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264–3
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
July 21, 1971
Conversation No. 264-3

Date: July 21, 1971
Time: 10:21 am - 11:01 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule
-Breakfast meeting with Max Frankel
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] briefing
-George P. Shultz
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Economy
-New York City
-Kissinger's dinner
-Comments
-The US initiative towards the PRC

Foreign relations
-The PRC initiative
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Frankel
-The war in Vietnam
-Dobrynin
-The PRC initiative
-Reaction
-Forthcoming US - PRC Summit
-Trip preparation
-Advance work
-Dwight L. Chapin
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Importance
-The Chinese
-Reaction to preparations
-Chinese people outside the PRC
-Details
-Logistics
-Ehrlichman
-Experience in trip advance work
-Sites for Presidential visits
-White House Communications Agency [WHCA]
-Kissinger’s role
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-Negotiations

The Pentagon Papers case
-Frankel
-The Administration's reaction
-Lyndon B. Johnson's administration
-The New York Times
-Approach to foreign policy
-Possible re-election of the President
-Kissinger’s conversation with John Kenneth Galbraith
-Edmund S. Muskie

Foreign policy developments
-PRC Summit
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] Summit
-Vietnam negotiations
-Berlin
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Middle East
-The PRC initiative
-The New York Times
-Reaction
-Frankel
-Attitude towards Israel
-Attitude towards USSR
-The USSR
-Dobrynin
-Reaction to US-PRC initiative
-Chou En-lai's interview with US students
-State Department message
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Vietnam War
-Le Duc Tho
-Settlement
-The Left
-Congress
-Chou's comments
-Frankel’s position
-US public opinion
-Possible statement by Chou
-Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Trip to PRC
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-Announcement of trip
-Timing
-Purpose
-Arrangements
-Agenda
-Communique
Conv. No. 264-3 (cont.)

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CHINA


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-Kissinger’s role
-William P. Rogers
-The State Department
-Cyrus R. Vance
-Letter to the President
-Historical record on the PRC initiative
-Rogers
-The President's conversations with Kissinger
-Responsibility for the Initiative
-The State Department
-Experts on the PRC
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Meeting in the White House Lincoln Sitting Room
-The President
-Rogers
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-US-PRC relations
-Handling of negotiations
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with the PRC Ambassador
-Terms
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-Role of the President
-Conditions of PRC contact with other American visitors
-Democrats, Republicans
-Peter H. Dominick
-John G. Tower
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-George Meany Conv. No. 264-3 (cont.)
-Visits by other US officials
-Effect on Presidential visit
-Appearances
-Bi-partisan
-Chou En-lai
-Senators
-Timing
-President’s forthcoming visit to PRC
-Compared to USSR relations
-SALT
-Dobrynin
-Laos
-Vietnam settlement
-Timing of announcement
-Congress’ role
-Compared to SALT, bombing of North Vietnam
-Presidential leadership
-Press, Congress’ reaction
-July 20, 1971 baseball game
-Child’s request for President’s autograph
-The US position in the world
-USSR
-Japan
-Europe
-Origin of US-PRC initiative
-Kissinger’s role
-Rogers
-State Department
-Kissinger’s forthcoming telephone call to Sidey
-Henry A. Grunwald
-Sidey

Kissinger left at 11:01 am.
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