609–3

Conversation No. 609-3

Date: October 30, 1971
Time: 8:54 am - 9:58 am
Location: Oval Office

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

The President's telephone call to Henry A. Kissinger
-Foreign aid

The President's schedule
-Chicago
-W. Clement Stone
-Illinois Masonic Medical Center
-Dedication
-Melvin R. Laird
-Agenda
-Europe meeting
-Asian trip
-Budget
-Kissinger's view
-Senate action

The President's schedule

Kissinger entered at 8:57 am.

-Foreign aid program
-Laird
-Budget

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:57 am.

Charles W. Colson

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:03 am.

The President's schedule
-Luncheon
-Laird
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Laird
-Forthcoming trip to Southeast Asia
-Troop withdrawals

Foreign aid program
-Senate vote
-Administration response
-Kissinger’s view
-Ronald L. Ziegler's comment
-News summary
-Administration's activities
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger's previous telephone call to Robert P. Griffin
-Republicans
-Democrats
-Cambodia
-Press coverage
-Ziegler
-The President's opponents
-Edward M. Kennedy and Taiwan, Republic of China

Kennedy
-New York Times story regarding United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-Kissinger's meeting with John Kenneth Galbraith

Colson entered at 9:03 am.

-Votes on Taiwan aid
-Reaction to UN vote on Taiwan

UN vote on Taiwan
-Kennedy's speech
-State Department
-Possible leak
-Kissinger's previous trip
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Ronald W. Reagan
-State Department
-New York Times story on Kennedy's speech
-1972 campaign
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-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kissinger's meeting with Galbraith

Foreign aid program
-Senate vote
-Clark MacGregor
-Hugh Scott, Griffin
-Kissinger's conversation with MacGregor
-Kissinger's conversation with Griffin
-Scott, Kennedy, John V. Tunney, James L. Buckley
-Possible reversal
-Kissinger’s view
-Parliamentary procedure
-Foreign military aid
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Rogers
-Popular opinion polls
-Leaks

Kissinger left at 9:09 am.

-The President's opponents
-Kissinger, Rogers
-The President's opponents
-J. William Fulbright
-The President’s view

Kennedy
-Kissinger
-Speech
-Strategy
-Statements opposing the President's policies
-Colson’s view
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Vietnam
-Time, Newsweek

Press coverage
-Time, Newsweek
-Kissinger's previous trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
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-State Department
-UN vote on Taiwan

UN vote on Taiwan
-The President’s view
-George H.W. Bush’s performance
-UN conduct

Kennedy’s position on PRC and Taiwan
-Possible attack by Bush
-“Issues and Answers”
-Israel
-Statement regarding the President’s PRC initiative
-The President’s view
-McGeorge Bundy
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Statement regarding UN vote on Taiwan
-Peace groups
-The President’s view
-Earl Warren

UN vote on Taiwan
-Foreign aid program
-Senate vote
-Mansfield
-Republicans

Foreign aid program
-Popular opinion
-Intellectuals

Judicial appointments
-The President's opponents' actions
-Popular opinion
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Women

Foreign aid program
-Senate vote
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Kissinger's view
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 609-3 (cont.)


-Continuing resolution
-Southeast Asia
-Israel
-Possible Presidential veto
-Greece

UN vote on Taiwan
-Press coverage
-Statements by the President, Rogers, and Bush
-Foreign aid program
-Congress
-Ziegler’s statement

Foreign aid program
-Opponents
-The President’s view
-Importance

Kennedy
-Robert J. Dole's forthcoming speech

Ernest F. Hollings
-Textiles

The President's opponents
-Compared to Republicans during Democrat administrations
-Reagan, Barry M. Goldwater
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations
-Gerald R. Ford
-Everett M. Dirksen
-Spiro T. Agnew's possible speech
-Elliot L. Richardson's forthcoming speech in Boston
-Edward Kennedy

Edward Kennedy
-Statements
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Foreign aid
-Press coverage
-Compared to Robert F. Kennedy's actions
-The President’s view
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-Johnson
-Vietnam
-Compared to George W. Romney's \"brainwash\" statement
-Press treatment

Kissinger
-Previous trip to PRC
-Previous UN vote on Taiwan
-State Department


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Edward Kennedy
-Possible attacks
-Statements on PRC and UN vote on Taiwan
-Bush
-Scott
-Goldwater

Mansfield
-Colson’s view
-The President’s view
-Background
-Compared to George Meany, Richard J. Daley

Edward Kennedy
-Bush's possible attacks
-Vietnam
-UN vote on Taiwan
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 609-3 (cont.)


Kissinger entered at 9:36 am.

-Kissinger's previous meeting with Galbraith
-1972 campaign

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:36 am.

Instruction
-New York Times

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:56 am.

-W[illiam] Averell Harriman's advice to Edward Kennedy
-Kitty Harriman

UN vote on Taiwan
-The President's statement
-Conduct of UN delegates
-Foreign aid

Fund for Peace
-Ford Foundation
-Kissinger's friends
-The President’s view

Galbraith
-Views on the President's economic program
-Kissinger’s view

Edward Kennedy
-Statements
-The President's forthcoming visit to PRC
-Timing
-Haile Selassie's forthcoming visit to US

Roger L. Stevens
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Kennedy Center
-John Kennedy
-Robert Kennedy
-Stevens’s view
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-Edward Kennedy, sisters
-Stevens’s view
-Interest in the arts
-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-Interest in the arts
-Stevens’s view

Edward Kennedy
-Possible attacks

Kissinger’s recent trip to PRC
-Kissinger's previous press conference
-Scheduling and timing
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Rogers

UN vote on Taiwan
-Timing
-Right-wing response
-White House response
-The President’s view
-Foreign aid
-Delegate response to vote
-The President’s view

Foreign aid program
-The President’s view
-Ziegler’s statement
-Mansfield
-Kissinger’s view
-Previous Senate vote
-Cambodia
-Laos, Vietnam
-Scott's efforts
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Griffin

Scott
-Kissinger’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Actions on previous vote
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 609-3 (cont.)



Edward Kennedy
-Possible attacks
-Cheap tricks

Foreign aid program
-New York Times possible editorial
-Previous UN vote on Taiwan and China
-Previous Senate vote
-Republican Senators' expectations
-Mansfield
-Democrats
-Kissinger’s view

Edward Kennedy
-Attacks on the President
-Compared to Hollings
-Statements about the President’s policy toward PRC and Taiwan
-Motive

Campaign practices
-Edward Kennedy
-Cartoon in London Express
-White House distribution
-Effectiveness

The President's schedule
-Josip Broz Tito
-Length of meeting

Tito
-Statements regarding the President
-Press club

UN vote on Taiwan
-State Department and National Security Council [NSC]

Colson and Kissinger left at 9:56 am.

United Republicans of California [UROC]
-Possible “Dump Nixon” delegation
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-John G. Schmitz
-John N. Mitchell
-Reagan

Haldeman left at 9:58 am.