629–6

Conversation No. 629-6

Date: December 6, 1971
Time: 9:09 am - 10:08 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger; an National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film
crew was present at the beginning of the meeting.

India/Pakistan situation
-Military advisors
-Military attaches
-Military action
-Air fight
-Knock out oil supplies in Karachi
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-Ground forces
-Status
-Withdrawal resolutions
-General Assembly
-Potential Indian position
-Bangladesh
-Calcutta
-United Nations [UN] action
-Italian resolution in the Security Council
-Kissinger’s view
-Potential failure
-General assembly
-“Uniting for Peace” resolution
-Security Council
-Possible results
-Cease-fire and withdrawal
-Progress
-Indira Gandhi
-Meeting with the president
-Proposals
-Pakistani-Bangladesh negotiations
-Location
-Mujibar Rahman
-Efforts by the Administration
-American cargo ships
-American civilians
-Karachi
-US involvement
-Cease-fire negotiations
-Possible outcome
-Dacca area
-Refugees
-Numbers
-American civilians
-US responsibility
-Ships
-Attacks
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG] meeting
-Timing
-Participants
-Melvin R. Laird
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-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-Timing
-David Packard
-William P. Rogers
-Admn. Thomas H. Moorer
-Gen. William C. Westmoreland
-Richard M. Helms
-John B. Connally
-Economic assistance
-Possible US action
-UN
-World community
-East Pakistan
-Possible scenarios
-Economy
-Relations with India

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:09 am and
9:19 am.

[Conversation No. 629-6A]

[See Conversation No. 16-13]

[End of telephone conversation]

UN
-George H.W. Bush
-Forthcoming telephone call from the President to Bush
-Timing

Cambodia

President’s schedule

The President talked with William P. Rogers between 9:19 am and 9:24 am.

[Conversation No. 629-6B]

[See Conversation No. 16-14; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
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[End of telephone conversation]

India-Pakistan situation
-Connally
-Talk with Kissinger
-Timing

Cambodia
-Military situation
-Stability
-South Vietnamese

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Talk with the President
-Defensive-offensive weapons
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] presentation
-The President’s May 20, 1971 statement
-Gromyko’s previous visit to the US
-Land based weapons
-Closeness between the USSR and US

Paris Peace Talks
-North Vietnamese
-Withdrawal
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Overthrow
-POWs
-Kissinger’s view
-North Vietnam proposal
-Seven point proposal
-Point one
-US assistance
-Withdrawal
-Type
-Point two
-Thieu overthrow
-Linked to Point one
-Position
-State Department report
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-Le Duc Tho
-Health
-Recovery

Middle East
-Meeting with Golda Meir
-League of Women
-Meir
-Security concerns
-US
-Balance of power
-Note to be changed
-Diplomatic flexibility
-Kissinger's meeting with Yitzhak Rabin
-US and Israeli position
-Understanding

President’s schedule
-Trips and meetings
-Azores
-Timing
-Bermuda
-Timing
-Key Biscayne
-California
-Head of State meetings
-Rogers to meet with his counterpart
-Foreign policy
-Connally to meet with his counterpart
-Economics
-Complex issues
-Canada
-Congressional leadership breakfast
-International monetary situation
-Trade
-Importance
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and USSR meetings
-Meetings with PRC and USSR leaders
-Timing
-Monetary issue
-Pierre E. Trudeau [?]
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-European forces
-PRC
-Future of the alliance
-Trudeau
-Economic issues
-Europeans
-Interest in US attitudes
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-USSR
-Moscow and Peking

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:24 am and 9:37
am.

[Conversation No. 629-6C]

[See Conversation No. 16-15]

[End of telephone conversation]

Schedule
-Meetings with Heads of State
-Time considerations
-Eisaku Sato
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Potential language problem with foreign leaders
-Time

Bush
-Kissinger’s previous conversations with Bush
-UN vote
-Statements


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Kissinger and the President talked with Bush between 9:37 am and 9:42 am.

[Conversation No. 629-6D]

[See Conversation No. 16-16]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:37 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

Maps
-Kissinger delivery

India-Pakistan situation
-Attaches
-Troops

Kissinger left at 9:42 am.

The President's schedule
-Rogers
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Transportation problems
-James D. Hodgson's testimony
-Timing
-Farm belt
-Farm bureau
-Earl L. Butz's address
-Legislation
-Congressional failures
-Welfare reform
-Relief to cities
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-Revenue sharing
-Health bill
-Bill to stop labor disputes in transportation
-Importance to Americans
-Railroad strike
-Dock strikes
-Cost to farmers and consumers
-Lack of hearings
-Cabinet officers' support
-Hodgson
-Butz
-Public opinion
-Percentages
-New labor legislation
-Pressure
-Actions taken
-Speeches
-Interest groups
-Letters
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Clark MacGregor
-Issues
-Welfare reform
-Social Security increases
-Revenue sharing
-Government reorganization
-Transportation strikes
-Lack of action
-Congress’ accountability

Economy
-George H. Gallup poll
-Public opinion
-Stronger wage-price controls
-Percentage
-Labor union leaders' opinions
-Louis Harris poll
-Percentage
-Favor the President's economic policy
-Tax bill
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Ziegler entered at 9:44 am.

Leadership meeting
-Congressional leadership breakfast
-India-Pakistan Briefing
-Rogers
-Briefing the Senate Leadership
-Leadership
-US policy
-Arms aid to India
-UN vote
-Talks with Meir
-Balance of power
-Israel
-Possible push for a truce
-Legislative situation
-Recess
-Economic Stabilization Bill
-Wayne L. Hays
-Pressure
-Leonard Garment [?]
-Beginning of next session
-Timing
-India-Pakistan situation
-Congressional situation
-Focus and attention of the day
-Releases
-Executive Order No. 11248
-Wage-price board
-Salary levels

President’s schedule
-WSAG meeting
-Rogers
-Laird
-Moorer
-Westmoreland
-Helms
-Connally
-Time and place
-EOB
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-Trudeau meeting
-The President's previous telephone conversation with Bush
-WSAG meeting
-Kissinger

Anwar el-Sadat
-Terence F. Smith [?] article
-State Department
-The President's meeting with Meir
-Israelis
-Balance of power
-Proposed action
-Organization of Arab Republics [OAR]
-Attempt to maintain the balance of power and the truce
-Talks
-Assurance to the Israelis
-Policy
-Possible changes
-Courtesy to Sadat
-USSR
-Sadat

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 9:54 am.

John D. Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 9:54 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Vice President
-Representatives of states
-The President's attendance
-Opening
-Legislative program
-Public education
-Real estate taxation
-Congress
-Senate
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Assurances
-Finance
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with an unknown person
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-Tax bill
-Budget
-Mills
-Responsibility
-Call from the President
-Ehrlichman’s approval

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:54 am and
9:57 am.

[Conversation No. 629-6E]

[See Conversation No. 16-17]

[End of telephone conversation]

Tax bill
-Mills
-Delay
-Duration

Schedule
-Representatives of states meeting
-Vice President
-Purpose
-Cabinet
-Domestic Council
-Recommendations
-Interest groups
-Association of Governors
-Association of County Executives and Cities
-Association of Mayors
-Meeting in Hawaii
-Attended by the Vice President
-Recommendations
-Domestic Council

Spiro T. Agnew entered at 9:57 am.

Tax bill
-Mills
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-The President and Vice President

National League of Cities meeting
-Honolulu
-Association of Mayors
-The President's proposal
-Mills
-Recommendations
-Agnew's forthcoming call to Mills

The President talked with Mills between 10:01 and 10:06 am.

[Conversation No. 629-6F]

[See Conversation No. 16-18; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

National League of Cities meeting
-Honolulu
-Richard G. Lugar
-Mayor of Indianapolis
-Spirit of cooperation
-Samuel Massell
-Mayor of Atlanta
-Congress and the Administration

Representatives of states meeting
-Congressional relations
-Mills
-John W. Byrnes
-Tax bill
-Ways and Means Committee
-Mills proposal

National League of Cities meeting in Honolulu
-Constructive meetings
-Edwin L. Harper

Ehrlichman and Agnew left at 10:08 am.
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