617–23

Conversation No. 617-23

Date: November 15, 1971
Time: 6:03 pm - 6:19 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Henry A. Kissinger.
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Hugh Scott's calls to the President

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and
6:04 pm.

[Conversation No. 617-23A]

[See Conversation No. 14-109]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Casualties

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and
6:04 pm.

[Conversation No. 617-23B]

[See Conversation No. 14-110]

[End of telephone conversation]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:04 pm.

Budget
-Forthcoming vote
-George H. Mahon
-Call to Kissinger
-Continuing resolution
-Mahon's conversation with the President
-Vietnam

The President talked with Hugh Scott between 6:04 pm and 6:09 pm.

[Conversation No. 617-23C]

[See Conversation No. 14-111]

[End of telephone conversation]
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The President's previous meeting with Congressmen

Budget
-Forthcoming vote
-Mahon
-Clark MacGregor's conversation with Kissinger

Cabinet
-Foreign travel
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peter G. Peterson
-Previous meeting
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's conversation with Kissinger

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Forthcoming vote on continuing resolution

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower between 6:09 pm and 6:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 617-23D]

[See Conversation No. 14-112; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Earl of Cromer
-Economic policy

John B. Connally
-Conversation with the President
-Connally's conversation with Kissinger
-International monetary policy
-Credit
-Political future
-Trip to Vietnam
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger
-Kissinger's views on international monetary policy
-Peterson
-William P. Rogers
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John A. Volpe

International monetary policy
-Connally
-Kissinger's conversation with East Germans
-Timing of action
-The President's schedule
-Connally
-Role
-Japan
-Devaluation
-Connally
-Conversation with Kissinger
-The President’s forthcoming letter to heads of state

Sultan Mohammad Khan
-Previous meeting with the President
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Messages for the President
-Conversation with Chou En-Lai
-Timing
-United Nations [UN] vote
-The President's forthcoming visit

PRC
-UN delegation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR
-Chou's Schedule
-US conservatives
-Civil defense
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-USSR
-The President's forthcoming visit
-Lin Piao
-Army Chief of Staff
-Effect on US right wing

Foreign aid program

Congress
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-Mansfield Amendment
-Cooper-Church Amendment

George E. Allen
-Conversation with the President
-The President's previous press conference

Chou En-Lai
-Film, “Patton”
-Appeal to the President
-Reason
-Views regarding the President
-Kissinger's first visit
-Film

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-The President's preparation
-Rogers
-Negotiating strategy

Congress
-Quadriad
-Mansfield
-Kissinger's forthcoming speech
-University of Montana

Kissinger left at 6:19 pm.