Date: February 23, 1973

Time: 11:14 am – 11:21 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

President’s previous meeting on international conference

-Enthusiasm

-William J. Porter

-William H. Sullivan

Kissinger’s meeting with William P. Clements

-Laos and Cambodia

-Clements’s qualities

-Toughness

-Loyalty

J. William Middendorf

-Appointment

-International Security Affairs [ISA]

-President’s view

-Loyalty

-Intelligence

-Loyalty compared with intelligence

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:14 am.

President’s schedule

-Telephone call

-Next meeting

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-Kissinger’s presence

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:21 am.

William P. Rogers

-Egypt’s visit [Hafez Ismail]

-Authorization to speak for administration

-Dealings with Israel

-Firmness

-Kissinger’s concern

-US-Egypt relations

-Spokesman

-President’s concerns

-Memorandum

-Rogers

-Golda Meir

-Hard-line

-Election

-Timing of settlement

-Meir’s visit

-Yitzhak Rabin

-Kissinger’s conversation

-Private negotiations

-Israel’s concessions

-Egypt’s position

-Kissinger

Middle East

-State Department

-Problems

-Options

-Negotiation strategy

-Compared with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Vietnam

Laos and Cambodia

-Rogers

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-State Department

-Attacks

-Sullivan

-Porter

-Kenneth D. Rush

-Sullivan

-Loyalty to administration

Meeting with Egypt

-Kissinger’s schedule

-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft’s schedule

-Photograph

Kissinger left at 11:21 am.