Date: May 28, 1971
Time: 2:50 pm - 3:07 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with William P. Rogers.
Rogers’ schedule
-King Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud
People's Republic of China [PRC] admission to United Nations [UN]
-Opinion polls
-Call to Rogers from H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Gallup and Harris polls
-Changes
-President's PRC initiative
-Significance
-Public opinion
-Walter H. Judd
-Effect of President's PRC initiative
-President's forthcoming press conference
-Discussions with Rogers
-Taiwan
-Release of opinion polls
-Taiwan
-Senate hearings
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-Timing
-An audience in England
-Timing
-Rogers’ public statements
-Henry A. Kissinger
-A proposal
-US position
-Factors Conv. No. 3-178 (cont.)
-Public statements
-Relations with PRC
-A second proposition
-Possible outcome
-Rogers’ meeting with James C.H. Shen
-President's previous meeting Shen
-President's possible action
-Taiwan's possible action
-Ping-pong diplomacy
-Significance
-Message to Chiang Kai-shek
-President's response
-Security Council seat
-Taiwan's response
-Judd
-Rogers’ trip to Europe
-President's forthcoming meeting with Judd
-State Department
-Results of a leak
-Rogers’ public posture
-Rogers’ forthcoming Senate testimony
-Compared with possible statement by President
-Timing
Vietnam
-President's meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu and Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Date
-Rogers
-Possible results
-Melvin R. Laird, Defense Department budget
-Possible results
-October election
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-Newspaper publicity
-War
-Drug program
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Timing
Middle East
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]-United Arab Republic
Conv. Treaty
No. 3-178 (cont.)
-Rogers’ lunch with Faisal
-Oilmen
-Saudi economy