504–8

Conversation No. 504-8

Date: May 27, 1971
Time: 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.


Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud’s visit


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SAUDI ARABIA


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-Possible impact of recent meeting on US Jews


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Visits by Heads of State
-Blair House use
-Haldeman call Wiliam P. Rogers
-Anastasio Somoza Debayle
-Expense
-Food
-Refreshments
-Military responsibilities
-Gen. James S. (“Don”) Hughes
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Hughes
-Military District of Washington unit
-State visits
-President's appreciation
-Possible letter to Moorer
-Appreciation
-Washington, DC
-Public impression
-Crowd size
-King Faisal [?]
-Somoza's visit
-Value of meetings
-Political impact
-Time required
-Blair House
-Africans
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-Instructions to Haldeman
-President’s note to Hughes
Presidential press conference
-Scheduling
-Congress
-Bureaucracy

Peter G. Peterson Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-Economic presentation to bipartisan leadership
-President's attendance
-Reception
-Schedule
-Date
-Location of presentation
-Number of attendees
-Attendees

President's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods


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-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Carl B. Albert
-Vietnam
-Robert S. Elegant
-Los Angeles Times
-President’s possible meeting
-Elegant’s location
-Chalmers Roberts
-Wiliam S. White
-Charles E. Wilson
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-Meeting with President
-Unions
-Anti-trust laws
-Meeting with Peter M. Flanigan
-President to meet with Spiro T. Agnew
-Trip to Korea
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John N. Mitchell Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-Dr. [Edward] Zigler to meet with President
-Final report of White House Conference on Children
-Businessmen's dinner
-Maurice H. Stans dinner
-W. Clement Stone dinner
-National Association of Businessmen [NAB]
-Business council
-Peterson
-Briefing
-Dinner
-Timing
-Clark MacGregor's recommendation
-President to meet with Republican regulars
-House conservatives
-Samuel L. Devine
-Daniel H. Kuykendall
-Birchers
-House loyalists
-Kuykendall task force
-Devine
-Bill Archer
-Page Belcher
-William G. Bray
-J. Herbert Burke
-John N. (“Happy) Camp
-Don H. Clausen and Delwin Clawson
-George Collins
-Philip M. Crane
-Edward J. Derwinski
-John H. Duncan
-MacGregor
-Senate candidates
-Meeting with President
-William B. Saxbe
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-Kuykendall
-Invitation from Melvin R. Laird
-Somoza dinner
-Camp David
-Farewell call of Danish Ambassador
-Meeting with unknown woman
-Unknown man
Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)

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-National merit scholars
-Agnew
-President's previous meeting, 1970
-High school students
-18 year old vote
-Location of Agnew’s forthcoming meeting
-Blair House

Mitchell

Youth vote
-Identification with youth
-Old folks
-National merit scholars

President's schedule
-President's possible appearance
-New Hampshire General Court
-Robert C. Hill
-Peterson
-President's possible visit to New Hampshire
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-Maine


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[Duration: 14s ] Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)


PROTECTION OF THE PRESIDENT


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-President's visit to Maine
-President's visit to New Hampshire
-Legislature
-Cancer research center
-Federal grant
-Dartmouth University
-Commencement
-Summer session
-Medical school
-Manchester
-Primary
-Memos to Haldeman
-Jeffrey Bell
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Primary
-Primary states
-Oregon
-Wisconsin
-Nebraska
-New Hampshire
-President’s possible visit
-Dreyfuss Island
-Reception
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-Hill
-Summer resorts
-Maine
-Dreyfuss Island
-Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania museum opening
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Wyeth family
-Pennsylvania Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-American Medical Association [AMA]
-40,000 doctors in Atlantic City
-Cancer
-Political impact
-Edward L. Morgan
-Health speech
-June 21-22, 1971
-California
-California
-Mitchell

Kissinger entered at 12:40 pm.

Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu

President's schedule
-California
-Thieu
-Meetings
-Goals meeting
-Thieu
-Fourth of July weekend
-Honor America
-Champaign, Illinois
-University
-Possible festivities
-Inspirational speech
-California
-Midway
-Congress
-AMA
-California
-AMA
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-Possible reception

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

US relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-President's meeting with William P. Rogers
-Balance of force reductions
-Chinese representation Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-Balance of force reductions
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Rogers
-Europeans
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Discussion with USSR
-September
-Kissinger Meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Letter
-Rogers
-Cut in forces
-Laird

Two Chinas issue
-US strategy
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC]
-Chinese nationalists
-Taiwan
-United Nations [UN] Security Council Seat
-Robert D. Murphy
-UN Security Council Seat
-British
-Rogers
-Forthcoming consultations
-Status of decision making
-Consensus
-Chinese
-Rogers
-Politics
-Eastern newspapers
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CHINA Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)


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-Unknown person’s views
-US peace posture
-Senate
-Kissinger’s view
-Existing policy
-United Nations [UN]
-Rogers
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Possible consequences of US policy shift
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Asia
-Africa
-Middle East


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CHINA


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-Peking
-President’s possible visit
-Rogers
-Non-committal position
-UN Security Council Seat
-Credentials issue Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-US veto
-Majority
-Issues


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CHINA


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-Representation
-PRC, Taiwan
-Security Council
-George H.W. Bush
-State Department

Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Timing
-NSC meeting
-Laird
-Rogers
-Andrew J. Goodpaster

Two Chinas issue
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-Consultation with allies
-British
-Australians
-USSR
-Kissinger's memo to the President
-Dobrynin's comments to Kissinger
-Consequences for USSR
-PRC in UN Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-USSR
-Chinese revolution
-Harold Lee
-Mao Tse Tung
-Ho Chi Minh
-Josef V. Stalin
-PRC compared to USSR
-Communist Country
-Communist Party
-Army
-Taiwan
-Changing US policy


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CHINA


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-Possible PRC reaction
-Seat in Security Council
-US present policy
-Taiwan
-Peking
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Stephen B. Bull enters at an unknown time after 12:40 pm.

President's schedule
-King Faisal

Agnew
-Rogers Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)

President’s schedule
-King Faisal

Kissinger and Bull left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 1:00 pm.

Kissinger

The President and Butterfield left at 1:00 pm.