496–9

Conversation No. 496-9

Date: May 19, 1971
Time: 12:57 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Institute of world politics, Moscow
-Kissinger's meeting with Director

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] position
-Proposal
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

A message

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Dobrynin
-Hanoi
-Le Duan
-USSR, People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Xuan Thuy
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SALT
-Dobrynin
-US instructions

Vietnam
-President's meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
-Timing
Conv. No. 496-9 (cont.)
SALT
-USSR
-Politburo

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Congress
-Howard K. Smith
-Possible proposal by President to Congress
-Dobrynin
-US position
-Draft
-Meeting with Thieu

SALT
-USSR

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Congress
-Cooper-Church Amendment, McGovern-Hatfield amendment
-Effect
-Negotiations
-David K. E. Bruce
-Possible deadline
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Deadline
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Congress
-Briefings
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Agriculture representatives, May 7, 1971
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-Kissinger
-Meeting with Ronald W. Reagan, May 8, 1971
-President's April 7, 1971 Speech
-President's April 7, 1971 Speech
-President's policies
-Public opinion

SALT Conv. No. 496-9 (cont.)
-USSR
-“Doves and Hawks”
-USSR
-Berlin
-D[avid] Kenneth Rush, Kissinger, William P. Rogers, USSR ambassador
-US position
-Instructions to Rush
-PRC
-Possible speech by President
-Proposal
-”National command”
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
-Gerard C. Smith
-USSR
-Schedule
-“Doves”
-USSR position
-Dobrynin
-Berlin
-Possible public opinion
-Sino-Soviet relations
-Rogers’ Statement
-Possible effect
-Kissinger's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-President's statement
-Dobrynin

Vietnam
-US role
-Thieu
-Le Duan
-Moscow
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Midway
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-Date
-PRC
-US role
-Vietnamization
-Troop withdrawals
-Casualties
-Numbers for week
-Senate Conv. No. 496-9 (cont.)
-Frank F. Church's statements
-Administration
-SALT, Summit
-Negotiations
-US offer
-Dates
-Thieu
-POWs
-North Vietnamese position
-Bombing
-Negotiations
-Timing
-Xuan Thuy, Kissinger
-US offer
-North Vietnamese Response

[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 not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

-Demonstrations
-Press coverage

USSR

PRC initiative
-Kissinger forthcoming trip
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 22s ]


PAKISTAN Conv. No. 496-9 (cont.)


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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-Meeting arrangements


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 14s ]


PAKISTAN


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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-USSR
-Pakistan
-US ambassador Joseph S. Farland
-Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
-Idea of “Special Emissary”
-USSR
-Possible trip
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-Arrangements
-”Special Emissary”
-Bruce
-Robert D. Murphy

Vietnam
-Demonstrations
-President's policy Conv. No. 496-9 (cont.)
-President's critics

USSR, PRC
-Meeting
-Arrangements

SALT

Kissinger left at 1:30 pm