610–1

Conversation No. 610-1

Date: November 1, 1971
Time: 4:04 pm - 5:08 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress]

Washington Star
-[Smith Hempstone, Jr..?]
-Articles
-Stance toward Administration
-Relationship to Charles W. Colson
-US Marine Corps
-Trip to Africa
-George Sherman
-Sherman's stories
-State Department
-Colson
-Sherman's schedule
-Colson
-Kissinger

Robert Kleiman
-New York Times editorial, November 1, 1971
-William P. Rogers's role in People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Patrol
-Cancellation
-Notification of PRC
-Pakistan channel
-Channel
-July 15, 1971 announcement
-1969 initiative

The PRC initiative
-State Department
-Rogers's role
-Taiwan patrol
-Warsaw talks
-Trip to the PRC
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-Cambodian invasion
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-Warsaw talks
-The President’s order to Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-State Department

Kleiman

Sherman's stories
-Kissinger
-Relationship with the President
-State Department

The PRC initiative
-Rogers
-John A. Scali
-Conversation with Kissinger
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Role
-Process
-Romania channel
-Kissinger’s record of messages
-Historians
-New York Times

Melvin R. Laird

Rogers

Kissinger's schedule
-Sherman
-Colson
-Crosby S. Noyes's request
-Star Editorial Board
-Sherman
-Colson
-Washington Post

Foreign aid program
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-State Department

Rogers
-Statement to Scali
-The PRC initiative
-The President
-Knowledge of the PRC initiative
-Kissinger's trip to Pakistan
-Message

Foreign aid program
-Senate meeting, November 1, 1971
-Security assistance
-Development assistance
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Clark MacGregor
-Colson
-Kissinger
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Rogers
-House of Representatives
-Public statements
-MacGregor
-George H. Mahon
-Gerald R. Ford
-Carl B. Albert

The President's schedule
-William McMahon
-Possible statement to the press
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State Department
-News leaks
-Rogers
-White House
-Green
-PRC talks
-Martin J. Hillenbrand
-Soviet talks
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Chou En-lai
-Diplomatic arrangements
-Kissinger

Laird

John N. Mitchell, George P. Shultz and H. R. Haldeman entered and Kissinger left at 4:15 pm.

Kissinger
-The PRC initiative

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Possible clemency
-Possible pardon
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons's efforts
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Executive clemency
-Procedures
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-Mitchell
-The President
-Recommendation
-Parole board
-Mitchell
-Timing
-Possible parole
-Public perception
-1972 election
-Executive clemency
-Mitchell’s view
-Possible quid pro quo by Fitzsimmons
-Pay Board
-The President’s economic program
-George Meany

Pay Board
-Shultz’s view
-Meany and Leonard Woodcock
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-
CIO]
-Woodcock and Fitzsimmons
-Meany
-Public perception

Hoffa
-Fitzsimmons's efforts
-Executive clemency
-Possible conditions
-1972 election
-Teamsters
-Views of Barry M. Goldwater and John J. Rhodes
-Activities of opponents
-Parole board
-Woodcock's meeting with Shultz
-Fitzsimmons
-Meany's views
-I[lwirth] W[ilbur] Abel’s view
-Quid pro quo
-The President’s economic program
-Time served
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-Sentence
-Executive clemency
-Parole Board's actions
-James Hoffa, Jr. and attorney
-Hoffa's labor connections
-Resignations
-Hoffa's finances

Teamsters
-Construction unions
-Maurice A. Hutcheson
-Hoffa
-Walter P. Reuther
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Fitzsimmons and Woodcock
-United Auto Workers [UAW]
-Reuther
-Alliance for Labor Action
-AFL-CIO
-Woodcock
-General Motors strike
-Differences in viewpoints
-Fitzsimmons
-Social issues
-Dues collection
-Voter registration
-Reuther
-Effectiveness for minorities
-Chicago

Hoffa
-Executive clemency
-Possible conditions
-Others awaiting presidential action
-Restoration of civil rights
-Typicality
-Possible reaction
-Mitchell's lunch with Time-Life and Fortune staffs, November 1, 1971
-Rogers and Kissinger
-Political prisoner question
-Parole period
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-Discrimination
-Conduct in prison
-Executive clemency
-Political considerations
-Public perception of labor leaders
-Edward M. Kennedy's possible reaction
-Robert Kennedy
-Possible effects on the Administration
-Benefit
-Criticism
-Teamsters endorsement of Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968
-Executive clemency
-Discrimination
-Timing
-1972 election
-Parole board
-Possible action
-Perception
-Conditions
-Fitzsimmons

Pay Board
-Fitzsimmons
-Possible vote
-Effect on Teamsters and construction workers

Hoffa
-Teamsters' impressions
-Fitzsimmons
-The President's speech to Teamsters convention
-Unionists' support
-Executive clemency
-Possible reaction by critics
-Compared to release of Black Panther
-Dr. Thomas W. Matthew

Matthew
-Executive clemency
-Leonard Garment's memorandum to the President
-Activities
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Hoffa
-As symbol
-Robert Kennedy's activities
-Executive clemency
-Edward Kennedy's possible reaction
-John L. McClellan's possible reaction

National economy
-Pay Board
-Wage contracts
-Shultz's conversation with Arnold R. Weber
-Retroactivity
-Railroad workers
-Freeze period
-Cost of Living Council [COLC] decision
-Meany's view
-Retroactivity
-Prices
-Views of Woodcock and Fitzsimmons
-Automobile workers
-Milton Friedman's views
-Sanctity of contracts
-Timing of decision
-Meany's possible action
-Administration's response
-Weber
-John B. Connally
-Contingency plan
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-Price commission
-Reasonable standards
-Wage and price freeze
-Possible fate
-Timing
-Support
-Labor
-Canada
-Preparation
-The President's program
-Possible action
-Extension of freeze
-Involvement
-Standards
-Legal status
-Congress
-James Tobin
-Article of October 31, 1971
-Yale University
-John F. Kennedy
-Article
-Content
-Kermit Gordon's view
-Possible reaction
-Presidential intervention
-Tobin

Shultz and Haldeman left at 4:53 pm.


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National economy
-Pay Board
-Prospects
-Wage and price controls
-Meany's possible action
-Meany’s support with labor
-Shultz
-Mitchell's conversation with Fitzsimmons, October 30, 1971
-Public board
-Administration's action
-Congress
-Labor
-Need for planning
-Shultz and Weber
-Arthur F. Burns
-L. Patrick Gray's actions
-Meany's possible action
-Administration's reaction
-Shultz

Hoffa
-Executive clemency
-Mitchell’s view
-The President’s further actions
-Relationship with organized labor

The President's schedule
-Mitchell
-McMahon
-Rogers

Mitchell left and Robert L. Kunzig and Frederic L. Malek entered at 5:02 pm.

Kunzig
-Role in administration
-Justice Department
-American Bar Association [ABA]'s action
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Confirmation as judge
-Nomination
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-Retirement of predecessor
-Timing
-Deal with White House
-Previous confirmations
-Hugh Scott
-Possible leak

Presentation of gifts by the President

Kunzig
-Performance

Kunzig and Malek left at 5:18 pm.