245–6

Conversation No. 245-6

Date: April 6, 1971
Time: 10:05 am - 11:03 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger
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Laos
-Casualty figures
-Military operations
-Comparison

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese Conv. No. 245-6 (cont.)
-President’s forthcoming statement on Prisoners of War [POWs]
-President’s options
-Possible statement
-Warning
-Credibility
-Kissinger’s statement on POWs

Laos
-Casualties
-South Vietnamese casualties
-Air sorties
-George S. McGovern’s statements
-Kissinger’s possible statement

President’s speech on Vietnam, April 7, 1971
-Draft
-President’s presentation
-Press
-Release
-Air sorties
-South Vietnamese casualties
-Warning
-Statement
-Warning
-Staff

Vietnam
-Withdrawal
-”Blockbusters”
-John D. Ehrlichman
-US proposals
-Negotiations
-Kissinger and Clark MacGregor
-Press
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-Proposals
-”Doves”
-Congress
-Withdrawal date
-Military aid
-General Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky
-Communist victory
-Kissinger’s relations with MacGregor Conv. No. 245-6 (cont.)
-Troop announcements
-Date for United States’ withdrawal
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-President’s meeting with Thieu
-United States’ position
-President’s policy
-North Vietnamese
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Date for Withdrawal
-POWs
-Cease fire
-Negotiations
-Cease fire
-United States’ proposals
-Kissinger’s role
-Paris talks

Chile
-Elections
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Control of media
-Eduardo Frei Montalva
-Christian Democrats
-Allende
-State Department
-Charles A. Meyer
-Allende
-United States’ policy
-Jorge Alessandri
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 13s ]


FOREIGN AFFAIRS Conv. No. 245-6 (cont.)


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-Edward M. Korry


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration: 26s ]


FOREIGN AFFAIRS


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-Korry
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Pakistan
-India

Kissinger’s relations with MacGregor
-Melvin R. Laird
-Ehrlichman
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Vietnam
-Ehrlichman
-Public opinion
-Johnson

Cambodia
-United States’ involvement Conv. No. 245-6 (cont.)
-Public opinion

Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Impact on administration
-Background

President’s speech on Vietnam
-Possible question to Kissinger
-President’s policy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am

Arrival of Mansfield

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:35 am

President’s speech on Vietnam
-Success of policy
-Possible wording on Vietnamization policy
-Relation to troop withdrawals

Mansfield entered at 10:35 am

Greetings

Kissinger left at 10:36 am

Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming call to Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Military situation
-Withdrawal date
-South Vietnamese leaders
-Withdrawal of United States’ troops
-Rate
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-Numbers
-Ceiling
-Level
-Announcement
-Dates
-Level
-Future announcements
-President’s options Conv. No. 245-6 (cont.)
-Negotiations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Attitude
-United States’ position
-President’s options
-Soviet Union
-President’s options
-Deadline
-President’s plans
-Troop withdrawals
-Chance of a breakthrough
-Announcements
-Withdrawal of troops
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin’s mission
-United States’ offer
-Date
-United States’ plans
-Cease fire
-President’s speech, April 7, 1971
-Negotiations
-President’s forthcoming conversations with Dobrynin
-Possible topics
-North Vietnamese
-Madame Nguyen Thi Binh and Long Di [sp?]
-Date
-United States’ position
-Troop withdrawals
-Laos
-President’s policy

Arms control negotiations
-Leonid I. Brezhnev and Andrei A. Gromyko
-Communist Party Congress
-Fight
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-Military people
-Arms limitation issue
-Political people
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Brezhnev’s role
-Detente
-Arms limitation
-Date Conv. No. 245-6 (cont.)
-President’s options

Berlin
-United States-Soviet Union negotiations

Middle East
-United States’ policy
-Israel
-Support
-United States’ policy
-Other nations
-Cease fire
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Soviet Union

Vietnam and Laos
-Mansfield’s support for President
-Troop withdrawal
-Announcement
-South Vietnamese
-Military operations
-Location
-Negotiations
-Prospects

President’s trip to Montana
-Timing
-Labor Day
-Announcement

President’s briefing on Vietnam
-Value

Mansfield left at 11:03 am
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