608–2

Conversation No. 608-2

Date: October 29, 1971
Time: 6:19 pm - 6:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
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United Nations [UN]
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Canada
-Belgium
-Effect of the President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative

Daniel J. Boorstin
-Smithsonian Institution
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-Boorstin's talk at University of Indiana
-PRC initiative

UN
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-Reaction of the President's critics
-Chiang Kai-Shek
-Academic community

Boorstin
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Leonard Garment's note to Kissinger
-Boorstin
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-US aerospace program

US intellectual community

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Boorstin
-Kissinger's possible written account
-Possible article
-Timing

UN
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-Timing
-State Department's efforts
-Kissinger’s assessment
-Rogers
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-Botswana
-Guyana
-Leader
-US aid
-Vote list
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Timing
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-1972 election
-State Department's efforts
-Kissinger’s view
-Timing
-Public reaction
-View of UN
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Ronald W. Reagan

Reagan
-The President's schedule
-Report on Reagan’s Asia trip
-Kissinger's schedule


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-The President's schedule

Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call to Taiwanese ambassador

Kissinger talked with the White house operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:35
pm.
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[Conversation No. 608-2A]

[See Conversation No. 13-41]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call to Taiwanese ambassador
-The President's schedule
-Taiwanese foreign minister

UN
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-Timing
-US policy
-PRC initiative

Taiwan
-The President’s view
-The President's efforts
-Quemoy and Matsu
-John Foster Dulles

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:35
pm.

[Conversation No. 608-2B]

[See Conversation No. 13-42]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Josep Broz Tito
-India-Pakistan
-Indira Gandhi
-Chinese
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Interpreters
-Location
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Kissinger left at 6:35 pm.