476–13

Conversation No. 476-13

Date: April 9, 1971
Time: 11:05 am - 11:38 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and David M. Kennedy; the White House photographer
was present at the beginning of the meeting

Gift from Kennedy
-Rock [Micronesian currency]
-Weight
-Photographs
-Greetings
-Prop for rock
-Gift from people of Yap
-[Micronesian] trust territory [Western Caroline Islands]
-Palau [Islands]
-Origin
-Islands
-Canoeing
-Age
-Photograph for Kennedy and press
-Display
-Museums

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 11:06 am

President’s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
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-Delivery
-Dinner at F Street Club
-George H. Mahon
-Russell B. Long

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:38 am

-Oliver Oakes [sp?]
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-John W. Byrnes
-Wilbur D. Mills
-John B. Connally
-Honored
-Arthur F. Burns
Kennedy’s trip to Asia
-Airplane
-Rest
-Food
-Health
-Bali
-Ambassador [Francis J. Galbraith]
-Briefing by ministers
-Social occasion
-Indonesians
-Finances
-Hong Kong
-Harold Lee and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Chinese people
-Sir Kenneth Ping-Fan Fung
-C. Y. Kong [?]
-David L. Osborn
-Vietnam
-Robert W. Drexler
-Briefing regarding People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Vietnam
-Benchmark
-David Engel
-State Department
-Benchmark
-Comparative report
-Saigon
-Condition
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-Mekong Delta
-Surprise
-American press reports
-Hue
-Destruction
-Structures
-Rebuilding
-Comparison with World War II Conv. No. 476-13 (cont.)
-Cologne
-London
-Mekong Delta
-Farm areas
-Guided tour
-Sights
-Hog, chicken farms
-Demonstration farm
-Private enterprise
-Agriculture
-Farmers
-Hogs, chicken
-French rubber plantation owners
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Report to President
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Morale problems
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-Withdrawal
-Rate
-Instructions to Haig
-Dr. John A. Hannah
-Presence
-Agriculture
-Kennedy’s conversation with General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Vietnamization
-Economy
-Congress
-Annual review
-Need for self-reliance
-Economic Vietnamization
-Personnel
-Reduction
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-Shift in resources
-Hardware
-Thieu
-Morale
-Funds
-Sir Robert Thompson
-Kennedy’s conversations with Thompson
-Optimism Conv. No. 476-13 (cont.)
-Cambodia and Laos operations
-Effect on security of South Vietnam
-Economy
-Internal security
-Thieu
-Cooperation
-Thieu
-Opposition
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Lieutenant General Duong Van (“Big Minh”) Minh
-Re-election
-US position
-Japanese ambassador’s views
-Nation building in South Vietnam
-Vietcong
-Economy
-Stability in prices
-Economic problems
-Regulation (“red tape”)
-Customs regulations
-Black market
-Possible solution
-Single exchange rate
-Timing
-Thieu
-Bunker
-American community
-Complaints
-American embassy
-Customs graft
-Licensing corruption
-Thieu and Bunker
-Administrative changes
-AID
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-American economic advisors
-Korea
-Henry J. Tasca
-Japan
-Joseph Dodge
-Indonesia
-Timing
-State Department Conv. No. 476-13 (cont.)
-AID
-Indonesia and South Vietnam
-Bunker
-Criticism
-Charles A. Cooper
-Instructions to Haig
-Dodge
-Japan
-Tasca
-Korea
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Bunker
-Department of State
-Military
-Dodge
-Instructions to Kennedy
-List of names
-Qualifications
-Former chief executive officers [CEOs]
-Bert S. Cross
-3M [Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company]
-Admiral [William C.?] Mott
-Cooper
-Timing
-Thieu
-Bunker
-Possible transfer
-Indonesia
-William P. Rogers
-Marshall Green
-Unknown technical adviser
-Government officials
-Cross
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-Suitable candidates
-Former CEOs
-Schlesinger
-[Peter G.?] Peterson
-Business community
-Japan
-Green
-State Department economic staff Conv. No. 476-13 (cont.)
-Political side
-Deficiency in economics
-Need for economic experts
-Attitude towards business
-Eastern schools
-View towards private enterprise
-Woodward [Surname unknown]
-Memorandum from Philip H. Trezise
-US trade with Japan
-Briefing
-Meeting of Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP], April 8, 1971
-Peterson
-Knowledge of Japan
-Instructions for Haig
-Future briefing for White House staff National Security Council [NSC],
Domestic Council staff, Council of Economic Advisers [CEA],
Office of Management and Budget [OMB] Staff
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Vietnam
-American economic agencies
-Cooper’s idea for post-election meeting
-Kennedy’s view
-Possible administration position
-Need for single exchange rate
-Timing
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Thailand
-King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 43s ]


THAILAND Conv. No. 476-13 (cont.)


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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-Press reports
-Allegations of US dumping rice on Indonesia
-Effect on Thai economy
-Deflation
-Meeting with Cabinet
-State Department
-Aid
-Indonesia
-Cambodia
-Indonesia
-Lieutenant General T. N. J. Suharto
-Military aid
-Political situation
-Kennedy’s conversation with Suharto
-Need for military aid
-Visit by US team
-Green
-Rogers
-Green
-Possible reassignment
-Japan
-Embassy staff
-Lenora (Bingham) Kennedy
-Galbraith
-Micronesian islands
-Independence
-Mariana Islands
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-Caroline Islands
-Marshall Islands
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Saipan
-Peace Corps
-Joseph H. Blatchford
-Reduction
-Congo Conv. No. 476-13 (cont.)
-Value
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Peace Corps
-Morton
-Haig’s forthcoming report
-Reduction
-Possible changes
-Value
-Composition
-Protestors
-Kennedy’s possible conversation with Morton
-Mariana Islands

Kennedy and Haig left at 11:38 am