624–10

Conversation No. 624-10

Date: November 24, 1971
Time: 8:49 am - 9:49 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger's previous meeting with Huang Hua
-United Nations [UN] membership
-Kissinger’s view
-Chou En-lai
-Middle East
-India-Pakistan
-Possible UN resolutions
-Public stance
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-President’s forthcoming visit to PRC
-Haig’s role


India-Pakistan
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-Bureaucratic situation
-US policy
-US aid to India
-Timing
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Middle East
-US aid to Israel
-Senate
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Golda Meir
-Kissinger’s view
-Compared with previous year
-Effect on William P. Rogers
-Rogers’s statement
-Soviet Union
-US intelligence
-Soviet military aid to Egypt

The President's schedule
-Melvin R. Laird
-Possible participation in forthcoming meeting
-Rogers
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Rogers

India-Pakistan
-US policy
-Foreign aid

Haldeman entered at 8:56 am.

The President's schedule
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-Laird and Rogers
-Call to Kissinger's office
-Stephen B. Bull
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz and Kissinger

Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:56 am.

-Laird’s invitation to forthcoming meeting
-Kissinger's office
-Robert E. Pursley
-Forthcoming call from Bull

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:01 am.

-Kissinger and Rogers

India-Pakistan
-US policy and involvement
-The President's previous conversation with Indira Gandhi
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Lakshmi Kant Jha
-Aid to India and Pakistan
-Impact on US foreign relations
-Soviet Union and India
-PRC
-PRC
-Kissinger's meeting with Huang Hua
-Possible UN action
-US policy
-Cutoff of US aid
-Effectiveness
-Rogers's views
-The President’s view

The President's schedule
-Kissinger
-WSAG meeting
-Forthcoming meeting with Connally, Shultz, and Kissinger
-President’s possible forthcoming trip to Latin America
-Haldeman's forthcoming call to Rogers
-The President’s view
-Timing of Congressional session
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-Rogers's schedule
-Possible meeting with foreign ministers
-Problem of junketing

Kissinger left at 9:01 am.

Polls
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Spokesman's statement regarding client
-Union leaders
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Funds

The President's schedule
-Congress's schedule
-Departure for California
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz, Arthur F. Burns, Connally and Kissinger
-Peter G. Peterson

Peterson's schedule
-Foreign trip
-Status
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Kissinger

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 9:01 am and 9:08 am.

[Conversation No. 624-10A]

Request that Kissinger join them

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Staff plane
-Return

The President left at an unknown time before 9:08 am.

Kissinger entered at 9:08 am.

The President's location
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Peterson's schedule
-Foreign trip
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger
-The President

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

The President entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

-Possible forthcoming trip to Latin America
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Congress's schedule
-Robert H. Finch’s current trip to Latin America

Rogers's schedule
-Possible trip to Latin America
-The President’s view
-Possible reception
-Vietnam
-Possible meeting with foreign ministers of Latin America

Peterson's schedule
-Foreign trip
-Kissinger and Shultz
-Foreign trip
-Status
-Foreign trips
-The President’s view
-Shultz
-The President’s view

Rogers C. B. Morton
-Forthcoming trip to the Trust Territories
-Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. [?]
-Morton's forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-The President’s view

India-Pakistan
-US policy towards India
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-David Packard's views
-State Department
-Thomas H. Moorer's views
-Note from PRC

Kissinger left at 9:13 am.

Morton
-Trips

The President's schedule
-Congress's schedule
-Haldeman's conversation with Clark MacGregor
-MacGregor's previous conversation with the President
-Michael J. Mansfield
Polls
-University of New Hampshire
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie


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Kissinger entered at 9:15 am.

India-Pakistan
-Note from PRC
-Rogers

Kissinger left at 9:16 am.


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Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:16 am.

The President's schedule
-Shultz and Herbert Stein

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:18 am.

Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Stein
-New position
-Possible announcement
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-Shultz

National economy
-Stock market
-Forthcoming dinner for Clifford M. Hardin
-Paul W. McCracken and Maurice H. Stans

The President's schedule

Shultz and Stein entered at 9:18 am.

CEA
-Stein's role
-Views of Connally, Shultz and McCracken
-Spokesman
-Burns
-McCracken
-Connally and Shultz
-Quadriad meetings
-John W. Dean, III
-Views on national economy
-The President's program
-Connally and Shultz

Kissinger entered at 9:22 am.

Peterson's schedule
-Foreign travel

CEA
-Stein's role
-Burns
-International monetary situation

International monetary situation
-Kissinger, Connally, Shultz and Stein
-Quadriad
-Burns and Peterson
-Kissinger

Kissinger left at 9:23 am.
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National economy
-The President's program
-Stock market
-George Meany
-Businessmen's views
-Stein's meeting with World Affairs Council
-Du Pont influence
-Views of Wilmington, Delaware businessmen
-Compared with New York City counterparts
-Phase II
-Pay Board
-Price Board Commission
-Inflation
-Stein’s view
-Dock strike
-Possible settlement
-Taft-Hartley Act
-Board of Inquiry

Ziegler entered at 9:28 am.

CEA
-Stein's role
-Forthcoming announcement
-Handling
-McCracken's knowledge
-Handling
-Ziegler’s role
-McCracken and Burns
-Connally
-Timing
-Taft-Hartley Act

National economy
-Dock strike
-Taft-Hartley Act
-Timing of announcement

Stein
-Health
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-Shultz
-Wife

Shultz and Stein left at 9:32 am.

Ziegler's forthcoming announcements
-Taft-Hartley Act
-The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting in the Azores with Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Rogers and Connally
-Topics of meeting

[Unintelligible]

Ronald L. Ziegler left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:32 am.

The President's schedule
-Peter B. Wilson

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.

CEA
-Stein
-Haldeman’s view
-McCracken
-Burns
-The President’s view

The President's schedule
-Previous visit to Washington Redskins practice session
-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-Television
-Radio
-Baseball

Wilson and Max L. Friedersdorf entered at 9:36 am; the White House photographer and
members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.
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Wilson's forthcoming role in San Diego

San Diego
-Forthcoming Republican Convention

[Unintelligible]

Wilson's election
-Strategy

San Diego
-Forthcoming Republican Convention
-Wilson's meetings with Dean and John D. Ehrlichman
-Miami
-Hotels
-Arnold Simms [sp?]
-Forthcoming Republican Convention
-Wilson's conversation with William E. Timmons
-Tijuana, Mexico
-Possible place for delegates to visit
-Mayor of Baja California
-The President's previous visit
-Delegates' interest
-The President’s view
-San Diego
-Haldeman’s view
-Navy
-Milk Producers' convention in Chicago
-The President's previous speech
-Value of publicity to San Diego and Wilson
-Unknown person in Miami Beach
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Wilson’s previous meeting with Dean
-Police chief
-Wilson’s view
-Forthcoming Republican Convention
-Police forces
-Peter J. Pitchess
-Compared with Miami
-Cartoon of the President and Wilson
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Wilson
-Political career
-Age

Peter Kay and Paul Tighe

Mayors
-Richard G. Lugar
-The President’s view
-Problems compared to Wilson's
-Blacks
-Hispanics
-Wilson
-The President’s view

Presentation of gifts by the President

Wilson's election

Haldeman, et al., left at 9:49 am.