919–3

Conversation No. 919-3

Date: May 16, 1973
Time: 9:07 am - 9:25 am
Location: Oval Office
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Conversation No. 919-3 (cont’d)

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and an unknown man.

Question

-Name [?]


Greeting

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:25 am.

Vietnam peace negotiations
-Paris
-Kissinger’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible White House statement
-Kissinger’s forthcoming press conference
-Blast
-April
-Effect of Watergate
-Economic aid
-President’s support abroad
-Forthcoming Soviet Summit

Forthcoming Soviet Summit
-Middle East
-Israel
-Nuclear treaty
-Israel
-Kissinger’s conversations
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Hafiz Ismail

Middle East
-War
-Arabs
-1967 Arab-Israeli war
-President’s telephone call with Eugene V. Rostow
-Straits of Tiran
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Middle East

-Possible negotiations

-Forthcoming Soviet Summit

-Principles

-Wording

-United Nations [UN] Security Council resolution
-Egypt’s concession
-Israel’s acquiescence
-Interim settlement

-Overall settlement

-Israel

-Delay

-Principles

-Soviet Union’s support

Leonid I. Brezhnev’s letter to the President
-Kissinger’s visit to Soviet Union
-Reply
-Joseph W. Alsop’s column, May 16, 1973

Watergate

-Public mood

-Weariness

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-Revelations
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Wiretaps
-Haig and Kissinger’s statement
-National security
-Effect of leaks on United States foreign policy
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

-President’s knowledge

-Henry Brandon

-J. Edgar Hoover
-Theories on role
-Comparison to Teapot Dome scandal
-Warren G. Harding
-Herbert G. Klein’s conversation with editors
-President’s possible resignation
-President’s possible resignation
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s resignation
-President’s possible activities
-Amateurishness of perpetrators
-Wiretaps
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Democratic National Committee [DNC] break-in
-Cover-up
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s testimony
-John D. Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-John W. Dean III
-Attempt to place defendants on CIA payroll
-White House strategy
-White House staff resignations
-President’s possible resignation

-Assassination

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Hoover
-Possible handling
-Blackmail
-President’s activities
-Joseph C. Kraft
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Vietnam
-Possible US withdrawal
-Kissinger’s view on loss of Indochina
-US attitude
-South Vietnam’s sovereignty

-Battle

-1975

-Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Europe


Forthcoming Soviet Summit
-Kissinger’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, May 15, 1973
-Agenda
-Effect on Watergate hearings

Forthcoming European Summit
-Bureaucratic discipline

Watergate
-Popular mood
-Effect
-Compared with Pentagon Papers trial
-Forthcoming trials
-John N. Mitchell

-Press attention

-White House strategy


Chou En-Lai
-State visit to US
-President’s approval

Watergate
-Effect on President

-Loss of close associates

-Kissinger, Haig, Ziegler

-Congress’s attitude
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Conversation No. 919-3 (cont’d)

-Compared with other events

-Pentagon Papers

-Laos

-Cambodia

-Possible White House counterattack

-Timing

-Wiretaps

-Newsmen
-Congress
-Actions
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Forthcoming White House social event

Vietnam peace negotiations

-Reports during trip

-Possible statement

-Kissinger’s schedule


Kissinger left at 9:25 am.