Date: September 21, 1972

Time: 10:15 am – 10:50 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

US-People’s Republic of China [PRC] relations

-Kissinger’s recent trip to New York

-Bangladesh

-Membership in United Nations [UN] issue

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-Meaning of treaty

-Soviet Union position paper

-India joke

-UN General Assembly

-Debate

-Timing

-1972 election

-Visit to US

-Medical delegation

-October 1972

-Scientific delegation

-November 1972

-Acrobatic team

-December 1972

-Announcements

-Timing

-1972 election

-Scientific delegation

-The President’s schedule

-National Career Conference in Los Angeles, September 28, 1972

-Medical exchange with the PRC

-The President’s conversation with Chou En-lai

Presidential correspondence

-Willy Brandt

Edward M. Kennedy

-Possible visit to Stockholm

-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Recent release of three US prisoners of war [POWs]

-Hanoi

-Propaganda

-Democrats

Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home

-Name spelling

Kennedy

-Possible trip

-Attack in Congress

Presidential correspondence

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-Letter from the President to Home

-Meeting with the President

-George P. Shultz

-Monetary tactics

-International monetary situation

-Personal channels

-Timing

-1972 election

-British

-The President’s recent meeting with John D. Ehrlichman, Caspar

W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

-The President’s schedule after 1972 election

-Camp David

-Letter from the President to Andrei A. Gromyko

-Accommodations for Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Letter from the President concerning Saints and Sinners roast

-Roast

-Jokes

-Harry Hirshberg [sp?]

-Unknown person

-Herbert E. Kaplow

-The President

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Presidential correspondence

-Letter form the President to Brandt

-Death of Israeli athletes at Munich Olympic Games

-Letter from the President to Leonid I. Brezhnev

-Politburo circulation

-Hydrofoil

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-Nikolai V. Podgorny

-[National Security Council] [NSC]

-State Department

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-Winston S. Churchill, Josef V. Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

-Correspondence in World War II

-Quality preparation

-Preparation

-Drafting letters

-Grace notes

-State Department

-Staffing

-Letter to [William McMahon] of Australia

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Kissinger

-Value

-Haile Selassie

-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]

-1972 election

-Purpose

-Europe

-European charter

Economic affairs

-The President’s role and agreements

-Azores agreement

-US-Soviet Union trade deal

-The President’s recent conversation with Haldeman

-Ehrlichman

Personnel management

-President’s Science Advisory Committee [PSAC]

-Staffing reorganization

-Office of Science and Technology

-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.

-Space Committee

-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

[PFIAB]

-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]

-The President’s conversation with Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

-Budget

-Bureaucracy

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-Attitude toward the President

-Gerard C. Smith

-William P. Rogers

-State Department

-Economic advisers

-State Department

-The President’s recent conversation with Haldeman

-Peter M. Flanigan

-Loyalty

-Post-1972 election

-Peter Flanigan

-U. Alexis Johnson

-Ambassadorship

-Robert S. Ingersoll

-White House

-State Department

-Frank C. Carlucci

-Loyalty to Administration

-Burundi

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-Defense Department

-George S. McGovern’s forthcoming defense paper

-Morton H. Halperin

-Leslie H. Gelb

-Defense Department

-State Department

-Foreign Service

-Presidential appointments

Vietnam

-Defense Department

-Melvin R. Laird

-B-52s

-Withdrawal

-Effect on negotiations

Campaign

-1972 election

1972

-McGovern

-Laird

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-Defense plans

-Spending of funds

-1977

-Gross National Product [GNP]

-Possible Soviet Union attack on Europe

-Abram Chayes’s comments in London Economist

-Defense capabilities

-Airlift

-Timing

-The President’s News Summary annotation

-Airfields

-Rhine River

-World War II

-Foreign policy advisor

-Chayes

Israel

-Kissinger’s conversation with Yitzhak Rabin

-Jewish issues

-Israel

-Munich Olympic killings

-Terrorism

-Anti-terrorist committee

-Rogers

-Contingency plans

-Haig

-Rose Mary Woods

-Jeane L. Dixon

-Rabin

-Possible kidnapping in exchange for release of blacks in

prison

-Hijacking, kidnapping

-Soviet Jewish emigration

-Possible Dr. Gilbert Klaperman phone call by the President

-Possible telephone call by Kissinger

-Public statement

-Soviets

-Kissinger’s conversation with Rabin

-Emigration decree

-US-Soviet Union trade deal

-Peter G. Peterson

-Charles H. Percy, Abraham A. Ribicoff, Jacob K. Javits

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-Possible rider

-Timing of legislation

-January 1973

-Kissinger’s conversation with Rabin

-Credit

-Possible industrial assistance

-Tanks

-Airplanes

-France

-Bureaucratic opposition

-Arms package

-Timing

-October 1972

-Political effect

-Arabs

-Haig

-Kissinger’s possible conversation with Rabin

-Jewish US senators

-1972 election

-The President’s friendship

-US Jews

-Compared to Catholics in Biafra

Kissinger’s schedule

-Forthcoming meeting with North Vietnamese

Vietnam War

-Recent release of POWs

-Exploitation

-Hanoi

-Stockholm

-Copenhagen

-Press conferences

-Opposition leaders

-John Hart of Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-Washington Star

-Orr Kelly

Kissinger left at 10:50 am.

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