460–27

Conversation No. 460-27

Date: February 26, 1971
Time: 5:47 pm - 6:08 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

United States’ foreign policy
-Berlin negotiations
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Cable from [David] Kenneth Rush
-Chile
-Port visit by USS Enterprise
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Statement
-William P. Rogers’ view
-Possible cancellation
-Melvin R. Laird
-President’s view
-Delay


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PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA


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Vietnam
-Bombing authorization
-Laird
-Possible delay
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-President’s reasoning
-Telegraphnoye Agentstvo Sovyetskovo Soyuza [TASS] statement
-Kissinger
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Cambodia
-President’s view
-Role of domestic situation
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington and George D.Conv.
AikenNo. 460-27 (cont.)


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Kissinger’s meeting with Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Berlin negotiations

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Meeting with Rogers
-Possible public statement
-The President
-Arms control
-Gerard C. Smith
-Possible public statement

Media
-State of the World message
-Media coverage
-Time
-John F. Kennedy
-Robert S. McNamara
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-Kissinger’s meeting with European press
-Henry Brandon
-Washington Post
-Max Frankel
-Coverage
-Amount of coverage
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer’s press conference Conv. No. 460-27 (cont.)
-Press
-General John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Harry Reasoner
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Marvin L. Kalb show
-Kissinger’s appearance
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Haldeman
-Herbert G. Klein
-Responses
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Reston
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Reston’s views
-Administration’s public relations efforts
-American public
-Kissinger’s response
-Souvanna Phouma
-North Vietnam
-Occupation
-View of press
-End of war
-President’s position
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Problems
-Ability
-Leadership

Media
-Reston
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Laird
-Ehrlichman
-Congressional briefings
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-Editorials
-Kissinger’s role in Middle East
-SALT
-State of the World

Kissinger left at 6:08 pm

Conv. No. 460-27 (cont.)