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Conversation No. 626-7

Date: November 30, 1971
Time: 10:06 am - 11:05 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger, Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein; members of
the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

International economy
-Military sales
-Import surcharge
-Working group
-Venezuela
-State department
-John B. Connally
-Possible reduction
-Mexico
-Brazil
-Canada
-International monetary situation
-Forthcoming Group of Ten meeting
-Negotiations
-Expropriations
-US policy
-Multilateral compared to bilateral aid
-Finch’s view
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-Ecuador

Peru

Brazil
-Economy
-\"Nixon Doctrine\"
-Brasilia
-Government
-Foreign minister, Mario Gibson Alves Barbosa
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Government

Argentina
-John D. Lodge
-Finch’s view
-Alejandro A. Lanusse
-Health
-US Deputy Chief of Mission
-State dinner
-Argentine cabinet
-Lodge
-Lanusse
-Economy
-Possible new post
-Finland
-European security conference
-Finances
-Finch’s view
-Finch’s view
-Peru

Ambassadorships
-Argentina
-Lodge
-Spain
-Cornelius V. Whitney
-Lodge
-Possible posting
-Australia
-Walter L. Rice
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-Europe
-Belgium
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] ambassador
-David M. Kennedy
-Fredrick McC. Eaton
-Australia
-Rice
-Wife, Inger (Vestergaard) Rice


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Argentina
-Political situation
-Lanusse
-Connally
-Lodge
-Economic situation

State Department
-Charles A. Meyer
-US ambassadors to Latin America
-Finch’s view

Peru
-US embassy
-Tuna fisheries
-US negotiations
-Ecuador
-Licenses
-US negotiations
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-Status
-Ecuador
-Previous United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-Meyer
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Connally
-Law of the Sea Conference

Law of the Sea Conference
-Territorial limits
-Other countries
-Unknown man

George H. W. Bush
-Forthcoming conversation with Finch and Klein

Ambassadorships
-Lodge
-Spain
-Whitney
-Contribution to Committee to Reelect the President
-Spanish political situation

Peru
-Tuna fisheries
-US negotiations
-Taylor G. Belcher
-The President’s instructions to Kissinger

Ecuador
-Financial assistance
-Technical assistance
-Oil
-Health
-Agricultural assistance

US ambassadors
-Lodge
-Findley Burns, Jr.
-Belcher
-Singapore [Charles T. Cross]
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-Views of the Vice President and Ronald W. Reagan

Latin America
-US ambassadors
-The President’s views
-Lodge
-Relations with the President
-Finch’s view
-Finch’s and Klein’s previous trip
-Relations with US
-News reports
-Forthcoming dinner for Medici
-Klein and Finch
-Importance

The President's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors
-Forthcoming meeting with the French
-Forthcoming meeting with the British
-Forthcoming meeting with the Japanese
-Pierre E. Trudeau


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Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:35 am.

Forthcoming dinner for Medici
-Finch
-Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources
-Kissinger
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US ambassadors to Latin America
-Spanish language
-Lodge
-Unknown man
-The President’s previous trip to Latin America as Vice President

Latin America
-Working group
-Finch’s possible participation
-US ambassadors

International economy
-Import surcharge
-Finch’s efforts
-US aid to Latin America
-Military sales
-US congress
-The President’s view

US foreign policy
-Friendly governments
-Democracy
-The President’s view
-Military governments
-Greece
-Pakistan
-US policy
-Foreign aid criteria
-Internal compared to external policy
-Colombia, Brazil, Greece and Rhodesia

Brazil
-Torture
-Medici

Mexico
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s previous telephone call
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US foreign policy
-Presidential telephone calls
-Story by James Perry of National Observer
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Previous telephone call from the President

Mexico
-Economy
-Import surcharge
-Finch’s view

Latin America
-Military sales
-The President’s instructions
-Visits by Cabinet members
-Previous trip by Finch and Klein
-Media coverage
-Medici
-Peru
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's previous trip
-Finch’s earthquake relief work
-Chile
-Peruvian-Chilean politics
-1970 Chilean coup
-Expropriation
-Loans
-Federal Loan Bank Board
-US aid
-1970 Peruvian earthquake
-Chile
-Views regarding Fidel Castro and Cuba
-Chile
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-Views regarding the President's forthcoming trips to People's Republic of China
[PRC] and Soviet Union
-Import surcharge
-Castro
-Mexico and Brazil
-Possible trade with PRC
-Possible official travel
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-Maurice H. Stans’s previous trip to Europe
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Union summit
-William P. Rogers
-Finch’s and Klein’s previous trip
-Ecuador
-Rio de Janeiro
-Rogers
-Latin American views
-The Vice President
-Previous trips to Africa and Asia
-Mexico City
-Olympic games
-Crime statistics
-Tokyo compared with US
-Possible official travel
-Mexico City
-Brasilia
-Argentina
-Peru
-Colombia
-Venezuela
-Peru
-Possible official travel
-The Vice President
-Timing
-Forthcoming events
-Brazilian anniversary
-Brazil
-Population growth
-Brasilia
-Development
-US embassy
-Working group
-Department of State
-US Agency for International Development [AID]
-US ambassadors
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Robert H. McBride
-Robert C. Hill
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-Lodge
-Colombia
-Europe
-Polio
-Smallpox
-Klein's and Finch's possible conversations
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Views on Klein's and Finch's trip
-Suggestions for ambassadorial posts
-US ambassadors
-Unknown man from Nassau County, New York
-Rockefeller
-Import surtax
-Rogers’s schedule
-Brasilia
-Mexico City
-Possible conversation with Klein and finch
-Mexico
-Echeverria
-The Vice President's schedule
-Mexico
-Politics
-Echeverria
-Effect
-Los Angeles immigrants
-Working group
-Senior Review Group [SRG]
-Possible programs
-Echeverria, Medici, and Lanusse
-The President's policy
-World War II
-Unknown man

Finch and Klein left at 11:05 am.

Kissinger's schedule
-Rogers

Ronald W. Reagan
-President’s forthcoming conversation
-PRC
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Kissinger left at 11:05 am.