Date: April 13, 1973
Time: 6:00 pm - 6:07 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
President’s meeting with Joseph J. Sisco
-Sisco’s travel to Middle East
-Meeting with ambassadors
-Conduct of diplomacy
-State Department’s role
-Blame for failure
-Problems with Sisco [?]
-Moscow
Ambassadorships
-Soviet Union
-State Department career appointment
-Malcolm Toon
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-William J. Casey
-U. Alexis Johnson
-William J. Porter
-Diplomacy
-White House role
-Major appointment
-Thailand
-Henry Kearns
-Kissinger’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Pakistan
-Kearns
The President conferred with Manolo Sanchez at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 6:07
pm.
[Begin conferral]
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Instruction
[End conferral]
Ambassadorships
-Kearns
-Pakistan
-Thailand
-Pakistan
-William R. Kintner
-Thailand
-Cambodia
-Henry A. Byroade
-Kearns
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Haig
-Dentist
-Kissinger’s schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Watergate
Vietnam
-Need for plan
-Consultation
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Congress
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Overflights
-Reply concerning meeting with Le Duc Tho
Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s message
-Negotiations with US
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Europe
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-Brezhnev
-Internal problems
US diplomatic successes
-Summit