Conversation No. 637-1

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:32 am and 8:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

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[Duration:  14s  ]

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:38 am.

Conversation No. 637-2

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  8:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-98]

Conversation No. 637-3

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  8:45 am - 9:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

India-Pakistan situation
-Messages
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Leonid I. Brezhnev proposal
	-Acceptance
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Cease-fire
-US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Possible setback
-The president's meeting with Vladimir V. Matskevich

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[National Security]
[Duration:  27s  ]

	INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

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-Public relations
	-Press conferences and backgrounders
	-John A. Scali
	-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Departments
	-Usefulness
-George H.W. Bush
-John A. Scali and Ziegler

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[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 41s  ]

	INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

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-USSR
-Military aid to India
	-Numbers and amounts
-Scali
-Ziegler
-Yahya Khan
	-Alignment with the US
-Kissinger call to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-PRC

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[National Security]
[Duration:  15s  ]

	PRC

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	-Kissinger’s refusal to talk with the PRC
-PRC-USSR
-Comparisons
-Thomas W. Braden article
-Kissinger and the President
-PRC trip
-Kissinger’s previous visit with Roy H. Jenkins
-Jenkins accomplishments
	-Common Market
-Braden
-PRC trip
-Braden’s opinion
-Indian ambassador
	-Press campaign
-East Pakistan
-The President's possible statement
	-Labeling India as the aggressors
-Indians
-Press
	-Susceptibility to public opinion
-Rowland Evans
-USSR support
-Press
-United Nations [UN] vote
-Backgrounder
-Washington Post

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[National Security]
[Duration:  3s  ]

	INDIA

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-The President's statement
	-Kissinger’s disagreement with the President
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Bhutto
-PRC
-Pakistan refugee situation
	-Proposed action
-Indian foreign minister
	-Refusal to grant reassurances
		-Kashmir
-USSR response
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Talk with Kissinger
	-UN Security Council
-Press statement from White House
-UN General Assembly resolution
	-Results
		-India’s refusal to accept
-Kissinger’s meeting at the State Department
	-Timing
-East Pakistan
	-Dacca
-Contents
	-Wording of statement
-Draft
-Backgrounder
-Leaders’ meeting
-Aid to India
-Purpose of statement
	-PRC
	-USSR
	-Indians
	-American public opinion
		-American apathy towards India-Pakistan conflict
-Statement
-Ziegler
-William P. Rogers
-Yahya Khan
-Gandhi
	-Public apathy
-Brezhnev
-Hotline
	-Great Britain
	-Contents
	-Security Council
	-Joint action with the USSR
	-Ceasefire
	-Advantage
		-Urgency
		-Public record
-State Department
-British
-Earl of Cromer [George R.S. Baring]
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home
-USSR Naval presence in the Indian ocean
	-British concern
-Kissinger's talk with Cromer
	-Discussing the President’s options

	[Pause]

India-Pakistan situation
-British and French
-US relations
	-Singapore
	-Indian Ocean
-Cromer
	-US message to the British
-UN Security Council
	-State Department
-Ceasefire and withdrawal
-UN General Assembly resolution
		-Timing
-Ceasefire resolution
-Public statement
-Purpose and importance
	-USSR
	-PRC
	-Bhutto
	-American public opinion
-Rogers
-Ziegler
-Cambodia comparison
-Cromer
-Call from Kissinger
-Importance of discussions with the British
-French
	-Involvement
-USSR
-Hotline
-The President’s meeting with Matskevich
-Vorontsov
	-Possible reply from the USSR
-PRC
-US fleet
-USSR tanks and ships
	-India
		-Lack of response from “liberal” media
		-US policy
	-Comparisons to current situation
	-Czechoslovakia
	-South Africa
		-“Exposure” of liberals
			-Morality

Vietnam negotiations
-Meeting
	-William J. Porter
-Cancellation
	-Duration
-USSR
-North Vietnamese
-Bombing halt
-Kissinger's trip to Paris
	-Peace talks
-Porter
-Public statement
-Paris
-January 1972 announcement
	-Sign of strength
		-Advantages
-PRC trip
-Porter
-Bombing halt
	-Henry Cabot Lodge
	-Unknown person
	-David K.E. Bruce
-American public opinion
	-Percentage of support
-January 1972
-Two months announcement
	-Reasoning for delay
		-Infiltration
-PRC trip
-Prisoners of war [POW] issue
-US troops
	-Numbers
-Porter's return from Paris
	-Immediacy
-January announcement
-North Vietnam
-Strikes
-PRC
-Kissinger
	-UN

India-Pakistan situation
-PRC, USSR, Indians
-Effect of Vietnam bombing
	-Toughness

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[National Security]
[Duration:  3s  ]

	PRC

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-UN
-President’s instructions
	-Deadline

Haig entered at an unknown time after 8:45 am.

-PRC meeting
-New York
	-Timing
		-Kissinger’s availability
-Haig’s schedule
	-Huang Hua

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[National Security]
[Duration:  13s  ]

	PRC

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-Haig’s schedule
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Haig’s schedule
	-Upcoming meeting with Huang Hua
		-Timing
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Azores
-Press release

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[National Security]
[Duration:  4m 18s  ]

	INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

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-Pakistan
-India
-USSR
-Balance of power
	-Possible changes
-Middle East
-Indonesia
-Japanese
-Europeans
-US
	-Latin America
-Television
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Kissinger's schedule
-Azores trip
-Haig
-Attendance at PRC meeting

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[National Security]
[Duration:  5m 55s  ]

	INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

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Kissinger and Haig left at 9:42 am.

Conversation No. 637-4

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  10:26 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's location

Conversation No. 637-5

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  10:26 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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[Duration:  52s  ]

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Conversation No. 637-6

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  10:27 am - 10:37 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

India-Pakistan situation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Message
-Indira Gandhi
-Ceasefire
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger's call to Yuli M. Vorontsov
-United Nations [UN] Security Council
-Soviet message
-Kissinger's talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-The President’s actions described
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Reaction to the President’s action
	-Attitude
-World Wars I and II comparison to current situation
-Adolf Hitler
-Jews
-Allies
-EC-121 shootdown
-Korea comparison to current situation
	-Yalu River
		-Gen. Douglas MacArthur
-Haig
-Vorontsov
-John F. Kennedy treaty
	-Vorontsov’s reaction
-UN
-India
-White House statement
	-Importance
-Kissinger's preparation
	-Timing
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-The President
-Release
	-Timing
-Hotline
	-Contents of hotline
	-USSR message
	-Gandhi
		-Vasily V. Kuznetsov
	-West Pakistan
	-Ceasefire
	-Repatriation of prisoners
	-Andrei A. Gromyko
-PRC
-Maurice H. Stans
	-Trade
-The President's foreign policy
	-Politics
-Bureaucracy
-Congress
-Public opinion
-Camp David
	-Reflections
-The President's talk with Kissinger
-Different men handling India-Pakistan situation
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-John B. Connally
	-Kissinger's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Style as Secretary of the Treasury
	-Pakistan and India
	-Aid cut off
		-Negotiations
			-PRC and USSR
-Vietnam
-Rogers
-Kennedy memorandum
		-Message
			-PRC
				-Letter to Leonid I. Brezhnev
					-Contents
					-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
					-Hotline
					-UN Security Council
						-George H.W. Bush
-Kissinger's schedule
-Final report
-Timing
-The President's schedule

Kissinger left at 10:37 am.

Conversation No. 637-7

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:37 am and 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum for the file [?]

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[Duration:  2m 19s  ]

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Conversation No. 637-8

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:37 am and 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Silver Star
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Delivery to Oval Office
-Placement in Oval Office

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:04 am.

Conversation No. 637-9

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:37 am and 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's schedule
-Press conference [?]
	-State Department
	-Timing
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Ziegler's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming interview with Dan Rather

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:37 am.

Gift from Walter H. Annenberg

-Placement in Oval Office
-Picture of George Washington

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:04 am..

CBS
-Ziegler's talk with Haldeman
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-"A Day in the Life of the President"
-Timing
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Christmas special
	-Timing
-Ziegler's talk with William Small [President, CBS News Division]
-CBS
-NBC
-"A Day in the Life of the President"
-News worthiness
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-News release
	-NBC’s statement
-Leadership meetings
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Henry A. Kissinger meeting
-Cabinet Room
-State dinner
-Pierre E. Trudeau meeting
-Optimism for NBC program
-Ziegler's talk with Charles Colson
-Meeting
-Program for incoming wires and phone calls to NBC
-Number
-Rerun
	-Program defined as historical document
-Middle East
-Anwar el-Sadat
-India/Pakistan situation
-Camera movement
-Ziegler's briefing
-Kissinger

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:04 am.

Conversation No. 637-10

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:37 am and 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-99]

Conversation No. 637-11

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  11:04 am - 11:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and Henry A. Kissinger.

Envelope

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

India-Pakistan situation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] message

-Contacts with Indian Government
-Indira Gandhi

The President talked with Alvin Snyder between 11:05 am and 11:07 am.

[Conversation No. 637-11A]

[See Conversation No. 16-100]

[End of telephone conversation]

India-Pakistan situation
-USSR message
-Gandhi
-Military Action
-Pakistan Government

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:07 am.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

India-Pakistan situation
-Indian government
-Military action
-Statement
-Hotline message to Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Contents
-Vladimir V. Matskevich
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-United Nations [UN Security Council
-Wording
	-Emphasis on urgency
		-Possible settlement
		-PRC
		-UN Security Council
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Talk with Kissinger
-Wording
-Public statement
-Indians
-Bureaucracy
-PRC
-USSR
-Indians
-World opinion
			-Kissinger’s possible comments
-Hotline
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Vorontsov
-William P. Rogers

The President's and Kissinger's schedule

Kissinger left at 11:14 am.

Conversation No. 637-18

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 am and 12:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] entered.

	[Unintelligible]

	The President’s location
		-West Wing

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 637-18A]

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[Duration:  6s  ]

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[End of telephone conversation]

	[Unintelligible]

	The President’s location
		-Residence

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 12:04 pm

Conversation No. 637-12

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 am and 12:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  8s  ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:04 pm.

Conversation No. 637-13

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 am and 12:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  5s  ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:04 pm.

Conversation No. 637-14

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  12:04 pm - 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Meeting
	-Henry A. Kissinger

Butterfield left at 12:06 pm.

Conversation No. 637-15

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:06 pm and 12:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:22 pm.

Conversation No. 637-16

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:06 pm and 12:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
	-Unknown person

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:22 pm.

Conversation No. 637-17

Date:  December 12, 1971
Time:  12:22 pm - 12:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Location of items

The President's schedule

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:22 pm.

[Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s] schedule

The President's schedule
-Airplane

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:26 pm.

The President's schedule
	-Airplane
		-Talk

Butterfield left at 12:26 pm.