517–6

Conversation No. 517-6

Date: June 11, 1971
Time: 11:08 am - 11:56 am
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?]

Meeting with John B. Connally
-Timing
-Content

John Sherman Cooper, Clark MacGregor, and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:08 am
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-Length
-Input from Connally

[End of telephone conversation]
Greetings

Cooper’s health
Conv. No. 517-5 (cont.)
Paintings of White House

Cooper’s credibility
-Help to administration
-William B. Saxbe

Foreign policy negotiations
-Information of Senate
-J. William Fulbright
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] contacts
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] contacts
-General direction of US policy
-President’s role
-Control of “right”
-USSR and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Quality of agreement
-Leonid I. Brezhnev

Manolo Sanchez entered at unknown time after 11:08 am

Refreshments

Sanchez left at unknown time before 11:56 am

Foreign policy negotiations
-Prospects for Soviet summit
-SALT
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-William P. Rogers
-European view

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:08 am
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-European security conference
-Administration efforts
-Efforts in addition to Vietnam
-Needs from Congress
-Understanding of process
-Effect of leaks
-Secrecy
-Soviet reaction Conv. No. 517-6 (cont.)
-Kissinger’s conversations with Soviets
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Congressional input
-SALT
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Timing

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:56 pm

-Effect of comments on talks
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy’s remark
-President’s efforts in Vietnam
-Progress on “big” issues
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Congressional perception
-Effect of Congressional comments
-Fulbright
-Vietnam
-Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
-Desire for information
-USSR
-PRC
-Goals
-Strength
-Europe
-Contribution to general good
-Reaction against military
-Effect of progress
-MBFR
-Balance of payments
-Goals
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-Forthcoming Willy Brandt visit
-Dinner
-German leadership
-Relation to Wernher M. M. von Braun
-School ties
-Mandeza [?]
-Balance of payments
-Vietnam Conv. No. 517-6 (cont.)
-Prospects for ending war
-Dynamics of negotiations
-Troop withdrawal
-Prospects of breakthrough
-Administration goals
-Topics of negotiation
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Protection of US troops
-South Vietnam survival
-Breadth of negotiations
-Clark M. Clifford statements
-Effect of Congressional actions
-US goals in negotiations
-Congressional feeling
-Need for one voice
-Effect of Congressional actions
-George S. McGovern
-John W. Gardner and Mark O. Hatfield
-Immorality of War
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Goal of negotiations
-End of American deaths
-Senate actions
-Hatfield’s view
-Hatfield legislation prospects
-Committee activity
-Regional settlement prospects
-Cambodia
-North Vietnam
-Laos
-Administration’s proposal
-Neutralization of Southeast Asia
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-Objections to McGovern-Hatfield
-Provisions
-History of proposals offered by US
-Public knowledge
-Effect of McGovern-Hatfield legislation
-Weakness
-House sentiment
-Basis Conv. No. 517-6 (cont.)
-Lucien N. Nedzi-Charles W. Whalen, Jr. amendment
-President’s October 7 statement
-Compromise offers
-Congressional support
-Gerald R. Ford
-Leslie C. Arends
-Carl B. Albert
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Jacob K. Javits
-President’s October 7 statement
-Recirculation
-John A. Scali
-Appointment versus actual movement of US
-Vietnam
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Difficulty of negotiations
-President’s needs from Congress
-Clifford
-Difficulty of “public” negotiations
-Relation to PRC and Soviet Union
-North Vietnamese
-Fear of quid pro quo
-Congressional issues
-Balance of payments
-Cooper’s trip to Vienna
-Gerard C. Smith
-Paul H. Nitze
-Brady [?]
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Clifford
-Cyrus R. Vance
-Tolerance
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 21s ]
Conv. No. 517-6 (cont.)

GERMANY


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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-President’s needs
-Consultation with Congress
-Indochina
-India
-Indira Gandhi and Swaran Singh’s conversation with Cooper
-Indian election
-US involvement
-Singh’s belief
-Cooper’s response
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Opposition party
-Rogers
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-American business
-US involvement
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Upcoming lunch with Indian ambassador
-Mansfield contact

Cooper, et al. left at 11:56 am
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