Date: August 14, 1972

Time: 11:14 am – 11:28 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Kenneth B. Keating and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

Indira Gandhi

-The President’s view

-Women

-Keating’s cable to the President

-The President’s view

-Jawaharlal Nehru

-Political support

-Right-wing communists

-Left-wing communists

-Gandhi’s previous conversation with Keating

-Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-(M)]

Keating’s schedule

-State Department

-Debriefing

-New York

-Republican National Convention

-New York delegation

-Honorary delegates

-[Nelson A. Rockefeller]

-State officials

-Blacks

-Women

-Youth

Composition of the President’s staff

-Quota system

-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]

-Herbert Stein

-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]

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-National Security Council [NSC]

-Effect of hypothetical quota system

-Firing of staff members

-Henry A. Kissinger

The President’s image

-Golda Meir

-Jewish leaders

-New York

Foreign policy

-Israel

-George S. McGovern’s pledge to provide troops

-McGovern’s plan to reduce naval forces

-Aircraft carriers

-McGovern’s plan to reduce aid to Greece

-Syria

-Jordan

-Threat of US-Soviet Union mutual annihilation

-John Foster Dulles

-Massive retaliation

-US strength compared to the Soviet Union

-Current equivalence of US and Soviet Union forces

-Sixth Fleet

-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

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US foreign relations

-Israel

-Support of US forces

-[McGovern]

-Support of US deterrence of the Soviet Union

-McGovern

-The President’s reliability

-Remarks by Meir

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Keating’s experience as ambassador to India

-India-Pakistan conflict

-India-US relations

-William P. Rogers

Keating’s forthcoming public statements

-Issues

-Jews

-The President’s previous trip to Poland

-Reception by Polish people

-Economics

-Redistribution of wealth

-Permissiveness

-Keating’s experience as a judge

-Audience

-Italians

-Other urban groups

-W. Ramsey Clark

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-Actions in Hanoi

-Possible director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]

-Judicial appointments

-Police

-Civil rights

-Police

-Previous support of Keating

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:14 am.

Presentation of Presidential gift

-Watch

-Presidential seal

-[Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia] Malik Faisal ibn Abd

al-Aziz al-Saud

1972 election

-The President’s role

-Keating’s view

-Keating

-Forthcoming speeches on foreign policy

Bull, Keating, and Haig left at 11:28 am.