288–11

Conversation No. 288-11

Date: October 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:04 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan.

Buchanan's memorandum on Economy
-Phase II
-Possible agreement
-George Meany, George P. Shultz, James D. Hodgson
-Pay Board

US foreign relations
-Forthcoming announcement of US-Soviet Union Summit

The President rehearsed an announcement at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:40 am.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this announcement appears in Public Papers of the
Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, p. 1030]

Use of forthcoming announcement
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Silos
-The President’s position
-Negotiations
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Land based missiles
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-Multiple Independently-Targeted Reentry Vehicle [MIRVs]
-US position
-Summit
-Chinese
-US-Soviet relations
-Effect of negotiations
-Middle East
-Europe
-Japan
-Announcement

Robert C. Byrd and the Supreme Court
-The President's instructions to Ronald L. Ziegler
-Possible appointment to Supreme Court
-George S. McGovern
-The President's choice for the Supreme Court
-Supreme Court
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Appeals Court of California
-Experience
-Earl Warren
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Abe Fortas
-William O. Douglas
-Possibility of Jewish appointee
-Civil rights
-Conservatives and democrats
-Jackson
-McGovern
-Byrd
-Richard H. Poff
-Edward M. Kennedy [?]
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Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Supreme Court appointees
-Warren
-Brennan
-Potter Stewart

Supreme Court appointment
-Warren E. Burger
-Southerner as appointee
-Stewart
-Rumors
-Woman appointee
-Public opinion
-Compared with gun control
-McGovern
-Lillie
-Record as judge
-Husband
-The President's remark to John N. Mitchell
-Gerald R. Ford
-Byrd
-Senate
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Senate
-Possible statement
-Timing

Henry A. Kissinger entered and Buchanan left at 9:40 am.

Moscow
-Leaders

US foreign relations
-Announcement of Kissinger's schedule
-Briefing book prepared by Buchanan
-Japan
-Message
-Negotiations
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Victor Louis
-News summary
-KGB
-US-Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Vernon A. Walters
-US proposal on dates
-Andrei A. Gromyko

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Xuan Thuy
-The President's forthcoming press conference
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Election victory
-Possible effect
-President’s position
-Air support
-US goals
-Residual military force
-Kissinger’s view
-American combat role
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Timing of announcements
-Paris negotiations
-Le Duc Tho
-Possible US announcement

The President's schedule
-Conversation with Buchanan
-Shultz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Supreme Court appointment
-The President’s strategy
-White House staff
-McGovern
-\"McGovernment\"
-Humphrey

Kissinger's schedule
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-Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Reagan
-Jay Lovestone
-Meany
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Meany
-Schedule

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 9:40 am and 9:58
am.

[Conversation No. 288-11A]

Request for a call to George Meany

[See Conversation No. 11-52]

[End of telephone conversation]

Meany
-Possible cooperation with administration
-Economy
-Forewarning of announcement
-Arms control

Leaks

Non-leakage of announcements
-PRC trip
-SALT
-Summit

Kissinger talked with George Meany at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:58 am.

[Conversation No. 288-11B]

[See Conversation No. 11-53]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Meany
-Attitude
-PRC
-Lovestone

The President's announcement, October 12, 1971
-Ziegler
-Press corps

US foreign relations
-Reason for the President's trip to Moscow
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger's meeting, April 1970
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Importance
-Thieu
-Rogers
-Previous press conference

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:40 am.

The President's schedule
-Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:58 am.

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 9:40 am and 9:58
am.

Request for a call to George P. Shultz

[Conversation No. 288-11C]

[See Conversation No. 11-55]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's schedule
-Meany
-Dinner with the President, October 12, 1971
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-Meeting with the President, October 14, 1971

The President talked with George P. Shultz between 9:58 am and 10:04 am.

[Conversation No. 288-11D]

[See Conversation No. 11-55]

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

[End of telephone conversation]