Conversation No. 294-1

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:02 am and 8:07 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Unknown person's schedule
-Meeting

Conversation No. 294-2

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:02 am and 8:07 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-19]

Conversation No. 294-3

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  8:07 am - 8:08 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 15-20]

Conversation No. 294-4

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  8:12 am - 8:13 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 15-21]

Conversation No. 294-5

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:13 am and 9:10 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
		-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-George Meany
-George P. Shultz
-Pay Board
-Decision
-Shultz
-Announcement
-Agenda

Conversation No. 294-6

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  9:10 am - 10:50 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
		-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Speech
-The President's revisions
-Announcement
-George Meany
-Departure

Earl L. Butz

Release of text

International economy
-John B. Connally
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Henry A. Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Meany
				-Weather in Miami
				-The President's return to Washington
-Connally
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Staff work

The President's schedule
-Briefing books
-Connally, Shultz and Kissinger
-Television

-Announcements
	-Timing
-Phase II
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Issues
-4-H convention
	-Chicago
-Conference on aging
-Press conference
-Announcement
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Cabinet
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Congressional leaders
-Kissinger's schedule
-NSC

Haldeman talked with the White House operator and George P. Shultz at an unknown time between 9:10 am and 10:13 am.

[Conversation No. 294-6A]

[See Conversation No. 15-22]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman's previous call to Shultz
-Meany's views

The President's schedule
-AFL-CIO convention
-Meany's views
-Haldeman and Kissinger
-Charles W. Colson and Shultz
-Colson's conversation with Rumsfeld
-Travel plans

	[Pause]

-Football game
-Request for seats
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Mrs. Nixon's schedule

Haldeman talked with the White House operator and Constance M. Stuart at an unknown time between 9:10 am and 10:13 am.

[Conversation No. 294-6B]

[See Conversation No. 15-23]

[End of telephone conversation]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Network television coverage
-Press coverage
-Stuart
-New York Daily News

Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Press relations

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Ceremonial events
	-Thanksgiving
		-Turkey presentation
		-Mrs. Nixon's schedule
		-The President's schedule
	-Animals
	-King Timahoe
		-Photographs

Butz
-Senate confirmation
-Press coverage
-Haldeman
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Possible filibuster

Supreme Court nominees
-William H. Rehnquist
-Liberals' reaction
-Barry M. Goldwater

	Herbert Stein
		-Health
-Possible role with government
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
	-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
	-CEA

Jews in administration
-Stein, Arthur F. Burns and Kissinger
-Connally's views
-Value
-CEA
-Cabinet and Supreme Court
-Stein

Congressional action
-Dollar check-off on income taxes
-Butz confirmation
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment

Colson
-Call from the President, November 17, 1971
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Unknown vote in House of Representatives
-Mansfield Amendment
-Press coverage

Congress
-Mansfield Amendment
-John Sherman Cooper-Frank F. Church Amendment
-Clark MacGregor and William E. Timmons
-Vote

The President's schedule
-Football game
-International monetary situation
-Shultz and Connally
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-AFL-CIO convention
-Florida
-Sports stars
-Wives
-Schedule
-The President's Duke Law School class
-The President's military friends
-Law School class
-Professors Lon L. Fuller and David F. Cavers
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Education
-John MacK. Holland, Jr.
-The President's military friends
-Reception
-The President's military experience
-Rose Mary Woods
-[Unknown man]
-Possible attendees
-Peter Boyle
-Doris Gurley [?]
-Paul Loomis
-Number

Staff meetings

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:10 am and 10:13 am.

[Conversation No. 294-6C]

Kissinger's schedule

The President talked with Kissinger.

Kissinger's previous trip

Kissinger's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger

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Connally
-Conversation with Haldeman

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Forthcoming Washington Redskins-Dallas Cowboys game
-Camp David
-Miami game
-Forthcoming Oklahoma-Nebraska game
-Redskins games

Kissinger entered at 10:13 am.

Kissinger's schedule
-Previous speech at Commercial Club in Cincinnati
-Connally's New York speech
-Nikita S. Khruschev's New York speech
-Californians
-Taft Schreiber
-Asa V. Call
-Schreiber
-California Club
-Fragmented
-Previous speech at Commercial Club
-Press coverage
-Major cities
-Press coverage
-Previous speech at Commercial Club
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

The President's schedule
-Announcement of PRC trip
-Press conference
-4-H event
-Announcement of PRC trip
-Timing
-Mrs. Nixon
-PRC response

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-PRC
-Le Duc Tho
-Announcement of PRC visit

White House dinners
-Connally
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Mrs. Nixon
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici dinner
	-Brazil
-Canadian Dinner
-William P. Rogers
-Connally
-Rogers and Agnew
-Medici dinner

PRC
-John T. Downey
-Wife's visit
-Son
-Possible release
-Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Richard M. Helms
-Walters
-The President's forthcoming visit
-Timing of announcement
	-Hanoi

George H. W. Bush
-Statement regarding PRC statement
-State Department

State Department
-Attitude
-Marshall Green
-Reaction to unknown statement
-Kissinger's call to Rogers
-Rogers
-Compared to the British Foreign Service

	The President’s schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with Edward R.G. Heath
			-George R.S. Baring, Earl of Cromer
				-Georges J.R. Pompidou

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				-Meeting with Kissinger
		-Forthcoming meeting with Pompidou
			-Timing
				-Willy Brandt
		-Forthcoming meeting with Heath
			-Options
		-International monetary situation
			-Connally
				-Shultz
				-Meeting with Group of Ten
					-Pompidou
			-Effect on the President’s schedule
			-Cromer and Connally
-Connally
-Rogers
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Le Duc Tho
-Xuan Thuy
-Bombing
-Timing
-Negotiations
-William J. Porter

Kissinger's schedule
-Time's Editorial Board
-Connally
-The President's choice as ‘Man of the Year”

Article by Walter Trohan

The President's schedule
-Hedley W. Donovan
-Life series on Bicentennial
-Interview with the President
-The President's article in 1960 on the National Purpose
-James R. Shepley
-Donovan
-Questions for the President
-Henry A. Grunwald
-Kissinger's suggestion
-Donovan
-“Man of the Year” award
-Interview with the President

Time magazine
-Story on Ziegler
-Hugh S. Sidey
-“Man of the Year” award
-1971 and 1972
-Value
-Foreign readership
-The President's foreign policy achievements
-Alternate choices
-Interview with the President for Life magazine
-Donovan

Kissinger's schedule
-Previous meeting with Time Editorial Board
-Vietnam and PRC

Haldeman left at 10:45 am.

-The President
-Previous speech at Commercial Club
-Ohio and Illinois
	-New York
-1972 election
-Economics

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-Previous meeting with Time Editorial Board
-Alexander Heard of Vanderbilt
-Donovan's statement

New York Times

Liberals
-The President's foreign policy
-John F. Kennedy

Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Vietnam
-Josip Broz Tito
-The President's policy

Kissinger's schedule
-David M. Kennedy
-NATO
-Previous speech at Commercial Club
-Taft
-Reception
-Unknown man
-David Kennedy

Kissinger left at 10:50 am.

Conversation No. 294-7

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:50 am and 10:54 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-24]

Conversation No. 294-8

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  10:54 am - 10:55 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 15-26]

Conversation No. 294-9

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  10:55 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-27]

Conversation No. 294-10

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  10:55 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-28]

Conversation No. 294-11

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  10:55 am - 12:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

The President's schedule

		-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-George Meany

The President talked with Herbert Stein between 10:56 am and 10:58 am.

[Conversation No. 294-11A]

[See Conversation No. 15-29]

[End of telephone conversation]

Stein
-Possible position with administration

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan between 10:59 am and 11:00 am.

[Conversation No. 294-11B]

[See Conversation No. 15-30]

[End of telephone conversation]

Amnesty
-George S. McGovern's views
-Abraham Lincoln's actions
-Deserters

Congressional vote on Edward P. Boland Amendment, November 17, 1971
-Press coverage
-John A. Scali
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-The President's statement

The President's schedule
-AFL-CIO convention
-Colson's staff member

Meany

Unknown man
-Statements

[First name unknown] O'Brien

	Robert J. Dole
	-Question and Answer [Q&A] session

Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
-Effect of delay
-Clark MacGregor's conversations
-George D. Aiken, Hugh Scott and Charles H. Percy
-Dole

Supreme Court nominations
-William H. Rehnquist
-Confirmation
-Smith Hempstone, Jr.’s previous column
-Conservatives

Conservatives
-Defense budget
-Amchitka test

Amchitka test
-White House mail

Polls
-George H. Gallup and Louis P. Harris

National economy
-Press views of the President's policy
-Wall Street Journal
-Barron's
-Third quarter figures
-Paul W. McCracken
-George P. Shultz
-Release of government statistics
-Wall Street Journal
-Third quarter figures
-Views of Colson's friend
-The President's forthcoming speech at AFL-CIO convention
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Content
	-The President’s policies
-Democrats' actions
-Ronald L. Ziegler and Scali

Polls
-Harris and Gallup
-Figures
-Media coverage of issues

The President's schedule
-AFL-CIO convention

National economy
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-John B. Connally
-International monetary situation
-Tax Bill
-Speech in New York City
-Stock market
-Gross National Product [GNP] and Consumer Price Index [CPI]

The President's schedule
-Possible press conference
-Coverage
-Timing
-Haldeman's views
-Forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Timing of announcement
-Scali
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible press conference
-Timing
-Previous TV appearances
-Possible press conference
-Timing

Cambodia
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] television program
-J. Skelly Wright's decision

The President's schedule
-Possible press conference
-Format
-Location

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:00 am and 11:34 am.

[Conversation No. 294-11C]

Haldeman's schedule

The President talked with Haldeman at an unknown time.

Asked Haldeman to join them

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Possible press conference
-Timing
-Thomas E. Dewey's views
-Charles A. Halleck's memorandum
-Patrick J. Buchanan's views

Haldeman entered at 11:34 am.

Connally's schedule
-Possible press conference
-National economy
-Pay Board and Price Commission

The President's schedule
-Press conferences
-Views of Democrats and media
-Dan Rather's views
-Courtney R. Sheldon's views
-Democrats' views
-Possible press conference
-Connally
-Possible statements
-National economy
-Location
-California press
-Arrangements

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:40 am.

International monetary policy
-Britain
-Connally
	-Kissinger's conversation with Connally
	-Participation in forthcoming meetings
		-Edward R.G. Heath
	-Connally and William P. Rogers
	-Kissinger's conversation with George R.S. Baring, Earl of Cromer
-Heath, Georges J.R. Pompidou and Willy Brandt
	-Walter Scheel
-Connally’s schedule
-Cromer

Rhodesia
-United Nations [UN] vote on Chrome sanctions
	-US reaction
	-British vote
	-Congress
-Ziegler
-State Department's views
	-Procurement bill
-Cromer
	-The President's conversation with Alexander F. Douglas-Home
	-US support
-British efforts
	-Sanctions
	-US response
		-Kissinger's dealings with State Department

	President’s schedule
-Kissinger’s lunch with Cromer
-Heath
-Forthcoming announcements
-Pompidou
-Connally’s schedule
-Heath and Brandt
-Possible press conference
-Timing
-Connally’s schedule
-Foreign concerns
-Meeting of the Group of Ten
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Connally’s schedule
-Pompidou and Brandt
-Attendees
-Connally and Rogers
-Stag meeting

Kissinger left at 12:00 pm.

-State Department
	-Rogers
	-Leaks

Rogers's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Latin America
-Timing
-Announcement
-Other foreign visitors
-Press conference

The President's schedule
-Possible press conference
-Connally
-Congress's schedule
-Briefing book

Connally's schedule
-Possible press conference
-Colson's forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Connally's speech in New York City
-The President's schedule
-Timing
-Colson's forthcoming conversation with Connally

The President's schedule
-Possible press conference
-Timing of announcement
-The President's trip to Florida
-Rather's statement
-Public's perception

Polls
-Harris compared with Gallup
-Results
-Methods
-Results
-Regional differences
-Issues
-Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Determining issues
-William L. Calley, Jr.
-Results
-Eisenhower and Johnson
-Claude Robinson's views
-1960
-Gallup
-John F. Kennedy
-[Forename unknown] Rowdey [sp?]
-Work in Massachusetts
-Colson
-Johnson in 1967
-Gallup compared with Harris
-Gallup's conversation with Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Harris
-Dewey
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Gallup
-George W. Romney and Edmund S. Muskie
-Trial heats
-Calley
-Process
-Popular mood
-Unemployment
-George H. Gallup [Jr.]
-George H. Gallup [Sr.]
-Vietnam
	-Gallup
	-Harris
	-William B. Saxbe, Robert A. Taft, Jr. and Robert P. Griffin
-Distribution

Louie B. Nunn
-Statement
-Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. Kennedy and Birch E. Bayh, Jr.

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	AFL-CIO convention
	-Meany comments

Connally
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Schedule
-Possible press conference
-Colson
-Relations with White House staff

The President's schedule
-Possible press conference
-Timing
-Football game
-Florida
-Press conference
-Connally
-Press conference
-Timing

Colson and Haldeman left at 12:42 pm.

Conversation No. 294-12

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:42 pm and 12:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

David M. Kennedy
-Possible role with Administration

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 294-13

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:42 pm and 12:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-31]

Conversation No. 294-14

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  12:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No.  15-32]

Conversation No. 294-15

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:46 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Florida
-Dinner

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

Conversation No. 294-16

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:46 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 294-17

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:46 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. 294-18

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:46 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. 294-19

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:46 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule
	-Florida
			-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
	-George Meany
-College football games

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Conversation No. 294-20

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:46 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-33]

Conversation No. 294-21

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  2:48 pm - 2:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 15-34; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 294-22

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  2:56 pm - 4:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with George P. Shultz and Manolo Sanchez.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:36 pm.

John B. Connally
-Previous meeting with Shultz
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Upcoming meeting with the Group of Ten

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:56 pm.

[Unintelligible]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:36 pm.

Connally
-Previous meeting with Shultz
-Staff
-Gold

International monetary situation
-Price of gold
-Convertibility

Charles H. Percy
-Previous statement
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Vietnam

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Ronald W. Reagan
-Conversation with the President
-Welfare reform

Rockefeller
	-Revenue sharing

Ogilvie
-Previous call to Shultz
-Percy's speech
-House Resolution 1

House Resolution 1
-Percy's efforts
-Shultz's previous conversation with Connally

Congress
-Pending legislation
-Connally's efforts

Ogilvie
-Federal welfare funds

Congress
-Tax Bill
-Michael J. Mansfield

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:56 pm.

Delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:36 pm.

	American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-George Meany's previous speech
-Soviet Union and People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Executive Council's meeting
-Pay Board participation
-The President's forthcoming speech
-Meany's statement on the President's economic program

National economy
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Increase

AFL-CIO convention
-The President's forthcoming speech
-Vietnam
		-Meany
	-Relations with Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower
		-The President's schedule
-Pay Board

Federal Budget
-Manipulation
-Pending tax bill
-Revenue-sharing
-Family assistance
-Value added tax
-Possible role in tax system
-Hubert H. Humphrey's proposal
-Russell B. Long's proposal
-Cost
-Herbert Stein

Stein
-Shultz's call to Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-White House car
-Possible role with administration
-Shultz's previous conversation with Connally
-Milton Friedman
-Arthur F. Burns
		-Paul W. McCracken
		-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] appointment
	-Jews in administration
	-Connally's views
-Health

National economy
-Pay Board
-Coal miners
-Retroactivity of contracts
-Shultz's daughter's question
-Possible strike
-Congress
-Effect of freeze
-Previous Wall Street Journal article
-Duration of freeze
-Burns
-Letter to the President regarding his visit to New York

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:56 pm and 3:36 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22A]

[See Conversation No. 15-35]

[End of telephone conversation]

Burns
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Contacts
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer

The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan between 3:36 and 3:42 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22B]

[See Conversation No. 15-36]

[End of telephone conversation]

Fredrick M. Eaton
-Possible role with Administration
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] Ambassadorship
	-Requirements

David Kennedy
-Possible role with Administration

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:42 pm.

The President's schedule
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.

David M. Kennedy
-Possible role with Administration

International monetary situation

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:42 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.

Pending legislation

National economy
-Money supply
-Burns

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:42 pm and 3:47 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22C]

[See Conversation No. 15-37]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-Money supply
-Burns
-Friedman
-Federal budget for Fiscal Year 1973

The President talked with Charles W. Colson between 3:47 pm and 3:51 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22D]

[See Conversation No. 15-38; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Rumsfeld entered at 3:48 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman between 3:51 pm and an unknown time before 4:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22E]

Colson

The President's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-Pay Board
-Retroactivity of contracts
-Pending legislation
-Pending legislation
-Clark MacGregor's views

Congress
-Authority vis-a-vis the President
-Washington Post article

National economy
-Rumsfeld's deputy
-Frank C. Carlucci
-Requirements
-The President's program
-C. Jackson Grayson and George H. Boldt
-Pay Board and Price Commission
-Relations
-Rumsfeld's activities
-Staffs' activities
-Effects
-Exemptions
-Cost of Living Council
-Activities
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Connally
-Telegram from Jewel Tea Company
-Activities

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:51 pm and 4:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22F]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-The President's schedule
-The President's program
-Foreign policy
-Cost of Living Council
-Role
-Rumsfeld's conversation with Dick [Surname unknown] [Richard Ogilvie?]

Ogilvie
-Welfare reform

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		-Possible role with administration
			-Judicial appointment
-Mitchell
-Confirmation

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[Duration:  3m 47s  ]

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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:51 pm and 4:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22G]

The President's schedule
-Mitchell
-Subway in Washington, DC
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Joel T. Broyhill

[End of telephone conversation]

District of Columbia
-Home Rule
-Subway

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:51 pm and 4:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22H]

[See Conversation No. 15-39]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-The President's program
-Effect
-Duration

The President talked with John B. Connally between 4:17 pm and 4:24 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22I]

[See Conversation No. 15-40]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Kissinger and Mitchell

National economy

The President talked with an unknown person in Kissinger's office at an unknown time between 4:24 pm and 4:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22J]

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-The President's program
-Inflation
-Rent Board
-Thomas B. Curtis
-Rent controls
	-Paris
-Curtis
-Democrats' actions
-Tax cut
-Labor unions
-Shultz's conversation with Willie J. Usery
-Usery's speech in St. Louis in 1960
-Connally's views
-Public perceptions of Administration's policy towards labor unions

Supreme Court
-William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

National economy
-The President's program
-Pay Board
-George Meany
-Business's reaction
-Stein's views

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:24 pm.

Kissinger's schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:34 pm.

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:24 pm and 4:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22K]

The President's schedule
-Mitchell

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-The President's program

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:34 pm.

The President's schedule

Kissinger's schedule
-Prisoner of war [POW] wives

The President's schedule
-Mitchell and Rumsfeld

Shultz and Rumsfeld left at 4:35 pm.

Vietnam
-Military dispositions
	-North Vietnamese Army

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:35 pm.

The President's schedule
-Rumsfeld
-Mitchell
-Broyhill

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:50 pm.

Vietnam
-Military dispositions
	-North Vietnamese Army
-Bombing
-Timing
-People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-The President’s decision
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Possible effect
	-PRC, Soviet Union
-Le Duc Tho's possible actions
-Negotiations
-William J. Porter's statement
-Le Duc Tho's schedule
-Bombing
-Possible effect
	-Kissinger’s view
-PRC and the Soviet Union
-Timing
-Possible effect
	-The President’s view
		-PRC trip
-Timing

Soviet Union
-William P. Rogers's statement
-Mitchell
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Yitzhak Rabin

Connally's schedule
-Press conference

Kissinger's conversation with an unknown man

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Time

Kissinger left at 4:50 pm.

Conversation No. 294-23

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:50 pm and 4:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John N. Mitchell and Donald H. Rumsfeld.

	[General conversation]

Pending legislation
-Tax check-off for political campaigns
-Clark MacGregor
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.’s motion
-MacGregor's efforts
-Possible veto
-Possible veto
-Provisions
-James O. Eastland
-Possible veto
-Mitchell's forthcoming call to John B. Connally
-MacGregor

Mitchell left at an unknown time before 4:54 pm.

Illinois
-Poll

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:50 pm.

The President's schedule
-Joel T. Broyhill, William E. Timmons and Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Rumsfeld and Mitchell

Rumsfeld and Bull left at an unknown time before 4:54 pm.

Conversation No. 294-24

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:50 pm and 4:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
-Departure for Florida
-Press

Conversation No. 294-25

Date:  November 18, 1971
Time:  4:54 - unknown before 5:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Joel T. Broyhill, William E. Timmons and Egil Krogh, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Washington, DC subway

Arrangements for photographa

Washington, DC subway
-William H. Natcher's actions
-The President's possible statement
-Natcher
-Statements regarding John A. Volpe and the Washington, DC Council
-The President's possible statement
-Natcher
-Appropriations

-The President's possible statement
-Dissemination
-Appropriations
-Natcher
-Broyhill's possible actions

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[Duration:  1m 1s  ]

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	Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Nomination to Supreme Court
-John Marshall

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[Duration:  4m 55s  ]

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-Ulysses S. Grant

Presidential gifts
-Secretaries

John N. Mitchell and Donald H. Rumsfeld entered at 5:09 pm.

Introductions

Broyhill, Timmons and Krogh left at 5:09 pm.

Pending Tax Bill
	John B. Connally
	-Previous call from Mitchell
	-Pending Tax Bill
	-Possible veto
-Hugh Scott's views
-Russell B. Long
-Scott and Robert P. Griffin
	-Griffin
-Possible veto

Mitchell left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.

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[Duration:  1m 42s  ]

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:09 pm and 5:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-25A]

[See Conversation No. 15-42]

[End of telephone conversation]

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 5:09 pm and 5:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-25B]

[See Conversation No. 15-43]

[End of telephone conversation]

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[Duration:  2m 55s  ]

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 5:16 and 5:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-25c]

[See Conversation No. 15-44; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Mitchell entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.

Pending Tax Bill
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Tax check-off for political parties
		-Debts of Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committees
	-Creditors' demands
	-Civil Aeronautics Board
-MacGregor's views
-Charles McC. Mathias's motion
-Connally's views
-Tax check-off for political parties
-Provisions
-Possible effect on 1972 election

1968 election
-Effect of finances

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[Duration:  7m 42s  ]

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Connally
-Conversation with the President

Rumsfeld left at 5:30 pm.

-The President's Law Firm
-Arthur J. Mahon
	-Estate In Houston
-Shearn Moody, Jr.
			-Roy M. Cohn
-Mahon's statements
	-The Attorney General
-Connally's law firm
-The President's law firm
	-Mitchell’s understanding of case
-Moody
-Moody Foundation
-Connally's law firm
-Client
-Ex-convict's statements
	-Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Mitchell's conversations
-Victor Riesel [?]
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Russell B. Long's committee
-The President's conversation with Connally
-Riesel [?]

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[Duration:  8m 48s  ]

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The President's schedule
		-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Possible speech

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:30 pm and 5:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-25D]

			-Dwight D. Eisenhower

[End of telephone conversation]

-George Meany

The President's forthcoming speech to AFL-CIO convention
	-The President's previous speech to Machinist convention

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.