Conversation No. 737-4

Date: June 16, 1972
Time: 11:22 am-12:26 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Luis Echeverria Alvarez, Emilio Rabasa Mishkin, Gen. Alexander M.
Haig, Jr., and Donald F. Barnes.

     Greetings

     Introduction

     Echeverria's schedule
         -National Press Club appearance

     Agenda for meeting
         -US Latin American policies
         -Soviet Union leaders
               -The President’s observations

          US-Mexican relations
          -Press statements
                -US-Latin American relationship
                -Latin America
                      -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                      -Soviet Union
                -Echeverria’s comments
                -National Press Club
                      -Statement by Echeverria
                      -US relations with PRC and Soviet Union
                      -US relations with Mexico and Latin America
                           -Echeverria’s meetings with the President
                           -New approach to Latin America
                                 -Echeverria’s comments
                                 -US policy
                                 -Other Latin American governments
                                 -The President’s meetings with Echeverria
          -World attention on US and its policies
                -Peking trip
                -Moscow trip
                -Third World
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         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                        Tape Subject Log
                          (rev. Feb-02)
                                                     Conv. No. 737-4 (cont.)

           -US policies
           -Timing of Echeverria's visit
                -Importance
                        -US-Mexican relations
           -Latin America
-US Congress
      -Address by Echeverria
-Relations between Mexico and the US
      -The President’s view
           -Differences
           -Nature
-Echeverria's schedule
      -National Press Club
      -Organization of American States [OAS]
      -Mexican-American Chamber of Commerce in New York
      -Nelson A. Rockefeller's home
      -Chicago
      -San Antonio
      -Los Angeles
      -Report of meeting with the President
           -Talks with PRC and Soviet Leaders
           -Need for substance
           -Talks with other Latin American leaders
-Diplomatic slogans
      -PRC, Soviet Union visits
      -Latin America
           -US policies
           -The President’s view
      -Echeverria's travels
           -New York, Chicago, San Antonio, Los Angeles
           -Mexico
           -Latin America
      -Solutions to problems
-Water salinity issue
      -Agreement on language
      -Press statements
           -Timing
           -Henry A. Kissinger
           William J. Jorden
           -Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
           -References to salinity
-The President's relations with Mexican Presidents
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Feb-02)
                                                                      Conv. No. 737-4 (cont.)

                -Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
           -The President's commitment on salinity
                -Settlement of issue
                      -The President’s view
                      -Timing
                           -Comparison to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                                   -The President’s meetings with Leonid I. Brezhnev
           -The President's trip to Soviet Union
                -Arms control
                      -The President’s view
                      -Defensive weapons
                      -Offensive weapons
                      -New talks
                           -Nuclear weapons
                      -Conventional weapons
                -Agreements
                      -Trade Commission
                      -Joint cooperation in space
                      -Environment
                      -Health
                      -Philosophical differences
                           -Brezhnev, Aleksei N. Kosygin
                           -The President's political philosophy

Haig left at 11:58 am.

           -US relations with PRC
                 -Chou En-Lai, Mao Tse-Tung
                      -Political philosophy
                 -Basis for agreement
                      -Comparison with Soviet Union
           -Future foreign policy
                 -PRC and Soviet Union
                      -Foreign policies
                           -The President’s view
                 -PRC
                      -Population
                 -Soviet Union
                      -Military strength
                      -Nuclear power
                 -PRC relations with US
                      -Motives
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Feb-02)
                                                              Conv. No. 737-4 (cont.)

                -Soviet Union relations with US
                     -Motives
                -Communism
                     -The President’s view
                -US role
                     -US role in world affairs
                     -International relations
                     -Soviet Union
                          -Brezhnev
                     -PRC
                          -Chou En-lai
                     -Middle East
                     -Latin America
                -Communism
                     -The President’s view

Haig entered at 12:05 pm.

                -Communiqués
                     -Peking, Moscow
                          -Contents
                     -Goals
                     -Value
                     -Brezhnev and Chou En-Lai
          -Soviet foreign policy
                -Western Hemisphere
                     -US response
          -Vietnam War
                -Possible questions for Echeverria
                -The President's goal
                     -Soviet Union role
                     -North Vietnam
                     -South Vietnam
                -Mexico’s policy
                     -Nonalignment
                -North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam
                     -Soviet Union role
                     -Ramifications
                     -American credibility
                     -US response
                     -Soviet response to invasion
                     -North Vietnamese motives for invasion
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                          Tape Subject Log
                                            (rev. Feb-02)
                                                                          Conv. No. 737-4 (cont.)

                        -American resistance
                              -Risks
              -Reason for the President's trips
                   -PRC
                   -Soviet Union
                   -US objectives
                        -Korean War
                        -Vietnam War
                        -The President's initiatives with Soviet Union and PRC
                              -Soviet and Chinese responses

      Echeverria’s forthcoming appearance at the National Press Club

      Mexican immigrants

      Gifts
              -Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.

      Press
           -Photographs
                -South lawn

The President, et al. left at 12:26 pm.