756–21

Conversation No. 756-21
Date: July 28, 1972
Time: 2:09 pm - 2:42 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer], Sir Burke Trend, and Henry A.
Kissinger. The White House photographer was present at the beginning of the conversation.

Greetings

Seating arrangements

[Photograph session]
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Wire services
-Instructions

Ronald W. Reagan
-Conversation with the President about European trip
-Talks with Edward R.G. Heath or Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home
-Reagan’s briefing by Kissinger
-European Security Conference
-British position
-Bilateral deal

European Security Conference
-Propaganda line
-Danger
-Soviet Union

Reagan
-Conversation with the President
-British views about nuclear weapons
-US cooperation with France and West Germany

Ireland
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-1972 campaign
-George S. McGovern’s possible statements
-The President’s policy
-Instructions for bureaucracy
-Edward M. Kennedy
-The President’s policy
-Heath, John M. (“Jack”) Lynch
-1972 campaign
-McGovern’s possible statement
-The President’s response

European Security Conference
-Propaganda line
-France, West Germany
-US-Soviet meeting
-Possible effect
-[North Atlantic Treaty Organization] [NATO]
-Newsweek article
-Statement of principles

The President’s schedule
-Douglas-Home
-Dinner

Reagan
-Conversation with the President
-Possible misunderstanding
-Europeans’ views on nuclear weapons
-Britain
-West Germany, France
-Participation
-Planning
-Memorandum


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NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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The President’s schedule
-Michel Debre
-California
-Meeting with Melvin R. Laird

France
-Elections

European Security Conference

Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Phase II
-Forward bases
-Nuclear planning
-France

European Security Conference
-Story by Flora Lewis
-NATO
-Statement of principles
-Compared to those signed by France, West Germany
-Planning
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversations with Trend
-[James] Harold Wilson
-Michael Stewart
-Italy
-Possible effects
-Détente
-NATO
-Europe
-Finlandization
-Measuring progress

MBFR
-US policy
-NATO
-Security approach
-Compared to diplomatic approach
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-National Security Council [NSC] meeting

European Security Conference
-Preparatory discussions
-British concerns
-Nations involved
-Number
-British cabinet system
-Compared to US cabinet
-US-British consultations
-Private channel
-[State Department] and British Foreign Ministry
-William P. Rogers
-Douglas-Home
-West Germany, France, Italy

International monetary situation
-1972 election
-George P. Shultz’s role
-Arthur F. Burns
-Shultz
-Expertise
-Compared to John B. Connally
-Laissez-faire
-University of Chicago
-Milton Friedman
-Compared to Burns
-Convertability
-US responsibility
-Shultz
-Cromer’s view
-Jakarta
-Convertability
-Smithsonian Agreement
-1972 election
-United Nations [UN] Security Council
-French views
-Gold
-Effect on Britain
-NATO
-Politics
-Kissinger
-France
-Kissinger’s relationship with Georges J.R. Pompidou
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:09 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Car

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:42 pm.

1972 election
-Effect on NATO
-[McGovern]
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman’s views
-Greece
-National defense
-Unilateral troop cutbacks in Europe
-Budget cuts
-US public opinion
-Press report from Tokyo
-Vietnam
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Possible effect of McGovern’s statements
-Effect
-North Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POW]
-The President’s policy
-National defense, European policy, isolationism
-Press relations

US-Soviet military balance
-End of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Missiles, throw weight
-Compared to 1972
-NATO
-Vietnam
-Europe
-Effect of US withdrawal
-Soviet incursion
-1972 election campaign

The President’s schedule
-Heath
-Lord Chief Justice
-Warren E. Burger
-Schedule
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-California
-Burger
-Wife

[General conversation]

International diplomatic relations
-Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC], SALT
-International monetary situation

Cromer, Trend, and Kissinger left at 2:42 pm.