1 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conversation No. 653-1 Date: January 24, 1972 Time: Unknown between 8:58 am and 10:04 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Manolo Sanchez. Request Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:04 am. Conversation No. 653-2 Date: January 24, 1972 Time: Unknown between 8:58 am and 10:04 am Location: Oval Office The President met with an unknown woman. Request that Stephen B. Bull join him The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:04 am. Conversation No. 653-3 Date: January 24, 1972 Time: Unknown between 8:58 am and 10:04 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Stephen B. Bull. 2 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-3 (cont.) The President’s schedule -Signing 1973 budget message -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins -Photographs session -Press -Arrangements Bull left at an unknown time before 10:04 am. Conversation No. 653-4 Date: January 24, 1972 Time: Unknown between 8:58 am and 10:04 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Manolo Sanchez. Rose Mary Woods’s schedule -Marjorie P. Acker -Schedule Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:04 am. Conversation No. 653-5 Date: January 24, 1972 Time: Unknown after 8:58 am until 10:04 am Location: Oval Office The President met with an unknown woman. 3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-5 (cont.) Budget message -Instructions -Copying and editing -Rough draft The unknown woman left at 10:04 am. Conversation No. 653-6 Date: January 24, 1972 Time: 10:04 am - unknown before 10:34 am Location: Oval Office The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. The President’s schedule -Budget message -Press coverage -Presidential statement -George P. Shultz -Press -Television -Press coverage -Value -Frank L. Rizzo -John D. Ehrlichman’s conversation with Walter H. Annenberg -Meeting with Ehrlichman, January 24, 1972 -Possible meeting -Timing -Ehrlichman’s staff -Kurt Waldheim -Subjects for discussion -Henry A. Kissinger -Talking points -Length of meeting [The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:04 am and 10:13 am.] 4 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.) [Conversation No. 653-6a] -Arrangements [End of telephone conversation] -United Nations [UN] -Ehrlichman’s meeting with Rizzo -Stephen B. Bull Budget message -Effort at composition -Office of Management and Budget [OMB] staff’s work -Importance -Recognition Bicentennial celebration -Responsibility -Story -Status -Rizzo’s possible complaint -David J. Mahoney, Jr.’s work -The President’s possible involvement -Shultz’s work -Budget -Ehrlichman’s involvement An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:04 am. Unknown items -Disposition The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:13 am. Bicentennial celebration -Shultz -Leonard Garment -Robert H. Finch -Philadelphia -Plans -Rizzo’s involvement 5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.) -Federal subsidy -Fifty state parks -Mahoney’s idea Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:13 am. Woods’s schedule Budget message -Shultz -Typists -The President’s gratitude The President’s speech on Vietnam peace plan, January 25, 1972 -William L. Safire’s draft -The President’s review -Kissinger -The President’s review -Delivery to Kissinger -Kissinger’s schedule -The President’s schedule -Call to Kissinger -Meeting with Rizzo -UN meeting Woods left at 10:15 am. Bicentennial -White House staff involvement Monday article -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes -Departure from administration -Role in Administration -Substantive matters -Supersonic Transport [SST] briefing -Desired role -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s role -Military support facilities 6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.) -Attendance at War College -Knowledge of military strategy -Work with prisoner of war [POWs] wives -Briefings -Attendance National Security Council [NSC] -Kissinger’s views -Ehrlichman’s talk with Haldeman, January 24, 1972 -Conversation with Ehrlichman and Haldeman -Ehrlichman’s work Hughes -Command position -White House -[Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft] -Mental and Administrative ability -Departure -Air Force decision -Command position -Texas -Asia -Promotion Cabinet dinner, January 20, 1972 -Harry S. Dent -Recognition -Support for the Administration Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am. Mistaken request for Bull Bull left at an unknown time before 10:30 am. Cabinet dinner -Attendees -Robert J. Brown -Charles W. Colson -Dent -John W. Dean III 7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.) -Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe -Arthur S. Flemming Forthcoming dinner for John N. Mitchell -Dent Invitations -Omissions Reader’s Digest dinner -Woods’s coordination -Haldeman’s office’s role -Alexander P. Butterfield’s role Political dinners -Mitchell’s coordination -Woods’s role Reader’s Digest dinner -Woods’s coordination -List of possible invitees -Haldeman’s role -Cuts Dinners -Dent -News summary -Relations with Cabinet -Compared with Brown Cabinet dinner -[Virginia H. Knauer] Herbert G. Klein -Attendance at Cabinet and Congressional leaders meetings 8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.) Dent -Invitation to leaders meetings -Loyalty -Popularity -Midwest -Ability Vietnam peace plan speech -Public relations effort -Possible meeting with Kissinger, Haldeman, and the President -Previous speeches -Peace deadlines -Congress -POWs -Secret negotiations -Kissinger -John A. Scali -Clark MacGregor -Klein -Colson -Republican senators -John C. Stennis group -Melvin R. Laird -William P. Rogers -Kissinger’s views -Columnists Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am. The President’s schedule -Budget message signing ceremony -Pens -Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger -Shultz -Kissinger -Forthcoming call from Haldeman The President and Bull left at 10:30 am. [Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:30 am and 10:34 am.] 9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.) [Conversation No. 653-6B] The President’s schedule -Meeting with Kissinger -Budget message signing ceremony [End of telephone conversation] Conversation No. 653-7 Date: January 24, 1972 Time: 10:34 am - 11:02 am Location: Oval Office The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Henry A. Kissinger. [Recording begins while the conversation is in progress] Vietnam -Peace plan speech, January 25, 1972 -Briefing -Media -Evening story -Possible questions for Senators -Kissinger’s briefing -John A. Scali’s briefing on India-Pakistan War -News summary -Democrats’ possible reaction -Michael J. Mansfield -Washington Post -Mansfield -All-Indochina peace conference -Negotiations -Final guarantee -Speech -Briefing -Need for accuracy -Text -Timing 10 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-7 (cont.) -Ronald L. Ziegler -Scali -Leaks -Ziegler -Leaks -Scali -Clark MacGregor -Herbert G. Klein -Charles W. Colson -Briefing -Scheduling -Scali -Leaks -Intentions -Scheduling -Foreign policy considerations -Kissinger -Meeting with William L. Safire -Ziegler -Knowledge of possible questions -Ability -Scali -Knowledge of possible questions -Ziegler -Questions from Kissinger’s staff -Answers -Possible questions -Deadline -Congress -Administration position -Ziegler -Staff -Scheduling -Network pool -Schedule -Request for time -Foreign policy considerations -Nguyen Van Thieu’s speech -Timing -Kissinger’s talk with Thieu -Effect on networks 11 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-7 (cont.) -Kissinger’s breakfast meeting with Melvin R. Laird, January 25, 1972 -Laird’s possible conversations with John C. Stennis and Armed Services Committee members -Timing -Kissinger’s briefing -Elliot L. Richardson -John B. Connally -John N. Mitchell -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Robert H. Finch -Donald H. Rumsfeld -William P. Rogers -George W. Romney -John A. Volpe -Calls -Romney -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Ronald W. Reagan -William F. (“Billy”) Graham -Lyndon B. Johnson -Graham -Location -Virgin Islands -Communications problem -Johnson -Rockefeller and Reagan -Johnson -Timing -Briefing of ambassadors -State Department -Marshall Green -Cables -Timing of notification -U. Alexis Johnson -Cables -Text, schedule -Kissinger’s forthcoming talk with Sir James Plimsoll -William McMahon -The President’s wire -State Department -Kissinger’s briefing 12 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-7 (cont.) -Japan ************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [National Security] [Duration: 8s ] JAPAN END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ************************************************************************** -Letter to Leonid I. Brezhnev -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters -Paris -Television people -Value -Schedule -Writing press -Schedule -Content -Peace proposal -Background -Post-speech briefing -History of negotiations -Highlights -Channels -Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes’s role -Walters’s role -Georges J.R. Pompidou -Training missions -Channels -Release of documents 13 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 653-7 (cont.) -Nine points -Chronology -US position -The President’s efforts -Criticism