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606–3
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • H. R. Haldeman
October 28, 1971
Conversation No. 606-3

Date: October 28, 1971
Time: 5:54 pm - 6:36 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's schedule

US international relations
-Kissinger’s role
-Europeans
-Peter G. Peterson
-The President’s view
-France
-Us Bargaining Power
-Kissinger’s proposed conversation with George P. Shultz
-French
-Germany
-Great Britain
-Italy
-Arthur F. Burns's efforts
-Europe
-Shultz
-Peterson memorandum
-Canadians
-French
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 606-3 (cont.)


-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Possible meeting with the President
-French Guyana
-Peterson
-Forthcoming European Summit
-William P. Rogers
-Luxembourg
-Proposed meetings with the President
-Kissinger’s views
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Attitude toward US
-Economic affairs
-US-People’s Republic of China [PRC] relationship
-PRC-Great Britain relationship
-Pompidou
-Willy Brandt
-Heath
-Italian leader
-Election
-Pompidou
-Brandt
-Pompidou
-Heath
-Great Britain
-Rolls Royce
-United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-Uganda
-Tanzania
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Presidential action
-Impact on US politics
-John B. Connally
-UN

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:58 pm.

Haldeman's talk with Rogers
-Kissinger
-PRC
-Proposed meeting between Rogers and the President
-Communique
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 606-3 (cont.)


-Department Of State
-Negotiations
-Haldeman’s view
-Kissinger
-Berlin Agreement
-National Review editorial

The President's forthcoming PRC trip
-Communique
-The President’s view
-Consultation with Rogers
-State Department
-Proposed topics in Communique
-Draft State Department Communique
-Kissinger’s view
-Chou En-lai
-Compared with Josip Broz Tito Communique
-Kissinger’s view
-Chou En-lai’s view
-Rogers
-The President's role
-Mao Tse-tung’s role
-Possible value
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s previous press briefing
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Media
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Television
-PRC officials
-USSR
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Arrangements for coming trip
-Briefing Book
-Rogers
-Proposed meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Chou En-Lai
-Proposed meeting with Rogers
-Rogers input in Communiqué
-State Department
-Rogers compared to Peterson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 606-3 (cont.)


-Monetary policy
-The President’s view

Kissinger's relationship with Rogers
-Forthcoming meeting between Kissinger and Rogers
-Timing
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Rogers’s role
-Kissinger’s view
-Haldeman’s view

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Communique
-The President's reading of the draft Communique
-Rogers’s role
-Kissinger’s view
-State Department’s proposed discussions with PRC officials
-Trade
-Cultural exchanges
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Proposed language
-Taiwan
-Rogers
-Kissinger's proposed visit to PRC
-The President's proposed trip to the West Coast
-Proposed meeting with Kissinger in Guam
-Chinese
-Treaty discussions
-Rogers’s view
-Communique
-State Department
-The President’s view
-Forthcoming Communique with the Soviets
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s view

Kissinger’s relationship with Rogers
-Forthcoming meeting with Rogers
-Kissinger’s view
-The President's role in relationship between Kissinger and Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 606-3 (cont.)


-1972 election

Rogers
-The President’s view
-US relations with USSR. PRC
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin
-Haldeman’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Middle East
-UN
-SALT
Berlin
-Communique with PRC
-The President’s proposed consultation with Rogers
-Trade
-Taiwan

State Department leaks
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Richard F. Pederson
-Newsweek magazine story
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Story source
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Henry Hubbard
-Aleksei N. Kosygin’s proposed visit to the US
-Robert C. Christopher
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Soviets
-Kosygin’s proposed visit to the US
-Canada
-The President’s proposed letter to Brezhnev
-The President's proposed trip to the USSR
-History of background to the President's trip to the USSR
-The President’s previous letter to Brezhnev
-Kosygin

Rogers
-The President's PRC visit
-Communique
-Proposed language
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 606-3 (cont.)


-Rogers’s comments on Communique
-Possible conversation with Haldeman
-1972 Presidential election
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger

Forthcoming State dinner for Tito
-Clifford P. Case’s participation
-The President’s view

Kissinger's schedule
-Proposed interview with Barbara Walters
-Desire for Kissinger to speak on PRC
-Haldeman
-\"Today\" show
-The President’s view
-Public relations
-Television
-Walters
-Audience size of morning television compared to prime time
-Rogers

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Burns

Kissinger left at 6:33 pm.

-Duration

Staff relations
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-The President’s view

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Burns
-Forthcoming dinners

Rogers's response to Kissinger's PRC trip
-The President’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 606-3 (cont.)



Haldeman left at 6:36 pm.
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