502–7

Conversation No. 502-7

Date: May 20, 1971
Time: 9:49 am - 10:03 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers; the conversation was in progress when the recording
began.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 10s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 Conv. No. 502-7 (cont.)

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 4m 53s ]


MIDEAST


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Rogers left and Henry A. Kissinger and Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:54 am.

President's schedule

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement announcement
-President's statement at 12:00 noon
-Foreign policy
-Possibility of leaks

Ziegler left at 9:55 am.

-Rogers
-President's meeting with Congressional leaders
-Treaties
-Unknown person's position
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-Soviet position on offensive weapons
-Public statements
-Kissinger's advice
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
-President's talking points with Congressional leaders
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet Party Congress
-Kissinger's advice Conv. No. 502-7 (cont.)
-US strategy in dealing with Soviets
-Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]
-Effect on negotiations
-Future possibilities
-Gerard C. Smith
-US August 4 proposal
-President's talking points with Congressional leaders
-MIRV
-Treaties
-Negotiations
-George P. Shultz's meeting with Kissinger
-Shultz's views on the President and SALT negotiations
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-President's talking points with Congressional leaders
-Objectives
-Negotiations
-Effect on Europeans
-Rogers
-Smith

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:55 am.

-Rose Mary Woods’ location
-Melvin R. Laird
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Woods

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.

Kissinger left at 10:03 am.
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