Date: August 3, 1972

Time: 11:12 am – 11:37 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule

-Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.’s retirement

-Retirement ceremony and dinner

-Location

-Hawaii

-Timing

-Possible message

-The President’s possible attendance at retirement ceremony

-The President’s forthcoming meeting with

Japanese leaders

-Possible presentation of award

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:15 am.

Stephen B. Bull entered at 11:15 am.

30

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Nov-03)

The President’s forthcoming meeting

-List of attendees

Bull left at 11:15 am.

The President’s forthcoming message to McCain

-McCain’s retirement dinner

Butterfield left at 11:15 am.

Administration policy

-Debt ceiling

-Melvin R. Laird’s forthcoming statement

-Kissinger

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

-Laird’s support for the Administration’s policy

-Ehrlichman’s previous statement

-Today Show

-Laird

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

[Personal returnable]

[Duration: 6m 57s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

*****************************************************************

Clare Boothe Luce

-Previous telephone call to Kissinger

-Possible Presidential event at the East-West Center

-Effect

31

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Nov-03)

-University of Hawaii

-Possible opposition to event

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

[Personal returnable]

[Duration: 3m 43s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

*****************************************************************

The President talked with the White House operator at 11:33 am.

[Conversation No. 760-14A]

[See Conversation No. 28-50]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:33 am.

[Laird’s forthcoming statement on the Administration’s debt ceiling]

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Ehrlichman

-Laird

-Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:37 am.

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

[Personal returnable]

32

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Nov-03)

[Duration: 2m 6s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

*****************************************************************

The President’s forthcoming trip to Hawaii

-Possible reception

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-The President’s previous trip to the Soviet Union

-Compared to Adele (Langston) Rogers

-Wives of Japanese officials

-Possible event with Luce

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

[Personal returnable]

[Duration: 26s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

*****************************************************************

The President’s forthcoming trip to Hawaii

-Forthcoming message to Kakuei Tanaka

-Participation of wives

-Mrs. Nixon

-Rogers

People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Soviet Union’s proposed nuclear nonaggression treaty

-PRC reaction

-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with PRC officials

33

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Nov-03)

-New York

West Germany

-Possible establishment of diplomatic relations with the PRC

-Egon Bahr

-Soviet Union

-Kissinger’s view

-Gerhard Schroeder

-Socialists

-Christian Democrats

-Socialists

-PRC

Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with PRC officials

-Soviet Union

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 11:33 am and

11:37 am.

[Conversation No. 760-14B]

[See Conversation No. 28-51]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with PRC officials

-The President

-Vietnam

Vietnam

-PRC

-Soviet Union

-North Vietnamese

-Telegram from Ellsworth F. Bunker

-North Vietnamese offer

-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Saigon

-Announcement

Kissinger left at 11:37 am.

34

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Nov-03)

The President left at 11:38 am.