Conversation No. 317-015
Date: January 24, 1972
Time: 3:35 pm - 4:20 pm
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Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Briefing books
-State Department
-The President's preparation
[The President talked with Frank T. Bow between 3:36 pm and 3:38 pm.]
[Conversation No. 317-15A]
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[End of telephone conversation]
Congress
-Tenures
John Sherman Cooper and Bow
-Bow
-Age
-Louie B. Nunn
The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Content and phraseology
-Tone
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-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Negotiations
-The President’s courtesies
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Progress in negotiations
-William L. Safire's dictation
-Compared to the President’s
-Records of private and public negotiations
-Historical record
-The President’s previous statements
-Leaks
-Safire's suggestion
-Soviet Union
[The President talked with Adele (Langston) Rogers between 3:46 pm and 3:47 pm.]
[Conversation No. 317-15B]
[See Conversation No. 19-49]
[End of telephone conversation]
Mrs. Rogers
The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Content and phraseology
-Changes
-Record of private negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Thieu
-Le Duc Tho
-Xuan Thuy
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Thieu
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Negotiations
-Possible US military action
-Peace settlement
-Kissinger’s briefing
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-US threat
-US peace plan
-Possible deletion
-Tone
-Ending
-Final draft
-Rose Mary Woods
[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:47 pm and 3:59
pm.]
[Conversation No. 317-15C]
Speech draft [?]
[End of telephone conversation]
[The President talked with an unknown person [Woods?] at an unknown time between 3:47 pm
and 3:59 pm.]
[Conversation No. 317-15D]
The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Instructions
[End of telephone conversation]
-William P. Rogers's possible review
-Necessity
-The President's previous conversation with John B. Connally
-Safire
-Connally
-Kissinger's possible call
-Thieu
-Final draft
-Rogers
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Quality
-Changes
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-Rogers
-Safire
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Thieu
-Possible public reaction
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Safire
-Translations
Woods entered at 3:59 pm.
-Changes
-Completion
-Distribution
-Thieu
-Copies
-Safire
-Kissinger
-Connally, Safire
Woods left at 4:05 pm.
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Safire
-Rogers
[Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:05 pm and 4:20
pm.]
[Conversation No. 317-15E]
[See Conversation No. 19-50]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Review
-Changes
-Rogers
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
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-The President's preparation
-Reading
[Kissinger talked with Safire at an unknown time between 4:05 pm and 4:20 pm; the President
conferred with Kissinger during the conversation.]
[Conversation No. 317-15F]
[See Conversation No. 19-51]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-The President's preparation
-Reading
-Kissinger's conversations with PRC officials
-Background material
-Briefing book
-Kissinger’s synopsis
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[Duration: 1m 37s]
The President’s forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-The President’s preparations
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] briefing book
-Additional reading
-Book prepared by Henry A. Kissinger
-Richard M. Helms briefing
Hussein ibn Talal
-India–Pakistan
-William P. Rogers
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-The President’s assessment
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The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-The President's preparation
-Reading
-Vietnam
-Verbatim transcripts
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:05 pm
Refreshment
Briefcases
-Delivery to the President
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:20 pm
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-The President's preparation
-Kissinger’s briefing books
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INTELLIGENCE
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The President's forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-The President’s preparation
-Kissinger’s conversations with Chou En-lai
-Book on issues
-Kissinger’s synopsis
-Subjects
-Meetings with Chou
-Kissinger's previous meetings with Chou
-Tone
-The President’s visit
-Chou’s style compared to the President’s
-Notes
-Winston Lord
-Kissinger
-Translators
-State Department
-Chou
-Number
-Forthcoming communiqué
-Meetings
-The President's preparation
-The President's files
-Briefing book
-Timing
-Camp David
The President's forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Connally’s possible suggestions
-Thieu
Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.’s recommendation
-The president's authority
-Leak
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-Timing
-Abrams
-Air Force
Kissinger left at 4:20 pm.