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November 4, 1971

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This almanac page for Thursday, November 4, 1971, pulls together various records created by the federal government and links to additional resources which can provide context about the events of the day.

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  • Source: News Summaries - November 1-15, 1971 [2 of 5], box 31, White House Special Files: Staff Member and Office Files: President's Office Files

    Thursday, Nov. 4, 1971
    Major Press Stories Stories today are uniform: 1) Public and management members of Pay Board anger labor with call for 5% wage hike guideline, ban on retroactivity and public member support for 2 month freeze extension -- bargaining is anticipated today; 2) Rehnquist given ABA backing along with Powell, is grilled by libs -- who didn't get far. Tho he comes across as bright, quick, affable and still looks good for confirmation, the Committee wants him back today; 3) $2-2.5 billion aid bill is suggested as Foreign Relations Comm. Consensus while Rogers holds to wish for $3. 4 billion bill altho McGee says Admin. realizes it may have to take less; 4) Train's warning of potential quake from Amchitka becomes public as protesters turn to Supreme Court with Court of Appeals again turning down request to halt the test.

    Other stories of note:

    • NY faces deeper fiscal crisis due to defeat of Rocky-Lindsay backed transit bond issue and 10 NYC cops are indicted.
    • Phil. Inquirer is topped with positive story on RN's call to Rizzo and the new mayor's vow to name blacks to top posts. Trends still missing from election returns - - Monitor lead: "US voters speak with many voices." W. S. Journal says clues point in all directions.
    • RN-Gandhi meeting likely to center on Pakistani situation with most analyses pointing to tension between US and India with latter feeling Admin. is on opposite side of Bangla-Desh issue from US Congress and public.
    • WS Journal feature finds confusion and red tape but "nonetheless a start is being made" by Gov't in enforcement of water pollution laws.
    • Huge no-strings college aid bill passes House 310-84 but final pas sage must await tacking on of anti-busing measure and Admin's emergency school aid act.
    • Sen. Nelson proposes far-reaching drug regulation today as FTC moves against Warner-Lambert for its claims for "Listerine."
    • Wall St. has big 14.60 gain for Dow-Jones; record consumer credit up nearly a billion in Sept. thanks to car sales, the latter of which topped a million in Oct for all-time monthly record. Still not many new jobs created. Monitor points to Census study showing things looking good for economy despite considerable gloom -- retail sales shooting up like an arrow.
    • Admin's serious consideration of Prof. Ronald Berman for Humanities post gets positive review in Times.
    • 6 Gls actually killed in SYN last week but military lists only 2 as kin of others haven't been notified.
    • Harris sees RN opening up large 50-31 lead over Lindsay -- it was 44-36 last Feb and vs. Jackson RN gets 54 to Scoop's 24.
    • Larry Brown leads NFL rushers; Kilmer is the top passer and Redskins maintain top position in defensive statistics.

    NEWS SUMMARY
    NOVEMBER 4, 1971
    (Wed. newscasts, wires, mags)

    The major stories of the day:

    • No trends seen in elections. ABC/NBC leads Perk-Stokes; Waller-Evers on film on all nets. Reports on victories of Rizzo, Alioto, Lugar and youths shown by 1 or 2 nets. RN calls Lugar and Perk on CBS. HKS sees RN leading for 1 72 largely due to remarkable default of Dems; Sevareid says little to conclude from entrails except that there are lots of entrails.
    • Rogers gives in somewhat on Hill but Fulbright's crew remains in commanding position unwilling to give Admin what it wants. Laird, in VN, says US death toll last week is lowest since March of '65 - - 2 KIA.
    • CBS exclusive from Schorr (lead) that Pay Board is in deadlock over guideline and deferred raises and labor members are increasingly pessimistic, largely due to alleged siding with management by public members, especially Weber. Dow-Jones, meanwhile, jumps over 14 in biggest increase in over 2 months.
    • Rehnquist's views on key civil liberty is sues are probed by liberals but so far, tho ABA rates him weaker than the highly praised Powell, he seems likely to win clearance. Film on all nets. Train's "secret" memo on dangers of Amchitka becomes public tho Court turns down appeal for delay in test, now scheduled for 5PM Sat.
    • Scott and Schweiker ride elephants on Hill in payoff of Series bet with Mathias and Beall -- film on all nets.

    THE 1971 ELECTIONS
    Many questions were asked of the voters, said Reasoner leading ABC, and they responded with 11a firm yes, no and maybe. 11 Black vs. white showed no trend, nor did law and order. Dems claimed economy was key in Ky. but a Dem campaigning for House from Pa. on that issue lost. Youth vote didn't seem to make much difference either, said Harry, as he listed several places where youths lost....Sevareid said both the GOP and the Dems are busy reading the election entrails, and both see causes for hope. Non partisan observers, however, only see entrails. No trend is clear. The Dems did pick up another governorship but even this could all change next year. Eric reviewed the varying contradictions in the returns which make any firm conclusions or trends impossible to discern.
      HKS said the only rational meaning to the elections is that the big race for '72 is now on. He finds RN's ingenious and realistic foreign policy to be "strong" but in the troubled domestic front, RN hovers near the bottom. Apparently, said HKS, RN brought no domestic plans with him to WH; he's stubbornly conducted an economic policy in the wrong direction for 2 long years and he seems indifferent to new ideas like welfare reform. All in all, said Smith, RN is potentially beatable -- except for the state of the Dems who on foreign affairs seem obsessed with defeating LBJ who made VN an issue which RN is defusing. In killing aid and slashing commitments, Dems are groping rather than showing a settled policy. And at home, said Smith, they've failed to use the Congress for a persuasive, coordinated alternative to saving the cities, etc. The Dems further seem headed for a "brutal internecine quarrel" to establish a leftist ideological purity about which voters don't care. So, polls or not, concluded Smith, RN leads largely due to the remarkable default of his opponents.
      ABC and NBC both opened with film from Perk's surprise Cleveland victory. The 2 time loser became 1st GOP mayor there in 31 years as he ran on "Whites only" campaign aimed at blue-collar and anti-Stokes, said ABC. Stokes was biggest loser as he put prestige on line. ABC said blacks were angered or confused about Stokes' tactics and more than 20% failed to support the black Pinkney. On film a philosophical Stokes said they'd be back in 2 years; reporter called it end of era of black politics in Cleveland.
      CBS reported the WH saw Perk as a key GOP victory and rewarded him with a phone call. (Perk on film as the call came through.) Reporter noted Pinkney was picked by Stokes to prove a minority - white workers coalition can be put together, but he failed as 25% of the blacks didn1t back Pinkney and Perk's appeal to white, working-class, conservative vote paid off. Stokes' national ambitions have been dampened, said both NBC and CBS. Stokes on film said 63% of the people voted right, unfortunately they divided their votes, and Perk won even though he ran a hate campaign.
      As end came to black political era in Cleveland, ABC said a new era may have begun in Miss. Evers, who lost nearly 4-1, was full of praise for winner Waller's clean, non-racist, moderate campaign. Evers sees a new day in Miss. and Waller who kept Old South rhetoric out of his campaign is similarly hopeful. ABC felt Waller was reluctant to be seen too much in public Tues. night with Evers but the vote was still a monument to the changing South. NBC also noted the good will coming out of the contest which was more important than the outcome. Reporter Delaney said no one expected Evers to win, and after it was over Evers didn't act like a loser. Film of Evers saying "we won" and telling his supporters not to feel bad, and congratulating Waller on his victory. CBS in the only sour note reported Evers said he had been cheated of 150,000 votes but failed to offer any evidence for the charge....Miss. Cong. Abernathy bitterly denounced "outside meddlers" from North who aided Evers. And the black candidate was called a "muckmonger" by Abernathy....147 of the first 164 local contests tabulated in Miss. showed blacks losing.
      Lugar keeps the faith and gets a WH call, reported CBS. The Indianapolis Mayor on film said he told RN he asked all to vote and kept the party's door open. Black, young, all made it possible he said -- and it's the first step in a new strategy to make the GOP the majority party. Positive report on "Lugar's landslide" .... NBC said the Kentucky race was the most significant as the Dems say it was a referendum on RN economic policies. The GOP claims the decision was made on local issues, and the only thing that is clear, as all nets noted, is that the Dems now have 30 governors. (As noted, ABC pointed out even the economy issue balanced out with Heinz's overwhelming victory.)...Ky. Gov.-elect Ford said his victory was the first step in a "Dump Nixon", campaign, and said the econ. situation cast a shadow over the race. And Jacks on said "that election" was the best indicator of a political trend of any that have been held.
      RN supporter Pete Wilson won easily the San Diego mayor's race....UPI says Howell's victory cast a shadow over RN's chances of carrying Va....The white minority of Gary stayed away from the polls as Hatcher was re-elected 3-1....Alioto may have outside troubles said NBC but opposition didn't bring them up and the voters didn't seem to care. Alioto on film said "How Sweet it is." Meanwhile San Franciscans voted to keep their cable cars and let their skyscrapers grow. CBS film report on defeat of this referendum. (Alioto had 97,000 to 69,000 for Dobbs and 55,000 for Mrs. Feinstein.)
      AP reports: "Rizzo' s law-and-order victory for mayor of Phila. and Ford's economics campaign into the Ky. governorship may provide 172 planners some clues to voter sentiment." NBC with only film of Rizzo victory in the bitterest race in Philly history. The self-proclaimed toughest cop in America who Longstregth charged was running an implicitly racist, police-State campaign, said "only in America can a guy like Frank Rizzo get elected mayor." His first move: Hire more cops....In N. J. GOPers retained control of the state Senate but Dems surged to a 40-39 advantage in the assembly with 1 Independent elected. The GOPers had held a 3-1 margin in the lower house. One Senator defeated was 30 year GOP veteran Hap Farley....Former heavyweight boxing Champ "Jersey Joe" Walcott has realized a "lifelong dream" to wear a badge as he was elected the sheriff of Camden County, N. J. Noted by all nets.
      An aide to Allard Lowenstein said the NJ elections presented an example of the power of the youth vote. He said that 150,000 new voters were registered and their numbers at the polls helped change the balance the state legislature and were a strong force behind the victory of the reform candidate for mayor in Jersey City....The Youth vote, as with other bloc votes, had no clear impact said all nets, but NBC and CBS did note the semi-exceptions. Chancellor said youth vote worked where youths worked -- such as Boulder, Col. where 5 youth-backed candidates won. In Bloomington, Indiana the U of Indiana vote played an important if mixed role as a 32 year old mayor was elected. For Mayor the kids voted heavily Dem, but for Judge they voted GOP, but NBC reporter said even if they hadn't voted the results would have been about the same as their tally closely followed older folks....CBS had a film report on the election of a 19 year old conservative in Newcommerstown, Ohio. Old and young expressed strong admiration for the fellow who promised to stop speeding and hot-rodding by his peers. Asked how it felt to be the country's youngest mayor, Ron Hooker said, "I am proud to be an American." Very upbeat.
      John Crews 24, a graduate student beat the incumbent Cedar Falls, Iowa mayor. Crews campaigned as an environmentalist....William Lynch, 18, who campaigned for stronger discipline in the schools and was regarded as more conservative than his 46-year-old opponent, won a spot on the Bremerton, Wash. school board...But college students in Georgia weren't interested in taking over city gov't. Few of the students at the Univ. of Ga. have bothered to register; still fewer turned out for the election. Ga. has for years granted 18 year olds the right to vote.
      Voter reaction to the steadily rising cost of public education set no definite pattern in Tues's balloting. Some of the communities voted overwhelming approval for bond issues while others just as overwhelmingly defeated them....N.Y. voters have emphatically rejected Rockefeller's $2.5 billion transportation bond issue, giving the Gov. his 1st major set-back in state politics....Mass. voters by a better than 3-1 margin approved a referendum calling for the immediate withdrawal of US troops from SE Asia and an immediate ceasefire in VN .... Jerry Ford complained about the wording in a referendum decisively approved by Grand Rapids urging a ceasefire and the immediate withdrawal of all U. S. troops. Voters endorsed it 23,000 to 14,000. Ford said the vote clearly reflected "the view that Americans want U. S. involvement is VN ended and RN is achieving that result. It is regrettable that the voters were not given the opportunity to express their deep concern for the return of US POWs or the safety of our troops as they leave.

    OTHER POLITICS
    McCarthy called for diplomatic recognition of PRC. He could see "no clear purpose" to RN's China visit, but said he prefers it to the "yellow peril" policies of Rusk or McNamara. McCarthy said he has "an active candidacy going in Minnesota" for the nomination and that in effect he is a candidate in some other nonprimary states. He refused to say flatly, however, that he is running for the WH. The enigmatic, evasive McCarthy was on ABC for several minutes with reporter noting some 168 backers regard him bitterly for way he folded up tent after convention while others are still with Gene. Backers said to be more eager than McCarthy for another go at it but it was clear by his answers regarding his desire to be of influence in '72 that McCarthy is "off and jogging" again.
      National Review editorially frowns upon any conservative "kamikaze" candidacy against Brooke ... Galbraith seems surprisingly taken with LBJ's "Vantage Point." In his cover story review for Sat Review he states that there is a "soft-spoken kindness" about the volume which indicates that LBJ is sore at no one. And a new picture emerges: LBJ as Hamlet, a man tortured by the call of public duty on the one hand and a rending aversion to anything smacking of ambition on the other. Sarcastically, Galbraith says it's hard to believe how badly LBJ wanted to escape the distractions of politics and in point of fact no one will. Galbraith states that "the LBJ competence was not confined to domestic matters. Where his own intelligence and experience were engaged, he was equally good on foreign policy." He added that LBJ was excellent when he took personal command and failed when he had to rely on advisers. But Galbraith regrets that LBJ defended the VN policy. He said he did so "partly ... because the writing was guided by some of the same hands which guided the [mistaken] policy."
      Vic Lasky notes that EMK is doing everything possible to stake out the nomination. But Vic regards EMK's call for Britain's withdrawal from N. Ireland "ethnic politics at its worst" and adds that the US had enough problems without getting into the historic hatreds on the Indian sub continent as EMK suggests. Moreover, Teddy didn't acquire foreign policy credentials while jet-setting with the beautiful people and it doesn't qualify him to criticize RN's deeds aimed at peace. Finally one wonders how EMK could have criticized RN's initial Court nominees when he himself suggested for the Federal bench a man "patently unqualified." All the Dems aren't amused by EMK's escalated activity, concludes Lasky as he quotes one who said: "I wouldn't want to buy a used car from RN, but if I did buy one, I sure as hell wouldn't want EMK to drive it."
      New York notes that Lindsay has been a regular visitor to Indiana and to J. Irwin Miller, who is still giving money to Dem JVL tho he states he will support RN and is also a backer of Lugar. This may explain why JVL refused to campaign for Lugar's Dem opponent but along with fact that the Dem candidate was running an anti-busing campaign....New York's cover story is about 32 year old Ed Hamilton who came to NYC from Iowa 13 months ago and may be running it by Jan. '73. The scenario is that JVL will begin his campaign, Aurelio will resign to manage JVL and #3 Hamilton (budget director) will become Acting Mayor. Hamilton calls himself a Kennedy liberal and he is regarded as "about the smartest man I've ever met" by LBJ, McNamara, Nelson Rockefeller and Frank Mankiewicz. New York says he is a virtuoso.
      ORC's Michael Rappeport writes in Washington Monthly that US political history can be seen as marked by "critical elections" (the last in '32) and '72 may well be the next one. As in the other epochal elections, there is widespread dissatisfaction with the major parties and a substantial drop in voter turnout. Rappeport sees the increasingly large number of young, educated whites going Dem and the young, blue-collar whites turning to the GOP. The increased educational level among the young gives the Dems a much larger "educated mass" than the GOP ever possessed and correspondingly the working-class youth are a declining proportion of the white population. "If the economy -- [the only major issue on which the groups agree] has substantially recovered, the shape of the new alignment should become clear."

    FOREIGN AID
    As if by orchestration, said HKS, many Admin spokesmen -- Laird, Connally, Rogers, Ziegler -- expressed confidence that foreign aid bill would be resurrected. Mahon's House Comm. helped out with a continuing resolution. But there was a different note from For. Relations. Clip of Rogers with Muskie. Reporter said Rogers gave in on aid to Cambodia and said Admin would accept a limit but that probably won't be enough. On film the Secy. said he hopes for same level of funding but can see Senate coming up with new program along RN's lines. ABC's Koppel said Senate is in very commanding position and Fulbright in no mood to hand over a new lease on program. On ABC film JW said reconsideration of whole program must be forced now. Koppel concluded Senate has means and will to make sure aid program will never be same. NBC noted Rogers went to the Hill; CBS failed to take note....AP's Leubsdorf leads his account: "A two-hour discussion between Rogers and the Comm. failed to resolve the aid impasse.
      Although Rogers said he would accept a ceiling on Cambodian aid, Fulbright said the Secy. gave no assurances about the future of the US in Camb. affairs. Most committee members felt something could be worked out, however, and Fulbright said he would have to compromise to stop an end run by pro-admin forces....Foreign Relations members predict they will pass a bill by the end of the week, which will be $1 billion below the Admin request. McGee said Rogers indicated the Admin will accept a truncated interim aid bill until June. The Secy. doesn't like it "but is reasonable enough to have caught the tone" of the Hill, said McGee. Meanwhile Ziegler said we are working to encourage a continuing resolution and think Congress will go along. Sen. Symington however said he doesn't "think we're getting very far," and said Rogers would like to get back what he didn't get in the first place.
      Cooper said he thinks the Admin will accept a bill with sharp cuts -- "I think they will have to." .... Mansfield said he detected no shift in Senate sentiment on the For. Aid bill following Admin. statements that the death of the bill would deal US foreign policy a dire blow. He said Congressional mail is running overwhelmingly in favor of the rejection of aid. Symington noted voter rejection of transit bond issues and called on Rogers to submit aid to a referendum if he questions public opinion on the matter.
      Muskie urged a 1year authorization for economic aid and consideration of military aid on a country by country basis. He said he does not believe in sending arms to countries like Greece or Pakistan which use them to repress rather than defend their people....Sen. Javits said the Admin must give Congress "certain assurances" about its military aid policies toward Laos and Cambodia before agreement on a new aid bill can be reached.
      State issued a list of effects the end of aid would have: the loss of 6,500 jobs in AID, the end of programs in S. E. Asia, a lack of funds for Pakistan, the disruption of nutrition and child care programs, and the end of financing of US exports totaling $972 million....VP Agnew described foreign aid as "an absolute essential in today's world," but said he would not be surprised to see Congress put some restrictions on contributions to some international assistance groups. He also hit on the theme that the "Nixon Doctrine" of encouraging nations to carry a greater load of their own defense would be left in shambles if the rejection of the bill was allowed to stand. In a speech later in Miami the VP denounced Dem liberals for generating isolationist forces that led to the bill's defeat -- and then dodging the issue by being absent when it came time to vote. He also singled out EMK's shifting views on RN's PRC trip....Secy. Connally said the "Administration is going to do everything we humanly can to try to dispel the Senate action" on foreign aid bill. He charged the end of aid would be disastrous to our efforts in SE Asia and said that "all we've done since WWII, would go down the drain."

    INDOCHINA
    Note by all nets that Laird says that VN KIA was lowest last week since March of 165 -- 2 GIs killed. (UPI says 5 were actually killed last week but due to red tape in notifying next of kin only one or two will be listed with others included in subsequent weeks.)....Laird's Saigon arrival came amid speculation that RN will cut US ground forces to 40,000 by next July, reduce the military command to an advisory group and bring Abrams home to be Chief of Staff.
      PM McMahon said he was "driven to despair" by conjecture like Muskie's that SVN will go Communist after the US withdrawal. He said it would be a tragedy if after so much blood has been spilled that VN was overrun by the VC. He said he doesn't know why Muskie is making his views known except for his Presidential aspirations. McMahon said he was told by those much better informed than Muskie that SVN's prospects are good. UPI said many regarded this criticism of Muskie as a violation of etiquette. And Muskie's office denies the Senator ever made such conjecture.
      CBS AM news reported on an isolated Coast Guard look-out on Con Son Island in SVN where the infamous tiger cages are. The GIs there are in no hurry to go home as they find their work interesting and the island is a tropical paradise. The facilities there are not to be turned over to the SVN officials say because the equipment is too sophisticated but the reporter inferred that it was because the post is such a popular one....McGovern said military programs for drug-using VN vets seem directed more at sparing the armed forces embarrassment than at curing addicts. He proposed an immediate $65 million appropriation for drug rehabilitation and psychiatric care. McGovern did not estimate the cost of his proposal, but a spokesman said it could be in the billions of dollars....McGovern endorsed the scheduled anti-war demonstrations for Saturday as a reminder to RN that most Americans want peace. But he avoided endorsing the National Peace Action Coalition which is sponsoring the rallies and in fact did not even mention the NPAC in his statement.
      Writing in the Washingtonian, Newsweek's Henry Trewhitt tells of the deep impact the publication of the Pentagon Papers had on McNamara. Some close admirers were "worried" over his agitation. Trewhitt credits McNamara with turning the war around before he was "fired" at DOD and also says it was he who opened the channels leading to SALT. And the World Bank Pres. gets high marks for what he has done in that institution. The article also notes the mutual admiration between Kissinger and McNamara, with the latter feeling "HAK has performed masterfully in directing the Admin' s course out of VN."

    CHINA
    Two past envoys to the PRC say China's choice of delegates mean that they will play a constructive role in the UN. Tanzania's Salim (the dancer) and Norway's Algard said the choices are of high caliber. These sentiments were echoed by Columbia U's Donald Klein, who called the delegates the best Peking could send. The only woman in the delegation is a niece of Mao.
      The US following thru on its pledge to honor its commitments to Taiwan, has advised the Nationalists that it will strongly support that country's efforts to retain memberships in the specialized agencies of the UN....PM McMahon said Australia is developing a dialogue with the PRC as a prelude to normal relations. At the same time he said the US "remains the sheet anchor of our security."....National Review, finding the vote and post-vote dancing confirmation of its long-standing view that the UN is not a political grownup, recommends that the US remain in the body to profit in whatever way it can by discussion and dialogue but that it cease voting and thus terminate the lending of US authority "to promoting and maintaining the UN's fraudulent political pretensions"
      A Fortune feature -- pre-UN vote -- is bullish on Taiwan's economic prospects. Ideology is being put aside as new trade ties are built to replace frazzled diplomatic ones. A very positive assessment on what Taiwan has achieved in the past and what the future holds, If W. Germany can make it without the UN, why not Taiwan?

    INDO-PAKISTANI
    CBS noted India drove off 4 Pakistani planes that for the first time flew over Punjab .... A Pakistani source said that the entire Indian army has been deployed operationally and is waiting for a political decision to strike Pakistan. The source said India has an edge of three-to-one in the Army, five-to-one in the Air Force and seven-to-one in the Navy.
      Despite Mrs. Gandhi's expected request of RN, US authorities see little chance the US can influence Yayha Khan to seek a political settlement in East Pakistan, since that would mean negotiating with the leader of the Bengal nationalists, whom Yayha views as a traitor. But sources say it is possible for the US to give Yayha its views. AP says one problem facing RN is to persuade Mrs. Gandhi that the US is not following a pro-Pakistan policy.
      In Sat. Review's lead piece Chester Bowles traces what he calls the US' 5 most costly blunders in Asia, i.e., (1) supporting Chiang over Mao, (2) agreeing to train and equip the former, (3) our advance into N. Korea, (4) our underwriting of the French in Indochina which led to a succession of errors there, and (5) aid to Pakistan. He concludes that unless we jettison our "tough guy" posture in world affairs we are going to find ourselves increasingly cut off from a sizeable majority of mankind. The Bowles piece is followed by a piece by a representative of E. Pakistan for the Ford Foundation who writes that whatever the short term outcome of the E. Bengal political struggle the country is destined to occupy a prominent position on the world dole for a long time to come. For sheer survival they need population control, food and education and unless the approach is creative, original and unselfish the result will be unforgiveable costs, unrealized results and the continued misery of millions....EMK writing the lead Washington Monthly piece is highly critical of the lack of US response to the problems in Bengla Desh. EMK describes the US image in Asia as one of the US "citing its revolutionary past and crowing about its commitment to self-determination, while servicing with money and guns the military juntas that suppress change and ignore people's aspirations. He concludes that S. Asia is on the brink of war and it is long overdue for us to rescue a foreign policy which is abetting genocide.

    OTHER FOREIGN AFFAIRS
    An adviser for Sadat said that Egypt would take the Mideast crisis to the UN in an effort to find a solution before the end of the year .... Eugene Rostow sees "no practical alternatives 11 to the 1967 Security Council resolution on an Arab-Israeli settlement. He predicted a solution would be slow in coming, perhaps over a period of 20 years or more of staged withdrawals. Meanwhile, the US must be patient and steadfast in maintaining its position because the USSR continues, to hope they can "drive us out of the Med and either neutralize Europe to perhaps the present status of Finland, or perhaps destroy NATO completely."
      Italy exists, in continuing decline, with at most "semi-gov't, James Burnham writes in National Review. It is a situation very comparable to that in Greece in '66--"the same background of musical chairs cabinets; the same political fragmentation"; the breakdown of the parliamentary mechanism, etc. "Are there Italian colonels watching from the wings?...Many in Europe think so," says Burnham .... The US Dep. Consul-General to Brazil found his car burning with the initials of Brazil's most notorious terrorist group scrawled on the side of his house. Two other attacks were carried out in Brazil on US companies.

    DEFENSE
    Note by all nets that RN's top environment advisor, CEQ's Train, has warned of danger of quake or tidal wave following Amchitka. But Court turned down another appeal to stop it. ABC film of Canadian demonstrators at Port Huron where they closed 2 bridges. NBC noted 6,000 Canadians marched in protest on Detroit bridges. And NBC film from Anchorage similar to one on CBS AM new, of a couple hundred students protesting. They challenged an AEC official on film who said that the USSR has set off similar warheads -- to guffaws from the crowd -- and that the decision has been made and they aren't going to be able to change it as it was made at the highest levels of Gov't. Bad sound further hurt. The CBS reporter concluded that the protesters are not typical of most Alaskans...they're not particularly pleased about the bomb, but they don't like demonstrators either and everyone will be relieved when it's over with. NBC more anti as reporter said the students aren't sure how test affects them but they are concerned about what they've heard.
      The Senate approved a $2 billion military construction bill, but refused an Admin request to convert coal furnaces to oil in US barracks in Germany. Mansfield said the cut is a warning to our allies that they must pay more of their defense costs....The House passed (351-31) a $210 million military Med. School and Scholarship bill to attract doctors to the military, following 21 years of effort on the bill by Rep. Hebert....The Black Caucus said it will investigate "racism in the military" at 10 military bases as a prelude to caucus hearings this month. Chisholm and Dellums said one area of the inquiry would be the "lilly white justice" meted out to blacks. Dellums said he met with Laird to ask his cooperation -- "We asked
    particularly that there be no reprisals against GIs who testify at our hearings. I feel reasonably assured he will go along with our request."

    ADMINISTRATION
    UPI reports that "RN and McMahon hit it off right from the start. During their toasts they tossed eloquent bouquets at eachother. "Protocol-conscious RN usually ends his state dinners promptly at 11 pm but he broke tradition and escorted the PM and Mrs. McMahon to the family quarters for a look around. He gave them a running commentary on the historic rooms and regaled them with stories of Churchill's WH visits....National Review recalls past political value gained by RN as well as other Presidents who made trips abroad. And diplomatically there may also be more than negligible substance. The summits do sensibly exploit the Sino-Soviet rift. But RN is more concerned about growing Soviet missilery and RN's own "generation of peace" rhetoric. And the fact that it is RN going there "provides plenty of matter for ominous reflection."
      Readers' Digest reprints from US News the interview with Mrs. Nixon on volunteerism which is included in the book "People Helping People." Story is headed: "First Lady, First Volunteer"....Irving R. Levine has a pleasant review of Arnold Weber's Today show performances in TV Guide. The "Instant Celebrity's" witty, yet serious ability to answer a wide range of questions is emphasized. Levine says "Weber, off camera, disarms by his candor and lack of pompousness."
      For the second time in 3 months a Washingtonian article sharply raps State's handling of FSO' s who dare to deviate. In the latest piece, Macomber, MacArthur and others are bitterly charged with deliberate conspiracy to thwart State's regulations and destroying the rights and career of an FSO....a Dun's article emphasizes the peaceful programs pursued at AEC and the portentous and welcomed choice of the management-oriented Schlesinger which means even more of a civilian push for the agency. Schlesinger's clout at the WH and his apparent sincerity on the environmental issue are seen as more plusses....Twenty colleges have been added to the 11 already members of Action's "University Year for Action" program. The new participants will receive a total grant of $7. 8 million for community action service.

    ECONOMY
    Cronkite led CBS by reporting the Admin's efforts to create a united front on the economy have run into trouble. Schorr reported on the 3 hour Pay Board meeting which reached a deadlock as Management and Public reps. supported a labor-opposed 5% guideline on wage hikes compared to a pre-freeze level of 8%, and also formed an alliance saying all retroactive hikes can't be unfrozen. Woodcock reportedly spoke passionately for labor when he said no agreement was acceptable which challenged the inviolability of contracts. Schorr said labor is not ready to walkout, but it is increasingly pessimistic over the public members (particularly Weber's) support of management....UPI reports the Pay Board's public members proposed extending the freeze another 2 months. The meeting was described as "3 hours of frustration" for the labor leaders who were in a gloomy mood after the session as reports continue to circulate that they'll resign if the deferred hikes aren't granted.
      The Admin will release by the end of this week a broad policy statement that will attempt to explain how most Americans will be affected by Phase II. The explanation which will allow every group to know where they fit in the "three tier" framework will not include specifics about the amount of wage and price increases to be allowed. The exact amounts may be released next week. Nor is the document expected to contain any mention of productivity..."that's getting into nuts and bolts" said a CLC spokesman....On "Today" CLC's Rumsfeld said "it is too early to tell precisely" what the boards would come up with in the way of guidelines but he acknowledged 11there has to be some relationship" between the guidelines of the 3 groups. He declined to prejudge whether it would be inequitable to allow post-freeze wage increases of less than 4% if dividends were allowed to rise by that much....AP reports that "The guideline for Corp. dividends, allowing increases up to 4% in '72, was being viewed as a suggested yardstick for the other post-freeze guidelines still to come"....Rep. Sherman Lloyd charged that a CLC order that retailers maintain a record of pre-freeze prices was a "police state action" and should be withdrawn.
      A Fortune article says Meany may have pulled off his most successful negotiating effort ever when RN bowed to labor's demand that CLC not be able to restrict or veto the Pay Board. At the same time Meany and his leadership are expected by the public to work with the Pay Board, worker rebelliousness threatening local job actions may throw Phase 2 into chaos in spite of Meany's pledge to "try to make it work." Fortune sees labor in its worst crisis in years with stagnating membership gains and little real wage increases for workers hit hard by inflation. Yet the success of Phase 2 rests largely with labor.
      Editorially Fortune says "Phase 2 has a lot going for it" and praises RN's flexible approach, ambiguous and uncertain tho it be. The public is ready to halt inflation; underlying economic forces are working in favor of that effort; the economy is ready to robustly surge onward. Fortune hopes the Pay Board will moderate at least some of the retroactive wage hike but even if 8% hikes are tolerated the CPI can be cut to 3%. Besides imploring Gov't spenders and bankers to show the same restraint they expect of the public, Fortune urges the development of an amicable negotiating climate for '73 contracts...Murray Weidenbaum, beginning alternating column series in Dun's with Ackley, declares Phase 1 a success while calling for increased action by business and the Gov't to show labor and the public that phase 2 will be even-handed. Excess profits tax? Emphatically no. But a profit rate might be put forward to demonstrate no excess profits are being earned. In any case, if Phase 2 is to work, Weidenbaum says the public cannot be allowed to feel it will be an unfair program.
      Top executives of Dun's Presidents' Panel have serious questions about RN' s economic program and some are giving it only cautious support. Is it far-reaching enough? They expect little impact on unemployment -- a concern now outweighing inflation among businessmen and reminiscent of RN's '60 campaign problem. The investment tax credit won't have much immediate impact and the huge hike in Social Security taxes is another major worry. Overall the execs are far more impressed by RN's international economic moves than by his domestic actions.
      The House banking Comm. 15-12 turned down a move to allow collection of price overcharges. The Admin thwarted a series of Dem amendments and the bill should come from committee virtually unchanged. A move to require confirmation of board members was defeated 16-12. However votes on interest controls and the duration of the authority were put off to Thursday....NBC reported CLC announced two companies rolled back their dividends to pre-freeze levels.
      Following Schorr's report Cronkite noted, as did other nets, the sharp Dow-Jones hike. Wires say a US Trust Co. order to its buyers to step up bargain hunting helped touch off a rally which drove Dow up over 14. A veteran Hutton & Co. analyst however said we're still in a bear market, and he doubts the economy will respond to RN's program....CBS and NBC reported the biggest jump in history for the consumer credit -- nearly a billion dollars in Sept. credited to car purchases which were up 57% for the final third of October.
      The Finance Committee voted to divert $350 million a year from the Government's revenues into the highway trust fund, which until now has received its money entirely from taxes paid by road users....The lead Forbes' article tells of the rising pressure for new, more stringent antitrust legislation. Hart and Celler are actively promoting it; Nader certainly adds to the "storm signals" as do books like Morton Mintz's America, Inc.

    INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
    The Finance Committee voted to give RN power to reimpose the excise tax on autos built in Canada if he finds that Canada discriminates against US-made autos....P. M. McMahon warned that the longer the surcharge continues the greater the danger we will be unable to get out of the trade impasse....A Fortune article -- "Our Strange New Hard Line on Trade" -- suggests that RN overreacted to a potential trade deficit this year and attacked the payments problem on too many fronts. The program may do
    little to help reduce US employment. The surcharge is seen of little real value, and may, in fact, hamper the needed changes in currency parities. The article warns if the US is really after a surplus rather than just an end to the deficit, it 11may well bring about a new age of mercantilism in the international economy. "

    COURT
    The ABA report said that Powell arid Rehnquist are among "the best persons available for appointment. The Comm. was "unanimous" in the view that Rehnquist is qualified for the appointment." However, the report added: "three members of the Comm. believe that his qualifications, do not establish his eligibility for the Commm's highest rating, and would therefore, express their conclusion as 'not opposed' to his confirmation....Comments received can only be described as unrestricted enthusiasm for Powell. He has received in most eloquent and emphatic terms the highest possible praise." There were only 2 adverse comments received. ABA reported that "no faculty member has cast doubt as to Rehnquist's brilliant qualifications." However the report added "a significant minority would oppose his confirmation on the broader question of the political desirability of so conservative an addition to the Court....Eastland announced that a full field investigation by the FBI concluded that the 2 Court nominees were "clean, high-class gentlemen."
      All nets noted ABA approval and boost to nominees. ABC/CBS/NBC film of hearings from which only 2 of RN's previous 4 nominees came out unscathed. Again liberals waiting to attack, said ABC. Hart on ABC and CBS film (NBC note) asking what a Senator who liked Warren Court is supposed to do when RN says he wants to turn it around. If Rehnquist is too far to right, Hart will vote "no."
      McClellan also on film on CBS said that a Senator would be justified in voting against a candidate if he would harm the judicial system, however McClellan feels Rehnquist will do good· and not harm. McClellan on ABC pointed to duty of Courts to protect society from criminals -- he's high on Rehnquist. ABC said unless there's more damaging evidence turned up on Rehnquist it's hard to see how libs can stop him, tho this weaker of RN' s choices may have his nomination talked to death by filibuster. CBS' Morton said Rehnquist was careful, precise and guarded, (AP called him "relaxed and affable") as he discussed Kent, wire taps and his recent support for public accommodation laws. Tho he's still opposed to long distance busing. On CBS
    AM news Morton said it'll be difficult to oppose Rehnquist on 1st Amendment grounds.
      ABC had profile on Rehnquist and the almost impeccable reputation he has in Phoenix tho a controversy threatens his nomination. Affection, overwhelming support and respect comes from all in Phoenix for Rehnquist except for the NAACP which regards him as a "racist" due to opposition to civil rights legislation.
      Rehnquist said that wiretapping is limited by the Constitution and that the primary purpose of the Bill of Rights is to "put restraints on the Government." Rehnquist said he could protect the rights of the individual without hesitancy." He also said his impression was that Kent State was "a misguided and unwarranted use of force" but he'd never been asked his opinion on a possible federal grand jury....On the Pentagon Papers, Rehnquist said he was asked by Mitchell his opinion of the move only a few hours before it was taken. He said he ran across one Court decision that indicated "there was a reasonable probability the Government would succeed" in its case but added he had no further involvement in the case.
      Kennedy asked Rehnquist if he agreed with the AG that May Day should serve as a model for handling mass demonstrations. Rehnquist answered that he was not close enough to the situation to say, but added that the fact there was no serious injury was an accomplishment. He was hesitant to discuss his role in wiretapping policy because of his attorney-client relationship with the AG and RN. He did say that if he had felt the department's policy was "indefensible or personally obnoxious I would have resigned."...On the nominees, Javits said, "I have not decided what my attitude will be. Both nominees
    represent different situations for me. I do not wish to imply opposition but at the same time I do not wish to be committed." In its lead comments the New Yorker states that not only has RN criticized the Court he has contributed more than anyone else to the public's loss of confidence in that institution. And he has no right to call for an end to the criticism now that he has shaped it to his liking. The Court's upcoming decisions will determine whether the US sinks into repression or continues the struggle to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence. But RN now says that whatever the decisions, the Court has been placed beyond criticism, concludes an irritated New Yorker.

    HEALTH
    Acting on the findings of 4 years of contentious hearings, Gaylord Nelson will ask for legislation aimed at insuring that publicly needed drugs are safe, effective and fairly priced. The bill would revolutionize the preparation, testing, marketing and advertising of over-the-counter and prescription drugs.
      Debate over how to mount a national attack on cancer stalled final action by the House Commerce Comm. on a bill Brock Adams said would be bitterly opposed by the Senate. However, Paul Rogers said opponents "simply want an independent agency." Rogers estimated between five and seven members of the Committee would back Adams' position....In an article on cancer research and new breakthrus, Fortune says "the quest for cures will be significantly reinforced by the coming expansion of the war on cancer proposed by RN"....Jude Wanniski of the National Observer says the cancer agency ads run by Lasker and the Cancer Society boomeranged by causing broader segments of the scientific community to enter the fight and support Cong. Rogers program -- a program expected to win over RN's approach. Even if RN got the Senate bill, says Wanniski, it'd still be less than he expected. "Despite the paste-and-scissors job, everyone still calls it the 'Kennedy bill.'" However, a Harper's piece, tho written at least a month before Wanniski, feels the crash program proposed by Lasker and endorsed by RN is more likely to be adopted. The writer, however, £eels the hopes for major breakthrus are definitely exaggerated and also questions whether the sizabel allocation of funds can be effectively used. Emphasized is the opposition of a goodly proportion of the scientific community.

    MEDIA
    2 antiwar organizations complained that VP Agnew's attacks on the media have made the press reluctant to publish news about future demonstrations...."Edith Efron's Murderous Adding Machine" is the title of John Chamberlain's cover story in National Review where it is noted that "the nets are already crying 'foul!' -- but the figures totted up by the indefatigable Efron just can't be explained away. Grand total: TV news coverage is badly biased." Chamberlain notes Efron's many policy differences with the Admin. to buttress his argument that the book is fair and not an apologia £or RN -- yet the nets are expending major efforts to downgrade it. In any case, Chamberlain expects 172 election coverage to be entirely different as the nets will know that someone is keeping track of them.
      Despite his previous criticism of the Admin on broadcasting policy, Colorado's Rex Howell writes in Broadcasting that Whitehead has provided the first "ray of sunshine" in the dark and dreary picture £or broadcasters Howell notes that tho Whitehead said his views were personal ones the WH aide would not deny that the WH shared his view. Howell urged that all broadcasters write RN and tell him they fully endorse Whitehead's proposals. (Whitehead's views on various subjects -- public TV, regulation, etc -- turn up numerous times throughout this issue of Broadcasting as they have dominated recent copies of a journal generally approving his views.)....New York's cover story is on the impending "Sunday" Newsday to start in the spring after a 31-year refusal to have that money-making or breaking edition. The article emphasized the dangers in attempting this competition with the Times and News but states that Newsday is likely to take an advantageous centrist position between the "sober but...liberal" Times and the "lively but ... conservative" News. And also Newsday will be challenging the Manhattan papers on its ground...Long Island...rather than on theirs.

    CRIME/VIOLENCE
    The Chief Justice said it is more important for police to use common sense discretion than to follow the letter of the law. Burger noted police are given more discretion than any other public officials, and stressed the need for civility...In the aftermath of the Knapp Commission, 10 present or former NYC cops were indicted on charges of taking payoffs from gamblers or providing dope to narcotics addicts....Rocky ordered a special Grand Jury investigation of the Attica rebellion....The trial of the two surviving "Soledad brothers" accused of killing a prison guard opened under some of the tightest security ever seen in a US courtroom....Charles Manson has been convicted on 2 more counts of 1st degree murder....As 1,200 students huddled in their classrooms, a 23-year-old sniper barricaded himself atop a high school in Carlsbad, N. M. and traded gunfire with police, then killed himself with his own rifle....A sniper who engaged police in a gun battle which raged more than an hour and closed California's major N-S Highway, died of his wounds....Martin Sweig was indicted on a charge of taking $5, 000 in payment for using the Speaker's office to obtain a naval discharge for a client.

    OTHER DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
    Nelson Cruikshank's Senior Citizens News, in an issue devoted to the WH Conference on the Aging, states that for most elderly Americans the situation can only get better. The WH Conference is likely to focus on increased income for this group. Cruikshank notes that RN's new economic plan may provide some relief but the only real restitution can come from increased Soc. Security benefits. Cruikshank notes that early in the Conference planning it became evident that the WH was going to use the Conference to its reelection advantage and many leaders of the aged considered boycotting the "political sideshow". But he notes that the selection of Flemming ended this movement and Flemming himself has high hopes for the Conference.
      Sec'y Romney asked Congress to restructure HUD so that "there would be a Federal Dept having the ability to respond -- in a coordinated manner -- to local comprehensive community improvement programs."....Sen. Gambrell said forced busing is "creating fear and disunity" across the Nation. He said the Admin as well as the courts have engaged in "desegregation overkill."....The House tentatively approved (310-84) a $5.3 billion college aid program. Still ahead is an anti-busing amendment. Sources have hinted RN will veto the bill.
      Kennedy and 60 MCs have asked Sec'y Morton to halt plans to permit oil drilling along the Atlantic coast. Cong. Sandman warned Federal agencies to abandon plans to permit the drilling. "You've got a fight on your hands if these plans continue," Sandman wrote Morton....Nobel Prize Winner Borlaug says unless campaigns to ban the use of DDT, etc. are stopped "it will bring disaster to the world." Borlaug says the campaign to ban insecticides is 11based on emotion, mini-truths, maybe-truths and downright falsehoods launched by full bellied philosophers, environmentalists and pseudo-ecologists."
      Nets reported FTC is sued false advertising allegations against Listerine which for years has claimed to be a germ killer, breath sweetener and cold medicine. The FTC said Listerine doesn't really cure, prevent or lessen colds or sore throats at all and issued an order that requires Listerine ads for the next year to admit that the past claims were false. The action was the FTC's second against Listerine; the 1st in 1940 was dismissed. Warner-Lambert will fight the ruling....Overriding objections of the Admin the Senate approved 89-4 legislation that could put the government in the car-design business. The bill, which now goes to the House, would force Detroit to design and build passenger cars less susceptible to damage should they crash and less expensive to repair if they do. The measure was sponsored chiefly by Hart over the bitter protests of Griffin.

    MISCELLANY
    Opponents of the school-prayer amendment are reportedly gaining ground in the final days before the Mon. House vote but neither side is eager to predict victory. Backers counted 122 House members still against their proposal and conceded the outcome was in doubt. Chalmers Wylie said he had tallied 253 members prepared to vote "aye"....The US Catholic conference opposed the amendment feeling passage might make some wrongly think something p.as been done for religious education....Note by nets that World Synod of Bishops has voted overwhelmingly in favor of maintaining mandatory celibacy for priests, and has rejected the Pope's proposal to allow older married men to become Priests.
      Brinkley attacked the "grossly unfair" tax ruling that women who work can't deduct what they pay for child care from their income tax. With film of a young lady explaining her case he said child care is a business expense and the law should say so....CBS reported Sec'y Rogers is prepared to make the passport loyalty oath mandatory, to meet court rulings that it be used or discarded altogether.
      Film on all nets of Schweiker and Scott riding elephants on Penn. Ave. in payoff of World Series bet with Oriole backers Beall and Mathias....UThant has a bleeding peptic ulcer -- no operation needed.

    LATE NEWS
    Helen Thomas reports the prized Christmas gift to WH staffers from the Nixons this year will be an elegant reproduction of a Lincoln portrait....Sixteen Bolivian political prisoners seized a plane shortly after it landed at their prison and forced its crew to fly to Peru where they sought asylum....Opponents of the Amchitka blast are studying the possibility of an appeal to the Supreme Court.
      Cholera has broken out among victims of the cyclone and tidal wave that hit India last week and fears of an epidemic spread among the two million inhabitants of the area....One gunman was killed and another wounded as British troops fought snipers holed up in churches in Belfast....Alioto said that Look had offered to retract its article alleging that he was lined to the Mafia. Look spokesmen were not available for comment. He says he rejected the offer and will pursue his $12.5 million libel suit against the now-defunct publication....Appearing on statewide TV, Gov. Millikin says he'll appeal, "at the earliest possible legal opportunity," a federal court ruling that the Detroit school system is segregated.

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  • The H. R. Haldeman Diaries consists of seven handwritten diaries, 36 dictated diaries recorded as sound recordings, and two handwritten audio cassette tape subject logs. The diaries and logs reflect H. R. Haldeman’s candid personal record and reflections on events, issues, and people encountered during his service in the Nixon White House. As administrative assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, Haldeman attended and participated in public events and private meetings covering the entire scope of issues in which the Nixon White House engaged in during the years 1969-1973. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

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    Vol. V, United Nations, 1969-1972

    Secretary-General Succession

    • 228. Telegram From the Department of State to the Mission to the United Nations, Washington, November 4, 1971, 2228Z

      Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1970–73, UN 8–3. Secret; Immediate; Exdis. Drafted by Assistant Secretary De Palma; cleared by Crimmins, Pedersen, Armitage, and Executive Secretary Eliot; and approved by Secretary Rogers. Repeated to Asuncion, Bogota, Brasilia, Caracas, La Paz, Managua, San Jose, Santiago, and Teguciga pa.

    Vol. XI, South Asia Crisis, 1971

    South Asia Crisis, 1971

    • 179. Memorandum for the Presidentʼs File, Washington, November 4, 1971, 10:29 a.m.-12:35 p.m.

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, White House Special Files, Presidentʼs Office Files, Box 2, Memoranda for the President, Beginning October 31, 1971. Top Secret; Sensitive; Eyes Only. Apparently drafted by Kissinger. The meeting was held in the Oval Office. The time of the meeting is from the Presidentʼs Daily Diary. (Ibid., White House Central Files) The conversation was also tape recorded. (Ibid., White House Tapes, Recording of conversation between President Nixon and Prime Minister Gandhi, November 4, 1971, 10:29 a.m.–12:35 p.m., Oval Office, Conversation No. 613–15) Prime Minister Gandhiʼs state visit to Washington began November 4 and concluded November 6. While Nixon met with Gandhi, U.S. and Indian advisers met in the Cabinet Room and discussed a number of issues concerning the situation in South Asia. The U.S. team was headed by Sisco and included Keating, Van Hollen, Saunders, Hoskinson, and Schneider. The Indian team was headed by Foreign Secretary Kaul and included Jha and Rasgotra. Sisco and Kaul led the discussion. The discussion was summarized in a November 4 memorandum from Saunders and Hoskinson to Kissinger. (Ibid., NSC Files, Box 919, VIP Visits, India, PM Indira Gandhi Visit, Nov 1971) The memorandum is published in Foreign Relations, 1969–1976, volume E–7, Documents on South Asia, 1969–1972, Document 149. It was summarized in greater detail in telegram 203189 to New Delhi, November 4. (National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1970–73, POL 15–1 INDIA)

    Vol. XIV, Soviet Union, October 1971-May 1972

    Announcement of Summit Through the South Asia Crisis, October 12-December 1971

    • 10. Memorandum of Conversation, Washington, November 4, 1971

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 492, President’s Trip Files, Dobrynin/Kissinger, 1971, Vol. 8. Top Secret; Sensitive; Eyes Only. This lunch conversation was held in the Map Room at the White House. According to Kissinger’s Record of Schedule, the meeting was held from 1:10 to 3 p.m. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Kissinger Papers, Box 438, Miscellany, 1968–76) Kissinger sent a summary account of the Middle East portion of this meeting to the President on November 23 to which this memorandum of conversation was attached. A notation on the memorandum indicates the President saw it. (National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 492, President’s Trip Files, Dobrynin/Kissinger, 1971, Vol. 8)

    Vol. XXIV, Middle East Region and Arabian Peninsula, 1969-1972; Jordan, September 1970

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    Vol. E-7, Documents on South Asia, 1969-1972

    India and Pakistan: Crisis and War, March-December 1971

    • 149. Memorandum From Harold Saunders and Samuel Hoskinson of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, November 4, 1971

      Advisers to President Nixon and Indian Prime Minister Gandhi discussed the building crisis in South Asia while Nixon and Gandhi met Assistant Secretary of State Sisco said Yahya Khan had accepted the idea of a unilateral military withdrawal and was prepared under certain conditions to open a dialogue with Bangla Desh representatives. T.N. Kaul responded skeptically to both suggestions.

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 919, VIP Visits, India, PM Indira Gandhi Visit, Nov. 1971. Secret. Sent for information. Saunders initialed for himself and Hoskinson. A notation on the memorandum indicates that Kissinger saw it.

  • The Kissinger telephone conversation transcripts consist of approximately 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger’s telephone conversations during his tenure as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1969-1974) and Secretary of State (1973-1974) during the administration of President Richard Nixon. Visit the finding aid for more information.

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