Conversation No. 615-1

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:35 am and 7:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-145]

Conversation No. 615-2

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:35 am and 7:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:50 am.

Conversation No. 615-3

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:35 am and 7:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

The President's schedule
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
		-Forthcoming call

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 7:50 am.

Conversation No. 615-4

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  7:50 am - 9:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Charles W. Colson
-Schedule

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Colson and Henry A. Kissinger
-Forthcoming trip to Florida
	-Departure time

	White House statements
		-Instruction for Ronald L. Ziegler
			-Foreign aid
				-Senate action
					-The President’s policy

					-National security

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Trip to Ghana
-William P. Rogers
	-Press
-Announcement
	-Timing
-Ghana Ambassador
-Kissinger

The President's schedule
-Trip to Latin America
-Rogers
	-Brazil
		-Brasilia
	-Argentina
	-Panama
		-Darien Gay Highway dedication
			-Nixon Highway
-Haldeman's staff
-Willy Brandt
	-Forthcoming visit
		-Announcement
-Announcement
	-Location
		-Florida
	-Chicago
	-Cincinnati
	-Hotels
	-Motorcade
	-Miami
	-Hotels
		-Chicago
			-Cincinnati
			-Possible reception
				-State Street
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
	-Forthcoming trip
		-Houston, Miami
			-Motorcade
			-Mexican-Americans
			-San Antonio
				-Alamo
		-Timing
					-The President's trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
					-1972 election
					-Announcement
		-John B. Connally

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Mrs. Nixon's schedule
	-White House teas
	-Event, November 5, 1971
-Constance M. (“Commie”) Stuart

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-Ghana trip
	-Peru
	-Staff
	-Agenda
	-Lucy A. Winchester
-Purpose
	-Peru trip

Rogers's conversation with Mrs. Nixon and Kissinger
-The President's arrival statement and toast for Indira Gandhi

The President's arrival statement for Gandhi
-Ziegler
-Television coverage
-Toast
-John A. Scali
-Richard A. Moore
-Kissinger
-The President's dinner for Gandhi, November 4, 1971
	-Kenneth B. Keating
-Ziegler

	Forthcoming trip to Ghana
		-Announcement
			-Timing

Foreign aid program
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Provisions
	-Vietnam
		-Troop withdrawal deadline
	-Economic and military aid
-Vote
	-Timing
-Roman C. Pucinski amendment

Pay Board

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Henry J. Taylor
	-Rogers
		-Alleged comments
			-Concern about Andrei A. Gromyko
			-USSR
			-Veracity

Taylor
-Attendance at White House dinner

Polls
-A. C. Nielsen, Jr.
	-Market research

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Philip Roth
-Press coverage
	-Newsweek
	-Saturday Review
	-New Republic

Unknown story
	-Cambodians

Robert D. Novak
-Animosity towards Haldeman

The President's Supreme Court nominees
-Confirmation hearings
-William H. Rehnquist
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Rehnquist

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The President's schedule
-Possible dinners for foreign leaders
	-Announcements
	-US Marine Corps Band
-Locations
-Receptions
-Attendees
	-Administration
-Congressmen
-State Department
-White House staff
-Locations
	-California
-Comparison with astronauts dinner
	-Marine band
		-Gridiron dinner
-Entertainment
	-Park dinner
		-San Francisco
-Hand-shaking
	-Astronaut dinner

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-Service
	-Food
		-White House menu cards
-Entertainment
-Types
	-Chorus

Ballet

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White House dinners
-Entertainment
-Leonard Garment's role
	-Philip Glass
-Josip Broz Tito
-Pete Fountain
	-Mrs. Nixon
		-Reaction
-Mrs. Nixon
-Penelope M. (“Penny”) Adams
-Mrs. Nixon
-Winchester
-Barbara Hickey
-Winchester's role
	-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Entertainment
-Edward K. (“Duke”) Ellington
-Pearl M. Bailey
-Brandt

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-The President's involvement
	-Programs
-Possible location
	-Chicago
		-Military program
		-Brandt
			-Germans

	Unknown man
		-Music

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	INDIA

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	Ceremony
	-Weather

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 7:50 am.

Request that Colson and Kissinger join them

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:32 am.

Dinner for the President in India
-Trumpets

The President's previous visit to Spain
-Motorcade
	-Horses
-Palace

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	County Executive
-Role of County Executive
	-Board of Supervisors
-[Edward V. Regan?]

Visits of foreign guests
-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and the President
-Handling

Kissinger and Colson entered at 8:32 am.

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	INDIA

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White House dinner
	-Entertainment
			-Ballet dancers

	White House staff

Homosexuals
	-Votes
	-Numbers

The President's meeting with Republican congressmen, November 4, 1971
-John H. Kyl
-Possible future position with administration
	-Secretary of Agriculture
	-Price of corn
	-Possible congressional action
	-Previous grain sales to USSR
		-Kennedy, Johnson
		-Labor unions

	US-Soviet relations
-Pending grain deal with USSR
	-Colson
		-Unions
			-Maritime
			-Longshoremen
	-Forthcoming announcement
		-Department of Agriculture
		-Department of Commerce
		-White House
	-Recent relations with the USSR
		-Kissinger’s call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, November 4, 1971
-Forthcoming announcement
	-Cornbelt
	-Senate
	-Secretary of Agriculture
	-J. Philip Campbell
	-Clarence D. Palmby
				-Possible Soviet reaction
-Unions' cooperation
	-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Ziegler
-Maurice H. Stans
-Campbell
-Department of Agriculture
	-Public affairs
		-Size of deal
-The President's role
	-Labor unions
	-Ziegler
	-Maritime Administrator
	-Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
	-Jesse M. Calhoon and Paul Hall
-Carl T. Curtis, Jack R. Miller and Robert J. Dole
-Kyl
-John C. Whitaker
-Soviet interest
-Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
	-Unions

The Administration
	-Tendency to tell the truth

National economy
-Pay Board
-Labor's proposal
-George P. Shultz's view
-Action in House of Representatives
-Possible continuation of freeze
	-Teachers
	-Retroactivity
		-Steel
-George Meany
-Colson's conversation with Shultz, November 4, 1971
-Pay Board
-Labor's proposal
	-Cost of living
-Productivity
-Stock market
-The President's conversations
-Gustave L. Levy
-Head of New York Stock Exchange

Colson left at 8:46 am.

	The President’s dinner for Gandhi, November 4, 1971

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	INDIA

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	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-The President's toast
-Gandhi's toast
-Mrs. Nixon
-Pakistan
-Previous election in India

The President left at an unknown time before 8:50 am.

-Pakistan

The President's handling of meetings with Gandhi

Toasts at State Dinners
-Chief of protocol

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	Length
		-Josip Broz Tito
-Mexican President [Luis Echeverria Alvarez]

The President's schedule
-Brandt
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Brandt
	-Chicago

The President entered at an unknown time after 8:46 am.

The President's forthcoming meeting with Gandhi
	-Unilateral withdrawal

The President talked with Colson between 8:50 am and 8:52 am.

[Conversation No. 615-4A]

[See Conversation No. 13-147]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's dinner for Gandhi
-The President's conversation with Manolo Sanchez
	-Women
		-Politics

India-Pakistan relations

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	INDIA

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The President's forthcoming conversation with Gandhi
	-North Vietnam

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN

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Gandhi's visit to US
-The President's handling
-Gandhi's expectations

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	Instructions for Kissinger
		-Forthcoming meeting with the press
			-Democrats
			-The President’s toast

Kissinger left at 9:00 am.

Kissinger
-Contacts with press
	-Rowland Evans
-The President's conversation with Ziegler
	-Evans and Novak

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:00 am.

The President's schedule
-Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:10 am.

Rogers’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Meeting with Gandhi
-John N. Irwin, II

Evans’s and Novak's book, Nixon in the White House
-The President's foreign policy

Philip Roth's book, Our Gang
-Possible White House reaction
	-Column
		-Moore
-William L. Safire's conversation with Haldeman
-John A. Scali's reaction
	-Assassination
-Possible White House reaction
-Kennedy assassination
	-Date
-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Speech
-Kennedy assassination

The President's schedule
-Brandt visit
	-Timing
		-Kissinger
-Motorcades
-Chicago
	-Weather
		-PRC trip

Polls
	-Press
		-James B. Reston
	-Attacks
		-Background
	-The President's foreign policy
		-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China

The President's schedule
-Florida trip
	-Space
		-Hotel
		-Plane
-Whitaker and Garment

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-Arrangements
		-Delaware
			-Beaver Island
				-Lodge
		-Florida trip
-Timing
	-Rogers
-Rogers
	-Gandhi

	Latin America
-Trip
-Rogers
-Argentina
-Brazil
-Panama
	-Highway

Use of the President's name
-Compared to Johnson's 
-Johnson Forest
		-Image
			-Panama highway

Haldeman left at 9:10 am.

Conversation No. 615-5

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 am and 9:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's calls to New York Republican County Executives
	-Nassau, Suffolk Counties
	-Erie County
	-Jack F. Kemp

Conversation No. 615-6

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 am and 9:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Arthur F. Burns
-Return call
-Florida trip

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:23 am.

Conversation No. 615-7

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 am and 9:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Arthur F. Burns

	-Possible appointment
	-Florida
	-Telephone call
	-Indira Gandhi
	-Return call

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:23 am.

Conversation No. 615-8

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  9:23 am - 10:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Ehrlichman’s schedule
	-Lodging

The President talked with Edward V. Regan between 9:24 am and 9:28 am.

[Conversation No. 615-8A]

[See Conversation No. 13-148; three items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman's schedule
-New York County Executives
-John V. N. Klein
	-Suffolk County

County Executives
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, November 4, 1971
-Conference

Forthcoming corn deal with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Charles W. Colson's efforts

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:28 am.

Full name of Suffolk County Executive Klein

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:48 am.

Forthcoming corn deal with USSR
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Chicago
	-Backgrounder
		-Farm editors
		-Colson
-Colson's possible statement
-The President's efforts
-Announcement
-Kissinger's view
	-USSR
	-Jordan
	-Berlin
-Briefing of Midwest farm editors
	-Timing
		-Chicago dinner
	-Kissinger
-Corn prices
-Farmers' concerns
-Clayton K. Yeutter's comments
	-Speculation

Dock strike
-Administration handling
-George P. Shultz
-Taft-Hartley injunction

National economy
-Possible re-imposition of freeze
	-Teachers

Busing
-Possible constitutional amendment
	-Visibility
	-Neighborhood schools
	-Draft
	-John N. Mitchell
-Congressional votes, November 4, 1971
	-Count
-Lists
	-Democrats
-Harry S. Dent
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Republican candidates
-As an issue
-Compared to communism in 1950
	-The President’s actions
-Joseph Alioto
-Votes, November 4, 1971
-John Conyers, Jr. and Augustus F. Hawkins
-New York blacks
-Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.
	-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Future of legislation
	-Senate

Office of Economic Opportunity
-Possible veto
-Child development
	-Legal services
	-Jacob K. Javits's calls to Ehrlichman
	-Elliot L. Richardson's public statements
	-Ronald L. Ziegler's possible statement
	-Patrick J. Buchanan's memorandum

School prayer
-The President's possible statement
	-The President’s record
-Pending legislation
-Church groups' views
-Supreme Court

Secretary of Agriculture
-Earl L. Butz
-Name
-Ehrlichman's conversation with John C. Whitaker, November 5, 1971
	-Forthcoming memorandum
-Whitaker's forthcoming conversation with Bryce N. Harlow
	-John H. Kyl
	-Butz’s name
-Ehrlichman's lunch with Harlow, November 4, 1971
-Butz
	-Advantages
	-Disadvantages
		-Name
		-Background
			-Ezra Taft Benson
	-Benson
-Harlow
-Background
	-The President’s farm advisor
-Role with Procter and Gamble
	-Phosphates and detergents
-Neil H. McElroy
-Possible role with administration
	-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation
	-Tenure
	-Confirmation
-Butz
-Kyl
-Compared to William J. Scherle
-Butz
-[Yeutter]
-Harlow's and Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Roman L. Hruska
-Carl T. Curtis
-Age of Cabinet officers
-Harlow
-[Yeutter]
-Possible resignations
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Richard E. Lyng
-[J. Philip Campbell]

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John J. Sparkman

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Magazines
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis's schedule
-Time-Life
-Andrew Heiskell
-Alger Hiss
-Henry A. Grunwald
-National affairs editors
-Ehrlichman's schedule
-Kissinger's schedule
-Grunwald
-Heiskell
	-Background
-Relationship with John W. Gardner
-Hedley W. Donovan

Bull entered at 9:48 am.

The President's call to Klein
	-Location
		-Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Bull left at 9:48 am.

The President talked with Klein between 9:48 pm and 9:50 am.

[Conversation No. 615-8B]

[See Conversation No. 13-149; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Shultz

Winton M. (“Red”) Blount

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:50 am.

The President's calls
-[Regan and Klein]
-Joseph M. Margiotta
	-Nassau County

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The President's schedule
-Rogers
-Burns

Ehrlichman and Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

Shultz entered at an unknown time after 9:50 am.

Tax Bill
-Senate Finance Committee
-The President's conversation with Russell B. Long
-Amendment
	-Balance of trade emergency
	-Import quotas, surcharge
-Charls E. Walker
-The President's meeting with John B. Connally and Wallace F. Bennett
-Locus of authority

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:50 am.

Margiotta
	-Possible call

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

National economy
-Pay Board
	-House vote
		-Colson
	-Shultz's conversation with Arnold R. Weber, November 4, 1971
-Possible re-imposition of freeze
	-Duration
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
	-Teachers
	-Retroactivity
-Re-evaluation
-George Meany
-Pay Board
-Labor settlements
	-Coal
	-Labor
-Possible management strategy
	-1972
-Wage guideline
-Leonard Woodcock's view
-Possible figures
-Possible Administration action
	-1972
-Tax Bill
-Import surcharge amendment
	-Possible political effect
		-Connally
		-White House
			-1972
-Shultz's forthcoming call to Connally
	-Connally’s schedule
		-Jakarta, Indonesia
-Locus of authority
	-Treasury Department
-Votes
	-Protectionism
-Ziegler's possible statement
-Connally's possible reaction
-Shultz's forthcoming call to Connally
	-Merits of bill
		-Quotas
	-Politics
	-Free trade
		-Connally
-Program
	-The President, Connally, Shultz
	-Connally
		-Japan
-Pay Board
-Meany's schedule
	-Florida
-The President's role
-Possible re-imposition of freeze
-Money supply
	-The President’s letter to Burns
-The President's conversation with Burns
-Indira Gandhi Dinner
-The President's letter to Burns
	-Significance
-Shultz's conversation with Milton Friedman
	-1960
-Possible calls to Burns
	-Friedman
		-Article
-Shultz, Colson and Peter M. Flanigan
-Gabriel Hauge
-Calvin Bullock Forum
	-Labor
-Shultz's speech, November 4, 1971
-Pay Board
-Inflation
-Expansion
	-Skepticism
		-Wall Street
-Unemployment

The President and Shultz left at 10:04 am.

Conversation No. 615-9

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:04 am and 10:29 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 10:29 am.

Conversation No. 615-10

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:29 am and 10:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Unknown person
-Height

The President's schedule
-Signing ceremony
-Gifts
	-Pens
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Tour
	-Photographs
		-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Charles R. Jonas
-Photograph

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.

Conversation No. 615-11

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  10:33 am - 10:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Charles R. Jonas, Charles C. Campbell, Earl Yarborough, James Anderson, Michael Arnett, Lupe Barrientes, Deborah Boykin, Keith Franz, Ronda Gill, Arthur Gillmore, Rosetta Gonzales, Kevin Hall, Gerald Hart, James Kamner, Karl Kranz, Paul McDowell, Phillip Mann, Linda Martin, Margaret Pietuszka, Dimitri Rotow, Linda Saathoff, Antoinette Thornton and Scott W. Tschirgi; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Arrangements for tour

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:33 am.

[General conversation]

[Photograph session]

Pens

The President's first election, November 5, 1946
	-The President’s age
-Political career

	Press and media
		-Problems
			-Vietnam War
			-Social gaps
				-Generation, race

Youth
-Opportunities

Uncle Sam
-Slogan

The President's foreign policy
-Efforts for peace
		-Trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Problems
	-Environment, race relations, education, health
-The President's meeting with Indira Gandhi, November 4, 1971
-United States aid to India
-The President's meeting with Kofi A. Busia, November 4, 1971
-Liberia
-US aid to Ghana
-Efforts needed for peace
	-Substitution for war
	-Comparison

Youth
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Stamina
-Idealism
-Lack of negativism

Process for change

Youth
-Future political careers
-Press accounts
-Education
-Idealism
	-Peace

Introductions
	-The President’s political career
		-Presidency of student body
			-Whittier High School
				-Defeat
			-Whittier College
				-Duke University
-Unknown Baltimore Colt [John C. (“Johnny”) Unitas]
-Paul W. (“Bear”) Bryant
-The President's conversation with Walter E. Washington
-George E. Allen
	-Washington Redskins
-Alben W. Barkley

The President's offices
-Forthcoming tour for youth group
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Gandhi
-Old Executive Office Building [EOB]
-The President's meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
-EOB
-Portraits

Music Box

Julie Eisenhower

[General conversation]

Gifts for visitors

[General conversation]

-Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-The President's schedule
-Bull
	-Unknown organization

Bull, et al., left at 10:59 am.

Conversation No. 615-12

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  11:00 am - 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H[enry] John Heinz III, Teresa (Simoes-Ferreira) Heinz and Richard K. Cook; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Heinz's election

Arrangements for photograph

Heinz's election
-Margin of victory
-Heinz’s age
-District

Presentation of gifts by the President

	Housing
	-Real estate in Washington, DC
		-Value

Heinz's father, Henry John Heinz II

Heinz, et al., left at 11:04 am.

Conversation No. 615-13

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  11:04 am - unknown before 11:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Indira Gandhi
-Arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:06 am.

Conversation No. 615-14

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:04 am and 11:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-150; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 615-15

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  11:07 am - 11:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with [name withheld].

[See conversation No. 13-152; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 615-16

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:09 am and 11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-William P. Rogers
-Location
	-Cabinet Room
-Indira Gandhi
-Arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:13 am.

Conversation No. 615-17

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 11:09 am until 11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers.

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:09 am.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:13 am.

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:09 am.

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:13 am.

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The President's forthcoming conversation with Gandhi

Ronald L. Ziegler and Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:09 am.

Gandhi's forthcoming meeting with Cabinet
	-Reception for Gandhi

The President, Rogers, et al., left at 11:13 am.

Conversation No. 615-18

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:13 am and 11:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 11:20 am.

Conversation No. 615-19

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:13 am and 11:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	Manolo Sanchez
		-Location
			-Oval Office

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 11:20 am.

Conversation No. 615-20

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:13 am and 11:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

Bill [Surname unknown] met with an unknown man [Secret Service agent].

Greetings

Bill and the unknown man [Secret Service agent] left at an unknown time before 11:20 am.

Conversation No. 615-21

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:13 am and 11:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:13 am and 11:20 am.

[Conversation No. 615-21A]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 11:20 am.

Conversation No. 615-22

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:13 am and 11:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

	Instruction

Conversation No. 615-23

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  11:21 am - 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Indira Gandhi.

White House dinners
-Guest list

Parmeshwar N. Haksar and Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 11:21 am.

Refreshments

Agriculture
-The President's visit to India in 1967
	-Drought
		-The President’s conversation with Indian Minister of Agriculture
			-Self-sufficiency
				-Wheat and rice
		-1971
-US research in desalination
	-Prototypes
		-California
		-Texas

The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger's meetings with Chou en-Lai
	-Ideological differences
		-Handling
-Anticipated results
-Communiqué
-Dialogue
		-Possible agenda
			-Bilateral issues
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]-PRC relations

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	PRC

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PRC’s foreign policy
	-Kissinger’s reports
-USSR
-Japan
-India
-Japan
-John B. Connally's visit

The President's forthcoming visit to PRC

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	CHINA

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-US allies' fears
	-Taiwan
	-Japan
	-Europe
		-USSR
-US principles
	-The President’s welcoming remarks
		-Freedoms
			-Speech, press
			-Totalitarianism
	-PRC
		-Political system
	-US association with allies
-Views of US conservatives
	-Political orientation
	-The US left
-Pragmatism
	-USSR trip

India's foreign policy
	-Non-alignment
-Jawaharlal Nehru

US-PRC relations
-The president's views on communism and history
-Importance
	-The future
	-Moderating effects

India's foreign policy
-Domestic criticism
	-Recent election
	-Communists

	India’s domestic policy
		-Gandhi’s knowledge

	The President’s trips to India
		-Communists

Vietnam
-US military activity
-Casualties
-Troops
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Number
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-North Vietnamese demands
	-US withdrawal
	-US aid cut off
	-Removal of South Vietnam government
-US military activity in Cambodia and Laos
	-The President’s conversation with Gandhi in 1969
-US negotiations with North Vietnam
-Status
-US offer
-Economic aid
			-Timing
			-Possible failure
				-Consequences
	-Possible US action
		-POWs
-POWs
-Red Cross
-US offer
	-Prisoners
-Possible US action
-Laos and Cambodia
-North Vietnam
-Negotiations
-The President's conversation with Andrei A. Gromyko
-POWs
-US offer of economic aid
	-Southeast Asia
		-North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
		-US goals
-PRC and USSR assistance to North Vietnam
-PRC-USSR relations
-The President’s conversations with Gromyko
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-The President's forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR

Taiwan
-US commitments
-US-PRC relations
	-Diplomatic relations

The President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Consultation with European allies
-Timing

US-USSR relations
-Glassboro summit
-Berlin settlement
	-Autobahn closing
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SLAT]
-Middle East
-Central Europe
-Southeast Asia
-Middle East
	-United Arab Republic [UAR]
-Jordan crisis
-SALT
-Effect of possible war
-Trade
-Possible European security conference
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Timing
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Warsaw pact
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-Berlin
-Gromyko's views
-SALT
	-Intercontinental ballistic missiles [ICBMs]
	-Polaris submarines
	-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-NATO and Warsaw pact

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

Gandhi's schedule
	-National Press Club

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:20 pm.

US-USSR relations
-Possible European security conference
	-British
		-Edward R.G. Heath
	-Germans
	-MBFR
	-Europeans' views
-Possible European security conference
-Europeans' views
	-USSR interest
		-Possible motivation
	-Italy
-Pompidou and Brezhnev
-Timetable
	-Berlin Agreement
		-East and West Germany
-The President's forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR
-Timing

Middle East
-Status
	-Cease-fire
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Cease-fire
-USSR’s role
	-UAR
	-US
		-Israel
-Negotiations
-Problems
	-Interim settlement
	-Israel
		-Withdrawal
			-Principle
				-Israeli public
			-Details
-Arab nations
	-Dissension
		-UAR
		-Jordan
-Cease-fire
	-USSR interest
-USSR and US
	-Influence

US foreign policy

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

Gandhi's schedule
-Press

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:20 pm.

United states foreign policy
	-1969
	-India
		-Media
-Middle East
-Berlin Agreement
-Biological war ban
-Non-proliferation agreement
-Okinawa
	-Japan
-PRC
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Prospects
	-Peace and progress
	-Hope
		-Pragmatism
-The President's first meeting with Gandhi in 1953
-The President's visits to Rumania and Yugoslavia
-Goals

US efforts

Problems
	-Nehru
	-Gandhi
	-American’s perceptions
	-Handling
		-Leaders’ responsibilities
			-The President
				-As Asia-Firster, Europe-Firster

Picture

Gift for the president

The President, Gandhi, et al., left at 12:20 pm.

Conversation No. 615-24

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:20 pm and 12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

	Request for Mel [Surname unknown]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:20 pm.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 615-25

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  12:25 pm - 12:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and an unknown man.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting was is progress]

The President's schedule
-Departure time
	-Helicopter
-Meeting with Arthur F. Burns

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:25 pm.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:30 pm.

Kissinger's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:30 pm.

The President's previous conversation with Indira Gandhi
-The President's preceding conversation with William P. Rogers
	-US aid
		-Possible war
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Middle East
-Vietnam
	-Possible US military action
		-Possible message to Vietnamese, USSR
-The President's 1969 visit to India
	-Cambodia
-Tone

Gandhi's visit to Cabinet

	Gandhi’s visit
		-Significance

Arthur F. Burns entered at 12:30 pm.

Kissinger's conversation with Burns

United States foreign policy
-State Department
-Kissinger's role
-Willy Brandt
-Peter G. Peterson

Kissinger's schedule
-Washington Star event
-Soviet reception

Kissinger left at 12:31 pm.

White House dinner for Gandhi, November 4, 1971
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:31 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

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	INDIA

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Middle East
-India's position
	-United Arab Republic [UAR]
	-Gamal Abdel Nasser

India
-US aid
-US popular opinion
	-USSR

National economy
-Money supply
	-Reactions
-Economic indicators
	-Unemployment
	-Prices
-Money supply
	-Expansion
		-Timing
-The President's letter to Burns
-Rose Mary Woods
-Copies
-John B. Connally, Peterson and George P. Shultz
-Interest rates
-Calls to Woods
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Gustave L. Levy
-Burns's previous meetings with members of the Federal Advisory Council and former Federal Reserve Board [FRB] members

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:31 pm.

Arrangements for photograph

Bull left and the White House photographer entered at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

National economy
-Money supply
-Burns's meetings, November 4, 1971
-Attendees
	-Bankers, industrials
-FRB policy
-Milton Friedman

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:31 pm.

Instructions regarding briefcase

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

National economy
-Money supply
	-Expansion
-Dividend guideline
	-Connally
-Charles W. Colson's call to Burns
-Quadriad meeting
-Pay Board
-Wage settlements
	-Retroactivity
		-Congress
-George Meany's possible action
-The President's response
-Re-imposition of freeze
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
	-Discretion
		-Teachers
-Appeal for moderation
	-Re-imposition of freeze
		-Delay
-Money supply
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's economic advisors
	-1960
-The President's relations with Burns, Paul W. McCracken and unknown person

The President’s schedule
	-Recent meeting with Indians

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:31 pm.

	The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

National economy
-The President's forthcoming conversation with Wright Patman
	-Stabilization program
-Talking paper
-Bull

Patman's schedule
-Pauline (Tucker) Patman
-Forthcoming dinner for Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-The President’s forthcoming call to Patman

Federal budget
-1954
-Wage contracts
-1956
	-Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster
-1970
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Tax incentives
	-Politics
		-March 1972
-Weinberger

The President's schedule
-Florida

The President's conversation with Indira Gandhi
	-Tone
	-Unknown woman and man

Money supply

Burns left at 12:49 pm.

Conversation No. 615-26

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  12:52 pm - 12:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 13-154]

Conversation No. 615-27

Date:  November 5, 1971
Time:  12:55 pm - unknown before 12:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John K. Andrews, Jr., Mrs. John K. Andrews, Jr., John K. Andrews, Sr., and Mrs. John K. Andrews, Sr..

[Unintelligible]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:57 pm