321–24

Conversation No. 321-24

Date: March 8, 1972
Time: 3:55 pm - 4:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Kissinger’s schedule
-Dr. Kenneth W. Riland

Lunch
-Sans Souci
-Art Buchwald
-Wife
-Vote for the President
-Spiro T. Agnew


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Set of questions

[Kissinger talked to an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and 4:35 pm.]

[Conversation No. 321-24A]

Delivery of questions by unknown person

[End of telephone conversation]

President’s schedule
-Moscow trip
-Possible announcement
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 321-24 (cont.)


-William P. Rogers
-Previous conversation with the President
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting
-Kissinger’s forthcoming call
-Announcement of Paris channel
-Timing
-Possible press conference
-Possible questions from Patrick J. Buchanan
-Impact of People’s Republic of China [PRC] communiqué
-Vietnam
-Japan
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Japan
-Reaction
-Eisaku Sato
-Takeo Fukuda
-Taiwan
-Japan
-Buchanan
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Communiqué
-Settlement of issues
-Exchange rate
-Diplomatic contact with Taiwan
-Taiwan
-Renunciation of force
-PRC
-Questions
-Communiqué
-Kissinger’s opinion
-Backgrounder
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Opinion
-PRC authority
-Acknowledgement
-Buchanan
-Questions
-PRC leadership
-Age
-Need for urgent action
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 321-24 (cont.)


-Chou En-lai
-Mutual interests
-Personal reflections
-Preparations
-Vietnam
-US-Japan relationship
-PRC

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

Request to put away unknown item

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.

PRC trip
-Communiqué
-Shanghai
-Buchwald
-Evaluation of the President
-Liberal program
-Buchanan
-Communiqué
-Taiwan
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Foreign policy
-Questions
-Kissinger

News summary
-Prospects for resolving Buchanan issue
-Reaction time
-Buckley
-Kissinger’s intended call

Canada
-Forthcoming trip by the President
-Timing
-Rogers’s request
-Dinner for foreign ministers of Organization of American States [OAS]
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 321-24 (cont.)


-Timing
-President’s opinion
-Canada

White House staff

Possible press conference
-Taiwan
-Kissinger’s answers
-President’s viewing


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JAPAN


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The President’s schedule
-Unknown place
-Florida
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Japan
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Rogers
-Japan
-Aid

Possible press conference
-Questions
-Middle East
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 321-24 (cont.)


-Nuclear test ban
-Compared to press conferences in Great Britain
-House Of Commons
-[James] Harold Wilson
-Memory skills
-Questions
-English Press
-Compared to US press

Press conference
-Old rules used by the press
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Questions
-Preparation by the President
-Intellectual exercise
-Busing
-Social Security
-Minimum wage

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Forthcoming Moscow trip
-Significance
-Compared to PRC trip

PRC trip
-Newsweek
-Honor guard
-The President’s gesture with Chou En-lai’s coat
-Unknown person
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 321-24 (cont.)


-Possible talk with Kissinger

Gridiron dinner
-Kissinger’s presence
-President’s appearance at dinner
-PRC issue

President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-Canada

Kissinger’s trips
-Length
-Guam
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Paris
-Anchorage
-Meetings
-Schedule
-Timing
-Japan
-Paris
-President’s opinion
-Canadians
-Kissinger’s location

Kissinger left at 4:35 pm.