Conversation No. 616-1

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  12:45 pm - 12:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Pat Boone, Shirley Boone, Cheryl Boone, Linda Boone, Deborah Boone, Laura Boone, Jack Spina, Patrick H. Price and Henry C. Cashen II; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting was is progress]

Barry M. Goldwater
-Speech

Oval Office
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Former location of the President's office
-Abraham Lincoln
-Presidential seal
	-Ceiling
	-Floor
		-Carpet

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Presidential seal

Oval Office
-Uses
-Josip Broz Tito, Indira Gandhi and Andrei A. Gromyko
-Old Executive Office Building [EOB] Office

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Pens

Golf balls
-The Vice President

West Wing rooms
	-Cabinet Rooms
	-Roosevelt Room
	-Staff meetings
		-Timing

Oval Office
-Furnishings
-Flags
-Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Presidential libraries
-Music box

Children
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

White House
-Fireplaces

The President's leadership
	-Pat Boone’s recent conversation with Goldwater
-Foreign policy
	-The President’s forthcoming trips to Moscow and Peking
-National economy
	-Wage and price freeze
-Goldwater's speech

Goldwater
-Speech on Lockheed
-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.

Shirley Boone
-Hometown
-Father, Red Foley

Nashville
-Grand Ole Opry
-Country-Western music
-Spirituality

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Entertainers

Boone, et al., left at 12:56 pm.

Conversation No. 616-2

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  12:56 pm - unknown before 1:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Pat Boone and family's schedule
	-Cabinet Room

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

Conversation No. 616-3

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:56 pm and 1:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule
-Melvin R. Laird

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

Conversation No. 616-4

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:56 pm and 1:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Richard Wilson

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

Conversation No. 616-5

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:56 pm and 1:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Woods

Conversation No. 616-6

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:56 pm and 1:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Unknown object
-Delivery to Old Executive Office Building [EOB] Office

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

Conversation No. 616-7

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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Pat Boone

W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-The President's possible letter
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-The President's forthcoming trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Stephen B. Roman
	-White House dinner for Indira Gandhi, November 4, 1971
	-Greeting by the President

Jo Goode of Republican National Committee
-Eleanor R. Ring’s call
-Prisoners of war [POWs] letter
-President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Vietnam
-Negotiations

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming White House dinner for Emilio Garrastazu Medici, December 7, 1971
-Guest list
-Joseph A. Margiotta
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Trip to Latin America
-Margiotta
	-Nassau County, New York
-Harry L. Sears

Joseph Chew

The President's schedule
	-Medici dinner
	-Margiotta
	-[Forename unknown] Aracci [sp?]

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Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Television sponsor
	-Chrysler Corporation

Democrats

Hope

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Chicago

New York City

The President and Woods left at 1:20 pm.

Conversation No. 616-8

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:20 pm and 4:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 616-8A]

[Unintelligible]

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

[End of telephone conversation]

Preparation for something

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 4:20 pm.

Conversation No. 616-9

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  4:20 pm - 5:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers, H. R. Haldeman and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting was is progress]

Japan
	-US return of territory [Okinawa]
		-Impact
			-Kiichi Aichi
				-Treaty

Pending legislation
-Foreign aid program
	-Continuing resolution
	-Samuel L. Devine
	-H. Allen Smith
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
	-Humanitarian
		-Compared to military
	-Charles H. Percy

Percy
-Speech on the President's foreign policy, November 9, 1971
	-Vietnam
	-Foreign aid
	-Mutual assistance

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Rogers
-Meeting with Republican caucus, November 9. 1971
	-Percy
-Conversation with Robert J. Dole, November 9, 1971
-Conversation with Milton R. Young

Foreign aid program
-Number and location of employees
-Military assistance
-Korea and Vietnam

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Ivory Coast
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
	-United Nations [UN] vote
		-Taiwan, Republic of China
	-[Felix Houphouet-Boigny]
		-Wife
	-Dam
		-Possible dedication

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Liberia
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
	-Inauguration
	-Travel arrangements
	-Travel arrangements
	-David D. Newsom
		-Unknown woman
	-Airplanes
	-Rogers's conversation with Mrs. Nixon
	-The President’s trip
	-Itinerary
		-Ghana, Ivory Coast

The President's schedule
-Latin American trip
	-Haldeman
	-Forthcoming State of the Union address
		-Domestic emphasis
			-Economics
			-Vietnam
-Panama
-Fidel Castro’s schedule
	-Chile
-Organization of American States [OAS]
	-Meeting
		-Agenda
		-Theme
		-Surcharges
-Possible itinerary
	-Panama
		-Darien Gap
			-Possible name change
			-Pan-America Highway
						-Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador
				-Meeting with the President
	-Jamaica
	-Haiti
	-Barbados
	-Guyana
	-Brasilia
	-Argentina
		-Unknown place
			-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s trip
	-Panama
		-Security
	-Accommodations
-Jamaica
-John Rawlings
-Possible itinerary
	-South America
		-Central America
	-Jamaica
	-Trinidad and Tobago
-Eisenhower's visit to Panama
-Panama, South America
	-Jamaica
-Purpose
	-Number of nations
		-Chile
-Timing
	-Argentina
	-Panama
-Purpose
	-Surcharge exemptions
		-Exports
		-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
	-Fishing rights
		-Peru, Ecuador, Chile
	-Generalized trade preferences legislation
		-Forthcoming trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Rogers's schedule
-Latin America
-Western Europe
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Foreign travel
	-PRC, USSR
	-Europe
	-Japan
-Latin American trip
	-Political significance of trip
	-Security
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Purposes
				-Exemptions, fishing rights, Inter-American Development Bank [IDB] replenishment, general preferences
	-Explanation of US policy
-Timing
	-January 1972
-Congress schedule
-Arrangements
	-Consultation
		-“Stag”
		-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Timing
-Congress schedule
-Clark MacGregor
-State of the Union address
-Preparation
-Preparation
-Compared to other visits
-Indira Gandhi

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		-PRC trip
		-Panama
			-Other meetings
				-John D. Lodge
-Arrangements
	-“Stag”
	-Number of meetings
-Other meetings
-USSR trip
	-Rogers’s memorandum
		-Haig
		-Suggestion
		-Trip to unknown place

International economic policy
-Rogers's meeting with business advisory group
	-Uncertainty
-John B. Connally
-Japan
-Latin America
-Canada
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] treaties
	-Commodity basis
-Price of gold
-UN
-William Proxmire and Henry S. Reuss
-France
	-Trade with US
		-Surcharges
-Rogers's schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Shultz
-Arthur F. Burns
-Price of gold
	-Burns
	-Shultz
	-Connally
-Rogers’s meeting with business advisory group

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:20 pm.

The President's schedule
-Carl T. Curtis

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:00 pm.

International economic policy
-Domestic effect

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal

Haldeman left at 5:00 pm.

-Melvin R. Laird
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Troop withdrawal
-The President's conversation with Laird, November 10, 1971
-Announcement
-Timing
-Possible effect on negotiations
	-Economic aid
	-Military assistance
	-Kissinger
	-Timing
	-Expectations
-Draftees
-Laird
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Possible reaction
			-Laird’s plan
				-Residual force
					-Possible size
			-Announcement
-Timing
-Congress
-Edmund S. Muskie
	-Vietnam as political issue
-Announcement
-Timing
	-Residual force
		-Possible size
	-Announcement
		-Timing
			-Finality
	-Residual force
	-POWs
	-Purpose
-Aid to South Vietnam

The President's schedule
-Curtis

Vietnam
	-Possible military collapse by South Vietnam
		-Timing
-Troop withdrawal
-Announcement

Rogers and Haig left at 5:17 pm.

Conversation No. 616-10

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  5:17 pm - 6:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Carl T. Curtis and Clark MacGregor; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

University of Nebraska football team
-Go Big Red
-Note from authors
-The President's possible attendance at a game

Photograph session
-Arrangements
-Book

-Distribution
	-Omaha World-Herald

Agriculture
-Grain sale to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Press reaction
	-Announcement
	-Farmers' reaction
-Senate Committee
-Bill regarding strategic reserve
-Support loans
-Michael J. Mansfield and Hubert H. Humphrey
-Corn prices
	-Level in Nebraska
-Support loans

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.

The President's schedule
-Richard Wilson

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.

Agriculture
-Corn prices
-Support loans
	-Curtis’s letter to the President
-Strategic Reserve Bill
-MacGregor's schedule
-John H. Kyl
-Wiley Mayne
-US Department of Agriculture [USDA]
	-Possible announcement
		-Purchase of corn
-Necessity
		-Dairy industry
		-Corn prices
-Clifford M. Hardin's view
-USDA program for 1972
-Support loans
-Curtis's meeting with Hardin and Clarence D. Palmby
	-Nebraska
		-Irrigation
			-Wheat and corn
-Strategic reserve
-Possible veto
-Grain sales to USSR
-MacGregor's conversation with John B. Connally
	-Possible level of purchase
-Possible effect on corn prices
	-Iowa, Nebraska
-Possible legislative effect
	-Strategic Reserve Bill
-Strategic Reserve Bill
-Milton R. Young's view
-Democrats' strategy
-Carl B. Albert's conversation with William M. Colmer
-Senate
-Corn
-Supplies
-Blight
	-Volume of production
		-USDA
-Strategic Reserve Bill
-Timing
-Curtis's conversation with Dick Long [?]
-Corn reserves
-MacGregor’s conversation with an unknown banker
-Congress's schedule
-MacGregor's schedule
-John C. Whitaker
-Palmby and Hardin
-Possible cost
-Symbolism
-Possible cost
-MacGregor
	-Contacts with Curtis
		-Curtis’s role
			-Discussion with the President
				-Price of corn
				-Grain sales to USSR
		-MacGregor’s view
-John D. Ehrlichman's view
-Price of corn
	-Farmer psychology
-Curtis's role
-Jack R. Miller
-Young
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Hardin

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-Job offer
	-Ralston Purina Company
-Popularity
	-Ezra Taft Benson
-Orville L. Freeman
-1972 election

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-Louie B. Nunn
-John N. Mitchell
-Background
	-[Kentucky]
		-Tobacco
		-Horses
	-Possible perception by farmers
-Requirements
	-MacGregor
	-Political skills
-Search for candidates

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.

	Wilson’s arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.

-Curtis's call to William E. Galbraith
-Galbraith's secretary
-Hardin
-Rumors
-Page Belcher's call to MacGregor
-Hardin
	-Tenure
	-Press reports
-Ronald L. Ziegler's statement to press

Burkett Van Kerr [sp?]
-Conversation with MacGregor

Don Bryant

Curtis's staff
-Presentation of gifts by the President

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.

A bag

	Envelope

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.

University of Nebraska football games
-Curtis's conversation with Phyllis Devaney
-University of Oklahoma
-University of Colorado
-Devaney
-Robert S. Devaney
-University of Oklahoma
-Greg Pruitt

Notre Dame

Curtis left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.

Agriculture
-Corn prices and strategic reserve
-Pending legislation

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.

The President's schedule
-Wilson
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-W. Kenneth Riland
-Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.

Camp David
-MacGregor and wife

Wilson entered at 5:50 pm.

Dinner, November 9, 1971

MacGregor left at 5:50 pm.

Refreshments

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:50 pm.

-Soft drinks

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:37 pm.

Wilson's book on Nixon administration
-Contents
	-Chapters
	-Time span
-Scope
	-The President’s initiatives
-Supreme Court
	-Unknown speech
	-Rose Mary Woods
	-John N. Mitchell
-The President's programs
-Domestic
-Foreign
-Vietnam
-Possible publication date
-Forthcoming trips to USSR and People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Significance
-Foreign aid program
	-Recent Senate vote
-Vietnam
	-Objectives
-Forthcoming summit trips
	-Peace
		-Time frame
	-Winston S. Churchill

PRC
-Economic power
-Compared to Japan
		-Nuclear power
-Prospects

The President's forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR
	-Pragmatism

The President

PRC
-Prospects
-Isolation

	Summit trips
		-Possible accomplishment
			-Mutual self-interest

US foreign relations
-Balance of payments
	-Surcharges
-Protectionism
-European Economic Community
-USSR, PRC and Japan
-Competition
-Burden sharing

The President's domestic policy
-Economy
	-Indicators
-The President's previous conversation with Curtis
-Corn prices
-Inefficiency
-Phase II
	-Inflation
		-Freedom
-Unemployment
	-Federal spending
		-Defense
-New economic program
	-Tax incentives
		-Job Development credit
-Modernization of industrial plants
-Japan and Germany
	-USSR
-Analogy to San Francisco earthquake of 1906
					-US physical plant
-Inefficiency
	-Business and labor practices
		-Competitiveness
-Competition
	-Jobs
	-Exports
		-Value
			-Percentage of total economy
-Exports

Isolationism
	-US postwar burdens
		-Korea
		-Foreign aid
		-Vietnam
		-Possible consequences
-US role in world
-The President's speech in Chicago, November 9, 1971
	-Power vacuum
-Effect on national security
-Long-term effect on American spirit
-Space program
-Supersonic transport [SST]

National economy
-Business
	-Competitiveness
-Vietnam War
	-Reliance on government
		-Labor

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:50 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:37 pm.

The President's domestic policy
-Government reorganization
	-Institutional obsolescence
-Cabinet
	-Meetings
-Welfare reform
-Revenue-sharing
-Health reform
	-Compared to socialized medicine
		-Great Britain
-Education
-Environment
-National growth
-The President's 1969 State of the Union speech
-Competitiveness of American industry
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] techniques
-Applied industrial research
-Jobs for Peace Program
-Tax reform
-Previous bill
-Goal
	-Relief
-Applied research
-Japan and West Germany
-Peter G. Peterson's and Ehrlichman's efforts
-Competitiveness of US business
-Problems of the American spirit
-Wilson's previous writings
-US role in world
	-Sense of mission
		-War
		-Trip to moon
		-Environment
		-Competitiveness
		-Leadership
	-Military power
		-Compared to USSR
			-Long range missiles
-Welfare reform
	-Family Assistance Plan
		-Shift to work requirement
	-Dignity of work
		-Protestant ethic
		-The President’s Labor Day speech of September 6, 1971
-1970
	-Election
	-Economy
	-Foreign affairs

Vietnam
-Cambodian incursion
-Demonstrations
-Incursions into Cambodia and Laos
-Effect on casualties

Politics
-1970 elections
	-Results
-Competitive value

The President's domestic policy
	-1970 election
		-Aftermath
			-Revenue sharing
			-“New American Revolution”
-Government reorganization
-Revenue-sharing
-Health, education and environment
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Actions of previous administrations
-Role of politics

The President's foreign policy
-The President's role in formulation
	-Advice of staff
-Upcoming PRC and USSR trips
-Glassboro, New Hampshire meetings of 1967
-Nuclear weapons
	-Parity
		-USSR
		-Policy alternatives
-PRC
	-The President’s 1967 foreign affairs article
-Timing of initiatives
	-USSR
	-PRC
-Preparation for trips
	-The President's vice presidential trips
-The President's previous meetings
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Josip Broz Tito
-Forthcoming trip to PRC
-Timing
-Trip to USSR

	Unknown matter
		-Date

Hardin
-Tenure in office

Wilson's forthcoming book
-Attribution

Wilson's possible columns
-The President's comments
-Attribution
	-Discretion
	-Domestic programs

Wilson left and Butterfield entered at 6:37 pm.

	[Material for signing]

	Sanchez
		-Delivery of items

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:37 pm.

	The President’s gratitude

The President, Butterfield and Sanchez left at 6:39 pm.

Conversation No. 616-11

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:39 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

The President's location
	-Residence

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.

Conversation No. 616-12

Date:  November 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:39 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

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