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Conversation No. 880-9

Date: March 15, 1973
Time: 12:35 pm-1:02 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s schedule
-Donald E. Young
-Telephone call
-Alaska
-Meeting with President
-Max M. Fisher
-President's meeting with Lucy M. Ferguson
-Arrangements

Alexander P. Butterfield
-Confirmation
-Federal Aviation Administration [FAA]
-Photograph with President
-Swearing-in

President's schedule
-Meeting with Arlene Dahl
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Actress
-Photograph session
-Meeting with Theodore H. (‘Teddy”) White
-Book
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Haldeman
-Length
-Herman Kahn
-Visit to dentist
-Ambassador William Warnock of Ireland
-Meeting
-Shamrock presentation
-Length
-Visit to dentist
-Openings
-Shamrock presentation
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-Next week
-Openings
-Meeting with White
-Labor Management Advisory Committee
-Cost of Living Council
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert G. Stein and John T. Dunlop
-Shultz's presence
-Postponement
-John D. Ehrlichman's opinion
-Organization of American States [OAS] reception
-President's presence
-White House reception
-Latin America
-Ambassadors
-William P. Rogers's dinner
-Date
-State Department
-Ambassadors
-OAS reception
-President's speech
-Preparation
-Photograph sessions with President
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Nixon Library, National Archives
-Thomas hart
-President at work
-Cabinet meeting
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Labor Management Advisory Committee
-Shultz's attendance
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Cabinet meeting
-Shultz

Walter H. Annenberg
-Gift in the Executive Office Building [EOB] office
-Replica

President's schedule
-Haldeman
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-Congressional leaders meeting
-Shultz
-Size of meeting
-President's trip to California
-Cabinet meeting
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Maurice H. Stans
-Fisher
-Daily meetings
-Ehrlichman
-Photograph sessions
-Congress
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Cabinet meeting
-Rest of month
-Open days

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:51 pm.

Bull left at 12:52 pm.

Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-Annual report
-Meeting

People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Ambassador to France
-Seniority
-Diplomatic service
-Central committee
-Intelligence
-Visit to US

Washington press corps
-Questions on US-PRC relations
-Lack of interest
-US-PRC relations
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Historical significance

US-PRC relations
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-President’s trip to PRC
-Importance
-Bruce
-Alfred L. Jenkins
-John H. Holdridge
-Ambassador to France [Huang Zhen]
-Chief of Protocol Department
-Rank
-English language
-Announcement of appointment
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-News stories
-Kissinger’s trip to PRC
-Handling by press corps

Press corps
-Bias
-Executive privilege
-Questions
-Staff testimony to Congress
-Walter W. Rostow
-Ehrlichman
-PRC story
-Historical significance
-Patriotism
-Bruce
-Watergate
US-PRC relations
-Importance
-President's letter to Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-lai
-Composition
-Treaty
-Common dangers
-Transcript

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Nuclear treaty
-Announcement of policy objectives
-Agreement on principle
-Renouncing nuclear weapons
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-Removing danger of nuclear war
-Reactions from PRC and Europe
-Bargaining
-Draft treaty from USSR
-USSR
-US responses to attacks
-Hypothetical situations
-Allies
-Neutral
-India
-PRC
-Reaction from PRC and Europe
-Leonid I. Brezhnev

USSR
-Emigration of Soviet Jews
-Question from press
-President's response
-Need for stable US-USSR relations
-Rate
-Reaction
-Public exposure of question
-Edward M. (“Teddy”) Kennedy
-John T. Downey release
-Chou
-PRC
-US-USSR relations
-Private message
-Republicans
-Peace Corps

PRC
-Message
-Kissinger's meeting with President
-Scheduling

US-Pakistan relations
-Commitments
-Arms sales
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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Kissinger left at 1:02 pm.