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637-6
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
December 10, 1971
Conversation No. 637-6

Date: December 12, 1971
Time: 10:27 am - 10:37 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

India-Pakistan situation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Message
-Indira Gandhi
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-Ceasefire
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger's call to Yuli M. Vorontsov
-United Nations [UN] Security Council
-Soviet message
-Kissinger's talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s actions described
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Reaction to the President’s action
-Attitude
-World Wars I and II comparison to current situation
-Adolf Hitler
-Jews
-Allies
-EC-121 shootdown
-Korea comparison to current situation
-Yalu River
-Gen. Douglas MacArthur
-Haig
-Vorontsov
-John F. Kennedy treaty
-Vorontsov’s reaction
-UN
-India
-White House statement
-Importance
-Kissinger's preparation
-Timing
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-The President
-Release
-Timing
-Hotline
-Contents of hotline
-USSR message
-Gandhi
-Vasily V. Kuznetsov
-West Pakistan
-Ceasefire
-Repatriation of prisoners
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-Andrei A. Gromyko
-PRC
-Maurice H. Stans
-Trade
-The President's foreign policy
-Politics
-Bureaucracy
-Congress
-Public opinion
-Camp David
-Reflections
-The President's talk with Kissinger
-Different men handling India-Pakistan situation
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-John B. Connally
-Kissinger's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Style as Secretary of the Treasury
-Pakistan and India
-Aid cut off
-Negotiations
-PRC and USSR
-Vietnam
-Rogers
-Kennedy memorandum
-Message
-PRC
-Letter to Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Contents
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Hotline
-UN Security Council
-George H.W. Bush
-Kissinger's schedule
-Final report
-Timing
-The President's schedule

Kissinger left at 10:37 am.
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