261–35

Conversation No. 261-35

Date: July 1, 1971
Time: 3:55 pm - 4:25 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Vietnam War
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield’s comments
-North Vietnamese
-Mansfield Amendment
-President’s previous conversation with Mansfield
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William P. Rogers
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Item about Peking
-David [Surname unintelligible]
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Reference to comment made by President in press conference

Draft of Presidential speech Conv. No. 261-33 (cont.)
-Bicentennial
-Taiwan
-Length

Vietnam War
-Le Duc Tho
-Statement
-Paris
-Administration’s response
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Negotiations
-US position
-Ziegler
-North Vietnamese position
-Prisoners of War [POWs] release
-American withdrawal
-Clark MacGregor’s conversation with Kissinger
-Timing
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s proposal
-Vietnamese cease fire
-American withdrawal

Chou En-lai
-Conversation with Yugoslav
-US-China relations

Population of the United States
-Andrew Jackson’s administration

Alexander P. Butterfield [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at 4:08 pm
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President’s schedule
-Declassification meeting
-Timing
-John D. Ehrlichman, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., William H. Rehnquist
[The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 4:09 pm and
4:11 pm]

[Conversation No. 261-35A] Conv. No. 261-35 (cont.)

President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with declassification group
-Chairman
-Rehnquist
-Ehrlichman
-Presidential directive

[End of telephone conversation]

Butterfield [Bull?] left at 4:11 pm

White House staff
-President’s role

Speech draft for July 4th
-Language
-Thomas Jefferson
-Philosophy
-French Revolution
-John Adams

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Communication from USSR
-Kissinger’s trip
-Summit meeting
-Scheduling

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:11 pm

President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:25 pm
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[Haldeman talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:11 pm and 4:25 pm]

[Conversation No. 261-35B]

[See Conversation No. 6-80]
[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman Conv. No. 261-35 (cont.)

President’s draft of forthcoming Bicentennial speech
-Language
-Compared to Emmett Hughes
-William L. Safire
-Bicentennial celebration

Negotiations with North Vietnamese
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Timing
-October
-Soviet Summit [?]
-Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-President’s condolence call
-Hubert H. Humphrey

Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 4:11 pm

President’s schedule
-Meeting with declassification group
-Participants
-Rehnquist
-Interim report

Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 4:25 pm

President’s schedule

Vietnam negotiations
-Sources of problems
-State Department
-Bruce
-Rogers
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-John N. Irwin, II
-Marshall Green
-Bruce

Soviets
-Summit meeting
-Timing
-Bruce Conv. No. 261-35 (cont.)
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip

PRC

Declassification
-Ehrlichman
-Administration’s position
-Conspiracy

Daniel Ellsberg case
-Participants
-Ellsberg
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Cables

Dobrynin
-Prior conversation with Kissinger
-Soviets
-US relations with Asian allies

PRC

Kissinger’s staff
-Relations with press
-Kissinger’s schedule

Kissinger’s forthcoming foreign trip

The President and Kissinger left at 4:25 pm