534–3

Conversation No. 534-3

Date: July 1, 1971
Time: 9:54 am - 10:26 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Henry A. Kissinger.
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Vietnam negotiations
-Coordination with Paris
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:57 am.

William P. Rogers Conv. No. 534-2 (cont.)
-Telephone Call to Kissinger
-Forthcoming Testimony
-William C. Sullivan
-Pentagon Papers
-Vietnam negotiations

Vietnam negotiations
-Current North Vietnamese proposals
-Sullivan
-Nguyen Van Thieu's government
-US stance
-Public statement

Haig left at 9:57 am.

Foreign relations
-Forthcoming summit
-The United States [US] and the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Communications
-US delegation
-The President, Rogers, Kissinger
-State Department
-Marshall Green
-Japan
-Green, Peter G. Peterson
-Ambassadorial appointments
-William J. Porter
-Paris Peace Talks
-PRC trip
-Size of the President's entourage
-Size of press contingent
-Three networks, two wire services
-Pool reporter
-The New York Times, the Washington Post
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-Press facilities
-Action by the PRC
-The press
-Size
-The New York Times, the Washington Post
-Limitations on White House press contact
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Background briefings Con. No. 534-3 (cont.)
-Size of delegation
-Handling by the President and the Chinese
-Itinerary
-Peking, Shanghai
-Nature of visit
-Briefing book
-Work by National Security Council [NSC] Staff
-Tone
-The President's foreign policy record
-Vietnam war action by the US
-Status of attempts at settlement
-Cambodia, Laos
-US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Detente
-Geographical interests
-Possible agreements with the PRC
-Nuclear weapons

Haig entered at 10:08 am.

-Communique
-Taiwan
-Tone
-Spiro T. Agnew, Melvin R. Laird
-United Nations
-Vietnam war
-Length
-Japan
-Tone
-Military threat
-The Soviet Union
-Military threat
-Handling of information
-The Soviet Union
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-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-USSR, Japan, Vietnam
-Negotiations prior to China summit
-Prisoners of War [Pows]
-Grain deal
-Vietnam war settlement
-Possible agreements with the PRC Con. No. 534-3 (cont.)
-Arms control
-Hotline, accidental war
-Nuclear weapons
-Political visitors to the PRC prior to the President's trip
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-The USSR
-Timing of summit
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy Dobrynin
-Timing of summit in comparison to the PRC summit

-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-SALT
-Middle East
-Caribbean
-Berlin agreement
-Taiwan
-Laird, Agnew
-Nixon doctrine's aims
-Policy during the Harry S. Truman administration
-Owen Lattimore
-London, Paris, Warsaw
-Canada
-Pierre Trudeau
-Taiwan
-Vietnam
-Korea


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PRC TRIP


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Con. No. 534-3 (cont.)

-George H.W. Bush
-July 15, 1971 announcement
-Paris stop on Kissinger's itinerary
-Le Duc Tho
-Handling of proposals

Schedules of the President and Kissinger

Kissinger and Haig left at 10:26 am