Conversation: 307-027
Prev: 307-026 Next: 307-028Start Date: 8-Dec-1971 3:55 PM
End Date: 8-Dec-1971 5:01 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Mitchell, John N.; Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:51:05
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:57:00
NARA Description:
On December 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, John N. Mitchell, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:55 pm to 5:01 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 307-027 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 307-27
Date: December 8, 1971
Time: 3:55 pm - 5:01 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with John N. Mitchell.
James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Pardon
-Parole
-Amnesty
-Commutations
-Number
-Pardons
-Number
-Commutation
-Civil rights
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Forthcoming actions
-Restriction of union activities
-Mitchell's talk with Fitzsimmons
-Mitchell's talk with John B. Connally
-Organized labor
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Prison record
-Parole
-Press
-Possible statement on release
-The President's schedule
-Azores
-The Justice Department
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Conv. No. 307-27 (cont.)
-Mitchell's speech on corrections
-Parole
-William Loeb
-Talk with Mitchell
-John M. Ashbrook
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR]
-Parole list
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:05 pm.
-Talk with Mitchell
-Amnesty
-Kennedy supporters
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Kennedy
-Task force
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Unknown person
-Commutation of sentence
-Civil rights
-Jimmy Stone [?] (Stahlman?)
-William H. Rehnquist
-William P. Rogers
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 7m 27s ]
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India and Pakistan
-Rockefeller
-Media
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Conv. No. 307-27 (cont.)
-The President's call to unknown perosn
-Charles L. Bartlett
-Kennedy family
-Interest in India
Foreign relations
-Indians
-USSR
-Satellites
-Middle East
-Zambia
-New York Times
-Aggression by Democracies and Dictatorships
-Africa
-India and Pakistan
-Relative populations
Pakistan
-United Nations [UN]
-Edward M. Kennedy
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 58s ]
PAKISTAN
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-Treaty
-US options
-India
-UN
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Conv. No. 307-27 (cont.)
The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:05 pm and 5:01
pm.
[Conversation No. 307-27A]
The President's schedule
-Kissinger and Mitchell
-Unknown person
-Delay meeting
[End of telephone conversation]
India-Pakistan War
-US relations
-Pakistan
-Dictatorship
-History
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 3m 26s ]
INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-US-Indian relations
-South Asia
-President’s course of action
-Advisors’ recommendations
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Conv. No. 307-27 (cont.)
-Rogers
-Indira Gandhi visit to Washington, DC, November 4-5, 1971
-Talk with the President
-Talk with Rogers
-US goals
-Avoiding pretext for attack
-USSR
-Stance
-Economic aid cut-off
-State Department
-Role
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Kissinger's talk with U. Alexis Johnson
-Possible military action by India
-US policy
-USSR
-Summit
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration: 7s ]
INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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-Military imbalance
-Bureauracy
-Johnson
-US military aid
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-President’s previous visit
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration: 51s ]
INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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-USSR
-Decision
-Meetings
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-Rogers
-John N. Irwin, II
-State Department line
-Non-intervention
-Yahya Khan
-Options
-Possible consequences of non-intervention
-South Asia
-PRC
-USSR
-Middle East
-Iran
-Indonesia
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration: 5m 51s ]
INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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-Keating
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Johnson
-Conversation with Indians
-Recognition of Bangladesh
-Possible US diplomatic strategy
-United Nations [UN] statement
-Waiting
-East Pakistan
-Aid
-John B. Connally
-Export-Import Bank [Ex-Im]
-Rogers
-Bengal
-USSR
-Bangladesh
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Conv. No. 307-27 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[National Security]
[Duration: 15m 34s ]
INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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President’s schedule
-Kissinger's talk with Connally
-Azores
-Georges J.R. Pompidou meeting
-Italy and Germany
-Germans
-British
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 17s ]
INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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Mitchell and Kissinger left at 5:01 pm.
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