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447-013a

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447-013a
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
June 19, 1973
Conversation No. 447-13

Date: June 19, 1973
Time: 12:10 pm - 12:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

President’s previous conversation with Leonid I. Brezhnev

-Agreements

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)

Conversation No. 447-13 (cont’d)

-Economic relations

-George P. Shultz

-Nikolai S. Patolichev

-Transportation

-Sequoia

-Schedule

-Sequoia dinner

-Brezhnev’s view

-Patolichev, Shultz
-Camp David
-Kissinger, Andrei A. Gromyko, Andrei Aleksandrov
-William P. Rogers
-Signing of agreement

-Timing

-Press relations

-Ceremony at White House

-San Clemente

-Appearance

-Negotiations
-Allies
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Compared with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
signed in Moscow, 1972

-Jet lag

-Interpreters

-Brezhnev’s relationship with President

-Interactions

-Interpreters


President’s forthcoming conversation with Brezhnev
-Agenda
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR], SALT closing date
-Rogers, Gromyko
-Kissinger, Dobrynin

Rogers
-Forthcoming talks on Middle East, Conference on Security and Cooperation in
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)

Conversation No. 447-13 (cont’d)

Europe [CSCE]

-Statement length

-Gromyko


Brezhnev’s schedule
-Kissinger, Dobrynin
-Sequoia
-Shultz, Patolichev
-Camp David

-Aleksandrov

-Gromyko, Kissinger

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Soviet counterpart [Leonid M. Zamyatin]

-Security


President’s previous conversation with Brezhnev
-Jews

-Public relations

-Possible demonstrations

-Sequoia

-Blacks


Brezhnev’s schedule
-Senators
-Capitol
-Administrative assistants

-Hubert H. Humphrey

-Response

-Briefing

-Signing of agreements
-Compared to John F. Kennedy’s administration
-Oceanography
-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
-Transportation, agriculture, oceanography, cultural exchange
-Tax Treaty

-Shultz

-Peaceful use of nuclear energy, SALT

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)

Conversation No. 447-13 (cont’d)

-SALT principles

-Joint Chiefs of Staff’s [JSC] reaction

-Timing of agreement


President’s previous conversation with Brezhnev
-State Dinner
-Russian proverb
-Friendship in adversity
-Kissinger’s conversation with People’s Republic of China [PRC] ambassador
[Huang Hun]

Possible visit by PRC officials to US in 1973
-Talks, August 1973
-Possible announcement
-Chou En-Lai

Head of State visits
-Previous meetings with R. G. Heath, Georges J. R. Pompidou, [Shah of Iran]
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Kissinger’s experience

Brezhnev’s schedule
-Dobrynin
-Sequoia
-Photographic session
-Dinner

-Helicopter

-Camp David

-Arrangements

-SALT

-Kissinger and Dobrynin

-Rogers

-Camp David

Prevention of Nuclear War agreement
-Rogers’s views concerning North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] guidelines
-Rogers’s conversation with U. Alexis Johnson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)

Conversation No. 447-13 (cont’d)

-Great Britain, Germany

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Article 51 objectives

-Compared to commitments

-Rogers’s views at Hangchow


Forthcoming briefings on agreements
-Kissinger’s schedule
-SALT
-Congressional relations

-President


Brezhnev’s visit
-Possible demonstrations
-Security

-Camp David

-Sequoia


Watergate
-John W. Dean, III

-Republicans, Democrats

-Handling of funds

-Fred Thompson’s possible questioning

-White House response

-President’s activities

-President’s opponents

-Goals

-Media coverage

-Delay of hearings

-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

-Rogers compared to Haig

-Partisanship

Senate
-Scott

-President’s refusal to speak with Scott, June 18, 1973

-Vietnam

-Cease-fire agreement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2012)

Conversation No. 447-13 (cont’d)


-John C. Stennis
-Hospitalization

-Herman E. Talmadge

-Members


Brezhnev’s schedule

-Lunch

-Senate Foreign Relations Committee

-Economic meeting

-Shultz

-Sequoia


Kissinger left at 12:35 pm.
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