Conversation No. 503-6

Date: May 21, 1971
Time: 9:53 am - 10:43 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Economic issues
         -Consumer Price Index [CPI] increase
         -John B. Connally
         -George P. Shultz
         -George W. Romney
               -Congress
                     -Spending
         -Full employment budget
         -Price parity
         -Shultz's reaction to CPI figure
         -Food price increases
               -Last year's food price rise
         -Inflation
               -Rate

     Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
           -Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing
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            -President's initiative
Ziegler left at 9:56 am.

Kissinger entered at 9:56 am.

      SALT negotiations
          -William P. Rogers
          -Gerard C. Smith                                               Conv. No. 503-5 (cont.)
          -Level
          -Rogers
          -Timing
          -Accidental war
                -Hot line
          -Possible statement
                -Smith
                -Vladimir S. Semenov
                -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
          -Helsinki
                -SALT delegates
                      -Leaks
                            -Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
                            -Offensive weapons
          -US position
                -ABM
                      -Safeguard
                            -Dobrynin
                -Kissinger's briefing to the press
                      -ABM
                      -Offensive weapons
                            -Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]
                            -Submarines
                -Press reaction
                -President's involvement in SALT agreement
                      -Role of Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
                      -Support for President by press in coming election
                      -President

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:56 am.

      Forthcoming SALT delegation meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.
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     Kissinger's meeting in his office with two reporters
     Change of Kissinger's scheduled meeting on Vietnam until May 22, 1971

     Kissinger's future meetings with
          -[Forename unknown] Franco of Newsweek
          -Osborn Elliott
          -James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.                                    Conv. No. 503-6 (cont.)
          -William F. Buckley, Jr.

     SALT
         -Press reaction
              -Times editorial of May 21, 1971
              -People

Rogers, Gerard C. Smith, Royal B. Allison, Paul H. Nitze, Llewellyn E. Thompson, and Philip J.
Farley entered at 10:03 am; photographers were present at the beginning of the meeting.

     Science Medals

     Seating arrangement

     Photographs

     SALT negotiations
         -Vienna
         -Outcome of the SALT agreement
         -Press
         -Defense Department and their supporters
         -Leaks
               -White House
               -Rogers
                     -State Department
               -Bureaucracy
         -President's position on inclusion of safeguards in SALT
               -Press
               -Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
               -ABM
                     -Washington, D.C.
         -Perception of Soviet interests
               -Offensive weapons
         -President's expectations of SALT
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      -Senators
      -Press columnists
      -Press conferences
      -Soviet and American domestic problems
            -Agreement
-Negotiating strategy
      -Rogers
-Public perception                                  Conv. No. 503-6 (cont.)
      -J. William Fulbright
-Congressional action
-Smith
-US security
      -Leaks
-Success of negotiations
      -Consultation
      -Information
-American security
-Strategy
-Perception of Soviet arms
      -Agreement
-Hot line
-Time period
-Treaty
-President's China policy
      -French
      -British
-ABM
      -Soviet advantage
-US defenses
      -American security
-Soviet missiles
-A comprehensive treaty
      -Scope of the SALT agreement
-Missile sites
      -Smith
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Options
-Radar
-European Security Council
      -Rogers’ forthcoming meeting
      -Their reaction to SALT
-Soviet-American policy
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                  -Influence

      Science awards
           -Peace

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:40 am.

      President's schedule                                            Conv. No. 503-6 (cont.)
           -Science awards ceremony
           -International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium [INTELSAT]

Rogers, et al., left at 10:43.