732–11

Conversation No. 732-11

Date: June 13, 1972
Time: 11:43 am.-1:18 pm.
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger's and schedule
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Staff meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.


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Kissinger entered at 11:44 am.

Kissinger’s schedule
-Staff meeting
-PRC

Meeting with the President
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] briefing
-Congresssional leaders
-East Room
-Compared with Cambodia briefing

Kissinger left at 11:45 am.

-Possible benefits
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Haldeman talked with Charles W. Colson at an unknown time between 11:45 am. and 12:27 p.m.
The President can be heard in the background.

[Conversation No. 732-11a]

[See Conversation No. 25-56; one item has been withdrawn
from this conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]


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Foreign policy public relations efforts
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Administration spokesman
-The President's view
-S. Steven Karalakas
-Price
-Buchanan
-Kissinger
-Unnamed writer
-Previous Nelson A. Rockefeller employee

Possible White House staff testimony before Congress
-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Previous testimony
-Haldeman’s view
-Other members of White House staff
-Cabinet officers
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-Kissinger's role in presenting SALT Treaty
-Meeting with Congressmen
-J. William Fulbright
-The President's view
-Public relations aspect
-Invitation to White House
-Haldeman’s view

Irving Kristol’s book [On the Democratic Ideal in America]
-The President’s instructions
-Ehrlichman
-Price
-Buchanan
-Ehrlichman
-Cabinet officers
-George P. Shultz
-Elliot L. Richardson
-George W. Romney
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Herbert Stein
-Arthur F. Burns
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Warren E. Burger
-Letter from the President

Kissinger’s possible testimony
-Meeting with Congressmen on SALT
-East Room
-Purpose
-Briefing in East Room
-Haldeman’s view
-Television coverage
-Radio coverage
-The President's view
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Gerard C. Smith

Rogers
-Possible meeting with the President
-Rogers's forthcoming trip to Asia
-Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO]
-Australia, New Zealand and the US [ANZUS]
-Kissinger's trip to PRC
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-Chinese invitation
-Length of trip
-Previous trip to Soviet Union
-Timing

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Legislation
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-The President's view
-Richardson, James D. Hodgson

The President’s possible press conference
-Colson recommendations
-East Room
-Subjects
-Vietnam
-SALT
-Political question
-Unemployment
-Busing
-Tax reform
-Timing
-Preparation
-Colson’s view
-Location
-California
-East Room
-The President's view
-Timing
-Date
-Vietnam announcement
-Draft
-Troop withdrawal
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-Colson's recommendations
-The President’s preparation
-Ramifications
-Location of press conference
-Questions
-Timing
-Vietnam announcement
-The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming US News and World Report article
-The President's view
-New York primary
-The President’s wedding anniversary
-Colson's group
-Qualities
-Richard A. Moore, John A. Scali
-Visit to Capitol

Kissinger entered at 12:27 pm.


Kissinger's talk with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger's possible testimony before Congress
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger's possible testimony in Congress
-Disadvantages
-Flanigan
-Possible briefing in East Room
-Advantages
-Television
-Format
-Fulbright and John C. Stennis
-Committees
-Attendees
-The President's opening statement
-Various formats
-Questions
-Statements
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Kissinger's opening statement
-Television
-Senate ratification
-Public relations
-Smith
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-Advantages
-The President's view
-Kissinger's television appearances
-Timing
-Advantages
-Presidential press conferences
-Timing
-Colson
-1972 election
-US foreign policy
-US domestic policy
-Republican convention
-Democratic convention
-The President's image
-Scali, Moore, Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger's recommendation
-Timing
-Kissinger’s trip to PRC
-Nikolai V. Podgorny's trip to Hanoi
-Charles A. J. M. DeGaulle
-Stature
-Previous administration efforts
-The President’s speech on Vietnam, November 3, 1969
-The President’s PRC trip
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Timing
-Colson
-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-The President’s policies
-The President's image
-Opponents
-Respect for the President

The President's opponents
-Different groups
-Respect for the President

Presidential press conference
-Timing
-Date
-Podgorny trip
-Kissinger's trip
-Kissinger’s view
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-Democratic convention
-Kissinger’s view
-Previous television interview of the President
-Dan Rather
-Kissinger’s view
-Comparison with press conference
-Advantages
-Television interview
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr., Howard K. Smith, John W. Chancellor
-Visibility
-Rather
-Value
-Haldeman’s view

Kissinger's possible Congressional briefing
-Advantages
-Television
-Laird, Rogers, Smith
-Fulbright
-Opening statment
-Release to press
-Length
-Radio
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Arms control
-Smith
-White House involvement
-The President's intervention

Arms control
-Message to Congress
-Administration policy
-Test Ban Treaty
-Smith
-Nonproliferation treaty and Test Ban Treaty
-The President’s policy
-Smith
-Kissinger’s trip to Japan
-Department of State
-US policy
-Eisaku Sato
-Takeo Fukuda
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State Department
-Support for Nonproliferation Treaty
-The President's view
-Japanese position

Kissinger's trip to Japan
-PRC view
-Fukuda
-Consultation with US


SALT and Anti-Ballistic Missile [ABM] treaties briefings
-Fulbright
-Ratification
-Congressional hearings
-Kissinger's testimony
-Protocol
-Possible briefing at the White House
-Timing
-Executive privilege
-Kissinger's briefing
-Timing
-The President's meeting with Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Location
-Preparation for briefing
-Timing
-Kissinger
-Meeting with Echeverria and Emilio Rabasa
-Preparation
-The President’s role
-Kissinger’s role
-Timing
-Echeverria
-Kissinger
-Preparation
-Location
-Time
-Clark MacGregor
-Meeting with Fulbright
-Kissinger
-Timing
-Location
-White House Theatre
-Briefing room in Old Executive Office Building [OEOB]
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-East Room
-Timing
-Length
-The President's opening of meeting
-Recording and transcript
-Timing

Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Kissinger's briefing of Rogers
-Haig’s message to Philip C. Habib
-Rogers's trip
-SEATO
-ANZUS
-North Vietnam
-John B. Connally
-Hanoi

Press conference by the President
-Timing
-Kissinger's trip to PRC
-Public response
-Timing
-Colson
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Podgorny's trip to Hanoi
-Public announcement

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-US bombing in North Vietnam
-The President’s instructions
-Podgorny's trip
-Public announcements
-PRC protests

PRC policy on Vietnam
-US bombing
-Limits on bombing

Kissinger's Congressional briefing
-Time
-Wednesday compared with Thursday
-Radio coverage
-State Department
-Transcript
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-Rogers, Laird
-Arrangements
-Timing
-Length of time
-Echeverria welcome ceremony
-Public relations
-Rogers, Laird, and Smith
-Interruptions
-Echeverria welcoming ceremony
-East Room
-Preparation
-Timing

Press conference by the President
-Timing
-Kissinger’s trip to PRC
-Podgorny visit to North Vietnam
-Possible private US-North Vietnam negotiations

Kissinger left at 1:15 pm.

Possible Presidential press conference
-Domestic policy
-Announcement
-Possible wording
-Domestic policy
-Timing
-Subjects
-Foreign policy
-SALT
-Domestic questions
-Timing
-Announcement
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic policy
-The President's view
-MacGregor

Haldeman left at 1:18 pm.