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Conversation No. 677-4
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Date: March 6, 1972
Time: 8:38 am - 9:08 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Nelson A. Rockefeller’s view
-News summary
-Vietnam
-[Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union [TASS]]
-Pravda
-Vietnam
-Hanoi

An unknown man [Manolo Sanchez?] entered and left at an unknown time between 8:38 am and
9:08 am.

-Weekend news summary
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Peter Lisagor
-Chou En-lai
-Concessions
-Shanghai communiqué
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Trade and exchanges
-Diplomatic contacts
-Lisagor
-Sidey
-Public reaction
-Lisagor
-Sidey
-News summary
-Buchanan
-New York Times
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-The President’s view
-Chiang Kai-shek
-US statement of commitment to South Vietnam
-Compared to statement for South Korea
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-Treaty
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Vietnam
-Chinese statements
-Hanoi
-Thieu
-Right wing
-Rockefeller
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Evangelicals
-Taiwan


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TAIWAN


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-Taiwan
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-The President’s view
-Washington Post
-[Forename unknown] Gratinov [?] article
-Robert S. McNamara
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
-Stewart Alsop compared to Joseph W. Alsop
-Soviet Union
-Chinese communists
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-Report
-Communiqué
-Mutual trade


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TAIWAN


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-Political enemies
-Shanghai communiqué
-The President’s image
-Stewart Alsop
-Previous talk with Kissinger
-Hanoi
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Joseph Alsop
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-The President’s report to Congress
-Taiwan
-Peking
-Press
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Positive articles
-Martin Z. Agronsky show
-News summaries
-Negative stories
-Kissinger’s view
-Intellectuals
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-The President’s forthcoming report to Congress
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
-Backgrounders
-Press conference in Shanghai
-Communiqué
-The President’s possible report to the nation
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Chou En-lai
-Domestic situation compared to the President’s domestic situation
-Radio Moscow
-Peking
-Ferdinand E. Marcos
-Possible Asian summit
-Possible PRC participation
-Communiqué
-Press
-The President’s image
-The President’s possible report to Congress
-Rogers, Melvin R. Laird and Kissinger
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Cambodia
-Marshall Green
-Rogers
-North Vietnam
-Sihanoukville
-Northeast section of Cambodia
-Emory C. Swank
-Kissinger’s view
-Lon Nol
-The President’s view
-Charles S. Whitehouse
-Unknown Man
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Political opposition
-Lisagor
-Sidey
-Press
-Agronsky
-Lisagor
-Sidey
-News summary
-Buchanan

The PRC trip
-American public reaction
-Kissinger’s view
-Key Biscayne
-New York
-Rockefeller
-Humphrey
-Lisagor
-John F. Kennedy’s 1962 European trip comparison
-Press coverage
-Chinese
-Shanghai communiqué
-Press
-Lisagor
-Sidey
-American public reaction
-Today show
-Henry Brandon
-Muffie Brandon
-Democratic candidates’ debate
-Campaign contributions
-John N. Mitchell
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

Vietnam
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris
-Possible negotiations with Kissinger
-Politics
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-New York Times
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-Edmund S. Muskie

The PRC trip
-Lisagor
-Compared to the moon landing
-Chinese
-Trade
-Report to the nation
-Busing
-Criticism
-Right wing
-Peking
-Allegations of secret deals
-Communiqué
-Trade
-Diplomatic relations
-Taiwan

Kissinger’s schedule
-Florida

NSC staff
-Possible memoranda
-Members of NSC
-John B. Connally

Richard G. Kleindienst
-Mitchell

Possible memoranda
-Timing

Kissinger left at 9:08 am.
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