611–21

Conversation No. 611-21

Date: November 2, 1971
Time: 12:47 pm - 1:13 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's previous meeting with William McMahon
-The President's statement to press
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Australia-New Zealand-United States [ANZUS] Treaty
-McMahon
-John G. Gorton
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-[Edward Gough Whitlam]
-The President's schedule
-Foreign travel
-Vietnam
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-New Zealand
-McMahon’s forthcoming campaign

Pierre E. Trudeau
-The President’s forthcoming visit
-Political purpose
-Canadian right-wing

The President's schedule
-Foreign travel
-Timing
-Iran
-Australia
-New Zealand
-Moscow
-Peking
-Press corps
-Timing
-Canada

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:52 pm.

The President's call to Clarence E. Miller

Butterfield left at 12:53 pm.

The President's schedule
-Foreign travel
-PRC trip
-Timing
-Australia
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Japan
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Australia
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The President's previous conversation with McMahon
-The President as Statesman

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-PRC statement
-Albania
-PRC representation
-Ottawa

The President's schedule
-Foreign travel
-Canada
-Australia, New Zealand

The President talked with Miller between 12:56 pm and 12:57 pm.

[Conversation No. 611-21A]

[See Conversation No. 13-68]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Foreign Travel
-Eisaku Sato
-Hawaii
-[Australia]
-PRC trip
-Sato
-Hawaii
-Nelson A. Rockefeller’s property
-Australia, New Zealand, Iran
-India, Pakistan
-Iraq
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson

William P. Rogers's schedule
-Taiwan
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The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 12:57 pm and
1:06 pm.

[Conversation No. 611-21B]

[See Conversation No. 13-69]

[End of telephone conversation]

Japan
-Kissinger's conversation with U. Alexis Johnson
-Kissinger's schedule
-PRC trip

[Forename unknown] Hormel [sp?]
-Rogers
-Willy Brandt
-Nobel Peace Prize

The President's previous conversation with McMahon
-Kissinger's previous trip to PRC
-UN vote on Taiwan
-[State Department]
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UN vote on Taiwan
-Kissinger's previous trip to PRC
-Belgium
-George H. W. Bush
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Belgium and Cyprus
-Outcome
-Kissinger's previous trip to PRC
-Timing
-1971 compared to 1972
-The President's trip to PRC
-Possible political impact
-Chou En-lai

Kissinger's activities
-Georges J.R. Pompidou and Brandt
-Messages
-Sato
-The President’s PRC trip

Kissinger's schedule
-Foreign travel
-Japan
-The President’s possible trip
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Rogers
-Timing

The President talked with John H. Rousselot between 1:06 pm and 1:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 611-21C]

[See Conversation No. 13-70]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's foreign policy
-McMahon's views
-Compared to US right wing
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The President talked with Barber B. Conable between 1:09 pm and 1:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 611-21D]

[See Conversation No. 13-71]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's previous meeting with McMahon
-Japan
-State Department
-US Ambassador
-Walter L. Rice
-Kissinger

The President's foreign policy
-Contacts with allies
-Letters

The President's previous meeting with McMahon
-Vietnam
-The President’s forthcoming announcement

The President's schedule
-Indira Gandhi
-Kissinger

Rogers's meeting with Indian Foreign Minister
-Pakistan
-Timing

The President's schedule
-Gandhi
-Parmeshwar N. Haksar And Kissinger
-Agenda
-Refugees
-Politics
-Pakistan

Mujibur Rahman
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-Treatment by Pakistan
-Trial
-Promise

The President and Kissinger left at 1:13 pm.