Conversation No. 608-1

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  5:20 pm - 6:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[Unintelligible]

The President's schedule
-Charles W. Colson

George P. Shultz's forthcoming memorandum
	-Forthcoming Quadriad meeting

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered and Butterfield left at 5:21 pm.

US aid to Greece
-Congressional action
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-William P. Rogers

The President's schedule
-Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-The President’s view

Colson entered at 5:25 pm.

Grain sale to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason
-Maritime unions
-Colson's efforts

US aid to Greece
-Congressional action

United Nations [UN]
-Israel
-Hugh Scott
-George H.W. Bush
-Schedule
	“Issues”
-William F. Buckley's show, "Firing Line"
-“Dick Cavett Show”
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Public comments
-Israel
	-The President’s view
-Jews' fears
-Louis P. Harris
-Scott's comments
-Press column
-Harris poll
-Washington Post coverage
-Newsweek's forthcoming story

1972 campaign
-Muskie

UN
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-Hubert H. Humphrey's reaction

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National economy
-Colson's possible meeting with Peter M. Flanigan
-Arthur F. Burns
-Interest rates
-Burns
-Home mortgages
-William L. Safire, Flanigan
-Housing
	-Effect
-Colson's forthcoming communication with Burns
	-The President’s view
-Flanigan, Safire

The President's activities
-Josip Broz Tito
-Indira Gandhi
-Supreme Court appointments
-Muskie
-Press coverage

UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Reaction of the President's opponents
	-Democrats
-New York Times
-Bush
-Comments to press delegates' reaction
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Forthcoming appearance on “Dick Cavett Show”
-Muskie
-Tickets
-“Firing Line”
-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s view

Media
	-Cavett
	-Television contract
-Irving Kristol's article in Fortune magazine
-Edith Efron's book
-Liberal beliefs
-Christianity
-Kristol's article
-Distribution
	-Colson
-The President's reaction
-Ronald L. Ziegler's comments
-Views
	-The President’s policies
-Rowland Evans-Robert D. Novak newsletter
-Evans-Novak book
-Administration response
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-“Today Show”
-Evans-Novak newsletter
-Drew Pearson
-1972 election
	-Democrats
		-Muskie
-Evans and Novak
-Chet Huntley
-Possible candidacy
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Charles H. Percy
-Possible opponent

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Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Message to Haldeman
-White House tour
-The President

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UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Ronald W. Reagan
	-Reaction to the President’s statement
	-View of UN
-UN
	-India-Pakistan
-Reagan
-Reaction
-Delegates’ reactions
-Delegates’ reaction
-Kissinger
-Jay Lovestone
-Colson’s view
-“Today Show” coverage
-Videotape
	-Kissinger
-Length

Haldeman talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 5:25 pm and 6:03 pm.

[Conversation No. 608-1A]

Kissinger's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman's previous telephone conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger's schedule

Colson left at an unknown time before 6:03 pm.

UN
-Videotape of delegates reaction to Taiwan vote

The President's schedule
-Police security
	-Effect

Colson entered at an unknown time after 5:25 pm.

UN vote to expel Taiwan
	-Videotape
	-Butterfield's office
	-Haldeman's office
-Television coverage of delegates' reaction
-William P. Rogers
-Flanigan
-Reaction in New York City
-Reagan
-John Birch Society

John Birch Society
-Earl Warren
-The President's 1962 campaign
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Council on Foreign Relations
	-Eisenhower
-Douglas MacArthur
-Herbert Hoover
-W. Cleon Skousen
-Book
-Reagan's conversation with Kissinger
-Adm. Ellis M. Zacharias
-Attacks on Kissinger
-Henry C. Cashen, II’s attendance at Navy League dinner
-Adm. Dick Bergen [?]
-John H. Rousselot
-John G. Schmitz
-Congressional votes

Kissinger entered at 6:03 pm.

Kissinger's previous meeting with Taiwanese Foreign Minister and Ambassador
-Previous UN vote to expel Taiwan
	-Kissinger’ view
-John H. Holdridge
-Kissinger's trips to Peking
-US efforts
-Botswana
-Guyana
-US efforts
-Uganda
-Idi Amin
-US defense commitments
-Ziegler’s statements
-Rogers’ press conference
		-The President's schedule
	-Taiwanese Ambassador
-Previous UN vote to expel Taiwan
-US efforts
-Rogers
-The President’s efforts
-King of Morocco
-President of Mexico
-Prime Minister of Italy
-Ireland, Netherlands, Iran
-Israel
-Great Britain

	Videotape of UN delegates reaction
		-Viewing in Haldeman’s office

The President, et al. left at 6:08 pm.

Conversation No. 608-2

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  6:19 pm - 6:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
[The recording begins while conversation is in progress]

United Nations [UN]
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Canada
-Belgium
-Effect of the President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative

Daniel J. Boorstin
-Smithsonian Institution
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-Boorstin's talk at University of Indiana
	-PRC initiative

UN
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-Reaction of the President's critics
-Chiang Kai-Shek
-Academic community

Boorstin
	The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Leonard Garment's note to Kissinger
	-Boorstin
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-US aerospace program

US intellectual community

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Boorstin
-Kissinger's possible written account
-Possible article
	-Timing

UN
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-Timing
-State Department's efforts
-Kissinger’s assessment
	-Rogers
-Botswana
-Guyana
-Leader
	-US aid
-Vote list
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Timing
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-1972 election
-State Department's efforts
	-Kissinger’s view
-Timing
-Public reaction
	-View of UN
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Ronald W. Reagan

Reagan
-The President's schedule
	-Report on Reagan’s Asia trip
-Kissinger's schedule

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-The President's schedule

Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call to Taiwanese ambassador

Kissinger talked with the White house operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 608-2A]

[See Conversation No. 13-41]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call to Taiwanese ambassador
-The President's schedule
-Taiwanese foreign minister

UN
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-Timing
-US policy
	-PRC initiative

Taiwan
-The President’s view
-The President's efforts
-Quemoy and Matsu
-John Foster Dulles

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 608-2B]

[See Conversation No. 13-42]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Josep Broz Tito
-India-Pakistan
-Indira Gandhi
-Chinese
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Interpreters
-Location

Kissinger left at 6:35 pm.

Conversation No. 608-3

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  6:35 pm - 6:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Gifts for the President
-Lithograph
	-Placement in the White House
-Earl Mazo
-Elephant

-Photograph from Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]

The President's face
-Official portraits
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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	The President’s schedule
	Woods's schedule
	-Mr. and Mrs. Emil Mosbacher

United Nations [UN]
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-Delegates reaction
-Videotape
-The President’s view

The President's schedule
-Josip Broz Tito

The President and Rose Mary Woods left at 6:40 pm.

Conversation No. 608-4

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:03 am and 9:25 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Jeffrey Hart
-Forthcoming column
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Earl Warrren
-Kennedy
-Northern Ireland
-William H. Rehnquist's qualifications for the Supreme Court

Kennedy
-English cartoon
-Reproductions
-Distribution
	-Colson
	-Amount
-Effect
-Possible candidacy

Media
-Coverage of administration activities
-The President's previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-The President's forthcoming trips to the People's Republic of China [PRC] and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Forthcoming Vietnam announcement
-The President's previous conversation with Kissinger
-Previous United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment

Previous vote on foreign aid bill
-Smith Hempstone, Jr.’s views

-George H. Mahon
-Gale W. McGee

UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Ronald W. Reagan, William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Reaction
-John B. Connally's reaction
-George H.W. Bush's possible replacement by Elliot L. Richardson
-Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
-Bush's statement
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-The President's statement 
	-Delegates' reaction
-Israel
-William S. White's conversation with Colson
-“Issues and Answers”
	-Bush
-Arab official
-Bush's conversation with Colson
-Prospects
-South Africa
-Great Britain
-Israel

Foreign aid
-Melvin R. Laird's possible action
-The President's possible action
-John A. Scali's conversation with Colson
-Kissinger
-Administration's efforts
-Media coverage
-Statements November 1, 1971 by McGee and W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Scali
	-The President’s view
-The President's possible action
	-Possible meeting with Congressional leadership
		-The President’s view
			-Compared with UN
				-Public perception
	-Colson’s view
	-Possible Presidential statement
-Scali's plan
-Dean Rusk, George Ball
-Laird, William P. Rogers
	-Forthcoming meetings with the President

The President's forthcoming meeting with Laird
	-Laird’s speeches

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:03 am.

The President's schedule
-Laird
-John N. Mitchell
-Robert L. Kunzig
-Laird

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?] at an unknown time between 8:03 am and 9:25 am.

[Conversation No. 608-4A]

The President's schedule
-The President's previous conversation with Bull
-Laird
-Mitchell, Kunzig and George P. Shultz

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Kunzig
-Laird
-Mitchell, Shultz
-Laird
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:25 am.

-Forthcoming telephone call from Colson

Laird
-Speeches
	-The President

Controversy
-Importance
-The President's economic program
-The President's leadership
-Mansfield amendment

Foreign aid
-Possible Senate action
-Laird's possible statement
-Thailand
-Military Assistance Act
-Refugees in India
-Laird's possible statement
	-Timing
-White House response
-Colson's efforts

The President's activities
-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson

George Sherman
-Hempstone's view
-Kissinger's schedule
-Articles 
	-Administration foreign policy
-Colson's forthcoming conversation with Kissinger

Hempstone

Edmund S. Muskie
-Previous New York Times article
-Warren Weaver [?]
-Life magazine cover
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Colson's telephone calls to office

The President and Colson left at an unknown time before 9:25 am.