Conversation No. 245-006
Date: April 6, 1971
Time: 10:05 am - 11:03 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
Laos
-Casualty figures
-Military operations
-Comparison
Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-President’s forthcoming statement on Prisoners of War [POWs]
-President’s options
-Possible statement
-Warning
-Credibility
-Kissinger’s statement on POWs
Laos
-Casualties
-South Vietnamese casualties
-Air sorties
-George S. McGovern’s statements
-Kissinger’s possible statement
President’s speech on Vietnam, April 7, 1971
-Draft
-President’s presentation
-Press
-Release
-Air sorties
-South Vietnamese casualties
-Warning
-Statement
-Warning
-Staff
Vietnam
-Withdrawal
-”Blockbusters”
-John D. Ehrlichman
-US proposals
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
-Negotiations
-Kissinger and Clark MacGregor
-Press
-Proposals
-”Doves”
-Congress
-Withdrawal date
-Military aid
-General Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky
-Communist victory
-Kissinger’s relations with MacGregor
-Troop announcements
-Date for United States’ withdrawal
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-President’s meeting with Thieu
-United States’ position
-President’s policy
-North Vietnamese
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Date for Withdrawal
-POWs
-Cease fire
-Negotiations
-Cease fire
-United States’ proposals
-Kissinger’s role
-Paris talks
Chile
-Elections
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Control of media
-Eduardo Frei Montalva
-Christian Democrats
-Allende
-State Department
-Charles A. Meyer
-Allende
-United States’ policy
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
-Jorge Alessandri
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[National Security]
[245-006-w002]
[Duration: 12s]
Chile
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Unknown diplomat
-Jorge Alessandri
-Christian Democrats
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Chile
-Edward M. Korry
-Liberal Democrat
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[National Security]
[245-006-w004]
[Duration: 45s]
Chile
-Edward M. Korry
-William P. Rogers [?]
-Activities
-Henry A. Kissinger’s opinion
-Alternate post
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
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Chile
-Korry
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Kenneth B. Keating
-Pakistan
-India
Kissinger’s relations with MacGregor
-Melvin R. Laird
-Ehrlichman
Vietnam
-Ehrlichman
-Public opinion
-Johnson
Cambodia
-United States’ involvement
-Public opinion
Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Impact on administration
-Background
President’s speech on Vietnam
-Possible question to Kissinger
-President’s policy
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am
Arrival of Mansfield
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:35 am
President’s speech on Vietnam
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
-Success of policy
-Possible wording on Vietnamization policy
-Relation to troop withdrawals
Mansfield entered at 10:35 am
Greetings
Kissinger left at 10:36 am
Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming call to Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Military situation
-Withdrawal date
-South Vietnamese leaders
-Withdrawal of United States’ troops
-Rate
-Numbers
-Ceiling
-Level
-Announcement
-Dates
-Level
-Future announcements
-President’s options
-Negotiations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Attitude
-United States’ position
-President’s options
-Soviet Union
-President’s options
-Deadline
-President’s plans
-Troop withdrawals
-Chance of a breakthrough
-Announcements
-Withdrawal of troops
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin’s mission
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
-United States’ offer
-Date
-United States’ plans
-Cease fire
-President’s speech, April 7, 1971
-Negotiations
-President’s forthcoming conversations with Dobrynin
-Possible topics
-North Vietnamese
-Madame Nguyen Thi Binh and Long Di [sp?]
-Date
-United States’ position
-Troop withdrawals
-Laos
-President’s policy
Arms control negotiations
-Leonid I. Brezhnev and Andrei A. Gromyko
-Communist Party Congress
-Fight
-Military people
-Arms limitation issue
-Political people
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Brezhnev’s role
-Detente
-Arms limitation
-Date
-President’s options
Berlin
-United States-Soviet Union negotiations
Middle East
-United States’ policy
-Israel
-Support
-United States’ policy
-Other nations
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
-Cease fire
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Soviet Union
Vietnam and Laos
-Mansfield’s support for President
-Troop withdrawal
-Announcement
-South Vietnamese
-Military operations
-Location
-Negotiations
-Prospects
President’s trip to Montana
-Timing
-Labor Day
-Announcement
President’s briefing on Vietnam
-Value
Mansfield left at 11:03 am