790–8

Conversation No. 790-8

Date: October 2, 1972
Time: 11:20 am - 11:39 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and William P. Rogers.

US-Soviet Union trade agreement
-1972 election
-Exit visas for Soviet Jews
-Russian Relations with Minorities
-Lithuanians
-Estonians
-Latvians
-Ukrainians
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-US Jews
-US and Soviet Union interest
-Lend-lease
-US influence on Soviet Union government
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-Space, environment
-Diplomatic channels
-US Jewish interest
-Jewish organizations’ view
-Recent meeting
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Forthcoming US announcement
-Soviet Union
-Timing of proposed actions
-MFN
-Congress
-Export-import credits
-Administrative discretion
-Knowledge of exit visas by Soviets
-Trade and Foreign ministries
-Jewish organizations
-Cause of action
-Kissinger’s view
-Progress
-The President’s recent meeting with Jewish leaders in New York
-Rabbi Herschel Schacter
-Congress
-Republicans
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
Jacob K. Javits
-US Jews
-Choices
-The President’s previous conversation with Max M. Fisher
-Support
-Israel
-Economics
-1972 election
-Jewish vote
-Abba Eban
-Previous conversation with Rogers
-Press briefing
-Exit visas
-Exit visas
-Israel
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Political issue
-Republicans
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Rogers left at 11:27 am.

US-Soviet Union relations
-Forthcoming meeting [with Gromyko]
-Japan
-Vietnam
-Upcoming dinner with Gromyko at Camp David
-Kissinger’s upcoming meeting with Gromyko
-Japan-People’s Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Possible US action
-Middle East
-1972 election
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Vietnam
-1972 election
-The President’s mandate
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Moscow
-European security
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-State Department
-Draft note
-Trade agreement
-Exit visas
-Soviet Jews
-Rogers
-Political issue
-News media
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Time
-Life
-Three major networks
-US Jews
-Anti-Semitism
-Possible backlash
-Possible postponement
-Lend-lease
-Credits
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Amendment
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-Sense of the Senate resolution
-US Jews
-Democrats
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Jackson
-Rogers

US foreign policy
-Vietnam
-US Jews

Democrats
-US-Soviet Union wheat deal
-Washington Post
-Iowa
-Des Moines Register
-Poll
-Results
-Farmers
-Price of wheat, corn, and soybeans

US Jews
-Compared to Israelis
-Today show
-David Landau
-Harvard University
-Book on Kissinger
-“Theory of Linkages”
-Linkage
-Wheat deal and exit visas
-Joseph C. Kraft article
-Bargaining with the Soviet Union
-US relations with the Soviet Union
-Middle East
-Vietnam mining
-North Vietnam bombing
-1972 election
-New York
-Chicago
-Los Angeles

Vietnam settlement
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-Kissinger’s view
-Bombing
-20th parallel
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Kissinger's schedule
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s schedule
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Saigon briefing
-Hanoi
-Le Duc Tho
-Possible agreement
-Hanoi
-Document signing
-Saigon, Hanoi
-1972 election
-US casualties
-Timing
-Delay
-1972 election
-Kissinger's view
-Possible scenario after the election
-US forces
-Decline
-B-52’s
-Congress
-Funding
-Possible stance from the administration
-Bombing
-February 1973
-Thieu’s resignation
-Constituent Assembly

Kissinger's schedule
-[Gromyko]
-Talk
-Dinner


Kissinger left at 11:39 am.
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