626–12

Conversation No. 626-12

Date: November 30, 1971
Time: 3:48 pm - 5:10 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:48 pm.

-Lewis and David Reed

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
-Clark MacGregor's call to Haldeman
-Charles H. Percy and Hugh Scott
-Prospect of vote
-The President's possible role
-MacGregor's call to Haldeman
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-12 (cont.)


-Tax check-off issue
-Possible conversation with the President

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:48 pm and
3:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 626-12A]

[See Conversation No. 15-175]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Forthcoming speech on aged
-NSC meeting
-William P. Rogers's schedule
-Golda Meir

The President talked with Clark MacGregor between 3:55 pm and 3:58 pm.

[Conversation No. 626-12B]

[See Conversation No. 15-176]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-NSC meeting
-Possible agenda
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-National 4-H Congress speech
-Congressional candidates
-Unknown man from Vermont
-Possible photograph opportunity
-Raymond H. Nutter
-Kentucky
-John C. Watts
-Unknown man from Vermont
-Opponents of incumbent Democrats
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-12 (cont.)


-Jack R. Miller
-Television appearance
-George H. Mahon
-President of Texas Tech University
-Invitation for the President to address American Association of Engineers
-The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Possible book to be written
-Lewis’s view
-James A. Michener
-Unknown person
-Forthcoming conversation with unknown person
-Size of party
-Press
-Possible book
-Michener
-Theodore H. White
-Interviews
-Herbert G. Klein's views
-Associated Press [AP]
-United Press International [UPI]
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
-Editorial boards
-The President's trip to PRC
-Parade Magazine
-Responses to written questions
-The President's record

Congress
-Previous vote on repealing “315”
-Democrats
-Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Arthur Summerfield and unknown person

Lewis, Reed and the White House photographer entered and Haldeman left at 4:06 pm.

Introductions

Reed's experience
-Vietnam
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-12 (cont.)


Forthcoming interview
-Ronald L. Ziegler

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

-Fiftieth anniversary of Reader's Digest

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.


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Preparation of article on forthcoming interview
-US News and World Report interviews

Vietnam
-Cessation of conflict
-Negotiations
-Vietnamization

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

[Unintelligible]

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

Vietnam
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-12 (cont.)


-US role
-Casualties
-Troop strength
-South Vietnamese
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Duration
-Forthcoming announcement
-Draftees
-Duration
-Combat
-Casualties
-South Vietnamese
-US goals

US role in world
-Conflicts
-Asia
-Latin America

Southeast Asia
-North Vietnamese military dispositions
-Vietnam
-Prospects
-Cambodia
-Prospects

PRC
-Relations with US
-Role in Korea, Indonesia and Vietnam
-Relations with US
-US relations with other Asian nations
-The President's article in Foreign Affairs in 1967
-Population
-Future prospects
-PRC relations with Soviet Union
-Relations with US
-Benefits
-Philosophical differences
-Nuclear weapons
-Trade
-Possible conflict
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-12 (cont.)


-US treaty obligations
-Japan
-Taiwan
-Philippines
-Korea
-Vietnam

National defense
-Disarmament
-SALT
-Progress
-Philosophies and interests of US and Soviet Union
-As percentage of Gross National Product [GNP]
-Compared with previous administrations
-Compared with Soviet Union
-SALT
-Prospects
-US credibility
-Leonid I. Brezhnev and Aleksei N. Kosygin

Middle East

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

US relations with Soviet Union
-Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
-PRC and Soviet Union interests
-Berlin
-Middle East

Middle East
-Importance
-US policy
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Israel and Egypt
-Jordan crisis in 1971
-US and Soviet views
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-12 (cont.)


-Compared with India-Pakistan

US relations with Soviet Union
-World Wars I and II
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-H. G. Wells
-Glassboro summit
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's meeting at Camp David
-The President's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-Preparations
-Previous talks

US relations with PRC
-Rimland of Asia

National defense
-US, Soviet Union and PRC
-Europe
-Japan

US economy vis-a-vis world
-Competition
-Marshall Plan
-European Economic Community
-Common Market
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Taiwan and Singapore
-Japan
-Herman Kahn's view
-Latin America
-Africa
-Competition
-Isolationism
-Competition
-Example of Paavo Nurmi
-Eisenhower administration
-Peaceful intentions of US
-Isolationism
-Import surcharge
-Competition
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-12 (cont.)


-Age of industrial equipment
-Depreciation
-Government subsidies
-Isolationism
-Vietnam
-Korea

Vietnam
-Possible effect of communist military success
-Effect on American spirit
-The President's policy

Publication of interview
-Editing

[Unintelligible]

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Reed's children

Lewis and Reed left at 5:10 pm.