618–11

Conversation No. 618-11

Date: November 15, 1971
Time: 8:54 am - 10:20 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Peter M. Flanigan.

Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Appointments
-Unknown man from Texas
-Patrick E. Haggerty
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-John B. Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-World Bank
-Democrat
-Republican
-Democrats
-Williamson S. Stuckey, Jr.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 8:59 am.

-Hoyt Ammidon
-Burns's views
-Connally
-Stuckey
-Money supply
-Burns's talk in New York City
-Gabriel Hauge's views
-Appointments
-Stuckey
-Clark MacGregor's views
-Republicans
-Frederic V. Malek
-List

North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Mansfield D. Sprague
-John J. McCloy
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Schedule

Japan
-Armin H. Meyer
-Paul W. McCracken
-George Champion
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
-Ammidon
-Elizabeth (Callaway) Ammidon
-Finances
-France
-Alice (James) Meyer
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-Ammidon
-Flanigan's forthcoming conversations
-Connally and Rogers
-Champion

Walter N. Thayer
-NATO
-Sprague
-Eastern Establishment
-Possible role with Administration
-FRB
-Japan
-NATO
-Loyalty
-Ash Council
-Views regarding Connally
-Staff
-Ripon Society
-State Department
-Connally
-Kissinger
-[David] Kenneth Rush

Ammidon
-Possible role with Administration

Japan
-US Ambassador
-Flanigan's conversation with Rogers
-Meyer
-Champion
-Flanigan's forthcoming conversation with Connally

Thayer
-Possible role with Administration
-NATO

Ammidon
-Corporate experience
-Japan
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Thayer and Sprague

Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Possible role with Administration
-Rogers

Stuckey
-Flanigan's forthcoming conversation with MacGregor
-Burns
-New York
-Georgia
-Management experience

National economy
-Money supply
-Gustave L. Levy's possible note to Burns
-Burns
-Two speeches in New York City
-Calvin Bullock Forum
-Stock exchange
-Ralph D'Annunzio
-New York City speeches
-McCracken
-Connally, November 16, 1971
-George W. Romney
-Burns
-Burns
-Treatment by the President
-Predecessor
-Support
-FRB
-Media
-FRB
-Money supply

Ammidon
-Possible role with Administration
-Japan
-The President's conversation with Connally

Thayer
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-Possible role with Administration
-Kissinger

Stuckey
-Flanigan's conversation with MacGregor
-Party registration
-Congressional district
-Georgia
-Family

Flanigan left at 9:14 am.

Appointments
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peter G. Peterson
-Possible role with administration
-Commerce Department
-Stans
-Tenure in office
-Forthcoming trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Tenure in office
-Haldeman's conversation with John N. Mitchell
-1972 election

Mitchell
-Tenure in office
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Justice Department


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Stans
-Tenure in office
-Mitchell
-Herbert W. Kalmbach

Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
-Milton R. Young
-Democrats
-George S. McGovern and Hubert H. Humphrey
-Meeting with Herman E. Talmadge
-Young

Confirmations
-Public concern

Commerce Department
-Stans
-Peterson
-Flanigan

Mitchell
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Peterson

Commerce Department
-Peterson
-Women


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Clifford M. and Marta L. (Wood) Hardin
-Possible event
-Timing
-Stans

Butz
-Confirmation
-Young

Commerce Department
-Peterson
-Woman
-Possible reaction of businessmen

Women in government
-Supreme Court
-Commerce Department
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Labor Department
-The President's Cabinet
-Political impact


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Cabinet and White House Staff
-Foreign trips
-Unknown person’s conversation with Haldeman
-Connally's views
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-1972 election
-Robert H. Finch
-Second term
-John A. Volpe
-Hardin
-Stans
-Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-John H. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
-Wives
-Japan
-Kissinger's office
-Foreign policy strategy
-Exceptions
-Japan
-Connally


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-Agenda for forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Volpe
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Volpe
-Members' schedules
-Stans

The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
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Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Allen J. Ellender
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger's possible actions
-Firings
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

-District of Columbia government, Agency for International Development
[AID], Justice Department

Budget
-Blame
-The President
-Senate Democrats
-Ellender
-Michael J. Mansfield

The President's schedule
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
convention
-Ehrlichman's view
-Connally
-George Meany
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Program
-James Suffridge and Victor Riesel
-Meany
-Democrats
-Meany
-Unions
-Ehrlichman

Budget
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-Senate
-Possible public opinion
-Federal employees
-Pay
-Ruling of Comptroller General
-Senate Democrats
-Mansfield
-Ellender
-Motives
-Foreign aid

Lyndon B. Johnson
-Appearance

White House staff
-Leaks
-The Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
-J. Edgar Hoover

Watergate
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI] interviews
-[Forename unknown] Stein and Schorr's brother
FBI records
-White House review


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Schorr
-Leaks regarding FBI investigation
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-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Time
-Relations with Charles W. Colson
-Leaks regarding FBI investigation
-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.’s forthcoming conversation with MacGregor
-Possible appointment
-Russell E. Train committee
-Mary McGrory

Hoover
-Tenure in office
-The Vice President

White House staff
-Contacts with press

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.

-Church service
-[Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s] views
-Attendees
-Handshaking
-W. Clement Stone’s relative
-Ambassadors
-NATO
-Prisoner of war [POW] wives
-Congressmen
-State dinners
-Rose Mary Woods
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Willy Brandt
-1972

Kissinger entered at 9:45 am.

Budget
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-Continuing resolution
-Defense Department, foreign aid
-Mansfield
-Voluntarism
-Post office

Connally
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Senate

Budget
-Firings
-Haldeman's forthcoming call to Connally

Haldeman left at 9:50 am

German-American Conference
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally

International economy
-Economics
-Connally's views
-Convertibility
-Burns's views
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
-The President's conversation with Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Summits
-Connally's views
-US public
-Japan
-Politics
-Kissinger's recent conversation with Connally
-Connally's trip

Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Agenda
-Connally
-Volpe
-Previous trip
-Poland, Romania
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-Connally

Connally's trip
-International concerns
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-US presence in Asia


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Connally's trip
-Possible letters
-Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto
-Thailand, Philippines, Japan
-Nations' concerns
-Foreign aid, treaties, Nixon Doctrine

US-PRC contacts
-White House leak
-Chou En-lai's views
-Rogers's possible conversation with Joseph J. Sisco

Connally's trip
-Meyer
-Mrs. Meyer
-Francis J. Galbraith
-Martha Townsley (Fisher) Galbraith
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The President's possible letters
-Eisaku Sato
-New Zealand and Australia
-Lee Kuan Yew
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Connally’s view

International economy
-Kissinger's role
-Flanigan's role
-Peterson's role
-Commerce Department
-Flanigan
-Role
-Peterson
-Complexity
-White House
-Kissinger, Connally and George P. Shultz
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Politics

Congress
-Foreign aid bill
-Vote

The President's reading
-Abraham Lincoln
-Winston S. Churchill

Cabinet
-The President's conversation with Connally
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers

International economy
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
-The President’s forthcoming trips to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR] and PRC
-Convertibility
-Pompidou
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-Gold
-Convertibility

Connally

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-The President's announcement of November 12, 1971
-Newspapers' reaction
-Timing
-Reaction
-Announcements
-Laird
-Infiltration
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak's column
-Congress
-Troop withdrawal announcement

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Kissinger's forthcoming trip

Kissinger's schedule
-Connally

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:45 am and
10:03 am.

[Conversation No. 618-11A]

[See Conversation No. 14-101]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's forthcoming trip
-Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Foreign aid
-Federal employees
-Possible action
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The President talked with John B. Connally between 10:03 am and 10:05 am.

[Conversation No. 618-11B]

[See Conversation No. 14-102]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-The President's meetings with Josip Broz Tito and Indira Gandhi
-Troop withdrawal
-The President's announcement
-Residual force
-North Vietnamese reaction
-Negotiations
-United Nations [UN]
-USSR
-POWs

International economy
-Connally
-Kissinger's conversation with The Earl of Cromer
-[James] Harold Wilson
-Burns
-Convertibility
-Unknown West German’s views
-Rainer Barzel
-Gold
-France
-Laird
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Laird
-Canada
-Negotiations
-Peterson's views
-Undeveloped nations
-Rogers's views
-Latin America
-Strategy
-Europe
-Meeting of Group of Ten
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-Connally's trip to Alaska

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-Rogers's views
-Negotiations
-Publicity
-Connally
-Mansfield
-Negotiations
-Publicity
-Timing
-PRC trip

Connally
-Press
-Conversation with Kissinger

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-Rogers and Laird
-Input
-Negotiations
-Le Duc Tho

Kissinger's schedule
-PRC ambassador
-Forthcoming announcement
-Communications
-Peking
-New York
-Paris
-Marshall Green

Pakistan foreign secretary
-Schedule
-Kissinger
-The President
-Possible meeting
-Conversation with Kissinger
-PRC
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-UN

UN
-USSR and PRC

Cabinet
-Members' foreign trips
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
-Meetings with the President
-Stans
-Forthcoming trip to USSR
-Volpe
-Rogers
-McCracken
-Meetings with leaders
-Kissinger
-Laird, Kissinger and Rogers
-Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Shultz and Ehrlichman
-The Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]

Agnew
-Possible role with administration
-Secretary of State

Kissinger
-New York Times Magazine article
-News summary
-Access to the President
-Vietnam
-The President’s decision making style

Cabinet
-Members' trips
-Volpe
-Finch
-Activities
-Message from Kissinger
-Announcements by the President
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The President's schedule
-Foreign visitors
-Pompidou
-Rogers's possible reaction
-Foreign visits
-Rogers, Connally and Laird

Kissinger left at 10:20 am.