737–4

Conversation No. 737-4

Date: June 16, 1972
Time: 11:22 am-12:26 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Luis Echeverria Alvarez, Emilio Rabasa Mishkin, Gen. Alexander M.
Haig, Jr., and Donald F. Barnes.

Greetings

Introduction

Echeverria's schedule
-National Press Club appearance

Agenda for meeting
-US Latin American policies
-Soviet Union leaders
-The President’s observations

US-Mexican relations
-Press statements
-US-Latin American relationship
-Latin America
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Echeverria’s comments
-National Press Club
-Statement by Echeverria
-US relations with PRC and Soviet Union
-US relations with Mexico and Latin America
-Echeverria’s meetings with the President
-New approach to Latin America
-Echeverria’s comments
-US policy
-Other Latin American governments
-The President’s meetings with Echeverria
-World attention on US and its policies
-Peking trip
-Moscow trip
-Third World
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 737-4 (cont.)

-US policies
-Timing of Echeverria's visit
-Importance
-US-Mexican relations
-Latin America
-US Congress
-Address by Echeverria
-Relations between Mexico and the US
-The President’s view
-Differences
-Nature
-Echeverria's schedule
-National Press Club
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-Mexican-American Chamber of Commerce in New York
-Nelson A. Rockefeller's home
-Chicago
-San Antonio
-Los Angeles
-Report of meeting with the President
-Talks with PRC and Soviet Leaders
-Need for substance
-Talks with other Latin American leaders
-Diplomatic slogans
-PRC, Soviet Union visits
-Latin America
-US policies
-The President’s view
-Echeverria's travels
-New York, Chicago, San Antonio, Los Angeles
-Mexico
-Latin America
-Solutions to problems
-Water salinity issue
-Agreement on language
-Press statements
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger
William J. Jorden
-Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
-References to salinity
-The President's relations with Mexican Presidents
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 737-4 (cont.)

-Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
-The President's commitment on salinity
-Settlement of issue
-The President’s view
-Timing
-Comparison to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-The President’s meetings with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-The President's trip to Soviet Union
-Arms control
-The President’s view
-Defensive weapons
-Offensive weapons
-New talks
-Nuclear weapons
-Conventional weapons
-Agreements
-Trade Commission
-Joint cooperation in space
-Environment
-Health
-Philosophical differences
-Brezhnev, Aleksei N. Kosygin
-The President's political philosophy

Haig left at 11:58 am.

-US relations with PRC
-Chou En-Lai, Mao Tse-Tung
-Political philosophy
-Basis for agreement
-Comparison with Soviet Union
-Future foreign policy
-PRC and Soviet Union
-Foreign policies
-The President’s view
-PRC
-Population
-Soviet Union
-Military strength
-Nuclear power
-PRC relations with US
-Motives
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 737-4 (cont.)

-Soviet Union relations with US
-Motives
-Communism
-The President’s view
-US role
-US role in world affairs
-International relations
-Soviet Union
-Brezhnev
-PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Middle East
-Latin America
-Communism
-The President’s view

Haig entered at 12:05 pm.

-Communiqués
-Peking, Moscow
-Contents
-Goals
-Value
-Brezhnev and Chou En-Lai
-Soviet foreign policy
-Western Hemisphere
-US response
-Vietnam War
-Possible questions for Echeverria
-The President's goal
-Soviet Union role
-North Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Mexico’s policy
-Nonalignment
-North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam
-Soviet Union role
-Ramifications
-American credibility
-US response
-Soviet response to invasion
-North Vietnamese motives for invasion
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 737-4 (cont.)

-American resistance
-Risks
-Reason for the President's trips
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-US objectives
-Korean War
-Vietnam War
-The President's initiatives with Soviet Union and PRC
-Soviet and Chinese responses

Echeverria’s forthcoming appearance at the National Press Club

Mexican immigrants

Gifts
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.

Press
-Photographs
-South lawn

The President, et al. left at 12:26 pm.