451–4

Conversation No. 451-4

Date: February 18, 1971
Time: 9:56 am - 10:09 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Visit of Emilio Colombo
-Photograph with the President
-Timing
-Aldo Moro
-Political future
-Kissinger’s presence

[The President talked with William L. Safire at an unknown time between 9:56 am and 9:57 am]

[Conversation No. 451-4A]

Forthcoming speech at [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson Foundation
-Changes
-Kissinger’s role
-Wilson
-President’s view
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-World situation
-Kissinger’s role
-Length

[End of telephone conversation]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 9:57 am

Speech
-Revisions

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 10:05 am


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Arms control
-Opposing views
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM] agreement
-US negotiators
-Kissinger’s talks with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Joseph C. Kraft column
-William P. Rogers and Gerard C. Smith
-The President’s proposals
-Soviet reaction
-Kissinger’s position
-Kraft’s column, 2/18
-Timing
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-History
-Effect on elections
-Smith’s view
-”ABM only” agreement

Ziegler entered at 10:05 am

Schedule Conv. No. 451-4 (cont.)
-The Vice President
-Lawyers

Vietnam
-Press conference coverage
-Charles W. Colson

Ziegler left at 10:06 am

Arms control
-Soviet Union press
-Kraft column
-Effect of media on United States’ position
-Administration reaction
-Ziegler’s role
-Kissinger/Dobrynin meeting
-Vietnam
-Press accounts
-Need for public relations effort
-Laos operation
-US strategy
-US position

Kissinger left at 10:09 am