Conversation No. 614-12

Date: November 4, 1971
Time: 4:02 pm - 4:48 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Kofi A. Busia and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Introductions

     Busia's trip
          -Mexico

     Photograph
          -Arrangements

     Busia’s trip
          -Northwestern University
                 -Teaching

Ronald L. Ziegler and members of the press entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.
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     Introductions to members of the press

     Presidential pens

Ziegler and the press left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

     United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
          -Ghana’s vote
                -The President’s appreciation
          -Luis Echeverria Alvarez
                -Conversation with the President
                     -Mexico
                           -Non-aligned status

     Echeverria
         -Wife

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

     Cocoa

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

     Liberia
          -William R. Tolbert, Jr’s inauguration
                -The President's schedule
                -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule

     Mrs. Nixon's schedule
          -Peru
          -Ghana
                -Possible tour
                      -Schools
                      -Hospitals
          -Liberia
                -Monrovia
          -Ghana
                -Taiwan
                      -UN vote
                -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                      -Education
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                    -Smith College
          -Ghanaian ambassador

Ghana
    -Kwame Nkrumah's legacy
          -Finances
                -Debt
                -Busia’s Cabinet changes
                -Debt
                      -Short-term
                           -Credits
                      -Cocoa
    -Finances
          -Foreign exchange
          -Rescheduling debts
                -Possible consortium
                -Medium term debt
                      -Short-term debt
                -Interest
    -Rice production
          -Imports
    -Rural development
          -Water
          -Roads
          -Self-help
    -Trade
          -Import surcharges
    -Attracting investment capital
    -Prices
    -Democratic institutions
          -Busia's conversation with Edward R.G. Heath
    -Economy
          -Growth
                -Desirable rate
                      -Unemployment
                           -Compared to US
          -International Monetary Fund [IMF]
                -Creating confidence
                -Credit
                      -Haig's forthcoming conversation with John B. Connally
          -IMF and World bank
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                    -Planning
                           -Connally and Henry A. Kissinger
                                 -Possible meeting with Robert S. McNamara
                           -The President's previous conversation with McNamara
               -Rescheduling debts
                    -Time frame
                           -Indonesian pattern
                    -Busia's conversation with Heath
                           -Possible meetings
                                 -Short-term debt
                                      -Consortium
                                 -Medium and long-term debt
                    -Creditors
                           -Great Britain, West Germany, France, Japan, US
                    -Connally
                    -Great Britain
          -Compared to Indonesia
               -T. N. J. Suharto
                    -Sukarno
                           -Economic legacy
          -Nkrumah's legacy
          -Finances
               -US assistance
                    -Great Britain
                    -Congress
               -Busia's conversation with McNamara

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

     Mrs. Nixon's schedule
          -Rose Mary Woods’s forthcoming call
          -White House social event
               -Tea

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

     Ghana
         -Population
              -The President’s 1957 visit
              -Growth
                    -Nkrumah
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     Cocoa
         -Busia's possible conversation with Peter G. Peterson
               -Busia’s schedule
         -Briefing paper

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

     Mrs. Nixon's schedule
          -Ghana

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

     Ghana
         -Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
              -Previous trip
         -Popular morale
              -Unemployment
         -Democracy
              -Neighbors
              -Latin America
              -Unemployment
         -Foreign aid
              -Technical

Bull[?] entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm

     The President’s schedule

Bull[?] left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

           -Cooperation with Ivory Coast

     Ivory Coast
          -Foreign investment
          -Agriculture
          -President [Felix Houphouet-Boigny]
                -Popularity
          -The President’s visit

     Nigeria
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            -Relations with Ghana

     Mali
            -Relations with Ghana
                 -Busia’s trip
                       -Nigeria
                       -Reception
                       -Trade

     Ghana
         -Finances
              -IMF
                       -[Houphouet-Boigny]
                 -Possible economic community of West Africa
            -People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

     Mrs. Nixon's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

     The President's forthcoming visits to the USSR and the PRC
          -Importance
          -The President's previous conversation with Indira Gandhi

     Ghana
         -Talks with South Africa
         -The President's conversations with Kissinger and William P. Rogers
         -US assistance
         -Relations with the US
              -State Department
              -Ambassador’s possible call to Haig
         -Finances
              -Connally's schedule
              -Paul A. Volcker
              -McNamara
         -Cocoa
              -Peterson
         -Foreign minister
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Haig talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:02 pm and 4:39 pm;
Haig talked with Peterson.

[Conversation No. 614-12a]

[See Conversation No. 13-122]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm.

     Foreign minister and ambassador from Ghana
          -Meeting with the president

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.

     Busia's family
          -Gifts
          -Son at Oxford

     The President's daughters

William Ofori-Atta, Ebenezer M. Debrah and the White House photographer entered at 4:39 pm.

     Arrangements for photograph

     Busia’s schedule
          -Mexico City
          -Echeverria

     Peterson
          -Schedule

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.

     Mrs. Nixon's schedule
          -Ghana
          -Tolbert
          -Ghana

     Ghana
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           -The President's 1957 visit
                -Independence Day
                      -Festivities
                      -Unknown man who assisted President and Mrs. Nixon
                            -Letter
           -IMF
                -Debt rescheduling
                -Investment
           -Connally
           -Cocoa
                -Peterson

Peterson entered at an unknown time after 4:39 pm.

     Introductions

     Ghana
         -International cocoa agreement
               -Peterson’s role
         -Finances
               -Debt
                     -Amount
                     -McNamara
               -Forthcoming conversation with Peterson
                     -Busia’s schedule
                     -Peterson’s schedule
                           -Surcharges
                                -Canada
         -US support
         -Finances
               -Rescheduling of debt
                     -Indonesian pattern
                           -Sukarno
                     -Heath
                     -World Bank
               -Connally
         -The President's 1957 visit
         -Population

The President, et al., left at 4:48 pm.
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                                                               Conv. No. 614-12 (cont.)