701–5

Conversation No. 701-5

Date: April 4, 1972
Time: 10:09 am - 10:43 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Robert S. Ingersoll, Henry A. Kissinger and Stephen B. Bull[?].

Introductions and greetings

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 10:39 am.

Ingersoll's assignment
-Preparations
-Departure
-Timing

US-Japan relations
-Current status
-Possible problems
-Ingersoll's role as ambassador
-Importance
-Compared to West Germany
-Berlin agreements
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Compared to the Soviet Union
-Ingersoll's method of handling
-Relations with Eisaku Sato, Takeo Fukuda and power elite
-Identification of potential leaders
-No need for limitation
-Japan's leadership
-Fukuda
-Mitsujiro Ishii
-Ingersoll's role
-Relationship with the President
-Importance
-Armin H. Meyer
-Personal confidence
-Representative to the government
-Use of special channels to communicate with the President
-Ingersoll’s staff
-Ingersoll’s relationship with the Japanese business community
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-The President's knowledge of Japan
-Importance of US-Japanese alliance
-The President's visits to Japan
-Number
-The President’s relationship with Japanese leaders
-Potential power
-Economic, political and military
-Eastern Pacific
-US-Japanese alliance and friendship
-Strong emphasis from the President
-Economic competition
-US respect
-Avoidance of protectionism, isolationism and Japanese counter reaction
-Ingersoll's dealings with Japanese leaders
-John B. Connally’s theory
-US relationship with Japan, Latin America and Canada
-Ingersoll's approach
-Closer relations
-Mutual respect
-People's Republic of China [PRC] issue
-US-PRC opening of relations
-US and Japanese interests
-PRC nuclear capability
-Possibilities of influence
-Possibility for conflict
-Similarities to Korea and Vietnam
-Reasons
-Soviet Union
-Effect on US-Japan ties
-Difference in relationships
-Social, economic, political ties
-Trade ties between US and Japan
-PRC, Soviet Union, and Canada
-Mutual security interests
-US intentions
-Viable policy in the Pacific
-Japan's role
-Frequent dialogue
-Joint communique
-Development of US-Japan ties
-Support For Clause
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JAPAN

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Nixon Doctrine
-The President's conversation with Chou En-Lai and Mao Tse-Tung
-State Department view
-Purpose
-US role in world and the Pacific
-Low profile
-Commitment to South Vietnam
-Continued US presence in Asia
-PRC
-Japan
-Neutrality
-Rearmament
-Likelihood
-Economic power
-World War II
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SINGAPORE

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-Choices in future
-Nuclear guarantee
-Firm US alliance
-Possible Japanese rearmament
-Development of US ties


US-Japan relations
-Competition in PRC
-Possible Japanese role
-US Success
-Possible discussions
-Potential Japanese actions
-The President's Meeting With Chou en-Lai
-Mao Tse-Tung
-Need for US-Japan cooperation
-Dangers of competition
-Soviet Union
-Kissinger's trip to Japan
-Kissinger's work with Ingersoll
-Translator
-Use
-Ingersoll's dealings with Sato and Fukuda
-Use of channels
-Other channels
-Danger of leaks in Tokyo
-State Department
-Arthur K. Watson
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Private dinner
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-Sato
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Privacy
-Meeting with Ingersoll
-Fukuda
-Arrangements
-Scheduling
-Timing
-North Vietnamese offensive
-The President’s upcoming visit to the Soviet Union
-President’s instructions to Ingersoll
-Letters to Sato and Fukuda
-President’s signature
-Drafts
-Content
-Dispatch
-Arrangements
-State Department files
-Contact with the Japanese ambassador
-Meyer
-US Asian policy
-Message to Japan
-Quotation of the President
-Shanghai communique
-US presence in Asia
-US-Japan alliance
-Importance
-Peace
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-US policy
-Korea
-The President's message for Ingersoll to the Japanese
-Ingersoll's assignment
-Visits
-Kissinger
-The President
-Upcoming trip to Soviet Union
-Timing
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's visit
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito's visit
-Timing
-The President
-Election
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-Respect for the Japanese
-Problems
-Economic
-The President's message to Japanese leaders
-Europe and Pacific
-Ingersoll's assignment
-Conversations with Fukuda, Sato and Ishii
-Dealings with Japanese
-Toughness
-Eisenhower's comments on British as allies
-Suez crisis
-Contrasts in war and peace
-Cameras
-Kodak
-Film
-Cost


Presidential gifts
-Golf balls

Kissinger left and Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:39 am.

Golf balls and tie clips

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:43 am.

The President's foreign policy
-Ingersoll's admiration

Ingersoll's family
-Visit to Lincoln Memorial
-Abraham Lincoln
-Compared with the President

Presidential gifts
-Golf balls
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Money clip
-Presidential seal

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:39 am.
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Photograph session
-Standing pictures

Presidential gifts
-Bronze compacts

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:43 am.

Photographs
-Copies

George P. Shultz
-Qualities
-Previous relationship with Ingersoll
-Dedication
-Eisenhower

The White House photographer entered at an unknown time after 10:39 am.

Photographs
-The President’s instructions

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 10:43 am.

Gifts
-Bronze compacts
-Cuff links
-Tie clasps
-Presidential seal
-Money clips
-Kendall
-“Bowser” [doggie] bags

Ingersoll's assignment
-Ingersoll's father, Roy C. Ingersoll
-Message to Japanese
-State Department
-The President’s initials

Ingersoll left at 10:43 am.
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