Conversation No. 498-018
Date: May 13, 1971
Time: Unknown after 6:03 pm until 6:28 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield
President’s schedule
[Signing documents]
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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
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 6:05 pm
Changes in document
-Cyrus R. Vance
-Form of address
US troops in Europe
-The President's statement
-Importance
-"The Establishment"
-Herbert H. Humphrey
Butterfield left at 6:08 pm
-Distribution
-Possible changes
-John A. Scali
-Distribution, endorsement
-Ronald L. Ziegler's views
-Timing
-Possible changes
-Kissinger's conversation with Vance
-Mansfield resolution
-The President's response
-Kissinger's conversations
-Clark MacGregor, Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement
-The President's statement
-Kissinger's possible call to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Harry S. Truman
-Dean G. Acheson's possible call
-Relations with the President
-Johnson
-Truman
-Acheson's call
Forthcoming announcement on Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
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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
-Text of the statement
-Working
-Possible problems
-Dobrynin’s instructions
-Memo for the President's file
-Soviet Union interpretation
-Timing
-Press coverage
-Soviet Union concerns
-US concerns
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger's possible conversation with Gerard C. Smith
-Kissinger's role
-Rogers
-Knowledge of Middle East peace negotiations
-Defense Department
-Forthcoming conversation with the President
-Alexei N. Kosygin
-Dobrynin
-Understanding
-Smith
-John McRoberts
-Murrey Marder
-Senators
-J. William Fulbright
-Press Coverage
-Negotiations
-Smith
The President's schedule
-Robert D. Murphy
-Conversation with Kissinger, May 13, 1971
-Report
The President's previous meeting regarding U.S. forces in Europe
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Gen. Lauris Norstad
-John Hay Whitney
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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
-Acheson
-Rogers
Rogers
Kissinger's schedule
-Address to Brookings Institute Board of Directors
-Democratic National Committee
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
- Vietnam
President's foreign policy
-Berlin agreement
-SALT
-Forthcoming Congressional recess
-Forthcoming Soviet summit
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
Vietnam
-Laotian incursion
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Negotiations
-Le Duan's Schedule
Demonstrations in Washington, D.C.
-Radio Peking's reports
-Johnson's Administration
-Effect
-Johnson compared to the President
Presidency
-The President contrasted with Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
-Trip to Vietnam
-Public statements
-Compared with the President
-Foreign 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
-Compared with the President
-Advisors
-Kissinger's briefings
-Interests
The President
-Kissinger's interview with New York Daily News
-Nelson A. Rockefeller support in 1968
-Kissinger’s statements
John F. Kennedy
-Knowledge of world leaders
Mansfield
-Resolution regarding NATO
-Popular opinion
-Vance's comment regarding Herbert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie
-Prospects in Congress
-The President's response
-Statement
-Endorsement by "Establishment"
The President and Kissinger left at 6:28 pm
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