278–33

Conversation No. 276-18/278-33

Date: September 13, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:50 pm and 10:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress and is a
continuation of Conversation No. 276-18]

Foreign relations
-Forthcoming announcement
-Scheduling of forthcoming summits
-Moscow trip
-Kissinger's schedule
-Vietnam negotiations
-Date
-Announcement
-Ceasefire offer
-Melvin R. Laird
-Vietnam
-Popular opinion shifts
-Post-World War II elections
-Comparison with other countries
-Africa
-Communists' action
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)


Attica Prison riots
-Casualties
-Guards
-Numbers

Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POWs] issue

Foreign relations
-Soviet Union trip
-Announcement
-Kissinger's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-The President's trip to the PRC
-Timing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-Press conference
-Response by Soviets
-Date of trip
-Vietnam negotiations
-South Vietnam elections
-North Vietnam
-President’s view
-Michael J. Mansfield
-South Vietnam
-Status, future
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-POWs
-The President's PRC trip
-US military action in Vietnam
-Unknown person
-Japan
-Reaction to PRC trip
-President’s handling
-State Department

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:50 pm.

Refreshments
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)


Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:15 pm.

Foreign relations
-Kissinger's trips to the PRC


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 2m 19s ]


ASIAN AFFAIRS
-JAPAN
-CHINA


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Withdrawal of US troops
-Future settlement
-Aftermath
-PRC
-North Vietnamese attacks
-Possible response

Attica Prison riots
-Casualties
-Guards
-Amnesty
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)


Vietnam
-Withdrawal of US troops
-Announcement of Kissinger trip
-Foreign policy of the US
-Military protection

[Unintelligible]

Kissinger left at 10:15 pm.