246–17

Conversation No. 246-17

Date: April 7, 1971
Time: 3:15 pm - 3:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming speech April 7, 1971
-Kissinger’s conversation with George Meany
-Deadline for withdrawal
-Kissinger’s Conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Margaretta (“Happy”) Rockefeller
-Rockefeller’s conversation with Earl Bridges

Taft Schreiber
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Television time on networks

Joseph W. Alsop

Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Conversation with President, April 6, 1971
-Congress
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-Gerald R. Ford
-President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Changes
-Combat casualties
-Other casualties
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Troop withdrawals Conv. No. 246-13 (cont.)
-Prisoners of war

Laird

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-United States’ position
-Prospects
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s views
-Rogers
-Laird

President’s foreign policy
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-President’s opponents

Vietnam
-Effects of possible loss by United States
-Germany after World War I
-Russia after World War I
-Effect of possible loss by United States
-Views of United States’ intellectuals
-Congress
-Public opinion
-Forthcoming election in South Vietnam
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-President’s schedule
-Summit
-Thieu
-Announcement
-Clark MacGregor’s views

Anatoliy F. Dobrynin’s schedule
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United States-USSR negotiations
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Withdrawal from Vietnam

President’s schedule
-Summit
-Thieu Conv. No. 246-17 (cont.)
-President’s opponents

President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
-John J. McCloy
-General Lucius DuB. Clay, Jr., Thomas S. Gates, Jr.
-Walter P. Reuther, John N. Mitchell
-Purpose
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-McCloy
Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Meany

Elliot L. Richardson

John B. Connally

Cabinet

Vietnam
-McCloy, David Rockefeller
-Dean G. Acheson
-Call to President before November 3, 1970
-New York Republicans

Cabinet
-Calls to President
-Rose Mary Woods

Senate
-Hugh Scott
-Republicans as minority party

President’s opponents
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George C. Wallace

Ronald W. Reagan
-Scott


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Conv. No. 246-17 (cont.)

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President’s schedule
-Unknown foreign leader’s [Anastasio Somoza Debayle?] anniversary
-Nicolae Ceausescu

Turner B. Shelton

Mexico
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Trade relations with United States
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers

Laird
-Comments regarding revenue sharing

President’s mood

White House staff
-President’s conversation with Haldeman
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Cabinet
-Mitchell
-Connally
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger
-President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Thieu
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s Cabinet
-John F. Kennedy Conv. No. 246-17 (cont.)
-Dean Rusk, Robert S. McNamara
-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Cabinet
-John Foster Dulles
-Secretary of Defense
-Neil H. McElroy, Gates
-Dulles
-Vice President Nixon
-Kissinger’s conversation with General Andrew J. Goodpaster

Vietnam
-President’s policies
-Cambodia
-Polls
-Timing

United States-USSR negotiations
-Dobrynin’s schedule
-Arms control
-Possible summit
-SALT

Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971

Kissinger left at 3:55 pm
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