Date: March 17, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:20 am and 11:15 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Henry A. Kissinger
-Trip to Mexico
-State of the World report
-Vacation in Mexico
-Tres Villas
President’s schedule
-Stephen B. Bull
-Cabinet meetings
-Congressional leaders meetings
-Frequency
-Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott
-Bipartisan meeting
-Republican meeting
-Value
-Ford, freshmen Congress members, loyalists
-Scott, Ford
-Problems
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-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-William E. Timmons
-Travel plans
-Trip to California
-Cabinet meetings
-Frequency
-Regular basis
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Domestic Council
-Cost of Living Council
-Labor Management Advisory Board
-Problems
-Frequency
-Last meeting
-Republican Congressional leaders
-Frequency
-NSC
-Disabled American Veterans [DAV] meeting
-Bull
-President’s opinion of group
-President’s appearance
-Cancellation
-Comparison with American Veterans [Amvets]
-Dissidence
– Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] gymnastic team
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Photographs
-Rory de Valera
-Imelda Marcos
-Meeting with attorneys
-Domestic Council
-Cancellation
-Bull
-Other meetings
-Congress members
-Pete V. Domenici
-Value
-Thank you meetings
-Photographs
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-Selectivity
-USSR gymnastics team
-President’s message on Federal building design
-Value to President
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan’s scheme
-Bicentennial address
-Value to President
-White House redecoration
-Filmed messages
-Guidelines
-Written message
-Experiments
-Congress members
-Value
-Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-Changes
-Meetings with Congress members
-Ideological variety
-Jacob K. Javits
-Clifford P. Case
-Liberal Republicans
-Democrats
-Bull
-Guidance
-David N. Parker
-Arrangement of meetings
State visits
-Willy Brandt
-Commitment
-Italy, Great Britain
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Meeting with President
-Location
-Public relations
-Giolio Andreotti
-Italian-Americans
-Political impact
-Brandt, Pompidou
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-Value
-Focus on Europe
President’s travel
-Opportunities
-William P. Rogers
-Europe
-Latin America
-Africa
-Blacks
-Symbolism
-Nigeria
-Democratic Republic of the Congo
-Ethiopia
-Press coverage
-Blacks
-Timing
-Watergate publicity
-Arrangements
-Length of stay
-Ethiopia
-Weekends
-Return times
-Travel in US
-Reception
-Benefits
-Stop in Topeka, Kansas
-California
-Air Force Project Transition
-Veterans vocational rehabilitation program
-Forbes Air Force Base
-President’s tour
-Chicago stopover
-Des Moines, Kansas City
-Topeka
-Value for President
-Africa
Polls
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-Influence of television [TV]
-Press conferences
-TV coverage of daytime conferences
-Gains for President
-Other factors in rise
-Events
-Departmental visits
-Night press conferences
-1969 Europe trip
-Gains in polls
-Negative foreign events
-EC-121 shootdown in Korea
-Gains
-Evening press conference
-Gains in polls
-Gallup
-Prime time press conferences
-Drop in polls
-November 3, 1969 speech
-Gains
-Events
-1969 Europe trip
-Meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu at Midway Island
-Popularity of meeting
-November 4, 1969 speech
-Night press conference
-Travel
-Cambodia operation
-Network interviews
-Howard K. Smith
-Today Show
-Whitney M. Young funeral
-Funerals on TV
-Losses
-Eisenhower
-Young
-J. Edgar Hoover
-May 8, 1972 speech
-Everett M. Dirksen
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-Eisenhower
-Dirksen
-Young
-President’s conversations on network TV
-Effects
-Cambodia
-Florida
-Foreign trips
-Europe
-Asia
-Timing with other events
-Apollo astronauts dinner
-Welfare
-PRC
-USSR
-Hawaii
-Apollo spacecraft landing
-Effect of televised events
-Press conferences
-Foreign trips
-Gains in polls
-Nature of event
-Speech
-Domestic trips
-Regional meetings
-Sioux City
-1970
-State of the Union Address
-Chicago
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] veto
-Evening press conference
-Dinners
-Losses
-Cambodia problems
-Prayer breakfast
-Indiana trip
-Chicago trip
-Hershey dinner
-Hawaii dinner
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-Voluntary Army announcement
-Pompidou visit
-National Governors conference
-Vietnam problems
-Desegregation
-Drugs
-Environment
-Pompidou visit
-New York incident
-Losses
-Nonproliferation Treaty [NPT]
-Laos ratification statement
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] dinner
-Republican National Committee [RNC] dinner
-Washington Technical Institute
-Press conference
-My Lai charges
-Postal strike
-Cambodia
-G. Harold Carswell nomination problems
-Oil spill
-Gains
-Cambodia
-Press conferences
-Value
-Vietnam speeches
-Gains
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-One time nature of PRC, USSR, Vietnam events
-Domestic issues
-Negatives
-Warrens E. Burger announcement
-Dirksen eulogy
-United Nations [UN] address
-Daytime press conference
-November 3, 1969 speech
-Nighttime press conference
-Vietnam announcement
-White House Christmas tree lighting
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-Active period
-State of the Union Address
-TV coverage
-President’s appearances
-Trips, dinners
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Postal strike
-Houston trip
-Hawaii trip
-Apollo astronauts dinner
-Vietnam announcement
-Cambodia period
-Kent State University incident
-Walter J. Hickel letter
-Press conference
-Cambodia
-Vietnam announcement
-Speech on economy
-Network interview
-Cambodia
-Press conference
-Travel
-California
-Kansas State University
-Vietnam announcement
-Middle East crisis
-Jordan
-European trip
-UN and Phoenix speeches
-TV coverage
-Christmas season
-Press conference
-White House Christmas tree lighting
-Network
-Economic factors
-Unemployment
-Cambodia
-State of the Union Address
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-Laos problems in 1971
-Tcheponi
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Defeat
-Des Moines trip
-Press conference
-Gallop
-Interviews
-Today Show
-Young
-Smith
-ARVN retreat
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.
-Sentencing
-President’s response
-Vietnam announcement
-PRC announcement
-Ping pong team
-Trade
-Vietnam veterans protest
-Press conference
-Mayday protests
-Arrests
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement
-Lyndon B. Johnson library
-Railroad strike
-Press conferences
-Economic news
-Mayday protests
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding
-Pentagon Papers
-Cost of living figures
-July 4 event
-National Archives
-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
-Speaker of the House of representatives
-PRC announcement
-Pentagon Papers
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding
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-Court defeat
-August 15, 1971 announcement
-Busing
-Vietnam
-Speech to Congress on economy
-Phase II
-Supreme Court announcement of Lewis F. Powell, William H. Rehnquist
appointment
-PRC announcement
-Kissinger
-UN admittance
-India-Pakistan war
-“A Day in the Life of the President”
-Christmas specials
-Network interview
-Dan Rather
-Summit trips to Azores, Bermuda, Key Biscayne
-State of the Union Address
-Vietnam announcement
-Economic news
-Cost of living
-Vietnam peace proposal
-PRC trip
-Busing
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] and Richard G. Kleindienst case
-Vietnam announcement
-President’s appearances on TV
-Frequency
-Henry Fairlie’s book
-Impact of domestic issues
-Riot control, protests
-Foreign policy issues
-PRC announcement
-Middle East
-TV coverage
-Lack
-Erosion of support
-Vietnam announcement
-Night press conferences
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-Periods of loss
-TV coverage
-Subsidiary events
-Cambodia
-Laos
-December 1972 bombing
-Nighttime speeches
-Opportunities
– Vietnam settlement
-International monetary policy
-Potential speech topics
-Economics
-Cost of living
-Food prices
Books
-A Statesman and His Times by Michael A. Guhin
-John Foster Dulles
-Kissinger’s staff
-Memorandum from William L. Safire
-Henry Brandon’s book
-Portrayal of President
-Kissinger
-Melvin R. Laird
-Kissinger’s press relations
-US foreign policy
-Treatment by press
-Analogy of the President as architect, Kissinger as contractor
-Kissinger
-Mistakes
-Publicity
-Bombing
-Brandon
-Cabinet [?]
The President and Haldeman left at 11:15 am.
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