Conversation No. 631-007
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
-India-Pakistan situation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-US position vis-à-vis
-Timing
-State Department
-Negotiations
-Middle East
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-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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Southern politics
-Harry S. Dent
-Black support
-Possible support for the President
-John N. Mitchell
-Opposed to black support
-Talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
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George Meany
-Health
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-George P. Shultz report
-Dr. Walter R. Tkach
-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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Polls
-Gallup trial heats, November 19-22
-Registered voters
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-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy changes
-Publish on December 9
-The President's figures
-Compared to Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-George C. Wallace changes
-Undecided changes
The President talked to an unknown person at an unknown time after 4:33 pm.
Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO] [?]
[End of telephone conversation]
Polls
-Gallup trial heats, November 19-22
-Registered voters
-Edmund S. Muskie changes
-Hubert H. Humphrey changes
-George S. McGovern changes
-December 12, 1971
-George H. Gallup, Jr.
-Dinner on December 7, 1971
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s meal with Robert Teeter
-John N. Mitchell
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s opinion
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Computers
-International Business Machines [IBM]
-Key states
-National
-Gallup
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
-Gallup poll
-Registered voters
-George C. Wallace
-Steady percentages
-Approval
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy and Edmund S. Muskie
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-Democrats rarely get blamed
-Unfair blame to the President
-Papers
-Dwight L. Chapin
-John S. Davies
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-George H. Gallup, Jr.
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The President's schedule
-Connally meeting
-Timing
-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
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-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
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
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-Haldeman’s view
-Aid cut off
Haldeman left at 5:05 pm.