Conversation No. 630-1

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:57 am and 12:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Romana A. Banuelos' appointment
	-Location

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Telephone calls
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Presence requested
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Rose Mary Woods
-Connally
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Woods
-Correspondence
-Recommended telephone calls
-Congratulations
-Unknown drug speech
-Length
-Willard Edwards
-50th year in journalism
-Chicago Tribune
-Woods
-Meeting with the President
-Cabinet
-Henry A. Kissinger meeting
-Connally meeting

Bull left at 12:02 pm.

Conversation No. 630-2

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  12:02 pm - 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

India-Pakistan situation
-Iranian military aid
-West Pakistan
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-Back channel
	-Shah’s message to the President
-Press
-Aid
	-Substantial increase following year
	-Justification
-Aid cut-off to India
-Announcement
	-Amount
-Pakistan aid
-State Department
-Indian Ambassador-William P. Rogers' meeting
-Delays
-Aid cut-off announcement
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
	-Announcement
		-Timing
-Rogers
-Pakistan aid
	-Amount
-Humanitarian

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:02 pm.

Schedule
-John B. Connally meeting
-Photographs

-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew
-Conversation

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:06 am.

India-Pakistan situation
-Kissinger's meeting with Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] participation
-Note from the President
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
			-Kissinger’s concern
-Summer, 1970
	-Proposed US position
-India
	-Connally

Kissinger left at 12:06 pm.

Conversation No. 630-3

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  12:07 pm - 12:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and John B. Connally; a National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Bull left at 12:07 pm.

Romana A. Banuelos' appointment
-United States Treasurer
-Biographic information
-Connally's staff
-Meetings

-Mary T. Brooks
-Position

Group of Ten meeting
-Canadian meeting
-Timing

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:07 pm and 12:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 630-3A]

[See Conversation No. 16-19]

[End of telephone conversation]

Banuelos
-Talk with the President
	-Topics for conversation

Group of Ten meeting
-Canada
-Fixed exchange rates
-Balance of payments
-Surplus
-Realignment of currency
	-Canada’s relationship with the US
		-Interrelationship
-Trade
	-Germany
		-Deutsche marks
		-Amount of trade with France
-Relationship with the US
-Great Britain
-Italy
-Japanese
-Trade
-Realignment of currencies
-Germany
-Switzerland
	-Protection of national interests
-US position
	-Assumption by Group of Ten
-Gold prices
	-President’s instructions
-Arthur F. Burns
-Paul A. Volcker
-Connally
	-Attendance
-Congress
-US position
	-Protection of US interests
-Trade issues
-Discussions
	-Duration
-William D. Eberle
		-Negotiations with the European communities
-Columnists
-US participation

The President and Connally talked with Romana A. Banuelos between 12:18 pm and 12:19 pm.

[Conversation No. 630-3B]

[See Conversation No. 16-20]

[End of telephone conversation]

Group of Ten meeting
-Position paper
-Canadians

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:19 pm.

Connally's position paper
-Delivery by bull

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:23 pm.

Group of ten meeting
-Negotiations
-Multinational solution
-Connally’s view
-Great Britain
-Currency floating
-Foreign trade
-Percentage
-Bilateral basis
-Gold prices
-Bargaining position with European community
-Japan
	-Participation
-Canada
-US position
-Realignment
-Percentage
-Canada
-Japan
-Structure
-Canada
-Bilateral basis
-Trade issue
-Automobile agreement
-Multilateral solution
-Japan
-European community
-US position
	-US and Canada
-Trade
-Currency floating
	-Possible solutions
-Fixed exchange rate
-Canadian-US dollars
-Revaluation

Kissinger entered at 12:23 pm.

Washington Post
-Katherine L. Graham article on Connally

India-Pakistan situation
-Announcement of aid cut-off
-State Department
-Law cited
-Underdeveloped countries
	-Helicopters

Group of Ten meeting
-Burden sharing
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
-Canada
-Netherlands foreign minister
	-Joseph M. Luns [?]
-Connally
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Possible methods on dealing with Trudeau
-Multinational settlement
-Currency floating
-Revaluation
-Percentage
				-Possible scenarios
-Trade
-Automobile agreements
-Tourist business
-Trade minister
	-Unknown Canadian [?]
-Maurice H. Stans
-Bilateral agreement
	-Options

Campaign check off issue
	-President’s instructions
	-Gerald R. Ford and Wilbur D. Mills
	-Calls from Connally
	-William E. Timmons
		-Strategy

President’s schedule
-Meeting
-Connally and Kissinger
	-Timing
-India-Pakistan situation
-US aid to India
	-Amount
-Pakistan
-Independent state
	-Recognition

Connally and Kissinger left at 12:32 pm.

Conversation No. 630-4

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:32 pm and 12:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.

Conversation No. 630-5

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:32 pm and 12:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Bill signing
-Rose Mary Woods
-Call to Alexander P. Butterfield
	-Time

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:32 pm and 12:35 pm

[Conversation No. 630-5A]

Preparation
-Unknown man

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.

Conversation No. 630-6

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  12:35 pm - 12:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Schedule
-Bill signing
-Ambassadorial nominations
-Ronald L. Ziegler [?]
-Memorandum
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.

	President’s instructions
-Photographs
-Autographs
-Visitors
-Exchange of gifts
-First Family
-Gifts
-Portuguese

Butterfield left at 12:39 pm.

Conversation No. 630-7

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  12:39 pm - 12:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President talked with the White House operator at 12:39 pm.

[Conversation No. 630-7A]

[See Conversation No. 16-21]

[End of telephone conversation]

Schedule
-Note to Herbert J. (“Jackie”) Gleason
-Dictation
-President’s schedule
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Golf tournament
	-Timing
		-Regrets from the President
-Boys’ Clubs of America

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 12:39 pm and 12:49 pm.

[Conversation No. 630-7B]

[See Conversation No. 16-22]

[End of telephone conversation]

Gleason golf tournament

-Golf clubs
	-Prize
-Winner
-Boys' Clubs of America
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
	-Member of the board [?]

Heroic acts
-Letter from a grandmother
-Little boy saved family from fire
-Certificate of recognition
-Ohio
-Local paper
-Richard Johnson
	-Saved family from train
-Certificate of recognition
	-Number of people saved
-Note from the President
	-President reminiscing about his youth

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Essays
-From young Arizona boys
-An attorney
-Letters from the President to the boys

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:39 pm.

Notes

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

Dictaphone

The President talked with the Milton R. Young between 12:49 pm and 12:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 630-7C]

[See Conversation No. 16-23; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Photographs
-Family portrait

Lunch
	-Willard Edwards
		-Attendance

Call from Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:50 pm.

Situation
	-Disappointed seniors [?]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.

Woods’ list [?]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:50 pm.

Schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.

Difficulties

President’s schedule
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Veterans
-Disabled
-Paralyzed
-Compared to a blind boy
-Letter

Edwards entered at 12:56 pm; the White House photographer and an National Broadcasting Company [NBC] file crew were present.

Edwards
-The President's photographer
	-Edwards’ relationship with the President
-1948 Congressional race
-House Labor Committee
-Taft-Hartley

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-Cuff links
-Wage-price freeze

Woods’ age

Woods and Edwards left at 12:59 pm.

Conversation No. 630-8

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  12:59 pm - 1:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
-Meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Bull left and Julie Nixon Eisenhower entered.

Schedule
-Willard Edwards
	-Chicago Tribune
-50th anniversary
	-Lunch with Rose Mary Woods
-1960 and 1968 campaign
-Alger Hiss case

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-North Carolina
-Research Center in Durham
-Proximity to Duke University
-Environment Protection Agency [EPA]
-Air pollution
	-Pesticides
-Students from Duke University
-Pollution issue
	-Ranking of importance among college students
-Volunteers
-Duke University sites
-Chapel
-Law school
-The President's attendance at previous chapel services
	-Lack of activities
-Professional football games

-President of the school
-Terry Sanford
-Governor of North Carolina
-Supporter of revenue sharing
-Talk with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Breakthroughs
-Congressional hearings
-Mark Clark
-Walter Reed Hospital
-Check-up
	-Football games
-Duke University
	-Purpose

Unknown person [?]

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
	-Timing

Lunch

Tricia Nixon Cox's schedule
-Salvation Army
-Time and place
-Humanitarian Award of the Decade
	-Awarded to the President and Mrs. Nixon

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:59 pm and 1:05 pm.

[Conversation No. 630-8A]

[See Conversation No. 16-24]

[End of telephone conversation]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Duke University
-Television
-Raleigh, North Carolina
	-Distance in relation to Duke University
	-Number of miles

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:59 pm.

Items to complete a task [?]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:05 pm.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Television show in Raleigh

University of North Carolina
-Distance from Duke
-Raleigh
-Edward R.F. Cox
	-Master’s degree from North Carolina State University
		-Geology

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's degree
-Education

Decorating the White House
	-Timing

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The White House operator talked with the President at 1:05 pm.

[Conversation No.  630-8B]

[See Conversation No. 16-25]

[End of telephone conversation]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Television in Raleigh
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s schedule
	-Workers school
-Questions
-Non-political
-Partisan
-Viewing oneself on television
	-President’s advice
-Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-Commentators
	-Presentation
-Caution
-Advice to Cabinet members, Congressmen, and Senators
-Questions
					-American Federation of Labor and Congress of International Organizations [AFL-CIO] conventions
-Criticism
-David Eisenhower
	-India-Pakistan

Julie Nixon Eisenhower left at 1:11 pm.

Conversation No. 630-9

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:11 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Lunch break

National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 630-10

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  3:04 pm - 3:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
[The recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress]

India-Pakistan situation
-Sub-continent
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and People's Republic of China [PRC]
-1970 position
	-Middle East
-Vietnam comparison
-USSR
	-Discussions with North Vietnam
-PRC
	-Possible embarrassment
-Middle East
	-Chances for settlement
-United Nations [UN] position
-PRC
-George H.W. Bush
-Call to Kissinger
-PRC
	-Actions
-Security Council
-USSR

-Message
-USSR and PRC
	-Possible impact
		-Timing

Kissinger left at 3:08 pm.

Conversation No. 630-11

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  3:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew
-Cameras
	-Setup

Schedule
-Open door hour
-Drug meeting
-Timing
-Need to keep things moving

Bull left at 3:08 pm.

Conversation No. 630-12

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  3:08 pm - 3:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mildred C. Bailey, Lillian Dunlap, Jeanne M. Holm, Anna M. Hays, Elizabeth P. Hoisington, Roger T. Kelley, James D. Hughes; the White House photographer, members of the press, and a National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew were present at the beginning of the meeting.

[General conversation]

Introductions

Uniforms

Photographs

Women in the armed services
-Recruiting
-College graduates
	-Numbers
-Officer training
-Peacetime service
-Army nursing

Bailey, et al. left and Stephen B. Bull entered at 3:15 pm.

The President's schedule
-“Most Courageous Junior Olympian” award
	-Gary Washington
	-Joseph Sisneros
	-Coach
-Gordon L. Allott

Bull left at 3:15 pm.

Conversation No. 630-13

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  3:16 pm - 3:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Gary Washington, Jane Harris, Gordon L. Allott, John B. Kelly, Jr., Joseph Sisneros, Richard W. McArthur, Sidney Brooks, Richard G. Kline and Henry C. Cashen, II; the White House photographer, members of the press, and a National Broadcasting Company NBC film crew were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

NBC film crew

Introductions
	-“Most Courageous Junior Olympian” award

Gary Washington
-Congratulations
-Air Force Academy

Athletics
-Track and field
-Event
-Missouri
-San Diego
-Washington
-Minneapolis
	-Football game, San Diego Chargers vs. Minnesota Vikings
-Track events

Press
-Photographs

[General conversation]

Remarks
	-Football

Gary Washington
-College
-Gallaudet University [?]
-The President's cousin
	-Attendance at Gallaudet
-Award presentation
-Gifts
-Presidential cuff links
-Allott
-Mrs. Harris
-Five women generals
	-Significance
-Air Force Academy

Sports
-Football
-Unknown player
-Gary Washington’s skill as a football player
-Offensive line
-Defensive line
	-Differences
-Charles B. (“Bud”) Wilkinson
-University of Oklahoma games
	-University of Nebraska
		-Football technique

Washington, et al. left at 3:28 pm.

Conversation No. 630-14

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:28 pm and 3:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s schedule
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman [?]

[Unintelligible]

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

Conversation No. 630-15

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  3:30 pm - 3:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Bermuda trip
	-Location
-Strom Thurmond
-His baby daughter
-Picture
-Timing
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Maurice H. Stans’ report on trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-USSR
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Kissinger
-Proposed cabinet meeting
	-Need for closure
-Stans’ reporting to the President
-USSR
	-Suggested plan
	-Kissinger
-President’s upcoming meeting with Stans
	-Timing

White House dinner for Pierre E. Trudeau, December 6, 1971
-George P. Shultz
	-Invitation to dinner
-John D. Ehrlichman

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 3:30 pm and 3:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 630-15A]

Dinner
-Shultz
	-Invitation
		-Problems
-Brazilians

[End of telephone conversation]

Dinner
-Shultz
	-Absence at dinner
		-Problems [?]
	-British
	-French

Haldeman left at 3:34 pm.

Conversation No. 630-16

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  3:35 pm - 3:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Myles J. Ambrose, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz and Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.; the White House photographer and a National Broadcasting Company [NBC] file crew were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Seating
-NBC film crew

Narcotics program
-Krogh's briefing paper
-Treatment of drug addicts
	-Success
-Foreign governments
-Turkey
-Thailand
-Laos
-Drug pushers
-Prosecution
-Penalties
-Personnel
-Competition among government agencies
	-Justice Department and Treasury Department
-Presidential directives
	-A call to work together on the drug problem
		-No “snow jobs”
		-Jurisdictions
			-Possible solutions
		-Ports of entry
		-Internally
		-Internationally
-Solutions
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
	-Law enforcement responsibility
				-Office Economic Opportunity [OEO] and National Institute of Health [NIH]
-Law enforcement
-Justice Department and Treasury Department
	-Responsibility equally shared
-Bureau of Customs
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs [BNDD]
-Grand jury
-Prosecution teams
-Ambrose
	-Previous work
-Street sellers
-Impact on the community
-Federal and state
	-Team work
-Foreign comparison
-Interdiction
	-Success rate
-Grand jury
	-Safeguard of civil liberties
-Addict peddlers
	-Probable impact
-Local level
-Federal government
-Previous international involvement
-Turkey, Laos, Thailand
-Agreements
-Local law enforcement
-350,000 police officers
-New York
-Chicago; Los Angeles; Washington, DC
	-Police corruption
	-Problems
-Neglect
	-Number of years
-Apathy
-Heroin pushers
-Effect on young people
	-Spiritually, morally and physically
-Societies of the past
	-Southern hemisphere
-Statistics
-Heroin seized
-Cost
-Convictions and arrests
	-Increase
-Program purpose
-Decrease amount of heroin on the street
	-New York Times story
	-New York police department
-Dock strike
-Danger on the job
-Agent training
	-Quality of training
		-Unknown nature of addicts
-Federal-local cooperation
-Jurisdictions
	-Exchanges of information
-Cost
-BNDD
-Bureau of Customs
-Shultz
	-Rising costs
-IRS
-Lawyers
-New York grand jury
-Justice Department
-Law schools
-Young lawyers
-Criminal law
-Equal rights and environment
-Criminal law
-Encouragement to enter
-Teachers
-Political career
-Corporate law
-State Attorneys General
-Law schools
-Young lawyers
-Louie Lefkowitz [?]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm.

The President's schedule
-Pierre E. Trudeau meeting
	-Arrival time

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:58 pm.

Narcotics problem
-Law schools
-Encouragement
-Criminal law
	-The President’s past experience
-John N. Mitchell
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
	-Lack of quality people
		-Need for quality people
-John H. Alexander
-Chicago and Los Angeles
-Leonard Garment
-Law firm
-Alexander
	-Unknown person

Ambrose, et al. left at 3:58 pm.

Conversation No. 630-17

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:58 pm and 4:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Location
-National Security Council [NSC]
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew
-Press corps
-Photographs
-Pierre E. Trudeau

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:01 pm.

Conversation No. 630-18

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  4:01 pm - 6:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John V. (“Jack”) Brennan and Pierre E. Trudeau; an National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew was present at the beginning of the meeting.

NBC film crew
	-Greetings
-Photographs
-“A Day in the Life of the President”
-Dinner
-Canadians

Brennan and the NBC film crew left at 4:01 pm.

Trudeau's head of state visitors
-Josip Broz Tito
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] ambassador

The White House photographer and members of the press entered at an unknown time after 4:01 pm.

[General conversation]

Trudeau
-First state visitor
-Return visit
	-Timing

Visiting press
-Gift
-Presidential pen
	-Ronald L. Ziegler [?]
	-Senators and Congressman

Trudeau
-Majority

The White House photographers and members of the press left at an unknown time before 4:11 pm.

Trudeau visit
-Dinner
-Return visit
-Europeans

Henry A. Kissinger and Ivan Head entered at 4:11 pm.

San Clemente
-Talk with Kissinger
-Trudeau

Trudeau visit
-Basic consultation
-Trips abroad
-Meetings with British, French, Germans and the Japanese
-Trips
-War

India
-Indira Gandhi
-India-Pakistan war

US-Canadian relations
-Diplomacy
-[Forename unknown] Johnson and unknown person
-John B. Connally
	-Group of Ten
-Financial meetings
	-US and Canada
-Accomplishments
-Importance to American citizens
	-Canada’s friendship with US
		-Communication
-Trudeau's visit with Tito
-Trudeau's relationship with PRC
-Press
	-Relationship
-Connally's Asian trip
-Parliament
-Secretary of External Affairs
	-Discussions with the Canadian Press
-Long range problem
	-Relations between US and Canada
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. [?] spring visit
-Connally
	-Forthcoming discussions with Trudeau
-Decisions
-Kissinger
-Trudeau meeting with Connally
-Connally 
-Press reaction
-Economy
	-US measures
	-Importance of a sound US economy
		-Benefits for Canada and the rest of the world
-Canadians
-Foreign investments
-Domestic control of the environment
-Energy policy
	-Vital importance to US and Canada
-Trade
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]-North
-American Air Defense [NORAD]
	-Effect on US
-US
-Trade balance with the world
-Deficit
-Canadian trade balance with the US
-Canadian balance of payments
-Deficit with the US
-Canadian dividend and interest payments
	-Large amount of US capital
-European situation
-Trade
-Interest compared to dividends
-Buying and selling
	-Canada
		-Living within their means
		-Balance of trade
-Automobile tax
-Sale of natural resources
	-Duration
-Surplus trade
-First time in Canadian history
-Interest payments
	-Amount
-US capital
-Canadian industries
	-Petrochemical industry
		-Percentage of US capital
-Canadian standard of living
-Jobs
	-US capital
	-Technology
-Comparison to Latin America and Europe
-Trudeau’s view
	-Export of US capital
	-Surplus trade balance
		-Canada’s wish
	-Comparison to World War II
	-Europeans
-Foreign capital investments
-Banking
-Canadian deficit to the US
	-Concern by Canadians
-Nationalists
-Cuban comparison
-Canadian policy
	-No drastic changes
		-Differences between the US and Canada
		-Possible US protectionist trend towards Canada
-Common market
	-US protectionism
	-World blocks
		-Europeans
		-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
		-Japan
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Free trade with the US and the rest of the world
-Percentage
-Question of cooperation
-European common market
	-Canada’s role
-Future
	-Possible loss of Canada’s political identity
	-Canada’s influence on US markets
-Export of US capital
-Domination
	-Justification
-Profits-investments
-Trade
-Investment relationships
	-Closeness with Canada
-Canadian press
-US history
	-Comparison with Canada
-British and French investments
-Possible scenario for Canada
-Mutual interests
	-Nature of relationship
-Latin America
-National interests
-World War II
-US responsibility
	-Economic
-August 15th decision
-Wage-price freeze
	-Connally
-Reasons
	-A strong US
		-Vital for the world interests
-US international role
-Europe
-The President's meeting with labor leaders
-Canadian interest
-US internal issues
-Vietnam
-Inflation
-Unemployment
	-Past history
-Cause for action
-International Economic Community [IEC]
-US
	-Sound and responsible member
-Canada
	-US relationship
-World trade
-Japan
-Europe
-Percentage sold to Canada
-Japan
	-Customer to US
		-Not as large as Canada
-International monetary system
-Europeans
	-Possible re-evaluation
-Group of Ten meeting
-Canada
	-Possible interests
-Multinational solution from Canada
-Connally
-Arrangement
	-President’s consideration
		-Possible Canadian criticism
-Trade
-Exchange rate issue
	-No solution without Canadian participation
	-US forthcomingness
-Canadian industry
-US ownership
	-Possible Canadian skepticism
		-US relationship
-Canada
	-Situation similar to other countries
-Connally
-Realignment
-Kissinger press conference on PRC trip
-Europeans
	-Accusations
-Old compared with new monetary system
	-Possible benefits
-Negotiations
	-Apparent difficulties [?]
-Connally
-Trade
-Japan
-Multilateral system
-Export market
-Connally
	-Beneficial for Canada
-Balance of trade
-Supplier of natural resources
-Foreign capital investments
	-Safe haven for US
-Multinational cooperation
-US-Canada cooperation
-Europeans
-Continued negotiation and cooperation
-Resolution of issues
	-Recognizing differences
		-Importance
-Connally
-Monetary issue
-Bilateral solution
-Connally meeting with the President [?]
-Canada compared with Europeans
	-Possible power play
-Group of Ten
	-Meeting
		-Timing
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
	-Bilateral solutions
-August announcement
-Multilateral agreement
-Group of Ten meeting
-Solutions
-Canadian floating
	-Pressure on the Canadians
-Connally
-Briefing by Kissinger
-Talk with Edgar J. Benson
-Canadian floating
-Rate
-Export trade issue
	-Problems
-Percentage
-Connally
			-Japan
				-Markets
				-Compared with Canada
-Trade
-Tariffs
-Buy and sell
-American protectionist attitude
-Industries in Canada
-Movement of industry
	-Ability to sell to the US
		-Numbers
		-Investments
-Nationalists
-Socialists
	-Criticism
-Jobs
	-Potential loss of industry
		-Temporary travel
-Balance of payments
-Auto pact
-Reassurance
	-Temporary measures
-Long term goal
-Free trade
-President’s view
	-Future
	-Competitive positions
	-Possible pitfalls
-Connally
-Latin America
-Manifest destiny
-George W. Ball's statements
	-History
-Canada’s dependence on US
-Nixon doctrine
-US attitude
	-Possible commitment to Canada
-Ball's statements
-Canadian capability
-Ball
-Multinational agreement
-American labor leaders
-Exports
	-Possible assistance from US
-Technological developments
-Underdeveloped countries
-Foreign aid
-Multinational agreement
-Europe
-Latin America
-Philosophical approach
	-No disagreements
-August announcement
	-Lasting disagreements between US and Canada
-List of grievances
-Bilateral agreement
	-August agreement
	-Future view
-President’s view
-Common market
-British
-Germans
-French
-World stability
	-USSR
-PRC
-Japan
	-Effects

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Trudeau
-Blair House
-Car
	-Location
-Ziegler
-Schedule

The President, et al. left at 6:10 pm.

Conversation No. 630-19

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:10 pm and 6:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Briefing [?]
-Democrats

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 6:14 pm.

Conversation No. 630-20

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  6:14 pm - 6:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Louis Harris
-Action

Schedule
-Debate
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Location

India-Pakistan
	-Florida [?]

Kissinger entered at 6:17 pm

Pierre E. Trudeau
-John B. Connally [?]

	[Unintelligible]

-Ivan Head briefing

-Trudeau’s press conference
-Timing
-Meeting with the President
-Subjects
	-Thorough discussions
-Economy
-Trade
-Investment
-Long range relationship
-Trudeau's question
-India-Pakistan situation
			-Trips to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and the People's Republic of China [PRC]
				-Consultation
-Economy
-Surcharge
-Connally and Edgar J. Benson
	-Discussed general principles
-US-Canada economic interest
	-Trudeau’s talk with the President
-India-Pakistan
-Time magazine
	-Story this week
-Meeting with Indira Gandhi
-Backgrounder
	-Gandhi’s previous visit with the President
-Indian ambassador
-Negotiations

Ziegler left at 6:22 pm.

The President's meetings
-Biography
	-A sense of history

India-Pakistan issue
-Maurice H. Stans’ report of USSR trip
-Cabinet
-Kissinger and the President
-USSR relations
	-Respectability
-Stans
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Connally
-Foreign policy
	-Seriousness
-Press
-War
-Administration responsibility
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Vietnam War
-Kissinger briefing
	-Backgrounders
-New York Times
					-Number of weeklies
-Unknown person
-Executive Office Building [EOB] meeting
-Spiro T. Agnew

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:22 pm.

The President's schedule
-Last two events
-Bill signing
-William E. Timmons meeting
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr. vote
	-Result
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-President’s location

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:38 pm.

India/Pakistan situation
-The President's previous meeting with Gandhi
-Advisor’s advice
	-The President’s frustration
	-Proposal on dealing with Gandhi in the future
-Ambassador
-Gandhi
-Democrats
-East Pakistan
	-Proposal to the American public
	-Continued US pressure on India
		-Re-established relations with PRC
		-Timing

Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto letter
-Ambassador
	-Type of letter

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-West Pakistan
	-Possible outcome of India-Pakistan situation
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
	-Possible overthrow

Vietnam
-Meeting
	-Timing
-Bombing
	-“Quid pro quo”
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Peace initiatives
	-Possible public announcement
	-Timing
-Deadlines

India-Pakistan situation
-Indian invasion
-East Pakistan
-USSR
-Gandhi
-Indian Cabinet meeting
	-Emotion
	-Cautiousness with US
-Press conference
	-Possible US position
-Gandhi
-Frank F. Church
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Kissinger's visit
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Kennedy’s idea
	-Kennedy’s future meeting with Kissinger

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	INDIA PAKISTAN

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-USSR
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Kissinger's talks
	-Dialogue with USSR
-United Nations [UN] Security Council
-Middle East negotiations
-Kissinger's possible trip to Moscow
-Stans’ report
-President’s instructions
	-Ambassadorships
	-Kenneth B. Keating
-The President's message
	-Relations with India

Kissinger left at 6:38 pm.

Conversation No. 630-21

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:38 pm and 6:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Norman Vincent Peale [?]
-Lunch, New York City
	-Timing
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-William E. Timmons
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Pensions
-Deductions
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:40 pm.

Conversation No. 630-22

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  6:40 pm - 6:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William Timmons and Alexander P. Butterfield; a National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr. confirmation
-Senate
-Vote
-William H. Rehnquist

	-Results

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:40 pm and 6:44 pm.

[Conversation No. 630-22A]

[See Conversation No. 16-26]

[End of telephone conversation]

Powell
-Votes

Tax bill
-Check off
-Gerald R. Ford
-The President's talk with John B. Connally
-Veto

Appropriations bill
-Continuing resolution
	-Timing
-Senate sub-committee
-Ford
	-Conversation with Timmons

The President talked with Lewis F. Powell, Jr. between 6:44 pm and 6:47 pm.

[Conversation No. 630-22B]

[See Conversation No. 16-27]

[End of telephone conversation]

Timmons and Butterfield left and Peter M. Flanigan entered at 6:47 pm.

Pension plan
-Work force
-Percentage covered or not covered by a pension plan
-Contribution to a plan
-Deductions
-Departments of the Treasury, Commerce, and Labor, and Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
	-Deduction limits
	-George P. Shultz
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Self employed
-Tax deduction or credit
-Connally
-Treasury
-Position

Flanigan left at 6:51 pm.

Conversation No. 630-23

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  6:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods
-Rex W. Scouten
-Secretary of State
-Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau

Bull left at 6:51 pm.

Conversation No. 630-24

Date:  December 6, 1971
Time:  6:52 pm - 6:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The President and Sanchez left at 6:55 pm.