Conversation No. 588-1

Date:  October 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:25 am and 11:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-John A. Volpe
-Aldo Moro
		-Sons of Italy
			-Moro’s possible attendance
			-Scheduling
			-Gift presentations

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:31 am.

Conversation No. 588-2

Date:  October 11, 1971
Time:  11:31 am - 2:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Aldo Moro, Edgido Ortona, Henry A. Kissinger, and Neil A. Seidenman; members of the press were present at the beginning of this meeting.

Salutations
-Moro
-John A. Volpe

Photographs

Southern California

Members of the press left at an unknown time after 11:31 am.

The President's welcome to Moro
-Moro's schedule
-United Nations [UN]
-Italy
	-Foreign policy

Moro's remarks to the President
-Outlook for the future
-Italian foreign policy
-US
-Italian coalition government
-Italian domestic situation
	-Forthcoming election
	-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Communist Party

The President's analysis of world situation
-Free world nations
-Italy, Germany, France, Great Britain
-USSR
-Asia
-Japan
-Future of the world
-American foreign relations
-Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan
	-US role
	-Importance
-Communist countries
-Chad

World problems
	-The President’s view
-William P. Rogers
-Previous meeting with Moro
-UN
-Possible expulsions
	-The President’s view
		-Possible effect
-US congress
-Implications

Italian foreign policy
	-Moro’s view
-European community participation
-Relations with the US
-UN
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-US initiative
-US position
-Italy's position
	-Domestic situation
-US diplomacy
	-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-Comments

	Italian-American relations
		-Moro’s view
			-Ambassador exchanges

	Taiwan-PRC relations
		-The President's reply
	-Kissinger
-UN
-USSR example
-Representation
-PRC

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-Italian domestic political situation
	-The President's view
-US domestic concern

Moro's observations
-Middle East
	-US efforts
-Israel and Egypt
	-Positions
-Suez Canal
-Rogers efforts
			-The president's reply
		-Italy's role
		-Moro's view
			-Italy's objective
			-US support

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:31 am.

	The President’s schedule
	-Sons of Italy

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm.

Economic situation
-John B. Connally
-US objective

Americo Cortese, Peter Gay, Frank Montemuro, Paul Landi, Nicholas Cipriani, William Cercone and John A. Volpe and members of the press entered at 12:18 pm.

Greetings

Introductions
-[Unintelligible]
-Standard of Ohio

Photo opportunity

Presentation to Moro

The President's presentation of gifts
	-Columbus Day
		-Paper weights
	-Golf balls

Herbert G. Klein

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Expressions of appreciation

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:26 pm.

[Unintelligible]

Moro et al. left at 12:27 pm; Butterfield and Volpe remained.

The President's schedule
-Butterfield
-Unknown person's telephone call to Volpe

Volpe left at 12:29 pm.

Weather

The President left and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:29 pm.

Proposal

Connally

The President entered and Butterfield left at 12:30 pm.

Weather

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:30 pm and 12:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 588-2A]

[See Conversation No. 11-32]

[End of telephone conversation]

Poll
-Popular approval of Nixon
-George Meany

The President talked with John N. Mitchell between 12:31 pm and 12:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 588-2B]

[See Conversation No. 11-33]

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court appointment
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Catholic
-Husband
-Italian

The President talked with White House operator at 12:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 588-2C]

[See Conversation No. 11-34]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Name background

The President talked with John N. Mitchell between 12:35 pm and 12:36 pm.

[Conversation No. 588-2D]

[See Conversation No. 11-35]

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court appointment
	-Lillie
	-Husband, A.V. Falcone
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Haldeman
-Wife's position on Women's Liberation
-Woman appointee
-Lillie
-Position
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Richard H. Poff
-Lillie
-Position on a woman appointee
-Mitchell
-Robert C. Byrd
-James O. Eastland
	-Steve [Surname unintelligible]
	-Horatio Alger story
-Membership in organizations
-The President’s view
-Judicial views

Polls
-Approval ratings
-Meany's position
-Compared with the President’s position
-Labor
-The President's economic program
-Federal action
-Strikes
-Anti-inflation program
-The President's economic plan
-Union compared with non-union workers
-Meany
-Louis P. Harris
-Charles W. Colson

Media
-Reporting
-Local stations
-Public broadcasting

Gen. Albert Redman of White House Communications Agency [WHCA]

Forthcoming trip to PRC
-Dwight L. Chapin's preparation for PRC trip
-Kissinger
-Peter G. Peterson
-Use of telephones by staff
-The President's 1959 visit to USSR
-Redman
-Secret Service
-Car
-Ground station communications and media station
-Boeing 747
	-Set-up
-Capability
-Instructions for Kissinger
	-Inspection by PRC
-Communications
	-Telephones
		-Use by the President
-Speaker of the House, Carl B. Albert
-Ground station
	-Purpose
	-Congress
-Videotapes
-John A. Scali
-Public interest
-Europe
-American networks
-Coverage
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Secret Service car
-The President's experience with Soviets
-Yugoslavs
-Rumanians
-Chinese
	-Use of car
		-The President’s view
-Communications
-Secret Service
-Secretaries
	-Kissinger
	-Women
-Rose Mary Woods
-Military men
	-Ability
	-Navy yeomen
	-Stewards
-Women accompanying the President to PRC
	-Woods
-Chou En-lai
-Mrs. Nixon
-Adele (Langston)  Rogers
-Woods
-Kissinger
-Mrs. Nixon
	-Rogers
	-Public relations
-Constance M. Stuart
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-John A. Scali
-Klein
-USSR
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

Polls

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:13 pm.

-Unions
-Meany compared with Nixon
-Ehrlichman
-Strength
-Strikes
-Harris
-US economy
-The President's handling

News magazines
-Evaluation
-Kissinger
-Disney World
-Time, Newsweek articles
-Life
-Florida economy
-Television special

The President's schedule
-Disney World
	-Television special
	-Republican women event
-Walt Disney's widow
-Haldeman’s role

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Press story
	-Veracity

	Newspapers
		-Ziegler
-Los Angeles Times
-Newsday
-Claude Irwin
-Roland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Administration’s dealings
	-The President’s view
-Marty Schram’s article
-Haldeman’s view
-New York Times
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Administration's relations
-Klein
-Editorial policy
-Max Frankel
-Semple
-Los Angeles Times
-Administration’s position
-Irwin
-Semple
-Kissinger
-Availability to press
-Romana A. Banuelos

Newspaper story on Banuelos
-[Forename unknown] Rosenberg
-Harry Bernstein
-Justice Department
-Mitchell
-Los Angeles office

Evans and Novak
-Kissinger
-Book
-Foreign policy
-Richard J. Whalen's review
-Access to White House staff
-Kissinger
-William L. Safire
-Rumsfeld
-Finch
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Jimmy Allison
-Hugh Scott
-Clark MacGregor
-Columns
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Jack N. Anderson
-Approach
-William C. Sullivan
-Responses

Television
-Comments regarding the President's Phase II economic speech
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Edith Effron
-Theory of network intent
-Novak, et al.
-Compared with isolation presentation
-Slanting of presentations

Media
	-The President’s Phase II speech
	-Peter Lisagor
	-Revenue sharing speech
-Mark Hueres [?]
-Ziegler
-Safire
-Possible administration approach
-New York Times
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Los Angeles Times
-Otis Chandler
-Norman Buck
-Washington Post
-Relations with editorial boards
-Associated Press [AP], United Press International [UPI], Scripps-Howard
-The President's memories of the campaign
-Klein
-UPI

The President's schedule

Press
-Coverage of church services
-Mrs. Nixon
-Mitchell

Pictures

The President's schedule
-Press briefing, October 12, 1971
-Bipartisan meeting
-Leaders' meeting
-F. Edward Hebert
-Cabinet meeting
-Phase II
-George P. Shultz
-Ziegler
-Announcement of US-USSR Summit
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Editorial writers
-Pittsburgh
-Phase II
-Oklahoma City
-Vermont Royster
-World Series
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Film work
-Robert P. Griffin [?] birthday salute
-March of Dimes
-National Association of Manufacturers [NAM]
-Connally, James D. Hodgson, Maurice H. Stans, Paul W. McCracken, Herbert Stein
-Possible radio statement
-Charles H. Percy
-Chicago
-Testimonial dinner
			-Griffin
-State Department
-Singapore
	-International Telecommunications Satellite [INTELSAT]
-Morocco
-Television stations
-Sickle cell anemia
-Gerald R. Ford
-Mrs. Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Telephone calls
-Griffin
-Percy
-Otto Passman
-Grand Commander of the Conference of English-speaking Scottish [Unintelligible] Free Masonry and Supreme Council in Amity
-Congressmen petition
-Support for Taiwan
-UN
-Possible presentation to the President
			-Clement P. Zablocki, Joe D. Waggonner, Robert L.F. Sikes, Unintelligible Name, William J. Scherle, and Passman
			-George H.W. Bush
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
		-Ceremonial duties
			-The President’s position
			-INTELSAT events
-Sickle cell anemia
-NAM events
-Republicans
-Radio
-Percy and Griffin
-[Forename unknown] Miller
-Television
	-Radio
	-Telephone calls
		-Visit of Robert S. McNamara
		-Mayor and Chief of Police of Washington, D.C.
			-Crime
				-Ehrlichman
-Harris
-Colson
-Fort Detrick
-Cancer research, biological warfare laboratory
-Possible visit by Prime Minister of Turkey
	-Kissinger
-National Municipal League
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare
-American Nurses Association
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Salvation Army
-Norman Vincent Peale
-New York
-New York Hilton
-Mrs. Nixon
-Knights of Columbus
-Volpe
	-Presidential box at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-President Hubert Maga
-Republic of Dahomey
-Reaction
-Visit to UN General Assembly
-American Federation of Labor-Council of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-State Department
-Vietnam Prisoner of War [POW] resolution
			-African nations
-Louise Gore
-United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]
-Richardson
-Frank Shakespeare
-Kissinger

Chief Zosimo T. Monzon
-Military record
-Future plans
-Family life
-The President’s appreciation and support
-Family
-Possible future assignment
		-Lyndon B. Johnson's staff as ex-President
-Vocation

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[Duration:  1m 3s  ]

	PRC

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Walter J. Hickel
-Future role in government
	-Alaska development
-Stans
-Mitchell
-USSR
-Siberia
-Kissinger
-Plans

Buchanan
-Briefing Book
-Press Conferences
-Staff morale

The President's schedule
-Film appearances
-Standard Oil
-Big business
-Connally, Hodgson
-Eisenhower Theatre
-Opening
-Reception
-Mrs. Nixon
-Alice Marriott
-North Carolina
-Trip
-Connally
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Charles R. Jonas
-Size of delegation

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			-Congressional delegation
				-Wives
				-Sects on Air Force One
-The President's planes, Air Force One
	-Maintenance and refurbishing
-Gen. James D. Hughes
-Air Force
-Back-up plane
-George H. Mahon
-Purposes
-PRC trip
-USSR trip
-Old Air Force One
-Rogers
-PRC trip
-USSR trip
-Campaign
-Very Important Persons [VIPs]

Unions

Public support for the President's economic policies
-Prospects in good times
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Unemployment

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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.

Item for the President

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:13 pm.

Press
-Announcement of Soviet Summit

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Shultz
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:13 pm].

-Shultz and Rumsfeld

The President's schedule
-Meany

The President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman left at 2:13 pm.

Conversation No. 588-3

Date:  October 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Charles W. Colson

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.

Conversation No. 588-4

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown time before 11:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

Ronald L. Ziegler met with an unknown person.

Inquiry on location of the President

Ziegler, et al. left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.

Conversation No. 588-5

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown before 11:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

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The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.

Conversation No. 588-6

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown before 11:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

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TIME

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The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.

Conversation No. 588-22

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown before 11:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.

Conversation No. 588-7

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  11:55 am - 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's schedule
-Leadership meeting
-Picture taking

The President's announcement of US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] Summit
-Press conference
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Inauguration
	-Presidential message
			-Africa

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:55 am.

William P. Rogers
-Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:58 am.

Kissinger left at 11:57 am.

Assignment for Ziegler
-Press

Ziegler left at 11:58 am.

Conversation No. 588-8

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  11:59 am - 12:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and William P. Rogers

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

US foreign relations
-Soviet-American relations
-Berlin
-European Security Conference
-European Summit
-Rogers's schedule
-Foreign Minister of Luxembourg
-Luxembourg as possible location
-Timing
-Great Britain, Italy, Germany and France
-Big Four Summit
-Japan
-The President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-Kissinger

The President, et al. left at 12:01 pm.

Conversation No. 588-9

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  12:54 pm - 12:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press
-Press room
-Filming
-Questions
-Supreme Court appointments
-Timing
-Robert C. Byrd
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie

Ziegler left at 12:56 pm.

Conversation No. 588-10

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:56 pm and 12:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 12:56 pm .

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:58 pm.

-Labor leaders

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 12:58 pm.

Conversation No. 588-11

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:56 pm and 12:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

The President's schedule
-Labor

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:58 pm.

Conversation No. 588-12

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  12:58 pm - 1:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Henry A. Kissinger.

Press
-The President's meeting
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Negotiations
-Summit meeting with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Ronald L. Ziegler, John A. Scali
-Kissinger’s view

US foreign relations
-USSR
-Announcement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Press announcement
	-Embassy statement

-White House
-The President's trip
-USSR
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Douglas Edwards
-Film
-Timing
-Dan Rather
-Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-North Vietnam
			-North Vietnam
	-South Vietnam elections
		-Reaction
		-Thieu
-Kissinger's schedule
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Congress
-Notification of the President's announcement
-Carl B. Albert
-Allen J. Ellender
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Commentary concerning film
-W. Averell Harriman

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Press
-The President's press conference
-Topics
-Supreme Court appointments
-Phase II
-Vietnam
-PRC

Public relations
-Comparison of 1968 with 1972
-Situation in 1968
-Vietnam
-Soviets
-Czechoslovakia
-Chinese
-PRC
-Soviet trip
-Importance
-Linkage

Kissinger's schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Japan
-Andrei A. Gromyko

Public relations
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-White House staff
-Economy
-Foreign policy
-Scali
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-PRC

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US foreign policy
-Presidential travel
	-Possible return visits
		-Reciprocal visits
-The President's Soviet trip
-Middle East
-Kissinger's schedule
-Dobrynin
-Chinese
-Chou En-lai
	-Kissinger’s discussions with Chou En-lai
-Soviets
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Accidental War Agreement
-Berlin
-USSR
-Gromyko
-PRC invitation
-Advance notification
-Press conference
	-The President’s preparation
	-Vietnam
		-Effect of press conference
		-North Vietnamese
	-Negotiations
-Thieu
-Soviets
-PRC
		-The President's preparations
			-Foreign policy

The President's schedule
-Shultz
-Labor
-Pay Board

Press coverage of the President
-John F. Kennedy
-Rose Mary Woods conversation with Kissinger
-Chicago Daily News
-Hypothesis
-Nixon
-Bay of Pigs
-Laos
-Berlin

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:59 pm.

The President's schedule
-Shultz
-F. Edward Hebert

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:25 pm.

US foreign policy
-Soviets
-PRC
-US actions
-Negotiations
-Maurice H. Stans
-Dobrynin
-PRC
-Southeast Asia
-Soviets

Kissinger and Haldeman left at 1:25 pm.

George P. Shultz entered at 1:25 pm.

Economics
-Labor
-Pay Board
-George Meany
-Shultz
-Judgment on labor's position
-Meany
-Message
-The President's suggestion
-Employment
-Tax proposals
-John B. Connally
-The President's possible telephone conversation
-Ehrlichman
-Connally

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 1:32 pm.

[Conversation No. 588-12A]

[See Conversation No. 11-61]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Full employment
-Senate
-Tax proposals

The President talked with George Meany between 1:32 pm and 1:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 588-12B]

[See Conversation No. 11-62]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's statement
-Full employment
-Senate
-Tax proposals
-Jobs
-Business calls
-Feedback
-Connally
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Indianapolis
-Flanigan
-Arthur F. Burns
-Shultz's previous conversation
-Views
-Shultz
-Labor
-Press
-Ziegler

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:25 pm.

Request for meeting with Ziegler

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.

US foreign relations
-PRC ,USSR
-Importance
-US
-Bolivia, Chad
-John F. Kennedy
-Summit meeting

Economy
-Labor
-Canada

Ziegler entered at 1:40 pm.

Economy
-The President's statement
-Meany
-Shultz
-Meany
-Timing
-Wage and price restraint
-Labor
-Connally
-Texas

Ziegler left at 1:42 pm.

The President's schedule
-Ziegler

Shultz left at 1:42 pm.

Conversation No. 588-13

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:43 pm and 1:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Rose Mary Woods met with unknown people.

	Item for the President

	The President’s schedule
		-Location

Woods, et al. left at an unknown time before 1:55 pm.

Conversation No. 588-14

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:43 pm and 1:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Unknown person’s schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 588-15

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:43 pm and 1:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Unknown person's schedule
-The President's schedule

Conversation No. 588-16

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:43 pm and 1:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Film

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 1:55 pm.

Conversation No. 588-17

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:43 pm and 1:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-63]

Conversation No. 588-18

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  1:55 pm - 1:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[Conversation No. 588-18A]

[See Conversation No. 11-64]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time before 1:59 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's schedule
-Telephone calls
-Stewart J.O. Alsop

US foreign relations
-Summit with Union of Socialist Soviet Republics [USSR]
	-Schedule

-Efforts
-George H. Mahon
-J. William Fulbright
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Domestic opponents
-Cambodia
-Middle East
	-Jordan
-President’s policies
-Press conference
-US relationship with USSR
-Biological Warfare Agreement
-Sea Beds Treaty
-Accidental War Agreement
-Berlin Agreement
-John F. Kennedy
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Middle East
-Salt
-Soviets
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Effect on US-USSR negotiations
-William P. Rogers
-European security conference
	-Middle East
	-The President’s view
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s view
-European Security conference
	-National Security Council [NSC]
-European Security Conference
-Soviets
-The President's trip to Moscow
-Kissinger’s role
-European security conference
-Dobrynin
-Middle East
-Rogers
-Middle East
-Actions
-John Foster Dulles
-Israel
-European security
-Kissinger
-Negotiating strategy
-Soviets
	-Summit
-PRC
-Rogers
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Soviets
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Mao Tse-tung
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Prospects of conversations with the President
-Victor Louis [?]
-Vietnam
-Vietnam
	-Paris Peace Talks
		-North Vietnam
-Nguyen Nan Thieu
-Peking and Moscow
-Prospects for ending the war
	-The President’s remarks at press conference
-North Vietnamese
-US casualties
-Schedule
-Announcement of Moscow summit
-Kissinger's trip to Peking
-Press background briefing
-Ronald L. Ziegler and John A. Scali
-State Department
-Importance of good relations with both USSR and PRC
-Kissinger's conversations with USSR and PRC
	-Vietnam
		-Negotiations
			-The President’s role
				-Allen J. Ellender
			-Vietnam
			-USSR
			-PRC

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:15 pm.

The President's schedule
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] cameraman
-George P. Shultz
-Labor

Ziegler left at 2:17 pm.

US foreign relations
-Negotiations
	-Kissinger’s view

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US Presidency
-Pressures
-Foreign policy

US foreign relations
-The President’s previous meeting with Aldo Moro
	-John A. Volpe
-United Nations [UN]
-Chinese
-Italians
-Adolf Hitler
-Winston Churchill
-Joachim Von Ribbentrop

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:20 pm.

The President's schedule
-George Meany

The President et al. left at 2:21 pm.

Conversation No. 588-19

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:21 pm and 2:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

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[Duration:  36s  ]

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The unknown people left at an unknown time before 2:26 pm.

Conversation No. 588-20

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:26 pm and 2:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Request for meeting

Conversation No. 588-21

Date:  October 12, 1971
Time:  2:31 pm - 2:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
	-John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-William P. Rogers
-Robert H. Finch
-Film
-Charles H. Percy
-Rogers
-Percy
-Endorsement

Kenneth W. Clawson

The President's schedule
-Mark I. Goode
-Teleprompter
-Speech typewriter
-Wire by President
-Percy

Speeches
-Difficulty in writing
-George Meany
-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Meany
-Joint Communiqué
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Biological war agreement
-Sea bed agreement
-Accidental war agreement
-Hot line
-Congress
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Charles W. Colson, John A. Scali
-Assignments
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Ehrlichman

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:34 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.

-Spiro T. Agnew
-Rogers
-Ehrlichman

The President and Haldeman left at 2:45 pm.