18–17

Conversation No. 18-17

Date: January 9, 1972
Time: 12:41 pm - 12:52 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 312-4]

Happy birthday for the President

Weather in California

Vietnam troop withdrawal announcement for January 12, 1972
-Timing
-Department of Defense [DOD] briefing
-Melvin R. Laird's role
-The President’s role
-Statement to press
-Credit to Laird
-Vietnamization
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Laird's efforts
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Kissinger's forthcoming talk with Laird
-Laird's briefing of the press
-The President’s role
-Rush
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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-Negotiations
-Forthcoming announcements
-Timing
-Troop withdrawals
-POWs
-Timing

Rush
-Kissinger’s recent conversation with Mitchell
-Laird
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR], Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
[SALT]
-Qualifications for the job
-Germany
-Defense Department
-Loyalty

Sheik Mujibur Rahman's trip
-New Delhi and Dacca
-Airport arrival
-Possible diplomatic reception
-Islamabad
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Release of Mujibar Rahman

Bangladesh
-Pakistan
-Possible recognition
-Mujibur Rahman

US recognition of Mujibur Rahman
-Diplomatic reception
-US political counsellor’s presence
-Compared to ambassador
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Timing
-Pakistan
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-US political counsellor

Haig
-Trip to the PRC
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-Hangchow
-Return to the US

Morning newspapers

Malta
-British withdrawal from military bases
-Italy
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Soviet Union
-Possible base
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] offer
-Italy
-British
-Heath, Dominic Mintoff


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MALTA


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Italian government
-Future prospects
-Possible visit by the Italians


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ITALY


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-Republican Party in Italy
-Possible visit by the Italians
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC

Kissinger in California