695–2

Conversation No. 695-2

Date: March 28, 1972
Time: 10:19 am - 11:11 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule
-Previous meeting with the House Foreign Affairs Committee
-State Department/White House policy
-The President
-Meeting with foreign leaders
-William P. Rogers’s attendance
-Kissinger's attendance
-Chou En-lai
-Vietnam
-Donald M. Fraser
-Charles C. Diggs, Jr.
-Jonathan B. Bingham
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Middle East
-Vietnam
-Fraser
-Withdrawal
-Deadline
-Negotiations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 695-2 (cont.)

Vietnam
-Intelligence reports

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]

Vietnam
-Bombings
-Casualties
-B-3 area
-Air Force
-Laos
-Military dispositions


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MILITARY DISPOSITIONS


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-Long Tien
-Bombing

Soviet trip
-Accommodations for the President
-Kremlin
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Length of visit
-Poland
-Possible trip
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Meeting with Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 695-2 (cont.)

-Domestic political impact of visit
-Italians
-Poles
-US neighborhoods
-Philadelphia
-New York
-Chicago
-Cleveland
-Detroit
-Dobrynin
-Haig
-US Ambassador to Poland [Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.]
-Importance
-Impact on Polish government
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Reasons for trip
-PRC
-Kissinger's forthcoming trip
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-William P. Rogers
-Participation in Iran trip
-Iran
-Length of visit
-Poland
-Length of visit
-US consultation with the Soviets
-The President’s trip to Iran
-Need for refueling stop
-NATO country
-Azores
-Ireland
-Length of visit
-Kissinger’s view
-PRC trip
-Announcements
-Leningrad
-Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
-Tblisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
-Baku
-Proximity to Tehran
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Polish invitations to the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 695-2 (cont.)

-NATO
-Poland
-NATO
-Visit
-Rogers
-The President
-Baku
-Tehran
-NATO
-Rogers
-Romania
-Yugoslavia
-Poland
-Dobrynin
-Meetings with Kissinger
-Initial US response to stay in Poland
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Tehran
-NATO
-Rogers
-Tehran trip
-Stops
-Poland
-Length of visit
-Tehran to Poland
-Compared to Pakistan-Bucharest trip
-Flight time
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 10:30 am.

-The President's stay at the Kremlin
-Dwight D. Eisenhower comparison
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle

Middle East
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Hussein
-Israel
-Soviet trip
-Secret deals
-Kissinger's schedule
-Timing on deal
-Election
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 695-2 (cont.)

-John N. Mitchell
-Jewish vote
-Media
-Kissinger’s view
-Crisis
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-US-Soviet summit
-Interim agreement
-Israeli reaction
-Agreement
-Timing
-Rogers
-State Department
-Soviet Union and the US
-Soviet summit
-Agreement


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ISRAEL


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-Agreement
-Timing
-Election
-Soviets
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Meeting with Rogers
-Israelis
-Kissinger’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 695-2 (cont.)

-Soviets
-US position
-United Arab Republic [UAR]
-Algeria

Soviet trip
-Poland
-Rogers
-Kissinger's schedule
-Dobrynin meetings
-Length of visit
-PRC
-Public impact
-Announcements by the President
-Sightseeing
-Leningrad
-Kissinger’s possible stay in Moscow
-White House staff
-Rogers

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Hussein
-Egypt
-Israelis
-Plan
-Egypt
-Plan

Kissinger left at 10:45 am.

Middle East
-Crises
-Haldeman’s view
-Election
-Polls

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Hugh Scott
-James O. Eastland
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 695-2 (cont.)

-Public relations
-Strategy
-Kleindienst's possible withdrawal
-Charles W. Colson
-Clark MacGregor
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Richard A. Moore
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-John Scali

Ziegler entered at 10:50 am.

-Scott's news conference
-Helen A. Thomas's question
-Americans' right to know
-Scott's answer
-Election
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Kleindienst
-Lawrence F. O’Brien
-Economy
-Legislative impasse

Ziegler left at 10:53 am.

-Moore
-Talk with Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Television
-White House staff
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Murray M. Chotiner
-Washington Post
-Kleindienst
-Flanigan
-News summary
-Hugh S. Sidey
-National Observer
-Washington press corps
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 695-2 (cont.)

-Haldeman's talk with John B. Connally
-Administration's handling
-Dita D. Beard
-Memorandum
-Authenticity
-Joseph C. Kraft article, March 28th
-William E. Timmons
-Conversation
-Kraft's article
-White House staff
-Justice Department
-Kraft article
-Ehrlichman and Colson
-White House strategy
-Options
-Media problem
-Colson
-Networks
-Strategy goals
-Flanigan
-Robert H. Finch
-Klein

Life magazine articles
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Vietnam
-Servicemen
-Drugs
-Casualties
-Jewish media
-Kissinger

Pending legislation on postal rates
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Reader's Digest
-Election
-Life magazine
-Ehrlichman
-Lewis
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 695-2 (cont.)

News media
-Sidey
-Weekly column
-Ziegler
-List of friends

Economy
-Connally
-Tax reform
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Republican efforts
-1954, 1969
-Spending increases compared to spending cuts

Busing
-Ehrlichman
-Southern Congressmen and Senators
-Briefing by Administration officials
-Leadership meeting
-Clark MacGregor
-Ehrlichman
-Edward L. Morgan

ITT
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Mitchell
-MacGregor
-Colson
-Johnson
-Connally
-Talk with Haldeman

Connally’s schedule
-Earl L. Butz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Colson

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:00 am.

Items for the President’s signature

Connally’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 695-2 (cont.)



Butterfield left at 11:03 am.

ITT case
-Big business
-Involvement in politics
-Connally’s view
-Flanigan
-Taxes
-White House staff
-Flanigan
-Unknown man, Miami
-Call from Robert H. Abplanalp

Stephen B. Bull and Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 10:53 am.

The President's schedule
-Hussein
-Arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:11 am.

ITT
-Flanigan
-Unknown man
-\"Friends of the President\"
-Colson

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 11:11 am.