Conversation No. 730-14/731-1

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 5:39-6:07 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. 
[This portion of the conversation began at an unknown time while the meeting was in progress.]

US foreign policy
-Ratification of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Vietnam
-US-Soviet Union summit
-Henry Kissinger's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
		-Ratification of SALT
			-The President's role
				-Kissinger’s view
				-Joint session of Congress
				-Senate
			-Kissinger's role
			-Gerard C. Smith
			-Political implications
			-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
			-Jacob K. Javits
			-Charles H. Percy, Jr.
			-George D. Aiken
			-Michael J. Mansfield

The President's schedule
-Press meeting
-PRC trip announcement
-Television press conference
-Timing
-California
-PRC trip
-Purpose
-The President's standing
				-Kissinger’s view

Japan
-Kissinger’s visit
-Japanese newspapers
-Kissinger's appearances
			-Eisaku Sato
			-Takeo Fukuda
			-US-PRC relations

PRC
-US flights over North Vietnam
-Note
				-Incursions
-Haig
-Defense Department
			-Military commanders
-Note
-Tone
-Impact
-Publicity
-Responsibilty of US military
-Note
-US response
					-Haig
-Kissinger's trip
-Incidents
-Restrictions on US flights
-Damage
-Public complaints
-Restrictions
-Importance

Soviet Union
-Nikolai V. Podgorny
-North Vietnam visit
-Bombing
-Hanoi
-Overflights
-Haiphong
					-Kissinger’s view
					-The President’s instruction
-Timing
-Hanoi

PRC
-Incident
	-Haig
				-US response
				-Previous incursions
-Kissinger's trip
-Time
-US flight over North Vietnam
-Haig
-Complaints
				-PRC notes
			-US response
				-Kissinger’s view
					-Thomas H. Moorer
-US restraint
-Bombing
-Locations
-White House approval
-North Vietnam
-Hanoi
				-Kissinger’s message to PRC
-Kissinger's PRC trip
-New York Times stories

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Podgorny's visit to Hanoi

PRC
-Soviet Union
-Podgorny
-Normalization of relations
-North Vietnam
			-US bombing
-Statement at the United Nations [UN] Conference on the
     Human Environment, Stockholm, Sweden
	-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Haig
			-Olaf Palme

Japan
-The President’s previous trip
			-Donald M. I. Kendell
-Foreign ministers
-Kissinger's trip
-Reception
-Fukuda
			-PRC

1972 campaign in US
	-the President's re-election
-Rowland K. Evans and Robert D. Novak
	-Poland
-Japan
-Sato
			-Communists
-North Vietnam

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese
-Public meetings
-Timing
-Democratic convention

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:40 pm.

The President's schedule
-Sequoia trip
-The President's sport coat
-Weather

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:07 pm.

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Wedding anniversary
-Television coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Dan Rather
-Barbara Walters
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-"Today" show
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Kissinger

The President’s possible press conference

	Ratification of SALT
		-The President's view
			-Senate
		-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger's appearance
-Vietnam
-Pentagon Papers
-H.R. Haldeman
-Budget
-Kissinger's view
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-Smith
-SALT
		-Kissinger’s possible statement
-The President's statement

	Kissinger’s schedule
		-Previous trip to Japan
		-Forthcoming trip to Hawaii

U.S. News and World Report Article
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Editorial review
-Effect

PRC
		-US bombing in North Vietnam
			-Incursions
				-US response
					-Kissinger

Kissinger's trip

Kissinger left at 6:07 pm.

Conversation No. 731-2

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:07 and 6:09 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Administration officials

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]

Ranking of Administration officials
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-George P. Shultz
-David M. Kennedy
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-George H. W. Bush
-Office of Manangement and Budget [OMB]

The President and Butterfield left at 6:09 pm.

Conversation No. 731-3

Date:  June 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 6:09 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons (Secret Service agents) met.

[UNINTELLIGIBLE]

The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 7:45 am., June 13, 1972.