Conversation No. 499‑1

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  4:29 pm ‑ unknown before 5:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with David M. Kennedy and Peter G. Peterson; the recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress; discontinuities appear in the original recording.

International trade
‑Textile negotiations with Takeo Fukuda

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Note:  Original machine malfunction caused there to be no conversation recorded.

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National economy
‑Gross National Product [GNP] for first quarter
‑Release date
-Significance
‑Another economic indicator

Farewells

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 5:27 pm.

Conversation No. 499‑2/ 498-1

Date:  May 12, 1971
Time:  5:28 pm ‑ unknown before 6:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman; the recording begins while the meeting is in progress.

Gerald R. Ford
‑Previous conversation with President
‑Hugh Scott
-Robert P. Griffin
‑Supersonic Transport [SST] vote

House of Representatives votes, May 12, 1971
‑Welfare reform

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:28 pm and 5:29 pm]

[Conversation No. 499‑2A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑25]

[End of telephone conversation]

House of Representatives votes

John A. Scali
‑Previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
‑Views and activities 
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield Amendment
-Kissinger
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

Mansfield Amendment regarding NATO
‑President's possible actions
‑President's schedule
‑Scali meeting

Public relations
‑Scali's role

[The President talked with Leslie C. Arends between 5:29 pm and 5:31 pm]

[Conversation No. 499‑2B]

[See Conversation No. 3‑26]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

Stephen B. Bull entered at 5:31 pm.

George P. Shultz's schedule [?]

John D. Ehrlichman's schedule

Bull left at 5:32 pm.

The President talked with Frank T. Bow between 5:32 pm and 5:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 499‑2C/498-1A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑27]

[End of telephone conversation]

[The remaining portion of this conversation was recorded intermittently with Conversation No. 498‑1]

President's forthcoming speech on foreign policy
‑Previous State of Union speech
‑Revenue sharing
‑Government reorganization
‑"New American Revolution"
‑1972 State of the Union speech

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:33 pm and 5:41 pm]

[Conversation No. 499‑2D]

[See Conversation No. 3‑30]

[End of telephone conversation]

Peterson
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-William L. Safire

[The President talked with John B. Connally between 5:41 pm and 5:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 499‑2E]

[See Conversation No. 3‑32]

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Georgia

Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 5:41 pm.

Paul W. McCracken

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 6:03 pm.

Conversation No. 499‑3

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:11 am and 9:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Nellie L. Yates.

Henry A. Kissinger's location
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's office

Yates left at an unknown time before 9:15 am.

Conversation No. 499‑4

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  9:15 am ‑ 9:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

President's schedule
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's forthcoming announcement
‑Time
‑Red Cross event
‑Preparation on plane
‑Radio
‑Schedules of Elliot L. Richardson, William P. Rogers, Clark MacGregor
-Forthcoming television appearances
‑Timing
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Timing
‑Red Cross event

North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑An event
‑Television network coverage
‑Dean G. Acheson
‑Comments regarding meeting with President
‑Monty Woolley
‑John A. Scali
‑Troop levels
-Popular opinion
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Administration's goals
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑President's leadership
‑President's position

SST
‑William M. Magruder's health
‑Gerald R. Ford's efforts
‑John A. Volpe's efforts
‑Television network coverage of William M. Allen's comments
‑John D. Ehrlichman's conversation with Boeing staff

White House Correspondents' Dinner
‑Press coverage
-Staff action
‑Gridiron Club dinners
-Benefits

Press
‑President's relations

Kissinger's schedule
‑Brookings Institute directors meeting, May 13, 1971
‑American Enterprise Institute [AEI]
‑Allen S. Drury interview
‑William S. White
‑Victor Lasky
‑Discussion with President and Haldeman

President's schedule

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‑Rose Mary Woods
‑Marjorie P. Acker
‑Husband
‑Woods
‑Roger E. Johnson
‑Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
‑Departure time
‑An unknown man
‑Departure time

Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon's schedule

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‑Scheduling
‑Coral F. Schmid
‑Number and type of events
‑Page Belcher

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[THE PRESIDENT TALKED WITH THE WHITE HOUSE OPERATOR AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BETWEEN 9:15 AM AND 9:37 AM]

[Conversation No. 499‑4A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑50]

[End of telephone conversation]

[THE PRESIDENT TALKED WITH MRS. NIXON BETWEEN 9:37 AM AND 9:38 AM]

[Conversation No. 499‑4B]

[See Conversation No. 3‑51
[One item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

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‑Importance
‑Press conference in Oklahoma
‑Texas, North Dakota representatives
‑Meeting with governor's wife
‑Press conference

‑Future events after Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
‑Duration of visits
‑Oklahoma trips
‑Plane, press coverage
‑National press, local press
‑Size of plane and other attendees
‑Schmid
‑Belcher
‑Importance in South and Midwest
‑Staff

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am.

President's schedule
‑Max M. Fisher
‑Length of meeting
‑McCracken
‑Purpose of meeting

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

‑Rose Garden event
‑Press coverage
‑Charles H. Percy
‑Press
‑Illinois attendees
‑Number of events, May 14, 1971
‑Rose Garden event
‑Percy
‑Press coverage
‑Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
‑Prisoners of war [POW] event
‑Jacob A. Preus
‑Press coverage
-Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid
‑Kissinger
‑Kissinger's role
‑Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid
‑Labor
‑Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]
‑American Friends Service
‑Church World Service
‑Congregational Christians

‑Kissinger
‑Jewish Organizations
‑Hadassah
‑Brookings Institute
‑Fisher
‑Purpose of meeting
‑McCracken
‑Jews, businessmen
‑Preus
‑Fisher
‑Previous White House dinners
‑Encounters with staff
‑Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid
‑Length of meeting with President
‑Kissinger
‑Tour, other meetings
‑Pan American foreign club [?]
‑Press coverage
‑Ziegler
‑President's trips
‑Newsmen's wives
‑Changes
‑Johnson
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Rogers
‑Mitchell

US forces in Europe
‑President's conversation with Cyrus R. Vance, April 13, 1971
‑Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie positions
‑Haldeman's possible conversation with Clark MacGregor
‑Kissinger, Rogers

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

‑John McCowan
‑Identified
‑Mrs. Nixon
‑Mrs. Nixon's meeting

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[Duration:  1m 58s  ]

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SST
‑Connally
‑Boeing's actions
‑Business
‑Lesson for youth and labor
‑Termination costs

President's schedule
‑Florida trip
‑Price and his secretary
‑Woods

Haldeman left at 9:50 am.

Conversation No. 499‑5

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  9:50 am ‑ unknown before 9:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑John McCowan
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon's meeting
‑Alexander P. Butterfield
‑Wife

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

Conversation No. 499‑6

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  9:55 am ‑ 9:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and John McCowan; Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins was present at the beginning of the meeting.

McCowan's trip

Presentation of gift to President

Autograph
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon, President

Presentation of gifts by President
‑Pens, cufflinks

McCowan's schedule
‑President
‑Mrs. Nixon

McCowan's letters to the President

McCowan's schedule

Photograph

Butterfield and McCowan left at 9:58 am.

Conversation No. 499‑7

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  9:58 am ‑ unknown before 10:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Senior citizens organizations
‑Time
‑Leonard Garment
‑Time
‑National Advisory Committee on Foreign Aid

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.

Conversation No. 499‑8

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:58 am and 10:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

[Conversation No. 499-8A]

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[Duration:  20s  ]

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[End of conversation]

Conversation No. 499‑9

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:58 am and 10:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person talked with the President.

Unknown man's schedule

[End of conversation]

Conversation No. 499‑10

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  10:00 am ‑ 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Meeting with Kissinger

Forthcoming Statement
‑Wording
‑Importance
‑Timing
‑Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, May 14, 1971

Vietnam
‑Prisoners
‑Press reports regarding People's Republic of China [PRC] and North Vietnam
‑Chicago paper
‑Soviet press reports
‑Le Duan
‑Prisoners

US troops in Europe
‑President's previous meeting
‑Dean G. Acheson's comments to press

‑Attendees
‑Acheson
‑Gen. Lauris Norstad
‑John J. Mccloy
‑President's conversation with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
‑William P. Rogers' call to Kissinger

The President and Kissinger left at 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 499‑11

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:04 am and 11:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Remarks
‑Max M. Fisher
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Jacob A. Preus

The President and Bull left at 10:37 am.

Conversation No. 499‑12

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:20 am and 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule

Rose Mary Woods' schedule

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

Conversation No. 499‑13

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:20 am and 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with unknown persons.

[General Conversation]

The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 499‑14

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:20 am and 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?].

The President=s schedule
-Jacob A. Preus
-Press coverage

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 499‑15

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:20 am and 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Photo coverage of meeting with Jacob A. Preus

Bull left at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 499‑16

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  11:30 am ‑ 11:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Gen. James D. (ADon@) Hughes and Jacob A. Preus.

Vietnam
‑Preus' trip
‑North Vietnamese
‑Preus
‑Prisoners of war [POWs]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

Arrangements for photograph

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

[Unintelligible]

Bull and the press left at an unknown time before 11:50 am.

Refreshments

Preus= assistants

Vietnam
-POWs
-Preus= meeting with Swedish diplomats
-[Forename unknown] Nystrom
-A call
-India
-Kenneth B. Keating
-A meeting
-Triloki Nath Kaul

Vietnam
‑POWs
‑Sweden
‑Preus' work
‑Exchange
‑President's comments to wives
‑[Forename unknown] Powell
‑Negotiations
‑David K.E. Bruce
‑Negotiations
‑Bruce's role
‑Preus' conversations
-US strategy
‑Unknown North Vietnamese man in Vientiane
‑Visits to POW Camps
‑Considerations
-Preus= conversations
-Preus= travels and efforts
-Swedish foreign ministry
-Italian foreign office
-India
-The Vatican

Pope Paul VI
‑Vatican Bureaucracy

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[Duration:  49s  ]

THE VATICAN

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Vietnam
-Preus= letters to Lutheran leaders
‑Views of Germans
‑Possible international group
‑Canadians
-Indians
‑Negotiations
‑US troop withdrawals
‑POWs
‑US troop withdrawals
‑South Vietnamese
‑Views of unknown man in Stockholm
‑Views of unknown man in Vientiane
‑Preus' conversations
‑Languages used
‑Unknown missionary in Laos
‑Father [Forename unknown] Maynard
‑Comments Regarding Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
‑Preus' conversation with South Vietnamese Foreign Minister
‑South Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑Timing, proposals
‑Preus's travels in South Vietnam
‑Saigon, Hook‑wook Island [sp], Ca Mi Sanh [sp]
‑Gen. Frederick C. Weyand, Ellsworth F. Bunker

‑Countryside
‑Laotion refugees
‑Pacification program
‑Press coverage

Voluntary foreign aid
‑Church aid

Vietnam
‑Voluntary Action Programs by military
‑War

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

President's schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:50 am.

Presentation of gifts by President
‑Cufflinks
‑Gifts for others

POWs

Hughes and Preus left at 11:50 am.

Conversation No. 499‑17

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  11:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Max M. Fisher

Bull left at 11:50 am.

Conversation No. 499‑18

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  11:50 am ‑ 12:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Max M. Fisher and Paul W. McCracken.

President's schedule
‑Charles H. Percy

National economy
‑Fisher's conversations
‑President=s meeting with Maurice H. Stans
‑Fisher's conversations
‑Antitrust
‑Environment
‑Consumerism
‑Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
‑Businessmen
‑Relationship with administration
‑Views on antitrust, environment
‑Meetings
‑Detroit
‑Toledo
‑Chrysler's complaint department
‑Byron John Nichols
‑Public opinion
‑Investments for productivity
‑Investment tax credits, wages
‑Relationship with administration

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:50 am.

President's schedule
‑Percy
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Landrum Rolling
‑Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. 
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] visit
‑M. Jean Robb
-Retirement

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:03 pm.

National economy
‑Housing industry
‑Importance
‑John B. Connally meeting, May 14, 1971
‑Position of the dollar
‑Paul A. Volcker's prediction
‑Interest rates
‑Housing industry
‑Fisher's forthcoming conversation with Connally
‑President's conversation with Connally, May 14, 1971
‑Importance
‑Federal Reserve actions
‑President's schedule
‑Meetings with businessmen
‑Fisher's and McCracken's meetings
‑Business Council
‑James M. Roche
‑Donald McI. Kendall
‑Meetings with businessmen
‑Timing
‑Fisher's and McCracken's schedules
‑Pittsburgh, Cleveland, California, Chicago
‑President's meetings
‑Fisher's letter to President, May 1970
‑Congressional actions
‑Consumerism
-Environment
‑Air bags, seat belts
‑President's actions
‑Environment and safety
‑White House policy
‑William D. Ruckelshaus
‑White House policy towards business
‑Congress
‑Fisher's meeting, April 1971
‑Henry E. Ford II
‑John Carlin
-Lynn A. Townsend
‑Effect
‑President's meetings with Roche [May 13, 1971] and Henry Ford, II [April 27, 1971]
‑President's schedule

‑Oil, copper, and steel industries
‑Environmentalism and consumerism
‑Purpose
‑White House policy
‑Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑White House policy
‑President's schedule
‑Meetings with businessmen

Presentation of gifts by the President

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[Duration:  35s  ]

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President's schedule
‑Percy

McCracken and Fisher left at 12:03 pm.

Conversation No. 499‑19

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 12:03 pm until 12:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Illinois Republican leaders
‑Tour

‑Importance
‑Tree planting ceremony
‑Landrum Bolling
‑M. Jean Robb
‑Tree planting
‑Time
‑Tour for participants
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
‑Bolling

Bull left at 12:05 pm.

Conversation No. 499‑20

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  12:05 pm ‑ 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Donald H. Rumsfeld

A call

A report

Ellen McConnell
‑Swearing‑in, May 14, 1971

Cabinet's actions
‑John A. Volpe, George W. Romney, John B. Connally, Clifford M. Hardin

President's schedule
‑Tree planting
‑President's remarks
‑Charles H. Percy

The President and Rumsfeld left at 12:06 pm.

Conversation No. 499‑21

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  12:42 pm ‑ 12:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with M. Jean Robb, Donald F. Robb, and Jon Huntsman; Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Mrs. Robb's work

Arrangements for photograph

Presentation of gifts by President

Robb's future home in Florida

Robb, et. al., left at 12:44 pm.

Conversation No. 499‑22

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  12:44 pm ‑ 12:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Landrum Bolling and D. Elton Trueblood;  Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

President's schedule
‑Edward L. Brooke
‑Quakers

Quakers

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[Duration:  11s  ]

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Travels of Bolling and Trueblood

Trueblood
‑Interview with Bill D. Moyers
‑Moyers' book
‑Underground Railroad
‑Quakers
‑President's grandmother, Trueblood's grandmother

[Presentation of book]

Eliza Gurn
‑Prayers with Abraham Lincoln
‑Letters regarding Civil War with Lincoln

Forthcoming book on Lincoln

Letters for the President

Travels
‑USSR, Israel, and Egypt

Israel
‑Views regarding Middle East situation
‑American Jewish community
‑Egypt
‑North Vietnam

Middle East
‑President's policy
-Diplomatic efforts
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑American Jewish community
‑Israel

Presentation of gifts by President

Bolling's conversations with Haig
‑Travel

A contribution to a college
‑Earlham College

Bolling's schedule
‑Future meeting
‑Quakers
‑Tour of White House

Bull entered at 12:53 pm.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger, Edward W. Brooke

Bolling, et al., left at 12:53 pm.

Conversation No. 499‑23

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:53 pm and 12:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Helicopter
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.

Conversation No. 499‑24

Date:  May 14, 1971
Time:  12:56 pm ‑ 2:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Edward W. Brooke's schedule
‑Kissinger
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr. 

Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑Le Duan's schedule

Brooke entered at 12:57 pm.

President's schedule
‑Charles H. Percy's group
‑Elton Trueblood
‑Identified
‑Book regarding Eliza Gurn

Eliza Gurn
‑Letters
‑Abraham Lincoln
‑Civil War

Vietnam
‑Brooke's position

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez] entered at an unknown time after 12:57 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person [Sanchez] left at an unknown time before 1:41 pm.

Vietnam
‑President's critics
‑President's conversation with Brooke in 1970

US relations with People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Negotiations
‑Importance
‑William P. Rogers' statement in London
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑President's press conferences
‑US goals

Vietnam, PRC, and arms control
‑Brooke's prior conversation with Kissinger 
-Arms control

PRC
‑President's policy
-Origins
‑Foreign Affairs article
‑February 1, 1969 memo to Kissinger
‑Negotiations
‑Public statements
‑Negotiations
‑President's conversations
‑Nicolae Ceausescu
‑Indian Foreign Minister
‑Josip Broz Tito
‑Effect
‑President's 1970 world report
‑Phrase "People's Republic of China"
‑Ceausescu
‑Press coverage
‑Report on world
-Radio speech
‑Chou En‑lai's response
‑Travel
‑Trade
‑Eastern Europe
‑Laotian incursion
‑Response

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[Duration:  7s  ]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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‑Negotiations
‑Warsaw talks
‑President's conversation with US ambassador to Poland
‑US ambassador's conversation with PRC ambassador
‑Release of three American yachtsmen
‑US policy
‑President's press conferences
-President=s public comments
‑Brooke's speeches
‑Negotiations
‑Taiwan's response
‑United Nations [UN]
‑Trade and travel
‑Brooke's speech
‑UN
‑Security Council
‑Taiwan
‑Brooke's possible public comments
‑Relations with US
‑USSR
-The President=s view
‑Future
‑Chou and other leaders

US foreign policy
-The President=s view
‑Pacific, Europe
‑Vietnam

‑USSR
‑Mideast
‑PRC
-Role in World
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower administration

PRC initiative
‑Democrats
‑US conservatives
‑Brooke's book in 1964
‑Brooke's talk to conservative group
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Current situation
‑PRC
‑President's policies
‑Population
‑President's policies
-Charles W. Colson
‑Ping‑pong Diplomacy
‑Africa
‑President's policies regarding Nigerian Civil War

Nigeria
‑Brooke's efforts regarding Civil War
‑Yabuku Gowon
‑President's schedule
‑Relationship with Brooke

US foreign policy
‑Brooke's talk to conservative groups
‑Middle East
-Vietnam

US forces in Europe
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield's views on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
‑Speech, May 14, 1971
‑President's meeting, May 13, 1971
‑Rogers
-The President=s position
‑Negotiations with USSR
‑Germans

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[Duration:  9s  ]

GERMANY

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‑Negotiations with Europeans
‑Germany, France
‑Compared with SALT efforts
‑Leonid I. Brezhnev
‑Mansfield resolution
‑Possible effect
‑Dollar crisis
‑Hiram L. Fong's views
‑Brooke's visit to Bonn with Henry Cabot Lodge in 1968
‑Brezhnev
‑Actions of Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie
‑Cyrus R. Vance meeting, May 13, 1971
‑A statement by Brezhnev
‑Mansfield resolution
‑Prospects
‑World‑wide reductions
‑Previous administrations
‑Europe, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Okinawa
‑Democrats

Mansfield
‑Views
‑Compared with President

US troops in Europe
‑Brooke's possible statements

Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑Timing
‑Prospects
‑North Vietnamese views
‑US public opinion
‑Military action
‑North Vietnamese offensives
‑Casualties
‑North Vietnamese Offensives
‑Infiltrations
‑Laotian incursion
‑Negotiations
‑North Vietnamese views
‑US
‑PRC
‑USSR
‑Prospects
‑New York Times editorial, May 13, 1971
-Kissinger=s schedule
-Robert Kleiman
-President
-Content
‑Negotiations
‑Procedures
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
‑US efforts
‑Brooke's public statements
‑North Vietnamese position
‑US withdrawal of troops
‑Timing
‑Negotiations
-McGovern-Hatfield amendment
‑US withdrawal of troops
‑Forthcoming congressional action
‑Mansfield amendment
-The Draft
-McGovern-Hatfield amendment [?]
-Possible filibuster
‑Timing
‑Brooke's public statements
‑David K.E. Bruce
‑Negotiations

‑POWs
‑Le Duan's schedule

SALT
‑Brooke's comments
‑President's previous comments in press conference
‑Prospects
-The President=s view
‑PRC and Vietnam
‑President's actions
‑Senators
‑USSR
-Concerns
-PRC
-Economy
‑Military capabilities
‑Brezhnev's role
‑US position

PRC
‑US negotiations
-The President=s position
‑Brooke's public statements

Vietnam
‑Negotiations
-President=s position

President=s schedule

[Unintelligible]

Brooke left at 1:41 pm.

Vietnam
‑USSR=s position
‑Le Duan
‑Berlin, MBFR
‑Brezhnev's speech

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 1:41 pm.

[Signing documents]

[Unintelligible]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm.

‑Negotiations
-Kissinger=s assessment
‑Timing
‑Le Duan's schedule
‑Kissinger
-President's schedule
‑Thieu meeting
‑Public opinion
‑Troop withdrawal
‑Public opinion
‑Economic aid
‑Announcement
‑Paris Peace negotiations
‑Mansfield

Senate
‑SALT
‑Brezhnev's speech

SALT

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:41 pm.

‑Call to President

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.

Vietnam
‑President's schedule
‑Thieu meeting

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:41 pm.

Call from William P. Rogers

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.

[President talked with Rogers between 1:45 pm and 1:48 pm]

[Conversation No. 499‑24A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑52]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's previous call from Rogers
‑Testimony before Foreign Relations Committee
‑Dean G. Acheson
‑War Powers Act

Rogers
‑Relationship with Acheson
‑Testimony before Congress

Kissinger's conversations
‑Hugh Scott
-Robert P. Griffin
-John H. Chafee

Vietnam
‑US troop withdrawals
‑President's comments to Brooke
‑President's forthcoming announcement
‑Thieu
‑Possible response
‑Timing
‑Thieu
‑Kissinger's schedule

President's schedule
‑Tulsa, Oklahoma trip
‑Meeting with Thieu
‑Purpose

President's role in administration
‑Senators
‑Acheson's role with Harry S. Truman

Kissinger's previous meeting with Clark MacGregor
‑Mansfield
‑Brezhnev proposals
‑MacGregor's work

US troops in Europe
‑Forthcoming statement
‑Clark M. Clifford
‑Thomas S. Gates, Jr.
‑Defense secretaries
‑Robert A. Lovett
‑Neil H. McElroy
‑Clifford
‑Robert S. McNamara
‑Current position with World Bank
‑Partisanship
‑Clifford
‑Vance, George W. Ball
‑President's role

Mansfield resolution
‑PRC trip

Kissinger's forthcoming briefing for Mansfield

SALT
-Notification of Rogers
-[Unintelligible]
-Timing of possible announcement

Brooke

US foreign policy
‑PRC, SALT
‑Brooke's views
‑Constituency
-Views
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy

Kissinger=s speech at the Brookings Institution

 [Unintelligible]

The President and Kissinger left at 2:00 pm.