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502–14
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
  • Justin W. Dart
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • John A. Scali
  • Henry A. Kissinger
May 20, 1971
Conversation No. 502-14

Date: May 20, 1971
Time: 1:45 pm - 2:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

John A. Scali's [?] briefings
-Forthcoming meeting with [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Howard K. Smith
-John W. Chancellor
-Major briefing at 12:45, May 20, 1971
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-Open attendance
-Meeting at 2 o'clock, May 20, 1971
-Sevareid
-Smith
-Chancellor
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Richard G. Valeriani
-William A. Gill, Jr. Conv. No. 502-14 (cont.)
-Meeting at 4 o'clock, May 20,1971
-Max Frankel
-Chalmers Roberts
-Associated Press [AP] and United Press International [UPI] diplomatic press
-William S. White
-Roscoe Drummond
-Ziegler's views
-Gerard C. Smith
-Scali
-Henry A. Kissinger's comments
-Impact on press
-Press

[The President talked with Justin W. Dart at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 1:48 pm]

[See Conversation No. 3-85]

[Conversation No. 502-14A]

[End of telephone conversation]

Meeting with Kissinger

Ziegler left and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Scali entered at 1:48 pm.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement announcement, May 20, 1971
-Press response
-J. Henry Smith
-Television instant analysis
-Daniel Seymour's reaction
-Seymour's meeting with President several years ago
-Staff
-Television viewers response
-Time of announcement in Washington, D.C. and Moscow
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Personnel Management
-Scali [?]
-George A. Lincoln [?]
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Responsibility

Kissinger entered at 1:52 pm.
Conv. No. 502-14 (cont.)
SALT agreement
-Soviet translation, US translation
-Kissinger's phone call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Treaty
-Agreement
-Dobrynin's press release
-Text President read

President schedule
-Future conversation with Scali

Scali left at an unknown time before 1:55 pm.

SALT agreement
-Two o'clock briefing, May 20, 1971
-US and Soviet text
-Kissinger's call to Dobrynin
-AP report from Moscow
-Two stage procedure
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] agreement
-Letter
-Television
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield's statement
-Soviet domestic radio
-One and two stage procedures

Ziegler entered at 1:55 pm.

-Photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Release to the public

Ziegler left at 1:57 pm.
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-Dobrynin press release, May 20, 1971
-US text of SALT agreement
-Kissinger's views of Soviets
-SALT
-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-President's views
-State Department Conv. No. 502-14 (cont.)
-Upcoming Berlin meeting
-D[avid] Kenneth Rush
-US and Soviet desires
-Unknown person's (Dobrynin?) views
-Kissinger’s talk with Ronald W. Reagan
-Unknown person (Dobrynin?)
-Mansfield's statement
-Treaty
-Administration's position
-Kissinger's calls to Dobrynin on May 19, 1971
-President's television announcement
-Press interpretation
-AP in Moscow
-Aleksei N. Kosygin's letter on SALT agreement
-Press inquiries on the SALT agreement
-Kissinger’s response
-President's initiative on SALT
-Kissinger's role in SALT agreement
-Smith's role in SALT agreement
-Vienna
-Smith's views
-Kissinger's views
-Design of negotiations
-Credit for the SALT agreement
-Smith
-Vienna
-Paul W. McCracken

Scali’s [?] schedule
-Television

Kissinger left at 2:05 pm.
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