Conversation No. 594-10/595-1

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  12:46 pm - 1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[This conversation is a continuation of conversation 594-10]

The President's Vietnam opponents

The President's schedule
-Robert F. Ellsworth

Haig left at 1:15 pm.

Conversation No. 595-2

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  1:15 pm - 1:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[Unintelligible]

Butterfield left and Rose Mary Woods entered at 1:16 pm.

The President's schedule
-Timing of trip
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-New York
-Meeting
-Golf

-Westchester
-Business people
-Golf
-Donald McI. Kendall, George Champion, Lewis
-Champion
-Appointment
-Westchester
	-The President's visit

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White House social affairs
-After dinner entertainment for Josip Broz Tito
-Handshakes
-Tito
-Guests
-State Department
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Assistant Secretaries
-Dinners
-Guest lists
-Handshakes
-Woods
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Tito
-The President

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-Handshakes

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-Guest lists
-Australia
-India
-Brazil
-Turkey
-Scheduling
-Contributors
-Tito
-Cornelius V. (“Sonny”) Whitney

	Campaign finances
		-Whitney
			-Consideration as Ambassador
-Democrat
-Age
-Linguistic ability
-Spanish
-$250,000 campaign contribution
-John Hay (“Jock”) Whitney
-Thomas E. Stephens
				-Contributions
-Newspapers
-Whitney

Woods left at 1:29 pm.

Conversation No. 595-3

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:29 pm and 2:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Refreshments
-Secretary [George P. Shultz ?]
		-Washington Redskins
	-Jack Pardee
	-Maxie Baughan
	-George Burman

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:22 pm.

Conversation No. 595-4

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:29 pm and 2:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Greetings

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 1:29 pm and 2:22 pm.

[Conversation No. 595-4A]

[See Conversation No. 11-106]

[End of telephone conversation]

US foreign relations
-Economic policy
-Peter G. Peterson
-Briefing

Supreme Court appointments
-Leonard Garment's recommendations
-Edward H. Levi
-Objectives in nominations

The President talked with Tricia Cox between 2:22 pm and 2:24 pm.

[Conversation No. 595-4B]

[See Conversation No. 11-107; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court nominations

-Garment's recommendations
-Warren E. Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Howard H. Baker
-Casper W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Hershel H. Friday
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Baker and Weinberger
-Garment’s view
-Lillie
-Garment’s assessment
-Baker
-School desegregation
-Tennessee
-John N. Mitchell, Elliot L. Richardson,
 John D. Ehrlichman
-Friday, Lillie
-Baker
-South
-Weinberger
-Ronald W. Reagan
			-Baker and Weinberger
				-America Bar Association [ABA]
				-Senate
-Weinberger
-Baker
-Senate
				-Mitchell
-Jewish question
-Political consideration
-Israel
-Lillie
-Qualifications
	-Garment’s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:24 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:32 pm.

US foreign relations
-Textile negotiations
-Peterson
-Performance

Supreme Court appointments
-Nominations
-Lillie
-Weinberger
-Political outlook
-Mitchell
-California
-William French Smith
-Lillie
-Chances of Senate confirmation
-Opposition to women
-Mitchell

Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:24 pm.

The President's schedule
-Wire photograph
-Jack Pardee

Haldeman and Bull left at 2:32 pm.

Conversation No. 595-5

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:32 pm and 2:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pardee, their four children;  Mr. and Mrs. George Burman, their child; Mr. and Mrs. Maxie Baughan, their three children and Stephen B. Bull.
[The White House photographer and press photographers were present at the beginning of the meeting]

Introductions
-Mrs. Jack Pardee
-California
-Maxie Baughan
-Diane Baughan
-Huntington Beach
	-The President’s recollection
-George Burman

	White House tour

Photographs

Football
-Importance to Washington

The photographers left at an unknown time before 2:44 pm.

-Washington Redskins
-Game with Los Angeles Rams
-Sammy Baugh
-Steve Owens
-George E. Allen
-John Brough [?]
-Ara Parsegian

Gift presentations

Football

Farewells

Family backgrounds

Pardee, et al. left at 2:43 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:44 pm.

Conversation No. 595-6

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Robert F. Ellsworth

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.

Conversation No. 595-7

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  3:11 pm - 3:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert F. Ellsworth and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] ambassadorship
-Appointment of ambassador
-Manlio Brosio
-Criteria
	-Ellsworth’s view
-The President's confidence
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haig
-Understanding of Washington bureaucracy

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.

Refreshments delivered

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.

	NATO
		-Appointment of Ambassador
-Concerns
-Balanced force reductions
-European Security Conference
-British entry
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Great power condominium
-Career personnel
-The President’s view
-David M. Kennedy
				-Textile treaty
-Treasury Department
-State Department
-The President’s view
-Treasury Department
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Defense Department
						-Troops
							-Funding
-Congressmen or Senators
-F. Bradford Morris
-The President’s view
-Military
-Politics
-David M. Kennedy
-Melvin R. Laird
-Present acting ambassador to NATO, George Best
-Background
-Supreme Allied Commander, Europe [SACEUR]
-Gen. Lauris Norstad
-Dirk U. Stikker
-Common Market
-John R. Schaetzel
	-Experience
	-Ellsworth’s view
-Haig, Kissinger
-Europeans
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Requirements
-Concerns
-Détente
-Soviet Union
-European Security Conference
-Common market
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Strategy

Europeans
-Soviet Union
-US European policy
-Southeast Asia
-PRC

Ellsworth's travels
-Eastern Europe
-Moscow
-Jacob D. Beam
-Western Europe

NATO
-Concerns
-Greece and Turkey
-Southeastern Europe
-Yugoslavia
-Josip Broz Tito

Ellsworth's possible government service
	-Possible role
-Ambassador
-Textile negotiations
-Arms control
-Arms Control Advisory Group
-John J. McCloy committee
-Washington
-George A. Smathers
-Earle G. (“Bus”) Wheeler
-Europeans
-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM] Treaty
-Members of McCloy committee
-New York Times
-NATO experience
-United Nations [UN]
	-The President’s view
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Envoy to inaugurations, funerals
-John B. Connally
-Vietnam
			-Flanigan
-Kissinger
-Supreme Court
-Thurgood Marshall
-William J. Brennan
-John N. Mitchell

Ellsworth's past service as ambassador
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Brosio

Appointments
-Japan
-Armin H. Meyer
-New York businessmen
-George Champion
-Requirement for job

Us foreign relations
-US and PRC
-US and Soviet Union
	-Ellsworth’s view
-MBFR
-European security conference

Personnel
-US ambassador to Italy
-Graham A. Martin
-Brosio
-The President's visit
-Bangkok
-Taiwan
-US ambassador to Germany
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-US ambassador to Italy

US foreign affairs
		-Greece
	-British
-George Papadopoulos
-Ellsworth’s view
-US
-Soviet Union
-Political fortunes

Economy
-Price Commission
-William W. Scranton
-Ellsworth
-Arms Control Commission

Ellsworth
-Previous service
The President's schedule
-New York

New York
-Greenwich, Connecticut
-West Side compared with East Side

Gift presentation

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.

-Money Clip

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.

The President, Ellsworth and Haig left at 3:45 pm.

Conversation No. 595-8

Date:  October 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

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

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 3:45 pm.

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