628–2

Conversation No. 628-2
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Date: December 2, 1971
Time: 11:35 am - 12:13 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

John B. Connally's reports of the Group of Ten meeting
-Questions
-Gold issue
-Prices
-Ziegler's comments
-The President's instructions

Ziegler left and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:37 am.

David M. Kennedy
-Appointment
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

Golda Meir meeting
-Talking points
-Sent to the President
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger's talk with Meir
-Rogers
-President’s hard line with Meir
-Phantoms
-Joseph J. Sisco and Yitzhak Rabin
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] Summit meeting
-Middle East topic
-Preparatory talks
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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MIDDLE EAST


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-Agreements
-Summit
-Rogers' plan
-USSR
-Settlement
-Rogers’ plan
-Frontier
-Meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Military action
-Leonid I. Brezhnev-Sadat meeting
-No interim agreement
-USSR
-Israelis
-Berlin comparison
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[Duration: 20s ]


MIDDLE EAST


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-Kissinger's talk with Dobrynin
-Israelis
-United Nations [UN] forces
-Type of discussion
-Rogers' plan
-Phantoms
-State Department
-Sisco
-Possible Israeli attitudes
-Military action in the Middle East
-Potential outcome
-Summit
-Agreement
-Egyptian-USSR meetings
-Negotiations style
-Brezhnev
-Talking points

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 11:46 am.

The President's schedule
-Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
“Meet and greet” session
-Business Council meeting
-Sears
-J.C. Penney's
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-Federated stores
-Representatives
-Retail sales
-Percentage
-Phase II
-Thanksgiving
-Christmas
-Anticipated revenue
-Foreign policy
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Kissinger
-Praise from the President
-Potential schedule conflicts
-Flanigan
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Los Angeles, Chicago, and Cincinnati
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Gordon M. Metcalf and Fred Lazarus, Jr.
-Timing
-Fletcher meeting
-Time
-“Meet and greet”
-Meir meeting
-Timing
-Earl L. Butz's swearing-in ceremony
-Corn issue
-Senate vote
-Possible outcome
-Corn price supports
-John C. Whitaker
-Timing
-Business Council meeting
-Time

Haldeman left at 11:56 am.

Meir meeting
-USSR
-Summit
-Possible preparatory talks
-Withdrawal of forces
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-Egyptians
-USSR position
-Sisco
-Kissinger's talk with Meir
-Rogers
-Settlement
-Dobrynin
-Potential discussions with Kissinger
-Passage issue
-Rogers
-Troops
-Roger and Sisco
-A question of trust
-Egyptians and USSR
-Rogers' plan
-USSR
-Possible scenarios
-Phantoms
-Sisco-Rabin meeting
-Written instructions from the President
-USSR summit
-Kissinger's talk with Meir
-The President
-Negotiation style towards Meir
-USSR
-The President-Meir photograph
-Kissinger and Rabin
-“Goodwill” gesture

Cambodia
-North Vietnamese
-South Vietnamese
-Cautious approach
-Bombing
-Other objectives
-North Vietnamese planes
-Airfields
-Numbers of planes
-Bombing
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Upcoming conversation between Kissinger and Moorer
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-Gen. John D. Ryan
-Call for youth
-Melvin R. Laird
-Potential conversation between Kissinger and Laird
-Briefing on air strikes
-Moorer
-David Packard
-Laird
-Location
-Briefing
-Timing

India
-State Department
-New license cut off
-Announcement
-President's instructions
-Old license cancellation
-Briefing

[Sounds of note taking]

Kennedy appointment
-NATO
-Conditions
-Statement by the President
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Attendance at Georges J.R. Pompidou, Willy Brandt, Edward R.G. Heath and
Eisaku Sato meetings
-John R. Schaetzel and Joseph A. Greenwald
-Information on economic issues
-Brussels staff
-Upgrade
-Rogers
-Talk with Kissinger

Television
-Rogers in Europe
-Call from the President
-Report
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
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-Length of conversation
-Kennedy
-NATO

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger announcement
-Media coverage
-James B. Reston column
-Favorable
-J. William Fulbright committee
-Chinese reaction
-Two-China issue
-Thelma C. (Pat”) Nixon
-Media
-Reactions
-Vietnam War
-Support of foreign policy
-Charles H. Percy
-Talk with Kissinger
-Senate
-Establishment

Kissinger left at 12:13 pm.