294–6

Conversation No. 294-6

Date: November 18, 1971
Time: 9:10 am - 10:50 am
Location: Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
convention
-Speech
-The President's revisions
-Announcement
-George Meany
-Departure

Earl L. Butz

Release of text

International economy
-John B. Connally
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Henry A. Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Meany
-Weather in Miami
-The President's return to Washington
-Connally
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Staff work

The President's schedule
-Briefing books
-Connally, Shultz and Kissinger
-Television
-Announcements
-Timing
-Phase II
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
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-Issues
-4-H convention
-Chicago
-Conference on aging
-Press conference
-Announcement
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Cabinet
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Congressional leaders
-Kissinger's schedule
-NSC

Haldeman talked with the White House operator and George P. Shultz at an unknown time
between 9:10 am and 10:13 am.

[Conversation No. 294-6A]

[See Conversation No. 15-22]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman's previous call to Shultz
-Meany's views

The President's schedule
-AFL-CIO convention
-Meany's views
-Haldeman and Kissinger
-Charles W. Colson and Shultz
-Colson's conversation with Rumsfeld
-Travel plans

[Pause]

-Football game
-Request for seats
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
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Haldeman talked with the White House operator and Constance M. Stuart at an unknown time
between 9:10 am and 10:13 am.

[Conversation No. 294-6B]

[See Conversation No. 15-23]

[End of telephone conversation]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Network television coverage
-Press coverage
-Stuart
-New York Daily News

Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Press relations


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Ceremonial events
-Thanksgiving
-Turkey presentation
-Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-The President's schedule
-Animals
-King Timahoe
-Photographs

Butz
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-Senate confirmation
-Press coverage
-Haldeman
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Possible filibuster

Supreme Court nominees
-William H. Rehnquist
-Liberals' reaction
-Barry M. Goldwater

Herbert Stein
-Health
-Possible role with government
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-CEA

Jews in administration
-Stein, Arthur F. Burns and Kissinger
-Connally's views
-Value
-CEA
-Cabinet and Supreme Court
-Stein

Congressional action
-Dollar check-off on income taxes
-Butz confirmation
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment

Colson
-Call from the President, November 17, 1971
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Unknown vote in House of Representatives
-Mansfield Amendment
-Press coverage
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Congress
-Mansfield Amendment
-John Sherman Cooper-Frank F. Church Amendment
-Clark MacGregor and William E. Timmons
-Vote

The President's schedule
-Football game
-International monetary situation
-Shultz and Connally
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-AFL-CIO convention
-Florida
-Sports stars
-Wives
-Schedule
-The President's Duke Law School class
-The President's military friends
-Law School class
-Professors Lon L. Fuller and David F. Cavers
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Education
-John MacK. Holland, Jr.
-The President's military friends
-Reception
-The President's military experience
-Rose Mary Woods
-[Unknown man]
-Possible attendees
-Peter Boyle
-Doris Gurley [?]
-Paul Loomis
-Number

Staff meetings
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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:10 am and 10:13
am.

[Conversation No. 294-6C]

Kissinger's schedule

The President talked with Kissinger.

Kissinger's previous trip

Kissinger's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger


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Connally
-Conversation with Haldeman

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Forthcoming Washington Redskins-Dallas Cowboys game
-Camp David
-Miami game
-Forthcoming Oklahoma-Nebraska game
-Redskins games
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Kissinger entered at 10:13 am.

Kissinger's schedule
-Previous speech at Commercial Club in Cincinnati
-Connally's New York speech
-Nikita S. Khruschev's New York speech
-Californians
-Taft Schreiber
-Asa V. Call
-Schreiber
-California Club
-Fragmented
-Previous speech at Commercial Club
-Press coverage
-Major cities
-Press coverage
-Previous speech at Commercial Club
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

The President's schedule
-Announcement of PRC trip
-Press conference
-4-H event
-Announcement of PRC trip
-Timing
-Mrs. Nixon
-PRC response

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-PRC
-Le Duc Tho
-Announcement of PRC visit

White House dinners
-Connally
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Mrs. Nixon
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-Emilio Garrastazu Medici dinner
-Brazil
-Canadian Dinner
-William P. Rogers
-Connally
-Rogers and Agnew
-Medici dinner

PRC
-John T. Downey
-Wife's visit
-Son
-Possible release
-Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Richard M. Helms
-Walters
-The President's forthcoming visit
-Timing of announcement
-Hanoi

George H. W. Bush
-Statement regarding PRC statement
-State Department

State Department
-Attitude
-Marshall Green
-Reaction to unknown statement
-Kissinger's call to Rogers
-Rogers
-Compared to the British Foreign Service

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Edward R.G. Heath
-George R.S. Baring, Earl of Cromer
-Georges J.R. Pompidou


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-Meeting with Kissinger
-Forthcoming meeting with Pompidou
-Timing
-Willy Brandt
-Forthcoming meeting with Heath
-Options
-International monetary situation
-Connally
-Shultz
-Meeting with Group of Ten
-Pompidou
-Effect on the President’s schedule
-Cromer and Connally
-Connally
-Rogers
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Le Duc Tho
-Xuan Thuy
-Bombing
-Timing
-Negotiations
-William J. Porter

Kissinger's schedule
-Time's Editorial Board
-Connally
-The President's choice as ‘Man of the Year”

Article by Walter Trohan
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The President's schedule
-Hedley W. Donovan
-Life series on Bicentennial
-Interview with the President
-The President's article in 1960 on the National Purpose
-James R. Shepley
-Donovan
-Questions for the President
-Henry A. Grunwald
-Kissinger's suggestion
-Donovan
-“Man of the Year” award
-Interview with the President

Time magazine
-Story on Ziegler
-Hugh S. Sidey
-“Man of the Year” award
-1971 and 1972
-Value
-Foreign readership
-The President's foreign policy achievements
-Alternate choices
-Interview with the President for Life magazine
-Donovan

Kissinger's schedule
-Previous meeting with Time Editorial Board
-Vietnam and PRC

Haldeman left at 10:45 am.

-The President
-Previous speech at Commercial Club
-Ohio and Illinois
-New York
-1972 election
-Economics
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-Previous meeting with Time Editorial Board
-Alexander Heard of Vanderbilt
-Donovan's statement

New York Times

Liberals
-The President's foreign policy
-John F. Kennedy

Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Vietnam
-Josip Broz Tito
-The President's policy

Kissinger's schedule
-David M. Kennedy
-NATO
-Previous speech at Commercial Club
-Taft
-Reception
-Unknown man
-David Kennedy

Kissinger left at 10:50 am.