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Nov 01, 1971
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Oval Office
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1 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 610-1 Date: November 1, 1971 Time: 4:04 pm - 5:08 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. [The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress] Washington Star -[Smith Hempstone, Jr..?] -Articles -Stance toward Administration -Relationship to Charles W. Colson -US Marine Corps -Trip to Africa -George Sherman -Sherman's stories -State Department -Colson -Sherman's schedule -Colson -Kissinger Robert Kleiman -New York Times editorial, November 1, 1971 -William P. Rogers's role in People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative -Taiwan, Republic of China -Patrol -Cancellation -Notification of PRC -Pakistan channel -Channel -July 15, 1971 announcement -1969 initiative The PRC initiative -State Department -Rogers's role -Taiwan patrol -Warsaw talks -Trip to the PRC
2 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Cambodian invasion -State Department -Marshall Green -Warsaw talks -The President’s order to Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. -Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan -State Department Kleiman Sherman's stories -Kissinger -Relationship with the President -State Department The PRC initiative -Rogers -John A. Scali -Conversation with Kissinger -American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC] -Role -Process -Romania channel -Kissinger’s record of messages -Historians -New York Times Melvin R. Laird Rogers Kissinger's schedule -Sherman -Colson -Crosby S. Noyes's request -Star Editorial Board -Sherman -Colson -Washington Post Foreign aid program
3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-State Department Rogers -Statement to Scali -The PRC initiative -The President -Knowledge of the PRC initiative -Kissinger's trip to Pakistan -Message Foreign aid program -Senate meeting, November 1, 1971 -Security assistance -Development assistance -Foreign Relations Committee -Clark MacGregor -Colson -Kissinger -The President's forthcoming meeting with Rogers -House of Representatives -Public statements -MacGregor -George H. Mahon -Gerald R. Ford -Carl B. Albert The President's schedule -William McMahon -Possible statement to the press
4 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 [National Security] [Duration: 12s ]
AUSTRALIA
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 *****************************************************************
State Department -News leaks -Rogers -White House -Green -PRC talks -Martin J. Hillenbrand -Soviet talks -The President's forthcoming meeting with Chou En-lai -Diplomatic arrangements -Kissinger Laird John N. Mitchell, George P. Shultz and H. R. Haldeman entered and Kissinger left at 4:15 pm. Kissinger -The PRC initiative James R. (“Jimmyâ€) Hoffa -Possible clemency -Possible pardon -Frank E. Fitzsimmons's efforts -International Brotherhood of Teamsters -Executive clemency -Procedures
5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Mitchell -The President -Recommendation -Parole board -Mitchell -Timing -Possible parole -Public perception -1972 election -Executive clemency -Mitchell’s view -Possible quid pro quo by Fitzsimmons -Pay Board -The President’s economic program -George Meany Pay Board -Shultz’s view -Meany and Leonard Woodcock -American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] -Woodcock and Fitzsimmons -Meany -Public perception Hoffa -Fitzsimmons's efforts -Executive clemency -Possible conditions -1972 election -Teamsters -Views of Barry M. Goldwater and John J. Rhodes -Activities of opponents -Parole board -Woodcock's meeting with Shultz -Fitzsimmons -Meany's views -I[lwirth] W[ilbur] Abel’s view -Quid pro quo -The President’s economic program -Time served
6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Sentence -Executive clemency -Parole Board's actions -James Hoffa, Jr. and attorney -Hoffa's labor connections -Resignations -Hoffa's finances Teamsters -Construction unions -Maurice A. Hutcheson -Hoffa -Walter P. Reuther -Robert F. Kennedy -Fitzsimmons and Woodcock -United Auto Workers [UAW] -Reuther -Alliance for Labor Action -AFL-CIO -Woodcock -General Motors strike -Differences in viewpoints -Fitzsimmons -Social issues -Dues collection -Voter registration -Reuther -Effectiveness for minorities -Chicago Hoffa -Executive clemency -Possible conditions -Others awaiting presidential action -Restoration of civil rights -Typicality -Possible reaction -Mitchell's lunch with Time-Life and Fortune staffs, November 1, 1971 -Rogers and Kissinger -Political prisoner question -Parole period
7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Discrimination -Conduct in prison -Executive clemency -Political considerations -Public perception of labor leaders -Edward M. Kennedy's possible reaction -Robert Kennedy -Possible effects on the Administration -Benefit -Criticism -Teamsters endorsement of Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968 -Executive clemency -Discrimination -Timing -1972 election -Parole board -Possible action -Perception -Conditions -Fitzsimmons Pay Board -Fitzsimmons -Possible vote -Effect on Teamsters and construction workers Hoffa -Teamsters' impressions -Fitzsimmons -The President's speech to Teamsters convention -Unionists' support -Executive clemency -Possible reaction by critics -Compared to release of Black Panther -Dr. Thomas W. Matthew Matthew -Executive clemency -Leonard Garment's memorandum to the President -Activities
8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 [Privacy] [Duration: 26s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 *****************************************************************
Hoffa -As symbol -Robert Kennedy's activities -Executive clemency -Edward Kennedy's possible reaction -John L. McClellan's possible reaction National economy -Pay Board -Wage contracts -Shultz's conversation with Arnold R. Weber -Retroactivity -Railroad workers -Freeze period -Cost of Living Council [COLC] decision -Meany's view -Retroactivity -Prices -Views of Woodcock and Fitzsimmons -Automobile workers -Milton Friedman's views -Sanctity of contracts -Timing of decision -Meany's possible action -Administration's response -Weber -John B. Connally -Contingency plan
9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Price commission -Reasonable standards -Wage and price freeze -Possible fate -Timing -Support -Labor -Canada -Preparation -The President's program -Possible action -Extension of freeze -Involvement -Standards -Legal status -Congress -James Tobin -Article of October 31, 1971 -Yale University -John F. Kennedy -Article -Content -Kermit Gordon's view -Possible reaction -Presidential intervention -Tobin Shultz and Haldeman left at 4:53 pm.
***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 4m ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9 *****************************************************************
10 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
National economy -Pay Board -Prospects -Wage and price controls -Meany's possible action -Meany’s support with labor -Shultz -Mitchell's conversation with Fitzsimmons, October 30, 1971 -Public board -Administration's action -Congress -Labor -Need for planning -Shultz and Weber -Arthur F. Burns -L. Patrick Gray's actions -Meany's possible action -Administration's reaction -Shultz Hoffa -Executive clemency -Mitchell’s view -The President’s further actions -Relationship with organized labor The President's schedule -Mitchell -McMahon -Rogers Mitchell left and Robert L. Kunzig and Frederic L. Malek entered at 5:02 pm. Kunzig -Role in administration -Justice Department -American Bar Association [ABA]'s action -General Services Administration [GSA] -Confirmation as judge -Nomination
11 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Retirement of predecessor -Timing -Deal with White House -Previous confirmations -Hugh Scott -Possible leak Presentation of gifts by the President Kunzig -Performance Kunzig and Malek left at 5:18 pm.
Conversation No. 610-2 Date: November 1, 1971 Time: 5:08 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with an unknown person [Dr. W. Kenneth Riland?] The President talked with an unknown person. [End of telephone conversation] The President and the unknown person left at 5:08 pm.
Conversation No. 610-3 Date: November 1, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:08 pm and 11:59 pm Location: Oval Office Unknown people [Secret Service agents] talked.
12 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-2 (cont.)
The President's schedule [End of telephone conversation] The unknown people [Secret Service agents] met. [Unintelligible] The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.
1 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conversation No. 610-1 Date: November 1, 1971 Time: 4:04 pm - 5:08 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. [The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress] Washington Star -[Smith Hempstone, Jr..?] -Articles -Stance toward Administration -Relationship to Charles W. Colson -US Marine Corps -Trip to Africa -George Sherman -Sherman's stories -State Department -Colson -Sherman's schedule -Colson -Kissinger Robert Kleiman -New York Times editorial, November 1, 1971 -William P. Rogers's role in People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative -Taiwan, Republic of China -Patrol -Cancellation -Notification of PRC -Pakistan channel -Channel -July 15, 1971 announcement -1969 initiative The PRC initiative -State Department -Rogers's role -Taiwan patrol -Warsaw talks -Trip to the PRC
2 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Cambodian invasion -State Department -Marshall Green -Warsaw talks -The President’s order to Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. -Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan -State Department Kleiman Sherman's stories -Kissinger -Relationship with the President -State Department The PRC initiative -Rogers -John A. Scali -Conversation with Kissinger -American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC] -Role -Process -Romania channel -Kissinger’s record of messages -Historians -New York Times Melvin R. Laird Rogers Kissinger's schedule -Sherman -Colson -Crosby S. Noyes's request -Star Editorial Board -Sherman -Colson -Washington Post Foreign aid program
3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-State Department Rogers -Statement to Scali -The PRC initiative -The President -Knowledge of the PRC initiative -Kissinger's trip to Pakistan -Message Foreign aid program -Senate meeting, November 1, 1971 -Security assistance -Development assistance -Foreign Relations Committee -Clark MacGregor -Colson -Kissinger -The President's forthcoming meeting with Rogers -House of Representatives -Public statements -MacGregor -George H. Mahon -Gerald R. Ford -Carl B. Albert The President's schedule -William McMahon -Possible statement to the press
4 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 [National Security] [Duration: 12s ]
AUSTRALIA
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 *****************************************************************
State Department -News leaks -Rogers -White House -Green -PRC talks -Martin J. Hillenbrand -Soviet talks -The President's forthcoming meeting with Chou En-lai -Diplomatic arrangements -Kissinger Laird John N. Mitchell, George P. Shultz and H. R. Haldeman entered and Kissinger left at 4:15 pm. Kissinger -The PRC initiative James R. (“Jimmyâ€) Hoffa -Possible clemency -Possible pardon -Frank E. Fitzsimmons's efforts -International Brotherhood of Teamsters -Executive clemency -Procedures
5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Mitchell -The President -Recommendation -Parole board -Mitchell -Timing -Possible parole -Public perception -1972 election -Executive clemency -Mitchell’s view -Possible quid pro quo by Fitzsimmons -Pay Board -The President’s economic program -George Meany Pay Board -Shultz’s view -Meany and Leonard Woodcock -American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] -Woodcock and Fitzsimmons -Meany -Public perception Hoffa -Fitzsimmons's efforts -Executive clemency -Possible conditions -1972 election -Teamsters -Views of Barry M. Goldwater and John J. Rhodes -Activities of opponents -Parole board -Woodcock's meeting with Shultz -Fitzsimmons -Meany's views -I[lwirth] W[ilbur] Abel’s view -Quid pro quo -The President’s economic program -Time served
6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Sentence -Executive clemency -Parole Board's actions -James Hoffa, Jr. and attorney -Hoffa's labor connections -Resignations -Hoffa's finances Teamsters -Construction unions -Maurice A. Hutcheson -Hoffa -Walter P. Reuther -Robert F. Kennedy -Fitzsimmons and Woodcock -United Auto Workers [UAW] -Reuther -Alliance for Labor Action -AFL-CIO -Woodcock -General Motors strike -Differences in viewpoints -Fitzsimmons -Social issues -Dues collection -Voter registration -Reuther -Effectiveness for minorities -Chicago Hoffa -Executive clemency -Possible conditions -Others awaiting presidential action -Restoration of civil rights -Typicality -Possible reaction -Mitchell's lunch with Time-Life and Fortune staffs, November 1, 1971 -Rogers and Kissinger -Political prisoner question -Parole period
7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Discrimination -Conduct in prison -Executive clemency -Political considerations -Public perception of labor leaders -Edward M. Kennedy's possible reaction -Robert Kennedy -Possible effects on the Administration -Benefit -Criticism -Teamsters endorsement of Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968 -Executive clemency -Discrimination -Timing -1972 election -Parole board -Possible action -Perception -Conditions -Fitzsimmons Pay Board -Fitzsimmons -Possible vote -Effect on Teamsters and construction workers Hoffa -Teamsters' impressions -Fitzsimmons -The President's speech to Teamsters convention -Unionists' support -Executive clemency -Possible reaction by critics -Compared to release of Black Panther -Dr. Thomas W. Matthew Matthew -Executive clemency -Leonard Garment's memorandum to the President -Activities
8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 [Privacy] [Duration: 26s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 *****************************************************************
Hoffa -As symbol -Robert Kennedy's activities -Executive clemency -Edward Kennedy's possible reaction -John L. McClellan's possible reaction National economy -Pay Board -Wage contracts -Shultz's conversation with Arnold R. Weber -Retroactivity -Railroad workers -Freeze period -Cost of Living Council [COLC] decision -Meany's view -Retroactivity -Prices -Views of Woodcock and Fitzsimmons -Automobile workers -Milton Friedman's views -Sanctity of contracts -Timing of decision -Meany's possible action -Administration's response -Weber -John B. Connally -Contingency plan
9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Price commission -Reasonable standards -Wage and price freeze -Possible fate -Timing -Support -Labor -Canada -Preparation -The President's program -Possible action -Extension of freeze -Involvement -Standards -Legal status -Congress -James Tobin -Article of October 31, 1971 -Yale University -John F. Kennedy -Article -Content -Kermit Gordon's view -Possible reaction -Presidential intervention -Tobin Shultz and Haldeman left at 4:53 pm.
***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 4m ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9 *****************************************************************
10 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
National economy -Pay Board -Prospects -Wage and price controls -Meany's possible action -Meany’s support with labor -Shultz -Mitchell's conversation with Fitzsimmons, October 30, 1971 -Public board -Administration's action -Congress -Labor -Need for planning -Shultz and Weber -Arthur F. Burns -L. Patrick Gray's actions -Meany's possible action -Administration's reaction -Shultz Hoffa -Executive clemency -Mitchell’s view -The President’s further actions -Relationship with organized labor The President's schedule -Mitchell -McMahon -Rogers Mitchell left and Robert L. Kunzig and Frederic L. Malek entered at 5:02 pm. Kunzig -Role in administration -Justice Department -American Bar Association [ABA]'s action -General Services Administration [GSA] -Confirmation as judge -Nomination
11 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-1 (cont.)
-Retirement of predecessor -Timing -Deal with White House -Previous confirmations -Hugh Scott -Possible leak Presentation of gifts by the President Kunzig -Performance Kunzig and Malek left at 5:18 pm.
Conversation No. 610-2 Date: November 1, 1971 Time: 5:08 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with an unknown person [Dr. W. Kenneth Riland?] The President talked with an unknown person. [End of telephone conversation] The President and the unknown person left at 5:08 pm.
Conversation No. 610-3 Date: November 1, 1971 Time: Unknown between 5:08 pm and 11:59 pm Location: Oval Office Unknown people [Secret Service agents] talked.
12 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 8/07)
Conv. No. 610-2 (cont.)
The President's schedule [End of telephone conversation] The unknown people [Secret Service agents] met. [Unintelligible] The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.
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