Conversation No. 481-5

Date: April 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:45 am and 11:24 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull
                                                                     Conv. No. 481-4 (cont.)
     The President's schedule
          -Henry A. Kissinger

[The President talked with the White House operator at 10:46 am]

[Conversation No. 481-5A]

[See Conversation No. 1-123]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull left at an unknown time between 10:46 am and 10:49 am

[The President talked with J. Edgar Hoover between 10:49 am and 10:52 am]

[Conversation No. 481-5B]

[See Conversation No. 1-123A]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger entered at 10:52 am

[Kissinger talked with Hoover at 10:52 am]

[Conversation No. 481-5C]

[See Conversation No. 1-123B]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Hoover's resignation
         -President's statement to American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16,
                1971
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          -General Lewis B. Hershey
          -President’s statement to ASNE
          -William C. Sullivan
                -Qualifications

     Meeting with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
          -Clark MacGregor
                                                                      Conv. No. 481-5 (cont.)
[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:52 am and
11:02 am]

[Conversation No. 481-5D]

[See Conversation No. 1-124]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Meeting with Mansfield
          -Foreign policy

     Kissinger's dinner with Katharine L. Graham
          -Sir [Arthur] George Weidenfeld
          -President's meeting with ASNE
                -Radio
          -Radio
          -Weidenfeld
          -Adlai E. Stevenson, III
                -Vietnam withdrawal
                      -Elections
          -Indian Ambassador
          -Weidenfeld
                -Comment about the President
                -Sir Harold G, Nicolson
                      -Son
          -David Ginsberg
          -Judgement of President s interview by ASNE
          -Hoover
          -Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. case
                -George C. Wallace
          -Graham's remarks

     President's meeting with ASNE
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          -President's 1968 appearance
          -President's remarks
                -People's Republic of China [PRC]
                -Vietnam
                -Calley
          -Strain on the President
          -Vietnam
                -Withdrawal                                        Conv. No. 481-5 (cont.)
                -Residual force
                -Korea
                -Prisoners of War [POWs]
                -US position

     Vietnam
          -Ellsworth F. Bunker
          -Negotiations
          -Withdrawal date
          -President's forthcoming meeting with General Nguyen Van Thieu
          -Withdrawal date
                -Announcement
                -Negotiations
                -Joint announcement

Bull entered at an unknown time between 10:45 am and 11:02 am

     President’s schedule
          -Mansfield

Bull left at an unknown time between 10:45 am and 11:02 am

                 -US position
                 -POWs
                 -Cease fire

Mansfield entered at 11:02 am

     Greetings

     Letter
           -Lecture series
           -Speech
           -Kissinger
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    President's PRC Policy
         -Mansfield's schedule
         -President's possible trip to PRC
         -Possible trip by Mansfield
                -Private offer of presidential trip
         -Development of relations
         -Chou En-lai                                         Conv. No. 481-5 (cont.)
                -George Kung-chao Yeh
         -US objectives
         -Possible trip by Mansfield
                -Private effort
                -Romanians
                      -Mansfield telegram to Chou En-Lai
         -Mansfield's letter to the President
                -Congress
         -Possible trip by Michael Gravel
         -Romanian Ambassador


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         -Publicity
         -Mansfield's possible cable
              -Possible consequences
         -Mansfield's letter to the President
              -Fall back position
         -Requests for visits by senators to PRC
              -State Department
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-Ping-pong team
-Possible trip by Mansfield
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
      -Mansfield's possible visit to PRC
      -US relations
            -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
            -Middle East
-Mansfield's statement in Senate                      Conv. No. 481-5 (cont.)
-President's policies
-Mansfield's position
-President's meeting with ASNE
      -Response to questions
            -United Nations [UN]
            -Trade and travel restrictions
                  -Timetable
-Trade
-US strategy
-Normalization of relations
-UN representation issue
      -Taiwan
      -Great Britain
-British representation in Peking
-Romania
      -Nicolae Ceausescu
-Mansfield's possible cable
-Importance of making new request
-Ceausescu
      -Role
      -Chou En-lai
      -Meeting with President
            -Vietnam
            -North Korea
      -Value of channel
-Josip Broz Tito
-Ceausescu
-Mansfield's Possible Cable
-President's meeting with ASNE
      -Calls to Chou En-lai
-Reaction in Senate
      -Lifting of trade and travel restrictions
      -Mansfield's statement
-Travel Restrictions
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                -Travel by Americans and Chinese
                -Defense Department
                -Justice Department
                -Espionage
                      -Soviets
                      -Chinese

     World War II                                              Conv. No. 481-5 (cont.)
         -Nisei
         -Relocation camps
              -California
              -Missoula, Montana
              -Earl Warren
         -Pearl Harbor
         -Blame

     World War I
         -Blame
              -Germans
              -Austrians
              -French
              -British
              -Russians
              -Kaiser Wilhelm II

     Mansfield's possible trip to PRC
         -President's possible visit to PRC
         -Presidency
         -President's senate experience
         -Other congressmen
         -Advantages
                -Possible report by Mansfield
                -Amateurs
         -Romanians
                -US relations with PRC
                -Mansfield's role
                -Ceausescu
         -Ping-pong table

Kissinger and Mansfield left at 11:24 am
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