Date: February 14, 1972
Time: 10:32 pm - 10:40 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
White House dinner
-Andre Malraux
-Quality of meeting
-Malraux speech
-Kissinger view
-Afternoon meeting
-Economic aid
-Mao Tse-tung
-Liberals
-Mao’s forthcoming meeting with president
-Reason
-Comment to president
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
-Effect on world
-Effect of occasion
-The President’s comments
-The President’s forthcoming trips to Soviet Union and PRC
-Comments on Mao Tse-tung and Jawaharal Nehru
-Feeling for mystique
-American mystique
-Abraham Lincoln
-French view of mystique
-PRC view of mystique
-Kissinger’s trip
-Discussion with Chinese Marshal
-Mao
Handling of PRC trip
-Need for dignity and confidence
-Ability of others to handle
-PRC trip
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-John B. Connally
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-President’s qualification to understand PRC
-President’s schooling
-Tragedies
-PRC
-Kissinger role in setting up trip
Malraux
-Comments
-Health
-Economic preoccupation
-Interpretation of Edward M. Kennedy remarks
Forthcoming PRC trip
-Reason
-Fear
-Malraux’s view
-Economic aid
-Marxist view
-Legitimacy
-Malraux’s view
-Mao’s desires
-Chines unification
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Respect
-Economic progress
-Historical significance
White House dinner
-Malraux
-Howard K. Smith
-Soviet Union trip
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