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Conversation No. 768-8

Date: August 14, 1972
Time: 11:14 am - 11:28 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Kenneth B. Keating and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

Indira Gandhi
-The President’s view
-Women
-Keating’s cable to the President
-The President’s view
-Jawaharlal Nehru
-Political support
-Right-wing communists
-Left-wing communists
-Gandhi’s previous conversation with Keating
-Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-(M)]

Keating's schedule
-State Department
-Debriefing
-New York
-Republican National Convention
-New York delegation
-Honorary delegates
-[Nelson A. Rockefeller]
-State officials
-Blacks
-Women
-Youth

Composition of the President’s staff
-Quota system
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Herbert Stein
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
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-National Security Council [NSC]
-Effect of hypothetical quota system
-Firing of staff members
-Henry A. Kissinger

The President’s image
-Golda Meir
-Jewish leaders
-New York

Foreign policy
-Israel
-George S. McGovern’s pledge to provide troops
-McGovern’s plan to reduce naval forces
-Aircraft carriers
-McGovern’s plan to reduce aid to Greece
-Syria
-Jordan
-Threat of US-Soviet Union mutual annihilation
-John Foster Dulles
-Massive retaliation
-US strength compared to the Soviet Union
-Current equivalence of US and Soviet Union forces
-Sixth Fleet
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]



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US foreign relations
-Israel
-Support of US forces
-[McGovern]
-Support of US deterrence of the Soviet Union
-McGovern
-The President’s reliability
-Remarks by Meir


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Keating’s experience as ambassador to India
-India-Pakistan conflict
-India-US relations
-William P. Rogers

Keating’s forthcoming public statements
-Issues
-Jews
-The President’s previous trip to Poland
-Reception by Polish people
-Economics
-Redistribution of wealth
-Permissiveness
-Keating’s experience as a judge
-Audience
-Italians
-Other urban groups
-W. Ramsey Clark
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-Actions in Hanoi
-Possible director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]
-Judicial appointments
-Police
-Civil rights
-Police
-Previous support of Keating

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:14 am.

Presentation of Presidential gift
-Watch
-Presidential seal
-[Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia] Malik Faisal ibn Abd
al-Aziz al-Saud

1972 election
-The President’s role
-Keating’s view
-Keating
-Forthcoming speeches on foreign policy

Bull, Keating, and Haig left at 11:28 am.