275–8

Conversation No. 275-8

Date: September 7, 1971
Time: 12:30 pm - 12:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Soviet Union
-Announcement of summit meeting
-Timing
-October 12, 1971
-Soviets
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Call to Kissinger
-Time span between calls
-State Department
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Communique
-Agreement
-Place of meeting
-Moscow
-Visit
-Progress in relations
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Press conference
-Summit
-Berlin agreement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Announcement
-Announcement of communique
-Timing
-US
-Soviet Union
-Questions
-Press
-Kissinger's staff
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-Preparation of questions and answers
-Compared with PRC announcement
-The President's actions
-Other news

Kissinger's schedule
-PRC
-Kissinger's postponement
-Attendance at Japanese dinner
-Japan
-William P. Rogers, U. Alexis Johnson
-Takeo Fukuda
-Proposed meeting with the President
-Kissinger’s attendance
-Relations with the President

Forthcoming United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-George H.W. Bush
-Security Council
-Expulsion
-US actions at the UN
-Albanian resolution
-PRC admission
-Retention of Taiwan
-Guatemala
-Costa Rica
-Great Britain
-Position
-Background
-Bush
-Voting analysis
- Important questions
-Issue of Security Council seat
-Taiwan
-Expulsion

The President's opponents

[Unintelligible]

Howard Stein
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-Dinner
-Eugene J. McCarthy


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South Vietnam Presidential elections
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Referendum effect of unopposed election
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Administration's opponents
-American public
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-[Forename unknown] Simon
-Dinner
-John B. Connally
-Strategy
-Timing
-Berlin

US foreign relations
-PRC
-Dobrynin
-US-PRC relationships
-Southeast Asia
-US-Soviet relations
-Meeting
-Possible summit
-PRC
-Possible actions
-Vietnam peace settlement
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Vietnam
-Peace negotiations
-Prisoner of war [POWs]
-Forthcoming elections in South Vietnam
-Thieu
-Effect on negotiations
-Compromise
-Temporary government
-Duration
-Thieu
-Press handling of issue
-Editorial
-Warning against involvement in South Vietnamese elections
-North Vietnamese
-Compared with South Vietnamese military forces
-Casualties
-North Vietnam
-Floods
-Effect
-Supplies
-Infiltration

Soviet Union
-Signing of Accidental War, Hotline Agreements
-Date
-Ceremony
-Gromyko
-Signing
-Public [press?] opinion
-US position
-Democrats
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's conversation with the President
-Willy Brandt letter

Kissinger's schedule
-Lunch
-Connally
-Soviet Union developments
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-Rogers
-Kissinger's conversation with Rogers

Rogers
-Information about negotiations
-Summit Meeting
-Dobrynin
-Relations with Kissinger

Kissinger left at 12:55 pm.