322–14

Conversation No. 322-14

Date: February 29, 1972
Time: 3:23 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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Meeting
-Haldeman and John B. Connally
-William P. Rogers
-Connally’s tenure

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:25 pm.

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Press briefing
-The President’s report
-Herbert G. Klein
-PRC
-Conference
-Questions
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Shanghai
-Ziegler’s comments
-PRC
-John Thomas Downey
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Stanley Karnow
-Dan Rather

Kissinger and Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 3:28 pm.

PRC trip
-Taiwan
-Rather’s report
-The President’s address of February 28, 1972
-Secretary of State
-Haig
-Statements on Taiwan
-President’s position
-Rogers
-Capitol Hill
-Statements on Taiwan
-Leaders meeting
-Rogers’s comments
-Statements
-Taiwan
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-PRC
-Communism
-Trade
-Proposed deal
-Rogers
-Questions to Ziegler
-Leaders meeting
-President’s instructions
-Haig
-Rogers
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-PRC
-Rogers
-Haldeman’s talk with Rogers
-Industrialization
-Exhibit
-Singapore
-Taiwan
-Trade
-Taiwan
-Rogers
-Possible leaks
-Possible remarks to staff
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Press
-Remarks by Rogers
-Leaders
-Cabinet
-Kissinger
-Rogers’s behavior
-PRC
-Translator
-Foreign Minister
-Response
-Statements from Rogers
-Translation
-Foreign Minister
-Ziegler’s observation
-Boxer Rebellion
-Haig
-Chi Peng-fei [?]
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-Transcripts of meetings
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting with Rogers
-[Unintelligible]
-Foreign Minister
-Compared to vice foreign minister
-Rogers
-Job performance
-Taiwan
-Memorandum
-Press
-Social events
-Timing
-Industrialization
-Shanghai exhibit
-USSR
-Haig
-Instructions
-USSR
-PRC
-USSR, 1959
-Predicted survivability
-PRC achievements
-Cultural Revolution
-Weapons
-Standard of living
-Industry
-Education
-Haig’s upcoming telephone call to Rogers
-President’s request
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Representation
-Rogers’s situation
-Discussions on phone
-PRC
-Press
-Comments
-Leaders
-Consistency
-Communists
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-Kissinger
-US foreign policy
-PRC trip
-Outcome of trip
-USSR
-Haig
-Meeting
-Backgrounder
-Press
-Taiwan
-Possible comparisons
-Public reaction to PRC trip
-Indonesia
-PRC
-Diplomacy options
-USSR
-Cambodia
-PRC system compared to US system
-Advantages
-Africa
-Ziegler
-Instructions
-Florida
-Timing
-Gerald L. Warren
-Fill-in for Ziegler
-Haig
-President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-Briefings
-Rogers
-State Department

Vietnam negotiations
-Withdrawal
-Cambodia, Laos
-Concessions
-Briefing papers
-Haig’s talk with Chou En-lai
-Peaceful settlement
-Kissinger’s negotiations in October 1971
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-Possible US opposition
-Withdrawal
-USSR

PRC trip
-Communiqué
-Vietnam
-Settlement
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-USSR
-Instructions to Haig
-Rogers
-Conservatives
-Washington Post
-Upcoming editorial
-Ronald W. Reagan

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 3:55 pm.

Vietnam
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s Meeting
-Discussion
-Length of time
-Location
-Le Duc Tho

PRC
-Communiqué
-Criticism
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Rogers’s comments
-Haig’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view
-Substance and principles
-Chou En-lai
-Statements
-PRC
-USSR
-Technology
-Kissinger
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-Previous conversation with Jonathan T. Howe
-Chou En-lai
-PRC foreign minister
-Rogers
-US presence in Japan

Japan

Kissinger and Haig left and Manolo Sanchez entered at 4:00 pm.