Date: April 13, 1973

Time: 6:00 pm – 6:07 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

President’s meeting with Joseph J. Sisco

-Sisco’s travel to Middle East

-Meeting with ambassadors

-Conduct of diplomacy

-State Department’s role

-Blame for failure

-Problems with Sisco [?]

-Moscow

Ambassadorships

-Soviet Union

-State Department career appointment

-Malcolm Toon

-[David] Kenneth Rush

-William J. Casey

-U. Alexis Johnson

-William J. Porter

-Diplomacy

-White House role

-Major appointment

-Thailand

-Henry Kearns

-Kissinger’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Pakistan

-Kearns

The President conferred with Manolo Sanchez at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 6:07

pm.

[Begin conferral]

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Instruction

[End conferral]

Ambassadorships

-Kearns

-Pakistan

-Thailand

-Pakistan

-William R. Kintner

-Thailand

-Cambodia

-Henry A. Byroade

-Kearns

President’s schedule

-Meeting with Haig

-Dentist

-Kissinger’s schedule

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Watergate

Vietnam

-Need for plan

-Consultation

-National Security Council [NSC]

-Congress

-State Department

-Defense Department

-Overflights

-Reply concerning meeting with Le Duc Tho

Soviet Union

-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Kissinger’s message

-Negotiations with US

-Leonid I. Brezhnev

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Europe

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-Brezhnev

-Internal problems

US diplomatic successes

-Summit