Date: December 6, 1972

Time: 1:07 pm – 3:18 pm

Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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(rev. Apr.-08)

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

Unknown matter

-Options

-Difficulty

Press relations

-Patrick J. Buchanan’s article

-Effect

-Quote

-Effect

-Controversy

-Herbert C. Hoover

-Barry M. Goldwater

-1960 election

-Double standard

Vietnam negotiations

-Report from Henry A. Kissinger

-Recent meeting

-Duration

-Meeting

-Alexander M Haig, Jr.

-Col. Richard T. Kennedy

-Progress

-Meetings

-Kennedy’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Timing

-Kissinger

-Emotions

-Charles W. Colson

-Communications with surrogates

-John B. Connally

-Possible statement by the President

-Public relations[PR]

-[Opinion Research Corporation] [ORC] poll

-Compared to Louis P. Harris poll

-Settlement agreement

-Effect on South Vietnam

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Return of US Prisoners of War [POWs]

-US troop withdrawals

-Support for South Vietnam

-Cessation of US bombing and mining in North Vietnam

-Return of POWs

-Cease-fire

-Supervised election in South Vietnam

-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam

-Compared to Harris poll

-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam

-Nguyen Van Thieu’s view

-Settlement agreement

-US military action

-Settlement agreement

-US military action

-Duration

-North Vietnam’s accession to US, South Vietnam

goals

-Factors

-Relative importance

-Return of POWs

-Removal of North Vietnamese troops from South

Vietnam

-Cease-fire

-Supervised elections in South Vietnam

-“Hawks”

-Approval of the President’s handling of Vietnam

-Compared to pre-1972 election

-Compared to George H. Gallup poll

-Post-1972 election

Second term

-1000 days

-Post-January 20, 1973

-John F. Kennedy

-Assassination

-Election compared to Inauguration

-Desk calendar

-Distribution to key aides

-1973 Inauguration

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Christmas gift

-Press relations

-Importance

-Loss of time

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with Under Secretaries

-Purpose

-John D. Ehrlichman’s view

-Departmental heads

-Location

-Cabinet Room compared to departments

-Effect

Second term reorganization

-Loyalty

-Schedule C employees

-Harvard and Yale Universities, Ivy League

-Frederic V. Malek

-The President’s conversation with John C. Whitaker

-National Parks Service

-Edwin L. Harper

-Ehrlichman

-Oklahoma State University

-Texas School of Mines

-Texas A&M University Aggies

-Ohio State University

-Enrollments

-Texas A&M

-Malek

-William P. Rogers’s schedule

-John A. Scali

-Under Secretaries

-Commerce Departmetn

-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]

-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]

-John E. (“Jack”) Sheehan

-Federal Reserve Board [FRB}

-Arthur F. Burns

-Commerce Department

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Donald A. MacMahon

-Malek’s recommendation

-Background

-Age

-Irish-Catholicism

-Hofstra College

-Monroe Calculator Company [Monroe International]

-International contracts

-Europe, Japan

-Baker Industries

-Support for the President

-Background

-New Jersey

-Age

-Hofstra

-Long Island University

-Wharton School of Business

-James F. Cleary

-Background

-Age

-New York University

-Eastman-Dillon

-Relationship with the President

-Compared to McMahon

-Management record, international experience

-Women

-Cleary

-Compared to McMahon

-Relationship with the President

-1972 campaign

-Telephone conversation

-Compared to McMahon

-Colson

-HEW

-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

-Arnold R. Weber

-Van Gorkum

-TransUnion Corporation

-Compared to William P. Clements, Jr.

-Weinberger

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Compared to Weber

-Frank C. Carlucci

-Paul O’Neill

-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

_Weber

-Schedule C employees

-Policy and program management positions

-Salary

-Location

-South, Midwest

-Confidential assistants and secretaries to appointees

-Salary

-Number

-Location

-South, Midwest, Far West

-Percentage

-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

-Evaluation

-Termination

-Personnel offices

-Supergrade career executives

-State Department

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

-Defense Department

-Manual

-White House staff

-Advance men

-Campaign organizations

-1701 [Pennsylvania Avenue]

-States

-Training course

-Duration

-Malek

-S. Bruce Herschensohn

-Disloyalty to administration

-Gordon C. Strachan’s conversation with Haldeman

-US Information Agency [USIA]

-Performance ratings

-Edward M. Kennedy

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-1977

-Herschensohn’s view

-1972 election

The President’s schedule

-Visits to agencies

-Ehrlichman’s view

-Reaction

-Loyalists

-Cabinet Room meetings

-Congress

Second term reorganization

-Ambassadorships

-Number

-United Nations [UN] Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Organization [UNESCO]

-Geneva

-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD]

-Bahrain

-Chad

-Cyprus

-Maldive Islands

-Disloyal ambassadors

-Protocol

-Belton K. (“B. K.”) Johnson

-James J. Reynolds

-Johnson

-Reynolds

-Non-career positions

-Number

-Maurice Stans’s list

-Recommended returns

-Austria

-John P. Humes

-Tenure

-Departure

-Belgium

-Robert Strausz-Hupe

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Retention

-Ethiopia

-E. Ross Adair

-Strausz-Hupe

-Departure

-Timing

-Two year terms

-Strausz-Hupe

-Martin J. Hillenbrand

-Departure

-Walter H. Annenberg

-Retention

-Iceland

-Frederick Irving

-Ireland

-John D. J. Moore

-Tenure

-Departure

-Richard A. Moore

-Japan

-Robert S. Ingersoll

-Retention

-Spain

-Adm. Horatio Rivero, Jr.

-Retention

-Departure

-Timing

-Switzerland

-Shelby C. Davis

-Retention

-John N. Mitchell

-Stans

-Departure

-Timing

-Trinidad and Tobago

-Anthony D. Marshall

-Uganda

-Thomas Patrick Melady

-Tenure

-Vietnam

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-OECD

-Henry J. Tasca

-European Economic Community [EEC]

-James D. Hodgson

-The President’s conversation with Ehlichman

-[Joseph A. Greenwald]

-William D. Eberle

-Trade representative

-West Germany

-Eberle

-Compared to Hodgson

-Relationship with the President

-George P. Shultz, Peter M. Flanigan, Kissinger

-Vetting

-Recommended changes (non-career positions)

-Geneva

-Idar Rimestad

-Afghanistan

-Robert E. Neumann

-John D. Lodge

-Afghanistan

-Albert B. Fay of Texas

-Argentina

-Lodge

-Departure

-Spanish speaker

-Joseph S. Farland

-Farland

-State Department

-Middle East

-Under Secretary

-Latin America

-Robert C. Hill

-Middle East

-Spain

-Farland

-Middle East

-Australia

-Walter L. Rice

-Departure

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Harold B. Scott

-1972 campaign

-Assistant Secretary of Commerce

-John W. Rollins

-Rollins

-Republican National Committee [RNC]

-Canada

-Adolph W. Schmidt

-Departure

-William B. McComber, Jr.

-Eberle

-Business expenditure

-McComber

-State Department

-Pentagon Papers

-George H. W. Bush

-Denmark

-Columbia

-Leonard J. Saccio

-Spanish speakers

-Californians, Texans

-Johnson

-Val Peterson

-Connally

-Mexian-Americans

-Philip V. Sanchez

-Dr. Henry M. Ramirez

-Sanchez

-Finland

-Peterson

-John V. Krehbiel

-1972 election

-France

-John N. (“Jack”) Irwin, II

-Greece

-Tasca

-Kissinger

-John Stapler

-Fundraising

-Denmark

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Philip K. Crowe

-Charles E. (“Chip”) and Mrs. Bohlen [?]

-Tenure

-Departure

-Retention

-1972 campaign contributions

-El Salvador

-Henry E. Catto, Jr.

-Departure

-Health

-Wiley [?] Reynolds

-India

-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan

-Iran

-Richard M. Helms

-Italy

-John A. Volpe

-Jamaica

-Vincent De Roulet

-1972 campaign contributions

-Loyalty

-Norway

-De Roulet

-Crowe

-Jamaica

-Roy J. Carver

-Bandag Company of Iowa

-George Cook of Nebraska

-John Bowie [sp?]

-Johnson Wax

-Combined Communications

-Luxembourg

-Ruth J. Farkas

-Mexico

-Robert H. McBride

-Departure

-Sanchez

-Netherlands

-J. William Middendorf, II

-Herbert J. Klein

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Cook

-New Zealand

-Pakistan

-Jews

-Pakistan

-Tasca

-Jews

-Pakistan

-Tasca

-Panama

-Lloyd Miller

-[Portugal]

-Ridgway B. Knight

-Departure

-Tenure

-Leonard K. Fireston

-[Henry] John (“Jack”) Heinz, III

-Firestone

-South Africa

-John G. Hurd

-Daniel J. Terra

-Lawter Chemicals, Inc. of Chicago

-Heinz

-Career retention positions

-Bahrain

-William A. Stoltzfus, Jr.

-Bangladesh

-Hermann F. Eilts

-Barbados

-Eileen R. Donovan

-Bolivia

-Ernest V. Siracusa

-Botswana

-Charles J. Nelson

-Brazil

-William M. Rountree

-Departure

-Businessman

-Bulgaria

-Horace G. Torbert, Jr.

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Burma

-Edwin W. Martin

-Burundi

-Robert Yost

-Martin

-Argentina

-Departure

-Cameroon

-C. Robert Moore

-Central African Republic

-Melvin L. Manfull

-Ceylon

-Christopher Van Hollen

-Chad

-Edward W. Mulcahy

-Chile

-Nathaniel Davis

-Taiwan, Republic of China

-Walter P. McConaughy

-Costa Rica

-Viron P. Vaky

-Cyprus

-David H. Popper

-Czechoslovakia

-Albert W. Sherer, Jr.

-Dominican Republic

-Francis E. Meloy, Jr.

-Ecuador

-Findley Burns, Jr.

-Dominican Republic

-Ecuador

-Burns

-Equatorial Guinea

-Robert Moore

-Ecudaor

-Gabon

-John A. McKesson, III

-Gambia

-G. Edward Clark

-Guatemala

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-William G. Bowdler

-Guinea

-Terence A. Todman

-Guyana

-Spencer M. King

-Haiti

-Clinton E. Knox

-Honduras

-Hewson A. Ryan

-Hungary

-Alfred Puhan

-Indonesia

-Francis Galbraith

-Departure

-Businessman

-Indonesian speaker

-Israel

-Walworth Barbour

-Ivory Coast

-John F. Root

-Jordan

-L. Dean Brown

-South Korea

-Philip C. Habib

-Kuwait

-Stoltzfus

-Laos

-G. McMurtrie Godley

-Lebanon

-William B. Buffum

-Lesotho

-Charles J. Nelson

-Liberia

-Vacancy

-Malagasy Republic

-Joseph Mendenhall

-Liberia

-Malek

-Labor people

-Black

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Malagasy Republic

-Mendenhall

-Malawi

-William C. Burdett

-Sweden

-Black

-[Jerome H. Holland]

-Malaysia

-Jack W. Lydman

-Maldive Islands

-Van Hollen

-Malta

-John I. Getz

-Mauritania

-Richard W. Murphy

-Mauritius

-William D. Brewer

-Morocco

-Stuart W. Rockwell

-Nepal

-Carl C. Laise

-Nicaragua

-Nepal

-Laise

-Departure

-[South Vietnam]

-Ellsworth F. Bunker

-Departure

-Nicaragua

-Turner B. Shelton

-Niger

-Roswell D. McClelland

-Nigeria

-John E. Reinhardt

-Philippines

-Henry A. Byroade

-Poland

-Richard T. Davies

-Qatar

-Stoltzfus

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Romania

-Leonard C. Meeker

-Rwanda

-Robert F. Corrigan

-Saudi Arabia

-Nicholas G. Thacher

-Senegal

-Clark

-Sierra Leone

-Clinton L. Olson

-Singapore

-Edwin M. Cronk

-Somalia

-Matthew J. Looram, Jr.

-Swaziland

-Charles J. Nelson

-Tanzania

-W. Beverly Carter

-Togo

-Dwight Dickinson

-Tunisia

-Talcott W. Seelye

-Turkey

-William J. Handley

-United Arab Emirates

-Stoltzfus

-Upper Volta

-Donald B. Easum

-Uruguay

-Charles W. Adair, Jr.

-Venezuela

-Robert McClintock

-Yemen

-William R. Crawford, Jr.

-Yugoslavia

-Malcolm Toon

-Zambia

-Jean M. Wikowski

-Retirement ages

-Galbraith

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Career departure positions

-Cambodia

-Emory C. Swank

-Congo

-Sheldon V. Vance

-Mali

-Robert O. Blake

-Paraguay

-George W. Landau

-Peru

-Taylor G. Belcher

-Landau

-Haig

-Soviet Union

-Jacob D. Beam

-Thailand

-Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.

-McCain

-Commander in Chief, Pacific [CINCPAC]

-Western Kentucky [?]

-Office of Special Trade Representative

-Ambassadorships

-Tenure

-Two year terms

-School year

-Successors

-Confirmation

1973 Inauguration

-The President’s schedule, January 18-20, 1973

-Vice Presidential reception

-Smithsonian Institute

-Salute to the States

-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

-Variety show compared to performances

-Purpose

-Revenue

-Four day guarantee

-Sammy Davis, Jr.

-Presidential box

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Concert

-Ball

-Salute to America’s heritage

-Public relations [PR]

-Smithsonian Institution

-Ethnic art, culture, food, music, dancing

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox, [Dwight] David

Eisenhower, II, Edward R. F. Cox

-Zsa Zsa Gabor

-Desi Arnaz

-Congressional lunch

-Timing

-Oath, address

-White House

-Invitations

-Congressional leaders, Supreme Court, Cabinet

-Motorcade

-Parade

-Cancellation

-White House

-Parade

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-Nixon-Ryan family reception

-Lucy Winchester

-Rose Mary Woods

-Edward C. Nixon

-Timing

-Church service

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1973 Inauguration

-Themes

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Edward Nixon

-Herschensohn

-“Let the People Come Forward”

-Safire

-“Forward Together”

-1969 Inauguration

-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson

-“The Challenge of Peace”

-“The New Spirit of `76”

-Bicentennial

-“A New Century of Freedom”

-“We the People”

-“Toward a More Perfect Union”

-“Summons to Greatness”

-“One America, Indivisible”

-“Let Us Go Forward in Peace”

-“The New Spirit of `76”

-Haldeman’s view

-Peace

-“Let the People Come Forward”

-Safire

-“The New Spirit of `76”

-Tone

-“The Spirit of `76”

-Compared to “The New American Majority”

-Politics

Presidential airplane

-Spirit of `76

1973 Inauguartion

-Theme

-“Spirit of `76”

-Harvard University, Ivy League

-Patrick J. (“Pat”) Moynihan

Kissinger

-PR

-Pre-1972 election

-People Republic of China [PRC]

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Social contacts

-Hardhats

-Lapel flags

-Message

-Kissinger’s schedule

-Return from Paris

-Schedule

-Vietnam negotiations

-Meetings

-Duration

-Timing

-Translation

-Record

-Length

-State of the world report

-Length

-Departure

-Timing

-US-Soviet Union summit, 1973

-European Security Conference

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[Privacy]

[Duration: 40s ]

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-Personality

-Haig’s view

-Egotism

-Treatment of others

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[Privacy]

[Duration: 2s ]

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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(rev. Apr.-08)

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-Personality

-Insecurity

-“Cycle theory”

-Haig’s view

-Congressional relations

-Press relations

-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision

-Defense of White House

-Cambodia

-Burning cities

-The President’s May 8,1972 decision

-Defense of White House

-Orders

-Ehrlichman

-Haldeman’s cancellation

-Vietnam negotiations

-Statements

-“Peace is at hand”

-“One more meeting”

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-“Peace is at hand”

-Intellectuals

-Presidential statement on television[TV]

-Punishment of left wing, Hanoi, Saigon

-US bombing of North Vietnam

-Settlement agreement

-Effect on Thieu

-Peace with honor

-Compared to US withdrawal for POWs

The President’s schedule

-Return to Camp David

-Reception honoring administration officials from California

-Haldeman’s schedule

-Robert H. Finch

-Governorship of California

-Organizational ability

-Ziegler’s view

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Finch

-Entertainment

-Foster Brooks

-Taft Schrieber’s introduction

-Teri Foster Brooks

-Ziegler’s view

-Possible appearance at stag dinner

-Jonathan Winters

-Baseball routine

-Speeches

-Schreiber

-Finch

-Presentation

-Gold and silver coins

-Engraving

-“Californians in the White House”

-Organizing

-Schreiber

-Finch

-Ed Carter

-Clifford A. Miller

-Alternative location

-White House

-Finch’s view

-Blue Room

-The President’s possible remarks

-Departure for Camp David

-The President’s and guests’ remarks

-Holmes P. Tuttle

-William French Smith

-Forrest N. Shumway

-Orange County

-San Diego

-Gordon B. Luce

-Planning

-Order

-Alternative location

-White House

-Finch’s view

-Blue Room

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-State Dining Room

-Compared to Blair Room

-Future

-The President’s involvement

-Advanceman

Second term reorganization

-Klein

-Value

-Schreiber

-Finch

-Herbert W. Kalmbach

-Retention

-Office of Communications

-Social life

-Departure

-Haldeman’s view

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:50 pm.

Ziegler’s press conference

-Location

-Truck

-Hangar

-Trailer

Press relations

-Truck

-The President’s role

-Coffee

-Time article

Ziegler’s press conference

-Second term reorganization

-Peter G. Peterson

-Special assignment

-Frederick B. Dent

-Earl L. Butz

-William E. Simon

-Edward L. Morgan

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Wire services, networks

-Agriculture Department

-Responsiveness

-Farmers

-Modern methods

-Butz’s view

-United Press International [UPI]

-Leak

-Butz

-Des Moines Register

-Clark R. Mollenhoff

-Second term reorganization

Press relations

-UPI

-Leaks

-Chicago Tribune

-Los Angeles Times

-Annoucement

-Washington Post

-Washington Star

-Washington Star

-John H. Kauffman

-Smith Hempstone, Jr.

-Newbold (“Newby”) Noyes, Jr.

-David Kraslow

-National editor

-Second term reorganization

-Washington Post

-Foreign policy

-Ownership of Washington Star

-Personal benefit

-UPI story

-La Paz, Bolivia

-The President’s 1958 visit to Bolivia

-Judith and Ruth Leonardini

-Promise of college education in US

-Photographs

-Cultural exchange program

-State Department

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Ziegler’s conversation with Leonard Garment

-Educational provisions

-Liberals

-Background

-Age

-Parents

-Ethnicity

-Indian

-Jewish

-Scholarships

-Afghanistan

-Photograph

The President left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.

Press relations

-UPI story

-Ziegler’s statement

The President entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm.

Press relations

-Edward Cox

-Conversation with the President

-New York Bar exam

-Difficulty

-California bar exam

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-The President’s experience

-Bar examination

-Difficulty

The President’s schedule

-Robert J. Dole

RNC chairmanship

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-George H. W. Bush’s appointment

-Announcement

-Dole

-Press story

-United Nations [UN]

-Dole

-Statement

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Second term reorganization

-Announcements

-John A. Volpe, Claude S. Brinegar, Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

-[Pope Paul VI] Giovanni Battista Motini

-Robert J. Dole

-Volpe

-Timing

-Bush

-Ambassadorship to Italy

-Brinegar

-Los Angeles Times

-Kenneth W. Clawson

-San Francisco Examiner

-[William Randolph] Hearst newspapers

-Justice Department, FBI

-Moynihan

-Leak

-Timing

-New York Daily News

Jerry Green

-Timing

-Leak

-FBI

-State Department

-New York Herald Tribune

-Conversation with Haldeman

-Moynihan’s conversation with the President

-Indira Gandhi

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(rev. Apr.-08)

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[Subject: India]

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-Justice Department

-Timing

-CIA, Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]

-Timing

-Leak

-Washington Star

-Richard M. Helms

-Dr. James R. Schlesinger

-Leak to Washington Post

-Schlesinger

-Sub-Cabinet position

-Ambassadorship

-Science Advisor to the President

-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.

-Leaks

-Washington Star, Chicago Tribune

-Wire services

-Detroit News

-Schedule

-Compared to announcements schedule

-Purpose

-Moynihan

-Hearst

-FBI

-United Nations [UN]

-John A. Scali

-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]

-Bill Gill

-Timing

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

William P. Rogers

-Helms

-Ambassadorship to Iran

-Ziegler’s conversation with Rogers

-CIA

-Rogers’s view

-Joseph S. Farland

-State Department

Vietnam negotiations

-Kissinger

-Meetings

-Schedule

-Paris call to Ziegler

-Timing

-Ziegler’s press conference

-Instructions from the President

-Ziegler’s press conference

-The President’s call to Apollo XVII astronauts

-Breakdown

-Presidential statement on TV

-Kissinger’s cables

-Ziegler’s view

-North and South Vietnam

-Kissinger’s view

-PR

-Settlement agreement

-Haldeman’s view

-Ziegler’s view

-Resumption of talks

-North Vietnam

-Ziegler’s view

-Previous statements

-Lyndon B. Johnson Administration

-1972 election

-Kissinger’s cables

-Kissinger

-Psychological attitude

-“Peace is at hand”

-“One more meeting”

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-Le Duc Tho

-Press relations

-North Vietnam

-The President’s role

-India-Pakistan War

-Breakdown

-PR

-Interpretation

-Defeat for peace

-Expectation

-“Peace is at hand”

-Optimism of talks

-Kissinger

-Smiling for photographs

-“We will only sign when it’s right”

-Compared to “Peace is at hand”

-North Vietnamese intransigence

-Kissinger’s possible statement

-Compared to Presidential statement

-US troops in Vietnam

-Number

-Casualties

-US bombing of North Vietnam

-Media and press relations

-US casualties

-Kissinger

-US bombing of North Vietnam

-Washington Post

-New York Times

-Presidential statement on TV

-Kissinger

-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.

-George S. McGovern

-Presidential statement on TV

-Settlement agreement

-US bombing of North Vietnam

-Presidential statement on TV

-Kissinger’s return from Paris

-Ziegler’s press conference

-Kissinger’s possible statement

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-Tone

-Consultations

-Resumption of talks

-Timing

-Prisoners of war [POWs]

-US bombing of North Vietnam

-“Peace is at hand”

-North Vietnamese intransigence

-Settlement agreement

-Quality

-The President’s previous statement

-US bombing of North Vietnam

-US bombing of North Vietnam

-F-104

-B-52s

-“Doves”

-Forthcoming report

-Kissinger’s reports

-Instructions

-Forthcoming meeting

-Timing

-Possible progress

-Record

-Kissinger’s cable to Haldeman

Ziegler left at 3:11 pm.

Second term reorganization

-Charles E. Walker

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

1973 Inauguration

-Duration

-Variety show

-Gala

-Stars

-Ball

-Eugene Ormandy

-The President’s schedule

-Attire

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-Black tie

-Compared to white tie

-Attire

-Black tie

-Gala

-White tie

-Labor leaders

-Colson

-Dinners

The President’s schedule

-Apollo XVII astronauts

-Return

-Dinner

-Hand-shaking, photograph session

-Camp David

-Dinner

-Families

-Public interest

-Significance of mission

-Launch

-Crowd size

1973 Inauguration

-Attire

-White tie

-Diplomatic reception

-Dinners

-Prime ministers

-Diplomatic reception

-Entertainment

-“Salute to the Ambassadors”

-Blue Room

-Announcement

-Timing

The President’s schedule

-European trip

-Timing

-March or February 1973

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-1973 Inauguration

-US trip

-1973 Inauguration

-Stops

-Duration

-Capital and outer critics

-The President’s trips to the Soviet Union and the People

Republic of China [PRC]

Haldeman left at 3:18 pm.