628–18

Conversation No. 628-18

Date: December 2, 1971
Time: 4:55 pm - 5:15 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Meeting with Golda Meir
-Presidential authority
-Election
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Israelis
-Negotiation tactics
-William P. Rogers
-History of negotiations with Israel
-Politics

Rose Mary Woods entered at 4:57 pm.

The President buzzed Woods


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Tape Subject Log
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Woods left at 5:00 pm.

Meeting with Meir
-Middle East negotiations

Woods entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.


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Woods left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

Middle East negotiations
-Possible scenario
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Rogers
-The President’s proposed talk with Rogers
-Egyptians
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Proposed conversation with Kissinger
-Meeting with Meir
-President’s style
-Politics
-Give and take
-USSR
-1973
-Rogers's proposal
-Israelis
-Meir
-Proposed toughness
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 628-18 (cont.)


-American political situation
-Security
-USSR
-Balance of power in the Middle East
-Democrats
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Rogers
-Dobrynin
-USSR summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Trade in the Middle East
-Proposed Middle East settlement
-Egyptians
-Trade
-PRC
-Feeling towards a deal in the Middle East
-USSR-PRC relations
-Marshall Green
-USSR-US relations
-Proposed deal in the Middle East
-Status of negotiations
-War
-Timing
-1973

India-Pakistan situation
-Rogers
-Talk with Kissinger

David M. Kennedy appointment
-State Department
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-The President's call to Rogers
-Timing
-India-Pakistan situation
-Kissinger's call to Rogers
-Timing
-President’s inability to meet with Rogers
-President’s health
-Indira Gandhi
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 628-18 (cont.)


Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

The President's schedule
-Barber
-Timing

Kissinger and Bull left at 5:15 pm.