Date: January 3, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:16 pm and 3:31 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with David M. Abshire and William E. Timmons. The White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
Abshire’s departure
-State Department
-Hard work
-The President’s schedule
-William P. Rogers
-U. Alexis Johnson
-John N. Irwin II
-Appreciation for work
-Confidence of State Department staff
-Loyalty to White House
-Georgetown Center [Center for Strategic and International Studies]
-Adm. Arleigh B. Burke
-Retirement
-Ford Foundation
-Brookings Institution
-Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
-Pennsylvania group
-The President’s supporters
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-Speakers
-Writers
-Assistance to the President
-Rogers
-Senators
-Briefings
-Foreign policy knowledge
-Williamsburg retreat
-Fundraising
-Congressional action on bills
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Republican candidates
-Gerald R. Ford
-Republican campaign committee chairman
-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-1972 election
-Connecticut
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-New Jersey
-Wilson
-Ford
-Brown
-Daniel H. Kuykendall
-Tennessee
-William E. Brock, III
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International experience
-The President’s travels abroad
-Senate
-House of Representatives experience
-Herter Committee
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-Alger Hiss case
-Foreign policy knowledge
-House of Representatives travel
-Inadequacy
-Preparation
-Distractions
-Breadth of knowledge
-Republicans
-Specialized travel
-Georgetown Center
-State Department
-William Ayala [?]
-Congressional travel
-Junkets
-Large meetings
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] parliamentarians
-Value
-Great Britain
-France
-Kurt Van Hoffen [?]
-The President’s experience
-Labor leaders
-Industrialists
-Press
-Junkets
Conference on national security
-Georgetown Center
-Smithsonian Institution
-Timing
-Government reports
-Experts
-Secretary of State
-Secretary of Defense
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Foundations
-Liberals’ use
-John W. Gardner
-Political purposes
-Advocacy journalism
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-Ford Foundation
-McGeorge Bundy
-Brookings Institution
-Bias
-Council on Foreign Relations
-Bias
-John J. (“Jack”) McCloy
-David Rockefeller
-Charles W. Colson
-Talk with Abshire
-American Enterprise Institute [AEI]
The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 3:31 pm.