842–8

Conversation No. 842-8

Date: January 25, 1973
Time: Between 11:39 am and 12:43 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Yitzhak Rabin; the White House photographer was present at the
beginning to the meeting.

Rabin's schedule

Golda Meir
-Speeches
-Honorary degree
-Lyndon B. Johnson

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:40 a.m.

Ambassadors

Middle East
-Meir
-Anwar Sadat

Rabin
-Knowledge of US
-Knowledge of Israel
-Knowledge of world
-Experience in US

The President's election victory in 1972

US foreign policy
-Vietnam settlement
-World War II

Johnson
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination

US aid to Israel

Israel's history
-United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
-US actions
-Jordan

Middle East options for future
-Egypt
-USSR
-Change from war to peace
-USSR
-Israeli strength
-Cease-fire
-Negotiations
-Strategy and goals
-French-Germans
-Germans-Poles
-Poles-Russians

Foreign policy makers
-Attitudes
-Winston S. Churchill
-Austrian diplomat during World War I
-Major world power
-British
-French
-Germans
-Italians

Middle East
-Balance of power
-Negotiations
-Golan Heights
-Syrians

Rabin's trip home
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Rabin left at 12:06 pm.

Vietnam settlement
-Press relations
-Washington Post

-American diplomacy
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Australians
-Negotiations
-Location
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Schedule
-Kissinger's schedule
-Trip to Hanoi
-Cabinet meeting
-Press relations
-Future
-The President’s advice

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:00 pm.

Refreshment

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.

Agnew
-Trip to South Vietnam
-Kissinger
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Hanoi
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-President's schedule
-Domestic speech
-John Negroponte
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Schedule
-Press relations
-Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia
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-Australia
-Pierre E. Trudeau

Australia and New Zealand

Pompidou
-Charles A. J. M. deGaulle

Italy

France

Vietnam settlement
-Kissinger's briefings of Congress
-Location
-Content
-Press relations
-Mary McGrory
-The President’s critics
-Kissinger's remarks
-Bombing
-Kissinger's conversation with Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Press relations
-Washington Star
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Alsop, William S. White, Dick Wilson, Robert Allen
-McGrory, Peter Lisagor, James B. (\"Scotty\") Reston, Thomas G. (“Tom”)
Wicker
-Washington Post, Washington Star
-The President's judgement
-Howard K. Smith
-Barry M. Goldwater
-John G. Tower
-PRC, USSR
-Johnson
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-Lisagor

The President's meeting with Rabin
-Johnson
-Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination
-US Civil unrest
-King
-Robert F. Kennedy assassination
-Washington, DC
-Detroit
-Watts

The President's foreign policy
-PRC
-USSR
-Vietnam
-John F. Kennedy
-Cuban Missile Crisis
-Henry Fairlie's book

British press
-Opinion of the President
-Compared to John F. Kennedy
-Characterized

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:06 pm.

Book on Benjamin Disraeli
-Kissinger

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.

British ambassadors
-John Freeman
-R. Anthony Eden

Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Freeman
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The President read from a book on Disraeli.

-William E. Gladstone
-Charles Darwin

Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan

Harvard
-Kissinger's daughter

President's Vietnam policy
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Opponents of policy
-POW wives
-Timing of settlement
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Bombing
-Goldwater
-Press relations
-Bernard Gwirtzman
-Charles H. Percy
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Charles E. Goodell
-Goldwater
-William B. Saxbe
-Bombing
-Le Duc Tho
-North Vietnam
-PRC
-Congressional leaders
-Hugh Scott
-John C. Stennis
-J. William Fulbright

Johnson
-Dean Rusk's eulogy
-The President’s remarks
-Vietnam
-Ngo Dinh Diem
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-Application of power

John F. Kennedy
-Health
-Max Jacobson


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The President’s schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Sleep

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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Domestic concerns

Vietnam settlement
-The President's role
-Chairmen of Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird

Kissinger left at 12:43 pm.