626–14

Conversation No. 626-14

Date: November 30, 1971
Time: 5:21 pm - 6:09 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.


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Earl L. Butz

Public relations
-President’s previous speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Photograph
-Music
-George Meany
-Photograph
-Teamster photographer
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons's conversation with Colson
-Effect
-Possible use
-Time magazine
-Wire service
-Meany
-Illness
-Mail to White House
-Editorials

Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Ronald H. Nessen
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Possible role
-Daniel L. Schorr
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Possible role
-John C. Whitaker and Frederic V. Malek
-Neighborhood cleanup program
-Russell E. Train and William D. Ruckelshaus
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-Public education
-Effect
-Compared to Claude W. Gifford
-Efforts at Agriculture Department
-Mailings
-Television
-Radio

Butz
-Confirmation

Supreme Court
-Confirmations

Romana Acosta Banuelos
-Confirmation
-Delay
-Effects
-Senate Finance Committee

National economy
-Stock market
-Prospects
-Volume
-Possible veto of Tax Bill

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Henry C. Cashen, II’s report
-Activities of business organizations
-Russell B. Long
-John B. Anderson
-Network time in political campaigns
-John O. Pastore
-Networks' views
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-Previous vote on repeal
-Presidential office
-White House position
-1972 campaign
-Possible debates
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-1960 election
-White House position
-1968 campaign
-George C. Wallace
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-Wallace

James Perry of National Observer
-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Relationship with Colson
-Attacks on administration
-Audience
-News summary
-National Observer and New Republic
-Story concerning Edmund S. Muskie


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National economy
-Paul W. McCracken's report
-Conference Board survey
-Forthcoming Commerce Department report
-Colson's conversation with Harold C. Passer and James T. Lynn
-Plant and equipment survey
-Milton Friedman's views
-McCracken's views
-Unemployment
-James D. Hodgson's views
-McCracken's views
-John B. Connally's views
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-Statistical formulation
-Passer's views
-Revisions of leading economic indicators
-Previous conversation with Colson
-Stock market
-Wire service reports

Henry A. Kissinger

National economy
-Stock market
-Wire services

Henry A. Kissinger entered and Colson left at 5:40 pm.

Forthcoming meeting

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and
5:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 626-14A]

The President's forthcoming speech at White House Conference on Aging
-John D. Ehrlichman
-The President's conversation with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Price
-Unknown man's possible conversation with Ehrlichman

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's previous press briefing
-India-Pakistan
-State Department action
-US policy
-John A. Scali's views
-Conversation with Haldeman
-The President's schedule
-Press questions on foreign visits
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union

Haldeman talked with the President between 5:45 pm and 5:46 pm.
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[Conversation No. 626-14B]

[See Conversation No. 15-177]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's previous press briefing
-The President's international policies
-Scali's conversation with Haldeman
-The President's schedule
-Foreign visits
-John B. Connally
-Role in international monetary policy
-PRC
-Taiwan
-US policy
-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press contingent
-Size
-PRC
-Television
-Ground station
-Hangchow
-Forthcoming meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-Peking
-Press reception

The President's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors
-Press conference
-News coverage
-Tax Bill
-Butz and Meany

India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's schedule
-US policy
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-State Department
-Export licenses
-Aircraft
-Ammunition


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The President's schedule
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-European Security Conference
-MBFR
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Options
-State Department
-European Security Conference
-Soviet strategy
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-US strategy
-Timing
-Berlin Agreement
-Soviet strategy
-Finland
-Ambassador to Finland, Val Paterson

European Security Conference
-NATO meeting
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-US policy
-State Department
-European nations' policy
-MBFR
-Germany
-The President's schedule
-Heads of State
-Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Germany
-Willy Brandt's views
-William P. Rogers's views

Vietnam
-Military plans
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Senate recess
-Bombing
-Negotiations

Henry Brandon
-Forthcoming book on the President's foreign policy
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Meetings with the President
-Timing
-Ziegler
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Role of State Department in foreign affairs
-PRC
-Cambodia
-State Department
-Documentation
-Rogers

PRC
-Messages from US

Rogers
-Kissinger’s view
-Schedule
-Senators
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-Speech
-Activities
-Compared with Clark M. Clifford
-Relations with press
-Conversation with Henry Truitt

State Department
-Kissinger's previous relationship with Elliot L. Richardson
-Rogers
-The President’s view

Kissinger's schedule
-Business Council
-Peter M. Flanigan
-The President’s view

The President's schedule
-National 4-H Congress speech in Chicago
-NSC meeting
-Speech at White House Conference on Aging
-Visit to PRC
-Press reaction
-Rogers's previous comment to Truitt
-India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's relations with PRC
-Kissinger's conversation with Brandon
-Possible results
-Soviet Union
-Rogers
-Soviet Union
-Indian Foreign Minister
-Indira Gandhi
-Rumania
-Rogers's comment
-Truitt's conversation with Scali
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State Department
-Scali's views
-Rogers
-Relations with White House
-Press
-Rogers

India-Pakistan
-US policy
-Rogers’s comment to press
-PRC
-Kissinger’s view
-Soviet Union
-PRC

Rogers
-Views regarding Israel
-John N. Mitchell's opinion regarding motive
-Kissinger’s view
-Soviet Union

Middle East
-US policy

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:46 pm.

Coat

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:09 pm.

Middle East

Kissinger's previous press briefing
-State Department
-Rogers
-Forthcoming speech
-Ziegler
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-Kissinger’s potential statement
-Taiwan
-PRC

The President and Kissinger left at 6:09 pm.