732–6

Conversation No. 732-6

Date: June 13, 1972
Time: 9:52-11:09 am.
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's telephone call to Dan Rather
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] coverage of wedding

Barbara Walters

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:53 am.

The President's knowledge of television coverage
-CBS
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]

Dan Rather
-The President's telephone call

Ziegler left at 9:53 am.


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Spiro T. Agnew
-Role in administration
-Nixon's relationship with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The President's view
-Relations with Congress
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-Senate votes
-John N. Mitchell

John B. Connally
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Approach as Secretary of Treasury
-Presidency
-Haldeman’s view

Kissinger
-Role in administration in second term
-Problems

Vice President's residence
-Agnew
-The President's view
-Possible locations
-Marjorie Merriweather Post's houses
-Possible government guest house in Palm Beach
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Camp David
-Layout of beach house in Florida
-Budget conditions
-Facilities
-Possible congressional action

Possible Presidential appearance on Capitol Hill
-Kissinger
-The President
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Problems of precedents
-Alternatives

The President’s possible meeting with Congressional leaders
-Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Presentation
-Length
-The President's response to questions from Congressmen
-J. William Fulbright
-Possible attendees
-Congressional committees
-Melvin R. Laird, William P. Rogers, Gerard C. Smith
-Problems
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-The President’s role
-Preparation
-John C. Stennis


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John D. Ehrlichman
-Administration position on busing
-Need for public relations
-Spokesman
-Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania
-George C. Wallace
-Need for the President's press conference
-Position on busing
-Rationale

The President’s possible meeting with Congressmen dealing with SALT
talks
-Timing
-Format
-Questions
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-The President's view
-Smith
-Fulbright
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Cambodia


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Kissinger
-US News and World Report article
-Length
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-World report
-Value of report
-Length
-The President's view
-Department of State

Walter H. Annenberg
-Swimming pool
-Contribution
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Chequers
-White House
-Tennis court

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:53 am.

Meeting with Thomas C. Korologos, Clark MacGregor, and Stennis
-Kissinger's presence
-Kissinger's location
-Joseph W. Alsop

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:26 am.

Tennis court at White House
-Value
-The President's view

Sequoia
-Seaworthiness
-The President's view
-New boats
-Timing
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-Election
-Gift to government
-US Navy
-Seaworthiness of a new yacht
-Specifications


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Swimming pool
-Camp David

Kissinger
-Stennis meeting
-MacGregor

White House staff
-Congressional staff
-The President's view
-Press secretaries
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-The President's view
-Staff
-Domestic Council
-Staffing
-Congressional liaison office
-Staffing
-Haldeman’s view
-Eisenhower years
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Wilton B. (“Jerry”) Persons
-Staff cuts
-The President's view
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-Transfers to campaign staff
-Dale Grubb, Richard K. Cook, Korologos
and Wallace H. Johnson
-Domestic Council
-The President's view
-Ehrlichman and MacGregor
-Specialists
-Foreign policy briefing book
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Kissinger

Possible press conference
-The President's view
-Television

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Press conference
-Meeting with Gerald R. Ford, [Thomas ] Hale Boggs
-Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:53 am.

Kissinger's presence
-Meeting with the President and Stennis
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Bull left at unknown time before 10:26 am.

Haldeman spoke with Kissinger at an unknown time after 9:53 am.

[Conversation No. 732-5A]

The President’s schedule
-Stennis
-Kissinger

[End of telephone conversation.]

News summary
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Kissinger entered and Haldeman left at 10:26 am.
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Meeting on PRC
-Haig

Kissinger's breakfast meeting with Dobrynin
-US bombing in North Vietnam
-Chinese response
-Public statement
-US response
-Briefing for Dobrynin
-US intentions
-Nikolai V. Podgorny's trip to Hanoi
-US policy
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Hanoi
-Haiphong
-Procedures by US
-PRC
-Soviet Union response
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Haig's conversation with Dobrynin

Stennis and Korologos entered at 10:28 am.

Greetings

Kissinger’s previous trip to Japan

SALT
-Defense position
-Effect on negotiations
-Mining of Haiphong Harbor
-Negotiations
-The President's view
-US
-Soviet Union

Negotiations with Soviet Union
-US strength
-SALT II negotiations
-New weapons systems
-Defense Department
-The President's view
-Undersea Long-Range Missile System [ULMS]
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-B-1 bomber
-Stennis's support
-Defense budget
-Foreign aid
-Anti-Ballistic Missil System [ABM]

Peace advocates
-US strength

North Vietnamese actions
-An Loc, Hue, Kontum
-Military action
-Problems in north
-Antiwar resolutions
-Effect
-Encouragement of North Vietnamese
-Strength of North Vietnamese

US negotiating position in Vietnam
-US policy
-Military actions
-Cease fire
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US leverage
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment

Vietnam war
-Negotiations
-US dealings with Soviet Union and PRC
-Impact on North Vietnamese
-US Congressional action
-Resolution
-Soviet Union delegation visit to Hanoi

US session with Soviet Union on Vietnam
-The President’s previous trip to Soviet Union
-Leonid I. Brezhnev, Aleksei N. Kosygin, Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Meeting with the President
-Soviet Union position
-The President's conversation with Brezhnev
-Length
-SALT
-Location
-The President's previous trip to Soviet Union
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-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-US position
-Brezhnev’s response
-Reasons for Soviet Union position
-Kosygin
-Head of State dinner
-Conversation with the President
-Toast at dinner
-Kissinger's talk with Andrei I. Gromyko
-US proposals to Hanoi
-President’s previous comments to Congress
-US policy
-The President’s telephone call to Brezhnev
-Podgorny's trip to Hanoi
-US-Soviet Union communique
-Reference to US actions
-President
-Soviet Union and PRC offers
-Possible Senate Resolution
-Effect
-US position
-Cease fire
-POWs
-Senate Resolution on war
-The President's view
-Funding
-Soviet Union and PRC offers

The President's conversation with Brezhnev
-Khrushchev
-Offers to North Vietnamese
-Brezhnev
-Cease-fire
-US position
-Cease-fire
-POWs
-George S. Mcgovern's election
-Effect
-Need to stop Senate Resolution
-Soviet Union response to US proposals

Vietnam
-Cease fire
-US advantages
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-North Vietnam
-Senate Resolution
Stennis’s possible comments
US bombing
-North Vietnamese supplies
-Effect

Stennis's motion in Senate
-Mansfield resolution
-Herman E. Talmadge
-David H. Gambrell
-William B. Spong, Jr.

McGovern
-Source of support

Mansfield resolution
-Amendments
-Stennis opposition

Military procurement bill
-Allen J. Ellender
-Stennis’s view
-B-1 bomber
-Command post
-ABM
-Command post
-SALT talks
-Senate action
-Impact on Moscow
-The President's view
-B-1, ULMS
-The President's view
-Bargaining with Soviets
-SALT
-Soviet missile capacities
-Jackson

US military strength
-ULMS
-Crash program
-David Packard [?]
-Bargaining with Soviets
Military procurement bill
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-ABM
-Cut-backs in research and development
-Stennis’s view

The President's talk with Stennis
-Stennis’s statement
-The President's view
-The President's desire for second round of negotiations
-Arms programs
-US Navy
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Laird

Talks with Dobrynin
-Negotiations with Soviets

SALT talks
-Second round of talks
-The President’s policy
-US security
-Weapons freeze
-Soviet Union
-Second round of talks
-Timing
-ABM
-Conditions

Stennis’s Congressional hearings
-Objections to SALT
-Jackson
-Organization of hearings
-White House staff members
-Senate action
-Stennis’s efforts
-Military procurement
-B-1 bomber
-Amount

The President's Vietnam military policies
-Mining

Kissinger, et. al. left at 11:09 am.
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