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Conversation No. 521-5

Date: June 15, 1971
Time: 2:39 pm - 2:58 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin and Henry A. Kissinger.

Presentation of note
-Soviet Union proposal for Five Powers Nuclear meeting
-Soviet Union-US relations
-Relation to Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Scope of meeting
-Preparations required
-Ambassadorial level
-Soviet Union and US leadership role
-Technological supremacy
-Consideration of proposal
-Most successful methods of progress
-Kissinger and Dobrynin
-Use of channels
-Confidentiality
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Tape Subject Log
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-Dobrynin position
-Substance compared with cosmetics of Five Powers Meeting
-The President’s position
-Kissinger and Dobrynin discussions
-Overall US-Soviet Union relations
-Disarmament compared with arms limitation
-Forthcoming Kissinger and Dobrynin discussions
-Level of discussions Conv. No. 521-4 (cont.)
-Continuation of other discussions
-Topics
-Berlin
-SALT
-The President’s view
-Formal reply by the US
-Soviet Union rhetoric
-Soviet Union-US relations
-Potential
-Benefits to the world
-Berlin and SALT progress
Perception of other nations
-Mutual and Balances Force Reduction [MBFR]
-Other areas of discussion
-Middle East
-Europe
-MBFR
-President's meeting with Willy Brandt
-Middle East
-Sensitivity of other powers
-Fear of Soviet Union-US condominium
-US compared with Soviet Union interests
-Control of constituencies
-Discussion desirability
-Gains for Soviet Union and US

The President, Dobrynin, and Henry A. Kissinger left at 2:58 pm.