307–27

Conversation No. 307-27

Date: December 8, 1971
Time: 3:55 pm - 5:01 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John N. Mitchell.

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Pardon
-Parole
-Amnesty
-Commutations
-Number
-Pardons
-Number
-Commutation
-Civil rights
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Forthcoming actions
-Restriction of union activities
-Mitchell's talk with Fitzsimmons
-Mitchell's talk with John B. Connally
-Organized labor
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Prison record
-Parole
-Press
-Possible statement on release
-The President's schedule
-Azores
-The Justice Department
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-Mitchell's speech on corrections
-Parole
-William Loeb
-Talk with Mitchell
-John M. Ashbrook
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR]
-Parole list

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:05 pm.

-Talk with Mitchell
-Amnesty
-Kennedy supporters
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Kennedy
-Task force
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Unknown person
-Commutation of sentence
-Civil rights
-Jimmy Stone [?] (Stahlman?)
-William H. Rehnquist
-William P. Rogers


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India and Pakistan
-Rockefeller
-Media
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-The President's call to unknown perosn
-Charles L. Bartlett
-Kennedy family
-Interest in India

Foreign relations
-Indians
-USSR
-Satellites
-Middle East
-Zambia
-New York Times
-Aggression by Democracies and Dictatorships
-Africa
-India and Pakistan
-Relative populations

Pakistan
-United Nations [UN]
-Edward M. Kennedy


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PAKISTAN


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-Treaty
-US options
-India
-UN
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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:05 pm and 5:01
pm.

[Conversation No. 307-27A]

The President's schedule
-Kissinger and Mitchell
-Unknown person
-Delay meeting

[End of telephone conversation]


India-Pakistan War
-US relations
-Pakistan
-Dictatorship
-History
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 3m 26s ]


INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR


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-US-Indian relations
-South Asia
-President’s course of action
-Advisors’ recommendations
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-Rogers
-Indira Gandhi visit to Washington, DC, November 4-5, 1971
-Talk with the President
-Talk with Rogers
-US goals
-Avoiding pretext for attack
-USSR
-Stance
-Economic aid cut-off
-State Department
-Role
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Kissinger's talk with U. Alexis Johnson
-Possible military action by India
-US policy
-USSR
-Summit


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[National Security]
[Duration: 7s ]


INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR


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-Military imbalance
-Bureauracy
-Johnson
-US military aid
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-President’s previous visit
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[Duration: 51s ]


INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR


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-USSR
-Decision
-Meetings
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-Rogers
-John N. Irwin, II
-State Department line
-Non-intervention
-Yahya Khan
-Options
-Possible consequences of non-intervention
-South Asia
-PRC
-USSR
-Middle East
-Iran
-Indonesia
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration: 5m 51s ]


INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR


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-Keating
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Johnson
-Conversation with Indians
-Recognition of Bangladesh
-Possible US diplomatic strategy
-United Nations [UN] statement
-Waiting
-East Pakistan
-Aid
-John B. Connally
-Export-Import Bank [Ex-Im]
-Rogers
-Bengal
-USSR
-Bangladesh
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[National Security]
[Duration: 15m 34s ]


INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR


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President’s schedule
-Kissinger's talk with Connally
-Azores
-Georges J.R. Pompidou meeting
-Italy and Germany
-Germans
-British


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[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 17s ]


INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR


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Mitchell and Kissinger left at 5:01 pm.
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