517–22

Conversation No. 517-22

Date: June 11, 1971
Time: 2:40 pm - 2:57 pm
Location: Oval Office

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


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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:57 pm

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Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:41 pm
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President’s schedule
-William P. Rogers
-John A. Scali role

US foreign policy Conv. No. 517-22 (cont.)
-John B. Connally involvement in administration
-Kissinger meetings
-Connally qualities
-Future plans
-Kissinger meetings
-Content
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip


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FOREIGN AFFAIRS


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-Status of US in the world
-US world position
-Baron Guido Zerilli-Marimo
-James C. Dunn
-US embassy
-Competence
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Graham A. Martin
-Contacts with Italian government
-Henry J. Tasca
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-Robert C. Hill
-Need for vigor
-Martin
-State Department relations
-Qualities
-Need for vigor in representing US
-Frederic V. Malek
-Donald H. Rumsfeld role Conv. No. 517-22 (cont.)
-Office of Economic Policy [OEP]
-Benefits
-State Department job
-John N. Irwin, II
-State Department
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Benefits
-Value to President
-Business community contacts
-Loyalty to President
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr. role
-Rogers’ call to Haldeman
-Concern over expropriation
-European Community
-State Department attitudes
-Expropriation
-Erosion of US position
-John Foster Dulles
-Soviet Union
-Italian ambassador
-Spain
-Hill staff
-Aide to John H. (“Jock”) Whitney
-Whitney aide
-Requirements
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SPAIN Conv. No. 517-22 (cont.)


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-Press conference
-Lifting of trade restrictions
-US-PRC staffing
-Comparison with Soviet Union
-Use in House elections
-Upcoming announcement
-Scali
-Vietnam
-John Sherman Cooper visit with Kissinger
-Vietnam Negotiations
-Italy
-Martin
-Removal
-Zerilli-Marimo
-Types of people
-Anglo/Saxons
-Russians
-”Orientals”
-Italians
-Qualities
-Soviet Union
-Party speech
-Aleksei N. Kosygin content
-Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Praise for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Place in hierarchy
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-Kremlin politics
-Podgorny
-Kosygin
-Age
-Health
-Age of leaders
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Toughness of Soviet politics Conv. No. 517-22 (cont.)
-Josef V. Stalin
-Connally role in policy formulation
-Kissinger relation with Connally
-Relation to John N. Mitchell
-Haldeman, Kissinger, and John D. Ehrlichman decision on Flanigan’s role

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 2:57 pm