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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Daniel P. Moynihan
  • White House photographer
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Rogers C. B. Morton
February 8, 1973
Conversation No. 853-16

Date: February 8, 1973
Time: 2:34 pm-3:07 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan; the White House photographer was present at
the beginning of the meeting.

Confirmation hearings
-J. William Fulbright

[Photograph session]

Moynihan’s ambassadorship
-Question
-India

Fulbright
-Attitude
-Racism
-Asia, Africa

US-India relations
-Indira Gandhi
-President’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Speech
-US racism
-Moynihan’s dealings
-Liberal Democrat
-Pakistan
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Importance
-President’s meeting with Indira Gandhi
-President’s trip to PRC
-PRC relations
-Moynihan’s job
-Public appearance
-Liberal Democrat
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb.-10)
Conversation No. 853-16 (cont’d)


-Private dealings
-Contrast
-Travel in India
-Lakshmi Kant Jha
-Ambassador from India
-Party
-Indira Gandhi
-Speech
-Policy
-Nepal
-Women
-Parents
-Jawaharlal Nehru
-Aristocrats
-View of Great Britain, US
-PRC
-Concerns
-Frankness, self-interest
-Jha
-Triloki Nath Kaul’s forthcoming visit to US
-Communism
-Moynihan
-Talk with Henry A. Kissinger
-Communications with White House
-Germany
-Problems to be discussed
-Privacy
-Outside of bureaucracy
-Leaks
-White House directives
-Denials


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[National Security]
[Duration: 9s]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb.-10)
Conversation No. 853-16 (cont’d)


COMMUNICATION

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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-Instructions from President
-Kissinger
-Pentagon
-State Department
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Conversation with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Visit to India
-Qualities
-Harvard University
-Baptists
-Radar systems
-Pakistan
-Purchase from US
-Importance
-Military Power
-Personnel carriers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Balance
-Numbers
-Compared with Pakistan
-Kissinger
-US-Pakistan relations
-PRC
-Weakness
-Stability of Pakistan
-Numerical superiority
-Nuclear potential
-Effect on other nations
-Japan, Brazil
-Arms in South Asia
-Artillery
-Pakistan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb.-10)
Conversation No. 853-16 (cont’d)


-North Korea
-Competition
-Production
-Foreign aid
-Wheat purchases
-Wheat sales
-Chicago
-Soviet Union
-US surplus
-Soviet Union, PRC
-Earl L. Butz
-US assistance
-Trade deficit
-Raymond Songay [?]
-Rogers
-Report in 1969
-Currency
-Agreement with US
-Foreign aid
-Compared with Germany’s Marshall Fund

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:34 pm.

Helicopter

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

US-India relations
-Foreign aid
-Kissinger
-World War I debts
-Adolf Hitler
-President’s meeting with Wilbur D. Mills
-Moynihan’s travel to India
-Wife and family
-Rome
-Arrival in India
-Vacation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb.-10)
Conversation No. 853-16 (cont’d)


-Delay
-Mills
-Gandhi’s speech
-Moynihan’s demeanor
-Publicity
-Bureaucrats
-Moynihan’s acquaintance
-Importance
-President’s letter to Gandhi
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft’s draft
-Contents
-Relationship
-Moynihan’s association with Democrats
-Bipartisanship
-President’s confidence in Moynihan

Moynihan
-Departure for India -Vietnam settlement
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s visit to India

Rogers C. B. Morton entered at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

-Confirmation
-Gandhi

Moynihan left at 3:07 pm.
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