Conversation No. 258-10

Date: June 14, 1971
Time: Unknown between 7:19 pm and 7:37 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with John N. Mitchell

[Conversation No. 258-10A]

[See Conversation No. 5-70]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 7:19 pm and talked with Mitchell

[End of telephone conversation]

     Mitchell

     Pentagon Papers
          -Prosecution of the New York Times
               -Criticism of President’s action
               -Robert A. Taft, Jr.
          -Effect on negotiations
               -Meeting of the President and Congressional leaders
                     -Attitudes
                           -Gerald R. Ford
                           -Leslie C. Arends
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              -Incentive to Hanoi
              -Upcoming projects
              -North Vietnamese incentives
              -South Vietnamese elections


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    PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA [PRC]


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    US-Soviet relations
        -William P. Rogers
        -General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
              -Soviet rhetoric
                     -Party elections
                     -Substance
                           -Theory versus practice
                     -Aleksei N. Kosygin line
                     -Nikolai V. Podgorny and Leonid I. Brezhnev line

    Vietnam negotiations
         -Meeting between the President, Kissinger, and Ellsworth F. Bunker

    Kissinger’s Asia trip
         -Previous meeting with Lakshmi Kant Jha
               -Kissinger’s comments
         -Press coverage
               -Effect
         -Rogers’ role
               -Delhi, India
               -Pakistan
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               -Other stops
                     -Saigon
                           -General Nguyen Van Thieu
                     -Bangkok
                     -Cambodia
                     -Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
          -Democratic response
          -Relation to Soviet relations                          Conv. No. 258-10 (cont.)
          -Role of PRC “issue”
          -[David] Kenneth Rush
          -Role of “Soviet” issue compared with Vietnam
          -Clearance of communique versions
               -President’s schedule
               -Kissinger’s schedule
          -Lyndon B. Johnson
          -Chinese
               -Price for normalization of relations
          -Bureaucratic problems
               -Communication with Thieu
               -State Department compared with the White House
               -India-Pakistan; Laos, Cambodia

     Meeting between the President, Bunker, and Kissinger

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 7:37 pm