Conversation No. 735-1

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  10:31 am-12:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Luis Echeverria Alvarez, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Donald F. Barnes.

[Ronald L. Ziegler, members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.]

	Seating
	-Photographs

Introductions
	-Ziegler

Photographs

Movies
-Mexico

Camp David

Introductions
-Number of people
-Chicago
-Washington

	US-Mexican relations
-Present meeting
-Importance
	-The President’s view
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Travel schedule
-Future consultations
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Mexico City visit
-Japan
-European countries
-Canada
-Echeverria’s response
	-Previous meeting with Kissinger
-Water salinity problem
-Resolution
-Echeverria’s visits to the Mexicali Valley
-California
-Arizona
-1944 agreement between US and Mexico
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Coverage
-Source of water
-Wells
-Age of water
-Colorado River
-Irrigation
-Recycling
-Relationship between Kissinger and Mexico’s Foreign Secretary [Emilio Rabasa Mishkin]
-Resolution of salination problem
-California and Arizona
-Indication of upcoming problems for Mexico and Latin American countries
-Water distribution
-Mexican and American farmers
-Quality and quantity of water
-Mexico’s willingness to alleviate problems
-California
			-Possible wording of statement
-Meeting between Mishkin and Kissinger
-Recapitulation of the conversation
-Solutions
-Water treatment
-1944 agreement
-Colorado River
-Water treatment 1944 agreement
-Imperial Dam
-Water quality and quantity problem
-Complexity
-Echeverria
-Water quality
-Commissioner
-Solution
-Echeverria
-The President
-Visiting intermediaries in Mexico
-Reactions to water problem
-Baja, California
-Mohawk River
-Colorado River
-Echeverria’s role
-Nixon’s role
-Kissinger
-Improvement of water qualitiy
-Importance of technical matters
-Mexican interest in water treatment problem
-Latin America’s interest
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Water usage in Mexico and US
-Arizona and California
	-American Congressional reactions
	-Arizona and California
	-Interest of US farmers
-Approval of the President’s executive actions
-Sensitivity of issue

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:31 am.

The Mexican President’s schedule
-Joint session of Congress
-Blair House
-Mrs. Echeverria
-The President’s schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:56 am.

US foreign policies
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-US-Soviet Union relationship
-Negotiations
-Water treatment problem between US and Mexico
-Possible statement by the President
-Congressional reactions
-Personal commitment by the President
-Mexico expectations
-Mexican citizens in US
-Technical problem
-Water quality
			-Possible statement by the President
-Resolution
-Timing
-Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
-Previous meeting with the President
-Salinity
-Oaxaca Dam
-Puerto Vallarta
-San Diego
-State Department
			-Presidential level of action
-Second meeting between the President and Echeverria
-Statement
	-Water quality
-Water treatment technical study
-Kissinger and Haig
-Forthcoming meeting with Mexico’s Foreign Secretary
	-Wording for possible statement
-State Department involvement
-Rogers
-White House position
-Solution
	-The President’s commitments
	-Echeverria’s view
-Significiance of Mexican border to US
	-Echeverria
-Latin America

Echeverria’s schedule
-Joint session of Congress
-Third World policy
-Latin America
-Fidel Castro

Cuba
-Relationship with Soviet Union
	-Echeverria’s view
-US interests in relation to Cuba
	-Caribbean
	-Latin America
-Influence
-US resistance
-US attitudes
-Latin America
-Castro
-Comparison with European countries

Latin American problems
-Population growth
-Unemployment
-Communism
-Social tensions
-Possible solutions
-Echeverria’s schedule in US
-Meeting with US business leaders
-Rockefeller
-Mexico’s role
-Private investment
-Echeverria’s address to business leaders
-Technology
-Employment
-Economic development
-Mexican business leaders
-Importance
-Trade
-US-Mexican relations
-Brazil
-Popular interest in Soviet Union
-Struggle between capitalism and communism
	-Echeverria’s dinner with US business leaders
	-Expropriations
		-US business leaders’ concerns
		-Effect on investment
	-The President’s conversation with US businessman
	-Mexico and Brazil
	-Financial climate
	-Necessity for stability
	-Mexico as model for Latin America
	-Freedom of speech and press
	-Elections
	-Mixed economy
		-Importance of US investment
			-Effect
	-Necessity for private investment
	-Social disorder
	-Minorities in the US
	-US interests in solutions

The President’s meetings in the Soviet Union and PRC
-Results
	-Echeverria’s view

Latin America
-Mexico’s role
-Importance
-Echeverria’s role
-Haig and Kissinger
-Salinity problem

Demonstration in San Antonio, Texas
-Mexican political prisoners
-Angela Davis efforts
-Cuban and Chilean involvement
-Chicanos
-University of California groups
-Attacks on Mexico

Latin America’s future
-Dictatorships
-Need for private investment
-Threat of communism
-The President’s August 15 announcement
	-Economic statement
-President of Anaconda Copper Company
-Visit to Mexico
	-Investment in Mexico
-Lack of technology and capital
-Overpopulation
-Soviet and Chinese communist propaganda
-Need for private investment
-Role of Latin American governments
-Echeverria’s conversation with Salvador Allende Gossens
-Investment problems in Chile
-Possible socialist dictatorship
-Investment programs
-Castro
-Need for long term planning
-Soviet propaganda
-US prosperity
-Need for new US policy
-Echeverria’s forthcoming meeting with US businessmen
-Latin America
	-Compared with Mexico
	-Brazil
	-The President’s view
-Communism
-US future investments
	-The President’s view
-Instability
-Expropriation
-Partnership with local interests
			-Communism
			-Echeverria’s poossible statements
				-The President’s view
				-Stability
				-Business policy
				-Partnership
-Need for US investment
-Unemployment
-Results
-Instability
-Echeverria’s role in Latin America
-Latin Americans’ responsibility
-Allende
-Flight of foreign capital from Chile
-Latin American business opportunities
-Rockefeller
-Comparison to other parts of the world
-Indonesia
-Thailand
-Africa
-Mexico as example
-Instability, expropriation
	-Effect on investment
-Echeverria’s forthcoming meeting with businessmen
-The President’s support for investment
-Cuba
-Chile
-Mexico’s role of leadership
-Castro

	US-Mexican relations
-Echeverria’s forthcoming speech to US Congress
-Salinity of water in Mexico
	-Bilateral relations
-The President’s meeting

Kissinger entered at 11:56 am.

Kissinger’s briefing of Congress

	US-Mexican relations
	-Instructions for Kissinger
	-Salinity of water
	-Public statement
		-The President’s policy
		-Deadline for settlement
	-Memorandum from Foreign Minister
	-Farmers
	-Arizona, California
	-Baja, California

Echeverria’s forthcoming speech to US Congress
-Illegal immgrants
-Discussion
	-The President’s meeting with Echeverria
-The President’s schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with the President

	US-Mexican relations
-Illegal immigrants
-Working conditions in US
-Study commission
-Numbers in US
-US farmers
-Labor force
-Location
-Cities
-California, Texas
-Midwest
-Chicago
-Attitude of Chicano groups in US
-Political activities
-Working conditions in US
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Trip to Mexico
	-Acapulco
-Briefing of Echeverria

Latin America
-Activities of Soviet Union and PRC
-Chile, Argentina, Mexico
-Impact on US
-Cuban precedent
-Military dictatorships
-Effects on US
-Cuba
-Military dictatorships
-Subsidies to youth groups
-Echeverria’s view

Echeverria’s schedule
	-Forthcoming speech to Congress
	-White House dinner
	-Forthcoming meeting with the President

The President, Echeverria, Haig, Barnes and Kissinger left at 12:10 pm.

Conversation No. 735-2

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:10 and 12:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with unknown persons.

	Gift for the President
		-Steuben glass
			-Walter H. Annenberg

Luis Echeverria Alvarez

The President’s schedule

This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

Conversation No. 735-3

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:14 and 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
	-Apollo astronauts
		-Gifts
		-Photograph
		-Press briefing
		-John W. Young
		-Thomas K. Mattingly, III

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

Conversation No. 735-4

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  12:16-12:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Thomas K. Mattingly, III, John W. Young, Charles M. Duke, James C. Fletcher, and Alexander P. Butterfield.

[Ronald L. Ziegler, members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.]

	Introductions

Arrangements for photograph

Presentation of gifts
-Wrist watches

Gift for Mexican President [Luis Echeverria Alvarez]
-Picture of North America taken from the moon
	-Inscription

Wrench used on moon
-Presentation to the President

Space program
-Docking
	-William Proxmire
-Cost of space exploration
-Cooperation with Soviet Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-Congress
	-Weapons
-Future
	-Mars
	-Jupiter
-Skylab
	-Uses
-Space Shuttle
-Availability to other countries
-Japan
-Interest
-Europe
			-International cooperation
-Allen S. Drury's book
	-The President’s view
-The press
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Joint mission with Soviets
	-Mars
-Docking
-Date
-Budget
-National attitudes
	-Domestic priorities
-Soviet Union attitudes
-US-Soviet Union competition
-National greatness
	-The President’s view
-Exploration of unknown
-Austria
-Exploration of Western Hemisphere
-Science
-Medicine
-National spirit
-Exploration of Moon
-Mars
-Cooperation
-Intellectuals
-Criticism
-Exploration of unknown
-Science
-Education
-Technology
-Transportation

Astronauts' tour of US cities
-Public support

The President’s meeting with cosmonauts
-Physical appearance of cosmonauts and astronauts
	-The President’s view
-Woman cosmonaut
-Physical requirements
-The President’s meeting in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union cosmonauts
	-Frank Borman
-Visit to the Soviet Union
-Thomas P. Stafford
-Attendance at cosmonaut funeral

Space program
-Joint program with Soviet Union
-Astronauts’ visits
-Arrangements
-Henry A. Kissinger’s staff
-Purpose

The President’s meeting with Echeverria
-Latin American problems
-Radical solutions
-Fidel Castro

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:16 pm.

The President's meeting with Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:42 pm.

Space program
-Exchange with Soviet Union
-Publicity
-Level of exchange

Astronauts' visit to Camp David
-Facilities
	-Recreation
	-Movies
-Food

Ziegler entered at 12:39 pm.

Space program
	-Forthcoming press briefing
	-Exchange with Soviet Union
	-Exchange with other nations
	-Impact

Forthcoming head of state dinner
-White wine

Mattingly, Young, Duke, Fletcher, and Ziegler left at 12:42 pm.

Forthcoming head of state dinner
-Presentation of Astronauts' picture
-Young

Butterfield left at 12:42 pm.

Conversation No. 735-5

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 and 12:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Cabinet meeting
-John D. Ehrlichman
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John J. Rhodes
-Republican party platform
	-Domestic agenda
-Photographs
-The President's remarks
-Soviet Union trip
		-Size of group
-Maurice H. Stans
-John N. Mitchell
-Photographs
-Subjects

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

Conversation No. 735-6

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 and 12:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.

Conversation No. 735-7

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  12:49-1:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President’s meeting with Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Length of meeting
-The President’s re-election
-Kissinger’s schedule

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
	-Length of Congressional briefing
-The President’s statement to Congressmen
-Kissinger’s briefing
	-Content
-J. William Fulbright
-Senate ratification date
-Timing
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Questions
-John C. Stennis
-Fulbright
-Melvin R. Laird
-New strategic programs
	-The President’s view
	-Budget
	-Kissinger’s response

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time after 12:49 pm.

	Refreshments

	SALT negotiations
		-Kissinger’s briefing
			-John Sherman Cooper
				-Pace of arms build-up
			-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
				-Numbers of Soviet Union missiles
					-Limits
				-Verification
				-Light compared with heavy missiles
					-The President’s meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
						-Missiles
						-Silos
		-Administration support
		-Laird
			-Strategic programs
		-Effects of program
			-Savings
			-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM] Treaty
		-Stennis
		-Kissinger's briefing
			-Length limitations

Executive privilege
-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan's support for the President's position

Congressional briefing on SALT
	-The President’s comments
	-Quotation from [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
	-Executive privilege
-The President’s role in negotiations
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Donald M. Fraser’s question
	-Four issues settled with Brezhnev

Democrats
-Foreign policy issues

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger's announcement
-Publicity
	-Press coverage

Vietnam
-Trip by Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Press coverage
-Expectations
-Statement
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Contents
-Joint statement with North Vietnamese
-Le Duc Tho
-End of war
-Soviet Union
-George H. Gallup poll
-Copies of latest results
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Presidential race
	-George S. McGovern
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
	-George C. Wallace
-Kissinger’s view
-Chou En-lai
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Transmission
-Haldeman
-The President’s changes against McGovern

The President’s meeting with Echeverria
-The President’s re-election
-The President’s prestige in world

Vietnam
-Mining of harbors
	-The President’s May 8, 1972 speech
	-Effect
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Press coverage

SALT
-Congressional action
-Timing for ratification
	-Kissinger’s view
-William P. Rogers’s statement
	-Gerard C. Smith’s departure
-Future negotiations by Kissinger
-Further agreements
	-Brezhnev
-The President’s role in negotiations
	-Structure of treaty
	-Kissinger’s role
		-Verification Panel
		-National Security Council [NSC]
-John Foster Dulles
-Smith
-Rogers
-Chou En-lai
-Brezhnev
-Rank of negotiators
	-Kissinger’s role
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Comparison with Kissinger
-Rank of Secretary of State
-Rogers
-Relations with press
-Dulles
-Kissinger
-Problems

Kissinger's briefing of Congressmen
-Timing
-Clark MacGregor
-Fulbright
-Kissinger’s statement
-National television appearance
-Timing
-Newsmen
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Comparison with Howard K. Smith

The President's interview with Dan Rather

Kissinger's future briefings on SALT
-Foreign relations committees

Congressional briefing on SALT
	-Kissinger
-Rogers, Laird, Smith
-Testimony
-Question on secret agreements
	-Response
-Three submarines
-Construction
-Missile systems
-US position
-Possible conversion
-Defense program
-McGovern’s program
	-The President’s view

Kissinger's schedule
	-PRC
	-Hawaii
	-Departure time
-Shanghai
	-Guam
	-Stopover
	-Jet lag
	-Peking

Vietnam
-US air action
-PRC
-Gen. John D. Lavelle
	-Possible role for the President
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s orders to Laird
	-Bombing
-Laird’s orders
-The President’s view
-Retirement
-Laird’s role at Defense Department
-Handling of case
-The President’s critics
	-Compared with My Lai
-Authority to bomb North Vietnam
-Missile sites
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]

The President’s meeting with Echeverria
-Business investment in Latin America
	-The President’s view
-Stability
-Chile
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Investment capital flight
-Latin American attitudes
-Mexican Foreign Minister [Emilio Rabasa Mishkin]
-Meetings with Kissinger
-Dobrynin
-Future meeting with Kissinger
-Salinity of Colorado River
	-The President’s comments

Kissinger’s schedule
-Visit to Acapulco

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Kissinger's briefing on SALT
-Question on the President's role in negotiations
	-Smith

Kissinger left at 1:26 pm.

Conversation No. 735-8

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:26 and 1:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
	-Oval Office

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:35 pm.

Conversation No. 735-9

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  1:35-1:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Items for the President’s signature

Butterfield left at 1:36 pm.

Conversation No. 735-10

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:36 and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.

Conversation No. 735-11

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:36 and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

Ronald L. Ziegler's location

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.

Conversation No. 735-12

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:36 and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

An unknown person’s location

Conversation No. 735-13

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  2:30-3:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

John D. Ehrlichman
-Return from trip

Chairs at the Congressional briefing on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

Hugh Scott
-Health

Ehrlichman
-Meeting with the President

US domestic policies
-Busing
-Detroit decision
-Higher Education Act
-Administration's plan
-Stephen J. Roth’s order
-Provision

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Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-William R. Codus
-Constance M. Stuart
-Rose Mary Woods
-Stuart
-Instructions from Haldeman
-Advance staff
-Codus
-Personality

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Environment
-Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethene [DDT]
-Ehrlichman
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-The President’s position
-Effects in Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
-Statement by Nobel laureate
			-Effect
-Ruckelshaus's associates
-Political leanings
-Frederic V. Malek study
-Ford Motor Company study
-The President’s position
-Ehrlichman, John C. Whitaker
-Judgment
-Sugar

US Government personnel
-Liberals
-Effect of Washington on White House staff
-Daniel P. Moynihan, Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Ehrlichman, William P. Rogers
-Youth

	Public relations
		-Spiegel filming
			-Haldeman

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm.

The President's schedule
-Sultan ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz
-Melvin R. Laird
-Photographs

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:02 pm.

John Paul Vann's funeral
-Vann's family
-Medal of Freedom presentation
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Vann's letter to Joseph W. Alsop
	-The President’s policy
		-Bombing
-Vo Nguyen Giap's offensive
-North Vietnamese military situation
-Medal of Freedom presentation
	-Haig
-The President's schedule
-Family

The President's schedule
-Presentation of Medal of Freedom
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Sequoia
-Walker's Cay, Florida
	-Logistics

Vann
-Haig
-Medal of Freedom

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 2:30 and 3:03 pm.

[Conversation No. 735-13A]

Possible message to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Defense of An Loc

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule

Haldeman left at 3:03 pm.

Conversation No. 735-14

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  3:04-3:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Sultan ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz, Ibrahim al‑Sowayel, Melvin R. Laird, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Camile Nowfel.

[Members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.]

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Sultan ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz, al-Sowayel, Laird, Haig, and Nowfel left at 3:45 pm.

Conversation No. 735-15

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 and 3:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Ronald L. Ziegler's briefing

The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Busing
-Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.

Conversation No. 735-16/736-1

Date:  June 15, 1972
Time:  3:47-5:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:48 pm.

The President's schedule
-Public relations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Congressional briefing on Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-The President’s comments
-Head of state visit by Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Astronauts' meeting

Astronauts
-John W. Young
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] interview
-Statement
-Schedule
	-Camp David
-Young's statement on trip around country
-Space program
-Popularity
-Joint program with the Soviet Union

Congressional briefing on SALT
	-Kissinger
	-Statement
		-Length
	-Press reaction
	-Preparation
	-Staff problems
	-Reasons
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Length of statement
-Time of start
-Clark MacGregor
-J. William Fulbright
-The President's statement
-The President’s role in negotiations
-Negotiations with the Soviet Union
-State Department
-Nature of agreement
				-Arms spending
					-Leonid I. Brezhnev
					-Spending levels
						-George S. McGovern
			-Press coverage
-Press coverage
	-Size of briefing
	-Length of briefing
-Kissinger’s view
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

Space program
-Astronauts
-Young’s statement
	-Joint mission between US and Soviet Union
		-Language study
		-Details

Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-News leads
	-Network television
-New York Times
-Washington Post, Washington Star

Vietnam
-Nikolai V. Podgorny trip
-Kissinger’s trip to the PRC
	-Effect
-PRC’s reaction to Vietnam War
-Michael J. Mansfield’s statement
-The President’s opponents on war
-Reactions of PRC to Soviet Union
-Tactics

Echeverria
-Political skills
-Statement on children

Kissinger entered at 4:05 pm.

-Meeting with mothers and children

Vietnam
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.'s call to Kissinger
-Mansfield amendment
	-Opposition
-Dinner
	-Kissinger’s remarks
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Mathias
-Support in Maryland
			-[John] Fife Symington [?]
-Liberals

Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Press coverage
-Trip announcement
-Effect
	-Podgorny’s trip to Hanoi
	-Effect
-Honolulu, Hawaii

Vietnam War
-Military activity
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. analysis
-21st Division
	-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Performance
	-Kissinger’s assessment
		-III Corps
-An Loc
-Press coverage
	-Effect
-Performance of South Vietnamese Army
	-Kissinger’s view
-23rd Division
	-Kontum

John Paul Vann’s funeral
-Joesph W. Alsop's letter to the President
-Presentation of Medal of Freedom
-Vann
	-The President’s view
	-Performance

Vietnam military activity
-Hue
	-North Vietnamese Army
-B-52 sorties
-Bombing
-Mansfield’s statement
-Mining
-Kissinger’s trip to the PRC

Mexico
-Military
-Quality
-Echeverria’s entourage
-Number
-Composition
-Acapulco
-Miguel Aleman’s cove
-Gustavo Diaz-Ordaz
	-Puerto Vallarta

Key Biscayne, Florida
-Background
-Refugee Cuban Minister of Education
-Purchase of island
	-Graft

US foreign aid
-Recipients
	-Corruption
-Latin American conditions
	-The President’s view
-Mexican presidents
-Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
-Aleman
-Residence
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-Mexican upper class
-Lower classes
-Head of Mexican public relations
-Acapulco

Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Honolulu
-Gerald R. Ford’s and [Thomas] Hale Boggs’s forthcoming PRC trip
-Bryce N. Harlow
-The President’s message for Chou En-lai
-Kissinger’s meeting with the Soviets
-The President’s meeting with Chou En-lai
-The President’s meeting with Brezhnev
-Soviet strategy
-Chinese interests
-Agreements with the Soviets
-Astronauts
-PRC program

Kissinger left at 4:26 pm.

Kissinger
-Mathias
	-Dinner
-Schedule
-Echeverria dinner
-Trip to the PRC
-Workload
-Meeting with Mexican Foreign Minister [Emilio Rabasa Mishkin]
	-Salinity of the Colorado River

Latin America
-US ambassadors
	-Work responsibilities
-Residences
-Servants
-Foreign Service
	-Servants

Kissinger
	-Reaction to briefing

Ziegler left at 4:30 pm.

Congressional briefing on SALT
-Starting time
	-Delay
-F. Edward Hebert

SALT
	-Senate ratification
		-The President’s view
-Congressional debate
-Fulbright

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Harlow's meeting with Jackson
	-Support for the President
-Democrats for Nixon
-Possible position in Administration

Rose Mary Woods entered at 4:34 pm.

Tables for Echeverria dinner
-Seating arrangements
-Maurice H. Stans
-Cabinet officers
-Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.
-Martin S. Hayden
-Astronauts
-Young
-Mrs. Willis Smith, Jr.
-Mrs. Charles H. Meyer

	Gifts for Echeverria

Woods left at 4:37 pm.

Echeverria dinner
-Unknown woman
-Lozano
-Patricia R. Hitt
-Stans
-Mrs. Smith
-Astronauts

Jackson
-Harlow
-Possible Cabinet position

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Parochial school aid
-Wilbur D. Mills bill
-John Cardinal Krol
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Timing of support
-John N. Mitchell and Charles W. Colson
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Krol
-Philadelphia plan

Edward M. Kennedy
-Colson
-Boston Globe article

William F. (“Billy”) Graham's call to the President
-Request for telegram
-Explo '72
	-Message from the President
-Attendance
-Television coverage
-L. Nelson Bell's election in the Presbyterian Church of the US

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Graham
-The President's previous call from Soviet Union
-Graham's location in Ireland
-Explo '72

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The President's schedule
-Florida
-Jaycee Convention
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Public appearances
-Activities since return from Soviet Union
	-Press coverage
		-The President’s view

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:37 pm.

Refreshment

The unknown person left before 4:57 pm.

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Woods entered at 4:57 pm.

Seating arrangements for Echeverria dinner
-Echeverria
-Rabasa
-William P. Rogers
-Lozano
-Astronauts
-Mrs. Smith
-Hitt

Woods left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.

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