Conversation No. 629-1

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

The President's schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:07 am.

Conversation No. 629-2

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-11]

Conversation No. 629-3

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:07 am.

Conversation No. 629-4

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Unknown found item

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:07 am.

Conversation No. 629-5

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  9:07 am - 9:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 16-12]

Conversation No. 629-6

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  9:09 am - 10:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger; an National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew was present at the beginning of the meeting.

India/Pakistan situation
-Military advisors

-Military attaches
-Military action
-Air fight
	-Knock out oil supplies in Karachi
-Ground forces
	-Status
		-Withdrawal resolutions
			-General Assembly
			-Potential Indian position
-Bangladesh
-Calcutta
-United Nations [UN] action
-Italian resolution in the Security Council
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Potential failure
-General assembly
	-“Uniting for Peace” resolution
-Security Council
	-Possible results
-Cease-fire and withdrawal
	-Progress
-Indira Gandhi
-Meeting with the president
	-Proposals
-Pakistani-Bangladesh negotiations
	-Location
	-Mujibar Rahman
					-Efforts by the Administration
-American cargo ships
-American civilians
	-Karachi
-US involvement
-Cease-fire negotiations
	-Possible outcome
-Dacca area
-Refugees
	-Numbers
-American civilians
	-US responsibility
-Ships
	-Attacks
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG] meeting
	-Timing
-Participants
-Melvin R. Laird
	-Previous conversation with Kissinger
		-Timing
-David Packard
-William P. Rogers
-Admn. Thomas H. Moorer
-Gen. William C. Westmoreland
-Richard M. Helms
-John B. Connally
-Economic assistance
-Possible US action
-UN
	-World community
-East Pakistan
	-Possible scenarios
-Economy
-Relations with India

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:09 am and 9:19 am.

[Conversation No. 629-6A]

[See Conversation No. 16-13]

[End of telephone conversation]

UN
-George H.W. Bush
	-Forthcoming telephone call from the President to Bush
		-Timing

Cambodia

	President’s schedule

The President talked with William P. Rogers between 9:19 am and 9:24 am.

[Conversation No. 629-6B]

[See Conversation No. 16-14; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

India-Pakistan situation
-Connally
-Talk with Kissinger
	-Timing

Cambodia
-Military situation
	-Stability
-South Vietnamese

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Talk with the President
-Defensive-offensive weapons
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] presentation
-The President’s May 20, 1971 statement
-Gromyko’s previous visit to the US
-Land based weapons
	-Closeness between the USSR and US

Paris Peace Talks
-North Vietnamese
-Withdrawal
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Overthrow
-POWs
		-Kissinger’s view
			-North Vietnam proposal
-Seven point proposal
-Point one
-US assistance
-Withdrawal
-Type
-Point two
-Thieu overthrow
	-Linked to Point one
-Position
	-State Department report
-Le Duc Tho
-Health
	-Recovery

Middle East
-Meeting with Golda Meir
-League of Women
-Meir
-Security concerns
-US
-Balance of power
	-Note to be changed
-Diplomatic flexibility
-Kissinger's meeting with Yitzhak Rabin
	-US and Israeli position
		-Understanding

President’s schedule
-Trips and meetings
-Azores
	-Timing
-Bermuda
	-Timing
-Key Biscayne
-California
-Head of State meetings
-Rogers to meet with his counterpart
-Foreign policy
-Connally to meet with his counterpart
-Economics
	-Complex issues
		-Canada
-Congressional leadership breakfast
-International monetary situation
-Trade
-Importance
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and USSR meetings
	-Meetings with PRC and USSR leaders
		-Timing
		-Monetary issue
			-Pierre E. Trudeau [?]
-European forces
-PRC
	-Future of the alliance
-Trudeau
-Economic issues
-Europeans
-Interest in US attitudes
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-USSR
-Moscow and Peking

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:24 am and 9:37 am.

[Conversation No. 629-6C]

[See Conversation No. 16-15]

[End of telephone conversation]

Schedule
-Meetings with Heads of State
	-Time considerations
-Eisaku Sato
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
	-Potential language problem with foreign leaders
-Time

Bush
	-Kissinger’s previous conversations with Bush
-UN vote
-Statements

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	PRESIDENT’S SCHEDULE

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Kissinger and the President talked with Bush between 9:37 am and 9:42 am.

[Conversation No. 629-6D]

[See Conversation No. 16-16]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:37 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

Maps
-Kissinger delivery

India-Pakistan situation
-Attaches
-Troops

Kissinger left at 9:42 am.

The President's schedule
-Rogers
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Transportation problems
-James D. Hodgson's testimony
	-Timing
-Farm belt
-Farm bureau
-Earl L. Butz's address
-Legislation
-Congressional failures
-Welfare reform
-Relief to cities
-Revenue sharing
-Health bill
-Bill to stop labor disputes in transportation
	-Importance to Americans
-Railroad strike
-Dock strikes
-Cost to farmers and consumers
-Lack of hearings
-Cabinet officers' support
-Hodgson
-Butz
-Public opinion
	-Percentages
	-New labor legislation
-Pressure
	-Actions taken
	-Speeches
	-Interest groups
	-Letters
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Clark MacGregor
-Issues
-Welfare reform
-Social Security increases
-Revenue sharing
-Government reorganization
-Transportation strikes
	-Lack of action
	-Congress’ accountability

Economy
-George H. Gallup poll
-Public opinion
-Stronger wage-price controls
-Percentage
-Labor union leaders' opinions
-Louis Harris poll
-Percentage
-Favor the President's economic policy
-Tax bill

Ziegler entered at 9:44 am.

Leadership meeting
	-Congressional leadership breakfast
-India-Pakistan Briefing
-Rogers
-Briefing the Senate Leadership
-Leadership
-US policy
-Arms aid to India
-UN vote
-Talks with Meir
-Balance of power
-Israel
	-Possible push for a truce
-Legislative situation
-Recess
-Economic Stabilization Bill
-Wayne L. Hays
	-Pressure
		-Leonard Garment [?]
-Beginning of next session
	-Timing
-India-Pakistan situation
-Congressional situation
	-Focus and attention of the day
-Releases
-Executive Order No. 11248
-Wage-price board
	-Salary levels

President’s schedule
-WSAG meeting
-Rogers
-Laird
-Moorer
-Westmoreland
-Helms
-Connally
-Time and place
	-EOB
-Trudeau meeting
-The President's previous telephone conversation with Bush
-WSAG meeting
-Kissinger

Anwar el-Sadat
-Terence F. Smith [?] article
-State Department
-The President's meeting with Meir
-Israelis
-Balance of power
	-Proposed action
-Organization of Arab Republics [OAR]
	-Attempt to maintain the balance of power and the truce
-Talks
	-Assurance to the Israelis
-Policy
	-Possible changes
		-Courtesy to Sadat
-USSR
-Sadat

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 9:54 am.

John D. Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 9:54 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Vice President
-Representatives of states
-The President's attendance
-Opening
-Legislative program
-Public education
-Real estate taxation
-Congress
-Senate
-Wilbur D. Mills
	-Assurances
-Finance
	-Ehrlichman’s conversation with an unknown person
-Tax bill
-Budget
-Mills
-Responsibility
-Call from the President
	-Ehrlichman’s approval

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:54 am and 9:57 am.

[Conversation No. 629-6E]

[See Conversation No. 16-17]

[End of telephone conversation]

Tax bill
-Mills
-Delay
	-Duration

Schedule
-Representatives of states meeting
-Vice President
-Purpose
-Cabinet
-Domestic Council
-Recommendations
-Interest groups
-Association of Governors
-Association of County Executives and Cities
-Association of Mayors
-Meeting in Hawaii
	-Attended by the Vice President
-Recommendations
-Domestic Council

Spiro T. Agnew entered at 9:57 am.

Tax bill
-Mills
-The President and Vice President

National League of Cities meeting
-Honolulu
-Association of Mayors
-The President's proposal
-Mills
-Recommendations
-Agnew's forthcoming call to Mills

The President talked with Mills between 10:01 and 10:06 am.

[Conversation No. 629-6F]

[See Conversation No. 16-18; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

National League of Cities meeting
-Honolulu
-Richard G. Lugar
-Mayor of Indianapolis
	-Spirit of cooperation
-Samuel Massell
-Mayor of Atlanta
-Congress and the Administration

Representatives of states meeting
-Congressional relations
-Mills
-John W. Byrnes
-Tax bill
-Ways and Means Committee
-Mills proposal

National League of Cities meeting in Honolulu
-Constructive meetings
-Edwin L. Harper

Ehrlichman and Agnew left at 10:08 am.

Conversation No. 629-7

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:08 am and 10:44 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Completion of a task
-Time

The President's schedule
-Diplomatic [?] meeting
-Time

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:44 am.

Conversation No. 629-8

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:08 am and 10:44 am
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin.

Schedule
-Executive Order
-Press corps
-Meeting
-Cabinet Room
-Domestic Council

Bull and Allin left at an unknown time before 10:44 am.

Conversation No. 629-9

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:08 am and 10:44 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

[Unintelligible]

The conversation was cutoff at an unknown time before 10:44 am.