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507–4
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Manolo Sanchez
  • White House operator
  • Nelson A. Rockefeller
May 29, 1971
Conversation No. 507-4

Date: May 29, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:13 am and 10:32 am
Location: Oval Office

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

Bodies in Yuba City
-Victims described
-Itinerant workers
-Machete
-Unnamed killer

News coverage
-Domestic
-International

Middle East
-Soviet Union
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Arabs
-Possibility of war
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Jews

1972 Elections
-Jews
-Quakers
-Kissinger
-Memoranda
-Rogers

Kissinger entered at 9:08 am.

President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-President's possible telephone call
-Ehrlichman
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Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:32 am.

Kissinger's meeting

Kissinger's travel
-Cable from [David] Kenneth Rush
-North Vietnamese
-W. Averell Harriman
-David K.E. Bruce
-Claude Sainteny

Berlin Agreement
-Cable from Rush
-Negotiations
-Time
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviets
-East Germany
-Soviets
-Berlin
-Access
-Rush

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.


The President left at an unknown time before 10:32 am.


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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:32 am.

The President entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

Latin America
-Brazil
-Fisheries question
-Law of the Seas Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-200 Mile Limit
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Negotiations
-Possible effect
-Navigation
-Fisheries
-Kissinger's recommendations

Vietnam negotiations
-President's statement
-Historical record
-US offer
-Wording of statement
-Negotiating stance
-Political and military issues
-Wording of statement
-Terminal date
-Infiltration
-Withdrawal
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Ceasefire
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Negotiating stance
-President's meeting with Nikita S. Khrushchev
-State Department suggestions
-Negotiating stance
-Wording
-President’s position
-North Vietnamese
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin [?]
-POWs
-Ceasefire
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-US troop withdrawal
-Election
-Bombing
-Deadline
-Timing
-POWs
-Ceasefire
-Ground forces Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-Timing
-Air support
-Thailand
-North Vietnamese
-Ground forces
-POWs
-Infiltration
-Ceasefire
-POWs
-Bombing
-International supervision
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Prospects for 1972
-Southeast Asia
-Kissinger’s assessment
-Democrats
-Communists
-Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
-US troop withdrawal
-Melvin R. Laird's testimony
-Rogers
-Kissinger's directives
-Vietnamization

News reports
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-News summary
-Human Events
-National Review
-New Republic
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-POW issue
-Communist
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Soviet Union
-Vladimir S. Semenov
-Hot Line argument
-Berlin agreement
-Summit
-Berlin agreement
-Willy Brandt, Rush Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-The President's and Kissinger's meeting with Brandt
-Dobrynin
-Cuba
-Presence of Soviet Nuclear submarine in Cienfuegos
-Press conference
-Possible questions
-The President’s response

People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Polls
-Admittance to United Nations [UN]
-Two-China Policy
-Admission
-Expulsion
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-PRC reaction
-Question of independent government
-Taiwan
-State Department
-Rogers
-Marshall Green
-George H.W. Bush
-Timing

Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu meeting
-US peace proposal
-Deadline
-Presidential statement
-Ceasefire
-POWs
-US withdrawal
-Communists
-Negotiations
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-Soviet-Chinese relations

Soviet Union
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
-Communique
-Manipulation of the US press
-New Republic article
-SALT Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-Possible US-Soviet Summit
-SALT
-Accidental War Agreement

Soviet Union
-SALT
-Vienna
-Moscow
-Summit
-1972 election
-Democrats
-Irresponsibility of candidates
-Radicals
-Eastern Establishment
-SALT
-ABM Agreement
-Offensive weapons

News media
-Communists
-Approach to administration
-Joseph W. and Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Kissinger's dinner
-Stewart Alsop
-Poll of Democrat candidates
-Vietnam
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Support for SALT
-Marquis Childs
-David Brinkley
-Clark MacGregor
-John Sherman Cooper

Berlin
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-Negotiations
-Timing of settlement

President’s schedule
-Rush
-Work
-Foreign Service
-Possible future position Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-Loyalty
-John B. Connally
-Warren E. Burger
-Trip to England
-Burger
-Edward R.G. Heath
-British industry
-Henry Ford II
-British automobiles
-Germany and France

US industry
-Ralph Nader
-McCarthyism

Nelson A. Rockefeller

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:08 am and
10:00 am]

[Conversation No. 507-4A]

[See Conversation No. 3-190]

[End of telephone conversation]

John V. Lindsay
-Rockefeller
-Housing
-New York City
-Compared to Paris
-Compared to the Kennedys

American educational system
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-Study of political science
-Development of leadership
-British public school system
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Israelis
-Compared to American Jews
-Soviet system Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-British system
-Winston S. Churchill

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.

[The President talked with Rockefeller between 10:00 am and 10:06 am]

[Conversation No. 507-4B]

[See Conversation No. 3-191]

[End of telephone conversation]

Police brutality
-New York City

Lindsay
-Rockefeller

Education
-Character

Military history
-World War I
-Compared to Laos operation (Lam Son)
-March 21, 1918
-Marne Battle
-Casualties
-Erich F.W. Luddendorf
-Churchill
-Italy
-Battle of Caparetto
-British
-Field Marshall Sir William(?) Robertson
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-Laos
-Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Douglas Macarthur
-Strategy
-World War II
-Korea
-Yalu
-PRC Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-Effect on Asian history
-Vietnam
-Soviets
-Dean G. Acheson
-World War I
-British General, Hubert de la Poer Gough
-German mistakes

Laos
-American television
-Public opinion
-Strategic impact
-Casualties
-Intelligence
-Inaccuracy
-The President’s view
-Cambodia
-Abrams
-Compared to the Battle of the Bulge
-Compared to Verdun
-Military history
-Marshal Ferdinand Foch
-Gen. Magnin
-Gen. Gourand

Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Anecdote regarding Jacqueline Kennedy
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Algeria
-Kennedy

US
-Economics
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-Nixon presidency
-Effect on foreign policy
-Hubert H. Humphrey as President
-Other Republicans
-George W. Romney
-Eric Sevareid
-Rockefeller
-Policies Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-Wife
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Rockefeller
-John W. Gardner
-Reagan
-Policy toward Europe
-Compared with other Republicans
-International leaders
-View of the President
-New conservatives
-Reagan
-President’s view

President’s foreign policy
-Berlin
-SALT
-PRC
-Summit
-Europe
-Vietnam
-Berlin
-Brandt
-Harriman's talk with Kissinger
-Vietnam
-Berlin
-Difficulty of presenting issues
-Berlin
-Brandt
-Possibility of Western Summit

Laird
-Kenneth E. BeLieu appointment

Kissinger
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-Trip
-Schedule

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 10:32 am.



Conversation
Conv. No. 507-4
No.(cont.)
507-5

Date: May 29, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:32 am and 10:48 am
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman [?].

Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Rent issue
-New York’s city budget
-John V. Lindsay
-Police
-Ehrlichman's call
-Direct assistance
-Police
-Revenue sharing
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