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483–13

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483–13
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
April 20, 1971
Conversation No. 483-13

Date: April 20, 1971
Time: 1:12 pm - 1:25 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's meeting with International Red Cross
-Marcel Naville
-Naville's message to the President
-Clark MacGregor
-Translation from French
-Behavior of American soldiers
-North Vietnamese
-Humaneness
-Naville's possible action
-Geneva
-State Department
-North Vietnamese
-Single standard
-U Thant
-Internationals
-Attitude Towards US
-President's position
-Union of Soviet Republics [USSR]
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-North Vietnamese
-USSR
-Hungary
-East Germany
-Czechoslovakia
-Poland
-Possible North Vietnamese message to Naville
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 6s ]


SWITZERLAND Conv. No. 483-13 (cont.)


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-Kissinger's conversation with Naville
-US soldiers
-Neutrality

American people
-Leadership group

The President’s schedule
-The President's meeting with Republican legislative Congress leaders
-Hard-hats
-Bureaucracy

The President's previous meeting with International Red Cross
-Prosecution of offenses
-North Vietnam
-US treatment of POWs
-South Vietnamese treatment of POWs
-Peaceniks

Laos
-US policy
-William H. Sullivan
-Congressional hearings

USSR
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's schedule
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 4s ]

Conv. No. 483-13 (cont.)
USSR


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-US position
-PRC
-Elections
-US defenses
-Public opinion
-Negotiations
-PRC
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-US elections
-President's PRC initiative
-US position
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Middle East
-Berlin
-Willy Brandt
-Cambodia
-Dobrynin

The President's meeting with International Red Cross officials
-The President's position
-Naville's request regarding Vietnam
-US position
-U Thant
-New York Times

U.S. posture in the world
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-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Opponents of the President's policies
-Peaceniks
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
-Defense appropriations
-View of US world role Conv. No. 483-13 (cont.)
-Military-industrial complex
-Ghettos
-World war
-USSR
-Nuclear danger
-USSR
-Future of America
-Turn towards the right
-George C. Wallace, Ronald W. Reagan
-Leadership
-Administration policies
-PRC initiative
-USSR
-Swiss

The President and Kissinger left at 1:25 pm.
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