Conversation No. 617-1

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  3:59 pm - unknown before 4:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Photographs
-Ziegler's announcement

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

Conversation No. 617-2

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 3:59 pm until 4:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
	-Duration
		-Cutoff
			-Frank Cormier

Henry A. Kissinger

The President and Ziegler left at 4:02 pm.

Conversation No. 617-3

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:02 pm and 4:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man talked with an unknown person.

	Unknown developments

Conversation No. 617-4

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:02 pm and 4:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

	[Unintelligible]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 4:29 pm.

Conversation No. 617-5

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:29 pm and 4:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger and Clark MacGregor.
[The recording began at an unknown time while the meeting was in progress]

Vietnam
-The President's troop withdrawal announcement of November 12, 1971

-Peter Lisagor's reaction
-Press questions
-Amnesty
	-The President's responses
-Troop withdrawals
	-Melvin R. Laird's recommendation
	-Press projections
	-Infiltration
	-Bombing
	-Reactions
	-"Doves"
		-Timing
	-The President's concern for prisoners of war [POWs]
-MacGregor's calls
-Michael J. Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford and Robert P. Griffin
-Projections
-Vietnamization
	-Troop withdrawals
		-Levels
-POWs
-The President's recent troop withdrawal announcement
-Possible North Vietnamese reaction
-Withdrawal rate
	-Forthcoming announcement
		-Timing
-Press questions
-Percentage of reduction
-Shelley's A. (Scarney) Buchanan conversation with MacGregor
-MacGregor's call to Carl B. Albert
-Press questions
	-Stock market
		-War prosperity
-Helen Thomas
	-Mrs. Cornell
			-Television
			-Stock market question

The President's press conferences
-Effectiveness
-September 16, 1971
-October 12, 1971
	-Forthcoming trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Format
	-Television
-November 12, 1971
	-Announcement
-The President's responses to questions

Vietnam
-Amnesty
-POWs
-Abraham Lincoln
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Draft
-Eugene J. McCarthy's view
-POW wives
-Veterans
-Barry M. Goldwater's possible statement
-Veterans
-Deaths in combat
-World War II and Korean Conflict
-Casualties
-The President's recent troop withdrawal announcement
-MacGregor's forthcoming phone calls
	-Final announcement
	-POWs
-Ford's reaction
-Laird's possible reaction

MacGregor left at 4:35 pm.

-Kissinger's call to Laird
-Laird's location
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s message for Robert E. Pursley
		-Pursley's reaction
			-National security
				-Withdrawal rate
-Press conferences
-Infiltration rate
-North Vietnamese possible reaction
-POWs
-Tet offensive
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Recent troop withdrawal announcement
-Possible settlement
	-Aid
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Cambodia
-John F. Kennedy
-Nixon Doctrine
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Effectiveness
-Bombing passes
-North Vietnam
-Laos

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:47 pm.

-Press reaction

Haldeman left at 4:48 pm.

Daniel L. Schorr
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-Ziegler's forthcoming statement
	-Personnel practices

Vietnam
-The President's previous troop withdrawal announcement
-Mrs. Cornell [Thomas] statement
-Amnesty

Forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Photographs

Ziegler left at 4:50 pm.

-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Gerard C. Smith
-Timing
	-Forthcoming Summit with the USSR

US relations with the USSR
-SALT negotiations
-Anti-Ballistic Missiles [ABM]
	-Sites
		-Populations
	-Alternatives
		-One to one
		-Capitals
			-Missile fields
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Submarines
	-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
	-Directive
-Forthcoming NSC meeting
-Agenda
	-Kissinger
-Smith and William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming ABM talks
-John J. McCloy

The President's previous press conference
-Forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR
-John A. Scali's suggestion
	-Possible backgrounder by Kissinger

McCloy

Kissinger left at 4:54 pm.

Conversation No. 617-6

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:54 pm and 4:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

John J. McCloy
-Meeting with the President

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.

Conversation No. 617-7

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  4:55 pm - 5:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John J. McCloy, Henry A. Kissinger and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

McCloy
-Possible role with Administration
	-The President’s schedule
		-Dinner
		-Chicago
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
-Europe
-Walter J. Stoessel
-Requirements
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
		-Economics

Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Willy Brandt
-Negotiations
	-Bilateral discussions
		-US and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

	-Unilateral decisions
	-US defense posture
		-Europe
			-Unknown country
				-Ambassador
				-Treasury Department

McCloy
-Possible role with Administration
-Robert F. Ellsworth
-Manlio Brosio
	-Medal of Freedom
	-Comments

NATO
-Organization
	-Brussels
-US Ambassador
-Cabinet
-David M. Kennedy
-McCloy's forthcoming conversation with Kissinger

The President, McCloy, et al., left at 5:03 pm.

Conversation No. 617-8

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:03 pm and 6:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's location
	-Cabinet Room

Conversation No. 617-9

Date:  November 12, 1971
Time:  6:22 pm - 6:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress]

India-Pakistan relations
-United Nations [UN]
-The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic Of China [PRC]
-Military situation
-Possible US diplomatic action
-UN
-Indira Gandhi's view
-Pakistani view
-Security Council
	-PRC presence
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAP]
	-Gandhi’s forthcoming speech
-Resolution
-US-PRC relations
	-Paris contact
		-UN delegation
			-Canadian ambassador
-Huang Hua
		-Possible US action
			-Timing

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:22 pm.

The President's schedule
	-Departure for Camp David

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:26 pm.

India-Pakistan
-The President's schedule
-Joseph J. Sisco
-UN
	-Security Council
		-PRC
-Indians' View
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan's view
-Gandhi's forthcoming speech
-Military situation
	-East Pakistan
-US actions
	-Timing
	-Gandhi’s forthcoming speech
	-Messages
		-Sisco
			-Lakshmi Kant Jha
-Rogers's conversation with Gandhi
	-Possible war
		-Consequence
			-US economic aid

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Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal announcement of November 12, 1971
	-Withdrawal period

Rogers left at 6:27 pm.

	The President’s schedule
		-Meeting

India-Pakistan relations
	-Rogers
	-Kissinger’s memoranda
	-Melvin R. Laird
	-Possible motives
		-Talks with the PRC
			-UN Security Council

Submarines

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 6:27 pm.

The President's signature

National Security Council [NSC] meeting

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 6:27 pm.

The President's schedule
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-NSC meeting

Unknown woman

Memorandum for the Cabinet

Butterfield left at 6:33 pm.

India-Pakistan relations
-Sisco
-UN Security Council
-Possible action
	-Ceasefire
-PRC
-Military situation
	-Possible war
		-Timing

US relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-Laird
	-Submarines
		-Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles [ICBM]
		-US program
			-Conservatives

	PRC
		-Sisco

The President's schedule
-NSC
-Sisco
-John B. Connally
-Cabinet
-Connally
-NSC
-Press conference
-PRC announcement
	-Timing
		-Press conference
		-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

The President's previous press conference
-Impact
	-North Vietnam

Kissinger left at 6:35 pm.

White House staff
-Charles W. Colson's views
	-Secret Service
		-Herbert G. Klein
	-Unknown person
	-William E. Timmons

The President's schedule
-Departure

The President and Haldeman left at 6:37 pm.

Conversation No. 617-10

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  2:19 pm - 2:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Henry A. Kissinger.

The President’s schedule
	-Telephone call to unknown person

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.

Secretary of State
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Vietnam
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Richardson
-Performance
	-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
	-Robert H. Finch
-Rockefeller

The President talked with Howard H. Baker, Jr. between 2:20 pm and 2:21 pm.

[Conversation No. 617-10A]

[See Conversation No. 14-106]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rockefeller
-Possible role with administration
	-State Department
		-Reorganization
-1972 campaign

John B. Connally
-Instruction to Kissinger
	-Letter
-The President's economic policy
	-Credit

Michael J. Mansfield

Kissinger left at 2:23 pm.

Conversation No. 617-11

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:23 pm and 2:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:26 pm.

Conversation No. 617-12

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  2:26 pm - unknown before 3:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger.

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Affected agencies
	-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
	-Foreign aid
	-Defense
	-District of Columbia
		-Public services
		-Weinberger's conversation with Walter E. Washington
			-Welfare
-The President's possible action
-Pending authorization
	-Foreign aid
	-OEO
-Precedent with Post Office
-Allen J. Ellender's strategy
-Conversation with Shultz, November 15, 1971
-Foreign aid
-OEO
-Anti-Deficiency Act
-John N. Mitchell's forthcoming statement
-Provisions
	-Employment
-Vietnam
-Washington, DC
-Crime
-Voluntarism
-Supplies
-Effects
-Vietnam, Cambodia and Washington, DC

	-Voluntarism
-Ellender
-Motives
-Appropriations Committee
-Michael J. Mansfield

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:26 pm.

The President's schedule
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Carl B. Albert

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:36 pm.

The President's schedule
-Congressmen
-Clark MacGregor and William E. Timmons
-Chairs

MacGregor, Timmons, Ronald L. Ziegler, Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Ellender, Milton R. Young, George H. Mahon and Frank T. Bow entered at 2:36 pm.

[General conversation]

Seating arrangement

Cabinet room
	-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
	-Pay Board and Price Commission

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Ellender's position
	-Mansfield
-Bow and Mahon
-The President's possible action
	-Anti-Deficiency Act
	-Affected agencies and services
		-OEO
		-Washington, DC
		-Defense
		-Foreign aid
	-Mitchell
-Precedents
-Authorizations
-Authorizations
-Precedents
-Post Office
-Mitchell
-Authorizations
-Congress
-Efforts
-Schedule
-Legality
-OEO
	-Department of Heath, Education, and Welfare [HEW] bill
-Affected agencies
	-Export-Import Bank
	-Agency for International Development [AID]
	-Office of Refugee Migration
-Federal pay days
-Ellender's strategy
	-Appropriation bills
		-Signing
			-Timing
-Legality
-OEO
-Precedents
-Status
-Legality
-Precedents
-Economic bill
	-J. William Fulbright's proposal
-Pay status of affected agencies
	-OEO
-Clerk of Senate Appropriations Committee
-Rules regarding appropriations
	-Authorizations
	-House Appropriations Committee
-Legality
-OEO
-HEW
-Philosophy
-Provisions
-OEO
-Legislative treatment
	-HEW
	-Headstart
-Effect
-Edward P. Boland Amendment
-OEO
-Child development legislation
-Albert
-Responsibility of appropriations committees
	-The President’s comments
-Foreign aid
-Legislative status
-Ford's conversations, November 15, 1971
-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan and William S. Mailliard
-Possible House action
	-Rules Committee
	-Lewis Deschler
-Possible conference
-Proposal
-Provisions
	-Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
	-Foreign Military Sales Act
-Effect
-Authorization
	-Contracts
		-Fulbright
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] apportionment
-Morgan
-Ellender's actions
-Possible political impact
-Boggs's statement
	-Morgan
-Congress schedule
-Albert
-House Committee on Banking and Currency
	-Economic Stabilization Act
	-Wright Patman
-Military procurement bill
-Foreign aid bill
-Authorization
	-Senate action
		-State Department
		-Foreign aid
			-Fulbright Amendment
-Congressional rules
	-Bow’s testimony
-John Taber's previous performance as chairman of House Appropriations Committee
-Authorization
	-Defense Department

Congress' schedule
-Judicial confirmations

Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.
-Bequest
	-Supreme Court history
	Paul A. Freund and Charles Fairman
		-Yale University
	-Meeting with the President

Supreme Court
-Backlog
-Congress's schedule
-Judicial confirmations

Congress' schedule
-Adjournment
-Legislation
	-Summary
-Senate compared to House
-Continuing resolution
-Democrat Whip's conversation with Boggs and Albert

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Congress’ schedule

Congress’ schedule
-Thomas E. Dewey's campaign in 1948
	-Philadelphia convention
-Continuing resolution
-The President's schedule
-Air Force One
-Boeing Aircraft Company
-Trip to Florida

[General conversation]

Unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:36 pm.

The President's schedule
		-Trips to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and People's Republic of China [PRC

	Budget
		-Authorizations

[General conversation]

Executive-legislative showdowns
-Dewey's statement
-Harry S. Truman

Appropriations committees
-Ellender

	Congress’s schedule

Unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:33 pm.

Earl L. Butz

Mahon reentered at an unknown time after 2:38 pm.

Vietnam
-Boland Amendment
-The President's previous troop withdrawal announcement
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Cooper-Church Amendment
-Effect
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
		-US aid
			-Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
		-US objectives

Timmons et al left at an unknown time before 3:33 pm.

Ellender
-Movies

The President's previous meeting with congressmen
-Budget
-Continuing resolution
	-Possible action
		-Timing

MacGregor left at an unknown time before 3:33 pm.

Conversation No. 617-13

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:33 pm and 3:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:36 pm.

Conversation No. 617-14

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:33 pm and 3:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:36 pm.

Conversation No. 617-15

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:36 pm and 4:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:36 pm and 4:26 pm.

[Conversation No. 617-15A]

	Cabinet Room

[End of telephone conversation]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 4:26 pm.

Conversation No. 617-16

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:26 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Donald H. Rumsfeld.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress]

Unknown event

The President's previous meeting with Congressmen

	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-The President compared to the Congress
-Statement by the President and Clark MacGregor
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:26 pm.

The President's schedule
-Paul W. McCracken
-John A. Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Maurice H. Stans
-William P. Rogers
-Stans
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:30 pm.

National economy
-Pay Board
-The President's conversation with George H. Boldt
-Retroactivity

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:26 pm.

The President's schedule
-Sultan Mohammad Khan
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:30 pm.

National economy
-Pay Board
-Charles W. Colson
-Boldt
-Retroactivity
	-Vote
	-Possible order
-Arnold R. Weber

Rumsfeld left at 4:30 pm.

Conversation No. 617-17

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  4:31 pm - 4:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Sultan Mohammad Khan and Henry A. Kissinger.

	Greetings

India-Pakistan
-The President's conversations
-Previous Pakistani ambassador
-Indira Gandhi
-William P. Rogers's conversation with Gandhi
-US diplomacy
	-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-US aid to Pakistan
	-Announcement
		-Arms
		-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan’s response
-Public relations campaign in US
	-Democrats
	-Republicans
	-Press
-US role

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-Role
-Kissinger's conversations with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin [?]
-Military situation
-US response
-United Nations [UN]
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-State Department
-Possible role
	-General Assembly
	-Security Council
		-PRC
			-Consultations
		-Possible veto

US-Pakistan relations
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-The President's travels
	-Pakistan
	-India
-Treaty arrangements
-Johnson

India-Pakistan
-US concerns

Presentation of gifts by the President

Khan and Kissinger left at 4:39 pm.

Conversation No. 617-18

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  4:41 pm - 5:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Elliot L. Richardson, John D. Ehrlichman and Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
	-Sultan Mohammad Khan
	-Maurice H. Stans
-William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:20 pm.

Constitutional amendment
-Desegregation
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Richardson's memorandum
-Busing
-Popular opinion
	-Emotions
	-Blacks
-The President's possible position
	-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
	-Campaign issue
-“60 Minutes” segment on Washingtonians' children in private schools

	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Mike Wallace
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
-St. Alban's 
-Catholic private schools
-Richardson
-Children and Ehrlichman's daughter
-Interviews
-Nicholas von Hoffman
-Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy
-The President's daughters
	-Horace Mann School
	-Sidwell Friends
-Fauntroy
-Unknown women from Pontiac, Michigan
-The President's decision
-Conversation with John N. Mitchell
-California Constitution
-Conversation with Mitchell
-House of Representatives
	-Possible vote
-Timing
-Busing
-Use of Constitution
-Emergency School Aid Act
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. Amendments to legislation
-Compared with House amendment
				-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] and Justice Department
				-Title VI
					-Civil Rights Act of 1964

Education
-Pending legislation
	-Senate
-Richardson's conversation with Claiborne H. Pell
-Amendments

Welfare
	-Reagan
-Mitchell
-[Work Relief Demonstration Project]
	-Possible resolution
	-The President's schedule
	-Status
	-The President's role
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller and Richard B. Ogilvie
-Schedule
-Mitchell
-The Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
	-Memorandum
-Richardson's conversation with Reagan, November 12, 1971
-Possible conversation with Richardson
	-Resolution
		-Negotiation
			-Cabinet level
	-Views regarding Robert H. Finch
	-John G. Veneman
	-Richardson’s role as negotiator
	-Conversations with the President
-[Work Relief Demonstration Project]
	-House Resolution [HR] 1
	-Possible resolution
	-Rockefeller
	-Negotiations with Richardson
		-Case load
			-Employees

Child development legislation
	-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Legislative status
-Day care services
	-Fee scale
-Congress
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-The President’s message
-HR 1
-Provisions
-Intent
	-Development
		-Health defects screening
		-Education
			-Head Start Program
-Welfare reform
-Funding
-Head Start
-Day care
	-Social Security Act
		-Title IV
	-States
-HR 1
-Eligibility for financial assistance
	-Level of free care
		-Cost
-Cost
-Possible veto
-Richardson's testimony
-Cost
	-HR 1
-Notch problem
-Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
-Disincentive to work
	-Medicaid
	-Senate Finance Committee
		-1970 hearings
	-Family health insurance
		-Graduated scale of payments
	-Graduated scale of payments
-Work for welfare mothers
-Cost
-Possible veto
-Implementation
-Congressional interests
-Conservatives
-John Brademas-Ronald V. Dellums faction
-Decision
-Timing
-Status
	-Congressional committees
		-Labor and public welfare
		-Education and labor
-OEO legislation
-Problems
-Jacob K. Javits's efforts
-OEO legislation
-Javits
-Conversations with Richardson
-Possible veto

Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Property tax reform
-Ehrlichman's possible conversations
-Richardson
-John B. Connally

Education
-Aid to private schools
-Possible opposition
-Catholics
-Property tax relief
-National Education Association
-Richardson's meetings with [Forename unknown] Msgr. Hopewald [sp?]
-National Defense Education Act of 1958
-Richardson's contacts with Catholics
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Washington Post article regarding Reuben O. Askew
	-Issues
		-Taxes
		-Race

Askew
-Compared to James E. (“Jimmy”) Carter
-Constituency

Education
-The President's position
-Desegregation

Stans, Rogers and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 5:20 pm.

Stans's forthcoming trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Secretary of Agriculture

Richardson and Ehrlichman left at 5:21 pm.

HEW
-Richardson's handling
-Finch's health

Richardson
-Harvard University
-Boxing

Stans's forthcoming trip to USSR
	-Originality
-Public interest
-The President’s forthcoming trip to USSR

USSR foreign trade
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Link
	-Political accommodation
-US share
-Stans's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Arms control
-US exports
	-Value to USSR
		-Compared to US
-Hungary
-Romania
-US negotiations with USSR
	-Conference on European Security
	-Mutual and Balance Force Reduction [MBFR]
	-Berlin
-US business interest
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Effect on negotiations
-Stans's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Export-import credits
-Most favored nation [MFN] status
-Joint ventures with foreign companies
-Compared with US joint ventures with foreign companies
	-Romania, Yugoslavia
-Natural resources
	-Oil, gas, copper
	-Product sharing
	-Natural gas
		-Compared to Algerian venture

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:21 pm.

Photographer

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.

Stans's forthcoming trip to USSR
-US relations with the USSR
-Conference on European Security 

Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins entered at an unknown time after 5:21 pm.

-The President's forthcoming trip

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

USSR foreign trade
-Assets
	-Gold
		-Reserves
	-Petroleum
	-Chrome
-Stans's forthcoming trip
-Credit
-MFN status
-Linkage
	-Political accommodation
		-MFN
		-Export-Import Bank
		-Vietnam
		-Joint venture
-Manufactured goods
	-Machine tools
	-USSR economy
-Technology
-Ford Motor Company and General Motors [GM]
-Stans’s comments to business
	-License fees

Stans's forthcoming trip to USSR
	-Stans’s possible strategy
	-Soviets
		-Japan
-Itinerary
-Leningrad
-Georgia
	-Baku
	-Tbilisi
-Samarkand
-Tashkent
-Samarkand
-Genghis Khan
-Tamerlane
-Asiatic citizens
	-Unknown place
		-Valley of Apples
-Siberia
	-Sverdlovsk
-Lake Baikel
-Moscow
	-Kremlin
-Subway

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Civil defense preparations
-Rogers's conversation with Pakistan diplomat
	-Peking
		-Underground tunnels
			-Kissinger
			-Analogy to US civil defense
				-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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	PRC

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-The president's conversation with a foreigner
-Korean War
-Chinese intervention
-James D. (“Don”) Hughes’s experience
	-Yalu River
-Population

USSR
-Population
-William C. Bullitt

Stans's forthcoming trip
-Sweden
-Warsaw
-John A. Volpe's previous trip
-Sweden
-Relations with US
-Warsaw
-Relations with US
-MFN status
-Credit
-Romania
		-Possible comments
			-Stans’s experience
				-Politics
					-MFN
					-Credits
					-Need for new policies
					-The President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
					-1972 election
			-Vietnam
-Stans’s experience
-USSR
-Nikita S. Khrushchev's book
-1960 election
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President's character
-The President's conversation with Josip Broz Tito
-Leonid I. Brezhnev and Aleksei N. Kosygin

The President's previous meeting with Congressmen
-Budget
-Continuing resolution
	-Mitchell's opinion
	-Allen J. Ellender
	-Public services
	-Vietnam
	-Anti-Deficiency Act
	-Provisions
-Previous occurrences
	-Authorizations
-Foreign aid
-Michael J. Mansfield

John C. Stennis
-Call from Rogers
-Richard B. Russell's death
-Conversation with the President
-National defense
-Senate

The President's previous conversation with George E. Allen
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Stennis
-Supreme Court
-William J. Brennan, Jr.

Stans's forthcoming trip
-Negotiating strategy
	-US business
	-Stans’s possible comments
-The President's schedule
	-Stans’s schedule

North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] Ambassadorship
-Peter M. Flanigan's efforts
	-Mansfield D. Sprague
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
-Sprague
-Flanigan

Stans. et al., left at 5:55 pm.

Conversation No. 617-19

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  5:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Request

Bull left at 5:55 pm.

Conversation No. 617-20

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  5:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-107]

Conversation No. 617-21

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:55 pm and 6:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
	-Meeting

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:03 pm.

Conversation No. 617-22

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 5:55 pm until 6:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 14-108]

Conversation No. 617-23

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  6:03 pm - 6:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Henry A. Kissinger.

Hugh Scott's calls to the President

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:04 pm.

[Conversation No. 617-23A]

[See Conversation No. 14-109]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Casualties

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:04 pm.

[Conversation No. 617-23B]

[See Conversation No. 14-110]

[End of telephone conversation]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:04 pm.

Budget
-Forthcoming vote
-George H. Mahon
	-Call to Kissinger

-Continuing resolution
-Mahon's conversation with the President
-Vietnam

The President talked with Hugh Scott between 6:04 pm and 6:09 pm.

[Conversation No. 617-23C]

[See Conversation No. 14-111]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's previous meeting with Congressmen

Budget
-Forthcoming vote
-Mahon
-Clark MacGregor's conversation with Kissinger

Cabinet
-Foreign travel
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peter G. Peterson
-Previous meeting
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's conversation with Kissinger

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Forthcoming vote on continuing resolution

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower between 6:09 pm and 6:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 617-23D]

[See Conversation No. 14-112; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Earl of Cromer
	-Economic policy

John B. Connally
-Conversation with the President
-Connally's conversation with Kissinger
	-International monetary policy
		-Credit
-Political future
	-Trip to Vietnam
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger
-Kissinger's views on international monetary policy
-Peterson
-William P. Rogers

John A. Volpe

International monetary policy
-Connally
-Kissinger's conversation with East Germans
-Timing of action
-The President's schedule
-Connally
-Role
-Japan
	-Devaluation
-Connally
-Conversation with Kissinger
	-The President’s forthcoming letter to heads of state

Sultan Mohammad Khan
-Previous meeting with the President
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-Messages for the President
-Conversation with Chou En-Lai
	-Timing
		-United Nations [UN] vote
-The President's forthcoming visit

PRC
-UN delegation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR
-Chou's Schedule
	-US conservatives
-Civil defense
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-USSR
-The President's forthcoming visit
-Lin Piao
-Army Chief of Staff
-Effect on US right wing

Foreign aid program

Congress
-Mansfield Amendment
-Cooper-Church Amendment

George E. Allen
-Conversation with the President
-The President's previous press conference

Chou En-Lai
-Film, “Patton”
	-Appeal to the President
		-Reason
-Views regarding the President
-Kissinger's first visit
-Film

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-The President's preparation
-Rogers
-Negotiating strategy

Congress
	-Quadriad
-Mansfield
-Kissinger's forthcoming speech
	-University of Montana

Kissinger left at 6:19 pm.

Conversation No. 617-24

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  6:20 pm - 6:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Cabinet
-Recent meeting
-Haldeman's notes to William P. Rogers
-John A. Volpe
-Report on trip
	-John D. Ehrlichman
-Associate's [William Bird’s] presentation on TRANSPO '72
	-Details
-Ehrlichman

The President's schedule
-Volpe
-Paul W. McCracken

McCracken
-Forthcoming trip to Europe
-Tenure in office
	-Teaching schedule
-Role in the President's economic policy
-Replacement
-Herbert Stein
-The President's forthcoming conversation with George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally

Stein
-Meeting with the President

Peter M. Flanigan

Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Ezra Solomon
-Unknown man's political party

	The President’s schedule

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Africa
-Rogers
-Edward W. Brooke
-Roger E. and Louise Johnson
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Advance trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-James D. (“Don”) Hughes's Plan
		-Vernon C. Coffey
-John (“Jack”) V. Brennan

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-The President's conversation with John B. Connally
-Forthcoming vote
	-Timing
		-Announcement
			-Allen J. Ellender's committee schedule
-Senate compared to House bills

Volpe
-Tenure in office
	-1972 election
-Future role with Administration
-Report of trip
-Meeting with unknown Prime Minister
	-Duration
-Ehrlichman

Cabinet
-Recent meeting
-Clifford M. Hardin

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-German visitors
		-Minister of Agriculture
		-Mayor of Berlin
		-Other officials
			-Christian Democratic Party
		-German-American conference
		-White House reception
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Kissinger
-Brazilian Ambassador
	-Camp David

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Paul Healy's article
-Schedule
-Cleveland
	-Press
	-Mayor
	-Question and Answer [Q&A] session
-Healy's article

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:20 pm.

Healy's article in New York Daily News

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:55 pm.

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:20 pm.

Healy's article in New York Daily News

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:55 pm.

The President's schedule
-Budget
-Ehrlichman
-California trip

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:20 pm.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Healy's article
-Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:55 pm.

-Photograph

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 40s  ]

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Congress
-Connally's view
-Possible White House attacks
-Budget
		-Ronald L. Ziegler

The President's schedule
-Football game
-Thanksgiving Day
-Washington Redskins
-Oklahoma
-Nebraska
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Carl B. Albert
-Page Belcher
-Quadriad
		-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Victor Riesel's view
-Democrats
-Speakers
	-George Meany
	-James D. Hodgson
	-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
	-Announcement of candidacy
		-Timing
			-Tallahassee
-Press conference
-Quadriad
-Congressmen

Cabinet
-Recent meeting
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Meetings
-Relationship with the President
-Volpe's presentation

Clark MacGregor
-Kissinger's views

The President's press conference of November 12, 1971
-Kissinger

MacGregor

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 26s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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The President's schedule
-Press conferences
	-Television
	-California

The President's recent press conference
-George E. Allen's views
-Press reaction

The President's schedule
-AFL-CIO convention
	-Meany
-Redskins
-Florida
	-Key Biscayne
-AFL-CIO convention
	-Speech
-Press conference
-People's Republic of China [PRC] announcement

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Healy's article
-John F. Kennedy
-Washington Post
-Schedule
-Press coverage

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  31s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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The President's schedule
-November 15, 1971
-Flexibility
-Meeting with legal historians
-Birthday calls to members of Congress
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Effect
-Calls to handicapped
-Press coverage
-Value
	-Examples
		-[Don Smith]
		-[Willis O. Preston]
		-[Ralph Sambuchi]
-Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Importance

Volpe
-Presentation in Cabinet meeting
-Haldeman's notes to Rogers

The President and Haldeman left at 6:55 pm.

Conversation No. 617-25

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:55 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man talked with an unknown person.

The President's location
	-East Wing

Conversation No. 617-26

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:55 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with unknown people.

The President's location
	-Residence

Unknown item

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