825–10

Conversation No. 825-10

Date: December 16, 1972
Time: 10:50 am - 11:08 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
-Telephone calls
-Thomas G. Dunn
-The President’s conversation with Thomas G. Dunn, Jr. at reception
for 1972 election supporters
-Health
-Heart surgery
-Timing

Elmer H. Bobst Library dedication
-Possible telephone call to Bobst
-Rose Mary Woods’s view
-Cabinet members’ schedules
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Conversation No. 825-10 (cont’d)

-Cabinet dinner
-The President’s letter to Bobst
-Handwriting

[Signing documents]

Harry S. Truman
-Possible death
-White House press corps [?]
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-The President’s schedule
-Church service, December 17, 1972
-John Cardinal Krol
-Possible cancellation
-Cabinet dinner

[Signing documents]

Max Lerner

Ronald L. Ziegler entered and Butterfield left at an unknown time after 10:50 am.

Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing
-Ziegler’s conversations with Kissinger

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:50 am and
11:08 am.

[Conversation No. 825-10A]

[See Conversation No. 34-94]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger’s briefing
-Ziegler’s conversations with Kissinger
-Timing
-Posture
-Press relations
-Kissinger’s “peace is at hand” statement, October 26, 1972
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Conversation No. 825-10 (cont’d)

-North Vietnam’s delays

Second term reorganization
-John A. Scali
-Announcement
-Leaks
-Washington Star article
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-William A. Gill, Jr.
-1970 report at United Nations [UN] by Scali
-Press relations
-William P. Rogers’s view
-Press relations
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s news summary addendum
-Peter J. Brennan
-Scali
-Brennan
-Changes
-The President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Interior and Labor Departments
-Bureaucracy, Executive branch
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Scali
-Ethnicity
-Religion
-Catholicism
-Brennan, Roy L. Ash
-Scali
-Ambassadorship to UN
-Ash
-Cabinet
-Number
-Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Cabinet continuity
-Rogers
-Cabinet changes
-Catholicism
-Italian-American [Scali]
-Labor leaders [Brennan]
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Conversation No. 825-10 (cont’d)

-Martin P. Durkin
-Number
-Rogers
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Sub-cabinet
-Rogers
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Morton
-George P. Shultz
-Treasury Department
-Departures
-Number
-Compared to previous administrations
-Cabinet’s regional representation
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-James T. Lynn
-Ohio
-The President’s reception for 1972 election supporters
-Shultz
-Illinois
-Massachusetts
-California
-South Carolina
-White House staff cuts
-Haldeman
-December 16, 1972 article
-Timing
-Ziegler’s conversation with Haldeman
-Percentages
-Haldeman’s possible briefing

Kissinger’s briefing
-Preparation
-Ziegler’s role

Second term reorganization
-Press relations
-Cabinet changes
-Catholics, Italian-Americans
-Under Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries changes
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Conversation No. 825-10 (cont’d)

-Cabinet changes
-The President’s role
-Haldeman
-Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner
-Jerry Greene
-Significance
-Compared to Under Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries changes
-Bureaucracy
-Assistant Secretaries and Schedule C
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s view
-1964 election
-John B. Connally
-Ambassadors
-Ziegler’s staff
-William L. Safire

Ronald Ziegler left at 11:08 am.