Conversation No. 264-005
Date: July 21, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:05 am and 1:14 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Meeting regarding labor
-Meeting with Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Meeting with Melvin R. Laird
-Trip
-Possible meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-National Security Council [NSC] briefing
-Diplomatic credentials ceremony
-Peter G. Peterson
-Foreign trade meeting
-Kissinger's congressional meeting
-Congressman
-Clark MacGregor’s view about leadership meeting
-John J. McCloy [?]
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The President’s schedule
-Congressman
-Robert J. Dole
-President’s opinion
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The President’s schedule
-Congressman
-Future leadership meetings
-Frequency
-Connally’s view
-MacGregor
-Budget meetings
-Location, time, frequency, duration
-Participants
-Kissinger
-Duration
-Future Farmers of America
-President’s participation
-Oval Office tour
-Other farm-related meetings
-[Dwight D.] Eisenhower silver dollar
-Connally
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-Congressional Cabinet participation
-Mary T. Brooks
-Meeting with Alfred P. Chamie
-Trip to Vietnam
-Indonesian Ambassador to the US
-Return to Indonesia
-Request for meeting
-Otto E. Passman
-Request for presidential phone call
-Monroe, LA drug conference
-John S. Davies
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-Departure from Washington
-Possible dinner in the White House Residence
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Patrick J. and Shelley S. Buchanan
-Arrangements
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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The President’s schedule
-John S. Davies
-The President’s opinion
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The President’s schedule
-John S. Davies
-Meeting option
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The President’s schedule
-John S. Davies
-Dinner
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The President’s schedule
-Olin E. (“Tiger”) Teague
-Request for meeting to discuss legislation
-Donald E. Johnson, Charles M. Teague, George P. Shultz
-Congressional staff reception on White House South Lawn
-Congressional recess
-Previous event
-Air Force One
-Naming of plane "Spirit of '76"
-Announcement
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.
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The President’s schedule
-Kenneth Milhous
-White House tour on July 21, 1971
-President’s office
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The President’s schedule
-Dr. Stanley H. Bear (?)
-Departure from the White House staff
-Meeting with the President
-Presidential trip
-Rathbun Dam, Ottumwa, Iowa
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-Presidential appearance at dedication ceremony
-Conservation issue
-Previous water project dedications
-Arkansas
-Mobile, Alabama
-Canton, Ohio
-Professional Football Hall of Fame
-Parade, induction ceremony
-Wellington T. Mara
-Vincent T. (“Vince”) Lombardi
-The President's speech
-Logistics
-The Bohemian Grove
[Pause]
-Order of events
-The President's meetings with Republican Congressmen
-Sessions
-MacGregor
-Frequency
-Attendance
-Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends
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The President’s schedule
-The President's meetings with Republican Congressmen
-Robert P. Griffin
-President’s opinion
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The President’s schedule
-The President's meetings with Republican Congressmen
-Compared to Eisenhower administration
-Bryce Harlow
-Cabinet meeting
-Congress
-MacGregor
-Schedule
-Presidential trips
-Bohemian Grove
-California
-Canton, Ohio
-Dayton, Ohio
-Republican women's federation
-October trip to Washington
-Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Congressional recess
-President Josip Broz Tito's state visit in October, 1971
-Florida
-Trip to Maine
-Timing
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-Cancellation of event in Hawaii
-Cost
-Asian trip
-Maine
-Timing
-Congress
-Dallas
-Timing
-New York
-Knights of Columbus event
-New England trip
-Maine
-New Hampshire
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-Shipyard event
-Portsmouth
-Apollo 15 spacecraft splashdown
-New England states
-Mid-Atlantic, western states
-Trip to the PRC
-Departure from California
-”Gateway to the Orient”
-Return stops in Hawaii, Alaska
-Advance
-Kissinger
-Separation from other staff members
-Kissinger's role
-Press contingent
-Television networks, wire services
-Newspapers, magazines, radio
-The New York Times, the Washington Post
-Henry A. Grunwald
-Stopover in Hawaii
-Advantages
-California departure
-San Francisco
-The President's role in trip arrangements
-Secret Service
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The President’s schedule
Trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Routine preparations
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The President’s schedule
Trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Security arrangements
Ambassadorial appointments
-Japan
-The President's conversation with David M. Kennedy
-Peterson
-Connally
-Kennedy
-William P. Rogers
-Age
-The State Department
-Channels of communication
-Leaks
-Kennedy's view of State Department
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Ambassadorial appointments
-Japan
-David M. Kennedy’s recommendation
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s opinion
-Gerald R. Ford [?]
-The President’s opinion
-Peter G. Peterson’s opinion
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Ambassadorial appointments
-Japan
-Rogers
The President's military aides
-Kissinger
-Appearance
-Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Ceremonial visits contrasted with routine duty
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The President’s military aides
-Glen [?] Wheeler
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-Rose Mary Woods’ assessment
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s assessment
-Director of public affairs at Agency for International Development [AID]
-Money
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-The President’s opinion
-Robert H. Abplanalp’s phone call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Previous White House job offer
-African embassy
-Loyalty
-Demeanor needed for the job
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Article about the President
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Look
-Reprint in the Reader's Digest
-Amount of time needed for meeting with the President
-Contact with others on the White House staff
-Kissinger, John D. Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Contact with Rose Mary Woods, other White House staff
Voluntary action centers
-Progress report
-Staff
-Locations
-Funding
-Lenore L. Romney
-"Right to Read" program
-Youth
-Senators
The Bicentennial
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.
-Pennsylvania
-Washington, DC
-Boston, Massachusetts
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-Virginia
-Miami, Florida
-Mahoney
Efforts to appeal to youth
-Finch
-Charles W. Colson
-The PRC
-Vietnam
Personnel
-Rogers
-John Richardson, Jr.
-Educational and Cultural Affairs post
-Previous job with Radio Free Europe
-Political work
-Youth focus
-Public affairs position
-Political orientation
-Possible task force
-Youth, PRC
Conservatives
-Young Americans for Freedom [YAF]
-John Birch Society
-Current status compared to California, 1962
-PRC
-Laos, Cambodia actions in the Vietnam war
-Reaction of the right
Congressional leaders
-Centrists
-Colson
-John B. Connally
-MacGregor
-Role
-William E. Timmons
President’s schedule
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-Breakfasts
-Chowder and Marching Society
-Supporters
Youth issue
-YAF
Economic issues
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Wage-price controls
-Keynsian economic theory
-Public opinion
-Labor unions, business
-Socialists, Communists
-Galbraith, Walter W. Heller
-George P. Shultz
-Democrats
-Economic spokesman
-Speech
-William L. Safire's recommendations
-The President's Kansas City speech
-Peterson
-Radio speech
-Steel strike
-Effect as example of public leadership
-Connally
-David Lawrence's column
-Chou En-lai
-PRC initiative
-Radio
Foreign relations
-Vietnam War
-Kissinger
-Hanoi
-South Vietnam
-The PRC initiative
-Roles, responsibilities
-Rogers
-Kissinger, the President
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-Agnew
-Laird
-Rogers, Laird, Kissinger
The President's schedule
-Finch, Rumsfeld
-Finch
-Job offers
-Mexico [Ambassadorship]
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Rumsfeld
-Finch
-California
-Reagan
-Rumsfeld
-Counsellor position
-Arthur F. Burns, [Surname unintelligible], Finch, Rumsfeld
-Frequency of staff and Cabinet meetings
-Paul W. McCracken
-Shultz
-Burns’ request for a meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Loyalty to administration
Presidential leadership
-Public relations
-PRC initiative compared to other foreign travel
-Family Assistance Program
-Eisenhower’s statement on trip to Korea
Kissinger entered at 12:40 pm.
-The President’s current conversation with Haldeman
-The PRC initiative
-Roles
-Rogers, Kissinger, the President
-Hugh S. Sidey
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-President’s request for Kissinger to talk to Sidey
-Press
-Rogers
-Kissinger compared to Rogers
-[Forename not given] Alsop’s article
-The President’s 1969 trip to Romania, European countries
-The myth of leadership
-Eisenhower’s trip to Korea
-John F. Kennedy and Cuba
-PRC initiative
-Domestic policy
-Foreign policy
Foreign relations
-State Department
-US-USSR summit
-Timing of announcement
-Vietnam War
-Settlement
-US troop withdrawal
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Dobrynin’s meeting with Maurice H. Stans personal assistant
-Invitation to Stans to visit USSR
-Dobrynin’s conversation with Kissinger
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Foreign relations
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Maurice H. Stans
-Invitation to visit United Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-No reason to be first cabinet member to visit
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-Henry A. Kissinger’s opinion
-The President’s opinion
-Willing to follow orders
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Foreign relations
-Stans possible visit to USSR
-Staff assistance
-Winston Lord
-Tone of trip
-Establishment of precedent
-Finch
-Rumsfeld
-Instructions to Cabinet
-Trips by others
-PRC
-USSR
-Announcement of US-USSR summit
-Timing
-US-PRC summit
-Economic matters
-Dobrynin
-Stans
-Kissinger’s conversations with Dobrynin
-The President
-Ford’s inquiry
-Mack truck deal
-Size
-Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania
-Negotiations
-President’s request for Kissinger to call Ford
-Policy on trips by Cabinet members
-Stans
-Rogers
-Request for Kissinger to call Howard Stein
-Economic developments
-US dollar
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-Roles and responsibilities
-Stans
-The President, Kissinger
-The PRC initiative, Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s conversation with Sidey
-Comparison to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Kissinger
-Dealings with the press
-The New York Times
-Attitude
-Max Frankel
-Henry A. Grunwald
-Hedley W. Donovan
-[First name not given] [Thomas?] Griffith
-John W. Gardner, John V. Lindsay, Edmund S. Muskie
-Sidey
-Role of writer vis-a-vis editor
-Griffith
-Grunwald
-Newsweek, the Washington Post
-Grunwald
-Cyrus R. Vance, W. Averell Harriman
-George H.W. Bush
-Newsweek
-Stans proposed trip to USSR
-Dobrynin
-Stans’ possible statements
-Robert J. Dole
-Proposed trip to Vietnam
-Senator
-The PRC
-Conservatives
-Role as Republican National Committee Chairman as compared to role as
US Senator
-Comparison to Ronald W. Reagan's proposed trip to Taiwan
-The South Korean government
-[Forename unknown] Gallagher
-Taiwan
-George A. Murphy
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-Kissinger's dinner in New York City
-Comments about the PRC initiative
-The Vietnam war
-Frankel
-Perception of issue
-Vietnam negotiations
-Forthcoming meeting
-Issues
-Coalition government in South Vietnam
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Options
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Ford
-President’s forthcoming conversation with Dole
Kissinger left at 1:05 pm.
-Kissinger's role
-Coordination of public relations effort
-”Nixon initiative”
-Colson
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting at 3:00 pm
Connally
-Haldeman’s conversation with Harlow
-Agnew
-Role of Vice President
-Possible resignation
-Travel, speaking engagements
-Compared to Johnson
-Harlow
-Possible future
-Kissinger
-Agnew
Haldeman left at 1:14 pm.
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