Conversation No. 624-1

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 am and 8:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man talked with an unknown person.

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Conversation No. 624-2

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:02 am and 8:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
-Revisions
-9:00 am meeting

James R. Schlesinger

Conversation No. 624-3

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:02 am and 8:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-132]

Conversation No. 624-4

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:02 am and 8:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule

Conversation No. 624-5

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  8:08 am - 8:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

[See Conversation No. 15-133]

Conversation No. 624-6

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:09 am and 8:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Speech revision

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:49 am.

Conversation No. 624-7

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:09 am and 8:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 624-8

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:09 am and 8:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Speech revisions
-Barber
-Location

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:49 am.

Conversation No. 624-9

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:09 am and 8:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Barber
-George P. Shultz and Herbert Stein
-Peter B. Wilson
-Shultz and Stein

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:49 am.

Conversation No. 624-10

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  8:49 am - 9:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger's previous meeting with Huang Hua
	-United Nations [UN] membership
		-Kissinger’s view
	-Chou En-lai
-Middle East
-India-Pakistan
-Possible UN resolutions
	-Public stance
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-President’s forthcoming visit to PRC
	-Haig’s role

India-Pakistan
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
	-Bureaucratic situation
-US policy
	-US aid to India
		-Timing

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Middle East
-US aid to Israel
-Senate
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Golda Meir
-Kissinger’s view
-Compared with previous year
-Effect on William P. Rogers
	-Rogers’s statement
		-Soviet Union
-US intelligence
	-Soviet military aid to Egypt

The President's schedule
-Melvin R. Laird
	-Possible participation in forthcoming meeting
-Rogers
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Rogers

India-Pakistan
-US policy
	-Foreign aid

Haldeman entered at 8:56 am.

The President's schedule
-Laird and Rogers
-Call to Kissinger's office
-Stephen B. Bull
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz and Kissinger

Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:56 am.

-Laird’s invitation to forthcoming meeting
-Kissinger's office
-Robert E. Pursley
-Forthcoming call from Bull

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:01 am.

-Kissinger and Rogers

India-Pakistan
	-US policy and involvement
	-The President's previous conversation with Indira Gandhi
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Lakshmi Kant Jha
-Aid to India and Pakistan
-Impact on US foreign relations
	-Soviet Union and India
	-PRC
-PRC
-Kissinger's meeting with Huang Hua
-Possible UN action
-US policy
	-Cutoff of US aid
	-Effectiveness
-Rogers's views
			-The President’s view

The President's schedule
-Kissinger
	-WSAG meeting
		-Forthcoming meeting with Connally, Shultz, and Kissinger
-President’s possible forthcoming trip to Latin America
-Haldeman's forthcoming call to Rogers
-The President’s view
	-Timing of Congressional session
-Rogers's schedule
	-Possible meeting with foreign ministers
-Problem of junketing

Kissinger left at 9:01 am.

Polls
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Spokesman's statement regarding client
	-Union leaders
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Funds

The President's schedule
-Congress's schedule
-Departure for California
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz, Arthur F. Burns, Connally and Kissinger
-Peter G. Peterson

Peterson's schedule
-Foreign trip
-Status
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Kissinger

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 9:01 am and 9:08 am.

[Conversation No. 624-10A]

Request that Kissinger join them

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Staff plane
-Return

The President left at an unknown time before 9:08 am.

Kissinger entered at 9:08 am.

The President's location

Peterson's schedule
-Foreign trip
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger
-The President

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

The President entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

-Possible forthcoming trip to Latin America
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Rogers
	-Congress's schedule
	-Robert H. Finch’s current trip to Latin America

Rogers's schedule
-Possible trip to Latin America
	-The President’s view
		-Possible reception
			-Vietnam
-Possible meeting with foreign ministers of Latin America

Peterson's schedule
-Foreign trip
-Kissinger and Shultz
-Foreign trip
	-Status
-Foreign trips
	-The President’s view
-Shultz
	-The President’s view

Rogers C. B. Morton
-Forthcoming trip to the Trust Territories
-Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. [?]
-Morton's forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-The President’s view

India-Pakistan
-US policy towards India

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-David Packard's views
-State Department
-Thomas H. Moorer's views
-Note from PRC

Kissinger left at 9:13 am.

Morton
-Trips

The President's schedule
-Congress's schedule
-Haldeman's conversation with Clark MacGregor
-MacGregor's previous conversation with the President
-Michael J. Mansfield
Polls
-University of New Hampshire
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie

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Kissinger entered at 9:15 am.

India-Pakistan
-Note from PRC
-Rogers

Kissinger left at 9:16 am.

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:16 am.

The President's schedule
-Shultz and Herbert Stein

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:18 am.

Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Stein
-New position
-Possible announcement
-Shultz

National economy
-Stock market
-Forthcoming dinner for Clifford M. Hardin
-Paul W. McCracken and Maurice H. Stans

The President's schedule

Shultz and Stein entered at 9:18 am.

CEA
-Stein's role
-Views of Connally, Shultz and McCracken
-Spokesman
-Burns
-McCracken
-Connally and Shultz
	-Quadriad meetings
	-John W. Dean, III
-Views on national economy
-The President's program
-Connally and Shultz

Kissinger entered at 9:22 am.

Peterson's schedule
-Foreign travel

CEA
-Stein's role
-Burns
-International monetary situation

International monetary situation
-Kissinger, Connally, Shultz and Stein
	-Quadriad
	-Burns and Peterson
	-Kissinger

Kissinger left at 9:23 am.

National economy
-The President's program
-Stock market
-George Meany
-Businessmen's views
-Stein's meeting with World Affairs Council
-Du Pont influence
-Views of Wilmington, Delaware businessmen
-Compared with New York City counterparts
-Phase II
-Pay Board
-Price Board Commission
-Inflation
-Stein’s view
-Dock strike
-Possible settlement
-Taft-Hartley Act
-Board of Inquiry

Ziegler entered at 9:28 am.

CEA
-Stein's role
-Forthcoming announcement
	-Handling
-McCracken's knowledge
-Handling
	-Ziegler’s role
-McCracken and Burns
-Connally
-Timing
-Taft-Hartley Act

National economy
-Dock strike
-Taft-Hartley Act
-Timing of announcement

Stein
	-Health
-Shultz
-Wife

Shultz and Stein left at 9:32 am.

Ziegler's forthcoming announcements
-Taft-Hartley Act
-The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting in the Azores with Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Rogers and Connally
-Topics of meeting

	[Unintelligible]

Ronald L. Ziegler left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:32 am.

The President's schedule
-Peter B. Wilson

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.

CEA
-Stein
-Haldeman’s view
-McCracken
-Burns
-The President’s view

The President's schedule
-Previous visit to Washington Redskins practice session
-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-Television
-Radio
	-Baseball

Wilson and Max L. Friedersdorf entered at 9:36 am; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Wilson's forthcoming role in San Diego

San Diego
-Forthcoming Republican Convention

[Unintelligible]

Wilson's election
-Strategy

San Diego
-Forthcoming Republican Convention
-Wilson's meetings with Dean and John D. Ehrlichman
-Miami
-Hotels
-Arnold Simms [sp?]
-Forthcoming Republican Convention
-Wilson's conversation with William E. Timmons
-Tijuana, Mexico
	-Possible place for delegates to visit
-Mayor of Baja California
-The President's previous visit
-Delegates' interest
	-The President’s view
-San Diego 
	-Haldeman’s view
-Navy
-Milk Producers' convention in Chicago
-The President's previous speech
-Value of publicity to San Diego and Wilson
-Unknown person in Miami Beach
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Wilson’s previous meeting with Dean
-Police chief
-Wilson’s view
-Forthcoming Republican Convention
-Police forces
-Peter J. Pitchess
-Compared with Miami
-Cartoon of the President and Wilson

Wilson
-Political career
-Age

Peter Kay and Paul Tighe

Mayors
-Richard G. Lugar
-The President’s view
-Problems compared to Wilson's 
	-Blacks
	-Hispanics
-Wilson
	-The President’s view

Presentation of gifts by the President

Wilson's election

Haldeman, et al., left at 9:49 am.

Conversation No. 624-11

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:49 am and 9:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
-John B. Connally

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:50 am.

Conversation No. 624-12

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 am and 10:01 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

An unknown man [Secret Service] talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:50 and 10:01 am.

[Conversation No. 624-12A]

The President’s location
-Barber

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s location

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 10:01 am.

Conversation No. 624-13

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  10:01 am - 11:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally, John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress]

National economy
	-Unknown man's report
	-Phase II
-Revenue-sharing
-Polls
-Taxing and spending

Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Herbert Stein's role
-Announcement
-Paul W. McCracken
-Shultz
-Spokesman
-Arthur F. Burns
-Connally and Shultz
-International monetary situation
-Henry A. Kissinger, Connally and Shultz
-The President’s view

Fiscal Year 1973 budget
-Value Added Tax [VAT]
-The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
	-Connally
-Tax credits for parochial schools
-Revenue sharing

-Deficit
-Effect on national economy
-Political effect
-Rhetoric
-VAT
-Balanced budget
-Possible congressional action
-VAT
-Domestic Council poll
-Taxes
-Spending
-National defense
-Balanced budget
-Inflation
-VAT
-Property taxes
-Balanced budget
-Poll
-National defense
-Balanced budget
-Fiscal Year 1972 budget
-Outlays
-Revenue sharing
-Revenue estimate
-Congress
-Deficit
-Possible congressional action
-Balance
-National defense
-Shultz's consultation with Kissinger
-Previous meeting with the President
-Increase
-Uncontrollable items
-Fiscal Years 1972 and 1974
-Revenue sharing
-House Resolution [HR] 1

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:01 am.

Phone
-Request to hold calls

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:36 am.

Fiscal Year 1973 budget
-Deficit
-Tax yield
-Fiscal Year 1972
-Revenue
-Possible congressional action
-Connally and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Deficit
	-Compared with Fiscal Year 1972 budget
	-Supplemental request
		-Space program

Connally's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-[Unintelligible] judge
-Rolf Pauls

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:01 am.

The President's schedule
-Departure for California
-Connally
-Stephen B. Bull
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:36 am.

Connally's schedule
[Unintelligible] judge

Fiscal Year 1973 budget
	-Federal expenditures
	-Effects
		-Democrats
-Balance
-Revenue sharing
-Possible congressional action
-Fiscal Year 1972 budget
-Effect
-Balance
-Changes
-Effect
-Congressional spending
-Pending tax bill
-The President’s view
-Child development
-Effect on business community
-Burns
-Full employment
-Narcotics task force
-Research and development
-Politics
-Polls
-National malaise
-Elmo Roper
-Public associates
-National goals
-National growth policy
-New cities
-Economic development of Mid-West
-Education
-Job training
-Revolving fund
				-Funding comparison to the Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank
-Environment
-Edmund S. Muskie's water quality bill
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-Possible veto
-Politics
-Waste treatment
-The President’s view
-Poll
-White House formulation of questions asked
-Water quality bill
-Possible veto
-Editorial support
-Research and development
-National growth policy
	-Population shift to Mid-West
	-Jobs
	-Organizational structure
	-New cities
	-Prospects of success
-Shultz, Peter G. Peterson and Peter M. Flanigan
-Bureaucracy's views
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Ailing industries
-Aerospace, airlines and railroads
	-Government reorganization
-International competition
-Ailing industries
-Possible subsidy
-International competition
-Tax laws, research and development and career education
-Federal management of Office of Science and Technology [OST]
-Changes in bureaucracy
-Science Advisor
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Possible projects
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
	-Ehlrichman’s view
-OMB
-OST
-The President’s view
	-Richard P. Feynman
-Albert Einstein and Franklin D. Roosevelt
	-Atomic bomb
-Lobbying
	-Executive Office of the President [EOP]
-Personnel 
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-James R. Schlesinger
-National Bureau of Standards [NBS]
-Narcotics task force
-Treasury Department
-Eugene T. Rossides and Martin R. Pollner
-John N. Mitchell
-Street pushers
-Myles J. Ambrose
-Politics
-Bureaucratic struggle
	-Drug Enforcement Agency [DEA], Bureau of Customs
		-Connally’s view
-Ambrose and Rossides
-Connally’s view
-John E. (“Jack”) Ingersoll
-The President’s view
-Connally's meeting with Mitchell
-Bureaucratic struggle
	-DEA and Bureau of Customs
-Politics
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Space program
-Two launches
-17,500 employees
-Timing
	-1972 election
		-The President’s view
-Jobs
-Space shuttle
-Launches
	-The President’s view
	-Amchitka
-Political risk
	-1972 election
-Apollo 13
-Timing of next launch
-Ongoing programs
-Space shuttle
-Jobs in California
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Speed of development
-Political support
-Compared with agriculture issues
	-The President’s view
-Space shuttle
-Skylab
-Future projects
-Manned compared to unmanned craft
-Other satellites
-Rapid mass transit
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger's views
-John A. Volpe
-Emphasis
-Connally’s view
	-Publicity
-Political value
-Volpe
-Effect on cities
-Community development
-Jobs
	-Subway system
-Political value
-Volpe's activities
	-International treaties
-Northeast corridor
-San Francisco-San Diego-Los Angeles corridor
-Mid-West
-Publicity
-Agriculture
-Earl L. Butz
-Commitments to farm organizations
-Edwin L. Harper's conversation with Ehrlichman
-Corn and wheat price support
-Corn blight in 1972
	-Stockpiles
	-Sales
-Mental health
-The President's previous meeting
-Community mental health centers
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-The President’s view
-Community assistance
-Model cities
-George W. Romney
-Revenue sharing
-National growth policy
-Purpose
	-The President’s view
-Cosmetic improvements to slums
-Possible organized national effort
	-Connally’s view
-Washington, DC program
-Walter E. Washington
-Trash collection
-National guard
-Miami housing project
-The President's previous visit
-Pruitt-Igoe (St. Louis housing project)
-Status
-Private ownership of public housing units
-Post Office
-Rate increase for magazines
-Reader's Digest
-Subsidy
-Rate increase for magazines
	-The President’s view
		-Congress
-Legal requirements
-Possible effect
-Hedley W. Donovan
-Aged
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming meeting with Arthur S. Flemming
-Views of Flemming and Richardson
-Views of [Forename unknown] Burchang [sp?]
-Subsidy for prescription drugs
-Real estate taxes
-Interest groups
-Politics
	-The President’s view
	-Farmers and aged
	-Blacks and Jews
-Aged
-Social Security increase
-Timing
-Possible use of vacant military bases
-Water projects in west
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Federal employees' pay
-Possible amendment to Economic Stabilization Act
-Pay Board
-George H. Mahon's previous conversation with Shultz
	-Phase II
-Increase
-Federal employees
-California and Texas compared with Washington, DC
-Increase
-Pay Board
-Labor unions
-VAT
-The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Federal employees' pay
-Clark MacGregor's efforts
	-Forthcoming announcement in California
-National security
-The President's schedule
-Shultz, Kissinger and Connally
-Ehrlichman
-Tax deduction for political campaigns
-Possible veto
-Congress's possible actions
-Possible effects
-Possible veto
-William E. Brock III
-Hugh Scott
-Possible effect
	-The President’s view
-Union contributions
-Founding Fathers' limitation on franchise
-Present situation
-Possible effect

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 11:36 am.

The President's schedule
-Connally, Burns, Shultz and Kissinger

International monetary situation
-Burns's views
-Conversation with Connally
-Convertibility
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Import surcharge

National economy
-Money supply
-Flanigan's efforts
-Connally's conversations
-Burns
-Flanigan
-Connally's conversation with Burns

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting

Connally left at 11:40 am.

Conversation No. 624-14

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:40 am and 11:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The President entered at an unknown time after 11:40 am.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:43 am.

The President's schedule
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally
-White House photographer
-Departure for California

Bull left at 11:43 am.

Conversation No. 624-15

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  11:43 am - 11:44 am
Location:  Oval Office

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 15-135; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 624-16

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:44 am and 11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

John B. Connally's schedule

[Unintelligible]

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:44 am.

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Bull and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:46 am.

Conversation No. 624-17

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:44 am and 11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

John B. Connally's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:46 am.

Conversation No. 624-18

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:44 am and 11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-136]

Conversation No. 624-19

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:44 am and 11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Ronald L. Ziegler's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:46 am.

Conversation No. 624-20

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  11:46 am - 12:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally and Arthur F. Burns; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

The White House operator talked with the President at 11:46 am.

[Conversation No. 624-20A]

[See Conversation No. 15-137]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Previous meeting

Seating arrangements
-Motion picture coverage of meeting

	The President's previous speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Press coverage
	-The President's demeanor
-Jews
	-Political preferences
	-Conversations with Burns
	-George Meany
	-The President's previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Meany
	-Oath of office
	-Burns’s view

The President's schedule
-Luncheon meeting
-Burns, Henry A. Kissinger, George P. Shultz and Connally
-Peter G. Peterson
-Forthcoming foreign visits and visitors
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Timing
-Forthcoming meeting with Willy Brandt
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Pompidou
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Brandt
-The President's forthcoming trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
-International monetary situation
-Finance ministers
-Connally and William P. Rogers
-Purpose of meetings
	-Finance ministers
-The President's forthcoming trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s view
-Valery Giscard D'estaing
-Anthony P. Lysberg, Lord Barber
	-Heath
-Karl Schiller
	- Brandt
-Timing of announcements
-Japan
	-Connally’s previous meeting

International monetary situation
	-Forthcoming meeting of the Group of Ten
	-Gold
	-Price
	-Convertibility
	-Forthcoming luncheon
			-Kissinger's views
-Previous meeting between Connally and Burns

Herbert Stein
-Role with administration
	-Heath

The President's visit to Washington Redskins practice session
-Joe Garagiola
-Comments regarding visit

International monetary situation
-Currency realignment
-Import surcharge
-Currency realignment
-Public relations
-Negotiation strategy
-Currency realignment
-Gold
	-Connally’s view
-France
-International Monetary Fund's [IMF] possible action
-Special Drawing Rights [SDRs]
-European Economic Community [EEC]'s possible action
-Connally's forthcoming meeting in Rome
	-Burns’s view
-IMF
-Congress
-Congress
-Convertibility
-IMF reserve assets
	-Burns’s view
-Currency realignment
-Malaysia
-IMF
-SDRs
-Importance
	-The Presidents view
	-Political benefits
	-Agriculture
-West Germany
-Offsets
-Trade
	-Offsets
-Kissinger's views
-Japan
-Offsets
	-Connally’s view
-Burden-sharing
	-Timing of negotiations
	-Negotiation strategy
-Stock Market
-Connally's forthcoming meeting in Rome
-The President's forthcoming meetings
-Announcements
-The President's meeting with Connally and Burns
-Statement to press
-Forthcoming meetings with leaders

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:46 am.

The President's schedule
-Rogers

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:27 pm.

National economy
-Money supply
-Burns's efforts
-Peter M. Flanigan's calls to Wall Street bankers
-Letter writing campaign
-Burns's promises
-Stock market
-Margin requirements
-Federal Reserve Board meeting
-Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
-Possible effect
-Possible alternative statements

Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Independence

The President's schedule
-Rogers
-Burns and Connally

Burns and Connally left at 12:27 pm.

Conversation No. 624-21

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  12:27 pm - 1:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers.

The President's previous meeting with Arthur F. Burns

John B. Connally's schedule
-Group of Ten

	Unknown event [?]
		-Henry Luce
		-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

The President's schedule
-Previous visit to Washington Redskins practice session
	-The President’s view
-Christian A. (“Sonny”) Jurgenson's comments
-George E. Allen
-Billy Kilmer
-Allen's previous telephone call to the President
-Jurgenson and Kilmer
-The President’s view

Football

-Roger Staubach
-Running quarterbacks
-Kilmer
-The President's conversation with Allen
-Predictability of offense

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:30 pm.

India-Pakistan
	-US policy
		-Rogers’s view

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

India-Pakistan
-US relations with Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Political solution
-The President's previous conversation with Sultan Mohammed Khan
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Rogers’s view
-US policy
-Newspaper story
-India’s military involvement
	-Statements by India
		-Compared with North Vietnam
	-Rogers’s view
	-Military disposition
-Yahya Khan's military position
	-Rogers’s view
-Edward M. Kennedy statements
-US policy
-US foreign aid to India
	-Export licenses
	-Agency for International Development [AID]
	-Rogers’s view
-United Nations [UN]
-Possible US actions
-Indira Gandhi’s position
	-Compared with Pakistan
-Possible Security Council action
	-Yahya Khan
	-Gandhi’s views
		-UN observers
	-US policy
-Gandhi’s letter to the President
	-Timing
-Gandhi
-Previous conversations with the President and Rogers
-Congress
-Public reaction in America
-US policy
	-Symbolic efforts
	-The President’s view

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN

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-US position toward Pakistan
-US relations with Yahya Khan and Gandhi
	-The President’s view
		-India’s role
-US foreign aid to India
	-Compared with aid to Pakistan
		-The President’s view
			-Congress

Rhodesian settlement with Britain
-US policy
-Alexander Douglas-Home
	-Previous meeting with the President

India-Pakistan
-US policy
	-Symbolic action
		-Gandhi
-Pakistan
-UN
	-US position
-Possible Security Council action
	-Rogers’s view
-Gandhi’s cooperation
-Yahya Khan
-Mujibur Rahman
-Gandhi’s view
-US policy
-US military aid to India

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN

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-Export licenses
-Embargo
-Economic aid
	-Refugees
	-Aid to Pakistan
-AID
	-Aid committed to India
-UN
-Possible response to press questions
-Rogers and Ronald l. Ziegler
-Rogers's forthcoming conversations
-Indian charge
-Unknown Pakistani
-Soviet Union
-India’s public relations
	-Compared with Pakistan
-India’s goals
-US policy
	-Kissinger’s view
-Gandhi
-Previous conversations with the President and Rogers
	-The President's previous conversation with Josip Broz Tito
-US policy
	-Symbolic efforts
	-Export licenses
	-Timing
-Ziegler’s statement
		-The President's previous meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
		-President’s forthcoming meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
		-US commitment to economic aid
-Military aid to India
	-The President’s view
-Multilateral aid
	-The President’s view
		-UN
		-World Bank
	-Kissinger’s view
		-India
-Soviet union's policy toward India
-PRC
-Financial support
-Indian goals
-Kissinger’s view
	-Pakistan
	-Bengal
-Nature of relationship
-Yahya Khan
-Bhutto
-The President’s view
-Possible policy
-Mujibur Rahman
-Wife 
	-The President’s view
-Possible policy
-Mujibur Rahman
-Yahya Khan
-The President’s view
-Bhutto
-The President’s view
-The President's visit in 1967
-Mohammed Ayub Khan's views
-Soviet Union's policy
-US policy
	-The President’s view
-Public relations
-Nigerian War
-UN
-Achievements
-Publicity
-UN
-Possible action
-Rogers's schedule

The President's schedule
-California
-Football game
	-Nebraska versus Oklahoma

Portugal
-UN resolution regarding Senegal
-US position
-Other nations' positions
	-Great Britain
		-The President’s schedule
			-Forthcoming trip to the Azores

Rogers’s schedule

India-Pakistan
-US policy

Rogers and Kissinger left at 1:12 pm.

Conversation No. 624-22

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:12 pm and 1:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger

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

Conversation No. 624-23

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:13 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met.

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An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:13 and 2:39 pm.

[Conversation No. 624-23A]

[End of telephone conversation]

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The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 2:39 pm.

Conversation No. 624-24

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  2:40 pm - 3:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Najeeb E. Halaby and Peter M. Flanigan; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Flanigan's and Halaby's schedules

The President's schedule
-California

Halaby's background and experience
-Pan American Airlines
-US Naval Reserve
	-The President
	-New Hampshire
-The President
-Phil Watts

Pan American World Airways [Pan Am]
-Corporate earnings
-History and prospects
-Board of Directors
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Robert B. Anderson
-William T. Coleman, Jr.
-William W. Scranton
-Age
-Otis Chandler
-Layoffs
-Competition
-Lyndon B. Johnson's Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB] chairmen
-Route awards
-Numbers
-Non-scheduled airlines
	-Routes

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.

Airline routes
-Competition
-Non-scheduled airlines
-Pan Am
-Trans World Airlines [TWA]
	-Non-scheduled airlines
	-Congress lobby
	-Truckers
	-Flanigan’s view
-Profitability
-Non-scheduled airlines
-CAB
-Enforcement of affinity group rules
-Secor D. Browne
-Pan Am and TWA
	-The President’s view
-Non-scheduled airlines
-CAB
-Browne's performance
	-Flanigan’s view

Pan Am
-Shareholders and employees
-Role
-Competitors
-Halaby's forthcoming conversation with Flanigan
-The President's possible conversations
-John B. Connally and John N. Mitchell
-Connally
	-Role with American Airlines
-Financial problems
-Possible mergers
-TWA
-Domestic carriers
-Anti-trust laws
	-The President’s view
-Herbert Brownwell’s conversation
-TWA
-Flanigan's previous conversation with Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr.
-US competitive position in world
	-The President’s view
-Possible merger
-Domestic carriers
-TWA

Pending mergers before CAB
-American Airlines-Western Airlines
-Eastern Airlines
-Delta Airlines-Northeast Airlines
-National Airlines-Northwest Airlines
-American Airlines-Western Airlines
	-Department of Transportation
	-Department of Justice
-Mitchell
	-Legal distinction between domestic and foreign airlines
		-Extraterritoriality

TWA
-Financial situation
-Fare increases

Pan Am
-Lack of domestic routes
-Possible government assistance
-Anti-trust
-Scandanavian Airlines System [SAS] and Sabena
-Pooling
-The President’s position
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
	-CAB
-Pending legislation
-Tax loss carryback
-Military set-aside
	-Cargo
-Loan guarantees
	-Compared with railroads
-Vance Hartke bill

Government subsidies
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Airlines and railroads

Pan Am
-Market share
-Wage rates
-Pilots
-Compared with Lufthansa

Air traffic growth
	-Economy

Pan Am
-Support for the President's policies
	-Vietnam
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Possible resumption of service to PRC
	-China National Aviation Corps [CNAC]
-The President's forthcoming trip
	-Possible press charter
-Route to Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
-The President's previous conversation with Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Halaby’s view
-The President's forthcoming trips to PRC and Soviet Union
-Press corps numbers
-Possible use of Pan Am
	-The President’s view
	-Halaby’s view

US-Japan trade
-Peter G. Peterson's group
-David Rockefeller, Halaby, Carl Gustaf [sp?] and George C. McGhee
-US relations with PRC

Japan
-Compared with PRC
	-The President’s view
-Okinawa
-Relationship with US
-Relationship with PRC

World powers
	-The President’s view
		-US
		-Western Europe
		-Soviet Union
		-China
		-Japan
		-Latin America
		-Asia

Japan
-Future role in the world
-US trade policy
	-New Economic Policy [NEP]

SST
	-Affordability
	-Air Force One

Pan Am
	-Stewardesses

Halaby and Flanigan left at 3:11 pm.

Conversation No. 624-25

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:11 pm and 3:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Request that Charles W. Colson join him

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:14 pm.

Conversation No. 624-26

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:11 pm and 3:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Charles W. Colson
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:14 pm.

Conversation No. 624-27

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  3:14 pm - 3:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's forthcoming call to Nobuhiko Ushiba
-Kissinger’s previous meeting with the President
-Possible meeting with Eisaku Sato
	-San Clemente
-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon's schedule
-Timing
-Edward R.G. Heath
-San Clemente

India-Pakistan
-William P. Rogers's views

-Kissinger's meeting with John N. Irwin II and Joseph J. Sisco
-Leaks

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:14 pm.

Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:20 pm.

India-Pakistan
-US Policy
-Rogers
-Possible announcement
	-US military aid
	-India
	-Pakistan
	-John B. Connally
		-Henry Kearns
	-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
	-Kearns
			-US aid

The President's schedule
-Connally and George P. Shultz
-Kissinger
-Military budget

Kissinger's schedule
		-Ushiba

Kissinger left at 3:20 pm.

Conversation No. 624-28

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  3:20 pm - 3:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Colson's staff

The President's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors
-Announcements
	-France
	-Great Britain
	-Germany

National economy
-Money supply
-The President's conversation with Arthur F. Burns
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Letter writing campaign against Burns
-New Yorkers
-Jews
-Stock market
-Colson's conversation with William H. Donaldson of Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette
-Prospects for 1972
-The President's conversation with Burns
-International monetary situation
-The President's labor policy
-George Meany
-John B. Connally
-Press report

Public relations
		-Previous speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-The President's conversation with his barber
-Colson's conversation with his relatives
-Possible letter to Meany
-Press coverage
-Jim Naughton
-[Forename unknown] Gilbride of Associated Press [AP]
-The President's demeanor
-Connally
-Democrats
-Popular impression
-Louis P. Harris's views
-The President under pressure
-Trip to Caracas, Venezuela in 1958

Edmund S. Muskie
-Supporters' meeting with Harris
-Telephone polls in primary states
-Popular impression
-Compared with the President

Public relations
	-Connally
	-Harris
	-Views regarding popular impression of the President

Pending legislation
-The President's conversation with Hugh Scott
-Previous vote
-Tax Bill
-Financing presidential campaigns
-John D. Ehrlichman's work
-Possible veto
-Jews
-Effect
	-The President’s view
	-Colson’s view
-Possible veto
-Ehrlichman's view
-Financing presidential campaigns
-Effect
	-Political party system
	-George C. Wallace
-Possible repeal
-Colson's previous conversation with Ehrlichman
-Taxpayers
	-Political affiliation
-Mechanism for receiving political contributions
	-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] forms
		-Blacks
		-Effect on Republican Party
-Possible House vote
-Colson's efforts
-Wallace
-Democrats' motive
	-The President’s view
	-Wallace

Public relations
-Previous visit to Washington Redskins practice session

National economy
-The President's program
-Popular impressions
-Meany

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:20 pm.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-NobuhikoUshiba

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:35 pm.

National economy

Colson left at 3:35 pm.

Conversation No. 624-29/625-1

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  3:35 pm - unknown before 4:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman, John B. Connally and George P. Shultz.

Pay Board and Price Commission

Connally's schedule
-Forthcoming Group of Ten meeting
-Possible briefing paper
-Japan
-Henry A. Kissinger's contacts with State Department
-Arthur F. Burns

The President's previous meeting with Burns and Connally
-Margin requirements
-Ronald L. Ziegler's comments
-Burns's reaction
-Knowledge of Federal Reserve Board's [FRB] activities

Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Administration's position
-Percentage
-Use of proceeds
-Distribution formula
	-States
		-Conditions
-Real estate taxes
	-Education
	-Agriculture
	-Distribution formula
-Shultz's and Peter M. Flanigan's views
-Revenue-sharing
-Political value
-Real estate taxes
	-The President’s view
-Popular appeal
	-Connally’s view
-Wilbur D. Mills
	-Ways and Means Committee
-The President's previous speeches
-Environment
-Revenue sharing
-Public reaction
-Other proposals
-Timing of proposal
	-Compare with forthcoming Presidential election
-Mills
-State of the Union speech
-Content
-Neil H. McElroy Commission
-Connally's possible press conference
-Federal budget
-Prospects
-Mills
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Mills
-Appeal
-Possible congressional action
-Tax reform
	-The President’s view
	-Shultz and Herbert Stein
	-Corporations and income
-Political value
-Timing of proposal
-The President's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-1972 Presidential campaign
-Property tax
-Possible repeal
	-Connally’s view
-Timing of proposal
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-Connally's possible press conference
	-The President’s view
-Timing of proposal

	State of the Nation
-New governmental initiatives
-Need for calm and certainty

	The President’s tax proposals
		-State of the Union speech
	-Content
	-Messages to Congress
	-Tax proposals
	-Presentation to Cabinet
		-McElroy report
	-VAT
		-Connally
	-The President's possible speech
	-Property tax repeal
	-Political value
	-Possible lobby reaction
	-The President's possible action
	-Response to possible questions
	-McElroy Commission
	-Revenue-sharing
	-Mills
	-Prospects in Congress
	-Ehrlichman's conversations
	-Warren E. Hearnes and Barber B. Conable, Jr.
	-Mills's proposals

Environmental issues
	-The President’s view
	-Constituency
	-Duration

Issues
-Duration
-Speeches

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 4:06 pm.

[Continued on OVAL 625]