808–5

Conversation No. 808-5

Date: October 27, 1972
Time: 11:16 am - 11:41 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Harold Lee. The White House photographer was present at the
beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
-Family
-Smith College
-Travel Plans
-Tokyo

The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Mao Tse-tung
-Longevity
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Respect
-Chou En-lai
-Ability as leader
-Reasons for US-PRC rapprochement
-Soviet Union
-Quality of life
-Shanghai
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-Singapore
-Taipei
-Hong Kong
-Chinese women
-Dress
-Quality of life
-Productivity
-Future
-Influence in world
-Chou En-lai
-Age, vigor
-Intellectual quality
-Meetings with the President
-World outlook
-West
-Soviet Union
-Divisions
-Europe
-Indians
-Soviet Relations
-East
-Japan
-Military
-Economy
-Reason for turning to US
-Perception of US, Japan
-The President's meetings with Chou En-lai
-US-Japan security agreement
-Results of possible abrogation
-Alternatives left Japan
-Soviet Union
-Rearmament
-US-Japan relations
-Kakuei Tanaka’s trip to the PRC
-Chinese desires
-US as Pacific power
-Soviet Union
-Japan
-India
-The President’s reading
-John K. Fairbank
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-Survival
-World role
-US interest
-Dialogue
-Soviet Union
-History of China contacts
-Pakistan
-Chou En-lai
-The President’s previous press conference
-Visit to the PRC
-US relations
-Recent history
-Previous administrations
-Lee’s previous visit with the President
-Vietnam
-Agreement with North Vietnamese
-Acceptance by Nguyen Van Thieu
-Quality
-US support to South Vietnam
-Military replacement
-Economic assistance
-Coalition government
-Need to end war
-History of effort
-Establishment
-J. William Fulbright, Joseph W. Alsop
-Anna C. Chennault [?]
-Possible telephone call
-Health
-Henry A. Kissinger's October 26, 1972 announcement
-End of war
-Prediction
-US foreign policy
-Soviet Union
-Comparison of Soviet Union and PRC people
-Chou En-lai compared with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Chou En-lai
-The President’s view
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Realities of existence
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-Chinese communists
-Possible agreement with Taiwan
-Economic system
-Productivity
-Hong Kong
-Wheat
-Australia, Canada
-Brezhnev
-The President’s view
-Meeting with the President
-The President’s meetings with Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung
-Trust
-Interests
-US bureaucracy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:16 am.

The President's schedule

Gifts for Lee
-Family
-Pins
-Cuff links
-Presidential seal

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:41 am.

Lee's family

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-Smith College
-Wellesley College
-Liberals

Liberals
-Double standard
-Welfare issue
-The President's programs
-Food stamps

The President's schedule
-Lee’s home
-Lee’s wife
-Ohio
-L. Nicholas Ruwe
-West Virginia, Kentucky
-Ruwe
-Lee

Media relations
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Comparison
-Time, Newsweek
-Vietnam
-The President’s trips to the Soviet Union and PRC

The President's decisions
-Bureaucrats
-Kissinger
-The President's May 8, 1972 decision to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong harbor
-Kissinger
-US-Soviet summit, May 1972
US public opinion
-Opponents of Vietnam War
-Education
-Businessmen
-Administration supporters
-Heartland of the US
-Farmers
-Labor
-George Meany
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-Italian-Americans
-Catholics, fundamentalist Protestants
-Businessmen
-Donald McI. Kendall
-The Establishment
-US
-Compared to France
-World War I
-Compared to Great Britain
-World War II
-1972 election
-Education
-Intellectuals
-Social sciences, natural sciences

Japan
-Future
-Tanaka
-Lee’s visits
-People
-Compared to PRC
-Character

Bull entered and left at an unknown time before 11:41 am.

Photograph

Unknown man

Post-1972 election
-Possible firings

Foreign relations
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Cities
-Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo
-Chinese

Farewells
-1972 election
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Lee left at 11:41 am.