450–21

Conversation No. 450-21

Date: February 17, 1971
Time: 4:52 pm - 5:24 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Walter Scheel, William P. Rogers, and Henry A. Kissinger; the White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions

Refreshments

Europe
-President’s position
-Questions regarding Europe
-President’s previous press conference
-Foreign policy report to Congress
-Rogers role
-Melvin R. Laird’s role
-Rogers negotiations
-East/West relations
-Middle East
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-Other areas of concern
-Compared to Europe
-President’s press conference
-Southeast Asia

Germany
-US-German relations
-Germany-Eastern Europe relations Conv. No. 450-20 (cont.)
-US position
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Content
-Berlin negotiations
-Bonn/Moscow negotiations
-Forthcoming German elections
-Berlin problem
-Status
-German position
-Western allies
-Soviet Union
-Position on Berlin
-Status
-German position
-Goals
-Concessions
-Berlin’s situation
-Isolation
-President’s view
-Efforts
-German position
-Western allies
-Warsaw Pact

Gifts

Scheel left at 5:19 pm

Scheel’s comments
-Follow-up discussion
-German policies
-German political situation

Rogers left at 5:22 pm
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-Berlin negotiations
-Soviet tactics
-President’s view


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Conv. No. 450-21 (cont.)
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President’s press conference
-The President’s handling
-Vietnam
-President’s comments
-Cuban question
-Kissinger’s view

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CUBA


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-Television use
-Effect on positions
-Paris negotiations
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-Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Laos
-American press

Kissinger left at 5:24 pm

Conversation
Conv. No. 450-21
No. 450-22
(cont.)

Date: February 17, 1971
Time: 5:25 pm - 5:26 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

Previous press conference
-Laos
-Integration
-North Vietnam


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Ziegler left at 5:26 pm