602–1

Conversation No. 601-36/602-1

Date: October 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:01 am and 11:09 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[This recording begins in progress at an unknown time after 9:01 am]

The President's forthcoming trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Staff size
-Television coverage
-John A. Scali

The President's schedule
-Josip Broz Tito
-Florida
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Indira Gandhi

Media
-Backgrounders
-White House staff
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Scali
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Supreme Court appointments
-The President’s view
-Bureau chiefs
-Kissinger

The President's schedule
-Florida
-Prime Minister William McMahon

Public relations
-Photograph of the President with Nikita S. Khrushchev in kitchen debate
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Haig
-Ziegler, Scali
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-Brezhnev
-Possible release to press

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Advance Party
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-European Security Conference
-Proposed European trip
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Kissinger

Interpersonal staff relations
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Unnamed member of Kissinger's staff
-Trip to Moscow
-Role

Presidential press conference
-Timing
-Discussion of troop announcement
-Taiwan
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-White House staff
-Clark MacGregor

Spiro T. Agnew
-Travel
-Possible future travel
-The President’s view
-Greece
-Length of trip

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:01 am.

Delivery of item

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Agnew
-Possible future travel

The President's schedule
-Previous meeting with governors
-USSR

US foreign policy
-Public relations
-Presidential visits to foreign countries
-India-Pakistan
-George H. Gallup
-Louis P. Harris
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan expulsion
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Rogers
-Haig
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Telephone call to the President
-Possible meeting with the President
-Foreign trips on behalf of the President
-UN vote
-Kissinger
-US efforts regarding UN vote
-Presidential telephone calls
-Argentina
-Morocco
-Mexico
-Italy
-Mexico
-Africa

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:01 am and 10:00
am.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1C]

[End of telephone conversation]

Public relations
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-Administration efforts
-Economy

Economy
-John B. Connally
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-George P. Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-George H. Boldt
-Buchanan

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Kissinger's schedule

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The President's schedule
-Kissinger, forthcoming meeting
-Haig

Economy
-Arthur F. Burns
-Shultz
-Wage and price freeze
-John F. Kennedy administration
-Charles W. Colson

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Africa
-Announcement
-Constance M. Stuart
-Timing
-Itinerary
-Liberia
-Rogers, Kissinger

The President talked with Haig between 9:44 am and 9:46 am.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1D]
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The President's schedule
-Conference with Haldeman
-African leader
-Ghana
-UN vote on Taiwan

The President's schedule
-Reschedule meeting
-Kofi A. Busia

Supreme Court nominees
-Buchanan

The President's forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Buchanan
-White House position
-Possible attendance
-Kissinger
-Private meeting with Chinese leaders
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-The President’s meeting with Mao Tse-Tung
-Kissinger
-Chou En-Lai
-Kissinger
-Media coverage
-News summary

Media
-Columnists
-Smith Hempstone, Jr.
-[Forename unknown] Lyle
-Dick Wilson
-[Forename unknown] Gould
-John F. Osborne
-Peter Lisagor
-New York Times
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-The President’s instructions
-Relationship with administration
-Kissinger
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-Knoxville Journal
-Chicago Tribune
-Frank Van der Linden
-Rogers

US foreign policy
-UN
-Domestic concerns
-Rogers
-George H. W. Bush
-The President’s view
-Timing of vote
-1972 Presidential election
-The President's forthcoming trips to Moscow and Peking
-1972 election
-Mao Tse-Tung
-Taiwan
-Brezhnev
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Public reaction
-Domestic concerns
-Youth
-Cold War
-MacGregor
-House
-Senate
-Congressional leadership

Secretary of Commerce
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Peter G. Peterson
-Connally

Secretary of Agriculture
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Earl L. Butz
-Ezra Taft Benson
-Harlow
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-Albert H. Quie
-Buchanan

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:57 am.

The President's schedule
-Agnew
-Connally
-Forthcoming meeting

Butterfield left at 9:59 am.

-Kissinger
-Connally
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Reagan
-Forthcoming telephone call

Spiro T. Agnew entered and Haldeman left at 10:00 am.

Greetings

Photographs

Agnew's visit to Greece

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:00 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:15 am.

Agnew's schedule
-Visit to Greece
-Press coverage
-Agnew’s visit to ancestral hometown
-Associated Press [AP] and United Press International [UPI]
-Crete
-Rhodes
-George Papadopoulos
-Greek newspapers
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-Reaction
-Walter Trohan

Butterfield entered at 10:03 am.

Press

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

Butterfield and members of the press entered at an unknown time after 10:03 am.

Photographs

Butterfield, et al. left at 10:06 am.

Agnew's visit to Greece
-Recounting of conversations

US foreign relations
-Greece
-Cypress
-Agnew’s memorandum to the President
-King Constantine II
-Thomas A. Pappas
-Agnew’s view
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Possible return to Greece
-Papadopoulos
-State Department
-News summary
-Rogers
-The President’s view
-Tito
-Yugoslavian press
-NATO
-The President's schedule
-King Constantine
-King Paul
-The President’s previous meeting in 1963
-King Constantine
-Italy
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-George Papandreou
-Andreas Papandreou
-Papadopoulos
-Henry J. Tasca
-State Department
-State visit
-Agnew's trip to Greece
-Tasca
-Agnew’s view

Agnew's schedule
-Singapore
-US ambassador
-Rogers
-Kuwait
-US ambassador

Haig. talked with the President between 10:15 am and 10:16 am.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1E]

[See Conversation No. 13-3]

[End of telephone conversation]

Agnew's schedule
-Charles T. Cross
-Rogers
-Haig
-Kissinger

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 10:16 am and
10:17 am.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1f]

[See Conversation No. 13-4]

[End of telephone conversation]

Us foreign policy
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-UN vote on Taiwan expulsion
-The President’s efforts
-Argentina
-Mexico
-Italy
-Morocco
-King Hassan II
-Rogers, Bush
-Ireland
-Great Britain
-Airline issue
-African nations
-The President’s view

The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan between 10:17 am and 10:18 am.

[Conversation no. 601-36/602-1g]

[See Conversation No. 13-5; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

UN vote on Taiwan expulsion
-Singapore
-Lee Kuan Yew
-Malaysia
-Laos
-Taiwan
-US policy
-UN
-Congressional appropriations
-The President’s view
-Rogers
-Connally
-Multilateral Assistance Program
-Changes
-Rogers

Haig talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 11:09 am.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1H]
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[See Conversation No. 13-6]

[End of telephone conversation]

US foreign relations
-African nations
-Latin American nations
-US aid
-PRC
-Soviets
-UN vote on Taiwan expulsion
-Taiwan
-Administration’s position
-Peking
-Portugal
-South Africa
-Greece
-Mexico
-The President's telephone conversation with Luis Alvarez Echeverria
-US efforts
-PRC
-Italians
-British
-French
-Canadians
-NATO countries
-Council of World Government
-Human rights
-Greece
-Chinese
-Greece
-Yugoslavia
-Romania
-Spain
-Brazil
-Emilio Garrastuzu Medici
-Uruguay
-Chile
-UN vote on Taiwan expulsion
-Shah of Iran
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-Douglas MacArthur, II
-The President’s view
-Congress
-Charles McC. Mathias
-UN budget
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Agnew's conversation with Haile Selassie
-Conversation with Mao Tse-Tung, Chou En-Lai
-Mao Tse-Tung
-Middle East
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Shah
-Sinai
-Golda Meir
-State Department
-Israel
-US aid

Agnew's travels
-Kuwait
-Saudi Arabia

Middle East
-Arab leaders
-Sadat
-Relations with USSR
-Shah’s proposal
-Sinai
-UN
-Israel

India-Pakistan situation
-Indira Gandhi
-Visit to US
-India
-Pakistan
-The President’s view
-US aid to India
-Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
-Sheik Mujibar Rahman
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-Possible release

US foreign relations
-UN
-Rogers
-Domestic concerns
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Agnew's comment at National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-PRC, USSR
-NATO countries
-Netherlands
-Belgium
-Norway
-Denmark
-France
-Vietnam
-The president's schedule
-Connally
-Surcharge

US foreign relations
-Japan
-Germany

Supreme Court appointments
-Nominees
-William H. Rehnquist
-Civil rights record
-Confirmation by Senate
-Thurgood Marshall
-William J. Brennan
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Confirmation hypothetical situations
-William Kunstler
-W. Ramsey Clark
-Dean of Harvard Law School
-Edward H. Levi
-Administration position

Vietnam
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-House of Representatives vote
-Possible press questions
-Administration time-table
-US casualties
-Administration's opponents
-Administration's program
-Hugh Scott
-South Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Negotiations
-Soviets, PRC
-Relations with North Vietnamese
-POWs
-Congress
-Cambodia, Laos
-State Department
-Leaks
-Agnew's statement
-Rogers

US foreign relations
-Greece
-US aid
-Agnew's conversation with relative
-Human rights
-Congress
-World Council
-NATO countries
-Papadopoulos
-Agnew’s view
-Possible visit to US
-Domestic political implications
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Statement on Ireland
-Statement on POWs
-Vietnam
-POWs
-Democrats
-India-Pakistan
-Edward M. Kennedy's comments
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Supreme Court appointments
-Democratic response
-Richard H. Poff
-John N. Mitchell
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Powell, Rehnquist
-Robert H. Jackson
-Nuremberg trials

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George Meany

J. Edgar Hoover

Democratic agenda
-Issues
-Democrats
-Economy
-Vietnam
-Hoover
-Blacks
-Campus unrest

US foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Casualties
-Peking, Moscow trips
-Possible effect
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Détente possibilities
-Mao Tse-Tung
-Chou En-Lai
-Tito

US foreign relations
-PRC
-UN
-Taiwan
-Taiwan
-US mutual defense treaty
-Congress
-Chiang Kai-Shek
-Longevity
-Political impact of China question
-US-USSR relations
-John F. Kennedy
-Nuclear weapons
-Cuba
-Future relations
-Robert S. McNamara
-Vietnam War
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-John F. Kennedy
-Conduct of war
-The President’s view
-Bombing
-Harry S. Truman

Press
-Edith Efron's book
-View of Administration
-Supreme Court
-Mitchell
-ABA
-Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post
-Vietnam
-Press conferences and speeches
-Effect
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-PRC and USSR trips
-Effect
-Communists
-Cold War

The President's previous discussion with Agnew on \"foundation\" speech
-Haldeman
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Pentagon Papers

Senate
-Colson
-UN aid by US
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Robert J. Dole
-Rogers
-Otto E. Passman

UN
-The President’s view

The President's schedule
-Senators' statement
-Mathias
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Edward W. Brooke

Congress
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Carl T. Curtis

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:18 am.

Unknown man's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:09 am.
Congress
-Samuel L. Devine
-Dole
-Mathias
-1974 election
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\"Foundation\" speech
-Goldwater

Agnew left at 11:09 am.