481–5

Conversation No. 481-5

Date: April 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:45 am and 11:24 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull
Conv. No. 481-4 (cont.)
The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger

[The President talked with the White House operator at 10:46 am]

[Conversation No. 481-5A]

[See Conversation No. 1-123]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull left at an unknown time between 10:46 am and 10:49 am

[The President talked with J. Edgar Hoover between 10:49 am and 10:52 am]

[Conversation No. 481-5B]

[See Conversation No. 1-123A]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger entered at 10:52 am

[Kissinger talked with Hoover at 10:52 am]

[Conversation No. 481-5C]

[See Conversation No. 1-123B]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hoover's resignation
-President's statement to American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16,
1971
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-General Lewis B. Hershey
-President’s statement to ASNE
-William C. Sullivan
-Qualifications

Meeting with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Clark MacGregor
Conv. No. 481-5 (cont.)
[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:52 am and
11:02 am]

[Conversation No. 481-5D]

[See Conversation No. 1-124]

[End of telephone conversation]

Meeting with Mansfield
-Foreign policy

Kissinger's dinner with Katharine L. Graham
-Sir [Arthur] George Weidenfeld
-President's meeting with ASNE
-Radio
-Radio
-Weidenfeld
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-Vietnam withdrawal
-Elections
-Indian Ambassador
-Weidenfeld
-Comment about the President
-Sir Harold G, Nicolson
-Son
-David Ginsberg
-Judgement of President s interview by ASNE
-Hoover
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. case
-George C. Wallace
-Graham's remarks

President's meeting with ASNE
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-President's 1968 appearance
-President's remarks
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Vietnam
-Calley
-Strain on the President
-Vietnam
-Withdrawal Conv. No. 481-5 (cont.)
-Residual force
-Korea
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US position

Vietnam
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Negotiations
-Withdrawal date
-President's forthcoming meeting with General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Withdrawal date
-Announcement
-Negotiations
-Joint announcement

Bull entered at an unknown time between 10:45 am and 11:02 am

President’s schedule
-Mansfield

Bull left at an unknown time between 10:45 am and 11:02 am

-US position
-POWs
-Cease fire

Mansfield entered at 11:02 am

Greetings

Letter
-Lecture series
-Speech
-Kissinger
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President's PRC Policy
-Mansfield's schedule
-President's possible trip to PRC
-Possible trip by Mansfield
-Private offer of presidential trip
-Development of relations
-Chou En-lai Conv. No. 481-5 (cont.)
-George Kung-chao Yeh
-US objectives
-Possible trip by Mansfield
-Private effort
-Romanians
-Mansfield telegram to Chou En-Lai
-Mansfield's letter to the President
-Congress
-Possible trip by Michael Gravel
-Romanian Ambassador


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-Publicity
-Mansfield's possible cable
-Possible consequences
-Mansfield's letter to the President
-Fall back position
-Requests for visits by senators to PRC
-State Department
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-Ping-pong team
-Possible trip by Mansfield
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Mansfield's possible visit to PRC
-US relations
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Middle East
-Mansfield's statement in Senate Conv. No. 481-5 (cont.)
-President's policies
-Mansfield's position
-President's meeting with ASNE
-Response to questions
-United Nations [UN]
-Trade and travel restrictions
-Timetable
-Trade
-US strategy
-Normalization of relations
-UN representation issue
-Taiwan
-Great Britain
-British representation in Peking
-Romania
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Mansfield's possible cable
-Importance of making new request
-Ceausescu
-Role
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting with President
-Vietnam
-North Korea
-Value of channel
-Josip Broz Tito
-Ceausescu
-Mansfield's Possible Cable
-President's meeting with ASNE
-Calls to Chou En-lai
-Reaction in Senate
-Lifting of trade and travel restrictions
-Mansfield's statement
-Travel Restrictions
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-Travel by Americans and Chinese
-Defense Department
-Justice Department
-Espionage
-Soviets
-Chinese

World War II Conv. No. 481-5 (cont.)
-Nisei
-Relocation camps
-California
-Missoula, Montana
-Earl Warren
-Pearl Harbor
-Blame

World War I
-Blame
-Germans
-Austrians
-French
-British
-Russians
-Kaiser Wilhelm II

Mansfield's possible trip to PRC
-President's possible visit to PRC
-Presidency
-President's senate experience
-Other congressmen
-Advantages
-Possible report by Mansfield
-Amateurs
-Romanians
-US relations with PRC
-Mansfield's role
-Ceausescu
-Ping-pong table

Kissinger and Mansfield left at 11:24 am
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