Conversation No. 609-1

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 am and 8:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:54 am.

Conversation No. 609-2

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 am and 8:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

	The President’s schedule
		-Henry A. Kissinger

Timing of television broadcast

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:54 am.

Conversation No. 609-3

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  8:54 am - 9:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's telephone call to Henry A. Kissinger
	-Foreign aid

The President's schedule
-Chicago
	-W. Clement Stone
		-Illinois Masonic Medical Center
			-Dedication
-Melvin R. Laird
-Agenda
	-Europe meeting
	-Asian trip
	-Budget
-Kissinger's view
-Senate action

The President's schedule

Kissinger entered at 8:57 am.

	-Foreign aid program
-Laird
	-Budget

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:57 am.

Charles W. Colson

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:03 am.

The President's schedule
-Luncheon
-Laird

Laird
-Forthcoming trip to Southeast Asia
-Troop withdrawals

Foreign aid program
-Senate vote
-Administration response
	-Kissinger’s view
-Ronald L. Ziegler's comment
	-News summary
-Administration's activities
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger's previous telephone call to Robert P. Griffin
-Republicans
-Democrats
-Cambodia
-Press coverage
-Ziegler
-The President's opponents
-Edward M. Kennedy and Taiwan, Republic of China

Kennedy
-New York Times story regarding United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-Kissinger's meeting with John Kenneth Galbraith

Colson entered at 9:03 am.

-Votes on Taiwan aid
-Reaction to UN vote on Taiwan

UN vote on Taiwan
-Kennedy's speech
-State Department
	-Possible leak
-Kissinger's previous trip
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Ronald W. Reagan
-State Department
-New York Times story on Kennedy's speech
-1972 campaign
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kissinger's meeting with Galbraith

Foreign aid program
-Senate vote
-Clark MacGregor
	-Hugh Scott, Griffin
-Kissinger's conversation with MacGregor
-Kissinger's conversation with Griffin
-Scott, Kennedy, John V. Tunney, James L. Buckley
-Possible reversal
-Kissinger’s view
-Parliamentary procedure
-Foreign military aid
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Rogers
-Popular opinion polls
	-Leaks

Kissinger left at 9:09 am.

-The President's opponents
-Kissinger, Rogers
-The President's opponents
-J. William Fulbright
-The President’s view

Kennedy
	-Kissinger
-Speech
-Strategy
-Statements opposing the President's policies
	-Colson’s view
		-Prisoners of war [POWs]
		-Vietnam
-Time, Newsweek

	Press coverage
-Time, Newsweek
	-Kissinger's previous trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-State Department
-UN vote on Taiwan

UN vote on Taiwan
	-The President’s view
	-George H.W. Bush’s performance
	-UN conduct

Kennedy’s position on PRC and Taiwan
-Possible attack by Bush
	-“Issues and Answers”
	-Israel
-Statement regarding the President’s PRC initiative
-The President’s view
-McGeorge Bundy
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Statement regarding UN vote on Taiwan
-Peace groups
	-The President’s view
		-Earl Warren

UN vote on Taiwan
-Foreign aid program
-Senate vote
-Mansfield
-Republicans

Foreign aid program
-Popular opinion
-Intellectuals

Judicial appointments
-The President's opponents' actions
-Popular opinion
	-American Bar Association [ABA]
	-Women

Foreign aid program
-Senate vote
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Kissinger's view
-Continuing resolution
-Southeast Asia
-Israel
-Possible Presidential veto
-Greece

UN vote on Taiwan
	-Press coverage
-Statements by the President, Rogers, and Bush
-Foreign aid program
	-Congress
-Ziegler’s statement

Foreign aid program
-Opponents
	-The President’s view
-Importance

Kennedy
-Robert J. Dole's forthcoming speech

Ernest F. Hollings
-Textiles

The President's opponents
-Compared to Republicans during Democrat administrations
-Reagan, Barry M. Goldwater
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations
-Gerald R. Ford
-Everett M. Dirksen
-Spiro T. Agnew's possible speech
-Elliot L. Richardson's forthcoming speech in Boston
	-Edward Kennedy

Edward Kennedy
-Statements
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Foreign aid
-Press coverage
-Compared to Robert F. Kennedy's actions
	-The President’s view
	-Johnson
-Vietnam
	-Compared to George W. Romney's "brainwash" statement
		-Press treatment

Kissinger
-Previous trip to PRC
-Previous UN vote on Taiwan
-State Department

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Edward Kennedy
-Possible attacks
-Statements on PRC and UN vote on Taiwan
-Bush
-Scott
-Goldwater

Mansfield
-Colson’s view
-The President’s view
-Background
	-Compared to George Meany, Richard J. Daley

Edward Kennedy
-Bush's possible attacks
	-Vietnam
	-UN vote on Taiwan

Kissinger entered at 9:36 am.

-Kissinger's previous meeting with Galbraith
-1972 campaign

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:36 am.

	Instruction
		-New York Times

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:56 am.

-W[illiam] Averell Harriman's advice to Edward Kennedy
-Kitty Harriman

UN vote on Taiwan
-The President's statement
	-Conduct of UN delegates
	-Foreign aid

Fund for Peace
	-Ford Foundation
-Kissinger's friends
	-The President’s view

Galbraith
-Views on the President's economic program
	-Kissinger’s view

Edward Kennedy
-Statements
-The President's forthcoming visit to PRC
	-Timing
-Haile Selassie's forthcoming visit to US

Roger L. Stevens
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Kennedy Center
-John Kennedy
-Robert Kennedy
-Stevens’s view
-Edward Kennedy, sisters
-Stevens’s view
-Interest in the arts
-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-Interest in the arts
-Stevens’s view

Edward Kennedy
-Possible attacks

Kissinger’s recent trip to PRC
-Kissinger's previous press conference
-Scheduling and timing
-UN vote on Taiwan
	-Rogers

UN vote on Taiwan
	-Timing
	-Right-wing response
-White House response
	-The President’s view
		-Foreign aid
-Delegate response to vote
	-The President’s view

Foreign aid program
	-The President’s view
		-Ziegler’s statement
-Mansfield
	-Kissinger’s view
-Previous Senate vote
-Cambodia
-Laos, Vietnam
-Scott's efforts
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Griffin

Scott
-Kissinger’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Actions on previous vote
	-Previous conversation with Kissinger

Edward Kennedy
-Possible attacks
	-Cheap tricks

Foreign aid program
-New York Times possible editorial
	-Previous UN vote on Taiwan and China
-Previous Senate vote
-Republican Senators' expectations
	-Mansfield
	-Democrats
	-Kissinger’s view

Edward Kennedy
-Attacks on the President
-Compared to Hollings
-Statements about the President’s policy toward PRC and Taiwan
-Motive

	Campaign practices
		-Edward Kennedy
-Cartoon in London Express
	-White House distribution
	-Effectiveness

The President's schedule
-Josip Broz Tito
			-Length of meeting

Tito
-Statements regarding the President
-Press club

UN vote on Taiwan
-State Department and National Security Council [NSC]

Colson and Kissinger left at 9:56 am.

United Republicans of California [UROC]
	-Possible “Dump Nixon” delegation
	-John G. Schmitz
	-John N. Mitchell
	-Reagan

Haldeman left at 9:58 am.

Conversation No. 609-4

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:58 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's signature

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 609-5

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:58 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Josip Broz Tito
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
	-Helicopter
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, Mrs. Broz
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Helicopter
-Press photo opportunities

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 609-6

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:58 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 609-7

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  10:05 am - 11:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Josip Broz Tito, Lijana Tambaca and Alexander Akalovsky; members of the press were present at the beginning of this meeting.

Greetings

Photographs

Presentation of gifts by the President

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 10:52 am.

	National Press  Club
		-Tito’s appearance

Joint Communiqué
-Henry A. Kissinger

Talks on bi-lateral assistance
-Import surcharge
			-Forthcoming United Nations Conference on Trade and Development [UNCTAD]
		-Lima
	-Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan
	-John B. Connally's forthcoming recommendation

Blair House
	-Tito’s discussions with Maurice H. Stans and US businessman

US-Yugoslav economic relationships
	-The President’s view
		-Overseas Private Investment Corporation [OPIC]

-The President's conversation with Nicolae Ceausescu
	-American investment in Romania
Ceausescu
-The President’s view
-US-Romanian relations
-Tito’s view

US foreign policy
	-Soviet Union, Vietnam
	-Discussions
		-Confidentiality
	-The President’s view
	-Yugoslavia independence
	-Importance of independent countries

Soviet Union foreign policy
-Ceausescu
-Relations with neighboring countries
-Leonid I. Brezhnev, Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Tito
	-Relations with the Soviet Union
-Small nations' relationships with US

US foreign policy
-President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Small nations
-Eastern bloc

Soviet Union
	-The President’s view
-Difference with the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-The President's conversation with Ceausescu
	-Yugoslavia
	-Romanian economy
-Arms negotiations with US
-US defense policy
-Soviet developments
	-Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles [ICBM]
		-SS-9’s
	-Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles [SLBM]
-Possible US developments
	-Arms spending

	US foreign policy
	-The President's desire for peace
		-Vietnam
		-Nixon Doctrine
		-Forthcoming trip to China
		-Arms negotiation efforts
-US interests in Pacific
-Arms reduction
-The President’s background
	-Compared to Tito
		-Participation in World War II
-Small nations' interests
	-The President’s view
-US military strength
	-Views of US Senators
-Possible world criticism

Vietnam
-The President's reductions of US forces
	-US casualties
	-Troop levels
-Nixon Doctrine
-The President's message to North Vietnamese in 1969
-The President's meeting with Ceausescu, August 1969
-1970 attacks on Cambodia
-The president's October 1970 peace offer
-The president's conversation with Andrei A. Gromyko
-1971 South Vietnamese attacks on Laos
-Effect
-US offers to North Vietnam
	-Economic assistance
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Deadline
-Views of the President's opponents
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-The President’s view
-Tito’s view
	-Future government of South Vietnam
-Forthcoming US offers to North Vietnam
-Elections
-POWs
-Possible US military action
-US options
-Tito’s views
	-Possible discussions with Soviet Union and PRC
	-(Madame) Nguyen Thi Binh
-US policy
	-The President’s view
	-Peace
-POWs
	-Possible US military action

Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:52 am.

The President's schedule
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Bull left at 10:52 am.

Vietnam
	-Tito’s view
		-President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union and PRC
	-Galileo quote

	US foreign relations with Yugoslavia
		-Tito’s view
		-The President’s view

	Vietnam
		-Tito’s schedule
		-US peace offer to North Vietnam

Tito's visit to US
-Success
-Los Angeles

The President's schedule
-World Affairs Council

Mrs. Broz
	-Photographs session

Oval Office furnishings

Mrs. Nixon, Mrs. Broz, And Mr. and Mrs. Emil Mosbacher entered at 11:09 am.

Cigars
-Cuba
-Canary Islands

Yugoslavia
	-Bosnia

The President, et al. left at 11:12 am.

Conversation No. 609-8

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  11:16 am - 11:19 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Foreign aid program
-Previous Senate vote
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy

Kennedy
	-Speech
	-Taiwan, Republic of China
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Ziegler left at 11:19 am

Conversation No. 609-9

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:19 am and 11:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Requested Henry A. Kissinger be asked to join him

Bull left at 11:20 am.

Conversation No. 609-10

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  11:20 am - 11:21 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Foreign aid program
-Previous Senate vote
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie

Ziegler left at 11:21 am.

Conversation No. 609-11

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  11:21 am - 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Foreign aid program
-Previous Senate vote
-Kissinger's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Michael J. Mansfield
-The President's schedule
-John J. McCloy
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-George W. Ball
-White House response
-Congressional support
-Harriman
-Marshall plan
-Dean Rusk
-Kissinger's possible conversations
-Ball
-Congressman
-Editors
-The President's possible veto
	-Aid to Israel
	-The President’s view
	-Aid to Cambodia
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Previous Senate vote
-Carl T. Curtis
-Peter H. Dominick, Paul J. Fannin, Edward J. Gurney, Orval H. Hansen, Mark O. Hatfield, B. Everett Jordan, William V. Roth, Jr., William B. Saxbe, Margaret C. Smith, Ted Stevens, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Milton R. Young
-William E. Brock III, Marlow W. Cook

-James B. Allen, Birch E. Bayh, Jr., Lloyd M. Bentsen, Alan Bible, Quentin N. Burdick, Harry F. Byrd, Robert C. Byrd, Howard W. Cannon, Lawton M. Chiles, Jr., Frank F. Church, Alan Cranston, James O. Eastland, Samuel J. Ervin, Jordan, Jr., William Fulbright, Jordan
-John C. Stennis
-Republicans compared to Democrats
-White House response
-Effect
-Vietnam, Cambodia
-United Nations [UN]
-Amendments
-Compared to vote on Cooper-Church
-White House response
-Clark MacGregor
-UN vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
	-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Edward M. Kennedy
-White House response
-Separability
	-Aid to Israel
	-Jacob K. Javits
	-Presidential candidates
	-Israeli lobby
	-Possible veto

The President's previous meeting with Josip Broz Tito
-Instructions to Alexander Akalovsky
	-Communiqué
-Soviet foreign policy
-Vietnam
-US peace offers
-Possible US military action
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Laos, Cambodia
-Andrei A. Gromyko, Nicolae Ceausescu
				-North Vietnam
-Communist participation in South Vietnamese Government
-Tito's contacts with world leaders
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-US-Soviet relations
-Nixon Doctrine
-Arms limitation negotiations
	-Possible US military spending

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:21 am.

The President's schedule
-Manolo Sanchez

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:07 pm.

The President's previous meeting with Tito
-Vietnam
-US peace offers
	-Casualties
	-Ceausescu
	-Cambodia
	-President’s previous meeting with Gromyko
		-Laos
	-Possible military action
		-POWs
		-North Vietnam
	-Possible blockade compared with bombing
		-The President’s view
	-Tito’s view
		-Soviet Union
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-US strength
	-US Government agencies

	State Department
	-Ahmed Osman’s previous visit to the State Department
-David D. Newsom's previous telephone call to Kissinger
-UN vote on Taiwan
	-Morocco

	UN vote on Taiwan
-US opponents
	-Kissinger’s view
	-The President’s view

Presentation of Diplomatic credentials
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
-Spiro T. Agnew
		-African diplomats
			-The President’s view

UN vote on Taiwan
-Newsom
-Ecuador
	-The President’s view
-Italy
-Great Britain
			-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]

Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Possible conversation with Kissinger
-Possible meeting with the President

Great Britain
-Edward R.G. Heath
	-The President’s view
-Sir Alexander (“Alec”) F. Douglas-Home
-Conversation with the President
-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
-Common Market
-The President's conversation with Pompidou and Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle

Willy Brandt
	-The Nobel Peace Prize
	-The President’s view
		-Kissinger
			-Berlin

The President's schedule
-Foreign leaders
	-Possible meeting with Brandt and Pompidou
	-Cromer
	-Heath
	-Brandt
	-Possible meeting in Luxembourg
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Great Britain and Germany
-Dedication of Eisenhower Medical Center
	-Brandt
		-Pompidou
		-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Egon Bahr
		-Possible dinner
-Eisaku Sato
	-John B. Connally's Trip

Robert H. Finch's forthcoming trip to Latin America
-George P. Shultz
-Nelson A. Rockefeller's telephone call to the President
-Import surcharge
-Finch’s possible reception
-Import Surcharge
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Shultz
	-Economic package

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Allies

Import surcharge
-Strategy for removal
	-Canada
	-Japan
	-West Germany
	-Shultz

International monetary system
-Arthur F. Burns's view
	-Convertability
-Connally's view
	-Trade

Foreign aid program
-Previous Senate vote
-Public reaction
-Prospects
-Senate’s responsibility
-The President's defense of Johnson's Vietnam policy

The President's foreign policy
-John Kenneth Galbraith's view
-Press coverage
	-Soviet summit compared with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
			-UN vote on Taiwan
		-Views of Ronald W. Reagan and William F. Buckley, Jr.
		-New York Times coverage
		-Carson F. Lyman's telephone call to Kissinger

North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Michael J. Mansfield
-SALT
-The President's foreign policy
-PRC
-Soviet Union

UN vote on Taiwan
-Timing
	-Foreign aid vote
-Kissinger's cables to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Richard F. Pedersen
-George H.W. Bush
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view
-Kissinger's previous trip to PRC
	-The President’s view
-Rogers
	-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view

Vietnam
-Negotiating strategy on POWs
	-The President’s forthcoming trips
	-Timing
	-The President’s view
-The President's conversation with Tito
-Last US offer
-Akalovsky's memorandum of conversation
	-Security
		-State Department

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-China issue

Soviet military preparation
	-Shultz's previous meeting with Joseph W. Alsop
	-Arms control negotiations
-The President's conversation with Tito
-Akalovsky's memorandum of conversation
	-Security
-Haig
			-Kissinger’s view

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:21 am.

Requested Charles W. Colson be asked to join him

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:07 pm.

Arms control negotiation
	-Senate

Vietnam
-Possible blockade
-Melvin R. Laird, Rogers
-Negotiating strategy
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin
	-The President’s recent conversation with Tito

Kissinger left at 12:07 am.

Conversation No. 609-12

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:07 pm and 12:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:07 pm.

Conversation No. 609-13

Date:  October 30, 1971
Time:  12:09 pm - 12:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

	Campaign practices
	-Edward M. Kennedy
	-London Express cartoon
	-Distribution

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:10 pm.

Busing
-Poll
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible Amendment
-Poll
-Blacks
-Supporters
-Edward Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Poll
-Possible amendment
	-1954 desegregation decision [Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education]
-Possible amendment
-Ehrlichman
-Leonard Garment
-The President’s view
-Poll
-George C. Wallace supporters
-The President's supporters
-Muskie supporters
-Nation-wide
-Letter from pro-busing group
-Muskie
-Polish-Americans
-Boston

Edward M. Kennedy
-London Express cartoon
-Distribution
-Muskie

Foreign aid program
-Previous Senate vote
-Henry A. Kissinger's view
-The President’s view
-Timing
-White House response
-Edward Kennedy’s statements

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Colson's conversation with George H.W. Bush
		-Bush's statement on the William F. Buckley, Jr. or “Dick Cavett” show television show
			-Possible UN expulsion of Israel
-Elliot L. Richardson's forthcoming speech to the American Jewish Congress
-President’s support for Israel
	-Compared with Taiwan
-Colson's conversation with Richardson
-Statements about Edward Kennedy
-Press conference

Foreign aid program
-The President's conversation with Kissinger
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-The President's possible veto
	-The President’s view
-Israel
-Cambodia

UN vote on Taiwan
-Bush’s statements
-Appearances on Cavett and Buckley television shows
-UN Secretary General U Thant's reaction
-Forthcoming attack on Edward Kennedy
	-Kennedy’s previous statements on foreign policy
		-Vietnam
		-Prisoners of war [POWs]
		-Kissinger’s trip to Peking
-Richard F. Pederson
-Bush's forthcoming treatment of the People's Republic of China [PRC] delegation
-The President’ view
	-Compared with treatment of Soviet Union
	-Kissinger

Edward Kennedy
-Effectiveness on television
-Ronald L. Ziegler's views

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:10 pm and 12:25 pm and requested Ziegler.

[Conversation No. 609-13A]

Edward Kennedy
-Compared to Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy

The President's foreign policy
-Press coverage
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Soviet trip announcement
	-The President’s view

Edward Kennedy
-Robert J. Dole
-Colson's conversation with Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
	-Possible attack

Ziegler present at 12:25 pm.

-Statement regarding UN vote on Taiwan
-Press coverage
	-New York Times
		-Washington Post
-Physical appearance
	-Ziegler’s view
-Contrasted with brothers
-Possible White House attacks
-London Express cartoon
-Mike Royko column
-Peter Lisagor's possible column

	Foreign aid
		-Ziegler’s recent briefing
		-Kissinger
		-Israel
		-Vietnamization
		-Cambodia
		-Pakistan

Ziegler left at 12:30 pm

	Press
		-Kissinger
		-Relations with the Administration
		-UN
	-Busing
		-New York Times
	-Ehrlichman, Leonard Garment
	-Editorials

Foreign aid program
-Hugh Scott
-Previous Senate vote
-Administration's efforts
	-State Department
-Nofziger
-Dole

UN vote on Taiwan
	-Right-wing
-Buckley

The President, Haldeman, and Colson left at 12:37 pm.

Conversation No. 609-14

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

The President met with Marjorie P. Acker.

Assignment
	-Charles W. Colson

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

Conversation No. 609-15

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

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:25 am.

Conversation No. 609-16

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

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

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Conversation No. 609-17

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  9:25 am - 1:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

William P. Rogers's schedule

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's forthcoming trip to Liberia
-Announcement
-Timing
-Ambassador
-Henry A. Kissinger

-State Department
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Ronald W. Reagan's schedule
-Forthcoming dinner with Indira Gandhi

Kissinger's schedule

Reagan's schedule
	-Governor’s conference

Foreign aid program
-Clark MacGregor
-Possible continuing resolution
-George H. Mahon
-White House strategy
	-Congress
-Cooper-Church amendment
-White House strategy
	-Public relations
-Separability
-Robert H. Finch's forthcoming trip to Latin America
-Kissinger's view
-Possible continuing resolution
-Views of MacGregor, William E. Timmons, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Charles W. Colson
-Robert J. Dole
-John C. Stennis
-Previous Senate vote
	-The President’s view
			-MacGregor
		-Kissinger's view
-Responsibility
				-Kissinger’s staff, State Department, Agency for International Development [AID]
				-The President’s view
					-MacGregor
					-Kissinger
			-Hugh Scott

The President's schedule
-Congressmen
-Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends
-MacGregor
-Scott, Robert P. Griffin
	-Rogers's schedule
	-White House press
		-John A. Hannah
-Mahon
-Reagan

	Administration staff
	-Colson
	-Role in White House
	-George H.W. Bush
				-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Bush
	-Rogers
	-Rogers
	-The President’s view
-John B. Connally
-The President’s view

The President's schedule
-Reagan
-Florida

Rogers's possible press conference

The President's schedule
-Frank F. Church
-Troop announcement
-Rogers
	-William McMahon
		-Arrival ceremony
			-Possible press conferences

Connally's schedule

Foreign aid program
-Administration's possible actions
			-Kissinger’s view

The President's schedule
-Cabinet
	-1972 campaign
	-John N. Mitchell, Spiro T. Agnew
-Connally
-Gandhi

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:40 am.

-Cabinet
-Robert J. Dole, John A. Volpe
-Political operatives from Departments
-Agnew
-Duration
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Transportation
-Connally
-Frederic V. Malek memorandum
	-Leaks
-Reagan

Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 9:40 am and 9:47 am.

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People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement
-Timing

Ehrlichman entered at 9:47 am.

	Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Colson
-Dole, Peter H. Dominick, Mitchell
-Agenda
-The President’s view
		-Leaks
	-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
	-Firing of State Department employee
		-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-Removal of Defense Department employee
	-Firing of State Department employee
		-Rogers’s position
-Political effects of 1972 Presidential election campaign
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Revenue-sharing
-Tax bill
-Agenda
	-Forthcoming foreign policy report
	-Forthcoming Defense Department report
-Request for reports from Cabinet members
	-Rogers and the State Department
	-Speech material
	-Timing
	-1970 campaign
-1972 campaign
-"Issues and Answers"
-Herbert G. Klein, John A. Scali

Cabinet
	-The President’s view
	-1972 campaign
-Mitchell
-Volpe
	-Sons of Italy
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Bush
-George W. Romney
-Finch, Rumsfeld
	-Rogers
	-Contrasted with Connally
	-Relations with press
	-Connally
	-Relations with press

Bush
	-Relations with press
-Haldeman’s view
-Contrasted with Charles W. Yost
-UN delegation
	-The President’s view
-[Matthew J.?]Harvey and John N. Irwin, II
-Richard F. Pederson
-The Foreign Service

Cabinet
-1972 campaign
-Connally
-Finch, Rumsfeld
-Richardson
-Agenda for meeting
-Volpe
-Romney
-The President’s view
-1972 campaign
	-Ehrlichman’s view
		-Richardson
	-James D. Hodgson
	-Clifford M. Hardin
-The President’s view
	-Colson's view
	-Possible allegations
		-Leaks
		-Lack of leadership
		-Lobbying failures
		-Previous Senate vote on foreign aid
		-Kennedy's view
		-George D. Aiken's view
-The President’s view
-Richardson’s previous speech
-Forthcoming meeting
-Rogers, Melvin R. Laird
-Bush
-Mitchell
-Connally
-Agnew
-1972 campaign
-Mitchell
-Jeb Stuart Magruder's memorandum
-Public relations
-Colson
-Dole, Scali
-Klein
-Scali
-Timing
-Rumsfeld
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-Richardson
-Southern school desegregation
-Transpo '72
-Connally report
-Phase II economic program
-Peter G. Peterson's statements
-Maurice H. Stans
-Romney
-Rumsfeld
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Schedule
-Rumsfeld, George P. Shultz
	-Government reorganization
	-Romney, Volpe
	-Hardin
	-J. Philip Campbell
	-Frank C. Carlucci
	-Volpe's airplane
		-Coast Guard
		-Federal Aviation Administration [FAA]
		-National economy
	-Rumsfeld, Shultz
	-Stans
	-Stans's statements
	-Peterson
	-Romney
-Forthcoming meeting agenda
-Scali
-Relations with the press
		-Connally
		-Joseph W. Alsop's column
		-Possible Cabinet jealousies
-Agnew
-Richardson
-Public recognition
-Agnew, Connally
-Mitchell
-Laird, Rogers
-Rogers's activities
-Public recognition
-Morton
-Volpe, Stans, Romney
-Richardson
-Hardin, Hodgson

Stewart Udall
-Son [Scott Udall]
-Desertion
	-Canada
	-Press

Draft dodgers
-Unknown man's letter to the President

Cabinet
-Forthcoming meeting agenda

Butterfield left at 10:25 am.

Secretary of Agriculture
-John C. Whitaker's contacts with Roman L. Hruska
-Mitchell
-Clayton K. Yeutter 
-Earl L. Butz, Donald E. Johnson, Bryce N. Harlow
-Stans
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Johnson 
-Butz
-Selection process

Cabinet
-Appointments
	-Morton

Secretary of Agriculture
-Yeutter

Stans
-Possible departure
-Hardin

Mitchell
-Possible departure

J. Edgar Hoover
-Possible departure
-Mitchell's views
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Princeton University Conference
-William F. Buckley, Jr.’s column
-Effect
-Timing
-Confirmation of successor

	Mitchell
		-Possible departure
			-Confirmation of successor
			-1972 campaign

Stans
-Possible departure
-The President’s view
-Peterson, Richard G. Kleindienst
-Peter M. Flanigan
-[Unintelligible]

Flanigan

Peterson
-Connally's views
-Shultz's views
-Kissinger

Richardson
-The President’s view
-Possible role in government
-Warren E. Burger
-The President’s view
	-Stanford University
	-Harvard University

Supreme Court
-Possible vacancy
	-Richardson
		-The President’s view
	-Timing
		-1972 Presidential election
-William O. Douglas

Cabinet
	-Richardson
-Morton
	-The President’s vie
-William T. Pecora
-Robert J. Hitt
-The President’s view
-Mitchell and the 1972 campaign
-Possible departure
-The President’s view
-Possibility of a leave of absence
-Possible criticism
-John P. Sears, Colson Robert F. Ellsworth

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Kleindienst
-Possible role in government
-Mitchell’s view
-Possible confirmation as Attorney General
	-Ehrlichman’s view

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Attorney General
-Kleindienst
-Robert C. Mardian
-Mitchell
-Kleindienst
	-Possibility as Secretary of Interior
		-Morton

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Kleindienst
-Possible role in administration
	-Secretary of Commerce
	-Peterson
	-The President’s view
-Confirmation
-Mitchell

Finch and Rumsfeld
-Finch’s plans
-Kleindienst
-Rumsfeld’s plans
	-Possible role in administration
		-Secretary of Commerce
		-Housing and Urban Development [HUD] Secretary
		-The President’s view
		-Kleindienst

Mitchell
-Possible departure
-Confirmation of successor
-Richardson

John V. Lindsay
-Environmentalism

Attorney General
-Confirmation
-William H. Rehnquist, Will R. Wilson, Johnnie M. Walters
-L. Patrick Gray, III
-William D. Ruckelshaus
		-Mitchell and Kleindenst

Kissinger entered at 10:49 am.

Foreign aid program
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with agencies
-John A. Hannah's meeting with Jacob K. Javits
	-Humanitarian aid compared with military aid
-India, Pakistan compared with Vietnam, Cambodia
	-Kissinger’s view
-Israel
	-The President’s view
-Separation of military from non-military aid in the Senate
-Foreign Relations Committee
-The President’s view
	-Armed Services Committee
	-Foreign Relations Committee
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Rogers
-Rogers
-George W. Ball's efforts

Justice Department
-Kleindienst
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.’s expertise
-Staffing

Buckley
-Column
-Possible meeting with Kissinger

Hoover
-Possible departure from Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Ehrlichman's discussions with G. Gordon Liddy and Krogh
-Reaction of conservatives
	-1972 Presidential election
-Edward Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy
-W. Ramsey Clark
-Richard A. Falk [?]

Ehrlichman left at 10:55 am.

Foreign aid program
-Separability
-Previous Senate vote
-Possible White House response
	-The President’s forthcoming trips to Peking and Moscow
	-Vietnam
-Cooper-Church amendment
-Kissinger's possible efforts
-Javits
-Possible continuing resolution
-Ball
-The President’s view
	-India and Pakistan refugees, Africa, Latin America, Third World
-Mahon
-MacGregor
-Mahon
-The President's schedule

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:40 am.

-The President's schedule
-Rogers
-John N. Irwin, II
-Rogers's possible actions
	-Statements to the press
	-The President’s view
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
	-The President’s view
		-Rogers
		-Nguyen Van Thieu

Buckley
-Possible meeting with Kissinger
	-US Information Agency [USIA]
-UN vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-National defense
	-The President’s view
		-Forthcoming meeting with Soviet Union

Democrats
-Kissinger’s view
-Stewart J.O. Alsop's column
-Cooper-Church Amendment
-Previous foreign aid vote
		-News summary

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 10:55 am,

Foreign aid program
-Possible continuing resolution
-Mahon's views
-Views of Gerald R. Ford and Carl B. Albert
	-Effects on the Senate
-Possible House money bill
-Mahon's views
-MacGregor
-Hannah's meetings
-Separability
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with agencies
-Administration approach
	-Vietnam
-Popular opinion
	-India
	-Pakistan

UN vote on Taiwan
-The President's efforts

	Possible ambassador to North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-David M. Kennedy
		-Rogers
	-The President’s view
		-Foreign Service
	-Connally's conversation with the President about the State Department
	-Report from Edwin S. Cohen
	-Philip H. Trezise
-John Robert Schaetzel
		-Yost
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
	-Possible role with the administration	
-The President’s view
	Robert Strausz-Hupe
	-Possible role with the administration
		-Possible confirmation
		-Ceylon

US ambassador to Japan
-Connally’s forthcoming recommendations
-Kissinger’s view
	-Foreign Service

Previous Senate vote
-MacGregor's efforts
	-State Department
	-Hannah
		-Responsibility

Press coverage
-UN vote on Taiwan
-The President's forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Newsweek
-Support for the administration
	-The President’s forthcoming trips to PRC and Moscow
-Kissinger's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Previous Senate vote on foreign aid
-Liberal Democrats
-Dole
		-Mansfield amendment
	-The President’s view
-Previous Senate vote on foreign aid
-Peter Lisagor, Marquis Childs

UN vote on Taiwan
-Buckley
-The President's reaction
-Bush

The President's opponents
-Attacks on timing of Kissinger's trip to PRC
	-Consultation of allies

UN vote on Taiwan
-Impact on public relations
-George Sherman

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 10:55 am.

Mrs. Nixon's forthcoming visit to Liberia
-Timing of announcement

Foreign aid program
-Previous Senate vote
-White House statements
	-Reduction in American forces abroad
		-Nixon Doctrine
		-Cambodia
			-North Vietnamese military
-Josip Broz Tito compared with Gen. Francisco Franco
				-Unwillingness to compromise
-Separability
-UN vote on Taiwan
	-Kissinger’s recent trip
		-Timing
	-Consultation of allies
	-Criticism of delegates’ conduct
-Popular opinion

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:40 am.

Ziegler
-Sears's views
-The President’s view
-Compared with Klein
-Cambodia and Laos issues

Foreign aid program
-Previous Senate vote
-Press reaction
	-PRC, Soviet Union
	-Forthcoming announcement
-Rogers's schedule
-Irwin

The President's schedule
-Possible meeting with Latin American leaders
	-Brazil
-Rogers
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Rogers
-Laird
-Vietnam
	-Negotiations
		-Le Duc Tho

The President's forthcoming conversation with Rogers and Kissinger
-The President's conversation with Tito
-North Vietnamese
	-Soviet Union

Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Conversation with the President
		-Soviet Union and North Vietnamese
-Conversation with Kissinger
	-PRC Communiqué

The President's forthcoming conversation with Rogers and Kissinger
-Kissinger's conversations with Rogers
-Vietnam negotiations
	-Memorandum

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop announcement
-Timing
-Possible continuing resolution on foreign aid
-Ziegler
-The President's possible statement
-Content
-The President's conversation with Tito
	-North Vietnam
-Content
-Troop withdrawal rate
	-Residual force
	-1972 Presidential campaign
-Draftee announcement
-Timing
-Rogers, Laird
-Troop withdrawal rate
-Christmas
-Announcement
	-Ziegler

Kissinger left at 11:40 am.

Kissinger
-Liberal friends
-Recent visit to PRC
-Press coverage
	-UN vote
	-Ping-Pong team visit
-Rogers, Stans
-Possible impact
	-Trip to the Soviet Union

Public relations and Presidential trips
	-Soviet Union
-Romania
-Yugoslavia
-Poland
-Latin America
-Africa
-Latin America
	-Timing

	Public relations
-State of the Union
	-The President’s view
		-Domestic Council
-Television appearances
-Messages to Congress
-Effectiveness
-Congress
	-The President’s view
		-Political opponents
			-Edmund S. Muskie
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Ehrlichman
-1972 election
-State of the Union
	-Value

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