Conversation No. 295-1

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:59 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 295-2

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:59 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 295-3

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:59 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 295-4

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:59 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

	The President's possible speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Charles W. Colson and George P. Shultz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Conversation No. 295-5

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:59 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-137]

Conversation No. 295-6

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:59 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 295-7

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  3:00 pm - 3:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with F. Donald Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 14-138; three items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 295-8

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

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

Rose Mary Woods
-Memorandum

Conversation No. 295-9

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 295-10

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Unknown person
-Unknown man
-John D. Ehrlichman
-The President's forthcoming call

Conversation No. 295-11

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-139]

Conversation No. 295-12

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  3:16 pm - 3:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 14-140]

Conversation No. 295-13

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:27 pm and 3:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John N. Mitchell
-Upcoming meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:31 pm.

Conversation No. 295-14

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  3:31 pm - 5:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Peter G. Peterson, George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Secretary of Commerce
-Maurice H. Stans

Haldeman entered at 3:32 pm.

-Activities
-Tenure in office
-Peterson
-Possible role
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Jeb S. Magruder
-Compared with Stans
-State Department's activities
-William P. Rogers
-Employees
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John N. Mitchell
-Shultz and Ehrlichman

-James T. Lynn
-Stans's views
-Peterson
-Possible roles
-National Bureau of Standards [NBS]
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Advocacy
-Stans's tenure in office
-Budget review sessions
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Research and development
-Government reorganization plan
-Gross National Product [GNP] statistics
-Errors

Cabinet
-John B. Connally
-Shultz
-Peterson's possible role
-Speeches
-College campuses
-Congress
-International economics
-Work of various US departments and agencies

Flanigan
-Possible role with administration

International economy
-State Department
-David M. Kennedy
-Russell B. Long
-State Department
-Stans's views
-Kissinger
-US trade with Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Summit
-Vietnam War
-East Bloc satellites compared with the Soviet Union
-Co-Ordinating Committee on Export Controls [COCOM]

Stans
-Schedule
-Tenure in office
-Role

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Commerce Department
-Lynn
-Harold B. Scott
-Statistics
-Peterson's role
-Business Council

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[Duration:  57s  ]

	AUSTRALIA

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International monetary situation
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-Price of gold
-Convertibility
-Peterson's conversation with Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-Italy
	-Labor’s reaction
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Price of gold
-Convertibility
-Politics
-Views of Henry S. Reuss and William Proxmire
				-Views of Edward M. Kennedy, Edmund S. Muskie And Hubert H. Humphrey
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Price of gold
-US trade surplus with Europe
	-Agriculture
-William D. Eberle's negotiations
-National defense
-Convertibility
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Connally’s view
-Muskie, Humphrey, Reuss and Proxmire
-Price of gold
-Exchange rate

Commerce Department
-Peterson
-Relations with other departments
-Connally
-State Department
-Rogers
-John R. Stevenson
-Conversation with Shultz
-Leaks

Leaks
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Notes of telephone calls to Rogers

Commerce Department
-Unknown man
-Staff
-Peterson's possible role
-Popular opinion of business
-Advocacy
-Management

Water Quality Bill
-Muskie
-Passage by Senate
-House committee's forthcoming hearings
-Commerce Department
	-Credibility

Peterson left at 4:20 pm.

	The President's possible speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Charles W. Colson's views
-The President's possible reception
-George Meany
	-Rhetoric
	-Office of the Presidency
-Shultz's previous conversation with Colson
-Interests
	-Range
-Relations with rank and file
-Construction unions
-Wage and price freeze
-Possible themes
	-National security
-Employment
	-Labor program
-Dignity of work
-Research and development
-Progress
-Environment
-Ehrlichman and John C. Whitaker
-Timing
	-Colson’s view
	-Meany
		-Democrats
		-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson and Humphrey
-Value
-Reception
-Value
	-Press
	-Public

Support for the President
	-Unions
-Blacks
-Jews
	-Israel
-B'nai Brith
-Organized labor
		-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP], B'nai Brith and AFL-CIO
-Whitney M. Young, Sr. funeral
-Working people
	-Blacks

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Reception
-Phase II
-Meany
	-Foreign policy
-James R. Hoffa
-Possible clemency
	-Possible announcement

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:30 pm.

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Hoffa
	-Possible clemency
-Presidential demeanor
-Content
-Support for the President
	-Cambodia
	-Marches
	-Sacrifices
		-Prosperity in 1968
			-Causes
-Preparation
-Colson
-Timing
-Content
-James D. Hodgson
	-Mine safety
-Politics
-Support for the President
	-Cambodia
-National economy
	-Phase II
-Foreign policy
-Meany
	-PRC
	-Soviet Union
	-Cuba
		-Colson
		-Ehrlichman

Appointments
-Shultz's forthcoming conversations
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]

The President's schedule
-Quadriad

Shultz's schedule
-Kissinger and Connally
-Peterson and Burns
-International monetary situation

International monetary situation
-The President's schedule
	-Possible meetings with European Heads of State
-Connally's views
	-Japan
-Paul W. McCracken's Views
-Convertibility
-International trade
	-Connally
-Offset
	-West Germany
		-Analogy to Japan
			-Okinawa
-Shultz's schedule
-Connally and Burns
-Convertibility
-Burns's views
-Surcharges
-Japan
-Textile Agreement
-Yen
	-Devaluation
-Possible settlement
-Timing
-Manlio Brosio's letter to Kissinger
-West Germany
-Convertibility
-Political ramifications
	-Italy
	-West Germany
	-Connally
		-1972 election
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-Trips to PRC, Soviet Union
	-Japan, Western Europe

National economy
	-Balance of trade
	-Imports
	-Exports
	-Dock strike
	-Shift
		-1971 compared to 1970
	-Economic expansion
	-Gross National Product [GNP]

The President's schedule
-Quadriad
-Burns

National economy
-Money supply
-Shultz's conversations
-Milton Friedman
-Burns
-Erratic behavior
	-Friedman's letters to Burns
	-1960

CEA
-Friedman
	-Possible role
-McCracken
-Burns
-Friedman
	-Possible effect
		-Conservatives
		-Phase II

National economy
-Phase II
-Friedman's possible role
-Herbert Stein's possible role
-Burns

Japan ambassadorship
-Hoyt Ammidon
-Wife
-Walter N. Thayer
-Armin H. Meyer
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-William S. Renchard
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Frederic V. Malek
-Chemical Bank
-Wife, Alice M. (Fleming) Renchard
-Father [Robert V. Fleming]
-Meyer's wife [Alice Meyer]
-Women
	-Possible appointment

Shultz and Ehrlichman left at 4:50 pm.

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Ehrlichman's views
-Meany
-Popular opinion
	-Phase II
-Reception
-Colson's views
-Content
-Phase II
-Colson's views

Laird
-Previous conversation with Haldeman
-Leaks
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Associated Press [AP] story from Saigon
-Compared to New York Times story
-Press
	-Troop withdrawal figures

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
	-Response

Haldeman left at 4:54 pm.

-Le Duc Tho
-US proposal
	-Possible publicity
		-Timing
-Rogers
-Possible North Vietnamese proposal
-PRC and Soviet Union 
-PRC
	-Recent speech

International economy
	-Textiles
-Connally
	-Cabinet
-Peterson
-Secretary of Commerce position
-Flanigan
-George R.S. Baring, the Earl of Cromer's memorandum to Kissinger
-Connally
-Call from Kissinger, November 16, 1971
-Connally
-Kissinger, Shultz and Connally
-Peterson
-The President's schedule
	-Forthcoming meetings with Europeans
-Negotiations
	-Convertibility
		-Forthcoming report

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Strategy
	-Possible military action
	-Possible announcement
	-Forthcoming trip to PRC
	-William J. Porter
		-Paris
	-Publicity

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:54 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:04 pm.

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-US proposal
-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Possible resignation
-Le Duc Tho
-The President’s actions
	-Reaction
	-Announcement
-Timing
-North Vietnamese expectations
	-Thieu
-US bargaining position
-Timing

The President's schedule
-Kissinger's conversation with the Earl of Cromer, November 15, 1971
-Willy Brandt
-Georges J.R. Pompidou

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-POWs
	-Deadline
-Possible bombing
	-Possible effect
		-PRC trip
	-Kissinger’s possible message to PRC

PRC
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Message to Vernon A. Walters, November 16, 1971
-Timing
-Soviet Union
-United Nations [UN] speech, November 15, 1971
-State Department
-Soviet Union
-Press reaction
-George H. W. Bush's forthcoming statement in New York
-Rhetoric
	-Television

International economy
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Burns
-Convertibility
-Connally

Kissinger left at 5:04 pm.

Conversation No. 295-15

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  5:05 - unknown before 6:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John N. Mitchell.

Ronald W. Reagan
-Schedule
	-Governors Conference

-Henry A. Kissinger
-The President
-Dispute with Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-The President's conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-Mitchell
	-Schedule
-Republican Governors Conference
-Meetings with Mitchell
-Robert H. Finch
-United Nations [UN]
-Welfare
-California

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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:05 pm and 6:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 295-15A]

Reagan's schedule
-Kissinger
-The President
-Mitchell

[End of telephone conversation]

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Polls
-W. Clement Stone
-Robert Teeter
-Michigan
-Chicago Sun-Times
-Range
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Teeter

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Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Meeting with Mitchell
-Politics
-Unknown Chinese people
-Bond issue
-Conservative party
	-Jews

Golda Meir
	-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Yitzhak Rabin's meeting With Kissinger, November 16, 1971
-Peter M. Flanigan [?]
-Moshe Dayan
	-The President's schedule
-William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird

Middle East
	-Unknown person’s statement
		-UN
-Soviet Union
	-Shipments
-US News & World Report
		-Soviet Union
			-Arms shipment
				-TU’s

	[Unintelligible]

Richard G. Lugar
-Percentage of Jewish vote
	-Chicago

Rogers and Laird
	-Troop withdrawals

Laird

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Frank L. Rizzo
-Dealings with administration

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	Watergate
-Cubans
-Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS]
-Political registration of Cubans as Republicans

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Mississippi
-Governor [William L. Waller]
	-Meeting with Mitchell
	-Election
	-Legislation
		-James O. Eastland
-New York Times and Washington Post
				-New South

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Cabinet
	-Commerce Department
	-Peter G. Peterson
	-Maurice H. Stans
		-Role and activities
			-International monetary affairs
			-Public speaking
		-Textiles
		-David M. Kennedy's views
		-State Department
		-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell

Flanigan
-Kissinger
		-State Department
-Peterson's staff

Peterson
-Business Council
-Charles H. Percy
-James T. Lynn
-Stans
-Possible activities
		-Possible activities
			-Speechmaking

Cabinet
-Rogers and Laird
-Connally's views
-Promotion of the President
	-John Foster Dulles
-Desire for credit
-Peterson
-Kennedy's conversation with Mitchell
-Anthony J. Jurich
	-Possible position
-Flanigan

Flanigan
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Possible position
-Peterson's staff
-Richard V. Allen
-Jurich
-Allen
-Jurich
-Possible relations with Kissinger
-Kissinger
	-Politics and economics
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Commerce Department
-Tankers
-Kissinger's staff
	-Leaks
-Staff
-Jurich
-Kissinger
-Relationships
-Ehrlichman
	-Research
-George P. Shultz

Peterson
-Staff work

Stans
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Forthcoming conversation with Mitchell
-Tenure in office
-Peterson
	-Nomination
-The President’s forthcoming announcement
-Mitchell
	-Republic National Committee
-Peterson

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Ambassador to Japan
-Hoyt Ammidon
-William S. Renchard
-Chemical Bank

Ambassador to North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Walter N. Thayer
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Rogers's views
-Poland
-State Department

Ambassador to the UN
-George H. W. Bush
-Compared to Charles W. Yost

Japanese textile negotiations
-State Department

National economy
-Money supply
-Arthur F. Burns
		-Unknown appointment to Federal Reserve Board [FRB]

NATO Ambassador
-Requirements
-William H. Morton
-American Express
-Howard L. Clark
-Requirements
-Robert F. Ellsworth
-Thayer
-Renchard

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:05 pm and 6:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 295-15B]

[See Conversation No. 14-141]

[End of telephone conversation]

Flanigan
-Location

Cabinet
-Rogers and Laird
-Loyalty
-Laird
-Ambitions
-Connally
-Ambitions
-Rogers

The White House operator talked with the President at 6:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 295-15C]

[See Conversation No. 14-142]

[End of telephone conversation]

Cabinet
-Rogers
-Reaction to John A. Scali's talk in Cabinet meeting
-Calls to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and Mitchell
-Scali
-Talk in meeting
-Mitchell and Connally
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Stans
-John A. Volpe
-George W. Romney
-Volpe

Volpe
-1972 election
	-Possible trips to Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey
-Possible role with Administration
	-Ambassadorship to Italy
-Previous visit to Italy
-Graham A. Martin's view
-Italian elections
	-Timing

Cabinet
-Volpe
-Romney
-Performance
-Rogers
-Knowledge by public
-Dulles
-Soviet Union
-Unknown man
-Staff
-Marshall Green
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Statement on Middle East
-Jacob K. Javits

Ambassador to Japan
-Unknown man
-Connally
-Renchard
-Mitchell's possible conversation with Flanigan
-Thayer
-The President’s schedule

Flanigan
-Possible role with Administration
	-Ambassadorships to Japan or NATO

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The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 6:08 pm and 6:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 295-15D]

Kissinger's schedule
-Mitchell

[End of telephone conversation]

Reagan
-Forthcoming conversation with Mitchell
-Possible role with Administration
	-Cabinet
	-Ambassadorship to London [Court of Saint James]
	-Cabinet
		-Defense, State Department
-Statement at television dinner
	-Defense of Administration
-Nancy Reagan
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Jack J. Valenti
	-Dinner
-Unknown person
-Lyndon B. Johnson

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Kissinger entered at 6:20 pm.

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William French Smith
-Possible role with administration
	-Supreme Court
	-Unknown case

Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Testimony

Mitchell
-Tenure in office
	-Forthcoming announcement

1972 campaign
-Primaries
-Mitchell and Stans
-Kissinger
-The President's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-Mitchell

Kleindienst
-Possible role with administration

Cabinet
-Rogers and Laird
-Tenure in office
	-The President’s conversation with Kissinger
-Vietnam troop withdrawal
	-Laird
	-Leak
	-Promotion of the President
-Scali
-Statement at Cabinet meeting
-Rogers
-Daniel P. Moynihan and Connally

Vietnam
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Forthcoming meeting
	-Timing
	-Le Duc Tho
		-Paris
		-Newspaper editorial
-The President's troop withdrawal announcement of November 12, 1971
-William J. Porter's possible statements
-Possible termination
-Possible military action
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-The President's recent troop withdrawal announcement
-Public reaction
	-Democrats
	-Press
-Possible termination
	-Possible proposal
-Possible publicity
-Nguyen Van Thieu's tenure in office
-October 11, 1971 letter
	-US offer
-Forthcoming meeting
-Le Duc Tho
-Timing
	-Xuan Thuy
	-Walters
-Le Duc Tho
	-Kissinger
-Propaganda
-Military aid to South Vietnam
	-Congress
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Possible public disclosure
	-Proposal
		-Residual force
	-Congress
	-The President's recent troop withdrawal announcement
	-Effect
	-Andrei A. Gromyko and Indira Gandhi
-Possible termination
	-Conditions
		-Channels
		-Bombing threat
		-Deadline
			-Mansfield Amendment

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 6:39 pm.