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449–12
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • UNKNOWN
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Manolo Sanchez
September 21, 1971
Conversation No. 449-12

Date: September 21, 1971
Time: 12:35 pm - 1:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:36 pm.

The President's schedule
-September 21, 1971
-Exhibition of race cars
-White House south grounds
-Race cars
-Number
-Types
-Race drivers
-Photo opportunity

Butterfield left at 12:37 pm.

The President's schedule
-Race car exhibition
-Location
-Press
-Photograph

Pentagon Papers
-Haldeman's meeting with Henry A. Kissinger, John D. Ehrlichman, and Charles W.
Colson
-Meeting between Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Colson's absence
-Kissinger
-Understanding of situation
-Ehrlichman's call to Melvin R. Laird
-Haldeman's call to Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Kissinger's objections
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-Ehrlichman’s view
-Release of Pentagon version
-Public interest
-Personal
-Ehrlichman

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

[Delivery of voting results note]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm.

Draft bill
-Senate vote
-Cloture
-Vote count
-Timing
-Administration’s position
-Public relations
-Note
-Final passing of bill
-Cloture
-Procedure
-Votes on bill
-Michael J. Mansfield

Foreign policy
-Effect of release
-Pentagon version of Pentagon Papers
-Vietnam
-Political aspects
-Kissinger's statements on Pentagon Papers
-Vietnam
-Moscow scenario
-Release of Pentagon version
-Effect within Vietnam
-Ehrlichman's previous conversation with Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Release of Pentagon version

Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
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-Haldeman's previous conversation
-Meeting
-John B. Connally's presence
-George P. Shultz
-Kissinger's forthcoming talk with Connally
-Connally's view on CIEP organization
-White House office
-Conversation with Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Responsibility for CIEP
-Kissinger
-Staffing problems
-Knowledge
-White House
-Peter G. Peterson
-Shultz’s view
-Peterson
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Responsibility for CIEP
-Staff
-Camp David meeting
-Work on CIEP
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-CIEP work
-National economic policy
-Shultz
-CIEP members
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-Connally
-Paul W. McCracken
-Swing votes
-Study on issues
-Subcommittees
-Shultz as chairman
-Staff for research
-Peterson
-Connally's view
-Shultz
-Kissinger's view
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-Shultz
-Loyalty
-\"Honest broker position\"

Textile negotiations between Japan and the US
-Leak
-Brussels, Belgium
-Peterson
-Date of US decision
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-Release
-Peterson
-Paul A. Volcker
-Location

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:46 pm.

Vietnam
-Air raids
-POL [Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants]
-Effectiveness
-Storage for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Weather
-Supplies
-Dong Hoi
-US position
-Reiteration
-Airplanes
-Air Force

Military leadership
-Air Force
-Army
-Gen. C. William Westmoreland
-Air Force
-Gen. John D. Ryan
-Marine Corps
-Lt. Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-Position at Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

Military service draft bill
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-Cloture vote

Kissinger's schedule
-Dates
-Visit

Peterson
-CIEP
-Japan
-Textile negotiations
-Leak
-Possible actions
-Responsibility
-Previous conversation
-Lack of leadership

Japan textile negotiations
-Leak
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-Policy issue
-Japanese reaction
-Nobusuke Kishi
-Visit to the US
-Date
-Negotiations
-Request from Japan
-Information of US actions
-Kissinger's possible actions
-US Ambassador to Japan, Armin H. Meyer
-Compared with D[avid] Kenneth Rush
-Middle East
-Vietnam
-Rush
-Textile negotiations
-Peterson's report
-Kissinger's strategy
-Peterson
-David M. Kennedy
-Negotiations
-Strategy
-Peterson
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-Talk with Kishi
-Discussion period
-Date of announcement
-Simultaneous announcements
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit
-Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Japanese
-Kishi
-Meeting between the President and Takeo Fukuda
-Anchorage, Alaska meeting [With Emperor Hirohito]
-Informing Fukuda of US position on negotiation by William P. Rogers
-Previous conversation between the President and Fukuda
-Japan response
-Time requirement
-US position
-Dateline
-Rogers
-Meeting with Fukuda
-Strategy
-Possible meeting between Kissinger, Peterson, Rogers, Kennedy
-Preparation of plan for negotiations

CIEP
-Kissinger's scheme on staffing
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Previous meeting
-Responsibility for CIEP
-Shultz
-Inclinations
-Free trade
-Taxes
-Peterson
-Chairman of subcommittee
-Shultz
-Staff
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Peterson
-Removal
-Acceptable recommendations
-Shultz
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-Leak
-Brussels
-Sources
-Volcker
-Peterson
-Effects on textile negotiations
-Textile people [producers]
-Details
-Need for committee
-Members
-Kissinger
-Need for political understanding
-Issues
-State Department negotiators
-Political compared to economic aspects
-Connally
-Economic points
-Shultz
-Economic point
-Domestic political
-Peterson

Other negotiations
-Relations with foreign countries
-Canada
-Surcharge tax
-Strategy
-Rules
-US actions
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Staff work
-Camp David
-Staff work necessary
-The President's options, role
-Implementing
-Peterson
-Briefings
-Peterson
-Staffing limitations
-Shultz's offer of Office of Management and Budget [OMB] staff
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USSR summit
-Kissinger's conversation with unknown man
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Forthcoming conversation with the President
-Rogers
-Cabinet
-Summit invitation
-Informing Rogers
-Announcement
-Kissinger's role
-Rogers's Reaction
-Date
-Secrecy
-Compared with PRC announcement
-USSR
-Effect of Announcement
-Public Speculation
-USSR
-PRC
-Alexei N. Kosygin
-Gromyko
-Kosygin
-Visit to United Nations [UN]
-Itinerary
-Canada
-UN
-Meeting with the President
-Speculation on the President's forthcoming trip to Alaska
-PRC trip
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Value of surprise
-USSR position
-The President's attendance at signing of Accidental War Agreement
-Gromyko
-Soviets
-Announcement of Summit
-Date

Textile negotiations
-Kissinger's role
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-Japanese negotiations
-Peterson
-Connally
-Waiting Period
-Length
-Kissinger's Meeting with Kishi
-Rogers's meeting with Fukuda
-Date
-Agreement
-Negotiations
-Dates
-Kissinger's schedule
-Return from the PRC
-John N. Mitchell, Harry S. Dent
-Relations with textile people [producers]
-Textile groups
-Kennedy, Peterson
-Commitment
-Time
-Quota bill

CIEP
-Shultz
-Responsibility
-Kissinger's working with Shultz
-Connally
-Economic
-Political
-Shultz
-Initiative
-Staff
-Proposals
-Effect on opponents
-Economic platform
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Meeting in Washington, DC
-Connally
-IMF
-European trip
-Reaction
-Shultz
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-Peterson
-Reaction
-Camp David
-Connally
-Kissinger
-McCracken
-Committee
-Program

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Meeting
-Time

Plans for working group
-President’s schedule
-Racing group
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
-The President's previous conversations with Kissinger
-Shultz
-Working group for CIEP
-Members
-Haldeman's attendance at meetings
-Meetings
-Peterson
-Peterson's memo to the President
-Kissinger's signature
-Organization of new group

Polls
-USSR and PRC
-Colson
-George H. Gallup
-Louis P. Harris
-The President's popularity
-Comparison with Democrat candidates
-Effect on foreign relations
-Trial heats

Military service draft extension legislation
-Senators
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-Debate
-Final vote

USSR
-Soviet public opinion on the President
-Dobrynin
-View of the President
-Change
-Willy Brandt

Kissinger left at 1:08 pm.

Peterson

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.

Letter from John C. Stennis
-Liaison from White House
-Delivery from the President
-Tom C. Korologos

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.

US Supreme Court
-Recommendation from Stennis
-James P. Coleman
-Mississippi
-Mitchell
-Votes
-Stennis
-Mitchell

Haldeman left at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 19s ]
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.

Placement of object

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 47s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.

Margaret Chase Smith

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 15s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12

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Haldeman entered at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.

Haldeman's previous meeting with Mitchell and Bryce N. Harlow
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Agriculture Secretary

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.

The President's schedule

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 7m 10s ]


MANOLO SANCHEZ ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 1:08 PM.

SANCHEZ LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 1:40 PM.


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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The President’s schedule
-The President's Question and Answer [Q&A] at Detroit Economic Club, September
23, 1971
-Possible meeting with Agnew

J. Edgar Hoover
-Tenure in office
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-Robert C. Mardian
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Conversation with the President
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Leaks
-White House
-Department of Justice
-Network
-Mardian
-White House

Agnew
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Behavior
-Raising negatives
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Cabinet meetings
-Nixon as Vice President
Cheerleader
-Demonstrations
-Cabinet meetings
-Connally
-Rogers
-Testimonial
-White House staff
-Campaign
-Build-up
-Organization
-Leadership
-Response
-Haldeman's call to Agnew
-Mitchell's call to Agnew
-Political responsibility
-Testimonial event
-White House staff
-Kissinger
-Dent
-Robert J. Dole
-Cabinet
-National chairman [of Republican National Committee]
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-Connally
-Democrat
-Connally
-Support for administration
-Cabinet
-Mitchell
-The President's possible dinner meeting with Agnew
-Situation
-Action
-The President's Q&A at Detroit Economic Club
-Connally

Candidates for Secretary of Agriculture
-Louie B. Nunn
-Harlow’s view
-Congressional approval
-Federal system
-Democrats
-Support of farmers
-Farm issues
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Harlow’s view
-Farmer credibility
-Experience with federal system and Congress
-Mitchell’s view
-Harlow
-Bellmon
-Albert H. Quie
-Farmers
-Administration strategy
-Farm program
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Receptivity to farmers' concerns
-Bellmon
-Compared with Nunn
-Nunn
-Relations with farmers
-Bellmon
-Congressional seat
-Election outcome
-Ed Edmondson
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-Democrat candidate
-Dewey F. Bartlett
-Mitchell
-Control
-Special elections
-Support for administration
-Re-election of the President
-Support for the administration
-Harlow and Mitchell
-Outcome of meeting
-Harlow’s view
-Nunn
-Bellmon
-Other candidates
-Publicity
-Harlow
-Possible appointment as Secretary
-Congressional relations
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
-Clark MacGregor
-Background
-Minnesota
-Agriculture
-Analogy to Richard H. Poff
-Present position
-Speechmaking
-Nunn
-Bellmon
-Harlow
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
-Harlow
-Changes in administration
-Nunn
-[Dole?]
-National chairman
-Senator
-Other candidates
-Leslie C. Arends
-Career
-Age
-Congressional relations
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-Background
-Department of Agriculture
-Undersecretary
-J. Philip Campbell
-MacGregor
-Congress
-Possible election outcome
-Republican Congress
-Gerald R. Ford
-Speaker of the House
-Arends
-Majority Leader

Supreme Court appointment
-Harlow's conversation with Emanuel Celler
-House of Representatives Judiciary Committee resolution
-Poff
-Possible endorsement
-Nomination
-Ford
-The President's morning meeting with Carl B. Albert
-Support for Poff
-House
-Circulate letter to House members
-Endorsement of Poff
-Cellar
-Democrats
-Ford's possible conversation with Cellar
-Harlow's possible conversation with Cellar
-Endorsement of American Bar Association [ABA]
-Reflection on Judiciary Committee
-Letter circulation
-Congress
-Republicans
-Civil rights
-Judiciary Committee
-Southern Democrats
-Background
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Poff
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Privacy]
[Duration: 5s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

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-Southern Manifesto
-Ku Klux Klan


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Privacy]
[Duration: 37s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9

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The President's schedule
-Breakfast meeting
-Call from Connally

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.
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