505–7

Conversation No. 505-7

Date: May 26, 1971
Time: 12:43 pm - 1:17 pm
Location: Oval Office
Conv. No. 505-6 (cont.)
The President met with David K.E. Bruce and Henry A. Kissinger; the White House
photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Bruce's schedule

Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud luncheon, May 27, 1971
-Time
-Bruce's attendance
-Number in attendance


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SAUDI ARABIA


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-Menu
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SAUDI ARABIA Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)


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Meeting between Bruce and Kissinger
-Lunch

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Progress
-Delay
-Appearance
-President's meetings
-Bruce's resignation
-Postponement

Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.

-Kissinger conference with Bruce

Vietnam negotiations
-Possible progress
-Timing
-Bruce’s resignation
-Bruce's appointment
-Negotiation process
-Accomplishment
-Stalemate
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[Unintelligible]

Bruce's resignation
-Possible departure from Paris
-Unknown person
-Jean Monnet
-Bruce’s health Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)
-Age
-Residence
-Vacation
-Bruce's health
-British
-Timing
-Spain
-Mediterranean
-Bruce's health

Vietnam negotiations
-Future
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-North Vietnamese
-Possible progress
-Timing
-Bruce's resignation
-Timing
-Paris talks
-US negotiations
-Rank
-Bruce's future
-POWs
-Families
-Future forum
-Bruce's possible appointment
-Consultant to the President
-Bruce’s experience
-State Department
-Bruce’s view of status
-Goals
-Terminal date
-Settlement
-Ceasefire
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-Troop withdrawal
-Ceasefire
-US troops
-North Vietnamese
-Bruce's schedule
-W. Averell Harriman
-State Department
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr. Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)
-Resignation
-Date
-Kissinger

People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Kissinger’s forthcoming discussion with Bruce
-President’s conversation with Kissinger
-US table tennis team
-Visit to PRC
-Trade and travel
-Presidential candidate
-Cabinet
-Maurice H. Stans
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kissinger’s Harvard University colleague
-PRC
-President’s plans
-Bruce’s position
-PRC
-Compared with USSR
-President's talk with Kissinger
-Candidates for possible trip to PRC
-Bruce
-South Vietnamese
-End of war
-Timing
-US-PRC relationship
-Bruce’s view
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JAPAN Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)


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-Jean Sainteny
-PRC
-Negotiating posture

[Unintelligible]

-Bruce
-Japanese
-Compared with Chines
-Chinese
-Japanese
-PRC
-Attitudes toward others
-World
-USSR
-Japanese
-USSR
-Indians
-Bruce
-Lunch
-PRC
-Bruce's health
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)

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Bruce and Kissinger left at 1:17 pm.