417–3

Conversation No. 417-3

Date: March 5, 1973
Time: 2:55 pm - 3:25 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's meeting with Great Britain’s Defense Minister
-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War [APNW]
-Draft
-Complications
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] response
-Work on draft
-Sir Denis Greenhill
-Sir Burke Trend
-Sir Thomas Brimelow
-Meeting with Kissinger
-USSR acceptance
-Basic Principles of Relations between the US and USSR
-Response of the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Explanation

PRC
-President's letter to Mao Tse-Tung


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APNW
-Impact on allies
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-Impact on domestic opposition
-Allies
-Great Britain
-Response
-PRC
-Knowledge
-Kissinger draft of letter
-Administration's critics
-Confusion
-Advancement in US-USSR relations
-USSR
-Possible acceptance
-Compared with Kellog-Briand Treaty

France’s elections
-Guallists
-Results
-United Press International [UPI] report
-Communists
-Compared with Socialists
-Effect on Gaullists
-Polls
-Constituencies
-Analysis for Kissinger
-Guallists

Chile
-Election
-UPI reports
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Minority vote
-Significance
-Reasons
-Press reports
-UPI
-Compared with France

France’s electoral system
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-Majority
-Districts
-Gerrymandering
-Communist vote
-Distribution

News reports
-President’s annotations

-Johnny Express freighter incident
-Captain Jose Villa
-Panama
-Release
-Information
-Cuban community in US
-Charles G. (\"Bebe\") Rebozo
-News summary
-Kissinger’s memo
-Impact on Cuban community in US
-Wife, children
-Telephone call
-Visit with Rebozo

Kissinger's talk with Hugh S. Sidey and Joseph C. Kraft
-Sidey's viewpoint
-President compared with John F. Kennedy’s foreign policy
-President's humanitarian concerns
-Kraft
-George S. McGovern as conservative
-President as progressive on foreign policy
-Compare with France’s Communist Party
-Fear of change

US ambassador to Vietnam
-Frederick C. Nolting, Jr.
-President’s note

Party for William P. Rogers
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-Kissinger's attendance
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s attendance
-Casts of plays
-Nicholas von Hoffman
-Support for President in 1960
-Kennedy
-Foreign policy
-Criticism of President

Kissinger
-Avoidance of disillusioning supporters
-Contacts with Sidey, Kraft
-Frequency

Foreign policy
-Administration record
-Press relations
-Clayton Fraizer’s [?] story
-News summary
-Comments on Vietnam settlement
-Frustration
-Prisoners of war [POWs] statements upon return
-London Sunday Times
-Frank Giles [?]
-Criticism of December 1972 bombing [?]
-President’s foreign policy compared with Gen.
Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Demoralization

Rogers
-Luncheon
-Plaque unveiling
-President's attendance
-Interactions with agencies
-Small groups
-Defense Department
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft [?]
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-Kissinger's call
-President's attendance at a meeting
-Handling of POW situation
-Subject of discussion
-Arrangements compared to Defense Department

President’s letter to Willy Brandt
-Effect

International monetary policy
-Letter from Edward R. G. Heath
-President's talk with George P. Shultz
-Kissinger
-Meeting with Shultz
-Meeting with George R. S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-President’s response
-Brimelow
-Attendance at Brandt discussion
-Bilateral actions
-Common float
-Restriction on capital movement

West Germany’s position
-Telephone call to Kissinger
-Helmut H. W. Schmidt
-Finance minister
-West Germany-US relations
-Request for US intervention
-Shultz’s knowledge
-Impact on European Economic Community [EEC]
-US intervention
-Necessity
-Shultz’s, President’s opinion
-US dollar
-Schmidt
-US inaction
-US criticism of Europe
-Europe’s commitment
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-Reform of international monetary situation
-Japan
-Kakuei Tanaka
-Reaction to invitation to US
-Arrival of advisor
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito

Tanaka
-Visit to US
-time

USSR visit to US

President's schedule
-Visits to San Clemente
-Kissinger visit
-Weather

Tanaka visit

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]

Tanaka visit
-Public statements about US

Press relations
-Problems
-1972 election
-Vietnam settlement
-Giles [?]
-Von Hoffman
-Elizabeth Ashley [?]
-President’s foreign, domestic policy
-Compared with post-World War II presidents
-Age
-Comments on President's foreign policy
-De Gaulle
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International monetary policy
-President’s leadership
-Actions on currency
-Reform of monetary system
-West Germany’s position
-Shultz’s viewpoint
-President's view of intervention
-Political impact
-EEC

President’s policy toward Latin America and Africa
-Tokenism
-Carlos Sanz de Santamaria
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-Alliance for Progress
-Head of state visits
-Brazil
-Africa
-Nigeria
-Congo
-Reception
-Length
-Brazil
-Mexico
-Reception
-Radicals
-Size of group
-Brazil
-Africa
-Ivory Coast
-Liberia
-Nigeria
-Congo
-East Africa
-Nigeria
-Great Britain
-Congo
-Belgium
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-Ivory Coast
-France
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s visit
-Felix Houphouet-Boigny’s visit to US

International monetary policy
-Europe
-Kissinger’s meeting with Shultz
-Dealings with US
-Kissinger's call to Schmidt
-Responsibility for reform
-Heath, Tanaka
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Runoff election
-Public statement
-Kissinger’s call

Kissinger left at 3:25 pm.