771–5

Conversation No. 771-5

Date: September 6, 1972
Time: 9:53 am - 12:38 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Murders of Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich
-William P. Rogers’s schedule
-Statement at hijacking conference
-Possible meeting with the President
-Soviet Union issues
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Israeli reaction
-Kissinger’s conversation with Yitzhak Rabin
-Trip to Tel Aviv
-Funeral
-Willy Brandt
-Kissinger’s view

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 10:02 am.

-Moshe Dayan’s previous talk with US charge de affairs
-Effect on peace talks
-The President’s view
-Possible Israeli action
-United Nations [UN] action
-International hijacking conference
-UN Security Council
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming talk with Rabin
-Rogers’s schedule
-UN
-Golda Meir’s statement
-Continuation of Olympic Games
-World opinion
-Israeli position
-Israeli action
-Beirut
-Statement
-UN action
-Votes in support
-Soviet Union
-Rogers’s role
-The President’s recent conversation with Haldeman

Kissinger’s role in foreign policy
-Rogers
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Brandt
-Soviet Union
-Nuclear agreement
-Discussion with allies
-Paris peace talks
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to West Germany and the Soviet Union
-Announcements
-European Security Conference
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Trade agreement
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

Murders of Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich
-The President’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Rogers
-UN action
-US flag
-John V. Lindsay
-Congressional action
-The President’s view
-Irish nationalist
-Belfast schoolchildren’s death
-Irish reaction
-Lod airport incident
-Kissinger’s view
-Public opinion
-Rogers
-The President’s possible personal action
-Church prayer
-Publicity
-Purpose
-Meaning
-Kissinger’s view
-Involvement of US government
-US flag
-Pakistan and Kashmir
-Vietnam
-Deaths of US soldiers
-Precedent
-Lindsay
-Jewish community
-Deaths of Kent State University demonstrators
-White House image with Israelis
-The President’s previous call to Meir
-Staff meeting
-Herbert Stein
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Clark MacGregor
-Political situation
-Stein’s view
-US Jewish interest
-Israeli interest
-Middle East peace settlement
-Rogers
-Diplomatic viewpoint
-Staff meeting
-Jewish votes
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s understanding
-Jewish background
-The President’s understanding
-Quaker background
-Kissinger’s understanding
-Israeli government
-Middle East peace settlement
-Effect on Jewish community
-Settlement interest
-Rabin

Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Munich and Moscow
-Meeting with Brandt
-Olympic Games
-Delay in trip
-West German government schedule
-Brandt
-Bonn
-Attendance at Olympic Games
-Israeli request
-Public relations
-Jewish background
-Meeting with Brandt
-Location
-Munich
-Bonn
-Talk with Rabin
-Position
-Rogers
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-UN
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Unknown person
-Japanese

News story
-William J. Porter
-Charles W. Colson
-Joseph W. Alsop

Kissinger left and Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:12 am.

Colson's schedule

Bull left at 10:12 am.

Release of document
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Abram F. Chayes

Role of National Security Council [NSC] advisor
-Rogers
-Possible meeting with the President
-Haldeman’s view
-Kissinger
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-1972 election
-Haig
-Role
-Haldeman’s role
-Staff

Murder of Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich
-Effect on Presidential campaign
-George S. McGovern
-Colson
-Schedule
-Los Angeles
-Board of rabbis
-Politics of Munich incident
-Meir’s statement
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Continuation of Games
-White House position
-Handling
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Attica prison riot
-Press
-Early report
-Network’s report

Colson entered at 10:16 a.m.

Document release
-Alsop
-Chayes
-Source
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-State Department
-Possibility of leak
-Utilization
-Newsweek interest
-Alsop and Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Howard K. Smith
-European security
-Circumstances
-Paris
-Associated Press [AP] coverage
-Kissinger
-Chayes
-Release
-European reporter
-Reuters
-Interest in Europe
-Interest in US
-Smith
-Newsweek
-Joseph Alsop
-Development of story
-Impact on Europe
-Jews
-Troop cuts
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)


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-FOREIGN AFFAIRS


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-Clawson
-White House involvement
-Colson's office

Watergate
-Washington Post
-McGovern
-Murders of Israeli athletes
-Coverage
-John N. Mitchell
-Coverage
-Daniel L. Schorr’s question
-Mitchell’s correction
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] and Metromedia
-CBS
-Frank Stanton
-Influence
-John D. Ehrlichman

Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 10:16 am and 10:25 am.

[Conversation No. 771-5A]

Ehrlichman's schedule
-Oval Office
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Tape Subject Log
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[End of telephone conversation]

Document release
-Joseph Alsop
-Reuters
-Smith

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:16 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:25 am.

Television
-Residuals
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming memorandum
-Prime time access rule
-Contract renegotiation
-Screen Actors Guild
-Leverage
-Network productions
-Local programs

Ehrlichman entered at 10:25 am.

-Issue of residuals
-Letter to networks
-Administration policy
-John Gavin
-Clay T. (“Tom”) Whitehead
-Director, Office of Telecommunications
-Speech supporting Actors Guild
-Gavin
-The President's letter
-Message to networks
-The President’s view
-Screen Writers Guild
-Message to networks
-Hollywood productions
-Networks
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Gavin
-Conversation with the President at San Clemente
-Anti-trust suit

Presidential campaign issues
-Colson, Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-The President's family
-Cabinet officers
-Emphasis on accomplishments of administration
-National parks
-Sickle Cell Anemia
-Peace efforts
-Positive issues
-Quote from [Maurice] Harold MacMillan
-Richard M. Seammon
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Second term
-Arms reduction
-World peace
-Environmental policies
-Supreme Court appointments
-McGovern
-Offensive strategy
-Lawrence F. (“Larry”) O'Brien, Jr’s advice
-Responses to McGovern’s campaign
-Undersecretaries of government departments
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Effect of McGovern’s campaign
-Standing
-Taxes
-Rich compared with poor
-Barry F. Goldwater 1964 campaign comparison
-Position changes
-Support
-Organization
-Media support
-The President’s view
-Advantage for McGovern
-Media
-John [surname unknown]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Kenneth S. Rietz
-Ziegler
-Hugh Sidey
-John F. Osborne
-Press
-The President’s view
-Bias
-McGovern
-The President
-White House social events
-The President’s view
-Clawson
-John A. Scali
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ziegler
-Jerrold L. Schecter and Sidey
-Effort for McGovern
-Strategy for Nixon Administration
-Attack on weak issues
-McGovern
-Ehrlichman
-Effect of television
-Print media
-Last weeks of campaign
-Television
-Domestic issues
-Welfare increases
-Raising taxes
-Unemployment and economy
-Increased government spending
-Tax increases
-Concerted effort
-Speakers for the President
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Social issues
-Amnesty
-Marijuana
-Polls
-The President’s view
-Catholics
-Labor unionists
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Abortion
-Supporters
-Radicals
-Blacks, youth
-Foreign policy
-Strategy
-Vietnam
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Lyndon B. Johnson's policy
-The President's policy
-Withdrawal of US forces
-Support of Nguyen Van Thieu
-Communist government
-Advertising on issue
-Strategy
-Welfare
-George P. Shultz
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Peter G. Peterson
-Weak areas of McGovern policies
-Welfare
-Racial implications
-Taxes
-Increases
-Recession
-Social issues
-Amnesty
-Marijuana
-Foreign policy
-Melvin R. Laird
-Defense employment
-Defense policies
-Europe
-The President’s view
-McGovern’s campaign
-Previous statement of Shultz and Richardson
-Taxes
-Welfare
-Treasury Department figures
-New York
-Radio debate
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Pierre Rinfret
-Responding to the Nixon administration
-O'Brien
-Issues
-White House campaign
-New York
-Peterson's speech
-Stein
-Higher food prices
-Price controls
-Inflation
-Surrogate speakers
-Agnew
-Chayes
-Schedule
-Labor union speech
-Republican Congressional candidates
-Recorded speech
-Reaction


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 31m 14s ]


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Watergate
-General Accounting Office [GAO] investigation
-McGovern files


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Tape Subject Log
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 37s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Campaign strategy
-White House strategy
-Monitoring mail
-Source and amount of contributions
-GAO
-Post Office


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 12m 21s ]


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Chayes report
-Alsop
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Joseph Alsop
-NSC files


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

[Duration: 5m 40s ]


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Issues
-Second term policy
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Joseph Alsop
-1976 campaign
-Stuart Alsop
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Congress
-State of the Union
-Tax program
-Value-added Tax [VAT]
-Proposals
-Taxes
-Shultz
-Rogers
-Speech for the International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Rogers
-State Department
-White House staff
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Length
-Duration
-Political coordination
-Robert J. Dole and Clark MacGregor
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Ehrlichman
-Edwin L. Harper
-National security
-Haig's staff


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 33m 46s ]

Ehrlichman and Colson left at 12:18 pm.


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Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming briefing
-Previous meeting with the President and Rogers
-Rogers
-Forthcoming Moscow trip
-Role
-Haig

Kissinger entered at 12:19 pm.

Foreign policy

Murder of Israeli atletes at Olympic Games
-Kissinger’s meeting with Rabin
-Tel Aviv
-Rogers
-Haig
-Tape
-Rogers trip to the UN
-State Department
-Peace offensive
-Cables
-Israeli actions
-1972 election
-Soviet Union
-Egypt
-Rogers image
-UN
-Vietnam
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-The President’s view
-UN meeting
-Israelis
-Israeli actions
-Kissinger’s previous meeting with Rabin
-Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana)
-Yom Kippur
-Rogers
-Haig

US-Soviet Union relations
-Soviet trade agreement
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Dobrynin
-Answer from Moscow
-Timing of trade agreement
-SALT agreement
-Communique following Kissinger’s visit to Moscow
-Maritime agreement
-Trade agreement
-European Security Conference
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Progress
-Compared with SALT

1972 Campaign
-Soviet agreements
-MBFR
-Intellectuals
-Effect of McGovern statements

Vietnam War
-Peace negotiations
-Hanoi
-Possible settlement
-Haig
-Effect on election
-McGovern
-The President
-Peace negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Administration proposals
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Referendum
-US proposals
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-South Vietnamese press
-McGovern
-North Vietnamese press
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Discussions
-Dobrynin
-Bombing halt
-Proposals
-Interval of talks
-Post-election policy
-Administration strategy
-Public opinion
-Ceasefire
-Possible forums
-Timing
-Vietnam issue
-Timing
-Possible agreement
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Ceasefire
-Bombing

Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming trip to West Germany and the Soviet Union
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] meeting

Kissinger left at 12:33 pm.

1972 Campaign
-Effect of Vietnam ceasefire
-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s view
-Washington Post and New York Times
-Progress
-US bombing
-Haldeman’s view
-John B. Connally's schedule
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(rev. Oct-06)

-Possible meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman
-Congressional leaders meeting
Watergate
-MacGregor
-Deposition
-Mitchell
-Deposition
-Ehrlichman

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:33 pm.

The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:38 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 9s ]


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The President and Haldeman left at 12:38 pm.