760–14

Conversation No. 760-14

Date: August 3, 1972
Time: 11:12 am - 11:37 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.'s retirement
-Retirement ceremony and dinner
-Location
-Hawaii
-Timing
-Possible message
-The President’s possible attendance at retirement ceremony
-The President's forthcoming meeting with
Japanese leaders
-Possible presentation of award

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:15 am.

Stephen B. Bull entered at 11:15 am.
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The President’s forthcoming meeting
-List of attendees

Bull left at 11:15 am.

The President’s forthcoming message to McCain
-McCain’s retirement dinner

Butterfield left at 11:15 am.

Administration policy
-Debt ceiling
-Melvin R. Laird’s forthcoming statement
-Kissinger
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Laird’s support for the Administration’s policy
-Ehrlichman’s previous statement
-Today Show
-Laird


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Clare Boothe Luce
-Previous telephone call to Kissinger
-Possible Presidential event at the East-West Center
-Effect
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-University of Hawaii
-Possible opposition to event


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The President talked with the White House operator at 11:33 am.

[Conversation No. 760-14A]

[See Conversation No. 28-50]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:33 am.

[Laird’s forthcoming statement on the Administration’s debt ceiling]
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ehrlichman
-Laird
-Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:37 am.


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The President’s forthcoming trip to Hawaii
-Possible reception
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-The President's previous trip to the Soviet Union
-Compared to Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Wives of Japanese officials
-Possible event with Luce


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The President’s forthcoming trip to Hawaii
-Forthcoming message to Kakuei Tanaka
-Participation of wives
-Mrs. Nixon
-Rogers

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union’s proposed nuclear nonaggression treaty
-PRC reaction
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with PRC officials
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-New York

West Germany
-Possible establishment of diplomatic relations with the PRC
-Egon Bahr
-Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s view
-Gerhard Schroeder
-Socialists
-Christian Democrats
-Socialists
-PRC

Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with PRC officials
-Soviet Union

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 11:33 am and
11:37 am.

[Conversation No. 760-14B]

[See Conversation No. 28-51]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with PRC officials
-The President
-Vietnam

Vietnam
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-North Vietnamese
-Telegram from Ellsworth F. Bunker
-North Vietnamese offer
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Saigon
-Announcement

Kissinger left at 11:37 am.
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The President left at 11:38 am.