735-7

Conversation No. 735-7

Date: June 15, 1972
Time: 12:49-1:26 pm
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Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President’s meeting with Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Length of meeting
-The President’s re-election
-Kissinger’s schedule

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-Length of Congressional briefing
-The President’s statement to Congressmen
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Content
-J. William Fulbright
-Senate ratification date
-Timing
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Questions
-John C. Stennis
-Fulbright
-Melvin R. Laird
-New strategic programs
-The President’s view
-Budget
-Kissinger’s response

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time after 12:49 pm.

Refreshments

SALT negotiations
-Kissinger’s briefing
-John Sherman Cooper
-Pace of arms build-up
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Numbers of Soviet Union missiles
-Limits
-Verification
-Light compared with heavy missiles
-The President’s meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Missiles
-Silos
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-Administration support
-Laird
-Strategic programs
-Effects of program
-Savings
-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM] Treaty
-Stennis
-Kissinger's briefing
-Length limitations

Executive privilege
-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan's support for the President's position

Congressional briefing on SALT
-The President’s comments
-Quotation from [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Executive privilege
-The President’s role in negotiations
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Donald M. Fraser’s question
-Four issues settled with Brezhnev

Democrats
-Foreign policy issues

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger's announcement
-Publicity
-Press coverage

Vietnam
-Trip by Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Press coverage
-Expectations
-Statement
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Contents
-Joint statement with North Vietnamese
-Le Duc Tho
-End of war
-Soviet Union
-George H. Gallup poll
-Copies of latest results
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-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Presidential race
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-George C. Wallace
-Kissinger’s view
-Chou En-lai
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Transmission
-Haldeman
-The President’s changes against McGovern

The President’s meeting with Echeverria
-The President’s re-election
-The President’s prestige in world

Vietnam
-Mining of harbors
-The President’s May 8, 1972 speech
-Effect
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Press coverage

SALT
-Congressional action
-Timing for ratification
-Kissinger’s view
-William P. Rogers’s statement
-Gerard C. Smith’s departure
-Future negotiations by Kissinger
-Further agreements
-Brezhnev
-The President’s role in negotiations
-Structure of treaty
-Kissinger’s role
-Verification Panel
-National Security Council [NSC]
-John Foster Dulles
-Smith
-Rogers
-Chou En-lai
-Brezhnev
-Rank of negotiators
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-Kissinger’s role
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Comparison with Kissinger
-Rank of Secretary of State
-Rogers
-Relations with press
-Dulles
-Kissinger
-Problems

Kissinger's briefing of Congressmen
-Timing
-Clark MacGregor
-Fulbright
-Kissinger’s statement
-National television appearance
-Timing
-Newsmen
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Comparison with Howard K. Smith

The President's interview with Dan Rather

Kissinger's future briefings on SALT
-Foreign relations committees

Congressional briefing on SALT
-Kissinger
-Rogers, Laird, Smith
-Testimony
-Question on secret agreements
-Response
-Three submarines
-Construction
-Missile systems
-US position
-Possible conversion
-Defense program
-McGovern’s program
-The President’s view

Kissinger's schedule
-PRC
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-Hawaii
-Departure time
-Shanghai
-Guam
-Stopover
-Jet lag
-Peking

Vietnam
-US air action
-PRC
-Gen. John D. Lavelle
-Possible role for the President
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s orders to Laird
-Bombing
-Laird’s orders
-The President’s view
-Retirement
-Laird’s role at Defense Department
-Handling of case
-The President’s critics
-Compared with My Lai
-Authority to bomb North Vietnam
-Missile sites
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]

The President’s meeting with Echeverria
-Business investment in Latin America
-The President’s view
-Stability
-Chile
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Investment capital flight
-Latin American attitudes
-Mexican Foreign Minister [Emilio Rabasa Mishkin]
-Meetings with Kissinger
-Dobrynin
-Future meeting with Kissinger
-Salinity of Colorado River
-The President’s comments

Kissinger’s schedule
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-Visit to Acapulco


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Kissinger's briefing on SALT
-Question on the President's role in negotiations
-Smith

Kissinger left at 1:26 pm.