Conversation No. 614-1

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:43 pm and 12:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?].

The President’s schedule

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 12:54 pm.

Conversation No. 614-2

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:43 pm and 12:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Henry A. Kissinger met with an unknown man.

Kissinger's schedule

Kissinger and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:54 pm.

Conversation No. 614-3

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 12:43 pm until 1:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Henry A. Kissinger met with an unknown man [Alexander P. Haig, Jr.?].

Kissinger's schedule

-Forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

The unknown man [Haig?] left and the President entered at an unknown time.

	India-Pakistan relations

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			-William P. Rogers
			-Parmeshwar N. Haksar
			-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Kissinger's schedule
-Haksar
-Dobrynin
-Agenda
	-Middle East
-The President’s schedule

The President's welcoming speech for Indira Gandhi
	-Press
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Gandhi
	-Television

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Kissinger left at 1:05 pm.

Conversation No. 614-4

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-115]

Conversation No. 614-5

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:10 pm.

Conversation No. 614-6

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-116]

Conversation No. 614-7

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  1:10 pm - 1:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's welcoming statement for Indira Gandhi
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-Press dissemination
		-Significance
			-Preparation
				-Staff

Prime Minister William McMahon's remarks
-Press dissemination
-[George H.] Gallup poll

The President's activities

The White House operator talked with the President at 1:11 pm; the President talked with Robert H. Steele between 1:11 pm and 1:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 614-7A]

[See Conversation No. 13-117; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's activities
-Public relations
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Richard A. Moore's efforts
-John A. Scali
-Substance
	-Compared to color

The President's schedule
-Arthur F. Burns
-George P. Shultz's view

Stephen B. Bull entered at 1:12 p.m.

-Forthcoming call
	-Secretary
	-Indian delegation

Bull left at 1:12 pm.

The White House operator talked with the President at 1:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 614-7B]

[See Conversation No. 13-118]

[End of telephone conversation]

Burns
-Shultz
-The President's letter

The President's activities
-Public relations
-Ziegler
-Scali
-Moore
	-Public speaking
		-Toasts and arrival statements
			-Notes

The President's schedule
-John N. Mitchell
-Florida
-Haldeman’s schedule
		-Indira Gandhi
			-Recent meeting

Unknown man [Robert H. Finch?]
-Forthcoming recommendation on Latin America

Clark MacGregor
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Congress's schedule
-House vote, November 4, 1971
	-Busing
-Senate

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 1:12 pm and 1:48 pm.

[Conversation No. 614-7C]

[See Conversation No. 13-119]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
	-Florida
		-[Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon?]

Kissinger 
	-Morale
	-Maxine Cheshire

Cheshire

Thomas Van Husen Vail
	-Article

The President’s schedule
	-Possible meeting with editors

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.

Vail
	-Exclusive
-Advantages
-Story regarding the President

The President's image
-Popular opinion
-Ziegler

The President's welcoming statement for Gandhi
	-“Indian summer” comment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

The President's toast for McMahon
-World War II coastwatchers

	White House staff
		-Writers
			-Background

Vail
-Story regarding the President
	-Phase II
	-Cleveland Browns

The President's activities
-Public relations
	-Ziegler
	-William L. Safire
	-Moore

National economy
-Pay and Price Boards

	The President’s schedule

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-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Willy Brandt
-Marjorie Merriweather Post
-Hotels in Florida
	-Miami Beach
	-Key Biscayne

National economy
-Stock market, November 3, 1971
	-Dow Jones
	-Seasonal adjustment
		-Unknown person
	-The President’s August 15, 1971 speech

Foreign trips by administration officials
	-Goodwill
-Rogers
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Policy for the Americas
-Trip To Latin America
	-Purpose
		-Consultation
		-Finch’s possible comments

Burns

Guest lists for White House Dinners
-The President's conversation with Rose Mary Woods
	-1972 election
		-Ethnic makeup
			-Italians, Polish, Blacks
-Charles W. Colson
-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Italians, Polish, Irish Catholics
-White House staff
	-Kissinger
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Woods
	-Fred J. Russell
-Election year
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Military
-Woods
-Staff
-Cabinet
-Secretary of State
-Supreme Court justice
-Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
Burns
-Senators and Congressmen
-State Dinner, November 4, 1971
	-Secretary of State
	-Cabinet officer
-Supreme Court
-Potter Stewart
-Gerard C. Smith
-Commandant of Coast Guard [Chester R. Bender]
-Vice Chief of Staff of Air Force [John C. Meyer]
-Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel of Army [Walter T. Kerwin, Jr.]
		-Commanding General, Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico, Virginia [William G. Thrash]
-Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes's recommendations
-Woods
		-Guests
			-Indians
-Louis P. Harris
-Military

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

The President's schedule
	-Forthcoming dinner
		-Kissinger
			-Unknown item
				-Location

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.

	Visitors
		-Foreigners
			-Evening at the White House

White House dinners
-Hand-shaking
-Church services
-Mrs. Nixon's views
-Lucy A. Winchester's views
-Duration
-Abraham Lincoln's second Inaugural Ball
-Carl Sandburg
-Hand-shaking
	-Number
	-Location
		-Patent Office
-Numbers
-Church services

Kissinger
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President's schedule
-Florida
-Views regarding United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Public response
		-Memorandum
-Florida trip
	-W. Kenneth Riland's view
	-Housing
		-Mitchell

The President and Haldeman left at 1:48 pm.

Conversation No. 614-8

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:48 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons [Secret Service agents] met.

	The President’s schedule
		-Executive Office Building [EOB]

[Unintelligible]

The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 614-9

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:55 pm and 4:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:02 pm.

Conversation No. 614-10

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:55 pm and 4:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Rose Mary Woods talked with the President.

Forthcoming dinner for Indira Gandhi
-Former US ambassadors to India
-Chester Bowles
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Conversation No. 614-11

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:55 pm and 4:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Forthcoming dinner for Indira Gandhi
-Gerard C. Smith

Guest lists for White House Dinners
-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-White House staff
-Cabinet
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Military

Conversation No. 614-12

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  4:02 pm - 4:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Kofi A. Busia and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Introductions

Busia's trip
	-Mexico

Photograph
-Arrangements

	Busia’s trip
		-Northwestern University
			-Teaching

Ronald L. Ziegler and members of the press entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

Introductions to members of the press

	Presidential pens

Ziegler and the press left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Ghana’s vote
	-The President’s appreciation
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Conversation with the President
	-Mexico
		-Non-aligned status

Echeverria
-Wife

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

Cocoa

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

Liberia
-William R. Tolbert, Jr’s inauguration
-The President's schedule
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Peru
-Ghana
	-Possible tour
		-Schools
		-Hospitals
-Liberia
	-Monrovia
-Ghana
	-Taiwan
		-UN vote
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Education
	-Smith College
-Ghanaian ambassador

Ghana
-Kwame Nkrumah's legacy
-Finances
	-Debt
	-Busia’s Cabinet changes
	-Debt
		-Short-term
			-Credits
		-Cocoa
-Finances
-Foreign exchange
-Rescheduling debts
	-Possible consortium
	-Medium term debt
		-Short-term debt
	-Interest
-Rice production
	-Imports
-Rural development
	-Water
	-Roads
	-Self-help
-Trade
-Import surcharges
-Attracting investment capital
-Prices
-Democratic institutions
-Busia's conversation with Edward R.G. Heath
-Economy
-Growth
	-Desirable rate
		-Unemployment
			-Compared to US
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
	-Creating confidence
	-Credit
	-Haig's forthcoming conversation with John B. Connally
-IMF and World bank
	-Planning
	-Connally and Henry A. Kissinger
		-Possible meeting with Robert S. McNamara
	-The President's previous conversation with McNamara
-Rescheduling debts
	-Time frame
		-Indonesian pattern
-Busia's conversation with Heath
	-Possible meetings
		-Short-term debt
			-Consortium
		-Medium and long-term debt
-Creditors
	-Great Britain, West Germany, France, Japan, US
-Connally
-Great Britain
-Compared to Indonesia
-T. N. J. Suharto
	-Sukarno
		-Economic legacy
-Nkrumah's legacy
-Finances
-US assistance
	-Great Britain
-Congress
-Busia's conversation with McNamara

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods’s forthcoming call
-White House social event
	-Tea

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

Ghana
-Population
	-The President’s 1957 visit
	-Growth
		-Nkrumah

Cocoa
-Busia's possible conversation with Peter G. Peterson
	-Busia’s schedule
-Briefing paper

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Ghana

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

Ghana
	-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
		-Previous trip
-Popular morale
	-Unemployment
-Democracy
-Neighbors
-Latin America
-Unemployment
		-Foreign aid
			-Technical

Bull[?] entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm

	The President’s schedule

Bull[?] left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

-Cooperation with Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast
	-Foreign investment
	-Agriculture
-President [Felix Houphouet-Boigny]
	-Popularity
-The President’s visit

Nigeria
-Relations with Ghana

	Mali
		-Relations with Ghana
			-Busia’s trip
				-Nigeria
				-Reception
				-Trade

Ghana
-Finances
-IMF
-[Houphouet-Boigny]
			-Possible economic community of West Africa
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

Mrs. Nixon's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

The President's forthcoming visits to the USSR and the PRC
-Importance
-The President's previous conversation with Indira Gandhi

Ghana
-Talks with South Africa
-The President's conversations with Kissinger and William P. Rogers
-US assistance
-Relations with the US
	-State Department
	-Ambassador’s possible call to Haig
-Finances
-Connally's schedule
-Paul A. Volcker
-McNamara
-Cocoa
-Peterson
-Foreign minister

Haig talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:02 pm and 4:39 pm; Haig talked with Peterson.

[Conversation No. 614-12a]

[See Conversation No. 13-122]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

Foreign minister and ambassador from Ghana
-Meeting with the president

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

Busia's family
	-Gifts
-Son at Oxford

The President's daughters

William Ofori-Atta, Ebenezer M. Debrah and the White House photographer entered at 4:39 pm.

Arrangements for photograph

Busia’s schedule
	-Mexico City
	-Echeverria

Peterson
-Schedule

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Ghana
-Tolbert
-Ghana

Ghana
-The President's 1957 visit
-Independence Day
	-Festivities
-Unknown man who assisted President and Mrs. Nixon
-Letter
		-IMF
			-Debt rescheduling
			-Investment
		-Connally
-Cocoa
-Peterson

Peterson entered at an unknown time after 4:39 pm.

Introductions

Ghana
-International cocoa agreement
-Peterson’s role
-Finances
	-Debt
		-Amount
	-McNamara
-Forthcoming conversation with Peterson
	-Busia’s schedule
	-Peterson’s schedule
		-Surcharges
			-Canada
-US support
-Finances
-Rescheduling of debt
	-Indonesian pattern
		-Sukarno
	-Heath
	-World Bank
-Connally
-The President's 1957 visit 
-Population

The President, et al., left at 4:48 pm.

Conversation No. 614-13

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:48 pm and 4:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 4:50 pm.

Conversation No. 614-14

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:50 pm and 4:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Gifts for Ghanaians [Kofi A. Busia and family]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:54 pm.

Conversation No. 614-15

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:50 pm and 4:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-123]

Conversation No. 614-16

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:50 pm and 4:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
	-[H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 4:54 pm.

Conversation No. 614-17

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  4:54 pm - 4:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 13-124]

Conversation No. 614-18

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  4:55 pm - 5:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule
-Ghana
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ambassador
	-Invitation
-Duration of visit
-African nations
	-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
	-Ivory Coast

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 4:57 pm.

[Conversation No. 614-18A]

[See Conversation No. 13-125]

[End of telephone conversation]

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The President talked with Charles W. Colson between 4:57 pm and 4:59 pm; Haldeman conferred with the President at an unknown time during the conversation.

[Conversation No. 614-18B]

[See Conversation No. 13-126]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 4:59 pm.

Guest lists for White House dinners
-Chester Bowles
	-The President’s trip to India
		-Treatment of the President
-Indians
-Democrats [?]
-Former ambassadors

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:59 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:06 pm.

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Ghana
-Issuance of invitation
	-Ambassador
	-Press
-Kofi A. Busia

Guest lists for White House dinners
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
-Cabinet
-Staff
-William P. Rogers
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-The President's speechwriters
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Rogers
	-Popularity
	-Reception

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Woods
-Mrs. Nixon
-Kissinger
-Unknown man
-Leonard Garment and John C. Whitaker
-Air Force One
-Raymond K. Price, Jr., William L. Safire and Patrick J. Buchanan
-Rex W. Scouten
-Mrs. Nixon
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Whitaker, Garment
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-Wife, Deborah Anne (Spaeth)Shakespeare

The President, Haldeman and Woods left at 5:06 pm.

Conversation No. 614-19

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:06 pm and 6:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

The President's Location
	-Cabinet Room

The unknown men [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 6:23 pm.

Conversation No. 614-20

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:06 pm and 6:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 6:23 pm.

Conversation No. 614-21

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  6:23 pm - 6:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William E. Timmons.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting was is progress]

Pending legislation
-Foreign aid
	-Senate
		-Conservatives
			-Possible outcome
		-Foreign Relations Committee
-Defense Appropriation Bill
	-House of Representatives
-The President's schedule

Timmons left at 6:25 pm.

Conversation No. 614-22

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:25 pm and 6:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-127]

Conversation No. 614-23

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:25 pm and 6:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 13-128]

Conversation No. 614-24

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  6:28 pm - 6:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's previous meeting with Congressmen
-John Rousselot

Forthcoming White House dinner for Indira Gandhi
	-Entertainment
		-Ballet

The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting, November 5, 1971
	-The President’s role
	-Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
	-John A. Scali

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:28 pm.

Program for forthcoming dinner for Gandhi
-Guest list

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:47 pm.

Guest lists for White House dinners
	-White House staff
-The President's conversation with Rose Mary Woods
-Military
-White House staff
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Arrival

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:28 pm.

Forthcoming dinner for Gandhi

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:47 pm.

-Guest list
	-Woods
	-State Department
		-Advisory Panel on South Asian Relief
-Maxwell Rabb
-James A. Perkins
-Joseph E. Johnson
-Wife, Catherine D. W. (Abbot) Johnson
-Carnegie Foundation
-Alger Hiss

Guest lists for White House dinners
-Woods
-Charles W. Colson

The President's welcoming remarks for Gandhi
	-Content
		-US-India relationship
-Dissemination to press
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Scali

The President's schedule
-Leonard Garment
	-Schedule
-Kissinger
-John C. Whitaker
-William E. Timmons
-Woods

Timmons

The President's schedule
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Guests' workload
-William P. Rogers

Forthcoming dinner for Gandhi
-Guest list
	-Gandhi
		-Charisma
	-Indians
-Arthur F. Burns
-Frank F. Church

Guest lists for White House dinners
-Haldeman
-Alexander P. Butterfield
	-Forthcoming conversation with Woods

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:28 pm.

	Weather

Music box

Visitors to Oval Office

Forthcoming dinner for Gandhi
	-Entertainment
		-Ballet

The President, Haldeman and Sanchez left at 6:47 pm.

Conversation No. 614-25

Date:  November 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:47 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person.

	The President’s location
		-Request for agent