Conversation No. 296-1

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:14 pm and 1:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-86]

Conversation No. 296-2

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:14 pm and 1:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?].

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[Duration:  41s  ]

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:18 pm.

Conversation No. 296-3

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  1:18 pm - 1:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John B. Connally

[See Conversation No. 14-87]

Conversation No. 296-4

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  1:19 pm - unknown before 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 296-5

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 296-6

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 296-7

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 296-8

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 296-9

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 296-10

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 296-11

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The President's schedule
-John B. Connally

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 296-12

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 296-13

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 296-14

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-88]

Conversation No. 296-15

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  5:01 pm - 5:02 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 14-89; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 296-16

Date:  November 14, 1971
Time:  5:02 pm - 6:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John B. Connally.

	Connally’s schedule

Redskins-Bears game
-Field goal attempt
-Larry Brown's injury
-Score

Connally's recent trip to Asia
-Saigon
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Inauguration ceremonies
-Ceremonies
	-Reception
		-Presentation of credentials
	-Dinner
	-Attendance
-Prime Minister Chong Pil Kim of South Korea
-Vice Premier Chiang Ching-Kuo of Taiwan, Republic Of China
-Conversation With Connally
-United Nations [UN] vote
-US support
						-International Monetary Fund [IMF] , World Bank and Asian Development Bank
-UN
						-UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]
-Kim
-Conversation with Connally

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[Duration:  56s  ]

	SOUTH KOREA

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			-Meetings
-Senate vote on foreign aid
-Subsequent Senate votes
-John C. Stennis Amendment
-Humanitarian provisions
-House vote
-Thieu
-Conversation with Connally
-Prospects for 1972
	-Possible Communist offensive
-Rice production
-Government reorganization
	-Customs ministry
-Connally’s conversations
	-Finance, economics, foreign ministers
-Economics minister
-Program
-Thieu
-Conversation with Connally
-Recent election
-Lt. Gen. Duong Van Minh and Nguyen Cao Ky
-Political party system
	-Compared to Mexico
-Military situation
-Economic reforms
-Corruption in government
	-Customs ministry
	-Military
		-Drug trade
			-Threats
-Bunker
-US personnel
	-Tour of Delta area
-Rice production
-Need for foreign aid
-Stennis amendment
-Bangkok
-Thanom Kittikachorn
-Thanat Khoman
-Connally's meetings
-US Ambassador Leonard Unger
-Thanom
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Message
		-Saigon
	-Talking paper
-The President's instructions
	-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Talking paper
	-Points
-Thanat
	-Manner
	-Nationality
-Thanom
-PRC
-Insurgency in North
-Foreign aid
-Chinese in Thailand
-Cambodia
-US troop movements
	-Taiwan
		-Radio broadcast
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai
-North Vietnam
-Lin Piao
	-Kissinger’s trip
-PRC’s possible future
-Mao
-Military situation in Laos and Cambodia

	[Unintelligible]

-Military situation in Thailand
	-Cambodian border
		-Unknown place

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[Duration:  18s  ]

	THAILAND

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	-Terrain
-Concerns
	-US-PRC relations
	-US intent
		-Southeast Asia

US policy in Southeast Asia
-Laos and Cambodia
-South Vietnam
-Thailand
-Treaty obligations

US policy toward Taiwan

Connally's recent trip to Asia
-Bangkok
-Festival
	-Thanom
	-Floating baskets
-Thanom
-Home
-Dinner
-Festival
	-Fireworks
	-Prizes
-King Bhumibol Adulyadej
-Conversation with Connally
-Queen Sirikit

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[Duration:  6m 2s  ]

	THAILAND

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-Indonesia
-Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto
-Conversations with Connally
-US ambassador [Francis J. Galbraith]
-US aid
-Visit to Cambodia
-Lon Nol
	-Norodom Sihanouk
-Meetings with Connally
-Cambodia
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Trade
	-Taiwan
-Nixon Doctrine
-US foreign aid program
-Congress
	-Protectionism
-Administration efforts
-US presence in Southeast Asia
-Wife
-Cabinet
-Connally's meetings
-Backgrounds
-Relations with Suharto
		-Military aides
-Suharto
-Conversations with Connally
-US military aid
	-State Department
-Cambodia
-PRC
	-Information
-Philippines
-President and Mrs. Ferdinand E. Marcos
-Ceremony for Connally
-Conversation with Connally
-Recent elections in Philippines
	-Senate
	-Provincial governors and mayors
-Insurgency
-Forthcoming election
	-Prospects
-Imelda Marcos
-Conversation with Connally
-Political futures
-President and Mrs. Marcos
-Conversation with Connally
-Brother of Philippine Vice President
	-Corruption
-Connally's subsequent briefing for Kissinger and State Department
-Forthcoming meeting in Kuala Lumpur
-Military bases
	-Malaysia
-Great powers' role in Southeast Asia
	-Possible non-aggression pact
	-South Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia
	-US military aid
-Nixon Doctrine
	-South Korea, South Vietnam
-US aid
-Need for training, planning
-Subversion
	-Chinese
		-Insurgency
		-Luzon
-Kissinger's visit to PRC
-Mrs. Marcos
-Japan
-Connally's meetings
-Cabinet ministers
-Kakuei Tanaka, Takeo Fukuda and Eisaku Sato
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Mikio Mizuta
-Sato
-International monetary system
-Senate vote on Okinawa reversion
	-Japanese reaction
-Sato
-Conversations with Connally
-Okinawa
-The President's conversation with Nobusuke Kishi

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[Duration:  1m 20s  ]

	JAPAN

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-International economy
-Okinawa
	-Reversion
		-Diet
-Timing
-Fukuda
-The President's forthcoming visit to PRC
-International economy
	-Trade mission
	-Japanese businessmen
		-Meeting with Connally
			-Kishi
			-Devaluation
-Tanaka
-Conversation with Connally
-Connally’s meetings
-Mizuta
-Paul W. McCracken's counterpart, Toshio Kimura
-Agriculture Minister Munenori Akagi
-Tanaka
-Fukuda
-Sato
-International economy
	-Group of Ten
-Okinawa
	-Reversion
-Textiles
-PRC
-Sato
	-Political position
	-UN vote on Taiwan
-Conversation with Connally
-Supersonic transport [SST]
	-Concorde
	-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Possible joint venture
-Fukuda
-International monetary situation
-Indonesia
-Gold prices
-Group of Ten
-Japan
-Japan
-Connally's conversations
-Japanese economy
	-Growth
		-Compared to US economy
			-Unemployment
-West Germany’s economy
	-Recession
-Japanese economy
	-Sliding scale
	-Reserves
-International economy
	-The President’s August 15, 1971 statement
-Exports
	-Imports
-Okinawa
	-Reversion
		-Diet debate
-US foreign aid
-US military dispositions
	-South Korea
	-Taiwan
-Tanaka
			-Possible settlement with US
				-Timing

International economy
-Connally's forthcoming speech to Economics Club
-Import surcharge
-Views of Henry C. Wallich, Paul A. Samuelson and Milton Friedman
-Samuelson
	-Japan
		-Connally’s remarks
-Arthur F. Burns's views
-Politics
-Rogers's and State Department’s views
-The President's schedule
-McCracken
-Peter G. Peterson
-Wallich's and Samuelson's views

National economy
-The President's meeting with Burns
-Money supply
-Memorandum to Herbert Stein
-Pay Board and Price Commission
-Performance
-C. Jackson Grayson, George H. Boldt and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Pay Board
-Wage increases
-Price guidelines
-Business's reaction
	-Profit margins

Businessmen
-Compared to labor leaders

International economy
-Burns's views
-Press
-The President's program
-Goals
	-US military establishment
		-Security
	-Foreign aid
	-Prosperity
		-West Germany and Japan
	-Protectionism
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to PRC, USSR
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Foreign aid program
-Senate action
-Michael J. Mansfield and J. William Fulbright
-Isolationism
-India
-Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea and Europe
-The President's economic program
	-International aspect
-Opponents
-US role in world
-Grain deal with USSR
-Balance of trade
-Unemployment
-US prosperity
-Vietnam
	-Troop withdrawals
-Monetary situation
-Negotiations
	-Europe
	-Japan
-The President's August 15 program
-Burns's view
-Paul A. Volcker's view
-The President's meeting with George P. Shultz

National economy
-The President's program
	-Freeze
-Opponents
	-Press
	-Wall Street
-Phase II
-Inflation
-Wage rates
-Effect of international monetary situation
-The President's program
	-Foreign affairs
		-USSR
		-Vietnam
			-Announcement
-Reaction to critics
-The President’s schedule
-Connally’s forthcoming speech
-Retail sales
-Pending Tax Bill
	-Budget deficit
-Money supply
-Shultz's views
-Gustave L. Levy's views
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Views of Stein, Ezra Solomon and McCracken
-Burns
	-View
	-Federal Reserve Board
		-Appointments

Secretary of Agriculture
-Earl L. Butz
-Background
-Corn and hog prices
			-American Farm Bureau Federation, National Grange and National Farmers' Union
-National Farmers Organization [NFO]
		-Selection process

National economy
-Corn prices
-Clifford M. Hardin's view
-The President's conversation with Butz
-Grain sale to USSR
-Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason
	-[International Longshoremen’s Association]

International monetary situation
-Kissinger's previous briefing of Lyndon B. Johnson
-Johnson
	-Kissinger
-Criticism of the President’s policy
-Possible conversations
-Walter E. Heller
-Walt W. Rostow
-Heller
	-Partnership
		-Background
			-Minnesota
	-Compared to Samuelson
-Kermit Gordon
-Forthcoming speech, November 15, 1971
-Connally's possible reaction

The President's press conference, November 12, 1971
-Foreign Aid Bill
-Jim Deakin of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
		-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-Decisions by John F. Kennedy and Johnson
-Cambodia
-Nixon Doctrine

The President's critics
	-Responses
	-Rogers
	-U. Alexis Johnson
	-Melvin R. Laird
	-Rogers

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-US forces
-Possible enemy action
	-Response

International Monetary situation
-US efforts
	-Currency floatation
-Others' efforts
	-Price of gold
-Connally's possible conversation with Kissinger
-US program
-Price of gold
-Shultz's views
	-Convertibility
-Convertibility
	-France
	-The President's forthcoming meeting with Georges J.R. Pompidou
		-Press

The President and Connally left at 6:41 pm.