298–32

Conversation No. 298-32

Date: November 11, 1971
Time: 4:29 pm - 5:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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The President talked with Hugh Scott.

[Conversation No. 298-32A]

[See Conversation No. 14-49]

Henry A. Kissinger entered and talked with Scott at an unknown time after 4:29 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Hugh Scott
-John C. Stennis Amendment

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:32 pm and
4:36 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-32B]

[See Conversation No. 14-50]

[End of telephone conversation]

Foreign aid program
-Senate vote

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Melvin R. Laird's call to Kissinger
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Leak
-Kissinger's attendance at Newsweek editors dinner
-Leak
-Kissinger's conversation with John A. Scali
-William P. Rogers
-Laird
-Newsweek
-Laird
-Haldeman
-Call to Kissinger
-Scali's conversation with Newsweek
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-Lloyd Nolan
-Conversation with Daniel Z. Henkin
-Rogers's view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.

The President's schedule
-Byron Schumacher

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:36 pm.

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Rogers's views
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip announcement

The President talked with Stennis between 4:36 pm and 4:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 298-32C]

[See Conversation No. 14-51]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Withdrawal rate
-Timing of subsequent announcement
-PRC trip announcement
-Residual forces
-Possible effect on PRC
-Timing of subsequent announcement
-Question and Answer [Q&A] session
-Evaluations
-Residual forces
-Negotiations
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Ceasefire
-Forthcoming announcements
-PRC trip announcement
-Withdrawal rate
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-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Possible “peace offensive”
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Rogers
-Laird
-The President’s schedule
-The President's meeting with congressmen
-Gerald R. Ford
-Timing of subsequent announcements
-Negotiations
-[William J. Porter]
-Possible return from Paris
-Rogers and Laird
-Views regarding the President's decisions
-Laos, Cambodia, the President’s speech, November 3, 1969
-The President’s speech, May 14, 1969
-Rogers’s schedule

Cabinet
-Abraham Lincoln
-Carl Sandburg's book
-Edwin Stanton
-John N. Mitchell and John B. Connally
-Kissinger’s conversation with Haldeman
-Connally

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Rogers's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers and Laird
-The President's policy
-Prospects
-South Vietnamese capability
-Thieu
-Recent election
-Foreign aid
-Residual force
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing of subsequent announcements
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
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-Rogers's views
-Administration critics
-Possible proposal
-Withdrawal rate
-POWs
-Volunteers
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Administration critics
-Dean G. Acheson's theory
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Popularity
-Publicity
-Press
-Kissinger’s trip to PRC
-Informing people
-Foreign allies
-Kissinger's conversation with William McMahon
-Thieu
-Korean Ambassador [Dong Jo Kim]
-Congress
-Carl T. Curtis
-Press
-Clark MacGregor
-Leaks
-Laird
-Rogers and Laird

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:37 pm.

Rogers
-Call to the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:20 pm.

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing of subsequent announcement
-PRC trip announcement
-Rogers
-Possible call from Kissinger
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-Laird
-Withdrawal rate
-Creighton W. Abrams's possible call to Laird
-Laird's views
-Rogers's call to the President
-Forthcoming call to Rogers
-Haig


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-Kissinger
-Laird
-PRC
-Timing of subsequent announcements

Kissinger’s schedule

The President's forthcoming press conference
-Possible press questions
-US air power in Vietnam
-Vietnamization
-Communist infiltration of South Vietnam
-US ground forces
-Withdrawal
-Administration opponents
-US China policy
-“One China”
-India-Pakistan relations
-US military aid to Pakistan
-Partisan aspect
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-Amount
-Spare parts
-Refugees
-East Pakistan
-Self-determination
-Use of force
-PRC

Israel
-US military aid
-Phantoms
-Leonid I. Brezhnev's proposal
-Rogers's treatment of Israel
-1972 election
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Phantoms
-United Nations [UN] speech
-Egypt
-Negotiations
-The President's role
-Possible meeting with Golda Meir
-[Unintelligible]
-Phantoms
-Joseph J. Sisco

Intelligence
-Reorganization
-Kissinger's conversation with W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [FIAB]
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Richard M. Helms
-View
-Role
-Kissinger's committee's role
-The President’s possible comments

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rogers
-The President's activities
-Clifford M. Hardin
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-Pay Board
-Haldeman and Stephen B. Bull
-Pay Board
-Calls to Scott and Stennis
-Haig
-Laird's recommendations

Rogers
-The President's forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR

Cabinet
-Possible meeting
-Rogers and Laird

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Chou En-lai's schedule
-Rogers
-Plenary session

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rogers
-The President's schedule
-Laird’s proposals

The President's schedule
-Pay Board

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Rogers
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger
-Possible call from the President

Berlin
-Rogers's phone conversations
-Kissinger and Haldeman
-[David] Kenneth Rush

Rogers
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David Kraslow of the Los Angeles Times
-Conversation with Kissinger
-State Department briefing
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Cambodia

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Richard F. Pederson's conversation with unknown person
-Adam Clymer of New York Times
-Planning
-Warsaw talks
-The President's orders to Walter J. Stoessel
-Kissinger's possible call to Kraslow
-State Department
-Rogers
-Pederson

State Department
-Rogers
-White House
-The President's forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR
-Preparation
-Papers
-The President's knowledge of foreign relations
-Knowledge of foreign relations

Vietnam
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rogers
-The President's activities
-Pay Board
-Haig's memorandum
-Laird's memorandum
-The President’s policy
-Prospects
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s forthcoming calls to Rogers and Laird, November 12, 1971
-Informing people
-[McMahon]
-Australian Ambassador [Sir James Plimsoll]
-Korean Ambassador [Dong Jo Kim]
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-The President's possible call to Rogers

Kissinger left at 5:20 pm.