509-14

Conversation No. 509-14

Date: June 3, 1971
Time: 2:47 pm - 3:06 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Weather

[The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower between 2:47 pm and 2:49 pm]

[Conversation 509-14A]

[See Conversation No. 4-20]

[End of telephone conversation]

Military action in Cambodia
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Bombing
-Press reaction

President’s foreign policy
-Press reaction
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr. and article
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Vietnam
-Press coverage
-General John W. Donaldson’s story
-President’s conversation with Melvin R. Laird
-General William C. Westmoreland


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Conv. No. 509-14 (cont.)

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-Donaldson’s forthcoming trial

Foreign relations
-Vietnam peace negotiations
-Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters
-Date of meeting
-North Vietnamese response
-North Vietnamese relations with People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Kissinger’s opinion
-North Vietnamese posture
-Timing
-South Vietnamese politics
-US-USSR relations
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Timing
-Announcement
-President’s forthcoming visit to the PRC
-Kissinger’s conversation with Oberdorfer
-Timing
-US-PRC relations
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INDIA-PAKISTAN Conv. No. 509-14 (cont.)


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Support for the President
-President’s prior breakfast meeting on the drug problem
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer’s comments to Kissinger
-Drug problem in military
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-My Lai
-West Point speech
-President’s conversation with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

May Day demonstrations
-Public’s view
-Press, television reaction
-President’s support for the police

Vietnam War
-Helicopter losses
-Casualties
-Timing of settlement
-President’s forthcoming visit to PRC
-Korean War
-USSR
-Haig’s views
-Laos
-South Vietnamese military activity
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-Casualties inflicted
-Death of General Do Cao Tri
-Pentagon treatment of Cambodian story
-New York Times article on Cambodia story

Kissinger left at 3:06 pm

Conv. No. 509-14 (cont.)