Conversation No. 293-1

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:26 pm.

Conversation No. 293-2

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
		-Manolo Sanchez's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:26 pm.

Conversation No. 293-3

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-152]

Conversation No. 293-4

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  1:26 pm - 1:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 14-153]

Conversation No. 293-5

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:27 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:48 pm.

Conversation No. 293-6

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:27 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible meeting with the President
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Telephone conversation with the President
-Speech

The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 1:27 pm and 2:48 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-6A]

[See Conversation No. 14-154]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:48 pm.

Conversation No. 293-7

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  2:48 pm - 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 14-155]

Conversation No. 293-8

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:50 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Request that Haldeman join him

Conversation No. 293-9

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  2:53 pm - 4:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

John D. Ehrlichman
-Previous conversation with the President

Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Schedule

Ehrlichman

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Charles H. Percy
-Amendment
-Ronald W. Reagan and Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Percy

-Effect
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-The President's previous conversation with Ehrlichman
-The President's signature
-Possible veto
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Congressional responsibility
-Balanced budget
-Staff meeting
-John B. Connally
-Financing political campaigns
-Effect
-Tax check-off provision
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Effect
-Parties
-Vietnam War
-Status
-Possible veto
-Eighteen year old vote

The President's schedule
		-The President's forthcoming speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:53 pm and 3:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9A]

The President's review of a speech

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-The President's forthcoming AFL-CIO speech
-Prepared text
-Ehrlichman

Bruce J. Kehrli entered at 3:10 pm.

-Instructions
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Kehrli left at 3:11 pm.

-National Association of Manufacturers [NAM] Dinner
-Republicans

NAM Dinner
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

The President's schedule
-Florida
-Manolo Sanchez
-Conversation with Military Aides office
-Haldeman's conversation with Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
-Helicopters
-Sanchez
-Ziegler
-Schedule Office

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Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9B]

[See Conversation No. 14-156]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.

The President's speech

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

The President's forthcoming speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Content 
-The President's previous radio broadcast on dignity of work
-Ehrlichman's views
-Previous speech

Haldeman talked with Hughes at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9C]

[See Conversation No. 14-157]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Haldeman's previous conversation with Hughes
-Helicopters
-Sanchez

Congress

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Percy's amendment
-Richard B. Ogilvie
		-John B. Anderson
		-Donald H. Rumsfeld
		-Ogilvie

Polls
-An initiative
-Robert Teeter
-John N. Mitchell
-Teeter
-Opinion Research Center [ORC]

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9D]

Polls
-Figures

[End of telephone conversation]

Polls
-Results
-United Nations [UN] vote on the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing
-Gallup
-The President's forthcoming speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Timing
-Gallup
-Size of sample
-Accuracy
-White House
-Gallup
-Harris
-Timing
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Soviet summit announcement
-Press conference
-Announcement of the President's Supreme Court nominees
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Compared with Laos invasion period
-PRC
-Phase II
-Results
-National economy
-The West
-Recognition of the PRC
-Compared to other areas
-Ronald W. Reagan

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9E]

Polls
-Gallup
-Results
-The West

[End of telephone conversation]

Polls
-Results
-The West
-The South

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9F]

Polls
-Results

[End of telephone conversation]

Polls
-Results
-Timing

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Polls
-Results
-National economy
-The West
-National economy
-The Presidency
-The President's forthcoming foreign trips
-Mao Tse-tung
-State visits
-Vietnam
-Questions
-National economy

National economy
-The President's forthcoming speech to AFL-CIO convention
-The President's program
-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-Wage increases
-Vietnam casualties

Kissinger
-Schedule

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The President's schedule
-Speech

Haldeman left at 4:00 pm.

Conversation No. 293-10

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 5:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

	Previous presidential appearances before American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] conventions

Conversation No. 293-11

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 5:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Pen
-Oval Office
-Retrieval

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:23 pm.

Conversation No. 293-12

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 5:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Request

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:23 pm.

Conversation No. 293-13

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 5:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

Request

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:23 pm.

Conversation No. 293-14

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 5:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-3]

Conversation No. 293-15

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  5:23 pm - 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

[See Conversation No. 15-4]

Conversation No. 293-16

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man [Alexander P. Butterfield?].

The President's schedule
-Barber

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:44 pm.

Conversation No. 293-17

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

	Presidential appearances before American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] conventions

The President's forthcoming speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Wages and prices, 1965-1969
-William L. Safire

Conversation No. 293-18

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person

Receipt of something

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:44 pm.

Conversation No. 293-19

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Receipt of gold pen

The President and Sanchez left at 5:44 pm.

Conversation No. 293-21

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 1:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?]

India-Pakistan
-Forthcoming Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-Meeting
-US policy
	-The President’s instructions
-US policy

Conversation No. 293-22

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 1:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:30 pm.

Conversation No. 293-23

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 1:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-90]

Conversation No. 293-24

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  1:30 pm - 1:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Clark MacGregor

[See Conversation No. 15-91]

Conversation No. 293-25

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:32 pm and 1:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. Haldeman?].

Polls

Unknown person's schedule

Conversation No. 293-26

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:32 pm and 1:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-California
	-A meeting in Palm Springs

Delivery of something

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:42 pm.

Conversation No. 293-27

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:32 pm and 1:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-92]

Conversation No. 293-28

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  1:42 pm - 1:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 15-93]

Conversation No. 293-29

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  1:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Item

Sanchez left at 1:43 pm.

Conversation No. 293-30

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  1:43 pm - 2:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. Haldeman.

John B. Connally
-Previous press conference
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] news coverage
-George Meany
-Pay Board
-Douglas Kiker's comments
-Labor's views
-Press conference
-Television coverage
-Kiker, Bill Monroe
-Comments
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-George Herman and [Arnold] Eric Sevareid

-Comments
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-Meany
-National economy
-Citibank

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Financing political campaigns
-Thomas G. Wicker's views

Connally
-Previous press conference
-Television coverage
-William A. Gill, Jr. and Louis Rukeyser
-Comments
-National economy
-Stock market
-Meany
-Attacks on the President's opponents
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Paul N. McCloskey
-Statements

Agnew
-Statements regarding McCloskey

Polls
-Roper
-Results
-Timing
-Harris
-Results
-Interpretation
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy
-Vietnam
-National economy
-Questions
-The President's People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Soviet Union
-The President's PRC trip

National economy
-The President's program
-Pay Board
-Meany's participation

Polls
-Results
-Influential factors
-Soviet announcement
-United Nations [UN] vote on the PRC
-William L. Calley trial
				-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] issue
-Eisenhower
-Influential factors
-Foreign trips
-Prime time television
-Breakdowns
-Geographic
	-South
	-Percentage

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:43 pm.

Redskins' practice schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm.

The President's schedule
-Redskins practice

National Football League [NFL]
-Schedule

The President's schedule
-James R. Schlesinger and Najeeb E. Halaby
-Redskins practice
-John D. Ehrlichman, Connally and George P. Shultz
	-Budget meeting

Polls
-Results
-Influential factors
	-PRC
	-Vietnam War
	-Economy
	-PRC
	-Economy

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:43 pm.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm.

The President's image
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Meany

The President's schedule

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Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Financing political campaigns
-Wilbur D. Mills's view
-Passage
-Possible veto
-Possible special session

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:43 pm and 2:25 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-30A]

[See Conversation No. 15-94]

[End of telephone conversation]

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The President's schedule

The President talked with Clark MacGregor between 2:25 pm and 2:26 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-30B]

[See Conversation No. 15-95]

[End of telephone conversation]

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Hugh Scott

The President's schedule
-California

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Congress's schedule

International economy
-Import surcharge
-Connally's schedule

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Haldeman left at 2:30 pm.

Conversation No. 293-31

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:30 pm and 2:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Rose Mary Woods?].

The unknown person's schedule

Conversation No. 293-32

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:30 pm and 2:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. Haldeman?].

John B. Connally's meeting

The President's schedule

Polls
-Questions
-Vietnam
-Results

Conversation No. 293-33

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  2:41 pm - 3:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Unknown persons' schedules

Dictabelt
-Camp David
-File

The President's schedule
-California
-Rose Mary Woods

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Woods's meeting with Mr. [Forename unknown] Andrews

Jeane L. Dixon's letter
-The President's forthcoming trips to the People's Republic of China [PRC] and the Soviet Union
	-Advance teams

Adele (Langston)  Rogers St. John's letter
-Filmways
-Honorary Commission

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Letter from Duke University
-Anniversary of organization

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White House Christmas party
-Pearl M. Bailey
-Charles E. (“Pat”) Boone
-Harry L. (“Bing”) Crosby

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:41 pm

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:10 pm

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White House Christmas party
-Woods's conversation with Paul Garvey
-The President and Hungarian refugees

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Forthcoming White House dinner
-Thirteen year old entertainer
-Parents

Woods's conversation with Charles S. Rhyne
-The President's Law School application to Duke University

Letter to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Cancer event
	-Appreciation

Letter from Tom Kropp [Krock?]
-The President's portrait
-John B. Connally
-The President's schedule
-Connally

Picture for an unknown person
-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-Inscription

James Rowe [?]
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation
-Possible donation of materials
-Artworks

Spiro T. Agnew
-Performance in office
-Eisenhower
-Statements in Chicago
-Paul N. McCloskey
-Woods's conversation with Joseph Woods

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Telegrams
	-Support for the President
	-Winfield Dunn

Woods left at 3:10 pm.

Conversation No. 293-34

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  3:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-96]

Conversation No. 293-35

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 15-97]

Conversation No. 293-36

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 3:44 pm until 3:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President’s schedule

The President and Sanchez left at 3:48 pm.