414–13

Conversation No. 414-13

Date: March 2, 1973
Time: 9:40 am-10:25 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

International Conference on Vietnam
-Congressional delegation
-Kissinger’s recommendations
-William P. Rogers
-Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott
-President’s statement
-International recognition
-Negotiations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], People’s Republic of China
[PRC], Hanoi
-Prearranged documents
-Morning, afternoon sessions
-Paris
-State Department briefings
-Cease-fire agreement
-Breach
-Signatory’s response
-Reconvention of conference
-Compared with Geneva Conventions, United Nations [UN]
-US response
-“De-Americanize the peace”
-Viet Cong
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-News summary
-Prisoners of war [POWs] release
-North Vietnam compared to South Vietnam
-Timing
-President’s statement

Leaks
-Malcolm Smith’s book on John F. Kennedy

Kissinger
-White House dinner
-Farewell party
-Roger Macon
-Mrs. Roger Macon
-Dwight Davis
-Davis Cup
-Frank [Marquis?] Childs
-Editor of Sunday Times
-Opinions of President
-Conversation with Hugh S. Sidey
-Article about President
-Personality compared to John F. Kennedy

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:40 am.

Food

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:25 am.

-President’s foreign policy
-Humaneness
-National self-determination [?]
-Support

The President
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Comparison of President to George S. McGovern
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-President’s progressive policies
-Domestic politics
-Radicals as status quo
-McGovern supporters
-Voter participation
-Shopkeepers

World trends
-John M. (“Jack”) Lynch
-Election
-Left politics
-1972 election in US
-US foreign policy
-Communist states
-Respectability
-Willy Brandt
-Election victory
-Disaster for US
-US role
-Statements
-Ostpolitik
-President’s opposition
-1969 election
-Party politics
-Results
-Parliament

Vietnam negotiations
-Cease-fire violations
-President’s statement
-Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam
-Kissinger’s assessment
-Joint Economic Commission [?]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 9:40 am.

Preparation for press briefing
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Monetary information

L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III [?]

Ziegler’s press briefing
-Rowland Evans-Robert D. Novak column
-Office of Economic Opportunity
-[First name unknown] Phillips
-Staff
-John B. Connally switching parties

International Conference on Vietnam
-Agreement
-Paris
-Signature
-Timing
-President’s press conference

POWs' release
-Press reports

Length of President's upcoming press conference
-Frank Cormier

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 10:25 am.

Preparation for press conference
-POWs’ release
-Sudan
-Blackmail
-Retrieving hostages
-Middle East
-Arms sales
-Airplanes
-Israel
-Balance of power
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-Press statement
-Peace
-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
-Golda Meir
-Political ability
-Age
-Reelection
-Moshe Dayan
-Election
-Compared with Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
-President’s preference
-Yitzak Rabin

Social function attended by President
-Jews [?]
-R. Sargent Shriver [?], [First name unknown] Fischer
-Jewelry
-Value
-President’s dinner conversation with Alice Walker [?], Irving Kristol, William F.
(“Billy”) Graham
-Meeting with Meir
-Policy
-Joseph W. Alsop

Versailles Treaty
-Retribution compared to reconciliation
-Balance of power
-Germany, Russia, Austro-Hungarian Empire
-German rearmament
-Balkanization
-Russian Revolution
-Britain’s withdrawal
-France
-Maginot Line
-US neutrality
-Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Preparation for press conference
-Vietnam negotiations
-POWs’ release
-Contingencies

Van Cliburn
-Performance March 1, 1973
-Frederic Chopin
-USSR visit

President’s, Kissinger’s visit to Israel [?], Cairo
-Reception in Israel

Middle East peace negotiations
-Egypt
-General principles

Lynch
-Irish elections

French elections
-Run-off election
-Communist Party compared to Gaulist, Socialist parties

Ambassadorial appointments
-Rogers [?]
-Kissinger’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ambassador to Israel
-Kenneth B. Keating’s appointment
-President’s viewpoint
-Exception
-John Sherman Cooper
-Impairments
-Ceremonial country
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Mrs. Yitzhak Rabin
-John Eisenhower [?]
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-Book
-Compared with McCloskey and Keating


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-Israel
-Tolerance
-Pakistan

Kissinger left at 10:25 am.