881–2

Conversation No. 881-2

Date: March 16, 1973
Time: 10:18 am -10:33 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev's message to President
-Human Rights Commission
-Resolution
-Geneva
-Free emigration
-Kissinger's call to [David] Kenneth Rush
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Dobrynin
-Rush's call to Kissinger
-US resolution
-Handling
-Jewish protests
-US representative to Human Rights Commission
-Ties to Jewish organizations
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-Explanation of actions
-US resolution on free emigration
-William P. Rogers
-Recall of US representative
-State Department’s role
-Rogers, Rush
-Dobrynin's reaction
-Brezhnev
-Rush
-Jewish emigration
-President's message to Congress
-Impact
-Support for President
-Written report
-Rush
-Dobrynin
-Senate Democratic Caucus
-Overseas troops
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Jewish protests
-President's sympathies
-Congressional action
-President's opposition
-Max Fisher
-Statistics of Soviet Jewish emigrants
-Publicity
-Message for Dobrynin
-Recall of US representative
-President's meeting with Jewish leaders
-Brezhnev
-President’s note
-Rush
-Telephone call
-Apology

Overseas troops
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-European concerns

Vietnam
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-US military action
-Timing
-President's message to North Vietnam
-Timing
-President's press conference
-Effectiveness
-Options
-Troop withdrawals
-Appearance of weakness
-Prisoners of War [POWs] release
North Vietnam’s action
-Bombing
-Economic commission [?]
-Mining
-Safest course
-POW release
-President’s statement on television [TV]
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s visit
-Peace settlement
-Enforcement
-Public reaction
-Respect for President
-Violations
-1969 chances for peace
-Thieu
-South Vietnam
-President’s message to North Vietnam
-North Vietnam’s response

President's press conference
-New York Times
-TV
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Vietnam
-Questions
-Watergate
-John N. Mitchell
-Reasons for break-in
-Public reaction
-Disclosure of information
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-White House staff testimony
-Position
-Kissinger's talk with Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
-Clark M. Clifford
-Califano's reaction to Watergate trial
-Court system
-Senate hearings
-Controversy
-Comparison with India-Pakistan War
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

Brezhnev’s visit to US
-Public interest
-“Big plays”

Vietnam
-Possible defeat
-Bombing
-1974 election
-Impact
-1975, 1976 predictions
-Prospects
-Peace settlement
-US handling of North Vietnam

Cambodia
-Bombing
-B-52s
-Intelligence reports
-Targets
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer

President's meetings with John W. Dean, III

Human Rights Commission resolution
-Kissinger's message to Dobrynin
-Rush
-Personal apology

Kissinger left at 10:33 am.
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