548–3

Conversation No. 548-3

Date: July 27, 1971
Time: 2:29 pm - 3:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
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-Workload


Vietnam negotiations
-Meeting in Paris, July 26, 1971
-Le Duc Tho
-Moscow
-Hanoi Conv. No. 548-3 (cont.)
-The Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kama River Project
-Mack Trucks, Inc.
-Dresser Corporation
-Status
-US stance

US foreign policy
-Hugh S. Sidey's article
-Recent developments
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]


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SOVIET UNION


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The President's schedule
-Oval Office press conference
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Patrick J. Buchanan
-Scope
-Foreign policy, domestic issues
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-The PRC
-Questions
-Handling

-Senators
-Ronald L. Ziegler, William P. Rogers
-State Department
-Timing of United Nations [UN] membership
Conv. issue
No. 548-3 (cont.)
-Rogers

US foreign policy
-Taiwan, The Republic of China [ROC]
-James C.H. Shen
-Taiwan’s actions
-The President’s record
-The President, Kissinger
-US relations with the ROC
-The United Nations [UN]
-Mao Tse-Tung
-Chiang Kai-Shek
-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger's report to the President on the PRC trip

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
-Type of Presidential statements
-Press reaction
-John F. Kennedy's press conferences
-Scope of comment on the PRC

Dean G. Acheson

Forthcoming press conference
-Taiwan issue
-UN membership
-The PRC
-Wording

Acheson
-The President's foreign policy
-Support for the President
-Democrats
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-Domestic issues
-The middle-class
-Labor unions
-Wage demands
-Economic concerns
-Inflation

Conv. No. 548-3 (cont.)
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Foreign policy
-Acheson
-Summit
-The PRC meeting
-Difference from other Summit meetings
-The Soviet Union
-The President's role
-Channels of communication
-George C. Marshall
-Chou En-lai
-Age
-The PRC initiative
-Letters to Heads of State
-Prime Minister of Australia
-Cabinet
-Content
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Eisaku Sato
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Kissinger briefing
-Timing of Summit trip to the PRC
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-Budget meetings


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SCHEDULE


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-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip
-Weather
-Timing of announcement
-US-Soviet Union Summit
-Japan
-The President’s schedule
-Foreign travel

[The President talked with Marlow W. Cook between 2:49 pm and 2:51 pm]

[Conversation No. 548-3A]

[See Conversation No. 7-9]

[End of telephone conversation]

US foreign relations
-US-Soviet Union Summit
-Timing of meeting
-PRC
-Timing of trip
-Vietnam negotiations
-Edgar P. Snow
-Dissemination
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-Chou En-lai
-Role of newspapers in the PRC
-US press
-Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese
-William J. Porter
-Hanoi radio
-Vietnam negotiations Conv. No. 548-3 (cont.)
-Kissinger's meeting with Le Duc Tho


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COUNTRY


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-Kissinger's trip
-Perceptions
-Press coverage
-Proposals
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-US troop withdrawal
-Military action
-Laos, Cambodia
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Kissinger's meeting
-Transcripts

Foreign policy
-Poll
-Haldeman’s analysis
-Shifts in support by people
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-Blue collar, grade-school level educated
-White collar, college-education


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[Personal Returnable] Conv. No. 548-3 (cont.)
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Pentagon Papers
-New York Times publication
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Timing of legal action
-John N. Mitchell
-Vietnam negotiations

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:29 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.

Pentagon Papers
-Ellsberg
-Extent of possible forthcoming information
-Vietnam war settlement

Leaks
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] negotiations
-Source of leak

Acheson
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-John F. Kennedy's letter
-Cuban missile crisis
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PRC initiative
-Ambassador’s comments
-World opinion
-Nelson A. Rockefeller

Forthcoming foreign policy developments
-Paris Peace Talks
-PRC trip Conv. No. 548-3 (cont.)

Kissinger left at 3:05 pm.