780–7

Conversation No. 780-7

Date: September 16, 1972
Time: 9:26 am - 10:20 am
Location: Oval Office

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

The President talked with Charles W. Colson between 9:26 am and 9:27 am.

[Conversation No. 780-7A]

Washington Post article
-National Archives

Indictment of White House aide
-Harry S. Truman aide
-Jail term
-Harry H. Vaughan
-Missouri
-Mathew J. Connelly
-Press secretary
-Jail term
-Research
-Kennneth W. Clawson
-Lyndon B. Johnson aide
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Walter W. Jenkins

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

[End of telephone conversation]

Washington Post article
-Colson
-The President’s view
-Media coverage
-National Archives

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:27 am.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger meeting
-Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:46 am.

Kissinger


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Kissinger's trip
-Previous meeting with the President
-Kissinger's schedule
-Talks with Le Duc Tho
-Talks with Leonid I. Brezhnev
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Talks with Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Talks with Edward R.G. Heath
-Talks with Willy Brandt
-Comparison to the President
-Negotiations
-Kissinger's meeting with William P. Rogers
-Kissinger's negotiating results
-The President’s view
-Importance of press briefing
-Peter G. Peterson
-Government agencies
-The President’s re-election
-State Department
-Commerce Department

Possible leaks
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Dan Rather’s story
-Kissinger
-Leaked documents
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Blockade
-Effectiveness
-Tonnage shipped into Vietnam
-David R. Young, Jr.
-The President’s instructions
-Richard M. Helms
-Distribution of documents
-William H. Rehnquist
-Document distribution
-Distribution of documents
-Kissinger, Haig
-Personal action
-Young
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation

White House personnel
-John W. Dean, III
-John D. Ehrlichman
-The President’s view
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Ehrlichman
-O’Brien
-The President’s view
-Dean
-The President’s view
-Differences between Dean and Ehrlichman
-Haldeman’s view
-Ehrlichman
-Firing of personnel
-Walter J. Hickel
-President’s view
-Dean
-Haldeman’s view
-Image
-Social relations
-Rock music
-Discotheques
-Hollywood
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Judgement of people
-Haldeman’s view
-Frank C. Carlucci
-The President’s view
-Compared to Robert Stripling, House Un-American Activities Committee
[HUAC] investigator
-The President’s view
-Actions
-Second term
-Dean
-Fredric V. Malek
-Colson
-Carlucci
-Haldeman’s view
-White House personnel
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-Staff actions
-Ziegler
-Performance as press secretary
-The President’s view
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-George E. Christian
-John B. Connally
-Aid to the President
-Writing ability
-Foreign policy speech
-Style
-White House speech writers
-The President’s view
-Working relations
-Haldeman’s view
-Speech style
-The President's style
-Compared to Connally
-White House speech writers
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President’s view
-Dean
-Second term plans
-Cleanup period
-Schedule
-Vacancies
-Cuts
-Changes in personnel
-White House staff cuts
-Jobs outside administration
-Promotions
-Departmental jobs
-H. Dale Grubb
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Haldeman aide
-Study of agencies
-Appointments by the President and Cabinet officers
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Changes
-Cutbacks
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Role
-Reduction-in-force [RIF]
-State Department
-Congressional relations
-Revision in philosophy
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Tape Subject Log
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-Effect of 1972 election victory margin
-White House Congressional liaison
-Cutback
-Attitude
-Johnson years
-Bryce Harlow
-Edward C. Nixon


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-Edward Nixon
-Protocol office
-East wing
-Capabilities
-Relations with public
-Possible role
-Relations with business groups
-Teachers
-Roger E. Johnson
-Capabilities
-Relations with people
-Image as the President's friend

Watergate
-Media coverage
-Television report
-Interview of Cubans
-Communist conspiracy
-Democratic Party
-George S. McGovern
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

Henry Kissinger entered at 9:46 am.

Greetings

US-Soviet Union relations
-Timing of announcements
-Haig
-Rogers’s reaction to negotiations
-US-Soviet Union trade agreement
-Kissinger’s meeting with Roger’s
-October 1972
-Normal diplomatic routes
-European Security Conference
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MFBR]
-Agreement date
-Rogers
-Meetings with foreign ministers
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Diplomatic channels
-Announcement
-State Department prepatory work
-Rogers’s reaction
-European Security Conference
-MBFR
-SALT II
-Trade agreement
-Haldeman’s view
-SALT
-Ceremony
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Timing
-Publicity
-Leonid I. Brezhnev meeting with the President
-SALT ceremony
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Gromyko
-Trip to Camp David
-Dinner arrangements
-New facilities
-Message to Brezhnev
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Press reaction
-White House meeting
-Rogers
-US embassy in Moscow
-Personnel
-Dinner arrangements
-Timing of announcements
-SALT
-US-Soviet Union trade agreement
-Announcement date
-Haldeman’s view
-Legal discussions
-US-Soviet Union Trade Agreement
-Rogers
-Reaction to breakthrough
-Scope of agreement
-Kissinger’s view
-Monetary figures
-Trade center in Moscow
-Facilities
-International arbitration
-Announcement
-Businessmen conference
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Peter G. Peterson’s role
-Armand Hammer
-Komitet Gossudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti [KGB] allegation
-Support for President’s policy
-Pre-notification concerns
-Haldeman’s view
-Grain sale to Soviet Union
-Problems
-Soviet Union actions
-Public perception
-Grain dealers
-Profit
-Earl L. Butz
-Retroactive policy
-US Business in the Soviet Union
-Arbitration
-Soviet courts
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Timing of announcements
-Maritime agreement
-European security conference
-SALT II
-Announcement
-Trade agreement
-Media coverage
-Soviet view
-Options
-European security conference and MBFR
-Rogers
-Soviet negotiating style
-The President’s schedule
-SALT II
-East Germany/West Germany treaty
-Berlin
-Impact on US
-Brezhnev message to the President
-Lin Piao
-Airplane crash
-Possible bomb
-Photographs
-Dental and medical work in the Soviet Union
-Brezhnev gift to the President
-Tray
-State flags
-Semi-precious stones
-Pictures of presidents
-George Washington
-Abraham Lincoln
-The President
-White House gift
-Tray with state flags
-The President’s gift to Brezhnev
-Coins
-Presidential flag
-Brezhnev
-Relations with the President
-Kissinger’s view
-Minister for Shipping
-Maritime agreement
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Timetable for conclusion
-Visit to Camp David
-Laurel lodge
-Possible May 1973 arrival

1972 election
-Pompidou
-French television
-Comments on Vietnam War
-1972 Presidential election
-Abram Chayes
-England
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Reports
-Pompidou
-Chatham House meeting
-George S. McGovern position
-Left-wing Labor Party
-Reaction
-Kissinger’s forthcoming press conference
-European relations with US
-Approach
-Meeting with the President after 1972 election

Kissinger’s press forthcoming conference
-1972 accomplishments
-Relations between great powers
-World peace
-US negotiations
-PRC and the Soviet Union
-Basis of relations
-Direct confrontation
-Cooperativeness
-Importance
-Meeting with Japanese
-Latin American
-Africa
-Messages from the President
-Paris Herald-Tribune editorial
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-The President’s initiative
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Tape Subject Log
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-Announcements
-White House initiative

Haldeman left at 10:00 am.


-Trade agreement negotiations
-Peterson’s efforts
-Dealing with other powers
-Efforts at highest level
-Second-level negotiations
-Kissinger’s effectiveness
-Qualities
-Kissinger’s role
-Relationship to the President
-Trade ministers
-PRC
-Chou En-Lai
-US current relations
-Chou En-Lai
-Brezhnev
-Pompidou
-Heath
-Brandt
-Attitude towards US
-Television appearance with Kissinger
-The President’s policies
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Haircut
-Negotiations
-Timetable of breakthroughs
-Kissinger’s wording
-The President’s suggestions
-The President’s review of progress
-Lend-lease
-SALT
-MBFR
-Brezhnev and the President’s previous summer in Moscow
-Communique
-Kissinger’s meeting with Brezhnev
-Interchange of messages
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-State Department
-Presidential level talks
-Details
-Issues
-Trade agreement
-Brezhnev
-Soviet Jewish emigration
-Lend-lease
-Monetary figures
-Timetable for payments by Soviets
-Five-year plan
-1976
-Commodity credit corporation credit [CCC]
-Press relations
-Publicity
-Kissinger’s view
-Maritime agreement
-Most-favored nation status [MFN] for Soviet Union

Kissinger’s schedule
-Barber

Kissinger’s forthcoming press conference
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Maritime agreement
-MFN
-Lend-lease agreement
-Trade center
-Negotiations
-The President’s communications with Brezhnev
-Kissinger’s communications with the President
-Cables
-Commercial channels
-MBFR
-Communiqué
-Haig
-Rogers
-Paris negotiations
-Proposals
-North Vietnamese proposal for public release
-International Control Commission [ICC]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Possible leak
-Kissinger’s forthcoming negotiations
-Timing
-US domestic impact

Vietnam peace talks
-North Vietnam
-Possible settlement
-Kissinger’s views
-Concerns
-Motivations
-Meeting length
-Meeting length
-Le Duc Tho
-Ziegler’s briefing
-Timetable for negotiating
-The President’s trip to west coast
-News coverage
-Campaign finance dinner
-Timetable for negotiations
-News coverage
-The President’s view
-Ziegler
-Announcement
-North Vietnamese proposal
-Administration response
-McGovern
-Disclosure of peace talks

Photograph session
-Ziegler
Vietnam peace talks
-Settlement
Kissinger’s conversation with Le Duc Tho

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 10:00 am.

Photograph session
-Ziegler
-Timing
-Kissinger
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Haircut

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:15 am.

Vietnam peace talks
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Le Duc Tho
-Administration’s interest
-Rogers
-North Vietnamese
-The President’s view
-Behavior in war

Vietnam
-Leak of blockade story
-Source
-CIA
-State Department
-Ray S. Cline
-State Department
-Background
-CIA
-Rogers
-Study
-Purpose
-Kissinger

Alexander P. Butterfield and Ziegler entered at 10:15 am.

Kissinger’s schedule
-Haircut

Butterfield left at 10:16 am.

Folders for Haig

Ziegler left at 10:18 am.

The President’s schedule
-Trip to New York
-Invitation to Kissinger
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Camp David

Kissinger meeting with Peterson
-Peterson’s role

Vietnam peace talks
-North Vietnamese position
-Perception of US in negotiations
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-The President’s view
-Sorties
-Kissinger’s view
-October, November 1972
-Effects of blockade on North Vietnam
-CIA study
-Oil
-Railways
-Bombing
-North Vietnam
-The President’s re-election
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Bombing
-Mining
-Communist government in [South Vietnam]

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 10:18 am.

The President's schedule
-Papers

The President, Kissinger and Ziegler left at 10:20 am.