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Conversation No. 784-7

Date: September 21, 1972
Time: 10:15 am - 10:50 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

US-People’s Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Kissinger’s recent trip to New York
-Bangladesh
-Membership in United Nations [UN] issue
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-Meaning of treaty
-Soviet Union position paper
-India joke
-UN General Assembly
-Debate
-Timing
-1972 election
-Visit to US
-Medical delegation
-October 1972
-Scientific delegation
-November 1972
-Acrobatic team
-December 1972
-Announcements
-Timing
-1972 election
-Scientific delegation
-The President’s schedule
-National Career Conference in Los Angeles, September 28, 1972
-Medical exchange with the PRC
-The President’s conversation with Chou En-lai

Presidential correspondence
-Willy Brandt

Edward M. Kennedy
-Possible visit to Stockholm
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Recent release of three US prisoners of war [POWs]
-Hanoi
-Propaganda
-Democrats

Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home
-Name spelling

Kennedy
-Possible trip
-Attack in Congress

Presidential correspondence
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-Letter from the President to Home
-Meeting with the President
-George P. Shultz
-Monetary tactics
-International monetary situation
-Personal channels
-Timing
-1972 election
-British
-The President’s recent meeting with John D. Ehrlichman, Caspar
W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-The President’s schedule after 1972 election
-Camp David
-Letter from the President to Andrei A. Gromyko
-Accommodations for Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Letter from the President concerning Saints and Sinners roast
-Roast
-Jokes
-Harry Hirshberg [sp?]
-Unknown person
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-The President


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Presidential correspondence
-Letter form the President to Brandt
-Death of Israeli athletes at Munich Olympic Games
-Letter from the President to Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Politburo circulation
-Hydrofoil
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-Nikolai V. Podgorny
-[National Security Council] [NSC]
-State Department
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Winston S. Churchill, Josef V. Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Correspondence in World War II
-Quality preparation
-Preparation
-Drafting letters
-Grace notes
-State Department
-Staffing
-Letter to [William McMahon] of Australia
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Value
-Haile Selassie
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-1972 election
-Purpose
-Europe
-European charter

Economic affairs
-The President’s role and agreements
-Azores agreement
-US-Soviet Union trade deal
-The President's recent conversation with Haldeman
-Ehrlichman

Personnel management
-President’s Science Advisory Committee [PSAC]
-Staffing reorganization
-Office of Science and Technology
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Space Committee
-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
[PFIAB]
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-The President's conversation with Henry M. (\"Scoop\") Jackson
-Budget
-Bureaucracy
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-Attitude toward the President
-Gerard C. Smith
-William P. Rogers
-State Department
-Economic advisers
-State Department
-The President’s recent conversation with Haldeman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Loyalty
-Post-1972 election
-Peter Flanigan
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Ambassadorship
-Robert S. Ingersoll
-White House
-State Department
-Frank C. Carlucci
-Loyalty to Administration
-Burundi
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Defense Department
-George S. McGovern's forthcoming defense paper
-Morton H. Halperin
-Leslie H. Gelb
-Defense Department
-State Department
-Foreign Service
-Presidential appointments

Vietnam
-Defense Department
-Melvin R. Laird
-B-52s
-Withdrawal
-Effect on negotiations

Campaign
-1972 election

1972
-McGovern
-Laird
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-Defense plans
-Spending of funds
-1977
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Possible Soviet Union attack on Europe
-Abram Chayes’s comments in London Economist
-Defense capabilities
-Airlift
-Timing
-The President’s News Summary annotation
-Airfields
-Rhine River
-World War II
-Foreign policy advisor
-Chayes

Israel
-Kissinger’s conversation with Yitzhak Rabin
-Jewish issues
-Israel
-Munich Olympic killings
-Terrorism
-Anti-terrorist committee
-Rogers
-Contingency plans
-Haig
-Rose Mary Woods
-Jeane L. Dixon
-Rabin
-Possible kidnapping in exchange for release of blacks in
prison
-Hijacking, kidnapping
-Soviet Jewish emigration
-Possible Dr. Gilbert Klaperman phone call by the President
-Possible telephone call by Kissinger
-Public statement
-Soviets
-Kissinger’s conversation with Rabin
-Emigration decree
-US-Soviet Union trade deal
-Peter G. Peterson
-Charles H. Percy, Abraham A. Ribicoff, Jacob K. Javits
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-Possible rider
-Timing of legislation
-January 1973
-Kissinger’s conversation with Rabin
-Credit
-Possible industrial assistance
-Tanks
-Airplanes
-France
-Bureaucratic opposition
-Arms package
-Timing
-October 1972
-Political effect
-Arabs
-Haig
-Kissinger’s possible conversation with Rabin
-Jewish US senators
-1972 election
-The President’s friendship
-US Jews
-Compared to Catholics in Biafra

Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with North Vietnamese

Vietnam War
-Recent release of POWs
-Exploitation
-Hanoi
-Stockholm
-Copenhagen
-Press conferences
-Opposition leaders
-John Hart of Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Washington Star
-Orr Kelly

Kissinger left at 10:50 am.
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