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615–4

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615–4
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
November 5, 1971
Conversation No. 615-4

Date: November 5, 1971
Time: 7:50 am - 9:10 am
Location: Oval Office

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

Charles W. Colson
-Schedule

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Colson and Henry A. Kissinger
-Forthcoming trip to Florida
-Departure time

White House statements
-Instruction for Ronald L. Ziegler
-Foreign aid
-Senate action
-The President’s policy
-National security
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Trip to Ghana
-William P. Rogers
-Press
-Announcement
-Timing
-Ghana Ambassador
-Kissinger

The President's schedule
-Trip to Latin America
-Rogers
-Brazil
-Brasilia
-Argentina
-Panama
-Darien Gay Highway dedication
-Nixon Highway
-Haldeman's staff
-Willy Brandt
-Forthcoming visit
-Announcement
-Announcement
-Location
-Florida
-Chicago
-Cincinnati
-Hotels
-Motorcade
-Miami
-Hotels
-Chicago
-Cincinnati
-Possible reception
-State Street
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Forthcoming trip
-Houston, Miami
-Motorcade
-Mexican-Americans
-San Antonio
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


-Alamo
-Timing
-The President's trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-1972 election
-Announcement
-John B. Connally


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 21s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-White House teas
-Event, November 5, 1971
-Constance M. (“Commie”) Stuart


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 12s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


-Ghana trip
-Peru
-Staff
-Agenda
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Purpose
-Peru trip

Rogers's conversation with Mrs. Nixon and Kissinger
-The President's arrival statement and toast for Indira Gandhi

The President's arrival statement for Gandhi
-Ziegler
-Television coverage
-Toast
-John A. Scali
-Richard A. Moore
-Kissinger
-The President's dinner for Gandhi, November 4, 1971
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Ziegler

Forthcoming trip to Ghana
-Announcement
-Timing

Foreign aid program
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Provisions
-Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal deadline
-Economic and military aid
-Vote
-Timing
-Roman C. Pucinski amendment

Pay Board
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 47s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Henry J. Taylor
-Rogers
-Alleged comments
-Concern about Andrei A. Gromyko
-USSR
-Veracity

Taylor
-Attendance at White House dinner

Polls
-A. C. Nielsen, Jr.
-Market research


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 14s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


Philip Roth
-Press coverage
-Newsweek
-Saturday Review
-New Republic

Unknown story
-Cambodians

Robert D. Novak
-Animosity towards Haldeman

The President's Supreme Court nominees
-Confirmation hearings
-William H. Rehnquist
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Rehnquist


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 4m 22s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10

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The President's schedule
-Possible dinners for foreign leaders
-Announcements
-US Marine Corps Band
-Locations
-Receptions
-Attendees
-Administration
-Congressmen
-State Department
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


-White House staff
-Locations
-California
-Comparison with astronauts dinner
-Marine band
-Gridiron dinner
-Entertainment
-Park dinner
-San Francisco
-Hand-shaking
-Astronaut dinner


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 4s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12

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-Service
-Food
-White House menu cards
-Entertainment
-Types
-Chorus

Ballet
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 34s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13

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White House dinners
-Entertainment
-Leonard Garment's role
-Philip Glass
-Josip Broz Tito
-Pete Fountain
-Mrs. Nixon
-Reaction
-Mrs. Nixon
-Penelope M. (“Penny”) Adams
-Mrs. Nixon
-Winchester
-Barbara Hickey
-Winchester's role
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Entertainment
-Edward K. (“Duke”) Ellington
-Pearl M. Bailey
-Brandt
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 24s ]


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-The President's involvement
-Programs
-Possible location
-Chicago
-Military program
-Brandt
-Germans

Unknown man
-Music


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[National Security]
[Duration: 11s ]


INDIA


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


Ceremony
-Weather

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 7:50 am.

Request that Colson and Kissinger join them

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:32 am.

Dinner for the President in India
-Trumpets

The President's previous visit to Spain
-Motorcade
-Horses
-Palace


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 56s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17

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County Executive
-Role of County Executive
-Board of Supervisors
-[Edward V. Regan?]

Visits of foreign guests
-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and the President
-Handling

Kissinger and Colson entered at 8:32 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)



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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18
[National Security]
[Duration: 16s ]


INDIA


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White House dinner
-Entertainment
-Ballet dancers

White House staff

Homosexuals
-Votes
-Numbers

The President's meeting with Republican congressmen, November 4, 1971
-John H. Kyl
-Possible future position with administration
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Price of corn
-Possible congressional action
-Previous grain sales to USSR
-Kennedy, Johnson
-Labor unions

US-Soviet relations
-Pending grain deal with USSR
-Colson
-Unions
-Maritime
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


-Longshoremen
-Forthcoming announcement
-Department of Agriculture
-Department of Commerce
-White House
-Recent relations with the USSR
-Kissinger’s call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, November 4, 1971
-Forthcoming announcement
-Cornbelt
-Senate
-Secretary of Agriculture
-J. Philip Campbell
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Possible Soviet reaction
-Unions' cooperation
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Ziegler
-Maurice H. Stans
-Campbell
-Department of Agriculture
-Public affairs
-Size of deal
-The President's role
-Labor unions
-Ziegler
-Maritime Administrator
-Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
-Jesse M. Calhoon and Paul Hall
-Carl T. Curtis, Jack R. Miller and Robert J. Dole
-Kyl
-John C. Whitaker
-Soviet interest
-Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
-Unions

The Administration
-Tendency to tell the truth

National economy
-Pay Board
-Labor's proposal
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


-George P. Shultz's view
-Action in House of Representatives
-Possible continuation of freeze
-Teachers
-Retroactivity
-Steel
-George Meany
-Colson's conversation with Shultz, November 4, 1971
-Pay Board
-Labor's proposal
-Cost of living
-Productivity
-Stock market
-The President's conversations
-Gustave L. Levy
-Head of New York Stock Exchange

Colson left at 8:46 am.

The President’s dinner for Gandhi, November 4, 1971


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 22
[National Security]
[Duration: 3s ]


INDIA


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 22

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-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-The President's toast
-Gandhi's toast
-Mrs. Nixon
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


-Pakistan
-Previous election in India

The President left at an unknown time before 8:50 am.

-Pakistan

The President's handling of meetings with Gandhi

Toasts at State Dinners
-Chief of protocol


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 27
[National Security]
[Duration: 4s ]


INDIA


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 27

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Length
-Josip Broz Tito
-Mexican President [Luis Echeverria Alvarez]

The President's schedule
-Brandt
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Brandt
-Chicago

The President entered at an unknown time after 8:46 am.

The President's forthcoming meeting with Gandhi
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


-Unilateral withdrawal

The President talked with Colson between 8:50 am and 8:52 am.

[Conversation No. 615-4A]

[See Conversation No. 13-147]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's dinner for Gandhi
-The President's conversation with Manolo Sanchez
-Women
-Politics

India-Pakistan relations

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 24
[National Security]
[Duration: 15s ]


INDIA


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The President's forthcoming conversation with Gandhi
-North Vietnam


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 28
[National Security]
[Duration: 3s ]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)




INDIA-PAKISTAN


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Gandhi's visit to US
-The President's handling
-Gandhi's expectations


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 29
[National Security]
[Duration: 6m ]


INDIA-PAKISTAN


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 29

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Instructions for Kissinger
-Forthcoming meeting with the press
-Democrats
-The President’s toast

Kissinger left at 9:00 am.

Kissinger
-Contacts with press
-Rowland Evans
-The President's conversation with Ziegler
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


-Evans and Novak

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:00 am.

The President's schedule
-Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:10 am.

Rogers’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Meeting with Gandhi
-John N. Irwin, II

Evans’s and Novak's book, Nixon in the White House
-The President's foreign policy

Philip Roth's book, Our Gang
-Possible White House reaction
-Column
-Moore
-William L. Safire's conversation with Haldeman
-John A. Scali's reaction
-Assassination
-Possible White House reaction
-Kennedy assassination
-Date
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Speech
-Kennedy assassination

The President's schedule
-Brandt visit
-Timing
-Kissinger
-Motorcades
-Chicago
-Weather
-PRC trip

Polls
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


-Press
-James B. Reston
-Attacks
-Background
-The President's foreign policy
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China

The President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Space
-Hotel
-Plane
-Whitaker and Garment

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 25
[Privacy]
[Duration: 29s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 25

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-Arrangements
-Delaware
-Beaver Island
-Lodge
-Florida trip
-Timing
-Rogers
-Rogers
-Gandhi

Latin America
-Trip
-Rogers
-Argentina
-Brazil
-Panama
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 615-4 (cont.)


-Highway

Use of the President's name
-Compared to Johnson's
-Johnson Forest
-Image
-Panama highway

Haldeman left at 9:10 am.
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