614–12

Conversation No. 614-12

Date: November 4, 1971
Time: 4:02 pm - 4:48 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Kofi A. Busia and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Introductions

Busia's trip
-Mexico

Photograph
-Arrangements

Busia’s trip
-Northwestern University
-Teaching

Ronald L. Ziegler and members of the press entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.
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Introductions to members of the press

Presidential pens

Ziegler and the press left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Ghana’s vote
-The President’s appreciation
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Conversation with the President
-Mexico
-Non-aligned status

Echeverria
-Wife

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

Cocoa

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

Liberia
-William R. Tolbert, Jr’s inauguration
-The President's schedule
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Peru
-Ghana
-Possible tour
-Schools
-Hospitals
-Liberia
-Monrovia
-Ghana
-Taiwan
-UN vote
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Education
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-Smith College
-Ghanaian ambassador

Ghana
-Kwame Nkrumah's legacy
-Finances
-Debt
-Busia’s Cabinet changes
-Debt
-Short-term
-Credits
-Cocoa
-Finances
-Foreign exchange
-Rescheduling debts
-Possible consortium
-Medium term debt
-Short-term debt
-Interest
-Rice production
-Imports
-Rural development
-Water
-Roads
-Self-help
-Trade
-Import surcharges
-Attracting investment capital
-Prices
-Democratic institutions
-Busia's conversation with Edward R.G. Heath
-Economy
-Growth
-Desirable rate
-Unemployment
-Compared to US
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Creating confidence
-Credit
-Haig's forthcoming conversation with John B. Connally
-IMF and World bank
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-Planning
-Connally and Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible meeting with Robert S. McNamara
-The President's previous conversation with McNamara
-Rescheduling debts
-Time frame
-Indonesian pattern
-Busia's conversation with Heath
-Possible meetings
-Short-term debt
-Consortium
-Medium and long-term debt
-Creditors
-Great Britain, West Germany, France, Japan, US
-Connally
-Great Britain
-Compared to Indonesia
-T. N. J. Suharto
-Sukarno
-Economic legacy
-Nkrumah's legacy
-Finances
-US assistance
-Great Britain
-Congress
-Busia's conversation with McNamara

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods’s forthcoming call
-White House social event
-Tea

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

Ghana
-Population
-The President’s 1957 visit
-Growth
-Nkrumah
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Cocoa
-Busia's possible conversation with Peter G. Peterson
-Busia’s schedule
-Briefing paper

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Ghana

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

Ghana
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Previous trip
-Popular morale
-Unemployment
-Democracy
-Neighbors
-Latin America
-Unemployment
-Foreign aid
-Technical

Bull[?] entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm

The President’s schedule

Bull[?] left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

-Cooperation with Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast
-Foreign investment
-Agriculture
-President [Felix Houphouet-Boigny]
-Popularity
-The President’s visit

Nigeria
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-Relations with Ghana

Mali
-Relations with Ghana
-Busia’s trip
-Nigeria
-Reception
-Trade

Ghana
-Finances
-IMF
-[Houphouet-Boigny]
-Possible economic community of West Africa
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

Mrs. Nixon's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

The President's forthcoming visits to the USSR and the PRC
-Importance
-The President's previous conversation with Indira Gandhi

Ghana
-Talks with South Africa
-The President's conversations with Kissinger and William P. Rogers
-US assistance
-Relations with the US
-State Department
-Ambassador’s possible call to Haig
-Finances
-Connally's schedule
-Paul A. Volcker
-McNamara
-Cocoa
-Peterson
-Foreign minister
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Haig talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:02 pm and 4:39 pm;
Haig talked with Peterson.

[Conversation No. 614-12a]

[See Conversation No. 13-122]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

Foreign minister and ambassador from Ghana
-Meeting with the president

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

Busia's family
-Gifts
-Son at Oxford

The President's daughters

William Ofori-Atta, Ebenezer M. Debrah and the White House photographer entered at 4:39 pm.

Arrangements for photograph

Busia’s schedule
-Mexico City
-Echeverria

Peterson
-Schedule

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Ghana
-Tolbert
-Ghana

Ghana
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-The President's 1957 visit
-Independence Day
-Festivities
-Unknown man who assisted President and Mrs. Nixon
-Letter
-IMF
-Debt rescheduling
-Investment
-Connally
-Cocoa
-Peterson

Peterson entered at an unknown time after 4:39 pm.

Introductions

Ghana
-International cocoa agreement
-Peterson’s role
-Finances
-Debt
-Amount
-McNamara
-Forthcoming conversation with Peterson
-Busia’s schedule
-Peterson’s schedule
-Surcharges
-Canada
-US support
-Finances
-Rescheduling of debt
-Indonesian pattern
-Sukarno
-Heath
-World Bank
-Connally
-The President's 1957 visit
-Population

The President, et al., left at 4:48 pm.
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