Conversation No. 605-1

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Salutations

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.

Conversation No. 605-2

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.

Conversation No. 605-3

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.

Conversation No. 605-4

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

[Unintelligible]

The President’s schedule
	-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.

Conversation No. 605-5

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 am and 10:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:10 am.

White House visitors
	-Cigarette lighters and matches

Bull left at 10:10 am.

Assignment
-Quadriad

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The President's schedule
-Florida

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 10:10 am and 10:15 am.

[Conversation No. 605-5A]

The President's schedule
-Florida

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-John N. Mitchell
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming meeting with Josip Broz Tito
-Winton M. Blount
-Tax bill
	-Blount

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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Papers for the President
-The President's briefcase
-Copies of document
-Kissinger

Invitations for forthcoming Tito dinner
-State Department
-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeld
-John H. Holdridge
-Kissinger
-State Department
			-Staff
-Secretary of State
-Chief of Protocol
-Assistant Secretary for European Affairs
-Message for Haldeman
	-The President’s instructions
-Woods's request
-Mark I. Goode
-Kate Smith
-Unnamed Singer [Gail Robinson]
-Fred M. Waring
-Smith
-Lee W. Huebner
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.'s Office
-Yugoslav Americans
-Helen D. Bentley
-Unintelligible names
-Marvin L. Esch
-Wife
-Frank J. Lausche
-Wife
-Health

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:10 am.

The President's schedule
-Tito
	-Arrival ceremony

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:15 am.

Assignment for Woods

Woods left and Kissinger entered at 10:15 am.

Forthcoming meeting with Tito
-Participants
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Peter G. Peterson
-India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's information from Yugoslav Embassy
-Rogers
-Peterson
		-The President’s previous meeting with Tito in Yugoslavia
			-One on one meeting
-Participants
	-Yugoslav ambassador
-Rogers
-Peterson
-Kissinger
-Yugoslav politburo member, Foreign Minister and  Ambassador

Schedule for Tito's visit
-Haldeman
-Old Executive Office Building [EOB]

Tito's travels
-India
-Egypt
	-Cairo
-Political stance

Kissinger's schedule
		-Foreign aid bill
-Senators 
-Kissinger’s view
-Jacob K. Javits
-Charles H. Percy
-John Sherman Cooper-Frank F. Church amendment
	-Vietnam War
		-Impact on negotiations

Timing for Vietnam announcement
	-The President's news summary
-North Vietnam proposal
-Le Duc Tho
-Forthcoming meeting in Paris
-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming announcement
-William McMahon
-The President’s view
-House of Representatives
-Amendment
-US proposal
-Melvin R. Laird's office
-Vietnamese military situation
-US troop levels
-Cooper
	-Previous statement
-Percy
		-Timing for withdrawal announcement
			-The President’s view

Military draft
-Vietnamese military situation

Vietnam
-US strategy
	-Negotiations
-Timing for announcement
-Le Duc Tho
	-Forthcoming meeting in Paris
-Senators
-Vietnam as public issue
-Senators
-Kissinger's reception
-Clark MacGregor
-J. William Fulbright
-North Vietnam
-Paris negotiations
		-Timing of announcement
		-North Vietnam
-Nixon compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Timing of announcement
-Casualties

The President's forthcoming meeting with Tito
-Egypt
-European Security Conference
-Berlin Agreement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Peking
-Vietnam War

Vietnam War
-Leonid I Brezhnev's previous statement
-PRC
-US negotiating stance
-PRC

United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Ronald W. Reagan
-Compared with Agnew

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			-UN
				-Possible statement
-Television
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
	-The President’s statement
-Albanians
-Africans
-Charles W. Colson
-Hugh Scott
-State Department strategy
-Ecuador
	-Fishing rights
-Timing

UN
-Reagan
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Protocol
-The President's schedule
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.

Kissinger left at 10:43 am.

Conversation No. 605-6

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  10:46 am - 10:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with unknown person
-Meeting with Josip Broz Tito
	-Length

Bull left at 10:47 am.

Conversation No. 605-7

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:47 am and 10:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:48 am.

Conversation No. 605-8

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  10:48 am - 10:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
-Secretary of State
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Mrs. Nixon entered at 10:48 am.

Josip Broz Tito's location

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:50 am.

The President and Mrs. Nixon left at 10:50 am.

Conversation No. 605-9

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  11:23 am - 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Josip Broz Tito, Lijana Tambaca and Alexander Akalovsky.

Tito’s schedule
-Camp David
	-Franklin D. Roosevelt
	-Winston S. Churchill
	-Nikita S. Khrushchev
	-Willy Brandt
	-Georges J.R. Pompidou

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:24 am.

	Press

Members of the press entered at 11:26 am.

	Photograph

	Cigars

Press

Refreshments

Ziegler and press left at 11:32 am.

	Tito’s schedule
		-State Department

Vidoje Zarkovic and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:32 am.

Schedule
-October 28, 1971
	-Blair House
	-Meeting with the President
	-State Department
-October 29, 1971
-Forthcoming Head of State dinner

International affairs
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Tito’s foreign trip
	-Egypt
	-Iran
	-Pakistan
-India-Pakistan
	-The President’s view
		-Middle East
	-Tito’s view

Logistics for the President's conversation with Tito
-Alexander Akalovsky [State Department interpreter]
-Tito

International affairs
-India-Pakistan
-India
-Tito’s previous trip
	-Indira Gandhi
	-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Pakistan
-Tito’s view
	-Pakistan
	-East Pakistan
	-Sheik Mujibar Rahman
	-Refugees
	-India
	-Refugees
	-Tito’s previous conversation with Khan
		-Economic development
		-Comparison to Yugoslavia
	-Tito’s previous conversation with Mrs. Gandhi
		-War
		-India
		-US government
		-United Nations [UN]
-Tito’s effort
-The President's view
	-Tito’s efforts
-Causation for dispute
	-India and Pakistan
	-Refugees
-Possibility of war
-India
-Pakistan
-PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-US
-Refugees
-US aid
-India
-UN involvement
						-US policy
-US policy
	-USSR
-Kissinger
-PRC
-Pakistan
-US policy
	-Efforts to prevent war
-USSR role
-US aid
-India
-USSR
	-Leonid I. Brezhnev
		-Friendship treaty
-Yugoslavia
-USSR
	-Independence
		-Tito’s view
-USSR
-US
-Policy
	-Détente
		-Tito’s view
				-The President's forthcoming trip to the PRC
					-Tito’s view
					-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-The President's talks
-Forthcoming US-USSR summit
	-US objectives
		-PRC
		-Smaller countries
			-Independence
			-Arms control
-Tito's position on independence for smaller nations
-US
-Brezhnev’s views
-India-Pakistan
	-The President’s previous discussions with Brezhnev
		Middle East
			-US efforts
			-Suez Canal
			-The President’s view
				-Peace negotiations
				-US efforts
					-Anwar el-Sadat
					-Israel

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:45 pm.

International affairs
-Middle East
-Israel
-US
-USSR
-Yugoslavia
-Middle east
-Sadat
-Tito’s view
-Gamal Abdel Nasser
		-India-Pakistan
			-Tito’s view

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.

Tito's schedule
	-Blair House

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:45 pm.

	International affairs
		-India-Pakistan
			-Tito’s view

Bilateral US-Yugoslav talks
-William P. Rogers
-Peter G. Peterson
-The President’s previous discussions with Tito
-Military cooperation
-Defense Department
-Schedule
-Vietnam
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Talks [SALT]
-European security
-Tito's visit to Blair House
-Harry S. Truman

The President et al. left at 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 605-10

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 12:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:47 pm.

Conversation No. 605-11

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  12:47 pm - 1:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Responses for the press
-The President's meeting with Josip Broz Tito

An unknown person entered at an unknown time before 12:47 pm.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:07 pm.

Responses for press
-The President's previous meeting with Tito
-Tito
-South Asia
-Middle East
-Europe
-Arms control
-Tito’s travels
	-Indira Gandhi
	-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
	-Anwar el-Sadat
	-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Tito
-The President’s view

Kissinger entered and Ziegler left at 12:52 pm.

The President's previous meeting with Tito
-Tito 

	-The President’s view
-The President's handling
	-Kissinger’s view
-Schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting

US foreign relations
-United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-William P. Rogers
-Foreign Relations committee
-Ziegler
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-William F. Buckley
-Amchitka decision
-UN
-Rogers
-View
-Tito
-“Today” show
-John Sherman Cooper and Frank F. Church
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger's visit
-The President's previous meeting with Tito
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-PRC visit
-Vernon A. Walters
-Forthcoming meeting
-Chou En-Lai
-Possible UN Ambassador
-Effect on Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-PRC
-Taiwan
-U Thant
-George Meany's comment
-Foreign Relations committee
-Rogers
-Vote on Taiwan's expulsion
-Mrs. Gandhi
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Tito
-Indians
	-US policy
-Pakistan
-Sheik Mujibar Rahman
-Mrs. Gandhi
	-US aid

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN

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Rose Mary Woods entered and Kissinger left at 12:59 pm.

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Woods left at 1:07 pm.

Conversation No. 605-12

Date:  October 28, 1971
Time:  1:10 pm - 1:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Florida
-Forthcoming legislative leaders meeting
-Forthcoming meeting with Indira Gandhi
-New York
-Florida
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Speeches
-William P. Rogers
-Peter G. Peterson
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Quadriad meeting
-George P. Shultz
-Quadriad meeting
-Arthur F. Burns
-Money supply
-Peterson
-Flanigan
-Shultz
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Travel plans
-Turkey
-Resignation as Secretary of Agriculture
	-Announcement

Secretary of Agriculture
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Hardin
-Donald E. Johnson
-Haldeman’s view

-Rogers C.B. Morton
-Harlow
-Earl L. Butz
-Johnson
-Congressmen
-John B. Connally
-Cattlemen
-Butz
-Kleberg family
-B. K. Johnson
-Haldeman’s view
-Possible ambassadorship

Appointments
-Paul W. McCracken
-Possible US Ambassador

Secretary of Agriculture appointments
-Butz
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Ezra Taft Benson
-Harlow
-Hardin
-Clayton K. Yeutter
-J. George Harrar
-Rockefeller Foundation
-Norman E. Borlaug
-Johnson
-Background
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
	-Compared with Robert L. Kunzig
-Butz
		-Johnson
			-Veterans Affairs

	Veterans Affairs appointments
	-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
	-Charles W. Colson
	-Herbert R. (Chief”) Rainwater

Federal Reserve Board [FRB] appointment
-Burns
-Possible vacancy
-Andrew F. Brimmer
-United Nations [UN]
-Burns
-Flanigan
-Frederic V. Malek
-Shultz

The President's schedule
-Shultz
-Connally
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Monetary matters
-Okinawa
-Flanigan
-October 29, 1971
-Party for handicapped children
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Walter E. Disney on Parade
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-John J. Sparkman
-John N. Mitchell
-Kissinger
-Trip
-Vietnam troop withdrawal
-Halloween party
-Colson
-October 30, 1971
-New Castle, Pennsylvania
-Housing project
-Building trades dinner
-Pittsburgh
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rainer Barzel
-Forthcoming trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Willy Brandt
-West Germany
-East-West relations
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-The President’s view
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Kissinger

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The President's schedule
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Connally, Shultz, Colson, Richard A. Moore
-Miami
-James D. Hodgson
-George Meany

US foreign relations
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Timing
		-United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-PRC
-Communiqué
-State Department
-Meeting with Kissinger
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
	-Warsaw talks
-The President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-Latin America
-Kissinger
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
	-Kissinger
-George H. W. Bush
			-Communiqué
				-Warsaw talks
			-Meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger and Rogers
-The President’s view
-Frank F. Church
-Vietnam War
-Berlin, USSR, PRC, Okinawa
-Monetary policy
-UN vote
-Vice President Agnew
-US Ambassadors
-Kuwait
-Singapore
-Flanigan
-UN
-Domestic opinion
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Albanians
-Hugh Scott's statement
-US policy
-Ziegler
-Popular animosity
-Foreign aid
-Congress
-John Sherman Cooper-Church amendment
-Scott
-Cambodia
-US casualties in Vietnam
			-Colson
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Taiwan
-Effect on US conservatives
-Behavior of UN delegates
-News summary
	-Wilbur D. Mills
-Rogers
-Domestic opinion
	-The President's PRC initiative

Haldeman left at 1:48 pm.