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706–2
- President Richard M. Nixon
- H. R. Haldeman
- UNKNOWN
- White House operator
- Vernon A. Walters
- Henry A. Kissinger
- Ronald L. Ziegler
- Manolo Sanchez
April 11, 1972
Conversation No. 706-2
Date: April 11, 1972
Time: 10:10 am - 12:35 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Arthur F. Burns
-Trip to Camp David
-Departure
-Reasons
-Leaders meeting
-Burns
-Time and day
-Thursday
-Meeting with Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
-Change of day
-Time of day
-Camp David
-Change of day
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Henry A. Kissinger's presence
-Photograph
-Location
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Map Room
-Compared to library, EOB
-Free time
-Afternoon
-Changes
-Meeting with Frank DeMarco, Jr.
-The President's tax returns
-Youth conference
-Camp David
-Canadian trip
-Departure
-Afternoon meetings
-Changes in time and day
-Advantages
-Canadian trip
-Camp David trip
-Cancellation of meetings
-W. Kenneth Riland
-Camp David trip
-Secretaries
-Canadian trip
-Speech
-Kissinger
-Secretaries
-Florida trip
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Camp David
-Secretaries
-Nellie L. Yates
-Terry Goodwin [sp?]
-Unknown person
-Competence
-Marjorie P. Acker and Rose Mary Woods
-The President's speech
-Revisions
-Unknown secretary
-Age
-Experience
-Background
-Loyalties
-Yates
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Experience
-Work with previous presidents
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Integrity
-Loyalty
White House staff
-Secretaries
-Background
-Compared with Susan Lichtman at International Telephone and
Telegraph [ITT]
-Unknown secretary
-Loyalty
-Typing skills
-Speed
-Yates and Woods
-Ages
-Composure
-Acker
-Competence
-Knowledge of White House
-Woods
-Staff
-Competence
-Competence
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Peter G. Peterson and Peter M. Flanigan
-John B. Connally
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49 am.
[Conversation no. 706-2A]
The President's schedule
-Scott and Mansfield meeting
-Arrangements
-David N. [Parker]
-Day
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Time
-Kissinger's clearance
-Location
-Cocktails
-Invitation
-Kissinger's presence
[End of telephone conversation]
Kissinger's meeting with White House staff
-Briefing
-Robert B. Semple, Jr. article
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-A leak
-Source
-Kissinger's briefing
-Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein
-Absence
Vietnam
-Talking points
-Kissinger
-Klein
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Press reports
-Unknown South Vietnamese commander
-Statement
-Tank column
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Press reports
-A session of a committee
-Confusion
-William R. Merriam
-Staff
-Confusing statements
-Testimony
-Robert C. Wilson
-Senators
-Receipt of transportation
-Edward J. Gurney
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Senate testimony
-Henry E. Petersen
-Conclusion
-Date
-Administration tactics
-Senate
-James O. Eastland
-Fred R. Harris
-Caucus
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Letter writing campaign
-Charles W. Colson
Economy
-Food prices
-John D. Ehrlichman
-News summary
-Connally
-Unknown person
ITT case
-Flanigan statement
-Scott
-John W. Dean, III
-Letter to Senate
-Flanigan's involvement in case
-Richard W. McLaren
-Richard J. Ramsden
-Republican National Convention
-Denial
-Flanigan's reaction
The President's schedule
-Stopover on trip to Soviet Union
-Poland
-Announcement
-Day
-Ireland
-Kissinger's view
-Britain
-Northern Ireland
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Switzerland and Austria
-Azores
-Logistics
-Flying time
-Switzerland
-Kissinger's view
-Zurich and Geneva
-Facilities
-Geneva
-Political connotations
-United Nations [UN]
-Majorca
-Spain
-Protocol
-Majorca
-Bases
-Portugal
-Majorca
-Monaco
-Majorca
-Spanish Foreign Minister
-Distance from Moscow
-Madrid
-Zurich
-Greece
-US base
-Mediterranean
-Haldeman's call to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49
am.
[Conversation no. 706-2B]
[See Conversation no. 22-102]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
-Canadian trip
-The President's speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-French phrases
-Walters
-Camp David
-Preparation
-Walters
-Coaching on French
Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Confirmation of Walters
-Handling
-Praise for Walters
Canadian trip
-Walters
-Translation
White House staff
-Kissinger
-Willingness to work
-Briefing of Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon and Irina N. Dobrynin
-Meeting with prisoner of war [POW] wives
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Parents
-Quantity of energy
Haldeman talked with Walters at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49 am.
[Conversation no. 706-2C]
[See Conversation No. 22-103
[End of telephone conversation]
Soviet Union trip stopover
-Zurich
-Rota, Spain
-Spanish bases
-Rota, Saragossa and Seville
-Military connotations
-Switzerland
-Lucerne
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Zurich
-Advantages
-Swiss reaction
-Cooperation
-Kissinger’s view
-Clearances
-Logistics
-Facilities
-Neutrality
-Ireland
-Views
Soviet trip
-Return trip
-Arrangements
-Warsaw
-Stopover
-Switzerland
-Lucerne
-Arrival and departure
-Length of stay
-Itinerary
-Departure from US
-Time
-Arrival in Switzerland
-Departure from Switzerland
-Time
-Amount of sleep
-News reports
-Compared with Hawaiian trip
-Time change adjustments
-Switzerland
-Lucerne
-Geneva
-Austria
-Kissinger’s view
-Salzburg
-Bruno Kreisky
-Meeting with the President
-Advantages
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Ambassador
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:10 and
10:49 am.
[Conversation no. 706-2D]
[See Conversation no. 22-104]
[End of telephone conversation]
Soviet Trip
-Stopover
-Austria
-Vienna
-Salzburg
-Advantages
-NATO
-Compared with Spain
-Neutrality
-Switzerland
Haldeman talked with Kissinger between 10:49 and an unknown time before 10:54 am; the
president talked with Kissinger between an unknown time after 10:49 and 10:54 am.
[Conversation No. 706-2E]
[See Conversation No. 22-105
[End of telephone conversation]
Soviet trip
-Stopover
-Austria
-Kissinger
-Karl J. Gruber
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Compared with a trip to Ireland
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Importance
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Pro-US policies
-Salzburg
-Welcome
-Ireland
-Northern Ireland
-The President's previous trip
-Austria
-Purpose
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Social events
-Working stop
-Church service
-Possible itinerary
-Church service
-The President's attendance
-Baptist church
-Synagogue
-Baptist church
-The President's attendance
-Call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Graham
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger
-Tomb of unknown soldier
-Formal ceremony
-Departure from Moscow
-Soviet veterans
-Church service
-Call to Graham
-Schedule
-Review
-Advance party
-Arrival
-Banquet
-Ceremonial calls
-Meetings
-Ballet
-Wednesday
-Meetings
-Evening
-Dinner with Leonid I. Brezhnev
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Thursday
-Leningrad visit
-Sight-seeing
-Ballet
-Friday
-Return to Moscow
-Meeting
-Saturday
-Meeting
-Communiqué
-Banquet
-Sunday
-Church
-Soviet television address
-Time
-Kissinger
-US time
-Translation
-Method
-The President's first visit
-Six Crises account
-Compared with State Department account
-The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Monday
-Baku
-Tuesday
-Teheran
-Thursday, June 1, 1972
-Arrival in US
-Press conference in Moscow
-Kissinger, William P. Rogers and Connally
-Attendees
-Schedule
-Return to US
-Network coverage
-Equal time
-Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
-John M. Ashbrook
-California primary
-Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-The President's press conference on return
-Day
-Timing
-California primary
-Democrats
-Public opinion
-Announcement
-Foreign policy issues
-Ziegler's statement
-Discussion of trip
-Compared with PRC trip
-Interest
-Summit talks
-Vietnam
-Location
-Arrangements
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Staff
-Ziegler
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
-Klein
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-Stuart
-Work with Ziegler
-Ziegler
-Control of news
-Press
-Number
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Soviets
-Kissinger
-PRC trip
-Yuli M. Vorontsov and Soviet press attaché
-Meeting with Ziegler and Dwight L. Chapin
-Selection
-Ziegler
-Favor for friends
-Press pools
-1972 campaign
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Ziegler entered at 11:12 am.
Soviet trip
-Soviet press attaché
-Meeting with Ziegler
-Number of US newsmen present
-Press conference in Soviet Union
-Number
-Soviet press
-Press
-Number
-The President's Vice Presidential trip
-Six Crises
-Maximum
-Advantages
-Selection
-PRC trip
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Boston Globe and Newsday
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-Exclusion
-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
-Buffalo Evening News
-Dallas Morning Herald
-Pro-administration papers
-1972 campaign
-Networks
-Wire services
-Radio
-John F. Osborne
-Exclusion
-The President's news summary
-Kissinger
-Osborne
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Enemies
-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration
-James C. Hagerty
-New York Times
-Retaliation
-Number
-Soviet views
-Selection
-Limitations
-Compared with other trips
-Romania, Yugoslavia, Italy, France
-Ziegler's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-PRC trip
-Number
-Limitations
-Disadvantages
-Economic constraints of press
-Selection
-PRC trip
-Newsday and Boston Globe
-Press corps
-Attitudes
-Limitations
-Problems
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Ziegler's conversation with Dobrynin
-Previous Presidential trips
Press
-Critics
-Kennedy
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Osborne and Sidey
-Finch, Klein, Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Supporters
-Frank van der Linden
-Nashville Banner
-Victor Lasky
-News summaries
-Osborne
-Van der Linden
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Cultivation
-Ehrlichman, Kissinger and George P. Shultz
-Critics
-Winston S. Churchill
-Kissinger
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-James Keogh
-Book [President Nixon and the Press]
-Supporters
-Number
-Cultivation
-Critics
-Martin Schram
-Exclusion from Ziegler's office
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Networks
-Kissinger
-Work with Joseph C. Kraft
-Supporters
-Rowland Evans
-Chalmers M. Roberts
-Critics
-Dealings with Kissinger
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Evans
-Dealings with administration officials
-Egotism
-Sans Souci
-Georgetown
Supreme Court
-“Nixon Court”
-Tendency toward liberalism
-Potter Stewart
-Conservatism
-Liberalism
-Warren E. Burger
Nancy Ziegler
-Visit to Kentucky
-Relatives
-Support for administration's policies on Vietnam
-Richard G. Kleindienst hearing
Soviet trip
-Press
-Number
-Limitation
-Soviets
-Supporters
-Inclusion
-Reader's Digest
-Small papers
-Subsidy
-William S. White
-Bantam Books
-Book on trip
-Forward by the President
-US News and World Report
-Press conference on TV
-Timing
-California primary
-Foreign policy
-Report to nation
-Equal time on TV
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-New York Times and networks
-Ashbrook
-Writing press
-Networks
-Prime time television
-Foreign policy
-Length
-Return to US
-Press conference upon return
-Timing
-California primary
-Ziegler
-Arrangements
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Press relations
-The President’s memorandum
-Reports on biological warfare treaty signing at State Department
-Networks
-Setting
-Flags
-The President's appearance
-The President's remarks
-Dobrynin
Soviet press
-Soviet Life editor
-Reports
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tea with Mrs. Dobrynin
-Kissinger
-Press release
Press relations
-Evans and Kraft
-Criticism of the President
-Dealings with Soviets
-Summit
-PRC
-Middle East
-German Treaty
Soviet Union
-Soviet Summit
-Dobrynin
-William E. Jenner
-The President's Soviet trip
-PRC trip
-Arrangements
-Soviet people
-Crowds
-Interest in the President's visit
-Stopover
-Salzburg, Austria
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] conferences
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Vienna, Austria
-Leningrad
-Baku
-Stop in Teheran, Iran
-Stop in Poland
-Crowds
-PRC
-Drama of trip
-PRC trip
-The President's first trip
-Six Crises
-Atmosphere
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-The President's speech
-Kitchen debates
-Films
-Replay
Ziegler left at 11:39 am.
Press relations
-Handling of critics
-Ziegler's opinion
-Osborne
-Sidey
-Readership
The President left at an unknown time after 11:39 am.
[No conversation]
The President entered at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.
Biological warfare treaty signing
-The President's speech
-Haldeman's presence
-Reading by Haldeman and staff
The President's schedule
-Canadian speech
-Dinner in Philadelphia
-The President's note to John Cardinal Krol
-Henry C. Cashen, II
-Absence from dinner
-Trip to Soviet Union
-The President's trip to Poland
-Visit with Krol
-Announcement
-Timing
Agnew
-Lack of media coverage
-Trip to Fort Campbell, Kentucky
-Speech to California Republican Assembly [CRA]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-News summary
-Television report
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Newspaper story
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Tricia Nixon Cox
-Schedule
-Mike Douglas Show appearance
-Table tennis matches
-Space shot
-Time
-Audience
-Table tennis match
-Audience
-Left wing
-Homosexuals
-Tennis audience
-Make-up
-Left wing
-Homosexuals
-Bill Tilden
-Compared with opera audiences
-Attire
-Television
-Value
-Location
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
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Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Outcome
-Length
-Critics
-Fear of US success
-Caution
-Tet offensive
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.’s book
-Victory for US
-Enemy losses
-Compared with 1972 offensive
-Viet Cong elements
-North Vietnamese elements
-Buddhists
-Support for Nguyen Van Thieu government
-The President's critics
-Caution
-North Vietnamese offensive
-South Vietnamese victories and defeats
-I Corps
-Weather
-B-52s
-Symbolism
-Naval gunfire
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Public reactions
-“Hawks”
-Show of strength
-College campuses
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Apathy
-Minnesota and University of California at Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Vietnam
-Marches
-PRC
-Bombing in North Vietnam
-April 22, 1972 national march
-Timing
-Possible coordination with North Vietnam
-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Problems
-Lack of support
-Antiwar protests
-Size and scope
-Chicago
ITT case
-Media coverage
-Advantages
-Public interest
-POWs
-Bombers
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-POWs
-North Vietnamese actions
-US reaction
-Blockade
-Soviet reactions
-Effect on Summit
-Mining
-Option
-Soviet ships
-Options other than nuclear weapons or US ground forces
-The President's Biological Warfare Treaty signing statement
-George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Dobrynin
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
Domestic issues
-Ehrlichman
-Food prices
-Crime
-Note from the President
-Speeches
-Work with White House
-White House staff
-Speeches
-Scheduling
-Material for surrogates
-Edward L. Morgan
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Weekly meetings with surrogates
-Inspirations
-Kissinger
-Briefings
-Frequency
-Speakers
-Self-confidence
-Ehrlichman
-Self-confidence
-Attacks on opposition
-White House involvement
-Ehrlichman
-Leadership meetings
-Food prices
-Decline
-Wholesale prices
-Leadership
-The President
-Price Board
-John B. Connally
-Publicity
-Connally
-Amount
-Drugs
-Marijuana
-The President's speech
-Preparations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Ehrlichman
-Crime
-Prices
-Busing
-Drugs
-Relation to crime
-Busing
-Prices, inflation, labor
Foreign policy
-The President's leadership
-Emphasis
Vietnam
-Media
-B-52 strikes
-The President's responsibility
-Credit to the President
-The President's leadership
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Location of fleet
-B-52s
-Results
-Credit for the President's success
-Compared with Cambodia
-Melvin R. Laird and Rogers
-Statements
-Rogers
-Caution
-Kissinger
-Defense of Administration
-Possible talk with Haldeman
-Negotiations
-The President's speech
-Kissinger and William L. Safire
-Negotiations
-William J. Porter
-Canadian speech
-Soviet Union
The President's trip to Canada
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-Demonstrators
-Restrictions
-Canadian Mounted Police
-Aleksei N. Kosygin’s experience
-Reception in Parliament
-Itinerary in Ottawa
Vietnam
-Rogers
-Defense of Administration
-Caution
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Personal concerns
-Press
-Long-range interests
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Economic issue
-Unemployment figures
-Positive aspect
-Prices
-Unemployment
-Prices
-Food
-Big business
-Food prices
-Need for dramatic action
-Freeze
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Protection
-Options
-Timing
-Eventual decline
-Meat prices
-Jawboning
-Effects
-Inflation
-Herbert Stein's memorandum
-Problems
-Midyear report
-Timing
-Democratic National Convention
-Connally's response
-Advantages
-Press
-Speakers
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:39 am.
Refreshment
The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office
Economy
-The President's midyear report
-Connally's view
-Call from Haldeman
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.
Government
-Disenchantment
-Youth
-The President's trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Appeal
Media
-Problem for administration
-New York Times review of James Keogh's book, President Nixon and the Press
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Coverage of the President
-Evaluation
-Reasons
-Favorable coverage
-Administration's efforts
-Bad press
-Compared with Kennedy
-Publicity concerning PRC trip
-Ziegler
-Publicity for administration
-PRC trip
-New China Hands momento
-Ziegler
-White House staff
-Secret Service
-Airplane crews
-Ziegler
-Social events for press
-Impact and worth
-Klein
-Rogers
-Social contacts with press
-Newsmen's response
-Dealings with the President on a social level
-Supporters
-Van der Linden
-Critics
-Cynicism
-Supporters
-Critics
-Reactions
-Ziegler
-White House Correspondents Association
-Edgar A. Poe, president
-Gridiron president
-Lack of control
-Gridiron dinner
-Conversation with Haldeman
-The President's absence
-Soviet trip
-White House subsidy
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Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Ziegler
-Trip expenses
-Air fare
-Hotel
-The President's plane
-Waiver of charges
-Confidentiality
-South Carolina trip
-Funeral
-Gridiron dinner
-The President's absence
Weather
-Spring in Washington, DC
-Cherry blossoms
-Festival
The President’s schedule
-Arbor Day
-Tree plantings
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The President as head of non-government organizations
-Boy Scouts of America
-Meetings
-Frequency
-Red Cross
-Television
-Tricia Nixon Cox
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-United Way
The President and Haldeman left at 12:35 pm.
Date: April 11, 1972
Time: 10:10 am - 12:35 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Arthur F. Burns
-Trip to Camp David
-Departure
-Reasons
-Leaders meeting
-Burns
-Time and day
-Thursday
-Meeting with Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
-Change of day
-Time of day
-Camp David
-Change of day
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Henry A. Kissinger's presence
-Photograph
-Location
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Map Room
-Compared to library, EOB
-Free time
-Afternoon
-Changes
-Meeting with Frank DeMarco, Jr.
-The President's tax returns
-Youth conference
-Camp David
-Canadian trip
-Departure
-Afternoon meetings
-Changes in time and day
-Advantages
-Canadian trip
-Camp David trip
-Cancellation of meetings
-W. Kenneth Riland
-Camp David trip
-Secretaries
-Canadian trip
-Speech
-Kissinger
-Secretaries
-Florida trip
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Camp David
-Secretaries
-Nellie L. Yates
-Terry Goodwin [sp?]
-Unknown person
-Competence
-Marjorie P. Acker and Rose Mary Woods
-The President's speech
-Revisions
-Unknown secretary
-Age
-Experience
-Background
-Loyalties
-Yates
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Experience
-Work with previous presidents
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Integrity
-Loyalty
White House staff
-Secretaries
-Background
-Compared with Susan Lichtman at International Telephone and
Telegraph [ITT]
-Unknown secretary
-Loyalty
-Typing skills
-Speed
-Yates and Woods
-Ages
-Composure
-Acker
-Competence
-Knowledge of White House
-Woods
-Staff
-Competence
-Competence
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Peter G. Peterson and Peter M. Flanigan
-John B. Connally
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49 am.
[Conversation no. 706-2A]
The President's schedule
-Scott and Mansfield meeting
-Arrangements
-David N. [Parker]
-Day
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Time
-Kissinger's clearance
-Location
-Cocktails
-Invitation
-Kissinger's presence
[End of telephone conversation]
Kissinger's meeting with White House staff
-Briefing
-Robert B. Semple, Jr. article
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-A leak
-Source
-Kissinger's briefing
-Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein
-Absence
Vietnam
-Talking points
-Kissinger
-Klein
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Press reports
-Unknown South Vietnamese commander
-Statement
-Tank column
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Press reports
-A session of a committee
-Confusion
-William R. Merriam
-Staff
-Confusing statements
-Testimony
-Robert C. Wilson
-Senators
-Receipt of transportation
-Edward J. Gurney
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Senate testimony
-Henry E. Petersen
-Conclusion
-Date
-Administration tactics
-Senate
-James O. Eastland
-Fred R. Harris
-Caucus
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Letter writing campaign
-Charles W. Colson
Economy
-Food prices
-John D. Ehrlichman
-News summary
-Connally
-Unknown person
ITT case
-Flanigan statement
-Scott
-John W. Dean, III
-Letter to Senate
-Flanigan's involvement in case
-Richard W. McLaren
-Richard J. Ramsden
-Republican National Convention
-Denial
-Flanigan's reaction
The President's schedule
-Stopover on trip to Soviet Union
-Poland
-Announcement
-Day
-Ireland
-Kissinger's view
-Britain
-Northern Ireland
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Switzerland and Austria
-Azores
-Logistics
-Flying time
-Switzerland
-Kissinger's view
-Zurich and Geneva
-Facilities
-Geneva
-Political connotations
-United Nations [UN]
-Majorca
-Spain
-Protocol
-Majorca
-Bases
-Portugal
-Majorca
-Monaco
-Majorca
-Spanish Foreign Minister
-Distance from Moscow
-Madrid
-Zurich
-Greece
-US base
-Mediterranean
-Haldeman's call to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49
am.
[Conversation no. 706-2B]
[See Conversation no. 22-102]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
-Canadian trip
-The President's speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-French phrases
-Walters
-Camp David
-Preparation
-Walters
-Coaching on French
Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Confirmation of Walters
-Handling
-Praise for Walters
Canadian trip
-Walters
-Translation
White House staff
-Kissinger
-Willingness to work
-Briefing of Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon and Irina N. Dobrynin
-Meeting with prisoner of war [POW] wives
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Parents
-Quantity of energy
Haldeman talked with Walters at an unknown time between 10:10 and 10:49 am.
[Conversation no. 706-2C]
[See Conversation No. 22-103
[End of telephone conversation]
Soviet Union trip stopover
-Zurich
-Rota, Spain
-Spanish bases
-Rota, Saragossa and Seville
-Military connotations
-Switzerland
-Lucerne
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Zurich
-Advantages
-Swiss reaction
-Cooperation
-Kissinger’s view
-Clearances
-Logistics
-Facilities
-Neutrality
-Ireland
-Views
Soviet trip
-Return trip
-Arrangements
-Warsaw
-Stopover
-Switzerland
-Lucerne
-Arrival and departure
-Length of stay
-Itinerary
-Departure from US
-Time
-Arrival in Switzerland
-Departure from Switzerland
-Time
-Amount of sleep
-News reports
-Compared with Hawaiian trip
-Time change adjustments
-Switzerland
-Lucerne
-Geneva
-Austria
-Kissinger’s view
-Salzburg
-Bruno Kreisky
-Meeting with the President
-Advantages
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Ambassador
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:10 and
10:49 am.
[Conversation no. 706-2D]
[See Conversation no. 22-104]
[End of telephone conversation]
Soviet Trip
-Stopover
-Austria
-Vienna
-Salzburg
-Advantages
-NATO
-Compared with Spain
-Neutrality
-Switzerland
Haldeman talked with Kissinger between 10:49 and an unknown time before 10:54 am; the
president talked with Kissinger between an unknown time after 10:49 and 10:54 am.
[Conversation No. 706-2E]
[See Conversation No. 22-105
[End of telephone conversation]
Soviet trip
-Stopover
-Austria
-Kissinger
-Karl J. Gruber
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Compared with a trip to Ireland
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Importance
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Pro-US policies
-Salzburg
-Welcome
-Ireland
-Northern Ireland
-The President's previous trip
-Austria
-Purpose
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Social events
-Working stop
-Church service
-Possible itinerary
-Church service
-The President's attendance
-Baptist church
-Synagogue
-Baptist church
-The President's attendance
-Call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Graham
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger
-Tomb of unknown soldier
-Formal ceremony
-Departure from Moscow
-Soviet veterans
-Church service
-Call to Graham
-Schedule
-Review
-Advance party
-Arrival
-Banquet
-Ceremonial calls
-Meetings
-Ballet
-Wednesday
-Meetings
-Evening
-Dinner with Leonid I. Brezhnev
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Thursday
-Leningrad visit
-Sight-seeing
-Ballet
-Friday
-Return to Moscow
-Meeting
-Saturday
-Meeting
-Communiqué
-Banquet
-Sunday
-Church
-Soviet television address
-Time
-Kissinger
-US time
-Translation
-Method
-The President's first visit
-Six Crises account
-Compared with State Department account
-The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Monday
-Baku
-Tuesday
-Teheran
-Thursday, June 1, 1972
-Arrival in US
-Press conference in Moscow
-Kissinger, William P. Rogers and Connally
-Attendees
-Schedule
-Return to US
-Network coverage
-Equal time
-Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
-John M. Ashbrook
-California primary
-Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-The President's press conference on return
-Day
-Timing
-California primary
-Democrats
-Public opinion
-Announcement
-Foreign policy issues
-Ziegler's statement
-Discussion of trip
-Compared with PRC trip
-Interest
-Summit talks
-Vietnam
-Location
-Arrangements
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Staff
-Ziegler
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
-Klein
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-Stuart
-Work with Ziegler
-Ziegler
-Control of news
-Press
-Number
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Soviets
-Kissinger
-PRC trip
-Yuli M. Vorontsov and Soviet press attaché
-Meeting with Ziegler and Dwight L. Chapin
-Selection
-Ziegler
-Favor for friends
-Press pools
-1972 campaign
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Ziegler entered at 11:12 am.
Soviet trip
-Soviet press attaché
-Meeting with Ziegler
-Number of US newsmen present
-Press conference in Soviet Union
-Number
-Soviet press
-Press
-Number
-The President's Vice Presidential trip
-Six Crises
-Maximum
-Advantages
-Selection
-PRC trip
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Boston Globe and Newsday
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-Exclusion
-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
-Buffalo Evening News
-Dallas Morning Herald
-Pro-administration papers
-1972 campaign
-Networks
-Wire services
-Radio
-John F. Osborne
-Exclusion
-The President's news summary
-Kissinger
-Osborne
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Enemies
-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration
-James C. Hagerty
-New York Times
-Retaliation
-Number
-Soviet views
-Selection
-Limitations
-Compared with other trips
-Romania, Yugoslavia, Italy, France
-Ziegler's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-PRC trip
-Number
-Limitations
-Disadvantages
-Economic constraints of press
-Selection
-PRC trip
-Newsday and Boston Globe
-Press corps
-Attitudes
-Limitations
-Problems
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Ziegler's conversation with Dobrynin
-Previous Presidential trips
Press
-Critics
-Kennedy
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Osborne and Sidey
-Finch, Klein, Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Supporters
-Frank van der Linden
-Nashville Banner
-Victor Lasky
-News summaries
-Osborne
-Van der Linden
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Cultivation
-Ehrlichman, Kissinger and George P. Shultz
-Critics
-Winston S. Churchill
-Kissinger
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-James Keogh
-Book [President Nixon and the Press]
-Supporters
-Number
-Cultivation
-Critics
-Martin Schram
-Exclusion from Ziegler's office
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Networks
-Kissinger
-Work with Joseph C. Kraft
-Supporters
-Rowland Evans
-Chalmers M. Roberts
-Critics
-Dealings with Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Evans
-Dealings with administration officials
-Egotism
-Sans Souci
-Georgetown
Supreme Court
-“Nixon Court”
-Tendency toward liberalism
-Potter Stewart
-Conservatism
-Liberalism
-Warren E. Burger
Nancy Ziegler
-Visit to Kentucky
-Relatives
-Support for administration's policies on Vietnam
-Richard G. Kleindienst hearing
Soviet trip
-Press
-Number
-Limitation
-Soviets
-Supporters
-Inclusion
-Reader's Digest
-Small papers
-Subsidy
-William S. White
-Bantam Books
-Book on trip
-Forward by the President
-US News and World Report
-Press conference on TV
-Timing
-California primary
-Foreign policy
-Report to nation
-Equal time on TV
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-New York Times and networks
-Ashbrook
-Writing press
-Networks
-Prime time television
-Foreign policy
-Length
-Return to US
-Press conference upon return
-Timing
-California primary
-Ziegler
-Arrangements
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Press relations
-The President’s memorandum
-Reports on biological warfare treaty signing at State Department
-Networks
-Setting
-Flags
-The President's appearance
-The President's remarks
-Dobrynin
Soviet press
-Soviet Life editor
-Reports
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tea with Mrs. Dobrynin
-Kissinger
-Press release
Press relations
-Evans and Kraft
-Criticism of the President
-Dealings with Soviets
-Summit
-PRC
-Middle East
-German Treaty
Soviet Union
-Soviet Summit
-Dobrynin
-William E. Jenner
-The President's Soviet trip
-PRC trip
-Arrangements
-Soviet people
-Crowds
-Interest in the President's visit
-Stopover
-Salzburg, Austria
-Meeting with Kreisky
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] conferences
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Vienna, Austria
-Leningrad
-Baku
-Stop in Teheran, Iran
-Stop in Poland
-Crowds
-PRC
-Drama of trip
-PRC trip
-The President's first trip
-Six Crises
-Atmosphere
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-The President's speech
-Kitchen debates
-Films
-Replay
Ziegler left at 11:39 am.
Press relations
-Handling of critics
-Ziegler's opinion
-Osborne
-Sidey
-Readership
The President left at an unknown time after 11:39 am.
[No conversation]
The President entered at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.
Biological warfare treaty signing
-The President's speech
-Haldeman's presence
-Reading by Haldeman and staff
The President's schedule
-Canadian speech
-Dinner in Philadelphia
-The President's note to John Cardinal Krol
-Henry C. Cashen, II
-Absence from dinner
-Trip to Soviet Union
-The President's trip to Poland
-Visit with Krol
-Announcement
-Timing
Agnew
-Lack of media coverage
-Trip to Fort Campbell, Kentucky
-Speech to California Republican Assembly [CRA]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-News summary
-Television report
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Newspaper story
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Tricia Nixon Cox
-Schedule
-Mike Douglas Show appearance
-Table tennis matches
-Space shot
-Time
-Audience
-Table tennis match
-Audience
-Left wing
-Homosexuals
-Tennis audience
-Make-up
-Left wing
-Homosexuals
-Bill Tilden
-Compared with opera audiences
-Attire
-Television
-Value
-Location
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
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Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Outcome
-Length
-Critics
-Fear of US success
-Caution
-Tet offensive
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.’s book
-Victory for US
-Enemy losses
-Compared with 1972 offensive
-Viet Cong elements
-North Vietnamese elements
-Buddhists
-Support for Nguyen Van Thieu government
-The President's critics
-Caution
-North Vietnamese offensive
-South Vietnamese victories and defeats
-I Corps
-Weather
-B-52s
-Symbolism
-Naval gunfire
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Public reactions
-“Hawks”
-Show of strength
-College campuses
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Apathy
-Minnesota and University of California at Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Vietnam
-Marches
-PRC
-Bombing in North Vietnam
-April 22, 1972 national march
-Timing
-Possible coordination with North Vietnam
-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Problems
-Lack of support
-Antiwar protests
-Size and scope
-Chicago
ITT case
-Media coverage
-Advantages
-Public interest
-POWs
-Bombers
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-POWs
-North Vietnamese actions
-US reaction
-Blockade
-Soviet reactions
-Effect on Summit
-Mining
-Option
-Soviet ships
-Options other than nuclear weapons or US ground forces
-The President's Biological Warfare Treaty signing statement
-George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Dobrynin
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
Domestic issues
-Ehrlichman
-Food prices
-Crime
-Note from the President
-Speeches
-Work with White House
-White House staff
-Speeches
-Scheduling
-Material for surrogates
-Edward L. Morgan
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Weekly meetings with surrogates
-Inspirations
-Kissinger
-Briefings
-Frequency
-Speakers
-Self-confidence
-Ehrlichman
-Self-confidence
-Attacks on opposition
-White House involvement
-Ehrlichman
-Leadership meetings
-Food prices
-Decline
-Wholesale prices
-Leadership
-The President
-Price Board
-John B. Connally
-Publicity
-Connally
-Amount
-Drugs
-Marijuana
-The President's speech
-Preparations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Ehrlichman
-Crime
-Prices
-Busing
-Drugs
-Relation to crime
-Busing
-Prices, inflation, labor
Foreign policy
-The President's leadership
-Emphasis
Vietnam
-Media
-B-52 strikes
-The President's responsibility
-Credit to the President
-The President's leadership
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Location of fleet
-B-52s
-Results
-Credit for the President's success
-Compared with Cambodia
-Melvin R. Laird and Rogers
-Statements
-Rogers
-Caution
-Kissinger
-Defense of Administration
-Possible talk with Haldeman
-Negotiations
-The President's speech
-Kissinger and William L. Safire
-Negotiations
-William J. Porter
-Canadian speech
-Soviet Union
The President's trip to Canada
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Demonstrators
-Restrictions
-Canadian Mounted Police
-Aleksei N. Kosygin’s experience
-Reception in Parliament
-Itinerary in Ottawa
Vietnam
-Rogers
-Defense of Administration
-Caution
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Personal concerns
-Press
-Long-range interests
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Economic issue
-Unemployment figures
-Positive aspect
-Prices
-Unemployment
-Prices
-Food
-Big business
-Food prices
-Need for dramatic action
-Freeze
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Protection
-Options
-Timing
-Eventual decline
-Meat prices
-Jawboning
-Effects
-Inflation
-Herbert Stein's memorandum
-Problems
-Midyear report
-Timing
-Democratic National Convention
-Connally's response
-Advantages
-Press
-Speakers
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:39 am.
Refreshment
The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office
Economy
-The President's midyear report
-Connally's view
-Call from Haldeman
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.
Government
-Disenchantment
-Youth
-The President's trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Appeal
Media
-Problem for administration
-New York Times review of James Keogh's book, President Nixon and the Press
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Coverage of the President
-Evaluation
-Reasons
-Favorable coverage
-Administration's efforts
-Bad press
-Compared with Kennedy
-Publicity concerning PRC trip
-Ziegler
-Publicity for administration
-PRC trip
-New China Hands momento
-Ziegler
-White House staff
-Secret Service
-Airplane crews
-Ziegler
-Social events for press
-Impact and worth
-Klein
-Rogers
-Social contacts with press
-Newsmen's response
-Dealings with the President on a social level
-Supporters
-Van der Linden
-Critics
-Cynicism
-Supporters
-Critics
-Reactions
-Ziegler
-White House Correspondents Association
-Edgar A. Poe, president
-Gridiron president
-Lack of control
-Gridiron dinner
-Conversation with Haldeman
-The President's absence
-Soviet trip
-White House subsidy
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-Ziegler
-Trip expenses
-Air fare
-Hotel
-The President's plane
-Waiver of charges
-Confidentiality
-South Carolina trip
-Funeral
-Gridiron dinner
-The President's absence
Weather
-Spring in Washington, DC
-Cherry blossoms
-Festival
The President’s schedule
-Arbor Day
-Tree plantings
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The President as head of non-government organizations
-Boy Scouts of America
-Meetings
-Frequency
-Red Cross
-Television
-Tricia Nixon Cox
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(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 706-2 (cont.)
-United Way
The President and Haldeman left at 12:35 pm.
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