Conversation No. 626-1

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  8:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Greetings

The unknown man left at 8:50 am.

Conversation No. 626-2

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:50 am and 9:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Instructions

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:15 am.

Conversation No. 626-3

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  9:15 am - 9:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Check-off for political campaigns
-Possible veto
-John O. Pastore's possible compromise
-Tax credit
-Benefits to tax payers
-Conference Committee report
-House's possible action
-Possible veto
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Clark MacGregor's work

Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
	-Possible outcome of vote
-Timing of vote
-Press coverage

National economy
-The President's program
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] News interviews
-Laborers and labor leaders
	-Ohio
	-George Meany

Confirmations
-Senate's schedule
-Butz
-Supreme Court

1973 budget
-Federal pay raise
-Vote

News summary
-The President's schedule
	-Forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-John A. Scali
-Dan Rather
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Robert Pierpont
	-Staff's knowledge
		-White House Communications Agency [WHCA]
		-Policemen
		-Secret Service
	-Pierpoint's story
	-Ziegler's efforts
-Rather and Pierpont

James Perry of National Observer
-Past reporting of the President
-Compared with [Forename unknown] Pearson [sp?] Wall Street Journal
-Importance
	-The President’s view

Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein
-Activities in 1972
	-Haldeman’s view
-Roles on White House staff

Maurice H. Stans's schedule
-John B. Connally

Connally
-News reports regarding role in administration
-Arthur F. Burns
-Effect
-Previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-News reports regarding role in administration
	-Connally’s view
-Previous conversations with George P. Shultz and Kissinger
-Kissinger
	-Haldeman’s view
		-Burns
-Previous meeting with Shultz and Kissinger
-Leaks
	-Connally’s view
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
			-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Possible effect
	-The President’s view
-News reports
	-Haldeman’s view
	-Kissinger and Burns
	-Possible sources
		-Peter G. Peterson
-Possible conversation with Haldeman

Leaks
-White House response
-Charles W. Yost

Stans
-Possible report to Cabinet on foreign trip
-Compared with Connally's report on foreign trip
-Unknown prime minister
-Giovanni Battista Motini [Pope Paul VI]

The President's schedule
-Time interview
	-Timing
		-President’s forthcoming trip to New York
		-Florida

Christmas tree lighting ceremony
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-The Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
-The President

Haldeman left at 9:45 am.

Conversation No. 626-4

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:45 am and 9:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Press attendance at forthcoming meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:54 am.

Conversation No. 626-5

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:45 am and 9:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:54 am.

Conversation No. 626-6

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  9:54 am - unknown before 10:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Vernon A. Walters's visit
	-The President's forthcoming trip
		-Announcement
	-Arrangements
		-Logistics
			-Hangchow
-Walters

India-Pakistan
-US policy

News reports
	-John B. Connally
	-Role in administration
-Arthur F. Burns
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's view
-Joseph C. Kraft's previous story
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-Italy
	-Presidential election
		-Timing
-Role in Administration
	-Connally’s view
	-Peter G. Peterson and Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
	-Peterson’s possible comments

International monetary situation
-Kissinger's conversations
-Peterson, George P. Shultz, Burns and Connally
-Kissinger
Connally
-Kissinger’s view
	-Possible Vice Presidential bid
-Enemies

Efforts on behalf of the Administration
-Shultz
-Connally
-Philip H. Trezise
-Brookings Institution
-William P. Rogers
-Charles W. Yost
	-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view
			-Democratic National Committee
			-Election year actions

Connally
-News reports
-Kissinger's forthcoming backgrounder
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger's forthcoming backgrounder
-News reports concerning Connally's role in administration
-Shultz
-The President's opponents' strategy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:54 am.

Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:06 am

-International monetary situation

PRC
-News reports

Middle East
-William P. Rogers's forthcoming meeting with Congressmen
-Kissinger's conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Effect
-Rogers's role
-Israel
	-Soviet Union
	-Possible arms sale
-US policy
	-Timing of arms sale decision
		-President’s forthcoming meeting with Gold Meir
-Possible call from Mitchell
-Department of State involvement
Possible leaks
	-Congressmen
-Mitchell
-Cable form Walworth Barbour
-Mitchell

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

Conversation No. 626-7

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  10:06 am - 11:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger, Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

International economy
-Military sales
-Import surcharge
	-Working group
-Venezuela
-State department
-John B. Connally
-Possible reduction
-Mexico
-Brazil
-Canada
-International monetary situation
	-Forthcoming Group of Ten meeting
		-Negotiations
-Expropriations
	-US policy
-Multilateral compared to bilateral aid
	-Finch’s view
		-Ecuador

Peru

Brazil
-Economy
-"Nixon Doctrine"
-Brasilia
-Government
-Foreign minister, Mario Gibson Alves Barbosa
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Government 

Argentina
-John D. Lodge
-Finch’s view
	-Alejandro A. Lanusse
-Health
	-US Deputy Chief of Mission
	-State dinner
	-Argentine cabinet
	-Lodge
	-Lanusse
	-Economy
	-Possible new post
		-Finland
				-European security conference
-Finances
-Finch’s view
-Finch’s view
	-Peru

Ambassadorships
	-Argentina
		-Lodge
	-Spain
		-Cornelius V. Whitney
	-Lodge
		-Possible posting
			-Australia
				-Walter L. Rice
			-Europe
			-Belgium
			-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] ambassador
			-David M. Kennedy
			-Fredrick McC. Eaton
-Australia
	-Rice
	-Wife, Inger (Vestergaard) Rice

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Argentina
-Political situation
-Lanusse
-Connally
-Lodge
-Economic situation

State Department
-Charles A. Meyer
-US ambassadors to Latin America
	-Finch’s view

Peru
-US embassy
-Tuna fisheries
-US negotiations
-Ecuador
-Licenses
-US negotiations
-Status
-Ecuador
	-Previous United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-Meyer
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Connally
-Law of the Sea Conference

Law of the Sea Conference
	-Territorial limits
		-Other countries
-Unknown man

George H. W. Bush
-Forthcoming conversation with Finch and Klein

	Ambassadorships
	-Lodge
		-Spain
		-Whitney
		-Contribution to Committee to Reelect the President
	-Spanish political situation

Peru
-Tuna fisheries
-US negotiations
	-Taylor G. Belcher
	-The President’s instructions to Kissinger

Ecuador
-Financial assistance
-Technical assistance
	-Oil
-Health
-Agricultural assistance

US ambassadors
	-Lodge
-Findley Burns, Jr.
-Belcher
-Singapore [Charles T. Cross]
-Views of the Vice President and Ronald W. Reagan

Latin America
-US ambassadors
	-The President’s views
-Lodge
-Relations with the President
-Finch’s view
-Finch’s and Klein’s previous trip
-Relations with US
-News reports
-Forthcoming dinner for Medici
-Klein and Finch
-Importance

The President's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors
	-Forthcoming meeting with the French
	-Forthcoming meeting with the British
	-Forthcoming meeting with the Japanese
-Pierre E. Trudeau

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Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:35 am.

Forthcoming dinner for Medici
-Finch
-Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources
-Kissinger

Woods left at 10:36 am.

US ambassadors to Latin America
-Spanish language
-Lodge
-Unknown man
	-The President’s previous trip to Latin America as Vice President

Latin America
	-Working group
	-Finch’s possible participation
-US ambassadors

International economy
-Import surcharge
	-Finch’s efforts
-US aid to Latin America
-Military sales
-US congress
-The President’s view

US foreign policy
-Friendly governments
-Democracy
	-The President’s view
		-Military governments
-Greece
-Pakistan
-US policy
	-Foreign aid criteria
-Internal compared to external policy
-Colombia, Brazil, Greece and Rhodesia

Brazil
-Torture
-Medici

	Mexico
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s previous telephone call

US foreign policy
-Presidential telephone calls
-Story by James Perry of National Observer
-Edward R.G. Heath
		-Previous telephone call from the President

Mexico
	-Economy
	-Import surcharge
	-Finch’s view

Latin America
-Military sales
	-The President’s instructions
-Visits by Cabinet members
-Previous trip by Finch and Klein
	-Media coverage
-Medici
-Peru
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's previous trip
-Finch’s earthquake relief work
-Chile
	-Peruvian-Chilean politics
		-1970 Chilean coup
	-Expropriation
-Loans
-Federal Loan Bank Board
-US aid
	-1970 Peruvian earthquake
-Chile
-Views regarding Fidel Castro and Cuba
-Chile
-Organization of American States [OAS]
		-Views regarding the President's forthcoming trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
-Import surcharge
-Castro
-Mexico and Brazil
	-Possible trade with PRC
-Possible official travel
	-Maurice H. Stans’s previous trip to Europe
		-Aleksei N. Kosygin
	-Forthcoming US-Soviet Union summit
-William P. Rogers
-Finch’s and Klein’s previous trip
	-Ecuador
	-Rio de Janeiro
-Rogers
	-Latin American views
-The Vice President
	-Previous trips to Africa and Asia
-Mexico City
-Olympic games
-Crime statistics
-Tokyo compared with US
-Possible official travel
	-Mexico City
	-Brasilia
	-Argentina
	-Peru
	-Colombia
	-Venezuela
-Peru
-Possible official travel
-The Vice President
-Timing
	-Forthcoming events
		-Brazilian anniversary
-Brazil
	-Population growth
	-Brasilia
	-Development
	-US embassy
-Working group
	-Department of State
		-US Agency for International Development [AID]
-US ambassadors
	-The President’s view
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Robert H. McBride
	-Robert C. Hill
	-Lodge
		-Colombia
		-Europe
-Polio
-Smallpox
-Klein's and Finch's possible conversations
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Views on Klein's and Finch's trip
-Suggestions for ambassadorial posts
-US ambassadors
-Unknown man from Nassau County, New York
-Rockefeller
-Import surtax
-Rogers’s schedule
	-Brasilia
	-Mexico City
-Possible conversation with Klein and finch
-Mexico
	-Echeverria
-The Vice President's schedule
-Mexico
-Politics
	-Echeverria
	-Effect
		-Los Angeles immigrants
-Working group
-Senior Review Group [SRG]
-Possible programs
-Echeverria, Medici, and Lanusse
-The President's policy
-World War II
-Unknown man

Finch and Klein left at 11:05 am.

Kissinger's schedule
	-Rogers

Ronald W. Reagan
-President’s forthcoming conversation
-PRC

Kissinger left at 11:05 am.

Conversation No. 626-8

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  11:06 am - 11:19 am
Location:  Oval Office

Ronald L. Ziegler met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:19 am.

The President entered at an unknown time after 11:06 am.

Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Possible veto
-Statement
-Federal pay raise
-Possible veto
	-The President’s view
-Ziegler's conversation with George P. Shultz
-Unions in Cincinnati
-Unknown man
-Unknown recommendation
-Pending legislation
-Congress

Henry A. Kissinger's forthcoming press briefing
-Ziegler
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and India-Pakistan

Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Ziegler's forthcoming conversation with Robert Pierpoint and Dan Rather
-Reporting the President's schedule
-Chicago event
	-National 4-H Congress
-Ziegler’s view
-New York Herald-Examiner

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to PRC
-Size of party
-PRC’s views
-Ziegler's statements
		-Forthcoming meeting with foreign leaders
			-France, Germany, Great Britain, and Japan

Kissinger
-Views on unknown subject

Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-Connally
-Role in administration
-News reports
-Arthur F. Burns and Peter G. Peterson
-Newsweek story

Ziegler left at 11:19 am.

Conversation No. 626-9

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  11:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-174]

Conversation No. 626-10

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  11:23 am - 12:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

India-Pakistan
	-Report from India
	-Pakistani troop dispositions

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:24 am.

Announcement regarding Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Constance M. Stuart
-Call from Ziegler

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 11:24 am.

-Timing

Ziegler left at 11:25 am.

William P. Rogers
-Conversation with John N. Mitchell
	-Sale of aircraft to Israel
-Possible meeting with the President
-Schedule
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Golda Meir
-Meeting with congressmen
-Forthcoming speech
-Views regarding aircraft for Israel
	-The President’s view
-State Department

India-Pakistan

	-India
	-Rogers's forthcoming announcement
-US policy
-Export licenses
	-Kissinger’s view
		-New licenses
			-Radar equipment
		-State Department
		-Pakistan
		-New and old licenses
		-Pakistan
	-State Department

Kissinger's forthcoming press briefing
-President’s forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Size of press contingent
-PRC’s views
-Compared to other foreign trips
-India-Pakistan
-US aid to India
	-Amount
-US policy
	-United Nations [UN]
-Vietnam
-The President's previous press conference
-Infiltration
-The President’s view
-Middle East
-Arms balance
-Rogers

Middle East
-Rogers's views
-Conversation with Mitchell
-Soviet Union
-Israeli-Egyptian negotiations
	-Aircraft
-Soviet Union
	-Israel
	-Forthcoming summit with the US
	-The President's reelection
-Israeli-US relations
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Interim settlement

Kissinger's forthcoming press briefing
-International monetary situation
-John B. Connally's views
-Price of gold
-Connally's role
-Latin America
-Robert H. Finch
-Proposed statement

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Eisaku Sato
-Japanese press reaction
	-Kissinger’s view
		-PRC
		-San Clemente
		-Compared to European press

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William P. and McGeorge Bundy
-William Bundy’s article
-Kissinger’s view
	-Vietnam responsibility
	-Pentagon Papers

Vietnam
-Casualties
-Helicopter crash
-Number
-The President's chart of troop withdrawals
-Foreign policy report
	-Casualty rate chart
	-Incursions into Cambodia and Laos

Public relations
-Foreign visits and visitors
-Press coverage
-News summary
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Haldeman’s view
	-The President’s view
-Press coverage
-Interludes between foreign visitors
-Domestic issues
	-Health care reform
-Press coverage
-Japanese, Germans and British
-Communiqués
-Press coverage
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Burke Trend
-Television

International monetary situation
-Price of gold
-Revaluation of currency

The President's critics
-White House response
-Edmund S. Muskie
-White House response
-William L. Calley
-Public interest

Kissinger's forthcoming press briefing
	-Nature of briefing
-State Department
-Rogers

Rogers's schedule
-Latin America
-Finch's previous visit
-Foreign Ministers meeting
-Safety concerns

Jerrold L. Schecter
-Conversation with Kissinger
-The President's foreign policy
-The President's article written in 1967
-PRC
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Contacts with US
		-PRC
		-Contacts with US
		-The President's conversations
		-Eastern Europeans
			-Romania
			-Poland
		-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
		-Pakistani Air Marshal
		-Kissinger’s views
	-Soviet Union
	-The President's press conference
		-Linkage
		-Trade
		-Berlin
		-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-The President's historical background
	-World Wars I and II
	-Kissinger's previous conversation with Hugh S. Sidey
	-“Man of the Year” award

Liberals
-Views regarding the President
-The President as Time's “Man of the Year”
-Letters to the editor of Time
				-"Man of the Year"
					-The President
			-Daniel Ellsberg
			-The dollar
			-Indira Gandhi

India
-Congress's views
-Clark MacGregor's forthcoming meeting
-Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen

Gandhi
-Visit To US

Kissinger left at 11:53 am

The President's schedule
		-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] television show, "A Day in the Life of the President"
-Domestic Council meeting
-The Vice President
-Economic meeting
-The Vice President
-Connally
-Dictation
	-Rose Mary Woods
-Connally
-Open Door Hour
-Seventeen year old deaf boy
-Athletic ability
-John W. Chancellor
-Interview
-Timing
-Woods
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule

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-Date of showing
-Telephone calls
-Limitations
-Kissinger and Rogers

Unknown man
-Unknown actions
-Effect on the President

The President and Haldeman left at 12:03 pm.

Conversation No. 626-11

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:03 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met.

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The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

Conversation No. 626-12

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  3:48 pm - 5:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:48 pm.

-Lewis and David Reed

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
-Clark MacGregor's call to Haldeman

-Charles H. Percy and Hugh Scott
-Prospect of vote
-The President's possible role
-MacGregor's call to Haldeman
-Tax check-off issue
-Possible conversation with the President

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:48 pm and 3:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 626-12A]

[See Conversation No. 15-175]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Forthcoming speech on aged
-NSC meeting
-William P. Rogers's schedule
-Golda Meir

The President talked with Clark MacGregor between 3:55 pm and 3:58 pm.

[Conversation No. 626-12B]

[See Conversation No. 15-176]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-NSC meeting
-Possible agenda
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-National 4-H Congress speech
-Congressional candidates
-Unknown man from Vermont
-Possible photograph opportunity
-Raymond H. Nutter
-Kentucky
-John C. Watts
-Unknown man from Vermont
-Opponents of incumbent Democrats
-Jack R. Miller
-Television appearance
-George H. Mahon
-President of Texas Tech University
-Invitation for the President to address American Association of Engineers
-The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Possible book to be written
-Lewis’s view
-James A. Michener
-Unknown person
-Forthcoming conversation with unknown person
-Size of party
-Press
-Possible book
-Michener
-Theodore H. White
-Interviews
-Herbert G. Klein's views
	-Associated Press [AP]
	-United Press International [UPI]
	-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
-Editorial boards
-The President's trip to PRC
-Parade Magazine
-Responses to written questions
-The President's record

Congress
-Previous vote on repealing “315”
-Democrats
-Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Arthur Summerfield and unknown person

Lewis, Reed and the White House photographer entered and Haldeman left at 4:06 pm.

Introductions

Reed's experience
-Vietnam

Forthcoming interview
-Ronald L. Ziegler

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

-Fiftieth anniversary of Reader's Digest

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

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Preparation of article on forthcoming interview
-US News and World Report interviews

Vietnam
-Cessation of conflict
-Negotiations
-Vietnamization

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

[Unintelligible]

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

Vietnam
-US role
-Casualties
-Troop strength
-South Vietnamese
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Duration
-Forthcoming announcement
-Draftees
-Duration
-Combat
-Casualties
-South Vietnamese
-US goals

US role in world
-Conflicts
	-Asia
	-Latin America

Southeast Asia
-North Vietnamese military dispositions
-Vietnam
-Prospects
-Cambodia
-Prospects

PRC
-Relations with US
-Role in Korea, Indonesia and Vietnam
-Relations with US
-US relations with other Asian nations
-The President's article in Foreign Affairs in 1967
-Population
-Future prospects
-PRC relations with Soviet Union
-Relations with US
-Benefits
-Philosophical differences
-Nuclear weapons
-Trade
-Possible conflict
-US treaty obligations
	-Japan
	-Taiwan
	-Philippines
	-Korea
	-Vietnam

National defense
-Disarmament
-SALT
-Progress
-Philosophies and interests of US and Soviet Union
-As percentage of Gross National Product [GNP]
-Compared with previous administrations
-Compared with Soviet Union
-SALT
-Prospects
-US credibility
-Leonid I. Brezhnev and Aleksei N. Kosygin

Middle East

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

US relations with Soviet Union
-Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
-PRC and Soviet Union interests
-Berlin
-Middle East

Middle East
-Importance
-US policy
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Israel and Egypt
-Jordan crisis in 1971
-US and Soviet views
-Compared with India-Pakistan

US relations with Soviet Union
-World Wars I and II
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-H. G. Wells
-Glassboro summit
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's meeting at Camp David
-The President's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-Preparations
-Previous talks

US relations with PRC
-Rimland of Asia

National defense
-US, Soviet Union and PRC
-Europe
-Japan

US economy vis-a-vis world
-Competition
-Marshall Plan
-European Economic Community
-Common Market
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Taiwan and Singapore
-Japan
-Herman Kahn's view
-Latin America
-Africa
-Competition
-Isolationism
-Competition
-Example of Paavo Nurmi
-Eisenhower administration
-Peaceful intentions of US
-Isolationism
	-Import surcharge
-Competition
-Age of industrial equipment
-Depreciation
-Government subsidies
-Isolationism
-Vietnam
-Korea

Vietnam
-Possible effect of communist military success
-Effect on American spirit
-The President's policy

Publication of interview
-Editing

[Unintelligible]

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Reed's children

Lewis and Reed left at 5:10 pm.

Conversation No. 626-13

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  5:10 pm - unknown before 5:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?].

Charles W. Colson

Alexander P. Butterfield entered and the unknown person [Bull?] left at 5:10 pm.

Documents for signing

The President's schedule
		-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] television show, “A Day in the Life of the President”

Rose Mary Woods entered and Butterfield left at 5:12 pm.

The President's speech draft
-Typing
-Delivery to unknown man
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Work
-Woods’s view

Roger E. Johnson
-Previous meeting with Woods
-Role with Administration
-Travel
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-John [Surname unknown]
-Conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ambassadorial position

US Ambassadors
-Spain
-John D. Lodge
-Argentina
-Spain
	-Robert C. Hill
	-Political ambitions
	-Cornelius V. Whitney
	-Louie B. Nunn
	-Woods’s view

The President's term of office
-Foreign visits and visitors
	-Summits
-Italy
	-France

	The President’s schedule
-Time magazine
-"Man of the Year" award

Time magazine
-Willard Edwards
-Willy Brandt
	-Nobel Prize

Stephen B. Bull entered at 5:20 pm.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  6s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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Woods left at 5:20 pm.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Colson
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:21 pm.

Conversation No. 626-14

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  5:21 pm - 6:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  25s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Earl L. Butz

Public relations
		-President’s previous speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Photograph
-Music
-George Meany
-Photograph
-Teamster photographer
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons's conversation with Colson
-Effect
-Possible use
	-Time magazine

	-Wire service
-Meany
	-Illness
-Mail to White House
-Editorials

Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Ronald H. Nessen
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Possible role
-Daniel L. Schorr
	-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Possible role
-John C. Whitaker and Frederic V. Malek
	-Neighborhood cleanup program
-Russell E. Train and William D. Ruckelshaus
-Public education
-Effect
	-Compared to Claude W. Gifford
				-Efforts at Agriculture Department
					-Mailings
					-Television
					-Radio

Butz
-Confirmation

Supreme Court
-Confirmations

Romana Acosta Banuelos
-Confirmation
-Delay
-Effects
-Senate Finance Committee

National economy
-Stock market
-Prospects
-Volume
-Possible veto of Tax Bill

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Henry C. Cashen, II’s report
-Activities of business organizations
-Russell B. Long
-John B. Anderson
-Network time in political campaigns
-John O. Pastore
-Networks' views
-"315"
-Previous vote on repeal
-Presidential office
-White House position
	-1972 campaign
			-Possible debates
			-1960 election
			-White House position
	-1968 campaign
	-George C. Wallace
	-"315"
	-Wallace

James Perry of National Observer
-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Relationship with Colson
-Attacks on administration
-Audience
-News summary
	-National Observer and New Republic
-Story concerning Edmund S. Muskie

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  3m 5s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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National economy
-Paul W. McCracken's report
-Conference Board survey
-Forthcoming Commerce Department report
-Colson's conversation with Harold C. Passer and James T. Lynn
-Plant and equipment survey
-Milton Friedman's views
-McCracken's views
-Unemployment
-James D. Hodgson's views
-McCracken's views
-John B. Connally's views
-Statistical formulation
-Passer's views
	-Revisions of leading economic indicators
-Previous conversation with Colson
-Stock market
-Wire service reports

Henry A. Kissinger

National economy
-Stock market
-Wire services

Henry A. Kissinger entered and Colson left at 5:40 pm.

Forthcoming meeting 

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and 5:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 626-14A]

The President's forthcoming speech at White House Conference on Aging
-John D. Ehrlichman
-The President's conversation with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Price
-Unknown man's possible conversation with Ehrlichman

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's previous press briefing
-India-Pakistan
-State Department action
	-US policy
-John A. Scali's views
-Conversation with Haldeman
-The President's schedule
-Press questions on foreign visits
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union

Haldeman talked with the President between 5:45 pm and 5:46 pm.

[Conversation No. 626-14B]

[See Conversation No. 15-177]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's previous press briefing
-The President's international policies
-Scali's conversation with Haldeman
-The President's schedule
-Foreign visits
-John B. Connally
-Role in international monetary policy
-PRC
-Taiwan
-US policy
-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press contingent
-Size
	-PRC
-Television
-Ground station
-Hangchow
-Forthcoming meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-Peking
-Press reception

The President's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors
-Press conference
-News coverage
-Tax Bill
-Butz and Meany

India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's schedule
-US policy
-State Department
-Export licenses
	-Aircraft
	-Ammunition

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration:  29s  ]

	PRC

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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The President's schedule
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-European Security Conference
-MBFR
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Options
	-State Department
-European Security Conference
-Soviet strategy
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-US strategy
	-Timing
		-Berlin Agreement
-Soviet strategy
	-Finland
		-Ambassador to Finland, Val Paterson

European Security Conference
	-NATO meeting
-US policy
	-State Department
-European nations' policy
	-MBFR
	-Germany
-The President's schedule
-Heads of State
-Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
	-Germany
-Willy Brandt's views
-William P. Rogers's views

Vietnam
-Military plans
	-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
	-Senate recess
	-Bombing
-Negotiations

Henry Brandon
-Forthcoming book on the President's foreign policy
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Meetings with the President
	-Timing
-Ziegler
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Role of State Department in foreign affairs
-PRC
-Cambodia
	-State Department
-Documentation
-Rogers

PRC
-Messages from US

Rogers
-Kissinger’s view
-Schedule
-Senators
-Speech
-Activities
-Compared with Clark M. Clifford
-Relations with press
-Conversation with Henry Truitt

State Department
-Kissinger's previous relationship with Elliot L. Richardson
-Rogers
-The President’s view

Kissinger's schedule
-Business Council
-Peter M. Flanigan
-The President’s view

The President's schedule
-National 4-H Congress speech in Chicago
-NSC meeting
-Speech at White House Conference on Aging
-Visit to PRC
-Press reaction
-Rogers's previous comment to Truitt
-India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's relations with PRC
-Kissinger's conversation with Brandon
-Possible results
-Soviet Union
-Rogers
-Soviet Union
-Indian Foreign Minister
-Indira Gandhi
-Rumania
-Rogers's comment
-Truitt's conversation with Scali

State Department
-Scali's views
-Rogers
-Relations with White House
-Press
-Rogers

India-Pakistan
-US policy
	-Rogers’s comment to press
		-PRC
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Soviet Union
		-PRC

Rogers
-Views regarding Israel
-John N. Mitchell's opinion regarding motive
-Kissinger’s view
	-Soviet Union

Middle East
-US policy

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:46 pm.

Coat

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:09 pm.

Middle East

Kissinger's previous press briefing
-State Department
-Rogers
	-Forthcoming speech
	-Ziegler
		-Kissinger’s potential statement
-Taiwan
-PRC

The President and Kissinger left at 6:09 pm.

Conversation No. 626-15

Date:  November 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:09 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met.

[Unintelligible]

An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time.

[Conversation No. 626-15A]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:09 pm.

[Unintelligible]

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