595–7

Conversation No. 595-7

Date: October 18, 1971
Time: 3:11 pm - 3:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Robert F. Ellsworth and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.


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North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] ambassadorship
-Appointment of ambassador
-Manlio Brosio
-Criteria
-Ellsworth’s view
-The President's confidence
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haig
-Understanding of Washington bureaucracy

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Refreshments delivered

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NATO
-Appointment of Ambassador
-Concerns
-Balanced force reductions
-European Security Conference
-British entry
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Great power condominium
-Career personnel
-The President’s view
-David M. Kennedy
-Textile treaty
-Treasury Department
-State Department
-The President’s view
-Treasury Department
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Defense Department
-Troops
-Funding
-Congressmen or Senators
-F. Bradford Morris
-The President’s view
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-Military
-Politics
-David M. Kennedy
-Melvin R. Laird
-Present acting ambassador to NATO, George Best
-Background
-Supreme Allied Commander, Europe [SACEUR]
-Gen. Lauris Norstad
-Dirk U. Stikker
-Common Market
-John R. Schaetzel
-Experience
-Ellsworth’s view
-Haig, Kissinger
-Europeans
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Requirements
-Concerns
-Détente
-Soviet Union
-European Security Conference
-Common market
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Strategy

Europeans
-Soviet Union
-US European policy
-Southeast Asia
-PRC

Ellsworth's travels
-Eastern Europe
-Moscow
-Jacob D. Beam
-Western Europe

NATO
-Concerns
-Greece and Turkey
-Southeastern Europe
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-Yugoslavia
-Josip Broz Tito

Ellsworth's possible government service
-Possible role
-Ambassador
-Textile negotiations
-Arms control
-Arms Control Advisory Group
-John J. McCloy committee
-Washington
-George A. Smathers
-Earle G. (“Bus”) Wheeler
-Europeans
-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM] Treaty
-Members of McCloy committee
-New York Times
-NATO experience
-United Nations [UN]
-The President’s view
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Envoy to inaugurations, funerals
-John B. Connally
-Vietnam
-Flanigan
-Kissinger
-Supreme Court
-Thurgood Marshall
-William J. Brennan
-John N. Mitchell

Ellsworth's past service as ambassador
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Brosio

Appointments
-Japan
-Armin H. Meyer
-New York businessmen
-George Champion
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-Requirement for job

Us foreign relations
-US and PRC
-US and Soviet Union
-Ellsworth’s view
-MBFR
-European security conference

Personnel
-US ambassador to Italy
-Graham A. Martin
-Brosio
-The President's visit
-Bangkok
-Taiwan
-US ambassador to Germany
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-US ambassador to Italy

US foreign affairs
-Greece
-British
-George Papadopoulos
-Ellsworth’s view
-US
-Soviet Union
-Political fortunes

Economy
-Price Commission
-William W. Scranton
-Ellsworth
-Arms Control Commission

Ellsworth
-Previous service
The President's schedule
-New York

New York
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-Greenwich, Connecticut
-West Side compared with East Side

Gift presentation

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-Money Clip

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