503–9

Conversation No. 503-9

Date: May 21, 1971
Time: Unknown after 11:29 am until 11:41 am
Location: Oval Office Conv. No. 503-6 (cont.)

The President met with William P. Rogers; the recording begins while the conversation is in
progress.

Foreign policy
-Germany
-Russians
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Chinese reaction
-Rogers’ luncheon speech
-Chinese scientists visiting the US
-Western European scientists
-Egyptian doctors in antiquity
-Egypt
-Pyramids
-Temples
-Egyptian civilization
-Egyptian people
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Egypt's relationship to the US

President's schedule
-Scientists
-International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium [INTELSAT]

Rogers schedule
-Haircut
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Privacy]
[Duration: 28s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 Conv. No. 503-9 (cont.)

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration: 58s ]


CANADA



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PRC
-Development of US-PRC relations
-United Nations [UN] issue
-US-Soviet Union relations
-US's dealings with PRC
-Soviets
-Visits by US officials
-Maurice H. Stans
-David M. Kennedy
-Handling
-Soviet Union
-Rogers’ speech [May 21, 1971?]
-President speech to Red Cross [May 20, 1971?]
-President's meeting with a Chinese teacher
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-Brotherhood
-1981
-Open Travel to PRC, Soviet Union
-Brotherhood

Soviet Union
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson's views on how to deal with the Russians
-Tass’ [?] attack on US imperialism Conv. No. 503-9 (cont.)
-PRC
-US foreign policy
-Handling
-President's message of January 8th to Aleksei N. Kosygin, Leonid I. Brezhnev

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:29 am.

President's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:41 am.

Soviet Union
-Party Congress
-Laos
-PRC initiative
-Middle East

The Middle East
-Rogers' role in Middle East settlement
-President’s instructions to Rogers
-Jews
-Role for the President in reaching a settlement
-Jews
-Richard Bolling
-Pacificists
-Quakers
-US elections
-Democrats
-Bolling
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration: 29s ]


MIDDLE EAST Conv. No. 503-9 (cont.)


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Science

Youth
-Zero growth rate

The President and Rogers left at approximately 11:41 am.