Conversation No. 582-1

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:15 pm and 2:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Congress
	-Forthcoming vote
		-Unknown secretary
-Timing

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:22 pm.

Conversation No. 582-2

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:22 pm and 2:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Economic statement
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
	-Instruction for Haldeman
	-Type of statement
	-Preparation
	-Price increases
	-OMB
	- Raymond K. Price, Jr.
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Substance of statement
	-Responsibility for economic conditions
	-Length of statement

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm.

Conversation No. 582-3

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  2:25 pm - 2:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

	United Nations [UN] vote on the People's Republic of China [PRC] and Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC]
-Kissinger's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Haig’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-US message
-Instructions to George H.W. Bush
-Timing
	-US strategy
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Announcement
-Dates
-UN vote
-Public relations effects of announcements
-Timing
-Haig
-Delay
-US options
-Vote
-Effect
-Status of Taiwan's seat
-Vote
-William P. Rogers
-List
-Kissinger's plans
-Trip to the PRC
-Possible reaction
-Bush
-Action on vote
-Possibility of postponement
-Support

-Announcement of Kissinger's PRC visit vis-a-vis UN vote
-Haig's opinion
-Meeting between Kissinger and Haig
-Negotiations with the PRC about Kissinger's trip
-Democrats
-Press
-Japan
-Newsmen
-Handling after James B. (“Scotty”) Reston's visit
				-Rogers
-US strategy
-Congressional session
-UN vote
-Time
-Vietnam
-Dates of announcement
-PRC
-US
-Effect on the PRC
-Agreement
-Dates of trip
-Date of announcement
-Administration strategy
-Credibility
-Kissinger's handling of foreign relations
-US public reaction
-Conservatives
-US position at the UN
-UN Security Council
	-Possible veto
-Rogers
-Presentation of US resolution
-Outcome of vote
-US position
-Relations with foreign diplomats
-Roll call
-Bush
-Rogers
-Position of US allies

Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Date
-Unknown man
	-Note
-Negotiation process
-Duration
-Complication
-Opposition
-Criticism
-Date of UN vote
-Choice of dates
-Reaction by PRC
-Soviet summit
-The President's meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
-State Department
-Comparison with preparation for trip to the PRC
-Rogers
-Note
-Paper
-Influence on UN vote
-Right-wingers
-Taiwan seat action
-Timing of Kissinger's trip vis-a-vis UN vote
-UN debate
-UN vote
-Dates
-Kissinger's return
-Objections to Kissinger's trip
-Announcement of trip
-Dates
-Taiwan
-Outcome of UN vote
-Effect on the US
-Opposition to Kissinger's trip
-Rogers
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Timing of trip and UN vote
-Date of announcement
-Bush
-Possible actions
-Outcome of vote

The President's schedule
-Meetingswith congressmen, Souvanna Phouma
-Time
-Length
-Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting
-Haig
-Duration of meeting
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Vote on bill by Charles H. Percy

UN vote and Kissinger's trip
-Rogers
-Haldeman

The President's schedule
-Time
-Meeting
-Haig
-Phouma
-Haig

Kissinger left at 2:50 pm.

Conversation No. 582-4

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:50 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

Stephen B. Bull
-Location

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 582-5

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:50 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Souvanna Phouma
-Press photos
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Time
-Meeting with Southern Democrat Congressmen
-Arrival
-Phouma
-Length of meeting
-Meeting with Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home
-Press photo
-Press photographs
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press
-Photo opportunity
-Phouma
-Douglas-Home
-Atkins
-Meeting with Congressmen

The President and Bull left at 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 582-6

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  3:38 pm - 4:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Souvanna Phouma, Prince Khammao, Alec Toumayan, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.
[The recording began while the conversation was in progress]

Vietnam
-Military leaders
-North Vietnam
-Period after Dien Bien Phu
-1962 and 1963
-Situation
-Laotian soldiers
-Captured North Vietnamese soldiers
-Handling
-Economy of the North
	-Bombing
-Floods
	-Hanoi
		-Red River Delta

The President's forthcoming visit to he People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Reaction
-Effect on Southeast Asia
-Great power relationships
-Expectations
-Differences between the US and the PRC
-Rapprochement
-Future foreign relations with the PRC

US relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Issues
-Berlin
-Strategic arms limitation
-Middle East

The President's forthcoming visit to the PRC
-Reaction of North Vietnam
-Relations between the PRC and North Vietnam
-French Colonial rule, North Vietnamese
-South Vietnam
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Pathet Lao
-Role
	-Analogy to Central Europe and Moscow
-Possible events after end of Vietnam War
	-The Prime Minister’s conversation with the Secretary of State
-Thailand And North Vietnam
-Pathet Lao
-US relations with Asian nations
-US Congress
-Aid for Laos
-US assistance to foreign countries
-Proximity to the PRC

Relations between the US and Laos
-The President's visit to the PRC
-USSR
-1962 Geneva Accords
-US policy
-History of Laos

The President, Souvanna Phouma et al. left at 4:10 pm.

Conversation No. 582-7

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  4:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with unknown men [Secret Service agents].

Instruction for an unknown person
	-Alexander P. Butterfield

The President’s location

	Henry A. Kissinger

The unknown men left at 4:10 pm.

Conversation No. 582-8

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  4:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Report
-Courier
-Meeting with Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Pictures
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Press
-Time

Haig and Bull left at 4:10 pm

Conversation No. 582-9

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  4:10 pm - 5:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home, the Earl of Cromer, and Henry A. Kissinger; Ronald L. Ziegler, the White House photographer, and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

Greetings

Seating arrangements

Photo opportunity

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Congressmen
-Length
-Souvanna Phouma

Congress
	-Vote

Indochina
-US presence
-Popular support
-Cost
-Ground forces

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	VIETNAM

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-South Vietnam
-US elections in 1972
-Conditions
-Visits by Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Domestic situation
-Cambodia
-Sir Robert Thompson
	-Cambodia
-Election
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-US casualties
-US domestic situation
-Vietnam as issue
-Elections
-Thieu
-Political traditions in South Vietnam
-Parliamentary election
-Composition of houses
-Opposition party
-Senators
-US actions
-Foreign aid
	-Cutoff
						-Democratically-elected governments
							-Africa
							-India
							-Unknown country
							-Pakistan
-US military forces
-Withdrawal of troops
-Announcement
-Negotiations
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Election
-Member of visiting American team
-Cut-off of foreign aid
-Control of situation
-Effect on US foreign policy
-Tradition of responsibility in the world
-Great Britain
-Outcome of war in Vietnam
-Effect on the US
-End of war
-Partisanship
-US Congress
-Vote
-Date for withdrawal
-Announcement
-Mansfield Amendment
-Roll call
-Senate
-House of Representatives

US arms talks with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Senate
-Forthcoming election year
-Ratification of Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] Treaty
-Defense levels
-Roll call
-1969
-1970
-Negotiations with USSR
-Land base missiles
	-USSR numerical advantage
-Congressional appropriations
-Cut-off
-Effect
-US posture
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Reduction for North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] forces
-Vote
-Vietnam
-Congress
-End of war
-ABMs
-Numbers of missiles
-US strategy
-Protection of deterrent
	-Population
-USSR strategy
-Population
-Missiles
-Settlement
-Moscow
-Negotiations
-May 20, 1971 announcement
-Simultaneous discussions of agreement
-USSR position
-Defensive forces
-US position
-Offensive forces
-Status
-Equality between defensive and offensive forces
-Adjustments of forces
-US
-ABMs
-USSR
-Offensive forces
-Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles [MIRVs]
-Warheads
-Numbers

Foreign relations
-British policy
-Berlin accord
-British expulsion of Soviets, September 24, 1971
-Defector to Britain
-Information
-Douglas-Home's conversation with Andrei A. Gromyko
-British relations with USSR
-Conference on European Security and Cooperation
-Gromyko's comment
-Soviet diplomatic establishment
-Conduct of Soviet diplomatic policy
-Komitet Gossudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti [KGB]
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Intermediaries
-William J. Casey
-Dobrynin
-Toy manufacturer in New York
-Future foreign relations developments
-Informing the British
-European security
-Douglas-Home's communication with Gromyko
	-Berlin
-British position
-Meeting in Berlin
-Preparation
-Soviet relations with France
-Treaties
-Timing
-Germany's previous policy
-Ratification with Soviets
-Berlin Treaty
-Willy Brandt
-Kissinger
	-Berlin
-East Germany

	[Unintelligible]

-Brandt
-Actions
-Crimea
-Invitation
-Relations between the USSR and its allies
-Mutual and Balance Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Conference on European Security and Cooperation
-US position
-Gromyko's meeting with the President
	-William P. Rogers
-Berlin talks
-Preliminary discussions
-Timetable
-Preparatory meetings
-Berlin Accord
-East and West Germany
-Status of talks
-Conclusion of Berlin Accord
-Discussions
-Benefits of European Security Conference
-Josip B. Tito
-Austria
-MBFR
-US position
-Europeans' position

Arms talks
-Bilateral reductions
-Proponents
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Possible unilateral American action
-Reaction by Warsaw pact and the USSR
-Mansfield Amendment
-Multilateral reductions
-Soviets
-NATO
-Undersecretary of State John N. Irwin II
-Foreign Ministers' meeting
-US position
-Proposals
-Presentation to NATO
-Presentation to British
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Meeting
-US position on treaty
-Meeting
-United Nations [UN] Security Council
-Percentage reductions
-Timetable for reduction
-Proposed dates
	-Congress
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Actions
	-Timing
-Disarmament
-Asia
-Feelings toward reduction of forces
-Meetings with Western Europeans
-Motives
-Reactions to Soviet proposals
-World disarmament conference
-MBFR
-Geneva Committee
-Forums for arms control discussions

Foreign relations
-USSR relations with the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-USSR position
-USSR and Middle East
-Relations
	-Egypt
-Israel
-Egypt
-Brezhnev
-Disarmament
-Middle East
-Home's previous visit to Cairo
-Rogers
-Egypt
-Israel
-Abba Eban
-Mahmoud Riad
-Troop withdrawals from Suez Canal area
-Treaty between Egypt and Israel
-Terms
-Exchange of views
-Eban
-Propositions
-Work on the Egypt-Israel issue
	-Joseph J. Sisco
-Gunnar Jarring
-Egypt
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Mahmoud Fawzi
-Relations with Sadat
-Relations with Israelis
-Sadat's position
-Comparison with Riad's position
-Israeli withdrawal
-Terms
-Phase I
-Phase II
-Jarring
-Fawzi
-Riad
-Kissinger's meeting September 29, 1971
-Possibility of additional meetings
-USSR
-Relations with Egypt
-Air bases
-Conflict between Israel and Egypt
-Effect on soviet policy
-Egypt
-Soviet presence
-Military bases
-Suez canal
-Douglas-Home's conversation with Sadat
-Israeli withdrawal
-Egyptian forces
-Soviet troops
-1967 line
-Egyptian side
-Sadat's position
-Option
-Soviet troops
-UN troops
-Israel
-Withdrawal
-Previous conflict with Egypt
-U Thant
-President’s visit to morocco
-Egypt
-Conditions
-Sadat
-Relations with Israel
-Morale of country, Egyptian army
-Troops on canal zone
-Government
-Douglas-Home's conversation with Golda Meir
-Attitude toward Israel
-Morale of Egyptian army
-Effects
-Need for action
-Sisco
-The president's appointment

Economic issues
-British position
-The president's speech of September 29, 1971
-Protectionism
-US role in the world
-Media problem
-Long-range solution
-John B. Connally
-Japan and other countries
-Relations with the US
-Isolationism
-Vietnam
-The president's recent speech to congress
-American interests
-Current interpretation of US role in the world
-Labor
-Reciprocal trade
-Protectionism
-Quotas
-Tariff barriers
-Surcharges
US participation in NATO
-Foreign aid
-The presidents press conference
-Bargaining positions
-Britain
-Japan
-Negotiations
-US role
-World responsibility
-Military
-Diplomatic
-Economic
-American political spectrum
-Isolationism

Cromer's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Attendance
-Car

Cromer left at an unknown time before 5:13 pm.

Foreign policy
-India-Pakistan war
-Guerrilla warfare
-Area of operation
-New offensive
-British shipping line
-Navigation to East Pakistan [?]
-Communications
		-UN
-British actions

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	INDIA-PAKISTAN

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-Rhodesia
-Ian smith
-Five principles
-Timetable
-Commonwealth status
-[James] Harold Wilson
-Position
-US relations with Britain
-The President's conversation with Edward R.G. heath
-South Africa
-Kissinger's meeting with Africans
-US position
-Organization of African Unity [OAU]
-Moktar Ould Daddah
-Mauritania
-Population
-Rhodesia, South Africa
-Meeting
-Sukarno
-Meeting with the President in 1953
-West Iran
-British policy
-OAU
-Chrome
-British policy
-Situation in Rhodesia
-Exchange of information
-US
-Kissinger
-UN vote on the PRC
-Procedural points
-US resolution
-British position
	-Important question
	-Albanian resolution
-British support

Douglas-Home left at 5:13 pm.

UN vote on the PRC
-Previous meeting with Douglas-Home
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
-George H.W. Bush
-Debate
-Delay
-Kissinger's trip
-Return

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:15 pm.

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with Gromyko
-Time

The President's schedule
-Preparation of item
-Delivery
-The President's signature
-Kissinger's schedule
-Photographs signed by the President
-Inscription to Ermalee [Surname unknown]
-Unknown person
	-Health
-Clark MacGregor
-Recommendations
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie

The President left at an unknown time after 5:15 pm.

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time before 5:31 pm.

	Oval Office
		-Alarm
			-Door

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with the President
-The President's schedule

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

Butterfield and Bull left at 5:20 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.

PRC
-UN vote
-Kissinger's trip
-Timing in comparison to the UN vote
-Kissinger's return
-Trip to New York
-Bush
-US position
-Chou En-lai
-PRC, Taiwan
-Ukraine example
-Changes in timetable
-Announcement of Kissinger's trip
-UN vote
-Outcome
-Effect
-Rogers

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Timing
-Resumption of bombing
-Military targets
-North Vietnam
-Release of POWs
-Announcement
-US public reaction
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Conditions
-Recent floods
-Death tolls
-Possible settlement
	-Timing
-Press coverage of North Vietnam
-Effect
	-October 5, 1971 announcement
-Vietnam election
	-PRC trip announcement
-USSR trip
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC

British

Vietnam
-MacGregor
-Support for Mansfield amendment
-Senate
-Absentees
-Kissinger's call to Jacob K. Javits
-The President's conversation with Robert P. Griffin
-The President's statement on the draft
-Effect on Congress
-Congressional relations
-The President's meeting with Congressmen
	-Olin E. (“Tiger”)Teague’s comment
		-POWs
-Press coverage

The PRC
-Kissinger's trip
-Timing
-UN vote
-Outcome
-Taiwan
-Effect on us public
	-Conservatives
-US statement
-UN
-Taiwan
-Support
-Kissinger's trip
-Reasons
-PRC domestic situation
-USSR
-UN vote
-Soviet summit
-British
-Exchange of information
-Cromer
-US role in world

Economy
		-The President's remarks at the International Monetary Fund [IMF], September 29, 1971
-Effect
-Connally
-Meetings with Kissinger
-The President's remarks at the IMF
-Reaction
-US position
-Isolationism
-Cooperation
-Connally
-The President's position

The President and Kissinger left at 5:31 pm.

Conversation No. 582-10

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:31 pm and 5:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents ] entered.

	The President’s location

	[Unintelligible]

The President's location
	-Dining Room

Unknown person's schedule

This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.