287–7

Conversation No. 287-7

Date: October 11, 1971
Time: 10:28 am - 11:25 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[Conversation No. 287-7A]

[See Conversation No. 11-28]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:32 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

Greetings

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip preparation
-Kissinger's schedule
-Possible Number of attendees
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Press
-Secret Service
-Communications personnel
-The President’s view
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-White House staff
-Support staff
-Kissinger's conversation with Chou En-lai
-Staff size
-The President's feelings about size of party
-Secret Service
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Secret Service
-Communist countries
-Moscow
-Romania
-The President’s instructions


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SECURITY


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-Media coverage
-Television
-The President’s view
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Los Angeles Times

US-Soviet Union Summit announcement
-Marvin L. Kalb and Bernard Kalb
-Camp David
-Supreme Court appointment
-Economy
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-Phase II
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.

Preparation for forthcoming press conference announcing US-Soviet Union Summit
-Knowledge of US-Soviet Union Summit announcement
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-John A. Scali
-Forthcoming briefing
-Tone
-Senators and Congressmen
-Cabinet officials
-Compared with previous PRC trip announcement
-Consultations with allies before meeting
-Peking
-Discussions
-Possible response
-Meeting with North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] allies
-Possible responses
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Georges J.R. Ponpidou
-Willy Brandt
-Eisaku Sato
-Italians


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Japan
-Nobusuke Kishi
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-Possible meeting with the President
-Textile negotiations

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:36 am and
10:45 am.

[Conversation No. 287-7B]

[See Conversation No. 11-29]

[End of telephone conversation]


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MANOLO SANCHEZ ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 10:36 AM.


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Japan
-Sato
-Possible delay in Kishi’s trip
-Textile negotiations
-Possible application of Code 202
-Kishi
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THE PRESIDENT TALKED WITH DR. WALTER R. TKACH BETWEEN 10:45 AM AND
10:46 AM.

[CONVERSATION NO. 287-7C]

[SEE CONVERSATION NO. 11-31]

[END OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION]


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Textile negotiations with Japan
-Peter G. Peterson
-Activities
-Kissinger’s previous meeting
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MANOLO SANCHEZ ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 10:46 AM.

SANCHEZ LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 11:25 AM.


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United Nations [UN] vote
-Timing of US action
-Soviet Union
-PRC

Briefing on PRC trip
-Kissinger's schedule
-Senators
-Media
-Washington Post, New York Times, networks
-Congressional participants

Edward M. Kennedy
-Harvard
-Voter registration drive
-News summary report
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
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Vietnam
-Student opinion
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s policies

Possible media reaction to forthcoming announcement

Possible press briefing responses
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Vietnam
-The President’s responses
-PRC
-Moscow trip
-The President’s foreign policy

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Discussion items

PRC trip plans
-Press
-Secret Service
-Itinerary

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 10:46 am 11:25
am.

[Conversation No. 287-7D]

-Secret Service
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11A
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SECURITY


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-Safety in Communist countries


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-Communications
-White House staff
-The President’s view
-Secret Service
-Valets
-US dinner
-Chefs, Waiters
-Lack of facilities
-Secretaries
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-Genders
-Ziegler, Kissinger, William P. Rogers
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Rose Mary Woods

[End of telephone conversation]

Possible press briefing responses
-UN vote on Taiwan
-The President’s view

UN vote on Taiwan
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Israel's UN vote
-Arabs
-George H. W. Bush
-UN vote
-News summary
-Panama
-Venezuela
-Robert B. Anderson
-Panama

Kissinger's Schedule
-Rabin
-UN vote

PRC trip
-President’s statement on UN vote
-Bush
-Rogers

PRC
-Representation

The President’s forthcoming press briefing
-Purpose of Kissinger's PRC trip
-Possible responses
-South Vietnamese election
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Foreign governments
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-African states

-Rogers
-\"Face the Nation\"
-The President's letter of congratulations


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[Duration: 19s ]


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US foreign relations
-South Vietnam
-US representation at Thieu's inauguration
-Chile
-Kissinger's schedule
-Chilean Foreign Minister
-Nationalization
-Possible solution
-Kissinger’s response
-Kissinger's advice
-Compensation
-Nationalization
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The President's schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Meeting with Californians
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Dinner invitation

Kissinger's trip
-Japan

US foreign relations
-Seven Point Plan
-Vietnam
-Unintelligible name
-Washington Post
-State Department
-Bush
-UN delegation
-Douglas Henderson [?]
-Rogers
-Possible security conference
-The Presidents view
-Aldo Moro
-Berlin Agreement
-Soviet missile silos story
-Possible questions at press conference
-Possible responses
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Walter Lippman
-Interview in Washington Post
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-The President's PRC initiative
-Pentagon Papers
-PRC
-John Kenneth Galbraith’s view

Term \"charisma\"
-Liberals interest
-John F. Kennedy
-Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-John Kennedy
-Berlin

The President's schedule
-Briefing
-Kissinger's schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Rogers
-Meeting with leaders
-Rogers
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Rogers and Kissinger

The President's philosophy
-Soviets
-SALT
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Rogers and Kissinger
-State of the country
-The press
-The President’s role
-Kissinger’s view

US foreign relations
-Relations with Soviet bloc
-PRC
-Media interest
-Newsweek
-Time

News summary
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-Bernard L. and Marvin Kalb
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
Media
-Leak of US-Soviet Union Summit announcement
-New York Times


The President's schedule
-Moro
-Volpe
-Sons of Italy
-Future press conferences
-The President’s accomplishments
-US-Soviet Union Summit
-Andrei A. Gromyko

SALT
-Soviet missile silos
-The President’s view
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Radar
-Effect

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Haldeman
-Chapin
-Advance operations
-Communications
-Gen. Albert Redman, Jr.
-The President’s instructions
-Trip Itinerary
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Shanghai
-Navigator

PRC knowledge of US actions
-Lt. Gen Vernon A. Walters
-US-Soviet Union Summit
-Date

Kissinger's schedule
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-Moro
-Meeting with the President, October 12, 1971

Kissinger left at 11:25 am