501–16

Conversation No. 501-16

Date: May 19, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:03 pm and 2:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-William P. Rogers’ role
-Haldeman's call
-President's previous meetings with Rogers
-Gerard C. Smith
-Antiballistic missile [ABM]
-President's role
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Rogers’ trip to Europe
-Public statements
-President, Henry A. Kissinger
-Presidential initiative

Kissinger entered at 1:14 pm.

-Melvin R. Laird
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting
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-President's meeting with Rogers
-Smith, ABM
-President's role
-Rogers’ role
-Smith
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Forthcoming call
-Rogers’ role Conv. No. 501-15 (cont.)
-Laird
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting
-Laird's memorandum on Vietnamese modernization

Kissinger left at 1:18 pm.

-Rogers’ role
-President's role
-President's press conference
-Statement of position

Rogers
-Call to President
-Purpose
-Gaylord Nelson and Michael J. Mansfield Amendments
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:14 pm and
1:18 pm]

[Conversation No. 501-16A]

[Conversation No. 3-66]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rogers
-Call to President
-Role in SALT negotiations

Laird's meeting with Kissinger

[The President talked with Rogers between 1:18 pm and 1:29 pm]
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[Conversation No. 501-16B]

[See Conversation No. 3-67]

[End of telephone conversation]

Presidency
Conv. No. 501-16 (cont.)
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 1:29 pm.

Ziegler's daily press briefing
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Boeing Corporation
-Gerald R. Ford
-Contract

SALT agreement
-White House handling
-Schedule of events
-Cabinet meeting
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Possible leaks
-Cabinet
-Announcements of meeting and agenda
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Time
-Possible leaks
-Ziegler's conversation with Kissinger and John A. Scali
-J. William Fulbright
-President's statement
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] sensitivity
-Time
-Cabinet meeting
-Time
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Ziegler's announcement
-Possible leaks
-Television crew arrivals
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Possible press calls to Ziegler
-Subject
-Mansfield and Nelson amendments
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Foreign policy
-Mansfield
-Position on Nelson Amendment
-Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
-Time of vote
-SALT agreement
-Congressional leaders meeting Conv. No. 501-16 (cont.)
-Rogers
-Possible press calls to Ziegler
-Timing of calls
-Congressional vote
-President's May 18, 1971 meeting with Congressional leaders
-Peter H. Dominick
-Mansfield and Mathias amendments
-SALT agreement
-Purpose
-SALT agreement
-Mansfield Amendment
-Congress
-USSR
-Schedule of events
-Cabinet meeting
-Time
-Calls to Cabinet
-Ziegler's announcement of May 20, 1971 schedule
-Television camera arrival
-Cabinet meeting
-Time
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-President's announcement
-Forthcoming press conference
-Language to be used
-Significance
-Duration
-Significance
-USSR
-US position
-Importance of delivery
-President's demeanor
-Text
-Public perceptions
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-SALT
-ABM
-Chalmers Roberts
-Public opinion
-Peace
-Students at George Washington University
-Content
-Significance Conv. No. 501-16 (cont.)
-Public opinion
-Dan Rather and commentators
-Progress on nuclear arms
-President’s earlier speech to the American Red Cross
-Press reaction
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-USSR

Ziegler left at 1:50 pm.

-SALT
-President's announcements
-Rogers’ role
-President's role
-Haldeman's talks with Rogers
-Public statements
-Rogers’ role
-Haldeman's talk with Rogers
-President's previous meetings with Rogers
-Smith
-Rogers’ call to President
-Agnew's possible trip to Korea
-Rogers and Kissinger
-US-USSR Summit
-Middle East
-Rogers’ tenure
-Vietnam
-PRC
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
-Possible Summit
-PRC
-Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
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-State Department
-SALT
-USSR
-Dobrynin
-Paris peace talks
-North Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Rogers Conv. No. 501-16 (cont.)
-Possible meeting with President
-Paris peace talks
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Xuan Thuy
-Kissinger
-Lyndon B. Johnson, Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Xuan Thuy
-Kissinger
-Ho Chi Minh
-Mansfield
-Meeting with President
-Yayha Khan
-Kissinger
-USSR
-SALT agreement
-Kissinger's statements
-Rogers
-USSR
-Kissinger's briefings
-PRC
-Rogers
-Europe
-Kissinger
-PRC
-Yahya Khan
-PRC
-President's possible talk with Rogers
-Yahya Khan
-Joseph S. Farland

Kissinger entered at 2:02 pm.
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-SALT
-Kissinger's meeting with Laird
-Weapons programs of US and USSR
-Rogers’ role
-Rogers’ and Laird's response


Haldeman and Kissinger left at 2:05 pm. Conv. No. 501-16 (cont.)