Secret White House Tapes

301–7

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301–7
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
November 3, 1971
Conversation No. 301-7

Date: November 3, 1971
Time: 9:00 am - 12:14 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 9:00 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7R]

[End of telephone conversation]

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

National economy
-Pending tax legislation
-Impact on business
-Marianne H. Means's views

The President talked with Charles W. Colson at an unknown time between 9:00 am and 9:11 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7A]

[See Conversation No. 13-83]

[End of telephone conversation]

Frank L. Rizzo

The President talked with Rizzo between 9:12 am and 9:13 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7B]

[See Conversation No. 13-84]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rizzo
-Support for the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:13 am and
9:16 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7C]

[See Conversation No. 13-85]

[End of telephone conversation]

1971 elections
-San Diego
-Pete Wilson
-Harry S. Dent
-Johnny Luckner [sp?], former city manager of San Diego
-The President’s 1950 campaign manager in San Diego

The White House operator talked with the President at 9:16 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7D]

[See Conversation No. 13-86]

[End of telephone conversation]

1971 elections
-Cleveland
-Carl Stokes

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:16 am and
9:19 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7E]

[See Conversation No. 13-87]

[End of telephone conversation]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


Rizzo
-Schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman's forthcoming call
-Revenue sharing

Revenue-sharing
-Newly elected mayors

The White House operator talked with the President at 9:19 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7F]

[See Conversation No. 13-88]

[End of telephone conversation]

Revenue-sharing
-Wilson's view

1971 elections
-Kentucky
-Louis B. Nunn
-The President’s possible appearance
-San Francisco
-Joseph L. Alioto
-Candidates
-Indictment
-Kentucky
-Virginia
-Kentucky
-Richard G. Lugar
-Victory margin
-The President’s telephone conversation of November 2, 1971
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


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Louis P. Harris poll
-Vietnam
-Significance as issue

Paul W. Keyes
-View on satire

Philip Roth's book, Our Gang
-Movie, \"Millhouse\"
-Newsweek review
-White House staff
-Responses
-Content
-Trick E. Dixon
-Abortion
-The President’s statement of April 3, 1971
-William L. Calley, Jr.
-New York Times review
-Sales
-Roth
-Other works
-Goodbye, Columbus
-Portnoys’s Complaint
-Obscenity charges
-Supreme Court case
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-John N. Mitchell

Movie, \"Tricia's Wedding\"
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Viewing by White House staff members
-Producers and actors
-Anti-Establishment
-Rose F. Kennedy
-Janus theatre
-Length of film
-Schedule

Movie, \"Millhouse\"
-Possible viewing
-Keyes

Satire
-Possible effect

The President talked with Ralph J. Perk between 9:25 am and 9:26 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7G]

[See Conversation No. 13-89; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Perk
-Attendance at White House church service
-Recognition as a mayoral candidate

1971 election
-[Mississippi]
-James Charles Evers
-Medgar W. Evers

Movies and book about the President
-White House response
-Origin
-Anti-Establishment
-Movie, \"Millhouse\"
-Emile de Antonio
-Media response
-Financing
-Use of network film clips
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Haldeman’s possible viewing
-Satire
-Possible effect
-Our Gang
-Newsweek
-Underground newspapers
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy
-The President's \"Checkers\" speech
-The President's 1962 post-election press conference
-\"Millhouse\"
-Use of historic footage
-Reviews
-Colson, Richard A. Moore and Haldeman
-John W. Dean III
-Stanholtz [sp?] [first name unknown]
-White House response

Watergate
-\"Millhouse\"
-Distribution
-Peter M. Flanigan's possible efforts
-Distribution
-Adult theatres
-Clientele
-Underground theatres
-Clientele
-Keyes's views
-Effect
-Reviews
-News summaries
-Our Gang
-“Milhouse”
-Unknown person
-de Antonio
-Background
-Roth
-Background
-Supreme Court case
-Other works
-Novellas
-White House response
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Anti-semitism

Richard Tucker
-Background

Anti-semites

Park
-Forthcoming call


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1971 elections
-W. Thacher Longstreth's campaign
-The President's possible call
-Rizzo
-Lugar
-Issues
-Wilson
-Robert H. Finch
-1962 campaign
-San Francisco
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Compared to Harold S. Dobbs
-Ethnic groups
-Alioto

Possible political support for the President
-Catholics
-Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Domestic Council staff
-Aid to parochial schools
-Cities, Jews and blacks
-Guest lists
-Dinner, November 2, 1971
-Ethnic representation
-Blacks
-Italians, Polish names
-Colson's relations with Rose Mary Woods
-The President's perusal
-Dinner, November 2, 1971
-Robert J. Brown
-Booker T. Bradshaw
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

1971 elections
-Bond issues
-Nelson A. Rockefeller and John V. Lindsay
-New Jersey
-State legislature
-Issues
-The President’s economic policies
-H. John Heinz III
-Unknown people

Unknown congressman [Donald W. Riegle, Jr.?] from Michigan
-Paul N. McCloskey


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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


William McMahon
-State Dinner, November 2, 1971


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AUSTRALIA


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Jacqueline Kennedy
-Apparel
-Visit to the White House

The President's schedule
-Phone calls
-Wilson
-Mitchell and Haldeman
-Time

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:26 am and 9:59 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7H]

Wilson's election
-Victory

[End of telephone conversation]

1971 elections
-Mayoral races
-Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration years
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Republican National Committee
-Longstreth
-Campaign
-Stance toward the Administration
-Rizzo
-Value to administration
-Vote count
-Compared to Richard J. Daley
-Cleveland

Edmund S. Muskie
-Statement by mother

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Delegates behavior
-James L. Buckley
-[Ronald L. Ziegler]
-Frank F. Church
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Gale W. McGee
-Statement
-Nigeria, Ireland and Trinidad and Tobago
-Foreign aid bill
-The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China
[PRC]
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Jackson
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Humphrey
-Statement
-Republicans
-William B. Saxbe
-Statement
-As an issue
-McGee

Foreign aid program
-Continuing resolution
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Barry M. Goldwater
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


Presidency

Woods talked with the President between 9:59 am and 10:00 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7I]

[See Conversation No. 13-90]

[End of telephone conversation]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:00 am.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with arms control delegation
-Negotiating position
-Leaks
-Forthcoming summit
-The President’s view
-The President's foreign trips
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-PRC
-Concessions
-William P. Rogers
-Gerard C. Smith
-Press
-Public concerns
-Conservatives
-USSR
-Offensive weapons
-Possible National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Negotiators' activities
-Esoterica
-Credit
-USSR Summit
-Smith
-Kissinger's possible call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President's forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Summit

McMahon
-Meeting with the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Press reaction


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AUSTRALIA


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-George H. Gallup poll

The President's schedule
-Foreign travel
-PRC trip
-Japan, Australia

McMahon
-Conversation with the President
-Polls on Vietnam

Vietnam
-Harris poll
-Colson
-The President’s conduct of the war
-Public opinion
-Republicans
-The President’s meeting with Congressman, November 2, 1971
-Clark MacGregor
-Marlow W. Cook
-Washington Post story, November 3, 1971
-Continuing resolution, November 15, 1971
-Foreign aid program
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Continuing resolution
-Cooper-Church Amendment
-Rogers
-Wording
-Troop withdrawal
-Use of air power
-Impact on negotiations
-Negotiations
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Troop withdrawal
-Air power
-Cooper-Church Amendment
-Rogers
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing
-Continuing resolution

Smith

Kissinger left at 10:10 am.

Rogers
-Stand on positions

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger
-Timing
-Troop withdrawal rate
-Timing
-Residual force
-The President's conversation with Rogers
-Le Duc Tho
-Timing
-Rogers
-State of the Union speech

State of the Union speech
-Handling
-Domestic issues
-Possible meeting with Congressional leaders
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Timing
-Early release

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing
-Progress reports
-John A. Scali
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Format
-Press
-Troop withdrawal rate
-Timing
-Melvin R. Laird's statement, November 2, 1971
-Casualties
-Press coverage
-Harris poll
-Colson
-Possible announcement
-End of war
-“Generation of peace”
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Unknown man's views
-Broad perspective
-Possible world tour
-PRC, USSR
-Memorandum
-Public expectations
-Withdrawal rate
-Residual rate
-Timing
-Casualties
-Draftees
-Laird's view
-Public view
-Rogers

Value Added Tax [VAT]

The President's schedule
-Trips to USSR and PRC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Rogers
-Foreign travel
-Japan
-Eisaku Sato
-Australia
-New Zealand
-Canada
-Latin America
-Europe
-Rogers
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Willy Brandt
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Vienna
-Foreign visitors
-Heath
-Key Biscayne
-San Clemente
-Los Angeles dinner
-Harrison McCall
-Astronauts dinner
-Brandt
-Nobel Peace prize
-Dinner
-Miami
-Jews
-California

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:10 am and
10:41 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7J]

[See Conversation No. 13-91]

[End of telephone conversation]

1971 elections
-Wilson
-Margin of victory
-Primary
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Opponent
-Debates
-Finch’s observation
-Compared to the President and Jerry Voorhis
-Finch
-Rizzo


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Cabinet
-Appointments
-1972 election
-Rockefeller
-1968 election
-John A. Volpe and George W. Romney

The President's schedule
-Brandt
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-State Dinner
-Miami
-Pompidou
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.

Roger E. Johnson
-Role with administration
-Protocol office
-Camp David
-The President’s personal representative
-State dinners
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-William R. Codus
-Relationship with the President


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-Approval
-Elevation of position
-USSR trip
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Liberia
-Louise and Roger Johnson
-Mosbacher's View
-Josip Broz Tito
-Los Angeles
-Finch
-Personality

Ehrlichman
-Meeting with the President

Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 10:10 am and 10:41 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7K]

Ehrlichman's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:10 am and 10:41 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


[Conversation No. 301-7L]

The President’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Mrs. Nixon
-Invitation
-Conversation with the President
-Haldeman's efforts
-Coral F. Schmid
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
-Illinois visit
-Mrs. Nixon
-Stuart
-Visit to Illinois
-Schmid
-W. Clement Stone
-[Forename unknown] Appey [sp?]
-Mrs. Nixon
-Forthcoming trip to Africa
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Diplomatic Children's Christmas Party
-Don S. Hewitt
-Halloween Party
-Kansas City
-North Carolina

The President talked with Wilson between 10:41 am and 10:43 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7M]

[See Conversation No. 13-92; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 10:41 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


[End of telephone conversation]

The President's phone call
-Wilson's schedule

Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming phone calls
-Perk
-Rizzo
-Revenue-sharing
-Perk
-[Carl B. Stokes?]

Woods talked with the President between 10:44 am and 10:45 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7N]

[See Conversation No. 13-93]

[End of telephone conversation]

Phone calls
-Rizzo
-Annenberg
-Conversation with Woods
-Conversation with Rizzo

1971 elections
-Ehrlichman's staff's views
-Longstreth
-Stokes


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Tape Subject Log
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Ehrlichman's staff
-John R. Price, Jr.

Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming phone calls
-Wilson
-Lugar

1971 elections
-Lugar
-Districts
-Blacks
-Jews
-Identification with the President
-Television coverage


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Lugar
-Forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
-Possible forthcoming calls
-Perk
-Rizzo

Busing
-Judge in Grand Rapids [Albert J. Engle, Jr.]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-MacGregor
-Gerald R. Ford
-Busing order
-Mitchell's possible action
-Possible impact
-Edward L. Morgan operation
-Administration's intervention
-Corpus Christi
-Tennessee
-Morgan
-Ford
-Pace of action
-Forthcoming House vote
-Amendments
-Democratic strategy
-Neighborhood schools
-Carl B. Albert
-As an issue
-Grand Rapids
-Engle
-Father, Albert J. Engle

Glenn R. Davis
-Possible appointment
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Ford and Leslie C. Arends
-Mitchell
-The President’s view
-Possible appointment

Supreme Court
-Confirmation hearings
-Washington Post story
-William H. Rehnquist
-Civil rights record
-Open housing
-Other issues
-Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.’s view
-Americans for Democratic Action [ADA]
-Judicial philosophy
-William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter and Arthur J. Goldberg
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-New York Times
-ABA letter to John Adams
-John Marshall
-Appointment
-Rehnquist
-Prospects
-Stanford University alumni
-Dean
-Arizona
-American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Unknown man of Phoenix

Attorney General
-Rehnquist
-Possible relations with the President
-Weinberger
-Calls to Haldeman
-Possible confirmation
-Background
-Busing
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Record
-Harvard University
-Politics
-California state legislature
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Relations with Mitchell
-Reagan

Kleindienst
-Possible role in administration
-Judgeship
-Senate
-Ambassadorship
-Commerce Department
-White House
-Mitchell
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Relations with Colson
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Tape Subject Log
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The President's schedule
-Forthcoming telephone call to Mitchell
-Florida or Camp David


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-Martha B. Mitchell
-Air Force One


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Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:45 am and
11:10 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7O]

[See Conversation No. 13-94]

Haldeman talked with Mitchell at an unknown time.

The President conferred with Haldeman and Ehrlichman during the phone conversation.

1971 election
-Blacks, young and poor
-Louise Day Hicks of Boston
-Rizzo
-Perk
-Stokes


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[End of conferral and telephone conversation]

Mitchell's schedule
-Robert P. Griffin's dinner
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Tape Subject Log
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-Florida

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:45 am and
11:10 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7P]

[See Conversation No. 13-95]

[End of telephone conversation]

Mitchell's schedule
-Federal intervention in Grand Rapids busing case
-Possible announcement
-Griffin’s dinner
-Florida
-Martha Mitchell

The President talked with Mitchell between 11:10 am and 11:17 am.

[Conversation No. 301-7Q]

[See Conversation No. 13-96; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Grand Rapids busing case
-Mitchell
-Morgan
-Justice Department
-Detroit case
-Effect on 1972 election in Michigan
-Housing issue

Illinois
-Support for the President
-Arends's conversation with the President
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Ogilvie
-Conversation with Flanigan, November 2, 1971
-Budget deficit
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Welfare
-Cuts
-Charles H. Percy and John B. Anderson
-Amendment
-Experience of Rockefeller and Reagan
-Political future for Republicans
-Percy
-Possible tax bill amendment
-Possible amendment to House Resolution [HR] 1
-Administration assistance
-Welfare
-Chicago
-Welfare expenses
-Percy's and Anderson's efforts

Rockefeller
-Failure of bond issue
-Lindsay
-[Forename unknown] Hoad [sp?]
-Dispute with Environmental Director of New York City [Jerome
Kretchmer]
-Possible call to the President

Ehrlichman's schedule
-Andrew Heiskell
-Richard E. (“Dick”) Berlin

Pending legislation

Ziegler entered at 11:23 am.

-Administration's possible action
-William R. Poage
-Television
-Heiskell

Time-Life editors
-Ehrlichman's schedule
-Previous meeting with Ziegler
-Henry A. Grunwald
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Hugh S. Sidey
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Trip to Washington, DC
-Purpose
-Previous meeting with Ziegler
-The press
-Enthusiasm for the Administration
-News coverage
-Supreme Court
-Laos, Cambodia
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Kissinger's schedule
-Ehrlichman's schedule
-Supreme Court editorial
-Previous meeting with Ziegler
-Story regarding UN vote on Taiwan
-Statement
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Senate
-The Administration’s attitude toward the UN

Ehrlichman left at 11:27 am.

1971 elections
-White House comment
-Heinz
-Robert J. Corbett’s seat


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-White House comment
-The President's calls
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Tape Subject Log
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-Rizzo
-[Wilson]
-Heinz
-Previous visit with the President
-Non-partisanship
-Kentucky
-Henry E. Howell, Jr.
-The President’s acquaintances
-Stokes
-Blacks, young and poor
-Philadelphia
-Rizzo
-Cleveland
-Indianapolis
-San Diego
-New Jersey
-Local issues
-Heinz

Mrs. Nixon's forthcoming trip
-Ziegler's announcement
-[Rogers]

News magazines
-The President's conversation with Kissinger

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press coverage
-Selection process
-Screening by PRC
-Number
-Advance party
-Forthcoming announcement
-Technicians pool
-New York Times
-Max Frankel
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Nominations
-Screening
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Tape Subject Log
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PRC


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McMahon
-Comments, November 2, 1971
-Press coverage

The President's schedule
-Australian press
-Yugoslav press
-Tito
-Local press on trips
-Photograph opportunity
-Handshaking
-Australian press
-Melbourne
-McMahon
-State dinner, November 2, 1971
-The President's toast regarding coast watchers

Ziegler left at 11:35 am.

Ziegler
-John P. [?] Sears's view
-Performance
-Credibility with press
-As spokesman for the President

Kissinger's briefings
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 301-7 (cont.)


-Press reaction

Press briefings
-[Forename unknown] Dale [sp?]
-The President’s performance

UN vote on Taiwan
-Reagan
-Ziegler's handling
-Popular opinion
-Ziegler's handling
-The President's handling of G. Harrold Carswell nomination

Poll
-Timing
-State of the Union speech
-Vietnam speech
-Cost

1972 campaign
-Planned advertising
-Chicago Sun-Times story
-Reporters' comments regarding source
-Source
-William L. Safire
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Knowledge
-Haldeman's role in 1970


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-Possible source of story
-Rumsfeld
-Campaign spending bill
-Planned budget
-Kevin P. Phillips's story
-White House staff
-Estimates
-News story
-Source
-Reporters
-Finch
-Power in White House
-Haldeman, Herbert G. Klein and Finch
-Rumsfeld
-Possible source
-Klein
-Haldeman's forthcoming meeting with Klein, Finch, Rumsfeld and
Gerald L. Warren
-White House response
-Ziegler
-Denial
-Agencies’ role
-Democrats
-Checks on spending
-Advertisers


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-Thomas W. Braden's story
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-Clayton Fritchie's story
-Possible press efforts
-Edward M. Kennedy


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Attorney General
-Mitchell
-Weinberger
-Reagan
-Colson

Commemorative Medal for Iran's 2500th Anniversary
-Mrs. Nixon
-Committee
-The President and [Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

The President's schedule
-Dinners
-Asian-Middle East ambassadors
-African-Latin American ambassadors
-Europe
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-PRC
-India
-Pakistan
-Saudi Arabia
-Israel

Foreign aid program
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-White House efforts
-Scali
-Colson
-Scali's views
-Possible committee
-List of names

The President's schedule
-Possible National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] program
-Scali
-Format
-“A Day in the Life of the President”
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Value
-U.S. News and World Report
-Scali's efforts
-White House control
-Timing
-Scali's efforts
-Value
-Possible shots
-Staff
-Cabinet meeting
-Bowling
-Walking the dog
-Reading in the Lincoln Room
-Producer
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Scali

Berlitz
-Crowell, Collier and Macmillan
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Chinese language
-Mrs. Nixon
-Compared to Jacqueline Kennedy
-French
-Possible phrases


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R. Sargent Shriver
-Accent
-Activities

UN
-Shriver
-Compared to Charles W. Yost
-Yost
-Rogers
-Shriver
-Articles

The President's schedule
-Mrs. Nixon
-Frank and Mrs. Leonard

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
-Mrs. Leonard
-Briefings
-Tricia Nixon Cox's schedule
-Schedule
-Mrs. Nixon
-Conventions
-Handling


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-Advance people
-Men compared to women
-Role
-Schmid
-Meeting with Dwight L. Chapin and David N. Parker
-Ability
-Events
-Television


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Maurice H. Stans
-Tenure in office
-Mitchell
-Successor
-Timing
-Tenure in office
-Herbert W. Kalmbach's views

Agriculture Department

Colson
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-Need for protection from enemies
-Mitchell
-Abilities
-Relationships
-Harris and Albert E. Sindlinger


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The President's schedule
-Senators
-Mitchell
-Groupings
-Conservatives
-Liberals
-MacGregor
-Samuel L. Devine's group
-John H. Rousselot
-PRC

Rousselot
-Voting record
-The President's schedule
-Devine

Haldeman left at 12:14 pm.
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