Conversation No. 297-1

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:51 pm and 8:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the dictation is in progress]

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Conversation No. 297-2

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  8:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-76]

Conversation No. 297-3

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:19 pm and 8:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 297-4

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:19 pm and 8:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 14-77]

Conversation No. 297-5

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:19 pm and 8:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 297-6

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  8:24 pm - 8:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 14-78]

Conversation No. 297-7

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:25 pm and 8:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 297-8

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:25 pm and 8:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-79]

Conversation No. 297-9

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  8:48 pm - 8:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 14-80]

Conversation No. 297-10

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:49 pm and 9:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 297-11

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:49 pm and 9:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:13 pm.

Conversation No. 297-12

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  9:13 pm - 9:21 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Charles W. Colson talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 14-81]

Conversation No. 297-13

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:59 am and 10:03 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.

Conversation No. 297-14

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:59 am and 10:03 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's note to coach of University of Nebraska
-Dictation
-Omaha World-Herald
	-Editors
		-Letter to the President

Woods
-Health

Conversation No. 297-15

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  10:03 am - 10:06 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Charles W. Colson
	-Statistics

Briefing paper
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson's previous meeting with the President
-Forward for book
	-John K. Andrews, Jr.
	-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Rose Mary Woods
-Delivery of something

Butterfield left at 10:06 am.

Conversation No. 297-16

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Rose Mary Woods
-Health
-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Schedule

National economy
-Inflation

Conversation No. 297-17

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 297-18

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. Haldeman.

	Rose Mary Woods
-Health
	-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
	-Schedule
		-Forthcoming trips

Conversation No. 297-19

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

Manolo Sanchez

Instructions
	-Book
		-Papers

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:10 pm.

Conversation No. 297-20

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:10 pm.

Conversation No. 297-21

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez[?].

Book
-Alexander P. Butterfield

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:10 pm.

Conversation No. 297-22

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

William L. Safire

Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Briefing

Conversation No. 297-23

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 297-24

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. Haldeman.

Rose Mary Woods
-Schedule
-California

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The President's schedule
-Vietnam troop withdrawal announcement
-Press coverage
-Timing
-Gerald R. Ford
-Timing

Conversation No. 297-25

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-82]

Conversation No. 297-26

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  12:10 pm - 12:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 14-83; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 297-27

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:29 pm and 12:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger’s schedule
-Return call

Conversation No. 297-28

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  12:33 pm - 12:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:36 pm.

Butterfield left at 12:37 pm.

-Possible press questions
-Troop withdrawal
	-Rate
-White House staff leaks
-Clark MacGregor
-Charles W. Colson
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
	-Deadline
-Residual force
-Rate of withdrawal
-1972 election
-Melvin R. Laird
-Informing people
-The President's conversation with H. R. Haldeman
-Congress
	-Timing
-MacGregor
-Cabinet
-Gerald R. Ford and Hugh Scott
-Possible reaction
-Laird
-Statements
	-Saigon
	-Residual force
-William P. Rogers
-Statements
-Possible press questions
-Residual force
-Negotiations
			-State Department
-Casualties
-The President's opponents
	-Possible motivations
-The President's successes
	-Casualties
	-Troop withdrawal
-The President’s press conference of September 16, 1971

India-Pakistan
-Possible press questions
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan's efforts
	-Civilian government
	-United Nations [UN]
		-Observers
		-Relief supplies
	-Possible pullback
-[Indira Gandhi]
-Refugees
-US policy
-War
-US foreign aid
	-India

The President's schedule
-Willy Brandt
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Arthur K. Watson
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Azores
-Europe
-Brandt
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Pompidou
-[Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle's] funeral
-Possible meeting at the Azores
-Martinique
-Watson's possible conversation with Rush

Watson
-Relationship with State Department
	-Rogers
	-Publicity

Walter H. Annenberg

Watson

Rush

John J. McCloy
-Conversation with Kissinger, November 11, 1971
-Kissinger’s meeting with Rogers

Vietnam
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rogers
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Laird
	-Notification
		-Timing
			-Leaks
			-Press
-Informing people
-MacGregor
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Rogers
-Subsequent announcements
	-Timing
		-Possible peace campaign
			-Congress
-North Vietnamese negotiations
-Prospects
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Laird
	-Leaks
-Negotiations
	-US air power
	-Cambodia and Laos
-Possible press questions
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Negotiations with North Vietnam
		-US position
-Kissinger’s staff
	-Meeting
		-Questions about Vietnam
-1972 campaign
	-POWs
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
	-Timing
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-POWs
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Timing
				-The President’s forthcoming trips [to People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]]
-Negotiations

Kissinger left at 12:59 pm.

Conversation No. 297-29

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.

Conversation No. 297-30

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.

Conversation No. 297-31

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Instructions
	-Placement of unknown object

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.

Conversation No. 297-32

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Possible press questions
-Rate of withdrawal
	-Paper

Conversation No. 297-33

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
	-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.

Conversation No. 297-34

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Possible press questions
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Residual force
-Prisoners of war [POWs]

Conversation No. 297-35

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Possible press questions
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Negotiations with North Vietnam

Conversation No. 297-36

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.

Conversation No. 297-37

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 2:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person

The President’s schedule
	-John D. Ehrlichman

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.

Conversation No. 297-38

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  2:20 pm - 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Possible press questions
-Residual force
-South Vietnamese military capability
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Wives
	-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Briefing
-Xuan Thuy
	-Paris
-Le Duc Tho
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible resignation
	-Election
		-US offer
-The President's conversation with Josip Broz Tito
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Weather
-Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
-Possible targets
	-Vinh
		-“Protective reaction”
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
	-Timing
-Kissinger's note and conversation with William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Credibility
-Gerald R. Ford and Leslie C. Arends
-The President's handling
-Credit
-Possible press questions
-Negotiations in Paris
-Handling
	-Compared with other wars
				-Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
		-Public reaction
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Ronald W. Reagan

The President's schedule
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Agenda
	-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs]
-Kissinger, Gerard C. Smith and Rogers

Kissinger left at 2:25 pm.

Conversation No. 297-39

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:25 pm and 2:36 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 2:36 pm.

Conversation No. 297-40

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  2:36 pm - 2:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 14-84]

Conversation No. 297-41

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  2:40 pm – 2:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 297-42

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:41 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 297-43

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:41 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 297-44

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:41 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Materials for Camp David
	-Unknown person

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 297-45

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 2:41 pm until 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The President and Sanchez left at 3:55 pm.