Conversation No. 618-1

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  10:22 am - 10:26 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 14-34; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 618-2

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:26 am and 10:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.

Conversation No. 618-3

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 10:26 am until 10:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and John C. Whitaker.

The President's previous conversation with John N. Mitchell

Government reorganization
	-Earl L. Butz
	-Executive departments
		-Number

Butz entered at 10:35 am.

Butz
-Experience with Agriculture Department

Agriculture
-Corn prices
-The President's conversation with Carl T. Curtis
-Administration's policy
	-Correctness
	-Strategy
		-Reserve
			-Set-aside
			-Community Credit Corporation [CCC]
-Clark MacGregor
	-Curtis’s statement
-Jack R. Miller
-Symbolism
	-1950s
-Grain sales to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Great Depression

Herbert C. Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt

Agriculture
-Corn prices
-Political considerations
-Mitchell
-Conversation with Butz, November 11, 1971
-Conversation with the President
-Butz's role
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Role
-Farmers
	-Need for spokesman
-Corn
-Strategic reserve
-Legislative prospects
-Views of Hyde Murray and Clarence D. Palmby
-Surplus
-Predicted blights
-Handling
-Political importance
	-States
-Soybeans
-Prospects for 1972
-Hogs
-Corn prices
	-Farmer participation in programs
-Role of Secretary of Agriculture
-Farmers

The President's schedule
-Mary (Powell) Butz
-Martha L. (Wood) Hardin
-Forthcoming statement regarding Department of Agriculture
-Preparation
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Chet Holifield

The President, Ehrlichman et al., left at 10:51 am.

Conversation No. 618-4

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  3:48 pm - unknown before 3:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Hugh Scott's birthday
-William E. Timmons's note

Stephen B. Bull

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:52 pm.

Conversation No. 618-5

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:48 pm and 3:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Stephen B. Bull

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:52 pm.

Conversation No. 618-6

Date:  November 11, 1971
Time:  3:52 pm - 4:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Clifford M. Hardin, Martha L. (Wood) Hardin, Earl L. Butz, Mary E. (Powell) Butz, John D. Ehrlichman, John C. Whitaker and Lawrence M. Higby; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

	Book

Earl L. Butz's appointment

Arrangements for photographs

Forthcoming meeting with press
-Agenda
-Clifford Hardin
	-Possible comments
-Butz
-Questions
	-Handling
-Butz
	-Hardin’s endorsement

Hardin's resignation
	-Letters
-Timing
-John A. Volpe
-Clark MacGregor
-Timing

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:52 pm.

Forthcoming meeting with press

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:01 pm.

-Arrangements
-Press room
-Former use

Hardin's resignation
-Conversation with the President
	-Timing
	-William P. Rogers

Graham A. Martin

	Turkey
	-Prime Minister Nihat Erim

[Unintelligible]

-Stability
	-US [?] presence
	-US aid

	Henry A. Kissinger

Unknown Ambassador

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:01 pm.

Upcoming press conference

Butz's schedule
-Department of Agriculture reorganization
-Possible press conference
		-Charleston, West Virginia

Government reorganization
-Department of Agriculture
	-Soil conservation
	-Department of Economic Development
	-Natural resources

The President et al., left at 4:03 pm.

Conversation No. 618-7

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 8:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Assignment
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Rose Mary Woods
-Acker

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:35 am.

Conversation No. 618-8

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  8:35 am - 8:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-George E. Allen

Connally's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger

Cabinet meeting
-Agenda
-Connally
-John A. Volpe
-Report on trip and TRANSPO '72
			-Connally
				-Report on trip
			-Phase II

	Cost of Living Council [COLC] meeting
		-Agenda
-Press coverage

-C. Jackson Grayson, George H. Boldt and Connally
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

	Cabinet meeting
-Volpe
	-Connally
-Rumsfeld
-Chairs

Butterfield left at 8:40 am.

Conversation No. 618-9

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 am and 8:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:54 am.

Conversation No. 618-10

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 am and 8:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Requested Peter M. Flanigan

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:54 am.

Conversation No. 618-11

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  8:54 am - 10:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Peter M. Flanigan.

Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Appointments
-Unknown man from Texas
-Patrick E. Haggerty
-John B. Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-World Bank
-Democrat
-Republican
-Democrats
-Williamson S. Stuckey, Jr.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 8:59 am.

-Hoyt Ammidon
-Burns's views
-Connally
-Stuckey
-Money supply
-Burns's talk in New York City
-Gabriel Hauge's views
-Appointments
-Stuckey
-Clark MacGregor's views
-Republicans
	-Frederic V. Malek
		-List

North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Mansfield D. Sprague
-John J. McCloy
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
	-Schedule

Japan
-Armin H. Meyer
-Paul W. McCracken
-George Champion
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
-Ammidon
-Elizabeth (Callaway) Ammidon
-Finances
	-France
-Alice (James) Meyer
-Ammidon
-Flanigan's forthcoming conversations
-Connally and Rogers
-Champion

Walter N. Thayer
-NATO
-Sprague
-Eastern Establishment
-Possible role with Administration
	-FRB
	-Japan
	-NATO
-Loyalty
-Ash Council
-Views regarding Connally
-Staff
-Ripon Society
-State Department
-Connally
-Kissinger
-[David] Kenneth Rush

Ammidon
-Possible role with Administration

Japan
-US Ambassador
-Flanigan's conversation with Rogers
-Meyer
-Champion
-Flanigan's forthcoming conversation with Connally

Thayer
-Possible role with Administration
	-NATO

Ammidon
-Corporate experience
	-Japan

Thayer and Sprague

Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Possible role with Administration
	-Rogers

Stuckey
-Flanigan's forthcoming conversation with MacGregor
-Burns
		-New York
		-Georgia
		-Management experience

National economy
-Money supply
-Gustave L. Levy's possible note to Burns
-Burns
-Two speeches in New York City
-Calvin Bullock Forum
-Stock exchange
-Ralph D'Annunzio
-New York City speeches
-McCracken
-Connally, November 16, 1971
-George W. Romney
-Burns
-Burns
-Treatment by the President
-Predecessor
-Support
	-FRB
-Media
-FRB
	-Money supply

Ammidon
-Possible role with Administration
	-Japan
-The President's conversation with Connally

Thayer
-Possible role with Administration
-Kissinger

Stuckey
-Flanigan's conversation with MacGregor
-Party registration
-Congressional district
	-Georgia
-Family

Flanigan left at 9:14 am.

	Appointments
		-Maurice H. Stans
	-Peter G. Peterson
	-Possible role with administration
		-Commerce Department
	-Stans
	-Tenure in office
	-Forthcoming trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Tenure in office
	-Haldeman's conversation with John N. Mitchell
-1972 election

Mitchell
-Tenure in office
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Justice Department

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Stans
-Tenure in office
-Mitchell
-Herbert W. Kalmbach

Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
-Milton R. Young
-Democrats
-George S. McGovern and Hubert H. Humphrey
-Meeting with Herman E. Talmadge
-Young

	Confirmations
		-Public concern

Commerce Department
-Stans
-Peterson
-Flanigan

Mitchell
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
	-Peterson

Commerce Department
-Peterson
-Women

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Clifford M. and Marta L. (Wood) Hardin
-Possible event
	-Timing
	-Stans

Butz
-Confirmation
-Young

Commerce Department
-Peterson
-Woman
-Possible reaction of businessmen

Women in government
-Supreme Court
-Commerce Department
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
	-Labor Department
-The President's Cabinet
	-Political impact

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Cabinet and White House Staff
-Foreign trips
	-Unknown person’s conversation with Haldeman
-Connally's views
-1972 election
-Robert H. Finch
-Second term
-John A. Volpe
-Hardin
-Stans
-Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-John H. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
-Wives
	-Japan
-Kissinger's office
	-Foreign policy strategy
-Exceptions
	-Japan
		-Connally

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-Agenda for forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Volpe
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Volpe
-Members' schedules
-Stans

	The President’s schedule
		-Kissinger

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Allen J. Ellender
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger's possible actions
-Firings
	-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

			-District of Columbia government, Agency for International Development [AID], Justice Department

Budget
-Blame
-The President
-Senate Democrats
-Ellender
-Michael J. Mansfield

The President's schedule
		-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Ehrlichman's view
	-Connally
-George Meany
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Program
-James Suffridge and Victor Riesel
-Meany
-Democrats
			-Meany
				-Unions
			-Ehrlichman

Budget
	-Senate
-Possible public opinion
-Federal employees
	-Pay
	-Ruling of Comptroller General
-Senate Democrats
-Mansfield
-Ellender
-Motives
	-Foreign aid

Lyndon B. Johnson
-Appearance

White House staff
-Leaks
-The Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
-J. Edgar Hoover

	Watergate
-Daniel L. Schorr
	-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI] interviews
		-[Forename unknown] Stein and Schorr's brother
FBI records
	-White House review

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Schorr
-Leaks regarding FBI investigation
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Time
-Relations with Charles W. Colson
-Leaks regarding FBI investigation
-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.’s forthcoming conversation with MacGregor
-Possible appointment
-Russell E. Train committee
-Mary McGrory

Hoover
-Tenure in office
-The Vice President

White House staff
-Contacts with press

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

-Church service
-[Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s] views
	-Attendees
		-Handshaking
			-W. Clement Stone’s relative
		-Ambassadors
			-NATO
		-Prisoner of war [POW] wives
		-Congressmen
-State dinners
	-Rose Mary Woods
	-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
	-Willy Brandt
	-1972

Kissinger entered at 9:45 am.

Budget
-Continuing resolution
	-Defense Department, foreign aid
-Mansfield
	-Voluntarism
		-Post office

Connally
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Senate

Budget
-Firings
-Haldeman's forthcoming call to Connally

Haldeman left at 9:50 am

German-American Conference
	-Meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally

International economy
-Economics
-Connally's views
-Convertibility
-Burns's views
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
	-The President's conversation with Georges J.R. Pompidou
	-Summits
	-Connally's views
		-US public
		-Japan
		-Politics
-Kissinger's recent conversation with Connally
-Connally's trip

Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Agenda
-Connally
-Volpe
-Previous trip
	-Poland, Romania
-Connally

Connally's trip
-International concerns
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-US presence in Asia

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Connally's trip
	-Possible letters
	-Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto
	-Thailand, Philippines, Japan
	-Nations' concerns
		-Foreign aid, treaties, Nixon Doctrine

US-PRC contacts
-White House leak
-Chou En-lai's views
-Rogers's possible conversation with Joseph J. Sisco

Connally's trip
-Meyer
-Mrs. Meyer
-Francis J. Galbraith
-Martha Townsley (Fisher) Galbraith

The President's possible letters
-Eisaku Sato
-New Zealand and Australia
-Lee Kuan Yew
-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Connally’s view

International economy
-Kissinger's role
-Flanigan's role
-Peterson's role
	-Commerce Department
-Flanigan
-Role
-Peterson
-Complexity
	-White House
-Kissinger, Connally and George P. Shultz
-Connally
-Kissinger
	-Politics

	Congress
		-Foreign aid bill
			-Vote

The President's reading
-Abraham Lincoln
-Winston S. Churchill

Cabinet
	-The President's conversation with Connally
	-Melvin R. Laird
	-Rogers

International economy
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
			-The President’s forthcoming trips to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and PRC
-Convertibility
-Pompidou
-Gold
-Convertibility

Connally

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-The President's announcement of November 12, 1971
-Newspapers' reaction
			-Timing
				-Reaction
			-Announcements
				-Laird
-Infiltration
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak's column
-Congress
	-Troop withdrawal announcement

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Kissinger's forthcoming trip

Kissinger's schedule
-Connally

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:45 am and 10:03 am.

[Conversation No. 618-11A]

[See Conversation No. 14-101]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's forthcoming trip
-Budget
-Continuing resolution
	-Foreign aid
	-Federal employees
		-Possible action

The President talked with John B. Connally between 10:03 am and 10:05 am.

[Conversation No. 618-11B]

[See Conversation No. 14-102]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-The President's meetings with Josip Broz Tito and Indira Gandhi
-Troop withdrawal
-The President's announcement
	-Residual force
-North Vietnamese reaction
-Negotiations
	-United Nations [UN]
	-USSR
	-POWs

International economy
	-Connally
-Kissinger's conversation with The Earl of Cromer
-[James] Harold Wilson
-Burns
-Convertibility
-Unknown West German’s views
-Rainer Barzel
-Gold
	-France
-Laird
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Laird
-Canada
-Negotiations
	-Peterson's views
	-Undeveloped nations
	-Rogers's views
	-Latin America
	-Strategy
		-Europe
-Meeting of Group of Ten
-Connally's trip to Alaska

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-Rogers's views
	-Negotiations
		-Publicity
			-Connally
-Mansfield
-Negotiations
	-Publicity
		-Timing
			-PRC trip

Connally
-Press
-Conversation with Kissinger

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-Rogers and Laird
	-Input
-Negotiations
-Le Duc Tho

Kissinger's schedule
-PRC ambassador
	-Forthcoming announcement
-Communications
	-Peking
	-New York
	-Paris
-Marshall Green

Pakistan foreign secretary
-Schedule
-Kissinger
-The President
	-Possible meeting
-Conversation with Kissinger
-PRC
	-UN

	UN
-USSR and PRC

Cabinet
-Members' foreign trips
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
-Meetings with the President
	-Stans
		-Forthcoming trip to USSR
	-Volpe
-Rogers
-McCracken
-Meetings with leaders
-Kissinger
-Laird, Kissinger and Rogers
-Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Shultz and Ehrlichman
-The Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]

Agnew
-Possible role with administration
	-Secretary of State

Kissinger
-New York Times Magazine article
	-News summary
-Access to the President
	-Vietnam
	-The President’s decision making style

Cabinet
-Members' trips
-Volpe
-Finch
-Activities
-Message from Kissinger
	-Announcements by the President

The President's schedule
-Foreign visitors
	-Pompidou
	-Rogers's possible reaction
-Foreign visits
-Rogers, Connally and Laird

Kissinger left at 10:20 am.

Conversation No. 618-12

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:20 am and 10:24 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.

Conversation No. 618-13

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  10:24 am - 11:01 am
Location:   Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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The President's schedule
-Cabinet wives and Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-Church services
-Hand-shaking
-The President's conversation with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Guests
	-Prisoners of war [POWs] wives
-Charles W. Colson and Lucy A. Winchester
				-Duration
-Birthday calls to congressmen
-The President's calls to paraplegics
	-Walter Reed Army Hospital
-Church services
-Guests
	-State Dining Room
-State Dinners
-Guests
	-White House
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Paul W. McCracken
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Kissinger
-Peter G. Peterson, Ehrlichman and the Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Reception
-Hughes
-State Department
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Guests
-John N. Irwin II
	-William P. Rogers
-[Melvin R. Laird]
-Robert H. Finch
-John B. Connally and John N. Mitchell
-Guests

White House social affairs
	-Gene Raymond
	-Jeanette MacDonald

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-Barry Brennan
-Invitation to White House

State Dinners
-[Forename unknown] The Langs [sp?]
-[Forename unknown] Futaro [sp?]
-Allan Jones
	-Man of LeMancha
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Futaro's [sp?] girls

Wine for dinners
-The President's memo to Alexander P. Butterfield or Rex W. Scouten
-1966 Bordeaux
-Allen J. Ellender’s recommendation
-Scouten

The President's schedule
-Church services
-Location
	-Second floor
	-Mrs. Nixon
-Unknown person Lynn Ayers [sp?]

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-Unknown man
-Church service
-Wife
-Presidential gift
-Ann Landers
-Letter
-Paul Healy's article in New York Daily News
			-[Julie Nixon Eisenhower]

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:01 am.

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Letter
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Ehrlichman

Mrs. Nixon
-Forthcoming trip to Africa
	-Liberia
	-State Department
	-Bob [Surname unknown]
		-Walter E. Washington
	-Press
-Roger and Louise Johnson
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Children
-Graham
-William R. Tolbert, Jr.'s invitation
-State Department
-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-William P. Rogers's views
-Barbara M. Watson
	-Position
-William R. Codus
	Protocol
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
	-USSR trip
	-Patricia R. Mosbacher
-Vernon C. Coffey
	-Secret Service

The Vice President's note to the President
-Robert F. Ellsworth's call to Woods
	-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-The President's response
-Kissinger and Connally

Woods

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-Schedule
-California
-Haldeman

	The President's forthcoming trips to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and People's Republic of China [PRC]
		-Stress
-Entourage
-Woods
-Haldeman
-Kissinger and Rogers

The President's schedule
-Georges J.R. Pompidou, Edward R.G. Heath and Willy Brandt

Woods's schedule
	-California
		-Western White House
-Marjorie P. Acker

The President's schedule
	-Florida

Woods's schedule

The President's schedule
-Phone calls
	-Birthdays
-Value
-Hospital greetings

Carl Haller [?]

Life expectancy
-Men compared to women

The President's schedule
-White House staff
-Leonard Garment and John C. Whitaker

Woods left at 11:01 am.

Conversation No. 618-14

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 11:01 am until 11:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-George P. Shultz

Butterfield left at 11:02 am.

Conversation No. 618-15

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:02 am and 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Delivery of Paul F. Healy's article

Conversation No. 618-16

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:02 am and 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Photographs
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

An envelope

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:04 am.

Conversation No. 618-17

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  11:04 am - 11:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Butterfield left at 11:05 am.

Conversation No. 618-18

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  11:07 am - 11:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's notes
-Filing
-Tapes
	-Transcription

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Photograph
	-Forthcoming television program

The President talked with the White House operator at 11:09 am.

[Conversation No. 618-18A]

[See Conversation No. 14-103]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Woods left at 11:10 am.

Conversation No. 618-19

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  11:10 am - 12:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President's economic program
	-Value added tax [VAT]
	-John B. Connally
	-Forthcoming conversation 
-Options

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 11:10 am and 11:23 am.

[Conversation No. 618-19A]

[See Conversation No. 14-104]

[End of telephone conversation]

Education
-Aid for private schools
-Possible tax credit
	-Congress

Possible poll
-Taxes
	-Option 5
		-Connally
-Sales

	-Education
-Property
-National defense
-Balancing budget
-Public relations problems
-VAT
	-Possible level

Budget
-Balance
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming meeting
-George P. Shultz and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger 
-Edwin L. Harper
-Connally
-The President
-Paul W. McCracken
-Maurice H. Stans
-Weinberger
-Shultz
-Connally's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Connally
-Connally's schedule
	-Treasury Department
-The President's schedule
	-Florida

The President's schedule
	-Florida
	-Camp David
	-California
-Foreign visitors
	-French, British, Germans
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Preparation
	-The President's conversation with Kissinger and William P. Rogers 
	-Rogers 
		-Legal training
			-Leonard Garment’s work
-State of the Union speech

State of the Union speech
-Backgrounders
-Jeb S. Magruder

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 11:23 am.

-Length
-Subsequent message to Congress
	-Budget message, economic report, national growth policy

Urban policy
	-Nathan Glazer’s Commentary article
	-The President's letter to Daniel P. Moynihan
	-Family assistance
		-New York

Moynihan
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
	-National growth

State of the Union message
-Content
	-VAT
-Preparation
-Property tax relief
-Aerospace industry
	-Airline and airframe
	-California, the West, Texas
-Connally's conversation with Eisaku Sato
	-Supersonic transport [SST]

Budget
-Ehrlichman's meetings
	-Connally, Shultz

Elliot L. Richardson
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Ronald W. Reagan
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare's [HEW] relations with Reagan
-Child development legislation
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Moynihan's views
	-Blacks
-Jews
	-Kibbutz
	-Yitzhak Rabin's background
-Forthcoming appeal to the President
	-Possible handling
-Knowledge regarding HR 1
-Russell B. Long
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Public perception
	-Call to Ehrlichman
-Performance

State of the Union message
-Content

Revenue-sharing
-Budget
-Congress
-VAT
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Administration approach

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-William C. Sullivan

Request for refreshment order

The President left at an unknown time before 12:03 pm.

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Allen J. Ellender and George H. Mahon

The President entered at an unknown time after 11:23 am.

FBI
-Sullivan
-Relationship with Richard A. Moore
-Interest in intelligence

District of Columbia [DC]
-Tightening of welfare
	-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

Law Enforcement Assistance Act [LEAA]
-Management
-Jerris Leonard
-Frank C. Carlucci
-John N. Mitchell and Richard G. Kleindienst
-Leonard
-Criticism
-Press
-Linwood Holton
-Justice Department
	-States
-The Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
-Forthcoming conference of governors
-Handling of funds
-Supervision
-States' abuse
	-Examples
-Forthcoming conference of governors
	-Agnew

Crime
-Statistics
-Life magazine article
-Poll
-The President's judicial appointments
-DC program
-Symbolism
-Youth
-Drugs
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe's office
-Public relations
	-Athletes' cooperation
-Statistics
-State of the Union message
-Riots
-Colleges
-Types of crime
	-Robbery and rape
-Climate of lawlessness
-Improvement
	-Compared to 1967 and 1968
-DC program
-Drugs

Cabinet

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Trip to Cleveland
-Call to John K. Andrews, Jr.

Andrews's work
-Patrick J. Buchanan

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Possible agreement with Mahon and Ellender
-Funding
	-Postal agreement
-Cessation of spending
-Possible agreement with Mahon and Ellender
-Pending bills
	-Defense
	-Military procurement
	-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
	-Possible veto
-Foreign aid
-Connally's views
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Congress
	-Blame
	-Praise
		-House of Representatives
	-Blame
		-Senate
	-Rogers's testimony regarding foreign aid
-Shultz's call to Ellender
-Ellender
-Strategy
	-House of Representatives
	-The President
-Proposal
-Mahon
	-Shultz
-Furloughs for federal employees
	-OEO
	-Agency for International Development [AID]
	-Defense Department
	-Possible impact on Vietnam War
	-Spirit of ‘76
-The President's possible meeting
-Ellender, Michael J. Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Mahon and William R. Poage
-Cabinet meeting
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-John A. Volpe
-OEO
-Ellender's knowledge
-Conversation with Shultz
-Mansfield's view
-The President's leadership
-Cabinet
-Ronald L. Ziegler's possible statement
-Shultz

Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Agenda
-Volpe
-Report on trips
	-Romania and Poland
-The President's conversation with Kissinger

Budget
-Shultz's work
-Ellender
-Congressional leaders
-Congress's actions
-Amendments
	-Tax bill
	-Foreign aid
	-Appropriations
-Continuing resolution
-Defense
	-Mansfield Amendment
-Foreign aid
-DC
-Military procurement
-OEO
-Ellender
-Strategy
	-Shultz
-House of Representatives' schedule
-Wilbur D. Mills's letter to the President
-The President's possible meeting with Congressmen
-The President's possible actions
-Weinberger
-Connally's views
-Weinberger

The President's schedule
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Congressmen
-Richardson
-McCracken
-Stans
-Congressmen
-Shultz
-Weinberger

Budget
-Congress
-Clark MacGregor
-Rogers's views
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Congressmen
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-OEO
-The President's possible actions

The President's schedule
-COLC
-Cabinet Room
-Richardson
-McCracken
-Stans
-Kissinger

Ehrlichman and Haldeman left at 12:03 pm.

Conversation No. 618-20

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:03 pm and 12:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming presentation
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.

Conversation No. 618-21

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  12:05 pm - 12:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Paul A. Freund, Julius Goebel, Jr., Charles Fairman, L. Quincy Mumford and John W. Dean III; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of  the meeting.

Introductions

Books
-Binding

Arrangements for photograph session

Books
	-Volumes

Microfilm

Writing
	-Dictation
-The President's preparation for speeches
-Dictabelts
-News reporters
-Method
-The President's methods

Books on Supreme Court
	-White House library

Presentation of gifts by the President
	-Cufflinks
		-Presidential seal

Oval Office
-Furnishings

Presentation of gifts by the President
	-Pens
		-Bill signings
		-Manuscript division of Library of Congress

Books on Supreme Court
-Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.’s bequest
-Leverett Saltonstall's meeting with Felix Frankfurter

Frankfurter
	-Death

Holmes
	-Story
	-Louis D. Brandeis's gift of books
	-Drew Pearson
	-Brandeis brief

Burlesque shows

[General conversation]

Freund et al., left at 12:17 pm.

Conversation No. 618-22

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  12:17 pm - unknown before 12:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-George E. Allen
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm.

Conversation No. 618-23

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  12:18 pm - 12:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George E. Allen; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Photograph session

Refreshments

Allen's schedule
	-Palm Springs
-Herbert W. Kalmbach

The President's schedule
-Allen
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Allen's story regarding Dwight D. Eisenhower
		-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
		-Kalmbach

Budget
-Continuing resolution

-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-District of Columbia [DC] funds
-Defense Department
-Congress action
		-Possible furloughs for federal employees
-Harry S. Truman
	-Congress
		-1948

John C. Stennis
	-Allen’s schedule
-Conversation with the President
-Amendment regarding Cambodian aid
-Senate

[Forename unknown] Brennan [sp?]
-Georgetown

	Allen
		-Southern congressmen

Foreign aid
-House vote on continuing resolution
	-Southern Democrats
-The President's conversation with John N. Mitchell and Clark MacGregor
-Forthcoming elections

Allen
-Political background
	-Democratic National Committee [DNC]
	-Truman
	-DNC
		-Ed Blake [?]
		-Frank Walker
		-Franklin D. Roosevelt
	-Conversation with Truman
		-Voting

Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Feelings toward Truman

Truman
-Intelligence
	-Allen’s view
-Eisenhower
-Dean G. Acheson

Acheson

National economy
-Foreign aid
-United Nations [UN]
-US standard of living
	-Trade

	UN

The President's performance in office
	-Washington Post

Demonstrations

The press
	-Relations with the President
-The President's previous press conference

Vietnam
-Previous troop withdrawal announcement
-Negotiations
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]

National economy
-Stock market
	-Phase II
-Status
-Contrasted with 1968
	-War and inflation
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-The President's program
	-Phase II
		-Effect on the stock market

US relations with People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-US relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and Japan
-Louis's [Surname unknown] views

Henry A. Kissinger
-Lyndon B. Johnson and Truman

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

John B. Connally
-Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey

Kennedy
-Presidential prospects
	-Youth, blacks, women

The Vice President

Henry A. Wallace
-Edwin W. Pauley
-Nomination of Roosevelt in 1944

Roosevelt
-Health in 1944
-Schedule
	-Edwin M. (“Pa”) Watson
-Conversation regarding Wallace
	-Walker
-Edward J. Flynn
-Edward J. Kelly

The Vice President

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Politics
-Money
-Vice Presidency
-Money
	-Television
-Truman's 1948 campaign
-Louis A. Johnson
-David K.E. Bruce
-William P. Lane, Jr.
-Bernard M. Baruch

UN vote on Taiwan
-Delegates' reaction
-George H. W. Bush

Presidency
-The President's schedule
	-Eisenhower
		-Golf
	-Truman
		-Poker
-Perspective
-The President's handling
-Polls
	-Truman

Politics
-Money and the Vice Presidency
-Importance

Youth
-Drug addiction
-Efforts of presidency
-Allen's employee's views
	-University of California

Justin W. Dart

Asa V. Call
-Health
-[Forename unknown] Friedman's [sp?] report
-Allen's confirmation to Reconstruction Finance Corporation
-[Forename unknown] Bartlett
-William F. Knowland

National economy
-Money supply
-Arthur F. Burns
-William McChesney Martin
-The President's program
-Burns
-Forthcoming conversation with Allen
-1960 election
-Martin
	-Robert B. Anderson
-Connally's views
-Unemployment

Harry L. Hopkins

National economy
-Employment
	-Hopkins
	-Work Projects Administration [WPA]
	-Roosevelt
-Public Works Administration [PWA]

Presentation of gifts by the President

Story
	-Nikita S. Khrushchev
	-Josef V. Stalin
		-Letters

Allen left at 12:50 pm.

Conversation No. 618-24

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:50 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Unknown person's schedule
	-Meeting

Conversation No. 618-25

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:50 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 618-26

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  12:57 pm - 1:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

John B. Connally
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Compared to other Cabinet members
-John N. Mitchell
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Revaluation
	-Possible levels
	-Foreign policy implications
-Connally's opponents within administration
	-Prices
	-Foreigners
-Earl of Cromer
-Connally's possible speech
	-Possible consequence
-Possible meeting with Paul A. Volcker and Charls E. Walker

-Conversation with Kissinger
-Connally's previous trip
-Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto
	-Possible aid to Cambodia
-Conversation with Kissinger
-1972 campaign
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:57 pm.

Instruction

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:16 pm.

	Administration
		-Need for toughness

Connally
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Foreign aid
-Foreign policy

Foreign aid program
-Senate vote
-The President's conversation with William P. Rogers
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Foreign policy
	-Nixon Doctrine

Connally
-Conversation with Kissinger
	-Candor
-Administration appointees

Cabinet
-Rogers
	-John A. Scali [?]
	-Previous meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Connally
-Mitchell

The President's previous press conference
-Meeting with unknown man
-Preparation

George H. Mahon
-Call to Kissinger
-Forthcoming vote on Boland Amendment
-Mansfield Amendment
-Talking points

Congress
-Motives
	-Southern Democrats
-The President's possible TV speech
-Mansfield and Boland Amendments

Connally
-Possible action
-Volcker
-Schedule
	-Breakfast meetings
-Foreign policy
	-Previous trip
	-Kissinger's talking points
		-Saigon
-Unknown person

George E. Allen
-Previous meeting with the President
-Relationship with Freeman Gosden
-Previous meeting with the President

The President's press conference of November 12, 1971

	Connally

Vietnam
-Previous troop withdrawal announcement
-Press coverage in Newsweek and Time
				-Negotiations
			-Congress
				-Residual force
				-Prisoners of war [POWs]

The President
-1972 election prospects
-Connally's view
	-Staff
-Possible staff changes
-Walter J. Hickel
-State Department
	-Timing
		-Cambodia
		-1971
	-Rogers
	-Leaks
-Connally's view
-Melvin R. Laird
-Connally's view
-Defense and State Departments
	-Efforts for the President
-Timing

Yitzhak Rabin
-Conversation with Kissinger
	-USSR offer
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger

Connally
-Schedule
-Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Views regarding White House
-Conversation with Kissinger
-International monetary system
-Price of gold
-Arthur F. Burns

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

International economy
-Gold
-Shultz's view
-Convertibility
-Pompidou
-West Germany
	-France
	-US
-Monetary system
-Floating rates
-Convertibility
	-Special Drawing Rights [SDR]

Foreign aid program
-Multi-national
	-Transfer to bilateral

Kissinger left at 1:16 pm.

Conversation No. 618-27

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 1:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:53 pm.

Conversation No. 618-28

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 1:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Paper
-Forthcoming meeting
-Pay board

Legal opinion
-John N. Mitchell
-John W. Dean III

Conversation No. 618-29

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 1:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:53 pm.

Conversation No. 618-30

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 1:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 618-31

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:16 pm and 1:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Donald H. Rumsfeld, George H. Boldt and C. Jackson Grayson
-Gerald L. Warren
	-Review
		-Cabinet Room
	-Film
-Meeting with Congressional leaders
-Cabinet Room

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:53 pm.

Conversation No. 618-32

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  1:53 pm - 2:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with C. Jackson Grayson, George H. Boldt and Donald H. Rumsfeld; Stephen B. Bull and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

	Greetings

National economy
-Price Commission and Pay Board
	-Difficulty of job
-Performance
-The President’s recent press conference
-Uncertainty
-Pay Board
-Labor participation
-George Meany's statement
-Press
-Forthcoming decisions
-Retroactivity
	-Organized labor
-Sanctity of contracts
-Public policy
	-Inflation
-Rumsfeld's conversation with General Motors
-Prices
-Application
	-90 day freeze
-Labor
-Business participation
	-Meeting, November 11, 1971
		-Retroactivity

Stephen B. Bull and Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 1:53 pm.

The President's schedule
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Agenda
-John B. Connally
-Press
-Length of remarks
-Congressmen
-Purpose
-The President's forthcoming remarks
-The President's economic program
	-Pay Board and Price Commission
	-Phase II
	-Inflation

National economy
-Pay Board
-Retroactivity

COLC
-Forthcoming meeting
-Press
				-Grayson’s and Boldt’s appearance on "Face the Nation," November 14, 1971
	-The President’s schedule
		-Camp David
-Handling
-Connally

The President et al., left at 2:02 pm.

Conversation No. 618-33

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:02 pm and 2:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

The President's location
	-Cabinet Room

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 2:13 pm.

Conversation No. 618-34

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 2:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Briefing paper
-George P. Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:19 pm.

Conversation No. 618-35

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 2:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?]

Requested the unknown person

Conversation No. 618-36

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 2:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:19 pm.

Conversation No. 618-37

Date:  November 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:13 pm and 2:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-105]