555–1

Conversation No. 555-1

Date: August 5, 1971
Time: 9:40 am - 10:10 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Correspondence
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-News conference
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Importance
-Vietnam

Vietnam War
-Hanoi
-Possible attack
-Timing
-South Vietnam election
-Previous predictions
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-North Vietnam statement
-Possible North Vietnam action

News media
-Issues
-Kissinger's conversation with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
-Economy
-Foreign policy
-Economy
-Kissinger's meeting with Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.
-Goldwater’s attitude

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:45 am.

Kissinger's schedule
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Groups
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President’s schedule
-Possible meeting with William O. Bright
-San Clemente
-Campus Crusades

Support for President
-Kissinger's conversation with Goldwater
-Conservatives
-Liberals
-Compared to Communists
-Defense
-Foreign relations
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Japan
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-PRC
-Liberals
-President’s reelection
-Defense
-Democrats
-Goldwater’s call to William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Kissinger's meeting with Ronald W. Reagan
-United Nations [UN]
-Reagan
-Malibu home
-Visit


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-Compared to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Agnew
-View on PRC and USSR

Newsweek article
-John A. Scali
-Agnew
-PRC
-Trip
-Tone
-Effect
-Taiwan
-Middle East
-Africa
-PRC
-Conservatives
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], PRC
-Resolution
-Timing
-SALT, PRC
-SALT
-Intention
-Freeze USSR missile build-up
-Briefing
-Defense budget
-Strategic arms sector
-Presidential address
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Strategic arms sector
-Conventional forces
-Briefing
-James L. Buckley
-William Buckley
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting

Defense budget
-White House Staff
-William E. Timmons, Clark MacGregor
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-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-SALT
-Melvin R. Laird

Conservatives
-Briefing
-Buchanan
-1960 and 1968 elections
-Cambodia
-Goldwater
-Briefing
-List
-[Scali’s Newsweek article]
-Opposition to Administration
-Administration action
-Demonstrators
-Police
-Drug enforcement
-Marijuana
-Catholic school aid
-Reaction
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Radio broadcast
-ABM
-National Review
-Frank S. Meyer
-Background

Kissinger’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting

President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Agnew
-List
-Forthcoming meeting with Conservatives

Kissinger left at 9:56 am.
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Arthur F. Burns
-Note

National economy
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Ways and Means Committee trip
-European Economic Community [EEC] meeting
-Timing
-Peter G. Peterson's meeting with Mills
-Mills
-Import tax
-Connally
-Leaks
-Peterson
-Christian Science Monitor
-Peterson

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:56 am.

Correspondence
-John C. Stennis
-Burns

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.

President's schedule
-Trip to New York City, August 4, 1971
-Reception
-Theater ovation
-Press coverage of trips
-Charles W. Colson
-Richard Moore
-Gerald L. Warren
-Ohio trip
-Dennis Leonard
-Trip to New York City
-Press coverage
-Television
-Timing
-Republican senators function
-Statements
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-Colson
-George P. Shultz
-Connally
-Film clip

Oval Office press conference
-News coverage
-National economy
-Republican senators
-PRC
-Vietnam War
-Swedish story
-POW hoax
-PRC and USSR
-Focus
-National economy compared to foreign affairs
-PRC and USSR
-Connally, John D. Ehrlichman
-Peace

Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:05 am.

President's schedule
-Dinner guests
-Timmons
-Invitation
-Unknown chairman

Woods left at 10:06 am.

Congress
-Recess

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.

President's schedule

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

Administration public relations
-Economic news
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-Unemployment figures
-Dan Rather
-Colson
-Congressional action
-Pentagon Papers
-Declassification
-World War II
-Korea
-Bay of Pigs
-Economic news

President's schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Postponement

The President and Haldeman left at 10:10 am.