Conversation No. 639-1

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:37 pm and 12:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Press picture
-Butterfield's call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:42 pm.

Conversation No. 639-2

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:37 pm and 12:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-106]

Conversation No. 639-3

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:37 pm and 12:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 639-4

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  12:42 pm - 12:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 16-107]

Conversation No. 639-5

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  12:43 pm - 12:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

President’s schedule

The President talked with the White House operator at 12:43 pm.

[Conversation No. 639-5A]

[See Conversation No. 16-108]

[End of telephone conversation]

John D. Ehrlichman

Meetings

Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
	-Woods’s location

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat) Nixon between 12:44 pm and 12:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 639-5B]

[See Conversation No. 16-109; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Christmas cards
-Messages

The President's schedule
-Football
	-Robert K. Gray
	-Binoculars
-Church
-Weather
-Bermuda
	-Florida
	-Christmas

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:45 pm.

President’s schedule

Signing papers

Questions and answers sheet

[Pause]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm.

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Woods left at 12:50 pm.

Conversation No. 639-6

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  12:50 pm - 1:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

John B. Connally
	-Schedule
		-The President’s schedule

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:50 pm and 1:09 pm.

[Conversation No. 639-6A]

Connally's return

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Cabinet dinner
-Rose Mary Woods
	-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-Former members
	-Clifford M. Hardin
	-Maurice H. Stans
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Invited guests
	-List
-Staff members
-Leonard Garment
-Herbert G. Klein
-Arthur F. Burns
-Dr. John A. Hannah
-Robert J. Dole
-Woods
-Date
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Charles W. Colson
-Woods
	-Mrs. Nixon
-Telephone calls
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
	-President’s Christmas message [?]
-Press gathering
-New Year's Eve
-Christmas Eve
-Planning
-Connally
-Talk with Haldeman

Haldeman left at 1:09 pm.

Conversation No. 639-7

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:09 pm and 1:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[Unintelligible]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:11 pm.

Conversation No. 639-8

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:09 pm and 1:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Meeting with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:11 pm.

Conversation No. 639-9

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  1:11 pm - 1:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig’s schedule

Pakistan
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Press photograph
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
	-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Bhutto
-President's schedule
-Length of Bhutto meeting
-Group of Ten meeting
	-Timing
	-John B. Connally
-West Pakistan
-Haig
-Kashmir
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] ships
-Missile ships
-Karachi
-Student feelings towards Yahya Khan
-Ceasefire
-Attitude toward US and People’s Republic of China [PRC]

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	PRC

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-USSR-PRC relations
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Visit with PRC Ambassador in Paris
-US actions

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	SRI LANKA

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-Relations with US
-PRC
-USSR
-Henry A. Kissigner statement
-United Nations [UN] veto
	-USSR reaction

India
-Reply to Indira Gandhi
-Haig
-Indian Ambassador
-William P. Rogers
-Ziegler
	-Timing of release
-Kissinger
-US commitment

India-Pakistan relations
	-Current conditions
		-Ceasefire

	US-USSR relations
-Possible strategy
	-Ceasefire
		-US policy
	-Peacemaking
	-Gandhi

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[Duration:  15s  ]

	INDIA

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Vietnam
-Enemy activity
-Laos
-Cambodia
-US losses
-Planes
	-T-28’s
	-F4’s
		-Mikoyan-Gurevich [MIGs]
	-Surface to Air Missiles [SAMs]
-US strategy
	-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Kissinger
-Implementation of plan
	-Timing
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Ziegler
-Post-Christmas attack
-Willy Brandt
-Kissinger
-USSR

Cuba
-Panama
-US strategy

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[Duration:  2m 3s  ]

	INTELLIGENCE

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USSR
-Dialogue with US
-Ziegler

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 1:28 pm.

Monetary meeting
-Status of agreement
-John B. Connally
-Canadians
-Japanese
-Trade
-Schedule
-Status
-Germans
-Karl Schiller
-Brandt
-Italians
-Devaluation
	-Number
-Italian election
-French
-Great Britain
-Maurice Schumann
	-Location
-French

Haig left at 1:31 pm.

-Connally
-Possible need for new meeting
-Italian election
-Stock Market
-Japanese
-Canadians
-Germans
-Kissinger
	-Upcoming call to Egon Bahr
		-Brandt
-Progress 
-President's view
-Possible statement
-Strategy
-Canadians

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:31 pm and 1:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 639-9A]

[See Conversation No.16-110]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at 1:34 pm.

Conversation No. 639-10

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:34 pm and 1:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:36 pm.

Conversation No. 639-11

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  1:36 pm - 2:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nawabzada Am Raza, and Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

[General conversation]

Photograph

President's schedule
-John B. Connally call

Pakistan
-US position
-United Nations [UN]
	-Bhutto’s speech
-Bhutto expresses appreciation for US support
-Bhutto previous meeting with the President
-President's visit to Pakistan in 1964
-Refreshments

Telephone call for President

The President left at 1:40 pm.

President's schedule
-Group of Ten meeting

	Oval Office
		-Change
\
Manolo Sanchez entered at 1:40 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:46 pm.

	[General conversation]

President's schedule
	-President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-Timing
		-Press corps

	Bhutto’s schedule
		-Rome
		-Paris

South Asia
-US embassy
-Reports
-Fighting in west
-Students
-[Unintelligible]

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[Duration:  22s  ]

	BANGLADESH

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-[Unintelligible]
-Japanese surrender
	-US forces
-French surrender to Germans

The president entered at 1:46 pm.

President's schedule
-Connally
-International monetary situation

	Bhutto’s schedule
		-Rawalpindi
		-Rome

India-Pakistan relations
-Post-war difficulties
-Occupation by force
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Middle East
-German occupation
-Joseph Stalin’s comment
-US position
-Reasons
-Time and the New York Times
-Press reaction
-US rationale and justification
-Anti-aggression
-Internal affairs
-Balance of power
-Vietnam
-Future of Pakistan
	-In possible contrast
		-India
		-Burma
		-Ceylon
		-USSR
-President’s opinion
-PRC position in Indian Sub-continent
-PRC
-Ability 
-Resources
-Support
-Concern over violence
-Territorial integrity
-Ceasefire
-Military aid
	-Congress
-Economic aid to Pakistan
-Attitudes 
-Changes needed in Pakistan
	“Live and let live” society
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Physical damage
	-Karachi
	-Haig
-Negotiations
-Possibilities discussed
-US position

	[Unintelligible]

-Role of the UN
-Humanitarian concerns
-Possible difficulties
-US aid to Pakistan
-Amount comparison
-Kashmir

	[Unintelligible]

-Ceasefire

	[Unintelligible]

-Help to achieve peace
	-President’s advice to Bhutto
-[Unintelligible]
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Nixon Doctrine
-Need for self-help
-USSR
-PRC
-Need for dialogue

President's upcoming campaign

Gifts
	-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan

Christmas celebrities
	-Plans on Christmas Eve [?]

1960 election

Bhutto, Raza, and Haig left at 2:06 pm.

Conversation No. 639-12

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:06 pm and 2:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 639-13

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:06 pm and 2:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Meeting with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 639-14

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  2:10 pm - 2:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Gen. Alexander M. Haig. Jr.

	The President’s schedule
		-Recent meeting with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Pakistan
-United Nations [UN]
	-Bhutto’s speech

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	PAKISTAN

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-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Toughness
-Future with US
	-Possible outcome
-George H.W. Bush
-Feelings toward US
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

	[Unintelligible]

-Effect on US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
	-President’s opinion
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Need for discretion
	-US role
-Outcome of conflict

Middle East
	-Haig’s opinion
	-Possible trouble spots
-Egypt
-USSR involvement
-Kissinger
-Egyptian arms
-USSR air coverage

South Asia
	-Gains in the Middle East

Middle East
-Negotiations
-State Department
-Egypt
	-Possible frustrations

Pakistan
-USSR action
-Restraint
-Kissinger's role
-USSR view
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Meeting with USSR Agriculture Minister
-USSR-India relations
-Dacca

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[Duration:  25s  ]

	INDIA

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-[Unintelligible]
-US position towards the USSR
-PRC role
-US plans
-USSR and PRC
-John A. Scali

Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Objections
-Laos
-Cambodia
	-Possibility for internal collapse
-Cambodia
-Gen. Lon Nol
-Health
-South Vietnam
-Unknown leader 
-Forces 
	-Chup
		-Regiment 271
			-Rout 6
-Strategy
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] [South Vietnam]
-Air power
-ARVN
-Cambodians
-US strategy
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Post-Christmas offensive
-Air fields
	-Mikoyan-Gurevich [MIGs]
-Military targets
	-Vinh
-Off-shore forces
	-South Vietnam
-Paris talks
-Postponement
-Enemy initiative
	-Propaganda
-William J. Porter
-Performance 
-Strategy
	-Propaganda
		-Analogy to Korean War

PRC
-PRC and USSR involvement
-Effect of India-Pakistan conflict
-US-PRC relations
	-Strengthening of relations
-Laos
-Cambodia
	-Possible beneficial effects

Haig left at 2:31 pm.

Conversation No. 639-31

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:31 pm and 5:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	The President’s location
		-Executive Office Building [EOB]

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 639-15

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:12 pm.

Conversation No. 639-16

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Phone call to John B. Connally
-Bill signing
-Departure for New York City
-Timing
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Connally
-Smithsonian Institute
-Press release
-Helipad

President’s schedule
	-Possible statement in New York City

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:12 pm.

Conversation No. 639-17

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

President’s schedule

Conversation No. 639-18

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  5:12 pm - 5:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird conference with Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Enemy activity
-Plane losses
-Announcement from Saigon
-Strategy
-Schedule
-Laos
-Enemy activity 
		-Timing
-US offensive
-Laos
-Enemy activity in Northern Laos
-US offensive in Laos
	-Possible setbacks
		-Firebases
			-Meo irregulars
-Timing
	-Congress
-India-Pakistan
			-Message to People’s Republic of China [PRC], Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and Europe
-Impact
-Laird
	-Enthusiasm
-Weather
	-Possible impact on offensive
-Number of sorties

-Strategy
	-B-52’s
	-“Cave busters”

India
-Indira Gandhi's letter
-Publicity
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Tone

	USSR
		-John A. Scali
		-Ziegler

Haig left at 5:20 pm.

Conversation No. 639-19

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:20 pm and 5:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-117]

Conversation No. 639-20

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  5:26 pm - 5:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 16-118]

Conversation No. 639-21

Date:  December 18, 1971
Time:  5:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Smithsonian Institute
	Departure
	-Timing
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Press
	-Car

Bull left at 5:28 pm.

Conversation No. 639-22

Date:  December 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:43 pm and 5:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Time magazine interview
	-Cameras

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.

Conversation No. 639-23

Date:  December 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:43 pm and 5:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Request for fire in fireplace [?]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.

Conversation No. 639-24

Date:  December 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:43 pm and 5:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
	-Forthcoming interview

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.

Conversation No. 639-25

Date:  December 19, 1971
Time:  5:03 pm - 6:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Jerrold L. Schecter, Hugh S. Sidey, Hedley W. Donovan, and Henry A. Grunwald; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

General conversation

The President’s term
	-Appraisal
	-Franklin D. Roosevelt
	-War
	-January 1969
		-US economy

Vietnam
-US role

Middle East

New York City

Vietnam

1969
	-Historical context

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Communication with US

Vietnam

US world role
	-Protector

Domestic issues
-Economic policy
-Inflation
-Housing
-Future price rises
-Comparison to 1971
-Jobs
-Inflation
-Monetary policy
-Meeting with Europeans
-Convertibility of the dollar [?]
-Environment
-Drugs
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare
	-Work requirements
-Health
-Government reorganization

Decisions made by the President
-PRC overture
	-Importance
-Economic policy
-Inflation
-Jobs
-International monetary crisis
-US role
-Free market economy
-American economy 
	-Probable outlook
		-Phase II
-Predictions for 1972 economy
-Controls
-Confidence
-Inflation
-Wage-price controls
-Support of US citizens
-Importance
	-Success of controls
-Inflation
-Decontrol
-American people 
	-Commitment to control inflation

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]-US relations
-Upcoming summit
	-Berlin
	-Seabeds
	-Biological and accidental war
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-South Asia
	-Middle East
-President’s upcoming trip to PRC
-South Asia
-India-Pakistan conflict
	-Ceasefire
-Areas of agreement between US and USSR
-Berlin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Arms control

India-Pakistan conflict
-India operations in East Pakistan and West Pakistan
-Strategy
	-Reports
-[Unintelligible]
-US role

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[Duration:  3m 38s  ]

	INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

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PRC
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Brezhnev

US foreign policy
-Thought and care exercised
-PRC trip
	-Purpose
-USSR trip
	-Purpose
-Long-term

Upcoming election
-Foreign and domestic policy
	-Fulfillment of objectives
-Congress
-Democratic majority
-President's plans
-Opposition candidates
-Involvement in issues
-PRC
-USSR
-Vietnam
	-Successful conclusion
-Domestic programs
	-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Tax reform
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Expression of support
	-Praise for Agnew
-Democrats' nominee
	-President’s opinion
-Past elections
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Majority president
-John F. Kennedy
-Democrats' nominee
-Potential candidates 
-Issues
-Vietnam
-Economy
-Cities
-Youth
-Race relations
-Vietnam

Vietnam
-End of war
-Understanding
-Historical view
	-Possible outcome
	-USSR
	-PRC

US-USSR relations
-Middle East
	-Israel
	-Oil
	-Africa
-South Asia
-Cambodia
-Laos
-PRC
-Summit meeting
-Need for peace
-Differences

US-PRC relations
	-Possible future of relations
-Vietnam
-Korea
-Japan
-Power 
-PRC

Need for charismatic leader
-Types of leaders
	-Characteristics
-Need for experience

President's administration
-Type of leadership
-President's style
-Need for confidence in leadership
-PRC and USSR announcements
-The President’s August 15, 1971 speech
-PRC announcement
-Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt
-Vitality and style
-Mood of US citizens
-Expectations of US citizens
-Vietnam
-World leadership position
-President’s opinion
	-Recent past
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Vietnam
	-Drugs
	-Violence in cities
-US economy
-Effect of end of Vietnam war

PRC

USSR

Economic policy

Revenue sharing

Government reorganization

Expectations for coming year
-Pride in US foreign policy
	-Middle East
-Importance of US leadership role
	-US position in the world
-Domestic issues
-Housing
-Busing
	-Boston
-Segregation
-“Quiet revolution”

US world role
	-Historic precedence
-Expression of confidence
-Peace possibilities
-World War II
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John F. Kennedy
	-“Seize the moment” philosophy

US relations with USSR and PRC
-Strategy
-Importance of PRC
-Nuclear war
-Global effects
-Horrors
-Prospects for confrontation
	-Japan
-Need for leadership
-Competition
-Cooperation
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-UN
	-Times of peace
-US and European power
-Britain
-France
-Germany
-USSR
-PRC
-Potential power
-Japan
-Latin America
	-Brazil
-Africa
-Potential power
-South Asia
-Need for balance of power
	-Europe, Japan

Presidency
-Power
-Motives
	-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
		-Maturity of political figures
-Bureaucracy
-Press
-Enjoyment of the job
	-Relations with Congress
	-Opportunity for leadership
	-World peace
	-Progress

Christmas decorations
	-Number
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon [?]

[General conversation]
-Walter H. Annenberg's gift
	-“Star of the President”

President's schedule
-Bermuda

Gifts
-Money clips

[General conversation]

Schecter, et al. left at 6:35 pm.

Conversation No. 639-26

Date:  December 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:35 pm and 6:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

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Bull left at an unknown time before 6:38 pm.

Conversation No. 639-27

Date:  December 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:58 pm and 6:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

[Unintelligible]

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:07 pm.

Conversation No. 639-28

Date:  December 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:58 pm and 6:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 16-128]

Conversation No. 639-29

Date:  December 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:58 pm and 6:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator; John N. Mitchell was present at the beginning of the conversation.

[See Conversation No. 16-129]

Conversation No. 639-30

Date:  December 21, 1971
Time:  6:07 pm - 6:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell.

President's schedule
-Meeting in Bermuda

	-Weather
-Cooperation
	-France, West Germany
-Public reaction
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Work involved
-Willy Brandt
-President's past Christmas plans
	-Eisaku Sato

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman entered at 6:09 pm.

[General conversation]

President's schedule
	-Swearing-in of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
		-Timing
	-Wallace H. Johnson

	Unknown person
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]

	President’s schedule

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President’s schedule
	-Willy Brandt

Jack N. Anderson columns
-Use of classified documents
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] reports
-India-Pakistan
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-David R. Young, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Maturity
-Leak
-Source
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Yeoman Charles E. Radford
-Relationship with Anderson
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Experiences in Vietnam
-Polygraph
-Adm. Robert O. Welander
	-JCS
-Unknown person
-Radford
-Experience
-Polygraph
-Question on stolen documents
	-Administrator
-R[embrandt] C. (“Hugh”) Robinson
-Welander
-Kissinger
-Haig
-NSC
-JCS
	-Length of activity
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Young
	-Report
		-Interrogator
		-Excision
			-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Haig
-Knowledge
-Source
-Activities
-JCS liaison officer
-Types
-Studies
-Young
-DOD interrogation
-Conversation with Mitchell
-Anderson
-Radford
-Knowledge
-Kissinger and North Vietnamese negotiations
	-Possible court martial
-Administration strategy

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration:  50s  ]

	INDIA

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-Richard M. Helms
-Haig
	-Call to Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
	-Informed by Ehrlichman
-Radford
-Access 
	-WSAG meetings
	-The Pentagon and NSC
		-Methods used
-Phone tap
-Possible arrest
-JCS liaison office
	-Location
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-NSC
-Robinson
-Young
	-DOD
-JCS
-Prosecution
-Strategy proposed
	-JCS liaison officer
		-Proposed relocation
	-Need for security officer
	-Kissinger
	-JCS
	-Transfer of Welander
	-Transfer of Radford
	-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
		-Possible discussions with Mitchell
			-Melvin R. Laird
	-Discipline of Welander, Robinson
		-Necessity for discipline
		-Robinson
			-Cambodia briefing
-[Unintelligible]
-JCS
-Story
	-US Naval action in Straits of Malacca, Bay of Bengal
-Radford’s relationship with Anderson
-Welander
-Robinson
	-Previous knowledge
-Radford’s experience
	-India
	-Anderson
-Anderson
	-Possible prosecution
		-Possession of documents
		-Welander
		-JCS
-Haig
-Knowledge
	-Tour of Vietnam with Radford
-Polygraph of Radford
-Anderson
	-Normandy
	-Parents
-Radford
-Age
	-Religious faith
	-Moorer
-Possible transfer
	-JCS
-Kissinger
-Anderson columns
-Examination
	-Young
-Robinson
-Relationship with Radford

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  41s  ]

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-Radford
	-Call to Moorer
-Haig
-Involvement
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-JCS
-Kissinger’s briefcase
-NSC staff
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Kissinger
	-Secretaries
-Haig
-John Negroponte
-Richard Smyser
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Jack D'Arcy [sp?]
-[Forename unknown] Murphy
-Kennedy
-Strategy
	-Laird
		-Ehrlichman’s telephone conversation
			-John Glenn [?]
-Gen. [Forename unknown] Percy [?]
-Radford
	-JCS
-Possible view of India
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes's knowledge
	-Haig

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration:  26s  ]

	INTELLIGENCE

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-Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
	-Involvement
-Radford
-Moorer
-Zumwalt
-Mitchell’s forthcoming meeting with Moorer
	-Mitchell’s view
-President's presence
-Documents from Kissinger's briefcase
-JCS
-Robinson
-EOB
-Welander
-Moorer
-Radford
-Possession of documents
-Interrogation
	-Results
-Welander
	-Kissinger
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Leak
-Candidate for NSC Security Officer
-Charles Sither
-Ability 

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Privacy]
[Duration:  4s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Privacy]
[Duration:  4s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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		-Location
			-Certification
				-Hughes
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Radford
-Tap
-Surveillance
-NSC
-Welander
-Robinson
	-Possible action taken
-Moorer
-Strategy
-Kissinger
-Security
-Office
-Interrogation
	-Anderson
-Welander
-Laird
-Election
-JCS
-Security
-Interrogation
-Welander knowledge
	-Haig and Kissinger
-Robinson
	-Involvement
-Laird
-Meeting with Moorer
-Welander
-Transfer from EOB
-Kissinger's briefcase
-Radford
-Relationship with JCS
-JCS
	-Other possible activities
		-Moorer
		-Lyndon B. Johnson Administration
-Recommendations to Mitchell
-Strategy
-Kissinger
-Welander
	-Possible interrogation
-Anderson
-Haig
-Security officer
	-Unknown activities
-John B. Martin [?]
-Welander
-Interrogation
-Alger Hiss case
	-Compared to Radford interrogation
-Knowledge
-Welander interrogation
	-JCS
-Relationship to Kissinger
-Strategy
-Moorer
-Haig
-Kissinger

The President, Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman left at 6:59 pm.