892–11

Conversation No. 892-11

Date: April 10, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:19 pm and 12:44 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s schedule

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Meeting with Carl B. Albert

-Remarks for possible visit

-National Conference for Building and Construction Trades Department
-Camp David
-Barry M. Goldwater

-Trip to California

-Paris air show

-Alcoholics Anonymous publication

-One millionth copy

-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

-Roy D. Hickman

-Rotary International president

-Support for President

-Kiwanis International

-William G. Bray


Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:24 pm.

President’s schedule
-Lt. Col. John A. Dramesi

-Prisoner of War [POW]

-Flag presentation

-Political advantage

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule

-1973 Teacher of the Year
-John A. Ensworth
-Ladies Home Journal
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Tape Subject Log

(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 892-11 (cont’d)

-Miltary bases

-Kissinger


Bull left at 12:26 pm.

Lee Kuan Yew

-Previous meeting with President

-Leadership assessed

-Ethnicity

-Previous meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-1976 election
-Historical perspective
-Comparison with U.S. Leaders

President’s policies
-Judgement of history
-Abraham Lincoln’s administration
-Vietnam
-Administration staff
-Supporters
-Hardhats
-US House Of Representatives
-Goldwater
-Cabinet

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
-Cabinet
-Compared to Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Peter J. Brennan
-Congressional leaders
-Goldwater
-Strom Thurmond
-Military personnel
-First Daughters
-Pham Van Dong
-Le Duc Tho
-Patriotism
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Conversation No. 892-11 (cont’d)


Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Proposed Treaty on the Prevention of Nuclear War

-Soviet Union expectations

-Reaction

-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Justification

-Nuclear weapons

-Use of force

-Soviet interests

-Justification

-Europe

-Reassurances

-PRC

-Attacks by foreign nations

-Great Britain
-Role in NATO
Entry in common market
-US role

-Gen. Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle

-Jewish emigration issue

-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s exchange with President
-Congressional leaders
-Jewish community
-President’s address
-Yitzak Rabin
-Bipartisan Congressional leadership
-Agnew
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson, Abraham A. Ribicoff, Jacob K.
Javits

-Jewish leaders

-William E. Timmons

-Wilbur D. Mills, Herman T. Schneebeli, Russell B. Long,
Wallace F. Bennett
-Ways and Means Committee, Finance Committee
-President’s previous meeting with leaders
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Conversation No. 892-11 (cont’d)

-Public relations
-US negotiations with Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Robert C. Hill
-Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs
[ISA]
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Dealings with White House staff
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Access in White House

Ambassadors
-William R. Kinter

-Support for President

-Possible ambassadorship

-Pakistan
-Cambodia
-Confirmation process
-Leonard Unger, Thailand

-Henry A. Byroade

-William P. Rogers


Soviet summit
-Dobrynin
-Leadership
-Brezhnev

-US negotiating stance on Vietnam

-Treaty

-Middle East

-Negotiations

-Kissinger’s assessment of President’s character

-Trade Bill

-Vietnam

-Domestic issues
-Political shift
-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe [CSCE]
-Brezhnev

-Health

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(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 892-11 (cont’d)

-Treaty

-Soviet Union concerns

-Timing of announcement

-Most favored nation [MFN] status

-Forthcoming CSCE conference

-Future visit by President

-Possible trip to PRC

-Peking


Kintner
-Ambassadorship
-Relationship to President

Gen. Richard G. Stilwell
-Ambassadorship
-Pakistan
-Retirement from military
-Cambodia
-Perception of Kintner’s military service
-Army rank

Soviet Union
-Treaty
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin on April 10, 1973
-Jewish emigration

-Treaty

-Vietnam

-Provisional Revolutionary Government [PRG]
-Saigon

Vietnam
-North Vietnam interests

-Dobrynin’s analysis

-Cambodia

-Violence

-Limited conflicts

-Economic aid

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


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(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 892-11 (cont’d)

-Treaty
-Removal of troops from Cambodia and Laos

Kissinger’s schedule

-Farewell lunch

-Lakshmi Kant Jha


Kissinger left at 12:44 pm.