580–16

Conversation No. 580-16

Date: September 29, 1971
Time: 1:15 pm - 1:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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The President's schedule
-Haldeman's conversation with John B. Connally
-Meeting with the President
-Position papers
-Timing
-Arthur F. Burns
-Date
-Time
-Papers from Herbert Stein, Burns
-Political considerations
-[Phase II]
-Presentation
-Florida trip
-Advance notice
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-George P. Shultz
-Working period
-Review of papers by the President
-Connally
-Location during the President's trip
-Florida
-Shultz
-Residence during visit
-Season
-Key Biscayne

US foreign policies
-William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Agenda
-Preparation
-Meetings
-The President's approach compared to others
-Focus of meetings
-Discussion and decisionmaking
-Questions and answers
-Rogers

Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming PRC trip
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Advance work for trip
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-Relationship with Kissinger
-Qualifications
-Rogers
-UN debate on China seat
-Press coverage
-Rogers
-Chapin
-John A. Scali
-Press coverage
-Control of press
-Kissinger's experience from previous trips
-Number of press men
-Reaction by the PRC
-Publicity
-Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Rogers

Latin America trip
-Rogers
-Finch
-Latin American reaction to US economic policy
-Party with Latin American Ambassadors
-State Department
-Comparison to Nelson A. Rockefeller trip

The President’s forthcoming trips
-Herbert G. Klein
-Trip to the PRC
-Handling press
-Previous Soviet trip
-Scali, Ziegler
-Trip to the USSR
-Trip to the PRC
-Visitors from the US
-Cabinet members
-Senators
-Labor leaders
-Youth leaders
-Blacks
-Doctors
-Scientists
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-Businessmen
-College presidents
-The President's previous trip to the USSR, 1959
-Hyman G. Rickover, Milton S. Eisenhower
-Trip to the PRC
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-The President

Kissinger’s forthcoming PRC trip
-Role
-Trip to the PRC to arrange the presidential summit
-Discussion with Chou En-lai
-Options
-State Department
-Rogers
-Handling of the President's other trips
-Foreign policy negotiations

Connally
-The President's meeting with Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-Burns
-Handling of International Monetary Fund [IMF] and international
banking officials

Burns
-Call to Haldeman
-Protocol at IMF dinner
-Cabinet rank
-State Department
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB] chairman
-Burns and ranking status
-Connally's views
-Reception line for IMF reception
-Possible conversation between Connally and Haldeman

IMF reception
-The President's attendance
-Connally's attendance
-Rogers's attendance
-Attendance
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-Connally
-Rogers in receiving line
-Burns
-Protocol

Burns
-Protocol concerns
-Approach
-Kissinger
-Attitude of some people

The President's schedule
-PRC and USSR trip
-Klein
-Ziegler
-Press
-Journalists accompanying the President on the PRC and USSR trips
-Trip to the USSR
-Klein
-USSR
-Press coverage
-Television coverage
-Networks
-Number of people

Kissinger and the National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Briefing papers
-Preparation of materials for the President's meetings
-Peter G. Peterson
-John D. Ehrlichman's staff
-Kissinger's staff
-Kissinger's background
-Type of information

The President's presentation to Manlio Brosio
-Press coverage
-Brosio's comments about the President
-The President as world Statesman

Book by Edith Efron [The News Twisters]
-Promotional sales
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-Roscoe Drummond's column
-Network coverage
-Luncheon
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Hugh Scott's comments to the President
-Drummond's column
-Network coverage
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Hubert H. Humphrey

-Congressional
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Reactions
-Congressional action
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] affiliates

PRC trip
-Attendance on trip
-Rogers
-Press coverage
-Planning of meetings on trip
-Logistics of trip
-Rogers
-Chapin
-Marshall Green

The President and Haldeman left at 1:35 pm.