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482–10
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Stephen B. Bull
April 19, 1971
Conversation No. 482-10

Date: April 19, 1971
Time: 9:58 am - 10:13 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Foreign relations
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Schedule
-People's Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam
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-Anti-war rally
-Allard K. Lowenstein
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Liberal Democrats
-Television coverage

Earth Day
-John V. Lindsay Conv. No. 482-8 (cont.)
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Environment
-Possible Congressional resolution
-President's proclamation


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-Participants
-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey
-J. Edgar Hoover

PRC
-Newsweek coverage
-Mention of President
-Time coverage
-Newsweek coverage
-Time
-President’s 1967 article in foreign affairs
-John F. Osborne

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Pham Van Dong
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-French change` d’affaires
-Kissinger’s forthcoming message to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Dobrynin's Schedule

[Transcript #1: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does notConv.
guarantee
No. 482-10
its accuracy.]
(cont.)

[End of transcript]

-US position
-Dobrynin
-Message
-USSR
-Negotiations
-Timing
-Demonstrations
-Dobrynin

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[Duration: 28s ]


FOREIGN AFFAIRS


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US - Soviet Relations
-US position
-Negotiations on Vietnam
-Newsweek article
-Zbigniew Brzezinski
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Washington Post article, April 19, 1971
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-Administration's foreign policy
-Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-Democrats
-SALT
-Soviet military buildup
-Possible consequence by 1972 election
-Size
-Democrats Conv. No. 482-10 (cont.)
-Jackson

Stewart J.O. Alsop's article
-Democrats
-Vietnam
-Defense

Vietnam
-US casualties
-Compared with previous week

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger

President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Media coverage
-Questions

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:58 am.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:13 am.

President's meeting with ASNE
-Television
-Applause
-Questions
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.
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Polls
-Vietnam
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-News summary
-Approval rate
-President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
Cabinet
-John B. Connally Conv. No. 482-10 (cont.)
-Domestic issues
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John Foster Dulles
-Presidency
-Dulles

Democrats
-Disloyalty

The President and Kissinger left at 10:13 am.
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