Conversation No. 723-5

Date: May 11, 1972
Time: 10:08-11:01 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Nikolay S. Patolichev, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Peter G. Peterson, Henry
A. Kissinger, and Peter M. Flanigan; the White House photographer and members of the press
were present at the beginning of the meeting.

     Greetings

     President's knowledge of Russian

     President's forthcoming Soviet trip
          -Russian language

     Photographs
          -Seating arrangements

     Dobrynin

     Interpreter

     US-Soviet Union relations
         -Trade
               -Peterson's report
               -Previous meetings between Kissinger and Leonid I. Brezhnev, Kissinger and
                    Dobrynin

     Photographs
          -Arrangements
          -Copies

     [Photograph session]

     Russian language
          -Compared with Polish

     Seating

     Soviet Union
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                          Tape Subject Log
                            (rev. Jan-02)
                                                           Conv. No. 723-5 (cont.)

-Meetings with the President
     -Patolichev report to Politburo
-Central Committee
     -The President’s view
-Trade relations with US
     -Peterson’s meetings with Patolichev
     -Expansion
     -New era
     -Discussion between US and Soviet officials
           -Peterson
           -Meetings with Maurice H. Stans
     -Patolichev
           -Dealings with Peterson
                 -Benefits
     -Economic relations
           -Expansion
                 -Recent figures
           -Obstacles
     -Most Favored Nations [MFN] status for Soviet Union
           -Importance
           -Political problems in US
           -Other nations
           -Patolichev
                 -Report to Central Committee
                       -Value of US trip
     -Economic relations
           -Credit
                 -Current problems
                 -Benefits
                 -Expansion
                 -Current problems
                 -Soviet problems
           -Resolution of problems
                 -Reciprocity
-Foreign trade
     -Cost of machinery
           -Need for credit
     -Machinery
           -Imports
                 -Amount of credit
     -Credit in foreign countries
           -France
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                           Tape Subject Log
                             (rev. Jan-02)
                                                     Conv. No. 723-5 (cont.)

            -Italy
            -West Germany
            -Great Britain
            -Japan
                   -Amounts
                   -Bargaining
      -Oil pipelines
      -Gas pipelines
      -Copper ore
      -Problems
            -Private solutions
                   -Example of Far East seaport
                         -Construction
-Credit for Soviet Union
      -Orders for goods
      -Effect on US-Soviet trade
-Economic relations with US
      -President's trip to Soviet Union
            -Kissinger's meeting with Brezhnev
      -Grain trade
            -Terms
      -Credit for Soviet Union
      -Agricultural problems
            -Patolichev's view
            -Current conditions
            -Frost in Siberia
                   -Seasons
            -Patolichev's work during World War II
                   -Location
-Credit for Soviet Union
-Grain
      -Purchases by Soviet Union
      -Exports
            -Amounts
            -Costs
      -Future trade
            -Problems
                   -US-Soviet resolution
-Credits
      -Terms
-President's comments
      -President's approval of previous meetings
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                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. Jan-02)
                                                                 Conv. No. 723-5 (cont.)

                -Patolichev, Earl L. Butz, Stans, and Peterson
                -Kissinger, Brezhnev and Dobrynin

US-Soviet relations
    -World War II alliance
          -Cooperation among leadership
    -Military might
    -Economic strength
    -Differences
          -Philosophy
          -Areas of conflict
          -Resolution
    -Future relations
          -Reciprocity
          -Trade development
    -Long-term interests
    -Resolution of differences
          -Objectives
          -Tactics
    -US-Soviet Union Summit
          -Significance
          -Soviet leadership and people
                -President’s respect
          -President’s meetings with Brezhnev
                -Goals
          -Future cooperation
    -Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank credits
    -MFN status
          -Congressional approval
          -President’s position
    -Differences
          -Resolution
          -Mutual interests
    -Long-range goals
          -Economic relations
          -Distractions
                -Areas of conflict
          -Economic agreement
                -Importance
          -President’s meeting with Brezhnev
          -President’s authority
    -Patolichev's report to Brezhnev and other leaders
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Jan-02)
                                                                    Conv. No. 723-5 (cont.)

              -A joint commission

      Gifts
              -Cuff links
                   -President’s seal

      Artifacts in Oval Office
            -Walter H. Annenberg's gift [“Star of the President”]
                  -Steuben glass design
            -Crewelwork by Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Patolichev, et al., left at 11:01 am.