577–8

Conversation No. 577-8

Date: September 20, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:40 pm and 2:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (Bob”) Haldeman.

Status report

[The President talked with William E. Walk, Jr. between 2:09 pm and 2:12 pm].

[Conversation No. 577-8A]

[See Conversation No. 9-97]

[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court
-Nominees

US economic policies
-Arthur F. Burns
-Information for forthcoming press conference
-Forthcoming press conference
-Phase II
-Transmittal
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Spiro T. Agnew
-Telephone conversation to Haldeman
-Foundations speech
-Format
-Possible reaction
-Agnew's role
-Job as Vice President
-Agnew's attitude
-Speech format
-Press relations
-Type of speech
-Options
-Handling
-The Vice President's handling of previous speeches
-Foundations
-The press
-Forthcoming release of [Edith Efron's] book [The News Twisters]
-The Vice President's role in commenting on the media
-Pentagon Papers
-Leslie H. Gelb
-Brookings Institute
-Press relations
-Timing

Foundation speech
-Ford Foundation
-Brookings Institute

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:18 pm.

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Flight
-Meeting

Haldeman left at 2:18 pm.


Vietnam
-Air strikes
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-Air force
-Weather
-Planned effect
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming announcement
-Air force
-Flight ceiling
-Soviet Union
-Air strike
-Time frame
-Briefing for forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Richard M. Helms, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger's memorandum to the President
-NSC
-Condensation of two memoranda
-Kissinger's conversation with David K.E. Bruce
-Bruce's analysis
-US options
-Vietnam negotiations
-History
-Final announcement
-Air strike effect
-Kissinger's conversation with John B. Connally
-Meeting
-Agnew, John N. Mitchell
-Kissinger's conversation with Connally
-Agnew
-Mitchell
-Final announcement
-Connally's analysis
-Date
-US strategy
-Kissinger's possible meeting with Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Meeting
-William P. Rogers
-Blair House
-Clark MacGregor
-J. William Fulbright
-Intended purpose
-Rogers's forthcoming testimony
-Timing
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-The President's press conference
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-News summary
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, jr.
-NSC meeting
-Political conditions
-Ky
-Nguyen Khanh
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible US action
-Negotiations
-Final withdrawal
-Meetings
-Number
-US offer
-Thieu
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Importance
-Election
-Congressional action
-Effect
-Activity

US-Soviet relations
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's meeting with Kissinger
-Time
-US-Soviet summit
-Date

US-PRC relations
-Coordination of trip arrangements
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Announcement
-Response
-Press arrangements
-Walters
-Message
-Overseas delays
-Time differences
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-Announcement
-Date
-Impact
-Additional announcements
-Preparation
-State Department

International economies
-Connally's trip to Europe
-Kissinger's concern
-US position
-Surcharge
-Price of gold
-US position
-Split compared to unified position
-Connally
-Burns
-Meeting with the President
-Connally
-Burns
-Forthcoming Group of Ten meeting
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Speech
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer's meeting with the President
-Outcome
-Social reception
-Kissinger's conversation with Connally
-US position
-Surcharge
-Currency floatation
-System
-Surcharge
-Popularity
-Domestic scene
-Currency floatation
-Connally
-Currency floatation
-Negotiating position
-International economic meeting
-The President's conversation with Burns and Connally
-Kissinger's attendance
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-Connally
-Burns
-Paul W. McCracken
-Peter G. Peterson
-George P. Shultz
-Paul A. Volcker
-State Department
-Nathaniel Samuels, Philip H. Trezise
-Bureaucracy
-Currency flow
-Burden-sharing
-Political issues with economic policies
-Burns
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Role
-Peterson
-Leadership
-Ideas
-Strategy
-Japanese textiles quota issue
-Kissinger
-Participation
-Political ideas
-Connally
-Politics
-Knowledge in economics
-Connally's and Kissinger's relationship
-Connally's support for the President
-Public support
-Handling
-Germany
-US position
-Great Britain
-France
-European market
-US position
-Indecision
-International economic meeting
-Kissinger's participation
-Surcharge
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-Connally
-Canada, Mexico
-US position in relation to foreign countries
-Third world countries
-Japan

Japan
-Trade relations
-Possible quotas
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-Textiles
-Peterson
-David M. Kennedy
-The President's august 15, 1971 speech on economic action
-US officials responsible for handling textile issues
-US-Japanese relationship
-Rogers
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s participation
-Peterson
-Kissinger and Rogers relationship
-Nobusuke Kishi
-Trip to the US
-US position
-Anticipation in dealing with Japan
-Meeting
-Date
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Date
-Timing
-US restrictions on Japan
-Kishi
-Trip to the US
-Date
-The President's schedule
-Trip to Detroit, Michigan
-Date
-Meeting with Kishi
-Date
-The President's forthcoming meeting with [Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Trade relations
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-Peterson
-US position
-Communications
-Date
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-Impact on Japan-US relations
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Connally
-Textile issue
-David Kennedy
-Peterson
-Rogers
-Mitchell
-Domestic issues
-Possible conversation with Kishi
-Japan
-Japan's economic position
-Time limit
-Kishi
-US position
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-Strength
-Negotiating position
-Peterson
-Staff
-Kennedy
-Number of people
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Kissinger
-Status

Vietnam
-The President's press conference
-Time
-Political impact
-Saigon
-Situation of South Vietnamese government
-[Thieu]
-State Department officials
-Ky
-Haig
-Melvin R. Laird
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-State Department officials
-Ky
-US
-Negotiation strategy
-The President's press conference
-Memorandum from State Department official
-Status
-Public life
-Stance
-The President
-Opponent to Thieu
-Negotiations

The President's handling of foreign relations
-Comparison of cienfuegos to the Cuban missile crisis
-Comparison to Jordan
-Resolution of crisis
-John F. Kennedy
-Public reaction
-Forthcoming summit meetings
-PRC
-Soviet Union

PRC initiative
-Announcement
-Timing
-Date
-Announcement
-Possible leaks
-Possible composition of traveling party
-State Department official
-Secret Service
-Role
-Cultural exchange issues
-Advance men
-Ronald H. Walker
-Alfred Les Jenkins
-Marshall Green
-Attendance at meetings
-Kissinger's conversations with Chinese leaders
-State Department officials
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-The President's handling of forthcoming summit meetings
-Meeting with Chou en-lai
-Rogers
-Meeting with Chinese foreign minister
-The President's meeting with Chou en-lai and Mao Tse-tung
-Kissinger, Rogers
-Plenary sessions and meetings
-Open atmosphere for negotiations
-The President's meeting with Chou en-lai
-Type of negotiations
-Rogers's attendance
-Rogers
-Meetings with foreign ministers
-Attendance of meetings
-The President's meeting with Chou en-lai
-Type of meeting
-Attending Chinese officials
-Mao Tse-tung
-Location

US foreign relations
-Forthcoming NSC meeting
-Briefing by Helms
-Briefing by Moorer
-The President's role
-Type of statement
-Connally
-Agnew
-Mitchell
-Rogers
-Laird
-Type of statement

US foreign economic policy
-Meeting
-Attendance
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Connally
-Preparations
-Contact with foreign leaders
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-Peterson
-Connally
-Preparations
-Preparations
-State Department
-Meeting between Connally and Kissinger
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Knowledge
-Kissinger
-Politics
-Textile issue with Japan
-US position
-Kishi
-Peterson
-Group
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-US communication with the PRC
-Impact on Japan
-White House bureaucracy
-Effect on negotiations
-US position
-Peterson
-Strategy
-Meeting with Kishi
-Textile association
-US position
-Kishi
-US position
-Summary
-Congress
-Peterson
-Role

Item in the Oval Office
-Greece
-Pakistan

Kissinger left at 2:59 pm.
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