521–7

Conversation No. 521-7

Date: June 15, 1971
Time: 3:19 pm - 3:31 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President’s previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet Union proposed
-The President’s response
-Linkage implication
-Proposed conference
-US, Soviet Union and Peoples Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Channel for negotiations
-Soviet Union intentions
-The President’s assessment
-Summit possibilities
-Soviet domestic situation

Kissinger's schedule
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] meeting

William P. Rogers
-Presentation of note

Foreign policy
-President's diplomatic efficacy
-Communists
-Significance of rhetoric
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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-Milton S. Eisenhower [?]
-Discussions with Nikita S. Khrushchev
-John Foster Dulles
-Dobrynin
-Dulles
-Soviet Union-US relations
-Announcement of PRC trip
-Effect Conv. No. 521-6 (cont.)

President’s schedule
-Upcoming meeting with Arthur K. Watson

White House administration
-President's press and staff problems
-Kissinger’s previous meeting with John B. Connally
-Connally’s access to information
-Foreign policy
-Leaks
-Connally’s view
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-Kissinger statements
-Press coverage
-Connally’s view
-Poor treatment of President
-Examples
-Pentagon Papers

Connally
-Role
-The Vice Presidency
-Spiro T. Agnew

Pentagon Papers
-Effect on Vietnam War effort
-Medal of Honor winners
-Veterans
-The President’s view
-New York Times
-Responsible parties
-Punishment
-Connally
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-Attack on Lyndon B. Johnson
-Competency in government
-Perception of public
-John N. Mitchell action
-New York Times
-Access to White House personnel
-Kissinger cancellation of editorial
-Knowledge of implications Conv. No. 521-7 (cont.)
-Use of leaked material
-President's Vietnam War contingency plans
-Kissinger’s memo's to the President
-McGeorge Bundy
-Johnson
-Circulation
-Kissinger
-Bundy
-Past leaks compared to current ones
-Kissinger’s view
-Department of Defense [DOD] role
-Department of State role

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:19 pm.

President’s schedule
-Meeting with Watson and Col. Richard T. Kennedy

Kissinger’s schedule

Kissinger and Bull left at 3:31 pm.