596–4

Conversation No. 596-4

Date: October 19, 1971
Time: 10:55 am - 12:14 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Supreme Court appointments
-News leaks
-John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-ABA
-White House staff
-Press office
-Previous telephone call from Asa V. Call
-\"Beatrice\" [Mildred L.] Lillie
-Husband
-News leaks
-Ehrlichman
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Mitchell
-G. Harrold Carswell
-The President’s efforts
-Casper W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-George P. Shultz
-Edward H. Levi
-Woman candidate
-Lillie
-Husband
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Mitchell

The President's schedule
-Multiple Sclerosis Society
-Forthcoming meeting
-Presentation of plaque to the President
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Spiro T. Agnew
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-Paul Revere tray
-Pay Board
-Members
-Chairman, George H. Boldt
-Vacancy
-Arnold R. Weber
-Neil H. Jacoby
-William G. Caples
-Vacancy
-Niccolo Machiavelli
-Kermit Gordon
-Robert A. Solo of Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-Former head of Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] staff
-Robert C. Turner of Indiana University
-Harry S Truman administration
-Harold M. Levinson of Michigan
-Gordon
-[Unintelligible name]
-George Meany
-Leonard F. McCollum
-Price Commission
-C. Jackson Grayson of Southern Methodist University [SMU]
-Allen Spivey
-Greg Weston
-Robert F. Lanzilotti
-William W. Scranton
-John W. Queenan
-William T. Coleman, Jr.
-Marina Von Whitman
-J. Wilson Newman
-Robert F. Ellsworth
-The President’s view
-Ellsworth’s background
-Lewis F. Powell, Edward L. Wright
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Appointment to position
-Ellsworth
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
-Henry L. Hillman
-David M. Kennedy
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Japan
-Ambassadorial appointment
-Peter G. Peterson
-Thornton
-Rudolph A. Peterson
-United Nations [UN]
-Thornton
-Finances

National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Weinberger's memorandum
-Apollo flights
-The President's decision
-Cancellation of flights
-Space shuttle
-Moon landings
-The President's schedule
-People's Republic of China [PRC]-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR] trips
-Cancellation flights
-1972 Presidential election

Italian-American appointments
-Democrats
-Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC]
-Board of Visitors for service academies
-Public relations
-John A. Volpe
-Sons of Italy

Watergate
-Public Broadcasting
-Proposed legislation
-Appropriation
-John Williams Macy
-John D. (“Jack”) Wrather
-Thomas W. Moore
-Peterson's conversation with Wrather
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Charles W. Colson
-Misuse of public funds
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California unemployment
-Jobs program
-Number
-Funds
-John J. Rhodes
-Flanigan
-Possible action
-Weinberger
-George P. Shultz

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming interview with Robert Mellon
-Readers Digest
-The President's military career
-“Chick” Dyer
-Rose Mary Woods
-Forthcoming meeting with Ruth Voss and Francis L. (“Frank”) Dale
-Voluntary action
-Youth
-Cincinnati Inquirer
-SCAP [?]
-Alexander P. Butterfield

The President's schedule
-Imelda Marcos
-Possible meeting with the President
-Purpose of visit
-Ferdinand E. Marcos
-Fight against communism in Philippines
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Possible meeting with the President
-Timing
-Mrs. Nixon
-Son
-Ford family in Detroit
-Possible meeting with the President
-Mrs. Nixon
-The President's forthcoming trip to USSR and PRC
-Foreign policy
-William P. Rogers
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-Role on the President's trip to USSR
-Preparations for USSR trip
-PRC
-Advance trip
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Vietnam
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Public relations
-Kissinger
-Rogers role
-The President’s view

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Mrs. J. Willard Marriott
-William D. Blair, Jr.
-The President’s previous meeting with Mitchell
-Blair
-Haldeman’s efforts
-The President’s view
-Leonard Garment
-Nancy Hanks
-Mrs. Marriot
-Roger L. Stephens
-Funds
-Congress
-Democrats
-Fund allocation
-Julius Rudel

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:55 am.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Prime Minister of Ceylon
-Robert Strausz-Hupe
-Haig
-Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.
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Bull

Mrs. Marcos
-Possible meeting with the President
-The President’s view

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman left at 11:30 am.

Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Neville Kankaratne, Robert Strausz-Hupe, Emil Mosbacher, Jr.,
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; the White House photographer and members of the press entered at
11:30 am.

Greetings

Introductions

Photographs

The press and White House photographer left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

Ceylon
-Problems
-US assistance
-Helicopters
-Roads
-Land

Southeast Asia problem
-India-Pakistan conflict
-Ceylon policy
-US policy
-The President’s view
-Danger of war
-Refugees
-US position
-Congress
-Aid programs

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

Refreshments
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-Tea

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

Ceylon
-Agriculture
-Tea
-Export
-The President's previous trip to Ceylon
-Visit to tea growing region
-Tea
-Export
-Reaction to the President's announced trips to PRC and USSR
-Bandaranaike’s view
-Bandaranaike’s support
-PRC
-The President's analysis of situation
-Purpose of trips
-Substantive discussions
-Public announcements
-Arms
-USSR
-Arms control
-Trade
-Bilateral nature of trips
-Chinese
-Peking
-The President’s view
-Future relations between the US and PRC
-Southeast Asia
-Fears of other countries
-Subversion
-Indonesia
-Singapore
-Malaysia
-Japan
-Thailand
-Cambodia
-India
-Dialogue
-The President’s view
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-Negotiations
-Peace and stability efforts
-US-USSR relations
-Berlin Agreement
-US efforts
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-The President’s view
-US-PRC relations
-Future
-Population
-Nuclear dependability
-Importance of dialogue
-Future developments
-Talks with Andrei A. Gromyko
-Recognition of differences
-US responsibilities
-PRC and Taiwan
-Forthcoming vote in UN
-The US position
-The President’s view
-Analysis of Ceylon’s position
-Bandaranaike’s view
-Population
-Defense
-Internal problem
-Security
-Armed forces
-Problems
-Domestic issues
-Budget
-Foreign relations
-Trade
-Burma
-PRC
-Ceylon’s relations with the PRC
-USSR-Ceylon relations
-Future of Southeast Asia
-The President’s view
-Previous trips
-Aid programs
-Agriculture
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-Cattle and dairy industry
-Farming
-Expansion problems
-Shipping costs
-Australia
-Possible meeting with Clifford M. Hardin
-Hardin’s assistance
-Possible meeting with John A. Hannah
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-US assistance
-The President’s view
-Importance
-Latin America
-Industrialism
-Brazil
-Peru
-Need for infrastructure
-Compared with US
-US farmers
-Ceylon

US foreign policy
-World peace
-Arab-Israeli relations
-Truce
-US policy
-Suez Canal
-US efforts
-Peace efforts
-Need for negotiations
-Withdrawal from occupied territories
-US efforts

The President, et al. left at 12:14 pm.