624–21

Conversation No. 624-21

Date: November 24, 1971
Time: 12:27 pm - 1:12 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers.

The President's previous meeting with Arthur F. Burns

John B. Connally's schedule
-Group of Ten

Unknown event [?]
-Henry Luce
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

The President's schedule
-Previous visit to Washington Redskins practice session
-The President’s view
-Christian A. (“Sonny”) Jurgenson's comments
-George E. Allen
-Billy Kilmer
-Allen's previous telephone call to the President
-Jurgenson and Kilmer
-The President’s view

Football
-Roger Staubach
-Running quarterbacks
-Kilmer
-The President's conversation with Allen
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 624-21 (cont.)


-Predictability of offense

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:30 pm.

India-Pakistan
-US policy
-Rogers’s view

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

India-Pakistan
-US relations with Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Political solution
-The President's previous conversation with Sultan Mohammed Khan
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Rogers’s view
-US policy
-Newspaper story
-India’s military involvement
-Statements by India
-Compared with North Vietnam
-Rogers’s view
-Military disposition
-Yahya Khan's military position
-Rogers’s view
-Edward M. Kennedy statements
-US policy
-US foreign aid to India
-Export licenses
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-Rogers’s view
-United Nations [UN]
-Possible US actions
-Indira Gandhi’s position
-Compared with Pakistan
-Possible Security Council action
-Yahya Khan
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 624-21 (cont.)


-Gandhi’s views
-UN observers
-US policy
-Gandhi’s letter to the President
-Timing
-Gandhi
-Previous conversations with the President and Rogers
-Congress
-Public reaction in America
-US policy
-Symbolic efforts
-The President’s view


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INDIA-PAKISTAN


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-US position toward Pakistan
-US relations with Yahya Khan and Gandhi
-The President’s view
-India’s role
-US foreign aid to India
-Compared with aid to Pakistan
-The President’s view
-Congress

Rhodesian settlement with Britain
-US policy
-Alexander Douglas-Home
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 624-21 (cont.)


-Previous meeting with the President

India-Pakistan
-US policy
-Symbolic action
-Gandhi
-Pakistan
-UN
-US position
-Possible Security Council action
-Rogers’s view
-Gandhi’s cooperation
-Yahya Khan
-Mujibur Rahman
-Gandhi’s view
-US policy
-US military aid to India


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INDIA-PAKISTAN


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-Export licenses
-Embargo
-Economic aid
-Refugees
-Aid to Pakistan
-AID
-Aid committed to India
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 624-21 (cont.)


-UN
-Possible response to press questions
-Rogers and Ronald l. Ziegler
-Rogers's forthcoming conversations
-Indian charge
-Unknown Pakistani
-Soviet Union
-India’s public relations
-Compared with Pakistan
-India’s goals
-US policy
-Kissinger’s view
-Gandhi
-Previous conversations with the President and Rogers
-The President's previous conversation with Josip Broz Tito
-US policy
-Symbolic efforts
-Export licenses
-Timing
-Ziegler’s statement
-The President's previous meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-US commitment to economic aid
-Military aid to India
-The President’s view
-Multilateral aid
-The President’s view
-UN
-World Bank
-Kissinger’s view
-India
-Soviet union's policy toward India
-PRC
-Financial support
-Indian goals
-Kissinger’s view
-Pakistan
-Bengal
-Nature of relationship
-Yahya Khan
-Bhutto
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 624-21 (cont.)


-The President’s view
-Possible policy
-Mujibur Rahman
-Wife
-The President’s view
-Possible policy
-Mujibur Rahman
-Yahya Khan
-The President’s view
-Bhutto
-The President’s view
-The President's visit in 1967
-Mohammed Ayub Khan's views
-Soviet Union's policy
-US policy
-The President’s view
-Public relations
-Nigerian War
-UN
-Achievements
-Publicity
-UN
-Possible action
-Rogers's schedule

The President's schedule
-California
-Football game
-Nebraska versus Oklahoma

Portugal
-UN resolution regarding Senegal
-US position
-Other nations' positions
-Great Britain
-The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming trip to the Azores

Rogers’s schedule

India-Pakistan
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 624-21 (cont.)


-US policy

Rogers and Kissinger left at 1:12 pm.