Conversation No. 627-1

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Alexander P. Butterfield.

Christmas season
	-Congress
		-Christmas

President's schedule
-Upcoming meetings
-Florida
-Willy Brandt
	-Timing
		-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
			-State of the Union speech
-California trip dates
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip
	-Unknown departure time
		-Timing

[Pause]

-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Timing
-Press conference in California
-Eisaku Sato meeting
-Announcement
-President’s schedule
	-Mrs. Nixon’s arrival
		-Conflict [?]
						-President’s upcoming meeting with the Director of Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
							-The President’s birthday
-Suggestions
-Congress

-Special session
-Italian meeting
-Kissinger
	-Timing
-State of the Union
	-Potential Congressional problem
		-Timing
			-Congress
-President’s instructions to Haldeman
	-Foreign visitors
-Mexico
-Argentina
-Barbados
	-Upcoming foreign ministers meeting
-William P. Rogers
-Africans
-Europeans
-Mexicans
		-Upcoming events
-Joseph M. Luns
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Spiro T. Agnew
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Schools
	-Presidential visits [?]
-February
	-Schedule conflict
-December, January, February [PRC]
	-State of the Union
-March and April
	-Publicity from PRC visit
-May
	Trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Possible veterans meeting
-Unknown law school

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

Conversation No. 627-2

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Oval Office
-Someone to enter
-The President's schedule
-Delivery of something

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

Conversation No. 627-3

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Schedule
-Chicago
	-Conflict
-National 4-H Congress
-National Association of Farm Editors
-American Farm Bureau
-President’s speech to the National 4-H Congress
	-Meet and greet
						-National Association of Farm Editors and the American Farm Bureau

-John C. Whitaker
-Earl L. Butz
-Whitaker’s talk with Roger Clements
	-Possible photo opportunity at the meet and greet
		-Recognition

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 9:15 am.

National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Allies
	-Options
-European Security Conference
	-William P. Rogers
				-Preparatory meetings with the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics [USSR]
-Berlin
	-Agreement
-Western Deputy Foreign Ministers meeting
	-Western position rectified
-Summit
-Exploratory talks
	-Rogers
		-Possible delay of explanatory talks
-Middle East
-USSR
		-Rogers’ probable meeting with the President
-Golda Meir
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Los Angeles Times
	-Proposal
-Agenda
-State Department
	-USSR
		-Negotiations
			-Shift in US policy
-Rogers
-Lunch for Meir
-Meeting with Kissinger

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

Chicago
-Schedule
	-Problems

	Clark MacGregor
-Tax bill
	-Wilbur D. Mills
		-Pressure
	-Auto dealers
		-Potential problems of tax bill
	-Kevin P. Phillips
		-Labor unions
			-Control of Presidential elections
	-Campaign check off
		-Public attitudes
		-John B. Anderson

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:15 am.

Rogers's schedule

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

MacGregor
-Foreign aid
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Appropriation
-Allen J. Ellender
	-Trip to Africa
-Continuing resolution
-Butz
	-Upcoming vote

Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Resignation from the United Nations [UN] delegation
-United Negro College Fund [UNCF]
	-Sense of helpfulness
-Importance in particular field
-Chairman of the Domestic Council Committee on Discrimination
	-Post retained by Fletcher
-Letter to the President
-Negro colleges 
	-Ability to survive
-Black Professors
-White colleges
	-Hiring tactics
		-Criticism

Schedule
-Congress
-Kissinger
-Chicago speech

[Pause?]

American Pharmaceutical Association [?]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:15 am.

Schedule
	-Chicago speech

Bull left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:05 am.

Pierre E. Trudeau dinner
-Guest list and table

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

William F. (“Billy”) Graham's trip to Taiwan
	-Trip cancelled

Trudeau dinner

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.

Conversation No. 627-4

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:00 am and 11:29 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and William P. Rogers.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is already in progress]

	Middle East situation
		-Forthcoming talks with Golda Meir
			-Difference of opinion
			-Need for a long-term agreement
				-Essential for survival and security
			-Phantom jets
				-Proposed delivery in the future
					-Contingency plans
			-Security
				-US assurances
			-Meir
				-Possible attitude during negotiations after General Assembly debate
					-Potential pitfalls
			-Anwar el-Sadat
			-Rogers’ plan
				-Negotiations after General Assembly debate
					-Timing
						-Presidential campaign
						-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
			-Israel
				-Possible concessions
					-Differences in opinion
						-Possible advantages
							-Egypt
							-[Hussein, King of Jordan], Hussein ibn Talal
			-Meir
				-Recommendations
					-US recognition of Israel’s security needs
					-Concern for future
						-Possible shift after Presidential elections

				-Recommendations
			-Arabs and Sadat
				-Eager for negotiations
					-Sadat’s position
						-Creating pressure for the General Assembly debate
							-Potential trouble for Sadat
								-Lack of supporters [Congo, Dominican Republic]
		-US position
			-President’s State of the World message, February 25, 1971 [?]
		-Rogers’ forthcoming talks with Meir
		-President’s recommendations for Israel
			-Negotiations
			-Security
			-Political interest
				-Phantoms
				-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] build-up
					-Proposed sale of weapons
				-“Hawks”
		-Kissinger’s view
			-US pressure on Israel
				-Potential diplomatic problems with the Arabs and USSR at the General Assembly
		-Rogers’ view
			-Importance of agreement
				-Phantoms
				-Future debate at the United Nations [UN]
					-Timing
		-Meir
			-Reassurances
			-Interim agreement
				-Relationship to final agreement
				-Potential misunderstandings of US policy
			-No shift in the military balance
			-Working together with the US
				-Phantoms
				-Military supplies discussions
					-Announcement
						-Timing
				-USSR
					-Military supplies
						-Upcoming announcement
							-Arabs
		-Israel
			-Desire for a negotiated settlement
			-Meir
				-Problems
					-Knesset
					-Cabinet
					-“Dove and Hawks”
					-Yosef Saphir, Yigal Allon and Moshe Dayan
					-Saphir’s financial report
						-Military equipment expenses

	European Security Conference
		-Rogers’ upcoming speech
			-USSR
				-Future meetings with the USSR in 1972 or 1973
					-Advantages
		-Rogers’ meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
			-Dwight D. Eisenhower and Nikita S. Khrushchev
				-Past meeting
					-Dobrynin apology
		-Summit with USSR
			-Timing
				-Carefulness with US allies
					-Future discussions in Hawaii
						-Deputy foreign ministers meeting
		-Timing

Rogers's trip to Iceland
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-Iceland military base

	President’s schedule
-Pierre F. Trudeau
-Italian meeting
	-John B. Connally
		-Upcoming Italian elections
			-Aldo Moro
	-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Monetary issues
	-Latin America
		-Surcharge exemptions
-Connally
-Europeans
-Japanese
		-No potential deals

Kissinger and Rogers left at an unknown time before 11:29 am.

Conversation No. 627-5

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  11:29 am - 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Schedule
	-Stephen B. Bull

Butterfield left at 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 627-6

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:30 am and 11:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Congressional candidates
-Time
-Unknown people

Bull and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:36 am.

Conversation No. 627-7

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  11:36 am - 11:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Richard W. Mallary, Raymond H. Nutter, Harry S. Dent, and Alexander P. Butterfield; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

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Mallary, et al. left at 11:42 am.

Conversation No. 627-8

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:42 am and 11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman

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

Conversation No. 627-9

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  11:46 am - 12:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

White House Conference on Aging
	-Pharmaceutical question
		-Difficulties

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 11:47 am.

	-Speech
		-Leonard Garment’s memorandum of November 29, 1971
		-Prescription drugs
	-Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
		-No recommendation from the Administration
		-Arthur S. Flemming’s point of view
		-House Resolution [HR] 1
	-Russell B. Long speaking to older people

		-Awareness
		-Social Security
		-Welfare
	-Older people
		-Benefits of HR 1
		-Ability to earn and keep money
			-Methods used by the Administration
	-Speech
		-President’s schedule
	-Prescription drugs
	-Garment
		-Memo
			-Ehrlichman’s doubts
-Economy [?]
	-Big ticket items
-Older people
-Young people
-Water Pollution bill
-Edmund S. Muskie

	Luncheon for aged on November 30, 1971 attended by Ehrlichman
		-Legislation “typhoon”
			-Strong pitch for the rights of older people
				-Praise for Ehrlichman
		-Competition from libraries, schools, and the military
	-Congress

[Pause]

Property tax
	-Budget

Tax bill speech
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
	-Prepared draft
-Inflation
-Campaign check off provision
	-Veto
		-Rationale
			-Impact on political system
			-Expense
-Inflation
	-Need for jobs
		-Congress

Campaign practices
	-Haldeman
		-Source
	-Muskie
		-Property taxes
		-California
	-Spiro T. Agnew

Conferences
-Cabinet Committee on Spanish Speaking People
	-Postponed
-Flemming
-White House Conference on Aging
	-Similarity of audience
		-Republican Women’s Federation
		-Colorado chairman
		-Make-up
-President’s forthcoming meeting
	-Possible handling
		-Real estate tax
	-Copy of speech
		-Deadline

Ehrlichman left at 12:01 pm.

Pharmaceutical question in Congress

Television
		-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] program, “A Day in the Life of the President”, December 6, 1971
-Clark MacGregor and William E. Timmons
-Breakfast meeting with Congressional leaders
-Michael J. Mansfield and Hugh Scott
	-“The Bigs”
	-Gerald R. Ford, J. Caleb Boggs, Carl B. Albert
-Speaker or Senators
-Ford and Boggs
-Breakfast meeting
-House
	-Cooperation
				-Mansfield and Senate
					-Lack of cooperation
			Breakfast meeting with Congressional leaders
				-Advantages
				-Discussions
					-Albert, Ford, and Boggs
					-John B. Connally

Schedule
	-Decisions

Speeches
-Chicago
	-Particular problems with speeches
		-Too “bureaucratized”
-Andrews
-Maurice H. Stans [?]
	-Concern for historical legacy
	-Effectiveness
-William L. Safire and Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Television

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National Conference on Corrections, December 6, 1971
-John N. Mitchell and Warren E. Burger
-Greeting
	-Williamsburg, Virginia
-Draft
-Key Biscayne
-Media coverage
	-Haldeman’s view

The President's schedule
-Bermuda
-Congress
	-End of session
		-Timing

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:01 pm and 12:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 627-9A]

[See Conversation No. 15-178]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with James Harvey between 12:15 pm and 12:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 627-9B]

[See Conversation No. 15-179]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:20 pm and 12:26 pm.

[Conversation No. 627-9C]

[See Conversation No. 15-180]

[End of telephone conversation]

NBC television show, “A Day in the Life of the President”
-Congressional breakfast
-Size of group
	-Congressmen’s view
	-NBC view
	-President’s view
-Ford
-Leslie C. Arends
-Boggs
-Albert
-Mansfield
-Scott
		-Tax bill

President’s schedule
-Farm Bureau
-Agricultural editors and photographs
	-Meet and greet opportunity
-4-H speech
	-Possible photographs opportunities
		-Potential conflicts
-Talking points

Speeches
	-Recommendations by Haldeman

Haldeman left at 12:26 pm.

Conversation No. 627-10

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  12:27 pm - 12:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown.

[See Conversation No. 15-181]

Conversation No. 627-11

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:37 pm and 1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Schedule [?]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:15 pm.

Conversation No. 627-12

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:37 pm and 1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:15 pm

Conversation No. 627-13

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  1:15 pm - 1:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Schedule

Butterfield left at 1:17 pm.

Conversation No. 627-14

Date:  December 1, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:17 pm and 1:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Rose Mary Woods.

Schedule
-Chicago
-Preparations
-Materials to be taken
-Meeting
-Academics
-Former ambassadors
-Peter G. Peterson
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Television
	-Interview [?]
-John Roth [?]

The President, Butterfield and Woods left at 1:22 pm.