512–4

Conversation No. 512-4

Date: June 4, 1971
Time: 9:42 am - 10:22 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger’s previous meeting with Melvin R. Laird, June 4
-Willy Brandt’s forthcoming visit
-Defense forces
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-Helmut H. W. Schmidt

Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-State Department
-Possible effect on North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-John Foster Dulles’ strategy
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Prospects

William P. Rogers’ forthcoming statement
-State Department

President’s schedule
-Kenneth B. Keating


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Message to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming visit by Kissinger
-Number of assistants

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese Infiltration
-Kissinger’s conversation with Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, June 3
-Bombing
-Lam Son 719
-Effect
-Negotiations
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-Cambodia
-Vietnamese military activity
-Snoul, Cambodia
-General Nguyen Van Thieu’s conversation with Ellsworth F. Bunker
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Death of General Do Cao Tri

SALT Conv. No. 512-4 (cont.)
-Press coverage

Kissinger’s meeting with East Asia scholars
-John K. Fairbanks
-Edwin O. Reischauer
-[Frank] Tillman Durdin
-Attitude toward administration

Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.’s article in Washington Post, June 4
-President’s 1972 candidacy

Kissinger’s meeting with East Asia scholars
-Richard Duckman’s [sp?] comment
-Stan Hoden [sp?]
-Comments regarding ping pong team’s visit to PRC

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:42 am

-Durdin

President’s schedule
-Energy message
-Economy story
-Briefing
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Glenn T. Seaborg
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-President’s possible statement
-Clean energy
-Environment
-Diplomatic reception for Tricia Nixon and Edward R. F. Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:22 am
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Trade with PRC
-Peter G. Peterson’s possible assignment
-Earthmoving and railroad equipment
-Soviet level of export controls
-Grain
-Importance to farmers
-Statutory requirement for American bottoms Conv. No. 512-4 (cont.)
-George Meany
-Longshoremen
-Department of Labor
-Charles W. Colson’s possible role
-George P. Shultz, James D. Hodgson, Peterson
-Possible meeting with Kissinger
-General versus individual licenses
-Shipments to PRC, Soviet Union
-US Merchant Marine
-Licenses
-Possible exemption for grain
-Political implications
-Kissinger’s possible conversation with Peterson
-Meany
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Statutory requirement for American bottoms
-Political implications
-Farmers
-Unions supporting President’s foreign policy
-Timing
-Farmers
-Kissinger’s possible call to Gerald R. Ford
-Colson’s relationship with Jay Lovestone
-Kissinger’s possible call to Lovestone
-Possibility
-Possible effect

Kissinger’s schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Sequoia
-Chief of Naval Operations
-Shultz, Peterson, Colson
-Lovestone
-Ford
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-Farmers
-Lovestone
-Unions

Vietnam
-Public relations
-Rogers, Laird
-President’s conversation with Robert J. Dole, June 3 Conv. No. 512-4 (cont.)
-Political issue
-Timing
-Use of draftees
-Laird
-Thieu
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Wives’ possible actions
-Congressmen
-Public relations
-Negotiations
-Media interest
-Samuel A. Donaldson
-POW wives
-Snuol
-Backgrounders
-Kissinger’s conversation with Joseph C. Kraft, June 3
-Press’s attitude toward President
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Lag in popular perception
-President’s July 6 meeting with Thieu
-Public relations
-Laird
-Negotiations with North Vietnam, PRC, Soviet Union

US-Soviet relations
-Cuba
-SALT
-Berlin
-Poland

Vietnam
-POW wives
-Haig’s role
-Major General James D. (“Don”) Hughes’ role
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-North Vietnamese POWs
-John N. Mitchell, Dole
-International Red Cross
-North Korean POWs
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce

Kissinger left at 10:22 am
Conv. No. 512-4 (cont.)