523–4

Conversation No. 523-4

Date: June 16, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:41 pm and 4:30 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull. Conv. No. 523-2 (cont.)

President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:43 pm.

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:43 pm.

President's previous of meeting with Indian Foreign Minister


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INDIA


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-Financial assistance
-Embassy recommendations
-Timing
-French and German aid
-Willy Brandt comments
-Soviet Union contribution
-Criteria for aid
-Money compared with statements
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INDIA


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-Left wing conspiracy
-Greece
-Pakistan
-Scope
-Russia and Czechoslovakia
-Effect

Nixon image among international leaders

Willy Brandt
-Concern with India-Pakistan problem
-Brandt remarks on US role
-Hypothetical statements by the President
-Mexico
-Nicaragua
-Poland
-Czechoslovakia
-Inappropriateness
-Kissinger’s meeting with Egon Bahr
-Registration of complaints
-Bahr reaction
-Contact with opposition political figures
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Left wingers
-Socialists
-D. Kenneth Rush
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:43 pm.
President's schedule
-Upcoming meeting with Charles Bluhdorn

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:51 pm.

Brandt Conv. No. 523-4 (cont.)
-Rush’s view
-Role in social Democratic Party
-Christian Democratic Party status
-Berlin agreement
-Effect on Brandt political prospects
-Nature of agreement
-US interests

Financial arrangement to help India
-Question put by President to Indian Foreign Minister
-Aid from Germany and France
-Joseph J. Sisco comment
-Worldwide perception of US


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FOREIGN AFFAIRS


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German politics
-1969 Election
-Free Democrats
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Diplomatic meetings
-Kenneth B. Keating
Joseph J. Sisco

Charles Bluhdorn, John D. Ehrlichman, Peter G. Peterson and Bull entered and Kissinger left at
3:51 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings Conv. No. 523-4 (cont.)

Bull left at an unknown time after 3:51 pm.


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Peterson and Bluhdorn introduction

Joaquin Balaguer letter
-Receipt by Bluhdorn
-Translation
-Request for delivery to President

Dominican Republic
-Gulf and western interest
-Sugar company acquisition
-Dominican Republic turmoil in early period
-Cuba involvement
-Fidel Castro
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Losses
-Changes in Dominican operations
-Progress
-Bluhdorn meeting with Balaguer
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-Defense of free enterprise system
-Balaguer
-Castro
-John Yanyelli [?] visit to Dominican Republic
-Transformation of Dominican Republic
-Cigar Output
-Compared to Cuba
-Soviet Union Conv. No. 523-4 (cont.)
-Gulf and Western involvements
-Cigar manufacturing
-Automotive parts plant
-General Motors [GM] role
-Ford role
-Henry Ford II
-Hotel construction
-Railroads
-Airport
-Automotive line
-James M. Roche
-Ford
-Yanyelli [?]
-Balaguer support for US and Nixon
-Comparison with support of Castro for Leonid I. Brezhnev

Latin America
-Chile
-Peru
-Bolivia
-Gulf and Western concerns
-Sugar situation
-Expropriation
-Expropriation act
-Compensation
-US competition with Germany and Japan
-Japanese government and industry cooperation
-Richard W. McLaren
-Dominican Republic
-Effect of drop in US competitiveness
-Dominican Republic situation
-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Julius L. Katz
-Comments to House of Representatives
-Retaliation against expropriation
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-Neville Chamberlain
-Katz
-Need for respect for US abroad
-Destruction of Monroe Doctrine
-Soviet Union
-Subversive elements
-Reason for Balaguer letter
-Sugar quotas Conv. No. 523-4 (cont.)
-Latin America countries
-African quotas
-Possible effect
-Pride in America
-Bluhdorn Harvard speech
-Pete Williams
-Logic of retaliation
-US achievement in Caribbean
-Fidel Castro
-Bluhdorn travels in Ukraine
-Bluhdorn talk with Soviet Union Generals
-Johnson
-Aleksei N. Kosygin comments
-Czechoslovakia
-Poverty in Ukraine
-Motion picture production
-Sergei Bondarchuk, Director of Film
-Background
-Situation in Ukraine
-Achievements in Dominican Republic

Expropriations
-Expropriation Bill in House of Representatives
-Punishment of friends
-Peru expropriation actions
-Need for US competitiveness
-Opening of Japanese markets
-Business perspective
-Balaguer
-Effect of bill on other countries
-Nature of House's action
-Katz
-Response to State Department pressure
-President’s recommendations
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-Foreign lobbyists actions

Sugar
-Reduction of sugar quotas
-Sugar cuts on other countries
-Effect on domestic manufacturers
-Questionable increases
-Administration view Conv. No. 523-4 (cont.)

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:51 pm.

President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:28 pm.

Sugar
-Reduction of quotas
-Mexico
-Brazil
-President’s view
-Support for the Dominican Republic
-State Department’s view
-Position towards other countries
-Peru
-Bolivia
-Chile
-Mexico
-Brazil
-African countries
-Sugar lobby
-Effect
-Brazil and the Dominican Republic
-State Department position
-The President’s view
-Treatment of expropriating countries
-Peru
-Bolivia
-Chile
-African countries’ role
-Sugar production
-Problems
-European concern
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-David D. Newsom


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[Duration: 8s ] Conv. No. 523-4 (cont.)


AFRICA


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-Expropriation and relationship to Export-Import Bank loans
-Senate and House efforts
-Executive leverage
-Effect of lobbyists
-\"Handling\" of State Department
-Appreciation of President's help
-State Department compared with Congress
-Expropriation problems
-John B. Connally
-Peterson and Connally efforts
-Other countries and expropriation
-Compensation problem
-Effect on investment
-Connally
-Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries [OPEC] and US liability
-Message from President to Dominican Republic President Balaguer
-US position
-Congressional activities

Peterson left at 4:28 pm.

Presentation of gifts
-Cuff links
-Gifts for wife
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-Wedding of Edward R.F. Cox and Tricia Nixon Cox

Bluhdorn and John D. Ehrlichman left at 4:29 pm.