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- President Richard M. Nixon
- H. R. Haldeman
- Ronald L. Ziegler
- UNKNOWN
- White House operator
- John B. Connally
- Henry A. Kissinger
- H. G. Wells
January 17, 1972
Conversation No. 648-4
Date: January 17, 1972
Time: 9:48 am - 1:23 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Weather
Daily briefing and position paper
-Distribution
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Staff dealings with media
-The President
-Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Clark MacGregor
-Charles W. Colson
-Compared with news summary
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Attacks by left and right
-Kissinger
-Distribution
-Buchanan
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Richmond, Virginia busing decision
-Buchanan's analysis
-John D. Ehrlichman's and staff's work on formulating the
President's position
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman’s work
-Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Buchanan
-Ziegler
-The President's involvement
-Buchanan's work
-Political content
-John N. Mitchell and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Frequency
-Burden on staff
-Day of issuing
-Choice of stories
-Buchanan
-Memoranda
-Distribution
-Colson
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-MacGregor
-Kissinger
-Buchanan
-Conservatism
-Ehrlichman and his staff
-Importance in campaign
Drafts of State of the Union address
-Circulation
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Possible tone
-Speculation about content
-Circulation
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Leonard Garment
Official trips
-Garment
-Trip with Frank J. Shakespeare
-Cultural exhibits
-Buchanan
-Soviet Union
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Garment
-Long Beach, California
-Buchanan
-Perks
-Meetings and dinners
-The President’s trips
Howard Hughes's loan to the President's family
-Clark M. Clifford's involvement
-Law firm
-F. Donald Nixon
-Repayment
-1962 statement by the President
-Rose Mary Woods
-Transfer of property
-Hughes
-Clifford Irving book
-Paradise Island
-Ziegler's briefings
-Public interest
-Public comments by the President
-1962 statement
-Herbert G. Klein
-Familiarity with issue
-Ziegler
-Publicity
-Ziegler
-Repayment through transfer of property
-Hannah (Milhous) Nixon
-Donald Nixon
-Possible action
-Ziegler's possible role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Washington Post story
-Drew Pearson article in 1959
-Irving book on Hughes
-Noah Dietrich's view
-Hughes's supplying of information
-Hughes's lawyers
-Dietrich
-Book
-Effect on Hughes
-Publication
-Irving book
-Life and McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
-Ownership of rights
-Hughes's authorship
-Haldeman’s possible call to Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Publicity
Eleanor and Franklin [by Joseph P. Lash]
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Popularity
-Lucy Mercer
-The President's conversation with William Bullitt
-Children
-[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt
-Children
-Excerpts
-Haldeman’s reading
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Appearance
-Marriage
-Sunrise at Campobello
-Veracity of story
-Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship
-Children
-Mercer
-Franklin Roosevelt's vice presidential campaign in 1920
-Franklin Roosevelt's position as Under Secretary of Navy
-Longevity
-Presence at Franklin Roosevelt's death in Warm Springs, Georgia
-Publicity
-Mercer's marriage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Portrait of Franklin Roosevelt
-Elizabeth Shoumatoff
Abraham Lincoln
-Mary (Todd) Lincoln
-Mental state
-Modern medicine
-Apparitions
John F. Kennedy
Eleanor and Franklin
-Tone
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's opinion
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Private life
-Relationship with Lash
-Bullitt’s view
-The President’s view
-Lash’s military service
John and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-Relationships
-Lack of publicity
-Reason
-Compared to Whigs of 19th century
-Divorce
Hughes
Mitchell
Peter M. Flanigan
-News summary
-Mitchell
-Conversation with James L. Buckley
-Mitchell's knowledge
-Buckley's request for appointment for [Forename unknown] Corwin [sp?]
-Buckley's support of the President's opponent [John N. Ashbrook]
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak story
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
Mitchell
-Necessary role
-Flanigan
-Buchanan
-Buckley
-Flanigan's view of political support
-Knowledge of Flanigan-Buckley exchange
-Buckley's letter
-Flanigan letter
-Copies to Mitchell and Haldeman
News summaries
-Report of political issues
-The President's reading of foreign and domestic policy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Humphrey
-Quality
-Haldeman’s possible comments to unknown person
-Press corps
-Networks
-Coverage of news
-Wire service material
-Rogers's concerns
-Importance
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Omaha World Herald
-Los Angeles Times
-Chicago Tribune
The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Invitations to media
-Television
-New York Times
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Networks
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
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Commerce Department
-Announcement of change
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peter G. Peterson
-Flanigan
-Stans's resignation
-Stans’s letter
-Draft of the President’s reply
-Peterson's views on reorganization
-Ehrlichman’s and Shultz’s view
-Peterson
-Concern about public view of position
-Opportunity
-Jobs
-Accessibility
-Compared to Stans
-Announcement
-Stans
-Reorganization
Peterson
-Replacement by Flanigan
-Kissinger's view
-John B. Connally's view
-Concerns on monetary policy
-Kissinger
-Flanigan
-Treasury Department
-Haldeman’s possible talk with Flanigan and Connally
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-State Department
-The President’s schedule
-Connally
-Haldeman
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Flanigan
-Economic policy
-Paul A. Volcker Committee
-Announcement
-Timing
-Three way move
-Flanigan
-Council on international Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Effectiveness
-Credit
-Staff
Commerce Department
-Stans's departure
-Leaks
-Announcement
-Forthcoming Cabinet dinner
-Connally's view
Economic policy
-Connally's control
-International monetary policy
-Flanigan’s role
Ziegler entered at 10:56 am.
-Conversation with Haldeman and the President
Connally
-Possible meeting with the President, January 17, 1972
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-Stans announcement
-State of the Union message
-Budget
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Possible questions
-Jack N. Anderson Papers
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s view
-The President's concerns
-Investigation
-Leak
-The President's concerns
-Possible statement
-Press involvement
-Investigation
-Anderson
-Investigation
-Presidential discussions
-Confidentiality
-Kissinger's role
-The President's confidence in Kissinger
-The Administration’s public and private positions
-Presidential discussions with advisers
-Leaks
-Options
-Possible effects of publication
-Advice to the President
-India-Pakistan War
-US position
-The President's confidence in Kissinger
-Klein’s comments
-Gerald L. Warren's comments
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Hughes biography by Irving
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's call to Ehrlichman
-Charges regarding Nixon family loan
-Clifford
-Possible handling
-Veracity
-1962 statement
-Satisfaction of loan
-Transfer of property
-Ziegler's handling
-1962 campaign
-Possible Klein statement
-1962 statement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Acquaintance with facts
-Mrs. Nixon's position
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
-Hannah (Milhous) Nixon's repayment
-Transfer of property
-Irving
-Credibility
-Meetings with Hughes
-Interview with Mike Wallace, January 16, 1972
-Ziegler's possible statement
-Ziegler’s age
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Chilean election of January 16, 1972
-Ghana
-Recognition
-Department of State
-Allende
-Recent election
-The President's possible stopover in Poland after Soviet Union trip
-Italian newspaper report
-Verification
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Invitations to press
-Ratio of news media to television reporters
-Audience
-\"News\" compared to \"show business\" aspect
-Ziegler's meeting with television officials in New York City
-John A. Scali's and Timothy G. Elbourne's presence
-PRC purchase of RCA ground station for Shanghai
-Invitations to press
-Pressure on White House
-Meetings with Ziegler
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-State of the Union message
-Timing
-Content
-Domestic and foreign policy
-Report
-The President's possible press conference
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Letter to Ziegler from head of Associated Press [AP]
-The President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2, 1972
-Duration
-Reaction
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The President's possible press conference
-Democrats
-Fairness Doctrine response
-Mansfield
-Carl B. Albert
-Phone-in questions
-State of the Union message
-Press room
[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:56 am and 11:24
am.]
[Conversation No. 648-4A]
Kissinger
-Location
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's possible press conference
-Equal time for Democrats
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-John N. Ashbrook
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-TV coverage
Ziegler left at 11:24 am.
[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at 11:24 am.]
[Conversation No. 648-4B]
[See Conversation No. 18-87]
[The call was placed on hold]
The President's schedule
-Camp David
[Haldeman talked with Connally at an unknown time between 11:24 am and 11:30 am.]
[Continuation of Conversation No. 648-4B]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Connally
-Peterson
-William L. Safire
-Work on Vietnam statement
Safire
-Work on Vietnam statement
-Compared with Price
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
Kissinger
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:24 am.
Request for Kissinger to join them
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.
Safire
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Draft of Vietnam statement
-State Department
-Timing
The President's schedule
-Florida
-Draft of Vietnam statement
-Kurt Waldheim
-United Nations [UN]
-Budget signing
-Ziegler
-Press
-Staff
-Photograph session
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Waldheim
-Photographs session
-Atkins
-Photographs of the President
-Frequency
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William P. Rogers and Kissinger
-Relationship
-Mitchell
Kissinger entered at 11:30 am.
Statement on Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Safire
-Conversation with Kissinger, January 17, 1972
-Kissinger's briefing
-Duration
-Release of text
-Kissinger's forthcoming briefing
-Effect
-US proposal
-Scheduling
-Target dates within speech
-Effect on US proposal
-W. Averell Harriman's possible reaction
-Release of text
-Timing
-Troop withdrawal
-Proposals
-Phase I
-Prisoners of war [POWs] for troop withdrawal
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Phase II
-Cease-fire
-Elections
-Unknown man's opinion
-Rose Mary Woods
-Possible delay
-Effects
-National Press Club dinner speech
-North Vietnam response
-Timing
-Draft
-Timing
-Safire
-Compared with Price
-Safire’s view
-Pubic relations
-Impact
-Publicity for Kissinger’s trips
-POWs
-Peace proposal, October 11, 1970
Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Negotiations
-Troop withdrawal proposal
-Muskie's statement, January 16,, 1972
-Muskie's negotiating schedule
-Administration proposal
-Schedule
-POWs and ceasefire
-Troop withdrawal deadlines
-North Vietnam response
-Timing
-North Vietnamese response
-US Air Force
-Laos and Cambodia
-Trails
-Quality
-Infliction of casualties in Northern Laos
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.
Request for books in President's bedroom
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.
Vietnam
-Long Tien
-South Vietnam
-Morale
-Effect of US withdrawal
-Washington Post article
-Timing
-Air Force
-1972 election
-US troops
-Highlands
-Strategy
-Possible consequences
-Strategic Reserve Division
-Movement
-Laos
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Operation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Compared with US troop actions
-Prospects
-Press reports
-Inaccuracies
-Loss of Laos and Cambodia
-Troop withdrawal record
-Kissinger's meeting with Senior Review Group, January 17, 1972
-Papers on Vietnam
-Time of meeting
-The President's meeting with Connally
Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Yeoman Charles E. Radford incident
-Kissinger's conversation with Melvin R. Laird, January 14, 1972
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-Channels to the President
-Laird's view
The President read from a work by H. G. Wells.
Trench warfare in World War I
-Scientists
-Military personnel
-Tanks
-Allies
-Military minds
-Military mind
-Alexander the Great
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Napoleon Bonaparte
-Julius Caesar
-Muhammed
-Mongols
-Oliver Cromwell
-George Washington
-Control of World War I
-Destruction of traditional methods
[End of reading]
Author of previously recited work
-Winston S. Churchill
-Wells
-Thesis
-Emphasis on education
Education of women
Soviets
-Message from Andrei A. Gromyko, January 17, 1972
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's return to US
-Schedule
-Negotiations
-Negotiations
-Communication with Kissinger
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
The President read from a work by Wells.
World War I era
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson's role
-American public's view
-World outlook
[End of reading]
Vietnam
-Military mind
-Air Force
-Navy pilots
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Press reports
-Interviews on TV
-Pilots' views on bombing in December 1971
-Laos operation
-Pilots' views
-US actions
-Lack of time
Anderson Papers
-Effect on US credibility
-Evans's poll of European diplomats
-Evans's conversation with Kissinger
-Max Frankel's statement
-Diplomats' views
-Evans's view
-Effect on the President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Right and left
-Liberals
-Soviet Union
-View of the President
-Possible public reaction to trip
-The President's conversation with Ziegler, January 17, 1972
-Average person's reaction
-Trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Clayton Fritchey's column
-Effect of columnists
-Readership
-Opinion makers
PRC trip
-TV coverage of trip
-Fritchey's view
-India
-US relations
-Media visitors to PRC
-Possible effect of trip
-The President's opening of relations
-Anderson
-The President’s and Kissinger's role
-Press
-Reports
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Interest
US-Soviet relations
-India
-PRC
-Vorontsov
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Dobrynin's schedule
-Middle East
-Soviet Minister of Culture's toast
-Press reaction
-Press
-Soviet Summit
-India
-Anderson papers
India
-US relations
-Press treatment
-Anwar El-Sadat's speech
-Intention to start war in December 1971
-India-Pakistan War
-Soviet advice
-Intelligence
-War with Pakistan
-US policy
-Middle East
-PRC
-West Pakistan
JCS
-Anderson Papers
-Radford
-Transfer to Seattle
-Ehrlichman's conversation with daughter, Jody Ehrlichman, January
16, 1972
-Jody Ehrlichman's conversation with friend at school
-Friend's father's information
-Mormon
-Job at Indian embassy with Radford
-Mormons
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Original plan
-Memphis
-Choices
-R[embrandt] C. (“Hugh”) Robinson
-Possible revelations
-White House cover-up for JCS
-Case against Radford
-Confession
-Witnesses
-Anderson
-Guilt
-Witnesses
-Purloining papers
-Disclosure to Anderson
-Security violations
-Disclosure of documents
-Case against Daniel Ellsberg
-Ellsberg’s confession
-Ellsberg
-Conscience matter
-Administration action
-Administration record
-Observation
-Security regulations
-Closure of liaison office
-Reorganization
-Intelligence
-Motivation
-Espionage
-Anderson
-Background
-Compared with Pentagon Papers
-Role of press
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
WSAG
-Role
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Jordan crisis
-India-Pakistan War
-Planes in Pakistan
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INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR
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-India
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Kissinger's position
Anderson Papers
-Effects
-The President
-Kissinger
-1972 election
-Possible leaks
-Anderson
-Editorials
-Leaks
-Informing bureaucracy
Leaks
-Foreign policy
-White House source
-Supreme Court appointments
Safire
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Shultz's request
-Acceptance of Japan ambassadorship
-State Department
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Shultz's presence
Kissinger left at 12:15 pm.
-Meetings with ambassadors
-West Germany
-Value
William P. Clements
-Connally
Rogers
-Mitchell
-Call to Haldeman, January 16, 1972
-Rogers's memorandum from Kissinger
-Kissinger's memoranda
-Soviet Union and PRC
-Forthcoming meetings and talking points
-State Department
-The President's directives
-NSC
-Function
-Policy
-Operations
-Informing Kissinger
-NSC
-Middle East
-Rogers's role
-Operations
-Kissinger's role
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Grievances
-PRC
-Kissinger's meetings with the President
-Rogers's meetings with the President
-Rogers's knowledge of issues
-Kissinger's role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Israel
-Kissinger's meeting with Rabin
-The President's directives
-Middle East
-Soviet Union and PRC trips
-Information from Haig
-The President's instructions to Kissinger
-Haldeman’s view
-Middle East
-Rogers's role
-Kissinger's role
-Rabin
-Kissinger's call to Haldeman, January 15, 1972
-Kissinger's meeting with Rabin, January 15, 1972
-Rabin's meeting at State, January 14, 1972
-Rogers's notification of Kissinger
-Joseph A. Sisco memorandum to Rabin
-Israeli Cabinet meeting
-Kissinger’s tenure
-Relations with Kissinger
-Haldeman’s and Mitchell’s meeting with Rogers
-Exchange of information
-Mitchell
-Kissinger's role as NSC advisor
-Compared with role of State Department Secretary
-Press
-Kissinger’s role as NSC advisor
-European Security Conference
-Rogers's role
-NSC
-Soviet Summit
-Rogers's role
-Rogers’s conduct
-Instructions from the President
-The President’s 1970 talk with Rogers
-European security
-Gromyko
-NSC
-Policy function in government
-Previous role compared to revised role
-WSAG
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Function
-Mitchell
-Rogers's advising of the President
-Kissinger
-The President's memorandum regarding speech changes
-Woods
-Safire's delivery to Kissinger
-Delivery to Rogers
-Length of speech
-Distribution
-Woods
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Safire
-Price
-Garment
-Negotiating role
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-The President's knowledge
-1972 election
-Jews
-Mitchell's possible action
-State Department
-Israel
-Arabs
-PRC and Soviet Union trips
-Mitchell's and Haldeman's possible actions
-Kissinger's memoranda
-Tone and contact
-The President’s instructions
-Motive
-Rogers
Kissinger
-View of Radford case
-Jody Ehrlichman’s comments
Kissinger, Shultz and Ingersoll entered at 12:31 pm.
Greetings
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
Ingersoll's appointment as Ambassador to Japan
-Job
-Importance
-Soviet Union
-New residence
-Herbert C. Hoover
-\"Hoover's Folly\"
-Date of construction
-Viceroy of India's residence
-Ingersoll’s gratitude
-Importance
-Canada
-Belgium
-Netherlands
-Communications
Japan
-Economic issue
-Connally
Ingersoll
-Foreign Service role
-Bureaucracy
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Father
-Confirmation in Senate
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Japan
-Appointment
-Timing
-Forthcoming call to Rogers
-Publicity
-Senate
Tokyo
-Compared with Paris
Kissinger, Shultz and Ingersoll left at 12:36 pm.
Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Kissinger memorandum
-Rogers's reaction
-Advisability
-Haldeman's and Mitchell's actions
-Kissinger's conversation with Haldeman
-Clearance of communications through Kissinger
-Phrasing
-Necessary for directive
-Kissinger's motive
-Kissinger’s background
-Rogers's reaction
-Israel
-Mitchell
-The President's control of issue
-Kissinger’s relations with Rabin
-Kissinger's bias
-Haig
-Rabin
-Memoranda to the President through Haldeman
Memoranda to the President
-Laird
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Kissinger
-Rogers's private delivery through Haldeman
-Woods
-Channel of delivery
-White House staff
Rogers
-Kissinger
-Israel
-European Security Conference
-Kissinger
-PRC trip
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
State of the World message
-Distribution by Kissinger
-Rogers
-Defense Department
-Defense portion
-Foreign policy section
The President's State of the Union message
-Foreign policy section
-Kissinger
-Domestic policy section
-Ehrlichman
Rogers
-Kissinger
State of the Union message
-Status
Vietnam speech
-Safire
State of the Union message
-Price
NSC system
-Kissinger
-Memoranda
-Rogers
-Establishment
-Conflicts with State Department
Rogers conflict with Kissinger
-Subordination to foreign policy and reelection concerns
-Haldeman’s and Mitchell’s view
-Middle East
-Informing the President
-Kissinger's role
-European Security Conference
-Rogers's views
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-The President's meetings
-Reliance on State Department and NSC
British cabinets
-Past problems
Cabinet
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's problems
-Jessie H. Jones
-Vice Presidents
-Jealousies
-Staffs
-Compared with Rogers conflict with Kissinger
-Involvement of the President
Rogers conflict with Kissinger
-The President's confidence
-Impact on Kissinger's views
-Kissinger’s role
-Informing the President on issues
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Laird’s memoranda
-Rogers
Middle East
-Israel
-Possible action
-Kissinger’s views
-US support
-Kissinger's views
-Cease-fire
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Planes
-Soviet Summit
-Rabin
-Clearance of Rogers’s communications through Kissinger
-Kissinger's bias
-Kissinger's meetings with Rabin
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Informing the President
European Security Conference
-Kissinger
-State Department
The President’s forthcoming trips to the Soviet Union and PRC
-State Department
Soviet Union
-Kissinger's possible trip
-Kissinger's meeting with Mitchell
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger's advance work on the President's PRC trip
-Rogers
-Necessity
-Romania, Paris
-Dobrynin
Kissinger
-Possible resignation
-Mood
-Introspection
-Conversation with Haig
-1972 election
-Rogers
Foreign policy
-Jewish influence in forthcoming campaign
-Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Rogers
-State Department
-Mitchell
-Votes
-Money
-The President's opponents
-Humphrey in 1968
Ziegler
-View of position as press secretary
-December
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
Rogers
-Rabin
-State Department
-Meetings with Dobrynin
-Kissinger's meetings with Dobrynin
-Informing the President
-Informing Rogers
-Possible talk with the President
-Possible instructions
Kissinger
-Possible instructions
-Directives
-Mitchell
-Haig
-Delivery to the President
Peterson
-New position as Secretary of Commerce
-Ehrlichman
-Relations with Connally
-Flanigan
-International monetary policy
-Connally's control of domestic and foreign monetary issues
-White House support
-Flanigan
Cabinet
-Flanigan’s view
-Conduct of Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Access to the President
-Connally's view
-Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Role
-Reorganization
-Reduction in number
-Connally
-Shultz
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Reliance on under secretaries
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Cabinet officers as executive vice presidents
-Offices in Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Model on British cabinet system
-Elimination of intermediate staff
-Kissinger and Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman
-Work with Cabinet
-Staff
-John A. Volpe
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Maurice H. Stans
-Kissinger
-Relations with Laird and Rogers
-Compared to Sherman Adams
-Behavior
Behavior
-Changes from the past
Rogers
-Contact with the President
-Management of State Department
-Talk with Haldeman
-White House relations with State Department
-White House staff, NSC, Kissinger criticism
-State Department criticism
-Press coverage
-Rogers's view
-Press
-Press relations
-Political judgment
-Public image
-Recognition
-Blame on Kissinger and NSC
-Analogy to John Foster Dulles
-NSC
-Work
-Briefings
-Kissinger
-Vietnam
-The President's initiative on November 3, 1969 statement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Image
-Spokesman ability
-Telegenic quality
-Intelligence
-Kissinger's view
-Approach to problems
-Thought process
The President’s schedule [?]
Rogers
-Conflict with Kissinger
-Future conversation with Haldeman and Mitchell
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming announcement
-Flanigan and Stans
-Connally
-Peterson
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-Connally
Cabinet council
-Peterson
-Connally
-“New competition”
Peterson
-Future work with staff
Cabinet
-George W. Romney and Volpe
-Reorganization
-Forthcoming PRC trip
-Second term
Kissinger
-Power
-Relations with the President
-Abuse
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Relations with the Cabinet
-WSAG
Radford
-Transfer
-Leak
-Ehrlichman's view
-Jody Ehrlichman
-Public knowledge
-Perception of White House role
-Ziegler’s comments
-Evidence
-Investigation
-Suspect
-Anderson
-Prosecution
-Supreme Court
-1972 election
Kissinger
-Possible press conference
-Defense by the Administration
-Klein
-Ziegler
The President’s schedule
The President and Haldeman left at 1:23 pm.
Date: January 17, 1972
Time: 9:48 am - 1:23 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Weather
Daily briefing and position paper
-Distribution
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Staff dealings with media
-The President
-Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Clark MacGregor
-Charles W. Colson
-Compared with news summary
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Attacks by left and right
-Kissinger
-Distribution
-Buchanan
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Richmond, Virginia busing decision
-Buchanan's analysis
-John D. Ehrlichman's and staff's work on formulating the
President's position
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman’s work
-Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Buchanan
-Ziegler
-The President's involvement
-Buchanan's work
-Political content
-John N. Mitchell and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Frequency
-Burden on staff
-Day of issuing
-Choice of stories
-Buchanan
-Memoranda
-Distribution
-Colson
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-MacGregor
-Kissinger
-Buchanan
-Conservatism
-Ehrlichman and his staff
-Importance in campaign
Drafts of State of the Union address
-Circulation
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Possible tone
-Speculation about content
-Circulation
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Leonard Garment
Official trips
-Garment
-Trip with Frank J. Shakespeare
-Cultural exhibits
-Buchanan
-Soviet Union
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Garment
-Long Beach, California
-Buchanan
-Perks
-Meetings and dinners
-The President’s trips
Howard Hughes's loan to the President's family
-Clark M. Clifford's involvement
-Law firm
-F. Donald Nixon
-Repayment
-1962 statement by the President
-Rose Mary Woods
-Transfer of property
-Hughes
-Clifford Irving book
-Paradise Island
-Ziegler's briefings
-Public interest
-Public comments by the President
-1962 statement
-Herbert G. Klein
-Familiarity with issue
-Ziegler
-Publicity
-Ziegler
-Repayment through transfer of property
-Hannah (Milhous) Nixon
-Donald Nixon
-Possible action
-Ziegler's possible role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Washington Post story
-Drew Pearson article in 1959
-Irving book on Hughes
-Noah Dietrich's view
-Hughes's supplying of information
-Hughes's lawyers
-Dietrich
-Book
-Effect on Hughes
-Publication
-Irving book
-Life and McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
-Ownership of rights
-Hughes's authorship
-Haldeman’s possible call to Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Publicity
Eleanor and Franklin [by Joseph P. Lash]
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Popularity
-Lucy Mercer
-The President's conversation with William Bullitt
-Children
-[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt
-Children
-Excerpts
-Haldeman’s reading
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Appearance
-Marriage
-Sunrise at Campobello
-Veracity of story
-Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship
-Children
-Mercer
-Franklin Roosevelt's vice presidential campaign in 1920
-Franklin Roosevelt's position as Under Secretary of Navy
-Longevity
-Presence at Franklin Roosevelt's death in Warm Springs, Georgia
-Publicity
-Mercer's marriage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Portrait of Franklin Roosevelt
-Elizabeth Shoumatoff
Abraham Lincoln
-Mary (Todd) Lincoln
-Mental state
-Modern medicine
-Apparitions
John F. Kennedy
Eleanor and Franklin
-Tone
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's opinion
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Private life
-Relationship with Lash
-Bullitt’s view
-The President’s view
-Lash’s military service
John and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-Relationships
-Lack of publicity
-Reason
-Compared to Whigs of 19th century
-Divorce
Hughes
Mitchell
Peter M. Flanigan
-News summary
-Mitchell
-Conversation with James L. Buckley
-Mitchell's knowledge
-Buckley's request for appointment for [Forename unknown] Corwin [sp?]
-Buckley's support of the President's opponent [John N. Ashbrook]
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak story
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
Mitchell
-Necessary role
-Flanigan
-Buchanan
-Buckley
-Flanigan's view of political support
-Knowledge of Flanigan-Buckley exchange
-Buckley's letter
-Flanigan letter
-Copies to Mitchell and Haldeman
News summaries
-Report of political issues
-The President's reading of foreign and domestic policy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Humphrey
-Quality
-Haldeman’s possible comments to unknown person
-Press corps
-Networks
-Coverage of news
-Wire service material
-Rogers's concerns
-Importance
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Omaha World Herald
-Los Angeles Times
-Chicago Tribune
The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Invitations to media
-Television
-New York Times
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Networks
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Commerce Department
-Announcement of change
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peter G. Peterson
-Flanigan
-Stans's resignation
-Stans’s letter
-Draft of the President’s reply
-Peterson's views on reorganization
-Ehrlichman’s and Shultz’s view
-Peterson
-Concern about public view of position
-Opportunity
-Jobs
-Accessibility
-Compared to Stans
-Announcement
-Stans
-Reorganization
Peterson
-Replacement by Flanigan
-Kissinger's view
-John B. Connally's view
-Concerns on monetary policy
-Kissinger
-Flanigan
-Treasury Department
-Haldeman’s possible talk with Flanigan and Connally
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-State Department
-The President’s schedule
-Connally
-Haldeman
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Flanigan
-Economic policy
-Paul A. Volcker Committee
-Announcement
-Timing
-Three way move
-Flanigan
-Council on international Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Effectiveness
-Credit
-Staff
Commerce Department
-Stans's departure
-Leaks
-Announcement
-Forthcoming Cabinet dinner
-Connally's view
Economic policy
-Connally's control
-International monetary policy
-Flanigan’s role
Ziegler entered at 10:56 am.
-Conversation with Haldeman and the President
Connally
-Possible meeting with the President, January 17, 1972
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-Stans announcement
-State of the Union message
-Budget
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Possible questions
-Jack N. Anderson Papers
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s view
-The President's concerns
-Investigation
-Leak
-The President's concerns
-Possible statement
-Press involvement
-Investigation
-Anderson
-Investigation
-Presidential discussions
-Confidentiality
-Kissinger's role
-The President's confidence in Kissinger
-The Administration’s public and private positions
-Presidential discussions with advisers
-Leaks
-Options
-Possible effects of publication
-Advice to the President
-India-Pakistan War
-US position
-The President's confidence in Kissinger
-Klein’s comments
-Gerald L. Warren's comments
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Hughes biography by Irving
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's call to Ehrlichman
-Charges regarding Nixon family loan
-Clifford
-Possible handling
-Veracity
-1962 statement
-Satisfaction of loan
-Transfer of property
-Ziegler's handling
-1962 campaign
-Possible Klein statement
-1962 statement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Acquaintance with facts
-Mrs. Nixon's position
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
-Hannah (Milhous) Nixon's repayment
-Transfer of property
-Irving
-Credibility
-Meetings with Hughes
-Interview with Mike Wallace, January 16, 1972
-Ziegler's possible statement
-Ziegler’s age
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Chilean election of January 16, 1972
-Ghana
-Recognition
-Department of State
-Allende
-Recent election
-The President's possible stopover in Poland after Soviet Union trip
-Italian newspaper report
-Verification
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Invitations to press
-Ratio of news media to television reporters
-Audience
-\"News\" compared to \"show business\" aspect
-Ziegler's meeting with television officials in New York City
-John A. Scali's and Timothy G. Elbourne's presence
-PRC purchase of RCA ground station for Shanghai
-Invitations to press
-Pressure on White House
-Meetings with Ziegler
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-State of the Union message
-Timing
-Content
-Domestic and foreign policy
-Report
-The President's possible press conference
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Letter to Ziegler from head of Associated Press [AP]
-The President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2, 1972
-Duration
-Reaction
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The President's possible press conference
-Democrats
-Fairness Doctrine response
-Mansfield
-Carl B. Albert
-Phone-in questions
-State of the Union message
-Press room
[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:56 am and 11:24
am.]
[Conversation No. 648-4A]
Kissinger
-Location
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's possible press conference
-Equal time for Democrats
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-John N. Ashbrook
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-TV coverage
Ziegler left at 11:24 am.
[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at 11:24 am.]
[Conversation No. 648-4B]
[See Conversation No. 18-87]
[The call was placed on hold]
The President's schedule
-Camp David
[Haldeman talked with Connally at an unknown time between 11:24 am and 11:30 am.]
[Continuation of Conversation No. 648-4B]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Connally
-Peterson
-William L. Safire
-Work on Vietnam statement
Safire
-Work on Vietnam statement
-Compared with Price
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
Kissinger
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:24 am.
Request for Kissinger to join them
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.
Safire
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Draft of Vietnam statement
-State Department
-Timing
The President's schedule
-Florida
-Draft of Vietnam statement
-Kurt Waldheim
-United Nations [UN]
-Budget signing
-Ziegler
-Press
-Staff
-Photograph session
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Waldheim
-Photographs session
-Atkins
-Photographs of the President
-Frequency
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William P. Rogers and Kissinger
-Relationship
-Mitchell
Kissinger entered at 11:30 am.
Statement on Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Safire
-Conversation with Kissinger, January 17, 1972
-Kissinger's briefing
-Duration
-Release of text
-Kissinger's forthcoming briefing
-Effect
-US proposal
-Scheduling
-Target dates within speech
-Effect on US proposal
-W. Averell Harriman's possible reaction
-Release of text
-Timing
-Troop withdrawal
-Proposals
-Phase I
-Prisoners of war [POWs] for troop withdrawal
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Phase II
-Cease-fire
-Elections
-Unknown man's opinion
-Rose Mary Woods
-Possible delay
-Effects
-National Press Club dinner speech
-North Vietnam response
-Timing
-Draft
-Timing
-Safire
-Compared with Price
-Safire’s view
-Pubic relations
-Impact
-Publicity for Kissinger’s trips
-POWs
-Peace proposal, October 11, 1970
Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Negotiations
-Troop withdrawal proposal
-Muskie's statement, January 16,, 1972
-Muskie's negotiating schedule
-Administration proposal
-Schedule
-POWs and ceasefire
-Troop withdrawal deadlines
-North Vietnam response
-Timing
-North Vietnamese response
-US Air Force
-Laos and Cambodia
-Trails
-Quality
-Infliction of casualties in Northern Laos
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.
Request for books in President's bedroom
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.
Vietnam
-Long Tien
-South Vietnam
-Morale
-Effect of US withdrawal
-Washington Post article
-Timing
-Air Force
-1972 election
-US troops
-Highlands
-Strategy
-Possible consequences
-Strategic Reserve Division
-Movement
-Laos
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Operation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Compared with US troop actions
-Prospects
-Press reports
-Inaccuracies
-Loss of Laos and Cambodia
-Troop withdrawal record
-Kissinger's meeting with Senior Review Group, January 17, 1972
-Papers on Vietnam
-Time of meeting
-The President's meeting with Connally
Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Yeoman Charles E. Radford incident
-Kissinger's conversation with Melvin R. Laird, January 14, 1972
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-Channels to the President
-Laird's view
The President read from a work by H. G. Wells.
Trench warfare in World War I
-Scientists
-Military personnel
-Tanks
-Allies
-Military minds
-Military mind
-Alexander the Great
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Napoleon Bonaparte
-Julius Caesar
-Muhammed
-Mongols
-Oliver Cromwell
-George Washington
-Control of World War I
-Destruction of traditional methods
[End of reading]
Author of previously recited work
-Winston S. Churchill
-Wells
-Thesis
-Emphasis on education
Education of women
Soviets
-Message from Andrei A. Gromyko, January 17, 1972
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's return to US
-Schedule
-Negotiations
-Negotiations
-Communication with Kissinger
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
The President read from a work by Wells.
World War I era
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson's role
-American public's view
-World outlook
[End of reading]
Vietnam
-Military mind
-Air Force
-Navy pilots
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Press reports
-Interviews on TV
-Pilots' views on bombing in December 1971
-Laos operation
-Pilots' views
-US actions
-Lack of time
Anderson Papers
-Effect on US credibility
-Evans's poll of European diplomats
-Evans's conversation with Kissinger
-Max Frankel's statement
-Diplomats' views
-Evans's view
-Effect on the President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Right and left
-Liberals
-Soviet Union
-View of the President
-Possible public reaction to trip
-The President's conversation with Ziegler, January 17, 1972
-Average person's reaction
-Trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Clayton Fritchey's column
-Effect of columnists
-Readership
-Opinion makers
PRC trip
-TV coverage of trip
-Fritchey's view
-India
-US relations
-Media visitors to PRC
-Possible effect of trip
-The President's opening of relations
-Anderson
-The President’s and Kissinger's role
-Press
-Reports
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Interest
US-Soviet relations
-India
-PRC
-Vorontsov
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Dobrynin's schedule
-Middle East
-Soviet Minister of Culture's toast
-Press reaction
-Press
-Soviet Summit
-India
-Anderson papers
India
-US relations
-Press treatment
-Anwar El-Sadat's speech
-Intention to start war in December 1971
-India-Pakistan War
-Soviet advice
-Intelligence
-War with Pakistan
-US policy
-Middle East
-PRC
-West Pakistan
JCS
-Anderson Papers
-Radford
-Transfer to Seattle
-Ehrlichman's conversation with daughter, Jody Ehrlichman, January
16, 1972
-Jody Ehrlichman's conversation with friend at school
-Friend's father's information
-Mormon
-Job at Indian embassy with Radford
-Mormons
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Original plan
-Memphis
-Choices
-R[embrandt] C. (“Hugh”) Robinson
-Possible revelations
-White House cover-up for JCS
-Case against Radford
-Confession
-Witnesses
-Anderson
-Guilt
-Witnesses
-Purloining papers
-Disclosure to Anderson
-Security violations
-Disclosure of documents
-Case against Daniel Ellsberg
-Ellsberg’s confession
-Ellsberg
-Conscience matter
-Administration action
-Administration record
-Observation
-Security regulations
-Closure of liaison office
-Reorganization
-Intelligence
-Motivation
-Espionage
-Anderson
-Background
-Compared with Pentagon Papers
-Role of press
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
WSAG
-Role
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Jordan crisis
-India-Pakistan War
-Planes in Pakistan
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Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
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-India
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Kissinger's position
Anderson Papers
-Effects
-The President
-Kissinger
-1972 election
-Possible leaks
-Anderson
-Editorials
-Leaks
-Informing bureaucracy
Leaks
-Foreign policy
-White House source
-Supreme Court appointments
Safire
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Shultz's request
-Acceptance of Japan ambassadorship
-State Department
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Shultz's presence
Kissinger left at 12:15 pm.
-Meetings with ambassadors
-West Germany
-Value
William P. Clements
-Connally
Rogers
-Mitchell
-Call to Haldeman, January 16, 1972
-Rogers's memorandum from Kissinger
-Kissinger's memoranda
-Soviet Union and PRC
-Forthcoming meetings and talking points
-State Department
-The President's directives
-NSC
-Function
-Policy
-Operations
-Informing Kissinger
-NSC
-Middle East
-Rogers's role
-Operations
-Kissinger's role
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Grievances
-PRC
-Kissinger's meetings with the President
-Rogers's meetings with the President
-Rogers's knowledge of issues
-Kissinger's role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Israel
-Kissinger's meeting with Rabin
-The President's directives
-Middle East
-Soviet Union and PRC trips
-Information from Haig
-The President's instructions to Kissinger
-Haldeman’s view
-Middle East
-Rogers's role
-Kissinger's role
-Rabin
-Kissinger's call to Haldeman, January 15, 1972
-Kissinger's meeting with Rabin, January 15, 1972
-Rabin's meeting at State, January 14, 1972
-Rogers's notification of Kissinger
-Joseph A. Sisco memorandum to Rabin
-Israeli Cabinet meeting
-Kissinger’s tenure
-Relations with Kissinger
-Haldeman’s and Mitchell’s meeting with Rogers
-Exchange of information
-Mitchell
-Kissinger's role as NSC advisor
-Compared with role of State Department Secretary
-Press
-Kissinger’s role as NSC advisor
-European Security Conference
-Rogers's role
-NSC
-Soviet Summit
-Rogers's role
-Rogers’s conduct
-Instructions from the President
-The President’s 1970 talk with Rogers
-European security
-Gromyko
-NSC
-Policy function in government
-Previous role compared to revised role
-WSAG
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Function
-Mitchell
-Rogers's advising of the President
-Kissinger
-The President's memorandum regarding speech changes
-Woods
-Safire's delivery to Kissinger
-Delivery to Rogers
-Length of speech
-Distribution
-Woods
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Safire
-Price
-Garment
-Negotiating role
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-The President's knowledge
-1972 election
-Jews
-Mitchell's possible action
-State Department
-Israel
-Arabs
-PRC and Soviet Union trips
-Mitchell's and Haldeman's possible actions
-Kissinger's memoranda
-Tone and contact
-The President’s instructions
-Motive
-Rogers
Kissinger
-View of Radford case
-Jody Ehrlichman’s comments
Kissinger, Shultz and Ingersoll entered at 12:31 pm.
Greetings
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
Ingersoll's appointment as Ambassador to Japan
-Job
-Importance
-Soviet Union
-New residence
-Herbert C. Hoover
-\"Hoover's Folly\"
-Date of construction
-Viceroy of India's residence
-Ingersoll’s gratitude
-Importance
-Canada
-Belgium
-Netherlands
-Communications
Japan
-Economic issue
-Connally
Ingersoll
-Foreign Service role
-Bureaucracy
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Father
-Confirmation in Senate
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Japan
-Appointment
-Timing
-Forthcoming call to Rogers
-Publicity
-Senate
Tokyo
-Compared with Paris
Kissinger, Shultz and Ingersoll left at 12:36 pm.
Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Kissinger memorandum
-Rogers's reaction
-Advisability
-Haldeman's and Mitchell's actions
-Kissinger's conversation with Haldeman
-Clearance of communications through Kissinger
-Phrasing
-Necessary for directive
-Kissinger's motive
-Kissinger’s background
-Rogers's reaction
-Israel
-Mitchell
-The President's control of issue
-Kissinger’s relations with Rabin
-Kissinger's bias
-Haig
-Rabin
-Memoranda to the President through Haldeman
Memoranda to the President
-Laird
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Kissinger
-Rogers's private delivery through Haldeman
-Woods
-Channel of delivery
-White House staff
Rogers
-Kissinger
-Israel
-European Security Conference
-Kissinger
-PRC trip
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
State of the World message
-Distribution by Kissinger
-Rogers
-Defense Department
-Defense portion
-Foreign policy section
The President's State of the Union message
-Foreign policy section
-Kissinger
-Domestic policy section
-Ehrlichman
Rogers
-Kissinger
State of the Union message
-Status
Vietnam speech
-Safire
State of the Union message
-Price
NSC system
-Kissinger
-Memoranda
-Rogers
-Establishment
-Conflicts with State Department
Rogers conflict with Kissinger
-Subordination to foreign policy and reelection concerns
-Haldeman’s and Mitchell’s view
-Middle East
-Informing the President
-Kissinger's role
-European Security Conference
-Rogers's views
-Kissinger
29
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-The President's meetings
-Reliance on State Department and NSC
British cabinets
-Past problems
Cabinet
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's problems
-Jessie H. Jones
-Vice Presidents
-Jealousies
-Staffs
-Compared with Rogers conflict with Kissinger
-Involvement of the President
Rogers conflict with Kissinger
-The President's confidence
-Impact on Kissinger's views
-Kissinger’s role
-Informing the President on issues
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Laird’s memoranda
-Rogers
Middle East
-Israel
-Possible action
-Kissinger’s views
-US support
-Kissinger's views
-Cease-fire
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Planes
-Soviet Summit
-Rabin
-Clearance of Rogers’s communications through Kissinger
-Kissinger's bias
-Kissinger's meetings with Rabin
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Informing the President
European Security Conference
-Kissinger
-State Department
The President’s forthcoming trips to the Soviet Union and PRC
-State Department
Soviet Union
-Kissinger's possible trip
-Kissinger's meeting with Mitchell
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger's advance work on the President's PRC trip
-Rogers
-Necessity
-Romania, Paris
-Dobrynin
Kissinger
-Possible resignation
-Mood
-Introspection
-Conversation with Haig
-1972 election
-Rogers
Foreign policy
-Jewish influence in forthcoming campaign
-Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Rogers
-State Department
-Mitchell
-Votes
-Money
-The President's opponents
-Humphrey in 1968
Ziegler
-View of position as press secretary
-December
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
Rogers
-Rabin
-State Department
-Meetings with Dobrynin
-Kissinger's meetings with Dobrynin
-Informing the President
-Informing Rogers
-Possible talk with the President
-Possible instructions
Kissinger
-Possible instructions
-Directives
-Mitchell
-Haig
-Delivery to the President
Peterson
-New position as Secretary of Commerce
-Ehrlichman
-Relations with Connally
-Flanigan
-International monetary policy
-Connally's control of domestic and foreign monetary issues
-White House support
-Flanigan
Cabinet
-Flanigan’s view
-Conduct of Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Access to the President
-Connally's view
-Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Role
-Reorganization
-Reduction in number
-Connally
-Shultz
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Reliance on under secretaries
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Cabinet officers as executive vice presidents
-Offices in Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Model on British cabinet system
-Elimination of intermediate staff
-Kissinger and Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman
-Work with Cabinet
-Staff
-John A. Volpe
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Maurice H. Stans
-Kissinger
-Relations with Laird and Rogers
-Compared to Sherman Adams
-Behavior
Behavior
-Changes from the past
Rogers
-Contact with the President
-Management of State Department
-Talk with Haldeman
-White House relations with State Department
-White House staff, NSC, Kissinger criticism
-State Department criticism
-Press coverage
-Rogers's view
-Press
-Press relations
-Political judgment
-Public image
-Recognition
-Blame on Kissinger and NSC
-Analogy to John Foster Dulles
-NSC
-Work
-Briefings
-Kissinger
-Vietnam
-The President's initiative on November 3, 1969 statement
33
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Image
-Spokesman ability
-Telegenic quality
-Intelligence
-Kissinger's view
-Approach to problems
-Thought process
The President’s schedule [?]
Rogers
-Conflict with Kissinger
-Future conversation with Haldeman and Mitchell
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming announcement
-Flanigan and Stans
-Connally
-Peterson
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-Connally
Cabinet council
-Peterson
-Connally
-“New competition”
Peterson
-Future work with staff
Cabinet
-George W. Romney and Volpe
-Reorganization
-Forthcoming PRC trip
-Second term
Kissinger
-Power
-Relations with the President
-Abuse
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 648-4 (cont.)
-Relations with the Cabinet
-WSAG
Radford
-Transfer
-Leak
-Ehrlichman's view
-Jody Ehrlichman
-Public knowledge
-Perception of White House role
-Ziegler’s comments
-Evidence
-Investigation
-Suspect
-Anderson
-Prosecution
-Supreme Court
-1972 election
Kissinger
-Possible press conference
-Defense by the Administration
-Klein
-Ziegler
The President’s schedule
The President and Haldeman left at 1:23 pm.
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