252–20

Conversation No. 252-20

Date: April 28, 1971
Time: 4:51 pm - 6:08 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger’s trip to California
-Schedule
-Timing

Kissinger’s conversation with Pakistani Ambassador Agha Hilaly

People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-US policy

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Negotiations
-[David] Kenneth Rush and Philip J. Farley

PRC
-Chou En-lai

USSR
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
-Vienna
-Arms control
-Possible agreement
-US policy
-Possible agreement
-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM] treaty
-Soviet strength

PRC
-Pakistani ambassador
-US emissary
-Possible candidates
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-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-[Unintelligible name]
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Taiwan
-Chiang Kai-shek
-John B. Connally Conv. No. 252-20 (cont.)
-Personal style
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

USSR
-Cuba
-Middle East
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Prospects
-Kissinger’s discussion with Dobrynin
-Possible summit
-SALT
-US position
-PRC

PRC
-Possible US emissary
-Rockefeller [?]

Vietnam
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-PRC
-US policy
-Possible withdrawal of US forces
-Thailand
-Indonesia
-William P. Rogers’ speech
-Criticism
-Cambodia and Laos

PRC
-Kissinger’s conversation with Henry Hubbard
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Marshall Green
-Rogers
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-State Department
-Goal of US policy
-End isolation of PRC
-President’s possible statement on April 29, 1971 regarding Taiwan
-US relations
-Treaty commitments
-United Nations’ [UN] representation
-Two-China policy Conv. No. 252-20 (cont.)
-US policy
-State Department
-Negotiations
-Pakistan
-Rawalpindi
-Bruce
-Robert D. Murphy
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Haldeman
-Chou En-lai
-Rockefeller
-Taiwan
-Bruce
-Vietnam negotiations
-State Department
-Signal to the USSR
-Berlin talks
-Bruce
-Rockefeller
-Vietnam
-USSR
-Timetable
-Bruce
-Kissinger
-Bruce’s possible role
-Kissinger
-Possible visit by President
-Vietnam
-Meeting in Rawalpindi
-Possible US emissary to Peking
-Bruce

Haldeman entered at 5:20 pm
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-Possible summit meeting
-Timing of President’s visit
-Vietnam negotiations
-Taiwan
-Vietnam
-Announcement
-Kissinger’s possible role
-Bruce Conv. No. 252-20 (cont.)
-Visit by President
-Arrangements
-Kissinger
-Meeting with PRC representatives
-Kissinger’s possible itinerary
-Timing
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Personal emissary
-Risks
-USSR
-Laos, Indonesia, and Thailand
-Kissinger
-Bruce
-Meeting in Rawalpindi
-Timing
-USSR
-Rockefeller
-Need for subtlety
-Preparation for meeting with President
-Arrangements
-Agenda
-Kissinger
-Agenda
-Emissary
-Announcement
-Press conference

President’s conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Television coverage

PRC
-Timing of President’s visit
-USSR
-Announcement
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-Kissinger
-Rockefeller and Bruce
-State Department
-Meeting in Rawalpindi
-PRC emissaries
-Chou En-lai
-Timing
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield Conv. No. 252-20 (cont.)
-Tour of China
-Purpose of negotiations
-Summit meeting
-Vietnam
-Emissary
-Possible discussions
-Purposes of Kissinger’s visit
-President’s visit
-Possible visit by “public” envoy
-US position
-Meeting in Rawalpindi
-Pakistan ambassador
-Kissinger and Rogers
-Negotiations
-Possible “public” emissaries
-Bruce and Murphy
-Condition of presidential visit
-End of Vietnam War
-Timing of President’s visit

USSR
-Summit meeting

Vietnam
-Bruce’s statement on Prisoners of War [POWs]

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v.
James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration
produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Kissinger left at 5:49 pm
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State Department
-Possible change of secretary
-Rogers
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rockefeller
-Connally
-Rogers Conv. No. 252-20 (cont.)
-Kissinger
-Need for “mechanic” as secretary
-Richardson and Rogers
-Rogers
-Accomplishments
-Middle East and USSR
-Career aspirations
-Supreme Court
-Warren E. Burger
-John M. Harlan
-President’s PRC policy
-Taiwan
-Speech

Barry M. Goldwater
-Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]
-Comments in Tennessee
-Social Security
-Comments in St. Petersburg, Florida
-Press
-Television
-Marvin L. Kalb

State Department
-Rogers
-President’s PRC policy
-Green
-President’s PRC policy
-Kissinger
-Rogers

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:55 pm

George P. Shultz
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-Minimum wage
-President’s schedule
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland

Minimum wage
-Decision
-James D. Hodgson
-Testimony Conv. No. 252-20 (cont.)
-President’s schedule
-Shultz
-President’s instructions to Haldeman
-Purpose of Shultz’s request to discuss minimum wage
-President’s upcoming press conference
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Administration’s position
-Hodgson

State Department
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Career aspirations
-Rogers

Television networks
-President’s conversation with Colson
-Demonstrations
-Public opinion
-Veterans
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-John A. Scali
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Pentagon [Department of Defense]
-Media
-President’s reaction to media in 1962

President’s meeting with editors

State Department
-Connally
-Rogers

PRC
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-Visit by US emissary
-Kissinger
-Richardson
-Announcement
-Emissary
-Public and private
-Timing
-Conditions Conv. No. 252-20 (cont.)
-Vietnam
-Taiwan
-President’s visit
-Mansfield

Shultz
-Hodgson’s testimony
-President’s schedule
-Call back

Butterfield left at 6:06 pm

-John D. Ehrlichman

The President and Haldeman left at 6:08 pm