263–9

Conversation No. 263-9

Date: July 20, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:41 pm and 6:09 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
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Congress
-Ehrlichman's meeting with Labor Committee
-Appropriations Committee
-Cities
-California
-Formula

Haldeman entered at 3:42 pm. Conv. No. 263-9 (cont.)

-Key states
-Appropriations
-Legislative strategy
-George H. Mahon
-Cities
-President’s role
-Distributions of funds
-Texas, California, Ohio, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida, Indiana,
Pennsylvania
-Localities of high unemployment
-Formula, discretionary spending, California
-Administration’s latitude
-Veto threat

Foreign relations
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Trips by US political leaders
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy, J. William Fulbright, Robert C. Byrd
-Handling of issue
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Vietnam War
-Negotiations to end the war
-The PRC
-Changes in relations with the US
-Reaction of the hardhats
-Democrats wishing to visit the PRC
-Alan Cranston, Fulbright, Edward Kennedy
-Hugh Scott, Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Republican’s reaction
-Timing of visit by the President
-Possible summit meeting in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR]
-Admiral Perry's opening of Japan to Western Access
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-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger's role
-Preparations for the President's visit
-Ehrlichman
-The Secret Service
-Timing
-US - USSR Summit
-Other visitors to the PRC Conv. No. 263-9 (cont.)
-Edward Kennedy
-Kissinger's role
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 3:41 pm and 5:05 pm]

[Conversation No. 263-9A]

Schedule

PRC
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy,
Lyndon B. Johnson
-Arrangements

[End of telephone conversation]

-Perceptions of the US
-Dale Carnegie Outlook
-Kissinger
-Role in PRC opening
-The President's leadership role
-William P. Rogers
-The State Department
-Marshall Green
-Effect of speculation on US relations with the PRC and with other countries
-Presidential leadership
-Congressional leaders
-John A. Scali
-Statements about the PRC
-Curtis McGee
-Effect of speculation
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-Edward Kennedy
-Letter
-John F. Kennedy, Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Dean G. Acheson
-Attack on Pearl Harbor
-Cuban Missile Crisis

Conv. No. 263-9 (cont.)
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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS


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-Forthcoming Soviet Summit
-Charles W. Colson
-Forthcoming trip by the President to the PRC
-Transportation
-Air Force One
-Change of name
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's possible resignation
-Vietnam War
-Settlement
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 20m 39s ]


MANOLO SANCHEZ ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 3:41
Conv.PM
No. 263-9 (cont.)

SANCHEZ LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 5:05 PM


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Agnew
-Handling of foreign trips
-Golf
-Comparison to the President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Press coverage of African trip
-Time, Newsweek
-Incident in Kenya
-Size of entourage

Presidential security
-Number of Secret Service agents
-Assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy
-Agnew's entourage
-Secret Service agents
-Signal Corps
-Communications
-Automobile
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Agnew's relationship with Secret Service agents
-Comparison to the President
-Contact with Secret Service agents
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Agency Policy]
[Duration: 16s ]


Conv. No. 263-9 (cont.)
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-Comparison to Johnson
-Agnew's treatment of staff
-Secretaries
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Agnew
-Options for handling vice presidency
-Choice
-Comparison with the President
-Latin American trip, Nikita Khrushchev
-Comparison with Edward Kennedy (?), Hubert H. Humphrey

Vice presidential qualifications for office
-Requirements
-Need to balance the President

Edward Kennedy
-Trip to the PRC
-Group of Congressional visitors
-Impact
-Chou En-lai
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 5m 20s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 Conv. No. 263-9 (cont.)

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Kissinger entered at 5:05 pm.

Foreign relations
-PRC
-Press reaction to announcement
-Editors
-Hugh S. Sidey
-July 19, 1971 briefing
-David Rockefeller
-Trip to Russia
-The Presidency
-The President, Johnson
-Defense of the President
-Trip by Democratic members of Congress
-Edward Kennedy's request
-Timing of the Summit with the PRC
-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Timing of announcement of tip to the USSR
-Advance work for the trip
-Requirements
-Ehrlichman
-Dwight L. Chapin, Bruce A. Kehrli (?)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Agency Policy]
[Duration: 30s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11 Conv. No. 263-9 (cont.)

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-Timing of Kissinger's next trip to the PRC
-Edward M. Kennedy, Alan Cranston
-Japan
-Group travel
-Republicans
-Hugh Scott
-Reaction to trips by others
-Vernon A. Walters
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Summit meeting
-Mao Tse-tung
-Announcement of trips by others
-Briefings
-Impact of possible statements by Congressional visitors
-Establishment of policy line
-Congressional group travel
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-George S. McGovern
-Agnew
-Mao Tse-tung
-Effects of speculation
-The Press
-Kissinger’s conversation with Sidey
-Conservative reaction
-Colson's responsibilities
-George Meany, Jay Lovestone
-William P. Rogers
-State Department role
-Unknown person's statement to Sidey
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration: 2m 10s ]

Conv. No. 263-9 (cont.)
COUNTRY

CHOU EN-LAI


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-Reaction to breakthrough
-The press
-The general public
-Foreign diplomats
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Possible trip by Democrats
-Timing of announcement
-September date

Kissinger left at 5:34 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 17m 52s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Connally
-Appointments to positions
-The President's role
-White House staff
-Ehrlichman, Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Relations with bureaucracy within Department
-Charls E. Walker
Conv. No. 263-9 (cont.)
Other Cabinet officers
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Romney
-Suburban housing
-July 19, 1971 Cabinet meeting
-The PRC initiative


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Privacy]
[Duration: 47s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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-William P. Rogers
-Handling of foreign policy
-Outlook
-The PRC trip
-Conflicts with State Department
-Marshall Green
-Kissinger
-New York City trip
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 8m 12s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9 Conv. No. 263-9 (cont.)

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Ehrlichman and Haldeman left at 6:09 pm.