Conversation No. 298-1

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:24 am and 11:29 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:29 am.

Conversation No. 298-2

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:24 am and 11:29 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 298-3

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:24 am and 11:29 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Secretary of Agriculture
-The President's forthcoming statement
-Possible length
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Earl L. Butz 
-Government reorganization
-John A. Volpe
-US Forest Service

Government reorganization
-Coast Guard
-Volpe
-Placement
	-Treasury Department
	-Defense Department

Butz

The President's schedule
-Congress
-Possible interview
	-Reader’s Digest
	-Time
	-Newsweek
	-Playboy

Conversation No. 298-4

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:24 am and 11:29 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's forthcoming press conference
-Meeting with Haldeman
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 298-5

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  11:29 am - 1:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

	William L. Safire

Patrick J. Buchanan

Safire
-Compared to Buchanan

Recent ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
	-Unknown soldier
		-Anniversary
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
	-Korean War

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:31 am.

-Honor guard

-Unknown member

Education
	-Writing
		-Books
-Discipline
	-Staff
		-Speechwriting
		-Intelligence
		-Teachers
-Curriculum

Vietnam
-Cornell University study
-Author 
	-The Economist
-Bombing
-Figures cited
	-1966, 1967
	-1968
		-Peter M. Flanigan
-The Administration’s efforts
-Casualties
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] story
	-News summary
-World War I 
	-British casualties
		-March 21, 1918
	-World War II
	-British, German, French
-Kissinger's conversation with Henry A. Grunwald of Newsweek 
			-People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
				-Aid to North Vietnam
-North Vietnam
	-Possible post-war period
-Kissinger's conversation with Newsweek staff, November 9, 1971
-Grunwald
-Press
	-Vietnam as issue
-The Administration
	-Staff
-Clark MacGregor's statements
-Melvin R. Laird
-Election
-Use of US volunteers
	-Compared to draftees

The President's schedule
	-Forthcoming press conference
	-[Earl L. Butz]

Secretary of Agriculture
-Clifford M. Hardin

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Cabinet
-John N. Mitchell
-Elliot L. Richardson
-John B. Connally

Latin America
	-Trip
		-Robert H. Finch
		-Conversation with Kissinger
		-Charles A. Meyer

The President's schedule
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-French possessions
-Canary Islands
-Europe
-Willy Brandt
	-Key Biscayne
		-Compared to Chicago
			-Accommodations
-Europe
-Economics
-Pompidou
-Virgin Islands
-French possessions
	-Martinique
-Europe
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Arthur K. Watson
	Economics
	Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
		-State Department
-Pompidou
	-Possible message from the President
	-French Guiana
	-Martinique
	-Guadeloupe
	-San Martin
-Possible state visit 
-Unknown Ambassador
Chief of mission’s meeting
-William P. Rogers's view
-Pompidou
-Brandt
-Forthcoming announcement
-Edward R.G. Heath
	-Bermuda
-Pompidou
-Separate meetings
-Brandt
-Chicago
	-State Street
-The President’s trip to Berlin

	International monetary situation
		-Japan
			-Connally

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	JAPAN

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		-Brandt

	The President’s schedule
		-Trips
			-Summarized
				-Key Biscayne
-Heath
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with The Earl of Cromer
-Pompidou
	-Possible message
-Foreign visits
-Possible demonstrations
	-Netherlands
		-Japan
	-France
-Europe
-Timing
-USSR and PRC trips

International monetary situation
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns's view
-Price of gold
-Speculation
-Peter G. Peterson
-George P. Shultz
-Connally
	-Shultz
-Price of gold
-Convertability
	-US responsibility
-Connally's views
	-International system
		-Structural reform
-Past grievances
-Balance of trade
-West Germans
-Defense Minister [Helmut Schmidt]
-Possible US action
	-Possible consequences

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	JAPAN

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-Western Europe
-Texans
-Connally and Lyndon B. Johnson
-The President's methodology
	-Burns
		-Methodology
	-The President's schedule
	-Europeans

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-Kissinger's role
-Shultz's role
	-Phase II
-Peterson
-Staff
-Position papers
-Textiles
-Eisaku Sato
-Connally, Shultz and Burns
-Strategic outlook
-Kissinger's conversation with Shultz, November 10, 1971
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
	-The President’s schedule
		-Connally
-Trade
	-As percentage of Gross National Product [GNP]
-Basis for decision
-Peterson and Shultz
-Connally
-Views
	-Trade
		-US corporate activities
-Paul A. Volcker
-Staff
	-International Monetary Fund [IMF] meeting
	-Paper
		-Volcker
-Peterson
-The President’s schedule
-White House staff
-Shultz and Roy L. Ash
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Politics
	-Shultz
-Peterson

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-Staff papers
-Possible role with administration
-Commerce Department
-John N. Mitchell
-Flanigan
-Connally
-Peterson
-Flanigan
-[Richard V. Allen]
-Flanigan
	-Shultz, Kissinger
-Peterson
-Conversation with Haldeman, November 11, 1971
-Connally
-Shultz
-Views regarding Connally’s position on convertability
-Convertability
	-France
-Connally
-Connally
-Shultz
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Price of gold
-Rogers's conversation with the President
-Meeting with businessmen
-US program
-Connally
-Views
-Forthcoming speech
	-New York Economic Club
	-Connally’s schedule
		-Phase II
-Charls E. Walker

Kissinger's schedule
-Japanese ambassador
-Gerard C. Smith

Kissinger talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between  11:31 am and 12:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-5A]

Smith

Japanese ambassador [Nobuhiko Ushiba]

[End of telephone conversation]

Peterson
-Role with administration
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Mitchell
	-Commerce Department
-Shultz's schedule
	-Nassau, Jamaica
-Possible role with administration
-Connally
-Shultz, Kissinger
-Bureaucracy
-Activities
	-Congress
	-Wilbur D. Mills
-Papers
	-Distribution
-Possible role with administration
	-Commerce Department
	-Mitchell
	-Harvard School of Business
	-David Rockefeller
-Meeting with Katharine L. Graham

Washington Post
-New president [John S. Prescott, Jr.]
-Philadelphia Inquirer

Graham
-Conversation with Kissinger
-The President's demeanor
	-Forthcoming election
		-New York

Peterson
-Possible role with administration
	-Secretary of Commerce
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Mitchell

Maurice H. Stans
-Tenure in office
-Mitchell's view
-USSR trip
-Mitchell
	-Views
	-Forthcoming position
-The President's candidacy
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Mitchell
	-Richard G. Kleindienst

Mitchell
-Tenure in office

The President's schedule
-Pompidou
	-Paris
-Europe
-Rogers's schedule
-Jamaica
	-Rogers
-Latin America
	-Meetings
		-Panama
			-Highway
			-Darrien Gap
			-Colombia
			-Mexico
-Jamaica

Kissinger talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:31 am and 12:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-5B]

Request to speak with an unknown person

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with European leaders
		-Purpose
			-The President’s forthcoming trips
-Unknown person's schedule
-Pompidou
-Europe
-Rogers

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:31 am and 12:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-5C]

[See Conversation No. 14-35]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Unknown Ambassador
	-Message

Congress
-Schedule
	-Rogers

Kissinger talked with Helmut Sonnenfeldt at an unknown time between 11:31 am and 12:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-5d]

[See Conversation No. 14-36]

The President and Haldeman continued their conversation during the telephone call.

[End of telephone conversation]

	The President’s schedule
-Sonnenfeldt's efforts
-The President's conversation with Rogers, November 10, 1971
-Forthcoming trip to PRC
	-Preparation
		-PRC
		-Mao Tse-tung
-Brandt
-Pompidou
-Europe
	-Possible problems
-Pompidou
-Announcements
	-Timing
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Hardin
-Wife, Martha L. (Wood) Hardin
-Mary E. (Powell) Butz
-Press coverage
	-Television
	-[Vietnam]
-NSC meeting
-The President's involvement
-Agenda
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Smith
-Rescheduling
-Press conference
-Ronald L. Ziegler's schedule
-Handling
-Ziegler

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:31 am and 12:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-5E]

[See Conversation No. 14-37]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Vietnam announcement
-Timing
-NSC meeting
-Location
-Technical considerations
	-Press Room
	-Oval Office
		-Pool camera
	-Press Room
-Timing
-Press follow-up
-Location
-Congressional reaction
-NSC meeting
-Duration
-Ziegler's possible conversation with Frank Cormier
-Timing

Haldeman left at 12:50 pm.

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Conversation with Laird
-Forthcoming announcement
	-Timing
		-Rogers’s view
	-Rogers
	-Relationship with Kissinger
		-Berlin
		-Negotiations
	-Conversation with Laird
-Timing
	-Negotiations with North Vietnam
	-Congress's possible reaction
-Residual forces
-Possible January 1972 announcement
-Residual forces
-Draftees
	-Volunteers
-Ground combat
-The President's trip to PRC
	-Congress
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
	-Disclosure
-Residual force
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Peace proposals
	-Terms
	-Forthcoming announcements
		-Timing
-Level
-Forthcoming announcement
-Laird's views
-Paper
-Timing
-Possible motives
-Rogers's views
-Timing of announcements
	-1972 campaign
	-State of the Union Address
-John Foster Dulles's meetings with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Kissinger's conversation with Haig
	-Laird
-Richardson Dilworth
-Joseph R. (“Dick”) Dilworth
-Nelson A. Rockefeller

Haldeman talked with the President between 1:01 pm and 1:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-5F]

[See Conversation No. 14-38]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Joseph Dilworth and wife, Elizabeth (Cushing) Dilworth

Kissinger's schedule
-[Nobuhiko Ushiba]

Kissinger talked with an unknown person in his office at an unknown time between 1:02 pm and 1:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-5G]

Request for a call to the Japanese ambassador
-Kissinger's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Joseph and Mrs. Dilworth
-Conversation with Kissinger
-The President's actions
-As issue
-Grunwald
-Conversation with Kissinger, November 10, 1971
-Morality
-The President's forthcoming announcement
-The President's demeanor

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Effect
-Grunwald's views
-Senate

Foreign aid program
-Rogers's conversation with the President, November 10, 1971
-Senate vote

India-Pakistan relations
	-Aid
-State Department
-John F. Kennedy

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	PRC

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-The President's schedule
-Connally's schedule
-Foreign Secretary Sultan Khan
	-Message

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
	-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
	-Kissinger’s conversation with Haig, November 10, 1971
-Future announcements
-Negotiations
-Rogers's knowledge
-Laird
-Haig
-Bombing
-Blockade
-POWs
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-1972 campaign
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
	-Troop withdrawal
	-Record

November 9, 1971 dinner
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Speech
-The President's speech
-Rogers
-Attendees
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Rockefeller
-Conversation with Kissinger, November 10, 1971

The President's foreign policy
	-Laird
-The President's opponents
	-Unknown reporter
-Vietnam
	-Troop withdrawal 
		-Forthcoming announcement

Rogers's schedule
-Europe
-Rogers 
-New York Times
	-John N. Irwin, II's [?] trip
	-Arthur K. Watson's conversation with Kissinger

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming NSC meeting
-Agenda
	-European security
-India-Pakistan relations

Kissinger's schedule
	-Possible backgrounder

Rogers
-Schedule
-Council on Foreign Relations
-Role

1972 election

	Appointments
	-Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
	-Possible role with administration
-David Packard
-Seamans
	-Laird
-Dr. Curtis W. Tarr
-Seamans
-Packard

Kissinger left at 1:16 pm.

Conversation No. 298-6

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Talking paper
-Secretary of Agriculture
	-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Clifford M. Hardin
	-Dinner

The President's schedule
-John N. Mitchell
-Vietnam troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing
-Possible reaction
	-Congress
-Ronald L. Ziegler's view
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting

	-Timing
		-Announcement
-Announcement
-Agenda
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Vietnam troop withdrawal announcement
-Duration

Daniel L. Schorr
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-Reason
-Ziegler's handling at press briefing
-Possible role with administration
-FBI investigation
-Scope
-The President's forthcoming press conference
-Possible role with administration
-Russell E. Train

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Conversation with the President, November 10, 1971

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-Speeches
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Schedule
-David N. Parker
-Memorandum to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Public exposure
-Talk at Washington, DC dinner
-1960 election
-Effect
-Talk at dinner
-Dissemination
-Ziegler and Richard A. Moore

The President's schedule
-Human interest events
-Ziegler
-John A. Scali
-Ziegler
-Moore and Scali
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Meeting with youth group
-Ziegler

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Talk at dinner
-Schedule
	-White House staff
	-[Memo to Mrs. Nixon]
	-West Wing
	-Parker
	-Coordination of East Wing and West Wing staffs

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
	-White House Tea
		-National Retired Teachers Association

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-Constance M. Stuart
-Dissemination of information
-White House events

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-The President's presence
-Wife of Secretary of Transportation [Jennie (Benedetto) Volpe]

The President's schedule
-Hand-shaking
-Stephen B. Bull
	-Out-of-town people
		-Compared to local residents

Mrs. Nixon's schedule

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-Haldeman's forthcoming conversations
-Parker
	-East Wing
-Stuart
	-Alexander P. Butterfield
-White House Teas

First Family
-Speeches
-Price
-[Andrews]

Conversation No. 298-7

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Request for a call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Return call

Conversation No. 298-8

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Conversation No. 298-9

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Pen

Glasses

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Conversation No. 298-10

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Tape

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Conversation No. 298-11

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
	-Recommendations of the Secretary of Defense [Melvin R. Laird]

Vietnam
-Communist military dispositions
	-Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam

Conversation No. 298-12

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Conversation No. 298-13

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Remarks for the President
	-Text

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Conversation No. 298-14

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 298-15

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  3:07 pm - 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 14-39]

Conversation No. 298-16

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:08 pm and 3:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Earl L. Butz
	-Background
		-Farm ownership and operation
			-Duration

Request for a return call

Conversation No. 298-17

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:08 pm and 3:27 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-40]

Conversation No. 298-18

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:08 pm and 3:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Earl L. Butz [?]
	-Background

-Instruction

Conversation No. 298-19

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  3:27 pm - 3:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 14-41; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 298-20

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:30 pm and 3:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-42]

Conversation No. 298-21

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:30 and 3:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-43]

Conversation No. 298-22

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  3:32 pm - 3:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 14-44]

Conversation No. 298-23

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  3:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at 3:33 pm.

Conversation No. 298-24

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  3:33 pm - 3:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 14-45]

Conversation No. 298-25

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 3:34 pm until 3:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The President's schedule
	-Meeting

Time of day

Sanchez left at 3:35 pm.

Conversation No. 298-26

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:19 pm and 4:22 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 4:22 pm.

Conversation No. 298-27

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:19 pm and 4:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-46]

Conversation No. 298-28

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  4:22 pm - 4:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 14-47; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 298-29

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Haldeman's conversation with John [N. Mitchell?]

Earl L. Butz
-Background
	-Indiana
		-Politics
	-Agriculture
		-Farming
		-Teaching

Government reorganization
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Ash Council
-John B. Connally
		-The President's previous statement
			-Reorganization Act
				-Prospects

John C. Stennis Amendment

Conversation No. 298-30

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-48]

Conversation No. 298-31

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Requested unknown man [Henry A. Kissinger?] be asked to join him

Conversation No. 298-32

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  4:29 pm - 5:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Hugh Scott.

[Conversation No. 298-32A]

[See Conversation No. 14-49]

Henry A. Kissinger entered and talked with Scott at an unknown time after 4:29 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Hugh Scott
-John C. Stennis Amendment

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:32 pm and 4:36 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-32B]

[See Conversation No. 14-50]

[End of telephone conversation]

Foreign aid program
-Senate vote

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Melvin R. Laird's call to Kissinger
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Leak
-Kissinger's attendance at Newsweek editors dinner
-Leak
-Kissinger's conversation with John A. Scali
-William P. Rogers
-Laird
-Newsweek
-Laird
-Haldeman
-Call to Kissinger
-Scali's conversation with Newsweek
-Lloyd Nolan
-Conversation with Daniel Z. Henkin
-Rogers's view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.

The President's schedule
-Byron Schumacher

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:36 pm.

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Rogers's views
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip announcement

The President talked with Stennis between 4:36 pm and 4:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-32C]

[See Conversation No. 14-51]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
	-Withdrawal rate
-Timing of subsequent announcement
-PRC trip announcement
			-Residual forces
				-Possible effect on PRC
			-Timing of subsequent announcement
-Question and Answer [Q&A] session
-Evaluations
	-Residual forces
	-Negotiations
		-Prisoners of war [POWs]
		-Ceasefire
-Forthcoming announcements
	-PRC trip announcement
	-Withdrawal rate
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
	-Possible “peace offensive”
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Rogers
	-Laird
	-The President’s schedule
-The President's meeting with congressmen
-Gerald R. Ford
-Timing of subsequent announcements
-Negotiations
	-[William J. Porter]
		-Possible return from Paris
-Rogers and Laird
-Views regarding the President's decisions
	-Laos, Cambodia, the President’s speech, November 3, 1969
	-The President’s speech, May 14, 1969
		-Rogers’s schedule

Cabinet
-Abraham Lincoln
-Carl Sandburg's book
-Edwin Stanton
-John N. Mitchell and John B. Connally
		-Kissinger’s conversation with Haldeman
			-Connally

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Rogers's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers and Laird
-The President's policy
	-Prospects
-South Vietnamese capability
-Thieu
-Recent election
			-Foreign aid
			-Residual force
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing of subsequent announcements
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Rogers's views
-Administration critics
-Possible proposal
-Withdrawal rate
-POWs
-Volunteers
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
	-Administration critics
-Dean G. Acheson's theory
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Popularity
-Publicity
	-Press
		-Kissinger’s trip to PRC
-Informing people
	-Foreign allies
	-Kissinger's conversation with William McMahon
	-Thieu
	-Korean Ambassador [Dong Jo Kim]
-Congress
	-Carl T. Curtis
-Press
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Leaks
-Laird
				-Rogers and Laird

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:37 pm.

Rogers
-Call to the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:20 pm.

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing of subsequent announcement
-PRC trip announcement
-Rogers
	-Possible call from Kissinger
		-Laird
-Withdrawal rate
	-Creighton W. Abrams's possible call to Laird
	-Laird's views
-Rogers's call to the President
-Forthcoming call to Rogers
-Haig

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-Kissinger
-Laird
-PRC
			-Timing of subsequent announcements

	Kissinger’s schedule

The President's forthcoming press conference
-Possible press questions
-US air power in Vietnam
	-Vietnamization
	-Communist infiltration of South Vietnam
	-US ground forces
		-Withdrawal
	-Administration opponents
-US China policy
	-“One China”
-India-Pakistan relations
-US military aid to Pakistan
	-Partisan aspect
	-Amount
		-Spare parts
-Refugees
-East Pakistan
	-Self-determination
	-Use of force
-PRC

Israel
	-US military aid
		-Phantoms
-Leonid I. Brezhnev's proposal
-Rogers's treatment of Israel
	-1972 election
	-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Phantoms
-United Nations [UN] speech
	-Egypt
	-Negotiations
-The President's role
	-Possible meeting with Golda Meir
-[Unintelligible]
-Phantoms
-Joseph J. Sisco

Intelligence
-Reorganization
-Kissinger's conversation with W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [FIAB]
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Richard M. Helms
	-View
		-Role
-Kissinger's committee's role
-The President’s possible comments

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rogers
-The President's activities
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Pay Board
-Haldeman and Stephen B. Bull
-Pay Board
-Calls to Scott and Stennis
-Haig
-Laird's recommendations

Rogers
-The President's forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR

Cabinet
	-Possible meeting
-Rogers and Laird

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Chou En-lai's schedule
	-Rogers
-Plenary session

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rogers
-The President's schedule
	-Laird’s proposals

The President's schedule
	-Pay Board

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Rogers
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger
-Possible call from the President

Berlin
-Rogers's phone conversations
-Kissinger and Haldeman
-[David] Kenneth Rush

Rogers

David Kraslow of the Los Angeles Times 
	-Conversation with Kissinger
	-State Department briefing
	-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
		-Cambodia

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Richard F. Pederson's conversation with unknown person
-Adam Clymer of New York Times
-Planning
	-Warsaw talks
	-The President's orders to Walter J. Stoessel
-Kissinger's possible call to Kraslow
-State Department
-Rogers
-Pederson

State Department
-Rogers
-White House
	-The President's forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR
		-Preparation
			-Papers
	-The President's knowledge of foreign relations
	-Knowledge of foreign relations

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rogers
-The President's activities
	-Pay Board
-Haig's memorandum
-Laird's memorandum
-The President’s policy
	-Prospects
		-Rogers
-Kissinger’s forthcoming calls to Rogers and Laird, November 12, 1971
-Informing people
-[McMahon]
	-Australian Ambassador [Sir James Plimsoll]
-Korean Ambassador [Dong Jo Kim]
-The President's possible call to Rogers

Kissinger left at 5:20 pm.

Conversation No. 298-33

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:20 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
	-Telephone calls
	-Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield
	-Pay Board
	-William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
	-Agriculture Secretary ceremony

Haldeman's conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Peter G. Peterson
-Textile vote

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.

Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with John B. Connally

Secretary of Commerce
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Anthony J. Jurich
-Relationship with Mitchell
	-David M. Kennedy
-Flanigan
-Relationship with Henry A. Kissinger and George P. Shultz
-Connally
-Peterson
-Unknown man

Business Council
	-Peterson

Senate vote

Conversation No. 298-34

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:20 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-52]

Conversation No. 298-35

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  5:25 pm - 5:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 14-53; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 298-36

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  5:50 pm - unknown before 6:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Lyndon B. and Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson

-Visit to Washington, DC
-Blair House
-Worship service
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Briefing
-Camp David
-Telephone calls

Conversation No. 298-37

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:50 pm and 6:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-54]

Conversation No. 298-38

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:50 pm and 6:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 14-55]

Conversation No. 298-39

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:50 pm and 6:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's call

The President's schedule
-[William P. Rogers]
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Rogers's views
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Rogers

Conversation No. 298-40

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:50 pm and 6:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull [?]

The President's schedule

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 6:11 pm.

Conversation No. 298-41

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:50 pm and 6:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-56]

Conversation No. 298-42

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  6:11 pm - 6:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William L. Safire.

[See Conversation No. 14-57]

Conversation No. 298-43

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:16 pm and 6:21 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-58]

Conversation No. 298-44

Date:  November 11 1971
Time:  6:21 pm - 6:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 14-59]

Conversation No. 298-45

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  6:30 pm - unknown before 6:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger's attempted phone call

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger's conversation with William P. Rogers
-Timing of subsequent announcements
	-Negotiations
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Rogers's possible conversation with Melvin R. Laird
-Timing of subsequent announcements
	-Recording of conversation
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-The President's actions
	-Possible publication
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
	-Kissinger’s possible call to Rogers

	-Scheduling of National Security Council [NSC] meeting
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Laird
-Possible call to Rogers
-Laird
-Daniel Z. Henkin's conversations
	-Timing of announcements

Laird
-Personnel suggestions
-Armistead I. Selden, Jr.
-Background

North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] Ambassador
-Haldeman
-John J. McCloy

McCloy
-Attendance at a dinner
-Reaction to the President's speech
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:30 pm and 6:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-45A]

[See Conversation No. 14-60]

[End of telephone conversation]

NATO Ambassador
-McCloy
-Qualifications
-Age
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]

McCloy
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
	-NATO
	-European relations

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:30 pm and 6:55 pm; Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time.

[Conversation No. 298-45B]

[See Conversation No. 14-61]

[End of telephone conversation]

MBFR
-Laird's memorandum
-Kissinger
-John B. Connally

The President's foreign policy
-NATO
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Edward R.G. Heath, Georges J.R. Pompidou and Willy Brandt
-MBFR
-Manlio Brosio's handling
-Laird's views

NSC meeting
-Haldeman
-NATO ministerial meeting

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Laird
-India-Pakistan relations

Kissinger talked with McCloy at an unknown time between 6:30 pm and 6:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-45C]

[See Conversation No. 14-62]

[End of telephone conversation]

McCloy
	-Finances

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McCloy
-Recent conversation with Kissinger
-NATO Ambassador
	-Possible decision
-Reaction
-“The Establishment”
	-Council on Foreign Relations
-Mansfield Amendment
-Rogers
-Views
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-Europe
	-MBFR
-Stature
-Possible NATO Ambassadorship
	-Value to Administration
		-New York Times
		-Economics
			-Connally
-Compared to Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. and Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton

	Thornton
		-Possible role with the Administration

Peter G. Peterson
-Possible role with Administration
	-Ambassadorship to Japan
		-State Department
	-Haldeman's conversation with the President
	-Commerce Department
	-John N. Mitchell's views

Ambassadorships
	-Japan, Germany
	-Unknown country, France, Italy, USSR
	-USSR
			-Jacob D. Beam

The President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Agenda
	-State Department
	-Poland, Romania
-US-USSR relations
-Austria

McCloy
-Schedule
	-SALT meeting
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-NATO Ambassadorship
	-The President’s view
-Finances

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 6:55 pm.