584–8

Conversation No. 584-8

Date: October 5, 1971
Time: 2:13 pm - 2:29 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule
-Request for television appearance
-Ronald W. Reagan
-View of People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Robert Pierpoint
July 15, 1971 announcement

Stephen B. Bull [?] entered at an unknown time after 2:13 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Tun Abdul Razak

Foreign affairs
-PRC trip
-History of preparations
-Opposition
-Senate
-Public opinion
-Bureaucracy
-The President’s efforts
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-Soviet Union trip
-Linkage
-President’s policies
-US-Soviet Summit
-Cienfuegos
-Jordan
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Soviet preference as to negotiating parties
-The President's performance
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-John F. Kennedy
-Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr.

The President's international record
-Rumania
-Yugoslavia

North Vietnamese
-Hanoi
-Peace prospects
-Kissinger’s view

Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Vietnam War
-Hanoi
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Soviet interests
-Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Peking

Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 2:13 pm.

Item for the President

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.
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Soviet Union
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Concern about Soviet-American relations
-W. Averell Harriman
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie

Vietnam War
-Press coverage
-Hanoi

Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:13 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Ronald L. Ziegler’s efforts
-John P. Sears view
-John N. Mitchell
-Campaign, 1972
-Credibility
-Press
-Kissinger’s assessment
-Herbert G. Klein
-William Moyers
-James C. Hagerty
-Pierre Salinger

Press reports
-Rumors
-Publicity

Vietnam
-Xuan Thuy
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Negotiations with the North Vietnamese
-Elections
-Thieu
-Effect on US domestic situation
-US proposals
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PRC initiative
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Mood
-Thailand
-Taiwan
-State Department
-The President's concern
-Representation in United Nations [UN]
-Soviet Union
-Official treatment
-American press
-Soviet announcement
-Possible effect
-Kissinger's activities
-Accidental War Treaty
-Berlin Agreement
-Soviet summit


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-Technique for relations with Chinese
-Weekend events
-Chinese reactions
-Negotiations with PRC
-Kissinger’s comments
-State Department
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Vietnam War
-Possible conclusion
-Kissinger’s view
-Bombing strikes
-Prisoners of war [POWs
-Kissinger's advice
-Timing
-Possible effect on peace negotiations

The President's foreign policy
-Summit
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [Salt]
-Berlin Agreement
-Accidental War Agreement
-Berlin Agreement
-Press commentary
-Compared with PRC announcement
-Compared with Soviet Summit announcement
-John F. Kennedy

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Tun Abdul Razak

Kissinger left at 2:29 pm.
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