Conversation No. 604-1

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:32 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm.

Conversation No. 604-2

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:32 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meetings, October 27, 1971

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm.

Conversation No. 604-3

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:32 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm.

Conversation No. 604-4

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:32 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm.

Conversation No. 604-5

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:32 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Briefcase

Demonstrators
-The President’s view

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan’s expulsion
-Sanchez’s view

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm.

Conversation No. 604-6

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:32 pm and 3:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger

Haldeman left and Kissinger entered at 2:53 pm

Kissinger's schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Defense Department budget
-John B. Connally
-Caspar W. Weinberger

Defense Department budget
-Authorization
-Appropriation
-Shultz
-Preparation for forthcoming meeting

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan expulsion
-Assignment for Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-The President’s instructions
-Great Britain
-France
-Botswana
-Kissinger’s view
-South Africa
		-The President’s view
		-Effect on US policy
			-Surtax
		-Shultz
		-Connally
		-Japan
		-Canada
		-Latin America
		-Mexico

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:53 pm.

The President's schedule
-Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

UN vote on Taiwan’s expulsion
	-US policy
	-Peter G. Peterson

Briefing for Connally
-Okinawa
	-Kissinger
-Monetary situation
-William H. Sullivan
-Vietnam
-Japan
-Kissinger’s view
-Participation
	-Department of State
-Talks with the Japanese
-Charles A. Meyer
-Sullivan
-State Department
-Indonesia
-Military
-Francis J. Galbraith
-Sullivan
-Vietnam
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Thailand
-Leonard Unger
-Kissinger’s view
-Meyer
-Role in Japan
	-Possible replacement
	-Monetary situation
	-Arthur F. Burns
-Okinawa
-State Department
-Kissinger's schedule
	-Briefing
-Connally's schedule
-Quadriad meeting
-State Department
-Sullivan
		-Connally’s foreign trip
-T.N.J. Suharto
-Eisaku Sato
-Sullivan
-US Ambassador

UN vote to expel Taiwan
	-White House response
-George H. W. Bush
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Rhetoric
	-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-The President's attendance at previous UN session
-Reception 
-Secretary General
			-Possible future trip to UN

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:07 pm,

The President's schedule

John B. Connally, John D. Ehrlichman, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., George P. Shultz, and Caspar W. Weinberger entered at 3:07 pm.

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

Greetings

The President's schedule
-Shultz
-Quadriad meeting

Connally
	-Forthcoming foreign trip
-The President’s conversation with Kissinger
-Political briefing
-Quadriad meeting

UN ambassadors
-Arthur Goldberg

Unknown man
-Kissinger

Defense Department
-Budget
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-Melvin R. Laird
-Defense outlay
-Joint review
-David Packard
-Kissinger, Packard, Shultz
-Air defense system
			-National Security Council [NSC] staff, Office of Management and Budget [OMB] staff
-Kissinger
-Defense outlay
-Foreign policy objectives
-Laird
-Projected sum
-Outlay management
-Effect on domestic economy
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Arms control negotiations
-Cuts
	-Air defense systems
-Kissinger’s view
-Shultz
	-USSR
	-Strategic Concerns
	-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
	-Radar
-PRC
	-Forthcoming visit
-Laird
-Effect
-Army
-Air Force
-The President’s view
	-Air defense system
-USSR
	-Aircraft
-Size of Army and Navy
		-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Strategic capabilities
-Arms control negotiations
	-Missiles
		-Polaris and Minutemen missiles
-USSR defense activities
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Popular confidence in defense program
-USSR
-PRC
-Arms talks
-Budget deficits
-Taxes
-Inflation
-Congressional action
-American Conservatives
-ABM
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-John F. Kennedy's allegations of "Missile Gap" in 1960
-Domestic opposition
	-Possible White House strategy
-Soviets
-Chinese
-Army and Marine Divisions
-Obligational authority
	-Amounts
-Navy
	-Ships
		-Effect on budget
-Polaris
-Undersea Long-range Missile System [ULMS] development
-USSR
-Kissinger’s role
	-Strategic review
-Budget presentations
	-Navy
	-Air Force
	-Army
	-The President’s view
	-Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
	-Comments on Strategy
		-Navy modernization
-Schedule
	-Delay in final decision
-Connally's trip
-Obligational authority
	-Connally’s view
		-Programs
-Costs
-Manpower
-Strategic weapons
	-ABM
	-Polaris
-The President's forthcoming meetings
-Soviets
-Chinese
-Military base closings
-Connally’s view
	-Future
		-Strategic arms
		-Economic issues
	-Procurement programs
		-Effect
	-Manpower
-The President’s decision
	-Kissinger
	-Shultz
	-Weinberger
-Contrast with social programs
-Laird’s view
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-Intelligence community
-Quality
	-The President’s view
-Taxes
-USSR
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-US-USSR Summit
-Military construction
-Military outlays
-Revenue sharing
-Taxes

Kissinger's schedule
	-Forthcoming press conference
		-Timing

Connally, Ehrlichman, Shultz, Haig, Weinberger left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.

-Ziegler
-Quadriad

Connally 
	-The President’s view
-William P. Rogers
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Support for the President's policies

UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Administration's reaction
-Rogers's statement
-PRC
-Kissinger's recent itinerary
-Well wishers for the President's trip to PRC
-Barry M. Goldwater, Sr.
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger's forthcoming briefing
	-The President’s previous statement
-Secretary of State's previous statement 
-Delegate behavior during UN vote
-US diplomatic relations
-Botswana
	-Kissinger’s view
-Spain
-Italy
-Ronald W. Reagan
	-Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call

The President and Kissinger left at 3:45 pm.

Conversation No. 604-7

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

Unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:48 pm

Conversation No. 604-8

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  5:27 pm - 5:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with George P. Shultz
[This recording begins at an unknown time while the telephone call is in progress]

[See Conversation No. 13-22]

Conversation No. 604-9

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  5:29 pm - 6:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Economy
-Pay Board
-Alternates for members of Board
-George Meany
-George P. Shultz
-Meany

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:29 pm.

The President's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:14 pm.

Economy
-Pay Board
-Meany
-Shultz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-James D. Hodgson
	-The President's previous meeting
	-John B. Connally
	-Taxes
	-Caspar W. Weinberger
	-Balanced budget
	-Raising taxes
	-Business community

Education
-Parochial schools
-Connally
-Domestic Council's opinion
	-Melinda Maury and Edwin L. Harper
-Private education
-Polls
-John N. Mitchell
-School construction
-Property tax
-US Steel
-Home owners
-Political issues
-Aid to parochial schools
-Catholics
-Harper
-Connally, John D. Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Revenue sharing
-Government reorganization
-Welfare reform
	-Political support
-Political consideration
				-Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, California
-Supreme Court brief
-Pennsylvania case
-Bible belt reaction
-Central Pennsylvania
-Pennsylvania
-Public school system
-Oklahoma
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Catholics
-Graham
-Norman Vincent Peale
-Political impact
-Patrick J. Buchanan and Colson
-The President as Protestant
-The President's opponent as Catholic
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-John F. Kennedy
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-John Cardinal Krol
-Revenue sharing
-Taxes
-Domestic Council
-Ehrlichman
-Revenue sharing
-Political impact
-Knights of Columbus
-The President's Knights of Columbus speech
-Catholics
-Taiwan

US foreign policy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-The President’s forthcoming trip
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Muskie
-United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-George H. W. Bush
-Schedule
-Role
-Political impact
-William F. Buckley's “Firing Line”
-Conduct of UN delegates during vote
-Henry A. Kissinger
-The President's instructions
-Botswana
-Ghana
-England
-France
-Italy
-Bush
	-Kissinger
-David D. Newsom
-South Africa
	-Botswana
-Qatar
-Bush
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Domestic opinion
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Bush
-William P. Rogers
-Vote 
-William L. Calley
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Conduct of UN delegates

Economy
-Taxes
-Ehrlichman
-Property Taxes Relief Act
-Parochial schools
-Educational issue
-Ehrlichman

Presidential proposals
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Liberals
-Family assistance
-Progressive compared with political thinking

Economy
-Taxes
-Value added tax [VAT]
	-Prices
-Property tax
-International concerns
-Connally
-Paul W. McCracken
-Economic indicators
-Conversation with Colson
-Public relations
-Arthur F. Burns
-Poll
-Chamber of Commerce
-Business men
-Austin H. Kiplinger
-Prediction for 1972
-Council of Economic Advisers [CEA]
-Connally
-McCracken
-Social Security taxes
-Burns
-Money supply
-Stock market
-Shultz
-Chamber of Commerce
-Polls
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Louis P. Harris

US foreign policy
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
	-Bush
-The President's position
-Popular opinion
-Elmer H. Bobst
-Africans

Haldeman left at 5:59 pm.

Economy
-Domestic Council
-Aid to parochial schools

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:59 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:02 pm.

Economy
-Economic indicators
-Stock market
-Taxes
-Catholics
-Property taxes
-Older citizens

Aid to parochial schools
-Peter J. Brennan
-The President's Knight of Columbus speech

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Henry A. Kissinger entered at 6:02 pm.

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US foreign policy
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Bush
-New York Times
-Conduct of delegates 
-State Department
-The President's previous conversation with Kissinger
-Botswana
-Guyana

Media
-Administration contact with
-Haldeman, Ziegler, Kissinger, Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Bureau chiefs
-Backgrounders
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Kissinger's comments in briefing
-Relationship with People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Kissinger's discussion with the press
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press coverage
-Timing of announcement
-Purpose of the trip
-Taiwan
-The President's trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 6:11 pm.

The President's schedule
-Woods

UN vote on Taiwan
-Ziegler’s statement
-Conduct of UN Delegates
-Winston S. Churchill

Woods left at 6:12 pm.

Media
-Kissinger's comments in press briefing
-The President's trip to USSR
-Rogers
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-PRC
-The President's trip to PRC
-Vietnam War
-PRC
-North Vietnam

US foreign policy
-Vietnam War
-North Vietnam
-Speech by Foreign Minister

The President, et al. left at 6:14 pm.

Conversation No. 604-10

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:14 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Manolo Sanchez and unknown people met.

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Sanchez et al. left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.