278–51

Conversation No. 278-51

Date: September 16, 1971
Time: 10:48 am - 10:57 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with F. Edward Hébert.

[See Conversation No. 9-38]

Henry A. Kissinger was present after 10:50 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

Hébert
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.)


-Conversation with the President
-Draft extension bill
-Votes
-Mansfield amendment

Draft
-Importance
-Strategy
-The President's opponents
-Importance of Vietnam
-Consequences

Vietnam
-Goals
-Withdrawal deadlines
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Questions on issue of Vietnam election
-Response
-Foreign aid
-Recipients
-Locations
-Types of governments, elections
-State Department
-Comparison to South Vietnam elections
-The President's conversation with Haig
-Mexico
-Colombia
-Venezuela
-Chile

Chile
-Future of elections
-Kissinger’s view

Vietnam
-Prisoner of war [POW] issue
-POW wives
-Deadlines
-Clark M. Clifford
-Situation
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.)


-Radicals
-South Vietnamese military operations
-Laos
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Position of North Vietnam
-Response by the US
-POW issue
-Effect on negotiations
-North Vietnamese strategy
-North Vietnamese POW deadlines
-Establishment of artificial deadlines in the US
-The press
-Kissinger's conversation with Rowland Evans, September 16, 1971
-Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Micronesia
-Evans and Novak
-Focus on Forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union
summits

Foreign relations
-The President's accomplishments
-John F. Kennedy comparison
-PRC opening
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Soviet Union summit
-Deadline issue
-Stance

Attica prison riots
-Killings
-Hostages
-Nelson A. Rockefeller's position on issue
-Prison
-Press conference
-Public response
-President’s call to Pierre E. Trudeau

Media
-Tendencies
-Forthcoming book
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.)


-Vanderbilt University study of news coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-PRC
-Cambodian action
-Laos
-Perceptions

Vietnam
-Suggested statement on position
-Leaks
-Forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting

Kissinger left at 11:15 am.