Conversation No. 632-1

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  9:19 am - 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Camp David

Butterfield left at 9:20 am.

Conversation No. 632-2

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  9:25 am - 10:18 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Foreign aid
-Continuing resolution
	-Clark MacGregor
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Allen J. Ellender
-Hugh Scott
-House leadership
-60 or 90 day resolution
	-Compromise

India-Pakistan relations
-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Probable course of action
-News summary

-Henry A. Kissinger
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Washington Post article
-White House relations with the State Department
	-Policy for India

Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] legislation
-Veto

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-Child care
	-“The right thing to do”
	-Blacks and child care

India-Pakistan relations
-Kissinger
-Health
-Staff meeting
-Comments
	-Conversation with the President
		-United Nations [UN] vote
-Election
-[Arthur] Neville Chamberlain
	-“Our Rhineland”
	-Possible changes in the future
-Thailand
-Iran
-US policy
	-Timing
-Indian intervention
-UN
-Emotion
	-Pakistani air force
	-Israel
-Bureaucracy
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and India
	-Possible tough stance by US
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-Cambodia
-State Department
	-Bureaucracy
	-Public position
-News summary
-Marvin L. Kalb
		-Public relations
	-Democracy compared to dictatorship
-Ronald L. Ziegler's meeting with Kissinger
	-Ziegler’s previous meeting with Kissinger
-USSR
-Aid cut-off
-Bangladesh

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

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-Public relations
	-Kissinger’s view
-Public opinion
	-Morality
	-Democracy compared to dictatorship
-The President's talks with Kissinger
	-Timing
-Ziegler

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-USSR
	-Finland
-Germany
	-India
		-Intentions
-Vietnam
-Kissinger
	-Current developments
-Bureaucracy
-Aid cut-off
	-Timing
	-USSR
-Kissinger
	-Wars
	-Foreign policy
-Pakistan
-Concern from Haldeman
	-Kissinger’s attitude
-John Kenneth Galbraith dinner
	-Cancellation by Kissinger
-Talks with the President
	-Timing
		-Reasons for canceling dinner
-PRC-USSR initiatives
	-Possible scrutiny by the press
-East Pakistan refugees
-Bureaucracy
	-William P. Rogers
-Comments
	-Changes in Kissinger over the past month
		-Foreign policy matters
-Note to USSR
-Vietnam talks
-Kissinger 
	-Highs and lows
-Vietnam settlement, PRC summit and USSR summit
	-Accomplishments for the Administration
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Kissinger's backgrounder
	-Evaluation
	-Talking papers
	-MacGregor
	-Charles W. Colson
-[Forename unknown] Cooper
	-Expertise
-Kissinger
	-State Department
	-Neutrality
		-The President’s comments to the leaders
				-Aid cut-off
-Neutrality
	-A question of “non-involvement”
		-Possible US actions
-Kissinger
-Health
	-Possible causes
-Backgrounder
		-Rogers
			-Press coverage

The President's schedule
	-John B. Connally
-Meeting with Edward R.G. Heath [?]
-Azores
-Florida
-Time magazine interview
	-Timing

Congressional adjournment
-William H. Rehnquist appointment
	-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
	-Present state of Congress

India-Pakistan relations
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Congress
	-Imagined statements
	-USSR
	-US actions
		-Futility
		-Conservatives
	-Handling
	-Frustration
-Harvard University
	-Article
		-Possible problems for Kissinger
	-Galbraith dinner
		-Proposed “homecoming” for Kissinger
	-Daniel Patrick Moynihan
	-Thomas W. Braden
		-Timing
	-Galbraith

	Foreign policy
-USSR
-Rogers
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Possible talks between the President and the USSR
		-Rogers
-PRC
-Talks with Kissinger
-Haig
-Rogers
	-Need for someone to broker a deal with PRC and USSR
	-Experience
-Kissinger
-Political campaign
-Communiqués
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Negotiating ability
-Haig
	-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Rogers
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Kissinger’s problems
		-Concern about talking to Rockefeller
-Staff meeting
-Liberals
-Possible US allegiance
	-Pakistan
	-India
	-Democracies
	-Critics of the Administration
-Galbraith dinner
-Harvard University
	-Opinion poll
		-India
			-Democracy
			-Aggression
				-India
					-Peaceful
						-Liberals belief
			-US public opinion
				-MacGregor
					-Thoughts about India
						-World War II
				-Indians 

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	INDIA

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		-Galbraith
		-Kenneth B. Keating
		-Support for India
		-Allen S. Drury books
			-Critical of India
		-USSR
		-UN vote of December 7, 1971
			-Canadians
			-Kissinger

The President’s schedule
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Politics
-Timing
-Haldeman's call to Kissinger
	-President’s forthcoming talk with Kissinger
-Trips
-Unknown person
	-Relationship with Haldeman
		-Previous conversation with Haldeman

	International monetary situation
-George P. Shultz
-Arthur F. Burns
-Peter G. Peterson
-Shultz's talks with John B. Connally
-Economy
-Convertibility
	-Connally’s view
-Germany
	-Deutsche mark
-France
	-Deal with Germany
		-Shultz in agreement with Connally
-Convertibility
-Bilateral lifting of the surcharge
-Canada
-Mexico
-Brazil
-Connally’s view
	-Previous conversation with Haldeman
		-Timing

	Appointments
		-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
			-Geoffrey H. Moore
-Herbert Stein and Shultz
				-Burns
		-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
			-Possible confirmation battle
-Harold Goldstein removal
-Moore
	-As spokesman
	-Unemployment
-Unemployment
-Colson
		-CEA
			-Shultz
			-Moore
			-Stein
				-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Continuing resolution
	-Wrap-up meeting
-Budget
-OEO legislation
-Connally
	-Schedule
-International monetary situation

Haldeman left at 10:18 am.

Conversation No. 632-3

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:18 am and 10:27 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-41]

Conversation No. 632-4

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  10:27 am - 10:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule

-Dinners
-Ohio, Illinois, New York, California
-Entertainment for December 7, 1971 dinner
-Rita Reichman [?]

J[ames] Curtis Counts
-Talk with Woods

	The President’s schedule
		-Call from unknown person

The White House operator talked with the President at 10:28 am.

[Conversation No. 632-4A]

[See Conversation No. 16-42]

[End of telephone conversation]

Counts
-Offered presidency of Airco
	-Location
-Checked with George P. Shultz and James D. Hodgson
	-Other job offers
		-Trucking
		-Roger M. Blough Construction Company
-Mediator in labor strikes
	-Counts’ effectiveness
	-Options
		-Presidential election of 1972
	-Blough
		-Location
	-Unknown person

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The President's television appearances
	-Christmas 1971
-Freeman Gosden's views
	-Possible outcome of the President’s speeches in front of students
		-“Salute to the President” remarks
			-Students

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Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Call to Woods
	-Timing
-Unknown woman
-Willard W. Keith
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-New York
	-Unknown woman

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-Letter from the President
	-Hope
-Kalmbach
-Gosden
-Keith
-Gosden
	-Kalmbach’s opinion

Allen Hoover
	-Camp
		-Possible letter from the President to Hope

[Letter dictated]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 10:45 am.

John B. Connally's schedule
-Meeting with the President
-Time and day
-Cost of Living Council [COLC] meeting
-Timing of meeting
-President’s schedule
-French
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Paul A. Volcker
	-Accompanying Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
	-Meetings with the French

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:50 am.

Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Call to the President
-Stock market
-International monetary situation
-December meetings
	-Timing

Autographed photographs
-Football

Nixon look-alike actor
	-Richard W. (“Dick”) Berlin
	-Appearance
		-Woods’ opinion

Envelopes

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
	-Location
		-Timing
	-The President's forthcoming phone call
-White House Christmas decorations
-Upcoming Christmas television program

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	The President’s schedule
		-Entertainment
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-John F. Kennedy
-Eisenhower
	-Dinners
	-Guests
-World situation under previous presidents
	-Amount of free time afforded to
		-Individual games
			-Golf and bridge

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Woods left at 10:50 am.

Conversation No. 632-5

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:50 am and 10:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-43]

Conversation No. 632-6

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  10:52 am - 10:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 16-44]

Conversation No. 632-7

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 11:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-45]

Conversation No. 632-8

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 11:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-46]

Conversation No. 632-9

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  11:03 am - 11:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 16-47; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation]

Conversation No. 632-10

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  11:06 am - 11:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with George H.W. Bush.

[See Conversation No. 16-48]

Conversation No. 632-11

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 am and 12:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's talk with George H.W. Bush
-Bush 
-Press conference
-New York Times
			-[India]
-United Nations [UN]
-Aggression
-Democracy
-Dictatorship
-Other countries
	-Possible US assistance
-Use of force

The President's recent talk with John B. Connally
	-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
		-Forthcoming veto
-Controversial issues

Bush and Connally 
	-Praise from the President
	-Henry A. Kissinger

Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] Christmas special
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
-Memphis, Tennessee
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Television special
-Time change

Republican youth voting registration drive

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Request to be honorary chairman
-Political figure compared to member of the First Family
-Television appearances
	-Limits in the future
		-Difficulties
-Separating political figure from family figure

National Broadcasting Company [NBC] program
-“A Day in the Life of the President”
-John A. Scali
-Timing
-Length
	-60 minutes compared to 90
-Use of film
-Possible ratings for program
-Possible public reaction to program
	-Compared to [Tricia Nixon Cox’s] wedding
-John W. Chancellor interview
	-Value of program

Television
	-Talk shows
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Tour of the White House
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] show
	-President’s opinion of show
-Barbara Walters
-Douglas L. Hallett
-One-on-one
	-Feasibility
-Audience
-Public opinion
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-“A Day in the Life of the President”
	-Probable public reaction
-Accuracy of NBC program
	-The President’s schedule

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-Birthday calls
	-Number
-[Gary Washington]
-Athlete
-Five women generals
-Meetings
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Kissinger
-King Timahoe

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	CANADA

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Polls

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:27 am.

Press briefing
	-Timing

The President's talk with Bush
-UN vote on India-Pakistan
			-Result of vote
				-Anti-aggression
-Bush’s report
-Democracy comparison
-Size of country
	-India compared to Pakistan
-Aggression
-Type and size of government of a country
	-Justification for aggression
	-UN General Assembly vote
-Vietnam comparison
-Bush’s previous conversation with the President
	-India’s size
		-The “Establishment”
	-India’s democracy compared to Pakistan’s dictatorship
-Kissinger’s backgrounder
-Bush’s analysis of UN vote
	-US position on aggression
	-US overwhelmingly on side of world opinion

OEO legislation

Pension legislation
-Vesting rights

Brussels announcement
	-Robert Strausz-Hupe nomination
		-US Ambassador to Belgium
			-Unknown person

Forthcoming North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
-David M. Kennedy
	-Location
-William P. Rogers
	-Announcement
		-Timing

Forthcoming trip to the Azores, December 12, 1971
-Accommodations
	-Number of rooms
-French press accommodations
-Transportation
	-Supersonic transport [SST]
		-Types of airplanes
-French
	-Georges J.R. Pompidou
		-President offers congratulations to Pompidou and the French

Ziegler left at 11:35 am.

Ziegler 
	-Difficulty of Ziegler’s job

Scali
-Briefings
	-Possible performance

Kissinger 
-John Kenneth Galbraith dinner
	-Importance
-Paris diplomatic group
	-Possible failure
-Vietnam negotiations
	-Le Duc Tho
		-Blow to Kissinger
-Assessment of blame
-Congress
-Ziegler
-Rogers
-Cambodia
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-California
-State of the world
	-Kissinger’s staff
		-Responsibility
-US
-Biafra
-State Department
-Rogers
	-Neutral stance
		-Charles E. Goodell
-US position
-Haldeman's talk with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Haig
-Trust

White House staff

	Kissinger
		-Negotiating skills
		-Communiqué
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

“A Day in the Life of the President”
	-Future programs
		-Networks
		-Democrats

Press conference
	-Timing
	-“A Day in the Life of the President”
		-Offering insights on the Presidency

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Kissinger
-Meeting with Haldeman
	-Plan on how to deal with Kissinger
	-Haig
-PRC and USSR trips
	-Kissinger’s possible attendance
	-Possible resignation
-Rogers
-PRC trip
-USSR trip
-The President
	-Request for Kissinger’s attendance during trips
-Rogers
-Connally
	-Possible job performance
		-Confidence
			-Compared to Rogers
		-Rogers
			-Vietnam
				-Troop withdrawals

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:35 am.

The President's schedule
	-John W. McCormack
		-Location

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:30 pm.

Official dinners
	-Time of year
-Supreme Court
-Congress and the Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
-Cabinet
	-Clifford M. Hardin
	-Maurice H. Stans
	-Timing
-Walter J. Hickel
	-Honoring retired members
-Supreme Court
-Conservatives
-Votes
-Lawyer votes
	-Understanding
		-Press coverage
			-Mrs. William O. Douglas
			-State dinner
		-Mrs. Emilio Garrastazu Médici and daughter

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Dinners
	-James Earl Jones [?]
-Mike Royco [?]
	-Attendance
-Rose Mary Woods
-Invitations
	-Difficulties in arranging dinners
-Diplomatic
-Ambassadors
	-Benefits of dinners to the President
-Contributors
	-Dinner attendees
		-Meaning

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India-Pakistan situation
-UN vote
	-Importance of vote
		-Communist countries
-Bush
-Kissinger’s plan
-USSR
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Indira Gandhi
	-Possible US course of action
		-Potential aid cut-off

Public relations
-Sports-celebrity rally
-Poll data
-Drug issue
	-Importance to America
	-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Salute to Hollywood
	-Opera
-Leonard Garment
-Nancy Hanks
	-Music
-Entertainment at White House
-Violinist at White House, December 17, 1971
	-Itzhak Perlman
	-Compared to Isaac Stern
	-Health

Dinners
	-Salute to Hollywood and sports rally
-Supreme Court
	-Swearing-in ceremonies
	-Chief Justice
	-New Associate Justices
		-Protocol

	Peter G. Peterson
		-Secretary of Commerce
			-Chief Executive Officer
		-The President’s possible staff reorganization

Maurice H. Stans
	-Trip to USSR [?]

John N. Mitchell

Kissinger
	-Appearance on “A Day in the Life of the President”
		-Feelings
-Rogers
-Diplomatic wires
-Backgrounder
-Meeting with Haldeman
	-Possible outcome
-PRC and USSR trips
	-Kissinger’s skill as a negotiator
-Middle East
-Job stresses and performance

The President's schedule
-Azores
-Distance
-Florida
-Washington, DC
-Latitude
-Press conferences
-Timing
			-President’s concern
				-Types of press conferences
				-Duration of visit
-Christmas decorations
	-Invitation to the press
-Press corps reception
	-Timing
		-Number of press at reception
-Briefing
-Press assignments
	-Florida
-Azores
-Press
-Mrs. Nixon
-New York
-Decorations
-Timing
-Time magazine interview
-Bermuda to Florida
	-Dates
-Christmas
	-Proposed work schedule
-Time magazine interview
-Length
-Christmas tree lighting
-Press conference
-Christmas decorations
-Time magazine interview
	-Suggested dates
-New York
	-Timing
-Scali
-Press
-Questions
-Possible press embargo
	-Bermuda
-Vietnam War
-Rogers
-NATO meeting
-December 16 and 17, 1971
	-Press corps reception
	-Christmas tree lighting
-Bermuda
	-Length of trip
-Football games
	-Television
-Florida
-Willy Brandt meetings
	-Proposed dates
-Press article
	-Jerrold L. Schecter
		-Separate from Time interview
		-Tour of the White House

Haldeman left at 12:30 pm.

Conversation No. 632-12

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:30 pm and 12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.

Conversation No. 632-13

Date:  December 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person [Secret Service agent] entered.

The agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 12:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 632-13A]

	The President’s location

[End of telephone conversation]

The agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 12:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 632-13B]

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