733–6

Conversation No. 733-6

Date: June 14, 1972
Time: 11:15-11:55 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger 's previous talk with Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Dinner
-Remarks
-Humor
-Charles H. Percy

Clark MacGregor
-Mathias
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Kissinger's remarks
-Vietnam
-Response by audience
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Tape Subject Log
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-The President's foreign policy


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Nikolai V. Podgorny’s trip to Hanoi
-India
-Press reports
-Calcutta
-Aircraft
-Soviet aviation
-Kissinger's call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

The President’s previous meeting with William P. Rogers
-Reasons for trip abroad
-The President’s view
-Press conference
-Charles W. Colson
-\"Issues and Answers\"
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-“Issues and Answers”
-Congressional testimony

Rogers's forthcoming trip
-Romania
-Possible Soviet Union response
-The President’s view
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Dobrynin
-Rogers trip
-Greece
-Brezhnev
-The President
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)

-Ceylon
-Behrain
-Iran
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-Oil
-John B. Connally
-Value of trip
-Greece
-Vietnam

Possible press conference by Rogers
-Colson

Rogers's itinerary
-Romania
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Convention
-Value of trip
-Travel around country
-Commonwealth Club

Kissinger
-Public appearances
-Forums
-Television appearances
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Elite groups
-Benefits

John D. Lavelle’s removal
-Melvin R. Laird
-Circumstances
-Air strikes
-Laird’s role
-Kissinger’s view

Laird's performance
-Compared to Rogers's
-Kissinger’s view
-Budget requests
-Kissinger, George P. Shultz
-Supplemental requests
-Military expenditures for Vietnam
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)

Lavelle
-The President’s view
-Compared to Daniel Ellsberg case
-Military responses

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Air strikes
-Kissinger’s instructions
-US relationship with Soviet Union

Lavelle
-Administration action
-Replacement
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Timing of removal
-Laird
-Informing the President
-Kissinger’s knowledge
-Public relations aspects
-Rogers
-Administration response
-Press response
-Number of unauthorized air raids
-Public response

People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement
-Press coverage
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

The President talked with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?] at an unknown time between
11:15 and 11:55 am.

[Conversation No. 733-6A]

Ronald L. Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

PRC announcement
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Podgorny trip
-Publicity
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am.

Ziegler’s location
-Press briefing

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:55 am.

Lavelle
-Administration action
-Laird

Moorer
-Air strikes
-Kissinger’s instructions
-Laird
-Opposition to the President
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Soviet Union
-Podgorny’s trip
-The President’s conversation with Brezhnev

Rogers
-Purpose of Podgorny trip


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Warren E. Burger
-Letter

John C. Stennis

Laird
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)

-Negotiations with Soviet Union
-Rogers
-Mining of North Vietnam harbors
-Cambodia, Laos
-Lavelle
-Political ambitions
-Kissinger’s view


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Lavelle
-Haig
-News summary

Kissinger's trip
-Schedule
-Departure
-Dinner for Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Schedule
-Echeverria
-Kissinger

PRC
-Military information

SALT ratification
-Approval
-Timing
-Republican convention
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson's response
-The President’s concern
-Soviet Union responses
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.)

-Jackson's concerns
-Defense appropriations
-Opposition
-George S. McGovern
-Jackson
-Opposition
-B-1 bomber
-Undersea long-range missiles [ULMS]
-McGovern
-Kissinger’s possible responses
-Defense appropriation
-Appropriations
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs]
-Relations with Soviet Union
-John J. McCloy
-Support to SALT and military program
-Wall Street Journal
-Talk with Kissinger
-Keisling (sp?) [New York editor]

Kissinger left at 11:55 am.