Conversation No. 633-1

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  9:05 am - 9:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Call from an unknown man

Death of Ralph J. Bunche
-George H.W. Bush
	-Announcement of Bunche’s death
-The President's call to Ruth H. Bunche
-Statement

[Unintelligible]

Elmer H. Bobst
-Letter

The President's call to Mrs. Bunche

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:05 am and 9:11 am.

[Conversation No. 633-1A]

[See Conversation No. 16-65]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

Bust
	-Winston S. Churchill
		-To be brought to the President
			-Location
	-Abraham Lincoln
	-John F. Kennedy
		-Comparisons

Woods left at 9:11 am.

Conversation No. 633-2

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  9:12 am - 9:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Ruth H. Bunche.

[See Conversation No. 16-66]

Conversation No. 633-3

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:13 am and 10:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods and Manolo Sanchez.

Bust of Abraham Lincoln
-Position in room
	-Style of bust

Woods and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

Conversation No. 633-4

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:13 am and 10:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Meetings with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and David Packard
-Defense personnel
	-Melvin R. Laird
		-Packard’s possible resignation
-December 10, 1971
	-Report of the President’s Commission on Federal Statistics
		-W. Allen Wallis
-Ceremony on Farm Credit Act
	-The President’s view
	-Possible postponement
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] appointments
-Swearings-in
	-Philip V. Sanchez
	-Romana A. Banuelos
-California
-John B. Connally
-Willy Brandt
-Eisaku Sato meeting
-Supreme Court
	-Press story
		-Appointments
-OEO
	-Appointments
		-Mexican-Americans
-Wallis
-Packard
	-Defense personnel

	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Forthcoming talks with the President
-Banuelos
	-Appointment
			-Connally

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:33 am.

Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Ziegler’s previous conversation with CBS executives
-Television special
-New York
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower Christmas special
-Possible one-on-one interview
	-Potential problems
		-William Small
		-Unwillingness by CBS
	-Concerns
	-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
	-Julie Eisenhower Christmas special
	-One-on-one interview
	-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
		-Stance on interview
	-One-on-one interview
	-Timing
					-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Peoples Republic of China [PRC]
		-Importance of interview
			-Ziegler’s previous conversation with CBS
	-Dan Rather
		-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
			-Commitment to Rather
	-New York
		-Concern from CBS
	-Julie Eisenhower Christmas special
	-Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding coverage
		-Seeking balance
	-Potential problem with the networks
	-NBC
	-ABC
	-One-on-one interview
		-To be done in alphabetical order
	-Timing
		-President’s availability
		-President’s trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
			-PRC
	-CBS
-Small
-Particular type of interview
	-Commitment

NBC
	-“A Day in the Life of the President”
	-Ziegler’s previous telephone conversation with Small

The President’s telephone call to Ruth H. Bunche
	-Timing
		-Purpose of call

Ziegler left and Kissinger entered at 9:47 am.

Kissinger's visit to the Brazilian Embassy
-Talk with Foreign Minister
	-Support
-Organization of American States [OAS] and Cuba
	-Maintain public support
	-Possible change in US policy
	-Fidel Castro
	-USSR
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
	-Issue to be discussed by the President
		-Castro

India-Pakistan situation
-USSR
-Letter to the President
-Old proposal
-Possible ceasefire
-Negotiations between Pakistan and Awami League
-US response
-Pakistan
-West compared to the East
-Islamabad
-Forms of negotiation
	-Specific goals
		-Hard line
-Jordanians
	-Planes
		-Forthcoming meeting
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message for the President
-Meeting with Agricultural Minister
	-Topic for discussion
-Rowland Evans
-Backgrounder
-Foreign policy article
	-Opinion
-USSR Agricultural Minister
-Message from Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Meeting with the President

The President's schedule
-Meetings
-Moorer
-Packard
-Kissinger
-Laird
-Department of Defense [DOD] personnel
	-Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
	-Robert F. Froehlke
-Packard
-Personnel issue
	-Possible resignation
		-The President’s involvement
-Laird's schedule
	-Location
-India-Pakistan situation
-Richard M. Helms
-Packard
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]

World situation
-Crises
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Cienfuegos
-Middle East
-India-Pakistan
	-Numbers
-New York Times
-Evans
	-Previous conversation with Kissinger
		-President’s instructions
			-Kissinger’s call to the State Department
				-Diplomats
-Articles
	-Wire
	-Forthcoming meeting
-USSR
-United Nations [UN] vote
-George H.W. Bush
	-Press conference on UN vote
-Kissinger's backgrounder
-Washington Post
	-Front page article
		-Stance on India
-New York Times
-Broadcast media [?]
-UN vote
-Bush
	-Difficulty
-India
-General Assembly
	-Importance of vote
-Press coverage
-South Africa comparison

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 10:04 am.

Conversation No. 633-5

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  10:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to an unknown person

Conversation No. 633-6

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  10:04 am - 11:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Emilio Garrastazu Medici and Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters.

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	LATIN AMERICA

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The President, Medici, and Walters left at 11:02 am.

Conversation No. 633-7

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  11:04 am - 11:16 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Vernon A. Walters.

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[UNINTELLIGIBLE]

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Walters left at 11:16 am.

Conversation No. 633-8

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:16 am and 11:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Christine Wilde
-Departure
-Secretary to Jon M. Huntsman
-Qualifications
-Meeting with the President
	-Timing

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.

Conversation No. 633-9

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  11:22 am - 11:23 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Christine Wilde, Jon M. Huntsman and Alexander P. Butterfield.

Wilde
-Departure
	-Timing
		-Type of job
-Gift from the President
	-Thanks from Wilde

Wilde, Huntsman and Butterfield left at 11:23 am.

Conversation No. 633-10

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:23 am and 11:25 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-67]

Conversation No. 633-11

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  11:25 am - 1:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Unknown man
	-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Talk with the President
-Edward M. Kennedy

Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with an unknown person
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR trip
-Arthur F. Burns
	-Kennedy
-State Department
-Resignation
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Possible bluff
	-Haldeman’s hard line with Kissinger

The President’s problems
-Economics
-Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Domestic Policy
-Congress
-Presidential campaign of 1972

Kissinger
-Possible departure

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[Duration:  20s  ]

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-Crises
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with Haig
-Congress
-People's Republic of China [PRC] note
-USSR
-India
-Jordan
-Complexity of issues

The President talked with Charles R. Jonas between 11:33 am and 11:35 am.

[Conversation No. 633-11A]

[See Conversation No. 16-68]

[End of telephone conversation]

Mrs. Willis Smith, Sr. [Anna Lee Smith]
-Death of son

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:35 am and 11:53 am.

[Conversation No. 633-11B]

[See Conversation No. 16-69]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger
-President’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-India-Pakistan situation
-Failures in history
	-Haldeman’s conversation with Haig
	-Comparisons
	-More failures than success
	-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
	-Winston S. Churchill
	-Napoleon Bonaparte
	-Alexander the Great
-Haig
	-Bureaucracy
		-Difficulties
	-India-Pakistan situation
	-Staff
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
	-Walk-out of meeting
-Staff
	-Open rebellion
-India-Pakistan
-Joseph J. Sisco
-John N. (“Jack”) Irwin, Jr.
-Richard M. Helms
	-Siding with the President
-Kissinger’s possible resignation
	-Effect
-Rogers
-Haig
-Rogers’s problems with Kissinger
-Diplomatic decisions
-Cambodia
-USSR
-Middle East
-India-Pakistan resolution
	-Possible settlement
-Cambodia
-Historical significance of diplomatic decisions
-Approach to problems

Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] interview
-Timing
-Vietnam announcement

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			-Preparation involved
				-Forthcoming State of the Union address

Press conferences
		-National Broadcasting Company [NBC], American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC], CBS
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Style
	-Speechwriting

Press coverage
	-The President’s remarks at the 4-H Congress, December 1, 1971
		-Television
			-CBS
-Edmund S. Muskie
-CBS
	-Time spent on story
	-Evaluation of story
	-Edward M. Kennedy

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[Duration:  4m 30s  ]

[The President talked with Mrs. Smith between 11:53 am and 11:55 am]

[Conversation No. 633-11C]

[See Conversation No. 16-70; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

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John V. Tunney [?]

CBS interview
	-Reasoning
-Networks
-1968 campaign coverage
	-1972 election
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Daniel P. Moynihan

Press
-Book
	-Reaction
	-Unknown person
	-The Left-wing Antenna

CBS interview
-One-on-one
	-Possible number of viewers
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's special
	-“Christmas at the White House”
-Tricia Nixon Cox

Haldeman's talk with Connally
	-Connally’s schedule
	-Foreigners
		-Bankers
	-G-10 meeting
	-Trips

Kissinger
-Schedule
-Relationship with press

The President's schedule

William Proxmire

William H. Rehnquist
-Press coverage
-Supreme Court nomination
-Compared to Louis D. Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Earl Warren
-Skill as Supreme Court Justice

Warren E. Burger
-Skill as Supreme Court Justice

Rehnquist
	-The President’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Harry A. Blackmun
	-Professionalism

The President's schedule
-Forms of relaxation
-Florida
	-Timing
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer meeting
		-Gen. Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.
			-Distinguished Service Medal
-Recent meeting with Emilio Garrastazu Medici
	-Note
		-Kissinger
		-Ortiz Mena
-Moorer
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Rogers
-President’s instructions
-Dean Rusk
-Rogers
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Cabinet Room
-Meeting with W. Allen Wallis, December 10, 1971
	-Possible movement in schedule
-Moorer and David Packard meeting
	-Timing
-Wallis meeting
-Swearing-in
-Romana A. Banuelos
	-President’s instructions to Haldeman
		-Connally
-Wallis and Moorer meetings
-Chapman
-White House decorating
-Audio taping
	-Armed forces Christmas message
-Photographs and interview
	-Article
		-McCall’s
-Richard A. Moore
-Rose Mary Woods
-Price
-Gilford Dudley, Jr.
	-Possible presentation
-Copenhagen
-Camp David
-John N. Mitchell
-Talk with Haldeman

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[Duration:  1m 28s  ]

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-Azores trip
-Florida
	-White House press corps
-Miami Herald
-Unknown man
-Timing
-Press conference
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Ziegler
-Television news
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Press conference
-Timing
-New York
-Theater
	-Possible alternative plans
-Timing
-Woods
-Stephen B. Bull
-Alexander P. Butterfield
	-Attendance
-Azores
-Press conference
-Florida
-Ziegler
-“Man of the Year”
	-Time magazine
		-Telephone calls
		-Jerrold L. Schecter
		-Scheduling interview with Schecter
-Press conference
-Bermuda
-Camp David
	-Invitation to Schecter
	-Work
	-Story
	-Pictures
	-Study

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[Duration:  2s  ]

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-Lincoln Room
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-The President’s work style
	-Budget
-Florida meeting
-Florida and Azores
	-India-Pakistan situation
		-Kissinger
-Bermuda
	-Arrangements
-California trip
-Florida
-Timing
-Arrangements
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Orange Bowl
-California
-Timing
-Washington, DC
-Mrs. Nixon
	-Travel to the airport
-Florida
-Weather

Kissinger entered at 12:31 pm.

The President's schedule
-Azores trip
-The President’s meeting with Medici
-Azores trip
	-Potential settlement

Haldeman left at 12:32 pm.

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[Duration:  9m 11s  ]

BRAZIL

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Pompidou

Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Personality

Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto

	Nicolae Ceasescu

Josip Broz Tito
-Confidence in the President

Golda Meir

[Unintelligible]

	-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Kennedy
-Israelis

Hubert H. Humphrey

Muskie

	Kissinger’s schedule
		-Football game
			-Muskie

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	-Talk with Kissinger
	-India-Pakistan situation
		-Muskie’s opinion
		-US position

Foreign policy
-Newsweek magazine
	-Kissinger interview
-Democrats
	-Possible Secretary of State
		-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
		-George W. Ball
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
	-Brazil
	-Canada
	-Pierre Trudeau

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[Duration:  6s  ]

	CANADA

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					-The President’s foreign policy experience
-Muskie
	-Ottawa agreement
	-Oil agreement
-Briefing book topics
	-Trudeau
	-Medici
	-Humphrey
	-State Department
-Cuba
-Cambodia
-Cienfuegos
-Jordan
-Vietnam
-Cambodia
-Rogers and Laird
	-Similar philosophy
-Vietnam
	-President’s previous press conference
		-Reduction in casualties
			-Laos and Cambodia
-Pompidou meeting
-PRC and USSR trip
-Force reduction
-European security conference
-Economy
	-Monetary
-West Germany
	-The President’s upcoming talk with Pompidou
-Connally
	-Preparation for the President
-Economy
-Exchange rates
-Price of gold
-Trade concessions
-French
-Arthur F. Burns
	-Lobbying for convertibility
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Azores meeting
	-British
-French
	-Prospects for a settlement
-Paul A. Volcker
-Connally
-Praise from Kissinger
-Trip to Japan
-Burns
	-Compared with Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Volcker
-Devaluation of the dollar
	-Percentages
-Revaluation of franc
-French
-Trade concessions
-Agriculture
-Pompidou
-Shultz
-Surcharge
-Germans
-Floating
	-Reduction in percentage
-Connally
	-Prospects for a new deal
	-Free float
		-Shultz

India-Pakistan situation
-Letter from Brezhnev
	-Proposition
		-Possible ceasefire
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Awami League
-East and West Pakistan
	-Possible scenarios
-Bhutan
-Nepal

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

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-USSR
-Demands from the USSR
	-Middle East settlement
	-European Security Conference
	-Trade
	-The President’s trip
-State Department position
-Yahya Khan
	-Kashmir
	-East Pakistan
		-USSR
			-Bangladesh

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

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-Yahya Khan
-Pakistan partition

Manolo Sanchez entered and left at an unknown time after 12:31 pm.

India-Pakistan situation
	-Pakistan army
	-PRC
	-Balance of power
-USSR
-Negotiations and withdrawal
-Yahya Khan
-West Pakistan
-Bangladesh
-Awami League and Islamabad
	-December 1970 election
-Ceasefire
-West Pakistan
	-Possible preservation
-Army
-Supplies
	-Depletion
		-Timing
-USSR
-Aid to India
-Aid to Pakistan
-Public opinion
	-Possible summit
-USSR
-Middle East war
-Peking
	-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Present status of US-USSR relations
-USSR-US communications
	-Letter
-Earl L. Butz toast, December 9, 1971
-State Department
	-US-India relations
	-Congress
		-Non-involvement

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[Duration:  5m 56s  ]

	INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

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The President's schedule
-Hubert Maga
-Meeting
	-Timing
	-Meeting with Jaime Arguelles
		-Timing
-Connally
	-Possible postponement of meeting
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]

India-Pakistan situation
-Meeting of leaders

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[Duration:  2m 4s  ]

	INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

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-John Kennedy commitment
	-State Department
		-Lakshmi Kant Jha
			-Yuli M. Vorontsov [?]
-Meeting of leaders
-Kissinger’s recommendations to the President
-Irwin
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Packard
-Moorer
-Helms
-Timing
-Talking paper
-Kissinger’s schedule

The President's schedule
-Arguelles
	-Timing
-Connally
-WSAG meeting
-Meeting with [Vladimir V. Matskevich]
-Meeting of leaders
-Briefing paper
		-Arguelles

Kissinger left at 1:27 pm.