Conversation No. 622-1

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  3:51 pm - 3:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Letters

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 3:51 pm.

-Address

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

Woods's schedule

John F. Kennedy
-Anniversary of assassination
-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

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Woods left and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:52 pm.

Kissinger's schedule
-People's Republic of China [PRC] officials
-Nelson A. Rockefeller

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	PRC

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India-Pakistan
-State Department
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Mujibur Rahman’s release
-Yahya Khan
-Tenure in office

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN

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-India
	-Popular view
		-Kissinger’s previous trip to Cincinnati
	-John B. Connally's view
	-US policy
		-Refugees
		-Foreign aid
-United Nations [UN] Security Council meeting
-Possible resolution
	-PRC
-Kissinger's contacts with Pakistan
-Possible escalation
	-Yahya Khan’s view
	-Possible White House statement
-The President's meeting with Indira Gandhi
	-US efforts
		-Suspension of foreign aid
-Kissinger's meeting with David Packard and Thomas H. Moorer

The President's schedule
-Moorer
-Connally

Connally
	-Pay Board meeting

Kissinger's schedule
-Connally

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:52 pm and 3:58 pm.

[Conversation No. 622-1A]

The President's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

India-Pakistan
	-US policy
	-Packard and Moorer
		-Department of State
	-Possible US action
		-Message to India
		-Message to Soviet Union
	-PRC’s possible actions
		-Possible UN Security Council resolution
			-Kissinger
	-India
		-The President’s view
	-State Department
		-Messages

Kissinger left at 3:58 pm.

Conversation No. 622-2

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  4:02 pm - 4:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis.

[See Conversation No. 15-98]

Conversation No. 622-3

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:07 pm and 4:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President replayed portions of a memorandum.

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The President dictated a memorandum.

The President replayed portions of the tape.

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Conversation No. 622-4

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:07 pm and 4:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-99]

Conversation No. 622-5

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:07 pm and 4:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:15 pm.

Conversation No. 622-6

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:07 pm and 4:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum.

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Conversation No. 622-7

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  4:15 pm - 4:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

[See Conversation No. 15-100; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 622-8

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:26 pm and 4:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-101]

Conversation No. 622-9

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:26 pm and 4:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 15-103]

Conversation No. 622-10

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  4:31 pm - 4:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

[See Conversation No. 15-104]

Conversation No. 622-11

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:32 pm and 4:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum.

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Conversation No. 622-12

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  4:50 pm - 5:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

National Economy
	John B. Connally
	-Previous meeting with Charles W. Colson and Haldeman
	-George Meany
	-Pay Board
	-Treatment of the President
	-Previous press conference
	-Meany
	-Pay raise
-Pay Board
-Meany
-Continued participation
		-Meany
	-Possible White House attacks
	-Relations with White House
		-Role of the President
	-Possible resignation from Pay Board
	-White House reaction
		-Sanctions
		-George P. Shultz's views
		-Connally's views
-The President's program
-Shultz's views
-Donald H. Rumsfeld's views
	-Economic controls
	-Sanctions
-Future

	-Economic Stabilization Act
	-Possible wage and price freeze
		-Effects

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Forthcoming vote
-Karl E. Mundt
-John C. Stennis
-Lawrence F. O'Brien
-The President’s view
-Robert J. Dole
	-The President’s view
-Clark MacGregor
-Possible veto
-Conference

Vietnam
-Polls
	-The President’s policy
-Possible release
-Timing
-Congress's schedule

The President’s schedule
	-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
	-Conversation with the President
	-Possible “Questions and Answers”
	-Fiftieth anniversary of Reader's Digest
	-John D. Ehrlichman
-Time
-Request for an interview
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Response
-Hedley W. Donovan
-“Man of the Year”
-Willy Brandt
-Donovan interview
-Lewis
-Timing
-Location
-Radio address
	-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
	-Future
-MacGregor
-Two senators
-George D. Aiken

National economy
-The President's program
-Pay Board
-Labor participation

Polls
-Elmo Roper
	-Compared with other polls
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Problems of nation
	-Media treatment

The President's schedule
-Unknown group
-Connally
-Schedule
-Press conference
-Shultz
-Meeting with Shultz and Kissinger

Meany
-Connally's view
-Colson's view

The President's tenure in office
-Compared with John F. Kennedy

Kennedy
-Assassination
-Polls
	-Approval rating
-Fluctuations
-Compared with the President
-Louis P. Harris and George H. Gallup
-Assassination
-Johnson
-Connally
-Injury

Congress
	-MacGregor

The President's accomplishments
	-Vietnam

India-Pakistan
	-Haldeman’s view

The President's schedule
-Connally and Shultz

Haldeman left at 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 622-13

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

John D. Ehrlichman's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

Conversation No. 622-14

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

Conversation No. 622-15

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 6:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Arthur F. Burns
-Views of John B. Connally and George P. Shultz
-International monetary system

-Timing

Haldeman left and John D. Ehrlichman entered at 5:15 pm.

-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Ehrlichman

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:15 pm.

Refreshment [?]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:39 pm

	-Trust territories
-Morton’s forthcoming trip
-Franklin Haydn Williams
-US retention
-Removal of Peace Corps
-Morton's previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Kissinger

Catalina Island
-National park
-Gift from Philip K. Wrigley
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-William L. Pereira
-Wrigley
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Chicago Cubs
-Pereira’s view
-Finances
-Value
-Wrigley
-Possible meeting with Morton
-National park
-Benefits

Federal recreation area in Greenbelt, Maryland
-Assembly of land parcel
-Goddard Space Center, US Department of Agriculture Research Center, wildlife refuge and Fort Meade
-Use
-Development
	-Subway in Washington, DC
	-Legislative prospects
	-The President's meeting with Joel T. Broyhill
	-William H. Natcher
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-Location
-The President's name
-Legislation
	-Timing

Pending tax bill
-Presidential campaign federal funding
-Forthcoming vote
-Clark MacGregor's view
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-The President’s view
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson and Edmund S. Muskie
					-Cancellation of American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] appearances
-Possible veto
	-Ehrlichman’s view
		-Democrats
		-Finances
	-Possible veto
	-James O. Eastland's views
	-The President’s view
	-Unknown person's bill
	-Hugh Scott

National economy
	-Effect on 1972 Presidential campaign
		-Vietnam
		-Pending tax bill
			-Pros and cons
-Status
-Connally's views
-Views of Herbert Stein and Paul W. McCracken
-Ehrlichman's previous speech to bankers
-University of Utah
-Charles W. Colson and McCracken
	-The President’s policy
-Ehrlichman's speech in Utah
-Copy to the President
-Reception
-Questions
-Labor
-The President’s previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Connally
-Previous press conference
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-The President's program
-Pay Board
-George Meany's possible action
-White House reaction
-The President's previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Haldeman
-Gerald L. Warren
-Richard A. Moore
-John A. Scali
-Meany
-US  New and World Report
-Washington Post
-Ehrlichman's speech in Utah
-Attendees
-The President's program
-Pay Board
-Meany's participation
-Previous Washington Star story
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Connally's previous press conference
-The President's previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Meany's comments
-Press coverage
-Unknown Jewish person from Associated Press [AP]
-Frank Cormier
-Connally's previous comments
-Press coverage
	-Ehrlichman’s view
	-Possible effect of India-Pakistan conflict
-Status
-Demand
	-Economic indicators
-Connally's views regarding business
-Ehrlichman's speech in Utah
-Press coverage

Possible purchase of Big Cypress Swamp
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Morton
-Ehrlichman's previous conversation with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
	-Comparison to Everglades
-Florida ecology
	-Shrimp
-The President’s position
-Jackson's views
-Views of Morton and John C. Whitaker
-Methods
	-Direct purchase
	-Water and development rights
	-Morton’s forthcoming announcement
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] study

J. Edgar Hoover
-The President's instructions regarding killings of policemen
-Killing of policemen in New York
-Arrests
-Credit
	-Possible call from the President
-Waverly M. Jones and Joseph A. Piagentini [slain policemen]
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-Arrests
	-Hoover’s forthcoming announcement
-John N. Mitchell
-Possible call from the President

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:15 pm and 5:39 pm.

[Conversation No. 622-15A]

[See Conversation No. 15-105]

[End of telephone conversation]

Morton
-Department of the Interior
	-Bureau of Indian Affairs

Earl L. Butz
-Senate confirmation
-Corn and wheat sales

Government reorganization
-Agriculture Department
-Ehrlichman's previous conversation with Clifford M. Hardin
-Possible legislative action

Revenue-sharing
-Wilbur D. Mills's forthcoming action
-The President's program
-Mills's forthcoming action

Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Elliot L. Richardson's letter to Conference Committee
	-Administration’s position
		-Possible veto
-Jacob K. Javits
-MacGregor
-Child development
-Possible veto

The President talked with Hoover between 5:39 pm and 5:45 pm.

[Conversation no 622-15B]

[See Conversation No. 15-106; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's previous conversation with Hoover
-Killings of girls
-Suspect

Crime
-Blacks and Hispanics
-Military stockades

	Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
		-Meany

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:45 pm.

Colson's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:52 pm.

	Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
		-Meany's previous comments
		-Meany
	-Pay raise
	-Connally's comments
-Possible Pay Board reaction

The President's schedule
-John F. Kennedy's grave

Kennedy
-Assassination
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Photograph at gravesite
-Connally's previous press conference

National economy
-David M. Kennedy
-Connally
-Press comments
-Answers at press conference
	-Mexico
-Compared with the Vice President

Paul N. McCloskey
-The Vice President's comments
	-McCloskey’s response

The Vice President
-Statement in Chicago regarding welfare recipients
-Rose Mary Woods
-Quip
-Gag writer

Colson entered at 5:52 pm.

-Calls to Ehrlichman
-Press coverage
-Mike Royko's column

The President's schedule
-Morton and Ehrlichman

Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 6:13 pm.

-Connally

National economy
-The President's program
-Haldeman
-Shultz's view
-Sanctions
-Pay Board
	-Congress
-Wage settlements
-The President’s view
-Inflation
-Productivity
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-The President's program
-Stock market performance
-Connally's press conference

AFL-CIO convention
-Schedule
-The President
-Meany
-Jerry Lewis
-Jackson

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Possible veto
-Forthcoming vote
-The President's conversation with MacGregor

AFL-CIO convention
-Schedule
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Jackson and Muskie
-Adjournment
-James Suffridge's conversation with Colson
	-Internal dissention
-The President's previous speech
-Press coverage
	-AP
-News magazines
	-Time and Newsweek
-Photographs
	-The President compared to Meany
-Publics relations
	-Citizens for a New Prosperity
-Washington Star
-Editorial
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson and David Lawrence
-Liberals' possible charges
-Humphrey's previous statement
-Press coverage
-New York Times's calls to White House staff
-Two individuals in Herbert G. Klein's office
-Scali
-Kenneth W. Clawson and Victor Riesel
-Forthcoming columns
-William L. Safire, Scali and Ronald L. Ziegler

Polls
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Press conference
	-Wage and price freeze
	-The President's program on national economy
	-Meany
-Opinion Research Center [ORC]

The President's previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Liberals' possible charges
	-White House response
		-James D. Hodgson
			-Television appearance
	-Prospects of success
	-Colson's conversation with unknown man
		-Unknown man's daughter
	-Riesel's column
		-Labor's views on the President's speech
	-Liberals' possible charges
		-Colson's conversation with Javits
	-White House follow-up on Meany
		-Connally's views
		-Shultz
	-Meany
		-Colson’s view
	-Television
	-Telegrams
		-John P. Lomenzo
	-Polls
		-New Yorkers
		-Harris
		-Sindlinger
	-Popular reaction
	-Connally's previous comment on Meany

The Vice President
-The President’s view
-Comment on McCloskey
-Christine Jorgenson
-Benedict Arnold
-Comment regarding football team

Tax bill
	-Telephone call from MacGregor

MacGregor talked with the President between 6:13 pm and 6:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 622-15C]

[See Conversation No. 15-107]

[End of telephone conversation]

Tax Bill
-Previous vote
-Charles McC. Mathias and Clifford P. Case
-Mathias, Case and Richard S. Schweiker
-Possible House action
-Campaign financing
-Democrats' actions
-Columnists' reaction
-The President’s view
-Effect
	-Black
-George C. Wallace
-Connally's views
			-Two-party system
				-Compared with France

Labor leaders' support for the President
	-Meany
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons and I[lworth] W[ilbur] Abel
-Muskie and Humphrey
-Donald F. Rodgers's call to Colson
-Peter J. Brennan

Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
	-The President’s view
	-White House follow-up
-Polls
	-Sindlinger

National economy
-Connally's views
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] report
-Burns
	-Forthcoming meeting with the President
		-International monetary system
		-Money supply
-The President’s view
-Meeting with Shultz
-Compared with Shultz and Connally
-Colson’s view
-Letter from the President

The Vice President
-Speech in Los Angeles
-Democratic candidates for presidency
-Humphrey
-Muskie
-Kennedy
	-The President’s view
-Christine Jorgenson remark
-Effect on campaign
-Connally
-The President
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Schedule
-Meany

Rose Mary Woods and Manolo Sanchez entered and Colson left at 6:30 pm.

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The President et al. left at an unknown time before 6:32 pm.

Conversation No. 622-16

Date:  November 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 6:30 pm until 6:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Rose Mary Woods's location

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 6:30 pm.

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 6:32 pm.

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The President and Woods left at 6:32 pm.