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Conversation No. 682-8

Date: March 10, 1972
Time: 12:50 pm - 1:10 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger; the White House photographer was present at the
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beginning of the meeting.

[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Contact with the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-William P. Rogers
-Unknown assistant secretary
-Backchannel
-Arthur K. Watson

Kissinger’s schedule
-J. William Fulbright

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Watson
-Meeting with Dianne C. Matthews

Matthews entered at 12:52 pm.

Matthews’s departure
-Reasons
-Engagement
-Fiancé
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Foreign Service
-Wedding
-Timing
-Virginia Beach
-Note from the President

Matthews left at 12:53 pm.

The President’s forthcoming meeting with Watson
-Topics of discussion
-Channel to PRC
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Kissinger’s schedule
-Previous meeting with Businessmen
-The President’s view
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger’s workload
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-Forthcoming meeting with Fulbright
-Forthcoming meeting with businessmen
-George Meany
-Joseph Irwin Miller
-Peter M. Flanigan

Kissinger met with an unknown man [Secret Service agent].

Meeting with Watson

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:53 pm.

Meeting with Watson

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:55 pm.

PRC trip
-George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Congratulations of Edward R.G. Health
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.

Kissinger’s schedule

Watson entered at 12:55 pm.

Congratulations on speech

Backchannels to the PRC
-Gerald R. Ford and [Thomas]Hale Boggs
-Visit to PRC
-The President
-State Department
-Leaks
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Watson’s experience
-Algeria
-Watson’s message to the State Department
-Cable
-[First name unknown] deBeaumarchais[sp?]

Watson’s new house
-The President’s schedule
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-Watson’s previous house

Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Fulbright

Watson left at 12:59 pm.

News summary
-News story on possible joint US-Soviet manned space mission
-Frank Borman
-Trip to the Soviet Union
-The President’s approval
Trip to greet returning astronauts
-State Department
-Leaks

Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Fulbright

The President talked with the White House operator at 12:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 682-8A]

[See Conversation No. 21-41]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Fulbright

New York Times article
-Chou En-lai
-Norodom Sihanouk
-Meeting with North Vietnamese
-Chou En-Lai
-Meeting

The President talked with Fulbright between 1:00 pm and 1:02 pm; one item has been withdrawn
from this conversation.

[Conversation No. 682-8B]
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[See Conversation No. 21-42]

[End of telephone conversation]

The PRC trip
-Fulbright’s view
-Rogers
-Mathias
-Talk with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming conference
-David Rockefeller
-Comments
-Earl of Cromer
-British reaction to trip
-Shanghai communiqué
-State Department
-Memorandum on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Committee leadership
-Letters from the President
-Heath
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Willy Brandt
-Eisaku Sato
-Heath
-Pompidou
-Winston Lord
-Earl of Cromer
-Kissinger
-Briefing
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Japanese
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip
-British
-Cromer
-Brandt
-Heath
-State Department leaks
-Watson
-John N. Irwin, II
-Kissinger’s view
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State Department
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Haldeman
-Talk with Rogers
-Rogers’s role in forthcoming Soviet trip
-The President’s view
-Secretaries of State
-Foreign Service
-Cordell Hull
-Kissinger’s forthcoming talk with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Richard M. Helms
-State Department
-The President’s possible meeting with Dobrynin
-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-Meetings
-The President and Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Brezhnev, Aleksei N. Kosygin and Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Rogers’s forthcoming meetings
-Kosygin
-Podgorny

Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Fulbright

Kissinger left at 1:10 pm.