798–4

Conversation No. 798-4

Date: October 14, 1972
Time: 10:03 am - 10:39 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man at 10:03 am.

Henry A. Kissinger entered and the unknown man left at 10:03 a.m.

Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:04 am.

The President's schedule
-Chinese doctors
-Dr. John Hogness
-Dr. Wu Wei-jan
-Photograph opportunity
-Press
-Gifts
-Cuff links

Bull left at 10:04 am.

The President's and Kissinger’s schedule
-Camp David
-Radio Address on Crime and Drug Abuse, October 15, 1972
-Meetings
-Paris

Hogness, Dr. John R. Kernodle, Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., Gen. Walter R. Tkach, James H.
Cavanaugh, Wu Wei-jan, Fu Yi-chen, Lin Chiao-chih, Wu Hsueh-yu, Li Yen-shan, Chu Chuan-
yan, Liu Shih-lien, Han Jui, Chou Kuan-han, Chang Shu-shun, Hsu Chia-yu, Wang Lien-sheng,
Lu Tsung-ming, and Tai Tseng-yi entered at 10:04 am.; members of the press and the White
House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions
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[Photograph session]
-Dr. Wu
James B. (\"Scotty\") Reston
-Operation
-Birthday

The President's welcome remarks
-Scientific and medical exchanges between the People's Republic of China [PRC]
and US
-The President's trip to Peking
-Cure for diseases
-Cancer
-US research program begun in 1971
-The President’s conversation with PRC leader
-The best medical minds working for a cure
-Importance
-Health facilities
-The President's health
-Appendix
US visit
-Arrangements

PRC
-Women doctors
-Numbers and quality
-Compared to male doctors

Gift presentations
-Pins
-Presidential seal
-Cuff links
-Presidential seal

The President's regards to PRC leaders
-Chou En-lai

Gift from PRC
-Bonsai tree
-Age

PRC leaders regards to the President
-Chou En-lai
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Mao Tse-tung

White House tour

Everyone except Kissinger left at 10:19 am.

US-PRC relations
-Recent meeting with Chinese doctors
-Chou En-lai
-Schedule and treatment of visitors
-Mao Tse-tung
-Vietnam War

US-Soviet Union maritime agreement
-New York Times
-Timing of treaty signing
-Leak
-Negotiations
-Peter G. Peterson
-Soviets
-Shipping price
-Peterson
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-Shipping price
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
Previous meeting with Kissinger
-Peterson
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Lend-lease agreement
-Peterson
-Publicity
-Peterson’s efforts

US-Soviet Union trade agreement
-Timing
-Kissinger's schedule

Kissinger’s schedule
-The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Possible photograph opportunity
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Vietnam negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Relations with the President
-Possible statement
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Kissinger’s view
-State Department
-Coalition government
-Media speculation
-Hanoi
-US strategy
-Reduction of bombing
-Timing
-Sorties
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Xuan Thuy
-Changes
-Thieu
-Bunker
-The President’s trustworthiness
-Settlement announcement
Content
-Kissinger
-Hanoi
-Saigon
-Possible leak
-Relationship to 1972 election
-Thieu’s survival
-Possible coup
-Possible military activity
-Comparison to India
-Kissinger's schedule
-Saigon
-William H. Sullivan
-Xuan Thuy
-William P. Rogers
-Sullivan
-Communications
-Political aspects
-1972 election
-Thieu
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-Hanoi
-Publicity
-Effect
-Kissinger's schedule
-Saigon
-Paris
-Le Duc Tho
-Post-1972 election possibilities
-Bombing halt
-Kissinger's schedule scenario
-Saigon
-Thieu
-Sullivan’s schedule
-Bangkok, Vientiane, Phnom Penh
-Kissinger’s possible trip to Hanoi
-Phillip C. Habib
-South Korea
-Hanoi
-Cease-fire
-Hanoi
-Bombing halt
-Twentieth Parallel
-Announcement
-Compared to leak
-Reaction
-Navy, Army, Air Force
-Procedure for proposed action
-Saigon
-Washington, DC
-The President's television appearance
-October 25, 1972
-Cease fire, October 26, 1972
-Kissinger’s view of Hanoi trip
-Pressure for settlement
-Laos, Cambodia
-Le Duc Tho
-Peking trip
-Thieu
-Agreement possibility
-Possible scenarios
-State Department and Sullivan
-International commissions
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-Semantics
-Agreement quality
-Media relations
-Hanoi
-Political statement
-Possible leak
-The President’s possible statement
-Transportation
-Power unit
-French consulate
-Areas of discussion with Thieu

Kissinger left at 10:39 am.