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893–2
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
April 11, 1973
Conversation No. 893-2

Date: April 11, 1973
Time: 9:42 am - 9:50 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

US-Spain relations
-Base agreements
-President’s meeting with Gregoria Lopez-Bravo de Castro
-Letter from Gen. Francisco Franco
-Contents
-Presentation to President
-Photographs
-Arrangements
-Adm. Horacio Rivero, Jr.
-Scheduling
-President’s schedule
-Length of meeting
-Robert J. McCloskey
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 893-2 (cont’d)

-Cyrpus

-Lopez-Bravo

-Robert C. Hill [?]

-International Security Affairs [ISA]

-Elliot L. Richardson


President’s State dinner for Lee Kuan Yew
-Lee’s toast
-Lee
-Profundity

-Remarkableness

-Compared to US liberals

-Understanding of Southeast Asia

-Meeting Kissinger [?]

-Thailand


Ambassadorships
-Thailand

-Role of Ambassador

-Henry Kearns

-Bank

-Qualifications

-William R. Kintner

-Pakistan, Cambodia

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Strength of Cambodia

-Qualifications for Ambassador to Pakistan

-Hill
Support for President

-Lifestyle

-State Department


Cambodia
-Composition of possible government

-Haig

-State Department’s attempts

-Lon Nol’s view

-Cambodia domestic situation

-Henry A. Kissinger’s consultation with People’s Republic of China [PRC]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 893-2 (cont’d)


Lee Kuan Yew

-1967 meeting with President

-Dialogue


President’s role in world

-Lee’s view

-Thais’ view

-Senators’ view

-President’s decision making

-Future President’s

Kissinger’s schedule

-Meeting with Lee


Kissinger’s talks with Richardson
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger’s confidence in progress

Forthcoming summit meeting

-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Leonid I. Brezhnev

-Soviet leadership

-Crisis
-Potential changes in leadership
-Nuclear treaty
-Importance to Soviets
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Meeting with Dobrynin
-Haig’s meeting

Kissinger left at 9:50 am
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 893-3 (cont’d)
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