282–14

Conversation No. 282-14

Date: October 20, 1971
Time: 3:15 pm - 3:42 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

Previous conversation with William P. Rogers
-Proposed announcement
-Peter G. Peterson
-Latin America
-Economics
-Politics
-Meetings
-Expropriation
-Chile
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Travel
-Timing

The President's schedule
-State of the Union
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The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman ?] at an unknown time
between 3:15 pm and 3:37 pm.
[Conversation No. 282-14A]

Congress
-Date of return

[End of telephone conversation]

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Foreign travel
-Timing
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Liberia
-Hospital
-Children
-Education
-Culture
-Welfare
-Volunteerism

Latin America
-Unknown person
-The President
-Haig
-Peterson
-Preferential tariff

Europe

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Nobusuke Kishi
-People's Republic of China [PRC] Summit
-Trade issues
-Surcharge
-John B. Connally
-US-Japanese trade
-Connally's forthcoming trip to Far East
-Textiles
-Solution to trade problem
-President’s involvement
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-Forthcoming conversation between Haig and Nobuhiko Ushiba
-Okinawa
-Connally
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Voice of America
-Reversion of Okinawa
-Connally
-Voice of America
-Briefing paper
-Connally
-Department of State
-Marshall Green
-Attendees
-Translation
-Japanese ambassador

Summit Meetings
-Kissinger
-PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-President’s role
-Other attendees
-Attendance at meetings
-Rogers
-Attendance at meetings
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai

Willy Brandt
-Nobel Peace Prize
-Foreign Policy
-Berlin
-President’s view
-Martin Luther

Vietnam
-Election
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-News summary
-Ky
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-Casualties
-South Vietnamese
-Melvin R. Laird's comments
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Haig’s view
-John A. Scali
-Public relations
-Cambodia
-Laos
-South Vietnamese
-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
-Operations
-Cambodia
-Vietnamese Peace negotiations


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PEACE NEGOTIATIONS


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-US efforts
-Timing
-Congress
-Economic aid
-Xuan Thuy
-Paris meeting
-South Vietnamese delegates
-Vernon A. Walters
-Kissinger
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Haldeman talked with the President between 3:37 pm and 3:39 pm.

[Conversation No. 282-14B]

[See Conversation No. 12-4]

[End of telephone conversation]
Mrs. Nixon's forthcoming trip

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 3:39 pm and 3:40
pm.

[Conversation No. 282-14C]

[See Conversation No. 12-5]

[End of telephone conversation]

Latin America
-Proposed meetings
-Bilateral problems
-Topics for discussion
-Fishing rights
-Haig's conversation with Rogers

The President talked with Mrs. Nixon between 3:40 pm and 3:42 pm.

[Conversation No. 282-14d]

[See Conversation No. 12-6]

[End of telephone conversation]

Arthur K. Watson
-French

Haig left at 3:42 pm.
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