Conversation No. 638-1

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:38 am and 8:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with an unknown person

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:45 am.

Conversation No. 638-2

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:38 am and 8:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-103]

Conversation No. 638-3

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:38 am and 8:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:45 am.

Conversation No. 638-4

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  8:45 am - 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Television program

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The President's schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Staff meeting
-John B. Connally

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:45 am.

Pens

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:49 am.

Azores trip
-Media coverage

-Hobart Rowen
-Connally
	-Airport statement

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 8:45 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Connally
-Timing
-Availability of the President

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 8:49 am.

Azores trips
-Media coverage
-Devaluation of the dollar
-Effects
	-US consumers

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 8:49 am.

Oval Office
-Decoration
	-“Star of the President”

The President talked with the White House operator at 8:49 am.

Margaret Chase Smith's location

[End of telephone conversation]

Oval Office
-Decoration
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Steuben glass
-Presidential seal

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-“Star of the President”
-Location in office
-Birds

Azores trip
-Media coverage
-“Today Show” and “Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] Morning News”
-Explanation of devaluation
-Effects
	-Prices
	-Jobs
-CBS interview of Connally
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-British
-Japanese
-Germans
-Geroge R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Talk with Kissinger
-United Nations [UN] Security Council Resolution
-Comments
	-Earl of Cromer’s location
-Edward R.G. Heath
-French and US
-Germans and Italians
-George P. Shultz
-Talk with Kissinger
-Convertibility
-Talk with Connally
-Peter G. Peterson
-Arthur F. Burns
-Kissinger's talk with Connally
-Meeting
-Convertibility
	-Numbers
-Pompidou
-Agreement
-French
-Numbers
-Concessions
-Pompidou
-Note about US reaction
-Press
-Joseph C. Kraft
	-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-Reaction to coverage
-French
-“Azores Doctrine”
-“Guam Doctrine”
	-Difference in policy
-Dan Rather
-Comments
-"Guam Doctrine"
	-Editorials
-Rowen
-Stock Market
-Effect of agreement
-Communiqué
-Pompidou
-Connally
	-Status of the dollar
		-England
		-Italy
		-Japan
-Pompidou
-"Group of Ten" meeting
	-Devaluation
-Briefing
-Connally’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Rather [?]
-John A. Scali
-Preparation for questions
-Kissinger
-Pompidou
-Connally
-Praise from Kissinger
-Role
-Liaison with Congress
-Meeting with leadership
	-Clark MacGregor

President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Congressional meeting
-Connally
	-Percentage of work

India-Pakistan situation
-British resolution
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] assurances
-West Pakistan
	-No military attack
-US strategy
	-UN
-Possible letter exchange
-Leonid I. Brezhnev and the President
-Effect on People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-West Pakistan
-Summit meeting
-Media coverage
	-CBS
-USSR
-Indians
-PRC
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Brezhnev
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ziegler
-Coverage of Summit
-Brezhnev
-Pakistan
-USSR guarantee
-Vorontsov
-Dividing line
-Formalization

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	INDIA

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:49 am.

Smith
-Incoming call

Bull left at 9:12 am.

The President talked with Smith between 9:12 am and 9:14 am.

[Conversation No. 638-4A]

[See Conversation No. 16-103; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Azores meeting
-Kissinger comments
-New York Times story
-Tad Szulc
-Pompidou
-Terms discussed
-Percentage of devaluation
-Germans, Japanese, and French
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Connally
-Kissinger opinion
-Shultz proposal
-Germany
	-Possible settlement
-Gold prices
-French
-Japanese
-Finance Minister
	-Timing
-Peterson report
-Pompidou
-Possible written statement
-Heath
-Pompidou
-“Group of Ten” meeting
-President's stature in Europe
-President's trips to New York and Paris
-French and US relations
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Pompidou
-Maurice Schumann

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	FRANCE

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-Pompidou
-Upcoming American elections
-George H. Gallup polls

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-Media coverage
-Compared to John F. Kennedy
-Nixon Doctrine

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am.

President's schedule
-Connally meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:28 am.

The President's schedule
	-Florida

Connally entered at 9:28 am.

Schedule

Azores meeting
	-Public relations
-Media coverage
-Ziegler
-Scali
	-Upcoming meeting with Connally
-President's instructions about questions
-Publicity 
	-Haldeman’s opinion
-Compared to "Guam Doctrine"
-CBS coverage
	-Rather
-Rowen
-Devaluation of the dollar
-NBC
-Connally interview with Irving R. Levine
-Price rises
-Jobs
-Ziegler
-Scali
-Devaluation
-Trade with Europe
	-US progress
-Improvement of American competitive position
-Devaluation
-Imports
-American goods
	-Prospects for the future
-Need for modesty
-US position
-Consideration for US trade partners
-Possibility of recession abroad
-Earl of Cromer
	-Recent conversation with Kissinger
-UN Security Council Resolution
-President’s instructions
	-Connally’s upcoming conversation with the Earl of Cromer
-Karl Schiller
	-Quoted in the newspaper
-Need for another meeting
-Willy Brandt
	-Relationship with Schiller
	-Nobel Prize

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	WEST GERMANY

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-Schiller
-Brandt
	-Future meeting with the President
-Pompidou

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	WEST GERMANY

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-Congress
-Henry S. Reuss
-Possible Action
-MacGregor
-Briefing
-Reuss
-Jacob K. Javits
-Authority to devaluate
-Trade terms
	-Potential problems
		-Convertibility
-Pompidou
-Congress
-Strategy
-Resolution of authority
-Trade concessions
-Banking and Currency Committee
-Finance
-Ways and Means Committee
-Paul A. Volcker
	-Inclusion
-Briefing
-Schedule
-Convertibility
-Strategy
-Convertibility
-Agreement
-Recessions and depressions
-World trade
-Camp David
-Burns
	-Predictions
-Stock exchange
-Agreement
-Briefing
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-Herbert Stein
-Burns
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Foreign Affairs Committee in Congress
-J. William Fulbright
	-Involvement in briefing
-India-Pakistan situation
-Haldeman's call to William P. Rogers
	-Macgregor and Connally
-Ways and Means Committee
-Nathaniel Samuels
-Volcker
	-Haldeman’s call to Rogers
		-State Department’s involvement
-Ziegler
-Scali
-William D. Eberle
-Directive about public statements
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Carl B. Albert
-Michael J. Farrell

Haldeman left at 9:47 am.

-Public statements
-Treasury Department
-Press
-Trade
	-Tobacco
	-Citrus
-Pompidou
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Tobacco
-Grain
-Germans
-Need for his assistance
-Canadians
-Connally's role
	-Credit for the President

Connally's schedule
-Call to Germany
-Schiller meeting
	-Timing
-Breakfast
-Communications with Egon Bahr

Child care bill
-Media
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr. column
-News summary
-President's use
-Dallas
-Chicago
-Washington Post
-Kilpatrick
-Column 

Azores meeting
-Connally
-Strategy
-Ziegler
-Scali
-Assistance to Connally
-Future
-Jobs
-NBC interview
-Convertibility
-Pompidou
-Shultz
-Instructions
-Conversations with Connally and Kissinger
-Views

Haldeman entered at 9:55 am.

-Levine
	-Previous conversation with Connally
-Pompidou
-Congress
-Agenda
-Trade
-Revaluation of exchange rates
-Political strategy
	-Inflation
	-International monetary conditions
	-Employment
-US leadership
		-President’s instructions
-Public relations
-US world position since World War II
-Finance
-Monetary importance
	-The President’s August 15, 1971 statement
	-Press coverage
-European reaction
-Need for co-operation
	-Importance
-Pompidou
-European position
-Germany
-Jobs
-Results of meeting
-Time lag
-Currency realignment
	-1972 election
-Impact of trade changes
-Burden sharing

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:55 am.

President's schedule
-Congressional briefing
	-Peterson
-Ziegler
-Scali

Haldeman, Kissinger, and Butterfield left at 10:00 am.

Azores meeting
-Connally
-Credit for the President
-August 15, 1971 actions

Briefing
	-The President’s August 15, 1971 statement
-World markets
	-Convertibility
	-Jobs in Germany, France, and the US
-Effects on trade
-Need to improve US position
-Attitudes of Europeans
-Economics
-Vitality of all participants
	-Importance to US interests
-US stance
-Toughness
-Purpose
-Upcoming agreements
-Japan
-Canada
-Europe
-Devaluation of the dollar
	-Scali
-Possible comments by the President
-German deutschemark
-August 15, 1971 actions
-Wage and price controls
-Implications for the future of US currency
-Explanation of US position
-Scali
	-Location

Haldeman entered at 10:01 am.

-Photograph
-Scali

Ziegler entered at 10:02 am.

President’s instructions
-Need for unity
-Sensitivity of issues
-Connally
-Scali
-Need for open communication
-Timing

Scali entered at 10:05 am.

-Press coverage
-Upcoming negotiations
-Need for White House clearance of remarks
-Connally
-Wage and price freeze
-Taxes
-International monetary situation
-President's accomplishments
	-Historical context
-Timing
	-The President’s August 15, 1971 statement
-Economic policy
-Inflation
	-Phase I and II
-Jobs
	-Tax incentive
-International monetary situation
	-Chances for success
-Devaluation
	-Meaning
-Effect on US goods and jobs
-Reasons 
-US monetary situation since World War II
-Compared to other countries
-US dollar overvalued
-Trade situation
-Effect of monetary reform
-Timing
-Results of Azores meeting
-President's leadership stressed

Kissinger entered at 10:13 am.

-"Azores Doctrine"
	-Corollary to “Guam Doctrine”
		-Mutuality and burdensharing
-US role in meeting
-Nationalism
-Effects in Europe
	-Burns’s view
	-Instability
		-Possible recession
-US responsibility
	-Spending
-Freedom
-Stability
-European viewpoint
-Pompidou
	-Perceived victory

Azores meeting
-Dealing with the Germans and Japanese
-National interests
-Reasons for US involvement
-Offset agreement
-Major currency realignment
-Trade concessions
-Realignment
	-Fairness to US dollar
-Pompidou
-Result for France
	-Washington Star article
		-George Sherman
-Heath's upcoming visit
-Pompidou
	-Previous conversation with the President
		-Simile
			-Lebanese
				-United Press International [UPI]
					-Helen A. Thomas
-France
	-Victory in devaluation
-Attitude toward gold
-Press
-Kissinger's opinion
-US objectives
-US results
-French results
-Ideology
-Gold prices
-World market prices
-Raising of price
-French viewpoint
-Connally's opinion
-Hoarding
	-History
		-French Revolution
-Kissinger's opinion
-Attitude toward own currency
-PRC
-View of money
	-Methods
-French
-View of gold
	-Pompidou
		-Forthcoming election
-Relative revaluation
	-Connally’s backgrounder
-US position compared to French position
-Devaluation
-Revaluation

	President’s instructions
-Volcker
-Reuss
-William Proxmire
-Javits
-Democrats
-View of agreement
	-Possible change
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Revaluation
-Effects internationally
-Prices
-Jobs
-Prices abroad
-US product prices
-Effects in the US
-Common Market
-Japan
-Effects on dollar
-Vulnerability and strength
-Realignment of world currencies
-Effects
	-Competitiveness of US goods
-Revaluation
-Semantics
-France
-Connally
-Work toward agreement
-Recommendations
-Negotiations
-President's comments about agreement
-Pompidou
-Great Britain
-US economy
-Compared to other Western powers
	-Germany and Japan
-Results
	-Credit
		-Connally
-Friday meeting with Connally
	-Instructions

Connally, Scali, and Kissinger left at 10:38 am.

USSR summit
-Press coverage
-Ziegler’s previous conversation with Haig and Kissinger
-India
-USSR 
-Ziegler's strategy
-Kissinger

Haldeman talked with Kissinger [?] at an unknown time between 10:38 am and 10:41 am.

[Conversation No. 638-4B]

Requested Kissinger return to the Oval Office

[End of telephone conversation]

-India-Pakistan
-USSR role
-UN
-Effect on negotiations
	-Potential problems

West Coast dock strike
	-Timing of statement
-Settlement from President
-Possible questions
-Congress
-Legislation
-Need for legislation
-Shultz's, Charles W. Colson's opinion
-Farm belt opinion
-Need for transportation legislation
-Strategy
	-Ziegler’s opinion
-Congressional action

Kissinger entered at 10:41 am.

India-Pakistan situation
-Ziegler strategy
-USSR Summit
-Possible effect
	-Kissinger’s comments to the press
-Negotiations
	-Potential for success
-Administration plans
-Rogers
-Effect on negotiations with USSR
-USSR Summit
-Cancellation possibilities
-Kissinger's remarks
-The President’s remarks
-PRC
-Vorontsov
-Meeting with Kissinger

Azores meeting
-Connally
-Compared to rest of Cabinet
-Credit
-Pompidou
-Upcoming Group of Ten meeting
-Publicity
-Negotiations
-Press
-Szulc
-Reaction
-Pompidou
-European press
-Germans
-European press compared to US press
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Skip Isaacs

Ziegler left at 10:54 am.

Release of Richard G. Fecteau from PRC
-Kissinger
-Call to Edward W. Brooke and Edward M. Kennedy
-Kennedy
	-Statement
-Human interest story
-Confinement
	-Amount of time
		-Fecteau and Mary Ann Herbert
-Effect on prisoners of war [POW] wives
-Mao Tse-Tung
-John T. Downey
	-Sentence commutation

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	INTELLIGENCE

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-Effect on POWs

Kissinger's appointment with Vorontsov
	-Timing
-UN Security Council resolution
-Brezhnev letter
-Request for letter about Pakistan USSR intention
-Effect on PRC
	-Possible outcome
-Exchange of letters
-PRC
-USSR
-PRC

Personnel
-Scali
-Future assignments
-Ziegler
-Scali
-Importance of public relations
-Reliability
-Compared to Ziegler
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
	-Desire to get into Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
		-Abilities
-Kissinger’s forthcoming talk with Haldeman
-State Department
-William L. Safire
-Scali
-President's personnel philosophy

India-Pakistan relations
	-Summit with the USSR
		-Possible cancellation
			-Kissinger’s comments
-British resolution
-Strategy
-Opposition
-USSR
-PRC
-Indians
-US conservatives

President's schedule
-Briefing
-Kissinger's memorandum
	-Connally’s talking points

Kissinger's meeting with Vorontsov
	-Timing
		-Connally

Kissinger left at 11:05 am.

USSR Summit
	-Kissinger’s comments

President's schedule
-Florida
	-Length of visit
-Time interview
	-Time and location
-Press conference
-Value-added tax [VAT]

Connally
-Negotiations
-Pompidou
		-Style

Kissinger

VAT
-Press coverage
-Magazines
-Joseph W. Alsop story
-Property taxes
-Sales taxes
	-Effect on the poor

	President’s schedule
		-Press conference
-Questions and answers [Q&A]
-Vietnam announcement
	-Timing
-Public opinion
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Heath meeting
-Brandt meeting
-Group of Ten meeting
	-Location
-Connally’s schedule
	-Heath meeting
-Florida
	-Weather
-Camp David
-India-Pakistan relations
	-Kissinger
-Public opinion
-Meeting with Congress

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:05 am.

-Gifts
-Money clips
	-Symbolism
-Need for new gifts
	-Placement of gifts
	-Recipients of gifts

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman meeting
-Anti-trust action on television networks
-Ehrlichman’s location
-Bill signings
-National Cancer Act of 1971
-Economic Stabilization Act Amendments of 1971
-Alaska claims
-Congress
	-Timing of bill signings
-Peterson memorandum
-Commerce Department
-Jobs
-Budget
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Ehrlichman
-Possible passage
-“A Day in the Life of the President”
-Music
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Suggestions
		-Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Liszt
-Rose Mary Woods
-“Swan Lake” and “Sleeping Beauty”
	-Eugene Ormandy
	-London Symphony Orchestra
	-Russians
-Departure for Florida

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:05 am and 11:22 am.

[Conversation No. 638-4C]

[See Conversation No. 16-104]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Congress
-Bill signing
-Budget

The President talked with Julie Eisenhower between 11:22 am and 11:25 am.

[Conversation No. 638-4D]

[See Conversation No. 16-105; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Time-Life interview
-Scheduling
	-Hedley W. Donovan
	-Church service
-Location
	-Lincoln Sitting Room
-Staff open house
	-Christmas decorating
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Florida
-Meeting with Congressional leaders
	-Helicopter
	-Possible duration
		-Connally

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:25 am.

			-Agnew
			-MacGregor and an unknown person

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

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The President’s schedule
	-Forthcoming Congressional meeting
		-MacGregor
		-William E. Timmons

Haldeman left at 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 638-5

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  11:33 am - 11:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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	The President’s schedule
-Florida

	[Unintelligible]

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Washington Post coverage
-White House decorations
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Green Room
		-Kennedys
-Mrs. Nixon

	Decorations
-Oval Office
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-State gifts
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-“Star of the President” crystal

President's schedule

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Woods's schedule
-Dinner party
-Maurice H. Stans
-John A. Volpe
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Clark MacGregor
-Earl L. Butz
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-John N. Mitchell
	-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Elliot L. and Anne F. Richardson
-George P. and Helena (“Obie”) Shultz
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:33 am.

President's schedule
-Meeting with Congress
-William L. Safire
-Upcoming Presidential election

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:45 am.

Future of country
-Democrats

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Woods's dinner party
	-Tone
	-George W. and Lenore L. Romney

Azores meeting
		-Letter to Portuguese Prime Minister [Dr. Marcello Jose des Neves Alves Caetano] and Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Aldrich, Jr.
-Gifts

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Azores meeting
-Significance
-Devaluation
-Jobs
-News reports

Woods left at 11:45 am.

Conversation No. 638-6

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  11:45 am - 11:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-Bill signing
	-Forthcoming trip
		-Helicopter
	-Forthcoming meeting

Butterfield left at 11:46 am.

Conversation No. 638-7

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  11:51 am - 11:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting

Butterfield left at 11:52 am.

Conversation No. 638-8

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  11:55 am - 12:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Press
-Sports
	-George E. Allen
-John A. Scali
-George W. Romney
-Washington Redskins
	-Turning point in season
		-President’s visit to Redskins Park, November 23, 1971
-Richard A. Moore
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Scali
-[Forename unknown] Bethe [?]
	-Forthcoming article

-Allen
	-Praise
-Los Angeles Rams

President's schedule
-Meeting with Congress
-William P. Rogers
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Money
-Nathaniel Samuels
-Upcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-California
	-Press
	-Hawaii
	-Guam
	-California
	-Hawaii
	-Nelson A. Rockefeller house
	-Length of visit
	-California
	-Send off
	-Hawaii
	-Guam
	-Nimitz house
	-Guam Doctrine
	-California
	-Hawaii
	-Guam
	-Wake Island
	-Formal departure from the White House
	-Los Angeles Times
	-Hawaii
		-Weather
	-Accommodations
	-Maui
	-Rockefeller house
	-Guam
	-Oahu
		-Commander in Chief, Pacific [CINCPAC]

Haldeman left at 12:02 pm.

Conversation No. 638-9

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:02 pm and 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Congressional briefing
-Wilbur D. Mills
-John W. Byrnes
-Russell B. Long
	-Long

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm.

Conversation No. 638-10

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:02 pm and 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Asks that Paul A. Volcker come to the Oval Office

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm. 

Conversation No. 638-11

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:02 pm and 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm.

Conversation No. 638-12

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  12:06 pm - 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Paul A. Volcker and an unknown man.

US monetary crisis
	-Recent history
-Speech

Volcker and the unknown man left at 12:07 pm.

Conversation No. 638-14

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:07 pm and 1:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 638-14A]

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[End of telephone conversation]

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

Conversation No. 638-13

Date:  December 15, 1971
Time:  1:22 pm - 1:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
[The recording begins while the conversation is already in progress]

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 1:22 pm.

[Conversation No. 638-13A]

President's schedule
-Departure
-John D. Ehrlichman

[End of telephone conversation]

		-Bill signing
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson entered at 1:24 pm.

Media
-Networks
-Antitrust action
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-John N. Mitchell
-CBS
-Removal of Richard S. Salant
-Reorganization

Butterfield left at 1:26 pm.

-Value-added tax [VAT]
	-Haldeman
-Coverage 
-Strategy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Muskie
-Position

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Stephen B. Bull entered and left at an unknown time after 1:26 pm.

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Supersonic transport [SST]
-John B. Connally
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Reaction
-Congress
-Strategy
-Outside petitions
-Budget
-Research
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-Sputnik
-Boeing

	[Background noise]

George Meany
-Health
-Note from the President
-Christmas
	-Hopes for a speedy recovery

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Azores meeting
	-Results
	-France
	-Possible staff reaction
	-France
	-Germans and Japanese
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Publicity
	-Connally
-“New Economic Policy”
	-John A. Scali and Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Kissinger
	-Role 

President's economic policy
-Machine tool industry
-Retail sales
-Trend 
-Effect of weather and holiday season
-New York Times article
	-[Forename unknown] Solomon
-Unemployment
-Unknown Georgetown University professor
-Washington Post article
-Support for the President’s policies
-Information for supporters
-Dissemination
	-Talking point
-Spiro T. Agnew speech
-Muskie
-John F. Kennedy
-House Resolution [H R] 1
	-Herman E. Talmadge
	-Social Security
	-Work requirements
	-Aid to dependent children
-Conservatives
-Possible veto
	-Congress
	-Wayne L. Hayes

President's schedule
-Bill signing
	-Cancer
	-Congress’s schedule
	-Michael J. Mansfield
-Visit to Redskins Park, November 23, 1971
	-The President’s conversation with Haldeman
	-Effect on the Washington Redskins

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Christmas season
	-Effect on the staff
-Administration's generation of news

State of the Union address
-President's schedule

“A Day in the Life of the President”
	-Washington Star article
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Christmas tree and decorations
-Christmas message
-CBS
	-Timing

	Staff

Ehrlichman and Colson left at 1:45 pm.