628–8

Conversation No. 628-8

Date: December 2, 1971
Time: 12:45 pm - 2:03 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Earl L. Butz nomination
-Possible withdrawal
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Farm media
-Support for Butz
-Percentage
-Agri-business support
-Farm General
-Successful Farming
-Support for Butz
-Walter J. Hickel
-Compared to Butz’s nomination
-Democrats
-Possible outcome
-Farm radio in Chicago
-Orion C. Samuelson
-Letter to the editor
-Liberals
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-[Forename unknown] Hershey
-Corn price support
-“Option 2”

President’s schedule
-Heads of State meetings
-Details
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 628-8 (cont.)


-Format
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Joint statements at airports
-Azores
-Dr. Marcello Caetano's statement
-Black tie dinner
-British
-Options
-French
-Joint luncheon
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Caetano
-Meeting with the President
-Timing
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Meeting with the President
-Timing
-Schedule
-Joint advisors
-Lunches
-Bermuda meetings
-Timing
-Advisors
-Key Biscayne
-Willy Brandt
-Timing
-Eisaku Sato
-Timing
-Foreign ministers
-Kissinger
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Press corps
-Reduction in numbers
-Advance men
-Taking too much of the President’s time
-Reduction
-Rose Mary Woods
-Travel
-PRC
-Kissinger
-Written statements
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Tape Subject Log
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-Unknown writer
-Press
-Traveling with the President
-Buchanan
-Experience
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] trip
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Press
-William L. Safire
-Noel C. Koch
-John K. (“Cap”) Andrews
-Safire
-Previous trips
-European and Asian trip
-Camp David
-USSR trip
-Azores
-Bermuda
-Possible press assignment
-PRC advance
-John A. Scali
-Potential travel
-Kissinger
-Advisor role
-Scali
-Justification for travel to PRC
-Potential problems
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Dwight L. Cheapen
-Scali
-Ziegler
-Comparisons
-Kissinger-Haig meeting
-Television coverage
-Importance
-Compared to press coverage
-Scali and Ziegler
-Haig

Haldeman’s schedule
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Tape Subject Log
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-Florida
-John D. Ehrlichman [?]
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Price speech
-President’s trip to Chicago, December 1, 1971
-Senior citizen support
-Amount of aid
-Check off
-President’ support of the elderly
-Rising costs
-Foster grandparents
-Arthur S. Flemming
-Earl Warren

Speech team
-California speech
-Speech quality
-Apparent difficulties in writing speeches
-Various reactions to speeches
-Andrews
-Haldeman’s upcoming talk with Andrews
-Price
-Old compared to young
-Style

White House Conference on Aging
-Flemming
-Warren
-Press
-Compared to the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health,
December 2, 1969
-Reactions
-Unknown elderly black man
-Emotional talk with the President
-Ehrlichman
-Price

Unknown man at Justice Department
-Work style
-Richard A. Moore
-Previous conversations with Haldeman
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-John N. Mitchell

Speeches
-Moore
-Writers
-Work
-Attitudes
-Price
-Talk with Haldeman
-PRC trip
-Buchanan
-USSR trip
-Price
-Attendance

PRC trip
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's attendance
-Media coverage
-Television
-Street crowds
-Lack thereof

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:45 pm.

Clark MacGregor
-Tax bill
-Butz confirmation
-Meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm.

PRC trip
-Crowds

MacGregor entered at 1:20 pm.

Butz confirmation
-Senate vote
-Result

Tax bill
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 628-8 (cont.)


-Conferees
-Agreement
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Modified check of proposal
-John W. Byrnes's call to MacGregor
-Appropriations
-Effective date
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Fund
-Amount
-Concerns
-The President's signature
-History of tax bill
-Effective date
-Tax returns
-George S. McGovern
-Mills
-Charls E. Walker and Byrnes
-Previous conversation with MacGregor
-The President's statement
-Price
-Written statement
-Ziegler
-Questions
-Check-off
-1972
-The President's statement
-Options
-Senate
-Mills
-Proposal
-Democrats
-Speculation
-President’s statement
-O'Brien
-Mills
-House of Representatives
-MacGregor’s call to George P. Shultz
-Support

Butz confirmation
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 628-8 (cont.)


-Swearing-in
-Timing


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MacGregor left at 1:28 pm.

Questions
-Importance
-MacGregor

Speech
-Environment [?]

President’s schedule
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-“A Day in the Life of the President”, December 6, 1971

Press
-President of Dahomey
-Vote
-State visit
-President’s schedule
-Pompidou meeting
-Timing

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:33 pm.
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:28 pm.

Schedule
-Chief Justice
-Butz nomination
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Timing
-Availability
-Butz swearing-in ceremony

Bull left and Rose Mary Woods entered at 1:33 pm.

Call from unknown man
-Return call from the President [?]

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President’s schedule
-NBC

Painting by Mr. [Forename unknown] Johnson
-Sent by unknown doctor and wife
-The President's letter
-Dictation
-Painting
-Style discussed
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Conv. No. 628-8 (cont.)


The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:33 pm and
2:03 pm.

[Conversation No. 628-8A]

[See Conversation No. 15-199]

[End of telephone conversation]

Call to an unknown person
-Unknown White House event
-Performance [?]

PRC trip
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Pictures
-Ziegler


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John J. McCloy
-Letter to Woods
-Appointments
-Arms Control Committee
-William W. Scranton
-Pay Board
-New members
-Christmas

The White House operator talked with the President at 1:50 pm.
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[Conversation No. 628-8B]

[See Conversation No. 15-200]

[End of telephone conversation]

Letter from an unknown woman
-Tone of letter
-The President's possible response
-PRC
-United Nations [UN]
-Letter from Woods
-Jews
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo telephone call
-The President's instructions
-PRC
-Wars
-Korea and Vietnam
-Number casualties
-USSR summit

Schedule
-Visit to Washington Redskins football practice, November 23, 1971
-Phone calls
-[Forename unknown] Brown, building secretary [?]
-President’s availability
-Kissinger
-Timing of phone calls
-Butz
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Brown [?]
-The President’s location
-Handling of
-Possible solutions
-Melvin R. Laird
-John N. Mitchell
-Connally
-William P. Rogers
-Meetings
-Possible solutions
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 628-8 (cont.)


-Woods
-Contact

Painting
-MacGregor [?]

Schedule
-White House Conference on Aging
-Members
-Jack Moore
-George H.W. Bush [?]
-Unknown man's office
-Bobby McMahon
-Robert L. King [?]
-President’s previous conversation with Roger E. Johnson
-Possible phone call between King and Johnson [?]


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Woods left at 2:03 pm.