Conversation No. 790-8

Date: October 2, 1972
Time: 11:20 am - 11:39 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and William P. Rogers.

        US-Soviet Union trade agreement
           -1972 election
           -Exit visas for Soviet Jews
               -Russian Relations with Minorities
                    -Lithuanians
                    -Estonians
                    -Latvians
                    -Ukrainians
               -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
               -US Jews
               -US and Soviet Union interest
                    -Lend-lease
               -US influence on Soviet Union government
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    -Space, environment
    -Diplomatic channels
    -US Jewish interest
         -Jewish organizations’ view
              -Recent meeting
                   -Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
         -Forthcoming US announcement
         -Soviet Union
         -Timing of proposed actions
              -MFN
                   -Congress
              -Export-import credits
                   -Administrative discretion
         -Knowledge of exit visas by Soviets
              -Trade and Foreign ministries
         -Jewish organizations
              -Cause of action
                   -Kissinger’s view
         -Progress
              -The President’s recent meeting with Jewish leaders in New York
                   -Rabbi Herschel Schacter
         -Congress
              -Republicans
                   -Abraham A. Ribicoff
                   Jacob K. Javits
         -US Jews
              -Choices
              -The President’s previous conversation with Max M. Fisher
                   -Support
                       -Israel
                       -Economics
                       -1972 election
-Jewish vote
-Abba Eban
    -Previous conversation with Rogers
    -Press briefing
         -Exit visas
-Exit visas
    -Israel
    -Andrei A. Gromyko
    -Political issue
         -Republicans
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Rogers left at 11:27 am.

        US-Soviet Union relations
           -Forthcoming meeting [with Gromyko]
           -Japan
           -Vietnam
               -Upcoming dinner with Gromyko at Camp David
                    -Kissinger’s upcoming meeting with Gromyko
           -Japan-People’s Republic of China [PRC] relations
               -Possible US action
           -Middle East
               -1972 election
               -Leonid I. Brezhnev
           -Vietnam
               -1972 election
                    -The President’s mandate
               -Kissinger’s schedule
                    -Moscow
           -European security
           -Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
               -State Department
                    -Draft note
           -Trade agreement
               -Exit visas
                    -Soviet Jews
                        -Rogers
                        -Political issue
                        -News media
                             -New York Times
                             -Washington Post
                             -Time
                             -Life
                    -Three major networks
                    -US Jews
                        -Anti-Semitism
                             -Possible backlash
                    -Possible postponement
                        -Lend-lease
                        -Credits
                    -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
                        -Amendment
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            -Sense of the Senate resolution
            -US Jews
                -Democrats
                -Yitzhak Rabin
                -Jackson
                -Rogers

US foreign policy
    -Vietnam
    -US Jews

Democrats
   -US-Soviet Union wheat deal
       -Washington Post
           -Iowa
           -Des Moines Register
                -Poll
                     -Results
       -Farmers
           -Price of wheat, corn, and soybeans

US Jews
    -Compared to Israelis
        -Today show
        -David Landau
             -Harvard University
             -Book on Kissinger
                 -“Theory of Linkages”
    -Linkage
        -Wheat deal and exit visas
    -Joseph C. Kraft article
        -Bargaining with the Soviet Union
    -US relations with the Soviet Union
        -Middle East
        -Vietnam mining
        -North Vietnam bombing
        -1972 election
             -New York
             -Chicago
             -Los Angeles

Vietnam settlement
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             -Kissinger’s view
             -Bombing
                 -20th parallel
                      -Prisoners of war [POWs]
             -Kissinger's schedule
                 -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s schedule
                      -Nguyen Van Thieu
                           -Saigon briefing
                                -Hanoi
                 -Le Duc Tho
                      -Possible agreement
                 -Hanoi
                 -Document signing
                 -Saigon, Hanoi
             -1972 election
             -US casualties
             -Timing
                 -Delay
                      -1972 election
                 -Kissinger's view
                      -Possible scenario after the election
                      -US forces
                           -Decline
                                -B-52’s
                                -Congress
                                    -Funding
                      -Possible stance from the administration
                           -Bombing
                           -February 1973
                           -Thieu’s resignation
                                -Constituent Assembly

         Kissinger's schedule
             -[Gromyko]
             -Talk
             -Dinner


Kissinger left at 11:39 am.
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