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On October 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 8:49 am to 8:55 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 012-130 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President talked with William P. Rogers. [See Conversation No. 601-36/602-1A] Manolo Sanchez - Demonstrators European Security Conference - Press reports - Georges Pompidou - Leonid I. Brezhnev - Instructions to Rogers - Forthcoming meeting with the President - US position - Europeans - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] - Brezhnev - Andrei A. Gromyko - Italy - Great Britain - Sir Alexander F. Douglas- Home - Rogers public statements - Possible preliminary meeting - Timing - Attendees - Manlio Brosio - Possible statement Possible Rogers' press conference - United Nations [UN] - People's Republic of China [PRC] admission - Taiwan - Precedent - Possible effect of UN - Congressional Appropriations Committee The President's schedule - Henry A. Kissinger - John B. Connally - Economy - Budget - Wage and Price controls European Security Conference - France - US position - USSR - West Germany - Willy Brandt. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.