639–9

Conversation No. 639-9

Date: December 18, 1971
Time: 1:11 pm - 1:34 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig’s schedule

Pakistan
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Press photograph
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Bhutto
-President's schedule
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-Length of Bhutto meeting
-Group of Ten meeting
-Timing
-John B. Connally
-West Pakistan
-Haig
-Kashmir
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] ships
-Missile ships
-Karachi
-Student feelings towards Yahya Khan
-Ceasefire
-Attitude toward US and People’s Republic of China [PRC]


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PRC


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-USSR-PRC relations
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Visit with PRC Ambassador in Paris
-US actions


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SRI LANKA


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-Relations with US
-PRC
-USSR
-Henry A. Kissigner statement
-United Nations [UN] veto
-USSR reaction

India
-Reply to Indira Gandhi
-Haig
-Indian Ambassador
-William P. Rogers
-Ziegler
-Timing of release
-Kissinger
-US commitment

India-Pakistan relations
-Current conditions
-Ceasefire

US-USSR relations
-Possible strategy
-Ceasefire
-US policy
-Peacemaking
-Gandhi


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INDIA


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Vietnam
-Enemy activity
-Laos
-Cambodia
-US losses
-Planes
-T-28’s
-F4’s
-Mikoyan-Gurevich [MIGs]
-Surface to Air Missiles [SAMs]
-US strategy
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Kissinger
-Implementation of plan
-Timing
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Ziegler
-Post-Christmas attack
-Willy Brandt
-Kissinger
-USSR

Cuba
-Panama
-US strategy


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INTELLIGENCE


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USSR
-Dialogue with US
-Ziegler

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 1:28 pm.

Monetary meeting
-Status of agreement
-John B. Connally
-Canadians
-Japanese
-Trade
-Schedule
-Status
-Germans
-Karl Schiller
-Brandt
-Italians
-Devaluation
-Number
-Italian election
-French
-Great Britain
-Maurice Schumann
-Location
-French
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Haig left at 1:31 pm.

-Connally
-Possible need for new meeting
-Italian election
-Stock Market
-Japanese
-Canadians
-Germans
-Kissinger
-Upcoming call to Egon Bahr
-Brandt
-Progress
-President's view
-Possible statement
-Strategy
-Canadians

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:31 pm and
1:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 639-9A]

[See Conversation No.16-110]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at 1:34 pm.