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Date: November 2, 1971
Time: 10:59 am - 12:24 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with William McMahon; the White House photographer and members of the
press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

[General conversation]

Photographs
-Arrangements

[General conversation]

Sydney and Melbourne
-New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles
-The President’s 1953 trip to Australia
-Comparisons
-Horse race

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Pen

Kissinger and Roger [Surname unknown] entered at 11:06 am.

Introductions

The press and the White House photographer left at an unknown time before 12:24 pm.

Refreshments

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US-AUSTRALIA RELATIONS


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US-PRC relations
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Purpose
-Ambassadors
-Compared to US-USSR relations
-PRC’s position in world
-Japan
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-US role in world
-Nixon Doctrine
-Foreign aid program
-Senate
-American popular opinion
-Japan, Korea and Thailand
-Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos
-Nixon Doctrine
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Kissinger's conversations with Chou En-lai
-Tone
-Chinese communists
-Compared to Soviets
-Foreign troops in Asia
-US
-Soviet
-Outer Mongolia
-PRC-USSR relations
-PRC’s position in world
-US-Asian policy
-Korea and Vietnam
-The President's forthcoming trip

Vietnam
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-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press
-The President's conversation with Andrei A. Gromyko
-The President's conversation with Josip Broz Tito

US-PRC relations
-The President's forthcoming trip
-US Asian policy

The President's forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR
-Pragmatism
-Press reporting
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-US foreign policy
-Motives of the PRC and USSR

US-Australia relations
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan

US foreign policy
-The President's experience
-Approach to negotiations

US-PRC relations
-The President's forthcoming trip
-PRC motives
-USSR
-Japan
-Domestic problems
-Historical view
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Announcement
-Timing
-Soviet Summit
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AUSTRALIA


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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:06 am.

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:24 pm.

The press

Kissinger
-Sonia R. McMahon

The President, McMahon and Kissinger left at 12:24 pm.