Conversation No. 505-7

Date: May 26, 1971
Time: 12:43 pm - 1:17 pm
Location: Oval Office
                                                                        Conv. No. 505-6 (cont.)
The President met with David K.E. Bruce and Henry A. Kissinger; the White House
photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

     Greetings

     Bruce's schedule

     Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud luncheon, May 27, 1971
          -Time
          -Bruce's attendance
          -Number in attendance


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     SAUDI ARABIA


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     SAUDI ARABIA                                               Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)


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     Meeting between Bruce and Kissinger
          -Lunch

     Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
           -Progress
                 -Delay
                 -Appearance
           -President's meetings
           -Bruce's resignation
                 -Postponement

Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.

     Refreshments

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.

          -Kissinger conference with Bruce

     Vietnam negotiations
          -Possible progress
          -Timing
               -Bruce’s resignation
          -Bruce's appointment
               -Negotiation process
                     -Accomplishment
                     -Stalemate
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[Unintelligible]

Bruce's resignation
     -Possible departure from Paris
     -Unknown person
     -Jean Monnet
           -Bruce’s health                                Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)
           -Age
           -Residence
           -Vacation
           -Bruce's health
     -British
     -Timing
     -Spain
     -Mediterranean
     -Bruce's health

Vietnam negotiations
     -Future
           -Prisoners of War [POWs]
           -North Vietnamese
           -Possible progress
                  -Timing
     -Bruce's resignation
           -Timing
     -Paris talks
     -US negotiations
           -Rank
     -Bruce's future
     -POWs
           -Families
     -Future forum
     -Bruce's possible appointment
           -Consultant to the President
           -Bruce’s experience
           -State Department
     -Bruce’s view of status
     -Goals
           -Terminal date
           -Settlement
           -Ceasefire
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           -Troop withdrawal
           -Ceasefire
           -US troops
           -North Vietnamese
     -Bruce's schedule
     -W. Averell Harriman
     -State Department
     -Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.                Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)
     -Resignation
           -Date
           -Kissinger

People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
     -Kissinger’s forthcoming discussion with Bruce
     -President’s conversation with Kissinger
     -US table tennis team
           -Visit to PRC
     -Trade and travel
     -Presidential candidate
     -Cabinet
     -Maurice H. Stans
     -Edward M. Kennedy
     -Edmund S. Muskie
           -Kissinger’s Harvard University colleague
                 -PRC
     -President’s plans
           -Bruce’s position
     -PRC
           -Compared with USSR
     -President's talk with Kissinger
           -Candidates for possible trip to PRC
                 -Bruce
                       -South Vietnamese
                       -End of war
                            -Timing
     -US-PRC relationship
           -Bruce’s view
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    JAPAN                                                    Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)


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         -Jean Sainteny
               -PRC
                    -Negotiating posture

    [Unintelligible]

                          -Bruce
         -Japanese
              -Compared with Chines
         -Chinese
         -Japanese
         -PRC
              -Attitudes toward others
                    -World
                    -USSR
                    -Japanese
                    -USSR
                    -Indians
         -Bruce
              -Lunch
         -PRC
         -Bruce's health
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5                                            Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)

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Bruce and Kissinger left at 1:17 pm.