Conversation No. 580-1

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:55 am and 10:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with [?] an unknown person.

Unknown request or event

Conversation No. 580-2

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  10:03 am - 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Signing of documents

Butterfield left at 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 580-3

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  10:13 am - 10:21 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

Vietnam
-Prisoner of war [POW] issue

-News coverage of the President's September 28, 1971 speech before the National League of Families convention
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Edward M. Kennedy

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-The President's Summit trip announcement
-Written agreement
-Date
	-William P. Rogers
		-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
	-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Handling of announcement
-Rogers
	-Timing of trip
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-Dobrynin
			-The President’s location
				-San Clemente
	-Possible action
	-Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
	-Gromyko

Red folder
-Location of document

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Gromyko
-Number
-Kissinger
-Time
-Kissinger's suggestion
-Location
-Dobrynin

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:19 am.

Folder for Gromyko
-Location

Butterfield left at 10:20 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting between Gromyko, Kissinger and the President
-Location
-Roosevelt Map Room
-Time
-Meeting between Gromyko and the President
-Schedule
-Individuals in attendance
-Schedule after meeting
-Location
-Automobiles
-Reception
-Time duration of meeting
-Gromyko
-Opening remarks
-European Security Conference
-The President's possible response
-Summit meeting

-John B. Connally
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-Gromyko
-Kissinger
-Time

Kissinger left at 10:21 am.

Conversation No. 580-4

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  10:21 am - 10:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

US economic policies
-Phase II
-The President's forthcoming meetings with George P. Shultz and John B. Connally

The President schedule
-Meeting on Phase II
-The President's forthcoming trip to Key Biscayne
-Meeting
-Time
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Trip to Florida
-Elementary school visit
		-Meeting between the President and Connally, Shultz, Herbert Stein, Paul W. McCracken
-Peter G. Peterson
-William L. Safire, John D. Ehrlichman
-Purpose
-Other attendees
-Stein
-McCracken, Ezra Solomon
		-Florida trip

US economic situation
-Preparation for forthcoming speech
-Stein
-Presidential speeches
-Memos
-The President's speech
-Possible reactions
-Council of Economic Policy

The President's schedule
-Dates
-Quadriad
-Possibility

The President's public appearances
	-National League of Families Convention, September 28, 1971
	-Ronald L. Ziegler, Richard A. Moore
	-The President's entry into room at events
	-Audience reactions to announced compared to surprise appearance
	-Press coverage

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:21 am.

The President's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.

The President's public appearances
-National League of Families convention
-Audience reaction
-News coverage
-Total overall impact
-News coverage
-Times of news program
-Audience reaction
-Passage of resolution by National League of Families
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Future handling
	-Campaign

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:21 am.

Connally’s message
		-Forthcoming meeting with Pierre-Paul Schweitzer

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.

Connally's views of talks
-Arthur F. Burns's reaction

Haldeman left at 10:33 pm.

Conversation No. 580-5

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  10:33 am - 11:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, John B. Connally, and Arthur F. Burns at 10:33 am; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Seating arrangements

The President's speaking appearances
-Europe
-Washington, DC

The President's trip
-Anchorage, Alaska
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Historic significance of trip to Alaska

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:33 am.

Refreshments
-Coffee
-Tea

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:15 am.

Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako
-Speaking English at meetings
-Comparison of speaking versus comprehending a language
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Translation
-Benefits
-Takeo Fukuda

[Photograph session]

Japan
-Trip to the US by Emperor  of Japan
-Herbert Stein's comment
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]

US economic policies
-Phase II
-Forthcoming meeting
	-Preparation
		-Amount of material
	-Date
-Remarks by Connally and Burns
-The President's support
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]

International economic relations
-US position in the world
-US State Department views
-Negotiations
-Options on stance
-Opposing views of UD international economics
-Isolationism
-Senate and House elections
-International trade
	-Labor unions
-New York
-Businessmen
-Isolationist tendencies
-Leadership role of the US
-Need for support by the public
			-The President's previous meeting with Paul G. Hoffman of the United Nations [UN]
-US financial support for the UN
				-Herter Committee
-Marshall Plan
-Reciprocal trade
-Policies
-Cold War era after World War II
-US position
-Korean War
-Vietnam War
-US foreign aid as issue
-Banking, loan analogy
-US position in the world
-Potential problems
-World responsibilities
-Speakers for the US
-Types of statement
-Isolationism
-Economic strength of the US
-US economic policy
-Negotiations
-US contributions
-Defense
-Foreign aid
-New York bankers
-US position politically as well as economically
-Types of negotiations with foreign countries
-Prime Minister Edward R.G. Heath
-European economic community
-West Germany
-Willy Brandt
	-Berlin Agreement
-Inflation
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Italy
-Political situation
-Japan
-Comparison to West Germany
-Effect of post World War II status
-Political problems around the world
-Japan
-Germany
-Britain
-France
-Political situations
-Feelings towards the US
-Possible position of foreign countries in the world
-US position twenty-five years earlier
-Eisenhower administration
-Changes in the US
-US position in the world
-Responsibility
-New economic system
-Competition within the world

Multinational organizations
-UN
-IMF
-Interests of each foreign country
-Potential effect of monetary chaos
-Negative results in world and in the US

International economy
-US position
-Need for change
-US interests
-Defending interests
-Method of defending interests
-Public compared to private statements
-Schweitzer's actions and statements
	-Criticism of the President
-Convertibility
-Import surcharge
-The President's speech
-Negotiation
-IMF
-US role
-The President's august 15, 1971 speech
-Schweitzer's reaction
-Convertibility
-Questions directed to Schweitzer
-Handling
-Achievement of US trade goals
-Currency realignment
-Effect of policies
-Heath, Pompidou
-Dollar as reserve currency
-US position on monetary reform
-Special drawing rights
-Schweitzer's term of office
-Comparison to the president
-Price of gold
-France
-World currencies
-Resolutions by the IMF
-US policy
-Views of other countries
-State Department
-Latin America
-Africa
-France
-UN compared with IMF
-Developing nations
-Balance of payments
-Negotiations
-Importance to US compared with importance to them
-Role of major industrial nations
	-Group of Ten
	-Political power
-Schweitzer's goals and actions
-Criticisms
	-Perception of IMF
		-Anglo-Saxon institution
-The future
-Burden-sharing

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:33 am.

	The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:15 am.

		-Non-tariff barriers, trade
		-Monetary affairs
	-Burns
	-Monetary system
	-Past monetary crises
		-Dwight D. Eisenhower
		-Causes
	-Britain
	-France
	-Germany
	-US
		-Responsibility in the world economic situation
-Schweitzer
-Responsibilities
-The President's role
-Responsibilities
-Political and diplomatic
-Meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
					-Meetings with officials from the People's Republic of China [PRC] and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] nations
-Europeans
-Latin America
-Political considerations
-Confrontation vs. negotiation
-Conflicts on monetary issues
-Future of the free world
-Europe
-United Europe
-Common market
-Great Britain
-US
-Japan
-Competition with the US
-Strength in economics and politics
-The PRC
-Schweitzer's role
-Stability
-Negotiations
-Cooperation
-Press reports
-Editorials
-Schweitzer's role
-U Thant's role in the UN
-Relationship with the US

The President's schedule
-IMF colleagues

Burns

Schweitzer, et al. left at 11:15 am.

Conversation No. 580-6

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

John B. Connally's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:54 am.

Conversation No. 580-7

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with an unknown person.

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Bull and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:54 am

Conversation No. 580-8

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

John B. Connally's schedule
-Meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:54 am.

Conversation No. 580-9

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] entered.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:54 am.

Conversation No. 580-10

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  11:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Items for the President's signature

Butterfield left at 11:54 am.

Conversation No. 580-11

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 10-28]

Conversation No. 580-12

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  11:58 am - 12:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 10-29; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 580-13

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 1:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-The President's conversation with John B. Connally
-Preparation by the President
-Trip to Florida
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Connally
-Background information for the President's economic meeting
-John W. Rollins
	-Reception
-Conversation between Haldeman and Connally
-Connally's current schedule
-Forthcoming Phase II announcement
-Timing

-Stock market closing
-National television
-Press conference
-Possible effect
-Connally
-Answering questions

Kissinger entered at 11:59 am.

US economic policies
-Complications
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
-National television appearance
-Leadership principle
-The President's role
-Peter G. Peterson
-Speech by the President
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-National television
-IMF members
-Reception by the President for IMF members
-The President's appearance and type of remarks

The President's previous meeting with Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-Schweitzer's attitude toward the US
-Arthur F. Burns, Connally
-The President's conversation with Schweitzer on international economy
	-Public compared to private statements
	-US isolationism
		-Korean War
		-Foreign aid programs
	-Foreign political situations
		-Britain's situation
			-European community
		-Germany
		-France
		-Japan
		-Stance toward US
			-Reasons
	-US position
		-New method of action in negotiations
			-Type of bargaining
	-Anglo-Saxon focus
		-Schweitzer's s of stance
		-The President previous meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
	-Reactions by Burns

US foreign relations
-State Department stance
-Type of attitude in negotiations
-Comparison to the President's attitude
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-US allies

The President's previous meeting with Schweitzer
		-Connally's views
			-Schweitzer
				-Meeting

Cabinet officials
-Pressures of public opinion
-William P. Rogers
-Identity of individual
-John Foster Dulles
-Eisenhower administration

The President's administration
		-Cabinet members
-Requirements
-Rogers C. B. Morton
	-Central Arizona project
	-Indians
	-Oil industry people
		-Perceptions of White House versus departmental action
-Burns
-Conversation with Kissinger prior to ceremony for Manlio Brosio
-Price of gold
-Options
-Europe
-Japan

The President's discussion with Schweitzer
-New York bankers
-Representation of the US

David Rockefeller
-Desire for appointment with the President
-Letter to the President
-Economic discussion with the President
-Type of subject

General Motors
-Investment tax issues
-Advance notice allegation by Congressman
-Stocks

Rockefeller
-Desire for appointment with the President
-Letter to the President
-Conversation with Connally
-Rockefeller's reaction

The President's administration

International economy
-New system versus old system
-Kissinger's conversation with David Rockefeller
-The President's conversation with Schweitzer
-Connally
-Burns's Expectations
-US position in the world
-Schweitzer
-Robert S. McNamara
-Schweitzer
-Burns
-Connally's conversation with Haldeman
-Reaction to Schweitzer
-The Earl of Cromer
-The President's discussion with Schweitzer
-US politics
-US interests
-New system of economics
	-Burden-sharing
	-Non-tariff barriers
-Schweitzer's position
-Burns's reaction

US foreign policy
-US Ambassadors' actions
-State Department
-Secretary of State
-Dulles
			-Attitude toward foreigners
-The President's meeting with Schweitzer
-Isolationism in the US
-Kissinger's appearance before group in New York
-US position in the World
-Egocentrism
-Altruism
-Effect
-US interests compared to altruism

The President's schedule
-Preparation for Phase II meeting
-The President's trip to Florida
-Shultz
-Stein
-Shultz
-John Connally
-Pressure
-Conversation between Haldeman and Connally
-Nationally televised speech
-Alternatives

Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POW] situation
-Impact of September 28, 1971 National League of Families speech by the President
-Generals and admirals at event
-John D. Ryan
-William C. Westmoreland
-Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
-John A. Scali
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Reception of statement by families
-Comment about POWs rotting in camps
-Negotiations
-Reasons for POW situation
-Effects of war
-Validity
-Possible outcome of war
-Military position
-Validity of war
-Honorable finish
-The President's appearance at convention
-Reactions
-Scali
-Convention resolution
-POW wives
-Kennedy and Clark M. Clifford
-Exploitation of war

Press appearances
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Value of surprise appearances by the President
-Ziegler
-TV coverage of the President
-Knowledge by reporters of planned appearance by the President
-Ziegler's responsibility
-Scali
-Warning of the President's appearance
-Possible effect
-Surprise appearance by the President
-James D. Hughes
-Appearances by the President
-Time length
-The President's 1958 trips to Lima and Caracas
-Incidents
	-San Marcos
	-Type of audience
	-Catholic University
-Secret Service
-Protocol
-Escorts
-Rock throwing
-The President's trip to Ohio State University
-Columbus
-Demonstrators on campus
-The President's actions
-Departure
-Alleviation of serious confrontation between the President and demonstrators
	-Secret Service
-Surprise appearances by the President
-Effect on press coverage
-Press coverage
-Pictures
-Other methods

Kennedy
-POW situation
-Statement
-Press coverage
-Career
-Comparison to Robert F. Kennedy
-Emotional nature of statements
-India trip
-Press coverage
-Number of press people
-Impact
-Type of coverage
-Public reaction
-POW situation
-Subject knowledge by Edward Kennedy
-Missing in action [MIA] question
-Handling of POW wives
-Advice to the President

US issues
-Mansfield Amendment
-Prisoners of North Vietnam
-POWs and MIAs

Edward Kennedy
-Return from India trip
	-Conversation with Kissinger
		-Programs for relief
		-Amount of money
-Staff work
-Background preparation
-Public impact
-Comparison to Robert Kennedy
-California primary, 1968
-Attica state prison riots
-Possible issue by Edward Kennedy
	-Blacks

Busing issue
-Judge Stephen J. Roth
	-Detroit decision
-De facto compared to de jure
-The President's possible action
-Constitutional amendment
-Supreme Court

Supreme Court
-John N. Mitchell
-Possible appointees
-Mitchell
-Richard H. Poff
-Opposition in Senate
-John D. Ehrlichman's views
				-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Senate
-Committed votes
-Senator Hugh Scott's views
-Possibility of passage of Poff appointment
-Strength in Senate
-Female appointee
-Age
-California
-Superior Court judge
-Dean of Southern California Law School
-Political position
-List of potential women appointees
-Criteria
-Southerners' desires
-Robert C. Byrd
-Civil rights
-Strong law and order
-Mitchell's suggestion
-Female appointee
-Justice Department
-Federal Court judge
-Women appointees
-Warren E. Burger's views
-Political impact
-Votes
-Women, blacks
-Number

The President's administration
-Women appointees 
	-Cabinet
	-Compared to men appointees
-Barbara Franklin
-Jayne B. Spain
-Maritime Commission chairman

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-Connally
-Mitchell
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Type of job
-Left wingers
-Type of Cabinet members
-Effort
-Maurice H. Stans
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Stans
-Speech
-Loyalty
-Romney
-Volpe
		-Stans
		-Volpe
-Support for the President and administration
-Richardson
-Elitists in the country

The President's appearances
-Attendance at Justice Hugo L. Black's funeral
-TV coverage
-Sermon
-Mitchell
-Richard A. Moore
-Schedule recommendation
-Funeral for Black
-Sermon
-Type
-Justice Black
-Opposition to administration
-Unitarian minister
-Eulogy
-Strict constructionism
-The President's attendance at funeral
-Mitchell
-Moore
	-Eulogy
		-Schedule suggestions
-Analogies
	-Leonard Garment's suggestion on black church
-Anti-Vietnam War protestors, professors
-General Lewis B. Hershey
-Personal note to Mrs. Black
-White House flags at half staff
-Ziegler, Charles W. Colson
-The President’s attendance
	-Possible effect
-Ceremony
-Casket
-Funeral customs
-Casket
-The President's funeral
-Notes with instructions
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Flags half-staff
	-Eulogy
	-Dead person
	-Flag at half-staff

The President's schedule
-Mitchell
-Connally
-Meeting with the President
-The President's trip to Florida
-Papers for preparation
	-Assistance
-Shultz
-Family
-Trip

Douglas B. Cornell reception
-Ziegler
-Invitations
	-United Press International [UPI], Associated Press [AP]
-Number of people
-Former Press Secretaries
					-Pierre Salinger, George E, Reedy, Jr., William Moyers, James C. Haggerty
-Number
-Location
	-State Dining Room
-Receiving line
-Number
-Invitees
	-Cornell
-Refreshments
-Ziegler
-TV coverage compared to writing press
-Lights for TV coverage
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Photographs
-Receiving line

Haldeman left at 12:44 pm.

Presentation of medal to Brosio
-World leaders
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Robert F. Ellsworth

The President talked with H. R. Haldeman at an unknown time between 12:44 pm and 1:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 580-13A]

NATO Ambassador
-Appointee
-Stoessel
-Requirements
-California person

[End of telephone conversation]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:44 pm.

	Instruction

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:08 pm

The President's forthcoming meetings with Gromyko
	-Memorandum
-Photographs
-Location
-The President's possible conversation with Gromyko
-US-Soviet relations
-European issues
-European issues
-US position on European security
-Summit meeting
-Berlin agreement
-German treaties
-Agenda
-German treaties ratification
-Middle East
-Kissinger's memorandum
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-US-USSR private discussions
-Details of proposals
	-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM] sites
		-US and Moscow systems
			-Coverage
-Freeze
	-ABM sites
	-Offensive missiles
-Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles [MIRVs] capability
-Charles H. Percy
-Edward W. Brooke

US Presidency
-Edward Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Effect of occupant
-Gromyko
-Conservatives
-ABMs
-MIRVS
-B-1
-Undersea Long-range Missile System [ULMS]
-Conservatives

The President's forthcoming discussions with Gromyko
-Vietnam War issue
-Middle East issue
-Israelis
-Interim settlements
-US position
-Trade issue
-Stans, Peterson
-Possible trip to USSR
-Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
-US approval of money to Kama River project
-Scott
-Formal announcement
-Scali
-Stans, Peterson
-Possible trip to the USSR
-Negotiations
-US approval of money for the Kama River project
-Vietnam
-Middle East issue
-US position
-Kissinger's discussion within private meeting
-South Asia
-Dangers of armed conflict
	-East Bengel
-Europe
-Middle East
-Trade
-Salt
-South Asia
-Salt
-Offensive compared to defensive
	-US proposal
-Move to Map Room at conclusion of meeting
-Significance
-Vietnam
-Nikolai V. Podgorny's forthcoming trip to Hanoi
-US position in negotiating with North Vietnam
-Leonid I. Brezhnev's message
-Handling of private meeting
-Rogers
-Dobrynin
-Gromyko
	-Cabinet Room
	-Message
-Middle East
-Progress
-US-USSR relations
-Berlin
-Possible meeting between Dobrynin and Kissinger
-Channels of communications
-Kissinger's forthcoming discussion with Gromyko
-Vietnam issue
-Summit meeting
-Rogers's role in preparation
-Gromyko's preparation for meeting with Rogers

US-USSR relations
-Correspondence between the President and Brezhnev
-Rogers's knowledge
-Rogers
-Possible leaks
-Rogers
-Role in preparing for meeting
-USSR summit
	-Announcement
-Dobrynin
	-PRC summit

US foreign economic policy
-Burns
-Possible conversation with Kissinger
-Schweitzer
-Businessmen
-Economist
	-Schweitzer
-Connally
-Possible conversation with Kissinger

The PRC trip
-Rogers
-Possible conversation with Haldeman
-Decision
		-Preparation
	-State Department bureaucracy
	-Rogers's orders
	-Agenda for summit meetings
	-Preparation of annual foreign policy report
		-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to PRC
			-Announcement
				-Timing
-Rogers
-State Department
-Agenda
-Handling

Rogers
-Haldeman's possible call
		-Forthcoming discussion with the President
			-Soviet summit
			-PRC summit

George H.W. Bush
-Meeting with Kissinger, September 30, 1971
-Time
-Postponement of UN vote
-Rogers
-Meeting with the President
	-Meeting with Kissinger
	-State Department, Rogers

Kissinger left at 1:08 pm.

Conversation No. 580-14

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:08 pm and 1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President’s location

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

Conversation No. 580-15

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:08 pm and 1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule

	-Meeting request
		-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 580-16

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  1:15 pm - 1:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Haldeman's conversation with John B. Connally
-Meeting with the President
-Position papers
	-Timing
-Arthur F. Burns
-Date
-Time
-Papers from Herbert Stein, Burns
-Political considerations
			-[Phase II]
				-Presentation
-Florida trip
-Advance notice
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-George P. Shultz
-Working period
-Review of papers by the President
-Connally
-Location during the President's trip
-Florida
-Shultz
-Residence during visit
-Season
-Key Biscayne

US foreign policies
-William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

-Agenda
-Preparation
-Meetings
-The President's approach compared to others
-Focus of meetings
-Discussion and decisionmaking
-Questions and answers
-Rogers

Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming PRC trip
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Advance work for trip
-Relationship with Kissinger
-Qualifications
-Rogers
			-UN debate on China seat
		-Press coverage
			-Rogers
-Chapin
-John A. Scali
-Press coverage
-Control of press
-Kissinger's experience from previous trips
-Number of press men
-Reaction by the PRC
-Publicity
-Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Rogers

	Latin America trip
		-Rogers
-Finch
-Latin American reaction to US economic policy
-Party with Latin American Ambassadors
-State Department
-Comparison to Nelson A. Rockefeller trip

	The President’s forthcoming trips
-Herbert G. Klein
-Trip to the PRC
-Handling press
-Previous Soviet trip
-Scali, Ziegler
-Trip to the USSR
-Trip to the PRC
-Visitors from the US
-Cabinet members
-Senators
-Labor leaders
-Youth leaders
-Blacks
-Doctors
-Scientists
-Businessmen
-College presidents
-The President's previous trip to the USSR, 1959
-Hyman G. Rickover, Milton S. Eisenhower
-Trip to the PRC
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-The President

	Kissinger’s forthcoming PRC trip
-Role
	-Trip to the PRC to arrange the presidential summit
	-Discussion with Chou En-lai
-Options
	-State Department
	-Rogers
	-Handling of the President's other trips
	-Foreign policy negotiations

Connally
-The President's meeting with Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-Burns
				-Handling of International Monetary Fund [IMF] and international banking officials

Burns
-Call to Haldeman
-Protocol at IMF dinner
-Cabinet rank
	-State Department
	-Federal Reserve Board [FRB] chairman
-Burns and ranking status
-Connally's views
-Reception line for IMF reception
-Possible conversation between Connally and Haldeman

IMF reception
-The President's attendance
-Connally's attendance
-Rogers's attendance
-Attendance
-Connally
-Rogers in receiving line
-Burns
-Protocol

Burns
-Protocol concerns
-Approach
-Kissinger
-Attitude of some people

The President's schedule
-PRC and USSR trip
-Klein
-Ziegler
-Press
-Journalists accompanying the President on the PRC and USSR trips
-Trip to the USSR
-Klein
-USSR
-Press coverage
-Television coverage
-Networks
-Number of people

Kissinger and the National Security Council [NSC] staff
		-Briefing papers
		-Preparation of materials for the President's meetings
-Peter G. Peterson
-John D. Ehrlichman's staff
			-Kissinger's staff
-Kissinger's background
-Type of information

The President's presentation to Manlio Brosio
-Press coverage
-Brosio's comments about the President
-The President as world Statesman

Book by Edith Efron [The News Twisters]
-Promotional sales
-Roscoe Drummond's column
-Network coverage
-Luncheon
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Hugh Scott's comments to the President
-Drummond's column
-Network coverage
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Hubert H. Humphrey

-Congressional
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Reactions
-Congressional action
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] affiliates

PRC trip
-Attendance on trip
-Rogers
-Press coverage
-Planning of meetings on trip
-Logistics of trip
-Rogers
-Chapin
-Marshall Green

The President and Haldeman left at 1:35 pm.

Conversation No. 580-17

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 2:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons [Secret Service agents] entered.

	[Unintelligible]

The President's location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

	Inquiry
		-Call to an unknown person
			-Operations desk

[Unintelligible]

This recording was cut off at an unknown time before 2:55 pm.

Conversation No. 580-18

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  3:00 pm - 3:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's forthcoming meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
-Missiles
	-Production
-Ratification of Berlin Agreement
			-Treaty settlement between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and Germany

The President's schedule
-Diplomatic reception
-Time
-Gromyko and the President in the Map Room
-Rose Garden

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?] at an unknown time between 3:00 pm and 3:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 580-18A]

The President's meeting with Gromyko

The President's schedule
	-Unknown person
	-Kissinger
-Meeting
-Date
-International Monetary Fund [IMF] receiving line
-John B. Connally

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger left at 3:02 pm.

Conversation No. 580-19

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  3:02 pm - 3:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule

Bull left at 3:03 pm.

Conversation No. 580-20

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  3:03 pm - 5:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Andrei A. Gromyko, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, William P. Rogers, Henry A. Kissinger, William Krimer, and Viktor M. Sukhodrev; Ronald L. Ziegler and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Photographers
-Arrangement of people

[Photograph session]

The President's previous meeting with Gromyko
-Time
-Berlin Agreement
-Rogers
-Arms control

-US and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Meeting agenda
-USSR position, US position

	Extension of USSR greetings to the President from Nikolai V. Podgorny, Alexei N. Kosygin and Leonid I. Brezhnev

Relations between the USSR and the US
-Need for common viewpoint between the USSR and the US
-Bilateral relations
-Soviet leadership
-Effort to overcome differences
-Effort for build-up of relations
-Peaceful co-existence
-Avoidance of confrontations
-Differences in position between the USSR and the US
-Major issues
-Effort towards solving differences
-Progress
-Agreements between four major powers on Berlin
-Previous discussion between the USSR and the US
-US role in achieving agreement on Berlin
-Economic ties between USSR and the US
-Relationships
-Peace between the USSR and the US
-Short-term and long-term goals
-Significance of power of the US and the USSR
-Relationship to world problems
-Cooperation between the US and the USSR
-Goals
-Berlin Agreement
-Significance
			-Effect on European countries
				-Working solution
					-Progress between the USSR and US
-Peace between USSR and US
-Brezhnev
-US position
-Peaceful relations with Bolivia and other countries
-World peace
-Relationships between the USSR and the US
-US position
-Importance of face-to-face negotiations
-Berlin Agreement
-Trade relations
-Kama River project
	-Appropriations
		-Amount
-US businessmen's interest
-The USSR
-Increase in trade
-US position
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
	-Joint statement of May 20, 1971
	-Commitments
	-Agreement on defense and offense weapons freeze
-National security
-Defense
-Offensive missiles
	-USSR numerical advantage
-Nuclear submarines
-Defensive weapons
-Proposals
-US congress
-Offensive weapons freeze
-Weapons balance
-Importance
-USSR
-Offensive weapons build-up
-US political effect
-Freeze
-Agreement between US and the USSR
	-Mutual sufficiency
-Anti-missile defense
-Strategic weapons
-Current talks
-Status
-Later negotiations
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs]
-Sites
	-Soviet proposals
		-National capitals
		-Intercontinental ballistic missile [ACBM] locations
-Offensive-strategic weapons
-Soviet position
-Future negotiations
-Continuation of negotiations
			-French foreign minister Maurice Schumann's statement at United Nations [UN] General Assembly meeting
-US-Soviet negotiations
-Strategic arms
-ABMs
-Offensive and defensive weapons
-Lack of balance
-Relationship
-Offensive weapons freeze
-Difference between US and Soviet activities
-ABMs
-Soviet proposal
	-Difficulty
-US position
-Continuing negotiation
-Europe
-Need to reduce tension
-Security conference
-Berlin Agreement
-Relationship to all-European security conference
	-Statement by Rogers
-Security conference
-Advantages
-Interests for western allies
	-US, Canada
-Détente in the world
-Berlin Agreement
-Progress
-Effect on other issues
-Conference
	-Preliminary discussions
		-Warsaw Pact
		-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Consultation with allies
-US-Soviet consultation
-Need for secrecy
					-Expectation of outcome by both US and USSR before final conference
-Consultation on preliminary matters before final conference
	-Bilateral consultations
-Examination of topics
-Date
-US position
-Discussions with allies
-Berlin treaty
-Soviet treaty with West Germany
-European security conference
-Purpose
-West Germany-East Germany negotiations
-Linkage of various negotiations
-Preliminary discussions
-Berlin
-Germans
-European security conference
-Preliminary discussions
-Middle East
-Situation
-Israel
-Occupation of Arab territories
-US proposals
-Conditions for peace or settlement
	-Withdrawal of Israeli troops from occupied territories
	-Freedom of navigation
	-End of war situation in Middle East
-Withdrawal of Israeli troops
-Dangers for the us and USSR
-Arms build-up
-US congress
-Arms to Israel
-United Arab republic [UAR]
-Interim settlement
-Progress
-Truce
-Avoidance of arms build-up
-Continuation of negotiations
-Withdrawal of Israeli troops
-UN resolution in 1967
	-Wording
-Acceptability to Israel
			-US position
				-The President’s State of the World message
				-Rogers’ 1969 comments
				-Moderation
-Proposals by Anwar el-Sadat
-Rogers's conversation with Mahmoud Riad
-Troop withdrawal
-Suez Canal
-Interim arrangement
-Possible perception
-Arab leaders
-Specific stages
-Withdrawal of Israeli forces
-Date limit
-Jordan
-Frontiers with Israel
-Agreement
-Israel
-Relationship with the US
-Guarantees
-Biblical Hebrew proverb
-Golda Meir
-Jordan crisis of 1970
-Avoidance of build-up of tension
-Moscow visit by Indira Gandhi
-Pakistan and India
-Refugees from East Pakistan
-Situation
-Possible war
-Pakistan military strength
-Historical background of Indian-Pakistani relations
-USSR efforts in the past
-US desire to avoid armed confrontation
-USSR
-Effort toward peace
-Pakistan
-Peace
-Gandhi
-Discussion of issue with USSR
-Leaders of Pakistan
-Discussion with the USSR
-Pakistan
-US-Pakistani relations

Visit to Map Room by the President and Gromyko
-Historic background of use by US President
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-World War II

Economic issues
-Possible visit to Moscow by US Representative
		-Trade
			-Obstacle
				-Vietnam War

Vietnam War
-Status of settlement

Technical and political issues at summit
-Consideration by the USSR

Dobrynin, Kissinger, Rogers, Krimer, And Sukhodrev left at 4:39 pm.

Private discussion between the President and Gromyko

Possible US-Soviet summit meeting
-Progress in negotiations
-SALT negotiations
-Middle East
-Progress
-Need for positive accomplishments
-Trade
-Politics

Leonid Brezhnev and Kosygin
-Correspondence between the president and Brezhnev
-Timing of reply
-State department
-Brezhnev
-Career
			-Conversation with Gromyko
				-Views on Soviet-US relations
					-Meeting with Willy Brandt
-Soviet press
	-Use of the President’s name
		-USSR leadership
-Private correspondence
-The President

The USSR and the Russian people
-Political system
-Future of the world
-The US and the USSR
-Relations with the US
-World War II
-Possibility of new relationship with the US
	-Timing

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin
-Meeting with Gromyko
-Date
-Message from the President
	-Vietnam

Foreign relations and issues
-Middle East
	-Gromyko’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-European security conference
-Handling
	-Private channel
-Ambassador
-Secretary of State
		-The President’s involvement
			-Brezhnev

Middle East
	-USSR arms sales
		-UAR
	-Israeli withdrawal from occupied zones
	-Gromyko’s meeting with Brezhnev
-USSR military presence
	-Advisors
		-Analogy to US presence in Cambodia
-Sensitivity of issues
-Institutional arrangements
	-Interim agreement
		-UN
			-Articles
			-Security Council
-Arms sales
-Summary

Kissinger's message on Vietnam
-Private discussion with Gromyko

Middle east

The President and Gromyko left at 5:00 pm.

Conversation No. 580-21

Date:  September 29, 1971
Time:  5:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons [Secret Service agents] entered.

	[Unintelligible]

This recording was cut off at 5:00 pm.