255–30

Conversation No. 255-30

Date: June 9, 1971
Time: 9:23 am - 10:29 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield
Conv. No. 255-30 (cont.)
[See Conversation No. 4-84]

[End of telephone conversation]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:24 am

Kissinger’s schedule

Kissinger’s previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Public statements
-Summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-State Department
-Soviet internal divisions
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Forthcoming trip to France
-Vietnam negotiations
-Possible summit
-Timing
-September
-US Presidential elections
-Effect
-Vietnam
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement
-Trade restrictions
-Jay Lovestone
-Maritime union

Gerald R. Ford
-Support

Canada
-Trade agreement with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Chinese
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Mexico

Summits
-USSR
-PRC
-Soviet summit
-Berlin Conv. No. 255-30 (cont.)
-Trade
-Inflation

Japan
-Okinawa
-Forthcoming treaty signing
-President’s schedule
-State Department
-Eisaku Sato
-William P. Rogers
-Textiles
-[Forename unknown] Meyers
-State Department
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Economic advisors

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Draft
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dan Rather, June 8
-Melvin R. Laird’s memorandum
-Prisoner of War [POW] issue
-Clark M. Clifford
-[William H.?] Sullivan
-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-Bombing halt
-Combat roles
-John N. Mitchell
-Laird and Rogers
-Combat roles
-Casualty figures
-Troop withdrawal [?]
-Press conference
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-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Laird
-Richard M. Helms and Mitchell
-Possible enemy offensive
-Troop withdrawal

Kissinger’s conversation with William F. Buckley, Jr. [?]
-SALT Conv. No. 255-30 (cont.)
-PRC
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson

Vietnam
-POWs
-Troop withdrawal
-Collapse of South Vietnam
-Clifford
-Charles W. Colson
-Administration opposition to critics
-Colson and John A. Scali
-POW issue
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Washington Post article
-Student demonstrators
-Dobrynin
-Soviet press coverage of US demonstrators
-Press questions
-Timetable
-Public statements by North Vietnamese negotiators
-Administration’s response
-Buchanan and Scali
-Hanoi
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Possible troop withdrawal, July 1
-Xuan Thuy
-Series of meetings between Kissinger and Thuy
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-Laird
-American embassy
-Military presence
-Effect of peace talks
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-Public reaction
-Laos
-American presence
-Dobrynin
-POW issue
-Public announcement of US proposal
-North Vietnamese rejection
-Troop withdrawal Conv. No. 255-30 (cont.)
-Laird
-Cabinet meetings
-Survival of South Vietnam
-Dobrynin
-Laos
-American presence
-Military operations
-Public support
-Cambodia
-Casualties
-Football
-Vincent T. (“Vince”) Lombardi
-Coaching
-History of warfare
-Napoleonic Wars
-Waterloo
-Prussians
-Causes
-British


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-Unknown person
-Edmund S. Muskie
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-North Vietnamese
-Korea
-Rogers Conv. No. 255-30 (cont.)
-Laird
-Cambodia
-PRC
-June 15th

Kissinger left at 10:29 am