Conversation No. 624-29/625-1

Date: November 24, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:06 pm and 4:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz and Henry A.
Kissinger.
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     House Resolution [HR] 1
         -Senate action

     Kissinger's schedule
          -Forthcoming meeting with Japanese Ambassador

     India-Pakistan
           -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Pakistan Ambassador
           -State Department
                 -Statement
                 -The President's instructions
                 -Assistant secretaries

     1973 budget
          -Department of Defense
               -Amount
               -Military forces
               -Barry M. Goldwater and John G. Tower
               -Tactical aircraft
               -Submarines
                     -Weapons system
               -Melvin R. Laird
                     -Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
                     -David Packard
                     -Thomas H. Moorer
               -Air defense
          -National defense
               -Amounts
               -Kissinger's possible meeting with conservatives
               -Memorandum
               -Laird
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                      -Negotiations


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     India-Pakistan
           -Kissinger's possible action
           -Edward M. Kennedy's statement in India
           -US policy
                -India
                      -Loans
                            -Henry Kearns

     Laird
             -Memorandum

     Portugal
          -United Nations [UN] action regarding Senegal
                -William P. Rogers
                -US position
                -Previous UN vote on Taiwan
          -President’s forthcoming meeting with Georges J.R. Pompidou in the Azores

Kissinger left at 4:17 pm.

     Connally's previous press conference
         -Tricia Nixon Cox's views


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     Connally's schedule
         -Forthcoming conversation with the President

     International monetary situation
           -Connally's forthcoming conversation with unknown person
           -Gold
                -The President's previous meeting with Arthur F. Burns and Connally

Connally left at 4:19 pm.

     1973 budget
          -Arthur S. Flemming
               -Conversation with Ehrlichman
               -Performance in office
          -Social Security
               -Leonard Garment's views
          -Medicaid prescriptions
               -Amendment to HR 1
          -Federal employees' pay
               -Clark MacGregor's possible efforts
          -Medicaid prescriptions
               -Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Flemming

     Pending legislation
          -Tax Bill
               -Financing of presidential campaigns
                      -Ehrlichman's meeting with MacGregor and House Republicans
                            -Wilbur D. Mills
                            -Possible veto
                            -Lobbyists
                      -Effect
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                            -The President’s view
                                 -Democrats' motives
                                       -George C. Wallace
                      -William L. Springer's views
                      -William E. Brock, III's views
                      -Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Charles W. Colson
                            -Businessmen
                                 -The President's possible veto
                      -Possible congressional action
                            -Possible veto

     State of the Union speech

     Value Added Tax [VAT]
          -Connally's views
          -White House handling
          -The President's possible efforts
          -Possible poll

     Pending legislation
          -Tax Bill
               -Shultz's forthcoming call to Brock
                      -Colson
               -Possible veto
               -Connally

     The President's schedule
          -Departure
               -Shultz

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.
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