627–4

Conversation No. 627-4

Date: December 1, 1971
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Time: Unknown between 11:00 am and 11:29 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and William P. Rogers.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is already in progress]

Middle East situation
-Forthcoming talks with Golda Meir
-Difference of opinion
-Need for a long-term agreement
-Essential for survival and security
-Phantom jets
-Proposed delivery in the future
-Contingency plans
-Security
-US assurances
-Meir
-Possible attitude during negotiations after General Assembly debate
-Potential pitfalls
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Rogers’ plan
-Negotiations after General Assembly debate
-Timing
-Presidential campaign
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Israel
-Possible concessions
-Differences in opinion
-Possible advantages
-Egypt
-[Hussein, King of Jordan], Hussein ibn Talal
-Meir
-Recommendations
-US recognition of Israel’s security needs
-Concern for future
-Possible shift after Presidential elections
-Recommendations
-Arabs and Sadat
-Eager for negotiations
-Sadat’s position
-Creating pressure for the General Assembly debate
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 627-4 (cont.)


-Potential trouble for Sadat
-Lack of supporters [Congo, Dominican Republic]
-US position
-President’s State of the World message, February 25, 1971 [?]
-Rogers’ forthcoming talks with Meir
-President’s recommendations for Israel
-Negotiations
-Security
-Political interest
-Phantoms
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] build-up
-Proposed sale of weapons
-“Hawks”
-Kissinger’s view
-US pressure on Israel
-Potential diplomatic problems with the Arabs and USSR at the General
Assembly
-Rogers’ view
-Importance of agreement
-Phantoms
-Future debate at the United Nations [UN]
-Timing
-Meir
-Reassurances
-Interim agreement
-Relationship to final agreement
-Potential misunderstandings of US policy
-No shift in the military balance
-Working together with the US
-Phantoms
-Military supplies discussions
-Announcement
-Timing
-USSR
-Military supplies
-Upcoming announcement
-Arabs
-Israel
-Desire for a negotiated settlement
-Meir
-Problems
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 627-4 (cont.)


-Knesset
-Cabinet
-“Dove and Hawks”
-Yosef Saphir, Yigal Allon and Moshe Dayan
-Saphir’s financial report
-Military equipment expenses

European Security Conference
-Rogers’ upcoming speech
-USSR
-Future meetings with the USSR in 1972 or 1973
-Advantages
-Rogers’ meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Dwight D. Eisenhower and Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Past meeting
-Dobrynin apology
-Summit with USSR
-Timing
-Carefulness with US allies
-Future discussions in Hawaii
-Deputy foreign ministers meeting
-Timing

Rogers's trip to Iceland
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Iceland military base

President’s schedule
-Pierre F. Trudeau
-Italian meeting
-John B. Connally
-Upcoming Italian elections
-Aldo Moro
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Monetary issues
-Latin America
-Surcharge exemptions
-Connally
-Europeans
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 627-4 (cont.)


-Japanese
-No potential deals

Kissinger and Rogers left at an unknown time before 11:29 am.