Conversation No. 620-1

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  8:45 am - 9:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Henry A. Kissinger
-Le Duc Tho
	-Health
-Meeting with Ronald W. Reagan
	-Haldeman
	-Time
	-Location
		-Roosevelt Room

Invitations to White House Dinners
	-Rose Mary Woods
	-Alexander P. Butterfield
	-Charles W. Colson
	-Activities
	-Butterfield
	-Frederic V. Malek
	-Views
-Colson
-Woods
-Josip Broz Tito Dinner
-Butterfield's memorandum
	-Haldeman
	-The President’s instruction
		-Japanese Dinner
		-Cabinet attendance
-The President's conversations with Butterfield and Woods
-Butterfield's conversation with Colson

White House staff
	-Butterfield, Dwight L. Chapin, Lawrence M. Higby and Stephen B. Bull
	-Female staff members
-Woods
	-Haldeman
	-Female staff members

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-Conversation with the President
-Butterfield
-Butterfield
-Memorandum
-Woods
-Haldeman
-Conversation with the President
-Schedule
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Schedule
	-Acker
	-The President’s forthcoming State of the Union address
-Acker
-Nellie L.  Yates
-Woods
	-Butterfield
-Conversation with the President
-Butterfield
-Invitations to White House Dinners
	-Cabinet
-Woods
-Colson
-Views regarding the President's schedule
-The President's friends
-Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman

Oval Office
-Decor
-Windows
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

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-Curtains
-Secret Service

White House
-Redecoration

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-Fountain
-Rooms
	-Family
	-Public
		-Red
		-Diplomatic reception
		-Green
-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Wives 

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-[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt and Bess (Wallace) Truman

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	The President's possible speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Noel C. Koch
	-Colson
-Colson
-Possible release to press
-Requirements
-James D. Hodgson
-News summary
-John D. Ehrlichman's views
-Alternatives
	-Colson
-George Meany
	-Draft
		-Quoted
-White House staff's views
-Colson
-Ehrlichman's contacts
-Hodgson
-Willie J. Usery
-Possible content
	-Labor support
		-Cambodia
	-The President’s comments of November 16, 1971
		-Ehrlichman

Speechwriters
	-Ehrlichman’s efforts

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-The President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-Value

The President's schedule
-Reagan
-AFL-CIO convention
-Pay Board
	-Retroactivity
		-Vote

David N. Parker
-Mrs. Nixon's schedule

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
-Conversation with Parker
-Mrs. Nixon's schedule
	-Events

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Colson's views
-George P. Shultz
-Value
	-Symbolism
-Meany
-Teamsters, clerks, construction workers
-Support
-Meany
	-The President’s possible reception
-Unknown man's views
-Phase II
-Dock strike
-Steel settlement
-Timing
-Others' speeches
-Meany
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
	-Tallahassee
-Possible announcement of candidacy for President
-Timing
	-Television
-The President's schedule
-Connally
-Draft
	-Content
	-Writing
	-Colson and Koch
	-Colson's material
	-Length
	-Content
		-Labor
			-Administration actions,
			-Phase II
		-Omissions
-The President's schedule

The President’s schedule
	-Reagan

Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger

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-Possible Administration handling

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	Reagan
		-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Compared to Patrick J. Buchanan
-Former position
-Polls
-Economy and taxes
-Student demonstrations
-State income tax problems
-Political style

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Content
	-Hodgson
	-“Laundry list” of accomplishments
	-Phase II
-Phraseology

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Connally's previous speech
-Haldeman's possible call

The President's schedule
-Connally

Woods
-Haldeman

Invitations to White House Dinners
-Haldeman's conversation with Butterfield
-Willy Brandt
-Christmas
-Woods

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-William R. Codus's role
	-National Security Council [NSC]
-Kissinger
-W. Marshall Wright
-Constance M. Stuart
-John V. Brennan
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
	-Compared to Bill [Surname unknown]

Mosbacher
-The President's foreign trips
-Duties
	-Social functions
		-Camp David
		-Blair House
-Patricia R. Mosbacher

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:45 am

	Delivery of information

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

Thailand
-Thanom Kittikachorn's coup
-Purpose

Herbert Stein
-Health
-Possible call from the President

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Peterson
-Schedule
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Foreign trips
	-Cabinet
	-1972
	-1973

Cabinet
-John A. Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Hodgson
-Peterson

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-William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Resignations after 1972 election
-Volpe
	-Possible ambassadorship
-Possible second term
	-Recruiting
	-The President's schedule
		-Camp David
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's role
		-Meetings
	-Members' roles
		-Administering departments
		-Policy
	-Goal

White House staff
-Congressional liaison
-The President's conversation with Mitchell
-Clark MacGregor
-Kissinger
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Harlow
-Approach
-Views regarding the President's schedule
-Gerald R. Ford
-Margaret M. Heckler
-Ehrlichman and Connally
-MacGregor and William E. Timmons

MacGregor

George H. W. Bush

Cabinet
-Requirements
-Walter J. Hickel, George W. Romney and Volpe

Reagan
-Possible role with administration
	-The President’s conversation with Mitchell
	-Experience

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Possible role with administration
	-Defense Department
		-Compared to State Department

Cabinet
-Laird and Rogers
-Rogers
-Mitchell's views
-Kissinger
-Compared to Kissinger
-Meeting
-John A. Scali
-The President's conversation with Mitchell
	-Calls to Agnew, Mitchell, Haldeman
	-The President's role
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John Foster Dulles
-Rogers
-Compared with Mitchell
-Rogers
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
	-Forthcoming decision
	-Draft
	-Content
		-Work
		-Meany
		-Foreign policy
		-Accomplishments
		-Phase II
-Connally's schedule

The President's schedule

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-Dedication of Eisenhower Hospital
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
		-Plans
-Timing of announcements
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Stuart
	-Mrs. Nixon

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-California
-Tricia Nixon and Edward R. F. Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Christmas
-Florida
-Mrs. Nixon's trip
-State of the Union speech
-Brandt
-Mrs. Nixon's trip
-The President’s forthcoming remarks

Haldeman left at 9:55 am.

Conversation No. 620-2

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:55 am and 9:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Attorney General [John N. Mitchell]
-Reagan
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:59 am.

Conversation No. 620-3

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  9:59 am - unknown before 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

John D. Ehrlichman

Ronald W. Reagan

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 620-4

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:59 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 14-149]

Conversation No. 620-5

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:59 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Clock
	-Travel

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 620-6

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:59 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 14-150]

Conversation No. 620-7

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  10:05 am - 10:18 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 14-151]

Conversation No. 620-8

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  10:18 am - 10:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Cable

Ronald W. Reagan
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Conservatives
-Liberals
-Popularity
	-Polls
-Conversation with Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-Conservative groups
	-Dinners
-International situation
-Jordan
-Cienfuegos
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles [MIRV]
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Amchitka
-Defense budget
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-State Department
-Personal style
-Conversation with Kissinger
	-Foreign policy
-Domestic policy
	-Liberals
-John N. Mitchell
-Robert H. Finch
-Peter M. Flanigan's brother
-Patronage
-Welfare
	-John G. Veneman
	-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Deal with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Bureaucracy
	-Senate, press
-Foreign policy

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-Possible presidency
-1968 campaign
	-Rockefeller
-Conversation with Kissinger, November 17, 1971
-William P. Rogers
-Tenure in office

The President's foreign policy
-Public perceptions
-Rogers
	-Middle East
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Kissinger and the President
-Melvin R. Laird

Reagan
	-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Possible role with administration
	-Ambassadorship
		-Timing
	-Cabinet
-Political future
-US Senate
	-Finch

Senate

The President's conversation with Connally
		-The President's possible appearance at American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-International economy
	-Forthcoming meeting
	-Kissinger
	-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Lunch with Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-John D. Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Possible position
	-Secretary of Commerce

Flanigan
-Possible role with administration
-Richard V. (“Dick”) Allen
-Anthony J. Jurich
-Mitchell's view
-Allen
-Kissinger

Hoyt Ammidon and Walter N. Thayer
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] ambassador
		-Senate
		-Rogers
-Flanigan's work
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-State Department
-David M. Kennedy
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger

David Packard
-Possible role with Administration
	-Ambassadorships
		-Japan
		-NATO
-Wife, Lucile S. Packard
	-Views

William W. Scranton
-Possible role with Administration
	-Ambassadorship
		-NATO

Packard

Kennedy

Kissinger's schedule
	-New York
	-Cincinnati
-Hedley W. Donovan's group
-Clark MacGregor and Ehrlichman

	Time
		-Cover

Kennedy
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Scranton and Stoessel
-Connally

The President's schedule
-Miami

Kissinger's schedule
-Robert A. Taft, Jr. reception
-Miami

Reagan
-Foreign policy
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Bureaucracy
	-Leaks

Kennedy

William S. Renchard
	-Chemical Bank
-Possible role with Administration
	-Ambassadorship
		-Japan

Packard

Kennedy
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Wife, Lenora (Bingham) Kennedy
	-Brussels
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
	-NATO
-Cabinet

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu's views
-Bunker
-North Vietnam
	-Morale
	-PRC
		-United Nations [UN]
-Possible message to North Vietnam
	-Proposals
		-Dates
-Le Duc Tho
	-Health
-Xuan Thuy
-Forthcoming meeting in Paris
-Instructions for William J. Porter
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Laird
-Le Duc Tho
-Porter
-Possible bombing
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Duration
-Negotiations
	-Le Duc Tho
-Congress actions
	-Continuing resolution
		-Duration
		-Impact
-Bombing
-Cornell University study
-Timing
-Duration

PRC and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

PRC
-Kissinger's message
-Response
	-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

Kissinger left at 10:42 am.

Conversation No. 620-9

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 10:42 am until 10:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Military Appropriations Bill

Press statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Butterfield left at 10:47 am.

Conversation No. 620-10

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  10:47 am - unknown before 11:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

International economy
-The President's conversations
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Connally
	-Arthur F. Burns
	-Quadriad
-Peter G. Peterson's role
	-Connally
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-Burns
-Shultz
-Memorandum
-Connally's role
-Shultz and Paul W. McCracken
-Kissinger
-Burns

Kissinger's schedule
-Conversation with Ronald W. Reagan

Reagan
-Robert H. Finch
-Conversation with Kissinger, November 17. 1971
-Conservatives
-Amchitka and Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]

White House staff

	-Amchitka
		-Environmentalists

Conservatives
	-Congress

Reagan
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Brother
	-California
		-Patronage
	-Finch
-Conversation with John N. Mitchell, November 17, 1971
-Meeting with the President and Reagan

	The President's possible speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Schedule
-Charles W. Colson's contacts
-The President
-George Meany
-Written text
	-Speechwriters
		-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Colson
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Haldeman's conversation with Price

	White House staff
		-Leaks
			-News summary

New York Times Magazine story
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Richard J. Whalen

Ziegler entered at 10:52 am.

Reagan's schedule
-Meeting with press
	-Meeting with the President
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Location
-John D. Ehrlichman

Ziegler left at 10:53 am.

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Colson
-Report regarding Executive Committee
	-Phase II
-Meany
	-Pay Board

National economy
-Pay Board
-Retroactivity
	-Vote
		-Unknown person

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Timing
-Meany
-Announcement
-Ziegler
-Press corps
-Meany
-Possible conversation with Shultz
-Boland Amendment
-James D. Hodgson
-Meany's possible action
-Executive Committee
-Colson's views

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:53 am.

The President's schedule
-Reagan

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

The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Meany's possible action
-Colson's views
-Ziegler
-Speechwriters
	-Possible message
		-Length
-Shultz
-The President's schedule
-Announcement
	-Florida
	-Television news
		-Today show
-Ehrlichman's view
-Timing
	-[Press]
-Possible call to Meany

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-Helicopter
	-Miami Beach

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

Conversation No. 620-11

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:53 am and 11:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-John N. Mitchell
	-Press photograph

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

Conversation No. 620-12

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  11:06 am - 12:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald W. Reagan; Stephen B. Bull and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Reagan's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John N. Mitchell

Photographs

Mitchell

Bull and the press left at an unknown time before 11:09 am.

Leaves

Reagan’s Far East trip
	-Chiang Kai-Shek
	-Konrad Adenauer

Mitchell and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 11:09 am.

Reagan's previous conversation with Kissinger

Reagan's trip
-Meeting with Chiang
-The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Military deployment
-US Senators
	-Political considerations
					-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy and Henry M. Jackson
						-Thailand, Taiwan, Republic of China

Thailand
-Coup
-Thanom Kittikachorn
-US interests

Reagan's trip
-Meeting with Chiang
-Tone
	-Politics
-Trade
-US treaty commitments
-Meeting with Vice President of Taiwan, Republic of China
-Chiang's call to Trade Minister
-Meeting with Vice President of Taiwan
-Meeting with Chiang and (Madame) Chiang Mayling Soong
	-Nancy Reagan

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-Taiwanese soldiers
-Esprit de Corps
	-Compared to Americans
-The President's visit in 1967
-Madame Chiang
	-Letters
-Health
-Meeting with Chiang
-US treaty commitments
-The President's forthcoming visit to PRC
	-Purpose
-Singapore
-Industrial Park
-Japan
	-Competition with US
	-Construction
	-Contracts
-US anti-trust laws
-Peter G. Peterson
-Subsidies
-Government role

Supreme Court
-Decisions
-Nominations
	-Unknown judge
	-Senate
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Meeting with the President, November 16, 1971
-Amchitka

Amchitka
	-Public mail
		-Sierra Club
		-Environmentalists
-Supreme Court decision
-The President's possible action
	-National security
-The President's conversation with Kissinger
	-Testing
-The President's statement at dinner

Supreme Court
-William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall and William O. Douglas

United States anti-trust laws
-Study committee

Singapore
-Chinese

Reagan's trip
-Singapore
-Dinner
	-Embassy
-Public housing
	-Reagan’s speech
	-Compared to suburbia
		-Private ownership
-Financing for ownership
-Government role

Public housing
-Value of ownership
	-Example
-Nelson A. Rockefeller's co-op program
-George W. Romney
-Miami
	-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Inhabitants
	-Press
	-Comparison
-Pruitt-Igoe
-St. Louis

Reagan's trip
-Singapore
-Lee Kuan Yew
-Bangkok

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	THAILAND

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-Insurgency
	-Morale
-Textiles
-Quota
	-Export
-Reagan’s effort
-Demonstration
-Rubber
-Public Law 480 Aid
	-Matching funds
-The President's possible notes regarding forthcoming visit to PRC
	-Thailand
	-Lee Kwan Yew
		-Treaty
-Korea
-Textiles
-Park Chung Hee

Foreign aid
-Senators' views
	-Humanitarian aid
	-Military aid
	-Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand
-Stennis Amendment
-California Senators
-Arizona Senators
-Senators' views
-Vietnam
-Turkey and Greece
-Isolationism
	-Foreign military aid
		-Vietnam
-Korea
-US troops
-Military capability
-Park
	-The President’s forthcoming letter

Reagan's trip
-Korea
-Meeting with Park
-Taiwan
-United Nations [UN] vote
-Student riots
-Berkeley, California
-Use of troops
-Draft
-Gen. Sese Seko Mobutu

US students
-Berkeley
-City Council’s policy regarding deserters
-US attorney
	-Statement

Amnesty
-The President's press conference of November 12, 1971
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Choices
-Executive clemency
-1972 Democratic platform
-Development of administration policy
	-News summary

Reagan's trip
-Japan
-Eisaku Sato
-Views regarding US economic policy
-Visits to PRC
	-Unknown businessman
-North Korea
-Takeo Fukuda and Sato
-Conversations with Reagan
-North Korea
-Taiwan
-Albanian resolution in UN
-South Korea
-US military presence in South Korea

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	TAIWAN

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-International monetary policy
-Fukuda
	-Conversation with Edward R.G. Heath
		-Bet
-South Korea
-Japanese constitution
-Okinawa

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	JAPAN

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Haig left at 11:45 am.

	Plan
		-Unknown person

	Reagan’s trip
-Saigon
-Food
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Reagan's statements
	-Trade
		-California
-US treaty commitments
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Chiang Kai Shek

Asia
	-Rimland
		-Population
			-Governments
			-Japan
			-Indonesia
			-Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan
-Importance

Reagan's trip
-US Ambassador to Singapore [Charles T. Cross]
	-Saigon
		-Trade mission
-Previous experience
-Dinner for Reagan
-Age
-US Ambassadors to Taiwan and Japan, Walter P. McConaughy and Armin H. Meyer
-US Abassador to Korea, Philip C. Habib

Experimental welfare program
-Reagan's negotiations with Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
	-Analogy
		-Screen Actors Guild
-Numbers of people and regions affected
	-Counties
-Duration of agreement
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Numbers of people affected
-Phase-in procedures
-Reagan's conversation with James M. Hall in California
-HEW's agreement with New York
-Differences between California and New York
-Reagan's programs
-Reagan’s public speaking
-Reporters actions
	-Articles
-Effect on numbers on welfare rolls
-Mitchell’s schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Richardson
	-HEW
	-Deal with New York
-Duration of agreement with California
-Numbers involved
-Reagan's negotiations with HEW
-Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange
 Counties
-Law on public service employees
	-Reagan’s conversation with Richardson
-Bureaucracy
	-Illinois, New York, California
-Richard B. Ogilvie's conversation with Reagan
	-Tokenism
		-Rockefeller

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Welfare
-Charles H. Percy's amendment
	-Possible reform
	-Francis W. Sargent's wire to Reagan
	-Wires to John V. Tunney and Alan Cranston
	-The Administration’s position

Percy
-Comments at dinner
	-The President’s legislative program
		-Reagan's comments
-Legislative record
	-Foreign policy
		-Vietnam
-Cooper-Church Amendment
-Mansfield Amendment
-Reagan’s comments
-Statement regarding the President's foreign policy
-Leslie C. Arends's views

Child care centers
-Walter F. Mondale Bill
-Possible veto
-Provisions
-Tax package
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Wilbur D. Mills
	-Possible wire
		-Purpose
			-Functions
-World War II
-Women volunteers
-"Rosie the Rivetter"
		-Catholic Church

The President’s schedule
	-Lunch

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	Republican support for the President
-Reagan's conversation with Kissinger
-UN vote on Taiwan
	-State Department
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
	-Taiwan
-National defense
	-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Liberals
-Amchitka
-Budget
-Cambodia, Laos, unilateral withdrawal from Asia
-The Presidency
-National defense
-Reagan's efforts
-John F. Kennedy
	-Cuban Missile Crises
	-Missile Gap
		-1960 campaign
	-ABM
		-Eisenhower years
-Possible briefings by the President
-Possible attacks on liberals
-Possible briefings
	-Congressional leaders
-Size
-Kissinger
	-Schedule
		-Cincinnati
-Reagan's conversation with unknown publisher
-Possible Democratic candidates in 1972
	-Editorial
-The President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
	-Democrats
-Relations with Reagan
-James L. Buckley
	-New York, Texas
-William F. Buckley

	The President’s schedule
		-Reagan’s schedule

National security
-The President's difficulties with Congress
-US role in world
	-ABM
	-USAir Force
	-Navy
	-Minuteman fields
-US foreign policy initiatives
-Japan and West Germany
-USSR
	-Armaments
		-Compared to US
			-Missile, airplanes, submarines
			-Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles [MIRV]
-Support
-Negotiations with USSR and PRC
-Possible military build up
	-Offensive weapons
-The President's difficulties with Congress
-ABM vote
	-Agnew
-Possible issue in 1972 campaign
-Jackson
				-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] endorsement
				-Nomination
-Humphrey, Muskie and Edward M. Kennedy
-Voting records
	-ABM
-Environment, ghettoes, child care centers
-Jackson
-Negotiations
-Federal budget
	-California
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

Stephen B. Bull entered at 12:30 pm.

Reagan's schedule
-Press room

The President et al left at 12:30 pm.

Conversation No. 620-13

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  12:31 pm - 12:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell.

Ronald W. Reagan
-Contacts with conservatives
-Walter Knott and Lance Stever [sp?]
-Larry Mizell [sp?]
-George C. Wallace

Conservatives
-The President's schedule
-John Birch Society
	-Knott
-Jaquelin H. (“Jack”) Hume
-Lee Tyson [sp?]
-Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
-The President's schedule
	-Mitchell’s view
		-Birchites
-Kissinger 
	-Reagan
-Complaints

Reagan
-James L. Buckley

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Reagan
	-Political position
	-Thomas C. Reed
	-Recent meeting with the President
	-Public opinion polls
	-Strength
		-Enemies
			-Campus event
	-Platform
	-Legislative program
		-Taxes

Experimental welfare program
-Reagan's negotiations with Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
	-John D. Ehrlichman
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

Child care center legislation
-Richardson's view
-Possible veto
	-Richardson’s possible action
-Blacks
	-Whites, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans
	-Family
	-Social workers

Conservatives
	-Kissinger's schedule
	-Mitchell 
-The President’s schedule
-Mizell [sp?]
-Richard V. Allen
-George Champion's study
-Reagan
-Role in 1968 campaign
	-Knott
-Role in 1972 campaign
-Funds and influence

Mitchell left at 12:46 pm.

Conversation No. 620-14

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  12:50 pm - 1:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Ronald W. Reagan
-Previous meeting with the President
-Report on trip
-Conservatives
-Approach to problems

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:50 pm.

Items for Old Executive Office Building Office [EOB]

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:13 pm.

Reagan
-Previous conversation with the President
-Peter M. Flanigan's brother
-Reagan's previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-John Flanigan's activities
	-John N. Mitchell
-Civil Service jobs
-Robert H. Finch
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Mitchell
-Finch
-Timing

Polls
-George H. Gallup on approval of the President

-Timing
	-Phase II
	-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-By region
-Gallup and Louis P. Harris
-Volatility
-Gallup on approval of the President
-By education level of the electorate
-White House handling
-Supporters
-Harris and Gallup
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Margin for error

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	Polls
-Release
	-Timing
-News summaries
-Gallup on approval of the President
-Timing
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Swings
-Harry S. Truman
-The President
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Gallup on approval of the President
	-Undecided
-Timing
-Current issues and events
	-Phase II
	-UN vote on Taiwan
	-Phase II
		-The President’s televised address

Washington, DC
	-Subway system
	-The President's schedule
	-Domestic advisors
		-Possible motorcade to Judiciary Square
-Walter E. Washington
-Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy, Joel T. Broyhill, William L. Scott, Lawrence J. Hogan and Gilbert Gude
	-Possible statement by the President
	-Forthcoming vote in Congress
	-The President's schedule
	-Importance
		-National implications
		-Bicentennial
			-Visitors

Polls
-Gallup on approval of the President
-By region
	-Possible issues
-By age
-By education
	-Possible issues
-By region
-Volatility
	-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.

Votes
	-Taiwan, foreign aid
	-Impact
		-Public perception
			-Media

	Polls

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The President's schedule
		-Possible speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-George P. Shultz's forthcoming conversation with George Meany
	-Forthcoming report to the President

The President and Haldeman left at 1:13 pm.

Conversation No. 620-15

Date:  November 17, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:13 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

Greetings

An unknown man [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:13 pm and 11:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 620-15A]

The President's location
-Old Executive Office Building [EOB] Office

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's location
-EOB

An unknown man [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:13 pm and 11:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 620-15B]

The President's location

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-EOB

[End of telephone conversation]

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