Conversation No. 300-1

Date:  November 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
	-Time

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:30 pm.

Conversation No. 300-2

Date:  November 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-72]

Conversation No. 300-3

Date:  November 2, 1971
Time:  1:30 pm - 1:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 13-73]

Conversation No. 300-4

Date:  November 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 2:26 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 2:26 pm.

Conversation No. 300-5

Date:  November 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:31 pm and 2:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

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Conversation No. 300-6

Date:  November 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:03 pm and 2:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-74]

Conversation No. 300-7

Date:  November 2, 1971
Time:  2:26 pm - 2:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 13-75]

Conversation No. 300-8

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:48 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Florida

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.

Conversation No. 300-9

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:48 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.

Conversation No. 300-10

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:48 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-John N. Mitchell

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm

Conversation No. 300-11

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:48 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Birthday greeting for Joel T. Broyhill
-The President's trip to Florida

Conversation No. 300-12

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:48 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to Florida
	-Leonard Garment
	-Accommodations
	-Peter M. Flanigan

Government employees

	-Wage increases
	-Possible statement
		-Donald H. Rumsfeld
	-George P. Shultz
	-Paul W. McCracken

	Foreign aid program

Conversation No. 300-13

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:48 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

	The President’s memorandum to William P. Rogers

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	INDIA

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-US aid to India
	-Senate

Kenneth B. Keating

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The President's forthcoming meeting with Gandhi
-The President's meeting with Josip Broz Tito
-Vietnam negotiations
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Laos, Cambodia

Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Conversation No. 300-14

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:48 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-120]

Conversation No. 300-15

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:48 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's schedule
-[Kofi A. Busia]
-[Indira Gandhi]
-[Busia]

Conversation No. 300-16

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  3:47 pm - 3:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 13-121]

Conversation No. 300-17

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:52 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Grain deal

	-Charles W. Colson's agreement with Maritime unions
	-Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy
	-Peter G. Peterson's contacts
		-USSR embassy
	-Kissinger's possible call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Call to Colson
	-Effect
		-Corn belt
	-Forthcoming announcement

Conversation No. 300-18

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:45 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Trip

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

Conversation No. 300-19

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:45 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Pen
-Ink

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

Conversation No. 300-20

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:45 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Schedule

Conversation No. 300-21

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:45 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

Conversation No. 300-22

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:45 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?]

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 300-23

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  9:45 am - 11:00 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's forthcoming speeches in New York and Chicago, November 9, 1971
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Richard A. Moore
-Television coverage
	-Cameras
-Demonstrators
-Possible actions
-Jerry Rubin

Demonstrators
-Attitude
-Activities
	-White House vigil
		-Regulation
		-Court ruling
-1968 campaign

-Chicago
	-Loud speakers
-Democrats
-Organization
-The President's schedule
	-Colleges
		-Compared to high schools

The President's forthcoming speeches in New York and Chicago
-Make-up

	The President’s schedule
		-W. Clement Stone

Earl L. Butz
-John N. Mitchell

The President's schedule
	-State dinners
	-Harry L. Sears
	-John Sears
		-Rose Mary Woods
	-Joseph M. Margiotta
-[William McMahon]
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici

Appointments
	-Butz
		-Background
			-Indiana
-Secretary of Commerce
	-Peter G. Peterson
	-Ethnic and religious considerations
		-Possible Catholic

Mitchell's attendance at dinner
	-Telephone call
		-Technical problem
		-Robert P. Griffin
		-Tape

The President's schedule
-George P. Shultz

National economy
-Pay Board
-Shultz's view
	-Compared to Charles W. Colson
	-Labor’s position vis-a-vis the Administration’s policies
		-Compared to World War II
-Labor's possible action
-Colson
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons's view
-Construction workers
	-George Meany
-Fitzsimmons
-Meany
-Shultz's efforts
	-James D. Hodgson
	-Meany
-Investment tax credit legislation
	-Rate
	-Wilbur D. Mills's conversation with Clark MacGregor, November 8, 1971
		-Senate
			-Business
		-Pay Board
			-Labor
				-Shultz’s view
	-Donald H. Rumsfeld’s activities
		-Public relations
			-Radio
-Rumsfeld, Shultz and Colson
-Cooperation

The President's schedule
	-Departure from the White House

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Robert J. Dole
	-Press story
	-Kenneth W. Clawson
		-Colson
			-Views
			-Contacts
				-Washington Post
	-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
	-Colson's contacts with Clawson
		-William E. Timmons
	-Schedule
		-Farm belt
		-Traveling
	-Exposure
	-John A. Scali
	-Colson
	-Mitchell

Clawson
	-Mitchell
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Dole

	Law and order issue
		-Mitchell
			-News summary
		-1972 election
			-Robert H. Finch’s statement
-Herbert G. Klein

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Press coverage
-White House staff role
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-John B. Connally
-News summary
-The President’s schedule
	-Unknown trip

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Speeches
-Mitchell’s
	-Compared to Vice President Agnew’s
		-Speechwriting
			-Henry A. Kissinger

White House staff
-Speechwriters 
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Unknown man from Philadelphia
-Priest [Rev. John J. McLaughlin]
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Price
-Humor

The President's forthcoming speeches in New York and Chicago, 11/9
-Length
	-Price
	-Television coverage

White House staff
-Speechwriters
-Length of speeches
-Administration needs
-Structure
	-Timing
		-Price
		-Haldeman’s efforts
		-1972 campaign
	-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Speechwriters
-The President's possible conversation with Price
	-Suggested remarks for the President
	-The President's use
	-Examples
		-Welcoming comments for Indira Gandhi
		-Price Board
	-The President's use
		-Ideas
	-Facts
	-Anecdotes
	-Forthcoming speech in New York

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President between 10:27 am and 10:28 am.

[Conversation No. 300-23A]

[See Conversation No. 14-1; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with an unknown person [Kissinger?] at an unknown time between 10:28 am and 10:29 am.

[Conversation No. 300-23B]

The President's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

White House staff
-Speechwriters
-Efforts
-The President's use
	-Preparation
-Ideas, facts, statistics, anecdotes

Stephen B. Bull [?] entered at an unknown time after 10:28 am.

The President's schedule

Bull [?]left at an unknown time before 10:29 am.

Kleindienst
-Role in administration
	-John D. Ehrlichman
-Mitchell's views
	-Confirmation
		-Possible fight
			-Kleindienst’s background
				-Harvard Law School

Kissinger entered at 10:29 am.

Vietnam
	-Troop withdrawal rate
	-Melvin R. Laird's comments
	-The President's possible response
		-The President’s forthcoming announcement
		-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid’s report of November 8, 1971
-Laird's recommendations
	-Sevareid
	-The President’s previous announcements
-The President's schedule
-Laird

Korea
-Possible troop withdrawal
	-Defense Department’s recommendations
		-White House
		-State Department
		-Laird

Milton Viorst
-Conversation with Peter G. Peterson
			-State Department role in the President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
				-Briefing with unknown person	
					-Evidence
						-Action since March 1969

	PRC 
		-Initiative
			-Kissinger’s role

The President's schedule
-Brazilian foreign visitors
	-Camp David
-Return dinners
	-The President’s possible attendance
		-Protocol
			-Agnew

Message to PRC, November 9, 1971

Kissinger's meeting with PRC delegates to the United Nations [UN]
	-Possible communications in Ottawa, Canada
	-Individuals
		-Personal Secretary of  Chou En-Lai
		-Others

The President's schedule
-Possible trip to Latin America
-Rogers
-Possible stops
	-Jamaica, Panama
-Call to Rogers
-Phase II, State of the Union, budget
-Jamaica
-Panama
	-Darien Gap
	-Possible demonstrations
	-Leadership
	-Treaty
	-Possible flight from Miami
-Travel time
	-Compared to Europe
-Possible stops
	-Jamaica
		-Rogers
	-Panama
		-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Willy Brandt
		-State of the Union address

Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Arthur K. Watson
-Georges J.R. Pompidou

The President's schedule
	-Pompidou
	-Brandt
	-Edward R.G. Heath
	-Latin American trip
	-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Procedures
	-Brazilian visitors
		-Haldeman
	-Kissinger
		-National Security Council [NSC]
	-Emil Mosbacher, Jr. and Ambassador Joao A. Castro
	-Camp David
	-Return dinners
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Willy Brandt
	-Rogers’s knowledge
-Pompidou
		-Foreign trips
			-The President’s schedule
			-Latin America
				-Panama, Jamaica
					-Dinners

Haldeman left at 10:45 am.

India
	-State Department policy
		-Possible effect

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Pakistan
-Military situation
	-PRC
-East Pakistan
-India’s possible intention
	-West Bengal
-PRC
-State Department policy
	-Effect on US Senators
	-Arms cut-off
		-PRC
		-Rogers
		-Briefing paper
		-Economic aid
	-The President's possible meetings with State Department

Bureaucracy
-State Department
	-1972 election
		-Aftermath
			-Possible action
-Joseph J. Sisco and Marshall Green
-Middle East policy
	-Schedules
	-Initiatives
	-Israel

Vietnam
	-David K.E. Bruce
-Bombing
-North Vietnam
	-Level
		-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
		-US troop withdrawal
			-Infiltration
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Number of sorties
	-Decline
-Cornell study
-Professor [Forename unknown] Kardina [sp?]
-Press coverage
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Purpose
	-US troop withdrawal
-The President's opponents
	-Argument
		-Refugees
		-Analogy to World War II
			-Defense of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and Poland
				-Concentration camp

Laird
-The President's schedule
-Meeting with the President
-Troop withdrawal rate
-Rogers

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-The President's role
	-Laird
-Negotiations
	-Forthcoming meeting of November 20, 1971
-Laird's knowledge

Rogers
-Handling of job
	-Compared to Laird
-Troop withdrawals
-The President's PRC initiative

The President's forthcoming State of the World message
-1971
	-Laos
-The President's trip to PRC
-Vietnam
	-Troop withdrawals

	The President’s schedule
		-Trip to Latin America
			-State Department
				-Jamaica
			-Jamaica

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			-Panama
			-Argentina
			-Brazil
				-Unknown meeting

The President's PRC initiative
-State Department role
-Green
-March 1969
-Trade
	-Elliot L. Richardson
-The President's meeting with Charles E. (“Chip”) Bohlen and Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr. in June 1969
	-Romania
	-Warsaw talks
-Messages
-Kissinger's possible meeting with newsmen
-Timing
	-Forthcoming Summit
	-Stewart J.O. Alsop
	-1972 election
-Laird and Rogers
	-Possible television appearance
-State Department role
	-Rogers
-Briefing books for Kissinger
-Kissinger's staff
-Unknown person’s comment

State Department briefing books
-The President’s knowledge of since 1953

The President's foreign policy
-Democrats
	-Vietnam negotiations
		-Possible administration action

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press list
	-Timing of announcement
	-Ziegler
	-Joseph C. Kraft
	-Calls to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Calls to Kissinger
-Kissinger's response

Kissinger left at 11:00 am.

Conversation No. 300-24

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  11:05 am - 11:07 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Reading materials
	-Unknown person

The President's schedule
	-Chicago
-Signing of documents

	Briefcase

Butterfield left at 11:07 am.

Conversation No. 300-25

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:07 am and 11:57 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-2]

Conversation No. 300-26

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  11:57 am - 11:58 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 14-3]

Conversation No. 300-27

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:58 am and 1:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Unknown event
-Cost
	-Comparison to Democratic events

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's schedule
-Foreign travel

Conversation No. 300-28

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:58 am and 1:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:15 pm.

Conversation No. 300-29

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:58 am and 1:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-4]

Conversation No. 300-30

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  1:49 pm - 1:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 14-5]

Conversation No. 300-31

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to New York

-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Louis Marx
-Contributors
	-Amount
	-The President’s possible acknowledgement of support

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Conversation No. 300-32

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull [?]; an unknown woman can be heard in the background.

The President’s schedule
	-Unknown activity

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Conversation No. 300-33

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Conversation No. 300-34

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:29 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's call

International relations
	-The President’s conversation with an unknown man

Conversation No. 300-35

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  3:04 pm - 3:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Unknown material
	-Placement

Butterfield left at 3:06 pm.

Conversation No. 300-36

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 4:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:24 pm.

Conversation No. 300-37

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 4:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:24 pm.

Conversation No. 300-38

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 4:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Selection

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:24 pm.

Conversation No. 300-39

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:06 pm and 4:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Instructions
-Briefcase

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:24 pm.

Conversation No. 300-40

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  4:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-6]

Conversation No. 300-41

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:31 pm.

Conversation No. 300-42

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-7]

Conversation No. 300-43

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Instructions
	-Residence

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:31 pm.

Conversation No. 300-44

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  4:31 pm - 4:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Sylvio O. Conte.

[See Conversation No. 14-8]

Conversation No. 300-45

Date:  November 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:36 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

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	Unknown man’s schedule

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.