Conversation No. 631-011
Date: December 7, 1971
Time: 6:28 pm - 7:04 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's schedule
-Haldeman's talk with William P. Rogers
-Call from the President
-Rogers’ location
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Secretary of State attendance
-Photograph session
-Departure
-Timing
-Senate leadership meeting
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Frank F. Church
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 6:32 pm.
India-Pakistan situation
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Press
-Reactions
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
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-The President's 1967 visit to India
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with the President
-War
-Negotiations
-Bangladesh
-Kissinger’s attempts for peace
-Backgrounder
-Rogers and the State Department
-Support
-Indira Gandhi
-Rogers speech on December 6, 1971
-Possible fallout
-Canada
-Impact of Rogers’ speech
-Rogers' talk with Ziegler
-Timing
-Concern from Rogers
-Kissinger’s point
-Canadians
-Kennedy and Church
-Against US policy
-Kissinger’s perspective
-Margaret Chase Smith
-J. William Fulbright
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Support of US action
-Leadership Meeting
-Possible UN action
-Kissinger
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kennedy
-“Out of reality” rhetoric
-East Pakistan
-Supposed lack of compassion by Administration
-Foreign aid
-Amount
-Diplomatic contacts
-Trip to India
-Gandhi
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
-Previous meeting with the President
-Pakistani government
-Withdrawal of forces
-Bangladesh
White House social affairs
-Entertainers
-Jews
-Performing at the White House
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Itzhak Perlman
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Beverly Sills
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White House social affairs
-Entertainers
-Beverly Sills
-The President’s comment
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White House social affairs
-Entertainers
-Beverly Sills
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Singing style
-Ballet background
-Talent evaluated
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
India-Pakistan situation
-Kissinger
-White House statement
-Press coverage
-War
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s scheduled
-Meeting with the President
The President’s schedule
-White House [white-tie] dinner
-1972 election
Ziegler talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 6:32 pm and 6:46 pm.
[Conversation No. 631-11A]
Ziegler conferred with the President at an unknown time during the telephone conversation.
[End of conferral]
Kissinger's location
-Situation Room
[End of telephone conversation]
Kissinger
-Managerial style
-Staff meeting
-Particular actions at meetings
-Foreign policy discussions
India-Pakistan situation
-Kissinger’s feeling
-War
-Impossible to avoid
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Gandhi
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
The President’s schedule
-Rogers
-White House dinner
-Attendance
-Rogers’ previous telephone conversation with Haldeman
-Press conference
-India-Pakistan
-Kissinger
-Backgrounder
Press
-Coverage
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Middle East
-Rogers
-Ziegler
Ziegler left at 6:46 pm.
Kissinger
-Rogers
-Ziegler
-Rogers’ toast at White House dinner, December 6, 1971
-Comments
-Kissinger
-Possible fallout from Rogers’ toast
-Ziegler
-Concern
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with the President
-Peter G. Peterson
-Maurice H. Stans meeting
-Questions raised about Peterson’s attendance
-Secretary of Commerce
-Stans
-Perks attributed to being Secretary of Commerce
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:46 pm and
6:51 pm.
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
[Conversation No. 631-11B]
[See Conversation No. 16-35]
[End of telephone conversation]
India-Pakistan situation
-United Nations [UN] vote
-Unknown pollster
The President talked with William P. Rogers between 6:51 pm and 6:55 pm.
[Conversation No. 631-11C]
[See Conversation No. 16-36]
[End of telephone conversation]
Rogers
-Rose Mary Woods
Kissinger and staff
-Sensitivity towards others
-Methods
-Compared to John B. Connally
The President’s approach to others
Kissinger
-Jews
Entertainers
-Jews
-Perlman
Leonard Garment
-Respect from the President
Polls
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
-India-Pakistan
-Anticipated results
-Politics
-Problem of war
-Defense budget
-USSR and clients
-Amount
-Domestic viewpoint
-Busing
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Elmo Roper
-Question
-Economy
-Perception
-Meaning
-Vietnam War
-Media
-Doubt
-Cambodia
-Air war
-Trips abroad
-New Hampshire comparison
-PRC trip
-Edmund S. Muskie
-USSR trip
-Timing
-California and Oregon primaries
-Economy
-Importance
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
Polls
-Blacks
-The Left
-Democrats
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-John N. Ashbrook
-John N. Mitchell
-Primary states
-Results in January 1972
-Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Florida
-Robert Teeter's polling
-Sealed ballot
-John N. Ashbrook and Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Trial heats
-Versus the President
-Republicans–Democrats
-National committee
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Haldeman left at 7:04 pm.