614–7

Conversation No. 614-7

Date: November 4, 1971
Time: 1:10 pm - 1:48 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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The President's welcoming statement for Indira Gandhi
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Press dissemination
-Significance
-Preparation
-Staff

Prime Minister William McMahon's remarks
-Press dissemination
-[George H.] Gallup poll

The President's activities

The White House operator talked with the President at 1:11 pm; the President talked with Robert
H. Steele between 1:11 pm and 1:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 614-7A]

[See Conversation No. 13-117; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's activities
-Public relations
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Richard A. Moore's efforts
-John A. Scali
-Substance
-Compared to color

The President's schedule
-Arthur F. Burns
-George P. Shultz's view

Stephen B. Bull entered at 1:12 p.m.

-Forthcoming call
-Secretary
-Indian delegation

Bull left at 1:12 pm.
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The White House operator talked with the President at 1:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 614-7B]

[See Conversation No. 13-118]

[End of telephone conversation]

Burns
-Shultz
-The President's letter

The President's activities
-Public relations
-Ziegler
-Scali
-Moore
-Public speaking
-Toasts and arrival statements
-Notes

The President's schedule
-John N. Mitchell
-Florida
-Haldeman’s schedule
-Indira Gandhi
-Recent meeting

Unknown man [Robert H. Finch?]
-Forthcoming recommendation on Latin America

Clark MacGregor
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Congress's schedule
-House vote, November 4, 1971
-Busing
-Senate
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The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 1:12 pm and
1:48 pm.

[Conversation No. 614-7C]

[See Conversation No. 13-119]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Florida
-[Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon?]

Kissinger
-Morale
-Maxine Cheshire

Cheshire

Thomas Van Husen Vail
-Article

The President’s schedule
-Possible meeting with editors

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.

Vail
-Exclusive
-Advantages
-Story regarding the President

The President's image
-Popular opinion
-Ziegler

The President's welcoming statement for Gandhi
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-“Indian summer” comment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

The President's toast for McMahon
-World War II coastwatchers

White House staff
-Writers
-Background

Vail
-Story regarding the President
-Phase II
-Cleveland Browns

The President's activities
-Public relations
-Ziegler
-William L. Safire
-Moore

National economy
-Pay and Price Boards

The President’s schedule


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-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Willy Brandt
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-Marjorie Merriweather Post
-Hotels in Florida
-Miami Beach
-Key Biscayne

National economy
-Stock market, November 3, 1971
-Dow Jones
-Seasonal adjustment
-Unknown person
-The President’s August 15, 1971 speech

Foreign trips by administration officials
-Goodwill
-Rogers
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Policy for the Americas
-Trip To Latin America
-Purpose
-Consultation
-Finch’s possible comments

Burns

Guest lists for White House Dinners
-The President's conversation with Rose Mary Woods
-1972 election
-Ethnic makeup
-Italians, Polish, Blacks
-Charles W. Colson
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Italians, Polish, Irish Catholics
-White House staff
-Kissinger
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Woods
-Fred J. Russell
-Election year
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Military
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-Woods
-Staff
-Cabinet
-Secretary of State
-Supreme Court justice
-Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
Burns
-Senators and Congressmen
-State Dinner, November 4, 1971
-Secretary of State
-Cabinet officer
-Supreme Court
-Potter Stewart
-Gerard C. Smith
-Commandant of Coast Guard [Chester R. Bender]
-Vice Chief of Staff of Air Force [John C. Meyer]
-Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel of Army [Walter T. Kerwin, Jr.]
-Commanding General, Marine Corps Development and Education Command,
Quantico, Virginia [William G. Thrash]
-Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes's recommendations
-Woods
-Guests
-Indians
-Louis P. Harris
-Military

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming dinner
-Kissinger
-Unknown item
-Location

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.

Visitors
-Foreigners
-Evening at the White House

White House dinners
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-Hand-shaking
-Church services
-Mrs. Nixon's views
-Lucy A. Winchester's views
-Duration
-Abraham Lincoln's second Inaugural Ball
-Carl Sandburg
-Hand-shaking
-Number
-Location
-Patent Office
-Numbers
-Church services

Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President's schedule
-Florida
-Views regarding United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Public response
-Memorandum
-Florida trip
-W. Kenneth Riland's view
-Housing
-Mitchell

The President and Haldeman left at 1:48 pm.