Date: November 13, 1972
Time: 9:09 am – 9:57 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
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Wood’s schedule
-[Key Biscayne]
-Unknown woman
-[Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower]
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Walker’s Cay
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-Accommodations
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-The President’s previous stay
1972 election
-Telegrams
-Telephone calls
-Letters
-Helen Clay Frick
-Dictation
-Camp David
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The President’s schedule
-Trip to Camp David
-Activities
-Woods’ schedule
-White House
-Telephone calls
-Meetings
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1972 election
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-Letters
-Mail offices
-Letters of special interest
-Woods’ schedule
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Rita de Santis
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Payment
-Charles G. (Bebe”) Rebozo
-Meeting with Woods
-Wages
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:15 a.m.
Greetings
De Santis
-Employment
-The President’s personal payroll
-Meeting with Woods
-Wages
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
1972 election
-Form letters
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Woods left at 9:16 am.
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Kissinger’s schedule
-Florida
-New York
The President’s schedule
-Trip to Camp David
-Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Haig’s return from Saigon
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Haig
-Andrews Air Force Base
-Trip to New York
Vietnam negotiations
-Presidential leadership
-Rogers and State Department role
-Compared to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
initiatives
-Kissingers’ trip
-William H. Sullivan
-Settlement agreement
-Improvements
-Haig
-Photograph opportunity
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Compared to PRC initiative
-Lincoln sitting room episode
-The President’s PRC policy change claim
-The President’s trip to the PRC
-Chou En-Lai
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
The President’s first term
-Responsibilities as President-elect
-Cabinet selection
The President’s second term
-Difficulty
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-Historical trend
-Cabinet retention
-Advantage
Second term reorganization
-Cabinet
-White House staff
-Loyalty
-Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger’s suggestion
-European Economic [EEC] Community and North Atlantic Treaty
Organization [NATO] ambassadorships
-Commerce Department
-International economic negotiations
-NATO and EEC ambassadorships
-State Department reaction
-Tenure
-Commerce Department
-International economic policy
-White House direction
-White House relations with State and Defense Departments
Vietnam War
-Kissinger’s conversation with Jerrold L. Schecter
-[Time] article on Melvin R. Laird
-Vietnamization
-Credit
-Laird’s 1969 trip to Vietnam
-Timing
-The President’s policies
-US troop withdrawals
-The President’s policies
-The President’s May [14, 1969] peace initiative
-US troop withdrawal rates
-Reports
-Laird’s memorandum
-Recommendations
-Compared to the President’s actions
-Importing
-Previous administrations
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-Cabinet support for the President
-The President’s policies
-Response of liberals
Public Relations
-Kissinger’s trip to New York
-Reception
-Press relations
-Washington, DC
-Kissinger’s schedule
-New York Jets football game
-Attendance at play
-Compared to previous ones
-Impact of 1972 election
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Jets’ game
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
Press relations
-Joseph C. Kraft
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Change
-1972 election
-“Exhausted volcano” metaphor
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Cabinet
-Resignations
-Laird’s response
-Associates
-Defense Department
-Size
-Robert S. McNamara
-Assistant secretaries
-Elliot L. Richardson
-The President’s direct communications with Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-The President’s direct communications with the JCS
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Discussions with service chiefs
-Secretary of Defense
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Military
-Moorer
-Replacement
-Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
-Racial policies
-Race relations
-Blacks
-Navy and other
-Football
-Command positions
-Navy
-Mutiny
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1972 election
-Foreign reaction
-Telegrams
-1968 election
-Reaction of establishment
-Democrats divided
-Vietnam War
-The President’s victory
-Mandate
-Reaction
-George S. McGovern
-New York Yankees
-Samuel Lubell
-The Presidents May 8, 1972 speech
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Prospects as nominated
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-South, Ohio, Illinois
-New York
-New Majority
-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Telegrams
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-Congratulations
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Vietnam negotiations
-Nguyan Van Thieu’s political tactics
-Haig’s view
-Compared to Kissinger’s view
-Delay
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Thieu’s November 11, 1972 letter to the President
-Reply
-New negotiating position
-Possible ultimatum from the possible
-Thieu’s tenure
-South Vietnam’s survival
-Delay
-Conclusion of war
-Timing
-Congressional schedule
-Haig’s view
-Continuation of talks
-The President’s November 8, 1972 letter to Thieu
-John B. Connally
-Possible emissary to Thieu
-Kissinger’s trip to Paris
-Connally’s schedule
-Hanoi’s position
-PR
-Hanoi’s position
-Xuan Thuy
-Coalition government
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] view
-Kissinger’s forthcoming dinner [with Qiao Guanhua]
-Telephone calls to Kissinger
-Haig
-Next round of talks
-Appearance of US
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-Bargaining with the President
-Possible separate peace
-US and North Vietnam
-Changes
-US proposals to North Vietnam
-Thieu’s military operations
-June 1972
-North Vietnamese troops withdrawals
-US bombing
-Ending the war
-US public opinion
-Hawks, honor
-Congressional funding
-Thieu
-Forthcoming letter from the President to Thieu
The President’s schedule
-Meetings with Kissinger
-Publicity
-Camp David
-Camp David
-Meetings with Cabinet, White House staff
Defense Department
-Richardson
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Future
-Age
-Compared to the President
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Rockefeller
-Political Future
-1976 election
-Primaries
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Prospects
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-Age
-South
-Weakness
-Comparison with the President and Agnew
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Rockefeller
-Cabinet post
-Current terms as governor
-Conclusion
-Cabinet post
-Independence
-The President’s previous conversation with Rockefeller
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Management abilities
-Control by White House
Defense Department
-Rockefeller, Richardson appointee’s age
-Problems
-Soviet Union strength
-The President’s second term
-Soviet Union
-Possible military action
-PRC
-Conceptual control
-Richardson
-Loyalty
-Political orientation
-State Department
-Georgetown
State Department
-David Kenneth Rush
-Reform
-Foreign service officers [FSOs]
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-Disloyalty
-Rush
-Loyalty
-Appearance
-Negotiating abilities
-State Department
-Reform
-[Under Secretary]
-Comparison to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Berlin negotiations
-Intellect
Vietnamese negotiations
-Haig’s schedule
-Return from Saigon
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s trip to New York
-[Dinner with Qiao Guanhua]
-Cambodia
-Role of PRC
-Assistance
-End of War
-1972 election
-Domestic and foreign impact
-Timing
-Thieu
-Demands
-South Vietnam’s survival
-Settlement agreement
-Words compared to will
-Settlement agreement
-Briefing
-Victory
-Joseph W. Alsop column
-New Statesman
-North Vietnamese concessions
-Control of North Vietnam
-Role of Soviet Union, PRC
-PRC Role
-[Kissinger’s dinner with Qiao Guanhua]
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-Presence of Haig
-Reasons
-Friendship with the PRC
-Haig’s promotion
-Army vice Chief of Staff
-National defense
-Soviet Union
-Haig’s schedule
-Return from Saigon
Kissinger’s schedule
-Camp David
-Departure
-Hagerstown, Maryland
-Jetstar
-Time
-Departure
-Hagerstown
-Jetstar
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
1972 election
-Reaction in New York
Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s schedule
-Public appearances in US, trip to Europe
-Ending the war
-Timing
-Thieu
-Relations with US
-Concessions
-The President’s November 8, 1972 letter to Thieu
-The President’s forthcoming conversation with Haig
-The President’s forthcoming letter to Thieu
-US foreign relations
-Relations with the President
-Risks
-Concessions
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-1972 election
-International system
-Possible North Vietnamese offensive
-US response
-Bombing
-PRC, Soviet Union
-US response
-Thailand aircraft
-Carriers
-Message for Hanoi
-Post-1972 election period
-Winston S. Churchill
-Comments on World War I
-Germany
-Schlieffen Plan
-Marne River
-East Prussia
-[First Battle of the Marne and Battle of Tannenberg]
-War
-Audacity and caution
-Politics, life
-North Vietnamese
-Thieu
-Forthcoming meeting with North Vietnamese
– -Possible stonewalling
-Settlement agreement
-Quality
Kissinger’s schedule
-Camp David
-Timing
-Announcement
-[Kissinger’s trip to Paris]
-Publicity
-Photograph opportunity
-Walk in woods
Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement
-Rogers
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-Speeches, credibility
-Ending the war
-Credit to the White House
-Departments
-Approach
Kissinger’s schedule
-Camp David
-Arrangements
-Time
-The President’s forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Helicopter, Jetstar
-The President’s forthcoming conversation with Alexander P.
Butterfield
Kissinger left and Woods and Butterfield entered at 9:50 am.
Rita de Santis
-Inquiry about possible conversation with Woods
Items for the President’s signature
President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Length of stay
Butterfield left at 9:53 am.
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De Santis
-Payment
-Mrs. Nixon
-Gift
-Taxes
-The President’s papers
-Donation
-Employment
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-Social Security
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John V. (“Jack”) Brennan entered at an unknown time after 9:53 am.
Briefcase
Brennan left at an unknown time before 9:57 am.
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De Santis
-Employment
-Mrs. Nixon
-Hair dresser, personal aide
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Frank T. Bow
-Death
-Memorandum
-Time
-Richard K. Cook’s telephone call
Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:53 am.
-Statement
Kissinger’s and Haig’s schedules
-Transportation to Camp David and New York City
-Helicopter
-Jetstar
-Arrangements
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-Hagerstown
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:57 am.
Bow
-Health
-Heart attacks
-1972 election
-[Ralph S. Regula]
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De Santis
-Employment
-Social Security
-Mrs. Nixon
-The President’s personal payroll
-Mrs. Nixon’s staff
-Hair dresser
-Payment
-Hair dressers
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Personal aide
-Payment
-Reimbursement
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Frank DeMarco, Jr.
-Assistant to Mrs. Nixon
-Taxes
-Business deduction
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The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Weather
Woods’ schedule
Claudia Val’s schedule
-New York
The President and Woods left at 9:57 am.