620–8

Conversation No. 620-8

Date: November 17, 1971
Time: 10:18 am - 10:42 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Cable

Ronald W. Reagan
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Conservatives
-Liberals
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-Popularity
-Polls
-Conversation with Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-Conservative groups
-Dinners
-International situation
-Jordan
-Cienfuegos
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles [MIRV]
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Amchitka
-Defense budget
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-State Department
-Personal style
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Foreign policy
-Domestic policy
-Liberals
-John N. Mitchell
-Robert H. Finch
-Peter M. Flanigan's brother
-Patronage
-Welfare
-John G. Veneman
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Deal with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Bureaucracy
-Senate, press
-Foreign policy
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-Possible presidency
-1968 campaign
-Rockefeller
-Conversation with Kissinger, November 17, 1971
-William P. Rogers
-Tenure in office

The President's foreign policy
-Public perceptions
-Rogers
-Middle East
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger and the President
-Melvin R. Laird

Reagan
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Possible role with administration
-Ambassadorship
-Timing
-Cabinet
-Political future
-US Senate
-Finch

Senate
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The President's conversation with Connally
-The President's possible appearance at American Federation of Labor-Congress of
Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-International economy
-Forthcoming meeting
-Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Lunch with Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-John D. Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Possible position
-Secretary of Commerce

Flanigan
-Possible role with administration
-Richard V. (“Dick”) Allen
-Anthony J. Jurich
-Mitchell's view
-Allen
-Kissinger

Hoyt Ammidon and Walter N. Thayer
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] ambassador
-Senate
-Rogers
-Flanigan's work
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-State Department
-David M. Kennedy
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger

David Packard
-Possible role with Administration
-Ambassadorships
-Japan
-NATO
-Wife, Lucile S. Packard
-Views

William W. Scranton
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-Possible role with Administration
-Ambassadorship
-NATO

Packard

Kennedy

Kissinger's schedule
-New York
-Cincinnati
-Hedley W. Donovan's group
-Clark MacGregor and Ehrlichman

Time
-Cover

Kennedy
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Scranton and Stoessel
-Connally

The President's schedule
-Miami

Kissinger's schedule
-Robert A. Taft, Jr. reception
-Miami

Reagan
-Foreign policy
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Bureaucracy
-Leaks

Kennedy
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William S. Renchard
-Chemical Bank
-Possible role with Administration
-Ambassadorship
-Japan

Packard

Kennedy
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Wife, Lenora (Bingham) Kennedy
-Brussels
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-NATO
-Cabinet

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu's views
-Bunker
-North Vietnam
-Morale
-PRC
-United Nations [UN]
-Possible message to North Vietnam
-Proposals
-Dates
-Le Duc Tho
-Health
-Xuan Thuy
-Forthcoming meeting in Paris
-Instructions for William J. Porter
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Laird
-Le Duc Tho
-Porter
-Possible bombing
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Duration
-Negotiations
-Le Duc Tho
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-Congress actions
-Continuing resolution
-Duration
-Impact
-Bombing
-Cornell University study
-Timing
-Duration

PRC and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

PRC
-Kissinger's message
-Response
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

Kissinger left at 10:42 am.