559–8

Conversation No. 559-8

Date: August 10, 1971
Time: 11:59 am - 1:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Sisowath Sirik Matak and Sophia K. Porson.

Photograph
-President’s 1953 visit to Cambodia
-Location
-Angkor Wat

Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins and members of the press entered at 12:00 pm.

Press photograph

Atkins and the members of the press left at 12:02 pm.

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:02 pm.

Interpreter

Sisowath's reception in US
-Los Angeles
-Disneyland

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:02 pm.

Refreshment
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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:04 pm.

Presentation to President

Cambodia
-People
-1970 invasion
-Media
-Predictions
-Associated Press [AP]
-Population
-Defense of country
-Territory
-Vietnam War
-North Vietnam
-Vietcong
-Cambodian military
-Volunteers
-Defense
-President's 1953 trip
-Norodom Sihanouk
-Neutrality
-Khmer people
-Communist forces
-Sanctuaries
-People
-Morale
-Support for government
-Defense plan
-Dividing line
-North and Northeast
-Population
-North Vietnamese
-People
-Support for government
-Percentage
-Communists
-North Vietnamese
-Percentage
-Large cities
-Phnom Penh
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-Population
-Problems
-Water, food, electricity
-Prospects
-Military
-North Vietnamese forces
-Dry and rainy seasons
-Numbers
-Divisions
-Number
-First
-Cambodian action
-Route 4 Operation
-Kompong Som
-South Vietnamese
-Morale of people
-Phnom Penh
-US press
-Confidence
-North Vietnamese
-Territory
-North and Northeast
-Vietnam
-US presence
-Withdrawal
-Concerns
-Cambodia army
-US air support
-South Vietnamese forces
-Cooperation
-Effect on Cambodian population
-Khmer people and government
-Asia
-Nixon Doctrine
-US withdrawal
-People's Republic of China [PRC], Japan, Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics [USSR]
-Vietnam
-Cambodian support
-US relations with PRC
-US-PRC relations
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-Universality
-PRC
-Proximity to Cambodia
-President's forthcoming meeting with Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung
-Possible effect
-US commitments
-Predictions
-Difficulty
-Position of PRC
-Matak’s experience
-Ambassador to PRC
-Asianization
-Geneva Agreement
-US presence
-Importance
-Air and sea forces
-Compared to ground forces
-US Congress
-View in Southeast Asia
-Japan
-Role
-Compared to PRC
-Cambodian security
-North Vietnam

Stephen B. Bull [?] entered at an unknown time after 12:02 pm.

National Press Club

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 1:04 pm.

-USSR
-North Vietnam
-PRC
-US military presence
-Naval, air, ground
-Asia
-Defense responsibilities
-US aid
-Withdrawal
-South Vietnam
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-US casualties
-US aims
-Asian independence
-Asian rim
-PRC
-Peace
-PRC
-Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Thailand
-Relations with PRC
-US commitments to other nations
-Asian independence
-Peace
-President’s forthcoming talks with PRC
-Possible effect
-Peace
-Melvin R. Laird, William P. Rogers
-Prime minister
-Laird, Rogers
-President’s statement
-President's visit, 1953
-Cambodians
-US military and economics aid
-US Congress
-Chief of State
-Lon Nol
-Communist aggression
-Goals
-Territorial integrity
-Freedom
-Possible postwar settlement
-Geneva Agreement
-PRC, Taiwan
-Matak's National Press Club appearance
-Angkor Wat
-The President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Press conference
-President’s regrets

The President, et al. left at 1:04 pm.
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