709–16

Conversation No. 709-16

Date: April 17, 1972
Time: 12:02 pm - 12:06 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Donald B. Rice, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger and George P. Shultz;
Stephen B. Bull and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Rice's next job
-Locaiton

Photographs

Rand Corporation
-Rice's job
-Experience
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Shultz
-Press office
-Location
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 709-16 (cont.)


-Work
-Home
-Rice's family

Presidential gifts
-Money clip
-Cuff links
-Wife
-Compact
-Golf balls

Best wishes

Rice and Weinberger left at 12:05 pm.

Vietnam
-Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Troop withdrawals
-Negotiations
-US peace offers
-US bombing
-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Toughness
-Blockade
-Implementation
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Number of divisions
-Lyndon B. Johnson's Administration
-US response
-Defense of South Vietnam
-Odds
-Ground forces
-Press reports
-US Marines

Shultz left at 12:06 pm.