Date: February 21, 1973
Time: 5:33 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
President’s meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger’s press briefing
-Live broadcast
-Cameras
-Advisability
-Kissinger’s ego
-Press conference
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Vietnam
-Statement
-Questions
Aid to Vietnam
-Williams P. Rogers
-Statement
-Kissinger
-Selling of aid package
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Kissinger
-Discussion with President
-Consumer price index
Congressional relations
-Briefings
-Rogers [?]
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:33 pm.
John D. Ehrlichman
-Rose Mary Woods
-Patricia R. Hitt
-Job with ACTION
-Program cuts
President’s trip to Camp David
-Scheduling
-Transportation
-Departure time
-Lunch, dinner
-Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, Kissinger, Charles J.
DiBona
-President’s radio broadcast
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:41 pm.
-Attitude
-Ehrlichman
-Job offers
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Ehrlichman
-Counsellor position
-California
-Herbert G. Klein
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-Personal traits
-Robert H. Finch
-Haldeman’s call
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 5:41 pm.
Kissinger’s press conference briefing
-Live broadcast
-Filming
-Evening news
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s role
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Trip to New York
-Meeting with Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Article
-Vietnam settlement
White House Correspondents dinner
-Letter
-Invitation
-President’s acceptance
-Date
-Robert Pierpoint
-Garrett D. (“Jack”) Harner
-Entertainment
-Sonny and Cher Bono
-President’s supporters
-Peace
-Karen and Richard Carpenter
-President’s response to invitation
Kissinger’s press briefing
-Importance
-Cameras
-Meeting with Thimmesch
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Ziegler left at 5:46 pm.
Armstrong
-Appointment
Job for Hitt
-Difficulties
-Michael P. Balzano, Jr.
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Qualifications
-State Department
-ACTION
-Balzano
-Politicization
-John F. Kennedy administration
Howard Phillips
-Harry S. Dent
-Performance in job
-Outspoken
-Charlie Walker
-Congressional relations
-Enthusiasm
Balzano
-Public relations
-ACTION
-Concern for poor
-Budget
Hitt
-New job
Armstrong
-Relations with Hitt
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-Rose Mary Woods
-Staff
-Expansion
-New positions
-Cost of Living Council
-Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish Speaking Americans
-Donald H. Rumsfeld [?]
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Television [TV]
-Secretary of Labor
Ehrlichman, Kissinger
-Staff
Haldeman
-Staff
Hitt
-State Department job
-Abilities for job
Balzano
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council
President’s schedule
-Cabinet meetings
-Meetings with President
-Bull
-Counsellors
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic council
-Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
-Cabinet
-NSC
-Kissinger
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William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Letter
Taxes
-Budget battle
-National committee
-Tax increase
-Citizens committees
Letters
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Missing in Action [MIA] families
-Confirmed deaths
-President’s approval
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Job for Hitt
-Ehrlichman
-Meeting with President
-Woods
-Assistant secretary
-Armstrong
-State Department compared to ACTION
Haldeman left at 6:00 pm.