Conversation No. 614-7

Date: November 4, 1971
Time: 1:10 pm - 1:48 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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                                                                       Conv. No. 614-7 (cont.)


     The President's welcoming statement for Indira Gandhi
          -Henry A. Kissinger
          -Press dissemination
          -Significance
               -Preparation
                      -Staff

     Prime Minister William McMahon's remarks
          -Press dissemination
          -[George H.] Gallup poll

     The President's activities

The White House operator talked with the President at 1:11 pm; the President talked with Robert
H. Steele between 1:11 pm and 1:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 614-7A]

[See Conversation No. 13-117; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

     The President's activities
          -Public relations
               -Ronald L. Ziegler
               -Richard A. Moore's efforts
               -John A. Scali
               -Substance
                      -Compared to color

     The President's schedule
          -Arthur F. Burns
               -George P. Shultz's view

Stephen B. Bull entered at 1:12 p.m.

                 -Forthcoming call
                      -Secretary
                      -Indian delegation

Bull left at 1:12 pm.
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                                                                 Conv. No. 614-7 (cont.)



The White House operator talked with the President at 1:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 614-7B]

[See Conversation No. 13-118]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Burns
          -Shultz
          -The President's letter

     The President's activities
          -Public relations
               -Ziegler
               -Scali
               -Moore
               -Public speaking
                      -Toasts and arrival statements
                            -Notes

     The President's schedule
          -John N. Mitchell
                -Florida
                -Haldeman’s schedule
          -Indira Gandhi
                -Recent meeting

     Unknown man [Robert H. Finch?]
         -Forthcoming recommendation on Latin America

     Clark MacGregor
          -Conversation with Haldeman
              -Congress's schedule
                    -House vote, November 4, 1971
                         -Busing
                    -Senate
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                                                                    Conv. No. 614-7 (cont.)


The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 1:12 pm and
1:48 pm.

[Conversation No. 614-7C]

[See Conversation No. 13-119]

[End of telephone conversation]

     The President's schedule
          -Florida
                -[Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon?]

     Kissinger
          -Morale
          -Maxine Cheshire

     Cheshire

     Thomas Van Husen Vail
         -Article

     The President’s schedule
          -Possible meeting with editors

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

     Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.

     Vail
            -Exclusive
            -Advantages
            -Story regarding the President

     The President's image
          -Popular opinion
               -Ziegler

     The President's welcoming statement for Gandhi
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                                                                Conv. No. 614-7 (cont.)


           -“Indian summer” comment
           -Raymond K. Price, Jr.

    The President's toast for McMahon
         -World War II coastwatchers

    White House staff
         -Writers
              -Background

    Vail
           -Story regarding the President
                -Phase II
                -Cleveland Browns

    The President's activities
         -Public relations
              -Ziegler
              -William L. Safire
              -Moore

    National economy
         -Pay and Price Boards

    The President’s schedule


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           -Luis Echeverria Alvarez
           -Willy Brandt
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                                                          Conv. No. 614-7 (cont.)


          -Marjorie Merriweather Post
          -Hotels in Florida
               -Miami Beach
               -Key Biscayne

National economy
     -Stock market, November 3, 1971
           -Dow Jones
           -Seasonal adjustment
                -Unknown person
           -The President’s August 15, 1971 speech

Foreign trips by administration officials
     -Goodwill
     -Rogers
           -John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
                 -Policy for the Americas
           -Trip To Latin America
                 -Purpose
                       -Consultation
                       -Finch’s possible comments

Burns

Guest lists for White House Dinners
     -The President's conversation with Rose Mary Woods
            -1972 election
                   -Ethnic makeup
                        -Italians, Polish, Blacks
     -Charles W. Colson
     -Patrick J. Buchanan
            -Italians, Polish, Irish Catholics
     -White House staff
            -Kissinger
     -Alexander P. Butterfield
     -Woods
            -Fred J. Russell
     -Election year
     -Dr. James R. Schlesinger
     -Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
     -Military
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          -Woods
          -Staff
          -Cabinet
                -Secretary of State
                -Supreme Court justice
                -Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
                Burns
                -Senators and Congressmen
          -State Dinner, November 4, 1971
                -Secretary of State
                -Cabinet officer
          -Supreme Court
                -Potter Stewart
          -Gerard C. Smith
          -Commandant of Coast Guard [Chester R. Bender]
          -Vice Chief of Staff of Air Force [John C. Meyer]
          -Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel of Army [Walter T. Kerwin, Jr.]
          -Commanding General, Marine Corps Development and Education Command,
               Quantico, Virginia [William G. Thrash]
          -Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes's recommendations
                -Woods
          -Guests
                -Indians
          -Louis P. Harris
          -Military

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Forthcoming dinner
               -Kissinger
                      -Unknown item
                           -Location

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.

     Visitors
           -Foreigners
                -Evening at the White House

     White House dinners
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                                                                   Conv. No. 614-7 (cont.)


          -Hand-shaking
              -Church services
              -Mrs. Nixon's views
              -Lucy A. Winchester's views
              -Duration
                    -Abraham Lincoln's second Inaugural Ball
                         -Carl Sandburg
                         -Hand-shaking
                               -Number
                               -Location
                                    -Patent Office
              -Numbers
              -Church services

     Kissinger
                -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
          -The President's schedule
                -Florida
          -Views regarding United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
                -Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
                      -Public response
                           -Memorandum
          -Florida trip
                -W. Kenneth Riland's view
                -Housing
                      -Mitchell

The President and Haldeman left at 1:48 pm.