Conversation No. 619-28

Date: November 16, 1971
Time: 12:33 pm - 1:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.


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     Julie Nixon Eisenhower
           -Appearance in Cleveland
                -Press report
           -Appearance before Republican women’s group
                -Harry S. Dent's conversation with Woods


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[The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower at an unknown time between 12:33 and 12:40
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[Conversation No. 619-28A]

[See Conversation No. 14-131; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]


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     Letter to the President from Larry Smith

     Memorandum to Woods from Alexander P. Butterfield
        -Invitations to White House
              -Sub-cabinet appointees
                    -The President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                    -Emilio Garrastuzu Medici
                    -Church service

     Invitations to White House dinners
           -Administration officials
                 -Cabinet
           -Butterfield's memo
                 -Rocco C. Sicilano
           -Woods's efforts
           -The President's conversations
                 -Woods
           -Charles W. Colson and Butterfield
           -Administration officials
                 -Australian dinner
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               -Sub-cabinet appointees
          -Salute to Hollywood
               -Sue
               -List of celebrities
                      -Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter
                      -Pat Boone
                      -John Wayne
          -Administration officials
          -The President's list
          -Mitchell
          -John B. Connally

Haldeman entered at 12:40 pm.

                -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                -Forthcoming calls from Woods

     Connally
         -Gift for Woods
         -Visit to Bangkok
               -Maxine North [?]
         -Contrasted with William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird

Woods left at 12:46 pm.

     Butterfield
          -Memorandum to Woods
                 -Age
          -Conversation with the President
          -The President’s conversation with Woods
                 -Invitations to White House dinners
                       -Administration officials
          -Memo to Woods
                 -Colson
          -Woods
                 -List
          -Functions
                 -Memoranda to Woods
          -Conversations regarding White House invitations
                 -The President
                       -Medici dinner
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          -Haldeman
     -Possible memorandum from Haldeman

Invitations to White House dinners
      -Colson
            -Haldeman
      -Butterfield's memorandum to Woods
            -Butterfield’s conversation with the President
                  -Medici dinner
                  -Colson

Woods
    -Views regarding White House staff
    -Butterfield
    -Working relations with White House staff
         -Haldeman

Invitations to White House dinners
      -Administration officials

Administration officials
    -Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
          -Tenure in office
          -People's Republic of China [PRC] visit
    -Donald H. Rumsfeld's view
    -John A. Volpe
          -Previous Cabinet meeting
                -Presentation

Congress
    -National security issues
         -Senate Democrats supporting the President on national security
               -Michael J. Mansfield
                     -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
               -Hatfield-McGovern vote
               -Mansfield
                     -Vietnam
                           -Withdrawal
               -Hugh Scott's motion on Cooper-Church Amendment
               -Stennis Amendment on foreign aid
               -Foreign Aid Bill
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                     -James O. Eastland, Sam J. Ervin, Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson, Gale W.
                           McGee, John C. Stennis and John J. Sparkman
                     -James B. Allen and Russell B. Long
                     -Harry F. Byrd, Jr.

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:46 pm.

     Malfunctioning dictaphone

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:08 pm.

     Senate Democrats supporting the President on national security
          -Byrd
          -Howard W. Cannon
          -Jackson
          -Handling
               -Southerners

     Jackson
          -Possible candidacy
               -Announcement
                     -Timing
          -Votes
          -The President's schedule

     Congress
         -House Democrats supporting the President on national security
              -Leaders
                   -Foreign areas
                   -Arms Services
                   -George H. Mahon
                   -The President's schedule
                        -Senators
                              -Summary


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     Maurice H. Stans
         -Tenure in office
               -Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell, November 15, 1971
                    -Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
         -Peter G. Peterson
               -Possible conversations
                    -Haldeman and the President
               -George P. Shultz's view
               -The President's schedule

     John W. Rollins
          -The President's call, November 15, 1971
          -Possible calls
               -Mitchell and Haldeman


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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:46 pm.

     Unknown man
         -Meeting with Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
              -International Monetary Fund [IMF]
         -The President’s schedule
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Bull left at an unknown time before 1:08 pm.

     Schweitzer
         -Meeting with Kissinger
         -Connally


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     The President's schedule
          -Connally [?]
          -Ronald W. Reagan

     Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
         -Possible role with administration
                -Peter M. Flanigan
                -Undersecretary of Defense
                -Laird
                -Frederic V. Malek
                -Laird
                      -Defense Department
                           -Reorganization
                                -New post

     NATO
        -Flanigan
        -Walter N. Thayer
        -Mansfield D. Sprague

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:46 and 1:08
pm.
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[Conversation No. 619-28B]

[See Conversation No. 14-132]

[End of telephone conversation]

     NATO
        -George Champion, Jr.
        -Hoyt Ammidon

     The President's schedule
          -Robert J. Dole
          -Mitchell
          -American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
               convention

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 12:46 pm and
1:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 619-28C]

[See Conversation No. 14-133]

[End of telephone conversation]

     The President's schedule
          -AFL-CIO convention
               -Timing
               -George Meany
                      -Criticism of the President's foreign policy
                            -PRC
                            -Fidel Castro
               -Florida
               -Meany

     Appointments
         -Flanigan and Malek
         -NATO
         -Laird's Under secretaries
         -Japan Ambassador
         -Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
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          -Paul W. McCracken's replacement
                -Shultz's role
          -Connally's role
                -NATO
                -Japan
                -Thayer
                -Ammidon
                -Sprague
                -Shultz
                     -Conversation with the President
                            -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
                -Arthur F. Burns
                     -Connally
                     -Views regarding unknown Texan
          -Herbert Stein

The President talked with Flanigan between 1:08 and 1:09 pm.

[Conversation No. 619-28D]

[See Conversation No. 14-134]

[End of telephone conversation]

     NATO
        -Henry A. Kissinger

The President talked with an unknown person [Kissinger ?] at an unknown time between 1:09
and 1:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 619-28E]

     Kissinger’s schedule
          -Return call

[End of telephone conversation]

     Congress
         -National issues
              Congressional Democrats supporting the President on national security
                    -Jackson
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                      -McGee
                      -Southerners
                      -Mansfield
                      -Carl B. Albert
                      -Mahon
                      -Kissinger's views
                      -The President's schedule
                            -Clark MacGregor
                                 -Connally

Kissinger entered at 1:13 pm.

     Appointments
         -The President's previous conversation with Flanigan
              -NATO
                    -John J. McCloy

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:13 and 1:17
pm.

[Conversation No. 619-28F]

[See Conversation No. 14-135]

[End of telephone conversation]

     McCloy
         -Possible role with Administration

     Appointments
         -Ammidon
              -Japan
              -Connally
              -New York Trust
         -Thayer
              -Connally
              -Flanigan
         -Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
              -William P. Rogers's views
         -Sprague
         -Stoessel
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               -Volpe’s view
          -Graham A. Martin
               -Volpe's view

     Volpe
          -Cabinet report
          -Meeting with Prime Minister of Poland
               -Duration

     Donald McI. Kendall

     Frank J. Shakespeare

     Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
          -Meeting with the President

     The President's schedule
          -Meetings
          -Shakespeare
          -Volpe

     Shakespeare
          -Performance in office

     Yitzhak Rabin
          -Meeting with Kissinger, November 16, 1971
               -Golda Meir's schedule
                    -Appeal for arms
                    -The President
                    -San Clemente

     Moshe Dayan's schedule
         -Rogers and Laird

The President left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm

     The President’s schedule
          -Gold Meir
               -[Hassan, King of Morocco] [Moulay] Hassan II
               -Kissinger and Rogers
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     The President's schedule
          -Medici
          -Azores

The President entered at an unknown time after 1:09 pm.

     Rogers and Laird
         -The President’s conversation with Connally
         -The President’s schedule
               -Ronald L. Ziegler
         -Volpe
         -Tenure in office
               -Forthcoming election

The President talked with Flanigan between 1:17 and 1:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 619-28G]

[See Conversation No. 14-136]

Kissinger and Haldeman conferred during the conversation.

     The President’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

     Kissinger's schedule

     Laird
             -Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
             -Conversations with Kissinger
                  -New York Times story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
                       -Source

     Leaks
          -Kissinger's staff
          -Laird
          -State Department
          -Defense Department

     Laird and Rogers
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        -Phantoms
             -Dayan
                  -Possible Israeli negotiations with Egypt

Aid to Israel
     -The President's role
           -Phantoms
     -Rogers's possible role
     -The President's schedule
           -Meir
                -Phantoms
                -USSR
                      -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                      -Interim settlement
     -State Department
           -Phantoms

Laird
        -Forthcoming call from Haldeman
             -New York Times story regarding Vietnam troop withdrawal
                  -Defense Department
                       -Source

Cabinet
     -Rogers's views
          -John A. Scali
     -The President's treatment
     -Dwight D. Eisenhower's treatment
          -Meetings
          -Staff system
     -The President's schedule
          -Compared to Eisenhower’s
     -Eisenhower's schedule
          -Arthur E. Summerfield
          -John Foster Dulles

The President's schedule
     -Agnew
          -Eisenhower's schedule
                 -The President
          -Requests
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Agnew

The President's schedule
     -Jerry Persons
     -Sherman Adams

Agnew’s schedule
    -Kissinger

Reagan
    -Schedule
         -Kissinger
         -The President
    -Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
         -Amchitka nuclear test
              -Mail
              -Supreme Court
              -Scientists
              -Press

Israel
      -Kissinger’s forthcoming talk with Rabin
           -The President's schedule
                 -Meir
                       -Dayan
                       -Domestic allies
                       -Interim settlement

PRC
      George H. W. Bush's forthcoming statement
            -New York
            -Rogers's calls to Kissinger
                 -The President
      -Statement on Vietnam
            -US troop withdrawal
                 -Deadline
            -Nguyen Van Thieu
      -Bush's forthcoming statement
            -Chou En-Lai
            -Rogers's view
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            -Television
            -Location
            -USSR
      -Kissinger's forthcoming conversation
            -Ambassador in Paris
      -Statement regarding USSR
      -Bush's forthcoming statement
      -Kissinger's schedule
            -PRC Ambassador in Paris
            -Le Duc Tho
      -Forthcoming announcement
            -PRC Ambassador
                 -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon ‘s schedule
      -The President’s schedule

Appointments
    -Deputy Secretary of Defense
         -John S. Foster, Jr.
         -Laird
         -Seamans
         -Stanley R. Resor
    -Laird's list

PRC
      -Statement regarding Vietnam
            -US response
                 -Rogers's views
      -Forthcoming trip
            -Rogers’s view
                 -Political risks
      -Statement regarding Vietnam
      -Bush
      -Views of other nations
            -Connally
                 -Thailand
            -United Nations [UN] speech of November 15, 1971
            -Rogers

State Department
      -Views regarding the President's forthcoming trips to the USSR and PRC
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PRC
      -Communiqué at end of the President's forthcoming trip
           -US defense commitments
                 -Rogers’s view
      -The President's speeches
           -Theme
                 -US differences with PRC
      -Communiqué at end of the President's forthcoming trip
           -Statement regarding Vietnam
           -Preparation of text
                 -Rogers
                 -Chou En-Lai and Mao Tse-Tung

Rogers's schedule
    -Forthcoming trip to the USSR
           -Haldeman
           -Advance trip

Kissinger's schedule
     -Forthcoming trip to the USSR
           -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                 -Communiqué

Rogers's schedule
    -USSR
           -Robert J. McCloskey
           -Possible result
                 -Negotiations
                       -Dobrynin
           -Letter

PRC
      -The President's forthcoming trip
           -Announcement
                 -Possible response
                       -Lin Piao and Army Chief of Staff
                       -USSR

Sadruddin Aga Khan
     -Conversation with the President
          -Harvard University
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               -India-Pakistan


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              -Role with UN
         -Background
         -Conversation with the President
              -India-Pakistan
                    -Tone of the President’s comments
                    -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                    -Trial of Mujibur Rahman
                          -Possible US action

    India-Pakistan
          -Kissinger's conversation with Pakistani foreign secretary
               -Agha Muhommad Yahya khan
                     -Possible letter from the President
          -Mujibur Rahman


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    Aga Khan
        -Conversation with the President
             -Refugees
                   -US aid
        -Role with UN

    Vietnam
         -The President's previous meeting with congressmen
              -Mansfield compromise
                     -Effect on negotiations
                          -Prisoners of war [POWs]
         -Gerald R. Ford and Leslie C. Arends
         -Liberals' views
         -North Vietnamese military dispositions
              -South Vietnam
              -Cambodia
              -Laos
         -USSR and PRC aid
              -North Vietnam
         -Liberals
              -Administration's possible response
              -Mansfield Amendment
                     -Scott
                     -Ford and Arends
                     -Scott
         -Southern Democrats
              -Stennis

    Laird
            -Presidency
            -Views on national security policy
                  -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                  -Vietnam
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                -Conversation with Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
                    -Vietnamization

Vietnam
     -The President's policy
          -President’s 1969 conversation with Kissinger
          -Laird's role
          -Statements during 1968 campaign
                -Nomination acceptance speech
                      -Miami
                -Korea
                      -US arms and aid
     -Mary McGrory's views
          -Cambodia
          -Nixon Doctrine
     -The President's policy
          -Troop withdrawals
                -Anti-war demonstrations
                      -Liberals
                -Laird
                      -March 1969
                -Peace proposals

Cabinet
     -Laird and Rogers
     -Connally
     -Leaks
          -Lyndon B. Johnson
          -The President's decision-making procedures

Vietnam
     -Troop withdrawal
          -Rogers's statement to Henry Brandon
               -Laird
     -Leak
          -Negotiations

The President's schedule
     -Meir
          -Possible trip to the US
          -Rogers
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                        -Dayan

Kissinger left and an unknown man entered at 1:58 pm.

     Manolo Sanchez
         -Schedule

     Cuff links

The President et al., left at 1:59 pm.