Conversation No. 534-3

Date: July 1, 1971
Time: 9:54 am - 10:26 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Henry A. Kissinger.
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     Vietnam negotiations
          -Coordination with Paris
               -Ronald L. Ziegler
          -Schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:57 am.

     William P. Rogers                                                Conv. No. 534-2 (cont.)
          -Telephone Call to Kissinger
          -Forthcoming Testimony
                -William C. Sullivan
                -Pentagon Papers
                -Vietnam negotiations

     Vietnam negotiations
          -Current North Vietnamese proposals
               -Sullivan
               -Nguyen Van Thieu's government
               -US stance
                     -Public statement

Haig left at 9:57 am.

     Foreign relations
          -Forthcoming summit
                -The United States [US] and the People's Republic of China [PRC]
                      -Communications
                      -US delegation
                            -The President, Rogers, Kissinger
                            -State Department
                                  -Marshall Green
          -Japan
                -Green, Peter G. Peterson
          -Ambassadorial appointments
                -William J. Porter
                      -Paris Peace Talks
          -PRC trip
                -Size of the President's entourage
                -Size of press contingent
                      -Three networks, two wire services
                            -Pool reporter
                      -The New York Times, the Washington Post
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                -Press facilities
                      -Action by the PRC
                -The press
                      -Size
                      -The New York Times, the Washington Post
                      -Limitations on White House press contact
                            -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                            -Background briefings                      Con. No. 534-3 (cont.)
          -Size of delegation
                -Handling by the President and the Chinese
          -Itinerary
                -Peking, Shanghai
                -Nature of visit
          -Briefing book
                -Work by National Security Council [NSC] Staff
                -Tone
                -The President's foreign policy record
                -Vietnam war action by the US
                      -Status of attempts at settlement
                      -Cambodia, Laos
                -US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
                      -Detente
                      -Geographical interests
                -Possible agreements with the PRC
                      -Nuclear weapons

Haig entered at 10:08 am.

              -Communique
              -Taiwan
                    -Tone
                          -Spiro T. Agnew, Melvin R. Laird
                    -United Nations
              -Vietnam war
                    -Length
              -Japan
                    -Tone
                    -Military threat
              -The Soviet Union
                    -Military threat
          -Handling of information
              -The Soviet Union
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                     -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
                            -Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
         -USSR, Japan, Vietnam
         -Negotiations prior to China summit
               -Prisoners of War [Pows]
               -Grain deal
               -Vietnam war settlement
         -Possible agreements with the PRC                              Con. No. 534-3 (cont.)
               -Arms control
                     -Hotline, accidental war
                     -Nuclear weapons
         -Political visitors to the PRC prior to the President's trip
               -Edmund S. Muskie
               -Hubert H. Humphrey
         -The USSR
               -Timing of summit
               -Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy Dobrynin
               -Timing of summit in comparison to the PRC summit

                    -Leonid I. Brezhnev
              -SALT
              -Middle East
              -Caribbean
              -Berlin agreement
         -Taiwan
              -Laird, Agnew
              -Nixon doctrine's aims
              -Policy during the Harry S. Truman administration
              -Owen Lattimore
         -London, Paris, Warsaw
         -Canada
              -Pierre Trudeau
         -Taiwan
         -Vietnam
         -Korea


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           PRC TRIP


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                                                            Con. No. 534-3 (cont.)

           -George H.W. Bush
           -July 15, 1971 announcement
           -Paris stop on Kissinger's itinerary
                 -Le Duc Tho
                 -Handling of proposals

     Schedules of the President and Kissinger

Kissinger and Haig left at 10:26 am