588–12

Conversation No. 588-12

Date: October 12, 1971
Time: 12:58 pm - 1:25 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Henry A. Kissinger.

Press
-The President's meeting
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Negotiations
-Summit meeting with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Ronald L. Ziegler, John A. Scali
-Kissinger’s view

US foreign relations
-USSR
-Announcement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Press announcement
-Embassy statement
-White House
-The President's trip
-USSR
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-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Douglas Edwards
-Film
-Timing
-Dan Rather
-Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-North Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-South Vietnam elections
-Reaction
-Thieu
-Kissinger's schedule
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Congress
-Notification of the President's announcement
-Carl B. Albert
-Allen J. Ellender
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Commentary concerning film
-W. Averell Harriman


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Press
-The President's press conference
-Topics
-Supreme Court appointments
-Phase II
-Vietnam
-PRC

Public relations
-Comparison of 1968 with 1972
-Situation in 1968
-Vietnam
-Soviets
-Czechoslovakia
-Chinese
-PRC
-Soviet trip
-Importance
-Linkage

Kissinger's schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Japan
-Andrei A. Gromyko

Public relations
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-White House staff
-Economy
-Foreign policy
-Scali
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-PRC
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[Duration: 1m 26s ]


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US foreign policy
-Presidential travel
-Possible return visits
-Reciprocal visits
-The President's Soviet trip
-Middle East
-Kissinger's schedule
-Dobrynin
-Chinese
-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger’s discussions with Chou En-lai
-Soviets
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Accidental War Agreement
-Berlin
-USSR
-Gromyko
-PRC invitation
-Advance notification
-Press conference
-The President’s preparation
-Vietnam
-Effect of press conference
-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-Thieu
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-Soviets
-PRC
-The President's preparations
-Foreign policy

The President's schedule
-Shultz
-Labor
-Pay Board

Press coverage of the President
-John F. Kennedy
-Rose Mary Woods conversation with Kissinger
-Chicago Daily News
-Hypothesis
-Nixon
-Bay of Pigs
-Laos
-Berlin

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:59 pm.

The President's schedule
-Shultz
-F. Edward Hebert

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:25 pm.

US foreign policy
-Soviets
-PRC
-US actions
-Negotiations
-Maurice H. Stans
-Dobrynin
-PRC
-Southeast Asia
-Soviets

Kissinger and Haldeman left at 1:25 pm.
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George P. Shultz entered at 1:25 pm.

Economics
-Labor
-Pay Board
-George Meany
-Shultz
-Judgment on labor's position
-Meany
-Message
-The President's suggestion
-Employment
-Tax proposals
-John B. Connally
-The President's possible telephone conversation
-Ehrlichman
-Connally

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 1:32
pm.

[Conversation No. 588-12A]

[See Conversation No. 11-61]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Full employment
-Senate
-Tax proposals

The President talked with George Meany between 1:32 pm and 1:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 588-12B]

[See Conversation No. 11-62]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's statement
-Full employment
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-Senate
-Tax proposals
-Jobs
-Business calls
-Feedback
-Connally
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Indianapolis
-Flanigan
-Arthur F. Burns
-Shultz's previous conversation
-Views
-Shultz
-Labor
-Press
-Ziegler

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:25 pm.

Request for meeting with Ziegler

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

US foreign relations
-PRC ,USSR
-Importance
-US
-Bolivia, Chad
-John F. Kennedy
-Summit meeting

Economy
-Labor
-Canada

Ziegler entered at 1:40 pm.
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Economy
-The President's statement
-Meany
-Shultz
-Meany
-Timing
-Wage and price restraint
-Labor
-Connally
-Texas

Ziegler left at 1:42 pm.

The President's schedule
-Ziegler

Shultz left at 1:42 pm.