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480–6
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Robert H. Finch
  • Donald H. Rumsfeld
April 15, 1971
Conversation No. 480-6

Date: April 15, 1971
Time: 12:15 pm - 12:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld

Appointment of John A. McCone
-Congress
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Breeder reactor
-Clinton P. Anderson
-Disarmament
-Congress
-Resignation from Common Cause
-Possible delay
-Release
-Common Cause
-ABM
-Rumsfeld’s forthcoming conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Disarmament committee
-William F. Knowland
-Qualifications
-Experience
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Breeder reactor

Finch and Rumsfeld’s upcoming visit to World Health Organization [WHO] meeting
-Kissinger
-Possible invitation to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-President’s visit in 1951
-Herbert H. Lehman
-Geneva
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Paris
-Possible invitation to PRC
-Votes
-United Nations [UN] representation
-Kissinger
-US position
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-Taiwan
-PRC
-Possible visit of PRC doctors
-Finch’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-US policy regarding PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

USSR Conv. No. 480-6 (cont.)
-US policy
-PRC
-Possible reaction
-Composition
-Health ministers
-Subjects
-Health
-Drugs
-Education

Racial discrimination in armed forces
-Congress
-Mail
-Black Caucus
-Work assignments
-Blacks
-Benefits of military service

Finch and Rumsfeld’s visit to WHO meeting
-Countries in itinerary
-England
-Morocco
-Spain
-Italy
-Romania
-Yugoslavia
-Austria
-Germany
-Switzerland
-France
-Specific subjects
-Drugs
-Medical education
-Prisoner relief
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France
-Jacques M. P. Chaban-Delmas
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-President’s relations with Chaban-Delmas

Morocco
-Visit of King [Moulay] Hassan II
-Scheduling Conv. No. 480-6 (cont.)
-Arab summit meeting

Great Britain
-[James] Harold Wilson
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Sir Alexander F. (“Alex”) Douglas-Home
-Tories
-Labor
-Wilson
-Heath
-Douglas-Home
-Roy Thomson Herbert
-Times of London
-[Maurice] Harold MacMillian
-R. Anthony Eden
Germany
-Willy Brandt
-Opposition
-Berlin
-West/East
-Mayor
-Evenhandedness

Italy
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Pope Paul VI [Giovanni Battista Motini]
-Social gospel
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 59s ]


THE VATICAN, ITALY Conv. No. 480-6 (cont.)


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Spain
-General Francisco Franco
-Age
-Robert C. Hill
-Foreign Minister
-Political conditions
-Franco

Yugoslavia
-William Leonart
-Josip Broz Tito
-PRC
-Romania
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Role
-Tito

Belgium

Paris

Austria
-Vienna
-Salzburg
-US relations
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Germany
-East Berlin

European press
-Kissinger
-Editors
-Intellectuals
-Editors Conv. No. 480-6 (cont.)
-Paris
-England
-Germany
-Italy
-Compared with US press

International drug control
-Justice Department
-UN
-Possible US initiatives
-Amendments
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan and Russell E. Train
-Health
-[Charles B. Rangel]
-Harlem


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 2m 29s ]


DRUG CONTROL

THE VATICAN


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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Overseas political contributors
-France
-Paris
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-England
-Duration of Finch and Rumsfeld’s trip Conv. No. 480-6 (cont.)
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-J[ean] Paul Getty
-Property
-Possible contribution
-Amount
-1970 campaign
-Contribution
-Kalmbach
-Property
-Living habits
-Possible contribution

Finch and Rumsfeld’s trip
-Paris

The President’s schedule
-Call from Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon


Finch and Rumsfeld’s trip

Finch and Rumsfeld left at 12:40 pm
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