Secret White House Tapes

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117–5
March 8, 1973
Conversation No. 117-5

Date: March 8, 1973
Time: Unknown after 11:44 am until 12:05 pm
Location: Cabinet Room

An unknown man met with Mustafa Khar, Aziz Ahmed, and Sultan Mohammed Khan

Cabinet Room
-Seating arrangements
-The President’s chair
-Secretary of Commerce
-John F. Kennedy
-Inclusion of United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations in the
Cabinet
-Anecdote about Dean Rusk and Robert S. McNamara
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Refreshments

Cabinet Room
-Seating

United States’ political system
-British heritage
-Comparison between United States’ and parliamentary systems
-Pakistan
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Previous meeting
-Members
-Domestic Council
-Members
-Organization

Pakistan
-Constitution
-Compared with United States’
-Diversity

United States’ political system
-Variety

Pakistan
-Powers of President
-Parliament
-Powers

United States’ political system
-Local and Federal distinctions
-Controversy
-Civil War
-States’ Rights
-Compared with Soviet Union
-Role of Soviet constitution

Soviet bloc
-Extent of political freedom
-Theoretical rights

United States’ political system
-Residual powers in states
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-National constitution
-Powers of central government
-Pakistani constitution
-Powers of provinces

Ambassador’s meeting with the President

Khar, et al. left at 12:05 pm
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