501–14

Conversation No. 501-14

Date: May 19, 1971
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:03 pm
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Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-William P. Rogers
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Role in negotiations Conv. No. 501-12 (cont.)
-Notification
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Meeting with President
-Rogers’ statement in London
-Role in negotiations
-Reaction
-Melvin R. Laird
-Henry A. Kissinger and President
-Assurances
-Timing of talks
-Rogers’ trip
-President's message from San Clemente
-Rogers’ knowledge
-Call to Haldeman
-Role
-Kissinger
-News magazines and background columns
-Effect
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
-Response
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming briefings
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Rogers
-Agreement
-President’s knowledge
-Rogers’ knowledge
-Gerard C. Smith
-Meetings with Kissinger and Rogers
-Background
-Rogers’ call to Haldeman
-Rogers’ testimony on Capitol Hill
-Kissinger's and President's roles
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Middle East
-Rogers’ reports to the White House
-Rogers’ view
-Kissinger
-President
SALT agreement
-Background
-Haldeman's meeting with Rogers Conv. No. 501-14 (cont.)
-President's goals
-Success
-Rogers’ role
-Haldeman's knowledge
-Kissinger's meetings with Dobrynin
-Rogers’ questions
-Possible forthcoming meeting of President with Kissinger
-Rogers’ role

Foreign policy
-Paris peace negotiations
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger
-Rogers’ future and role
-Middle East negotiations
-Rogers
-Prospects for success
-Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Jews
-Rogers’ role
-PRC
-Kissinger, Rogers
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-SALT
-Rogers’ role
-Rogers' meeting with Haldeman
-President

[The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time after 12:30 pm]

[Conversation No. 501-14a]

Request to come to the meeting
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[End of conversation]

Foreign policy
-SALT agreement
-Notification of Rogers

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.
Conv. No. 501-14 (cont.)
Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.

Foreign policy
-Rogers’ role
-Relations with President, Kissinger
-State Department

Kissinger entered at 12:43 pm.

-SALT
-Rogers
-Notification of agreement
-State Department bureaucracy
-Smith
-Meeting with President
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Meeting with Rogers
-Rogers’ role
-Rogers
-SALT
-Administration position

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.

-Kissinger's backgrounders
-Smith, Rogers
-Rogers’ NATO meeting

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:03 pm.

-Rogers
-Promises to be informed
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-Position
-Reception in Middle East
-Position
-Smith
-Laird
-Backgrounder strategy
-SALT
-President's initiative Conv. No. 501-14 (cont.)
-Rogers’ role
-Meetings with President
-Smith
-President's actions
-San Clemente
-Smith
-Meeting with Kissinger, May 19, 1971
-Relations with Rogers
-Roles of Laird, Rogers, and Smith
-Knowledge of agreement
-Kissinger's briefings
-John A. Scali
-Rogers’ meeting with Haldeman
-President's role
-Rogers’ role
-Smith’s role
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-President's role
-Rogers’ call to Haldeman
-Need for unified statement
-Administration’s position
-State Department
-President's role
-Presidential initiative
-USSR
-History
-Rogers
-Compared with John F. Kennedy's initiatives on nuclear test ban
-Dean Rusk
-George Ball
-[Name Unintelligible]
-Public statements
-Rogers’ role
-Kissinger
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-Haig

Congressional votes
-Gaylord Nelson Amendment
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
-Nelson Amendment
-Significance Conv. No. 501-14 (cont.)
-Clark MacGregor

SALT Agreement
-Rogers’ role
-Meetings with President
-Smith
-Antiballistic Missiles [ABM]
-President's role
-Private communication
-Kissinger's knowledge
-Chronology
-Rogers’ trip
-Dobrynin
-Soviet intentions
-President's report to Rogers
-Calls to Rogers
-Timing
-President's role
-Rogers’ role
-Language of announcement
-Rogers’ view
-Smith
-USSR
-Dobrynin
-[Unintelligible name]
-Meaning
-Rogers’ response

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:58 pm.

-Rogers
-Testimony in Congress
-J. William Fulbright
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Butterfield left at 1:00 pm.

-Call to President
-Haldeman's forthcoming call
-President's return call
-Address to the annual convention of the American National Red
Cross
-Haldeman's forthcoming call Conv. No. 501-14 (cont.)
-President's location
-Laird
-Rogers’ role
-Public statements
-White House
-Fulbright
-State Department
-Fulbright and Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-President's press conference
-Haldeman's and President's forthcoming calls to Rogers
-President's schedule
-Meeting with Laird and Kissinger
-Call to Rogers

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 1:03 pm.