Conversation No. 783-18

Date: September 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:22 pm and 12:46 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

             Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
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                                       Tape Subject Log
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Bull left and Kissinger entered at 12:25 pm.

             US-Soviet Union trade deal
                -1972 election
                    -William P. Rogers
                -Soviet-Jewish emigration
                    -Jews
                         -Votes
                         -Bangladesh
                             -Biharis
                         -Burundi
                         -Deal size
                         -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Yitzhak Rabin
                         -Bureaucracy
                         -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Rabin
                -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                    -Anniversary of creation of Soviet Union
                    -Forthcoming speech
                         -Detente

             Vietnam War
                 -News summary
                 -South Vietnam’s military situation
                     -Quang Tri
                     -Press and media coverage
                          -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
                               -Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
                          -Vietnamization
                     -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view
                     -Inflicted casualties
                     -Capture of arms
                     -North Vietnamese divisions
                 -Bombing of dikes in North Vietnam
                     -Possible hearings by the Senate
                          -Edward M. Kennedy
                          -Evidence
                               -Flood

             1972 campaign issues
                 -Vietnam
                     -[George S. McGovern]
                         -College campuses
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    -Amnesty
        -Labor unions, Catholics
    -Vietnam negotiations
        -Meeting with North Vietnam
            -Forthcoming announcement
        -Progress
            -Press coverage
                 -William L. Safire's recent meeting with the press
                     -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Le Duc Tho

Release of three prisoners of war [POWs]
    -Public relations
        -McGovern’s possible exploitation
        -Hanoi
        -Brainwashing
        -Peace group involvement
        -US domestic policy
        -Copenhagen and Sweden
        -Moscow
              -Aeroflot
        -Special Air Services [SAS]

Foreign policy
    -The President's meeting with Theodore H. White on
     September 18, 1972 and at the Hotel Pierre in December 1969
        -Administration objectives
             -Vietnam
             -Soviet Union
             -Middle East
             -Relations with Europe
             -The People's Republic of China [PRC]
        -Opposition
        -Vietnam
        -Opposition
             -Time
             -Newsweek
             -New York Times
             -Washington Post
             -Major networks
             -Intellectual community
    -As campaign issue
        -Vietnam, media
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       -Media coverage
           -New York Times
           -Washington Post
                -McGovern
                -Europe, Japan
           -New York Times
                -Editorial
                     -Abram Chayes
                       -Allies in Europe
                         -Japan
                            -McGovern
                                 -View of leaders
                            -View of leaders
                            -1960 election
                                 -John F. Kennedy
                            -Arnoud de Borchgrave article
                            -Edward R.G. Heath
                                 -Conversation with Kissinger
                                   -Chathem House
                                         -Compared to Council of Foreign
                                          Relations
                              -Unknown friend of Kissinger
       -McGovern’s campaign
           -Briefing of Paul C. Warnke
                -Letter to Kissinger
                -Warnke’s security clearance
                -Haig
                -The President’s instructions
           -Soviet Union
                -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                -Israel
       -Poll on Vietnam war
           -McGovern’s election prospects
           -North Vietnamese
                -Josip Broz Tito
                -Nikolai V. Podgorny [?]
    -PRC
       -Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to New York
           -Kissinger’s conversations in Moscow

Vietnam
    -Kissinger’s schedule
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        -Paris peace talks
            -The President’s International Monetary Fund [IMF] speech
            -Announcement
            -Frequency of meetings
                 -Press
            -Possible settlement
                 -Press
                 -Coalition government

US-Soviet Union trade deal
   -Israel
        -Jacob K. Javits and Abraham A. Ribicoff
        -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Rabin
            -Kissinger’s trip to the Soviet Union
                  -Syria
                  -Lebanon
            -Tone
            -State Department
                  -The President and [National Security Council]
                   [NSC]
        -Political effect of Israeli action
   -American Jewish community
        -McGovern
        -Max M. Fisher
        -Taft Schreiber
            -Jewish contributors
                  -Kissinger’s role
   -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Rabin

Congressional relations
   -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
        -Dr. Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan's conversation with
         Kissinger
   -Carl B. Albert
        -Behavior
        -Presidency

The President’s decisions
    -May 8, 1972 decision on bombing Hanoi and mining
     Haiphong harbor
    -Menu strikes
    -Cambodia
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                  -November 3, 1969 speech
                  -Laos
                  -Middle East crisis of September 1970
                      -The President’s location
                      -Troop movements
                           -State Department
                      -Israel

             US-Soviet Union trade deal
                -Israel
                     -Rabin
                -Kissinger’s forthcoming conversations with Javits and Ribicoff
                -Charles H. Percy

Kissinger left at 12:46 pm.