Conversation No. 288-1

Date:  October 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:34 pm and 9:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-46]

Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 288-2

Date:  October 11, 1971
Time:  9:26 pm - 9:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 11-47; One item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 288-3

Date:  October 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:36 pm and 9:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:40 pm.

Conversation No. 288-4

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:25 am and 8:30 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:30 am.

Conversation No. 288-5

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  8:30 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-48]

Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 288-6

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 8:40 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

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Kissinger’s schedule

-Chicago
-President’s view

Supreme Court
-Robert C. Byrd
-The President’s view
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-George S. McGovern
-Conservative
-President’s position
-Strategy
-White House staff
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Chile
-News reports
-The President’s response
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-John B. Connally
-Charles A. Meyer
-Options paper
-Possible US statement
-Timing
-Connally
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Graham A. Martin
-Possible statement by the President
-US position
-Publicity for US actions

The President's schedule

Vote

Conversation No. 288-7

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  8:40 am - 8:46 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 11-49]

Conversation No. 288-8

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:46 am and 9:19 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Ehrlichman's schedule

Conversation No. 288-9

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:46 am and 9:19 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-50]

Request for a call to Patrick J. Buchanan

Conversation No. 288-10

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  9:19 am - 9:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 11-51]

Conversation No. 288-11

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:04 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan.

Buchanan's memorandum on Economy
-Phase II
-Possible agreement
-George Meany, George P. Shultz, James D. Hodgson
-Pay Board

US foreign relations
-Forthcoming announcement of US-Soviet Union Summit

The President rehearsed an announcement at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:40 am.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this announcement appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, p. 1030]

Use of forthcoming announcement
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Silos

-The President’s position
-Negotiations
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Land based missiles
-Multiple Independently-Targeted Reentry Vehicle [MIRVs]
-US position
-Summit
-Chinese
-US-Soviet relations
-Effect of negotiations
-Middle East
-Europe
-Japan
-Announcement

Robert C. Byrd and the Supreme Court
-The President's instructions to Ronald L. Ziegler
-Possible appointment to Supreme Court
-George S. McGovern
-The President's choice for the Supreme Court
-Supreme Court
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Appeals Court of California
-Experience
-Earl Warren
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Abe Fortas
-William O. Douglas
-Possibility of Jewish appointee
-Civil rights
-Conservatives and democrats
-Jackson
-McGovern
-Byrd
-Richard H. Poff
-Edward M. Kennedy [?]

Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Supreme Court appointees
-Warren
-Brennan
-Potter Stewart

Supreme Court appointment
-Warren E. Burger
-Southerner as appointee
-Stewart
-Rumors
-Woman appointee
-Public opinion
-Compared with gun control
-McGovern
-Lillie
-Record as judge
-Husband
-The President's remark to John N. Mitchell
-Gerald R. Ford
-Byrd
-Senate
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Senate
-Possible statement
-Timing

Henry A. Kissinger entered and Buchanan left at 9:40 am.

Moscow
-Leaders

US foreign relations
-Announcement of Kissinger's schedule
-Briefing book prepared by Buchanan
-Japan
-Message
-Negotiations

Victor Louis
-News summary
-KGB
-US-Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Vernon A. Walters
-US proposal on dates
-Andrei A. Gromyko

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Xuan Thuy
-The President's forthcoming press conference
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Election victory
-Possible effect
-President’s position
-Air support
-US goals
-Residual military force
-Kissinger’s view
-American combat role
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Timing of announcements
-Paris negotiations
-Le Duc Tho
-Possible US announcement

The President's schedule
-Conversation with Buchanan
-Shultz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Supreme Court appointment
-The President’s strategy
-White House staff
-McGovern
-"McGovernment"
-Humphrey

Kissinger's schedule
-Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Reagan
-Jay Lovestone
-Meany
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Meany
-Schedule

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 9:40 am and 9:58 am.

[Conversation No. 288-11A]

Request for a call to George Meany

[See Conversation No. 11-52]

[End of telephone conversation]

Meany
-Possible cooperation with administration
-Economy
-Forewarning of announcement
-Arms control

Leaks

Non-leakage of announcements
-PRC trip
-SALT
-Summit

Kissinger talked with George Meany at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:58 am.

[Conversation No. 288-11B]

[See Conversation No. 11-53]

[End of telephone conversation]

Meany
-Attitude
-PRC
-Lovestone

The President's announcement, October 12, 1971
-Ziegler
-Press corps

US foreign relations
-Reason for the President's trip to Moscow
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger's meeting, April 1970
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Importance
-Thieu
-Rogers
-Previous press conference

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:40 am.

The President's schedule
-Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:58 am.

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 9:40 am and 9:58 am.

Request for a call to George P. Shultz

[Conversation No. 288-11C]

[See Conversation No. 11-55]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's schedule
-Meany
-Dinner with the President, October 12, 1971
-Meeting with the President, October 14, 1971

The President talked with George P. Shultz between 9:58 am and 10:04 am.

[Conversation No. 288-11D]

[See Conversation No. 11-55]

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 288-12

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:04 am and 10:14 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-56]

Request for a call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 288-13

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  10:14 am - 10:16 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 11-57]

Conversation No. 288-14

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:16 am and 10:31 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Press conference

Conversation No. 288-15

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:16 am and 10:31 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-58]

Conversation No. 288-16

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  10:16 am - 10:31 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 11-59; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 288-17

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:32 am and 11:19 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule
-Chicago
-Charles H. Percy

The President's schedule
-Clark MacGregor

Kissinger

Conversation No. 288-18

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:32 am and 11:22 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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The President's announcement
-Wording

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Supreme Court appointments

-George S. McGovern
-Robert C. Byrd
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Press reports
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Mike Royko’s newspaper column
-John F. Kennedy and the President
-Comparisons
-Kennedy
-Compared with Nixon
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Cuba
-Charles W. Colson
-Column distribution
-Muskie

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George A. Smathers

The President's political fortune
-Newsday article
-The President finances
-The President’s view
-The press
-Press
-Liberals
-Berlin Summit
-Edward M. Kennedy
-W. Averell Harriman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Relations with Soviet Union
-Humphrey
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Newspaper report
-Supreme Court
-Pay Board
-Lyndon B. Johnson

Supreme Court appointments
-White House staff
-Leak of Byrd name
-Jews
-Possibility of appointment
-Edward H. Levi
-University of Chicago
-Leonard Garment
-William L. Safire
-Advice
-Political support
-Israel
-Garment
-Bernard J. ("Bunny") Lasker
-Kissinger
-Warren E. Burger
-Affiliations
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
-Procedures and timing
-Woman appointee
-Woods schedule
-Liz Carpenter
-Johnson
-Mr. and Mrs. Abe Fortas
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Former chief Thomas Reddin
-Evelle J. Younger
-Experience
-Superior Court judge
-Appeals Court judge
-Age
-Religion
-Political affiliation
-Record with California Supreme Court
-Compared with Burger
-Husband's ethnic background
-Gail Patrick Jackson
-Endorsement
-Possibility of Senate confirmation
-Yorty

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Woods left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.

Conversation No. 288-19

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:32 am and 11:22 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Greetings

Conversation No. 288-20

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:32 am and 11:22 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Request for telephone call by unknown person

Conversation No. 288-21

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  11:19 am - 11:20 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[See Conversation No. 11-60]

Conversation No. 288-22

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:20 am and 11:22 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Agreement

The President and Butterfield left at 11:22 am.