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On February 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, and Richard M. Helms met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:23 pm to 2:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 414-001 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President met with H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman. Governors' meeting - Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. - Edmund S. Muskie - Linwood Holton - Budget - Press President's schedule - Meetings - Steven B. Bull - John D. Ehrlichman - Meeting with governors Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] - James R. Schlesinger - Politics [Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number LPRN- T- MDR-2014-019. Segment declassified on 05/08/2019. Archivist: DR] [National Security] [414-001- W001] [Duration: 1m 54s] Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] - James R. Schlesinger - Staffing - Numbers in operations - Time wasters - Retirement policy - Age - Richard M. Helms - Walter Bedell Smith - Remove employees - Weak employees - The President's opinions - Research and development - Modernization Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] - Politics Government reorganization -[Dr. Edwin H.] Land panel - Office of Science and Technology [OST] - Dr. Edward E. David, Jr. - Elliot L. Richardson - FIOP [?] Report for President - Henry A. Kissinger The President talked with the White House operator at 12:30 pm. [Conversation No. 414-1A] [See Conversation No. 37-7] [End of telephone conversation] Helms - Cooperation - CIA reorganization President's schedule - Regularity of meetings - Weekend vacation - Weather - Cabinet members - Bimonthly contact - Domestic Council - National Security Council [NSC], Domestic Council - Monthly meetings - Regularity of meetings The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 12:30 and 12:41 pm. [Conversation No. 414-1B] [See Conversation No. 37-8] [End of telephone conversation] President's schedule - Counselors to President - Bimonthly meetings - John D. Ehrlichman - Compared with Cabinet, NSC, Domestic Council - Press conference - White House staff - Haldeman, George P. Shultz, Ehrlichman - Taxes impoundment - Weekly frequency The President talked with Richard M. Helms between 12:41 and 12:43 pm. [Conversation No. 414-1C] [See Conversation No. 37-9] [End of telephone conversation] President's schedule - Ehrlichman - White House staff meetings - Memorandum - Staff meetings with Congress members - Hugh Scott - Compared with committees Government reorganization - Personal - Appeals -1972 election - Camp David meetings - Scott [?] President's schedule - Meetings - Cabinet, NSC - Shultz's attendance - Foreign policy issues - Nuclear test ban treaty - White House staff - Congress members, "outsiders", governors - Staff briefings Bryce N. Harlow, Clark MacGregor, George H. W. Bush - Meetings with Haldeman - Congress President's schedule - Republican leaders in Congress meetings - William E. Timmons - Bimonthly compared with monthly - Scott, Gerald R. Ford - Bipartisan leaders in Congress - Frequency - Trade meetings - Unannounced meetings - Social affairs - American Cancer Society [ACS] - Republican leaders in Congress - Pressure - Vetoes - Republican Congress members - Complaints - Reports - Cabinet meeting - Counselors, staff meetings - Ehrlichman's attendance - Social affairs - Worthiness - Obligations - Ehrlichman's and Haldeman's advice - Christmas - White House staff - Harry S. Truman's funeral - Effects on events - White House staff functions - Congress - Evenings at the White House - Sammy Davis, Jr. - Church services - White House dinners - Meetings with Congress members - Effects of meetings - Cabinet members - Richardson - Meeting schedule - Staff, Congress members - Kissinger - Telephone calls - Cabinet, staff meetings - Diplomatic credentials - Meetings with President - Congress members - Republican leaders - Bipartisan leaders - Vietnam - Budget office - Effects - MacGregor's and Harlow's opinions - Thinking time - Effect on decision making - President's schedule compared to other Presidents - Dwight D. Eisenhower - Lyndon B. Johnson - Number of meetings - Unscheduled time - President's use of Camp David Congressional relations - Democrats - Supporters of President - Vietnam reception attendees - Admiration for Presidency - President's attendance at meetings with Congress members - Ehrlichman - Energy policy briefing - Counselors - Republican committee members - Electoral politics - Meetings with candidates - President's meetings - Republican leaders, bipartisan leaders, Michael J. ("Mike") Mansfield, Carl B. Albert, freshmen, Wilber D. Mills, Russell B. Long - Chowder and Marching - Buddy system - Agencies, departments, staff - Freshmen, loyalists - Loyalists - Trade issues - Protectionalists - Jacob K. Javits, Charles H. Percy - Meeting - Individual compared with group meetings - Mills - Leadership group - Harold R. Collier [?], Marjorie S. Holt - Freshmen - Jack F. Kemp, Bill Archer, John J. Flynt, Jr. [?], John Y. McCollister, [First name unknown] Dunn [?], Goodloe E. Byron - Sophomores - Pete V. Domenici, Dewey F. Bartlett, Howard H. Baker, Jr., Alphonzo Bell, William Brock, J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. - New Senate Leadership - Garry Brown, Jerry L. Pettis, Larry Lynn [?], G. V. ("Sonny") Montgomery, W. S. ("Bill") Stuckey, Jr. - Fourth term - Old leadership -[First name unknown] Barnes [?], John W. Stanton, David E. Satterfield, III - Fifth term - Meetings with President - Trade - Leadership - Wildcard - Bipartisan leaders - Timing - New leadership Gallup poll - President's position on amnesty - Amnesty poll - Budget poll [John F.] Kennedy's Great Mistakes by Malcolm Smith, Jr. - News summary - Publishing history - Subjects - Bay of Pigs - Cuban Missile Crisis - Public expectations - President's decision compared with John F. Kennedy - Prisoner's of war [POWs] - Mistake - May 8, 1972 decision, December 1972 bombing - President's statement on International Conference on Vietnam negotiations - Press conference - Mining, troop withdrawals - Kissinger's recommendations - Escalation - Ronald L. Ziegler - Kennedy - Public relations effect - Kennedy's handling of Berlin, Cuba, and Laos - Nikita S. Khrushchev - Berlin Wall President's schedule - Public relations compared with private deliberation Rhetoric - Public reactions - President compared with Kennedy -"Peace with honor" compared to "the status of Berlin is non- Negotiable" Polls -1969 month by month - Decline - Vietnam - Asia trip, Apollo moon landing, Vietnam, California hiatus - Television [TV], State of the Union, veto, press conference -1970 month by month - Decline - Mid- West tour, State of the World, TV, economy - Rise - Cambodia, election month rating -1971 - Decline - Laos, economy - People's Republic of China [PRC] announcement, August economic action - Issues not affecting polls -1969 - Europe trip, Korea airline incident -1970 - G. Harold Carswell's nomination, Cambodia, Kent State, Walter J. Hickel, press conference, trips, Apollo 13, POW raid, withdrawals - Issues affecting polls -1971 - Vietnam announcement, Europe trip - Issues not affecting polls -1971 - TV, State of the Union, revenue sharing - Retreat, protest march - Pentagon Papers, PRC announcement - New Economic Program, freeze - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] announcement - Kissinger's trip to Peking - Phase II price controls - Vietnam peace proposal, Europe trip -1972 - Rise - Vietnam, TV, PRC trip - Decline - International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] - Rise - May 8, 1972 decision - Decline - Watergate, 1972 campaign, Vietnam - Gallup compared with Haldeman's polls - Currency - Timing - Cease- Fire POWs - Public reaction -[Arnold] Eric Sevareid - Press conference or interview with POW [Col. Robinson Risher?] - Effect of domestic protests - Jane Fonda - December 1972 bombing - Carter Wall's [?] letter - Suffering President's poll ratings - Public reaction - Presidential trips - Jacksonville - Compared with TV news conference - President's poll numbers compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower - Second term - Peak ratings - Cycles - Effects of the economy - Salary - Budget - Cost of living Recruitment of minorities and ethnics - Polish- American - Peter J. Brennan, Charles W. Colson - Bill Houska [?] - Winton M. ("Red") Blount - Willie J. Usery, Jr. Evaluation of individuals for jobs - Bob Mosley [?] - Brennan - Appointees - Shultz - Ehrlichman - Maurice H. Stans, Peter G. Peterson President's poll ratings - Public perceptions of the Presidency - Competence, fun - President's entertainment - Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding - Edward K. ("Duke") Ellington - Effects - Timing of poll - Pentagon Papers - Economy - Lou Harris, Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] - Questions - Colson - Liberal on social policy - George H. Gallup - Support of President's economic policy President's schedule - Use of prime time television - John Ford salute - California trip - Baseball game - POWs Public perception of the Presidency - Franklin R. Gannon's study - Spiritual, personal, programmatic aspects - Balance - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower - Patrick J. Buchanan President's personal appeal - Public events - Dinners at the White House - Ellington - Frances A. ("Frank") Sinatra - Italian- American - Nelson Ripple [?] - Orchestra - Sammy Davis, Jr. - William V. S. Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr. - Accommodations at the White House - Compared with Sinatra Hugh Scott - Public statements Electoral politics - Carl T. Curtis - Poll numbers compared to President - George H. W. Bush, Robert J. Dole President's schedule - Meeting - Ehrlichman Haldeman left at 2:15 pm. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); White House operator; Helms, Richard M.