Conversation No. 307-1

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

	[Unintelligible]

Haldeman [?] left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 307-2

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
	-Democrats
		-Chairman [?]
-Polls
-Meeting
	-Location

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 307-3

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Location
	-Table
	-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 307-4

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Richard M. Helms
	-Television
-William P. Rogers
-United Nations [UN]
-Helms
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Briefing with Helms and Gen. William C. Westmoreland
-UN
-Rogers

 
Conversation No. 307-5

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

	The President’s schedule
		-Backgrounder
			-Ziegler’s possible attendance

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 307-6

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

	Pam Bull

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 307-7

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
	-President’s telephone conversation with Henry A. Kissinger, December 7, 1971
	-Location
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Conversation No. 307-8

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Azores trip
-Florida trip
-Timing

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 307-9

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Time

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 307-10

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
	-Telephone call to unknown person

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 307-11

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-49]

Conversation No. 307-12

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  2:15 pm - 2:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John W. McCormack.

[See Conversation No. 16-50]

Conversation No. 307-13

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:22 pm and 3:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Letter to Otto E. Passman
-Clark MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Henry A. Kissinger
-President’s signature

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

Conversation No. 307-14

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:22 pm and 3:30 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 3:30 pm.

Conversation No. 307-15

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:22 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum.

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Conversation No. 307-16

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:22 pm and 3:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President's schedule
-George P. Shultz and Ehrlichman meeting
-Time
-Location
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 307-17

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:22 pm and 3:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
- John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz meeting
-Time

United Nations [UN]
-Vote
-George H.W. Bush

John W. McCormack
-Talk with the President

Ehrlichman
-Labor

Charles W. Colson

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:22 pm and 3:30 pm.

[Conversation No. 307-17A]

[See Conversation No. 16-51]

Conversation No. 307-18

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  3:30 pm - 3:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 16-53]

Conversation No. 307-19

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  3:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-54]

Conversation No. 307-20

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  3:40 pm - 3:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Arthur S. Flemming.

[See Conversation No. 16-55]

Conversation No. 307-21

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  3:43 pm - 3:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 16-56]

Conversation No. 307-22

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

John N. Mitchell's location

Conversation No. 307-23

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-57]

Conversation No. 307-24

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  3:44 pm - 3:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum.

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Conversation No. 307-25

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  3:46 pm - 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 16-58; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 307-26

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-John N. Mitchell

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Sanchez left at 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 307-27

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  3:55 pm - 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John N. Mitchell.

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Pardon

-Parole
-Amnesty
-Commutations
	-Number
-Pardons
	-Number
-Commutation
-Civil rights
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
	-Forthcoming actions
-Restriction of union activities
-Mitchell's talk with Fitzsimmons
-Mitchell's talk with John B. Connally
	-Organized labor
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Prison record
	-Parole
-Press
	-Possible statement on release
-The President's schedule
-Azores
-The Justice Department
-Mitchell's speech on corrections
-Parole
-William Loeb
-Talk with Mitchell
-John M. Ashbrook
			-People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
		-Parole list

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:05 pm.

-Talk with Mitchell
-Amnesty
-Kennedy supporters
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Kennedy
-Task force
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Unknown person
-Commutation of sentence
-Civil rights
-Jimmy Stone [?] (Stahlman?)
-William H. Rehnquist
-William P. Rogers

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	India and Pakistan
-Rockefeller
-Media
-The President's call to unknown perosn
-Charles L. Bartlett
-Kennedy family
	-Interest in India

	Foreign relations
-Indians
-USSR
	-Satellites
-Middle East
-Zambia
-New York Times
-Aggression by Democracies and Dictatorships
	-Africa
	-India and Pakistan
		-Relative populations

	Pakistan
		-United Nations [UN]
-Edward M. Kennedy

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	PAKISTAN

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		-Treaty
			-US options
				-India
		-UN

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:05 pm and 5:01 pm.

[Conversation No. 307-27A]

The President's schedule
-Kissinger and Mitchell
-Unknown person
-Delay meeting

[End of telephone conversation]

India-Pakistan War
	-US relations
		-Pakistan
			-Dictatorship
		-History
		-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR

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-US-Indian relations
	-South Asia
	-President’s course of action
		-Advisors’ recommendations
	-Rogers
-Indira Gandhi visit to Washington, DC, November 4-5, 1971
-Talk with the President
-Talk with Rogers
			-US goals
			-Avoiding pretext for attack
		-USSR
			-Stance
		-Economic aid cut-off
	-State Department
		-Role
	-Kenneth B. Keating
	-Kissinger's talk with U. Alexis Johnson
-Possible military action by India
	-US policy
		-USSR
			-Summit

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR

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-Military imbalance
-Bureauracy
-Johnson
-US military aid
	-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
		-President’s previous visit

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR

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		-USSR
-Decision
-Meetings
	-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-Rogers
-John N. Irwin, II
-State Department line
	-Non-intervention
-Yahya Khan
-Options
	-Possible consequences of non-intervention
	-South Asia
	-PRC
	-USSR
	-Middle East
	-Iran
	-Indonesia

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR

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-Keating
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Johnson
-Conversation with Indians
		-Recognition of Bangladesh
-Possible US diplomatic strategy
	-United Nations [UN] statement
	-Waiting
		-East Pakistan
-Aid
-John B. Connally
	-Export-Import Bank [Ex-Im]
-Rogers
-Bengal
-USSR
-Bangladesh

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[Duration:  15m 34s  ]

	INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR

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	President’s schedule
-Kissinger's talk with Connally
-Azores
-Georges J.R. Pompidou meeting
	-Italy and Germany
-Germans
-British

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[Duration:  1m 17s  ]

	INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR

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Mitchell and Kissinger left at 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 307-35

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:01 pm and 5:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

	President’s schedule
		-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
	-Chair

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:08 pm.

Conversation No. 307-28

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:01 pm and 5:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with unknown person
-Time

Conversation No. 307-29

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:01 pm and 5:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-59]

Conversation No. 307-30

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  5:08 pm - 5:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 16-60]

Conversation No. 307-31

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:14 pm and 5:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

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Conversation No. 307-32

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:14 pm and 5:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-61]

Conversation No. 307-33

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  5:16 pm - 5:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 16-62; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 307-34

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  5:20 pm - 6:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz.

Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] legislation
	-Forthcoming veto
-Continuing resolution
	-Up to March 1, 1972
-Patrick J. Buchanan's draft
	-Veto message
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. and John K. (“Cap”) Andrews
	-Previous drafts
	-Right wing opportunities lost
	-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
	-Buchanan
	-Potential benefits

War on poverty
	-Elliot L. Richardson
		-Rockefeller Public Service Award Ceremony
			-Helena M. (“Obie”) Shultz
	-Example of raised expectations
		-Pessimism
	- Rockefeller Public Service Award Ceremony

OEO legislation
	-Richardson
		-Custodial day care
			-House Resolution [HR] 1

	H R 1
		-Legislation
		-Buchanan
		-Signing
			-Buchanan

				-Right wing slant

Unknown person's forthcoming trip
-Clarksburg
	-March 15, 1972
-Revenue sharing

Economic policy
-Budget
	-Currency
-1972
-Outlays
	-Increase overall
		-Department of the Army
			-Reduction in personnel by end of fiscal year
-1974-75
	-Outlays
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Domestic reaction
	-USSR
	-Importance
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-1972 payments
	-Outlays
		-Leak financial information in advance
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Receive information to give to advance people
-Melvin R. Laird
-Department of Defense [DOD]
	-Praise from Shultz

	International monetary situation
-Arthur F. Burns
-Price of gold
	-Shultz’s view
		-Georges J.R. Pompidou
	-Shultz’s upcoming meeting with Clifford P. Case
-Congress
	-Approval
	-Jacob K. Javits
		-Negotiations
			-France and Germany
		-Budget
-Convertibility
-Devaluation
	-Deutschemarke [DM] and franc
	-Yen
	-Dollar accumulation
-John B. Connally
-Convertibility
-Burns
	-Limited convertibility
		-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Connally
-Trade matters
-Burden sharing
-Agriculture
-Convertibility
	-Pressure
-Trade surcharge
	-Price of gold
-Exchange rates
			-Price of gold
-Burden sharing
	-Market exchange rates
			-Phase II [?]
			-Unknown letter
				-Statement
					-Timing
				-Shultz’s speech to Chicago bankers
				-Peter M. Flanigan
		-Burns and Connally

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Pompidou meeting
-Senate
-Paris
	-Unknown expert
		-Pompidou
		-Call from Arthur S. Flemming
		-The President's schedule
-Praise for Flemming
-People’s Republic of China [PRC], USSR, Bermuda
-Flemming’s travel
-Talks with Ehrlichman
	-Domestic Council
-Shultz
	-Budget
-Praise for Flemming
	-President’s confidence in Flemming
	-President’s instructions
		-Thomas E. Dewey
			-Speech on labor

Presidential campaign, 1968
-Domestic issues
	-Welfare
-Collective bargaining

Unknown union
	-Problems

Domestic staff trips
-Results
-Public response
-Domestic philosophy
-Bankers
-Newspaper people
-Businessmen
-Bi-partisan
	-Poles

The President's schedule
-Frank L. Rizzo
	-Courtesy call
		-Publicity
-United Nations [UN] Conference on environment in Stockholm, June 1972
-William P. Rogers forthcoming call to the President
	-Timing
		-USSR trip
-Stockholm
-State Department
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Value added tax
	-Pleased with President’s policies
-Article on Supreme Court, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. and William H. Rehnquist
-Education
	-Favorable articles to the Administration

Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Suggestions
-Integration in schools
	-Moynihan’s upcoming visit with unknown person
		-Timing

[Warren J. Enoch, Jr.]
	-Ohio
-Job

Moynihan
	-Alexander M. Bickel
		-Busing
		-Leonard Garment

[Enoch’s] letters asking for job
	-Vietnam veternas
	-Ohio Bell Telephone Company

	Ehrlichman’s meeting with Edward C. and F. Donald Nixon
		-Testing program [for oil and water separator]
	-Fort Belvoir, Virginia
	Government contracts
		-Unknown person
	Washington state

National growth packet
-George W. Romney
-Azores
-The President's schedule
	-New York

Economy
	-Money supply
-Christmas sales
-Montgomery Mall
-Unknown person
-Presidential Commission

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm.

Economy
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]

Vietnam
-Roy Procter
-Land reform
-Internal domestic situation
	-Credit due
-Vietnamization
-Military
-Pacification

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 6:05 pm.