593–12

Conversation No. 593-12

Date: October 15, 1971
Time: 11:32 am - 11:36 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:36 am.


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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered and Sanchez left at 11:36 am.

The President's schedule
-George P. Shultz

Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:36 am.

-Signing of Executive Order
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Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:36 am.

The President's schedule
-Signature autopen

Butterfield left at 11:38 am.

-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Camp David
-Hobart D. Lewis and Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo


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-Henry A. Kissinger's office


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Woods left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.

Supreme Court appointments
-John N. Mitchell
-Warren E. Burger
-Possibility of resignation
-Herschel H. Friday
-Woman

Appointees' threatened resignations
-Robert Brown
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Chief of Protocol

PRC trip
-Nature of trip
-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger
-The President's suggestions
-Haldeman’s view
-Crowds
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-Communiqué
-Public relations

US foreign relations
-The President's trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Public relations
-Crowds
-Romania
-Kissinger
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-The President’s view

The President's trip to PRC
-Crowd
-Itinerary
-Provinces
-Advance team
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Relations with Kissinger
-Public relations
-Itinerary
-Cities
-Meeting with leaders
-Government
-People

Kissinger entered at 11:44 am.

-Advance
-Chapin
-Itinerary
-Chinese
-George Meany
-Advance
-Kissinger’s concern
-Reception
-Popular reception
-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-USSR
-Chou En-lai
-Crowds
-Haldeman's memorandum
-Chapin
-Instructions
-Mrs. Nixon
-USSR
-Communications
-Ground station
-Washington
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran
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-Telecommunications capability
-Iranian Vice President
-Kissinger's role
-Chapin
-Soviet visit
-Mrs. Nixon
-Mao Tse-tung
-Kissinger’s efforts
-The president's forthcoming meeting
-Crowds
-The President’s possible visit to sites
-Haldeman's memorandum
-Chapin
-Kissinger

US foreign policy
-John B. Connally’s trip
-Textile agreement
-Press conference
-Announcement
-Peter G. Peterson
-Woods
-Timing
-State department
-Japanese
-PRC

The President's schedule
-Camp David

Kissinger left at 11:59 am.

Kissinger
-Crowds
-Romania
-Nicolae Ceasescu
-Soviets

Lyndon B. Johnson
-Crowds
-Kissinger
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Mrs. Nixon

The President
-Meeting people
Kissinger
-Chapin
-Alexander P. Butterfield

Mosbacher
-Possibility of going to PRC
-Possibility of going to USSR
-Official party

The President's trip to PRC
-Military aids
-Function
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John A. Scali
-Gerald L. Warren
-Press corps
-Kissinger
-China
-Press
-Yugoslavia
-Kissinger
-Communications
-[Forename unknown] Persepolis
-Shah
-Television
-Telecommunications
-Chinese
-Size and composition of press party
-Scali
-Networks
-Haldeman's comments
-Moon coverage
-Daily newspapers
-Magazines
-Photographers
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-Kissinger
-Camp David
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”)\\ Atkins
-James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Military staff size
-Dinner
-Marine Band
-Technical assistance
-The President’s view
-The President's feeling about situation in the US
-Secret Service

Press
-Maxine Cheshire
-Newspaper story
-Kissinger
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Unknown woman
-Washington Post
-Taft Schrieber
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-William L. Safire
-Newsday magazine article
-The President's finances
-Costs of being President
-White House response
-Fisher Roland stock
-Haldeman’s view
-George A. Smathers
-Rebozo
-Kissinger
-Bradlee
-Unknown priest

Haldeman left at 12:15 pm.
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