519–15

Conversation No. 519-15

Date: June 14, 1971
Time: 6:10 pm - 6:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods


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Woods left and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 6:11 pm

President’s schedule
-Meeting with [David] Kenneth Rush
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Kissinger conversation with Ronald W. Reagan
-Briefing

Message to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Content
-Answer
-Content
-Trip arrangements Conv. No. 519-14 (cont.)

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS


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Message from Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-State Department role
-Content
-Five Power Conference on nuclear matters
-Delivery to President
-Impact
-President’s Response
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Further discussion
-State Department role
-Dobrynin
-William P. Rogers’ role
-Possible outcome
-Desirability of Five Power Conference
-Chinese role
-Preparation of response
-Nature of Five Power Conference
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Rush meeting
-Rush role in negotiations
-Thanks for Rush role
-Technical issues
-Soviet presence
-Discussion with Kissinger
-Length of meeting
-Discussion of German situation Conv. No. 519-15 (cont.)

Willy Brandt meeting
-Rolf Pauls
-Rush
-Necessity
-Kissinger role
-Brandt and Egon Bahr
-Photographs

Rush entered at 6:12 pm

Greetings

Secret negotiations
-Reasons

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:12 pm

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm

Secret negotiations
-Reasons
-Drawbacks of publicity
-Soviet reaction
-Rush role
-Kissinger role
-Berlin role in larger mosaic
-Soviet reaction
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR] possibilities
-Role of tension
-Problems of negotiators
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German-Soviet situation
-Berlin as key
-US strategy
-Role of other actors

View of President
-Handling of foreign affairs
-New York Times Conv. No. 519-15 (cont.)

US foreign relations
-Location of activity
-Soviet Union-US
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-MBFR talks
-Impact
-PRC negotiations
-Vietnam
-Public attention
-Possible negotiations
-Larger context
-Europe
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Impact on Europe
-US troop levels in Germany
-President’s decision
-US-Soviet Union relations
-European fears
-Willy Brandt role [?]
-PRC statement of support
-Romania
-Yugoslavia
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BERLIN NEGOTIATIONS Conv. No. 519-15 (cont.)


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-Soviet strategy
-Larger context

President’s upcoming meeting with Brandt
-Brandt optimism
-Bahr
-US desire for progress
-Price


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FOREIGN AFFAIRS


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-MBFR
-Brandt demeanor [?]
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-Election prospects in Germany
-Free Democratic Party [FDP] strengths
-Brandt
-Economic picture
-Productivity
-Level
-Unemployment
-Maurice Schumann [?] Conv. No. 519-15 (cont.)
-Berlin Agreement


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BERLIN NEGOTIATIONS


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-Negotiations

Rush’s qualities

Appreciation for President’s time

Rush and Kissinger left at 6:45 pm