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- President Richard M. Nixon
- Alexander P. Butterfield
- H. R. Haldeman
- Stephen B. Bull
- Henry A. Kissinger
- Ronald L. Ziegler
October 27, 1971
Conversation No. 603-1
Date: October 27, 1971
Time: 9:40 am - 12:22 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
The President's schedule
-Head of State Dinner for Josip Broz Tito
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-William P. and Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Ambassadors
-Spiro T. and Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
-Emil and Patricia (Ryan) Mosbacher
-Yugoslav Chief of Protocol
-Ambassadors
-Secretaries of State
-Chief of Protocol
-Receiving line
-Mosbacher
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:43 am.
-Camp David
-Tito
-Mosbacher
-Role
Butterfield left at 9:45.
-Previous meeting with Henry A. Kissinger and Rogers
Kissinger’s recent trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Press relations
-Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Charles W. Colson
-Reading of Communiqué
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Ground rules
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Kissinger
-George H. W. Bush
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Rogers
The President's previous meeting
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Peterson
-Staff
-Peterson
-Connally
International economics
-Convertibility
-Parity
-The President’s view
-Europeans efforts
-Nathaniel Samuels
-State Department
-Paul W. McCracken
-Peterson
-Arthur F. Burns
-Paul A. Volcker
-Peterson
-Shultz
-The President’s view
-Burns
-Peterson
-Memoranda
-Kissinger
Announcement of Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Liberia
-Haldeman's conversation with Ziegler
-Timing
-Conflict in scheduling
-Extent of announcement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Inaugural
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:45 am.
The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:02 am.
The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Kissinger
-Attendance at meeting
-The President's photograph with Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Meetings
-The President
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Mao Tse-Tung
-Kissinger
-Negotiating style
-The President’s view
-Rogers
-Ziegler
Assignment of administration responsibilities
-Rogers
-Leaks
-State Department
United Nations [UN] vote on expulsion of Taiwan, Republic of China
-Announcement
-Bush
-Ziegler’s statement
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-The President’s previous meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-Press accounts
-UN
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Rogers
-Ronald W. Reagan
-John N. Mitchell
-US policy
-The President’s view
-Reagan
-Domestic sentiment
-News summaries
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Reagan
Kissinger entered at 10:02 am.
UN
-Kissinger's schedule
-Bush
-Kissinger's advice
-Bush
-Possible press statements
-Possible contents
-Kissinger's telephone conversation with Bush
Bush's schedule
-Rogers
Butterfield entered at 10:03 am.
-Possible meeting with the President
-Photograph
-Rogers
-Ziegler
-Instructions for Bull
Butterfield left at 10:07 am.
The UN vote on Taiwan’s expulsion
-Kissinger
-Backgrounder
-The President’s view
-Taiwan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-UN
-Africa
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.
-Reagan
UN
-Domestic opinion
-Television
-News Summaries
-America's China policy
-\"Two China\" policy
-Democrats position
-Kissinger
-PRC trip
-News summaries
-The President's previous conversation with Rogers
-Taiwan
-Robert D. Murphy
-UN vote
-Wilbur D. Mills
-George Meany
-State Department
-Timing of UN vote
-Bush
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s role
-Rogers's attitude toward Kissinger's PRC trip
-Kissinger’s view
-Chou En-lai
-Rogers comments
-Public relations concerning the trip
-Kissinger’s view
-Television
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Berlin
State Department
-The President's summit meeting with Soviets
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Newsweek magazine
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-The President's conversation with Rogers
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Summit
-Kosygin
-Canada
-The President's Soviet trip
-The President's PRC trip
The President’s PRC trip
-Chinese
-Kissinger’s view
-Rogers
-The President’s view
-Washington Star article
-Robert Sherman
State Department
-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-Parade article
Relationship between trips to PRC and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-The President’s view
-US policy
-Rogers
-PRC
The President's position on PRC policy
-The President’s trip to PRC
-Staff
-The President’s approval
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-The President's role in foreign policy
-Walt W. Rostow
-Dean Rusk
-Robert S. McNamara
-Kissinger's briefings
-State Department
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Press
-State Department’s role
-Newsweek article
-Kissinger's proposed telephone call to Henry Hubbard
-The President's Soviet policy
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-State Department
-Kosygin
-Kissinger's proposed telephone call
-Hubbard
-Robert C. Christopher
-Hubbard
The President's forthcoming PRC trip
-Newsweek
-Time magazine
Kissinger
-Speech in Parade
-Sherman
-Article
-Relationship with Kissinger
-Christian Science Monitor
-Harvard University friends
-Attitude toward the President and the Vietnam war
UN vote on Taiwan expulsion
Hubert H. Humphrey
-Position on Taiwan in UN
-Chiang Kai-Shek
-State Department
-Kissinger's position
-Strategy
-Ireland
-Landing rights
-Iceland
-Ireland
-Guyana
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
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-Kissinger's advice in March 1971
-Television
-Haig
-Kissinger's trips to PRC
-Effect
-Kissinger’s view
The President's place in history
-PRC
-US-USSR Summit
-Kissinger’s view
-Brezhnev
-John F. Kennedy
-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Rogers
-US-USSR Summit
The President left at an unknown time after 10:07 am.
-Chinese
Press briefing
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Content
The President entered at unknown time before 11:13 am.
Kissinger's health
Supreme Court appointments
-The President's speech
-Effect
-Press coverage
-William H. Rehnquist
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Robert C. Byrd
-Warren E. Burger
-Press
-The President's nominees
-The President’s view
-Compared with American Bar Association [ABA] committee members
-Compared with Nixon
-Rehnquist
-Stanford Law School
-Robert H. Jackson
-Rehnquist
-Senate confirmation
The President's conversation with Haldeman
-International monetary concerns
-Connally
-Shultz
-Peterson
The President's work relationships with cabinet officers
-Rogers
-Attitude toward Kissinger's undertakings
Kissinger's trip to PRC
-Accomplishments
-PRC foreign policy
-North Vietnam
-US foreign policy
-Rogers's reactions to Kissinger's first trip to the PRC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Rogers view
The President's negotiating ability
-Kissinger’s view
-Rogers
-Chou En-Lai
-Middle East
-Compared with Nelson A. Rockefeller
The President's trip to PRC
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Veracity of statements
-Negotiations
-Communiqué
-Mao Tse-tung
-State Department
-Alfred Les. Jenkins
-Photographs
-The President’s previous meeting with Rogers
Tricia Nixon Cox
-Telephone call to the President
US foreign policy
-Reaction to trips by US officials
-Need for meeting with the President
-Rogers
-Chinese policy
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-USSR
-Rogers
-Vietnam peace efforts
-Le Duan
-PRC
-Rogers
-Canadian Ambassador
-Black Panthers
-Chou En-lai
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Huey Newton
-PRC
-Kissinger's PRC trip
-Television coverage
-\"Today\" show, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Background interviews
-Timing
-Ziegler
-Taiwan
-UN
-Buckley
-Reagan
-Previous conversation with Mitchell
-Possible conversation with Kissinger
-Associates
-John Birch Society
-Staff
-UN week proclamation
-Connally
-Bush
-Taiwan
-UN vote
-Important question
-Expulsion
-Chou En-lai
-Taiwan
-Background interviews
-The President’s view
-Announcement
-Kissinger’s agreement with Chou En-lai
The President's forthcoming PRC trip
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Bush
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-Kissinger’s press briefing
-Possible substance
-Kissinger’s trip to Great Wall
-Logistical issues
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-UN vote
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Taiwan
-Length of briefing
-Possible date of the President's trip
-Announcement
-Mrs. Nixon
-Composition of group
-Mrs. Rogers
-Mrs. Nixon
-Possible destinations
-Press coverage
-Kissinger’s recent trip
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger's recent trip
-Chou En-lai's role
-The President's conversation with Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Kissinger's recent trip
-Chou en-lai's role
-Crowd reaction
-Transportation modes
-Gen. James D. Hughes
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou en-lai
-Rogers
-Itinerary
-Cultural exchange
-Taiwan
-Importance
-US foreign policy
-The President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Possible Communiqué
-Taiwan
-Mao Tse-tung
-PRC
-Soviets
-Chou En-lai
-The President
-Rogers
-Chou En-lai
-Foreign Minister Chi P’engfei
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
UN
-Peterson
-Multilateral assistance
-Paul G. Hoffman
-Budget
-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]
-PRC
-French
-Otto E. Passman
-Multilateral organizations
-Bryce N. Harlow
-African development fund
-Connally
-Peterson
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming call to Reagan
-UN appropriations
-Rogers
-Reagan’s previous call to Kissinger
-PRC
-UN
-Buckley
-Buchanan
-Kissinger's relationship
Administration’s relationship with conservatives
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty [ABM]
-Kissinger
-Buckley
-Reagan
-Agnew
-Meeting with the President
Ziegler entered at 11:13 am.
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-UN
-Rogers
-Funding
-The President's position
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Secretary of State
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-Effect in US
-Public
-Congress
-The President
-Foreign aid
-Support in Congress
-Foreign aid bill
-Possible effect
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-The President’s view
-The President’s view on vote
-Popular American support for the UN
-PRC
-Recipients of US aid
-UN delegates behavior
-Multinational financial organization
-The president's call for reappraisals
-Congress
-PRC
-Possible action
-Secretary of State
-Multinational financing organizations
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-The President's view of the UN
-Secretary of States previous press conference
-Conduct of delegates
-Ziegler’s comments to press
-Possible language
-Rogers statement
-PRC
-Multinational financing organizations
-Humphrey
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-Ziegler’s statements to press
-Possible language
-US public opinion
-Effect
-Rogers
-Possible questions from press
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-The President's support for UN
-Humphrey
-Conduct of delegates
-The President's reaction to UN vote
-Ziegler’s statement
-Possible wording
-Reagan
The President's schedule
-Bush
-Rogers
-Connally
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-UN
-PRC
-The President’s view
-Rogers previous statement
-Possible language
-Possible effect
-UN as an institution
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-PRC
-Rogers
Japan
-nobusuke sato
-No confidence vote in Japan
-US position
-Possible comments
-Possible comments
-Connally
Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Press conference
-Amchitka
-Reagan
Amchitka
-Forthcoming announcement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:38 am.
US foreign relations
-Kissinger
-Chou En-lai
-Soviets
-Foreign aid
Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 11:13 am.
Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-The President’s schedule
-Bush
Ziegler left at 11:38 am.
US foreign relations
-Foreign aid
-Kissinger’s view
-Multinational organizations
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
-Taiwan
-Amchitka
-Forthcoming announcement
The President's schedule
-Bush
-Ziegler’s statement
-Rogers
-Mitchell
-Rogers
Haldeman left at 11:42 am.
Defense budget
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s memorandum
-The President’s position
-Aircraft
-USSR
-Increases
-Melvin R. Laird
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Shultz
-Tax increases
-Connally
-Kissinger’s view
-Increases
-Conservatives
-Soviets
-Appropriations
-Military views
-Minutemen
-ABM
-Polaris
-Meeting, October 27, 1971
-Defense Department personnel
-Connally, Shultz, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Kissinger, Ehrlichman
-The President’s 1972 diplomacy
-Air Force
-Shultz
-Haig
-Air defense
-Amount
-Shultz, Weinberger
-The President’s view
-Polaris
The President's schedule
-Breakfast meeting with Rogers and Kissinger
The President's responsibilities
-Cabinet officers
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Compared with other administrations
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Summit trips
-State Department
-Rogers
-Haldeman
Ziegler entered at 11:48 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-UN
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-Wording
-The President's attitude
-Multinational finance organizations
Haldeman entered at 11:49 am.
Ziegler left at 11:50 am.
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Purpose
-Value added tax [VAT]
-Connally
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Meetings, October 27, 1971
-Length
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Haig
-Defense budget
-Shultz
-Kissinger
-Meeting October 27, 1971 at 3:00 pm
-Kissinger
-Connally
-Shultz
-Kissinger's schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Edwin L. Harper
-Kenneth R. Cole
-Kissinger's schedule
-Paul W. McCracken
-State Department
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
The President's enemies
Rogers
-Previous meeting with the President and Kissinger
-Foreign policy challenges
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Communiqué
US foreign policy
-Rogers
-Communiqué with PRC
-Memorandum for Roger
-Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Warsaw Talks
-PRC
-Chou En-lai
-The President’s trip to PRC
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Connally
Kissinger left at 11:58 am.
The President's schedule
-Connally
-Shultz
-Burns
-Peterson
-McCracken
-Quadriad meeting
-Peterson
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
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-Peter M. Flanigan
-Peterson
-McCracken
-Tito
-Quadriad meeting, October 28, 1971
-Josip Broz Tito meeting
-Shultz’s forthcoming meeting with Peterson
-Quadriad
-Connally, Burns
-Tito
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Quadriad
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Scope of interest
-Shultz
-Connally
-Ehrlichman
-McCracken
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Burns
-Connally
Federal Reserve Board [FRB] candidates
-Burns
-Flanigan’s forthcoming conversation with Burns
-Selection compared with process for Supreme Court nominees
-Burger
-Earl Cocke
-American Legion
-Andrew F. Brimmer
-Burns
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Name submissions
-Connally
-Shultz
-Peterson
The President's schedule
-Budget meeting
-Harper
-Cole
-Lewis A. Engman
-Mitchell
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
The President's relationship with Cabinet officers
-Rogers
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Communiqué
-Trip to USSR
-Timing of UN vote
-Kissinger's schedule
US foreign policy
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Ziegler
-Rogers
-News coverage
-Football
-Green Bay Packers
-Minnesota Vikings
-Television coverage
-Reagan
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Polls
-Gallup
-Harris
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Taiwan
-UN delegates
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-PRC
-The President’s view of vote
-Ziegler’s statement
-UN Delegates
-Ziegler
-PRC
-Chou En-Lai
-American conservatives
-UN vote
-Buckley
-Ziegler
-Bush
-Schedule
Appointments
-Flanigan
-Rogers
-David M. Kennedy
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Kissinger
-Maurice H. Stans
-Mitchell
-Secretary of Commerce position
-Stans
-Peterson
-Secretary of Agriculture position
-Ehrlichman
-Frederic V. Malek
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Earl L. Butz
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Abilities
-Benefits
Haldeman left at 12:22 pm.
Date: October 27, 1971
Time: 9:40 am - 12:22 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
The President's schedule
-Head of State Dinner for Josip Broz Tito
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-William P. and Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Ambassadors
-Spiro T. and Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
-Emil and Patricia (Ryan) Mosbacher
-Yugoslav Chief of Protocol
-Ambassadors
-Secretaries of State
-Chief of Protocol
-Receiving line
-Mosbacher
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:43 am.
-Camp David
-Tito
-Mosbacher
-Role
Butterfield left at 9:45.
-Previous meeting with Henry A. Kissinger and Rogers
Kissinger’s recent trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Press relations
-Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Charles W. Colson
-Reading of Communiqué
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Ground rules
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Kissinger
-George H. W. Bush
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Rogers
The President's previous meeting
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Peterson
-Staff
-Peterson
-Connally
International economics
-Convertibility
-Parity
-The President’s view
-Europeans efforts
-Nathaniel Samuels
-State Department
-Paul W. McCracken
-Peterson
-Arthur F. Burns
-Paul A. Volcker
-Peterson
-Shultz
-The President’s view
-Burns
-Peterson
-Memoranda
-Kissinger
Announcement of Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Liberia
-Haldeman's conversation with Ziegler
-Timing
-Conflict in scheduling
-Extent of announcement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Inaugural
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:45 am.
The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:02 am.
The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Kissinger
-Attendance at meeting
-The President's photograph with Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Meetings
-The President
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Mao Tse-Tung
-Kissinger
-Negotiating style
-The President’s view
-Rogers
-Ziegler
Assignment of administration responsibilities
-Rogers
-Leaks
-State Department
United Nations [UN] vote on expulsion of Taiwan, Republic of China
-Announcement
-Bush
-Ziegler’s statement
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-The President’s previous meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-Press accounts
-UN
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Rogers
-Ronald W. Reagan
-John N. Mitchell
-US policy
-The President’s view
-Reagan
-Domestic sentiment
-News summaries
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Reagan
Kissinger entered at 10:02 am.
UN
-Kissinger's schedule
-Bush
-Kissinger's advice
-Bush
-Possible press statements
-Possible contents
-Kissinger's telephone conversation with Bush
Bush's schedule
-Rogers
Butterfield entered at 10:03 am.
-Possible meeting with the President
-Photograph
-Rogers
-Ziegler
-Instructions for Bull
Butterfield left at 10:07 am.
The UN vote on Taiwan’s expulsion
-Kissinger
-Backgrounder
-The President’s view
-Taiwan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-UN
-Africa
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.
-Reagan
UN
-Domestic opinion
-Television
-News Summaries
-America's China policy
-\"Two China\" policy
-Democrats position
-Kissinger
-PRC trip
-News summaries
-The President's previous conversation with Rogers
-Taiwan
-Robert D. Murphy
-UN vote
-Wilbur D. Mills
-George Meany
-State Department
-Timing of UN vote
-Bush
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s role
-Rogers's attitude toward Kissinger's PRC trip
-Kissinger’s view
-Chou En-lai
-Rogers comments
-Public relations concerning the trip
-Kissinger’s view
-Television
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Berlin
State Department
-The President's summit meeting with Soviets
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Newsweek magazine
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-The President's conversation with Rogers
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Summit
-Kosygin
-Canada
-The President's Soviet trip
-The President's PRC trip
The President’s PRC trip
-Chinese
-Kissinger’s view
-Rogers
-The President’s view
-Washington Star article
-Robert Sherman
State Department
-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-Parade article
Relationship between trips to PRC and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-The President’s view
-US policy
-Rogers
-PRC
The President's position on PRC policy
-The President’s trip to PRC
-Staff
-The President’s approval
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-The President's role in foreign policy
-Walt W. Rostow
-Dean Rusk
-Robert S. McNamara
-Kissinger's briefings
-State Department
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Press
-State Department’s role
-Newsweek article
-Kissinger's proposed telephone call to Henry Hubbard
-The President's Soviet policy
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-State Department
-Kosygin
-Kissinger's proposed telephone call
-Hubbard
-Robert C. Christopher
-Hubbard
The President's forthcoming PRC trip
-Newsweek
-Time magazine
Kissinger
-Speech in Parade
-Sherman
-Article
-Relationship with Kissinger
-Christian Science Monitor
-Harvard University friends
-Attitude toward the President and the Vietnam war
UN vote on Taiwan expulsion
Hubert H. Humphrey
-Position on Taiwan in UN
-Chiang Kai-Shek
-State Department
-Kissinger's position
-Strategy
-Ireland
-Landing rights
-Iceland
-Ireland
-Guyana
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
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-Kissinger's advice in March 1971
-Television
-Haig
-Kissinger's trips to PRC
-Effect
-Kissinger’s view
The President's place in history
-PRC
-US-USSR Summit
-Kissinger’s view
-Brezhnev
-John F. Kennedy
-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Rogers
-US-USSR Summit
The President left at an unknown time after 10:07 am.
-Chinese
Press briefing
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Content
The President entered at unknown time before 11:13 am.
Kissinger's health
Supreme Court appointments
-The President's speech
-Effect
-Press coverage
-William H. Rehnquist
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Robert C. Byrd
-Warren E. Burger
-Press
-The President's nominees
-The President’s view
-Compared with American Bar Association [ABA] committee members
-Compared with Nixon
-Rehnquist
-Stanford Law School
-Robert H. Jackson
-Rehnquist
-Senate confirmation
The President's conversation with Haldeman
-International monetary concerns
-Connally
-Shultz
-Peterson
The President's work relationships with cabinet officers
-Rogers
-Attitude toward Kissinger's undertakings
Kissinger's trip to PRC
-Accomplishments
-PRC foreign policy
-North Vietnam
-US foreign policy
-Rogers's reactions to Kissinger's first trip to the PRC
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Rogers view
The President's negotiating ability
-Kissinger’s view
-Rogers
-Chou En-Lai
-Middle East
-Compared with Nelson A. Rockefeller
The President's trip to PRC
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Veracity of statements
-Negotiations
-Communiqué
-Mao Tse-tung
-State Department
-Alfred Les. Jenkins
-Photographs
-The President’s previous meeting with Rogers
Tricia Nixon Cox
-Telephone call to the President
US foreign policy
-Reaction to trips by US officials
-Need for meeting with the President
-Rogers
-Chinese policy
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-USSR
-Rogers
-Vietnam peace efforts
-Le Duan
-PRC
-Rogers
-Canadian Ambassador
-Black Panthers
-Chou En-lai
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Huey Newton
-PRC
-Kissinger's PRC trip
-Television coverage
-\"Today\" show, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Background interviews
-Timing
-Ziegler
-Taiwan
-UN
-Buckley
-Reagan
-Previous conversation with Mitchell
-Possible conversation with Kissinger
-Associates
-John Birch Society
-Staff
-UN week proclamation
-Connally
-Bush
-Taiwan
-UN vote
-Important question
-Expulsion
-Chou En-lai
-Taiwan
-Background interviews
-The President’s view
-Announcement
-Kissinger’s agreement with Chou En-lai
The President's forthcoming PRC trip
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Bush
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-Kissinger’s press briefing
-Possible substance
-Kissinger’s trip to Great Wall
-Logistical issues
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-UN vote
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Taiwan
-Length of briefing
-Possible date of the President's trip
-Announcement
-Mrs. Nixon
-Composition of group
-Mrs. Rogers
-Mrs. Nixon
-Possible destinations
-Press coverage
-Kissinger’s recent trip
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger's recent trip
-Chou En-lai's role
-The President's conversation with Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Kissinger's recent trip
-Chou en-lai's role
-Crowd reaction
-Transportation modes
-Gen. James D. Hughes
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou en-lai
-Rogers
-Itinerary
-Cultural exchange
-Taiwan
-Importance
-US foreign policy
-The President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Possible Communiqué
-Taiwan
-Mao Tse-tung
-PRC
-Soviets
-Chou En-lai
-The President
-Rogers
-Chou En-lai
-Foreign Minister Chi P’engfei
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
UN
-Peterson
-Multilateral assistance
-Paul G. Hoffman
-Budget
-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]
-PRC
-French
-Otto E. Passman
-Multilateral organizations
-Bryce N. Harlow
-African development fund
-Connally
-Peterson
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming call to Reagan
-UN appropriations
-Rogers
-Reagan’s previous call to Kissinger
-PRC
-UN
-Buckley
-Buchanan
-Kissinger's relationship
Administration’s relationship with conservatives
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty [ABM]
-Kissinger
-Buckley
-Reagan
-Agnew
-Meeting with the President
Ziegler entered at 11:13 am.
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-UN
-Rogers
-Funding
-The President's position
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Secretary of State
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-Effect in US
-Public
-Congress
-The President
-Foreign aid
-Support in Congress
-Foreign aid bill
-Possible effect
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-The President’s view
-The President’s view on vote
-Popular American support for the UN
-PRC
-Recipients of US aid
-UN delegates behavior
-Multinational financial organization
-The president's call for reappraisals
-Congress
-PRC
-Possible action
-Secretary of State
-Multinational financing organizations
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-The President's view of the UN
-Secretary of States previous press conference
-Conduct of delegates
-Ziegler’s comments to press
-Possible language
-Rogers statement
-PRC
-Multinational financing organizations
-Humphrey
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-Ziegler’s statements to press
-Possible language
-US public opinion
-Effect
-Rogers
-Possible questions from press
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-The President's support for UN
-Humphrey
-Conduct of delegates
-The President's reaction to UN vote
-Ziegler’s statement
-Possible wording
-Reagan
The President's schedule
-Bush
-Rogers
-Connally
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-UN
-PRC
-The President’s view
-Rogers previous statement
-Possible language
-Possible effect
-UN as an institution
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-PRC
-Rogers
Japan
-nobusuke sato
-No confidence vote in Japan
-US position
-Possible comments
-Possible comments
-Connally
Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Press conference
-Amchitka
-Reagan
Amchitka
-Forthcoming announcement
16
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:38 am.
US foreign relations
-Kissinger
-Chou En-lai
-Soviets
-Foreign aid
Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 11:13 am.
Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-The President’s schedule
-Bush
Ziegler left at 11:38 am.
US foreign relations
-Foreign aid
-Kissinger’s view
-Multinational organizations
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
-Taiwan
-Amchitka
-Forthcoming announcement
The President's schedule
-Bush
-Ziegler’s statement
-Rogers
-Mitchell
-Rogers
Haldeman left at 11:42 am.
Defense budget
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s memorandum
-The President’s position
-Aircraft
-USSR
-Increases
-Melvin R. Laird
17
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Shultz
-Tax increases
-Connally
-Kissinger’s view
-Increases
-Conservatives
-Soviets
-Appropriations
-Military views
-Minutemen
-ABM
-Polaris
-Meeting, October 27, 1971
-Defense Department personnel
-Connally, Shultz, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Kissinger, Ehrlichman
-The President’s 1972 diplomacy
-Air Force
-Shultz
-Haig
-Air defense
-Amount
-Shultz, Weinberger
-The President’s view
-Polaris
The President's schedule
-Breakfast meeting with Rogers and Kissinger
The President's responsibilities
-Cabinet officers
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Compared with other administrations
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Summit trips
-State Department
-Rogers
-Haldeman
Ziegler entered at 11:48 am.
18
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-UN
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-Wording
-The President's attitude
-Multinational finance organizations
Haldeman entered at 11:49 am.
Ziegler left at 11:50 am.
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Purpose
-Value added tax [VAT]
-Connally
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Meetings, October 27, 1971
-Length
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Haig
-Defense budget
-Shultz
-Kissinger
-Meeting October 27, 1971 at 3:00 pm
-Kissinger
-Connally
-Shultz
-Kissinger's schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Edwin L. Harper
-Kenneth R. Cole
-Kissinger's schedule
-Paul W. McCracken
-State Department
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
The President's enemies
Rogers
-Previous meeting with the President and Kissinger
-Foreign policy challenges
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Communiqué
US foreign policy
-Rogers
-Communiqué with PRC
-Memorandum for Roger
-Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Warsaw Talks
-PRC
-Chou En-lai
-The President’s trip to PRC
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Connally
Kissinger left at 11:58 am.
The President's schedule
-Connally
-Shultz
-Burns
-Peterson
-McCracken
-Quadriad meeting
-Peterson
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
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-Peter M. Flanigan
-Peterson
-McCracken
-Tito
-Quadriad meeting, October 28, 1971
-Josip Broz Tito meeting
-Shultz’s forthcoming meeting with Peterson
-Quadriad
-Connally, Burns
-Tito
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Quadriad
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Scope of interest
-Shultz
-Connally
-Ehrlichman
-McCracken
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Burns
-Connally
Federal Reserve Board [FRB] candidates
-Burns
-Flanigan’s forthcoming conversation with Burns
-Selection compared with process for Supreme Court nominees
-Burger
-Earl Cocke
-American Legion
-Andrew F. Brimmer
-Burns
21
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-Name submissions
-Connally
-Shultz
-Peterson
The President's schedule
-Budget meeting
-Harper
-Cole
-Lewis A. Engman
-Mitchell
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
The President's relationship with Cabinet officers
-Rogers
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Communiqué
-Trip to USSR
-Timing of UN vote
-Kissinger's schedule
US foreign policy
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Ziegler
-Rogers
-News coverage
-Football
-Green Bay Packers
-Minnesota Vikings
-Television coverage
-Reagan
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Polls
-Gallup
-Harris
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Taiwan
-UN delegates
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 603- 1(cont.)
-PRC
-The President’s view of vote
-Ziegler’s statement
-UN Delegates
-Ziegler
-PRC
-Chou En-Lai
-American conservatives
-UN vote
-Buckley
-Ziegler
-Bush
-Schedule
Appointments
-Flanigan
-Rogers
-David M. Kennedy
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Kissinger
-Maurice H. Stans
-Mitchell
-Secretary of Commerce position
-Stans
-Peterson
-Secretary of Agriculture position
-Ehrlichman
-Frederic V. Malek
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Earl L. Butz
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Abilities
-Benefits
Haldeman left at 12:22 pm.
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