Date: July 19, 1971
Time: 11:58 am - 12:08 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler
The People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Briefing of Congressional leaders and Cabinet
-President’s role
-Henry A. Kissinger’s role
-Reaction by other countries
-William P. Rogers
-Briefings
-Speculation
-Expression of views
-Taiwan issue
-Vietnam War
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Knowledge
-Wire service report
-Kissinger
Agnew
-Statements made in Madrid, Spain
-Comments about African Blacks
-Slavery
-US Black leaders
-Domestic, foreign impact
-Ralph Abernathy
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Tape Subject Log
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US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Kissinger
-Summit possibility
-The President’s stance
Taiwan issue
-Perceptions
Conv. No. 539-7 (cont.)
Cover photographs
-Use by magazines
-The President
Foreign relations
-The PRC, Vietnam
-Democratic response
-J. William Fulbright
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield