Conversation No. 610-1

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  4:04 pm - 5:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
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Washington Star
-[Smith Hempstone, Jr..?]
	-Articles
		-Stance toward Administration
-Relationship to Charles W. Colson
	-US Marine Corps
-Trip to Africa
-George Sherman
-Sherman's stories
-State Department
	-Colson
-Sherman's schedule
	-Colson
-Kissinger

Robert Kleiman
-New York Times editorial, November 1, 1971
-William P. Rogers's role in People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
	-Taiwan, Republic of China
		-Patrol
			-Cancellation
				-Notification of PRC
					-Pakistan channel
					-Channel
-July 15, 1971 announcement
	-1969 initiative

The PRC initiative
	-State Department
-Rogers's role

-Taiwan patrol
-Warsaw talks
-Trip to the PRC
-Cambodian invasion
-State Department
	-Marshall Green
-Warsaw talks
	-The President’s order to Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
	-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-State Department

Kleiman

Sherman's stories
-Kissinger
	-Relationship with the President
-State Department

The PRC initiative
-Rogers
-John A. Scali
	-Conversation with Kissinger
		-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Role
-Process
	-Romania channel
	-Kissinger’s record of messages
		-Historians
-New York Times

Melvin R. Laird

Rogers

Kissinger's schedule
	-Sherman
	-Colson
-Crosby S. Noyes's request
-Star Editorial Board
-Sherman
-Colson
		-Washington Post

Foreign aid program
	-State Department

Rogers
-Statement to Scali
-The PRC initiative
	-The President
-Knowledge of the PRC initiative
-Kissinger's trip to Pakistan
	-Message

Foreign aid program
-Senate meeting, November 1, 1971
	-Security assistance
	-Development assistance
	-Foreign Relations Committee
-Clark MacGregor
-Colson
-Kissinger
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Rogers
	-House of Representatives
	-Public statements
	-MacGregor
-George H. Mahon
-Gerald R. Ford
-Carl B. Albert

The President's schedule
	-William McMahon
		-Possible statement to the press

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	AUSTRALIA

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State Department
-News leaks
-Rogers
	-White House
-Green
	-PRC talks
-Martin J. Hillenbrand
	-Soviet talks
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Chou En-lai
	-Diplomatic arrangements
	-Kissinger

Laird

John N. Mitchell, George P. Shultz and H. R. Haldeman entered and Kissinger left at 4:15 pm.

Kissinger
-The PRC initiative

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Possible clemency
-Possible pardon
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons's efforts
	-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Executive clemency
-Procedures
-Mitchell
-The President
-Recommendation
	-Parole board
		-Mitchell
-Timing
-Possible parole
-Public perception
	-1972 election
-Executive clemency
	-Mitchell’s view
	-Possible quid pro quo by Fitzsimmons
	-Pay Board
	-The President’s economic program
	-George Meany

Pay Board
	-Shultz’s view
-Meany and Leonard Woodcock
			-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Woodcock and Fitzsimmons
	-Meany
-Public perception

Hoffa
-Fitzsimmons's efforts
-Executive clemency
-Possible conditions
-1972 election
-Teamsters
-Views of Barry M. Goldwater and John J. Rhodes
-Activities of opponents
	-Parole board
-Woodcock's meeting with Shultz
-Fitzsimmons
-Meany's views
-I[lwirth] W[ilbur] Abel’s view
-Quid pro quo
	-The President’s economic program
-Time served
-Sentence
-Executive clemency
-Parole Board's actions
-James Hoffa, Jr. and attorney
-Hoffa's labor connections
	-Resignations
-Hoffa's finances

Teamsters
-Construction unions
-Maurice A. Hutcheson
-Hoffa
	-Walter P. Reuther
	-Robert F. Kennedy
-Fitzsimmons and Woodcock
-United Auto Workers [UAW]
-Reuther
	-Alliance for Labor Action
		-AFL-CIO
-Woodcock
	-General Motors strike
-Differences in viewpoints
	-Fitzsimmons
-Social issues
	-Dues collection
	-Voter registration
	-Reuther
-Effectiveness for minorities
-Chicago

Hoffa
-Executive clemency
-Possible conditions
-Others awaiting presidential action
	-Restoration of civil rights
	-Typicality
-Possible reaction
-Mitchell's lunch with Time-Life and Fortune staffs, November 1, 1971
-Rogers and Kissinger
-Political prisoner question
	-Parole period
		-Discrimination
	-Conduct in prison
-Executive clemency
-Political considerations
	-Public perception of labor leaders
	-Edward M. Kennedy's possible reaction
	-Robert Kennedy
-Possible effects on the Administration
	-Benefit
	-Criticism
		-Teamsters endorsement of Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968
-Executive clemency
	-Discrimination
-Timing
	-1972 election
-Parole board
	-Possible action
		-Perception
-Conditions
-Fitzsimmons

Pay Board
-Fitzsimmons
	-Possible vote
		-Effect on Teamsters and construction workers

Hoffa
-Teamsters' impressions
	-Fitzsimmons
	-The President's speech to Teamsters convention
-Unionists' support
-Executive clemency
	-Possible reaction by critics
		-Compared to release of Black Panther
	-Dr. Thomas W. Matthew

Matthew
-Executive clemency
-Leonard Garment's memorandum to the President
		-Activities

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Hoffa
	-As symbol
-Robert Kennedy's activities
-Executive clemency
-Edward Kennedy's possible reaction
-John L. McClellan's possible reaction

National economy
-Pay Board
-Wage contracts
-Shultz's conversation with Arnold R. Weber
-Retroactivity
-Railroad workers
-Freeze period
	-Cost of Living Council [COLC] decision
	-Meany's view
	-Retroactivity
		-Prices
	-Views of Woodcock and Fitzsimmons
-Automobile workers
-Milton Friedman's views
	-Sanctity of contracts
-Timing of decision
-Meany's possible action
-Administration's response
-Weber
-John B. Connally
-Contingency plan
	-Price commission
		-Reasonable standards
	-Wage and price freeze
		-Possible fate
			-Timing
			-Support
				-Labor
					-Canada
	-Preparation
-The President's program
-Possible action
-Extension of freeze
	-Involvement
	-Standards
		-Legal status
			-Congress
-James Tobin
	-Article of October 31, 1971
	-Yale University
	-John F. Kennedy
-Article
	-Content
-Kermit Gordon's view
-Possible reaction
	-Presidential intervention
-Tobin 

Shultz and Haldeman left at 4:53 pm.

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National economy
-Pay Board
-Prospects
	-Wage and price controls
-Meany's possible action
	-Meany’s support with labor
		-Shultz
	-Mitchell's conversation with Fitzsimmons, October 30, 1971
			-Public board
			-Administration's action
				-Congress
				-Labor
					-Need for planning
-Shultz and Weber
-Arthur F. Burns
-L. Patrick Gray's actions
-Meany's possible action
-Administration's reaction
	-Shultz

Hoffa
-Executive clemency
	-Mitchell’s view
	-The President’s further actions
-Relationship with organized labor

The President's schedule
-Mitchell
-McMahon
-Rogers

Mitchell left and Robert L. Kunzig and Frederic L. Malek entered at 5:02 pm.

Kunzig
-Role in administration
	-Justice Department
-American Bar Association [ABA]'s action
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Confirmation as judge
	-Nomination
-Retirement of predecessor
	-Timing
-Deal with White House
-Previous confirmations
-Hugh Scott
-Possible leak

Presentation of gifts by the President

Kunzig
-Performance

Kunzig and Malek left at 5:18 pm.

Conversation No. 610-2

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  5:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person [Dr. W. Kenneth Riland?]

The President talked with an unknown person.

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The President and the unknown person left at 5:08 pm.

Conversation No. 610-3

Date:  November 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:08 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] talked.

The President's schedule

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The unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.