Conversation No. 619-1

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:56 am and 8:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:07 am.

Conversation No. 619-2

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:56 am and 8:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Norris Cotton and Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Margaret Chase Smith

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:07 am.

Conversation No. 619-3

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 am and 9:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

The President's location
-Cabinet Room

[Unintelligible]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:07 am.

[Unintelligible]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 8:07 am.

Oval Office
-Lighting problem

Old Executive Office Building [EOB]

An unknown person [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:07 am and 9:50 am.

[Conversation No. 619-3A]

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Lighting problem
	-Oval Office
	-EOB

[End of telephone conversation]

	[Unintelligible]

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:50 am.

Conversation No. 619-4

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 am and 9:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with unknown men [Secret Service agents].

	[Unintelligible]

Bull and the unknown men [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 9:50 am.

Conversation No. 619-5

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 am and 9:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with an unknown man.

	[Unintelligible]

Bull and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:50 am.

Conversation No. 619-6

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:07 am and 9:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with unknown people [Secret Service agents].

	[Unintelligible]

Butterfield and the unknown men [Secret Service agents left at an unknown time before 9:50 am.

Conversation No. 619-7

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  9:53 am - 10:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally.

Connally's schedule
	-New York

Paul W. McCracken
-Tenure in office
	-University of Michigan
-Replacement

-Herbert Stein

National economy
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Arthur F. Burns
-The President's conversation with Peter M. Flanigan
-Connally
-Role
-Forthcoming meeting with Frederic V. Malek, November 17, 1971
-Conversation with Burns, November 15, 1971
-[Forename unknown] Thompson
	-Dallas

Hoyt Ammidon
-The President's conversation with Flanigan
-Possible role with Administration
-Forthcoming conversation with Connally
-William P. Rogers

Walter N. Thayer
-Possible role with Administration
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-The President's conversation with Flanigan

National economy
-Stock market
	-[Forename unknown] O’Reilly [sp?]
-Inflation
-Wage increases
-Profits
-Connally's forthcoming speech in New York, November 16, 1971
-Stock market
	-1968 compared to 1971
		-War and inflation
-The President's program
-Economic uncertainty
-International monetary situation
	-The President’s August 15, 1971 speech
-Isolationism
-The President's program
	-Security
	-Foreign aid
-India-Pakistan
-US refugee assistance
-Compared to assistance from other countries
-Status
	-Statement
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Businessmen
		-Charls E. Walker
		-Paul A. Volcker
		-Gold
-Gold
-The President's schedule
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Burns's views
	-Convertibility
	-Newsweek
-George P. Shultz's views
-Connally's views
-Kissinger's conversation with the President
	-Pompidou
-US negotiating position
			-Views of Richard N. Cooper, William J. Fellner, Walter S. Salant, Fritz Machlup
	-Convertibility
-Connally's forthcoming speech in New York, November 16, 1971
-Connally's previous foreign trip
-The President's views
	-US world role
		-Responsibility
		-International trade
		-Competition
		-Protectionism
-Connally's role
-John N. Mitchell
-The President's views
	-New international economic system
-Connally's forthcoming speech in New York November 16, 1971
-New Yorkers' views
	-Time
-New York Times
-Stock market
-The President’s recent conversation with George E. Allen
-Inflation
-Prospects
	-1972
-Problems
	-The Administration
	-Coordinating responses
-Connally's forthcoming speech in New York, November 16, 1971
	-Criticisms
	-Theme
		-Internationalism
-Peter G. Peterson
-Possible role with administration
	-Commerce Department

Cabinet
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Story in New York Times regarding Vietnam withdrawal
	-Residual forces

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Vietnam
-The President's meeting with congressmen, November 15, 1971
	-Michael J. Mansfield
	-Hugh Scott
-Congress
	-Withdrawal
		-Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-Negotiations
		-Possible outcome
			-Blame
-Military options
	-Possible effect
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-POWs

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:53 am.

	The President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:13 am.

	POWs

The President's leadership

Connally left at 10:13 am.

Conversation No. 619-8

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 10:13 am until 10:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The President and the unknown person left at 10:15 am.

Conversation No. 619-9

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:15 am and 10:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

	[Unintelligible]

The President's schedule
-Old Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Cabinet Room

An unknown man [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:15 am and 10:56 am.

[Conversation No. 619-9A]

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The President’s location
	-Cabinet Room

[End of telephone conversation]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 10:56 am.

Conversation No. 619-10

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:56 am and 10:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with Yitzhak Rabin
-Paul W. McCracken

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:59 am.

Conversation No. 619-11

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  10:59 am - 11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Secretary of Agriculture
-Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
	-Agri-business
-Academic background
-Selection process
	-Milton R. Young

Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with Yitzhak Rabin

Hubert H. Humphrey
-Possible public perception
-Compared to Harold E. Stassen

Melvin R. Laird
-News story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
-The President's conversation with John B. Connally
-Residual force
-Compared to William P. Rogers

Laird and Rogers
-Connally's views
-Actions

Laird
-Kissinger's possible action
-Possible replacement

-Possible handling
-News story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
-Origin
	-Saigon
	-Washington, DC
			-Quotes

Kissinger
-Meeting with Rabin

Arthur F. Burns
-Meetings
	-Performance
		-Response
		-Peter M. Flanigan

Laird
-Possible conversations
	-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-Leak
-John N. Mitchell
-News story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
-Effect
	-Negotiations
	-Residual force
-Troop withdrawal announcements
	-Timing
-Possible White House response

Burns

Cabinet
-Laird
	-Politics
-Rogers
-Connally
-Rogers
-Mitchell
-Maurice H. Stans
-John A. Volpe
-George W. Romney
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Elliot L. Richardson
	-Edward M. Kennedy
-Butz

White House staff
-Robert H. Finch
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Laird
-News story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
	-Troop withdrawal announcement
		-Press responses
			-News summary
-New York Times
-Possible conversation with Haldeman

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

Haldeman left at 11:13 am.

Conversation No. 619-12

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  11:13 am - 11:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Paul W. McCracken and George P. Shultz.

Shultz’s schedule

	Seating arrangements

McCracken's previous trip to Japan
-Report
	-Economic figures
-John B. Connally

National economy
-Gross National Product [GNP]
	-Estimates
		-Rate of change
-Price Index
	-Inflation
-Arthur F. Burns
-GNP
	-Real output
	-Estimates
		-Error
			-Department of Commerce
-Housing starts
-GNP
-Public concern
-Growth
-Unemployment
-Auto sales
	-Deadline
	-Ford Motor Company

	International monetary system
		-Memorandum
		-Business reaction
			-New York
-Prospects for negotiation
	-Exchange rates
		-Compared to pre-October 15, 1971 period
-US negotiating position
	-Other nations' domestic concerns
	-Japan
		-Recession
	-Italy
		-Recession
	-Great Britain
		-McCracken’s schedule
			-Paris
				-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD] meeting
		-McCracken’s possible statement
-Europeans' position
	-Surcharge
	-Gold prices
	-Great Britain
	-France
	-Italy
	-Deutschemark
		-Dollar
-Japanese concerns
	-Okinawa
	-Connally's visit
		-Diet
-McCracken's conversation with Minister for Economic Planning
	-Consultations
		-Press coverage

US business community
-Auto sales
-Maurice H. Stans
-James M. Roche
	-General Motor [GM]
-Reaction to the President's economic program
	-Profits
		-Labor
-Responsibility
-Business schools
-Business Council
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Coca-Cola
-Activities
-Foreign policy
	-Labor
-1960's conditions
	-1968
		-Prosperity
			-War
			-Inflation
	-Compared to 1971
-Congress
-Germans and Japanese
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Education
-Labor leaders
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-George Meany
-Government assistance
-McCracken
	-Dissertation advisory
		-[Forename unknown] Schoepinger [sp?]
	-Shultz, the President and Connally
-Views regarding labor unions
-Chambers of Commerce

Education
-Wealth
	-Decline of nations

Businessmen
-Charles G. Mortimer
-Harold L. (“Red”) Curtis
-[Forename unknown] Barrows [sp?]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:13 am.

	The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:38 am.

National economy
-Sales
	-Tax Bill
	-Possible effect of passage
		-Inventories
		-Plant equipment spending
-Retail
	-Automobiles
			-[Forename unknown] O'Reilly's [sp?] story in Wall Street Journal, November 15, 1971
				-Inventories

McCracken
-Conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, November 15, 1971
-Tenure in office
	-Phase II
-Successor
-Herbert G. Stein

Stein
-Health
-Possible role with administration
	-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Memorandum regarding money supply
	-Burns
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]

National economy
-Money supply
-Burns
-Connally
-The President's conversation with George E. Allen
-Short-term rates
-Stein's views
	-Monetarism
		-Burns

Clifford M. Hardin
	-Farm bill
	-Departure
-Conversation with the President
-Successor

McCracken
-Successor
-Shultz and Connally
-The President's schedule
-Stein
-Ezra Solomon

FRB
-Vacancies

McCracken
-Successor
-Departure
	-Press

	Economic figures

McCracken and Shultz left at 11:38 am.

Conversation No. 619-13

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  11:38 am - 12:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Sadruddin Aga Khan, Francis L. Kellogg and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; Stephen B. Bull and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

Gift for the President
	-Book

Refugees

Previous meeting
	-Geneva
		-1967
		-Roger Tubby

[Photograph session]

Refugees
	-The President’s travels in 1956 and 1957
-Political problems
	-India-Pakistan
	-Middle East
		-Israel
-Aga Khan's visits
	-India
	-Indira Gandhi
	-Officials
-Pakistan
	-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan

East Pakistan
-Transfer of power
	-Problems
		-Credibility
		-Hatred
-Mujibur Rahman
	-Trial
-Lawyer, A. K. Brohi
	-Meeting with Aga Khan
-Yahya Khan's statement, March 26, 1971
-Yahya Khan's options
	-Rahman
	-India
	-Political problems
	-Conversations with Aga Khan
	-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
	-Generals
-Rahman
	-Petitioners
-West Pakistan
	-Business community
-Foreign exchange

India-Pakistan
-Possible war
	-Generals
	-Gandhi
-Compared to Arabs and Israel
-Gandhi’s options
	-Yahya Khan
	-Bangladesh
-United Nations [UN] role
-Political pressures
	-Bangladesh
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] role
	-Soviet-Indian Friendship Treaty
-Refugees
-US aid
-Congressional continuing resolution
-Gandhi
-Previous conversation with the President
-Yahya Khan
-Possible war
-USSR
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Pakistan
-US response
	-Aid
		-Peru, Romania
		-India
		-Pakistan
-US aid to India
	-Department of Energy [DOE] program
-Possible war
-US response
	-Aid
		-Congress
-India
	-Possible action
	-Prospects for Bengal
-Statesmen
	-Hawks
-Gandhi and Yahya Khan
-Aga Khan's visit to India
	-Elections
	-Rahman
	-Yahya Khan
-Aga Khan's subsequent letter to Henry A. Kissinger
	-Harvard University
-Prospects for Bengal
-Yahya Khan
	-Rahman
	-Gandhi
		-Political pressures
	-Army
-The President's possible advice
-Mujibur Rahman
			-Independence
				-Guerilla war
				-Gandhi
-Refugee program
-Possible war
-Fault

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-Yahya Khan
	-US role
-Relations with Generals
	-Political pressures
-Transfer of power
	-Awami League
-Mujibur Rahman
	-Assembly seat
-Forthcoming trial
-Yahya Khan
-UN role
-Refugees
	-Pakistan
	-State Department
-PRC
	-USSR

Aga Khan et al., left at 12:05 pm.

Conversation No. 619-14

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:05 pm and 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Arthur S. Flemming et al

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:07 pm.

Conversation No. 619-15

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:05 pm and 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull; unknown people can be heard in the background at the beginning of the conversation.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Arthur S. Flemming, et al.
-Press coverage

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:07 pm.

Conversation No. 619-16

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  12:07 pm - 12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Arthur S. Flemming, John C. (“Johnny”) Unitas, Carmella LaSpada, John B. Martin and George T. Bell; Stephen B. Bull, the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

Unitas's previous game

Dick Butkus

	Super Bowl

	Washington Redskins

		-Dallas Cowboys

Arrangements for photograph

[Photograph session]

Football

Drugs
-National Football League commercials
-Football players as role models
-Black athletes

Unitas
-Forthcoming game in Miami
-Bob Griese

Presentation of gifts by the President
	-Compact
	-Prisoner of war [POWs]

Quarterbacks
-George Blanda, Griese, Unitas and Christian A. (“Sonny”) Jurgenson
-Age

John Mackey
-Meeting with the President

Flemming et al., left at 12:15 pm.

Conversation No. 619-17

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:15 pm and 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-"Open Door" session
	-Gifts
		-Tie clasps

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

Conversation No. 619-30

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:15 pm and 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

The President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

Conversation No. 619-18

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  12:16 pm - 12:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with James D. Hittle and John V. (“Jack”) Brennan; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

[Photograph session]

Presentation of gifts by the President

The President's efforts for servicemen

George Meyer Salomon [?]

	Military unification
		-Marine Corps

Model "A" car
	-Rumble seat

Brennan

Hittle and Brennan left at 12:18 pm.

Conversation No. 619-19

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  12:18 pm - 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with K. Wayne Smith and Henry A. Kissinger; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

[Photograph session]

Smith's work
	-Papers

Presentation of gifts by the President

	Kissinger [?]
		-Right-wing view

Smith and Kissinger left at 12:20 pm.

Conversation No. 619-20

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Kenneth M. Smith
	-Future work address
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin

Bull left at 12:20 pm.

Conversation No. 619-21

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm - 12:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Kenneth M. Smith, Patrick J. Buchanan and Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin; Stephen B. Bull and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

[Photograph session]

Buchanan

Allin
	-News summaries
		-William H. Rehnquist

Rehnquist
-Confirmation hearings

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Confirmation hearings
	-American Bar Association [ABA]

Rehnquist
-Confirmation hearings
-Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
-William O. Douglas and William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Hugo L. Black
	-Liberals

Presentation of gifts by the President

Smith et al., left at 12:22 pm.

Conversation No. 619-22

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  12:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-James H. Hogue
	-Future work address

Bull left at 12:22 pm.

Conversation No. 619-23

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  12:22 pm - 12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with James H. Hogue, William E. Timmons and Clark MacGregor; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Hogue
-Future role with administration
	-Treasury Department
	-John B. Connally

[Photograph session]

	MacGregor

	Departments

Presentation of gifts by the President

Hogue left at 12:23 pm.

Earl L. Butz
-Milton R. Young
	-Jack R. Miller
-John C. Whitaker's and Tom C. Korologos's efforts
-Confirmation
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Strategy

Vietnam
-Congress's possible actions
	-Amendment

	-The President’s recent announcement
	-Politics
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Press conference
	-Gerald R. Ford

Timmons and MacGregor left at 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 619-24

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
	-George L. Grassmuck
		-Career plans

Bull left at 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 619-25

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  12:25 pm - 12:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George L. Grassmuck and Alexander P. Butterfield; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Grassmuck
-Plans

-Experiences with the President
	-1968 campaign
	-Injury as Vice President

John C. (“Johnny”) Unitas

Grassmuck
-Work with Robert H. Finch

Finch
-Future
	-Senate

Presentation of gifts by the President

	Golf ball

Grassmuck's daughters

Grassmuck and Butterfield left at 12:28 pm.

Conversation No. 619-26

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  12:28 pm - unknown before 12:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
	-Forthcoming birthday

The President's schedule
-Thanksgiving Day broadcast for armed forces

Unknown people entered at an unknown time after 12:28 pm.

Greetings

The President, Bull and the unknown people left at an unknown time before 12:30 pm.

Conversation No. 619-27

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 pm and 12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator..

[See Conversation No. 14-130]

Conversation No. 619-28

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  12:33 pm - 1:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Appearance in Cleveland
	-Press report

-Appearance before Republican women’s group
-Harry S. Dent's conversation with Woods

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[The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower at an unknown time between 12:33 and 12:40 pm]

[Conversation No. 619-28A]

[See Conversation No. 14-131; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

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Letter to the President from Larry Smith

Memorandum to Woods from Alexander P. Butterfield
-Invitations to White House
	-Sub-cabinet appointees
		-The President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
		-Emilio Garrastuzu Medici
		-Church service

Invitations to White House dinners
-Administration officials
	-Cabinet
-Butterfield's memo
	-Rocco C. Sicilano
-Woods's efforts
-The President's conversations
-Woods
-Charles W. Colson and Butterfield
-Administration officials
	-Australian dinner
	-Sub-cabinet appointees
-Salute to Hollywood
	-Sue
-List of celebrities
-Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter
-Pat Boone
-John Wayne
-Administration officials
-The President's list
-Mitchell
-John B. Connally

Haldeman entered at 12:40 pm.

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Forthcoming calls from Woods

Connally
	-Gift for Woods
-Visit to Bangkok
-Maxine North [?]
-Contrasted with William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird

Woods left at 12:46 pm.

Butterfield
-Memorandum to Woods
	-Age
-Conversation with the President
-The President’s conversation with Woods
	-Invitations to White House dinners
		-Administration officials
-Memo to Woods
-Colson
-Woods
	-List
-Functions
	-Memoranda to Woods
-Conversations regarding White House invitations
-The President
	-Medici dinner
-Haldeman
-Possible memorandum from Haldeman

Invitations to White House dinners
-Colson
-Haldeman
-Butterfield's memorandum to Woods
-Butterfield’s conversation with the President
	-Medici dinner
-Colson

Woods
-Views regarding White House staff
-Butterfield
-Working relations with White House staff
	-Haldeman

Invitations to White House dinners
-Administration officials

Administration officials
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Tenure in office
-People's Republic of China [PRC] visit
-Donald H. Rumsfeld's view
-John A. Volpe
-Previous Cabinet meeting
-Presentation

Congress
	-National security issues
		-Senate Democrats supporting the President on national security
		-Michael J. Mansfield
			-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
		-Hatfield-McGovern vote
		-Mansfield
			-Vietnam
				-Withdrawal
		-Hugh Scott's motion on Cooper-Church Amendment
		-Stennis Amendment on foreign aid
		-Foreign Aid Bill
-James O. Eastland, Sam J. Ervin, Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson, Gale W. McGee, John C. Stennis and John J. Sparkman
		-James B. Allen and Russell B. Long
		-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:46 pm.

Malfunctioning dictaphone

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:08 pm.

Senate Democrats supporting the President on national security
-Byrd
-Howard W. Cannon
-Jackson
-Handling
	-Southerners

Jackson
-Possible candidacy
	-Announcement
		-Timing
-Votes
-The President's schedule

Congress
	-House Democrats supporting the President on national security
		-Leaders
			-Foreign areas
			-Arms Services
			-George H. Mahon
		-The President's schedule
			-Senators
				-Summary

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Maurice H. Stans
-Tenure in office
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell, November 15, 1971
	-Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Peter G. Peterson
-Possible conversations
-Haldeman and the President
-George P. Shultz's view
-The President's schedule

John W. Rollins
-The President's call, November 15, 1971
-Possible calls
-Mitchell and Haldeman

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:46 pm.

Unknown man
-Meeting with Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
	-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:08 pm.

Schweitzer
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Connally

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The President's schedule
-Connally [?]
-Ronald W. Reagan

Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
-Possible role with administration
-Peter M. Flanigan 
-Undersecretary of Defense
-Laird
-Frederic V. Malek
-Laird
	-Defense Department
		-Reorganization
			-New post

NATO
-Flanigan
-Walter N. Thayer
-Mansfield D. Sprague

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:46 and 1:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 619-28B]

[See Conversation No. 14-132]

[End of telephone conversation]

NATO
-George Champion, Jr.
-Hoyt Ammidon

The President's schedule
-Robert J. Dole
-Mitchell
		-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 12:46 pm and 1:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 619-28C]

[See Conversation No. 14-133]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-AFL-CIO convention
	-Timing
-George Meany
-Criticism of the President's foreign policy
-PRC
-Fidel Castro
			-Florida
			-Meany

Appointments
-Flanigan and Malek
-NATO
-Laird's Under secretaries
-Japan Ambassador
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Paul W. McCracken's replacement
-Shultz's role
-Connally's role
	-NATO
	-Japan
-Thayer
-Ammidon
-Sprague
-Shultz
	-Conversation with the President
		-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Arthur F. Burns
-Connally
-Views regarding unknown Texan
-Herbert Stein

The President talked with Flanigan between 1:08 and 1:09 pm.

[Conversation No. 619-28D]

[See Conversation No. 14-134]

[End of telephone conversation]

NATO
	-Henry A. Kissinger

The President talked with an unknown person [Kissinger ?] at an unknown time between 1:09 and 1:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 619-28E]

Kissinger’s schedule
-Return call

[End of telephone conversation]

Congress
	-National issues
		Congressional Democrats supporting the President on national security
		-Jackson
		-McGee
		-Southerners
		-Mansfield
		-Carl B. Albert
		-Mahon
		-Kissinger's views
		-The President's schedule
		-Clark MacGregor
		-Connally

Kissinger entered at 1:13 pm.

Appointments
-The President's previous conversation with Flanigan
	-NATO
		-John J. McCloy

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:13 and 1:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 619-28F]

[See Conversation No. 14-135]

[End of telephone conversation]

McCloy
-Possible role with Administration

Appointments
-Ammidon
-Japan
-Connally
-New York Trust
-Thayer
	-Connally
	-Flanigan
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-William P. Rogers's views
-Sprague
-Stoessel
	-Volpe’s view
-Graham A. Martin
-Volpe's view

Volpe
	-Cabinet report
-Meeting with Prime Minister of Poland
	-Duration

Donald McI. Kendall

Frank J. Shakespeare

Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Meeting with the President

The President's schedule
-Meetings
-Shakespeare
-Volpe

Shakespeare
-Performance in office

Yitzhak Rabin
-Meeting with Kissinger, November 16, 1971
-Golda Meir's schedule
-Appeal for arms
-The President
-San Clemente

Moshe Dayan's schedule
-Rogers and Laird

The President left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm

The President’s schedule
	-Gold Meir
		-[Hassan, King of Morocco] [Moulay] Hassan II
-Kissinger and Rogers

The President's schedule
-Medici
-Azores

The President entered at an unknown time after 1:09 pm.

Rogers and Laird
	-The President’s conversation with Connally
	-The President’s schedule
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Volpe
-Tenure in office
	-Forthcoming election

The President talked with Flanigan between 1:17 and 1:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 619-28G]

[See Conversation No. 14-136]

Kissinger and Haldeman conferred during the conversation.

The President’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's schedule

Laird
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Conversations with Kissinger
-New York Times story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
-Source

Leaks
-Kissinger's staff
-Laird
-State Department
-Defense Department

Laird and Rogers
	-Phantoms
	-Dayan
	-Possible Israeli negotiations with Egypt

Aid to Israel
-The President's role
	-Phantoms
-Rogers's possible role
-The President's schedule
-Meir
	-Phantoms
	-USSR
		-Leonid I. Brezhnev
		-Interim settlement
-State Department
	-Phantoms

Laird
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-New York Times story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
	-Defense Department
	-Source

Cabinet
-Rogers's views
-John A. Scali
-The President's treatment
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's treatment
	-Meetings
-Staff system
-The President's schedule
	-Compared to Eisenhower’s
-Eisenhower's schedule
-Arthur E. Summerfield
-John Foster Dulles

The President's schedule
-Agnew
-Eisenhower's schedule
-The President
-Requests

Agnew

The President's schedule
-Jerry Persons
-Sherman Adams

Agnew’s schedule
-Kissinger

Reagan
-Schedule
-Kissinger
-The President
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Amchitka nuclear test
-Mail
-Supreme Court
-Scientists
-Press

Israel
	-Kissinger’s forthcoming talk with Rabin
		-The President's schedule
		-Meir
		-Dayan
		-Domestic allies
		-Interim settlement

PRC
	George H. W. Bush's forthcoming statement
	-New York
	-Rogers's calls to Kissinger
		-The President
-Statement on Vietnam
	-US troop withdrawal
		-Deadline
	-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Bush's forthcoming statement
-Chou En-Lai
-Rogers's view
-Television
-Location
-USSR
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation
	-Ambassador in Paris
-Statement regarding USSR
-Bush's forthcoming statement
-Kissinger's schedule
	-PRC Ambassador in Paris
	-Le Duc Tho
-Forthcoming announcement
	-PRC Ambassador
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon ‘s schedule
		-The President’s schedule

Appointments
-Deputy Secretary of Defense
-John S. Foster, Jr.
-Laird
-Seamans
-Stanley R. Resor
-Laird's list

PRC
-Statement regarding Vietnam
-US response
-Rogers's views
		-Forthcoming trip
			-Rogers’s view
				-Political risks
		-Statement regarding Vietnam
-Bush
-Views of other nations
-Connally
	-Thailand
-United Nations [UN] speech of November 15, 1971
-Rogers

State Department
-Views regarding the President's forthcoming trips to the USSR and PRC

PRC
-Communiqué at end of the President's forthcoming trip
-US defense commitments
	-Rogers’s view
-The President's speeches
	-Theme
		-US differences with PRC
-Communiqué at end of the President's forthcoming trip
-Statement regarding Vietnam
-Preparation of text
	-Rogers
-Chou En-Lai and Mao Tse-Tung

Rogers's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to the USSR
	-Haldeman
	-Advance trip

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to the USSR
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Communiqué

Rogers's schedule
-USSR
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Possible result
	-Negotiations
		-Dobrynin
-Letter

PRC
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Announcement
	-Possible response
		-Lin Piao and Army Chief of Staff
		-USSR

Sadruddin Aga Khan
-Conversation with the President
-Harvard University
-India-Pakistan

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-Role with UN
-Background
-Conversation with the President
-India-Pakistan
	-Tone of the President’s comments
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Trial of Mujibur Rahman
	-Possible US action

India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's conversation with Pakistani foreign secretary
-Agha Muhommad Yahya khan
	-Possible letter from the President
-Mujibur Rahman

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	INDIA

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Aga Khan
	-Conversation with the President
		-Refugees
			-US aid
-Role with UN

Vietnam
-The President's previous meeting with congressmen
-Mansfield compromise
-Effect on negotiations
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Gerald R. Ford and Leslie C. Arends
-Liberals' views
-North Vietnamese military dispositions
	-South Vietnam
-Cambodia
-Laos
-USSR and PRC aid
	-North Vietnam
-Liberals
-Administration's possible response
-Mansfield Amendment
-Scott
-Ford and Arends
-Scott
-Southern Democrats
-Stennis

Laird
-Presidency
-Views on national security policy
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Vietnam
-Conversation with Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
	-Vietnamization

Vietnam
-The President's policy
-President’s 1969 conversation with Kissinger
-Laird's role
-Statements during 1968 campaign
	-Nomination acceptance speech
		-Miami
	-Korea
		-US arms and aid
-Mary McGrory's views
-Cambodia
-Nixon Doctrine
-The President's policy
	-Troop withdrawals
	-Anti-war demonstrations
		-Liberals
	-Laird
		-March 1969
	-Peace proposals

Cabinet
-Laird and Rogers
-Connally
-Leaks
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-The President's decision-making procedures

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-Rogers's statement to Henry Brandon
-Laird
		-Leak
			-Negotiations

The President's schedule
-Meir
	-Possible trip to the US
-Rogers
-Dayan

Kissinger left and an unknown man entered at 1:58 pm.

Manolo Sanchez
-Schedule

Cuff links

The President et al., left at 1:59 pm.

Conversation No. 619-29

Date:  November 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:59 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

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