Conversation No. 299-1

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:31 pm.

Conversation No. 299-2

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-9]

Conversation No. 299-3

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  1:31 pm - 1:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Arthur F. Burns.

[See Conversation No. 14-10]

Conversation No. 299-4

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:33 pm and 2:27 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 2:27 pm.

Conversation No. 299-5

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:33 pm and 2:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-11]

Conversation No. 299-6

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  2:27 pm - 2:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 14-12]

Conversation No. 299-7

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:28 pm and 2:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Phone calls
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Schedule

		-Trip to West Germany
-Charles W. Colson
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-The President’s trip to Chicago
-Carl T. Curtis
-Richard Wilson
-Kissinger
	-Call

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:34 pm.

Conversation No. 299-8

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:28 pm and 2:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-13]

Conversation No. 299-9

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  2:34 pm - 2:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 14-14; three items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 299-10

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Melvin R. Laird
-Henry A. Kissinger
-The President’s forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Laird

Conversation No. 299-11

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-15]

Conversation No. 299-12

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:45 pm and 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Schedule

Conversation No. 299-13

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-16]

Conversation No. 299-14

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  2:51 pm - 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Barry M. Goldwater.

[See Conversation No. 14-17]

Conversation No. 299-15

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 3:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's speeches, November 9, 1971
-Foreign aid

-Television coverage
-Amchitka test
	-Effect on environment
-Cartoon in the Washington Star

Kissinger's meeting with Henry A. Grunwald, November 9, 1971
	-Time
-The President
-Schedule
-Possible interview

Melvin R. Laird
-Forthcoming meeting with the President and Kissinger
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Associated Press [AP] news story from Saigon
-Ground combat
	-Announcement
		-Casualties

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal announcement
	-Withdrawal rate
		-Timing
			-Projections
			-Residual forces
	-Laird, William P. Rogers and Congress
	-Number
	-Timing
	-Residual forces
	-Kissinger's negotiations
	-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger's dinner with Newsweek editors, November 9, 1971
	-Troop withdrawal rate
-Louis P. Harris poll
	-Public support for Administration policies
		-Congress
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Gerald R. Ford
-Laird
-Troop withdrawal rate
	-Number
		-Thieu
		-Timing
-Laird and Clark MacGregor
-Kissinger's dinner with Newsweek editors
-MacGregor
	-Alleged statement
-The President's previous meeting with MacGregor and Ford
	-Laird

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 2:54 pm and 3:09 pm.

[Conversation No. 299-15A]

[See Conversation No. 14-18]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Withdrawal rate
	-Timing
		-Politics
			-Democratic national convention
-Kissinger's negotiations with North Vietnam
-Residual force
	-Possible agreement
		-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-POWs
-Withdrawal rate
	-Contingent factors
-Possible effect on Administration critics
-Laird
-Briefings
				-Laird, Ford and Rogers
-South Vietnam
-Thieu
					-Possible announcement of January 1972

Kissinger's meeting with Newsweek editors

The President's speeches, November 9, 1971
		-Forthcoming trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
			-“Generation of peace”
				-Negotiations
			-International differences

Kissinger's schedule
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Dinner

	The President’s schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with Rogers
			-Alexander M Haig, Jr.
			-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Pakistan Ambassador [Agha Hilaly]
-The President's possible conversation with Rogers
	-Meeting with Haig
		-India
			-Arms shipment cutoff

Kissinger's meeting with Newsweek editors
-Indira Gandhi interview

The President talked with Richard J. Daley between 3:09 pm and 3:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 299-15B]

[See Conversation No. 14-19]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's schedule
-Cable

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
	-Timing
	-Charles W. Colson's possible actions
	-Possible effect on negotiations
-Residual force
	-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Press
-Number and timing

Kissinger's schedule
-Telegram

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 3:16 pm.

Conversation No. 299-16

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Melvin R. Laird's schedule

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Butterfield man left at an unknown time before 3:16 pm.

Conversation No. 299-17

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  3:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-20]

Conversation No. 299-18

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:16 pm and 3:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President's schedule
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press photograph
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Haldeman

Bull and Haldeman left at an unknown time before 3:25 pm.

Conversation No. 299-19

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 3:16 pm until 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Melvin R. Laird.

Laird's trip to South Vietnam

The President's speeches, November 9, 1971
	-Chicago
		-Timing
-Fund-raising

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 3:16 pm and 3:25 pm.

[Conversation No. 299-19A]

[See Conversation No. 14-21]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Laird’s trip to South Vietnam

Europe
-Laird's memorandum
-Henry A. Kissinger

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's schedule
-Southeast Asia
	-Cambodia, Thailand
	-Laos
-Japan
	-Family

	[Unintelligible]

Vietnam
-Military situation
-Nguyen Van Thieu's election
	-Election
	-Government
		-Ministers
			-Age
		-View of election
-Elections
-Compared with elections in communist countries
-Voter turnout
-Ballots
-Military situation
	-Military Region [MR] One
	-MR Four
		-Delta region
	-MR Two and Three
		-South Korea [?] troops
-Thieu's plans
	-Troop replacement
		-US defense budget
			-Clark M. Clifford
			-Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:25 pm.

-US financial support for Korean army
-Taylor
-Clifford
-Thieu's plans
-US financial support for Korean army
	-US financial support for South Vietnam
	-Congress
		-Report
-Korean casualties
-South Vietnamese plans
-South Vietnamese casualties
-Reasons
-Thieu's plans
	-US financial support for Korean army
-Laird's conversation with Creighton W. Abrams
-US financial support for South Vietnam
-US financial support for Korean army
	-Abrams
-Theiu
-Military organization
-MR One
-MR Two
-Korean divisions
-Prospects
-Abrams's view
-Joint general staff
	-Gen. Duong Van Minh's and others’ view
-Koreans
	-Infiltration
	-Laird’s report
-Interdiction by South Vietnamese
-South Vietnamese operation in Cambodia
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Laird's visits to bases
-Maintenance by South Vietnamese mechanics
	-Airplanes, tanks, trucks
	-Laird’s January 1971 trip
		-Helicopters
-Helicopters

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:25 pm.

The unknown person left at an unknown before 4:20 pm.

			-Vietnamization
-Thieu
-Competence
-Election
	-Mandate
-Cabinet
-Meeting with Laird
-Other South Vietnamese officials
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Treatment by Thieu
-Role in South Vietnamese Government
-South Vietnamese Vice President, Tran Van Huong
-South Vietnamese Prime Minister, Tran Thiem Khiem
-Minh
-Joseph C. Kraft's article
-Joseph W. Alsop's conversation with Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Vietnamization program
-Pacification program
	-Frederick C. Weyand
	-George Jacobson

Samuel D. Berger
-Possible position with Government
	-Ambassadorship to Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
-Possible replacement, Charles Whitehouse
-Possible position with Government
	-Ceylon
-University of Washington
	-National War College

Ceylon
-Prime Minister [Mrs. Sirimauo R.D. Bandaranaike]

Vietnam
	-[Khiem]
-Military situation
-Equipment
-John B. Connally's view
-The President's conversation with Imelda Marcos
-Lt. Gen. T. N. J. Suharto
-US military aid
-State Department
-Connally
-Forthcoming study
-Connally
	-Suharto

Foreign aid program
-Laird's conversation with Gerald R. Ford
-Continuing resolution

Vietnam
-Military situation
-Equipment
-Usage
-Example of Manila in 1950s
	-General purpose vehicles [Jeeps]
-Priorities
	-South Vietnam
	-Cambodia
	-South Korea
-Indonesia
-Philippines
-Marcos's conversation with Laird
-Analysis by US Ambassador Henry A. Byroade
-Connally
-Indonesia
-Suharto
-Marshall Green's views
-Suharto
-Sukarno
	-Gen. William C. Westmoreland’s forthcoming trip
		-The President’s schedule

Vietnam
-Economic situation
-Recent Senate vote on foreign aid
	-Inflation
		-Compared to Korea
			-1953
				-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Foreign aid legislation in Congress
-Continuing resolution
-Senate
	-Amendments
		-John C. Stennis
-Laird's forthcoming conversation with Charles H. Percy
-Troop withdrawals
-Economic compared to military assistance
	-Humanitarian aid
	-Africa
-Importance
-Cambodia and Laos
-Moorer's report
-Forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting

Forthcoming NSC meeting
-Laird
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Moorer
-Connally
-Cabinet meeting
	-Yen revaluation

Vietnam
	-US military assistance program
-Size of South Vietnamese army
	-Laird’s conversation with Thieu [?]
-Military situation
-Tanks
	-USSR
	-Terrain
		-Ashau Valley
-Heavy artillery
-Engineering equipment
-Logistics program
-Thieu's plans
-Plans of Communists
-Possible US response
	-Naval and air power
-Air Force of South Vietnam
-Thieu
-Recent election
-Possible political actions

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?] at an unknown time between 3:25 pm and 4:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 299-19B]

The President's schedule
-Rogers and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Stephen B. Bull

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Military situation
-US troop withdrawal
	-Laird’s report
-Abrams's plan
-Cable to Laird
-Kissinger's negotiations with North Vietnam
-Possible announcements
	-Timing
		-Laird’s proposal
			-1972 election
-Rate
	-Abrams’s plan
-Laird’s report
-Timing
-Possible effect on Kissinger's negotiations with North Vietnam
-Thieu's view
-Bunker's wire
-Conversations with Laird and Haig
-1972 election
	-US air power
-Air sorties
	-1972 election time
		-Weather
-Negotiations
-Abrams's plan
-Troops
	-Leak of activities
-Drug problem
-Possible preventative measures
-Europe
-Announcement
-Rate
	-Abrams’s plan
-Negotiations
-Rate
-Military's view
-Announcement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President
-Rate
-Announcement
-Timing
	-November 1971
	-1972
		-The President’s State of the Union address
-Report

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:25 pm.

The President's schedule
-Rogers and Haig
	-Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:20 pm.

Vietnam
-Military situation
-US troop withdrawal
-Announcement
-Timing
-Announcement
-Possible leaks
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid’s view
-Vietnamization
-Laos and Cambodia incursions

David Packard

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Curtis W. Tarr
	-Background
		-Lawrence University
	-Selective Service System
-Possible role with administration
	-Undersecretary of Air Force

	Packard

Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
	-Administrative skills
		-Apollo program
-Possible role with administration

The President's schedule
-Rogers

Seamans

Tarr

	Laird’s schedule

The President, Laird and Kissinger left at 4:20 pm.