248–16

Conversation No. 248-16

Date: April 14, 1971
Time: 4:20 pm - 5:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger
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Kissinger’s meeting with [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Howard K. Smith’s views
-Possible adverse reaction
-State Department
-President’s public statements
-Vietnam
-Political considerations Conv. No. 248-16 (cont.)
-Effect on 1972 elections
-Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie
-President’s policies

Cambodia
-1970 election
-Possible effect on 1972 elections
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Media coverage
-PRC
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Clark MacGregor
-Media reaction to President’s speech
-Washington Star
-Press coverage

PRC negotiations
-North Vietnam
-North Korea
-Embargo on US fuel oil
-Visa requirements
-Currency restrictions
-Export licenses
-Coordinating committee
-Topics
-Under Secretary of State
-Chou En-lai’s statement
-US-PRC relations

Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Americans visiting Paris
-Possible discussions with North Vietnam
-US policy
-Negotiations
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Kissinger’s meeting with Sevareid
-Time-Life reaction
-Media
-Development of President’s PRC policy
-Public statements
-President’s article
-Visit to Romania Conv. No. 248-16 (cont.)
-Highlights
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Press relations
-Possible “Bill of Rights”
-President’s visit to Yugoslavia
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Political considerations
-Liberals
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Laos and Cambodia

PRC
-State Department
-Recognition issue
-Possible effect
-President’s policies
-USSR


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USSR


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-Reaction
-Possible action
-US-USSR relations
-Unknown Soviet diplomat
-Middle East
Conv. No. 248-16 (cont.)
[Ronald L. Ziegler talked with the President between 4:33 and 4:36 pm]

[Conversation No. 248-16A]

[See Conversation No. 42-38]

[End of telephone conversation]

Muskie’s statement on Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Surveillance of Earth Day
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Possible candidacy
-Richard M. Helms
-1972 elections
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy and Humphrey

Vietnam
-Campaign issue
-USSR
-Possible summit meeting

Foreign relations
-Vietnam


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VIETNAM

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-Vietnam
-Paris Peace Talks
-Cease fire
-Middle East
Conv. No. 248-16 (cont.)
Kissinger’s relations with the press
-Meeting with Sevareid
-Administration critics
-Sevareid
-San Clemente
-Laos
-Vietnam
-Sevareid’s views
-Negotiations

USSR
-US-USSR negotiations

PRC
-Taiwan
-US relations

Vietnam
-Unknown man’s reaction
-President’s speech on Southeast Asia
-Joseph W. and Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Robert S. McNamara
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Cambodia
-President’s policies
-Timing
-Laotian incursion
-Cambodia
-President’s conversation with Victor Lasky
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS Conv. No. 248-16 (cont.)


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-Kissinger’s conversation with Sevareid
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations

US-USSR relations
-SALT negotiations
-Summit meeting
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Glassboro Summit
-Bombing halt
-J. William Fulbright
-Senate delegation
-Johnson’s bombing halt
-PRC-US relations
-Chou

PRC
-US relations
-Chou

USSR
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-SALT
-Timing
-State Department
-Possible summit meeting
-SALT
-Timing
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-Paris negotiations
-Timing
-Kissinger’s conversations with Dobrynin
-North Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Laos

Vietnam Conv. No. 248-16 (cont.)
-MacGregor
-Congress
-Robert P. Griffin and the Michigan editors
-MacGregor and Haig

Polls
-Results
-President’s Vietnam speech
-Press
-Laos
-President’s speech on Vietnam, November 3, 1969
-Anti-intellectuals
-McNamara’s address to Democratic group

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s conversation with McGeorge Bundy
-President’s policies
-Timing
-Korea
-George S. McGovern and Humphrey
-Troop withdrawals
-President’s options
-Second team
-Possible settlement
-PRC
-Troop levels
-Possible North Vietnamese position
-POWs
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-South Vietnam
-Cease fire
-President’s conversation with John B. Connally, April 13, 1971
-Timing
-Troop withdrawals
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-Timing
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Possible effects on 1972 campaign
-South Vietnam
-Possible US options
-MacGregor and William P. Rogers

PRC Conv. No. 248-16 (cont.)
-Significance
-Reporters’ meeting with President
-Ping-pong team
-Reporters’ meeting with President

Kissinger left at 5:10 pm