619–11

Conversation No. 619-11

Date: November 16, 1971
Time: 10:59 am - 11:13 am
Location: Oval Office

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

Secretary of Agriculture
-Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
-Agri-business
-Academic background
-Selection process
-Milton R. Young

Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with Yitzhak Rabin

Hubert H. Humphrey
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-Possible public perception
-Compared to Harold E. Stassen

Melvin R. Laird
-News story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
-The President's conversation with John B. Connally
-Residual force
-Compared to William P. Rogers

Laird and Rogers
-Connally's views
-Actions

Laird
-Kissinger's possible action
-Possible replacement
-Possible handling
-News story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
-Origin
-Saigon
-Washington, DC
-Quotes

Kissinger
-Meeting with Rabin

Arthur F. Burns
-Meetings
-Performance
-Response
-Peter M. Flanigan

Laird
-Possible conversations
-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-Leak
-John N. Mitchell
-News story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
-Effect
-Negotiations
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-Residual force
-Troop withdrawal announcements
-Timing
-Possible White House response

Burns

Cabinet
-Laird
-Politics
-Rogers
-Connally
-Rogers
-Mitchell
-Maurice H. Stans
-John A. Volpe
-George W. Romney
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Butz

White House staff
-Robert H. Finch
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Laird
-News story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Press responses
-News summary
-New York Times
-Possible conversation with Haldeman

The President's schedule
-Willy Brandt
-Kissinger
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Edward R.G. Heath
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-Kissinger
-Brandt
-Sarasota, Florida
-Kissinger

Haldeman left at 11:13 am.