512–27

Conversation No. 512-27

Date: June 4, 1971
Time: 4:47 pm - 5:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Dr. Edwin H. Land

Dr. James R. Schlesinger
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President’s foreign policy
-Presentation to President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]

United States’ relations with Soviet Union
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Meeting with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., June 4 Conv. No. 512-26 (cont.)
-Visa request by White House Fellow
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Conversation with President
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew entered at 4:51 pm


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INTELLIGENCE


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Kissinger left at 4:52 pm

President’s previous meeting with PFIAB

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 4:52 pm

Agnew’s schedule
-Korea
-Kissinger
-Taiwan
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-US relations
-Taiwan
-PRC
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-US relations
-Trade
-Grain
-Strategic Materials
-Travel
-Democrats
-Taiwan
-PRC Con. No. 512-27 (cont.)
-Japan
-Thailand
-Taiwan
-Agnew’s forthcoming meeting with Kissinger, June 4
-United Nations
-Kissinger
-President’s schedule
-Tulsa
-Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia
-Australia
-Size of delegation
-Hugh Scott, Gale W. McGee
-Europe
-Judy and Kim Agnew
-Spain, Portugal
-Iran
-Israel
-Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Egypt
-William P. Rogers’ schedule
-Greece
-Maurice H. Stans
-Romania
-Yugoslavia
-Bulgaria
-Greek-American community
-Greece
-Spain, Portugal
-Morocco
-Saudi Arabia
-Israel
-United Arab Republic [UAR]
-Jordan
-Saudi Arabia
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-Prince Faisal ibn-Saud

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Con. No. 512-27 (cont.)
ISRAEL

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-Greece
-Kissinger
-President
-South Carolina legislature
-Revenue sharing
-Greece
-Kissinger
-Possible effect

New York Times article
-PRC
-Stans’ visit to Greece

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:52 pm and 5:12 pm]

[Conversation No. 512-29A]

Agnew’s schedule
-Foreign trip
-Kissinger
-President
-Greece
-New York Times
-Foreign trip
-Morocco
-Saudi Arabia
-UAR
-Saudi Arabia
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-Prince Faisal’s conversation with President

[End of telephone conversation]

-Saudi Arabia
-Iran
-Relations with the US
Con. No. 512-27 (cont.)
State gift from Saudi Arabia

Unknown man with blue eyes

US foreign policy

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MIDDLE EAST


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-Jewish vote
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Taft Schreiber

President’s schedule
-Agnew, Kissinger
-Arthur J. Sohmer

Agnew left at 5:12 pm

Agnew
-Activities
-Schedule
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-PRC
-Stans, David M. Kennedy

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 5:12 pm and 5:14 pm]

[Conversation No. 512-29B]

Kissinger’s schedule Con. No. 512-27 (cont.)
-Agnew, President

[End of telephone conversation]

Agnew
-Possible visit to Greece
-Political effect

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:12 pm and
5:14 pm]

[Conversation No. 512-27C]

[See Conversation No. 4-35]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger entered at 5:15 pm

Agnew
-Previous meeting with President
-Greece
-K. Agnew
-Iran
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Chiang Kai-shek

[The President talked with Ferguson between 5:14 pm and 5:17 pm]

[Conversation No. 512-27D]

[See Conversation No. 4-36]
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Agnew
-Schedule

[The above portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No.
512-27D]

[End of telephone conversation]
Con. No. 512-27 (cont.)
Ferguson
-John N. Mitchell
-Judge [Forename unknown] Cobbs

Agnew
-Foreign trip
-Greece, Taiwan, PRC
-Conversation with President regarding PRC
-United Nations [UN]
-Greece
-Possible statement regarding Greece
-Timing
-Greece
-Korea
-South Vietnam
-Thailand
-India, Pakistan
-Malaysia
-Singapore
-Indonesia
-South Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming meeting General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Iran
-Saudi Arabia
-Morocco
-Portugal
-Spain
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Thailand
-Countries
-Kissinger
-Asia, Europe, Africa
-Greece
-Possible reaction of President’s opponents
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-Africa
-Press corps

President’s foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-PRC
-Vietnam negotiations Con. No. 512-27 (cont.)
-Scheduling
-Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters
-North Vietnamese contacts with PRC
-Mao Tse-tung’s possible reception of President
-Implications
-Motives
-PRC communique
-President’s previous meeting with PFIAB
-Dr. Franklin D. Murphy
-PRC, Soviet Union

Intellectuals
-Effect of education

President’s personal qualities of leadership
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s opinion


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Agnew


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Con. No. 512-27 (cont.)
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-Foreign trip
-PRC

US-PRC relations
-President’s possible trip
-Genghis Khan
-President’s possible trip to Soviet Union
-President’s possible trip
-Timing
-President’s possible trip to Soviet Union
-Announcement of SALT
-Agnew
-Schedule
-President’s 1959 visit to Soviet Union

Unknown member of Congress
-Lecture to Council on Foreign Relations
-Vietnam
-Motive
-Murder of Ngo Dinh Diem
-Lectures
-Distribution

President’s foreign policy
-PRC, Soviet Union
-Vietnam War
-General Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
-Mao
-Successes

Reconnaissance camera
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-Dr. Land
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger

Domestic intelligence
-Huston Plan
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Successor
-Richard M. Helms Con. No. 512-27 (cont.)
-Walters


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State Department
-Robert D. Murphy’s views
-President’s letter to Eisaku Sato
-Textiles
-U. Alexis Johnson’s reaction
-Kennedy’s views
-Removal of ambassadors
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Activities
-Gerard C. Smith
-Keating
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Paul H. Nitze
-Possible role with administration
-J. William Fulbright’s views
-Possible ambassadorship
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-Economic intelligence
-Results
-Kissinger’s visit to Europe
-Donald H. Rumsfeld, Robert H. Finch
-Walter H. Annenberg


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Con. No. 512-27 (cont.)

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PAKISTAN


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Kissinger left at 5:47 pm

Agnew
-Performance in office


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-Attacks by liberals, press
-Attitude
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-Popular opinion

President’s schedule
-Water project
-Upcoming trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma

Chief Justice
Con. No. 512-27 (cont.)
Presidential airplane
-Name
-Designation

President’s schedule
-Demonstrators
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] graduation
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.’s conversation with Hoover
-Tulsa
-Haldeman’s schedule
-Son’s graduation
-Background material

Haldeman left at 5:59 pm