588–18

Conversation No. 588-18

Date: October 12, 1971
Time: 1:55 pm - 1:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[Conversation No. 588-18A]

[See Conversation No. 11-64]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time before 1:59 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's schedule
-Telephone calls
-Stewart J.O. Alsop

US foreign relations
-Summit with Union of Socialist Soviet Republics [USSR]
-Schedule
-Efforts
-George H. Mahon
-J. William Fulbright
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
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-Domestic opponents
-Cambodia
-Middle East
-Jordan
-President’s policies
-Press conference
-US relationship with USSR
-Biological Warfare Agreement
-Sea Beds Treaty
-Accidental War Agreement
-Berlin Agreement
-John F. Kennedy
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Middle East
-Salt
-Soviets
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Effect on US-USSR negotiations
-William P. Rogers
-European security conference
-Middle East
-The President’s view
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s view
-European Security conference
-National Security Council [NSC]
-European Security Conference
-Soviets
-The President's trip to Moscow
-Kissinger’s role
-European security conference
-Dobrynin
-Middle East
-Rogers
-Middle East
-Actions
-John Foster Dulles
-Israel
-European security
-Kissinger
-Negotiating strategy
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 588-18 (cont.)


-Soviets
-Summit
-PRC
-Rogers
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Soviets
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Mao Tse-tung
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Prospects of conversations with the President
-Victor Louis [?]
-Vietnam
-Vietnam
-Paris Peace Talks
-North Vietnam
-Nguyen Nan Thieu
-Peking and Moscow
-Prospects for ending the war
-The President’s remarks at press conference
-North Vietnamese
-US casualties
-Schedule
-Announcement of Moscow summit
-Kissinger's trip to Peking
-Press background briefing
-Ronald L. Ziegler and John A. Scali
-State Department
-Importance of good relations with both USSR and PRC
-Kissinger's conversations with USSR and PRC
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-The President’s role
-Allen J. Ellender
-Vietnam
-USSR
-PRC

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:15 pm.

The President's schedule
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-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] cameraman
-George P. Shultz
-Labor

Ziegler left at 2:17 pm.

US foreign relations
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s view


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US Presidency
-Pressures
-Foreign policy

US foreign relations
-The President’s previous meeting with Aldo Moro
-John A. Volpe
-United Nations [UN]
-Chinese
-Italians
-Adolf Hitler
-Winston Churchill
-Joachim Von Ribbentrop

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:20 pm.

The President's schedule
-George Meany
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The President et al. left at 2:21 pm.