Conversation No. 634-1

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 2:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Tax bill
	-Passage
-Wilbur D. Mills
	-Possible call
	-Schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:38 pm.

Conversation No. 634-2

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:55 am and 2:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-71]

Conversation No. 634-3

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  2:38 pm - 2:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Wilbur D. Mills.

[See Conversation No. 16-72]

Conversation No. 634-4

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:39 pm and 2:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-73]

Conversation No. 634-5

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  2:43 pm - 2:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-John B. Connally
	-Upcoming meeting
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Visit with Vladimir V. Matskevich
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-Connally's office
	-Notification
-Forthcoming meeting [with Jaime Arguelles]
	-Talking points
		-People's Republic of China [PRC] and USSR trips
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Delivery of unknown letter
			-United Nations [UN] Security Council [?]
-Tax bill
-President’s upcoming trip to New York, December 18, 1971

-Haldeman's talk with Rose Mary Woods
-Dinner
-Theater
	-Time of performance
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Florida
	-Possible press conference
		-Possible schedule conflicts
-India-Pakistan situation
-Azores
	-Communications with the White House
	-Transportation
		-Airplanes

The President talked with John W. Byrnes between 2:46 pm and 2:48 pm.

[Conversation No. 634-5A]

[See Conversation No. 16-74]

[End of telephone conversation]

Economy
-Tax bill
	-Christmas
		-Sales
			-Projections
	-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
		-Hobart Rowen
			-Democrats
			-Phase II
			-Inflation
			-Growth
			-International economy
-Inflation
	-Status
-Unemployment
-Auto sales
	-Rowen

Kissinger
-Schedule
	-Kissinger preparedness in question

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-State Department
-Personnel
-Schedule
-Florida
	-William P. Rogers
	-Advantages
		-Differences
-California
-The President’s schedule
	-Crisis management
		-Franklin D. Roosevelt and [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Rogers
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] conference
	-Timing
-Airplanes
	-Types of transport
	-Florida
	-Rogers, Connally and David M. Kennedy
		-Possible attendance on flight
			-Preferences
	-Mrs. Nixon
	-Cabinet officers

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 2:59 pm.

The President's schedule
-Letter delivery
-Gen. Francisco Franco
-“Law of the Sea”
-Jaime Arguelles
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Haig
-USSR meeting
-Arguelles
-Letter
-Level of importance
	-Haig
	-Stephen B. Bull
-Talking points

Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:48 pm.

President Hubert Maga's arrival
-Photographs
	-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Haldeman and Bull left at 2:59 pm.

Conversation No. 634-6

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  2:59 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Hubert Maga meeting
-Photographs
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Bull left at 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 634-7

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  3:00 pm - 3:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Hubert Maga and Sophia K. Porson; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

Photographs

Maga's appreciation for meeting

[Photograph session]

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 3:05 pm.

United Nations [UN]
	-Previous meeting between the President and Maga
-Taiwan, vote
-Dahomey’s position
-International relations
	-Country size
		-Dahomey
		-India-Pakistan situation
		-Cease-fire
			-UN vote

			-US position
				-Population comparison

Dahomey-US relations
	-UN
		-Taiwan vote

Dahomey-US comparison
-Freedom
-Proposal for a working relationship in the future

Size of Dahomey
	-Importance in US relations

Foreign aid
-Multilateral
	-Potential Congressional opposition
			-Full support for US programs in Africa

Urban development
	-Importance to Dahomey
	-Development of roads
		-Possible problems

Dahomey agriculture
-Drought
-Corn
	-Rise in cost
-US aid
	-Assistance from West Germany and international organizations
	-Level of importance to US interests
						-Potential tragedy

Africa
-New countries priorities
-Education
-Capital investment
-Dahomey
	-Agriculture
		-Increase in production of food crops and cash crops
	-Roads
		-Niger
		-Upper Votta
		-Nigeria
	-City development and urban planning
	-Water supply
		-Problems concerning year-round access
	-Main source of assistance
	-International organizations
	-US loan to Southern Dahomey
						-Water supply
	-Maga's visit to Geneva
	-International Labor Organization [ILO]
		-Maga’s concern
						-American Federation of Labor-Congress of International Organizations [AFL-CIO]
							-Opposition to ILO
	-George Meany
	-Congress
		-Appropriations
								-Domestic programs compared to international programs
	-Dahomey relations
	-Work with the US
	-[Forename unknown] Tevoedjre
		-Candidacy
			-Senegal, Cameroon, Chad
			-Possible support from the President

Organization of African Unity [OAU]
-UN recommendations
-African chiefs of state memorandum
	-Proposals on Middle East
		-Possible US support
		-Maga’s conversation with Abba Eban
			-Israeli agreement
		-US consideration

Visit to African countries
	-Yakubu Gowon

Closing remarks
	-The President’s travels
	-The President’s knowledge and support of Africa

The President, Maga, Haig, and Porson left at 3:29 pm.

Conversation No. 634-8

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:29 pm and 3:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and Stephen B. Bull.

Jaime Arguelles meeting
	-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Sanchez and Bull left at an unknown time before 3:32 pm.

Conversation No. 634-9

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  3:32 pm - 3:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Jaime Arguelles and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

	Greetings

Letter from Gen. Francisco Franco
-Spain's “Law-of-the-Sea” position
	-State Department

The President's regards to Franco
	-President’s previous visit to Spain
		-Reception
-Franco's Family
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Daughter and grandchildren
	-Location
-Henry A. Kissinger

Closing remarks
	-Invitation from the President

Arguelles and Haig left at 3:36 pm.

Conversation No. 634-10

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:36 and 3:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Manolo Sanchez.

Judgeship announcement

Letter or bill signing

Butterfield and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:57 pm.

Conversation No. 634-11

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  3:57 pm - 3:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

India-Pakistan situation
-Backgrounder
-Ceasefire
-Resumption of East-West negotiations
-Possible Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] action
	-India
		-Possible military action
-Trade
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Letter from Leonid I. Brezhnev

Kissinger left at 3:59 pm.

Conversation No. 634-12

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  4:00 pm - 4:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Vladimir V. Matskevich, Yuli M. Vorontsov, and Henry A. Kissinger.

	[General conversation]
		-Kissinger’s schedule

Introductory remarks
	-Photographs of exhibition in Moscow
		-The President’s attendance
		-Milton S. Eisenhower
		-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] agriculture

Message from Leonid I. Brezhnev
	-Greetings
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the USSR
	-Significance

Brezhnev
-Relationship with Matskevich
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Matskevich’s view
-Aleksei N. Kosygin

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:00 pm.

	Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:33 pm.

USSR trip
	-The President’s upcoming meeting with Brezhnev
-Significance
-Brezhnev
-US-USSR relations
	-Possible impact

India-Pakistan situation
-Brezhnev
-Importance to the US
	-Sense of urgency
		-Possible settlement

US-USSR relations
	-Progress over the past three years
	-The President’s anti-Communism
-Negotiations
-Andrei A. Gromyko
	-The President’s previous conversation with Gromyko
		-The President’s respect for USSR leaders
-Progress
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-Berlin
	-European security conference
	-Kissinger
	-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Middle East
		-Formal discussions
		-Potential opportunities
	-Berlin
	-Limitations of armaments
	-Middle East
	-European security conference
	-Trade
	-Maurice H. Stans
		-Previous trip to USSR, November 1971
	-Peace and cooperation
		-Different objectives
	-USSR trip
		-Timing
-India-Pakistan situation
-United Nations [UN]
	-Disagreements
		-Possible outcome
-Pakistan
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Alliance
-USSR-Indian relations
-PRC
-Pakistan
	-US-USSR relations
		-Possible working relationship for peace
-Conditions for peace
	-Ceasefire
	-Attacks on West Pakistan to cease
		-Possible action from the US
	-Negotiations
		-Prompted by Brezhnev [?]
	-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
		-Awami League
	-Withdrawal
	-Settlement
		-Fairness
-USSR-Indian relations
	-Key to settlement
	-Negotiations
		-US influence
			-Yahya Khan
				-Awami League
-Timing
-Possible confrontation
-Treaties
-USSR-US cooperation
	-Spirit of cooperation
-UN
-Brezhnev
	-Sense of urgency
	-Differences between US and USSR
-Arms control
-Middle East
-India-Pakistan situation
-Trade
-Future of Europe
	-Accomplishments
	-Thanks from the President for the meeting
-Matskevich’s conversations with Brezhnev
	-Pakistan
	-Europe
	-SALT
	-Trade
	-Agriculture
-India-Pakistan situation
	-Time to settle affairs
-Matckevich’s forthcoming conversation with Brezhnev
-India-Pakistan situation
	-Brezhnev’s efforts and views
	-[Yahya Khan]
-Formal reply
-Brezhnev

Closing remarks
	-The President’s upcoming meeting in Moscow, May 1972
	-[Gifts]
-Dobrynin
	-Best wishes from the President

Matskevich and Vorontsov left at 4:33 pm.

Meeting with USSR
	-Significance of meeting
		-Outcome

State Department

USSR-US relations
	-Status

India-Pakistan situation
	-PRC
-Pakistan ambassador [Agha Hilaly]
-Ceasefire
-Possible withdrawal

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

Photographs of Vorontsov

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 4:41 pm.

India-Pakistan situation
	-US involvement
		-Potential diplomatic losses
-Pakistan ambassador
-Brezhnev letter
	-Potential agreement between the US and USSR
-Possible negotiations with the Awami League
-Yahya Khan
-PRC
-USSR and US treaties
	-Complex in nature
-West Pakistan
	-Attempt to end the conflict
-Vorontsov
	-Kissinger’s view on India-Pakistan
-Carrier movements
-Strait of Malacca
	-Meeting with the Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
		-Evacuation

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		-WSAG meeting
-Meeting with Matskevich and Vorontsov
-Significance
	-President’s policy
		-Action by the President
-European security conference
-Middle East
-SALT
-Trade
	-USSR
		-Risk involved
-US bureaucracy

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	INDIA

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-WSAG meeting
	-The President’s attitude

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	INDIA

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Kissinger left at 4:41 pm.

Conversation No. 634-13

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:54 pm and 4:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally
	-Location
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Forthcoming telephone conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Veto message
	-[Economic Opportunity Amendments of 1971]

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:56 pm.

Conversation No. 634-14

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:54 pm and 4:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Veto message
	-[Economic Opportunity Amendments of 1971]

Conversation No. 634-15

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  4:56 pm - 4:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

India-Pakistan situation
	-Kissinger’s view
-State Department
	-News summary
-Meeting with Vladimir V. Matskevich and Yuli M. Vorontsov
	-President’s view
	-Upcoming Moscow Summit
	-The President’s tone
-Pakistan
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-India
	-US appeal to USSR
	-Possible meeting with Richard M. Helms

	[Unintelligible]

Kissinger left at 4:59 pm.

Conversation No. 634-16

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  4:59 pm - 5:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally.

	Connally’s schedule

Tax bill
-Call to Wilbur D. Mills
-The President’s foreign policy"
-“Check-off” deal
	-Anticipated reaction from Congress
-Treasury Department
-John [W. Byrnes?]
	-Comments
-Strength
-Mills and Byrnes
	-Praise
-Call to Mills
	-Senate
	-President’s request
		-Connally
		-Mills’s skill
-Revenue sharing

International monetary situation
-George P. Shultz
	-Previous conversation with Connally
-Surcharge in terms of trade
-Arthur F. Burns
-Conversations with New York bankers
-The President's talk with Henry A. Kissinger
-Burns
-Convertibility
	-Condition for deal
-Shultz
	-Possible deals
		-Connally
	-US position
		-Gold issue
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-British
-Pompidou
	-Usefulness to US
-French
	-Progress
-Paul A. Volcker and Connally
-Position paper
-Burns’s position
	-Fixed rates
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Convertibility
	-Limited compared to full
		-Timing
-Shultz
-Gold
	-Edward R.G. Heath
-Connally
	-Previous conversation with Shultz
-Press
-Connally's meeting with the Ministers
-Convertibility
-Shultz
	-Henry S. Reuss-Jacob K. Javits Bill
-Congress
	-Shultz’s concern
		-Connally’s previous conversation with Shultz
-Gold
	-Connally’s view
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Mills
-Convertibility
	-Connally’s conversations
	-Former Secretaries of the Treasury
	-Democrats
-Europeans
-Pompidou
	-Realignment
-Meeting in Rome
-Price of gold
-Special Drawing Rights [SDRs]
	-British pound
	-French franc
	-Different standards
-IMF
	-Future plans
-Surcharge
-Gold
-Limited convertibility
	-Opinions of financial experts
-Shultz
-IMF
	-Protecting the dollar against convertibility
-Deficit
	-US money in other government’s hands
		-Amount
	-US assets
		-Amount
-Exchange rates
-Germany
-France
	-High rates
		-US blamed
-Surcharge for realignment
-Gold for trade concessions
-Germany
	-Potential problems
-Pompidou
	-Connally’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-Japan
	-Deals with US on bilateral basis
-Trade and money
-Wants a multilateral sum
-Canada
	-To be dealt on a bilateral basis
		-Potential US difficulties
-France
-Pompidou
-Willy Brandt
-Heath
	-Under pressure for agreement
		-Deutsche mark
			-Value
		-Franc
-Gold-trade agreement
	-Trade concessions for the US
-Remove surcharge
-10% devaluation of the dollar
-Pompidou
-The President’s upcoming meeting with Pompidou
	-Knowledge of subject
-Connally and Valery Giscard D’estaing
	-William P. Rogers
				-Proposed US deal with France
					-Maximum realignment
					-Proposed price of gold
						-Italy
						-Amount
						-US-France negotiations
-Connally’s view
-Realignment
	-US needs
		-Political risks involved
-Trade concessions
	-US needs
		-US standing firms
			-Ultimatum
-Agriculture
	-Grain storage commitment
		-Timing
-Germany
	-Pompidou
		-US concessions
		-Possible agreement
			-Timing of meeting
				-Group of Ten
		-Negotiations
			-Value of money
-Japanese
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Pompidou
-D’Estaing
-Andre Meyer
					-Individuals to be conferred without the President’s meetings with Pompidou
-Connally's meeting
	-Timing
-D’Estaing
	-Call for instructions
		-Pompidou
-Japanese
	-Preparations for meeting
-Germany
-France
				-Key to the European Community importance in making a deal with France
				-Meyer
					-President’s instructions
-Bob Murphy
	-Meyer
-Heath
-Arthur H. Dean
	-Negotiator skills
		-Acquaintances
-Kissinger
-Possible attendance at meeting
-Pompidou
	-Trust in Kissinger
-Heath
-Brandt
	-Heath’s possible agenda at meeting
-Canada
	-Edgar J. Benson
-Floating the dollar
-Convertibility
	-Negotiations
-Benson
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Presence at meeting
-US investments in Canada
	-Oil reserves
	-Automobiles
-US requirements from Canada
	-Trade concessions
	-Floating the dollar
		-Percentage and value
			-Benson
	-Automotive agreement
	-Border crossings
	-Exemptions
		-Agreed to by Canada
			-Possible agreement
-French
-Bilateral meetings
	-The President’s upcoming meetings with Brandt and Eisaku Sato
-Meeting in January
	-Group of Ten
-Ultimatum from US
-Surcharge
-French
-Connally's meeting
	-Group of Ten
	-Sato, Brandt and Heath
		-Potential problem for the President
-France
-Gold
	-Possible problems for US
		-History
-Germany
-Connally's schedule
-Policy paper
	-Kissinger

Brazil
-The President's meeting with Emilio Garrastazu Medici

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-Fidel Castro
-Juan Velasco Alvarado
-Organization of American States [OAS]
	-No change in US policy
-Bolivia
-Medici
	-Elections
-Venezuela
-Colombia
-Argentine ambassador [Pedro E. Real]
-Conversation with Connally
	-Democracy compared with stability
-Unknown person
	-Population growth in Brazil
		-In comparison with
	-Bolivia
	-Chile
	-Argentina
		-Time span

International monetary situation
-Latin America
-Canada
-Southeast Asia
-Indonesia
-US economic growth
	-Gross National Product [GNP]
	-Compared to Great Britain
-Indonesia ambassador’s [Suedjatmoko] previous conversation with Connally
-Trudeau dinner
-International organization [International Group for Aid to Indonesia [IGAI]]
-Meeting in Brussels
-Aid amount to Indonesia
-US amount
-Multilateral amount
	-Direct aid
		-Amount
-Japan
-Netherlands
-Germany
	-Proposal to increase aid
-Congress
-World bank
-Cut in aid
		-India
			-Assistance
		-Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto

Connally left at 5:54 pm.

Conversation No. 634-17

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:54 pm and 5:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
-Request for a meeting with an unknown person

Conversation No. 634-18

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:54 pm and 5:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Veto message

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:57 pm.

Conversation No. 634-19

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  5:57 pm - 6:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

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	PAKISTAN

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India-Pakistan situation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Possible results of proposed settlement
		-Optimism
-East Pakistan
-Leonid I. Brezhnev letter
	-Contents of letter
-USSR-US declaration
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-United Nations [UN] Security Council
	-Preparations in case India rejects proposal
-West Pakistan
-Ceasefire
-Bangladesh
	-Potential negotiations between East and West Pakistan leaders
		-Possible independence
-Yahya Khan
-East Pakistan
	-President’s view
-USSR meeting
	-Possible watershed in US-USSR relations
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger's talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Kissinger’s view
-Forthcoming Moscow Summit
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Letter to Brezhnev
	-Timing
-[Vladimir V. Matskevich]
	-Compared to Andrei A. Gromyko
		-Brezhnev
-Brezhnev
	-Pressure during upcoming Moscow Summit

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[Duration:  4s  ]

	CANADA

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-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-UN vote
-Liberal establishment
	-Edward M. Kennedy [?]
-West Pakistan
	-Preservation
-John B. Connally
-President’s instructions to Kissinger
-Indonesia aid
	-Amount
-India
	-Possible repercussions

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[Duration:  44s  ]

	MIDDLE EAST

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		-Indian Ambassador
	-John N. (“Jack”) Irwin, II
-Timing
-[State Department]
-USSR
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG] meeting
	-Timing
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-David Packard
-Helms
-Carrier movement
	-Moorer
-Planes

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			-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Vorontsov
-Haig
	-Comments on the President’s statement

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 6:05 pm.

Veto message

	President’s schedule
	-Defense Department budget meeting
		-Barry M. Goldwater
		-Possible schedule conflicts
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Cabinet Room
	-Previous commitments
	-Melvin R. Laird
		-Location
	-John G. Tower
	-Peter H. Dominick
	-Edward J. Gurney
	-William Clay
	-Proposed talk to Congress
		-Authorization appropriation
			-Amount
			-MacGregor
	-Goldwater
		-Defense budget
			-Conservatives
-USSR
-Amount of time
-Forces
-Laird
-Congress
-Laird
-Proposed time
	-President’s instructions

The President's schedule
-Packard and Moorer

Butterfield left at 6:18 pm.

Defense budget meeting
-Moorer
-Call from Kissinger
	-Packard
-Force level

International monetary situation
-Kissinger's possible meeting with Georges J.R. Pompidou
-The President's talk with Connally
-Valery Giscard D'estaing
-Pompidou
	-Relationship
	-Possible implications in deal with Pompidou
		-Edward R.G. Heath
		-Germany
		-Japan
		-December 18, 1971 meeting
		-Germany
		-Canada
		-Great Britain
			-Possible agenda
-Group of Ten meeting
	-Timing
-President’s instructions
-Price of Gold
-Trade concessions
	-PRC Ambassador
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Azores
-Kissinger's qualifications
	-The President’s confidence in Kissinger
-Andre Meyer
	-Political implications
-Pompidou
	-Possible deal
		-Kissinger’s view
		-Michel Jobert
		-Arthur K. Watson
-Kissinger's talk with Connally
-Germany
-Azores
				-The President’ upcoming meeting with Marcello Jose Neves Alves Caetano
					-Timing
					-Presence at meeting
-Pompidou
	-President’s instructions to Kissinger
	-Connally
		-Pompidou’s time of arrival

	State Department
		-Bureaucracy
	-Treatment of the President
		-News summaries
		-Foreign policy
			-Cambodia and Laos
-North Korea
	-[Response to 1969 EC-121 shootdown]
	-William P. Rogers
	-Laird
		-Possible mis-step by the Administration

	India-Pakistan situation
-Wire to Moscow
	-Answer
-Meeting with USSR
-Ceasefire
-Awami League
-Mujibar Rahman
-West Pakistan
-Losses
	-Bombing of Karachi
-State Department
	-Delhi and Islambad
-US policy
	-Determination
-Comparison with past government [World War I]
-Czar Nicholas II
-German Emperor
-Brezhnev
-Meeting with [Matskevich]
-Toughness from the President
-European Security Conference
-Middle East
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Treaties
-USSR and US
-Israelis against the  Egyptians

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  7s  ]

	MIDDLE EAST

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-USSR-Indian relations
	-Possible reaction
-West Pakistan attack
-India
	-Aid
		-USSR
-1972 election
	-Potential for animosity

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[National Security]
[Duration:  3s  ]

	INDIA

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			-US intellectuals

	Unknown Ambassador

Kissinger left at 6:34 pm.

Conversation No. 634-20

Date:  December 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:36 pm and 6:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

	[Unintelligible]

	The President’s location
		-Residence

	[Unintelligible]

The unknown men [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 6:47 pm.