675–10

Conversation No. 675-10

Date: February 29, 1972
Timing: 11:45 am - 11:59 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

President’s trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-President’s previous briefing
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Troops
-Vietnam
-PRC understanding
-Communiqué
-President’s briefings
-Length
-Administration’s stance
-William P. Rogers’s briefings
-Taiwan
-Comparisons with PRC
-Possible State Department stance
-Peking
-Rogers
-The President’s accomplishments
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Conv. No. 675-9 (cont.)


-Rogers’s schedule
-The President’s previous comments
-Mao Tse-tung
-PRC Foreign Minister
-Recognition of the President’s efforts
-President’s previous briefing
-Cabinet
-Rogers’s role
-PRC people
-Comparisons and differences
-Youth
-President’s previous briefing
-Administration’s stance
-Mao Tse-tung
-President’s previous briefing
-Rogers’s role
-Communist nations
-East and West Berlin, Austria, Hungary
-Rogers’s role
-Report about foreign reaction
-Allen J. Ellender
-New York Times story concerning Soviet reaction
-Rogers’s view
-Concern
-Rogers’s schedule
-Mao Tse-tung
-President’s forthcoming briefing
-Importance
-Kissinger’s role
-President’s instructions
-President’s previous briefing
-Rogers’s role
-Concern for Rogers
-Taiwan
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Praise for the President
-Rogers’s role
-Foreign reaction
-Japan and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Ellender
-New York Times
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 675-9 (cont.)


-Rogers’s possible attitude
-Hugh Scott, Michael J. Mansfield
-President’s presentation
-Rogers’s comments
-USSR strengths
-Chinese
-Purpose
-Taiwan
-PRC comparisons
-Rogers’s possible diplomatic actions
-Singapore
-Hong Kong
-Kissinger
-Communiqué
-Deputy Minister [Chiao Kuan-Hua]
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Acknowledgement from Rogers
-Importance
-President’s forthcoming briefings
-Cabinet members
-Kissinger’s role
-Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai
-President’s previous briefing
-Rogers’s comments
-Technology and trade
-USSR and Japanese
-Possible message to PRC
-US-USSR relations
-State Department stance
-Rogers
-Congressional Committee
-State Department
-Press
-Taiwan compared to PRC
-Rogers

Kissinger left at 11:59 am.
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