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627–3
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
December 1, 1971
Conversation No. 627-3

Date: December 1, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:15 am and 10:05 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Schedule
-Chicago
-Conflict
-National 4-H Congress
-National Association of Farm Editors
-American Farm Bureau
-President’s speech to the National 4-H Congress
-Meet and greet
-National Association of Farm Editors and the American Farm
Bureau
-John C. Whitaker
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 627-3 (cont.)


-Earl L. Butz
-Whitaker’s talk with Roger Clements
-Possible photo opportunity at the meet and greet
-Recognition

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 9:15 am.

National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Allies
-Options
-European Security Conference
-William P. Rogers
-Preparatory meetings with the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics
[USSR]
-Berlin
-Agreement
-Western Deputy Foreign Ministers meeting
-Western position rectified
-Summit
-Exploratory talks
-Rogers
-Possible delay of explanatory talks
-Middle East
-USSR
-Rogers’ probable meeting with the President
-Golda Meir
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Los Angeles Times
-Proposal
-Agenda
-State Department
-USSR
-Negotiations
-Shift in US policy
-Rogers
-Lunch for Meir
-Meeting with Kissinger

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 627-3 (cont.)


Chicago
-Schedule
-Problems

Clark MacGregor
-Tax bill
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Pressure
-Auto dealers
-Potential problems of tax bill
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Labor unions
-Control of Presidential elections
-Campaign check off
-Public attitudes
-John B. Anderson

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:15 am.

Rogers's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

MacGregor
-Foreign aid
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Appropriation
-Allen J. Ellender
-Trip to Africa
-Continuing resolution
-Butz
-Upcoming vote

Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Resignation from the United Nations [UN] delegation
-United Negro College Fund [UNCF]
-Sense of helpfulness
-Importance in particular field
-Chairman of the Domestic Council Committee on Discrimination
-Post retained by Fletcher
-Letter to the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 627-3 (cont.)


-Negro colleges
-Ability to survive
-Black Professors
-White colleges
-Hiring tactics
-Criticism

Schedule
-Congress
-Kissinger
-Chicago speech

[Pause?]

American Pharmaceutical Association [?]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:15 am.

Schedule
-Chicago speech

Bull left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:05 am.

Pierre E. Trudeau dinner
-Guest list and table

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.

William F. (“Billy”) Graham's trip to Taiwan
-Trip cancelled

Trudeau dinner

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.
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