660–16

Conversation No. 660-16

Date: January 31, 1972
Time: 9:23 am - 10:34 am
Location: Oval Office

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


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John B. Connally
-Health
-Schedule
-Testifying
-News stories
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-Trip to Florida
-Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
-Need for time off
-Camp David
-Trip to Florida
-Possible call from Haldeman to Nellie Connally
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s call to Connally
-Invitation to visit
-Accommodations in Florida
-Transportation
-Airplane
-Connally’s health
-Influenza
-Texas
-Call to Nellie Connally
-Camp David
-Benefits
-Advisability
-Call to Nellie Connally

Incident at DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace dinner, January 28, 1972
-The President’s reading
-Background of protestor, Carol Feraci
-Media coverage
-Duration
-Unknown person’s view
-Television
-Time magazine
-Public perception
-Reader’s Digest
-The President’s call to Ray Conniff
-Reaction to protest
-Emily Conniff’s reaction
-Campaign support offer
-Conniff
-Public perception
-Removal of Feraci
-Reaction of audience
-John N. and Martha (Beall) Mitchell
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The President’s schedule
-Meeting with John N. Mitchell
-Timing
-Frequency of meetings
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Prayer breakfast
-Politics
-Grady Wilson
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-John B. Connally’s schedule

John Connally’s schedule
-Possible meeting with John Mitchell about politics
-Responsibilities
-Efforts to reduce
-Instructions to Haldeman
-Treasury Department
-White House staff
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haldeman’s responsibility
-Offer of assistance in economics files

Margaret Chase Smith
-Possible retirement
-Possible telephone call

Prayer breakfast
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-Graham
-Schedule
-Promotion
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-Scripture reading
-Health
-Promotion efforts
-The President’s schedule

Testimonial dinner for Robert J. Brown
-Attendance
-Ticket sales
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Blacks
-Political effect
-Publicity
-News coverage
-Black press
-Benefits to administration
-Blacks in Administration
-Brig. Gen. Daniel (“Chappie”) James, Jr.
-Point made
-Brown
-Samuel C. Jackson
-James
-Reaction to President’s attendance
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Possible representative of President at Mahalia Jackson funeral
-Medal for the President
-Inscription
-Jewelry
-Attendance
-Brown’s family
-Sally Brown
-Warmth
-Symbolism


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The President’s schedule
-The President’s preference on events
-Jewish or Black groups
-Demonstrators
-Feraci
-Call to J. Edgar Hoover
-Prior plans
-Timing of actions

The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Press coverage
-Boston Herald editorial
-Content
-The President’s effort
-Partisan critics
-1972 election
-Unknown writer from Harvard University

Memorandum about L. Richard Guylay letter
-Analysis of administration position
-Judgment
-William L. Safire
-Leonard Garment
-Public relations
-Experience
-Language of White House statements
-Charles W. Colson’s role
-New York Times
-Quotes
-Responses to Edward M. Kennedy
-Quality
-Colson’s role
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-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Hugh Scott’s talent


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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:06 am.

The President’s signature
-Butterfield’s authority
-Rubber stamp
-Davis as President’s representative at Jackson funeral

Butterfield left at 10:07 am.

Time story
-Henry A. Kissinger’s secret negotiations
-The President’s code name, “Quarterback”
-Meetings with the President
-Implication of story
-Kissinger’s role
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger as secret agent
-Kissinger’s social life
-Secret Service guard
-Press corps
-Cover stories
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Plane trouble
-British field
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-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Transportation
-French

Vietnam negotiations
Compared to October 1970
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Prospects for success
-The President’s opposition in US and world
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-North Vietnam
-US military
-Military prospects
-South Vietnam
-US public opinion
-Melvin R. Laird
-Laird
-B-52’s
-South Vietnam
-Military
-Air Force, Navy
-Compared to North Vietnam
-Peace proposal
-Reactions
-Colson’s view

Testimonial dinner for Brown
-Edward W. Brooke’s attendance
-Value of the President’s attendance

Butterfield entered at 10:20 am.

The President’s schedule

Butterfield left at 10:21 am.

-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-New York ethnic groups
-Puerto Ricans
-Jews
-Latins
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-Italians
-Parades
-Pulaski Day
-Attendance at ethnic events
-Messages
-Writing staff

Public relations
-Writing staff

Ziegler entered at 10:22 am.

North Vietnamese press conference in Paris
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Release of nine point plan
-Release of public and private eight point plans
-Ziegler’s handling of questions
-Expertise
-Kissinger’s handling of questions
-Call to Robert J. McCloskey
-State Department
-Answering specific questions
-State Department
-North Vietnamese
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Haig
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Foreign policy message

Ziegler left at 10:26 am.

The President’s schedule
-Benno C. Schmidt
-President’s Cancer Panel
-Photograph session

North Vietnam press conference
-Kissinger’s handling of questions
-Reason
-Credibility
-White House staff concern
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-George S. McGovern’s efforts

Ziegler entered at 10:28 am.

-Content
-Press briefing
-Delay
-Indication of statement
-Wire movement
-Haig’s information
-Counter strategy
-Timing
-Prime time
-Time difference between Paris and Washington, DC

Texas press during Ziegler’s trip
-Houston
-Vietnam
-Eight point plan
-Busing questions
-Economy
-PRC questions
-Budget questions
-Question and answer [Q&A] session
-Duration
-Administration line
-Questions
-PRC and Soviet Union summits
-Feraci’s protest
-Reaction
-The President’s action
-Martha Mitchell and Rose Mary Woods
-Reaction
-Feraci’s background

Ziegler left at 10:32 am.

The President’s schedule

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:32 am.
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-Forthcoming meeting with Schmidt
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Photograph session
-Length

Haldeman and Bull left at 10:34 am.