604–6

Conversation No. 604-6

Date: October 27, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:32 pm and 3:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger

Haldeman left and Kissinger entered at 2:53 pm

Kissinger's schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Defense Department budget
-John B. Connally
-Caspar W. Weinberger

Defense Department budget
-Authorization
-Appropriation
-Shultz
-Preparation for forthcoming meeting

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan expulsion
-Assignment for Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s instructions
-Great Britain
-France
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-Botswana
-Kissinger’s view
-South Africa
-The President’s view
-Effect on US policy
-Surtax
-Shultz
-Connally
-Japan
-Canada
-Latin America
-Mexico

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:53 pm.

The President's schedule
-Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

UN vote on Taiwan’s expulsion
-US policy
-Peter G. Peterson

Briefing for Connally
-Okinawa
-Kissinger
-Monetary situation
-William H. Sullivan
-Vietnam
-Japan
-Kissinger’s view
-Participation
-Department of State
-Talks with the Japanese
-Charles A. Meyer
-Sullivan
-State Department
-Indonesia
-Military
-Francis J. Galbraith
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-Sullivan
-Vietnam
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Thailand
-Leonard Unger
-Kissinger’s view
-Meyer
-Role in Japan
-Possible replacement
-Monetary situation
-Arthur F. Burns
-Okinawa
-State Department
-Kissinger's schedule
-Briefing
-Connally's schedule
-Quadriad meeting
-State Department
-Sullivan
-Connally’s foreign trip
-T.N.J. Suharto
-Eisaku Sato
-Sullivan
-US Ambassador

UN vote to expel Taiwan
-White House response
-George H. W. Bush
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Rhetoric
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-The President's attendance at previous UN session
-Reception
-Secretary General
-Possible future trip to UN

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:07 pm,

The President's schedule

John B. Connally, John D. Ehrlichman, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., George P. Shultz, and Caspar W.
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Weinberger entered at 3:07 pm.

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

Greetings

The President's schedule
-Shultz
-Quadriad meeting

Connally
-Forthcoming foreign trip
-The President’s conversation with Kissinger
-Political briefing
-Quadriad meeting

UN ambassadors
-Arthur Goldberg

Unknown man
-Kissinger

Defense Department
-Budget
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-Melvin R. Laird
-Defense outlay
-Joint review
-David Packard
-Kissinger, Packard, Shultz
-Air defense system
-National Security Council [NSC] staff, Office of Management and Budget
[OMB] staff
-Kissinger
-Defense outlay
-Foreign policy objectives
-Laird
-Projected sum
-Outlay management
-Effect on domestic economy
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-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Arms control negotiations
-Cuts
-Air defense systems
-Kissinger’s view
-Shultz
-USSR
-Strategic Concerns
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Radar
-PRC
-Forthcoming visit
-Laird
-Effect
-Army
-Air Force
-The President’s view
-Air defense system
-USSR
-Aircraft
-Size of Army and Navy
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Strategic capabilities
-Arms control negotiations
-Missiles
-Polaris and Minutemen missiles
-USSR defense activities
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Popular confidence in defense program
-USSR
-PRC
-Arms talks
-Budget deficits
-Taxes
-Inflation
-Congressional action
-American Conservatives
-ABM
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-John F. Kennedy's allegations of \"Missile Gap\" in 1960
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-Domestic opposition
-Possible White House strategy
-Soviets
-Chinese
-Army and Marine Divisions
-Obligational authority
-Amounts
-Navy
-Ships
-Effect on budget
-Polaris
-Undersea Long-range Missile System [ULMS] development
-USSR
-Kissinger’s role
-Strategic review
-Budget presentations
-Navy
-Air Force
-Army
-The President’s view
-Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
-Comments on Strategy
-Navy modernization
-Schedule
-Delay in final decision
-Connally's trip
-Obligational authority
-Connally’s view
-Programs
-Costs
-Manpower
-Strategic weapons
-ABM
-Polaris
-The President's forthcoming meetings
-Soviets
-Chinese
-Military base closings
-Connally’s view
-Future
-Strategic arms
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Tape Subject Log
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-Economic issues
-Procurement programs
-Effect
-Manpower
-The President’s decision
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-Weinberger
-Contrast with social programs
-Laird’s view
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-Intelligence community
-Quality
-The President’s view
-Taxes
-USSR
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-US-USSR Summit
-Military construction
-Military outlays
-Revenue sharing
-Taxes

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
-Timing

Connally, Ehrlichman, Shultz, Haig, Weinberger left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.

-Ziegler
-Quadriad

Connally
-The President’s view
-William P. Rogers
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Support for the President's policies

UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Administration's reaction
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 604-6 (cont.)


-Rogers's statement
-PRC
-Kissinger's recent itinerary
-Well wishers for the President's trip to PRC
-Barry M. Goldwater, Sr.
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger's forthcoming briefing
-The President’s previous statement
-Secretary of State's previous statement
-Delegate behavior during UN vote
-US diplomatic relations
-Botswana
-Kissinger’s view
-Spain
-Italy
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call

The President and Kissinger left at 3:45 pm.