723–7

Conversation No. 723-7

Date: May 11, 1972
Time: 11:02-11:21 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

President's previous meeting with Nikolay S. Patolichev
-Ziegler's statement
-Meeting description
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Tape Subject Log
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-Trade relations
-Agriculture
-Industrial products

Vietnam
-Blockade
-President's decision
-Press commentary

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:02 am.

President's previous meeting with Soviet trade representatives
-Ziegler's briefing
-Soviet summit
-Questions

Refreshment order

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:08 am.

President's previous meeting with Soviet trade representatives
-Ziegler's statement
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s suggestion
-Bilateral discussions
-Arms limitation
-Trade
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Purpose of meeting
-Trade
-Wording of statement
-Progress
-Trade expansion
-Vietnam discussion
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:08 am.

-Wording of statement
-Kissinger’s view
-Brezhnev, Aleksei N. Kosygin, Maurice H. Stans
-Exchange of representatives
-Vietnam topic
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 723-7 (cont.)

-Ziegler's comment
-Soviet Summit
-New announcements
-Significance for North Vietnam

Ziegler left at 11:10 am.

Soviet summit
-Poland’s prediction
-Significance
-Kissinger’s call to Jerzy Michalowski
-President’s meeting with Patolichev and Dobrynin
-US-Soviet relations
-President’s comments on World War II alliance
-Winston S. Churchill’s experience
-Kissinger’s meeting with Brezhnev
-Adolph Hitler
-Kissinger’s call to Michalowski
-Ships in Haiphong
-Polish response
-Significance
-President’s trip
-Likelihood of cancellation
-Press comments
-Alarmist
-Ziegler’s reports
-The President’s view

Vietnam
-Blockade
-President’s letters to Brezhnev and Chou En-lai
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] statement
-Tone
-Wording
-Message to Chou En-lai
-US goals
-PRC statement
-Restraint
-Soviet statement
-Wording
-PRC statement
-Kissinger’s view
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 723-7 (cont.)

-Press reaction
-Soviet summit
-Political repercussions
-Press
-Democrats
-Agreements
-Benefits for president
-Blockade
-Decision
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger staff's assessment
-William P. Rogers
-Soviet summit
-President’s previous decision
-Risks
-Election
-Soviet response
-Motives
-Previous decisions
-Cambodia
-India-Pakistan war
-Risks
-Soviet summit
-Likelihood of Cancellation
-North Vietnam offensive
-Military region one
-B-52 strike
-Time
-Extent
-Location
-South Vietnam marine landing
-Number
-World War I and II
-President’s expertise
-Suggestion for Haig and military
-Tanks
-Use in World War I
-US tanks
-Use in South Vietnam
-The President’s suggestion
-An loc
-B-52 attacks
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 723-7 (cont.)

-Time
-Impact
-Forthcoming Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
meeting
-Kissinger’s view
-Hue
-Use of President's suggestions
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Soviet summit
-President’s preparations
-Kissinger meeting with Dobrynin
-Likelihood of Cancellation
-Kissinger’s view
-Previous meeting with Patolichev
-Significance
-President's preparations

Kissinger left at 11:21 am.