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735-1
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Luis Echeverria Alvarez
- Alexander M. Haig
- Donald F. Barnes
- UNKNOWN
- Henry A. Kissinger
June 15, 1972
Conversation No. 735-1
Date: June 15, 1972
Time: 10:31 am-12:10 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Luis Echeverria Alvarez, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Donald F. Barnes.
[Ronald L. Ziegler, members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the
beginning of the meeting.]
Seating
-Photographs
Introductions
-Ziegler
Photographs
Movies
-Mexico
Camp David
Introductions
-Number of people
-Chicago
-Washington
US-Mexican relations
-Present meeting
-Importance
-The President’s view
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Travel schedule
-Future consultations
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Mexico City visit
-Japan
-European countries
-Canada
-Echeverria’s response
-Previous meeting with Kissinger
2
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Water salinity problem
-Resolution
-Echeverria’s visits to the Mexicali Valley
-California
-Arizona
-1944 agreement between US and Mexico
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Coverage
-Source of water
-Wells
-Age of water
-Colorado River
-Irrigation
-Recycling
-Relationship between Kissinger and Mexico’s Foreign Secretary [Emilio
Rabasa Mishkin]
-Resolution of salination problem
-California and Arizona
-Indication of upcoming problems for Mexico and Latin American
countries
-Water distribution
-Mexican and American farmers
-Quality and quantity of water
-Mexico’s willingness to alleviate problems
-California
-Possible wording of statement
-Meeting between Mishkin and Kissinger
-Recapitulation of the conversation
-Solutions
-Water treatment
-1944 agreement
-Colorado River
-Water treatment 1944 agreement
-Imperial Dam
-Water quality and quantity problem
-Complexity
-Echeverria
-Water quality
-Commissioner
-Solution
-Echeverria
-The President
-Visiting intermediaries in Mexico
3
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Reactions to water problem
-Baja, California
-Mohawk River
-Colorado River
-Echeverria’s role
-Nixon’s role
-Kissinger
-Improvement of water qualitiy
-Importance of technical matters
-Mexican interest in water treatment problem
-Latin America’s interest
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Water usage in Mexico and US
-Arizona and California
-American Congressional reactions
-Arizona and California
-Interest of US farmers
-Approval of the President’s executive actions
-Sensitivity of issue
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:31 am.
The Mexican President’s schedule
-Joint session of Congress
-Blair House
-Mrs. Echeverria
-The President’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:56 am.
US foreign policies
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-US-Soviet Union relationship
-Negotiations
-Water treatment problem between US and Mexico
-Possible statement by the President
-Congressional reactions
-Personal commitment by the President
-Mexico expectations
-Mexican citizens in US
-Technical problem
-Water quality
4
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Possible statement by the President
-Resolution
-Timing
-Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
-Previous meeting with the President
-Salinity
-Oaxaca Dam
-Puerto Vallarta
-San Diego
-State Department
-Presidential level of action
-Second meeting between the President and Echeverria
-Statement
-Water quality
-Water treatment technical study
-Kissinger and Haig
-Forthcoming meeting with Mexico’s Foreign Secretary
-Wording for possible statement
-State Department involvement
-Rogers
-White House position
-Solution
-The President’s commitments
-Echeverria’s view
-Significiance of Mexican border to US
-Echeverria
-Latin America
Echeverria’s schedule
-Joint session of Congress
-Third World policy
-Latin America
-Fidel Castro
Cuba
-Relationship with Soviet Union
-Echeverria’s view
-US interests in relation to Cuba
-Caribbean
-Latin America
-Influence
-US resistance
-US attitudes
5
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Latin America
-Castro
-Comparison with European countries
Latin American problems
-Population growth
-Unemployment
-Communism
-Social tensions
-Possible solutions
-Echeverria’s schedule in US
-Meeting with US business leaders
-Rockefeller
-Mexico’s role
-Private investment
-Echeverria’s address to business leaders
-Technology
-Employment
-Economic development
-Mexican business leaders
-Importance
-Trade
-US-Mexican relations
-Brazil
-Popular interest in Soviet Union
-Struggle between capitalism and communism
-Echeverria’s dinner with US business leaders
-Expropriations
-US business leaders’ concerns
-Effect on investment
-The President’s conversation with US businessman
-Mexico and Brazil
-Financial climate
-Necessity for stability
-Mexico as model for Latin America
-Freedom of speech and press
-Elections
-Mixed economy
-Importance of US investment
-Effect
-Necessity for private investment
-Social disorder
-Minorities in the US
6
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-US interests in solutions
The President’s meetings in the Soviet Union and PRC
-Results
-Echeverria’s view
Latin America
-Mexico’s role
-Importance
-Echeverria’s role
-Haig and Kissinger
-Salinity problem
Demonstration in San Antonio, Texas
-Mexican political prisoners
-Angela Davis efforts
-Cuban and Chilean involvement
-Chicanos
-University of California groups
-Attacks on Mexico
Latin America’s future
-Dictatorships
-Need for private investment
-Threat of communism
-The President’s August 15 announcement
-Economic statement
-President of Anaconda Copper Company
-Visit to Mexico
-Investment in Mexico
-Lack of technology and capital
-Overpopulation
-Soviet and Chinese communist propaganda
-Need for private investment
-Role of Latin American governments
-Echeverria’s conversation with Salvador Allende Gossens
-Investment problems in Chile
-Possible socialist dictatorship
-Investment programs
-Castro
-Need for long term planning
-Soviet propaganda
-US prosperity
7
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Need for new US policy
-Echeverria’s forthcoming meeting with US businessmen
-Latin America
-Compared with Mexico
-Brazil
-The President’s view
-Communism
-US future investments
-The President’s view
-Instability
-Expropriation
-Partnership with local interests
-Communism
-Echeverria’s poossible statements
-The President’s view
-Stability
-Business policy
-Partnership
-Need for US investment
-Unemployment
-Results
-Instability
-Echeverria’s role in Latin America
-Latin Americans’ responsibility
-Allende
-Flight of foreign capital from Chile
-Latin American business opportunities
-Rockefeller
-Comparison to other parts of the world
-Indonesia
-Thailand
-Africa
-Mexico as example
-Instability, expropriation
-Effect on investment
-Echeverria’s forthcoming meeting with businessmen
-The President’s support for investment
-Cuba
-Chile
-Mexico’s role of leadership
-Castro
US-Mexican relations
8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Echeverria’s forthcoming speech to US Congress
-Salinity of water in Mexico
-Bilateral relations
-The President’s meeting
Kissinger entered at 11:56 am.
Kissinger’s briefing of Congress
US-Mexican relations
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Salinity of water
-Public statement
-The President’s policy
-Deadline for settlement
-Memorandum from Foreign Minister
-Farmers
-Arizona, California
-Baja, California
Echeverria’s forthcoming speech to US Congress
-Illegal immgrants
-Discussion
-The President’s meeting with Echeverria
-The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
US-Mexican relations
-Illegal immigrants
-Working conditions in US
-Study commission
-Numbers in US
-US farmers
-Labor force
-Location
-Cities
-California, Texas
-Midwest
-Chicago
-Attitude of Chicano groups in US
-Political activities
-Working conditions in US
-Kissinger’s schedule
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Trip to Mexico
-Acapulco
-Briefing of Echeverria
Latin America
-Activities of Soviet Union and PRC
-Chile, Argentina, Mexico
-Impact on US
-Cuban precedent
-Military dictatorships
-Effects on US
-Cuba
-Military dictatorships
-Subsidies to youth groups
-Echeverria’s view
Echeverria’s schedule
-Forthcoming speech to Congress
-White House dinner
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
The President, Echeverria, Haig, Barnes and Kissinger left at 12:10 pm.
Date: June 15, 1972
Time: 10:31 am-12:10 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Luis Echeverria Alvarez, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Donald F. Barnes.
[Ronald L. Ziegler, members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the
beginning of the meeting.]
Seating
-Photographs
Introductions
-Ziegler
Photographs
Movies
-Mexico
Camp David
Introductions
-Number of people
-Chicago
-Washington
US-Mexican relations
-Present meeting
-Importance
-The President’s view
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Travel schedule
-Future consultations
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Mexico City visit
-Japan
-European countries
-Canada
-Echeverria’s response
-Previous meeting with Kissinger
2
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Water salinity problem
-Resolution
-Echeverria’s visits to the Mexicali Valley
-California
-Arizona
-1944 agreement between US and Mexico
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Coverage
-Source of water
-Wells
-Age of water
-Colorado River
-Irrigation
-Recycling
-Relationship between Kissinger and Mexico’s Foreign Secretary [Emilio
Rabasa Mishkin]
-Resolution of salination problem
-California and Arizona
-Indication of upcoming problems for Mexico and Latin American
countries
-Water distribution
-Mexican and American farmers
-Quality and quantity of water
-Mexico’s willingness to alleviate problems
-California
-Possible wording of statement
-Meeting between Mishkin and Kissinger
-Recapitulation of the conversation
-Solutions
-Water treatment
-1944 agreement
-Colorado River
-Water treatment 1944 agreement
-Imperial Dam
-Water quality and quantity problem
-Complexity
-Echeverria
-Water quality
-Commissioner
-Solution
-Echeverria
-The President
-Visiting intermediaries in Mexico
3
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Reactions to water problem
-Baja, California
-Mohawk River
-Colorado River
-Echeverria’s role
-Nixon’s role
-Kissinger
-Improvement of water qualitiy
-Importance of technical matters
-Mexican interest in water treatment problem
-Latin America’s interest
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Water usage in Mexico and US
-Arizona and California
-American Congressional reactions
-Arizona and California
-Interest of US farmers
-Approval of the President’s executive actions
-Sensitivity of issue
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:31 am.
The Mexican President’s schedule
-Joint session of Congress
-Blair House
-Mrs. Echeverria
-The President’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:56 am.
US foreign policies
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-US-Soviet Union relationship
-Negotiations
-Water treatment problem between US and Mexico
-Possible statement by the President
-Congressional reactions
-Personal commitment by the President
-Mexico expectations
-Mexican citizens in US
-Technical problem
-Water quality
4
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Possible statement by the President
-Resolution
-Timing
-Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
-Previous meeting with the President
-Salinity
-Oaxaca Dam
-Puerto Vallarta
-San Diego
-State Department
-Presidential level of action
-Second meeting between the President and Echeverria
-Statement
-Water quality
-Water treatment technical study
-Kissinger and Haig
-Forthcoming meeting with Mexico’s Foreign Secretary
-Wording for possible statement
-State Department involvement
-Rogers
-White House position
-Solution
-The President’s commitments
-Echeverria’s view
-Significiance of Mexican border to US
-Echeverria
-Latin America
Echeverria’s schedule
-Joint session of Congress
-Third World policy
-Latin America
-Fidel Castro
Cuba
-Relationship with Soviet Union
-Echeverria’s view
-US interests in relation to Cuba
-Caribbean
-Latin America
-Influence
-US resistance
-US attitudes
5
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Latin America
-Castro
-Comparison with European countries
Latin American problems
-Population growth
-Unemployment
-Communism
-Social tensions
-Possible solutions
-Echeverria’s schedule in US
-Meeting with US business leaders
-Rockefeller
-Mexico’s role
-Private investment
-Echeverria’s address to business leaders
-Technology
-Employment
-Economic development
-Mexican business leaders
-Importance
-Trade
-US-Mexican relations
-Brazil
-Popular interest in Soviet Union
-Struggle between capitalism and communism
-Echeverria’s dinner with US business leaders
-Expropriations
-US business leaders’ concerns
-Effect on investment
-The President’s conversation with US businessman
-Mexico and Brazil
-Financial climate
-Necessity for stability
-Mexico as model for Latin America
-Freedom of speech and press
-Elections
-Mixed economy
-Importance of US investment
-Effect
-Necessity for private investment
-Social disorder
-Minorities in the US
6
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-US interests in solutions
The President’s meetings in the Soviet Union and PRC
-Results
-Echeverria’s view
Latin America
-Mexico’s role
-Importance
-Echeverria’s role
-Haig and Kissinger
-Salinity problem
Demonstration in San Antonio, Texas
-Mexican political prisoners
-Angela Davis efforts
-Cuban and Chilean involvement
-Chicanos
-University of California groups
-Attacks on Mexico
Latin America’s future
-Dictatorships
-Need for private investment
-Threat of communism
-The President’s August 15 announcement
-Economic statement
-President of Anaconda Copper Company
-Visit to Mexico
-Investment in Mexico
-Lack of technology and capital
-Overpopulation
-Soviet and Chinese communist propaganda
-Need for private investment
-Role of Latin American governments
-Echeverria’s conversation with Salvador Allende Gossens
-Investment problems in Chile
-Possible socialist dictatorship
-Investment programs
-Castro
-Need for long term planning
-Soviet propaganda
-US prosperity
7
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Need for new US policy
-Echeverria’s forthcoming meeting with US businessmen
-Latin America
-Compared with Mexico
-Brazil
-The President’s view
-Communism
-US future investments
-The President’s view
-Instability
-Expropriation
-Partnership with local interests
-Communism
-Echeverria’s poossible statements
-The President’s view
-Stability
-Business policy
-Partnership
-Need for US investment
-Unemployment
-Results
-Instability
-Echeverria’s role in Latin America
-Latin Americans’ responsibility
-Allende
-Flight of foreign capital from Chile
-Latin American business opportunities
-Rockefeller
-Comparison to other parts of the world
-Indonesia
-Thailand
-Africa
-Mexico as example
-Instability, expropriation
-Effect on investment
-Echeverria’s forthcoming meeting with businessmen
-The President’s support for investment
-Cuba
-Chile
-Mexico’s role of leadership
-Castro
US-Mexican relations
8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Echeverria’s forthcoming speech to US Congress
-Salinity of water in Mexico
-Bilateral relations
-The President’s meeting
Kissinger entered at 11:56 am.
Kissinger’s briefing of Congress
US-Mexican relations
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Salinity of water
-Public statement
-The President’s policy
-Deadline for settlement
-Memorandum from Foreign Minister
-Farmers
-Arizona, California
-Baja, California
Echeverria’s forthcoming speech to US Congress
-Illegal immgrants
-Discussion
-The President’s meeting with Echeverria
-The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
US-Mexican relations
-Illegal immigrants
-Working conditions in US
-Study commission
-Numbers in US
-US farmers
-Labor force
-Location
-Cities
-California, Texas
-Midwest
-Chicago
-Attitude of Chicano groups in US
-Political activities
-Working conditions in US
-Kissinger’s schedule
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Trip to Mexico
-Acapulco
-Briefing of Echeverria
Latin America
-Activities of Soviet Union and PRC
-Chile, Argentina, Mexico
-Impact on US
-Cuban precedent
-Military dictatorships
-Effects on US
-Cuba
-Military dictatorships
-Subsidies to youth groups
-Echeverria’s view
Echeverria’s schedule
-Forthcoming speech to Congress
-White House dinner
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
The President, Echeverria, Haig, Barnes and Kissinger left at 12:10 pm.