593–11

Conversation No. 593-11

Date: October 15, 1971
Time: 10:38 am - 11:32 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

US foreign relations
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Message for Nixon
-[Forename unknown] Burns [sp?]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:38 am.

The President's schedule
-John B. Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

News story
-Maxine Cheshire
-Kissinger’s view
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Newsday
-Unknown woman
-Taft Schreiber

Robert S. McNamara
-Pakistan
-World Bank loan

US foreign policy
-Soviets
-Edwin O. Reischauer
-W. Averell Harriman

John N. Mitchell and John D. Ehrlichman entered at 10:40 am.

-Dinner for visiting delegation
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Tape Subject Log
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Kissinger left at 10:41 am.

Supreme Court appointments
-Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
-Letter to Mitchell
-Views on Court
-Woman
-Herschel H. Friday
-Possible appointees
-Visit with Mitchell, October 15, 1971
-Resignation threat
-The President’s view
-Mitchell’s conversation with Burger
-Health
-Funeral of former Supreme Court justice
-The President’s view

Administration's appointees
-Burger
-Arthur F. Burns
-Andrew F. Brimmer
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]

Supreme Court appointees
-Burger
-Threats of resignation
-White House staff
-Burger's views
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Mitchell's forthcoming conversation with Burger
-Burger
-The President’s assessment of Burger’s appointment
-Cabinet
-Previous editorials
-William J. Brennan
-Thurgood Marshall
-Byron R. (“Whizzer”) White
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Hugo L. Black
-Burger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 593-11 (cont.)


-Robert C. Byrd
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson's letter
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Friday
-News summary
-J. William Fulbright
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Burger's views
-Lewis F. Powell
-Women
-News summary
-The President’s view
-Connally
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Equal Rights Amendment
-The President’s view
-Margaret M. (“Peggy”) Heckler
-Lillie
-Political affiliation
-Friday
-Political affiliation
-News summaries
-David Schumacher
-Lillie
-Don Farmer
-Friday
-Bill [David ?] Lawrence's comments
-Carl Stern
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Friday
-Arkansas Gazette
-Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Lillie
-Jewish seat
-Burger
-Friday
-Background
-Possible Senate confirmation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 593-11 (cont.)


-G. Harrold Carswell
-Need for Republican support
-Charles McC. Mathias
-Robert P. Griffin
-William H. Rehnquist
-Clark MacGregor
-Conservatives
-Friday
-Clement F. Haynsworth
-Washington Post
-Editorial
-Question of mediocrity
-Appointment of Hugo L. Black
-Burger
-Editorial comments
-John W. Dean, III
-Lillie
-Mrs. A. V. Falcone
-Husband
-Political philosophy
-Dean’s assessment
-Civil rights
-Southerners
-Law and order issues
-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
-Felix Frankfurter
-Burger's views
-Woman
-Women
-Rita E. Hauser
-Barbara (“Bobbie”) Greene Kilberg
-The President's law school class
-Maritime Commission
-Helen Delich Bentley
-Civil Service Commission
-The President's views
-Lillie
-India
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Burger's conversation with Mitchell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 593-11 (cont.)


-Blackmun
-Friday
-Woman
-Earl Warren
-The President’s view
-Abe Fortas
-Black
-John M. Harlan
-Brennan
-William O. Douglas
-The President’s view
-Jewish appointment
-Edward H. Levi
-Possibility of appointment
-Burger's forthcoming conversation with Mitchell
-Possible appointees
-Mitchell's possible conversation with Burger
-Black
-Woman
-Poll
-Louis Harris
-Woman
-Democrats


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-Education
-The President and Mitchell’s view
-Domestic science
-Mitchell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 593-11 (cont.)


-Equality
-Peter G. Peterson
-Sally Peterson
-Textiles

Donald M. Kendall
-Pepsi Cola
-Cartha D. (“Deke”) DeLoach

Supreme Court appointments
-Burger
-Mitchell's conversation

Unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 10:41 am.

Item to be delivered to Peterson

Unknown woman left at an unknown time before 11:32 am.

-Age criteria
-Burger
-Popular opinion
-Appointment of a woman
-Friday
-Woman
-Warren
-Workload and case load
-Burger
-Black
-Harlan
-White
-Potter Stewart
-Brennan
-Case assignments
-Age criteria
-The President’s view
-Lillie
-Dean
-Workload
-Opinion lengths
-Holmes view of opinions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 593-11 (cont.)


-Warren Court
-Use of precedents
-Burger
-Possible resignation
-Possible motive
-Feelings on make-up of the Court
-Possible resignation

Textiles agreement

Resignation of Will R. Wilson
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Wilson's wife
-Rationale
-Deputy
-Wilson’s efforts

J. Edgar Hoover
-DeLoach's comments
-Possibility of leaving office
-Richard E. Berlin
-DeLoach
-Lou Nichols
-Richard M. Helms
-Telephone call to Ehrlichman
-Time magazine
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Investigation of espionage
-William C. Sullivan
-Complaints
-Robert D. Novak
-Terence F. Smith
-New York Times
-Time magazine
-Hugh Sidey
-Ad Hoc Committee
-Sullivan
-Age
-Effect
-Conversation with Mitchell
-Conversation with the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 593-11 (cont.)


-FBI
-Internal operation
-Robert T. Mardian
-Sullivan
-Performance of FBI
-Ehrlichman’s view
-FBI
-Sullivan
-Internal discipline
-DeLoach
-Possibility of resignation
-Possibility of medal presentation
-DeLoach
-Medal of Freedom
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Possible impact on the President's reelection
-Possibility of resignation
-Time magazine
-Rowland Evans and Novak
-Possible impact on the President's reelection
-DeLoach
-Financial worth
-Recreation Association
-Medicine

The President's schedule
-North Carolina
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-F. Edward Hebert
-George H. Mahon
-Sequoia
-Youth groups

Protestantism
-Graham
-Appeal to youth

Supreme Court appointments
-Burger
-Woman
-Qualifications
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 593-11 (cont.)



Mitchell and Ehrlichman left at 11:32 am.