621–18

Conversation No. 621-18

Date: November 20, 1971
Time: 8:45 am - 10:45 am
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Location: Oval Office

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[Conversation No. 621-18A]

[See Conversation No. 15-58]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 8:45 am.

The President conferred with Haldeman during the telephone conversation.

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's previous conversation with Shultz

The President's schedule
-Trips
-Press coverage
-Announcements
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-California
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope Center
-Press coverage of American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO] speech
-Gerald L. Warren's statement
-Ziegler

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 8:55 am.

Vietnam

Thomas H. Moorer
-Schedule
-Kissinger
-Melvin R. Laird

Kissinger's schedule
-British Ambassador
-Moorer
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International monetary situation
-William P. Rogers
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Rogers's conversation with the President
-Cabinet
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers
-John B. Connally

The President's schedule
-Foreign visits
-Scheduling
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Bill signing
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Autopen
-Congress's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors
-Latin America
-Timing
-Congress schedule
-President’s annual foreign policy report
-PRC
-Eisaku Sato visit
-Australia
-New Zealand
-Japan
-Possible meeting in Hawaii
-Location
-Timing
-Logistics
-Australia
-American Samoa
-Guam
-Hawaii
-West Coast
-San Clemente
-Australia
-Japan
-Sato’s visit to San Clemente
-Willy Brandt’s visit to Key Biscayne
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-New Zealand
-Indonesia
-France
-Great Britain
-West Germany
-Timing of announcements
-George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Timing of announcements
-PRC
-Great Britain
-France
-Press conference
-Lord Cromer
-Possible meeting with Rogers

Charles W. Colson entered and the President and Kissinger left at 9:12 am.

-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Return to Washington
-Press coverage

The President entered at an unknown time after 9:12 am.

-Changes of plan
-Announcements
-Previous visit to Florida
-Ziegler
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule
-Reception
-Ziegler
-Reporters
-Weather
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Football game
-California
-Changes of plan
-Previous visit to Florida
-Press coverage
-Associated Press [AP]
-Frank Cormier
-Washington Star
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-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Press coverage
-John A. Scali
-The President’s view
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Press coverage
-White House staff activities
-National 4-H Congress
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Reaction
-Richard A. Moore and Scali
-Reaction
-New York Times
-George Meany
-Christian A. Herter, Jr.


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Herter
-Colson’s view
-The President’s previous association with Herter
-Herter’s wife
-Common Cause

The President's schedule
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Press coverage
-Cormier
-Cormier’s report
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-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Dan Rather
-Content and phraseology of story
-New York Times
-Mrs. Nixon
-Warren
-Washington Post
-Helen A. Thomas
-Conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Cormier
-Public reaction
-Colson’s view

The President's previous conversation with Shultz
-Press
-Meany
-The President's economic program

The President's schedule
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Press coverage
-Networks
-Associated Press [AP] and United Press International [UPI]
-Rather
-Handling of applause and laughter
-Ziegler
-[Unintelligible man]

Edith Efron's book [The News Twisters]
-Press coverage
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's conversation with the President
-Hubert H. Humphrey

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 9:12 am and 9:45 am.

[Conversation No. 621-18B]

Requested tape previously dictated for James D. Hodgson

[End of telephone conversation]
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The President's schedule
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Herbert G. Klein
-Conversation with William L. Safire
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Press coverage
-The President’s view
-Content and phraseology
-Patrick J. Buchanan's possible review
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Memorandum previously dictated to Hodgson
-Colson
-Hodgson's possible speech
-Content and phraseology
-White House speechwriters
-Hodgson

National economy
-The President's program
-Pay Board
-Meany

The President's schedule
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Press coverage
-Scali, Moore and Safire
-Telegrams to Meany
-Colson’s efforts
-Possible content and phraseology
-Possible attacks on Meany
-Pickets
-Wording
-Hodgson
-Hugh Scott
-Labor leader
-[Unintelligible name] from Peoria, Illinois
-James Suffridge
-Forthcoming telegram from Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-White House reaction
-Safire and Moore
-Connally
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-Chairman of Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Timing
-Hodgson's possible letter to the President

Hodgson

The President's schedule
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Possible reaction
-Unknown Democrat
-Scott
-Telegrams
-Content and phraseology
-Possible poll
-Press coverage
-Newsmagazines
-Sunday supplements
-AP and UPI
-Safire
-Howard K. Smith
-Scali
-John W. Chancellor
-David Leonard and Meany
-Possible response
-Connally
-Hodgson's possible speech

Kissinger entered at 9:45 am.

New York Times story
-United Nations [UN]
-State Department

The President's schedule
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Colson's staff
-Press coverage
-Calls to Kissinger from friends
-News summary staff
-Popular impression
-Two calls to Kissinger from friends
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-Jill St. John

New York Times
-Freeze

The President's schedule
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Meany
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Announcement of candidacy
-Forthcoming speech to AFL-CIO

Polls
-Labor issues
-Louis P. Harris
-Jackson

The President's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors
-Timing of announcements
-Great Britain
-France
-Germany

Moorer's schedule

The President's schedule
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Willie J. Usery, Jr.
-Victor Riesel
-Previous call to Colson
-Television coverage
-White House response

Haldeman and Colson left at 10:02 am.

Rogers
-Forthcoming trip to Latin America

The President's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors
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-Announcements
-Effect

International monetary situation
-Kissinger's meetings
-Connally
-Shultz
-Surcharge
-Connally
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Connally
-Connally’s role
-Group of Ten meeting
-Price of gold
-Georges J.R. Pompidou

PRC
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Announcement
-Kissinger's note to Chou En-lai
-US negotiations with North Vietnam
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Le Duc Tho's schedule
-Pham Van Dong
-Haig's views
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Edwin O. Reischauer
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Contacts with US
-United Nations [UN]
-Paris Peace Talks
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting
-George H. W. Bush
-Rogers
-Possible meeting with the President
-Rogers's and Richard F. Pedersen's views

Vietnam
-Military dispositions
-Fleet movements
-Possible statement
-Mining
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-Richard M. Helms
-Propaganda
-Fleet movement
-Timing
-Chou's possible meeting with Pham Van Dong
-November 1972 election
-The President’s position
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Bombing
-Joint Chiefs of Staff
-1972 election
-Possible effect on negotiations
-Josip Broz Tito
-Effect on President’s foreign travel

PRC
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Speech in UN
-The President's forthcoming trip
-State Department
-Pedersen
-Possible actions
-India-Pakistan

Pakistan Ambassador
-Kissinger's forthcoming call

Kissinger talked with the white house operator at an unknown time between 10:02 am and 10:23
am.

[Conversation No. 621-18c]

[See Conversation No. 15-59]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam Peace Talks
-Military dispositions
-November 1972 election
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with North Vietnam
-Helms and Moorer
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The President's schedule
-Helms

The President talked with the White House operator at 10:23 am.

[Conversation No. 621-18D]

[See Conversation No. 15-60]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Helms

Vietnam Peace Talks
-Military dispositions
-POWs

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Cambodian Ambassador
-Cabinet
-Rose Mary Woods
-The President

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:23 am and
10:24 am.

[Conversation No. 621-18E]

[See Conversation No. 15-61]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Cambodian Ambassador

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:23 am.

Call from Connally
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Bull left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:23 am and
10:24 am.

[Conversation No. 621-18F]

[See Conversation No. 15-62]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger

Connally talked with the President between 10:24 am and 10:27 am.

[Conversation No. 621-18G]

[See Conversation No. 15-63]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally

Colson

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:27 am and
10:45 am.

[Conversation No. 621-18H]

[See Conversation No. 15-64]

[End of telephone conversation]

Helms
-Location
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Vietnam

The President's schedule
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-Connally
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Unknown people
-Press coverage
-The President's demeanor
-Kissinger's conversations with Haldeman

International monetary situation
-Connally
-The President's schedule
-Pompidou
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Price of gold
-Shultz's view
-Senate
-Textiles
-Kissinger's previous meeting with Shultz and Connally
-Connally

American society
-The President’s view
-Kissinger's students and fellow faculty
-Cabinet
-Connally

Schedule of foreign visits
-Announcements

Vietnam
-Military dispositions
-1972 election

Middle East
-Negotiations
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Kissinger's conversations with unknown man
-Syria
-Golan Heights
-Golda Meir
-Israel
-Sharm el-Sheikh
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-Meir's schedule
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Rogers's schedule
Rogers
-The President's conversation with John N. Mitchell
-US policy towards Israel
-US aid to Israel
-The President's schedule
-Meir
-Rogers
-Haig and Kissinger
-Meir's schedule
-Joseph J. Sisco

The President's speech at AFL-CIO convention
-Press coverage
-Public perceptions

Kissinger left at 10:45 am.