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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
May 25, 1971
Conversation No. 3-118

Date: May 25, 1971
Time: 8:28 pm - 8:47 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

President's trip to Florida and Alabama
-Weather

Vietnam
-Casualty figures
-President's speech to Congress, May 28, 1971
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-President's forthcoming meeting with Thieu
-W. Averell Harriman
-Timing
-Possible US proposal
-South Vietnamese response
-Thieu
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-Mansfield Amendment
-President's forthcoming announcement
-Importance
-Phil [Surname unknown]
-A meeting

US foreign policy
-Vladimir S. Semenov Conv. No. 3-118 (cont.)
-People's Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Timing
-US role
-President's forthcoming announcement
-Effect
-Negotiations [?]
-US proposal
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Midway Island
-Congress
-President's forthcoming announcement
-Alexander M. Haig
-Laird and Rogers
-Effect on public opinion

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Possible Summit
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Economic package
-President's speech to Southern Regional Media, May 25, 1971
-Berlin
-Possible Summit
-Economy
-Harvest
-Possible Summit
-Berlin
-Possible Summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin
-Economic package
-Possible Summit
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US foreign policy
-PRC
-Thieu
-USSR
-Possible Summit
-Economic aid
-Wheat, computers
-Edward R.G. Heath Conv. No. 3-118 (cont.)
-Effect
-Timing
-Thieu's meeting with President
-Press and television response
-Harriman
-Vietnam negotiations
-US position
-Jean Sainteny
-North Vietnam
-Sainteny's schedule
-Thieu's schedule
-Rogers
-Laird
-Rogers

Rogers
-Trip to Europe

Vietnam
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Date
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

SALT
-Importance
-Public opinion
-Press coverage
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Henry Brandon's Sunday Times [London] article

President's foreign policy
-Press coverage
-PRC initiative
-Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

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-President's opponents
-Vietnam
-President's reception in Alabama
-Outcome
-Polls
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Timing
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