Date: October 6, 1972
Time: 2:09 pm - 2:26 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with William P. Rogers.
[See Conversation No. 354-25]
Foreign policy
-George S. McGovern's statements in Cleveland
-The People’s Republic of China’s [PRC] role in Asia
-Possible response of Thailand
-Possible response by Rogers
-Charles W. Colson
-The President’s view
-Role of Melvin R. Laird
-Televised press conference
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-Alternatives
-PRC relationship with India, Indonesia, Japan
-Rogers’s response
-Timing and forum
-Previous conversation with Colson
-Rogers’s previous speech before the United Nations [UN] General
Assembly
-Japan
-Kakuei Tanaka
-McGovern’s foreign policy positions
-McGovern’s forthcoming statements on Vietnam
-Rogers’s view
-McGovern’s previous statement on Japan
-Compared with Rogers’s previous speech before the UN
-Tanaka
-US military bases in the Pacific
-US commitment to Taiwan
-Involvement in Europe
-Abram Chayes
-Vietnam
-Communism
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Irish foreign minister Patrick Hillary,
October 6, 1972
-Meeting with Pote Sarasin, October 6, 1972
-Rogers’s meetings with foreign officials
-Czechoslovakia
-Settlement of outstanding issues in relations with US
-Trade status
-Invitation to visit
-European Security Conference
-Exchange of scientists
-Consulate convention
-Invitations to visit
-Hungary
-Bulgarian contacts with US
-Recent trends in foreign relations
-PRC
-Visit by members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors
[ASNE]
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-Talks with Japan and PRC
-White House barber [Milton Pitts ?]
-North Korea and South Korea
-India
-Pakistan
-Indira Gandhi’s recent comments about the US
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Rogers’s schedule
-Rogers’s meeting with PRC
-Ch'Iao Kuan-Hua
-PRC Deputy Foreign Minister
-George H.W. Bush
-Background
-Henry A. Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Soviet Union issue
-The President’s conversation with an unknown official from Thailand
-PRC comments about the Soviet Union
-PRC comments about the US
-Mao Tse-Tung, Chou En-Lai
-Comments about the US
-McGovern’s statements in Cleveland
-Colson
-Press reaction
-Implications
-Vietnam War
-Response by the President