Conversation No. 517-6

Date: June 11, 1971
Time: 11:08 am - 11:56 am
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?]

     Meeting with John B. Connally
          -Timing
          -Content

John Sherman Cooper, Clark MacGregor, and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:08 am
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          -Length
          -Input from Connally

[End of telephone conversation]
     Greetings

     Cooper’s health
                                                                 Conv. No. 517-5 (cont.)
     Paintings of White House

     Cooper’s credibility
         -Help to administration
         -William B. Saxbe

     Foreign policy negotiations
          -Information of Senate
                -J. William Fulbright
                -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
          -People’s Republic of China [PRC] contacts
          -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] contacts
          -General direction of US policy
                -President’s role
                      -Control of “right”
          -USSR and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                -Quality of agreement
                -Leonid I. Brezhnev

Manolo Sanchez entered at unknown time after 11:08 am

     Refreshments

Sanchez left at unknown time before 11:56 am

     Foreign policy negotiations
          -Prospects for Soviet summit
               -SALT
          -Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
               -William P. Rogers
               -European view

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:08 am
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                    -European security conference
          -Administration efforts
               -Efforts in addition to Vietnam
          -Needs from Congress
               -Understanding of process
                    -Effect of leaks
               -Secrecy
                    -Soviet reaction                                 Conv. No. 517-6 (cont.)
                           -Kissinger’s conversations with Soviets
                           -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
               -Congressional input
                    -SALT
                    -PRC
                    -Vietnam
                    -Timing

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:56 pm

               -Effect of comments on talks
                    -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy’s remark
                           -President’s efforts in Vietnam
               -Progress on “big” issues
                    -PRC
                    -Soviet Union
                    -Vietnam
               -Congressional perception
               -Effect of Congressional comments
               -Fulbright
                    -Vietnam
                    -Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
                    -Desire for information
               -USSR
               -PRC
                    -Goals
                           -Strength
               -Europe
                    -Contribution to general good
                    -Reaction against military
                    -Effect of progress
                    -MBFR
                    -Balance of payments
                           -Goals
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                -Forthcoming Willy Brandt visit
                      -Dinner
           -German leadership
                -Relation to Wernher M. M. von Braun
                -School ties
                -Mandeza [?]
           -Balance of payments
-Vietnam                                               Conv. No. 517-6 (cont.)
     -Prospects for ending war
     -Dynamics of negotiations
            -Troop withdrawal
     -Prospects of breakthrough
            -Administration goals
     -Topics of negotiation
            -Prisoners of War [POWs]
     -Protection of US troops
     -South Vietnam survival
-Breadth of negotiations
-Clark M. Clifford statements
-Effect of Congressional actions
-US goals in negotiations
-Congressional feeling
-Need for one voice
     -Effect of Congressional actions
-George S. McGovern
-John W. Gardner and Mark O. Hatfield
     -Immorality of War
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Goal of negotiations
-End of American deaths
-Senate actions
-Hatfield’s view
-Hatfield legislation prospects
-Committee activity
-Regional settlement prospects
     -Cambodia
            -North Vietnam
            -Laos
     -Administration’s proposal
            -Neutralization of Southeast Asia
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     -Objections to McGovern-Hatfield
           -Provisions
     -History of proposals offered by US
     -Public knowledge
     -Effect of McGovern-Hatfield legislation
           -Weakness
     -House sentiment
           -Basis                                        Conv. No. 517-6 (cont.)
           -Lucien N. Nedzi-Charles W. Whalen, Jr. amendment
                 -President’s October 7 statement
     -Compromise offers
     -Congressional support
           -Gerald R. Ford
           -Leslie C. Arends
           -Carl B. Albert
           -[Thomas] Hale Boggs
           -Jacob K. Javits
     -President’s October 7 statement
           -Recirculation
                 -John A. Scali
-Appointment versus actual movement of US
     -Vietnam
     -PRC
     -Soviet Union
-Vietnam
     -Difficulty of negotiations
           -President’s needs from Congress
                 -Clifford
                 -Difficulty of “public” negotiations
     -Relation to PRC and Soviet Union
     -North Vietnamese
           -Fear of quid pro quo
     -Congressional issues
           -Balance of payments
           -Cooper’s trip to Vienna
                 -Gerard C. Smith
                 -Paul H. Nitze
                 -Brady [?]
           -Edmund S. Muskie
                 -Clifford
                 -Cyrus R. Vance
           -Tolerance
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[National Security]
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                                                                     Conv. No. 517-6 (cont.)

     GERMANY


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                 -President’s needs
                       -Consultation with Congress
           -Indochina
           -India
                 -Indira Gandhi and Swaran Singh’s conversation with Cooper
                       -Indian election
                             -US involvement
                                  -Singh’s belief
                                  -Cooper’s response
                                  -National Security Council [NSC]
                                        -Opposition party
                                  -Rogers
                                  -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
                                  -American business
                 -US involvement
           -Kissinger’s schedule
                 -Upcoming lunch with Indian ambassador
           -Mansfield contact

Cooper, et al. left at 11:56 am
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