631–7

Conversation No. 631-7

Date: December 7, 1971
Time: 4:33 pm - 5:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Henry A. Kissinger
-Backgrounder
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-India-Pakistan situation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-US position vis-a-vis
-Timing
-State Department
-Negotiations
-Middle East
-William P. Rogers
-Remarks
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-USSR
-Haldeman's talk with Kissinger
-Opportunities
-State Department
-Edward M. Kennedy

John B. Connally
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Timing
-Meeting with the President
-Connally’s schedule

Kissinger


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George Meany
-Health
-George P. Shultz report
-Dr. Walter R. Tkach
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-John F. O'Connell [?]
-Extent of illness
-Projected recovery time
-[Joseph] Lane Kirkland
-Eugenia Meany
-Shultz
-Miami American Federation of Labor and Congress of International
Organization [AFL-CIO] conference
-Connally
-“Touch-up”
-Shultz
-O'Connell
-Possible plans to replace Meany
-International concerns
-Probable successor to Meany
-Tkach
-Meany’s health
-Kirkland
-Miami
-Blame
-Meany’s health
-Time and Newsweek articles
-Letters to the editor
-Unfavorable to Meany


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The President's schedule
-Connally meeting
-Timing
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-Congressional message
-Pension plan
-Possible statement
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Previous conversation with Haldeman

Kissinger
-Other motivations
-USSR
-Vietnam War negotiations
-India-Pakistan
-USSR
-Possible arms deal with India
-Resignation
-PRC trip
-Haldeman's talk with Kissinger
-Haldeman’s point to Kissinger
-Possible solutions
-Close out business
-PRC
-Interest in Kissinger’s possible resignation
-Story
-Kissinger
-Possible future scenario
-Election
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Teaching career
-Recognition
-Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-Walt W. Rostow
-McGeorge Bundy
-Robert S. McNamara
-Dean G. Acheson
-Dean Rusk
-Georgia
-Proposed book by Kissinger
-Content
-Notes
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Description of notes
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Stock market
-Figures

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 4:33 p.m.

Meeting with Moynihan
-Location

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

Stock market

Kissinger
-Connally
-Meeting
-Possible times
-Purpose of meeting
-Handling
-Methods in dealing with potential problems
-Haldeman
-Possible second guessing
-USSR
-State Department
-Haldeman’s view
-Aid cut off

Haldeman left at 5:05 pm.