767–17

Conversation No. 767-17

Date: August 11, 1972
Time: 10:36 am - 11:08 am
Location: Oval Office

Henry A. Kissinger met with Peter M. Flanigan and Peter G. Peterson; the White House
photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

Peterson’s schedule

Photographs
-Arrangements

The President entered at 10:36 am.

[Photograph session]

Tom Petit
-Previous Los Angeles assignment

Purpose of meeting
-Publicity
-Discussion of international trade

Peterson's previous meetings with Soviet Union officials
-Exports
-Soviet Union desire for Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Proposed trade center facilities
-Drawings of the facilities
-Hospitality
-Soviet negotiating tactics
-Accomplishments
-Nikolai S. Patolichev
-Health
-Soviet minister of health [Boris V. Petrovsky]
-Politburo
-Unemployment in US
-1972 election
-Political significance of meetings
-Soviet desire for economic agreement
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Desire for economic agreement
-Soviet domestic political situation
-Patolichev
-Previous meeting in Crimea with Peterson
-US-Soviet Union trade
-Gas deal
-Lend-Lease
-Brezhnev’s comments to Peterson
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Leningrad
-US position
-Possible concession
-Congressional acceptance
-Comprehensive trade agreement
-MFN status for the Soviet Union
-Arbitration
-Bargaining advantage of US concession on Lend-Lease
-Peterson’s view
-Gas deal
-Possible arbitration complications
-Arbitration
-Paul R. Porter
-Harold J. Berman
-Harvard University
-Impact of US domestic situation
-Appearance of concession to Brezhnev
-Brezhnev’s domestic situation
-US interest in Brezhnev
-Soviet hardliners
-US-Soviet Union relations

US-Soviet Union relations
-Kissinger's forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Confidentiality
-State Department
-Discussions with Brezhnev
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Preliminary work on trade
-Flanigan, Peterson
-Relationship to 1972 election
-Brezhnev's concerns
-Vietnam
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Trade
-Importance to Soviets
-Situation for US
-Lend-Lease
-Importance
-Congress
-Soviet Union purchases of grain
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Gas deal
-Political implications
-PRC
-Japan
-Soviet grain purchase
-Strategic value
-Enhancement of Soviet military capability
-Pipeline construction
-Possibility of US concessions
-Lend-Lease
-Pipeline
-US domestic energy prices
-Possible working group
-Peterson's proposal
-Brezhnev
-Need for appearance of Presidential interest
-Development of options
-Announcement
-Timing
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Submission of proposal to the Soviets
-Brezhnev
-Importance of notice to the Soviets
-Politburo
-The President’s forthcoming message to Brezhnev
-Problems
-Brezhnev’s possible discussions with Kissinger
-Pipeline
-Working group
-Need for action
-Lend-Lease

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:36 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with George W. Romney
-Size
-Location
-Cabinet Room
-Oval Office
-Press photograph
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Report on Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:08 am.

US-Soviet Union relations
-Lend-Lease
-Brezhnev
-Concessions
-The Administration’s possible meetings with Congress
-The President's view
-Senate
-Consultations
-Kissinger’s view
-State Department
-US deal with Great Britain
-Payment schedule
-Link to US-Soviet Union payment negotiations
-Appearance of optimism
-The Administration’s consultations with Congress
-Vietnam negotiations
-Contrasted with Lend-Lease negotiations
-Factor of Soviet losses in World War II
-Negotiations with Brezhnev

US-Japan trade
-Gas deal
-political aspects
-Economic significance
-California
-Shipments to Japan
-Japanese presence in Siberia
-Kakuei Tanaka

Maritime issues
-Shipping
-Cuba
-Timing vis-a-vis the 1972 elections

Poland
-Relations with US
-1972 election
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Bonds issue
-Forthcoming meeting between US and Polish officials
-Grain sales
-Compared to US relations with the Soviet Union
-Trade
-Terms of agreements
-Publicity
-Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank
-Yugoslavia
-Romania
-Trade with US
-Polish bond payments to Polish Americans

US-Soviet Union relations
-Trade negotiations
-Report to Congress
-Administration goals
-Agreement
-Timing

Kissinger, Flanigan and Peterson left at 11:08 am.