731–1

Conversation No. 730-14/731-1

Date: June 12, 1972
Time: Unknown after 5:39-6:07 pm.
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
[This portion of the conversation began at an unknown time while the meeting was in progress.]

US foreign policy
-Ratification of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Vietnam
-US-Soviet Union summit
-Henry Kissinger's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Ratification of SALT
-The President's role
-Kissinger’s view
-Joint session of Congress
-Senate
-Kissinger's role
-Gerard C. Smith
-Political implications
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Jacob K. Javits
-Charles H. Percy, Jr.
-George D. Aiken
-Michael J. Mansfield

The President's schedule
-Press meeting
-PRC trip announcement
-Television press conference
-Timing
-California
-PRC trip
-Purpose
-The President's standing
-Kissinger’s view


Japan
-Kissinger’s visit
-Japanese newspapers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)


-Kissinger's appearances
-Eisaku Sato
-Takeo Fukuda
-US-PRC relations

PRC
-US flights over North Vietnam
-Note
-Incursions
-Haig
-Defense Department
-Military commanders
-Note
-Tone
-Impact
-Publicity
-Responsibilty of US military
-Note
-US response
-Haig
-Kissinger's trip
-Incidents
-Restrictions on US flights
-Damage
-Public complaints
-Restrictions
-Importance

Soviet Union
-Nikolai V. Podgorny
-North Vietnam visit
-Bombing
-Hanoi
-Overflights
-Haiphong
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s instruction
-Timing
-Hanoi

PRC
-Incident
-Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)


-US response
-Previous incursions
-Kissinger's trip
-Time
-US flight over North Vietnam
-Haig
-Complaints
-PRC notes
-US response
-Kissinger’s view
-Thomas H. Moorer
-US restraint
-Bombing
-Locations
-White House approval
-North Vietnam
-Hanoi
-Kissinger’s message to PRC
-Kissinger's PRC trip
-New York Times stories

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Podgorny's visit to Hanoi

PRC
-Soviet Union
-Podgorny
-Normalization of relations
-North Vietnam
-US bombing
-Statement at the United Nations [UN] Conference on the
Human Environment, Stockholm, Sweden
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Haig
-Olaf Palme

Japan
-The President’s previous trip
-Donald M. I. Kendell
-Foreign ministers
-Kissinger's trip
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)


-Reception
-Fukuda
-PRC

1972 campaign in US
-the President's re-election
-Rowland K. Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Poland
-Japan
-Sato
-Communists
-North Vietnam


Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese
-Public meetings
-Timing
-Democratic convention

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:40 pm.

The President's schedule
-Sequoia trip
-The President's sport coat
-Weather

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:07 pm.

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Wedding anniversary
-Television coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Dan Rather
-Barbara Walters
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-\"Today\" show
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Kissinger

The President’s possible press conference

Ratification of SALT
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)


-The President's view
-Senate
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger's appearance
-Vietnam
-Pentagon Papers
-H.R. Haldeman
-Budget
-Kissinger's view
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-Smith
-SALT
-Kissinger’s possible statement
-The President's statement

Kissinger’s schedule
-Previous trip to Japan
-Forthcoming trip to Hawaii

U.S. News and World Report Article
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Editorial review
-Effect


PRC
-US bombing in North Vietnam
-Incursions
-US response
-Kissinger

Kissinger's trip

Kissinger left at 6:07 pm.