Conversation No. 631-1

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:57 pm and 1:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress]

People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-William P. Rogers
	-Conversation with Haldeman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Comments
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] trip
	-India

India-Pakistan war
-Haldeman's talk with Rogers
-Press stories
-Rogers-Kissinger
-President’s instructions
	-Haldeman's possible call to Rogers
		-Press articles
	-Staff meeting
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Administration policy
-Press stories
-Time and Newsweek
	-Lead story for the week
-Mary McGrory
	-Types of stories
-Kissinger
-United Nations [UN]-Taiwan
-India-Pakistan war
-Administration responsibility
	-Frank F. Church
	-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Refugees

	-India
-The President’s conversation with Rogers
-Rogers working style
	-Compared to
	-John B. Connally
	-Kissinger
		-George P. Shultz
			-Previous conversation with Kissinger
				-Connally
-Kissinger resignation
	-Previous attempt by Kissinger
		-Timing
-Laos
-PRC trip
-1972 election
	-Probable timing of resignation
-Possible reasons
-Paris Peace Talks
-State Department
-Magazines
	-James B. Reston

Foreign policy
-Rogers
	-Expertise [?]

PRC
-Rogers
-Talks with Haldeman
-State Department

Kissinger
-India
-The President’s stance
-Military aid
-Economic aid
-Indira Gandhi
	-Difficulties
-Kennedy
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Rogers
-National Security Council [NSC]
	-Kissinger
						-Appearance on National Broadcasting Company’s [NBC] program, “A Day in the Life of the President”, December 6, 1971

Pierre E. Trudeau meeting
	-Kissinger’s location

The President's schedule
-Appearance on NBC program, “A Day in the Life of the President”
-Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Finch
	-Location
-Domestic Council meeting
-Spiro T. Agnew
	-Possible agenda for meeting [?]
-Rogers
	-Kissinger
		-Haldeman’s previous calls

Kissinger
-Relations with staff
-Trudeau dinner
-Toast
-Television
	-Kissinger’s style
-Backgrounders
	-Rogers
		-PRC
	-Kissinger and Rogers

Connally's news conference

Agnew
	-Style and manner at Trudeau dinner

Kissinger resignation
-State Department
	-Frustration over policy
-Haldeman's talk with Ziegler
	-Backgrounder
-Kissinger 
	-Handling
		-Actions
			-Concern from Haldeman

Haldeman left at 1:58 pm.

Conversation No. 631-2

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  2:59 pm - 3:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Henry A. Kissinger
	-Ziegler’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Talk with Ziegler
-State Department
-Edward M. Kennedy
-United Nations [UN]
-India-Pakistan
- Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Coalition government
-Kissinger
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-State Department
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Backgrounder
	-Timing

-Kennedy
	-India-Pakistan
-Refugees into India
	-Humanitarian aid
	-Kissinger
-The President's forthcoming talk with Ziegler

Ziegler left at 3:02 pm.

Conversation No. 631-3

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  3:04 pm - 3:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

India-Pakistan
-Backgrounder
-Ronald L. Ziegler's talk with Henry A. Kissinger

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Maurice H. Stans

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

India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's backgrounder
-Talk with Ziegler
-Talk with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s view
-State Department
	-The President’s talk with Ziegler
	-William P. Rogers
-Ziegler’s previous conversation with Haldeman

-Rogers's speech at Pierre E. Trudeau dinner
	-Timing
-Kissinger's comments
	-Conversation with Haldeman
	-Possible fallout from Rogers’ speech
		-Cienfuegos crisis
		-India-Pakistan
		-State Department
		-Middle East negotiations
						-Kissinger’s negotiations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-[Pakistan and India]
-Iran
-Cable
	-Haldeman’s questions to Kissinger
-Rogers
-Rogers's speech 
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Backgrounder
-The President’s statement
	-Tone
		-Haldeman’s view
-Canadians’ comments

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Stans
-Peter G. Peterson and Kissinger
-Timing

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

Kissinger's backgrounder

Haldeman left at 3:11 pm.

Conversation No. 631-4

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  3:12 pm - 4:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Maurice H. Stans, Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Peter G. Peterson; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Stans's trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], November 20-30,1971
-Length
-Sweden
-USSR
-Poland
	-Duration
-Sweden
	-Courtesy call by Stans
-Poland
	-Bank credits
-Debt
-Stans' report
-Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank credits
-Romania
	-Timing
-USSR
-Moscow
-Leningrad
-Azerbaijan Republic
	-Baku
-Georgian Republic
	-Tbilisi
		-Duration of time
-Stans' visits with Aleksei N. Kosygin
	-Length of meetings
-Proposed agenda

	-US-USSR relations
-Trade
-Kosygin’s view
-Working groups
-The President's forthcoming trip
	-Timing of working groups announcement
-Political situation
	-Importance and possible improvement
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Commercial situation
-Letter to the President
-Contents
	-Agreements reached during Stans’ visit
		-Description of letter
-Stans's meetings with Minister of Foreign Trade
			-Stans's meeting with the Ministers of Petroleum, Gas, Automobiles, Shipping, and Standards
			-Stans's meeting with the Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology, The Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Trade Bank and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers
				-Azerbaijan and Georgian Republic
-US-USSR relations
-Kosygin's five-year plan
	-Significance
-Supreme Soviet
-Helmut(“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Stans' attendance at the Supreme Soviet
	-Treatment
-Georgian Republic
	-Entertainment for Stans’ group
-Plane
-Escorts
-Entertainment
-Pravda
	-Stories about Stans’ visit
-Commercial relationship
-Trade
-Improvement of relations
-Most-favored nation [MFN] status
	-Possible discrimination
-Export-Import [Ex-Im] bank credits
-Trade restrictions
	-Possible negotiations
-Lend-lease debt
	-Potential settlement
-Working groups
-Minister of Foreign Trade
-US Department of Commerce
	-Continuance of discussions
-Four members from each
	-Location of meetings
-Joint trade ventures
-American businessmen in the USSR
	-Special arrangements
		-Discussed on fact finding groups
-Kosygin’s view
-Trade possibilities
-Peterson’s figures
	-Possible conversation between Stans and Peterson
		-President’s previous meeting
-Western Europe
	-Amount
-Stans' goal
	-Projections
		-1975
			-Poland
-Eastern Europe figures
	-Comparison with USSR
	-Vietnam
-Kosygin
-Grain sales
-Ex-Im bank credit
	-Compared to industrial equipment
	-Duration
		-Poland
-Yugoslavia and Romania
-Duration
-Commodity Credit Corporation [CCC] credits
-Political value
	-Amount
-Grain supplies in Eastern Europe
-Credit terms
-Maritime unions
-Factories and plants
-Off-shore oil operations in Baku
	-Steel mills, generator factories
	-G.U.M store
-Travel restrictions
	-Freedom for Stans
-Stans's talk with workers and shopkeepers
-The President's forthcoming visit
	-Possible tone of reception
		-Desire for understanding from all Russians
-Press
-Stans's letter to the Minister of Foreign Trade
-January 6, 1972 meeting
	-Location
-Grain agreement
-Ex-Im bank credit
-Lend-lease agreement
	-Pace of negotiations
-Offer of visit to the US
	-Stans’ counterpart
		-Timing
			-The President’s forthcoming trip to the USSR
-USSR bank in the US
	-Location
-Reciprocal basis
-Stans’ impressions
	-Store merchandise
		-Quality of merchandise
	-Housing shortage
	-Automobiles
	-Five year plan
	-Consumer goods
				-Standard of living
	-Factories
		-Performance
			-Profit motive
	-Progress
	-Poland and USSR
		-Similarities
	-Stans in Poland
	-Apparent US-USSR differences
	-Kosygin
-US business in USSR
-Natural resources
-Gas
-Copper
-Diamonds
	-World production
		-Percentage
-Potential US rival
	-Timing
-Issues
	-Level of importance
-MFN status
-1951 trade agreement
-Kosygin’s view
-Congressional action
	-Poland
	-Romania
	-Vietnam
-Trade
-US tariffs
	-USSR difficulties
-Ex-Im bank credit
-Consumer goods
-Capital
-Joint ventures and credit facilities
-Export controls
	-Ongoing reductions
-List
	-Kosygin’s view
-Increase in scientific and technological cooperation
-Working group
-Space flight
-Pollution control
	-Range of cooperation
-Trade agreement
-1936-1951
	-Duration of US-USSR agreement
-Other countries
	-Number of agreements
-Lend-lease negotiations
-State committee for science and technology
-Cooperation
-Canada and France
	-Potential working group
-US issues
-Access for us business
-Offices
	-Lack thereof
-Pan American [PanAm]
-American express
-Telex
	-Intourist
-MFN restrictions
-Market requirements
	-Freedom
		-Access to factories
-Bilateral procedures for settling commercial disputes
-Agricultural exports
-Lend-lease debt
-Joint ventures
-US equipment
-USSR natural resources development
	-Mining of copper, nickel, chrome, gas and oil
-Pay back in product
	-Including interest
		-Long-term supply contract
-Gas pipeline
	-Location
		-Baltic Sea
			-Analogy to Algeria
	-Possible national security concerns
-Trade
	-Proposed increase with the US
-Contracts to US companies
-Kama River truck plant
	-Timing
	-Minister of petroleum
		-“Shopping list”
			-Technology and equipment
				-Cost
		-Advantages of US
			-Labor intensive products
			-US buying of resources
	-Europe
	-Joint ventures
	-Other European countries
		-USSR agreements with western countries
			-Tupes of ventures and development
	-MFN status
		-Amount of trade
	-Ex-Im bank credit
	-Credit from other countries
-Economy
-Increase in productivity and trade
-Growth rate
	-Projected amount
		-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Japan comparison
-Kosygin's speech
-Five year plan
	-Potential equivalent of US in production
-Potential truck plant
-Kama River
-Ford Motor Company
	-USSR representatives
-Raw materials
	-Titanium, platinum, copper, zinc
-Timber development
	-US-USSR collaboration
-Significance
	-Step up economic relations with US
	-Develop greater understanding of US
-Technological growth
	-Need to catch up
-Government
	-Structure
-MFN status
	-Limitations
		-Possible psychological barrier
-American goods
	-Equivalent amount
-USSR self-interest
-US economy
-USSR propaganda
-Capitalism
	-Possible USSR attitudes
-Stans’ conversation with Minister of foreign trade
-Press criticism
	-The President’s forthcoming visit
	-SALT
		-USSR press towards the US
	-Separation of commerce and political activities
-Stans's recommendations
-Fact finding group
	-Continuation
-Ex-Im bank credit
	-Step towards normalizing relations
		-Romania
-Lend-lease debt negotiation
-Grains
-Five year agreement
	-Value to US
-Export control lists
-Coordinating Committee [COCOM]
-Military hardware
-US-USSR high level working group
-Scientific and technological cooperation
-Travel restriction reduction
-Tourism
	-Potential for buying more goods
-MFN status
	-Lend-lease debt
-Johnson Act repeal
	-Congress
	-Private financing limits
-Negotiation of a trade agreement
	-Establishment of US control
		-USSR protection of copyrights
-Stans' report to the president
	-Memorandum of conversations
	-USSR trade agreements with other countries
	-USSR joint ventures
		-United Kingdom
		-West Germany
		-Italy
		-France
	-Stans' letter to the Minister of Foreign Trade
-Kosygin 
	-Previous conversation with Stans
		-The President 
			-Decision-making
		-Possible tenure
		-Democrats
			-Future of US-USSR relations

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 3:12 pm and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 631-4A]

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler and Henry A. Kissinger
-Timing

[End of telephone conversation]

Stans' trip to the USSR
-Kosygin 
	-Conversation style
		-Alertness
	-Age
	-Tea
	-Bridges
		-US
-USSR bureaucrats
-Minister of Shipping
-Age
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Spain
	-Age comparisons to USSR leaders
-Stans' forthcoming press meetings
-“Face the Nation”
-“Meet the press”
-Press conference
	-Nature of Stans’ trip to the USSR
-India/Pakistan situation
-Stans' report
	-Guidance paper
-President’s instructions
-Recommendations
	-State Department
	-US bargaining position

Kissinger and Ziegler entered at 4:00 pm.

-Stans' recommendations
-Press
	-Relations
-American businessmen
-Stans’ deal
-[Unintelligible]
-Length of trip
-Press interviews
-US News and World Report
-Interview
	-Timing
	-Stans’ relationship with the press
-Importance
-Grain credits
-Bank credits
-Joint ventures
-Long term financing efforts
	-John [Surname unknown] telephone call
		-Timing
-SALT
-Stans' report
	-Copies
	-Possible watershed in US-USSR relations
-Kosygin
	-Optimism
-Entertainment
-Haig
		-Press interviews
-Stans and Peterson meeting with Haig
-Stans’ possible comments
-Recommendations
	-Briefing paper
		-Stans’ tone with the press
-USSR
	-Possible MFN status
	-India/Pakistan
			-Stans’ possible comments
-Businessmen
-USSR learning US markets
-Kosygin's interests
-Politics
			-The President's recommendations
				-The President’s upcoming meeting with USSR leaders
					-Thoughts for Stans
-European alliance
-COCOM
-American businessmen in USSR
-Department of Commerce
-Trade documentation center
	-Poland
-State Department
-Value of trip
-Briefing the cabinet

Stans, Haig and Peterson left at 4:15 pm.

The President left and returned at an unknown time before 4:19 pm.

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 4:19 pm.

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India-Pakistan situation
-Press conference
	-Number of participants
-Backgrounder
-India as a country
		-President’s instructions
-The President's trips to India in 1953, 1957, and 1969
	-Backgrounder preparation for Kissinger
		-Foreign aid
-Indira Gandhi
	-Marvin L. Kalb
-Summarize the administration’s efforts
-Indians
-East Pakistan
-William P. Rogers
-Economic and military aid cut-off
-Kissinger's trip to India
-Pakistanis
-Kissinger’s conversations with the Indians
			-Alternatives
			-Military aid

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:15 pm and 4:19 pm.

[Conversation No. 431-4B]

	Kissinger’s request for Haig

[End of telephone conversation]

Haig entered at 4:19 pm.

	Kissinger’s schedule

India-Pakistan situation
-Press
-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Intended action
-US actions
	-Documentation
-East Pakistan

Haig left at 4:20 pm.

India-Pakistan situation
	-Press
-Ziegler’s conversation with Kalb
	-Concerns from Kalb
-President’s schedule
	-Transcript
-The President’s previous conversations with Gandhi and Indian officials
-USSR
-Kalb

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	INTELLIGENCE

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-President’s instructions
	-US influence
	-United Nations [UN] observers
-Military and civilian governments
		-Kissinger's meetings with Indian ambassador and the Pakistan foreign secretary in November 1971
			-Timing
-Refugees
-Political settlement
	-Negotiations

Haig entered at 4:23 pm.

-Aid program
	-Amount
		-Timing
-Bureaucracy
-Soviets and India
-Chinese and Pakistan
	-US interests
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Kissinger’s plan
-Refugees

Kissinger talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 4:29 pm.

	Request for a call to Harold H. Saunders

[Conversation No. 431-4C]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Backgrounder
-White paper
-Bangladesh
	-US contact
-Indians
-Gandhi
	-Possible withdrawal of forces
		-Difference of opinion
-UN
	-Support of Administration’s position
-General assembly
-Kissinger's talk with George H. W. Bush
-Vote
-Kennedy
-Possible actions taken by the Administration
-USSR
-Indians
-Message
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing

Ziegler, Kissinger and Haig left at 4:29 pm.

Conversation No. 631-5

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:29 pm and 4:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Harold H. Saunders.

Henry A. Kissinger's location

Conversation No. 631-6

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:29 pm and 4:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger's call to Harold H. Saunders
-Return call from Saunders

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:33 pm.

Conversation No. 631-7

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  4:33 pm - 5:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Henry A. Kissinger
-Backgrounder
-India-Pakistan situation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-US position vis-a-vis
		-Timing
-State Department
	-Negotiations
-Middle East
-William P. Rogers
	-Remarks

-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-USSR
-Haldeman's talk with Kissinger
	-Opportunities
-State Department
-Edward M. Kennedy

John B. Connally
-Meeting with Haldeman
	-Timing
-Meeting with the President
	-Connally’s schedule

	Kissinger

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George Meany
-Health
-George P. Shultz report
-Dr. Walter R. Tkach
-John F. O'Connell [?]
	-Extent of illness
		-Projected recovery time
-[Joseph] Lane Kirkland
-Eugenia Meany
-Shultz
				-Miami American Federation of Labor and Congress of International Organization [AFL-CIO] conference
-Connally
	-“Touch-up”
-Shultz
-O'Connell
	-Possible plans to replace Meany
		-International concerns
-Probable successor to Meany
-Tkach
-Meany’s health
-Kirkland
-Miami
	-Blame
-Meany’s health
-Time and Newsweek articles
	-Letters to the editor
		-Unfavorable to Meany

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The President's schedule
-Connally meeting
	-Timing
-Congressional message
-Pension plan
	-Possible statement
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Previous conversation with Haldeman

Kissinger
	-Other motivations
-USSR
-Vietnam War negotiations
-India-Pakistan
-USSR
		-Possible arms deal with India
-Resignation
-PRC trip
-Haldeman's talk with Kissinger
	-Haldeman’s point to Kissinger
		-Possible solutions
-Close out business
-PRC
	-Interest in Kissinger’s possible resignation
-Story
	-Kissinger
		-Possible future scenario
-Election
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Teaching career
-Recognition
-Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-Walt W. Rostow
-McGeorge Bundy
-Robert S. McNamara
-Dean G. Acheson
-Dean Rusk
	-Georgia
-Proposed book by Kissinger
-Content
-Notes
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Description of notes

Stock market
-Figures

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 4:33 p.m.

Meeting with Moynihan
	-Location

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

Stock market

Kissinger
-Connally
-Meeting
-Possible times
	-Purpose of meeting
		-Handling
			-Methods in dealing with potential problems
				-Haldeman
					-Possible second guessing
-USSR
-State Department
	-Haldeman’s view
-Aid cut off

Haldeman left at 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 631-8

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  5:05 pm - 6:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan and John D. Ehrlichman.

United Nations [UN]
-Ambassador
-India/Pakistan
-Israel

India-Pakistan situation
-War

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	INDIA

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-Withdrawal
- Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Talks with East Pakistani leader
	-Location
		-Calcutta
-Indira Gandhi
	-Trip

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	INDIA

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-East Pakistan
	-Refugees
-Military operations
	-Possible duration
		-Cleanup in East
			-Duration
-UN
-Indian elections [?]
-East Pakistan
-Partition

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN

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	United Nations [UN]
-George G.W. Bush
	-Praise from Moynihan
-Unknown Stalinist
-PRC representatives
	-[Forename unknown] Jackson [?]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Moynihan’s schedule
-Secretary General [U Thant]
	-Max Jacobson
	-Agha Sadruddin Khan
	-Maurice Strong
		-Canada
			-Environment concerns
			-Chances to become Secretary General
	-Jacobson
		-Background
			-Jewish descent
		-USSR
		-Arabs

Arab-Israeli dispute
		-Unknown person
			-Background
				-Saudi Arabia

Secretary General
	-President’s view
	-U Thant
		-Possible asylum
			-Burma
				-Unable to return
	-Bush
		-Moynihan’s upcoming conversation with Bush
	-Agha Sadruddin Khan
		-Youth
			-Friendly to the Administration
	-Yahya Khan's brother
	-Iranian passport
	-Zanzibar
	-Education
		-Harvard University
	-Qualifications
	-Jacobson
-USSR
-Arabs
-Importance of selecting the Secretary General
	-Type
	-Strong
	-Support from the President
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-USSR
	-Sadruddin Khan
	-Security council
	-Refugee reports

Busing issue
-Politics
-Constitutional amendment
-Civil rights issue
-James S. Coleman
-Effects on children
-North compared to South
-Moynihan’s view
	-Civil rights movement
	-Consequences
		-Possible damage to race relations
			-William H. Rehnquist
	-Constitutional amendment
		-Possible perception by Blacks
		-Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
-January 1969
-State of the nation
-Decline in confidence
-Whites
	-Majority
		-Degree of wellness individually
			-Discouragement over the future
			-Large percentage believe country is “worse off”
			-Studies
-Brown decision
	-President’s accomplishments
-Integration
	-Supreme Court
		-Dual school systems in the South after Brown decision
			-Percentage
			-Percentage during the Nixon Administration
-North
-Dual school system
	-Non-existent
-Ethnic community schools
	-Neutral
		-Ethnic pockets in the North
-Court decisions
	-Learning about the education process
-Courts are usually proven wrong
	-Brown decision
		-Difficult to prove in court
		-President’s message to Congress on education, March 1970
			-Style of messages
			-Timing
				-Cambodia
-Congressional action
-Moynihan’s previous telephone conversation with John W. Gardner
-Dual school system
	-National requirements
-Schools' performance
	-Lower class students
-More choice
-Expenditures
-South
-National Institute of Education [NIE]
-Education bill
-Progress
	-Possible results
-Dual school system
	-Possible elimination
		Particular methods tried
-New York Times
-H.L. Mencken quote
-Race relations
-Hostility in schools
	-Elementary and secondary
		-Blacks
		-Jews
-Local control
	-New York City
		-Tax brackets
-John V. Lindsay
	-Re-election chances
-Public schools
-Parochial schools
	-Financing
-Domestic Council
-British
-Dutch
-French
-Canadians
-Australians
-Consequences
-Possible Constitutional amendment
	-End of the dual school system
-Alexander M. Bickel paper
-John N. Mitchell
-New York Times
-Increase in elementary and secondary school population during the 1970s
-Teachers
	-Increase
-President’s instructions
-Education bill
	-Possible Congressional action
	-Moynihan-Ehrlichman meeting
	-Comparison to revenue-sharing
	-Senate
	-Tax bill
	-Wilbur D. Mills
	-Check off
-Bickel letter
	-New era of education
-National Primary and Secondary School Educational Opportunities Act of 1972
	-Busing and desegregation
-California and Michigan decision
	-Compared to the President’s People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
		-1967
-Neil H. McElroy Commission
	-[Forename unknown] Serrano [sp?]
-Congressional action
-President’s instructions to Moynihan
-Bickel letter
-New era
	-Possible support from Blacks
-Race relations
	-Potential speech from the President
		-Leadership
		-Reassurance
-Desegregation
-Progress since 1969
	-Dual school system
-Congress
-McElroy Commission
	-Duration
-Moynihan's suggestions
	-National institute [?]
		-March 1970
-Emergency school aid
	-Finances
-School vouchers
	-Opportunity for children
-Experiments
-California
	-Legal decision
-Florida
	-Possible changes
-Property tax and value added tax
-Private schools
-Blacks
-Reassurance
	-Symbolic gesture by the President
		-John N. Mitchell quote
-Ideal school system
-Choices
-Legislation
-Bickel arguments
-Busing is symbolic
-New era of education
	-Busing and desegregation
	-Declare peace
-Federal money
-Equality of education
-Inequality in educational opportunities
	-California decision
		-Serrano [sp?]
-Intelligence Quotient [IQ] scale
-Comparison
	-Asians, Europeans, Blacks, and the Irish
		-Unknown person
-Education bill
	-Preamble
	-Equality of educational opportunity
-Moynihan's suggestions
	-Measure of outputs
-Property tax bill
-Education bill
-Special interests
	-National Education Association [NEA]
-Private compared to public schools
-Moynihan's suggestions
-Moynihan's talk with Ehrlichman
-Bickel
-Brown decision
-How to present
	-Brown brief
-Tax system comparison
	-Change
		-Idealistic overtones
			-Honesty
-Parochial schools
-Segregation and busing
-New era
-Bringing people together
	-Choices
-No inferior education
	-Right of every American to a superior education
-Presidential leadership
	-Generosity
-Dual school system
-George C. Wallace
	-Polls
-Articles
-Letters
-Moynihan
-Note to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Jews
-Chinese
	-Work ethic
-Richard Herrnstein
-The President reads from a letter
-Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
-Mitchell
-Herrnstein’s article
-Nathan Glazer
-Further discussion
-Allegation
-Coleman

	Economy
		-Taxes 
			-Unknown person
			-Money supply

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Moynihan left at 6:08 pm.

Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] legislation
-Veto
-Votes
	-Number
-Child care
-Gerald R. Ford
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Timing
-Veto
-Continuing resolution
-Conservatives
	-Seeking credit

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Busing
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Moynihan
	-Position
		-Compared to Bickel
	-Idealism
-Comparison to Vietnam
-Revenue sharing
-Tax bill

Ehrlichman left at 6:10 pm.

Conversation No. 631-9

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:10 pm and 6:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Photographs
-White House social aides
		-Upcoming White House dinner
			-Guest list
	-W. Averell Harriman
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Joseph M. Margiotta
	-Meredith Willson
	-William W. Keeler
	-W. Clement Stone
	-A. Pollard Simons

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:28 pm.

Conversation No. 631-10

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:10 pm and 6:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield [?]

The President's schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:28 pm.

Conversation No. 631-11

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  6:28 pm - 7:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Haldeman's talk with William P. Rogers
-Call from the President
	-Rogers’ location
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Secretary of State attendance
-Photograph session
-Departure
	-Timing
-Senate leadership meeting
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Frank F. Church

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 6:32 pm.

India-Pakistan situation
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Press
	-Reactions
-The President's 1967 visit to India
	-Kissinger’s previous conversation with the President
-War
-Negotiations
-Bangladesh
				-Kissinger’s attempts for peace
-Backgrounder
-Rogers and the State Department
	-Support
-Indira Gandhi

-Rogers speech on December 6, 1971
	-Possible fallout
-Canada
-Impact of Rogers’ speech
-Rogers' talk with Ziegler
	-Timing
	-Concern from Rogers
		-Kissinger’s point
-Canadians
-Kennedy and Church
	-Against US policy
		-Kissinger’s perspective
-Margaret Chase Smith
-J. William Fulbright
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
	-Support of US action
-Leadership Meeting
-Possible UN action
-Kissinger
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kennedy
	-“Out of reality” rhetoric
-East Pakistan
	-Supposed lack of compassion by Administration
-Foreign aid
	-Amount
-Diplomatic contacts
-Trip to India
-Gandhi
	-Previous meeting with the President
-Pakistani government
-Withdrawal of forces
-Bangladesh

	White House social affairs
-Entertainers
-Jews
	-Performing at the White House
		-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
			-Itzhak Perlman
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Beverly Sills

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	-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Singing style
	-Ballet background
	-Talent evaluated

India-Pakistan situation
-Kissinger
-White House statement
	-Press coverage
-War
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s scheduled
	-Meeting with the President

The President’s schedule
	-White House [white-tie] dinner
		-1972 election

Ziegler talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 6:32 pm and 6:46 pm.

[Conversation No. 631-11A]

Ziegler conferred with the President at an unknown time during the telephone conversation.

[End of conferral]

Kissinger's location
	-Situation Room

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger 
	-Managerial style
-Staff meeting
-Particular actions at meetings
	-Foreign policy discussions

India-Pakistan situation
-Kissinger’s feeling
-War
	-Impossible to avoid
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Gandhi

The President’s schedule
-Rogers
-White House dinner
-Attendance
	-Rogers’ previous telephone conversation with Haldeman
-Press conference
-India-Pakistan
-Kissinger
-Backgrounder

Press
	-Coverage
	-People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Middle East
-Rogers
	-Ziegler

Ziegler left at 6:46 pm.

Kissinger
-Rogers
-Ziegler
		-Rogers’ toast at White House dinner, December 6, 1971
-Comments
	-Kissinger
		-Possible fallout from Rogers’ toast
-Ziegler
	-Concern
		-Kissinger’s previous conversation with the President
-Peter G. Peterson
-Maurice H. Stans meeting
-Questions raised about Peterson’s attendance
-Secretary of Commerce
	-Stans
		-Perks attributed to being Secretary of Commerce

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:46 pm and 6:51 pm.

[Conversation No. 631-11B]

[See Conversation No. 16-35]

[End of telephone conversation]

India-Pakistan situation
-United Nations [UN] vote
	-Unknown pollster

The President talked with William P. Rogers between 6:51 pm and 6:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 631-11C]

[See Conversation No. 16-36]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rogers
-Rose Mary Woods

Kissinger and staff
-Sensitivity towards others
	-Methods
	-Compared to John B. Connally

The President’s approach to others

Kissinger
-Jews 

Entertainers
-Jews
	-Perlman

Leonard Garment
	-Respect from the President

Polls
-India-Pakistan
-Anticipated results
-Politics
-Problem of war
-Defense budget
-USSR and clients
-Amount
	-Domestic viewpoint
-Busing
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Elmo Roper
	-Question
-Economy
	-Perception
	-Meaning
-Vietnam War
-Media
	-Doubt
-Cambodia
-Air war
-Trips abroad
-New Hampshire comparison
-PRC trip
-Edmund S. Muskie
-USSR trip
	-Timing
		-California and Oregon primaries
-Economy
-Importance

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Haldeman left at 7:04 pm.

Conversation No. 631-12

Date:  December 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:04 pm and 7:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with an unknown woman.

	Oval Office

[Unintelligible]

The recording was cut off at an unknown time before 7:07 pm.