499–16

Conversation No. 499-16

Date: May 14, 1971
Time: 11:30 am - 11:50 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes and Jacob A. Preus.

Vietnam
-Preus' trip
-North Vietnamese
-Preus
-Prisoners of war [POWs]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

Arrangements for photograph

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

[Unintelligible]

Bull and the press left at an unknown time before 11:50 am.
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Refreshments

Preus’ assistants

Vietnam
-POWs
-Preus’ meeting with Swedish diplomats
-[Forename unknown] Nystrom
-A call
-India
-Kenneth B. Keating
-A meeting
-Triloki Nath Kaul

Vietnam
-POWs
-Sweden
-Preus' work
-Exchange
-President's comments to wives
-[Forename unknown] Powell
-Negotiations
-David K.E. Bruce
-Negotiations
-Bruce's role
-Preus' conversations
-US strategy
-Unknown North Vietnamese man in Vientiane
-Visits to POW Camps
-Considerations
-Preus’ conversations
-Preus’ travels and efforts
-Swedish foreign ministry
-Italian foreign office
-India
-The Vatican

Pope Paul VI
-Vatican Bureaucracy
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 49s ]


THE VATICAN Conv. No. 499-16 (cont.)


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Vietnam
-Preus’ letters to Lutheran leaders
-Views of Germans
-Possible international group
-Canadians
-Indians
-Negotiations
-US troop withdrawals
-POWs
-US troop withdrawals
-South Vietnamese
-Views of unknown man in Stockholm
-Views of unknown man in Vientiane
-Preus' conversations
-Languages used
-Unknown missionary in Laos
-Father [Forename unknown] Maynard
-Comments Regarding Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Preus' conversation with South Vietnamese Foreign Minister
-South Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Timing, proposals
-Preus's travels in South Vietnam
-Saigon, Hook-wook Island [sp], Ca Mi Sanh [sp]
-Gen. Frederick C. Weyand, Ellsworth F. Bunker
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-Countryside
-Laotion refugees
-Pacification program
-Press coverage

Voluntary foreign aid
-Church aid
Conv. No. 499-16 (cont.)
Vietnam
-Voluntary Action Programs by military
-War

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

President's schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:50 am.

Presentation of gifts by President
-Cufflinks
-Gifts for others

POWs

Hughes and Preus left at 11:50 am.