Date: October 6, 1972

Time: 2:09 pm – 2:26 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 354-25]

Foreign policy

-George S. McGovern’s statements in Cleveland

-The People’s Republic of China’s [PRC] role in Asia

-Possible response of Thailand

-Possible response by Rogers

-Charles W. Colson

-The President’s view

-Role of Melvin R. Laird

-Televised press conference

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-Alternatives

-PRC relationship with India, Indonesia, Japan

-Rogers’s response

-Timing and forum

-Previous conversation with Colson

-Rogers’s previous speech before the United Nations [UN] General

Assembly

-Japan

-Kakuei Tanaka

-McGovern’s foreign policy positions

-McGovern’s forthcoming statements on Vietnam

-Rogers’s view

-McGovern’s previous statement on Japan

-Compared with Rogers’s previous speech before the UN

-Tanaka

-US military bases in the Pacific

-US commitment to Taiwan

-Involvement in Europe

-Abram Chayes

-Vietnam

-Communism

-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu

-The President’s schedule

-Meeting with Irish foreign minister Patrick Hillary,

October 6, 1972

-Meeting with Pote Sarasin, October 6, 1972

-Rogers’s meetings with foreign officials

-Czechoslovakia

-Settlement of outstanding issues in relations with US

-Trade status

-Invitation to visit

-European Security Conference

-Exchange of scientists

-Consulate convention

-Invitations to visit

-Hungary

-Bulgarian contacts with US

-Recent trends in foreign relations

-PRC

-Visit by members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors

[ASNE]

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-Talks with Japan and PRC

-White House barber [Milton Pitts ?]

-North Korea and South Korea

-India

-Pakistan

-Indira Gandhi’s recent comments about the US

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-Rogers’s schedule

-Rogers’s meeting with PRC

-Ch’Iao Kuan-Hua

-PRC Deputy Foreign Minister

-George H.W. Bush

-Background

-Henry A. Kissinger

-The President’s view

-Soviet Union issue

-The President’s conversation with an unknown official from Thailand

-PRC comments about the Soviet Union

-PRC comments about the US

-Mao Tse-Tung, Chou En-Lai

-Comments about the US

-McGovern’s statements in Cleveland

-Colson

-Press reaction

-Implications

-Vietnam War

-Response by the President

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