv. No. 456-22 (cont.)

William J. Casey appointment

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:51 pm and 5:52
pm]

[Conversation No. 456-22D]

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.


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[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-Safire

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at 5:52 pm; the President and Finch can be heard in
the background]

[Conversation No. 456-22B]
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Status of Casey appointment

[End of telephone conversation]

Casey appointment


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Conv. No. 456-22 (cont.)

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Milk Fund
-Milk money
-Distribution


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The President’s activities
-Public relations Conv. No. 456-22 (cont.)
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Congressional action
-Reaction time to administration action
-Health program
-The Vice President

Old Executive Office Building office
-Office locations
-Receptions
-Secretary

Connally
-Efforts
-Attendance at White House dinners
-Health
-Schedule

The President’s schedule
-Camp David

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 6:05 pm

-Church service
-Meeting with Kissinger

Butterfield left at 6:09 pm

-Connally’s schedule
-Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally

Finch’s schedule
-Trip to Europe
-Timing
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Haldeman and Finch left at 6:18 pm