Conversation No. 261-35

Date: July 1, 1971
Time: 3:55 pm - 4:25 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

     Vietnam War
          -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield’s comments
               -North Vietnamese
               -Mansfield Amendment
               -President’s previous conversation with Mansfield
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     William P. Rogers
     People’s Republic of China [PRC]
          -Item about Peking
          -David [Surname unintelligible]
          -National Security Council [NSC]
          -Reference to comment made by President in press conference

     Draft of Presidential speech                                  Conv. No. 261-33 (cont.)
           -Bicentennial
           -Taiwan
                -Length

     Vietnam War
          -Le Duc Tho
               -Statement
               -Paris
               -Administration’s response
                     -Ronald L. Ziegler
          -Negotiations
               -US position
                     -Ziegler
               -North Vietnamese position
                     -Prisoners of War [POWs] release
                     -American withdrawal
               -Clark MacGregor’s conversation with Kissinger
                     -Timing
                     -Rogers
          -Kissinger’s proposal
               -Vietnamese cease fire
                     -American withdrawal

     Chou En-lai
         -Conversation with Yugoslav
               -US-China relations

     Population of the United States
          -Andrew Jackson’s administration

Alexander P. Butterfield [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at 4:08 pm
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     President’s schedule
           -Declassification meeting
                 -Timing
                 -John D. Ehrlichman, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., William H. Rehnquist
[The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 4:09 pm and
4:11 pm]

[Conversation No. 261-35A]                                          Conv. No. 261-35 (cont.)

     President’s schedule
          -Forthcoming meeting with declassification group
                -Chairman
                -Rehnquist
                -Ehrlichman
                -Presidential directive

[End of telephone conversation]

Butterfield [Bull?] left at 4:11 pm

     White House staff
          -President’s role

     Speech draft for July 4th
          -Language
          -Thomas Jefferson
               -Philosophy
               -French Revolution
          -John Adams

     Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
         -Communication from USSR
         -Kissinger’s trip
         -Summit meeting
         -Scheduling

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:11 pm

     President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:25 pm
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[Haldeman talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:11 pm and 4:25 pm]

[Conversation No. 261-35B]

[See Conversation No. 6-80]
[End of telephone conversation]

     Ehrlichman                                                    Conv. No. 261-35 (cont.)

     President’s draft of forthcoming Bicentennial speech
          -Language
                -Compared to Emmett Hughes
          -William L. Safire
          -Bicentennial celebration

     Negotiations with North Vietnamese
         -Dr. David K. E. Bruce
         -Timing
                -October
                     -Soviet Summit [?]
         -Soviet Union
                -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                     -President’s condolence call
                -Hubert H. Humphrey

Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 4:11 pm

     President’s schedule
          -Meeting with declassification group
          -Participants
                -Rehnquist
                -Interim report

Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 4:25 pm

     President’s schedule

     Vietnam negotiations
          -Sources of problems
               -State Department
               -Bruce
               -Rogers
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                -John N. Irwin, II
                -Marshall Green
           -Bruce

     Soviets
          -Summit meeting
               -Timing
               -Bruce                                           Conv. No. 261-35 (cont.)
          -Kissinger’s forthcoming trip

     PRC

     Declassification
          -Ehrlichman
          -Administration’s position
          -Conspiracy

     Daniel Ellsberg case
          -Participants
          -Ellsberg
                -Elliot L. Richardson
          -Ellsworth F. Bunker
                -Cables

     Dobrynin
         -Prior conversation with Kissinger
         -Soviets
               -US relations with Asian allies

     PRC

     Kissinger’s staff
          -Relations with press
          -Kissinger’s schedule

     Kissinger’s forthcoming foreign trip

The President and Kissinger left at 4:25 pm