331–2

Conversation No. 331-2

Date: April 17, 1972
Time: 2:10 pm - 2:28 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

William P. Rogers

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 2:10 and 2:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 331-2A]

Current meeting
-Review of something
-Briefing

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler's schedule
-Morning briefing
-Conversation with unknown person
-Gerald L. Warren

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?] at an unknown time
between 2:10 and 2:15 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)

Conv. No. 331-2 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 331-2B]

Clark MacGregor
-Report

The President's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Press conference
-Questions
-Soviet ships
-Soviet summit
-Indochina
-Answers

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Announcement
-Invitation to Poland
-Warren

Kissinger entered at 2:15 pm.

Ziegler’s schedule
-Forthcoming briefing

Soviet Union
-Question at Rogers's press conference
-Soviet ships
-Use of official channels
-US reply to a message
-Vietnam
-Soviet ships
-US public opinion
-Ziegler's statement on bombing
-US message to Soviet Union

Ziegler left at 2:17 pm.
Ziegler’s work

Kissinger's conversation with Stewart J.O. Alsop
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)

Conv. No. 331-2 (cont.)
Kissinger's schedule

Ziegler's press conference

Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet ships


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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[Duration: 11s ]


REPORTS


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-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Relations with US
-Soviet summit
-Soviet position
-German Treaty
-Middle East settlement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-PRC
-The President
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Kissinger's Moscow trip
-Announcement
-Timing
-Haiphong bombing
-Significance

Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)

Conv. No. 331-2 (cont.)
-Kissinger's meeting with Alsop
-The President's trip to Moscow
-Invasion by North Vietnam
-Alsop article
-Ziegler's press conference
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-US bombing

US-Soviet relations
-Middle East
-European security
-State of relations
-Current situation
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Blockade
-1972 election
-Impact
-Soviet concerns
-Summit
-Risks of bombing
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Kissinger’s trip
-Timing

Vietnam
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Testimony by Melvin R. Laird and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, April 18, 1972
-Meeting with the President
-Rogers's testimony
-Time
-Kissinger's call
-Arrangements
-Laird and Moorer
-Public stance
-Compared with Rogers's testimony
-Laird’s previous testimony
-Meeting with the President
-Necessity
-Ziegler
-Time
-Ziegler’s announcement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)

Conv. No. 331-2 (cont.)
-The President’s talks with Rogers
-Forthcoming meetings with the President
-Timing

Kissinger left at 2:28 pm.